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Some of our publications are listed below. Please visit Lancaster's Research Portal where you can access bibliographics references for over 900 publications.

Philosophy

Clark, Samuel, 'Under the mountain: basic training, individuality, & comradeship', Res Publica 19.1(2013): 67-79. 

Clark, Samuel 'Pleasure as Self-Discovery', Ratio 25(2012)

Clark, Samuel 'Love, Poetry, and the Good Life: Mill's Autobiography and Perfectionist Ethics', Inquiry 53(2010)

Clark, Samuel 'Kicking against the pricks: anarchist perfectionism and the conditions of independence' in Benjamin Franks & Matthew Wilson eds, Anarchism and Moral Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan 2010)

Cooper, Rachel. (2008) Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Levitt M.  (2013)  Genes, environment and responsibility for violent behaviour: ‘Whatever genes one has it is preferable that you are prevented from going around stabbing people’ New Genetics and Society http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14636778.2012.699352

Levitt M. (2011) ‘Relating to participants: how close do biobanks and donors really want to be?’ Health Care Analysis 19:220-30

Levitt M. and O’Neill F.K. (2010) ‘Making humans better and making better humans’. Genomics Society and Policy 6:1 pp.1-15   http://www.gspjournal.com/

Levitt, Mairi and Pieri, Elisa (2009)"It could just be an additional test couldn't it?": Genetic testing for susceptibility to aggression and violence. New Genetics and Society, 28 (2). pp.189-200. ISSN 1469-9915 (electronic) 1463-6778 (paper) Item not available in the ePrints repository.

Manson, Neil. & O’Neill, O. (2007) Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics, Cambridge University Press.

Stone, Alison (2009) German romantic and idealist conceptions of nature. In: Stolzenberg, Jürgen and Ameriks , Karl and Rush , Fred, (eds.) International Yearbook of German Idealism. De Gruyter, pp.80-101. ISBN 978-3-11-019678-8 Item availablity restricted.

Stone, Alison. (2007) An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy, Australia: Polity Press.

Stone, Alison. (2006) Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference, Cambridge University Press.

Stone, Alison. (2004) Petrified Intelligence: Nature in Hegel’s Philosophy, State University of New York Press.

Unwin, Nick. (2006) Aiming at Truth, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Williams, Garrath Children as means and ends in large-scale medical research Williams, G. 10/2012 In : Bioethics. 26, 8, p. 422-430.

Williams, Garrath Between ethics and right: Kantian politics and democratic purposes Williams, G. 09/2012 In : European Journal of Philosophy. 20, 3, p. 479-486.

Williams, Garrath Responsibilities for Health Care: Kantian Reflections Williams, G. & Chadwick, R. 04/2012 In : Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 21, 2, p. 155-165.

Williams, Garrath "Who are we to judge?" - on the proportionment of happiness to virtue.
Williams, G. 01/2010 In : Philosophy. 85, 1, p. 47-66.

Williams, Garrath ‘Intelligible facts’: Toward a constructivist account of action and responsibility Williams, G. 2011 In: Politics and Metaphysics in Kant. Baiasu, S., Williams, H. & Pihlström, S. (eds.). Cardiff : Wales University Press p. 196-214.

Williams, Garrath Responsibility
Williams, G. 2012 In: Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. Chadwick, R. (ed.). 3. 2nd ed. San Diego : Academic Press p. 821-828.

Todd, Cain Samuel (2009) Imaginability, morality, and fictional truth: dissolving the puzzle of 'imaginative resistance'. Philosophical Studies, 143 (2). pp.187-211. ISSN 0031-8116 (Print) 1573-0883 (Online)

Politics and International Relations

Bishop, Patrick. & Preston, N. (2000) Local Government: Public Enterprise and Ethics, Australia: Federation Press.

Garnett, M. & Lynch, P. 2012 3rd ed. ed Exploring British Politics. Harlow: Pearson Longman. 594 p.

Dorey, P. , Garnett, M. & Denham, A. 2011 From crisis to coalition: the Conservative Party, 1997-2010 Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 216 p.

Germond, Basil Les forces navales européennes dans la période post-guerre froide [The European Naval Forces in the post-Cold War Era], L'Harmattan, Paris, 2008, 295p.

Jussi Hanhimäki, Georges-Henri Soutou and Basil Germond (eds),The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Security, Routledge, London and New York,2010, 300p.

André Liebich and Basil Germond (eds), Construire l'Europe [The European Unification Process], volume edited in memory of Professor Pierre du Bois, Presses universitaires de France, IHEID, Paris, Geneva, 2008, 301p.

Geyer, Robert. & Rihani, S. (2010) Complexity and Public Policy: A New Approach to 21st Century Politics, Policy and Society, Oxford: Routledge.

Lacy, Mark. & Wilkin, P. (2006) Global Politics in the Information Age, Manchester University Press.

Lacy, Mark. (2005) Security and Climate Change – International Relations and the Limits of Realism, Oxford: Routledge.

Mills, Thomas. (2012) Post-War Planning on the Periphery: Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy in South America, 1939-1945, Edinburgh University Press.

Mills, Thomas. (2011)"The 'Hemisphere Isolationists' and Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy during the Second World War", Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 9/1, pp.63-75.

Mills, Thomas. (2009)"Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy During the Second World War and the Electrification of the Central Brazilian Railway", Diplomacy and Statecraft, 20/1 (March 2009), pp.69-85.

Mills, Thomas. (forthcoming 2012) "John Hay Whitney, 1957-1961" in, J. Simon Rofe and Alison Holmes eds. The US Embassy in London, 1938-2008: 70 Years in Grosvenor Square, Palgrave-Macmillan.

