Sara Akram
Biographic Data
| ID | 207450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Akram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Akram |
| SIGNATURE | AKRAM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canberra |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2220-1965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Muslim-Mancunian Women: Racial-Colonial Literacy, Counter-Knowledge and Epistemological Justice
Epistemological justice, which exposes the role of colonialism in conceptualising contemporary society, particularly racial inequalities, has gained prominence within sociology. Yet, sociologists often ignore that the material conditions of professional sociology inhibit racial justice-oriented knowledge making. This article argues, to realise epistemological justice, sociology must travel to the margins, wherein certain sociological publics offe…
Interface between mental health and the earthquake: Considering humanitarian endeavor
Sara Akram1*Muhammad Yousuf Jat Baloch2*Abdulwahed Fahad Alrefaei3Mikhlid H. Almutairi3Muhammad Idrees4*Hamad Abdulla R. A. Al-Kubaisi5
Environmental change and floods: The long-ignored effects of displacement on mental health
Although climate change has received significant global attention, there has been a distinct disregard for the issue of psychological well-being. The elevated floods resulting from climate change have substantial impacts on both physical infrastructure and human well-being. This includes the coerced relocation of individuals from their homes, unemployment, setbacks, and the disruption of communities. The occurrence of significant displacement due…
O składni współczesnego polskiego reportażu książkowego
Autorka korzysta w niej nie tylko z osigni jzykoznawstwa statystycznego (na co wskazuje tytu publikacji), ale take stylistyki oraz genologii lingwistycznej.Przedmiotem docieka badawczych jest poziom skadniowy w ramach aspektu stylistycznego wzorca gatunkowego, jakim jest reporta.Jednym z gwnych celw monografii jest charakterystyka stylu reportaowego, tj."specyficznego zbioru stylistyczno
Therapeutic cultural resilience perspectives during the Covid-19 pandemic: An ethnographic qualitative study of Faisalabad, Pakistan
Collective trauma is instigated on a wide scale by warfare, poverty, natural disasters, or global health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. For instance, natural disasters have a significant impact on the social fabrics of communities. This fallout can cause long-term social support networks to disintegrate, especially when combined with a high level of risk. In Faisalabad, Pakistan, COVID-19-induced collective trauma resulted in social and cu…
Dear British politics—where is the race and racism
This article explores the neglect of race and racism in the discipline of British politics. I outline why this has happened, the consequences of such neglect and how it might be remedied. The article proceeds in four stages: First, it makes the case that British politics has neglected race and racism. I do this by showing that race does not feature within the core concerns of the discipline, and that despite the fact that race may be noted in the…
Police ça Change? Cressida Dick, Institutional Racism and the Metropolitan Police
This article considers the recent resignation of Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, and places this event within the context of ongoing attempts to address institutional racism in the police. The article argues that successive police commissioners have publicly supported tackling institutional racism while maintaining serious reservations about the concept and, in the case of Dick, ultimately rejecting it. It goes on to show that Di…
European or Muslim? Chosen and rejected identity in All Lara’s Wars by Wojciech Jagielski
Since the second half of twentieth century identity has become one of the central problems in humanities. It is perceived as something to be discovered or constructed. A person lives in a world of values, one of which is one’s individual and collective identity. The aim of this article is to present (from the linguistic perspective) self-identity as value in Wojciech Jagielski’s reportage All Lara’s Wars. The article presents Szamil’s search for …
Early Career Researchers’ Experiences of Post-Maternity and Parental Leave Provision in UK Politics and International Studies Departments: A Heads of Department and Early Career Researcher Survey
Supporting increasing equality and diversity in the recruitment and retention of Early Career Researchers from the widest pool of talent available is high on the agenda of universities and policy makers. Notwithstanding this, the demanding nature of academic careers has a disproportionate effect on Early Career Researchers, who may face indirect obstacles in their career development particularly following a period of maternity or parental leave. …
What is “Political” Participation: Beyond Explicit Motivations and Oppositional Actions
