Vivienne Elizabeth
Biographic Data
| ID | 290901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vivienne Elizabeth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vivienne |
| FAMILY NAME | Elizabeth |
| SIGNATURE | ELIZABETH V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Beyond the agentic individual: Rethinking agency in transnational collectivist Filipino families
The care of children when Pacific parents live apart: A case of mothers and othermothers caring together
Shared post-separation parenting has become legally and culturally idealised across many Western jurisdictions. Shared parental responsibility is often accompanied by a presumption that parents will share care time as well as a cultural imaginary of involved shared parental care for children. However, little is known about how care work is organised and enacted following separation. Drawing on interviews with 15 separated Pacific parents, 10 moth…
It is important that my kids see us all spending time together and that we do spend time together’: Pacific mothers and fathers displaying post-separation family connections
In this article, we draw on Finch’s (2007) concept of family display to examine how collectivist understandings of family intersect with gender to shape mothers’ and fathers’ post-separation displays of family life. Drawing on interviews with fifteen separated Pacific parents (ten mothers and five fathers), we explore how mothers and fathers navigate how, when, with and for whom they display family relationships and family life following separati…
It’s not like I ever use the money for me to go out and live the café lifestyle’: Pacific mothers talk about child support money
Much of the sociological literature on how child support is allocated and used engages with normative white Western understandings of family structure, the organization of gender relations, and the distribution and management of financial resources within that structure. There has been an absence of an examination of how mothers and fathers from ethnic minority communities navigate and negotiate uses of child support money. Drawing on interviews …
The affective burden of separated mothers in PA(S) inflected custody law systems: A New Zealand case study
Custody law systems across the Anglo-West are increasingly characterised by the overt and covert use of parental alienation (syndrome) as an aid to the governance of post-separation mothers. Difficulties with care arrangements within PA(S) inflected custody law systems are often regarded as evidence of mothers’ alienating behaviours, resulting in a range of remedial, coercive and punitive censures, including losing resident parent status. I argue…
It’s an invisible wound’: The disenfranchised grief of post-separation mothers who lose care time
This paper enriches understandings of the implications of contemporary custody law for mothers and their children. It does so through a discussion of mothers’ grief and emotional pain over involuntarily losing care time with children. Mothers involuntarily lose care time by becoming non-resident parents against their will or by having a shared care parenting order imposed on them. Both experiences of losing maternal care time are becoming more co…
Money Management in Families
Two widely held assumptions inform the starting point for thinking about money management in families: first, that family members pool incomes together in one pot; and second, that family members enjoy equal access to the financial resources of their households. Both of these assumptions have been subject to significant challenges over the last 25 years. Indeed, as Pahl demonstrated some time ago, the historical failure of sociologists to scrutin…
Custody Stalking: A Mechanism of Coercively Controlling Mothers Following Separation
Unpredictable feelings: Academic women under research audit
Academic research is subject to audit in many national settings. In Aotearoa/New Zealand, the government regulates the flow of publicly funded research income into tertiary institutions through the Performance‐Based Research Fund (PBRF). This article enquires into the effects of the PBRF by exploring data collected from 16 academic women of varying rank in the arts, humanities and social sciences. References to the women's emotions were extracted…
Transiting through cohabitation to marriage: Emerging commitment and diminishing ambiguity
This article extends discussions about the meaning of cohabitation for cohabitants by drawing on our qualitative interviews from New Zealand with long-term heterosexual and same-sex cohabitants. We show that for this particular group of cohabitants, living together was a dynamic and fluid phenomenon that was largely characterised by a shift from an ambiguous and contingent commitment to a more mutual commitment. The emergence of mutual commitment…
A 'brave thing to do' or a normative practice? Marriage after long-term cohabitation
For decades, sociologists have debated whether widespread cohabitation among opposite-sex and same-sex couples indicates the transformation of relationships or simply a new pathway to marriage. If it is the latter, what does this transition mean to couples who decide to marry? Using an interpretive framework, the article investigates why cohabiting couples legalise their relationships when there seem to be few legal or social advantages, and how …
Tying the Knot: The Impact of Formalization after Long-Term Cohabitation’
Tying the knot: The impact of formalization after long-term cohabitation
Most couples in English-speaking countries now cohabit before marriage, and some marry after living together for years, buying a house and having children. Although marriage offers few additional legal rights, especially for different-sex couples, it seems to have retained its symbolic value. Based on interviews with participants in different-sex and same-sex relationships in New Zealand, we explore whether or not getting married was perceived to…
The Gendered Dynamics of Power in Disputes Over the Postseparation Care of Children
A dichotomized picture of postseparation parents has emerged in family law that juxtaposes violent relationships with those that are "normal." Domestic violence scholars and advocates have played a role in reproducing this picture in their quest to secure protection for women and children. Although sympathetic, we argue this construction generates a number of problems: in particular, it obscures the gender power dynamics in relationships where wo…
He’s Just Swapped His Fists for the System” The Governance of Gender through Custody Law
In this article, we investigate the state’s role in the reproduction of relations of male dominance between separated parents through custody law. We argue that three “logics” shape the current operation of family law—durability, gender neutrality and present/future temporality—such that custody law is not simply a mechanism of dispute resolution between parents; it is also a vehicle for the differential production, positioning, and regulation of…
Second-Class Marriage? Civil Union in New Zealand
Since April 2005, both same-sex and oppositesex couples have been permitted to enter into civil unions in New Zealand, yet legal marriage is still reserved for heterosexuals. This paper explores the social differences between the two types of 'marriage' by drawing on official statistics and qualitative interviews with celebrants and long-term cohabitants who have legalized their unions or plan to do so in the near future. Using an interpretive fr…
Turning Mothers into Villains: Gaps and silences in media accounts of custody abductions
This article deconstructs news media representations of two custody abductions that took place in Aotearoa New Zealand in the mid-2000s. In the first case, the father abducted his five-month-old daughter; in the second case, the mother was held responsible for the abduction of her six-year-old son even though he was in the presence of his maternal grandfather. The analysis demonstrates that the media’s pejorative construction of the mothers at th…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Resident Mothers and the Moral Dilemmas they Face During Custody Disputes
Racializing the "Social Development" State: Investing in Children in Aotearoa/New Zealand
This paper focuses on the claim that the child is emerging as a key figure of social governance. International studies suggest that as liberal welfare states increasingly draw on social investment discourse, the child-025EFparticularly the child-as-worker-in-becoming-025EFhas emerged as an iconic figure. This has resulted in the child becoming the central subject of social policies and programs and the focus of new spending priorities. In Aotearo…
When a Mother Strikes too Close to the Bone
This article contains an account of the author's childhood experiences of her mother's use of harsh corporal punishment. These childhood experiences, as well as other aspects of the author's family life, are largely conveyed to the reader through a combination of autoethnographic poems and prose. Through these writings the author reflects on the haunting power of childhood experiences of harsh corporal punishment
Money Management in Families
The equal sharing of financial resources and, hence, material well‐being has become an assumed norm of contemporary heterosexual families. Of course, this is not to say that heterosexual couples actually enjoy financial equality or that they share a similar standard of living. In fact, as Pahl (1989) pointed out over 15 years ago, the failure to open up the black box of familial economies to sociological scrutiny has operated to disguise intrafam…
II. To Marry, or not to Marry: That is the Question
Managing Money, Managing Coupledom: A Critical Examination of Cohabitants' Money Management Practices
This article focuses on the use of independent money management by a small number of cohabitants living in New Zealand. This style of money management seems to be popular with cohabitants and is likely to become increasingly significant as the number of couples who cohabit continues to grow in Western countries such as New Zealand. Yet it has received sparse attention within the literature on domestic monies. This literature has noted that money …
Cohabitation, Marriage, and the Unruly Consequences of Difference
This article is based on interviews with a small number of cohabitants who are critical of conventional marriage. It examines some of the ways in which the distinction between heterosexual cohabitation and marriage is rendered in the New Zealand context. Culturally available distinctions, like that between cohabitation and marriage, are used in the production of resistant counterdiscourses. However, difference can be rewritten as deviance and in …
Managing Money, Managing Coupledom: A Critical Examination of Cohabitants' Money Management Practices
This article focuses on the use of independent money management by a small number of cohabitants living in New Zealand. This style of money management seems to be popular with cohabitants and is likely to become increasingly significant as the number of couples who cohabit continues to grow in Western countries such as New Zealand. Yet it has received sparse attention within the literature on domestic monies. This literature has noted that money …
Racializing the "Social Development" State: Investing in Children in Aotearoa/New Zealand
This paper focuses on the claim that the child is emerging as a key figure of social governance. International studies suggest that as liberal welfare states increasingly draw on social investment discourse, the child-025EFparticularly the child-as-worker-in-becoming-025EFhas emerged as an iconic figure. This has resulted in the child becoming the central subject of social policies and programs and the focus of new spending priorities. In Aotearo…
