Practicing energy prosumption: Using unsolicited online data to reveal the everyday realities of solar thermal panels in the United Kingdom

This article argues on behalf of an autoethnographic methodology as one, but not the only, method suited to the excavation of the emotions of everyday international relations. I suggest, drawing on my own lived experiences of writing the Life in the United Kingdom Test specifically, and being ordered deported from the United Kingdom more broadly, that a reflexive practice informed by silence allows scholars to attend to the otherwise discounted and excluded forms of emotional knowledge. As my story unfolds, and the transformative potential of trauma is rehearsed, the possibility of excavating otherwise silenced emotions, guided by an affective empathy, comes to the fore. I suggest, building on my own lived experience, that as the researcher cum agent embraces this position, discounted and discarded stories are revisited. In so doing I present a piece of evocative autoethnography in and of itself while demonstrating the role that emotions can play in the construction of everyday practices of International Relations.

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Renewable heat incentive for solar thermal systems in the United Kingdom: The next big thing?

2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon) ◽

10.1109/pecon.2012.6450290 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Siti Hawa Abu-Bakar ◽

Firdaus Muhammad-Sukki ◽

Roberto Ramirez-Iniguez ◽

Stas Burek ◽

Tapas Kumar Mallick ◽

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Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Solar Thermal ◽

Thermal Systems ◽

The United Kingdom

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Financial analysis on the proposed renewable heat incentive for residential houses in the United Kingdom: A case study on the solar thermal system

Energy Policy ◽

10.1016/j.enpol.2013.10.018 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 65 ◽

pp. 552-561 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Siti Hawa Abu-Bakar ◽

Firdaus Muhammad-Sukki ◽

Roberto Ramirez-Iniguez ◽

Abu Bakar Munir ◽

Siti Hajar Mohd Yasin ◽

...

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Financial Analysis ◽

Solar Thermal ◽

Thermal System ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Solar Thermal System

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‘This magical place’: Understanding BiCon 2008 as a heterotopic place-event

Sexualities ◽

10.1177/13634607211035111 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 24 (7) ◽

pp. 851-873

Author(s):

Helen Bowes-Catton

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Photo Elicitation ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Elicitation Study ◽

The Everyday ◽

Present Tense ◽

The Relationship

In this article, I outline findings from a photo-elicitation study of a bisexual community event in the United Kingdom. Participants describe the event as taking place in ‘a separate world’, a ‘portable bubble’ reached by a symbolic journey away from the everyday, within which they can recognise themselves as present-tense bisexual subjects. These framings support a theorisation of BiCon as a heterotopic place-event where the paradox of bisexual subjectivity can be temporarily resolved. Applying the concept of heterotopia to BiCon 2008 allows us to account for the relationship between the ‘magical space’ of BiCon and the spaces of the non-BiCon world. Further, by theorising BiCon 2008 as a place-event ( Pink, 2012 ), we can begin to account for the ways in which the space is produced intersubjectively, through the movements and practices of its constituents.

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Children and young people remain at low risk from COVID-19 mortality: updated time trends from USA, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Spain, France and South Korea

10.31219/osf.io/ezdf2 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sunil Bhopal ◽

Jayshree Bagaria ◽

Bayanne Olabi ◽

Raj Bhopal

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Young People ◽

Time Trends ◽

Adult Mortality ◽

Global Burden ◽

Online Data ◽

Children And Young People ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Trends Analysis ◽

People First

We have tracked in seven countries the mortality from COVID-19 in children and young people, first reported as low in China[1]. We have emphasised the importance of close surveillance in case the virus mutates and becomes more virulent in children. It is therefore timely to re-examine the matter, especially given new variants. To put the deaths into a context that parents, clinicians and policymakers could understand easily, in seven high-income countries we made comparisons of COVID-19 deaths with estimated mortality from all- and relevant other-causes, estimated from the 2017 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) database, as contemporary statistics are not yet available[2]. We first published using this approach in April-May 2020[3], followed by a trends analysis covering the period March to August 2020[4] and have kept an online data-table regularly updated (available: www.tinyurl.com/child-covid). Here we update our analysis for the period March to December 2020 in the light of increases in adult mortality seen through winter 2020/2021, and concerns that have been raised about COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 which was first identified in the United Kingdom in December 2020 (likely to have been circulating since September 2020), with increased transmissibility [5].

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The Consumer Citizen, Political Knowledge, and Political Attitudes

The Consumer Citizen ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197526781.003.0004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 75-96

Author(s):

Ethan Porter

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Field Experiment ◽

Political Attitudes ◽

Political Knowledge ◽

The United States ◽

Survey Experiment ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Everyday ◽

The Rich

This chapter investigates the consumer citizen’s relationship with political knowledge and political attitudes. A survey experiment in the United States shows that taxpayer receipts can increase knowledge; evidence from a field experiment conducted in the United Kingdom, about the U.K. government’s nationwide distribution of taxpayer receipts, reaches similar conclusions. Yet the receipt is unable to affect a host of attitudes, including toward redistribution. But the consumer citizen’s attitudes toward redistribution can be changed—not just through alignability, but because of the everyday pressures of consumer life. This is illustrated by an experiment that finds that reminders of consumer debts can lead people to become more supportive of higher taxes on the rich.

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Formal rules, informal norms and the everyday practice of coalition governance

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations ◽

10.1177/1369148118808457 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 148-168

Author(s):

Felicity Matthews

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Everyday Practice ◽

Coalition Government ◽

Important Distinction ◽

Meso Level ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Everyday ◽

Micro Level ◽

Significant Attention

Despite the significant attention devoted to their birth and death, the day-to-day operation of coalition government remains understudied. This article addresses this lacuna and sheds light on the dynamics of coalition governance by examining the interplay between macro-level institutions, meso-level values and micro-level practices. Focusing on the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition that governed the United Kingdom between 2010 and 2015, this analysis reveals the extent to which the everyday practice of coalition governance is flexible, contingent, and proceeds through informal negotiation and accommodation. It also draws attention to the dilemmas faced by coalition actors in terms of reconciling competing loyalties and appeasing a wide range of audiences. Through this analysis, the article makes an important distinction between the ‘rules-in-form’ and ‘rules-in-use’ of coalition governance and between the different ways that coalition governance is enacted on the ‘frontstage’ and ‘backstage’. Together, these findings point to an important new avenue of research for coalition scholars.

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