P Leonard
Biographic Data
| ID | 38564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Leonard |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Leonard |
| SIGNATURE | LEONARD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8112-0631 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
“Because I Am a Foreigner”: Western Migrants’ Navigations of the Chinese State
The numbers of Western migrants in China have risen dramatically since the 1970s, due to changes in immigration policies which have opened opportunities to foreigners. However, the experiences of these migrants remain mixed in terms of welcome and hostility by both the state and its citizens. Migrant settlement processes involve navigating the dynamics of these attitudes to establish a ‘viable subjectivity’ for both themselves and others. Based o…
Engineering the revolution? Imagining the role of new digital technologies in infrastructure work futures
Contemporary imaginations of the impact of new digital technologies (NDTS) are dominated by utopian visions of a ‘revolution’ in productivity and efficiency, contrasted with dystopian views of declines of work and human skills, and distrust of artificial intelligence's efficacy. This article explores imaginations of digital futures in the infrastructure sector through case study research of a global engineering organisation. Drawing on a practice…
Precarious whiteness in pandemic times in China
This special issue of Asian Anthropology gathers five studies that deal with how the Covid-19 pandemic disruptions impacted on a distinctive social group in a particular geopolitical context: white migrants in China. While the articles reveal in fascinating detail how this combination of people and place is in many ways unique in terms of their experiences of, and responses to, the pandemic, the collection also speaks to larger themes of migratio…
Identités migrantes: Genre, blanchité et britannicité dans le Hong Kong postcolonial
J’explore la façon dont les femmes britanniques expatriées à Hong Kong en période postcoloniale ont recours aux notions de nationalité, de blanchité et de genre dans la construction et la manifestation de leurs identités. Devenue colonie britannique au milieu du xix e siècle, Hong Kong a été rétrocédée à la Chine en 1997, pour être ensuite constituée en « région administrative spéciale ». Aujourd’hui, les rouages administratifs de l’Empire dispar…
How Effective Is Youth Volunteering as an Employment Strategy? A Mixed Methods Study of England
Volunteering is routinely advocated in British policy as a key mechanism for young people to gain employment, but with little evidence of its viability as a strategy. Indeed, the limited research in this area suggests the link is weak and that access to good quality volunteering is differentiated along class lines. This article draws on a mixed methods approach, using survey data from the Citizenship Education Longitudinal Survey and qualitative …
Getting In and Getting On in the Youth Labour Market: Governing Young People's Employability in Regional Context
Based on up to date qualitative and ethnographic research, this book examines youth education-to-work transitions in the UK. Using the theoretical lens of a Foucauldian governmentality approach, the authors consider the 'why' and 'how' of youth employability training and demonstrate how different employability schemes planned and operationalised in diverse geographical and economic landscapes work in practice. The book examines and compares a ran…
‘Devils’ or ‘Superstars’? Making English Language Teachers in China
This chapter focuses on the experiences of young Westerners who travel to China to teach English, often as a first job. In recent years, demand for native-speaking English language teachers (ELTs) has boomed across China, moving beyond the established urban areas into more remote cities and even towns and rural villages. The seemingly unstoppable demand has not only led to an increase in opportunities for trained language teachers but has also le…
Getting in and getting on in the youth labour market: Governing young people’s employability in regional context
International Migrants in China: Civility, Contradiction, and Confusion
China’s rise as a destination for international migrants is raising important new questions for both research and policy. Within China itself, and within academic studies of migration, the new waves of ‘foreigners’, appearing in both urban and rural areas, are raising new challenges of community cohesion, citizenship, and multiculturalism. Global migrants from both North and South are attracted by the new opportunities accompanying the ‘opening u…
Reimagining racism: Understanding the whiteness and nationhood strategies of British-born South Africans
This paper explores strategies deployed by a sample of white, British-born South Africans to account for their positions during apartheid and post-apartheid. Whereas literature on white racism identifies denial as a key strategy towards racial discrimination and the maintenance of privilege, the historical and political 10 context of South Africa makes this tactic implausible. The paper contributes to understandings of pluralism within white iden…
A new start? Negotiations of age and chrononormativity by older apprentices in England
