J Lindsay
Biographic Data
| ID | 29326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Lindsay |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindsay |
| SIGNATURE | LINDSAY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9717-627X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 189 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Friends, family and the circulation of used goods
Repair and maintenance in Australian households
Repair and maintenance of household goods facilitate longer product use lives. These activities can be considered forms of consumption work that may be critical for the realisation of the circular economy but lack visibility and the attribution of value (Hobson et al, 2021). We draw on findings of a survey of 2,717 households across Australia in which respondents were asked about their practices of maintaining and repairing three types of product…
Household Sustainability Labour and the Gendering of Responsibility for Low Waste Living
This article explores the nature of domestic labour involved in sustainability transitions at the household level, with waste reduction as an exemplar. We draw on national survey data (N = 2717) from Australia, and qualitative data from a participatory action project working with 34 householders on experiments in low waste living. We found low waste living was challenging work mentally, physically and interpersonally and required information, ski…
“My children,” “my grandchildren”
Targeted Change
To address the global problem of single-use plastic waste, tailored behavior change interventions need to be developed which respond to the way different audiences think and act. The current study adopted a behavior-based segmentation approach, underpinned by the theory of normative social behavior and empirical testing, to better understand plastic consumption and the effect of existing media communications. Using a sample of 1001 respondents, T…
The ineffable allure of sugar - Hammer cake, That Sugar Film and contradictory pleasures
This article explores the complicated place of sugar in the display of family connectedness and health in a white, middle class Australian family. In the context of heightened anxiety about childhood obesity, we present the Baker family as a case study to explore the pleasures and tensions that sugar consumption produces in families. On their birthdays, each child has a luxurious “Hammer Cake” coated in chocolate studded with sweets; simultaneous…
Social inequality and water use in Australian cities
This paper explores the impact of social inequality on household water use in urban communities in first-world contexts, an under researched field. We report on an in-depth qualitative study of six communities in two Australian cities to determine the connections between levels of social advantage and household approaches to water use. The different meanings, materials and understandings that underpin domestic water use in each of these communiti…
When news media and social media meet
Plastic reduction policies are important for addressing plastic pollution however, the success of such policies relies on establishing new social norms. This study advances knowledge on public expressions of social norms by exploring the interplay between news media and social media in response to a new environmental policy. It is the first study to explore this phenomenon with the explicit aim of identifying and comparing information related to …
Widening the lens
Downshifting to care
Everyday life after downshifting
Much of the early literature on downshifting proposed that reduced hours at work would lead to reduced levels of consumption, increased hours of leisure, and a more sustainable and fulfilling life, and yet recent survey research has challenged these assumptions. Our study contributes knowledge on the differentially lived experience of contemporary downshifting and its relationship to sustainable and/or thrifty consumption. We undertook qualitativ…
The family meals imperative and everyday family life
At a time of increasing diversity in family forms and family practices the evening family meal is promoted as an imperative; a straightforward solution to complex social problems such as childhood obesity, family breakdown and depression. In this paper we discuss the challenges faced by families in achieving this imperative on an everyday basis drawing on visual data generated by children from a qualitative research project with 50 diverse famili…
Children, ‘healthy’ food, school and family
This paper draws on a multi-method study with 50 families in Victoria, Australia. Primary school children were asked about food knowledge from school and whether they felt motivated to bring knowledge home. Generally, children and parents felt school food messages are unclear, contradictory and not relevant to them and this reduced the likelihood of messages coming home from school. We identify a critical difference in how families thought about …
Unsustainable trajectories of domestic information technology use in Australia
Current trajectories of the proliferation and use of information technology (IT) in households present an example of rapid socio-technical change in an unsustainable direction. We document patterns in the proliferation, use and accumulation of IT in households in Australia, drawing on data from an online national survey (N = 1,475) and qualitative interviews conducted during 2015 and 2016 (N = 36, with participants from three cities and one regio…
Surnaming Children Born to Lesbian and Heterosexual Couples
Surnaming practices are a case study of change and continuity in patrilineal conventions in families and also alert us to the challenges of negotiating familial identities in an era of family diversity. Using data from two Australian sources, 430,753 Victorian birth registrations and 43 in-depth interviews with heterosexual and lesbian parents, we explore continuity and breaks with convention in surnaming children. For married and unmarried heter…
Changing household water consumption practices after drought in three Australian cities
First names and social distinction
Naming practices provide a novel way to explore contemporary gender and class processes in Australia. Names are important everyday symbols of social location and signify family history, gender, class, ethnicity and religion. In an individualised society a name is the ultimate personal 'brand' and is used to locate children in social space. In this article we draw on qualitative interviews with 41 parents to focus on class and gender distinctions …
How social capital influences community support for alternative water sources
University students’ drinking as a social practice and the challenge for public health
In this paper, we explore the relational dynamics of alcohol consumption by university students, drawing on qualitative interviews with fifty undergraduates in Victoria, Australia. We argue that university drinking is a social practice comprised of a bundle of activities that operate together to reinforce excessive consumption. Drawing on a distinct version of social practice theory, we conceptualise drinking as an organising principle of univers…
There’s Something Wrong with You’
Contemporary universities in Western democracies are renowned for heavy drinking youth cultures. In this context, abstinence is ‘accountable’ behaviour that requires justification. Some previous research has reported accounts of why young people choose not to drink and the social consequences, but there is limited research on how they achieve abstinence in a heavy drinking culture. Drawing on Heller’s notion of choosing oneself and Giddens’ conce…
Fostering water sensitive citizenship – Community profiles of engagement in water-related issues
Just choose the easy option’
Previous research into young people’s drinking behaviour has studied how social practices influence their actions and how they negotiate drinking-related identities. Here, adopting the perspective of discursive psychology we examine how, for young people, social influences are bound up with issues of drinking and of identity. We conducted 19 focus groups with undergraduate students in Australia aged between 18 and 24 years. Thematic analysis of p…
Mothers caring through injury
In this paper, we discuss the value of qualitative research in a commissioned research project with the Transport Accident Commission (TAC) and WorkSafe under the auspices of Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research (ISCRR). The project was designed to examine existing quantitative data about the time taken to return to work by injured mothers and explore women's experiences of caring for children while seeking to recover from inj…
Social Stuff” and Institutional Micro-Processes
The literature on alcohol consumption among university and residential college students in Australia and comparable countries shows a high incidence of heavy and/or frequent drinking. In this article, we report the findings from a study on alcohol consumption among undergraduate university students living in residential colleges in Australia. The aim of the study was to examine residents’ alcohol use as part of a broader set of institutional prac…
The intersections of work time and care time
In post-industrial societies labour market de-regulation, the growth of non-standard work schedules and shifting gender patterns in the paid labour market are re-shaping family care practices and work/family balance. In this article, the work/family arrangements and practices of nurses are compared with those of builders in Melbourne, Australia. The concept of family time economies is used to explore the intersections of work time and family time…
Time, caring labour and social policy
An Ambiguous Commitment
The rise of unmarried cohabitation is a major social trend in western industrial societies but there is little research on how the transition from single to cohabiting life is experienced or understood. This paper is based on an in-depth qualitative study of 15 young Australian heterosexual couples. For the couples in this study, moving in together was an ambiguous commitment rather than a trial marriage; a transition fuelled by pragmatism rather…
Methodological triangulation in researching families
The research literature on triangulation has paid little attention to the problematic of 'making sense of dissonant data'. Nor has there been much discussion around the use of the technique of triangulation when researching families. Through a presentation of research findings gathered from self-report questionnaires and in-depth interviews with couples and families the possibilities of convergent, complementary and dissonant data and their inter…
Young Australians and the staging of intoxication and self-control
In 2007, according to newspaper reports, Melbourne streets had become 'booze battlegrounds'. In the year that followed, binge drinking by young Australians was a major news focus and a subject for heightened public anxiety. Young drinkers were perceived to be out of control. In this paper, I draw on two qualitative research projects with young Australians to explore the contradictory social forces shaping their contemporary drinking landscape. Pa…
Fostering water sensitive citizenship – Community profiles of engagement in water-related issues
The intersections of work time and care time
