Kate Brooks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Brooks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Brooks |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9373-8992 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Blank, Light, Respectable, Useful: Nineteenth Century Orphan Bodies
Discovering a scrapbook in the archives of a Victorian Orphanage raises questions as to how the children in these institutions were represented. This paper argues that such images frame a particular version of the inmates of Muller Orphan Homes, Bristol, as a collective, a ‘caste apart’ whose worth is displayed here as visual representations of key-circulating discourses regarding respectability, usefulness, productivity and whiteness. The photog…
Transforming coastal and marine management: Deliberative democracy and integrated management in New South Wales, Australia
The integrated management (IM) of coastal and marine environments is an enduring problem, particularly in multi-sectoral and jurisdictional systems, with coastal management of New South Wales (NSW), Australia being no exception. Historically, NSW coastal and marine management was dominated by ecological and economic approaches, implemented in parallel through multiple government agencies with overlapping jurisdictions. A review in 2012 of NSW mar…
Realizing resilience for decision-making
Natural resources and environmental justice: Australian perspectives
Natural resources and environmental justice: Australian perspectives." Rural Society, 27(1), pp. 80–81
Social Capital: Analysing the Effect of a Political Perspective on the Perceived Role of Government in Community Prosperity
Social capital has enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent years, however debate continues over the concept in policy and community renewal strategies. This paper explores how different interpretations of the concept may affect the role that government is perceived to have in developing ‘social capital’. Empirical research findings are used to explore the relevance of different social capital interpretations to the role of government in rural pro…
The Discursivities of Difference: Retro retailers and the ambiguities of ‘the alternative’
This article is concerned with retro retailing; specifically with how retro retailers talk about themselves, their shops and the commodities they sell. Retro retailing is argued to exist in a profoundly ambiguous space, between the mainstream and the alternative (as imagined). Whilst retro retailers operate in self-styled ‘alternative’ shopping spaces and talk about themselves and their work in ways that are readily identifiable with others who w…
Reading Men's Lifestyle Magazines: Cultural Power and the Information Society
Shopping, Space, and Practice
In this paper we address questions of 'shopping as practised' and its relation to shopping space. We argue that modes of shopping, which comprise distinctive sets of shopping practices involving relations to goods (purchases), relations of looking (and seeing), the place of shopping in the rhythms of everyday life, and the socialities of shopping, are used to invest meaning in particular types of shopping space and to produce individual, accumula…
Discourse, Displacement, and Retail Practice: Some Pointers from the Charity Retail Project
We develop a particular approach to the analysis of retailing, one in which the importance of retailers' talk/practice and the connections between talk/practice and its displacement within retail organisations is emphasised. Displacement means that executive talk is not necessarily powerful, but must be reworked, forged anew, in the specifics of particular stores. Retail (executive) talk/practices have to be translated, and this is the source of …
Bjorn Again? Rethinking 70s Revivalism through the Reappropriation of 70s Clothing
(2001). Bjorn Again? Rethinking 70s Revivalism through the Reappropriation of 70s Clothing. Fashion Theory: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 3-27
The politics of ‘new’ men’s lifestyle magazines
The article seeks to ask some ‘political’ questions in respect of the recent publishing success of men’s lifestyle magazines. What implications does the mass popularity of such magazines have for the social construction of masculinity, and how might we account for their success among young men? In particular we focus upon the content of the magazines, and seek to understand what is genuinely ‘new’ about them. In this respect we discuss the magazi…
Making Sense of Men's Lifestyle Magazines
In this paper we document the rapid growth of the British men's 'lifestyle' magazine market and explore its significance in terms of men's changing identities and gender relations. By drawing on focus-group discussions with men of different class, age, and regional and ethnic backgrounds, we contrast two ways of thinking about these magazines. The first employs a distinction between 'surface' and 'depth', and suggests that the magazines signal on…
Shopping, Space, and Practice
In this paper we address questions of 'shopping as practised' and its relation to shopping space. We argue that modes of shopping, which comprise distinctive sets of shopping practices involving relations to goods (purchases), relations of looking (and seeing), the place of shopping in the rhythms of everyday life, and the socialities of shopping, are used to invest meaning in particular types of shopping space and to produce individual, accumula…
Making Sense of Men's Lifestyle Magazines
In this paper we document the rapid growth of the British men's 'lifestyle' magazine market and explore its significance in terms of men's changing identities and gender relations. By drawing on focus-group discussions with men of different class, age, and regional and ethnic backgrounds, we contrast two ways of thinking about these magazines. The first employs a distinction between 'surface' and 'depth', and suggests that the magazines signal on…
The politics of ‘new’ men’s lifestyle magazines
The article seeks to ask some ‘political’ questions in respect of the recent publishing success of men’s lifestyle magazines. What implications does the mass popularity of such magazines have for the social construction of masculinity, and how might we account for their success among young men? In particular we focus upon the content of the magazines, and seek to understand what is genuinely ‘new’ about them. In this respect we discuss the magazi…
The Discursivities of Difference: Retro retailers and the ambiguities of ‘the alternative’
This article is concerned with retro retailing; specifically with how retro retailers talk about themselves, their shops and the commodities they sell. Retro retailing is argued to exist in a profoundly ambiguous space, between the mainstream and the alternative (as imagined). Whilst retro retailers operate in self-styled ‘alternative’ shopping spaces and talk about themselves and their work in ways that are readily identifiable with others who w…
Realizing resilience for decision-making
Bjorn Again? Rethinking 70s Revivalism through the Reappropriation of 70s Clothing
(2001). Bjorn Again? Rethinking 70s Revivalism through the Reappropriation of 70s Clothing. Fashion Theory: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 3-27
Discourse, Displacement, and Retail Practice: Some Pointers from the Charity Retail Project
We develop a particular approach to the analysis of retailing, one in which the importance of retailers' talk/practice and the connections between talk/practice and its displacement within retail organisations is emphasised. Displacement means that executive talk is not necessarily powerful, but must be reworked, forged anew, in the specifics of particular stores. Retail (executive) talk/practices have to be translated, and this is the source of …
Natural resources and environmental justice: Australian perspectives
Natural resources and environmental justice: Australian perspectives." Rural Society, 27(1), pp. 80–81
Reading Men's Lifestyle Magazines: Cultural Power and the Information Society
Making Sense of Men's Lifestyle Magazines
In this paper we document the rapid growth of the British men's 'lifestyle' magazine market and explore its significance in terms of men's changing identities and gender relations. By drawing on focus-group discussions with men of different class, age, and regional and ethnic backgrounds, we contrast two ways of thinking about these magazines. The first employs a distinction between 'surface' and 'depth', and suggests that the magazines signal on…
The politics of ‘new’ men’s lifestyle magazines
The article seeks to ask some ‘political’ questions in respect of the recent publishing success of men’s lifestyle magazines. What implications does the mass popularity of such magazines have for the social construction of masculinity, and how might we account for their success among young men? In particular we focus upon the content of the magazines, and seek to understand what is genuinely ‘new’ about them. In this respect we discuss the magazi…
Bjorn Again? Rethinking 70s Revivalism through the Reappropriation of 70s Clothing
(2001). Bjorn Again? Rethinking 70s Revivalism through the Reappropriation of 70s Clothing. Fashion Theory: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 3-27
Shopping, Space, and Practice
In this paper we address questions of 'shopping as practised' and its relation to shopping space. We argue that modes of shopping, which comprise distinctive sets of shopping practices involving relations to goods (purchases), relations of looking (and seeing), the place of shopping in the rhythms of everyday life, and the socialities of shopping, are used to invest meaning in particular types of shopping space and to produce individual, accumula…
Discourse, Displacement, and Retail Practice: Some Pointers from the Charity Retail Project
We develop a particular approach to the analysis of retailing, one in which the importance of retailers' talk/practice and the connections between talk/practice and its displacement within retail organisations is emphasised. Displacement means that executive talk is not necessarily powerful, but must be reworked, forged anew, in the specifics of particular stores. Retail (executive) talk/practices have to be translated, and this is the source of …
The Discursivities of Difference: Retro retailers and the ambiguities of ‘the alternative’
This article is concerned with retro retailing; specifically with how retro retailers talk about themselves, their shops and the commodities they sell. Retro retailing is argued to exist in a profoundly ambiguous space, between the mainstream and the alternative (as imagined). Whilst retro retailers operate in self-styled ‘alternative’ shopping spaces and talk about themselves and their work in ways that are readily identifiable with others who w…
Reading Men's Lifestyle Magazines: Cultural Power and the Information Society
Social Capital: Analysing the Effect of a Political Perspective on the Perceived Role of Government in Community Prosperity
Social capital has enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent years, however debate continues over the concept in policy and community renewal strategies. This paper explores how different interpretations of the concept may affect the role that government is perceived to have in developing ‘social capital’. Empirical research findings are used to explore the relevance of different social capital interpretations to the role of government in rural pro…
Natural resources and environmental justice: Australian perspectives
Natural resources and environmental justice: Australian perspectives." Rural Society, 27(1), pp. 80–81
Realizing resilience for decision-making
Transforming coastal and marine management: Deliberative democracy and integrated management in New South Wales, Australia
The integrated management (IM) of coastal and marine environments is an enduring problem, particularly in multi-sectoral and jurisdictional systems, with coastal management of New South Wales (NSW), Australia being no exception. Historically, NSW coastal and marine management was dominated by ecological and economic approaches, implemented in parallel through multiple government agencies with overlapping jurisdictions. A review in 2012 of NSW mar…
Blank, Light, Respectable, Useful: Nineteenth Century Orphan Bodies
Discovering a scrapbook in the archives of a Victorian Orphanage raises questions as to how the children in these institutions were represented. This paper argues that such images frame a particular version of the inmates of Muller Orphan Homes, Bristol, as a collective, a ‘caste apart’ whose worth is displayed here as visual representations of key-circulating discourses regarding respectability, usefulness, productivity and whiteness. The photog…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works)