Kimberly Jamie
Biographic Data
| ID | 148324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberly Jamie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberly |
| FAMILY NAME | Jamie |
| SIGNATURE | JAMIE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9151-0871 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Using walkshops as a collaborative method in interdisciplinary research
In this article, we analyse the use of ‘walkshops’ as a collaborative method for interdisciplinary research collaboration in the field of pollution. Walkshops are mobile conversations, usually undertaken outdoors with small groups of people, that engage with landscapes as stimuli for discussion. While walking methods are well-established for data collection, pedagogic practice and public engagement, there is comparatively little attention paid to…
Gig Economy
The so‐called gig economy, whereby self‐employed workers are paid for completing discrete tasks, is changing the landscape of work in the west. Although freelance work has always been a part of the labor market, it was typically concentrated in areas such as the creative industries. The coalescence of diverse technological, economic, and political factors has led to freelance work becoming an increasingly common way of organizing labor through th…
Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence
Whatever I said didn’t register with her”
Through these data and specifically drawing on the framework of 'cultural health capital,' we suggest that given the deep purchase of cultural tropes surrounding it, fatness is perceived to embody and therefore confer on patients' assumptions of low cultural health capital. We argue that ubiquitously characteristic of medical fatphobia is what we call an 'interactional and relational disconnect' between fat patients and healthcare practitioners. …
Money Probably Has Something to Do with My Life
This article contributes to an understanding of work-intensive entrepreneurial lives as part of analysing the intensification of work in society. It offers an empirical extension of Foucauldian analyses, which attribute commitment to work to the influence of neoliberal enterprise discourse while often neglecting the material conditions of entrepreneurial work. The article draws on moderate constructionism and materialist discourse analysis to off…
Intuitive tracking
Under the conditions of neo-liberal individual responsibilisation, self-tracking has become the predominant model of health management. More recently, though, intuition-based approaches to exercise and eating are also gaining traction. These two approaches are often located in opposition. While self-tracking uses datafication and calculability to structure health decisions, intuitive approaches encourage abandonment of rules and restrictions arou…
“It has literally been a lifesaver”
This article focuses on the development of online fat kinship in the Health at Every Size (HAES) movement. Drawing upon 15 fat women’s experiences of their HAES community membership, we explore the ways that fat kinship develops around fatphobic experiences, and how it can facilitate the mitigation of fat oppression. Building upon the notion of the “knowing community,” we suggest that sharing experiences of, and developing tactics against, medica…
Reading clay
Clay has a long history in the global south and has been extensively studied by 'Western' social scientists particularly anthropologists and archeologists in relation to histories of earlier civilisations and cultural practices. Clay in relation to contemporary 'science' has received less attention in social science despite the emergence of the sub-discipline of 'clay science' and its increasing focus on clay to transform wide ranging aspects of …
Gainingweightiscool
In this article, we explore transformation photos on Instagram as ‘digital artefacts’ that can inform understandings of eating disorder recovery in the context of sport, exercise and health. Transformation photos are two images (from different time points) set alongside one another to represent the changing of bodies in look, shape or size. These images are prevalent within eating disorder recovery and fitness spaces on Instagram and typically di…
They've Been with Me the Whole Journey
The role of time in organisational and relational development remains an understudied component of work and employment. In response, this article draws attention to the ways that temporality informs relations between workers and clients in service work. Drawing on data from interviews and observations with hair stylists in salons located in the North East of England from 2016 to 2018, we provide a nuanced account of emotional service work by cons…
Healthcare practitioner relationships, cultural health capital and breastfeeding support for adolescent mothers
Objectives: Breastfeeding is the optimal method of infant nutrition. Despite this, rates of breastfeeding in high-income countries are low and mirror wider health inequalities with women from under-served populations being least likely to breastfeed. In the UK, adolescent mothers from areas of high socio-economic deprivation are among the least likely groups to initiate and continue breastfeeding. This study aimed to examine young women’s experie…
The Social and Material Life of Antimicrobial Clay
While sociologists have made significant theoretical contributions to the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) debate, little attention has been given to the antimicrobial products themselves. Here we advocate a significant new direction which centers on the social and material life of antimicrobials, specifically on what they are made from and how this affects their use. This focus is timely because, in the context of declining efficacy of biomedical …
Digital pruning
In the past decade, a wealth of research has focused on women and social media. Typically assembled according to the logic of ‘risk’ and ‘exposure’, this extensive work tends to operate within a negative paradigm whereby women’s engagement with the digital produces harmful outcomes for wellbeing. This article makes a novel contribution to this literature by tracing the ways in which women who are in recovery from eating disorders and engaged in w…
