School of Society and Culture
Recent Submissions
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We Are Displaced, But We Are More Than That: Using Anarchist Principles to Materialize Capitalism’s Cracks at Sites of Contemporary Forced Displacement in Europe
(Springer Science and Business Media LLCUnited States, 2023-02-07)<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This article charts the development of The Made in Migration Collective, a coalition of displaced people, academics, and creative professionals that was developed during a recently ... -
I’ll Tell You What I Want, What I Really, Really Want! Open Archaeology that Is Collaborative, Participatory, Public, and Feminist
(Informa UK Limited, 2020-01-02)In this paper, my aim is to remake a powerful case for an open archaeology that is always collaborative, participatory, and public–but also feminist and activist. Drawing on more than 10 years’ experience as a community ... -
Reluctant Refuge: An Activist Archaeological Approach to Alternative Refugee Shelter in Athens (Greece)
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020-09-01)<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The effect of the mismatch between the numbers of forced migrants that host governments are prepared to deal with and the actual number of those seeking refuge is that many forced ... -
Turbo Island, Bristol: excavating a contemporary homeless place
(Informa UK Limited, 2014-06)This paper provides an assessment of the excavation of an apparently ordinary space in Bristol (UK) in 2009. Although the space appears unremarkable to most passers-by, it is unusual in being a place used routinely by ... -
From the ground up: cultural heritage practices as tools for empowerment in the Homeless Heritage project
(Informa UK Limited, 2018-08-09)The Homeless Heritage project took place across two English cities (Bristol and York) between 2010 and 2014. The project sought to use a range of participatory heritage practices to engage contemporary homeless people in ... -
Embrace the Margins: Adventures in Archaeology and Homelessness
(Maney Publishing, 2011-02)In 2009-10 two archaeologists conducted an archaeological study of contemporary homelessness in Bristol (UK). The result was a memorable experience for all involved, and an experiment in developing a socially engaged and ... -
The rural enterprise crime complex: ‘undefendable rural space’ and the threat from the fortress farm
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023-09)In respsonse to the concept of the ‘fortress farm’ and its appropriation of traditional defensible space theory, this article introduces the conditions of undefendable rural space and the rural enterprise crime complex. ... -
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The Battle for the Soul of the Nation: Nationalist Polarization in the 2020 American Presidential Election and the Threat to Democracy
(Informa UK Limited, 2023-01-01)This article examines the nationalist rhetoric of Biden and Trump in the 2020 presidential election, focusing on how the candidates represented, and contested, the meaning of American national identity. To do so, we ...