Emma Casey
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3601431 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Emma Casey |
| PRENOMES | Emma |
| SOBRENOME | Casey |
| ASSINATURA | CASEY E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Kingston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6634-6018 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1961 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Unappreciated Labour
Financialization and top incomes in emerging economies
Prior studies on emerging economies contend that increasing returns to human capital has contributed to the growth of wage inequality over the last few decades. However, this explanation fails to account for an important dynamic of contemporary wage inequality: the growth of top labor incomes. Research on advanced economies show the emergence of a wage premium in the financial sector increased top labor incomes, but studies have yet to investigat…
Welcome to the shopping revolution! Commodifying selfhood and rearticulating consumer capitalism at the Metro Centre, Gateshead
Drawing on original archive material from the Tyne and Wear Archives, this article examines the sociological significance of the Metro Centre shopping mall, built in Gateshead in North East England in 1986, at the time the biggest in Europe. It explores how the Metro Centre marked a call to accept the new and 'prevailing ideals' of consumption and represented a key moment for the reformulation of selfhoods as consumer identity practices. Adopting…
Emma Casey and Jo Littler in conversation
Biscuits and unicorns
Women’s lives have been affected exponentially by the COVID_19 pandemic. In this paper, we explore some of the ways in which women’s everyday experiences of paid and unpaid labour have exacerbated pre-existing gender inequalities. We examine the impact that the pandemic has had on women’s experiences within the domestic sphere, as hyper-normative and historical representations of women as the ‘natural’ primary carers for children and the home hav…
Mrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework
This article extends sociological and feminist accounts of housework by examining the social significance of the rise of the 'cleanfluencer': online influencers who supply household cleaning and organization tips and modes of lifestyle aspiration via social media. We focus on 'Mrs Hinch'; aka Sophie Hinchliffe from Essex, the 'homegrown' Instagram star with 4.1 million followers who shares daily images and stories of cleaning and family life, and…
Sociology, Sociology and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Cultural and creative industries are now an established area of academic research. Yet, the welcome innovations that are associated with the development of a new field of study are also matched by confusions and conjectures. The term itself, 'cultural and creative industries', is the subject of extensive debate. It goes hand in hand with closely related concepts such as 'creative economy', as well as reflecting definitional struggles aimed at con…
Gambling, Status Anxiety and Inter-Generational Social Mobility
This article is located within sociological research exploring the subjective experiences and emotional consequences of social mobility in the UK. It adds to recent attempts to examine the role of everyday cultural practices in making sense of journeys of upward mobility. The article draws on these theoretical advancements and applies them to a case study of everyday gambling practices using qualitative data ( N = 24) collected from the Mass Obse…
From Cookery in Colour to The Great British Bake Off
This article offers a feminist reading of home-baking. It explores the shifting ways in which baking has variously been bound up with a variety of normative values, such as familial ‘togetherness’, care, patriotism, thrift and display. This article draws on a range of historical examples, from the patriotic virtues of home-baking extolled via British war-time propaganda, and the ‘wholesome, simple and economical’ post-war Bero baking recipes, thr…
Gender and Consumption
Contents: Introduction, Emma Casey and Lydia Martens. Part 1 The Commercialisation of Domestic Life in Historical Perspective: Class, gender and domestic consumption in Britain 1920a 50, Judy Giles The feminist and the cook: Julia Child, Betty Friedan and domestic femininity, Joanne Hollows Gender and the destalinization of consumer taste in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev, Susan Reid. Part 2 Private/Public Dynamics in Gender and Consumption: M…
Introduction
In this special section of Families, Relationships and Societies, we present six contributions that discuss novel, original research findings surrounding the theme of intimacies, families and practices of consumption. They are versions of presentations originally given in February 2013 to a combined meeting of the British Sociological Association's Family and Interpersonal Relationships Study Group and the Leisure and Recreation Study Group. The …
Catalogue communities
This article offers a sociological understanding of the role of catalogue shopping in women’s everyday lives. The article draws on qualitative data generated from interviews with women working at the returns department of the Kays catalogue warehouse in Worcester. During the time of writing, Shop Direct, owners of Kays closed down the historic warehouse in Worcester, effectively bringing over 200 years of Worcester’s association with Kays and the…
Mass Gambling' from 1947 to 2011
This paper explores the relationship between Mass Observation and sociological method. It will demonstrate that often this relationship has been an uneasy one with the detailed, deeply qualitative and broadly 'unstructured' data elicited by Mass Observation frequently positioned as posing problems for sociologists particularly in terms of data analysis and interpretation. The paper will explore these debates by focusing on two case studies drawn …
Special Section Introduction
