Fiona Gill
Biographic Data
| ID | 226720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Gill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill |
| SIGNATURE | GILL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3105-7347 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Assembling 'Sides' of TikTok
The term 'side' has emerged to describe communities on the short-form video app TikTok. But what discursive work does the metaphor of side do to describe online communities? Through a case study with a textual analysis of the culture, technology, interface, and platform vernaculars present in reading fandom TikTok, BookTok, we explore how user practice and app features intertwine to establish sides of TikTok as relational, individualistically pos…
The Forensics Exhibition
This paper examines the role of human remains in genocide memorials and museums to evoke and narrate individual experiences of genocide. Understanding that the display of human remains is contested, I suggest that their presence in memorials and museums can play a valuable, but hitherto neglected, role in the development of individualized and evidentiary narratives of genocide. Such narratives, developed through explicit information regarding the…
Depicting atrocity
Human remains, materiality and memorialisation
The display of human remains is a controversial issue in many contemporary societies, with many museums globally removing them from display. However, their place in genocide memorials is also contested. Objections towards the display of remains are based strongly in the social sciences and humanities, predicated on assumptions made regarding the relationship between respect, identification and personhood. As remains are displayed scientifically a…
Multiproxy study of the last meal of a mid-Holocene Oyogos Yar horse, Sakha Republic, Russia
The last meal of a horse that lived in the northern part of the Sakha Republic (Russia) c. 5400 years ago was studied using pollen, spores, botanical macroremains, lipid composition, and ancient DNA in order to reconstruct its components. Pollen of Poaceae was superabundant, but this may be because of over-representation as a consequence of grazed inflorescenses of grasses. We evaluate the paleo-environmental indicator value of the different meth…
Succession planning and temporality
Although succession planning has been a fertile topic of investigation among rural sociologists, its temporal elements have been neglected. This has resulted in static analyses, with little attention paid to the influences of the past and future on present decision-making. This article introduces a consideration of temporality, examining the influences of past and future on the development and expression of farming identities. I argue that tempor…
Data and archives
The Internet has changed the nature of the archive from a paper-based treasure trove overseen by the trained archivist to one of an open, multi-vocal, democratic source with no one in control. New forms of archives have emerged – for example, the haphazard collection of ephemeral – and they now exist alongside the formal public record that has more traditionally been understood as the archive. This article analyses what these changes mean to soci…
Rafael de la Dehesa, Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil
Responsible agents
This article examines the role of responsibility in the development and negotiation of the citizen–State relationship. A case study of dairy farmers in New South Wales, illustrates that a contradiction exists in the ways responsibility is employed by both citizens and the State which contributes to resistance to policies. This suggests that acknowledging farmers’ perceptions of responsibility will assist in explaining responses by farmers and reg…
Lipid analysis of a ground sloth coprolite
Coprolites can provide detailed information about the nutritional habits and digestive processes of the animals that produced them and may also yield information about the palaeoenvironment in which the animal existed. To test the utility of the lipid biomarker approach to coprolite analysis, lipids were extracted from a coprolite of the Pleistocene ground sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis . Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry results revealed a d…
Moving To The ‘Big‘ House
Relationship management is an on-going concern for members of farming families. This paper examines the dynamics of one of the most important, but under-researched, relationships on a farm; between mother and daughter-in-law. I argue that this relationship operates as a conduit for tensions, enabling conflict to be channelled away from the farm itself into a relationship governed by the designated ‘kinkeepers’ and relationship managers of the far…
Violent’ femininity
Negotiating 'Normal
This paper examines the management of feminine identities in a women's rugby team in a rural British community. In so doing, the issue of new, and potentially problematic, forms of femininity are explored, with their attendant social consequences. The team, known as the Jesters, is situated in a social context which is dominantly masculine and heterosexist, with rigidly enforced gender roles. Due to their participation in rugby, a 'man's game', t…
Public and private
This paper is an exploration of national identities among sports people in a community in the Scottish Borders. This group experiences a split in their identities. Publicly, they are ascribed an ambiguous national identity by the surrounding national communities. Privately, and among fellow community members, they unambiguously assert national identity. This paper examines the way this split is managed, arguing that the performance of public ambi…
