Oliver Kearns
Biographic Data
| ID | 382301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Kearns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Kearns |
| SIGNATURE | KEARNS O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9834-7974 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Response to Gentry
I was interested to read John Gentry’s claim in his article “Ideology in Costume: A Growing Threat to Intelligence Studies” (International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Vol. 37
Forget what you hear: Careless Talk, espionage and ways of listening in on the British secret state
As the covert and clandestine practices of states multiplied in the twentieth century, so did these practices’ footprint in public life. This footprint is not just visual and material but sonic and aural, sounding the ‘secret state’ into being and suggesting ways of ‘listening in’ on it. Using multisensory methodology, this article examines Careless Talk Costs Lives, a UK Second World War propaganda campaign instructing citizens on how to practic…
Beyond enclosure: Military bases and the spatial dynamics of secrecy
Collective Discussion: Toward Critical Approaches to Intelligence as a Social Phenomenon
This collective discussion proposes a novel understanding of intelligence as a social phenomenon, taking place in a social space that increasingly involves actors and professional fields not immediately seen as part of intelligence. This discussion is a response to the inherent functionalism in Intelligence Studies (IS) that conceives of intelligence as a cycle serving policymakers. Instead, our interventions seek to problematize and break with t…
Secrecy and absence in the residue of covert drone strikes
By focusing on the materials and practices that prosecute drone warfare, critical scholarship has emphasised the internal state rationalisation of this violence, while positioning secrecy and absence as barriers to research. This neglects the public existence of covert U.S. drone strikes through the rumours and debris they leave behind, and the consequences for legitimisation. This article argues that by signifying the possible use of covertness,…
Notorious Places: Image, Reputation, Stigma. The Role of Newspapers in Area Reputations for Social Housing Estates
This paper reviews work in several disciplines to distinguish between image, reputation and stigma. It also shows that there has been little research on the process by which area reputations are established and sustained through transmission processes. This paper reports on research into the portrayal of two social housing estates in the printed media over an extended period of time (14 years). It was found that negative and mixed coverage of the…
Notorious Places: Image, Reputation, Stigma. The Role of Newspapers in Area Reputations for Social Housing Estates
This paper reviews work in several disciplines to distinguish between image, reputation and stigma. It also shows that there has been little research on the process by which area reputations are established and sustained through transmission processes. This paper reports on research into the portrayal of two social housing estates in the printed media over an extended period of time (14 years). It was found that negative and mixed coverage of the…
Collective Discussion: Toward Critical Approaches to Intelligence as a Social Phenomenon
This collective discussion proposes a novel understanding of intelligence as a social phenomenon, taking place in a social space that increasingly involves actors and professional fields not immediately seen as part of intelligence. This discussion is a response to the inherent functionalism in Intelligence Studies (IS) that conceives of intelligence as a cycle serving policymakers. Instead, our interventions seek to problematize and break with t…
Secrecy and absence in the residue of covert drone strikes
By focusing on the materials and practices that prosecute drone warfare, critical scholarship has emphasised the internal state rationalisation of this violence, while positioning secrecy and absence as barriers to research. This neglects the public existence of covert U.S. drone strikes through the rumours and debris they leave behind, and the consequences for legitimisation. This article argues that by signifying the possible use of covertness,…
Beyond enclosure: Military bases and the spatial dynamics of secrecy
Notorious Places: Image, Reputation, Stigma. The Role of Newspapers in Area Reputations for Social Housing Estates
This paper reviews work in several disciplines to distinguish between image, reputation and stigma. It also shows that there has been little research on the process by which area reputations are established and sustained through transmission processes. This paper reports on research into the portrayal of two social housing estates in the printed media over an extended period of time (14 years). It was found that negative and mixed coverage of the…
Secrecy and absence in the residue of covert drone strikes
By focusing on the materials and practices that prosecute drone warfare, critical scholarship has emphasised the internal state rationalisation of this violence, while positioning secrecy and absence as barriers to research. This neglects the public existence of covert U.S. drone strikes through the rumours and debris they leave behind, and the consequences for legitimisation. This article argues that by signifying the possible use of covertness,…
Collective Discussion: Toward Critical Approaches to Intelligence as a Social Phenomenon
This collective discussion proposes a novel understanding of intelligence as a social phenomenon, taking place in a social space that increasingly involves actors and professional fields not immediately seen as part of intelligence. This discussion is a response to the inherent functionalism in Intelligence Studies (IS) that conceives of intelligence as a cycle serving policymakers. Instead, our interventions seek to problematize and break with t…
Beyond enclosure: Military bases and the spatial dynamics of secrecy
Forget what you hear: Careless Talk, espionage and ways of listening in on the British secret state
As the covert and clandestine practices of states multiplied in the twentieth century, so did these practices’ footprint in public life. This footprint is not just visual and material but sonic and aural, sounding the ‘secret state’ into being and suggesting ways of ‘listening in’ on it. Using multisensory methodology, this article examines Careless Talk Costs Lives, a UK Second World War propaganda campaign instructing citizens on how to practic…
Response to Gentry
I was interested to read John Gentry’s claim in his article “Ideology in Costume: A Growing Threat to Intelligence Studies” (International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Vol. 37
Global Security and Public Health (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Covert (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)