A Peace
Biographic Data
| ID | 16776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Peace |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Peace |
| SIGNATURE | PEACE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4161-1946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Lagos Proletariat: Labour Aristocrats or Populist Militants
As with most sociological theories concerned with the economic development and underdevelopment of sub-Saharan Africa, the labour aristocracy thesis has somewhat diverse and eclectic roots. Stabilisation promotes specialisation, greater bargaining power, and further increases in the incomes of the small section of the labour force, which represents the proletariat proper of tropical Africa. It is noteworthy that Lagos is a most convenient locatio…
Loving Leviathan: The Discourse of Whale-watching in Australian Ecotourism
This chapter shows how whale-watching in an Australian context is also geared to exploiting the broadly based susceptibility to whales, most especially through a richly embellished anthropomorphic discourse. Anthropologists and other social scientists frequently query or lament Western anthropomorphism, but its specific qualities are rarely detailed. It involves unpacking in some detail the speech acts of professional skippers and guides on whale…
Talking about bushfires: Difference and division in Australia's environmental crisis
In late 2019 and early 2020, bushfires consumed vast swathes of land across southern parts of Australia. The scale and intensity of the fires was unprecedented and the extent of destruction was without parallel. This article asks to what extent anthropology's focus on culture and cultural processes can inform our understanding of the complex politics generated by a situation such as this. It is argued that local people, who were directly affected…
Australia, Sociocultural Overviews: Australian Settler Society
Andrew J. Hoffman: How Culture Shapes Climate Change
Shark attack: A cultural approach
Many Australians would concur with the view of the novelist Tim Winton that we have an 'almost supernatural fear and hatred' of sharks. Especially in the wake of fatal attacks by great white sharks (on average once or twice per year), the extent of fascination and fear within the population at large is undeniable. This paper rejects the frequently encountered explanation that this is because we have an 'instinctual', 'hard wired' and 'primal fear…
The phatic finger: Public gesture and shared meaning on the highways of the Australian Outback
This paper explores the cultural significance of ephemeral public greetings on the highways of A ustralia's N orthern T erritory. Despite the exceptional speed at which vehicles pass one another and the fact that such salutations are mostly between travellers who have no acquaintance with one another, few drivers fail to acknowledge the co‐presence of others on the highway. The main concern of this account is to detail how this greeting system wo…
Environmentalism, Culture, Ethnography
Such is the ubiquity of environmentalism as a significant community experience throughout the world that most anthropologists will nowadays find themselves attending to the concerns their respondents have for the environments which surround and sustain them. In this article, we take stock of some of the issues addressed, and the achievements realized, by environmental anthropology to date. First, we emphasize that there is already a literature wh…
Kill Skippy? Red Meat versus Kangaroo Meat in the Australian Diet
One of the less evident axioms of anthropological research is that, when significant events take place, it is as important to note the identities of those who are not present as it is to record the details of those who are. Since I have spent several years observing the social changes within a small Irish village where not attending meetings was as much a political statement as being there (Peace, A World of Fine Difference), I have come to regar…
Barossa Dreaming: Imagining Place and Constituting Cuisine in Contemporary Australia
Regional cuisines have become a prominent feature in the consumer landscape of modernised societies. This article describes how a regional cuisine is being socially constituted in the Barossa Valley, one of the most important wine-growing areas in Australia. Initially, I detail how small farmers, winegrowers and other entrepreneurs idealise the Barossa landscape and fabricate the heritage that is integral to the idea of a distinctive cuisine. Thi…
Environmental protest, bureaucratic closure: The politics of discourse in rural Ireland
The whaling war: Conflicting cultural perspectives (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
The political ritual generated by Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean annually captures the Australian imagination and at least the attention of international audiences. This article examines how Australia has become the self‐appointed guardian of Antarctic whales whilst Japan remains resolutely pro‐whaling
Killing animals - The Animal Studies Group
Ponies Out of Place? Wild Animals, Wilderness and Environmental Governance
Powerful institutions in Australia regularly depict the continent as overrun with fauna variously described as ‘feral’, ‘vermin’, ‘alien’ and ‘invasive’. This paper addresses the issue of ‘animal matter out of place’ through the ethnographic analysis of a long-running conflict over ‘feral’ ponies in Coffin Bay National Park, South Australia. As the Department of Environment and Heritage manoeuvred to eliminate this ‘alien’ presence from the ‘pris…
Meat and Genes: A Response to Thomason, Tiger, Winston (At 24[4])
The anthropology of Ireland - By Thomas M. Wilson & Hastings Donnan
Meat in the genes
At a time when it is all the more necessary to reduce levels of meat production in order to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions from the livestock industry, the combined insights of neo-evolutionary thinking and cultural anthropology have been drawn upon in a major marketing campaign in Australia to significantly increase levels of meat eating
Environmental Discourses
Discourses concerned with the perceived global environmental crisis have increased dramatically over the past couple of decades. This review consists of an ethnographic analysis of the principal components of environmental discourses as well as a discussion of the approaches employed to analyze them. These include linguistic discourses (ecolinguistics, ecocritical linguistics, discourse analysis) as well as approaches developed within other disci…
Managing the Myth of Ecotourism: A Queensland Case Study
Although social anthropologists are taking an increased interest in tourism in Australia, not much attention has been paid thus far to the sites from which visitors take off into the bush, wilderness or nature. Tourist resorts and lodges are not simply the locations in which basic needs are met before more energetic activities begin. Especially in ecotourist settings, important ideological claims are made about their built environments as well as…
A Sense of Place, a Place of Senses: Land and a Landscape in the West of Ireland
One of the analytic points made about "contested spaces" is that they can bring to the fore the tacit cultural understandings and unexamined ideological frameworks which, precisely by virtue of their being tacit and unexamined, are integral to the routine flow of everyday life. This paper amplifies the proposition ethnographically by selectively examining an extended conflict over the Irish state's intention to build an interpretive center at Mul…
Dr Jonathan Robert Telfer, 1953–2002
Hindmarsh Island and the Politics of Anthropology
Comments on the politics of Australian anthropology. Major reason for anthropology's absence from the public arena; Criticism of anthropological involvement; Vulnerability of anthropology; Anthropological contribution to the Hindmarsh Island business
Dingoes, development and death in an Australian tourist location
Discourses of ecotourism: The case of Fraser Island, Queensland
Dingo discourse: Constructions of Nature and contradictions of capital in an Australian eco-tourist location
Environmental Discourses
Discourses concerned with the perceived global environmental crisis have increased dramatically over the past couple of decades. This review consists of an ethnographic analysis of the principal components of environmental discourses as well as a discussion of the approaches employed to analyze them. These include linguistic discourses (ecolinguistics, ecocritical linguistics, discourse analysis) as well as approaches developed within other disci…
Dingo discourse: Constructions of Nature and contradictions of capital in an Australian eco-tourist location
The politics of transporting
Opening ParagraphThis paper describes the political organisation of transporting in Agege, a Nigerian town located on the northern boundary of Lagos. Its aim is to provide an anthropological interpretation of this important domain of modern entrepreneurship, for, while social anthropologists have increasingly studied African urban economies, the analysis of transportation remains the preserve of economists and geographers. When anthropologists do…
Prestige Power and Legitimacy in a Modern Nigerian Town
From Arcadia to Anomie: Critical Notes on the Constitution of Irish Society as an Anthropological Object
A Sense of Place, a Place of Senses: Land and a Landscape in the West of Ireland
One of the analytic points made about "contested spaces" is that they can bring to the fore the tacit cultural understandings and unexamined ideological frameworks which, precisely by virtue of their being tacit and unexamined, are integral to the routine flow of everyday life. This paper amplifies the proposition ethnographically by selectively examining an extended conflict over the Irish state's intention to build an interpretive center at Mul…
Ponies Out of Place? Wild Animals, Wilderness and Environmental Governance
Powerful institutions in Australia regularly depict the continent as overrun with fauna variously described as ‘feral’, ‘vermin’, ‘alien’ and ‘invasive’. This paper addresses the issue of ‘animal matter out of place’ through the ethnographic analysis of a long-running conflict over ‘feral’ ponies in Coffin Bay National Park, South Australia. As the Department of Environment and Heritage manoeuvred to eliminate this ‘alien’ presence from the ‘pris…
Discourses of ecotourism: The case of Fraser Island, Queensland
The whaling war: Conflicting cultural perspectives (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
The political ritual generated by Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean annually captures the Australian imagination and at least the attention of international audiences. This article examines how Australia has become the self‐appointed guardian of Antarctic whales whilst Japan remains resolutely pro‐whaling
When the Salmon Comes: The Politics of Summer Fishing in an Irish Community
Despite the economic, political, and cultural pressures to which local level communities are currently subject, they frequently prove resilient in the maintenance of their distinctiveness. This paper examines the processes whereby the fishing families of Clontarf constitute themselves as a community within a community, especially when, as residents of the pier, they become preoccupied annually with the advent of the salmon
Dingoes, development and death in an Australian tourist location
Meat in the genes
