Walkerdine
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 51347 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Walkerdine |
| SOBRENOME | Walkerdine |
| ASSINATURA | WALKERDINE |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4752-6395 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1070 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Afterword
It is 2018 and I am sitting in a former Miners' Institute in a small community in the south Wales Valleys.I had been asked to be there by a project i working on social haunting in order to record the affect in the room and to use that to develop an artistic response.I am caught up in a potent atmosphere of anger, pride and pain that it helps not to have to name but rather to experience.When the aim is to produce an artwork, there is no particular…
“I Just Wanna Be a Woman”
Catherine is age 21 years. She is part of a research project that has followed her life from age 4 until 21 years. She is driving along in her car and we hear a song, with the lines “I just wanna be a woman” sung plaintively over and over again. This article considers what the song might mean in the context of what we learn from a very close reading of observation and interview data with her, her parents, and teachers at various stages of her lif…
Psychologization
Psychologization refers to the use of psychological categories as the means of managing populations. Having been used ever since the emergence of psychology as a science, it became widespread during liberalism and has become particularly pervasive within neoliberal modes of governance
What's class got to do with it
Drawing on my own experience as a working-class academic, as well of that of working-class students in the present, I discuss how the experience for working-class students in elite universities still includes many aspects of classism, even when those students can, and do, do very well indeed and even when policies are apparently in place to support them. With class not being a protected characteristic in the 2010 UK Equality Act, issues of classi…
Popular Culture and the Eroticization of Little Girls
Pioneer of cultural, post-colonial and social theory
Neoliberalism and subjectivity in Latin America
No-one listens to us
The 2016 referendum result with a majority for Brexit came as a surprise to many in metropolitan centres. Deep divisions were exposed that appeared to have largely been hidden from those centres. In the wake of this, many explanations were put forward: perhaps most importantly, the notion of 'post-truth' gained a new prominence. The paper argues that post-truth could be said to depend upon notions of virality, contagion and harks back to founding…
Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
Of dinosaurs and divas
Being in Community
Affective History, Working-Class Communities and Self-Determination
Using a concept of affective history, this paper explores the common creation of everyday being-ness, producing common meanings that may have existed and been passed down over hundreds of years. Indeed, some of those meanings clearly become potent symbols binding us together. Thus, common meanings, held for many hundreds of years can have an effect in relation to the construction of communal beingness in the present. Applying this approach to res…
Transmitting class across generations
The voluminous literature on intergenerational transmission often engages with the transmission of poverty and poor educational attainment. This article reviews and questions the assumptions made within this literature. In particular, the paper seeks to engage with the central importance of the embodied experience of lived history and its transmission through generations. In understanding this, the article uses the work of psychoanalysts Davoine …
Researching Embodiment and Intergenerational Trauma using the work of Davoine and Gaudilliere
Figuration and the Child
A review of Claudi Castanñeda's Figurations: Child, Bodies, Worlds (Duke University Press, Durham, 2002
Using the Work of Felix Guattari to Understand Space, Place, Social Justice, and Education
This article considers the work of the radical psychoanalyst Felix Guattari in relation to the study of and intervention into space, place, education, and social justice. By understanding the ways in which Guattari's work understands space and place as central to existence, the article explores his schizoanalytic cartographies to think about the mapping of possibilities for movement, change, and transformation. As well as setting out a reading of…
Gender, Work and Community After De-Industrialisation
This book explores the processes of community, regeneration, relationality and affect in a small Welsh town after the closure of its iron and steel works - an industry at the heart of this community.
Shameful work
Shame on You! Intergenerational Trauma and Working-Class Femininity on Reality Television
Introduction This chapter explores the ways in which current attempts to shame and improve working-class women on British reality television work with regard to affective relations. Drawing on cultural theoretical work on Victorian working-class women as shameful, dirty and to be improved, the chapt
Neoliberalism, working-class subjects and higher education
This is a moment of post neo-liberalism in which aspiration and the constant working on qualifications is seen as a central trope of current modes of governance of higher education, alongside the contrary evidence about working-class students' access to universities in the UK and elsewhere. It is claimed that working-class children lack aspiration, which they appear not to have gained despite all the attempts and government policies. This paper e…
Counting Girls Out
The question about girls' attainment in mathematics is met with every kind of myth, false 'evidence', and theorizing about the gendered body and the gendered mind. The 'Girls and Mathematics Unit' led by Valerie Walkerdine has, over a period of ten years, carried out a detailed theoretical and empirical investigation in this area. The book tackles issues and prejudice and examines and puts into perspective many claims that have been made about wo…
A psychosocial approach to shame, embarrassment and melancholia amongst unemployed young men and their fathers
This paper uses a psychosocial approach to explore young unemployed men’s resistance to work they describe as ‘embarrassing’ and ‘feminine’, in the context of the closure of a steelworks in a town in the South Wales valleys. In our psychosocial interview‐based study, with young men as well as their mothers and (where possible) their fathers, we found a community riven with complex feelings about masculinity and femininity, projected on to the you…
Reading the rereadings
Communal Beingness and Affect
The article explores the place of affect in community relations with respect to trauma following the closure of a steelworks for a working-class community in the South Wales valleys in 2002. A review of sociological approaches to community demonstrates the poor handling of relational and affective aspects which, it is argued, are central to the way in which community relations were formed and provided a safe and containing skin against the uncert…
Estudios Culturales Y Comunicación
Changing the Subject
Reclassifying Upward Mobility
While the concept of class does not sit easily with a very changed labour market in which traditional markers of working-class masculinity have been eroded and many people would not define themselves in class terms, the differences and inequalities associated with class have certainly far from disappeared. This article aims to explore how we might think about the ways that 'class' enters the production of subjectivities in the present. In particu…
Regulating The Abject
In this paper, through an examination of mostly British make-over television programs we examine how the feminine has become a new site of limitless possibility and endless consumption, the fulcrum of intensifying processes of neo-liberal reinvention of continuously making over the self into successful, post-feminist bourgeois subjects. We argue that the central premise of contemporary make-over programs is the question: “Is the transformation of…
Creating Subjectivities
Communal Beingness and Affect
The article explores the place of affect in community relations with respect to trauma following the closure of a steelworks for a working-class community in the South Wales valleys in 2002. A review of sociological approaches to community demonstrates the poor handling of relational and affective aspects which, it is argued, are central to the way in which community relations were formed and provided a safe and containing skin against the uncert…
Uneasy Hybrids
Drawing on a longitudinal study of middle-class and working-class girls growing up, this article focuses on those few working-class young women who managed to get to university and face the prospect of a 'professional' career. The authors examine the concept of 'hybridity' as it is used to understand shifts in the constitution of contemporary feminine subjectivities and argue that although hybridity may be a social and cultural fact, in this psyc…
Affective History, Working-Class Communities and Self-Determination
Using a concept of affective history, this paper explores the common creation of everyday being-ness, producing common meanings that may have existed and been passed down over hundreds of years. Indeed, some of those meanings clearly become potent symbols binding us together. Thus, common meanings, held for many hundreds of years can have an effect in relation to the construction of communal beingness in the present. Applying this approach to res…
Being in Community
Progressive Pedagogy and Political Struggle
Journal Article Progressive Pedagogy and Political Struggle Get access Valerie Walkerdine Valerie Walkerdine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 27, Issue 5, September-October 1986, Pages 54–61, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/27.5.54 Published: 01 September 1986
Workers in the New Economy
