Alexandra Palmer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 107457 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alexandra Palmer |
| NOMBRES | Alexandra |
| APELLIDO | Palmer |
| FIRMA | PALMER A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5273-4813 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Convergence, absence, capture
Scientific developments in genetic modification (GM) are rapidly forging ahead, bringing both calls to enable their possibilities, but also concerns of potential harm. At a time of technological and regulatory change, we analyse thirty years of public debate on GM in Aotearoa New Zealand to better understand the trajectory of public discourse. Drawing on analysis over 1,648 texts, primarily media articles, from the early 1990s to the present, we …
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
1 1. Cecil Beaton c. 1935, Gelatin silver print, The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive, London.A man in a dark pinstripe suit poses dramatically with one hand on his head in front of an ornate wooden dis
Working Beyond Anthropology Across Different Epistemic Cultures
The ASAANZ conference in Dunedin in 2023 was a catalyst for this conversation about anthropological practices of interdisciplinarity which we have glossed as working across different epistemic cultures. In this piece, we canvas the concept of disciplines as epistemic cultures, argue for the continued need for disciplines, and discuss the benefits of engagement across epistemic cultures when addressing certain research, policy and educational matt…
Holding Discomfort
Can community‐based conservation improve social acceptance of invasive species management? Lessons from New Zealand
Invasive species management (ISM) is often met with social conflict, particularly around lethal control methods. A key source of conflict is mistrust in government and other authorities undertaking ISM. Community‐based conservation (CBC) therefore holds potential for implementing ISM with reduced social conflict. Community groups are playing an important role in New Zealand's (NZ's) Predator Free 2050 (PF2050) goal, which aims to eradicate three …
The pesky problem of defining a ‘pest’
The Pest Management Attitudes (PMA) scale was developed to provide a unidimensional and versatile tool to assess attitudes toward introduced pests and their management. While the PMA has been tested and shown strong psychometric properties in samples from Aotearoa, New Zealand (NZ), it is only beginning to be used internationally. This study tested the utility and influence of wording of the PMA scale in the United Kingdom (UK), using a 2021 surv…
Digital animal deathscapes
This paper brings together animals, death, and digital geographies to examine the sharing of dead animal imagery on social media by conservationists in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). It is particularly concerned with two key questions: (1) Why (and how) do dead animals attract support for conservation? (2) How are personal feelings about animal death navigated in the public space of social media? In answering these questions, this paper extends geogr…
Predator free 2050 and pedagogy
Invasive species pose a threat to biodiversity, and as such feature in some conservation education programs. However, there is debate about how to teach this difficult subject. We explored perspectives using a case study of education about introduced mammalian predators in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). We conducted semi-structured interviews with 18 NZ educators and animal welfare advocates and supplemented these data with material from a broader pr…
Cat egorisation of cats
Management of domestic and wild animals is an integral part of conservation and is often based on how an animal is categorised. For example, feral cats are often killed, while valued companion cats and native wildcats are protected. Drawing on qualitative research and using the concept of boundary‐work, this paper examines the complex categorisation and management of cats within conservation in Britain and Aotearoa, New Zealand (NZ). We examine h…
What Do Scientists Mean When They Talk About Research Animals “Volunteering”
This paper examines discourses around "volunteering" in animal research. Through a qualitative textual analysis of the scientific literature using animals in behavioral and psychological research, we demonstrate that "voluntary" and related terms are used by scientists in a variety of distinct ways, which carry a range of ethical and political connotations. While any reference to volunteering might be assumed to imply free, unconstrained, and unp…
Co-producing Human and Animal Experimental Subjects
Preclinical (animal) testing and human testing of drugs and vaccines are rarely considered by social scientists side by side. Where this is done, it is typically for theoretically exploring the ethics of the two situations to compare relative treatment. In contrast, we empirically explore how human clinical trial participants understand the role of animal test subjects in vaccine development. Furthermore, social science research has only concentr…
When research animals become pets and pets become research animals
