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Research paper thumbnail of The 'Authentic' Cybertariat? Commodifying Feelings, Accents and Identities in the Global Economy

Research paper thumbnail of Social policy in developing countries: a post-colonial critique and participatory inquiry

Policy Press eBooks, Jul 11, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Gender on the Post-Colony: Phenomenology, Race, and the Body in Nervous Conditions

Bristol University Press eBooks, May 31, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Gender on the Post-Colony

Bristol University Press eBooks, Jul 28, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Gender on the Post-Colony: Phenomenology, Race, and the Body in <i>Nervous Conditions</i>

Bristol University Press eBooks, May 31, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Social policy in developing countries: a post-colonial critique and participatory inquiry

Research paper thumbnail of Brexit Logics: Myth and Fact - A Black Feminist Analysis

On June 24, 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union in a landmark referendum result. The ‘... more On June 24, 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union in a landmark referendum result. The ‘Brexit’ vote along with Trump’s presidential election in America, the Turkish referendum, the French election and the rise in far-right groups more globally, have been underpinned by certain populist ‘logics’. This comment seeks to agitate these Brexit logics through a Black Feminist perspective that refocuses current debates on power and the intersectional politics of gender, race and class.

Research paper thumbnail of New growth: the art and texture of Black hair

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Brexit logics: Myths and Facts- A Black Feminist Analysis

On June 24, 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union in a landmark referendum result. The ‘... more On June 24, 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union in a landmark referendum result. The ‘Brexit’ vote along with Trump’s presidential election in America, the Turkish referendum, the French election and the rise in far-right groups more globally, have been underpinned by certain populist ‘logics’. This comment seeks to agitate these Brexit logics through a Black Feminist perspective that refocuses current debates on power and the intersectional politics of gender, race and class

Research paper thumbnail of Is Covid-19 an “equal opportunity disease”?

Research paper thumbnail of Anti-racist social work in a ‘post-race society’? Interrogating the amorphous ‘other’

Critical and Radical Social Work, 2015

Anti-racist social work is at a crossroads: while on the one hand, racial binaries such as black/... more Anti-racist social work is at a crossroads: while on the one hand, racial binaries such as black/white, us/other and slave/master can be useful political tools to understand institutional racism, current contexts of multiculturalism raise questions about the continued relevance of race as a category for analysis. ‘Newer’ forms of racialised identities are emerging that need to be incorporated into a broader conceptualisation of non-colour-based race theory. In this article, these contradictions are explicated through a phenomenological study of embodied reflections on race, ethnicity and self-identity among social work students. Frantz Fanon’s ‘fact of blackness’ provides an epistemic guide to this phenomenological study, providing a multi-layered examination of social work students’ experiential accounts of their embodied identities, their colour, race, blackness, whiteness and sexuality and what this means for self-identity. Tentative student discourses provide powerful insights i...

Research paper thumbnail of Intimacy and Injury edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke and Srila Roy

The Sociological Review Magazine

Research paper thumbnail of Material Intimacies and Black Hair Practice: Touch, Texture, Resistance

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

Research paper thumbnail of Race, embodiment and later life: Re-animating aging bodies of color

Journal of Aging Studies

The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users ar... more The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.

Research paper thumbnail of Invisible Bodies and Disembodied Voices? Identity Work, the Body and Embodiment in Transnational Service Work

Gender, Work & Organization

The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users ar... more The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.

Research paper thumbnail of The “Authentic Cybertariat”? Commodifying Feeling, Accents, and Cultural Identities in the Global South

Research paper thumbnail of Paternalism and the paradox of work–life balance: discourse and practice

Community, Work & Family, 2016

Drawing on Lewis et al's (2007) critical treatment of 'work-life balance' (WLB) as a western, neo... more Drawing on Lewis et al's (2007) critical treatment of 'work-life balance' (WLB) as a western, neo-liberal discourse with problematic assumptions of gender and culture neutrality; this study examines the ways in which WLB discourse(s) are translated and adopted within transnational call centres in India. Discursive understandings suggest that work-life balance negotiations are filtered through two dominant discourses: neo-liberalism/individualism and collectivismpaternalism. The contradictions between these discourses are explored using Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 2003) by examining qualitative interviews with 50 call centres in South India. Findings reveal that work-life balance terminology and discourses were used to describe a form of 'global modernity', an extension of professionalism and neoliberal working practices. On the shop floor however, organizational cultures were heavily paternalistic and the workplace was viewed as an extended family whose role was to nurture, care for, and protect workers. The westernized work-life discourse was described as an idealized norm for tidy, segmented lives, while the 'messy' reality of living of family and community life and blurring of boundaries could not be accounted for within this discourse. These study findings confirm the central message of Suzan Lewis's contribution to work-life research: context matters.

Research paper thumbnail of Deconstructing “Family Supportive Cultures”: A Vision for the Future

Expanding the Boundaries of Work-Family Research, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Do Work-Family Policies Really “Work”? Evidence from Indian Call Centres

Expanding the Boundaries of Work-Family Research, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Self-Identity, Embodiment and the Development of Emotional Resilience

British Journal of Social Work, 2013

is a qualified social worker and lecturer in social policy at Brunel University. Her main researc... more is a qualified social worker and lecturer in social policy at Brunel University. Her main research interests include exploring the relationships between emotion, worker identity and professional practice; work-life integration; gendering of organisations; and global social policy.

