Outputs (229)

No longer deserving? Sickness benefit reform and the politics of (ill) health (2010)
Journal Article
Bambra, C., & Smith, K. (2010). No longer deserving? Sickness benefit reform and the politics of (ill) health. Critical Public Health, 20(1), 71-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581590902763265

Income maintenance during unemployment, old age or long-term sickness is a key facet of welfare provision and an important mediatory factor in the relationship between socio-economic position and health status. Since October 2008, the main long-term... Read More about No longer deserving? Sickness benefit reform and the politics of (ill) health.

Security and the Future: Anticipating the Event of Terror (2010)
Journal Article
Anderson, B. (2010). Security and the Future: Anticipating the Event of Terror. Geoforum, 41(2), 227-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.11.002

This paper explores the relation between processes of security and futurity in the context of efforts to govern the complexity and contingency of events of terror. It argues that processes of securing function by generating a dangerous or promissory... Read More about Security and the Future: Anticipating the Event of Terror.

Evidence from the 2001 English Census on the contribution of employment status to the social gradient in self-rated health (2010)
Journal Article
Popham, F., & Bambra, C. (2010). Evidence from the 2001 English Census on the contribution of employment status to the social gradient in self-rated health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 64(3), 277-280. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2009.087452

Background Unemployment and economic inactivity are associated with poor health. There are social gradients in unemployment and economic inactivity, so it was hypothesised that they may contribute to the social gradient in self-rated health. Methods... Read More about Evidence from the 2001 English Census on the contribution of employment status to the social gradient in self-rated health.

Archaeologies of Landscape. Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian's Wall (2010)
Journal Article
Witcher, R., Tolia-Kelly, D., & Hingley, R. (2010). Archaeologies of Landscape. Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian's Wall. Journal of Material Culture, 15(1), 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183510355228

This article interrogates the materiality of Hadrian’s Wall beyond its widespread perception as a monument of/to Ancient Rome. Encounters with this monument have generated multitudinous materialities: hegemonic, conflicting and ambiguous. These traje... Read More about Archaeologies of Landscape. Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian's Wall.

Yesterday once more? Unemployment and health in the 21st century (2010)
Journal Article
Bambra, C. (2010). Yesterday once more? Unemployment and health in the 21st century. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 64(3), 213-215. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2009.090621

The relationship between economic recession, higher unemployment and poorer health is well established in the medical and social science research literature. Much of this research resulted from the last major economic recessions of the early 1980s an... Read More about Yesterday once more? Unemployment and health in the 21st century.

A major ice drainage pathway of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet: the Tyne Gap, northern England (2010)
Journal Article
Livingstone, S., Ó Cofaigh, C., & Evans, D. (2010). A major ice drainage pathway of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet: the Tyne Gap, northern England. Journal of Quaternary Science, 25(3), 354-370. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1341

The Tyne Gap is a wide pass, situated between the Scottish Southern Uplands and the English Pennines that connects western and eastern England. It was a major ice flow drainage pathway of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet. This study presents new glac... Read More about A major ice drainage pathway of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet: the Tyne Gap, northern England.

Biology's gift: interrogating the turn to affect (2010)
Journal Article
Papoulias, C., & Callard, F. (2010). Biology's gift: interrogating the turn to affect. Body & Society, 16(1), 29-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357034x09355231

This article investigates how the turn to affect within the humanities and social sciences re-imagines the relationship between cultural theory and science. We focus on how the writings of two neuroscientists (Antonio Damasio and Joseph LeDoux) and o... Read More about Biology's gift: interrogating the turn to affect.

Citizenship without community: time, design and the city (2010)
Journal Article
Closs Stephens, A. (2010). Citizenship without community: time, design and the city. Citizenship Studies, 14(1), 31-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621020903466282

This article engages with the concept of design as a way of re-working the standard understanding of citizenship as what takes place within a political community. In doing so, the paper draws on recent attempts to rethink citizenship as ‘acts’ rather... Read More about Citizenship without community: time, design and the city.

Overview of areal changes of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 50 years (2010)
Journal Article
Cook, A., & Vaughan, D. (2010). Overview of areal changes of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 50 years. The Cryosphere, 4(1), 77-98. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-4-77-2010

In recent decades, seven out of twelve ice shelves around the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) have either retreated significantly or have been almost entirely lost. At least some of these retreats have been shown to be unusual within the context of the Holo... Read More about Overview of areal changes of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 50 years.

Striking out’: Shifting labour markets, welfare to work policy and the renegotiation of gender performances (2010)
Journal Article
Smith, K., Bambra, C., & Joyce, K. (2010). Striking out’: Shifting labour markets, welfare to work policy and the renegotiation of gender performances. Critical Social Policy, 30(1), 74-98. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018309350809

Since 1997, the English government has committed itself to the twin (and inter-linked) policy aims of reducing health inequalities and tackling social exclusion. Welfare to work interventions have formed a key part of the policy response to both of t... Read More about Striking out’: Shifting labour markets, welfare to work policy and the renegotiation of gender performances.