J Greener
Biographic Data
| ID | 51918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Greener |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Greener |
| SIGNATURE | GREENER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7087-3040 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Depoliticising the “Surplus” through Welfare Imaginaries in Singapore National Day Rallies
With welfare states considered contested sites for the construction of unequal social relations, this article explores official welfare imaginaries – discursive practices and narratives which construct the nature of the “good society” and the role of government policies in achieving this – as strategies of depoliticisation, aimed at reproducing authoritarian governance. Through an analysis of Singapore National Day rally speeches by then Prime Mi…
Covid-19 and the Necrocapitalist Production of Death in Older People’s Residential Care Homes
This article conceives of the prevalence of death occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic in older people’s care homes in the United Kingdom (UK) through the lens of necrocapitalism. There is significant evidence that pre-pandemic marketisation policies have structured endemic neglect in the sector, but these generalised failures are frequently not highlighted in the debates around the causes of COVID-19 deaths. The article seeks to specify the wa…
Bringing Lefebvre into dialogue with Shariati on everyday life: Space and Estehmar
This article brings Ali Shariati and Henri Lefebvre into dialogue to explore the everyday as a site of ideological contestation under capitalism. Through this comparative engagement, each thinker is reinterpreted in light of the other. While both critique the alienation of modern life, Shariati introduces Estehmar – a multi-dimensional condition of stupefaction encompassing economic, intellectual and spiritual subjugation. Lefebvre's materialist …
Value, logistics and violence: Contemporizing imperialism for a critical Southern criminology
This article develops both a critique of the Southern criminology project but also argues that a continued focus on the global organization of the economy should sit central in anti‐imperialist social science. Southern criminology, reflective of other trends in ‘decolonization’, has not placed a sustained critique of domination and exploitation central, viewing decolonization as possible without a radical upending of the global economy. This pape…
Regimes of Extreme Permission in Southeast Asia: Theorizing State-Corporate Crime in the Global South
Corporations’ profit-making objectives are a central force guiding development strategies in the Global South but contradictorily can be blamed for a range of social and environmental harms. This article brings a state-corporate crime lens to bear on the economic and political processes that shape Global South-located commodity production. It seeks to understand the functioning of neo-imperialist profiteering through elaborating the concept of re…
Moralising racial regimes: Surveillance and control after Singapore’s ‘Little India riots’
This article examines the moral politics of state organised social control in bolstering racialisation in Singapore after the 2013 disturbances in ‘Little India’, when agencies mobilised morally charged discourses regarding alcohol consumption amongst low-income South Asian migrants. Appealing to moral constructions of the ‘riots’ discredited socio-political analyses of the events, after which the state developed a mass architecture of alcohol-re…
Reproduction, discipline, inequality: Critiquing East-Asian developmentalism through a strategic-relational examination of Singapore’s Central Provident Fund
The five ‘developmentalist’ welfare states of East Asia (South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan) have been presented as successful projects of economic progress, positively aligning citizen-interests with business objective. Utilising Jessop’s Strategic-Relational Approach (SRA), we analyse the Central Provident Fund (CPF), Singapore’s ‘forced savings’ social policy which organises housing, healthcare, education and retirement. Throu…
Between containment and crackdown in Geylang, Singapore: Urban crime control as the statecrafting of migrant exclusion
Based on a case study conducted in Geylang, Singapore, this article explores the role of urban policing, surveillance and crime control as mechanisms of social ordering that contribute to the marginalisation of excluded groups, including low-income migrant workers and sex workers. Adopting a statecraft approach that emphasises the significance of ‘governing through crime’ for the upholding of urban political-economic projects, we examine the enta…
Mapping the Pains of Neo-Colonialism: A Critical Elaboration of Southern Criminology
Recent appeals to decolonize criminology argue for a radical reorientation of the subject towards Global South relevant research agendas, theories and scholars. This paper begins by problematizing the current theoretical tendencies in Southern criminology’s view of coloniality and the vision for decolonization. First, Southern criminology has not directly engaged in investigating ‘empire’ in its current form; second, decolonization is viewed as p…
From shame to blame: Institutionalising oppression through the moralisation of mental distress in austerity England
Performative Compliance and the State–Corporate Structuring of Neglect in a Residential Care Home for Older People
