Ryan Powell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3692645 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ryan Powell |
| PRENOMES | Ryan |
| SOBRENOME | Powell |
| ASSINATURA | POWELL R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8869-8954 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 257 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Urban Marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence
Young migrants, “integration” and the local
This article examines the complexities of integrating young adult migrants from non-EU countries into European contexts, advocating for a shift toward inclusive, locally informed, and reciprocal integration processes. It critiques state-centric, assimilationist frameworks that emphasize an imagined national identity and Western norms of youth transitions, neglecting local nuances and diverse migrant experiences. Through findings from a European D…
Sketching and ethical observation on the margins of the city
This paper explores the potential of sketching as a vehicle for ethical observation, or an ethical quality of attention, through research involving marginalised individuals. Sketching is a form of drawing, distinguished by immediacy and speed. As such, it has scope for observation of people and places, which navigates the ethical risks and opportunities of research by looking with a light touch. This means paying attention (not blanking or unseei…
A View from Northern Mexico
Analysis for propane recovery in a planned European gas terminal indicated recovery to be most economic at 72%: recovery above that level would yield a lower rate of return and only a small increase in net present value (NPV). These results led to the decision that the gas terminal for the Britannia project in the U.K. North Sea should proceed with a flow designed for 72% propane recovery. Britannia is a $3 billion gas development project due on …
Class, affect, margins
While academic attention to class has fluctuated in tandem with wider social struggles, it invariably returns from relative quiet periods with a renewed vigour, reasserting its usefulness in understanding and connecting unequal social transformations. Contributions here look to extend class analysis toward the affective and emotional dynamics of social life in a period of social polarisation and fragmented class politics. In this introduction we …
Manufacturing mandates
This paper focuses on a recent public consultation to criminalise trespass in England and Wales. Through an analysis of the consultation discourse and documentary evidence, we argue that the government has used this process to manufacture a mandate for criminalisation. We show how the construction of democratic support has been achieved by: Pre-coding responses in the initial call for evidence; distorting evidence in the response; and utilizing ‘…
Towards a global housing studies
Territorial stigmatisation beyond the city
Loїc Wacquant's concept of territorial stigmatisation has resonated widely across the social sciences and is increasingly called upon in analyses and critiques of contemporary modes of governing marginality. It forms a key part of his broader theorisation of the polarised city and urban scholars have responded to his call for comparative analyses of neoliberal state-crafting in applying it to other urban contexts. This paper focuses on non-urban …
Everyday Roma Stigmatization
Roma discrimination and stigmatization in Europe are well-documented, with urban scholars emphasizing pervasive prejudices and stereotypes alongside negative policy outcomes. However, the focus on Roma marginality has tended to centre on punitive state and urban governance to the neglect of everyday urban relations. In this article we focus on the micro manifestations of stigmatization-racialized urban encounters-and their neglected longer-term a…
Against the public interest
Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis
Hardcore Style, Queer Heteroeroticism, and After Dark
During the early to mid-1970s, when feature-length hardcore films became a popular cultural phenomenon in the United States, hardcore came to designate more than just a genre or an industry—it became a ubiquitous mode of performance, an ethos, and a style. This article explores how hardcore as a style was taken up by the popular gay-marketed entertainment magazine After Dark. Through a close descriptive analysis of three photo spreads from 1975–7…
The Power of Group Stigmatization
Recent research on Roma stigmatization has tended to focus on the marginal socio-economic and spatial position of Roma people within European societies, with poverty, persistent inequalities and substandard housing conditions (for example, ghettoization) highlighting their differential treatment. Central to such accounts are group images and stereotypes of Roma as 'benefit scroungers' and/or 'beggars' lacking notions of self-restraint and social …
Bijou (Wakefield Poole, 1972)
This article considers how the 1972 film Bijou works as a gay art porn film. It argues that the film draws from conventions of both hardcore cinema and postwar underground cinema, bringing the denotative qualities of hardcore into play with the connotative qualities of what P. Adams Sitney called the ‘trance film’. Through an exploration of Linda Williams’ concept ‘hard-core eroticism’, this article examines how Bijou expands on the common trance…
Gypsy-Traveller sites in the UK
This is a reply to:Richardson, J. 2017. “Precarious living in liminal spaces: neglect of the Gypsy–Traveller site.” Global Discourse. 7 (4): 496–515. http://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2017.1389232
