Plage
Biographic Data
| ID | 49167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Plage |
| FAMILY NAME | Plage |
| SIGNATURE | PLAGE |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7217-3806 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Shelter by Any Other Name? Delivering Homeless Crisis Accommodation Services in a Hotel
How to shelter people who are experiencing homelessness is a pressing social problem. A substantive literature critiques the congregate shelter model that is often coupled with paternalistic service delivery, bringing the relationship of service delivery and the built environment into focus. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a fast overhaul of the delivery of crisis accommodation, and saw homeless shelters replaced with commercial hotels. We conducted…
De/Medicalisation is not the problem
De/Medicalisation has become a staple of medical sociology to make sense of social issues at the intersection of health and illness. Broadly understood as the processes through which issues assume qualities that locate them within or beyond the remit of medicine, de/medicalisation continues to inform theoretical innovation and empirical research. The emergence of law clinics for people experiencing housing instability and homelessness offers a ca…
Marginalised Youth and the Search for ‘Home’
Young voices are underrepresented in research, policy, and practice. This visual essay showcases the photography of nine young people and examines through their work the concept of ‘home’ within the context of transitional and short-term accommodation for disadvantaged youth. Drawing insights from a collaborative Photovoice project undertaken with a not-for-profit youth support organisation (YSO) in 2023, we explore the possibilities for how appl…
Tenant participation to enable the experience of home in social housing
Tenant participation in social housing is recognised as integral to good governance and has been incorporated in formal policy across many Western countries. While tenant participation has much intuitive appeal and is often viewed as a good thing of itself, there is limited empirical knowledge of the value it holds or why it should be progressed. This study contributes to contemporary research on tenant participation in social housing—including h…
Adolescent mental health and parent engagement in secondary school
Rates of anxiety and depression are rising amongst adolescents, signalling a mental health crisis. High rates of anxiety and depression will increase the risk for adverse outcomes across their life course and put a strain on governments to provide services. While adolescence is a critical developmental stage that is vulnerable to mental health problems, it is also a critical window of opportunity to intervene. Empirical research has shown that st…
“There’s not much I can do about it”
People's experiences of homelessness are also experiences of violence and distress.Individuals experiencing homelessness are often forced into unregulated places like shelters or rough sleeping, where violence thrives.Due to shelter shortages, Australia is using backpacker hostels and boarding houses to accommodate people experiencing homelessness, but how violence manifests in these settings is not well understood.We draw on ethnographic researc…
Non-clinical Psychosocial Mental Health Support Programmes for People with Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds
Low accessibility to mainstream psychosocial services disadvantages culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations, resulting in delayed care and high rates of unsupported psychological distress. Non-clinical interventions may play an important role in improving accessibility to psychosocial support, but what characterises best practice in this space remains unclear. This critical rapid review addressed this gap by searching for, and cr…
Justice in Health? Studying the Role of Legal Support in a Culturally Responsive Mental Health Service in Australia
Health Justice Partnerships (HJPs) are collaborations across law, health, and social care seeking more equitable health outcomes. This article aims to explore an HJP embedded within a culturally responsive mental health service in Australia for people who are culturally and racially marginalized (CARM). We draw on data produced for an evaluation of this service between August and November 2022 to conduct a reflexive thematic analysis. Thinking co…
Ontological pleasure
Amidst globally escalating housing and cost of living crises, more and more people face the double challenge of securing shelter and food in their day-to-day lives. Yet, what meanings people with experience of homelessness attribute to eating is not well understood. We analyse eating as embedded in social relations between individual actors, social institutions, and organisations. We draw on a study conducted in Australia between March and Octobe…
Climbing, stalling, falling
For people experiencing housing instability, considerable uncertainty and future risks coincide with a lack of affordable housing supply. Housing instability often entails movement across different forms of accommodation while facing the possibility of homelessness. Thinking with anticipation outlined by Adams et al. as a regime of knowledge espousing specific governing principles, this study explores storytelling about the future by people exper…
Subject to Quarantine
