Nicole Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3757364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM N |
| AFFILIATIONS | King’s College London 4616 , London , UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7828-6289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Messy Methods in Researching Religion
This unique book investigates the real-world complexities, challenges, and mistakes that are often encountered when researching religion, values, and culture. Featuring the reflections of researchers from across the social sciences and humanities, it offers vivid accounts of designing and executing both small-scale and much larger projects. Some chapters describe in detail the process and rationale behind methodological decisions, including chall…
Introduction to the special issue: Humour and religion, ‘you must be joking?!’
This paper considers the alleged incompatibility of humour and religion, identifies the need for a multifaceted approach to the study of humour and religion, and spotlights important scholarship on humour and religion. It also outlines how this special issue emerged from an online symposium organized by the editors (Nicole Graham and Paul S Martin) in 2020 titled: The Sacred and The Profanity: Humour, Religion and Ritual, hosted by the University…
Unraveling the seriousness fallacy: A Case for (The Study Of) Humor and Religion
This article establishes and demonstrates the importance of the topic of humor and religion. It traces the evolution of the existing scholarship on humor and religion, from its emergence in the 1960s, to its revival in the 1990s, and its latest resurgence in recent years. To overlook the presence of the comic, humor, and laughter in religious traditions is to overlook something significant. This article will demonstrate how interrogating and over…
Teaching Private Law in a Climate Crisis
First Nations analyses, climate science, social science and legal research indicate the significant role of private law in facilitating the conditions of climate change. Private law is a contingent feature of planetary health because its key concepts and institutions concentrate the legal rights to capital — the goods of life — in the private sphere. Private entitlements can act as shields against collective interests. Reforming law to address th…
The Subversive Evangelical: The Ironic Charisma of an Irreligious Megachurch
In The Subversive Evangelical, Peter Schuurman provides an ethnographic case study of the Canadian megachurch The Meeting House (TMH), which positions itself as “a church for people not into church” (xiv). TMH hosts its Sunday meetings in rented movie theatres, embraces church dance parties, and seeks to subvert expectations at every turn. It is currently led by the charismatic leader Bruxy Cavey, a long-haired, casually dressed, and tattooed Pas…
Legal pluralisms, justice and spatial conflicts: New directions in legal geography
Critical legal pluralism acknowledges both the multiple sources and forms of law, and their dynamic interaction, within singular geographical spaces at whatever scales they are defined. Challenging conventional constructs of law and jurisdiction, the articles in this themed section draw on the ideas of legal pluralism, justice and spatial conflict to explore the experience, interaction, impact and possibilities of the plurality of laws in particu…
Farmscapes: Property, ecological restoration and the reconciliation of human and nature in Australian agriculture
Reconceiving the relationship between private property and the environment is a major challenge of our time. Ecological restoration is one construct that is being used to reimagine this relationship. While preferable to more exploitative human-nature relationships, ecological restoration in Australia is generally aimed at reinstating pre-1788 habitats, which may be neither desirable nor feasible, and perpetuates an anthroparchic approach to manag…
Broadening law’s context: Materiality in socio-legal research
SYNOPSISSocio-legal studies is a ‘heterogeneous field’11 Faulkner et al. (2012), p 6. that encompasses a broad range of topics. Indeed, recently, legal scholars who regard their work as socio-legal have accepted the inclusion of less obvious and less conventional contexts and sites of socio-legal research including specifically science, technology and the environment on the basis that ‘materiality also matters in socio-legal studies’.22 Faulkner …
Property and place attachment: A legal geographical analysis of biodiversity law reform in New South Wales
Environmental indicators suggest that the legislation regulating land clearing inNSWshould be strengthened. However, reform has moved in the opposite direction, continuously weakening the law in response to the marginal but politically significant argument that the Act undermined sacrosanct private property rights. The cultural mythology around property and the legal discourse of property dephysicalise relations between people and place, transfor…
Special issue: Legal Geography/Ies
The nine articles comprising this special issue of Geographical Research bring together a diverse range of scholarship by Australian legal geographers and combine the products of two initiatives: an innovative workshop at the University of New England and the Inaugural Australian Legal Geography Symposium at the University of Technology Sydney (with thanks to the generous support of the Institute of Australian Geographers, the University of New E…