The decision to start a new career might seem an unusual one to make in later life. However, England has seen a steady rise in numbers of workers undertaking an apprenticeship in their fifties and sixties, through a government-funded policy initiative opening up training to adults at all stages of the lifecourse. At the same time, in most Western contexts, the amalgamation of ‘older’ and ‘apprentice’ presents a challenge to normative understandin…
Negotiating uncertain economic times: Youth employment strategies in England
Higher education is commonly understood as the gateway to better, higher‐paying jobs. This paper draws on longitudinal survey and interview data to explore how different groups of young people, those who left school at 18 and those graduating from higher education, negotiated pathways into employment or otherwise during the recent economic recessionary climate in England. While a mix of employment and unemployment featured in both groups, with te…
Bringing it 'Home'? Sociological Practice and the Practice of Sociology
Since Sociology was established in 1967, the journal has assumed a significant role in shaping the discipline. In the interim years it is often said that the very practice of sociology has now 'spun out' beyond the dedicated departments that were once the centres of sociological practice. This raises questions as to the relationship between sociology and other disciplines, questions that are compelling and arguably distinct from a welcome recogni…
The New Degree?' Constructing Internships in the Third Sector
The recent economic recession has impacted substantially on the graduate labour market, with many graduates now struggling to find secure employment in professional careers. In this context, temporary, unpaid 'internships' have emerged as increasingly important as a 'way in' to work for this group. Yet while there has been much media and policy debate on internships, academic consideration has been scant. This article begins to address this knowl…
Geographies of labour in the third sector: Making Hybrid Workforces in Place
This article aims to explore the geographies of labour in the third sector as these are constituted at the intersection of the multiple social, economic and cultural processes that intersect in place. Whilst previous research has examined either geographies of voluntarism or spatial divisions of paid labour in the sector, we draw on 'the new sociology of work' to offer a framework that recognises the interdependencies of paid and unpaid work in t…
Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa
Twenty years after the post-apartheid Government took office, this timely text interrogates the extent to which the attitudes, identities and everyday lives of British people have changed in accordanc
Changing Organizational Space: Green? Or Lean and Mean
The recent dynamism in the design of workspace is frequently constructed by developers and managers as motivated by a desire to improve sustainability. These claims are reflected in the growing currency of 'greenspeak' in organizational discourses and policies at local, national and global levels, as well as a developing academic interest in organizational environmentalism. This article explores the extent to which the increase in an environmenta…
Making whiteness work in South Africa: A translabour approach
Old Colonial or New Cosmopolitan? Changing White Identities in the Hong Kong Police
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 17, Number 4, Winter 2010
Work, Identity and Change? Post/Colonial Encounters in Hong Kong
This paper explores the shifting, multiple modalities of Britishness, colonialism and whiteness in a changing social landscape. Set in postcolonial Hong Kong, it draws on research with white British expatriates to explore the ways in which identities and relations are changing since the handover from British to Chinese rule. For many British expatriates, the decision to migrate was a career and lifestyle choice, motivated by a desire to progress …
Organizing Whiteness: Gender, Nationality and Subjectivity in Postcolonial Hong Kong
This article looks at the negotiation and construction of new white subjectivities in the changing global workplace of Hong Kong. It explores how recent changes in the social and political landscape are being accompanied by complex transformations of work and working identities. Drawing on research conducted with white expatriates in the period since the return to Chinese rule in 1997, it reveals that whiteness, Britishness and gender are simulta…
Migrating identities: Gender, whiteness and Britishness in post-colonial Hong Kong
This paper explores the ways in which notions of nationality, whiteness and gender are drawn upon by British expatriate women in the construction and performance of their identities in post-colonial Hong Kong. A British colony since the mid-nineteenth century, Hong Kong was returned to China in the 1997 handover to become a 'Special Administrative Region'. Now, as the administrative workings of empire are receding, so too are the expectations abo…
Place, Space and Time: Contextualizing Workplace Subjectivities
