Lucy Hopkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 6809940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Hopkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Hopkins |
| SIGNATURE | HOPKINS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edith Cowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0392-5186 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Associations between older adults’ attitudes to ageing, mental health, and quality of life
The stereotype embodiment theory posits that negative age stereotypes, which are not self-relevant in early life, are internalised at a young age. Cognitive models suggest that such internalised attitudes present a latent vulnerability which can be activated with increasing age and contribute to mental health difficulties. Attitudes to ageing are proposed to be multidimensional, with individual domains exerting differential effects on health outc…
Nation, nature and childhood in five curricula
This article explores the relations between nation, nature and childhood in five early childhood education curricula in the Nordic, post-socialist and settler-colonial states with the focus on the role education plays in the face of the climate crisis. The authors identify three interconnecting themes in which nation, nature and childhood are entangled in these curricula: 1) national nature as an object of learning; 2) nature and home/birth land …
“The Ice is Melting and I Don’t Want Santa to Drown!”
This paper’s reading of a specific cultural artifact to emerge from children’s climate activism in contemporary Australia enacts an argument that children themselves can be seen to be redefining childhood and futurity through their climate activism and demonstrates how their placards are evidence of this. It argues that we as critical childhood scholars can follow their lead by uncovering the discourses that underpin their activist slogans. In do…
Ladies, Gentlemen and Guys
Are there ladies and gentlemen in the 21st century? Do we need them? In the 20th century, lady became particularly unpopular with second wave feminists, who preferred ‘woman’. Gentleman was seen as similarly politically incorrect: class, race and culture bound. Following previous research on the word lady, we explore here some current evocations and debates around these words. We consider how the more casual, etymologically gendered term ‘guy’ ha…
The 'Poor Child'
The 'poor child' at the centre of development activity is often measured against and reformed towards an idealised and globalised child subject. This book examines why such normative discourses of childhood are in need of radical revision and explores how development research and practice can work to 'unsettle' the global child. It engages the cultural politics of childhood - a politics of equality, identity and representation - as a methodologic…
The complexities of workplace experience for lesbian and gay teachers
Discrimination against lesbians and gay men has been endemic throughout Australia's history. However, in twenty-first century Australian society there are signs of growing sophistication and acceptance of sexual diversities. Despite this, schools continue to be organisations where sexual 'difference' is marginalised and silenced, having ramifications on the professional lives of lesbian and gay teachers. This article, based on qualitative researc…
What Will Sophie Mol Think?’
This article explores the ways in which discourses of whiteness and childhood intersect in Arundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things to position the Indian children in the novel in inferior relation to the figure of the white child. Drawing the novel into discussions of the ideal of the universal child that shapes hegemonic educational and international development responses to children, the author suggests that the discursive dominance of su…
The complexities of workplace experience for lesbian and gay teachers
Discrimination against lesbians and gay men has been endemic throughout Australia's history. However, in twenty-first century Australian society there are signs of growing sophistication and acceptance of sexual diversities. Despite this, schools continue to be organisations where sexual 'difference' is marginalised and silenced, having ramifications on the professional lives of lesbian and gay teachers. This article, based on qualitative researc…
What Will Sophie Mol Think?’
This article explores the ways in which discourses of whiteness and childhood intersect in Arundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things to position the Indian children in the novel in inferior relation to the figure of the white child. Drawing the novel into discussions of the ideal of the universal child that shapes hegemonic educational and international development responses to children, the author suggests that the discursive dominance of su…
The complexities of workplace experience for lesbian and gay teachers
Discrimination against lesbians and gay men has been endemic throughout Australia's history. However, in twenty-first century Australian society there are signs of growing sophistication and acceptance of sexual diversities. Despite this, schools continue to be organisations where sexual 'difference' is marginalised and silenced, having ramifications on the professional lives of lesbian and gay teachers. This article, based on qualitative researc…
The 'Poor Child'
The 'poor child' at the centre of development activity is often measured against and reformed towards an idealised and globalised child subject. This book examines why such normative discourses of childhood are in need of radical revision and explores how development research and practice can work to 'unsettle' the global child. It engages the cultural politics of childhood - a politics of equality, identity and representation - as a methodologic…
Ladies, Gentlemen and Guys
Are there ladies and gentlemen in the 21st century? Do we need them? In the 20th century, lady became particularly unpopular with second wave feminists, who preferred ‘woman’. Gentleman was seen as similarly politically incorrect: class, race and culture bound. Following previous research on the word lady, we explore here some current evocations and debates around these words. We consider how the more casual, etymologically gendered term ‘guy’ ha…
“The Ice is Melting and I Don’t Want Santa to Drown!”
This paper’s reading of a specific cultural artifact to emerge from children’s climate activism in contemporary Australia enacts an argument that children themselves can be seen to be redefining childhood and futurity through their climate activism and demonstrates how their placards are evidence of this. It argues that we as critical childhood scholars can follow their lead by uncovering the discourses that underpin their activist slogans. In do…
Nation, nature and childhood in five curricula
This article explores the relations between nation, nature and childhood in five early childhood education curricula in the Nordic, post-socialist and settler-colonial states with the focus on the role education plays in the face of the climate crisis. The authors identify three interconnecting themes in which nation, nature and childhood are entangled in these curricula: 1) national nature as an object of learning; 2) nature and home/birth land …
Associations between older adults’ attitudes to ageing, mental health, and quality of life
The stereotype embodiment theory posits that negative age stereotypes, which are not self-relevant in early life, are internalised at a young age. Cognitive models suggest that such internalised attitudes present a latent vulnerability which can be activated with increasing age and contribute to mental health difficulties. Attitudes to ageing are proposed to be multidimensional, with individual domains exerting differential effects on health outc…
Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works)