Alex Franklin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3719581 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alex Franklin |
| NOMBRES | Alex |
| APELLIDO | Franklin |
| FIRMA | FRANKLIN A |
| AFILIACIONES | Coventry University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4968-6835 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 142 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Cultivating connections
The Soil and the System
Regenerative viticulture has become increasingly prominent within the English wine industry as a flexible framework for ecological sustainability, promoting soil health, biodiversity and reduced chemical use; it is often presented as a pragmatic alternative to the perceived rigidity of organic and biodynamic certification. This paper examines why English wine producers have adopted regenerative viticulture and explores the forms of knowledge and …
Native Welsh ponies as socio-ecological partners
Economic pressures to graze more profitable livestock have reduced Wales’ native semi-feral pony population from around 10 000 to just 700 by 2024. Historically vital to Welsh landscapes, these ponies contribute to socio-ecosystem services—supporting biodiversity, grazing, flood regulation, and cultural traditions such as local horse shows. Despite their value, stakeholder views on their role in integrated landscape management remain underexplore…
Becoming known
In this paper we discuss the intertwining of care with learning to know and become with the other in interspecies relationships. Drawing on interviews at horse rescue yards (England), we ask: How does an animal come to be known? What does it mean to care with an animal well? How does animal agency shape the practicing of response-able care? Caring well for a rescue horse is centred upon establishing an intimate knowledge of horses as individuals …
Practicing care-full scholarship
The demand for alternative methods of providing informed consent is increasing, especially in research with marginalised (or illiterate) research participants. This article discusses the co-creation of a visual informed consent (VIC), in collaboration with an artist. The VIC was inspired by the experience of obtaining informed consent from a group of migrant women with limited English proficiency, in empirical research undertaken on agroecology a…
Ecosystem services as the silver bullet? A systematic review of how ecosystem services assessments impact biodiversity prioritisation in policy
Realigning practices of care and environmental governance
This article presents This article presents findings from a transdisciplinary research project on collaborative practices for the sustainable management of natural resources (SMNR) in Wales. Here, the legislation establishes that the national well-being agenda and the principle of SMNR in environmental governance must be achieved through collaborative and participatory practices, across sectors and organisations, including within the public secto…
Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship
This open access book explores creative and collaborative research methods within the social sustainability sciences.
Participative and Decolonial Approaches in Environmental History
This chapter explores the relationship and use of decolonial participative approaches in environmental history. The main argument is that decolonial and participative methods are useful tools to build environmental histories that are more inclusive and communicate better with today’s society. Furthermore, it is argued that using participative and decolonial approaches contribute to environmental awareness and political action, making environmenta…
Regeneration at a distance from the state
This article combines a 'zoomed-out' political economic analysis of Dutch agriculture with a more 'zoomed-in' empirical exploration of small new entrant farmers who are carving out space for alternative food networks and practices in the Netherlands. Developing a concept of proto-regenerative imaginaries, we define proto-regenerative farmers as those farmers whose work is driven by a desire to contribute to social and ecological well-being. The u…
Toward the commoning of governance
Conventional political thought and practice continue to be stifled by a dilemma of choosing between the ideal imaginaries of State and/or Market solutions. Widely presupposed as the only valid possibilities in both theory and practice, this stale dilemma covers up a real multitude of actually existing alternative approaches to governance practiced in civil society. State/Market approaches are identical in the way that they construct a ‘spectator’…
Hell or high water’
The political imaginaries of blockchain projects
There is a wealth of information, hype around, and research into blockchain’s ‘disruptive’ and ‘transformative’ potential concerning every industry. However, there is an absence of scholarly attention given to identifying and analyzing the political premises and consequences of blockchain projects. Through digital ethnography and participatory action research, this article shows how blockchain experiments personify ‘prefigurative politics’ by des…
Aging animal bodies
This paper investigates how animal aging and ill-health are managed, spaced, interpreted, and experienced within a horse–human relationship. It does so by exploring the active construction of 'retirement' as a legitimate category within the life course of an animal. The analysis is concentrated around the emergent spaces of horse retirement yards. Conceptualising retirement yards as liminal spaces of transition and transformation, particular cons…
Intersectional dress
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Why ageing matters
A good time to die
Becoming a (green) identity entrepreneur
This paper explores the relationship between 'green' identity and community environmental practice. It focuses on the ways in which professional community development facilitators and lead members of community groups attempt to actively shape how environmental projects are locally received. Drawing principally on identity, social sustainability and social practice theory scholarship, it reviews the often very personal and place-specific ways in w…
Governing Social Innovation
Despite the extensive areas of under-used green and brownfield land that remain in public ownership, little academic attention has thus far been given to the role of the public sector in utilising this resource for shared forms of community food growing. Building upon recent calls for more research targeted towards the governance of social innovation, but also the spaces and places in which it occurs, this article presents an in-depth qualitative…
Place as a boundary device for the sustainability sciences
Performing Expertise in Human-Animal Relationships
This paper explores how the human-animal relationship is used to inform the construction of expertise about how best to manage relationships with animals. It pays particular attention to how the material practices of horse training can be understood as performative of human-animal relationships, animality, and the boundary between humans and animals. Drawing on an analysis of commercial videos of natural horsemanship, the paper shows how acts of …
Phenomenal dress! A personal phenomenology of clothing
The principle aim of this article is to contribute to the development of a phenomenology of fashion through an analysis of my relationship with clothing using Heidegger’s phenomenology of Being as outlined in Being and Time (1997) to provide the study’s methodological foundations. I say ‘a’ phenomenology; however, I will argue that it is only through engagement with the ‘partial perspectives’ and ‘situated knowledges’ (Haraway 1988: 583) offered …
(Re-)negotiating access
Biosecurity and food security
Concern over the spread of infectious animal diseases has led to attempts to improve the biosecurity behaviour of farmers. Implicit within these behavioural change strategies are different geographies of knowledge that enact different versions of disease. Some versions are fixed whilst others attempt to live with disease by accommodating difference. This paper explores how these different strategies fare in attempts to promote biosecurity to farm…
Nicole
Biosecurity and food security
Concern over the spread of infectious animal diseases has led to attempts to improve the biosecurity behaviour of farmers. Implicit within these behavioural change strategies are different geographies of knowledge that enact different versions of disease. Some versions are fixed whilst others attempt to live with disease by accommodating difference. This paper explores how these different strategies fare in attempts to promote biosecurity to farm…
Examining power struggles as a signifier of successful partnership working
Aging animal bodies
This paper investigates how animal aging and ill-health are managed, spaced, interpreted, and experienced within a horse–human relationship. It does so by exploring the active construction of 'retirement' as a legitimate category within the life course of an animal. The analysis is concentrated around the emergent spaces of horse retirement yards. Conceptualising retirement yards as liminal spaces of transition and transformation, particular cons…
The political imaginaries of blockchain projects
There is a wealth of information, hype around, and research into blockchain’s ‘disruptive’ and ‘transformative’ potential concerning every industry. However, there is an absence of scholarly attention given to identifying and analyzing the political premises and consequences of blockchain projects. Through digital ethnography and participatory action research, this article shows how blockchain experiments personify ‘prefigurative politics’ by des…
Biosecurity, Expertise and the Institutional Void
This article explores the links between biosecurity policy and rural differentiation. It attempts to show how biosecurity policy has been fundamentally affected by uncertainty over the rules of the game of policy-making - what Hajer has called the 'institutional void'. In particular, the article attempts to show how this void has created a new political space in which the traditional practices of dealing with animal disease have been challenged a…
Place as a boundary device for the sustainability sciences
Performing Expertise in Human-Animal Relationships
This paper explores how the human-animal relationship is used to inform the construction of expertise about how best to manage relationships with animals. It pays particular attention to how the material practices of horse training can be understood as performative of human-animal relationships, animality, and the boundary between humans and animals. Drawing on an analysis of commercial videos of natural horsemanship, the paper shows how acts of …
A good time to die
Toward the commoning of governance
Conventional political thought and practice continue to be stifled by a dilemma of choosing between the ideal imaginaries of State and/or Market solutions. Widely presupposed as the only valid possibilities in both theory and practice, this stale dilemma covers up a real multitude of actually existing alternative approaches to governance practiced in civil society. State/Market approaches are identical in the way that they construct a ‘spectator’…
Hell or high water’
Governing Social Innovation
Despite the extensive areas of under-used green and brownfield land that remain in public ownership, little academic attention has thus far been given to the role of the public sector in utilising this resource for shared forms of community food growing. Building upon recent calls for more research targeted towards the governance of social innovation, but also the spaces and places in which it occurs, this article presents an in-depth qualitative…
(Re-)negotiating access
Reconnecting Skills for Sustainable Communities with Everyday Life
In this paper we review the current policy approach to skills and knowledge for sustainable communities. The aspatial and target-led nature of these approaches around the attainment of fixed skill sets is discussed and then contrasted with educationalist literatures which provide an alternative pedagogical approach to learning. That is, one that places a much greater emphasis on 'learners' as individuals and 'learning' as achieved through experie…
Regeneration at a distance from the state
This article combines a 'zoomed-out' political economic analysis of Dutch agriculture with a more 'zoomed-in' empirical exploration of small new entrant farmers who are carving out space for alternative food networks and practices in the Netherlands. Developing a concept of proto-regenerative imaginaries, we define proto-regenerative farmers as those farmers whose work is driven by a desire to contribute to social and ecological well-being. The u…
The Embedded Nature of Rural Legal Services
There is a considerable amount of literature on embeddedness as part of sociological theory of economic action. Cultural and structural embeddedness often work together to shape the framework of economic relations, but, in an analysis of rural solicitors, we find unevenness between cultural and structural embeddedness. There are strong traits of the former, through a sense of place and belonging, but much less evidence of the latter with the stru…
Practicing care-full scholarship
