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Guy Aitchison

Loughborough University
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Against online public shaming: Ethical problems with mass social media

G Aitchison, S Meckled-Garcia - Social Theory and Practice, 2021 - JSTOR
Online Public Shaming (OPS) is a form of norm enforcement that involves collectively
imposing reputational costs on a person for having a certain kind of moral character. OPS …

Mapping the movement for climate change and health in England: a descriptive review and theory of change analysis

R Issa, C Baker, R Spooner, R Abrams… - … in Public Health, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims: There are a growing number of organisations working to address the connections
between climate change and health. This article introduces the concept of 'theories of …

[PDF][PDF] The dangers ahead: Covid-19, authoritarianism and democracy

L Cooper, G Aitchison - 2020 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
The Coronavirus crisis has massively aggravated the existing systemic risks facing the
international order. Prior to the crisis a powerful global tendency towards authoritarian …

Domination and disobedience: Protest, coercion and the limits of an appeal to justice

G Aitchison - Perspectives on Politics, 2018 - cambridge.org
I offer a conceptual framework for assessing the normative legitimacy of coercive
disobedience—involving threats, disruption, force, and deceit—by social movements. A …

Reform, rupture or re-imagination: Understanding the purpose of an occupation

G Aitchison - Social Movement Studies, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Despite a resurgence in the use of occupations as a political tactic in the UK, there is little
agreement on how they contribute to the realisation of a movement's goals. Drawing on the …

Self-harm in immigration detention: political, not (just) medical

G Aitchison, R Essex - Journal of medical ethics, 2022 - jme.bmj.com
Self-harm within immigration detention centres has been a widely documented
phenomenon, occurring at far higher rates than the wider community. Evidence suggests …

[BOOK][B] Abolishing the police

…, E BRUCE-JONES, D LOICK, GUY AITCHISON… - 2021 - nottingham-repository.worktribe.com
“This is the first time we are seeing… a conversation about defunding, and some people
having a conversation about abolishing the police and prison state. This must be what it felt …

Three models of republican rights: Juridical, parliamentary and populist

G Aitchison - Political Studies, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The republican tradition in political theory offers a distinct approach to thinking about rights
that addresses long-standing objections to the depoliticising logic of the discourse through …

Border-Crossing: Immigration law, racism and justified resistance

G Aitchison - Political Studies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Aside from the case of refugees under international law, are non-citizen outsiders morally
justified in unlawfully entering another state? Recent answers to this question, based on a …

[HTML][HTML] Everyday resistance in the UK's National Health Service

R Essex, J Dillard-Wright, G Aitchison… - Journal of Bioethical …, 2023 - Springer
Resistance is a concept understudied in the context of health and healthcare. This is in part
because visible forms of social protest are sometimes understood as incongruent with …