Visions of Policing

UK Team’s Publications

Journal Articles: 

Au-Yeung. T.S.H. and Smith, R.J., (Expected 2025). “Someone had a gun. The officer pulled the trigger: (Re)Constructing a Good Police Shooting Through Video.” Discourse, Context, and Media. 

Figure showing keyframes of the body worn video shown in the police’s video account.
Figure showing a horizontal transcript of the transition between the bodyworn angle and the CCTV angle.

Smith, R. J. (2025). Categorizational Asymmetries in Context: Producing and Resisting Policeable Scenes. Symbolic Interaction, Online First, https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.1246

Book Chapters: 

Au-Yeung, T.S.H. (Expected 2026). “Video Reflexive Ethnography”. In B.R. Hama, J. Lester, and F. Williamson (Eds.), The Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology. (Eds.) Edward Elgar.

Figure showing the multimodality of the original tweet reporting the policing event in question.
Figure showing the phenomenological contour of the policing event oriented in the network of accounts.

Au-Yeung, T.S.H., Smith, R.J., (Expected 2026). “‘The video does look concerning, but it is only a snapshot’: Temporal orders in public accusations and counteraccusations of [racist] police conduct.” In E. Richardson and L. Jenkins (Eds.), Analysing Conversations in Forensic Settings. Palgrave Macmillan.

Smith, R.J. (Forthcoming) “Going non-categorial: the work of technically-accurate-category-neutral descriptions in responding to accusations” in Fitzgerald, R., Housley, W., Smith, R.J. Au-Yeung, T. (eds.) NewDirections in Membership Categorisation Analysis. Brill Publishers.

Au-Yeung, T.S.H., & Fitzgerald, R. (Forthcoming). “Speaking to the crowd, Speaking on Behalf of the Crowd, or something else?” In W. Housley, R. Fitzgerald, R.J. Smith, and T.S.H. Au-Yeung (Eds.), New Directions in Membership Categorisation Analysis. Brill. 

Conference presentations

Smith, R. J., & Au-Yeung, T. S. (2023). Membership Categorisation Practices and Gestalt Contexture: Describing the Practical Assembly of Context and Collectivity. ASA EMCA Section 2023 Fall Webinar, Online.