Jo-Anne Margaret Dillabough
Position/Status
Reader
E-mail Address
jd217@cam.ac.uk
Phone:
01223 767630
Qualifications
- BA (Honours), Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (1987).
- MA, Education and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (1990)
- PhD (with distinction), Sociology of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, 1992-1996)
- SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1996-1998) Post-Doctoral Fellow: Department of Education, University of Cambridge, Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge UK (1996-1998)
- Assistant Professor, OISE/University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario (1998-2003)
- Assistant Professor, UBC, Vancouver, Canada (2003-2004)
- Associate Professor, UBC, Vancouver Canada (2003-present)
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
Memberships
- American Educational Research Association
- British Educational Research Association
- Canadian Society for Studies in Education
- Australian Association for Research in Education
Editorial Boards, Executive International Board Memberships and International Reviewer:
Gender and Education, Canadian Journal of Education, Discourse, Compare, Race and Education, Citizenship Studies, International Journal of Sociology of Education, McGill Journal of Education, British Journal of Sociology.
Other
- Regional Representative for Gender and Education: Canada
- International Steering Committee: Center for Culture, Identity and Education (UBC, Vancouver)
- Women and Professionalism Committee (History of Education Group, CHEA, Canada)
- History of Youth and Childhood Association, UBC
Profile
Personal Statement on Scholarship: Interdisciplinary research has been of fundamental importance to me, both at the substantive level and in terms of theory and methodology. From my initial training as a sociologist, therefore, I have gone on to draw extensively upon theoretical, conceptual and methodological insights deriving from, in particular, Continental philosophy, political science, cultural geography and history. I would therefore now best describe my intellectual position as that of an interdisciplinary cultural sociologist specialising in micro-cultural sociological and qualitative approaches in the study of social inequality. A unifying objective across all of my substantive research work has been to develop a broad but coherent interdisciplinary research agenda which confronts larger questions of social and cultural exclusions cross-nationally and particularly in cities. I have also been concerned with more general theoretical questions of social, cultural and political identity in the state and its diverse formations across social, geographical and political contexts.
Academic Area/Links
- Sociology and Cultural Geography
- Youth Subcultures and the Global City
- Visual Methodologies
- Sociology of Education
- Gender Studies
Research Topics
- Youth and Social Exclusion
- Comparative and International Education
- Sociology of Education
- International Human Rights and Low Income Youth
- Moral Regulation, Cultural Geography and Urban Change
Current Research Projects
- New Youth Subcultures on the Suburban Fringes of the new 'global city': Sydney, Aulney-Sur Bois, Hackney, UK, Vancouver, BC. Canada (SSHRC)
- Youth, Citizenship and Social Exclusion in Global Contexts (SSHRC, Spencer Foundation)
- Economic Disadvantage and Youth Cultures of the 21st Century in South Africa (University of Cambridge, SSHRC)
- 21st Century 'Boy Boxers' in Rural and Urban England: Race, Masculinity and Change
- Race and Youth People in the Global Tourist Industry: Labour, Migration and Social Change
Course Involvement
- MPhil Politics, Democracy and Education
- BA Education, Globalization and Modernity
- BA Historicity and Methodology
- BA Sociology
Principal Publications
Books and Special Issues (authored/edited)
Dillabough, J. and Kennelly, J. (2010). Lost Youth in the Global City: Class, Culture and the Global Imaginary. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
Dillabough, J., McLeod, J. and Mills, M. (2009). Eds. Troubling Gender in Education. London: Routledge.
Lauder, H., Brown, P., Dillabough, J. and Halsey, A. (2006). Eds. Globalization , Education, and Social Change, Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
Arnot, M. and Dillabough, J. (2000). Eds. Challenging Democracy: International Perspectives on Gender, Education and Citizenship. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
Dillabough, J., McCleod, J. and Mills, M. (2008). Special Issue: Troubling Gender in Education. Discourse, 29(3), 301-417.
Authored (in progress)
Dillabough, J. (Monograph, in progress). Cultural Identities and Political Community: An Ethnographic Study of the Representation of 'Indigenous Culture' in Canadian Schools.
Dillabough, J. (Monograph, in progress). Democracy Exposed: Caring, Respectability, and Women's Labours in Teacher Education (proposal under review, RoutledgeFalmer).
