Sophie Lewis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3583238 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sophie Lewis |
| PRENOMES | Sophie |
| SOBRENOME | Lewis |
| ASSINATURA | LEWIS S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4639-217X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 190 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Lonely in place? The intersection of loneliness and place in the chronic illness experience
Towards enhancing animal welfare standards in UK media
Animal use in the film, TV, and advertising industries is largely unregulated, which has given rise to numerous welfare issues and complaints over the years. In this study, through interviews and surveys conducted with industry stakeholders, including animal handlers, production teams, and other crew members, we have sought to explore the motivations driving animal welfare priorities, the challenges hindering implementation, and perceptions of po…
Attitudes to End-of-Life Care and Voluntary Assisted Dying Amongst Members of the Australian Jewish community
The implementation of voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in the Australian State of Victoria in 2019 has stimulated discussions about end-of-life care and dying in many communities. Various attempts have been made to represent the attitudes of the Jewish community, a distinct culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) group, in terms that suggest a unified set of opinions that opposes VAD policies. This research aimed to explore attitudes to VAD in…
Navigating contested terrain
Lack of alternative housing forces residents to accept harmful institutional control. • Staff relationships and institutional policies mediate place interpretations. • Identical apartment features create sanctuary or cell depending on trauma history. • Place can function as both an enabling and a risk environment simultaneously. • Health outcomes depend on how structural constraints meet personal experiences
Buying Time
Understandings of living well with incurable, life‐limiting disease are limited. This article examines how living with a ‘contracted future’, albeit of uncertain duration, affects how one spends time (wisely) in the present and plans future time. Mobilising the concept of timescapes and interviews with women with metastatic breast cancer, we examined how an incurable prognosis shaped how women experienced time, what meanings they ascribed to time…
Disruption and Improvisation
Chronic illness can disrupt many aspects of life, including identity, social relationships, and anticipated life trajectories. Despite significant scholarship on chronic illness, we know less about the ways in which chronic illness impacts feelings of loneliness and how people with chronic illness deal with loneliness. Drawing on concepts of biographical disruption and liminality and data from walking and photo-elicitation interviews with 14 peop…
Towards enhancing animal welfare standards in UK media
Animals are frequently used in the UK for film, television, and advertising, but numerous stakeholders, including charities and industry representatives, have significant concerns regarding their on- and off-set welfare. However, it is unclear to what extent the public can identify animal welfare issues on screen or whether they know where to report any incidents. This survey sought to answer three research questions: (1) What are the levels of a…
De la reconnaissance du travail gestationnel à l’abolition de la famille
La chercheuse Sophie Lewis discute des potentialités théoriques et politiques ouvertes par l’assimilation de la gestation au travail dans un sens marxien (par exemple concernant l’avortement) et les situe au sein des horizons politiques radicaux de l’abolition du travail et de la famille. Elle réfléchit aux notions d’utopie, de communisme et aux préfigurations collectives de modes d’organisation sociale post-capitalistes. Enfin, elle évoque nos (…
The Impact of Voluntary Assisted Dying on Grief and Bereavement for Family Members and Carers in the Australian State of Victoria
Prior to its introduction in Australia, many people opposed euthanasia—or voluntary assisted dying as it is known—because of its potentially detrimental impact on grief and bereavement outcomes for family members and carers. We examine the novel experiences of grief and bereavement of VAD for family members and carers who were going through, had gone through, or were contemplating VAD, juxtaposing the international literature on grief and bereave…
De la reconnaissance du travail gestationnel à l’abolition de la famille
La chercheuse Sophie Lewis discute des potentialités théoriques et politiques ouvertes par l’assimilation de la gestation au travail dans un sens marxien (par exemple concernant l’avortement) et les situe au sein des horizons politiques radicaux de l’abolition du travail et de la famille. Elle réfléchit aux notions d’utopie, de communisme et aux préfigurations collectives de modes d’organisation sociale post-capitalistes. Enfin, elle évoque nos (…
There but not really involved
Loneliness is one of the most pressing and rapidly growing contemporary social challenges around the world. Yet we still lack a good understanding of how loneliness is constituted and experienced by those most affected. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 40 people with chronic illness who were experiencing loneliness to explore what loneliness means to them and how it impacts in their daily lives. Drawing on ideas around liquidity and p…
Choreographing a good death
The proliferation of assisted dying legislative reforms globally is a significant change in the social and medico-legal landscape of end-of-life care. Understanding the impacts of these legislative reforms on family members who care for a dying person is vital, yet under-theorised in research. In this article, drawing on semi-structured interviews with 42 carers for a person who has sought assisted dying in Australia, and extending ideas of ontol…
