L Mckenzie
Biographic Data
| ID | 43508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Mckenzie |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckenzie |
| SIGNATURE | MCKENZIE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6625-0956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Precarity on the move: The relative economic precarity of mobile youth moving to Australia
Future love: Age(ing), Gender and Care in Age-Dissimilar Couples’ Imagined Futures
Recent debates on age-dissimilar romantic relationships have centred on newly formed relationships, asking whether they reflect shifts towards more equal and individualistic love, or more malleable and self-determined understandings of age. Yet, in a global context where age dissimilarities are shifting and populations are ageing, little attention has been paid to how these understandings of love and age might play out in couples’ futures, partic…
Changing rules, recommendations, and risks: Covid-19 vaccination decisions and emotions during pregnancy
As COVID-19 vaccinations rolled out globally from late 2020, rules and recommendations regarding vaccine use in pregnancy shifted rapidly. Pre-registration COVID-19 vaccine trials excluded those who were pregnant. Initial Australian medical advice did not routinely recommend COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy, due to limited safety data and little perceived risk of local transmission. Advice from local medical authorities changed throughout 2021, how…
Including the isolated: Place, rurality, and the state in regional Western Australia during the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccine rollout
The rapid transmission of SARS-CoV-2 demonstrated the world's interconnectedness, yet it also highlighted the importance of distance and place in the spread of virus and the distribution, access, and uptake of vaccinations. We examine how people in rural spaces living in a high income country, Australia, thought about the state's governance of them during the pandemic and vaccine rollout, particularly regarding government's responsibility for the…
I leave most of the decisions up to her: ’ Gendered parenting, un/equal decision work, and responsibility for Covid-19 vaccination
Vaccination scholarship focuses on how privilege, individualized choice and ‘intensive’ and ‘natural’ parenthood – often motherhood – lead people to delay or not vaccinate their children. Recently, examining parents’ vaccination responsibilities – and the inequalities in paid employment and unpaid care work underpinning them – has become important to understand COVID-19. This article asks who makes vaccination decisions for their children under t…
Localised learning: Mobilising belonging among mature-aged students in low socio-economic status regional and remote areas
The higher education participation and success rates of students in low socio-economic status (SES), regional, rural, remote, and isolated areas – who often attend university later in life – is a persistent concern in Australia and beyond. This article focuses on mature-aged students in low SES, regional and remote areas in Tasmania, Australia, proposing that universities harness local belonging when providing learning opportunities. It draws on …
Mandating Covid ‐19 vaccinations for children: Attitudes of Western Australian parents
Australian governments have used vaccine mandates to drive high uptake of routine childhood vaccines and adult Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) and influenza vaccines. We sought to understand the attitudes of Western Australian parents regarding mandating COVID‐19 vaccines for children, interviewing 44 parents of children aged up to 18 years between May and December 2021. Transcripts were analysed to ascertain parents' attitudes and sources of…
Reopening to the world: How safety, normality and trust in government shape young adults’ Covid-19 vaccine intentions
During the COVID-19 pandemic, and particularly 2020-2021, young adults were often significant transmitters of the virus. Prior to the availability of vaccines for young adults, we sought to understand what would contribute to their uptake of a COVID-19 vaccine and how government policy might intervene. We undertook qualitative interviews between February and April 2021 with 19 participants (aged 18-29) in Perth, Western Australia. Despite Western…
I'm provax: Pro-vaccination personal histories and socialities of older Australians in the Covid-19 pandemic
Vaccination scholarship often explores how social networks foster vaccine refusal and delay, revealing how social and institutional relations produce refusing or delaying parents and un- or under-vaccinated children. It is likewise critical to understand the development of pro-vaccination orientations by researching those who want to be vaccinated since such attitudes and associated practices underpin successful vaccination programmes. This artic…
