Elizabeth Cooper
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3611997 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elizabeth Cooper |
| NOMBRES | Elizabeth |
| APELLIDO | Cooper |
| FIRMA | COOPER E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3367-7053 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1915 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Mind the gaps
A science tourism spectrum
How can I fly there and talk about environmental change? Moral (dis)engagement among Antarctic tour guides
‘Best practice’ for healthy urban development
Lack of clarity about what ‘healthy’ urban development means, alongside financial and technical challenges, has slowed progress on health-promoting development. Case studies could support learning, however, scholars have been critical of their risks when they are applied without adequate consideration of required adaptations or alternatives. We explored how health is promoted through new development via a narrative synthesis of published cases an…
Sustaining the brand and branding sustainability
"The school bus was everything." Seeking distinction in Kenya's education system
Kenya's secondary schools are active sites of intensifying inequalities among young people, producing different kinds of subjectivities. Drawing from interview data with school graduates, I consider how young people discern the value of their education according to material resources, like new school buses and buildings. These concerns indicate students' distrust of education as intrinsically beneficial and the embeddedness of students' interests…
Future increases in soil moisture drought frequency at UK monitoring sites
Concerns exist about the viability of food security across Europe due to multiple, potentially adverse drivers. These include economic, political and climate forcing factors, all of which require quantification. Here, we focus on the climate forcing, and in particular, the soil moisture change component which crucially determines water availability for crop uptake. We estimate future soil moisture levels at 34 sites of the UK COsmic-ray Soil Mois…
Understanding how a commitment-based pledge intervention encourages pro-environmental tourist behaviour
Existing research shows that behavioural interventions can trigger pro-environmental behaviour change, but there is a lack of understanding around how these interventions change behaviour. In response to recent research that calls for studies to systematically test links between interventions and the psychological determinants of behaviour, this study 1) develops and tests a pro-environmental behavioural change intervention in the field, and 2) e…
Making sense of sustainable tourism on the periphery
This exploratory study presents Greenland as a case of a peripheral destination that complicates and contradicts global definitions of sustainable tourism. Using empirical data that consists of 39 semi-structured interviews, the author employs an inductive approach to discuss the conceptualisation of sustainable tourism according to local stakeholders in Greenland. The key points of conflict surrounding sustainable tourism in Greenland are identi…
Cultural centres
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential of cultural centres to be spaces that foster interaction between tourists and locals, and thereby meet the demands of new cultural tourists. This is done through conducting a case study of Katuaq Cultural Centre in Nuuk, Greenland. Combining theories of cultural contact and placemaking, the paper analyses how locals and tourists make use of and experience the centre. The paper then goe…
Countering “Arctification”
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on the Sourtoe Cocktail, a custom in Dawson City, Canada’s Yukon, in which participants drink a shot of alcohol with a dehydrated human toe in it. Springing from a local legend, the thrill-inducing Sourtoe Cocktail has attracted the attention of tourists. The paper reveals insights from this particular case study in order to discuss potential future tourism trends within the Arctic, especially in rega…
Building on Strengths
Little research has focused on how Indigenous girls and their familial female caregivers negotiate issues pertaining to wellbeing and decision-making practices. To address this gap, we employed a novel intergenerational Indigenous partnership methods using various decolonizing action and arts-based activities, to allow participants to guide and modify the direction of the research throughout data collection. We report on three separate activities…
“If You Fall Down, You Get Back Up”
Historical trauma and the negative effects of colonialism continue to be played out within Canadian culture. These processes have a deleterious effect on physical and psychological health outcomes among Indigenous Peoples. Through the creation of a safe space as part of a decolonizing, participatory activity program spanning 7 weeks, First Nations and Metis women and girls (aged 8-12) were able to begin to unpack what it means to be happy, health…
Playing against empire
This paper uses the concept of mimicry to explore the ways in which the tensions of empire were ‘played out’ through the West India Regiments’ performance of military music and cricket. Both tools and products of the British Empire, cricket and military music could be used at cross-purposes and gained meaning and ideological significance in practice. Attention to the cultural practices of the West India Regiments sheds significant light on the co…
Beyond the everyday
This article considers the efforts people in western Kenya have been making to uphold an ideology and practice of the natal home and kin group as morally authoritative, in a context where the very survival of many homes and families has been compromised by the devastating effects of AIDS-related deaths and impoverishment. It traces how orphaned adults, who have little experience or memory of living among natal kin at natal homes, make concerted e…
