Ian Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 644809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lancashire |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6487-7053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cultures of Expertise and Ethnographic Testimony
Defining terrorism in the UK and the proscription of Palestine Action
In June 2025, the former Secretary of State for the Home Department (‘Home Secretary’), Yvette Cooper, announced that the British government wished to proscribe Palestine Action. The decision to finally proscribe Palestine Action had come when two of its activists had broken into RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, spraying red paint into the turbines of two Voyager aircraft and causing £7m worth of damage. The UK government has asserted that the p…
Resistance to Tyranny versus the Public Good
John Locke was a social contract theorist. He envisaged that individuals had domiciled in a state of nature, enjoying natural rights. But because of the insecurities of the natural state, individuals transitioned to the stability of civil society, guaranteed by a sovereign. There were fetters on the sovereign, however, such as passing laws for the public good. Is modern legislation to counter terrorism for the public good? Locke also expressly gr…
Dynamics of media convergence in translingual expert interviews — An example from isiXhosa radio in South Africa
Indiscipline as Method
There is no unproblematic way to study things as “African”, yet an epistemologically situated approach based on concrete technological projects situated in Africa and their social and political implications offers an important account of the intersection of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and African Studies. We explore this perspective through the notion of “indiscipline” using the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project (SKA) based in S…
Low Trust in a Time of Plague
A personal impression of the feelings of my colleagues, friends, and neighbours during the pandemic of 2020 in a southern provincial town in Russia. The article is journalistic and anecdotal, and considers how information, or lack thereof, is regarded here and now
As far as the eye can see
Urban bias remains a debated topic in South Africa in many spheres of society. Due to the logic of apartheid, ‘rural’ came to mean ‘black’; or in post-apartheid-speak ‘previously disadvantaged’. Up to today, the effects of long-term structural and systematic disadvantaging are quite tangible in the country. Though in parts also applicable to urban settings, poverty, insufficient infrastructure and lack of access are largely foremost still a probl…
Conceptualising a protection of liberal constitutionalism post 9/11
John Locke believed individuals covenanted with the state in return for security they had previously lacked in the state of nature. But in this bargain of protection, individuals still retained fundamental freedoms, such as life, liberty and estate. This reflected the fear that the newly created state, whilst also a guarantor of security, was also a threat to it. But since 9/11, and the continuation of Islamist terrorism, is the state still a sig…
Axing the Rainbow
Today, the Rainbow Nation as the central metaphor for postapartheid South Africa falls short of serving as a unifying identification marker due to its tendency to gloss over contrasting living realities of diversified identities and ongoing systemic discrimination. The South African Fallism movements – the student-driven protests against neocolonial structures in academic institutions – spearheaded public criticism with the current state of ongoi…
A Positive, Communitarian Right to Security in the Age of Super-Terrorism
Post-9/11, and especially with the dramatic rise of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the author advocates a collective right to security. Plotting a course through state absolutism and liberalism, one finds communitarianism as a philosophy to support this right to security. The communitarian right to security is based on an interpretation of European human rights law, particularly positive duties of the state, to protect the rights to…
Human Rights, Positive Obligations, and Measures to Prevent Human Trafficking in the United Kingdom
Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights is freedom from slavery. A key feature of this right is the obligation it imposes on states such as the United Kingdom to prevent violations of the freedom, such as the trafficking in human beings, by third parties. This article finds that the United Kingdom’s response to its duties in preventing human trafficking is patchy but concludes that this will be much improved with its new Modern Slave…
Applying computational creativity to health and social care
Computational creativity is an inter-disciplinary field that seeks to simulate and replicate creative processes to generate novel and useful outcomes using a computer in order to enhance human creativity. Most computational creativity research has been applied to artistic domains -music, poetry and visual art. This submission reports research that applied computational creativity algorithms in a set of mobile software apps to support the care of …
Positive obligations and Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights
The Human Rights Act 1998 came into effect in the UK in 2000, incorporating specific Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights, such as the freedoms from torture (Article 3) and slavery (Article 4), into British law. But this legislation, and the rights it enshrines, are under severe attack from politicians and sections of the British press. This article presents a strong defence of the statute, by reference to one of its notable achiev…
Human Rights and Antiterrorism
In law freedom from torture and ill-treatment is “absolute,” meaning that a state cannot infringe the right for purposes that would seem legitimate such as the protection of national security. However, with the growth in international terrorism, particularly suicide violence, should the freedom remain without limitation? This article considers legitimizing torture by reference to the “positive” legal obligation the right imposes on states to prev…
"Freedom From Torture in the "War on Terror
