Helen Carr
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3626538 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Helen Carr |
| PRENOMES | Helen |
| SOBRENOME | Carr |
| ASSINATURA | CARR H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8025-1288 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1918 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Queer utopias of housing and homelessness
While there is evidence that discrimination against LGBTQ + people can cause homelessness, or worsen experiences, in this paper we consider law, policy and practice to tackle homelessness among LGBTQ + people. Contrasting the different legal systems across the UK nations of England, Scotland and Wales, we firstly consider how law, as structured around the norm of the heterosexual nuclear family, can be designed to discriminate against LGBTQ + peo…
Living cheek by Jowl
Research Handbook on Social Welfare Law
Presenting diverse understandings of the origins and development of social welfare law, this globally informed Research Handbook embraces the inherent contradictions and complexities within the field. It emphasises the importance of ethical research and inclusivity and recognises the value of historical and contemporary methodologies.
Leveraging the potential of local government scrutiny
Drawing on the authors’ experience of being involved as technical experts in Southampton City Council’s interrogation of the private rented sector, the paper considers the potential and the limitations of local government scrutiny inquires as a mechanism for assisting in the achievement of social justice. Scrutiny Inquiries are a relatively new democratic initiative introduced to provide a counterbalance to the greater concentration of powers in …
H.D. and Ezra Pound
Expanding the boundaries of social welfare law
‘Social welfare law’ is suffering from a longstanding identity crisis. The field’s development in the UK is tied closely to that of this journal–its foundation in the 1970s as the ‘Journal of Social Welfare Law’ reflected a burgeoning area of research and practice. However, many of the concerns raised at the time about the meaning, scope and future direction of ‘Social welfare law’ as an area of research, teaching and practice remain unresolved. …
Statutory Interpretation
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Marginalisation, Grenfell Tower and the voice of the social-housing resident
This paper draws on historical institutionalism to consider the impact of housing-policy responses following the Grenfell fire on the marginalisation of the social-housing resident. We consider three specific policy responses: reform focused on conditions of rented properties; the social-housing White Paper; and building regulation and building-safety reforms. We suggest that, in historical institutionalist terms, each is part of a matrix of refo…
The Defeat of Scientific Racism
The Care Act 2014
The Care Act 2014 (the Act) promised to transform the landscape of adult social care. Instead of an outdated patchwork of provision, the law has been consolidated, modernised and informed by values, person-centred practice and statutorily articulated principles. Well-being, in particular, is at the heart of the legislation. Section 1 of the Act sets out a general duty on local authorities to promote the well-being of the adult when carrying out f…
Women and History Now
As part of this special issue of History , we invited four scholars working across academia and public history roles in the UK and US to respond to a series of questions relating to their work as historians today: Alana Harris, Takkara Brunson, Amara Thornton and Helen Carr. In foregrounding diverse textual, material and digital modes of historical work being undertaken by women in our own moment, the following conversation is intended as an expa…
I think you have ignored the relevant provisions of the 1944 Education Act’
Existing accounts of the history of England’s Muslims generally agree that education was a crucial area of early interaction between Muslims and the state. They also tend to situate Muslim–state interactions in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in the context of Britain’s developing racial diversity, arguing that the religious identity of Muslims was not acknowledged until the end of the 1980s. State responses to Muslim educational needs prior to the 19…
Legislating for a Pandemic
Initially the subject of widespread consensus, legislative and policy responses to COVID‐19 are increasingly provoking predictable reactions. Right and left are united by concern that essential freedoms are being eroded by a state utilizing the opportunity of the pandemic to make a power grab. Focused on the Coronavirus Act 2020, this article takes a more cautious approach, suggesting that the law should be understood not as the product of a hier…
European Muslim antisemitism
European Muslim antisemitism: Why young urban males say they don’t like Jews." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 17(2), pp. 258–259
Thank heavens for the lease”
Drawing on and developing Kingdon’s multiple streams analysis, this article examines the development of one aspect of the UK’s low cost home ownership programme: shared ownership. We demonstrate how key human and non-human policy entrepreneurs were able to set the agenda from 1973–1983 in favour of shared ownership; they neutralized the alternatives, while retaining some of their instruments; and solved a number of early problems by bringing key …