Young people and UK labour market policy
This paper presents a critical analysis of the contemporary policy focus on promoting employability among young people in the UK. Drawing on analysis of UK policy approaches to tackling youth unemployment since the late 1970s, we suggest that existing critiques of employability as ‘supply-side orthodoxy’ fail to capture fully its evolving meaning and function. Under the UK Coalition Government, it became increasingly colonised as a targeted tool …
Europe's perennial 'outsiders
This article draws on the theoretical work of Norbert Elias and Loïc Wacquant in seeking to understand the stigmatized and marginalized position of the Roma population within Europe. The article argues that the persistent persecution of Roma, reflected in social policy, cannot be understood without reference to long-term social processes which shape the nature of the asymmetric power relations between Roma and non-Roma. Elias's theory of establis…
Queering the Countryside
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires d…
Putting the Squeeze on 'Generation Rent
The term 'Generation Rent' has gained currency in recent years to reflect the fact that more 25 to 34 year olds in Britain now live in rented accommodation rather than owner-occupation. The term also conveys the extent to which age-related divisions in the housing market are becoming as significant as longer standing tenure divisions. However, this portmanteau term covers a wide array of different housing circumstances - from students, young prof…
Housing Benefit Reform and the Private Rented Sector in the UK
This paper draws on the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias in understanding the current housing crisis in the UK: one which emphasizes the social interdependencies between individuals and groups, and the power relations that characterize them, in explaining household behaviour. It is argued that such an approach can contribute to a better understanding of housing processes and their differentiated outcomes. At the same time, this analysis ex…
Gypsies and Travellers
Individualization and Social Dis/integration in Contemporary Society
Individualization and Social Dis/integration in Contemporary Society
This chapter explores the approach to, and conceptualization of, individualization and socialization within the work of Zygmunt Bauman and Norbert Elias. We argue that, although both theorists place great emphasis on these powerful social processes, their respective positions differ markedly. We explore the theoretical differences and similarities in the two concepts of socialization and individualization set out by the two thinkers, before a dis…
Loïc Wacquant's 'Ghetto' and Ethnic Minority Segregation in the UK
This article utilizes Loïc Wacquant's concept of the ghetto as an analytical tool in understanding the marginal and ambivalent position of Gypsy-Traveller populations resident on sites (or camps) in Britain. The article argues that the fruitful work of quantitative urban scholars on ethnic segregation in the UK has neglected Gypsy-Travellers. It suggests that the theoretical concept of the ghetto can elucidate the ways in which the spatial margin…
The Public and its Possibilities
Understanding the Stigmatization of Gypsies
Most theorizations on the stigmatization of Gypsies have centred on structural factors: issues of race, ethnicity, the role of the media and the general incompatibility of nomadism with a sedentary mode of existence. This paper contends that a focus on the power differentials which characterize everyday social relations between Gypsies and the settled population can enhance our understanding of the stigmatization of the former. It argues that sti…
Europe's perennial 'outsiders
This article draws on the theoretical work of Norbert Elias and Loïc Wacquant in seeking to understand the stigmatized and marginalized position of the Roma population within Europe. The article argues that the persistent persecution of Roma, reflected in social policy, cannot be understood without reference to long-term social processes which shape the nature of the asymmetric power relations between Roma and non-Roma. Elias's theory of establis…
Putting the Squeeze on 'Generation Rent
The term 'Generation Rent' has gained currency in recent years to reflect the fact that more 25 to 34 year olds in Britain now live in rented accommodation rather than owner-occupation. The term also conveys the extent to which age-related divisions in the housing market are becoming as significant as longer standing tenure divisions. However, this portmanteau term covers a wide array of different housing circumstances - from students, young prof…
Housing Benefit Reform and the Private Rented Sector in the UK
This paper draws on the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias in understanding the current housing crisis in the UK: one which emphasizes the social interdependencies between individuals and groups, and the power relations that characterize them, in explaining household behaviour. It is argued that such an approach can contribute to a better understanding of housing processes and their differentiated outcomes. At the same time, this analysis ex…
Ordinary, the Same as Anywhere Else
Urban sociologists are becoming increasingly interested in neighbourhood as a source of middle-class identity. Par ticular emphasis is currently being given to two types of middle-class neighbourhood; gentrified urban neighbourhoods of'distinction' and inconspicuous 'suburban landscapes of privilege'. However, there has been a dear th of work on 'marginal' middle-class neighbourhoods that are similarly 'inconspicuous' rather than distinctive, but…
