Vicky M Walters
Biographic Data
| ID | 296419 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vicky M Walters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vicky M |
| FAMILY NAME | Walters |
| SIGNATURE | WALTERS V M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8642-9841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Older women’s constructions of equality over the lifecourse
Gender and age are central organising principles of social relations, with socially constructed gendered and age-based norms influencing patterns of social behaviour, power and inequality. Despite recent literature highlighting the importance of subjective measures of equality, including as a significant predictor of wellbeing, there is a gap in studies focused on subjective equality in research on ageing. Drawing on an equality ranking exercise …
Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis
This paper puts forward a model of feminist research practice, termed 'TROVE'. This model emerged through methodological reflections on research ethics for a project exploring women's experiences of gender inequality over the life course. The paper discusses five relations of care that became core to the research: relations within the team; between researchers and participants; in participants' connection with their past, present, and future selv…
Policing freedom campers: The place, class, and xenophobic dynamics of overtourism in Aotearoa New Zealand
The concept of ‘overtourism’ has boomed in the past five years as the latest term to refer to anti-tourist sentiment in tourist hotspots. News media’s widespread use of the term suffers from conceptual slippage and a tendency to incite moral panic. However, a deeper theorization of overtourism as embodied, place-based social conflicts shows that this phenomenon is not about absolute visitor numbers or particular tourist activities, but rather abo…
Beyond markets: Food poverty and the noncommercial food system
Food poverty, or household food insecurity, has been a growing phenomenon in high-income countries as a result of neoliberal reforms. In this paper, we advance the idea of a noncommercial food system which, we argue, differs from conventional and alternative food systems in that it does not entail a profit motive, and we examine its potential contribution to alleviating food poverty. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in 2017 with organiza…
Cultural Exchange during English-Language Voluntourism (EVT) in Lima, Peru: A Postcolonial Analysis
In recent years, English-language voluntourism (EVT) has grown in popularity, with many conceptualizing it as a form of cultural exchange between English speaking volunteers and members of a non-English speaking host community. This article explores relationships between and within volunteers and host groups of an EVT program in Lima, Peru. Using a postcolonial analytical framework, we explore how bringing together voluntourists and members of ho…
Understanding Children’s Power in Bangladesh’s Informal Settlements
This article explores power from the perspectives of children living in informal settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It draws on empirical evidence gathered through visual, task-based methods with a small group of children and insights from post-structuralism, development sociology and the anthropology and political economy of Bangladesh to argue that children’s power in Dhaka’s informal settlements can be understood not as an instrument some agent…
Reasserting food in place: The case of Kai Whau
This article considers relationships and intersections between place, community and foodscapes. We present a case study of the making of a foodscape in The Whau, a local authority area of Auckland, New Zealand, involving place-making activities generated by the food-oriented initiative, Kai Whau (food in The Whau). We examine how food is invoked as core for place-making in response to community disruption following re-drawing of regional electora…
Parenting from the ‘Polluted’ Margins: Stigma, Education and Social (Im)Mobility for the Children of India’s Out-Casted Sanitation Workers
Sanitation work is considered highly polluted in Hindu society and the stigma inflicted on sweepers and manual scavengers (safai karamcharis) extends to their children. This paper examines how safai karamcharis navigate parenting from the ‘polluted’ margins. It explores strategies adopted to protect children from stigma and explains how these strategies are temporal and partial. It also discusses the hope parents place on education for their chil…
Disaster risk at the margins: Homelessness, vulnerability and hazards
Water, Democracy and Neoliberalism in India: The Power to Reform
Since the early 1990s, the achievement of ‘good governance’ has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development. This book presents a critical challenge to the contemporary development paradigm of good governance. Based on original ethnographic fieldwork on urban water governance reforms in south India (Karnataka), the book examines the two propositions that underlie the current good governance debate. The first refers…
Disaster risk at the margins: Homelessness, vulnerability and hazards
Policing freedom campers: The place, class, and xenophobic dynamics of overtourism in Aotearoa New Zealand
The concept of ‘overtourism’ has boomed in the past five years as the latest term to refer to anti-tourist sentiment in tourist hotspots. News media’s widespread use of the term suffers from conceptual slippage and a tendency to incite moral panic. However, a deeper theorization of overtourism as embodied, place-based social conflicts shows that this phenomenon is not about absolute visitor numbers or particular tourist activities, but rather abo…
Parenting from the ‘Polluted’ Margins: Stigma, Education and Social (Im)Mobility for the Children of India’s Out-Casted Sanitation Workers
Sanitation work is considered highly polluted in Hindu society and the stigma inflicted on sweepers and manual scavengers (safai karamcharis) extends to their children. This paper examines how safai karamcharis navigate parenting from the ‘polluted’ margins. It explores strategies adopted to protect children from stigma and explains how these strategies are temporal and partial. It also discusses the hope parents place on education for their chil…
Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis
This paper puts forward a model of feminist research practice, termed 'TROVE'. This model emerged through methodological reflections on research ethics for a project exploring women's experiences of gender inequality over the life course. The paper discusses five relations of care that became core to the research: relations within the team; between researchers and participants; in participants' connection with their past, present, and future selv…
Reasserting food in place: The case of Kai Whau
This article considers relationships and intersections between place, community and foodscapes. We present a case study of the making of a foodscape in The Whau, a local authority area of Auckland, New Zealand, involving place-making activities generated by the food-oriented initiative, Kai Whau (food in The Whau). We examine how food is invoked as core for place-making in response to community disruption following re-drawing of regional electora…
Water, Democracy and Neoliberalism in India: The Power to Reform
Since the early 1990s, the achievement of ‘good governance’ has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development. This book presents a critical challenge to the contemporary development paradigm of good governance. Based on original ethnographic fieldwork on urban water governance reforms in south India (Karnataka), the book examines the two propositions that underlie the current good governance debate. The first refers…
Disaster risk at the margins: Homelessness, vulnerability and hazards
Parenting from the ‘Polluted’ Margins: Stigma, Education and Social (Im)Mobility for the Children of India’s Out-Casted Sanitation Workers
Sanitation work is considered highly polluted in Hindu society and the stigma inflicted on sweepers and manual scavengers (safai karamcharis) extends to their children. This paper examines how safai karamcharis navigate parenting from the ‘polluted’ margins. It explores strategies adopted to protect children from stigma and explains how these strategies are temporal and partial. It also discusses the hope parents place on education for their chil…
Beyond markets: Food poverty and the noncommercial food system
Food poverty, or household food insecurity, has been a growing phenomenon in high-income countries as a result of neoliberal reforms. In this paper, we advance the idea of a noncommercial food system which, we argue, differs from conventional and alternative food systems in that it does not entail a profit motive, and we examine its potential contribution to alleviating food poverty. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in 2017 with organiza…
Cultural Exchange during English-Language Voluntourism (EVT) in Lima, Peru: A Postcolonial Analysis
In recent years, English-language voluntourism (EVT) has grown in popularity, with many conceptualizing it as a form of cultural exchange between English speaking volunteers and members of a non-English speaking host community. This article explores relationships between and within volunteers and host groups of an EVT program in Lima, Peru. Using a postcolonial analytical framework, we explore how bringing together voluntourists and members of ho…
Understanding Children’s Power in Bangladesh’s Informal Settlements
This article explores power from the perspectives of children living in informal settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It draws on empirical evidence gathered through visual, task-based methods with a small group of children and insights from post-structuralism, development sociology and the anthropology and political economy of Bangladesh to argue that children’s power in Dhaka’s informal settlements can be understood not as an instrument some agent…
Reasserting food in place: The case of Kai Whau
This article considers relationships and intersections between place, community and foodscapes. We present a case study of the making of a foodscape in The Whau, a local authority area of Auckland, New Zealand, involving place-making activities generated by the food-oriented initiative, Kai Whau (food in The Whau). We examine how food is invoked as core for place-making in response to community disruption following re-drawing of regional electora…
Policing freedom campers: The place, class, and xenophobic dynamics of overtourism in Aotearoa New Zealand
The concept of ‘overtourism’ has boomed in the past five years as the latest term to refer to anti-tourist sentiment in tourist hotspots. News media’s widespread use of the term suffers from conceptual slippage and a tendency to incite moral panic. However, a deeper theorization of overtourism as embodied, place-based social conflicts shows that this phenomenon is not about absolute visitor numbers or particular tourist activities, but rather abo…
Older women’s constructions of equality over the lifecourse
Gender and age are central organising principles of social relations, with socially constructed gendered and age-based norms influencing patterns of social behaviour, power and inequality. Despite recent literature highlighting the importance of subjective measures of equality, including as a significant predictor of wellbeing, there is a gap in studies focused on subjective equality in research on ageing. Drawing on an equality ranking exercise …
Methodological reflections on ethics, relations of care and reciprocity in feminist research praxis
This paper puts forward a model of feminist research practice, termed 'TROVE'. This model emerged through methodological reflections on research ethics for a project exploring women's experiences of gender inequality over the life course. The paper discusses five relations of care that became core to the research: relations within the team; between researchers and participants; in participants' connection with their past, present, and future selv…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Food security (2 works)