R Holliday
Biographic Data
| ID | 980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Holliday |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Holliday |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLIDAY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8796-1853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The anti-marriage turn: Economic precarity and racialized grievance in the Chinese manosphere
In the context of a global resurgence in right-wing movements, this paper investigates how economic precarity becomes reconfigured into gendered and racialized grievance within the Chinese manosphere. Whilst misogynistic discourses have historically championed the traditional family, a distinctly anti-marriage feeling has recently emerged amongst some Chinese men. We frame this as a reaction to a cost-of-living crisis and the erosion of men’s sup…
Tweakments: Non‐surgical beauty technologies and future directions for the sociology of the body
Science, aesthetics, the body, and the concerns they attach to, such as gender, ‘race’, class, age and consumer culture, are key objects of sociological investigation. These discourses have been reignited in recent years by changes in the availability, accessibility and affordability of medicalised cosmetic procedures. The most popular of these procedures are non‐surgical ‘tweakments’ to the shape and/or appearance of the face, usually through us…
Cosmetic Surgery
Cosmetic surgery is surgery designed to improve appearance and encompasses a broad range of procedures. Its history is generally rooted in reconstructive surgeries for injuries and disfigurements associated with war or disease. More recently cosmetic surgery has been linked to media images of perfect bodies. However, there is much disagreement – especially between feminists – on whether cosmetic surgery is an extreme, risky, and painful impositio…
Trading faces: The ‘Korean Look’ and medical nationalism in South Korean cosmetic surgery tourism
This paper addresses the growing phenomenon of cosmetic surgery tourism through a focus on the development of this industry in South Korea. Unlike many discussions of this topic, the paper decentres dominant narratives based on west‐goes‐east or north‐goes‐south journeys. Instead, we look at regional flows by exploring the experiences of Chinese patients travelling to South Korea in search of facial cosmetic surgery – procedures often referred to…
Media and Popular Culture
Transnational healthcare, cross-border perspectives
Brief encounters: Assembling cosmetic surgery tourism
This paper reports findings from a large-scale, multi-disciplinary, mixed methods project which explores empirically and theoretically the rapidly growing but poorly understood (and barely regulated) phenomenon of cosmetic surgery tourism (CST). We explore CST by drawing on theories of flows, networks and assemblages, aiming to produce a fuller and more nuanced account of - and accounting for - CST. This enables us to conceptualise CST as an inte…
Neoliberal governance and international medical travel in Malaysia
Neoliberal governance and international medical travel in Malaysia." Australian Geographer, 45(1), pp. 93–94
Beautiful face, beautiful place: Relational geographies and gender in cosmetic surgery tourism websites
Cosmetic surgery tourism is a significant and growing area of medical tourism. This article explores the gendered construction of cosmetic surgery tourism in different geographical locations through an analysis of destination websites in Spain, the Czech Republic and Thailand. We examine the ways in which gender and other intersections of identity interact with notions of space, place and travel to construct particular locations and cosmetic surg…
Gender, Globalization and Aesthetic Surgery in South Korea
This article explores the unusually high levels of cosmetic surgery in South Korea - for both women and men. We argue that existing explanations, which draw on feminist and postcolonial positions, presenting cosmetic surgery as pertinent only to female and non-western bodies found lacking by patriarchal and racist/imperialist economies, miss important cultural influences. In particular, focus on western cultural hegemony misses the influence in K…
Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex and Plastic Surgery in Brazil
Edmonds, A. Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex and Plastic Surgery in Brazil . Durham : Duke University Press , 2010 . 352 pp (pbk) $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4801-6 , $89.95 (hbk ) ISBN: 978-0-8223-4785-9 . Alex Edmonds’ book Pretty Modern is a remarkable account of cosmetic surgery – or plástica – in Brazil. Its attempt to locate cosmetic surgery as a specific cultural practice in a particular location breaks with rather tired debates about whether cosmet…
Bikinis and Bandages: An Itinerary for Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
