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A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics (2025)
Journal Article
Solsø, K., Crewe, E., & Chauhan, K. (2025). A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics. International Journal of Action Research, 21(1), 43-58. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v21i1.04

The influence of complexity theory on action research scholarship and practice has been kaleidoscopic. Further integrating ideas derived from the complexity sciences could enrich this research tradition, but there are choices to be made about what to... Read More about A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics.

Strategic ignorance and interests in the UK Parliament: the case of Transatlantic African Trafficking and Chattel Enslavement (2025)
Journal Article
Crewe, E. (2025). Strategic ignorance and interests in the UK Parliament: the case of Transatlantic African Trafficking and Chattel Enslavement. International Journal of Parliamentary Studies, 5(1), 9-38. https://doi.org/10.1163/26668912-bja10104

Elected UK MPs claim to represent our interests, for which they need to know our preferences within our social contexts, while peers in the House of Lords position themselves as knowledgeable experts. Parliaments are institutional knowledge producers... Read More about Strategic ignorance and interests in the UK Parliament: the case of Transatlantic African Trafficking and Chattel Enslavement.

Collaborative reflexive inquiry into parliaments: Ethnographers negotiating during research on politics (2025)
Book Chapter
Bernardes, C., Cornwall, A., Crewe, E., & Hoyler, T. (2025). Collaborative reflexive inquiry into parliaments: Ethnographers negotiating during research on politics. In J. Chibois, & S. Shapiro (Eds.), Fieldwork in centres of power, a longitudinal perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003356349-12

In August 2022, a group of four ethnographers assembled in São Paulo to undertake a collaborative inquiry with politicians, each with their own different identities, positions of power, rhythms of work and sensibilities. By researching as a team, we... Read More about Collaborative reflexive inquiry into parliaments: Ethnographers negotiating during research on politics.

Living Democracy: Open Conversations (2024)
Book
Massoumian, A., Bernardes, C., Leston-Bandeira, C., Crewe, E., Fontes, G., Kaur, J., Gabrehiwot, M., Van der Maarel, S., & Haddis, T. (2024). R. Axelby, & T. Hoyler (Eds.). Living Democracy: Open Conversations. SOAS University of London Books

Reimagining rhythms, rituals and symbols (2024)
Book Chapter
Crewe, E. (2024). Reimagining rhythms, rituals and symbols. In D. Judge, & C. Leston-Bandeira (Eds.), Reimagining Parliament (32-47). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529227024-005

This chapter identifies problems found within Westminster that exacerbate inequality, exclusion, unwellness and a shallow ethics. Four principles are proposed to guide thinking about how to reimagine parliament: a more inclusive approach to knowledge... Read More about Reimagining rhythms, rituals and symbols.

Parliamentary standards under attack: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Westminster Parliament (2024)
Journal Article
Crewe, E. (2024). Parliamentary standards under attack: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Westminster Parliament. The Journal of Legislative Studies, 30(2), 169-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2024.2345036

Healthy democracies require ethical leadership and respect for rules, but since the 2000s we have witnessed serious attacks on standards in the UK Parliament. Two narratives about scandals will reveal cultural and social aspects that are often ignore... Read More about Parliamentary standards under attack: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Westminster Parliament.

Review of: The political lives of postwar British MPs: An oral history of parliament, edited by Emma Peplow and Priscila Privatto, London, Bloomsbury, 2020, vi + 273 pp., £85, 978 1350089266 (hbk) (2024)
Journal Article
Crewe, E. (2024). Review of: The political lives of postwar British MPs: An oral history of parliament, edited by Emma Peplow and Priscila Privatto, London, Bloomsbury, 2020, vi + 273 pp., £85, 978 1350089266 (hbk). Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 44(2), 241-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/02606755.2024.2309029

Outsider Epistemologies: An Ethnographic Journey Amongst the Far-Right in London (2024)
Thesis
Massoumian, A. Outsider Epistemologies: An Ethnographic Journey Amongst the Far-Right in London. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

My PhD dissertation is an ethnography of far-right groups in London. By conducting fieldwork in three distinct field sites, this thesis looks into how contemporary far-right movements are able to mobilise fragmentary, and sometimes contradictory, for... Read More about Outsider Epistemologies: An Ethnographic Journey Amongst the Far-Right in London.

Rhythms of navigating time and space in the UK House of Commons (2023)
Book Chapter
Crewe, E. (2023). Rhythms of navigating time and space in the UK House of Commons. In S. Psarra, C. S. Sternberg, & U. Staiger (Eds.), Parliament Buildings: The architecture of politics in Europe (49-62). UCL Press

Parliamentary scholars tend to classify the work of Members of Parliament (MPs) into roles and measure their activities, votes and outputs. They thereby miss the contradictory, performative and ambivalent processes in politics. Influenced by Goffman’... Read More about Rhythms of navigating time and space in the UK House of Commons.