James Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4805-5364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 189 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A community-level complementary-food safety and hygiene intervention improves family-food preparation behaviours in rural Gambia: A follow-up of a cluster randomised controlled trial
INTRODUCTION: Infectious diarrhoea causes millions of deaths annually in low-income countries. Prevention strategies minimising transmission of diarrhoeal pathogens could include adopting better food hygiene practices. The objective was to assess whether a complementary-food hygiene intervention improved family-food hygiene practices in rural Gambian households. METHODS: A parallel cluster randomised controlled trial was conducted in central Gamb…
Emerging Risks of Nitazene‐Adulterated Vapes in Australia: Balancing Regulation, Access and Harm Reduction
J.M. receives funding from the Department of Home Affairs for research into the Australian illicit nicotine market. J.M. also has an unpaid role as Tobacco Harm Reduction Advisor to the board of the non-profit organisation Harm Reduction Australia. This arrangement creates no obligations and in no way compromises the independence of J.M. J.L.S. has no conflicts to declare. Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated …
‘The name of the game’: Policing perspectives on cybercrime disruption
There is an increasing focus on disruption as a response to cybercrime in criminological and cybersecurity research. This paper seeks to extend existing literature on the police role in relation to cybercrime. The paper is based on a large, international and comparative study on the policing of cybercrime involving 90 interviews with members of law enforcement or policing agencies across three Five Eyes countries. Disruption emerged organically a…
Investigating associations between hearing, cognition, and social isolation using the Hertfordshire Ageing Study
Objectives The aim of the study was to investigate whether hearing threshold separately predicts cognitive score and social isolation score 10 years later by using the Hertfordshire Ageing Study (HAS) data. Methods The Hertfordshire Ageing Study (HAS) is a longitudinal cohort study that measures hearing via pure tone audiometry at two timepoints, and social isolation and cognition variables at the second timepoint. Linear regression was implement…
The internal structure of ransomware criminal groups: An analysis of organisational units, functions, roles, and communication patterns within Conti
The internal structure of ransomware criminal groups: an analysis of organisational units, functions, roles, and communication patterns within Conti
Recontesting the Sacred: Political Theology as Ideological Method
In this paper, we explore the contribution that political theology can make to the study of political ideologies. In foregrounding the interaction between theological and political ways of thinking, political theology traces the lingering presence of the sacred in secular politics. It refers not merely to religious doctrines but also to a variety of ways of registering the ‘extraordinary’ dimension in modern political orders. We sketch the develo…
Expertise Integration in Cybercrime Policing: Exploring Civilian Career Lifecycles
This study examines the internal dynamics and composition of federal police cybercrime units with a focus on civilianization. The study is based on interviews with 56 sworn and civilian (unsworn) members of two federal law enforcement organizations located in two of the Five Eyes countries. Both police organizations had a significant number of civilian employees in their cybercrime units and were in the process of actively recruiting more. The fi…
Does social isolation mediate the association between hearing loss and cognition in adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
Ransomware HR: Human Resources Practices and Organizational Support in the Conti Ransomware Group
Mental health and life satisfaction among those advised to shield during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK: A secondary analysis of the Understanding Society longitudinal study
Introduction During the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, those considered most vulnerable to adverse outcomes from infection were designated “clinically extremely vulnerable” and advised to “shield.” This involved prolonged confinement at home with strict limits on face-to-face contact, beyond national restrictions. Shielding ended in September 2021 and was considered likely to have harmed mental health and wellbeing. As the UK moved toward a new pha…
Hacking the hackers’: Reflections on state-implemented disruption as a ‘new model’ for cyber policing
‘Hacking the hackers’: reflections on stateimplemented disruption as a ‘new model’ for cyber policing
Ransomware through the lens of state crime: Conceptualizing ransomware groups as cyber proxies, pirates, and privateers
Cybercrime and other cybersecurity harms are gaining increasing political and public attention across many countries. One of the most serious and fastest growing categories of such harms relates to ransomware attacks. Many of the groups responsible for ransomware attacks have come under political pressure in recent years as they have become more aggressive in their methods and targeting. On a geopolitical level, an area attracting increasing inte…
State Crime
Cybercrime and other cybersecurity harms are gaining increasing political and public attention across many countries. One of the most serious and fastest growing categories of such harms relates to ransomware attacks. Many of the groups responsible for ransomware attacks have come under political pressure in recent years as they have become more aggressive in their methods and targeting. On a geopolitical level, an area attracting increasing inte…
