Garth D Stahl
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 171265 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Garth D Stahl |
| NOMBRES | Garth D |
| APELLIDO | Stahl |
| FIRMA | STAHL G D |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1800-8495 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 109 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 234 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 109 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The Sociology of Emotions
Migrant men on OnlyFans
Recent research on OnlyFans creators has focused largely on women, leaving men’s participation comparatively underexamined. This conceptual article adopts an interdisciplinary lens to explore what migrant men’s engagement with OnlyFans may mean for them. We consider how the platform opens spaces for migrant men to commodify their bodies and generate income, often by mobilizing racialized and gendered stereotypes whereby such eroticized performanc…
Radicalisation as redemption
Radicalisation is often described as a process of ideological indoctrination; however, it is increasingly recognised as a psychological and sociocultural phenomenon deeply rooted in personal and collective quests for significance. Drawing on semi-structured life-course-history interviews with three male participants, all charged with extremist offences and participating in an Australian Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) intervention programme, t…
Navigating the Activist Techno‐Social Landscape
In recent decades, youth activism has experienced a global resurgence, playing a pivotal role in advocating for social and political change across diverse national and international contexts. Drawing on empirical data from a study of high school students in diverse Washington, DC public schools, this paper offers a unique perspective on youth engagement with activism. Findings include insights from students not identified as traditional activists…
Reframing ‘vulnerability’ to digital harms
As governments worldwide move to restrict young people's access to social media, public debate has centred on the potential harms of digital engagement and the need to shield adolescents from risky or harmful content. This article focuses on how Australian adolescent boys and young men (ABYM) understand online risks and position themselves as responsible digital citizens. Drawing from 20 interviews and 7 focus groups (N = 47) with Australian ABYM…
Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces
As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to their activism in online spaces. Making a contribution to knowledge, our analysis captures how activists' …
Australian Young Women Engaging with Online Feminisms as Public Pedagogies in an Era of #Hashtag Activism
Society today remains deeply entrenched in gender inequality. Research continues to highlight how the views of girls and young women regarding feminism and gender equality are informed by families, schools, social environments and—especially in the last decade—by the activism they witness on digital platforms. The year 2017 marked an important turning point for sexual harassment activists with the rise of the #MeToo movement as a powerful example…
Youth, Migration, and Active Citizenship
Migration profoundly shapes the lives of young people and is a polarizing topic in public discourse globally. This article examines if and how secondary school students across six countries with significant migration connect the issue of migration with their understanding of active citizenship. Employing Thorson's concept of citizenship vocabularies, we document and analyze young people's perceptions as well as the resources, narratives, and fram…
Authenticity, activism, and the attention economy
Within our digital age, we have seen a dramatic increase in youth activism across various social media platforms focused on a range of issues (e.g., climate change, LGTBQI+ rights, mental health, etc). Given the ubiquity of activism in digital spaces, there is an impetus to gain an in-depth understanding of how young people are interpreting youth’s civic engagement in the digitized attention economy. Based on the analysis of 35 discussion groups …
Studying Year 6 students’ perceptions of gender and their engagement in STEM within an Australian primary school
Gender stereotypes—and performances of femininity and masculinity—play a key role in how and why an individual engages in STEM education. Students’ perceptions of STEM have been carefully and consistently studied in high school and in tertiary education contexts, but to date there has been limited research examining students’ gendered perceptions of STEM at the primary school level. This small case study adopts a critical feminist approach and dr…
“I come from a poor family”
Working-class young men are often pathologised for their perceived lack of white-collar career aspirations. Historically, and in our present context, only a select minority of working-class males pursue higher education. Of those who attend, few choose to study STEM, which is often associated with academic rigour, competition and prestige. As a result, we know little about the motivations and experiences of working-class men pursuing STEM degrees…
Whose Voices Are Heard in the Scholarship on Activism Related to School-Aged Youth With Migrant Backgrounds? A Systematic Review
