James Duggan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3941298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Duggan |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Duggan |
| SIGNATURE | DUGGAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1928-4723 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Research as an Intense and Inconvenient Gift
The article presents the research as a gift and an invitation to expand our imaginations as to how we are moved and seek to move others through research co-production. Thinking with the research as gift is made possible through a dialogue between Whitehead’s process philosophy (actual entities, societies, intensity, and attention) and Lauren Berlant’s queer and affect theory (inconvenience, friction, and attention). Research as gift is an intense…
Knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy
The largely negative impacts of human activities on social-ecological systems are becoming increasingly apparent. Efforts to address these impacts require effective knowledge exchange among researchers and decision-makers to facilitate evidence-informed decision-making processes. Despite this, however, examples of achieving effective knowledge exchange in practice are few. One solution to reducing barriers to knowledge exchange and building capac…
A tech-tonic shift
The Covid-19 pandemic catalysed significant transformations in higher education, prominently manifesting through the accelerated adoption of Technology-Enabled Learning (TEL). This shift not only redefined pedagogical practices but also significantly impacted the teaching-orientated identity work of academics. This study explores the repercussions of TEL on academic identity within the post-pandemic educational landscape, moving beyond the confin…
Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain
Film offers untapped potential for making critical interventions in world politics, particularly in ways that harness people’s capacity to narrate stories that creatively empower their communities. Combining International Relations scholarship on visual politics with narrative theory and feminist scholarship on care, this paper presents film as a means of exploring and expressing narrative agency; that is, the power to tell stories that represent…
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy
Participatory research often claims to inspire and empower young people to change their lives and communities but what if the problems are entrenched, and the world remains intransigent? The article draws on Berlant's ideas of fantasy, cruel optimism and the impasse to navigate the ethics of mobilising and managing young people's aspirations for change in adverse, austerity contexts. Naming the youth participatory democratic project (YPDP) is a u…
Agent-Based Modelling of Mpox Infection Dynamics
Mpox is a viral disease caused by the monkey pox virus (MPXV) of the Poxviridae family. It is similar to smallpox and cowpox. Mpox is not categorized as a sexually transmitted infection, however, most transmission in the recent global outbreak has been attributed to be through men who have sex with men(MSM). Agent-based modelling (ABM) is an effective approach to simulate the spread of Mpox because it enables the detailed representation of hetero…
Essential or excluded? Union pressures and state responses to platform work in three liberal market economies
The COVID-19 pandemic led to renewed discussion of decent work for people at the margins of the labour market. This article explores public policy on platform workers across three liberal market economies, namely the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland, taking the pandemic as a focal point. Liberal market economies are generally difficult environments for unions, and we examine the nature of union political pressure on the state to enhance protect…
Implementing Nims
Many opportunities to learn from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing have not been capitalized on. The terrorist attack was launched in the heart of Boston, a densely populated urban area with a population of approximately 670,000. Those numbers are amplified by the hundreds of thousands of spectators that line the streets along the Marathon route, with most at the finish line on Boylston Street. Two pressure cooker bombs were detonated in the finis…
Negotiating cultural appropriation while re-imagining co-production via Afrofuturism
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of claims of cultural appropriation in negotiating who has the right to utilise specific racial, cultural or communities' ways of knowing in research co-production. Cultural appropriation is a claim made against those making illegitimate use of traditions, knowledge and practises that originate from specific racial and/or cultural group. Appropriation helps us interrogate the ways in which …
Young and Lonely
Young and Lonely The Social Conditions of Loneliness gathers evidence of young people’s experience of loneliness and connection from a youth co-produced research project and locates these within longstanding cultural and historical discussions of loneliness and solitude, friendship and belonging. The study explores loneliness and the experiences of connection/disconnection and inclusion/exclusion with a particular focus on the experience of lonel…
Young and Lonely
Anchored in accounts of young people’s personal experiences of loneliness, this book addresses important questions about tackling today’s epidemic of loneliness among young people. It explores experiences of loneliness in early life, how it is navigated when first encountered and considers how social conditions of poverty, precarity, inequality and competitive pressures to succeed can dramatically influence these feelings. Presenting diverse and …
The co-productive imagination
