Heather Lynch
Biographic Data
| ID | 264930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Lynch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynch |
| SIGNATURE | LYNCH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5898-5397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Gaelic Ethology or Viewing Infinity with Spinoza
In the context of environmental crisis and ascendant advanced technologies, the question of how to live in more-than-human worlds is imperative. To develop a practical theorisation of what this might mean, this article brings Spinoza’s Ethics into conversation with the traditional ways of living practised by Scotland’s Gaelic peoples. Together, they offer the means of contemplating a relational, more-than-human ethics. This has relevance to socia…
Engaging with communities and precarity theory to bring new perspectives to public mental health
In this paper we explore the role of precarity theory in bringing new perspectives to public mental health. The paper draws on a qualitative, participatory research study carried out in Glasgow that illuminates the entangled and complex relations between the social, bio-political, cultural, economic, and environmental conditions that produce mental health and ill health. Through the accounts of Sassy Queen, Tony, Simba, John, and Rhianna, we expl…
Raising the ‘environmental question’ in social work in Canada and Scotland
This article contributes a comparative review of social work in Canada and Scotland to international conversations about social work and the environment. The 'environmental question' of the 21st century is a radical challenge to social work developed in relation to the 'social question' of the 19th century. Work to begin to include the natural environment within high-income state social work can expect to encounter established infrastructures of …
Introduction to the politics of life: A biopolitical mess
This introduction to the special issue focuses on the messiness of biopolitics. The biopolitical is a composite mixture of heterogeneous, and sometimes conflicting, forces, discourses, institutions, laws, and practices that are embedded in and animated by material social relations. In the now extensive literature on biopolitics, our biopolitical era is characterized by the blending and mixing of what were previously thought of as separate realms:…
Esposito's affirmative biopolitics in multispecies homes
Drawing on Roberto Esposito's conceptualization of 'affirmative biopolitics', this article examines the relationship between bedbugs and humans in the Glasgow neighbourhood of Govanhill. Through an analysis of ethnographic field notes and interviews with people who live in the area, this article traces their experiences from first encounters. The trajectory of this experience shows a shift from a desire to immunize their homes through total annih…
Unravelling encounters ethics, knowledge and resistance under neoliberalism
Seeking Ethical Symmetry—An Analysis of Criminal Justice Social Work Practice with a Female ‘Offender’
This paper draws on the author's experience as a student social worker in the Scottish criminal justice social work system to explore questions of relational ethics and the challenges of mobilising an ethically symmetrical relationship in contexts with pre-existing power imbalances. This experience enables a critique of risk management models and makes a contribution to desistance theory
Lifelong learning, policy and desire
Recent lifelong learning policies have been criticised for creating an illusion of freedom whilst simultaneously reducing choice. The concept of desire permits engagement with the conscious and unconscious drives that underpin individual decision‐making, which direct the life course. Utilising the ideas of Hume and Spinoza, the present article articulates the interrelated nature of desire and learning. Evidence is drawn from Learning Lives, a Tea…
Esposito's affirmative biopolitics in multispecies homes
Drawing on Roberto Esposito's conceptualization of 'affirmative biopolitics', this article examines the relationship between bedbugs and humans in the Glasgow neighbourhood of Govanhill. Through an analysis of ethnographic field notes and interviews with people who live in the area, this article traces their experiences from first encounters. The trajectory of this experience shows a shift from a desire to immunize their homes through total annih…
Introduction to the politics of life: A biopolitical mess
This introduction to the special issue focuses on the messiness of biopolitics. The biopolitical is a composite mixture of heterogeneous, and sometimes conflicting, forces, discourses, institutions, laws, and practices that are embedded in and animated by material social relations. In the now extensive literature on biopolitics, our biopolitical era is characterized by the blending and mixing of what were previously thought of as separate realms:…
Lifelong learning, policy and desire
Recent lifelong learning policies have been criticised for creating an illusion of freedom whilst simultaneously reducing choice. The concept of desire permits engagement with the conscious and unconscious drives that underpin individual decision‐making, which direct the life course. Utilising the ideas of Hume and Spinoza, the present article articulates the interrelated nature of desire and learning. Evidence is drawn from Learning Lives, a Tea…
Raising the ‘environmental question’ in social work in Canada and Scotland
This article contributes a comparative review of social work in Canada and Scotland to international conversations about social work and the environment. The 'environmental question' of the 21st century is a radical challenge to social work developed in relation to the 'social question' of the 19th century. Work to begin to include the natural environment within high-income state social work can expect to encounter established infrastructures of …
Seeking Ethical Symmetry—An Analysis of Criminal Justice Social Work Practice with a Female ‘Offender’
This paper draws on the author's experience as a student social worker in the Scottish criminal justice social work system to explore questions of relational ethics and the challenges of mobilising an ethically symmetrical relationship in contexts with pre-existing power imbalances. This experience enables a critique of risk management models and makes a contribution to desistance theory
Lifelong learning, policy and desire
Recent lifelong learning policies have been criticised for creating an illusion of freedom whilst simultaneously reducing choice. The concept of desire permits engagement with the conscious and unconscious drives that underpin individual decision‐making, which direct the life course. Utilising the ideas of Hume and Spinoza, the present article articulates the interrelated nature of desire and learning. Evidence is drawn from Learning Lives, a Tea…
Seeking Ethical Symmetry—An Analysis of Criminal Justice Social Work Practice with a Female ‘Offender’
This paper draws on the author's experience as a student social worker in the Scottish criminal justice social work system to explore questions of relational ethics and the challenges of mobilising an ethically symmetrical relationship in contexts with pre-existing power imbalances. This experience enables a critique of risk management models and makes a contribution to desistance theory
Unravelling encounters ethics, knowledge and resistance under neoliberalism
Introduction to the politics of life: A biopolitical mess
This introduction to the special issue focuses on the messiness of biopolitics. The biopolitical is a composite mixture of heterogeneous, and sometimes conflicting, forces, discourses, institutions, laws, and practices that are embedded in and animated by material social relations. In the now extensive literature on biopolitics, our biopolitical era is characterized by the blending and mixing of what were previously thought of as separate realms:…
Esposito's affirmative biopolitics in multispecies homes
Drawing on Roberto Esposito's conceptualization of 'affirmative biopolitics', this article examines the relationship between bedbugs and humans in the Glasgow neighbourhood of Govanhill. Through an analysis of ethnographic field notes and interviews with people who live in the area, this article traces their experiences from first encounters. The trajectory of this experience shows a shift from a desire to immunize their homes through total annih…
Raising the ‘environmental question’ in social work in Canada and Scotland
This article contributes a comparative review of social work in Canada and Scotland to international conversations about social work and the environment. The 'environmental question' of the 21st century is a radical challenge to social work developed in relation to the 'social question' of the 19th century. Work to begin to include the natural environment within high-income state social work can expect to encounter established infrastructures of …
Engaging with communities and precarity theory to bring new perspectives to public mental health
In this paper we explore the role of precarity theory in bringing new perspectives to public mental health. The paper draws on a qualitative, participatory research study carried out in Glasgow that illuminates the entangled and complex relations between the social, bio-political, cultural, economic, and environmental conditions that produce mental health and ill health. Through the accounts of Sassy Queen, Tony, Simba, John, and Rhianna, we expl…
A Gaelic Ethology or Viewing Infinity with Spinoza
In the context of environmental crisis and ascendant advanced technologies, the question of how to live in more-than-human worlds is imperative. To develop a practical theorisation of what this might mean, this article brings Spinoza’s Ethics into conversation with the traditional ways of living practised by Scotland’s Gaelic peoples. Together, they offer the means of contemplating a relational, more-than-human ethics. This has relevance to socia…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Biopower (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Engineering (2 works)