John Kirwan
Biographic Data
| ID | 363893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Kirwan |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirwan |
| SIGNATURE | KIRWAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gloucestershire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4626-9940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 352 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Enacted relations and the resilience of territorially embedded production systems in Europe
Real’ regulation and property relations on agricultural estates: Reducing opportunities for new entrants to agriculture
The Futility of Philosophical Ethics: Metaethics and the Grounds of Moral Feeling
The Futility of Philosophical Ethics puts forward a novel account of the grounds of moral feeling with fundamental implications for philosophical ethics. It examines the grounds of moral feeling by both the phenomenology of that feeling, and the facts of moral feeling in operation – particularly in forms such as moral luck, vicious virtues, and moral disgust – that appear paradoxical from the point of view of systematic ethics. Using an analytic …
Transformative potential from the ground up: Sustainable innovation journeys, soft change and alignment of interests in urban food initiatives
This paper utilises the ‘sustainable innovation journeys’ concept to trace how people organise and design urban food initiatives and influence city-region food policy. We evaluate whether designs succeed or fail and monitor the exchange of ideas that takes place between stakeholders. Tracing these interactions reveals the transformative potential of innovative projects, particularly if the food system changes they bring to the fore are aligned wi…
Adaptive business arrangements and the creation of social capital: Towards small‐scale fisheries resilience in different European geographical areas
European small‐scale fisheries are confronted with several challenges, notably a decrease in the number of people engaged in capture fishing, growing competition from less expensive extra‐European Union markets, rising operational costs, strict regulations and the depletion of fishing stocks. Many small‐scale fishers must adapt to change to maintain or increase their income using different business strategies. In this respect, we argue that new a…
Psychometric properties and cross-language equivalence of the revised Bristol Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue and the Rheumatoid Arthritis Impact of Disease scales in rheumatoid arthritis
This study supports the cross-language measurement equivalence of BRAF-MDQ and RAID and provides further support for the psychometric properties of these measures in RA
Ethics and responsibilisation in agri-food governance: The single-use plastics debate and strategies to introduce reusable coffee cups in UK retail chains
The economic potential of agroecology: Empirical evidence from Europe
Present realities’ and the need for a ‘lived experience’ perspective in Brexit agri-food governance
Brexit poses a significant challenge to the future governance of the UK agri-food sector. Policy decisions that will be made in the next few years will initiate a major new phase of agrarian change and regulation. We are seeing signs of this already in agri-food policy discourse, including scenarios related to food and farming futures post-Brexit. Academic representations of Brexit and agriculture are also mostly futures-orientated. This is impor…
Everyone assumes a man to be quite strong: Men, masculinity and rheumatoid arthritis: A case-study approach
Current literature has overlooked the impact of chronic illness on masculine identity. We therefore aimed to investigate the impact of rheumatoid arthritis (a long term condition, affecting more women than men) on masculine identity. Six focus groups with 22 men with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (data reported elsewhere) followed by five one-to-one interviews with men (English, mean age: 59 years) sampled to reflect a heterogeneous experience of lif…
Acknowledging complexity in food supply chains when assessing their performance and sustainability
Reflexive Governance, Incorporating Ethics and Changing Understandings of Food Chain Performance
This article argues that ethics is a key driver of change in food chain performance. Critically, multiple stakeholder perspectives need to be understood as being legitimate when developing shared norms of what is understood by food supply chain (FSC) performance. To develop this perspective, the article examines the discourses surrounding the performance of FSCs in 12 different national contexts. It develops a multi-criteria performance matrix (M…
Men, rheumatoid arthritis, psychosocial impact and self-management: A narrative review
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease affecting fewer men than women. We systematically reviewed the literature on impact and self-management of rheumatoid arthritis in men. A total of 28 papers were included and grouped into two categories: psychosocial impact of rheumatoid arthritis, and coping and self-management. This review finds gender differences relating to quality of life, work, distress, self-management, coping and support. We concl…
Animal disease and narratives of nature: Farmers' reactions to the neoliberal governance of bovine Tuberculosis
