Sarah Green
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Green |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Green |
| SIGNATURE | GREEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8094-433X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 222 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Comment by Sarah Green
Comment on ‘On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention’ by Paolo Heywood and Thomas Yarrow
A Snapshot of Helsinki Anthropology in Interesting Times: Looking Forwards
Sarah Green was invited by the editorial team of Suomen antropologi to write something for their Jubilee Edition about Finnish anthropology, perhaps about her experience as an outsider, having worked in anthropology departments for a couple of decades in the UK before coming to Helsinki in 2012. She gladly agreed to write a piece, but argued that she would find it difficult to compare UK and Finnish anthropologies. As a specialist on borders, loc…
Refugee livelihood perspectives: Post-traumatic growth in histories of Vietnamese, Bosnian, and Tamil Refugees in Australia
Refugee livelihood studies have mostly focused on policy and international aid programming and have yet to explore refugee people’s long-term development beyond the initial resettlement period. This article examines the experiences of Vietnamese, Bosnian, and Tamil refugees resettled in Australia during the height of the multicultural agenda in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on fifty oral histories, the article argues that refugees’ struggle and tr…
Forum: "Lévi-Strauss's "The Mathematics of Man
In a recent issue (Vol. 67, No. 2), we published a new translation, by Matthew Carey, of Claude Lévi-Strauss's seminal but often overlooked essay "The Mathematics of Man," which was originally published in French in 1956. As Susanne Küchler suggested in her introduction to the text, Lévi-Strauss's insistence on seeing mathematics as more than just a means of quantification and statistical analysis should be of enduring inspiration to anthropologi…
The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
The tense but enduring engagement between anthropology and gender and sexuality studies has had profound effects upon anthropological theory and practice. Bringing together contributions from an international team of authors, this Handbook shows that anthropological work has taken inspiration from feminist and LGBTQI movements to create a transformative body of research. It provides an accessible, state-of-the-art overview of the anthropology of …
Anthropology of the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean has been a controversial topic and area of study in anthropology and therein lies much of its value for the discipline. The notion of an anthropology of the Mediterranean emerged in the 1950s and was strongly associated with anthropologists working at the University of Oxford at the time, notably John G. Péristiany, Julian Pitt-Rivers, and John K. Campbell. The timing of this discovery was far from accidental. The majority of th…
The Bioeconomics of Domesticating Zoonoses
The majority of diseases that afflict humans are shared by nonhuman animals, and three-quarters of emerging diseases do so. People have known this for centuries, understanding that diseases traveled the same routes as did traders, migrants, and soldiers. Zoonosis is a process that involves the movement of a pathogen from a nonhuman animal body to a human animal body, which then triggers disease. In the past, this reality mostly served as an imped…
Taking Money from Strangers: Traders’ Responses to Banknotes and the Risks of Forgery in Late Georgian London
Selling to strangers was a significant occupational hazard for retailers in late Georgian Britain, one that was hard to avoid. The dangers were especially great in larger towns and cities, where shopkeepers were dependent on a steady stream of passing trade composed of a large number of customers that they did not know. Though traders risked financial loss and even possible prosecution by accepting counterfeit banknotes, refusal to accept them me…
Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings
Impotence and the Male Artist: The Case of George Moore
George Moore was infamous for his bragging about sexual exploits, and for his treatment of sexual themes in his novels, autobiographies, and poems. But at the end of his autobiography Hail and Farewell (1911–1914), he declared his intention to consciously embrace the onset of age-related sexual impotence. Further, he claimed that this half-voluntary, half-involuntary continence was going to be the final step towards his transformation into a grea…
Locating European anthropology
This commentary revisits the “Rethinking Euro-anthropology” Forums published in the journal Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. It reconsiders three specific issues: who are the subjects of European anthropology, who are its others, and who are its authors? Noting that European anthropology does not imply a spatial fixity (there is no “there there” in European anthropology), we suggest instead that European anthropological scholarship is t…
Entangled Borders
If there is one thing that contemporary borders are supposed to do, it is to clearly separate things out, clearly demarcate the difference between here and somewhere else. It is obvious that this is not always, or perhaps even often, successfully achieved: the world is full of unfinished, contested and overlapping political borders. Drawing first from examples provided by the European Union and Brexit, and then from the past and present experienc…