Custody Stalking: A Mechanism of Coercively Controlling Mothers Following Separation
Cohabitation, Marriage, and the Unruly Consequences of Difference
This article is based on interviews with a small number of cohabitants who are critical of conventional marriage. It examines some of the ways in which the distinction between heterosexual cohabitation and marriage is rendered in the New Zealand context. Culturally available distinctions, like that between cohabitation and marriage, are used in the production of resistant counterdiscourses. However, difference can be rewritten as deviance and in …
It’s an invisible wound’: The disenfranchised grief of post-separation mothers who lose care time
This paper enriches understandings of the implications of contemporary custody law for mothers and their children. It does so through a discussion of mothers’ grief and emotional pain over involuntarily losing care time with children. Mothers involuntarily lose care time by becoming non-resident parents against their will or by having a shared care parenting order imposed on them. Both experiences of losing maternal care time are becoming more co…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Resident Mothers and the Moral Dilemmas they Face During Custody Disputes
Tying the knot: The impact of formalization after long-term cohabitation
Most couples in English-speaking countries now cohabit before marriage, and some marry after living together for years, buying a house and having children. Although marriage offers few additional legal rights, especially for different-sex couples, it seems to have retained its symbolic value. Based on interviews with participants in different-sex and same-sex relationships in New Zealand, we explore whether or not getting married was perceived to…
The affective burden of separated mothers in PA(S) inflected custody law systems: A New Zealand case study
Custody law systems across the Anglo-West are increasingly characterised by the overt and covert use of parental alienation (syndrome) as an aid to the governance of post-separation mothers. Difficulties with care arrangements within PA(S) inflected custody law systems are often regarded as evidence of mothers’ alienating behaviours, resulting in a range of remedial, coercive and punitive censures, including losing resident parent status. I argue…
Unpredictable feelings: Academic women under research audit
Academic research is subject to audit in many national settings. In Aotearoa/New Zealand, the government regulates the flow of publicly funded research income into tertiary institutions through the Performance‐Based Research Fund (PBRF). This article enquires into the effects of the PBRF by exploring data collected from 16 academic women of varying rank in the arts, humanities and social sciences. References to the women's emotions were extracted…
The Gendered Dynamics of Power in Disputes Over the Postseparation Care of Children
A dichotomized picture of postseparation parents has emerged in family law that juxtaposes violent relationships with those that are "normal." Domestic violence scholars and advocates have played a role in reproducing this picture in their quest to secure protection for women and children. Although sympathetic, we argue this construction generates a number of problems: in particular, it obscures the gender power dynamics in relationships where wo…
A 'brave thing to do' or a normative practice? Marriage after long-term cohabitation
For decades, sociologists have debated whether widespread cohabitation among opposite-sex and same-sex couples indicates the transformation of relationships or simply a new pathway to marriage. If it is the latter, what does this transition mean to couples who decide to marry? Using an interpretive framework, the article investigates why cohabiting couples legalise their relationships when there seem to be few legal or social advantages, and how …
He’s Just Swapped His Fists for the System” The Governance of Gender through Custody Law
In this article, we investigate the state’s role in the reproduction of relations of male dominance between separated parents through custody law. We argue that three “logics” shape the current operation of family law—durability, gender neutrality and present/future temporality—such that custody law is not simply a mechanism of dispute resolution between parents; it is also a vehicle for the differential production, positioning, and regulation of…
Turning Mothers into Villains: Gaps and silences in media accounts of custody abductions
This article deconstructs news media representations of two custody abductions that took place in Aotearoa New Zealand in the mid-2000s. In the first case, the father abducted his five-month-old daughter; in the second case, the mother was held responsible for the abduction of her six-year-old son even though he was in the presence of his maternal grandfather. The analysis demonstrates that the media’s pejorative construction of the mothers at th…
The care of children when Pacific parents live apart: A case of mothers and othermothers caring together
Shared post-separation parenting has become legally and culturally idealised across many Western jurisdictions. Shared parental responsibility is often accompanied by a presumption that parents will share care time as well as a cultural imaginary of involved shared parental care for children. However, little is known about how care work is organised and enacted following separation. Drawing on interviews with 15 separated Pacific parents, 10 moth…
It is important that my kids see us all spending time together and that we do spend time together’: Pacific mothers and fathers displaying post-separation family connections
In this article, we draw on Finch’s (2007) concept of family display to examine how collectivist understandings of family intersect with gender to shape mothers’ and fathers’ post-separation displays of family life. Drawing on interviews with fifteen separated Pacific parents (ten mothers and five fathers), we explore how mothers and fathers navigate how, when, with and for whom they display family relationships and family life following separati…
