Daniel Nehring
Biographic Data
| ID | 119585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Nehring |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Nehring |
| SIGNATURE | NEHRING D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5346-6301 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
We've Done Our Bit: Post-Covid Experiences of Precarious Privilege Among Western International School Teachers in Shanghai
In this article, we consider how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected migration experiences and decisions among transnationally mobile Western international school teachers in China. International school teachers are among the most numerous groups of Western 'expats' in the country, arriving from the beginning of China's 'Reform period'. Drawing on exploratory interviews with international school teachers, we examine experiences of precarious privi…
Re-Thinking Therapeutic Cultures: Tracing Change and Continuity in a Time of Crisis and Change
This introduction to the special section on therapeutic networks explores two questions: To what extent and in which ways does the hypothesis of the western therapeutization and psychologization assumption still hold in the world of the 2020s? What therapeutic discourses and institutionally situated forms of therapeutic experience and practice are salient today?The papers commented and described in this introduction to the dossier set out some in…
The Self in Self-Help: A Re-Appraisal of Therapeutic Culture in a Time of Crisis
In this article, I analyse constructions of the self in bestselling self-help books in the United Kingdom. In doing so, I offer a re-appraisal of contemporary therapeutic culture. Therapeutic culture has long been associated with neoliberal governance, and scholars have argued that popular therapeutic narratives promote neoliberal accounts of an autonomous, masterful 'entrepreneurial self', able to thrive in the world on its own. However, beginni…
Self-optimisation: Conceptual, discursive and historical perspectives
Self-optimisation has arguably become a central socio-cultural trend in contemporary Western societies. The imperative to optimise our ways of thinking, feeling and interacting with others features prominently in public discourse, and a range of commercial products and services are available to assist us in our quest to become the best version of our selves. However, self-optimisation has so far received scant attention in sociological research. …
Precision education governance and the high risks of fabrication of future-oriented learning human kinds
Education governance is shifting towards more individually and personally tailored governance, to pre-empt futures to manage the present. Managing the present requires the fabrication of a specific type of future-oriented learning human kinds. Economically driven imperatives, strengthening transnational stakeholder networks and advances in the life and behavioural sciences are important parts of this shift while transforming the aims, content and…
Physical activity, sport and transnational migrant spaces in Shanghai, China: (Re)crafting contours of a metropolitan cityscape
This study examines associations between sport/physical activity space, community formation and social life among Shanghai's highly skilled migrant demographic. There is limited illustration of the roles sport and physical exercise provision and spaces play in this migrant cohort's lives, community formation and participation in their host societies. Yet, such evidence is of value in determining social policy, urban development and community enga…
Therapeutic politics reconsidered: Power, post-colonialism and the psychologisation of society in the Global South
In this article, we critically interrogate the relationship between the post-political turn and the psychologisation of social life. It has long been argued that psychologisation, in the form the popularisation of psychotherapeutic discourses and practices and their usage across a range of non-specialist institutional domains, contributes to de-politicisation and the current crisis of democratic politics. However, the empirical basis for this arg…
Covid-19, Nation-States and Fragile Transnationalism
In this intervention, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has reconfigured transnational mobilities, connections, and solidarities, which reveals the fragility of transnationalism predicated on cosmopolitan ethics but rooted in nation-level politics. We show that as the pandemic severely disrupted transnational (infra)structures predicated on state-centric transnationalism from above, the survival and well-being of diverse transnationally mobile…
From public to commercial service: State-market hybridization in the UK visa and immigration permit infrastructure, 1997-2021
This article charts the transformation, between 1997 and 2021, of the family visa and immigration permit infrastructure from a public into a commercial service in the United Kingdom. In doing so, it reveals a process of state-market hybridization underpinning the commercialization of migration regulation. Drawing on the analysis of legal archives, policy reports, and marketing materials directed at family migrants spanning 1997-2021, it presents …
The Sociology of Psychologies
Imagining Society: The Case for Sociology
Re-examining C.Wright Mills’s legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline. It makes a case for the importance of developing a sociological imagination and provides the steps for how readers can do that. The unique text: • Offers succinct and wide-ranging coverage of many of the most important themes and concepts taught in first year…
The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures
Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures
The sociological imagination
Making sense of society
Intimate citizenship and the tightening of migration controls in the United Kingdom
This article examines recent changes in British family migration policy. It explores the reasons for these policy changes. It highlights the fact that these changes have affected the legal, financial, social, and lived experiences of transnational couples. It uses primary research to exemplify these changes. For example, it highlights the fact that the changes in policy have had some negative impacts on the ability of transnational families to ha…
