Colin Clark

Biographic Data

ID3633728
NAMEColin Clark
GIVEN NAMESColin
FAMILY NAMEClark
SIGNATURECLARK C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the West of Scotland
ORCID0000-0002-6028-5197
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS113
TOTAL CITATIONS325
AUTHOR COUNT113
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1931
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX12

  • ‘Build, Baby, Build’? A Critical Assessment of Housing Policy over the First Year of the Labour Government in the UK

    Open AccessSteve Rolfe, Steve Iafrati et al.ARTICLESocial Policy and Society2026

    Housing policy has been a busy area of activity for the Labour government in its first year. In this paper we critically assess the tensions and contradictions within these housing policy changes, examining whether they add up to a coherent, programmatic response to the ‘housing crisis’ which can deliver for individuals and households struggling to access and sustain adequate housing after fourteen years of austerity and neglect. In particular, w…

  • The Green Agenda: Why the Provision and Development of Gypsy/Traveller Sites in Scotland is a Health Hazard as Much as an Accommodation Priority

    Open AccessColin ClarkARTICLESocial Policy and Society2024References: 5

    Issues of environmental justice regarding housing, health, and other public services have been subjected to critical scrutiny in Scotland for some time. However, such concerns have not focused on Gypsy/Traveller communities and their accommodation on local authority and private sites. Politically, the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Scottish Greens have been in favour of providing and funding site/pitch upgrades, including developing new si…

  • The Biggest Problem We Are Facing Is the Running Away Problem: Recruitment and the Paradox of Facilitating the Mobility of Immobile Workers

    Open AccessKatharine Jones, Leena Ksaifi et al.ARTICLEWork Employment and Society2023Cited by: 4References: 31

    Fee-charging recruitment industries in Asia have become gatekeepers to temporary employment in low-wage occupations for millions of migrant workers. One of these jobs is live-in domestic work in private households. Increasingly, workers' recruiters are depicted as contributing to their precarious, sometimes exploitative, working conditions. However, these narratives misunderstand the systemic and regulatory functions of agencies as transnational …

  • Engaging with Decolonisation, Tackling Antigypsyism: Lessons from Teaching Romani Studies at the Central European University in Hungary

    Open AccessEthel Brooks, Colin Clark et al.ARTICLESocial Policy and Society2021Cited by: 5References: 3

    In discussions about ‘race’, empire, imperialism – and the decolonisation of the curriculum in European universities – the discipline of Romani Studies has, until recently, been relatively quiet. This article seeks to address this silence and offers commentary on the institutional silences, via both disciplinary historical and contemporary country-specific analysis. A case study is investigated to tease out the ontological and epistemological tra…

  • A Hidden Community: Justifying the Inclusion of Roma As an Ethnic Identity in the 2021 Scottish Census

    Open AccessNicola Hay, Luke Campbell et al.ARTICLECritical Romani Studies2020

    This article investigates the invisibility of Roma communities within Scottish census ethnic monitoring categories and broader empirical data. Consistent negative stereotyping as well as systematic oppression within social policy, dominant discourses, and data collection processes excludes Roma from participatorycitizenship. This article identifies precise forms of marginality and invisibility within official government data – permeated through s…

  • Stay or Go? – Roma, Brexit and European Freedom of Movement

    Open AccessColin ClarkARTICLEScottish Affairs2020Cited by: 2References: 7

    The spectre of Brexit has raised issues of concern for Roma communities living and working in Scotland and other parts of the UK. The effective ending of freedom of movement has produced new uncertainties and insecurities for people living outside their EU countries of origin, especially for those who are racialised and stigmatised by ‘hostile environment’ policies. Brexit is best understood as both a process and effect of everyday bordering as w…

  • Scotland and Brexit: Citizenship, identity and belonging

    Open AccessEmilia Piętka-Nykaza, M S Leith et al.ARTICLEScottish Affairs2020Cited by: 2References: 6