The demand for alternative methods of providing informed consent is increasing, especially in research with marginalised (or illiterate) research participants. This article discusses the co-creation of a visual informed consent (VIC), in collaboration with an artist. The VIC was inspired by the experience of obtaining informed consent from a group of migrant women with limited English proficiency, in empirical research undertaken on agroecology a…
Animals and Modern Cultures
Animals and Modern Cultures is an investigation into the dramatic transformation of relationships between humans and animals in the 20th century. Franklin argues that this can only make sense by relating it to key aspects of social change
The Embedded Nature of Rural Legal Services
There is a considerable amount of literature on embeddedness as part of sociological theory of economic action. Cultural and structural embeddedness often work together to shape the framework of economic relations, but, in an analysis of rural solicitors, we find unevenness between cultural and structural embeddedness. There are strong traits of the former, through a sense of place and belonging, but much less evidence of the latter with the stru…
Examining power struggles as a signifier of successful partnership working
Nicole
Nicole
Biosecurity, Expertise and the Institutional Void
This article explores the links between biosecurity policy and rural differentiation. It attempts to show how biosecurity policy has been fundamentally affected by uncertainty over the rules of the game of policy-making - what Hajer has called the 'institutional void'. In particular, the article attempts to show how this void has created a new political space in which the traditional practices of dealing with animal disease have been challenged a…
Nicole
Nicole
Nicole
Nicole
Reconnecting Skills for Sustainable Communities with Everyday Life
In this paper we review the current policy approach to skills and knowledge for sustainable communities. The aspatial and target-led nature of these approaches around the attainment of fixed skill sets is discussed and then contrasted with educationalist literatures which provide an alternative pedagogical approach to learning. That is, one that places a much greater emphasis on 'learners' as individuals and 'learning' as achieved through experie…
(Re-)negotiating access
Biosecurity and food security
Concern over the spread of infectious animal diseases has led to attempts to improve the biosecurity behaviour of farmers. Implicit within these behavioural change strategies are different geographies of knowledge that enact different versions of disease. Some versions are fixed whilst others attempt to live with disease by accommodating difference. This paper explores how these different strategies fare in attempts to promote biosecurity to farm…
Phenomenal dress! A personal phenomenology of clothing
The principle aim of this article is to contribute to the development of a phenomenology of fashion through an analysis of my relationship with clothing using Heidegger’s phenomenology of Being as outlined in Being and Time (1997) to provide the study’s methodological foundations. I say ‘a’ phenomenology; however, I will argue that it is only through engagement with the ‘partial perspectives’ and ‘situated knowledges’ (Haraway 1988: 583) offered …
Place as a boundary device for the sustainability sciences
Performing Expertise in Human-Animal Relationships
This paper explores how the human-animal relationship is used to inform the construction of expertise about how best to manage relationships with animals. It pays particular attention to how the material practices of horse training can be understood as performative of human-animal relationships, animality, and the boundary between humans and animals. Drawing on an analysis of commercial videos of natural horsemanship, the paper shows how acts of …
Why ageing matters
A good time to die
Becoming a (green) identity entrepreneur
This paper explores the relationship between 'green' identity and community environmental practice. It focuses on the ways in which professional community development facilitators and lead members of community groups attempt to actively shape how environmental projects are locally received. Drawing principally on identity, social sustainability and social practice theory scholarship, it reviews the often very personal and place-specific ways in w…
Governing Social Innovation
Despite the extensive areas of under-used green and brownfield land that remain in public ownership, little academic attention has thus far been given to the role of the public sector in utilising this resource for shared forms of community food growing. Building upon recent calls for more research targeted towards the governance of social innovation, but also the spaces and places in which it occurs, this article presents an in-depth qualitative…
Intersectional dress
Preview this article: Intersectional dress, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/cc/5/3/cc.5.3.311-1.gif
Aging animal bodies
This paper investigates how animal aging and ill-health are managed, spaced, interpreted, and experienced within a horse–human relationship. It does so by exploring the active construction of 'retirement' as a legitimate category within the life course of an animal. The analysis is concentrated around the emergent spaces of horse retirement yards. Conceptualising retirement yards as liminal spaces of transition and transformation, particular cons…
The political imaginaries of blockchain projects
There is a wealth of information, hype around, and research into blockchain’s ‘disruptive’ and ‘transformative’ potential concerning every industry. However, there is an absence of scholarly attention given to identifying and analyzing the political premises and consequences of blockchain projects. Through digital ethnography and participatory action research, this article shows how blockchain experiments personify ‘prefigurative politics’ by des…
Toward the commoning of governance
Conventional political thought and practice continue to be stifled by a dilemma of choosing between the ideal imaginaries of State and/or Market solutions. Widely presupposed as the only valid possibilities in both theory and practice, this stale dilemma covers up a real multitude of actually existing alternative approaches to governance practiced in civil society. State/Market approaches are identical in the way that they construct a ‘spectator’…
Hell or high water’
Sociology (25 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Social science (11 obras) · Ecology (10 obras) · Public relations (9 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Environmental ethics (7 obras)