Theses - Sociology: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Farming by Satellites: how West Country farmers were being driven to, and by, precision agricultural systems
(2018-10-20)Precision farming integrates satellite coordination and information communication technologies into farming practices to deliver self-driving and auto-regulating machinery and equipment to farmers, who can afford to invest, ...
