Esther Bott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Bott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Bott |
| SIGNATURE | BOTT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Making Women Pay
Daily Bread
In this article, we explore the impacts and implications of 'Rojiroti', a women's self-help group (SHG) microfinance scheme operating in poor communities in Bihar, India. We focus particularly on how improvements found in women's circumstances and in children's health might result from Rojiroti SHG membership. Through data from 5 focus groups and 19 individual interviews with women in communities where Rojiroti operates, we discover how the schem…
My dark heaven’
You can never cross the same river twice’
This article presents ethnographic research into individual narratives of adventure in a small, undeveloped bay called Ton Sai in southern Thailand’s Krabi Province. Ton Sai is extremely popular with Western rock climbers and increasingly with other adventure seekers and backpackers questing for ‘authentic’ Thailand, yet is subject to almost no representation in the commercial sense. It is an example of a destination that is not on the corporate …
New heights in climbing and tourism
Climbing tourists, seeking out evermore exciting locations in which to practise their sporting and touristic ‘envelope-pushing’, provide an excellent example for analysis of how foreign places and peoples are enmeshed in individual narratives of othering and ‘selfing’ predicated in no small part on individualised and marketised (mis)conceptions of embodied risk, heavily gendered forms of ‘extremeness’ and ethnic difference. Based on observer-as-p…
Favourites and others
This article discusses some of the dilemmas still surrounding researcher subjectivity and reflexivity in qualitative research. It explores the example of qualitative research into British migration to Tenerife, which involved ethnographic data collection in two principal employment areas: lap dancing and timeshare sales. It explains the setting and methodology of the research project, exploring the especially thorny ground of researching into a g…
Big mountain, big name
High-risk adventure tourism is a rapidly expanding global industry, becoming increasingly popular among Western consumers. But importantly, like other forms of tourism, it often takes place in developing countries, using local environments and labour resources. The risk trajectories of wealthy or well-sponsored adventurers from the developed world intersect with those of local workers, for whom high-risk work may be a 'by-product' of tourism's gl…
Pole Position
This paper explores the motivations and experiences of British women working as lap dancers in the tourist resorts of southern Tenerife, with a particular focus on the subjective choices and processes undertaken by working-class women in the embodiment of positively evaluated identities. It uses Skeggs' theoretical framework of 'becoming respectable' (1997) alongside other debates on 'identity management' in order to begin mapping the ways in whi…
Too Close for Comfort? 'Race'and the Management of Proximity, Guilt and Other Anxieties in Paid Domestic Labour
This paper examines relations between migrant domestic workers and their employers in London, and how employers use ideas about 'race' and racial difference to manage the difficulties and tensions involved in sharing their houses with employees. Using findings from preliminary interviews with employers (the initial phase of data gathering in a wider ongoing project), it looks at how employers might structure proximity/distance relations; levels o…
Working a working‐class Utopia
British migration to Tenerife has increased dramatically over recent years, with a visible rise in young British settlers who seek jobs in tourism‐related sectors. Yet despite significant numbers of young British migrants to Mediterranean and Canarian destinations, the existence of young British people as a newly emergent migrant group has to date received little sociological attention. However, recent theoretical developments in the migration li…
Favourites and others
This article discusses some of the dilemmas still surrounding researcher subjectivity and reflexivity in qualitative research. It explores the example of qualitative research into British migration to Tenerife, which involved ethnographic data collection in two principal employment areas: lap dancing and timeshare sales. It explains the setting and methodology of the research project, exploring the especially thorny ground of researching into a g…
Pole Position
This paper explores the motivations and experiences of British women working as lap dancers in the tourist resorts of southern Tenerife, with a particular focus on the subjective choices and processes undertaken by working-class women in the embodiment of positively evaluated identities. It uses Skeggs' theoretical framework of 'becoming respectable' (1997) alongside other debates on 'identity management' in order to begin mapping the ways in whi…
Working a working‐class Utopia
British migration to Tenerife has increased dramatically over recent years, with a visible rise in young British settlers who seek jobs in tourism‐related sectors. Yet despite significant numbers of young British migrants to Mediterranean and Canarian destinations, the existence of young British people as a newly emergent migrant group has to date received little sociological attention. However, recent theoretical developments in the migration li…