Research paper thumbnail of The 'Authentic' Cybertariat? Commodifying Feelings, Accents and Identities in the Global Economy

Research paper thumbnail of Social policy in developing countries: a post-colonial critique and participatory inquiry

Policy Press eBooks, Jul 11, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Gender on the Post-Colony: Phenomenology, Race, and the Body in Nervous Conditions

Bristol University Press eBooks, May 31, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Gender on the Post-Colony

Bristol University Press eBooks, Jul 28, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Gender on the Post-Colony: Phenomenology, Race, and the Body in <i>Nervous Conditions</i>

Bristol University Press eBooks, May 31, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Social policy in developing countries: a post-colonial critique and participatory inquiry

Research paper thumbnail of Brexit Logics: Myth and Fact - A Black Feminist Analysis

On June 24, 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union in a landmark referendum result. The ‘... more On June 24, 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union in a landmark referendum result. The ‘Brexit’ vote along with Trump’s presidential election in America, the Turkish referendum, the French election and the rise in far-right groups more globally, have been underpinned by certain populist ‘logics’. This comment seeks to agitate these Brexit logics through a Black Feminist perspective that refocuses current debates on power and the intersectional politics of gender, race and class.

Research paper thumbnail of New growth: the art and texture of Black hair

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Research paper thumbnail of Brexit logics: Myths and Facts- A Black Feminist Analysis

On June 24, 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union in a landmark referendum result. The ‘... more On June 24, 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union in a landmark referendum result. The ‘Brexit’ vote along with Trump’s presidential election in America, the Turkish referendum, the French election and the rise in far-right groups more globally, have been underpinned by certain populist ‘logics’. This comment seeks to agitate these Brexit logics through a Black Feminist perspective that refocuses current debates on power and the intersectional politics of gender, race and class

Research paper thumbnail of Is Covid-19 an “equal opportunity disease”?

Research paper thumbnail of Anti-racist social work in a ‘post-race society’? Interrogating the amorphous ‘other’

Critical and Radical Social Work, 2015

Anti-racist social work is at a crossroads: while on the one hand, racial binaries such as black/... more Anti-racist social work is at a crossroads: while on the one hand, racial binaries such as black/white, us/other and slave/master can be useful political tools to understand institutional racism, current contexts of multiculturalism raise questions about the continued relevance of race as a category for analysis. ‘Newer’ forms of racialised identities are emerging that need to be incorporated into a broader conceptualisation of non-colour-based race theory. In this article, these contradictions are explicated through a phenomenological study of embodied reflections on race, ethnicity and self-identity among social work students. Frantz Fanon’s ‘fact of blackness’ provides an epistemic guide to this phenomenological study, providing a multi-layered examination of social work students’ experiential accounts of their embodied identities, their colour, race, blackness, whiteness and sexuality and what this means for self-identity. Tentative student discourses provide powerful insights i...

Research paper thumbnail of Intimacy and Injury edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke and Srila Roy

The Sociological Review Magazine

Research paper thumbnail of Material Intimacies and Black Hair Practice: Touch, Texture, Resistance

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

Research paper thumbnail of Race, embodiment and later life: Re-animating aging bodies of color

Journal of Aging Studies

The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users ar... more The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.

Research paper thumbnail of Invisible Bodies and Disembodied Voices? Identity Work, the Body and Embodiment in Transnational Service Work

Gender, Work & Organization

The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users ar... more The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.

Research paper thumbnail of The “Authentic Cybertariat”? Commodifying Feeling, Accents, and Cultural Identities in the Global South

Research paper thumbnail of Paternalism and the paradox of work–life balance: discourse and practice

Community, Work & Family, 2016

Drawing on Lewis et al's (2007) critical treatment of 'work-life balance' (WLB) as a western, neo... more Drawing on Lewis et al's (2007) critical treatment of 'work-life balance' (WLB) as a western, neo-liberal discourse with problematic assumptions of gender and culture neutrality; this study examines the ways in which WLB discourse(s) are translated and adopted within transnational call centres in India. Discursive understandings suggest that work-life balance negotiations are filtered through two dominant discourses: neo-liberalism/individualism and collectivismpaternalism. The contradictions between these discourses are explored using Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 2003) by examining qualitative interviews with 50 call centres in South India. Findings reveal that work-life balance terminology and discourses were used to describe a form of 'global modernity', an extension of professionalism and neoliberal working practices. On the shop floor however, organizational cultures were heavily paternalistic and the workplace was viewed as an extended family whose role was to nurture, care for, and protect workers. The westernized work-life discourse was described as an idealized norm for tidy, segmented lives, while the 'messy' reality of living of family and community life and blurring of boundaries could not be accounted for within this discourse. These study findings confirm the central message of Suzan Lewis's contribution to work-life research: context matters.

Research paper thumbnail of Deconstructing “Family Supportive Cultures”: A Vision for the Future

Expanding the Boundaries of Work-Family Research, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Do Work-Family Policies Really “Work”? Evidence from Indian Call Centres

Expanding the Boundaries of Work-Family Research, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Self-Identity, Embodiment and the Development of Emotional Resilience

British Journal of Social Work, 2013

is a qualified social worker and lecturer in social policy at Brunel University. Her main researc... more is a qualified social worker and lecturer in social policy at Brunel University. Her main research interests include exploring the relationships between emotion, worker identity and professional practice; work-life integration; gendering of organisations; and global social policy.