Wood and Flinders re-center political participation on the idea of “nexus politics.” The effort is laudable because it contributes to other ongoing efforts at broadening our understanding of the nature of ‘political’ participation. Unfortunately, in our view, the authors misspecify new forms of political participation that have emerged by: (1) failing to take Henrik Bang’s work seriously; (2) focusing exclusively on motivation/intention, so that …
Representative bureaucracy and unconscious bias: Exploring the unconscious dimension of active representation
Representative bureaucracy theory explores the effects of representation on bureaucracies, but less attention has been paid to date as to how agents represent values or interests. Addressing this omission, this article highlights the unconscious dimension of active representation and, more specifically, the role of unconscious bias in representation. Unconscious bias has received limited attention to date in public administration, but has clear r…
(Re)Conceptualising the third face of power: Insights from Bourdieu and Foucault
The strength of Lukes’ third face of power is the recognition that agents can be influenced by structures and ideas in ways of which they are unaware. The weakness of Lukes’ position is that his consideration of the third face is under-developed. In this article, we argue that Bourdieu and Foucault’s work offer fruitful ways of exploring this ‘pre-conscious’ dimension. Using Bourdieu’s work, the core of any understanding of the third face is root…
The Moveon Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy by David Karpf
David Karpf brings a unique and timely perspective to the field of online politics research because of his dual practitioner and academic roles. The preface to the book tells us that Karpf has been
The Thatcher legacy in perspective
Political participation and citizen engagement: Beyond the mainstream
There is no doubt that the nature of political participation is changing in liberal democracy. At first, many researchers argued that the main feature of this change was an increase in political ap
In conclusion
The aim of this volume has been to present examples of work on political participation drawn from what we have termed a critical perspective. Here, we shall not summarise these contributions, rather our aim is briefly, given space constraints, to highlight some of the issues at stake in this literature and, given that, in our view, the changes in contemporary forms of political participation identified here represent significant challenges for de…
On reflexivity and the conduct of the self in everyday life: Reflections on Bourdieu and Archer
This article provides a critique of the concept of reflexivity in social theory today and argues against the tendency to define agency exclusively in terms of reflexivity. Margaret Archer, in particular, is highlighted as a key proponent of this thesis. Archer argues that late modernity is characterized by reflexivity but, in our view, this position neglects the impact of more enduring aspects of agency, such as the routinization of social life a…
Crisis of Democracy: Recognizing the Democratic Potential of Alternative Forms of Political Participation
According to the mainstream literature on political participation, declining rates of voting and party and interest group membership reflect a crisis of democracy in Western democracies. In this article, we challenge this view by highlighting the rise of alternative forms of political participation that operate outside formal arenas. We suggest that the mainstream approach ignores such forms of political participation for two reasons: First, it o…
Recognizing the 2011 United Kingdom Riots as Political Protest: A Theoretical Framework Based on Agency, Habitus and the Preconscious
Drawing on the 2011 United Kingdom riots, this article explores contestation over the meaning of riots. Is rioting criminality and looting, or are there political aspects to the act? For those advocating a political element, there is difficulty in reconciling how an apparently spontaneous act can have political motivations. This article argues that rioting is a distinctly political action, and in order to understand it we must theorize the charac…
Fully Unconscious and Prone to Habit: The Characteristics of Agency in the Structure and Agency Dialectic
While the human agent must have the capacity for reflexivity, intentionality and consciousness, the same agent must also be affected by the social world in which she lives: herein lies the essence of the structure and agency dialectic. This paper argues that while some realists are in principle committed to a dialectical relationship between structure and agency, there is some dissonance between this commitment and the concepts of agency that the…
Fully Unconscious and Prone to Habit: The Characteristics of Agency in the Structure and Agency Dialectic
While the human agent must have the capacity for reflexivity, intentionality and consciousness, the same agent must also be affected by the social world in which she lives: herein lies the essence of the structure and agency dialectic. This paper argues that while some realists are in principle committed to a dialectical relationship between structure and agency, there is some dissonance between this commitment and the concepts of agency that the…
