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Robin James Smith

Researcher at Cardiff University

Publications -  48
Citations -  600

Robin James Smith is an academic researcher from Cardiff University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Outreach & Mobilities. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 43 publications receiving 524 citations.

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Care and Repair and the Politics of Urban Kindness

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the possibility that small acts of urban care, maintenance and cleaning might make for a good city, through a critical assessment of Nigel Thrift's recent writings on urban repair, drawing (but not reporting) on their own research with street cleaners and outreach workers tasked to look out for the rough sleeping homeless.
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Urban Rhythms: Mobilities, Space and Interaction in the Contemporary City:

TL;DR: In this paper, a collection of papers on the contemporary cityscape explores the rhythms of urban flows, temporalities and interactions, and interprets the city as a complex whole, interwoven with networks and constant movement.

Identity, brand or citizenship: the case of post-devolution Wales

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore three dimensions of subjectivity in relation to post-devolution Wales and outline three ways in which 'Welsh subjectivity' and 'ways of being Welsh' can be currently understood in terms of the postdevolution landscape.
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Telling the CAQDAS code: Membership categorization and the accomplishment of ‘coding rules’ in research team talk:

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined data gathered from two research meetings in which coding issues and data organization are being discussed in relation to the use of the software package Atlas.ti, and revealed the way in which the professional argot of social science codes can be understood to rely on everyday methods of sense-making within team based contexts.
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Goffman's Interaction Order at the Margins: Stigma, Role, and Normalization in the Outreach Encounter

TL;DR: In this article, a reading of Goffman's theoretical contribution lies in revealing how social actors and social structures are realized in situ within the constraints of the interaction order sui generis.