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The Impact of Antisemitism and Islamophobia on Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK: Memory, Experience, Context (2017)
Book Chapter
Egorova, Y., & Ahmed, F. (2017). The Impact of Antisemitism and Islamophobia on Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK: Memory, Experience, Context. In J. Renton, & B. Gidley (Eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe : a shared story? (283-301). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-41302-4_11

The relationship between the Jewish and Muslim communities of Europe is often constructed by public discourse as polarised due to the Israel–Palestine conflict. Indeed, in the summer of 2014, the mass media presented numerous reports suggesting that... Read More about The Impact of Antisemitism and Islamophobia on Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK: Memory, Experience, Context.

Israel's relations with the Gulf states: Toward the emergence of a tacit security regime? (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, C. A., & Guzansky, Y. (2017). Israel's relations with the Gulf states: Toward the emergence of a tacit security regime?. Contemporary Security Policy, 38(3), 398-419. https://doi.org/10.1080/13523260.2017.1292375

By drawing on the literature about security regimes, this article posits the idea that a particular type of regime, which can be termed a “tacit security regime” (TSR), has begun to emerge between Israel, on the one hand, and several Gulf Arab states... Read More about Israel's relations with the Gulf states: Toward the emergence of a tacit security regime?.

Categories and Cultural Models of Nature in Northern Punjab, Pakistan (2017)
Journal Article
Lyon, S. M., & Mughal, M. (2017). Categories and Cultural Models of Nature in Northern Punjab, Pakistan. World cultures eJournal, 22(2),

The most widespread model of the natural world by Northern Punjabi farmers appears to leverage a powerful supernatural domain, which includes Allah, as a sole God, plus, various non-human spirits or jinn, who can be both benign and malicious, and a b... Read More about Categories and Cultural Models of Nature in Northern Punjab, Pakistan.

On Brothers and Sisters: South Asian and Japanese Idea Systems and their Consequences (2017)
Journal Article
Lyon, S. M. (2017). On Brothers and Sisters: South Asian and Japanese Idea Systems and their Consequences. World cultures eJournal, 22(1),

The role expectations of cross siblings varies across culture. Such expectations, while not rigidly prescribing actual behaviors nevertheless influences relations between brothers and sisters in observable ways. In South Asia, a cultural rhetoric of... Read More about On Brothers and Sisters: South Asian and Japanese Idea Systems and their Consequences.

Spaces of Abandonment: Genealogies, Lives and Critical Horizons (2016)
Journal Article
Leshem, N. (2017). Spaces of Abandonment: Genealogies, Lives and Critical Horizons. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35(4), 620-636. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816683189

Abandonment has a long presence in Western cultural, philosophical and legal canon, though most contemporary critical debates focus on its sovereign and juridico-political functions. This article considers the concept of abandonment through its more... Read More about Spaces of Abandonment: Genealogies, Lives and Critical Horizons.

Online Environments and the Future of Social Science Research (2016)
Book Chapter
Fischer, M. D., Lyon, S. M., & Zeitlyn, D. (2017). Online Environments and the Future of Social Science Research. In N. G. Fielding, R. M. Lee, & G. Blank (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of online research methods (611-627). (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications

This chapter considers the impact that the Internet and related communications technologies (IRCT) will have on the range of possibilities and prospects for new generations of social scientists. Contemporary and future developments will advance the s... Read More about Online Environments and the Future of Social Science Research.

"Lines of Light": Poetic Variations in Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley.' (2016)
Journal Article
Sandy, M. (2016). "Lines of Light": Poetic Variations in Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley.'. Romanticism, 22(3), 260-268. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2016.0287

Recognising the importance of Wordsworth's sense of nascent light (elegised in his ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’), the essay traces how influential this idea was on later Romantic poetic treatments of light. Wordsworth's qualitative distinction b... Read More about "Lines of Light": Poetic Variations in Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley.'.

Indigestible Biographies: Limits to the Narrative Processing of Life (2016)
Book Chapter
Ní Dhúill, C. (2016). Indigestible Biographies: Limits to the Narrative Processing of Life. In A. Babka, M. Bidwell-Steiner, & W. Mueller-Funk (Eds.), Narrative im Bruch (223-238). V&R unipress. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737005968.223

Biography – ‘the story of a person told by someone else’1 – brings life into narrative form. In this article, I consider some of the fractures and failures that can attend this process, the places where the biographical text reveals life’s resistance... Read More about Indigestible Biographies: Limits to the Narrative Processing of Life.

Negating the Family: Ritual and Dionysus in modernist utopia (2016)
Journal Article
Ní Dhúill, C. (2016). Negating the Family: Ritual and Dionysus in modernist utopia. Cultural Dynamics, 28(1), 55-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374015623389

Formations such as gangs stand in a complex relationship to other, more conventional or socially normative groupings and collectives, such as the family. This article probes the gang’s function as a kind of alternative family and as a lens through wh... Read More about Negating the Family: Ritual and Dionysus in modernist utopia.

Reading Cookbooks: Israeli Food and the International Relations of the Every Day (2016)
Journal Article
Baron, I. Z. (2016). Reading Cookbooks: Israeli Food and the International Relations of the Every Day. Arts & international affairs, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.18278/aia.1.1.4

To explore the foods of another country, people or region is one way to visit other parts of the world, to discover different tastes and customs, and perhaps in the search for key ingredients, to meet new people with ties to these lands. Yet embarkin... Read More about Reading Cookbooks: Israeli Food and the International Relations of the Every Day.

Towards Understanding: Antisemitism and the Contested Uses and Meanings of ‘Yid’ in English Football (2016)
Journal Article
Poulton, E. (2016). Towards Understanding: Antisemitism and the Contested Uses and Meanings of ‘Yid’ in English Football. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39(11), 1981-2001. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2016.1140791

This article addresses an omission in the currently brief body of work on antisemitism in football and contributes to and advances wider sociological debates in the sub-disciplines of race and ethnicity, religion, linguistics and sport. The article e... Read More about Towards Understanding: Antisemitism and the Contested Uses and Meanings of ‘Yid’ in English Football.

Solomon and Qoheleth (2016)
Book Chapter
Weeks, S. (2016). Solomon and Qoheleth. In B. J. Embry, & A. Erickson (Eds.), Megilloth studies : the shape of contemporary scholarship (71-86). Sheffield Phoenix Press

Various explanations have been advanced for the reading of Ecclesiastes at the Feast of Tabernacles, a practice that does not seem to have begun before the Middle Ages, and that has never been applied with great consistency even amongst the Jewish co... Read More about Solomon and Qoheleth.