This paper explores the ways in which cosmetic surgery tourism can be thought of specifically as a tourist experience. We argue that whilst essentially involving travel for the purpose of undertaking painful surgery, cosmetic surgery tourism has a particular resonance with the holiday, most usually constructed as relaxing and restorative. This resonance is connected to the importance in contemporary society of not simply possessing the cultural c…
Man Made Plastic: Investigating men’s consumption of aesthetic surgery
Men who undergo aesthetic surgery have been largely overlooked in sociological discussions of the body. Using qualitative interviews drawn from a small pilot study of post-operative men, this article explores the narrative accounts that these men offer to explain their consumption of surgical procedures. The accounts disrupt dominant explanations of aesthetic surgery as an issue that only affects women, and contest the repetitive formulation of m…
Aesthetic surgery as false beauty
This article identifies a prevalent strand of feminist writing on beauty and aesthetic surgery and explores some of the contradictions and inconsistencies inscribed within it. In particular, we concentrate on three central feminist claims: that living in a misogynist culture produces aesthetic surgery as an issue predominantly concerning women; that pain - both physical and psychic - is a central conceptual frame through which aesthetic surgery s…
"Filming "The Closet: The Role of Video Diaries in Researching Sexualities
This article explores the potential of video diaries in capturing identity performances. Through selected excerpts of video diaries by "queer" subjects, the methodological issues that the video diaries raise and the kinds of data made available through them are explored. This article argues that identities are constructed as a "text" on the surface of bodies and that the participant's experience of "comfort" or "discomfort" relates to the extent …
The early years of molecular biology: Personal recollections
The early years of molecular biology were characterized by a strong interaction between theory and experiment. This included the elucidation of the structure of DNA itself; genetic fine structure, recombination and repair; DNA replication; template–directed protein synthesis; the universality of the triplet genetic code, and the co–linearity of the DNA sequence of structural genes and the sequence of amino acids in proteins. The principle of co–l…
Body and Organization
This text enlivens the study of the organization by shifting the emphasis to examine how social practices are embodied. The contributors offer an alternative framework for understanding the interplay between individuals, institutions and work
We've been Framed: Visualising Methodology
This paper explores the reasons why video, and other visual representations have been largely ignored in sociology, whilst the possibilities of video as an empirical source have been sidelined by cultural studies. Discussions of methodology have raised doubts about notions such as objectivity and scientific knowledge, and about the power relationships involved in the research and writing processes, and techniques that one might employ in order to…
The Comfort of Identity
This article is based on empirical research using video diaries to explore the performance of sexual identities in work, domestic and social spaces. The diaries allow respondents to show the clothes they wear on different occasions, and to talk about the process of performance. The article focuses on the ways in which identity as a concept functions within `academic', `political' and `subcultural' discourses of sexuality, and draws on diarists' d…
Organization–Representation: Work and Organization in Popular Culture
Clarifying the complex social relationship between organisation and its representation, contributors enhance our understanding of work and organisation and question basic, traditionally accepted distinctions between 'fiction' and 'reality'
Kinship resources for the elderly
As population ageing strains social insurance systems, cohorts whose own fertility was low will be reaching elderly status, leaving close biological kin in short supply. However, there is a countervailing trend, inasmuch as burgeoning divorce, remarriage and family blending have expanded the numbers and varieties of step–kin and other non–standard kinship ties. Methods of computer microsimulation in conjunction with richer sample surveys can help…
Relative Merits: Family Culture and Kinship in Small Firms
Small firms are saturated with the ideology of the family. For some, the notion of the 'family firm' conjures up an image of harmony at the workplace; moreover, it is seen to serve as an important source of flexibility. Others, however, view it as little more than a cover-up of exploitative practices which are believed to be dominant in small firms. Using an ethnographic approach, this article explores in detail how the notion of the family is ac…
We've been Framed: Visualising Methodology
