L Gibson
Biographic Data
| ID | 12506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Gibson |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibson |
| SIGNATURE | GIBSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4808-1607 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Taking Turns: Editor's Farewell
After six issues of collaborating and taking turns steering the journal, we have made the decision to step down from the editorial collective of Commoning Ethnography. The time has come to refresh the journal’s perspective and open the publication to our colleagues as they push this experiment in thinking, writing, and publishing in new directions
Prevalence and Correlates of Complicated Grief in Military Primary Care: Implications for Healthcare Providers
Grief is a universal experience, but for approximately 1 in 10 individuals, grief can become impairing. Despite servicemembers' frequent exposure to death, research on grief in the military remains limited. The purpose of the study was to explore the prevalence and correlates of complicated grief (CG) in military primary care. A quantitative survey was conducted with 161 non-treatment-seeking service members, veterans, and their dependents, of wh…
Advanced Computational Thing-Kin: Sociomaterial Kinship and the MakerSpace
The incursion of tech companies into wider aspects of our lives means that computational thinking has become increasingly enmeshed with physiological, emotional, creative and social aspects of human life. We suggest that advanced computational thinking should be considered in wider terms than the limited scope of computer sciences and that we should recognise the expansion of the ‘computer world’ and its incursion into lived life: the pervasive e…
On Power and Obligation in Publishing
Welcome to Volume 5 of Commoning Ethnography. We’ll start with the obvious: this issue was a challenge to produce. It arrives nearly three calendar years after our last issue. This was not our plan. There are myriad reasons for the issue’s untimeliness. Chiefly, these have to do with a quite volatile period in the life of our institution in the long wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as it played out in its own untimely way in Aotearoa. They also have…
“The most seen I have ever felt”: Labour-Based Grading as a pedagogical practice of care
This paper discusses experiments with Labour-Based Grading (LBG) in undergraduate anthropology courses at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Since before the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been aware that our teaching was not serving students, especially those from different class backgrounds and historically marginalized communities, and those with learning disabilities or mental health issues. The challenges these students face are …
The most seen I have ever felt”: Labour-Based Grading as a pedagogical practice of care
This paper discusses experiments with Labour-Based Grading (LBG) in undergraduate anthropology courses at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Since before the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been aware that our teaching was not serving students, especially those from different class backgrounds and historically marginalized communities, and those with learning disabilities or mental health issues. The challenges these students face are …
Introducing Volume 4
Welcome to Volume 4 of Commoning Ethnography
Introducing Issue Three
This issue has taken shape within the context of a global pandemic, and despite these challenges it has provided a welcome space to continue our common intellectual work. Our authors hail from around the globe and have each experienced different aspects of this volatility in different ways at different times. The issue features a special collection entitled Trial by Fire. These essays probe and question the underlying assumptions embedded within …
Introduction: Labours of Collaboration
The four pieces in this section are innovative collaborations at various levels, ranging from anthropologists collaborating with communities to collaborative presentations as a way to subvert hierarchies and Euro-centric modes of being with/in academia. These papers engage with the relationship between collaboration and commoning, some explicitly and others implicitly, as ways to shape knowledge production and practice for a much more egalitarian…
Anthropology as Respair: Anthropological Engagements with Hope and its Others
Anthropology as Respair: Anthropological Engagements with Hope and its Others Lorena Gibson Jarrett Zigon, Disappointment: Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of Worldbuilding. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. 208 pp. Hirokazu Miyazaki and Richard Swedberg, eds. The Economy of Hope. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 198 pp. Manpreet K. Janeja and Andreas Bandak, eds. Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope, and Uncertainty. …
Collective Memory-work as Method and Resistance
Four academic mothers share their first foray into collective memory-work while exploring academic mother subjectivities located within tertiary education in New Zealand. Originating in education and gender studies, memory-work is currently an untapped research method in anthropology. The authors invite anthropologists to explore the value of collective memory-work, particularly when all participants seek academic outputs; where power imbalances …
Pedagogical Experiments in an Anthropology for Liberation
This piece began as a series of conversations with colleagues about the joys and frustrations I experienced in my endeavours to practice commoning in a new course, ‘Anthropology for Liberation.’ In it, I reflect on my efforts to place pedagogical practices of commoning and decolonising anthropology – critically examining and making space for different ways of learning, knowing, and being – at the centre of our classroom agenda. I go on to discuss…
From Crisis to Epiphany: What firing a Research Assistant helped me appreciate about Agency and Muslim Women in Howrah, West Bengal, India
In this article I reflect on how a moment of crisis – having to fire a research assistant – became an epiphany that triggered my interest in agency, which ultimately became the focus for my doctoral dissertation. The aims of this article are twofold: first, to contribute to literature illustrating how serendipity and unexpected difficulties can shape ethnographic practice (e.g. Andrews, 2005; Cottle, 2001; Konecki, 2005; Pieke, 2000); and second,…
On ‘Ravens and Relevance’ and a Likelihood Solution of the Paradox of Confirmation
Pedagogical Experiments in an Anthropology for Liberation
This piece began as a series of conversations with colleagues about the joys and frustrations I experienced in my endeavours to practice commoning in a new course, ‘Anthropology for Liberation.’ In it, I reflect on my efforts to place pedagogical practices of commoning and decolonising anthropology – critically examining and making space for different ways of learning, knowing, and being – at the centre of our classroom agenda. I go on to discuss…
Anthropology as Respair: Anthropological Engagements with Hope and its Others