The Importance of Being Serious
While anthropological scholarship on the life course transitions of young people has aimed to contribute to theories of structure and agency, social reproduction and change, it has done so relatively independently from the anthropological literature on subject formation. This paper explores how subjectivity - how people feel, think, and experience - is implicated in grappling with life course transitions. It addresses how 'being serious' is consi…
The `Africanization` of Salvador
The Old Republic in Brazil was characterized by urban social unrest in the wake of the final abolition of slavery. This article examines contemporaneous social struggles within the transport industry and carnival festivals of Salvador da Bahia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Urban transport and public popular culture provide windows into social contests over the meanings of modernity and freedom in the newly formed republic: C…
Charity and Chance
Uncertainty is commonly conceptualized as psychosocial enigma. As a consequence, it is prone to being analysed as a cultural phenomenon, both in the meanings that different people attribute to it and how people respond to it. In this, different cosmologies of fortune, destiny, and chance have been carefully considered by anthropologists, as have the various avenues of people’s inquiries and petitions, including religion and science, for example (…
Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa
The starting point of this collection is to understand the positive and productive potential of uncertainty in Africa. The relevance of the focus on uncertainty in Africa is not only that contemporary life is objectively risky and unpredictable (since it is so everywhere and in every period), but that uncertainty has become a dominant trope, an ‘inevitable force’ (Johnson-Hanks 2005: 366), in the subjective experience of life in contemporary Afri…
Audiovisual Media as a Pedagogical Tool
Media-based, pedagogical innovations are understudied and largely undocumented within anthropology and the social sciences more generally. While most instructors share the experience of showing films or employing YouTube clips as quick, contemporary examples, we rarely reflect critically on these techniques—much less publish our impressions. This bibliography mirrors the still tentative state of the literature and is neither exhaustive nor author…
Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa
The white elephant in the room
Evaluating Household Food Insecurity
Hunger is complex, encompassing experiences ranging from a family's forced acceptance of a monotonous diet to individual physiological pain. I evaluate the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) as a means of capturing the universal elements of hunger without doing violence to its culturally-specific expressions within two Malay communities. The HFIAS is assessed conceptually by comparing its assumptions and concept-to-measurement gap wit…
Disquieting gifts
Does Child Food Exist for Rural Malays? A Mixed Methods Approach to Food and Identity
Child food is an important identity marker for children in moderate-income, Western settings, yet its wider cross-cultural significance remains understudied particularly among food insecure households. This field-based project employs free-listing, pile-sorting, recipe analysis and ethnographic interviewing with a dimensional sample of adult, Malay caregivers from households with diverse incomes and nutritional outcomes to assess whether child fo…
Sitting and Standing
There is widespread apprehension about the resilience of the 'traditional African' model of the extended family in maintaining norms and practices of inter-group cooperation and care in conditions of demographic, social and economic change. In Nyanza Province, Kenya, where one of every five children is currently orphaned, and HIV/AIDS and wide-scale poverty continue to render lives and livelihoods insecure, many people are not able to take their …
The Importance of Being Serious
While anthropological scholarship on the life course transitions of young people has aimed to contribute to theories of structure and agency, social reproduction and change, it has done so relatively independently from the anthropological literature on subject formation. This paper explores how subjectivity - how people feel, think, and experience - is implicated in grappling with life course transitions. It addresses how 'being serious' is consi…
What do we know about out‐of‐school youths? How participatory action research can work for young refugees in camps
This paper reports on an initiative that took the strategy of youth consultation in programme planning one step further by putting a research project's design, data collection, analysis and presentation of findings in the hands of young women and men who have experienced education and discontinuity of education in a long‐term refugee camp. The participatory action research (PAR) process is described and assessed with attention to how PAR may serv…
Making sense of sustainable tourism on the periphery
This exploratory study presents Greenland as a case of a peripheral destination that complicates and contradicts global definitions of sustainable tourism. Using empirical data that consists of 39 semi-structured interviews, the author employs an inductive approach to discuss the conceptualisation of sustainable tourism according to local stakeholders in Greenland. The key points of conflict surrounding sustainable tourism in Greenland are identi…
Beyond the everyday
