Jenny Munro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Munro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Munro |
| SIGNATURE | MUNRO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4869-6986 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 249 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Choice versus safety: A qualitative exploration of the complexities of respectful maternity care in Singapore
Respectful Maternity Care (RMC) emphasises dignity, autonomy, and compassion as universal rights, yet its practical enactment within highly medicalised, standardised, and multicultural systems remains complex. This study aimed to explore how RMC is enacted by women and obstetricians, nurses, and midwives in hospital-based maternity care in Singapore. A qualitative exploratory study involving in-depth semi-structured interviews with mothers and he…
On Other Indonesians: Nationalism in an Unnative Language by J. Joseph Errington
Feminist participatory action research to co-develop localised health promotion in Indonesia
Women’s expertise and knowledge can help prevent stunting in impoverished areas with limited resources. Through focus group discussions and photovoice methods, feminist participatory action research (FPAR) explored the perspectives of mothers and community health workers (posyandu) in the development of maternal and community health promotion. Six steps of FPAR were applied: the collection of media on stunting health promotion in public health ce…
Desiring Family Ties: Marriage, Class, and Care in the Life Stories of Young, Lower-Class Newlyweds in Indonesia
From saving to survivance: Rethinking Indigenous Papuan women's vulnerabilities in Jayapura, Indonesia
Racism, sexism and gendered violence disadvantage Indigenous Papuan women, yet government responses often focus on individual interventions like ‘raising awareness’ or training. In this article, we build on efforts to challenge these narratives about women's vulnerabilities. We draw on life history interviews with older Papuan women in Jayapura to rethink vulnerabilities and everyday struggles in the context of structural inequalities. We interpr…
West Papuan ‘Housewives’ with HIV: Gender, Marriage, and Inequality in Indonesia
Indonesia defies gendered HIV risk stereotypes, and most women with HIV do not fit any pre-defined risk groups. In Indonesia, HIV predominates in women who identify as ‘housewives’. In the dominant imaginary, housewives are married homemakers, dedicated to children and husband, faithful, and sexually modest. Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews with Indigenous Papuan women in Manokwari, West Papua province, I problematise the category …
How the 'Culture' in 'Culturally and Linguistically Diverse' Inhibits Intersectionality in Australia: A Study of Domestic Violence Policy and Services
In Australia, policy and services addressing gendered violence are increasingly taking up ‘intersectionality’ as a concept to better include refugee and migrant women’s needs and interests. Drawing on critical policy analysis and interviews with front-line workers from domestic violence, refugee resettlement, and migrant-specific services, this article examines intersectionality in policies and services. It shows that so far, most policies and pr…
Hospital Births and Frontier Obstetrics in Urban West Papua
Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews with 60 urban Indigenous Papuan parents, we investigate how a frontier context shapes childbirth and maternity care. Building on arguments about how medical care may perpetuate violence and inequalities, we show tensions and contestations between Papuans and the Indonesian medical system over what care Papuans want and what is made available to them. Urban Papuans embraced medical advice and hospita…
Lukautim Yu Yet Gut (Take Good Care of Yourself): Moka Gomo Women Pursuing Health in Papua New Guinea
Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews with women in Imbonggu (Southern Highlands Province), this article explores contemporary cultural beliefs and health practices, including health-seeking experiences. We show that contrary to some expectations, women do believe in biomedicine and their cultural beliefs do not generally seem to prevent them from seeking medical care. We find that women aspire to ‘take good care’ of themselves, and rep…
Reproducing Life in Conditions of Abandonment in Oceania
Despite technical and legal innovations for certain groups’ reproduction, many people’s reproductive concerns and choices remain disparaged or unsupported. We call this assemblage ‘reproductive abandonment’ and present aspects of these conditions in this special issue. ‘Abandonment’ highlights the failure of ‘relationality’, a Pacific value and ontology that emphasises the importance of being in relations of obligation, accountability and respect…
Saving our people: Health workers, medical citizenship, and vernacular sovereignties in West Papua
Much anthropology has considered the social embeddedness of medical systems, personnel, and practices and the political subjectivities that may arise among health workers. I explore what medical citizenship looks like under conditions of settler colonialism in West Papua based on an ethnographic study of Dani (Balim) and Lani HIV nurses and NGO volunteers who see themselves and their activities as part of a broader effort to save Papuans from ext…
Global HIV Interventions and Technocratic Racism in a West Papuan NGO