This paper explores what happens to care, and decisions about ending and extending life, when research animals become pets and pets become research animals. To do this, we draw on in-depth qualitative research on (i) rehoming of laboratory animals, (ii) veterinary clinical research, and (iii) the role of the Named Veterinary Surgeon (NVS) in UK animal research. We begin by exploring how (in theory and practice) the ethical, affective, and practic…
The Small British Cat Debate
This article examines why cat predation is not on the agenda for most UK-focused conservation NGOs. Drawing on interviews and an analysis of scientific literatures and social media, I show that there are genuine epistemic uncertainties about whether cat predation presents a widespread conservation problem in the UK. This means that characterising NGOs' position as science denialism is unjustified. However, I argue that NGOs may wish to avoid look…
Hybrid apes in the Anthropocene
Conservationists often view hybrid animals as problematic, at least if anthropogenic influence caused the intermixing to occur. However, critics propose that humans should respect non‐human autonomy, reject and accept the creatures they have helped to create. Based on two case studies of our own ethological, genetic and ethnographic research about chimpanzee and orangutan subspecies hybrids, we assess what, if anything, should be done about such …
Getting to grips with wildlife research by citizen scientists
Wildlife research by citizen scientists, involving the capture and handling of animals, provides clear scientific benefits, but also potential risks to animal welfare. We explore debates about how best to regulate such work to ensure that it is undertaken in an ethical manner. We focus on the UK as a case study, drawing on qualitative research and stakeholder engagement events. We show that because trapping and marking of certain species requires…
Edge cases in animal research law
This paper explores how the boundaries of the UK's Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act (A(SP)A) are constituted, as illustrative of the rising importance of legal procedures around animal research and how these are continuously being challenged and questioned. Drawing on empirical work in animal research communities, we consider how it is decided whether activities are undertaken for an "experimental or other scientific purpose". We do this by fo…
Animal research nexus
Animals used in biological research and testing have become integrated into the trajectories of modern biomedicine, generating increased expectations for and connections between human and animal health. Animal research also remains controversial and its acceptability is contingent on a complex network of relations and assurances across science and society, which are both formally constituted through law and informal or assumed. In this paper, we …
Conservation and the social sciences
Interactions between conservation and the social sciences are frequently characterized by either critique (of conservation by social scientists) or co-optation (of social scientific methods and insights by conservationists). This article seeks to push beyond these two dominant positions by exploring how conservationists and social scientists can engage in mutually transformative dialogue. Jointly authored by conservation scientists and social sci…
Anthropologist or primatologist
En m'appuyant sur deux projets de recherches que j'ai menés sur les relations hommes-orang-outans, je propose de réfléchir à des méthodes autres que l'ethnographie d'un seul site, qui pourraient faciliter l'étude des relations entre les humains et les autres primates ( alloprimates ). Le premier projet examine les relations entre les gardiens et les orangs-outans d'un zoo. En combinant une méthode ethnographique et une méthode éthologique, il a p…
Extending Ethnoprimatology
The majority of studies in ethnoprimatology focus on areas of sympatry where humans and nonhuman primates (hereafter, primates) naturally coexist. We argue that much can be gained by extending the field's scope to incorporate settings where humans manage most aspects of primates' lives, such as zoos, laboratories, sanctuaries, and rehabilitation centers (hereafter, managed settings). We suggest that the mixed-methods approach of ethnoprimatology,…
Caregiver/Orangutan Relationships at Auckland Zoo
Drawing on ethnographic, ethological, and historical data, we examined the relationships between orangutans and caregivers at Auckland Zoo. Caregivers displayed high levels of empathy and adjusted their husbandry routines to their interpretations of the orangutans’ moods. Caregivers experienced conflicts arising from their efforts to empathize. Although they agreed their husbandry approach improved welfare, they worried their interpretations of o…
Accessing Orangutans' Perspectives
Anthropologists are paying increasing attention to human/animal entanglements rather than treating animals merely as vehicles through which to explore human social life. We suggest that this emerging multispecies focus is best served by research that considers not only humans' responses to animals but also their responses to us and that attempts to access animals' subjective experiences. Following the interdisciplinary methods of ethnoprimatology…
Untouchable
This article examines various intellectual and physical challenges of exhibiting costumes and textiles in European and North American museum settings where artifacts cannot be handled or physically experienced by visitors. It describes different museological and commercial solutions and suggests reasons for the various approaches taken to collections and on-going rotating displays. It also describes the author's own experiences with costume and t…
Old Clothes, New Looks
Recent interest in ‘vintage’ and second hand clothes by both fashion consumers and designers is only the latest manifestation of a long and complex cultural history of wearing and trading second hand clothes. With its origins in necessity, the passing of clothes between social and economic groups is now a global business, but with roots that are centuries old. To move from one social and cultural situation to another used clothes must be 'transfo…
Old Clothes, New Looks
Conservation and the social sciences
Interactions between conservation and the social sciences are frequently characterized by either critique (of conservation by social scientists) or co-optation (of social scientific methods and insights by conservationists). This article seeks to push beyond these two dominant positions by exploring how conservationists and social scientists can engage in mutually transformative dialogue. Jointly authored by conservation scientists and social sci…
Untouchable
This article examines various intellectual and physical challenges of exhibiting costumes and textiles in European and North American museum settings where artifacts cannot be handled or physically experienced by visitors. It describes different museological and commercial solutions and suggests reasons for the various approaches taken to collections and on-going rotating displays. It also describes the author's own experiences with costume and t…
Accessing Orangutans' Perspectives
Anthropologists are paying increasing attention to human/animal entanglements rather than treating animals merely as vehicles through which to explore human social life. We suggest that this emerging multispecies focus is best served by research that considers not only humans' responses to animals but also their responses to us and that attempts to access animals' subjective experiences. Following the interdisciplinary methods of ethnoprimatology…
Extending Ethnoprimatology
The majority of studies in ethnoprimatology focus on areas of sympatry where humans and nonhuman primates (hereafter, primates) naturally coexist. We argue that much can be gained by extending the field's scope to incorporate settings where humans manage most aspects of primates' lives, such as zoos, laboratories, sanctuaries, and rehabilitation centers (hereafter, managed settings). We suggest that the mixed-methods approach of ethnoprimatology,…
Animal research nexus
Animals used in biological research and testing have become integrated into the trajectories of modern biomedicine, generating increased expectations for and connections between human and animal health. Animal research also remains controversial and its acceptability is contingent on a complex network of relations and assurances across science and society, which are both formally constituted through law and informal or assumed. In this paper, we …
Caregiver/Orangutan Relationships at Auckland Zoo
Drawing on ethnographic, ethological, and historical data, we examined the relationships between orangutans and caregivers at Auckland Zoo. Caregivers displayed high levels of empathy and adjusted their husbandry routines to their interpretations of the orangutans’ moods. Caregivers experienced conflicts arising from their efforts to empathize. Although they agreed their husbandry approach improved welfare, they worried their interpretations of o…
When research animals become pets and pets become research animals
This paper explores what happens to care, and decisions about ending and extending life, when research animals become pets and pets become research animals. To do this, we draw on in-depth qualitative research on (i) rehoming of laboratory animals, (ii) veterinary clinical research, and (iii) the role of the Named Veterinary Surgeon (NVS) in UK animal research. We begin by exploring how (in theory and practice) the ethical, affective, and practic…
Judith Clark Costume, London, UK
What Do Scientists Mean When They Talk About Research Animals “Volunteering”
This paper examines discourses around "volunteering" in animal research. Through a qualitative textual analysis of the scientific literature using animals in behavioral and psychological research, we demonstrate that "voluntary" and related terms are used by scientists in a variety of distinct ways, which carry a range of ethical and political connotations. While any reference to volunteering might be assumed to imply free, unconstrained, and unp…
Co-producing Human and Animal Experimental Subjects
Preclinical (animal) testing and human testing of drugs and vaccines are rarely considered by social scientists side by side. Where this is done, it is typically for theoretically exploring the ethics of the two situations to compare relative treatment. In contrast, we empirically explore how human clinical trial participants understand the role of animal test subjects in vaccine development. Furthermore, social science research has only concentr…
Edge cases in animal research law
This paper explores how the boundaries of the UK's Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act (A(SP)A) are constituted, as illustrative of the rising importance of legal procedures around animal research and how these are continuously being challenged and questioned. Drawing on empirical work in animal research communities, we consider how it is decided whether activities are undertaken for an "experimental or other scientific purpose". We do this by fo…
New Directions
(1997). New Directions: Fashion History Studies and Research in North America and England. Fashion Theory: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 297-312
After a Fashion , Joanne Finkelstein
Judith Clark Costume, London, UK
Old Clothes, New Looks
Recent interest in ‘vintage’ and second hand clothes by both fashion consumers and designers is only the latest manifestation of a long and complex cultural history of wearing and trading second hand clothes. With its origins in necessity, the passing of clothes between social and economic groups is now a global business, but with roots that are centuries old. To move from one social and cultural situation to another used clothes must be 'transfo…
Old Clothes, New Looks
Untouchable
This article examines various intellectual and physical challenges of exhibiting costumes and textiles in European and North American museum settings where artifacts cannot be handled or physically experienced by visitors. It describes different museological and commercial solutions and suggests reasons for the various approaches taken to collections and on-going rotating displays. It also describes the author's own experiences with costume and t…
Accessing Orangutans' Perspectives
Anthropologists are paying increasing attention to human/animal entanglements rather than treating animals merely as vehicles through which to explore human social life. We suggest that this emerging multispecies focus is best served by research that considers not only humans' responses to animals but also their responses to us and that attempts to access animals' subjective experiences. Following the interdisciplinary methods of ethnoprimatology…
Caregiver/Orangutan Relationships at Auckland Zoo
Drawing on ethnographic, ethological, and historical data, we examined the relationships between orangutans and caregivers at Auckland Zoo. Caregivers displayed high levels of empathy and adjusted their husbandry routines to their interpretations of the orangutans’ moods. Caregivers experienced conflicts arising from their efforts to empathize. Although they agreed their husbandry approach improved welfare, they worried their interpretations of o…
Extending Ethnoprimatology
The majority of studies in ethnoprimatology focus on areas of sympatry where humans and nonhuman primates (hereafter, primates) naturally coexist. We argue that much can be gained by extending the field's scope to incorporate settings where humans manage most aspects of primates' lives, such as zoos, laboratories, sanctuaries, and rehabilitation centers (hereafter, managed settings). We suggest that the mixed-methods approach of ethnoprimatology,…
Animal research nexus
Animals used in biological research and testing have become integrated into the trajectories of modern biomedicine, generating increased expectations for and connections between human and animal health. Animal research also remains controversial and its acceptability is contingent on a complex network of relations and assurances across science and society, which are both formally constituted through law and informal or assumed. In this paper, we …
Conservation and the social sciences
Interactions between conservation and the social sciences are frequently characterized by either critique (of conservation by social scientists) or co-optation (of social scientific methods and insights by conservationists). This article seeks to push beyond these two dominant positions by exploring how conservationists and social scientists can engage in mutually transformative dialogue. Jointly authored by conservation scientists and social sci…
Anthropologist or primatologist
En m'appuyant sur deux projets de recherches que j'ai menés sur les relations hommes-orang-outans, je propose de réfléchir à des méthodes autres que l'ethnographie d'un seul site, qui pourraient faciliter l'étude des relations entre les humains et les autres primates ( alloprimates ). Le premier projet examine les relations entre les gardiens et les orangs-outans d'un zoo. En combinant une méthode ethnographique et une méthode éthologique, il a p…
Hybrid apes in the Anthropocene
Conservationists often view hybrid animals as problematic, at least if anthropogenic influence caused the intermixing to occur. However, critics propose that humans should respect non‐human autonomy, reject and accept the creatures they have helped to create. Based on two case studies of our own ethological, genetic and ethnographic research about chimpanzee and orangutan subspecies hybrids, we assess what, if anything, should be done about such …
Getting to grips with wildlife research by citizen scientists
Wildlife research by citizen scientists, involving the capture and handling of animals, provides clear scientific benefits, but also potential risks to animal welfare. We explore debates about how best to regulate such work to ensure that it is undertaken in an ethical manner. We focus on the UK as a case study, drawing on qualitative research and stakeholder engagement events. We show that because trapping and marking of certain species requires…
Edge cases in animal research law
This paper explores how the boundaries of the UK's Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act (A(SP)A) are constituted, as illustrative of the rising importance of legal procedures around animal research and how these are continuously being challenged and questioned. Drawing on empirical work in animal research communities, we consider how it is decided whether activities are undertaken for an "experimental or other scientific purpose". We do this by fo…
The Small British Cat Debate
This article examines why cat predation is not on the agenda for most UK-focused conservation NGOs. Drawing on interviews and an analysis of scientific literatures and social media, I show that there are genuine epistemic uncertainties about whether cat predation presents a widespread conservation problem in the UK. This means that characterising NGOs' position as science denialism is unjustified. However, I argue that NGOs may wish to avoid look…
Predator free 2050 and pedagogy
Invasive species pose a threat to biodiversity, and as such feature in some conservation education programs. However, there is debate about how to teach this difficult subject. We explored perspectives using a case study of education about introduced mammalian predators in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). We conducted semi-structured interviews with 18 NZ educators and animal welfare advocates and supplemented these data with material from a broader pr…
Cat egorisation of cats
Management of domestic and wild animals is an integral part of conservation and is often based on how an animal is categorised. For example, feral cats are often killed, while valued companion cats and native wildcats are protected. Drawing on qualitative research and using the concept of boundary‐work, this paper examines the complex categorisation and management of cats within conservation in Britain and Aotearoa, New Zealand (NZ). We examine h…
What Do Scientists Mean When They Talk About Research Animals “Volunteering”
This paper examines discourses around "volunteering" in animal research. Through a qualitative textual analysis of the scientific literature using animals in behavioral and psychological research, we demonstrate that "voluntary" and related terms are used by scientists in a variety of distinct ways, which carry a range of ethical and political connotations. While any reference to volunteering might be assumed to imply free, unconstrained, and unp…
Co-producing Human and Animal Experimental Subjects
Preclinical (animal) testing and human testing of drugs and vaccines are rarely considered by social scientists side by side. Where this is done, it is typically for theoretically exploring the ethics of the two situations to compare relative treatment. In contrast, we empirically explore how human clinical trial participants understand the role of animal test subjects in vaccine development. Furthermore, social science research has only concentr…
When research animals become pets and pets become research animals
This paper explores what happens to care, and decisions about ending and extending life, when research animals become pets and pets become research animals. To do this, we draw on in-depth qualitative research on (i) rehoming of laboratory animals, (ii) veterinary clinical research, and (iii) the role of the Named Veterinary Surgeon (NVS) in UK animal research. We begin by exploring how (in theory and practice) the ethical, affective, and practic…
The pesky problem of defining a ‘pest’
The Pest Management Attitudes (PMA) scale was developed to provide a unidimensional and versatile tool to assess attitudes toward introduced pests and their management. While the PMA has been tested and shown strong psychometric properties in samples from Aotearoa, New Zealand (NZ), it is only beginning to be used internationally. This study tested the utility and influence of wording of the PMA scale in the United Kingdom (UK), using a 2021 surv…
Digital animal deathscapes
This paper brings together animals, death, and digital geographies to examine the sharing of dead animal imagery on social media by conservationists in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ). It is particularly concerned with two key questions: (1) Why (and how) do dead animals attract support for conservation? (2) How are personal feelings about animal death navigated in the public space of social media? In answering these questions, this paper extends geogr…
Holding Discomfort
Can community‐based conservation improve social acceptance of invasive species management? Lessons from New Zealand
Invasive species management (ISM) is often met with social conflict, particularly around lethal control methods. A key source of conflict is mistrust in government and other authorities undertaking ISM. Community‐based conservation (CBC) therefore holds potential for implementing ISM with reduced social conflict. Community groups are playing an important role in New Zealand's (NZ's) Predator Free 2050 (PF2050) goal, which aims to eradicate three …
Sociology (11 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Biology (9 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 obras) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (9 obras) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (8 obras) · Ecology (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Business (6 obras)