Janice Mclaughlin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3583293 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Janice Mclaughlin |
| NOMBRES | Janice |
| APELLIDO | Mclaughlin |
| FIRMA | MCLAUGHLIN J |
| AFILIACIONES | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0652-5225 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 117 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Escaping (Chrono)normative Youth Futures
The transitions to adulthood for disabled young people in the UK have long been marked by multiple barriers that have implications for their adult futures. While these dynamics have been considered in disability studies, they have been given less emphasis in critical youth studies. This article brings together critical disability studies and critical youth studies to explore the affective costs embedded in the normative underpinnings which frame …
Making Inclusive Spaces and Practices With Disabled Children and Young People in Mainstream Education
In England, legislation outlines that disabled children and young people should primarily be educated within mainstream provision. Nevertheless, limitations remain in how disabled children and young people experience mainstream educational spaces, particularly those with socio‐emotional and behavioural differences. Situated in disabled children's childhood studies, we explore disabled children's and young people's relational agency as an importan…
Policy Failure in the Lives of Young Disabled People
For many young disabled people, social policies have failed in their role to support transitions from childhood into the next stage of life. Across OECD countries, policy development has been fragmented, haphazard and limited in its scope. It is only relatively recently that governments have begun to engage with the specific needs and develop initiatives which reflect them. Yet there is little known about the experiences of transition to adulthoo…
New Editorial Team
Bringing disability studies and youth studies together to enhance understandings of youth transitions
Critical youth studies understands contemporary youth transitions as an interplay between long term changes in labour markets and state approaches to welfare and the regulatory presence of societal norms about the ‘right kind’ of transitions and the ‘right kind’ of young adult citizens. This work is intersectional, with emphasis given to class, gender and race and ethnicity. However, in comparison less focus is given to disability, even though it…
Introduction to special issue
This special issue explores the intersections, boundaries, and collaborative opportunities between the disciplines of medical sociology and disability studies. Both disciplines co-exist, yet, outside of important exceptions (Barnes & Mercer, 1996; Scambler & Scambler, 2010; Thomas, 2004a; Thomas, 2007; Thomas, 2010), and especially in the UK, there is a long legacy of disconnection and territory-protection with little recognition of, and attempt …
Exploring the significance of relationality, care and governmentality in families, for understanding women’s classed alcohol drinking practices
Relational Autonomy as a Way to Recognise and Enhance Children’s Capacity and Agency to be Participatory Research Actors
There has been a marked increase in the active involvement of children and young people in social research. This move is underpinned by rights based arguments that children and young people should have a voice, and that this voice should be listened to. However, concerns have been raised about the appropriateness of children’s and young people’s rights and participation in research. This is primarily due to queries over whether they have enough c…
Valuing Care and Support in an Era of Celebrating Independence
The right to a supported independent life is a central dimension to disability politics. This focus has been used to challenge institutionalised living and the exclusion of disabled people from areas such as education and employment. The importance given to independence has also led to a critique of care. This critique has been a point of contention between disability studies and feminist theorising. In this article I argue it is important to ret…
Visual methods and voice in disabled childhoods research
Visual methods are a popular way of engaging children and young people in research. Their growth comes out of a desire to make research practice more appropriate and meaningful to them. The auteur approach emphasises the need to explore with young participants why they produce the images they do, so that adult researchers do not impose their own readings. This article, while recognising the value of such visual techniques, argues that their benef…
The medical reshaping of disabled bodies as a response to stigma and a route to normality
Disabled people are said to experience stigma because their embodied presence in the world does not fit with how others interact and use their bodies to be social participants. In response they can turn to medical procedures, such as surgery or physiotherapy, in order to reshape their bodies to more closely approximate norms of social interaction and embodiment. This paper explores how medicine plays a role in attempts to be recognised by others …
Change and continuity in journal priorities
(Dis)abling practices and theories
Disabled Childhoods
Family Ties in Genes and Stories
Diagnosis in paediatric genetics involves a combination of technologies able to display variation in DNA and clinical discussions with families that concentrate on retrieving family histories. This paper explores the significance of the family tales that genetics brings to the fore. Through discussion of an ESRC-funded ethnographic study of families referred to a paediatric genetic service, the paper explores how genetics and family history inter…
The unfinished body
Stories about disability are heavily shaped by the narratives offered by medicine and society. Those narratives enact an 'anomalous' body that is constructed as distant from the norm and therefore 'damaged' but also fixable. In this paper we explore how such narratives, and the practices they encompass, influence the stories disabled young people tell about their bodies and impairment. We do so by drawing on narrative qualitative interviews and v…
Digital Imagery and Child Embodiment in Paediatric Genetics
Paediatric genetics involves multiple visually based diagnostic processes. While examining the external features of a child plays an important role, of increasing importance are biochemical analyses of blood, which produce digital diagrams that display variations in the shape and composition of chromosomes. The level of magnification and detail that can now be captured is allowing new patterns of variation to be 'seen' and possible diagnosis to b…
The interactions of disability and impairment
Theoretical work on disability is going through an expansive period, built on the growing recognition of disability studies as a discipline and out of the political and analytical push to bring disability into a prominent position within accounts of the intersecting social categories that shape people's lives. A current debate within critical disability studies is whether that study should include impairment and embodiment within its focus. This …
Visualising difference, similarity and belonging in paediatric genetics
Paediatric genetics is increasingly playing a role in explorations of why a child may not be reaching developmental milestones, while experiencing various health concerns and displaying unusual physical characteristics. The diagnostic processes include close analyses of a child's body in order to identify 'clues' to possible genetic variation. When the genetic variation identified is new and complex there is significant uncertainty about what rel…
Contesting Recognition
This book explores the social and political significance of contemporary recognition contests in areas such as disability, race and ethnicity, nationalism, class and sexuality, drawing on accounts fro
Contesting Recognition
Questions of kinship and inheritance in pediatric genetics
Pediatric genetics is growing in significance as a tool to explain childhood illness and disability. Within both medical sociology and anthropology writers have explored whether investigating genetic inheritance can overemphasize biological connection over other versions of kinship and can also lead to new forms of responsibility being imposed on parents for being “guilty” of sharing problematic “substance” with their offspring. Such consideratio…
Families Raising Disabled Children
Drawing upon qualitative material from parents and professionals, including ethnography, narrative inquiry, interviews and focus groups, this book brings together feminist and critical disability stud
Families Raising Disabled Children
Preface Acknowledgements Theorising Parents, Professionals and Disabled Babies Methodology Research Encounters Unmaking Children productive Parental Alliances Community Practices Professional, Institutional and Ethical Practices The Gender Dynamics, Transformative Potential and Boundaries of Care Values of Enabling Care and Social Justice References Index
Seeking and Rejecting Certainty
There are many debates in the social sciences about the certain and uncertain nature of subjectivity and knowledge. Often these debates create competing theoretical camps, each hell bent on refuting the other (materialist-idealists; modernist-postmodernists; structuralists-post-structuralists; medical-social). These critiques often fail to engage with the social and material lives of human actors, particularly when those actors occupy positions o…
The unfinished body
Stories about disability are heavily shaped by the narratives offered by medicine and society. Those narratives enact an 'anomalous' body that is constructed as distant from the norm and therefore 'damaged' but also fixable. In this paper we explore how such narratives, and the practices they encompass, influence the stories disabled young people tell about their bodies and impairment. We do so by drawing on narrative qualitative interviews and v…
Seeking and Rejecting Certainty
There are many debates in the social sciences about the certain and uncertain nature of subjectivity and knowledge. Often these debates create competing theoretical camps, each hell bent on refuting the other (materialist-idealists; modernist-postmodernists; structuralists-post-structuralists; medical-social). These critiques often fail to engage with the social and material lives of human actors, particularly when those actors occupy positions o…
Rationalising Knowledge
