Andrew Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-1324-3913 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 243 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Orchestrating place-based micro-missions: The grand challenge of decarbonisation at Shoreham Port
Climate change has led governments to adopt mission-oriented policies targeting net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Heavy industry accounts for almost one-sixth of global emissions, making industrial decarbonisation central to this agenda. Though emissions impacts are global, decarbonisation unfolds locally. Yet how place-based micro-missions – small-scale experimental initiatives targeting concrete, localised challenges – are orchestrated in prac…
The subaltern port city and its streets: Anticolonialism in and around the public spaces of Tuticorin, South India, c.1906–1908
In the first decade of the twentieth century, a group of Indian nationalists established the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company (SSNCo) in the South Indian port of Tuticorin. Established to defeat the British imperial shipping monopoly from the port, the SSNCo was an attempt to establish an industrial-capitalist basis for a future Indian nation. The SSNCo spurred a wave of nationalist anticolonial agitation in Tuticorin and the surrounding distric…
The power of integration; a joined-up response to homelessness across hospital, primary care and community services
Background: Homelessness is a global problem, and strongly linked to poorer health outcomes, higher rates of hospital use, and a sobering three-decade gap in life expectancy. While barriers to health care access contribute to this, the absence of safe stable housing is a fundamental driver of their poor health. The enormous health inequalities associated with homelessness are inextricably linked to the cumulative effect of social and structural d…
Overview of the MosaiC expedition: Physical oceanography
Arctic Ocean properties and processes are highly relevant to the regional and global coupled climate system, yet still scarcely observed, especially in winter. Team OCEAN conducted a full year of physical oceanography observations as part of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of the Arctic Climate (MOSAiC), a drift with the Arctic sea ice from October 2019 to September 2020. An international team designed and implemented the…
Mothers Who Kill Their Children: Literature Review and Reflections for Social Work Practice
The author worked within a Children Services Social Work department at the time of a high profile case involving the homicide of two children by their mother and father. Drawing on this experience, the article seeks to explore why mothers are involved in killing their children through reviewing the literature around how maternal filicides are classified and any complicating factors before finally considering reflections for Social Work practice. …
Multimorbidity among People Experiencing Homelessness—Insights from Primary Care Data
The study findings have substantial implications from both a health risk and healthcare treatment perspective for people experiencing homeless. The pervasiveness of preventable health conditions among people experiencing homelessness also highlights the imperative to improve the accessibility of public health programs and screening to reduce their morbidity and premature mortality
Identifying how Covid-19-related misinformation reacts to the announcement of the UK national lockdown: An interrupted time-series study
COVID-19 is unique in that it is the first global pandemic occurring amidst a crowded information environment that has facilitated the proliferation of misinformation on social media. Dangerous misleading narratives have the potential to disrupt 'official' information sharing at major government announcements. Using an interrupted time-series design, we test the impact of the announcement of the first UK lockdown (8-8.30 p.m. 23 March 2020) on sh…
Engaging political histories of urban uprisings with young people: The Liverpool riots, 1981 and 2011
Based on a participatory research project which involved academics and young people at KCC Live, a community radio station in Merseyside, exploring the 1981 and 2011 riots in Liverpool, UK, this paper argues that co-produced research involving young people and radio provides an under-utilised avenue for research on historical and political geographies. Working together for a year in 2012–13, the academic and non-academic participants produced a r…
Covid‐19, Virtual Church Services and a New Temporary Geography of Home
The COVID‐19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown measures implemented by the United Kingdom government from 23 March 2020 led to unprecedented adaptations from individuals and communities including places of worship, their clergy and congregations. This paper through a multi‐disciplinary dialogue between human geography and theology explores the interrelations between place, space and the spiritual. It identifies the bricolage mechanisms that were d…
Geographies of Anticolonialism: Political Networks Across and Beyond South India, c. 1900–1930
Geographies of Anticolonialism: Political Networks Across and Beyond South India, C. 1900-1930
"Geographies of Anticolonialism brings together a varied selection of historical sources and literature to explore Indian anticolonialism in new ways. Anticolonialism, an often overlooked concept in geography, can be defined as internal and external resistance to the practices and by-products of colonial rule, such as racism, militarism, resource exploitation, and land dispossession. Linked to, but different from post- and decolonial approaches, …
Transnational connections and anti-colonial radicalism in the Royal Indian Navy mutiny, 1946
In this article, I explore the spatial politics of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny of 1946 and call for a more maritime sense of 'the political'. The RIN only existed from 1934 to 1950; it became the Indian Navy after independence. Its mutiny in 1946, which was caused by a number of grievances from anticolonial nationalism to more mundane challenges about the standard of food, continues to be the dominant event in this history. Leela Gandhi (2014) u…
Pentecostals and social and political engagement
Throughout the history of the academic study of Pentecostalism as a global movement, it has been necessary to preface any discussion of Pentecostalism and society with the rider that ‘Pentecostals
Reading politics through scripture: International relations, the Bible and Conservative Christianity
Whilst the rise of secularization in the West is evident and well documented, the importance of religion and its power as a motivating force for people of faith cannot be underestimated. Taking as an example a narrative commonly espoused by conservative Christians around the status of Israel, this paper identifies some key lessons for policymakers in engaging with faith communities and argues for the inclusion of theological reflection in the pol…
Hospital collaboration with a Housing First program to improve health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness
Purpose Homelessness is a colossal issue, precipitated by a wide array of social determinants, and mirrored in substantial health disparities and a revolving hospital door. Connecting people to safe and secure housing needs to be part of the health system response. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach This mixed-methods paper presents emerging findings from the collaboration between an inner city hospital, a special…
Turning heads: The impact of political reform on the professional role, identity and recruitment of head teachers in Wales
This article considers the professional work, identity and recruitment of head teachers (HTs) in Wales. Drawing on the sociology of professions, the article illustrates how intensive educational policy reform post‐2011 has restricted HTs’ professional agency and re‐orientated the head teacher role towards organisational professionalism. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews ( n =30) with both head and deputy head teachers, the article argues that…
Civil Society
Civil society is a concept central to most, particularly Euro‐American, understandings of politics. Broadly conceived as the area of political activity that takes place outside the state, civil society has often been seen as a space of liberal political freedom or, from a more radical perspective, as a space of bourgeois hegemonic control. Since the collapse of state socialism, “civil society” has become a key term for political and development g…
OSCE Guide for the ABA Applied Examination
Civil/political society, protest and fasting: The case of Anna Hazare and the 2011 anti-corruption campaign in India
Civil/political society, protest and fasting: The case of Anna Hazare and the 2011 anti-corruption campaign in India
This chapter examines the August 2011 New Delhi fast against corruption conducted by Anna Hazare. The fast was the largest political mobilisation in India for many years, and attracted widespread coverage. It is argued that approaching this fast as a protest camp has the potential to create a more contextually grounded and nuanced understanding of the events surrounding the fast. The chapter does this by examining the conceptual debate about civi…
Exile in the homeland? Anti-colonialism, subaltern geographies and the politics of friendship in early twentieth century Pondicherry, India
The concept of exile remains overwhelmingly influenced by the writings of Edward Said, particularly in his development of the 'contrapuntal' as a key method in understanding how exile life is lived between the 'homeland' and the space of 'exile'. However, by drawing on feminist work which has critiqued the notion of 'home' in Said's work, together with work on subaltern geographies and the politics of friendship, this article argues for a concept…
Local Governance and Redistributive Policy: Explaining Local Funding for Public Defense
In many American states, public defense is provided at the county rather than state level (Langton & Farole 2009). Local governments have discretion over implementing and funding the right to counsel, resulting in considerable variability in programs and funding levels. Placing this issue in the theoretical context of redistributive policies and politics, we investigate decisions on funding this service across upstate New York counties. Using as …
The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: Retrospective observational study
OBJECTIVE: To identify the source (press releases or news) of distortions, exaggerations, or changes to the main conclusions drawn from research that could potentially influence a reader's health related behaviour. DESIGN: Retrospective quantitative content analysis. SETTING: Journal articles, press releases, and related news, with accompanying simulations. SAMPLE: Press releases (n = 462) on biomedical and health related science issued by 20 lea…
