A view of Singleton Campus including Singleton Park and the beach, with the sea stretching into the horizon.

Dr Steve Garner

Associate Professor in Sociology

Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy

s.j.garner@swansea.ac.uk

Office - 316
Third Floor
Keir Hardie Building
Singleton Campus

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1047-6080

About

Steve is a sociologist interested in the intersection of racism, class and nationalism. He has worked as a driver, translator, a language teacher and in the Irish public sector, as well as a number of universities - in France, Ireland, England, Wales and the USA.

His research has primarily been based on the concept of racialization. He uses a variety of qualitative and archival methods, topped up with statistics to analyse how racism functions across historical periods and locations including: the Caribbean, the UK, the USA, Ireland, Nordic Europe, France, and Latin America. Steve has over 60 publications, in English and French on these topics, including 8 books, with publishers such as Routledge and Sage. He has also provided advisory reports to government departments in Ireland and the UK.

Areas Of Expertise

Racisms (in international comparative context)
Nation
Ethnicity
White identities
Class
Immigration
Political sociology
Irish studies

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

Race and racisms

Social Inequalities

Qualitative methods

Publications

Research Highlights

Selod, S., Islam, I., & Garner, S. (2023). A Global Racial Enemy (1st ed.). Polity.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66913
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=a-global-racial-enemy-muslims-and-21st-century-racism--9781509540198
Garner, S. (2017). Racisms: An Introduction (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications Ltd.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64560
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/racisms/book245769
Garner, S. (2007). Whiteness Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203945599, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64563
http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203945599
Garner, S. (2024). Counter acts: practices of ‘anti-anti racism’ in France and the USA. Frontiers in Sociology, 9
https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1394313, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66912
Elgenius, G. & Garner, S. (2021). Gate-keeping the nation: discursive claims, counter-claims and racialized logics of whiteness. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(16), 215-235.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1943483, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64029
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1943483

All Research

Journal Articles

Garner, S. (2024). Counter acts: practices of ‘anti-anti racism’ in France and the USA. Frontiers in Sociology, 9
https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1394313, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66912
James, D., Garner, S., & Husband, G. (2023). Understanding practices of UK college governing: Rethinking strategy and accountability. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 51(6), 1422-1439.
https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432211053691, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64031
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17411432211053691
Hill, R., Garner, S., & Ireland, A. (2023). Reviewing the strategic influence of governance professionals in UK colleges: Acting as the translator of the conduct of conduct. Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 51(4), 969-985.
https://doi.org/10.1177/17411432211015215, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64024
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17411432211015215
Garner, S. & Bibi, S. (2022). Getting Under the Skin Trade: Towards a Global Sociology of Skin-Lightening Practices. Sociological Research Online, 136078042211044
https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804221104494, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64026
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13607804221104494
Hardyman, W., Garner, S., Lewis, J., Callaghan, R., Williams, E., Dalton, A., & Turner, A. (2022). Enhancing public service innovation through value co-creation: Capacity building and the ‘innovative imagination’. Public Money and Management, 42(5), 332-340.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2021.1981042, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64027
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2021.1981042
Elgenius, G. & Garner, S. (2021). Gate-keeping the nation: discursive claims, counter-claims and racialized logics of whiteness. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(16), 215-235.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1943483, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64029
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1943483
strmic-pawl, h., Gonlin, V., & Garner, S. (2021). Color in Context: Three Angles on Contemporary Colorism. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 7(3), 289-303.
https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492211012532, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23326492211012532
Garner, S. (2019). Accommodation crisis: the racialization of travellers in twenty-first century England. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42(4), 511-530.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1380213, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64032
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1380213
Strmic-Pawl, H., Jackson, B., & Garner, S. (2018). Race Counts: Racial and Ethnic Data on the U.S. Census and the Implications for Tracking Inequality. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 4(1), 1-13.
https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649217742869, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64558
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2332649217742869
Garner, S. (2017). Surfing the third wave of whiteness studies: reflections on Twine and Gallagher. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40(9), 1582-1597.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1300301, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1300301