This review outlines the scholarship landscape and uncovers the nature and key characteristics of activism related to migrant school-aged youth. Employing PICOT and PRISMA protocols, 126 relevant articles published in peer-reviewed journals from 2007 to 2023 were identified. We employed a three-layered, mixed-methods analytical framework to map the scholarship and to decipher the nature of agency and the voice of activism. The review revealed tha…
Brothers in arms
I refuse to be an ordinary woman’
Boys, academic achievement and ‘Crisis’ talk
Adaptation, change and reaffirmation
Emotionality, spatiality and relationality
While emotional geography is a burgeoning field in educational research, research on foreign languages education, and Chinese language education specifically, has largely ignored emotionality and space. We begin to rectify this situation through nuancing how students’ Chinese language learning experiences are (re)shaped by recurrent emotional and relational experiences in distinctive ways. More specifically, we focus on how emotional geographies …
The Necessity of Trust
While we have seen a significant investment in widening participation in Australian higher education, many equity groups remain under-represented. Males from low socio-economic backgrounds are the least likely to pursue higher education and the reasons for their non-participation are complex and arguably under-researched. Integral to the agenda of widening participation is career counselling (in its many forms) that occurs at the secondary school…
The Honourable Pursuit of Knowledge? Mapping Morality in the Education of Working-Class Men and Revisiting The Working Men’s College in the 19 th Century
Education – and the promise that it holds – has always been a source of tension for working-class populations, given its acquisition often involves changing the self. In surveying contemporary and historic scholarships, this paper explores the ways in which education has been portrayed as a civilising force for the working-classes – specifically working-class males – where it has strong inflections of being both a moral good and a vehicle for soc…
International habitus, inculcation and entrepreneurial aspirations
While research continues to document the influence of higher education institutions on students’ identities, studies considering how these institutions inform students’ post-study aspirations and career pathways remain limited. This paper engages with a new phenomenon – international students in vocational colleges in China – where we examine how the cultural and expressive characteristics of the institution empowered them to imagine their future…
Understanding the identity work and aspirations of Indigenous males navigating elite Australian higher education
In Australia, there has been increased attention to attracting Indigenous peoples into higher education but, despite a recent growth in enrolment numbers, they remain severely underrepresented. This underrepresentation is particularly notable among Indigenous males, who are the least likely to attend. In this paper, we investigate the experiences of four Indigenous young men who attended an elite higher education institution. Aligned with other r…
Investigating the role of gender, social class and curriculum in the first-in-family higher education experience
In all levels of schooling there exist disparities in terms of class and gender. The research presented in this article contributes to the study of how gender, class and curriculum influence the aspirations of students who are the first-in-family to attend university. Drawing on a study of 48 students over a three-year period, we are interested in the gendering and classing of the first-in-family experience according to their chosen area of study…
Male celebrities, masculinities and the promotion of mental health literacy
Beyond Mental and Manual
Historically, upwardly mobile working-class men have navigated the binary distinctions between a cerebral middle-class masculinity and a manual working-class masculinity. However, within an increasingly globalised world, the boundaries between the two are increasingly blurred and, therefore, distinctions between the two can often be quite complex. Part of the reason for this is the onset of post-industrialisation and increases in low-skilled serv…
“You fight your battles and you work out how you’re going to change”
Research suggests that the use of Restorative Practice (RP) in schools can foster more positive and inclusive school communities, yet there remains limited research regarding how to embed such practices. As part of a wider study, we present data from school leaders who describe their perspectives on RP and their struggles with implementing it in one rural Australian community school. This school is distinctive because of how it adopted a RP appro…
The promise of Chinese
The proportion of international students in Chinese higher education is increasing, however, there remains little research that explores their motivations and how their learning of Chinese influences their identities and imagined futures. In this paper, we address the need for research on South-South migration—specifically Sino-African relations—and draw on the concept of linguistic capital to explore what it means for 15 self-funded internationa…
White working-class male narratives of ‘loyalty to self’ in discourses of aspiration
