Paul Crawshaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 380963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Crawshaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Crawshaw |
| SIGNATURE | CRAWSHAW P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Teesside University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9299-4895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Health for all? From lifestyle risk to genomic governance
In 1997, 3 years ahead of WHO's target of delivering Health for All, critical health scholarship was energised by the mainstreaming of social determinants and the optimism of the new public health. Yet alongside these collective ambitions, lifestyle discourses, rooted in 1970s healthism, proliferated across consumer cultures, framing health as a matter of personal responsibility. Over the past three decades, these individualising logics have inte…
The effectiveness of interventions in reducing economic inactivity for people with long term health conditions and disabilities in the United Kingdom
Overall, we found limited robust evidence of what works in reducing health related economic inactivity, particularly for populations experiencing elevated levels of socio-economic deprivation. OPEN SCIENCE FRAMEWORK PREREGISTRATION: https://osf.io/aucz9
Changing Behaviours, Improving Outcomes? Governing Healthy Lifestyles Through Social Marketing
Recent public health policy and practice in the UK and beyond has promoted behavioural and lifestyle change as key methods for health improvement and the reduction of inequalities. These methods contrast with more upstream and structural interventions intended to address environmental and material determinants of health. A current exemplar of this approach is the use of social marketing. These changes represent a shift from the social to the indi…
A tale of two economies
Purpose – This article aims to critically explore current forms of neoliberalism and their impact upon the moral economy. The authors examine how the dominant neoliberal political economy impacts upon three overlapping registers: individual subjectivity, national reconstructions and organizational transformations. These three registers are fashioned by, and subsequently help to reproduce, the contours of the prevailing politico-economic system. T…
Public health policy and the behavioural turn
Recent public health policy has emphasized the promotion of behavioural change and the achievement of healthy lifestyles as central to tackling deeply ingrained health inequalities in the UK and beyond. These approaches contrast with more upstream structural strategies that aim to address material determinants of health. A current exemplar of the behaviourist approach is the use of social marketing as a methodology in public health. Social market…
Shaking the Foundations
During the last three decades, criminal justice, in England and Wales, has been subjected to ethico-cultural disturbances. Fiscal realignments, punitive and bureaucratic expansion, reducing cultural divides between probation and prison, and the diminution of psychosocial curiosity are some of the features which have eroded the concept of moral economy. There are also pressing threats and dangers, during 2010–15, as the criminal justice system is …
Organising Neoliberalism
This collection of essays incorporates the insight of an international group of experts to explore the impact of neoliberalism within different organisational domains from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examining neoliberalism in the context of political, social, economic and institutional domains, this volume promotes a critical and challenging approach to the social and economic attitudes characterising late-modern capitalism
Governing at a distance
Logics of practice in the ‘risk environment’
This paper explores the salience of the work of Pierre Bourdieu for theorising young men's experience of risk and drugs within a working class community in the North East of England identified by official discourses as a ‘risk environment.’ First, the concepts of field, habitus and practice are introduced. We then discuss the usefulness of these concepts for understanding diversity and contradiction in drug use, risk calculation and everyday life…
Critical Public Health – Breadth, Depth and Critique
Critical perspectives on the health of men
Men's health has emerged as a key area for research and practice in the field of public health over the last decade. Although much of this work has been valuable in illuminating and challenging perceived inequalities experienced by men in terms of health and wellbeing, there has been a lack critical theoretical work which explore how men are positioned and constructed within recent health discourses. More sociological approaches drawing on establ…
Hegemonic masculinity, structural violence and health inequalities
There is persuasive evidence that the reduction of health inequalities can only be achieved by addressing their fundamental causes as opposed to the diseases through which they are expressed or the immediate precursors of those diseases. This explains both the persistence of health inequalities over time and the failure of policies which only target their immediate manifestations to have any lasting impact. Fundamental causes of health inequaliti…
Men's health
