John Flint
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 147622 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Flint |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Flint |
| FIRMA | FLINT J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6272-9575 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 123 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 800 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 119 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1956 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
New flawed consumers? Problem figuration, responsibility and identities in the English building safety crisis
Particular populations within the UK housing sector (most notably social housing tenants) have been conceptualised as 'flawed' consumers (Bauman, 1998) subject to stigmatisation in governmental and popular discourses for failing to enact the correct forms of consumption within the 'grammars of conduct' of the housing system.These valorise home ownership, prudent financial management and maintaining and enhancing properties.The post-Grenfell cladd…
Unhoming , Trauma and Waiting
In this article we seek to advance our understanding of unhoming in a population not previously perceived to be vulnerable to such processes. We examine the particular forms of trauma in an emergent space of urban marginality, which has arisen through the fracturing of longstanding citizen–state relations and the rupturing of habitual orientations to home in a world that had hitherto been knowable and predictable. In this article we highlight the…
Living in a small home
Housing choices are commonly perceived as active and exercised at a fixed point. But individuals continually negotiate these trade-offs through the unfolding of their everyday life, particularly when choices result in forms of living outside normative housing expectations. This article considers trade-offs around house size made by residents of smaller homes in three UK cities—London, Sheffield, and Edinburgh—drawing on in-depth interviews with 2…
Urban rhythms in a small home
The amount of living space we have access to is one manifestation of the unequal distribution of housing resources within societies. The COVID-19 pandemic has required most households to spend more time at home, unmasking inequalities and reigniting longstanding debates about the functionality and experience of smaller homes. Drawing on interviews across three UK cities, this article attends to the changing household routines of individuals livin…
Understanding changing housing aspirations
This article reviews the literature on changing housing aspirations and expectations in contemporary housing systems. It argues that there is a conceptual and definitional gap in relation to the term ‘housing aspirations’, as distinct from expectations, preferences, choices and needs. The article sets out working definitions of these terms, before discussing the evidence on changing housing (and related) systems. Emerging research has begun to co…
Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis
Encounters with the centaur state
This article examines the relationships between advanced urban marginality and new forms of state craft to regulate marginalised populations, specifically Wacquant’s concept of the centaur state and the use of conditionality mechanisms in the British welfare state. The article empirically explores the experiences and perspectives of welfare practitioners and subjects. It finds some evidence of an inculcation of elite narratives and understandings…
Governing through localism, contract and community
Welfare conditionality and social marginality
In a contemporary evolution of the tutelary state, welfare reform in the United Kingdom has been characterised by moves towards greater conditionality and sanctioning. This is influenced by the attributing responsibility for poverty and unemployment to the behaviour of marginalised individuals. Mead (1992) has argued that the poor are dependants who ought to receive support on condition of certain restrictions imposed by a protective state that w…
Planned Decolonization and Its Failure in British Africa
Journal Article PLANNED DECOLONIZATION AND ITS FAILURE IN BRITISH AFRICA Get access JOHN FLINT JOHN FLINT The author is professor of history at Dalhousie Univeristy, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and already a distinguished authority on the earlier partition of Africa through his biography of Sir George Goldie (OUP, 1960). The article was originally presented as a paper at the Australian National University conference on decolonization in August 1982. Se…
Gamers or victims of the system? Welfare reform, cynical manipulation and vulnerability
New mechanisms of conditionality enacted through current reforms of the UK welfare system are framed within contested narratives about the characteristics, rationalities and conduct of welfare users. In the problem figuration of welfare reform the orientations and conduct of welfare recipients have been conceptualised and depicted across a spectrum ranging from cynical manipulators gaming the system and subverting the original ethos of the welfar…
Public housing myths
The transformation of public housing in the US (Goetz, 2013) has been underpinned by a discourse reimagining and renaming the urban landscape. This problem figuration of public housing is construct
Intensive Family Intervention and the Problem Figuration of ‘Troubled Families’