Since Mass Observation's foundation in 1937, the organisation has played witness to the great and the small events of everyday life during the last eight decades, recording people's opinions, beliefs and experiences, and making them available for researchers to develop new interpretations of British social life. Although the data produced is often messy and unwieldy and apparently contradicts many sociological assumptions about methodological rig…
Urban Safaris
This paper examines the prevalence and relevance of looting for understanding the 2011 English riots. It begins by distinguishing these riots from previous British riots by arguing that although looting is by no means a new phenomena looting nevertheless became central to discussions, interpretations and recollections of the riots. The paper will explore public and media responses to the looting and will focus on the uses of looting as a means of…
Struggle and protest or passivity and control? The formation of class identity in two contemporary cultural practices
This article draws on recent theoretical developments within sociology which have proposed new ways of looking at and understanding class. Drawing on two contemporary examples, namely the Gambling Bill and the recent ‘riots’ at Ikea in Edmonton in north London, the article demonstrates some of the ways in which class operates subjectively within the practice of everyday life. Using these examples, I show how class continuously informs identity an…
Working Class Women, Gambling and the Dream of Happiness
This paper offers an account of the relationship between gender, class and notions of happiness. It draws on recent research conducted into the experiences of working class women who play the UK National Lottery. In particular, it explores the notion that gambling offers working class women the opportunity to dream of the 'good life' - of enhancing their lives and of making 'improvements' to their own and their families' well-being. In this paper…
Domesticating Gambling
The issue of gambling as a form of leisure practice has, to date, received very little attention from sociologists. This is despite the enormous range of consideration recently invested in gambling by policy makers, politicians, journalists, psychologists and economists. In particular, the role that gambling plays as an important part of women’s leisure patterns has been virtually ignored. In this paper, the impact of UK National Lottery play on …
Gambling and Consumption
This article draws on the findings of quantitative and qualitative research undertaken between 1999 and 2001 which explores the motivations and experiences of National Lottery play amongst a group of working-class women in the UK. It examines the usefulness of current theories of gambling and proposes a link between gambling and contemporary consumer culture. The vast majority of existing analyses of gambling behaviour focus on psychological and …
How do you ge a PhD in that?!”
This article represents an attempt to uncover a suitable method of sociological enquiry, which can best understand and explore the experiences of the older, working class women of my research. Noting the historical, frustrating sense of absence of women in dominant knowledge claims (for example Beauvoir, 1997; Woolf, 1993; Rowbotham, 1973), the article seeks to complement post‐modern critiques of the autonomy of reason with feminist accounts of k…
Stability of the Kuder Vocational Preference Record in Psychiatric Patients
Gambling and Consumption
This article draws on the findings of quantitative and qualitative research undertaken between 1999 and 2001 which explores the motivations and experiences of National Lottery play amongst a group of working-class women in the UK. It examines the usefulness of current theories of gambling and proposes a link between gambling and contemporary consumer culture. The vast majority of existing analyses of gambling behaviour focus on psychological and …
Special Section Introduction
Since Mass Observation's foundation in 1937, the organisation has played witness to the great and the small events of everyday life during the last eight decades, recording people's opinions, beliefs and experiences, and making them available for researchers to develop new interpretations of British social life. Although the data produced is often messy and unwieldy and apparently contradicts many sociological assumptions about methodological rig…
Urban Safaris
This paper examines the prevalence and relevance of looting for understanding the 2011 English riots. It begins by distinguishing these riots from previous British riots by arguing that although looting is by no means a new phenomena looting nevertheless became central to discussions, interpretations and recollections of the riots. The paper will explore public and media responses to the looting and will focus on the uses of looting as a means of…
Working Class Women, Gambling and the Dream of Happiness
This paper offers an account of the relationship between gender, class and notions of happiness. It draws on recent research conducted into the experiences of working class women who play the UK National Lottery. In particular, it explores the notion that gambling offers working class women the opportunity to dream of the 'good life' - of enhancing their lives and of making 'improvements' to their own and their families' well-being. In this paper…
Struggle and protest or passivity and control? The formation of class identity in two contemporary cultural practices
This article draws on recent theoretical developments within sociology which have proposed new ways of looking at and understanding class. Drawing on two contemporary examples, namely the Gambling Bill and the recent ‘riots’ at Ikea in Edmonton in north London, the article demonstrates some of the ways in which class operates subjectively within the practice of everyday life. Using these examples, I show how class continuously informs identity an…
Domesticating Gambling
The issue of gambling as a form of leisure practice has, to date, received very little attention from sociologists. This is despite the enormous range of consideration recently invested in gambling by policy makers, politicians, journalists, psychologists and economists. In particular, the role that gambling plays as an important part of women’s leisure patterns has been virtually ignored. In this paper, the impact of UK National Lottery play on …
Sociology, Sociology and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Cultural and creative industries are now an established area of academic research. Yet, the welcome innovations that are associated with the development of a new field of study are also matched by confusions and conjectures. The term itself, 'cultural and creative industries', is the subject of extensive debate. It goes hand in hand with closely related concepts such as 'creative economy', as well as reflecting definitional struggles aimed at con…
Mrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework
This article extends sociological and feminist accounts of housework by examining the social significance of the rise of the 'cleanfluencer': online influencers who supply household cleaning and organization tips and modes of lifestyle aspiration via social media. We focus on 'Mrs Hinch'; aka Sophie Hinchliffe from Essex, the 'homegrown' Instagram star with 4.1 million followers who shares daily images and stories of cleaning and family life, and…
Gambling, Status Anxiety and Inter-Generational Social Mobility
This article is located within sociological research exploring the subjective experiences and emotional consequences of social mobility in the UK. It adds to recent attempts to examine the role of everyday cultural practices in making sense of journeys of upward mobility. The article draws on these theoretical advancements and applies them to a case study of everyday gambling practices using qualitative data ( N = 24) collected from the Mass Obse…
From Cookery in Colour to The Great British Bake Off
This article offers a feminist reading of home-baking. It explores the shifting ways in which baking has variously been bound up with a variety of normative values, such as familial ‘togetherness’, care, patriotism, thrift and display. This article draws on a range of historical examples, from the patriotic virtues of home-baking extolled via British war-time propaganda, and the ‘wholesome, simple and economical’ post-war Bero baking recipes, thr…
Mass Gambling' from 1947 to 2011
This paper explores the relationship between Mass Observation and sociological method. It will demonstrate that often this relationship has been an uneasy one with the detailed, deeply qualitative and broadly 'unstructured' data elicited by Mass Observation frequently positioned as posing problems for sociologists particularly in terms of data analysis and interpretation. The paper will explore these debates by focusing on two case studies drawn …
Unappreciated Labour
Stability of the Kuder Vocational Preference Record in Psychiatric Patients
Gambling and Consumption
This article draws on the findings of quantitative and qualitative research undertaken between 1999 and 2001 which explores the motivations and experiences of National Lottery play amongst a group of working-class women in the UK. It examines the usefulness of current theories of gambling and proposes a link between gambling and contemporary consumer culture. The vast majority of existing analyses of gambling behaviour focus on psychological and …
How do you ge a PhD in that?!”
This article represents an attempt to uncover a suitable method of sociological enquiry, which can best understand and explore the experiences of the older, working class women of my research. Noting the historical, frustrating sense of absence of women in dominant knowledge claims (for example Beauvoir, 1997; Woolf, 1993; Rowbotham, 1973), the article seeks to complement post‐modern critiques of the autonomy of reason with feminist accounts of k…
Domesticating Gambling
The issue of gambling as a form of leisure practice has, to date, received very little attention from sociologists. This is despite the enormous range of consideration recently invested in gambling by policy makers, politicians, journalists, psychologists and economists. In particular, the role that gambling plays as an important part of women’s leisure patterns has been virtually ignored. In this paper, the impact of UK National Lottery play on …
Working Class Women, Gambling and the Dream of Happiness
This paper offers an account of the relationship between gender, class and notions of happiness. It draws on recent research conducted into the experiences of working class women who play the UK National Lottery. In particular, it explores the notion that gambling offers working class women the opportunity to dream of the 'good life' - of enhancing their lives and of making 'improvements' to their own and their families' well-being. In this paper…
Struggle and protest or passivity and control? The formation of class identity in two contemporary cultural practices
This article draws on recent theoretical developments within sociology which have proposed new ways of looking at and understanding class. Drawing on two contemporary examples, namely the Gambling Bill and the recent ‘riots’ at Ikea in Edmonton in north London, the article demonstrates some of the ways in which class operates subjectively within the practice of everyday life. Using these examples, I show how class continuously informs identity an…
Urban Safaris
This paper examines the prevalence and relevance of looting for understanding the 2011 English riots. It begins by distinguishing these riots from previous British riots by arguing that although looting is by no means a new phenomena looting nevertheless became central to discussions, interpretations and recollections of the riots. The paper will explore public and media responses to the looting and will focus on the uses of looting as a means of…
Introduction
In this special section of Families, Relationships and Societies, we present six contributions that discuss novel, original research findings surrounding the theme of intimacies, families and practices of consumption. They are versions of presentations originally given in February 2013 to a combined meeting of the British Sociological Association's Family and Interpersonal Relationships Study Group and the Leisure and Recreation Study Group. The …
Catalogue communities
This article offers a sociological understanding of the role of catalogue shopping in women’s everyday lives. The article draws on qualitative data generated from interviews with women working at the returns department of the Kays catalogue warehouse in Worcester. During the time of writing, Shop Direct, owners of Kays closed down the historic warehouse in Worcester, effectively bringing over 200 years of Worcester’s association with Kays and the…
Mass Gambling' from 1947 to 2011
This paper explores the relationship between Mass Observation and sociological method. It will demonstrate that often this relationship has been an uneasy one with the detailed, deeply qualitative and broadly 'unstructured' data elicited by Mass Observation frequently positioned as posing problems for sociologists particularly in terms of data analysis and interpretation. The paper will explore these debates by focusing on two case studies drawn …
Special Section Introduction
Since Mass Observation's foundation in 1937, the organisation has played witness to the great and the small events of everyday life during the last eight decades, recording people's opinions, beliefs and experiences, and making them available for researchers to develop new interpretations of British social life. Although the data produced is often messy and unwieldy and apparently contradicts many sociological assumptions about methodological rig…
Gender and Consumption
Contents: Introduction, Emma Casey and Lydia Martens. Part 1 The Commercialisation of Domestic Life in Historical Perspective: Class, gender and domestic consumption in Britain 1920a 50, Judy Giles The feminist and the cook: Julia Child, Betty Friedan and domestic femininity, Joanne Hollows Gender and the destalinization of consumer taste in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev, Susan Reid. Part 2 Private/Public Dynamics in Gender and Consumption: M…
From Cookery in Colour to The Great British Bake Off
This article offers a feminist reading of home-baking. It explores the shifting ways in which baking has variously been bound up with a variety of normative values, such as familial ‘togetherness’, care, patriotism, thrift and display. This article draws on a range of historical examples, from the patriotic virtues of home-baking extolled via British war-time propaganda, and the ‘wholesome, simple and economical’ post-war Bero baking recipes, thr…
Sociology, Sociology and the Cultural and Creative Industries
Cultural and creative industries are now an established area of academic research. Yet, the welcome innovations that are associated with the development of a new field of study are also matched by confusions and conjectures. The term itself, 'cultural and creative industries', is the subject of extensive debate. It goes hand in hand with closely related concepts such as 'creative economy', as well as reflecting definitional struggles aimed at con…
Gambling, Status Anxiety and Inter-Generational Social Mobility
This article is located within sociological research exploring the subjective experiences and emotional consequences of social mobility in the UK. It adds to recent attempts to examine the role of everyday cultural practices in making sense of journeys of upward mobility. The article draws on these theoretical advancements and applies them to a case study of everyday gambling practices using qualitative data ( N = 24) collected from the Mass Obse…
Biscuits and unicorns
Women’s lives have been affected exponentially by the COVID_19 pandemic. In this paper, we explore some of the ways in which women’s everyday experiences of paid and unpaid labour have exacerbated pre-existing gender inequalities. We examine the impact that the pandemic has had on women’s experiences within the domestic sphere, as hyper-normative and historical representations of women as the ‘natural’ primary carers for children and the home hav…
Mrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework
This article extends sociological and feminist accounts of housework by examining the social significance of the rise of the 'cleanfluencer': online influencers who supply household cleaning and organization tips and modes of lifestyle aspiration via social media. We focus on 'Mrs Hinch'; aka Sophie Hinchliffe from Essex, the 'homegrown' Instagram star with 4.1 million followers who shares daily images and stories of cleaning and family life, and…
Emma Casey and Jo Littler in conversation
Financialization and top incomes in emerging economies
Prior studies on emerging economies contend that increasing returns to human capital has contributed to the growth of wage inequality over the last few decades. However, this explanation fails to account for an important dynamic of contemporary wage inequality: the growth of top labor incomes. Research on advanced economies show the emergence of a wage premium in the financial sector increased top labor incomes, but studies have yet to investigat…
Welcome to the shopping revolution! Commodifying selfhood and rearticulating consumer capitalism at the Metro Centre, Gateshead
Drawing on original archive material from the Tyne and Wear Archives, this article examines the sociological significance of the Metro Centre shopping mall, built in Gateshead in North East England in 1986, at the time the biggest in Europe. It explores how the Metro Centre marked a call to accept the new and 'prevailing ideals' of consumption and represented a key moment for the reformulation of selfhoods as consumer identity practices. Adopting…
Unappreciated Labour
Sociology (19 obras) · Social science (12 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Aesthetics (5 obras) · Consumption (sociology (5 obras) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras)