K De Laat
Biographic Data
| ID | 48466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K De Laat |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | De Laat |
| SIGNATURE | DE LAAT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2905-0592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
This Woman's Work: On the Relationship Between Creative and Reproductive Cognitive Labor
Persistent gender inequality in creative industries is typically explained through exclusionary networks, precarity, and discrimination. This article shifts focus to the cognitive and temporal dynamics that may influence such inequality. Drawing on dyadic interviews with Canadian parents who work or previously worked in creative fields, it examines how women and men negotiate the mental and temporal demands of caregiving and creative practice. An…
From CDs to MP3s: The discursive politics of technological valuation
This article examines the music industry’s transition from CDs to MP3s to document how members of the established industry and new entrants used metaphors to reinforce pre-existing cultural values and the business models they comprise. I outline a process through which their evaluations and legitimation efforts are constrained: actors engage in metaphorical contestation, where they use the same metaphor topics to reinforce opposing interpretation…
Immigrant IT Workers' Experiences With Remote Work: Temporal, Spatial, and Ideological Dimensions of Paid/Unpaid Work and Care
This article examines immigrant IT workers' experiences with remote work. Through interviews with 21 immigrant IT employees, I find that remote work is used to bridge care/work obligations. Bridging occurs spatially , for example, when working from home enables family members to return to countries of origin for extended periods of time. And bridging occurs ideologically , by enabling remote workers to enact gendered self‐concepts that may be oth…
Saying, Doing, Talking, Listening: A Mixed Methods Study of Fathers’ Involvement in Childcare and Household Work Tasks and Responsibilities
This article examines how methodological approaches shape understandings of domestic responsibilities. Using mixed methods data from Canadian dual-earner households, we compare fathers’ individual survey responses with couple interview accounts about their childcare and housework involvement. Survey and interview data align when assessing tasks – discrete actions with defined boundaries – but diverge when evaluating responsibilities, which involv…
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work
This article examines how Indigenous, Black, and people of colour (IBPOC) music industry workers navigate moments of racism and microaggressions. Through interviews with musical artists and industry workers ( N = 55), the article identifies two strategies for navigating situational acts of racism: alleviation and confrontation . Those choosing to alleviate reactions to racism express a psychic weight that stays with them, while those choosing to …
Living to Work (from Home): Overwork, Remote Work, and Gendered Dual Devotion to Work and Family
Contemporary North American work culture is characterized by experts as one of overwork. Throughout much of the previous century, many parents devoted themselves either to their careers, or to their families. These 'competing devotions' served as a cultural model for making sense of the world and alleviated the tension between overwork and family life. Data from interviews with 84 IT workers are used to examine whether devotion to work and family…
Mind the gap: Causes and consequences of the racial gap in music funding organizations
Valuations of diversity: The Role of Marquee Quotas in Creative Industries
This article examines how creative industry workers engage with diversity, absent a formal organizational mandate to do so. Through in-depth interviews with independent music industry personnel (N = 50), the article identifies how marquee quotas-racially diverse representation on rosters and festival bills-are used to pursue and implement diversity. Such quotas are justified via four distinct valuations of diversity: aesthetic, economic, reputati…
Remote Work and Post-Bureaucracy: Unintended Consequences of Work Design for Gender Inequality
In-depth interviews with IT employees ( N = 84) working under two types of work design-a post-bureaucratic work design labeled "agile," and a bureaucratic work design labeled "waterfall"-are used to examine gendered patterns in the adoption of remote work. Interviews reveal an unintended consequence of the agile model: It promotes a physical orientation that induces on-site work. Agile is gender-inegalitarian, with more women than men working rem…
More than employment policies? Parental leaves, flexible work and fathers' participation in unpaid care work
This article explores two policy pathways – parental leave and flexible work –as complementary policy interventions aimed at promoting gender equality in unpaid care and household work. Drawing on Canadian data from the 2021 International Familydemic Survey, we examine the relationship between fathers' previous use of parental leave, and current use of flexible work arrangements (flextime and remote work), and their involvement in unpaid care wor…
Cultural Sociology and the Politics of Canonization: An Anglo-Canadian Perspective
This article offers a regional spotlight introduction to Anglo-Canadian cultural sociology. The question of what makes Canada unique has long preoccupied Canadian writers, artists, and policy makers, and is central to scholarly debates about Canadian sociology’s position relative to British, American, and other national sociologies, as well as the need for decolonization and diversification of the disciplinary canon. As a subfield, Anglo-Canadian…
Singing the romance: Gendered and racialized representations of love and postfeminism in popular music
Caring consumption as marketing schema: Representations of Motherhood in an Era of Hyperconsumption
What can representations of women's 'caring consumption' (Thompson Citation1996) reveal about broad cultural understandings of the nature of motherhood? We study Canadian television advertisements to gain insight into the production of cultural schemas and the reproduction of beliefs about gender and motherhood. Employing an inductive qualitative analysis of portrayals of mothers and women who are not depicted as mothers, we find that the definin…
Write a Word, Get a Third: Managing Conflict and Rewards in Professional Songwriting Teams
This article examines the doubly uncertain work environment of professional songwriters: They are affected by wider events in the music industry, and their immediate work context is a team setting where the distribution of tasks varies from one project to the next. Interviews reveal that songwriters pursue professional interests by enhancing cooperation, rather than engaging in defensive tactics. The author identifies two conventions: equal autho…
Innovation and Diversity Redux: Analyzing Musical Form and Content in the American Recording Industry, 1990–2009
Using the American recording industry as a case study, this article analyzes innovation and diversity concurrently and outlines the analytical purchase gained from doing so; examines the effects of performer incumbency and combinatorial role patterns, thereby offering an empirical application of the “role as resource” perspective (Baker and Faulkner ); and provides data on an underexplored era in which the emergence of digital technology has had …
Socially defunct: A comparative analysis of the underrepresentation of older women in advertising
Living to Work (from Home): Overwork, Remote Work, and Gendered Dual Devotion to Work and Family
Contemporary North American work culture is characterized by experts as one of overwork. Throughout much of the previous century, many parents devoted themselves either to their careers, or to their families. These 'competing devotions' served as a cultural model for making sense of the world and alleviated the tension between overwork and family life. Data from interviews with 84 IT workers are used to examine whether devotion to work and family…
Write a Word, Get a Third: Managing Conflict and Rewards in Professional Songwriting Teams
This article examines the doubly uncertain work environment of professional songwriters: They are affected by wider events in the music industry, and their immediate work context is a team setting where the distribution of tasks varies from one project to the next. Interviews reveal that songwriters pursue professional interests by enhancing cooperation, rather than engaging in defensive tactics. The author identifies two conventions: equal autho…
Socially defunct: A comparative analysis of the underrepresentation of older women in advertising
More than employment policies? Parental leaves, flexible work and fathers' participation in unpaid care work
This article explores two policy pathways – parental leave and flexible work –as complementary policy interventions aimed at promoting gender equality in unpaid care and household work. Drawing on Canadian data from the 2021 International Familydemic Survey, we examine the relationship between fathers' previous use of parental leave, and current use of flexible work arrangements (flextime and remote work), and their involvement in unpaid care wor…
Innovation and Diversity Redux: Analyzing Musical Form and Content in the American Recording Industry, 1990–2009
Using the American recording industry as a case study, this article analyzes innovation and diversity concurrently and outlines the analytical purchase gained from doing so; examines the effects of performer incumbency and combinatorial role patterns, thereby offering an empirical application of the “role as resource” perspective (Baker and Faulkner ); and provides data on an underexplored era in which the emergence of digital technology has had …
Singing the romance: Gendered and racialized representations of love and postfeminism in popular music
Remote Work and Post-Bureaucracy: Unintended Consequences of Work Design for Gender Inequality