COVID-19 pandemic responses saw the large-scale return of quarantine, a once-common public health technology which, in modern society, had largely been replaced by infection control regimen combining immunisation, personal hygiene, and sanitation. While anchored in biomedicine, quarantine is a profoundly relational practice with immediate infringements upon personal liberties such as freedom of movement. The socio-cultural repercussions of target…
Navigating whiteness
Mental health is political, with intersecting economic, cultural, racialized, and affective dimensions making up the care assemblage, signalling how care is conceptualised and who is deserving of care. In this article, we examine emotions circulating in a non-clinical psychosocial support program for culturally and linguistically diverse people experiencing mental ill-health, foregrounding the relations between culture, race, economy, and assumpt…
Social science as social action to address inequalities
In its most recent report, the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia (ASSA, 2021: 10) identified social inequality as a “grand challenge” for the social sciences, arguing that social scientists have a pivotal role to play in “understanding, addressing and guiding us towards a narrowing of a two‐tier society.” Nevertheless, the social sciences continue to be regularly positioned as “soft” and esoteric in relation to the natural sciences, while …
Seeing, Sharing and Supporting
Assertive outreach is becoming an increasingly salient feature of policy responses to homelessness—and particularly rough sleeping—with the aim of supporting people to access secure housing. Despite its demonstrated successes, existing research points to structural challenges practitioners face in navigating complex and fragmented service systems to provide people sleeping rough with a continuum of care. This study examines an Australian organisa…
The sociology of housing
Re(de)fining success
Insecure housing—particularly for low-income groups—constitutes a critical and enduring social problem. While Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) initiatives show promise as a solution to mitigate this issue, research assessing their impact remains limited. This paper makes three contributions to the empirical PSH literature: it develops a novel framework to measure the success of PSH tenancy outcomes; it expands the evidence-base to consider the …
Moving, moving, moving
Housing scholars have demonstrated that intimate partner violence (IPV) is a key driver of housing instability. Contributing to existing housing literature that foregrounds the importance of material and psychological housing instability, our empirical research focuses on a novel programme providing supportive housing for women, the majority of whom are allocated housing to protect them from IPV. Our data includes in-depth interviews with the sup…
Staying safe, feeling welcome, being seen
BACKGROUND: People experiencing homelessness also experience poorer health and frequently attend acute care settings when primary health care would be better equipped to meet their needs. Existing scholarship identifies a complex mix of individual and structural-level factors affecting primary health care engagement driving this pattern of health services utilisation. We build on this existing knowledge, by bringing the spatio-temporal configurat…
What can voice do? Combining narrative methods and participant-produced photography to explore contemporary cancer survivorship
‘Giving voice’ to marginalised individuals or communities is a commonly stated aim of studies employing visual research methods, particularly studies on the experiences of ill people. This points to the significance of voice as a political concept in social justice endeavours, calling for profound engagement with the ontological and epistemological assumptions around voice in visual methodologies. Drawing on Mazzei and Jackson’s work on voice in …
Distress in the care of people with chronic low back pain
Situated at the intersection of health sociology, sociology of emotions, and physiotherapy, our study offers a worked example of applying an affective assemblage theoretical framework to understanding emotionally imbued clinical interactions. Viewing physiotherapy care through an affective assemblage lens allows for recognising that life, pain, and distress are emerging, always in flux. Such an approach recognises that clinicians and patients exp…
Longing for a Forever Home
Increasingly unaffordable housing means that family homelessness represents an urgent issue for social policy and practice. Targeting families at risk of homelessness, Supportive Housing for Families (SHF) subsidizes leases and offers support aimed at sustaining tenancies and family unity. We explore how short-term funding cycles in an advanced welfare system impacts experiences with service delivery. Building on housing scholarship employing an …
Of Good Mothers and Violent Fathers
This article examines the efficacy of a supportive housing program aiming to provide mothers in violent relationships with the practical resources to minimize child protection intervention. Drawing on qualitative interviews with program mothers, child safety officers, and program practitioners, we explore the extent to which the program enabled mothers and children to live free from fathers' violence and disengage from the child protection system…
Connection, connectivity and choice
