Jessica Gerrard

The Productivity of Unemployment and the Temporality of Employment-to-Come: Older Disadvantaged Job Seekers

Jessica Gerrard, Juliet Watson

Journal article  |  2021  |  SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE

This article demonstrates how unemployment is made productive through workfare activities for older disadvantaged job seekers. We ..

The politics of critical policy sociology: mobilities, moorings and elite networks

Glenn C Savage, Jessica Gerrard, Trevor Gale, Tebeje Molla

Journal article  |  2021  |  CRITICAL STUDIES IN EDUCATION

This article reflects on what doing critical policy sociology means in shifting theoretical, empirical and methodological contexts..

The governing parent-citizen: dividing and valorising parent labour through school governance

Jessica Gerrard, Glenn C Savage

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF EDUCATION POLICY

Internationally, major policy reforms seek to deepen parent and community engagement in schools. Whilst pervasive in policy docume..

Class, affective labour and exploitation: Unemployment and the creation of work on the margins

Jessica Gerrard, David Farrugia

Journal article  |  2020  |  SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW

This article examines the articulation of class and affective labour in the creation of work for the unemployed. Bringing together..

The quarantine archives: educators in "social isolation"

Ligia Licho Lopez Lopez, Christopher T McCaw, Rhonda Di Biase, Amy McKernan, Sophie Rudolph, Aristidis Galatis, Nicky Dulfer, Jessica Gerrard, Elizabeth McKinley, Julie McLeod, Fazal Rizvi

Journal article  |  2020  |  HISTORY OF EDUCATION REVIEW

Purpose: The archives gathered in this collection engage in the current COVID-19 moment. They do so in order to attempt to underst..

Introduction

Jessica Gerrard, Arathi Sriprakash

Book Chapter  |  2020

Knowledge and racial violence

Sophie Rudolph, Arathi Sriprakash, Jessica Gerrard

Book Chapter  |  2020

Boys in Dresses: Same-sex Marriage, Children and the Politics of Equivalence

Jessica Gerrard

Journal article  |  2020  |  AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST STUDIES

This reflective article considers the ways in which children were symbolically deployed to configure the politics in both the ‘Yes..

Cleaning public education: the privatisation of school maintenance work

Jessica Gerrard, Rosie Barron

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND HISTORY

This paper focuses on an area of privatisation that has not to date received significant attention in educational research: the pr..

Nationhood, sex and the family: Neoconservatism and the moral dilemmas of privatisation in schooling

J Gerrard

Book Chapter  |  2020

Schooling has long been central to debates concerning public morality, the construction of national community and the maintenance ..