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Volume 4, issue 1, 2018

Activists, care work, and the ‘cry of the ghetto’ in Nairobi, Kenya pp. 1-7

Wangui Kimari

Are political representatives more risk-loving than the electorate? Evidence from German federal and state parliaments pp. 1-7

Moritz Heß, Christian von Scheve, Jürgen Schupp, Aiko Wagner and Gert Wagner

The liquid politics of an urban age pp. 1-7

Loan Diep

The Franciscan Usus Pauper: using poverty to put life in the perspective of plenitude pp. 1-7

Willem Marie Speelman

The city politics of an urban age: urban resilience conceptualisations and policies pp. 1-12

Adriana Sanchez, Jeroen Heijden and Paul Osmond

Navigating the politics of evidence-informed policymaking: strategies of influential policy actors in Ontario pp. 1-12

Jacqueline Sohn

Populist communication in the new media environment: a cross-regional comparative perspective pp. 1-12

Lone Sorensen

Re-centering Central Asia: China’s “New Great Game” in the old Eurasian Heartland pp. 1-12

Xiangming Chen and Fakhmiddin Fazilov

An introduction to achieving policy impact for early career researchers pp. 1-12

Megan C Evans and Christopher Cvitanovic

Long-term ecology of investors in a financial market pp. 1-12

Federico Musciotto, Luca Marotta, Jyrki Piilo and Rosario Mantegna

Policy change and the narratives of Russia’s think tanks pp. 1-12

Edwin Bacon

Individual liberty and the importance of the concept of the people pp. 1-12

Regina Queiroz

Religions, poverty reduction and global development institutions pp. 1-12

Emma Tomalin

The AMR problem: demanding economies, biological margins, and co-producing alternative strategies pp. 1-12

Steve Hinchliffe, Andrea Butcher and Muhammad Meezanur Rahman

Unsettling antibiosis: how might interdisciplinary researchers generate a feeling for the microbiome and to what effect? pp. 1-12

Beth Greenhough, Andrew Dwyer, Richard Grenyer, Timothy Hodgetts, Carmen McLeod and Jamie Lorimer

Populism between direct democracy and the technological myth pp. 1-11

Emiliana De Blasio and Michele Sorice

Slums, race and mental health in New York (1938–1965) pp. 1-11

Dennis Doyle

A comparative study of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Marshall plan pp. 1-11

Simon Shen and Wilson Chan

From associations to action: mental health and the patient politics of subsidiarity in Scotland pp. 1-11

Mark Gallagher

The construction of new scientific norms for solving Grand Challenges pp. 1-11

Kate Maxwell and Paul Benneworth

The vampirisation of the novel: narrative crises in Dracula pp. 1-11

Cecilia Lasa

Mediating the contributions of Facebook to political participation in Italy and the UK: the role of media and political landscapes pp. 1-11

Isidoropaolo Casteltrione and Magda Pieczka

Poverty and mental health: the work of the female sanitary inspectors in Bradford (c. 1901–1912) pp. 1-11

Pamela Dale

Right-wing populism and the dynamics of style: a discourse-analytic perspective on mediated political performances pp. 1-11

Mats Ekström, Marianna Patrona and Joanna Thornborrow

Does religion always help the poor? Variations in religion and social class in the west and societies in the global south pp. 1-11

Megan Rogers and Mary Ellen Konieczny

“A ghost in daylight”: drugs and the horror of modernity pp. 1-11

Jayson Althofer and Brian Musgrove

The unconditioned in philosophy of religion pp. 1-11

Steven Shakespeare

Cumulative culture and explicit metacognition: a review of theories, evidence and key predictions pp. 1-11

Juliet Dunstone and Christine A. Caldwell

Beyond the 2% fetishism: studying the practice of collective action in transatlantic affairs pp. 1-11

Benjamin Zyla

Maximising the availability and use of high-quality evidence for policymaking: collaborative, targeted and efficient evidence reviews pp. 1-8

Anna Gavine, Steve MacGillivray, Mary Ross-Davie, Kirstie Campbell, Linda White and Mary Renfrew

Towards a manifesto for a critical digital humanities: critiquing the extractive capitalism of digital society pp. 1-8

Mike Grimshaw

Truth after post-truth: for a Strong Programme in Discourse Studies pp. 1-8

Johannes Angermuller

Will the Sustainable Development Goals be fulfilled? Assessing present and future global poverty pp. 1-8

Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Wolfgang Fengler, Homi Kharas, Karim Bekhtiar, Michael Brottrager and Martin Hofer

Moral narratives and mental health: rethinking understandings of distress and healthcare support in contexts of austerity and welfare reform pp. 1-8

Felicity Thomas, Lorraine Hansford, Joseph Ford, Katrina Wyatt, Rosemarie McCabe and Richard Byng

Experiences of care labour, gender and work for men who teach young children pp. 1-8

Suzanne O’Keeffe

Fear of crime: the impact of different distributions of victimisation pp. 1-8

Rafael Prieto Curiel and Steven Richard Bishop

Social interaction effects on immigrant integration pp. 1-8

Elena Agliari, Adriano Barra, Pierluigi Contucci, Andrea Pizzoferrato and Cecilia Vernia

Beyond ideological platitudes: socialism and psychiatry in Eastern Europe pp. 1-8

Mat Savelli

Gothic fairy-tales and Deleuzian desire pp. 1-8

Holly Hirst

The making of responsive innovation policies: varieties of evidence and their contestation in the Basque Country pp. 1-8

Alexander Kleibrink and Edurne Magro

Economic imaginaries of the Anti-biosis: between ‘economies of resistance’ and the ‘resistance of economies’ pp. 1-8

Nik Brown and Sarah Nettleton

The evolving response to antibiotic resistance (1945–2018) pp. 1-8

Scott H. Podolsky

Philosophy of religion and the big questions pp. 1-8

Robert Neville

Philosophy of religion and the scientific turn pp. 1-8

Aku Visala and Olli-Pekka Vainio

Look, a human being! Anthropomorphic solipsism in postsecular thought pp. 1-8

Noëlle Vahanian

Addressing socioeconomic inequality in access to university education: an analysis of synergies and tensions in Scottish policy pp. 1-8

Edward M. Sosu, Lauren N. Smith, Ninetta Santoro and Stephanie McKendry

Gluttony and guilt: monthly trends in internet search query data are comparable with national-level energy intake and dieting behavior pp. 1-9

Sean Coogan, Zhixian Sui and David Raubenheimer

Meritocracy and inequality: moral considerations pp. 1-9

Theodros Assefa Teklu

From ‘social aid’ to ‘social psychiatry’: mental health and social welfare in post-war Greece (1950s–1960s) pp. 1-9

Despo Kritsotaki

Why are there (almost) no randomised controlled trial-based evaluations of business support programmes? pp. 1-9

Margaret Dalziel

Assessing the relative contribution of economic, political and environmental factors on past conflict and the displacement of people in East Africa pp. 1-9

Erin Llwyd Owain and Mark Andrew Maslin

Discourses of technology, ageing and participation pp. 1-9

Aysha Fleming, Claire Mason and Gillian Paxton

Resolution of apparent paradoxes in the race-specific frequency of use-of-force by police pp. 1-9

Cody T. Ross, Bruce Winterhalder and Richard McElreath

Invertebrate disgust reduction in and out of school and its effects on state intrinsic motivation pp. 1-9

Peter Wüst-Ackermann, Christian Vollmer, Heike Itzek-Greulich and Christoph Randler

The future of the philosophy of religion is the philosophy of culture—and vice versa pp. 1-9

Mike Grimshaw

Regional elections in Russia: instruments of authoritarian legitimacy or instability? pp. 1-9

Cameron Ross

Hydro-social metabolism: scaling of birth rate with regional water use pp. 1-9

Saket Pande and Akshay Pandit

Sexual rejuvenation and hegemonic masculinity in C.P. Snow’s suppressed novel New Lives for Old (1933) pp. 1-9

Catherine Oakley

'A New You, That’s Who': an evaluation of short videos on puberty and human reproduction pp. 1-9

Lisa B. Hurwitz, Silvia B. Lovato, Alexis R. Lauricella, Teresa K. Woodruff, Eric Patrick and Ellen Wartella

Steps to improve gender diversity in coastal geoscience and engineering pp. 1-9

Ana Vila-Concejo, Shari L. Gallop, Sarah M. Hamylton, Luciana S. Esteves, Karin R. Bryan, Irene Delgado-Fernandez, Emilia Guisado-Pintado, Siddhi Joshi, Graziela Miot Silva, Amaia Ruiz de Alegria-Arzaburu, Hannah E. Power, Nadia Senechal and Kristen Splinter

Elements of indigenous socio-ecological knowledge show resilience despite ecosystem changes in the forest-grassland mosaics of the Nilgiri Hills, India pp. 1-9

Rodrigo León Cordero, Suma M, Siddhartha Krishnan, Chris T. Bauch and Madhur Anand

What can policymakers learn from feminist strategies to combine contextualised evidence with advocacy? pp. 1-9

Eleanor Malbon, Lisa Carson and Sophie Yates

Diversity of inference strategies can enhance the ‘wisdom-of-crowds’ effect pp. 1-9

Itsuki Fujisaki, Hidehito Honda and Kazuhiro Ueda

Economic shifts in agricultural production and trade due to climate change pp. 1-9

Luciana L. Porfirio, David Newth, John J. Finnigan and Yiyong Cai

How Burkina Faso used evidence in deciding to launch its policy of free healthcare for children under five and women in 2016 pp. 1-9

Valéry Ridde and Pierre Yaméogo

A bibliometric analysis of the interdisciplinary field of cultural evolution pp. 1-9

Mason Youngblood and David Lahti

Trump, celebrity and the merchant imaginary pp. 1-9

Barry King

EU policies concerning Lebanon and the bilateral cooperation on migration and security – new challenges calling for new institutional practices? pp. 1-9

Peter Seeberg

Elements of success in multi-stakeholder deliberation platforms pp. 1-16

Jennifer Garard, Larissa Koch and Martin Kowarsch

Determining the chaotic behaviour of copper prices in the long-term using annual price data pp. 1-13

C. A. Tapia Cortez, J. Coulton, C. Sammut and S. Saydam

The Prevent strategy and the UK ‘war on terror’: embedding infrastructures of surveillance in Muslim communities pp. 1-13

Fahid Qurashi

Family obligations across European borders: negotiating migration decisions within the families of post-accession migrants in Sweden pp. 1-13

Oksana Shmulyar Gréen and Charlotte Melander

Winners and losers: communicating the potential impacts of policies pp. 1-13

Cameron Brick, Alexandra L. J. Freeman, Steven Wooding, William J. Skylark, Theresa M. Marteau and David J. Spiegelhalter

Analysing the role of virtualisation and visualisation on interdisciplinary knowledge exchange in stem cell research processes pp. 1-13

Neil Stephens, Imtiaz Khan and Rachel Errington

Developing theories of change for social programmes: co-producing evidence-supported quality improvement pp. 1-13

Deborah Ghate

Pharming animals: a global history of antibiotics in food production (1935–2017) pp. 1-13

Claas Kirchhelle

Trumpism: a disfigured Americanism pp. 1-13

Mimi Yang

Givenness and existence: On the possibility of a phenomenological philosophy of religion pp. 1-13

Nikolaas Deketelaere

Responding to volcanic eruptions in Iceland: from the small to the catastrophic pp. 1-13

Deanne K. Bird and Guðrún Gísladóttir

A psychology of the film pp. 1-20

Ed S. Tan

Spatio-temporal evolutionary analysis of the township enterprises of Beijing suburbs using computational intelligence assisted design framework pp. 1-14

Yi Chen, Zhijun Song, Guangfeng Zhang, Muhammad Majeed and Yun Li

What makes people approve or condemn mind upload technology? Untangling the effects of sexual disgust, purity and science fiction familiarity pp. 1-14

Michael Laakasuo, Marianna Drosinou, Mika Koverola, Anton Kunnari, Juho Halonen, Noora Lehtonen and Jussi Palomäki

Recent origin and evolution of obesity-income correlation across the United States pp. 1-14

R. Alexander Bentley, Paul Ormerod and Damian J. Ruck

Correction: Rethinking policy “impact”: four models of research-policy relations pp. 1-1

Christina Boswell and Katherine Smith

Correction: Measuring impact in the humanities: learning from accountability and economics in a contemporary history of cultural value pp. 1-1

Zoe Bulaitis

Correction: The body politics of the urban age: reflections on surveillance and affect pp. 1-1

Ola Svenonius

Correction: Unbehagen: a gallantry with excess pp. 1-1

Cindy Zeiher

Correction: The politics of the China―Pakistan economic corridor pp. 1-1

Maham Hameed

Correction: Group formation under limited resources: narrow basin of equality pp. 1-1

