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Category: Political Engagement

Coach-athlete relationship, social support, and sport-related psychological well-being in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I student-athletes

Posted on 2nd May 202213th May 2022 by bmonaghan

The coach-athlete relationship and social support are stressors that impact athletes’ well-being, however, most research in this area focusses on the relationship between these variables and burnout. Researchers have shown differences in stressors experienced between sport types (individual and team) where evidence suggests individual sport athletes report higher mental health concerns compared to those in team sports. This study aimed to understand the relationships between the coach-athlete relationship, social support, and psychological well-being among collegiate athletes, and the impact of sport type on these variables. A total of 153 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I student-athletes completed coach-athlete relationship, social support, and well-being measures online. Results indicate the coach-athlete relationship and social support were both positively correlated with well-being, but there were no significant differences between sport type on any outcome variables. Findings from this study may influence future coaching practices and support networks, thus positively impacting student athletes’ well-being.


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Eadie E. Simons, University of Lincoln, School of Sport and Exercise Science

Matthew D. Bird, University of Lincoln, School of Sport and Exercise Science

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SUICIDE IN/AS POLITICS

Posted on 1st May 202213th May 2022 by bmonaghan

Suicide is political: both individual acts of suicide, and suicide rates, are partly influenced by political and social contexts, policies, and discourses. While it is important to understand individual psychology in relation to suicide, it is equally vital to examine how policy regimes impact on the lives and deaths of citizens. For example, activists and scholars have suggested that recent austerity policies in the UK have led to increased suicide within marginalised groups (recipients of welfare benefits). The political nature of suicide is sometimes recognised in academic studies, however, most research concerning suicide tends to frame the practice as exclusively about mental ill-health, and as such is conducted from psychological or psychiatric perspectives. There is an increasing and pressing acknowledgement that different forms of knowledge about suicide are needed, along with more interdisciplinary ways of approaching its study. Despite this acknowledgement, research exploring suicide from within sociology and political studies is still limited, and there remains a lack of qualitative and interdisciplinary knowledge in this field.

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A Critical Reader in Central Asian Studies

Posted on 7th April 2022 by bmonaghan

Central Asian Survey has remained as the premier world-leading peer-reviewed journal for Central Asian studies for four decades. To mark the 40th anniversary of the journal, this volume is intended to be a reader of selected essays from the journal over the last four decades.

This book is not just a mere collection, but also a critical reflection on the field over that time. Each of the nine sections in the book feature a critical appraisal of the selected excerpts by young scholars who analyse the reproduced excerpts and the contribution they make to advancing our understanding of the field. The nine sections encapsulate prominent themes in Central Asian studies: history, identity and nationalism, Islam, governing and the state, informal institutions, contentious politics, gender, everyday life, and regional and global perspectives. The book is not just intended to reflect on the role of Central Asian Survey in the development of Central Asian studies, but also the aim is for the volume to be used as a teaching resource where the different sections in the collection could correlate to specific teaching weeks in courses on the region. The different contributions cover many case studies from across a range of countries that have featured in the journal over the years, and thus is not just restricted to the Central Asian republics but also includes Mongolia, Azerbaijan, and Xinjiang.

This book will serve as a great resource for researchers and students of Central Asian history, politics, culture, society, and international relations.


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Rico Isaacs, University of Lincoln, School of Social and Political Sciences


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Lincoln Legal Experts Contribute to Important House of Lords Report

Posted on 5th April 20227th April 2022 by bmonaghan

Professor Richard Barnes (Lincoln law School) and Professor Elizabeth Kirk (Professor of Global and Ecological Justice, Director of the Lincoln Centre for Ecological Justice) have made important contributions to a significant report published by the House of Lords on the law of the sea in the 21st century.

On 1st March, the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee released the findings and recommendations from their enquiry into the fitness for purpose of the current legal regime.

Amongst the key findings, supported by Professor Barnes and Kirk, were: the need to enhance governance of the high seas and strengthen control over harmful activities such as marine pollution and overfishing; building up cooperative frameworks to tackle security issues at sea, such as piracy and armed robbery; and enhancing the protection of human rights at sea, particularly in light of mass migrations of people by sea.

Professor Richard Barnes (Lincoln law School) and Professor Elizabeth Kirk (Professor of Global and Ecological Justice, Director of the Lincoln Centre for Ecological Justice) have made important contributions to a significant report published by the House of Lords on the law of the sea in the 21st century.

On 1st March, the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee released the findings and recommendations from their enquiry into the fitness for purpose of the current legal regime. Amongst the key findings, supported by Professors Barnes and Kirk, were: the need to enhance governance of the high seas and strengthen control over harmful activities such as marine pollution and overfishing; building up cooperative frameworks to tackle security issues at sea, such as piracy and armed robbery; and enhancing the protection of human rights at sea, particularly in light of mass migrations of people by sea.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is a ‘constitution for the oceans’. It is foundational to all aspects of oceans use. The oceans are under increasing pressure from new activities such as deep seabed mining, and renewable energy generation, whilst existing activities such as fishing, shipping and offshore oil and gas alongside pollution problems such as that posed by plastics are increasing pressure on valuable but limited ocean resources.

The oceans can be sites of conflict and dispute between states. And there is increasing concern about threats to security from harmful activities, such as overexploitation of resources and pollution, as well as illegal activities such as trafficking of people. Whilst the legal framework does not need a radical overhaul, Professors Barnes and Kirk would stress that we cannot be complacent and that more work is need to ensure the Convention and related legal instruments remain fit for purpose.

These issues are addressed in the work of Professors Barnes and Kirk and by colleagues in the Lincoln Centre for Ecological Justice, a multidisciplinary research centre focussed on improving our understanding of how best to make the necessary changes in human and institutional behaviour at a level and degree that will help protect and revitalise our ecosystem processes, including those found within the oceans and ensure a just sharing of the benefits derived from those ecosystems.

Professor Kirk noted “with so many challenges facing the world at present, from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to the continuing Covid 19 pandemic, it is easy to lose sight of the importance of our oceans to us. It is vital, however, that we keep sight of the role that oceans play in providing food security, as a sink for green house gases and in securing safe transport for goods. To continue to enjoy these benefits, we need to review and enhance existing governance systems for the oceans.”


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Richard Barnes, University of Lincoln, Lincoln Law School

Elizabeth Kirk, University of Lincoln, Lincoln Law School


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Virtual Roundtable – ‘Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine: regional perspectives from the Baltic Republics, Central Asia and China’

Posted on 8th March 2022 by bmonaghan

The Politics of Disorder Research Group at the University of Lincoln in collaboration with the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen present:

Virtual Roundtable – ‘Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine: regional perspectives from the Baltic Republics, Central Asia and China’

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to cause anxiety and concern both for the tragic humanitarian crisis it is causing and for the implications it has for international law, sovereignty, and security. In this roundtable we bring together three experts to discuss the implications of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine from three regional perspectives: the Baltics, Central Asia and China. The aim is to understand how responses from these regions are tied to their international relations with Russia and Ukraine, as well as the internal tension in these regions. The aim is to gain a deeper insight into how the unfolding war is understood across the broader Eurasian continent.

This roundtable will be a virtual event which takes place on Friday 11 March from 1pm GMT.

The link can be accessed here:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OTk1ZDVlMzEtZWYxYi00YjA1LTliM2UtYmE5ZWVhY2Q4YTM2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22952e47c4-05de-4282-83af-5f4b46b1628f%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%223feb802a-2204-4fe8-bb9d-fcba9f2808ce%22%7d

and here:

https://pod.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/events/

Speakers:

Dr. Māris Andžāns, Center for Geopolitical Studies, Riga, Latvia

Māris Andžāns, Dr.sc.pol., is the Director of the Center for Geopolitical Studies Riga. He is also Assistant Professor and leads Diplomacy and Russia & Eurasia MA study programs at Riga Stradins University.

Previously, he has worked for the Latvian Institute of International Affairs. He was also a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

He has authored around 100 publications, primarily on security and defense issues of the Baltic states, but also Central Asia, as well as transport and digital policies.

Dr. Andžāns has ten years of experience in the public administration of Latvia. He served in positions related to the coordination of EU and NATO issues, security of transport and communications, civil-military cooperation, aviation, electronic communications, and postal issues. Among other duties, he has served as the Chairman of the National Cyber Security Council of Latvia and the Dangerous Goods Movement Consultative Council of Latvia.

Dr Nargis Kassenova, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Nargis Kassenova is Senior Fellow and director of the Program on Central Asia at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard University) and Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations and Regional Studies of KIMEP University (Almaty, Kazakhstan). She is the former founder and director of the KIMEP Central Asian Studies Center (CASC) and the China and Central Asia Studies Center (CCASC). Kassenova holds a PhD in International Cooperation Studies from the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University (Japan). Her research focuses on Central Asian politics and security, Eurasian geopolitics, China’s Belt and Road Initiative and governance in Central Asia, and history of state-making in Central Asia. Kassenova is a member of the Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) Eurasia Program, the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) Europe and Central Asia Division, the UN High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs, the Advisory Group of the EU Central Asia Monitoring (EUCAM) program, and the Academic Council of the European Neighbourhood Council (ENC). She is on the editorial boards of Central Asian Survey, Central Asian Affairs, and REGION: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia journals.

Dr Ming-chin Monique Chu, University of Southampton

Dr Monique Chu is lecturer in Chinese Politics at the University of Southampton. Her research sits within the areas of international political economy and security of international relations. Her specific research interests include the concept and practice of sovereignty and the impact of globalization on security with reference to semiconductors. She’s the author of The East Asian Computer Chip War (Routledge, 2014). Her other scholarly research has been published in The China Quarterly and China Perspectives. In March 2018, she gave oral evidence on China’s capabilities in the field of emerging technologies in front of the House of Lords International Relations Committee. She has been interviewed by numerous news outlets such as the BBC on issues pertaining to Chinese foreign policies, semiconductors, Chinese politics, and Cross-Strait relations. She obtained MPhil and PhD degrees in international relations from the University of Cambridge.

 

 

Culture Wars in the Post-Soviet Space

Posted on 2nd October 20217th October 2021 by bmonaghan

In the last decade the term culture war has become hard to avoid. If it is not yet the buzzword of the first part of the twenty-first century, it soon will be. Culture wars seem to be around us everywhere. Each passing week brings some new mention of an outbreak in a public institution, civic space or political arena in some part of the globe. Culture wars are the phenomenon we cannot seem to shake. Battle lines are drawn, rhetorical tools are sharpened and social media awash with vitriol and moralising, and seemingly unbridgeable social gaps. If the immediate post-Cold War period did usher in an era of universal global liberalism, decades on it is now far in the distance, only visible in the rear-view mirror. Instead, around us lie social and political fault lines featuring competing visions of what should be the appropriate normative basis upon which societies should be constituted. They are debates that focus on belonging, on citizenship, on rights and identities.


Rico Isaacs, University of Lincoln, School of Social and Political Sciences

Jonathan Wheatley, Oxford Brookes University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Sarah Whitmore, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus


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Want: Still the easiest giant to attack?

Posted on 1st October 20217th October 2021 by bmonaghan

Beveridge claimed that ‘want’ was ‘in some ways the easiest [giant] to attack’ and yet 80 years after his report was published, poverty persists and indeed, has been increasing in recent years. In this article, we review both the key features of the Beveridge Report in relation to poverty and its implementation by the Labour government 1945–51, before turning to an analysis of how social security policy has changed since then. We then review changes in poverty levels since World War Two and attitudes to poverty. We conclude that Beveridge’s plan helped to reduce poverty in the immediate post-war years not least because of full employment. Nevertheless, poverty was not eradicated even at this time due to low levels of wages in work and low levels of benefits out of work. Since then, a number of reforms have generally moved further away from the Beveridge plan including a renewed focus on means testing and cuts in benefit levels. These have also contributed to increased levels of poverty, particularly for those of working age in recent years.


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Prof Steve McKay, University of Lincoln, School of Social and Political Sciences

Karen Rowlingson, University of Birmingham, Department of Social Policy


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Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia

Posted on 15th September 2021 by bmonaghan

The Central Asia Program invites you to the book launch event

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (EST)

The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia offers the first comprehensive, cross-disciplinary overview of key issues in Central Asian studies. The 30 chapters by leading and emerging scholars summarise major findings in the field and highlight long-term trends, recent observations and future developments in the region. The handbook features case studies of all five Central Asian republics and is organised thematically in seven sections: history, politics, geography, international relations, political economy, society and culture, and religion

An essential cross-disciplinary reference work, the handbook offers an accessible and easy to understand guide to the core issues permeating the region to enable readers to grasp the fundamental challenges, transformations and themes in contemporary Central Asia. It will be of interest to researchers, academics and students of the region and those working in the field of Area Studies, History, Anthropology, Politics and International Relations.

 

Rico IsaacsRSVP

 

Conceptualising Culture Wars in the Post-Communist Space: Latvia, the Istanbul Convention and the Struggle for Power

Posted on 9th August 20219th August 2021 by bmonaghan

This essay establishes a framework for analysing culture wars in the post-communist space. Using Latvia’s debate over the ratification of the Istanbul Convention on violence against women, it outlines the central features of culture wars: moralisation, externalisation of agency, the instrumentalisation of culture and the struggle for power and resources. While existing scholarship conceptualises culture wars as a dichotomous battle between the sacred and the secular, or between liberal and illiberal, our thematic analysis of the Istanbul Convention debate in Latvia finds it was less about culture and more a complex struggle between political and religious actors competing for power and resources.


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Rico Isaacs, University of Lincoln, School of Social and Political Sciences

Liga Rudzite, Tallinn University of Technology


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