Hannah Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 312173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5547-1326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Staying with and inbetween hostility: Non-digital-centric ethnography in a digitally mediated world
This paper offers a reflection on my attempts to stay with the everyday mediations of hostility within a digitalizing asylum system in the UK. Drawing out the ambiguities of how hostility (both as a governance effect and everyday-circulating atmosphere) shapes everyday life for asylum seekers, I explore how non-digital-centric ethnography remains vital for geographic research that grapples with the inbetweenness of everyday digital life lived thr…
(Re)mediation as flourishing: Digital assemblages of care and the everyday biopolitics of claiming asylum
This paper explores what everyday digital assemblages of care do to the spatio-temporal experience of claiming asylum under political landscapes characterised by hostile governance affects. Drawing upon one year of participatory ethnographic fieldwork, this paper reimagines a wide range of smartphone practices - playing online games, using YouTube Kids or making WhatsApp chats - as assemblages of care which disrupt what it feels like to live with…
Enabling futures? Disability and sociology of futures
Much envisaging of the future is inherently ableist. Euro-American cultural imaginaries traditionally have emphasised the narrative of medical progress, assuming the end of impairment. Disability is a frequent trope for and in dystopias, whereas more positive or progressive futures ignore the presence and aspirations of disabled people who are frequently excluded from individual and collective endeavours to articulate and shape the future. They a…
Everyday digital dis/connection: Locating slow violence in (non)encounters with the UK asylum state
Encounters with, within and between digital technologies have become characteristic of life in the contemporary moment. This is, often, no different for displaced individuals seeking asylum across European states. Smartphones have become part of the everyday ‘doing’ of life for individuals governed through asylum systems which now includes routinely encountering the state. Whilst smartphones are commonly said to offer the promised affordances of …
Between hope and hostility: The affirmative biopolitics of everyday smartphone geographies
This paper explores what it means to hope under, within, and through everyday modes of affective hostile governance. Taking the empirical landscape of everyday digital life within the UK's asylum system, this paper outlines how smartphone practices are entangled with an everyday politics of hope. Holding the tension between hostility and hope, I centre an array of taken-for-granted everyday digital practices that have become central to hope produ…
Living digitally like a migrant: Everyday smartphone practices and the (Re)mediation of hostile state-affects
Over the last decade, geographical research has documented how digital technologies are changing experiences of (im)mobility into and within Europe. For irregular migrants in the European context, the smartphone has become a vital digital tool for mediating everyday experiences of hostile environments that have become characteristic of mobility landscapes. Building upon novel work in Social Media and Media studies, which explores the entanglement…
Yacek’s Transformative Classroom in the contemporary K-12 system
In his theory of educational transformation, Douglas Yacek outlines the possibility of aspiration as an educational model. In Yacek’s aspirational model, students undergo an awakening, acknowledge their ethical distance, recognize their ethical difference, and then make a resolution to change. After providing the theoretical background in conversation with other theories of transformation, Yacek offers the reader practical tools to actualize the …
Mad Studies and disability studies
There is a close, complex, sometimes fractious although usually rich and enriching relationship between Disability Studies and Mad Studies. There have been a number of points of connection, areas of dispute and focused moments of interaction which have enhanced academic and activist debates and practices in both fields. There are shared experiences of marginalised and stigmatised spaces like institutionalised services, of devalued identifies, of …
Social Work and Disability, Peter Simcock and Rhoda Castle
As Simcock and Castle note, Mike Oliver came to the conclusion that ‘We can probably now announce the death of social work at least in relationship to its involvement in the lives of disabled people’ (cited at p. 140) thirty years after he developed the social model of disability in his ground-breaking book, Social Work with Disabled People (1983). At the time and as a newly appointed lecturer in disability studies teaching on qualifying social w…
Named social workers – better social work for learning disabled people
In 2016, the Department of Health in England announced that it would pilot the role of Named Social Worker. We chose to be part of the pilot because we regularly witness too many people’s lives being defined by restrictions imposed by professionals. Erroneous associations between the concepts of risk and danger have become the norm in how learning disabled people’s decision-making is perceived and managed. However, we believe social workers educa…
Disability and Social Theory: New Developments and Directions
Supporting People: Towards a Person-Centred Approach
The speed at which the personalisation agenda has taken root in adult social care has resulted in insufficient attention being paid to what its central tenets and modes of provision will mean for service users, particularly in the longer term. There is very strong concern that values, principles and innovative forms of provision that were championed so effectively by user-led organisations and their allies that appear to be central to the project…
The Social Model of Disability as a Threshold Concept: Troublesome Knowledge and Liminal Spaces in Social Work Education
