Amy King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3786924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9214-5930 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder
The year 2024 marked a century since socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti's assassination. Widely commemorated in Italy, he's often remembered within a national narrative of antifascist resistance. But how was this narrative built and how has the far right responded? This Element traces the construction and mobilisation of Matteotti's memory over the last century, analysing the role of grief in the early antifascist movement, and identifying the ro…
Community Based Participatory Research and Collective Impact
Following principles of action research and using an anti-oppressive approach to uplift the voices of parents with lived experiences in early care and education (ECE) enrollment systems, our study sought to identify barriers to ECE enrollment and co-create system and policy solutions with parents, ECE staff, and the research team. To do so, we integrated community-based participatory research (CBPR) and collective impact practices into the study’…
The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order
Darren Lim and John Ikenberry perform a valuable service in fleshing out the theoretical underpinnings of questions that are central to anyone working on international politics and security today: how does China conceive of the problem of international order, and how might China’s domestic political-economic model shape the “logic and organizational principles” of a future Chinese hegemonic order?Footnote1 In answering these questions, Lim and Ik…
Barriers to early childhood education for Black families and calls for equitable solutions from a qualitative study using peer researchers and an antiracist lens
Idealized notions of the ECE experiences Black parents wanted diverged from their experiences. • Black parents face racialized administrative burdens to access quality childcare. • Free, universal childcare is an equitable policy solution desired by Black families. • Black families want their children to be safe, loved, and nurtured in childcare. • Parents and educators desire one connected system for enrollment. Racial disparities in early care …
Pacifying the Nation
This article examines the commemorative culture constructed by a network of Italian far-right groups under Giorgia Meloni’s premiership to honor the neofascist victims of Italy’s Years of Lead. It considers the rhetoric of “pacification” put forward by Meloni in her calls to incorporate the memory of far-right victims into Italy’s national memory culture, and analyzes this narrative of victimhood and sacrifice as part of a broader effort to legit…
Why is ECE enrollment so complicated? An analysis of barriers and co-created solutions from the frontlines
The Politics of Sacrifice
A Martyr for the Resistance and the New Republic
When Italy surrendered to the Allies in 1943, Giacomo Matteotti’s memory burst back into public space after almost twenty years of clandestine commemoration. This article focuses on the uses of Matteotti’s memory during the Resistance and the transition to a new democratic Republic. It argues that Matteotti was both Italian and reformist, not revolutionary, and thus his memory appealed to partisans as a symbol of national anti-Fascism and to the …
Japanese Fates in China and the Soviet Union from World War to Cold War
In these notes, we share our experiences of researching and co-authoring a recent article on the comparative treatment of Japanese residents and internees by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China in the first decade following World War II. This collaboration started from our surprising realization that despite their shared ideology and friendly relations, Moscow and Beijing adopted different approaches to dealing with Japanese citiz…
Japan Still Has Cadres Remaining”
After Japan surrendered in 1945, more than 6 million Japanese were stranded in various parts of what had been the imperial domain. From 1945 to 1956, thousands of Japanese found themselves in the USSR and mainland China, unable or unwilling to return. Drawing on Soviet, Chinese, Japanese, and Western archives, this article compares Soviet and Communist Chinese policies toward the stranded Japanese. The distinct pathways adopted by the Soviet and …
Power, shared ideas and order transition
The claim that transitions in international order are not only products of transitions in power, but also products of transitions in shared ideas is now relatively uncontroversial in the International Relations literature. Yet persistent gaps remain in understanding how ideas are shared, and which states play a role in sharing an international order’s ideas. This paper demonstrates that ideas are shared through social, interactive processes, whic…
The battle for influence
This article analyses the role commemoration of Fascist and anti-fascist martyrs played in the battle for political influence in the Italian diaspora of the United States during Mussolini’s early rule. It is structured around two case studies: the socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti, killed in Rome in 1924, and Giuseppe Carisi and Michele Ambrosoli, two Blackshirts killed in the Bronx on their way to the Memorial Day parade of 1927 in New York. Th…
This Music Is My Religion