Learning 'Large Ideas' Overseas: Discipline, (im)mobility and Political Lives in the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
In February 1946, the 20, 000 sailors of the Royal Indian Navy, the colonial navy of the Government of India, mutinied. Having a number of grievances, from colonial rule of India, inefficient demobilisation procedures and ill treatment from superior officers, sailors on ships and shore establishments across the Indian Ocean took part in the mutiny, which represented the largest time a military force had disobeyed British Rule since the Mutiny of …
City of Gangs: Glasgow and the Rise of the British Gangster
Assemblage and social movements: Tibet Support Groups and the spatialities of political organisation
This paper engages in debates about the spatiality of social movements which have argued that examining politics purely through territorial or relational understandings of space does not adequately grasp the ways in which social movements undertake their activities. The paper argues that a possible route through this debate lies in the concept of assemblage, which has recently been deployed in geography in order to understand the emergence and pr…
Street gangs, crime and policing in Glasgow during the 1930s: The case of the beehive boys∗
1998). Street gangs, crime and policing in Glasgow during the 1930s: The case of the beehive boys. Social History: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 251-267
Identity and the assemblages of protest: The spatial politics of the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny, 1946
The Scottish Chicago: From ‘Hooligans’ to ‘Gangsters’ in Inter-War Glasgow
During the late 1920s, Glasgow acquired an unwelcome notoriety as the Scottish Chicago. Accounts of the city's street gangs were laced with cross-references to the American underworld in the era of Al Capone, and this rhetorical twinning of Glasgow with Chicago was freely deployed not just by journalists, but by police officers and the judicial authorities. An older stereotype of the ‘hooligan’ was increasingly eclipsed by the more modern, and mo…
Glasgow's ‘Reign of Terror: Street Gangs, Racketeering and Intimidation in the 1920s and 1930s
The Glasgow gangs of the 1920s and 1930s were widely viewed as fighting gangs rather than as criminal gangs in any wider sense. Retrospective accounts frequently suggest that the gangs only fought each other, leaving ‘ordinary’ residents of the city's working-class districts safe from the threat of robbery or random assault.This article offers an alternative perspective. It examines widespread reports of extortion by the gangs, whose ‘protection’…
Children’s accounts of Wales as racialized and inclusive
The article is a discussion of the aspects of children’s accounts of Welshness that are either racialized or inclusive. The empirical basis is a qualitative research project on children’s national and local identities in Wales, conducted with 8-11 year olds in six primary schools across the country, with schools selected to provide diversity of region, language, social class and ethnicity. This article focuses on the aspects of the children’s tal…
Covid‐19, Virtual Church Services and a New Temporary Geography of Home
The COVID‐19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown measures implemented by the United Kingdom government from 23 March 2020 led to unprecedented adaptations from individuals and communities including places of worship, their clergy and congregations. This paper through a multi‐disciplinary dialogue between human geography and theology explores the interrelations between place, space and the spiritual. It identifies the bricolage mechanisms that were d…
Welsh Children's Views On Government and Participation
Qualitative research from Wales sought to explore aspects of children's views on government and participation. The research project was conducted in 2001 with 105 children aged 8-11 from a diverse sample of schools across Wales. The article first reports the children's perspectives on different levels (and places) of government: the UK parliament and the Welsh Assembly. Second, there is discussion of how the children see government as affecting t…
Toward Theory-Led Evaluation: The Experience of European Science, Technology, and Innovation Policies
This article reviews the literature and practice concerned with the evaluation of science, technology, and innovation (STI) policies and theway these relate to theories of the innovation process. Referring to the experience of the European Union (EU), the authors review the attempts to ensure that the STI policy theory is informed by advances in the authors'understanding of the innovation process. They argue, however, that the practice of policy …
Statutory authorizations for the work of local health departments
A study of public health statutes of the 50 states identifies 44 specific services or functions that are assigned to local health departments by all or some of the states. Authorizations are most commonly assigned conjointly both to local and state health departments; exceptions are identified. Data suggest striking inconsistencies between what local health departments are authorized to perform and the services they actually render with regard to…
The significance of place in middle childhood: Qualitative research from Wales
