Elder Olson
Biographic Data
| ID | 257543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elder Olson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elder |
| FAMILY NAME | Olson |
| SIGNATURE | OLSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2643-5611 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 299 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
‘In my own zone … ’: Place, care and resilience in the everyday geographies of caregiving youth
This article explores the connections between place, care and resilience through the everyday geographies of ‘caregiving youth’ (young carers) in Florida, USA. We draw from a multi-method, multi-year study of 48 caregiving youth, who support family or kin due to chronic illness, disability, age-related decline, and other conditions. Bringing together mapping and interview data on young people's experiences of place and emotion, we contribute a ge…
Adolescents' caregiving for family: Associations with mental health and academic performance
This study investigated adolescents' experiences caregiving for family members with chronic illness, disability, or aging-related needs. We examined differences in caregiving by maternal education level and associations with mental health and academic performance. A large, diverse sample of middle and high school students in Colorado (N = 49,540, 46% girls; ages 11-18, 31% Latine) reported how frequently they were caregiving for family each week,…
I care for my grandma because she's one of my best friends: Intergenerational caregiving and the everyday geographies of aging in Palm Beach County, Florida
Care, family and crisis
The care crisis in the United States predates the current administration, but there are early signals that the US government is going to roll back recent policies to expand caregiving support to a wider range of people who provide dependent care. In this short commentary, I hope to illustrate how new attacks on Medicare, housing support, food assistance and other supports for the basic needs of families are layered upon a stubbornly persistent mi…
“I Missed School to Take Care of Someone Else”: Middle and High School Students' Caregiving Responsibilities as a Reason for Absenteeism
BACKGROUND: Middle and high school students who are involved in caregiving for aging, chronically ill, and/or disabled family members report more learning challenges compared to their non-caregiving peers. However, little is known about how many students miss school to take care of someone else, and which students are most likely to have this experience. Such knowledge could reveal an important, largely unrecognized reason for school absences and…
The challenge of identifying young carers in the US: How State Laws Put Families at Risk for Separation
Caregiving Youth” and the Patchwork History of Recognition in the United States
This article examines the U.S. legislative and policy landscape and its historical and contemporary recognition of young people as caregivers and their importance to public health, both as care providers and as a category of special concern for overall wellbeing. Drawing on feminist geographies of health to situate a historical analysis, we aim to answer two key questions: First, what is the history of recognition of caregiving youth in key momen…
A university-wide survey of caregiving students in the US: Individual differences and associations with emotional and academic adjustment
The United States (US) does not formally count, recognize, or support students in higher education who are caregivers, unlike England and Australia. This mixed-methods study presents results from a new survey of caregiving undergraduate and graduate students at a large university in the US. Students ( N = 7592; 62.7% White, 69.9% women) reported their caregiving responsibilities, depression, and anxiety, which were linked to administrative record…
Crossing from Knowledge to Responsibility for Climate Change
"Crossing from Knowledge to Responsibility for Climate Change." The Professional Geographer, 74(1), pp. 141–142
Geography and ethics III: Whither the next moral turn
The 20 years since geography’s ‘moral turn’ have generated a robust field of scholarship around diverse ethical engagements. However, as geographers continue to build articulate claims to care and justice in and beyond the academy, the role of ‘the moral’ has often been resigned to the margins of our theories and empirical work. In my third and final progress report on geography and ethics, I suggest that new approaches toward moral geographies a…
The largest volunteer life saving corps in the world: Centering child caregiving in histories of U.S. human security through the Little Mothers’ League
In this article, I explore the relationship between youth, security, and caregiving through a study of the U.S. Little Mothers' Leagues, an initiative which began in New York City in 1910 with the aim of reducing infant mortality by training young girls to properly care for their infant siblings. Critical approaches to caregiving view security and insecurity as relational, drawing attention to contemporary power arrangements in the global caregiv…
Transitions to religious adulthood: Relational geographies of youth, religion and international volunteering
This paper offers important insights into the contemporary nature of youth transitions and the ways in which religious affiliation and engagement with international volunteering influences and interplays with negotiations of the life course. Situated within interdisciplinary debates about youth transitions, as well as discussions about relational geographies of age, religion and voluntarism, we demonstrate the multiple relationalities that are at…
Geography and ethics II: Emotions and morality
In this second report, I consider the relationship between emotion and morality from a geographical perspective. Though traditional and contemporary engagements in moral philosophy and psychology offer a diverse range of theories and approaches to emotions and morality, few of these explicitly consider or incorporate the role of space. I consider theories of embodiment and relationality as one means through which emotions become collective and in…
Geography and ethics I: Waiting and urgency
Within the context of global capitalism and late liberalism, the social and political implications of waiting have attracted particular attention from geographers. States and other powerful institutions can now maintain control over potentially unruly populations through technocratic management that appears at first glance to be ethically neutral. Wait lists and waiting rooms can mask inequalities and justify the denial of rights, and new spaces …
Christianity in the Modern World: Changes and Controversies
Contents: Introduction, Giselle Vincett and Elijah Obinna Young people and golden rule Catholicism in the Philippines: the case of religiously involved Filipino students, Jayeel Serrano Cornelio The dis/embodied Church: worship, new media and the body, Tim Hutchings Refugees' encounters with Christianity in everyday life, Bereket Loul, John Willott and Simon Robinson African Christians in Scotland: contesting the rhetoric of reverse mission, Elij…
Christianity: Loss of monopoly
About the book: This book offers a fully up-to-date and comprehensive guide to religion in Britain since 1945. A team of leading scholars provide a fresh analysis and overview, with a particular focus on diversity and change. They examine: relations between religious and secular beliefs and institutions the evolving role and status of the churches the growth and ‘settlement’ of non-Christian religious communities the spread and diversification of…
Retheorizing the Postsecular Present: Embodiment, Spatial Transcendence, and Challenges to Authenticity Among Young Christians in Glasgow, Scotland
This article explores and extends the geographies of postsecular theory. Despite growing claims of secularization, religion continues to be a highly public and rapidly diversifying issue, and of growing interest to geographers. We identify the spatial elements of postsecular theory, and consider how spatial approaches, particularly feminist work, that emphasize lived religion and embodiment might provide an alternative to existing analyses. Incre…
Gender and geopolitics in ‘secular time’
This article argues that gender must be central to our theorisations of emergent religious geopolitics. It does so through an engagement with B utler's reflections upon secular time ( B utler J 2008 S ecular politics, torture, and secular time The B ritish J ournal of S ociology 59 1–23), and the ‘cultural reanimation’ of R oman C atholic cultural underpinnings of French culture in the defence of the torture and maltreatment of Islamic bodies. Dr…
Young People and Performance Christianity in Scotland
Based upon qualitative research in Glasgow, Scotland, this article examines transformations in religious identity and practices of young socially and economically included Christians, aged 16–27. The authors argue that young people's religiosity has been shaped by large-scale social trends in the West, including secularisation and pluralisation. They argue that these influences have promoted a religiosity that de-emphasises propositional belief s…
International volunteering, faith and subjectivity: Negotiating cosmopolitanism, citizenship and development
Mapping intergenerationalities: The formation of youthful religiosities
Recent geographical work has pointed to the complex and negotiated nature, and spatiality, of intergenerational relations. In this paper, we draw on research with young Scottish Christians and their guardians to explore the influence of intergenerationality on their religious identities, beliefs and practices. Our interest is to ask what these recent developments in the way we approach geographies of youth and age can tell us about the changing g…
Radical Geography and its Critical Standpoints: Embracing the Normative
This paper throws down a challenge to radical geography and invites a selection of leading geographers to respond. It proposes that radical or critical geography cannot escape normative foundations in terms of some conception of the human good or flourishing, and that this is not necessarily at odds with the descriptive and explanatory aims of social science. Various attempts to define and justify critical thought without such a conception are sh…
Common Belief, Contested Meanings: Development and Faith‐based Organisational Culture
Since the 1990s, an increasing number of development agencies have attempted to incorporate faith‐based development organisations into mainstream ‘secular’ partnerships. Development scholars have responded to these trends by seeking to understand the range of ways that faith might matter in development. Far less emphasis has been placed on how development itself might be influencing faith organisations or their values of development. The aim of t…
Of texts and practices: Empowerment and organisational cultures in world bank-funded rural development programmes
The World Bank's recent concern for 'empowerment' grows out of longer standing discussions of participation, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society. While commitments to empowerment enter World Bank texts with relative ease, their practice within Bank-funded projects is far more contingent, and the meanings they assume become much more diverse. This paper considers the relationship between such texts and the development practices…
Development, Transnational Religion, and the Power of Ideas in the High Provinces of Cusco, Peru
I examine the enmeshment of transnationally networked religious organizations in predominantly Quechua communities in the southern Andes of Peru. I aim specifically to understand the multiple ways in which transnational religious organizations contribute to the construction of development epistemologies, or the socioeconomics of development truths. Peru has been undergoing a religious transformation similar to the rest of Latin America, with Evan…
Geography and ethics I: Waiting and urgency
Within the context of global capitalism and late liberalism, the social and political implications of waiting have attracted particular attention from geographers. States and other powerful institutions can now maintain control over potentially unruly populations through technocratic management that appears at first glance to be ethically neutral. Wait lists and waiting rooms can mask inequalities and justify the denial of rights, and new spaces …
International volunteering, faith and subjectivity: Negotiating cosmopolitanism, citizenship and development
Mapping intergenerationalities: The formation of youthful religiosities
Recent geographical work has pointed to the complex and negotiated nature, and spatiality, of intergenerational relations. In this paper, we draw on research with young Scottish Christians and their guardians to explore the influence of intergenerationality on their religious identities, beliefs and practices. Our interest is to ask what these recent developments in the way we approach geographies of youth and age can tell us about the changing g…
Retheorizing the Postsecular Present: Embodiment, Spatial Transcendence, and Challenges to Authenticity Among Young Christians in Glasgow, Scotland
This article explores and extends the geographies of postsecular theory. Despite growing claims of secularization, religion continues to be a highly public and rapidly diversifying issue, and of growing interest to geographers. We identify the spatial elements of postsecular theory, and consider how spatial approaches, particularly feminist work, that emphasize lived religion and embodiment might provide an alternative to existing analyses. Incre…
Radical Geography and its Critical Standpoints: Embracing the Normative
This paper throws down a challenge to radical geography and invites a selection of leading geographers to respond. It proposes that radical or critical geography cannot escape normative foundations in terms of some conception of the human good or flourishing, and that this is not necessarily at odds with the descriptive and explanatory aims of social science. Various attempts to define and justify critical thought without such a conception are sh…
Geography and ethics II: Emotions and morality
In this second report, I consider the relationship between emotion and morality from a geographical perspective. Though traditional and contemporary engagements in moral philosophy and psychology offer a diverse range of theories and approaches to emotions and morality, few of these explicitly consider or incorporate the role of space. I consider theories of embodiment and relationality as one means through which emotions become collective and in…
Development, Transnational Religion, and the Power of Ideas in the High Provinces of Cusco, Peru
I examine the enmeshment of transnationally networked religious organizations in predominantly Quechua communities in the southern Andes of Peru. I aim specifically to understand the multiple ways in which transnational religious organizations contribute to the construction of development epistemologies, or the socioeconomics of development truths. Peru has been undergoing a religious transformation similar to the rest of Latin America, with Evan…
Geography and ethics III: Whither the next moral turn
The 20 years since geography’s ‘moral turn’ have generated a robust field of scholarship around diverse ethical engagements. However, as geographers continue to build articulate claims to care and justice in and beyond the academy, the role of ‘the moral’ has often been resigned to the margins of our theories and empirical work. In my third and final progress report on geography and ethics, I suggest that new approaches toward moral geographies a…
Transitions to religious adulthood: Relational geographies of youth, religion and international volunteering
This paper offers important insights into the contemporary nature of youth transitions and the ways in which religious affiliation and engagement with international volunteering influences and interplays with negotiations of the life course. Situated within interdisciplinary debates about youth transitions, as well as discussions about relational geographies of age, religion and voluntarism, we demonstrate the multiple relationalities that are at…