This article interprets a live electronic music DJ performance by Armin van Buuren at Ultra Music Festival 2019 in Miami as a religious, rhetorical text. It considers the methods of van Buuren and why he appeals to a younger generation that is seeking spirituality outside of traditional religion. Electronic music has long been identified by scholars as having a spiritual ethos, and van Buuren’s style epitomizes what is described as “technoshamani…
China’s world view in the Xi Jinping Era
A ‘world view’ perspective is deployed to show President Xi Jinping’s dominance of China’s policy-making environment and the ideas that he and his leadership group have tried to promote. We use this framework to explain China’s relations with three major countries that are crucial to manage successfully in order for China to consolidate its global and regional ambitions – Japan, Russia and the United States. The article shows how the degree of al…
Antagonistic martyrdom
Memory of the period of political violence known as the anni di piombo continues to form part of the neofascist-antifascist antagonism in contemporary Italy. One of the most notable tragedies from that time occurred in Rome on 16 April 1973, when Stefano and Virgilio Mattei (sons of a local leader of the Movimento Sociale Italiano, MSI) died in an arson attack on the family home. In the wake of the attack, a campaign of misinformation and a faile…
Components of preoperative anxiety
Limited research has explored preoperative anxiety through qualitative methodologies. This study aimed to identify specific factors that contribute to preoperative anxiety. A total of 17 patients awaiting general, plastic reconstructive and hand, orthopaedic, or ear, nose, and throat/otorhinolaryngology surgery were interviewed about their concerns in a public hospital. Thematic analysis identified five main sources of anxiety: surgical procedure…
Rome Award supported by the Roger and Ingrid Pilkington Charitable Trust
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China–Japan Relations after World War Two
A rich empirical account of China's foreign economic policy towards Japan after World War Two, drawing on hundreds of recently declassified Chinese sources. Amy King offers an innovative conceptual framework for the role of ideas in shaping foreign policy, and examines how China's Communist leaders conceived of Japan after the war. The book shows how Japan became China's most important economic partner in 1971, despite the recent history of war a…
Introduction to the Special Issue
The Asia-Pacific region is in the midst of change. The emergence of new and great powers, growing democratisation, new forms of multilateral engagement and new approaches to state building and intervention are some of the major trends shaping this region. This special issue examines four countries in the Asia-Pacific region that help illustrate these trends: Solomon Islands, Myanmar, Indonesia and China. Each is currently undergoing its own major…
Reconstructing China
The Chinese Communist Party was confronted with the pressing challenge of 'reconstructing' China's industrial economy when it came to power in 1949. Drawing on recently declassified Chinese Foreign Ministry archives, this article argues that the Party met this challenge by drawing on the expertise of Japanese technicians left behind in Northeast China at the end of the Second World War. Between 1949 and 1953, when they were eventually repatriated…
Northeast Asia's New ‘History Spiral’
The remembered history of the Second World War continues to infect contemporary relations between China and its Northeast Asian neighbours. This article argues that a ‘history spiral’ has taken hold in Northeast Asia as a result of the region's changing strategic order and domestic politics in China, Japan and South Korea. Using the case studies of the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands territorial dispute, the Dokdo/Takeshima territorial disputes, and Sino‐…
Bias at the Ballot Box? Testing Whether Candidates' Gender Affects Their Vote
Objective. This study examines whether women's electoral fortunes in Australia have improved in line with changing social norms over the past century. We use new strategies to explore whether female candidates face discrimination by the voting public, or by political parties' preselection systems. Methods. Using data from all elections to the House of Representatives between 1903 and 2004, we examine the relationship between candidates' gender an…
Are Ballot Order Effects Heterogeneous
Objective. Past research on ballot order effects has typically focused on the average benefit a candidate receives if placed at the top of the ballot. This study addresses a gap in the literature by examining the possibility that a simple average may mask systematic differences in how the ballot order effect varies across candidates and voters. Methods. Using data from all Australian federal elections between 1984 and 2004, a sample that covers 1…
Prime Time Sexual Harassment
A content analysis of 48 hours of prime time television reveals that sexual harassment on television is both highly visible and invisible. Sexual harassment is rendered visible simply by its prominence in these programs. Incidences involving quid pro quo harassment and environmental harassment occur with regularity on television. Eighty-four percent of the shows studied contained at least one incident of sexual harassment; the average was 3.4. Ye…
