Karen Wells
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3674773 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Karen Wells |
| PRENOMES | Karen |
| SOBRENOME | Wells |
| ASSINATURA | WELLS K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8042-533X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 142 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development
This handbook explores how global development agendas of economic development influence children's lives. From established scholars and early career researchers, this book will be an essential reference for policymakers, practitioners, researchers and students across childhood studies, education, geography, sociology, and global development.
How do Mental Health Services Foster Hope? Experience of People Accessing Services
Hope is essential to mental health recovery, yet little is known about how mental health services can foster hope. This paper addresses the question: How can mental health services influence the sense of hope experienced by people who access their services? Sixty-one people who accessed a new mental health service were interviewed about their experiences, including about how the service had influenced their sense of hope. Interviews were analysed…
The effectiveness of training rural mental health clinicians to treat disruptive behavior disorders
How Do People Perceive and Adapt to Any Consequences of Electro Convulsive Therapy on Their Daily Lives
Igniting and Maintaining Hope
Sound art and the making of public space
This paper draws on a collaborative sound art project that aimed to explore how sound art as a non-representational method might attract and produce new publics and re-signify iconic public spaces. We describe how the project, AGORA, proceeded and to what extent it transformed the spaces it was performed in and made new, if transient, publics in the moments of performance. This paper focuses on the British Museum and St George’s Church, Bloomsbur…
What does a republican government with Donald Trump as President of the USA mean for children, youth and families
This viewpoint outlines the likely impact of the election of a Republican government with Donald Trump as President on children, youth and families. It focuses primarily on the impact on undocumented and mixed-status families, and briefly addresses the impacts on children's health services, juvenile justice and education
Childhood, Youth and Violence in Global Contexts
Bringing together academic and practitioner points of view, this edited collection shows how violence enters into ordinary, routine practices of childhood and children's experiences. The contributing
Marching to be somebody
This paper offers a governmentality analysis of the online recruitment materials of the British Army Cadets. Governmentality theory attends to the role of rationalities and techniques of government in producing subjectivity. I apply this theory to an analysis of recruitment materials to show that the cadets can be understood as techniques of government that are framed within rationalities that position young masculinity as risky, particularly in …
Children, youth, and subjectivity
This special issue is on the relationship between violence and young subjectivities in contexts of conflict and post-conflict. The theme for this special issue arose out of the Economic and Social
Examining the Relationship Between Depression and Asthma Exacerbations in a Prospective Follow-Up Study
BACKGROUND: Although depression has been linked with asthma, its relationship with asthma exacerbations, including emergency department (ED) visits and oral steroid (OS) use, has not been well documented. The aim is to investigate whether depression increases exacerbations among patients with asthma. METHOD: The study included 568 participants with asthma who were between 18 and 56 years old, were taking an inhaled corticosteroid, and participate…
The melodrama of being a child
This article shows how NGO films deploy melodramatic modes in constructing the narrative arcs of their campaign films and it explores the potential of this mode for generating solidarity between the spectator and the suffering subject. The author analyses how, through the use of music, colour and gesture, a visceral emotional response is evoked that produces an identification of the spectator with the experiences of the suffering subject. She arg…
The Gaze of Development after the Cultural Turn
Development studies is a multidisciplinary field that interrogates the practices and policies of international development. There is a strong emphasis in the discipline on building theoretical models intended to predict how the manipulation of specific variables may impact on economic growth. With the exception of two theoretical streams with a very marginal status in the field – Post-development and Marxism – it views development as congruent, i…
The strength of weak ties
This paper is about the social networks of young unaccompanied asylum seekers and refugees in London. It discusses the findings of a 12-month qualitative study using photo elicitation interviews with eight young refugees to explore their social networks. The analysis points to the potential of social networks to provide emotional and material support for young refugees and discusses the extent to which social capital flows through these networks.…
Assembling Webs of Support
This paper uses ethnographic and qualitative interview data with Muslim child domestic workers, their families and employers to investigate the social ties between young workers and their employers. Our analysis shows that working‐class families use children’s domestic work with middle‐class families as part of a web of resources to protect them from economic shocks and to enable them to afford to meet the cost of social obligations. We show that…
Childhood in a Global Perspective
Book synopsis: This compelling new book offers a unique global perspective on children's lives throughout the world. It shows how the notion of childhood is being radically re-shaped, in part as a consequence of globalization. Taking an engaging historical and comparative approach, the book discusses wide-ranging issues such as children and war, child labour and young people's activism around the globe. Important themes considered include: \n \n …
An Introduction to Childhood
By Heather Montgomery Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell , 2009 ISBN 9781405125901 , 281 pp, £17.99 (pb) The new social studies of childhood have predominately focused on children’s lives in North America and Western Europe. The recognition that practices and concepts of childhood are specific to particular times and places has not opened the field of childhood studies out to the Global South except where groups of children have been categorised as social …
Child Saving or Child Rights
This paper analyses images of children in international NGO fundraising campaigns on children and conflict in Africa, with a particular focus on the Civil War in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It identifies the key impacts of contemporary civil war in Africa on children and the role of children and young people in these conflicts. The campaigns analysed here use different discursive and rhetorical devices: from melodrama to dispassionate exper…
Diversity without difference
This article analyses the social aesthetic of the visual displays of a multicultural London primary school. It shows that the social aesthetic of the school models the school as a site of the ‘real’ in Baudrillard's sense of a ‘real’ that is a simulacra of the real, one from which the violence that is produced within and is constitutive of capitalism is expelled. In this view ‘race’ is not a division of humanity caused by racism, it is simply a c…
Narratives of liberation and narratives of innocent suffering
This article analyses the rhetoric of pictures of Iraqi children in the British press during the 2003 UK/US invasion of Iraq. The author argues that images of children are particularly potent resources for constructing narratives about the motivations and outcomes of war. Two narratives are explored: the first is sceptical about the legality of the war but nonetheless frames its outcomes within a narrative of liberation. The second, the narrative…
The Material and Visual Cultures of Cities
The author adapts Lefebvre's (1991) triadic theorisation of the production of space to the study of objects and ways of seeing in cities. Governmental power is condensed in monuments, planning, mapping, and film; capital organises the spaces and events of the city through the circulation of commodities and the destruction and reconstruction of urban space. Local cultures of consumption on one hand and spectacular events on the other shape the liv…
Symbolic Capital and Material Inequalities
This article explores the symbolism of three objects that memorialize Brixton as a multiclass and multiracial space while eliding the inequalities that racialized and classed identities are inscribed with. Although each of the three objects were formed to commemorate very different moments in the history of British capitalism and in the struggle against apartheid, they are linked both by their location in this diverse neighborhood and by the ways…
Use of Guideline Recommended Follow-Up Care in Cancer Survivors
BACKGROUND: After potentially curative cancer treatment, patients may receive procedures for routine monitoring for recurrence or for evaluation of symptoms or signs. OBJECTIVE: We sought to characterize surveillance care guideline-recommended and other procedures performed in cancer survivors according to routine versus diagnostic indications. METHODS: This was a retrospective cohort study of paper and electronic medical records between 1990 and…
Spaces of nostalgia
In this paper we look at the place of memory and nostalgia in peoples' narratives of an old, traditionally white, working-class market in London, which over the last decade has experienced social and economic decline. We argue that in this hollowed out space, abandoned by many of those who can move, has emerged a nostalgia for the halcyon days of the market when people came from far and wide to shop, and when there was a strong sense of community…
Strange Practices
Children's fears about strangers are often intense and vivid. While various educational, policing and media initiatives have made children suspicious of strangers, the question of who the figure of the stranger is has not been addressed. The sociology of the stranger anticipates that visible minorities are marked out as strangers. However, for the children in this study, living in a multicultural neighbourhood, the stranger is not a racialized fi…
The strength of weak ties
This paper is about the social networks of young unaccompanied asylum seekers and refugees in London. It discusses the findings of a 12-month qualitative study using photo elicitation interviews with eight young refugees to explore their social networks. The analysis points to the potential of social networks to provide emotional and material support for young refugees and discusses the extent to which social capital flows through these networks.…
Spaces of nostalgia