The incurable self
As the culture of silence that once surrounded cancer has gradually given way to greater public awareness, normative visions of what cancer survivorship should entail have proliferated. These visions emphasise positivity and perseverance in pursuit of cure. While these visions provide comfort to many, for people with metastatic cancer, the emphasis on cure can undermine their sense of belonging to the broader collective of people living with canc…
I was told I either came back or I lost my job
Early pregnancy loss, defined as pregnancy loss prior to 20 weeks' gestation, occurs in about one in five pregnancies. Although there has been research on women's experiences of healthcare and social support following miscarriage, research into workplace support is relatively limited. In this study, we explored women's experiences of returning to work following early pregnancy loss, drawing on data from semi-structured interviews with 13 Australi…
Australians' experiences of Covid-19 during the early months of the crisis
Introduction: The COVID-19 crisis has wrought major changes to people's lives across the globe since the beginning of the outbreak in early 2020. The "Australians' Experiences of COVID-19" qualitative descriptive study was established to explore how Australians from different geographical areas and social groups experienced the COVID-19 crisis. Methods: Three sets of semi-structured interviews, each with a diverse group of 40 adults across Austra…
Friendship, connectedness and (in)authenticity for those with chronic illness
Friendship, a key element of social networks, has been under-studied in the social sciences. Chronic conditions can disrupt many aspects of life including identity, anticipated life trajectories and social relationships. Friendship relationships are important sources of support for chronic condition management. However, for individuals with chronic conditions, developing and maintaining close friendships may be particularly difficult. Despite sig…
Targeting 1.5 degrees with the global carbon footprint of the Australian Capital Territory
In 2019 the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government stated an ambition to prioritise reduction of Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, the size of which had not been fully quantified previously. This study calculated the total carbon footprint of the ACT in 2018, including Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and modelled scenarios to reduce all emissions in line with a 1.5 °C target approach. This is the first time a multi-scale analysis of local, sub-…
Paul Preciado's Uterine Politics
This discussion takes up the politics of gestational labour and uterine productivity in connection with genetic self-reproduction and the family in the oeuvre of Paul B. Preciado. In his autotheoretical treatise Testo Junkie, Preciado dispensed with the standard Marxist-feminist term 'sexual division of labour', positing instead a 'technogestational division of labour' to describe the mechanism by which capitalism segments people's bodies and con…
Chronic condition self-management is a social practice
Self-management is widely promoted in Western health care policies as a way to address the impact of increasing rates of chronic conditions on health care systems. Mostly informed by psychological theories, self-management frameworks and interventions tend to target individual behaviours as demarcated from the many aspects of social life shaping these behaviours. Using Bourdieu's theory of practice, we develop four propositions for a relational a…
A time for self-care? Frontline health workers’ strategies for managing mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic
Frontline healthcare workers have experienced detrimental mental health impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic including anxiety, emotional distress, stress, fatigue, and burnout. But little is known about how these healthcare professionals take care of their own mental health in the midst of considerable personal, occupational and social disruption. In this article, we use qualitative data from an Australian national survey to examine the self-car…
Challenging times
Chronic health conditions represent a key challenge for contemporary public healthcare. Current policy promotes self-management support to reduce demands on health services and improve patients’ health and wellbeing. Though there is emerging recognition that self-management is achieved in collaboration between health professionals and patients, how chronicity is managed in interaction remains relatively underexplored in research. In this paper we…
Fascist Feminism
Repudiations of trans-exclusionary radical feminism often take the form of a call to strip from TERFs the name feminist. TERFism, it is often argued, is not “real feminism,” and in this same vein it is sometimes argued that lesbian exponents of transmisogyny are not a “real” part of queer history. Asa Seresin and Sophie Lewis—both of us transplants from “TERF Island,” living in the United States—here advance a different approach. In this critical…
Sociomaterialities of health, risk and care during Covid-19
Covid Just Amplified the Cracks of the System”
The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified existing workplace stresses and created new challenges for people working on the healthcare frontline, including rapid workplace changes and increasing uncertainty at work, along with fear of contracting the virus. The purpose of this study is to examine the workplace challenges described by Australian frontline health workers during the pandemic. Drawing on a national online anonymous survey of 9518 healthca…
Learning about Covid-19
