All Outputs (5)

Actually existing racial capitalism: Financialisation and bordering in UK housing associations (2022)
Journal Article
Clare, N., de Noronha, N., French, S., & Goulding, R. (2022). Actually existing racial capitalism: Financialisation and bordering in UK housing associations. Geography Compass, 16(11), Article e12665. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12665

This paper provides a critical intervention into recent geographical debates on racial capitalism, interrogating the role that Housing Associations (HAs), the main form of UK social housing, play in its (re)production. Housing Associations are instit... Read More about Actually existing racial capitalism: Financialisation and bordering in UK housing associations.

Variegated intersections of neoliberalism and financialization (2021)
Journal Article
Muellerleile, C., & French, S. (2022). Variegated intersections of neoliberalism and financialization. Environment and Planning A, 54(1), 136-143. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x211059837

An Unmitigated Disaster: Shifting from Response and Recovery to Mitigation for an Insurable Future (2019)
Journal Article
de Vet, E., Eriksen, C., Booth, K., & French, S. (2019). An Unmitigated Disaster: Shifting from Response and Recovery to Mitigation for an Insurable Future. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 10(2), 179–192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-019-0214-0

Australian households are increasingly vulnerable to natural hazard-related disasters. To manage disaster risk, government commissioned inquiries have called for greater investment in mitigation. This article critically examines the call for a shift... Read More about An Unmitigated Disaster: Shifting from Response and Recovery to Mitigation for an Insurable Future.

Insuring biofinance: alcohol, risk and the limits of life (2015)
Journal Article
French, S., & Kneale, J. (2015). Insuring biofinance: alcohol, risk and the limits of life

Moderate drinking before the unit: medicine and life assurance in Britain and the US c.1860–1930 (2015)
Journal Article
Kneale, J., & French, S. (2015). Moderate drinking before the unit: medicine and life assurance in Britain and the US c.1860–1930. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2014.964185

This article describes the way in which “Anstie’s Limit” – a particular definition of moderate drinking first defined in Britain in the 1860s by the physician Francis Edmund Anstie (1833–1874) – became established as a useful measure of moderate alco... Read More about Moderate drinking before the unit: medicine and life assurance in Britain and the US c.1860–1930.