Chapters
Dillabough, J. (2009) Assessing Pierre Bourdieu's Theoretical Legacies for Feminist Sociology of Education: Culture, Self and Society. In C. Levine-Rasky's (ed.), Canadian Perspectives on the Sociology of Education in Canada, Oxford University Press. Toronto, Ontario, Oxford, UK.
Dillabough, J. (2008). 'Exploring Historicity and Temporality in Social Science Methodology: A Case for Analytical and Methodological Justice'. In K. Gallagher's (ed), The Methodological Dilemma. RoutledgeFalmer.
Dillabough, J. and Acker, S. (2008). 'Gender at Work in Teacher Education'. In D. Fisher and A. Chan (eds.), The Exchange University: Corporatization of Academic Culture. Vancouver, UBC Press.
Dillabough, J., Kennelly, J. and Wang, E. (2008) 'Spatial Containment in the Inner City: Youth Subcultures, Class-Conflict and Geographies of Exclusion'. In L. Weis's (ed), The Way Class Works. New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
Dillabough, J., Kennelly, J. and Wang, E. (2007). 'Warehousing' young people in urban schools'. In K. Gulson's and C. Symes (ed), Spatializing Policy. RoutledgeFalmer.
Dillabough, J. (2007). 'Feminist Reproduction Theory, in Banks', B. (ed.), Gender and Education, Greenwood Press.
Dillabough, J. (2007). 'Gender Theory, Social Thought and Education: Illuminating Moments and Critical Impasses'. In C. Skelton, B. Francis, and L. Smulyan (eds.), Handbook of Gender and Education, London: Sage.
Dillabough, J. and Van der Meulen (2007). 'Female Youth Homelessness in Urban Canada: Space, Representation and Gender Identity. Rethinking the Representation of Youth Homelessness in the Public Record' in J. McCleod's and A. Allard's (eds.), Learning at the Margins, New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
Arnot, M. and Dillabough, J. (2006). 'Feminist Political Frameworks: New Approaches to the Study of Gender, Citizenship and Education'. Challenging Democracy: International Perspectives on Gender, Education and Citizenship, London: RoutledgeFalmer (translation into Japanese by University of Tokyo Press).
Dillabough, J. and Arnot, M. (2005). 'A Magnified Image of Female Citizenship: Illusions of Democracy or Challenges to Symbolic Domination'. In J. Demaine's (ed.), Citizenship and Political Education. Macmillan-Palgrave: London: UK, pp. 158-180.
Dillabough, J. (2002). 'Gender Equity in Education: Modernist Traditions and Emerging Contemporary Themes'. In B. Francis and C. Skeleton (eds.), Investigating Gender: Perspectives in Education, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 11-26.
Dillabough, J. and Arnot, M. (2002). 'Feminist Perspectives in Sociology of Education: Continuity and Transformation in the Field'. In D. Levinson, R. Sadovnik and P. Cookson (eds.), Sociology of Education: An Encyclopedia. New York: Taylor and Francis, pp. 571-586.
Dillabough, J. and Arnot, M. (2001). 'Feminist Sociology of Education: Dynamics, Debates, Directions'. In J. Demaine's (ed.), Sociology of Education Today. London: MacMillan, pp. 30-48.
Dillabough, J. (2000). 'Women in Teacher Education: Their Struggles for Inclusion as Citizen Workers' in Late Modernity'. In M. Arnot and J. Dillabough's (eds.), Challenging Democracy: International Perspectives on Gender, Education and Citizenship. London: RoutledgeFalmer, pp. 161-165.
Dillabough, J. and Arnot, M. (2000). 'Feminist Political Frameworks: New Approaches to the Study of Gender, Citizenship and Education'. In M. Arnot and J. Dillabough's (Eds.), Challenging Democracy: International Perspectives on Gender, Education and Citizenship. London: RoutledgeFalmer, pp. 21-40.
Arnot, M. and Dillabough, J. (2000). Introduction. In M. Arnot's and J. Dillabough's (Eds.), Challenging Democracy: International Perspectives on Gender, Education and Citizenship. London: RoutledgeFalmer, pp. 1-19.
Journal Articles
Dillabough, J. (2009). History and the making of young people and the late modern researcher: time, narrative and change. Review Essay in Discourse, 30(2), 213-229.