Queering the Countryside
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires d…
Young people and UK labour market policy
This paper presents a critical analysis of the contemporary policy focus on promoting employability among young people in the UK. Drawing on analysis of UK policy approaches to tackling youth unemployment since the late 1970s, we suggest that existing critiques of employability as ‘supply-side orthodoxy’ fail to capture fully its evolving meaning and function. Under the UK Coalition Government, it became increasingly colonised as a targeted tool …
Everyday Roma Stigmatization
Roma discrimination and stigmatization in Europe are well-documented, with urban scholars emphasizing pervasive prejudices and stereotypes alongside negative policy outcomes. However, the focus on Roma marginality has tended to centre on punitive state and urban governance to the neglect of everyday urban relations. In this article we focus on the micro manifestations of stigmatization-racialized urban encounters-and their neglected longer-term a…
The Power of Group Stigmatization
Recent research on Roma stigmatization has tended to focus on the marginal socio-economic and spatial position of Roma people within European societies, with poverty, persistent inequalities and substandard housing conditions (for example, ghettoization) highlighting their differential treatment. Central to such accounts are group images and stereotypes of Roma as 'benefit scroungers' and/or 'beggars' lacking notions of self-restraint and social …
Loïc Wacquant's 'Ghetto' and Ethnic Minority Segregation in the UK
This article utilizes Loïc Wacquant's concept of the ghetto as an analytical tool in understanding the marginal and ambivalent position of Gypsy-Traveller populations resident on sites (or camps) in Britain. The article argues that the fruitful work of quantitative urban scholars on ethnic segregation in the UK has neglected Gypsy-Travellers. It suggests that the theoretical concept of the ghetto can elucidate the ways in which the spatial margin…
(In)formalization and the Civilizing Process
This paper uses Norbert Elias's theory of the civilizing process to examine trends in social conduct in the UK and to identify how problematic “anti‐social” behaviour is conceptualized and governed through housing‐based mechanisms of intervention. The paper describes how Elias's concepts of the formalization and informalization of conduct and the construction of established and outsider groups provide an analytical framework for understanding soc…
Twenty Years on
Almost the whole of the British coal industry has closed since the early 1980s. The authors assess the extent to which the areas once dependent on coalmining have adapted to this job loss. A ‘labour-market accounting’ approach is employed to document the principal changes in employment, unemployment, commuting, and activity rates among men in the English and Welsh coalfields over the period to 2004, building on previous similar research covering …
Gypsy-Travellers and Welfare Professional Discourse
This paper examines the subtle ways in which welfare professionals in the UK construct Gypsy culture as subordinate to the dominant Western concept of “civilization”. Qualitative empirical evidence is presented to show how notions of a resistance to processes of individualization and social integration—which draw on conflicting interpretations of childhood and a perceived lack of aspiration among Gypsy-Travellers—are seen as legitimate grounds fo…
Territorial stigmatisation beyond the city
Loїc Wacquant's concept of territorial stigmatisation has resonated widely across the social sciences and is increasingly called upon in analyses and critiques of contemporary modes of governing marginality. It forms a key part of his broader theorisation of the polarised city and urban scholars have responded to his call for comparative analyses of neoliberal state-crafting in applying it to other urban contexts. This paper focuses on non-urban …
The English City Riots of 2011, 'Broken Britain' and the Retreat into the Present
The responses to the English city riots of 2011 bear a remarkable resemblance to those of historical urban disorders in terms of the way in which they are framed by concerns over 'moral decline', 'social malaise' and a 'lack of self-restraint' among certain sections of the population. In this paper we draw on the work of Norbert Elias and take a long-term perspective in exploring historical precedents and parallels relating to urban disorder and …
Gypsy-Traveller sites in the UK
This is a reply to:Richardson, J. 2017. “Precarious living in liminal spaces: neglect of the Gypsy–Traveller site.” Global Discourse. 7 (4): 496–515. http://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2017.1389232
Class, affect, margins
While academic attention to class has fluctuated in tandem with wider social struggles, it invariably returns from relative quiet periods with a renewed vigour, reasserting its usefulness in understanding and connecting unequal social transformations. Contributions here look to extend class analysis toward the affective and emotional dynamics of social life in a period of social polarisation and fragmented class politics. In this introduction we …
Spaces of Informalisation
Geographers have contributed a great deal towards an understanding of social control across different spaces and the ways in which power is exercised in the interests of élite groups to the detriment of marginalised 'others'. Little attention however, has been given to decontrolled spaces: spaces where the standard of conduct expected of previous generations is no longer as rigid and formalised as it once was. This paper draws on the work of Norb…