This paper explores the relations between management discourse and employee subjectivity in the process of organizational change, drawing on a new empirical study of doctors and nurses working in the British National Health Service (NHS). It builds on recent critiques of more muscular accounts of discourse to examine the manoeuvres made by working subjects in response to managerialist discourses of the entrepreneurial self. While others have show…
Visually narrating post‐colonial lives: Ghosts of war and empire
This paper is about two journeys: the first through the memories of an old soldier captured by the Japanese in the Second World War; the second through the present life to which this past gave rise, in which the old soldier tends the graves of his fellow soldiers as part of his current navigation by bus and taxi of the post‐colonial landscape of Hong Kong
Westerns, Weddings and Web‐Weavers: Reading Gender as Genre in Organizational Theory
This article focuses on the process of reading and its role in the construction of knowledge. Reading is an activity which is personal yet never singular: we bring to our reading of one text a range of knowledges, experiences and strategies derived from other texts. This ‘intertextuality’ means that ‘meaning‐making’ is a complex negotiation process between reader and text, whereby linkages are made between divergent genres. This is explored throu…
Migrating identities: Gender, whiteness and Britishness in post-colonial Hong Kong
This paper explores the ways in which notions of nationality, whiteness and gender are drawn upon by British expatriate women in the construction and performance of their identities in post-colonial Hong Kong. A British colony since the mid-nineteenth century, Hong Kong was returned to China in the 1997 handover to become a 'Special Administrative Region'. Now, as the administrative workings of empire are receding, so too are the expectations abo…
Organizing Whiteness: Gender, Nationality and Subjectivity in Postcolonial Hong Kong
This article looks at the negotiation and construction of new white subjectivities in the changing global workplace of Hong Kong. It explores how recent changes in the social and political landscape are being accompanied by complex transformations of work and working identities. Drawing on research conducted with white expatriates in the period since the return to Chinese rule in 1997, it reveals that whiteness, Britishness and gender are simulta…
Work, Identity and Change? Post/Colonial Encounters in Hong Kong
This paper explores the shifting, multiple modalities of Britishness, colonialism and whiteness in a changing social landscape. Set in postcolonial Hong Kong, it draws on research with white British expatriates to explore the ways in which identities and relations are changing since the handover from British to Chinese rule. For many British expatriates, the decision to migrate was a career and lifestyle choice, motivated by a desire to progress …
The New Degree?' Constructing Internships in the Third Sector
The recent economic recession has impacted substantially on the graduate labour market, with many graduates now struggling to find secure employment in professional careers. In this context, temporary, unpaid 'internships' have emerged as increasingly important as a 'way in' to work for this group. Yet while there has been much media and policy debate on internships, academic consideration has been scant. This article begins to address this knowl…
Gendering Change? Management, Masculinity and the Dynamics of Incorporation
The recent economic and political climate, which has reshaped all sectors of education in the last few years, has brought dramatic changes to the management and finance of further education (FE). FE institutions have become 'incorporated' as autonomous and self-regulating organisations. The central concern of this article is the effect that the interpretation of incorporation has had on gender relations within these organisations. Many colleges h…
Playing' Doctors and Nurses? Competing Discourses of Gender, Power and Identity in the British National Health Service
This paper adopts a feminist poststructuralist approach to demonstrate the ambiguities and complexities which exist in the relationship between work and subject. Recent studies in organizational sociology have argued that the discourses of work, and changing working cultures, have had a powerful effect on the production of subjectivities. New forms of working behaviour have been constructed as desirable, which often draw on personal qualities suc…
Making whiteness work in South Africa: A translabour approach
Old Colonial or New Cosmopolitan? Changing White Identities in the Hong Kong Police
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 17, Number 4, Winter 2010
Organizing Gender? Looking at Metaphors as Frames of Meaning in Gender/Organizational Texts
This article examines the ways in which the writing of gender and organizational theory has made use of metaphors to frame understanding about gender and gender relations. Key examples of different theoretical approaches to explaining gender difference within organizations are analysed as texts , to explore the ways in which rhetorical devices play a crucial role in constructing knowledges about women, men, and organizational life. In particular,…
Bringing it 'Home'? Sociological Practice and the Practice of Sociology
