Maria Adamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 335004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Adamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Adamson |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlesex University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9131-6673 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
In the Grip of Traditionalism? How Nigerian Middle-Class Working Mothers Navigate Normative Ideals of Femininity
Changing socioeconomic conditions are enticing more and more Nigerian mothers to work and pursue careers. This article explores how middle-class professional women navigate working mother subjectivities in the context of Nigeria's strong patriarchal culture, where traditional notions of maternal femininity prevail. We argue that the working mother's subjectivity is a key site where the struggle over gendered cultural meanings takes place. Drawing…
Constructing Nuclear Culture under Soviet-Style Communism: The Hungarian Experience
In the mid-1950s, Atoms for Peace provided a crucial boost for the study of nuclear physics in Hungary, a country that fell under Communist rule and Soviet domination after World War II. Several small, insulated centers of nuclear research already existed, but after President Dwight Eisenhower's speech to the United Nations General Assembly on 3 December 1953, calling for the development of Atoms for Peace programs, Hungary's efforts began to gro…
Theorising work–life balance endeavours as a gendered project of the self: The case of senior executives in Denmark
Recent work–life balance (WLB) studies offer considerable insight into the challenges and strategies of achieving WLB for senior managers. This study shifts the focus from asking how to asking why individuals are so invested in pursuing a particular kind of WLB. Through analysing 62 life history interviews with male and female senior executives in Denmark, we develop the concept of the gendered project of the self to theorise WLB. We show how for…
Showcasing the international atom: The IAEA Bulletin as a visual science diplomacy instrument, 1958–1962
When the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began operations in 1958, one of its first routine tasks was to create and circulate a brief non-technical periodical. This article analyses the creation of the IAEA Bulletin and its circulation during its first years. It finds that diplomatic imperatives both in IAEA leadership circles and in the networks outside them shaped the form and appearance of the bulletin. In the hands of the IAEA's Div…
Introduction: Power to the image! Science, technology and visual diplomacy
This special issue explores the power that images with a techno-scientific content can have in international relations. As we introduce the articles in the collection, we highlight how the study of this influence extends current research in the separate (but increasingly interacting) domains of history of science and technology, and political science. We then show how images of different types (photographs, cartoons and plots) can inform inter-st…
Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Studies: A Manifesto
This manifesto reimagines social justice in physical cultural studies by renaming, broadening, and building new characterizations of the body, dis/ability, mental health, exercise, social oppression, and sport. We problematize embedded 'myths' in exercise and sports studies scholarship for purposes of informing praxis-based research, and emancipatory practical agendas. These 'myths' include the embodied tragedy myth, the myth of bodily control, t…
Introduction: Critically interrogating inclusion in organisations
This Special Issue seeks to begin to map out the key issues and contours of the emerging stream of literature on critical studies of inclusion in organisations. We aim to generate and develop further debates on critically theorising the concept, rhetoric and practices of inclusion, how inclusion manifests in different organisational contexts, how it works for different social groups, and how it continues to be implicated and interwoven with the l…
Science Diplomacy at the International Atomic Energy Agency: Isotope Hydrology, Development, and the Establishment of a Technique
This essay examines the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) role in the entry of hydrological isotopic analysis techniques into the developing world. The notion of using radioisotopic tracers for hydrological study came from the initiative of individual scientists, many of whom were interested in measuring the uptake of hydrogen-bomb deposited tritium in the global environment. Their proposals to include isotope hydrology among the rang…
Writing Class In and Out: Constructions of Class in Elite Businesswomen's Autobiographies
This article explores how meanings of class are constructed in elite businesswomen's autobiographies. It extends existing sociological studies of elites in two ways. First, by theorising the cultural mechanisms that contribute to the reproduction of business elites, and second, by examining the hitherto under-researched gendered aspects of the reproduction of business elites, and the legitimisation of wealth. We show how these autobiographical te…
Nuclear reach: Uranium prospection and the global ambitions of the French nuclear programme, 1945–65
By the 1960s, French uranium geologists were prospecting on every continent. This paper considers the link between this form of ‘nuclear reach’ and the weapons tests, reactor sales, and scientific exchanges that characterised the French programme. The shifting status of uranium during the early nuclear age and the prospection of uranium by French geologists reveals much about the evolving ambitions of the French nuclear leadership. Geophysics and…
