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Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales (2025)
Journal Article
Cockcroft, T., Bowles, B., Taylor-Dunn, H., & Williams, E. (online). Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales. Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2025.2455380

Police tutoring, to date, has received little attention from researchers and what research currently exists points to a system that is largely failing. The current research was undertaken in response to a range of concerns including those relating to... Read More about Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales.

Uncomfortable knowledge, the production of ignorance, and the trustworthiness of UK policing (2024)
Journal Article
Fenton-O’Creevy, M., Bowles, B., Maguire, L., & Williams, E. (2024). Uncomfortable knowledge, the production of ignorance, and the trustworthiness of UK policing. Policing: a Journal of Policy and Practice, 18, Article paae117. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paae117

In this article, we draw on emerging theories of the production of ignorance in organizations. We conduct a qualitative analysis of two forms of secondary data on policing in England and Wales: first, documents in the public domain from the Casey Rev... Read More about Uncomfortable knowledge, the production of ignorance, and the trustworthiness of UK policing.

Resilience, infrastructure and the anti-social contract in neoliberal Britain (2022)
Journal Article
Bowles, B. (2022). Resilience, infrastructure and the anti-social contract in neoliberal Britain. Critique of Anthropology, 42(3), 270-285. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x221120171

‘Resilience’, a quintessentially neoliberal concept, has never been a politically neutral discourse, its intellectual roots situated in the work of Friedrich Hayek and the birth of neoliberal economics. Nevertheless, resilience in infrastructure is o... Read More about Resilience, infrastructure and the anti-social contract in neoliberal Britain.

Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure: The case of Macquarie in Britain’s water and energy networks (2022)
Journal Article
Van Waeyenberge, E., Bayliss, K., & Bowles, B. (2023). Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure: The case of Macquarie in Britain’s water and energy networks. New Political Economy, 28(2), 155-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2022.2084521

This paper explores the ways that private equity practices of financialised value extraction have migrated to the water sector in England. In line with the financialisation literature more broadly, we show how private equity investors have found inno... Read More about Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure: The case of Macquarie in Britain’s water and energy networks.

London’s “Super Sewer”: A case study for the interdisciplinary possibilities of anthropologists and economists investigating infrastructure together (2021)
Journal Article
Van Waeyenberge, E., Bowles, B., & Bayliss, K. (2021). London’s “Super Sewer”: A case study for the interdisciplinary possibilities of anthropologists and economists investigating infrastructure together. Research in economic anthropology, 41, 5-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0190-128120210000041001

Despite the fact that recent anthropological interest in infrastructure has done much to illuminate the infrastructure asset as an assemblage of actors, technologies and ideas, an interdisciplinary approach is required to unpack how the infrastructur... Read More about London’s “Super Sewer”: A case study for the interdisciplinary possibilities of anthropologists and economists investigating infrastructure together.