H Wardle
Biographic Data
| ID | 10988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Wardle |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Wardle |
| SIGNATURE | WARDLE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Philosophical Anthropological and Film Studies Department of Social Anthropology University of St Andrews 71 North Street, St Andrews Fife KY16 9AL UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7179-8289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cosmopolitan Moment, Cosmopolitan Method
The Routledge International Handbook of Existential Human Science
Poverty, inequality and Covid-19: The forgotten vulnerable
The Middle East, apart from Iran and Turkey, is all Arab linguistically, culturally and racially. Politically, the Arab Middle East presents a variety of states and state organizations. Some are sizeable states and economically viable { there are others which are far from solvent. Some are ruled by dictators or by feudal kings, Sheikhs and princes; and others by democratic parliamentary governments of some sort. Some are mediaeval in structure, o…
How to Read Ethnography
‘Characters … stamped upon the mind’. On the a priority of character in the Caribbean everyday
‘Character’ was a key term in the early development of Anthropology as a discipline – Kant gives over the entire last section of his Anthropology to refining the idea of character as a ‘way of thinking’. Perhaps inevitably, however, its ideological career since then – as the mark of a kind, or type of person – has been highly ambivalent. In the Caribbean, though, the idiosyncratic biographical gaze has loomed large. This article explores the stat…
The Windrush generation
The Windrush generation have contributed in many ways to the British economy and to British culture. What is the background to the scandalous abandonment of these migrants in recent times
The artist Carl Abrahams and the cosmopolitan work of centring and peripheralizing the self⋆
The article looks at the work and life of Jamaican artist and 'citizen of the world' Carl Abrahams. Responding to Gell's argument that art should be thought of as a 'technology of enchantment', and to a wider approach that seeks to explain art by reference to cultural context, the article takes Abrahams's ownWeltkenntnis, or world-knowledge, as its focus. TheWeltkenntnisof an artist, or indeed any person, is often at odds both with their surround…
A cosmopolitan anthropology: A Cosmopolitan Anthropology
I draw out four kinds of cosmopolitanism called on in this volume – as a perceptual ability, as an identity politics, as a pan‐human ontology and as a transformative personal capacity. The possibility of ethnographic practice presumes cosmopolitan perceptual abilities. As an identity politics, cosmopolitanism falls into place as an object of mainstream theorising. As an ontology, it becomes the cornerstone of a future‐directed anthropological eth…
Globalization and the post-creole imagination: Notes on fleeing the plantation - By Michaeline A. Crichlow
Downtown ladies. Informal commercial importers, a Haitian anthropologist and self-making in Jamaica by Ulysse, Gina A
A groundwork for West Indian cultural openness
Sidney Mintz aptly describes the cultural openness characteristic of West Indian life. But his historical sociology leaves a gap in our understanding of what cultural openness consists in and how it is organized in the ethnographic here and now. Cultural openness needs to be considered with regard to, and as dependent on, active practices of ambiguation. A case study of religious experience in Kingston, Jamaica describes one person's involvement …
The boy who knew how to fly
Marshy and Friends: Informality, Deformalisation and West Indian Island Experience
In 1973 Jamaica was one of the most prosperous independent states in the Caribbean, but by 1990 it was bankrupt -- 'effectively in receivership' to its foreign creditors with an external debt of 4.5 billion US dollars. The intervening years have seen a decline in the ability of successive governments to promote social welfare and development. Formal control over economic policy has shifted to Washington and the IMF, while informal networks have e…
Ambiguation, Disjuncture, Commitment: A Social Analysis of Caribbean Cultural Creativity
Sociological reassessments of the Caribbean during the last decade provide the basis for this analysis of cultural creativity in Kingston, Jamaica. The intersection of different social networks and formations - for example, lateral transmigrant patterns and vertical state institutions - creates the groundwork for a simultaneous co-working of three characteristic modes of Creole cultural expression - commitment, ambiguation, disjuncture. These mod…
Schismogenesis in a Belfast Urinal
Subjectivity and aesthetics in the Jamaican nine night
L'A. s'inspire de themes neo-kantiens pour une etude des neuf nuits jamaicaines qui sont les neuf veilles effectuees apres un deces. La notion de co-experience sympathique proposee par Bakhtin et les idees de Simmel concernant la base existentielle de toute croyance religieuse permettent d'envisager les neuf nuits selon de multiples perspectives ethnographiques. Pour ceux qui y participent, ces veillees constitutent le support pour explorer d'un …
Jamaican Adventures: Simmel, Subjectivity and Extraterritoriality in the Caribbean
L'œuvre de Simmel, bien qu'il soit l'un des principaux theoriciens de la modernite, continue a etre singulierement mal representee dans les debats theoriques sur le sujet en anthropologie. S'inspirant de la conception de l'aventure de Simmel, cet article considere les moyens par lesquels les Jamaiquains de classe ouvriere creent une impression d'action lorsqu'ils se representent eux-memes dans leurs recits. L'aventure, en tant que cadre esthetiqu…
A groundwork for West Indian cultural openness
Sidney Mintz aptly describes the cultural openness characteristic of West Indian life. But his historical sociology leaves a gap in our understanding of what cultural openness consists in and how it is organized in the ethnographic here and now. Cultural openness needs to be considered with regard to, and as dependent on, active practices of ambiguation. A case study of religious experience in Kingston, Jamaica describes one person's involvement …
Ambiguation, Disjuncture, Commitment: A Social Analysis of Caribbean Cultural Creativity
Sociological reassessments of the Caribbean during the last decade provide the basis for this analysis of cultural creativity in Kingston, Jamaica. The intersection of different social networks and formations - for example, lateral transmigrant patterns and vertical state institutions - creates the groundwork for a simultaneous co-working of three characteristic modes of Creole cultural expression - commitment, ambiguation, disjuncture. These mod…
Jamaican Adventures: Simmel, Subjectivity and Extraterritoriality in the Caribbean
L'œuvre de Simmel, bien qu'il soit l'un des principaux theoriciens de la modernite, continue a etre singulierement mal representee dans les debats theoriques sur le sujet en anthropologie. S'inspirant de la conception de l'aventure de Simmel, cet article considere les moyens par lesquels les Jamaiquains de classe ouvriere creent une impression d'action lorsqu'ils se representent eux-memes dans leurs recits. L'aventure, en tant que cadre esthetiqu…
The Windrush generation
The Windrush generation have contributed in many ways to the British economy and to British culture. What is the background to the scandalous abandonment of these migrants in recent times
Marshy and Friends: Informality, Deformalisation and West Indian Island Experience
In 1973 Jamaica was one of the most prosperous independent states in the Caribbean, but by 1990 it was bankrupt -- 'effectively in receivership' to its foreign creditors with an external debt of 4.5 billion US dollars. The intervening years have seen a decline in the ability of successive governments to promote social welfare and development. Formal control over economic policy has shifted to Washington and the IMF, while informal networks have e…
The artist Carl Abrahams and the cosmopolitan work of centring and peripheralizing the self⋆
The article looks at the work and life of Jamaican artist and 'citizen of the world' Carl Abrahams. Responding to Gell's argument that art should be thought of as a 'technology of enchantment', and to a wider approach that seeks to explain art by reference to cultural context, the article takes Abrahams's ownWeltkenntnis, or world-knowledge, as its focus. TheWeltkenntnisof an artist, or indeed any person, is often at odds both with their surround…
The boy who knew how to fly
Jamaican Adventures: Simmel, Subjectivity and Extraterritoriality in the Caribbean
L'œuvre de Simmel, bien qu'il soit l'un des principaux theoriciens de la modernite, continue a etre singulierement mal representee dans les debats theoriques sur le sujet en anthropologie. S'inspirant de la conception de l'aventure de Simmel, cet article considere les moyens par lesquels les Jamaiquains de classe ouvriere creent une impression d'action lorsqu'ils se representent eux-memes dans leurs recits. L'aventure, en tant que cadre esthetiqu…
Subjectivity and aesthetics in the Jamaican nine night
