Michelle Brady
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3922651 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michelle Brady |
| NOMBRES | Michelle |
| APELLIDO | Brady |
| FIRMA | BRADY M |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3610-8473 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 173 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Negotiating 'ideal worker' and intensive mothering ideologies
Individualized, maternalist and marketized discourses of childcare are pervasive in Australia as they are in other liberal welfare states. Responsibility is overwhelmingly placed on mothers to carry out most childcare work themselves or to arrange informal or paid childcare. One of the key tasks for most employed mothers is transporting children alongside their commuting journeys. In this context we used mapping/graphic elicitation interviews wit…
We Ask for More Than We Give Back
There is an assumption that childcare services and workplace flexibility policies enable a seamless shift between childcare and work. Similarly, there is an assumption that informal care arrangements will be relatively seamless as the norm of reciprocity is assumed to bind families together through the bonds of love and affection. Monetary exchange for this work is seen to demean the caring relationship, but this does not mean 'costs' are absent.…
Autonomy, Fairness and Active Relationships
Researchers and policy‐makers are increasingly concerned with children's well‐being in Early Childhood Education and Care ( ECEC ) and Outside School Hours Care ( OSHC ) settings. Recent research identifies the value of using qualitative methods to understand children's experiences of well‐being in ECEC / OSHC , but there remain few such studies. This article presents findings from a child‐centric qualitative study with Australian children of nur…
Conceptualizing Activation Policies Targeted at Single Mothers
Single parents are increasingly a target group for “activation” through new obligations to seek paid work or engage in education or training. Researchers commonly characterize new activation policies in terms of epochal shifts or unidirectional movements away from understanding single parents as “carers” or “mothers”. This characterization downplays the degree to which the postwar welfare state viewed single parents as potential workers and the d…
Governing Practices
Targeting single mothers? Dynamics of contracting Australian employment services and activation policies at the street level
Activation reforms targeted at single parents simultaneously construct them as a legitimate target for activation policy and subject them to new obligations to engage in paid work or education/training. The social policy literature has established that the work of 'making-up' target groups occurs at the street level as well as in government legislation. The street level has become even more significant in recent years as there has been a shift to…
Governing Practices
In Governing Practices, Michelle Brady and Randy Lippert bring together prominent scholars in sociology, criminology, anthropology, geography, and policy studies to extend and refine the current conversation about neoliberalism.
Gluing, catching and connecting
Research on single mothers' employment overwhelmingly focuses on the importance of access to formal childcare at a single point in time. However, to understand the relationship between childcare and single mothers' employment we must consider their access to and use of multiple forms of childcare - their childcare packages - and how these change over time. Drawing on a longitudinal qualitative study and employing the concepts of 'caringscapes' an…
Hours of Paid Work Among Single and Partnered Mothers in Australia
Research has established that families in developed countries commonly combine multiple sources of child care. Yet, families' packages of child care and their effect on maternal labor force participation are underresearched, and the few existing empirical studies are primarily descriptive or use cross-sectional data. We add to the existing literature by theorizing and testing the relationships between family type, child care arrangements, and mot…
Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and Ethnography
Mitchell Dean and I agree there is an important discussion to be had about Foucault and the social sciences. My recent article sought to advance this debate. Dean has responded because he views my article as an attack on his work. This interpretation is mistaken. My article is not focused on Dean’s work though, as he points out, it does make reference to what he has called his “very simplified framework” for engaging in an analytics of government…
Teaching social research methods after the critical turn
An increasing challenge for teaching methods courses in the social sciences is the ‘critical turn’, which has encouraged some students to adopt an anti-empirical orientation. We present a case study of a compulsory undergraduate methods course in a political science department strongly influenced by post-structuralist philosophies. The first author redesigned the course to implement four constructivist pedagogical principles: (1) develop a full u…
What can qualitative research contribute to work and family policy
Qualitative researchers interested in social policies around work and family face a puzzle. Key welfare to work, childcare and child support initiatives have in recent decades been based as much on
Sometimes they just want to cry for their mum’
This study investigates how couples negotiate and rationalise gendered divisions in infant care. We take a social constructivist approach to analysing qualitative data from 11 couples with infants (aged 6 to 8 months). We find that even where fathers are actively involved in infant care there are strong gendered divisions in the types of care that parents provide. These divisions are rationalised by gendered discourses regarding mother's superior…
The resilience of long and short food chains
Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governmentalities
This article is aimed at Foucauldian scholars and seeks to introduce them to ethnographic works that interrogate neoliberal governmentalities. As an analytic category 'neoliberalism' has over the last two decades helpfully illuminated connections between seemingly unrelated social changes occurring at multiple scales. Even earlier -in his College de France 1978-9 Birth of Biopolitics lectures, to be precise-Foucault began his engagement with neol…
Researching governmentalities through ethnography
In this article I argue that the spaces of freedom and constraint that personalized planning programs targeted at Australian single parents open up and close down are distinctly different when viewed from a top-down perspective of governmental rationalities as compared to a bottom-up perspective, or what Foucault referred to as the ‘witches’ brew' of actual practices. Around 90% of single parents with dependent children in Australia are single mo…
Absences and Silences in the Production of Work-Life Balance Policies in Canada
Michelle Brady’s “Absences and Silences in the Production of Work-Life Balance Policies in Canada” focuses on developments in Work-Life Balance policy in Canada since the 1990s by engaging with the discursive shift in federal documents away from concerns about work-family conflict. The author argues that this shift further obfuscates the legacy of patriarchy in the division of paid and unpaid work, and the corresponding organization of industrial…
What is the (Net) Cost to Government of Homelessness Programs
Homelessness programs may improve the health, well‐being, financial security, labour market and housing outcomes of clients. This, in turn, may result in decreased utilisation of health and justice services, reduced child residential care costs, lower housing management costs, lower income support payments and higher revenue from increased income tax payments. When costed, such impacts represent whole‐of‐government savings or cost offsets to the …
Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governmentalities
This article is aimed at Foucauldian scholars and seeks to introduce them to ethnographic works that interrogate neoliberal governmentalities. As an analytic category 'neoliberalism' has over the last two decades helpfully illuminated connections between seemingly unrelated social changes occurring at multiple scales. Even earlier -in his College de France 1978-9 Birth of Biopolitics lectures, to be precise-Foucault began his engagement with neol…
Researching governmentalities through ethnography
In this article I argue that the spaces of freedom and constraint that personalized planning programs targeted at Australian single parents open up and close down are distinctly different when viewed from a top-down perspective of governmental rationalities as compared to a bottom-up perspective, or what Foucault referred to as the ‘witches’ brew' of actual practices. Around 90% of single parents with dependent children in Australia are single mo…
Sometimes they just want to cry for their mum’
This study investigates how couples negotiate and rationalise gendered divisions in infant care. We take a social constructivist approach to analysing qualitative data from 11 couples with infants (aged 6 to 8 months). We find that even where fathers are actively involved in infant care there are strong gendered divisions in the types of care that parents provide. These divisions are rationalised by gendered discourses regarding mother's superior…
Negotiating 'ideal worker' and intensive mothering ideologies
Individualized, maternalist and marketized discourses of childcare are pervasive in Australia as they are in other liberal welfare states. Responsibility is overwhelmingly placed on mothers to carry out most childcare work themselves or to arrange informal or paid childcare. One of the key tasks for most employed mothers is transporting children alongside their commuting journeys. In this context we used mapping/graphic elicitation interviews wit…
The resilience of long and short food chains
Gluing, catching and connecting
Research on single mothers' employment overwhelmingly focuses on the importance of access to formal childcare at a single point in time. However, to understand the relationship between childcare and single mothers' employment we must consider their access to and use of multiple forms of childcare - their childcare packages - and how these change over time. Drawing on a longitudinal qualitative study and employing the concepts of 'caringscapes' an…
Hours of Paid Work Among Single and Partnered Mothers in Australia
Research has established that families in developed countries commonly combine multiple sources of child care. Yet, families' packages of child care and their effect on maternal labor force participation are underresearched, and the few existing empirical studies are primarily descriptive or use cross-sectional data. We add to the existing literature by theorizing and testing the relationships between family type, child care arrangements, and mot…
Teaching social research methods after the critical turn
An increasing challenge for teaching methods courses in the social sciences is the ‘critical turn’, which has encouraged some students to adopt an anti-empirical orientation. We present a case study of a compulsory undergraduate methods course in a political science department strongly influenced by post-structuralist philosophies. The first author redesigned the course to implement four constructivist pedagogical principles: (1) develop a full u…
Conceptualizing Activation Policies Targeted at Single Mothers
Single parents are increasingly a target group for “activation” through new obligations to seek paid work or engage in education or training. Researchers commonly characterize new activation policies in terms of epochal shifts or unidirectional movements away from understanding single parents as “carers” or “mothers”. This characterization downplays the degree to which the postwar welfare state viewed single parents as potential workers and the d…
Targeting single mothers? Dynamics of contracting Australian employment services and activation policies at the street level
Activation reforms targeted at single parents simultaneously construct them as a legitimate target for activation policy and subject them to new obligations to engage in paid work or education/training. The social policy literature has established that the work of 'making-up' target groups occurs at the street level as well as in government legislation. The street level has become even more significant in recent years as there has been a shift to…
What is the (Net) Cost to Government of Homelessness Programs
Homelessness programs may improve the health, well‐being, financial security, labour market and housing outcomes of clients. This, in turn, may result in decreased utilisation of health and justice services, reduced child residential care costs, lower housing management costs, lower income support payments and higher revenue from increased income tax payments. When costed, such impacts represent whole‐of‐government savings or cost offsets to the …
We Ask for More Than We Give Back
There is an assumption that childcare services and workplace flexibility policies enable a seamless shift between childcare and work. Similarly, there is an assumption that informal care arrangements will be relatively seamless as the norm of reciprocity is assumed to bind families together through the bonds of love and affection. Monetary exchange for this work is seen to demean the caring relationship, but this does not mean 'costs' are absent.…
What can qualitative research contribute to work and family policy
Qualitative researchers interested in social policies around work and family face a puzzle. Key welfare to work, childcare and child support initiatives have in recent decades been based as much on
Absences and Silences in the Production of Work-Life Balance Policies in Canada
Michelle Brady’s “Absences and Silences in the Production of Work-Life Balance Policies in Canada” focuses on developments in Work-Life Balance policy in Canada since the 1990s by engaging with the discursive shift in federal documents away from concerns about work-family conflict. The author argues that this shift further obfuscates the legacy of patriarchy in the division of paid and unpaid work, and the corresponding organization of industrial…
Absences and Silences in the Production of Work-Life Balance Policies in Canada
Michelle Brady’s “Absences and Silences in the Production of Work-Life Balance Policies in Canada” focuses on developments in Work-Life Balance policy in Canada since the 1990s by engaging with the discursive shift in federal documents away from concerns about work-family conflict. The author argues that this shift further obfuscates the legacy of patriarchy in the division of paid and unpaid work, and the corresponding organization of industrial…
What is the (Net) Cost to Government of Homelessness Programs
Homelessness programs may improve the health, well‐being, financial security, labour market and housing outcomes of clients. This, in turn, may result in decreased utilisation of health and justice services, reduced child residential care costs, lower housing management costs, lower income support payments and higher revenue from increased income tax payments. When costed, such impacts represent whole‐of‐government savings or cost offsets to the …
Researching governmentalities through ethnography
In this article I argue that the spaces of freedom and constraint that personalized planning programs targeted at Australian single parents open up and close down are distinctly different when viewed from a top-down perspective of governmental rationalities as compared to a bottom-up perspective, or what Foucault referred to as the ‘witches’ brew' of actual practices. Around 90% of single parents with dependent children in Australia are single mo…
Ethnographies of Neoliberal Governmentalities
This article is aimed at Foucauldian scholars and seeks to introduce them to ethnographic works that interrogate neoliberal governmentalities. As an analytic category 'neoliberalism' has over the last two decades helpfully illuminated connections between seemingly unrelated social changes occurring at multiple scales. Even earlier -in his College de France 1978-9 Birth of Biopolitics lectures, to be precise-Foucault began his engagement with neol…
Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and Ethnography