In this article, I seek to make an intervention in debates between psycho-logical and postmodern anthropology by engaging with the theme of border crossing. I argue that the theme of the border is one that fundamentally instantiates a separation between interior and exterior with respect to subjectivity, itself a funda-mental transformation and a painful and difficult border. This is related to a Cartesian distinction critiqued in this article. H…
A psychosocial approach to shame, embarrassment and melancholia amongst unemployed young men and their fathers
This paper uses a psychosocial approach to explore young unemployed men’s resistance to work they describe as ‘embarrassing’ and ‘feminine’, in the context of the closure of a steelworks in a town in the South Wales valleys. In our psychosocial interview‐based study, with young men as well as their mothers and (where possible) their fathers, we found a community riven with complex feelings about masculinity and femininity, projected on to the you…
Project 4
In this short piece we discuss how we approached the messy and intractable issues of objectivity and reflexivity, fiction, fantasy and the production of knowledge in the qualitative, longitudinal study of girls growing up, ‘Project 4:21 Transitions to Womanhood’ (Walkerdine and Lucey 1989, Walkerdine 1996, Walkerdine et al. 2001). We try to give a sense of how we worked with conscious and unconscious psychological processes and theorized their pl…
Using the Work of Felix Guattari to Understand Space, Place, Social Justice, and Education
This article considers the work of the radical psychoanalyst Felix Guattari in relation to the study of and intervention into space, place, education, and social justice. By understanding the ways in which Guattari's work understands space and place as central to existence, the article explores his schizoanalytic cartographies to think about the mapping of possibilities for movement, change, and transformation. As well as setting out a reading of…
Neoliberalism, working-class subjects and higher education
This is a moment of post neo-liberalism in which aspiration and the constant working on qualifications is seen as a central trope of current modes of governance of higher education, alongside the contrary evidence about working-class students' access to universities in the UK and elsewhere. It is claimed that working-class children lack aspiration, which they appear not to have gained despite all the attempts and government policies. This paper e…
Playing The Game
While much literature on girls and video games offers games for girls as presenting an empowerment through the possibility f or girls of active engagement and the possibility of honing skills to win, this paper argues that things are not so simple. Based on a study of children between the ages of 8 and 11 playing video games in after school clubs in Sydney, Australia, the paper argues that most video games are one site for the production of conte…
What's class got to do with it
Drawing on my own experience as a working-class academic, as well of that of working-class students in the present, I discuss how the experience for working-class students in elite universities still includes many aspects of classism, even when those students can, and do, do very well indeed and even when policies are apparently in place to support them. With class not being a protected characteristic in the 2010 UK Equality Act, issues of classi…
Subjectivity and Social Class
No-one listens to us
The 2016 referendum result with a majority for Brexit came as a surprise to many in metropolitan centres. Deep divisions were exposed that appeared to have largely been hidden from those centres. In the wake of this, many explanations were put forward: perhaps most importantly, the notion of 'post-truth' gained a new prominence. The paper argues that post-truth could be said to depend upon notions of virality, contagion and harks back to founding…
Contextualizing Debates About Psychosocial Studies
Afterword
It is 2018 and I am sitting in a former Miners' Institute in a small community in the south Wales Valleys.I had been asked to be there by a project i working on social haunting in order to record the affect in the room and to use that to develop an artistic response.I am caught up in a potent atmosphere of anger, pride and pain that it helps not to have to name but rather to experience.When the aim is to produce an artwork, there is no particular…
Shameful work
Selections from Changing the Subject
Reading the rereadings
Learning through Interaction
There have been many studies of children learning to talk, but perhaps none as comprehensive - in terms of the number of children involved, the period of continuous observation and the scope of the analysis - as the Bristol Study of Language Development. This is the first full-length volume to be written by members of the research team and it is a fundamental study of language development from infancy to primary school. It synthesises the researc…
Changing the Subject
Changing the Subject is a classic critique of traditional psychology in which the foundations of critical and feminist psychology are laid down. Pioneering and foundational, it is still the groundbreaking text crucial to furthering the new psychology in both teaching and research. Now reissued with a new foreword describing the changes which have taken place over the last few years, Changing the Subject will continue to have a significant impact …
