Publications
Below is a sample of some of the key and recent publications by CIGS staff.
(2022). Jack Monroe and the cultural politics of the austerity celebrity. European Journal of Cultural Studies. 25(4), pp. 1156-1173
(2021). Women, anger and emotion management in Love Island. Feminist Media Studies, pp. 1-17
(2021). ‘Smash the patriarchy’: the changing meanings and work of ‘patriarchy’ online. Feminist Theory. 22(2), pp. 165-189
(2020). Pure, white and deadly: sugar addiction and the cultivation of urgency. Food, Culture & Society. 23(1), pp. 11-29
(2020). Young women’s aspirations and transitions into, through and away from contemporary creative work. In: Luckman S; Taylor S (eds.) Pathways into Creative Working Lives. Palgrave MacMillan
Holliday R, Jones M, Bell D. (2019). Beautyscapes: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism. Manchester: Manchester University Press
Hollin G. (2019). From the profound to the mundane: Questionnaires as emerging technologies in autism genetics. Science, Technology, and Human Values. 44(4), pp. 634-659
Throsby K. (2018). Giving up sugar and the inequalities of abstinence. Sociology of Health and Illness. 40(6), pp. 954-968
Allen K, Mendick H, Harvey L, Ahmad A. (2018). Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth: Education and Inequality in an Era of Austerity. London: Bloomsbury Press
Holliday R. (2018). Vagina dialogues: theorizing the ‘designer vagina’. In: Griffin G; Jordal M (eds.) Body, Migration, Re/constructive Surgeries; Making the Gendered Body in a Globalized World. Oxon
Martin, J. (2018), Something old, something new: the wedding spectacle across contemporary media cultures, Celebrity Studies, 9(1): 153-156
Hollin G. (2017). Failing, hacking, passing: Autism, entanglement, and the ethics of transformation. BioSocieties. 12(4), pp. 611-633
Hollin G, Forysth I, Giraud G, Potts T. (2017). (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics. Social Studies of Science. 47(6), pp. 918-941
Giraud E, Hollin G. (2016). Care, laboratory beagles and affective utopia. Theory, Culture and Society. 33(4), pp. 27-49
Allen K. (2016). Top girls navigating austere times: interrogating youth transitions since the ‘crisis’. Journal of Youth Studies. 19(6), pp. 805-820
Throsby K. (2016). Immersion: Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity. Manchester: Manchester University Press
Allen K, Harvey L, Mendick H. (2015). ‘Justin Bieber Sounds Girlie’: Young People's Celebrity Talk and Contemporary Masculinities. Sociological Research Online. 20(3), pp. 1-15
Allen K, Mendick H, Harvey L, Ahmad A. (2015). Welfare Queens, Thrifty Housewives, and Do-It-All Mums: Celebrity motherhood and the cultural politics of austerity. Feminist Media Studies. 15(6), pp. 907-925
Throsby K. (2015). ‘You can’t be too vain to gain if you want to swim the Channel’: Marathon swimming and the construction of heroic fatness. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 50(7), pp. 769-784
Holliday R, Bell D, Cheung O, Jones M, Probyn E. (2015). Brief encounters: Assembling cosmetic surgery tourism. Social Science and Medicine. 124, pp. 298-304
Allen K, Tyler I, De Benedictis S. (2014). Thinking with 'White Dee': The Gender Politics of 'Austerity Porn'. Sociological Research Online. 19(3)
Throsby K. (2013). If I go in a cranky sea lion, I come out like a smiling dolphin: marathon swimming and the unexpected pleasures of being a body in water. Feminist Review. 103, pp. 5-22
Holliday R, Bell D, Hardy K, Hunter E, Jones M, Probyn E, Sanchez Taylor J. (2013). Beautiful face, beautiful place: relational geographies and gender in cosmetic surgery tourism websites. Gender Place and Culture.
Holliday R, Potts T. (2012). Kitsch! Cultural Politics and Taste. Manchester: Manchester University Press
Throsby K. (2012). Obesity surgery and the management of excess: exploring the body multiple. Sociology of Health and Illness. 34(1), pp. 1-15