Young migrants, “integration” and the local
This article examines the complexities of integrating young adult migrants from non-EU countries into European contexts, advocating for a shift toward inclusive, locally informed, and reciprocal integration processes. It critiques state-centric, assimilationist frameworks that emphasize an imagined national identity and Western norms of youth transitions, neglecting local nuances and diverse migrant experiences. Through findings from a European D…
Sketching and ethical observation on the margins of the city
This paper explores the potential of sketching as a vehicle for ethical observation, or an ethical quality of attention, through research involving marginalised individuals. Sketching is a form of drawing, distinguished by immediacy and speed. As such, it has scope for observation of people and places, which navigates the ethical risks and opportunities of research by looking with a light touch. This means paying attention (not blanking or unseei…
Towards a global housing studies
Bijou (Wakefield Poole, 1972)
This article considers how the 1972 film Bijou works as a gay art porn film. It argues that the film draws from conventions of both hardcore cinema and postwar underground cinema, bringing the denotative qualities of hardcore into play with the connotative qualities of what P. Adams Sitney called the ‘trance film’. Through an exploration of Linda Williams’ concept ‘hard-core eroticism’, this article examines how Bijou expands on the common trance…
Computer Animations
October 01 2000 Computer Animations Chris Adams, Chris Adams Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Dax Pallota, Dax Pallota Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Eric Morin, Eric Morin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Albert Yu, Albert Yu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Alberto Ferreiro, Alberto Ferreiro Search for other …
Twenty Years on
Almost the whole of the British coal industry has closed since the early 1980s. The authors assess the extent to which the areas once dependent on coalmining have adapted to this job loss. A ‘labour-market accounting’ approach is employed to document the principal changes in employment, unemployment, commuting, and activity rates among men in the English and Welsh coalfields over the period to 2004, building on previous similar research covering …
Ordinary, the Same as Anywhere Else
Urban sociologists are becoming increasingly interested in neighbourhood as a source of middle-class identity. Par ticular emphasis is currently being given to two types of middle-class neighbourhood; gentrified urban neighbourhoods of'distinction' and inconspicuous 'suburban landscapes of privilege'. However, there has been a dear th of work on 'marginal' middle-class neighbourhoods that are similarly 'inconspicuous' rather than distinctive, but…
(In)formalization and the Civilizing Process
This paper uses Norbert Elias's theory of the civilizing process to examine trends in social conduct in the UK and to identify how problematic “anti‐social” behaviour is conceptualized and governed through housing‐based mechanisms of intervention. The paper describes how Elias's concepts of the formalization and informalization of conduct and the construction of established and outsider groups provide an analytical framework for understanding soc…
Understanding the Stigmatization of Gypsies
Most theorizations on the stigmatization of Gypsies have centred on structural factors: issues of race, ethnicity, the role of the media and the general incompatibility of nomadism with a sedentary mode of existence. This paper contends that a focus on the power differentials which characterize everyday social relations between Gypsies and the settled population can enhance our understanding of the stigmatization of the former. It argues that sti…
Spaces of Informalisation
Geographers have contributed a great deal towards an understanding of social control across different spaces and the ways in which power is exercised in the interests of élite groups to the detriment of marginalised 'others'. Little attention however, has been given to decontrolled spaces: spaces where the standard of conduct expected of previous generations is no longer as rigid and formalised as it once was. This paper draws on the work of Norb…
Gypsy-Travellers and Welfare Professional Discourse
This paper examines the subtle ways in which welfare professionals in the UK construct Gypsy culture as subordinate to the dominant Western concept of “civilization”. Qualitative empirical evidence is presented to show how notions of a resistance to processes of individualization and social integration—which draw on conflicting interpretations of childhood and a perceived lack of aspiration among Gypsy-Travellers—are seen as legitimate grounds fo…
The Public and its Possibilities
The English City Riots of 2011, 'Broken Britain' and the Retreat into the Present
The responses to the English city riots of 2011 bear a remarkable resemblance to those of historical urban disorders in terms of the way in which they are framed by concerns over 'moral decline', 'social malaise' and a 'lack of self-restraint' among certain sections of the population. In this paper we draw on the work of Norbert Elias and take a long-term perspective in exploring historical precedents and parallels relating to urban disorder and …
Individualization and Social Dis/integration in Contemporary Society
Individualization and Social Dis/integration in Contemporary Society
