Robert Deakin
Biographic Data
| ID | 169253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Deakin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Deakin |
| SIGNATURE | DEAKIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University Loughborough UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9683-2359 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The End Has a Start: The Timeliness of Endings and the Affects of Closure
In this article, we take inspiration from Graham Crow’s call for a sociology of endings, which we regard as an important yet overlooked contribution to contemporary sociology in an age characterised by closure, loss, and decline. Drawing from an ongoing study of the social and cultural impacts of pub closure in the UK, the article presents reflections on our engagement with endings as a sociological topic. We focus on the temporal and affective n…
The Last of England: Banal Nationalism and Communities of Loss in British Pub Closure Media Narratives
While pubs have long been celebrated as a quintessential part of British culture, the ongoing and increasingly rapid closure of British pubs has raised concerns about the impacts of their loss on the wider cultural life and identity of the nation. The article explores how pub closures are narrated in British print news media through the analysis of a sample of news stories spanning 2000-2023. Time series analysis shows that pub closures have been…
Ambivalent Decay: Regeneration Anxieties in East London
This essay explores the relationship between infrastructural anxiety and political agency amid urban regeneration in Poplar, in east London’s former docklands. It does so through reflections on multimodal ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2019 alongside Jimmy – a self-identifying white, working-class man in his early 60s and long-term resident of a social housing estate undergoing redevelopment. Jimmy experiences clinically diagnosed and someti…
Socialist fragments East and West: Towards a comparative anthropology of global (post-)socialism
This article initiates a comparative anthropological analysis of the legacies and endurances of socialism in two different European contexts. It draws on ethnographic and historical material relating to the UK and Romania, 40 years after the first efforts to privatize central elements of the welfare state in the UK and 30 years after the collapse of state socialism in central and eastern Europe. Rather than restricting our analysis to the 'East' …
Socialist fragments East and West: Towards a comparative anthropology of global (post-)socialism
This article initiates a comparative anthropological analysis of the legacies and endurances of socialism in two different European contexts. It draws on ethnographic and historical material relating to the UK and Romania, 40 years after the first efforts to privatize central elements of the welfare state in the UK and 30 years after the collapse of state socialism in central and eastern Europe. Rather than restricting our analysis to the 'East' …
Socialist fragments East and West: Towards a comparative anthropology of global (post-)socialism
This article initiates a comparative anthropological analysis of the legacies and endurances of socialism in two different European contexts. It draws on ethnographic and historical material relating to the UK and Romania, 40 years after the first efforts to privatize central elements of the welfare state in the UK and 30 years after the collapse of state socialism in central and eastern Europe. Rather than restricting our analysis to the 'East' …
Ambivalent Decay: Regeneration Anxieties in East London
This essay explores the relationship between infrastructural anxiety and political agency amid urban regeneration in Poplar, in east London’s former docklands. It does so through reflections on multimodal ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2019 alongside Jimmy – a self-identifying white, working-class man in his early 60s and long-term resident of a social housing estate undergoing redevelopment. Jimmy experiences clinically diagnosed and someti…
The Last of England: Banal Nationalism and Communities of Loss in British Pub Closure Media Narratives
While pubs have long been celebrated as a quintessential part of British culture, the ongoing and increasingly rapid closure of British pubs has raised concerns about the impacts of their loss on the wider cultural life and identity of the nation. The article explores how pub closures are narrated in British print news media through the analysis of a sample of news stories spanning 2000-2023. Time series analysis shows that pub closures have been…
The End Has a Start: The Timeliness of Endings and the Affects of Closure
In this article, we take inspiration from Graham Crow’s call for a sociology of endings, which we regard as an important yet overlooked contribution to contemporary sociology in an age characterised by closure, loss, and decline. Drawing from an ongoing study of the social and cultural impacts of pub closure in the UK, the article presents reflections on our engagement with endings as a sociological topic. We focus on the temporal and affective n…
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