Susan Durbin
Biographic Data
| ID | 273772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Durbin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Durbin |
| SIGNATURE | DURBIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3487-4772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Challenging the “Ideal Worker” Norm? Senior Managers Navigating Reduced Hours Working
Reduced hours working at senior management levels remains rare and little is known about how it can be utilized effectively in organizations. This article focuses upon two forms of reduced hours working among a sample of 42 senior executives and managers: reduced hours and job share partnerships. In contrast to earlier research, this study found greater optimism among senior managers who worked reduced hours regarding their career prospects but a…
Working in nontraditional employment roles: Understanding and breaking down the barriers to gender segregation
Women's formal networking: The relationship between networking activities and power
This article examines the networking that takes place within formally organized internal (organization‐based) and external (industry‐based) women engineers' networks. Drawing upon 48 interviews with women engineers, across a number of industries and seniority levels, mostly in the UK, the article contributes to the scarce empirical literature examining formal women's networking in engineering, in terms of its role in individual support and collec…
Challenging male dominance through the substantive representation of women: The case of an online women’s mentoring platform
This article analyses the design of an online mentoring platform—for women by women—in a high‐technology, male‐dominated UK industry: aviation and aerospace. Based on interviews with professionals and managers, we analyse the journey of the women involved and contribute to the understanding of the role of women (individually and collectively) in challenging gendered norms in a male‐dominated industry through the theoretical lenses of ‘critical ac…
America’s Road to Jerusalem: The Impact of the Six-Day War on Protestant Politics. By Jason M. Olson
One of the claims often made by contemporary Christian Zionists is that the state of Israel provides the greatest proof for the existence of God in the modern world. For Christians of this theological persuasion, the creation of Israel in 1948 and its expansion after the Six-Day War in 1967 were both proof that God’s word remains true and that he is still active in history. Although this understanding of Israel is accepted by many Christians in t…
From King Cyrus to Queen Esther: Christian Zionists' discursive construction of Donald Trump as God's instrument
When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential elections with the help of 81 percent of self-identified white evangelicals, liberal commentators, relying on folk-conceptions of religion that privileged concepts like morality and belief, struggled to understand how someone who seemed to lack both could garner such support. Since then scholars have provided various explanations, relating to Christian nationalism evangelical appeals to authoritarianism…
Violence as Revelation: American Christian Zionist Theodicy, and the Construction of Religion through Violence
Drawing on Russell McCutcheon’s (2003) redescription of the theological category of theodicy as a socio-political rhetoric that functions to conserve social interests, this article examines the way that American Christian Zionists employ theodicies to explain historical, contemporary, and anticipated acts of violence. It argues that violence is central to Christian Zionists’ conception of God’s revelation, and thus to their identity. Rather than …
God's Country: Christian Zionism in America. By Samuel Goldman
The vastness of the primary sources and the quality of the existing scholarship should have served as warnings to an inexperienced voyager” (p. 241). Yet it is fortunate that Goldman persisted because he has produced a highly readable overview of American Christian thought about Israel from the time of the Puritans to the modern period. The book itself, which Goldman describes as “an essay in the history of ideas, is aimed at readers who want to …
Gender Equality and ‘Austerity’: Vulnerabilities, Resistance and Change
Mediating the Past through the Present and the Present through the Past: The Symbiotic Relationship of American Christian Zionists’ Outsider and Insider Enemies
This article examines what is described as a symbiotic relationship between individuals and groups that make up “outsider” and “insider” enemies within a conservative strand of American Christian Zionism. It argues that a particular construction of Islam and Muslims as inherently violent is given a timeless quality through a particular reading of the sibling rivalry between Isaac and Ishmael in the Hebrew Bible, a reading which simultaneously uni…
Female Part‐Time Managers: Careers, Mentors and Role Models
This paper explores the careers of 27 women employed as part‐time managers in a range of UK public, private and not‐for‐profit sector organizations. Drawing upon semi‐structured interviews, the article briefly summarizes the career trajectories of these women, prior to and after a transition to part‐time working, before exploring whether and how career progression is linked to the support of role models and mentors. The part‐time managers in this…
I am an Israeli’: Christian Zionism as American redemption
This article argues that discourse used to define and understand Israel by prominent American Christian Zionists is a discourse of national idealisation. Drawing on Durkheim's (2008 Durkheim, Emile. 2008. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Translated by C. Cosman [Google Scholar]) notion of symbols as sources of social solidarity, I argue that this imagined Israel reflects conservative social and military val…
I will bless those who bless you”: Christian Zionism, Fetishism, and Unleashing the Blessings of God
This article focuses on the concept of ‘blessing’ Israel that has become common among contemporary American Christian Zionists. After introducing a theological scheme that has dominated discussions of contemporary Christian Zionism, the article critically examines one of the emerging narratives concerning the (re)discovery of Christian Zionists’ Jewish roots and the way the Jewish contribution to Christianity is framed. Following this, the articl…
"For Such a Time as This": Reading (and Becoming) Esther with Christians United for Israel
A great deal of work on contemporary Christian Zionism focuses on the apocalyptic eschatology of premillennial dispensationalism, critiquing it from an idealistic perspective that posits a direct line of causality from "belief" to action. Such critiques frequently assert that since Christian Zionists are biblical literalists, they read apocalyptic texts such as Revelation and Ezekiel with the goal of making the events they find predicted in these…
Creating Knowledge through Networks: A Gender Perspective
This article offers a theoretical analysis of knowledge creation through networking, specifically drawing upon the example of female senior managers as potential knowledge creators. The article constructs a model of networks and their corresponding knowledge and organizational types. It highlights the importance of differentiating between formal and informal networks and shows that senior women have limited access to and are often excluded from s…
Discourse or reality: Work‐life balance”, flexible working policies and the gendered organization
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of flexible working arrangements (FWAs) and particularly reduced hours working arrangements on a Dual Agenda of gender equity and workplace effectiveness, in a case study organization employing a relatively high proportion of women scientists. Design/methodology/approach In‐depth interviews based on the initial stages of collaborative interactive action research (CIAR) are used within a c…
Perspectives on diversity as the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division celebrates its 25th anniversary
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of a selection of the diversity‐related research presented at the Academy of Management's 2009 annual meeting. Design/methodology/approach The annual meeting of the Academy of Management is the largest annual gathering of management scholars with more than 10,000 attendees. The meeting provides a forum for sharing research through multiple paper sessions, panels, symposia and workshops. Fr…
The impact of partnership and family‐building on the early careers of female graduates in the UK
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the impact of partnership and family‐building on the aspirations, expectations and orientations to work of a sample of highly qualified women working across a range of industry sectors. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on both qualitative and quantitative data collected in a longitudinal study of the early careers of UK graduates, incorporating both a large‐scale questionnaire survey and…
Sex worker collective organization: Between advocacy group and labour union
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine contemporary sex worker labour unionism in a number of major western economies because it now faces an acute historical dilemma of being forced into acting as the antithesis of what it professes and aims to be, namely, elite pressure groups. Design/methodology/approach Interviews and structured e‐mail dialogues with sex worker union activists were supplemented with an array of secondary sources and …
Gender inequality in employment: Editors' introduction
Female part‐time managers: Work‐life balance, aspirations and career mobility
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the employment trajectories, aspirations, work‐life balance and career mobility of women working as part‐time managers. Design/methodology/approach In‐depth, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 16 female part‐time managers and four of their line managers in public and private‐sector organizations. Interviews explored women's career trajectories before and after the transition to part‐time…
Female part-time managers: Networks and Career Mobility
The promotional prospects, career mobility and networking experiences of 16 female part-time managers are explored in this article. It attempts to explain the labour market position of female part-time managers, comparing their employment experiences, career progression and networking while working full and part-time. The majority had successful career histories while full-time but these careers stalled once a transition to part-time work was mad…
Women, Power and the Glass Ceiling: Current Research Perspectives
Gender Equality and ‘Austerity’: Vulnerabilities, Resistance and Change
Creating Knowledge through Networks: A Gender Perspective
This article offers a theoretical analysis of knowledge creation through networking, specifically drawing upon the example of female senior managers as potential knowledge creators. The article constructs a model of networks and their corresponding knowledge and organizational types. It highlights the importance of differentiating between formal and informal networks and shows that senior women have limited access to and are often excluded from s…