This paper explores the reasons why video, and other visual representations have been largely ignored in sociology, whilst the possibilities of video as an empirical source have been sidelined by cultural studies. Discussions of methodology have raised doubts about notions such as objectivity and scientific knowledge, and about the power relationships involved in the research and writing processes, and techniques that one might employ in order to…
Gender, Globalization and Aesthetic Surgery in South Korea
This article explores the unusually high levels of cosmetic surgery in South Korea - for both women and men. We argue that existing explanations, which draw on feminist and postcolonial positions, presenting cosmetic surgery as pertinent only to female and non-western bodies found lacking by patriarchal and racist/imperialist economies, miss important cultural influences. In particular, focus on western cultural hegemony misses the influence in K…
Transnational healthcare, cross-border perspectives
Brief encounters: Assembling cosmetic surgery tourism
This paper reports findings from a large-scale, multi-disciplinary, mixed methods project which explores empirically and theoretically the rapidly growing but poorly understood (and barely regulated) phenomenon of cosmetic surgery tourism (CST). We explore CST by drawing on theories of flows, networks and assemblages, aiming to produce a fuller and more nuanced account of - and accounting for - CST. This enables us to conceptualise CST as an inte…
Aesthetic surgery as false beauty
This article identifies a prevalent strand of feminist writing on beauty and aesthetic surgery and explores some of the contradictions and inconsistencies inscribed within it. In particular, we concentrate on three central feminist claims: that living in a misogynist culture produces aesthetic surgery as an issue predominantly concerning women; that pain - both physical and psychic - is a central conceptual frame through which aesthetic surgery s…
Man Made Plastic: Investigating men’s consumption of aesthetic surgery
Men who undergo aesthetic surgery have been largely overlooked in sociological discussions of the body. Using qualitative interviews drawn from a small pilot study of post-operative men, this article explores the narrative accounts that these men offer to explain their consumption of surgical procedures. The accounts disrupt dominant explanations of aesthetic surgery as an issue that only affects women, and contest the repetitive formulation of m…
Relative Merits: Family Culture and Kinship in Small Firms
Small firms are saturated with the ideology of the family. For some, the notion of the 'family firm' conjures up an image of harmony at the workplace; moreover, it is seen to serve as an important source of flexibility. Others, however, view it as little more than a cover-up of exploitative practices which are believed to be dominant in small firms. Using an ethnographic approach, this article explores in detail how the notion of the family is ac…
Bikinis and Bandages: An Itinerary for Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
This paper explores the ways in which cosmetic surgery tourism can be thought of specifically as a tourist experience. We argue that whilst essentially involving travel for the purpose of undertaking painful surgery, cosmetic surgery tourism has a particular resonance with the holiday, most usually constructed as relaxing and restorative. This resonance is connected to the importance in contemporary society of not simply possessing the cultural c…
"Filming "The Closet: The Role of Video Diaries in Researching Sexualities
This article explores the potential of video diaries in capturing identity performances. Through selected excerpts of video diaries by "queer" subjects, the methodological issues that the video diaries raise and the kinds of data made available through them are explored. This article argues that identities are constructed as a "text" on the surface of bodies and that the participant's experience of "comfort" or "discomfort" relates to the extent …
Trading faces: The ‘Korean Look’ and medical nationalism in South Korean cosmetic surgery tourism
This paper addresses the growing phenomenon of cosmetic surgery tourism through a focus on the development of this industry in South Korea. Unlike many discussions of this topic, the paper decentres dominant narratives based on west‐goes‐east or north‐goes‐south journeys. Instead, we look at regional flows by exploring the experiences of Chinese patients travelling to South Korea in search of facial cosmetic surgery – procedures often referred to…
Beautiful face, beautiful place: Relational geographies and gender in cosmetic surgery tourism websites
Cosmetic surgery tourism is a significant and growing area of medical tourism. This article explores the gendered construction of cosmetic surgery tourism in different geographical locations through an analysis of destination websites in Spain, the Czech Republic and Thailand. We examine the ways in which gender and other intersections of identity interact with notions of space, place and travel to construct particular locations and cosmetic surg…
Tweakments: Non‐surgical beauty technologies and future directions for the sociology of the body