Dillabough, J. (2009). To be or not to be (a gendered subject): Was that the question? Gender and Education, 21(4), 455-466.
Dillabough, J. (forthcoming). Rethinking Citizenship through the eyes of Hannah Arendt. Citizenship Studies Journal.
Kennelly, J. and Dillabough, J. (2008) Young people mobilizing the language of citizenship: struggles for classification and new meaning in an uncertain world. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 29(5), 493-508.
Dillabough, J. (2007). Extended Review Essay: Anoop Nayak's Race, Space and Globalization: Youth Cultures in a Changing World'. British Journal of Sociology of Education, Volume 28, (1), 125 - 134.
Acker, S. and Dillabough, J. (2007). 'Women 'learning to labour' in the 'male emporium': gendered experiences of work in teacher education'. Gender and Education, 19(3), 297-316.
Dillabough, J., Kennelly, J., and Wang, G. (2005). "Ginas," "Thugs," and "Gangstas": Young People's Struggles To "Become Somebody" in Working-Class Urban Canada. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. 21(3), 83-108.
Dillabough, J. (2007). Parenting and Working: A model change needed. Academic Matters, February Issue, 14-16.
Dillabough, J. (2005). Gender, Symbolic Domination and Female Work: The Case of Teacher Education. Discourse: The Cultural Politics of Education, 22, 127-148.
Dillabough, J. (2004). Class, Culture and the 'Predicaments of Masculine Domination': Pierre Bourdieu's Encounter with Contemporary Feminist Sociology. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 25(4), 489-506.
Dillabough, J. and Acker, S. (2003). Gender at Work in Teacher Education: History, Society and Global Reform. Journal of Research in Teacher Education, 3, 109-133.
Dillabough, J. (2003). Gender, Education, and Society: The Limits and Possibilities of Feminist Reproduction Theory. Sociology of Education, 76 (4), 376-379.
Dillabough, J. and Acker, S. (2002). Globalization, Women's Work and Teacher Education: A Cross-National analysis. International Studies in the Sociology of Education, 12(3), 227-260.
Dillabough, J. (2002). The Hidden Injuries of Critical Pedagogy. Curriculum Inquiry. 32(2), 203-214.
Dillabough, J. and Arnot, M. (2002). Recasting Educational Debates about Female Citizenship, Agency and Identity. The School Field Journal, 8(3/4). 61-89. (Also translated into Portuguese in Ex-Aequo: Revista da Associacoa Portuguesa de Estud sobre as Mulheres, 7, 17-48.)
Dillabough, J. (1999). Gender Politics and Conceptions of the Modern Teacher: Women, Identity and Professionalism. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 20(3), 373-392.
Arnot, M. and Dillabough, J. (1999). Feminist Politics and Democratic Values in Education. Curriculum Inquiry, 29(2), 159-189.
Dillabough, J. and McAlpine, L. (1996). Rethinking Research Processes and Praxis in Social Studies Education: The Cultural Politics of Methodology in Text Evaluation Research. Theory and Research in Social Education
Visiting Scholar/Visiting Lecturer
- 2007 School of Education, Deakin University, Melbourne Australia
- 2004 School of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2001/02 School of Political Sciences, Tromsoe, Norway
- 2002 School of Teacher Education, UMEA University, Sweden
- 2002 Department of Educational Studies, UBC, Vancouver, BC. 2001 School of Communications, University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
- 2001 School of Education, Women Studies, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2001 School of Education, University of Comahue, Neuquen, Argentina
- 2001 Institute of Education, University of London, London, UK
Noted Scholar
Flasco, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Social Sciences Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2006)
Keynote/Invited Speaker
- Goldsmiths, London, UK
- Deakin University, Melbourne Australia
- University of Comuhue (Argentina)
- University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta
- Harvard University, Boston, USA
- OISE/University of Toronto, Canada
- University of Thessolonika (Greece)
- University of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
- University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
- University of York, York, UK
Awards
- Most Distinguished Doctoral Thesis (CSSE, 1997)
- New Researchers Award (SSHRC, 1999), Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, UBC (Canada), David Lam Chair (UBC)
- Spencer Fellow (USA); Killam Fellow (Canada)
Photo Credit: Martin Dee, University British Columbia