Samuel Kirwan
Biographic Data
| ID | 139180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Kirwan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirwan |
| SIGNATURE | KIRWAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Harm behind the counter: Regulatory labour’ and the offloading of risk onto front‐line employees in the post‐Gambling Act era
Under‐explored in socio‐legal discussions of the legal and regulatory structures focused on harm reduction in gambling, alcohol consumption, and other liberalized consumer activities are the specific ways in which these are interpreted and deployed by front‐line staff in the context of their existing forms of labour and employment pressures. Based on interviews with current and former employees of betting shops in the United Kingdom, and analysis…
Between a knock at the door and a knock to your score: Re-thinking 'governing through debt' through the hopeful 'imaginaries' of UK debtors
This paper draws upon research in the UK debt advice sector to consider the role played by the credit referencing sector in shaping how UK society is ‘governed by debt.’ In response to existing literature within cultural economy on the ‘governmentality of the credit file,’ the paper draws upon two images of the ‘debt trails’ concept to foreground the hopeful futures, shaped by and mediated through relationships with intimate others, that are conj…
‘Sorting out income’: Transnational householding and austerity Britain
The reliance of welfare recipients on the state is classically demonised as a relation of dependency: one that foments passivity on the part of claimants. Critical voices in austerity Britain have drawn attention to government efforts to reconfigure that relationship, by ‘reforming’ welfare, remaking the grantee as a repaying loan‐taker and turning dependents into responsible, autonomous citizens. This paper, based on research in the debt advice …
Introduction: Geographies of Debt and Indebtedness
On ‘those who shout the loudest’: Debt advice and the work of disrupting attachments
The intimate spaces of debt: Love, freedom and entanglement in indebted lives
Assembling Advice
Voluntary sector advice agencies play, for many in the UK, a key role in accessing and understanding public services. As such, whilst fiercely ‘independent’, their relationship to the welfare state is a complex and conflicted one. Presenting data from participant observation, interviews and focus groups with advisers and managers within the Citizens Advice Service, this paper explores this relationship by focusing on two particular areas of the s…
The UK Citizens Advice service and the plurality of actors and practices that shape “legal consciousness”
The UK presents an extreme case of the “austerity” politics that define “access to justice” across several “global north” contexts. This paper addresses a dimension of law within this distinct “global north” setting that has been brought into relief by these changes, namely the key role played by advice services in “translating” legal frameworks for individuals seeking to understand and engage with the legal problems that are dominating their liv…
Poverty, social exclusion and the denial of rights to a fair hearing: A case study of employment disputes
Drawing on data from a research study of workers who sought justice following a dispute at work, this paper examines exclusion from systems of justice as a crucial element in understandings of poverty and social exclusion. We focus on the stories of those who attempt to use the employment tribunal system, which illustrate the multiple barriers to justice experienced by these workers. Arguing that the employment tribunal system provides a crucial …
Imagining and practising citizenship in austere times: The work of Citizens Advice
This article explores the significance of citizenship for those working in Citizens Advice, a network of voluntary organisations in the UK that exists to provide peer-to-peer advice and support to those facing problems. Drawing on a recent research study, the article considers the ways in which the ‘citizen in citizens advice’ is imagined and translated into practice. Despite current political and policy moves to shrink citizenship (in terms of e…
On the ‘inoperative community’ and social authority: A Nancean response to the politics of loss
This article addresses how the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy might inform our understanding of ‘social authority’; an authority generated in everyday practices. It argues that the ‘governmentality’ approach, while drawing out the forms of power that fill the sphere of community-oriented politics, does not recognise the important role played by the loss of community. The article thus sets out how Nancy’s work, in re-framing this ‘l…
The intimate spaces of debt: Love, freedom and entanglement in indebted lives
Introduction: Geographies of Debt and Indebtedness
On ‘those who shout the loudest’: Debt advice and the work of disrupting attachments
Between a knock at the door and a knock to your score: Re-thinking 'governing through debt' through the hopeful 'imaginaries' of UK debtors
This paper draws upon research in the UK debt advice sector to consider the role played by the credit referencing sector in shaping how UK society is ‘governed by debt.’ In response to existing literature within cultural economy on the ‘governmentality of the credit file,’ the paper draws upon two images of the ‘debt trails’ concept to foreground the hopeful futures, shaped by and mediated through relationships with intimate others, that are conj…
On the ‘inoperative community’ and social authority: A Nancean response to the politics of loss
This article addresses how the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy might inform our understanding of ‘social authority’; an authority generated in everyday practices. It argues that the ‘governmentality’ approach, while drawing out the forms of power that fill the sphere of community-oriented politics, does not recognise the important role played by the loss of community. The article thus sets out how Nancy’s work, in re-framing this ‘l…
