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Israel in the Iranian Media: Demonizing the "Zionist Regime"
(2013)
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) has espoused an official policy of anti-Zionism, which is frequently punctuated with blatant anti-Semitism. This paper examines the discursive manifestation ...
Fracking on YouTube: Exploring Risks, Benefits and Human Values.
(White Horse Press, 2014-10-01)
Fracking or the extraction of shale gas through hydraulic fracturing of rock has become a contested topic, especially in the United States, where it has been deployed on a large scale, and in Europe where it is still largely ...
Paranoia predicts outgroup prejudice: preliminary experimental data
(Routledge: Taylor and Francis, 2015-09-01)
This article examines the relationships between exposure to terrorism news and state social paranoia, death anxiety and Islamophobia. In two experiments we show that, contrary to previous research in this area, the terrorism ...
The construction of ethnic identity: insights from identity process theory
(SAGE, 2012)
Ethnicity has received much empirical and theoretical attention in the social sciences. Yet, it has scarcely been explored in terms of its relationship with the motivational principles of identity. Here it is argued that ...
“My language, my people”: language and ethnic identity among British-born South Asians
(Taylor and Francis, 2010)
This study explores how a group of second generation Asians (SGA) understood and defined language, focusing upon the role they perceived language to have played in their identity. Twelve SGA were interviewed and the data ...
Caste, social stigma and identity processes
(SAGE, 2011)
Caste persists as an important socio-psychological phenomenon in many spheres of Indian social life and particularly within village contexts. It is argued that socio-psychological insights into caste identity and caste- ...
When Climate Science Became Climate Politics: British Media Representations of Climate Change in 1988.
(SAGE, 2012-05-11)
Climate change has become a pressing environmental concern for scientists, social commentators and politicians. Previous social science research has explored media representations of climate change in various temporal and ...
Contesting Science by Appealing to its Norms: Readers Discuss Climate Science in The Daily Mail.
(SAGE, 2012)
This study examines the rhetorical aspects of social contestation of climate change in reader comments published in the Daily Mail, subsequent to climategate. The following themes are reported: (1) denigration of climate ...
Disfigurement: the challenges for identity and the strategies for coping
(Springer, 2012)
Living with disfigurement can constitute a psycho- logically challenging position for both adults and young peo- ple alike. The present paper explores the potential implications of living with disfigurement for identity ...
Identity processes, threat and interpersonal relations: accounts from British Muslim gay men
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)
This study explores identity processes, identity threat, and inter- personal relations with other gay men in a qualitative inter- view study with a sample of young British Muslim gay men of Pakistani background. Transcripts ...