Anthropology as Respair: Anthropological Engagements with Hope and its Others Lorena Gibson Jarrett Zigon, Disappointment: Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of Worldbuilding. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. 208 pp. Hirokazu Miyazaki and Richard Swedberg, eds. The Economy of Hope. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 198 pp. Manpreet K. Janeja and Andreas Bandak, eds. Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope, and Uncertainty. …
Collective Memory-work as Method and Resistance
Four academic mothers share their first foray into collective memory-work while exploring academic mother subjectivities located within tertiary education in New Zealand. Originating in education and gender studies, memory-work is currently an untapped research method in anthropology. The authors invite anthropologists to explore the value of collective memory-work, particularly when all participants seek academic outputs; where power imbalances …
On ‘Ravens and Relevance’ and a Likelihood Solution of the Paradox of Confirmation
Introducing Volume 4
Welcome to Volume 4 of Commoning Ethnography
On ‘Ravens and Relevance’ and a Likelihood Solution of the Paradox of Confirmation
From Crisis to Epiphany: What firing a Research Assistant helped me appreciate about Agency and Muslim Women in Howrah, West Bengal, India
In this article I reflect on how a moment of crisis – having to fire a research assistant – became an epiphany that triggered my interest in agency, which ultimately became the focus for my doctoral dissertation. The aims of this article are twofold: first, to contribute to literature illustrating how serendipity and unexpected difficulties can shape ethnographic practice (e.g. Andrews, 2005; Cottle, 2001; Konecki, 2005; Pieke, 2000); and second,…
Collective Memory-work as Method and Resistance
Four academic mothers share their first foray into collective memory-work while exploring academic mother subjectivities located within tertiary education in New Zealand. Originating in education and gender studies, memory-work is currently an untapped research method in anthropology. The authors invite anthropologists to explore the value of collective memory-work, particularly when all participants seek academic outputs; where power imbalances …
Pedagogical Experiments in an Anthropology for Liberation
This piece began as a series of conversations with colleagues about the joys and frustrations I experienced in my endeavours to practice commoning in a new course, ‘Anthropology for Liberation.’ In it, I reflect on my efforts to place pedagogical practices of commoning and decolonising anthropology – critically examining and making space for different ways of learning, knowing, and being – at the centre of our classroom agenda. I go on to discuss…
Introduction: Labours of Collaboration
The four pieces in this section are innovative collaborations at various levels, ranging from anthropologists collaborating with communities to collaborative presentations as a way to subvert hierarchies and Euro-centric modes of being with/in academia. These papers engage with the relationship between collaboration and commoning, some explicitly and others implicitly, as ways to shape knowledge production and practice for a much more egalitarian…
Anthropology as Respair: Anthropological Engagements with Hope and its Others
Anthropology as Respair: Anthropological Engagements with Hope and its Others Lorena Gibson Jarrett Zigon, Disappointment: Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of Worldbuilding. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. 208 pp. Hirokazu Miyazaki and Richard Swedberg, eds. The Economy of Hope. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 198 pp. Manpreet K. Janeja and Andreas Bandak, eds. Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope, and Uncertainty. …
Introducing Issue Three
This issue has taken shape within the context of a global pandemic, and despite these challenges it has provided a welcome space to continue our common intellectual work. Our authors hail from around the globe and have each experienced different aspects of this volatility in different ways at different times. The issue features a special collection entitled Trial by Fire. These essays probe and question the underlying assumptions embedded within …
Introducing Volume 4
Welcome to Volume 4 of Commoning Ethnography
“The most seen I have ever felt”: Labour-Based Grading as a pedagogical practice of care
This paper discusses experiments with Labour-Based Grading (LBG) in undergraduate anthropology courses at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Since before the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been aware that our teaching was not serving students, especially those from different class backgrounds and historically marginalized communities, and those with learning disabilities or mental health issues. The challenges these students face are …
The most seen I have ever felt”: Labour-Based Grading as a pedagogical practice of care
This paper discusses experiments with Labour-Based Grading (LBG) in undergraduate anthropology courses at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Since before the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been aware that our teaching was not serving students, especially those from different class backgrounds and historically marginalized communities, and those with learning disabilities or mental health issues. The challenges these students face are …
Advanced Computational Thing-Kin: Sociomaterial Kinship and the MakerSpace
The incursion of tech companies into wider aspects of our lives means that computational thinking has become increasingly enmeshed with physiological, emotional, creative and social aspects of human life. We suggest that advanced computational thinking should be considered in wider terms than the limited scope of computer sciences and that we should recognise the expansion of the ‘computer world’ and its incursion into lived life: the pervasive e…
On Power and Obligation in Publishing
Welcome to Volume 5 of Commoning Ethnography. We’ll start with the obvious: this issue was a challenge to produce. It arrives nearly three calendar years after our last issue. This was not our plan. There are myriad reasons for the issue’s untimeliness. Chiefly, these have to do with a quite volatile period in the life of our institution in the long wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as it played out in its own untimely way in Aotearoa. They also have…
Prevalence and Correlates of Complicated Grief in Military Primary Care: Implications for Healthcare Providers
Grief is a universal experience, but for approximately 1 in 10 individuals, grief can become impairing. Despite servicemembers' frequent exposure to death, research on grief in the military remains limited. The purpose of the study was to explore the prevalence and correlates of complicated grief (CG) in military primary care. A quantitative survey was conducted with 161 non-treatment-seeking service members, veterans, and their dependents, of wh…
Taking Turns: Editor's Farewell
After six issues of collaborating and taking turns steering the journal, we have made the decision to step down from the editorial collective of Commoning Ethnography. The time has come to refresh the journal’s perspective and open the publication to our colleagues as they push this experiment in thinking, writing, and publishing in new directions
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