This article considers the efforts people in western Kenya have been making to uphold an ideology and practice of the natal home and kin group as morally authoritative, in a context where the very survival of many homes and families has been compromised by the devastating effects of AIDS-related deaths and impoverishment. It traces how orphaned adults, who have little experience or memory of living among natal kin at natal homes, make concerted e…
Understanding how a commitment-based pledge intervention encourages pro-environmental tourist behaviour
Existing research shows that behavioural interventions can trigger pro-environmental behaviour change, but there is a lack of understanding around how these interventions change behaviour. In response to recent research that calls for studies to systematically test links between interventions and the psychological determinants of behaviour, this study 1) develops and tests a pro-environmental behavioural change intervention in the field, and 2) e…
Dual Commitment Among Unionized Faculty
This study investigated changes in union, organizational, and dual commitment among 267 faculty of a public university in the U.S. over a 6.5-month period (from the beginning of contract negotiations to contract settlement). Specifically, it was hypothesized that labor-management relationship climate, union involvement, perceived pay equity, and the implementation of a multi-tier salary plan would differentially affect faculty members' commitment…
Following the law, but losing the spirit of child protection in Kenya
This paper explores how an ostensibly child-centred system can fail to protect children. In some policy arenas, the Kenyan state is recognised as a leader in Africa for the care and protection of children at risk. Yet a case study of children's experiences illuminates how, despite adherence to a legislated framework and series of protocols, the Kenyan state proves unable or unwilling to ensure children's care and protection. The deployment of chi…
Does Child Food Exist for Rural Malays? A Mixed Methods Approach to Food and Identity
Child food is an important identity marker for children in moderate-income, Western settings, yet its wider cross-cultural significance remains understudied particularly among food insecure households. This field-based project employs free-listing, pile-sorting, recipe analysis and ethnographic interviewing with a dimensional sample of adult, Malay caregivers from households with diverse incomes and nutritional outcomes to assess whether child fo…
Children's Homes to Children's Villages
How Teachers Perceive First-Year Schoolchildren
A survey was conducted on the categories considered relevant by teachers when judging first-year schoolchildren. Six rating scales were derived and applied to 180 English children in a multi-racial urban area, yielding data on perceived differences between ethnic groups and between boys and girls. Changes occurring during the school year were recorded, and the structure of the scales was analysed using 'repertory grid' techniques. Results suggest…
The Women of Egypt
The Women of Egypt
How Teachers Perceive First-Year Schoolchildren
A survey was conducted on the categories considered relevant by teachers when judging first-year schoolchildren. Six rating scales were derived and applied to 180 English children in a multi-racial urban area, yielding data on perceived differences between ethnic groups and between boys and girls. Changes occurring during the school year were recorded, and the structure of the scales was analysed using 'repertory grid' techniques. Results suggest…
The Harim and the Purdah
Comparison of Different Methods of Determining the Sex Type of an Occupation
The sex type of an occupation has been frequently investigated. Two major methods, actual rates of participation in the labor market and subjective estimates, have been used to determine the sex type of an occupation. The present study demonstrated that these two methods of estimating sex type may lead to different results
Sex Bias in Job Evaluation
Job evaluation instruments have recently been the subject of a number of critical reviews. In these reviews, job evaluation methods have been criticized for sex bias in the selection and weighting of factors. The present work investigated whether males and females differed in their ratings of importance on ten job evaluation factors and whether different weighting techniques would result in different wage structures. The results indicated that ra…
Dual Commitment Among Unionized Faculty
This study investigated changes in union, organizational, and dual commitment among 267 faculty of a public university in the U.S. over a 6.5-month period (from the beginning of contract negotiations to contract settlement). Specifically, it was hypothesized that labor-management relationship climate, union involvement, perceived pay equity, and the implementation of a multi-tier salary plan would differentially affect faculty members' commitment…
Tamiris and the Federal Dance Theatre 1936–1939
Credit is due a great many individuals for sustained, serious and heartbreaking efforts to achieve successful dance productions within the organization of the Federal Theatre Project in New York, but there is one person who has practically given all her life to it for the past three years and has repeatedly and consistently identified her own career with it. She has been responsible for four productions and has done more than any other one person…
What do we know about out‐of‐school youths? How participatory action research can work for young refugees in camps
This paper reports on an initiative that took the strategy of youth consultation in programme planning one step further by putting a research project's design, data collection, analysis and presentation of findings in the hands of young women and men who have experienced education and discontinuity of education in a long‐term refugee camp. The participatory action research (PAR) process is described and assessed with attention to how PAR may serv…