Parenthood: Beyond Maternity and Paternity
Parenthood is a transforming and enduring experience worldwide, yet it occurs in culturally distinctive ways. Anthropologists’ analyses of this aspect of social life need to attend to these distinctions by applying concepts that are flexible but offer meaningful insights. This article investigates the complexities of modern parent–child relations, making two propositions that expand the concept of parenthood. I begin by arguing that the term pare…
Age‐dissimilar couple relationships: 25 Years in Review
This review explores research over the past quarter century on couples with age differences. I present recent global trends in age‐dissimilar couplings, illustrating a shift away from statistical marriage studies focusing on relationships' motivations, inequalities, and challenges, and largely underpinned by biological, economic, or demographic outlooks. Since the last review of age‐dissimilar couples in 1993, there have been substantive qualitat…
Unequal expressions: Emotions and narratives of leaving and remaining in precarious academia
In reflections on modern ‘neoliberal’ universities, narratives of quitting academia hold a special fascination. This is evidenced by the recent proliferation of ‘quit lit’: emotionally charged public statements elucidating people’s departures from academia. Yet scholarly examinations of quitting are exceedingly rare, especially those of precarious and ‘early career’ academics whose likelihood of departure is high. In this paper, I reflect on inte…
Un/making academia: Gendered precarities and personal lives in universities
Recent scholarship on universities explores how academics’ families and partners restrict their careers and how academic labour limits these relationships, both in highly gendered ways. Such research less often considers how people’s close relations might unevenly support them in continuously relocating; dedicating unpaid time to ‘career development’; or taking on or influencing them to remain in short-term, poorly paid precarious roles. This pap…
Free and Natural: Nudity and the American Cult of the Body
Shutting Down Sex: Covid-19, Sex, and the Transformation of Singledom
This article examines the transformation of singledom during the COVID-19 pandemic, scrutinising the impact of rules and regulations governing proximity, touch and sex. I focus on government responses in Australia, situating the nation’s experience in a global context. National discussions were strangely sexless, presuming widespread coupledom and emphasising the lost, non-sexual intimacies of families and older people. I contrast this to broader…
Choosing love? Tensions and transformations of modern marriage in Married at First Sight
Anthropologists and sociologists frequently suggest that marriage is undergoing rapid, worldwide transformation. Yet, while trends in nuptiality and divorce are used to demonstrate its decline, heterosexual marriage based on romantic love remains a cultural ideal in many contexts. This tension is reflected in cultural products like television programmes, including the increasingly popular genre of reality romance television. In this paper, we foc…
The Meaning of Money in China and the United States: The 1986 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, by Emily Martin
In The Meaning of Money in China and the United States, Emily Martin publishes for the first time her Lewis Henry Morgan lectures, presented at the University of Rochester in 1986. Martin gave four
Love From Afar: Transcending Distance and Difference in Age-Dissimilar Couplings
When undertaking research into heterosexual, age-dissimilar relationships in Australia, I was surprised by the high proportion of couples who had begun or developed their relationships from a distance, or were living in distance relationships. These couples’ circumstances varied: some were in inter-cultural couplings, often involving older, white Australian men and younger, Southeast Asian women; some had met while travelling overseas; and others…
Beyond “Just Being There”: Teaching Internationalization at Home in Two Qualitative Methods Units
Study-abroad and international-student programs are commonly understood to transform their participants into “global citizens” possessing “cross-cultural competencies.” Similar benefits are anticipated from “internationalization at home”—defined as any on-campus, internationally related activity—whereby international students engage with and thus enrich the lives of domestic students. In this article, we reflect on a research project tied to two …
Age-Dissimilar Couples and Romantic Relationships: Ageless Love?
There has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar couples in recent years. This book examines how the romantic relationships of these couples are understood. Based on qualitative research, M
Blood will out: Essays on liquid transfers and flows, edited by Janet Carsten
What is blood? Can we theorise blood? What would a theory of blood, spanning cultures and histories, look like? These are questions that Janet Carsten asks in the introductory chapter of her edited
Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship, by Sarah Franklin
Biological Relatives is Sarah Franklin's latest book exploring reproduction and its related technologies. In it, she focuses on in vitro fertilisation (IVF), a now widespread technique that replica
Age-Dissimilar Couples and Romantic Relationships: Ageless Love
In recent years, there has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar, heterosexual romantic relationships. This interest is not new - these types of couples have been featured in Western media for decades, even centuries - yet qualitative research into such relationships has been limited. This book examines how the romantic relationships of age-dissimilar couples are understood. Based on a range of interviews, McKenzie argues that histori…
E-learning in context: An assessment of student inequalities in a university outreach program
E-learning technologies are often seen as a driving force in the democratisation of contemporary education. However, few researchers have focused on inequalities in online learners' access to technologies or their abilities to use them. In 2009, we assessed The University of Western Australia's SmARTS outreach program, investigating the advantages and disadvantages of employing online learning in the local context of Perth, Western Australia. SmA…
Rethinking the Foundations: Historiography in the Ancient World and in the Bible: Essays in Honour of John Van Seters
Variation in cesarean section rates among hospitals in Washington State
OBJECTIVES. This study examined hospital characteristics and hospital population risk factors and their associations with hospital-specific cesarean section rates in Washington State. METHODS. Data were obtained from 1987 birth certificates. The study population included all hospitals that had 12 or more singleton live births. RESULTS. Hospital-specific cesarean section rates varied from 0% to 43% and were positively associated with proprietary o…
Beyond “Just Being There”: Teaching Internationalization at Home in Two Qualitative Methods Units
Study-abroad and international-student programs are commonly understood to transform their participants into “global citizens” possessing “cross-cultural competencies.” Similar benefits are anticipated from “internationalization at home”—defined as any on-campus, internationally related activity—whereby international students engage with and thus enrich the lives of domestic students. In this article, we reflect on a research project tied to two …
Un/making academia: Gendered precarities and personal lives in universities
Recent scholarship on universities explores how academics’ families and partners restrict their careers and how academic labour limits these relationships, both in highly gendered ways. Such research less often considers how people’s close relations might unevenly support them in continuously relocating; dedicating unpaid time to ‘career development’; or taking on or influencing them to remain in short-term, poorly paid precarious roles. This pap…
Choosing love? Tensions and transformations of modern marriage in Married at First Sight
Anthropologists and sociologists frequently suggest that marriage is undergoing rapid, worldwide transformation. Yet, while trends in nuptiality and divorce are used to demonstrate its decline, heterosexual marriage based on romantic love remains a cultural ideal in many contexts. This tension is reflected in cultural products like television programmes, including the increasingly popular genre of reality romance television. In this paper, we foc…
Reopening to the world: How safety, normality and trust in government shape young adults’ Covid-19 vaccine intentions
During the COVID-19 pandemic, and particularly 2020-2021, young adults were often significant transmitters of the virus. Prior to the availability of vaccines for young adults, we sought to understand what would contribute to their uptake of a COVID-19 vaccine and how government policy might intervene. We undertook qualitative interviews between February and April 2021 with 19 participants (aged 18-29) in Perth, Western Australia. Despite Western…
I'm provax: Pro-vaccination personal histories and socialities of older Australians in the Covid-19 pandemic
Vaccination scholarship often explores how social networks foster vaccine refusal and delay, revealing how social and institutional relations produce refusing or delaying parents and un- or under-vaccinated children. It is likewise critical to understand the development of pro-vaccination orientations by researching those who want to be vaccinated since such attitudes and associated practices underpin successful vaccination programmes. This artic…
Free and Natural: Nudity and the American Cult of the Body
I leave most of the decisions up to her: ’ Gendered parenting, un/equal decision work, and responsibility for Covid-19 vaccination
Vaccination scholarship focuses on how privilege, individualized choice and ‘intensive’ and ‘natural’ parenthood – often motherhood – lead people to delay or not vaccinate their children. Recently, examining parents’ vaccination responsibilities – and the inequalities in paid employment and unpaid care work underpinning them – has become important to understand COVID-19. This article asks who makes vaccination decisions for their children under t…
Variation in cesarean section rates among hospitals in Washington State
OBJECTIVES. This study examined hospital characteristics and hospital population risk factors and their associations with hospital-specific cesarean section rates in Washington State. METHODS. Data were obtained from 1987 birth certificates. The study population included all hospitals that had 12 or more singleton live births. RESULTS. Hospital-specific cesarean section rates varied from 0% to 43% and were positively associated with proprietary o…
Rethinking the Foundations: Historiography in the Ancient World and in the Bible: Essays in Honour of John Van Seters
E-learning in context: An assessment of student inequalities in a university outreach program
E-learning technologies are often seen as a driving force in the democratisation of contemporary education. However, few researchers have focused on inequalities in online learners' access to technologies or their abilities to use them. In 2009, we assessed The University of Western Australia's SmARTS outreach program, investigating the advantages and disadvantages of employing online learning in the local context of Perth, Western Australia. SmA…
Age-Dissimilar Couples and Romantic Relationships: Ageless Love?
