Emma Tennent
Biographic Data
| ID | 301556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Tennent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Tennent |
| SIGNATURE | TENNENT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6771-2948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gender, Culture, And Emotional Labor in Nonprofit Job Advertisements
Job advertisements are powerful discursive sites where organizations communicate a version of work and imagine qualities of the ideal worker. Here we study ads for roles in the nonprofit sector, which is characterized by a predominantly female workforce, low wages, and high demands for emotional labor. Using Foucauldian discourse analysis, we identified three discursive constructions of the ideal worker across 105 online adverts: the passionate a…
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Sex, Gender, and Bodies: Transmisogyny and Garfinkel's Status Degradation Ceremony
Hatred and fear of trans people, particularly trans women, are worldwide social phenomena. Transphobic rhetoric rests on essentialist understandings of sex and gender, but ethnomethodology shows how the 'natural attitude' to sex/gender is a practical accomplishment. We use conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis to examine the workings of the natural attitude in a public submission to a government select committee about a law…
Person Reference and a Preference for Association in Emergency Calls
Person reference is pervasive in talk. Conversation analytic work has identified preferences in person reference relating to recognitional reference. However, the principles shaping non-recognitional reference are less well understood. We propose a preference for association in an institutional setting where recognition is not relevant. Our data are calls to the New Zealand police emergency line which were institutionally classified as family har…
The anatomy of a conspiracy theory in Covid-19 political commentary
The pandemic has exacerbated moral panics about conspiracy theories. Yet defining what conspiracy theories are is just as fraught as figuring out what to do about them. This article provides the first empirical demonstration of how the categories ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘conspiracy theorist’ are used in social interaction. We examined comments from a New Zealand politician about a Covid-19 outbreak at the start of the election period. Using conve…
Sorry everything’s in bags’: The accountability of selling bread at a market during the Covid-19 pandemic
Societies are undergoing enormous upheavals in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. High levels of psychological distress are widespread, yet little is known about the exact impacts at the micro-level of everyday life. The present study examines the ordinary activity of buying bread to understand changes occurring early in the crisis. A dataset of over 50 social interactions at a community market stall were video-recorded, transcribed and examined …
‘I’m calling in regard to my son’: Entitlement, obligation, and opportunity to seek help for others
From mundane acts like lending a hand to high-stakes incidents like calling an ambulance, help is a ubiquitous part of the human experience. Social relations shape who we help and how. This paper presents a discursive psychology study of an understudied form of help - seeking help for others. Drawing on a corpus of recorded calls to a victim support helpline, I analysed how social relations were demonstrably relevant when callers sought help for …
I don’t have an address”: Housing instability and domestic violence in help-seeking calls to a support service
Increasing recognition of the long-term negative impacts of gendered violence has led to the establishment of a variety of social support services. Feminist research has examined the barriers that prevent women from accessing these services and the problems women report getting the help they need. However, little is known about what happens in situ when women interact with support services. This paper is a novel empirical investigation of natural…
Disclosing violence in calls for help
Violence against women is a pervasive problem, both in New Zealand society and around the world. Yet assessing the scale and effects of violence is difficult, as many women face barriers to disclosure. This paper examines women’s disclosures of violence in calls for help to a victim support agency. We use conversation analysis and focus on membership categorisation to describe the different ways disclosures are built and understood in situ. It wa…
Do you think it’s a crime?’ Building joint understanding of victimisation in calls for help
Society has a moral obligation to help victims, but who is recognised as a victim is a contentious issue. Social interaction is a key site where shared understandings of victimisation are built. This article analyses calls to a Victim Support helpline using conversation analysis and membership categorisation analysis. Callers described experiences of crimes to account for requesting help. Call-takers claimed the rights to describe and assess call…
Exciting” and “borderline offensive”: Bloggers, binaries, and celebrity feminism
Feminism is “cool” like never before in popular culture and celebrity feminism is arguably the most visible manifestation of this currently chic status. Some scholars and commentators see this as evidence of a global feminist resurgence; others critique it as empty and devoid of political traction. The hypervisibility of celebrity feminism makes it an ideal site to explore sense-making of contemporary feminism. Long-standing feminist debates abou…
The fashioned body: Fashion, dress & modern social theory Joanne Entwistle
Disclosing violence in calls for help
Violence against women is a pervasive problem, both in New Zealand society and around the world. Yet assessing the scale and effects of violence is difficult, as many women face barriers to disclosure. This paper examines women’s disclosures of violence in calls for help to a victim support agency. We use conversation analysis and focus on membership categorisation to describe the different ways disclosures are built and understood in situ. It wa…
Exciting” and “borderline offensive”: Bloggers, binaries, and celebrity feminism
Feminism is “cool” like never before in popular culture and celebrity feminism is arguably the most visible manifestation of this currently chic status. Some scholars and commentators see this as evidence of a global feminist resurgence; others critique it as empty and devoid of political traction. The hypervisibility of celebrity feminism makes it an ideal site to explore sense-making of contemporary feminism. Long-standing feminist debates abou…
Do you think it’s a crime?’ Building joint understanding of victimisation in calls for help