Knowing your Place
Female ethnographers often appear to be more aware of their sexual status and its impact on fieldwork and relationships than their male colleagues (Okely 1992: 19, Coffey 1999: 79). Similarly, the behaviour of female fieldworkers is often more closely scrutinised than that of male fieldworkers (Mascarenhas-Keyes 1987: 187), and many female ethnographers' accounts detail gender-specific issues and challenges that arose during their research (e.g. …
Verbs Observed
This paper describes the outcome of a project to code the complementation patterns of all the verbs in Collins COBUILD English Dictionary (1995) COBUILD stands for ‘Collins and Birmingham University International Language Database’ The coding is based on the Bank of English corpus at COBUILD and uses a simple notation based on words and word-classes rather than traditional functional categories The result of this exercise is a list of verb patter…
Violent’ femininity
Knowing your Place
Female ethnographers often appear to be more aware of their sexual status and its impact on fieldwork and relationships than their male colleagues (Okely 1992: 19, Coffey 1999: 79). Similarly, the behaviour of female fieldworkers is often more closely scrutinised than that of male fieldworkers (Mascarenhas-Keyes 1987: 187), and many female ethnographers' accounts detail gender-specific issues and challenges that arose during their research (e.g. …
Public and private
This paper is an exploration of national identities among sports people in a community in the Scottish Borders. This group experiences a split in their identities. Publicly, they are ascribed an ambiguous national identity by the surrounding national communities. Privately, and among fellow community members, they unambiguously assert national identity. This paper examines the way this split is managed, arguing that the performance of public ambi…
Succession planning and temporality
Although succession planning has been a fertile topic of investigation among rural sociologists, its temporal elements have been neglected. This has resulted in static analyses, with little attention paid to the influences of the past and future on present decision-making. This article introduces a consideration of temporality, examining the influences of past and future on the development and expression of farming identities. I argue that tempor…
Assembling 'Sides' of TikTok
The term 'side' has emerged to describe communities on the short-form video app TikTok. But what discursive work does the metaphor of side do to describe online communities? Through a case study with a textual analysis of the culture, technology, interface, and platform vernaculars present in reading fandom TikTok, BookTok, we explore how user practice and app features intertwine to establish sides of TikTok as relational, individualistically pos…
Responsible agents
This article examines the role of responsibility in the development and negotiation of the citizen–State relationship. A case study of dairy farmers in New South Wales, illustrates that a contradiction exists in the ways responsibility is employed by both citizens and the State which contributes to resistance to policies. This suggests that acknowledging farmers’ perceptions of responsibility will assist in explaining responses by farmers and reg…
Multiproxy study of the last meal of a mid-Holocene Oyogos Yar horse, Sakha Republic, Russia
The last meal of a horse that lived in the northern part of the Sakha Republic (Russia) c. 5400 years ago was studied using pollen, spores, botanical macroremains, lipid composition, and ancient DNA in order to reconstruct its components. Pollen of Poaceae was superabundant, but this may be because of over-representation as a consequence of grazed inflorescenses of grasses. We evaluate the paleo-environmental indicator value of the different meth…
Data and archives
The Internet has changed the nature of the archive from a paper-based treasure trove overseen by the trained archivist to one of an open, multi-vocal, democratic source with no one in control. New forms of archives have emerged – for example, the haphazard collection of ephemeral – and they now exist alongside the formal public record that has more traditionally been understood as the archive. This article analyses what these changes mean to soci…
Negotiating 'Normal
This paper examines the management of feminine identities in a women's rugby team in a rural British community. In so doing, the issue of new, and potentially problematic, forms of femininity are explored, with their attendant social consequences. The team, known as the Jesters, is situated in a social context which is dominantly masculine and heterosexist, with rigidly enforced gender roles. Due to their participation in rugby, a 'man's game', t…
Verbs Observed
This paper describes the outcome of a project to code the complementation patterns of all the verbs in Collins COBUILD English Dictionary (1995) COBUILD stands for ‘Collins and Birmingham University International Language Database’ The coding is based on the Bank of English corpus at COBUILD and uses a simple notation based on words and word-classes rather than traditional functional categories The result of this exercise is a list of verb patter…
Knowing your Place
Female ethnographers often appear to be more aware of their sexual status and its impact on fieldwork and relationships than their male colleagues (Okely 1992: 19, Coffey 1999: 79). Similarly, the behaviour of female fieldworkers is often more closely scrutinised than that of male fieldworkers (Mascarenhas-Keyes 1987: 187), and many female ethnographers' accounts detail gender-specific issues and challenges that arose during their research (e.g. …
Public and private
This paper is an exploration of national identities among sports people in a community in the Scottish Borders. This group experiences a split in their identities. Publicly, they are ascribed an ambiguous national identity by the surrounding national communities. Privately, and among fellow community members, they unambiguously assert national identity. This paper examines the way this split is managed, arguing that the performance of public ambi…
Violent’ femininity
Negotiating 'Normal
This paper examines the management of feminine identities in a women's rugby team in a rural British community. In so doing, the issue of new, and potentially problematic, forms of femininity are explored, with their attendant social consequences. The team, known as the Jesters, is situated in a social context which is dominantly masculine and heterosexist, with rigidly enforced gender roles. Due to their participation in rugby, a 'man's game', t…
Moving To The ‘Big‘ House
Relationship management is an on-going concern for members of farming families. This paper examines the dynamics of one of the most important, but under-researched, relationships on a farm; between mother and daughter-in-law. I argue that this relationship operates as a conduit for tensions, enabling conflict to be channelled away from the farm itself into a relationship governed by the designated ‘kinkeepers’ and relationship managers of the far…
Lipid analysis of a ground sloth coprolite
Coprolites can provide detailed information about the nutritional habits and digestive processes of the animals that produced them and may also yield information about the palaeoenvironment in which the animal existed. To test the utility of the lipid biomarker approach to coprolite analysis, lipids were extracted from a coprolite of the Pleistocene ground sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis . Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry results revealed a d…
Responsible agents
This article examines the role of responsibility in the development and negotiation of the citizen–State relationship. A case study of dairy farmers in New South Wales, illustrates that a contradiction exists in the ways responsibility is employed by both citizens and the State which contributes to resistance to policies. This suggests that acknowledging farmers’ perceptions of responsibility will assist in explaining responses by farmers and reg…
Data and archives
The Internet has changed the nature of the archive from a paper-based treasure trove overseen by the trained archivist to one of an open, multi-vocal, democratic source with no one in control. New forms of archives have emerged – for example, the haphazard collection of ephemeral – and they now exist alongside the formal public record that has more traditionally been understood as the archive. This article analyses what these changes mean to soci…
Rafael de la Dehesa, Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil
Succession planning and temporality
Although succession planning has been a fertile topic of investigation among rural sociologists, its temporal elements have been neglected. This has resulted in static analyses, with little attention paid to the influences of the past and future on present decision-making. This article introduces a consideration of temporality, examining the influences of past and future on the development and expression of farming identities. I argue that tempor…
Multiproxy study of the last meal of a mid-Holocene Oyogos Yar horse, Sakha Republic, Russia
The last meal of a horse that lived in the northern part of the Sakha Republic (Russia) c. 5400 years ago was studied using pollen, spores, botanical macroremains, lipid composition, and ancient DNA in order to reconstruct its components. Pollen of Poaceae was superabundant, but this may be because of over-representation as a consequence of grazed inflorescenses of grasses. We evaluate the paleo-environmental indicator value of the different meth…
Human remains, materiality and memorialisation
The display of human remains is a controversial issue in many contemporary societies, with many museums globally removing them from display. However, their place in genocide memorials is also contested. Objections towards the display of remains are based strongly in the social sciences and humanities, predicated on assumptions made regarding the relationship between respect, identification and personhood. As remains are displayed scientifically a…
Depicting atrocity
The Forensics Exhibition
This paper examines the role of human remains in genocide memorials and museums to evoke and narrate individual experiences of genocide. Understanding that the display of human remains is contested, I suggest that their presence in memorials and museums can play a valuable, but hitherto neglected, role in the development of individualized and evidentiary narratives of genocide. Such narratives, developed through explicit information regarding the…
Assembling 'Sides' of TikTok
The term 'side' has emerged to describe communities on the short-form video app TikTok. But what discursive work does the metaphor of side do to describe online communities? Through a case study with a textual analysis of the culture, technology, interface, and platform vernaculars present in reading fandom TikTok, BookTok, we explore how user practice and app features intertwine to establish sides of TikTok as relational, individualistically pos…
Sociology (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · History (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)