A5062726018- Eastern European Communism and Reforms
- Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Law in Society and Culture
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Irish and British Studies
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Public Spaces through Art
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies
- Global Economic and Social Development
- Global Security and Public Health
- National Identity and Symbolism
- Turkey's Politics and Society
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Soviet and Russian History
- Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
- Gender, Security, and Conflict
- Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education
- Youth Development and Social Support
University of St Andrews
2009-2020
School of International Relations
2010-2018
Swarthmore College
2002-2007
Abstract In this paper, we argue that beyond understanding nations as imagined communities , the metaphor of an ‘imagined family’ or ‘filial community’ is a more useful concept towards links between gender and nationhood family relations in four ways: (1) providing clear, hierarchical structure ; (2) prescribing social roles responsibilities (3) being linked to positive affective connotations (4) reifying phenomena biologically determined. order empirically substantiate our claim, will...
This paper examines the process by which enemies are created in midst of conflict. Rather than accepting premise that parties to a conflict exist priori and set against one another once ‘proper’ conditions exist, argues group-selves enemy-others wake collective identity crisis. Under threat, collectivities may engage best described Julia Kristeva as abjection, whereby group will cast off familiar yet foreign part self project into this severed those unwanted or undesirable traits associated...
Objective To examine the impact of continuous transdermal alcohol monitoring upon consumption in male students at a Scottish university. Method Using within-subject mixed-methods design, 60 university were randomly allocated into three experimental conditions using AUDIT score stratified sampling. Participants Conditions A and B asked not to consume for 14-day period, with those Condition additionally being required wear anklet. C participants wore an anklet continue consuming as normal....
This article examines developments in the analysis of communal conflict over past twenty years, exploring insights regarding relationships economic structure, conceptions deprivation, and constructions narratives making sense civil strife. The piece compares analyses from differing paradigms disciplines, including terrorism studies, sociology violence war, anthropology violence. explores how shifting emphases both participants analysts cast incidents a different light, proscribing potential...
Abstract Much of criminological scholarship on street gangs focuses the deviant and delinquent aspects gang violence. Although research tradition acknowledges that violence is central to life in a gang, it often labels this form as an “anti-social” behaviour. This article challenges conceptualisation proposes instead social performance. By using example initiation rites, suggests such rites possesses socio-symbolic performative function informs about status members. draws Jeffrey Stevenson...
The Dayton Peace Accords set out to protect the three dominant ethnic groups in Bosnia aftermath of 1993–1995 War. However, peace treaty inscribed groupings into constitution as permanent identity constellations. Fifteen years after cessation military hostilities continues struggle with limitations imposed on it by treaty. Without flexibility create new frames, remains locked terms conflict. misrecognition nature and particularly defensive quality which collective frames can against threat...
In the aftermath of Anders Breivik's shooting spree and bombing in Norway, many people asked where did anger violence come from? The article examines contemporary trends political social discourses to conflate opponents with enemies. Popular discourses, television on-line media, radio talk shows even newspaper spread language threat insecurity, idea that biggest threats may be our own neighbourhoods, cities, on streets. These threatening individuals are those do not quite fit in; they...
Les réactions de l'Etat et la société au terrorisme, envisagées sous l'angle du respect des droits humains, diffèrent selon les contextes. L'intensité réponse étatique, notamment pour ce qui est limitation semble corrélée à manière dont l'appareil étatique décrypte le danger. menaces venant d'entités ne mettent pas en cause construction sujet d'une politique collective donnée sont minimisées, tandis que aux provenant associées opprimés féroce. La réaction l'État fonctionne alors comme...