Rosie Cox
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3711078 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Rosie Cox |
| NOMBRES | Rosie |
| APELLIDO | Cox |
| FIRMA | COX R |
| AFILIACIONES | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2830-7234 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 281 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Care and the academy
This commentary reflects on research jointly conducted by the Development Geographies Research Group (DevGRG) and the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG) of the RGS‐IBG, which aimed to understand the challenges faced by academics with care responsibilities. We set out the effects of research funding policies and practices on researchers' ability to combine careers as academic geographers with care responsibilities, highlighting…
Feminism and the Servant Problem
Laura Schwartz's excellent history of domestic workers and the women's suffrage movement explores the shared political struggles and deep divides between domestic workers, working-class housewives, and middle- and upper-class mistresses who were involved in British first-wave feminist movements. She puts encounters between domestic worker activists and their feminist employers under a microscope and in wider context, detailing the working conditi…
Queering the Interior
Cultural History of Twin Beds
Title Description: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. A Cultural History of Twin Beds challenges our most ingrained assumptions about intimacy, sexuality, domesticity and hygiene by tracing the rise and fall of twin beds as a popular sleeping arrangement for married couples between 1870 and 1970. Modern preconceptions of the twin bed revolve around their u…
A review of Migrant Women’s Voices Talking About Life and Work in the UK Since 1945 By Linda McDowell
"A review of Migrant Women’s Voices Talking About Life and Work in the UK Since 1945 By Linda McDowell." Economic Geography, 93(3), pp. 317–318
What are Homes Made of? Building Materials, DIY and the Homeyness of Homes
This paper considers the meanings that are attached to, and outcomes produced by, the things that houses are built from. It reflects on the meanings attached to the ‘robustness’ of building materials for people who carry out DIY. DIY is important to some people as a way to build relationships and perform a culturally valued identity. For interviewees in New Zealand working on their own homes was an important aspect of their lives and more malleab…
This is the Life I Want
London is an important destination for au pairs, who, like many other young migrants, are attracted by the social, cultural and economic opportunities the city offers. London also has strong demand for au pair labour, shaped by childcare regimes and working practices that have made in-home, privatised childcare popular with many families and a migration regime, including the deregulation of au pairing, which has funnelled migrants into low-paid d…
Global Domestic/Homecare Workers
There are over fifty million domestic and homecare workers worldwide who carry out housework and take care of children, elderly people, and vulnerable adults in private homes. The majority are women; and domestic work has become a migrant niche in many countries. Domestic workers are often subject to immigration rules and working conditions that make them particularly vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.
Materials, skills and gender identities
The article explores the interactions of materials, skills and gender identity through examining DIY practices in New Zealand. It traces the relationship between materials used for home repairs, the competences needed to use them and the (re)production of specific gendered identities. It argues that housing and building materials were an important part of the European settler history of the country and this history forms the context within which …
Building a Market
Food Culture in Colonial Asia
CECILIA LEONG-SALOBIR. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2011. 191 pp. £90.00, hardcover. Food Culture in Colonial Asia traces the foodways and cuisine associated with the British expatriates who gov
House/Work
This paper explores the literatures on home as a place of work and a space of consumption. Geographers have made significant contributions to our understandings of homes as spaces that are (re)made by the work and consumption that goes on within them, as well as being locales of many different forms of work (paid and unpaid) and multifarious consumption activities. The paper focuses on how work and consumption in the home intertwine. That is how …
Gendered spaces of commoditised care
Geographical work on care is flourishing at present and an inspiring range of articles and special issues has emerged within the discipline in recent years (see, e.g. themed section in Environment
The complications of 'hiring a hubby
This paper examines the commoditisation of traditionally male domestic tasks through interviews with handymen who own franchises in the company 'Hire A Hubby' in New Zealand and homeowners who have paid for home repair tasks to be done. Discussions of the commoditisation of traditionally female tasks in the home have revealed the emotional conflicts of paying others to care as well as the exploitative and degrading conditions that often arise whe…
Competitive mothering and delegated care
This paper uses the idea of 'competitive care' to explore how the mothering projects of nanny and au pair employers and the carers they employ can become inter-twined and yet may also be in conflict or competition. The paper draws on work by Cameron Lynne Macdonald (2010) and Joan Tronto (2006) to make two arguments about the inter-twining of current practices of competitive mothering and the employment of nannies and au pairs. First, practices o…
Dirt
Dirt' reveals the fascinating world of filth that remains one of the very last taboos. Our major new exhibition takes a closer look at something that surrounds us but that we are often reluctant to confront. 'Dirt' travels across centuries and continents to explore our ambivalent relationship with dirt. Bringing together around 200 artefacts spanning visual art, documentary photography, cultural ephemera, scientific artefacts, film and literature…
Some problems and possibilities of caring
Writing on care highlights that caring is full of both problems and possibilities. Caring for others can be a source of pleasure and fulfillment, but it can also be undervalued and denied, a source
Doing Food Differently
