Kerry Woodward
Biographic Data
| ID | 106361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerry Woodward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodward |
| SIGNATURE | WOODWARD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3292-7073 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Settlement service provision and social capital among humanitarian migrants in Australia: A service provider perspective
Purpose In Australia, settlement service providers are the first point of contact for humanitarian migrants, and the support they offer plays a critical role in shaping migrants' long-term integration outcomes. Given the heightened risk of social exclusion among humanitarian migrants – stemming from experiences of forced displacement – developing social capital is essential to their successful settlement. This study explored the capacity of the s…
Retheorising capitalism
The climate catastrophe and transgression of planetary boundaries, together with the erosion of democracy and rise of oligarchy, have intensified demands for critical reflection on capitalism. This edited collection responds to these demands, featuring contributions from scholars across the social sciences disciplines and geographical contexts. The book explores ways to rethink and retheorise capitalism through theoretical, conceptual, and empiri…
Girls show boys the way’: Insights into the growth of women’s game
This article describes the processes of transformation within media practices in football, from an insider’s point of view, demonstrating the uneven and often incremental transformations of gender relations within football from the commentator’s perspective. The view from the press box, over the years
The football commentator and the social commentator: A conversation
Addressing employment barriers for humanitarian migrants: Perspectives from settlement services
This research seeks to understand the challenges faced by settlement service providers (SSPs) in assisting humanitarian migrants to secure appropriate employment. In‐depth interviews with 26 SSPs identified that current impediments to facilitating humanitarian migrants' employment related to employment support programmes; settlement service partnerships; cultural appropriateness of services; employment readiness, experience, skills and knowledge;…
Understanding settlement services literacy and the provision of settlement services for humanitarian migrants in Australia—A service provider perspective
Over the past 40 years, successive Australian Governments have developed a comprehensive programme of settlement services (SS) designed to improve settlement outcomes for humanitarian migrants. Many humanitarian migrants do not arrive with the appropriate skills and abilities to fully benefit from available SS. “Settlement services literacy” (SSL) has been proposed as a framework to contextualise factors that may enable or constrain humanitarian …
Understanding immigrant settlement services literacy in the context of settlement service utilisation, settlement outcomes and wellbeing among new migrants: A mixed methods systematic review
Successful settlement and integration are key objectives of migration policy in most host countries, yet ‘immigrant settlement services literacy’ (ISSL) and settlement service utilisation are poorly understood. This review investigates ISSL, a conceptual framework where new migrants develop abilities to know, understand, access, critically navigate, and advocate for more effective settlement services. The systematic review adhered to the PRISMA g…
Social Relations, Gender and Empowerment in Economic Development: Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur
This article reflects on commissioned research to assess gender impacts of a local economic development project on the island of Flores in Indonesia. The programme in Flores succeeded in raising household incomes and has become the basis for a model that has now been applied globally. Concurrently, however, the project witnessed the imposition of a narrow capitalocentric economic development vision and a failure to comprehend the nuance and richn…
The gendering of defining moments: Heroic narratives and pivotal points in footballing memories
Footballing attachments are made through memories not least by being able to say ‘I was there’ or at least ‘I remember where Iwas when we won the World Cup or beat Leeds United 6–0 or when Pele/Cruyff/Kempes/ Maradonna/Bergkamp scored or when Messi set up the goal. You can fill in your own examples, some of which will be more personal and local, and others more global. These memories draw footballing communities together through virtual collectiv…
Race, Gender, and Poverty Governance: The Case of the U.S. Child Welfare System
This article argues that the U.S. child welfare system is a primary institution of racialized and gendered poverty governance, operating at the nexus of the assistive and punitive arms of the state. With attention to the ways race and gender structure the child welfare system, I apply the concept of neoliberal paternalism to examine state efforts to reform “bad” parents into “good neoliberal citizen-parents.” I highlight the increasingly decentra…
