Rebecca Whiting
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4065441 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rebecca Whiting |
| PRENOMES | Rebecca |
| SOBRENOME | Whiting |
| ASSINATURA | WHITING R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6754-4833 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Open to all? Examining class inequality in UK museum work through Bourdieu’s field-logics and the construction of ‘ideal’ career norms
This article provides a new theoretical framing – combining Bourdieu’s field-logics with ideal career norms – to investigate how occupational structures and cultures contribute to class inequality. Using a critical discourse analysis of interview, focus group and secondary data, it shows how logics and career norms are constructed in UK museum work; a field in flux. Three logics; (a) foundational, (b) market, (c) public service, interact to shape…
Pastoralists, travellers, and miners in the Atbai Desert (Sudan)
Owing to the remote terrain and difficulty of logistics, archaeological investigations of the Atbai Desert of Eastern Sudan are in their infancy. As part of a larger project aimed at surveying and documenting sites at threat from modern gold mining, in 2019 the Atbai Survey Project investigated the site of Khor Rafit, a multi-period site with importance both to ancient nomadic groups and foreign urban states (Rome, the Arab-Islamic Caliphate, Nub…
Everyday Constructions of Class-Based Inequality
This article contributes to our understanding of how occupational contexts shape everyday constructions of class-based inequality. Using Bourdieu's concept of field, and UK museum work as a case, we analyse interview, focus group and secondary data. We show how those with a stake in museum work construct three versions of class-based inequality: (1) between individuals; (2) between positions; and (3) between institution and worker. The museum fie…
Tyred out
We review how natural aging is constructed in contemporary media discourse by examining coverage of the 2017 Pirelli calendar. While highly digitized and provocative representations of youthfulness might be readily associated with this calendar, the 2017 edition featured actors aged 28–71, shot in black and white with limited makeup and apparently no digitization. As older women we reflexively examine this exposure of how women might age naturall…
Struggles for distinction
This article responds to calls from critical diversity scholars to explore class in context, arguing for a view of classing as a discursive process and adopting Bourdieu's concept of field as a site of discursive struggle. Analysing interview, web and focus group data, we address this in the field of UK museum work. We contextualize the field's dynamic nature, highlighting its state of flux and explore three discourses: distinguishing the field; …
Digi-Housekeeping
From an analysis of everyday practices of flexible working captured in video diaries, a form of pervasive but invisible support work is identified and presented. Labelled 'digi-housekeeping', this is work that is required to maintain the digital tools that enable flexible working, and incorporates the tasks of clearing, sorting, preparing, provisioning and troubleshooting. Through the sociocultural processes of responsibilization, personalization…
Periodontal disease and ‘oral health’ in the past
As one of today’s major oral health issues, periodontal disease affects populations worldwide. Here, methods used to record its past prevalence are reviewed, including the problems associated with the use of measurements to record bone loss. Clinical and bioarchaeological research offers strong support for the Kerr method that records interdental septum morphological changes as a means of identifying gingivitis and periodontal disease. Using Kerr…
Participant-led video diaries
Rebecca Whiting, Helen Roby, Gillian Symon, and Petros Chamakiotis develop an unconventional research design using video methods, asking participants to produce their own video diaries, a process which is then followed by narrative interviews. This approach generates multi-modal data: audio, visual, and textual, and involves adopting a qualitative perspective, and a social constructionist epistemology. This participant-led research design allows …
Big Data? Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research
Taking Stock
While various forms of imagery have been highlighted as central to processes of social construction, the potential of visual methodologies to generate insight into gendered ageing has yet to be fully exploited. We build on the developing body of visual analyses within work and organization studies to suggest how understandings of gendered ageing are impacted by our consumption of work‐related images, empirically explored here using stock photogra…
What do we mean by 'wellbeing'? and why might it matter?
