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Visual ethics beyond the crossroads (2019)
Book Chapter
Clark, A. (2020). Visual ethics beyond the crossroads. In L. Pauwels, & D. Mannay (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods (2nd edition) (682-693). Sage

Mortality (2019)
Book Chapter
Darlington-Pollock, F., & Wallace, M. (2019). Mortality. . Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-102295-5.10294-x

Mortality is a long-standing feature of population geography, important too for medical and health geographers insofar as death is the ultimate marker of (ill-)health. For population geographers, the focus on mortality has often entailed measuring an... Read More about Mortality.

Radicalisation (2019)
Book Chapter

In the political context, the term radical has been applied to a wide range of figures. Both Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage could be considered radical in the sense that that they are campaigning for a society based on a different set of political an... Read More about Radicalisation.

Liberalism (2019)
Book Chapter

The roots of liberalism can be traced back to the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. It became a clear philosophical school during the Age of Enlightenment. The emergence of liberalism as an intellectual tradition is associated with the wr... Read More about Liberalism.

Neoliberalism (2019)
Book Chapter

From the mid 1970s onwards, neoliberalism has been the most influential political ideology. This influence has been exercised in several ways. In the Global North, neoliberal ideas have underpinned the electoral success of politicians such as Margare... Read More about Neoliberalism.

Smartphone fitness apps and football fans : a case study of Fan Fit (2019)
Book Chapter
Fenton, A., Cooper-Ryan, A., & Vasilica, C. (2019). Smartphone fitness apps and football fans : a case study of Fan Fit. In P. Krustrup, & D. Parnell (Eds.), Football as Medicine: Prescribing Football for Global Health Promotion. Routledge

The growth of smartphone ownership by fans around the world has continued to increase. Meanwhile, we are seeing a rise in dangerous levels of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. The most at-risk, hard-to-reach groups are often synonymous with footba... Read More about Smartphone fitness apps and football fans : a case study of Fan Fit.

Passing (2019)
Book Chapter
Smith, G. (2019). Passing. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (1-2). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosp006.pub2

The concept of passing originates in popular and legal discourses of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries about relations between black and white people in the United States. Passing as an analytic concept in sociology owes much to the work o... Read More about Passing.

Sexual orientation and gender identity claims of asylum in Germany : intersectional legal, social and methodological challenges (2019)
Book Chapter
Held, N. (2019). Sexual orientation and gender identity claims of asylum in Germany : intersectional legal, social and methodological challenges. In C. Küppers (Ed.), Refugees & Queers : forschung und bildung an der schnittstelle von LSBTTIQ, fluchtmigration und emanzipationspolitiken (53-80). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839442111-004

Reflexivity (2019)
Book Chapter

Central to reflexivity is an awareness that the researcher and the object of study exist in a mutual relationship with one another. Thus, reflexivity calls for attention to how thinking comes to be, how it is shaped by preexisting knowledge, and how... Read More about Reflexivity.

Social work and advanced marginality (2019)
Book Chapter
Cummins, I. (2019). Social work and advanced marginality. In Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis: Putting Wacquant to Work (231-254). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16222-1_10

This chapter explores the impact of broader social and economic policies on social work practice. It argues that the increasing inequality and polarisation of modern urban societies that is outlined in the other chapters of this book has had a direc... Read More about Social work and advanced marginality.

Alt-Right ‘cultural purity’, ideology and mainstream social policy discourse: towards a political anthropology of ‘mainstremeist’ ideology (2019)
Book Chapter

According to a well-rehearsed media trope, the ‘Alt-Right’ (‘alternative right’) burst into a shocked public consciousness in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election (Caldwell, 2016; Collins, 2016). Curiously, this phenomenon materialised in... Read More about Alt-Right ‘cultural purity’, ideology and mainstream social policy discourse: towards a political anthropology of ‘mainstremeist’ ideology.

Exploring the potential of the animal-like Robot MiRo as a therapeutic tool for children diagnosed with autism (2019)
Book Chapter
Panagiotidi, M., Wilson, S., & Prescott, T. (2019). Exploring the potential of the animal-like Robot MiRo as a therapeutic tool for children diagnosed with autism. In Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11556. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24741-6_36

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by social interaction and communication deficits and the presence of restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviour. One potential intervention for ASD is animal-assisted th... Read More about Exploring the potential of the animal-like Robot MiRo as a therapeutic tool for children diagnosed with autism.

Ethical Issues of Working with Human Remains in Zimbabwe (2019)
Book Chapter
Silika, K., & Squires, K. (2019). Ethical Issues of Working with Human Remains in Zimbabwe. In K. Squires, D. Errickson, & N. Márquez-Grant (Eds.), Ethical Approaches To Human Remains. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32926-6_28

Four key conflicts have taken place in Zimbabwe over the past 50 years.
These events have resulted in the deaths of thousands of people and have consequently led to ongoing tensions between the state, victims, and community groups.
Moreover, the s... Read More about Ethical Issues of Working with Human Remains in Zimbabwe.