This paper intends to show the processes and identity negotiations of white working-class boys surrounding their own learner-identity within a ‘raising aspirations’ rhetoric. The current dominant neoliberal discourse, which prioritizes a view of aspiration that is competitive, economic, and status-based, shapes the subjectivities of these young males. Focusing on the deeply engrained values of a group of 23 working-class boys from South London, a…
Habitus Disjunctures, Reflexivity and White Working-Class Boys' Conceptions of Status in Learner and Social Identities
The article primarily explores the social class identification of 15 white working-class boys at a high performing school in a socially marginalized area of South London where academic performance was routinely depicted as crucial to economic and social well-being. The research aims to consider the influence of a high performing school on the boys' identity and the relationship between their identity and their engagement with education. First, a …
The manosphere goes to school
Educators continue to struggle with how masculinities are performed and regulated in spaces of learning. In a time of rapid social change, there is a renewed impetus for gender justice reform in schooling, though these approaches themselves remain a shifting picture. Adding a new layer of complexity, we are now witness to educational policy recommendations around surveillance which are designed to counteract boys’ and young men’s vulnerabilities …
Possible Selves in a Transforming Economy
The relationship between working-class masculinities and industrial (and post-industrial) employment has been of sustained interest to sociologists for the last 40 years. This article draws on recent research examining the experiences of upwardly mobile working-class young men navigating casual employment within an urban part of Australia adapting to post-industrialisation. In presenting three longitudinal case studies, the theoretical frameworks…
Success on the decks
Although working-class boys' disengagement with education continues to be a major public concern, the focus of educational research has been on anti-school, hyper-masculine so-called laddish masculinities and their salience within learner identities. What tend to be forgotten are the areas in which low-achieving boys actively engage and succeed in their learning and what these successes mean for their identity construction. This article shows how…
Constituting neoliberal subjects? ‘Aspiration’ as technology of government in UK policy discourse
Since the 2000s, successive governments in the United Kingdom and elsewhere have embraced the idea of ‘raising aspiration’ among young people as a solution to persisting educational and socio-economic inequalities. Previous analyses have argued that these policies tend to individualise structural disadvantage and promote a ‘deficit’ view of working-class youth. This paper adopts a novel approach to analysing aspiration discourses combining Michel…
Transnational mobility through education
This article argues for a more nuanced view of mobility through education within an era of increased globalisation. We explore questions of transnational mobility through the lens of underexplored Bourdieusian concepts, specifically transnational habitus and habitus clivé. Our analysis shows how one's perception of a ‘better life’ and one's ideology of ‘entrepreneur self’ are produced despite one's encounter with disparity between their fields of…
Aspiration paradoxes
This paper examines the relationship between ‘aspiration’ and identity as rendered within discourses of power. Focusing on the deeply ingrained values of a group of 23 white working-class boys from South London (aged 14–16), the research critically considers the conception of power within a neoliberal era which produces both new subjectivities and new counter-narratives. The research examines a group of boys who fully acknowledge that post-compul…
Working-class girls' construction of learner identities and aspirations through engagement in Chinese language education in Australia
Despite suspicions concerning the global expansion of Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) education, the teaching of Chinese is often a mainstay within global citizenship and elite education. With this paradox in mind, the paper draws on theories of classed selfhood and learner identities to explore the possibilities of CFL to influence the learner identities of five working-class girls. Through drawing on their narratives, we glimpse the ways in…
The emotional labor of doing ‘boy work’
Internationally, the research on the education of boys has sought to understand how social practices, behaviours and rituals contribute to identity construction. We are interested in approaches to the emotional labor of doing ‘boy work’. As educators grapple with the gendered performances and subjectivities of young men, there is an imperative to engage with the affective dimensions of boyhood. We explore what theories of affect can add to our un…
Doing Bourdieu justice
With a focus on the contemporary relevance of Bourdieu’s theoretical tools, this review essay primarily covers four recent texts. The intent is not to evaluate the texts against each other, but ins
Moving Beyond the Confines of the Local
