Niko Besnier
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niko Besnier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niko |
| FAMILY NAME | Besnier |
| SIGNATURE | BESNIER N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age
This ethnographic collection explores how neoliberalism has permeated the bodies, subjectivities, and gender of youth around the world as global sport industries have expanded their reach into marginal areas, luring young athletes with the dream of pursuing athletic careers in professional leagues of the Global North. Neoliberalism has reconfigured sport since the 1980s, as sport clubs and federations have become for-profit businesses, in conjunc…
Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics
Although gossip is disapproved of across the world’s societies, it is a prominent feature of sociality, whose role in the construction of society and culture cannot be overestimated. In particular, gossip is central to the enactment of politics: through it people transform difference into inequality and enact or challenge power structures. Based on the author’s intimate ethnographic knowledge of Nukulaelae Atoll, Tuvalu, this work uses an analysi…
Commentary: Intimacy through the Ethnographic Lens
The multiplicity of meanings that have been attributed to intimacy are both a weakness and a strength: a weakness because of the indeterminacy with which the category is used; a strength because it allows us to explore the relationship between its various meanings, and through this exploration address theoretically important questions. While it is commonly conflated with sexuality, intimacy concerns a considerably broader range of aspects of huma…
Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders
Negotiating Local Subjectivities on the Edge of the Global
Literacy
Literacy, Emotion, and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll
Literacy continues to be a central issue in anthropology, but methods of perceiving and examining it have changed in recent years. In this 1995 study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context. He shows how a small and isolated Polynesian community, with no access to print tec…
Literacy, Emotion, and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll
Foundations of General Linguistics
An autosegmental approach to metathesis in Rotuman
Commentary: Intimacy through the Ethnographic Lens
The multiplicity of meanings that have been attributed to intimacy are both a weakness and a strength: a weakness because of the indeterminacy with which the category is used; a strength because it allows us to explore the relationship between its various meanings, and through this exploration address theoretically important questions. While it is commonly conflated with sexuality, intimacy concerns a considerably broader range of aspects of huma…
Literacy
An autosegmental approach to metathesis in Rotuman
Negotiating Local Subjectivities on the Edge of the Global
An autosegmental approach to metathesis in Rotuman
Foundations of General Linguistics
Literacy, Emotion, and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll
Literacy, Emotion, and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll
Literacy continues to be a central issue in anthropology, but methods of perceiving and examining it have changed in recent years. In this 1995 study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context. He shows how a small and isolated Polynesian community, with no access to print tec…
Literacy
Negotiating Local Subjectivities on the Edge of the Global
Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders
Commentary: Intimacy through the Ethnographic Lens
The multiplicity of meanings that have been attributed to intimacy are both a weakness and a strength: a weakness because of the indeterminacy with which the category is used; a strength because it allows us to explore the relationship between its various meanings, and through this exploration address theoretically important questions. While it is commonly conflated with sexuality, intimacy concerns a considerably broader range of aspects of huma…
Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics
Although gossip is disapproved of across the world’s societies, it is a prominent feature of sociality, whose role in the construction of society and culture cannot be overestimated. In particular, gossip is central to the enactment of politics: through it people transform difference into inequality and enact or challenge power structures. Based on the author’s intimate ethnographic knowledge of Nukulaelae Atoll, Tuvalu, this work uses an analysi…
Sport, Migration, and Gender in the Neoliberal Age
This ethnographic collection explores how neoliberalism has permeated the bodies, subjectivities, and gender of youth around the world as global sport industries have expanded their reach into marginal areas, luring young athletes with the dream of pursuing athletic careers in professional leagues of the Global North. Neoliberalism has reconfigured sport since the 1980s, as sport clubs and federations have become for-profit businesses, in conjunc…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Atoll (2 works)