Mark Stephens
Biographic Data
| ID | 199689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Stephens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Stephens |
| SIGNATURE | STEPHENS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7303-0372 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 105 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 549 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 105 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
What Role Can Social Housing Play in Tackling Australia’s Housing Crisis
Australia has a well-informed public debate on housing, but neglects the role that social housing could play in improving housing outcomes. This may be attributable to the attachment to the Australian Dream of suburban homeownership. However, this model is weakened, and there is no realistic prospect of it being fixed. This public lecture utilises interviews with 12 social housing providers in three states and two national experts to examine the …
Housing affordability and poverty in Europe
There are growing concerns about housing affordability throughout Europe. Recent studies by Housing Europe and the OECD have suggested that we are witnessing a generalised deterioration in housing affordability, while other studies point to worsening housing affordability for specific groups, such as renters or low-income households. The aim of this paper is to explore trends in, and incidences and determinants of, housing affordability in a comp…
Undoing the Dissociation of the Unthought Subject
A discussion of David Eng’s and Shinhee Han’s reflections on the racial melancholia of the Asian American subject of history, especially in relation to affects of rage and guilt
Opacities of race and the sexual
The role of housing in central banks’ monetary policy decisions in Australia and the UK
This article provides direct evidence of the role of housing in central banks’ monetary policy decisions through the examination of the minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia Board (RBA) and the UK’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). It focuses on three periods when economic shocks necessitated monetary policy activism: the Global Financial Crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent inflationary resurgence. It enhances understanding of the…
Geojournalism
Geojournalism is a growing field within environmental journalism at the intersection of both eco- and data-journalism. It is a new way to combine maps and data with traditional reporting in online platforms to provide scientific evidence for stories and narrative context for data. However, given its novelty, there appears to be little formal recognition of geojournalism in educational and academic contexts. In this paper, we review tools, techniq…
Archipelagic Thinking
In this public conversation, Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens talk about their work in the field of Archipelagic American Studies and about the intersections of this field with Mobility Studies. They discuss archipelagic thinking, islands and the insular, the borderwaters, alternative mapping, and the ways in which thinking with the archipelago foregrounds relational entanglements and mobilities. The conversation was part of the wo…
The Opaque Language of Sexuality
Potable Water and Terrestrial Resources on Grand Bahama Post-Hurricane Dorian
The catastrophic impact of Hurricane Dorian in September 2019 was unprecedented for the island of Grand Bahama. Flooding in the western portion of the island damaged pine ecosystems, inundated the soil and groundwater with salt water, and disrupted potable water service throughout the island. More than two years post-Hurricane Dorian, the freshwater lenses that the island relies on for potable water are still inundated with salt water. This colla…
Evaluation of national disaster management strategy and planning for flood management and impact reduction in Gaborone, Botswana
Relational Racialization and Segregated Whiteness
Both the poet Claudia Rankine, in her 2020 collection Just Us, and the psychoanalyst Lauren Levine, in “Interrogating race, shame and mutual vulnerability: ‘Overlapping and interlapping waves of relation,’” recount the outcomes of dyadic conversational experiments regarding race. For Rankine, the experiment is to approach white male strangers with an inquiry into their experience of white privilege. For Levine it is to adapt the psychoanalytic fr…
Art Museum-Based Teaching
Overview of the MosaiC expedition
Arctic Ocean properties and processes are highly relevant to the regional and global coupled climate system, yet still scarcely observed, especially in winter. Team OCEAN conducted a full year of physical oceanography observations as part of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of the Arctic Climate (MOSAiC), a drift with the Arctic sea ice from October 2019 to September 2020. An international team designed and implemented the…
Overview of the MosaiC expedition
With the Arctic rapidly changing, the needs to observe, understand, and model the changes are essential. To support these needs, an annual cycle of observations of atmospheric properties, processes, and interactions were made while drifting with the sea ice across the central Arctic during the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition from October 2019 to September 2020. An international team desig…
Just In Time
In the early 2000s, Dipesh Chakrabarty powerfully defined the historical terms at stake in the shift from the postcolonial to the Anthropocene era, arguing that the posthuman image of a world without us profoundly contradicts historical practices for visualizing time. The notion of history that his essay foregrounded, however, can itself be historicized as a fantasy of modernity, one Édouard Glissant described as “History [with a capital H].” Usi…
Housing, the welfare state and poverty
