A Jamie Saris
Biographic Data
| ID | 309674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Jamie Saris |
| GIVEN NAMES | A Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Saris |
| SIGNATURE | SARIS A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9891-3286 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Debating Authenticity
The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of vi…
Growing Appetites and Hungry Subjects
This paper explores the Western philosophical idea of “appetites” through the lens of “addiction.” I begin with a brief ethnographic description of a woman whose subjectivity seems to emerge only in the play of her unmanageable desire for various pharmaceuticals. In other words, she is a self-described “addict.” I then look at the relationships between addicts and the undead, especially vampires and zombies, who are seemingly enslaved to their ap…
Repealing Ireland's Eighth Amendment
In 2018, the Irish public voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which since 1983 banned abortion in the country. While this was a watershed moment in Irish history, it was not unconnected to wider discussions now taking place around the world concerning gender, reproductive rights, the future of religion, Church–State relationships, democracy and social movements. With this Forum, we want to prompt some anthropological i…
Co-designing Integrated Care Using Participatory Action Research [PAR]
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Debating Authenticity
The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of vi…
Of Remedies and Poisons
During an ethnographic study of barriers to, and compliance with, antiretroviral (ARv) treat- ment in the South Africa’s West Coast region, our team came across a general sense amongst heath careproviders that there was a lively illicit trade in antiretroviral medications. in itself, this is seen to be a barrier to adherence for many of their patients whose medication is traded to, or stolen by, drug dealers. independent anecdotal evidence is eme…
An Uncertain Dominion
Enshrining Vietnamese-Irish lives
Once Were Positivists
Tbere are two basic issues in tbis essay. The first is tbe sloppy use of tbe term \n'postmodernism' to designate a more or less organised collection of unsavoury \nacademics, who (it is argued) subscribe to various forms of nihilism and epistemological \nhypochondria for some, as-yet-to-be-determined but clearly nefarious, \nends. The exact composition of this group is left vague (although the author \nclearly has bis own list). It presumably inc…
Culture and the state
This paper analyses some of the activities of a community development group connected to a very poor neighbourhood in Dublin, Ireland within the context of anti-poverty discourses and types of targeted funding generated by the European Union. Community development groups and discourses are saturated with terms such as the 'social market', 'inclusion' and 'community' that are an interesting combination of progressive politics and concepts recogniz…
Icon and structural violence in a Dublin 'underclass' housing estate
Out of Our Minds
Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. Johannes Fabian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 320 pp., maps, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Net Curtains and Closed Doors
Net Curtains and Closed Doors: Intimacy, Family and Public Life in Dublin. Elizabeth A. Throop. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. 168 pp
Culture and History in the Halfway House
In this essay, I examine aspects of the life of a mental hospital nurse in the context of two main discourses (1) cultural debates about Ireland over the course of the last century or so, and (2) how the west of the island has been portrayed in some ethnographic writings. I argue that this nurse is situated partially in and partially out of both these discourses, and, furthermore, he is implicated in reproducing some ideas that render such judgme…
Producing Persons and Developing Institutions in Rural Ireland
In this article, I examine a community psychiatric nurse's highly commodified descriptions of the activities and interests of two clients of a mental hospital in rural Ireland. These examples show an intimate relationship between a discourse of economics and a discourse of rationality that can also be discovered in sources connected to the history of Ireland's mental hospital system. Using these and other connections, I argue that the distinctive…
Mad Kings, Paper Houses, and an Asylum in Rural Ireland
SThis essay examines aspects of the local history and cultural life of St. Columba's Mental Hospital, a formerly large asylum in the west of Ireland. The way local people talk about the hospital as a place and the way the institution mixes its local, colonial, and national histories reveal that native spatial logics have succeeded in at least partially domesticating this bureaucratic structure, even as the asylum and the thinking that motivated i…
Telling stories
The return of the repressed
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Mad Kings, Paper Houses, and an Asylum in Rural Ireland
SThis essay examines aspects of the local history and cultural life of St. Columba's Mental Hospital, a formerly large asylum in the west of Ireland. The way local people talk about the hospital as a place and the way the institution mixes its local, colonial, and national histories reveal that native spatial logics have succeeded in at least partially domesticating this bureaucratic structure, even as the asylum and the thinking that motivated i…
Out of Our Minds
Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. Johannes Fabian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 320 pp., maps, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Culture and the state
This paper analyses some of the activities of a community development group connected to a very poor neighbourhood in Dublin, Ireland within the context of anti-poverty discourses and types of targeted funding generated by the European Union. Community development groups and discourses are saturated with terms such as the 'social market', 'inclusion' and 'community' that are an interesting combination of progressive politics and concepts recogniz…