Transnational Geographies: Rescaling Development, Migration, and Religion
Transnational geographies
The largest volunteer life saving corps in the world: Centering child caregiving in histories of U.S. human security through the Little Mothers’ League
In this article, I explore the relationship between youth, security, and caregiving through a study of the U.S. Little Mothers' Leagues, an initiative which began in New York City in 1910 with the aim of reducing infant mortality by training young girls to properly care for their infant siblings. Critical approaches to caregiving view security and insecurity as relational, drawing attention to contemporary power arrangements in the global caregiv…
Young People and Performance Christianity in Scotland
Based upon qualitative research in Glasgow, Scotland, this article examines transformations in religious identity and practices of young socially and economically included Christians, aged 16–27. The authors argue that young people's religiosity has been shaped by large-scale social trends in the West, including secularisation and pluralisation. They argue that these influences have promoted a religiosity that de-emphasises propositional belief s…
Common Belief, Contested Meanings: Development and Faith‐based Organisational Culture
Since the 1990s, an increasing number of development agencies have attempted to incorporate faith‐based development organisations into mainstream ‘secular’ partnerships. Development scholars have responded to these trends by seeking to understand the range of ways that faith might matter in development. Far less emphasis has been placed on how development itself might be influencing faith organisations or their values of development. The aim of t…
Gender and geopolitics in ‘secular time’
This article argues that gender must be central to our theorisations of emergent religious geopolitics. It does so through an engagement with B utler's reflections upon secular time ( B utler J 2008 S ecular politics, torture, and secular time The B ritish J ournal of S ociology 59 1–23), and the ‘cultural reanimation’ of R oman C atholic cultural underpinnings of French culture in the defence of the torture and maltreatment of Islamic bodies. Dr…
I care for my grandma because she's one of my best friends: Intergenerational caregiving and the everyday geographies of aging in Palm Beach County, Florida
Care, family and crisis
The care crisis in the United States predates the current administration, but there are early signals that the US government is going to roll back recent policies to expand caregiving support to a wider range of people who provide dependent care. In this short commentary, I hope to illustrate how new attacks on Medicare, housing support, food assistance and other supports for the basic needs of families are layered upon a stubbornly persistent mi…
A Conspectus of Poetry: Part II
On Value Judgments in the Arts
The Lyric
On Value Judgments in the Arts
The Poetic Process
A Conspectus of Poetry: Part II
A Conspectus of Poetry: Part I
On Value Judgments in the Arts and Other Essays
Teoria de la comedia
Teoria de la comedia
Exploring Social Capital Debates at the World Bank
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Development, Transnational Religion, and the Power of Ideas in the High Provinces of Cusco, Peru
I examine the enmeshment of transnationally networked religious organizations in predominantly Quechua communities in the southern Andes of Peru. I aim specifically to understand the multiple ways in which transnational religious organizations contribute to the construction of development epistemologies, or the socioeconomics of development truths. Peru has been undergoing a religious transformation similar to the rest of Latin America, with Evan…
Transnational Geographies: Rescaling Development, Migration, and Religion
Transnational geographies
Of texts and practices: Empowerment and organisational cultures in world bank-funded rural development programmes
The World Bank's recent concern for 'empowerment' grows out of longer standing discussions of participation, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society. While commitments to empowerment enter World Bank texts with relative ease, their practice within Bank-funded projects is far more contingent, and the meanings they assume become much more diverse. This paper considers the relationship between such texts and the development practices…
Common Belief, Contested Meanings: Development and Faith‐based Organisational Culture
Since the 1990s, an increasing number of development agencies have attempted to incorporate faith‐based development organisations into mainstream ‘secular’ partnerships. Development scholars have responded to these trends by seeking to understand the range of ways that faith might matter in development. Far less emphasis has been placed on how development itself might be influencing faith organisations or their values of development. The aim of t…
Radical Geography and its Critical Standpoints: Embracing the Normative
This paper throws down a challenge to radical geography and invites a selection of leading geographers to respond. It proposes that radical or critical geography cannot escape normative foundations in terms of some conception of the human good or flourishing, and that this is not necessarily at odds with the descriptive and explanatory aims of social science. Various attempts to define and justify critical thought without such a conception are sh…