The comparative study of housing systems enjoys a “disjointed” relationship with comparative literature on the welfare state and poverty, a separation which has been to the detriment of each of these fields. Such are its implications for the income distribution that the concept of “financializaton” developed in housing studies provides potentially rich raw material for welfare state and poverty literature. However, there are also limitations in t…
We Have Never Been White
Amidst a pandemic and the events following George Floyd’s murder in 2020, discussions of race have escalated in the psychoanalytic community. One theoretical formulation, Afropessimism, has served as a lightning rod across both psychoanalytic and academic circles. Another, Black Rage, offers a psychoanalytic theory of the psychic effect of racial oppression on traumatized subjects. Using both as catalysts, this essay explores the historicity of t…
Severe Housing Deprivation in the European Union
Concerns about the quality of housing feature prominently in academic and policy discussion on housing, yet there is little agreement about how housing deprivation should be measured or monitored. In empirical studies, measures of housing deprivation are typically examined for one of two purposes—either to compare incidences of housing quality problems for different groups, which typically leads to an examination of performance of different measu…
On “The Burning Beach”
In the 1980s and early 1990s, as relational psychoanalysis was gaining ground in the United States, French Caribbean poet and writer, Édouard Glissant, used the same term, Relation, to describe his creolized human experience of the flow of the world. Glissant’s relational subject is a beachwalker, parsing the shoreline with his footsteps, traversing the edge between land and water in a mixture of grounding and flow that he also termed errantry. I…
Collisions in the Dark
At the end of the 1980s, Black feminist legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw offered intersectionality as a way to shift our attention to Black female subjectivity as a complex, multi-dimensional unfolding of identity. This essay focuses on how she situated that identity within, as she termed it, whiteness as “a single-axis framework of analysis.” In this respect, her discussion converged with that of her peer, the writer Toni Morrison, in the work, P…
Black Flesh Matters! The Human Stakes of BLM and Rethinking the Psychoanalytic Subject
This article is a reflection on the significance of the Black Lives Matter movement in relation to the psychoanalytic movement in the United States. To understand the profound resonance of the phrase “Black lives” requires a retracing of the history of modern Western understandings of the human, as they have been expressed through the psychoanalytic subject’s relationship to the human body and, metonymically, the skin. Frantz Fanon’s prescient ob…
Challenge of capturing socially generated land values
This article provides a review of past attempts to harness the uplift in land values arising from granting planning permission to better understand the current difficulties of the use of land-value capture. The scheme has been the most successful approach to date, but the theoretical fundamentals are fudged and there are substantial policy variations between localities: a victory of practicality over principle. We argue that a tax on development …
The Iron Age cemetery at Pocklington and other excavations by MAP
Towards a Multi-layered Housing Regime Framework
In this article I respond to commentators’ observations relating to my Focus Article, “How housing systems are changing and why”, and propose a multi-layered housing regime framework. I argue that the institutions of housing system are naturally located in the middle-range, and fall into three distinct spheres of production, consumption and exchange. These spheres interaction with the “wider welfare regime” which represents the institutions of th…
Three Mile Island
The 'human revolution' in lowland tropical Southeast Asia
Post-Socialist Housing Systems in Europe
This article develops a conceptual framework derived from welfare regime and concomitant literatures to interpret housing reform in post-socialist European countries. In it, settled power structures and collective ideologies are necessary prerequisites for the creation of distinctive housing welfare regimes with clear roles for the state, market and households. Although the defining feature of post-socialist housing has been mass-privatisation to…
Assessing Housing Affordability in Post-reform China
The scale and pace of change in Shanghai combine to provide a fascinating case study of affordability in a dynamic transitional market. This study has enhanced conventional indicators to capture more fully the different dimensions of affordability for new market entrants. Three dimensions of affordability are simulated (namely access, the burden of housing costs and housing-induced poverty) and two dynamic indicators are developed to simulate the…
How Housing Systems are Changing and Why
This article critiques Kemeny’s theory of housing regimes to explain housing systems change. Power balances mediated through institutional structures are underlying causes of housing regimes in Kemeny’s schema in which the design of cost-rental sectors defines whole housing systems. However, the distinctive “unitary” systems Kemeny identified in Germany and Sweden are breaking down as economic failure prompted reforms to wider welfare systems, wh…
Hovk 1 and the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of Armenia
Past Human Activity and Geomorphological Change in a Guano-Rich Tropical Cave Mouth
This paper presents initial interpretations of the processes and events responsible for the late Quaternary sequence in the West Mouth of the Great Cave of Niah, in the hot and humid lowland rainforest and swamp forest of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo. It evaluates the geomorphological context of the site within the known pattern of rapid late Quaternary climate change. Attention is given to the proximity to the sea and the likelihood of humid trop…
Micromorphology of Cave Sediments in the Humid Tropics
This is the first detailed study of the micromorphology of archaeologically important cave sediments in the Great Cave of Niah, in the humid tropics of Sarawak, Borneo. Micromorphology is used to describe the sediments and post-depositional alteration, reconstruct the palaeoenvironments, and refine the environmental history of late Pleistocene deposits associated with the human remains (the so-called Deep Skull dated to ca. 43,000-42,000 B.P.). M…
Locating Chinese Urban Housing Policy in an International Context
China’s economic development has often been contrasted with that of other transition economies in Europe, but academics have fought shy of making direct comparisons of urban housing reform in the two systems. This paper fills this gap by making such direct comparisons. Adopting the market—housing model advocated by the World Bank as an analytical framework it finds that extensive housing privatisation in China is supported by a system of urban ho…
Prehistoric Foragers and Farmers in South-east Asia
The paper describes the initial results from renewed investigations at Niah Cave in Sarawak on the island of Borneo, famous for the discovery in 1958 of the c. 40,000–year old ‘Deep Skull’. The archaeological sequences from the West Mouth and the other entrances of the cave complex investigated by Tom and Barbara Harrisson and other researchers have potential implications for three major debates regarding the prehistory of south-east Asia: the ti…
Welfare Regimes, Social Values and Homelessness
This paper examines the exposure to homelessness of socially marginalised groups to understand better the applicability of, and limits to, welfare regime analysis. A vignette methodology is deployed in six European countries to interrogate and compare responses to marginalised groups at high risk of homelessness, including people with substance misuse problems, ex-offenders, young people excluded from the family home, migrants and women fleeing d…
Globalisation and Housing Finance Systems in Advanced and Transition Economies
Globalisation' is only the most recent manifestation of convergence theory. This article shows how distinctive housing finance systems in the advanced economies contribute to distinctive housing systems with important social and economic implications. It also suggests that the evidence from the European Union confirms what can be derived from a priori reasoning: that mobility of finance does not alter the nationally based components of the wider …
The Limits of Housing Reform
The British social rented sector has been characterised as operating like a socialist `command' system. It places a much greater emphasis on housing very poor households than its counterparts in other European countries, most of it is still owned and managed by the (local) state and pricing policies are not sensitive to demand. Consequently, allocation decisions rely on bureaucratic processes. Some other European countries have more socially dive…
Mortgage Market Deregulation and its Consequences
One of the key aims of housing policy has been to extend homeownership. This paper examines the role that mortgage market deregulation has played in extending access to homeownership. It also examines its social and economic impacts. Deregulation is characterised as an unfolding process, rather than an explicit policy with identifiable objectives. It is identified as involving the ending of direct controls over building society lending, the openi…
Housing Poverty’ and Income Poverty in England and The Netherlands
This paper examines whether the distributional consequences of contrasting welfare systems are enhanced, replicated or countered by housing systems in England and the Netherlands. It adopts the monetised concepts of ‘net housing income’ and ‘net housing resources’, which are commensurable with disposable income and income-based measures of poverty. It was found that both housing systems exert a poverty-reducing impact compared to disposable incom…
Shell-gathering from mangroves and the seasonality of the Southeast Asian Monsoon using high-resolution stable isotopic analysis of the tropical estuarine bivalve (Geloina erosa) from the Great Cave o…
Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity
Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity: West Indian Intellectuals in Harlem in the Age of War and Revolution Michelle A. Stephens (bio) It is at the heart of national consciousness that international consciousness lives and grows. And this two-fold emerging is ultimately only the source of all culture. -Frantz Fanon, "On National Culture" In 1996, the American Studies Association Conference, entitled "Global Migration, Ameri…
Post-depositional alteration of humid tropical cave sediments
What Is an Island? Caribbean Studies and the Contemporary Visual Artist
This essay explores the visual arts for models of an archipelagic way of thinking that is endemic to the Caribbean and yet obscured by nationalist frameworks. Unpacking the ways Caribbean studies is imbricated within and articulated through a number of discourses—area studies, the trope of the isle, visuality, and creolization—and investigating the ways these four approaches to the Caribbean are articulated to each other clarifies some of the iss…
Homelessness, Need and Desert in the Allocation of Council Housing
The polarised positions of the 1979-97 Conservative Government and pressure groups over the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 impeded rigorous analysis of its merits. To assess the value of the homelessness legislation, this paper broadens the debate to review the moral basis underlying all council house allocations. A utility maximising frameworkis adopted to clarify the principle of allocation according to need, and it is argued that this is …