Since Sociology was established in 1967, the journal has assumed a significant role in shaping the discipline. In the interim years it is often said that the very practice of sociology has now 'spun out' beyond the dedicated departments that were once the centres of sociological practice. This raises questions as to the relationship between sociology and other disciplines, questions that are compelling and arguably distinct from a welcome recogni…
A new start? Negotiations of age and chrononormativity by older apprentices in England
The decision to start a new career might seem an unusual one to make in later life. However, England has seen a steady rise in numbers of workers undertaking an apprenticeship in their fifties and sixties, through a government-funded policy initiative opening up training to adults at all stages of the lifecourse. At the same time, in most Western contexts, the amalgamation of ‘older’ and ‘apprentice’ presents a challenge to normative understandin…
Identités migrantes: Genre, blanchité et britannicité dans le Hong Kong postcolonial
J’explore la façon dont les femmes britanniques expatriées à Hong Kong en période postcoloniale ont recours aux notions de nationalité, de blanchité et de genre dans la construction et la manifestation de leurs identités. Devenue colonie britannique au milieu du xix e siècle, Hong Kong a été rétrocédée à la Chine en 1997, pour être ensuite constituée en « région administrative spéciale ». Aujourd’hui, les rouages administratifs de l’Empire dispar…
Geographies of labour in the third sector: Making Hybrid Workforces in Place
This article aims to explore the geographies of labour in the third sector as these are constituted at the intersection of the multiple social, economic and cultural processes that intersect in place. Whilst previous research has examined either geographies of voluntarism or spatial divisions of paid labour in the sector, we draw on 'the new sociology of work' to offer a framework that recognises the interdependencies of paid and unpaid work in t…
Westerns, Weddings and Web‐Weavers: Reading Gender as Genre in Organizational Theory
This article focuses on the process of reading and its role in the construction of knowledge. Reading is an activity which is personal yet never singular: we bring to our reading of one text a range of knowledges, experiences and strategies derived from other texts. This ‘intertextuality’ means that ‘meaning‐making’ is a complex negotiation process between reader and text, whereby linkages are made between divergent genres. This is explored throu…
Women Behaving Badly: Restructuring Gender and Identity in British Broadcasting Organizations
This article examines the impact of recent changes in the management and organization of British broadcasting on gender. It follows two key lines of inquiry. The first explores the structural relations between men and women and argues that changes in the terms and conditions of work in the major broadcasting corporations have fallen disproportionately heavily on women. The second explores the discursive and cultural processes that work within bro…
Engineering the revolution? Imagining the role of new digital technologies in infrastructure work futures
Contemporary imaginations of the impact of new digital technologies (NDTS) are dominated by utopian visions of a ‘revolution’ in productivity and efficiency, contrasted with dystopian views of declines of work and human skills, and distrust of artificial intelligence's efficacy. This article explores imaginations of digital futures in the infrastructure sector through case study research of a global engineering organisation. Drawing on a practice…
How Effective Is Youth Volunteering as an Employment Strategy? A Mixed Methods Study of England
Volunteering is routinely advocated in British policy as a key mechanism for young people to gain employment, but with little evidence of its viability as a strategy. Indeed, the limited research in this area suggests the link is weak and that access to good quality volunteering is differentiated along class lines. This article draws on a mixed methods approach, using survey data from the Citizenship Education Longitudinal Survey and qualitative …
Negotiating uncertain economic times: Youth employment strategies in England
Higher education is commonly understood as the gateway to better, higher‐paying jobs. This paper draws on longitudinal survey and interview data to explore how different groups of young people, those who left school at 18 and those graduating from higher education, negotiated pathways into employment or otherwise during the recent economic recessionary climate in England. While a mix of employment and unemployment featured in both groups, with te…
Changing Organizational Space: Green? Or Lean and Mean
The recent dynamism in the design of workspace is frequently constructed by developers and managers as motivated by a desire to improve sustainability. These claims are reflected in the growing currency of 'greenspeak' in organizational discourses and policies at local, national and global levels, as well as a developing academic interest in organizational environmentalism. This article explores the extent to which the increase in an environmenta…
Les étapes de la croissance économique
La fortune de mer
Women Behaving Badly: Restructuring Gender and Identity in British Broadcasting Organizations
This article examines the impact of recent changes in the management and organization of British broadcasting on gender. It follows two key lines of inquiry. The first explores the structural relations between men and women and argues that changes in the terms and conditions of work in the major broadcasting corporations have fallen disproportionately heavily on women. The second explores the discursive and cultural processes that work within bro…
Gendering Change? Management, Masculinity and the Dynamics of Incorporation
The recent economic and political climate, which has reshaped all sectors of education in the last few years, has brought dramatic changes to the management and finance of further education (FE). FE institutions have become 'incorporated' as autonomous and self-regulating organisations. The central concern of this article is the effect that the interpretation of incorporation has had on gender relations within these organisations. Many colleges h…
Gender, Power and Organisations
This important text offers an overview and synthesis of theory and research into the gendered dimension of organisations, exploring how gender difference is constructed within organisations and intertwined with organisational power relations. Assuming little prior knowledge on the part of the reader, it examines a series of key areas of substantive interest in the study of organisations, bringing to bear a wide range of social and feminist theory…
Organizing Gender? Looking at Metaphors as Frames of Meaning in Gender/Organizational Texts
This article examines the ways in which the writing of gender and organizational theory has made use of metaphors to frame understanding about gender and gender relations. Key examples of different theoretical approaches to explaining gender difference within organizations are analysed as texts , to explore the ways in which rhetorical devices play a crucial role in constructing knowledges about women, men, and organizational life. In particular,…
Gender, Power, and Organisations: An Introduction
Gender and Organisation: Introducing Power Organisational Structures Organisational Cultures Gender and Management in Organisations Sexuality and Organisation Challenging Gendered Organisation Power, Gender and Organisation
Westerns, Weddings and Web‐Weavers: Reading Gender as Genre in Organizational Theory
This article focuses on the process of reading and its role in the construction of knowledge. Reading is an activity which is personal yet never singular: we bring to our reading of one text a range of knowledges, experiences and strategies derived from other texts. This ‘intertextuality’ means that ‘meaning‐making’ is a complex negotiation process between reader and text, whereby linkages are made between divergent genres. This is explored throu…
Playing' Doctors and Nurses? Competing Discourses of Gender, Power and Identity in the British National Health Service
This paper adopts a feminist poststructuralist approach to demonstrate the ambiguities and complexities which exist in the relationship between work and subject. Recent studies in organizational sociology have argued that the discourses of work, and changing working cultures, have had a powerful effect on the production of subjectivities. New forms of working behaviour have been constructed as desirable, which often draw on personal qualities suc…
Visually narrating post‐colonial lives: Ghosts of war and empire
This paper is about two journeys: the first through the memories of an old soldier captured by the Japanese in the Second World War; the second through the present life to which this past gave rise, in which the old soldier tends the graves of his fellow soldiers as part of his current navigation by bus and taxi of the post‐colonial landscape of Hong Kong
Place, Space and Time: Contextualizing Workplace Subjectivities
This paper explores the relations between management discourse and employee subjectivity in the process of organizational change, drawing on a new empirical study of doctors and nurses working in the British National Health Service (NHS). It builds on recent critiques of more muscular accounts of discourse to examine the manoeuvres made by working subjects in response to managerialist discourses of the entrepreneurial self. While others have show…
Organizing Whiteness: Gender, Nationality and Subjectivity in Postcolonial Hong Kong
This article looks at the negotiation and construction of new white subjectivities in the changing global workplace of Hong Kong. It explores how recent changes in the social and political landscape are being accompanied by complex transformations of work and working identities. Drawing on research conducted with white expatriates in the period since the return to Chinese rule in 1997, it reveals that whiteness, Britishness and gender are simulta…
Migrating identities: Gender, whiteness and Britishness in post-colonial Hong Kong
This paper explores the ways in which notions of nationality, whiteness and gender are drawn upon by British expatriate women in the construction and performance of their identities in post-colonial Hong Kong. A British colony since the mid-nineteenth century, Hong Kong was returned to China in the 1997 handover to become a 'Special Administrative Region'. Now, as the administrative workings of empire are receding, so too are the expectations abo…
