Overview
The Identity, Territory and Social Justice collective engages in research that seeks to explore and problematise the socio-political phenomena shaping peoples’ lives. Driven by a commitment to social justice, our members conduct evidenced-based and theoretically-informed research with a transformative agenda. Activities of the group revolve around two main strands of research:
Social Justice and Applied Sociology
Research in this strand is underpinned by an ethos of social justice and an unapologetic aspiration for socio-political transformation. Areas explored in this line of work include: inequality, social movements, critical pedagogy, service-learning practices, university-community engagement, political sociology, public sociology, and processes of transformation broadly construed. Whilst remaining attentive to the importance of sound analytical diagnosis, our research in this strand does not shy from taking positions on and working towards the change that we wish to become reality.
Territories, Communities and Social Identities
The framework of ‘identity’ is by no means new, but it has arguably never been more ubiquitous and influential than it is today. Researchers in our group examine its various guises, both from the perspective of conventional sociological categories (e.g. class, race, gender) as well as innovative and cross-disciplinary experiments. This work frequently intersects with our explorations of communities, the sense of community in a range of locales (physical and virtual), and issues of territory, space and place. Topics of investigation include: urban sociology, cities and human rights, the right to the city, hybrid space and community building, community well-being, rural communities, social sustainability, social exclusion, and all things identity
Related staff
Core members
- Craig Lundy (Research Group co-leader)
- Michele Grigolo (Research Group co-leader)
- Sarah Burton
- Jenni Cauvain
- Nick Foard
- Fatima Garcia Elena
- Sharon Hutchings
- Claire Markham
- Anneliese Rutter
- Thomas Scott-Arthur
- Edward Wright
Associate members
- Paul Bermingham
- Alina Bychkova
- Hind Elhinnawy
- Richard Gee
- Christine Huebner
- Andrea Lyons-Lewis
- Ian Mahoney
- Philip Mignot
- Stefanie Petschick
- Jane Pilcher
- Tom Vickers
- Yesmean Khalil
Publications
2020
- CLARK, I., LAWTON, C., STEVENSON, C., VICKERS, T. and DAHILL, D., 2020. A 'place based' approach to work and employment: the end of reciprocity, ordinary working families and 'giggers' in a place. Economic and Industrial Democracy. ISSN 0143-831X
- GARCÍA E., F., 2020. The spatial aspect of human rights: a framework for the structural and spatial analysis of human rights practice. The International Journal of Human Rights. Published online, awaiting print publication.
- GEE, R. and BARNARD, A., 2020. Reflective practice via the lens of the life career and paradox: a contemplation of being and becoming a social worker. Reflective Practice, 21 (2), pp. 210-221. ISSN 1462-3943
- GRIGOLO, M. and LUNDY, C., 2020. Public sociology: facing the pandemic. Global Dialogue, 10 (3). ISSN 1450-0590
- HUEBNER, C. and EICHHORN, J., 2020. Votes at 16 in Scotland: political experiences beyond the vote itself. In: J. EICHHORN and J. BERGH, eds., Lowering the voting age to 16: learning from real experiences worldwide. Palgrave studies in young people and politics . Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 121-142. ISBN 9783030325404
- JORDAN, M., WRIGHT, E.J. and AIMIE, P., 2020. Capoeira. In: P. CRAWFORD, B. BROWN and A. CHARISE, eds., The Routledge companion to health humanities. Routledge literature companions . Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 377-381. ISBN 9781138579903
- PILCHER, J., COFFEY, A. and HOOLEY, Z., 2020. Names and naming in adoption: birth heritage and family making. Child and Family Social Work, 25 (3), pp. 568-575. ISSN 1356-7500
- VICKERS, T., 2020. Activist conceptualisations at the migration-welfare nexus: racial capitalism, austerity and the hostile environment. Critical Social Policy. ISSN 0261-0183
- VICKERS, T., DAHILL, D. and HOLLAND, D., 2020. Decent and good work in the platform economy: private hire and taxi work in Nottingham. Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University.
- WRIGHT, E.J., 2020. Fast-track fisticuffs? An ethnographic exploration of time and white-collar boxing. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 55 (4), pp. 437-452. ISSN 1012-6902
- WRIGHT, E.J., 2020. Coming to terms with the missing pieces: toilet paper and ethnography in the neoliberal university. Emotion, Space and Society, 35: 100689. ISSN 1755-4586
2019
- BURTON, S., HUTCHINGS, S., LUNDY, C. and LYONS-LEWIS, A., 2019. Evaluating the complexity of service-learning practices: lessons from and for complex systems theory. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 23 (3), pp. 89-103. ISSN 1534-6102
- CHAN, C.K., BARNARD, A. and VICKERS, T., 2019. Meaning through caregiving: a qualitative study of the experiences of informal carers. British Journal of Social Work. ISSN 0045-3102
- CLAYTON, J. and VICKERS, T., 2019. The contingent challenges of purposeful co-production: researching new migrant employment experiences in the North East of England. Area, 51 (3), pp. 396-404. ISSN 0004-0894
- GARCÍA E., F., 2019. Colombia: being an environmental activist in some countries is much more dangerous than in others. The Conversation.