Imagining and practising citizenship in austere times: The work of Citizens Advice
This article explores the significance of citizenship for those working in Citizens Advice, a network of voluntary organisations in the UK that exists to provide peer-to-peer advice and support to those facing problems. Drawing on a recent research study, the article considers the ways in which the ‘citizen in citizens advice’ is imagined and translated into practice. Despite current political and policy moves to shrink citizenship (in terms of e…
Assembling Advice
Voluntary sector advice agencies play, for many in the UK, a key role in accessing and understanding public services. As such, whilst fiercely ‘independent’, their relationship to the welfare state is a complex and conflicted one. Presenting data from participant observation, interviews and focus groups with advisers and managers within the Citizens Advice Service, this paper explores this relationship by focusing on two particular areas of the s…
On the ‘inoperative community’ and social authority: A Nancean response to the politics of loss
This article addresses how the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy might inform our understanding of ‘social authority’; an authority generated in everyday practices. It argues that the ‘governmentality’ approach, while drawing out the forms of power that fill the sphere of community-oriented politics, does not recognise the important role played by the loss of community. The article thus sets out how Nancy’s work, in re-framing this ‘l…
The UK Citizens Advice service and the plurality of actors and practices that shape “legal consciousness”
The UK presents an extreme case of the “austerity” politics that define “access to justice” across several “global north” contexts. This paper addresses a dimension of law within this distinct “global north” setting that has been brought into relief by these changes, namely the key role played by advice services in “translating” legal frameworks for individuals seeking to understand and engage with the legal problems that are dominating their liv…
Poverty, social exclusion and the denial of rights to a fair hearing: A case study of employment disputes
Drawing on data from a research study of workers who sought justice following a dispute at work, this paper examines exclusion from systems of justice as a crucial element in understandings of poverty and social exclusion. We focus on the stories of those who attempt to use the employment tribunal system, which illustrate the multiple barriers to justice experienced by these workers. Arguing that the employment tribunal system provides a crucial …
Imagining and practising citizenship in austere times: The work of Citizens Advice
This article explores the significance of citizenship for those working in Citizens Advice, a network of voluntary organisations in the UK that exists to provide peer-to-peer advice and support to those facing problems. Drawing on a recent research study, the article considers the ways in which the ‘citizen in citizens advice’ is imagined and translated into practice. Despite current political and policy moves to shrink citizenship (in terms of e…
On ‘those who shout the loudest’: Debt advice and the work of disrupting attachments
The intimate spaces of debt: Love, freedom and entanglement in indebted lives
Assembling Advice
Voluntary sector advice agencies play, for many in the UK, a key role in accessing and understanding public services. As such, whilst fiercely ‘independent’, their relationship to the welfare state is a complex and conflicted one. Presenting data from participant observation, interviews and focus groups with advisers and managers within the Citizens Advice Service, this paper explores this relationship by focusing on two particular areas of the s…
Introduction: Geographies of Debt and Indebtedness
‘Sorting out income’: Transnational householding and austerity Britain
The reliance of welfare recipients on the state is classically demonised as a relation of dependency: one that foments passivity on the part of claimants. Critical voices in austerity Britain have drawn attention to government efforts to reconfigure that relationship, by ‘reforming’ welfare, remaking the grantee as a repaying loan‐taker and turning dependents into responsible, autonomous citizens. This paper, based on research in the debt advice …
Between a knock at the door and a knock to your score: Re-thinking 'governing through debt' through the hopeful 'imaginaries' of UK debtors
This paper draws upon research in the UK debt advice sector to consider the role played by the credit referencing sector in shaping how UK society is ‘governed by debt.’ In response to existing literature within cultural economy on the ‘governmentality of the credit file,’ the paper draws upon two images of the ‘debt trails’ concept to foreground the hopeful futures, shaped by and mediated through relationships with intimate others, that are conj…
Harm behind the counter: Regulatory labour’ and the offloading of risk onto front‐line employees in the post‐Gambling Act era
Under‐explored in socio‐legal discussions of the legal and regulatory structures focused on harm reduction in gambling, alcohol consumption, and other liberalized consumer activities are the specific ways in which these are interpreted and deployed by front‐line staff in the context of their existing forms of labour and employment pressures. Based on interviews with current and former employees of betting shops in the United Kingdom, and analysis…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Debt (4 works) · Finance (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Law (4 works)