Science, aesthetics, the body, and the concerns they attach to, such as gender, ‘race’, class, age and consumer culture, are key objects of sociological investigation. These discourses have been reignited in recent years by changes in the availability, accessibility and affordability of medicalised cosmetic procedures. The most popular of these procedures are non‐surgical ‘tweakments’ to the shape and/or appearance of the face, usually through us…
Relative Merits: Family Culture and Kinship in Small Firms
Small firms are saturated with the ideology of the family. For some, the notion of the 'family firm' conjures up an image of harmony at the workplace; moreover, it is seen to serve as an important source of flexibility. Others, however, view it as little more than a cover-up of exploitative practices which are believed to be dominant in small firms. Using an ethnographic approach, this article explores in detail how the notion of the family is ac…
Kinship resources for the elderly
As population ageing strains social insurance systems, cohorts whose own fertility was low will be reaching elderly status, leaving close biological kin in short supply. However, there is a countervailing trend, inasmuch as burgeoning divorce, remarriage and family blending have expanded the numbers and varieties of step–kin and other non–standard kinship ties. Methods of computer microsimulation in conjunction with richer sample surveys can help…
Organization–Representation: Work and Organization in Popular Culture
Clarifying the complex social relationship between organisation and its representation, contributors enhance our understanding of work and organisation and question basic, traditionally accepted distinctions between 'fiction' and 'reality'
The Comfort of Identity
This article is based on empirical research using video diaries to explore the performance of sexual identities in work, domestic and social spaces. The diaries allow respondents to show the clothes they wear on different occasions, and to talk about the process of performance. The article focuses on the ways in which identity as a concept functions within `academic', `political' and `subcultural' discourses of sexuality, and draws on diarists' d…
Body and Organization
This text enlivens the study of the organization by shifting the emphasis to examine how social practices are embodied. The contributors offer an alternative framework for understanding the interplay between individuals, institutions and work
We've been Framed: Visualising Methodology
This paper explores the reasons why video, and other visual representations have been largely ignored in sociology, whilst the possibilities of video as an empirical source have been sidelined by cultural studies. Discussions of methodology have raised doubts about notions such as objectivity and scientific knowledge, and about the power relationships involved in the research and writing processes, and techniques that one might employ in order to…
The early years of molecular biology: Personal recollections
The early years of molecular biology were characterized by a strong interaction between theory and experiment. This included the elucidation of the structure of DNA itself; genetic fine structure, recombination and repair; DNA replication; template–directed protein synthesis; the universality of the triplet genetic code, and the co–linearity of the DNA sequence of structural genes and the sequence of amino acids in proteins. The principle of co–l…
"Filming "The Closet: The Role of Video Diaries in Researching Sexualities
This article explores the potential of video diaries in capturing identity performances. Through selected excerpts of video diaries by "queer" subjects, the methodological issues that the video diaries raise and the kinds of data made available through them are explored. This article argues that identities are constructed as a "text" on the surface of bodies and that the participant's experience of "comfort" or "discomfort" relates to the extent …
Aesthetic surgery as false beauty
This article identifies a prevalent strand of feminist writing on beauty and aesthetic surgery and explores some of the contradictions and inconsistencies inscribed within it. In particular, we concentrate on three central feminist claims: that living in a misogynist culture produces aesthetic surgery as an issue predominantly concerning women; that pain - both physical and psychic - is a central conceptual frame through which aesthetic surgery s…
Man Made Plastic: Investigating men’s consumption of aesthetic surgery
Men who undergo aesthetic surgery have been largely overlooked in sociological discussions of the body. Using qualitative interviews drawn from a small pilot study of post-operative men, this article explores the narrative accounts that these men offer to explain their consumption of surgical procedures. The accounts disrupt dominant explanations of aesthetic surgery as an issue that only affects women, and contest the repetitive formulation of m…
Bikinis and Bandages: An Itinerary for Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
