Amanda Swain
Biographic Data
| ID | 825880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Swain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Swain |
| SIGNATURE | SWAIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0441-6359 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Supporting Canadian families of children with disabilities: Unmet needs and service gaps
Introduction: Children who live with disabilities and/or chronic (or complex) medical conditions, and their families, require appropriate supports to thrive and reach their full potential. In Canada, child and family wellbeing has declined over the past years (1,2). Methods: This article highlights the second phase of a sequential exploratory research study that identified what supports and services Canadian children living with disabilities/heal…
What supports and services post Covid-19 do children with disabilities and their parents need and want, now and into the future
Introduction: Children and youth with disabilities and special healthcare needs, and their families, have been uniquely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the voices of children themselves are still not well represented in the existing literature. Methods: This qualitative descriptive study used a combination of visual methods and interviews to learn about the experiences of Canadian children with disabilities (n=18) and their parents (n…
Utopia in New York: Nicola Chiaromonte and the New York Intellectuals’ “Superstition of Science”
This article reintroduces Italian antifascist intellectual Nicola Chiaromonte to anglophone twentieth-century intellectual history by foregrounding Chiaromonte's transatlantic exchange with the New York intellectuals. Drawing from Chiaromonte's unpublished notes and correspondence, as well as his published writing in English and Italian, it elaborates how what I call Chiaromonte's “negative utopianism” migrated concepts and concerns from the poli…
One of the last secret maestros’: Nicola Chiaromonte between Europe and America
The article describes the transatlantic cultural mediation performed by Italian editor, critic and political activist Nicola Chiaromonte, focusing specifically on his relationships with figures from the mid-twentieth-century U.S. cultural formation known as the New York Intellectuals. Drawing heavily on unpublished correspondence and archival materials, it highlights how Chiaromonte – who in the 1930s belonged to influential Italian and French in…
The Lampadophorous: Paolo Milano, Nicola Chiaromonte and the politics of friendship
Compared to the scholarly attention dedicated to mid-20th-century Germanic or French transatlantic intellectual migration and its impact on thought and culture in the USA, the influence of Italian exiles and refugees has been relatively neglected. In the political context, only a few Italian exiles with public or institutional roles in the USA have been studied (e.g. Ascoli, Salvemini, Borgese), while the contributions of others remain overlooked…
Personalism and the Politics of Love: Revisiting the Radicalism of Dorothy Day and Martin Luther King Jr
While scholars have recognized personalism as an idiom circulating through leftist US political culture, we have yet to clarify how it reconceived personal experience as a site for transforming society by disrupting prevailing structures of power. This essay considers the personalist projects of Dorothy Day and Martin Luther King Jr. as exemplary of personalism’s radical political force. Day and King similarly drew from their experiences of the t…
Interventions in the political geographies of 'area
From the big screen to the streets of Kaunas: Youth cultural practices and Communist Party discourse in Soviet Lithuania
Le 18 mai 1972, environ 2 000 jeunes ont participé à une manifestation à Kaunas, en Lituanie soviétique. Cette protestation de masse faisait suite aux obsèques de Romas Kalanta, un jeune de 19 ans, qui s’était immolé le 14 mai. Les descriptions officielles des manifestations semblent présenter un discours stagnant sur les bonnes valeurs du communisme et une condamnation de l’influence des pratiques culturelles occidentales sur la jeunesse soviéti…
Hooligans, Hippies, and Immature Youth: Negotiating Communist Party Narratives of May 18, 1972 in Kaunas
In the aftermath of the street demonstrations in Kaunas in May 1972, Communist Party leaders developed a narrative of the events that downplayed nationalism or political dissent as motivating factors for the unrest. Initially, Soviet authorities blamed marginal elements in society, specifically hooligans and hippies, for instigating what they called a ‘disturbance of public order’. However, the demographics of participants forced Party leaders to…
The making of a sub‐discipline: State initiatives and the production of British geographical studies of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1945–71
This paper explores the origins of British geographical studies of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, in particular the ways in which this sub‐discipline was shaped by state‐led initiatives after the Second World War, emerging as a small yet distinct area of geographical practice within UK universities. The historical focus of the paper incorporates the publication of the government‐initiated Scarbrough Commission Report in 1947 and the formali…
The Global Economic Crisis, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union: Models of Development and the Contradictions of Internationalization
Two UK-based geographers specializing in the economies of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union review the character and consequences of the global economic crisis in these countries, focusing on how forms of geo-economic and geopolitical integration undertaken during their post-socialist transitions have contributed to economic vulnerabilities exacerbated by the emerging crisis. Particular emphasis is placed on the consequences for Eas…
Ukraine’s diverging space-economy: The Orange Revolution, post-soviet development models and regional trajectories