Mitchell Dean and I agree there is an important discussion to be had about Foucault and the social sciences. My recent article sought to advance this debate. Dean has responded because he views my article as an attack on his work. This interpretation is mistaken. My article is not focused on Dean’s work though, as he points out, it does make reference to what he has called his “very simplified framework” for engaging in an analytics of government…
Teaching social research methods after the critical turn
An increasing challenge for teaching methods courses in the social sciences is the ‘critical turn’, which has encouraged some students to adopt an anti-empirical orientation. We present a case study of a compulsory undergraduate methods course in a political science department strongly influenced by post-structuralist philosophies. The first author redesigned the course to implement four constructivist pedagogical principles: (1) develop a full u…
What can qualitative research contribute to work and family policy
Qualitative researchers interested in social policies around work and family face a puzzle. Key welfare to work, childcare and child support initiatives have in recent decades been based as much on
Sometimes they just want to cry for their mum’
This study investigates how couples negotiate and rationalise gendered divisions in infant care. We take a social constructivist approach to analysing qualitative data from 11 couples with infants (aged 6 to 8 months). We find that even where fathers are actively involved in infant care there are strong gendered divisions in the types of care that parents provide. These divisions are rationalised by gendered discourses regarding mother's superior…
The resilience of long and short food chains
Governing Practices
In Governing Practices, Michelle Brady and Randy Lippert bring together prominent scholars in sociology, criminology, anthropology, geography, and policy studies to extend and refine the current conversation about neoliberalism.
Gluing, catching and connecting
Research on single mothers' employment overwhelmingly focuses on the importance of access to formal childcare at a single point in time. However, to understand the relationship between childcare and single mothers' employment we must consider their access to and use of multiple forms of childcare - their childcare packages - and how these change over time. Drawing on a longitudinal qualitative study and employing the concepts of 'caringscapes' an…
Hours of Paid Work Among Single and Partnered Mothers in Australia
Research has established that families in developed countries commonly combine multiple sources of child care. Yet, families' packages of child care and their effect on maternal labor force participation are underresearched, and the few existing empirical studies are primarily descriptive or use cross-sectional data. We add to the existing literature by theorizing and testing the relationships between family type, child care arrangements, and mot…
Governing Practices
Targeting single mothers? Dynamics of contracting Australian employment services and activation policies at the street level
Activation reforms targeted at single parents simultaneously construct them as a legitimate target for activation policy and subject them to new obligations to engage in paid work or education/training. The social policy literature has established that the work of 'making-up' target groups occurs at the street level as well as in government legislation. The street level has become even more significant in recent years as there has been a shift to…
Autonomy, Fairness and Active Relationships
Researchers and policy‐makers are increasingly concerned with children's well‐being in Early Childhood Education and Care ( ECEC ) and Outside School Hours Care ( OSHC ) settings. Recent research identifies the value of using qualitative methods to understand children's experiences of well‐being in ECEC / OSHC , but there remain few such studies. This article presents findings from a child‐centric qualitative study with Australian children of nur…
Conceptualizing Activation Policies Targeted at Single Mothers
Single parents are increasingly a target group for “activation” through new obligations to seek paid work or engage in education or training. Researchers commonly characterize new activation policies in terms of epochal shifts or unidirectional movements away from understanding single parents as “carers” or “mothers”. This characterization downplays the degree to which the postwar welfare state viewed single parents as potential workers and the d…
We Ask for More Than We Give Back
There is an assumption that childcare services and workplace flexibility policies enable a seamless shift between childcare and work. Similarly, there is an assumption that informal care arrangements will be relatively seamless as the norm of reciprocity is assumed to bind families together through the bonds of love and affection. Monetary exchange for this work is seen to demean the caring relationship, but this does not mean 'costs' are absent.…
Negotiating 'ideal worker' and intensive mothering ideologies
Individualized, maternalist and marketized discourses of childcare are pervasive in Australia as they are in other liberal welfare states. Responsibility is overwhelmingly placed on mothers to carry out most childcare work themselves or to arrange informal or paid childcare. One of the key tasks for most employed mothers is transporting children alongside their commuting journeys. In this context we used mapping/graphic elicitation interviews wit…
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