Elizabeth Harrison
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3616672 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elizabeth Harrison |
| PRENOMES | Elizabeth |
| SOBRENOME | Harrison |
| ASSINATURA | HARRISON E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6923-9410 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 314 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
A phenomenological study on educators assisting Afghan refugee youth in the United States
The experiences of person-centred counsellors working with suicidal clients online through the medium of text
In this study, we attempt to provide an understanding of the experiences of four UK-based person-centred counsellors working with suicidal clients online using text-based therapies and the impact of their clients’ suicidal ideation upon their “way of being”. The counsellors were selected purposively; each was working as a person-centred counsellor online, was encountering suicidal ideation in their clients, and was a member of a professional orga…
Engineering change? The idea of ‘the scheme’ in African irrigation
Entrepreneurs, investors and the state
This article draws on ethnographic research in Tanzania to interrogate the discourse of ‘public’ and ‘private’ in sub-Saharan irrigation development. It contrasts the complexity of social and political relations with narratives suggesting that ‘private’ is necessarily opposed and superior to ‘public’. We argue that support for models of private-sector development obscures access to and control over resources and can result in the dispossession of…
Successful small-scale irrigation or environmental destruction? The political ecology of competing claims on water in the Uluguru Mountains,Tanzania
In the Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania, an expansion in informal hosepipe irrigation by small-scale farmers has enabled the development of horticulture, and resulted in improvements in farmers' livelihoods. This has largely taken place independently of external support, and can be seen as an example of the 'private' irrigation that is increasingly viewed as important for sub-Saharan Africa. However, these activities are seen by representatives of g…
Size isn't everything
This paper explores tensions over scale and viability in irrigated agricultural development in Tanzania. A revival of ambition to transform African agriculture has reawakened debate over what type of agriculture can best deliver increased production and poverty reduction for rural populations. This paper examines these debates through the lens of an ethnographic study of an irrigated rice farm in Tanzania. With a chequered history of state and do…
Differentiated legitimacy, differentiated resilience
This paper starts with a flood in southern Malawi. Although apparently a 'natural' event, those most affected argued that it was made much worse by the rehabilitation of a nearby irrigation scheme. We use this example to interrogate the current interest in resilience from a perspective informed by political ecology and political economy, arguing that a focus on resilience should not be at the expense of understanding the conditions that shape vul…
Italy opened the doors of my religious consciousness’
This article discusses the relationship of Catholicism and Russian national identity in the work of Vasilii Rozanov (1856–1919), with particular reference to his Italian Impressions (1909). In this work, largely neglected by scholars, Rozanov describes his travels to Italy (and to a lesser extent Germany) and his thoughts on what he saw there, writing a counterpoint to Fedor Dostoevskii's Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863). The article arg…
Recruiting families to a childhood obesity management trial. Active vs passive methods
Bouncing back? Recession, resilience and everyday lives
This paper critically engages with a recent shift towards an emphasis on ‘resilience’ in policy and academic fields. The paper suggests that this shift is problematic for several reasons: that it supports normative value judgements; that it may overemphasize the ability of people to ‘bounce back’ and undervalue the hidden costs of resilience, especially those with gendered dimensions; and that it may be associated with policy prescriptions that s…
Beyond the looking glass? 'Aidland' reconsidered
This paper engages with an emerging genre in anthropology's engagement with international development - writing about 'Aidland' which focus attention on the lives, motivations and personalities of 'development professionals'. It suggests that there are two possible problems with the growing popularity of work on Aidland: first, that it rests on a reified and dated view of the worlds of aid and development; second, that an ethnographic focus on de…
Performing Partnership
The related ideals of "partnership" and "participation" are dominant motifs framing public policy in both northern and southern contexts. However, they have been subject to considerable academic critique, particularly from anthropologists. This critique has both practical and theoretical dimensions, including those that draw on notions of governmentality to argue that participation and partnership reflect and are constitutive of relations of powe…
Ageing activists
Based on research with members of two Senior Citizens Forums in the South East of England, this article examines the biographies and motivations of those who get involved in such activities, with particular emphasis on (a) how they see themselves in relation to ‘other older people’ and (b) their relationships with the places in which they live. We address these issues in relation to the characterisation of participants in such forums as the ‘usua…
The incinerator and the beach
This article interrogates the complex ways in which "community" is constructed in a Sussex town. It contributes to long-standing debates in anthropology about the meaning of community, considering the relevance of these to current policy agendas of localism and "Big Society." The article opens with an account of apparently strong community resistance to changes induced from outside. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, it goes on to argue …
Gender Myths and Feminist Fables
Gender Myths and Feminist Fables
Gender Myths and Feminist Fables
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Talking Development and Development Talk Gender Myths and Feminist Fables Power and the Institutional Context: Implications for Gender and Development Myth Making and Fable Spinning within Feminism Conclusion References
Feminisms in development
This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies. Feminism s emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function often undermines feminist intent through bureauc…
Corruption
This article engages with the ways in which corruption has taken centre stage in much development policy making and rhetoric. It argues that there is a need to destabilise ‘taken for granted’ assumptions about what corruption is and how it operates. This means generating an understanding of how meanings of corruption vary, and how this variation is determined by the social characteristics of those engaged in corruption talk. It also means examina…
Gender Myths and Feminist Fables
Gender and development has grown enormously as a field over the last thirty years. In this introduction, we interrogate the ambivalence that underpins feminist engagement with development and examine what current dilemmas may suggest about the relationship between feminist knowledge and development practice. In recent years, there has been growing frustration with the simplistic slogans that have come to characterize much gender and development t…
Unpacking the Anti-corruption Agenda
