Publications

Publications by the Sociology group

(NB You can also find details of publications via the Research Institute pages (Law, Politics & Justice and Life-Course Studies) – we have brought them together here so you can see the Sociology group together.

Graham Allan

Recent publications

Allan, G. A. and Gerstner, C., Money and relationship difficulties’ In S. Duck, D. Kirkpatrick and M. Foley, eds., Difficult Relationships, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2006, pp. 81-100.

Allan, G. A., ‘Social networks and personal communities’ In A. Vangelisti and D. Perlman, eds., The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 2006, pp. 657-671.
Jamieson, L., Morgan, D. H. J., Crow, G. P. and Allan, G. A., ‘Friends, neighbours and distant partners: Extending or decentring family relationships?’, Sociological Research Online, 11 (3) 2006 http://www.socresonline.org.uk/11/3/jamieson.html

Allan, G. A. and Adams, R., ‘The sociology of friendship’ In C. Bryant and D. Peck, eds.,  21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook, Vol. 2, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007, pp. 123-131.

Allan, G. A., ‘Family’ In M. Davies, ed, The Blackwell Companion to Social Work, (3rd edition), Oxford, Blackwell, 2008, pp. 326-32.

Boylan, J. and Allan, G. A., ‘Family disruption and relationship breakdown’ In M. Davies, ed, The Blackwell Companion to Social Work, (3rd edition), Oxford, Blackwell, 2008, pp. 11-17.

Allan, G. and Phillipson, C., ‘Community studies today: Urban perspectives’, International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory & Practice, 11 (2), 2008, pp.163-173.

Allan. G. A., Flexibility, friendship, and family, Personal Relationships, 2008, 15 (1),  pp.1-16.

Allan, G.A., ‘Family structure’;  ‘Friendship, social inequality and social change’; ‘Households’; ‘ Kinship’; ‘ Marital power / Resource theory‘; ‘Marriage, sex and childbirth’. All in G. Ritzer, ed, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Oxford, Blackwell, 2007
 
In press

Allan, G., Hawker, S. and Crow, G. P., ‘Kinship in stepfamilies’ In J. Pryor, ed, The International Handbook of Stepfamilies: Policy and Practice in Legal, Research, and Clinical Environments, Hoboken, NJ., Wiley & Sons, 2008, pp. ***-***.

Allan, G. and Crow, G., ‘Families: A sociological perspective’ In Watkins, D. and Cousins, J. eds, Public Health and Community Nursing,  Edinburgh, Elsevier, 2008,  pp. ***-***.

Allan, G. and Harrison, K., ‘Affairs and infidelity’ In A. Vangelisti, ed,  Feeling Hurt in Close Relationships, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. ***-***.

Allan, G. A., ‘Contextual influences on relationships’, In H. Reis and S. Sprecher, eds, Encyclopedia of Human Relationships, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2009, pp. ***-***.
 
In preparation

Allan, G.A., Hawker, S.E. and Crow, G.P. Stepfamilies, Palgrave, London, 2009

Chambers, P., Allan, G., Phillipson, C. and Ray, M., Family Practices in Later Life, Policy, Bristol, 2009, pp. ** + *.

Launster, N. and Allan G.A. (eds), ‘The End of Children’?: Fertility and Childhood in Flux, UBC, Press, Vancouver.

Mark Featherstone

Selected Recent Publications

Featherstone, M. (2008) Utopia Today: Anti-Capitalism and Utopianism in Sociological Review Volume 56, Number 2, May

Featherstone, M. (2007)Tocqueville’s Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Thought. London: Routledge .

Featherstone, M. (2007) The End of History: Utopian Realism and the Politics of Idiocy’ in Journal of Classical Sociology. (Volume 7, Number 1, March ).

Featherstone, M. Velocita e Violenza. Il Sacrifio in Virilio, Derrida e Girard’ in Meleleo, S. and Tomassi, S (Eds.) (2006) Scene e Linguaggi Dell’ Origine: Anthropologia Generativa e Deconstruzione. Stamen: Roma.

Featherstone, M. The Redemption of the Real: Walter Benjamin’s Politicsl’ in Cultural Politics. Oxford: Berg. (Volume 1, Number 3, November 2005).

Featherstone, M. Ruin Value: Violence and Destruction in the works of Ernst Junger and Walter Benjamin’ in Journal for Cultural Research. London: Routledge. (Volume 9, Number 3, July 2005).
 

