Luke Telford
Biographic Data
| ID | 313430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Telford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Telford |
| SIGNATURE | TELFORD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1651-7963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Left behind places, neoliberalism and systemic violence in the UK
Characterized by structural problems including persistent deprivation, the UK's left behind places have attracted increased scholarly, political and media attention in recent years. Throughout neoliberalism governments have implemented a range of policies to attempt to address the plight of these locales, but successful attempts at turning around their socio-economic predicaments are rather rare. One fundamental problem is that the UK has been a …
Neoliberalism, left behind Middlesbrough and levelling up
Proposing to narrow spatial inequalities in one of the most unbalanced economies in the developed world, the Levelling Up agenda was a key driving force behind the Conservative Party obtaining their largest majority since 1987 at the 2019 general election.The agenda, though, has been beset by various problems and has all but fallen by the political wayside.One key problem was that it lacked a political economic understanding of left behind places…
The Victimization of Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh
This paper gives voice to the victims of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. Using criminological ethnographic research in refugee camps in Bangladesh, we examine the qualitative accounts of violence and persecution and ‘break the silence’ by giving voice to Rohingya people who had fled military violence. We place the Rohingya’s testimonies within a wider theoretical and historical discussion that also addresses the condition of criminology when it come…
Critical Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Nowhere was the pandemic more profoundly experienced than on the frontline of healthcare. From overwhelmed Intensive Care Units to shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and clap for carers, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) became the focal point for the pandemic response. Utilising data from online survey responses (N = 16) complement…
The New Futures of Exclusion
This book discusses the rise of digital surveillance and new forms of control throughout the pandemic, including vaccine passports.
Levelling Up? That’s never going to happen’
Emerging as the flagship policy of the Conservative Government in 2019, the Levelling Up agenda identified the need to ameliorate the United Kingdom’s (UK) spatial inequalities with a particular focus on so-called left behind places. However, there is a dearth of qualitative research in these locales that explores what Levelling Up means to residents and how they believe it can be a success. Drawing upon 25 interviews with residents of left behin…
New Futures of Exclusion
Challenges to Levelling Up
The COVID-19 pandemic both revealed and intensified the United Kingdom's (UK) regional inequalities. The UK is widely recognised as one of the most regionally unbalanced nations in the developed world, with many “left behind” places across the North and Midlands like Stoke-on-Trent falling way behind parts of London and the Southeast of England in terms of living standards in the neoliberal era. Since 2019 the UK Government have promised to “Leve…
English Nationalism and its Ghost Towns
In order to understand today’s nationalism, we need to address the historical decline of working-class communities, the sense of loss brought by deindustrialisation and how working-class people have been denied a voice in society and politics. Discontent has manifested strongly in these deprived post-industrial areas, often branded as communities that have been left behind under neoliberal globalisation. Whilst more and more people are voicing th…
Targets and overwork
Drawing on 25 qualitative interviews, this paper attends to and critiques neoliberalism to demonstrate how management's enforcement of targets and the expectancy to overwork in various workplaces corrodes the relationship between managers and employees. First, the paper briefly charts how the shift from post-war Keynesian welfare state capitalism to neoliberalism in the global north placed renewed emphasis on maximising profitability, and what th…
New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the implications of both the Covid-19 pandemic and UK lockdown for the social, political and economic future of the UK. Drawing on primary data obtained during the lockdown and the theoretical concepts of transcendental materialism and the “event”, the paper discusses the strength of participants' attachment to the “old normal” and their dreams of a “new normal”. Design/methodology/approach This pa…
From “Infant Hercules” to “Ghost Town
Brexit and the working class on Teesside
Too often, members of the working class who voted to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum have been framed as uneducated and unaware of their own economic interests. This article, based on 26 in-depth face-to-face interviews and a further telephone interview on Teesside in the North East of England, offers an alternative perspective that is more nuanced and less reductionist. The article critiques some of the commonly heard tropes rega…
New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the implications of both the Covid-19 pandemic and UK lockdown for the social, political and economic future of the UK. Drawing on primary data obtained during the lockdown and the theoretical concepts of transcendental materialism and the “event”, the paper discusses the strength of participants' attachment to the “old normal” and their dreams of a “new normal”. Design/methodology/approach This pa…
From “Infant Hercules” to “Ghost Town
English Nationalism and its Ghost Towns
In order to understand today’s nationalism, we need to address the historical decline of working-class communities, the sense of loss brought by deindustrialisation and how working-class people have been denied a voice in society and politics. Discontent has manifested strongly in these deprived post-industrial areas, often branded as communities that have been left behind under neoliberal globalisation. Whilst more and more people are voicing th…
Neoliberalism, left behind Middlesbrough and levelling up
Proposing to narrow spatial inequalities in one of the most unbalanced economies in the developed world, the Levelling Up agenda was a key driving force behind the Conservative Party obtaining their largest majority since 1987 at the 2019 general election.The agenda, though, has been beset by various problems and has all but fallen by the political wayside.One key problem was that it lacked a political economic understanding of left behind places…
Brexit and the working class on Teesside
Too often, members of the working class who voted to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum have been framed as uneducated and unaware of their own economic interests. This article, based on 26 in-depth face-to-face interviews and a further telephone interview on Teesside in the North East of England, offers an alternative perspective that is more nuanced and less reductionist. The article critiques some of the commonly heard tropes rega…
