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Overview

John Flint is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the intersections of social sciences and economics, with a significant emphasis on the fields of finance, urban studies, health professions, and geography.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including housing, finance, and neoliberalism; urban planning and governance; homelessness and social issues; geographies of human-animal interactions; urban green space and health; disaster management and resilience; and urbanization and city planning.

John Flint has coauthored publications with several frequent collaborators, including Jenny Preece, David Robinson, and Kim McKee.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • The lived experiences and temporality of estate regeneration, 2023, International Journal of Housing Policy
  • New flawed consumers? Problem figuration, responsibility and identities in the English building safety crisis, 2023, Housing Studies
  • UNHOMING, TRAUMA AND WAITING: The Post-Grenfell Building Safety Crisis in England, 2023, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
  • Urban rhythms in a small home: COVID-19 as a mechanism of exception, 2021, Urban Studies
  • Living in a small home: expectations, impression management, and compensatory practices, 2021, Housing Studies

John Flint's work has appeared frequently in publication venues such as Housing Studies, Urban Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and International Journal of Housing Policy.

Best Publications

  • Accessing Hidden and Hard-to-reach Populations: Snowball Research Strategies

    R Atkinson;J Flint

  • Fortress UK? Gated communities, the spatial revolt of the elites and time–space trajectories of segregation

    Rowland Atkinson;John Flint

  • Housing and ethopolitics: constructing identities of active consumption and responsible community

    John Flint

  • Communities, places and institutional relations: assessing the role of area-based community representation in local governance

    Mike Raco;John Flint

  • The responsible tenant: housing governance and the politics of behaviour

    John Flint

  • Governing Neighbours: Anti-social Behaviour Orders and New Forms of Regulating Conduct in the UK:

    John Flint;Judy Nixon

  • Social Housing Agencies and the Governance of Anti-social Behaviour

    John Flint

  • The future of sustainable cities : critical reflections

    John Flint;Mike Raco

  • Commodification, normalisation and intervention: Cultural, social and symbolic capital in housing consumption and governance

    John Flint;Rob Rowlands

  • Reconfiguring Agency and Responsibility in the Governance of Social Housing in Scotland

    John Flint

  • The drivers of perceptions of anti-social behaviour

    Simon Mackenzie;Jon Bannister;John Flint;Sadie Parr

  • Gated Communities: A Systematic Review of the Research Evidence

    S Blandy;D Lister;R Atkinson;J Flint

  • Community cohesion in crisis? : new dimensions of diversity and difference

    John Flint;David Robinson

  • Faith schools, multiculturalism and community cohesion: Muslim and Roman Catholic state schools in England and Scotland

    John Flint

  • Maintaining an arm's length? Housing, community governance and the management of problematic populations

    John Flint

  • Understanding changing housing aspirations: a review of the evidence

    Jenny Preece;Joe Crawford;Kim McKee;John Flint

  • Urban rhythms in a small home: COVID-19 as a mechanism of exception

    Jenny Preece;Kim McKee;David Robinson;John Flint

  • Encounters with the centaur state: Advanced urban marginality and the practices and ethics of welfare sanctions regimes:

    John Flint

  • Welfare conditionality and social marginality: the folly of the tutelary state?

    Del Roy Fletcher;John Flint

  • Urban safety, anti-social behaviour and the night-time economy

    Adam Crawford;John Flint

  • Gated cities of today?: Barricaded residential development in England

    Rowland Atkinson;Sarah Blandy;John Flint;Diane Lister

  • The Inspection House and Neglected Dynamics of Governance: The Case of Domestic Visits in Family Intervention Projects

    John Flint

  • Housing, urban governance and anti-social behaviour : perspectives, policy and practice

    John Flint

  • Housing, Neighbourhood Renewal and Social Capital: The Case of Registered Social Landlords in Scotland

    John Flint;Ade Kearns

  • Gated Communities in England

    R Atkinson;S Blandy;J Flint;D Lister

  • The Fundamentalist City? Religiosity and the Remaking of Urban Space

    John Flint

Frequent Co-Authors

Rowland Atkinson
Rowland Atkinson University of Sheffield
Mike Raco
Mike Raco University College London
Ade Kearns
Ade Kearns University of Glasgow
Adam Crawford
Adam Crawford University of York
Peter Dwyer
Peter Dwyer University of York

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