Big mountain, big name
High-risk adventure tourism is a rapidly expanding global industry, becoming increasingly popular among Western consumers. But importantly, like other forms of tourism, it often takes place in developing countries, using local environments and labour resources. The risk trajectories of wealthy or well-sponsored adventurers from the developed world intersect with those of local workers, for whom high-risk work may be a 'by-product' of tourism's gl…
You can never cross the same river twice’
This article presents ethnographic research into individual narratives of adventure in a small, undeveloped bay called Ton Sai in southern Thailand’s Krabi Province. Ton Sai is extremely popular with Western rock climbers and increasingly with other adventure seekers and backpackers questing for ‘authentic’ Thailand, yet is subject to almost no representation in the commercial sense. It is an example of a destination that is not on the corporate …
New heights in climbing and tourism
Climbing tourists, seeking out evermore exciting locations in which to practise their sporting and touristic ‘envelope-pushing’, provide an excellent example for analysis of how foreign places and peoples are enmeshed in individual narratives of othering and ‘selfing’ predicated in no small part on individualised and marketised (mis)conceptions of embodied risk, heavily gendered forms of ‘extremeness’ and ethnic difference. Based on observer-as-p…
Working a working‐class Utopia
British migration to Tenerife has increased dramatically over recent years, with a visible rise in young British settlers who seek jobs in tourism‐related sectors. Yet despite significant numbers of young British migrants to Mediterranean and Canarian destinations, the existence of young British people as a newly emergent migrant group has to date received little sociological attention. However, recent theoretical developments in the migration li…
Too Close for Comfort? 'Race'and the Management of Proximity, Guilt and Other Anxieties in Paid Domestic Labour
This paper examines relations between migrant domestic workers and their employers in London, and how employers use ideas about 'race' and racial difference to manage the difficulties and tensions involved in sharing their houses with employees. Using findings from preliminary interviews with employers (the initial phase of data gathering in a wider ongoing project), it looks at how employers might structure proximity/distance relations; levels o…
Pole Position
This paper explores the motivations and experiences of British women working as lap dancers in the tourist resorts of southern Tenerife, with a particular focus on the subjective choices and processes undertaken by working-class women in the embodiment of positively evaluated identities. It uses Skeggs' theoretical framework of 'becoming respectable' (1997) alongside other debates on 'identity management' in order to begin mapping the ways in whi…
Big mountain, big name
High-risk adventure tourism is a rapidly expanding global industry, becoming increasingly popular among Western consumers. But importantly, like other forms of tourism, it often takes place in developing countries, using local environments and labour resources. The risk trajectories of wealthy or well-sponsored adventurers from the developed world intersect with those of local workers, for whom high-risk work may be a 'by-product' of tourism's gl…
Favourites and others
This article discusses some of the dilemmas still surrounding researcher subjectivity and reflexivity in qualitative research. It explores the example of qualitative research into British migration to Tenerife, which involved ethnographic data collection in two principal employment areas: lap dancing and timeshare sales. It explains the setting and methodology of the research project, exploring the especially thorny ground of researching into a g…
New heights in climbing and tourism
Climbing tourists, seeking out evermore exciting locations in which to practise their sporting and touristic ‘envelope-pushing’, provide an excellent example for analysis of how foreign places and peoples are enmeshed in individual narratives of othering and ‘selfing’ predicated in no small part on individualised and marketised (mis)conceptions of embodied risk, heavily gendered forms of ‘extremeness’ and ethnic difference. Based on observer-as-p…
You can never cross the same river twice’
This article presents ethnographic research into individual narratives of adventure in a small, undeveloped bay called Ton Sai in southern Thailand’s Krabi Province. Ton Sai is extremely popular with Western rock climbers and increasingly with other adventure seekers and backpackers questing for ‘authentic’ Thailand, yet is subject to almost no representation in the commercial sense. It is an example of a destination that is not on the corporate …
My dark heaven’
Daily Bread
In this article, we explore the impacts and implications of 'Rojiroti', a women's self-help group (SHG) microfinance scheme operating in poor communities in Bihar, India. We focus particularly on how improvements found in women's circumstances and in children's health might result from Rojiroti SHG membership. Through data from 5 focus groups and 19 individual interviews with women in communities where Rojiroti operates, we discover how the schem…
Making Women Pay
Gender Studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)