Missing the Connection: How SRLU Policy Fragments Landscapes and Communities in NSW
In late 2010, the Environmental Defenders Office ('EDO') released a report on the state of planning law in NSW. It suggested that detailed analysis 'revealed a failure of the current system to balance social and environmental considerations against the Government's desired economic and statistical outcomes.' In 2012, responding to widespread community opposition to coal seam gas ('CSG') mining in rural and regional NSW, the O'Farrell government d…
Legal Geography: An Australian Perspective
Law is a powerful influence on people and place. Law both creates and is created by the relationship between people and place, although it rarely acknowledges this. Law frequently operates as if space does not matter. Law and legal processes, therefore, deserve greater attention from geographers. Legal geography is an emerging field of inquiry that facilitates much-needed attention to the interrelationships among the environment, people and socia…
Legal pluralisms, justice and spatial conflicts: New directions in legal geography
Critical legal pluralism acknowledges both the multiple sources and forms of law, and their dynamic interaction, within singular geographical spaces at whatever scales they are defined. Challenging conventional constructs of law and jurisdiction, the articles in this themed section draw on the ideas of legal pluralism, justice and spatial conflict to explore the experience, interaction, impact and possibilities of the plurality of laws in particu…
Legal Geography: An Australian Perspective
Law is a powerful influence on people and place. Law both creates and is created by the relationship between people and place, although it rarely acknowledges this. Law frequently operates as if space does not matter. Law and legal processes, therefore, deserve greater attention from geographers. Legal geography is an emerging field of inquiry that facilitates much-needed attention to the interrelationships among the environment, people and socia…
Property and place attachment: A legal geographical analysis of biodiversity law reform in New South Wales
Environmental indicators suggest that the legislation regulating land clearing inNSWshould be strengthened. However, reform has moved in the opposite direction, continuously weakening the law in response to the marginal but politically significant argument that the Act undermined sacrosanct private property rights. The cultural mythology around property and the legal discourse of property dephysicalise relations between people and place, transfor…
Missing the Connection: How SRLU Policy Fragments Landscapes and Communities in NSW
In late 2010, the Environmental Defenders Office ('EDO') released a report on the state of planning law in NSW. It suggested that detailed analysis 'revealed a failure of the current system to balance social and environmental considerations against the Government's desired economic and statistical outcomes.' In 2012, responding to widespread community opposition to coal seam gas ('CSG') mining in rural and regional NSW, the O'Farrell government d…
Unraveling the seriousness fallacy: A Case for (The Study Of) Humor and Religion
This article establishes and demonstrates the importance of the topic of humor and religion. It traces the evolution of the existing scholarship on humor and religion, from its emergence in the 1960s, to its revival in the 1990s, and its latest resurgence in recent years. To overlook the presence of the comic, humor, and laughter in religious traditions is to overlook something significant. This article will demonstrate how interrogating and over…
Introduction to the special issue: Humour and religion, ‘you must be joking?!’
This paper considers the alleged incompatibility of humour and religion, identifies the need for a multifaceted approach to the study of humour and religion, and spotlights important scholarship on humour and religion. It also outlines how this special issue emerged from an online symposium organized by the editors (Nicole Graham and Paul S Martin) in 2020 titled: The Sacred and The Profanity: Humour, Religion and Ritual, hosted by the University…
Special issue: Legal Geography/Ies
The nine articles comprising this special issue of Geographical Research bring together a diverse range of scholarship by Australian legal geographers and combine the products of two initiatives: an innovative workshop at the University of New England and the Inaugural Australian Legal Geography Symposium at the University of Technology Sydney (with thanks to the generous support of the Institute of Australian Geographers, the University of New E…
Missing the Connection: How SRLU Policy Fragments Landscapes and Communities in NSW
In late 2010, the Environmental Defenders Office ('EDO') released a report on the state of planning law in NSW. It suggested that detailed analysis 'revealed a failure of the current system to balance social and environmental considerations against the Government's desired economic and statistical outcomes.' In 2012, responding to widespread community opposition to coal seam gas ('CSG') mining in rural and regional NSW, the O'Farrell government d…
Legal Geography: An Australian Perspective
Law is a powerful influence on people and place. Law both creates and is created by the relationship between people and place, although it rarely acknowledges this. Law frequently operates as if space does not matter. Law and legal processes, therefore, deserve greater attention from geographers. Legal geography is an emerging field of inquiry that facilitates much-needed attention to the interrelationships among the environment, people and socia…
