Celia Roberts
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3601176 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Celia Roberts |
| NOMBRES | Celia |
| APELLIDO | Roberts |
| FIRMA | ROBERTS C |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6103-3514 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 84 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 462 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Miscarriage Care Practices in Taiwan
Existing sociological studies of miscarriage, typically undertaken in Euro‐American contexts, describe its ambiguous and uncertain character, arguing that pregnancy loss puts both pregnant people and foetuses into a liminal position. Based on 28 interviews and 24 participant drawings, this paper contributes to and challenges this literature by focusing on pregnancy loss in Taiwan. Our analysis reveals three reproductive apparatuses addressing mis…
Adoption, climate crisis and making kin
For many people in the Global North, climate crisis renders reproduction a fraught issue, prompting questions about whether it is right to bring more people into a rapidly deteriorating world. Feminist theorists have written variously about this issue, with many arguing for multiplying forms of kinship that are not based on biogenetic connection. Adoption is often offered as an example of such alternative kinning practices. This article reports o…
Translating epigenetics into antenatal care in Australia
The scientific field of epigenetics – and its social and ethical repercussions – has been met with a mixture of cautious optimism and scepticism from social scientists. While acknowledging the possibilities of contributing to a more biosocial account of health, critical scholars are concerned about how this knowledge could be used to intensify risk narratives for certain groups, particularly pregnant people. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interv…
Prenatal Care Shopping
This article discusses people's experiences of prenatal screening and testing (PST) in Taiwan, a country that offers an extensive schedule of free PST underpinned by a 'Eugenic Health' Law that promotes the idea of you sheng [superior birth]. Conducting periods of fieldwork from 2008 to 2021, and undertaking 114 ethnographic interviews with women, their partners and clinicians, we observed that pregnant women were often anxious about the health o…
Pregnancy, placentas and smoke exposure
The health implications of prolonged wildfire smoke exposure - such as that seen during the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires - are a major concern in public health, not only in Australia but in many fire-prone areas globally. One group identified as potentially more susceptible to smoke exposure than the general population are pregnant women. Based on a study of how pregnant women and parents with newborn babies experienced the bushfire smoke event…
Communicating decisions with a multilingual patient population
THE NOTION OF ‘LINGUISTIC BARRIERS’ in medical settings usually refers to the use (and possible abuse) of interpreters. However, the language and cultural diversity of patient populations in an increasingly globalised world leads to many encounters where a common language or lingua franca is used. The use of an interpreter is not necessarily a possible option nor indeed may it be the preferred one. Many patients bring to the consultation some flu…
Mothers' Agency and Responsibility in the Australian Bushfires
This article employs new materialist theory to the accounts of women who were pregnant, giving birth or parenting new-borns during the Australian bushfires of 2019/2020. As feminist scholars we are concerned with the inequitable responsibility accorded to women during this time to limit their (un)born children’s exposure to smoke. Drawing on Barad’s (2007) relational ontology we trace how (non)human phenomena like ‘smoke’, ‘public health advice’ …
Incipient Infertility
Tracking in/fertility—through ovulation biosensing, menstrual and perimenopausal apps, and ovarian reserve testing—is becoming increasingly commonplace amongst relatively privileged women in the Global North. Taking place on and through platforms comprised of devices, bodies, and discourses, such self-tracking articulates forms of in/fertility and reproductive futures that are, we argue, closely entwined with emerging forms of biomedical capitali…
Messengers of stress
In 2008, Timmermans and Haas called for a 'sociology of disease' to develop and challenge the sociology of health and illness. A sociology of disease, they argued, would take seriously the biological and physiological processes of disease in theorising health and illness. Building on two decades of Science and Technology Studies and feminist work on biological actors such as hormones and genes, we propose a 'cortisol sociology' to push further at…
Living Data
Living Data
As individuals increasingly seek ways of accessing, understanding and sharing data about their own bodies, this book offers a critique of the popular claim that 'more information' equates to 'better health'. In a study that redefines the public, academic and policy related debates around health, bodies, information and data, the authors consider the ways in which the phenomenon of self-diagnosis has created alternative worlds of knowledge and pra…
The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory
This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of ‘second generation’ ANT scholars from around the world, it highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and its future possibilities.The companion has 38 chapters, each answering a key question about ANT and its capacities. Early chapters…
Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory
Gut feminism
Adopting Neuroscience