In the era of scale up, global donor-driven HIV activities are transforming NGO work by demanding administrative, technical, and data-oriented activities. Drawing on interviews and participant observation in an NGO in the West Papuan city of Manokwari between 2011 and 2014, I attempt to understand why Indigenous Papuan NGO employees were steadily replaced by non-Indigenous migrant settlers, mainly of Javanese heritage, to deliver HIV services. I …
Dreams Made Small: The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia
(Not) getting political: Indigenous women and preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in West Papua
This paper builds on critiques that call for a more nuanced and contextualised understanding of conditions that affect HIV prevention by looking at West Papuan women's experiences of prevention of mother-to-child transmission services. Drawing on qualitative, ethnographic research with indigenous women and health workers, the paper demonstrates that women experience poor-quality HIV education and counselling, and that indigenous practices and con…
From ‘Stone-Age’ to ‘Real-Time’: Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities – An Introduction
Service delivery under translation: Multi-stakeholder accountability in the non-profit community sector in New Zealand
This paper addresses the challenge reported in the research literature of providing adequate accounts of service quality and value to multiple stakeholders. Rather than starting with a particular accountability practice, we examine the accounts of complex service delivery and results from the perspective of five key stakeholder groups. The case study at the empirical centre of this research is a small New Zealand non-profit organisation that prov…
Your father is no more”: Insights on guardianship and abandonment from ultrapoor women heads of household in Bangladesh
From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time: Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities
There are probably no other people on earth to whom the image of the 'stone-age' is so persistently attached than the inhabitants of the island of New Guinea, which is divided into independent Papua New Guinea and the western part of the island, known today as Papua and West Papua. From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time' examines the forms of agency, frictions and anxieties the
An Intersectionality Analysis of Gender, Indigeneity, and Food Insecurity among Ultrapoor Garo Women in Bangladesh
Across a number of indicators, Indigenous women worldwide experience poorer health and less access to resources and services than either non-Indigenous women or Indigenous men. This paper is specifically concerned with Indigenous women’s experiences of food insecurity, a key determinant of health. We analyse the links between gender, indigeneity, and food insecurity among a small group of ultrapoor Indigenous Garo women in Bangladesh. We demonstr…
Why should I feed her less?”: Challenging assumptions on daughter discrimination in the food provisioning values of ultrapoor Bangladeshi female heads of household
The Violence of Inflated Possibilities: Education, Transformation, and Diminishment in Wamena, Papua
Indonesian authorities in Papua emphasize that indigenous inhabitants who participate in formal education are likely to benefit from a personal, social, and political transformation. This article examines this claim based on the experiences of indigenous Dani residents in the central highlands. Statistical data, interview results, and ethnographic case studies of Dani-Indonesian encounters illustrate that educated Dani do not typically acquire in…
Nobody helps us: Insights from ultra-poor Bangladeshi women on being beyond reach
This paper documents the exclusion from formal assistance of 43 Bangladeshi ultra-poor female heads of household, which forces women to rely on overstretched forms of informal assistance that are not culturally prescribed and are often experienced as shameful. Experiences of helplessness reinforced by dominant views of the ultra-poor as going nowhere discourage women from seeking out formal assistance. In order to overcome the effects of being de…
A diploma and a descendant!’ Premarital sexuality, education and politics among Dani university students in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
In Indonesia, the notion of 'study first' (kuliah dulu) pressures young adults to refrain from sex and delay marriage until they finish tertiary education. Recent scholarship has viewed choices to abstain from sex as evidence of the potency of values of modernisation, Islamic culture and the contemporary importance of moral and social order. By looking at how Dani university students from Papua, the country's easternmost province, view premarital…
Compelling Evidence: Research Methods, HIV/Aids, and Politics in Papua, Indonesia
Increasing calls for an evidence-based public health (EBPH) rely on forms of quantitative evidence to decide HIV/AIDS interventions. A major criticism of this method is it downplays the significance of experiential, cultural or political facets of HIV/AIDS. We apply the concept of ‘rendering technical’ to explore the relationship between methods used in HIV/AIDS research in Papua, Indonesia and current socioeconomic conditions. We analysed resear…
Inclusion and exclusion in mid-life lesbians' experiences of the Pap test
Lesbians are said to feel excluded by sexual health messages that presume heterosexuality, a finding linked to lower levels of Papanicolaou (Pap) testing. This paper discusses a small, focused qualitative study based in Calgary, Canada that illuminated mid-life lesbians' experiences and perceptions of Pap testing and health. Participants indicated that they felt compelled and invited to access Pap testing by an inclusive discourse - that of 'mid-…