The paper presents some key findings of qualitative research with older primary school children in Wales on their attachments to places and cultures. There is discussion of children's perspectives on the global, national and local arenas. We argue both that there are continuities with adult perspectives and that the children's views on place and identity need to be understood in the context of the social location of middle childhood. The study sh…
Ethnography, space and politics: Interrogating the process of protest in the Tibetan Freedom Movement
This paper examines the ability of ethnographic research methods to effectively study spatially extensive political activity. It argues that traditional ethnographic methods of sustained engagement with spatially bounded sites are not adequately suited to dealing with contemporary spatially extensive political movements. It argues that contemporary attempts to bridge this impasse have emphasised a dichotomy between global and local that ignores t…
Football and sectarianism in Glasgow during the 1920s and 1930s
Of all the cities of England and Scotland, Glasgow is most widely associated with sectarianism. As Bill Murray has remarked, the city is renowned for its religion, violence and football, three elements which crystallise in the uniquely bitter encounters between the city’s two major football clubs, Rangers and Celtic. The clubs are identified as ‘Protestant’ and ‘Catholic’ respectively, although, as Tom Gallagher has commented, supporters’ allegia…
Transnational connections and anti-colonial radicalism in the Royal Indian Navy mutiny, 1946
In this article, I explore the spatial politics of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny of 1946 and call for a more maritime sense of 'the political'. The RIN only existed from 1934 to 1950; it became the Indian Navy after independence. Its mutiny in 1946, which was caused by a number of grievances from anticolonial nationalism to more mundane challenges about the standard of food, continues to be the dominant event in this history. Leela Gandhi (2014) u…
Exile in the homeland? Anti-colonialism, subaltern geographies and the politics of friendship in early twentieth century Pondicherry, India
The concept of exile remains overwhelmingly influenced by the writings of Edward Said, particularly in his development of the 'contrapuntal' as a key method in understanding how exile life is lived between the 'homeland' and the space of 'exile'. However, by drawing on feminist work which has critiqued the notion of 'home' in Said's work, together with work on subaltern geographies and the politics of friendship, this article argues for a concept…
Learning 'Large Ideas' Overseas: Discipline, (im)mobility and Political Lives in the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
In February 1946, the 20, 000 sailors of the Royal Indian Navy, the colonial navy of the Government of India, mutinied. Having a number of grievances, from colonial rule of India, inefficient demobilisation procedures and ill treatment from superior officers, sailors on ships and shore establishments across the Indian Ocean took part in the mutiny, which represented the largest time a military force had disobeyed British Rule since the Mutiny of …
From 'Landsman' to 'Seaman'? Colonial discipline, organisation and resistance in the Royal Indian Navy, 1946
In February 1946, 20,000 sailors of the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) mutinied over a number of grievances, from the poor quality of their food to demands for an independent India. Drawing on archival research in the UK and India, this paper uses this event, together with an examination of life in the RIN more generally, to explore how colonial discipline was organised and resisted in specifically maritime ways. By examining the practices and organisat…
These viragoes are no less cruel than the lads: Young women, gangs and violence in late Victorian Manchester and Salford
Young women formed only a small minority of those convicted of gang-related crimes of violence in the Manchester conurbation in the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, press reports and court records document both their occasional participation in confrontations between rival gangs and their more frequent involvement in collective assaults upon local people and the police. Female gang members were loudly condemned as 'vixen…
Engaging political histories of urban uprisings with young people: The Liverpool riots, 1981 and 2011
Based on a participatory research project which involved academics and young people at KCC Live, a community radio station in Merseyside, exploring the 1981 and 2011 riots in Liverpool, UK, this paper argues that co-produced research involving young people and radio provides an under-utilised avenue for research on historical and political geographies. Working together for a year in 2012–13, the academic and non-academic participants produced a r…
State Politics and the Right to Counsel: A Comparative Analysis
One of the most significant recent developments in the study of crime and justice is the emergence of theoretical explanations for the dramatic changes in criminal justice policy over the past few decades. These theoretical accounts address not only highly visible developments, such as the meteoric rise in incarceration rates, but also less-conspicuous shifts in due process and civil liberties, and they do so by attributing more-repressive polici…
Turning heads: The impact of political reform on the professional role, identity and recruitment of head teachers in Wales