The COVID‐19 pandemic and associated school closures may have constrained educational participation particularly for students in disadvantaged circumstances. We explore how 30 disadvantaged students in secondary school (14 mainstream/16 Flexible Learning Programme) from Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania experienced home learning during the first wave of COVID‐19, teasing out nuances across two educational models. Drawing on semi‐structured…
Educational participation of primary school children with cancer from a Life Course perspective
The rhythms of cancer survivorship
This visual essay incorporates photographs from a research project on the changing landscapes of cancer survivorship in Australia. Study participants were asked to tell the story of what cancer looks and feels like and what it means to them. The photographs were captioned and discussed during a follow-up interview. Employing Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, these photographs, captions and narrations show how the routines and expectations arising …
Cosmopolitan encounters
This study contributes to the growing research on everyday cosmopolitanism in diverse societies. We employ a cosmopolitan encounters framework to explore the reflexive openness people perform and the ethical reasoning they draw on to get along with each other. In particular, we look beyond pleasurable cosmopolitan pursuits to consider encounters that cause frictions or require notable efforts to bridge differences as an occasion for cosmopolitan …
Australianness as fairness
This article provides an account of interwoven and often competing repertoires of cosmopolitanism and nationalism on which Australians draw when encountering diversity. Using interview and focus group data the article first explores how the notion of Australianness grounded in civic virtues such as fairness, openness and egalitarianism effectively enhances cosmopolitan outlooks. It identifies the mechanisms through which these same virtues are mo…
Reconfiguring time
Increasingly, people live longer with advanced cancer, despite having no prospect of full recovery. Ongoing survival is owed to early detection and effective disease management, yet experienced as highly precarious. In this article we explore how cancer chronicity brings into effect a pre-occupation with time, what time is to people with advanced cancer, and what socio-cultural norms inflect everyday practices. We analyse 20 interviews conducted …
Deploying Normality
In scholarship on cancer survivorship, "normality" is discussed as a strategy to restore and maintain continuity of identity for the person with cancer. I interrogate the strategic deployment of "normality" in what I define as ritual-like practices by drawing on 20 narrative interviews and 455 photographs produced by study participants. The findings explore normality as outcome (being normal), practice (doing normality), and ethical standard (asp…
Moving, moving, moving
Housing scholars have demonstrated that intimate partner violence (IPV) is a key driver of housing instability. Contributing to existing housing literature that foregrounds the importance of material and psychological housing instability, our empirical research focuses on a novel programme providing supportive housing for women, the majority of whom are allocated housing to protect them from IPV. Our data includes in-depth interviews with the sup…
Climbing, stalling, falling
For people experiencing housing instability, considerable uncertainty and future risks coincide with a lack of affordable housing supply. Housing instability often entails movement across different forms of accommodation while facing the possibility of homelessness. Thinking with anticipation outlined by Adams et al. as a regime of knowledge espousing specific governing principles, this study explores storytelling about the future by people exper…
Longing for a Forever Home
Increasingly unaffordable housing means that family homelessness represents an urgent issue for social policy and practice. Targeting families at risk of homelessness, Supportive Housing for Families (SHF) subsidizes leases and offers support aimed at sustaining tenancies and family unity. We explore how short-term funding cycles in an advanced welfare system impacts experiences with service delivery. Building on housing scholarship employing an …
Of Good Mothers and Violent Fathers
This article examines the efficacy of a supportive housing program aiming to provide mothers in violent relationships with the practical resources to minimize child protection intervention. Drawing on qualitative interviews with program mothers, child safety officers, and program practitioners, we explore the extent to which the program enabled mothers and children to live free from fathers' violence and disengage from the child protection system…
Non-clinical Psychosocial Mental Health Support Programmes for People with Diverse Language and Cultural Backgrounds
Low accessibility to mainstream psychosocial services disadvantages culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) populations, resulting in delayed care and high rates of unsupported psychological distress. Non-clinical interventions may play an important role in improving accessibility to psychosocial support, but what characterises best practice in this space remains unclear. This critical rapid review addressed this gap by searching for, and cr…
Willing but Unable
Low-income mothers face disproportionately high risks of engaging with statutory child protection systems. Whilst this is often perceived as a result of poor or irresponsible parenting practices, an increasing body of scholarship foregrounds the role of structural issues—such as poverty and homelessness—that constrain mothers’ agency and impact their ability to care for their children. In this article, we examine Australia’s first permanent Suppo…
Cancer on the margins
Cancer is a multifaceted entity with recent developments in treatment only increasing this diversification. Yet, some cancers are less common, less well understood, and receive less attention. Taking neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) as a case study, we explore the lived experience of people with a type of cancer that is virtually unknown among the general population. Drawing on interviews with 30 people living with NETs in Australia, we explored how…
Navigating whiteness
Mental health is political, with intersecting economic, cultural, racialized, and affective dimensions making up the care assemblage, signalling how care is conceptualised and who is deserving of care. In this article, we examine emotions circulating in a non-clinical psychosocial support program for culturally and linguistically diverse people experiencing mental ill-health, foregrounding the relations between culture, race, economy, and assumpt…
Social science as social action to address inequalities
In its most recent report, the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia (ASSA, 2021: 10) identified social inequality as a “grand challenge” for the social sciences, arguing that social scientists have a pivotal role to play in “understanding, addressing and guiding us towards a narrowing of a two‐tier society.” Nevertheless, the social sciences continue to be regularly positioned as “soft” and esoteric in relation to the natural sciences, while …
Seeing, Sharing and Supporting
Assertive outreach is becoming an increasingly salient feature of policy responses to homelessness—and particularly rough sleeping—with the aim of supporting people to access secure housing. Despite its demonstrated successes, existing research points to structural challenges practitioners face in navigating complex and fragmented service systems to provide people sleeping rough with a continuum of care. This study examines an Australian organisa…
Distress in the care of people with chronic low back pain
Situated at the intersection of health sociology, sociology of emotions, and physiotherapy, our study offers a worked example of applying an affective assemblage theoretical framework to understanding emotionally imbued clinical interactions. Viewing physiotherapy care through an affective assemblage lens allows for recognising that life, pain, and distress are emerging, always in flux. Such an approach recognises that clinicians and patients exp…
Connection, connectivity and choice
The COVID‐19 pandemic and associated school closures may have constrained educational participation particularly for students in disadvantaged circumstances. We explore how 30 disadvantaged students in secondary school (14 mainstream/16 Flexible Learning Programme) from Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania experienced home learning during the first wave of COVID‐19, teasing out nuances across two educational models. Drawing on semi‐structured…
Sexual Orientation, Geographic Proximity, and Contact Frequency Between Adult Siblings
ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to provide the first systematic analysis of differences in the closeness of sibling relations between lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) and heterosexual adults.BackgroundAcross countries, LGB people experience poorer socioeconomic and health outcomes than heterosexual people. Although the reasons for this disadvantage are complex, low levels of family support have been recurrently identified as an important contri…
Subject to Quarantine
COVID-19 pandemic responses saw the large-scale return of quarantine, a once-common public health technology which, in modern society, had largely been replaced by infection control regimen combining immunisation, personal hygiene, and sanitation. While anchored in biomedicine, quarantine is a profoundly relational practice with immediate infringements upon personal liberties such as freedom of movement. The socio-cultural repercussions of target…
Re(de)fining success
Insecure housing—particularly for low-income groups—constitutes a critical and enduring social problem. While Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) initiatives show promise as a solution to mitigate this issue, research assessing their impact remains limited. This paper makes three contributions to the empirical PSH literature: it develops a novel framework to measure the success of PSH tenancy outcomes; it expands the evidence-base to consider the …
The rhythms of cancer survivorship
This visual essay incorporates photographs from a research project on the changing landscapes of cancer survivorship in Australia. Study participants were asked to tell the story of what cancer looks and feels like and what it means to them. The photographs were captioned and discussed during a follow-up interview. Employing Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, these photographs, captions and narrations show how the routines and expectations arising …
