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Dr Jayne Raisborough BA (Hons), MA, PhD

Principal Lecturer

contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643471

Email: J.Raisborough@brighton.ac.uk

Research interests

  • Lifestyle media and reality TV
  • Obesity and health
  • Social representations of ageing
  • Cosmetic surgery and the body
  • Sexuality/gender
  • Ethical consumption
  • Serious leisure
  • Social class

Teaching

  • Contemporary Social Inequalities
  • Sociological Imaginations
  • Theorizing the Social World
  • The Body and Society
  • Lifestyle Media and Society
  • Sociology of the Life Course
  • Dissertation

Recent publications

Risk, Identities and the Everyday    Risk, Identities and the Everyday

Frith, H., Raisborough, J., and Klein, O. Shame and pride in How to Look Good Naked: The affective dynamics of (mis)recognition Feminist Media Studies First published Online: 10 Oct 2012. DOI:10.1080/14680777.2012.722558

Frith, H., Raisborough, J. and Klein, O. Making death 'good': Instructional tales for dying in newspaper accounts of Jade Goody’s Death Sociology of Health and Illness Article first published online : 8 AUG 2012, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01492.x

Number of items: 15.

FRITH, HANNAH, RAISBOROUGH, JAYNE and KLEIN, ORLY (2012) Shame and pride in How to Look Good Naked: the affective dynamics of (mis)recognition Feminist Media Studies . ISSN 1468-0777

FRITH, HANNAH, RAISBOROUGH, JAYNE and KLEIN, ORLY (2012) Media and class-making: what lessons are learnt when a celebrity chav dies? Sociology, 47 (2). ISSN 0038-0385

Adams, Matthew and Raisborough, Jayne (2011) Encountering the fairtrade farmer: solidarity, stereotypes and the self-control ethos Papers on Social Representation, 20 . 8.1-8.21. ISSN 1021-5573

Raisborough, Jayne (2011) Lifestyle media and the formation of the self Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 10-0230242952; 13: 978-0230242951

Adams, Matthew and Raisborough, Jayne (2011) The self-control ethos and the 'chav': unpacking cultural representations of the white working class Culture & Psychology, 17 (1). pp. 81-97. ISSN 1354-067X

Frith, Hannah, Raisborough, Jayne and Klein, Orly (2010) C'mon girlfriend: sisterhood, sexuality and the space of the benign in makeover TV International Journal of Cultural Studies, 13 (5). pp. 471-489. ISSN 1367-8779

ADAMS, MATTHEW and RAISBOROUGH, JAYNE (2010) Making a difference: ethical consumption and the everyday British Journal Of Sociology, 61 (2). pp. 256-274. ISSN 0007-1315

Raisborough, Jayne and Adams, Matthew (2008) Mockery and morality in popular cultural representations of the white working class Sociological Research Online, 13 (6). ISSN 1360-7804

Adams, Matthew and Raisborough, Jayne (2008) What can sociology say about FairTrade? Class, reflexivity and ethical consumption Sociology, 42 (6). pp. 1165-1182. ISSN 0038-0385

Raisborough, Jayne (2007) Gender and serious leisure careers: A case study of women sea cadets Journal of Leisure Research, 39 (4). pp. 686-704. ISSN 0022-2216

Raisborough, Jayne and Jones, D. (2007) Enduring Echoes: Feminism, Marxism and the Reflexive Intellectual In: Bates, David and Reynolds, P., eds. Marxism, intellectuals and politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 10: 1403949980; 13: 978-1403949981

Scott Jones, Julie and Raisborough, Jayne (2007) Risk, identities and the everyday life Ashgate Publications, Farnham. ISBN 10:0754648613 / 13: 978 0754648611

Raisborough, Jayne and Bhatti, Mark (2007) Women's leisure and auto/biography: empowerment and resistance in the garden Journal of Leisure Research, 39 (3). pp. 459-476. ISSN 0022-2216

Raisborough, Jayne (2006) Getting onboard: women, access and serious leisure Sociological Review, 54 (2). pp. 242-262. ISSN 1467-954X

Raisborough, Jayne (2002) Feminist theory - a question of difference In: Marsh, Ian, ed. Theory and practice in sociology. Pearson Preston Hall, London, UK, pp. 257-294. ISBN 0130265535

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