Explaining Regional and Local Differences in Organic Farming in England and Wales: A Comparison of South West Wales and South East England
Ilbery B., Kirwan J. and Maye D. Explaining regional and local differences in organic farming in England and Wales: a comparison of South West Wales and South East England, Regional Studies, Few studies explain the concentration of organic farming in specific regions of England and Wales. This paper compares the development of organic farming in South West Wales and South East England. While the focus in the former is on the use of mainly nationa…
Researching controversial and sensitive issues: Using visual vignettes to explore farmers' attitudes towards the control of bovine tuberculosis in E ngland
This paper addresses the potential difficulties associated with researching controversial and/or sensitive issues. Drawing on the findings from in‐depth interviews with farmers, the paper provides a reflexive commentary on the use of visual vignettes to explore farmers' attitudes towards the control of bovine tuberculosis in E ngland – currently a highly controversial subject. Five short video clips were shown to interviewees to prompt discussion…
The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Developing Networks for Sustainable Agriculture
Whilst objectivist epistemologies have been dominant in productivist agriculture, the local, cultural and environmental contexts of sustainable agriculture are more fully informed by constructivist epistemologies. Within constructivism, tacit knowledge - an intuitive knowledge that cannot be formalised - is explored empirically. Six types of tacit knowledge were identified as a result of working closely with a sustainable food network: the Bright…
Badger Vaccination: Dimensions of Trust and Confidence in the Governance of Animal Disease
This paper examines farmers' trust in badger vaccination as a method of preventing the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) between wildlife (specifically, badgers) and cattle in England. The spread of bTB has economic and social implications for farmers, but previous research has found that lack of trust in government is a key factor in farmers' failure to adopt new preventative biosecurity practices. In these and other studies, however, the conc…
The Leader programme 2007–2013: Enabling or disabling social innovation and neo-endogenous development? Insights from Austria and Ireland
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Leader programme has been hailed as the instrument of rural policy that most explicitly takes account of the territorial dimension. This culminated in the mainstreaming of its underlying concept into the Rural Development Programmes of the current period (2007–2013), with the aim of having more effective policy implementation that considers the diversified needs of rural regions. Starting from analysis of the…
Grassroots social innovations and food localisation: An investigation of the Local Food programme in England
Food security: A fractured consensus
Esthétiques sans esthétique
The following paper highlights the way in which contemporary analytic or Anglo-American aesthetics neglects the topic of aesthetic experience. The paper briefly examines the historical background to this situation. It also looks at how analytic aesthetics’ preoccupation with the topic of art is largely responsible for this neglect. It concludes by arguing that most of the fundamental problems in aesthetics, including those that contemporary analy…
Food security framings within the UK and the integration of local food systems
Aesthetics Without the Aesthetic
The following paper highlights the way in which contemporary analytic or Anglo-American aesthetics neglects the topic of aesthetic experience. The paper briefly examines the historical background to this situation. It also looks at how analytic aesthetics' preoccupation with the topic of art is largely responsible for this neglect. It concludes by arguing that most of the fundamental problems in aesthetics, including those that contemporary analy…
Ecological embeddedness: An interrogation and refinement of the concept within the context of alternative food networks in the UK
The interpersonal world of direct marketing: Examining conventions of quality at UK farmers’ markets
The economic potential of agroecology: Empirical evidence from Europe
Grassroots social innovations and food localisation: An investigation of the Local Food programme in England
Alternative Strategies in the UK Agro-Food System: Interrogating the Alterity of Farmers' Markets
In recent years we have witnessed the development of numerous alternative strategies (AS) within the UK agro-food system intent on overcoming, or at least circumventing, some of the problems associated with the globalisation of food production and consumption. Within these AS, there is an intention to reconnect food to the social, cultural and environmental context of its production, leading to considerable interest in their potential to engender…
Ecological embeddedness: An interrogation and refinement of the concept within the context of alternative food networks in the UK
Food commodities, geographical knowledges and the reconnection of production and consumption: The case of naturally embedded food products