Forthcoming Publications (2008-2009)

Featherstone, M. Kinetic Utopia (Cultural Critique)

Featherstone, M. On Critical Paranoia (Critical Inquiry)

Featherstone, M. Network Utopia (Journal of Cultural Research)

Featherstone, M. Appetite for Destruction: On Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine (Public Culture)
 
Aims

Short Term (Summer 2008)
 
Chapter on Bauman’s Liquidity Theory for Keith Tester collection on Bauman (Commission)
 
Tocqueville’s Virus (Paper for Oxford Conference on Fear, September 2008)
 
Heterotopia in British Society (ESRC project with AZ and JHB)
 
Medium Term (2008-2009)
 
Utopian-Dystopian Cities (Article)
 
Israel-Palestine Utopian-Dystopian Space (Article / Chapter of Monograph)
 
Latin American Urban Utopias-Dystopias (Article / Chapter of Monograph)
 
Utopia of Lost Causes (Article commissioned by Journal of Zizek Studies / Chapter of Monograph)
 
Long Term (2008-2011)
 
Planet Utopia (Monograph contracted to Routledge – Delivery, September 2011)

James Hardie-Bick
 
Hardie-Bick, J., Sheptycki, J., and Wardak, A. (2005). Introduction: Transnational and Comparative Criminology in a Global Perspective. In J. Sheptycki and A. Wardak (eds.) Transnational and Comparative Criminology . London: GlassHouse Press.

Hardie-Bick, J. (Forthcoming) ‘It’s extreme but it’s not extremely dangerous: Skydiver’s perceptions of risk’ in Kosut, M. and Bachner, E. (eds.) Extreme Culture/ Extreme Bodies

Emma Head
 
Recent Publications

Roberts, D., Bernard, M., Misca, G., and Head, E. (2008) ‘Experiences of children and young people caring for a parent with a mental health problem’, SCIE Research briefing 24, http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/briefings/briefing24/index.asp

Levitas, R., Head, E. and Finch, N. (2006) ‘Lone mothers, poverty and social exclusion’, in C. Pantazis, D. Gordon and R. Levitas, (eds) Poverty and Social Exclusion: the Millennium Survey, Bristol: Policy Press
 
Head, E. (2005) ‘The captive mother?  The place of home in the lives of lone mothers’, Sociological Research Online, 10(3)

In press/process:
Head, E. (forthcoming) ‘The ethics and implications of paying participants in qualitative research’, International Journal of Social Research Methodology
 

Head, E. Theorising care: domestic labour, the ethic of care and the lives of lone mothers, reviewed by Women’s Studies International Forum, now under revision
 

Planned Publications:

Dimensions of social exclusion: lone mothers, paid work and wider life projects’

Siobhan Holohan

Holohan, S. ‘Multiculturalism, New Labour and the British Media’ in Muslims and the News Media, E. Poole and J. Richardson (eds). I.B. Taurus, 2006.

Holohan, S (2005) The Search for Justice in a Media Age: Reading Stephen Lawrence and Louise Woodward, Aldershot: Ashgate.

Holohan, S and Featherstone, M, ‘Multiculturalism, Institutional Law, and Imaginary Justice’ Law and Critique, Vol. 14:1, 2003.

Holohan, S and Poole, E, ‘Race, Representation, and Power: The Experience of British Muslims’, Inter/Sections, Vol. 2: 3 / 4, Summer 2002

Lisa Lau

Lau, L. (2003) Equating Womanhood with Victimhood: The Positionality of Women Protagonists in the Contemporary Writings of South Asian Women. Women’s Studies International Forum,  26 (4): 369-378.
 
Lau, L. and M.W.Pasquini (2004) Meeting Grounds: Perceiving and Defining
Interdisciplinarity Across the Arts, Social Sciences, and Sciences.
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 29 (1), 49-64.

Lau, L. (2004) Virtually Positioned: Investigating Identity and Positionality
in a Case Study of South Asian Literature in Cyberspace.
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews  29 (1) 65-76.

Lau, L,, M. Barke, and G. Mowl. (2004) Place Marketing by UK Local
Authorities: A Survey Report. Departmental Occasional Papers, Division of
Geography and Environmental Management, University of Northumbria, New
Series No.45

Lau, L. (2005)  Making the Difference: The Differing Presentations and
Representations of South Asia in the Contemporary Fiction of Home and
Diasporic South Asian Women Writers. Modern Asian Studies 39(1)
249-269.

Lau, L.(2006) The New Indian Woman: Who is She and What is New About Her?
Women’s Studies International Forum  29 (2) 159-171.

