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Continue reading →: Precarious working tourists.
Friday May 9th, I was opponent in the public examination of the doctoral dissertation of Christopher Brennan, at the University of Tampere, Finland.The thesis was about working holiday-makers (not backpackers!) in Australia. It took a critical perspective, investigating the experiences and the exploitation of these workers and their contribution to…
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Continue reading →: Inaugural Lecture
Last week I gave my Inaugural lecture at Loughborough University (two years late). I think it went well and, despite the nerves, I quite enjoyed it. I tried to cover the history of my career while highlighting key contributions but it is not easy to do that in under an…
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Continue reading →: Listen to Karen O’Reilly talking about Bourdieu, lifestyle migration and practice stories
Originally posted on The Lifestyle Migration Hub Blog: By Michaela Benson Last week, Karen and I attended that British Sociological Association’s Bourdieu study group event, ‘Bourdieu in migration, ‘race’ and ethnicity studies’. Karen gave one of the keynotes, drawing on her co-authored (with Caroline Oliver) article, A Bourdieusian analysis of class…
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Continue reading →: Interdisciplinarity versus structure and agency?
I have just applied to attend a research development workshop organized by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. They call it a Funding opportunity of particular interest to those working on loneliness, isolation, exclusion, alienation, marginalization, discrimination, conflict and extremism and low levels of civic participation and/or engagement This sounds…
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Continue reading →: Lifestyle Migration and Liminality
I haven’t written in here for a while as I’ve been preparing lectures and tutorials, teaching, supervising dissertation and PhD students, and generally coping with term-time. Kate and I have submitted a draft paper to a journal, based on the RGS conference mentioned below. And I have been thinking about…
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Continue reading →: RGS Conference Paper
Governing Lifestyle Migration in East Asia: The Promotion and Regulation of Western Migration in Thailand and Malaysia Kate Botterill and Karen O’Reilly As an introduction to the session on Lifestyle Migration and the state this paper considers how lifestyle migration, as Caroline Oliver (2012) suggests ‘occupies a place at the…
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Continue reading →: Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, London 2013
Kate Botterill and I gave a paper at the Royal Geographical Society Conference last week. I have pasted the title and abstract as an aside. The whole session went very well. Indeed it was great to see almost an entire day in the programme given over to the study of…
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Continue reading →: Summer School in Lugano
The Swiss Summer School this year was amazing! The students were so keen, hard-working and creative. One group did a mini ethnography of Lugano’s Park and Read summer event; another spent some time in a roof-top Yoga Centre; some studied the summer school itself (and how experiences compared with expectations);…
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I’m Karen
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Karen O'Reilly 