This paper draws on the notion of threshold concepts to consider the way in which disability studies has the capacity to transform social work students' understandings of disability and therefore influence their practice. Most students enter social work programmes with the professed aim of 'helping' and so to be confronted by an approach (the social model of disability) and a body of research and theorising (disability studies) that challenges th…
Neo-Liberal Individualism or Self-Directed Support: Are We All Speaking the Same Language on Modernising Adult Social Care
This article explores recent developments in the modernisation of adult social care through the lens of changes to English day services. Drawing on wider policy debates, it argues that Disabled Peoples' Movement and governmental ideas on self-directed support, although superficially similar, are growing increasingly apart. It is argued that in the absence of adequate funding and exposure to organisations of disabled people, day service recipients…
Personalised social care for adults with disabilities: A problematic concept for frontline practice
This paper explores the complexities and contradictions of frontline practice that pose problems for personalised social care through enhanced choice. It draws on semi-structured interviews with community care workers, social workers, occupational therapists and care managers in a social service department. Practitioners interviewed were asked about their current assessment and documentation system, including the assessment documents currently us…
The Social History of a War Boom Community
Neo-Liberal Individualism or Self-Directed Support: Are We All Speaking the Same Language on Modernising Adult Social Care
This article explores recent developments in the modernisation of adult social care through the lens of changes to English day services. Drawing on wider policy debates, it argues that Disabled Peoples' Movement and governmental ideas on self-directed support, although superficially similar, are growing increasingly apart. It is argued that in the absence of adequate funding and exposure to organisations of disabled people, day service recipients…
The Social Model of Disability as a Threshold Concept: Troublesome Knowledge and Liminal Spaces in Social Work Education
This paper draws on the notion of threshold concepts to consider the way in which disability studies has the capacity to transform social work students' understandings of disability and therefore influence their practice. Most students enter social work programmes with the professed aim of 'helping' and so to be confronted by an approach (the social model of disability) and a body of research and theorising (disability studies) that challenges th…
Personalised social care for adults with disabilities: A problematic concept for frontline practice
This paper explores the complexities and contradictions of frontline practice that pose problems for personalised social care through enhanced choice. It draws on semi-structured interviews with community care workers, social workers, occupational therapists and care managers in a social service department. Practitioners interviewed were asked about their current assessment and documentation system, including the assessment documents currently us…
Living digitally like a migrant: Everyday smartphone practices and the (Re)mediation of hostile state-affects
Over the last decade, geographical research has documented how digital technologies are changing experiences of (im)mobility into and within Europe. For irregular migrants in the European context, the smartphone has become a vital digital tool for mediating everyday experiences of hostile environments that have become characteristic of mobility landscapes. Building upon novel work in Social Media and Media studies, which explores the entanglement…
Everyday digital dis/connection: Locating slow violence in (non)encounters with the UK asylum state
Encounters with, within and between digital technologies have become characteristic of life in the contemporary moment. This is, often, no different for displaced individuals seeking asylum across European states. Smartphones have become part of the everyday ‘doing’ of life for individuals governed through asylum systems which now includes routinely encountering the state. Whilst smartphones are commonly said to offer the promised affordances of …
Between hope and hostility: The affirmative biopolitics of everyday smartphone geographies
This paper explores what it means to hope under, within, and through everyday modes of affective hostile governance. Taking the empirical landscape of everyday digital life within the UK's asylum system, this paper outlines how smartphone practices are entangled with an everyday politics of hope. Holding the tension between hostility and hope, I centre an array of taken-for-granted everyday digital practices that have become central to hope produ…
The Social History of a War Boom Community
Personalised social care for adults with disabilities: A problematic concept for frontline practice
This paper explores the complexities and contradictions of frontline practice that pose problems for personalised social care through enhanced choice. It draws on semi-structured interviews with community care workers, social workers, occupational therapists and care managers in a social service department. Practitioners interviewed were asked about their current assessment and documentation system, including the assessment documents currently us…
Neo-Liberal Individualism or Self-Directed Support: Are We All Speaking the Same Language on Modernising Adult Social Care
This article explores recent developments in the modernisation of adult social care through the lens of changes to English day services. Drawing on wider policy debates, it argues that Disabled Peoples' Movement and governmental ideas on self-directed support, although superficially similar, are growing increasingly apart. It is argued that in the absence of adequate funding and exposure to organisations of disabled people, day service recipients…
Supporting People: Towards a Person-Centred Approach