Moving beyond the image
Cold Winds and Warm Attachments
The question of personal attachment to work in neoliberalism is subject to debate. Some scholars postulate that personal attachment to work based on durability, collectivity and predictability is weakening because of changes in its organisation; work ceases to provide the basis of subjectivity and identity. Conversely, others claim work, and neoliberal economic logic generally, pervades ever deeper into our lives, shapes our subjectivity, and inc…
I just don't think it's that natural
Breastfeeding is recognised globally as the optimal method of infant feeding. For Murphy (1999) its nutritional superiority positions breastfeeding as a moral imperative where mothers who formula-feed are open to charges of maternal deviance and must account for their behaviour. We suggest that this moral superiority of breastfeeding is tenuous for mothers from marginalised contexts and competes with discourses which locate breastfeeding, rather …
Gig Economy
The so‐called “gig economy,” whereby self‐employed workers are paid for completing discrete tasks, is changing the landscape of work in the west. Although freelance work has always been a part of the labor market, it was typically concentrated in areas such as the creative industries. Owing to the coalescence of diverse technological, economic, and political factors, freelance work through the gig economy is becoming an increasingly common way of…
Social Transformations
Discovering Sociology
This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce Sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over the book’s twelve chapters, students discover what Sociology is, alongside its historical development and emergent new concerns. They will be led through the theories that underpin the discipline and f…
Paul Atkinson, For Ethnography
Transferring from Clinical Pharmacy Practice to Qualitative Research
Researcher identity can present methodological and practical, as well as epistemological and ethical tensions, in sociological research. Identity management, such as the presentation of the self during a research interview, can have significant effects on the research encounter and data collected. 'White coat syndrome', the disjointed interaction between clinicians and patients arising from unequal power and expertise, can occur in research encou…
The pharmacy gaze
The body is a central feature of pharmacy practice. Despite this and the increased sociological focus on bodies in health and social care practice, the nature of the body and the work undertaken upon it in pharmacy have not been explored. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with hospital and community pharmacists, this article explores the ways in which bodies are constructed and managed in these two practice contexts. It is argued that pharmac…
They're Made in Factories and Not by Witches on the Allotment”
This article explores midlife women's experiences and approaches related to complementary and alternative therapies (CAMS). Ninety-six midlife women were asked about their use of CAMs as part of their overall approach to midlife health. Qualitative thematic analysis was combined with a case-based approach. Women set their experience of CAMs in the context of conventional medicine taking and discussed their safety and different uses. For treatment…
They've Been with Me the Whole Journey
The role of time in organisational and relational development remains an understudied component of work and employment. In response, this article draws attention to the ways that temporality informs relations between workers and clients in service work. Drawing on data from interviews and observations with hair stylists in salons located in the North East of England from 2016 to 2018, we provide a nuanced account of emotional service work by cons…
Digital pruning
In the past decade, a wealth of research has focused on women and social media. Typically assembled according to the logic of ‘risk’ and ‘exposure’, this extensive work tends to operate within a negative paradigm whereby women’s engagement with the digital produces harmful outcomes for wellbeing. This article makes a novel contribution to this literature by tracing the ways in which women who are in recovery from eating disorders and engaged in w…
Discovering Sociology
This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce Sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over the book’s twelve chapters, students discover what Sociology is, alongside its historical development and emergent new concerns. They will be led through the theories that underpin the discipline and f…
Whatever I said didn’t register with her”
Through these data and specifically drawing on the framework of 'cultural health capital,' we suggest that given the deep purchase of cultural tropes surrounding it, fatness is perceived to embody and therefore confer on patients' assumptions of low cultural health capital. We argue that ubiquitously characteristic of medical fatphobia is what we call an 'interactional and relational disconnect' between fat patients and healthcare practitioners. …
Cold Winds and Warm Attachments
The question of personal attachment to work in neoliberalism is subject to debate. Some scholars postulate that personal attachment to work based on durability, collectivity and predictability is weakening because of changes in its organisation; work ceases to provide the basis of subjectivity and identity. Conversely, others claim work, and neoliberal economic logic generally, pervades ever deeper into our lives, shapes our subjectivity, and inc…
Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence
The pharmacy gaze
The body is a central feature of pharmacy practice. Despite this and the increased sociological focus on bodies in health and social care practice, the nature of the body and the work undertaken upon it in pharmacy have not been explored. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with hospital and community pharmacists, this article explores the ways in which bodies are constructed and managed in these two practice contexts. It is argued that pharmac…