Losing ground, losing sleep
Australianness as fairness
This article provides an account of interwoven and often competing repertoires of cosmopolitanism and nationalism on which Australians draw when encountering diversity. Using interview and focus group data the article first explores how the notion of Australianness grounded in civic virtues such as fairness, openness and egalitarianism effectively enhances cosmopolitan outlooks. It identifies the mechanisms through which these same virtues are mo…
Cosmopolitan encounters
This study contributes to the growing research on everyday cosmopolitanism in diverse societies. We employ a cosmopolitan encounters framework to explore the reflexive openness people perform and the ethical reasoning they draw on to get along with each other. In particular, we look beyond pleasurable cosmopolitan pursuits to consider encounters that cause frictions or require notable efforts to bridge differences as an occasion for cosmopolitan …
Losing ground, losing sleep
Cancer on the margins
Cancer is a multifaceted entity with recent developments in treatment only increasing this diversification. Yet, some cancers are less common, less well understood, and receive less attention. Taking neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) as a case study, we explore the lived experience of people with a type of cancer that is virtually unknown among the general population. Drawing on interviews with 30 people living with NETs in Australia, we explored how…
The Family Lives of Australian Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People
Sexual Orientation, Geographic Proximity, and Contact Frequency Between Adult Siblings
ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to provide the first systematic analysis of differences in the closeness of sibling relations between lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) and heterosexual adults.BackgroundAcross countries, LGB people experience poorer socioeconomic and health outcomes than heterosexual people. Although the reasons for this disadvantage are complex, low levels of family support have been recurrently identified as an important contri…
Surprise Reveals the Affective-Moral Economies in Cancer Illness Narratives
Emotions, like joy and sorrow, feature in illness narratives, dramatizing stories of becoming: sick, well, controlled, in control. However, brief emotions, such as surprise, have received limited analytic attention in cancer illness narratives. Drawing on 20 interviews with 11 participants with diverse cancer diagnoses, along with the 455 photographs they produced for this study, we address the complex interactions between discourse, societal exp…
Deploying Normality
In scholarship on cancer survivorship, "normality" is discussed as a strategy to restore and maintain continuity of identity for the person with cancer. I interrogate the strategic deployment of "normality" in what I define as ritual-like practices by drawing on 20 narrative interviews and 455 photographs produced by study participants. The findings explore normality as outcome (being normal), practice (doing normality), and ethical standard (asp…
Educational participation of primary school children with cancer from a Life Course perspective
The rhythms of cancer survivorship
This visual essay incorporates photographs from a research project on the changing landscapes of cancer survivorship in Australia. Study participants were asked to tell the story of what cancer looks and feels like and what it means to them. The photographs were captioned and discussed during a follow-up interview. Employing Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, these photographs, captions and narrations show how the routines and expectations arising …
Willing but Unable
Low-income mothers face disproportionately high risks of engaging with statutory child protection systems. Whilst this is often perceived as a result of poor or irresponsible parenting practices, an increasing body of scholarship foregrounds the role of structural issues—such as poverty and homelessness—that constrain mothers’ agency and impact their ability to care for their children. In this article, we examine Australia’s first permanent Suppo…
Reconfiguring time
Increasingly, people live longer with advanced cancer, despite having no prospect of full recovery. Ongoing survival is owed to early detection and effective disease management, yet experienced as highly precarious. In this article we explore how cancer chronicity brings into effect a pre-occupation with time, what time is to people with advanced cancer, and what socio-cultural norms inflect everyday practices. We analyse 20 interviews conducted …
Staying safe, feeling welcome, being seen
BACKGROUND: People experiencing homelessness also experience poorer health and frequently attend acute care settings when primary health care would be better equipped to meet their needs. Existing scholarship identifies a complex mix of individual and structural-level factors affecting primary health care engagement driving this pattern of health services utilisation. We build on this existing knowledge, by bringing the spatio-temporal configurat…
What can voice do? Combining narrative methods and participant-produced photography to explore contemporary cancer survivorship