On reflexivity and the conduct of the self in everyday life: Reflections on Bourdieu and Archer
This article provides a critique of the concept of reflexivity in social theory today and argues against the tendency to define agency exclusively in terms of reflexivity. Margaret Archer, in particular, is highlighted as a key proponent of this thesis. Archer argues that late modernity is characterized by reflexivity but, in our view, this position neglects the impact of more enduring aspects of agency, such as the routinization of social life a…
Political participation and citizen engagement: Beyond the mainstream
There is no doubt that the nature of political participation is changing in liberal democracy. At first, many researchers argued that the main feature of this change was an increase in political ap
Recognizing the 2011 United Kingdom Riots as Political Protest: A Theoretical Framework Based on Agency, Habitus and the Preconscious
Drawing on the 2011 United Kingdom riots, this article explores contestation over the meaning of riots. Is rioting criminality and looting, or are there political aspects to the act? For those advocating a political element, there is difficulty in reconciling how an apparently spontaneous act can have political motivations. This article argues that rioting is a distinctly political action, and in order to understand it we must theorize the charac…
Dear British politics—where is the race and racism
This article explores the neglect of race and racism in the discipline of British politics. I outline why this has happened, the consequences of such neglect and how it might be remedied. The article proceeds in four stages: First, it makes the case that British politics has neglected race and racism. I do this by showing that race does not feature within the core concerns of the discipline, and that despite the fact that race may be noted in the…
Representative bureaucracy and unconscious bias: Exploring the unconscious dimension of active representation
Representative bureaucracy theory explores the effects of representation on bureaucracies, but less attention has been paid to date as to how agents represent values or interests. Addressing this omission, this article highlights the unconscious dimension of active representation and, more specifically, the role of unconscious bias in representation. Unconscious bias has received limited attention to date in public administration, but has clear r…
Crisis of Democracy: Recognizing the Democratic Potential of Alternative Forms of Political Participation
According to the mainstream literature on political participation, declining rates of voting and party and interest group membership reflect a crisis of democracy in Western democracies. In this article, we challenge this view by highlighting the rise of alternative forms of political participation that operate outside formal arenas. We suggest that the mainstream approach ignores such forms of political participation for two reasons: First, it o…
Police ça Change? Cressida Dick, Institutional Racism and the Metropolitan Police
This article considers the recent resignation of Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, and places this event within the context of ongoing attempts to address institutional racism in the police. The article argues that successive police commissioners have publicly supported tackling institutional racism while maintaining serious reservations about the concept and, in the case of Dick, ultimately rejecting it. It goes on to show that Di…
Early Career Researchers’ Experiences of Post-Maternity and Parental Leave Provision in UK Politics and International Studies Departments: A Heads of Department and Early Career Researcher Survey
Supporting increasing equality and diversity in the recruitment and retention of Early Career Researchers from the widest pool of talent available is high on the agenda of universities and policy makers. Notwithstanding this, the demanding nature of academic careers has a disproportionate effect on Early Career Researchers, who may face indirect obstacles in their career development particularly following a period of maternity or parental leave. …
Muslim-Mancunian Women: Racial-Colonial Literacy, Counter-Knowledge and Epistemological Justice
Epistemological justice, which exposes the role of colonialism in conceptualising contemporary society, particularly racial inequalities, has gained prominence within sociology. Yet, sociologists often ignore that the material conditions of professional sociology inhibit racial justice-oriented knowledge making. This article argues, to realise epistemological justice, sociology must travel to the margins, wherein certain sociological publics offe…
(Re)Conceptualising the third face of power: Insights from Bourdieu and Foucault
