Rebecca Raby
Professor
Department of Child and Youth Studies
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Trained as a sociologist, I draw primarily on critical, feminist and post-structural theorizing to study discrimination against young people, especially as age intersects with gender, race, class and sexual orientation; aspects of the sociology of education, including school disciplinary and surveillance practices, and sex education; constructions of childhood and adolescence, particularly how they are experienced by children and adolescents themselves; theories of agency, rebellion, resistance and contestation among young people; and children and youth as participants within families, peer groups, on-line, within social institutions and more broadly.
Research Interest
Discourses of childhood and adolescence, their effects and contradictions; teenagers' experiences and perceptions of adolescence; gender, race, class and sexual orientation as they intersect in the lives of young people; theorizing agency, rebellion resistance and contestation; theorizing children's rights; theorizing and researching children's participation; the discipline, governance and regulation of youth; gender and sexuality in childhood and youth; global childhoods; qualitative methods
Publications
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Raddon, M., E. Sharpe and R.Raby (2010) "The Challenges of Teaching Qualitative Coding: Can a Learning Object Help?"International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 21(3):336-350.
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Pomerantz, S and R. Raby and A. Stefanik (2013) "Girls Run the World? Caught Between Sexism and Post-Feminism in the School" Gender and Society, 27(2), 185-207.
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Pomerantz, S. and R.Raby (2015) “Playing it Down or Playing it Up: The Pleasures and Hazards of Doing ‘Smart Girl’ in High School†British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36(4):507-525.
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Raby, R. and M. Raddon. (2015). “Is She a Pawn, Prodigy or Person with a Message? Public Responses to a Child’s Political Speech†Canadian Journal of Sociology, 40(2):163-187.
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L. Bablak, R. Raby and S. Pomerantz. (2016). “’I don’t want to stereotype… but it’s true’: Maintaining whiteness at the centre through the ‘smart Asian’ stereotype in high school.†Whiteness in Education, 1(1):54-68.
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Bischoping, K., S. Chapman-Nyaho and R. Raby (2016) “Linking Visuality to Justice through International Cover Designs for Discipline and Punish†in The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, Volume 5:180-214.
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Caron, C., R. Raby, C. Mitchell, S,Théwissen-LeBlanc and J. Prioletta (2016) “From Concept to Data: Sleuthing social change-oriented youth voices on YouTube†Journal of Youth Studies. On-line First.
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Caron, C., R. Raby, C. Mitchell, S,Théwissen-LeBlanc and J. Prioletta (2017) “From Concept to Data: Sleuthing social change-oriented youth voices on YouTube†Journal of Youth Studies, 20(1):47-62
