Helen Lucey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Lucey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lucey |
| SIGNATURE | LUCEY H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Working class fathers and daughters
Sisters’ stories
This article places identification at the centre of a discussion about sisters, families, shaky class locations, and resistance and conformity towards schooling. Drawing on ideas from group psychology, and placing sisters centre stage, it seeks to shed light on some of the push and pull of unconscious processes and flows of affect across and between generations and groups, and their place in the educational identifications of working‐class girls
Power, Knowledge and the Academy
This book takes a close-up and critical look at both the elusive and blatant workings and consequences of power in a range of everyday sites in universities. Chapters focus on specific locations in wh
Sibling Identity and Relationships
Sibling Identity and Relationships explores the special place that siblings occupy in the lives of children and young people, providing new insights into sibling identity and relationships. Drawing on social constructionist and psychodynamic perspectives, it discusses who constitutes a sibling, emotional connections and separations, conflict and aggression and how siblings construct and conduct their relationship out of the home, at school and in…
It's a connection you can't get away from’
Using the theoretical framework of social capital, this paper explores the resources and support children and young people derive from their siblings. A prevailing representation of siblings as passive dependents competing for limited reserves of family social capital is undermined by our empirical study of being and having a brother or sister. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 44 children and young people from 16 sibling sets, we show how b…
Project 4
In this short piece we discuss how we approached the messy and intractable issues of objectivity and reflexivity, fiction, fantasy and the production of knowledge in the qualitative, longitudinal study of girls growing up, ‘Project 4:21 Transitions to Womanhood’ (Walkerdine and Lucey 1989, Walkerdine 1996, Walkerdine et al. 2001). We try to give a sense of how we worked with conscious and unconscious psychological processes and theorized their pl…
Uneasy Hybrids
Drawing on a longitudinal study of middle-class and working-class girls growing up, this article focuses on those few working-class young women who managed to get to university and face the prospect of a 'professional' career. The authors examine the concept of 'hybridity' as it is used to understand shifts in the constitution of contemporary feminine subjectivities and argue that although hybridity may be a social and cultural fact, in this psyc…
The Limits of 'Choice
This paper attempts to retheorize school 'choice'; to begin to unpack dominant contemporary misconceptions through an examination of the 'choices' available to 454 inner city 10 and 11 year-olds engaging in the process of primary-secondary school transfer in England. The prevalent focus within educational theorizing on 'choice' as a form of agency often masks the fact that 'choice' is a marker of economic privilege. The more distant subjects are …
Carrying the beacon of excellence
In the current performance and "excellence" culture that has so bewitched politicians and beset educators, there are no discourses available to voice and to make sense of the anxieties that consistently arise for children who are pushed towards ever-higher performance. Drawing on the findings from a study of children"s transitions from primary to secondary school, this paper examines some of the structural and emotional consequences of current sc…
A Market in Waste
Transformations in local secondary schools markets in the UK have not simply been accomplished at a structural and policy level: social changes are crosscut by fiction and fantasy that resonate with and implicate subjects at the level of the personal. Drawing on a study of children's transitions to secondary school, we analyse the emotional processes through which particular schools come to be 'demonized' in the minds of Year 6 children, consider…
Growing Up Girl
This reader samples a wide range of modern theological, religious and philosophical discussion on the problem of evil, understood both in terms of the practical or spiritual problem of coping with evil, and the theological problem of explaining its presence in God’s world.
I Don't Really like It Here but I Don't Want to Be Anywhere Else
This paper explores the experiences of children living on inner London council estates. Prevalent discourses of social exclusion position such children as both 'at risk' and a risk to others. They are portrayed as a mixture of deviant delinquent and passive victim. In contrast, this research study found that children have a reflexive awareness of the places they inhabit which recognises the estates as harsh and restricting, yet the same time enco…
I Don't Really like It Here but I Don't Want to Be Anywhere Else
This paper explores the experiences of children living on inner London council estates. Prevalent discourses of social exclusion position such children as both 'at risk' and a risk to others. They are portrayed as a mixture of deviant delinquent and passive victim. In contrast, this research study found that children have a reflexive awareness of the places they inhabit which recognises the estates as harsh and restricting, yet the same time enco…
The Limits of 'Choice
This paper attempts to retheorize school 'choice'; to begin to unpack dominant contemporary misconceptions through an examination of the 'choices' available to 454 inner city 10 and 11 year-olds engaging in the process of primary-secondary school transfer in England. The prevalent focus within educational theorizing on 'choice' as a form of agency often masks the fact that 'choice' is a marker of economic privilege. The more distant subjects are …
Uneasy Hybrids
Drawing on a longitudinal study of middle-class and working-class girls growing up, this article focuses on those few working-class young women who managed to get to university and face the prospect of a 'professional' career. The authors examine the concept of 'hybridity' as it is used to understand shifts in the constitution of contemporary feminine subjectivities and argue that although hybridity may be a social and cultural fact, in this psyc…
Carrying the beacon of excellence
In the current performance and "excellence" culture that has so bewitched politicians and beset educators, there are no discourses available to voice and to make sense of the anxieties that consistently arise for children who are pushed towards ever-higher performance. Drawing on the findings from a study of children"s transitions from primary to secondary school, this paper examines some of the structural and emotional consequences of current sc…