A constantly changing news environment raises challenges for effective communication of risk and containment advice. People can become confused, distressed and overwhelmed by the plethora of information sources and fast-changing news environment. On the other hand, seeking out information can provide reassurance and comfort in response to anxiety and uncertainty. Clarity and consistency in risk messaging is important, as is responding quickly to …
How do obese individuals perceive and respond to the different types of obesity stigma that they encounter in their daily lives? A qualitative study
Gatekeepers in the healthcare sector
Knowledge matters
In many contemporary healthcare systems, individuals are expected to be rational actors – weighing up available knowledge and making choices about their healthcare needs. In the policy context, this has been most explicitly applied to the financing of healthcare where there is encouragement for the purchase of private health insurance. However, perceptions of public and private healthcare provision, knowledge about healthcare needs, and the types…
Sociomaterialities of health, risk and care during Covid-19
Goals for living with a chronic condition
The social meanings of choice in living-with advanced breast cancer
Living Well? Strategies Used by Women Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer
Metastatic breast cancer is a disease of changing status-once an imminent death sentence, now a chronic (albeit incurable) disease. Medical intervention advances mean women with metastatic breast cancer now have symptoms alleviated and, potentially, life extended. Living with this disease, however, requires more than a medical approach to symptoms. We were interested to know whether women manage, and if so, how, to "live well" with metastatic can…
Choreographing a good death
The proliferation of assisted dying legislative reforms globally is a significant change in the social and medico-legal landscape of end-of-life care. Understanding the impacts of these legislative reforms on family members who care for a dying person is vital, yet under-theorised in research. In this article, drawing on semi-structured interviews with 42 carers for a person who has sought assisted dying in Australia, and extending ideas of ontol…
Fascist Feminism
Repudiations of trans-exclusionary radical feminism often take the form of a call to strip from TERFs the name feminist. TERFism, it is often argued, is not “real feminism,” and in this same vein it is sometimes argued that lesbian exponents of transmisogyny are not a “real” part of queer history. Asa Seresin and Sophie Lewis—both of us transplants from “TERF Island,” living in the United States—here advance a different approach. In this critical…
The agentic Self and uncontrollable body
Young people's experiences of living with a long-term health condition have been largely investigated from the perspective of developing autonomy and optimal self-management of treatment regimens. Little existing research explores how young people adjust to the experience of chronic illness within everyday social contexts. Drawing on sociocultural theories of healthism, in this article, we examine the everyday strategies students employed to mana…
The (Co)Production of Difference in the Care of Patients With Cancer From Migrant Backgrounds
An extensive body of scholarship focuses on cultural diversity in health care, and this has resulted in a plethora of strategies to "manage" cultural difference. This work has often been patient-oriented (i.e., focused on the differences of the person being cared for), rather than relational in character. In this study, we aimed to explore how the difference was relational and coproduced in the accounts of cancer care professionals and patients w…
Chronic condition self-management is a social practice
Self-management is widely promoted in Western health care policies as a way to address the impact of increasing rates of chronic conditions on health care systems. Mostly informed by psychological theories, self-management frameworks and interventions tend to target individual behaviours as demarcated from the many aspects of social life shaping these behaviours. Using Bourdieu's theory of practice, we develop four propositions for a relational a…
The day everything changed’
Concepts and practices related to risk are central to people’s experiences of the COVID-19 crisis and attempts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. Sociological perspectives and empirical research on risk and uncertainty have much to offer for insights into how people conceptualise and respond to health risks such those associated with this new pandemic: including identification of the geographical, political, socioeconomic and other c…
Hopeful dying? The meanings and practice of hope in palliative care family meetings
Navigating and making choices about healthcare
Obese people's perceptions of the thin ideal
Challenging stereotypes and legitimating fat
This article contributes to scholarship on the cultural politics of obesity by providing insights into how people considered 'obese' think news media reporting should be improved and their views on ideas such as reporting guidelines and promoting body diversity. A thematic analysis of interview data identified the following themes: 'Challenging stereotypes', 'The limits of news', 'Individual responsibility' and 'Legitimating fat'. These themes ca…
"Don't eat that, you'll get fat!" Exploring how parents and children conceptualise and frame messages about the causes and consequences of obesity
The incurable self
As the culture of silence that once surrounded cancer has gradually given way to greater public awareness, normative visions of what cancer survivorship should entail have proliferated. These visions emphasise positivity and perseverance in pursuit of cure. While these visions provide comfort to many, for people with metastatic cancer, the emphasis on cure can undermine their sense of belonging to the broader collective of people living with canc…