A counter-narrative of a 'failed' interview
In a broader research project about students' perceptions of their rights in New Zealand high schools, the first author conducted an interview with a group of students that was noticeably different from her interviews with groups of students at three other high schools. This article was prompted in the first instance by a sense of this 'noticeably different' interview being a 'failure' because of the limited spoken text elicited. In this article …
Carrier Corps Recruitment in the British East Africa Protectorate 1914–1918
The outbreak of the First World War made unprecedented demands on the manpower resources of the British East Africa Protectorate (Kenya). To meet military requirements for labour, the colonial government followed a policy of recruitment of Africans, in which there was initially some confusion over method and the degree to which compulsion could be utilized. Criticism of the policy by European settlers and the press, part of a larger agitation for…
Monopolists and Speculators: British Investment in West African Rubber, 1905–1914
During the classical period of colonialism, from the 1890s to the 1940s, much private Western investment in Africa was conducted through investment waves – short-lived booms related to demands for, and prices of, particular raw materials. One such burst of foreign financial interest occurred between 1905 and 1914 when, against the background of a climacteric in tropical rubber, 55 companies with a total nominal capital of £5 9 million were floate…
Migrations of the Bantu-Speaking Peoples of the Eastern Kenya Highlands: A Reappraisal
Historians have frequently included the Bantu-speaking peoples of the eastern Kenya Highlands—Kikuyu, Embu, Mbere, Kamba, Meru, etc.—in the general migrations of the North Eastern Bantu from Shungwaya. The most authoritative statement in support of this view is set out in H. E. Lambert's The Systems of Land Tenure in the Kikuyu Land Unit: Part 1, History of the Tribal Occupation of the Land . However, only the Meru have oral traditions pointing t…
British Rubber Companies in East Africa Before the First World War
Until the Second World War, at least, tropical Africa constituted harsh and difficult terrain for Western capitalism — a region where financial loss, erosion of the capital base and ignominious failure were as likely for the expatriate or metropolitan firm as profitability or growth of turnover. This simple fact has been obscured in recent years both by the practice of business history which, in Africa as elsewhere, tends to concentrate upon the …
Unilever Overseas. The Anatomy of a Multinational
Journal Article Unilever Overseas. The Anatomy of a Multinational Get access Unilever Overseas. The Anatomy of a Multinational. By D. K. FIELDHOUSE. (London: Groom Helm, 1978. Pp. vii + 620. £25.00.) J. Forbes Munro J. Forbes Munro University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 89, Issue 355, 1 September 1979, Pages 717–719, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231905 Published: 01 …
Africa and the International Economy, 1800-1960
Africa and the International Economy 1800-1960: An Introduction to the Modern Economic History of Africa South of the Sahara
How the 'Culture' in 'Culturally and Linguistically Diverse' Inhibits Intersectionality in Australia: A Study of Domestic Violence Policy and Services
In Australia, policy and services addressing gendered violence are increasingly taking up ‘intersectionality’ as a concept to better include refugee and migrant women’s needs and interests. Drawing on critical policy analysis and interviews with front-line workers from domestic violence, refugee resettlement, and migrant-specific services, this article examines intersectionality in policies and services. It shows that so far, most policies and pr…
The Violence of Inflated Possibilities: Education, Transformation, and Diminishment in Wamena, Papua
Indonesian authorities in Papua emphasize that indigenous inhabitants who participate in formal education are likely to benefit from a personal, social, and political transformation. This article examines this claim based on the experiences of indigenous Dani residents in the central highlands. Statistical data, interview results, and ethnographic case studies of Dani-Indonesian encounters illustrate that educated Dani do not typically acquire in…
Colonial Rule and the Kamba: Social Change in the Kenya Highlands 1889-1939
Saving our people: Health workers, medical citizenship, and vernacular sovereignties in West Papua
Much anthropology has considered the social embeddedness of medical systems, personnel, and practices and the political subjectivities that may arise among health workers. I explore what medical citizenship looks like under conditions of settler colonialism in West Papua based on an ethnographic study of Dani (Balim) and Lani HIV nurses and NGO volunteers who see themselves and their activities as part of a broader effort to save Papuans from ext…
Global HIV Interventions and Technocratic Racism in a West Papuan NGO
In the era of scale up, global donor-driven HIV activities are transforming NGO work by demanding administrative, technical, and data-oriented activities. Drawing on interviews and participant observation in an NGO in the West Papuan city of Manokwari between 2011 and 2014, I attempt to understand why Indigenous Papuan NGO employees were steadily replaced by non-Indigenous migrant settlers, mainly of Javanese heritage, to deliver HIV services. I …
The Colonial Transformation of Kenya: The Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai from 1900 to 1939
