Simon Tawfic
Biographic Data
| ID | 4971407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Tawfic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Tawfic |
| SIGNATURE | TAWFIC S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6128-9800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing
This article explores everyday discourses of care among public protection police officers and asylum-screening officers in Britain. Contemporary policy rhetoric of vulnerability and care commits these bureaucracies to relieve human suffering. Through ethnographic observations and interviews, this article reveals the conflicting and profoundly moral meanings that these officials attach to care, which they claim as a central inspiration and ideal o…
Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex
This paper provides a critical analysis of modern slavery (MS) policy, legislation and discourse in the United Kingdom. Challenging the suggestion that recent attempts to dilute protections and guarantees in the original MS framework represent a fundamental shift from a more humanitarian to a more punitive orientation, it argues that these two moments ought to be understood as products of a single, underlying articulation, the ‘punitive–humanitar…
From Ecosystems to Advicescapes
The provision of entrepreneurship advice is a growing feature of private sector development in South Asia but has so far received little attention from researchers. The article explores the theme of business advice in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, drawing on recent ethnographic fieldwork among advice seekers to explore the significance of low-income households of business advice within the unfolding processes of both marketization and state support. …
Making Better Lives
Making Better Lives: Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris." Housing, Theory and Society, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing
This article explores everyday discourses of care among public protection police officers and asylum-screening officers in Britain. Contemporary policy rhetoric of vulnerability and care commits these bureaucracies to relieve human suffering. Through ethnographic observations and interviews, this article reveals the conflicting and profoundly moral meanings that these officials attach to care, which they claim as a central inspiration and ideal o…
Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex
This paper provides a critical analysis of modern slavery (MS) policy, legislation and discourse in the United Kingdom. Challenging the suggestion that recent attempts to dilute protections and guarantees in the original MS framework represent a fundamental shift from a more humanitarian to a more punitive orientation, it argues that these two moments ought to be understood as products of a single, underlying articulation, the ‘punitive–humanitar…
From Ecosystems to Advicescapes
The provision of entrepreneurship advice is a growing feature of private sector development in South Asia but has so far received little attention from researchers. The article explores the theme of business advice in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, drawing on recent ethnographic fieldwork among advice seekers to explore the significance of low-income households of business advice within the unfolding processes of both marketization and state support. …
Making Better Lives
Making Better Lives: Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris." Housing, Theory and Society, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
From Ecosystems to Advicescapes
The provision of entrepreneurship advice is a growing feature of private sector development in South Asia but has so far received little attention from researchers. The article explores the theme of business advice in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, drawing on recent ethnographic fieldwork among advice seekers to explore the significance of low-income households of business advice within the unfolding processes of both marketization and state support. …
Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex
This paper provides a critical analysis of modern slavery (MS) policy, legislation and discourse in the United Kingdom. Challenging the suggestion that recent attempts to dilute protections and guarantees in the original MS framework represent a fundamental shift from a more humanitarian to a more punitive orientation, it argues that these two moments ought to be understood as products of a single, underlying articulation, the ‘punitive–humanitar…
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing
This article explores everyday discourses of care among public protection police officers and asylum-screening officers in Britain. Contemporary policy rhetoric of vulnerability and care commits these bureaucracies to relieve human suffering. Through ethnographic observations and interviews, this article reveals the conflicting and profoundly moral meanings that these officials attach to care, which they claim as a central inspiration and ideal o…
Sociology (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Advice (programming (1 work) · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues (1 work) · Ambivalence (1 work) · Articulation (sociology) (1 work)