Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Outputs (399)

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.

The Art of World–Making (2013)
Journal Article
Epstein, M. (2013). The Art of World–Making. Philosophy Now, 95, 22-24

“Numerous universes might have been botched and bungled throughout an eternity, ere this system was struck out; much labor lost, many fruitless trials made, and a slow but continual improvement carried out during infinite ages in the art of world-mak... Read More about The Art of World–Making.

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.

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.

“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 Jewish Question in the 21st Century: An Unanswered Question? Exploring the Jewish Question in Literature and Politics (2014)
Journal Article
Baron, I. Z. (2014). The Jewish Question in the 21st Century: An Unanswered Question? Exploring the Jewish Question in Literature and Politics. Jewish journal of sociology, 56(1/2), 5-28. https://doi.org/10.5750/jjsoc.v56i1/2.87

This paper explores the relevance of the Jewish Question in the Twenty-First Century. The Jewish Question, what political space exists for the Jews in the modern world, was seemingly answered by two historic events in 1948. The first of these was the... Read More about The Jewish Question in the 21st Century: An Unanswered Question? Exploring the Jewish Question in Literature and Politics.

Against Representation: Death, Desire, and Art in Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal (2012)
Journal Article
Roth, Z. (2012). Against Representation: Death, Desire, and Art in Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal. Philip Roth studies, 8(1), 95-100

In Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal (2001), desire is figured as the revenge of death for the aging libertine David Kepesh. Embodying the object of his desire as a work of art allows him to harmlessly enjoy the volupté of death. The mimesis of art, how... Read More about Against Representation: Death, Desire, and Art in Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal.

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.

Fostering active network management through SMEs’practises (2015)
Journal Article
Powells, G., Bell, S., Judson, E. P., Lyon, S. M., Wardle, R., Capova, K. A., & Bulkeley, H. (2016). Fostering active network management through SMEs’practises. Energy Efficiency, 9(3), 591-604. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-015-9382-y

Managing the electricity network through ‘smart grid’ systems is a key strategy to address challenges of energy security, low carbon transitions and the replacement of ageing infrastructure networks in the UK. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have... Read More about Fostering active network management through SMEs’practises.

Redefining the Converted Jewish Self: Race, Religion and Israel's Bene Menashe (2015)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2015). Redefining the Converted Jewish Self: Race, Religion and Israel's Bene Menashe. American Anthropologist, 117(3), 493-505. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12293

The Bene Menashe stem from a number of Christian groups of the Indo-Burmese borderland, some of whom back in the 1950s declared their descent from the Lost Tribes of Israel. In this article, I will use the example of the Bene Menashe migration to Isr... Read More about Redefining the Converted Jewish Self: Race, Religion and Israel's Bene Menashe.

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.

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.

Bodily Dis-Ease in Contemporary French Women’s Writing: Two Case Studies (2015)
Journal Article
Cairns, L. (2015). Bodily Dis-Ease in Contemporary French Women’s Writing: Two Case Studies. French Studies, 69(4), 494-508. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knv150

This article examines two twenty-first-century autobiographical accounts of the intense — and ultimately life-threatening — mental and bodily dis-ease endured by two young French women from adolescence into early adulthood. Annick Loupias's La Tortue... Read More about Bodily Dis-Ease in Contemporary French Women’s Writing: Two Case Studies.

Persistent Cultures: Miskitu Kinship Terminological Fluidity and Idea Systems (2015)
Journal Article
Lyon, S. M., Jamieson, M. A., & Fischer, M. D. (2015). Persistent Cultures: Miskitu Kinship Terminological Fluidity and Idea Systems. Structure and dynamics, 8(1), Article 1

Kinship is understood dynamically and processually but kinship terminologies are remarkably stable idea systems. They provide cultural continuity over time and are more resistant to modification than many types of cultural instantiations. Miskitu spe... Read More about Persistent Cultures: Miskitu Kinship Terminological Fluidity and Idea Systems.

The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia (2013)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2013). The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia. Contemporary South Asia, 21(3), 291-303. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2013.826627

Drawing on two ethnographic examples of the sociocultural aspects of populations genetic research in India, the article explores in what ways tests aimed at assessing ‘genetic differences’ between populations can be viewed as enabling or disempowerin... Read More about The substance that empowers? DNA in South Asia.

Idées Fixes and Fausses Idées Claires (2013)
Journal Article
Epstein, M., & Perl, J. (2013). Idées Fixes and Fausses Idées Claires. Common Knowledge, 19(2), 217-223. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2073215

This essay, coauthored by the editor and a member of the editorial board of Common Knowledge, introduces the fifth installment of the journal's symposium “Fuzzy Studies,” which is about the “consequence of blur.” Beginning with a review of Enlightenm... Read More about Idées Fixes and Fausses Idées Claires.