Carly Guest
Biographic Data
| ID | 4447719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carly Guest |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carly |
| FAMILY NAME | Guest |
| SIGNATURE | GUEST C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlesex University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2072-3519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Family stories and secrets in memories of the UK 1984–1985 miners’ strike
This article draws on interviews with people from striking families who remember the 1984–1985 UK miners’ strike as children. It considers how proximity to the strike is often understood as participation in picket lines and in other forms of activism most commonly used to represent the strike in the media, film and television. However, the accounts reveal that, in contrast to the solidity of these images, memories of the strike’s children are cha…
Reflections on ‘Birthing Racial Difference’ in the Classroom
Gail Lewis’ (2009) ‘Birthing Racial Difference: Conversations with my mother and others’ appeared in the first edition of Studies in the Maternal , the year I worked as a MAMSIE intern. Here, I consider what this piece has taught me about doing sociological work that centers the autobiographical and what pedagogic possibilities this kind of work can create. Reflecting on conversations with students about Birthing Racial Difference , I consider ho…
Familiarity and strangeness
London’s Holloway Prison, the largest women’s prison in western Europe, closed in 2016. The impact of the closure on the women incarcerated in Holloway, and the prison’s place in the local community, is the focus of a project led by Islington Museum. Here, we develop an innovation, emotion-led methodology to explore photographs of the decommissioned Holloway, asking what they communicate about experiences of imprisonment and practices of punishme…
Extraordinary normalcy
Becoming Feminist
This book offers a novel, detailed and sensitive exploration of women's engagement with feminism. Centred on the themes of generations, hope, emotions and belonging, each chapter attends to the specif
Knowing feminism
Educational spaces have long provided opportunities for politicisation and activism. However, research into the processes through which students become politicised can often focus on participation in recognised forms of political action, thereby ignoring the multiple factors active in developing a political consciousness. This paper draws on narrative interviews with feminist women to consider the importance of education to their experience of be…
Fortunes of feminism
Fortunes of Feminism: From State Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis by Nancy Fraser, London, Verso, 2013, 256 pp., ISBN 978-4-84467-984-3 [Book review
Extraordinary normalcy
Knowing feminism
Educational spaces have long provided opportunities for politicisation and activism. However, research into the processes through which students become politicised can often focus on participation in recognised forms of political action, thereby ignoring the multiple factors active in developing a political consciousness. This paper draws on narrative interviews with feminist women to consider the importance of education to their experience of be…
Familiarity and strangeness
London’s Holloway Prison, the largest women’s prison in western Europe, closed in 2016. The impact of the closure on the women incarcerated in Holloway, and the prison’s place in the local community, is the focus of a project led by Islington Museum. Here, we develop an innovation, emotion-led methodology to explore photographs of the decommissioned Holloway, asking what they communicate about experiences of imprisonment and practices of punishme…
Fortunes of feminism
Fortunes of Feminism: From State Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis by Nancy Fraser, London, Verso, 2013, 256 pp., ISBN 978-4-84467-984-3 [Book review
Becoming Feminist
This book offers a novel, detailed and sensitive exploration of women's engagement with feminism. Centred on the themes of generations, hope, emotions and belonging, each chapter attends to the specif
Knowing feminism
Educational spaces have long provided opportunities for politicisation and activism. However, research into the processes through which students become politicised can often focus on participation in recognised forms of political action, thereby ignoring the multiple factors active in developing a political consciousness. This paper draws on narrative interviews with feminist women to consider the importance of education to their experience of be…
Extraordinary normalcy
Familiarity and strangeness
London’s Holloway Prison, the largest women’s prison in western Europe, closed in 2016. The impact of the closure on the women incarcerated in Holloway, and the prison’s place in the local community, is the focus of a project led by Islington Museum. Here, we develop an innovation, emotion-led methodology to explore photographs of the decommissioned Holloway, asking what they communicate about experiences of imprisonment and practices of punishme…
Reflections on ‘Birthing Racial Difference’ in the Classroom
Gail Lewis’ (2009) ‘Birthing Racial Difference: Conversations with my mother and others’ appeared in the first edition of Studies in the Maternal , the year I worked as a MAMSIE intern. Here, I consider what this piece has taught me about doing sociological work that centers the autobiographical and what pedagogic possibilities this kind of work can create. Reflecting on conversations with students about Birthing Racial Difference , I consider ho…
Family stories and secrets in memories of the UK 1984–1985 miners’ strike
This article draws on interviews with people from striking families who remember the 1984–1985 UK miners’ strike as children. It considers how proximity to the strike is often understood as participation in picket lines and in other forms of activism most commonly used to represent the strike in the media, film and television. However, the accounts reveal that, in contrast to the solidity of these images, memories of the strike’s children are cha…
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Politics (3 works)