(this article did not have an abstract)
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food presents a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of alternatives to current models of food provision. The book offers insights into the identities, motives and practices of individuals engaged in reconnecting producers, consumers and food. Arguing for a critical revaluation of the meanings of choice and convenience, Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food provides evidence to support the construc…
The Au Pair Body
The employment of au pairs to provide childcare, cleaning and other domestic services has been steadily increasing in the UK. This article provides an analysis of representations of au pairs in the British press and on the websites of agencies placing au pairs. This analysis seeks to understand how such imaginings of au pairs affect their life in Britain and how au pairs themselves respond to such imaginings. It argues that the competing portraya…
Possible Food Economies
Modes of food production-consumption defined as 'alternative' have received considerable academic attention, with studies exploring both their potential for contributing to rural development strategies and the opportunities they provide for countering established power relations in food supply systems. However, the use of the term 'alternative' as part of a persistent dualism in which it is opposed to the 'conventional' is problematic as it loses…
The Servant Problem
There are now more servants in Britain than in Victorian times. This explosion in paid domestic employment is part of a global trend. Women from countries such as the Philippines take on domestic jobs in order to support families at home, whilst students from Eastern Europe, the EU and Brazil work as au pairs in order to study English and improve their employment prospects. Rosie Cox's timely new work examines the reality of paid domestic labour …
Researching European ‘alternative’ food networks
Recent European literature on ‘alternative’ food networks (AFNs) draws heavily upon an apparently accessible and diverse body of non‐conventional food networks in the agro‐food sector and whilst researchers frequently refer to individual examples of farmers markets, box schemes, producer cooperatives and community‐supported agriculture projects, less attention is given to the methodological processes that facilitate the identification and examina…
Hard Labour
Managing sustainable farmed landscape through 'alternative' food networks
This paper focuses on a case study of an 'alternative' food network based in the Abruzzo National Park, Italy, to explore how ideas of sustainable farmland management can be expressed through broader understandings of developing networks of care concerned with local economies and societies, high-quality specialist food products, particular 'traditional' farming practices and livestock breeds, as well as the ecology of a farmed landscape. The sche…
Gendered spaces of commoditised care
Geographical work on care is flourishing at present and an inspiring range of articles and special issues has emerged within the discipline in recent years (see, e.g. themed section in Environment
Some problems and possibilities of caring
Writing on care highlights that caring is full of both problems and possibilities. Caring for others can be a source of pleasure and fulfillment, but it can also be undervalued and denied, a source
Possible Food Economies
Modes of food production-consumption defined as 'alternative' have received considerable academic attention, with studies exploring both their potential for contributing to rural development strategies and the opportunities they provide for countering established power relations in food supply systems. However, the use of the term 'alternative' as part of a persistent dualism in which it is opposed to the 'conventional' is problematic as it loses…
Playing Happy Families
This article examines the way that rules about use of rooms, guests and eating practices operated within au pair employing households in London, England, and how these worked to structure relations between au pairs and their employers. Au pair employment has been growing in Britain in recent years and the au pair scheme provides a particularly interesting situation in which to examine quasi-familial relations because it requires host families to …
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food presents a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of alternatives to current models of food provision. The book offers insights into the identities, motives and practices of individuals engaged in reconnecting producers, consumers and food. Arguing for a critical revaluation of the meanings of choice and convenience, Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food provides evidence to support the construc…
Managing sustainable farmed landscape through 'alternative' food networks
This paper focuses on a case study of an 'alternative' food network based in the Abruzzo National Park, Italy, to explore how ideas of sustainable farmland management can be expressed through broader understandings of developing networks of care concerned with local economies and societies, high-quality specialist food products, particular 'traditional' farming practices and livestock breeds, as well as the ecology of a farmed landscape. The sche…
The Au Pair Body
The employment of au pairs to provide childcare, cleaning and other domestic services has been steadily increasing in the UK. This article provides an analysis of representations of au pairs in the British press and on the websites of agencies placing au pairs. This analysis seeks to understand how such imaginings of au pairs affect their life in Britain and how au pairs themselves respond to such imaginings. It argues that the competing portraya…
Researching European ‘alternative’ food networks
Recent European literature on ‘alternative’ food networks (AFNs) draws heavily upon an apparently accessible and diverse body of non‐conventional food networks in the agro‐food sector and whilst researchers frequently refer to individual examples of farmers markets, box schemes, producer cooperatives and community‐supported agriculture projects, less attention is given to the methodological processes that facilitate the identification and examina…
The complications of 'hiring a hubby