This paper explores the impact of a new IT system on the knowledge claims and occupational boundaries made by professional groups within a hospital laboratory setting. Within organizational settings professional groups enjoy considerable power and status through the specialised knowledge claims they make, deploying a variety of material and discursive resources to secure these. However, when organizations introduce new technologies to manage info…
Visual methods and voice in disabled childhoods research
Visual methods are a popular way of engaging children and young people in research. Their growth comes out of a desire to make research practice more appropriate and meaningful to them. The auteur approach emphasises the need to explore with young participants why they produce the images they do, so that adult researchers do not impose their own readings. This article, while recognising the value of such visual techniques, argues that their benef…
The medical reshaping of disabled bodies as a response to stigma and a route to normality
Disabled people are said to experience stigma because their embodied presence in the world does not fit with how others interact and use their bodies to be social participants. In response they can turn to medical procedures, such as surgery or physiotherapy, in order to reshape their bodies to more closely approximate norms of social interaction and embodiment. This paper explores how medicine plays a role in attempts to be recognised by others …
The interactions of disability and impairment
Theoretical work on disability is going through an expansive period, built on the growing recognition of disability studies as a discipline and out of the political and analytical push to bring disability into a prominent position within accounts of the intersecting social categories that shape people's lives. A current debate within critical disability studies is whether that study should include impairment and embodiment within its focus. This …
Visualising difference, similarity and belonging in paediatric genetics
Paediatric genetics is increasingly playing a role in explorations of why a child may not be reaching developmental milestones, while experiencing various health concerns and displaying unusual physical characteristics. The diagnostic processes include close analyses of a child's body in order to identify 'clues' to possible genetic variation. When the genetic variation identified is new and complex there is significant uncertainty about what rel…
Family Ties in Genes and Stories
Diagnosis in paediatric genetics involves a combination of technologies able to display variation in DNA and clinical discussions with families that concentrate on retrieving family histories. This paper explores the significance of the family tales that genetics brings to the fore. Through discussion of an ESRC-funded ethnographic study of families referred to a paediatric genetic service, the paper explores how genetics and family history inter…
Bringing disability studies and youth studies together to enhance understandings of youth transitions
Critical youth studies understands contemporary youth transitions as an interplay between long term changes in labour markets and state approaches to welfare and the regulatory presence of societal norms about the ‘right kind’ of transitions and the ‘right kind’ of young adult citizens. This work is intersectional, with emphasis given to class, gender and race and ethnicity. However, in comparison less focus is given to disability, even though it…
Conceptualising Intensive Caring Activities
Feminists have put care on the sociological agenda. At times they have defined it as an activity that imprisons women, at other times they have seen it as a value that is marginalised in society and should be celebrated. In contrast disability writers view care as a category that pathologises those who are defined as its recipients and seek to avoid both the language of care and analysis of those who 'care for' disabled people, for example parent…
Introduction to special issue
This special issue explores the intersections, boundaries, and collaborative opportunities between the disciplines of medical sociology and disability studies. Both disciplines co-exist, yet, outside of important exceptions (Barnes & Mercer, 1996; Scambler & Scambler, 2010; Thomas, 2004a; Thomas, 2007; Thomas, 2010), and especially in the UK, there is a long legacy of disconnection and territory-protection with little recognition of, and attempt …
Valuing Care and Support in an Era of Celebrating Independence
The right to a supported independent life is a central dimension to disability politics. This focus has been used to challenge institutionalised living and the exclusion of disabled people from areas such as education and employment. The importance given to independence has also led to a critique of care. This critique has been a point of contention between disability studies and feminist theorising. In this article I argue it is important to ret…
Screening Networks
This paper identifies common ground in feminist and disability movement concerns with the social and ethical implications of antenatal screening and abortion. By examining the frameworks used by particular authors within each area, I argue that they both can and do have a shared agenda, which is focused on the social values that are embedded in antenatal screening and promote abortion as the obvious choice to the diagnosis of a congenital conditi…
