Elizabeth Olson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Olson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Olson |
| SIGNATURE | OLSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8622-9698 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 203 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
“I Missed School to Take Care of Someone Else”: Middle and High School Students' Caregiving Responsibilities as a Reason for Absenteeism
BACKGROUND: Middle and high school students who are involved in caregiving for aging, chronically ill, and/or disabled family members report more learning challenges compared to their non-caregiving peers. However, little is known about how many students miss school to take care of someone else, and which students are most likely to have this experience. Such knowledge could reveal an important, largely unrecognized reason for school absences and…
Caregiving Youth” and the Patchwork History of Recognition in the United States
This article examines the U.S. legislative and policy landscape and its historical and contemporary recognition of young people as caregivers and their importance to public health, both as care providers and as a category of special concern for overall wellbeing. Drawing on feminist geographies of health to situate a historical analysis, we aim to answer two key questions: First, what is the history of recognition of caregiving youth in key momen…
Crossing from Knowledge to Responsibility for Climate Change
"Crossing from Knowledge to Responsibility for Climate Change." The Professional Geographer, 74(1), pp. 141–142
Christianity in the Modern World: Changes and Controversies
Transitions to religious adulthood: Relational geographies of youth, religion and international volunteering
This paper offers important insights into the contemporary nature of youth transitions and the ways in which religious affiliation and engagement with international volunteering influences and interplays with negotiations of the life course. Situated within interdisciplinary debates about youth transitions, as well as discussions about relational geographies of age, religion and voluntarism, we demonstrate the multiple relationalities that are at…
Christianity in the Modern World: Changes and Controversies
Contents: Introduction, Giselle Vincett and Elijah Obinna Young people and golden rule Catholicism in the Philippines: the case of religiously involved Filipino students, Jayeel Serrano Cornelio The dis/embodied Church: worship, new media and the body, Tim Hutchings Refugees' encounters with Christianity in everyday life, Bereket Loul, John Willott and Simon Robinson African Christians in Scotland: contesting the rhetoric of reverse mission, Elij…
Late Prehispanic Coquina Quarrying and Tomb Construction in Coastal Southern Peru
We document the quarrying and source of coquina stone used in elite tomb construction at two late prehispanic sites in southern Peru. Excavations document tomb construction that includes coquina slabs for chamber walls, doorway lintel stones, and large slabs used to seal tomb openings. At the Inca site of Tacahuay Tambo, we uncovered two massive coquina slabs covering the opening of an extended familial tomb. Smaller coquina blocks were used to c…
Retheorizing the Postsecular Present: Embodiment, Spatial Transcendence, and Challenges to Authenticity Among Young Christians in Glasgow, Scotland
This article explores and extends the geographies of postsecular theory. Despite growing claims of secularization, religion continues to be a highly public and rapidly diversifying issue, and of growing interest to geographers. We identify the spatial elements of postsecular theory, and consider how spatial approaches, particularly feminist work, that emphasize lived religion and embodiment might provide an alternative to existing analyses. Incre…
Gender and geopolitics in ‘secular time’
This article argues that gender must be central to our theorisations of emergent religious geopolitics. It does so through an engagement with B utler's reflections upon secular time ( B utler J 2008 S ecular politics, torture, and secular time The B ritish J ournal of S ociology 59 1–23), and the ‘cultural reanimation’ of R oman C atholic cultural underpinnings of French culture in the defence of the torture and maltreatment of Islamic bodies. Dr…
Young People and Performance Christianity in Scotland
Based upon qualitative research in Glasgow, Scotland, this article examines transformations in religious identity and practices of young socially and economically included Christians, aged 16–27. The authors argue that young people's religiosity has been shaped by large-scale social trends in the West, including secularisation and pluralisation. They argue that these influences have promoted a religiosity that de-emphasises propositional belief s…
International volunteering, faith and subjectivity: Negotiating cosmopolitanism, citizenship and development
Mapping intergenerationalities: The formation of youthful religiosities
Recent geographical work has pointed to the complex and negotiated nature, and spatiality, of intergenerational relations. In this paper, we draw on research with young Scottish Christians and their guardians to explore the influence of intergenerationality on their religious identities, beliefs and practices. Our interest is to ask what these recent developments in the way we approach geographies of youth and age can tell us about the changing g…
Radical Geography and its Critical Standpoints: Embracing the Normative
This paper throws down a challenge to radical geography and invites a selection of leading geographers to respond. It proposes that radical or critical geography cannot escape normative foundations in terms of some conception of the human good or flourishing, and that this is not necessarily at odds with the descriptive and explanatory aims of social science. Various attempts to define and justify critical thought without such a conception are sh…
Common Belief, Contested Meanings: Development and Faith‐based Organisational Culture
Since the 1990s, an increasing number of development agencies have attempted to incorporate faith‐based development organisations into mainstream ‘secular’ partnerships. Development scholars have responded to these trends by seeking to understand the range of ways that faith might matter in development. Far less emphasis has been placed on how development itself might be influencing faith organisations or their values of development. The aim of t…
Of texts and practices: Empowerment and organisational cultures in world bank-funded rural development programmes
The World Bank's recent concern for 'empowerment' grows out of longer standing discussions of participation, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society. While commitments to empowerment enter World Bank texts with relative ease, their practice within Bank-funded projects is far more contingent, and the meanings they assume become much more diverse. This paper considers the relationship between such texts and the development practices…
Development, Transnational Religion, and the Power of Ideas in the High Provinces of Cusco, Peru
I examine the enmeshment of transnationally networked religious organizations in predominantly Quechua communities in the southern Andes of Peru. I aim specifically to understand the multiple ways in which transnational religious organizations contribute to the construction of development epistemologies, or the socioeconomics of development truths. Peru has been undergoing a religious transformation similar to the rest of Latin America, with Evan…
Transnational Geographies: Rescaling Development, Migration, and Religion
Transnational geographies
Exploring Social Capital Debates at the World Bank
Metadata only record
International volunteering, faith and subjectivity: Negotiating cosmopolitanism, citizenship and development
Mapping intergenerationalities: The formation of youthful religiosities
Recent geographical work has pointed to the complex and negotiated nature, and spatiality, of intergenerational relations. In this paper, we draw on research with young Scottish Christians and their guardians to explore the influence of intergenerationality on their religious identities, beliefs and practices. Our interest is to ask what these recent developments in the way we approach geographies of youth and age can tell us about the changing g…
Retheorizing the Postsecular Present: Embodiment, Spatial Transcendence, and Challenges to Authenticity Among Young Christians in Glasgow, Scotland
This article explores and extends the geographies of postsecular theory. Despite growing claims of secularization, religion continues to be a highly public and rapidly diversifying issue, and of growing interest to geographers. We identify the spatial elements of postsecular theory, and consider how spatial approaches, particularly feminist work, that emphasize lived religion and embodiment might provide an alternative to existing analyses. Incre…
Radical Geography and its Critical Standpoints: Embracing the Normative
This paper throws down a challenge to radical geography and invites a selection of leading geographers to respond. It proposes that radical or critical geography cannot escape normative foundations in terms of some conception of the human good or flourishing, and that this is not necessarily at odds with the descriptive and explanatory aims of social science. Various attempts to define and justify critical thought without such a conception are sh…
Development, Transnational Religion, and the Power of Ideas in the High Provinces of Cusco, Peru
I examine the enmeshment of transnationally networked religious organizations in predominantly Quechua communities in the southern Andes of Peru. I aim specifically to understand the multiple ways in which transnational religious organizations contribute to the construction of development epistemologies, or the socioeconomics of development truths. Peru has been undergoing a religious transformation similar to the rest of Latin America, with Evan…
Transitions to religious adulthood: Relational geographies of youth, religion and international volunteering
This paper offers important insights into the contemporary nature of youth transitions and the ways in which religious affiliation and engagement with international volunteering influences and interplays with negotiations of the life course. Situated within interdisciplinary debates about youth transitions, as well as discussions about relational geographies of age, religion and voluntarism, we demonstrate the multiple relationalities that are at…
Transnational Geographies: Rescaling Development, Migration, and Religion
Transnational geographies
Young People and Performance Christianity in Scotland
Based upon qualitative research in Glasgow, Scotland, this article examines transformations in religious identity and practices of young socially and economically included Christians, aged 16–27. The authors argue that young people's religiosity has been shaped by large-scale social trends in the West, including secularisation and pluralisation. They argue that these influences have promoted a religiosity that de-emphasises propositional belief s…
Common Belief, Contested Meanings: Development and Faith‐based Organisational Culture
Since the 1990s, an increasing number of development agencies have attempted to incorporate faith‐based development organisations into mainstream ‘secular’ partnerships. Development scholars have responded to these trends by seeking to understand the range of ways that faith might matter in development. Far less emphasis has been placed on how development itself might be influencing faith organisations or their values of development. The aim of t…
Gender and geopolitics in ‘secular time’
This article argues that gender must be central to our theorisations of emergent religious geopolitics. It does so through an engagement with B utler's reflections upon secular time ( B utler J 2008 S ecular politics, torture, and secular time The B ritish J ournal of S ociology 59 1–23), and the ‘cultural reanimation’ of R oman C atholic cultural underpinnings of French culture in the defence of the torture and maltreatment of Islamic bodies. Dr…
Late Prehispanic Coquina Quarrying and Tomb Construction in Coastal Southern Peru
We document the quarrying and source of coquina stone used in elite tomb construction at two late prehispanic sites in southern Peru. Excavations document tomb construction that includes coquina slabs for chamber walls, doorway lintel stones, and large slabs used to seal tomb openings. At the Inca site of Tacahuay Tambo, we uncovered two massive coquina slabs covering the opening of an extended familial tomb. Smaller coquina blocks were used to c…
Exploring Social Capital Debates at the World Bank
Metadata only record
Development, Transnational Religion, and the Power of Ideas in the High Provinces of Cusco, Peru
I examine the enmeshment of transnationally networked religious organizations in predominantly Quechua communities in the southern Andes of Peru. I aim specifically to understand the multiple ways in which transnational religious organizations contribute to the construction of development epistemologies, or the socioeconomics of development truths. Peru has been undergoing a religious transformation similar to the rest of Latin America, with Evan…
Transnational Geographies: Rescaling Development, Migration, and Religion
Transnational geographies
Of texts and practices: Empowerment and organisational cultures in world bank-funded rural development programmes
The World Bank's recent concern for 'empowerment' grows out of longer standing discussions of participation, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society. While commitments to empowerment enter World Bank texts with relative ease, their practice within Bank-funded projects is far more contingent, and the meanings they assume become much more diverse. This paper considers the relationship between such texts and the development practices…
Common Belief, Contested Meanings: Development and Faith‐based Organisational Culture
Since the 1990s, an increasing number of development agencies have attempted to incorporate faith‐based development organisations into mainstream ‘secular’ partnerships. Development scholars have responded to these trends by seeking to understand the range of ways that faith might matter in development. Far less emphasis has been placed on how development itself might be influencing faith organisations or their values of development. The aim of t…
Radical Geography and its Critical Standpoints: Embracing the Normative
This paper throws down a challenge to radical geography and invites a selection of leading geographers to respond. It proposes that radical or critical geography cannot escape normative foundations in terms of some conception of the human good or flourishing, and that this is not necessarily at odds with the descriptive and explanatory aims of social science. Various attempts to define and justify critical thought without such a conception are sh…
Mapping intergenerationalities: The formation of youthful religiosities
Recent geographical work has pointed to the complex and negotiated nature, and spatiality, of intergenerational relations. In this paper, we draw on research with young Scottish Christians and their guardians to explore the influence of intergenerationality on their religious identities, beliefs and practices. Our interest is to ask what these recent developments in the way we approach geographies of youth and age can tell us about the changing g…
Young People and Performance Christianity in Scotland
Based upon qualitative research in Glasgow, Scotland, this article examines transformations in religious identity and practices of young socially and economically included Christians, aged 16–27. The authors argue that young people's religiosity has been shaped by large-scale social trends in the West, including secularisation and pluralisation. They argue that these influences have promoted a religiosity that de-emphasises propositional belief s…
International volunteering, faith and subjectivity: Negotiating cosmopolitanism, citizenship and development
Late Prehispanic Coquina Quarrying and Tomb Construction in Coastal Southern Peru
We document the quarrying and source of coquina stone used in elite tomb construction at two late prehispanic sites in southern Peru. Excavations document tomb construction that includes coquina slabs for chamber walls, doorway lintel stones, and large slabs used to seal tomb openings. At the Inca site of Tacahuay Tambo, we uncovered two massive coquina slabs covering the opening of an extended familial tomb. Smaller coquina blocks were used to c…
Retheorizing the Postsecular Present: Embodiment, Spatial Transcendence, and Challenges to Authenticity Among Young Christians in Glasgow, Scotland
This article explores and extends the geographies of postsecular theory. Despite growing claims of secularization, religion continues to be a highly public and rapidly diversifying issue, and of growing interest to geographers. We identify the spatial elements of postsecular theory, and consider how spatial approaches, particularly feminist work, that emphasize lived religion and embodiment might provide an alternative to existing analyses. Incre…
Gender and geopolitics in ‘secular time’
This article argues that gender must be central to our theorisations of emergent religious geopolitics. It does so through an engagement with B utler's reflections upon secular time ( B utler J 2008 S ecular politics, torture, and secular time The B ritish J ournal of S ociology 59 1–23), and the ‘cultural reanimation’ of R oman C atholic cultural underpinnings of French culture in the defence of the torture and maltreatment of Islamic bodies. Dr…
Christianity in the Modern World: Changes and Controversies
Contents: Introduction, Giselle Vincett and Elijah Obinna Young people and golden rule Catholicism in the Philippines: the case of religiously involved Filipino students, Jayeel Serrano Cornelio The dis/embodied Church: worship, new media and the body, Tim Hutchings Refugees' encounters with Christianity in everyday life, Bereket Loul, John Willott and Simon Robinson African Christians in Scotland: contesting the rhetoric of reverse mission, Elij…
Transitions to religious adulthood: Relational geographies of youth, religion and international volunteering
This paper offers important insights into the contemporary nature of youth transitions and the ways in which religious affiliation and engagement with international volunteering influences and interplays with negotiations of the life course. Situated within interdisciplinary debates about youth transitions, as well as discussions about relational geographies of age, religion and voluntarism, we demonstrate the multiple relationalities that are at…
Christianity in the Modern World: Changes and Controversies
Crossing from Knowledge to Responsibility for Climate Change
"Crossing from Knowledge to Responsibility for Climate Change." The Professional Geographer, 74(1), pp. 141–142
Caregiving Youth” and the Patchwork History of Recognition in the United States
This article examines the U.S. legislative and policy landscape and its historical and contemporary recognition of young people as caregivers and their importance to public health, both as care providers and as a category of special concern for overall wellbeing. Drawing on feminist geographies of health to situate a historical analysis, we aim to answer two key questions: First, what is the history of recognition of caregiving youth in key momen…
“I Missed School to Take Care of Someone Else”: Middle and High School Students' Caregiving Responsibilities as a Reason for Absenteeism
BACKGROUND: Middle and high school students who are involved in caregiving for aging, chronically ill, and/or disabled family members report more learning challenges compared to their non-caregiving peers. However, little is known about how many students miss school to take care of someone else, and which students are most likely to have this experience. Such knowledge could reveal an important, largely unrecognized reason for school absences and…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Faith (4 works)