It is now almost common place when discussing inequity and disadvantage in health to note that the health of men has become an important area for research and interventions. Men's health has become
Healthy Senior Citizenship' in voluntary and community organisations
This essay critically examines the process of governmentality as revealed in the construction and resistance to the categorisation and classification of ‘Healthy Senior Citizenship’. This also includes an illustrative analysis of data from a national UK qualitative interview study of the input into the policy process of older adults in voluntary and community organisations. The paper demonstrates how governmentality finds its expression within th…
Whither wellbeing for public health
Wellbeing is not felt for it is the simple consciousness of living (Kant in Canguilhem 1998, p. 243) Although ‘wellbeing’ has seemingly effortlessly entered into recent public health parlance, litt
Implementing the ‘new scientific spirit’
Knowledge of reality is a light that always casts a shadow in some nook or cranny. It is never immediate, never complete. Revelations of reality are always recurrent. Reality is never ‘what we might be believe it to be’: it is always what we ought to have thought. Empirical thought is clear in retrospect, when the apparatus of reason has been developed. (Bachelard 2002 Bachelard, G. 2002. The formation of the scientific mind, Manchester: Clinamen…
For a multidisciplinary critical public health
The history of public health tells us that it has always been a multidisciplinary endeavour encompassing social, political, economic and environmental concerns. From the social engineering of the n
There is a Mantra of
Governing the healthy male citizen
Representing public health
Governing the Unhealthy Community
Health Action Zones and the problem of community
Health Actions Zones (HAZs) have been identified as initiatives reflecting the 'third way' policies espoused by the UK New Labour Government. Like other area-based or zone initiatives, HAZ programmes are designed to tackle inequalities and exclusion in some of the most deprived areas of the UK. This is to be achieved through partnerships between the public, private and voluntary sectors, and most significantly, communities themselves. Health Acti…
Comprehensive Community Initiatives
Pervaded by 'third way' values and identified as archetypal Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs), programmes such as Education Action Zones (EAZs) and Health Action Zones (HAZs) follow a procedural rationale based on heterarchy and partnership. They are a response to an alleged prior fragmentation of service provision in welfare across sectors. Employing evidence from an evaluation of an EAZ and HAZ in one location, this article makes two c…
Situating young people's experiences of risk and identity
Within late modernity a sense of 'risk' and increased individualisation are theoretically much discussed and debated, especially ideas surrounding risk, risky behaviour and its impact upon identity construction. Drawing upon data from a recent Department of the Environment funded project exploring risk and risk management in young people's lives, this article moves beyond theory and official discourses of 'risk', in order to demonstrate the impor…
Situating young people's experiences of risk and identity
Within late modernity a sense of 'risk' and increased individualisation are theoretically much discussed and debated, especially ideas surrounding risk, risky behaviour and its impact upon identity construction. Drawing upon data from a recent Department of the Environment funded project exploring risk and risk management in young people's lives, this article moves beyond theory and official discourses of 'risk', in order to demonstrate the impor…
Governing at a distance
Governing the healthy male citizen
A tale of two economies
Purpose – This article aims to critically explore current forms of neoliberalism and their impact upon the moral economy. The authors examine how the dominant neoliberal political economy impacts upon three overlapping registers: individual subjectivity, national reconstructions and organizational transformations. These three registers are fashioned by, and subsequently help to reproduce, the contours of the prevailing politico-economic system. T…
Public health policy and the behavioural turn
Recent public health policy has emphasized the promotion of behavioural change and the achievement of healthy lifestyles as central to tackling deeply ingrained health inequalities in the UK and beyond. These approaches contrast with more upstream structural strategies that aim to address material determinants of health. A current exemplar of the behaviourist approach is the use of social marketing as a methodology in public health. Social market…
Health Action Zones and the problem of community
Health Actions Zones (HAZs) have been identified as initiatives reflecting the 'third way' policies espoused by the UK New Labour Government. Like other area-based or zone initiatives, HAZ programmes are designed to tackle inequalities and exclusion in some of the most deprived areas of the UK. This is to be achieved through partnerships between the public, private and voluntary sectors, and most significantly, communities themselves. Health Acti…
Changing Behaviours, Improving Outcomes? Governing Healthy Lifestyles Through Social Marketing
