The paradoxical habits of busyness and the complexity of intimate time-space (2020)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C. (2020). The paradoxical habits of busyness and the complexity of intimate time-space. Social and Cultural Geography, 23(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2020.1769167

Talk of busyness is everywhere. Obsessions with being busy mediate the temporalities of working and family life. The assumption that busyness is universal suggests a unified experience of temporality in the 21st century. This paper responds to this n... Read More about The paradoxical habits of busyness and the complexity of intimate time-space.

Gendered temporalities of everyday family practices: An analysis of self-help literature on ‘busyness’ (2019)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C. (2019). Gendered temporalities of everyday family practices: An analysis of self-help literature on ‘busyness’. Gender, Place and Culture, 27(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2019.1615412

The busyness of everyday life has received considerable popular and academic attention in recent years. The narrative developed in popular literature is that busyness is the defining temporality of the twenty-first century. While these subjective con... Read More about Gendered temporalities of everyday family practices: An analysis of self-help literature on ‘busyness’.

Generic distinctiveness and the entrepreneurial self: a case study of English Higher Education (2018)
Journal Article
Holdsworth. (2018). Generic distinctiveness and the entrepreneurial self: a case study of English Higher Education. Journal of Youth Studies, 21(9), 1216-1231. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2018.1459524

Young people are increasingly called upon to invest in educational qualifications, experience opportunities and other character forming activities in order to stand out from the crowd. This fetishizing of generic distinctiveness is promoted throughou... Read More about Generic distinctiveness and the entrepreneurial self: a case study of English Higher Education.

Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering (2013)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C., & Brewis, G. (in press). Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering. Journal of Youth Studies, 17(2), 204 - 219. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2013.815702

There has been a step change around youth volunteering in the UK in recent years as this once unheralded and taken for granted activity has moved more centre stage, particularly as a key strand of recent Government initiatives directed towards welfar... Read More about Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering.