John Callaghan
Biographic Data
| ID | 539720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Callaghan |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Callaghan |
| SIGNATURE | CALLAGHAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wolverhampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5241-3398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 66 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 206 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
“Being really confidently wrong”: Qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback
Although peer review is one of the central pillars of academic publishing, qualitative researchers’ experiences of this process has been largely overlooked. Existing research and commentary have focused on peer reviewers’ comments on qualitative manuscripts, which are often described as indicative of a quantitative mindset or hostility to non-positivist qualitative research. We extend this literature by focusing on qualitative researchers’ experi…
You’re a kid, you don’t know where you are”: The voiced experiences of nonbinary youth navigating discursive realms of legitimacy
Nonbinary youth’s gender identities are easily dismissed in dominant psy narratives as ‘identity confusion’ and continue to be marginalised due to growing transphobic discourse. How youth navigate these developmental and gendered positionings calls for exploration. This article examines forms of regulation that nonbinary youth experience and how they navigate these. A qualitative methodology and individual interviews were used with 10 nonbinary y…
Managing Masculinity When Growing up With a Violent Father: A Qualitative Study of Boys’ Experiences
A limited qualitative literature explores children's lived experiences of violence; boys’ relationships with perpetrator fathers remain largely unexplored. Drawing on interviews with 31 boys, this paper explores the accounts of their relationships with their perpetrator fathers, focusing particularly on the implications of boys’ understanding of these relationships for their sense of burgeoning masculinity. Three themes are considered: in (a) rel…
The Child Protection Response to Domestic Violence and Abuse: A Scoping Review of Interagency Interventions, Models and Collaboration
Matthew Gerth, Anti-Communism in Britain during the Early Cold War: A Very British Witch Hunt
Part of the Family: Children’s Experiences with Their Companion Animals in the Context of Domestic Violence and Abuse
The Cambridge History of Socialism
This volume describes the various movements and parties, across all six continents, that wanted social change through state transformation. It begins with a reconstruction of social democracy's trajectories from the 1870s until the present. The evolution of socialism on different continents is illustrated through a number of national case studies. Experiments at a subnational level (for example, municipal socialism) are also explored, as are the …
Manipulation and Domestic Abuse in Contested Contact – Threats to Children's Participation Rights
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has catalysed numerous jurisdictions to introduce new legal provisions to support children's participation rights when child contact is contested. Despite this, children's participation is frequently limited in practice, especially in contexts where children are perceived as vulnerable to a parent's manipulation, even if there are allegations of domestic abuse. While “resist and refusal dyn…
Ideologies of American Foreign Policy
Gender Differences in Demographic and Health Characteristics of the Million Veteran Program Cohort
Child's Play? Children and Young People's Resistances to Domestic Violence and Abuse
Children and young people's ( CYP ) space to play can be constrained in families affected by domestic violence and abuse ( DVA ), potentially impacting their development. Play also has the potential to strengthen CYP 's capacity to resist controlling and abusive dynamics in the family. Interviews were conducted with 107 CYP aged 8–18, and were analysed using interpretive interactionism. Three themes relevant to children's experiences of play were…
Ideologies of US Foreign Policy: From Pearl Harbour to the Present
Masculinities and emotional expression in UK servicemen: Big boys don't cry
Dominant discourses of military servicemen position them as more prone to psychological damage than the general population, but as reluctant to seek psychological assistance, because of the military culture of ‘toughness’, a military masculinity, that values stoicism, emotional control and invulnerability and implicitly excludes ‘feminine’ characteristics like emotionality. This is seen as a barrier to military personnel seeking help, by implicit…
Genograms in research: Participants’ reflections of the genogram process
The genogram is a visual, symbolic representation of multiple generations of a family, structured in much the same way as a family tree. Genograms emerged within systemic family therapy as an assessment and intervention tool, but in their ability to generate rich data, they are gaining traction as a research method. While the benefits of genograms in therapeutic practice have been well documented, the literature exploring their use in research is…
Promoting Resilience and Agency in Children and Young People Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence and Abuse: The “MPOWER” Intervention
The MPOWER programme is a resource oriented intervention to support children and young people (CYP) affected by domestic violence and abuse. It draws on principles from feminist informed systemic family practice and creative therapies. The intervention was delivered in 4 European countries (Greece, Italy, Spain and England), reaching 58 CYP. This paper reports on young participants’ wellbeing outcomes and perceptions of the intervention. Particip…
Coordinated action, communication, and creativity in basketball in superdiversity
This paper examines the complex social space of basketball training sessions at a sports centre in superdiverse inner-city Leeds, contextualising the site in relation to stigmatising discourses that suggest disorderliness and a lack of social cohesion. The microanalysis of video data from the training sessions counteracts these discourses by showing how social orderliness, cooperation, and creativity unfold in the details of interaction. The sign…
Young People’s Understandings of Men’s Violence against Women, Nancy Lombard
The book Young People’s Understandings of Men’s Violence Against Women represents a much-needed sociological account of how young people make sense of gender-based violence. Lombard offers a detailed critical analysis of focus group interviews with young people, attending to their explanations of male violence against women. Her intention is to extend our understanding of how young people make sense of gender-based violence, through the use of an…
In search of social democracy: Responses to crisis and modernisation
Part I After the golden age: social democracy in crisis1 Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy:Germany, Sweden and Australia compared
Children’s embodied experience of living with domestic violence: “I’d go into my panic, and shake, really bad”
I don't know if you want to know this’: Carers’ understandings of intimacy in long-term relationships when one partner has dementia
This article explores experiences of relational intimacy (including sexual intimacy) in long-term relationships when one partner has dementia. An emerging body of research focuses on living with dementia, but work on relationships between people with dementia and their family and loved ones tends to focus on understanding the experience of caring, and on constructs like ‘care burden’. Research concerned with the lived experience of relationships …
The Global Revolution: A History of International Communism, 1917–1991, by Silvio Pons
This is the best one-volume international history of communism we have, both in its command of the sources and the explanatory power of the analyses which the author brings to bear on his subject. Silvio Pons draws on the archives of the CPSU, the Comintern, the Cominform, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR; those of the Communist parties of Italy, France and Germany; archives of the history of Communism such as the Hoover Institution an…
Intellectuals of the Left and the Atomic Dilemma in the Age of the US Atomic Monopoly, 1945–1949
Given its close association with the formation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, it is tempting to assume that the response of Left intellectuals to the advent of atomic weapons was rooted in consistent opposition. This article demonstrates that the reality was much more complex. During the period of the US atomic monopoly (1945-1949) British Left intellectuals wrestled with the implications of this new destructive force and arrived at wid…
Hearing the silences: Adult Nigerian women’s accounts of ‘early marriages’
‘Early marriage’ is a relatively common but under-researched global phenomenon, associated with poor physical and mental health and educational and occupational outcomes, particularly for young girls. In this article, we draw on qualitative interviews with six Nigerian women from Sokoto state, who were married between the ages of 8 and 15. The interviews explored young women’s experiences of the transition to marriage, being married, pregnancy an…
Deconstructing Developmental Psychology 20 years on: Reflections, implications and empirical work
First paragraph: Erica Burman’s bookDeconstructing Developmental Psychology(DDP), which appeared in first edition in 1994 and in second edition in 2008, critically appraises mainstream approaches to child development, using feminist and post-structuralist theory. In the book,Burman (1994,2008a) examines the historical contingencies and cultural assumptions that form the conditions of possibility for the establishment of various developmental psyc…
"Beyond "Witnessing: Children's Experiences of Coercive Control in Domestic Violence and Abuse