In post-industrial societies labour market de-regulation, the growth of non-standard work schedules and shifting gender patterns in the paid labour market are re-shaping family care practices and work/family balance. In this article, the work/family arrangements and practices of nurses are compared with those of builders in Melbourne, Australia. The concept of family time economies is used to explore the intersections of work time and family time…
Surnaming Children Born to Lesbian and Heterosexual Couples
Surnaming practices are a case study of change and continuity in patrilineal conventions in families and also alert us to the challenges of negotiating familial identities in an era of family diversity. Using data from two Australian sources, 430,753 Victorian birth registrations and 43 in-depth interviews with heterosexual and lesbian parents, we explore continuity and breaks with convention in surnaming children. For married and unmarried heter…
Between provisioning and consuming
Contemporary Western societies focus considerable policy and media attention on the ‘epidemic of childhood obesity’. In this paper we examine the mobilisation of notions of responsibility and consumption in these discussions, and consider the implications they have for women as mothers. In particular, we are interested to explore the potential conflicts mothers face as care providers and nurturers when responsible care is framed as withholding or…
Stigma or Respect
This article explores the interface between lesbian-parented families and mainstream society through the example of schools. Lesbian-parented families are an increasingly visible family form; they are diverse and complex and raise challenges for heteronormative social institutions. Based on qualitative family interviews with lesbian-parented families in Melbourne, we discuss the dialectic between schools and families. In many heteronormative scho…
Household Sustainability Labour and the Gendering of Responsibility for Low Waste Living
This article explores the nature of domestic labour involved in sustainability transitions at the household level, with waste reduction as an exemplar. We draw on national survey data (N = 2717) from Australia, and qualitative data from a participatory action project working with 34 householders on experiments in low waste living. We found low waste living was challenging work mentally, physically and interpersonally and required information, ski…
Changing household water consumption practices after drought in three Australian cities
Gender and class in the lives of young hairdressers
This paper discusses the class and gender experiences of young Australian hairdressers at work, at leisure and in relationships. Based on focus group data it was found that these young people negotiate a continuum between security ('the serious') and fun ('the spectacular') in both their work and social lives. The findings illustrate the dynamic nature of gender and class relations. I argue that relations of 'production' are more important than '…
Children, ‘healthy’ food, school and family
This paper draws on a multi-method study with 50 families in Victoria, Australia. Primary school children were asked about food knowledge from school and whether they felt motivated to bring knowledge home. Generally, children and parents felt school food messages are unclear, contradictory and not relevant to them and this reduced the likelihood of messages coming home from school. We identify a critical difference in how families thought about …
First names and social distinction
Naming practices provide a novel way to explore contemporary gender and class processes in Australia. Names are important everyday symbols of social location and signify family history, gender, class, ethnicity and religion. In an individualised society a name is the ultimate personal 'brand' and is used to locate children in social space. In this article we draw on qualitative interviews with 41 parents to focus on class and gender distinctions …
Freeing Time? The 'Family Time Economies' of Nurses
This study uses the 'family time economies' concept for a nuanced investigation of family work-care experiences in 20 Australian nursing families. The family time economy captures information on the management and coordination of work and care responsibilities in families. Our study investigates how nurses were utilizing nursing flexibility to support time for caring for their families. We report on couple interview research which offered importa…
Incorporation rather than recovery
A Big Night Out in Melbourne
Alcohol is a ubiquitous substance in Western cultures but knowledge about contemporary drinking cultures and consumption contexts is relatively sparse. Examining the ways in which drink choice and drinking settings are differentiated opens up new areas for analysis and health intervention. Drinking is not simply shaped by variables such as class and gender but is an enactment and expression of these social divisions. What, where, and how a person…
Unsustainable trajectories of domestic information technology use in Australia
Current trajectories of the proliferation and use of information technology (IT) in households present an example of rapid socio-technical change in an unsustainable direction. We document patterns in the proliferation, use and accumulation of IT in households in Australia, drawing on data from an online national survey (N = 1,475) and qualitative interviews conducted during 2015 and 2016 (N = 36, with participants from three cities and one regio…
Deploying NMD
The United States will deploy a national missile defence (NMD) system within the next decade. The question is no longer, therefore, whether to build an NMD system, but how to do so without making the US less secure. Washington must avoid two risks. One is that Moscow will respond by taking steps that raise the risk of nuclear war. The other is that the US Congress will reject a deal worked out with Moscow to modify the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM…