The Relevance of Bourdieu’s Concepts for Studying the Intersections of Poverty, Race, and Culture
Chapter abstract The connection between poverty and culture has long been a contentious one in the sociological literature. While distancing itself from the culture of poverty theory of the past, recent scholarship seeks to provide a deeper analysis of the relationship between structure and culture and how this relates to poverty. This chapter argues that the work of Pierre Bourdieu—and the significant body of literature that has built upon his k…
Learning to Labor, Love, and Live: Shaping the Good Neoliberal Citizen in State Work and Marriage Programs
Promoting work and marriage were primary aims of the 1996 welfare reform bill, yet implementation of these dual goals has not been analyzed comparatively. In analyzing our respective ethnographic data from government-funded work and marriage classes, we identified similarities in the programs' focus on teaching the cognitive and emotional skills presumed to comprise what we call the good neoliberal citizen. Drawing on the programs' curricula and …
Lived actualities of cultural experience and social worlds: Representing David Bowie
David Bowie provides an excellent illustration of the focus of this article, representation. The discussion demonstrates the continuing relevance of representation as a relational concept within the circuit of culture, which can be used to make sense of Bowie as a cultural phenomenon. Bowie combines the different elements of the circuit whilst being a cultural icon heavily dependent upon the impact of image, visibility and visualization, which ar…
Editors' Report 2017
Editors' Report 2016
This is our third year as the Editors of Sociology and we are especially pleased to be the editors in this very significant year in the journal’s history. We celebrate the journal’s continued presence at the forefront of British sociology, publishing outstanding and original peer-reviewed articles to advance theoretical understanding and report empirical research on all sociological topics. The journal has continued to thrive during 2015 and we a…
The Politics of In/Visibility: Being There
Visibility and being seen to be there matters in contemporary society. This book explores the politics of looking and being seen, and suggests new ways of understanding the gaze as relational and embodied. It uses a variety of examples; from sport, with its distinction between the authenticity of the real fan who is there in the flesh and the spectator who watches online or on television; from film and theatre; and from the sexualized images of p…
Gender, Sex and Sexuality Grand Challenge
SPECIALTY GRAND CHALLENGE article Front. Sociol., 03 May 2016Sec. Gender, Sex and Sexualities Volume 1 - 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2016.00004
Marketing Black Babies versus Recruiting Black Families: The Racialized Strategies Private Adoption Agencies Use to Find Homes for Black Babies
By analyzing adoption websites, the author explores the racialized nature of the private adoption industry, beginning with a problem seemingly faced by many adoption professionals: finding homes for Black babies. By examining various approaches to this problem, the author identifies the racial projects engaged in by adoption professionals. Although most adoption websites reproduce racial hierarchies, websites that contest the racial system are al…
The Politics of In/Visibility: Being There
Visibility matters in contemporary societies; online, in the media and in the public eye. But who is seen and how? Are women still seen through a male gaze? This book explores the politics of looking
Knowing mothers: Researching maternal identity change Wendy Hollway
Editors' Report 2015
Social Sciences: The Big Issues
The social sciences are about people and the relationships between individuals and the social and material world we live in. They are about the social structures which shape – and are shaped by – social forces such as ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality and age and the bodies we inhabit. How are these relationships changing and to what extent and how can people influence change? What are the big issues which concern us today? How can the social sc…
School or Therapy: Two Approaches to Empowering Welfare-Reliant Women
Ethnographic data from two welfare offices in Contra Costa County, California reveal a welfare program that broke with the work-first norm and empowered welfare-reliant women. Yet each office had a different approach to empowerment. The Lewiston office encouraged participants to pursue education to expand their future possibilities. The Strafford office, on the other hand, emphasized therapeutic services and discourses to help participants overco…
Pimping the System: How Economic, Social, and Cultural Capital Are Deployed in a Welfare Program
Based on my ethnographic research in Contra Costa County, California (CCC), I propose a new way of examining and comparing welfare-to-work programs. I argue that within the confines of welfare reform, the best programs-those with the greatest benefits for recipients-provide welfare-reliant women with significant economic, social, and cultural capital. In addition to making such capital available, these programs deploy the dominant and subjugated …
Editors' Report
Hanging out and hanging about: Insider/outsider research in the sport of boxing
This article offers reflection on the relationship between the researcher and the field of research, within the sport of men's boxing, which is strongly characterized by polarized oppositions: between winning and losing, success and failure, women and men and, perhaps most importantly for the researcher, `insiders' and `outsiders'. It is this interrelationship between `insiders' and `outsiders' and the embodiment, not only of the practitioners of…
The Multiple Meanings of Work for Welfare-Reliant Women
Boxing, Masculinity and Identity: The ‘I’ of the Tiger
Boxing is infused with ideas about masculinity, power, race and social class, and as such is an ideal lens through which social scientists can examine key modern themes. In addition, its inherent contradictions of extreme violence and beauty and of discipline and excess have long been a source of inspiration for writers and film makers. Essential reading for anyone interested in the sociology of sport and cultural representations of gender, Boxin…
Rumbles in the Jungle: Boxing, Racialization and the Performance of Masculinity
Men's boxing is a sport with successful, high profile and affluent participants and one that includes many of the very much less well off. It has traditionally involved high participation by men from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. The sport is beset by contradictions, between racism and opportunity, discipline and excess, beautiful bodies and those that are fractured and damaged, and between traditional and alternative presentations of ma…
Learning to Labor, Love, and Live: Shaping the Good Neoliberal Citizen in State Work and Marriage Programs
Promoting work and marriage were primary aims of the 1996 welfare reform bill, yet implementation of these dual goals has not been analyzed comparatively. In analyzing our respective ethnographic data from government-funded work and marriage classes, we identified similarities in the programs' focus on teaching the cognitive and emotional skills presumed to comprise what we call the good neoliberal citizen. Drawing on the programs' curricula and …
Pimping the System: How Economic, Social, and Cultural Capital Are Deployed in a Welfare Program
Based on my ethnographic research in Contra Costa County, California (CCC), I propose a new way of examining and comparing welfare-to-work programs. I argue that within the confines of welfare reform, the best programs-those with the greatest benefits for recipients-provide welfare-reliant women with significant economic, social, and cultural capital. In addition to making such capital available, these programs deploy the dominant and subjugated …
Race, Gender, and Poverty Governance: The Case of the U.S. Child Welfare System
This article argues that the U.S. child welfare system is a primary institution of racialized and gendered poverty governance, operating at the nexus of the assistive and punitive arms of the state. With attention to the ways race and gender structure the child welfare system, I apply the concept of neoliberal paternalism to examine state efforts to reform “bad” parents into “good neoliberal citizen-parents.” I highlight the increasingly decentra…
On and Off the Pitch: Diversity Policies and Transforming Identities
This article examines the operation of diversity policies and practices in the sport of football using textual material from Government initiatives, club websites and interviews with club community based workers to suggest that new identity positions are being put into discourse. Sport and in particular football has become a site at which, rather than being classified as dangerous territory where fans have to be controlled, new, responsible, self…
Introduction: Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens
This special issue arose from a concern with the political logic of the foregrounding of collective cultures in the context of changing citizenship regimes. Its key focus is the conjuncture in which culture – claims of a collective distinction concerning heritage, location, moralities and values – has become the terrain of political struggles over the subject of rights in national and international politics, the re-allocation of entitlements, def…
Legacies of 2012: Putting women's boxing into discourse
This article explores some of the promises of legacy following the summer games in 2012 and demonstrates some of the cultural changes which are made possible in relation to thinking about gender and sport. The article uses Foucault's idea of ideas being ‘put into discourse’ to show how women's boxing in 2012 was taken seriously as an exciting sport and has had an impact upon the cultural hegemonic masculinity of boxing. Legacy involves incrementa…