Old Colonial or New Cosmopolitan? Changing White Identities in the Hong Kong Police
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 17, Number 4, Winter 2010
Work, Identity and Change? Post/Colonial Encounters in Hong Kong
This paper explores the shifting, multiple modalities of Britishness, colonialism and whiteness in a changing social landscape. Set in postcolonial Hong Kong, it draws on research with white British expatriates to explore the ways in which identities and relations are changing since the handover from British to Chinese rule. For many British expatriates, the decision to migrate was a career and lifestyle choice, motivated by a desire to progress …
Making whiteness work in South Africa: A translabour approach
Changing Organizational Space: Green? Or Lean and Mean
The recent dynamism in the design of workspace is frequently constructed by developers and managers as motivated by a desire to improve sustainability. These claims are reflected in the growing currency of 'greenspeak' in organizational discourses and policies at local, national and global levels, as well as a developing academic interest in organizational environmentalism. This article explores the extent to which the increase in an environmenta…
Migration, Space and Transnational Identities: The British in South Africa
Twenty years after the post-apartheid Government took office, this timely text interrogates the extent to which the attitudes, identities and everyday lives of British people have changed in accordanc
Geographies of labour in the third sector: Making Hybrid Workforces in Place
This article aims to explore the geographies of labour in the third sector as these are constituted at the intersection of the multiple social, economic and cultural processes that intersect in place. Whilst previous research has examined either geographies of voluntarism or spatial divisions of paid labour in the sector, we draw on 'the new sociology of work' to offer a framework that recognises the interdependencies of paid and unpaid work in t…
Bringing it 'Home'? Sociological Practice and the Practice of Sociology
Since Sociology was established in 1967, the journal has assumed a significant role in shaping the discipline. In the interim years it is often said that the very practice of sociology has now 'spun out' beyond the dedicated departments that were once the centres of sociological practice. This raises questions as to the relationship between sociology and other disciplines, questions that are compelling and arguably distinct from a welcome recogni…
The New Degree?' Constructing Internships in the Third Sector
The recent economic recession has impacted substantially on the graduate labour market, with many graduates now struggling to find secure employment in professional careers. In this context, temporary, unpaid 'internships' have emerged as increasingly important as a 'way in' to work for this group. Yet while there has been much media and policy debate on internships, academic consideration has been scant. This article begins to address this knowl…
A new start? Negotiations of age and chrononormativity by older apprentices in England
The decision to start a new career might seem an unusual one to make in later life. However, England has seen a steady rise in numbers of workers undertaking an apprenticeship in their fifties and sixties, through a government-funded policy initiative opening up training to adults at all stages of the lifecourse. At the same time, in most Western contexts, the amalgamation of ‘older’ and ‘apprentice’ presents a challenge to normative understandin…
Negotiating uncertain economic times: Youth employment strategies in England
Higher education is commonly understood as the gateway to better, higher‐paying jobs. This paper draws on longitudinal survey and interview data to explore how different groups of young people, those who left school at 18 and those graduating from higher education, negotiated pathways into employment or otherwise during the recent economic recessionary climate in England. While a mix of employment and unemployment featured in both groups, with te…
Getting In and Getting On in the Youth Labour Market: Governing Young People's Employability in Regional Context
Based on up to date qualitative and ethnographic research, this book examines youth education-to-work transitions in the UK. Using the theoretical lens of a Foucauldian governmentality approach, the authors consider the 'why' and 'how' of youth employability training and demonstrate how different employability schemes planned and operationalised in diverse geographical and economic landscapes work in practice. The book examines and compares a ran…
‘Devils’ or ‘Superstars’? Making English Language Teachers in China
This chapter focuses on the experiences of young Westerners who travel to China to teach English, often as a first job. In recent years, demand for native-speaking English language teachers (ELTs) has boomed across China, moving beyond the established urban areas into more remote cities and even towns and rural villages. The seemingly unstoppable demand has not only led to an increase in opportunities for trained language teachers but has also le…
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