Introduction to the special issue: Rhetorical approaches to contemporary political studies
This article introduces the special issue on Rhetorical Approaches to Contemporary Political Studies. It underscores the importance of innovations in political speech as a key to the continuing attraction of scholars to rhetorical methods. This is particularly relevant at a moment of crisis and disruption in established democracies when the parameters of acceptable discourse have been brought into question by forms of ‘post-truth’ politics. Altho…
Rhetoric, discourse and the hermeneutics of public speech
What insights and advantages do rhetorical approaches offer over other methods of exploring social and political discourse? This article aims to clarify the contribution of rhetorical analysis by exploring its distinctive, hermeneutic attention to public speech. Public speaking is, accordingly, viewed as a practice of assembling meaningful interpretations in specific situations. Central here is a temporal dimension. Analysing rhetoric involves gr…
Selling Drugs on Darkweb Cryptomarkets: Differentiated Pathways, Risks and Rewards
Cryptomarkets, anonymous online markets where illicit drugs are exchanged, have operated since 2011, yet there is a dearth of knowledge on why people use these platforms to sell drugs, with only one previous study involving interviews with this novel group. Based on 13 interviews with this hard to reach population, and data analysis critically framed from perspectives of economic calculation, the seductions of crime, and drift and techniques of n…
A cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the daily mile on childhood obesity and wellbeing; the Birmingham daily mile protocol
ISRCTN: 12698269 . Date protocol registered 27th October 2016
Community Social Organization and Military Families: Theoretical Perspectives on Transitions, Contexts, and Resilience
The social organization theory of action and change accounts for transitions families face in community contexts. This perspective aligns with family stress and resilience theories, including the contextual model of family stress. Our discussion focuses on transitions of military families, including the continually changing nature of military family life. The military environment provides an opportunity for understanding family vulnerability and …
An island apart? Risks and prices in the Australian cryptomarket drug trade
Le silence et la compassion
Le film Silence de Martin Scorsese marque une étape significative dans un parcours de production cinématographique qui représente pour son auteur une quête existentielle, voire spirituelle. Dans un entretien avec le père James Martin, le réalisateur expose le projet qu'il a voulu réaliser dans le film
Ethics in cryptomarket research
States of Apology Michael Cunningham
Democratic politics is as much about symbolism as it is about material power. States are not only sovereign owners of property, wealth and military technology, but also places from which certain kinds of pronouncement manifest an authority that citizens cannot conjure alone. We may often doubt the moral force of that authority and even question its consistency or clarity. But it remains that states, their offices and personnel, seek to embody a s…
Capturing Desire: Rhetorical Strategies and the Affectivity of Discourse
This article: Provides a theoretical exploration of rhetorical persuasion as a practice aimed at ‘capturing desire’. Elucidates the shared interest of rhetorical and psychoanalytical theory in the production of so-called ‘plausible stories’ that mobilise and shape affects. Surveys different psychoanalytical approaches to the rhetorical articulation of ‘symptomatic beliefs’ that support political reasoning. Demonstrates the applicability of psycho…
Situating Speech: A Rhetorical Approach to Political Strategy
Ideas are increasingly acknowledged as factors in explaining political behaviour. But often they are treated as inert resources rather than dynamic instances of action in themselves. The latter, I propose, requires reflection on the character of speech — as the medium of ideas — in responding to and refiguring a prevailing situation. I undertake such reflection by setting out a rhetorical approach to political strategy. Building upon ‘interpretiv…
Lost on the Silk Road: Online drug distribution and the ‘cryptomarket’
The illicit drugs website, Silk Road, presents an ideal case study for how online communication technologies are transforming crime. This article seeks to locate the offences committed via Silk Road within existing cybercrime literature, and presents a new criminological concept – the cryptomarket – to outline the contours of this new generation of online illicit marketplace. Cryptomarkets are defined as a type of website that employs advanced en…
Situating Speech: A Rhetorical Approach to Political Strategy
Ideas are increasingly acknowledged as factors in explaining political behaviour. But often they are treated as inert resources rather than dynamic instances of action in themselves. The latter, I propose, requires reflection on the character of speech — as the medium of ideas — in responding to and refiguring a prevailing situation. I undertake such reflection by setting out a rhetorical approach to political strategy. Building upon ‘interpretiv…
Lost on the Silk Road: Online drug distribution and the ‘cryptomarket’
The illicit drugs website, Silk Road, presents an ideal case study for how online communication technologies are transforming crime. This article seeks to locate the offences committed via Silk Road within existing cybercrime literature, and presents a new criminological concept – the cryptomarket – to outline the contours of this new generation of online illicit marketplace. Cryptomarkets are defined as a type of website that employs advanced en…
Community Capacity: Antecedents and Consequences