I Don't Make the Soups Anymore”
Eighteen Latino adults living in the U.S. for less than 2.5 years were surveyed and interviewed about their pre- and post-migration diets and lifestyles. While this mostly female sample reported that their primary language was Spanish, many had some limited skills in written and spoken English. Two thirds were from Colombia, married, and had between 1 and 4 children, and more than half had post-secondary education. Percent change in diet, food ha…
Children's Homes to Children's Villages
The Open Secrets of Solares
Following the law, but losing the spirit of child protection in Kenya
This paper explores how an ostensibly child-centred system can fail to protect children. In some policy arenas, the Kenyan state is recognised as a leader in Africa for the care and protection of children at risk. Yet a case study of children's experiences illuminates how, despite adherence to a legislated framework and series of protocols, the Kenyan state proves unable or unwilling to ensure children's care and protection. The deployment of chi…
Sitting and Standing
There is widespread apprehension about the resilience of the 'traditional African' model of the extended family in maintaining norms and practices of inter-group cooperation and care in conditions of demographic, social and economic change. In Nyanza Province, Kenya, where one of every five children is currently orphaned, and HIV/AIDS and wide-scale poverty continue to render lives and livelihoods insecure, many people are not able to take their …
The white elephant in the room
Evaluating Household Food Insecurity
Hunger is complex, encompassing experiences ranging from a family's forced acceptance of a monotonous diet to individual physiological pain. I evaluate the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) as a means of capturing the universal elements of hunger without doing violence to its culturally-specific expressions within two Malay communities. The HFIAS is assessed conceptually by comparing its assumptions and concept-to-measurement gap wit…
Disquieting gifts
Does Child Food Exist for Rural Malays? A Mixed Methods Approach to Food and Identity
Child food is an important identity marker for children in moderate-income, Western settings, yet its wider cross-cultural significance remains understudied particularly among food insecure households. This field-based project employs free-listing, pile-sorting, recipe analysis and ethnographic interviewing with a dimensional sample of adult, Malay caregivers from households with diverse incomes and nutritional outcomes to assess whether child fo…
Audiovisual Media as a Pedagogical Tool
Media-based, pedagogical innovations are understudied and largely undocumented within anthropology and the social sciences more generally. While most instructors share the experience of showing films or employing YouTube clips as quick, contemporary examples, we rarely reflect critically on these techniques—much less publish our impressions. This bibliography mirrors the still tentative state of the literature and is neither exhaustive nor author…
Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa
Charity and Chance
Uncertainty is commonly conceptualized as psychosocial enigma. As a consequence, it is prone to being analysed as a cultural phenomenon, both in the meanings that different people attribute to it and how people respond to it. In this, different cosmologies of fortune, destiny, and chance have been carefully considered by anthropologists, as have the various avenues of people’s inquiries and petitions, including religion and science, for example (…
Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa
The starting point of this collection is to understand the positive and productive potential of uncertainty in Africa. The relevance of the focus on uncertainty in Africa is not only that contemporary life is objectively risky and unpredictable (since it is so everywhere and in every period), but that uncertainty has become a dominant trope, an ‘inevitable force’ (Johnson-Hanks 2005: 366), in the subjective experience of life in contemporary Afri…
The `Africanization` of Salvador
The Old Republic in Brazil was characterized by urban social unrest in the wake of the final abolition of slavery. This article examines contemporaneous social struggles within the transport industry and carnival festivals of Salvador da Bahia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Urban transport and public popular culture provide windows into social contests over the meanings of modernity and freedom in the newly formed republic: C…
Playing against empire
This paper uses the concept of mimicry to explore the ways in which the tensions of empire were ‘played out’ through the West India Regiments’ performance of military music and cricket. Both tools and products of the British Empire, cricket and military music could be used at cross-purposes and gained meaning and ideological significance in practice. Attention to the cultural practices of the West India Regiments sheds significant light on the co…
Beyond the everyday
This article considers the efforts people in western Kenya have been making to uphold an ideology and practice of the natal home and kin group as morally authoritative, in a context where the very survival of many homes and families has been compromised by the devastating effects of AIDS-related deaths and impoverishment. It traces how orphaned adults, who have little experience or memory of living among natal kin at natal homes, make concerted e…
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