Class Debate
Bodies on the margins: Regulating bodies, regulatory bodies
Sport is all about bodies, but some bodies are seen as on the margins and policies are directed at re‐situating them into the mainstream. This article explores some of the ways in which embodied selves are the target of diversity policies and practices, especially those implemented by fan‐based, anti‐racist organisations. I use the phenomenological concepts of lived bodies and embodied selves to explore some of the processes involved in addressin…
Marketing Black Babies versus Recruiting Black Families: The Racialized Strategies Private Adoption Agencies Use to Find Homes for Black Babies
By analyzing adoption websites, the author explores the racialized nature of the private adoption industry, beginning with a problem seemingly faced by many adoption professionals: finding homes for Black babies. By examining various approaches to this problem, the author identifies the racial projects engaged in by adoption professionals. Although most adoption websites reproduce racial hierarchies, websites that contest the racial system are al…
School or Therapy: Two Approaches to Empowering Welfare-Reliant Women
Ethnographic data from two welfare offices in Contra Costa County, California reveal a welfare program that broke with the work-first norm and empowered welfare-reliant women. Yet each office had a different approach to empowerment. The Lewiston office encouraged participants to pursue education to expand their future possibilities. The Strafford office, on the other hand, emphasized therapeutic services and discourses to help participants overco…
Being in the academy: A Cross Generational Conversation
Purpose This article aims to develop the methodological and intellectual approach taken in the authors' co‐authored book to explore the synergies and disconnections in the experience of being in the academy at different historical moments using the inter‐relationship between different feminisms in the context of the authors' lived experiences as a mother and daughter whose experience of the academy has crossed second‐wave feminism into third wave…
Addressing employment barriers for humanitarian migrants: Perspectives from settlement services
This research seeks to understand the challenges faced by settlement service providers (SSPs) in assisting humanitarian migrants to secure appropriate employment. In‐depth interviews with 26 SSPs identified that current impediments to facilitating humanitarian migrants' employment related to employment support programmes; settlement service partnerships; cultural appropriateness of services; employment readiness, experience, skills and knowledge;…
Understanding settlement services literacy and the provision of settlement services for humanitarian migrants in Australia—A service provider perspective
Over the past 40 years, successive Australian Governments have developed a comprehensive programme of settlement services (SS) designed to improve settlement outcomes for humanitarian migrants. Many humanitarian migrants do not arrive with the appropriate skills and abilities to fully benefit from available SS. “Settlement services literacy” (SSL) has been proposed as a framework to contextualise factors that may enable or constrain humanitarian …
Social Relations, Gender and Empowerment in Economic Development: Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur
This article reflects on commissioned research to assess gender impacts of a local economic development project on the island of Flores in Indonesia. The programme in Flores succeeded in raising household incomes and has become the basis for a model that has now been applied globally. Concurrently, however, the project witnessed the imposition of a narrow capitalocentric economic development vision and a failure to comprehend the nuance and richn…
The gendering of defining moments: Heroic narratives and pivotal points in footballing memories
Footballing attachments are made through memories not least by being able to say ‘I was there’ or at least ‘I remember where Iwas when we won the World Cup or beat Leeds United 6–0 or when Pele/Cruyff/Kempes/ Maradonna/Bergkamp scored or when Messi set up the goal. You can fill in your own examples, some of which will be more personal and local, and others more global. These memories draw footballing communities together through virtual collectiv…
Gender, Sex and Sexuality Grand Challenge
SPECIALTY GRAND CHALLENGE article Front. Sociol., 03 May 2016Sec. Gender, Sex and Sexualities Volume 1 - 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2016.00004
The Culture of Boxing: Sensation and Affect
