Annie Aitken
Biographic Data
| ID | 782998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annie Aitken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annie |
| FAMILY NAME | Aitken |
| SIGNATURE | AITKEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5522-7825 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Police use of X (Twitter) during the 2024 UK riots
During the summer of 2024, significant disorder and protesting broke out across the United Kingdom. Throughout this period, police forces utilised the social media platform X to communicate with users. The study focuses on the potential for police services to engage in dialogical policing with online users during a period of national civil disorder. The X posts from seven police force accounts during the 2024 disorder were analysed. The findings …
Community resilience to flooding in the UK
The United Kingdom has faced recurring floods since 2019, with 5.2 million homes at risk. This has prompted the UK government to prioritise resilience planning in flood prone areas. This study focuses on community resilience in Matlock, Derbyshire, which has experienced intensified flooding since 2018. Using qualitative interviews and a focus group, the research examines evidence of community resilience and the barriers to its development by focu…
Policing, social media, and riots
Frames as pre-signal context
Innes’s “control signals” provides a semiotic perspective for explaining how acts of social control send “signals” about the effectiveness of security mechanisms. A cross-cutting theme infers that “culture and situation matter” in the reception of signals. However, the control signals concept does not explicitly consider the influence that prior experiences may have on present interpretations. Drawing on qualitative research into how members of a…
Sporting Mega-Event Security in Hyperreality and its Consequences for Democratic Security Governance
Within the sporting mega-events literature three key developments exist: 1. Security is performative and symbolic; 2. Security reactivates state authority and legitimacy in developing security responses; 3. Security measures have discernible security ‘legacies’. Taking a case study of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the resultant securitization of an existing residential community, this article uses Baudrillard’s concepts of hyperreali…
Seeking invention
There exists a small cottage industry of case studies of mega-sporting event security at respective Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games or FIFA World Cups. This literature provides detailed accounts of the different security governance networks and methods of securitisation taken by host cities and the social impacts of such arrangements. However, for all this explanatory work, there have been no attempts to provide any innovative normative framewo…
Notes on the River (Tonle Sap, Siem Reap, Cambodia)
It is not a river at all but a question. Secrets it will always promise to reveal. An infant's mellifluous endurance. One can ask of it direction, or turn it, this way and that, depth-sounding its
Third culture kids and mad migrant mothers, or how to outgrow Amy Tan
In the Amy Tan novel, parents become the guardian-teachers of essentialised notions of a mainland Chinese identity, while their American–born children negotiate the contradictory claims of Chineseness on the one hand and forces of assimilation in middle class America on the other. To be authentically Chinese, mothers argue, the daughters must regain a ‘Chinese face’ by returning to their filial homeland. Tan's work has been a popular success but …
Born on a Sunday in London
Keywords: hybridityThailandAsian-Australiancross-racial desire Notes 1. For a similar cure, see Child Child , Jacob T . The Pearl of Asia: Reminiscences of the Court of a Supreme Monarch; or, Five Years in Siam . Chicago : Donohue , 1892 . [Google Scholar] (301)
Is Scots a Language
Some consider that Scots is simply a northerly dialect of English. Others assert that it is a language in its own right, as distinct from English as Dutch is distinct from German, with its own oral and literary heritage. What is the truth of the matter
Languages of Scotland
Dynamics of the Muslim‐Hindu differential in family planning practices in rural East Pakistan
A 1968 study analyzing the relationship between religious affiliation and family planning practice in a rural East Pakistan area was conducted by interviewing a probability sample of 1600 currently married Hindu and Muslim women. The differential appeared to be inconsistent and often insignificant when the control variables of social and demographic factors were applied. The differential disappears in cases where the husbands occupation is unskil…
Muslim-Hindu Differentials in Family Planning Knowledge and Attitude in Rural East Pakistan
The dynamics of the relationship between Hindu and Muslim religious affiliation and knowledge of and attitude toward family planning are presented for a probability sample of all currently married females in 247 villages of Comilla-Kotwali thana, East Pakistan. Previous research has demonstrated that the differential found between the two religions could not be attributed to differences in the Hindu and Muslim ideologies. The practice of Purdah a…
Completing the Record of Scots
THE two large dictionaries of Scots which are now being produced in Edinburgh owe their existence to the late Sir William Craigie, co-editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 19go0. A suggestion of Craigie's in a lecture given in Dundee in 1907 led to the formation of the Scottish Dialects Committee, out of which there was to come some twenty years later the Scottish National Dictionary. Then in I9I9 Craigie propounded his historic plan for f…
Third culture kids and mad migrant mothers, or how to outgrow Amy Tan
In the Amy Tan novel, parents become the guardian-teachers of essentialised notions of a mainland Chinese identity, while their American–born children negotiate the contradictory claims of Chineseness on the one hand and forces of assimilation in middle class America on the other. To be authentically Chinese, mothers argue, the daughters must regain a ‘Chinese face’ by returning to their filial homeland. Tan's work has been a popular success but …
Sporting Mega-Event Security in Hyperreality and its Consequences for Democratic Security Governance
Within the sporting mega-events literature three key developments exist: 1. Security is performative and symbolic; 2. Security reactivates state authority and legitimacy in developing security responses; 3. Security measures have discernible security ‘legacies’. Taking a case study of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the resultant securitization of an existing residential community, this article uses Baudrillard’s concepts of hyperreali…
Seeking invention
