Professor Jayne Raisborough
Mid-Career Fellow 2015-16, Small Group Project 2016
Learning how to be old: frames, feminism and the production of a pro-ageing instructional film
The proposed research addresses the real world problems associated with anti-ageing culture through the mobilisation of an innovative theory and methodology, that both captures responses to anti-ageing pedagogies that teach us 'how not to be old', and enables the articulation of alternative voices and images through the production of a film that teaches us 'how to be old'.
More informationThe thrown away: towards a manifesto of dispossession
With Matthew Adams
Despite the increasing accumulation of plastic in our oceans and food chains, ‘throwing stuff away’ is so tied to notions of order and cleanliness that any deviation is pathologised as ‘hoarding’ and as such provides a ready spectacle to a reality television programming devoted to the ‘ill-managed’ lives of those who hoard or clutter. Outside of the DSM and beyond the small screen, the issue of waste and the practices and processes of dispossession are less visible.
More informationAreas of interest
Biography
Jayne asks how media representations and mediated cultures relate to ‘citizenship’, identities, and our feeling about our selves and bodies. She explores how old, fat and marginalized selves appear as trouble to argue that these representations matter to our well-being, health, our relations to each other and to the environment.
Jayne Raisborough’s work broadly focuses on two questions: who can we be and how can we live in prevailing socio-economic contexts? These questions are explored across a range of journal articles and her most recent books: Lifestyle Media and the Formation of the Self (2011 Palgrave) and Fat Bodies, Health and the Media (2016 Palgrave). She has explored, published and taught on media/ cultural representations of social class, gender, ethical consumption, litter and more recently anti-ageing and women’s gun ownership. While these sites are diverse, they each represent specific manifestations of ‘responsiblised’ citizenship and allow insight into a cultural shaping of new subjectivities. She is interested in what is enabled and enacted through this responsiblization and shaping - particularly because these activities relate to prevailing neoliberal rationalities.
Biographical details correct as of 18.05.26