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The Hooligan Film Factory: Football Violence in High Definition (2014)
Book Chapter
Poulton, E. (2014). The Hooligan Film Factory: Football Violence in High Definition. In M. Hopkins, & J. Treadwell (Eds.), Hooliganism, Crime and Crowd Management: Contemporary Perspectives in Relation to Research and Theory (154-175). Palgrave Macmillan

Lyrical Philosophy, or How to Sing with Mind (2014)
Journal Article
Epstein, M. (2014). Lyrical Philosophy, or How to Sing with Mind. Common Knowledge, 20(2), 204-213. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2422890

The article suggests that, contrary to widespread opinions and standard encyclopedic definitions, philosophy is a domain not only of thoughts and ideas but also of feelings. Philosophy as (etymologically) love for wisdom includes emotions in both of... Read More about Lyrical Philosophy, or How to Sing with Mind.

Philosophical Feelings (2014)
Journal Article
Epstein, M. (2014). Philosophical Feelings. Philosophy Now,

“A sensitive heart is a rich source of ideas” – Nikolai Karamzin We’ve got used to identifying philosophy with thinking. The collocation ‘philosophical thought’ seems to be axiomatic, nearly tautological: indeed, philosophy is thought in its highest... Read More about Philosophical Feelings.

“Over our dead bodies”: Placing necropolitical activism (2014)
Journal Article
Leshem, N. (2015). “Over our dead bodies”: Placing necropolitical activism. Political Geography, 45, 34-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.09.003

Analysing a struggle between Palestinian campaigners and Israeli authorities over an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, this paper explores the role of necrogeography in contesting urban boundaries, asserting historical legitimacy and realizing em... Read More about “Over our dead bodies”: Placing necropolitical activism.

The Inner-Textuality of Qoheleth's Monologue (2014)
Book Chapter
Weeks, S. (2014). The Inner-Textuality of Qoheleth's Monologue. In W. Kynes, & K. Dell (Eds.), Reading Ecclesiastes intertextually (142-156). Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Uses and meanings of ‘Yid’ in English football fandom: A case study of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club (2014)
Journal Article
Poulton, E., & Durell, O. (2016). Uses and meanings of ‘Yid’ in English football fandom: A case study of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 51(6), 715-734. https://doi.org/10.1177/1012690214554844

This is the first empirical study to explain the contested uses and meanings of ‘Yid’ in English football fan culture. A pertinent socio-political issue with important policy and legal implications, we explain the different uses of ‘Yid’, making cent... Read More about Uses and meanings of ‘Yid’ in English football fandom: A case study of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

Having the Balls: Reflections on Doing Gendered Research with Football Hooligans (2014)
Book Chapter
Poulton, E. (2014). Having the Balls: Reflections on Doing Gendered Research with Football Hooligans. In K. Lumsden, & A. Winter (Eds.), Reflexivity in criminological research : experiences with the powerful and powerless (77-89). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137379405.0011

The chapter identifies the methodological challenges (re)negotiated and managed as a female academic researching the hyper-masculine subculture of ‘football hooliganism’. It provides some methodological strategies and field tips that researchers may... Read More about Having the Balls: Reflections on Doing Gendered Research with Football Hooligans.

Theorizing "Jewish Genetics": DNA, Culture, and Historical Narrative (2014)
Book Chapter
Egorova, Y. (2014). Theorizing "Jewish Genetics": DNA, Culture, and Historical Narrative. In N. Valman, & L. Roth (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of contemporary Jewish cultures (353-364). Routledge

In June 2010 two papers appeared in major scientific journals - Nature and the American Journal of Human Genetics – which attempted to address the question about the “genetic structure” of the Jewish people (Behar et al 2010; Atzmon et al 2010). Both... Read More about Theorizing "Jewish Genetics": DNA, Culture, and Historical Narrative.

The Continuing Failure of International Relations and the Challenges of Disciplinary Boundaries (2014)
Journal Article
Baron, I. Z. (2014). The Continuing Failure of International Relations and the Challenges of Disciplinary Boundaries. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 43(1), 224-244. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829814541834

This article is concerned with addressing the following hypothesis, originally presented in Millennium in 2001: International Relations theory does not influence other academic fields to the extent that it suggests that it should. This claim is re-ex... Read More about The Continuing Failure of International Relations and the Challenges of Disciplinary Boundaries.

Military intelligence and the war in Dhofar: An appraisal (2014)
Journal Article
Jones, C. A. (2014). Military intelligence and the war in Dhofar: An appraisal. Small Wars and Insurgencies, 25(3), 628-646. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2014.913743

This article examines the role military intelligence played in the Dhofar campaign between 1970 and 1976. Drawing on an array of sources, it examines not only the crucial role played by military intelligence in prosecuting a successful operational ca... Read More about Military intelligence and the war in Dhofar: An appraisal.

The 1974 World Cup in West Germany: A Non-Event? (2014)
Book Chapter
Schiller, K. (2014). The 1974 World Cup in West Germany: A Non-Event?. In S. Rinke, & K. Schiller (Eds.), The FIFA World Cup 1930-2010 : politics, commerce, spectacle and identities (220-239). Wallstein Verlag

Post-Feminist Pornographication or Pro-Sex Feminism? Queer Performativity in the Work of Two French Female Artists (2014)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L. (2014). Post-Feminist Pornographication or Pro-Sex Feminism? Queer Performativity in the Work of Two French Female Artists. In L. Cairns, & S. Fouz Hernández (Eds.), Rethinking ‘identities’ : cultural articulations of alterity and resistance in the new millennium (21-42). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0607-1

In this essay, I examine contemporary renegotiations of feminism that constitute a challenge not only for self-defined feminists, but also for mainstream interpretive communities, and that in fact have the potential for a quasi-universal impact. I do... Read More about Post-Feminist Pornographication or Pro-Sex Feminism? Queer Performativity in the Work of Two French Female Artists.

Introduction (2014)
Book Chapter
Cairns, L., & Fouz-Hernandez, S. (2014). Introduction. In L. Cairns, & S. Fouz-Hernandez (Eds.), Rethinking 'identities' : cultural articulations of alterity and resistance in the new millennium (1-18). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0607-1

This volume sets out to reimagine and extend the theoretical and epistemological presuppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established body of scholarly texts which examine the concept from a wide range of perspectives, th... Read More about Introduction.