The abuse and neglect of older people in care homes is widespread across England, but current causative explanations are limited and frequently fail to highlight the economic and political factors underpinning poor care. Informed by social harm and state–corporate crime perspectives, this study uses ethnographic data gathered through a nine-month period of working in an older person’s residential care home to show how neglect is embedded in worki…
Crisis and resistance in mental health services in England
The last two years have seen a small but significant increase in the level of resistance by service users and practitioners to the coalition government’s policy of austerity and neoliberal restructuring of mental health services in England. This article provides an overview and analysis of these developments by examining four recent campaigns that feature alliances between service users, workers, trade unionists and anti-cuts activists. It consid…
Services just for men? Insights from a national study of the well men services pilots
Our findings question the utility of some theories of masculinity that posit somewhat simplistic explanations for men's reluctance to seek help from formal healthcare services. They also suggest that providing male-specific health services may not significantly address men's supposed reluctance to seek help from formal health services. Essentially, age seemed to be more important than gender. All encompassing health programmes are likely to fail …
More of the same? Conflicting perspectives of obesity causation and intervention amongst overweight people, health professionals and policy makers
More of the same? Conflicting perspectives of obesity causation and intervention amongst overweight people, health professionals and policy makers
Mapping the Pains of Neo-Colonialism: A Critical Elaboration of Southern Criminology
Recent appeals to decolonize criminology argue for a radical reorientation of the subject towards Global South relevant research agendas, theories and scholars. This paper begins by problematizing the current theoretical tendencies in Southern criminology’s view of coloniality and the vision for decolonization. First, Southern criminology has not directly engaged in investigating ‘empire’ in its current form; second, decolonization is viewed as p…
Regimes of Extreme Permission in Southeast Asia: Theorizing State-Corporate Crime in the Global South
Corporations’ profit-making objectives are a central force guiding development strategies in the Global South but contradictorily can be blamed for a range of social and environmental harms. This article brings a state-corporate crime lens to bear on the economic and political processes that shape Global South-located commodity production. It seeks to understand the functioning of neo-imperialist profiteering through elaborating the concept of re…
Performative Compliance and the State–Corporate Structuring of Neglect in a Residential Care Home for Older People
The abuse and neglect of older people in care homes is widespread across England, but current causative explanations are limited and frequently fail to highlight the economic and political factors underpinning poor care. Informed by social harm and state–corporate crime perspectives, this study uses ethnographic data gathered through a nine-month period of working in an older person’s residential care home to show how neglect is embedded in worki…
Crisis and resistance in mental health services in England
The last two years have seen a small but significant increase in the level of resistance by service users and practitioners to the coalition government’s policy of austerity and neoliberal restructuring of mental health services in England. This article provides an overview and analysis of these developments by examining four recent campaigns that feature alliances between service users, workers, trade unionists and anti-cuts activists. It consid…
Between containment and crackdown in Geylang, Singapore: Urban crime control as the statecrafting of migrant exclusion
Based on a case study conducted in Geylang, Singapore, this article explores the role of urban policing, surveillance and crime control as mechanisms of social ordering that contribute to the marginalisation of excluded groups, including low-income migrant workers and sex workers. Adopting a statecraft approach that emphasises the significance of ‘governing through crime’ for the upholding of urban political-economic projects, we examine the enta…
From shame to blame: Institutionalising oppression through the moralisation of mental distress in austerity England
More of the same? Conflicting perspectives of obesity causation and intervention amongst overweight people, health professionals and policy makers
Services just for men? Insights from a national study of the well men services pilots
Our findings question the utility of some theories of masculinity that posit somewhat simplistic explanations for men's reluctance to seek help from formal healthcare services. They also suggest that providing male-specific health services may not significantly address men's supposed reluctance to seek help from formal health services. Essentially, age seemed to be more important than gender. All encompassing health programmes are likely to fail …
Crisis and resistance in mental health services in England
The last two years have seen a small but significant increase in the level of resistance by service users and practitioners to the coalition government’s policy of austerity and neoliberal restructuring of mental health services in England. This article provides an overview and analysis of these developments by examining four recent campaigns that feature alliances between service users, workers, trade unionists and anti-cuts activists. It consid…