This article examines how intensive family interventions in England since 1997, including the Coalition government's Troubled Families programme, are situated in a contemporary problem figuration of ‘anti-social’ or ‘troubled’ families that frames and justifies the utilisation of different models of intensive family intervention. The article explores how techniques of classification and estimation, combined with the controversial use of ‘research…
Rational Fictions and Imaginary Systems
This paper aims to show how Van Wel's theory of problem figuration, Carlen's concept of imaginary systems and Zizek's notion of cynical ideology may advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the contemporary construction of housing policy narratives and embedded localised housing practise. Applying this theoretical framework to a case study of responses to homelessness in Scotland and further illustrative examples from the UK and the…
Housing and the Realignment of Urban Socio-Spatial Contracts
This paper argues that narratives of the Big Society and Localism in England enacted through housing and planning policies, and housing welfare and benefit reforms across the entire United Kingdom, partly articulate, but primarily mask, a particular governmental response to the present structural crisis in housing and its sociological impacts. This response may be located within a wider political project aimed at realigning understandings of citi…
New Deal Ruins
In one of myriad powerful stories in Goetz's stunning indictment of housing and urban renewal policies in the USA, he recounts how Laurel Homes in Cincinnati—the second oldest public housing projec
Driving Detroit
George Galster's excellent and impassioned book on his home city utilises ‘driving’ to illuminate both what drives the metropolis of Detroit and what drives its inhabitants to attain, retain and ex
Individualization and Social Dis/integration in Contemporary Society
Individualization and Social Dis/integration in Contemporary Society
This chapter explores the approach to, and conceptualization of, individualization and socialization within the work of Zygmunt Bauman and Norbert Elias. We argue that, although both theorists place great emphasis on these powerful social processes, their respective positions differ markedly. We explore the theoretical differences and similarities in the two concepts of socialization and individualization set out by the two thinkers, before a dis…
Social Mix and the City
Place, Identity and Everyday Life in a Globalizing World
This innovative and ambitious text examines the interrelationships between place, identity and everyday life and how these are connected to processes of globalisation and, specifically, how ‘emplac
Conceptualising the Contexts, Mechanisms and Outcomes of Intensive Family Intervention Projects
Intensive family intervention projects have become an increasingly prominent mechanism within anti-social behaviour and social policy programmes in the UK and are supported, in principle, by the new coalition government. They have also been the subject of considerable academic controversy within the evaluative and critical literature. This article attempts to inform continuing debates about the purpose and effects of these projects by conceptuali…
The Inspection House and Neglected Dynamics of Governance
There has been an expansion in the provision of family intervention projects in Britain. These projects, in which housing providers are centrally implicated, aim to provide a form of coercive support to households subject to, or at risk of, legal sanctions. In both core accommodation and outreach models of these projects, the dwelling is a key site, and the inspection of domesticity a primary technique, of governance. This article argues that pol…
Sir George Goldie and the Making of Nigeria.
A place to call home
Housing and ethopolitics
Recent developments in social housing policy, including large-scale stock transfers, have been proclaimed as marking 'the death of council housing' in the UK. The decline of public housing and new techniques for the governance of social housing provision are symbolic of the transformation of welfarist social regimes in advanced liberal democracies. This paper explores recent social housing policy in the UK and suggests that policy developments re…
Fortress UK? Gated communities, the spatial revolt of the elites and time–space trajectories of segregation
Anecdotal evidence suggests that ‘gated communities’ are growing in popularity. This paper uses empirical evidence to profile the location and characteristics of gated development in England and details the relative integration of residents. The paper also attempts to think through the wider theoretical and urban policy impacts of gating. In contrast to the view that gated communities provide an extreme example of residential segregation we go fu…
The responsible tenant
Writers influenced by Foucault's work on governmentality have characterised emerging forms of governance in advanced liberal democracies as being based upon 'technologies of the self' in which power works through the self‐regulation of subjects within constructed norms of responsible and ethical conduct. This 'politics of behaviour' has been particularly prominent in UK housing policy debates in relation to anti‐social behaviour, benefit reform a…
Social Housing Agencies and the Governance of Anti-social Behaviour
