Bethan Harries
Biographic Data
| ID | 89372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bethan Harries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bethan |
| FAMILY NAME | Harries |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1668-8391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Feeling lonely in the online crowd: What TikTok tells us about young people and loneliness
Loneliness is a pressing public health issue, with young people particularly affected. Given the widespread use of TikTok among younger demographics, the platform plays an influential role in shaping perceptions of health topics. This study examines the self-perceived causes and experiences of loneliness expressed by TikTok users. We built a dataset of the most popular, publicly available English-language TikTok videos globally that used the hash…
Death and Nationalism's Moral Imperative: The Battle for Britain, Industry and the 'Left Behind
This paper is concerned with how nationalism is convened and condensed in this moment by exploring the function of loss and death and their centrality to nationalism's articulation. The discussion attempts to make sense of how death possesses an ideological currency that wields an alluring quality and equips nationalism with a moral imperative. This focus is stimulated by the abundant rhetoric which draws on real, mythologised and metaphorical de…
Histories of place: The racialization of representational space in Govanhill and Butetown
We argue that the stories told about the histories and nature of places, are vehicles for narrating race. Drawing on interviews with professionals and community workers in Butetown in Cardiff and Govanhill in Glasgow, we explore how they negotiated – and contested – racialized histories of place, constructing different versions or claims to belong. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s spatial concepts we explore this conceptualization through examination …
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork
This paper examines how sexual harassment is often mediated through the making of imagined complicities that are constructed to imply that an alliance/compliance underpins the relationship and 'justifies' the harassment. It is concerned with how the making and doing of intimacies engages with broader hierarchical structures of power, including structures of inequality. Fieldwork is viewed as a site in which the politics of intimacy exposes normat…
Everyday Aesthetics, Locality and Racialisation
In this essay we reflect on the relationship between aesthetic practices and racialised conceptions of belonging. In particular, we explore attributions of beauty and ugliness, order and disorder, as these are made in relation to local space, and we consider how these attributions can be linked to proprietorial claims about who is welcome in those spaces. Our focus is thus on the everyday aesthetics of location: the ways in which aesthetic judgem…
Resilient resistance? The third sector in the London Borough of Newham at a time of ‘post-racial’ politics
This article engages with the shift towards an emphasis on ‘resilience’ in local government discourses. Using the London Borough of Newham as a case study, it will argue that contradictory definitions of the term have, until recently, been used to justify the erosion of the third sector in the borough, specifically groups who support religious and linguistic minorities. Interviews and documentary analysis are used to consider how the concept of r…
"Divide and conquer". Anti-racist and community organizing under austerity
This paper examines the effects of austerity on anti-racist and community organizing. We focus on three key shifts: changes to public funding, the push to entrepreneurialism and the mainstreaming of Equalities legislation. The paper contributes to critical understandings of the changing relationship between civil society and the state and the challenges this creates for working against racism. We highlight how austerity acts as an alibi to furthe…
Diversity in place: Narrations of Diversity in an Ethnically Mixed, Urban Area
This paper explores the implications of representations of places as 'diverse', particularly for those who live in them. Arising from an interdisciplinary research project, the paper takes one neighbourhood in Manchester (Cheetham Hill) and explores some of the narratives about it produced by residents and those who have a 'professional' stake in the area. These are put in the context of public narratives of the area, as well as Census data. The …
The roles of social housing providers in creating 'integrated' communities
This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council grant number ES/K002198/1: Understanding changes in ethnic relations: the dynamics of ethnicity, identity and inequality in the UK
Enduring racisms
Reconstituting Race in Youth Studies
What's sex got to do with it? When a woman asks questions
We Need to Talk about Race
It is not easy to name racism in a context in which race is almost entirely denied. Despite a recent focus on the 'silencing' of race at a macro level, little has been done to explore the effects of living with these processes, including how they might be resisted. Drawing from a study with 20-30 year olds in Manchester, this article addresses this gap. It examines how respondents disavow racism they experience when to do so is counter-intuitivel…
We Need to Talk about Race
It is not easy to name racism in a context in which race is almost entirely denied. Despite a recent focus on the 'silencing' of race at a macro level, little has been done to explore the effects of living with these processes, including how they might be resisted. Drawing from a study with 20-30 year olds in Manchester, this article addresses this gap. It examines how respondents disavow racism they experience when to do so is counter-intuitivel…
The roles of social housing providers in creating 'integrated' communities
This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council grant number ES/K002198/1: Understanding changes in ethnic relations: the dynamics of ethnicity, identity and inequality in the UK
Diversity in place: Narrations of Diversity in an Ethnically Mixed, Urban Area
This paper explores the implications of representations of places as 'diverse', particularly for those who live in them. Arising from an interdisciplinary research project, the paper takes one neighbourhood in Manchester (Cheetham Hill) and explores some of the narratives about it produced by residents and those who have a 'professional' stake in the area. These are put in the context of public narratives of the area, as well as Census data. The …
"Divide and conquer". Anti-racist and community organizing under austerity
This paper examines the effects of austerity on anti-racist and community organizing. We focus on three key shifts: changes to public funding, the push to entrepreneurialism and the mainstreaming of Equalities legislation. The paper contributes to critical understandings of the changing relationship between civil society and the state and the challenges this creates for working against racism. We highlight how austerity acts as an alibi to furthe…
Reconstituting Race in Youth Studies
What's sex got to do with it? When a woman asks questions
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork
This paper examines how sexual harassment is often mediated through the making of imagined complicities that are constructed to imply that an alliance/compliance underpins the relationship and 'justifies' the harassment. It is concerned with how the making and doing of intimacies engages with broader hierarchical structures of power, including structures of inequality. Fieldwork is viewed as a site in which the politics of intimacy exposes normat…
Resilient resistance? The third sector in the London Borough of Newham at a time of ‘post-racial’ politics
This article engages with the shift towards an emphasis on ‘resilience’ in local government discourses. Using the London Borough of Newham as a case study, it will argue that contradictory definitions of the term have, until recently, been used to justify the erosion of the third sector in the borough, specifically groups who support religious and linguistic minorities. Interviews and documentary analysis are used to consider how the concept of r…
We Need to Talk about Race
It is not easy to name racism in a context in which race is almost entirely denied. Despite a recent focus on the 'silencing' of race at a macro level, little has been done to explore the effects of living with these processes, including how they might be resisted. Drawing from a study with 20-30 year olds in Manchester, this article addresses this gap. It examines how respondents disavow racism they experience when to do so is counter-intuitivel…
Reconstituting Race in Youth Studies
What's sex got to do with it? When a woman asks questions
Enduring racisms
Diversity in place: Narrations of Diversity in an Ethnically Mixed, Urban Area
This paper explores the implications of representations of places as 'diverse', particularly for those who live in them. Arising from an interdisciplinary research project, the paper takes one neighbourhood in Manchester (Cheetham Hill) and explores some of the narratives about it produced by residents and those who have a 'professional' stake in the area. These are put in the context of public narratives of the area, as well as Census data. The …
The roles of social housing providers in creating 'integrated' communities
This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council grant number ES/K002198/1: Understanding changes in ethnic relations: the dynamics of ethnicity, identity and inequality in the UK
"Divide and conquer". Anti-racist and community organizing under austerity
This paper examines the effects of austerity on anti-racist and community organizing. We focus on three key shifts: changes to public funding, the push to entrepreneurialism and the mainstreaming of Equalities legislation. The paper contributes to critical understandings of the changing relationship between civil society and the state and the challenges this creates for working against racism. We highlight how austerity acts as an alibi to furthe…
Everyday Aesthetics, Locality and Racialisation
In this essay we reflect on the relationship between aesthetic practices and racialised conceptions of belonging. In particular, we explore attributions of beauty and ugliness, order and disorder, as these are made in relation to local space, and we consider how these attributions can be linked to proprietorial claims about who is welcome in those spaces. Our focus is thus on the everyday aesthetics of location: the ways in which aesthetic judgem…
Resilient resistance? The third sector in the London Borough of Newham at a time of ‘post-racial’ politics
This article engages with the shift towards an emphasis on ‘resilience’ in local government discourses. Using the London Borough of Newham as a case study, it will argue that contradictory definitions of the term have, until recently, been used to justify the erosion of the third sector in the borough, specifically groups who support religious and linguistic minorities. Interviews and documentary analysis are used to consider how the concept of r…
Disturbing hierarchies. Sexual harassment and the politics of intimacy in fieldwork
This paper examines how sexual harassment is often mediated through the making of imagined complicities that are constructed to imply that an alliance/compliance underpins the relationship and 'justifies' the harassment. It is concerned with how the making and doing of intimacies engages with broader hierarchical structures of power, including structures of inequality. Fieldwork is viewed as a site in which the politics of intimacy exposes normat…
Histories of place: The racialization of representational space in Govanhill and Butetown
We argue that the stories told about the histories and nature of places, are vehicles for narrating race. Drawing on interviews with professionals and community workers in Butetown in Cardiff and Govanhill in Glasgow, we explore how they negotiated – and contested – racialized histories of place, constructing different versions or claims to belong. Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s spatial concepts we explore this conceptualization through examination …
Feeling lonely in the online crowd: What TikTok tells us about young people and loneliness
Loneliness is a pressing public health issue, with young people particularly affected. Given the widespread use of TikTok among younger demographics, the platform plays an influential role in shaping perceptions of health topics. This study examines the self-perceived causes and experiences of loneliness expressed by TikTok users. We built a dataset of the most popular, publicly available English-language TikTok videos globally that used the hash…
Death and Nationalism's Moral Imperative: The Battle for Britain, Industry and the 'Left Behind
This paper is concerned with how nationalism is convened and condensed in this moment by exploring the function of loss and death and their centrality to nationalism's articulation. The discussion attempts to make sense of how death possesses an ideological currency that wields an alluring quality and equips nationalism with a moral imperative. This focus is stimulated by the abundant rhetoric which draws on real, mythologised and metaphorical de…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Inequality (3 works)