Susan Braedley
Biographic Data
| ID | 376436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Braedley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Braedley |
| SIGNATURE | BRAEDLEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9167-9711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
But where's the body? Bodies, time, money, and the political economy of post-pandemic field research
Since the pandemic, field work has been transformed by shifts in the political economy affecting the material conditions underpinning research. In this research note, a research team considers their challenges and learning in completing field studies conducted in 2022, including intensified strains on time, money, researchers' bodies, and risks associated with illness and infection spread. We argue that a neoliberal 'research super-hero' norm ope…
Surfacing Gender: Designing Care Homes for Women in All Their Diversity
Reflecting on findings from over ten years of research, four studies, and a focused two-day workshop, this article argues that it is past time to surface gender as a critical consideration in reimagining care homes to create conditions of dignity and respect for residents, workers, and families in all their diversity. Considering care homes as an indicator of equity in welfare states, we deploy a concept of gender that acknowledges the relationsh…
Counter-narratives of active aging: Disability, trauma, and joy in the age-friendly city
Decent care work: Politics, policy, and resistance” an introduction to the theme
Bordering social reproduction: The welfare/immigration regimes of Quebec and Ontario in Canada
This article makes three crucial, related arguments. First, most European analyses of immigration and social welfare fail to consider how these policies intersect to shape the social reproduction of populations, instead sticking to notions of welfare chauvinism, social citizenship, and deservingness. Second, welfare/immigration analyses are usually set at the national level, but subnational comparisons can challenge tidy welfare state regime cate…
Low-barrier harm reduction and housing for older people in Vancouver’s opiate crisis: Meeting People Where They Are
Drawing on recent case-study data, this article explores innovative practices around harm reduction and housing for older people who use drugs. Although right-wing groups call for further criminalisation of drug use, in light of extraordinarily high levels of deaths from opioid overdose in Vancouver, Canada, the provincial government has quietly permitted the development of safe supply, the testing of illegal drugs to avoid poisonings and the pro…
Struggling for public services: Lessons from the Saskatchewan long-term care privatization playbook
Viewing through a feminist political economy lens, this article analyzes the privatization playbook deployed by the Saskatchewan government to increase privatization in the long-term care sector and discusses its limited success. Diverting from analyses that focus on a single sector, we consider the relationships among long-term care homes, retirement homes and family care, and the many forms of privatization that aim to support markets and produ…
What's New about Social Reproduction
The covid-19 pandemic has disrupted not only capitalism's production and distribution mechanisms but the reproduction of life from day to day.In 2020, as nursing home deaths mounted, hospitals were swamped by patients, schools and daycares emptied, grocery store shelves were depleted, and home deliveries by some allowed others to stay safely at home, many workers were stretched to the breaking point by the double burden of caring for children at …
Social Reproduction at Work, Social Reproduction as Work: A Feminist Political Economy Perspective
Social reproduction has received considerable recent attention from academics and activists aiming to stimulate and advance transformative political change. Yet, an understanding of social reproduction as “work” has sometimes slipped away, leaving behind important anti-racist feminist insights. Engaging with recent contributions from scholars in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, we argue that social reproduction is most useful as a concept, not as a th…
Old and Dangerous: Bordering Older Migrants’ Mobilities, Rejuvenating the Post-Welfare State
Caught in the cross-hairs of perceived crises of aging populations, increasing migration flows, and social welfare sustainability, older migrants are often not welcome in post-welfare states. Employing a feminist border analysis, Canada’s relatively generous immigration policies on parent and grandparent entry are analyzed to show the ways in which older people’s mobilities are bordered, who is most affected, and why this bordering is worthy of a…
Ethics as Teamwork
Ethics as Teamwork details how well-planned collaborative teamwork processes offer opportunities to develop an ethical research praxis that extends well beyond formal ethics reviews. The chapter provides an analysis of teamwork processes involved in the “reimagining” ethnographies and their impact on procedural ethics (formal ethics reviews), practice ethics (issues emerging while conducting the research), project ethics (issues related to the in…
Snap-Happy? The Promise and Problems of Photovoice
Although photovoice is often hailed as a method that includes and gives voice to those whose perspectives are left out of research, this chapter details limits of photovoice within the context of rapid ethnography and institutional research. Although photovoice proved its worth in offering a fun, interactive way to engage residents in research, and in generating rich data on their perspectives of care home life, we experienced challenges incorpor…
Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
This edited collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction--defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate--and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life. The volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with focus on the challenges posed by evolving theories of embodiment and…
Careworkers don't have a voice: ” Epistemological violence in residential care for older people
Regulating Care: An Introduction
Dreaming of Home: Long-Term Residential Care and (In)Equities By Design
An ideal of “home” as the best site for living and dying in old age has become embedded in residential care policies and practices in many countries, often in tandem with neoliberal restructuring. This article compares the ways that two Canadian jurisdictions have approached this ideal, and identifies contradictions in the effects this policy direction has had for direct care workers and residents. The investigation reveals challenges and possibi…
Neoliberalism and Everyday Life
Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
This edited collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction--defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate--and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life. The volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with focus on the challenges posed by evolving theories of embodiment and…
Old and Dangerous: Bordering Older Migrants’ Mobilities, Rejuvenating the Post-Welfare State
Caught in the cross-hairs of perceived crises of aging populations, increasing migration flows, and social welfare sustainability, older migrants are often not welcome in post-welfare states. Employing a feminist border analysis, Canada’s relatively generous immigration policies on parent and grandparent entry are analyzed to show the ways in which older people’s mobilities are bordered, who is most affected, and why this bordering is worthy of a…
Careworkers don't have a voice: ” Epistemological violence in residential care for older people
Dreaming of Home: Long-Term Residential Care and (In)Equities By Design
An ideal of “home” as the best site for living and dying in old age has become embedded in residential care policies and practices in many countries, often in tandem with neoliberal restructuring. This article compares the ways that two Canadian jurisdictions have approached this ideal, and identifies contradictions in the effects this policy direction has had for direct care workers and residents. The investigation reveals challenges and possibi…
Counter-narratives of active aging: Disability, trauma, and joy in the age-friendly city
Bordering social reproduction: The welfare/immigration regimes of Quebec and Ontario in Canada
This article makes three crucial, related arguments. First, most European analyses of immigration and social welfare fail to consider how these policies intersect to shape the social reproduction of populations, instead sticking to notions of welfare chauvinism, social citizenship, and deservingness. Second, welfare/immigration analyses are usually set at the national level, but subnational comparisons can challenge tidy welfare state regime cate…
Low-barrier harm reduction and housing for older people in Vancouver’s opiate crisis: Meeting People Where They Are
Drawing on recent case-study data, this article explores innovative practices around harm reduction and housing for older people who use drugs. Although right-wing groups call for further criminalisation of drug use, in light of extraordinarily high levels of deaths from opioid overdose in Vancouver, Canada, the provincial government has quietly permitted the development of safe supply, the testing of illegal drugs to avoid poisonings and the pro…
Struggling for public services: Lessons from the Saskatchewan long-term care privatization playbook
Viewing through a feminist political economy lens, this article analyzes the privatization playbook deployed by the Saskatchewan government to increase privatization in the long-term care sector and discusses its limited success. Diverting from analyses that focus on a single sector, we consider the relationships among long-term care homes, retirement homes and family care, and the many forms of privatization that aim to support markets and produ…
What's New about Social Reproduction
The covid-19 pandemic has disrupted not only capitalism's production and distribution mechanisms but the reproduction of life from day to day.In 2020, as nursing home deaths mounted, hospitals were swamped by patients, schools and daycares emptied, grocery store shelves were depleted, and home deliveries by some allowed others to stay safely at home, many workers were stretched to the breaking point by the double burden of caring for children at …
Social Reproduction at Work, Social Reproduction as Work: A Feminist Political Economy Perspective
Social reproduction has received considerable recent attention from academics and activists aiming to stimulate and advance transformative political change. Yet, an understanding of social reproduction as “work” has sometimes slipped away, leaving behind important anti-racist feminist insights. Engaging with recent contributions from scholars in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, we argue that social reproduction is most useful as a concept, not as a th…
Neoliberalism and Everyday Life
Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
This edited collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction--defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate--and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life. The volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with focus on the challenges posed by evolving theories of embodiment and…
Careworkers don't have a voice: ” Epistemological violence in residential care for older people
Regulating Care: An Introduction
Dreaming of Home: Long-Term Residential Care and (In)Equities By Design
An ideal of “home” as the best site for living and dying in old age has become embedded in residential care policies and practices in many countries, often in tandem with neoliberal restructuring. This article compares the ways that two Canadian jurisdictions have approached this ideal, and identifies contradictions in the effects this policy direction has had for direct care workers and residents. The investigation reveals challenges and possibi…
Ethics as Teamwork
Ethics as Teamwork details how well-planned collaborative teamwork processes offer opportunities to develop an ethical research praxis that extends well beyond formal ethics reviews. The chapter provides an analysis of teamwork processes involved in the “reimagining” ethnographies and their impact on procedural ethics (formal ethics reviews), practice ethics (issues emerging while conducting the research), project ethics (issues related to the in…
Snap-Happy? The Promise and Problems of Photovoice
Although photovoice is often hailed as a method that includes and gives voice to those whose perspectives are left out of research, this chapter details limits of photovoice within the context of rapid ethnography and institutional research. Although photovoice proved its worth in offering a fun, interactive way to engage residents in research, and in generating rich data on their perspectives of care home life, we experienced challenges incorpor…
Old and Dangerous: Bordering Older Migrants’ Mobilities, Rejuvenating the Post-Welfare State
Caught in the cross-hairs of perceived crises of aging populations, increasing migration flows, and social welfare sustainability, older migrants are often not welcome in post-welfare states. Employing a feminist border analysis, Canada’s relatively generous immigration policies on parent and grandparent entry are analyzed to show the ways in which older people’s mobilities are bordered, who is most affected, and why this bordering is worthy of a…
Social Reproduction at Work, Social Reproduction as Work: A Feminist Political Economy Perspective
Social reproduction has received considerable recent attention from academics and activists aiming to stimulate and advance transformative political change. Yet, an understanding of social reproduction as “work” has sometimes slipped away, leaving behind important anti-racist feminist insights. Engaging with recent contributions from scholars in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, we argue that social reproduction is most useful as a concept, not as a th…
What's New about Social Reproduction
The covid-19 pandemic has disrupted not only capitalism's production and distribution mechanisms but the reproduction of life from day to day.In 2020, as nursing home deaths mounted, hospitals were swamped by patients, schools and daycares emptied, grocery store shelves were depleted, and home deliveries by some allowed others to stay safely at home, many workers were stretched to the breaking point by the double burden of caring for children at …
Struggling for public services: Lessons from the Saskatchewan long-term care privatization playbook
Viewing through a feminist political economy lens, this article analyzes the privatization playbook deployed by the Saskatchewan government to increase privatization in the long-term care sector and discusses its limited success. Diverting from analyses that focus on a single sector, we consider the relationships among long-term care homes, retirement homes and family care, and the many forms of privatization that aim to support markets and produ…
Surfacing Gender: Designing Care Homes for Women in All Their Diversity
Reflecting on findings from over ten years of research, four studies, and a focused two-day workshop, this article argues that it is past time to surface gender as a critical consideration in reimagining care homes to create conditions of dignity and respect for residents, workers, and families in all their diversity. Considering care homes as an indicator of equity in welfare states, we deploy a concept of gender that acknowledges the relationsh…
Counter-narratives of active aging: Disability, trauma, and joy in the age-friendly city
Decent care work: Politics, policy, and resistance” an introduction to the theme
Bordering social reproduction: The welfare/immigration regimes of Quebec and Ontario in Canada
This article makes three crucial, related arguments. First, most European analyses of immigration and social welfare fail to consider how these policies intersect to shape the social reproduction of populations, instead sticking to notions of welfare chauvinism, social citizenship, and deservingness. Second, welfare/immigration analyses are usually set at the national level, but subnational comparisons can challenge tidy welfare state regime cate…
Low-barrier harm reduction and housing for older people in Vancouver’s opiate crisis: Meeting People Where They Are
Drawing on recent case-study data, this article explores innovative practices around harm reduction and housing for older people who use drugs. Although right-wing groups call for further criminalisation of drug use, in light of extraordinarily high levels of deaths from opioid overdose in Vancouver, Canada, the provincial government has quietly permitted the development of safe supply, the testing of illegal drugs to avoid poisonings and the pro…
But where's the body? Bodies, time, money, and the political economy of post-pandemic field research
Since the pandemic, field work has been transformed by shifts in the political economy affecting the material conditions underpinning research. In this research note, a research team considers their challenges and learning in completing field studies conducted in 2022, including intensified strains on time, money, researchers' bodies, and risks associated with illness and infection spread. We argue that a neoliberal 'research super-hero' norm ope…
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