Are Ballot Order Effects Heterogeneous
Objective. Past research on ballot order effects has typically focused on the average benefit a candidate receives if placed at the top of the ballot. This study addresses a gap in the literature by examining the possibility that a simple average may mask systematic differences in how the ballot order effect varies across candidates and voters. Methods. Using data from all Australian federal elections between 1984 and 2004, a sample that covers 1…
Prime Time Sexual Harassment
A content analysis of 48 hours of prime time television reveals that sexual harassment on television is both highly visible and invisible. Sexual harassment is rendered visible simply by its prominence in these programs. Incidences involving quid pro quo harassment and environmental harassment occur with regularity on television. Eighty-four percent of the shows studied contained at least one incident of sexual harassment; the average was 3.4. Ye…
Bias at the Ballot Box? Testing Whether Candidates' Gender Affects Their Vote
Objective. This study examines whether women's electoral fortunes in Australia have improved in line with changing social norms over the past century. We use new strategies to explore whether female candidates face discrimination by the voting public, or by political parties' preselection systems. Methods. Using data from all elections to the House of Representatives between 1903 and 2004, we examine the relationship between candidates' gender an…
Reconstructing China
The Chinese Communist Party was confronted with the pressing challenge of 'reconstructing' China's industrial economy when it came to power in 1949. Drawing on recently declassified Chinese Foreign Ministry archives, this article argues that the Party met this challenge by drawing on the expertise of Japanese technicians left behind in Northeast China at the end of the Second World War. Between 1949 and 1953, when they were eventually repatriated…
The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order
Darren Lim and John Ikenberry perform a valuable service in fleshing out the theoretical underpinnings of questions that are central to anyone working on international politics and security today: how does China conceive of the problem of international order, and how might China’s domestic political-economic model shape the “logic and organizational principles” of a future Chinese hegemonic order?Footnote1 In answering these questions, Lim and Ik…
Power, shared ideas and order transition
The claim that transitions in international order are not only products of transitions in power, but also products of transitions in shared ideas is now relatively uncontroversial in the International Relations literature. Yet persistent gaps remain in understanding how ideas are shared, and which states play a role in sharing an international order’s ideas. This paper demonstrates that ideas are shared through social, interactive processes, whic…
China’s world view in the Xi Jinping Era
A ‘world view’ perspective is deployed to show President Xi Jinping’s dominance of China’s policy-making environment and the ideas that he and his leadership group have tried to promote. We use this framework to explain China’s relations with three major countries that are crucial to manage successfully in order for China to consolidate its global and regional ambitions – Japan, Russia and the United States. The article shows how the degree of al…
Barriers to early childhood education for Black families and calls for equitable solutions from a qualitative study using peer researchers and an antiracist lens
Idealized notions of the ECE experiences Black parents wanted diverged from their experiences. • Black parents face racialized administrative burdens to access quality childcare. • Free, universal childcare is an equitable policy solution desired by Black families. • Black families want their children to be safe, loved, and nurtured in childcare. • Parents and educators desire one connected system for enrollment. Racial disparities in early care …
Why is ECE enrollment so complicated? An analysis of barriers and co-created solutions from the frontlines
Japan Still Has Cadres Remaining”
After Japan surrendered in 1945, more than 6 million Japanese were stranded in various parts of what had been the imperial domain. From 1945 to 1956, thousands of Japanese found themselves in the USSR and mainland China, unable or unwilling to return. Drawing on Soviet, Chinese, Japanese, and Western archives, this article compares Soviet and Communist Chinese policies toward the stranded Japanese. The distinct pathways adopted by the Soviet and …
The battle for influence
This article analyses the role commemoration of Fascist and anti-fascist martyrs played in the battle for political influence in the Italian diaspora of the United States during Mussolini’s early rule. It is structured around two case studies: the socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti, killed in Rome in 1924, and Giuseppe Carisi and Michele Ambrosoli, two Blackshirts killed in the Bronx on their way to the Memorial Day parade of 1927 in New York. Th…
Prime Time Sexual Harassment