Traditional practice models of family support often lack a community focus. Increasingly, human service professionals who work with families focus their intervention and prevention efforts on the communities in which families live and work. The Family Advocacy Division of the United States Air Force recently revised its program standards to address community issues in an effort to strengthen families through community-based prevention activities.…
Capturing Desire: Rhetorical Strategies and the Affectivity of Discourse
This article: Provides a theoretical exploration of rhetorical persuasion as a practice aimed at ‘capturing desire’. Elucidates the shared interest of rhetorical and psychoanalytical theory in the production of so-called ‘plausible stories’ that mobilise and shape affects. Surveys different psychoanalytical approaches to the rhetorical articulation of ‘symptomatic beliefs’ that support political reasoning. Demonstrates the applicability of psycho…
Hegemony and the crisis of legitimacy in Gramsci
Gramsci's concept of hegemony is often believed to be a political account of legitimation. His Marxist critics go on to accuse him of failing to offer a properly structural account of bourgeois legitimation. I argue that Gramsci's theory attempted to straddle both economic and political accounts. In so doing, he presupposed the absence of effective authority in the Italian state. In such conditions, his project was to the orize the way in which e…
Selling Drugs on Darkweb Cryptomarkets: Differentiated Pathways, Risks and Rewards
Cryptomarkets, anonymous online markets where illicit drugs are exchanged, have operated since 2011, yet there is a dearth of knowledge on why people use these platforms to sell drugs, with only one previous study involving interviews with this novel group. Based on 13 interviews with this hard to reach population, and data analysis critically framed from perspectives of economic calculation, the seductions of crime, and drift and techniques of n…
Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau
Political Studies and Cultural Studies
This article reviews the contribution of the discipline of Cultural Studies to that of Politics. It suggests that the study of popular culture opens up the realm of politics in a way that challenges the traditional boundaries of the discipline. By treating culture as ‘ideology’, Cultural Studies directs attention to the sites in which meaning is produced and contested. This in turn undermines any clear distinction between politics and culture and…
Rhetoric, discourse and the hermeneutics of public speech
What insights and advantages do rhetorical approaches offer over other methods of exploring social and political discourse? This article aims to clarify the contribution of rhetorical analysis by exploring its distinctive, hermeneutic attention to public speech. Public speaking is, accordingly, viewed as a practice of assembling meaningful interpretations in specific situations. Central here is a temporal dimension. Analysing rhetoric involves gr…
Informal security nodes and force capital
Nodal governance theory continues to have a significant impact upon contemporary understandings of the governance of security. Scholars such as Clifford Shearing and Benoit Dupont have used this theory to explain how various state and private sector security organisations interact and form networks of protection. However, security producing entities from the informal sector remain largely undefined. The purpose of this article is to address this …
The Resiliency Model of Role Performance for Service Members, Veterans, and their Families: A Focus on Social Connections and Individual Assets
The Road of Life, a life course metaphor, is used as the backdrop for a theoretically anchored model, The Resiliency Model of Role Performance, which has been developed to account for variation in the ability of service members and their families to meet their role responsibilities in the context of military life and duties. This model incorporates a focus on both individual assets and the social context in which individuals and families are embe…
Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach
Community Social Organization and Military Families: Theoretical Perspectives on Transitions, Contexts, and Resilience
The social organization theory of action and change accounts for transitions families face in community contexts. This perspective aligns with family stress and resilience theories, including the contextual model of family stress. Our discussion focuses on transitions of military families, including the continually changing nature of military family life. The military environment provides an opportunity for understanding family vulnerability and …
Civic Engagement and Sense of Community in the Military
In the context of current discussions among social commentators about the status and well being of community in American society, this article examines the nature of civic engagement and sense of community in the U.S. military. Framed by social disorganization theory, a conceptual model is developed and tested with a sample of married active duty Air Force (AF) members. Our analysis examines variations in perceptions of sense of community as a co…
Conventional and Military Public Housing for Families
This study provides a brief history of military family housing in the United States. Military family housing is a unique form of public housing. Its development paralleled other forms of public and assisted housing. However, the history of military family housing is largely unknown to social welfare and housing policy historians, and its lessons are not applied to contemporary housing policy. This article examines the social, economic, and politi…
The political logic of discourse: A neo-Gramscian view