The strength of Lukes’ third face of power is the recognition that agents can be influenced by structures and ideas in ways of which they are unaware. The weakness of Lukes’ position is that his consideration of the third face is under-developed. In this article, we argue that Bourdieu and Foucault’s work offer fruitful ways of exploring this ‘pre-conscious’ dimension. Using Bourdieu’s work, the core of any understanding of the third face is root…
In conclusion
The aim of this volume has been to present examples of work on political participation drawn from what we have termed a critical perspective. Here, we shall not summarise these contributions, rather our aim is briefly, given space constraints, to highlight some of the issues at stake in this literature and, given that, in our view, the changes in contemporary forms of political participation identified here represent significant challenges for de…
Fully Unconscious and Prone to Habit: The Characteristics of Agency in the Structure and Agency Dialectic
While the human agent must have the capacity for reflexivity, intentionality and consciousness, the same agent must also be affected by the social world in which she lives: herein lies the essence of the structure and agency dialectic. This paper argues that while some realists are in principle committed to a dialectical relationship between structure and agency, there is some dissonance between this commitment and the concepts of agency that the…
Crisis of Democracy: Recognizing the Democratic Potential of Alternative Forms of Political Participation
According to the mainstream literature on political participation, declining rates of voting and party and interest group membership reflect a crisis of democracy in Western democracies. In this article, we challenge this view by highlighting the rise of alternative forms of political participation that operate outside formal arenas. We suggest that the mainstream approach ignores such forms of political participation for two reasons: First, it o…
Recognizing the 2011 United Kingdom Riots as Political Protest: A Theoretical Framework Based on Agency, Habitus and the Preconscious
Drawing on the 2011 United Kingdom riots, this article explores contestation over the meaning of riots. Is rioting criminality and looting, or are there political aspects to the act? For those advocating a political element, there is difficulty in reconciling how an apparently spontaneous act can have political motivations. This article argues that rioting is a distinctly political action, and in order to understand it we must theorize the charac…
(Re)Conceptualising the third face of power: Insights from Bourdieu and Foucault
The strength of Lukes’ third face of power is the recognition that agents can be influenced by structures and ideas in ways of which they are unaware. The weakness of Lukes’ position is that his consideration of the third face is under-developed. In this article, we argue that Bourdieu and Foucault’s work offer fruitful ways of exploring this ‘pre-conscious’ dimension. Using Bourdieu’s work, the core of any understanding of the third face is root…
The Moveon Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy by David Karpf
David Karpf brings a unique and timely perspective to the field of online politics research because of his dual practitioner and academic roles. The preface to the book tells us that Karpf has been
The Thatcher legacy in perspective
Political participation and citizen engagement: Beyond the mainstream
There is no doubt that the nature of political participation is changing in liberal democracy. At first, many researchers argued that the main feature of this change was an increase in political ap
In conclusion
The aim of this volume has been to present examples of work on political participation drawn from what we have termed a critical perspective. Here, we shall not summarise these contributions, rather our aim is briefly, given space constraints, to highlight some of the issues at stake in this literature and, given that, in our view, the changes in contemporary forms of political participation identified here represent significant challenges for de…
On reflexivity and the conduct of the self in everyday life: Reflections on Bourdieu and Archer
This article provides a critique of the concept of reflexivity in social theory today and argues against the tendency to define agency exclusively in terms of reflexivity. Margaret Archer, in particular, is highlighted as a key proponent of this thesis. Archer argues that late modernity is characterized by reflexivity but, in our view, this position neglects the impact of more enduring aspects of agency, such as the routinization of social life a…
Representative bureaucracy and unconscious bias: Exploring the unconscious dimension of active representation
Representative bureaucracy theory explores the effects of representation on bureaucracies, but less attention has been paid to date as to how agents represent values or interests. Addressing this omission, this article highlights the unconscious dimension of active representation and, more specifically, the role of unconscious bias in representation. Unconscious bias has received limited attention to date in public administration, but has clear r…