Authored Books

Selod, S., Islam, I., & Garner, S. (2023). A Global Racial Enemy (1st ed.). Polity.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66913
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=a-global-racial-enemy-muslims-and-21st-century-racism--9781509540198
Garner, S. (2017). Racisms: An Introduction (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications Ltd.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64560
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/racisms/book245769
Garner, S. (2015). A Moral Economy of Whiteness Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315723938, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64562
http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315723938
Garner, S. (2009). White Identities
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64566
Garner, S. (2007). Whiteness Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203945599, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64563
http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203945599
Garner, S. (2003). Racism in the Irish Experience
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64565

Book Chapters

Garner, S. (2022). “Not in a Relationship”. The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity (pp. 359-376). Oxford University Press
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544938.013.32, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197544938.013.32
Garner, S. (2018). Fairness and entitlement in neoliberal England, 2005-2015.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64285

Supervision

Religious Identity, Extremism, and Desistance: Exploring Prison Dynamics and Designing Desistance in Lebanon (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Gemma Morgan

Taught Modules

ASC222 Developing and Planning a Research Project

Developing and Planning a Research Project is available as an optional 10 credits module to all Criminology and Criminal Justice Single Honours students, Joint Honours Social Policy and Criminology students and Joint Honours Criminology and Sociology students. It is important to note that Developing and Planning a Research Project is a pre-requisite to ASC324 Dissertation; therefore if you want to take the Dissertation in your final year then you must select this module. Students need to achieve a 2.1 or above in the assessment of this module in order to be eligible to undertake an empirical research project in their third year dissertation. The module builds on the knowledge and skills gained form the ASC208 Research Methods module and introduces students to the research skills required to develop a rigorous research project. A mixture of lecturer-led and independent learning methods will be used to prepare students for the task of completing their dissertation. All teaching materials will be available through Canvas. Other relevant material will also be made available through Canvas.
SPC108 Employability and Personal Development

This module introduces students to the skills, qualities and attributes needed in applying for jobs, including how to recognise and make the most of their experiences, reflecting on their learning, knowledge and how to market themselves effectively in all aspects of the application process. It also provides specific information about a number of organisations both inside and external to the criminal justice system which might offer suitable careers.
SPC308 Race and Nation

In this module we explore what social scientists have contributed to debates about race and racism, particularly where they intersect with nationalism. We use insights of scholars to understand racism not as interactions between individuals but as systems producing specific types of inequality. Race is understood as an ongoing fiction, which has a distinct history, but also, real political and social consequences that manifest themselves in policy areas such as immigration and criminal justice, and public conversations such as those surrounding the EU referendum. Indeed, throughout the module, we focus on understanding the distinctions and similarities between public and scholarly discussions of race. The assessments are designed to enable students to competently engage with public discourse and policy from a position of scholarly practice and knowledge. We start by identifying and examining the key concepts in this field, finding examples of how they play out in the lives of real people in real places. After this we look at some specific types of institution (e.g. education) to understand the ways in which racism emerges as a key element rather than an aberration. We then go on to consider some different variations of racism, targeted at and experienced by different groups of people, before reflecting on what anti-racism means and how people are effecting social change in this area.

Affiliated Positions

Visiting Senior Scholar, University of Connecticut, Dept of Sociology

2023 - 2024
Visiting Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (UVA), Faculty of Law

2023 - 2024

Other Roles

Director of the Public Policy and Practice Research Institute, Swansea University

2024 - Present
Convenor of PPS202 Interrogating Qualitative Methodologies , Swansea University

2024 - Present

Dr Steve Garner

Email address

Research Links

About

Areas Of Expertise

Career Highlights

Research Highlights

All Research

Religious Identity, Extremism, and Desistance: Exploring Prison Dynamics and Designing Desistance in Lebanon (current)

ASC222 Developing and Planning a Research Project

SPC108 Employability and Personal Development

SPC308 Race and Nation

Visiting Senior Scholar, University of Connecticut, Dept of Sociology

Visiting Researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (UVA), Faculty of Law

Director of the Public Policy and Practice Research Institute, Swansea University

Convenor of PPS202 Interrogating Qualitative Methodologies , Swansea University