What Is Analysis
Recent years in anthropology have seen a noticeable trend, moving from debates about theory to a concern with method. So while some generations ago we would tend to identify ourselves as anthropologists with reference to particular theoretical paradigms-for example, Marxism, (post-)structuralism, cognitivism, cultural materialism, interpretivism-these days our tendency is to align ourselves, often eclectically, with proposals conceived as methodo…
A celebration of Roy Wagner and ‘The reciprocity of perspectives’
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All Those Stories, All Those Stories’: How Do Bosnian Former Child Refugees Maintain Connections to Bosnia and Community Groups in Australia
This article draws on oral histories from my PhD research to explore how six teenagers, now adults, remember their arrivals in Australia as child refugees from Bosnia. It examines their relationships with other people from Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia, including community groups, and how these relationships have changed over time. In examining these narratives, issues of intergenerational differences are highlighted, with interviewees positio…
Poetry Third Prize: Walking Home from India
The inhibition of lung cancer cell migration by AhR-regulated autophagy
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor that is highly expressed in multiple organs and tissues. Whereas AhR mediates the metabolism of xenobiotic and endogenous compounds, its novel function in cancer epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) remains controversial. Autophagy also participates in tumour progression through its functions in cell homeostasis and facilitates adaptation to EMT progression. In the …
A Brexit in the World, and How It Found Its Place
Relations and Separations
Does It Matter if the Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming Is 97% or 99.99
Cook et al. reported a 97% scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW), based on a study of 11,944 abstracts in peer-reviewed science journals. Powell claims that the Cook et al. methodology was flawed and that the true consensus is virtually unanimous at 99.99%. Powell’s method underestimates the level of disagreement because it relies on finding explicit rejection statements as well as the assumption that abstracts without a stat…
Consensus on consensus: A synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming
The consensus that humans are causing recent global warming is shared by 90%-100% of publishing climate scientists according to six independent studies by co-authors of this paper. Those results are consistent with the 97% consensus reported by Cook et al (Environ. Res. Lett. 8 024024) based on 11 944 abstracts of research papers, of which 4014 took a position on the cause of recent global warming. A survey of authors of those papers (N=2412 pape…
The World after Brexit
Located in between times
Drawing on the experience of feminist separatists in 1990s London, this is a comment on a recently published book by Marilyn Strathern, Before and After Gender, which was originally written in 1974. The comment argues that there is much to be learned from Strathern's book, and that the addition of ehtnographic material from Europe can enrich the points she made in the book
Brexit Referendum: First reactions from anthropology
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
Mapping the urban asthma experience: Using qualitative GIS to understand contextual factors affecting asthma control
Borders and the Relocation of Europe
The current financial and fiscal crisis within the Eurozone is the latest in a series of events to have occurred in recent decades that have been altering the meaning, purpose, and form of European borders. These events include the multiple border-altering experiments of the European Union (EU), the end of the Cold War, and the conflicts in former Yugoslavia. Cumulatively, the position of Europe, as a place and as an idea, has been undergoing con…
Brexit Referendum: First reactions from anthropology
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
Performing Border in the Aegean: On Relocating Political, Economic and Social Relations
This paper explores borders as conceptual entities that are performed. Rather than assume that the meaning of borders (or 'border-ness') holds steady while everything else changes, the paper considers borders as forms of 'performation' in Callon's terms. It also argues that border is always about relations as much as separation, and that, combined with historically shifting theories of border, suggests that border as such cannot be taken for gran…
Scales of Place and Networks: An Ethnography of the Imperative to Connect through Information and Communications Technologies
Much has been made of the spacetransforming and spacedefying characteristics of information and communications technologies. This focus tends to separate the spatial characteristics of these technologies from those of the Euclidean world; it also takes the spatial characteristics of the Euclidean world for granted. Yet anthropologists have shown that place making in any spatial context is a complicated process, always involving an entanglement of…
Urban Amazons
Anthropological knots: Conditions of possibilities and interventions