West Indian intellectuals in Britain
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as on the subordinate societies, Studies in Imperialism seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history, the study of education and religion, sports history and children's literature.The cultural emphasis embraces studies of migration and …
Producing the Product
In this article, we seek to develop socio‐legal studies through a rupturing of the ideas behind the social and the legal, ideas that are most often presumed to exist and are used to explain that which is already there. The ubiquity of law and the omniscience of society have become givens. We use a product called shared ownership as a case study, arguing that the product was given life by a legal document (the lease) which itself represented the t…
What's the Use of a Hashtag? A Case Study
Although there are now sophisticated techniques for the analysis of social media, socio-legal studies has yet to draw on them fully. In this article, we demonstrate how Twitter can produce insights about protest, law, and legality, through a case study of protests against the 'bedroom tax'. The first involved challenging a policy in the courts using a test case or cases. We discuss the litigation strategies and the mess they created and counterpo…
The public sector equality duty – a mainstay of justice in an age of austerity
With extraordinary resilience and refreshing optimism, campaigners for disability rights turn to the courts for vindication of their claims of injustice in connection with cuts in services to vulne
Utopias, Dystopias and the Changing Lawscapes of Social Housing
This paper provides an account of the design and development of the Spa Green Estate in North London. It describes the utopian aspirations for housing the working class of the radical 1930s Finsbury Council and the architect it employed, Berthold Lubetkin. It goes on to examine the political and popular discrediting of social housing from the 1970s and the consequent present day complexity of tenures and regulation on the estate. The account is p…
Unravelling Law’s Kinning Practices
Are Judicial Approaches to Adult Social Care at a Dead-End
This article examines the limits of law to resolve or transform the contemporary dilemmas provoked by the provision of social care to adults in the UK. It juxtaposes the judgments in two cases, each of which interrogates the legal consequences of the mixed economy of care: the majority and minority opinions of the House of Lords in YL v Birmingham City Council (2007) and the Care Standards Tribunal decision in Alternative Futures v National Care …
Disrupting the Narrative
The essays in this issue of Women: A Cultural Review all originated in a seminar series that forms one strand in a research project with which I am involved, in the Pinter Centre for Performance an
The Right to Buy, the Leaseholder, and the Impoverishment of Ownership
Right to Buy is one of the most successful schemes devised to extend home ownership to those otherwise excluded. Its introduction by Margaret Thatcher and endorsement by New Labour provide a critical indicator of those governments' neo‐liberal credentials. This article suggests that one of the key achievements of the Right to Buy was to obscure inequalities inherent in a project of democratization via property ownership. It examines New Labour's …
Looking Again at Discipline and Gender
This paper suggests that current theoretical approaches to the contemporary governance of anti-social behaviour have certain limits which may be overcome by emphasis on its gendered dimensions. It argues that the paradoxical relationship that women have with the state may prove a fruitful starting point. Third way ideologies recognise and respond to the vulnerabilities of the ordinary citizen. The governance at a distance that they practice means…
Managing vulnerability
Martin Partington was at the forefront of a new generation of legal scholars who, in the 1970s, sought to democratise the discipline through the introduction of new subject areas more relevant to t
Social Work, Immigration and Asylum
Policing the housing crisis
In this paper, we argue that the ‘crime control housing crisis’ which has engulfed social housing is qualitatively different from most previous and current understandings of housing crisis (which have been of a quantita tive nature, or been resolved to that). By contrast, the crime control housing crisis is a crisis precisely because it appears insoluble. All hous ing problems and policies now have to be legitimated by reference to this crime con…
West Indian intellectuals in Britain
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as on the subordinate societies, Studies in Imperialism seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history, the study of education and religion, sports history and children's literature.The cultural emphasis embraces studies of migration and …
The public sector equality duty – a mainstay of justice in an age of austerity
With extraordinary resilience and refreshing optimism, campaigners for disability rights turn to the courts for vindication of their claims of injustice in connection with cuts in services to vulne
Someone to Watch over Me’
Hostels and other forms of housing where support services are provided as an intrinsic part of the accommodation package have traditionally been developed by the voluntary sector at a distance from conditional state welfare. Supporting People is an innovative and ambitious programme which in effect annexes supported housing and, in return for a commitment to improved provision, promises certainty of income and professional prestige. Supporting Pe…
Intemperate and Unchaste
In this article, Carr examines Jean Rhys's ambivalent feelings about her West Indian origins. She looks at the problems both she and others have had in deciding whether her work can be truly considered to belong to the category of Caribbean literature. The difficulty lies not just in her expatriate existence or European themes, but goes back to her position as a white Caribbean Creole woman, the descendant of slave-owners. Carr looks at the tradi…
Unravelling Law’s Kinning Practices
Actor‐network Theory, Implementation, and the Private Landlord
Queer utopias of housing and homelessness
While there is evidence that discrimination against LGBTQ + people can cause homelessness, or worsen experiences, in this paper we consider law, policy and practice to tackle homelessness among LGBTQ + people. Contrasting the different legal systems across the UK nations of England, Scotland and Wales, we firstly consider how law, as structured around the norm of the heterosexual nuclear family, can be designed to discriminate against LGBTQ + peo…
Leveraging the potential of local government scrutiny
Drawing on the authors’ experience of being involved as technical experts in Southampton City Council’s interrogation of the private rented sector, the paper considers the potential and the limitations of local government scrutiny inquires as a mechanism for assisting in the achievement of social justice. Scrutiny Inquiries are a relatively new democratic initiative introduced to provide a counterbalance to the greater concentration of powers in …
Marginalisation, Grenfell Tower and the voice of the social-housing resident
This paper draws on historical institutionalism to consider the impact of housing-policy responses following the Grenfell fire on the marginalisation of the social-housing resident. We consider three specific policy responses: reform focused on conditions of rented properties; the social-housing White Paper; and building regulation and building-safety reforms. We suggest that, in historical institutionalist terms, each is part of a matrix of refo…
Legislating for a Pandemic
Initially the subject of widespread consensus, legislative and policy responses to COVID‐19 are increasingly provoking predictable reactions. Right and left are united by concern that essential freedoms are being eroded by a state utilizing the opportunity of the pandemic to make a power grab. Focused on the Coronavirus Act 2020, this article takes a more cautious approach, suggesting that the law should be understood not as the product of a hier…
What's the Use of a Hashtag? A Case Study
Although there are now sophisticated techniques for the analysis of social media, socio-legal studies has yet to draw on them fully. In this article, we demonstrate how Twitter can produce insights about protest, law, and legality, through a case study of protests against the 'bedroom tax'. The first involved challenging a policy in the courts using a test case or cases. We discuss the litigation strategies and the mess they created and counterpo…
Disrupting the Narrative
The essays in this issue of Women: A Cultural Review all originated in a seminar series that forms one strand in a research project with which I am involved, in the Pinter Centre for Performance an
The Right to Buy, the Leaseholder, and the Impoverishment of Ownership
Right to Buy is one of the most successful schemes devised to extend home ownership to those otherwise excluded. Its introduction by Margaret Thatcher and endorsement by New Labour provide a critical indicator of those governments' neo‐liberal credentials. This article suggests that one of the key achievements of the Right to Buy was to obscure inequalities inherent in a project of democratization via property ownership. It examines New Labour's …
Looking Again at Discipline and Gender
This paper suggests that current theoretical approaches to the contemporary governance of anti-social behaviour have certain limits which may be overcome by emphasis on its gendered dimensions. It argues that the paradoxical relationship that women have with the state may prove a fruitful starting point. Third way ideologies recognise and respond to the vulnerabilities of the ordinary citizen. The governance at a distance that they practice means…
The Philosophy of Benedetto Croce
Taking the stage
Fishes
Jean Rhys
Post‐it notes at the fin de siècle
Inventing the American Primitive
A radical new reading of the subject which analyses how responses to the existence of Native American traditions have shaped ideas of American identity and literature
Motherhood and apple pie
Inventing the American Primitive
Cultural encounters
Gillian Beer, Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, £25, £6.99 pbk. (1999). Annie Coombes, Re‐Inventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, £40.00