There exists a small cottage industry of case studies of mega-sporting event security at respective Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games or FIFA World Cups. This literature provides detailed accounts of the different security governance networks and methods of securitisation taken by host cities and the social impacts of such arrangements. However, for all this explanatory work, there have been no attempts to provide any innovative normative framewo…
Dynamics of the Muslim‐Hindu differential in family planning practices in rural East Pakistan
A 1968 study analyzing the relationship between religious affiliation and family planning practice in a rural East Pakistan area was conducted by interviewing a probability sample of 1600 currently married Hindu and Muslim women. The differential appeared to be inconsistent and often insignificant when the control variables of social and demographic factors were applied. The differential disappears in cases where the husbands occupation is unskil…
Completing the Record of Scots
THE two large dictionaries of Scots which are now being produced in Edinburgh owe their existence to the late Sir William Craigie, co-editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 19go0. A suggestion of Craigie's in a lecture given in Dundee in 1907 led to the formation of the Scottish Dialects Committee, out of which there was to come some twenty years later the Scottish National Dictionary. Then in I9I9 Craigie propounded his historic plan for f…
Completing the Record of Scots
THE two large dictionaries of Scots which are now being produced in Edinburgh owe their existence to the late Sir William Craigie, co-editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 19go0. A suggestion of Craigie's in a lecture given in Dundee in 1907 led to the formation of the Scottish Dialects Committee, out of which there was to come some twenty years later the Scottish National Dictionary. Then in I9I9 Craigie propounded his historic plan for f…
Dynamics of the Muslim‐Hindu differential in family planning practices in rural East Pakistan
A 1968 study analyzing the relationship between religious affiliation and family planning practice in a rural East Pakistan area was conducted by interviewing a probability sample of 1600 currently married Hindu and Muslim women. The differential appeared to be inconsistent and often insignificant when the control variables of social and demographic factors were applied. The differential disappears in cases where the husbands occupation is unskil…
Muslim-Hindu Differentials in Family Planning Knowledge and Attitude in Rural East Pakistan
The dynamics of the relationship between Hindu and Muslim religious affiliation and knowledge of and attitude toward family planning are presented for a probability sample of all currently married females in 247 villages of Comilla-Kotwali thana, East Pakistan. Previous research has demonstrated that the differential found between the two religions could not be attributed to differences in the Hindu and Muslim ideologies. The practice of Purdah a…
Languages of Scotland
Is Scots a Language
Some consider that Scots is simply a northerly dialect of English. Others assert that it is a language in its own right, as distinct from English as Dutch is distinct from German, with its own oral and literary heritage. What is the truth of the matter
Born on a Sunday in London
Keywords: hybridityThailandAsian-Australiancross-racial desire Notes 1. For a similar cure, see Child Child , Jacob T . The Pearl of Asia: Reminiscences of the Court of a Supreme Monarch; or, Five Years in Siam . Chicago : Donohue , 1892 . [Google Scholar] (301)
Third culture kids and mad migrant mothers, or how to outgrow Amy Tan
In the Amy Tan novel, parents become the guardian-teachers of essentialised notions of a mainland Chinese identity, while their American–born children negotiate the contradictory claims of Chineseness on the one hand and forces of assimilation in middle class America on the other. To be authentically Chinese, mothers argue, the daughters must regain a ‘Chinese face’ by returning to their filial homeland. Tan's work has been a popular success but …
Notes on the River (Tonle Sap, Siem Reap, Cambodia)
It is not a river at all but a question. Secrets it will always promise to reveal. An infant's mellifluous endurance. One can ask of it direction, or turn it, this way and that, depth-sounding its
Seeking invention
There exists a small cottage industry of case studies of mega-sporting event security at respective Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games or FIFA World Cups. This literature provides detailed accounts of the different security governance networks and methods of securitisation taken by host cities and the social impacts of such arrangements. However, for all this explanatory work, there have been no attempts to provide any innovative normative framewo…
Sporting Mega-Event Security in Hyperreality and its Consequences for Democratic Security Governance
Within the sporting mega-events literature three key developments exist: 1. Security is performative and symbolic; 2. Security reactivates state authority and legitimacy in developing security responses; 3. Security measures have discernible security ‘legacies’. Taking a case study of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the resultant securitization of an existing residential community, this article uses Baudrillard’s concepts of hyperreali…
Frames as pre-signal context
Innes’s “control signals” provides a semiotic perspective for explaining how acts of social control send “signals” about the effectiveness of security mechanisms. A cross-cutting theme infers that “culture and situation matter” in the reception of signals. However, the control signals concept does not explicitly consider the influence that prior experiences may have on present interpretations. Drawing on qualitative research into how members of a…
Community resilience to flooding in the UK
The United Kingdom has faced recurring floods since 2019, with 5.2 million homes at risk. This has prompted the UK government to prioritise resilience planning in flood prone areas. This study focuses on community resilience in Matlock, Derbyshire, which has experienced intensified flooding since 2018. Using qualitative interviews and a focus group, the research examines evidence of community resilience and the barriers to its development by focu…
Policing, social media, and riots
Police use of X (Twitter) during the 2024 UK riots
During the summer of 2024, significant disorder and protesting broke out across the United Kingdom. Throughout this period, police forces utilised the social media platform X to communicate with users. The study focuses on the potential for police services to engage in dialogical policing with online users during a period of national civil disorder. The X posts from seven police force accounts during the 2024 disorder were analysed. The findings …
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)