Current policy and discourse concerning the governance of anti-social behaviour in the UK has emphasised the spatial concentration of disorder on particular social housing estates. Policy has sought to respond by devolving management of the processes of social control to local neighbourhoods. Local authorities, and social housing agencies in particular, are being given an increasing role within multi-agency partnerships aimed at governing local i…
Faith schools, multiculturalism and community cohesion
This article contributes to debates about the state funding of faith schools, community cohesion and citizenship through exploring the precedents and parallels between the historic incorporation and development of Roman Catholic state schools in Scotland and the contemporary establishment of a Muslim state school sector in England. The article illustrates how discourses around faith schools reflect wider conflicts in conceptualisations of cohesiv…
Urban rhythms in a small home
The amount of living space we have access to is one manifestation of the unequal distribution of housing resources within societies. The COVID-19 pandemic has required most households to spend more time at home, unmasking inequalities and reigniting longstanding debates about the functionality and experience of smaller homes. Drawing on interviews across three UK cities, this article attends to the changing household routines of individuals livin…
Welfare conditionality and social marginality
In a contemporary evolution of the tutelary state, welfare reform in the United Kingdom has been characterised by moves towards greater conditionality and sanctioning. This is influenced by the attributing responsibility for poverty and unemployment to the behaviour of marginalised individuals. Mead (1992) has argued that the poor are dependants who ought to receive support on condition of certain restrictions imposed by a protective state that w…
Governing Neighbours
Discourses on anti-social behaviour in the UK are embedded within a wider politics of conduct based around concepts of citizenship, self-regulation, welfare conditionality, obligations to communities and rights and responsibilities. This paper explores how the regulation of behaviour is framed within ideas of community and contractual governance and identifies the central role for housing within strategies aimed at tackling anti-social behaviour …
West African Resistance
Planned Decolonization and Its Failure in British Africa
Journal Article PLANNED DECOLONIZATION AND ITS FAILURE IN BRITISH AFRICA Get access JOHN FLINT JOHN FLINT The author is professor of history at Dalhousie Univeristy, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and already a distinguished authority on the earlier partition of Africa through his biography of Sir George Goldie (OUP, 1960). The article was originally presented as a paper at the Australian National University conference on decolonization in August 1982. Se…
Commodification, normalisation and intervention
The Politics of Tradition. Continuity and Change in Northern Nigeria 1946-1966
Reconfiguring Agency and Responsibility in the Governance of Social Housing in Scotland
The construction of identities for subjects as self-regulating agents characterises processes of governance in advanced liberal democracies. Such identities implicate subjects within moral bonds of responsibility and agency to prescribed ethics of normalised consumption and duties to community. Within this 'ethopolitics' of social housing in the UK, the conduct of tenants and practitioners is framed within a conceptual triangle of consumerism, co…
Communities, places and institutional relations
Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire
Maintaining an Arm's Length? Housing, Community Governance and the Management of ‘Problematic’ Populations
This paper examines how contemporary social problems of community care, anti-social behaviour, ethnic and racial tensions and the housing of sex offenders are conceptualised in UK housing and urban policy. It explores how and why the populations of social housing areas disproportionately bear the risks arising from these social problems, and how the responses of these populations are subsequently problematised. The redefining of social landlords'…
Encounters with the centaur state
This article examines the relationships between advanced urban marginality and new forms of state craft to regulate marginalised populations, specifically Wacquant’s concept of the centaur state and the use of conditionality mechanisms in the British welfare state. The article empirically explores the experiences and perspectives of welfare practitioners and subjects. It finds some evidence of an inculcation of elite narratives and understandings…
Urban safety, anti-social behaviour and the night-time economy’
The contemporary city is a contested space and its governance is the subject of complex global economic forces, local interests and political struggles as well as a response to the changing face of governing alliances in residential and commercial areas, forms of consumption, commercially-generated crime and disorder and cultural expressions of leisure. This article seeks to provide a thematic introduction to the manner in which the regulation of…
Housing and the Realignment of Urban Socio-Spatial Contracts
