Lauren Wilks
Biographic Data
| ID | 6566497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Wilks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilks |
| SIGNATURE | WILKS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5758-9942 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Red and Gold Pen
Access Amplified
This article focuses on a 1968 documentary radio series titled Seeds of Discontent and a recently established archival collection that centers on it. Created by Hartford Smith Jr., a Black social worker and professor in Detroit, and distributed by the National Educational Radio Network, Seeds of Discontent started with his concern over mass media’s coverage of riots and the social problems that caused them. Through interviews with college student…
Contestation and constraint: Commuting domestic workers and their employers in contemporary Kolkata
The shift from live-in to live-out and part-time forms of domestic work has brought greater autonomy and bargaining power for many domestic workers in India, many of whom now live outside the cities where they work. At the same time, the advent of more impersonal and transactional labour relations has led to a series of everyday ambivalences and tensions, with workers and employers simultaneously embracing and resisting these more impersonal and …
Work in pandemic times: Exploring precarious continuities in paid domestic work in India
Research on crisis have brought to fore the necessity of studying the gendered impact of such events. Covid-19 too has shown how gender relations play a role in the political economy of crisis, relief and response as well as recovery. This article focusses on the experiences of paid domestic workers in India who are among the most invisible and marginalized of India's informal workers and largely excluded from labor discourse and employment legis…
Managing mobility: Commuting domestic workers, mobile phones, and women’s ‘honour’ in Kolkata
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kolkata and rural West Bengal and engaging with literature on mobile phones in the global South, and on gender and sexuality in India, this article seeks to understand the incongruence between widespread mobile phone use in India and commuting domestic workers’ own accounts of their mobile phone use. It illustrates the important role that mobile phones play in enabling commuting workers (who are mostly women) …
The Serena Show
Through the lens of women's tennis legend Serena Williams, this article examines the roles of masculinization and feminization as they relate to Black womanhood in sport. Over the course of much of her career, Williams was characterized as “aggressive,” someone who “bludgeoned her way” to success. But after the 2016 and 2017 announcements of her engagement and pregnancy, respectively, media characterizations shifted toward narratives traditionall…
Reframing agency in abusive contexts: Beyond ‘free choice’ and ‘open resistance’
Lauren Wilks has been added as second co-author. Nughmana Mirza carried out the research and analysis for the article and wrote the main drafts; the pronoun ‘I’ and the words ‘the researcher’, used throughout the article, refer to her. Lauren Wilks identified key literature and contributed to the theoretical framework of the research. This input by both authors was omitted from the version of the article published as: Nughmana, M. (2018) Reframin…
Domestic days: Women, work, and politics in contemporary Kolkata
Domestic days: women, work, and politics in contemporary Kolkata." Contemporary South Asia, 25(1), pp. 110–111
Work in pandemic times: Exploring precarious continuities in paid domestic work in India
Research on crisis have brought to fore the necessity of studying the gendered impact of such events. Covid-19 too has shown how gender relations play a role in the political economy of crisis, relief and response as well as recovery. This article focusses on the experiences of paid domestic workers in India who are among the most invisible and marginalized of India's informal workers and largely excluded from labor discourse and employment legis…
Contestation and constraint: Commuting domestic workers and their employers in contemporary Kolkata
The shift from live-in to live-out and part-time forms of domestic work has brought greater autonomy and bargaining power for many domestic workers in India, many of whom now live outside the cities where they work. At the same time, the advent of more impersonal and transactional labour relations has led to a series of everyday ambivalences and tensions, with workers and employers simultaneously embracing and resisting these more impersonal and …
Managing mobility: Commuting domestic workers, mobile phones, and women’s ‘honour’ in Kolkata
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kolkata and rural West Bengal and engaging with literature on mobile phones in the global South, and on gender and sexuality in India, this article seeks to understand the incongruence between widespread mobile phone use in India and commuting domestic workers’ own accounts of their mobile phone use. It illustrates the important role that mobile phones play in enabling commuting workers (who are mostly women) …
Domestic days: Women, work, and politics in contemporary Kolkata
Domestic days: women, work, and politics in contemporary Kolkata." Contemporary South Asia, 25(1), pp. 110–111
The Serena Show
Through the lens of women's tennis legend Serena Williams, this article examines the roles of masculinization and feminization as they relate to Black womanhood in sport. Over the course of much of her career, Williams was characterized as “aggressive,” someone who “bludgeoned her way” to success. But after the 2016 and 2017 announcements of her engagement and pregnancy, respectively, media characterizations shifted toward narratives traditionall…
Reframing agency in abusive contexts: Beyond ‘free choice’ and ‘open resistance’
Lauren Wilks has been added as second co-author. Nughmana Mirza carried out the research and analysis for the article and wrote the main drafts; the pronoun ‘I’ and the words ‘the researcher’, used throughout the article, refer to her. Lauren Wilks identified key literature and contributed to the theoretical framework of the research. This input by both authors was omitted from the version of the article published as: Nughmana, M. (2018) Reframin…
Managing mobility: Commuting domestic workers, mobile phones, and women’s ‘honour’ in Kolkata
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kolkata and rural West Bengal and engaging with literature on mobile phones in the global South, and on gender and sexuality in India, this article seeks to understand the incongruence between widespread mobile phone use in India and commuting domestic workers’ own accounts of their mobile phone use. It illustrates the important role that mobile phones play in enabling commuting workers (who are mostly women) …
Contestation and constraint: Commuting domestic workers and their employers in contemporary Kolkata
The shift from live-in to live-out and part-time forms of domestic work has brought greater autonomy and bargaining power for many domestic workers in India, many of whom now live outside the cities where they work. At the same time, the advent of more impersonal and transactional labour relations has led to a series of everyday ambivalences and tensions, with workers and employers simultaneously embracing and resisting these more impersonal and …
Work in pandemic times: Exploring precarious continuities in paid domestic work in India
Research on crisis have brought to fore the necessity of studying the gendered impact of such events. Covid-19 too has shown how gender relations play a role in the political economy of crisis, relief and response as well as recovery. This article focusses on the experiences of paid domestic workers in India who are among the most invisible and marginalized of India's informal workers and largely excluded from labor discourse and employment legis…
The Red and Gold Pen
Access Amplified
This article focuses on a 1968 documentary radio series titled Seeds of Discontent and a recently established archival collection that centers on it. Created by Hartford Smith Jr., a Black social worker and professor in Detroit, and distributed by the National Educational Radio Network, Seeds of Discontent started with his concern over mass media’s coverage of riots and the social problems that caused them. Through interviews with college student…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Domestic work (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (3 works) · Sex work (3 works)