In this paper we look at the place of memory and nostalgia in peoples' narratives of an old, traditionally white, working-class market in London, which over the last decade has experienced social and economic decline. We argue that in this hollowed out space, abandoned by many of those who can move, has emerged a nostalgia for the halcyon days of the market when people came from far and wide to shop, and when there was a strong sense of community…
A politics of resentment
In this article we analyse the "talk" of shopkeepers in a multicultural London neighbourhood. These shopkeepers resent the loss of economic prosperity and sense of community that, in their nostalgic recollection, characterized their neighbourhood in an earlier era. They answer the classic question of politics, "who gets what and why" with "they get everything because we get nothing." We identify this stance as a politics of resentment, one that e…
Narratives of liberation and narratives of innocent suffering
This article analyses the rhetoric of pictures of Iraqi children in the British press during the 2003 UK/US invasion of Iraq. The author argues that images of children are particularly potent resources for constructing narratives about the motivations and outcomes of war. Two narratives are explored: the first is sceptical about the legality of the war but nonetheless frames its outcomes within a narrative of liberation. The second, the narrative…
Marching to be somebody
This paper offers a governmentality analysis of the online recruitment materials of the British Army Cadets. Governmentality theory attends to the role of rationalities and techniques of government in producing subjectivity. I apply this theory to an analysis of recruitment materials to show that the cadets can be understood as techniques of government that are framed within rationalities that position young masculinity as risky, particularly in …
Igniting and Maintaining Hope
The melodrama of being a child
This article shows how NGO films deploy melodramatic modes in constructing the narrative arcs of their campaign films and it explores the potential of this mode for generating solidarity between the spectator and the suffering subject. The author analyses how, through the use of music, colour and gesture, a visceral emotional response is evoked that produces an identification of the spectator with the experiences of the suffering subject. She arg…
Children, youth, and subjectivity
This special issue is on the relationship between violence and young subjectivities in contexts of conflict and post-conflict. The theme for this special issue arose out of the Economic and Social
The Material and Visual Cultures of Cities
The author adapts Lefebvre's (1991) triadic theorisation of the production of space to the study of objects and ways of seeing in cities. Governmental power is condensed in monuments, planning, mapping, and film; capital organises the spaces and events of the city through the circulation of commodities and the destruction and reconstruction of urban space. Local cultures of consumption on one hand and spectacular events on the other shape the liv…
Symbolic Capital and Material Inequalities
This article explores the symbolism of three objects that memorialize Brixton as a multiclass and multiracial space while eliding the inequalities that racialized and classed identities are inscribed with. Although each of the three objects were formed to commemorate very different moments in the history of British capitalism and in the struggle against apartheid, they are linked both by their location in this diverse neighborhood and by the ways…
How Do People Perceive and Adapt to Any Consequences of Electro Convulsive Therapy on Their Daily Lives
Sound art and the making of public space
This paper draws on a collaborative sound art project that aimed to explore how sound art as a non-representational method might attract and produce new publics and re-signify iconic public spaces. We describe how the project, AGORA, proceeded and to what extent it transformed the spaces it was performed in and made new, if transient, publics in the moments of performance. This paper focuses on the British Museum and St George’s Church, Bloomsbur…
Social and emotional effects of geographical relocation on elderly retirees
What does a republican government with Donald Trump as President of the USA mean for children, youth and families
This viewpoint outlines the likely impact of the election of a Republican government with Donald Trump as President on children, youth and families. It focuses primarily on the impact on undocumented and mixed-status families, and briefly addresses the impacts on children's health services, juvenile justice and education
Reconfiguring the Radical Other
This article explores children’s consumption of ‘nature’ in culturally diverse urban places. Analysis of children’s oral, textual and visual representations of city life and observations of children’s spatial practices that were produced for research into the cultural practices of children in an urban context showed that children render nature in the city as a polluting and polluted presence. However, consumption practices that reconfigured ‘natu…
How do Mental Health Services Foster Hope? Experience of People Accessing Services
Hope is essential to mental health recovery, yet little is known about how mental health services can foster hope. This paper addresses the question: How can mental health services influence the sense of hope experienced by people who access their services? Sixty-one people who accessed a new mental health service were interviewed about their experiences, including about how the service had influenced their sense of hope. Interviews were analysed…
