Sarah L Holloway
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah L Holloway |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah L |
| FAMILY NAME | Holloway |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLOWAY S L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 685 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Supplementary education and the coronavirus pandemic: Economic vitality, business spatiality and societal value in the private tuition industry during the first wave of Covid-19 in England
New economy, neoliberal state and professionalised parenting: Mothers’ labour market engagement and state support for social reproduction in class‐differentiated Britain
Contemporary economic, political and social shifts in the Global North are reconfiguring the resolution of productive and reproductive labour. This paper explores how the emergence of the New Economy, the rolling out of the neoliberal state, and the professionalisation of parenting are transforming: (i) the landscape in which mothers with primary‐school‐aged children make decisions about how to secure a living and care for their children and (ii)…
Enriching Children, Institutionalizing Childhood? Geographies of Play, Extracurricular Activities, and Parenting in England
Geographical research on children, youth, and families has done much to highlight the ways in which children's lives have changed over the last twenty-five years. A key strand of research concerns children's play and traces, in the Global North, a decline in children's independent access to, and mobility through, public space. This article shifts the terrain of that debate from an analysis of what has been lost to an exploration of what has repla…
Any Advice is Welcome Isn't it: Neoliberal Parenting Education, Local Mothering Cultures, and Social Class
Geographers have shown considerable interest in neoliberal educational restructuring as states across the Global North have sought to respond to the challenges of economic change through the development of a skilled population. Existing research provides a wide-ranging analysis of the ways neoliberal states seek to shape individual citizens through their own learning. Greater attention now needs to be paid to new and developing ways in which they…
Parental involvement in children's learning: Mothers' fourth shift, social class, and the growth of state intervention in family life
Nation states across the global North are restructuring their education systems. This process has changed the relationship between school and home, with an increasing onus being placed on parents to involve themselves in their children's education. The article explores what mothers with different social class positions think about state attempts to enrol them in the education of their primary‐aged children (ages 4–11), and considers their experie…
What Use Are Units? Critical Geographies of Alcohol Policy
This paper interrogates the multiple spatialities bound up with the consumption of units as the dominant means of diagnosing “health‐related” alcohol problems and measuring “drunkenness” in international alcohol policy and research. In order to question the power afforded to units, we work at the intersection of theoretical debates concerning biopower and governmentality; emotional, embodied and affective geographies and actor network theory. Pre…
Geographies of education and learning
Educational Mobility and the Gendered Geography of Cultural Capital: The Case of International Student Flows between Central Asia and the UK
International student mobility from East to West has grown rapidly as the middle classes have sought to reproduce their advantage in the context of changing socioeconomic circumstances. Existing research shows that middle-class students and their parents are increasingly using overseas educational qualifications-an institutionalised form of cultural capital-to ensure that they stand out in the competition for lucrative employment. This paper make…
Alcohol, drinking, drunkenness (dis)orderly spaces: Orderly Spaces
Designed as a reference text, this book represents the first systematic overview of geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. Each chapter blends conceptual material with empirical case studies to analyse drinking in public and private, urban and rural drinking patterns and practices, gender, life course, and emotional and embodied geographies. © Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine and Sarah L. Holloway 2011. All rights reserved
Emotional, embodied and affective geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness: Geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness
This paper develops dialogue between geographers’ engagement with emotion, embodiment and affect, and geographical research on alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. In doing so, we focus on the long-running ‘moral panic’ relating to alcohol-related violence, disorder and drunken behaviour in urban public space. We argue there has been an ontological and epistemological impasse in ‘alcohol studies’ between approaches that have considered the biologic…
Contemporary Cultures of Abstinence and the Nighttime Economy: Muslim Attitudes towards Alcohol and the Implications for Social Cohesion
This paper draws on original empirical work with the British Pakistani community to explore Muslim attitudes to alcohol and alcohol-related practices, before considering how the Pakistani Muslim community's culture of abstention shapes its members' access to, and use of, public space in the nighttime economy. We foreground the active role played by alcohol, as a nonhuman actor, in shaping emergent social relations by exploring its agency in gener…
Masculinities, femininities and the geographies of public and private drinking landscapes
Geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness: A review of progress
This paper explores geographical contributions to the study of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. We argue that where alcohol studies have engaged with geographical issues research has been dominated by a case study approach that has undertheorized the relationship between practices and processes relating to alcohol, drinking and drunkenness and the people and places being studied. We then go on to show the ways in which human geographers are app…
Sainsbury's is my local’: English alcohol policy, domestic drinking practices and the meaning of home
Drinking in England is an issue of public and policy concern. The Government has focused on the city centre in pursuing its twin policy aims of urban regeneration and public order and health. This paper challenges the silences in such debate by focusing on the domestic drinking practices in two case‐study locations. Drawing on insights from wider geographies of home, the empirical sections of the paper explore domestic drinking as a widespread, s…
Burning issues: Whiteness, rurality and the politics of difference
Drunk and Disorderly: Alcohol, Urban Life and Public Space
This paper shows that, despite receiving significant attention, the relationship between alcohol, drunkenness and public space has been undertheorized. We show that where drinking has been considered it has generally been as a peripheral concern of political-economy accounts that have sought to conceptualize the development of the modern city, or more recently the impact of global economic restructuring on urban life and public space. Moreover, s…
Articulating Otherness? White rural residents talk about Gypsy‐Travellers
This paper combines insights from geographical research on the racialization of ethnic minority groups with more recent interest in whiteness in an exploration of the ways white rural residents racialize Gypsy‐Travellers. Focusing on the white rural residents of Appleby, Cumbria, and their racialization of and relations with Gypsy‐Travellers who attend the New Fair there each year, the paper contributes both to our understanding of the ways white…
Children's Geographies: Playing, Living, Learning
1. Children's geographies and the new social studies of childhood Sarah L. Holloway and Gill Valentine Part I: Playing 2. Melting geography: purity, disorder, childhood and space Owain Jones 3. Children's strategies for creating playspaces: negotiating independence in rural Bolivia Samantha Punch 4. The 'street as thirdspace' Hugh Matthews, Melanie Limb and Mark Taylor 5. 'Nothing to do, nowhere to go'?: teenage girls and 'public' space in the Rh…
Key concepts in geography
PART ONE: GEOGRAPHICAL TRADITIONS: EMERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE Histories of Geography - Mike Heffernan Geography and the Physical Sciences Tradition - Keith Richards Geography and the Social Science Tradition - Ron Johnston Geography and the Humanities - Alison Blunt PART TWO: KEY CONCEPTS Space - Nigel Thrift The Fundamental Stuff of Geography Space - Martin Kent Making Room for Space in Physical Geography Time - John B Thornes Change and Stability…
Outsiders in Rural Society? Constructions of Rurality and Nature-Society Relations in the Racialisation of English Gypsy-Travellers, 1869 - 1934
In this paper I explore what Little (1999 Progress in Human Geography23 page 438) terms "the complexity and fluidity of rural otherness" through an examination of the racialisation of Gypsy-Travellers in late-19th-century and early-20th century England. Drawing on social-constructionist and psychoanalytic accounts of difference, I explore both the specificity of racialisation in different places, and the ways in which processes of racialisation c…
Cyberkids? Exploring Children’s Identities and Social Networks in On-line and Off-line Worlds
In the first rush of academic and popular commentaries on cyberspace, a stark opposition has been drawn between off-line and on-line worlds—the "real" and "virtual." Such understandings of the relationship between these spaces are now increasingly subject to critique, yet relatively little is known about how people actually employ information and communication technologies (ICT) within the context of their everyday lives. In this article, by draw…
It's only as stupid as you are: Children's and adults' negotiation of ICT competence at home and at school
Contemporary discourses about children's use of information and communication technologies (ICT)—which both celebrate children's command of a technology which is seen to be our future, and raise fears that this technology is putting children's emotional well-being at risk—are problematic, resting as they do on essentialist ideas about children, and overt technological determinism. Drawing instead on work within the new social studies of childhood…
Institutionalising Technologies: Masculinities, Femininities, and the Heterosexual Economy of the IT Classroom
Geographers' renewed interest in institutions reflects traditional concerns with the way institutions can shape geographies and a more recent interest in the ways geographies are important in shaping institutions. In this paper the authors build on this second strand of work and are specifically concerned with children's use of new information and communications technologies in schools. The authors suggest that multilayered institutional cultures…
Corked Hats and Coronation Street: British and New Zealand Children's Imaginative Geographies of the Other
This article contributes to the developing literature on childhood and national identity by considering the ways in which children imagine other nations. Focusing in particular on on-line interactions between children in 12 British and 12 New Zealand schools, the article explores their imaginative geographies of each other, and assesses the ways these visions are endorsed or contested by the children to whom they refer. The article not only illus…
