Annette Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annette Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annette |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5336-265X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The collectors of celebrity memorabilia: A qualitative re-evaluation of celebrity worship levels
To explore how celebrity memorabilia collectors use their memorabilia collections to engage with a media persona(e), we draw from two distinct concepts. The first concept is Brown’s definition of celebrity worship. This serves as the lens to explore how audiences engage in this process of worship. Specific attention is given to three key anchor points within this definition: commitment, love and devotion. The second concept is Maltby’s three leve…
Revisiting the potential of community empowerment within UK neighbourhood policing meetings
Police attempts to engage with communities and involve the public in decision-making within co-governance meetings has a long history in the UK. This paper examines the most recent initiative for such engagement, exploring the potential and problems for community empowerment in meetings set up as part of the development of neighbourhood policing in the UK. The paper contributes to existing research by offering a more nuanced understanding of how …
Hegemonic Academic Practices: Experiences of Publishing from the Periphery
Drawing on a reflexive account of a British—Finnish joint publishing experience, we suggest that institutions of academic publishing are constantly reproduced through hegemonic practices that serve to maintain and reinforce core-periphery relations between the Anglophone core and peripheral countries such as Finland. The wider academic milieu with its taxonomies of academic performance and journal quality serves to perpetuate these practices. Thi…
Dixon of Dock Green Got Shot! Policing Identity Work and Organizational Change
Drawing on a small‐scale ethnographic study in one UK police force, the paper offers insights into how different individuals and groups legitimate particular definitions of policing performance through invoking contrasting constructions of community policing. In doing so, the paper focuses on the discursive analysis of change defined in two interrelated ways: firstly with regard to the intentions and implementation of a new discursive template; a…
Theorizing the Micro-politics of Resistance: New Public Management and Managerial Identities in the UK Public Services
This article presents theoretical and empirical analysis of the micro-politics of resistance. We theorize resistance at the level of meanings and subjectivities, drawing attention to the multidirectional and generative effects in identity construction. We address two shortcomings present in much of the theorizing of resistance, namely, the conceptualizing of resistance as a set of actions and behaviours, and the narrow conception of resistance as…
What Have the Feminists Done for Us? Feminist Theory and Organizational Resistance
In developing our understandings of resistance, both organization theorists and feminist theorists have struggled with issues of the subject and object of resistance. In particular, attention has been focussed on an adequate theorizing of resistance that can offer a detailed and varied understanding of the different motivations of individuals and groups to transform dominant norms. This article draws on the tensions and debates within feminist th…
Management Consultant Talk: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Normalizing Discourse and Resistance
In this article, we explore the discursive possibilities available to men and women when they construct their professional self as ‘knowledge workers’ in multinational management consultancies. We argue that this professional identity construction is embedded in a normalizing, gendered discourse of what it means to be an ‘ideal’ consultant. However, representations of an alternative discourse, which constructs different spheres in an individual’s…
Talking Cop: Discourses of Change and Policing Identities
This paper presents empirical and theoretical analysis of the enactment of New Public Management (NPM) within the UK police service. It draws on empirical material gathered in a two‐year study that explores the ways in which individual policing professionals have responded to, and received, the NPM discourse. Theoretically informed by a discursive approach to organizational analysis, the paper focuses on the new subject positions promoted within …
Restructuring the “old bill”: Policing identities and commitment
Presents a gendered analysis of the reconstitution of professional subjectivities, as part of the New Public Management (NPM) discourse in the UK police service. Draws on texts generated from interviews with police uniform and civilian professional/managers in two constabularies. Explores the ways in which individuals have received and responded to the NPM discourse. Analysis of these texts suggests the promotion of specific gendered meanings of …
Gender and New Public Management: Reconstituting Academic Subjectivities
This article is located within the context of British Higher Education. It examines the ‘radical reforms’ of New Public Management (NPM) (marketization and managerialism) in the management of university organizations. The article has two main aims. First, to explore the extent to which NPM initiatives have influenced individual women academics’s day–to–day experiences of the gendered academy and their professional identities. Second, to understan…
Face to Face with the 'Sovereign Consumer: Service Quality and the Changing Role of Professional Academic Librarians
This article considers the impact of service quality initiatives on the role of professional academic librarians.1 It is argued that these initiatives - by asserting the dominant role of 'sovereign' consumers - offer a powerful legitimating device which is currently being used to support radical changes in professional work. One possible outcome of this is a weakening of professional autonomy and power to unilaterally determine levels and standar…
Australian Federalism and National Development
In a Steer's Ear: Policy and Administration of Cattle Tick Eradication and Control in New South Wales 1
Reflections on Regional Planning and Administration in New South Wales
Gender and New Public Management: Reconstituting Academic Subjectivities
This article is located within the context of British Higher Education. It examines the ‘radical reforms’ of New Public Management (NPM) (marketization and managerialism) in the management of university organizations. The article has two main aims. First, to explore the extent to which NPM initiatives have influenced individual women academics’s day–to–day experiences of the gendered academy and their professional identities. Second, to understan…
Talking Cop: Discourses of Change and Policing Identities
This paper presents empirical and theoretical analysis of the enactment of New Public Management (NPM) within the UK police service. It draws on empirical material gathered in a two‐year study that explores the ways in which individual policing professionals have responded to, and received, the NPM discourse. Theoretically informed by a discursive approach to organizational analysis, the paper focuses on the new subject positions promoted within …
Dixon of Dock Green Got Shot! Policing Identity Work and Organizational Change
Drawing on a small‐scale ethnographic study in one UK police force, the paper offers insights into how different individuals and groups legitimate particular definitions of policing performance through invoking contrasting constructions of community policing. In doing so, the paper focuses on the discursive analysis of change defined in two interrelated ways: firstly with regard to the intentions and implementation of a new discursive template; a…
Revisiting the potential of community empowerment within UK neighbourhood policing meetings
Police attempts to engage with communities and involve the public in decision-making within co-governance meetings has a long history in the UK. This paper examines the most recent initiative for such engagement, exploring the potential and problems for community empowerment in meetings set up as part of the development of neighbourhood policing in the UK. The paper contributes to existing research by offering a more nuanced understanding of how …
Reflections on Regional Planning and Administration in New South Wales
In a Steer's Ear: Policy and Administration of Cattle Tick Eradication and Control in New South Wales 1
Australian Federalism and National Development
Face to Face with the 'Sovereign Consumer: Service Quality and the Changing Role of Professional Academic Librarians
This article considers the impact of service quality initiatives on the role of professional academic librarians.1 It is argued that these initiatives - by asserting the dominant role of 'sovereign' consumers - offer a powerful legitimating device which is currently being used to support radical changes in professional work. One possible outcome of this is a weakening of professional autonomy and power to unilaterally determine levels and standar…
Restructuring the “old bill”: Policing identities and commitment
Presents a gendered analysis of the reconstitution of professional subjectivities, as part of the New Public Management (NPM) discourse in the UK police service. Draws on texts generated from interviews with police uniform and civilian professional/managers in two constabularies. Explores the ways in which individuals have received and responded to the NPM discourse. Analysis of these texts suggests the promotion of specific gendered meanings of …
Gender and New Public Management: Reconstituting Academic Subjectivities
This article is located within the context of British Higher Education. It examines the ‘radical reforms’ of New Public Management (NPM) (marketization and managerialism) in the management of university organizations. The article has two main aims. First, to explore the extent to which NPM initiatives have influenced individual women academics’s day–to–day experiences of the gendered academy and their professional identities. Second, to understan…
Talking Cop: Discourses of Change and Policing Identities
This paper presents empirical and theoretical analysis of the enactment of New Public Management (NPM) within the UK police service. It draws on empirical material gathered in a two‐year study that explores the ways in which individual policing professionals have responded to, and received, the NPM discourse. Theoretically informed by a discursive approach to organizational analysis, the paper focuses on the new subject positions promoted within …
Management Consultant Talk: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Normalizing Discourse and Resistance
In this article, we explore the discursive possibilities available to men and women when they construct their professional self as ‘knowledge workers’ in multinational management consultancies. We argue that this professional identity construction is embedded in a normalizing, gendered discourse of what it means to be an ‘ideal’ consultant. However, representations of an alternative discourse, which constructs different spheres in an individual’s…
Theorizing the Micro-politics of Resistance: New Public Management and Managerial Identities in the UK Public Services
This article presents theoretical and empirical analysis of the micro-politics of resistance. We theorize resistance at the level of meanings and subjectivities, drawing attention to the multidirectional and generative effects in identity construction. We address two shortcomings present in much of the theorizing of resistance, namely, the conceptualizing of resistance as a set of actions and behaviours, and the narrow conception of resistance as…
What Have the Feminists Done for Us? Feminist Theory and Organizational Resistance
In developing our understandings of resistance, both organization theorists and feminist theorists have struggled with issues of the subject and object of resistance. In particular, attention has been focussed on an adequate theorizing of resistance that can offer a detailed and varied understanding of the different motivations of individuals and groups to transform dominant norms. This article draws on the tensions and debates within feminist th…
Hegemonic Academic Practices: Experiences of Publishing from the Periphery
Drawing on a reflexive account of a British—Finnish joint publishing experience, we suggest that institutions of academic publishing are constantly reproduced through hegemonic practices that serve to maintain and reinforce core-periphery relations between the Anglophone core and peripheral countries such as Finland. The wider academic milieu with its taxonomies of academic performance and journal quality serves to perpetuate these practices. Thi…
Dixon of Dock Green Got Shot! Policing Identity Work and Organizational Change
Drawing on a small‐scale ethnographic study in one UK police force, the paper offers insights into how different individuals and groups legitimate particular definitions of policing performance through invoking contrasting constructions of community policing. In doing so, the paper focuses on the discursive analysis of change defined in two interrelated ways: firstly with regard to the intentions and implementation of a new discursive template; a…
Revisiting the potential of community empowerment within UK neighbourhood policing meetings
Police attempts to engage with communities and involve the public in decision-making within co-governance meetings has a long history in the UK. This paper examines the most recent initiative for such engagement, exploring the potential and problems for community empowerment in meetings set up as part of the development of neighbourhood policing in the UK. The paper contributes to existing research by offering a more nuanced understanding of how …
The collectors of celebrity memorabilia: A qualitative re-evaluation of celebrity worship levels
To explore how celebrity memorabilia collectors use their memorabilia collections to engage with a media persona(e), we draw from two distinct concepts. The first concept is Brown’s definition of celebrity worship. This serves as the lens to explore how audiences engage in this process of worship. Specific attention is given to three key anchor points within this definition: commitment, love and devotion. The second concept is Maltby’s three leve…
Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)