Society has a moral obligation to help victims, but who is recognised as a victim is a contentious issue. Social interaction is a key site where shared understandings of victimisation are built. This article analyses calls to a Victim Support helpline using conversation analysis and membership categorisation analysis. Callers described experiences of crimes to account for requesting help. Call-takers claimed the rights to describe and assess call…
Sorry everything’s in bags’: The accountability of selling bread at a market during the Covid-19 pandemic
Societies are undergoing enormous upheavals in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. High levels of psychological distress are widespread, yet little is known about the exact impacts at the micro-level of everyday life. The present study examines the ordinary activity of buying bread to understand changes occurring early in the crisis. A dataset of over 50 social interactions at a community market stall were video-recorded, transcribed and examined …
I don’t have an address”: Housing instability and domestic violence in help-seeking calls to a support service
Increasing recognition of the long-term negative impacts of gendered violence has led to the establishment of a variety of social support services. Feminist research has examined the barriers that prevent women from accessing these services and the problems women report getting the help they need. However, little is known about what happens in situ when women interact with support services. This paper is a novel empirical investigation of natural…
The fashioned body: Fashion, dress & modern social theory Joanne Entwistle
Exciting” and “borderline offensive”: Bloggers, binaries, and celebrity feminism
Feminism is “cool” like never before in popular culture and celebrity feminism is arguably the most visible manifestation of this currently chic status. Some scholars and commentators see this as evidence of a global feminist resurgence; others critique it as empty and devoid of political traction. The hypervisibility of celebrity feminism makes it an ideal site to explore sense-making of contemporary feminism. Long-standing feminist debates abou…
Disclosing violence in calls for help
Violence against women is a pervasive problem, both in New Zealand society and around the world. Yet assessing the scale and effects of violence is difficult, as many women face barriers to disclosure. This paper examines women’s disclosures of violence in calls for help to a victim support agency. We use conversation analysis and focus on membership categorisation to describe the different ways disclosures are built and understood in situ. It wa…
Do you think it’s a crime?’ Building joint understanding of victimisation in calls for help
Society has a moral obligation to help victims, but who is recognised as a victim is a contentious issue. Social interaction is a key site where shared understandings of victimisation are built. This article analyses calls to a Victim Support helpline using conversation analysis and membership categorisation analysis. Callers described experiences of crimes to account for requesting help. Call-takers claimed the rights to describe and assess call…
‘I’m calling in regard to my son’: Entitlement, obligation, and opportunity to seek help for others
From mundane acts like lending a hand to high-stakes incidents like calling an ambulance, help is a ubiquitous part of the human experience. Social relations shape who we help and how. This paper presents a discursive psychology study of an understudied form of help - seeking help for others. Drawing on a corpus of recorded calls to a victim support helpline, I analysed how social relations were demonstrably relevant when callers sought help for …
I don’t have an address”: Housing instability and domestic violence in help-seeking calls to a support service
Increasing recognition of the long-term negative impacts of gendered violence has led to the establishment of a variety of social support services. Feminist research has examined the barriers that prevent women from accessing these services and the problems women report getting the help they need. However, little is known about what happens in situ when women interact with support services. This paper is a novel empirical investigation of natural…
Sorry everything’s in bags’: The accountability of selling bread at a market during the Covid-19 pandemic
Societies are undergoing enormous upheavals in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. High levels of psychological distress are widespread, yet little is known about the exact impacts at the micro-level of everyday life. The present study examines the ordinary activity of buying bread to understand changes occurring early in the crisis. A dataset of over 50 social interactions at a community market stall were video-recorded, transcribed and examined …
The anatomy of a conspiracy theory in Covid-19 political commentary
The pandemic has exacerbated moral panics about conspiracy theories. Yet defining what conspiracy theories are is just as fraught as figuring out what to do about them. This article provides the first empirical demonstration of how the categories ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘conspiracy theorist’ are used in social interaction. We examined comments from a New Zealand politician about a Covid-19 outbreak at the start of the election period. Using conve…
Person Reference and a Preference for Association in Emergency Calls
Person reference is pervasive in talk. Conversation analytic work has identified preferences in person reference relating to recognitional reference. However, the principles shaping non-recognitional reference are less well understood. We propose a preference for association in an institutional setting where recognition is not relevant. Our data are calls to the New Zealand police emergency line which were institutionally classified as family har…
Sex, Gender, and Bodies: Transmisogyny and Garfinkel's Status Degradation Ceremony
Hatred and fear of trans people, particularly trans women, are worldwide social phenomena. Transphobic rhetoric rests on essentialist understandings of sex and gender, but ethnomethodology shows how the 'natural attitude' to sex/gender is a practical accomplishment. We use conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis to examine the workings of the natural attitude in a public submission to a government select committee about a law…
Gender, Culture, And Emotional Labor in Nonprofit Job Advertisements
Job advertisements are powerful discursive sites where organizations communicate a version of work and imagine qualities of the ideal worker. Here we study ads for roles in the nonprofit sector, which is characterized by a predominantly female workforce, low wages, and high demands for emotional labor. Using Foucauldian discourse analysis, we identified three discursive constructions of the ideal worker across 105 online adverts: the passionate a…
Against recruiting participants for psychology research
Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Conversation (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Criminology (3 works)