Mills, Thomas. (forthcoming 2012) "Mobilising the Americas for War: Jefferson Caffery in Brazil, 1937-1944", in J. Simon Rofe and Andrew Stewart eds. Diplomats at War: The American Experience, Republic of Letters Press.

T. Lundberg and M. Steven (2013) ‘Framing Electoral Reform in the 2011 UK Alternative Vote Referendum Campaign’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 48 (1), 1-13

Steven, Martin. (2010) Christianity and Party Politics: Keeping the Faith, London and New York: Routledge.

May, Chris The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights (three volumes) (Edward Elgar, 2010) [editor]

May, Chris The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights: The new enclosures (The Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy series) - fully revised/updated second edition (London: Routledge 2010)

May, Chris Digital Rights Management: The Problem of Expanding Ownership Rights (Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2007)

Misra, Amalendu. (2004) Afghanistan: The Labyrinth of Violence, Australia: Polity Press.

Misra, Amalendu. (2004) Identity and Religion: Foundations of Anti-Islamism in India, Sage Publications.

Nordin, Astrid (2012) 'How soft is "soft power"? Unstable dichotomies at Expo 2010', Asian Perspective, 36(4):591-613.

Nordin, Astrid (2012) 'Space for the Future: Exhibiting China in the World at Expo 2010', China Information, 26(2): 235-49.

Nordin, Astrid (2012) 'Taking Baudrillard to the fair: Exhibiting China in the world at Expo 2010', Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 37(2): 106-20.

Jessop, R. & Sum, Ngai-ling. (2006) Beyond the Regulation Approach: Putting Capitalist Economies in their Place, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

Perkmann, M. & Sum, Ngai-Ling. (2002) Globalization, Regionalization and cross-border regions, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Religious Studies

Black, Brian. (2008) The Character of the Self in Ancient India: Priests, Kings, and Women in the Early Upanisads, New York: State University of New York Press.

Dawson, Andrew (2010) Taking possession of Santo Daime: the growth of Umbanda within a Brazilian new religion. In: Schmidt, Bettina and Huskinson, Lucy, (eds.) Spirit possession and trance: new interdisciplinary perspectives. Continuum, London. ISBN 978-0826435743 Item not available in the ePrints repository.

Hyman, Gavin. (ed.) New Directions in Philosophical Theology: Essays in Honour of Don Cupitt  (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)
A Short History of Atheism  (London: I B Tauris, 2010).
Traversing the Middle: Ethics, Politics, Religion  (Eugene, OR: Cascade, forthcoming 2013).

Jeremiah, Anderson, Community and worldview among Paraiyars of South India: 'Lived' religion,  London: Continuum (Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies), 2012

Jeremiah, Anderson, “Transcending the Boundaries with Jesus: Gleanings of Ecumenism for Today” in Ecclesiology:The Continuing Possibility of Renewal, Vinod Victor, (ed.) Delhi: ISPCK, 2012

Jeremiah, Anderson, “Localizing Christianity for social change: the subversion of caste in rural South India” in New Dynamics of Religious Expansion, Afe Adogame and Shobana Shankar, (ed.) BRILL Books, 2012

Kawanami, Hiroko (2009) Charisma, Power(s), and the Arahant Ideal in Burmese- Myanmar Buddhism. Asian Ethnology, 68 (2). pp.211-237. ISSN 1882-6865 Item availablity restricted.

Kawanami, Hiroko (2009) Introduction to the special issue on Myanmar-Burmese Religion. Asian Ehtnology, 68 (2). pp.177-183. ISSN 1882-6865 Item availablity restricted.

Knott, Kim. and Mitchell, J. (2012) ‘Changing faces of religion and media. In L. Woodhead and R. Catto, eds, Religion and Change in Modern Britain, pp. 243-64, London and New York, Routledge.

Knott, Kim. (2011) Moving People, Changing Places, Leeds: Community Religions Project (www.movingpeoplechangingplaces.org).
 
Knott, Kim. (2011) ‘Spatial methods’. In M. Stausberg and S. Engler, eds, The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religion, pp. 491-501, London and New York: Routledge.

Knott, Kim. (2011) ‘Spatial theory for the study of religion’, Religion and Place, Wiley virtualissue on the geography and sociology of religion, 2011, http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-610471.html.
 
Knott, Kim. and McLoughlin, S. eds. (2010) Diasporas: Concepts, Identities, Intersections, London and New York: Zed Books.

Knott, Kim (2010) ‘Theoretical and methodological resources for breaking open the secular and exploring the boundary between religion and non-religion’, Historia Religionum, 2, 2010, pp. 115-133. http://www.religionandsociety.org.uk/publications/journal_articles/page:5

Knott, Kim (2010) ‘Religion, space and place: The spatial turn in research on religion’, Religion and Society: Advances in Research, 1, pp. 29-43 (edsS Coleman and R Sarró) Berghahn Books.

Partridge, Chris & Christianson, E. (2009) The Lure of the Dark Side: Satan and Western Demonology in Popular Culture, London: Equinox Publishing Limited.

Partridge, Chris (2010) Dub in Babylon: Understanding the Evolution and Significance of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post-punk, London: Equinox Publishing Limited.

Partridge, Chris (2006) The Re-enchantment of the West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture v. 2, London: T. & T. Clark Limited.

Partridge, Chris. (2007) The New Lion Handbook: The World’s Religions, Oxford: Lion Hudson PLC.

Ram-Prasad, Chris. (2007) Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge: Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics and Soteriology, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing.

Woodhead, Linda and Catto, R (eds) Religion and Change in Modern Britain. London: Routledge 2012

Riis, O. & Woodhead, Linda. (2010) A Sociology of Religious Emotion, Oxford University Press.

Woodhead, Linda., Kawanami, H. and Partridge, C. (2009) Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, Oxford: Routledge.

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