A content analysis of 48 hours of prime time television reveals that sexual harassment on television is both highly visible and invisible. Sexual harassment is rendered visible simply by its prominence in these programs. Incidences involving quid pro quo harassment and environmental harassment occur with regularity on television. Eighty-four percent of the shows studied contained at least one incident of sexual harassment; the average was 3.4. Ye…
Are Ballot Order Effects Heterogeneous
Objective. Past research on ballot order effects has typically focused on the average benefit a candidate receives if placed at the top of the ballot. This study addresses a gap in the literature by examining the possibility that a simple average may mask systematic differences in how the ballot order effect varies across candidates and voters. Methods. Using data from all Australian federal elections between 1984 and 2004, a sample that covers 1…
Bias at the Ballot Box? Testing Whether Candidates' Gender Affects Their Vote
Objective. This study examines whether women's electoral fortunes in Australia have improved in line with changing social norms over the past century. We use new strategies to explore whether female candidates face discrimination by the voting public, or by political parties' preselection systems. Methods. Using data from all elections to the House of Representatives between 1903 and 2004, we examine the relationship between candidates' gender an…
Northeast Asia's New ‘History Spiral’
The remembered history of the Second World War continues to infect contemporary relations between China and its Northeast Asian neighbours. This article argues that a ‘history spiral’ has taken hold in Northeast Asia as a result of the region's changing strategic order and domestic politics in China, Japan and South Korea. Using the case studies of the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands territorial dispute, the Dokdo/Takeshima territorial disputes, and Sino‐…
China–Japan Relations after World War Two
A rich empirical account of China's foreign economic policy towards Japan after World War Two, drawing on hundreds of recently declassified Chinese sources. Amy King offers an innovative conceptual framework for the role of ideas in shaping foreign policy, and examines how China's Communist leaders conceived of Japan after the war. The book shows how Japan became China's most important economic partner in 1971, despite the recent history of war a…
Introduction to the Special Issue
The Asia-Pacific region is in the midst of change. The emergence of new and great powers, growing democratisation, new forms of multilateral engagement and new approaches to state building and intervention are some of the major trends shaping this region. This special issue examines four countries in the Asia-Pacific region that help illustrate these trends: Solomon Islands, Myanmar, Indonesia and China. Each is currently undergoing its own major…
Reconstructing China
The Chinese Communist Party was confronted with the pressing challenge of 'reconstructing' China's industrial economy when it came to power in 1949. Drawing on recently declassified Chinese Foreign Ministry archives, this article argues that the Party met this challenge by drawing on the expertise of Japanese technicians left behind in Northeast China at the end of the Second World War. Between 1949 and 1953, when they were eventually repatriated…
Rome Award supported by the Roger and Ingrid Pilkington Charitable Trust
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Antagonistic martyrdom
Memory of the period of political violence known as the anni di piombo continues to form part of the neofascist-antifascist antagonism in contemporary Italy. One of the most notable tragedies from that time occurred in Rome on 16 April 1973, when Stefano and Virgilio Mattei (sons of a local leader of the Movimento Sociale Italiano, MSI) died in an arson attack on the family home. In the wake of the attack, a campaign of misinformation and a faile…
Components of preoperative anxiety
Limited research has explored preoperative anxiety through qualitative methodologies. This study aimed to identify specific factors that contribute to preoperative anxiety. A total of 17 patients awaiting general, plastic reconstructive and hand, orthopaedic, or ear, nose, and throat/otorhinolaryngology surgery were interviewed about their concerns in a public hospital. Thematic analysis identified five main sources of anxiety: surgical procedure…
This Music Is My Religion
This article interprets a live electronic music DJ performance by Armin van Buuren at Ultra Music Festival 2019 in Miami as a religious, rhetorical text. It considers the methods of van Buuren and why he appeals to a younger generation that is seeking spirituality outside of traditional religion. Electronic music has long been identified by scholars as having a spiritual ethos, and van Buuren’s style epitomizes what is described as “technoshamani…
China’s world view in the Xi Jinping Era
A ‘world view’ perspective is deployed to show President Xi Jinping’s dominance of China’s policy-making environment and the ideas that he and his leadership group have tried to promote. We use this framework to explain China’s relations with three major countries that are crucial to manage successfully in order for China to consolidate its global and regional ambitions – Japan, Russia and the United States. The article shows how the degree of al…
The battle for influence
This article analyses the role commemoration of Fascist and anti-fascist martyrs played in the battle for political influence in the Italian diaspora of the United States during Mussolini’s early rule. It is structured around two case studies: the socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti, killed in Rome in 1924, and Giuseppe Carisi and Michele Ambrosoli, two Blackshirts killed in the Bronx on their way to the Memorial Day parade of 1927 in New York. Th…
Japan Still Has Cadres Remaining”
After Japan surrendered in 1945, more than 6 million Japanese were stranded in various parts of what had been the imperial domain. From 1945 to 1956, thousands of Japanese found themselves in the USSR and mainland China, unable or unwilling to return. Drawing on Soviet, Chinese, Japanese, and Western archives, this article compares Soviet and Communist Chinese policies toward the stranded Japanese. The distinct pathways adopted by the Soviet and …
Power, shared ideas and order transition
The claim that transitions in international order are not only products of transitions in power, but also products of transitions in shared ideas is now relatively uncontroversial in the International Relations literature. Yet persistent gaps remain in understanding how ideas are shared, and which states play a role in sharing an international order’s ideas. This paper demonstrates that ideas are shared through social, interactive processes, whic…
The Politics of Sacrifice
A Martyr for the Resistance and the New Republic
When Italy surrendered to the Allies in 1943, Giacomo Matteotti’s memory burst back into public space after almost twenty years of clandestine commemoration. This article focuses on the uses of Matteotti’s memory during the Resistance and the transition to a new democratic Republic. It argues that Matteotti was both Italian and reformist, not revolutionary, and thus his memory appealed to partisans as a symbol of national anti-Fascism and to the …
Japanese Fates in China and the Soviet Union from World War to Cold War
In these notes, we share our experiences of researching and co-authoring a recent article on the comparative treatment of Japanese residents and internees by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China in the first decade following World War II. This collaboration started from our surprising realization that despite their shared ideology and friendly relations, Moscow and Beijing adopted different approaches to dealing with Japanese citiz…
The Collective Logic of (Chinese) Hegemonic Order
Darren Lim and John Ikenberry perform a valuable service in fleshing out the theoretical underpinnings of questions that are central to anyone working on international politics and security today: how does China conceive of the problem of international order, and how might China’s domestic political-economic model shape the “logic and organizational principles” of a future Chinese hegemonic order?Footnote1 In answering these questions, Lim and Ik…
Barriers to early childhood education for Black families and calls for equitable solutions from a qualitative study using peer researchers and an antiracist lens
Idealized notions of the ECE experiences Black parents wanted diverged from their experiences. • Black parents face racialized administrative burdens to access quality childcare. • Free, universal childcare is an equitable policy solution desired by Black families. • Black families want their children to be safe, loved, and nurtured in childcare. • Parents and educators desire one connected system for enrollment. Racial disparities in early care …
Pacifying the Nation
This article examines the commemorative culture constructed by a network of Italian far-right groups under Giorgia Meloni’s premiership to honor the neofascist victims of Italy’s Years of Lead. It considers the rhetoric of “pacification” put forward by Meloni in her calls to incorporate the memory of far-right victims into Italy’s national memory culture, and analyzes this narrative of victimhood and sacrifice as part of a broader effort to legit…
Why is ECE enrollment so complicated? An analysis of barriers and co-created solutions from the frontlines
Community Based Participatory Research and Collective Impact
Following principles of action research and using an anti-oppressive approach to uplift the voices of parents with lived experiences in early care and education (ECE) enrollment systems, our study sought to identify barriers to ECE enrollment and co-create system and policy solutions with parents, ECE staff, and the research team. To do so, we integrated community-based participatory research (CBPR) and collective impact practices into the study’…
The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder
The year 2024 marked a century since socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti's assassination. Widely commemorated in Italy, he's often remembered within a national narrative of antifascist resistance. But how was this narrative built and how has the far right responded? This Element traces the construction and mobilisation of Matteotti's memory over the last century, analysing the role of grief in the early antifascist movement, and identifying the ro…
Political science (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · Economics (10 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · China (8 works) · History (5 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (5 works)