C Whittaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 55359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Whittaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Whittaker |
| SIGNATURE | WHITTAKER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bedfordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0102-869X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dirty Borders, Clean Women
How do Mexican-American women in the US-Mexico borderlands respond to insecurity relating to multiple forms of discrimination? The present article compares the experiences of women of different class and ethnic backgrounds to analyze their gendered watchfulness in response to the racialized and classed anti-immigrant vigilance of privileged Anglo-Americans. We argue that, in a context of ongoing coloniality, maintaining an exploitable racialized …
Chapter 2 A Hall of Mirrors
Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Watchfulness shapes many Chicanxs’ and other People of Color’s everyday lives in San Diego. Experiencing racist discrimination can lead to becoming vigilant, which frames their subjectivity. Focusing particularly on Chicanxs, we show how they seek to intervene against structural inequalities and threats in their lives, such as by re-claiming space, consciousness raising, participating in protests, and healing practices. We argue that contestation…
Beyond the dead zone
When violence clearly conveys a message and produces order, it simplifies meaning. Worded differently, it creates a "dead zone" (Graeber 2012). This article argues that intense, passionate love, like intense, physical violence, drastically diminishes meaning and enhances the potential for harm. In recent globalized feminist discourse, it is commonly claimed that love and violence are mutually exclusive, which rests on the assumption that violence…
Vigilance, Knowledge, and De/colonization
This article shows how vigilance against racism and coloniality in the US-Mexico borderlands produces knowledge, highlighting the decolonizing potential of their dynamic entanglement. Before the Black Lives Matter protests against police violence across the United States in late May 2020, many Latin@s in San Diego, California, already anticipated racial discrimination and violence in light of growing anti-migration sentiment. Those Latin@s who to…
A Bridge that Divides
The construction of the Coronado Bridge, completed in 1969, over Barrio Logan in San Diego in the US-Mexico borderlands physically manifests relations of coloniality that those in the neighbourhood experience on a daily basis. Drawing on anthropological approaches and the philosophy of Jacques Rancière, this article examines the unintended consequences of infrastructure construction. We reveal how political subjectivity develops through actions …
Felt power
Too often, women from the Global South have been portrayed as victims of gender violence in need of empowerment. Yet in the rural south of Mexico City, many Indigenous women expressed feeling strong, even powerful, despite their varied experiences of violence. Based on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, I argue that their felt power was often rooted in their realities. Nahuatl‐speaking communities have historically recognized certain kinds…
Aztecs Are Not Indigenous
To write about Indigeneity means already being deeply enmeshed in identity politics. The much researched rural south of Mexico City is a case in point. Anthropologists have described the Nahuatl speakers of Milpa Alta as "heirs of the Aztecs," and knowledge of Nahuatl and folklore has become key to maintaining municipal land rights in the context of current multiculturalist politics. Thus, Nahuatl has become a politicized marker of prestige. This…
What Is the Relationship between Worker Skills and Outcomes for Families in Child and Family Social Work
Communication skills are fundamental to social work, yet few studies have directly evaluated their impact. In this study, we explore the relationship between skills and outcomes in 127 families. An observation of practice was undertaken on the second or third meeting with a family. Practice quality was evaluated in relation to seven skills, which were grouped into three dimensions: relationship building, good authority and evocation of intrinsic …
A randomized controlled trial of training in Motivational Interviewing for child protection
There has been interest in developing more evidence-based approaches to child and family social work in the UK in recent years. This study examines the impact of a skills development package of training and supervision in Motivational Interviewing (MI) on the skills of social workers and the engagement of parents through a randomized controlled trial. All workers in one local authority were randomly assigned to receive the package (n = 28) or con…
Doing Child-Protection Social Work with Parents
For many social workers, participatory practice may seem an unachievable goal, particularly in the field of child protection. In this paper, we discuss a significant programme of change in one London local authority, as part of which we undertook 110 observations of practice and provided more than eighty follow-up coaching sessions for workers. Through these observations, we saw many examples of key participatory practice skills such as empathy, …
A Beginners Guide to Evidence-Based Practice in Health and Social Care
In recent years, evidence-based practice (EBP) has gained momentum in social work and it looks increasingly likely that it is here to stay. Whilst this is undoubtedly a positive development for the profession, it is news that is unlikely to provoke an enthusiastic response from many students and practitioners alike. As social work educators will be familiar with, EBP is a subject matter that is often met with anxiety or scepticism by students. At…
Roman Frontiers and European Perceptions
A randomized controlled trial of training in Motivational Interviewing for child protection
There has been interest in developing more evidence-based approaches to child and family social work in the UK in recent years. This study examines the impact of a skills development package of training and supervision in Motivational Interviewing (MI) on the skills of social workers and the engagement of parents through a randomized controlled trial. All workers in one local authority were randomly assigned to receive the package (n = 28) or con…
What Is the Relationship between Worker Skills and Outcomes for Families in Child and Family Social Work
Communication skills are fundamental to social work, yet few studies have directly evaluated their impact. In this study, we explore the relationship between skills and outcomes in 127 families. An observation of practice was undertaken on the second or third meeting with a family. Practice quality was evaluated in relation to seven skills, which were grouped into three dimensions: relationship building, good authority and evocation of intrinsic …
Beyond the dead zone
When violence clearly conveys a message and produces order, it simplifies meaning. Worded differently, it creates a "dead zone" (Graeber 2012). This article argues that intense, passionate love, like intense, physical violence, drastically diminishes meaning and enhances the potential for harm. In recent globalized feminist discourse, it is commonly claimed that love and violence are mutually exclusive, which rests on the assumption that violence…
Aztecs Are Not Indigenous
To write about Indigeneity means already being deeply enmeshed in identity politics. The much researched rural south of Mexico City is a case in point. Anthropologists have described the Nahuatl speakers of Milpa Alta as "heirs of the Aztecs," and knowledge of Nahuatl and folklore has become key to maintaining municipal land rights in the context of current multiculturalist politics. Thus, Nahuatl has become a politicized marker of prestige. This…
Doing Child-Protection Social Work with Parents
For many social workers, participatory practice may seem an unachievable goal, particularly in the field of child protection. In this paper, we discuss a significant programme of change in one London local authority, as part of which we undertook 110 observations of practice and provided more than eighty follow-up coaching sessions for workers. Through these observations, we saw many examples of key participatory practice skills such as empathy, …
Roman Frontiers and European Perceptions
Roman Frontiers and European Perceptions
A Beginners Guide to Evidence-Based Practice in Health and Social Care
In recent years, evidence-based practice (EBP) has gained momentum in social work and it looks increasingly likely that it is here to stay. Whilst this is undoubtedly a positive development for the profession, it is news that is unlikely to provoke an enthusiastic response from many students and practitioners alike. As social work educators will be familiar with, EBP is a subject matter that is often met with anxiety or scepticism by students. At…
A randomized controlled trial of training in Motivational Interviewing for child protection
There has been interest in developing more evidence-based approaches to child and family social work in the UK in recent years. This study examines the impact of a skills development package of training and supervision in Motivational Interviewing (MI) on the skills of social workers and the engagement of parents through a randomized controlled trial. All workers in one local authority were randomly assigned to receive the package (n = 28) or con…
Doing Child-Protection Social Work with Parents
For many social workers, participatory practice may seem an unachievable goal, particularly in the field of child protection. In this paper, we discuss a significant programme of change in one London local authority, as part of which we undertook 110 observations of practice and provided more than eighty follow-up coaching sessions for workers. Through these observations, we saw many examples of key participatory practice skills such as empathy, …
What Is the Relationship between Worker Skills and Outcomes for Families in Child and Family Social Work
Communication skills are fundamental to social work, yet few studies have directly evaluated their impact. In this study, we explore the relationship between skills and outcomes in 127 families. An observation of practice was undertaken on the second or third meeting with a family. Practice quality was evaluated in relation to seven skills, which were grouped into three dimensions: relationship building, good authority and evocation of intrinsic …
Felt power
Too often, women from the Global South have been portrayed as victims of gender violence in need of empowerment. Yet in the rural south of Mexico City, many Indigenous women expressed feeling strong, even powerful, despite their varied experiences of violence. Based on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork, I argue that their felt power was often rooted in their realities. Nahuatl‐speaking communities have historically recognized certain kinds…
Aztecs Are Not Indigenous
To write about Indigeneity means already being deeply enmeshed in identity politics. The much researched rural south of Mexico City is a case in point. Anthropologists have described the Nahuatl speakers of Milpa Alta as "heirs of the Aztecs," and knowledge of Nahuatl and folklore has become key to maintaining municipal land rights in the context of current multiculturalist politics. Thus, Nahuatl has become a politicized marker of prestige. This…
A Bridge that Divides
The construction of the Coronado Bridge, completed in 1969, over Barrio Logan in San Diego in the US-Mexico borderlands physically manifests relations of coloniality that those in the neighbourhood experience on a daily basis. Drawing on anthropological approaches and the philosophy of Jacques Rancière, this article examines the unintended consequences of infrastructure construction. We reveal how political subjectivity develops through actions …
Vigilance, Knowledge, and De/colonization
This article shows how vigilance against racism and coloniality in the US-Mexico borderlands produces knowledge, highlighting the decolonizing potential of their dynamic entanglement. Before the Black Lives Matter protests against police violence across the United States in late May 2020, many Latin@s in San Diego, California, already anticipated racial discrimination and violence in light of growing anti-migration sentiment. Those Latin@s who to…
Chapter 2 A Hall of Mirrors
Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Watchfulness shapes many Chicanxs’ and other People of Color’s everyday lives in San Diego. Experiencing racist discrimination can lead to becoming vigilant, which frames their subjectivity. Focusing particularly on Chicanxs, we show how they seek to intervene against structural inequalities and threats in their lives, such as by re-claiming space, consciousness raising, participating in protests, and healing practices. We argue that contestation…
Beyond the dead zone
When violence clearly conveys a message and produces order, it simplifies meaning. Worded differently, it creates a "dead zone" (Graeber 2012). This article argues that intense, passionate love, like intense, physical violence, drastically diminishes meaning and enhances the potential for harm. In recent globalized feminist discourse, it is commonly claimed that love and violence are mutually exclusive, which rests on the assumption that violence…
Dirty Borders, Clean Women
How do Mexican-American women in the US-Mexico borderlands respond to insecurity relating to multiple forms of discrimination? The present article compares the experiences of women of different class and ethnic backgrounds to analyze their gendered watchfulness in response to the racialized and classed anti-immigrant vigilance of privileged Anglo-Americans. We argue that, in a context of ongoing coloniality, maintaining an exploitable racialized …
Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works)