Children's experiences and voices are underrepresented in academic literature and professional practice around domestic violence and abuse. The project "Understanding Agency and Resistance Strategies" (UNARS) addresses this absence, through direct engagement with children. We present an analysis from interviews with 21 children in the United Kingdom (12 girls and 9 boys, aged 8-18 years), about their experiences of domestic violence and abuse, an…
"Beyond "Witnessing: Children's Experiences of Coercive Control in Domestic Violence and Abuse
Children's experiences and voices are underrepresented in academic literature and professional practice around domestic violence and abuse. The project "Understanding Agency and Resistance Strategies" (UNARS) addresses this absence, through direct engagement with children. We present an analysis from interviews with 21 children in the United Kingdom (12 girls and 9 boys, aged 8-18 years), about their experiences of domestic violence and abuse, an…
It's not racist. It's common sense’. A critical analysis of political discourse around asylum and immigration in the UK
This paper looks at a political speech given by the leader of the opposition party during the run up to the UK elections in 2005. Using this speech as a starting point, we attempt to trace the path of ‘racism’ within a text that makes explicit claims to being ‘not racist’. Drawing on a number of theoretical and methodological resources, this paper approaches the analysis by focusing on a number of conceptually heterogeneous elements that, in rela…
Your Britain. Media and the making of the Labour Party
Masculinities and emotional expression in UK servicemen: Big boys don't cry
Dominant discourses of military servicemen position them as more prone to psychological damage than the general population, but as reluctant to seek psychological assistance, because of the military culture of ‘toughness’, a military masculinity, that values stoicism, emotional control and invulnerability and implicitly excludes ‘feminine’ characteristics like emotionality. This is seen as a barrier to military personnel seeking help, by implicit…
Hearing the silences: Adult Nigerian women’s accounts of ‘early marriages’
‘Early marriage’ is a relatively common but under-researched global phenomenon, associated with poor physical and mental health and educational and occupational outcomes, particularly for young girls. In this article, we draw on qualitative interviews with six Nigerian women from Sokoto state, who were married between the ages of 8 and 15. The interviews explored young women’s experiences of the transition to marriage, being married, pregnancy an…
In Search of Social Democracy: Responses to Crisis and Modernisation
Part I After the golden age: social democracy in crisis1 Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy:Germany, Sweden and Australia compared
I don't know if you want to know this’: Carers’ understandings of intimacy in long-term relationships when one partner has dementia
This article explores experiences of relational intimacy (including sexual intimacy) in long-term relationships when one partner has dementia. An emerging body of research focuses on living with dementia, but work on relationships between people with dementia and their family and loved ones tends to focus on understanding the experience of caring, and on constructs like ‘care burden’. Research concerned with the lived experience of relationships …
Developing New Mental Health Services for Looked after Children: A Focus Group Study
Looked after children have extensive mental health needs that are not often met by current mental health service provision. Jane Callaghan, Bridget Young, Maxine Richards and Panos Vostanis describe the use of focus groups with various stakeholders — social services staff, foster carers and residential social workers — to inform the development of a specialist mental health team for looked after children. Thirteen focus groups were conducted, com…
Peer and Self Perceptions in Hopi and Afro-American Third- and Sixth-Graders
Promoting Resilience and Agency in Children and Young People Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence and Abuse: The “MPOWER” Intervention
The MPOWER programme is a resource oriented intervention to support children and young people (CYP) affected by domestic violence and abuse. It draws on principles from feminist informed systemic family practice and creative therapies. The intervention was delivered in 4 European countries (Greece, Italy, Spain and England), reaching 58 CYP. This paper reports on young participants’ wellbeing outcomes and perceptions of the intervention. Particip…
In search of social democracy: Responses to crisis and modernisation
Part I After the golden age: social democracy in crisis1 Explanations for the neo-liberal direction of social democracy:Germany, Sweden and Australia compared
Industrial Militancy, 1945-79: The Failure of the British Road to Socialism
Journal Article Industrial Militancy, 1945–79: The Failure of the British Road to Socialism? Get access JOHN CALLAGHAN JOHN CALLAGHAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 388–409, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/15.4.388 Published: 01 January 2004
Social Democracy in Transition
Social democratic parties entered hard times after 1973 when the long postwar boom was succeeded by decades of lower rates of economic growth and higher rates of inflation and unemployment. A new convergence of government policy characterised the 1980s as neo‐liberalism gained the ascendancy at the expense of the political economy of the postwar social democratic settlement. The largely Anglo‐American literature on social democracy critically sur…
Rise and fall of the alternative economic strategy: From internationalisation of capital to ‘globalisation’
The Alternative Economic Strategy (AES) was the focus of the British left's thinking for more than a decade and formed the basis of the Labour party's plans for the economic renewal of Britain as recently as the general election of 1983. It originated both as a response to the crisis of the British economy, which deepened in the 1970s, and to the perception of its growing porousness as economic activity became increasingly internationalised. The …
Coordinated action, communication, and creativity in basketball in superdiversity
This paper examines the complex social space of basketball training sessions at a sports centre in superdiverse inner-city Leeds, contextualising the site in relation to stigmatising discourses that suggest disorderliness and a lack of social cohesion. The microanalysis of video data from the training sessions counteracts these discourses by showing how social orderliness, cooperation, and creativity unfold in the details of interaction. The sign…
The Plan to Capture the British Labour Party and its Paradoxical Results, 1947-91
The Communist Party of Great Britain consistently supported a trade union strategy after the second world war designed to eliminate the Labour Party. Yet by the 1990s leading members of the Party claimed that the organization’s last major contribution to British politics, before it dissolved itself in 1991, was to help rescue Labour from the left-wing ghetto into which it had been consigned during the 1980s. This article explains communist strate…
Social Democracy and Globalisation: The Limits of Social Democracy in Historical Perspective
This article argues that social democratic governments throughout the 20 th century faced internal and international constraints arising from the operation of capitalist economies and that the evidence for a qualitative deepening of such constraints since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system is far from unequivocal. Financial markets were already big enough and fast enough to deter such governments from the pursuit of egalitarian policies in …
The Left and the 'Unfinished Revolution: Bevanites and Soviet Russia in the 1950s
This article looks at the Labour Left's perceptions of the Soviet Union in the 1950s and examines one of the most important sources of hope about its future evolution. It shows that for many socialists the Soviet Union was a contradictory phenomenon, at once profoundly repellent and yet capable of exercising an immense attractive force throughout the decade. For the progressive features of the system to finally dominate and overcome the many-side…
Managing Masculinity When Growing up With a Violent Father: A Qualitative Study of Boys’ Experiences
A limited qualitative literature explores children's lived experiences of violence; boys’ relationships with perpetrator fathers remain largely unexplored. Drawing on interviews with 31 boys, this paper explores the accounts of their relationships with their perpetrator fathers, focusing particularly on the implications of boys’ understanding of these relationships for their sense of burgeoning masculinity. Three themes are considered: in (a) rel…
Part of the Family: Children’s Experiences with Their Companion Animals in the Context of Domestic Violence and Abuse
Genograms in research: Participants’ reflections of the genogram process
The genogram is a visual, symbolic representation of multiple generations of a family, structured in much the same way as a family tree. Genograms emerged within systemic family therapy as an assessment and intervention tool, but in their ability to generate rich data, they are gaining traction as a research method. While the benefits of genograms in therapeutic practice have been well documented, the literature exploring their use in research is…
The Open Conspiracy of the Communist Party and the Case of W. N. Ewer, Communist and Anti-Communist
This article is a response to an account of a communist espionage circle which appeared in this journal in 2003. It argues that the original article is seriously misleading because of its apparently exclusive reliance on previously classified intelligence documents and the interpretations found within them. Combined with a failure to provide an appropriate historical context, particularly concerning the politics of the drama's central figure – th…
Social Democracy's Big Problem: Economic Globalisation or Hard Times
Globalisation has entered the academic vocabulary despite, or perhaps because of, its conceptual imprecision. Indeed it has been argued that: it is largely because of their ambiguities that mere words are capable of... independent action as forces in history. A term, a phrase, a formula which gains currency or acceptance because one of its meanings, or of the thoughts which it suggests, is congenial to the prevalent beliefs, the standards of valu…
Mental health support for youth offending teams: A qualitative study
The objective of the present study was to examine the views of professionals working in youth offending teams (YOTs) on a new model for providing mental health service support within the context of an interagency setting. Focus groups were used and data were analysed according to the constant comparative method. The setting consisted of two YOTs, one in an inner-city area and the other in a rural/semi-urban area, where primary mental health worke…
The End of Social Democracy
This article contests the idea that social democracy is dead. It is argued that a proper consideration of the evidence casts doubt on this widely held assumption. In this article, the evidence is examined in relation to post-Fordism, class structure and solidarity, electoral behaviour, post-materialism and the crisis of the welfare state across Europe
The Problem of the Ethnographic Real [and Comments and Reply]
Inductivism, romanticism, and the hope of bettering the world, the founding philosophies of anthropology, also inspire documentary film making. The necessity of selection and the inescapability of theory, however, require a different philosophical basis than inductivism. In anthropology the required philosophy is the solving of intellectual problems by improving theories; in film making the better philosophy is to see film as expressing a vision …
Peer and Self Perceptions in Hopi and Afro-American Third- and Sixth-Graders
The Documentary Conscience: A Casebook in Film Making. Alan Rosenthal
Secular utilitarianism: Social science and the critique of religion in the thought of Jeremy Bentham
Utilitarianism and distributive justice: Jeremy Bentham and the civil law
The Fabian society since 1945
The Fabian's Society intimate relationship with the Parliamentary Labour Party ‐particularly since 1945 ‐ is indicated by the fact that numerous MPs could always be counted among its members, including the leader himself and representatives of his Front Bench team. But since the ideological conditions of membership of the Society are exceptionally loose, nothing can be inferred about the measure of its influence on Labour policy. It has, however,…
Colonies, Racism, the Cpgb and the Comintern in the Inter-War Years
Prospects for social democracy: A critical review of the arguments and evidence
Rise and fall of the alternative economic strategy: From internationalisation of capital to ‘globalisation’
The Alternative Economic Strategy (AES) was the focus of the British left's thinking for more than a decade and formed the basis of the Labour party's plans for the economic renewal of Britain as recently as the general election of 1983. It originated both as a response to the crisis of the British economy, which deepened in the 1970s, and to the perception of its growing porousness as economic activity became increasingly internationalised. The …
The Left in Britain in the Twentieth Century
The eleventh annual conference of the Institute of Contemporary British History was held at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, July 12–16, 1999. The first day was largely concerned with British Marxist and socialist movements; the second concentrated on the trade unions and comparative perspectives; the third and fourth days focused on the Labour party; and the conference concluded with a day on the future of the Left. Th…
Environmental Politics, the New Left and the New Social Democracy
The Left and the 'Unfinished Revolution: Bevanites and Soviet Russia in the 1950s
This article looks at the Labour Left's perceptions of the Soviet Union in the 1950s and examines one of the most important sources of hope about its future evolution. It shows that for many socialists the Soviet Union was a contradictory phenomenon, at once profoundly repellent and yet capable of exercising an immense attractive force throughout the decade. For the progressive features of the system to finally dominate and overcome the many-side…
The Cold War and the March of Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Thirty years after the Bolshevik Revolution a Cold War began which forced the British Left to take sides. But during those thirty years a great deal had already been written and said about the Soviet state and Britain's relationships with it; sides had already been taken, repeatedly. Though the impact of the Bolshevik upheaval was small in Britain when compared to the institutional splits which it caused in France, Germany and Italy, the socialis…
The End of Social Democracy