Spatiality and the New Social Studies of Childhood
The past two decades have seen rapid changes in the ways in which sociologists think about children, and a growing cross-fertilisation of ideas between researchers in a variety of social science disciplines. This paper builds upon these developments by exploring what three inter-related ways of thinking about spatiality might contribute to the new social studies of childhood. Specifically, we identify the importance of progressive understandings …
Spatiality and the New Social Studies of Childhood
The past two decades have seen rapid changes in the ways in which sociologists think about children, and a growing cross-fertilisation of ideas between researchers in a variety of social science disciplines. This paper builds upon these developments by exploring what three inter-related ways of thinking about spatiality might contribute to the new social studies of childhood. Specifically, we identify the importance of progressive understandings …
Emotional, embodied and affective geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness: Geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness
This paper develops dialogue between geographers’ engagement with emotion, embodiment and affect, and geographical research on alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. In doing so, we focus on the long-running ‘moral panic’ relating to alcohol-related violence, disorder and drunken behaviour in urban public space. We argue there has been an ontological and epistemological impasse in ‘alcohol studies’ between approaches that have considered the biologic…
Drunk and Disorderly: Alcohol, Urban Life and Public Space
This paper shows that, despite receiving significant attention, the relationship between alcohol, drunkenness and public space has been undertheorized. We show that where drinking has been considered it has generally been as a peripheral concern of political-economy accounts that have sought to conceptualize the development of the modern city, or more recently the impact of global economic restructuring on urban life and public space. Moreover, s…
Geographies of education and learning
Burning issues: Whiteness, rurality and the politics of difference
Educational Mobility and the Gendered Geography of Cultural Capital: The Case of International Student Flows between Central Asia and the UK
International student mobility from East to West has grown rapidly as the middle classes have sought to reproduce their advantage in the context of changing socioeconomic circumstances. Existing research shows that middle-class students and their parents are increasingly using overseas educational qualifications-an institutionalised form of cultural capital-to ensure that they stand out in the competition for lucrative employment. This paper make…
Sainsbury's is my local’: English alcohol policy, domestic drinking practices and the meaning of home
Drinking in England is an issue of public and policy concern. The Government has focused on the city centre in pursuing its twin policy aims of urban regeneration and public order and health. This paper challenges the silences in such debate by focusing on the domestic drinking practices in two case‐study locations. Drawing on insights from wider geographies of home, the empirical sections of the paper explore domestic drinking as a widespread, s…
Masculinities, femininities and the geographies of public and private drinking landscapes
Cyberkids? Exploring Children’s Identities and Social Networks in On-line and Off-line Worlds
In the first rush of academic and popular commentaries on cyberspace, a stark opposition has been drawn between off-line and on-line worlds—the "real" and "virtual." Such understandings of the relationship between these spaces are now increasingly subject to critique, yet relatively little is known about how people actually employ information and communication technologies (ICT) within the context of their everyday lives. In this article, by draw…
Enriching Children, Institutionalizing Childhood? Geographies of Play, Extracurricular Activities, and Parenting in England
Geographical research on children, youth, and families has done much to highlight the ways in which children's lives have changed over the last twenty-five years. A key strand of research concerns children's play and traces, in the Global North, a decline in children's independent access to, and mobility through, public space. This article shifts the terrain of that debate from an analysis of what has been lost to an exploration of what has repla…
Contemporary Cultures of Abstinence and the Nighttime Economy: Muslim Attitudes towards Alcohol and the Implications for Social Cohesion
This paper draws on original empirical work with the British Pakistani community to explore Muslim attitudes to alcohol and alcohol-related practices, before considering how the Pakistani Muslim community's culture of abstention shapes its members' access to, and use of, public space in the nighttime economy. We foreground the active role played by alcohol, as a nonhuman actor, in shaping emergent social relations by exploring its agency in gener…
Institutionalising Technologies: Masculinities, Femininities, and the Heterosexual Economy of the IT Classroom
Geographers' renewed interest in institutions reflects traditional concerns with the way institutions can shape geographies and a more recent interest in the ways geographies are important in shaping institutions. In this paper the authors build on this second strand of work and are specifically concerned with children's use of new information and communications technologies in schools. The authors suggest that multilayered institutional cultures…
