While football remains mostly a sport associated with men and national identity, it has also become popular for women girls in Western countries. Despite this success, however, the coaching of strongly male dominated occupation. In paper, we explored how 10 elite coaches teams negotiated resisted entanglement techniques biopower, sovereign disciplinary power within sport. The results revealed t...

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study of British media representations of Islam. It offers a contribution to the literature on the international student sojourn by focusing on the unique experiences of the Muslim segment of that student body. International Muslim students perceived Muslim countries to be portrayed by the media as: (1) sympathetic to terrorism; (2) economically b...

We examine the impact of religious identity and village-level religious fragmentation on behavior in Tullock contests. We report on a series of two-player Tullock contest experiments conducted on a sample of 516 Hindu and Muslim participants in rural West Bengal, India. Our treatments are the identity of the two players and the degree of religious fragmentation in the village where subjects res...

Article New Labour’s Policies to Influence and Challenge Islam in Contemporary Britain: A Case Study on the National Muslim Women’s Advisory Group’s Theology Project Author Chris Allen Department of Social Policy, Sociology & Criminology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK [email protected] Abstract The creation of the National Muslims Women’s Advisory Group (NMWAG) in 2008 by ...

We examined cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between national and religious identification, Bicultural Identity Integration (BII), Social Complexity (SIC) among Muslim ado...

This article bridges Sri Lankan studies and the academic debate on the relation between contemporary Islam and politics. It constitutes a case study of the Muslim community in Akkaraipattu on Sri Lanka’s war-ridden east coast. Over two decades of ethnically colored conflict have made Muslim identity of paramount importance, but the meanings attached to that identity vary substantively. Politici...

The two major pathways for energy utilization from biomass are conversion to a liquid fuel (i.e., biofuels) or conversion to electricity (i.e., biopower). In the United States (US), biomass policy has focused on biofuels. However, this paper will investigate three options for biopower: low co-firing (co-firing scenarios refer to combusting a given percentage of biomass with coal) (5%–10% biomas...