Strange Practices
Children's fears about strangers are often intense and vivid. While various educational, policing and media initiatives have made children suspicious of strangers, the question of who the figure of the stranger is has not been addressed. The sociology of the stranger anticipates that visible minorities are marked out as strangers. However, for the children in this study, living in a multicultural neighbourhood, the stranger is not a racialized fi…
Effects of Criminal Justice and Medical Definitions of a Social Problem upon the Delivery of Treatment
Robert S. Weppner, Karen S. Wells, Duane C. McBride, Robert A. Ladner, Effects of Criminal Justice and Medical Definitions of a Social Problem upon the Delivery of Treatment: The Case of Drug Abuse, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jun., 1976), pp. 169-176
Effects of Criminal Justice and Medical Definitions of a Social Problem upon the Delivery of Treatment
Robert S. Weppner, Karen S. Wells, Duane C. McBride, Robert A. Ladner, Effects of Criminal Justice and Medical Definitions of a Social Problem upon the Delivery of Treatment: The Case of Drug Abuse, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jun., 1976), pp. 169-176
Social and emotional effects of geographical relocation on elderly retirees
Clinical Relevance of the Primary Findings of the MTA
Reconfiguring the Radical Other
This article explores children’s consumption of ‘nature’ in culturally diverse urban places. Analysis of children’s oral, textual and visual representations of city life and observations of children’s spatial practices that were produced for research into the cultural practices of children in an urban context showed that children render nature in the city as a polluting and polluted presence. However, consumption practices that reconfigured ‘natu…
Spaces of nostalgia
In this paper we look at the place of memory and nostalgia in peoples' narratives of an old, traditionally white, working-class market in London, which over the last decade has experienced social and economic decline. We argue that in this hollowed out space, abandoned by many of those who can move, has emerged a nostalgia for the halcyon days of the market when people came from far and wide to shop, and when there was a strong sense of community…
Strange Practices
Children's fears about strangers are often intense and vivid. While various educational, policing and media initiatives have made children suspicious of strangers, the question of who the figure of the stranger is has not been addressed. The sociology of the stranger anticipates that visible minorities are marked out as strangers. However, for the children in this study, living in a multicultural neighbourhood, the stranger is not a racialized fi…
A politics of resentment
In this article we analyse the "talk" of shopkeepers in a multicultural London neighbourhood. These shopkeepers resent the loss of economic prosperity and sense of community that, in their nostalgic recollection, characterized their neighbourhood in an earlier era. They answer the classic question of politics, "who gets what and why" with "they get everything because we get nothing." We identify this stance as a politics of resentment, one that e…
Use of Guideline Recommended Follow-Up Care in Cancer Survivors
BACKGROUND: After potentially curative cancer treatment, patients may receive procedures for routine monitoring for recurrence or for evaluation of symptoms or signs. OBJECTIVE: We sought to characterize surveillance care guideline-recommended and other procedures performed in cancer survivors according to routine versus diagnostic indications. METHODS: This was a retrospective cohort study of paper and electronic medical records between 1990 and…
Diversity without difference
This article analyses the social aesthetic of the visual displays of a multicultural London primary school. It shows that the social aesthetic of the school models the school as a site of the ‘real’ in Baudrillard's sense of a ‘real’ that is a simulacra of the real, one from which the violence that is produced within and is constitutive of capitalism is expelled. In this view ‘race’ is not a division of humanity caused by racism, it is simply a c…
Narratives of liberation and narratives of innocent suffering
This article analyses the rhetoric of pictures of Iraqi children in the British press during the 2003 UK/US invasion of Iraq. The author argues that images of children are particularly potent resources for constructing narratives about the motivations and outcomes of war. Two narratives are explored: the first is sceptical about the legality of the war but nonetheless frames its outcomes within a narrative of liberation. The second, the narrative…
The Material and Visual Cultures of Cities
The author adapts Lefebvre's (1991) triadic theorisation of the production of space to the study of objects and ways of seeing in cities. Governmental power is condensed in monuments, planning, mapping, and film; capital organises the spaces and events of the city through the circulation of commodities and the destruction and reconstruction of urban space. Local cultures of consumption on one hand and spectacular events on the other shape the liv…
Symbolic Capital and Material Inequalities
This article explores the symbolism of three objects that memorialize Brixton as a multiclass and multiracial space while eliding the inequalities that racialized and classed identities are inscribed with. Although each of the three objects were formed to commemorate very different moments in the history of British capitalism and in the struggle against apartheid, they are linked both by their location in this diverse neighborhood and by the ways…
Child Saving or Child Rights
This paper analyses images of children in international NGO fundraising campaigns on children and conflict in Africa, with a particular focus on the Civil War in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It identifies the key impacts of contemporary civil war in Africa on children and the role of children and young people in these conflicts. The campaigns analysed here use different discursive and rhetorical devices: from melodrama to dispassionate exper…
An Introduction to Childhood
By Heather Montgomery Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell , 2009 ISBN 9781405125901 , 281 pp, £17.99 (pb) The new social studies of childhood have predominately focused on children’s lives in North America and Western Europe. The recognition that practices and concepts of childhood are specific to particular times and places has not opened the field of childhood studies out to the Global South except where groups of children have been categorised as social …
Assembling Webs of Support
This paper uses ethnographic and qualitative interview data with Muslim child domestic workers, their families and employers to investigate the social ties between young workers and their employers. Our analysis shows that working‐class families use children’s domestic work with middle‐class families as part of a web of resources to protect them from economic shocks and to enable them to afford to meet the cost of social obligations. We show that…
Childhood in a Global Perspective
Book synopsis: This compelling new book offers a unique global perspective on children's lives throughout the world. It shows how the notion of childhood is being radically re-shaped, in part as a consequence of globalization. Taking an engaging historical and comparative approach, the book discusses wide-ranging issues such as children and war, child labour and young people's activism around the globe. Important themes considered include: \n \n …
The strength of weak ties
This paper is about the social networks of young unaccompanied asylum seekers and refugees in London. It discusses the findings of a 12-month qualitative study using photo elicitation interviews with eight young refugees to explore their social networks. The analysis points to the potential of social networks to provide emotional and material support for young refugees and discusses the extent to which social capital flows through these networks.…
The Gaze of Development after the Cultural Turn
Development studies is a multidisciplinary field that interrogates the practices and policies of international development. There is a strong emphasis in the discipline on building theoretical models intended to predict how the manipulation of specific variables may impact on economic growth. With the exception of two theoretical streams with a very marginal status in the field – Post-development and Marxism – it views development as congruent, i…
Examining the Relationship Between Depression and Asthma Exacerbations in a Prospective Follow-Up Study
BACKGROUND: Although depression has been linked with asthma, its relationship with asthma exacerbations, including emergency department (ED) visits and oral steroid (OS) use, has not been well documented. The aim is to investigate whether depression increases exacerbations among patients with asthma. METHOD: The study included 568 participants with asthma who were between 18 and 56 years old, were taking an inhaled corticosteroid, and participate…
The melodrama of being a child
This article shows how NGO films deploy melodramatic modes in constructing the narrative arcs of their campaign films and it explores the potential of this mode for generating solidarity between the spectator and the suffering subject. The author analyses how, through the use of music, colour and gesture, a visceral emotional response is evoked that produces an identification of the spectator with the experiences of the suffering subject. She arg…
Childhood, Youth and Violence in Global Contexts
Bringing together academic and practitioner points of view, this edited collection shows how violence enters into ordinary, routine practices of childhood and children's experiences. The contributing
Marching to be somebody
This paper offers a governmentality analysis of the online recruitment materials of the British Army Cadets. Governmentality theory attends to the role of rationalities and techniques of government in producing subjectivity. I apply this theory to an analysis of recruitment materials to show that the cadets can be understood as techniques of government that are framed within rationalities that position young masculinity as risky, particularly in …
Children, youth, and subjectivity
This special issue is on the relationship between violence and young subjectivities in contexts of conflict and post-conflict. The theme for this special issue arose out of the Economic and Social
What does a republican government with Donald Trump as President of the USA mean for children, youth and families
This viewpoint outlines the likely impact of the election of a Republican government with Donald Trump as President on children, youth and families. It focuses primarily on the impact on undocumented and mixed-status families, and briefly addresses the impacts on children's health services, juvenile justice and education
Igniting and Maintaining Hope
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