Mindfulness and the 'psychological imagination
We analyse the rise of 'mindfulness' in English language media discourses and contextualise it in terms of its expression of a persistent underlying 'psychological imagination' in contemporary thinking about social problems. An inversion of C. Wright Mills' much-cited sociological imagination, the psychological imagination draws on medical-scientific authority to treat social problems as private concerns rooted in individual biology, mentality an…
Thin selves: Popular Psychology and the Transnational Moral Grammar of Self-Identity
This article explores popular psychology as a transnational moral grammar. Academic debates have been sharply critical of popular psychology, and they have emphasised its association with neoliberal capitalism’s narratives of social relationships. However, scholarship on popular psychology has focused on the Global Northwest. The transnational diffusion of popular psychology remains poorly understood, as do its implications for experiences of sel…
A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?: Revisiting Cultural Paradigms
In the mid-1970s, Latin America entered a period of profound social and economic crisis, marked by the rise of brutal military dictatorships across much of the region and the near-collapse of some of Latin America’s largest economies, in Mexico and Brazil. In response to this crisis, governments across the region adopted neoliberal structural adjustment programmes from the 1980s onwards, under the auspices of international organisations, such as …
A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?: Revisiting cultural paradigms
% of population) 3.4Gini index for Mexico, 1984Mexico, -2014
A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?: Revisiting Cultural Paradigms
This book explores neoliberalism in contemporary Latin America as a set of interrelated cultural forms, offering a transnational and comparative perspective on the ways in which neoliberalism has transformed public discourses of self and social relationships, popular cultures and modes of everyday experience.
Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America: Revisiting Cultural Paradigms
Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America: Social Conflicts and Cultural Responses
Remain, Return, or Re‐migrate? The (Im)mobility Trajectory of Mainland Chinese Students after Completing Their Education in the UK
The migration of Chinese students to the UK has long been the focus of academic and policy‐making attention. However, what happens to their transnational mobility after their education remains understudied. This article unpacks the migration decision‐making process behind graduates' study‐to‐employment transition. We focus on individuals' on‐going reinterpretation of capital convertibility between China and the UK and examine how the meaning of m…
Making transnational intimacies: Intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western families in Beijing
In this study, we explore intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western transnational families. Our argument draws on 28 life story interviews with Chinese middle-class professionals and their Western partners in Beijing. In the context of their living arrangements in Beijing, many of these couples had close ties with their Chinese parents or in-laws, in some cases living together under the same roof. We draw on our participants' interview n…
Mindfulness and the 'psychological imagination
We analyse the rise of 'mindfulness' in English language media discourses and contextualise it in terms of its expression of a persistent underlying 'psychological imagination' in contemporary thinking about social problems. An inversion of C. Wright Mills' much-cited sociological imagination, the psychological imagination draws on medical-scientific authority to treat social problems as private concerns rooted in individual biology, mentality an…
Remain, Return, or Re‐migrate? The (Im)mobility Trajectory of Mainland Chinese Students after Completing Their Education in the UK
The migration of Chinese students to the UK has long been the focus of academic and policy‐making attention. However, what happens to their transnational mobility after their education remains understudied. This article unpacks the migration decision‐making process behind graduates' study‐to‐employment transition. We focus on individuals' on‐going reinterpretation of capital convertibility between China and the UK and examine how the meaning of m…
Covid-19, Nation-States and Fragile Transnationalism
In this intervention, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has reconfigured transnational mobilities, connections, and solidarities, which reveals the fragility of transnationalism predicated on cosmopolitan ethics but rooted in nation-level politics. We show that as the pandemic severely disrupted transnational (infra)structures predicated on state-centric transnationalism from above, the survival and well-being of diverse transnationally mobile…
Individualization as an Ambition: Mapping the Dating Landscape in Beijing
This article considers cultural hierarchies that may shape practices of dating and partner choice among young women and men in contemporary Beijing. Our research is mainly based on 43 in-depth interviews conducted in Beijing over the past six years. The distinction between Beijingers and waidiren (lit., outsiders) here serves as a framework to examine the cultural and socioeconomic differentiation of dating practices. We further complicate this f…
Self-optimisation: Conceptual, discursive and historical perspectives
Self-optimisation has arguably become a central socio-cultural trend in contemporary Western societies. The imperative to optimise our ways of thinking, feeling and interacting with others features prominently in public discourse, and a range of commercial products and services are available to assist us in our quest to become the best version of our selves. However, self-optimisation has so far received scant attention in sociological research. …
Thin selves: Popular Psychology and the Transnational Moral Grammar of Self-Identity
This article explores popular psychology as a transnational moral grammar. Academic debates have been sharply critical of popular psychology, and they have emphasised its association with neoliberal capitalism’s narratives of social relationships. However, scholarship on popular psychology has focused on the Global Northwest. The transnational diffusion of popular psychology remains poorly understood, as do its implications for experiences of sel…
Making transnational intimacies: Intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western families in Beijing
In this study, we explore intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western transnational families. Our argument draws on 28 life story interviews with Chinese middle-class professionals and their Western partners in Beijing. In the context of their living arrangements in Beijing, many of these couples had close ties with their Chinese parents or in-laws, in some cases living together under the same roof. We draw on our participants' interview n…
From public to commercial service: State-market hybridization in the UK visa and immigration permit infrastructure, 1997-2021
This article charts the transformation, between 1997 and 2021, of the family visa and immigration permit infrastructure from a public into a commercial service in the United Kingdom. In doing so, it reveals a process of state-market hybridization underpinning the commercialization of migration regulation. Drawing on the analysis of legal archives, policy reports, and marketing materials directed at family migrants spanning 1997-2021, it presents …
Modernity with Limits: The Narrative Construction of Intimate Relationships, Sex and Social Change in Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez's Juventud en Éxtasis
In this article, I explore the narrative construction of sexualities and intimate relationships in the self-help novel Youth in Sexual Ecstasy by Mexican writer Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez. Self-help texts may be understood as being indicative of the reconstitution of the cultural logics of intimate life in relation to processes of modernization and globalization. The popular work of Cuauhtémoc Sánchez in particular points to respective cultural tr…
Precision education governance and the high risks of fabrication of future-oriented learning human kinds
Education governance is shifting towards more individually and personally tailored governance, to pre-empt futures to manage the present. Managing the present requires the fabrication of a specific type of future-oriented learning human kinds. Economically driven imperatives, strengthening transnational stakeholder networks and advances in the life and behavioural sciences are important parts of this shift while transforming the aims, content and…
Physical activity, sport and transnational migrant spaces in Shanghai, China: (Re)crafting contours of a metropolitan cityscape
This study examines associations between sport/physical activity space, community formation and social life among Shanghai's highly skilled migrant demographic. There is limited illustration of the roles sport and physical exercise provision and spaces play in this migrant cohort's lives, community formation and participation in their host societies. Yet, such evidence is of value in determining social policy, urban development and community enga…
Therapeutic politics reconsidered: Power, post-colonialism and the psychologisation of society in the Global South
In this article, we critically interrogate the relationship between the post-political turn and the psychologisation of social life. It has long been argued that psychologisation, in the form the popularisation of psychotherapeutic discourses and practices and their usage across a range of non-specialist institutional domains, contributes to de-politicisation and the current crisis of democratic politics. However, the empirical basis for this arg…
Intimate citizenship and the tightening of migration controls in the United Kingdom
This article examines recent changes in British family migration policy. It explores the reasons for these policy changes. It highlights the fact that these changes have affected the legal, financial, social, and lived experiences of transnational couples. It uses primary research to exemplify these changes. For example, it highlights the fact that the changes in policy have had some negative impacts on the ability of transnational families to ha…
Negotiated Familism: Intimate Life and Individualization Among Young Female Professionals from Mexico City
This analysis explores narratives of love, marriage, and couple relationships among young female professionals from Mexico City. It seeks to address a dearth of knowledge about transformations of intimacy among the middle sectors of Mexican society. In this context, it raises questions about possible trends toward an individualization of intimate life and the dynamics of intimate citizenship experienced by young urban women. The argument is groun…
Identities, Discourses and Experiences: Young People of North African Origin in France
Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico - by Jocelyn Olcott Mary Kay Vaughan and Ana Gabriela Cano
Modernity with Limits: The Narrative Construction of Intimate Relationships, Sex and Social Change in Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez's Juventud en Éxtasis
In this article, I explore the narrative construction of sexualities and intimate relationships in the self-help novel Youth in Sexual Ecstasy by Mexican writer Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez. Self-help texts may be understood as being indicative of the reconstitution of the cultural logics of intimate life in relation to processes of modernization and globalization. The popular work of Cuauhtémoc Sánchez in particular points to respective cultural tr…
Identities, Discourses and Experiences: Young People of North African Origin in France
Spanish Central America: A Socioeconomic History 1520-1720 - by MacLeod, M. J
Negotiated Familism: Intimate Life and Individualization Among Young Female Professionals from Mexico City
This analysis explores narratives of love, marriage, and couple relationships among young female professionals from Mexico City. It seeks to address a dearth of knowledge about transformations of intimacy among the middle sectors of Mexican society. In this context, it raises questions about possible trends toward an individualization of intimate life and the dynamics of intimate citizenship experienced by young urban women. The argument is groun…
Narratives of Assimilation, Divergence, and Hybridity
Our study explored cultural understandings surrounding the reproductive decisions of US-born, college-educated Mexican American women through a series of semi-structured in-depth interviews. In considering the results, this article advances debates on Latina women’s reproductive choices beyond the theoretical paradigms of “assimilation” and “divergence” prevalent in the academic literature. Analysis of emergent themes in the interviews identified…
Elena Martellozzo, Online Child Sexual Abuse: Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World
Individualization as an Ambition: Mapping the Dating Landscape in Beijing
This article considers cultural hierarchies that may shape practices of dating and partner choice among young women and men in contemporary Beijing. Our research is mainly based on 43 in-depth interviews conducted in Beijing over the past six years. The distinction between Beijingers and waidiren (lit., outsiders) here serves as a framework to examine the cultural and socioeconomic differentiation of dating practices. We further complicate this f…
Sociology: An Introductory Textbook and Reader
Making transnational intimacies: Intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western families in Beijing
In this study, we explore intergenerational relationships in Chinese-Western transnational families. Our argument draws on 28 life story interviews with Chinese middle-class professionals and their Western partners in Beijing. In the context of their living arrangements in Beijing, many of these couples had close ties with their Chinese parents or in-laws, in some cases living together under the same roof. We draw on our participants' interview n…
A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?: Revisiting Cultural Paradigms
In the mid-1970s, Latin America entered a period of profound social and economic crisis, marked by the rise of brutal military dictatorships across much of the region and the near-collapse of some of Latin America’s largest economies, in Mexico and Brazil. In response to this crisis, governments across the region adopted neoliberal structural adjustment programmes from the 1980s onwards, under the auspices of international organisations, such as …
A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?: Revisiting cultural paradigms
% of population) 3.4Gini index for Mexico, 1984Mexico, -2014
A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?: Revisiting Cultural Paradigms
This book explores neoliberalism in contemporary Latin America as a set of interrelated cultural forms, offering a transnational and comparative perspective on the ways in which neoliberalism has transformed public discourses of self and social relationships, popular cultures and modes of everyday experience.
Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America: Revisiting Cultural Paradigms
Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America: Social Conflicts and Cultural Responses
Remain, Return, or Re‐migrate? The (Im)mobility Trajectory of Mainland Chinese Students after Completing Their Education in the UK
The migration of Chinese students to the UK has long been the focus of academic and policy‐making attention. However, what happens to their transnational mobility after their education remains understudied. This article unpacks the migration decision‐making process behind graduates' study‐to‐employment transition. We focus on individuals' on‐going reinterpretation of capital convertibility between China and the UK and examine how the meaning of m…
Imagining Society: The Case for Sociology
Re-examining C.Wright Mills’s legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline. It makes a case for the importance of developing a sociological imagination and provides the steps for how readers can do that. The unique text: • Offers succinct and wide-ranging coverage of many of the most important themes and concepts taught in first year…
The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures
Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures
The sociological imagination
Making sense of society
Intimate citizenship and the tightening of migration controls in the United Kingdom
This article examines recent changes in British family migration policy. It explores the reasons for these policy changes. It highlights the fact that these changes have affected the legal, financial, social, and lived experiences of transnational couples. It uses primary research to exemplify these changes. For example, it highlights the fact that the changes in policy have had some negative impacts on the ability of transnational families to ha…
Mindfulness and the 'psychological imagination
We analyse the rise of 'mindfulness' in English language media discourses and contextualise it in terms of its expression of a persistent underlying 'psychological imagination' in contemporary thinking about social problems. An inversion of C. Wright Mills' much-cited sociological imagination, the psychological imagination draws on medical-scientific authority to treat social problems as private concerns rooted in individual biology, mentality an…
Thin selves: Popular Psychology and the Transnational Moral Grammar of Self-Identity
This article explores popular psychology as a transnational moral grammar. Academic debates have been sharply critical of popular psychology, and they have emphasised its association with neoliberal capitalism’s narratives of social relationships. However, scholarship on popular psychology has focused on the Global Northwest. The transnational diffusion of popular psychology remains poorly understood, as do its implications for experiences of sel…
From public to commercial service: State-market hybridization in the UK visa and immigration permit infrastructure, 1997-2021
This article charts the transformation, between 1997 and 2021, of the family visa and immigration permit infrastructure from a public into a commercial service in the United Kingdom. In doing so, it reveals a process of state-market hybridization underpinning the commercialization of migration regulation. Drawing on the analysis of legal archives, policy reports, and marketing materials directed at family migrants spanning 1997-2021, it presents …
Sociology (24 works) · Political science (22 works) · Law (15 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works)