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

Elected UK mp s 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 producer... 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.

Eastern Orthodox War Justification and Ecclesial Dilemmas Arising from the War in Ukraine (2024)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2024). Eastern Orthodox War Justification and Ecclesial Dilemmas Arising from the War in Ukraine. Studies in World Christianity, 30(2), 230-248. https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2024.0472

The escalation of ecclesial and religio-political conflicts since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has further complicated the convoluted ecclesial situation in Ukraine and has been addressed in a series of sermon... Read More about Eastern Orthodox War Justification and Ecclesial Dilemmas Arising from the War in Ukraine.

The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy (2024)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2024). The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy. Studies in Christian Ethics, 37(3), 669-692. https://doi.org/10.1177/09539468241258947

The sequence and escalation of Russian–Ukrainian political and military conflicts since 2014, culminating in Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, have reopened interest in and debates on just war theory and practice in general and specifica... Read More about The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy.

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.

Political uncertainty, corruption, and corporate cash holdings (2023)
Journal Article
Jayakody, S., Morelli, D., & Oberoi, J. (2023). Political uncertainty, corruption, and corporate cash holdings. Journal of Corporate Finance, 82, Article 102447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2023.102447

Exposure to political corruption and political uncertainty separately demands opposing risk management responses: to reduce cash to minimize expropriation and to increase cash to hedge policy risk. We study how local political corruption and politica... Read More about Political uncertainty, corruption, and corporate cash holdings.

The Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies (2022)
Journal Article
Crewe, E., Taylor-Robinson, M. M., & Martin, S. (2022). The Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies. Parliamentary Affairs, 75(4), 754-766. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac009

In this article, Emma Crewe, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson and Shane Martin discuss the future of parliamentary and legislative studies. The exchange is based on a Roundtable on the Past, Present and Future of Parliamentary Studies, which was held onli... Read More about The Future of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies.

The Past of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies (2022)
Journal Article
Martin, S., Taylor-Robinson, M. M., & Crewe, E. (2022). The Past of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies. Parliamentary Affairs, 75(4), 727-739. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac008

In this article, Shane Martin, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson and Emma Crewe discuss the past of parliamentary and legislative studies. The exchange is based on a Roundtable on the Past, Present and Future of Parliamentary Studies, which was held online... Read More about The Past of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies.

The Present of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies (2022)
Journal Article
Taylor-Robinson, M. M., Crewe, E., & Martin, S. (2022). The Present of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies. Parliamentary Affairs, 75(4), 740-753. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac010

In this article, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson, Emma Crewe and Shane Martin discuss the present of parliamentary and legislative studies. The exchange is based on a Roundtable on the Past, Present and Future of Parliamentary Studies, which was held onl... Read More about The Present of Parliamentary and Legislative Studies.

Sport Diplomacy and Sport for Development SfD: A Discourse of Challenges and Opportunity (2021)
Journal Article
Rofe, J. S. (2024). Sport Diplomacy and Sport for Development SfD: A Discourse of Challenges and Opportunity. Journal of Global Sport Management, 9(4), 688-703. https://doi.org/10.1080/24704067.2021.2010024

The article’s aim is to illustrate the intersection of Sport Diplomacy and Sport for Development approaches. The value of exploring this relationship is to realise the potential contribution of sport diplomacy to the practitioners and policy makers w... Read More about Sport Diplomacy and Sport for Development SfD: A Discourse of Challenges and Opportunity.

An Ethnography of Parliamentary Ethnographers: riffs, rhythms and rituals in their research (2021)
Journal Article
Crewe, E. (2021). An Ethnography of Parliamentary Ethnographers: riffs, rhythms and rituals in their research. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 10(3), 337-345. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOE-10-2021-085

Social science has witnessed a growing respect towards ethnography albeit in an uneven way across regions and disciplines [1]. The tolerance for ethnography in parliamentary studies seems to be far higher in the United Kingdom (UK) than in the USA, b... Read More about An Ethnography of Parliamentary Ethnographers: riffs, rhythms and rituals in their research.

Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation (2021)
Book
Gerteis, C. (2021). Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation. Cornell University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501756337

Mobilizing Japanese Youth examines the forces that shaped the political consciousness of Japanese youth who chose to engage in radical politics during the 1960s and 1970s. The book unpacks how intertwined notions of class and gender shaped the discou... Read More about Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation.

Streets Without Joy: A Political History of Sanctuary and War, 1959-2009 (2021)
Book
Innes, M. A. (2021). Streets Without Joy: A Political History of Sanctuary and War, 1959-2009. Hurst and Co

America’s wars after the 9/11 attacks were marked by a political obsession with terrorist ‘sanctuaries’ and ‘safe havens’. From mountain redoubts in Afghanistan to the deserts of Iraq, Washington’s policy-makers maintained an unwavering focus on find... Read More about Streets Without Joy: A Political History of Sanctuary and War, 1959-2009.

An Anthropology of Parliaments: Entanglements in Democratic Politics (2021)
Book
Crewe, E. (2021). An Anthropology of Parliaments: Entanglements in Democratic Politics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003084488

The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world. Crewe’s insights deepen our... Read More about An Anthropology of Parliaments: Entanglements in Democratic Politics.

Introduction to the themed section: Law, harm and depletion through social reproduction (2020)
Journal Article
Rai, S. M., & Goldblatt, B. (2020). Introduction to the themed section: Law, harm and depletion through social reproduction. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 3(2), 171-184. https://doi.org/10.1332/251510820X15855860254106

In this article, we outline an interdisciplinary exploration into the invisibilisation of social reproduction, most of which still continues to be done by women. In this introduction and themed section, we argue that the neglect of social reproductio... Read More about Introduction to the themed section: Law, harm and depletion through social reproduction.

Sleight is Right: Cyber Control as a New Battleground for African Elections (2019)
Journal Article
Amoah, M. (2019). Sleight is Right: Cyber Control as a New Battleground for African Elections. African Affairs, 119(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adz023

Sleight of hand in manipulating the computation of results has become the new might for deciding who wins presidential elections. It appears that whoever controls the computation exercises a right to take advantage and win, and whoever loses or relin... Read More about Sleight is Right: Cyber Control as a New Battleground for African Elections.

The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa (2019)
Book
Amoah, M. (2019). The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa. I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781838600501

Nationalism and the nation state, globalization and Pan-Africanism are leading international relations concepts which have a particular relevance for Africa as an emerging economic power. This book examines the concept of nationalism, the nationalist... Read More about The New Pan-Africanism: Globalism and the Nation State in Africa.

Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament (2019)
Book
Rai, S. M., & Spary, C. (2019). Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489053.001.0001

Breaking new ground in scholarship on gender and politics, Performing Representation is the first comprehensive analysis of women in the Indian Parliament. It explores the possibilities and limits of parliamentary democracy and the participation of w... Read More about Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament.