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Public Understanding of Trafficking in Human Beings in Great Britain, Hungary and Ukraine (2019)
Journal Article
Sharapov, K. (2019). Public Understanding of Trafficking in Human Beings in Great Britain, Hungary and Ukraine. Anti-trafficking review, 13, 30-49. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201219133

This article provides a summary of research undertaken to investigate public awareness and understanding of human trafficking in Great Britain, Ukraine, and Hungary. Responding to the lack of reliable empirical data on this issue, the research relies... Read More about Public Understanding of Trafficking in Human Beings in Great Britain, Hungary and Ukraine.

Regulatory Arbitrage in Relation to International Human Rights (2019)
Journal Article
Minhat, M., Abdullah, M., & Dzolkarnaini, N. (2019). Regulatory Arbitrage in Relation to International Human Rights. Journal of Human Rights, 18(5), 579-596. https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2019.1647097

The adoption of the United Nations (UN) Charter in 1945 marked the legalization of international human rights. Despite the legalized status of human rights, their violation by states is not uncommon. This article questions why a state might violate i... Read More about Regulatory Arbitrage in Relation to International Human Rights.

Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse (2018)
Book
Kranert, M., & Horan, G. (2018). M. Kranert, & G. Horan (Eds.). Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse. John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.80

This edited volume explores the discursive, performative and mediated dimensions of contemporary political discourse. The strengths of the volume are manifold: it contains cutting edge interdisciplinary research on political discourses by internation... Read More about Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse.

Marketing Brexit: An exploratory study of young voter engagement in relation to the EU referendum (2018)
Journal Article
Pich, C., Harvey, J., Armannsdottir, G., Poorrezaei, M., Branco-Illodo, I., & Kincaid, A. (2018). Marketing Brexit: An exploratory study of young voter engagement in relation to the EU referendum. International Journal of Market Research, 60(6), 589-610. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470785318793260

This article presents a study of young voter engagement in relation to the EU referendum—a democratic vote on the United Kingdom’s membership of the European Union. Using the marketing concept of engagement, we examine how young voters engaged cognit... Read More about Marketing Brexit: An exploratory study of young voter engagement in relation to the EU referendum.

Populistische Elemente in den Wahlprogrammen von AfD und UKIP (2018)
Journal Article
Kranert, M. (2018). Populistische Elemente in den Wahlprogrammen von AfD und UKIP. Aptum: Journal of Language Criticism and Language Culture, 14(1), 61-77

Seit dem Erstarken neuer rechter Parteien in Europa und der Wahl Donald Trumps zum 45. Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten dominiert Populismus als politischer Kampfbegriff den politischen Diskurs und rückt ebenfalls als analytische Kategorie der pol... Read More about Populistische Elemente in den Wahlprogrammen von AfD und UKIP.

Power (2018)
Book Chapter
Maglione, G. (2018). Power. In B. Arrigo (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy. SAGE Publications

The concept of power is acknowledged as one of the few steady axes around which social sciences have been revolving at least since the first half of the XX th century. In fact, very few concepts have been as pervasive and generative. Equally undisput... Read More about Power.

Domestic legislation and international human rights standards: the case of mental health and incapacity (2017)
Journal Article
Stavert, J., & McGregor, R. (2018). Domestic legislation and international human rights standards: the case of mental health and incapacity. International Journal of Human Rights, 22(1), 70-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2017.1390307

The right to health has been somewhat neglected in discussions about human rights at both national and international levels. States are often reluctant to implement socio-economic rights which they consider to be a resourcing issue, rather than a mat... Read More about Domestic legislation and international human rights standards: the case of mental health and incapacity.

Brexit Observatory: Listening to the voices of those affected by the Brexit vote, in the research, innovation and tertiary education sectors (2017)
Report
Cataluna, A. M., O'Connor, S., Konig, A., Combet Aspray, E., & Meer, N. (2017). Brexit Observatory: Listening to the voices of those affected by the Brexit vote, in the research, innovation and tertiary education sectors. Scotland, UK: Royal Society of Edinburgh

The Young Academy of Scotland, in collaboration with the Royal Society of Edinburgh, launched a call for case studies on 12 May 2017, with the objective of capturing the impact, whether positive
or negative, perceived or factual, of the Brexit vote... Read More about Brexit Observatory: Listening to the voices of those affected by the Brexit vote, in the research, innovation and tertiary education sectors.

The creative Industries: recasting Scotland's relationship with Europe (2017)
Report
Blake, J. (2017). The creative Industries: recasting Scotland's relationship with Europe. Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh

This article analyses the likely impact that Brexit will have on the creative industries in Scotland. The study focuses on three main areas: the movement of people, Creative Europe funding and the ongoing development of a Digital Single Market. The... Read More about The creative Industries: recasting Scotland's relationship with Europe.

Outlining a historical and critical ontology of Restorative Justice (2017)
Book Chapter
Maglione, G. (2017). Outlining a historical and critical ontology of Restorative Justice. In I. Aertsen, & B. Pali (Eds.), Critical Restorative Justice. Hart Publishing

This chapter aims to outline a historico-philosophical investigation into the conditions of possibility of restorative justice (RJ), from a perspective informed by Michel Foucault’s historical and critical
project(s).

Redefining Poverty and Its Measurement: An Islamic Political Economy Perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Khaleel, F. (2017). Redefining Poverty and Its Measurement: An Islamic Political Economy Perspective. Global Review of Islamic Economics and Business, 4(2), 68-81

Islamic economists have always taken the position on the intrinsic capability of poverty alleviation in the Islamic economic model. The poverty, in economics and social sciences, is taken in the context of economic deprivation. Among the multitudinou... Read More about Redefining Poverty and Its Measurement: An Islamic Political Economy Perspective.

The use of gendered language in speeches made by Trump and Clinton adhered to stereotypes of the roles of male and female leaders (2017)
Digital Artefact
McGuire, D., MacKenzie, A., & Kissack, H. (2017). The use of gendered language in speeches made by Trump and Clinton adhered to stereotypes of the roles of male and female leaders. [Blog post]

Speeches delivered by Donald J. Trump and Hillary Rodham Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign contained many uses of gendered language. David McGuire, Abbi MacKenzie and Heather Kissack evaluate the use of first person singular pronouns, ang... Read More about The use of gendered language in speeches made by Trump and Clinton adhered to stereotypes of the roles of male and female leaders.

Mapping political cultures, or genre as central category of comparative political discourse analysis. The case of Third Way discourses in Germany and the UK at the turn of the 21st century. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kranert, M. (2017, March). Mapping political cultures, or genre as central category of comparative political discourse analysis. The case of Third Way discourses in Germany and the UK at the turn of the 21st century. Presented at Research Group Meeting - Language, Ideology and Power (Lancaster University)

No abstract available.

Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim (2017)
Journal Article
Hopkins, P., Botterill, K., Sanghera, G., & Arshad, R. (2017). Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 107(4), 934-948. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2016.1270192

Exploring both debates about misrecognition and explorations of encounters, this paper focuses upon the experiences of ethnic and religious minority young people who are mistaken for being Muslim in Scotland. We explore experiences of encountering mi... Read More about Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim.

‘Today I offer you, and we offer the country a new vision’: The strategic use of first person pronouns in party conference speeches of the Third Way (2017)
Journal Article
Kranert, M. (2017). ‘Today I offer you, and we offer the country a new vision’: The strategic use of first person pronouns in party conference speeches of the Third Way. Discourse and Society, 28(2), 182-203. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926516685463

This article aims to fill a gap in the existing research by analysing the construction of leadership and group identity in a corpus of 13 party conference speeches by the party leaders of the German SPD and the British Labour party between 1997 and 2... Read More about ‘Today I offer you, and we offer the country a new vision’: The strategic use of first person pronouns in party conference speeches of the Third Way.

Theories of the state (2017)
Book Chapter
Maglione, G. (2017). Theories of the state. In S. Morley, K. Corteen, J. Turner, & P. Taylor (Eds.), A Companion to State Power, Rights and Liberties. Policy Press

The concept of 'State' is one of the most deep-rooted answers that western (originally European) social and political thought has ever offered to the question of how to organise the social body, how to transform a mass of individuals on a certain lan... Read More about Theories of the state.