There has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar couples in recent years. This book examines how the romantic relationships of these couples are understood. Based on qualitative research, M
Blood will out: Essays on liquid transfers and flows, edited by Janet Carsten
What is blood? Can we theorise blood? What would a theory of blood, spanning cultures and histories, look like? These are questions that Janet Carsten asks in the introductory chapter of her edited
Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship, by Sarah Franklin
Biological Relatives is Sarah Franklin's latest book exploring reproduction and its related technologies. In it, she focuses on in vitro fertilisation (IVF), a now widespread technique that replica
Age-Dissimilar Couples and Romantic Relationships: Ageless Love
In recent years, there has been a widespread fascination with age-dissimilar, heterosexual romantic relationships. This interest is not new - these types of couples have been featured in Western media for decades, even centuries - yet qualitative research into such relationships has been limited. This book examines how the romantic relationships of age-dissimilar couples are understood. Based on a range of interviews, McKenzie argues that histori…
Love From Afar: Transcending Distance and Difference in Age-Dissimilar Couplings
When undertaking research into heterosexual, age-dissimilar relationships in Australia, I was surprised by the high proportion of couples who had begun or developed their relationships from a distance, or were living in distance relationships. These couples’ circumstances varied: some were in inter-cultural couplings, often involving older, white Australian men and younger, Southeast Asian women; some had met while travelling overseas; and others…
Beyond “Just Being There”: Teaching Internationalization at Home in Two Qualitative Methods Units
Study-abroad and international-student programs are commonly understood to transform their participants into “global citizens” possessing “cross-cultural competencies.” Similar benefits are anticipated from “internationalization at home”—defined as any on-campus, internationally related activity—whereby international students engage with and thus enrich the lives of domestic students. In this article, we reflect on a research project tied to two …
Choosing love? Tensions and transformations of modern marriage in Married at First Sight
Anthropologists and sociologists frequently suggest that marriage is undergoing rapid, worldwide transformation. Yet, while trends in nuptiality and divorce are used to demonstrate its decline, heterosexual marriage based on romantic love remains a cultural ideal in many contexts. This tension is reflected in cultural products like television programmes, including the increasingly popular genre of reality romance television. In this paper, we foc…
The Meaning of Money in China and the United States: The 1986 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, by Emily Martin
In The Meaning of Money in China and the United States, Emily Martin publishes for the first time her Lewis Henry Morgan lectures, presented at the University of Rochester in 1986. Martin gave four
Shutting Down Sex: Covid-19, Sex, and the Transformation of Singledom
This article examines the transformation of singledom during the COVID-19 pandemic, scrutinising the impact of rules and regulations governing proximity, touch and sex. I focus on government responses in Australia, situating the nation’s experience in a global context. National discussions were strangely sexless, presuming widespread coupledom and emphasising the lost, non-sexual intimacies of families and older people. I contrast this to broader…
Age‐dissimilar couple relationships: 25 Years in Review
This review explores research over the past quarter century on couples with age differences. I present recent global trends in age‐dissimilar couplings, illustrating a shift away from statistical marriage studies focusing on relationships' motivations, inequalities, and challenges, and largely underpinned by biological, economic, or demographic outlooks. Since the last review of age‐dissimilar couples in 1993, there have been substantive qualitat…
Unequal expressions: Emotions and narratives of leaving and remaining in precarious academia
In reflections on modern ‘neoliberal’ universities, narratives of quitting academia hold a special fascination. This is evidenced by the recent proliferation of ‘quit lit’: emotionally charged public statements elucidating people’s departures from academia. Yet scholarly examinations of quitting are exceedingly rare, especially those of precarious and ‘early career’ academics whose likelihood of departure is high. In this paper, I reflect on inte…
Un/making academia: Gendered precarities and personal lives in universities
Recent scholarship on universities explores how academics’ families and partners restrict their careers and how academic labour limits these relationships, both in highly gendered ways. Such research less often considers how people’s close relations might unevenly support them in continuously relocating; dedicating unpaid time to ‘career development’; or taking on or influencing them to remain in short-term, poorly paid precarious roles. This pap…
Free and Natural: Nudity and the American Cult of the Body
Parenthood: Beyond Maternity and Paternity
Parenthood is a transforming and enduring experience worldwide, yet it occurs in culturally distinctive ways. Anthropologists’ analyses of this aspect of social life need to attend to these distinctions by applying concepts that are flexible but offer meaningful insights. This article investigates the complexities of modern parent–child relations, making two propositions that expand the concept of parenthood. I begin by arguing that the term pare…
Localised learning: Mobilising belonging among mature-aged students in low socio-economic status regional and remote areas
The higher education participation and success rates of students in low socio-economic status (SES), regional, rural, remote, and isolated areas – who often attend university later in life – is a persistent concern in Australia and beyond. This article focuses on mature-aged students in low SES, regional and remote areas in Tasmania, Australia, proposing that universities harness local belonging when providing learning opportunities. It draws on …
Mandating Covid ‐19 vaccinations for children: Attitudes of Western Australian parents
Australian governments have used vaccine mandates to drive high uptake of routine childhood vaccines and adult Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) and influenza vaccines. We sought to understand the attitudes of Western Australian parents regarding mandating COVID‐19 vaccines for children, interviewing 44 parents of children aged up to 18 years between May and December 2021. Transcripts were analysed to ascertain parents' attitudes and sources of…
Reopening to the world: How safety, normality and trust in government shape young adults’ Covid-19 vaccine intentions
During the COVID-19 pandemic, and particularly 2020-2021, young adults were often significant transmitters of the virus. Prior to the availability of vaccines for young adults, we sought to understand what would contribute to their uptake of a COVID-19 vaccine and how government policy might intervene. We undertook qualitative interviews between February and April 2021 with 19 participants (aged 18-29) in Perth, Western Australia. Despite Western…
I'm provax: Pro-vaccination personal histories and socialities of older Australians in the Covid-19 pandemic
Vaccination scholarship often explores how social networks foster vaccine refusal and delay, revealing how social and institutional relations produce refusing or delaying parents and un- or under-vaccinated children. It is likewise critical to understand the development of pro-vaccination orientations by researching those who want to be vaccinated since such attitudes and associated practices underpin successful vaccination programmes. This artic…
Changing rules, recommendations, and risks: Covid-19 vaccination decisions and emotions during pregnancy
As COVID-19 vaccinations rolled out globally from late 2020, rules and recommendations regarding vaccine use in pregnancy shifted rapidly. Pre-registration COVID-19 vaccine trials excluded those who were pregnant. Initial Australian medical advice did not routinely recommend COVID-19 vaccines in pregnancy, due to limited safety data and little perceived risk of local transmission. Advice from local medical authorities changed throughout 2021, how…
Including the isolated: Place, rurality, and the state in regional Western Australia during the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccine rollout
The rapid transmission of SARS-CoV-2 demonstrated the world's interconnectedness, yet it also highlighted the importance of distance and place in the spread of virus and the distribution, access, and uptake of vaccinations. We examine how people in rural spaces living in a high income country, Australia, thought about the state's governance of them during the pandemic and vaccine rollout, particularly regarding government's responsibility for the…
I leave most of the decisions up to her: ’ Gendered parenting, un/equal decision work, and responsibility for Covid-19 vaccination
Vaccination scholarship focuses on how privilege, individualized choice and ‘intensive’ and ‘natural’ parenthood – often motherhood – lead people to delay or not vaccinate their children. Recently, examining parents’ vaccination responsibilities – and the inequalities in paid employment and unpaid care work underpinning them – has become important to understand COVID-19. This article asks who makes vaccination decisions for their children under t…
Future love: Age(ing), Gender and Care in Age-Dissimilar Couples’ Imagined Futures
Recent debates on age-dissimilar romantic relationships have centred on newly formed relationships, asking whether they reflect shifts towards more equal and individualistic love, or more malleable and self-determined understandings of age. Yet, in a global context where age dissimilarities are shifting and populations are ageing, little attention has been paid to how these understandings of love and age might play out in couples’ futures, partic…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · History (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Pandemic (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Public relations (5 works)