Lyn Thomas
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3688030 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lyn Thomas |
| PRENOMES | Lyn |
| SOBRENOME | Thomas |
| ASSINATURA | THOMAS L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | London Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-3925-2352 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Retour à Oxford avec Annie Ernaux
The documents added to the new edition of Ernaux's Retour à Yvetot (2013, 2022), written during her student years, represent the process and affects of class transition, without the benefits of hindsight, experience, and the readings in sociology, particularly of Bourdieu, that inform her literary texts. I analyse them here both in relation to Ernaux's published works, particularly La Honte and Mémoire de fille and to the letters I wrote at a sim…
Social cohesion and the notion of ‘suspect communities’
In this article, we consider how the practice of conceiving of groups within civil society as ‘communities’ meshes with conceptualisations of certain populations as ‘suspect’ and consider some of the impacts and consequences of this for particular populations and for social cohesion. We examine how Irish and Muslim people in Britain have become aware of and have experienced themselves to be members of ‘suspect communities’ in relation to politica…
Constructing ‘suspect’ communities and Britishness
There exist many parallels between the experiences of Irish communities in Britain in the past and those of Muslim communities today. However, although they have both been the subject of negative stereotyping, intelligence profiling, wrongful arrest and prejudice, little research has been carried out comparing how these communities are represented in the media. This article addresses this gap by mapping British press coverage of events involving …
Working-Class Whiteness from within and Without
Inspired by and responding to Avtar Brah's ‘The Scent of Memory’, this piece attempts to reinscribe race into an auto-ethnographic narrative where previously whiteness was unmarked. It explores the dynamics of gender, race and class through the author's personal history as a white English woman and class migrant, and through discussion of the broader political and historical context of that trajectory. The discussion includes analysis of the impa…
Religion, Consumerism and Sustainability
To varying degrees, classic religions are associated with critique of materialistic values. Onto this opposition of the market and the temple other binaries have been grafted, so that 'North' and the
De/Constructing “Suspect” Communities
Irish and Muslim communities in Britain are, or have often been, constructed negatively in public discourse, where they have been associated with terrorism and extremism. Despite similarities in the experiences of these communities, little comparative research has been conducted. We address this gap by implementing a critical discourse analysis of national and diaspora press coverage of events involving Irish and Muslim communities that occurred …
Changing old habits? ‘New Age’ Catholicism, subjectivity and gender in BBC2’s The Monastery and its reception
This article focuses on a recent BBC television programme, The Monastery, and its reception. The analysis demonstrates how religion becomes visible here through a hybrid televisual form merging ‘reality’ conventions with those of quality television. It argues that this ‘quality reality’ format both participates in, and nuances the making of class and gender in reality television. The analysis suggests that the religious culture represented here i…
Religion and Spirituality
The Archers
This article explores the evolving relationship between the world's oldest radio soap opera The Archers and the online spaces around the programme created on the BBC Archers website, particularly the fan cultures that have developed on its messageboards. It considers continuities and changes in listeners' relationships with the experience of radio soap opera which result from participation in these cultures and the availability of the programme o…
Alternative Realities
This article will examine representations in contemporary British lifestyle television which express ambivalence about the benefits of a work-dominated, consumerist mode of living, and where a quest for alternative pleasures or practices drives the narrative. Rather than focusing on clearly contestatory voices and practices, such as environmental and anti-capitalist campaigns, groups or internet sites, I am looking at ‘mainstream’ media texts dri…
Annie Ernaux, Class, Gender and Whiteness
This article attempts to identify the innovative qualities of the writing of Annie Ernaux, and their continuing relevance for feminisms. It discusses both the new literary forms and styles she creates, and the extent to which her writing contributes to the work of intersectionality in its representation of class, gender, sexuality, ‘race’ and ethnicity. The exceptional nature of Ernaux's foregrounding of social class in the French context, and it…
Annie Ernaux
Fiction and Theory
Exploring the Interspace
National Seminar on Literature, Sociology and Theatre: ‘The Social and Political Impact of Annie Ernaux's Writing in the Construction of Identity’ (Vincennes, 28–30 October 2002) International Conference: ‘Annie Ernaux: Writing in the Interspace’ (Arras, 18–19 November 2002)