This article contests the idea that social democracy is dead. It is argued that a proper consideration of the evidence casts doubt on this widely held assumption. In this article, the evidence is examined in relation to post-Fordism, class structure and solidarity, electoral behaviour, post-materialism and the crisis of the welfare state across Europe
Social Democracy and Globalisation: The Limits of Social Democracy in Historical Perspective
This article argues that social democratic governments throughout the 20 th century faced internal and international constraints arising from the operation of capitalist economies and that the evidence for a qualitative deepening of such constraints since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system is far from unequivocal. Financial markets were already big enough and fast enough to deter such governments from the pursuit of egalitarian policies in …
Symposium: Globalisation and social democracy
The emergence of a world economy is a centuries-old process that has encouraged the growth of cultural, social and political connections between peoples across the globe. In 1848 Marx and Engels famously depicted the spread of capitalism as the dynamic force in this revolutionary process; establishing the world market, destroying the cultures which stood in its way, giving ‘a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country’,…
Social Democracy's Big Problem: Economic Globalisation or Hard Times
Globalisation has entered the academic vocabulary despite, or perhaps because of, its conceptual imprecision. Indeed it has been argued that: it is largely because of their ambiguities that mere words are capable of... independent action as forces in history. A term, a phrase, a formula which gains currency or acceptance because one of its meanings, or of the thoughts which it suggests, is congenial to the prevalent beliefs, the standards of valu…
Labour's Defence Intellectual: A Defence
Labour's Defence Intellectual: A Defence
(2003). Labour's Defence Intellectual: A Defence. Contemporary British History: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 138-147
Mental health support for youth offending teams: A qualitative study
The objective of the present study was to examine the views of professionals working in youth offending teams (YOTs) on a new model for providing mental health service support within the context of an interagency setting. Focus groups were used and data were analysed according to the constant comparative method. The setting consisted of two YOTs, one in an inner-city area and the other in a rural/semi-urban area, where primary mental health worke…
Developing New Mental Health Services for Looked after Children: A Focus Group Study
Looked after children have extensive mental health needs that are not often met by current mental health service provision. Jane Callaghan, Bridget Young, Maxine Richards and Panos Vostanis describe the use of focus groups with various stakeholders — social services staff, foster carers and residential social workers — to inform the development of a specialist mental health team for looked after children. Thirteen focus groups were conducted, com…
Social Democracy in Transition
Social democratic parties entered hard times after 1973 when the long postwar boom was succeeded by decades of lower rates of economic growth and higher rates of inflation and unemployment. A new convergence of government policy characterised the 1980s as neo‐liberalism gained the ascendancy at the expense of the political economy of the postwar social democratic settlement. The largely Anglo‐American literature on social democracy critically sur…
State Surveillance of the CPGB Leadership: 1920S-1950s
Newly-declassified files on the surveillance of the CPGB leadership from its founding through to the 1950s provide a fresh and important source of information on both the nature, extent and success of state surveillance, and on the CPGB leadership itself. In particular, as this article makes clear, the material contained within the files offers a valuable window on Moscow's attitude towards the CPGB and its leadership, and illustrates the way in …
Industrial Militancy, 1945-79: The Failure of the British Road to Socialism
Journal Article Industrial Militancy, 1945–79: The Failure of the British Road to Socialism? Get access JOHN CALLAGHAN JOHN CALLAGHAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 388–409, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/15.4.388 Published: 01 January 2004
The Plan to Capture the British Labour Party and its Paradoxical Results, 1947-91
The Communist Party of Great Britain consistently supported a trade union strategy after the second world war designed to eliminate the Labour Party. Yet by the 1990s leading members of the Party claimed that the organization’s last major contribution to British politics, before it dissolved itself in 1991, was to help rescue Labour from the left-wing ghetto into which it had been consigned during the 1980s. This article explains communist strate…
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