Outputs (5)

Obfuscated democracy? Chelsea Manning and the politics of knowledge curation (2018)
Journal Article
Garnett, P., & Hughes, S. M. (2018). Obfuscated democracy? Chelsea Manning and the politics of knowledge curation. Political Geography, 68, 23-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.11.001

This paper interrogates the attention that Chelsea Manning has received within the academy. It begins from the observation that despite being responsible for the largest classified document leak, work within Political Geography and International Rela... Read More about Obfuscated democracy? Chelsea Manning and the politics of knowledge curation.

Contested Spaces of Citizenship: Camps, Borders and Urban Encounters (2017)
Journal Article
Maestri, G., & Hughes, S. (2017). Contested Spaces of Citizenship: Camps, Borders and Urban Encounters. Citizenship Studies, 21(6), 625-639. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2017.1341657

As citizenship regulations have tightened across the world, protest and activist movements have also emerged to challenge the violence of border and migration control. Positioned at the intersection of citizenship studies and critical geography, this... Read More about Contested Spaces of Citizenship: Camps, Borders and Urban Encounters.

A Material Politics of Citizenship: the potential of circulating materials from UK Immigration Removal Centres (2017)
Journal Article
Hughes, S., & Forman, P. (2017). A Material Politics of Citizenship: the potential of circulating materials from UK Immigration Removal Centres. Citizenship Studies, 21(6), 675-692. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2017.1341659

This paper introduces a materialist approach to Isin’s concept of ‘acts of citizenship’ to call for an attention to the lively and agential materials that mediate citizenship claims. It describes two ways in which materialism helps progress conceptua... Read More about A Material Politics of Citizenship: the potential of circulating materials from UK Immigration Removal Centres.

Atmospheric Memories: Affect and minor politics at the ten-year anniversary of the London bombings (2017)
Journal Article
Closs Stephens, A., Hughes, S. M., Schofield, V., & Sumartojo, S. (2017). Atmospheric Memories: Affect and minor politics at the ten-year anniversary of the London bombings. Emotion, Space and Society, 23, 44-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2017.03.001

This paper addresses how the ten-year anniversary of the London bombings was made present through political affects and atmospheres on 7 July 2015. Although the anniversary of a terrorist event forms an opportune moment for invoking the nation as uni... Read More about Atmospheric Memories: Affect and minor politics at the ten-year anniversary of the London bombings.

Beyond intentionality: exploring creativity and resistance within a UK Immigration Removal Centre (2016)
Journal Article
Hughes, S. (2016). Beyond intentionality: exploring creativity and resistance within a UK Immigration Removal Centre. Citizenship Studies, 20(3-4), 427-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2016.1142936

This paper considers the place of creativity within UK Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs) as a way of developing understandings of resistance within these spaces. It draws upon empirical research undertaken within an IRC, to explore the role of impro... Read More about Beyond intentionality: exploring creativity and resistance within a UK Immigration Removal Centre.