Alan Southern
Biographic Data
| ID | 337306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Southern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Southern |
| SIGNATURE | SOUTHERN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3661-3442 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Towards measuring food insecurity stigma: Development and validation of the Food Insecurity Self-stigma Scale and the Food Support Experiences Scale
The FISS and FSES provide valid tools for quantifying aspects of stigma relating to the experience of food insecurity and accessing food support respectively. Development of these two scales may provide an important first step towards measuring stigma. developing interventions which reduce this psychological burden, and working to promote psychological wellbeing within populations experiencing food insecurity
Xiaoyao Powder in the treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Our findings provided evidence that XYP is a therapeutic option to treat NAFLD effectively and safely. Notwithstanding, a precise and comprehensive conclusion calls for RCTs on a larger scale with more rigorous designs considering the inferior methodological quality and limited retrieved articles
Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region
This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – as a useful frame for future research into urban social economies. Findings from an in-depth case study of the scale, scope and value of the Liverpool City Region’s social economy are presented through this frami…
Generative Anger: From Social Enterprise to Antagonistic Economies
This essay offers conceptual development for thinking diverse economies in terms of their relationship to antagonism. Rather than seeing antagonism as unhelpfully fueling capitalocentric thinking, the essay argues that antagonism can usefully recognize and engage with problematic forms of power and domination. Building on calls for a closer engagement of community-economies thinking with wider anticapitalist praxis, the essay explores how social …
Re-grounding the city with Polanyi: From urban entrepreneurialism to entrepreneurial municipalism
Conventional approaches to local economic development are failing to address deepening polarisation both within and between city regions across advanced capitalist economies. At the same time, austerity urbanism, particularly in the UK, presents challenges for urban authorities facing reduced budgets to meet increased demands on public services. Municipalities are beginning to experiment with creative responses to these crises, such as taking mor…
The world of work and the crisis of capitalism: Marx and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Marx's work on machines showed an initial clarity on where he believed technology sits in the means of production. The machine, its differentia specifica, while it consumes other forms of raw material just as the labourer consumes food, does not appear as the means of labour in the same way as that of the individual worker. How this fits in with contemporary debate around the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its re-shaping of the world of work is…
The tyranny of research? Urban regeneration, ethnography, and the problem of unintended consequences
Following a case study of community development in public housing in Liverpool, UK, we present in this article three potential tyrannies of research. We show the tyranny of the researcher, of the method selection, and of the data. In so doing, we identify the methodological challenges of conducting research that seeks to privilege the voices and perspectives of the subjects in a participatory project. We examine whether the dangers of tyranny are…
Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion: The Role of Small Business in Addressing Social and Economic Inequalities
1. Introduction: Enterprise and Deprivation. Alan Southern 2. Enterprise: A Route Out of Disadvantage and Deprivation? Julian Frankish, Richard Roberts and David Storey 3. Blind Faith: Entrepreneurship and the Revitalization of Inner-City Minority Communities. Timothy Bates and Alicia Robb 4. Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Urban Regeneration. Trevor Jones and Monder Ram 5. Race, Space, and the Dynamics of Self-Employment. Casey J. Dawkins 6. All Unders…
Research into regeneration: Gaps in our knowledge base
Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to provide an overview to four papers in this issue that deal with regeneration. Design/methodology/approach This guest editorial summarizes four papers from a regeneration management conference held at the University of Liverpool. Findings City growth coalitions are, it seems, in abundance, and one should be aware of their unintended outcomes, likewise, such outcomes that occur during partnership processe…
Can Information and Communication Technologies Support Regeneration
Recent initiatives by the New Labour administration have brought together the role of information and communication technologies and regeneration. Concerns about the digital divide and social exclusion have been considered in the context of neighbourhood renewal and access to mainstream services, such as education, training and employment. This article asks the question of whether information and communication technologies (ICT) can really suppor…
Small firms and information and communication technologies (ICTs): Toward a typology of ICTs usage
Despite government support for a number of initiatives to encourage more small firms to adopt information and communication technologies (ICTs) implementation of ICTs has been a slow and very diverse development. This article examines the relationship between small firms and ICTs and highlights a number of typical, but often negated, characteristics that show how small firms use the technology
Changes to the North East Regional - Local Dynamic: New Forms of Governance from Traditional Public Sector Structures
