Penny Harvey
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3580955 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Penny Harvey |
| NOMBRES | Penny |
| APELLIDO | Harvey |
| FIRMA | HARVEY P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7765-1221 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1162 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Afterword
This afterword reflects on the paradox of ‘viable futures’ in contexts where displacement, crisis and structural inequality unsettle the grounds from which futures can be imagined. Viability emerges not as a promise of flourishing but as a threshold condition: the effort to orient toward a future when the subject who hopes, decides and endures is itself unsettled. Drawing on ethnographic, literary and infrastructural examples, the essay explores …
The Relationship between Gender Identity and Gender Centrality among Transgender, Cisgender, Nonbinary, and Intersex Individuals
This study highlights the relationship between gender identity and gender centrality, including self-reported measures of the centrality of masculinity and femininity in individuals' interactional expression, physical expression, interests, and feeling masculine or feminine. This is a secondary data analysis of a larger study (The 2019 Pleasure Study). In this analysis, it was found that there is a notable relationship between gender identity and…
Deaf Identity Salience
Mainstream television scarcely features Deaf persons. When they do, they are usually cameo, secondary, and rarely multidimensional characters. This paper examines Deaf identity of a main character, Daphne Vasquez, on the popular show Switched at Birth. We analyze moments where Daphne’s identity, a constructed Deaf identity, is showcased. We map how her identity is salient across seasons and then examine key moments of identity formation as Daphne…
Geology as Unconforming Infrastructure For the Hosting of Nuclear Waste
As the dramatic consequences of climate change finally begin to motivate governments around the world to explore how to move away from a dependence on fossil fuels, nuclear power is back on the agenda in the UK as a potential energy source. However, this new-found enthusiasm confronts a fundamental challenge-namely, that the radioactive wastes, accumulating since the very first nuclear power stations were built in the 1950s, have yet to be made s…
Reaching for Common Ground
Radioactive wastes, once discarded with little concern for the spread of contamination, are now subject to concerted state-sponsored efforts to produce secure and effectively perpetual containment infrastructures. Current UK policy is to bury the wastes in a geological disposal facility. The siting of this facility depends on the identification not only of a site with suitable geology but one where residents are demonstrably willing to host the f…
The Relational Nature of Gender, the Pervasiveness of Heteronormative Sexual Scripts, and the Impact on Sexual Pleasure
This study examined how gender shapes sexual interactions and pleasure outcomes. We highlight varying expectations people have in regard to sex by combining questions about orgasm frequency and sexual pleasure. Our analysis was driven from a sample of 907 survey responses from cis women, cis men, trans women, trans men, non-binary, and intersex millennial respondents, 324 of which had gender-diverse sexual histories. The findings built upon previ…
Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies
The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data - brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies afford scientists and medical experts new possibilities for probing and revealing previously invisible and inaccessible areas of the body. The existing literature has been successful in mapping the impa…
Highways and Hierarchies
Neglected Transportation Infrastructure
Verkhnemarkovo, a small Siberian town located on an oil field in Russia’s Irkutsk region, is plagued by bad roads and limited mobility. This article explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility and the wellbeing of individuals and communities, with a focus on transport and mobility infrastructure. Some oil companies, such as Irkutsk Oil Company, are tied to the sustainability standards of international financial institutions.…
Landscape and Commerce
The Southern Peruvian Andes is a region where the mountainous landscape memorializes centuries of political history. This chapter sets out to explore how Andean peoples, aware of historical process and of their own social disadvantage in wider national and global contexts, have over time reproduced a sense of the powerful agency of the land and of the mountains. The sense of landscape as the locus of enduring and historically charged agency is fa…
Anthropology and Science
1. Introduction: Epistemologies in Practice. Jeanette Edwards, Penny Harvey Harvey and Peter Wade (all University of Manchester) 2. Astrophysics, Anthropology and Other Imperial Pursuits. Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge) 3. Industry Going Public: Rethinking Knowledge and Administration. Alberto Corsin-Jimenez (University of Manchester) 4. Rationality and Contingency: Rhetoric, Practice and Legitimation in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Catherine Ale…
Cimentando relaciones
Este artículo propone analizar cómo el concreto está implicado en la transformación del espacio público en el Perú provincial. Si bien el concreto mejora la capacidad de un estado para producir estructuras confiables y predecibles, también hay límites significativos en relación con su capacidad para la conectividad tanto en el ámbito material como social. La atención etnográfica a la dinámica relacional del concreto revela cómo su promesa de oper…
Intersections of Climate Change and Nuclear Power
Radiation as social relation
A new nuclear power station is currently being built in the Southwest of the UK at Hinkley Point. The construction of the cooling water system for Hinkley Point C is underway but there is controversy over the tunnelling required to install the huge pipes that will run for over 3 kilometres into the Bristol Channel. EDF, the operating company, want to deposit 600,000 tonnes of sediment on the far side of the Channel, at the licensed site for such …
Do Sociology Courses Make More Empathetic Students? A Mixed-Methods Study of Empathy Change in Undergraduates
Assessing course goals is often challenging; assessing an abstract goal, like empathy, can be especially so. For many instructors, empathy is central to sociological thinking. As such, fostering empathy in students is a common course goal. In this article, we report the initial findings of a semester-long assessment of empathy change in undergraduate students ( N = 619). We employ a mixed-methods research design that utilizes qualitative instruct…
Bilingualism in the Peruvian Andes
This chapter describes an anthropological research project undertaken in a bilingual community of Quechua/Spanish speakers in the Southern Peruvian Andes. It looks at the use of bilingualism as a political resource, and at the role of language in the establishment and maintenance of hierarchical social relations. The chapter explores the relationship between power and symbolic practice, and decided to concentrate on language use as a key example …
Researching Language
Introduction. Dislocating labour
In the introduction to this volume on ‘dislocating labour’ we seek to lay the ground for an anthropology of labour that extends beyond the industrial heartlands from which the concept emerged. Remaining aware of the analytical purchase of the focus on the labour/capital relation, we argue that the ethnographic exploration of this relation allows us to extend the reach of the labour concept. It also allows us to explore the diverse ways in which l…
Roads
Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, who in this book use the example of highway building in South America to explore what large public infrastructural projects can tell us about contemporary state formation, social relations, and emerging political economies. Roads focuses on two main sites: the interoceanic highway currently under construction between Brazil and Peru, a major public/private …
Attention to infrastructure offers a welcome reconfiguration of anthropological approaches to the political
This constitutes the edited proceedings of the 2015 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory held at Manchester
Interrupted futures
Sociological interest in precarious labour has focused on the existential insecurity associated with the discontinuous work relations of contemporary modes of production and the difficulties produced for the formation of effective modes of social and political solidarity. This essay, by contrast, explores the continuities of precarious living in the Southern Peruvian Andes over the past century, with a focus on how the affective force of social o…
Waste Futures
Drawing on an ethnographic study of attempts to bring new waste infrastructures into being in the Cusco region of Peru, this article considers the specific material and social articulations that such infrastructures imply. The ethnography explores the attempts by engineers, municipal functionaries, and local communities to engage 'waste' both as decomposing matter and as material resource. The article traces the tensions that emerge in experiment…
Infrastructures and Social Complexity
Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with increasing concerns about climate change and the anthropocene, there is further an urgency around contemporary infrastructural provision: a concern about its fragility, and an awareness that these connective, rela…
Hybrids of Modernity
Part 1 INTRODUCTION: the world as exhibition The Global and the Local Ethnology of the Culturally Familiar Anthropology and Cultural Studies The Expo '92 Hybrids of Modernity. Part 2 ANTHROPOLOGY: CAN WE DO ANTHROPOLOGY WHEN CULTURE AND CONTEXT BECOME SELF-EVIDENT? Context and the Cultural Construct Context and interpretation at Expo '92 Auto-Anthropology: Contextualization as Interaction. Part 3 THE NATION STATE: Technologies of Nationhood The N…
Faith, Reason and the Ethic of Craftsmanship
There are many reasons why the work of Gabriel Tarde might appeal to contemporary social scientists, not least because of his interest in the general principle of vitality that resonates so strongly with current research at the interface of the biological and the human sciences.1 And the drama of his confrontations with Durkheim is spectacular – both in terms of Tarde’s ousting from the sociological scene by the Durkheimian conceptual apparatus, …
The Enchantments of Infrastructure
This paper addresses the unstable material and social environments that large-scale road construction projects attempt to tame and fix in place as a way of exploring the affective force of roads as technologies for delivering progress and development. Drawing from our ethnography of the construction of two roads in Peru, we trace the disruptive and destabilising processes through which roads come to hold the promise of transformation. We approach…
Roads
Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, who in this book use the example of highway building in South America to explore what large public infrastructural projects can tell us about contemporary state formation, social relations, and emerging political economies. Roads focuses on two main sites: the interoceanic highway currently under construction between Brazil and Peru, a major public/private …
Roads and Anthropology
The current text locates the anthropological study of roads within the wider context of studies on mobility and modernity. Besides introducing the articles of this special issue of Mobilities on roads and anthropology, this introduction also addresses some of the broader theoretical and epistemological implications of the anthropological perspective on roads, space, time and (im)mobility
Social networks and the study of relations
Networks have recently become fashionable in social analysis but most of the new network approaches have paid scant attention to the long history of reflections upon the potential of networks as an analytical device in the social sciences. In this paper we chart the developments in networking thinking in two disciplinary areas - social network analysis and social anthropology - in order to highlight the enduring difficulties and problems with net…
The Topological Quality of Infrastructural Relation
This article seeks to address how topological approaches to cultural change might be combined with ethnographic analysis in order to suggest new ways of thinking empirically about the dynamic political and moral spaces that infrastructural systems create and sustain. The analytical focus is on how diverse notions of relationality and connectivity are mobilized in the production of infrastructural systems that sustain the capacity of 'state-space'…
Researching Language
Attention to infrastructure offers a welcome reconfiguration of anthropological approaches to the political
This constitutes the edited proceedings of the 2015 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory held at Manchester
South American Indian Languages
Scales of Place and Networks
Much has been made of the spacetransforming and spacedefying characteristics of information and communications technologies. This focus tends to separate the spatial characteristics of these technologies from those of the Euclidean world; it also takes the spatial characteristics of the Euclidean world for granted. Yet anthropologists have shown that place making in any spatial context is a complicated process, always involving an entanglement of…
Introduction. Dislocating labour
In the introduction to this volume on ‘dislocating labour’ we seek to lay the ground for an anthropology of labour that extends beyond the industrial heartlands from which the concept emerged. Remaining aware of the analytical purchase of the focus on the labour/capital relation, we argue that the ethnographic exploration of this relation allows us to extend the reach of the labour concept. It also allows us to explore the diverse ways in which l…
Hybrids of Modernity
Hybrids of Modernity considers the relationship between three western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition. It looks at the ways in which these institutions are linked, in how they are engaged in the objectification of culture, and in how they have themselves become objects of cultural theory, the targets of critics who claim that despite their continuing visibility these are all institutions with qu…
Anticipating Failure
The article explores the politics of making worlds legible, transparent and actionable through devices that governments and international organisations mobilise in the quest to achieve moral certainty about their activities and decisions. Through an analysis of three distinct examples, we examine the effects of such attempts to open things up in the name of the public good: the performance metrics that are part of the UK government's ‘Transparenc…
Waste Futures
Drawing on an ethnographic study of attempts to bring new waste infrastructures into being in the Cusco region of Peru, this article considers the specific material and social articulations that such infrastructures imply. The ethnography explores the attempts by engineers, municipal functionaries, and local communities to engage 'waste' both as decomposing matter and as material resource. The article traces the tensions that emerge in experiment…
Otherwise Engaged
This article explores the cultural framings that all too frequently pass un-noticed in standard cost-benefit accounts of development economics. Our purpose is not simply to add our voice to those who argue for the importance of ‘bringing culture back in’, for we assume that in contexts of modern development economics ‘the cultural’ cannot simply be added to the technical or the economic, as these perspectives are explicitly elaborated as an abstr…
Drunken speech and the construction of meaning
This article examines the language use of drunken speakers in a bilingual community of the Southern Peruvian Andes. When drunk, speakers are less constrained in their linguistic choices by considerations of individual linguistic competence and of differential status between speaker and addressees. Cultural norms of heightened potency and diminished responsibility allow drunken speakers to extend their linguistic repertoires and to challenge estab…
Anticipating Harm
This article draws on an ethnography of road construction in the Peruvian Andes to explore how engineering projects operate as sites of contemporary governance. Focusing on the way in which engineering projects entail a confrontation with dangers of various kinds, we explore how people caught up in road construction processes become preoccupied with the problem of anticipated harm. Drawing on the notion of 'codes of conduct', we suggest that the …
Do Sociology Courses Make More Empathetic Students? A Mixed-Methods Study of Empathy Change in Undergraduates
Assessing course goals is often challenging; assessing an abstract goal, like empathy, can be especially so. For many instructors, empathy is central to sociological thinking. As such, fostering empathy in students is a common course goal. In this article, we report the initial findings of a semester-long assessment of empathy change in undergraduate students ( N = 619). We employ a mixed-methods research design that utilizes qualitative instruct…
Interrupted futures
Sociological interest in precarious labour has focused on the existential insecurity associated with the discontinuous work relations of contemporary modes of production and the difficulties produced for the formation of effective modes of social and political solidarity. This essay, by contrast, explores the continuities of precarious living in the Southern Peruvian Andes over the past century, with a focus on how the affective force of social o…
The Relational Nature of Gender, the Pervasiveness of Heteronormative Sexual Scripts, and the Impact on Sexual Pleasure
This study examined how gender shapes sexual interactions and pleasure outcomes. We highlight varying expectations people have in regard to sex by combining questions about orgasm frequency and sexual pleasure. Our analysis was driven from a sample of 907 survey responses from cis women, cis men, trans women, trans men, non-binary, and intersex millennial respondents, 324 of which had gender-diverse sexual histories. The findings built upon previ…
Pilgrims of the Andes
Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies
The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data - brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies afford scientists and medical experts new possibilities for probing and revealing previously invisible and inaccessible areas of the body. The existing literature has been successful in mapping the impa…
Infrastructures of the Frontier in Latin America
Between Narrative and Number
This article explores the ways in which contemporary digital visualization technologies offer grounds for a reappraisal of the relationship between qualitative and quantitative data. Using the example of a 3D digital model of the city of Manchester, the question of descriptive adequacy in the social sciences is addressed.The model is an interesting descriptive device oriented simultaneously to providing an accurate account of what is present in t…
Radiation as social relation
A new nuclear power station is currently being built in the Southwest of the UK at Hinkley Point. The construction of the cooling water system for Hinkley Point C is underway but there is controversy over the tunnelling required to install the huge pipes that will run for over 3 kilometres into the Bristol Channel. EDF, the operating company, want to deposit 600,000 tonnes of sediment on the far side of the Channel, at the licensed site for such …
Lenguaje y relaciones de poder
Mannheim observó lo siguiente en cuanto al "debate sobre lingüística andina": "de un lado, modelos 'dualistas? de la sociedad suponen que la política lingüística implica la intervención en lo que de otra manera sería un cambio sui géneros de lealtad por individuos de un grupo cultural a otro, y que la mera existencia de una población de gente de habla indígena que sea grande y geográficamente concentrada indica un contacto superficial y reciente …
Lenguaje y relaciones de poder
Mannheim observó lo siguiente en cuanto al "debate sobre lingüística andina": "de un lado, modelos 'dualistas? de la sociedad suponen que la política lingüística implica la intervención en lo que de otra manera sería un cambio sui géneros de lealtad por individuos de un grupo cultural a otro, y que la mera existencia de una población de gente de habla indígena que sea grande y geográficamente concentrada indica un contacto superficial y reciente …
