Dr Kimberly Jamie's Outputs (34)

Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work (2025)
Journal Article
Mohr, E., Jamie, K., & Hockin-Boyers, H. (in press). Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work. Fat Studies,

In this article we propose bringing together theoretical frameworks from fat studies and research into street harassment, as a form of gendered violence, to provide a novel lens for thinking about fat women’s experiences of public space. By focusing... Read More about Fatphobia as a form of gender-based violence: Fat women, public space and body belonging work.

Intuitive tracking: Blending competing approaches to exercise and eating (2024)
Journal Article
Hockin‐Boyers, H., Jamie, K., & Pope, S. (2024). Intuitive tracking: Blending competing approaches to exercise and eating. Sociology of Health & Illness, 46(8), 1828-1848. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13821

Under the conditions of neo‐liberal individual responsibilisation, self‐tracking has become the predominant model of health management. More recently, though, intuition‐based approaches to exercise and eating are also gaining traction. These two appr... Read More about Intuitive tracking: Blending competing approaches to exercise and eating.

“Whatever I said didn’t register with her”: medical fatphobia and interactional and relational disconnect in healthcare encounters (2024)
Journal Article
Kost, C., Jamie, K., & Mohr, E. (2024). “Whatever I said didn’t register with her”: medical fatphobia and interactional and relational disconnect in healthcare encounters. Frontiers in Sociology, 9, Article 1303919. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1303919

Introduction: This article focuses on medical fatphobia as a specific phenomenon structuring interactions between patients and healthcare practitioners. Throughout the article, we use ‘fat’ and ‘fatphobia’ as the preferred terms in the body positivit... Read More about “Whatever I said didn’t register with her”: medical fatphobia and interactional and relational disconnect in healthcare encounters.

Gig Economy (2024)
Book Chapter
Jamie, K., & Musilek, K. (in press). Gig Economy. In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell

The so-called gig economy, whereby self-employed workers are paid for completing discrete tasks, is changing the landscape of work in the west. Although freelance work has always been a part of the labor market, it was typically concentrated in areas... Read More about Gig Economy.

‘Money probably has something to do with my life’: Discourse and materiality in the working lives of start-up entrepreneurs (2023)
Journal Article
Musilek, K., Jamie, K., & Learmonth, M. (2024). ‘Money probably has something to do with my life’: Discourse and materiality in the working lives of start-up entrepreneurs. Work, Employment and Society, 38(5), 1285-1306. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170231185033

This article contributes to an understanding of work-intensive entrepreneurial lives as part of analysing the intensification of work in society. It offers an empirical extension of Foucauldian analyses which attribute commitment to work to the influ... Read More about ‘Money probably has something to do with my life’: Discourse and materiality in the working lives of start-up entrepreneurs.

"It has literally been a lifesaver": The role of 'knowing kinship' in supporting fat women to navigate medical fatphobia (2022)
Journal Article
Kost, C., & Jamie, K. (2023). "It has literally been a lifesaver": The role of 'knowing kinship' in supporting fat women to navigate medical fatphobia. Fat Studies, 12(2), 311-324. https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2022.2041295

This article focuses on the development of online fat kinship in the Health at Every Size (HAES) movement. We draw upon 15 fat women’s experiences of their HAES community membership to explore the ways that fat kinship develops around fatphobic exper... Read More about "It has literally been a lifesaver": The role of 'knowing kinship' in supporting fat women to navigate medical fatphobia.

Reading Clay: The Temporal and Transformative Potential of Clay in Contemporary Scientific Practice (2022)
Journal Article
Bryant, L., Jamie, K., & Sharples, G. (2023). Reading Clay: The Temporal and Transformative Potential of Clay in Contemporary Scientific Practice. Journal of Material Culture, 28(1), 87-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835221074159

Clay has a long history in the global south and has been extensively studied by ‘Western’ social scientists particularly anthropologists and archeologists in relation to histories of earlier civilisations and cultural practices. Clay in relation to c... Read More about Reading Clay: The Temporal and Transformative Potential of Clay in Contemporary Scientific Practice.

Using theory and reflexivity to preserve methodological rigour of data collection in qualitative research (2022)
Journal Article
Jamie, K., & Rathbone, A. (2022). Using theory and reflexivity to preserve methodological rigour of data collection in qualitative research. Research Methods in Medicine & Health Sciences, 3(1), 11-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/26320843211061302

This paper examines the place of theory in qualitative medical research. While theory’s place in research planning and data analysis has been well-established, the contribution of theory during qualitative data collection tends to be overlooked. Yet,... Read More about Using theory and reflexivity to preserve methodological rigour of data collection in qualitative research.

‘It was the easiest way to kind of announce it’: Exploring death announcements on social media through a dramaturgical lens (2021)
Journal Article
Murrell, A., Jamie, K., & Penfold-Mounce, R. (2023). ‘It was the easiest way to kind of announce it’: Exploring death announcements on social media through a dramaturgical lens. Mortality, 28(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2021.1946496

The internet and social media have radically transformed grief, mourning and memorialisation. This article addresses how online death announcements (ODAs) (where bereaved people use social media platforms to share news of a loved one’s death) are ext... Read More about ‘It was the easiest way to kind of announce it’: Exploring death announcements on social media through a dramaturgical lens.

Discovering Sociology (2021)
Book
McCormack, M., Anderson, E., Jamie, K., & David, M. (2021). Discovering Sociology. (2nd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan

This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce Sociology as a discipline and to help students realize how deeply sociological issues impact on their own lives. Over t... Read More about Discovering Sociology.

‘They’ve been with me the whole journey’: temporality, emotional labour and hairdressing work (2020)
Journal Article
Harness, O., Jamie, K., & McMurray, R. (2021). ‘They’ve been with me the whole journey’: temporality, emotional labour and hairdressing work. Work, Employment and Society, 35(6), 1073-1090. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020955081

The role of time in organisational and relational development remains an understudied component of work and employment. In response, this article draws attention to the ways that temporality informs relations between workers and clients in service wo... Read More about ‘They’ve been with me the whole journey’: temporality, emotional labour and hairdressing work.

A qualitative study exploring the lived experience of medication use in different disease states: linking experiences of disease symptoms to medication adherence (2020)
Journal Article
Rathbone, A. P., Jamie, K., Todd, A., & Husband, A. (2021). A qualitative study exploring the lived experience of medication use in different disease states: linking experiences of disease symptoms to medication adherence. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, 46(2), 352-362. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpt.13288

What is known: Medication non‐adherence leads to negative health outcomes. Medication adherence is predicted if patients understand the necessity of medication use to control disease symptoms and progression. It could be expected then, that patients... Read More about A qualitative study exploring the lived experience of medication use in different disease states: linking experiences of disease symptoms to medication adherence.

#gainingweightiscool: The use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders (2020)
Journal Article
Hockin-Boyers, H., Pope, S., & Jamie, K. (2020). #gainingweightiscool: The use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13(1), 94-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2020.1836511

In this article, we explore transformation photos on Instagram as ‘digital artefacts’ that can inform understandings of eating disorder recovery in the context of sport, exercise and health. Transformation photos are two images (from different time p... Read More about #gainingweightiscool: The use of transformation photos on Instagram among female weightlifters in recovery from eating disorders.

Moving Beyond the Image: Theorising 'Extreme' Female Bodies (2020)
Journal Article
Hockin-Boyers, H., Jamie, K., & Pope, S. (2020). Moving Beyond the Image: Theorising 'Extreme' Female Bodies. Women's Studies International Forum, 83, Article 102416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2020.102416

Since their entry onto the competitive scene in 1977, female bodybuilders have been the subject of sustained debate among scholars from a range of disciplines. Within this body of literature, discourses are polarised and offer two opposing representa... Read More about Moving Beyond the Image: Theorising 'Extreme' Female Bodies.

"I just don't think it's that natural": Adolescent mothers' constructions of breastfeeding as deviant (2020)
Journal Article
Jamie, K., Hackshaw-McGeagh, L., Bows, H., & O'Neill, R. (2020). "I just don't think it's that natural": Adolescent mothers' constructions of breastfeeding as deviant. Sociology of Health & Illness, 42(7), 1689-1708. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13157

Breastfeeding is recognised globally as the optimal method of infant feeding. For Murphy (1999) Sociology of Health & Illness, 21, 187–208 its nutritional superiority positions breastfeeding as a moral imperative where mothers who formula‐feed are op... Read More about "I just don't think it's that natural": Adolescent mothers' constructions of breastfeeding as deviant.

Digital Pruning: Agency and Social Media Use as a Personal Political Project Among Female Weightlifters in Recovery from Eating Disorders (2020)
Journal Article
Hockin-Boyers, H., Pope, S., & Jamie, K. (2021). Digital Pruning: Agency and Social Media Use as a Personal Political Project Among Female Weightlifters in Recovery from Eating Disorders. New Media and Society, 23(8), 2345-2366. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820926503

In the past decade, a wealth of research has focused on women and social media. Typically assembled according to the logic of ‘risk’ and ‘exposure’, this extensive work tends to operate within a negative paradigm whereby women’s engagement with the d... Read More about Digital Pruning: Agency and Social Media Use as a Personal Political Project Among Female Weightlifters in Recovery from Eating Disorders.

Healthcare Practitioner Relationships, Cultural Health Capital and Breastfeeding Support for Adolescent Mothers (2020)
Journal Article
Jamie, K., O'Neill, R., Bows, H., & Hackshaw-McGeagh, L. (2020). Healthcare Practitioner Relationships, Cultural Health Capital and Breastfeeding Support for Adolescent Mothers. Health Education Journal, 79(8), 901-913. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896920915945

Objectives: Breastfeeding is the optimal method of infant nutrition. Despite this, rates of breastfeeding in high-income countries are low and mirror wider health inequalities with women from under-served populations being least likely to breastfeed.... Read More about Healthcare Practitioner Relationships, Cultural Health Capital and Breastfeeding Support for Adolescent Mothers.

The social and material life of medicinal clay: Exploring antimicrobial resistance, medicines' materiality and medicines optimization (2020)
Journal Article
Jamie, K., & Sharples, G. (2020). The social and material life of medicinal clay: Exploring antimicrobial resistance, medicines' materiality and medicines optimization. Frontiers in Sociology, 5, Article 26. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00026

While sociologists have made significant theoretical contributions to the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) debate, little attention has been given to the antimicrobial products themselves. Here we advocate a significant new direction which centres on t... Read More about The social and material life of medicinal clay: Exploring antimicrobial resistance, medicines' materiality and medicines optimization.

Cold winds and warm attachments: Interrogating the personal attachment to neoliberal work and economy (2019)
Journal Article
Musilek, K., Jamie, K., & McKie, L. (2020). Cold winds and warm attachments: Interrogating the personal attachment to neoliberal work and economy. Work, Employment and Society, 34(3), 514-525. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017019856798

The question of personal attachment to work in neoliberalism is subject to debate. Some scholars postulate that personal attachment to work based on durability, collectivity and predictability is weakening because of changes in its organisation; work... Read More about Cold winds and warm attachments: Interrogating the personal attachment to neoliberal work and economy.

Discovering Sociology (2018)
Book
McCormack, M., Anderson, E., Jamie, K., & David, M. (2018). Discovering Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan