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66
Citations
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World Ranking
978
National Ranking
187

Overview

Linda McDowell is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Urban Studies, Finance, and General Health Professions.

Their work explores a range of topics including:

  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Employment and Welfare Studies

McDowell has published research in various academic venues, notably:

  • The Sociological Review Magazine
  • Emotion, Space and Society
  • Geoforum
  • Social & Cultural Geography
  • International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Precarious lives, precarious care: Young men's caring practices in three coastal towns in England" (2020), published in Emotion, Space and Society
  • "Digital geographies of austerity: Young men's material, affective and everyday relationships with the digital" (2021), published in Geoforum
  • "On the margins: young men's mundane experiences of austerity in English coastal towns" (2020), published in Social & Cultural Geography
  • "Full of Power" (2022), published in The Sociological Review Magazine
  • "Geography Matters! [Audio podcast episode]" (2022), published in The Sociological Review Magazine

Their research has involved collaboration with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Carl Bonner-Thompson
  • John Allen
  • David Featherstone
  • Tariq Jazeel
  • Agata Lisiak

McDowell's investigations address complex social issues such as austerity, gender identity, and urban dynamics, particularly focusing on youth experiences and everyday societal challenges in England.

Best Publications

  • Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies

    Linda McDowell

  • Doing Gender: Feminism, Feminists and Research Methods in Human Geography

    Linda McDowell

  • Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City

    Linda McDowell

  • Locating Globalization: Feminist (Re)readings of the Subjects and Spaces of Globalization

    Richa Nagar;Victoria Lawson;Linda McDowell;Susan Hanson

  • Thinking through work: complex inequalities, constructions of difference and trans-national migrants

    Linda McDowell

  • Towards an Understanding of the Gender Division of Urban Space

    L McDowell

  • Redundant Masculinities? Employment change and White Working Class Youth

    Linda McDowell

  • Work, workfare, work/life balance and an ethic of care

    Linda Mcdowell

  • Division, Segmentation, and Interpellation: The Embodied Labors of Migrant Workers in a Greater London Hotel

    Linda McDowell;Adina Batnitzky;Sarah Dyer

  • Precarious Work and Economic Migration: Emerging Immigrant Divisions of Labour in Greater London's Service Sector

    Linda Mcdowell;Adina Batnitzky;Sarah Dyer

  • Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities

    Linda McDowell

  • Life without Father and Ford: The New Gender Order of Post-Fordism

    Linda McDowell

  • The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography

    Dydia DeLyser;Steve Herbert;Stuart Aitken;Mike Crang

  • Space, place and gender relations: Part I. Feminist empiricism and the geography of social relations

    Linda McDowell

  • Performing Work: Bodily Representations in Merchant Banks

    Linda McDowell;Gill Court

  • Elites in the City of London: Some Methodological Considerations:

    L McDowell

  • Interviewing: Fear and Liking in the Field

    Linda McDowell

  • A Feminist Glossary of Human Geography

    Linda McDowell;Joanne P. Sharp

  • Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

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  • Women's paid work and moral economies of care

    Linda McDowell;Kathryn Ray;Diane Perrons;Colette Fagan

  • Youth in a Comparative Perspective: Global Change, Local Lives

    Craig Jeffrey;Linda Mcdowell

  • Space, Gender, Knowledge: Feminist Readings

    Linda McDowell;Joanne P. Sharp

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Colette Fagan
Colette Fagan University of Manchester
Chris Hamnett
Chris Hamnett King's College London
Mike Crang
Mike Crang Durham University
Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Henry Wai-chung Yeung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Susan Hanson
Susan Hanson Clark University
Isabel Dyck
Isabel Dyck Queen Mary University of London
Doreen Massey
Doreen Massey The Open University
Shirley Dex
Shirley Dex University College London
Keith Richards
Keith Richards University of Cambridge

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