This article explores the concept of belonging in understanding how working-class young people construct themselves as ‘subjects of value’ in historically high-poverty areas now undergoing complex social class unsettlements and changes in visual repertoires. Dramatic changes to space and place raise questions for our participants regarding belonging as well as the boundaries of respectability and authenticity. Drawing upon empirical data from two…
Investigating the role of identity versatility in the discursive production of working-class boyhood, learner identities and educational engagement
Internationally, boys from working-class backgrounds are often the most likely to disengage from their formal education. Research on the educational experience of working-class boys has focused heavily on their identity barriers, often positioning these young men as either vulnerable or volatile in their formal education. Social theorists have sought to address the historical and cultural embedded (gendered) practices which influence the identity…
My little beautiful mess
The study of masculinities and social change continues to gain prominence in the field of Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities (CSMM). This article presents a case study of one Anglo-Australian working-class male, Leo, as he experienced multiple transitions – from his final year at secondary school into various service sector jobs and eventually to becoming the first in his family to attend university. The article explores how he constructed…
Social capital and self-crafting
First-in-family (FIF) males, often from low-socio-economic backgrounds, remain severely underrepresented in Australian higher education. Experiences with social life can be a significant determiner to their success at university as well as their prospects for future employment. This paper explores the experiences of two FIF males as they transition from secondary school to elite courses in prestigious universities. As they navigate these new spac…
A Fish in Many Waters? Addressing Transnational Habitus and the Reworking of Bourdieu in Global Contexts
This article explores the operationalization of transnational habitus by scholars to understand how individuals experience mobilities across borders. Our scoping study of 21 scholarly publications focuses on the various ways in which transnational habitus is defined as well as the different approaches to theorizing a transnational habitus. In critically mapping the relatively short history of transnational habitus, we are interested in what about…
Feminine subjectivities and aspirational learner identities
In educational research, girls are frequently depicted as success stories, able to effortlessly navigate academic excellence as empowered females. However, these depictions lack nuance and often fail to capture the complexity of young women’s experiences as they shift from compulsory schooling into higher education. Using a methodology of semi-structured interviews and focus groups occurring at three points over the course of the first year of un…
Critiquing the corporeal curriculum
Descriptions of charter schools as militaristic ‘boot camps’ continue to animate popular discourses. Recently, the upper echelons of the charter school sector, commonly known as Charter School Management Organizations (CMOs), have come under intense scrutiny for their controversial ‘no excuses’ disciplinary practices. These socialization practices are regarded as investments whereby students are expected to become both adept test takers and ‘good…
Higher education, social class and social mobility
We are pleased to introduce a book review symposium which discusses the recently published Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility: The Degree Generation by A. Bathmaker, N. Ingram, J. A
Your skin is like crocodile’s’
On the one hand, studies of African international students in China document their instrumental role in ‘telling China’s story and spreading China’s voice’ while, on the other hand, this research indicates how their lived experiences are shaped by racialisation and exclusionary practices in social life. However, there remains surprisingly little scholarship exploring ways of reducing inter-group stereotypes and racial divides so as to further Sin…
We have to be really careful’
In the field of preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) schools have an important role to play, but precisely how policy actors and educators should best respond to extremism within their schools remains uncertain. Reporting on data from a broader study, this article draws on semi-structured interviews with three participants. The participants were working as policy intermediaries responsible for implementing a federally funded, small…
Negotiating ‘global middle-class’ teacher professionalism
This paper investigates the experiences of Western teacher expatriates in a Shanghai international schooling organization. We explore the risks and benefits associated with transnational mobility and how teacher expatriates, as part of the global middle-class (GMC), maintain and reaffirm their middle-class status. Focusing on adaptation and constraint in professional contexts, the data illustrates how the teachers respond to new discourses and th…
I’m good at science but I don’t want to be a scientist’
