Professor Mathew Humphrey's Outputs (8)

Authenticity Roundtable – Two-wheeled Authenticity, or: Existentialism on a Motorcycle? (2024)
Journal Article
Humphrey, M. (2024). Authenticity Roundtable – Two-wheeled Authenticity, or: Existentialism on a Motorcycle?. International Journal of Motocycle Studies, 20,

In 2018, cultural historian Maiken Umbach and I published a book on ‘authenticity’ as an ideological concept. We explored the ideological appropriation of the idea of authenticity across discourse about the natural world, about industrial society, in... Read More about Authenticity Roundtable – Two-wheeled Authenticity, or: Existentialism on a Motorcycle?.

“The Constant is that Governments Regard Motorcyclists as a Problem”: Riders’ Rights Activists in the United Kingdom on Threats, Political Mobilization, and Freedom (2022)
Journal Article
Humphrey, M., & Andersson-Hudson, J. (2022). “The Constant is that Governments Regard Motorcyclists as a Problem”: Riders’ Rights Activists in the United Kingdom on Threats, Political Mobilization, and Freedom. International Journal of Motocycle Studies, 18,

This article examines the views of UK riders’ rights activists about perceived threats to the freedom to enjoy motorcycling, and how to mobilize the motorcycling community against these threats. Through semi-structured interviews with activists, we a... Read More about “The Constant is that Governments Regard Motorcyclists as a Problem”: Riders’ Rights Activists in the United Kingdom on Threats, Political Mobilization, and Freedom.

The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course (2019)
Journal Article
Humphrey, M., Umbach, M., & Clulow, Z. (2019). The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course. Journal of Political Ideologies, 24(2), 121-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2019.1589958

The analysis of ideology at the vernacular level requires access to peer-to-peer political discussions amongst non-specialists. It is in these discursive exchanges that political views are articulated, refined, and revised. Such exchanges are, howeve... Read More about The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course.

The structure of attitudes towards shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom (2019)
Journal Article
Andersson-Hudson, J., Rose, J., Humphrey, M., Knight, W., & O'Hara, S. (2019). The structure of attitudes towards shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom. Energy Policy, 129, 693-697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.02.056

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Shale gas extraction is a highly controversial process. Despite significant proven or potential reserves, public reaction to extraction have often been negative. In some cases, this has prevented exploration. In this paper, we inv... Read More about The structure of attitudes towards shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom.

Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept (2018)
Book
Umbach, M., & Humphrey, M. (2018). Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68566-3

Authenticity is everywhere: political leaders invoke the idea to gain our support, advertisers use it to sell their products. But is authenticity a dangerous hoax? What is, and is not, authentic has been hotly debated ever since the concept was inven... Read More about Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept.

Variation in beliefs about 'fracking' between the UK and US (2017)
Journal Article
Evensen, D., Stedman, R. C., O'Hara, S., Humphrey, M., & Andersson-Hudson, J. (2017). Variation in beliefs about 'fracking' between the UK and US. Environmental Research Letters, 12(12), Article 124004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa8f7e

In decision-making on the politically-contentious issue of unconventional gas development, the UK Government and European Commission are attempting to learn from the US experience. Although economic, environmental, and health impacts and regulatory c... Read More about Variation in beliefs about 'fracking' between the UK and US.

Exploring support for shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom (2016)
Journal Article
Andersson-Hudson, J., Knight, W., Humphrey, M., & O'Hara, S. (in press). Exploring support for shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom. Energy Policy, 98, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2016.09.042

The development of shale gas in the United Kingdom (UK) using hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as ‘fracking’, remains in its infancy. Yet understanding public attitudes for this fledgling industry is important for future policy consideration... Read More about Exploring support for shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom.

Comparing the relationship between knowledge and support for hydraulic fracturing between residents of the United States and the United Kingdom (2016)
Journal Article
Stedman, R. C., Evensen, D., O'Hara, S., & Humphrey, M. (2016). Comparing the relationship between knowledge and support for hydraulic fracturing between residents of the United States and the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science, 20, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2016.06.017

Our work examines the relationship between knowledge/familiarity with shale gas development in a comparative context. The United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) represent very different cases of shale gas development, with development relatively... Read More about Comparing the relationship between knowledge and support for hydraulic fracturing between residents of the United States and the United Kingdom.