From shame to blame: Institutionalising oppression through the moralisation of mental distress in austerity England
Performative Compliance and the State–Corporate Structuring of Neglect in a Residential Care Home for Older People
The abuse and neglect of older people in care homes is widespread across England, but current causative explanations are limited and frequently fail to highlight the economic and political factors underpinning poor care. Informed by social harm and state–corporate crime perspectives, this study uses ethnographic data gathered through a nine-month period of working in an older person’s residential care home to show how neglect is embedded in worki…
Mapping the Pains of Neo-Colonialism: A Critical Elaboration of Southern Criminology
Recent appeals to decolonize criminology argue for a radical reorientation of the subject towards Global South relevant research agendas, theories and scholars. This paper begins by problematizing the current theoretical tendencies in Southern criminology’s view of coloniality and the vision for decolonization. First, Southern criminology has not directly engaged in investigating ‘empire’ in its current form; second, decolonization is viewed as p…
Moralising racial regimes: Surveillance and control after Singapore’s ‘Little India riots’
This article examines the moral politics of state organised social control in bolstering racialisation in Singapore after the 2013 disturbances in ‘Little India’, when agencies mobilised morally charged discourses regarding alcohol consumption amongst low-income South Asian migrants. Appealing to moral constructions of the ‘riots’ discredited socio-political analyses of the events, after which the state developed a mass architecture of alcohol-re…
Reproduction, discipline, inequality: Critiquing East-Asian developmentalism through a strategic-relational examination of Singapore’s Central Provident Fund
The five ‘developmentalist’ welfare states of East Asia (South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan) have been presented as successful projects of economic progress, positively aligning citizen-interests with business objective. Utilising Jessop’s Strategic-Relational Approach (SRA), we analyse the Central Provident Fund (CPF), Singapore’s ‘forced savings’ social policy which organises housing, healthcare, education and retirement. Throu…
Between containment and crackdown in Geylang, Singapore: Urban crime control as the statecrafting of migrant exclusion
Based on a case study conducted in Geylang, Singapore, this article explores the role of urban policing, surveillance and crime control as mechanisms of social ordering that contribute to the marginalisation of excluded groups, including low-income migrant workers and sex workers. Adopting a statecraft approach that emphasises the significance of ‘governing through crime’ for the upholding of urban political-economic projects, we examine the enta…
Regimes of Extreme Permission in Southeast Asia: Theorizing State-Corporate Crime in the Global South
Corporations’ profit-making objectives are a central force guiding development strategies in the Global South but contradictorily can be blamed for a range of social and environmental harms. This article brings a state-corporate crime lens to bear on the economic and political processes that shape Global South-located commodity production. It seeks to understand the functioning of neo-imperialist profiteering through elaborating the concept of re…
Value, logistics and violence: Contemporizing imperialism for a critical Southern criminology
This article develops both a critique of the Southern criminology project but also argues that a continued focus on the global organization of the economy should sit central in anti‐imperialist social science. Southern criminology, reflective of other trends in ‘decolonization’, has not placed a sustained critique of domination and exploitation central, viewing decolonization as possible without a radical upending of the global economy. This pape…
Bringing Lefebvre into dialogue with Shariati on everyday life: Space and Estehmar
This article brings Ali Shariati and Henri Lefebvre into dialogue to explore the everyday as a site of ideological contestation under capitalism. Through this comparative engagement, each thinker is reinterpreted in light of the other. While both critique the alienation of modern life, Shariati introduces Estehmar – a multi-dimensional condition of stupefaction encompassing economic, intellectual and spiritual subjugation. Lefebvre's materialist …
Depoliticising the “Surplus” through Welfare Imaginaries in Singapore National Day Rallies
With welfare states considered contested sites for the construction of unequal social relations, this article explores official welfare imaginaries – discursive practices and narratives which construct the nature of the “good society” and the role of government policies in achieving this – as strategies of depoliticisation, aimed at reproducing authoritarian governance. Through an analysis of Singapore National Day rally speeches by then Prime Mi…
Covid-19 and the Necrocapitalist Production of Death in Older People’s Residential Care Homes
This article conceives of the prevalence of death occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic in older people’s care homes in the United Kingdom (UK) through the lens of necrocapitalism. There is significant evidence that pre-pandemic marketisation policies have structured endemic neglect in the sector, but these generalised failures are frequently not highlighted in the debates around the causes of COVID-19 deaths. The article seeks to specify the wa…
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