Producing Persons and Developing Institutions in Rural Ireland
In this article, I examine a community psychiatric nurse's highly commodified descriptions of the activities and interests of two clients of a mental hospital in rural Ireland. These examples show an intimate relationship between a discourse of economics and a discourse of rationality that can also be discovered in sources connected to the history of Ireland's mental hospital system. Using these and other connections, I argue that the distinctive…
Debating Authenticity
The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of vi…
Icon and structural violence in a Dublin 'underclass' housing estate
Culture and History in the Halfway House
In this essay, I examine aspects of the life of a mental hospital nurse in the context of two main discourses (1) cultural debates about Ireland over the course of the last century or so, and (2) how the west of the island has been portrayed in some ethnographic writings. I argue that this nurse is situated partially in and partially out of both these discourses, and, furthermore, he is implicated in reproducing some ideas that render such judgme…
Enshrining Vietnamese-Irish lives
Social/Cultural Anthropology
The return of the repressed
Telling stories
Mad Kings, Paper Houses, and an Asylum in Rural Ireland
SThis essay examines aspects of the local history and cultural life of St. Columba's Mental Hospital, a formerly large asylum in the west of Ireland. The way local people talk about the hospital as a place and the way the institution mixes its local, colonial, and national histories reveal that native spatial logics have succeeded in at least partially domesticating this bureaucratic structure, even as the asylum and the thinking that motivated i…
Producing Persons and Developing Institutions in Rural Ireland
In this article, I examine a community psychiatric nurse's highly commodified descriptions of the activities and interests of two clients of a mental hospital in rural Ireland. These examples show an intimate relationship between a discourse of economics and a discourse of rationality that can also be discovered in sources connected to the history of Ireland's mental hospital system. Using these and other connections, I argue that the distinctive…
Culture and History in the Halfway House
In this essay, I examine aspects of the life of a mental hospital nurse in the context of two main discourses (1) cultural debates about Ireland over the course of the last century or so, and (2) how the west of the island has been portrayed in some ethnographic writings. I argue that this nurse is situated partially in and partially out of both these discourses, and, furthermore, he is implicated in reproducing some ideas that render such judgme…
Out of Our Minds
Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. Johannes Fabian. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix. 320 pp., maps, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Net Curtains and Closed Doors
Net Curtains and Closed Doors: Intimacy, Family and Public Life in Dublin. Elizabeth A. Throop. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999. 168 pp
Culture and the state
This paper analyses some of the activities of a community development group connected to a very poor neighbourhood in Dublin, Ireland within the context of anti-poverty discourses and types of targeted funding generated by the European Union. Community development groups and discourses are saturated with terms such as the 'social market', 'inclusion' and 'community' that are an interesting combination of progressive politics and concepts recogniz…
Icon and structural violence in a Dublin 'underclass' housing estate
Once Were Positivists
Tbere are two basic issues in tbis essay. The first is tbe sloppy use of tbe term \n'postmodernism' to designate a more or less organised collection of unsavoury \nacademics, who (it is argued) subscribe to various forms of nihilism and epistemological \nhypochondria for some, as-yet-to-be-determined but clearly nefarious, \nends. The exact composition of this group is left vague (although the author \nclearly has bis own list). It presumably inc…
Enshrining Vietnamese-Irish lives
An Uncertain Dominion
Of Remedies and Poisons
During an ethnographic study of barriers to, and compliance with, antiretroviral (ARv) treat- ment in the South Africa’s West Coast region, our team came across a general sense amongst heath careproviders that there was a lively illicit trade in antiretroviral medications. in itself, this is seen to be a barrier to adherence for many of their patients whose medication is traded to, or stolen by, drug dealers. independent anecdotal evidence is eme…
Debating Authenticity
The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of vi…
Co-designing Integrated Care Using Participatory Action Research [PAR]
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Repealing Ireland's Eighth Amendment
In 2018, the Irish public voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which since 1983 banned abortion in the country. While this was a watershed moment in Irish history, it was not unconnected to wider discussions now taking place around the world concerning gender, reproductive rights, the future of religion, Church–State relationships, democracy and social movements. With this Forum, we want to prompt some anthropological i…
Growing Appetites and Hungry Subjects
This paper explores the Western philosophical idea of “appetites” through the lens of “addiction.” I begin with a brief ethnographic description of a woman whose subjectivity seems to emerge only in the play of her unmanageable desire for various pharmaceuticals. In other words, she is a self-described “addict.” I then look at the relationships between addicts and the undead, especially vampires and zombies, who are seemingly enslaved to their ap…
Debating Authenticity
The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of vi…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (4 works) · Irish (4 works) · Irish and British Studies (4 works)