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Border Theatre: On the arts of security and resistance (2010)
Journal Article
Amoore, L., & Hall, A. (2010). Border Theatre: On the arts of security and resistance. cultural geographies, 17(3), 299-319. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474010368604

This essay addresses the conditions and limits of artistic interventions in the contemporary landscape of border security. It argues that the theatrical rituals of border security — scanning, screening, verifying identity — have become domesticated a... Read More about Border Theatre: On the arts of security and resistance.

Reconstructing recent relative sea-level changes in West Greenland: local diatom-based transfer functions are superior to regional models (2010)
Journal Article
Woodroffe, S., & Long, A. (2010). Reconstructing recent relative sea-level changes in West Greenland: local diatom-based transfer functions are superior to regional models. Quaternary International, 222(1-2), 91-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2009.06.005

We present the results of an investigation into the potential of salt marshes in the Aasiaat area, West Greenland, for recent relative sea-level (RSL) reconstruction. We use 64 modern diatom samples to develop a transfer function that has a RMSEP of... Read More about Reconstructing recent relative sea-level changes in West Greenland: local diatom-based transfer functions are superior to regional models.

‘Most of industry’s shutting down up here…’: Employability initiatives to tackle worklessness in areas of low labour market demand (2010)
Journal Article
Joyce, K., Smith, K., Sullivan, C., & Bambra, C. (2010). ‘Most of industry’s shutting down up here…’: Employability initiatives to tackle worklessness in areas of low labour market demand. Social Policy and Society, 9(3), 337-353. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474746410000060

Employability initiatives are becoming increasingly popular in government discourse as a means of tackling worklessness. Here we discuss the findings of a small-scale, qualitative study which mapped the impacts of a multi-intervention programme on pa... Read More about ‘Most of industry’s shutting down up here…’: Employability initiatives to tackle worklessness in areas of low labour market demand.

Neoliberal Subjectivities and the Development of the Night-Time Economy in British Cities (2010)
Journal Article
Shaw, R. (2010). Neoliberal Subjectivities and the Development of the Night-Time Economy in British Cities. Geography Compass, 4(7), 893-903. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00345.x

This article provides a review of the academic literature on the night-time economy (NTE) of British cities. The first half of the article concentrates on the development of the contemporary NTE by academics in the 1990s, showing how such ideas were... Read More about Neoliberal Subjectivities and the Development of the Night-Time Economy in British Cities.

Welfare state regime life courses: The development of Western European welfare state regimes and age related patterns of educational inequalities in self-reported health (2010)
Journal Article
Bambra, C., Netuveli, G., & Eikemo, T. (2010). Welfare state regime life courses: The development of Western European welfare state regimes and age related patterns of educational inequalities in self-reported health. International Journal of Health Services, 40(3), 399-420. https://doi.org/10.2190/hs.40.3.b

This article uses data from three waves of the European Social Survey (2002, 2004, 2006) to compare educational inequalities in self-reported health (good vs. bad) and limiting longstanding illness in six age groups based on decade of birth (1930s-19... Read More about Welfare state regime life courses: The development of Western European welfare state regimes and age related patterns of educational inequalities in self-reported health.