Books and edited volumes

Book Contract with Temple University Press signed. “Building Alternative Sexual Worlds: Sexual Ethics in the #MeToo Era.”

“Health Apps, Genetic Diets, and Superfoods.” February 2023, Bloomsbury Press.

“Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework.” November 2021, Edinburgh University Press.

“The Ethics of Geoengineering: Climate Change and Feminist Empiricism.” January 2019, Springer Press.

“Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies.”, In press, Bristol University Press. Editor. Chapter author: “PureHealth: Feminist new materialism, posthuman auto-ethnography and hegemonic health assemblages.”

“Disrupted Knowledge, Scholarship in a Time of Change.”, March 2023, Brill Press/Haymarket Books. First Editor. Chapter author: “The Colour of Technology: Covid-19, Race, and the Pulse Oximeter.”

“STS and Health Praxis: Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies.”, January 2023, Bristol University Press. Sole Editor.

Articles and blog posts

November 2 2022. “Universities must stop policing and surveilling international PGRs.” Times Higher Education. co-authored with a PGR student.

November 29 2021. “Climate Engineering: An Examination of the Skies Through the Lens of Art, and Culture.” Backchannels: Society for Social Studies of Science.

December 1 2021. “A Conversation with Tina Sikka on ‘Sex, Consent and Justice.’” Edinburgh University Press Blog.

January 2021. “Covid-19, Fatness, and Risk: Medico-Media Discourses and Stigma.” Platypus: The Castac Blog.

July 2020. ‘What is Cancel Culture Interview.” Huffpost.

July 13, 2020. ‘Fugitivity: How Black Studies Can Help Us Rethink The Refugee.’ Dismantle.

May 27, 2020. ‘BMI, Race, and Bodies: How Race Science Reemerges in the Unlikeliest of Places.’ Nursing Clio.

May 29, 2020. ‘Racialisation, COVID-19 and Bioessentialism.’ Transforming Society, Bristol University Press.

December 13, 2019. ‘Two Arguments to Help Decide Whether to ‘Cancel’ Someone and Their Work.’ The Conversation.

December 11, 2019. ‘Health and Justice: Neoliberalism, Apps and the Limits of Individual Choice.’ Areo.

December 8, 2019. ‘Social Media Penetrates Every Aspect of Our Online Lives for Profit.’ Truthout. co-authored with Florian Zollmann, Daniel Broudy & Jeffery Klaehn

August 15, 2019. ‘Neoliberal Capitalism and the Limits of Individual Choice.’ Alternet.

July 2019. ‘Why We Need A Feminist Climate Science and How We Might Get It.’ LadyScience.

June 25, 2019. ‘Against Twenty-First-Century Race Science.’ Jacobin.

June 6, 2019. ‘Politics of categorization: Race and blood.’ Sociology Lens.

September 5, 2018. ‘What not to watch: #MeToo and contemporary popular culture’ Sociology Lens.

Reviews

Virgie Tovar. ‘The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Positivity for Girls of Color’, Fat Studies, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21604851.2020.1797351.

Debbie Rodan, Kate Ellis and Pia Lebeck. ‘Disability, Obesity and Ageing: Popular Media Representations’, The Popular Cultural Studies Journal, Vol 4 (1&2), 499-503, 2016.

Johanna Oksala. ‘Feminist Experiences: Foucauldian and Phenomenological Investigations’, Phenomenological Reviews: http://reviews.ophen.org/2016/05/27/johanna-oksala-feminist-experiences-foucauldian-phenomenological-investigations/

Allen Thompson and Jeremly Bendik-Keymer, Ed. ‘Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future’, Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 11(3): 936-939, 2013.

Elmer J. Thiessen. ‘Ethics of Evangelism: A Philosophical Defense of Proselytizing and Persuasion’, Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 37(4), 2012.

John D. Jackson et al. ‘Mediated Society: A Critical Sociology of Media’, Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 37(3), 2012.

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

“The unbearable optimism of the sexual economy of consent.” Gender and Society, under review.

“Identifying the barriers to inclusion in field-based environmental sciences research.” Studies in Higher Education. Co-authored with colleagues on NERC funded project, second author, under review.

“Sexual Futures and Creative Practice: Engagements in World-Building." Hypatia, under review.

“Sexual Ethics and Lived Experience: Empowering Sexual Futures.” Feminist Review. Co-authored with Lady Kitt, Sarah Li, and Emma Atkinson, under review.

“Fatness and its intersections: Stigma, healthism, and visibility in pandemic healthcare. Forum on Social Economics. Co-authored with Maia Almeida-Amir and Sara Alderham, under review.

“Epistemic injustice, university bordering regimes and international postgraduate researchers” Journal of Digital Social Research. Co-authored with Heather Proctor, under review.

“PureHealth: Feminist new materialism, posthuman auto-ethnography and hegemonic health assemblages.” In: Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies, Bristol University Press, in press.

“The limits of limit cases: Sexual ethics and graduate student-staff relationships.” Sexuality, Gender & Policy, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/sgp2.12058

“The Colour of Technology: Covid-19, Race, and the Pulse Oximeter,” In: Tina Sikka, Gareth Longstaff, Steve Walls (eds), Disrupted Knowledge: Scholarship in a Time of Change. Leiden: Brill Press, 2023, 55-77.

“Indigenous knowledge and new materialism,” Dina Lupin (ed), A Research Agenda for Human Rights and the Environment. London: Elgar Research Agendas, 2023, 181-208, co-authored with Elizabeth Mills and Nisha Sikka.

“Conducting more inclusive solar geoengineering research:  A feminist science framework.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 2022, Co-authored with Dr. Ben Kravitz. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221132831

“Covid-19 and Race: News Coverage of Structural Racism and the Role of John Henryism and Racial Weathering in BAME Covid-19 Deaths,” Javnost. 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2022.2042949.

“The Social Construction of ‘Good Health,’” Charlene Elliot, Jason Greenberg (eds), Communication & Health: Media, Marketing and Risk. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022, 231-249.

“Food and Life: Media Coverage of Living Wakes in the Context of Assisted Dying.” European Journal of Food and Drink. 2021, 1(2), 4.

“The Neoliberalization of Sleep: A Discursive and Materialist Analysis of Sleep Technologies,” Tsantsa:  Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association, TSANTSA–Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association, 2021, 26, 105-121.

“What to Do about #MeToo? Consent, Autonomy, and Restorative Justice: A Case Study,” Sexuality, Gender, and Policy, 2021,  https://doi.org/10.1002/sgp2.12027

 "Feminist Materialism and Covid-19: The Agential Activation of Everyday Objects." NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 2020, 1-13, https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2020.1825119

“An Intersectional Analysis of Geoengineering: Overlapping Oppressions and the Demand for Ecological Citizenship.” Holly Jean Buck, Andreas Malm and J. P. Sapinski (eds), Has It Come To This? The Pitfalls and Promises of Geoengineering on the Brink, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2020

“Personalised Nutrition: Studies in the Biogenetics of Race and Food.” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, 1-18, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2020.1828054

“Food and Femininity.” The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication. Wiley, 1-5, 2019.

“The ‘Embodied Multi-Material Layering’ of In Vitro Meat,” Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 158-177, 2020: https://www.pdcnet.org/techne/content/techne_2020_0999_2_12_118.

“Barriers to Access: A Feminist Analysis of Medically Assisted Dying and the Experience of Marginalized Groups,” Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 30222819873770-30222819873770, 2019. 

“The Foodways of the Intellectual Dark Web: To ‘Meat’ or not to ‘Meat,'” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society, 2019.

“The Contradictions of a Superfood Consumerism in a Postfeminist, Neoliberal World,” Food, Culture, Society, 22(3), 354-375, 2019.

“Activism and Neoliberalism: Two Sides of Geoengineering Discourse,” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 1-19, 2018.

‘Technology, Gender, and Climate Change: A Feminist Examination of Climate Technologies.’ Societies, 8(4), 109-125, 2018.

“Discussion: The Propaganda Model and Intersectionality” with Tina Sikka et al. mt: media theory http://mediatheoryjournal.org/discussion-the-propaganda-model-and-intersectionality/.

 “Geoengineering and Climate Change.” Joseph C. Pitt, Ashley Shew (eds), Spaces for the Future: A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology London: Routledge Companions, London, 2018.

“Technofeminist and Ecofeminist Responses to Climate Geoengineering,” in Ecofeminism in Dialogue. D.A. Vakoch (ed). Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series, Lexington Books, 2017.

“Contemporary Superfood Cults: Nutritionism, Neoliberalism, and Gender,” in Food Cults. Kima Cargil (ed), Maryland, Rowman  & Littlefield, 87-108, 2017.

‘An Analysis of the Connection Between Climate Change, Technological Solutions and Potential Disaster Management: The Contribution of Geoengineering Research.’ Climate Change Management: Part 4: 513-535, 2013.

‘A Critical Theory of Technology Approach to the Study of Network Neutrality’, in Regulating the Web: Network Neutrality and the Fate of the Open Internet. Zack Stiegler (ed.): 176-184, 2012.

“Geoengineering in a World Risk Society.’ The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses: Vol. 3(1): 143-154, 2012.

‘A Critical Theory of Technology Applied to the Public Discussion of Geoengineering.’ Technology in Society: Vol. 34: 109-117, 2012.

‘A Critical Discourse Analysis of Geoengineering Advocacy.’ Critical Discourse Studies: 1-13, 2012.

‘Karl-Otto Apel and the Study of Communication.’ Journal of Communication Inquiry. Vol. 36(1): 6-23, 2012.

‘Technology, Communication, and Society: From Heidegger and Habermas to Feenberg.’ Communication Review. Vol. 11(2): 93-106, 2011.

‘Articulation Theory.’ Encyclopedia of Identity. Sage, 36-39, 2010.

‘A Pragmatist Critique of Derridian Politics,’ Contemporary Pragmatism, Vol. 6(1): 87-129, 2009.

‘Pragmatics, Poststructuralism, and Hermeneutics: An Examination of Discursive-Consensus Formation and its Ethical Implications’, Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 40(2): 227-243, 2008.

‘Ballistic Missile Defense and Articulation Theory: An Analysis of Technology using a Cultural Studies Approach’, Journal of Language and Politics, Vol. 7(1): 121-137, 2008.

‘The New Imperialism: Using Critical Discourse Analysis and Articulation Theory to Study George W. Bush’s Freedom Doctrine’, Journal of Global Change, Peace and Security, Vol. 18(2): 101-114, 2006.

‘The Public Sphere, Globalization and Technological Development’, Development, Vol. 49(3): pages 87-93, 2006.