Sarah Winkler-Reid
Biographic Data
| ID | 152071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Winkler-Reid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Winkler-Reid |
| SIGNATURE | WINKLER-REID S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8968-3298 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Choreographing Subcontracting
In a context of pervasive financialization and a global proliferation of interest-bearing capital, construction plays an increasingly important role in transforming liquid finance into fixed capital. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork on four construction projects of large new buildings in the North East of England, in this article I demonstrate the vital role the work of construction managers plays in these processes. Utilizing dance as an anal…
Building in Possibilities
In this paper, we illustrate how virtual exchanges that are similar to collaborative online international learning (COIL) can function as an effective means for integrating international and experiential training in collaborative-based ethnography across the curriculum, even in courses not specifically designed as research methods. Drawing upon data from three years of surveys and student reflections on their experience of taking part in an inter…
Girl-Kind North East
Research suggests that girls frequently experience a sense of devaluation in their everyday lives at school. Narrow models of learning and teaching further limit the scope of what can be valued. In contrast, Girl-Kind, a school-based program, aims not to address an assumed deficit but to allow girls to be recognized as excellent learners and experts in their own lives. We conceptualize the program as creating valuing spaces in which value is crea…
Doing your best' in a London secondary school
Focusing on pupils in the run up to their GCSEs exams, this article examines notions of success, worth and 'doing your best' as they emerge in everyday life in a London secondary school. This discussion is in critical dialogue with debates on neoliberalism and the particular interdisciplinary relations they entail. Whilst recognising that neoliberalism represents an important arena of shared exchange, the author also argues that we need to be war…
Looking Good" and "Good Looking" in School
This article explores the enskillment of vision through which girls in a London school learn to see bodies and selves in particular ways. Dominant body and beauty ideals inform these processes but cannot be reduced to them. Drawing from the anthropological literature on situated learning and the senses, I propose an anthropological approach to girls' bodily dissatisfaction that starts from everyday life rather than the assumed primacy of media im…
Friendship, bitching, and the making of ethical selves
This article explores the relationship between friendship, personhood, and ethics among girls in a London school. While a Western ideal of friendship is posited as a personal, private, and spontaneous relationship between autonomous individuals, I argue that girls' friendships are a complex entanglement and interaction between forensic and mimetic dimensions of the self. Girls' ideals of friendship, and practices of making friends, suggest forens…
Making Fun out of Difference
This article highlights the importance of humour and laughter in analyses of ethnicity and race in everyday life, and contributes to the growing anthropological engagement with the role of the ludic in social life. Focusing on pupil interaction in an ethnically and racially diverse London school, it argues that while peer classification practices can lead to reification of ethnic and racial differences, ludic interactions have cross-cutting, coun…
Anthropology and schooling
Making Fun out of Difference
This article highlights the importance of humour and laughter in analyses of ethnicity and race in everyday life, and contributes to the growing anthropological engagement with the role of the ludic in social life. Focusing on pupil interaction in an ethnically and racially diverse London school, it argues that while peer classification practices can lead to reification of ethnic and racial differences, ludic interactions have cross-cutting, coun…
Friendship, bitching, and the making of ethical selves
This article explores the relationship between friendship, personhood, and ethics among girls in a London school. While a Western ideal of friendship is posited as a personal, private, and spontaneous relationship between autonomous individuals, I argue that girls' friendships are a complex entanglement and interaction between forensic and mimetic dimensions of the self. Girls' ideals of friendship, and practices of making friends, suggest forens…
Doing your best' in a London secondary school
Focusing on pupils in the run up to their GCSEs exams, this article examines notions of success, worth and 'doing your best' as they emerge in everyday life in a London secondary school. This discussion is in critical dialogue with debates on neoliberalism and the particular interdisciplinary relations they entail. Whilst recognising that neoliberalism represents an important arena of shared exchange, the author also argues that we need to be war…
Looking Good" and "Good Looking" in School
This article explores the enskillment of vision through which girls in a London school learn to see bodies and selves in particular ways. Dominant body and beauty ideals inform these processes but cannot be reduced to them. Drawing from the anthropological literature on situated learning and the senses, I propose an anthropological approach to girls' bodily dissatisfaction that starts from everyday life rather than the assumed primacy of media im…
Anthropology and schooling
Making Fun out of Difference
This article highlights the importance of humour and laughter in analyses of ethnicity and race in everyday life, and contributes to the growing anthropological engagement with the role of the ludic in social life. Focusing on pupil interaction in an ethnically and racially diverse London school, it argues that while peer classification practices can lead to reification of ethnic and racial differences, ludic interactions have cross-cutting, coun…
Friendship, bitching, and the making of ethical selves
This article explores the relationship between friendship, personhood, and ethics among girls in a London school. While a Western ideal of friendship is posited as a personal, private, and spontaneous relationship between autonomous individuals, I argue that girls' friendships are a complex entanglement and interaction between forensic and mimetic dimensions of the self. Girls' ideals of friendship, and practices of making friends, suggest forens…
Doing your best' in a London secondary school
Focusing on pupils in the run up to their GCSEs exams, this article examines notions of success, worth and 'doing your best' as they emerge in everyday life in a London secondary school. This discussion is in critical dialogue with debates on neoliberalism and the particular interdisciplinary relations they entail. Whilst recognising that neoliberalism represents an important arena of shared exchange, the author also argues that we need to be war…
Looking Good" and "Good Looking" in School
This article explores the enskillment of vision through which girls in a London school learn to see bodies and selves in particular ways. Dominant body and beauty ideals inform these processes but cannot be reduced to them. Drawing from the anthropological literature on situated learning and the senses, I propose an anthropological approach to girls' bodily dissatisfaction that starts from everyday life rather than the assumed primacy of media im…
Girl-Kind North East
Research suggests that girls frequently experience a sense of devaluation in their everyday lives at school. Narrow models of learning and teaching further limit the scope of what can be valued. In contrast, Girl-Kind, a school-based program, aims not to address an assumed deficit but to allow girls to be recognized as excellent learners and experts in their own lives. We conceptualize the program as creating valuing spaces in which value is crea…
Choreographing Subcontracting
In a context of pervasive financialization and a global proliferation of interest-bearing capital, construction plays an increasingly important role in transforming liquid finance into fixed capital. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork on four construction projects of large new buildings in the North East of England, in this article I demonstrate the vital role the work of construction managers plays in these processes. Utilizing dance as an anal…
Building in Possibilities
In this paper, we illustrate how virtual exchanges that are similar to collaborative online international learning (COIL) can function as an effective means for integrating international and experiential training in collaborative-based ethnography across the curriculum, even in courses not specifically designed as research methods. Drawing upon data from three years of surveys and student reflections on their experience of taking part in an inter…
Sociology (5 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Everyday life (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works)