Lau, L. (2006) Emotional and Domestic Territories: The Politics of South Asian
Women’s Positionality in the Landscape of their Homes. Modern Asian
Studies  40 (4): 1097-1116

Lau, L and M.W. Pasquini. (forthcoming) Conflicting Cartographies of Comprehension:
The Negotiation of Interdisciplinarity within Geography. (Accepted by
Geoforum)

Barke, M., L.Lau, and G. Mowl. (2006) UK Local Authority Place Promotion:
Changing Contexts and Changing Priorities? (International Journal of
Regional and Local Studies  2 (2): 20-42.

Lau, L. (2007) The Language of Power and the Power of Language: The Usage of
English by South Asian Writers, and the Subsequent Creation of South Asian
Image and Identity. Narrative Inquiry, Journal Special Issue  17
(1): 27-47.

Lau, L., and S. Daya, (2007) eds. Power and Narrative. Narrative Inquiry,
Journal Special issues  17 (1): 1-11..

Lau, L. (2007) Re-Orientalism: The perpetration and development of Orientalism
by Orientals. Modern Asian Studies, 1-20.
Articles in Progress

Becoming the New Indian Woman: To what extent is the single, working,
urban, middle-class Indian woman permitted to seek personal autonomy?
(Sent to Interventions (Easter 2008), Journal of Postcolonial Studies, as
part of a journal special issue.)

South Asian mistresses and servants: Class chasms and individual intimacies.
(Currently being researched and written, intended for Gender Place and
Culture)

Selfhood in South Asia
(Book proposal, being drafted this summer.)

Rebecca Leach

Peer-reviewed journals:

PHILLIPSON, C., LEACH, R., MONEY, A. & BIGGS, S. (2008) Social and Cultural Constructions of Ageing: the case of the baby boomers Sociological Research Online Vol 13 (3) ISSN 1360-7804; DOI: ??; http://www.socresonline.org.uk/13/3/5.html

BIGGS, S., PHILLIPSON, C., LEACH, R. & MONEY, A. (2007)  Baby boomers & adult ageing : issues for social and public policy Quality in ageing : policy, practice and research Vol 8(3) ISSN:1471-7794 DOI:??

BIGGS, S., PHILLIPSON, C., LEACH, R. & MONEY, A. (2007)  The Mature Imagination and Consumption Strategies: age and generation in the development of a United Kingdom baby boomer identity International Journal of Ageing and Later Life Vol 2 (2) pp31-59. ISSN: 1652-8670; DOI: 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.072231

BIGGS, S., PHILLIPSON, C., MONEY, A. & LEACH, R. (2006) The Age-Shift: observations on social policy, ageism and the dynamics of the adult lifecourse Journal of Social Work Practice Vol 20 (3) pp239-250 ISSN: 0265-0533 DOI:10.1080/02650530600931708

KEARON, A.T. & LEACH, R.M. (2000) Invasion of the bodysnatchers: burglary reconsidered Theoretical Criminology, Autumn, Vol.4, Issue 4

Leach, R, Phillipson, C., Biggs, S. & Money, A (under review, Sociology) Sociological Perspectives on the Baby Boomers:an exploration of social change

Articles in edited collections:

LEACH, R (2002) What happened at home with art? Tracing the experiences of consumers  in Painter, C. (Ed.) Contemporary art and the home Ed. (Oxford: Berg) ISBN1859736610

LEACH, R (1998) Embodiment & consumption in Kearon, T., Leach, R., Martens, L. & Warde, A. Conceptualising Consumption Salford Papers in Sociology, No.23 March 1998 (ISBN 090448324X)

LEACH, R (1998) The Virtual Home in Machines, Agency & Desire, Centre for Technology & Culture Papers, University of Oslo (Eds. Brita Brenna, John Law & Ingunn Moser) May 1998 (ISBN 8213013093)

Research reports:

Leach, R., Biggs, S, Phillipson, C. & Money, A. (2007) Boomers and beyond : intergenerational consumption and the mature imagination: Full Research Report.
ESRC End of Award Report, RES-154-25-0003. Swindon

Planned/in preparation:

Leach, R. & Money, A. Home and away: house, garden and travel in baby boomer consumption (for Journal of Consumer Culture)

Leach, R. & Money, A. Mobile midlife: lifecourse, death and travel (for Mobilities)

Leach, R. Baby boomers: families and/or friendships

Leach, R. & Leach, H. Autobiography and the baby boom

Leach, R.  Anxiety and (dis)order: home, stuff and OCD (for Social Theory and Health)

Leach, R, Money, A, Phillipson, C, & Biggs, S. Baby Boomers: age, midlife and generation in consumption (planned book project, contract to be secured by end 2008)

Lydia Martens

Casey, E and Martens, L (Eds.) (2007) Gender and Consumption: Domestic Cultures and the Commercialisation of Everyday Life, Ashgate (in press).

Warde, A and Martens, L (2000) Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge xi + 246p.

Martens L (1997) Exclusion and Inclusion. The Gender Construction of Dutch and British Work Forces: 1940-1993, Avebury, Ashgate, xi + 243p.
Refereed Journal Articles

Martens, L and Scott, S (2006) Under the Kitchen Surface: Domestic products and conflicting constructions of home. Home Cultures. Vol 3(1): 39-62.

Martens, L and Scott, S (2005) ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Cleaning’: Representations of Domestic Practice and Products in Good Housekeeping Magazine (UK): 1951–2001. Consumption, Markets and Culture. Vol 8(3): 371-409.

Martens, L (2005) Learning to Consume – Consuming to Learn: Children at the interface between consumption and education. British Journal of Sociology of Education. Vol. 26 (3) 343-357.

Martens, L, Southerton, D and Scott, S (2004) Bringing Children (and Parents) into the Sociology of Consumption: Towards a theoretical and empirical agenda. Journal of Consumer Culture. Vol 4(2):155-182.

Olsen, W K, Warde, A and Martens, L (2000) Social Differentiation and the Market for Eating Out in the UK, International Journal of Hospitality Management, 19, 173-190.

Warde, A, Martens, L & Olsen, W (1999) Consumption and the Problem of Variety: Cultural Omnivorousness, Social Distinction and Dining Out, Sociology, 33, 1, 105-127.

Warde, A and Martens, L (1998) Eating Out and the Commercialisation of Mental Life, British Food Journal, 100, 3, 147-153.

Martens, L (1997) Gender and the Eating Out Experience, British Food Journal, 99, 1, 20-26.
Chapters in Edited Books

Casey, E and Martens, L (2007) Introduction, in Casey, E and Martens, L (Eds.) Gender and Consumption: Domestic Cultures and the Commercialisation of Everyday Life, Ashgate. (in press)

Martens, L and Casey, E (2007) Afterword: Gender, Consumer Culture and Promises of Betterment in Late Modernity, in Casey, E and Martens, L (Eds.) Gender and Consumption: Domestic Cultures and the Commercialisation of Everyday Life, Ashgate. (in press)

Martens, L & Warde, A (1999) Power and Resistance around the Dinner Table, in Hearn, J & Roseneil, S eds, Consuming Cultures: Power and Resistance, MacMillan, London, 91-108.

Warde, A & Martens, L (1999) Eating Out: Reflections on the Experience of Consumers in England, in Germov, J & Williams, L eds, The Social Appetite: An Introduction to the Sociology of Food and Nutrition, Oxford University Press: Sydney, 116-134.

Warde, A & Martens, L (1998) A Sociological Approach to Food Choice: The Case of Eating Out, in Murcott, A ed, ‘The Nation’s Diet’: The Social Science of Food Choice, Longman, London, 129-144.

Warde, A and Martens, L (1998) The Experience of Eating Out in England, in Griffiths, S and Wallace, J eds, Consuming Passions: Food in the Age of Anxiety, Manchester: Mandolin/Manchester University Press, 118-122.

Martens, L & Warde, A, Urban Pleasure? On the Meaning of Eating Out in a Northern City, in Caplan, P ed, Food, Identity and Health, Routledge, London, 1997, 131-150

Research Publications
Martens, L and Scott, S (2004) Domestic Kitchen Practices: Routine, Reflexivity and Risk. ESRC End of Award Report, pp 21-52.
 

Jane Parish

Publications based on this research include articles on West African gambling and anti-witchcraft shrines in the journal Ethnography (2005) and conspiracy, corruption and racism and the Sierra Leonean diaspora in Culture and Religion (2005). She is the joint editor of the sociological monograph, The Age of Anxiety, Conspiracy Theorising in the Human Sciences (2001). Jane is currently writing a book, Witchcraft, Modernity and Social Change

Dana Rosenfeld

Books:

Rosenfeld, D. and Faircloth, C. (Eds.) 2006. Medicalized Masculinities. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. (Nominated for the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction’s 2007 Charles Horton Cooley Award.)

Rosenfeld, D. 2003. The Changing of the Guard: Lesbian and Gay Elders , Identity, and Social Change. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Refereed Publications

Rosenfeld, D . 2006. “Similarities and differences between acute illness and injury narratives and their implications for medical sociology.” Social Theory and Health 4(1): 64-84.

Rosenfeld, D. and Faircloth, C. 2004. “Embodied fluidity and the commitment to movement: Constructing the moral self through arthritis narratives.” Symbolic Interaction 27(4): 507-529. I was the major contributor to this work.

Rosenfeld, D . and Eugene B. Gallagher. 2002. “The life course as an organizing principle and a socializing resource in modern medicine.” Advances in Life Course Research 7: 357-390.

Pollner, M. and Rosenfeld, D. 2000. “The cross-culturing work of gay and lesbian elderly.” Advances in Life Course Research 5: 99-117.

Rosenfeld, D. 1999. “Identity work among lesbian and gay elderly.” Journal of Aging Studies 13(2): 121-144.
Book Chapters

Charmaz, K. and Rosenfeld, D. 2006. “Reflections of the body, images of self: Visibility and invisibility in chronic illness and disability.” Pages 35-50 in Dennis D. Waskul and Philip Vannini (Eds.), Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body. Ashgate Publishing.

Rosenfeld, D. and Faircloth, C. 2005. “Medicalized masculinities: The missing link?” Pages 1-20 in Rosenfeld and Faircloth (Eds.), Medicalized Masculinities. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. I was the major contributor to this work.

Rosenfeld, D. 2003. “Homosexual bodies in time and space: The homosexual body as a sexual signifier in lesbian and gay elders’ narratives.” Pages 171-203 in Chris Faircloth (Ed.), Aging Bodies: Meanings and Perspectives. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.

Rosenfeld, D. 2002. “Identity careers of older gay men and lesbians.” Pages 160-181 in Jaber F. Gubrium and James Holstein (Eds.), Ways of Aging. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers.

Book Reviews

Rosenfeld, D. 2004. Review of Qualitative Research in Sociology, by Amir Marvasti (2004), Sage Publications. Qualitative Research Journal 4(2): 171-173. (Invited.)

Rosenfeld, D. 2004. Review of Peacocks, Chameleons, Centaurs: Gay Suburbia and the Grammar of Identity , by Wayne H. Brekhus (2003), University of Chicago Press. Contemporary Sociology 33(5): 552-553. (Invited).
Forthcoming

Rosenfeld, D. (2007). Review of Of Others Inside: Insanity, Addiction and Belonging in America (2005), by Darin Weinberg, Temple University Press. Sociology of Health and Illness.

Rosenfeld, D. (2008). ‘From same-sex desire to homosexual identity: History, biography, and the production of the sexual self in lesbian and gay elders’ narratives.’ Forthcoming in Cohler and Hammack (Eds.), Life Course and Sexual Identity: Narrative Perspectives. Oxford University Press series on Sexual Orientation and Human Development. (Invited.)Rosenfeld, D. (2008). ‘GLBT Issues and Aging.’ Forthcoming in Dannefer and Phillipson (Eds.), International Handbook of Social Gerontology. Sage Publications. (Invited.)

Rosenfeld, D. (2008). ‘The body’. Entry in Gabriel, Y. (2008). Organizing Words: A creative thesaurus of key words in social and organizational theories. Oxford University Press.

Pnina Werbner
You can also find a page with Pnina Werbner’s publications (many downloadable) here
 
Books:

Werbner, P. (1990; reprint 2002) The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis (Oxford: Berg)

Werbner, P. (2002) Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslims: the Public Performance of Transnational Identity Politics (James Currey, Oxford, and School of American Research, Santa Fe) 
 
Werbner, P. (2003) Pilgrims of Love: the Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult (Hurst Publishers, London and Indiana University Press; also OUP Karachi).

Edited Collections:

Werbner, P. & Modood, T. (1997) eds. Debating Cultural Hybridity  (Zed Books)

Werbner, P. & Modood, T. (1997) eds. The Politics of Multiculturalism in the New Europe (Zed Books)

Werbner, P. & Basu, H. (1998) eds. Embodying Charisma: Modernity, Locality and the Performance of Emotion in Sufi Cults (Routledge)

Werbner, P. & Yural-Davis, N (1999) eds. Women, Citizenship and Difference (1999) co-edited with Nira Yuval-Davis (Zed Books)

Werbner, P. & Leonard, K. (2000) eds. Special issue of the journal Diaspora on the topic of ‘The Materiality of Diaspora

Andy Zieleniec

Zieleniec, A. (2007) Space and Social Theory, Sage, London