Ann Brooks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Brooks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Brooks |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Global Cities
The concept of a global city, primarily defined in terms of a city's centrality to the global economy, has in recent times also become a status symbol. The fact that the concept contains an aspirational dimension means that there are significant conceptual and methodological implications that have to be carefully distinguished from the earlier use of the term. “Softer” criteria such as a city's buzz, creativity, cultural diversity, and livability…
Gendered Work in Asian Cities: The New Economy and Changing Labour Markets
Do the new Asian economies encourage gender equality? Ann Brooks provides a unique insight into this question by assessing the impact of the new economy and the changing labour market on women in Asia. Theoretical debates around globalization, gender and social change are combined with empirical research on professional women in two cosmopolitan cities: Hong Kong and Singapore. The author's research shows that even in such cosmopolitan cities whe…
The Cultural Production of Consumption as Achievement
In this article, we identify two models of consumer culture: the more familiar appeasement model where the “customer is king,” as well as a less established and recently emergent achievement model where the consumer’s efforts in consummating the act of consumption are lauded and celebrated. This raises the question of how the two models might be related to each other. Here we argue that the spread of neoliberal ideology, where the neoliberal subj…
Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
In 1817, the Sydney Gazette carried a report on the annual “Congress” of the Parramatta Native Institution, established in 1814 by William and Elizabeth Shelley in the western reaches of Sydney, on the east coast of the Australian continent. The Congress was an annual event in which Aboriginal schoolchildren, dressed in white and led by Mrs. Shelley, were paraded around the grounds of the Institution. While the Shelleys had designed the ceremony …
Emotions in Transmigration: Transformation, Movement and Identity
The book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies from across the USA, Europe and Southeast Asia, including the transmigration of female domestic workers, transm
Negotiating Gendered Subjectivity in the Enterprise Culture: Metaphor and Entrepreneurial Discourses
An enterprise culture is one in which ‘certain enterprising qualities — such as self reliance, personal responsibility, boldness and a willingness to take risks in the pursuit of goals — are regarded as human virtues and promoted as such’. Work is not seen as a constraint upon the individual but rather as an opportunity for self‐fulfilment. The pervasiveness of enterprise culture has led to observations that it influences aspects of social life b…
Social Theory in Contemporary Asia
Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade. In fact, late modernity has become conspicuously engaged with issues of intimacy, reflexivity and identity. The author analyses the relevance of these debates in the context of contemporary Asia and combines an analysis of significant social theori…
Personal Branding and the Commodification of Reflexivity
Reflexivity as a concept has produced theoretical debates which have explored the relationship of social actors to agency and identity. Less attention has been paid to reflexivity as a commodity, that is, to the forms of reflexivity that different actors display and to the appropriateness of these forms. Actors who display appropriate forms of reflexivity are likely to be treated differently from actors who do not display such forms, thus resulti…
Social constructions influencing sociosexual identity development of collegiate gay and bisexual men
Reconceptualizing reflexivity and dissonance in professional and personal domains
Debates around 'reflexivity' and the construction of the gendered self within late modernity have occupied the attention of both 'reflexive modernization' theorists (Beck, Giddens and Lash 1994; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 1996; Giddens 1991, 1992) as well as gender and feminist theorists. While theorists such as Beck and Giddens have been preoccupied with establishing the connection between reflexivity and the construction of the 'non-gendered' self…
Reflexivity and the Transformation of Gender Identity: Reviewing the Potential for Change in a Cosmopolitan City
It has been claimed that the conditions of modernity create the opportunities as well as the need for social actors to take greater responsibility for their own identities. Feminist theorists have responded to such 'celebratory' views of identity transformation with caution, emphasizing instead the situated nature of critical reflexivity and arguing that the opportunities for transformations in gender identity are far more limited than has been s…
Gendering Knowledge
The Politics of Location in Southeast Asia: Intersecting Tensions around Gender, Ethnicity, Class and Religion
Postfeminisms: Feminism, Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms
Once seen as synonymous with anti-feminism postfeminism i now understood as the theoretical meeting ground between feminism and anti-foundationalist movements such as postmodernism, post-structuralism and post-colonialsm. In this clear exposition of some of the major debates, theorists and practitioners, Ann Brooks shows how feminism is being redefined for the twenty first century. Individual chapters look at postfeminism in relation to feminist …
Postfeminisms: Feminism, Cultural Theory, and Cultural Forms
The Politics of Postmodernism and Popular Culture
(1997). The Politics of Postmodernism and Popular Culture. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 135-141
Personal Branding and the Commodification of Reflexivity
Reflexivity as a concept has produced theoretical debates which have explored the relationship of social actors to agency and identity. Less attention has been paid to reflexivity as a commodity, that is, to the forms of reflexivity that different actors display and to the appropriateness of these forms. Actors who display appropriate forms of reflexivity are likely to be treated differently from actors who do not display such forms, thus resulti…
Negotiating Gendered Subjectivity in the Enterprise Culture: Metaphor and Entrepreneurial Discourses
An enterprise culture is one in which ‘certain enterprising qualities — such as self reliance, personal responsibility, boldness and a willingness to take risks in the pursuit of goals — are regarded as human virtues and promoted as such’. Work is not seen as a constraint upon the individual but rather as an opportunity for self‐fulfilment. The pervasiveness of enterprise culture has led to observations that it influences aspects of social life b…
Reflexivity and the Transformation of Gender Identity: Reviewing the Potential for Change in a Cosmopolitan City
It has been claimed that the conditions of modernity create the opportunities as well as the need for social actors to take greater responsibility for their own identities. Feminist theorists have responded to such 'celebratory' views of identity transformation with caution, emphasizing instead the situated nature of critical reflexivity and arguing that the opportunities for transformations in gender identity are far more limited than has been s…
Gendering Knowledge
Reconceptualizing reflexivity and dissonance in professional and personal domains
Debates around 'reflexivity' and the construction of the gendered self within late modernity have occupied the attention of both 'reflexive modernization' theorists (Beck, Giddens and Lash 1994; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 1996; Giddens 1991, 1992) as well as gender and feminist theorists. While theorists such as Beck and Giddens have been preoccupied with establishing the connection between reflexivity and the construction of the 'non-gendered' self…
The Politics of Postmodernism and Popular Culture
(1997). The Politics of Postmodernism and Popular Culture. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 135-141
Postfeminisms: Feminism, Cultural Theory, and Cultural Forms
The Politics of Postmodernism and Popular Culture
(1997). The Politics of Postmodernism and Popular Culture. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 135-141
Postfeminisms: Feminism, Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms
Once seen as synonymous with anti-feminism postfeminism i now understood as the theoretical meeting ground between feminism and anti-foundationalist movements such as postmodernism, post-structuralism and post-colonialsm. In this clear exposition of some of the major debates, theorists and practitioners, Ann Brooks shows how feminism is being redefined for the twenty first century. Individual chapters look at postfeminism in relation to feminist …
The Politics of Location in Southeast Asia: Intersecting Tensions around Gender, Ethnicity, Class and Religion
Gendering Knowledge
Reconceptualizing reflexivity and dissonance in professional and personal domains
Debates around 'reflexivity' and the construction of the gendered self within late modernity have occupied the attention of both 'reflexive modernization' theorists (Beck, Giddens and Lash 1994; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 1996; Giddens 1991, 1992) as well as gender and feminist theorists. While theorists such as Beck and Giddens have been preoccupied with establishing the connection between reflexivity and the construction of the 'non-gendered' self…
Reflexivity and the Transformation of Gender Identity: Reviewing the Potential for Change in a Cosmopolitan City
It has been claimed that the conditions of modernity create the opportunities as well as the need for social actors to take greater responsibility for their own identities. Feminist theorists have responded to such 'celebratory' views of identity transformation with caution, emphasizing instead the situated nature of critical reflexivity and arguing that the opportunities for transformations in gender identity are far more limited than has been s…
Social constructions influencing sociosexual identity development of collegiate gay and bisexual men
Social Theory in Contemporary Asia
Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade. In fact, late modernity has become conspicuously engaged with issues of intimacy, reflexivity and identity. The author analyses the relevance of these debates in the context of contemporary Asia and combines an analysis of significant social theori…
Personal Branding and the Commodification of Reflexivity
Reflexivity as a concept has produced theoretical debates which have explored the relationship of social actors to agency and identity. Less attention has been paid to reflexivity as a commodity, that is, to the forms of reflexivity that different actors display and to the appropriateness of these forms. Actors who display appropriate forms of reflexivity are likely to be treated differently from actors who do not display such forms, thus resulti…
Negotiating Gendered Subjectivity in the Enterprise Culture: Metaphor and Entrepreneurial Discourses
An enterprise culture is one in which ‘certain enterprising qualities — such as self reliance, personal responsibility, boldness and a willingness to take risks in the pursuit of goals — are regarded as human virtues and promoted as such’. Work is not seen as a constraint upon the individual but rather as an opportunity for self‐fulfilment. The pervasiveness of enterprise culture has led to observations that it influences aspects of social life b…
Emotions in Transmigration: Transformation, Movement and Identity
The book explores the intersection of emotions and migration in a number of case studies from across the USA, Europe and Southeast Asia, including the transmigration of female domestic workers, transm
Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
In 1817, the Sydney Gazette carried a report on the annual “Congress” of the Parramatta Native Institution, established in 1814 by William and Elizabeth Shelley in the western reaches of Sydney, on the east coast of the Australian continent. The Congress was an annual event in which Aboriginal schoolchildren, dressed in white and led by Mrs. Shelley, were paraded around the grounds of the Institution. While the Shelleys had designed the ceremony …
Gendered Work in Asian Cities: The New Economy and Changing Labour Markets
Do the new Asian economies encourage gender equality? Ann Brooks provides a unique insight into this question by assessing the impact of the new economy and the changing labour market on women in Asia. Theoretical debates around globalization, gender and social change are combined with empirical research on professional women in two cosmopolitan cities: Hong Kong and Singapore. The author's research shows that even in such cosmopolitan cities whe…
The Cultural Production of Consumption as Achievement
In this article, we identify two models of consumer culture: the more familiar appeasement model where the “customer is king,” as well as a less established and recently emergent achievement model where the consumer’s efforts in consummating the act of consumption are lauded and celebrated. This raises the question of how the two models might be related to each other. Here we argue that the spread of neoliberal ideology, where the neoliberal subj…
Global Cities
The concept of a global city, primarily defined in terms of a city's centrality to the global economy, has in recent times also become a status symbol. The fact that the concept contains an aspirational dimension means that there are significant conceptual and methodological implications that have to be carefully distinguished from the earlier use of the term. “Softer” criteria such as a city's buzz, creativity, cultural diversity, and livability…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)