This paper outlines how the Anthropological Knots debate covered in this special section was framed, and offers its own threads for approaching the two questions addressed by it: First, what is it that makes anthropology possible in the contemporary moment? And second, what might count as intervention in anthropological terms? The paper argues that an ethnographic focus is essential to answering both questions. Such a focus is implicitly conceptu…
Mapping the urban asthma experience: Using qualitative GIS to understand contextual factors affecting asthma control
Relations and Separations
Reciting the future: Border relocations and everyday speculations in two Greek border regions
Using ethnographic research from two different historical periods and border regions of Greece-the Greek-Albanian border in Epirus in the northwestern mainland during the 1990s, and the Greek-Turkish border in the north Aegean in the 2000s-this article explores how talk about what might happen next contributes toward the continual process of relocating borders. A comparison between them demonstrates that the specific historical moment and the dif…
The Bioeconomics of Domesticating Zoonoses
The majority of diseases that afflict humans are shared by nonhuman animals, and three-quarters of emerging diseases do so. People have known this for centuries, understanding that diseases traveled the same routes as did traders, migrants, and soldiers. Zoonosis is a process that involves the movement of a pathogen from a nonhuman animal body to a human animal body, which then triggers disease. In the past, this reality mostly served as an imped…
Eating Money and Clogging Things up: Paradoxes of Elite Mediation in Epirus, North-Western Greece
Seeing what you know: Changing constructions and perceptions of landscape in Epirus, Northwestern Greece, 1945 and 1990
This paper considers how current understandings of historical events, past practices and movements of the people of Pogoni in Epirus, Northwestern Greece, informs the way they currently visually perceive their physical and social landscape. Taking two periods, marked as prior to 1945 and up to 1990, the paper explores, with the use of maps showing different temporal versions of the visual perception of the area, the combination of social, histori…
Entangled Borders
If there is one thing that contemporary borders are supposed to do, it is to clearly separate things out, clearly demarcate the difference between here and somewhere else. It is obvious that this is not always, or perhaps even often, successfully achieved: the world is full of unfinished, contested and overlapping political borders. Drawing first from examples provided by the European Union and Brexit, and then from the past and present experienc…
The World after Brexit
Private Equity and the Concept of Brittle Trust
This paper focuses on private equity in the UK and is set in the context of debates about transformations in the City of London. The article focuses on a particular concept of trust as expressed by senior members of the private equity sector. The argument developed is based on interviews with five senior founding partners of private equity firms who talked to us about their background and education, their understanding of how private equity worke…
Perceptual Landscapes in Agrarian Systems: Degradation Processes in North-Western Epirus and the Argolid Valley, Greece
Taking Money from Strangers: Traders’ Responses to Banknotes and the Risks of Forgery in Late Georgian London
Selling to strangers was a significant occupational hazard for retailers in late Georgian Britain, one that was hard to avoid. The dangers were especially great in larger towns and cities, where shopkeepers were dependent on a steady stream of passing trade composed of a large number of customers that they did not know. Though traders risked financial loss and even possible prosecution by accepting counterfeit banknotes, refusal to accept them me…
Locating European anthropology
This commentary revisits the “Rethinking Euro-anthropology” Forums published in the journal Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. It reconsiders three specific issues: who are the subjects of European anthropology, who are its others, and who are its authors? Noting that European anthropology does not imply a spatial fixity (there is no “there there” in European anthropology), we suggest instead that European anthropological scholarship is t…
All Those Stories, All Those Stories’: How Do Bosnian Former Child Refugees Maintain Connections to Bosnia and Community Groups in Australia
This article draws on oral histories from my PhD research to explore how six teenagers, now adults, remember their arrivals in Australia as child refugees from Bosnia. It examines their relationships with other people from Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia, including community groups, and how these relationships have changed over time. In examining these narratives, issues of intergenerational differences are highlighted, with interviewees positio…
Poetry Third Prize: Walking Home from India
What's in a Tidemark
2011 AAA annual meeting, AAA annual meeting, tidemark
The universities of Manchester and Helsinki: Different paths
Comparing the experience of neoliberal reform at the Universities of Manchester and Helsinki shows that not all forms of neoliberalization are the same, despite the similarities in structural changes. In this case, the key difference has to do with the the social value attached to the content of scholarship, and to what universities do. In Manchester, the reforms were in the name of trying to achieve excellence, full stop; in Helsinki, the reform…
The universities of Manchester and Helsinki: Different paths
Comparing the experience of neoliberal reform at the Universities of Manchester and Helsinki shows that not all forms of neoliberalization are the same, despite the similarities in structural changes. In this case, the key difference has to do with the the social value attached to the content of scholarship, and to what universities do. In Manchester, the reforms were in the name of trying to achieve excellence, full stop; in Helsinki, the reform…
Inventing Ourselves: Lesbian Life Stories
Sexual Difference: A Theory of Social-Symbolic Practice
Perceptual Landscapes in Agrarian Systems: Degradation Processes in North-Western Epirus and the Argolid Valley, Greece
Comparative and Historical Review
Relations Within: Continuity and Discontinuity
Spaces in Between
Difference and Desire: The Sexuality Debates
A Matter of Identities
From the Outside In: A Political Economy
Urban Amazons
Seeing what you know: Changing constructions and perceptions of landscape in Epirus, Northwestern Greece, 1945 and 1990
This paper considers how current understandings of historical events, past practices and movements of the people of Pogoni in Epirus, Northwestern Greece, informs the way they currently visually perceive their physical and social landscape. Taking two periods, marked as prior to 1945 and up to 1990, the paper explores, with the use of maps showing different temporal versions of the visual perception of the area, the combination of social, histori…
Notes from the Balkans: Locating Marginality and Ambiguity on the Greek-Albanian Border
Drawing on detailed ethnographic research around the border between Greece and Albania, Sarah Green focuses her analysis on the ambiguities of never quite resolving where or what places are, taking an ethnographic approach to exploring 'the Balkans' as an ideological concept
Scales of Place and Networks: An Ethnography of the Imperative to Connect through Information and Communications Technologies
Much has been made of the spacetransforming and spacedefying characteristics of information and communications technologies. This focus tends to separate the spatial characteristics of these technologies from those of the Euclidean world; it also takes the spatial characteristics of the Euclidean world for granted. Yet anthropologists have shown that place making in any spatial context is a complicated process, always involving an entanglement of…
The language and sexuality reader – Edited by Deborah Cameron & Don Kulick
To have and to hold? Conversion and intangible property
Eating Money and Clogging Things up: Paradoxes of Elite Mediation in Epirus, North-Western Greece
Performing Border in the Aegean: On Relocating Political, Economic and Social Relations
This paper explores borders as conceptual entities that are performed. Rather than assume that the meaning of borders (or 'border-ness') holds steady while everything else changes, the paper considers borders as forms of 'performation' in Callon's terms. It also argues that border is always about relations as much as separation, and that, combined with historically shifting theories of border, suggests that border as such cannot be taken for gran…
Making Waves
association business, Annual Meeting, Montreal, 2011 Annual Conference
What's in a Tidemark
2011 AAA annual meeting, AAA annual meeting, tidemark
Replacing Europe
Disability sport is going back to its roots: Rehabilitation of military personnel receiving sudden traumatic disabilities in the twenty-first century
The aim of this paper is to investigate the recently forged links between the military and the National Paralympic Committees in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the USA. To date there has been no published academic material on the explicit link between the Paralympic Games/disability sport and conflict situations. This is despite the fact that the Paralympic Games and their forebears the Stoke Mandeville Games grew out of the rehabilitation …
Private Equity and the Concept of Brittle Trust
This paper focuses on private equity in the UK and is set in the context of debates about transformations in the City of London. The article focuses on a particular concept of trust as expressed by senior members of the private equity sector. The argument developed is based on interviews with five senior founding partners of private equity firms who talked to us about their background and education, their understanding of how private equity worke…
Reciting the future: Border relocations and everyday speculations in two Greek border regions
Using ethnographic research from two different historical periods and border regions of Greece-the Greek-Albanian border in Epirus in the northwestern mainland during the 1990s, and the Greek-Turkish border in the north Aegean in the 2000s-this article explores how talk about what might happen next contributes toward the continual process of relocating borders. A comparison between them demonstrates that the specific historical moment and the dif…
Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature
We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11 944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics ‘global climate change’ or ‘global warming’. We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on …
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