Joyce Carol Oates has argued that watching boxing on television is drama, whereas being at the fight is real. Staking a claim to reality is a strategy that is used in order to explain the lasting power of boxing to excite people and as part of the sport's historical endurance and the cultural investment in boxing that crosses a range of fields. This article uses Oates's distinction between drama and what is real to explore the culture of boxing a…
Sounds out of place
Sexology uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science
Mothering the self: Mothers, Daughters, Subjects
Rumbles in the Jungle: Boxing, Racialization and the Performance of Masculinity
Men's boxing is a sport with successful, high profile and affluent participants and one that includes many of the very much less well off. It has traditionally involved high participation by men from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. The sport is beset by contradictions, between racism and opportunity, discipline and excess, beautiful bodies and those that are fractured and damaged, and between traditional and alternative presentations of ma…
Public stories, personal stories
This chapter explores some of the ways in which the routine and the dramatic combine, along with the personal investments that are made in the public displays of boxing in order to evaluate the extent to which boxing identities, especially masculinities, are discursively produced and reconstructed. It also explores how boxing brings together public and personal stories in the reconstruction of masculinities. The chapter brings together different …
When the going gets tough
This chapter explores some of the ways in which masculinities are made and remade through the representation of films, for example in the fight film genre and what could be called &s;boxing films&s;. It examines the ambivalences in cinematic representations and the contradictions boxing reproduce, all of which contribute to the development of theories which offer explanations of the enactment, representation and experience of masculinity in the c…
Masculinity on the ropes?
This chapter begins with questions of identity and goes on to look at how masculinity in particular can be conceptualized before working through some of the pivotal points of identification in the genealogy of boxing in order to highlight some key aspects of processes of identification. It describes men&s;s boxing as a sport which is used to explore contemporary debates about identity by focusing on masculinity in this context. The chapter explor…
Outside in, inside out
Boxing presents a special and distinctive field of inquiry even within the study of sport. Boxing has a contradictory presence in contemporary culture and supporters are aware of the censure it provokes. Boxing research has to incorporate all the aspects: the public stage and the genealogy of the sport and its routine everyday practices. Getting &s;inside&s; the routine and the local can present more problems for the researcher than investigating…
Conclusion
Boxing, far from being an anomaly the persistence of which is hard to explain in contemporary societies, has a great deal to offer in explaining the processes of identification. Boxing and its associated cultural practices are marked by the persistence of collusive masculinities, frequently reproduced in opposition to femininity. The masculinities forged in boxing in training regimes, which are organized around attempts to pre-empt failure, are a…
Boxing bodies and embodied masculinities
Boxing, even more than other sports presents an activity in which the body is central. This chapter addresses some of the debates which have arisen, especially those relating to the idea that the mind and body are separate along with associated issues about the degree to which people are able to exercise agency and especially debates about embodied agency. The embodied masculinities that are forged in boxing can be seen as preemptive masculinitie…
Boxing, Masculinity and Identity: The ‘I’ of the Tiger
Boxing is infused with ideas about masculinity, power, race and social class, and as such is an ideal lens through which social scientists can examine key modern themes. In addition, its inherent contradictions of extreme violence and beauty and of discipline and excess have long been a source of inspiration for writers and film makers. Essential reading for anyone interested in the sociology of sport and cultural representations of gender, Boxin…
On and Off the Pitch: Diversity Policies and Transforming Identities
This article examines the operation of diversity policies and practices in the sport of football using textual material from Government initiatives, club websites and interviews with club community based workers to suggest that new identity positions are being put into discourse. Sport and in particular football has become a site at which, rather than being classified as dangerous territory where fans have to be controlled, new, responsible, self…
The Multiple Meanings of Work for Welfare-Reliant Women
Hanging out and hanging about: Insider/outsider research in the sport of boxing
