Jonathan Ilan
Biographic Data
| ID | 226605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Ilan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ilan |
| SIGNATURE | ILAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4080-2898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Integrated Through Risk: How Actuarial and Epidemiological Approaches to Urban Violence Reduction Interact Within a Multi-Agency Gangs Team
Despite the emergence of multi-agency initiatives that seek to integrate actuarial and epidemiological approaches to urban violence reduction, little work has compared and contrasted these approaches and considered the associated implications for their integration. This article begins addressing this research gap with findings from the first academic analysis of an Integrated Gangs Team (IGT) in the United Kingdom. Drawing on interviews with IGT …
The street-jihadi spectrum: Marginality, radicalization, and resistance to extremism
For over a decade, jihadi terrorism in Europe, and the recruitment of Europeans to fight for ISIS in Syria, have increasingly involved marginalized youths from a social context of street culture, illegal drug use and crime. Existing theoretical models of the crime-terrorism nexus and radicalization arguably do not sufficiently explain the fluid and dynamic ways by which the street cultural come to be politico-religiously violent. This paper provi…
What the Heck Is Going on in the Group!”: Challenging Journalistic Authority by Pseudo-Professional WhatsApp News Groups
News Production and the People of Silence: Pseudo-professional WhatsApp News Groups in the Era of News Mobility
Mobile technology is part and parcel of the news today, perhaps to such a degree that it is hard to imagine news without it. This technology has affected those platforms on which news is being produced, for example, but also the array of actors that are involved in its manufacturing through mobile technology, thereby illustrating news as an ongoing information construction process in which professionals and other participants join hands. Stemming…
Deen and Dunya: Islam, street spirituality, crime and redemption in English road culture
This article presents ethnographic and media analysis that explores how Islam has come to shape conceptions of the material, sacred, crime and redemption in contemporary English street culture. Islam’s clear dichotomy between the mundane ‘Dunya’ and sacred ‘Deen’ shape how socio-economically marginalised, ethnic minority men make sense of the world around them. Stark inequalities have tainted the material world for the UK’s most disadvantaged, pr…
We Now Go Live: Digital Live-News Technologies and the “Reinvention of Live” in Professional TV News Broadcasting
This article sets out to provide fresh insight into the case of liveness in news media by exploring a particular live-news technology—LiveU’s digital, cellular-based, live broadcast technology, and its implementation in professional TV news broadcasting. Based on a thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with nine TV news and LiveU’s professionals, the findings point to various interconnections between LiveU’s technology and certain professional…
Black Men in Britain by Kenny Monrose
Brendan Marsh, The Logic of Violence: An Ethnography of Dublin’s Illegal Drug Trade
A cultural criminology of “new” jihad: Insights from propaganda magazines
The backgrounds and modus operandi of more recent jihadi terrorists tend to share factors and characteristics more typically associated with non-political violence such as mass-killings and gang violence. Their attacks, moreover, seem to have been precipitated not by the direct instructions of a formal hierarchy but by the encouragement of propaganda produced and disseminated by networked, media-savvy terrorist groups. It is necessary to explain …
Digital Street Culture Decoded: Why criminalizing drill music is Street Illiterate and Counterproductive
Authorities in the United Kingdom censure ‘drill rap’, the artistic expression of disadvantaged urban youth, citing its connections to serious violence. This is shown to be based on a thin, ‘street-illiterate’ understanding of the genre that ultimately rests on stereotypes of young black men as violent ‘gang’ members. In place of this misreading, a street-literate interpretation of drill is offered from a deep and nuanced analysis of YouTube vide…
Glocalization and international news-photo production: News images from Israel made for global news markets
This article focuses on news photos’ glocal production mechanisms as they are produced in Israel by the three largest international news agencies (Thomson Reuters, AP, and AFP). Designed to make locally manufactured news photos internationally appealing, these mechanisms are required by the agencies if they are to survive in a complex business environment. Yet this environment also mobilizes forces which define the international news organization…
Cultural Criminology: The Time is Now
Taking pleasure seriously: The political significance of subcultural practice
This paper demonstrates that subcultural theory continues to provide a relevant and useful analysis of youth leisure practices and their political significance in contemporary society. It achieves this by analysing the theoretical antecedents to both subcultural theory and the post-subcultural theory that followed it. It is argued that the post-subcultural turn to studying affects and everyday lives resonates deeply with the Gramscian perspective…
Scumbags! An ethnography of the interactions between street-based youth and police officers
The interactions between young, disadvantaged, urban men and the rank-and-file officers who police them should be understood as layered structural, cultural and emotional phenomena. Using data from a multi-dimensional ethnographic project, this paper demonstrates that structural issues manifest in cultural scripts which place both groups in confrontation with each other. Within a tightly bound geographic district, competitiveness between them can…
News and the word-image problematic: A (key)word on international news pictures’ production
This article is about the unique word–image relations as these appear in international news production. This is achieved by analysing the labour of a particular team – the keyword team – in the news picture production routine at the powerful Thomson Reuters international news agency. By analysing the daily work of keyworders at Thomson Reuters, I explore how the word–image problem is demonstrated, and settled, in international news production. Si…
Understanding Street Culture: Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool
Over a dead body: International coverage of grief
What makes death-related news events internationally appealing? How is the visual coverage of grief tailored for the needs of the international market? And how are the mechanisms for such coverage operated in the field by international news agencies’ photographers? In this article, I conduct an interpretive analysis of the funeral of an Israeli officer as it was covered by an Israeli Reuters photographer and an analysis of the “picture of the eve…
Just When I thought I was in: Gaining access in a new(s) production ethnography
In this paper I explore the process of access as it was gained, and sometimes denied, during an extensive ethnographic research made on a surprisingly overlooked strand in news production—the international production processes of news pictures. Through an interpretive analysis, I demonstrate the various access challenges “second-wave” news ethnographers might face, as well as the additional access skills they may require, to explore fully today's…
The Best of Both Worlds: The story of the Reuters picture service
Reuters established a picture service after its competitors. So why did it enter the picture market when it did? What advantage did late entry give it? How did this new technologically driven business model based on pictures offer the key bridge to the contemporary multimedia company Reuters is today? In this article, the story of the Reuters picture service is told for the first time since it was officially established in 1985. Using Reuters arc…
Street social capital in the liquid city
This article reflects on the lives of a group of young men on Ireland's socio-economic periphery, focusing on how exclusion shapes their cultural orientation and orders their spatial practices. Whilst populist imaginaries and certain academic understandings of young, disadvantaged, urban males tend to cast them in the role of claiming and violently defending territories, their relationships to space may be considerably more transient and fluid. W…
The industry’s the new road’: Crime, commodification and street cultural tropes in UK urban music
With original authors and audiences from the most disadvantaged and excluded communities across Western society, urban music has been equally scorned and sought out for its referencing of, and/or association with, criminal activity. Urban music (such as rap from the United States) can be understood as generating both ‘respectable fears’ and ‘subcultural capital’, appealing to youthful consumers who are seduced by its ostensibly transgressive char…
Street‐Level Tort Law: The Bureaucratic Justice of Liability Decision‐Making
Most legal scholarship on tort focuses primarily on judicial decisions, but this represents only a limited aspect of tortious liability. The vast majority of decisions concerning tortious liability are made by bureaucrats. Unavoidably then, there are two tiers of justice in tort law. This article focuses on the lower tier – bureaucratic decision‐making – arguing that the justice of bureaucratic decisions on tort should be considered on its own te…
The Commodification of Compensation? Personal Injuries Claims In an Age of Consumption
This article critiques the opprobrium attached to the phenomenon of tortious compensation seeking observable in those discourses which bemoan the existence of a ‘compensation culture’ (or ‘litigation crisis’). It draws on ethnographic interviews with professionals involved in advancing and defending against compensation claims to demonstrate how issues of consumerism and commercialism have shaped contemporary practice. Where participants locate a…
