Jo Little
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3721157 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jo Little |
| NOMBRES | Jo |
| APELLIDO | Little |
| FIRMA | LITTLE J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Exeter |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 953 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 18 |
Caring for survivors of domestic abuse
Those fleeing domestic violence often have complex and diverse needs but central for all is access to a ‘place of safety’. Caring for victims/survivors is largely predicated on the availability of secure housing but an absence of stock together with competition in the private rented sector has significantly reduced the chances of victims of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) being housed. In this paper, I explore the ‘cultures of care’ that shape …
Violence, the Body and the Spaces of Intimate War
This paper explores the relationship between domestic violence and rurality through the theoretical lens of intimate war. It argues for a geopolitical perspective that foregrounds issues of space and scale and emphasises the ‘entwined geographies of corporality and violence’. Drawing on recent empirical research in the UK, I explore the ways in which the body is contained and controlled both physically and emotionally through intimate war. In doi…
I am pleased to shop somewhere that is fighting the supermarkets a little bit’. A cultural political economy of alternative food networks
Running, health and the disciplining of women's bodies
Understanding domestic violence in rural spaces
This paper responds to calls for geographers to engage critically with the claim that ‘violence sits in places’ in the analysis of domestic violence in rural areas. It argues the need to develop conceptual understandings of the spatialized and embodied experience of domestic violence in the countryside. Drawing on debates about what counts as violence and on feminist work on domestic violence as intimate terrorism, the paper explores ways in whic…
Rural Geography
Nature, wellbeing and the transformational self
This paper explores the relationship between health, exercise and the body through the lens of fitness holidays. It conceptualises fitness tourism within F oucaudian ideas of the care of the self and bodily discipline, arguing that the holidays and the practices they employ need to be seen as part of the shift in health in which the individual is required to take a more active part in regulating and managing their own health and wellbeing. The pa…
Pampering, well-being and women's bodies in the therapeutic spaces of the spa
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Social and Cultural Geography, 2013, Vol. 14 Issue 1 pp. 41-58 © 2012 copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/ DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2012.734846
Regionalization and the rescaling of agro-food governance
Transformational Tourism, Nature and Wellbeing
Historical studies of rural recreation and wellbeing have drawn attention to the role of nature and the countryside in the development of ideas surrounding notions of fitness as a moral responsibility. This article builds on some of this work in an examination of transformational tourism and the ways in which nature, and in particular wild nature, is drawn into more contemporary concerns about health, wellbeing and the body. Using the work of Fou…
Attitudes of food entrepreneurs towards two grant schemes under the first England Rural Development Programme, 2000–2006
Moments in everyday/distant geopolitics
Gender, Consumption and the Relocalisation of Food
This article adopts a gendered approach to the study of alternative/local food consumption. Drawing on Allen and Sachs' three analytical domains, the article explores material, sociocultural and embodied conceptualisations of the relationship of women with alternative food consumption. Using original data collected from a study of food relocalisation in the UK, it argues that a gendered perspective that examines responsibilities for food preparat…
Constructing Nature in the Performance of Rural Heterosexualities
In this paper I respond through an exploration of the construction and performance of rural heterosexuality to recent calls for a more nuanced examination of heterosexualities. Using the notion of 'heteronormativity', I argue that our understanding of the spatiality of sexuality needs to focus on 'ordinary', 'benign' forms of family-based heterosexuality, as well as on more deviant forms. I claim that rural spaces provide important sites for the …
Outback' Romance? A Reading of Nature and Heterosexuality in Rural Australia
This article examines the relationship between the sexuality and understandings of nature. Employing a case of 'romance' in 'outback' Australia, we dissolve the boundaries between 'nature' and 'society' to show some of the varied ways in which the construction and performance of heterosexuality is shaped by (and is integral to) dominant ways of knowing nature. In practical terms, we draw on a reality TV series in which single men in 'outback' Aus…
Women's fear of crime
A Community Issue? Rural Women's Feelings of Safety and Fear in New Zealand
Following previous geographies of gender and fear this article is stimulated by the dominance of urban accounts of women's experience of safety and fear in different ‘private’ and ‘public’ spaces1 This work is based on an article presented at the ‘Emotional Geographies’ conference (Lancaster University, September 2002). . We argue that rural and emotional geography perspectives on these issues provide new directions for both a feminist critique o…
Claiming space and community
Gender research in rural geography
This review examines the development of research on gender within the broad arena of rural studies. It does so through four main themes: community, work, environment and sexuality. Drawing on work from a range of Western countries, the review shows how an early reluctance to engage with feminist research and work on gender more broadly has given way to a highly active, diverse and rich research direction in rural studies. The review selectively c…
Embodied rural geographies
This paper responds to the scarcity of work on rural embodiment. We argue that a consideration of ‘the body’ can contribute significantly to an understanding of rural social relations and communities. In particular, this paper provides an additional critical dimension to the understanding of the relationship between changing femininities, masculinities, rurality and the performance of sexuality in rural areas. It shows how dominant constructions …
Riding the Rural Love Train
This paper examines the relationship between rurality and heterosexuality. It argues that in discussing the spatialisation of sexual identity in rural areas, previous research has concentrated either on homosexuality or masculinity in isolation. As is common in research generally, little attention has been given to the construction and performance of heterosexuality. Using two case study examples, one from the UK and one from New Zealand, the pap…
Rural geography
New rural governance
Books Reviewed
Amongst Women
In this paper we examine the provision and use of rural childcare, drawing on original data collected as part of a study of formal and informal childcare services in the County of Devon in England. The paper goes beyond existing discussions of childcare in rural areas in attempting to place patterns of use in the broader context of household gender relations and the cultural construction of rurality. We argue that decisions around child care by r…
Women and the rural idyll
Rural geography
Otherness, representation and the cultural construction of rurality
In a recent editorial in the Journal ofRural Studies Cloke (1997) remarked on the buoyant state of rural studies. Identifying major advances in both the quantity and quality of rural research he argues that 'we are now experiencing the most exciting period of rural studies, certainly within the last 20 years ' (Cloke, 1997: 371). One of the major break-throughs identified by Cloke, and now filtering through to published work, is the engagement by…
Towards a political economy of capitalist agriculture
Embodied rural geographies
This paper responds to the scarcity of work on rural embodiment. We argue that a consideration of ‘the body’ can contribute significantly to an understanding of rural social relations and communities. In particular, this paper provides an additional critical dimension to the understanding of the relationship between changing femininities, masculinities, rurality and the performance of sexuality in rural areas. It shows how dominant constructions …
Moments in everyday/distant geopolitics
The restructuring process and economic centrality in capitalist agriculture
Strategies for coping in capitalist agriculture
Understanding domestic violence in rural spaces
This paper responds to calls for geographers to engage critically with the claim that ‘violence sits in places’ in the analysis of domestic violence in rural areas. It argues the need to develop conceptual understandings of the spatialized and embodied experience of domestic violence in the countryside. Drawing on debates about what counts as violence and on feminist work on domestic violence as intimate terrorism, the paper explores ways in whic…
Masculinity, Gender, and Rural Policy
This paper explores the operation of gender relations in the context of rural policy. Framed by debates on new rural governance, it considers how both the content and the culture of recent rural regeneration policy reflect highly masculine values and the maintenance of traditional power relations. New forms of decision making in rural areas promote a style of policy making that values and grants priority to male networks in the construction of el…
Gender relations in rural areas
Towards a Typology of Farm Businesses in Contemporary British Agriculture Sarah Whatmore Richard Munton Jo Little
Constructing Nature in the Performance of Rural Heterosexualities
In this paper I respond through an exploration of the construction and performance of rural heterosexuality to recent calls for a more nuanced examination of heterosexualities. Using the notion of 'heteronormativity', I argue that our understanding of the spatiality of sexuality needs to focus on 'ordinary', 'benign' forms of family-based heterosexuality, as well as on more deviant forms. I claim that rural spaces provide important sites for the …
New rural governance
Riding the Rural Love Train
This paper examines the relationship between rurality and heterosexuality. It argues that in discussing the spatialisation of sexual identity in rural areas, previous research has concentrated either on homosexuality or masculinity in isolation. As is common in research generally, little attention has been given to the construction and performance of heterosexuality. Using two case study examples, one from the UK and one from New Zealand, the pap…
Claiming space and community
Women's fear of crime
Pampering, well-being and women's bodies in the therapeutic spaces of the spa
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Social and Cultural Geography, 2013, Vol. 14 Issue 1 pp. 41-58 © 2012 copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/ DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2012.734846
Outback' Romance? A Reading of Nature and Heterosexuality in Rural Australia
This article examines the relationship between the sexuality and understandings of nature. Employing a case of 'romance' in 'outback' Australia, we dissolve the boundaries between 'nature' and 'society' to show some of the varied ways in which the construction and performance of heterosexuality is shaped by (and is integral to) dominant ways of knowing nature. In practical terms, we draw on a reality TV series in which single men in 'outback' Aus…
A Community Issue? Rural Women's Feelings of Safety and Fear in New Zealand
Following previous geographies of gender and fear this article is stimulated by the dominance of urban accounts of women's experience of safety and fear in different ‘private’ and ‘public’ spaces1 This work is based on an article presented at the ‘Emotional Geographies’ conference (Lancaster University, September 2002). . We argue that rural and emotional geography perspectives on these issues provide new directions for both a feminist critique o…
Nature, wellbeing and the transformational self
This paper explores the relationship between health, exercise and the body through the lens of fitness holidays. It conceptualises fitness tourism within F oucaudian ideas of the care of the self and bodily discipline, arguing that the holidays and the practices they employ need to be seen as part of the shift in health in which the individual is required to take a more active part in regulating and managing their own health and wellbeing. The pa…
