J H Grayman
Biographic Data
| ID | 12830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J H Grayman |
| GIVEN NAMES | J H |
| FAMILY NAME | Grayman |
| SIGNATURE | GRAYMAN J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0359-5623 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Production of knowledge: Introducing AE ’s newest feature
Guns and gun violence (part 2)—Desires and dangers of emergent firearm assemblages: AE interviews Charles Springwood and Jason Pribilsky
According to the Small Arms Survey, there are 120.5 privately owned guns for every 100 civilians in the United States—the world's highest rate of gun ownership. What are the consequences of this? How does the vast number of guns, both concealed and openly carried, frame everyday American fears, anger, and suspicion? In this interview, Jason Pribilsky and Charles Springwood tackle these issues by examining the empirical status of gun violence, as …
Influence from the margins: American Ethnologist interviews Crystal Abidin and Vanessa Díaz on Bad Bunny, K‐pop, J‐pop, and the shifting landscape of celebrity
Shortly after Super Bowl LX, in which Bad Bunny headlined the most‐watched halftime show in Super Bowl history, the editors of American Ethnologist sat down to interview anthropologists Crystal Abidin (author of books including TikTok and Youth Cultures and Child Influencers: How Children Become Entangled with Social Media Fame ) and Vanessa Díaz (author of the books Manufacturing Celebrity and P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Pu…
Anthropological authorship in the age of generative AI
Guns and gun violence (part 1)—global perspectives: AE interviews Ieva Jusionyte and Godfrey Maringira
Gun violence is widespread around the globe, but the messages conveyed by its various manifestations, as well as by guns themselves, are deeply specific, both socially and historically. In this interview, Ieva Jusionyte and Godfrey Maringira discuss their research on gun violence in the US, Mexico, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Recalling their own experiences with firearms—carrying them, firing them, and being thre…
A Comparative Analysis of Disability Policies in Aotearoa New Zealand and the United Kingdom Through the Lens of the Capability Approach
Looking inward: Domestic tourism in Southeast Asia during the Covid-19 pandemic
Southeast Asian governments were forced to reposition their tourism markets as a result of border lockdowns brought on by the COVID-19 virus. We examine the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries’ marketing strategies intended to bolster their respective domestic tourism industries during the pandemic years of 2020–2022. This paper sketches three approaches that dominated the region at the time: building national communit…
From the Cold War to the manosphere: Toxic masculinities, women's rights, and today's gender wars— AE interviews Greg Downey and Kristen R. Ghodsee
Since the end of the Cold War and the rise of new right‐wing political movements across Europe, the US, and elsewhere, gender has taken on heightened political and social significance. To better understand this phenomenon, AE ’s editors interview two specialists on contemporary gender: Greg Downey, a psychological anthropologist, and Kristen R. Ghodsee, an ethnographer and historian of socialist and postsocialist women's struggle for equal rights…
In the wake of the Dobbs decision: AE interviews Khiara M. Bridges and Angel M. Foster about abortion access and reproductive justice
In August 2025, the editors of American Ethnologist interviewed anthropologists Khiara M. Bridges and Angel M. Foster about reproductive justice, activism, and scholarship in the wake of the US Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), which eliminated the federally protected right to abortion in the United States. Bridges and Foster both have forthcoming books that discuss reproductive rights and justice fr…
The agenda is to wipe out critical thought'-Struggles for academic freedom (part 2): AE interviews Eve Darian-Smith and Virginia R. Dominguez
In the second of two interviews with leading anthropologists focused on academic freedom, the editors of American Ethnologist speak with Eve Darian-Smith (University of California, Irvine) and Virginia R. Dominguez (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). Darian-Smith recently published Policing Higher Education, and Dominguez has addressed academic freedom through her work with the World Anthropological Union and the International Union of Ant…
How to write for American Ethnologist: A glimpse into the black box of publishing
What makes for a successful submission to American Ethnologist? As with article submissions to any anthropological journal, there are several measures you can take to strengthen your article's chance of success. First, produce a well-written manuscript with a clearly articulated thesis. Second, know your journals: Is AE really the best venue for your work? Third, entice editors and reviewers with a compelling title and abstract. At the revision s…
Struggles for academic freedom (part 1): AE interviews Hayal Akarsu and Heath Cabot on the fight against threats to free speech in Europe and beyond
In the first of two interviews on the issue of academic freedom, the editors of American Ethnologist interviewed Hayal Akarsu, president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, and Heath Cabot, president of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, about the restrictions faced by scholars and students in Europe and beyond. In a wide-ranging discussion, Akarsu and Cabot consider historical cycles of repression, surveilla…
Crypto, charisma, and Trump's chaos economy: AE interviews Bill Maurer and Chris Vasantkumar
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Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome: A Bourdieusian perspective
Disaster survivors are often criticised for being dependent on humanitarian (and development) assistance. This dependency is perceived pejoratively by civil servants and other elites, including non-governmental organisation staff. Officials offered up such narratives in relation to the disaster response and recovery programmes following the Nepal earthquake of 2015. Using a Bourdieusian framework, and undertaking qualitative inquiry in four earth…
Nayã Ghar (A new house): Examining post-earthquake housing reconstruction issues in Nepal
Rahat-Sahayog (relief support): Examining disaster emergency response in the aftermath of the Nepal Earthquake 2015
Purpose This paper aims to critically examine the post-disaster emergency response amongst marginalised and disadvantaged social groups following the 2015 Nepal Earthquake (7.8 Mw). Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research method was employed by conducting interviews with disaster survivors from marginalised and ethnic social groups, humanitarian aid workers and government officials in the four districts worst hit by the 2015 Nepal Eart…
Understanding participatory budgeting through formal and informal processes of inclusion: A case study in the Philippines
From 2012 to 2017, the Philippines’ bottom-up budgeting (BUB) programme was a government initiative that leveraged participation to ensure the public were involved in crafting their own development programmes. This article advances notions of formal and informal spheres of participation to understand how the BUB empowered people by taking part in various participatory processes. The case study shows how participation is inherently political, but …
Topography and scale in a community-driven maternal and child health program in Eastern Indonesia
In 2007, the Indonesian government introduced Generasi, a community-driven development program to address village priorities such as reducing poverty, maternal mortality, and child mortality. When describing Generasi's biggest challenges, program facilitators on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores used a geographic vocabulary of fields (medan, lapangan) and topography (topografi) that evokes the demands of supervising Generasi's implementatio…
We Build Our Own Stories: The 19th-century Figure and 21st-century Myth of the Acehnese Poet Dôkarim
Few primary sources other than Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje tell us about the traveling bard Abdul Karim, popularly known as Dôkarim, who composed the Hikayat Prang Gômpeuni (Song of the Dutch War). Composed orally in Acehnese verse, the Hikayat borrows generously from the themes and narratives of the famous epic poems that preceded it while also recounting specific details of warrior bravery, political negotiations, and community devastation brou…
Rapid response: Email, immediacy, and medical humanitarianism in Aceh, Indonesia
Conflict Nightmares and Trauma in Aceh
Factors Associated with HIV Testing, Condom Use, and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Female Sex Workers in Nha Trang, Vietnam
Rapid response: Email, immediacy, and medical humanitarianism in Aceh, Indonesia
Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome: A Bourdieusian perspective
Disaster survivors are often criticised for being dependent on humanitarian (and development) assistance. This dependency is perceived pejoratively by civil servants and other elites, including non-governmental organisation staff. Officials offered up such narratives in relation to the disaster response and recovery programmes following the Nepal earthquake of 2015. Using a Bourdieusian framework, and undertaking qualitative inquiry in four earth…
Crypto, charisma, and Trump's chaos economy: AE interviews Bill Maurer and Chris Vasantkumar
Understanding participatory budgeting through formal and informal processes of inclusion: A case study in the Philippines
From 2012 to 2017, the Philippines’ bottom-up budgeting (BUB) programme was a government initiative that leveraged participation to ensure the public were involved in crafting their own development programmes. This article advances notions of formal and informal spheres of participation to understand how the BUB empowered people by taking part in various participatory processes. The case study shows how participation is inherently political, but …
Factors Associated with HIV Testing, Condom Use, and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Female Sex Workers in Nha Trang, Vietnam
Conflict Nightmares and Trauma in Aceh
Rapid response: Email, immediacy, and medical humanitarianism in Aceh, Indonesia
We Build Our Own Stories: The 19th-century Figure and 21st-century Myth of the Acehnese Poet Dôkarim
Few primary sources other than Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje tell us about the traveling bard Abdul Karim, popularly known as Dôkarim, who composed the Hikayat Prang Gômpeuni (Song of the Dutch War). Composed orally in Acehnese verse, the Hikayat borrows generously from the themes and narratives of the famous epic poems that preceded it while also recounting specific details of warrior bravery, political negotiations, and community devastation brou…
Understanding participatory budgeting through formal and informal processes of inclusion: A case study in the Philippines
From 2012 to 2017, the Philippines’ bottom-up budgeting (BUB) programme was a government initiative that leveraged participation to ensure the public were involved in crafting their own development programmes. This article advances notions of formal and informal spheres of participation to understand how the BUB empowered people by taking part in various participatory processes. The case study shows how participation is inherently political, but …
Topography and scale in a community-driven maternal and child health program in Eastern Indonesia
In 2007, the Indonesian government introduced Generasi, a community-driven development program to address village priorities such as reducing poverty, maternal mortality, and child mortality. When describing Generasi's biggest challenges, program facilitators on the eastern Indonesian island of Flores used a geographic vocabulary of fields (medan, lapangan) and topography (topografi) that evokes the demands of supervising Generasi's implementatio…
Nayã Ghar (A new house): Examining post-earthquake housing reconstruction issues in Nepal
Rahat-Sahayog (relief support): Examining disaster emergency response in the aftermath of the Nepal Earthquake 2015
Purpose This paper aims to critically examine the post-disaster emergency response amongst marginalised and disadvantaged social groups following the 2015 Nepal Earthquake (7.8 Mw). Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research method was employed by conducting interviews with disaster survivors from marginalised and ethnic social groups, humanitarian aid workers and government officials in the four districts worst hit by the 2015 Nepal Eart…
Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome: A Bourdieusian perspective
Disaster survivors are often criticised for being dependent on humanitarian (and development) assistance. This dependency is perceived pejoratively by civil servants and other elites, including non-governmental organisation staff. Officials offered up such narratives in relation to the disaster response and recovery programmes following the Nepal earthquake of 2015. Using a Bourdieusian framework, and undertaking qualitative inquiry in four earth…
A Comparative Analysis of Disability Policies in Aotearoa New Zealand and the United Kingdom Through the Lens of the Capability Approach
Looking inward: Domestic tourism in Southeast Asia during the Covid-19 pandemic
Southeast Asian governments were forced to reposition their tourism markets as a result of border lockdowns brought on by the COVID-19 virus. We examine the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries’ marketing strategies intended to bolster their respective domestic tourism industries during the pandemic years of 2020–2022. This paper sketches three approaches that dominated the region at the time: building national communit…
From the Cold War to the manosphere: Toxic masculinities, women's rights, and today's gender wars— AE interviews Greg Downey and Kristen R. Ghodsee
Since the end of the Cold War and the rise of new right‐wing political movements across Europe, the US, and elsewhere, gender has taken on heightened political and social significance. To better understand this phenomenon, AE ’s editors interview two specialists on contemporary gender: Greg Downey, a psychological anthropologist, and Kristen R. Ghodsee, an ethnographer and historian of socialist and postsocialist women's struggle for equal rights…
In the wake of the Dobbs decision: AE interviews Khiara M. Bridges and Angel M. Foster about abortion access and reproductive justice
In August 2025, the editors of American Ethnologist interviewed anthropologists Khiara M. Bridges and Angel M. Foster about reproductive justice, activism, and scholarship in the wake of the US Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), which eliminated the federally protected right to abortion in the United States. Bridges and Foster both have forthcoming books that discuss reproductive rights and justice fr…
The agenda is to wipe out critical thought'-Struggles for academic freedom (part 2): AE interviews Eve Darian-Smith and Virginia R. Dominguez
In the second of two interviews with leading anthropologists focused on academic freedom, the editors of American Ethnologist speak with Eve Darian-Smith (University of California, Irvine) and Virginia R. Dominguez (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). Darian-Smith recently published Policing Higher Education, and Dominguez has addressed academic freedom through her work with the World Anthropological Union and the International Union of Ant…
How to write for American Ethnologist: A glimpse into the black box of publishing
What makes for a successful submission to American Ethnologist? As with article submissions to any anthropological journal, there are several measures you can take to strengthen your article's chance of success. First, produce a well-written manuscript with a clearly articulated thesis. Second, know your journals: Is AE really the best venue for your work? Third, entice editors and reviewers with a compelling title and abstract. At the revision s…
Struggles for academic freedom (part 1): AE interviews Hayal Akarsu and Heath Cabot on the fight against threats to free speech in Europe and beyond
In the first of two interviews on the issue of academic freedom, the editors of American Ethnologist interviewed Hayal Akarsu, president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, and Heath Cabot, president of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, about the restrictions faced by scholars and students in Europe and beyond. In a wide-ranging discussion, Akarsu and Cabot consider historical cycles of repression, surveilla…
Crypto, charisma, and Trump's chaos economy: AE interviews Bill Maurer and Chris Vasantkumar
From the White House to Zimbabwe: An anthropological assessment of money and Trump 2.0
Production of knowledge: Introducing AE ’s newest feature
Guns and gun violence (part 2)—Desires and dangers of emergent firearm assemblages: AE interviews Charles Springwood and Jason Pribilsky
According to the Small Arms Survey, there are 120.5 privately owned guns for every 100 civilians in the United States—the world's highest rate of gun ownership. What are the consequences of this? How does the vast number of guns, both concealed and openly carried, frame everyday American fears, anger, and suspicion? In this interview, Jason Pribilsky and Charles Springwood tackle these issues by examining the empirical status of gun violence, as …
Influence from the margins: American Ethnologist interviews Crystal Abidin and Vanessa Díaz on Bad Bunny, K‐pop, J‐pop, and the shifting landscape of celebrity
Shortly after Super Bowl LX, in which Bad Bunny headlined the most‐watched halftime show in Super Bowl history, the editors of American Ethnologist sat down to interview anthropologists Crystal Abidin (author of books including TikTok and Youth Cultures and Child Influencers: How Children Become Entangled with Social Media Fame ) and Vanessa Díaz (author of the books Manufacturing Celebrity and P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Pu…
Anthropological authorship in the age of generative AI
Guns and gun violence (part 1)—global perspectives: AE interviews Ieva Jusionyte and Godfrey Maringira
Gun violence is widespread around the globe, but the messages conveyed by its various manifestations, as well as by guns themselves, are deeply specific, both socially and historically. In this interview, Ieva Jusionyte and Godfrey Maringira discuss their research on gun violence in the US, Mexico, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Recalling their own experiences with firearms—carrying them, firing them, and being thre…
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