This article contrasts Mark Bevir's approach to the history of ideas with a neo-Gramscian theory of discourse. Bevir puts the case for an ‘anti-foundationalist’ approach to understanding ideas, yet he defends a weak rationalism centred on individual intentions as the original source of all meanings. Discourse theorists—specifically Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe—also adopt an anti-foundationalist perspective but pursue its implications beyond …
Expertise Integration in Cybercrime Policing: Exploring Civilian Career Lifecycles
This study examines the internal dynamics and composition of federal police cybercrime units with a focus on civilianization. The study is based on interviews with 56 sworn and civilian (unsworn) members of two federal law enforcement organizations located in two of the Five Eyes countries. Both police organizations had a significant number of civilian employees in their cybercrime units and were in the process of actively recruiting more. The fi…
Ransomware HR: Human Resources Practices and Organizational Support in the Conti Ransomware Group
Piero Gobetti and the rhetoric of liberal anti-fascism
This article examines the anti-fascist rhetoric of the self-proclaimed `revolutionary liberal', Piero Gobetti, in Italy in the early 1920s. Gobetti is interesting from a rhetorical perspective for two reasons: first, for his efforts to redefine liberalism as an emancipatory ethic of struggle that extended to the revolutionary worker's movement; and second, for his rejection of fascism as essentially continuous with the anti-conflictual tendencies…
Ransomware through the lens of state crime: Conceptualizing ransomware groups as cyber proxies, pirates, and privateers
Cybercrime and other cybersecurity harms are gaining increasing political and public attention across many countries. One of the most serious and fastest growing categories of such harms relates to ransomware attacks. Many of the groups responsible for ransomware attacks have come under political pressure in recent years as they have become more aggressive in their methods and targeting. On a geopolitical level, an area attracting increasing inte…
Piero Gobetti's agonistic liberalism
This article examines the ‘revolutionary liberal’ outlook expounded by the young Italian journalist and intellectual, Piero Gobetti, immediately following the First World War. It considers the historical evolution of his ‘agonistic’ liberalism according to which conflict rather than consensus serves as the basis of social and political renewal. The article traces the formation of Gobetti's thought from his idealist response to the crisis of the l…
The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy and the Making of a New Political Subject
Italian liberal socialism: Anti-fascism and the third way
This article surveys the discourse of liberal socialism in inter-war Italy. Like its British counterpart of the same period, Italian liberal socialism anticipated certain themes in contemporary efforts to forge a left-of-centre third way, in particular an ethically-driven rebalancing of individual liberty with social justice. Unlike its British version, the Italian variety was organized around anti-fascism and the demand for a revolutionary ruptu…
Third ways in political ideology
St. Thomas and Tillich on the Names of God
Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach
Realism, Rationalism, and Scientific Method. Problems of Empiricism
Chasing Rainbows: A Recollection of the Great Plains, 1921-1975
Journal Article Chasing Rainbows: A Recollection of the Great Plains, 1921–1975 Get access Chasing Rainbows: A Recollection of the Great Plains, 1921–1975. By Gist Gladys Leffler. Edited by Martin James. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993. x + 155 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. $24.95.) Barbara Handy-Marchello Barbara Handy-Marchello University of North Dakota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Hegemony and the crisis of legitimacy in Gramsci
Gramsci's concept of hegemony is often believed to be a political account of legitimation. His Marxist critics go on to accuse him of failing to offer a properly structural account of bourgeois legitimation. I argue that Gramsci's theory attempted to straddle both economic and political accounts. In so doing, he presupposed the absence of effective authority in the Italian state. In such conditions, his project was to the orize the way in which e…
Advanced Practitioners in Clinical Social Work: A Profile
Journal Article Advanced Practitioners in Clinical Social Work: A Profile Get access Elizabeth M. Timberlake, DSW, BCD, Elizabeth M. Timberlake, DSW, BCD ordinary professor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Christine A. Sabatino, DSW, Christine A. Sabatino, DSW assistant professor National Catholic School of Social Service, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064 Search for other works by…
Political Studies and Cultural Studies
This article reviews the contribution of the discipline of Cultural Studies to that of Politics. It suggests that the study of popular culture opens up the realm of politics in a way that challenges the traditional boundaries of the discipline. By treating culture as ‘ideology’, Cultural Studies directs attention to the sites in which meaning is produced and contested. This in turn undermines any clear distinction between politics and culture and…
Between ethics and politics: Gramsci's theory of intellectuals
This article examines Gramsci's theory of intellectuals in the light of Bauman's distinction between ‘legislators’ and ‘interpreters’. By distinguishing descriptive and prescriptive dimensions to Gramsci's theory, it is possible to see a tension between the dual ethical and political functions that he attributes to ‘organic intellectuals’. In the one, Gramsci effectively deconstructs the intellectual's role as the bearer of universal knowledge, w…
Conventional and Military Public Housing for Families