Diversity in the work–life interface: Introduction to the Special Issue
Purpose This article serves as an introduction to six articles featured in a special issue on diversity in the work–life interface. This collection of papers contains research that contemplates the work–life interface in different geographic and cultural contexts, that explores the work–life experiences of minority, marginalized and/or underresearched groups of workers and that takes into account diverse arrangements made to fulfill both work and…
Introduction to special issue: Exploring the emergence of moderate feminism(s) in contemporary organizations
Drawing on the lens of postfeminism, the emergence of moderate forms of feminism in organizational contexts is explored. Two versions of postfeminism are depicted - the first version which highlights the emphasis placed on the "pastness" of feminism and how as a form of thought and action it is understood as obsolete. The claim of a repudiation of feminism is a central characteristic of early interpretations of postfeminism and presented as a def…
Good' Jobs and 'Bad' Jobs: Contemplating Job Quality in Different Contexts
As stated in our previous editorial (Beauregard et al, 2018) we aim to capitalise on the interdisciplinary expertise of our team and draw attention of the WES readership to some of the thematic issues through our short editorials.In our first editorial we debated the issues of gender at work.This thematic issue is comprised of a variety of fascinating articles that are concerned with issues around good and bad jobs, job quality and dirty work, he…
Peut-on faire une histoire nucléaire du Maroc: Le Maroc, l’Afrique et l’énergie nucléaire
Près de soixante-dix réacteurs nucléaires sont actuellement en construction pour la production d’électricité dans le monde. Il n’y en a aucun en Afrique. Une seule centrale nucléaire existe en Afrique du Sud. Si l’Afrique a connu de nombreux projets de développement de l’énergie nucléaire, et encore plus de programmes de recherche et d’extraction d’uranium, elle n’a guère bénéficié directement de cette énergie. Cet article examine le cas du Maroc…
The Many Faces of Gender Inequality at Work
The collection of articles included in this first thematic issue addresses gender inequalities, a theme that has featured intensively in the public sphere in these past months, including high profile revelations about gender pay discrimination such as those at the BBC and others in the UK, the #MeToo and #TimesUp campaigns, and ongoing debates about gender inequalities in the global labour market. Our assembling of this particular issue also coin…
Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and A ‘Successfully’ Balanced Femininity in Celebrity CEO Autobiographies
This article explores the construction of a ‘successfully’ balanced femininity in the female celebrity chief executive officer (CEO) autobiography genre, and how it is shaped by the postfeminist and neoliberal context. My analysis shows how achieving successful and therefore desirable balance requires one to embrace femininity but in a calculated, market‐oriented fashion that benefits business goals, ensuring that one remains a ‘good’ postfeminis…
Compositions of professionalism in counselling work: An embodied and embedded intersectionality framework
This article explores the embodied compositions of professionalism in the context of the counselling psychology profession in Russia. Specifically, we develop an embodied intersectionality framework for theorizing compositions of professionalism, which allows us to explain how multiple embodied categories of difference intersect and are relationally co-constitutive in producing credible professionals, and, importantly, how these intersections are…
Les liaisons dangereuses: Resource surveillance, uranium diplomacy and secret French–American collaboration in 1950s Morocco
This study explores the origins and consequences of a unique, secret, French–American collaboration to prospect for uranium in 1950s Morocco. This collaboration permitted mediation between the United States and France. The appearance of France in an American-supported project for raw nuclear materials signalled American willingness to accept a new nuclear global order in which the French assumed a new, higher position as regional nuclear ally as …
The making of a glass slipper: Exploring patterns of inclusion and exclusion in a feminized profession
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to deploy the concept of the “glass slipper” to unpack the construction of systematic patterns of inclusion and exclusion along the lines of gender, age and class in the emerging, female-dominated profession of psychological counselling in Russia. Design/methodology/approach – The study draws on an analysis of 26 in-depth qualitative interviews with practising counsellors in Russia. Findings – Drawing on the…
New Heroines of Labour: Domesticating Post-feminism and Neoliberal Capitalism in Russia
In recent years, post-feminism has become an important element of popular media culture and the object of feminist cultural critique. This article explores how post-feminism is domesticated in Russia through popular self-help literature aimed at a female audience. Drawing on a close reading of self-help texts by three best-selling Russian authors, the article examines how post-feminism is made intelligible to the Russian audience and how it artic…
Reflexivity and the Construction of Competing Discourses of Masculinity in a Female‐Dominated Profession
This paper contributes to the debates on reflexivity and change by extending our understanding of (non‐)reflexivity mechanisms in the discursive constructions of gender. Specifically, I explore how and why women persistently construct contradictory discursive accounts of men and masculinity in a female‐dominated profession of counselling psychology in R ussia. Drawing on the concept of ‘interpretative repertoires’ I argue that female counsellors …
Cores of production: Reactors and radioisotopes in France
3.-The experimental reactor, Zo. 4.-The research reactor
Language and Symbolic Power
Sociology as Conceptual Realpolitik
Language and Symbolic Power
Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and A ‘Successfully’ Balanced Femininity in Celebrity CEO Autobiographies
This article explores the construction of a ‘successfully’ balanced femininity in the female celebrity chief executive officer (CEO) autobiography genre, and how it is shaped by the postfeminist and neoliberal context. My analysis shows how achieving successful and therefore desirable balance requires one to embrace femininity but in a calculated, market‐oriented fashion that benefits business goals, ensuring that one remains a ‘good’ postfeminis…
Good' Jobs and 'Bad' Jobs: Contemplating Job Quality in Different Contexts
As stated in our previous editorial (Beauregard et al, 2018) we aim to capitalise on the interdisciplinary expertise of our team and draw attention of the WES readership to some of the thematic issues through our short editorials.In our first editorial we debated the issues of gender at work.This thematic issue is comprised of a variety of fascinating articles that are concerned with issues around good and bad jobs, job quality and dirty work, he…
Introduction to special issue: Exploring the emergence of moderate feminism(s) in contemporary organizations
Drawing on the lens of postfeminism, the emergence of moderate forms of feminism in organizational contexts is explored. Two versions of postfeminism are depicted - the first version which highlights the emphasis placed on the "pastness" of feminism and how as a form of thought and action it is understood as obsolete. The claim of a repudiation of feminism is a central characteristic of early interpretations of postfeminism and presented as a def…
New Heroines of Labour: Domesticating Post-feminism and Neoliberal Capitalism in Russia
In recent years, post-feminism has become an important element of popular media culture and the object of feminist cultural critique. This article explores how post-feminism is domesticated in Russia through popular self-help literature aimed at a female audience. Drawing on a close reading of self-help texts by three best-selling Russian authors, the article examines how post-feminism is made intelligible to the Russian audience and how it artic…
Theorising work–life balance endeavours as a gendered project of the self: The case of senior executives in Denmark
Recent work–life balance (WLB) studies offer considerable insight into the challenges and strategies of achieving WLB for senior managers. This study shifts the focus from asking how to asking why individuals are so invested in pursuing a particular kind of WLB. Through analysing 62 life history interviews with male and female senior executives in Denmark, we develop the concept of the gendered project of the self to theorise WLB. We show how for…
Writing Class In and Out: Constructions of Class in Elite Businesswomen's Autobiographies
This article explores how meanings of class are constructed in elite businesswomen's autobiographies. It extends existing sociological studies of elites in two ways. First, by theorising the cultural mechanisms that contribute to the reproduction of business elites, and second, by examining the hitherto under-researched gendered aspects of the reproduction of business elites, and the legitimisation of wealth. We show how these autobiographical te…
Compositions of professionalism in counselling work: An embodied and embedded intersectionality framework
This article explores the embodied compositions of professionalism in the context of the counselling psychology profession in Russia. Specifically, we develop an embodied intersectionality framework for theorizing compositions of professionalism, which allows us to explain how multiple embodied categories of difference intersect and are relationally co-constitutive in producing credible professionals, and, importantly, how these intersections are…
Language and Symbolic Power
The Many Faces of Gender Inequality at Work
The collection of articles included in this first thematic issue addresses gender inequalities, a theme that has featured intensively in the public sphere in these past months, including high profile revelations about gender pay discrimination such as those at the BBC and others in the UK, the #MeToo and #TimesUp campaigns, and ongoing debates about gender inequalities in the global labour market. Our assembling of this particular issue also coin…
Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Studies: A Manifesto
This manifesto reimagines social justice in physical cultural studies by renaming, broadening, and building new characterizations of the body, dis/ability, mental health, exercise, social oppression, and sport. We problematize embedded 'myths' in exercise and sports studies scholarship for purposes of informing praxis-based research, and emancipatory practical agendas. These 'myths' include the embodied tragedy myth, the myth of bodily control, t…
Language and Symbolic Power
In the Grip of Traditionalism? How Nigerian Middle-Class Working Mothers Navigate Normative Ideals of Femininity
Changing socioeconomic conditions are enticing more and more Nigerian mothers to work and pursue careers. This article explores how middle-class professional women navigate working mother subjectivities in the context of Nigeria's strong patriarchal culture, where traditional notions of maternal femininity prevail. We argue that the working mother's subjectivity is a key site where the struggle over gendered cultural meanings takes place. Drawing…
Les liaisons dangereuses: Resource surveillance, uranium diplomacy and secret French–American collaboration in 1950s Morocco
This study explores the origins and consequences of a unique, secret, French–American collaboration to prospect for uranium in 1950s Morocco. This collaboration permitted mediation between the United States and France. The appearance of France in an American-supported project for raw nuclear materials signalled American willingness to accept a new nuclear global order in which the French assumed a new, higher position as regional nuclear ally as …
Reflexivity and the Construction of Competing Discourses of Masculinity in a Female‐Dominated Profession
This paper contributes to the debates on reflexivity and change by extending our understanding of (non‐)reflexivity mechanisms in the discursive constructions of gender. Specifically, I explore how and why women persistently construct contradictory discursive accounts of men and masculinity in a female‐dominated profession of counselling psychology in R ussia. Drawing on the concept of ‘interpretative repertoires’ I argue that female counsellors …
Science Diplomacy at the International Atomic Energy Agency: Isotope Hydrology, Development, and the Establishment of a Technique
This essay examines the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) role in the entry of hydrological isotopic analysis techniques into the developing world. The notion of using radioisotopic tracers for hydrological study came from the initiative of individual scientists, many of whom were interested in measuring the uptake of hydrogen-bomb deposited tritium in the global environment. Their proposals to include isotope hydrology among the rang…
Diversity in the work–life interface: Introduction to the Special Issue
Purpose This article serves as an introduction to six articles featured in a special issue on diversity in the work–life interface. This collection of papers contains research that contemplates the work–life interface in different geographic and cultural contexts, that explores the work–life experiences of minority, marginalized and/or underresearched groups of workers and that takes into account diverse arrangements made to fulfill both work and…
The making of a glass slipper: Exploring patterns of inclusion and exclusion in a feminized profession
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to deploy the concept of the “glass slipper” to unpack the construction of systematic patterns of inclusion and exclusion along the lines of gender, age and class in the emerging, female-dominated profession of psychological counselling in Russia. Design/methodology/approach – The study draws on an analysis of 26 in-depth qualitative interviews with practising counsellors in Russia. Findings – Drawing on the…
Showcasing the international atom: The IAEA Bulletin as a visual science diplomacy instrument, 1958–1962
When the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began operations in 1958, one of its first routine tasks was to create and circulate a brief non-technical periodical. This article analyses the creation of the IAEA Bulletin and its circulation during its first years. It finds that diplomatic imperatives both in IAEA leadership circles and in the networks outside them shaped the form and appearance of the bulletin. In the hands of the IAEA's Div…
Introduction: Power to the image! Science, technology and visual diplomacy
This special issue explores the power that images with a techno-scientific content can have in international relations. As we introduce the articles in the collection, we highlight how the study of this influence extends current research in the separate (but increasingly interacting) domains of history of science and technology, and political science. We then show how images of different types (photographs, cartoons and plots) can inform inter-st…
Nuclear reach: Uranium prospection and the global ambitions of the French nuclear programme, 1945–65
By the 1960s, French uranium geologists were prospecting on every continent. This paper considers the link between this form of ‘nuclear reach’ and the weapons tests, reactor sales, and scientific exchanges that characterised the French programme. The shifting status of uranium during the early nuclear age and the prospection of uranium by French geologists reveals much about the evolving ambitions of the French nuclear leadership. Geophysics and…
Sociology as Conceptual Realpolitik
Language and Symbolic Power
Language and Symbolic Power
Cores of production: Reactors and radioisotopes in France
3.-The experimental reactor, Zo. 4.-The research reactor
Reflexivity and the Construction of Competing Discourses of Masculinity in a Female‐Dominated Profession
This paper contributes to the debates on reflexivity and change by extending our understanding of (non‐)reflexivity mechanisms in the discursive constructions of gender. Specifically, I explore how and why women persistently construct contradictory discursive accounts of men and masculinity in a female‐dominated profession of counselling psychology in R ussia. Drawing on the concept of ‘interpretative repertoires’ I argue that female counsellors …
The making of a glass slipper: Exploring patterns of inclusion and exclusion in a feminized profession
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to deploy the concept of the “glass slipper” to unpack the construction of systematic patterns of inclusion and exclusion along the lines of gender, age and class in the emerging, female-dominated profession of psychological counselling in Russia. Design/methodology/approach – The study draws on an analysis of 26 in-depth qualitative interviews with practising counsellors in Russia. Findings – Drawing on the…
New Heroines of Labour: Domesticating Post-feminism and Neoliberal Capitalism in Russia
In recent years, post-feminism has become an important element of popular media culture and the object of feminist cultural critique. This article explores how post-feminism is domesticated in Russia through popular self-help literature aimed at a female audience. Drawing on a close reading of self-help texts by three best-selling Russian authors, the article examines how post-feminism is made intelligible to the Russian audience and how it artic…
Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and A ‘Successfully’ Balanced Femininity in Celebrity CEO Autobiographies
This article explores the construction of a ‘successfully’ balanced femininity in the female celebrity chief executive officer (CEO) autobiography genre, and how it is shaped by the postfeminist and neoliberal context. My analysis shows how achieving successful and therefore desirable balance requires one to embrace femininity but in a calculated, market‐oriented fashion that benefits business goals, ensuring that one remains a ‘good’ postfeminis…
Compositions of professionalism in counselling work: An embodied and embedded intersectionality framework
This article explores the embodied compositions of professionalism in the context of the counselling psychology profession in Russia. Specifically, we develop an embodied intersectionality framework for theorizing compositions of professionalism, which allows us to explain how multiple embodied categories of difference intersect and are relationally co-constitutive in producing credible professionals, and, importantly, how these intersections are…
Les liaisons dangereuses: Resource surveillance, uranium diplomacy and secret French–American collaboration in 1950s Morocco
This study explores the origins and consequences of a unique, secret, French–American collaboration to prospect for uranium in 1950s Morocco. This collaboration permitted mediation between the United States and France. The appearance of France in an American-supported project for raw nuclear materials signalled American willingness to accept a new nuclear global order in which the French assumed a new, higher position as regional nuclear ally as …
Peut-on faire une histoire nucléaire du Maroc: Le Maroc, l’Afrique et l’énergie nucléaire
Près de soixante-dix réacteurs nucléaires sont actuellement en construction pour la production d’électricité dans le monde. Il n’y en a aucun en Afrique. Une seule centrale nucléaire existe en Afrique du Sud. Si l’Afrique a connu de nombreux projets de développement de l’énergie nucléaire, et encore plus de programmes de recherche et d’extraction d’uranium, elle n’a guère bénéficié directement de cette énergie. Cet article examine le cas du Maroc…
The Many Faces of Gender Inequality at Work
The collection of articles included in this first thematic issue addresses gender inequalities, a theme that has featured intensively in the public sphere in these past months, including high profile revelations about gender pay discrimination such as those at the BBC and others in the UK, the #MeToo and #TimesUp campaigns, and ongoing debates about gender inequalities in the global labour market. Our assembling of this particular issue also coin…
Introduction to special issue: Exploring the emergence of moderate feminism(s) in contemporary organizations
Drawing on the lens of postfeminism, the emergence of moderate forms of feminism in organizational contexts is explored. Two versions of postfeminism are depicted - the first version which highlights the emphasis placed on the "pastness" of feminism and how as a form of thought and action it is understood as obsolete. The claim of a repudiation of feminism is a central characteristic of early interpretations of postfeminism and presented as a def…
Good' Jobs and 'Bad' Jobs: Contemplating Job Quality in Different Contexts
As stated in our previous editorial (Beauregard et al, 2018) we aim to capitalise on the interdisciplinary expertise of our team and draw attention of the WES readership to some of the thematic issues through our short editorials.In our first editorial we debated the issues of gender at work.This thematic issue is comprised of a variety of fascinating articles that are concerned with issues around good and bad jobs, job quality and dirty work, he…
Nuclear reach: Uranium prospection and the global ambitions of the French nuclear programme, 1945–65
By the 1960s, French uranium geologists were prospecting on every continent. This paper considers the link between this form of ‘nuclear reach’ and the weapons tests, reactor sales, and scientific exchanges that characterised the French programme. The shifting status of uranium during the early nuclear age and the prospection of uranium by French geologists reveals much about the evolving ambitions of the French nuclear leadership. Geophysics and…
Diversity in the work–life interface: Introduction to the Special Issue
Purpose This article serves as an introduction to six articles featured in a special issue on diversity in the work–life interface. This collection of papers contains research that contemplates the work–life interface in different geographic and cultural contexts, that explores the work–life experiences of minority, marginalized and/or underresearched groups of workers and that takes into account diverse arrangements made to fulfill both work and…
Introduction: Critically interrogating inclusion in organisations
This Special Issue seeks to begin to map out the key issues and contours of the emerging stream of literature on critical studies of inclusion in organisations. We aim to generate and develop further debates on critically theorising the concept, rhetoric and practices of inclusion, how inclusion manifests in different organisational contexts, how it works for different social groups, and how it continues to be implicated and interwoven with the l…
Science Diplomacy at the International Atomic Energy Agency: Isotope Hydrology, Development, and the Establishment of a Technique
This essay examines the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) role in the entry of hydrological isotopic analysis techniques into the developing world. The notion of using radioisotopic tracers for hydrological study came from the initiative of individual scientists, many of whom were interested in measuring the uptake of hydrogen-bomb deposited tritium in the global environment. Their proposals to include isotope hydrology among the rang…
Writing Class In and Out: Constructions of Class in Elite Businesswomen's Autobiographies
This article explores how meanings of class are constructed in elite businesswomen's autobiographies. It extends existing sociological studies of elites in two ways. First, by theorising the cultural mechanisms that contribute to the reproduction of business elites, and second, by examining the hitherto under-researched gendered aspects of the reproduction of business elites, and the legitimisation of wealth. We show how these autobiographical te…
Social Justice Through Sport and Exercise Studies: A Manifesto
This manifesto reimagines social justice in physical cultural studies by renaming, broadening, and building new characterizations of the body, dis/ability, mental health, exercise, social oppression, and sport. We problematize embedded 'myths' in exercise and sports studies scholarship for purposes of informing praxis-based research, and emancipatory practical agendas. These 'myths' include the embodied tragedy myth, the myth of bodily control, t…
Constructing Nuclear Culture under Soviet-Style Communism: The Hungarian Experience
In the mid-1950s, Atoms for Peace provided a crucial boost for the study of nuclear physics in Hungary, a country that fell under Communist rule and Soviet domination after World War II. Several small, insulated centers of nuclear research already existed, but after President Dwight Eisenhower's speech to the United Nations General Assembly on 3 December 1953, calling for the development of Atoms for Peace programs, Hungary's efforts began to gro…
Theorising work–life balance endeavours as a gendered project of the self: The case of senior executives in Denmark
Recent work–life balance (WLB) studies offer considerable insight into the challenges and strategies of achieving WLB for senior managers. This study shifts the focus from asking how to asking why individuals are so invested in pursuing a particular kind of WLB. Through analysing 62 life history interviews with male and female senior executives in Denmark, we develop the concept of the gendered project of the self to theorise WLB. We show how for…
Showcasing the international atom: The IAEA Bulletin as a visual science diplomacy instrument, 1958–1962
When the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) began operations in 1958, one of its first routine tasks was to create and circulate a brief non-technical periodical. This article analyses the creation of the IAEA Bulletin and its circulation during its first years. It finds that diplomatic imperatives both in IAEA leadership circles and in the networks outside them shaped the form and appearance of the bulletin. In the hands of the IAEA's Div…
Introduction: Power to the image! Science, technology and visual diplomacy
This special issue explores the power that images with a techno-scientific content can have in international relations. As we introduce the articles in the collection, we highlight how the study of this influence extends current research in the separate (but increasingly interacting) domains of history of science and technology, and political science. We then show how images of different types (photographs, cartoons and plots) can inform inter-st…
In the Grip of Traditionalism? How Nigerian Middle-Class Working Mothers Navigate Normative Ideals of Femininity
Changing socioeconomic conditions are enticing more and more Nigerian mothers to work and pursue careers. This article explores how middle-class professional women navigate working mother subjectivities in the context of Nigeria's strong patriarchal culture, where traditional notions of maternal femininity prevail. We argue that the working mother's subjectivity is a key site where the struggle over gendered cultural meanings takes place. Drawing…
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