This article considers the professional work, identity and recruitment of head teachers (HTs) in Wales. Drawing on the sociology of professions, the article illustrates how intensive educational policy reform post‐2011 has restricted HTs’ professional agency and re‐orientated the head teacher role towards organisational professionalism. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews ( n =30) with both head and deputy head teachers, the article argues that…
Policies for a complex product system
The Police and the People: Gambling in Salford, 1900–1939
Gambling has received surprisingly little attention from social historians, especially considering the wide growth of interest in working-class leisure over the last decade. The leading historians in this field, including Peter Bailey, Hugh Cunningham and Stephen Jones, have been more concerned with the development of institutional forms of leisure such as the music-hall and the cinema. In the only detailed study of gambling, Ross McKibbin consid…
Identifying how Covid-19-related misinformation reacts to the announcement of the UK national lockdown: An interrupted time-series study
COVID-19 is unique in that it is the first global pandemic occurring amidst a crowded information environment that has facilitated the proliferation of misinformation on social media. Dangerous misleading narratives have the potential to disrupt 'official' information sharing at major government announcements. Using an interrupted time-series design, we test the impact of the announcement of the first UK lockdown (8-8.30 p.m. 23 March 2020) on sh…
Hospital collaboration with a Housing First program to improve health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness
Purpose Homelessness is a colossal issue, precipitated by a wide array of social determinants, and mirrored in substantial health disparities and a revolving hospital door. Connecting people to safe and secure housing needs to be part of the health system response. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach This mixed-methods paper presents emerging findings from the collaboration between an inner city hospital, a special…
Statutory authorizations for the work of local health departments
A study of public health statutes of the 50 states identifies 44 specific services or functions that are assigned to local health departments by all or some of the states. Authorizations are most commonly assigned conjointly both to local and state health departments; exceptions are identified. Data suggest striking inconsistencies between what local health departments are authorized to perform and the services they actually render with regard to…
Other Theatres: The Development of Alternative and Experimental Theatre in Britain
The Police and the People: Gambling in Salford, 1900–1939
Gambling has received surprisingly little attention from social historians, especially considering the wide growth of interest in working-class leisure over the last decade. The leading historians in this field, including Peter Bailey, Hugh Cunningham and Stephen Jones, have been more concerned with the development of institutional forms of leisure such as the music-hall and the cinema. In the only detailed study of gambling, Ross McKibbin consid…
Workers' Worlds: Cultures and Communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880-1939
Policies for a complex product system
Street gangs, crime and policing in Glasgow during the 1930s: The case of the beehive boys∗
1998). Street gangs, crime and policing in Glasgow during the 1930s: The case of the beehive boys. Social History: Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 251-267
These viragoes are no less cruel than the lads: Young women, gangs and violence in late Victorian Manchester and Salford
Young women formed only a small minority of those convicted of gang-related crimes of violence in the Manchester conurbation in the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, press reports and court records document both their occasional participation in confrontations between rival gangs and their more frequent involvement in collective assaults upon local people and the police. Female gang members were loudly condemned as 'vixen…
Sectarian Violence and Police Violence in Glasgow during the 1930s
Sectarian Violence and Police Violence in Glasgow during the 1930s
The Business of Systems Integration: 1St Edn
In the past decade or so, systems integration has become a key factor in the operations, strategy, and competitive advantage of major corporations in a wide variety of sectors (e.g. computing, automotive, telecommunications, military systems, and aerospace). In the past, systems integration was confined to a technical, operations task. Today, systems integration is a strategic task that pervades business management not only at the technical level…
The business of systems integration
This title refers to a model of industrial organization whereby firms and groups of firms combine different types of knowledge, skills, and activities, as well as hardware, software, and human resources to produce new products for the marketplace. The transition towards this model has fundamental implications for the capabilities of firms
Children’s accounts of Wales as racialized and inclusive
The article is a discussion of the aspects of children’s accounts of Welshness that are either racialized or inclusive. The empirical basis is a qualitative research project on children’s national and local identities in Wales, conducted with 8-11 year olds in six primary schools across the country, with schools selected to provide diversity of region, language, social class and ethnicity. This article focuses on the aspects of the children’s tal…