Property and place attachment: A legal geographical analysis of biodiversity law reform in New South Wales
Environmental indicators suggest that the legislation regulating land clearing inNSWshould be strengthened. However, reform has moved in the opposite direction, continuously weakening the law in response to the marginal but politically significant argument that the Act undermined sacrosanct private property rights. The cultural mythology around property and the legal discourse of property dephysicalise relations between people and place, transfor…
Special issue: Legal Geography/Ies
The nine articles comprising this special issue of Geographical Research bring together a diverse range of scholarship by Australian legal geographers and combine the products of two initiatives: an innovative workshop at the University of New England and the Inaugural Australian Legal Geography Symposium at the University of Technology Sydney (with thanks to the generous support of the Institute of Australian Geographers, the University of New E…
Farmscapes: Property, ecological restoration and the reconciliation of human and nature in Australian agriculture
Reconceiving the relationship between private property and the environment is a major challenge of our time. Ecological restoration is one construct that is being used to reimagine this relationship. While preferable to more exploitative human-nature relationships, ecological restoration in Australia is generally aimed at reinstating pre-1788 habitats, which may be neither desirable nor feasible, and perpetuates an anthroparchic approach to manag…
Broadening law’s context: Materiality in socio-legal research
SYNOPSISSocio-legal studies is a ‘heterogeneous field’11 Faulkner et al. (2012), p 6. that encompasses a broad range of topics. Indeed, recently, legal scholars who regard their work as socio-legal have accepted the inclusion of less obvious and less conventional contexts and sites of socio-legal research including specifically science, technology and the environment on the basis that ‘materiality also matters in socio-legal studies’.22 Faulkner …
Legal pluralisms, justice and spatial conflicts: New directions in legal geography
Critical legal pluralism acknowledges both the multiple sources and forms of law, and their dynamic interaction, within singular geographical spaces at whatever scales they are defined. Challenging conventional constructs of law and jurisdiction, the articles in this themed section draw on the ideas of legal pluralism, justice and spatial conflict to explore the experience, interaction, impact and possibilities of the plurality of laws in particu…
Teaching Private Law in a Climate Crisis
First Nations analyses, climate science, social science and legal research indicate the significant role of private law in facilitating the conditions of climate change. Private law is a contingent feature of planetary health because its key concepts and institutions concentrate the legal rights to capital — the goods of life — in the private sphere. Private entitlements can act as shields against collective interests. Reforming law to address th…
The Subversive Evangelical: The Ironic Charisma of an Irreligious Megachurch
In The Subversive Evangelical, Peter Schuurman provides an ethnographic case study of the Canadian megachurch The Meeting House (TMH), which positions itself as “a church for people not into church” (xiv). TMH hosts its Sunday meetings in rented movie theatres, embraces church dance parties, and seeks to subvert expectations at every turn. It is currently led by the charismatic leader Bruxy Cavey, a long-haired, casually dressed, and tattooed Pas…
Introduction to the special issue: Humour and religion, ‘you must be joking?!’
This paper considers the alleged incompatibility of humour and religion, identifies the need for a multifaceted approach to the study of humour and religion, and spotlights important scholarship on humour and religion. It also outlines how this special issue emerged from an online symposium organized by the editors (Nicole Graham and Paul S Martin) in 2020 titled: The Sacred and The Profanity: Humour, Religion and Ritual, hosted by the University…
Unraveling the seriousness fallacy: A Case for (The Study Of) Humor and Religion
This article establishes and demonstrates the importance of the topic of humor and religion. It traces the evolution of the existing scholarship on humor and religion, from its emergence in the 1960s, to its revival in the 1990s, and its latest resurgence in recent years. To overlook the presence of the comic, humor, and laughter in religious traditions is to overlook something significant. This article will demonstrate how interrogating and over…
Messy Methods in Researching Religion
This unique book investigates the real-world complexities, challenges, and mistakes that are often encountered when researching religion, values, and culture. Featuring the reflections of researchers from across the social sciences and humanities, it offers vivid accounts of designing and executing both small-scale and much larger projects. Some chapters describe in detail the process and rationale behind methodological decisions, including chall…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law in Society and Culture (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Scholarship (3 works) · Critical geography (2 works) · Cultural geography (2 works)