Female part-time managers: Networks and Career Mobility
The promotional prospects, career mobility and networking experiences of 16 female part-time managers are explored in this article. It attempts to explain the labour market position of female part-time managers, comparing their employment experiences, career progression and networking while working full and part-time. The majority had successful career histories while full-time but these careers stalled once a transition to part-time work was mad…
Discourse or reality: Work‐life balance”, flexible working policies and the gendered organization
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of flexible working arrangements (FWAs) and particularly reduced hours working arrangements on a Dual Agenda of gender equity and workplace effectiveness, in a case study organization employing a relatively high proportion of women scientists. Design/methodology/approach In‐depth interviews based on the initial stages of collaborative interactive action research (CIAR) are used within a c…
Female Part‐Time Managers: Careers, Mentors and Role Models
This paper explores the careers of 27 women employed as part‐time managers in a range of UK public, private and not‐for‐profit sector organizations. Drawing upon semi‐structured interviews, the article briefly summarizes the career trajectories of these women, prior to and after a transition to part‐time working, before exploring whether and how career progression is linked to the support of role models and mentors. The part‐time managers in this…
I will bless those who bless you”: Christian Zionism, Fetishism, and Unleashing the Blessings of God
This article focuses on the concept of ‘blessing’ Israel that has become common among contemporary American Christian Zionists. After introducing a theological scheme that has dominated discussions of contemporary Christian Zionism, the article critically examines one of the emerging narratives concerning the (re)discovery of Christian Zionists’ Jewish roots and the way the Jewish contribution to Christianity is framed. Following this, the articl…
I am an Israeli’: Christian Zionism as American redemption
This article argues that discourse used to define and understand Israel by prominent American Christian Zionists is a discourse of national idealisation. Drawing on Durkheim's (2008 Durkheim, Emile. 2008. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Translated by C. Cosman [Google Scholar]) notion of symbols as sources of social solidarity, I argue that this imagined Israel reflects conservative social and military val…
Female part‐time managers: Work‐life balance, aspirations and career mobility
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the employment trajectories, aspirations, work‐life balance and career mobility of women working as part‐time managers. Design/methodology/approach In‐depth, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 16 female part‐time managers and four of their line managers in public and private‐sector organizations. Interviews explored women's career trajectories before and after the transition to part‐time…
Women's formal networking: The relationship between networking activities and power
This article examines the networking that takes place within formally organized internal (organization‐based) and external (industry‐based) women engineers' networks. Drawing upon 48 interviews with women engineers, across a number of industries and seniority levels, mostly in the UK, the article contributes to the scarce empirical literature examining formal women's networking in engineering, in terms of its role in individual support and collec…
From King Cyrus to Queen Esther: Christian Zionists' discursive construction of Donald Trump as God's instrument
When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential elections with the help of 81 percent of self-identified white evangelicals, liberal commentators, relying on folk-conceptions of religion that privileged concepts like morality and belief, struggled to understand how someone who seemed to lack both could garner such support. Since then scholars have provided various explanations, relating to Christian nationalism evangelical appeals to authoritarianism…
Gender inequality in employment: Editors' introduction
Perspectives on diversity as the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division celebrates its 25th anniversary
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of a selection of the diversity‐related research presented at the Academy of Management's 2009 annual meeting. Design/methodology/approach The annual meeting of the Academy of Management is the largest annual gathering of management scholars with more than 10,000 attendees. The meeting provides a forum for sharing research through multiple paper sessions, panels, symposia and workshops. Fr…
Sex worker collective organization: Between advocacy group and labour union
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine contemporary sex worker labour unionism in a number of major western economies because it now faces an acute historical dilemma of being forced into acting as the antithesis of what it professes and aims to be, namely, elite pressure groups. Design/methodology/approach Interviews and structured e‐mail dialogues with sex worker union activists were supplemented with an array of secondary sources and …
Women, Power and the Glass Ceiling: Current Research Perspectives
Working in nontraditional employment roles: Understanding and breaking down the barriers to gender segregation
Mediating the Past through the Present and the Present through the Past: The Symbiotic Relationship of American Christian Zionists’ Outsider and Insider Enemies
This article examines what is described as a symbiotic relationship between individuals and groups that make up “outsider” and “insider” enemies within a conservative strand of American Christian Zionism. It argues that a particular construction of Islam and Muslims as inherently violent is given a timeless quality through a particular reading of the sibling rivalry between Isaac and Ishmael in the Hebrew Bible, a reading which simultaneously uni…
Women, Power and the Glass Ceiling: Current Research Perspectives
Creating Knowledge through Networks: A Gender Perspective
This article offers a theoretical analysis of knowledge creation through networking, specifically drawing upon the example of female senior managers as potential knowledge creators. The article constructs a model of networks and their corresponding knowledge and organizational types. It highlights the importance of differentiating between formal and informal networks and shows that senior women have limited access to and are often excluded from s…
Discourse or reality: Work‐life balance”, flexible working policies and the gendered organization
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of flexible working arrangements (FWAs) and particularly reduced hours working arrangements on a Dual Agenda of gender equity and workplace effectiveness, in a case study organization employing a relatively high proportion of women scientists. Design/methodology/approach In‐depth interviews based on the initial stages of collaborative interactive action research (CIAR) are used within a c…
Perspectives on diversity as the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division celebrates its 25th anniversary
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of a selection of the diversity‐related research presented at the Academy of Management's 2009 annual meeting. Design/methodology/approach The annual meeting of the Academy of Management is the largest annual gathering of management scholars with more than 10,000 attendees. The meeting provides a forum for sharing research through multiple paper sessions, panels, symposia and workshops. Fr…
The impact of partnership and family‐building on the early careers of female graduates in the UK
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the impact of partnership and family‐building on the aspirations, expectations and orientations to work of a sample of highly qualified women working across a range of industry sectors. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on both qualitative and quantitative data collected in a longitudinal study of the early careers of UK graduates, incorporating both a large‐scale questionnaire survey and…
Sex worker collective organization: Between advocacy group and labour union
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine contemporary sex worker labour unionism in a number of major western economies because it now faces an acute historical dilemma of being forced into acting as the antithesis of what it professes and aims to be, namely, elite pressure groups. Design/methodology/approach Interviews and structured e‐mail dialogues with sex worker union activists were supplemented with an array of secondary sources and …
Gender inequality in employment: Editors' introduction
Female part‐time managers: Work‐life balance, aspirations and career mobility
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the employment trajectories, aspirations, work‐life balance and career mobility of women working as part‐time managers. Design/methodology/approach In‐depth, semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 16 female part‐time managers and four of their line managers in public and private‐sector organizations. Interviews explored women's career trajectories before and after the transition to part‐time…
Female part-time managers: Networks and Career Mobility
The promotional prospects, career mobility and networking experiences of 16 female part-time managers are explored in this article. It attempts to explain the labour market position of female part-time managers, comparing their employment experiences, career progression and networking while working full and part-time. The majority had successful career histories while full-time but these careers stalled once a transition to part-time work was mad…
"For Such a Time as This": Reading (and Becoming) Esther with Christians United for Israel
A great deal of work on contemporary Christian Zionism focuses on the apocalyptic eschatology of premillennial dispensationalism, critiquing it from an idealistic perspective that posits a direct line of causality from "belief" to action. Such critiques frequently assert that since Christian Zionists are biblical literalists, they read apocalyptic texts such as Revelation and Ezekiel with the goal of making the events they find predicted in these…
I am an Israeli’: Christian Zionism as American redemption
This article argues that discourse used to define and understand Israel by prominent American Christian Zionists is a discourse of national idealisation. Drawing on Durkheim's (2008 Durkheim, Emile. 2008. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Translated by C. Cosman [Google Scholar]) notion of symbols as sources of social solidarity, I argue that this imagined Israel reflects conservative social and military val…
I will bless those who bless you”: Christian Zionism, Fetishism, and Unleashing the Blessings of God
This article focuses on the concept of ‘blessing’ Israel that has become common among contemporary American Christian Zionists. After introducing a theological scheme that has dominated discussions of contemporary Christian Zionism, the article critically examines one of the emerging narratives concerning the (re)discovery of Christian Zionists’ Jewish roots and the way the Jewish contribution to Christianity is framed. Following this, the articl…
Mediating the Past through the Present and the Present through the Past: The Symbiotic Relationship of American Christian Zionists’ Outsider and Insider Enemies
This article examines what is described as a symbiotic relationship between individuals and groups that make up “outsider” and “insider” enemies within a conservative strand of American Christian Zionism. It argues that a particular construction of Islam and Muslims as inherently violent is given a timeless quality through a particular reading of the sibling rivalry between Isaac and Ishmael in the Hebrew Bible, a reading which simultaneously uni…
Female Part‐Time Managers: Careers, Mentors and Role Models
This paper explores the careers of 27 women employed as part‐time managers in a range of UK public, private and not‐for‐profit sector organizations. Drawing upon semi‐structured interviews, the article briefly summarizes the career trajectories of these women, prior to and after a transition to part‐time working, before exploring whether and how career progression is linked to the support of role models and mentors. The part‐time managers in this…
Gender Equality and ‘Austerity’: Vulnerabilities, Resistance and Change
Violence as Revelation: American Christian Zionist Theodicy, and the Construction of Religion through Violence
Drawing on Russell McCutcheon’s (2003) redescription of the theological category of theodicy as a socio-political rhetoric that functions to conserve social interests, this article examines the way that American Christian Zionists employ theodicies to explain historical, contemporary, and anticipated acts of violence. It argues that violence is central to Christian Zionists’ conception of God’s revelation, and thus to their identity. Rather than …
God's Country: Christian Zionism in America. By Samuel Goldman
The vastness of the primary sources and the quality of the existing scholarship should have served as warnings to an inexperienced voyager” (p. 241). Yet it is fortunate that Goldman persisted because he has produced a highly readable overview of American Christian thought about Israel from the time of the Puritans to the modern period. The book itself, which Goldman describes as “an essay in the history of ideas, is aimed at readers who want to …
Challenging male dominance through the substantive representation of women: The case of an online women’s mentoring platform
This article analyses the design of an online mentoring platform—for women by women—in a high‐technology, male‐dominated UK industry: aviation and aerospace. Based on interviews with professionals and managers, we analyse the journey of the women involved and contribute to the understanding of the role of women (individually and collectively) in challenging gendered norms in a male‐dominated industry through the theoretical lenses of ‘critical ac…
America’s Road to Jerusalem: The Impact of the Six-Day War on Protestant Politics. By Jason M. Olson
One of the claims often made by contemporary Christian Zionists is that the state of Israel provides the greatest proof for the existence of God in the modern world. For Christians of this theological persuasion, the creation of Israel in 1948 and its expansion after the Six-Day War in 1967 were both proof that God’s word remains true and that he is still active in history. Although this understanding of Israel is accepted by many Christians in t…
From King Cyrus to Queen Esther: Christian Zionists' discursive construction of Donald Trump as God's instrument
When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential elections with the help of 81 percent of self-identified white evangelicals, liberal commentators, relying on folk-conceptions of religion that privileged concepts like morality and belief, struggled to understand how someone who seemed to lack both could garner such support. Since then scholars have provided various explanations, relating to Christian nationalism evangelical appeals to authoritarianism…
Working in nontraditional employment roles: Understanding and breaking down the barriers to gender segregation
Women's formal networking: The relationship between networking activities and power
This article examines the networking that takes place within formally organized internal (organization‐based) and external (industry‐based) women engineers' networks. Drawing upon 48 interviews with women engineers, across a number of industries and seniority levels, mostly in the UK, the article contributes to the scarce empirical literature examining formal women's networking in engineering, in terms of its role in individual support and collec…
Challenging the “Ideal Worker” Norm? Senior Managers Navigating Reduced Hours Working
Reduced hours working at senior management levels remains rare and little is known about how it can be utilized effectively in organizations. This article focuses upon two forms of reduced hours working among a sample of 42 senior executives and managers: reduced hours and job share partnerships. In contrast to earlier research, this study found greater optimism among senior managers who worked reduced hours regarding their career prospects but a…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (11 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works)