Interview with Naomi Klein
Globalization
Fashion and Beauty
'Ordinary People Come Through Here': Locating the Beauty Salon in Women's Lives Paula Black Classy Lingerie Merl Storr Trousers and Tiaras: Audrey Hepburn, a Woman's Star Rachel Moseley Multicultural Fashion...Stirrings of Another Sense of Aesthetic and Memory Nirmal Puwar Dialogue Section Indian Beauty Parlours Rita Rupal Production as Participation: A Case Study of Heba: An 'Alternative' Mode of Production in the UK Fashion Industry Juliet Ash …
Fragments around Philippe V
He had written about his desire for me several times in letters, but on the evening we had decided to spend together he seemed intimidated, hardly I speaking. Doubtless because he's a student, much younger than me, and I _ write books. After the theatre his arm and mine had often touched on the armrest I invited him for a drink. We went to a pub in rue Monsieuro le-Prince. I was no longer sure I wanted to make love with him, though for several we…
Writing from Experience
Through a discussion of the work of Marie Cardinal and Annie Ernaux, this article aims to problematize the anglophone academic world's tendency to associate French feminisms predominantly with avant-garde or highly theoretical texts. The work of Ernaux and Cardinal is presented alongside a discussion of its reception by readers and critics in France, and by academics in English-speaking countries. The first part of the article identifies aspects …
Feminist Researchers and ‘Real Women’
(1995). Feminist Researchers and ‘Real Women’: The Practice of Feminist Audience Research. Changing English: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 113-129
In Love with Inspector Morse
This article consists of textual analysis of a highly successful television series, Inspector Morse, combined with qualitative audience study. The study of Morse and the fan culture surrounding it is presented in the context of a discussion of recent feminist work on the texts and audiences of popular culture. The textual analysis focuses on those elements of the programmes which contribute to its success as ‘quality’ television, and particularly…
Shifting Scenes
Shifting Scenes
The Condition of Women in France
Claire Laubier brings together documentary and statistical material; extracts from newspapers and journals, literary texts, advertisements, manifestos, and personal testimonies. Each extract relates to the different experiences of women in France at work, in politics, at home and in the family. Together they offer a direct and thought-provoking chronological and thematic account of women's lives in post-war France
The Art and Science of Negotiation
Journal Article The Art and Science of Negotiation Get access The Art and Science of Negotiation. By Howard Raiffa. (Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. x + 373. £12.95.) Lyn Thomas Lyn Thomas University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 371, 1 September 1983, Pages 672–673, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232420 Published: 01 S…
Social cohesion and the notion of ‘suspect communities’
In this article, we consider how the practice of conceiving of groups within civil society as ‘communities’ meshes with conceptualisations of certain populations as ‘suspect’ and consider some of the impacts and consequences of this for particular populations and for social cohesion. We examine how Irish and Muslim people in Britain have become aware of and have experienced themselves to be members of ‘suspect communities’ in relation to politica…
Constructing ‘suspect’ communities and Britishness
There exist many parallels between the experiences of Irish communities in Britain in the past and those of Muslim communities today. However, although they have both been the subject of negative stereotyping, intelligence profiling, wrongful arrest and prejudice, little research has been carried out comparing how these communities are represented in the media. This article addresses this gap by mapping British press coverage of events involving …
De/Constructing “Suspect” Communities
Irish and Muslim communities in Britain are, or have often been, constructed negatively in public discourse, where they have been associated with terrorism and extremism. Despite similarities in the experiences of these communities, little comparative research has been conducted. We address this gap by implementing a critical discourse analysis of national and diaspora press coverage of events involving Irish and Muslim communities that occurred …
Alternative Realities
This article will examine representations in contemporary British lifestyle television which express ambivalence about the benefits of a work-dominated, consumerist mode of living, and where a quest for alternative pleasures or practices drives the narrative. Rather than focusing on clearly contestatory voices and practices, such as environmental and anti-capitalist campaigns, groups or internet sites, I am looking at ‘mainstream’ media texts dri…
In Love with Inspector Morse
This article consists of textual analysis of a highly successful television series, Inspector Morse, combined with qualitative audience study. The study of Morse and the fan culture surrounding it is presented in the context of a discussion of recent feminist work on the texts and audiences of popular culture. The textual analysis focuses on those elements of the programmes which contribute to its success as ‘quality’ television, and particularly…
The Archers
This article explores the evolving relationship between the world's oldest radio soap opera The Archers and the online spaces around the programme created on the BBC Archers website, particularly the fan cultures that have developed on its messageboards. It considers continuities and changes in listeners' relationships with the experience of radio soap opera which result from participation in these cultures and the availability of the programme o…
Working-Class Whiteness from within and Without
Inspired by and responding to Avtar Brah's ‘The Scent of Memory’, this piece attempts to reinscribe race into an auto-ethnographic narrative where previously whiteness was unmarked. It explores the dynamics of gender, race and class through the author's personal history as a white English woman and class migrant, and through discussion of the broader political and historical context of that trajectory. The discussion includes analysis of the impa…
Changing old habits? ‘New Age’ Catholicism, subjectivity and gender in BBC2’s The Monastery and its reception
This article focuses on a recent BBC television programme, The Monastery, and its reception. The analysis demonstrates how religion becomes visible here through a hybrid televisual form merging ‘reality’ conventions with those of quality television. It argues that this ‘quality reality’ format both participates in, and nuances the making of class and gender in reality television. The analysis suggests that the religious culture represented here i…
Religion and Spirituality
Interview with Naomi Klein
Writing from Experience
Through a discussion of the work of Marie Cardinal and Annie Ernaux, this article aims to problematize the anglophone academic world's tendency to associate French feminisms predominantly with avant-garde or highly theoretical texts. The work of Ernaux and Cardinal is presented alongside a discussion of its reception by readers and critics in France, and by academics in English-speaking countries. The first part of the article identifies aspects …
The Art and Science of Negotiation
Journal Article The Art and Science of Negotiation Get access The Art and Science of Negotiation. By Howard Raiffa. (Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: Harvard University Press, 1982. Pp. x + 373. £12.95.) Lyn Thomas Lyn Thomas University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 371, 1 September 1983, Pages 672–673, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232420 Published: 01 S…
The Condition of Women in France
Claire Laubier brings together documentary and statistical material; extracts from newspapers and journals, literary texts, advertisements, manifestos, and personal testimonies. Each extract relates to the different experiences of women in France at work, in politics, at home and in the family. Together they offer a direct and thought-provoking chronological and thematic account of women's lives in post-war France
Shifting Scenes
Shifting Scenes
Feminist Researchers and ‘Real Women’
(1995). Feminist Researchers and ‘Real Women’: The Practice of Feminist Audience Research. Changing English: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 113-129
In Love with Inspector Morse
This article consists of textual analysis of a highly successful television series, Inspector Morse, combined with qualitative audience study. The study of Morse and the fan culture surrounding it is presented in the context of a discussion of recent feminist work on the texts and audiences of popular culture. The textual analysis focuses on those elements of the programmes which contribute to its success as ‘quality’ television, and particularly…
Fragments around Philippe V
He had written about his desire for me several times in letters, but on the evening we had decided to spend together he seemed intimidated, hardly I speaking. Doubtless because he's a student, much younger than me, and I _ write books. After the theatre his arm and mine had often touched on the armrest I invited him for a drink. We went to a pub in rue Monsieuro le-Prince. I was no longer sure I wanted to make love with him, though for several we…
Writing from Experience
Through a discussion of the work of Marie Cardinal and Annie Ernaux, this article aims to problematize the anglophone academic world's tendency to associate French feminisms predominantly with avant-garde or highly theoretical texts. The work of Ernaux and Cardinal is presented alongside a discussion of its reception by readers and critics in France, and by academics in English-speaking countries. The first part of the article identifies aspects …
Interview with Naomi Klein
Globalization
Fashion and Beauty
'Ordinary People Come Through Here': Locating the Beauty Salon in Women's Lives Paula Black Classy Lingerie Merl Storr Trousers and Tiaras: Audrey Hepburn, a Woman's Star Rachel Moseley Multicultural Fashion...Stirrings of Another Sense of Aesthetic and Memory Nirmal Puwar Dialogue Section Indian Beauty Parlours Rita Rupal Production as Participation: A Case Study of Heba: An 'Alternative' Mode of Production in the UK Fashion Industry Juliet Ash …