This paper argues that narratives of the Big Society and Localism in England enacted through housing and planning policies, and housing welfare and benefit reforms across the entire United Kingdom, partly articulate, but primarily mask, a particular governmental response to the present structural crisis in housing and its sociological impacts. This response may be located within a wider political project aimed at realigning understandings of citi…
Conceptualising the Contexts, Mechanisms and Outcomes of Intensive Family Intervention Projects
Intensive family intervention projects have become an increasingly prominent mechanism within anti-social behaviour and social policy programmes in the UK and are supported, in principle, by the new coalition government. They have also been the subject of considerable academic controversy within the evaluative and critical literature. This article attempts to inform continuing debates about the purpose and effects of these projects by conceptuali…
(In)formalization and the Civilizing Process
This paper uses Norbert Elias's theory of the civilizing process to examine trends in social conduct in the UK and to identify how problematic “anti‐social” behaviour is conceptualized and governed through housing‐based mechanisms of intervention. The paper describes how Elias's concepts of the formalization and informalization of conduct and the construction of established and outsider groups provide an analytical framework for understanding soc…
Cultures, Ghettos and Camps
This paper explores the idea that some urban areas in the UK are crystallising around new poles of racial and religious segregation, manifested in ghettos and secessionary spaces. The paper suggests the need to rethink the theoretical conceptualisation of the links between ethnicity, culture, housing processes and dynamics of urban segregation. It argues that the work of Bourdieu, Elias and Weber provides a historically-grounded framework for exp…
The Inspection House and Neglected Dynamics of Governance
There has been an expansion in the provision of family intervention projects in Britain. These projects, in which housing providers are centrally implicated, aim to provide a form of coercive support to households subject to, or at risk of, legal sanctions. In both core accommodation and outreach models of these projects, the dwelling is a key site, and the inspection of domesticity a primary technique, of governance. This article argues that pol…
Order born of chaos? The capacity for informal social control in disempowered and ‘disorganised’ neighbourhoods
English Policy discourse and interventions relating to disorder perceive a lack of organisational capacity to deal with these problems in high-crime and deprived areas. This article draws on research looking at the relative propensities to deal with disorder within deprived and affluent neighbourhoods. We find that deprived areas may be characterised as chaotic and disorganised but also that residents in these areas appear more likely to interven…
Managing nationalism’
African Historians and African History
Journal Article AFRICAN HISTORIANS AND AFRICAN HISTORY Get access John Flint John Flint London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 10, Issue 1, November 1956, Pages 96–101, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/10.1.96 Published: 01 November 1956
Sir George Goldie and the Making of Nigeria
The Making of a New African Nation
Mary Kingsley — a reassessment
The purpose of this article is to examine the ideas of Mary Kingsley, not merely in abstract, but as the political theory of certain groups active in Late Victorian colonial affairs. A ‘surgical’ approach of this kind is almost certain to reduce concepts which at first sight seem brilliant and original to more mundane proportions, so perhaps at the outset this woman's outstanding achievements should be emphasized. Among contemporaries of her sex …
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access J. E. FLINT J. E. FLINT King's CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXX, Issue CCCXIV, January 1965, Pages 208-a–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXX.CCCXIV.208-a Published: 01 January 1965
Mary Kingsley
Journal Article Mary Kingsley Get access John E. Flint John E. Flint Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 64, Issue 256, July 1965, Pages 150–161, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095373 Published: 01 July 1965
Africa
The Historiography of the British Empire-Commonwealth
Books on the British Empire and Commonwealth
Morel and Morality in West African History
Eastern African History
Ghana's Foreign Policy 1957-1966. Diplomacy, Ideology, and the New State
The Politics of Tradition. Continuity and Change in Northern Nigeria 1946-1966
Imperial Sunset (Vol. I. Britain's Liberal Empire, 1897-1921)
Nineteenth Century Africa
West African States and European Expansion
"West African States and European Expansion: The Dahomey-Niger Hinterland, 1885-1898, by Boniface I. Obichere." Canadian Journal of History, 7(3), pp. 301–302
The Nigerian Military
"The Nigerian Military: A Sociological Analysis of Authority and Revolt 1960-67, by Robin Luckham." Canadian Journal of History, 7(3), p. 314
West African Resistance
British Policy towards West Africa. Selected Documents 1875-1914 with Statistical Appendices 1800-1914
Histoire de l'Afrique noire
Mackinnon and East Africa 1878-1895
Livres/Books
Livres/Books
West Africa Partitioned. Volume I
The Scramble for Africa
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