Homeownership, family composition and subjective wellbeing
Pre-meal affective state and laboratory test meal intake in adolescent girls with loss of control eating
Convergence in European mortgage systems before and after EMU
Housing, the welfare state and poverty
The comparative study of housing systems enjoys a “disjointed” relationship with comparative literature on the welfare state and poverty, a separation which has been to the detriment of each of these fields. Such are its implications for the income distribution that the concept of “financializaton” developed in housing studies provides potentially rich raw material for welfare state and poverty literature. However, there are also limitations in t…
Severe Housing Deprivation in the European Union
Concerns about the quality of housing feature prominently in academic and policy discussion on housing, yet there is little agreement about how housing deprivation should be measured or monitored. In empirical studies, measures of housing deprivation are typically examined for one of two purposes—either to compare incidences of housing quality problems for different groups, which typically leads to an examination of performance of different measu…
Housing and poverty
Cross-sectional research suggests that the British housing system weakens the link between income poverty and housing outcomes, but this reveals little about the long-term relationships. We examine the relationship between income poverty and housing pathways over an 18-year period to 2008, and develop consensual approaches to poverty estimation, housing deprivation, and the prevalence of under and over-consumption. We find that chronic poverty is…
Powerline
Journal Article Powerline: The First Battle of America's Energy War. By Barry M. Casper and Paul David Wellstone. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. ix + 314 pp. Maps and charts. Cloth, $18.50; paper, $7.95.) and Three Mile Island. By Mark Stephens. (New York: Random House, 1980. x + 245 pp. Index. $11.95.) Get access Donald Worster Donald Worster University of Hawaii, Manoa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
Students and Social Security Benefits
Since the publication of the Goverment's White Paper, Top‐up Loans for Students in November 1988, public debate has been confined to the merits of the loans proposals. The proposal to exclude full‐time students from the social security system has been neglected in the media and in Parliament alike. This article examines the origins and development of this proposal from its first appearance in a DHSS Green Paper through to its appearance in the lo…
Finance for Owner Occupation in the UK
Britain’s large owner occupied sector is beset with problems. Large rises in house prices contributed to the unsustainable economic boom in the late 1980s. The measures taken to combat them contributed to the recession in the 1990s, which was exacerbated by the slump in the housing market. An agenda for reform has been developed, but it has usually neglected developments in other countries and failed to consider the importance of European integra…
Hovels to high rise
Monetary policy and house price volatility in Western Europe
This article examines whether the relationship between house price volatility and monetary policy in Western Europe supports the introduction of European single currency. House prices in Western Europe are examined over the period 1985–93 and a number of preliminary conclusions are drawn. Housing policy in Spain, Finland and the UK are examined in some detail to establish whether internal adjustments can be made to make housing markets less volat…
Institutional Responses to the UK Housing Market Recession
Since 1990 the UK housing market has been in recession, with protracted periods of nominal house price falls. While demand-side factors are important in explaining this phenomenon, this article examines the responses of the major institutions to the recession, covering the period up to the autumn of 1995. The institutions examined are lenders, insurance companies and the government (including regulators). The analysis identifies 15 impacts result…
Against the Grain
In December 1995, approximately 250 teaching assistants at Yale University undertook a grade strike, demanding that the university recognize the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) as their collective bargaining agent. In mid-January, after the grade strike was well underway, 137 TAs-along with other employees and students at Yale, residents of New Haven, and graduate students and faculty from area universities-were arrested in an…
Babylon's 'Natural Mystic'
Bob Marley's significance as a popular cultural icon, both during his initial emergence in North America in the 1970s and after his death in 1981, has been a constantly evolving phenomenon. As American society and culture has adapted to the presence of new, racialized, West Indian immigrants, so too has Marley's legend been adapted to fit the changing moods of the past three decades. This article identifies and examines three aspects of Marley's …
Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity
Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity: West Indian Intellectuals in Harlem in the Age of War and Revolution Michelle A. Stephens (bio) It is at the heart of national consciousness that international consciousness lives and grows. And this two-fold emerging is ultimately only the source of all culture. -Frantz Fanon, "On National Culture" In 1996, the American Studies Association Conference, entitled "Global Migration, Ameri…
Books Reviews
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Homelessness, Need and Desert in the Allocation of Council Housing
The polarised positions of the 1979-97 Conservative Government and pressure groups over the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 impeded rigorous analysis of its merits. To assess the value of the homelessness legislation, this paper broadens the debate to review the moral basis underlying all council house allocations. A utility maximising frameworkis adopted to clarify the principle of allocation according to need, and it is argued that this is …
The Fiscal Role of the European Union
This paper examines the potential for the European budget to be used to contribute to housing investment. It finds that the budget is sufficiently large to play a role in the countries where the budget is concentrated, although it could be made more progressive. Case studies reveal that the current 'allocative' purpose of the Structural Funds, combined with a misinterpretation of 'subsidiarity', largely prevents their use for housing investment. …
Convergence in European mortgage systems before and after EMU
Building Society Demutualisation in the UK
In the mid-1990s several building societies in the UK ceased to be mutual organisations and became public limited companies (plcs). This paper seeks to explain this change, which has ended the building societies' historic dominance of the mortgage market. The thesis that mutuality had become redundant as an ownership form is rejected. Structural changes in the industry have presented mortgage lenders with strategic choices, rather than dictated a…
Prehistoric Foragers and Farmers in South-east Asia
The paper describes the initial results from renewed investigations at Niah Cave in Sarawak on the island of Borneo, famous for the discovery in 1958 of the c. 40,000–year old ‘Deep Skull’. The archaeological sequences from the West Mouth and the other entrances of the cave complex investigated by Tom and Barbara Harrisson and other researchers have potential implications for three major debates regarding the prehistory of south-east Asia: the ti…
The Limits of Housing Reform
The British social rented sector has been characterised as operating like a socialist `command' system. It places a much greater emphasis on housing very poor households than its counterparts in other European countries, most of it is still owned and managed by the (local) state and pricing policies are not sensitive to demand. Consequently, allocation decisions rely on bureaucratic processes. Some other European countries have more socially dive…
Globalisation and Housing Finance Systems in Advanced and Transition Economies
Globalisation' is only the most recent manifestation of convergence theory. This article shows how distinctive housing finance systems in the advanced economies contribute to distinctive housing systems with important social and economic implications. It also suggests that the evidence from the European Union confirms what can be derived from a priori reasoning: that mobility of finance does not alter the nationally based components of the wider …
Re-imagining the Shape and Borders of Black Political Space
Black Empire
The Crusader stating the following: '' A Race without a program is like a ship at sea without a rudder.It is absolutely at the mercy of the elements.It is bu√eted hither and thither and in a storm is bound to flounder.It is in such a plight as this that the Negro race has drifted for the past fifty years and more.''∞ This statement, sponsored by Caribbean radical Cyril V. Briggs, the editor of the Crusader, on behalf of his militant revolutionary…
A Critical Analysis of Housing Finance Reform in a 'Super' Home-ownership State
Communist countries in central and eastern Europe commonly lacked market-based mortgage finance systems. The establishment of such systems is generally regarded as being a crucial part of the transition process across the region, even though the emphasis placed on home-ownership varies greatly. A framework for analysing the adequacy of the housing reform process is applied to Armenia as an example of a 'super' home-ownership state. The housing, e…
Micromorphology of Cave Sediments in the Humid Tropics
This is the first detailed study of the micromorphology of archaeologically important cave sediments in the Great Cave of Niah, in the humid tropics of Sarawak, Borneo. Micromorphology is used to describe the sediments and post-depositional alteration, reconstruct the palaeoenvironments, and refine the environmental history of late Pleistocene deposits associated with the human remains (the so-called Deep Skull dated to ca. 43,000-42,000 B.P.). M…
Disarticulating Black Internationalisms
Book Review| March 01 2005 Disarticulating Black Internationalisms: West Indian Radicals and The Practice of Diaspora Michelle Stephens Michelle Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 100–111. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-100 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions…
Past Human Activity and Geomorphological Change in a Guano-Rich Tropical Cave Mouth
This paper presents initial interpretations of the processes and events responsible for the late Quaternary sequence in the West Mouth of the Great Cave of Niah, in the hot and humid lowland rainforest and swamp forest of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo. It evaluates the geomorphological context of the site within the known pattern of rapid late Quaternary climate change. Attention is given to the proximity to the sea and the likelihood of humid trop…
At the Borders Between
At the Borders Between
Book Review| June 01 2006 At the Borders Between: A Reply to Critics Michelle Stephens Michelle Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 276–286. https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-2-276 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michelle Stephens; At the Borders Between: A Reply to Critics. Small Axe 1 June 2006; 10 (2): 276–286. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-2-276 Dow…
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