Annie Ernaux
Fiction and Theory
Exploring the Interspace
National Seminar on Literature, Sociology and Theatre: ‘The Social and Political Impact of Annie Ernaux's Writing in the Construction of Identity’ (Vincennes, 28–30 October 2002) International Conference: ‘Annie Ernaux: Writing in the Interspace’ (Arras, 18–19 November 2002)
Annie Ernaux, Class, Gender and Whiteness
This article attempts to identify the innovative qualities of the writing of Annie Ernaux, and their continuing relevance for feminisms. It discusses both the new literary forms and styles she creates, and the extent to which her writing contributes to the work of intersectionality in its representation of class, gender, sexuality, ‘race’ and ethnicity. The exceptional nature of Ernaux's foregrounding of social class in the French context, and it…
Alternative Realities
This article will examine representations in contemporary British lifestyle television which express ambivalence about the benefits of a work-dominated, consumerist mode of living, and where a quest for alternative pleasures or practices drives the narrative. Rather than focusing on clearly contestatory voices and practices, such as environmental and anti-capitalist campaigns, groups or internet sites, I am looking at ‘mainstream’ media texts dri…
The Archers
This article explores the evolving relationship between the world's oldest radio soap opera The Archers and the online spaces around the programme created on the BBC Archers website, particularly the fan cultures that have developed on its messageboards. It considers continuities and changes in listeners' relationships with the experience of radio soap opera which result from participation in these cultures and the availability of the programme o…
Religion, Consumerism and Sustainability
To varying degrees, classic religions are associated with critique of materialistic values. Onto this opposition of the market and the temple other binaries have been grafted, so that 'North' and the
De/Constructing “Suspect” Communities
Irish and Muslim communities in Britain are, or have often been, constructed negatively in public discourse, where they have been associated with terrorism and extremism. Despite similarities in the experiences of these communities, little comparative research has been conducted. We address this gap by implementing a critical discourse analysis of national and diaspora press coverage of events involving Irish and Muslim communities that occurred …
Changing old habits? ‘New Age’ Catholicism, subjectivity and gender in BBC2’s The Monastery and its reception
This article focuses on a recent BBC television programme, The Monastery, and its reception. The analysis demonstrates how religion becomes visible here through a hybrid televisual form merging ‘reality’ conventions with those of quality television. It argues that this ‘quality reality’ format both participates in, and nuances the making of class and gender in reality television. The analysis suggests that the religious culture represented here i…
Religion and Spirituality
Social cohesion and the notion of ‘suspect communities’
In this article, we consider how the practice of conceiving of groups within civil society as ‘communities’ meshes with conceptualisations of certain populations as ‘suspect’ and consider some of the impacts and consequences of this for particular populations and for social cohesion. We examine how Irish and Muslim people in Britain have become aware of and have experienced themselves to be members of ‘suspect communities’ in relation to politica…
Constructing ‘suspect’ communities and Britishness
There exist many parallels between the experiences of Irish communities in Britain in the past and those of Muslim communities today. However, although they have both been the subject of negative stereotyping, intelligence profiling, wrongful arrest and prejudice, little research has been carried out comparing how these communities are represented in the media. This article addresses this gap by mapping British press coverage of events involving …
Working-Class Whiteness from within and Without
Inspired by and responding to Avtar Brah's ‘The Scent of Memory’, this piece attempts to reinscribe race into an auto-ethnographic narrative where previously whiteness was unmarked. It explores the dynamics of gender, race and class through the author's personal history as a white English woman and class migrant, and through discussion of the broader political and historical context of that trajectory. The discussion includes analysis of the impa…
Retour à Oxford avec Annie Ernaux
The documents added to the new edition of Ernaux's Retour à Yvetot (2013, 2022), written during her student years, represent the process and affects of class transition, without the benefits of hindsight, experience, and the readings in sociology, particularly of Bourdieu, that inform her literary texts. I analyse them here both in relation to Ernaux's published works, particularly La Honte and Mémoire de fille and to the letters I wrote at a sim…
Sociology (24 obras) · Gender Studies (16 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Feminism (13 obras) · Politics (13 obras) · Anthropology (12 obras) · Art (12 obras) · Cultural Studies (10 obras) · Human sexuality (10 obras)