Geography, Enironment and Development Studies (GEDS)

Report on survey of councillors in The Gambia

by Andrea Deri

IEA

by Andrea Deri

GEO

by Andrea Deri

Local governments and climate change

by Andrea Deri

The servant problem: domestic employment in a global economy

by Rosie Cox

Gendered work and migration regimes

by Rosie Cox

Full reference
Cox, Rosie (2012) Gendered work and migration regimes. In: Aslaug Sollund, R. and Leonard, L. (eds.) Transnational Migration, Gender and Rights. Advances in Ecopolitics 10 7. Bingley, UK: Emerald, pp. 33-52. ISBN 9781780522029.

This chapter examines the relationship between the gendering of domestic work – its construction as ‘women's work’ –... more This chapter examines the relationship between the gendering of domestic work – its construction as ‘women's work’ – and the treatment within migration regimes of people who do such work. Research on paid domestic workers to date has highlighted that there are many examples of migrant domestic workers being subject to more stringent, limiting or invasive visa regulations than other migrant workers (see, e.g. Constable, 2003; Mundlak & Shamir, 2008; Pratt, 2004; Yeoh & Huang, 1999a, 1999b). Additionally, domestic workers can be excluded from employment protections, such as those that ensure minimum wages or maximum working hours for other groups (Hondagneu-Sotelo, 2001; Mundlak & Shamir, 2008; Pratt, 2004).

Adopting a sheep in Abruzzo: agritourism and the preservation of transhumance farming in central Italy

by Rosie Cox

Full reference:
Cox, R., Holloway, L., Venn, L., Kneafsey, M., and Dowler, E. (2011) ‘Adopting a sheep in Abuzzo: Agritourism and the preservation of transhumance agriculture in central Italy. In Momsen, J. and Torres, R. (Eds) Tourism and Agriculture, Taylor and Francis pp151-162

Agritourism is popular and widespread in Italy, with many hundreds of working farms supplementing their incomes by... more Agritourism is popular and widespread in Italy, with many hundreds of working farms supplementing their incomes by offering visitors the chance to stay in beautiful and sometimes remote places. This paper looks in detail at one farm in the Abruzzo region of central Italy that has used tourism as part of an innovative mix of value-adding initiatives in order to re-establish traditional transhumance sheep rearing in a rapidly depopulating and economically marginalized area. The farm offers traditional agritourism on site as well as having developed a ‘village hotel’ using housing left empty as permanent residents have left. It also has a classroom and hosts student groups, a shop and restaurant. This complex of activities is underpinned by an internet-based scheme, ‘Adopt-a- sheep’, which allows people from all over the world to ‘adopt’ a milking ewe and receive farm products (cheese, salami, woolly socks) in exchange for an annual fee. The scheme, which has over a thousand members, guarantees an income to the farm and supports the agritourism enterprise as ‘parents’ are encouraged to visit ‘their’ sheep. Thus the successful maintenance of a traditional mode of farming, rooted in a very particular place, is supported by global connections and made possible by high technology.

Turning to food: geography, food production/consumption and the cultural turn

by Rosie Cox

Full reference:
Cox, R (2012) ‘Turning to food: Geography, food production/consumption and the cultural turn’, in Roseneil, S and Frosh, S (Eds) Social Research After the Cultural Turn, Palgrave.

'Doing food differently': reconnecting biological and social relationships through care for food

by Rosie Cox

Living London: women negotiating identities in a post-colonial city

by Rosie Cox

Some problems and possibilities of caring

by Rosie Cox

Full reference
Cox, R. (2010) Some problems and possibilities of caring, Ethics Place and Environment 13(2) pp1-18

The literature on care highlights that caring is full of both problems and possibilities. Caring for others is a... more The literature on care highlights that caring is full of both problems and possibilities. Caring for others is a source of pleasure and fulfillment but it is also undervalued, denied, a source of degradation and exploitation, a practice located within global scale hierarchies of gender, class and ethnicity. Care can be problematic for those who need it, who give it and for those who arrange care for others, but it can also be the most precious thing in the world to them. In this paper I reflect on how notions of care have been mobilized in two very different areas that I have researched. The first is in alternative food schemes, in which care appears to offer possibilities for community building, political action and personal satisfaction. The second is paid domestic employment: here care is highly problematic in both practical and emotional terms and at interpersonal and international scales. The paper uses Joan Tronto’s (2006) work to locate paid caring in social hierarchies of gender, class and race/ethnicity. It concludes by reflecting on the differences and similarities between these two different situations and discusses what an ethic of care has to offer to those seeking a more caring world

Constructing sustainability through reconnection: the case of 'alternative'food networks

by Rosie Cox

Food, gender and Irishness–how Irish women in Coventry make home

by Rosie Cox

Race, class, gender and paid domestic work in London

by Rosie Cox

PhD Thesis 1998

Invisible labour: Perceptions of paid domestic work in London

by Rosie Cox

The Au Pair Body

by Rosie Cox

Exploring the growth of paid domestic labour: a case study of London

by Rosie Cox

Common ground? Motivations for participation in a community-supported agriculture scheme

by Rosie Cox

Playing happy families: rules and relationships in au pair employing households in London, England

by Rosie Cox

Globalization, polarization and the informal sector: the case of paid domestic workers in London

by Rosie Cox