William Mcgowan
Biographic Data
| ID | 291500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Mcgowan |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgowan |
| SIGNATURE | MCGOWAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool John Moores University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0921-303X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The New Normal? Ordinary Deaths and Marginalised Mortalities in Extra ordinary Times
Manchester Metropolitan University in September 2021, and from our teaching, research and discussions with colleagues and activists throughout the Covid pandemic.Its title takes some of the conference themes around diversity and decolonisation as both a point of departure and return, while our reference to "the new normal" and "extraordinary times" casts a wider net than the then still unfolding pandemic, resonating more strongly with the "increa…
Victims of Political Violence and Terrorism: Making Up Resilient Survivors
This book examines the survivors of political violence and terrorism, considering both how they have responded and how they have been responded to following critical incidents. As this work demonstrates, survivors of comparatively rare and spectacular violence hold a mirror up to society’s normative assumptions around trauma, recovery, and resilience. Drawing on two years of observational field research with a British NGO who work with victims an…
The State of the UK funeral industry
The UK funeral industry is a frequently overlooked sector within critical policy discussions of State practice and welfare provision. In this article, we propose three ‘ideal types’ for making sense of State-Industry interactions: Explicit State Provision; Public-Private Legislation; and Corporate Capital. Situating these ideal types against the backdrop of austerity, we highlight three respective examples from the industry to evidence different …
Comprehensive or Comprehensible Experience? A Case Study of Religion and Traumatic Bereavement
The first half of this article provides a brief overview of two respective projects concerning traumatic bereavement, in which religious faith appeared to feature amid a constellation of significant coping and sense-making mechanisms for survivors. After presenting some illustrative examples of the kind of data produced in the course of our research, the second half of the article develops a retrospectively critical appraisal of our data collecti…
If you didn't laugh, you'd cry: Emotional labour, reflexivity and ethics-as-practice in a qualitative fieldwork context
This article takes Guillemin and Gillam's distinction between 'procedural ethics' and 'ethics in practice' as a point of departure and return for reflecting critically on a recently completed doctoral research project about political violence and terrorism. It provides an overview of the study before offering some instructive vignettes to show how ethical decision-making processes engaged with 'in the field' were an extension of more everyday and…
Critical terrorism studies, victimisation, and policy relevance: Compromising politics or challenging hegemony
This article considers the key contributions Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) has made to our understanding of victimisation, contending that while CTS has greatly expanded our knowledge in certain areas, it has hitherto failed to adequately engage with victims and survivors of terrorist attacks. It argues that CTS has the capacity to afford greater space to marginalised survivor narratives and representations of victimhood which are often used t…
Only Man Is Vile: The Tragedy of Sri Lanka
refugee community as an active community by providing better health facilities, especially as prevention of malnutrition and blindness is an input which requires minimum facilities and finances.They feel the international community could help in this.Basic needs of housing could be provided by NGO's who are more than will- ing to step in.Drinking water, better sanitation and work opportunity are basic rights of the refugee.Dole should be increase…
Only Man Is Vile: The Tragedy of Sri Lanka
Critical terrorism studies, victimisation, and policy relevance: Compromising politics or challenging hegemony
This article considers the key contributions Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) has made to our understanding of victimisation, contending that while CTS has greatly expanded our knowledge in certain areas, it has hitherto failed to adequately engage with victims and survivors of terrorist attacks. It argues that CTS has the capacity to afford greater space to marginalised survivor narratives and representations of victimhood which are often used t…
If you didn't laugh, you'd cry: Emotional labour, reflexivity and ethics-as-practice in a qualitative fieldwork context
This article takes Guillemin and Gillam's distinction between 'procedural ethics' and 'ethics in practice' as a point of departure and return for reflecting critically on a recently completed doctoral research project about political violence and terrorism. It provides an overview of the study before offering some instructive vignettes to show how ethical decision-making processes engaged with 'in the field' were an extension of more everyday and…
Only Man Is Vile: The Tragedy of Sri Lanka
refugee community as an active community by providing better health facilities, especially as prevention of malnutrition and blindness is an input which requires minimum facilities and finances.They feel the international community could help in this.Basic needs of housing could be provided by NGO's who are more than will- ing to step in.Drinking water, better sanitation and work opportunity are basic rights of the refugee.Dole should be increase…
Only Man Is Vile: The Tragedy of Sri Lanka
The State of the UK funeral industry
The UK funeral industry is a frequently overlooked sector within critical policy discussions of State practice and welfare provision. In this article, we propose three ‘ideal types’ for making sense of State-Industry interactions: Explicit State Provision; Public-Private Legislation; and Corporate Capital. Situating these ideal types against the backdrop of austerity, we highlight three respective examples from the industry to evidence different …
Only Man Is Vile: The Tragedy of Sri Lanka
Only Man Is Vile: The Tragedy of Sri Lanka
refugee community as an active community by providing better health facilities, especially as prevention of malnutrition and blindness is an input which requires minimum facilities and finances.They feel the international community could help in this.Basic needs of housing could be provided by NGO's who are more than will- ing to step in.Drinking water, better sanitation and work opportunity are basic rights of the refugee.Dole should be increase…
Critical terrorism studies, victimisation, and policy relevance: Compromising politics or challenging hegemony
This article considers the key contributions Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) has made to our understanding of victimisation, contending that while CTS has greatly expanded our knowledge in certain areas, it has hitherto failed to adequately engage with victims and survivors of terrorist attacks. It argues that CTS has the capacity to afford greater space to marginalised survivor narratives and representations of victimhood which are often used t…
If you didn't laugh, you'd cry: Emotional labour, reflexivity and ethics-as-practice in a qualitative fieldwork context
This article takes Guillemin and Gillam's distinction between 'procedural ethics' and 'ethics in practice' as a point of departure and return for reflecting critically on a recently completed doctoral research project about political violence and terrorism. It provides an overview of the study before offering some instructive vignettes to show how ethical decision-making processes engaged with 'in the field' were an extension of more everyday and…
The State of the UK funeral industry
The UK funeral industry is a frequently overlooked sector within critical policy discussions of State practice and welfare provision. In this article, we propose three ‘ideal types’ for making sense of State-Industry interactions: Explicit State Provision; Public-Private Legislation; and Corporate Capital. Situating these ideal types against the backdrop of austerity, we highlight three respective examples from the industry to evidence different …
Comprehensive or Comprehensible Experience? A Case Study of Religion and Traumatic Bereavement
The first half of this article provides a brief overview of two respective projects concerning traumatic bereavement, in which religious faith appeared to feature amid a constellation of significant coping and sense-making mechanisms for survivors. After presenting some illustrative examples of the kind of data produced in the course of our research, the second half of the article develops a retrospectively critical appraisal of our data collecti…
Victims of Political Violence and Terrorism: Making Up Resilient Survivors
This book examines the survivors of political violence and terrorism, considering both how they have responded and how they have been responded to following critical incidents. As this work demonstrates, survivors of comparatively rare and spectacular violence hold a mirror up to society’s normative assumptions around trauma, recovery, and resilience. Drawing on two years of observational field research with a British NGO who work with victims an…
The New Normal? Ordinary Deaths and Marginalised Mortalities in Extra ordinary Times
Manchester Metropolitan University in September 2021, and from our teaching, research and discussions with colleagues and activists throughout the Covid pandemic.Its title takes some of the conference themes around diversity and decolonisation as both a point of departure and return, while our reference to "the new normal" and "extraordinary times" casts a wider net than the then still unfolding pandemic, resonating more strongly with the "increa…
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