Freedom from torture is regarded as “absolute,” meaning that a state cannot infringe the right for purposes which would seem legitimate such as the protection of national security. Indeed, the freedom is viewed as “non-derogable”; that is, infringements are not permitted even in special circumstances such as times of war or public emergency. Is it right, however, with the growth in international terrorism post-9/11, particularly suicide violence,…
Great Britain and the Post-War German Currency Reform
British policy towards Germany during the period of occupation aimed at preventing a resurgence of German military might in the future, whilst ensuring stable economic conditions in the short term. By mid 1946, however, the scale of the economic problems confronting the occupying powers in Germany had already manifested itself in the reduction of food rations and the consequent falling off in the output of Ruhr coal. The fragile economy was to su…
Electoral system innovation
Industrial Labour and Politics
Industrial Labour and Politics is a new examination of some of the crucial questions of Australian labour politics - the relation of the industrial and political wings of the labour movement, the conflicts between Labor politicians and the extra-parliamentary organizations, and the part played by left-wing minorities in the movement. This study is centred on the movement's formative years, the first two decades of this century, when the first Lab…
Australian nationalism and Australian history
Swashway Sandblow
A course without a structure
If the student does not become aware of the relevance of problems of philosophy, psychology, sociology, history, and anthropology to his own personal life and the life of his society, only the least gifted ones will pay attention to their courses. The result is that the apparent richness of our educated endeavour becomes an empty front which conceals a deep lack of response to the best cultural achievements of civilized history. Erich Fromm: The …
In Union is Strength
The Depression of the 1930s
Industrial Labour and Politics
The Molly Maguires
Great Britain and the Post-War German Currency Reform
British policy towards Germany during the period of occupation aimed at preventing a resurgence of German military might in the future, whilst ensuring stable economic conditions in the short term. By mid 1946, however, the scale of the economic problems confronting the occupying powers in Germany had already manifested itself in the reduction of food rations and the consequent falling off in the output of Ruhr coal. The fragile economy was to su…
Human Rights, Positive Obligations, and Measures to Prevent Human Trafficking in the United Kingdom
Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights is freedom from slavery. A key feature of this right is the obligation it imposes on states such as the United Kingdom to prevent violations of the freedom, such as the trafficking in human beings, by third parties. This article finds that the United Kingdom’s response to its duties in preventing human trafficking is patchy but concludes that this will be much improved with its new Modern Slave…
Human Rights and Antiterrorism
In law freedom from torture and ill-treatment is “absolute,” meaning that a state cannot infringe the right for purposes that would seem legitimate such as the protection of national security. However, with the growth in international terrorism, particularly suicide violence, should the freedom remain without limitation? This article considers legitimizing torture by reference to the “positive” legal obligation the right imposes on states to prev…
Australian nationalism and Australian history
Dynamics of media convergence in translingual expert interviews — An example from isiXhosa radio in South Africa
As far as the eye can see
Urban bias remains a debated topic in South Africa in many spheres of society. Due to the logic of apartheid, ‘rural’ came to mean ‘black’; or in post-apartheid-speak ‘previously disadvantaged’. Up to today, the effects of long-term structural and systematic disadvantaging are quite tangible in the country. Though in parts also applicable to urban settings, poverty, insufficient infrastructure and lack of access are largely foremost still a probl…
Positive obligations and Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights
The Human Rights Act 1998 came into effect in the UK in 2000, incorporating specific Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights, such as the freedoms from torture (Article 3) and slavery (Article 4), into British law. But this legislation, and the rights it enshrines, are under severe attack from politicians and sections of the British press. This article presents a strong defence of the statute, by reference to one of its notable achiev…
Electoral system innovation
The One Big Union, 1918-1923
The Molly Maguires
Industrial Labour and Politics
Industrial Labour and Politics
The Depression of the 1930s
A course without a structure
If the student does not become aware of the relevance of problems of philosophy, psychology, sociology, history, and anthropology to his own personal life and the life of his society, only the least gifted ones will pay attention to their courses. The result is that the apparent richness of our educated endeavour becomes an empty front which conceals a deep lack of response to the best cultural achievements of civilized history. Erich Fromm: The …
In Union is Strength
Swashway Sandblow
Australian nationalism and Australian history
Industrial Labour and Politics
Industrial Labour and Politics is a new examination of some of the crucial questions of Australian labour politics - the relation of the industrial and political wings of the labour movement, the conflicts between Labor politicians and the extra-parliamentary organizations, and the part played by left-wing minorities in the movement. This study is centred on the movement's formative years, the first two decades of this century, when the first Lab…
Electoral system innovation
Great Britain and the Post-War German Currency Reform
British policy towards Germany during the period of occupation aimed at preventing a resurgence of German military might in the future, whilst ensuring stable economic conditions in the short term. By mid 1946, however, the scale of the economic problems confronting the occupying powers in Germany had already manifested itself in the reduction of food rations and the consequent falling off in the output of Ruhr coal. The fragile economy was to su…