I was told I either came back or I lost my job
Early pregnancy loss, defined as pregnancy loss prior to 20 weeks' gestation, occurs in about one in five pregnancies. Although there has been research on women's experiences of healthcare and social support following miscarriage, research into workplace support is relatively limited. In this study, we explored women's experiences of returning to work following early pregnancy loss, drawing on data from semi-structured interviews with 13 Australi…
Obese Adults' Perceptions of News Reporting on Obesity
News reporting, in channels such as broadcast and print media, on obesity as an issue has increased dramatically in the last decade. A qualitative study, in which we used in-depth interviews and thematic analysis, was undertaken to explore 142 obese individuals' perceptions of, and responses to, news reporting about obesity. Participants believed that news reporting on obesity focused on personal responsibility and blame, and portrayed obese peop…
Between knowing and doing person-centredness
Self-management is a contemporary model of chronic condition care that places expectations on, and roles for, both patients and health professionals. Health professionals are expected to form partnerships with their patients, and patients are expected to be active participants in their own care. In these new roles, control and responsibility for self-management are shared between people with chronic conditions and their health professionals. We s…
Personhood, belonging, affect and affliction
What does migrancy mean for personhood, and how does this flow through caring relations? Drawing on life history interviews and photo elicitation with 43 people who identify as migrants and live with cancer, here we argue for the significance of recognising complex personhood as it inflects illness and care. Drawing on social science theory around temporalities, moralities and belonging, we assemble a series of cross-cutting themes at the interse…
Healthcare in the news media
This article reports on a discourse analysis of the representation of healthcare in the print news media, and the way this representation shapes perspectives of healthcare. We analysed news items from six major Australian newspapers over a three-year time period. We show how various framing devices promote ideas about a crisis in the current public healthcare system, the existence of a precarious balance between the public and private health sect…
Disruption and Improvisation
Chronic illness can disrupt many aspects of life, including identity, social relationships, and anticipated life trajectories. Despite significant scholarship on chronic illness, we know less about the ways in which chronic illness impacts feelings of loneliness and how people with chronic illness deal with loneliness. Drawing on concepts of biographical disruption and liminality and data from walking and photo-elicitation interviews with 14 peop…
Do Health Beliefs and Behaviors Differ According to Severity of Obesity? A Qualitative Study of Australian Adults
Public responses to obesity have focused on providing standardized messages and supports to all obese individuals, but there is limited understanding of the impact of these messages on obese adults. This descriptive qualitative study using in-depth interviews and a thematic method of analysis, compares the health beliefs and behaviors of 141 Australian adults with mild to moderate (BMI 30-39.9) and severe (BMI > or = 40) obesity. Mildly obese ind…
"The solution needs to be complex."Obese adults' attitudes about the effectiveness of individual and population based interventions for obesity
Obese adults support non-commercial, non-stigmatising interventions which are designed to improve lifestyles, rather than promote weight loss
"I don't eat a hamburger and large chips every day!" A qualitative study of the impact of public health messages about obesity on obese adults
This study is the first step in exploring the ways in which we understand how public health messages about obesity resonate with obese individuals in Australia. However, much more research--both qualitative and quantitative--is needed to enhance understanding of the impact of obesity messages on individuals
‘Our girth is plain to see’
The news media plays an important role in making visible and shaping public understandings of health and health risks. In relation to overweight and obesity, it has been suggested that the media is more likely to engage in alarmist reporting in a climate in which it is taken for granted that obesity is an ‘epidemic’. This study analyses Australian media coverage of a report on overweight and obesity, Australia's Future ‘Fat Bomb’: a report on the…
‘I’m searching for solutions’
INTRODUCTION: This study explores what types of information obese individuals search for on the Internet, their motivations for seeking information and how they apply it in their daily lives. METHOD: In-depth telephone interviews with an Australian community sample of 142 individuals with a BMI ≥ 30 were conducted. Theoretical, purposive and strategic samplings were employed. Data were analysed using a constant comparative method. RESULTS: Of the…
A Qualitative Investigation of Obese Men's Experiences With Their Weight
Addressing the self-blame and stigma associated with obesity is important in developing strategies to improve the health and well-being of obese men
The Role of the Fatosphere in Fat Adults’ Responses to Obesity Stigma
Obese adults face pervasive and repeated weight-based stigma. Few researchers have explored how obese individuals proactively respond to stigma outside of a dominant weight-loss framework. Using a grounded theory approach, we explored the experiences of 44 bloggers within the Fatosphere—an online fat-acceptance community. We investigated participants’ pathways into the Fatosphere, how they responded to and interacted with stigma, and how they des…
