Tracey Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracey Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracey |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9909-5067 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 181 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Challenging welfare mythmaking: Caps, (mis)classification and concealment of larger families’ labour in austerity Britain
The alleged ‘welfare dependence’ of larger families has long been used as a symbolic anchoring point in seeking to legitimise British welfare reform. This article focuses on the Benefit Cap and Two-Child Limit, setting out how defences of both reforms framed impacted claimants as ‘workless’, ‘welfare-dependent’ and requiring welfare constraint and restriction to ‘activate’ them. Larger families are particularly sensitive to social security policy…
Inaccurate conceptions: How can we overcome the stigma of age and fertility
Amy Holdsworth, On Living with Television
What does it mean, and feel like, to ‘live with’ television? To grow up with television, to grow alongside television, to return to television, to form parts of oneself in dialogue with the small screen? How does ‘television time’ intertwine and loop into ‘life time’, and what kinds of temporal effects does this intertwining have on the ways that we experience the everyday? How does television, as a particular kind of media, generate a sense of c…
Mockumentary and the Sociological Imagination
Shredding the Social State: Maternal Studies, Ten Years On
This article reflects on ten years of British welfare policy and explores the impacts of these shifts on key groups of mothers who have been demonised and weaponised under an increasingly authoritarian political present
Parenting the crisis: The cultural politics of parent-blame
Portraying Poverty: The Economics and Ethics of Factual Welfare Television
Since 2013 there has been an explosion of a new genre of factual programming on British television that centres on the everyday lives of people claiming benefits. The emergence of Factual Welfare Television (FWT) has coincided with intensifying public and political debates about poverty and the British welfare state, and has proved a deeply controversial and contested genre. While programme-makers have argued that FWT fulfils a public service man…
The Cultural Politics of Austerity: Past and Present in Austere Times, by Rebecca Bramall
Six years after the financial crisis of 2008–2009 and subsequent recession, politicians and economists cannot seem to decide whether living standards for the average citizen have improved or declin
Benefits broods’: The cultural and political crafting of anti-welfare commonsense
In the aftermath of the global banking crises, a political economy of permanent state austerity has emerged, driven by and legitimated through a hardening anti-welfare commonsense. We argue that, while there is an excellent evidence base emerging around solidifying negative public attitudes towards welfare, critical policy studies needs to attend to the cultural as well as the political economies through which an anti-welfare commonsense is forme…
Mothers and the academy
Welfare Commonsense, Poverty Porn and Doxosophy
This article critically examine how Benefits Street - and the broader genre of poverty porn television - functions to embed new forms of 'commonsense' about welfare and worklessness. It argues that such television content and commentary crowds out critical perspectives with what Pierre Bourdieu (1999) called 'doxa', making the social world appear self-evident and requiring no interpretation, and creating new forms of neoliberal commonsense around…
‘Mumsnetiquette’: Online Affect within Parenting Culture
The public sphere, as a space where political agency is expressed, mobilised and enacted, has undergone profound shifts in the early 21st century. New media and cultural technologies and spaces, and the new forms of connectedness, influence and political agency they invite, have been central to these changing forms of public dialogue. Of particular importance is the inexorable rise of social media, which now seems to saturate everyday life and co…
 Mumsnetiquetteâ
Sluts that Choose Vs Doormat Gypsies: Exploring affect in the postfeminist, visual moral economy of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
The UK primetime series My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding (Channel 4, 2010, 2011, 2012) offered audiences the opportunity to be armchair matrimonial ethnographers, to reveal the courtship curiosities of “one of the most secretive communities in the UK.” In spite of claims to social realist documentary, however, we argue that this programme has clearer resonances with “sexposé” reality television, producing and circulating a moral, visual economy premised …
Riots, Restraint and the New Cultural Politics of Wanting
In the aftermath of the 2011 English riots, many political elites, journalists and public commentators obscured the material, sociological and economic factors which contributed to the unrest and instead connected the riots to a problematic kind of 'wanting' - wanting the wrong kinds of things, in a manner and degree that was constructed as illegitimate and vulgar in a time of austerity - and thus constructing the riots as a problem of excessive …
Danny Dorling, Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists
‘What kind of mum are you at the moment?’ Supernanny and the psychologising of classed embodiment
I. `Speaking as a Mother: Notes on Becoming a Researcher and Not Getting onto Supernanny
Benefits broods’: The cultural and political crafting of anti-welfare commonsense
In the aftermath of the global banking crises, a political economy of permanent state austerity has emerged, driven by and legitimated through a hardening anti-welfare commonsense. We argue that, while there is an excellent evidence base emerging around solidifying negative public attitudes towards welfare, critical policy studies needs to attend to the cultural as well as the political economies through which an anti-welfare commonsense is forme…
Welfare Commonsense, Poverty Porn and Doxosophy
This article critically examine how Benefits Street - and the broader genre of poverty porn television - functions to embed new forms of 'commonsense' about welfare and worklessness. It argues that such television content and commentary crowds out critical perspectives with what Pierre Bourdieu (1999) called 'doxa', making the social world appear self-evident and requiring no interpretation, and creating new forms of neoliberal commonsense around…
Portraying Poverty: The Economics and Ethics of Factual Welfare Television
Since 2013 there has been an explosion of a new genre of factual programming on British television that centres on the everyday lives of people claiming benefits. The emergence of Factual Welfare Television (FWT) has coincided with intensifying public and political debates about poverty and the British welfare state, and has proved a deeply controversial and contested genre. While programme-makers have argued that FWT fulfils a public service man…
Riots, Restraint and the New Cultural Politics of Wanting
In the aftermath of the 2011 English riots, many political elites, journalists and public commentators obscured the material, sociological and economic factors which contributed to the unrest and instead connected the riots to a problematic kind of 'wanting' - wanting the wrong kinds of things, in a manner and degree that was constructed as illegitimate and vulgar in a time of austerity - and thus constructing the riots as a problem of excessive …
Sluts that Choose Vs Doormat Gypsies: Exploring affect in the postfeminist, visual moral economy of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
The UK primetime series My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding (Channel 4, 2010, 2011, 2012) offered audiences the opportunity to be armchair matrimonial ethnographers, to reveal the courtship curiosities of “one of the most secretive communities in the UK.” In spite of claims to social realist documentary, however, we argue that this programme has clearer resonances with “sexposé” reality television, producing and circulating a moral, visual economy premised …
I. `Speaking as a Mother: Notes on Becoming a Researcher and Not Getting onto Supernanny
Mothers and the academy
I. `Speaking as a Mother: Notes on Becoming a Researcher and Not Getting onto Supernanny
‘What kind of mum are you at the moment?’ Supernanny and the psychologising of classed embodiment
Danny Dorling, Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists
‘Mumsnetiquette’: Online Affect within Parenting Culture
The public sphere, as a space where political agency is expressed, mobilised and enacted, has undergone profound shifts in the early 21st century. New media and cultural technologies and spaces, and the new forms of connectedness, influence and political agency they invite, have been central to these changing forms of public dialogue. Of particular importance is the inexorable rise of social media, which now seems to saturate everyday life and co…
 Mumsnetiquetteâ
Sluts that Choose Vs Doormat Gypsies: Exploring affect in the postfeminist, visual moral economy of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
The UK primetime series My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding (Channel 4, 2010, 2011, 2012) offered audiences the opportunity to be armchair matrimonial ethnographers, to reveal the courtship curiosities of “one of the most secretive communities in the UK.” In spite of claims to social realist documentary, however, we argue that this programme has clearer resonances with “sexposé” reality television, producing and circulating a moral, visual economy premised …
Riots, Restraint and the New Cultural Politics of Wanting
In the aftermath of the 2011 English riots, many political elites, journalists and public commentators obscured the material, sociological and economic factors which contributed to the unrest and instead connected the riots to a problematic kind of 'wanting' - wanting the wrong kinds of things, in a manner and degree that was constructed as illegitimate and vulgar in a time of austerity - and thus constructing the riots as a problem of excessive …
Mothers and the academy
Welfare Commonsense, Poverty Porn and Doxosophy
This article critically examine how Benefits Street - and the broader genre of poverty porn television - functions to embed new forms of 'commonsense' about welfare and worklessness. It argues that such television content and commentary crowds out critical perspectives with what Pierre Bourdieu (1999) called 'doxa', making the social world appear self-evident and requiring no interpretation, and creating new forms of neoliberal commonsense around…
Benefits broods’: The cultural and political crafting of anti-welfare commonsense
In the aftermath of the global banking crises, a political economy of permanent state austerity has emerged, driven by and legitimated through a hardening anti-welfare commonsense. We argue that, while there is an excellent evidence base emerging around solidifying negative public attitudes towards welfare, critical policy studies needs to attend to the cultural as well as the political economies through which an anti-welfare commonsense is forme…
The Cultural Politics of Austerity: Past and Present in Austere Times, by Rebecca Bramall
Six years after the financial crisis of 2008–2009 and subsequent recession, politicians and economists cannot seem to decide whether living standards for the average citizen have improved or declin
Portraying Poverty: The Economics and Ethics of Factual Welfare Television
Since 2013 there has been an explosion of a new genre of factual programming on British television that centres on the everyday lives of people claiming benefits. The emergence of Factual Welfare Television (FWT) has coincided with intensifying public and political debates about poverty and the British welfare state, and has proved a deeply controversial and contested genre. While programme-makers have argued that FWT fulfils a public service man…
Parenting the crisis: The cultural politics of parent-blame
Shredding the Social State: Maternal Studies, Ten Years On
This article reflects on ten years of British welfare policy and explores the impacts of these shifts on key groups of mothers who have been demonised and weaponised under an increasingly authoritarian political present
Mockumentary and the Sociological Imagination
Amy Holdsworth, On Living with Television
What does it mean, and feel like, to ‘live with’ television? To grow up with television, to grow alongside television, to return to television, to form parts of oneself in dialogue with the small screen? How does ‘television time’ intertwine and loop into ‘life time’, and what kinds of temporal effects does this intertwining have on the ways that we experience the everyday? How does television, as a particular kind of media, generate a sense of c…
Inaccurate conceptions: How can we overcome the stigma of age and fertility
Challenging welfare mythmaking: Caps, (mis)classification and concealment of larger families’ labour in austerity Britain
The alleged ‘welfare dependence’ of larger families has long been used as a symbolic anchoring point in seeking to legitimise British welfare reform. This article focuses on the Benefit Cap and Two-Child Limit, setting out how defences of both reforms framed impacted claimants as ‘workless’, ‘welfare-dependent’ and requiring welfare constraint and restriction to ‘activate’ them. Larger families are particularly sensitive to social security policy…
Sociology (17 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Welfare (5 works)