Pub Date : 2022-12-07DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2022.2153158
Monique F. Harrison, Philip A. Hernandez
ABSTRACT The interview experience is only one component of the process of interviewing – software programmes can coordinate the pre-interview steps and begin a digitally-mediated relationship with participants long before the actual interview commences. This essay provides examples of how researchers can maximise their time and energy by digitally coordinating the steps of the interview process, thus reducing the logistical time and stress for all involved. Smoothly tying together the user experience from the first click of interest, to consent, to scheduling, and finally payment, confers many advantages to both the interviewer and interviewee. Based on a study with over 700 online interviews conducted from 2019 to 2022, this article gives insight into the platforms and customisation options that allowed a relatively small research team to conduct a large qualitative study. The automation of portions of the typical process allowed us to spend more of our time and intellectual resources on the interviews and initial analysis rather than logistics. We discuss the process of digital consent, interview scheduling using calendar managers, and standardised communication coordination. We describe the participant experience, give detailed descriptions of how we integrated the software associated with interviews, and provide our insights on the process. This article is a timely guide for qualitative researchers to lessen their load by coordinating the logistics of interviewing more efficiently.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-21DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2022.2147987
Ritika Arora-Kukreja
ABSTRACT This article adopts tools from political science and political anthropology to re-evaluate the prevailing discourses of accountability and marketisation that continue to shape education policies across the developing world. Following an exploration of studies promoting the quasi-marketisation of education and reforms that empower parents to exercise their voice and choice, this paper adopts principal–agent theory, social dominance theory and concept of the everyday to argue that such community-centric policies – which were initially devised to offset the capture of education by the state – may de facto lead to the education landscape becoming intrinsically politicised and reflective of national political discourses, albeit not in the way we conventionally believe. It argues that parents can no longer be regarded as passive, apolitical agents in education discourse. Rather, citizens’ interests are continually in conflict, and in a marketised system designed to respond to the interests of more dominant parents, schools may become sites in which inter-group contestations and competing political beliefs are reified. This article invites us to revise our current understanding of education and politics, and question: What – or whom – do we define as political, and why is this becoming increasingly important?
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Pub Date : 2022-07-18DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2022.2097733
Colin Atkinson
ABSTRACT The Star Wars franchise – and in particular the ‘in-universe’ period from the Fall of the Jedi to the Reign of the Empire – represents germane ground for the critical analysis of security in both everyday life and extraordinary circumstances. Although beginning with the films of the ‘prequel trilogy’ (1999, 2002, 2005) this period has most recently been covered in the animated television series Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021 –). Deepening the contribution of criminology towards a diverse and critical transdisciplinary field of security studies, this paper conducts a multimodal critical discourse analysis of season one of The Bad Batch. In doing so it describes how, in its depiction of a newly established Imperial regime, the Star Wars franchise has continued to engage with the politics of security through its exploration of the processes and practices of techno-securitisation. The Bad Batch thus acts as an ideological critique of developments in the late-modern securityscape. The discussion section reflects upon how the persistence of politics in the ‘Disney era’ of Star Wars storytelling, and of security politics in particular, indicates the limits of ‘Disneyfication’. The paper concludes by emphasising the value in bridging divides between distinct disciplinary approaches in the study of security.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-25DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2022.2091155
Sirin Sung, L. Smyth
ABSTRACT Family life has changed significantly in recent decades for both women and men. Fertility rates have dropped, numbers divorcing have increased, and the proportion of children born outside marriage has grown. At the same time, we have seen significant changes in state forms and institutions, with marketization becoming embedded in centrally planned economies as well as welfare states. Women increasingly participate in labour markets and higher education, as expectations of equal opportunity have expanded. Despite obvious improvements in female employment and educational attainment, however, gender inequalities persist, not least in law, policy, labour markets, and family roles. Women continue to provide the bulk of informal multigenerational care. Work and family policies vary across the globe, yet policy analysis from a gender perspective is scarce. This editorial considers research from around the world, including Europe, the former Soviet bloc, Japan, and China, to develop an understanding of the tensions and shifts in the gendered organisation of family lives. Changes and continuities in gendered inequalities shaping family life are examined, with a focus on the intersection of state, labour market, and family, as they reproduce and reshape gender norms and inequalities.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-25DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2022.2092202
J. Nishimura
ABSTRACT The impact of work–family policies on women’s employment must be considered in the institutional context wherein policies are introduced. This study examines the impact of introducing work–family policies on job exit and change experienced by 25–45-year-old women since the 1990s in the Japanese context. The past three decades are characterised by a deepened labour market duality, continued basic social welfare framework in which labour market position is pivotal for entitlement, and intensified normative familialism. Analyses of panel data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers show that with the development of work–family policies, women become less likely to leave their jobs. This phenomenon is, however, limited to women in regular employment. Mothers with pre-school-age children have not increased their labour market attachment. No change is noted in the tendency of women in regular employment being less likely to change their jobs. Results suggest that work–family policies have not only promoted women’s employment but also brought divides in the female labour force. Additionally, the results indicate the importance of focusing on institutional arrangements to understand how such divides are brought about.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2022.2086998