Feminist relations with postmodernism
Within the different ideas that have been prominent within feminism over the last decade, postmodernism has remained the most contentious. Concerns explored in this paper include postmodernism's heritage in the comfort of male academia, which for some leaves postmodernism incapable of reflecting, understanding, or helping the problems faced by women. It also appears to put into question political practices and understandings which can help women.…
Relational Autonomy as a Way to Recognise and Enhance Children’s Capacity and Agency to be Participatory Research Actors
There has been a marked increase in the active involvement of children and young people in social research. This move is underpinned by rights based arguments that children and young people should have a voice, and that this voice should be listened to. However, concerns have been raised about the appropriateness of children’s and young people’s rights and participation in research. This is primarily due to queries over whether they have enough c…
Digital Imagery and Child Embodiment in Paediatric Genetics
Paediatric genetics involves multiple visually based diagnostic processes. While examining the external features of a child plays an important role, of increasing importance are biochemical analyses of blood, which produce digital diagrams that display variations in the shape and composition of chromosomes. The level of magnification and detail that can now be captured is allowing new patterns of variation to be 'seen' and possible diagnosis to b…
Locating Sexualities
Gendering occupational identities and IT in the retail sector
This article investigates the influence of gendered occupational identities in the social construction of skill and technology in a retail company introducing an IT system. It focusses on female shop floor supervisors and considers the impact that ‘femininity’ had on definitions of skill and role during a period of change
II. Worksh ops
The workshop brought together some twenty persons from varied and diverse nations and political-economic circumstances - Ghana, Netherlands, New Zealand, Republic of South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America, West Germany and Zimbabwe. The workshop also reflected a number of Christian denominations - Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Reformed, Roman Catholic and Seventh Day Adventist. The gathering then was truly pluralistic and ecum…
An Ethic of Care
Since Gilligan first interpreted women's moral position as an ethic of care, feminists have wondered what this means for political action. While some view it as a way of introducing forms of understanding and appreciation which are missing in the public sphere, others have worried about the universalisation and romanticization of women's abilities which it appears to contain. This paper argues that interpretations of an ethic of care which are si…
An Ethic of Care
Feminist relations with postmodernism
Within the different ideas that have been prominent within feminism over the last decade, postmodernism has remained the most contentious. Concerns explored in this paper include postmodernism's heritage in the comfort of male academia, which for some leaves postmodernism incapable of reflecting, understanding, or helping the problems faced by women. It also appears to put into question political practices and understandings which can help women.…
On the Frontline
Rationalising Knowledge
This paper explores the impact of a new IT system on the knowledge claims and occupational boundaries made by professional groups within a hospital laboratory setting. Within organizational settings professional groups enjoy considerable power and status through the specialised knowledge claims they make, deploying a variety of material and discursive resources to secure these. However, when organizations introduce new technologies to manage info…
Gendering occupational identities and IT in the retail sector
This article investigates the influence of gendered occupational identities in the social construction of skill and technology in a retail company introducing an IT system. It focusses on female shop floor supervisors and considers the impact that ‘femininity’ had on definitions of skill and role during a period of change
Valuing Technology
From the Publisher: Valuing Technologyopens up new directions in the analysis of socio-technical change within organizations. Based on a major study of the introduction of management information systems in health, higher education and retailing, it explores the active role of end-users in the innovation process. Subjects covered include: the valuing of technology via the on-going construction of needs, uses and utilities the interplay of organiza…
Valuing Technology
How does new information technology become part of the fabric of organisational life? Drawing on insights from social studies of technology, gender studies and the sociology of consumption, Valuing Technology opens up new directions in the analysis of sociotechnical change within organisations. Based on a major research project focused upon the introduction of management of information systems in health, higher education and retailing, I explores…
Feminist Social and Political Theory
Screening Networks