Outsiders in Rural Society? Constructions of Rurality and Nature-Society Relations in the Racialisation of English Gypsy-Travellers, 1869 - 1934
In this paper I explore what Little (1999 Progress in Human Geography23 page 438) terms "the complexity and fluidity of rural otherness" through an examination of the racialisation of Gypsy-Travellers in late-19th-century and early-20th century England. Drawing on social-constructionist and psychoanalytic accounts of difference, I explore both the specificity of racialisation in different places, and the ways in which processes of racialisation c…
New economy, neoliberal state and professionalised parenting: Mothers’ labour market engagement and state support for social reproduction in class‐differentiated Britain
Contemporary economic, political and social shifts in the Global North are reconfiguring the resolution of productive and reproductive labour. This paper explores how the emergence of the New Economy, the rolling out of the neoliberal state, and the professionalisation of parenting are transforming: (i) the landscape in which mothers with primary‐school‐aged children make decisions about how to secure a living and care for their children and (ii)…
Articulating Otherness? White rural residents talk about Gypsy‐Travellers
This paper combines insights from geographical research on the racialization of ethnic minority groups with more recent interest in whiteness in an exploration of the ways white rural residents racialize Gypsy‐Travellers. Focusing on the white rural residents of Appleby, Cumbria, and their racialization of and relations with Gypsy‐Travellers who attend the New Fair there each year, the paper contributes both to our understanding of the ways white…
It's only as stupid as you are: Children's and adults' negotiation of ICT competence at home and at school
Contemporary discourses about children's use of information and communication technologies (ICT)—which both celebrate children's command of a technology which is seen to be our future, and raise fears that this technology is putting children's emotional well-being at risk—are problematic, resting as they do on essentialist ideas about children, and overt technological determinism. Drawing instead on work within the new social studies of childhood…
Corked Hats and Coronation Street: British and New Zealand Children's Imaginative Geographies of the Other
This article contributes to the developing literature on childhood and national identity by considering the ways in which children imagine other nations. Focusing in particular on on-line interactions between children in 12 British and 12 New Zealand schools, the article explores their imaginative geographies of each other, and assesses the ways these visions are endorsed or contested by the children to whom they refer. The article not only illus…
Where Do You Want to Go Tomorrow? Connecting Children and the Internet
In the late 1990s, use of either of the words 'childhood' or 'internet' is enough to signify at a stroke many of society's contemporary hopes and fears about what it means to be modern. By providing a critical review of the burgeoning (popular, policy, and academic) literature that is emerging as debates about 'childhood' and 'the Internet' take centre stage in the ongoing struggle to define the future of our 'virtual geographies', what we seek t…
Any Advice is Welcome Isn't it: Neoliberal Parenting Education, Local Mothering Cultures, and Social Class
Geographers have shown considerable interest in neoliberal educational restructuring as states across the Global North have sought to respond to the challenges of economic change through the development of a skilled population. Existing research provides a wide-ranging analysis of the ways neoliberal states seek to shape individual citizens through their own learning. Greater attention now needs to be paid to new and developing ways in which they…
Parental involvement in children's learning: Mothers' fourth shift, social class, and the growth of state intervention in family life
Nation states across the global North are restructuring their education systems. This process has changed the relationship between school and home, with an increasing onus being placed on parents to involve themselves in their children's education. The article explores what mothers with different social class positions think about state attempts to enrol them in the education of their primary‐aged children (ages 4–11), and considers their experie…
What Use Are Units? Critical Geographies of Alcohol Policy
This paper interrogates the multiple spatialities bound up with the consumption of units as the dominant means of diagnosing “health‐related” alcohol problems and measuring “drunkenness” in international alcohol policy and research. In order to question the power afforded to units, we work at the intersection of theoretical debates concerning biopower and governmentality; emotional, embodied and affective geographies and actor network theory. Pre…
Supplementary education and the coronavirus pandemic: Economic vitality, business spatiality and societal value in the private tuition industry during the first wave of Covid-19 in England
Where Do You Want to Go Tomorrow? Connecting Children and the Internet
In the late 1990s, use of either of the words 'childhood' or 'internet' is enough to signify at a stroke many of society's contemporary hopes and fears about what it means to be modern. By providing a critical review of the burgeoning (popular, policy, and academic) literature that is emerging as debates about 'childhood' and 'the Internet' take centre stage in the ongoing struggle to define the future of our 'virtual geographies', what we seek t…
Institutionalising Technologies: Masculinities, Femininities, and the Heterosexual Economy of the IT Classroom