This paper considers the evolution of Ukraine’s space-economy from 1990 to 2009, paying particular attention to comparative regional economic performance during the country’s expansionary phase from 1999 to 2008. This shows that Ukraine inherited from the Imperial and Soviet eras a space-economy that was amongst the most unbalanced in Europe. Furthermore post-Soviet regional trajectories intensified these territorial imbalances. The paper argues …
Geographically touring the eastern bloc: British geography, travel cultures and the Cold War
This paper considers the role of travel in the generation of geographical knowledge of the eastern bloc by British geographers. Based on oral history and surveys of published work, the paper examines the roles of three kinds of travel experience: individual private travels, tours via state tourist agencies, and tours by academic delegations. Examples are drawn from across the eastern bloc, including the USSR, Poland, Romania, East Germany and Alb…
Encountering soviet geography: Oral histories of British geographical studies of the USSR and Eastern Europe 1945–1991
This paper considers the history of British geographical studies of the USSR and Eastern Europe 1945-1991, presenting material from a research project which has included thirty-two oral history interviews. Oral history is an especially fruitful research methodology in this context due to the distinct issues of formality and informality involved in researching the Soviet bloc. After discussing the nature of the subdiscipline and the Cold War conte…
Soft capitalism and a hard industry: Virtualism, the ‘transition industry’ and the restructuring of the Ukrainian coal industry
This paper examines the geographical transfer of economic knowledge and practices from centres of neoliberalism in North America and Western Europe to post‐soviet Ukraine. The paper argues that a ‘transition industry’ emerged in the wake of the disintegration of the soviet system whose purpose was to realize economic transition in central and eastern Europe. The paper discusses the emergence of a community of academic and professional economists …
Broken networks and a tabula rasa
Are oranges the only fruit? A comment on the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election
Governing the Workplace: The Workplace and Regional Development Implications of Automotive Foreign Direct Investment in Hungary
SWAIN A. (1998) Governing the workplace: the workplace and regional development implications of automotive direct foreign investment in Hungary, Reg. Studies 32, 653-671. This paper examines the connections that exist between the workplace implications of automotive foreign direct investment in Hungary and the unfolding uneven development of capitalism in East-Central Europe. It develops a conceptual framework in order to critically analyse the r…
State and Market in Eastern Europe: Regional Development and Workplace Implications of Direct Foreign Investment in the Automobile Industry in Hungary
David Sadler, Adam Swain, State and Market in Eastern Europe: Regional Development and Workplace Implications of Direct Foreign Investment in the Automobile Industry in Hungary, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 19, No. 4 (1994), pp. 387-403
Soft capitalism and a hard industry: Virtualism, the ‘transition industry’ and the restructuring of the Ukrainian coal industry
This paper examines the geographical transfer of economic knowledge and practices from centres of neoliberalism in North America and Western Europe to post‐soviet Ukraine. The paper argues that a ‘transition industry’ emerged in the wake of the disintegration of the soviet system whose purpose was to realize economic transition in central and eastern Europe. The paper discusses the emergence of a community of academic and professional economists …
State and Market in Eastern Europe: Regional Development and Workplace Implications of Direct Foreign Investment in the Automobile Industry in Hungary
David Sadler, Adam Swain, State and Market in Eastern Europe: Regional Development and Workplace Implications of Direct Foreign Investment in the Automobile Industry in Hungary, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 19, No. 4 (1994), pp. 387-403
The Global Economic Crisis, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union: Models of Development and the Contradictions of Internationalization
Two UK-based geographers specializing in the economies of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union review the character and consequences of the global economic crisis in these countries, focusing on how forms of geo-economic and geopolitical integration undertaken during their post-socialist transitions have contributed to economic vulnerabilities exacerbated by the emerging crisis. Particular emphasis is placed on the consequences for Eas…
Governing the Workplace: The Workplace and Regional Development Implications of Automotive Foreign Direct Investment in Hungary
SWAIN A. (1998) Governing the workplace: the workplace and regional development implications of automotive direct foreign investment in Hungary, Reg. Studies 32, 653-671. This paper examines the connections that exist between the workplace implications of automotive foreign direct investment in Hungary and the unfolding uneven development of capitalism in East-Central Europe. It develops a conceptual framework in order to critically analyse the r…
Ukraine’s diverging space-economy: The Orange Revolution, post-soviet development models and regional trajectories
This paper considers the evolution of Ukraine’s space-economy from 1990 to 2009, paying particular attention to comparative regional economic performance during the country’s expansionary phase from 1999 to 2008. This shows that Ukraine inherited from the Imperial and Soviet eras a space-economy that was amongst the most unbalanced in Europe. Furthermore post-Soviet regional trajectories intensified these territorial imbalances. The paper argues …
Geographically touring the eastern bloc: British geography, travel cultures and the Cold War
This paper considers the role of travel in the generation of geographical knowledge of the eastern bloc by British geographers. Based on oral history and surveys of published work, the paper examines the roles of three kinds of travel experience: individual private travels, tours via state tourist agencies, and tours by academic delegations. Examples are drawn from across the eastern bloc, including the USSR, Poland, Romania, East Germany and Alb…
Encountering soviet geography: Oral histories of British geographical studies of the USSR and Eastern Europe 1945–1991
This paper considers the history of British geographical studies of the USSR and Eastern Europe 1945-1991, presenting material from a research project which has included thirty-two oral history interviews. Oral history is an especially fruitful research methodology in this context due to the distinct issues of formality and informality involved in researching the Soviet bloc. After discussing the nature of the subdiscipline and the Cold War conte…
Interventions in the political geographies of 'area
The making of a sub‐discipline: State initiatives and the production of British geographical studies of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1945–71
This paper explores the origins of British geographical studies of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, in particular the ways in which this sub‐discipline was shaped by state‐led initiatives after the Second World War, emerging as a small yet distinct area of geographical practice within UK universities. The historical focus of the paper incorporates the publication of the government‐initiated Scarbrough Commission Report in 1947 and the formali…
Are oranges the only fruit? A comment on the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election
One of the last secret maestros’: Nicola Chiaromonte between Europe and America
The article describes the transatlantic cultural mediation performed by Italian editor, critic and political activist Nicola Chiaromonte, focusing specifically on his relationships with figures from the mid-twentieth-century U.S. cultural formation known as the New York Intellectuals. Drawing heavily on unpublished correspondence and archival materials, it highlights how Chiaromonte – who in the 1930s belonged to influential Italian and French in…
From the big screen to the streets of Kaunas: Youth cultural practices and Communist Party discourse in Soviet Lithuania
Le 18 mai 1972, environ 2 000 jeunes ont participé à une manifestation à Kaunas, en Lituanie soviétique. Cette protestation de masse faisait suite aux obsèques de Romas Kalanta, un jeune de 19 ans, qui s’était immolé le 14 mai. Les descriptions officielles des manifestations semblent présenter un discours stagnant sur les bonnes valeurs du communisme et une condamnation de l’influence des pratiques culturelles occidentales sur la jeunesse soviéti…
State and Market in Eastern Europe: Regional Development and Workplace Implications of Direct Foreign Investment in the Automobile Industry in Hungary
David Sadler, Adam Swain, State and Market in Eastern Europe: Regional Development and Workplace Implications of Direct Foreign Investment in the Automobile Industry in Hungary, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 19, No. 4 (1994), pp. 387-403
Governing the Workplace: The Workplace and Regional Development Implications of Automotive Foreign Direct Investment in Hungary
SWAIN A. (1998) Governing the workplace: the workplace and regional development implications of automotive direct foreign investment in Hungary, Reg. Studies 32, 653-671. This paper examines the connections that exist between the workplace implications of automotive foreign direct investment in Hungary and the unfolding uneven development of capitalism in East-Central Europe. It develops a conceptual framework in order to critically analyse the r…
Broken networks and a tabula rasa
Are oranges the only fruit? A comment on the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election
Soft capitalism and a hard industry: Virtualism, the ‘transition industry’ and the restructuring of the Ukrainian coal industry
This paper examines the geographical transfer of economic knowledge and practices from centres of neoliberalism in North America and Western Europe to post‐soviet Ukraine. The paper argues that a ‘transition industry’ emerged in the wake of the disintegration of the soviet system whose purpose was to realize economic transition in central and eastern Europe. The paper discusses the emergence of a community of academic and professional economists …
Encountering soviet geography: Oral histories of British geographical studies of the USSR and Eastern Europe 1945–1991
This paper considers the history of British geographical studies of the USSR and Eastern Europe 1945-1991, presenting material from a research project which has included thirty-two oral history interviews. Oral history is an especially fruitful research methodology in this context due to the distinct issues of formality and informality involved in researching the Soviet bloc. After discussing the nature of the subdiscipline and the Cold War conte…
Geographically touring the eastern bloc: British geography, travel cultures and the Cold War
This paper considers the role of travel in the generation of geographical knowledge of the eastern bloc by British geographers. Based on oral history and surveys of published work, the paper examines the roles of three kinds of travel experience: individual private travels, tours via state tourist agencies, and tours by academic delegations. Examples are drawn from across the eastern bloc, including the USSR, Poland, Romania, East Germany and Alb…
The Global Economic Crisis, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union: Models of Development and the Contradictions of Internationalization