- GRIGOLO, M., 2019. The human rights city: New York, San Francisco, Barcelona. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781315628530
- GRIGOLO, M., 2019. Understanding the right to the city as the right to difference. In: E. GARCIA-CHUECA and L. VIDAL, eds., Advancing urban rights: equality and diversity in the city. Monografías CIDOB (76). Barcelona: CIDOB, pp. 23-31. ISBN 9788492511754
- JORDAN, M., WRIGHT, E.J., PURSER, A., GRUNDY, A., JOYES, E., WRIGHT, N., CRAWFORD, P. and MANNING, N., 2019. Capoeira for beginners: self-benefit for, and community action by, new Capoeiristas. Sport, Education and Society, 24 (7), pp. 756-769. ISSN 1357-3322
- LUNDY, C., 2019. The call for a new earth, a new people: an untimely problem. Theory, Culture & Society. ISSN 0263-2764
- LUNDY, C., 2019. Charles Péguy. In: G. JONES and J. ROFFE, eds., Deleuze's philosophical lineage II. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 120-145. ISBN 9781474449199
- MAHONEY, I. and COLLINS, V.E., 2019. The capitalist voyeur: commodification, consumption and the spectacle of the cruise. Leisure Studies. ISSN 0261-4367
- MAHONEY, I., 2019. Considering the legitimacy of homeless hostels as sites of discipline and regulation. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 39 (3/4), pp. 250-263. ISSN 0144-333X
- VICKERS, T., 2019. Borders, migration and class in an age of crisis: producing immigrants and workers. Bristol: Bristol University Press. ISBN 9781529201819
- VICKERS, T., 2019. Imperialism and immigration. In: I. NESS and Z. COPE, eds., The Palgrave encyclopedia of imperialism and anti-imperialism. 2nd ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, -.
- VICKERS, T., 2019. Marxist social work: an international and historical perspective. In: S.A. WEBB, ed., Routledge handbook of critical social work. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 24-34. ISBN 9781138578432
- VICKERS, T., CLAYTON, J., DAVISON, L., CAÑADAS, M.A., BIDDLE, P. and LILLEY, S., 2019. Dynamics of precarity among 'new migrants': exploring the worker-capital relation through mobilities and mobility power. Mobilities. ISSN 1745-011X
- WAKEFIELD, J.R.H., GRIGOLO, M., VICKERS, T., HUTCHINGS, S. and BOWE, M., 2019. Economic and social rights in Nottingham: work, housing, food. Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University.
- WRIGHT, E.J., 2019. On white-collar boxing and social class. The Sociological Review. ISSN 0038-0261
2018
- CAUVAIN, J. and KARVONEN, A., 2018. Social housing providers as unlikely low-carbon innovators. Energy and Buildings, 177, pp. 394-401. ISSN 0378-7788
- CAUVAIN, J., KARVONEN, A. and PETROVA, S., 2018. Market-based low-carbon retrofit in social housing: insights from Greater Manchester. Journal of Urban Affairs, 40 (7), pp. 937-951. ISSN 0735-2166
- CAUVAIN, J., 2018. Social sustainability as a challenge for urban scholars. City, 22 (4), pp. 595-603. ISSN 1360-4813
- CAUVAIN, J., 2018. Urban social sustainability: the case dtudy of Nottingham, UK. In: S.J. GARREN and R. BRINKMANN, eds., The Palgrave handbook of sustainability. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 241-260. ISBN 9783319713885
- CLAYTON, J. and VICKERS, T., 2018. Temporal tensions: EU citizen migrants, asylum seekers and refugees navigating dominant temporalities of work in England. Time & Society. ISSN 0961-463X
- DURIE, R., LUNDY, C. and WYATT, K., 2018. Using complexity principles to understand the nature of relations for creating a culture of publically engaged research within Higher Education institutes. In: E. MITLETON-KELLY, A. PARASKEVAS and C. DAY, eds., Handbook of research methods in complexity science: theory and applications. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781785364419
- HUEBNER, C. and EICHHORN, J., 2018. Wie haben junge Deutsche 2017 gewählt? Wahlverhalten junger Wähler_innen zur Bundestagswahl 2017: Empirische Analyse. Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, p. 75. ISBN 9783962501433
- LUNDY, C., 2018. Deleuze's Bergsonism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781474414302
- LUNDY, C., 2018. Bergson's method of problematisation and the pursuit of metaphysical precision. Angelaki, 23 (2), pp. 31-44. ISSN 0969-725X
- MAHONEY, I. and KEARON, T., 2018. Social quality and Brexit in Stoke-on-Trent, England. International Journal of Social Quality, 8 (1), pp. 1-20. ISSN 1757-0344
- MAHONEY, I. and KEARON, T., 2018. Formulating the postindustrial self: the role of petty crime among unemployed, working-class men in Stoke-on-Trent. In: C. WALKER and S. ROBERTS, eds., Masculinity, labour, and neoliberalism. Global masculinities . Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 77-99. ISBN 9783319631714
- VICKERS, T., 2018. The British public aren’t as polarised on immigration as you might think. The Conversation.