What is “Political” Participation: Beyond Explicit Motivations and Oppositional Actions
Wood and Flinders re-center political participation on the idea of “nexus politics.” The effort is laudable because it contributes to other ongoing efforts at broadening our understanding of the nature of ‘political’ participation. Unfortunately, in our view, the authors misspecify new forms of political participation that have emerged by: (1) failing to take Henrik Bang’s work seriously; (2) focusing exclusively on motivation/intention, so that …
European or Muslim? Chosen and rejected identity in All Lara’s Wars by Wojciech Jagielski
Since the second half of twentieth century identity has become one of the central problems in humanities. It is perceived as something to be discovered or constructed. A person lives in a world of values, one of which is one’s individual and collective identity. The aim of this article is to present (from the linguistic perspective) self-identity as value in Wojciech Jagielski’s reportage All Lara’s Wars. The article presents Szamil’s search for …
Early Career Researchers’ Experiences of Post-Maternity and Parental Leave Provision in UK Politics and International Studies Departments: A Heads of Department and Early Career Researcher Survey
Supporting increasing equality and diversity in the recruitment and retention of Early Career Researchers from the widest pool of talent available is high on the agenda of universities and policy makers. Notwithstanding this, the demanding nature of academic careers has a disproportionate effect on Early Career Researchers, who may face indirect obstacles in their career development particularly following a period of maternity or parental leave. …
Police ça Change? Cressida Dick, Institutional Racism and the Metropolitan Police
This article considers the recent resignation of Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, and places this event within the context of ongoing attempts to address institutional racism in the police. The article argues that successive police commissioners have publicly supported tackling institutional racism while maintaining serious reservations about the concept and, in the case of Dick, ultimately rejecting it. It goes on to show that Di…
Dear British politics—where is the race and racism
This article explores the neglect of race and racism in the discipline of British politics. I outline why this has happened, the consequences of such neglect and how it might be remedied. The article proceeds in four stages: First, it makes the case that British politics has neglected race and racism. I do this by showing that race does not feature within the core concerns of the discipline, and that despite the fact that race may be noted in the…
Interface between mental health and the earthquake: Considering humanitarian endeavor
Sara Akram1*Muhammad Yousuf Jat Baloch2*Abdulwahed Fahad Alrefaei3Mikhlid H. Almutairi3Muhammad Idrees4*Hamad Abdulla R. A. Al-Kubaisi5
Environmental change and floods: The long-ignored effects of displacement on mental health
Although climate change has received significant global attention, there has been a distinct disregard for the issue of psychological well-being. The elevated floods resulting from climate change have substantial impacts on both physical infrastructure and human well-being. This includes the coerced relocation of individuals from their homes, unemployment, setbacks, and the disruption of communities. The occurrence of significant displacement due…
O składni współczesnego polskiego reportażu książkowego
Autorka korzysta w niej nie tylko z osigni jzykoznawstwa statystycznego (na co wskazuje tytu publikacji), ale take stylistyki oraz genologii lingwistycznej.Przedmiotem docieka badawczych jest poziom skadniowy w ramach aspektu stylistycznego wzorca gatunkowego, jakim jest reporta.Jednym z gwnych celw monografii jest charakterystyka stylu reportaowego, tj."specyficznego zbioru stylistyczno
Therapeutic cultural resilience perspectives during the Covid-19 pandemic: An ethnographic qualitative study of Faisalabad, Pakistan
Collective trauma is instigated on a wide scale by warfare, poverty, natural disasters, or global health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. For instance, natural disasters have a significant impact on the social fabrics of communities. This fallout can cause long-term social support networks to disintegrate, especially when combined with a high level of risk. In Faisalabad, Pakistan, COVID-19-induced collective trauma resulted in social and cu…
Muslim-Mancunian Women: Racial-Colonial Literacy, Counter-Knowledge and Epistemological Justice
Epistemological justice, which exposes the role of colonialism in conceptualising contemporary society, particularly racial inequalities, has gained prominence within sociology. Yet, sociologists often ignore that the material conditions of professional sociology inhibit racial justice-oriented knowledge making. This article argues, to realise epistemological justice, sociology must travel to the margins, wherein certain sociological publics offe…
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