Recent public health policy and practice in the UK and beyond has promoted behavioural and lifestyle change as key methods for health improvement and the reduction of inequalities. These methods contrast with more upstream and structural interventions intended to address environmental and material determinants of health. A current exemplar of this approach is the use of social marketing. These changes represent a shift from the social to the indi…
Shaking the Foundations
During the last three decades, criminal justice, in England and Wales, has been subjected to ethico-cultural disturbances. Fiscal realignments, punitive and bureaucratic expansion, reducing cultural divides between probation and prison, and the diminution of psychosocial curiosity are some of the features which have eroded the concept of moral economy. There are also pressing threats and dangers, during 2010–15, as the criminal justice system is …
Healthy Senior Citizenship' in voluntary and community organisations
This essay critically examines the process of governmentality as revealed in the construction and resistance to the categorisation and classification of ‘Healthy Senior Citizenship’. This also includes an illustrative analysis of data from a national UK qualitative interview study of the input into the policy process of older adults in voluntary and community organisations. The paper demonstrates how governmentality finds its expression within th…
There is a Mantra of
Governing the Unhealthy Community
Comprehensive Community Initiatives
Pervaded by 'third way' values and identified as archetypal Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs), programmes such as Education Action Zones (EAZs) and Health Action Zones (HAZs) follow a procedural rationale based on heterarchy and partnership. They are a response to an alleged prior fragmentation of service provision in welfare across sectors. Employing evidence from an evaluation of an EAZ and HAZ in one location, this article makes two c…
Situating young people's experiences of risk and identity
Within late modernity a sense of 'risk' and increased individualisation are theoretically much discussed and debated, especially ideas surrounding risk, risky behaviour and its impact upon identity construction. Drawing upon data from a recent Department of the Environment funded project exploring risk and risk management in young people's lives, this article moves beyond theory and official discourses of 'risk', in order to demonstrate the impor…
Situating young people's experiences of risk and identity
Within late modernity a sense of 'risk' and increased individualisation are theoretically much discussed and debated, especially ideas surrounding risk, risky behaviour and its impact upon identity construction. Drawing upon data from a recent Department of the Environment funded project exploring risk and risk management in young people's lives, this article moves beyond theory and official discourses of 'risk', in order to demonstrate the impor…
Comprehensive Community Initiatives
Pervaded by 'third way' values and identified as archetypal Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs), programmes such as Education Action Zones (EAZs) and Health Action Zones (HAZs) follow a procedural rationale based on heterarchy and partnership. They are a response to an alleged prior fragmentation of service provision in welfare across sectors. Employing evidence from an evaluation of an EAZ and HAZ in one location, this article makes two c…
Health Action Zones and the problem of community
Health Actions Zones (HAZs) have been identified as initiatives reflecting the 'third way' policies espoused by the UK New Labour Government. Like other area-based or zone initiatives, HAZ programmes are designed to tackle inequalities and exclusion in some of the most deprived areas of the UK. This is to be achieved through partnerships between the public, private and voluntary sectors, and most significantly, communities themselves. Health Acti…
Governing the Unhealthy Community
Representing public health
For a multidisciplinary critical public health
The history of public health tells us that it has always been a multidisciplinary endeavour encompassing social, political, economic and environmental concerns. From the social engineering of the n
There is a Mantra of
Governing the healthy male citizen
Whither wellbeing for public health
Wellbeing is not felt for it is the simple consciousness of living (Kant in Canguilhem 1998, p. 243) Although ‘wellbeing’ has seemingly effortlessly entered into recent public health parlance, litt
Implementing the ‘new scientific spirit’
Knowledge of reality is a light that always casts a shadow in some nook or cranny. It is never immediate, never complete. Revelations of reality are always recurrent. Reality is never ‘what we might be believe it to be’: it is always what we ought to have thought. Empirical thought is clear in retrospect, when the apparatus of reason has been developed. (Bachelard 2002 Bachelard, G. 2002. The formation of the scientific mind, Manchester: Clinamen…
Logics of practice in the ‘risk environment’
This paper explores the salience of the work of Pierre Bourdieu for theorising young men's experience of risk and drugs within a working class community in the North East of England identified by official discourses as a ‘risk environment.’ First, the concepts of field, habitus and practice are introduced. We then discuss the usefulness of these concepts for understanding diversity and contradiction in drug use, risk calculation and everyday life…