    This article is the editorial introduction to the Special Issue of Scottish Affairs on Scotland and Brexit: Citizenship, Identity and Belonging. Here we outline the key themes and concerns of the Special Issue and contextualise the various contributions that follow. In particular we focus on issues of rights, identity, representation and entitlement in the context of growing social divisions and shifting boundaries of citizenship. We consider, to…

  • Power, privilege and justice: Intersectionality as human rights

    Colin Clark, Matthew Dee et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2017Cited by: 2References: 7

    How can we best connect and understand issues of power, privilege and justice in a human rights framework? One approach is to explicitly position intersectionality as a theoretical lens that can assist a critical understanding of the connections between these concepts and realities. The paper does this through an examination of the situation in Scotland via Show Racism the Red Card, an anti-racist non-governmental organisation that works with sch…

  • Resistant Literatures; Literatures of Resistance? The Politics and Poetics of Opacity in Kateb and Dib

    Colin Clark, Colin Clark Colin ClarkARTICLEResearch in African Literatures2016

    This article considers the political potential of literary opacity through the lens of Edouard Glissant’s theories of opacité. In Le Discours antillais, Glissant connects social experience and literary form: for Glissant, opacité is a strategic, poetic response to particular traumatic or oppressive experiences in the Caribbean. In considering the basis of Glissant’s theory, I contend that the logic by which he connects the two in fact holds in ot…

  • Glasgow's Ellis Island? The integration and stigmatisation of Govanhill's Roma population

    Open AccessColin ClarkARTICLEPeople Place and Policy Online2014Cited by: 13References: 7

    This paper examines the contemporary situation of different central and Eastern European Roma communities who are currently living in Govanhill, Glasgow.Although adopting a microsociological and ethnographic approach, the wider European and UK political and policy context is discussed and broader structural factors, surrounding migration for example, are not overlooked.The primary focus of ongoing fieldwork in Govanhill is an attempt to witness a…

  • Introduction Themed Section Care or Control? Gypsies, Travellers and the State

    Open AccessColin ClarkARTICLESocial Policy and Society2007Cited by: 3References: 1

    The history of the state, in relation to its ‘dealings’ with Gypsies and Travellers in Britain and Ireland, has not been one worthy of endorsement, praise or special prizes (Hawes and Perez, 1986; Mayall, 1995). Since the emergence of written records detailing the presence of such groups on these Islands (around the fifteenth Century, according to Fraser, 1995: 111–120) a familiar series of tensions has tended to take shape, tensions that are exp…

  • Useful Sources – Roma, Gypsies and Travellers

    Open AccessColin ClarkARTICLESocial Policy and Society2007

    The electronic age has not ignored the existence of Roma, Gypsy and Traveller communities. Detailed below are thirty key websites that provide a variety of information regarding the position of Roma, Gypsies and Travellers across the UK and internationally. The sites are divided into three main categories: government sources, independent sources and international sources. Although this list is not exhaustive, it does illustrate the range of polic…

  • Defining Ethnicity in a Cultural and Socio-Legal Context: The Case of Scottish Gypsy/Travellers

    Open AccessColin ClarkARTICLEScottish Affairs2006Cited by: 5References: 5

    Clark, Colin (2006) Defining ethnicity in a cultural and socio-legal context: the case of scottish gypsy-travellers. Scottish Affairs, 54 (Winter). pp. 39-67. ISSN 0966-0356 Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Copyright c © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. You may not engage in further distribution …

  • A Framework for Reforming the Independence and Accountability of Statutory Officers of Parliament: A Case Study of Victoria

    Open AccessColin Clark, Michael De MartinisARTICLEAustralian Journal of Public…2003Cited by: 4References: 1

    Considerable attention has been given to the independence of auditors‐general in the literature. However, there are other officers of parliament who also have roles that may require protection from the excessive use of power by the executive arm of government. In response to the recent Public Accounts and Estimates Committee Inquiry into a Legislative Framework for Victorian Statutory Officers of Parliament, the study compares the enabling legisl…

  • Managing prospect affiliation and rapport in real-life sales encounters

    Open AccessColin Clark, Paul Drew et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Studies2003Cited by: 19References: 37