This study provides a brief history of military family housing in the United States. Military family housing is a unique form of public housing. Its development paralleled other forms of public and assisted housing. However, the history of military family housing is largely unknown to social welfare and housing policy historians, and its lessons are not applied to contemporary housing policy. This article examines the social, economic, and politi…
Civil society’ in Japanese politics: Implications forcontemporary political research
This article presents a definitional and historical summary of ‘civil society’ as a western concept, and then traces how it was used in Japanese political theory and practice. ‘Civil society’ discourse became a familiar term amongst post–war Japanese historians and social scientists in the period 1945–1970, and thus preceded the recent international proliferation of ‘civil society’ literature in the ‘west’ from the 1970s onwards. ‘Civil society’ …
Community Capacity: Antecedents and Consequences
Traditional practice models of family support often lack a community focus. Increasingly, human service professionals who work with families focus their intervention and prevention efforts on the communities in which families live and work. The Family Advocacy Division of the United States Air Force recently revised its program standards to address community issues in an effort to strengthen families through community-based prevention activities.…
Civic Engagement and Sense of Community in the Military
In the context of current discussions among social commentators about the status and well being of community in American society, this article examines the nature of civic engagement and sense of community in the U.S. military. Framed by social disorganization theory, a conceptual model is developed and tested with a sample of married active duty Air Force (AF) members. Our analysis examines variations in perceptions of sense of community as a co…
The political logic of discourse: A neo-Gramscian view
This article contrasts Mark Bevir's approach to the history of ideas with a neo-Gramscian theory of discourse. Bevir puts the case for an ‘anti-foundationalist’ approach to understanding ideas, yet he defends a weak rationalism centred on individual intentions as the original source of all meanings. Discourse theorists—specifically Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe—also adopt an anti-foundationalist perspective but pursue its implications beyond …
Italian liberal socialism: Anti-fascism and the third way
This article surveys the discourse of liberal socialism in inter-war Italy. Like its British counterpart of the same period, Italian liberal socialism anticipated certain themes in contemporary efforts to forge a left-of-centre third way, in particular an ethically-driven rebalancing of individual liberty with social justice. Unlike its British version, the Italian variety was organized around anti-fascism and the demand for a revolutionary ruptu…
Third ways in political ideology
Health-related quality of life of children and adolescents with chronic illness – a two year prospective study
Ideology and antagonism in modern Italy: Poststructuralist reflections
Modern Italy is frequently diagnosed with having suffered an excess of ideological antagonism. However, poststructuralist political theory implies that, as a form of negative exclusion, antagonism serves a crucial purpose in shaping political discourse and delimiting social and political identities. This essay outlines the poststructuralist argument and sets out an agenda for rethinking ideological conflict in the Italian context. Taking the rise…
Piero Gobetti's agonistic liberalism
This article examines the ‘revolutionary liberal’ outlook expounded by the young Italian journalist and intellectual, Piero Gobetti, immediately following the First World War. It considers the historical evolution of his ‘agonistic’ liberalism according to which conflict rather than consensus serves as the basis of social and political renewal. The article traces the formation of Gobetti's thought from his idealist response to the crisis of the l…
The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy and the Making of a New Political Subject
Piero Gobetti and the rhetoric of liberal anti-fascism
This article examines the anti-fascist rhetoric of the self-proclaimed `revolutionary liberal', Piero Gobetti, in Italy in the early 1920s. Gobetti is interesting from a rhetorical perspective for two reasons: first, for his efforts to redefine liberalism as an emancipatory ethic of struggle that extended to the revolutionary worker's movement; and second, for his rejection of fascism as essentially continuous with the anti-conflictual tendencies…
Ontology and law in the early Poulantzas
This article reviews the little examined early work of the Greek Marxist and state theorist, Nicos Poulantzas (1936–1979). In his first book, Nature du choses et droit of 1965, the young scholar developed a sociology of law culled from the insights of philosophical ontology. The article sets out the central claims of that book and reflects on its place in Poulantzas's intellectual development. Drawing on Heidegger, Sartre and Marx, Poulantzas pro…
Post-Foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau
Short sleep duration and obesity among Australian children
Short sleep duration is associated with increased obesity in children especially among younger age groups and boys
Information Flow and Hermeneutic Play in Perception and Dialogue
This article elucidates a fundamental and preliminary distinction required for information flow as well as the to-and-fro play of information defined in relation to such distinctions. Viewing both perception and language under the inspiration of the hermeneutic phenomenologies of Heidegger and Gadamer, we show how perception and language are grounded in the aforementioned distinction. This is done through analyses of perceptual-motor examples and…
A radical freedom? Gianni Vattimo's ‘emancipatory nihilism
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