‘Giving voice’ to marginalised individuals or communities is a commonly stated aim of studies employing visual research methods, particularly studies on the experiences of ill people. This points to the significance of voice as a political concept in social justice endeavours, calling for profound engagement with the ontological and epistemological assumptions around voice in visual methodologies. Drawing on Mazzei and Jackson’s work on voice in …
Distress in the care of people with chronic low back pain
Situated at the intersection of health sociology, sociology of emotions, and physiotherapy, our study offers a worked example of applying an affective assemblage theoretical framework to understanding emotionally imbued clinical interactions. Viewing physiotherapy care through an affective assemblage lens allows for recognising that life, pain, and distress are emerging, always in flux. Such an approach recognises that clinicians and patients exp…
Longing for a Forever Home
Increasingly unaffordable housing means that family homelessness represents an urgent issue for social policy and practice. Targeting families at risk of homelessness, Supportive Housing for Families (SHF) subsidizes leases and offers support aimed at sustaining tenancies and family unity. We explore how short-term funding cycles in an advanced welfare system impacts experiences with service delivery. Building on housing scholarship employing an …
Of Good Mothers and Violent Fathers
This article examines the efficacy of a supportive housing program aiming to provide mothers in violent relationships with the practical resources to minimize child protection intervention. Drawing on qualitative interviews with program mothers, child safety officers, and program practitioners, we explore the extent to which the program enabled mothers and children to live free from fathers' violence and disengage from the child protection system…
Connection, connectivity and choice
The COVID‐19 pandemic and associated school closures may have constrained educational participation particularly for students in disadvantaged circumstances. We explore how 30 disadvantaged students in secondary school (14 mainstream/16 Flexible Learning Programme) from Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania experienced home learning during the first wave of COVID‐19, teasing out nuances across two educational models. Drawing on semi‐structured…
Navigating whiteness
Mental health is political, with intersecting economic, cultural, racialized, and affective dimensions making up the care assemblage, signalling how care is conceptualised and who is deserving of care. In this article, we examine emotions circulating in a non-clinical psychosocial support program for culturally and linguistically diverse people experiencing mental ill-health, foregrounding the relations between culture, race, economy, and assumpt…
Social science as social action to address inequalities
In its most recent report, the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia (ASSA, 2021: 10) identified social inequality as a “grand challenge” for the social sciences, arguing that social scientists have a pivotal role to play in “understanding, addressing and guiding us towards a narrowing of a two‐tier society.” Nevertheless, the social sciences continue to be regularly positioned as “soft” and esoteric in relation to the natural sciences, while …
Seeing, Sharing and Supporting
Assertive outreach is becoming an increasingly salient feature of policy responses to homelessness—and particularly rough sleeping—with the aim of supporting people to access secure housing. Despite its demonstrated successes, existing research points to structural challenges practitioners face in navigating complex and fragmented service systems to provide people sleeping rough with a continuum of care. This study examines an Australian organisa…
The sociology of housing
Re(de)fining success
Insecure housing—particularly for low-income groups—constitutes a critical and enduring social problem. While Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) initiatives show promise as a solution to mitigate this issue, research assessing their impact remains limited. This paper makes three contributions to the empirical PSH literature: it develops a novel framework to measure the success of PSH tenancy outcomes; it expands the evidence-base to consider the …
Moving, moving, moving
Housing scholars have demonstrated that intimate partner violence (IPV) is a key driver of housing instability. Contributing to existing housing literature that foregrounds the importance of material and psychological housing instability, our empirical research focuses on a novel programme providing supportive housing for women, the majority of whom are allocated housing to protect them from IPV. Our data includes in-depth interviews with the sup…
Adolescent mental health and parent engagement in secondary school
Rates of anxiety and depression are rising amongst adolescents, signalling a mental health crisis. High rates of anxiety and depression will increase the risk for adverse outcomes across their life course and put a strain on governments to provide services. While adolescence is a critical developmental stage that is vulnerable to mental health problems, it is also a critical window of opportunity to intervene. Empirical research has shown that st…
Psychology (25 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Political science (17 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Business (6 works)