Money Probably Has Something to Do with My Life
This article contributes to an understanding of work-intensive entrepreneurial lives as part of analysing the intensification of work in society. It offers an empirical extension of Foucauldian analyses, which attribute commitment to work to the influence of neoliberal enterprise discourse while often neglecting the material conditions of entrepreneurial work. The article draws on moderate constructionism and materialist discourse analysis to off…
I just don't think it's that natural
Breastfeeding is recognised globally as the optimal method of infant feeding. For Murphy (1999) its nutritional superiority positions breastfeeding as a moral imperative where mothers who formula-feed are open to charges of maternal deviance and must account for their behaviour. We suggest that this moral superiority of breastfeeding is tenuous for mothers from marginalised contexts and competes with discourses which locate breastfeeding, rather …
Moving beyond the image
Intuitive tracking
Under the conditions of neo-liberal individual responsibilisation, self-tracking has become the predominant model of health management. More recently, though, intuition-based approaches to exercise and eating are also gaining traction. These two approaches are often located in opposition. While self-tracking uses datafication and calculability to structure health decisions, intuitive approaches encourage abandonment of rules and restrictions arou…
Reading clay
Clay has a long history in the global south and has been extensively studied by 'Western' social scientists particularly anthropologists and archeologists in relation to histories of earlier civilisations and cultural practices. Clay in relation to contemporary 'science' has received less attention in social science despite the emergence of the sub-discipline of 'clay science' and its increasing focus on clay to transform wide ranging aspects of …
Gig Economy
The so‐called “gig economy,” whereby self‐employed workers are paid for completing discrete tasks, is changing the landscape of work in the west. Although freelance work has always been a part of the labor market, it was typically concentrated in areas such as the creative industries. Owing to the coalescence of diverse technological, economic, and political factors, freelance work through the gig economy is becoming an increasingly common way of…
Transferring from Clinical Pharmacy Practice to Qualitative Research
Researcher identity can present methodological and practical, as well as epistemological and ethical tensions, in sociological research. Identity management, such as the presentation of the self during a research interview, can have significant effects on the research encounter and data collected. 'White coat syndrome', the disjointed interaction between clinicians and patients arising from unequal power and expertise, can occur in research encou…
They're Made in Factories and Not by Witches on the Allotment”
This article explores midlife women's experiences and approaches related to complementary and alternative therapies (CAMS). Ninety-six midlife women were asked about their use of CAMs as part of their overall approach to midlife health. Qualitative thematic analysis was combined with a case-based approach. Women set their experience of CAMs in the context of conventional medicine taking and discussed their safety and different uses. For treatment…
The pharmacy gaze
The body is a central feature of pharmacy practice. Despite this and the increased sociological focus on bodies in health and social care practice, the nature of the body and the work undertaken upon it in pharmacy have not been explored. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with hospital and community pharmacists, this article explores the ways in which bodies are constructed and managed in these two practice contexts. It is argued that pharmac…
Transferring from Clinical Pharmacy Practice to Qualitative Research
Researcher identity can present methodological and practical, as well as epistemological and ethical tensions, in sociological research. Identity management, such as the presentation of the self during a research interview, can have significant effects on the research encounter and data collected. 'White coat syndrome', the disjointed interaction between clinicians and patients arising from unequal power and expertise, can occur in research encou…
Paul Atkinson, For Ethnography
Social Transformations
Discovering Sociology
This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce Sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over the book’s twelve chapters, students discover what Sociology is, alongside its historical development and emergent new concerns. They will be led through the theories that underpin the discipline and f…
Gig Economy
The so‐called “gig economy,” whereby self‐employed workers are paid for completing discrete tasks, is changing the landscape of work in the west. Although freelance work has always been a part of the labor market, it was typically concentrated in areas such as the creative industries. Owing to the coalescence of diverse technological, economic, and political factors, freelance work through the gig economy is becoming an increasingly common way of…
Healthcare practitioner relationships, cultural health capital and breastfeeding support for adolescent mothers
Objectives: Breastfeeding is the optimal method of infant nutrition. Despite this, rates of breastfeeding in high-income countries are low and mirror wider health inequalities with women from under-served populations being least likely to breastfeed. In the UK, adolescent mothers from areas of high socio-economic deprivation are among the least likely groups to initiate and continue breastfeeding. This study aimed to examine young women’s experie…
The Social and Material Life of Antimicrobial Clay
While sociologists have made significant theoretical contributions to the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) debate, little attention has been given to the antimicrobial products themselves. Here we advocate a significant new direction which centers on the social and material life of antimicrobials, specifically on what they are made from and how this affects their use. This focus is timely because, in the context of declining efficacy of biomedical …
Digital pruning
In the past decade, a wealth of research has focused on women and social media. Typically assembled according to the logic of ‘risk’ and ‘exposure’, this extensive work tends to operate within a negative paradigm whereby women’s engagement with the digital produces harmful outcomes for wellbeing. This article makes a novel contribution to this literature by tracing the ways in which women who are in recovery from eating disorders and engaged in w…
Moving beyond the image
Cold Winds and Warm Attachments
The question of personal attachment to work in neoliberalism is subject to debate. Some scholars postulate that personal attachment to work based on durability, collectivity and predictability is weakening because of changes in its organisation; work ceases to provide the basis of subjectivity and identity. Conversely, others claim work, and neoliberal economic logic generally, pervades ever deeper into our lives, shapes our subjectivity, and inc…
I just don't think it's that natural
Breastfeeding is recognised globally as the optimal method of infant feeding. For Murphy (1999) its nutritional superiority positions breastfeeding as a moral imperative where mothers who formula-feed are open to charges of maternal deviance and must account for their behaviour. We suggest that this moral superiority of breastfeeding is tenuous for mothers from marginalised contexts and competes with discourses which locate breastfeeding, rather …
Gainingweightiscool
In this article, we explore transformation photos on Instagram as ‘digital artefacts’ that can inform understandings of eating disorder recovery in the context of sport, exercise and health. Transformation photos are two images (from different time points) set alongside one another to represent the changing of bodies in look, shape or size. These images are prevalent within eating disorder recovery and fitness spaces on Instagram and typically di…
They've Been with Me the Whole Journey
The role of time in organisational and relational development remains an understudied component of work and employment. In response, this article draws attention to the ways that temporality informs relations between workers and clients in service work. Drawing on data from interviews and observations with hair stylists in salons located in the North East of England from 2016 to 2018, we provide a nuanced account of emotional service work by cons…
“It has literally been a lifesaver”
This article focuses on the development of online fat kinship in the Health at Every Size (HAES) movement. Drawing upon 15 fat women’s experiences of their HAES community membership, we explore the ways that fat kinship develops around fatphobic experiences, and how it can facilitate the mitigation of fat oppression. Building upon the notion of the “knowing community,” we suggest that sharing experiences of, and developing tactics against, medica…
Reading clay
Clay has a long history in the global south and has been extensively studied by 'Western' social scientists particularly anthropologists and archeologists in relation to histories of earlier civilisations and cultural practices. Clay in relation to contemporary 'science' has received less attention in social science despite the emergence of the sub-discipline of 'clay science' and its increasing focus on clay to transform wide ranging aspects of …
Whatever I said didn’t register with her”
Through these data and specifically drawing on the framework of 'cultural health capital,' we suggest that given the deep purchase of cultural tropes surrounding it, fatness is perceived to embody and therefore confer on patients' assumptions of low cultural health capital. We argue that ubiquitously characteristic of medical fatphobia is what we call an 'interactional and relational disconnect' between fat patients and healthcare practitioners. …
Money Probably Has Something to Do with My Life
This article contributes to an understanding of work-intensive entrepreneurial lives as part of analysing the intensification of work in society. It offers an empirical extension of Foucauldian analyses, which attribute commitment to work to the influence of neoliberal enterprise discourse while often neglecting the material conditions of entrepreneurial work. The article draws on moderate constructionism and materialist discourse analysis to off…
Intuitive tracking
Under the conditions of neo-liberal individual responsibilisation, self-tracking has become the predominant model of health management. More recently, though, intuition-based approaches to exercise and eating are also gaining traction. These two approaches are often located in opposition. While self-tracking uses datafication and calculability to structure health decisions, intuitive approaches encourage abandonment of rules and restrictions arou…
Gig Economy
The so‐called gig economy, whereby self‐employed workers are paid for completing discrete tasks, is changing the landscape of work in the west. Although freelance work has always been a part of the labor market, it was typically concentrated in areas such as the creative industries. The coalescence of diverse technological, economic, and political factors has led to freelance work becoming an increasingly common way of organizing labor through th…
Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence
Using walkshops as a collaborative method in interdisciplinary research
In this article, we analyse the use of ‘walkshops’ as a collaborative method for interdisciplinary research collaboration in the field of pollution. Walkshops are mobile conversations, usually undertaken outdoors with small groups of people, that engage with landscapes as stimuli for discussion. While walking methods are well-established for data collection, pedagogic practice and public engagement, there is comparatively little attention paid to…
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