Cancer-related breakthrough pain
Children, Place and Identity: Nation and Locality in Middle Childhood
In this, the first sociology book to consider the important issue of how children identify with place and nation, the authors use original research and international case studies to explore this topic in depth. The book is rooted in original qualitative research the authors conducted with a diverse sample of children (aged eight to eleven) across Wales, but this data is also located in the context of existing international research on place ident…
Toward Theory-Led Evaluation: The Experience of European Science, Technology, and Innovation Policies
This article reviews the literature and practice concerned with the evaluation of science, technology, and innovation (STI) policies and theway these relate to theories of the innovation process. Referring to the experience of the European Union (EU), the authors review the attempts to ensure that the STI policy theory is informed by advances in the authors'understanding of the innovation process. They argue, however, that the practice of policy …
Youth, violence, and courtship in late-Victorian Birmingham: The case of James Harper and Emily Pimm
Late-Victorian England witnessed a decline in the recorded level of violence. Recent historical scholarship ascribes this fall to the 19th-century “civilising offensive” and suggests that male violence was effectively targeted by legislators and subject to increasingly stringent punishment by the courts. Yet concern with violence persisted. During the 1890s, it was expressed both in the enduring debate on the problem of male violence against wome…
Football and sectarianism in Glasgow during the 1920s and 1930s
Of all the cities of England and Scotland, Glasgow is most widely associated with sectarianism. As Bill Murray has remarked, the city is renowned for its religion, violence and football, three elements which crystallise in the uniquely bitter encounters between the city’s two major football clubs, Rangers and Celtic. The clubs are identified as ‘Protestant’ and ‘Catholic’ respectively, although, as Tom Gallagher has commented, supporters’ allegia…
The significance of place in middle childhood: Qualitative research from Wales
The paper presents some key findings of qualitative research with older primary school children in Wales on their attachments to places and cultures. There is discussion of children's perspectives on the global, national and local arenas. We argue both that there are continuities with adult perspectives and that the children's views on place and identity need to be understood in the context of the social location of middle childhood. The study sh…
Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1945 - Brad Beaven
Oratorio as Exegesis: The Use of the Book of Isaiah in Handel's Messiah
Handel's Messiah is among the best-known musical compositions of all time, and it is also heavily dependent upon the Bible for its theme and content, thus making it an ideal source for a study of the Bible in music. In this paper I consider how Handel and his librettist Charles Jennens made use of the text of the book of Isaiah (the single most quoted biblical book in the libretto) in both the words and the music of this great oratorio, offering …
A New Teaching without Authority: Preaching the Bible in Postmodernity
The response of the citizens of Capernaum to Jesus’ proclamation in Mark 1:21-28 highlights the ‘paradigm shift’ that his ministry inaugurated in the sphere of preaching. In comparison with the teaching of the scribes, Mark tells us, Jesus taught with authority. This paper uses this underestimated pericopc as a springboard to explore the concept of authority in preaching, particularly in the light of the postmodern distaste for external authority…
Glasgow's ‘Reign of Terror: Street Gangs, Racketeering and Intimidation in the 1920s and 1930s
The Glasgow gangs of the 1920s and 1930s were widely viewed as fighting gangs rather than as criminal gangs in any wider sense. Retrospective accounts frequently suggest that the gangs only fought each other, leaving ‘ordinary’ residents of the city's working-class districts safe from the threat of robbery or random assault.This article offers an alternative perspective. It examines widespread reports of extortion by the gangs, whose ‘protection’…
The Scottish Chicago: From ‘Hooligans’ to ‘Gangsters’ in Inter-War Glasgow
During the late 1920s, Glasgow acquired an unwelcome notoriety as the Scottish Chicago. Accounts of the city's street gangs were laced with cross-references to the American underworld in the era of Al Capone, and this rhetorical twinning of Glasgow with Chicago was freely deployed not just by journalists, but by police officers and the judicial authorities. An older stereotype of the ‘hooligan’ was increasingly eclipsed by the more modern, and mo…
Chapter 4 General principles of management
Reading in the Spirit: Some brief observations on Pentecostal interpretation and the ethical difficulties of the Old Testament
This essay begins by considering the Pentecostal understanding of, and relationship to, Scripture, arguing that Pentecostals have always adopted an engaged and ‘agendad’ model of reading the biblical text. It then proceeds to consider how some of the ethical challenges posed by the Old Testament in particular might be addressed by a pneumatic model of reading which seeks to invite the Spirit’s guidance throughout the interpretative task, and ther…
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