Books
Living Against Austerity: A Feminist Investigation of Doing Activism and Being Activist
“With austerity’s disproportionately heavy impact on women now apparent, this engaging book considers activism against it from a feminist perspective.
Emma Craddock goes deep inside activist culture to explore the many cultural and emotional dimensions of political participation. She questions what motivates and sustains protest, considering the enabling aspects of solidarity and empathy, as well as the constraining factors of negative emotions and gendered barriers associated with activism, examining the role of gender and emotion within protest. This is a lived-in study that gets to the heart of what it means to be an anti-austerity activist and an important addition to social justice debate.”
“‘Living against austerity’ contributes to understandings of how meanings relating to the activist identity are constructed within the local anti-austerity scene and the implications this can have for women. By focusing on emotions, Craddock provides nuanced insights into the contradictions and multi-layered dynamics within Nottingham’s local anti-activist scenes.” Social Movement Studies
“Emma Craddock has written a candid and sophisticated account of the existential tensions involved in anti-austerity activism.” Steve Fuller, University of Warwick
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
- Craddock, E. (2025) Navigating residual diagnostic categories: The lived experiences of women diagnosed with autism and ADHD in adulthood, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
- Craddock, E., Williams, G. and Weckesser, A. (2025) Same Shit, Different Crisis? Feminist Activism against period poverty during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the UK, Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
- Craddock, E. (2025) Disrupting norms of time and talk: Email interviews as a neurodivergent-affirming method for ethical and rich qualitative research, Qualitative Research
- Handley-Stone, R. and Craddock, E. (2024) What are midwifery academics’ perceptions of dual clinical and educational roles? A narrative literature review, MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, vol 34, December 2024, 296-302.
- Craddock, E. (2024) Being a woman is 100% significant to my experiences of ADHD and autism: Exploring the gendered implications of an adulthood AuDHD diagnosis, Qualitative Health Research
- Craddock, E. (2024) Raising the voices of AuDHD women and girls: exploring the co-occurring conditions of autism and ADHD, Disability & Society
- Craddock, E. (2022) A qualitative UK study exploring counterpublic engagement of marginalized women via a Women’s Health Network, Health Promotion International
- Craddock, E. (2019) ‘What is the point of anti-austerity activism? Exploring the motivating and sustaining emotional forces of political participation’, Interface
- Craddock, E. (2018) ‘Doing “enough” of the ‘right’ thing: The gendered dimension of the ‘ideal activist’ identity and its negative emotional consequences, Social Movement Studies
- Craddock, E. (2016) ‘Caring about and for the cuts: A case study of the gendered dimension of austerity and anti-austerity activism’, Gender, Work and Organization