    A B S T R A C T Detailed examination of audio recordings of business-to-business `field-sales' encounters are used to report one way in which salespeople elicit verbal expressions of affiliation from their prospective customers — by reciprocating second assessments which affiliate with, trade off and build on prospects' own assessments. This article outlines the prototypical features of these junctures of assessment-affiliation and describes how …

  • Asylum in crisis: After the 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act

    Colin ClarkARTICLEJournal of Poverty and Social…2002

    In the last 12 months there has been close examination of the ‘asylum crisis’ by a range of interested parties, from government and NGOs to the tabloid press and the British public. As well as the ‘numbers issue’ and questions about routes of access into Britain, the very nature and purpose of the 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act has been called to account, particularly regarding policies on dispersal and vouchers. How are these debates being fram…

  • Gypsy Invasion: A critical analysis of newspaper reaction to Czech and Slovak Romani asylum-seekers in Britain, 1997

    Open AccessColin Clark, Elaine CampbellARTICLERomani Studies2000Cited by: 17References: 3

    Following Canadian efforts to prevent Romanies from Slovakia and the Czech Republic entering its territory, in October 1997, Romani families from the former Czechoslovakia started to arrive at the port of Dover in Kent, England. They were attempting to claim political asylum in the UK due to the high levels of institutionalised racism and discrimination which forced them to flee their home countries. The reactions these families received from mos…

  • Renewable resources and economic growth

    Open AccessColin Clark, Colin W ClarkARTICLEEcological Economics1997

  • Managing Customer `Objections' during Real-Life Sales Negotiations

    Open AccessColin Clark, Paul Drew et al.ARTICLEDiscourse & Society1994Cited by: 13References: 4

    In this paper we invesigate a common locus of consumer decision-making in buyer-seller interactions—customer non-acceptances to a proposed sale and the verbal negotiations that often ensue. The research is based on a study of recordings of real-life telephone-selling calls. In this study the prospective customers often raised their nonacceptances implicitly, and salespeople and prospective customers tended, at first, to negotiate these non-accept…

  • The Interactional Study of Exchange Relationships: An Analysis of Patter Merchants at Work on Street Markets

    Colin Clark, Trevor PinchARTICLEHistory of Political Economy1994

    Research Article| January 01 1994 The Interactional Study of Exchange Relationships: An Analysis of Patter Merchants at Work on Street Markets Colin Clark; Colin Clark Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Trevor Pinch Trevor Pinch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1994) 26 (suppl_1): 370–400. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-1994-suppl_1013 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Shar…

  • Laughter and the profit motive: The use of humor in a photographic shop

    Michael Mulkay, Colin Clark et al.ARTICLEHumor - International Journal of…1993Cited by: 5

  • The anatomy of a deception: Fraud and finesse in the Mock Auction sales ?con

    Open AccessColin Clark, Trevor PinchARTICLEQualitative Sociology1992Cited by: 7References: 15

  • On Misunderstanding the Hard Sell

    Open AccessTrevor Pinch, Colin ClarkARTICLESociology1987Cited by: 1References: 6

  • Bioeconomic Modelling and Fisheries Management

    Berry Wilson, Colin Clark et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business and Economic…1986

    Introduction Search and Capture Deterministic Single-Species Models Models of Fishery Regulation Models of Multispecies Fisheries Fluctuations and Uncertainty

  • The Hard Sell: Patter Merchanting' and the Strategic (Re)Production and Local Management of Economic Reasoning in the Sales Routines of Markt Pitchers

    Open AccessTrevor Pinch, Colin ClarkARTICLESociology1986Cited by: 18References: 3

    This paper proposes that selling can be viewed as essentially a social, interactional accomplishment, not an economic one. A corpus of audio-visual recordings of 'pitchers' - market traders who attempt to sell their goods with a sales 'spiel' - is analysed. We locate a number of rhetorical formats and interactional practices ('selling techniques') regularly used by pitchers to manage sales. We show how bargains are constituted and enhanced throug…