Two UK-based geographers specializing in the economies of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union review the character and consequences of the global economic crisis in these countries, focusing on how forms of geo-economic and geopolitical integration undertaken during their post-socialist transitions have contributed to economic vulnerabilities exacerbated by the emerging crisis. Particular emphasis is placed on the consequences for Eas…
Ukraine’s diverging space-economy: The Orange Revolution, post-soviet development models and regional trajectories
This paper considers the evolution of Ukraine’s space-economy from 1990 to 2009, paying particular attention to comparative regional economic performance during the country’s expansionary phase from 1999 to 2008. This shows that Ukraine inherited from the Imperial and Soviet eras a space-economy that was amongst the most unbalanced in Europe. Furthermore post-Soviet regional trajectories intensified these territorial imbalances. The paper argues …
The making of a sub‐discipline: State initiatives and the production of British geographical studies of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1945–71
This paper explores the origins of British geographical studies of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, in particular the ways in which this sub‐discipline was shaped by state‐led initiatives after the Second World War, emerging as a small yet distinct area of geographical practice within UK universities. The historical focus of the paper incorporates the publication of the government‐initiated Scarbrough Commission Report in 1947 and the formali…
Hooligans, Hippies, and Immature Youth: Negotiating Communist Party Narratives of May 18, 1972 in Kaunas
In the aftermath of the street demonstrations in Kaunas in May 1972, Communist Party leaders developed a narrative of the events that downplayed nationalism or political dissent as motivating factors for the unrest. Initially, Soviet authorities blamed marginal elements in society, specifically hooligans and hippies, for instigating what they called a ‘disturbance of public order’. However, the demographics of participants forced Party leaders to…
From the big screen to the streets of Kaunas: Youth cultural practices and Communist Party discourse in Soviet Lithuania
Le 18 mai 1972, environ 2 000 jeunes ont participé à une manifestation à Kaunas, en Lituanie soviétique. Cette protestation de masse faisait suite aux obsèques de Romas Kalanta, un jeune de 19 ans, qui s’était immolé le 14 mai. Les descriptions officielles des manifestations semblent présenter un discours stagnant sur les bonnes valeurs du communisme et une condamnation de l’influence des pratiques culturelles occidentales sur la jeunesse soviéti…
Interventions in the political geographies of 'area
Personalism and the Politics of Love: Revisiting the Radicalism of Dorothy Day and Martin Luther King Jr
While scholars have recognized personalism as an idiom circulating through leftist US political culture, we have yet to clarify how it reconceived personal experience as a site for transforming society by disrupting prevailing structures of power. This essay considers the personalist projects of Dorothy Day and Martin Luther King Jr. as exemplary of personalism’s radical political force. Day and King similarly drew from their experiences of the t…
What supports and services post Covid-19 do children with disabilities and their parents need and want, now and into the future
Introduction: Children and youth with disabilities and special healthcare needs, and their families, have been uniquely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the voices of children themselves are still not well represented in the existing literature. Methods: This qualitative descriptive study used a combination of visual methods and interviews to learn about the experiences of Canadian children with disabilities (n=18) and their parents (n…
Utopia in New York: Nicola Chiaromonte and the New York Intellectuals’ “Superstition of Science”
This article reintroduces Italian antifascist intellectual Nicola Chiaromonte to anglophone twentieth-century intellectual history by foregrounding Chiaromonte's transatlantic exchange with the New York intellectuals. Drawing from Chiaromonte's unpublished notes and correspondence, as well as his published writing in English and Italian, it elaborates how what I call Chiaromonte's “negative utopianism” migrated concepts and concerns from the poli…
One of the last secret maestros’: Nicola Chiaromonte between Europe and America
The article describes the transatlantic cultural mediation performed by Italian editor, critic and political activist Nicola Chiaromonte, focusing specifically on his relationships with figures from the mid-twentieth-century U.S. cultural formation known as the New York Intellectuals. Drawing heavily on unpublished correspondence and archival materials, it highlights how Chiaromonte – who in the 1930s belonged to influential Italian and French in…
The Lampadophorous: Paolo Milano, Nicola Chiaromonte and the politics of friendship
Compared to the scholarly attention dedicated to mid-20th-century Germanic or French transatlantic intellectual migration and its impact on thought and culture in the USA, the influence of Italian exiles and refugees has been relatively neglected. In the political context, only a few Italian exiles with public or institutional roles in the USA have been studied (e.g. Ascoli, Salvemini, Borgese), while the contributions of others remain overlooked…
Supporting Canadian families of children with disabilities: Unmet needs and service gaps
Introduction: Children who live with disabilities and/or chronic (or complex) medical conditions, and their families, require appropriate supports to thrive and reach their full potential. In Canada, child and family wellbeing has declined over the past years (1,2). Methods: This article highlights the second phase of a sequential exploratory research study that identified what supports and services Canadian children living with disabilities/heal…
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