The speed at which the personalisation agenda has taken root in adult social care has resulted in insufficient attention being paid to what its central tenets and modes of provision will mean for service users, particularly in the longer term. There is very strong concern that values, principles and innovative forms of provision that were championed so effectively by user-led organisations and their allies that appear to be central to the project…
The Social Model of Disability as a Threshold Concept: Troublesome Knowledge and Liminal Spaces in Social Work Education
This paper draws on the notion of threshold concepts to consider the way in which disability studies has the capacity to transform social work students' understandings of disability and therefore influence their practice. Most students enter social work programmes with the professed aim of 'helping' and so to be confronted by an approach (the social model of disability) and a body of research and theorising (disability studies) that challenges th…
Disability and Social Theory: New Developments and Directions
Named social workers – better social work for learning disabled people
In 2016, the Department of Health in England announced that it would pilot the role of Named Social Worker. We chose to be part of the pilot because we regularly witness too many people’s lives being defined by restrictions imposed by professionals. Erroneous associations between the concepts of risk and danger have become the norm in how learning disabled people’s decision-making is perceived and managed. However, we believe social workers educa…
Social Work and Disability, Peter Simcock and Rhoda Castle
As Simcock and Castle note, Mike Oliver came to the conclusion that ‘We can probably now announce the death of social work at least in relationship to its involvement in the lives of disabled people’ (cited at p. 140) thirty years after he developed the social model of disability in his ground-breaking book, Social Work with Disabled People (1983). At the time and as a newly appointed lecturer in disability studies teaching on qualifying social w…
Mad Studies and disability studies
There is a close, complex, sometimes fractious although usually rich and enriching relationship between Disability Studies and Mad Studies. There have been a number of points of connection, areas of dispute and focused moments of interaction which have enhanced academic and activist debates and practices in both fields. There are shared experiences of marginalised and stigmatised spaces like institutionalised services, of devalued identifies, of …
Yacek’s Transformative Classroom in the contemporary K-12 system
In his theory of educational transformation, Douglas Yacek outlines the possibility of aspiration as an educational model. In Yacek’s aspirational model, students undergo an awakening, acknowledge their ethical distance, recognize their ethical difference, and then make a resolution to change. After providing the theoretical background in conversation with other theories of transformation, Yacek offers the reader practical tools to actualize the …
Living digitally like a migrant: Everyday smartphone practices and the (Re)mediation of hostile state-affects
Over the last decade, geographical research has documented how digital technologies are changing experiences of (im)mobility into and within Europe. For irregular migrants in the European context, the smartphone has become a vital digital tool for mediating everyday experiences of hostile environments that have become characteristic of mobility landscapes. Building upon novel work in Social Media and Media studies, which explores the entanglement…
Everyday digital dis/connection: Locating slow violence in (non)encounters with the UK asylum state
Encounters with, within and between digital technologies have become characteristic of life in the contemporary moment. This is, often, no different for displaced individuals seeking asylum across European states. Smartphones have become part of the everyday ‘doing’ of life for individuals governed through asylum systems which now includes routinely encountering the state. Whilst smartphones are commonly said to offer the promised affordances of …
Between hope and hostility: The affirmative biopolitics of everyday smartphone geographies
This paper explores what it means to hope under, within, and through everyday modes of affective hostile governance. Taking the empirical landscape of everyday digital life within the UK's asylum system, this paper outlines how smartphone practices are entangled with an everyday politics of hope. Holding the tension between hostility and hope, I centre an array of taken-for-granted everyday digital practices that have become central to hope produ…
(Re)mediation as flourishing: Digital assemblages of care and the everyday biopolitics of claiming asylum
This paper explores what everyday digital assemblages of care do to the spatio-temporal experience of claiming asylum under political landscapes characterised by hostile governance affects. Drawing upon one year of participatory ethnographic fieldwork, this paper reimagines a wide range of smartphone practices - playing online games, using YouTube Kids or making WhatsApp chats - as assemblages of care which disrupt what it feels like to live with…
Enabling futures? Disability and sociology of futures
Much envisaging of the future is inherently ableist. Euro-American cultural imaginaries traditionally have emphasised the narrative of medical progress, assuming the end of impairment. Disability is a frequent trope for and in dystopias, whereas more positive or progressive futures ignore the presence and aspirations of disabled people who are frequently excluded from individual and collective endeavours to articulate and shape the future. They a…
Staying with and inbetween hostility: Non-digital-centric ethnography in a digitally mediated world
This paper offers a reflection on my attempts to stay with the everyday mediations of hostility within a digitalizing asylum system in the UK. Drawing out the ambiguities of how hostility (both as a governance effect and everyday-circulating atmosphere) shapes everyday life for asylum seekers, I explore how non-digital-centric ethnography remains vital for geographic research that grapples with the inbetweenness of everyday digital life lived thr…
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