This article explores the co-production of research as creative, speculative, and eventful rather than as research processes determined by equality, empowerment and social justice. There are persuasive critiques of participatory and co-produced methods. In response, the case is made for focusing instead on the complex processes through which ideas, affects and relational capacities emerge, are nurtured or obscured, and circulate as part of the co…
Near Future School
This article reports on one part of an on-going project, the Near Future School, which aims to translate and explore the potential of participatory design fiction practices for use with young people and those that work with them to explore near future scenarios of education that open up alternative and plural futures in the context of processes of foreclosure in a neoliberalising society. The focus here is to explore the practical and ethical iss…
Imogen Tyler, Revolting subjects
Managerial Discourse, Child Safeguarding, and the Elimination of Virtue from In Loco Parentis Relationships
In response to high-profile cases of child abuse and heightened public concern, the safeguarding agenda in England seeks to reform relationships between in loco parentis adults and children or young people across a range of settings, applying managerial methods to regulating conduct. Referring to material relevant to many such settings, this article considers the way in which the application of managerialism has imposed particular approaches to m…
The co-productive imagination
This article explores the co-production of research as creative, speculative, and eventful rather than as research processes determined by equality, empowerment and social justice. There are persuasive critiques of participatory and co-produced methods. In response, the case is made for focusing instead on the complex processes through which ideas, affects and relational capacities emerge, are nurtured or obscured, and circulate as part of the co…
Near Future School
This article reports on one part of an on-going project, the Near Future School, which aims to translate and explore the potential of participatory design fiction practices for use with young people and those that work with them to explore near future scenarios of education that open up alternative and plural futures in the context of processes of foreclosure in a neoliberalising society. The focus here is to explore the practical and ethical iss…
Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain
Film offers untapped potential for making critical interventions in world politics, particularly in ways that harness people’s capacity to narrate stories that creatively empower their communities. Combining International Relations scholarship on visual politics with narrative theory and feminist scholarship on care, this paper presents film as a means of exploring and expressing narrative agency; that is, the power to tell stories that represent…
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy
Participatory research often claims to inspire and empower young people to change their lives and communities but what if the problems are entrenched, and the world remains intransigent? The article draws on Berlant's ideas of fantasy, cruel optimism and the impasse to navigate the ethics of mobilising and managing young people's aspirations for change in adverse, austerity contexts. Naming the youth participatory democratic project (YPDP) is a u…
Negotiating cultural appropriation while re-imagining co-production via Afrofuturism
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of claims of cultural appropriation in negotiating who has the right to utilise specific racial, cultural or communities' ways of knowing in research co-production. Cultural appropriation is a claim made against those making illegitimate use of traditions, knowledge and practises that originate from specific racial and/or cultural group. Appropriation helps us interrogate the ways in which …
Managerial Discourse, Child Safeguarding, and the Elimination of Virtue from In Loco Parentis Relationships
In response to high-profile cases of child abuse and heightened public concern, the safeguarding agenda in England seeks to reform relationships between in loco parentis adults and children or young people across a range of settings, applying managerial methods to regulating conduct. Referring to material relevant to many such settings, this article considers the way in which the application of managerialism has imposed particular approaches to m…
Managerial Discourse, Child Safeguarding, and the Elimination of Virtue from In Loco Parentis Relationships
In response to high-profile cases of child abuse and heightened public concern, the safeguarding agenda in England seeks to reform relationships between in loco parentis adults and children or young people across a range of settings, applying managerial methods to regulating conduct. Referring to material relevant to many such settings, this article considers the way in which the application of managerialism has imposed particular approaches to m…
Imogen Tyler, Revolting subjects
Near Future School
This article reports on one part of an on-going project, the Near Future School, which aims to translate and explore the potential of participatory design fiction practices for use with young people and those that work with them to explore near future scenarios of education that open up alternative and plural futures in the context of processes of foreclosure in a neoliberalising society. The focus here is to explore the practical and ethical iss…
Young and Lonely
Young and Lonely The Social Conditions of Loneliness gathers evidence of young people’s experience of loneliness and connection from a youth co-produced research project and locates these within longstanding cultural and historical discussions of loneliness and solitude, friendship and belonging. The study explores loneliness and the experiences of connection/disconnection and inclusion/exclusion with a particular focus on the experience of lonel…
