Mary-Beth Raddon
Biographic Data
| ID | 377654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary-Beth Raddon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary-Beth |
| FAMILY NAME | Raddon |
| SIGNATURE | RADDON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Is She a Pawn, Prodigy or Person with a Message? Public Responses to a Child’s Political Speech
The 2012 appearance on YouTube of a speech about banking reform prompted mainstream news coverage and hundreds of online comments, dwelling less on the content of the speech than on the speaker, Victoria Grant, a twelve year-old girl. A qualitative content analysis of over 600 comments revealed disagreement about children’s capacities as participants in political and economic discussions. Commenters’ mixed beliefs were linked to dominant, frequen…
Is She a Pawn, Prodigy or Person with a Message? Public Responses to a Child's Political Speech
How to write your will in an age of risk
Employing the concepts of risk and individualization of Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, this article analyses moral discourse in Canadian advice books on how to write a will and situates this advice within a history of inheritance in English Canada. The main finding is that estate planning experts downplay specific familial obligations and instead present estate planning as a procedural matter that entails risk calculations in areas such as familial rel…
Neoliberal Legacies
Mary-Beth Raddon’s article “Neoliberal Legacies: Planned Giving and the New Philanthropy” analyzes recent discourse surrounding planned giving, in particular, and illustrates the ways in which philanthropy is consolidating and advancing neoliberal hegemony. It is specifically concerned with how policies and practices of philanthropy are reconfiguring relationships of wealth, the state, and citizenship. It studies how the very conditions for phila…
Integrating the Complete Research Project into a Large Qualitative Methods Course
Participatory exercises are standard practice in qualitative methods courses; less common are projects that engage students in the entire research process, from research design to write-up. Although the teaching literature provides several models of com plete research projects, their feasibility, and appropriateness for large, compulsory, sin gle-semester methods courses has not been well established. Nor has much been written on how instructors …
Neoliberal Legacies
Mary-Beth Raddon’s article “Neoliberal Legacies: Planned Giving and the New Philanthropy” analyzes recent discourse surrounding planned giving, in particular, and illustrates the ways in which philanthropy is consolidating and advancing neoliberal hegemony. It is specifically concerned with how policies and practices of philanthropy are reconfiguring relationships of wealth, the state, and citizenship. It studies how the very conditions for phila…
Integrating the Complete Research Project into a Large Qualitative Methods Course
Participatory exercises are standard practice in qualitative methods courses; less common are projects that engage students in the entire research process, from research design to write-up. Although the teaching literature provides several models of com plete research projects, their feasibility, and appropriateness for large, compulsory, sin gle-semester methods courses has not been well established. Nor has much been written on how instructors …
How to write your will in an age of risk
Employing the concepts of risk and individualization of Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, this article analyses moral discourse in Canadian advice books on how to write a will and situates this advice within a history of inheritance in English Canada. The main finding is that estate planning experts downplay specific familial obligations and instead present estate planning as a procedural matter that entails risk calculations in areas such as familial rel…
Is She a Pawn, Prodigy or Person with a Message? Public Responses to a Child’s Political Speech
The 2012 appearance on YouTube of a speech about banking reform prompted mainstream news coverage and hundreds of online comments, dwelling less on the content of the speech than on the speaker, Victoria Grant, a twelve year-old girl. A qualitative content analysis of over 600 comments revealed disagreement about children’s capacities as participants in political and economic discussions. Commenters’ mixed beliefs were linked to dominant, frequen…
Is She a Pawn, Prodigy or Person with a Message? Public Responses to a Child's Political Speech
Neoliberal Legacies
Mary-Beth Raddon’s article “Neoliberal Legacies: Planned Giving and the New Philanthropy” analyzes recent discourse surrounding planned giving, in particular, and illustrates the ways in which philanthropy is consolidating and advancing neoliberal hegemony. It is specifically concerned with how policies and practices of philanthropy are reconfiguring relationships of wealth, the state, and citizenship. It studies how the very conditions for phila…
Integrating the Complete Research Project into a Large Qualitative Methods Course
Participatory exercises are standard practice in qualitative methods courses; less common are projects that engage students in the entire research process, from research design to write-up. Although the teaching literature provides several models of com plete research projects, their feasibility, and appropriateness for large, compulsory, sin gle-semester methods courses has not been well established. Nor has much been written on how instructors …
How to write your will in an age of risk
Employing the concepts of risk and individualization of Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, this article analyses moral discourse in Canadian advice books on how to write a will and situates this advice within a history of inheritance in English Canada. The main finding is that estate planning experts downplay specific familial obligations and instead present estate planning as a procedural matter that entails risk calculations in areas such as familial rel…
Is She a Pawn, Prodigy or Person with a Message? Public Responses to a Child’s Political Speech
The 2012 appearance on YouTube of a speech about banking reform prompted mainstream news coverage and hundreds of online comments, dwelling less on the content of the speech than on the speaker, Victoria Grant, a twelve year-old girl. A qualitative content analysis of over 600 comments revealed disagreement about children’s capacities as participants in political and economic discussions. Commenters’ mixed beliefs were linked to dominant, frequen…
Is She a Pawn, Prodigy or Person with a Message? Public Responses to a Child's Political Speech
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Course (navigation (1 work) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (1 work)