A Fierce Courage
Progressive Pedagogy and Political Struggle
Journal Article Progressive Pedagogy and Political Struggle Get access Valerie Walkerdine Valerie Walkerdine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 27, Issue 5, September-October 1986, Pages 54–61, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/27.5.54 Published: 01 September 1986
Language, Gender and Childhood
Feminism and Youth Culture
Beyond Developmentalism
Developmental psychology is understood in this paper as one of the `grand metanarratives of science' through which modernity has been characterized. The objects `the child' and `development' are held up for question, examining the way in which these are discursively constructed and produced within specific conditions of possibility which locate them in the government of the social and the production of the historically specific form of the subjec…
Bakom det målade leendet
Vilka bilder av oss själva är det vi godkänner? Och vad döljer sig bakom de fotografier vi river sönder eller stoppar undan i ett skåp? Det undermedvetna kan vara till hjälp för den som vill undersöka vad som döljer sig bakom bildens yta. Ett fruktansvärt ursinne, en depression och vrede som har blivit helt avsnörd kan finnas bakom det söla leendet hos den lilla flickan framför kameran
Working-Class Women in the Academy
mother still wants me to get a 'real' job. My father, who is retired after 44 years in the merchant marine, has never read my work. When visited recently, the only book in his house was the telephone book. I do not know that my mother's mother ever acknowledged my college education except to ask me once, 'How can you live so far away from your people?' Thus write two of the 20 women from working-class backgrounds whose voices are heard in this co…
Subjectivity and Social Class
Daddy’s Girl
Daddy's Girl
Mass Hysteria
Assuming no previous knowledge of psychology, this text provides an introduction to a field that is central to media studies. Using approaches such as discourse analysis, semiotics and post-structuralism, the book gently introduces the reader to psychology and its importance within media studies. Written in an accessible style, it has case studies and examples, chapter objectives and summaries, illustrative material and further reading sections.
Growing Up Girl
This reader samples a wide range of modern theological, religious and philosophical discussion on the problem of evil, understood both in terms of the practical or spiritual problem of coping with evil, and the theological problem of explaining its presence in God’s world.
Selections from Changing the Subject
Afterword
Project 4
In this short piece we discuss how we approached the messy and intractable issues of objectivity and reflexivity, fiction, fantasy and the production of knowledge in the qualitative, longitudinal study of girls growing up, ‘Project 4:21 Transitions to Womanhood’ (Walkerdine and Lucey 1989, Walkerdine 1996, Walkerdine et al. 2001). We try to give a sense of how we worked with conscious and unconscious psychological processes and theorized their pl…
Reclassifying Upward Mobility
While the concept of class does not sit easily with a very changed labour market in which traditional markers of working-class masculinity have been eroded and many people would not define themselves in class terms, the differences and inequalities associated with class have certainly far from disappeared. This article aims to explore how we might think about the ways that 'class' enters the production of subjectivities in the present. In particu…
Uneasy Hybrids
Drawing on a longitudinal study of middle-class and working-class girls growing up, this article focuses on those few working-class young women who managed to get to university and face the prospect of a 'professional' career. The authors examine the concept of 'hybridity' as it is used to understand shifts in the constitution of contemporary feminine subjectivities and argue that although hybridity may be a social and cultural fact, in this psyc…
Changing the Subject
Femininities
Response
Playing The Game
While much literature on girls and video games offers games for girls as presenting an empowerment through the possibility f or girls of active engagement and the possibility of honing skills to win, this paper argues that things are not so simple. Based on a study of children between the ages of 8 and 11 playing video games in after school clubs in Sydney, Australia, the paper argues that most video games are one site for the production of conte…
Workers in the New Economy
In this article, I seek to make an intervention in debates between psycho-logical and postmodern anthropology by engaging with the theme of border crossing. I argue that the theme of the border is one that fundamentally instantiates a separation between interior and exterior with respect to subjectivity, itself a funda-mental transformation and a painful and difficult border. This is related to a Cartesian distinction critiqued in this article. H…
Children, Gender, Video Games
Placing gender at the centre of the debate about young children and multimedia, particularly video games, the book develops a relational approach to game play using an account of affect. The book expl
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