This paper examines the commoditisation of traditionally male domestic tasks through interviews with handymen who own franchises in the company 'Hire A Hubby' in New Zealand and homeowners who have paid for home repair tasks to be done. Discussions of the commoditisation of traditionally female tasks in the home have revealed the emotional conflicts of paying others to care as well as the exploitative and degrading conditions that often arise whe…
Globalization, polarization and the informal sector
Considerable debate has occurred over whether ‘global cities’ are witnessing polarization of their labour forces into highly paid professionals and low paid personal service workers. This paper offers evidence on paid domestic labour in London, some of which occurs in the informal sector, and considers its potential significance for the polarization debate
House/Work
This paper explores the literatures on home as a place of work and a space of consumption. Geographers have made significant contributions to our understandings of homes as spaces that are (re)made by the work and consumption that goes on within them, as well as being locales of many different forms of work (paid and unpaid) and multifarious consumption activities. The paper focuses on how work and consumption in the home intertwine. That is how …
Invisible labour
Paid domestic employment is increasing in Britain. This is the result of income polarisation and the growth of female employment. In other parts of the world domestic employment has been shown to be of low status and to be denigrated by those involved. Interviews with domestic workers and their employers in London show this to be the case in Britain too. Domestic work is unpopular. Work performed by domestic employees is often invisible or under‐…
Materials, skills and gender identities
The article explores the interactions of materials, skills and gender identity through examining DIY practices in New Zealand. It traces the relationship between materials used for home repairs, the competences needed to use them and the (re)production of specific gendered identities. It argues that housing and building materials were an important part of the European settler history of the country and this history forms the context within which …
Doing Food Differently
(this article did not have an abstract)
What are Homes Made of? Building Materials, DIY and the Homeyness of Homes
This paper considers the meanings that are attached to, and outcomes produced by, the things that houses are built from. It reflects on the meanings attached to the ‘robustness’ of building materials for people who carry out DIY. DIY is important to some people as a way to build relationships and perform a culturally valued identity. For interviewees in New Zealand working on their own homes was an important aspect of their lives and more malleab…
This is the Life I Want
London is an important destination for au pairs, who, like many other young migrants, are attracted by the social, cultural and economic opportunities the city offers. London also has strong demand for au pair labour, shaped by childcare regimes and working practices that have made in-home, privatised childcare popular with many families and a migration regime, including the deregulation of au pairing, which has funnelled migrants into low-paid d…
Care and the academy
This commentary reflects on research jointly conducted by the Development Geographies Research Group (DevGRG) and the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG) of the RGS‐IBG, which aimed to understand the challenges faced by academics with care responsibilities. We set out the effects of research funding policies and practices on researchers' ability to combine careers as academic geographers with care responsibilities, highlighting…
Food Culture in Colonial Asia
CECILIA LEONG-SALOBIR. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2011. 191 pp. £90.00, hardcover. Food Culture in Colonial Asia traces the foodways and cuisine associated with the British expatriates who gov
Invisible labour
Paid domestic employment is increasing in Britain. This is the result of income polarisation and the growth of female employment. In other parts of the world domestic employment has been shown to be of low status and to be denigrated by those involved. Interviews with domestic workers and their employers in London show this to be the case in Britain too. Domestic work is unpopular. Work performed by domestic employees is often invisible or under‐…
Globalization, polarization and the informal sector
Considerable debate has occurred over whether ‘global cities’ are witnessing polarization of their labour forces into highly paid professionals and low paid personal service workers. This paper offers evidence on paid domestic labour in London, some of which occurs in the informal sector, and considers its potential significance for the polarization debate
Jamaican Domestics, Filipina Housekeepers and English Nannies
Playing Happy Families
This article examines the way that rules about use of rooms, guests and eating practices operated within au pair employing households in London, England, and how these worked to structure relations between au pairs and their employers. Au pair employment has been growing in Britain in recent years and the au pair scheme provides a particularly interesting situation in which to examine quasi-familial relations because it requires host families to …
The Servant Problem
There are now more servants in Britain than in Victorian times. This explosion in paid domestic employment is part of a global trend. Women from countries such as the Philippines take on domestic jobs in order to support families at home, whilst students from Eastern Europe, the EU and Brazil work as au pairs in order to study English and improve their employment prospects. Rosie Cox's timely new work examines the reality of paid domestic labour …
Researching European ‘alternative’ food networks
Recent European literature on ‘alternative’ food networks (AFNs) draws heavily upon an apparently accessible and diverse body of non‐conventional food networks in the agro‐food sector and whilst researchers frequently refer to individual examples of farmers markets, box schemes, producer cooperatives and community‐supported agriculture projects, less attention is given to the methodological processes that facilitate the identification and examina…
Hard Labour
Managing sustainable farmed landscape through 'alternative' food networks
This paper focuses on a case study of an 'alternative' food network based in the Abruzzo National Park, Italy, to explore how ideas of sustainable farmland management can be expressed through broader understandings of developing networks of care concerned with local economies and societies, high-quality specialist food products, particular 'traditional' farming practices and livestock breeds, as well as the ecology of a farmed landscape. The sche…
The Au Pair Body
The employment of au pairs to provide childcare, cleaning and other domestic services has been steadily increasing in the UK. This article provides an analysis of representations of au pairs in the British press and on the websites of agencies placing au pairs. This analysis seeks to understand how such imaginings of au pairs affect their life in Britain and how au pairs themselves respond to such imaginings. It argues that the competing portraya…
Possible Food Economies
Modes of food production-consumption defined as 'alternative' have received considerable academic attention, with studies exploring both their potential for contributing to rural development strategies and the opportunities they provide for countering established power relations in food supply systems. However, the use of the term 'alternative' as part of a persistent dualism in which it is opposed to the 'conventional' is problematic as it loses…
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food
Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food presents a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of alternatives to current models of food provision. The book offers insights into the identities, motives and practices of individuals engaged in reconnecting producers, consumers and food. Arguing for a critical revaluation of the meanings of choice and convenience, Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food provides evidence to support the construc…
Doing Food Differently
(this article did not have an abstract)
Some problems and possibilities of caring
Writing on care highlights that caring is full of both problems and possibilities. Caring for others can be a source of pleasure and fulfillment, but it can also be undervalued and denied, a source
Competitive mothering and delegated care
This paper uses the idea of 'competitive care' to explore how the mothering projects of nanny and au pair employers and the carers they employ can become inter-twined and yet may also be in conflict or competition. The paper draws on work by Cameron Lynne Macdonald (2010) and Joan Tronto (2006) to make two arguments about the inter-twining of current practices of competitive mothering and the employment of nannies and au pairs. First, practices o…
Dirt
Dirt' reveals the fascinating world of filth that remains one of the very last taboos. Our major new exhibition takes a closer look at something that surrounds us but that we are often reluctant to confront. 'Dirt' travels across centuries and continents to explore our ambivalent relationship with dirt. Bringing together around 200 artefacts spanning visual art, documentary photography, cultural ephemera, scientific artefacts, film and literature…
Food Culture in Colonial Asia
CECILIA LEONG-SALOBIR. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2011. 191 pp. £90.00, hardcover. Food Culture in Colonial Asia traces the foodways and cuisine associated with the British expatriates who gov
House/Work
This paper explores the literatures on home as a place of work and a space of consumption. Geographers have made significant contributions to our understandings of homes as spaces that are (re)made by the work and consumption that goes on within them, as well as being locales of many different forms of work (paid and unpaid) and multifarious consumption activities. The paper focuses on how work and consumption in the home intertwine. That is how …
Gendered spaces of commoditised care
Geographical work on care is flourishing at present and an inspiring range of articles and special issues has emerged within the discipline in recent years (see, e.g. themed section in Environment
The complications of 'hiring a hubby
This paper examines the commoditisation of traditionally male domestic tasks through interviews with handymen who own franchises in the company 'Hire A Hubby' in New Zealand and homeowners who have paid for home repair tasks to be done. Discussions of the commoditisation of traditionally female tasks in the home have revealed the emotional conflicts of paying others to care as well as the exploitative and degrading conditions that often arise whe…
Building a Market
Global Domestic/Homecare Workers
There are over fifty million domestic and homecare workers worldwide who carry out housework and take care of children, elderly people, and vulnerable adults in private homes. The majority are women; and domestic work has become a migrant niche in many countries. Domestic workers are often subject to immigration rules and working conditions that make them particularly vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.
Materials, skills and gender identities
The article explores the interactions of materials, skills and gender identity through examining DIY practices in New Zealand. It traces the relationship between materials used for home repairs, the competences needed to use them and the (re)production of specific gendered identities. It argues that housing and building materials were an important part of the European settler history of the country and this history forms the context within which …
What are Homes Made of? Building Materials, DIY and the Homeyness of Homes
This paper considers the meanings that are attached to, and outcomes produced by, the things that houses are built from. It reflects on the meanings attached to the ‘robustness’ of building materials for people who carry out DIY. DIY is important to some people as a way to build relationships and perform a culturally valued identity. For interviewees in New Zealand working on their own homes was an important aspect of their lives and more malleab…
This is the Life I Want
London is an important destination for au pairs, who, like many other young migrants, are attracted by the social, cultural and economic opportunities the city offers. London also has strong demand for au pair labour, shaped by childcare regimes and working practices that have made in-home, privatised childcare popular with many families and a migration regime, including the deregulation of au pairing, which has funnelled migrants into low-paid d…
A review of Migrant Women’s Voices Talking About Life and Work in the UK Since 1945 By Linda McDowell
"A review of Migrant Women’s Voices Talking About Life and Work in the UK Since 1945 By Linda McDowell." Economic Geography, 93(3), pp. 317–318
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