Low participation rates of students studying science at the secondary level are of international concern. One of the under-researched factors influencing low participation rates in the sciences in Australia is primary school student stereotypes concerning science and scientists. We explore how Year 4 (9–10-year-olds) students perceive science, scientists, and a career in science. Data sources included 45 students (m = 29; f = 16) attending six pr…
Narratives in Reconstituting, Reaffirming, and (Re)traditionalizing Identities
The practice of othering has been widely documented in sociological research relative to social networks, ethnicity/race, sexuality, and place. This article considers othering as a strategy to mark identity boundaries and reaffirm the habitus in a small, qualitative sample of twenty-three white working-class boys from South London, aged fourteen to sixteen years, who self-identified as Boremund boys. The research relied heavily on visual methods …
Boys and their schooling
Boys and their schooling: the experience of becoming someone else, by John Whelen, London, Routledge, 2011, 296 pp., (hbk), ISBN 978-1-415-87917-0 Boys and their Schooling has a clear agenda: to co
Success on the decks
Although working-class boys' disengagement with education continues to be a major public concern, the focus of educational research has been on anti-school, hyper-masculine so-called laddish masculinities and their salience within learner identities. What tend to be forgotten are the areas in which low-achieving boys actively engage and succeed in their learning and what these successes mean for their identity construction. This article shows how…
Habitus Disjunctures, Reflexivity and White Working-Class Boys' Conceptions of Status in Learner and Social Identities
The article primarily explores the social class identification of 15 white working-class boys at a high performing school in a socially marginalized area of South London where academic performance was routinely depicted as crucial to economic and social well-being. The research aims to consider the influence of a high performing school on the boys' identity and the relationship between their identity and their engagement with education. First, a …
The Affront of the Aspiration Agenda
This article draws on accounts of white working-class boys (age 14-16) from South London in order to explore how they reconstitute their learner-identities within the ‘raising aspirations’ rhetoric. The current dominant neoliberal discourse in education, which prioritises a view of aspiration that is competitive, qualification-focused, and economic, shapes the subjectivities of these young males though there exist nuanced strategies of resistance…
Politics, policies and pedagogies in education
Identity, Neoliberalism and Aspiration
In recent years there has been growing concern over the pervasive disparities in academic achievement that are highly influenced by ethnicity, class and gender. Specifically, within the neoliberal policy rhetoric, there has been concern over underachievement of working-class young males, specifically white working-class boys. The historic persistence of this pattern, and the ominous implication of these trends on the long-term life chances of whi…
The practice of ‘Othering’ in reaffirming white working-class boys’ conceptions of normative identities
This paper considers how the practice of ‘Othering’ is used by white working-class boys in Boremund, South London to mark identity boundaries and reaffirm their habitus. Through unearthing themes of difference within the young men’s accounts, the work identifies various ways of ‘doing masculinity’ in two social groups, ‘Boremund Boys’ and ‘emos’, who contrasted greatly in style but who were of the same race, class, and ethnicity. Focusing on the …
From labouring to learning
From Labouring to Learning: Working-Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialization by Michael R.M. Ward is a thought-provoking, cohesive and deeply engrossing research monograph which will
Doing Bourdieu justice
With a focus on the contemporary relevance of Bourdieu’s theoretical tools, this review essay primarily covers four recent texts. The intent is not to evaluate the texts against each other, but ins
White working-class male narratives of ‘loyalty to self’ in discourses of aspiration
This paper intends to show the processes and identity negotiations of white working-class boys surrounding their own learner-identity within a ‘raising aspirations’ rhetoric. The current dominant neoliberal discourse, which prioritizes a view of aspiration that is competitive, economic, and status-based, shapes the subjectivities of these young males. Focusing on the deeply engrained values of a group of 23 working-class boys from South London, a…
Transnational mobility through education
This article argues for a more nuanced view of mobility through education within an era of increased globalisation. We explore questions of transnational mobility through the lens of underexplored Bourdieusian concepts, specifically transnational habitus and habitus clivé. Our analysis shows how one's perception of a ‘better life’ and one's ideology of ‘entrepreneur self’ are produced despite one's encounter with disparity between their fields of…
Moving Beyond the Confines of the Local
This article explores the concept of belonging in understanding how working-class young people construct themselves as ‘subjects of value’ in historically high-poverty areas now undergoing complex social class unsettlements and changes in visual repertoires. Dramatic changes to space and place raise questions for our participants regarding belonging as well as the boundaries of respectability and authenticity. Drawing upon empirical data from two…
Higher education, social class and social mobility
We are pleased to introduce a book review symposium which discusses the recently published Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility: The Degree Generation by A. Bathmaker, N. Ingram, J. A
She started to get pretty concerned’
The field of youth sociology has been challenged to reconsider the role of parenting in the lives of young adults. This paper presents a multiple-case study investigation into young men’s transitions from school into further education in an Australian context. We will argue that relationships with parents are materially, socially and emotionally salient throughout the period during which young men move out of adolescence and into young adulthood …
Aspiration paradoxes
This paper examines the relationship between ‘aspiration’ and identity as rendered within discourses of power. Focusing on the deeply ingrained values of a group of 23 white working-class boys from South London (aged 14–16), the research critically considers the conception of power within a neoliberal era which produces both new subjectivities and new counter-narratives. The research examines a group of boys who fully acknowledge that post-compul…
Critical Reflections on the Use of Bourdieu's Tools 'In Concert' to Understand the Practices of Learning in Three Musical Sites
Bourdieu's rich conceptual tools of habitus, capital, and field continue to be useful in multiple areas of sociological research; however, his tools take many shapes within his own writing and different disciplines. In this article, we reflect on our use of Bourdieu's tools in order to enhance our understanding of how Bourdieu's notion of 'practice' can be applied to practices of learning in sociological studies on music. Through comparisons of t…
Modernizing school governance
Modernizing school governance: corporate planning and expert handling." Critical Studies in Education, 59(2), pp. 258–259
The class
The class: living and learning in the digital age." International Studies in Sociology of Education, 27(1), pp. 102–103
Constituting neoliberal subjects? ‘Aspiration’ as technology of government in UK policy discourse
Since the 2000s, successive governments in the United Kingdom and elsewhere have embraced the idea of ‘raising aspiration’ among young people as a solution to persisting educational and socio-economic inequalities. Previous analyses have argued that these policies tend to individualise structural disadvantage and promote a ‘deficit’ view of working-class youth. This paper adopts a novel approach to analysing aspiration discourses combining Michel…
Narratives in Reconstituting, Reaffirming, and (Re)traditionalizing Identities
The practice of othering has been widely documented in sociological research relative to social networks, ethnicity/race, sexuality, and place. This article considers othering as a strategy to mark identity boundaries and reaffirm the habitus in a small, qualitative sample of twenty-three white working-class boys from South London, aged fourteen to sixteen years, who self-identified as Boremund boys. The research relied heavily on visual methods …
Intersectionality in higher education research
Critiquing the corporeal curriculum
Descriptions of charter schools as militaristic ‘boot camps’ continue to animate popular discourses. Recently, the upper echelons of the charter school sector, commonly known as Charter School Management Organizations (CMOs), have come under intense scrutiny for their controversial ‘no excuses’ disciplinary practices. These socialization practices are regarded as investments whereby students are expected to become both adept test takers and ‘good…
Social capital and self-crafting
First-in-family (FIF) males, often from low-socio-economic backgrounds, remain severely underrepresented in Australian higher education. Experiences with social life can be a significant determiner to their success at university as well as their prospects for future employment. This paper explores the experiences of two FIF males as they transition from secondary school to elite courses in prestigious universities. As they navigate these new spac…
‘I see myself as undeveloped’
The underrepresentation of males from particular equity groups in Australian universities continues despite recent gains in achievement. This article presents a case study of the transition of one Aboriginal student, Robbie, from a school located in the Western suburbs of Sydney to an urban Australian university. Drawing on recent theorisations of learner identities, we investigate the formation of Robbie’s aspirations, as well as the support he …
I’m good at science but I don’t want to be a scientist’
Low participation rates of students studying science at the secondary level are of international concern. One of the under-researched factors influencing low participation rates in the sciences in Australia is primary school student stereotypes concerning science and scientists. We explore how Year 4 (9–10-year-olds) students perceive science, scientists, and a career in science. Data sources included 45 students (m = 29; f = 16) attending six pr…
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