It's a connection you can't get away from’
Using the theoretical framework of social capital, this paper explores the resources and support children and young people derive from their siblings. A prevailing representation of siblings as passive dependents competing for limited reserves of family social capital is undermined by our empirical study of being and having a brother or sister. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 44 children and young people from 16 sibling sets, we show how b…
Project 4
In this short piece we discuss how we approached the messy and intractable issues of objectivity and reflexivity, fiction, fantasy and the production of knowledge in the qualitative, longitudinal study of girls growing up, ‘Project 4:21 Transitions to Womanhood’ (Walkerdine and Lucey 1989, Walkerdine 1996, Walkerdine et al. 2001). We try to give a sense of how we worked with conscious and unconscious psychological processes and theorized their pl…
A Market in Waste
Transformations in local secondary schools markets in the UK have not simply been accomplished at a structural and policy level: social changes are crosscut by fiction and fantasy that resonate with and implicate subjects at the level of the personal. Drawing on a study of children's transitions to secondary school, we analyse the emotional processes through which particular schools come to be 'demonized' in the minds of Year 6 children, consider…
Sisters’ stories
This article places identification at the centre of a discussion about sisters, families, shaky class locations, and resistance and conformity towards schooling. Drawing on ideas from group psychology, and placing sisters centre stage, it seeks to shed light on some of the push and pull of unconscious processes and flows of affect across and between generations and groups, and their place in the educational identifications of working‐class girls
Working class fathers and daughters
I Don't Really like It Here but I Don't Want to Be Anywhere Else
This paper explores the experiences of children living on inner London council estates. Prevalent discourses of social exclusion position such children as both 'at risk' and a risk to others. They are portrayed as a mixture of deviant delinquent and passive victim. In contrast, this research study found that children have a reflexive awareness of the places they inhabit which recognises the estates as harsh and restricting, yet the same time enco…
Growing Up Girl
This reader samples a wide range of modern theological, religious and philosophical discussion on the problem of evil, understood both in terms of the practical or spiritual problem of coping with evil, and the theological problem of explaining its presence in God’s world.
Carrying the beacon of excellence
In the current performance and "excellence" culture that has so bewitched politicians and beset educators, there are no discourses available to voice and to make sense of the anxieties that consistently arise for children who are pushed towards ever-higher performance. Drawing on the findings from a study of children"s transitions from primary to secondary school, this paper examines some of the structural and emotional consequences of current sc…
A Market in Waste
Transformations in local secondary schools markets in the UK have not simply been accomplished at a structural and policy level: social changes are crosscut by fiction and fantasy that resonate with and implicate subjects at the level of the personal. Drawing on a study of children's transitions to secondary school, we analyse the emotional processes through which particular schools come to be 'demonized' in the minds of Year 6 children, consider…
Project 4
In this short piece we discuss how we approached the messy and intractable issues of objectivity and reflexivity, fiction, fantasy and the production of knowledge in the qualitative, longitudinal study of girls growing up, ‘Project 4:21 Transitions to Womanhood’ (Walkerdine and Lucey 1989, Walkerdine 1996, Walkerdine et al. 2001). We try to give a sense of how we worked with conscious and unconscious psychological processes and theorized their pl…
Uneasy Hybrids
Drawing on a longitudinal study of middle-class and working-class girls growing up, this article focuses on those few working-class young women who managed to get to university and face the prospect of a 'professional' career. The authors examine the concept of 'hybridity' as it is used to understand shifts in the constitution of contemporary feminine subjectivities and argue that although hybridity may be a social and cultural fact, in this psyc…
The Limits of 'Choice
This paper attempts to retheorize school 'choice'; to begin to unpack dominant contemporary misconceptions through an examination of the 'choices' available to 454 inner city 10 and 11 year-olds engaging in the process of primary-secondary school transfer in England. The prevalent focus within educational theorizing on 'choice' as a form of agency often masks the fact that 'choice' is a marker of economic privilege. The more distant subjects are …
Sibling Identity and Relationships
Sibling Identity and Relationships explores the special place that siblings occupy in the lives of children and young people, providing new insights into sibling identity and relationships. Drawing on social constructionist and psychodynamic perspectives, it discusses who constitutes a sibling, emotional connections and separations, conflict and aggression and how siblings construct and conduct their relationship out of the home, at school and in…
It's a connection you can't get away from’
Using the theoretical framework of social capital, this paper explores the resources and support children and young people derive from their siblings. A prevailing representation of siblings as passive dependents competing for limited reserves of family social capital is undermined by our empirical study of being and having a brother or sister. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 44 children and young people from 16 sibling sets, we show how b…
Power, Knowledge and the Academy
This book takes a close-up and critical look at both the elusive and blatant workings and consequences of power in a range of everyday sites in universities. Chapters focus on specific locations in wh
Sisters’ stories
This article places identification at the centre of a discussion about sisters, families, shaky class locations, and resistance and conformity towards schooling. Drawing on ideas from group psychology, and placing sisters centre stage, it seeks to shed light on some of the push and pull of unconscious processes and flows of affect across and between generations and groups, and their place in the educational identifications of working‐class girls
Working class fathers and daughters
Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)