Widening the lens
There’s Something Wrong with You’
Contemporary universities in Western democracies are renowned for heavy drinking youth cultures. In this context, abstinence is ‘accountable’ behaviour that requires justification. Some previous research has reported accounts of why young people choose not to drink and the social consequences, but there is limited research on how they achieve abstinence in a heavy drinking culture. Drawing on Heller’s notion of choosing oneself and Giddens’ conce…
Just choose the easy option’
Previous research into young people’s drinking behaviour has studied how social practices influence their actions and how they negotiate drinking-related identities. Here, adopting the perspective of discursive psychology we examine how, for young people, social influences are bound up with issues of drinking and of identity. We conducted 19 focus groups with undergraduate students in Australia aged between 18 and 24 years. Thematic analysis of p…
Modified Maternalism
Work life, family life and care are all being substantially re-shaped in Australia as in other post-industrial societies. Concern about work/life balance has increased as domestic gender relations slowly change, the breadwinner/homemaker model becomes less dominant and families undertake more demanding and flexible modes of employment and care. Using data from a qualitative study of nurses and their families this paper explores how families are m…
Daily Life in Roman Egypt
When news media and social media meet
Plastic reduction policies are important for addressing plastic pollution however, the success of such policies relies on establishing new social norms. This study advances knowledge on public expressions of social norms by exploring the interplay between news media and social media in response to a new environmental policy. It is the first study to explore this phenomenon with the explicit aim of identifying and comparing information related to …
The Emancipation of the Austrian Peasant 1740-1798
Daily Life in Roman Egypt
New Haven Survey of Joint Diseases XVI. Impairment, Disability, and Arthritis
unlikely to die in the near future; up to about a hundred could still be in hospital in 10 years' time, in the absence of any alternative provision
Diversity but Not Equality
This paper examines the domestic labour arrangements of cohabiting couples and the implications for gender equality. The discussion is based on a predominantly qualitative study of thirty young cohabiters. The men and women shared domestic labour in diverse ways but not equally, instead they used discursive strategies to avoid assessing whether their contributions were equal. The cohabiters expressed extremely egalitarian attitudes when asked gen…
An Ambiguous Commitment
The rise of unmarried cohabitation is a major social trend in western industrial societies but there is little research on how the transition from single to cohabiting life is experienced or understood. This paper is based on an in-depth qualitative study of 15 young Australian heterosexual couples. For the couples in this study, moving in together was an ambiguous commitment rather than a trial marriage; a transition fuelled by pragmatism rather…
Deploying NMD
The United States will deploy a national missile defence (NMD) system within the next decade. The question is no longer, therefore, whether to build an NMD system, but how to do so without making the US less secure. Washington must avoid two risks. One is that Moscow will respond by taking steps that raise the risk of nuclear war. The other is that the US Congress will reject a deal worked out with Moscow to modify the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM…
Partying hard', 'partying sometimes' or 'shopping'
This paper explores a neglected aspect of the context of illicit drug, alcohol and sexual risk taking practices in young workers' social lives. While personality-based theories for the links between risk practices have been developed, more sociological explanations, such as socializing patterns, have been neglected. Surveys were completed by 393 young people (aged 15-25) who are in the non-professional workforce in Melbourne, Australia. Three soc…
Methodological triangulation in researching families
The research literature on triangulation has paid little attention to the problematic of 'making sense of dissonant data'. Nor has there been much discussion around the use of the technique of triangulation when researching families. Through a presentation of research findings gathered from self-report questionnaires and in-depth interviews with couples and families the possibilities of convergent, complementary and dissonant data and their inter…
Gender and class in the lives of young hairdressers
This paper discusses the class and gender experiences of young Australian hairdressers at work, at leisure and in relationships. Based on focus group data it was found that these young people negotiate a continuum between security ('the serious') and fun ('the spectacular') in both their work and social lives. The findings illustrate the dynamic nature of gender and class relations. I argue that relations of 'production' are more important than '…
Getting the Numbers
This article reflects on the work of recruiting participants for survey research. Published accounts in this area frequently neglect complex and time-consuming elements of the recruiting process. These are negotiating access with gatekeepers, negotiating the cooperation of participants, and emotional engagement in the recruitment process. This article describes these processes through the example of recruiting nonprofessional young workers for a …
A Big Night Out in Melbourne