Mapping intergenerationalities: The formation of youthful religiosities
Recent geographical work has pointed to the complex and negotiated nature, and spatiality, of intergenerational relations. In this paper, we draw on research with young Scottish Christians and their guardians to explore the influence of intergenerationality on their religious identities, beliefs and practices. Our interest is to ask what these recent developments in the way we approach geographies of youth and age can tell us about the changing g…
Young People and Performance Christianity in Scotland
Based upon qualitative research in Glasgow, Scotland, this article examines transformations in religious identity and practices of young socially and economically included Christians, aged 16–27. The authors argue that young people's religiosity has been shaped by large-scale social trends in the West, including secularisation and pluralisation. They argue that these influences have promoted a religiosity that de-emphasises propositional belief s…
International volunteering, faith and subjectivity: Negotiating cosmopolitanism, citizenship and development
Christianity: Loss of monopoly
About the book: This book offers a fully up-to-date and comprehensive guide to religion in Britain since 1945. A team of leading scholars provide a fresh analysis and overview, with a particular focus on diversity and change. They examine: relations between religious and secular beliefs and institutions the evolving role and status of the churches the growth and ‘settlement’ of non-Christian religious communities the spread and diversification of…
Retheorizing the Postsecular Present: Embodiment, Spatial Transcendence, and Challenges to Authenticity Among Young Christians in Glasgow, Scotland
This article explores and extends the geographies of postsecular theory. Despite growing claims of secularization, religion continues to be a highly public and rapidly diversifying issue, and of growing interest to geographers. We identify the spatial elements of postsecular theory, and consider how spatial approaches, particularly feminist work, that emphasize lived religion and embodiment might provide an alternative to existing analyses. Incre…
Gender and geopolitics in ‘secular time’
This article argues that gender must be central to our theorisations of emergent religious geopolitics. It does so through an engagement with B utler's reflections upon secular time ( B utler J 2008 S ecular politics, torture, and secular time The B ritish J ournal of S ociology 59 1–23), and the ‘cultural reanimation’ of R oman C atholic cultural underpinnings of French culture in the defence of the torture and maltreatment of Islamic bodies. Dr…
Christianity in the Modern World: Changes and Controversies
Contents: Introduction, Giselle Vincett and Elijah Obinna Young people and golden rule Catholicism in the Philippines: the case of religiously involved Filipino students, Jayeel Serrano Cornelio The dis/embodied Church: worship, new media and the body, Tim Hutchings Refugees' encounters with Christianity in everyday life, Bereket Loul, John Willott and Simon Robinson African Christians in Scotland: contesting the rhetoric of reverse mission, Elij…
Transitions to religious adulthood: Relational geographies of youth, religion and international volunteering
This paper offers important insights into the contemporary nature of youth transitions and the ways in which religious affiliation and engagement with international volunteering influences and interplays with negotiations of the life course. Situated within interdisciplinary debates about youth transitions, as well as discussions about relational geographies of age, religion and voluntarism, we demonstrate the multiple relationalities that are at…
Geography and ethics II: Emotions and morality
In this second report, I consider the relationship between emotion and morality from a geographical perspective. Though traditional and contemporary engagements in moral philosophy and psychology offer a diverse range of theories and approaches to emotions and morality, few of these explicitly consider or incorporate the role of space. I consider theories of embodiment and relationality as one means through which emotions become collective and in…
Geography and ethics I: Waiting and urgency
Within the context of global capitalism and late liberalism, the social and political implications of waiting have attracted particular attention from geographers. States and other powerful institutions can now maintain control over potentially unruly populations through technocratic management that appears at first glance to be ethically neutral. Wait lists and waiting rooms can mask inequalities and justify the denial of rights, and new spaces …
Geography and ethics III: Whither the next moral turn
The 20 years since geography’s ‘moral turn’ have generated a robust field of scholarship around diverse ethical engagements. However, as geographers continue to build articulate claims to care and justice in and beyond the academy, the role of ‘the moral’ has often been resigned to the margins of our theories and empirical work. In my third and final progress report on geography and ethics, I suggest that new approaches toward moral geographies a…
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