What happens when neuroscientific knowledges move from laboratories and clinics into therapeutic settings concerned with the care of children? 'Brain-based parenting' is a set of discourses and practices emerging at the confluence of attachment theory, neuroscience, psychotherapy and social work. The neuroscientific knowledges involved understand affective states such as fear, anger and intimacy as dynamic patterns of coordination between brain l…
Biosensing
This article explores material from a citizen’s inquiry into the social and ethical implications of health biosensors. In ‘Our Bodies, Our Data’ a space was afforded for members of the public to examine two forms of health biosensing, and for the authors to research what happens when such examination shifts from the domain of experts to that of citizens. Drawing on data from this inquiry, which form part of a wider research project, ‘Living Data:…
Tanner’s Puberty Scale
Globally, increasing numbers of children are thought to be going through early onset puberty. This much debated fact leads to significant concerns about young people’s sexualities, as early developers are thought to be more likely to engage in early sexual activity. Underpinning historical, national and subpopulation (including ‘racial’) comparisons is a standard measurement tool: the Tanner Scale of sexual development. The scale is based on Jame…
Health social movements and the hybridisation of ‘cause regimes
This article reports on an ethnographic study of the UK’s largest health advocacy organisation dedicated to pregnancy, childbirth and parenting, the National Childbirth Trust or NCT. Working from interview data, textual materials and fieldnotes, we articulate three key phases in the NCT’s historically shifting relationships to feminism, medicine, the state and neoliberal capitalism. The concept of folded cause regimes is introduced as we examine …
Feminist theory and the global South
Theory and Method in Linguistic Ethnography
This chapter provides a sketch of the assumptions, values, frameworks and techniques that currently characterise linguistic ethnography. In keeping with the dynamic that makes it a productive and appealing perspective, we ground our account in a series of historical, institutional and/or methodological encounters, looking at the questions and possibilities that these interactions generate. So we consider the relationships between: linguistics and…
Ethical implications of home telecare for older people
CONTEXT: Telecare and telehealth developments have recently attracted much attention in research and service development contexts, where their evaluation has predominantly concerned effectiveness and efficiency. Their social and ethical implications, in contrast, have received little scrutiny. OBJECTIVE: To develop an ethical framework for telecare systems based on analysis of observations of telecare-in-use and citizens' panel deliberations. DES…
Ovulation monitoring and reproductive heterosex
Using biosensors, or devices that provide biological information to users about their own bodies, to map ovulation and time intercourse is a practice of rising significance in economically privileged countries. Based on an ethnographic study of ovulation biosensing, this paper explores the contradictions between device manufacturers' figurations of reproductive heterosex as a natural and pleasurable experience facilitated by fertility monitoring …
Psychology, Evolution and the Traumatised Child
Epidemiological research indicates that adopted children are at increased risk of early sexual development. Evolutionary psychology tries to explain this connection in two ways: arguing that early stress hastens sexual maturity through a kind of embodied fear of death; or by suggesting that early development is an adaptive response to improved life situations. Both explanations are problematic. In contrast, research by Stephen Porges on the evolu…
Practising childbirth activism
Critical Social Theory
Born and Made
Are new reproductive and genetic technologies racing ahead of a society that is unable to establish limits to their use? Have the "new genetics" outpaced our ability to control their future applications? This book examines the case of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), the procedure used to prevent serious genetic disease by embryo selection, and the so-called "designer baby" method. Using detailed empirical evidence, the authors show that …
Talk, Work and Institutional Order
An interdisciplinary approach to talk and its role in creating workplace practice and relationships. Analytic tools drawn from ethnography, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis illuminate a range of workplace discourses. Following an introduction, 16 articles discuss medical practices and health care delivery, methodological debates, and mediation, management and social care.
Ageing with telecare
In recent years images of independence, active ageing and staying at home have come to characterise a successful old age in western societies. 'Telecare' technologies are heavily promoted to assist ageing-in-place and a nexus of demographic ageing, shrinking healthcare and social care budgets and technological ambition has come to promote the 'telehome' as the solution to the problem of the 'age dependency ratio'. Through the adoption of a range …
Telecare and older people
Feminism theorises the nonhuman
Migration, ethnicity and competing discourses in the job interview
This article, based on a unique data set of video-recorded job interviews, examines the institutional and personal discourses of the competency-based interview and how their synthesis produces an `authentic self '. The interview's requirement for the synthesis of work-based and personal identities is particularly disadvantaging to foreign-born minority ethnic candidates. Foreign-born candidates often lack access to British `job interview English'…
Faking it The Story of “Ohh!”
Calling for Care
The provision of 'distant' care to older people living at home through telecare technologies is often contrasted negatively to hands-on, face-to-face care: telecare is seen as a loss of care, a dehumanization. Here we challenge this view, arguing that teleoperators in telecare services do provide care to older people, often at significant emotional cost to themselves. Based on a European Commission-funded ethnographic study of two English telecar…
Thinking Biological Materialities
Transcribing Talk
The TESOL Quarterly publishes brief commentaries on aspects of qualitative and quantitative research. For this issue, we asked two researchers to discuss the politics of transcription in research in TESOL
Feminist theory and the global South
Living Drugs
Faking it
A matter of embodied fact
Sex hormones today are seen as central to the production of biological sexual difference. This article examines the development of this scientific `fact', and asks how hormones came to be in this position. The article does not involve original historical research, however. Instead it uses existing histories of hormonal sexual difference to develop a theoretical argument about body histories. How can the history of scientific views of bodies be wr…
Paid to share
But are they one of us
Les As. traitent de l'inclusion et de l'exclusion dans 2 contextes cles lies au travail (classes d'enseignement postscolaire et entretiens d'embauche) et examinent les responsabilites des enseignants et des employeurs en tant que filtres dans la gestion et l'evaluation des identites sociales. A partir des perspectives theoriques sociologiques et anthropologiques sur la construction de l'identite, les As. analysent des donnees interactionnelles qu…
Installing Telecare, Installing Users
This article reports on ethnographic research into the practical and ethical consequences of the implementation and use of telecare devices for older people living at home in Spain and the United Kingdom. Telecare services are said to allow the maintenance of their users' autonomy through connectedness, relieving the isolation from which many older people suffer amid rising demands for care. However, engaging with Science and Technology Studies (…
Successful Aging' With Hormone Replacement Therapy
(2002). 'Successful Aging' With Hormone Replacement Therapy: It May Be Sexist, But What If It Works? Science as Culture: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 39-59
Migration and Adult Language Learning
In the 21st century, global flows politically, socially, economically, and environmentally (Burbules & Torres, 2000; Singh Sc Doherty, 2004) are creating widespread movements of people around the world and giving rise to increased resettlements of immigrants and refugees internationally (Roberts 8c Baynham, 2006). The reality in most countries worldwide is that contemporary populations are multifaceted, multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial, an…
Science
How could social scientists and cultural theorists take responsibility in engaging with science? How might they develop an experimental sensibility to the links between the production of knowledge and the production of existence or forms of life? Critically outlining key fields in the social and cultural studies of science, we interrogate a number of approaches to these questions. The first approach tries to make sense of how science operates in …
Early puberty, ‘sexualization’ and feminism
Early onset puberty is increasingly prevalent among girls globally according to many scientists and clinicians. In the medical and scientific literature early sexual development is described as a problem for girls and as a frightening prospect for parents. News media and popular environmentalist accounts amplify these figurations, raising powerful concerns about the sexual predation of early developing girls by men and boys and the loss of childh…
Going Down
Acquisition des langues ou socialisation dans et par le discours ? Pour une redéfinition du domaine de recherche sur l'acquisition des langues étrangères
This paper recasts the process of learning to use a second language as language socialisation (SLS). But also identifies some limitations of SLS. The social aspects of language learning and use include not only a study of second language interaction but also the wider social outcomes of intercultural encounters. Detailed analyses of encounters between minority workers and gatekeepers from the majority group are used to illuminate the socio-cultur…
Mothers' Agency and Responsibility in the Australian Bushfires
This article employs new materialist theory to the accounts of women who were pregnant, giving birth or parenting new-borns during the Australian bushfires of 2019/2020. As feminist scholars we are concerned with the inequitable responsibility accorded to women during this time to limit their (un)born children’s exposure to smoke. Drawing on Barad’s (2007) relational ontology we trace how (non)human phenomena like ‘smoke’, ‘public health advice’ …
Messengers of stress
In 2008, Timmermans and Haas called for a 'sociology of disease' to develop and challenge the sociology of health and illness. A sociology of disease, they argued, would take seriously the biological and physiological processes of disease in theorising health and illness. Building on two decades of Science and Technology Studies and feminist work on biological actors such as hormones and genes, we propose a 'cortisol sociology' to push further at…
Industrial English language training for overseas workers
Language, disadvantage and discrimination
This paper is in two distinct parts. In the first part we consider some of the ways in which indirect racial discrimination arises through the actual processes of interaction between participants of different ethnic backgrounds. We also give a brief overview of the approaches to awareness and communications training developed by Industrial Language trainers. The second part of the paper is a case study based on the experiences of a group of redun…
Language and disadvantage
General introduction In the 1950s and 1960s, many major urban areas of Britain which had been relatively monolingual and monocultural became multiethnic for the first time. A similar process of transformation occurred in many large industrialized cities of the world and for a similar reason: the need to fill unskilled, unsocial or poorly paid jobs which could not be filled locally. Generally, therefore, the jobs of the newly settled immigrants ha…
Cultural studies and student exchange
The paper discusses the value of both textual and ethnographic approaches to cultural studies. While recognising the importance of textual cultural studies, I suggest some limitations to it and argue for the centrality of ‘living the ethnographic life’ for any students spending a period of time abroad. Such approach combines the analytical and the experiential, based as it is on a methodology in which data and concepts illuminate each other. Lang…
Faking it The Story of “Ohh!”
Faking it
But are they one of us
Les As. traitent de l'inclusion et de l'exclusion dans 2 contextes cles lies au travail (classes d'enseignement postscolaire et entretiens d'embauche) et examinent les responsabilites des enseignants et des employeurs en tant que filtres dans la gestion et l'evaluation des identites sociales. A partir des perspectives theoriques sociologiques et anthropologiques sur la construction de l'identite, les As. analysent des donnees interactionnelles qu…
Going Down
Rethinking Linguistic Relativity
There's nothing so practical as some good theories”
This paper airs some of the issues around the practical relevance of applied linguistics and in particular the relationship between researchers and the institutions and practitioners with whom they work. I suggest that applied linguistics needs to constitute its intellectual base within practical work outside the academy rather than simply applying theory to practice. This entails a more reflexive turn to applied linguistic research, and ethnogra…
Achieving Understanding
Background to the understanding project a social perspective on understanding - some issues of theory and method causes of understanding problems managing understanding from a minority perspective case studies preventing problems of understanding joint negotiation of understanding - procedures for managing problems of understanding taking stock - contexts and reflections
Transcribing Talk
The TESOL Quarterly publishes brief commentaries on aspects of qualitative and quantitative research. For this issue, we asked two researchers to discuss the politics of transcription in research in TESOL
Crosswords
This text is based on a long-term ethnographic and historical study of French-language minority education in Ontario, Canada. Heller addresses a wide range of issues of interest to those concerned with minority languages, particularly in minority language education. These issues include the role of language ideologies, language practices (especially language choice) and policies regarding language and schooling, in the unfolding of ideas about id…
Awareness in Intercultural Communication
This paper extends the notion of Language Awareness to include intercultural communicative awareness. The interconnectedness of language and cultural processes is illustrated through a discussion of metapragmatic awareness. The second half of the paper looks at the potential for misunderstandings in intercultural communication and charts some of the attempts to develop educational programmes and enhance intercultural awareness
Introduction
Introduction
Hybridity in gatekeeping discourse
Introduction
The dynamics of interactional and institutional orders in work-related settings
Talk, Work and Institutional Order
An interdisciplinary approach to talk and its role in creating workplace practice and relationships. Analytic tools drawn from ethnography, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis illuminate a range of workplace discourses. Following an introduction, 16 articles discuss medical practices and health care delivery, methodological debates, and mediation, management and social care.
Thinking Biological Materialities
Acquisition des langues ou socialisation dans et par le discours ? Pour une redéfinition du domaine de recherche sur l'acquisition des langues étrangères
This paper recasts the process of learning to use a second language as language socialisation (SLS). But also identifies some limitations of SLS. The social aspects of language learning and use include not only a study of second language interaction but also the wider social outcomes of intercultural encounters. Detailed analyses of encounters between minority workers and gatekeepers from the majority group are used to illuminate the socio-cultur…
Biological Behavior? Hormones, Psychology, and Sex
Contemporary behavioral endocrinology and biological psychology claim that sex hormones play an important role in the production of sex differences in human and other animal behaviors. This article critically examines these claims, which range from simple biologically determinist arguments through to more complex attempts to theorize the connected roles of the hormonal and the social. In each case, these sciences rely on a social/biological disti…
Listening To 'Gene Talk
review of CENTURY OF THE GENE, by Evelyn Fox Keller
Successful Aging' With Hormone Replacement Therapy
(2002). 'Successful Aging' With Hormone Replacement Therapy: It May Be Sexist, But What If It Works? Science as Culture: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 39-59
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