Publications
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Chapter 'Thirty years behind England'? Framing 'natural' childbirth in postwar Canada
(2024)
Following the North American publication of British obstetrician Grantly Dick-Read’s Childbirth Without Fear in 1944, natural childbirth theories reached new audiences, including Canadians who were interested in what they ...
Alternative countrysides
(2015-07-01)
A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, ...
Living the urban periphery
(2024)
The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheries and the nature of building, growth, investment and decline that is shaping them. ...
Globalisation contested
(2002)
This exciting book provides an illuminating account of contemporary globalization that is grounded in actual transformations in the areas of production and the workplace. It reveals the social and political contests that ...
‘Everyday health’, embodiment, and selfhood since 1950
(2024)
This volume introduction sets out the concept of ‘everyday health’ and its relation to embodiment and selfhood. It charts how and why ‘everyday health’ has assumed such importance since 1950, including: the rise of welfare ...
Peace and the politics of memory
(2024)
This book explores memory politics and its impact on the quality of peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. Situating the book in the literature of critical Peace Research and Memory Studies, the authors ...
Collective emotions and political violence
(2023)
This book addresses debates around radicalisation and political violence, and presents a timely analysis of the politics of emotions in narratives of political activism and violence. Drawing on extensive primary data ...
Bordering social reproduction
(2025)
Bordering social reproduction explores what happens when migrants subject to policies that seek to deny them the means of life nonetheless endeavour to make and sustain meaningful lives. The book provides rich ethnographic ...
Governance, democracy and ethics in crisis-decision-making
(2024)
In Governance, Democracy and Ethics in Crisis-decision-making, we reflect on what it means to govern ethically in a pandemic. We explore what it means to be in a situation in which rational or epistemic framings of the ...
Houses built on sand
(2020)
The events of the Arab Uprisings posed an existential challenge to sovereign power across the Middle East. Whilst popular movements resulted in the toppling of authoritarian rule in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, other regimes ...
The common writer in modern history
(2024)
This book demonstrates the scope and achievements of the history of written culture, with particular reference to the writings of ordinary people. It underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes and the ...
Threads of labour
(2025)
This book explores the everyday lives of irregular migrants from Central and Western Africa ‘stuck’ in Morocco and navigating hostile politics of containment with abuse, suffering, and violence. It sheds light on young, ...
Anti-computing
(2021)
Anti-computing explores forgotten histories and contemporary forms of dissent – moments when the imposition of computational technologies, logics, techniques, imaginaries, utopias have been questioned, disputed, or refused. ...
Chapter A private matter? The Brook Advisory Centre and young people's everyday sexual and reproductive health in the 1960s-80s
(2024)
This chapter explores the role of the Brook Advisory Centres (BAC) in the everyday sexual and reproductive health of young people in postwar Britain. BAC was the first organisation to provide sexual health advice and methods ...
Race and the Yugoslav region
(2018)
Numerous scholars have explored the former Yugoslavia as a site of ethnopolitical violence, shaped by the legacies of state socialism and its collapse. Others have adapted postcolonial thought to explain the marginalisation ...
The British Monarchy On Screen
(2016-02-01)
Moving images of the British monarchy, in fact and fiction, are almost as old as the moving image itself, dating back to an 1895 American drama, The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots. British monarchs even appeared in the ...
Chapter ‘What your generation probably don’t understand is …’
(2024)
Whilst it is recognised that oral history fosters discussion across generations, there remains scope to consider how generational perceptions of subjectivity, as expressed by both the interviewer and interviewee, inform ...
The fringes of citizenship
(2021)
This book presents a socio-legal enquiry into the civic marginalisation of Roma in Europe. Instead of looking only at Roma’s position as migrants, an ethnic minority or a socio-economically disadvantage group, it considers ...
Europeanisation as violence
(2025)
The book explores the violence enacted on Europe’s many internal and external Souths and Easts through forms of political, cultural, security and development-related Europeanisation. The twelve contributions, from both ...
Beyond observation
(2020)
This book analyses the authoring of ethnographic films between 1895 and 2015. It is based on the general argument that the ethnographicness of a film should not be gauged according to whether it is about an exotic culture, ...