Compelling Evidence: Research Methods, HIV/Aids, and Politics in Papua, Indonesia
Increasing calls for an evidence-based public health (EBPH) rely on forms of quantitative evidence to decide HIV/AIDS interventions. A major criticism of this method is it downplays the significance of experiential, cultural or political facets of HIV/AIDS. We apply the concept of ‘rendering technical’ to explore the relationship between methods used in HIV/AIDS research in Papua, Indonesia and current socioeconomic conditions. We analysed resear…
The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1963
Your father is no more”: Insights on guardianship and abandonment from ultrapoor women heads of household in Bangladesh
From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time: Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities and Religiosities
There are probably no other people on earth to whom the image of the 'stone-age' is so persistently attached than the inhabitants of the island of New Guinea, which is divided into independent Papua New Guinea and the western part of the island, known today as Papua and West Papua. From 'Stone-Age' to 'Real-Time' examines the forms of agency, frictions and anxieties the
Why should I feed her less?”: Challenging assumptions on daughter discrimination in the food provisioning values of ultrapoor Bangladeshi female heads of household
A diploma and a descendant!’ Premarital sexuality, education and politics among Dani university students in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
In Indonesia, the notion of 'study first' (kuliah dulu) pressures young adults to refrain from sex and delay marriage until they finish tertiary education. Recent scholarship has viewed choices to abstain from sex as evidence of the potency of values of modernisation, Islamic culture and the contemporary importance of moral and social order. By looking at how Dani university students from Papua, the country's easternmost province, view premarital…
An Economic History of Kenya and Uganda, 1800-1970
From saving to survivance: Rethinking Indigenous Papuan women's vulnerabilities in Jayapura, Indonesia
Racism, sexism and gendered violence disadvantage Indigenous Papuan women, yet government responses often focus on individual interventions like ‘raising awareness’ or training. In this article, we build on efforts to challenge these narratives about women's vulnerabilities. We draw on life history interviews with older Papuan women in Jayapura to rethink vulnerabilities and everyday struggles in the context of structural inequalities. We interpr…
Colonial Rule and the Kamba: Social Change in the Kenya Highlands, 1889-1939
West Papuan ‘Housewives’ with HIV: Gender, Marriage, and Inequality in Indonesia
Indonesia defies gendered HIV risk stereotypes, and most women with HIV do not fit any pre-defined risk groups. In Indonesia, HIV predominates in women who identify as ‘housewives’. In the dominant imaginary, housewives are married homemakers, dedicated to children and husband, faithful, and sexually modest. Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews with Indigenous Papuan women in Manokwari, West Papua province, I problematise the category …
Service delivery under translation: Multi-stakeholder accountability in the non-profit community sector in New Zealand
This paper addresses the challenge reported in the research literature of providing adequate accounts of service quality and value to multiple stakeholders. Rather than starting with a particular accountability practice, we examine the accounts of complex service delivery and results from the perspective of five key stakeholder groups. The case study at the empirical centre of this research is a small New Zealand non-profit organisation that prov…
Carrier Corps Recruitment in the British East Africa Protectorate 1914–1918
The outbreak of the First World War made unprecedented demands on the manpower resources of the British East Africa Protectorate (Kenya). To meet military requirements for labour, the colonial government followed a policy of recruitment of Africans, in which there was initially some confusion over method and the degree to which compulsion could be utilized. Criticism of the policy by European settlers and the press, part of a larger agitation for…
Migrations of the Bantu-Speaking Peoples of the Eastern Kenya Highlands: A Reappraisal
Historians have frequently included the Bantu-speaking peoples of the eastern Kenya Highlands—Kikuyu, Embu, Mbere, Kamba, Meru, etc.—in the general migrations of the North Eastern Bantu from Shungwaya. The most authoritative statement in support of this view is set out in H. E. Lambert's The Systems of Land Tenure in the Kikuyu Land Unit: Part 1, History of the Tribal Occupation of the Land . However, only the Meru have oral traditions pointing t…
Land and Politics in Kenya: A Review Article
Colonial Rule and the Kamba: Social Change in the Kenya Highlands, 1889-1939
The Colonial Transformation of Kenya: The Kamba, Kikuyu, and Maasai from 1900 to 1939
An Economic History of Kenya and Uganda, 1800-1970
Colonialism in Africa, 1870-1960. Vol. 4: The Economics of Colonialism
Africa and the International Economy, 1800-1960
Colonial Rule and the Kamba: Social Change in the Kenya Highlands 1889-1939
Africa and the International Economy 1800-1960: An Introduction to the Modern Economic History of Africa South of the Sahara
Africa and the International Economy, 1800-1960
Unilever Overseas. The Anatomy of a Multinational