This paper identifies common ground in feminist and disability movement concerns with the social and ethical implications of antenatal screening and abortion. By examining the frameworks used by particular authors within each area, I argue that they both can and do have a shared agenda, which is focused on the social values that are embedded in antenatal screening and promote abortion as the obvious choice to the diagnosis of a congenital conditi…
Feminist Social and Political Theory
Locating Sexualities
Conceptualising Intensive Caring Activities
Feminists have put care on the sociological agenda. At times they have defined it as an activity that imprisons women, at other times they have seen it as a value that is marginalised in society and should be celebrated. In contrast disability writers view care as a category that pathologises those who are defined as its recipients and seek to avoid both the language of care and analysis of those who 'care for' disabled people, for example parent…
Crossing Multidisciplinary Divides
Focus groups are an important element of qualitative health research, valued for the forms of knowledge and understanding that emerge from interactions among participants. Common advice for focus groups within health research is to limit the level of variation among respondents to generate comprehensive discussion and shared knowledge. In this article, the authors critically examine this advice, proposing instead that it is useful to acknowledge …
Families Raising Disabled Children
Drawing upon qualitative material from parents and professionals, including ethnography, narrative inquiry, interviews and focus groups, this book brings together feminist and critical disability stud
Families Raising Disabled Children
Preface Acknowledgements Theorising Parents, Professionals and Disabled Babies Methodology Research Encounters Unmaking Children productive Parental Alliances Community Practices Professional, Institutional and Ethical Practices The Gender Dynamics, Transformative Potential and Boundaries of Care Values of Enabling Care and Social Justice References Index
Seeking and Rejecting Certainty
There are many debates in the social sciences about the certain and uncertain nature of subjectivity and knowledge. Often these debates create competing theoretical camps, each hell bent on refuting the other (materialist-idealists; modernist-postmodernists; structuralists-post-structuralists; medical-social). These critiques often fail to engage with the social and material lives of human actors, particularly when those actors occupy positions o…
Contesting Recognition
This book explores the social and political significance of contemporary recognition contests in areas such as disability, race and ethnicity, nationalism, class and sexuality, drawing on accounts fro
Contesting Recognition
Questions of kinship and inheritance in pediatric genetics
Pediatric genetics is growing in significance as a tool to explain childhood illness and disability. Within both medical sociology and anthropology writers have explored whether investigating genetic inheritance can overemphasize biological connection over other versions of kinship and can also lead to new forms of responsibility being imposed on parents for being “guilty” of sharing problematic “substance” with their offspring. Such consideratio…
The interactions of disability and impairment
Theoretical work on disability is going through an expansive period, built on the growing recognition of disability studies as a discipline and out of the political and analytical push to bring disability into a prominent position within accounts of the intersecting social categories that shape people's lives. A current debate within critical disability studies is whether that study should include impairment and embodiment within its focus. This …
Visualising difference, similarity and belonging in paediatric genetics
Paediatric genetics is increasingly playing a role in explorations of why a child may not be reaching developmental milestones, while experiencing various health concerns and displaying unusual physical characteristics. The diagnostic processes include close analyses of a child's body in order to identify 'clues' to possible genetic variation. When the genetic variation identified is new and complex there is significant uncertainty about what rel…
The unfinished body
Stories about disability are heavily shaped by the narratives offered by medicine and society. Those narratives enact an 'anomalous' body that is constructed as distant from the norm and therefore 'damaged' but also fixable. In this paper we explore how such narratives, and the practices they encompass, influence the stories disabled young people tell about their bodies and impairment. We do so by drawing on narrative qualitative interviews and v…
Digital Imagery and Child Embodiment in Paediatric Genetics
Paediatric genetics involves multiple visually based diagnostic processes. While examining the external features of a child plays an important role, of increasing importance are biochemical analyses of blood, which produce digital diagrams that display variations in the shape and composition of chromosomes. The level of magnification and detail that can now be captured is allowing new patterns of variation to be 'seen' and possible diagnosis to b…
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