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The Last of England: Banal Nationalism and Communities of Loss in British Pub Closure Media Narratives

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While pubs have long been celebrated as a quintessential part of British culture, the ongoing and increasingly rapid closure of British pubs has raised concerns about the impacts of their loss on the wider cultural life and identity of the nation.
Robert Deakin, Thomas Thurnell‐Read
wiley   +1 more source

Army Deserters in Exile

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Desertion from the military does not turn soldiers into civilians. In this paper, I analyse military identity and embodied practices of soldiers who deserted from the Zimbabwe National Army and were exiled in South Africa. Soldiering is understood as an essence part of who they are, as men who risked their lives and invested in a career, which
Godfrey Maringira
wiley   +1 more source

The Body in Extremist White Supremacism

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances the study of racial extremism by analyzing how its practices of violence and sexuality are marked on the bodies of participants in the form of scars, physical stances, abuse, tattoos, pregnancy, injury, strength and size, using an extraordinarily rich and extensive set of narratives collected from lengthy in‐person ...
Mehr Latif   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

Recreational reading as a leisure activity: Perspectives from Georgian and Finnish hearing and deaf students

open access: yesJournal of Research in Special Educational Needs, EarlyView.
Abstract The benefits of recreational reading for academic success are clear. However, the full potential of recreational reading for socialisation and well‐being remains untapped by young readers. Studies of young readers' recreational reading intentions and perceived barriers to translating intentions into reading are scarce. Deaf and hard‐of‐hearing
Zhuzhuna Gviniashvili
wiley   +1 more source

Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Political Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Having long shied away from proactively politicizing issues of European integration, the past crisis decade has put generally pro‐European mainstream parties under pressure to spell out more clearly which kind of Europe they support. We distinguish two such fundamental ideas of Europe: the redistributive polity, organizing transnational ...
CHRISTIAN FREUDLSPERGER, MARTIN WEINRICH
wiley   +1 more source

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