Reclaiming Respectability? The Class-cultural Dynamics of Crime, Community and Governance in Inner-city Dublin
This paper critically examines developments in Irish urban governance through an ethnographic account of one community’s historical memory and contemporary structure. During an era of rapid economic growth, the Irish state has courted previously excluded communities, offering them greater ‘inclusion’ as ‘partners’ in responding to urban decay and crime. The micro-governance structures this creates, however, become sites of contest between competi…
Terrorism Rights and the Rule of Law: Negotiating Justice in Ireland by B. Vaughan and S. Kilcommins and Policing the Peace in Northern Ireland by J. Moran
Cullompton : Willan ( 2007 ) 240pp. £20.99pb ISBN 978-1-84392-264-3 Manchester : Manchester University Press ( 2008 ) 256pp. £14.99pb ISBN 978-0-71907-472-1 Ireland's long-lasting and distinct relationship with political violence renders it an important site of investigation for scholars interested in terrorism and routes to its cessation. Both books under review share this legacy as a common thread, although the perspectives they offer are signi…
Street social capital in the liquid city
This article reflects on the lives of a group of young men on Ireland's socio-economic periphery, focusing on how exclusion shapes their cultural orientation and orders their spatial practices. Whilst populist imaginaries and certain academic understandings of young, disadvantaged, urban males tend to cast them in the role of claiming and violently defending territories, their relationships to space may be considerably more transient and fluid. W…
Digital Street Culture Decoded: Why criminalizing drill music is Street Illiterate and Counterproductive
Authorities in the United Kingdom censure ‘drill rap’, the artistic expression of disadvantaged urban youth, citing its connections to serious violence. This is shown to be based on a thin, ‘street-illiterate’ understanding of the genre that ultimately rests on stereotypes of young black men as violent ‘gang’ members. In place of this misreading, a street-literate interpretation of drill is offered from a deep and nuanced analysis of YouTube vide…
Taking pleasure seriously: The political significance of subcultural practice
This paper demonstrates that subcultural theory continues to provide a relevant and useful analysis of youth leisure practices and their political significance in contemporary society. It achieves this by analysing the theoretical antecedents to both subcultural theory and the post-subcultural theory that followed it. It is argued that the post-subcultural turn to studying affects and everyday lives resonates deeply with the Gramscian perspective…
Scumbags! An ethnography of the interactions between street-based youth and police officers
The interactions between young, disadvantaged, urban men and the rank-and-file officers who police them should be understood as layered structural, cultural and emotional phenomena. Using data from a multi-dimensional ethnographic project, this paper demonstrates that structural issues manifest in cultural scripts which place both groups in confrontation with each other. Within a tightly bound geographic district, competitiveness between them can…
Cultural Criminology: The Time is Now
The industry’s the new road’: Crime, commodification and street cultural tropes in UK urban music
With original authors and audiences from the most disadvantaged and excluded communities across Western society, urban music has been equally scorned and sought out for its referencing of, and/or association with, criminal activity. Urban music (such as rap from the United States) can be understood as generating both ‘respectable fears’ and ‘subcultural capital’, appealing to youthful consumers who are seduced by its ostensibly transgressive char…
We Now Go Live: Digital Live-News Technologies and the “Reinvention of Live” in Professional TV News Broadcasting
This article sets out to provide fresh insight into the case of liveness in news media by exploring a particular live-news technology—LiveU’s digital, cellular-based, live broadcast technology, and its implementation in professional TV news broadcasting. Based on a thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with nine TV news and LiveU’s professionals, the findings point to various interconnections between LiveU’s technology and certain professional…
Reclaiming Respectability? The Class-cultural Dynamics of Crime, Community and Governance in Inner-city Dublin
This paper critically examines developments in Irish urban governance through an ethnographic account of one community’s historical memory and contemporary structure. During an era of rapid economic growth, the Irish state has courted previously excluded communities, offering them greater ‘inclusion’ as ‘partners’ in responding to urban decay and crime. The micro-governance structures this creates, however, become sites of contest between competi…
A cultural criminology of “new” jihad: Insights from propaganda magazines
The backgrounds and modus operandi of more recent jihadi terrorists tend to share factors and characteristics more typically associated with non-political violence such as mass-killings and gang violence. Their attacks, moreover, seem to have been precipitated not by the direct instructions of a formal hierarchy but by the encouragement of propaganda produced and disseminated by networked, media-savvy terrorist groups. It is necessary to explain …
News and the word-image problematic: A (key)word on international news pictures’ production
This article is about the unique word–image relations as these appear in international news production. This is achieved by analysing the labour of a particular team – the keyword team – in the news picture production routine at the powerful Thomson Reuters international news agency. By analysing the daily work of keyworders at Thomson Reuters, I explore how the word–image problem is demonstrated, and settled, in international news production. Si…
Just When I thought I was in: Gaining access in a new(s) production ethnography
In this paper I explore the process of access as it was gained, and sometimes denied, during an extensive ethnographic research made on a surprisingly overlooked strand in news production—the international production processes of news pictures. Through an interpretive analysis, I demonstrate the various access challenges “second-wave” news ethnographers might face, as well as the additional access skills they may require, to explore fully today's…
Deen and Dunya: Islam, street spirituality, crime and redemption in English road culture
This article presents ethnographic and media analysis that explores how Islam has come to shape conceptions of the material, sacred, crime and redemption in contemporary English street culture. Islam’s clear dichotomy between the mundane ‘Dunya’ and sacred ‘Deen’ shape how socio-economically marginalised, ethnic minority men make sense of the world around them. Stark inequalities have tainted the material world for the UK’s most disadvantaged, pr…
Glocalization and international news-photo production: News images from Israel made for global news markets
This article focuses on news photos’ glocal production mechanisms as they are produced in Israel by the three largest international news agencies (Thomson Reuters, AP, and AFP). Designed to make locally manufactured news photos internationally appealing, these mechanisms are required by the agencies if they are to survive in a complex business environment. Yet this environment also mobilizes forces which define the international news organization…
Street‐Level Tort Law: The Bureaucratic Justice of Liability Decision‐Making
Most legal scholarship on tort focuses primarily on judicial decisions, but this represents only a limited aspect of tortious liability. The vast majority of decisions concerning tortious liability are made by bureaucrats. Unavoidably then, there are two tiers of justice in tort law. This article focuses on the lower tier – bureaucratic decision‐making – arguing that the justice of bureaucratic decisions on tort should be considered on its own te…
News Production and the People of Silence: Pseudo-professional WhatsApp News Groups in the Era of News Mobility
Mobile technology is part and parcel of the news today, perhaps to such a degree that it is hard to imagine news without it. This technology has affected those platforms on which news is being produced, for example, but also the array of actors that are involved in its manufacturing through mobile technology, thereby illustrating news as an ongoing information construction process in which professionals and other participants join hands. Stemming…
Over a dead body: International coverage of grief
What makes death-related news events internationally appealing? How is the visual coverage of grief tailored for the needs of the international market? And how are the mechanisms for such coverage operated in the field by international news agencies’ photographers? In this article, I conduct an interpretive analysis of the funeral of an Israeli officer as it was covered by an Israeli Reuters photographer and an analysis of the “picture of the eve…
Narratives of Neglect: Community, Regeneration and the Governance of Security
Narratives of Neglect: Community, Regeneration and the Governance of Security
Terrorism Rights and the Rule of Law: Negotiating Justice in Ireland by B. Vaughan and S. Kilcommins and Policing the Peace in Northern Ireland by J. Moran
Cullompton : Willan ( 2007 ) 240pp. £20.99pb ISBN 978-1-84392-264-3 Manchester : Manchester University Press ( 2008 ) 256pp. £14.99pb ISBN 978-0-71907-472-1 Ireland's long-lasting and distinct relationship with political violence renders it an important site of investigation for scholars interested in terrorism and routes to its cessation. Both books under review share this legacy as a common thread, although the perspectives they offer are signi…
The Commodification of Compensation? Personal Injuries Claims In an Age of Consumption
This article critiques the opprobrium attached to the phenomenon of tortious compensation seeking observable in those discourses which bemoan the existence of a ‘compensation culture’ (or ‘litigation crisis’). It draws on ethnographic interviews with professionals involved in advancing and defending against compensation claims to demonstrate how issues of consumerism and commercialism have shaped contemporary practice. Where participants locate a…
Reclaiming Respectability? The Class-cultural Dynamics of Crime, Community and Governance in Inner-city Dublin
This paper critically examines developments in Irish urban governance through an ethnographic account of one community’s historical memory and contemporary structure. During an era of rapid economic growth, the Irish state has courted previously excluded communities, offering them greater ‘inclusion’ as ‘partners’ in responding to urban decay and crime. The micro-governance structures this creates, however, become sites of contest between competi…
The industry’s the new road’: Crime, commodification and street cultural tropes in UK urban music
With original authors and audiences from the most disadvantaged and excluded communities across Western society, urban music has been equally scorned and sought out for its referencing of, and/or association with, criminal activity. Urban music (such as rap from the United States) can be understood as generating both ‘respectable fears’ and ‘subcultural capital’, appealing to youthful consumers who are seduced by its ostensibly transgressive char…
Street‐Level Tort Law: The Bureaucratic Justice of Liability Decision‐Making
Most legal scholarship on tort focuses primarily on judicial decisions, but this represents only a limited aspect of tortious liability. The vast majority of decisions concerning tortious liability are made by bureaucrats. Unavoidably then, there are two tiers of justice in tort law. This article focuses on the lower tier – bureaucratic decision‐making – arguing that the justice of bureaucratic decisions on tort should be considered on its own te…
The Best of Both Worlds: The story of the Reuters picture service
Reuters established a picture service after its competitors. So why did it enter the picture market when it did? What advantage did late entry give it? How did this new technologically driven business model based on pictures offer the key bridge to the contemporary multimedia company Reuters is today? In this article, the story of the Reuters picture service is told for the first time since it was officially established in 1985. Using Reuters arc…
Street social capital in the liquid city
This article reflects on the lives of a group of young men on Ireland's socio-economic periphery, focusing on how exclusion shapes their cultural orientation and orders their spatial practices. Whilst populist imaginaries and certain academic understandings of young, disadvantaged, urban males tend to cast them in the role of claiming and violently defending territories, their relationships to space may be considerably more transient and fluid. W…
Just When I thought I was in: Gaining access in a new(s) production ethnography
In this paper I explore the process of access as it was gained, and sometimes denied, during an extensive ethnographic research made on a surprisingly overlooked strand in news production—the international production processes of news pictures. Through an interpretive analysis, I demonstrate the various access challenges “second-wave” news ethnographers might face, as well as the additional access skills they may require, to explore fully today's…
Understanding Street Culture: Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool
Over a dead body: International coverage of grief
What makes death-related news events internationally appealing? How is the visual coverage of grief tailored for the needs of the international market? And how are the mechanisms for such coverage operated in the field by international news agencies’ photographers? In this article, I conduct an interpretive analysis of the funeral of an Israeli officer as it was covered by an Israeli Reuters photographer and an analysis of the “picture of the eve…
Scumbags! An ethnography of the interactions between street-based youth and police officers
The interactions between young, disadvantaged, urban men and the rank-and-file officers who police them should be understood as layered structural, cultural and emotional phenomena. Using data from a multi-dimensional ethnographic project, this paper demonstrates that structural issues manifest in cultural scripts which place both groups in confrontation with each other. Within a tightly bound geographic district, competitiveness between them can…
News and the word-image problematic: A (key)word on international news pictures’ production
This article is about the unique word–image relations as these appear in international news production. This is achieved by analysing the labour of a particular team – the keyword team – in the news picture production routine at the powerful Thomson Reuters international news agency. By analysing the daily work of keyworders at Thomson Reuters, I explore how the word–image problem is demonstrated, and settled, in international news production. Si…
Taking pleasure seriously: The political significance of subcultural practice
This paper demonstrates that subcultural theory continues to provide a relevant and useful analysis of youth leisure practices and their political significance in contemporary society. It achieves this by analysing the theoretical antecedents to both subcultural theory and the post-subcultural theory that followed it. It is argued that the post-subcultural turn to studying affects and everyday lives resonates deeply with the Gramscian perspective…
Glocalization and international news-photo production: News images from Israel made for global news markets
This article focuses on news photos’ glocal production mechanisms as they are produced in Israel by the three largest international news agencies (Thomson Reuters, AP, and AFP). Designed to make locally manufactured news photos internationally appealing, these mechanisms are required by the agencies if they are to survive in a complex business environment. Yet this environment also mobilizes forces which define the international news organization…
Cultural Criminology: The Time is Now
Black Men in Britain by Kenny Monrose
Brendan Marsh, The Logic of Violence: An Ethnography of Dublin’s Illegal Drug Trade
A cultural criminology of “new” jihad: Insights from propaganda magazines
The backgrounds and modus operandi of more recent jihadi terrorists tend to share factors and characteristics more typically associated with non-political violence such as mass-killings and gang violence. Their attacks, moreover, seem to have been precipitated not by the direct instructions of a formal hierarchy but by the encouragement of propaganda produced and disseminated by networked, media-savvy terrorist groups. It is necessary to explain …
Digital Street Culture Decoded: Why criminalizing drill music is Street Illiterate and Counterproductive
Authorities in the United Kingdom censure ‘drill rap’, the artistic expression of disadvantaged urban youth, citing its connections to serious violence. This is shown to be based on a thin, ‘street-illiterate’ understanding of the genre that ultimately rests on stereotypes of young black men as violent ‘gang’ members. In place of this misreading, a street-literate interpretation of drill is offered from a deep and nuanced analysis of YouTube vide…
We Now Go Live: Digital Live-News Technologies and the “Reinvention of Live” in Professional TV News Broadcasting
This article sets out to provide fresh insight into the case of liveness in news media by exploring a particular live-news technology—LiveU’s digital, cellular-based, live broadcast technology, and its implementation in professional TV news broadcasting. Based on a thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with nine TV news and LiveU’s professionals, the findings point to various interconnections between LiveU’s technology and certain professional…
Deen and Dunya: Islam, street spirituality, crime and redemption in English road culture
This article presents ethnographic and media analysis that explores how Islam has come to shape conceptions of the material, sacred, crime and redemption in contemporary English street culture. Islam’s clear dichotomy between the mundane ‘Dunya’ and sacred ‘Deen’ shape how socio-economically marginalised, ethnic minority men make sense of the world around them. Stark inequalities have tainted the material world for the UK’s most disadvantaged, pr…
The street-jihadi spectrum: Marginality, radicalization, and resistance to extremism
For over a decade, jihadi terrorism in Europe, and the recruitment of Europeans to fight for ISIS in Syria, have increasingly involved marginalized youths from a social context of street culture, illegal drug use and crime. Existing theoretical models of the crime-terrorism nexus and radicalization arguably do not sufficiently explain the fluid and dynamic ways by which the street cultural come to be politico-religiously violent. This paper provi…
What the Heck Is Going on in the Group!”: Challenging Journalistic Authority by Pseudo-Professional WhatsApp News Groups
News Production and the People of Silence: Pseudo-professional WhatsApp News Groups in the Era of News Mobility
Mobile technology is part and parcel of the news today, perhaps to such a degree that it is hard to imagine news without it. This technology has affected those platforms on which news is being produced, for example, but also the array of actors that are involved in its manufacturing through mobile technology, thereby illustrating news as an ongoing information construction process in which professionals and other participants join hands. Stemming…
Sociology (25 works) · Political science (21 works) · Law (13 works) · Criminology (12 works) · Business (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Advertising (8 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Media Studies and Communication (8 works) · Psychology (7 works)