This paper explores the ways in which cosmetic surgery tourism can be thought of specifically as a tourist experience. We argue that whilst essentially involving travel for the purpose of undertaking painful surgery, cosmetic surgery tourism has a particular resonance with the holiday, most usually constructed as relaxing and restorative. This resonance is connected to the importance in contemporary society of not simply possessing the cultural c…
Gender, Globalization and Aesthetic Surgery in South Korea
This article explores the unusually high levels of cosmetic surgery in South Korea - for both women and men. We argue that existing explanations, which draw on feminist and postcolonial positions, presenting cosmetic surgery as pertinent only to female and non-western bodies found lacking by patriarchal and racist/imperialist economies, miss important cultural influences. In particular, focus on western cultural hegemony misses the influence in K…
Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex and Plastic Surgery in Brazil
Edmonds, A. Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex and Plastic Surgery in Brazil . Durham : Duke University Press , 2010 . 352 pp (pbk) $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-8223-4801-6 , $89.95 (hbk ) ISBN: 978-0-8223-4785-9 . Alex Edmonds’ book Pretty Modern is a remarkable account of cosmetic surgery – or plástica – in Brazil. Its attempt to locate cosmetic surgery as a specific cultural practice in a particular location breaks with rather tired debates about whether cosmet…
Beautiful face, beautiful place: Relational geographies and gender in cosmetic surgery tourism websites
Cosmetic surgery tourism is a significant and growing area of medical tourism. This article explores the gendered construction of cosmetic surgery tourism in different geographical locations through an analysis of destination websites in Spain, the Czech Republic and Thailand. We examine the ways in which gender and other intersections of identity interact with notions of space, place and travel to construct particular locations and cosmetic surg…
Neoliberal governance and international medical travel in Malaysia
Neoliberal governance and international medical travel in Malaysia." Australian Geographer, 45(1), pp. 93–94
Media and Popular Culture
Transnational healthcare, cross-border perspectives
Brief encounters: Assembling cosmetic surgery tourism
This paper reports findings from a large-scale, multi-disciplinary, mixed methods project which explores empirically and theoretically the rapidly growing but poorly understood (and barely regulated) phenomenon of cosmetic surgery tourism (CST). We explore CST by drawing on theories of flows, networks and assemblages, aiming to produce a fuller and more nuanced account of - and accounting for - CST. This enables us to conceptualise CST as an inte…
Trading faces: The ‘Korean Look’ and medical nationalism in South Korean cosmetic surgery tourism
This paper addresses the growing phenomenon of cosmetic surgery tourism through a focus on the development of this industry in South Korea. Unlike many discussions of this topic, the paper decentres dominant narratives based on west‐goes‐east or north‐goes‐south journeys. Instead, we look at regional flows by exploring the experiences of Chinese patients travelling to South Korea in search of facial cosmetic surgery – procedures often referred to…
Cosmetic Surgery
Cosmetic surgery is surgery designed to improve appearance and encompasses a broad range of procedures. Its history is generally rooted in reconstructive surgeries for injuries and disfigurements associated with war or disease. More recently cosmetic surgery has been linked to media images of perfect bodies. However, there is much disagreement – especially between feminists – on whether cosmetic surgery is an extreme, risky, and painful impositio…
Tweakments: Non‐surgical beauty technologies and future directions for the sociology of the body
Science, aesthetics, the body, and the concerns they attach to, such as gender, ‘race’, class, age and consumer culture, are key objects of sociological investigation. These discourses have been reignited in recent years by changes in the availability, accessibility and affordability of medicalised cosmetic procedures. The most popular of these procedures are non‐surgical ‘tweakments’ to the shape and/or appearance of the face, usually through us…
The anti-marriage turn: Economic precarity and racialized grievance in the Chinese manosphere
In the context of a global resurgence in right-wing movements, this paper investigates how economic precarity becomes reconfigured into gendered and racialized grievance within the Chinese manosphere. Whilst misogynistic discourses have historically championed the traditional family, a distinctly anti-marriage feeling has recently emerged amongst some Chinese men. We frame this as a reaction to a cost-of-living crisis and the erosion of men’s sup…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Art (9 works) · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)