Jason Hughes - Selected Publications#

Hughes, J., Hughes, K., Sykes, G. and Wright, K. (2020) 'Beyond performative talk: critical observations on the radical critique of reading interview data'. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23(5): 547–563.

Hughes, K., Hughes, J., Tarrant, A. (2020) 'Re-approaching interview data through qualitative secondary analysis: interviews with internet gamblers', 23(5): 565–579.

Hughes, J., Simpson, R., Slutskaya, N. and Simpson, A. (2017) 'Beyond the Symbolic: A Relational Approach to Dirty Work through a Study of Refuse Collectors and Street Cleaners'. Work, Employment and Society. 31(1): 106–122. Winner of the 2018 Sage Innovation Prize.

Simpson, R., Hughes, J., Slutskaya, N. (2016) Gender, Class and Occupation: Working Class Men Doing Dirty Work. Basingstoke: Palgrave. A field-defining text which consolidates some ten years of scholarship on 'Dirty Work'.

Dunning, E. and J. Hughes (2013) Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Over 120 citations. Established Hughes as one of the foremost Figurational scholars of his generation.

Critcher, C., Hughes, J., Petley, J. and Rohloff, A. (eds) (2013) Moral Panics in the Contemporary World. London: Bloomsbury. Indicative of the breadth of Hughes's contribution to social and cultural theory, this text is widely cited and a major study in its own right.

Slutskaya, N., Simpson, A. and Hughes, J. (2012) ‘Lessons from Photo-elicitation: Encouraging Working Men to Speak’, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management, 7(1): 16–33. Winner of the Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper Prize 2013. Highly acclaimed paper indicative of Hughes's innovative empirical and methodological work.

Hughes, J. (2012) Visual Methods. Four Volume Major Works Series. London: Sage. Consolidated Hughes's reputation as a leading international expert on visual methods.

Hughes, J. (2012) Internet Research Methods. Four Volume Major Works Series. London: Sage. Another major work itself a recognition of Hughes's prominence as a methodological innovator in social research.

Hughes, J., N. Jewson, L. Unwin (eds) (2007) Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives, London: Routledge. Over 300 citations. A major text in the field of organisational learning. Hughes's critique of the communities of practice model advanced in this volume still widely discussed over the past few years.

Hughes, J. (2005) ‘Bringing emotion to work: emotional intelligence, resistance, and the reinvention of character’, Work Employment and Society. 19 (2): 603–635. More than 160 citations — a highly influential publication in the field.

Hughes, J. (2003) Learning to Smoke: Tobacco Use in the West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Winner of 2007 Norbert Elias Best Book Prize. Major contribution to sociology of substance use, more than 150 citations.