Food security framings within the UK and the integration of local food systems
Food security: A fractured consensus
Animal disease and narratives of nature: Farmers' reactions to the neoliberal governance of bovine Tuberculosis
Matching new entrants and retiring farmers through farm joint ventures: Insights from the Fresh Start Initiative in Cornwall, UK
The Leader programme 2007–2013: Enabling or disabling social innovation and neo-endogenous development? Insights from Austria and Ireland
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Leader programme has been hailed as the instrument of rural policy that most explicitly takes account of the territorial dimension. This culminated in the mainstreaming of its underlying concept into the Rural Development Programmes of the current period (2007–2013), with the aim of having more effective policy implementation that considers the diversified needs of rural regions. Starting from analysis of the…
The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Developing Networks for Sustainable Agriculture
Whilst objectivist epistemologies have been dominant in productivist agriculture, the local, cultural and environmental contexts of sustainable agriculture are more fully informed by constructivist epistemologies. Within constructivism, tacit knowledge - an intuitive knowledge that cannot be formalised - is explored empirically. Six types of tacit knowledge were identified as a result of working closely with a sustainable food network: the Bright…
Acknowledging complexity in food supply chains when assessing their performance and sustainability
Vegetarians: Uninvited, Uncomfortable or Special Guests at the Table of the Alternative Food Economy
This article explores whether vegetarianism is congruent with the alternative food economy. Although it has been largely neglected by scholars concerned with agro-food system alternatives, there are good reasons to undertake an exploration of vegetarianism in this context, not least because of the ethical relationships that it seeks to create within the food system. Drawing on recent work by Hilary Tovey in which she applies Eyerman and Jamison's…
Explaining Regional and Local Differences in Organic Farming in England and Wales: A Comparison of South West Wales and South East England
Ilbery B., Kirwan J. and Maye D. Explaining regional and local differences in organic farming in England and Wales: a comparison of South West Wales and South East England, Regional Studies, Few studies explain the concentration of organic farming in specific regions of England and Wales. This paper compares the development of organic farming in South West Wales and South East England. While the focus in the former is on the use of mainly nationa…
Present realities’ and the need for a ‘lived experience’ perspective in Brexit agri-food governance
Brexit poses a significant challenge to the future governance of the UK agri-food sector. Policy decisions that will be made in the next few years will initiate a major new phase of agrarian change and regulation. We are seeing signs of this already in agri-food policy discourse, including scenarios related to food and farming futures post-Brexit. Academic representations of Brexit and agriculture are also mostly futures-orientated. This is impor…
Everyone assumes a man to be quite strong: Men, masculinity and rheumatoid arthritis: A case-study approach
Current literature has overlooked the impact of chronic illness on masculine identity. We therefore aimed to investigate the impact of rheumatoid arthritis (a long term condition, affecting more women than men) on masculine identity. Six focus groups with 22 men with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) (data reported elsewhere) followed by five one-to-one interviews with men (English, mean age: 59 years) sampled to reflect a heterogeneous experience of lif…
Badger Vaccination: Dimensions of Trust and Confidence in the Governance of Animal Disease
This paper examines farmers' trust in badger vaccination as a method of preventing the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) between wildlife (specifically, badgers) and cattle in England. The spread of bTB has economic and social implications for farmers, but previous research has found that lack of trust in government is a key factor in farmers' failure to adopt new preventative biosecurity practices. In these and other studies, however, the conc…
Reflexive Governance, Incorporating Ethics and Changing Understandings of Food Chain Performance
This article argues that ethics is a key driver of change in food chain performance. Critically, multiple stakeholder perspectives need to be understood as being legitimate when developing shared norms of what is understood by food supply chain (FSC) performance. To develop this perspective, the article examines the discourses surrounding the performance of FSCs in 12 different national contexts. It develops a multi-criteria performance matrix (M…
Researching controversial and sensitive issues: Using visual vignettes to explore farmers' attitudes towards the control of bovine tuberculosis in E ngland
This paper addresses the potential difficulties associated with researching controversial and/or sensitive issues. Drawing on the findings from in‐depth interviews with farmers, the paper provides a reflexive commentary on the use of visual vignettes to explore farmers' attitudes towards the control of bovine tuberculosis in E ngland – currently a highly controversial subject. Five short video clips were shown to interviewees to prompt discussion…
Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts
1Kobe City University of Foreign Studies Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts SalimKemalIvanGaskell CambridgeU.P. 2000xii + 268
Transformative potential from the ground up: Sustainable innovation journeys, soft change and alignment of interests in urban food initiatives
This paper utilises the ‘sustainable innovation journeys’ concept to trace how people organise and design urban food initiatives and influence city-region food policy. We evaluate whether designs succeed or fail and monitor the exchange of ideas that takes place between stakeholders. Tracing these interactions reveals the transformative potential of innovative projects, particularly if the food system changes they bring to the fore are aligned wi…
Exploring the Ecological Dimensions of Producer Strategies in Alternative Food Networks in the UK
Drawing on data from a research project that focused on the relationship between the biodiversity of grazing and food quality, this article explores the ecological dimensions of alternative food networks in the UK through the concept of 'styles of ecological engagement'. Context is provided by briefly reviewing two contrasting ways of envisaging the relationship between ecology, food and rural development in policy debates. A qualitative analysis…
An Empty Land: Pioneers and Pioneering in Australia
A Plan for the Railways: An attempt to apply the principles of Quadragesimo Anno to the present dispute
The public, like the press, lives from day to day. It is not interested in labour disputes. Labour disputes are not news. It is only when a dispute threatens to end in a strike that headlines are given to it and interest is aroused. But then it is often too late. Tempers have been inflamed; the leaders on both sides have made statements, public statements, upon which, being self-respecting men, they cannot go back. The strike, whose threat made n…
Peace and Disarmament
In the Preamble to the Covenant of the League of Nations it is stated that the League is brought into existence 'to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security.' The first article of the Covenant which is concerned with policy (Art. 8) deals with the reduction of armaments. The League Secretariat accepts disarmament as the touchstone of the work of organizing peace. Peace is the end and the extent to which t…
General practitioners’ knowledge of functional and social factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Functional and social factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
The care of people with chronic physical disease is an important part of the work of general practitioners (GPs). Knowledge of social and functional factors, and good teamwork with other health and social care professionals, are necessary to provide high quality general practice care. This study investigated functional disability, social situation and the involvement of health and social care professionals in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, a…
Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts
1Kobe City University of Foreign Studies Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts SalimKemalIvanGaskell CambridgeU.P. 2000xii + 268
Alternative Strategies in the UK Agro-Food System: Interrogating the Alterity of Farmers' Markets
In recent years we have witnessed the development of numerous alternative strategies (AS) within the UK agro-food system intent on overcoming, or at least circumventing, some of the problems associated with the globalisation of food production and consumption. Within these AS, there is an intention to reconnect food to the social, cultural and environmental context of its production, leading to considerable interest in their potential to engender…
The interpersonal world of direct marketing: Examining conventions of quality at UK farmers’ markets
Vegetarians: Uninvited, Uncomfortable or Special Guests at the Table of the Alternative Food Economy
This article explores whether vegetarianism is congruent with the alternative food economy. Although it has been largely neglected by scholars concerned with agro-food system alternatives, there are good reasons to undertake an exploration of vegetarianism in this context, not least because of the ethical relationships that it seeks to create within the food system. Drawing on recent work by Hilary Tovey in which she applies Eyerman and Jamison's…
Food commodities, geographical knowledges and the reconnection of production and consumption: The case of naturally embedded food products
Ecological embeddedness: An interrogation and refinement of the concept within the context of alternative food networks in the UK
Matching new entrants and retiring farmers through farm joint ventures: Insights from the Fresh Start Initiative in Cornwall, UK
Exploring the Ecological Dimensions of Producer Strategies in Alternative Food Networks in the UK