Dongryul Lee and Pilwon Kim

Correction: Resolution of apparent paradoxes in the race-specific frequency of use-of-force by police pp. 1-1

Cody T. Ross, Bruce Winterhalder and Richard McElreath

Correction: Knowledge management for policy impact: the case of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre pp. 1-1

Lene Topp, David Mair, Laura Smillie and Paul Cairney

The body politics of the urban age: reflections on surveillance and affect pp. 1-10

Ola Svenonius

Emotion management, institutional change, and the spatial arrangement of care at a psychiatric residential treatment facility pp. 1-10

Samantha Plummer

In digital we trust: Bitcoin discourse, digital currencies, and decentralized network fetishism pp. 1-10

Jon Baldwin

Social media choices and uses: comparing Turkish and American young-adults’ social media activism pp. 1-10

Barbara Ruth Burke and Ayşe Fulya Şen

Socially mediated populism: the communicative strategies of political leaders on Facebook pp. 1-10

Gianpietro Mazzoleni and Roberta Bracciale

Healthy publics: enabling cultures and environments for health pp. 1-10

Stephen Hinchliffe, Mark A. Jackson, Katrina Wyatt, Anne E. Barlow, Manuela Barreto, Linda Clare, Michael H. Depledge, Robin Durie, Lora E. Fleming, Nick Groom, Karyn Morrissey, Laura Salisbury and Felicity Thomas

The politics of the China―Pakistan economic corridor pp. 1-10

Maham Hameed

Buildup of speaking skills in an online learning community: a network-analytic exploration pp. 1-10

Rasoul Shafipour, Raiyan Abdul Baten, Md Kamrul Hasan, Gourab Ghoshal, Gonzalo Mateos and Mohammed Ehsan Hoque

Living in poverty, living with poverty: the community workers’ conceptions on child poverty in Greece pp. 1-10

Christos N. Tsironis and Chrysa Almpani

Evidence and morality in harm-reduction debates: can we use value-neutral arguments to achieve value-driven goals? pp. 1-10

Giulia Federica Zampini

Healthcare consumers’ sensitivity to costs: a reflection on behavioural economics from an emerging market pp. 1-10

Quan-Hoang Vuong, Tung Ho, Hong Kong Nguyen and Thu-Trang Vuong

The Grand Projet politics of an urban age: urban megaprojects in Asia and Europe pp. 1-10

Naomi C. Hanakata and Anna Gasco

Knowledge management for policy impact: the case of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre pp. 1-10

Lene Topp, David Mair, Laura Smillie and Paul Cairney

Using evidence to influence policy: Oxfam’s experience pp. 1-10

Ruth Mayne, Duncan Green, Irene Guijt, Martin Walsh, Richard English and Paul Cairney

The good, the true and the beautiful: imagining an ethico-political future for the philosophy of religion pp. 1-10

Louise Hickman

Conceptualizing work-related mental distress in the British coalfields (c.1900–1950) pp. 1-10

Vicky Long and Victoria Brown

Comparing apples to apples: an environmental criminology analysis of the effects of heat and rain on violent crimes in Boston pp. 1-10

Alice J. Sommer, Mihye Lee and Marie-Abèle C. Bind

Joining the Islamic State from France between 2014 and 2016: an observational follow-up study pp. 1-10

Nicolas Campelo, Laura Bouzar, Alice Oppetit, Hugues Pellerin, Serge Hefez, Guillaume Bronsard, David Cohen and Dounia Bouzar

Understanding the public temper through an evaluation of rumours: an ethnographical method using educational technology pp. 1-10

Abdulrahman Essa Al Lily, Shaher R. Elayyan, Ahmed Ali Alhazmi and Saleh Alzahrani

Neither friend nor big brother: China’s role in North Korean foreign policy strategy pp. 1-6

Weiqi Zhang

Perspectives on human regeneration pp. 1-6

James F. Stark

The tapestry of Chinese capital in the Global South pp. 1-6

Ho-fung Hung

Towards decolonised knowledge about transport pp. 1-6

Tim Schwanen

Institutional dimensions of the future of philosophy of religion pp. 1-6

Lawrence A. Whitney

Group formation under limited resources: narrow basin of equality pp. 1-6

Dongryul Lee and Pilwon Kim

Understanding how China is championing climate change mitigation pp. 1-6

Anita Engels

Considering transgender and gender nonconforming people in health communication campaigns pp. 1-6

Ryan Combs, Monica Wendel and T. Gonzales

Why we need new architectural and design paradigms to meet the needs of vulnerable people pp. 1-6

Evangelia Chrysikou

Kick the hive, get the bees: graffiti writers as assemblage and direct action political actors in their battle against H&M pp. 1-6

Tyson Mitman

Bartlebys: Gothicizing office fiction pp. 1-6

Masaomi Kobayashi

Social norms and farm animal protection pp. 1-6

Nicolas Delon

Effects of beliefs about sanctions on promoting cooperation in a public goods game pp. 1-6

Hitoshi Yamamoto and Takahisa Suzuki

Integrity and Its counterfeits: implications for economy, business and management pp. 1-4

William Sun, Simon Robinson and Paweł Łukasz Polowczyk

Future cities: asserting public governance pp. 1-4

Simon Joss

Future cities: moving from technical to human needs pp. 1-4

Federico Caprotti

Horror and the Gothic’s utility as a cultural resource and critical tool pp. 1-4

John Edgar Browning

Geographies of emotional and care labour pp. 1-4

Jessica Parish and Jean Michel Montsion

Future cities: renarrating human agency pp. 1-4

Robert Cowley

What is ‘regeneration’ and who needs it? pp. 1-4

Pat Thane

‘‘Close, and ye shall find’’: eye closure during thinking enhances creativity pp. 1-4

Fumiya Yonemitsu, Kyoshiro Sasaki, Akihiko Gobara, Koji Kosugi and Yuki Yamada

The possibility and desirability of replication in the humanities pp. 1-4

Rik Peels and Lex Bouter

Turning psychology into policy: a case of square pegs and round holes? pp. 1-4

Carl Walker, Ewen Speed and Danny Taggart

The Russian Orthodox Church, the Kremlin, and religious (il)liberalism in Russia pp. 1-4

Jeremy W. Lamoreaux and Lincoln Flake

Gender, work, non-work and the invisible migrant: au pairs in contemporary Britain pp. 1-4

Rosie Cox

Lonely but avoidant—the unfortunate juxtaposition of loneliness and self-disgust pp. 1-4

Antonia Ypsilanti

Correction: A bibliometric analysis of the interdisciplinary field of cultural evolution pp. 1-2

Mason Youngblood and David Lahti

Regional politics of an urban age: Can Europe’s former industrial cities create a new industrial economy to combat climate change and social unravelling? pp. 1-15

Anne Power

Cultural additivity: behavioural insights from the interaction of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in folktales pp. 1-15

Quan-Hoang Vuong, Quang-Khiem Bui, La Phuong, Thu-Trang Vuong, Viet-Ha T. Nguyen, Ho Toan, Hong-Kong T. Nguyen and Tung Ho

The global politics of an urban age: creating 'cities for all' in the age of financialisation pp. 1-5

Enora Robin and Frances Brill

A Portuguese exception to right-wing populism pp. 1-5

Rodrigo Quintas da Silva

What has economics got to do with it? The impact of socioeconomic factors on mental health and the case for collective action pp. 1-5

Anna Macintyre, Daniel Ferris, Briana Gonçalves and Neil Quinn

Capability and adversity: reframing the “causes of the causes” for mental health pp. 1-5

Michael Smith

Orientation towards otherness in the social and literary spaces of today’s Europe pp. 1-5

Rosario Arias and Martyna Bryla

Edgar Allan Poe in Transylvania: Poe’s short stories and gothic elements in nineteenth century Romanian literature pp. 1-5

Lucian-Vasile Szabo and Marius-Mircea Crișan

Religion, poverty, and abundance pp. 1-5

Anna Salonen

The interior as interiority pp. 1-5

Vlad Ionescu

Integrating evidence, politics and society: a methodology for the science–policy interface pp. 1-5

Peter Horton and Garrett W. Brown

How to survive a crisis: reclaiming philosophy as a public practice pp. 1-5

Michael D. Burroughs

Young and unafraid: queer criminology’s unbounded potential pp. 1-5

Vanessa R. Panfil

UK-Russia relations: poisoned chalice or silver linings? pp. 1-5

Maxine David

‘Monstrous men’ and ‘sex scandals’: the myth of exceptional deviance in sexual harassment and violence in education pp. 1-5

Vanita Sundaram and Carolyn Jackson