At a time when it is all the more necessary to reduce levels of meat production in order to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions from the livestock industry, the combined insights of neo-evolutionary thinking and cultural anthropology have been drawn upon in a major marketing campaign in Australia to significantly increase levels of meat eating
Barossa Dreaming: Imagining Place and Constituting Cuisine in Contemporary Australia
Regional cuisines have become a prominent feature in the consumer landscape of modernised societies. This article describes how a regional cuisine is being socially constituted in the Barossa Valley, one of the most important wine-growing areas in Australia. Initially, I detail how small farmers, winegrowers and other entrepreneurs idealise the Barossa landscape and fabricate the heritage that is integral to the idea of a distinctive cuisine. Thi…
Grand prix, global culture? Towards a social anthropology of popular culture at the periphery
(1998). Grand prix, global culture? Towards a social anthropology of popular culture at the periphery. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 8, No. 1-2, pp. 5-27
Structured inequalities in a North Indian city
Shark attack: A cultural approach
Many Australians would concur with the view of the novelist Tim Winton that we have an 'almost supernatural fear and hatred' of sharks. Especially in the wake of fatal attacks by great white sharks (on average once or twice per year), the extent of fascination and fear within the population at large is undeniable. This paper rejects the frequently encountered explanation that this is because we have an 'instinctual', 'hard wired' and 'primal fear…
Hindmarsh Island and the Politics of Anthropology
Comments on the politics of Australian anthropology. Major reason for anthropology's absence from the public arena; Criticism of anthropological involvement; Vulnerability of anthropology; Anthropological contribution to the Hindmarsh Island business
The Ghanaian Factory Worker: Industrial Man in Africa
Prestige Power and Legitimacy in a Modern Nigerian Town
Choice, Class and Conflict: A Study of Southern Nigerian Factory Workers
Structured inequalities in a North Indian city
Choice, Class and Conflict: A Study of Southern Nigerian Factory Workers
Negotiating ethnic identity. Ibo strangers in a Yoruba Town
Casual Work and Poverty in Third World Cities
Choice, Class and Conflict: A Study of Southern Nigerian Factory Workers
West African Workers
Small town politics and crises of legitimation
Mass Communication, Culture and Society in West Africa
Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change among the Yoruba . David D. Laitin
The politics of transporting
Opening ParagraphThis paper describes the political organisation of transporting in Agege, a Nigerian town located on the northern boundary of Lagos. Its aim is to provide an anthropological interpretation of this important domain of modern entrepreneurship, for, while social anthropologists have increasingly studied African urban economies, the analysis of transportation remains the preserve of economists and geographers. When anthropologists do…
Patrons and Power: Creating a Political Community in Metropolitan Lagos
From Arcadia to Anomie: Critical Notes on the Constitution of Irish Society as an Anthropological Object
Small Town Africa: Studies in Rural-Urban Interaction
When the Salmon Comes: The Politics of Summer Fishing in an Irish Community
Despite the economic, political, and cultural pressures to which local level communities are currently subject, they frequently prove resilient in the maintenance of their distinctiveness. This paper examines the processes whereby the fishing families of Clontarf constitute themselves as a community within a community, especially when, as residents of the pier, they become preoccupied annually with the advent of the salmon
Grand prix, global culture? Towards a social anthropology of popular culture at the periphery
(1998). Grand prix, global culture? Towards a social anthropology of popular culture at the periphery. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 8, No. 1-2, pp. 5-27
Discourses of ecotourism: The case of Fraser Island, Queensland
Dingo discourse: Constructions of Nature and contradictions of capital in an Australian eco-tourist location
Dingoes, development and death in an Australian tourist location
Dr Jonathan Robert Telfer, 1953–2002
Hindmarsh Island and the Politics of Anthropology
Comments on the politics of Australian anthropology. Major reason for anthropology's absence from the public arena; Criticism of anthropological involvement; Vulnerability of anthropology; Anthropological contribution to the Hindmarsh Island business
Managing the Myth of Ecotourism: A Queensland Case Study
Although social anthropologists are taking an increased interest in tourism in Australia, not much attention has been paid thus far to the sites from which visitors take off into the bush, wilderness or nature. Tourist resorts and lodges are not simply the locations in which basic needs are met before more energetic activities begin. Especially in ecotourist settings, important ideological claims are made about their built environments as well as…
A Sense of Place, a Place of Senses: Land and a Landscape in the West of Ireland
One of the analytic points made about "contested spaces" is that they can bring to the fore the tacit cultural understandings and unexamined ideological frameworks which, precisely by virtue of their being tacit and unexamined, are integral to the routine flow of everyday life. This paper amplifies the proposition ethnographically by selectively examining an extended conflict over the Irish state's intention to build an interpretive center at Mul…
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