Drawing on data from a research project that focused on the relationship between the biodiversity of grazing and food quality, this article explores the ecological dimensions of alternative food networks in the UK through the concept of 'styles of ecological engagement'. Context is provided by briefly reviewing two contrasting ways of envisaging the relationship between ecology, food and rural development in policy debates. A qualitative analysis…
Esthétiques sans esthétique
The following paper highlights the way in which contemporary analytic or Anglo-American aesthetics neglects the topic of aesthetic experience. The paper briefly examines the historical background to this situation. It also looks at how analytic aesthetics’ preoccupation with the topic of art is largely responsible for this neglect. It concludes by arguing that most of the fundamental problems in aesthetics, including those that contemporary analy…
Food security framings within the UK and the integration of local food systems
Aesthetics Without the Aesthetic
The following paper highlights the way in which contemporary analytic or Anglo-American aesthetics neglects the topic of aesthetic experience. The paper briefly examines the historical background to this situation. It also looks at how analytic aesthetics' preoccupation with the topic of art is largely responsible for this neglect. It concludes by arguing that most of the fundamental problems in aesthetics, including those that contemporary analy…
The Leader programme 2007–2013: Enabling or disabling social innovation and neo-endogenous development? Insights from Austria and Ireland
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Leader programme has been hailed as the instrument of rural policy that most explicitly takes account of the territorial dimension. This culminated in the mainstreaming of its underlying concept into the Rural Development Programmes of the current period (2007–2013), with the aim of having more effective policy implementation that considers the diversified needs of rural regions. Starting from analysis of the…
Grassroots social innovations and food localisation: An investigation of the Local Food programme in England
Food security: A fractured consensus
Animal disease and narratives of nature: Farmers' reactions to the neoliberal governance of bovine Tuberculosis
Explaining Regional and Local Differences in Organic Farming in England and Wales: A Comparison of South West Wales and South East England
Ilbery B., Kirwan J. and Maye D. Explaining regional and local differences in organic farming in England and Wales: a comparison of South West Wales and South East England, Regional Studies, Few studies explain the concentration of organic farming in specific regions of England and Wales. This paper compares the development of organic farming in South West Wales and South East England. While the focus in the former is on the use of mainly nationa…
Researching controversial and sensitive issues: Using visual vignettes to explore farmers' attitudes towards the control of bovine tuberculosis in E ngland
This paper addresses the potential difficulties associated with researching controversial and/or sensitive issues. Drawing on the findings from in‐depth interviews with farmers, the paper provides a reflexive commentary on the use of visual vignettes to explore farmers' attitudes towards the control of bovine tuberculosis in E ngland – currently a highly controversial subject. Five short video clips were shown to interviewees to prompt discussion…
The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Developing Networks for Sustainable Agriculture
Whilst objectivist epistemologies have been dominant in productivist agriculture, the local, cultural and environmental contexts of sustainable agriculture are more fully informed by constructivist epistemologies. Within constructivism, tacit knowledge - an intuitive knowledge that cannot be formalised - is explored empirically. Six types of tacit knowledge were identified as a result of working closely with a sustainable food network: the Bright…
Badger Vaccination: Dimensions of Trust and Confidence in the Governance of Animal Disease
This paper examines farmers' trust in badger vaccination as a method of preventing the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) between wildlife (specifically, badgers) and cattle in England. The spread of bTB has economic and social implications for farmers, but previous research has found that lack of trust in government is a key factor in farmers' failure to adopt new preventative biosecurity practices. In these and other studies, however, the conc…
Men, rheumatoid arthritis, psychosocial impact and self-management: A narrative review
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease affecting fewer men than women. We systematically reviewed the literature on impact and self-management of rheumatoid arthritis in men. A total of 28 papers were included and grouped into two categories: psychosocial impact of rheumatoid arthritis, and coping and self-management. This review finds gender differences relating to quality of life, work, distress, self-management, coping and support. We concl…
Acknowledging complexity in food supply chains when assessing their performance and sustainability
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Economics (17 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (16 works) · Business (14 works) · Agriculture (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Food security (10 works) · Food systems (9 works) · Law (8 works)