Poetic Licence
Intemperate and Unchaste
In this article, Carr examines Jean Rhys's ambivalent feelings about her West Indian origins. She looks at the problems both she and others have had in deciding whether her work can be truly considered to belong to the category of Caribbean literature. The difficulty lies not just in her expatriate existence or European themes, but goes back to her position as a white Caribbean Creole woman, the descendant of slave-owners. Carr looks at the tradi…
Social Work, Immigration and Asylum
Someone to Watch over Me’
Hostels and other forms of housing where support services are provided as an intrinsic part of the accommodation package have traditionally been developed by the voluntary sector at a distance from conditional state welfare. Supporting People is an innovative and ambitious programme which in effect annexes supported housing and, in return for a commitment to improved provision, promises certainty of income and professional prestige. Supporting Pe…
Walking the tightrope
Support providers have a whole range of legal and professional responsibilities to those to whom they provide services, to their employees and to their co‐workers. However, these responsibilities may be in conflict. Although the need to protect vulnerable service users from harm is important, it should be observed within a framework that protects human rights. This tension is further exacerbated by recognition that some vulnerable people are some…
Policing the housing crisis
In this paper, we argue that the ‘crime control housing crisis’ which has engulfed social housing is qualitatively different from most previous and current understandings of housing crisis (which have been of a quantita tive nature, or been resolved to that). By contrast, the crime control housing crisis is a crisis precisely because it appears insoluble. All hous ing problems and policies now have to be legitimated by reference to this crime con…
Managing vulnerability
Martin Partington was at the forefront of a new generation of legal scholars who, in the 1970s, sought to democratise the discipline through the introduction of new subject areas more relevant to t
Actor‐network Theory, Implementation, and the Private Landlord
Looking Again at Discipline and Gender
This paper suggests that current theoretical approaches to the contemporary governance of anti-social behaviour have certain limits which may be overcome by emphasis on its gendered dimensions. It argues that the paradoxical relationship that women have with the state may prove a fruitful starting point. Third way ideologies recognise and respond to the vulnerabilities of the ordinary citizen. The governance at a distance that they practice means…
Disrupting the Narrative
The essays in this issue of Women: A Cultural Review all originated in a seminar series that forms one strand in a research project with which I am involved, in the Pinter Centre for Performance an
The Right to Buy, the Leaseholder, and the Impoverishment of Ownership
Right to Buy is one of the most successful schemes devised to extend home ownership to those otherwise excluded. Its introduction by Margaret Thatcher and endorsement by New Labour provide a critical indicator of those governments' neo‐liberal credentials. This article suggests that one of the key achievements of the Right to Buy was to obscure inequalities inherent in a project of democratization via property ownership. It examines New Labour's …
Unravelling Law’s Kinning Practices
Are Judicial Approaches to Adult Social Care at a Dead-End
This article examines the limits of law to resolve or transform the contemporary dilemmas provoked by the provision of social care to adults in the UK. It juxtaposes the judgments in two cases, each of which interrogates the legal consequences of the mixed economy of care: the majority and minority opinions of the House of Lords in YL v Birmingham City Council (2007) and the Care Standards Tribunal decision in Alternative Futures v National Care …
Utopias, Dystopias and the Changing Lawscapes of Social Housing
This paper provides an account of the design and development of the Spa Green Estate in North London. It describes the utopian aspirations for housing the working class of the radical 1930s Finsbury Council and the architect it employed, Berthold Lubetkin. It goes on to examine the political and popular discrediting of social housing from the 1970s and the consequent present day complexity of tenures and regulation on the estate. The account is p…
The public sector equality duty – a mainstay of justice in an age of austerity
With extraordinary resilience and refreshing optimism, campaigners for disability rights turn to the courts for vindication of their claims of injustice in connection with cuts in services to vulne
What's the Use of a Hashtag? A Case Study
Although there are now sophisticated techniques for the analysis of social media, socio-legal studies has yet to draw on them fully. In this article, we demonstrate how Twitter can produce insights about protest, law, and legality, through a case study of protests against the 'bedroom tax'. The first involved challenging a policy in the courts using a test case or cases. We discuss the litigation strategies and the mess they created and counterpo…
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