L'A. s'inspire de themes neo-kantiens pour une etude des neuf nuits jamaicaines qui sont les neuf veilles effectuees apres un deces. La notion de co-experience sympathique proposee par Bakhtin et les idees de Simmel concernant la base existentielle de toute croyance religieuse permettent d'envisager les neuf nuits selon de multiples perspectives ethnographiques. Pour ceux qui y participent, ces veillees constitutent le support pour explorer d'un …
Schismogenesis in a Belfast Urinal
Marshy and Friends: Informality, Deformalisation and West Indian Island Experience
In 1973 Jamaica was one of the most prosperous independent states in the Caribbean, but by 1990 it was bankrupt -- 'effectively in receivership' to its foreign creditors with an external debt of 4.5 billion US dollars. The intervening years have seen a decline in the ability of successive governments to promote social welfare and development. Formal control over economic policy has shifted to Washington and the IMF, while informal networks have e…
Ambiguation, Disjuncture, Commitment: A Social Analysis of Caribbean Cultural Creativity
Sociological reassessments of the Caribbean during the last decade provide the basis for this analysis of cultural creativity in Kingston, Jamaica. The intersection of different social networks and formations - for example, lateral transmigrant patterns and vertical state institutions - creates the groundwork for a simultaneous co-working of three characteristic modes of Creole cultural expression - commitment, ambiguation, disjuncture. These mod…
The boy who knew how to fly
A groundwork for West Indian cultural openness
Sidney Mintz aptly describes the cultural openness characteristic of West Indian life. But his historical sociology leaves a gap in our understanding of what cultural openness consists in and how it is organized in the ethnographic here and now. Cultural openness needs to be considered with regard to, and as dependent on, active practices of ambiguation. A case study of religious experience in Kingston, Jamaica describes one person's involvement …
Downtown ladies. Informal commercial importers, a Haitian anthropologist and self-making in Jamaica by Ulysse, Gina A
A cosmopolitan anthropology: A Cosmopolitan Anthropology
I draw out four kinds of cosmopolitanism called on in this volume – as a perceptual ability, as an identity politics, as a pan‐human ontology and as a transformative personal capacity. The possibility of ethnographic practice presumes cosmopolitan perceptual abilities. As an identity politics, cosmopolitanism falls into place as an object of mainstream theorising. As an ontology, it becomes the cornerstone of a future‐directed anthropological eth…
Globalization and the post-creole imagination: Notes on fleeing the plantation - By Michaeline A. Crichlow
The artist Carl Abrahams and the cosmopolitan work of centring and peripheralizing the self⋆
The article looks at the work and life of Jamaican artist and 'citizen of the world' Carl Abrahams. Responding to Gell's argument that art should be thought of as a 'technology of enchantment', and to a wider approach that seeks to explain art by reference to cultural context, the article takes Abrahams's ownWeltkenntnis, or world-knowledge, as its focus. TheWeltkenntnisof an artist, or indeed any person, is often at odds both with their surround…
‘Characters … stamped upon the mind’. On the a priority of character in the Caribbean everyday
‘Character’ was a key term in the early development of Anthropology as a discipline – Kant gives over the entire last section of his Anthropology to refining the idea of character as a ‘way of thinking’. Perhaps inevitably, however, its ideological career since then – as the mark of a kind, or type of person – has been highly ambivalent. In the Caribbean, though, the idiosyncratic biographical gaze has loomed large. This article explores the stat…
The Windrush generation
The Windrush generation have contributed in many ways to the British economy and to British culture. What is the background to the scandalous abandonment of these migrants in recent times
How to Read Ethnography
Poverty, inequality and Covid-19: The forgotten vulnerable
The Middle East, apart from Iran and Turkey, is all Arab linguistically, culturally and racially. Politically, the Arab Middle East presents a variety of states and state organizations. Some are sizeable states and economically viable { there are others which are far from solvent. Some are ruled by dictators or by feudal kings, Sheikhs and princes; and others by democratic parliamentary governments of some sort. Some are mediaeval in structure, o…
Cosmopolitan Moment, Cosmopolitan Method
The Routledge International Handbook of Existential Human Science
Sociology (12 works) · History (11 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Art (4 works)