Young and Lonely
Anchored in accounts of young people’s personal experiences of loneliness, this book addresses important questions about tackling today’s epidemic of loneliness among young people. It explores experiences of loneliness in early life, how it is navigated when first encountered and considers how social conditions of poverty, precarity, inequality and competitive pressures to succeed can dramatically influence these feelings. Presenting diverse and …
The co-productive imagination
This article explores the co-production of research as creative, speculative, and eventful rather than as research processes determined by equality, empowerment and social justice. There are persuasive critiques of participatory and co-produced methods. In response, the case is made for focusing instead on the complex processes through which ideas, affects and relational capacities emerge, are nurtured or obscured, and circulate as part of the co…
Negotiating cultural appropriation while re-imagining co-production via Afrofuturism
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of claims of cultural appropriation in negotiating who has the right to utilise specific racial, cultural or communities' ways of knowing in research co-production. Cultural appropriation is a claim made against those making illegitimate use of traditions, knowledge and practises that originate from specific racial and/or cultural group. Appropriation helps us interrogate the ways in which …
Essential or excluded? Union pressures and state responses to platform work in three liberal market economies
The COVID-19 pandemic led to renewed discussion of decent work for people at the margins of the labour market. This article explores public policy on platform workers across three liberal market economies, namely the United Kingdom, Canada and Ireland, taking the pandemic as a focal point. Liberal market economies are generally difficult environments for unions, and we examine the nature of union political pressure on the state to enhance protect…
Implementing Nims
Many opportunities to learn from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing have not been capitalized on. The terrorist attack was launched in the heart of Boston, a densely populated urban area with a population of approximately 670,000. Those numbers are amplified by the hundreds of thousands of spectators that line the streets along the Marathon route, with most at the finish line on Boylston Street. Two pressure cooker bombs were detonated in the finis…
Agent-Based Modelling of Mpox Infection Dynamics
Mpox is a viral disease caused by the monkey pox virus (MPXV) of the Poxviridae family. It is similar to smallpox and cowpox. Mpox is not categorized as a sexually transmitted infection, however, most transmission in the recent global outbreak has been attributed to be through men who have sex with men(MSM). Agent-based modelling (ABM) is an effective approach to simulate the spread of Mpox because it enables the detailed representation of hetero…
Knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy
The largely negative impacts of human activities on social-ecological systems are becoming increasingly apparent. Efforts to address these impacts require effective knowledge exchange among researchers and decision-makers to facilitate evidence-informed decision-making processes. Despite this, however, examples of achieving effective knowledge exchange in practice are few. One solution to reducing barriers to knowledge exchange and building capac…
A tech-tonic shift
The Covid-19 pandemic catalysed significant transformations in higher education, prominently manifesting through the accelerated adoption of Technology-Enabled Learning (TEL). This shift not only redefined pedagogical practices but also significantly impacted the teaching-orientated identity work of academics. This study explores the repercussions of TEL on academic identity within the post-pandemic educational landscape, moving beyond the confin…
Film, narrative agency, and the politics of care in veteran Britain
Film offers untapped potential for making critical interventions in world politics, particularly in ways that harness people’s capacity to narrate stories that creatively empower their communities. Combining International Relations scholarship on visual politics with narrative theory and feminist scholarship on care, this paper presents film as a means of exploring and expressing narrative agency; that is, the power to tell stories that represent…
Participating in the impasse? The cruel optimism of the youth participatory democratic project fantasy
Participatory research often claims to inspire and empower young people to change their lives and communities but what if the problems are entrenched, and the world remains intransigent? The article draws on Berlant's ideas of fantasy, cruel optimism and the impasse to navigate the ethics of mobilising and managing young people's aspirations for change in adverse, austerity contexts. Naming the youth participatory democratic project (YPDP) is a u…
Research as an Intense and Inconvenient Gift
The article presents the research as a gift and an invitation to expand our imaginations as to how we are moved and seek to move others through research co-production. Thinking with the research as gift is made possible through a dialogue between Whitehead’s process philosophy (actual entities, societies, intensity, and attention) and Lauren Berlant’s queer and affect theory (inconvenience, friction, and attention). Research as gift is an intense…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Citizen journalism (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)