There is significant ambiguity around the definition, usage and function of the word ‘wellbeing’, \nnot only within DCSF but in the public policy realm, and in the wider world. This has implications \nfor DCSF. Essentially, wellbeing is a cultural construct and represents a shifting set of meanings \n- wellbeing is no less than what a group or groups of people collectively agree makes ‘a good \nlife’. \nThe meaning and function of a term like ‘we…
Digi-Housekeeping
From an analysis of everyday practices of flexible working captured in video diaries, a form of pervasive but invisible support work is identified and presented. Labelled 'digi-housekeeping', this is work that is required to maintain the digital tools that enable flexible working, and incorporates the tasks of clearing, sorting, preparing, provisioning and troubleshooting. Through the sociocultural processes of responsibilization, personalization…
Taking Stock
While various forms of imagery have been highlighted as central to processes of social construction, the potential of visual methodologies to generate insight into gendered ageing has yet to be fully exploited. We build on the developing body of visual analyses within work and organization studies to suggest how understandings of gendered ageing are impacted by our consumption of work‐related images, empirically explored here using stock photogra…
Struggles for distinction
This article responds to calls from critical diversity scholars to explore class in context, arguing for a view of classing as a discursive process and adopting Bourdieu's concept of field as a site of discursive struggle. Analysing interview, web and focus group data, we address this in the field of UK museum work. We contextualize the field's dynamic nature, highlighting its state of flux and explore three discourses: distinguishing the field; …
Big Data? Qualitative Approaches to Digital Research
Taking Stock
While various forms of imagery have been highlighted as central to processes of social construction, the potential of visual methodologies to generate insight into gendered ageing has yet to be fully exploited. We build on the developing body of visual analyses within work and organization studies to suggest how understandings of gendered ageing are impacted by our consumption of work‐related images, empirically explored here using stock photogra…
Participant-led video diaries
Rebecca Whiting, Helen Roby, Gillian Symon, and Petros Chamakiotis develop an unconventional research design using video methods, asking participants to produce their own video diaries, a process which is then followed by narrative interviews. This approach generates multi-modal data: audio, visual, and textual, and involves adopting a qualitative perspective, and a social constructionist epistemology. This participant-led research design allows …
Periodontal disease and ‘oral health’ in the past
As one of today’s major oral health issues, periodontal disease affects populations worldwide. Here, methods used to record its past prevalence are reviewed, including the problems associated with the use of measurements to record bone loss. Clinical and bioarchaeological research offers strong support for the Kerr method that records interdental septum morphological changes as a means of identifying gingivitis and periodontal disease. Using Kerr…
Struggles for distinction
This article responds to calls from critical diversity scholars to explore class in context, arguing for a view of classing as a discursive process and adopting Bourdieu's concept of field as a site of discursive struggle. Analysing interview, web and focus group data, we address this in the field of UK museum work. We contextualize the field's dynamic nature, highlighting its state of flux and explore three discourses: distinguishing the field; …
Digi-Housekeeping
From an analysis of everyday practices of flexible working captured in video diaries, a form of pervasive but invisible support work is identified and presented. Labelled 'digi-housekeeping', this is work that is required to maintain the digital tools that enable flexible working, and incorporates the tasks of clearing, sorting, preparing, provisioning and troubleshooting. Through the sociocultural processes of responsibilization, personalization…
Tyred out
We review how natural aging is constructed in contemporary media discourse by examining coverage of the 2017 Pirelli calendar. While highly digitized and provocative representations of youthfulness might be readily associated with this calendar, the 2017 edition featured actors aged 28–71, shot in black and white with limited makeup and apparently no digitization. As older women we reflexively examine this exposure of how women might age naturall…
What do we mean by 'wellbeing'? and why might it matter?
There is significant ambiguity around the definition, usage and function of the word ‘wellbeing’, \nnot only within DCSF but in the public policy realm, and in the wider world. This has implications \nfor DCSF. Essentially, wellbeing is a cultural construct and represents a shifting set of meanings \n- wellbeing is no less than what a group or groups of people collectively agree makes ‘a good \nlife’. \nThe meaning and function of a term like ‘we…
Pastoralists, travellers, and miners in the Atbai Desert (Sudan)
Owing to the remote terrain and difficulty of logistics, archaeological investigations of the Atbai Desert of Eastern Sudan are in their infancy. As part of a larger project aimed at surveying and documenting sites at threat from modern gold mining, in 2019 the Atbai Survey Project investigated the site of Khor Rafit, a multi-period site with importance both to ancient nomadic groups and foreign urban states (Rome, the Arab-Islamic Caliphate, Nub…
Everyday Constructions of Class-Based Inequality
This article contributes to our understanding of how occupational contexts shape everyday constructions of class-based inequality. Using Bourdieu's concept of field, and UK museum work as a case, we analyse interview, focus group and secondary data. We show how those with a stake in museum work construct three versions of class-based inequality: (1) between individuals; (2) between positions; and (3) between institution and worker. The museum fie…
Open to all? Examining class inequality in UK museum work through Bourdieu’s field-logics and the construction of ‘ideal’ career norms
This article provides a new theoretical framing – combining Bourdieu’s field-logics with ideal career norms – to investigate how occupational structures and cultures contribute to class inequality. Using a critical discourse analysis of interview, focus group and secondary data, it shows how logics and career norms are constructed in UK museum work; a field in flux. Three logics; (a) foundational, (b) market, (c) public service, interact to shape…
Computer Science (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · Epistemology (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (3 obras) · Art (2 obras) · Class (philosophy) (2 obras)