In-depth interviews with IT employees ( N = 84) working under two types of work design-a post-bureaucratic work design labeled "agile," and a bureaucratic work design labeled "waterfall"-are used to examine gendered patterns in the adoption of remote work. Interviews reveal an unintended consequence of the agile model: It promotes a physical orientation that induces on-site work. Agile is gender-inegalitarian, with more women than men working rem…
Valuations of diversity: The Role of Marquee Quotas in Creative Industries
This article examines how creative industry workers engage with diversity, absent a formal organizational mandate to do so. Through in-depth interviews with independent music industry personnel (N = 50), the article identifies how marquee quotas-racially diverse representation on rosters and festival bills-are used to pursue and implement diversity. Such quotas are justified via four distinct valuations of diversity: aesthetic, economic, reputati…
Caring consumption as marketing schema: Representations of Motherhood in an Era of Hyperconsumption
What can representations of women's 'caring consumption' (Thompson Citation1996) reveal about broad cultural understandings of the nature of motherhood? We study Canadian television advertisements to gain insight into the production of cultural schemas and the reproduction of beliefs about gender and motherhood. Employing an inductive qualitative analysis of portrayals of mothers and women who are not depicted as mothers, we find that the definin…
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work
This article examines how Indigenous, Black, and people of colour (IBPOC) music industry workers navigate moments of racism and microaggressions. Through interviews with musical artists and industry workers ( N = 55), the article identifies two strategies for navigating situational acts of racism: alleviation and confrontation . Those choosing to alleviate reactions to racism express a psychic weight that stays with them, while those choosing to …
Immigrant IT Workers' Experiences With Remote Work: Temporal, Spatial, and Ideological Dimensions of Paid/Unpaid Work and Care
This article examines immigrant IT workers' experiences with remote work. Through interviews with 21 immigrant IT employees, I find that remote work is used to bridge care/work obligations. Bridging occurs spatially , for example, when working from home enables family members to return to countries of origin for extended periods of time. And bridging occurs ideologically , by enabling remote workers to enact gendered self‐concepts that may be oth…
Mind the gap: Causes and consequences of the racial gap in music funding organizations
Socially defunct: A comparative analysis of the underrepresentation of older women in advertising
Innovation and Diversity Redux: Analyzing Musical Form and Content in the American Recording Industry, 1990–2009
Using the American recording industry as a case study, this article analyzes innovation and diversity concurrently and outlines the analytical purchase gained from doing so; examines the effects of performer incumbency and combinatorial role patterns, thereby offering an empirical application of the “role as resource” perspective (Baker and Faulkner ); and provides data on an underexplored era in which the emergence of digital technology has had …
Write a Word, Get a Third: Managing Conflict and Rewards in Professional Songwriting Teams
This article examines the doubly uncertain work environment of professional songwriters: They are affected by wider events in the music industry, and their immediate work context is a team setting where the distribution of tasks varies from one project to the next. Interviews reveal that songwriters pursue professional interests by enhancing cooperation, rather than engaging in defensive tactics. The author identifies two conventions: equal autho…
Caring consumption as marketing schema: Representations of Motherhood in an Era of Hyperconsumption
What can representations of women's 'caring consumption' (Thompson Citation1996) reveal about broad cultural understandings of the nature of motherhood? We study Canadian television advertisements to gain insight into the production of cultural schemas and the reproduction of beliefs about gender and motherhood. Employing an inductive qualitative analysis of portrayals of mothers and women who are not depicted as mothers, we find that the definin…
Singing the romance: Gendered and racialized representations of love and postfeminism in popular music
Cultural Sociology and the Politics of Canonization: An Anglo-Canadian Perspective
This article offers a regional spotlight introduction to Anglo-Canadian cultural sociology. The question of what makes Canada unique has long preoccupied Canadian writers, artists, and policy makers, and is central to scholarly debates about Canadian sociology’s position relative to British, American, and other national sociologies, as well as the need for decolonization and diversification of the disciplinary canon. As a subfield, Anglo-Canadian…
Valuations of diversity: The Role of Marquee Quotas in Creative Industries
This article examines how creative industry workers engage with diversity, absent a formal organizational mandate to do so. Through in-depth interviews with independent music industry personnel (N = 50), the article identifies how marquee quotas-racially diverse representation on rosters and festival bills-are used to pursue and implement diversity. Such quotas are justified via four distinct valuations of diversity: aesthetic, economic, reputati…
Remote Work and Post-Bureaucracy: Unintended Consequences of Work Design for Gender Inequality
In-depth interviews with IT employees ( N = 84) working under two types of work design-a post-bureaucratic work design labeled "agile," and a bureaucratic work design labeled "waterfall"-are used to examine gendered patterns in the adoption of remote work. Interviews reveal an unintended consequence of the agile model: It promotes a physical orientation that induces on-site work. Agile is gender-inegalitarian, with more women than men working rem…
More than employment policies? Parental leaves, flexible work and fathers' participation in unpaid care work
This article explores two policy pathways – parental leave and flexible work –as complementary policy interventions aimed at promoting gender equality in unpaid care and household work. Drawing on Canadian data from the 2021 International Familydemic Survey, we examine the relationship between fathers' previous use of parental leave, and current use of flexible work arrangements (flextime and remote work), and their involvement in unpaid care wor…
Mind the gap: Causes and consequences of the racial gap in music funding organizations
From CDs to MP3s: The discursive politics of technological valuation
This article examines the music industry’s transition from CDs to MP3s to document how members of the established industry and new entrants used metaphors to reinforce pre-existing cultural values and the business models they comprise. I outline a process through which their evaluations and legitimation efforts are constrained: actors engage in metaphorical contestation, where they use the same metaphor topics to reinforce opposing interpretation…
Immigrant IT Workers' Experiences With Remote Work: Temporal, Spatial, and Ideological Dimensions of Paid/Unpaid Work and Care
This article examines immigrant IT workers' experiences with remote work. Through interviews with 21 immigrant IT employees, I find that remote work is used to bridge care/work obligations. Bridging occurs spatially , for example, when working from home enables family members to return to countries of origin for extended periods of time. And bridging occurs ideologically , by enabling remote workers to enact gendered self‐concepts that may be oth…
Saying, Doing, Talking, Listening: A Mixed Methods Study of Fathers’ Involvement in Childcare and Household Work Tasks and Responsibilities
This article examines how methodological approaches shape understandings of domestic responsibilities. Using mixed methods data from Canadian dual-earner households, we compare fathers’ individual survey responses with couple interview accounts about their childcare and housework involvement. Survey and interview data align when assessing tasks – discrete actions with defined boundaries – but diverge when evaluating responsibilities, which involv…
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work
This article examines how Indigenous, Black, and people of colour (IBPOC) music industry workers navigate moments of racism and microaggressions. Through interviews with musical artists and industry workers ( N = 55), the article identifies two strategies for navigating situational acts of racism: alleviation and confrontation . Those choosing to alleviate reactions to racism express a psychic weight that stays with them, while those choosing to …
Living to Work (from Home): Overwork, Remote Work, and Gendered Dual Devotion to Work and Family
Contemporary North American work culture is characterized by experts as one of overwork. Throughout much of the previous century, many parents devoted themselves either to their careers, or to their families. These 'competing devotions' served as a cultural model for making sense of the world and alleviated the tension between overwork and family life. Data from interviews with 84 IT workers are used to examine whether devotion to work and family…
This Woman's Work: On the Relationship Between Creative and Reproductive Cognitive Labor
Persistent gender inequality in creative industries is typically explained through exclusionary networks, precarity, and discrimination. This article shifts focus to the cognitive and temporal dynamics that may influence such inequality. Drawing on dyadic interviews with Canadian parents who work or previously worked in creative fields, it examines how women and men negotiate the mental and temporal demands of caregiving and creative practice. An…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (5 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works)