This chapter explores the approach to, and conceptualization of, individualization and socialization within the work of Zygmunt Bauman and Norbert Elias. We argue that, although both theorists place great emphasis on these powerful social processes, their respective positions differ markedly. We explore the theoretical differences and similarities in the two concepts of socialization and individualization set out by the two thinkers, before a dis…
Loïc Wacquant's 'Ghetto' and Ethnic Minority Segregation in the UK
This article utilizes Loïc Wacquant's concept of the ghetto as an analytical tool in understanding the marginal and ambivalent position of Gypsy-Traveller populations resident on sites (or camps) in Britain. The article argues that the fruitful work of quantitative urban scholars on ethnic segregation in the UK has neglected Gypsy-Travellers. It suggests that the theoretical concept of the ghetto can elucidate the ways in which the spatial margin…
Gypsies and Travellers
Housing Benefit Reform and the Private Rented Sector in the UK
This paper draws on the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias in understanding the current housing crisis in the UK: one which emphasizes the social interdependencies between individuals and groups, and the power relations that characterize them, in explaining household behaviour. It is argued that such an approach can contribute to a better understanding of housing processes and their differentiated outcomes. At the same time, this analysis ex…
Queering the Countryside
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely multi-disciplinary perspective. This collection of original essays confronts the assumption that queer desires d…
Putting the Squeeze on 'Generation Rent
The term 'Generation Rent' has gained currency in recent years to reflect the fact that more 25 to 34 year olds in Britain now live in rented accommodation rather than owner-occupation. The term also conveys the extent to which age-related divisions in the housing market are becoming as significant as longer standing tenure divisions. However, this portmanteau term covers a wide array of different housing circumstances - from students, young prof…
Bijou (Wakefield Poole, 1972)
This article considers how the 1972 film Bijou works as a gay art porn film. It argues that the film draws from conventions of both hardcore cinema and postwar underground cinema, bringing the denotative qualities of hardcore into play with the connotative qualities of what P. Adams Sitney called the ‘trance film’. Through an exploration of Linda Williams’ concept ‘hard-core eroticism’, this article examines how Bijou expands on the common trance…
Gypsy-Traveller sites in the UK
This is a reply to:Richardson, J. 2017. “Precarious living in liminal spaces: neglect of the Gypsy–Traveller site.” Global Discourse. 7 (4): 496–515. http://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2017.1389232
Young people and UK labour market policy
This paper presents a critical analysis of the contemporary policy focus on promoting employability among young people in the UK. Drawing on analysis of UK policy approaches to tackling youth unemployment since the late 1970s, we suggest that existing critiques of employability as ‘supply-side orthodoxy’ fail to capture fully its evolving meaning and function. Under the UK Coalition Government, it became increasingly colonised as a targeted tool …
Europe's perennial 'outsiders
This article draws on the theoretical work of Norbert Elias and Loïc Wacquant in seeking to understand the stigmatized and marginalized position of the Roma population within Europe. The article argues that the persistent persecution of Roma, reflected in social policy, cannot be understood without reference to long-term social processes which shape the nature of the asymmetric power relations between Roma and non-Roma. Elias's theory of establis…
The Power of Group Stigmatization
Recent research on Roma stigmatization has tended to focus on the marginal socio-economic and spatial position of Roma people within European societies, with poverty, persistent inequalities and substandard housing conditions (for example, ghettoization) highlighting their differential treatment. Central to such accounts are group images and stereotypes of Roma as 'benefit scroungers' and/or 'beggars' lacking notions of self-restraint and social …
Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis
Hardcore Style, Queer Heteroeroticism, and After Dark
During the early to mid-1970s, when feature-length hardcore films became a popular cultural phenomenon in the United States, hardcore came to designate more than just a genre or an industry—it became a ubiquitous mode of performance, an ethos, and a style. This article explores how hardcore as a style was taken up by the popular gay-marketed entertainment magazine After Dark. Through a close descriptive analysis of three photo spreads from 1975–7…
Against the public interest
Manufacturing mandates
This paper focuses on a recent public consultation to criminalise trespass in England and Wales. Through an analysis of the consultation discourse and documentary evidence, we argue that the government has used this process to manufacture a mandate for criminalisation. We show how the construction of democratic support has been achieved by: Pre-coding responses in the initial call for evidence; distorting evidence in the response; and utilizing ‘…
Sociology (24 obras) · Political science (20 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Economics (12 obras) · Epistemology (10 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (9 obras) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 obras) · Law (7 obras)