Unresolved Power for Feminist Researchers Employing Memory-Work

Small, Jennie; Cadman, Kate; Friend, Lorraine; Gannon, Susanne; Ingleton, Christine; Koutroulis, Glenda; McCormack, Coralie; Mitchell, Patricia; Onyx, Jenny; O'Regan, Kerry; Rocco, Sharn

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-045098-8.50021-0

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“…Global benchmarking data is also required for the gender breakdown of: authors in leading and other journals; PhD tourism completions; recipients of national research grants; teaching and best journal/conference paper awards. This could be complemented by ethnographic work, gathering the experiences of doctoral students, early--and mid--career researchers and senior professors of any unconscious gender bias in teaching, supervision, mentoring, appointments and promotions and research collaborations, perhaps through memory--work to produce agency and change (Small et al 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Tourism’s lost leaders: Analysing gender and performance

Pritchard

Morgan

2017

Annals of Tourism Research

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Higher education is increasingly engaged with diversity initiatives, especially those focused on women in academic leadership, whilst there is an evolving literature across the humanities and the social, management and natural sciences, critiquing academia's gendered hierarchies. In contrast, senior academics in the field of tourism management have largely eluded similar sustained analysis. The paper builds on recent gender--aware studies of tourism's leading academics with three aims. Firstly, to widen evidence of gendering in tourism's academic leadership by scrutinizing and contextualizing performance indicators, which make and mark its leaders and shape its knowledge canon. Secondly, since critique alone cannot lead to transformation, the paper seeks to 'undo' gender in tourism's academy.Thirdly the paper presents interventions to accelerate academic gender equity.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism’s lost leaders: Analysing gender and performance

Pritchard

Morgan

2017

Annals of Tourism Research

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“…Regrettably, memory‐work, with its unique capacity to capture meaningful rich data on specific topics remains underutilised. The method involves individual members writing a personal memory about a topic of common interest, before coming together to reflect on the individual memories (Small et al , ). In this study the specific trigger phrase used to evoke career experiences was ‘belonging in hospitality’.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Intersections of Gender with Age and Ethnicity in Hotel Careers: Still the Same Old Privileges?

Mooney

Ryan²,

Harris³

2017

Gender, Work & Organization

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This article explains the value of an intersectional approach in sectoral research, using this lens to examine privilege and penalty in the female‐dominated hotel sector of New Zealand. Memory‐work and semi‐structured interviews explored the career experiences of long‐term hotel workers, highlighting the extent to which gender, intersecting with age, ethnicity and class, shape individual career choices. The key contribution of this article is to suggest that in hotels, as in other employment sectors, the apparent ‘level playing field’ at career‐entry point, where merit is presumed to regulate promotional opportunities, soon disappears as the workings of power and influence within the organizational context take hold: privileges and penalties intersect.

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“…During the discussion process, individual meanings are transformed into mutual meanings and, consequently, move beyond individual experiences (Kaufman et al 2008). The development of collective meanings gives memory-work a significant advantage, breaching the gap 'between theory and experience' (Haug et al 1987: 15) but, regrettably, its full potential is rarely explored in tourism studies, with some exceptions -for example, Small et al (2007).…”

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“…It proved a considerable challenge to analyse the two data sets. First, major themes in the memory-work sessions were teased out, following Small et al's (2007) excellent guidelines on carrying out memory-work analysis. A mind map was developed that connected aspects of age, gender and ethnicity to the themes identified from the group discussions.…”

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Wasted youth in the hospitality industry: Older workers’ perceptions and misperceptions about younger workers

Mooney

2016

Hospitality &Amp; Society

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In many western contexts, although young people form a high proportion of the hospitality workforce, perceptions of hospitality work as temporary and unpredictable rather than an aspirational career choice means turnover is very high. The aim of the study on which the article is based was to investigate why people build and maintain long careers working in hospitality. This article focuses on the career experiences of young workers in the industry, viewed from the perspective of older workers in long-term hospitality careers. An intersectional methodology explored how youthful body-age, at times interacting with other aspects of socially ascribed difference, is reflected in work-place organizational processes. The findings suggest that younger workers in hospitality are not valued and the discussion addresses the ways in which inequitable power relations create this status quo. The conclusion is that the hospitality sector should retain its youthful workers, rather than wasting this finite human resource.

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Unresolved Power for Feminist Researchers Employing Memory-Work

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Tourism’s lost leaders: Analysing gender and performance

Tourism’s lost leaders: Analysing gender and performance

The Intersections of Gender with Age and Ethnicity in Hotel Careers: Still the Same Old Privileges?

Wasted youth in the hospitality industry: Older workers’ perceptions and misperceptions about younger workers

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