Interpreting a Relational Typology of Farm Businesses in Southern England
Amongst Women
In this paper we examine the provision and use of rural childcare, drawing on original data collected as part of a study of formal and informal childcare services in the County of Devon in England. The paper goes beyond existing discussions of childcare in rural areas in attempting to place patterns of use in the broader context of household gender relations and the cultural construction of rurality. We argue that decisions around child care by r…
Constructions of Rural Women's Voluntary Work
This article examines the nature and circumstances of women's voluntary work in rural communities. Drawing on original research conducted in two villages in Avon, England, it focuses on three main themes. Firstly, it considers theoretical debates on the conceptualisation of rural women's labour, arguing that traditional divisions between public and private forms of work provide an inadequate basis for understanding either women's labour participa…
Feminist perspectives in rural geography
The changing countryside
Feminist perspectives in rural geography
The restructuring process and economic centrality in capitalist agriculture
Internal and External Relations in the Transformation of the Farm Family
Towards a political economy of capitalist agriculture
Policy, planning and the state in rural localities
Gender relations in rural areas
Officer‐member Relations in County‐level Policy‐making for Rural Areas
Studies of rural planning have only recently begun to focus on concepts of policy‐making and implementation which have been developed in urban and regional contexts. Although recognizing the need for inter‐organizational frameworks, this paper investigates one particular factor in policy‐making – officer‐member relations – as illustrated in the structure plan‐making process of Gloucestershire County Council. Through a partnership between senior o…
Class distribution and locality in rural areas
Rural Policies in the Gloucestershire Structure Plan
The submitted structure plan for Gloucestershire contained some unusual and innovative policies for resource dispersal in declining rural areas. The motives and mechanisms which explain the development of these 'radical' (in comparative terms) policies within the political conservatism of a shire county are examined. The policies were formulated and adopted through an alliance of technical justification by planning officers and political ratifica…
Towards a Typology of Farm Businesses in Contemporary British Agriculture Sarah Whatmore Richard Munton Jo Little
Interpreting a Relational Typology of Farm Businesses in Southern England
Rural Policies in the Gloucestershire Structure Plan
The Secretary of State's amendments to the Gloucestershire structure plan served to dilute the potentially innovative policy statements with regard to resource dispersal to declining rural areas. This paper is an investigation of the attempts by the county planning authority to persuade other agencies that the diluted approved policy should be interpreted and enacted in the spirit of the more innovative intentions of the draft policy. Evidence is…
Women in Cities
City and society - a feminist reformation of urban politics, L.Bondi and L.Peake balancing our space and time - the impact of women's organization on the British city 1920-1980, S.Mackenzie food retailing and changing gender relations at home and work, S.Bowlby women and young children - the constraints on women in the urban environment, J.Tivers women's low travel mobility - a function of gender roles, L.Pickup women, leisure and bingo - a study…
Public Sector Agency Influence in Rural Policy Making
Strategies for coping in capitalist agriculture
Theoretical issues of women's non-agricultural∗ employment in rural areas, with illustrations from the U.K
Lives on the edge — Single mothers and their children in the other America
Women and social policies in Europe
Feminism and Geography
Women and the rural idyll
Tourism
Tourism - gender perspectives Vivian Kinnaird, Uma Kothari and Derek Hall female employment in tourism development in South-west England, Sinead Hennessey gender in Irish tourism employment, Proinnsias Breathnach, Marion Henry, Sara Drea and Mary O'Flaherty gender dimensions of tourism in Greece - employment, sub-cultures and restructuring, Lila Leontidou tourism, gender and development in the Caribbean, Janet Henshall Momsen gender, culture and …
Constructions of Rural Women's Voluntary Work
This article examines the nature and circumstances of women's voluntary work in rural communities. Drawing on original research conducted in two villages in Avon, England, it focuses on three main themes. Firstly, it considers theoretical debates on the conceptualisation of rural women's labour, arguing that traditional divisions between public and private forms of work provide an inadequate basis for understanding either women's labour participa…
Otherness, representation and the cultural construction of rurality
In a recent editorial in the Journal ofRural Studies Cloke (1997) remarked on the buoyant state of rural studies. Identifying major advances in both the quantity and quality of rural research he argues that 'we are now experiencing the most exciting period of rural studies, certainly within the last 20 years ' (Cloke, 1997: 371). One of the major break-throughs identified by Cloke, and now filtering through to published work, is the engagement by…
Masculinity, Gender, and Rural Policy
This paper explores the operation of gender relations in the context of rural policy. Framed by debates on new rural governance, it considers how both the content and the culture of recent rural regeneration policy reflect highly masculine values and the maintenance of traditional power relations. New forms of decision making in rural areas promote a style of policy making that values and grants priority to male networks in the construction of el…
Sociology (40 obras) · Political science (34 obras) · Rural development and sustainability (33 obras) · Geography (26 obras) · Gender Studies (24 obras) · Gender Studies (19 obras) · Rural area (18 obras) · Economics (14 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Politics (12 obras)