Critical Public Health – Breadth, Depth and Critique
Critical perspectives on the health of men
Men's health has emerged as a key area for research and practice in the field of public health over the last decade. Although much of this work has been valuable in illuminating and challenging perceived inequalities experienced by men in terms of health and wellbeing, there has been a lack critical theoretical work which explore how men are positioned and constructed within recent health discourses. More sociological approaches drawing on establ…
Hegemonic masculinity, structural violence and health inequalities
There is persuasive evidence that the reduction of health inequalities can only be achieved by addressing their fundamental causes as opposed to the diseases through which they are expressed or the immediate precursors of those diseases. This explains both the persistence of health inequalities over time and the failure of policies which only target their immediate manifestations to have any lasting impact. Fundamental causes of health inequaliti…
Men's health
It is now almost common place when discussing inequity and disadvantage in health to note that the health of men has become an important area for research and interventions. Men's health has become
Healthy Senior Citizenship' in voluntary and community organisations
This essay critically examines the process of governmentality as revealed in the construction and resistance to the categorisation and classification of ‘Healthy Senior Citizenship’. This also includes an illustrative analysis of data from a national UK qualitative interview study of the input into the policy process of older adults in voluntary and community organisations. The paper demonstrates how governmentality finds its expression within th…
Organising Neoliberalism
This collection of essays incorporates the insight of an international group of experts to explore the impact of neoliberalism within different organisational domains from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examining neoliberalism in the context of political, social, economic and institutional domains, this volume promotes a critical and challenging approach to the social and economic attitudes characterising late-modern capitalism
Governing at a distance
Public health policy and the behavioural turn
Recent public health policy has emphasized the promotion of behavioural change and the achievement of healthy lifestyles as central to tackling deeply ingrained health inequalities in the UK and beyond. These approaches contrast with more upstream structural strategies that aim to address material determinants of health. A current exemplar of the behaviourist approach is the use of social marketing as a methodology in public health. Social market…
Shaking the Foundations
During the last three decades, criminal justice, in England and Wales, has been subjected to ethico-cultural disturbances. Fiscal realignments, punitive and bureaucratic expansion, reducing cultural divides between probation and prison, and the diminution of psychosocial curiosity are some of the features which have eroded the concept of moral economy. There are also pressing threats and dangers, during 2010–15, as the criminal justice system is …
Changing Behaviours, Improving Outcomes? Governing Healthy Lifestyles Through Social Marketing
Recent public health policy and practice in the UK and beyond has promoted behavioural and lifestyle change as key methods for health improvement and the reduction of inequalities. These methods contrast with more upstream and structural interventions intended to address environmental and material determinants of health. A current exemplar of this approach is the use of social marketing. These changes represent a shift from the social to the indi…
A tale of two economies
Purpose – This article aims to critically explore current forms of neoliberalism and their impact upon the moral economy. The authors examine how the dominant neoliberal political economy impacts upon three overlapping registers: individual subjectivity, national reconstructions and organizational transformations. These three registers are fashioned by, and subsequently help to reproduce, the contours of the prevailing politico-economic system. T…
The effectiveness of interventions in reducing economic inactivity for people with long term health conditions and disabilities in the United Kingdom
Overall, we found limited robust evidence of what works in reducing health related economic inactivity, particularly for populations experiencing elevated levels of socio-economic deprivation. OPEN SCIENCE FRAMEWORK PREREGISTRATION: https://osf.io/aucz9
Health for all? From lifestyle risk to genomic governance
In 1997, 3 years ahead of WHO's target of delivering Health for All, critical health scholarship was energised by the mainstreaming of social determinants and the optimism of the new public health. Yet alongside these collective ambitions, lifestyle discourses, rooted in 1970s healthism, proliferated across consumer cultures, framing health as a matter of personal responsibility. Over the past three decades, these individualising logics have inte…
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