Recent moves towards devolution and decentralisation in the UK have produced a mixture of outcomes. The independence achieved in Wales and Scotland combines two very different approaches while the regional issue in Northern Ireland is a central component of the peace process. In the English regions the workings of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) now receive less attention although they are regarded as having a substantive role in support…
Gender, Race, and Class in the Local Welfare State: Moving beyond Regulation Theory in Analysing the Transition from Fordism
In this paper we attempt to provide a conceptual framework which can help inform our analysis and understanding of current transformations taking place within the welfare state. We argue that the French school of regulationist literature, though able to provide a broad frame of reference for analysing contemporary shifts in economy and society, needs to be supplemented by an analysis which focuses on the racialised and gendered character of the w…
Re-grounding the city with Polanyi: From urban entrepreneurialism to entrepreneurial municipalism
Conventional approaches to local economic development are failing to address deepening polarisation both within and between city regions across advanced capitalist economies. At the same time, austerity urbanism, particularly in the UK, presents challenges for urban authorities facing reduced budgets to meet increased demands on public services. Municipalities are beginning to experiment with creative responses to these crises, such as taking mor…
Gender, Race, and Class in the Local Welfare State: Moving beyond Regulation Theory in Analysing the Transition from Fordism
In this paper we attempt to provide a conceptual framework which can help inform our analysis and understanding of current transformations taking place within the welfare state. We argue that the French school of regulationist literature, though able to provide a broad frame of reference for analysing contemporary shifts in economy and society, needs to be supplemented by an analysis which focuses on the racialised and gendered character of the w…
Generative Anger: From Social Enterprise to Antagonistic Economies
This essay offers conceptual development for thinking diverse economies in terms of their relationship to antagonism. Rather than seeing antagonism as unhelpfully fueling capitalocentric thinking, the essay argues that antagonism can usefully recognize and engage with problematic forms of power and domination. Building on calls for a closer engagement of community-economies thinking with wider anticapitalist praxis, the essay explores how social …
The world of work and the crisis of capitalism: Marx and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Marx's work on machines showed an initial clarity on where he believed technology sits in the means of production. The machine, its differentia specifica, while it consumes other forms of raw material just as the labourer consumes food, does not appear as the means of labour in the same way as that of the individual worker. How this fits in with contemporary debate around the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its re-shaping of the world of work is…
Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region
This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – as a useful frame for future research into urban social economies. Findings from an in-depth case study of the scale, scope and value of the Liverpool City Region’s social economy are presented through this frami…
Small firms and information and communication technologies (ICTs): Toward a typology of ICTs usage
Despite government support for a number of initiatives to encourage more small firms to adopt information and communication technologies (ICTs) implementation of ICTs has been a slow and very diverse development. This article examines the relationship between small firms and ICTs and highlights a number of typical, but often negated, characteristics that show how small firms use the technology
The tyranny of research? Urban regeneration, ethnography, and the problem of unintended consequences
Following a case study of community development in public housing in Liverpool, UK, we present in this article three potential tyrannies of research. We show the tyranny of the researcher, of the method selection, and of the data. In so doing, we identify the methodological challenges of conducting research that seeks to privilege the voices and perspectives of the subjects in a participatory project. We examine whether the dangers of tyranny are…
Changes to the North East Regional - Local Dynamic: New Forms of Governance from Traditional Public Sector Structures
Recent moves towards devolution and decentralisation in the UK have produced a mixture of outcomes. The independence achieved in Wales and Scotland combines two very different approaches while the regional issue in Northern Ireland is a central component of the peace process. In the English regions the workings of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) now receive less attention although they are regarded as having a substantive role in support…
Gender, Race, and Class in the Local Welfare State: Moving beyond Regulation Theory in Analysing the Transition from Fordism
In this paper we attempt to provide a conceptual framework which can help inform our analysis and understanding of current transformations taking place within the welfare state. We argue that the French school of regulationist literature, though able to provide a broad frame of reference for analysing contemporary shifts in economy and society, needs to be supplemented by an analysis which focuses on the racialised and gendered character of the w…
Small firms and information and communication technologies (ICTs): Toward a typology of ICTs usage