South American Indian Languages
The Kuna Gathering
Pilgrims of the Andes
Mujeres que no hablan castellano
Los hechos y las prácticas descritas en este documento sucedieron en Ocongate, un pequeño pueblo andino en el sur del Perú. Es un lugar de mucha actividad, situado al borde de una carretera importante, aunque no asfaltada, que conecta la sierra del sur del Perú con las tierras tropicales de la Amazonía. Trabajadores migrantes, provisiones y materia prima pasan diariamente en los camiones que hacen ruta de Puerto Maldonado a las ciudades del sur d…
Drunken speech and the construction of meaning
This article examines the language use of drunken speakers in a bilingual community of the Southern Peruvian Andes. When drunk, speakers are less constrained in their linguistic choices by considerations of individual linguistic competence and of differential status between speaker and addressees. Cultural norms of heightened potency and diminished responsibility allow drunken speakers to extend their linguistic repertoires and to challenge estab…
Género, comunidad y confrontación
Introducción Fue en el cumpleaños de Jorge. Las mujeres habían dedicado toda la mañana a preparar la comida especial para la ocasión. Jorge había llevado las vacas a pastear en las alturas mientras los demás hombres estaban ocupados por su lado en tareas similares, pero cerca de las 2 de la tarde todo el mundo se había concentrado dentro de la pequeña cocina. Nos servimos unos cuantos vasitos de trago, mezcla de alcohol con agua, y Juana pasó una…
Ethnographic Film and the Politics of Difference
The IV American Festival of Indigenous Cinema held in Peru (Lima and Cusco) June 1992,Organized by the Latin American Commission for Indigenous Cinema (CLACPI) The III International Festival of Ethnographic Film held in Britain (Manchester) September 1992,Organized by the Royal Anthropological Institute
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Nations on display
(1995). Nations on display: Technology and culture in Expo '92. Science as Culture: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 85-105
Multiculturalism without responsibility? The contemporary Universal Exhibition
Bulimia and force feeding
(1996). Bulimia and force feeding: Contrasting techniques of revealing the self. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 39, Space and gender, pp. 78-94
Sex and Violence
Afterword
Afterword
Hybrids of Modernity
Landscape, Modernity and Exclusion in Dubrovnik
Scales of Place and Networks
Much has been made of the spacetransforming and spacedefying characteristics of information and communications technologies. This focus tends to separate the spatial characteristics of these technologies from those of the Euclidean world; it also takes the spatial characteristics of the Euclidean world for granted. Yet anthropologists have shown that place making in any spatial context is a complicated process, always involving an entanglement of…
Introduction. Threatening communication
Social networks and the study of relations
Networks have recently become fashionable in social analysis but most of the new network approaches have paid scant attention to the long history of reflections upon the potential of networks as an analytical device in the social sciences. In this paper we chart the developments in networking thinking in two disciplinary areas - social network analysis and social anthropology - in order to highlight the enduring difficulties and problems with net…
Exploitable knowledge belongs to the creators of it
Cinq anthropologues se sont reunis pour debattre des droits de propriete intellectuelle concernant les savoirs des minorites ethniques ou societes traditionnelles a partir d'une proposition (this house believes that exploitable knowledge belongs to the creators of it). A partir de cas precis, les participants defendent ou recusent cette proposition. Les argumentations revelent deux positions : 1) tout en reconnaissant la specificite culturelle (q…
Expertise, Technology and Public Culture
The Benefits of Structural Marginality to British Social Anthropology
What is the status of anthropology in Britain? • What does the general non-academic public know about anthropology? • What is the 'stereotype' of the anthropologist? • Does anthropological knowledge travel beyond academia to broader publics? • What is the status of anthropology within the University
Language States
This chapter contains sections titled: Foundational Dramas of Incomprehension Translators and “Go-Betweens” The Creation of Christian Subjects The Creation of National Subjects Twentieth-Century Language Politics Communicative Practices on the Margins of the State Alternative Modernities References
Otherwise Engaged
This article explores the cultural framings that all too frequently pass un-noticed in standard cost-benefit accounts of development economics. Our purpose is not simply to add our voice to those who argue for the importance of ‘bringing culture back in’, for we assume that in contexts of modern development economics ‘the cultural’ cannot simply be added to the technical or the economic, as these perspectives are explicitly elaborated as an abstr…
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