Dr Alexandra Plows - publications

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Journal articles

Forthcoming Mann, R, Plows A & Patterson, C (2011) Civilising Community? A Critical Exploration of Local Civil Society in North West Wales Forthcoming Nov 2011 in Voluntary Sector Review

Plows, A (2010) What is public engagement with human genetics and what is it for? Differentiating between policy practice and ‘social movement’ The Menai Papers 2010-01, Working Papers Series, School of Social Sciences, Bangor University

Plows A (2008) Towards An Analysis of the “Success” of Green Protest in the UK in British Politics, Feb 2008
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/bp/journal/v3/n1/abs/4200081a.html

Plows A (2008) Social Movements and Ethnographic Methodologies: An overview of key issues using case study examples in Sociological Compass, August 2008

Evans, R and Plows, A (2007) Listening Without Prejudice? Re-Discovering the Value of the Disinterested Citizen Social Studies of Science, 2007, 37

Doherty B, Plows A and Wall D (December 2007 ) Environmental Direct Action in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales: A Protest Event Analysis
in Environmental Politics Environmental Politics, Volume 16, Issue 5 November 2007 , pages 805 - 825

Welsh I, Plows A and Evans R, (2007) Human rights and genomics: science, genomics and social movements at the 2004 London Social Forum New Genetics and Society Volume 26, Issue 2 August 2007 , pages 123 – 135

Plows A and Boddington B, (2006) ‘Troubles with biocitizenship? In Genetics, Society and Policy. Vol 2, No3 http://www.gspjournal.com/

Plows A, Wall D and Doherty B, (2004) Covert Repertoires: Ecotage in the UK, Social Movement Studies, 3, 2, 2004, ISSN 1474-2837

Doherty B, Paterson M, Plows A and Wall D (2003)- Explaining the Fuel Protests, British Journal of Politics and International Relations 5 (2003) 1-23 ISSN 1369-1481

Doherty B, Plows A and Wall D (2003)- The Preferred Way of Doing Things: The British Direct Action Movement, Parliamentary Affairs 56 (2003) 669-686 ISSN 0031-2290

Research Notes

Plows A, (2006)‘Blackwood 2004: An Emerging (Re)Cycle of UK Eco-Action?’, Environmental Politics, Vol 15, No 3, June 2006, pp 474-484, ISSN 0964-4016

Books

Plows A (2010) Debating Human Genetics: Contemporary Issues in Public Policy and Ethics, Routledge

Book Chapters

Forthcoming: Plows, A (2011) Public Engagement with human genetics: a social movement approach (Eds: O’Doherty, Kieran and Einsiedel, Edna )Publics + Emerging Technologies: Cultures, Contexts + Challenges ). Vancouver & Toronto: UBC Press.

Forthcoming: Plows, A and Reinsborough, M (2011) Encountering 'the politics of technology': public engagement from the bottom up (editors@ S.Net) Quantum Engagements - Social Reflections of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies. IOS Press/ AKA.

Plows A (2008) ‘Egg Donation in the UK: Tracing Emergent Networks of Feminist Engagement in relation to HFEA policy shifts in 2006’ Forthcoming in Molfino, Francesca and Zucco, Flavia (2008) Women in Biotechnology; Creating Interfaces, Scrivener Press

Plows A and Reinsborough, M (2008) Nanobiotechnology and ethics: converging civil society discourses in Jotterand, Fabrice (ed) Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology, Springer Academic Publishers, Scrivener Press)

Evans R, Welsh I and Plows A, (2007) Towards an Anatomy of Public Engagement with Medical Genetics: Strange Bedfellows and Usual Suspects, New Genetics, New Identities (Glasner and Atkinson eds) Routledge

Plows A, (2004) Activist Networks in the UK - Mapping the Build-Up of the Anti-Globalization Movement, Anti-Capitalist Britain, Carter J and Morland D (Eds), New Clarion Press, Cheltenham, (2004), pp 95-113, ISBN 1-87379-744-3