Despite government support for a number of initiatives to encourage more small firms to adopt information and communication technologies (ICTs) implementation of ICTs has been a slow and very diverse development. This article examines the relationship between small firms and ICTs and highlights a number of typical, but often negated, characteristics that show how small firms use the technology
Changes to the North East Regional - Local Dynamic: New Forms of Governance from Traditional Public Sector Structures
Recent moves towards devolution and decentralisation in the UK have produced a mixture of outcomes. The independence achieved in Wales and Scotland combines two very different approaches while the regional issue in Northern Ireland is a central component of the peace process. In the English regions the workings of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) now receive less attention although they are regarded as having a substantive role in support…
Can Information and Communication Technologies Support Regeneration
Recent initiatives by the New Labour administration have brought together the role of information and communication technologies and regeneration. Concerns about the digital divide and social exclusion have been considered in the context of neighbourhood renewal and access to mainstream services, such as education, training and employment. This article asks the question of whether information and communication technologies (ICT) can really suppor…
Research into regeneration: Gaps in our knowledge base
Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to provide an overview to four papers in this issue that deal with regeneration. Design/methodology/approach This guest editorial summarizes four papers from a regeneration management conference held at the University of Liverpool. Findings City growth coalitions are, it seems, in abundance, and one should be aware of their unintended outcomes, likewise, such outcomes that occur during partnership processe…
Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion: The Role of Small Business in Addressing Social and Economic Inequalities
1. Introduction: Enterprise and Deprivation. Alan Southern 2. Enterprise: A Route Out of Disadvantage and Deprivation? Julian Frankish, Richard Roberts and David Storey 3. Blind Faith: Entrepreneurship and the Revitalization of Inner-City Minority Communities. Timothy Bates and Alicia Robb 4. Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Urban Regeneration. Trevor Jones and Monder Ram 5. Race, Space, and the Dynamics of Self-Employment. Casey J. Dawkins 6. All Unders…
The tyranny of research? Urban regeneration, ethnography, and the problem of unintended consequences
Following a case study of community development in public housing in Liverpool, UK, we present in this article three potential tyrannies of research. We show the tyranny of the researcher, of the method selection, and of the data. In so doing, we identify the methodological challenges of conducting research that seeks to privilege the voices and perspectives of the subjects in a participatory project. We examine whether the dangers of tyranny are…
The world of work and the crisis of capitalism: Marx and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Marx's work on machines showed an initial clarity on where he believed technology sits in the means of production. The machine, its differentia specifica, while it consumes other forms of raw material just as the labourer consumes food, does not appear as the means of labour in the same way as that of the individual worker. How this fits in with contemporary debate around the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its re-shaping of the world of work is…
Generative Anger: From Social Enterprise to Antagonistic Economies
This essay offers conceptual development for thinking diverse economies in terms of their relationship to antagonism. Rather than seeing antagonism as unhelpfully fueling capitalocentric thinking, the essay argues that antagonism can usefully recognize and engage with problematic forms of power and domination. Building on calls for a closer engagement of community-economies thinking with wider anticapitalist praxis, the essay explores how social …
Re-grounding the city with Polanyi: From urban entrepreneurialism to entrepreneurial municipalism
Conventional approaches to local economic development are failing to address deepening polarisation both within and between city regions across advanced capitalist economies. At the same time, austerity urbanism, particularly in the UK, presents challenges for urban authorities facing reduced budgets to meet increased demands on public services. Municipalities are beginning to experiment with creative responses to these crises, such as taking mor…
Xiaoyao Powder in the treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Our findings provided evidence that XYP is a therapeutic option to treat NAFLD effectively and safely. Notwithstanding, a precise and comprehensive conclusion calls for RCTs on a larger scale with more rigorous designs considering the inferior methodological quality and limited retrieved articles
Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region
This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – as a useful frame for future research into urban social economies. Findings from an in-depth case study of the scale, scope and value of the Liverpool City Region’s social economy are presented through this frami…
Towards measuring food insecurity stigma: Development and validation of the Food Insecurity Self-stigma Scale and the Food Support Experiences Scale
The FISS and FSES provide valid tools for quantifying aspects of stigma relating to the experience of food insecurity and accessing food support respectively. Development of these two scales may provide an important first step towards measuring stigma. developing interventions which reduce this psychological burden, and working to promote psychological wellbeing within populations experiencing food insecurity
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economy (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)