How do obese individuals perceive and respond to the different types of obesity stigma that they encounter in their daily lives? A qualitative study
What Influences the Beliefs, Behaviours and Consumption Patterns of ‘Moderate Risk’ Gamblers
Eat, drink and gamble
Sport is increasingly used as a vehicle for the promotion of range of 'risky consumption' products. This study raises important ethical and health policy questions about the extent and impact of saturation and incidental marketing strategies on health and wellbeing, the transparency of embedded marketing strategies, and how these strategies may influence product consumption
Le flux tendu du fret maritime
Flux tendu, stock zéro » est la devise du transport par mer. La révolution des conteneurs et la construction de ports gigantesques facilitent des connexions rapides et déterritorialisées. Mais cette fluidité croissante, qui crée de nouvelles routes et de nouveaux nœuds commerciaux, se fait en rupture par rapport à la culture portuaire historique
"Don't eat that, you'll get fat!" Exploring how parents and children conceptualise and frame messages about the causes and consequences of obesity
‘I’m managing myself’
In this article, we examine the choice to use a complementary and alternative medicine product (St John’s wort) for the management of mental health risk. We draw on data from a study in which we conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 41 adults who self-reported depression, stress or anxiety, in Melbourne, Australia, in 2011. We identified three groups of users – regular St John’s wort users, whose use was continuous; irregular users,…
‘You just change the channel if you don't like what you're going to hear’
OBJECTIVES: To investigate how gamblers interact with, and respond to, downstream social marketing campaigns that focus on the risks and harms of problem gambling and/or encourage help seeking. METHODS: Qualitative study of 100 gamblers with a range of gambling behaviours (from non-problem to problem gambling). We used a Social Constructivist approach. Our constant comparative method of data interpretation focused on how participants' experiences…
The foetal condition
That fluid object we call a foetus (in a non-historical, pseudo-Latinate spelling of the Latin word ''fetus'') became available to photographic capture in the 1960s.Highly controversial as a visual adornment adopted for many a Christianconservative protest placard, the disembodied foetal figure became, in and of itself, a symbol of resistance to feminism's second wave.The actual foetus is also increasingly disembodied and occupies a remarkable ra…
Obese Adults' Perceptions of News Reporting on Obesity
News reporting, in channels such as broadcast and print media, on obesity as an issue has increased dramatically in the last decade. A qualitative study, in which we used in-depth interviews and thematic analysis, was undertaken to explore 142 obese individuals' perceptions of, and responses to, news reporting about obesity. Participants believed that news reporting on obesity focused on personal responsibility and blame, and portrayed obese peop…
Challenging stereotypes and legitimating fat
This article contributes to scholarship on the cultural politics of obesity by providing insights into how people considered 'obese' think news media reporting should be improved and their views on ideas such as reporting guidelines and promoting body diversity. A thematic analysis of interview data identified the following themes: 'Challenging stereotypes', 'The limits of news', 'Individual responsibility' and 'Legitimating fat'. These themes ca…
The business of being made
Living Well? Strategies Used by Women Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer
Metastatic breast cancer is a disease of changing status-once an imminent death sentence, now a chronic (albeit incurable) disease. Medical intervention advances mean women with metastatic breast cancer now have symptoms alleviated and, potentially, life extended. Living with this disease, however, requires more than a medical approach to symptoms. We were interested to know whether women manage, and if so, how, to "live well" with metastatic can…
Obese people's perceptions of the thin ideal
Knowledge matters
In many contemporary healthcare systems, individuals are expected to be rational actors – weighing up available knowledge and making choices about their healthcare needs. In the policy context, this has been most explicitly applied to the financing of healthcare where there is encouragement for the purchase of private health insurance. However, perceptions of public and private healthcare provision, knowledge about healthcare needs, and the types…
Communism for Kids
Communism, capitalism, work, crisis, and the market, described in simple storybook terms and illustrated by drawings of adorable little revolutionaries. Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and …
Defending Intimacy against What? Limits of Antisurrogacy Feminisms
As surrogacy services expand globally, more and more nations are moving to ban the practice. Calls for its abolition couched in feminist terms returned to prominence in international public life in 2012. The resurgence follows a lapse since the heyday of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering (FINRRAGE) in the 1980s. In their moral opposition to prostitution (conflated with slavery) and cyborg hum…
Using HIV Surveillance Laboratory Data to Identify Out-of-Care Patients
HIV-associated laboratory tests reported to public health surveillance have been used as a proxy measure of care engagement of HIV+ individuals. As part of a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Initiative, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) worked with three pilot clinical facilities to identify HIV+ patients whose last HIV laboratory test occurred at the participa…
Gatekeepers in the healthcare sector
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