Rose Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rose Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rose |
| FAMILY NAME | Butler |
| SIGNATURE | BUTLER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8218-9537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 166 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
How class shapes rural migration for young people
Class and migration
Migration, class and the intergenerational self in contemporary Australia
Recent sociological scholarship in the United Kingdom deploys the concept of the ‘intergenerational self’ to think about class misidentification in the context of upward social mobility. In this article, we argue that the concept of the ‘intergenerational self’ proves especially fruitful when deployed to think about personal migration histories. We draw on our recent study of cross-class relationships in Australia to argue that in the context of …
How are romantic cross-class relationships sustained
How are romantic relationships across class maintained under broader conditions of class inequality? This article draws on in-depth interviews with 38 people who have partnered across class in Australia. It examines the emotional and interpersonal labour required to preserve such relationships within a highly differentiated class structure that is widely obscured in public and political life. We find, first, that for people in committed cross-cla…
Good to Say Out Loud”
In this article, we argue that romantic partnerships forged across class difference offer important insights into how class, privilege and inequality are experienced in Australia. We draw on new research into cross-class relationships to attend to the role that deeply enculturated class-based orientations play in the everyday lives of couples from different class backgrounds, while also exploring their entanglement with race, migration, gender an…
Race and place-making in the rural Global North
Migration, class and intra-distinctions of whiteness in the making of inland rural Victoria
This paper examines how white rural identities have been historically produced and transformed over time as a result of colonial migration regimes, the racialisation of labour, intra-distinctions of classed whiteness and projects of social mobility. White identities in settler Australia's ethnically diverse rural towns and cities are commonly depicted as reified, homogenous and fixed-in-place. In rural-focused sociological research, any recogniti…
Youth, mobilities and multicultures in the rural Anglosphere
Rural mobilities have transformed the social composition of rural places across the Global North. Young people are central to these changes and their role in rural livelihoods is crucial to rural futures. Yet little is known about how youth are negotiating today’s rural multicultures in an era of accelerated mobilities and on the back of decades of neoliberal restructuring. This article reviews scholarship on young people’s social relationships a…
Moral childhoods
This article examines how children draw on local sources of morality and moral worth to forge connections, build friendship and enforce distinctions across difference in a rural multicultural city of settler Australia. Children’s friendship-making practices across ethnic and class differences have been widely explored in urban Australia. Far less is known about how children connect and distance in regional and rural places, notably those experien…
Interrogating race, unsettling whiteness
This paper interrogates how three key concepts in youth studies – ‘transitions’, ‘the enterprising self’ and ‘mobilities’ – have historically centred the experiences of white/Anglo young people in the Australian settler colonial context. A race critical analysis of these major concepts that foregrounds colonialism, racialised migration schemes, multicultural policies and everyday racism has yet to be applied in any substantial way. This approach …
Centring settler colonialism in rural Australian multicultures
In the current age of rural mobilities and economic restructuring, the ethnic and racial compositions of rural towns across Anglosphere nations of the Global North have significantly transformed. As a result of these changes, the conditions which support rural multicultures are increasingly relevant to scholarship and policy-making. 'Everyday multiculturalism' and 'convivialities' have become key approaches within such research in rural environme…
Lines of Resistance
She uses adapted technology and custom-built software alongside early cameras and analogue techniques to make interactive installations, multi-screen videos, or large-scale photographs
Young people's rural multicultures
This paper argues for the need to better understand intercultural relationships among rural youth. Altered relations of labour, finance and power have seen the growth of international migrant labour across rural spaces of the Global North from the Global South, notably nations of the Pacific, Asia and Africa (Argent, N. 2011. “What's New about Rural Governance? Australian Perspectives and Introduction to the Special Issue.” Australian Geographer …
Asian migration and education cultures in the Anglo-sphere
Asian migration is transforming education cultures in the Anglo-sphere. This is epitomised in the mounting debates about 'tiger mothers' and 'dragon children', and competition and segregation in schools. Anxiety and aspiration within these spaces are increasingly ethnicised, with children of Asian migrants both admired and resented for their educational success. This paper presents some frameworks for understanding how Asian migration both shapes…
Tutored within an inch of their life
This paper documents the self-positioning of a segment of middle class parents, whom we call ‘community-minded’, as they distinguish themselves from pedagogies and parenting practices for education often associated with ‘tiger parenting’ and ‘Asian’ practices in Australia. Increased public interest has scrutinised the growth of high achieving Asian-Australian students and commonly depicts ‘Asian success’ as being about ethnicity and/or race. As a…
Children making sense of economic insecurity
This article contributes to our understanding of how children cope with economic insecurity in affluent nations. Based on research with children and adults in regional Australia, it argues for the importance of cultural narratives in making sense of children's strategies to cope with financial hardship. Drawing on Goffman's concept of 'facework', and recent analysis by Pugh, it analyses the complex forms of facework that children use to manage si…
Young people’s education biographies
This paper examines complexities and interdependencies of key family relationships which anchor young people’s educational biographies. It is well recognised that young people’s education pathways in late modernity are strongly dependent on their ability to draw on the range of resources available, and that socio-economic status and family resources play a central role in this process. Less is known about how such relationships anchor young peopl…
Local Kids, 'Refugees' and Publics of Privilege
This paper considers contradictions and complexities around mediated and intercultural relationships between local children, primarily of Anglo-Australian descent, and ‘refugees’, in a regional Australian primary school community. It examines two different spaces in which local children engage with asylum seekers on a daily basis – the prolific ’speech communities‘ around refugees which circulate in public culture, and lived practices of ’everyda…
Schools, ‘ferals’, stigma and boundary work
This paper examines forms of boundary work undertaken by parents in a regional Australian city to negotiate social processes around the school market amidst rising economic insecurity. It outlines structural changes, which have increased economic inequality in Australia and impacted on educational reform, and the specific challenges faced by public schools in regional settings. Drawing on 18 months’ qualitative research in one regional location, …
Everyday and Cosmo-Multiculturalisms
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Gentrification is transforming the class and ethnic profile of urban communities across the world, and changing how people deal with social and cultural difference. This paper looks at some of the social consequences of gentrification in Sydney, Australia, focusing on local schools. It argues that in this urban Australian context, the influx of middle-class Anglo-Australians into traditionally working-class, migrant-domin…
Images of the child and environmental risk
Images of children appeared frequently in Australian metropolitan news reporting on the series of extreme weather events and natural disasters that occurred in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region between September 2010 and April 2011. This article exami
Asian migration and education cultures in the Anglo-sphere
Asian migration is transforming education cultures in the Anglo-sphere. This is epitomised in the mounting debates about 'tiger mothers' and 'dragon children', and competition and segregation in schools. Anxiety and aspiration within these spaces are increasingly ethnicised, with children of Asian migrants both admired and resented for their educational success. This paper presents some frameworks for understanding how Asian migration both shapes…
Centring settler colonialism in rural Australian multicultures
In the current age of rural mobilities and economic restructuring, the ethnic and racial compositions of rural towns across Anglosphere nations of the Global North have significantly transformed. As a result of these changes, the conditions which support rural multicultures are increasingly relevant to scholarship and policy-making. 'Everyday multiculturalism' and 'convivialities' have become key approaches within such research in rural environme…
Young people’s education biographies
This paper examines complexities and interdependencies of key family relationships which anchor young people’s educational biographies. It is well recognised that young people’s education pathways in late modernity are strongly dependent on their ability to draw on the range of resources available, and that socio-economic status and family resources play a central role in this process. Less is known about how such relationships anchor young peopl…
Race and place-making in the rural Global North
Everyday and Cosmo-Multiculturalisms
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Gentrification is transforming the class and ethnic profile of urban communities across the world, and changing how people deal with social and cultural difference. This paper looks at some of the social consequences of gentrification in Sydney, Australia, focusing on local schools. It argues that in this urban Australian context, the influx of middle-class Anglo-Australians into traditionally working-class, migrant-domin…
Interrogating race, unsettling whiteness
This paper interrogates how three key concepts in youth studies – ‘transitions’, ‘the enterprising self’ and ‘mobilities’ – have historically centred the experiences of white/Anglo young people in the Australian settler colonial context. A race critical analysis of these major concepts that foregrounds colonialism, racialised migration schemes, multicultural policies and everyday racism has yet to be applied in any substantial way. This approach …
Young people's rural multicultures
This paper argues for the need to better understand intercultural relationships among rural youth. Altered relations of labour, finance and power have seen the growth of international migrant labour across rural spaces of the Global North from the Global South, notably nations of the Pacific, Asia and Africa (Argent, N. 2011. “What's New about Rural Governance? Australian Perspectives and Introduction to the Special Issue.” Australian Geographer …
Class and migration
Migration, class and intra-distinctions of whiteness in the making of inland rural Victoria
This paper examines how white rural identities have been historically produced and transformed over time as a result of colonial migration regimes, the racialisation of labour, intra-distinctions of classed whiteness and projects of social mobility. White identities in settler Australia's ethnically diverse rural towns and cities are commonly depicted as reified, homogenous and fixed-in-place. In rural-focused sociological research, any recogniti…
Tutored within an inch of their life
This paper documents the self-positioning of a segment of middle class parents, whom we call ‘community-minded’, as they distinguish themselves from pedagogies and parenting practices for education often associated with ‘tiger parenting’ and ‘Asian’ practices in Australia. Increased public interest has scrutinised the growth of high achieving Asian-Australian students and commonly depicts ‘Asian success’ as being about ethnicity and/or race. As a…
Schools, ‘ferals’, stigma and boundary work
This paper examines forms of boundary work undertaken by parents in a regional Australian city to negotiate social processes around the school market amidst rising economic insecurity. It outlines structural changes, which have increased economic inequality in Australia and impacted on educational reform, and the specific challenges faced by public schools in regional settings. Drawing on 18 months’ qualitative research in one regional location, …
Migration, class and the intergenerational self in contemporary Australia
Recent sociological scholarship in the United Kingdom deploys the concept of the ‘intergenerational self’ to think about class misidentification in the context of upward social mobility. In this article, we argue that the concept of the ‘intergenerational self’ proves especially fruitful when deployed to think about personal migration histories. We draw on our recent study of cross-class relationships in Australia to argue that in the context of …
How class shapes rural migration for young people
Local Kids, 'Refugees' and Publics of Privilege
This paper considers contradictions and complexities around mediated and intercultural relationships between local children, primarily of Anglo-Australian descent, and ‘refugees’, in a regional Australian primary school community. It examines two different spaces in which local children engage with asylum seekers on a daily basis – the prolific ’speech communities‘ around refugees which circulate in public culture, and lived practices of ’everyda…
Good to Say Out Loud”
In this article, we argue that romantic partnerships forged across class difference offer important insights into how class, privilege and inequality are experienced in Australia. We draw on new research into cross-class relationships to attend to the role that deeply enculturated class-based orientations play in the everyday lives of couples from different class backgrounds, while also exploring their entanglement with race, migration, gender an…
How are romantic cross-class relationships sustained
How are romantic relationships across class maintained under broader conditions of class inequality? This article draws on in-depth interviews with 38 people who have partnered across class in Australia. It examines the emotional and interpersonal labour required to preserve such relationships within a highly differentiated class structure that is widely obscured in public and political life. We find, first, that for people in committed cross-cla…
Moral childhoods
This article examines how children draw on local sources of morality and moral worth to forge connections, build friendship and enforce distinctions across difference in a rural multicultural city of settler Australia. Children’s friendship-making practices across ethnic and class differences have been widely explored in urban Australia. Far less is known about how children connect and distance in regional and rural places, notably those experien…
Children making sense of economic insecurity
This article contributes to our understanding of how children cope with economic insecurity in affluent nations. Based on research with children and adults in regional Australia, it argues for the importance of cultural narratives in making sense of children's strategies to cope with financial hardship. Drawing on Goffman's concept of 'facework', and recent analysis by Pugh, it analyses the complex forms of facework that children use to manage si…
Images of the child and environmental risk
Images of children appeared frequently in Australian metropolitan news reporting on the series of extreme weather events and natural disasters that occurred in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region between September 2010 and April 2011. This article exami
Schools, ‘ferals’, stigma and boundary work
This paper examines forms of boundary work undertaken by parents in a regional Australian city to negotiate social processes around the school market amidst rising economic insecurity. It outlines structural changes, which have increased economic inequality in Australia and impacted on educational reform, and the specific challenges faced by public schools in regional settings. Drawing on 18 months’ qualitative research in one regional location, …
Everyday and Cosmo-Multiculturalisms
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Gentrification is transforming the class and ethnic profile of urban communities across the world, and changing how people deal with social and cultural difference. This paper looks at some of the social consequences of gentrification in Sydney, Australia, focusing on local schools. It argues that in this urban Australian context, the influx of middle-class Anglo-Australians into traditionally working-class, migrant-domin…
Young people’s education biographies
This paper examines complexities and interdependencies of key family relationships which anchor young people’s educational biographies. It is well recognised that young people’s education pathways in late modernity are strongly dependent on their ability to draw on the range of resources available, and that socio-economic status and family resources play a central role in this process. Less is known about how such relationships anchor young peopl…
Local Kids, 'Refugees' and Publics of Privilege
This paper considers contradictions and complexities around mediated and intercultural relationships between local children, primarily of Anglo-Australian descent, and ‘refugees’, in a regional Australian primary school community. It examines two different spaces in which local children engage with asylum seekers on a daily basis – the prolific ’speech communities‘ around refugees which circulate in public culture, and lived practices of ’everyda…
Asian migration and education cultures in the Anglo-sphere
Asian migration is transforming education cultures in the Anglo-sphere. This is epitomised in the mounting debates about 'tiger mothers' and 'dragon children', and competition and segregation in schools. Anxiety and aspiration within these spaces are increasingly ethnicised, with children of Asian migrants both admired and resented for their educational success. This paper presents some frameworks for understanding how Asian migration both shapes…
Tutored within an inch of their life
This paper documents the self-positioning of a segment of middle class parents, whom we call ‘community-minded’, as they distinguish themselves from pedagogies and parenting practices for education often associated with ‘tiger parenting’ and ‘Asian’ practices in Australia. Increased public interest has scrutinised the growth of high achieving Asian-Australian students and commonly depicts ‘Asian success’ as being about ethnicity and/or race. As a…
Children making sense of economic insecurity
This article contributes to our understanding of how children cope with economic insecurity in affluent nations. Based on research with children and adults in regional Australia, it argues for the importance of cultural narratives in making sense of children's strategies to cope with financial hardship. Drawing on Goffman's concept of 'facework', and recent analysis by Pugh, it analyses the complex forms of facework that children use to manage si…
Young people's rural multicultures
This paper argues for the need to better understand intercultural relationships among rural youth. Altered relations of labour, finance and power have seen the growth of international migrant labour across rural spaces of the Global North from the Global South, notably nations of the Pacific, Asia and Africa (Argent, N. 2011. “What's New about Rural Governance? Australian Perspectives and Introduction to the Special Issue.” Australian Geographer …
Lines of Resistance
She uses adapted technology and custom-built software alongside early cameras and analogue techniques to make interactive installations, multi-screen videos, or large-scale photographs
Youth, mobilities and multicultures in the rural Anglosphere
Rural mobilities have transformed the social composition of rural places across the Global North. Young people are central to these changes and their role in rural livelihoods is crucial to rural futures. Yet little is known about how youth are negotiating today’s rural multicultures in an era of accelerated mobilities and on the back of decades of neoliberal restructuring. This article reviews scholarship on young people’s social relationships a…
Moral childhoods
This article examines how children draw on local sources of morality and moral worth to forge connections, build friendship and enforce distinctions across difference in a rural multicultural city of settler Australia. Children’s friendship-making practices across ethnic and class differences have been widely explored in urban Australia. Far less is known about how children connect and distance in regional and rural places, notably those experien…
Interrogating race, unsettling whiteness
This paper interrogates how three key concepts in youth studies – ‘transitions’, ‘the enterprising self’ and ‘mobilities’ – have historically centred the experiences of white/Anglo young people in the Australian settler colonial context. A race critical analysis of these major concepts that foregrounds colonialism, racialised migration schemes, multicultural policies and everyday racism has yet to be applied in any substantial way. This approach …
Centring settler colonialism in rural Australian multicultures
In the current age of rural mobilities and economic restructuring, the ethnic and racial compositions of rural towns across Anglosphere nations of the Global North have significantly transformed. As a result of these changes, the conditions which support rural multicultures are increasingly relevant to scholarship and policy-making. 'Everyday multiculturalism' and 'convivialities' have become key approaches within such research in rural environme…
Good to Say Out Loud”
In this article, we argue that romantic partnerships forged across class difference offer important insights into how class, privilege and inequality are experienced in Australia. We draw on new research into cross-class relationships to attend to the role that deeply enculturated class-based orientations play in the everyday lives of couples from different class backgrounds, while also exploring their entanglement with race, migration, gender an…
Race and place-making in the rural Global North
Migration, class and intra-distinctions of whiteness in the making of inland rural Victoria
This paper examines how white rural identities have been historically produced and transformed over time as a result of colonial migration regimes, the racialisation of labour, intra-distinctions of classed whiteness and projects of social mobility. White identities in settler Australia's ethnically diverse rural towns and cities are commonly depicted as reified, homogenous and fixed-in-place. In rural-focused sociological research, any recogniti…
How are romantic cross-class relationships sustained
How are romantic relationships across class maintained under broader conditions of class inequality? This article draws on in-depth interviews with 38 people who have partnered across class in Australia. It examines the emotional and interpersonal labour required to preserve such relationships within a highly differentiated class structure that is widely obscured in public and political life. We find, first, that for people in committed cross-cla…
How class shapes rural migration for young people
Class and migration
Migration, class and the intergenerational self in contemporary Australia
Recent sociological scholarship in the United Kingdom deploys the concept of the ‘intergenerational self’ to think about class misidentification in the context of upward social mobility. In this article, we argue that the concept of the ‘intergenerational self’ proves especially fruitful when deployed to think about personal migration histories. We draw on our recent study of cross-class relationships in Australia to argue that in the context of …
Sociology (18 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Rural development and sustainability (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Education Systems and Policy (6 works)