2017
- BLACK, P., BURTON, S., HUNTER, J., LAWTON, C., PICKFORD, R. and WHEATLEY, D., 2017. Out of the ordinary: exploring the lives of ordinary working families. Nottingham: Nottingham Civic Exchange, Nottingham Trent University.
- CHAN, C.-K., BARNARD, A., VICKERS, T. and HOLLAND, D., 2017. Research on carers within seldom-heard communities: final report. Nottingham: School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University.
- LAWTON, C., WHEATLEY, D., PICKFORD, R. and BURTON, S., 2017. Ordinary working families in Nottingham and the UK: technical working paper: objective and subjective measures of income and earnings. Nottingham: Nottingham Civic Exchange, Nottingham Trent University.
- GRIGOLO, M., 2017. Local governments and human rights: some critical reflections. Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 49 (1), pp. 67-98. ISSN 0090-7944
- GRIGOLO, M., 2017. Towards a sociology of the human rights city: focusing on practice. In: M.F. DAVIS, T. GAMMELTOFT HANSEN and E. HANNA, eds., Human rights cities and regions Swedish and international perspectives. Malmö: Raoul Wallenberg Institute, pp. 11-22. ISBN 9789186910709
- HUEBNER, C. and EICHHORN, J., 2017. Germany - mind the gap: understanding public opinion and elite interpretations of EU concerns in Germany. In: Nothing to fear but fear itself? "Mapping and responding to the rising culture and politics of fear in the European Union…". London: Demos, pp. 175-226. ISBN 9781911192077
- LUNDY, C., 2017. Tracking the triple form of difference: Deleuze's Bergsonism and the Asymmetrical Synthesis of the Sensible. Deleuze Studies, 11 (2), pp. 174-194. ISSN 1750-2241
- MIGNOT, P., 2017. Young people as consumers: the construction of vulnerability amongst consumers of higher education. In: C. HAWKINS, ed., Rethinking children as consumers: the changing status of childhood and young adulthood. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781138832442
- PILCHER, J., 2017. Names and "doing gender": how forenames and surnames contribute to gender identities, difference, and inequalities. Sex Roles, 77 (11-12), pp. 812-822. ISSN 0360-0025
2016
- BOUZAROVSKI, S. and CAUVAIN, J., 2016. Spaces of exception: governing fuel poverty in England's multiple occupancy housing sector. Space and Polity, 20 (3), pp. 310-329. ISSN 1356-2576
- CAUVAIN, J. and BOUZAROVSKI, S., 2016. Energy vulnerability in multiple occupancy housing: a problem that policy forgot. People, Place and Policy, 10 (1), pp. 88-106. ISSN 1753-8041
- EICHHORN, J., HENSING, J. and HUEBNER, C., 2016. Economic crisis and democratic legitimacy. In: M. VOICU, I.C. MOCHMANN and H. DÜLMER, eds., Values, economic crisis and democracy. London: Routledge, pp. 193-220. ISBN 9781138959170
- GEE, R. and TOWERS, C., 2016. The place of group work practice within the lecture theatre: promoting self-directed learning, student reflection and orbital communication via the entwined endeavours of teaching, role play and facilitation. Group Work, 26 (2), pp. 9-33.