Alcohol is a ubiquitous substance in Western cultures but knowledge about contemporary drinking cultures and consumption contexts is relatively sparse. Examining the ways in which drink choice and drinking settings are differentiated opens up new areas for analysis and health intervention. Drinking is not simply shaped by variables such as class and gender but is an enactment and expression of these social divisions. What, where, and how a person…
Stigma or Respect
This article explores the interface between lesbian-parented families and mainstream society through the example of schools. Lesbian-parented families are an increasingly visible family form; they are diverse and complex and raise challenges for heteronormative social institutions. Based on qualitative family interviews with lesbian-parented families in Melbourne, we discuss the dialectic between schools and families. In many heteronormative scho…
Using focus groups to teach social science research practice
Contemporary undergraduate courses in research methods are challenging to teach because of the wide scope of the subject matter, limited student contact hours and the complexity of supervising research projects undertaken by novices. Focus group assignments within class offer an interesting and enjoyable way for students to develop and apply research skills and reflect on the process of being both a researcher and a research participant in social…
Lesbian Parents Negotiating the Health Care System in Australia
Twenty Australian lesbian-parented families were interviewed in multigenerational family groups about the interface between their public and private worlds. Experiences of the health care bureaucracy were difficult, whereas many participants found individual providers to be approachable and caring. Three strategies were used for disclosure of their sexual orientation to health care providers: private, proud, and passive. Influences on the strateg…
Incorporation rather than recovery
Time, caring labour and social policy
Young Australians and the staging of intoxication and self-control
In 2007, according to newspaper reports, Melbourne streets had become 'booze battlegrounds'. In the year that followed, binge drinking by young Australians was a major news focus and a subject for heightened public anxiety. Young drinkers were perceived to be out of control. In this paper, I draw on two qualitative research projects with young Australians to explore the contradictory social forces shaping their contemporary drinking landscape. Pa…
Modified Maternalism
Work life, family life and care are all being substantially re-shaped in Australia as in other post-industrial societies. Concern about work/life balance has increased as domestic gender relations slowly change, the breadwinner/homemaker model becomes less dominant and families undertake more demanding and flexible modes of employment and care. Using data from a qualitative study of nurses and their families this paper explores how families are m…
Healthy living and citizenship
Healthy living guidelines and the disconnect with everyday life
In Western democracies, citizens are advised by governments to manage their bodily practices in highly specific ways. There are guidelines for healthy eating, alcohol consumption, exercise and screen time. However, most research works suggest that there is a substantial gap between the guidelines and the ways in which most people live their lives. How can we make sense of this disconnect between the guidelines and everyday life? In this article, …
Internet-based trials and the creation of health consumers
Between provisioning and consuming
Contemporary Western societies focus considerable policy and media attention on the ‘epidemic of childhood obesity’. In this paper we examine the mobilisation of notions of responsibility and consumption in these discussions, and consider the implications they have for women as mothers. In particular, we are interested to explore the potential conflicts mothers face as care providers and nurturers when responsible care is framed as withholding or…
Freeing Time? The 'Family Time Economies' of Nurses
This study uses the 'family time economies' concept for a nuanced investigation of family work-care experiences in 20 Australian nursing families. The family time economy captures information on the management and coordination of work and care responsibilities in families. Our study investigates how nurses were utilizing nursing flexibility to support time for caring for their families. We report on couple interview research which offered importa…
‘I don't know anyone that has two drinks a day’
Problematic alcohol consumption is a major public health, health education and health promotion issue in Australia and internationally. In an effort to better understand young people's drinking patterns and motivations we investigated the cultural drivers of drinking in 14–24 year-old Australians. We interviewed 60 young people in the state of Victoria aged 20–24 about their drinking biographies. At the time of interviewing, the draft guidelines …
Charismatic cops, patriarchs and a few good women
The paper reports on key findings of a research project that examined the roles that community-based sporting clubs in the Australian state of Victoria play in shaping young people's understandings and uses of alcohol. Our research imagined clubs as community hubs that are located in complex networks that impact on the ways that clubs understand their locations in communities, and which have unpredictable influences and consequences on club histo…
Sociology (44 works) · Political science (36 works) · Psychology (33 works) · Social science (29 works) · Social Psychology (25 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Economics (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Geography (13 works)