Journal Article Unilever Overseas. The Anatomy of a Multinational Get access Unilever Overseas. The Anatomy of a Multinational. By D. K. FIELDHOUSE. (London: Groom Helm, 1978. Pp. vii + 620. £25.00.) J. Forbes Munro J. Forbes Munro University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 89, Issue 355, 1 September 1979, Pages 717–719, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231905 Published: 01 …
Monopolists and Speculators: British Investment in West African Rubber, 1905–1914
During the classical period of colonialism, from the 1890s to the 1940s, much private Western investment in Africa was conducted through investment waves – short-lived booms related to demands for, and prices of, particular raw materials. One such burst of foreign financial interest occurred between 1905 and 1914 when, against the background of a climacteric in tropical rubber, 55 companies with a total nominal capital of £5 9 million were floate…
Economic Development and Urban Migration: Tanzania, 1900-1971
From Slave to Squatters: Plantation Labour and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925
Imperialism and East Africa. Volume 1: Imperialism and Exploitation
British Rubber Companies in East Africa Before the First World War
Until the Second World War, at least, tropical Africa constituted harsh and difficult terrain for Western capitalism — a region where financial loss, erosion of the capital base and ignominious failure were as likely for the expatriate or metropolitan firm as profitability or growth of turnover. This simple fact has been obscured in recent years both by the practice of business history which, in Africa as elsewhere, tends to concentrate upon the …
Crafts, Industry and Employment
THE 'open-economy' model accepted by British policy-makers and businessmen for most of the colonial period assumed that growth and development in Tropical Africa would be achieved through trade with the world in general, and with Britain in particular, in a complementary exchange of primary products against manufactures. Such a relationship would not necessarily preclude the emergence of some modern manufacturing industry in Africa, as had indeed…
The State and the Economy
THE colonial state had a central role in the economic transformation of Tropical Africa, interpreting the broad policy guidelines set out by metropolitan governments and applying them to specific social and ecological conditions. As agents of the metropolitan state, the colonial administrations were expected to operate within the framework of official perceptions about the needs and interests of the British and ‘imperial’ economies, and at the ve…
The ‘Peasant’ Economies
UNDER British rule the activities of many African cultivators became more externally oriented than before. Among Tropical Africa’s principal exports (Table IV), the palm oil and kernels, the cocoa and the groundnuts of Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, the cotton and much of the coffee of Uganda and Tanganyika, and the tobacco of Nyasaland came from African farms which were mostly, although not exclusively, small-holdings worked by family…
The ‘Settler-Mining’ Economies
SOUTHERN Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Kenya constitute a distinctive category within Britain’s colonial territories — as export economies in which production for world markets was conducted principally by expatriate- and immigrant-owned mining and agricultural enterprises. These three territories attracted the largest European immigration into British Tropical African (Table V), in the shape of fragments of Anglo-South African society scattere…
Origins of British Rule
WHY did Britain acquire a scattering of colonial possessions in Tropical Africa, annexing new territories and enlarging existing ones during the last quarter of the nineteenth century? What was the extent and nature of the interplay between colonialism and capitalism (or government and business) in the initial emergence of British rule? Such questions have long fascinated historians, not least because of the need to fit Africa into general explan…
Trade, Investment and Expatriate Business
BRITAIN acquired colonial possessions in Tropical Africa for essentially defensive reasons: to ensure, in the face of the neo-mercantilist tendencies of other European states, that some parts of the African continent would remain open to British trade and investment. For a Britain committed to free trade at home and abroad, the ideal colony was an open economy, actively engaged in world trade through the exporting of agricultural and mineral prod…
Themes and Approaches
TROPICAL Africa, the lands lying between the Sahara desert and the Limpopo river, sometimes also regarded as 'Black Africa' between the Arab North and the white-ruled South, historically experienced both governance by British agencies and penetration by British business. Trade and investment, however, were never wholly synonymous with, or dependent upon, the exercise of colonial administration. British capitalism's links with the coastal areas of…
The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society since 1800
Journal Article The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society since 1800 Get access The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society since 1800, by Bill Freund. London: Macmillan Press, 1984. xiv+338 pp. £18 (£6.95 paperback). J. FORBES MUNRO J. FORBES MUNRO University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 83, Issue 333, October 1984…
Political science (43 works) · Sociology (32 works) · Geography (28 works) · African history and culture studies (26 works) · Economics (26 works) · Law (24 works) · Colonialism (19 works) · History (19 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Politics (17 works)