- GRIGOLO, M., 2016. Towards a sociology of the human rights city: focusing on practice. In: B. OOMEN, M.F. DAVIS and M. GRIGOLO, eds., Global urban justice: the rise of human rights cities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 276-293. ISBN 9781107147010
- OOMEN, B., DAVIS, M.F. and GRIGOLO, M., 2016. Global urban justice: the rise of human rights cities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107147010
- LUNDY, C., 2016. The necessity and contingency of universal history: Deleuze and Guattari contra Hegel. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 10 (1), pp. 51-75. ISSN 1872-261X
- MUSOKE, D., GIBSON, L., MUKAMA, T., KHALIL, Y. and SSEMPEBWA, J.C., 2016. Nottingham Trent University and Makerere University School of Public Health partnership: experiences of co-learning and supporting the healthcare system in Uganda. Globalization and Health, 12: 11. ISSN 1744-8603
- PILCHER, J., 2016. Names, bodies and identities. Sociology, 50 (4), pp. 764-779. ISSN 0038-0385
- VICKERS, T. and RUTTER, A., 2016. Disposable labour, passive victim, active threat: migrant/non-migrant othering in three British television documentaries. European Journal of Cultural Studies. ISSN 1367-5494
- VICKERS, T., 2016. Opportunities and Limitations for Collective Resistance Arising from Volunteering by Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Northern England. Critical Sociology, 42 (3), pp. 437-454. ISSN 0896-9205
- VICKERS, T., 2016. Geflüchtete, Kapitalismus und der Staat: Die Wurzeln der Unterdrückung von Flüchtlingen und Schlussfolgerungen für die politische Aktion. Marxistische-Blätter (1-16), pp. 58-66. ISSN 0542-7770
2015
- LUNDY, C. and VOSS, D., 2015. At the edges of thought: Deleuze and post-Kantian philosophy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748694624
- LUNDY, C. and VOSS, D., 2015. Deleuze and post-Kantian thought: method, ideas and aesthetics. In: C. LUNDY and D. VOSS, eds., At the edges of thought: Deleuze and post-Kantian philosophy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-22. ISBN 9780748694624
- VICKERS, T. and DOMINELLI, L., 2015. Students' involvement in international humanitarian aid: learning from student responses to the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka. British Journal of Social Work, 45 (6), pp. 1905-1922. ISSN 0045-3102
- VICKERS, T., 2015. Grappling with power and inequality in humanitarian interventions. International Social Work, 58 (5), pp. 625-627. ISSN 0020-8728
- VICKERS, T., 2015. Marxist approaches to social work. In: J. WRIGHT, ed., International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences, 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 663-669. ISBN 9780080970868
- VICKERS, T., CRAIG, G. and ATKIN, K., 2015. Tom Vickers, Gary Craig and Karl Atkin (2013), ‘Addressing Ethnicity in Social Care Research’, Social Policy and Administration, 47 (3), June, 310–26. In: J. PHILLIMORE, ed., Migration and social policy. International library of studies on migration (19). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781783471041
- VICKERS, T., 2015. The contribution of UK asylum policy 1999-2010 to conditions for the exploitation of migrant labour. In: L. WAITE, G. CRAIG, H. LEWIS and K. SKRIVANKOVA, eds., Vulnerability, exploitation and migrants: insecure work in a globalised economy. Migration, diasporas and citizenship. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137460400
2014
- HENN, M. and FOARD, N., 2014. Social differentiation in young people's political participation: the impact of social and educational factors on youth political engagement in Britain. Journal of Youth Studies, 17 (3), pp. 360-380. ISSN 1367-6261
- HENN, M. and FOARD, N., 2014. Young people and politics in Britain. Sociology Review, 23 (4), pp. 18-22. ISSN 0959-8499
- HENN, M. and FOARD, N., 2014. Will compulsory voting fix the disconnect between young people and the political process? In: A. MYCOCK and J. TONGE, eds., Beyond the Youth Citizenship Commission: young people and politics. London: Political Studies Association, pp. 18-22. ISBN 9780956966148
- VICKERS, T., 2014. Developing an independent anti-racist model for asylum rights organizing in England. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37 (8), pp. 1427-1447. ISSN 0141-9870
- VICKERS, T. and DOMINELLI, L., 2014. Humanitarian aid in times of disasters: lessons from responses to the 2004 tsunami in Sri-Lanka. In: S. HESSLE, ed., Environmental change and sustainable social development. Social work-social development (II). Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 49-52. ISBN 9781472416377
- VICKERS, T., 2014. Migration, political engagement and the State: a case study of immigrants and communists in 1930s South Tyneside in the UK. In: L. DOMINELLI and M. MOOSA-MITHA, eds., Reconfiguring citizenship: social exclusion and diversity within inclusive citizenship practices. Contemporary social work studies. Farnham: Ashgate. ISBN 9781409448983