This article offers reflection on the relationship between the researcher and the field of research, within the sport of men's boxing, which is strongly characterized by polarized oppositions: between winning and losing, success and failure, women and men and, perhaps most importantly for the researcher, `insiders' and `outsiders'. It is this interrelationship between `insiders' and `outsiders' and the embodiment, not only of the practitioners of…
Bodies on the margins: Regulating bodies, regulatory bodies
Sport is all about bodies, but some bodies are seen as on the margins and policies are directed at re‐situating them into the mainstream. This article explores some of the ways in which embodied selves are the target of diversity policies and practices, especially those implemented by fan‐based, anti‐racist organisations. I use the phenomenological concepts of lived bodies and embodied selves to explore some of the processes involved in addressin…
Tuning in to football on the BBC World Service
This article ises the archive as object to explore the politics of sport broadcasting and the particularities of the BBC World Service. The BBC World Service is a contact zone in which the different dimensions of football intersect, throught he interrelationships between the regulating bodies such as the FA, the BBC and in particular the World Service with its own histories, the listeners and supporters, the journalists and players. Football broa…
Sounds out of place
The Culture of Boxing: Sensation and Affect
Joyce Carol Oates has argued that watching boxing on television is drama, whereas being at the fight is real. Staking a claim to reality is a strategy that is used in order to explain the lasting power of boxing to excite people and as part of the sport's historical endurance and the cultural investment in boxing that crosses a range of fields. This article uses Oates's distinction between drama and what is real to explore the culture of boxing a…
Introduction: Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens
This special issue arose from a concern with the political logic of the foregrounding of collective cultures in the context of changing citizenship regimes. Its key focus is the conjuncture in which culture – claims of a collective distinction concerning heritage, location, moralities and values – has become the terrain of political struggles over the subject of rights in national and international politics, the re-allocation of entitlements, def…
Understanding Sport: A socio-cultural analysis
Introduction Chapter 1. Industrial Society, Social Change and Sports Culture Chapter 2. Case Studies in the Growth of Modern Sports Chapter 3. Debates, Interpretations, Theories Chapter 4. Social Stratification and Social Division in Sport Chapter 5. The Social Construction of Identity and Cultural Reproduction Chapter 6. Sport and Representation Chapter 7. Sporting Bodies: Disciplining and Defining Normality Chapter 8. Sport, The State, and the …
Mary Louise Adams, Artistic Impressions Figure Skating: Masculinity and the Limits of Sport
Mary Louise Adams, Artistic Impressions Figure Skating: Masculinity and the Limits of Sport (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011). Pp. 294. £27.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-4426-1171-9 Mary Louise Ad
Sport and the challenges to racism
edited by Jonathan Long and Karl Spracklen, Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan, 2011, 283 pp., £55.00, ISBN 978-0230236158 Sport and the Challenges to Racism, with its foreword by Lord Herman Ouseley
Being in the academy: A Cross Generational Conversation
Purpose This article aims to develop the methodological and intellectual approach taken in the authors' co‐authored book to explore the synergies and disconnections in the experience of being in the academy at different historical moments using the inter‐relationship between different feminisms in the context of the authors' lived experiences as a mother and daughter whose experience of the academy has crossed second‐wave feminism into third wave…
Sporting Times
Written against the backdrop of the 2012 London Olympics, this book examines the idea of 'time' in sport, using time as a conceptual lens to explore movement, bodies, sports reporting, memory, disabil
Legacies of 2012: Putting women's boxing into discourse
This article explores some of the promises of legacy following the summer games in 2012 and demonstrates some of the cultural changes which are made possible in relation to thinking about gender and sport. The article uses Foucault's idea of ideas being ‘put into discourse’ to show how women's boxing in 2012 was taken seriously as an exciting sport and has had an impact upon the cultural hegemonic masculinity of boxing. Legacy involves incrementa…
The Urban Geography of Boxing
Sociology (41 works) · Political science (27 works) · Gender Studies (20 works) · Law (17 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (16 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (16 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Aesthetics (11 works) · Art (11 works)