Critical Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Nowhere was the pandemic more profoundly experienced than on the frontline of healthcare. From overwhelmed Intensive Care Units to shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and clap for carers, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) became the focal point for the pandemic response. Utilising data from online survey responses (N = 16) complement…
Challenges to Levelling Up
The COVID-19 pandemic both revealed and intensified the United Kingdom's (UK) regional inequalities. The UK is widely recognised as one of the most regionally unbalanced nations in the developed world, with many “left behind” places across the North and Midlands like Stoke-on-Trent falling way behind parts of London and the Southeast of England in terms of living standards in the neoliberal era. Since 2019 the UK Government have promised to “Leve…
Levelling Up? That’s never going to happen’
Emerging as the flagship policy of the Conservative Government in 2019, the Levelling Up agenda identified the need to ameliorate the United Kingdom’s (UK) spatial inequalities with a particular focus on so-called left behind places. However, there is a dearth of qualitative research in these locales that explores what Levelling Up means to residents and how they believe it can be a success. Drawing upon 25 interviews with residents of left behin…
Targets and overwork
Drawing on 25 qualitative interviews, this paper attends to and critiques neoliberalism to demonstrate how management's enforcement of targets and the expectancy to overwork in various workplaces corrodes the relationship between managers and employees. First, the paper briefly charts how the shift from post-war Keynesian welfare state capitalism to neoliberalism in the global north placed renewed emphasis on maximising profitability, and what th…
New hope or old futures in disguise? Neoliberalism, the Covid-19 pandemic and the possibility for social change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the implications of both the Covid-19 pandemic and UK lockdown for the social, political and economic future of the UK. Drawing on primary data obtained during the lockdown and the theoretical concepts of transcendental materialism and the “event”, the paper discusses the strength of participants' attachment to the “old normal” and their dreams of a “new normal”. Design/methodology/approach This pa…
From “Infant Hercules” to “Ghost Town
Brexit and the working class on Teesside
Too often, members of the working class who voted to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum have been framed as uneducated and unaware of their own economic interests. This article, based on 26 in-depth face-to-face interviews and a further telephone interview on Teesside in the North East of England, offers an alternative perspective that is more nuanced and less reductionist. The article critiques some of the commonly heard tropes rega…
Challenges to Levelling Up
The COVID-19 pandemic both revealed and intensified the United Kingdom's (UK) regional inequalities. The UK is widely recognised as one of the most regionally unbalanced nations in the developed world, with many “left behind” places across the North and Midlands like Stoke-on-Trent falling way behind parts of London and the Southeast of England in terms of living standards in the neoliberal era. Since 2019 the UK Government have promised to “Leve…
English Nationalism and its Ghost Towns
In order to understand today’s nationalism, we need to address the historical decline of working-class communities, the sense of loss brought by deindustrialisation and how working-class people have been denied a voice in society and politics. Discontent has manifested strongly in these deprived post-industrial areas, often branded as communities that have been left behind under neoliberal globalisation. Whilst more and more people are voicing th…
Targets and overwork
Drawing on 25 qualitative interviews, this paper attends to and critiques neoliberalism to demonstrate how management's enforcement of targets and the expectancy to overwork in various workplaces corrodes the relationship between managers and employees. First, the paper briefly charts how the shift from post-war Keynesian welfare state capitalism to neoliberalism in the global north placed renewed emphasis on maximising profitability, and what th…
The New Futures of Exclusion
This book discusses the rise of digital surveillance and new forms of control throughout the pandemic, including vaccine passports.
Levelling Up? That’s never going to happen’
Emerging as the flagship policy of the Conservative Government in 2019, the Levelling Up agenda identified the need to ameliorate the United Kingdom’s (UK) spatial inequalities with a particular focus on so-called left behind places. However, there is a dearth of qualitative research in these locales that explores what Levelling Up means to residents and how they believe it can be a success. Drawing upon 25 interviews with residents of left behin…
New Futures of Exclusion
Neoliberalism, left behind Middlesbrough and levelling up
Proposing to narrow spatial inequalities in one of the most unbalanced economies in the developed world, the Levelling Up agenda was a key driving force behind the Conservative Party obtaining their largest majority since 1987 at the 2019 general election.The agenda, though, has been beset by various problems and has all but fallen by the political wayside.One key problem was that it lacked a political economic understanding of left behind places…
The Victimization of Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh
This paper gives voice to the victims of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. Using criminological ethnographic research in refugee camps in Bangladesh, we examine the qualitative accounts of violence and persecution and ‘break the silence’ by giving voice to Rohingya people who had fled military violence. We place the Rohingya’s testimonies within a wider theoretical and historical discussion that also addresses the condition of criminology when it come…
Critical Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Nowhere was the pandemic more profoundly experienced than on the frontline of healthcare. From overwhelmed Intensive Care Units to shortages of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and clap for carers, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) became the focal point for the pandemic response. Utilising data from online survey responses (N = 16) complement…
Left behind places, neoliberalism and systemic violence in the UK
Characterized by structural problems including persistent deprivation, the UK's left behind places have attracted increased scholarly, political and media attention in recent years. Throughout neoliberalism governments have implemented a range of policies to attempt to address the plight of these locales, but successful attempts at turning around their socio-economic predicaments are rather rare. One fundamental problem is that the UK has been a …
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Law (4 works)