Theses - Sociology
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A Debt of One's Own
(2018-10-26)This thesis explores the disciplinary aspects of formal financial institutions, and in particular banks, upon population behavior. To that end, the political significance of banks is first traced throughout the European ... -
Class-based Structural Violence in Britain
(2018-10-25)This thesis identifies and analyses the major patterns of class-based structural violence (based on the differential access to class power) in some of the main areas of social organisation in Britain in the period from ... -
Making Stem Cell Niches: An Ethnography of Regenerative Medicine in Scotland and the United States
(2018-10-20)This thesis presents the findings from an ethnography of stem cell science based on fieldwork with researchers in two connected laboratories in Scotland and the United States. It explores stem cell scientists' complicated ... -
Self(ie)-Care and Mental Health
(2018-07-21)The amount of research on the use of selfies as a form of care is scarce, with those focusing on mental health being non-existent. Following Foucault’s genealogy of madness, this paper attempts to analyse how forms of care ...
