Lindsay Hamilton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 101484 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lindsay Hamilton |
| PRENOMES | Lindsay |
| SOBRENOME | Hamilton |
| ASSINATURA | HAMILTON L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1253-171X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 74 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 227 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Posthuman Visual Methods in Multispecies Ethnographies
This article examines 360-degree cameras as tools that advance posthuman methods utilized during multispecies ethnographic fieldwork. In Finnish Lapland, we recorded immersive footage with a 360-degree camera during 19 go-along interviews with humans, and observations of their Siberian and Alaskan huskies working in sled dog tourism contexts. We conceptualize the 360-degree camera as a field companion and a human-technological enhancement that ca…
A university for ducks? Reframing biodiversity work as multispecies negotiation
In recent years, an increased emphasis on promoting ‘biodiversity’ in organisational spaces has emerged through initiatives such as ‘green roofs’, ‘living walls’, bird boxes, and at a larger scale, wildlife reserves. The human and organisational costs and benefits of these initiatives have been well documented, but there has been scant consideration of the long-term challenges involved in managing the competing interests of the human and nonhuman…
Child Benefits
Empowering artistic labor
Guaranteed income improved artists’ financial stability and reduced debt. • Recipients invested more time and energy in artistic practice and innovation. • Program improved indicators of intrinsic motivation, well-being, and purpose. • No evidence that guaranteed income reduced other income sources. Debates over universal basic income (UBI) have often focused on whether cash transfers reduce labour supply, yet less attention has been given to how…
Staying Afloat
While previous research has examined usage patterns and impacts of the expanded U.S. Child Tax Credit (CTC), less is known about how families raising children with disabilities responded to the CTC. While it is well-established that these families face greater financial constraints than other families, their utilization of such public programs remains underexplored. Using a novel, two-wave probability-based panel survey of more than 1,700 CTC rec…
Basic Income and Human Needs Satisfaction
This article analyses qualitative data from the HudsonUP unconditional basic income (UBI) experiment to examine changes to participants’ human needs satisfaction. Human needs theories offer a holistic perspective on wellbeing and are widely employed in the sustainable welfare and post-growth literatures. However, they are under utilised in empirical UBI research. Through an inductive/deductive hybrid thematic analysis of interviews conducted at t…
Kinship Health Relationships
Through an innovative interspecies analysis, this article explores narratives surrounding the medical treatment of humans and pet animals at the end of life among U.K. veterinary surgeons, medical practitioners, and members of the public. Contrasting the care options open to pet owners with those available to human patients, and through a thematic focus on treatments and medicines, euthanasia, and palliation, this article pays close attention to …
“It saved us”
From scarcity to security
This article describes the mental well‐being outcomes of participants in the HudsonUP pilot, a 5‐year basic income initiative for low to mid‐income residents of Hudson, NY. The study employs a mixed‐methods approach, including both quantitative surveys and qualitative phenomenological interviews, to better understand participants' experiences 2 years into the pilot. Through the lens of the psychological theory of scarcity, findings indicate that …
The Impacts of the Child Tax Credit on Financial Resilience and the Use of High-Cost Financial Resources
Public Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration in Smaller Canadian Communities
Canadian immigration programs are increasingly emphasizing regionalization in order to contribute to the population base of smaller Canadian communities and to address local labour market needs. Despite frequent Canadian national surveys of public attitudes toward immigrants and immigration, however, little is known about the warmth of the welcome presented to immigrants in regions outside of the large metropolises. The current study involved a r…
WhiteSaviorComplex
Many American social work education programs now offer study abroad components, which provide significant advantages to students, including cross-cultural exposure, personal and professional development, and preparation for a globalizing profession. However, multiple ethical challenges are presented when North American (often White) students interact with vulnerable populations abroad, including the use of social media. We searched for relevant i…
The Child Tax Credit, Educational Investments, and the American Dream
In March 2021, the American Rescue Plan substantially increased the maximum per-child child tax credit (CTC). However, research has yet to explore educational investments associated with the CTC. Thus, the authors leverage a probability-based panel survey of CTC-eligible families across 49 states to examine how parents’ investments in tutoring and college savings relate to the degree to which parents believe that their children will have better l…
Does Frequency or Amount Matter? An Exploratory Analysis the Perceptions of Four Universal Basic Income Proposals
Advocates for a Universal Basic Income (UBI) argue that it would provide citizens with a basic foundation for financial security, boost the economy, alleviate poverty, encourage entrepreneurship, reduce crime, and insulate the employment sector against job losses due to automation. Still, the idea lags in popularity in the United States compared to existing cash policies such as the annual Earned Income Tax Credit and one-time COVID-19 relief pac…
How Would Americans Respond to Direct Cash Transfers? Results from Two Survey Experiments
Universal basic income has gained renewed interest among policy makers and researchers in the United States. Although research indicates that unconditional cash transfers produce diverse benefits for households, public support lags in part because of predicted unemployment and frivolous spending. To understand how Americans would reorganize their lives around unconditional cash transfers, this article examines the relationship between the structu…
Student Debt Forgiveness and Economic Stability, Social Mobility, and Quality-of-Life Decisions
As policymakers grapple with whether or not to forgive student debt, for who, and how much, it is important to explore how student debt forgiveness would relate to intended household decisions and behaviors. We conducted a survey experiment that asked participants with student debt to imagine a scenario in which the federal government forgave a certain amount of student debt. We then had these participants report on how this would affect their de…
Exploring the Use of AI in Qualitative Analysis
This study explores the potential of the AI chatbot ChatGPT to supplement human-centered tasks such as qualitative research analysis. The study compares the emergent themes in human and AI-generated qualitative analyses of interviews with guaranteed income pilot recipients. The results reveal that there are similarities and differences between human and AI-generated analyses, with the human coders recognizing some themes that ChatGPT did not and …
Wild Lives
On a typical day, rising at dawn, I slip my old coat over my pajamas to stand in the backyard.Through a coil of coffee-steam, I watch the pigeons rustle in the damson tree or crouch to examine things at soil-level; a leaf, a paw-print.Sometimes, I slip through the back gate and let my eyes settle on a point in the distance, past the bronze sandstone of the ancient church steeple that bisects the fields, tall trees and hedgerows.A curl of smoke wi…
Catching Crab Truth in Seawater
This chapter presents rockpools and the act of rockpooling as an affective encounter between the species. Focusing on the theoretical framing of charisma, the intertidal zone is explored as a space of both material and semiotic ‘assemblage’ which makes possible the playful and child-like acts of curatorship through the particular valuation of target species such as fish and crabs. Sketching out some brief vignettes from the experience of rockpool…
The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies
This interdisciplinary book lays out the contours of a new academic discipline, Animal Organization Studies, thus answering timely calls for more attention to nonhuman life in traditionally human-centred fields in social science. The book first immerses the reader in the history of human-animal relationships within a commercial context, as well as opening critique thereof and speculating on future lines of enquiry and the possibility of epistemol…
Re-thinking public health
This study makes the case for a new scientific logic of routine animal health care in industrial farming in Europe. We argue that the social regime underpinning scientific research and development on chronic animal disease management (CADM) in Europe stifles innovation and sustains a productivist model of animal husbandry that facilitates and maintains chronic animal diseases rather than eliminating them. Drawing on documentary analysis and quali…
Teacher Experience, Personal Health, and Dieting Status Is Associated With Classroom Health‐Related Practices and Modeling
BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that schools play an important role in student health; however, little is known about variability in teachers' use of food-related classroom practices. In this study, we examined associations between teacher demographic and individual factors and their food-related practices and modeling in the classroom. METHODS: We had 239 teachers in the United States complete an online survey about their demographics (years of te…
Quarantine 15’
Asset Limits in Public Assistance and Savings Behavior Among Low‐Income Families
Objectives Low‐income families receiving public benefits in the United States are often subject to asset limits for eligibility, which some argue to be counterproductive to their long‐term economic stability. Previous research suggests that families were more likely to save when asset limits increased after welfare reform in 1996. The current study builds upon this work for the years before and after the Great Recession. Methods This study utiliz…
(Re)connecting the food chain
This article investigates the growing market for cow's milk sold directly from the farm, often known as 'raw milk'. Drawing on qualitative research with UK raw milk producers we add new insights to the sociology of food by demonstrating how knowledge about the 'goodness' and 'purity' of cow's milk arises and becomes powerful in producer and consumer groups. Our empirical findings highlight that for a small proportion of producers and consumers, r…
Ethnography after Humanism
This book argues that qualitative methods, ethnography included, have tended to focus on the human at the cost of understanding humans and animals in relation, and that ethnography should evolve to ac
Ethnography in evolution
PurposeTraditionally, ethnography has been well placed to take account of the messy and complex processes that produce workplace cultures. Likewise, it has always taken interest in the objects, materials and symbolic artifacts that help furnish those organizational cultures. Yet researchers face a particular challenge when the organization in question includes animals. The purpose of this paper is to ask: How do we take account of such others? Ar…
Animals at work
Animals at Work is founded upon a broad and unique variety of empirical research settings - animal sanctuaries, farms, slaughter-houses, veterinary practices and behind the scenes of a natural history documentary film-making team. Hamilton and Taylor apply a breadth of post-structural and post-humanist theories to establish what happens when animal-agents are brought into human networks and spaces of representation, and the artful ways in which t…
Muck and magic
While the presence of muck, dirt and animal detritus is a quotidian and generally unremarkable feature of everyday working life for farm vets, it has special relevance to social scientists seeking to understand how they assemble their professional identities. But the cultural significance of muck and mess as a material condition of working life for vets - and other professionals more generally - has been largely under-theorized by researchers and…
Human Again”
Neoliberal social assistance programs are broadly seen as inadequate and intrusive. This phenomenological analysis compares social assistance in Ontario, Canada, and a recent pilot project to test basic income as an alternative method of enabling economic security and social participation via qualitative interviews with pilot recipients who had previously received traditional assistance. Results indicate a desire to be financially independent, bu…
Exploring the Use of AI in Qualitative Analysis
This study explores the potential of the AI chatbot ChatGPT to supplement human-centered tasks such as qualitative research analysis. The study compares the emergent themes in human and AI-generated qualitative analyses of interviews with guaranteed income pilot recipients. The results reveal that there are similarities and differences between human and AI-generated analyses, with the human coders recognizing some themes that ChatGPT did not and …
Organizing animals
The Oxford Handbook of Animal Organization Studies
This interdisciplinary book lays out the contours of a new academic discipline, Animal Organization Studies, thus answering timely calls for more attention to nonhuman life in traditionally human-centred fields in social science. The book first immerses the reader in the history of human-animal relationships within a commercial context, as well as opening critique thereof and speculating on future lines of enquiry and the possibility of epistemol…
The Magic of Mundane Objects
This article explores and extends the idea that material objects lie at the heart of many of our social, and specifically workplace, interactions. The site of exploration is an ethnography of a British farm animal veterinary surgery. Drawing upon traditional cultural studies approaches alongside contemporary sociological understandings about the place of materials in social life, the article analyses how objects function to track and structure th…
The kill programme
It has been argued that ‘dirty work’ is characterised by strong occupational and workgroup cultures. This literature has mainly focused on direct workers, but this article largely attends to indirect ‘dirty’ workers, specifically meat inspectors, through ethnographic research conducted in a UK slaughterhouse. Four arguments are developed; the first is that ‘dirty workers’ may not all display group cohesiveness; indeed, individualisation may be mo…
Quarantine 15’
Can Methods Do Good
In this conversational essay, three scholars working in the field of human—animal studies discuss the multi—species work that is underway in ethnology. Examples of different methodological approaches are highlighted; multispecies ethnography, crystallization, feminist dog-writing and écriture feminine. By reflecting on the value of such techniques, the authors contend that a renewed enthusiasm for methodological innovation can pave the way for mo…
Guarding Public Coffers or Trapping the Poor? The Role of Public Assistance Asset Limits in Program Efficacy and Family Economic Well‐Being
Devolution of the American welfare state over the last 40 years means that states have more control to set eligibility criteria in public assistance programs. One such criterion, limits on participant assets, is designed to improve program efficiency by allocating scarce public resources only to the truly needy, but it presents a unique set of barriers to financial independence for low‐income families. In this article, we present the historical p…
Universal Basic Income, Poverty, and Social Justice
Modern technology threatens to dramatically alter the U.S. labor economy, but the crumbling social safety net may be insufficient for affected workers. Some advocates propose to address these converging problems through universal basic income (UBI). Authors conducted a preliminary review of social work perspectives on the topic of UBI. They found very little relevant literature, especially among American scholars. Existent social work literature …
Hefted
The production of financial value by organisations through highly mobile products and services is increasingly contested by recognition of the more-than-financial aspects of valuation practices, particularly regarding the quality or moral value of work experiences and the dignity of workers. The role of nonhuman animals is frequently overlooked despite the significance of animal contributions to labour and manufacture, yet contributes to this deb…
Knocking on the Door of Human-Animal Studies
We argue that human-animal studies ( HAS ) literature is essential for theorizing work because it fosters a reflexive questioning of humanist power and a more sophisticated understanding of the co-dependency and co-creativity between the species. We highlight that the neglect of nonhuman animals in organization studies stems from a preoccupation with contemporary industrialization, human forms of rationality, and the mechanisms of capital exchang…
A gendered perspective on Learning to Labour
This paper presents an auto-ethnographic study of the personal experience of learning to labour. Heather Hopfl reflects on the prospects and opportunities presented to her as part of her life and experiences of learning to labour during the same period as Willis's study: which, of course, is specific to young men. Consequently, the paper reflects on the implications of class location and life chances, on the social engineering experimentation of …
Basic Income and Human Needs Satisfaction
This article analyses qualitative data from the HudsonUP unconditional basic income (UBI) experiment to examine changes to participants’ human needs satisfaction. Human needs theories offer a holistic perspective on wellbeing and are widely employed in the sustainable welfare and post-growth literatures. However, they are under utilised in empirical UBI research. Through an inductive/deductive hybrid thematic analysis of interviews conducted at t…
Kinship Health Relationships
Through an innovative interspecies analysis, this article explores narratives surrounding the medical treatment of humans and pet animals at the end of life among U.K. veterinary surgeons, medical practitioners, and members of the public. Contrasting the care options open to pet owners with those available to human patients, and through a thematic focus on treatments and medicines, euthanasia, and palliation, this article pays close attention to …
How Would Americans Respond to Direct Cash Transfers? Results from Two Survey Experiments
Universal basic income has gained renewed interest among policy makers and researchers in the United States. Although research indicates that unconditional cash transfers produce diverse benefits for households, public support lags in part because of predicted unemployment and frivolous spending. To understand how Americans would reorganize their lives around unconditional cash transfers, this article examines the relationship between the structu…
Student Debt Forgiveness and Economic Stability, Social Mobility, and Quality-of-Life Decisions
As policymakers grapple with whether or not to forgive student debt, for who, and how much, it is important to explore how student debt forgiveness would relate to intended household decisions and behaviors. We conducted a survey experiment that asked participants with student debt to imagine a scenario in which the federal government forgave a certain amount of student debt. We then had these participants report on how this would affect their de…
(Re)connecting the food chain
This article investigates the growing market for cow's milk sold directly from the farm, often known as 'raw milk'. Drawing on qualitative research with UK raw milk producers we add new insights to the sociology of food by demonstrating how knowledge about the 'goodness' and 'purity' of cow's milk arises and becomes powerful in producer and consumer groups. Our empirical findings highlight that for a small proportion of producers and consumers, r…
Predicting Paternalism
Welfare eligibility is usually determined via income and financial assets. Since devolution of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families administration in 1996, there is significant state variation in these criteria. Previous research suggests that income limits are influenced by racial politics, with more restrictive criteria associated with higher Black populations. The current study examined whether asset testing is similarly determined. Finding…
Growing Consumers through Production and Play
This article adopts a phenomenological perspective to illustrate how gardens become important spaces where children informally encounter, produce, consume and learn about food. We extend the theoretical concept of the 'foodscape' by applying it to both childhood production and consumption and, drawing on qualitative insights from two UK school gardening clubs, show why bodily and sensory phenomena are central to unlocking the potential for foodsc…
Ethnography beyond the country and the city
Background Postnatal depression necessitates timely and effective interventions to mitigate adverse maternal and child outcomes in the short term and over the life course. British south Asian women with depression are often underserved and undertreated due to stigma, language barriers, and cultural barriers. This trial aimed to test the clinical efficacy of a culturally adapted, group cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)-based intervention, the Po…
Muck and magic
While the presence of muck, dirt and animal detritus is a quotidian and generally unremarkable feature of everyday working life for farm vets, it has special relevance to social scientists seeking to understand how they assemble their professional identities. But the cultural significance of muck and mess as a material condition of working life for vets - and other professionals more generally - has been largely under-theorized by researchers and…
It's All About Security to Me
This qualitative study explores financial behavior and expectations in families of origin in addition to youth financial education and savings behaviors. The authors interviewed 14 youths, aged 17 to 19 years, whose families had low incomes, education levels, and savings rates and who participated in a youth-based financial education and dedicated savings program and present key themes and subthemes that were revealed during data analysis. Findin…
Ethnography in evolution
PurposeTraditionally, ethnography has been well placed to take account of the messy and complex processes that produce workplace cultures. Likewise, it has always taken interest in the objects, materials and symbolic artifacts that help furnish those organizational cultures. Yet researchers face a particular challenge when the organization in question includes animals. The purpose of this paper is to ask: How do we take account of such others? Ar…
Preliminary Material
Chapter Eight Ethnography and Animals
Chapter Two Why Work with Animals?
Chapter Three Farm Animal, Vets and the Transformation of ‘Muck’
Index
Chapter Six Wildlife Presenters, Performance and the Animal ‘Actor’
Chapter One Humans and Other Animals
Chapter Four Slaughter Workers and the Making of Meat
Chapter Five Shelter Workers and the Construction of ‘Animal Personhood’
Chapter Seven Small Animal Vets and the Crafting of Intimacy
Examining Relationships Between Financial Capital and Personal Well-Being
Researchers have traditionally examined economic well-being with income data, yet recent findings indicate positive effects of assets on well-being, independent from income. For this study, baseline data from 904 low-income individuals were used to examine relationships between income, assets, and personal, social, and economic outcomes. Baseline findings indicate that financial assets did not influence perceptions of self-efficacy, economic stra…
Animals at work
Animals at Work is founded upon a broad and unique variety of empirical research settings - animal sanctuaries, farms, slaughter-houses, veterinary practices and behind the scenes of a natural history documentary film-making team. Hamilton and Taylor apply a breadth of post-structural and post-humanist theories to establish what happens when animal-agents are brought into human networks and spaces of representation, and the artful ways in which t…
The Magic of Mundane Objects
This article explores and extends the idea that material objects lie at the heart of many of our social, and specifically workplace, interactions. The site of exploration is an ethnography of a British farm animal veterinary surgery. Drawing upon traditional cultural studies approaches alongside contemporary sociological understandings about the place of materials in social life, the article analyses how objects function to track and structure th…
Preparing Children for Success
Many states are implementing asset development strategies to promote postsecondary education for low- to moderate-income families, realizing that limited education is a powerful predictor of poverty, and poverty mediates the likelihood of obtaining postsecondary education. Using demographic and qualitative data collected from two groups of low- to moderate-income parents ( N = 24), this article highlights two programs that promote savings and inc…
Shelter From the Storm
A growing body of literature suggests that asset limits in public assistance are associated with low savings rates among low-income families. Several states have begun eliminating or significantly increasing asset limits in an attempt to address potential disincentives. The primary concern for other states, however, appears to be the possibility that caseloads would increase to unsustainable levels, especially in times of economic recession. Five…
The kill programme
It has been argued that ‘dirty work’ is characterised by strong occupational and workgroup cultures. This literature has mainly focused on direct workers, but this article largely attends to indirect ‘dirty’ workers, specifically meat inspectors, through ethnographic research conducted in a UK slaughterhouse. Four arguments are developed; the first is that ‘dirty workers’ may not all display group cohesiveness; indeed, individualisation may be mo…
When I ask myself these questions
‘It’s just a job’
This article contributes to an understanding of the nexus between humans and animals by drawing on ethnographic research conducted in a British chicken factory and, more particularly, by exploring the emotional subjectivity of Meat Inspectors employed by the Food Standards Agency to oversee quality, hygiene and consumer safety within this plant. We argue that these Inspectors displayed a complex range of often contradictory emotions from the ‘mec…
Incentives in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program
The alleged disincentives created by generous public assistance programs are common fodder for political debate. However, there appears to be limited empirical support for these statements. This review of relevant literature attempts to aggregate current knowledge of incentives in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Results indicate that recipients in states with relatively lenient programs are more likely to achieve long-term fi…
A gendered perspective on Learning to Labour
This paper presents an auto-ethnographic study of the personal experience of learning to labour. Heather Hopfl reflects on the prospects and opportunities presented to her as part of her life and experiences of learning to labour during the same period as Willis's study: which, of course, is specific to young men. Consequently, the paper reflects on the implications of class location and life chances, on the social engineering experimentation of …
Ethnography beyond the country and the city
Background Postnatal depression necessitates timely and effective interventions to mitigate adverse maternal and child outcomes in the short term and over the life course. British south Asian women with depression are often underserved and undertreated due to stigma, language barriers, and cultural barriers. This trial aimed to test the clinical efficacy of a culturally adapted, group cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)-based intervention, the Po…
Arts-Based Methods
Barone and Eisner (1997) have pointed out that visual, auditory and arts-based approaches have become more popular and acceptable within the ethnographic community. At the same time, the range of techniques on offer to ethnographers has vastly expanded, particularly as the use of websites and audio-visual recording devices have become increasingly user-friendly, affordable and commonplace (Hine, 2000; Pink, 2013, 2015). We have highlighted some o…
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