It’s not like I ever use the money for me to go out and live the café lifestyle’: Pacific mothers talk about child support money
Much of the sociological literature on how child support is allocated and used engages with normative white Western understandings of family structure, the organization of gender relations, and the distribution and management of financial resources within that structure. There has been an absence of an examination of how mothers and fathers from ethnic minority communities navigate and negotiate uses of child support money. Drawing on interviews …
Second-Class Marriage? Civil Union in New Zealand
Since April 2005, both same-sex and oppositesex couples have been permitted to enter into civil unions in New Zealand, yet legal marriage is still reserved for heterosexuals. This paper explores the social differences between the two types of 'marriage' by drawing on official statistics and qualitative interviews with celebrants and long-term cohabitants who have legalized their unions or plan to do so in the near future. Using an interpretive fr…
Cohabitation, Marriage, and the Unruly Consequences of Difference
This article is based on interviews with a small number of cohabitants who are critical of conventional marriage. It examines some of the ways in which the distinction between heterosexual cohabitation and marriage is rendered in the New Zealand context. Culturally available distinctions, like that between cohabitation and marriage, are used in the production of resistant counterdiscourses. However, difference can be rewritten as deviance and in …
Managing Money, Managing Coupledom: A Critical Examination of Cohabitants' Money Management Practices
This article focuses on the use of independent money management by a small number of cohabitants living in New Zealand. This style of money management seems to be popular with cohabitants and is likely to become increasingly significant as the number of couples who cohabit continues to grow in Western countries such as New Zealand. Yet it has received sparse attention within the literature on domestic monies. This literature has noted that money …
II. To Marry, or not to Marry: That is the Question
Money Management in Families
The equal sharing of financial resources and, hence, material well‐being has become an assumed norm of contemporary heterosexual families. Of course, this is not to say that heterosexual couples actually enjoy financial equality or that they share a similar standard of living. In fact, as Pahl (1989) pointed out over 15 years ago, the failure to open up the black box of familial economies to sociological scrutiny has operated to disguise intrafam…
When a Mother Strikes too Close to the Bone
This article contains an account of the author's childhood experiences of her mother's use of harsh corporal punishment. These childhood experiences, as well as other aspects of the author's family life, are largely conveyed to the reader through a combination of autoethnographic poems and prose. Through these writings the author reflects on the haunting power of childhood experiences of harsh corporal punishment
Racializing the "Social Development" State: Investing in Children in Aotearoa/New Zealand
This paper focuses on the claim that the child is emerging as a key figure of social governance. International studies suggest that as liberal welfare states increasingly draw on social investment discourse, the child-025EFparticularly the child-as-worker-in-becoming-025EFhas emerged as an iconic figure. This has resulted in the child becoming the central subject of social policies and programs and the focus of new spending priorities. In Aotearo…
Turning Mothers into Villains: Gaps and silences in media accounts of custody abductions
This article deconstructs news media representations of two custody abductions that took place in Aotearoa New Zealand in the mid-2000s. In the first case, the father abducted his five-month-old daughter; in the second case, the mother was held responsible for the abduction of her six-year-old son even though he was in the presence of his maternal grandfather. The analysis demonstrates that the media’s pejorative construction of the mothers at th…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Resident Mothers and the Moral Dilemmas they Face During Custody Disputes
The Gendered Dynamics of Power in Disputes Over the Postseparation Care of Children
A dichotomized picture of postseparation parents has emerged in family law that juxtaposes violent relationships with those that are "normal." Domestic violence scholars and advocates have played a role in reproducing this picture in their quest to secure protection for women and children. Although sympathetic, we argue this construction generates a number of problems: in particular, it obscures the gender power dynamics in relationships where wo…
He’s Just Swapped His Fists for the System” The Governance of Gender through Custody Law
In this article, we investigate the state’s role in the reproduction of relations of male dominance between separated parents through custody law. We argue that three “logics” shape the current operation of family law—durability, gender neutrality and present/future temporality—such that custody law is not simply a mechanism of dispute resolution between parents; it is also a vehicle for the differential production, positioning, and regulation of…
Second-Class Marriage? Civil Union in New Zealand
Since April 2005, both same-sex and oppositesex couples have been permitted to enter into civil unions in New Zealand, yet legal marriage is still reserved for heterosexuals. This paper explores the social differences between the two types of 'marriage' by drawing on official statistics and qualitative interviews with celebrants and long-term cohabitants who have legalized their unions or plan to do so in the near future. Using an interpretive fr…
Tying the Knot: The Impact of Formalization after Long-Term Cohabitation’
Tying the knot: The impact of formalization after long-term cohabitation
Most couples in English-speaking countries now cohabit before marriage, and some marry after living together for years, buying a house and having children. Although marriage offers few additional legal rights, especially for different-sex couples, it seems to have retained its symbolic value. Based on interviews with participants in different-sex and same-sex relationships in New Zealand, we explore whether or not getting married was perceived to…
Transiting through cohabitation to marriage: Emerging commitment and diminishing ambiguity
This article extends discussions about the meaning of cohabitation for cohabitants by drawing on our qualitative interviews from New Zealand with long-term heterosexual and same-sex cohabitants. We show that for this particular group of cohabitants, living together was a dynamic and fluid phenomenon that was largely characterised by a shift from an ambiguous and contingent commitment to a more mutual commitment. The emergence of mutual commitment…
A 'brave thing to do' or a normative practice? Marriage after long-term cohabitation
For decades, sociologists have debated whether widespread cohabitation among opposite-sex and same-sex couples indicates the transformation of relationships or simply a new pathway to marriage. If it is the latter, what does this transition mean to couples who decide to marry? Using an interpretive framework, the article investigates why cohabiting couples legalise their relationships when there seem to be few legal or social advantages, and how …
Unpredictable feelings: Academic women under research audit
Academic research is subject to audit in many national settings. In Aotearoa/New Zealand, the government regulates the flow of publicly funded research income into tertiary institutions through the Performance‐Based Research Fund (PBRF). This article enquires into the effects of the PBRF by exploring data collected from 16 academic women of varying rank in the arts, humanities and social sciences. References to the women's emotions were extracted…
Money Management in Families
Two widely held assumptions inform the starting point for thinking about money management in families: first, that family members pool incomes together in one pot; and second, that family members enjoy equal access to the financial resources of their households. Both of these assumptions have been subject to significant challenges over the last 25 years. Indeed, as Pahl demonstrated some time ago, the historical failure of sociologists to scrutin…
Custody Stalking: A Mechanism of Coercively Controlling Mothers Following Separation
It’s an invisible wound’: The disenfranchised grief of post-separation mothers who lose care time
This paper enriches understandings of the implications of contemporary custody law for mothers and their children. It does so through a discussion of mothers’ grief and emotional pain over involuntarily losing care time with children. Mothers involuntarily lose care time by becoming non-resident parents against their will or by having a shared care parenting order imposed on them. Both experiences of losing maternal care time are becoming more co…
It’s not like I ever use the money for me to go out and live the café lifestyle’: Pacific mothers talk about child support money
Much of the sociological literature on how child support is allocated and used engages with normative white Western understandings of family structure, the organization of gender relations, and the distribution and management of financial resources within that structure. There has been an absence of an examination of how mothers and fathers from ethnic minority communities navigate and negotiate uses of child support money. Drawing on interviews …
The affective burden of separated mothers in PA(S) inflected custody law systems: A New Zealand case study
Custody law systems across the Anglo-West are increasingly characterised by the overt and covert use of parental alienation (syndrome) as an aid to the governance of post-separation mothers. Difficulties with care arrangements within PA(S) inflected custody law systems are often regarded as evidence of mothers’ alienating behaviours, resulting in a range of remedial, coercive and punitive censures, including losing resident parent status. I argue…
It is important that my kids see us all spending time together and that we do spend time together’: Pacific mothers and fathers displaying post-separation family connections
In this article, we draw on Finch’s (2007) concept of family display to examine how collectivist understandings of family intersect with gender to shape mothers’ and fathers’ post-separation displays of family life. Drawing on interviews with fifteen separated Pacific parents (ten mothers and five fathers), we explore how mothers and fathers navigate how, when, with and for whom they display family relationships and family life following separati…
The care of children when Pacific parents live apart: A case of mothers and othermothers caring together
Shared post-separation parenting has become legally and culturally idealised across many Western jurisdictions. Shared parental responsibility is often accompanied by a presumption that parents will share care time as well as a cultural imaginary of involved shared parental care for children. However, little is known about how care work is organised and enacted following separation. Drawing on interviews with 15 separated Pacific parents, 10 moth…
Beyond the agentic individual: Rethinking agency in transnational collectivist Filipino families
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Law (16 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (9 works)