Yi Zhang
ABSTRACT China’s transition from a centrally planned to a market economy has substantially intensified the pressure on women in playing their dual roles as care givers and income earners. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 34 young mothers in Jilin, China, this article employs the framework of ‘coordination point’ Skinner, C. [2003]. Running around in circles: Coordinating childcare education and work. Bristol: Policy Press). It looks at the daily journeys made in young women’s families and provides detailed information about the numbers of journeys take place and how these journeys are coordinated. The results show that Chinese young mothers retain the primary responsibility for childcare, not only transporting and caring for children, but taking the responsibility for organising the journeys to ensure the continuity of care. I argue that Chinese young mothers are not just taking on the ‘dual burden’ of work and care, but actually the ‘triple burden’ of worker, carer and manager as they deal with coordination points. Furthermore, grandparental support has been found to be particularly important in supporting working mothers by helping with coordination points and childcare activities. By contrast, long working hours and employed-favoured flexible arrangements, as well as the absence of childcare services for children under three, act as a hindrance to work–family balance.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-24DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2022.2073386
David Bailey, A. de Ruyter, C. Macrae, J. McNeill, Julie Roberts
ABSTRACT This paper assesses the risk implications of Brexit for UK-based, manufacturers, drawing on data generated from semi-structured interviews with senior managers and directors in the advanced manufacturing sector of the West Midlands region of the UK in 2021. The UK’s departure from the EU has led to increased socio-economic risk for manufacturing businesses, requiring careful management by the latter. This paper draws on elements of the Kasperson et al. [1988. The social amplification of risk: A conceptual framework. Risk Analysis, 8(2), 177–187] Social Amplification of Risk Framework (SARF) to explore the communication of risk and uncertainty to businesses, during and post-Brexit discussions. This paper then examines the extent to which risk arises from changes to supply chains and production regimes and in turn examines consequences for the management of risk.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-23DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2022.2066716
Bereket Roba Gamo, Duk-Byeong Park
ABSTRACT
Community sentiment is an essential component of community development and can influence residents’ propensity to participate in their community. However, few studies have investigated the effect of community sentiment on community participation in the sub-Saharan region. This study aimed to examine social connectedness, community attachment and community satisfaction as factors influencing community participation among rural residents in Ethiopia. We collected data through a cross-sectional survey from 360 residents of 12 communities located within Yirgachefe district of Ethiopia, using a simple random sampling technique for selection. Descriptive statistics and hierarchical regression techniques were used to analyze the data. The results revealed that community participation was influenced not only by respondents’ demographic and socioeconomic characteristics but also by their community sentiment. Respondents’ age, level of education, annual income, social connectedness, community attachment and community satisfaction all positively influenced community participation. It was noted that respondents who were more socially connected, who have higher levels of attachment to their community and more satisfied with their community are more likely to participate. We suggest community networking mechanisms and social events to augment community participation.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-19DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2022.2077419
Anna Kwak
ABSTRACT This article aims at tracking patterns of both change and consistency with regard to women’s roles in Poland, with particular focus on family roles. This paper considers whether women’s disproportionate domestic labour and childcare constitutes the so-called double burden or a successful example of work–family balance. In addressing this question, the paper considers survey evidence concerning the gap between preferred and implemented models for the division of domestic labour and childcare. Is there a strong expectation of a gendered domestic division of labour in contemporary Poland? What do women in Poland think about this? Following Ulrich Beck’s individualisation theory (2002), as well as Hakim’s preference theory (2006), this paper provides a secondary analysis of gender roles in terms of both paid work and unpaid work. In contemporary society, ‘doing family’ leads to changes in the internal structure of family. In the Polish context, however, it is unclear whether this signals a transition to full gender equality or, rather, perpetuates inequality.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-12DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2022.2074530
Pedro Romero-Balsas
ABSTRACT Job-related spatial mobility (JRSM) includes different types of movement situations (long-distance commuting, overnighting, recent relocation, long-distance relationship and multi-mobile) regarding employment and family life and it has implications both for labour market relations and for embarking on parenthood. This article aims to determine how spatial mobility at work can influence childless workers decision on having children in the context of the Great Recession, based on data collected on the occasion of the ‘Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe’ panel survey. Conducted in 2007 and 2010–2012, it comprised a sample of 1735 respondents in France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland. The subsample of 257 childless people was analysed using multivariable logistic regression. The findings suggest that initially a switch from non-JRSM to JRSM intensifies the importance attached to occupational reasons for not wanting children, although to a greater extent in Germany and Spain than in France.
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