Geographers' renewed interest in institutions reflects traditional concerns with the way institutions can shape geographies and a more recent interest in the ways geographies are important in shaping institutions. In this paper the authors build on this second strand of work and are specifically concerned with children's use of new information and communications technologies in schools. The authors suggest that multilayered institutional cultures…
Corked Hats and Coronation Street: British and New Zealand Children's Imaginative Geographies of the Other
This article contributes to the developing literature on childhood and national identity by considering the ways in which children imagine other nations. Focusing in particular on on-line interactions between children in 12 British and 12 New Zealand schools, the article explores their imaginative geographies of each other, and assesses the ways these visions are endorsed or contested by the children to whom they refer. The article not only illus…
Spatiality and the New Social Studies of Childhood
The past two decades have seen rapid changes in the ways in which sociologists think about children, and a growing cross-fertilisation of ideas between researchers in a variety of social science disciplines. This paper builds upon these developments by exploring what three inter-related ways of thinking about spatiality might contribute to the new social studies of childhood. Specifically, we identify the importance of progressive understandings …
It's only as stupid as you are: Children's and adults' negotiation of ICT competence at home and at school
Contemporary discourses about children's use of information and communication technologies (ICT)—which both celebrate children's command of a technology which is seen to be our future, and raise fears that this technology is putting children's emotional well-being at risk—are problematic, resting as they do on essentialist ideas about children, and overt technological determinism. Drawing instead on work within the new social studies of childhood…
Cyberkids? Exploring Children’s Identities and Social Networks in On-line and Off-line Worlds
In the first rush of academic and popular commentaries on cyberspace, a stark opposition has been drawn between off-line and on-line worlds—the "real" and "virtual." Such understandings of the relationship between these spaces are now increasingly subject to critique, yet relatively little is known about how people actually employ information and communication technologies (ICT) within the context of their everyday lives. In this article, by draw…
Key concepts in geography
PART ONE: GEOGRAPHICAL TRADITIONS: EMERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE Histories of Geography - Mike Heffernan Geography and the Physical Sciences Tradition - Keith Richards Geography and the Social Science Tradition - Ron Johnston Geography and the Humanities - Alison Blunt PART TWO: KEY CONCEPTS Space - Nigel Thrift The Fundamental Stuff of Geography Space - Martin Kent Making Room for Space in Physical Geography Time - John B Thornes Change and Stability…
Outsiders in Rural Society? Constructions of Rurality and Nature-Society Relations in the Racialisation of English Gypsy-Travellers, 1869 - 1934
In this paper I explore what Little (1999 Progress in Human Geography23 page 438) terms "the complexity and fluidity of rural otherness" through an examination of the racialisation of Gypsy-Travellers in late-19th-century and early-20th century England. Drawing on social-constructionist and psychoanalytic accounts of difference, I explore both the specificity of racialisation in different places, and the ways in which processes of racialisation c…
Children's Geographies: Playing, Living, Learning
1. Children's geographies and the new social studies of childhood Sarah L. Holloway and Gill Valentine Part I: Playing 2. Melting geography: purity, disorder, childhood and space Owain Jones 3. Children's strategies for creating playspaces: negotiating independence in rural Bolivia Samantha Punch 4. The 'street as thirdspace' Hugh Matthews, Melanie Limb and Mark Taylor 5. 'Nothing to do, nowhere to go'?: teenage girls and 'public' space in the Rh…
Articulating Otherness? White rural residents talk about Gypsy‐Travellers
This paper combines insights from geographical research on the racialization of ethnic minority groups with more recent interest in whiteness in an exploration of the ways white rural residents racialize Gypsy‐Travellers. Focusing on the white rural residents of Appleby, Cumbria, and their racialization of and relations with Gypsy‐Travellers who attend the New Fair there each year, the paper contributes both to our understanding of the ways white…
Burning issues: Whiteness, rurality and the politics of difference
Drunk and Disorderly: Alcohol, Urban Life and Public Space
This paper shows that, despite receiving significant attention, the relationship between alcohol, drunkenness and public space has been undertheorized. We show that where drinking has been considered it has generally been as a peripheral concern of political-economy accounts that have sought to conceptualize the development of the modern city, or more recently the impact of global economic restructuring on urban life and public space. Moreover, s…
Geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness: A review of progress
This paper explores geographical contributions to the study of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. We argue that where alcohol studies have engaged with geographical issues research has been dominated by a case study approach that has undertheorized the relationship between practices and processes relating to alcohol, drinking and drunkenness and the people and places being studied. We then go on to show the ways in which human geographers are app…
Sainsbury's is my local’: English alcohol policy, domestic drinking practices and the meaning of home
Drinking in England is an issue of public and policy concern. The Government has focused on the city centre in pursuing its twin policy aims of urban regeneration and public order and health. This paper challenges the silences in such debate by focusing on the domestic drinking practices in two case‐study locations. Drawing on insights from wider geographies of home, the empirical sections of the paper explore domestic drinking as a widespread, s…
Masculinities, femininities and the geographies of public and private drinking landscapes
Emotional, embodied and affective geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness: Geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness
This paper develops dialogue between geographers’ engagement with emotion, embodiment and affect, and geographical research on alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. In doing so, we focus on the long-running ‘moral panic’ relating to alcohol-related violence, disorder and drunken behaviour in urban public space. We argue there has been an ontological and epistemological impasse in ‘alcohol studies’ between approaches that have considered the biologic…
Contemporary Cultures of Abstinence and the Nighttime Economy: Muslim Attitudes towards Alcohol and the Implications for Social Cohesion
This paper draws on original empirical work with the British Pakistani community to explore Muslim attitudes to alcohol and alcohol-related practices, before considering how the Pakistani Muslim community's culture of abstention shapes its members' access to, and use of, public space in the nighttime economy. We foreground the active role played by alcohol, as a nonhuman actor, in shaping emergent social relations by exploring its agency in gener…
Alcohol, drinking, drunkenness (dis)orderly spaces: Orderly Spaces
Designed as a reference text, this book represents the first systematic overview of geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. Each chapter blends conceptual material with empirical case studies to analyse drinking in public and private, urban and rural drinking patterns and practices, gender, life course, and emotional and embodied geographies. © Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine and Sarah L. Holloway 2011. All rights reserved
What Use Are Units? Critical Geographies of Alcohol Policy
This paper interrogates the multiple spatialities bound up with the consumption of units as the dominant means of diagnosing “health‐related” alcohol problems and measuring “drunkenness” in international alcohol policy and research. In order to question the power afforded to units, we work at the intersection of theoretical debates concerning biopower and governmentality; emotional, embodied and affective geographies and actor network theory. Pre…
Geographies of education and learning
Educational Mobility and the Gendered Geography of Cultural Capital: The Case of International Student Flows between Central Asia and the UK
International student mobility from East to West has grown rapidly as the middle classes have sought to reproduce their advantage in the context of changing socioeconomic circumstances. Existing research shows that middle-class students and their parents are increasingly using overseas educational qualifications-an institutionalised form of cultural capital-to ensure that they stand out in the competition for lucrative employment. This paper make…
Parental involvement in children's learning: Mothers' fourth shift, social class, and the growth of state intervention in family life
Nation states across the global North are restructuring their education systems. This process has changed the relationship between school and home, with an increasing onus being placed on parents to involve themselves in their children's education. The article explores what mothers with different social class positions think about state attempts to enrol them in the education of their primary‐aged children (ages 4–11), and considers their experie…
Enriching Children, Institutionalizing Childhood? Geographies of Play, Extracurricular Activities, and Parenting in England
Geographical research on children, youth, and families has done much to highlight the ways in which children's lives have changed over the last twenty-five years. A key strand of research concerns children's play and traces, in the Global North, a decline in children's independent access to, and mobility through, public space. This article shifts the terrain of that debate from an analysis of what has been lost to an exploration of what has repla…
Any Advice is Welcome Isn't it: Neoliberal Parenting Education, Local Mothering Cultures, and Social Class
Geographers have shown considerable interest in neoliberal educational restructuring as states across the Global North have sought to respond to the challenges of economic change through the development of a skilled population. Existing research provides a wide-ranging analysis of the ways neoliberal states seek to shape individual citizens through their own learning. Greater attention now needs to be paid to new and developing ways in which they…
New economy, neoliberal state and professionalised parenting: Mothers’ labour market engagement and state support for social reproduction in class‐differentiated Britain
Contemporary economic, political and social shifts in the Global North are reconfiguring the resolution of productive and reproductive labour. This paper explores how the emergence of the New Economy, the rolling out of the neoliberal state, and the professionalisation of parenting are transforming: (i) the landscape in which mothers with primary‐school‐aged children make decisions about how to secure a living and care for their children and (ii)…
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