"Freedom From Torture in the "War on Terror
Freedom from torture is regarded as “absolute,” meaning that a state cannot infringe the right for purposes which would seem legitimate such as the protection of national security. Indeed, the freedom is viewed as “non-derogable”; that is, infringements are not permitted even in special circumstances such as times of war or public emergency. Is it right, however, with the growth in international terrorism post-9/11, particularly suicide violence,…
Human Rights and Antiterrorism
In law freedom from torture and ill-treatment is “absolute,” meaning that a state cannot infringe the right for purposes that would seem legitimate such as the protection of national security. However, with the growth in international terrorism, particularly suicide violence, should the freedom remain without limitation? This article considers legitimizing torture by reference to the “positive” legal obligation the right imposes on states to prev…
Applying computational creativity to health and social care
Computational creativity is an inter-disciplinary field that seeks to simulate and replicate creative processes to generate novel and useful outcomes using a computer in order to enhance human creativity. Most computational creativity research has been applied to artistic domains -music, poetry and visual art. This submission reports research that applied computational creativity algorithms in a set of mobile software apps to support the care of …
Positive obligations and Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights
The Human Rights Act 1998 came into effect in the UK in 2000, incorporating specific Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights, such as the freedoms from torture (Article 3) and slavery (Article 4), into British law. But this legislation, and the rights it enshrines, are under severe attack from politicians and sections of the British press. This article presents a strong defence of the statute, by reference to one of its notable achiev…
Human Rights, Positive Obligations, and Measures to Prevent Human Trafficking in the United Kingdom
Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights is freedom from slavery. A key feature of this right is the obligation it imposes on states such as the United Kingdom to prevent violations of the freedom, such as the trafficking in human beings, by third parties. This article finds that the United Kingdom’s response to its duties in preventing human trafficking is patchy but concludes that this will be much improved with its new Modern Slave…
A Positive, Communitarian Right to Security in the Age of Super-Terrorism
Post-9/11, and especially with the dramatic rise of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the author advocates a collective right to security. Plotting a course through state absolutism and liberalism, one finds communitarianism as a philosophy to support this right to security. The communitarian right to security is based on an interpretation of European human rights law, particularly positive duties of the state, to protect the rights to…
Axing the Rainbow
Today, the Rainbow Nation as the central metaphor for postapartheid South Africa falls short of serving as a unifying identification marker due to its tendency to gloss over contrasting living realities of diversified identities and ongoing systemic discrimination. The South African Fallism movements – the student-driven protests against neocolonial structures in academic institutions – spearheaded public criticism with the current state of ongoi…
Low Trust in a Time of Plague
A personal impression of the feelings of my colleagues, friends, and neighbours during the pandemic of 2020 in a southern provincial town in Russia. The article is journalistic and anecdotal, and considers how information, or lack thereof, is regarded here and now
As far as the eye can see
Urban bias remains a debated topic in South Africa in many spheres of society. Due to the logic of apartheid, ‘rural’ came to mean ‘black’; or in post-apartheid-speak ‘previously disadvantaged’. Up to today, the effects of long-term structural and systematic disadvantaging are quite tangible in the country. Though in parts also applicable to urban settings, poverty, insufficient infrastructure and lack of access are largely foremost still a probl…
Conceptualising a protection of liberal constitutionalism post 9/11
John Locke believed individuals covenanted with the state in return for security they had previously lacked in the state of nature. But in this bargain of protection, individuals still retained fundamental freedoms, such as life, liberty and estate. This reflected the fear that the newly created state, whilst also a guarantor of security, was also a threat to it. But since 9/11, and the continuation of Islamist terrorism, is the state still a sig…
Indiscipline as Method
There is no unproblematic way to study things as “African”, yet an epistemologically situated approach based on concrete technological projects situated in Africa and their social and political implications offers an important account of the intersection of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and African Studies. We explore this perspective through the notion of “indiscipline” using the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project (SKA) based in S…
Dynamics of media convergence in translingual expert interviews — An example from isiXhosa radio in South Africa
Resistance to Tyranny versus the Public Good
John Locke was a social contract theorist. He envisaged that individuals had domiciled in a state of nature, enjoying natural rights. But because of the insecurities of the natural state, individuals transitioned to the stability of civil society, guaranteed by a sovereign. There were fetters on the sovereign, however, such as passing laws for the public good. Is modern legislation to counter terrorism for the public good? Locke also expressly gr…
Political science (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Human rights (6 works) · Australian History and Society (5 works) · International Law and Human Rights (5 works)