This paper explores the dilemmas involved in an anthropological examination of both corruption and the international anti-corruption agenda, arguing that the two must be seen as closely related. The dilemma for anthropologists is that in either unpacking the "meaning" of corruption at a local level, or deconstructing the anti-corruption agenda, the realities of power involved in the attribution of corruption may be overlooked. It is concluded tha…
Culture and Public Action
Culture and Public Action. Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 442 pp
Introduction
The Problem with the Locals
This article examines the proliferation of development discourses about participation and partnership, focusing on natural resources management policy in Ethiopia. It argues that relationships between the state and donors and between donors themselves are contested and negotiated. The generation of policy is a value-laden process. However, because these institutions are not monolithic, the agency and positioning of those individuals charged with …
Men, Women and Work in Rural Zambia
Gender Myths and Feminist Fables
Gender and development has grown enormously as a field over the last thirty years. In this introduction, we interrogate the ambivalence that underpins feminist engagement with development and examine what current dilemmas may suggest about the relationship between feminist knowledge and development practice. In recent years, there has been growing frustration with the simplistic slogans that have come to characterize much gender and development t…
Bouncing back? Recession, resilience and everyday lives
This paper critically engages with a recent shift towards an emphasis on ‘resilience’ in policy and academic fields. The paper suggests that this shift is problematic for several reasons: that it supports normative value judgements; that it may overemphasize the ability of people to ‘bounce back’ and undervalue the hidden costs of resilience, especially those with gendered dimensions; and that it may be associated with policy prescriptions that s…
The Problem with the Locals
This article examines the proliferation of development discourses about participation and partnership, focusing on natural resources management policy in Ethiopia. It argues that relationships between the state and donors and between donors themselves are contested and negotiated. The generation of policy is a value-laden process. However, because these institutions are not monolithic, the agency and positioning of those individuals charged with …
Beyond the looking glass? 'Aidland' reconsidered
This paper engages with an emerging genre in anthropology's engagement with international development - writing about 'Aidland' which focus attention on the lives, motivations and personalities of 'development professionals'. It suggests that there are two possible problems with the growing popularity of work on Aidland: first, that it rests on a reified and dated view of the worlds of aid and development; second, that an ethnographic focus on de…
Unpacking the Anti-corruption Agenda
This paper explores the dilemmas involved in an anthropological examination of both corruption and the international anti-corruption agenda, arguing that the two must be seen as closely related. The dilemma for anthropologists is that in either unpacking the "meaning" of corruption at a local level, or deconstructing the anti-corruption agenda, the realities of power involved in the attribution of corruption may be overlooked. It is concluded tha…
Differentiated legitimacy, differentiated resilience
This paper starts with a flood in southern Malawi. Although apparently a 'natural' event, those most affected argued that it was made much worse by the rehabilitation of a nearby irrigation scheme. We use this example to interrogate the current interest in resilience from a perspective informed by political ecology and political economy, arguing that a focus on resilience should not be at the expense of understanding the conditions that shape vul…
Perceptional inequality and preferential judgements
Corruption
This article engages with the ways in which corruption has taken centre stage in much development policy making and rhetoric. It argues that there is a need to destabilise ‘taken for granted’ assumptions about what corruption is and how it operates. This means generating an understanding of how meanings of corruption vary, and how this variation is determined by the social characteristics of those engaged in corruption talk. It also means examina…
Introduction
Ageing activists
Based on research with members of two Senior Citizens Forums in the South East of England, this article examines the biographies and motivations of those who get involved in such activities, with particular emphasis on (a) how they see themselves in relation to ‘other older people’ and (b) their relationships with the places in which they live. We address these issues in relation to the characterisation of participants in such forums as the ‘usua…
Entrepreneurs, investors and the state
This article draws on ethnographic research in Tanzania to interrogate the discourse of ‘public’ and ‘private’ in sub-Saharan irrigation development. It contrasts the complexity of social and political relations with narratives suggesting that ‘private’ is necessarily opposed and superior to ‘public’. We argue that support for models of private-sector development obscures access to and control over resources and can result in the dispossession of…
Successful small-scale irrigation or environmental destruction? The political ecology of competing claims on water in the Uluguru Mountains,Tanzania
In the Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania, an expansion in informal hosepipe irrigation by small-scale farmers has enabled the development of horticulture, and resulted in improvements in farmers' livelihoods. This has largely taken place independently of external support, and can be seen as an example of the 'private' irrigation that is increasingly viewed as important for sub-Saharan Africa. However, these activities are seen by representatives of g…
Engineering change? The idea of ‘the scheme’ in African irrigation
Men in Women's Groups
Summaries The article is an examination of the meanings associated with women's clubs in sub?Saharan Africa. Such clubs have frequently been treated by donors as the preferred vehicle for policies of poverty alleviation. However, misplaced assumptions may have been made about the reasons for their formation and their automatic association with women's gender interests. In particular, there is a difference between groups arising directly and expli…
Size isn't everything
This paper explores tensions over scale and viability in irrigated agricultural development in Tanzania. A revival of ambition to transform African agriculture has reawakened debate over what type of agriculture can best deliver increased production and poverty reduction for rural populations. This paper examines these debates through the lens of an ethnographic study of an irrigated rice farm in Tanzania. With a chequered history of state and do…
The incinerator and the beach
This article interrogates the complex ways in which "community" is constructed in a Sussex town. It contributes to long-standing debates in anthropology about the meaning of community, considering the relevance of these to current policy agendas of localism and "Big Society." The article opens with an account of apparently strong community resistance to changes induced from outside. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, it goes on to argue …
Culture and Public Action
Culture and Public Action. Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 442 pp
Men, Women and Work in Rural Zambia
Fish and Feminists
Despite apparent acceptance of gender analysis within development organizations, this is still only rarely translated into gender?sensitive practice. The language of gender and development is adopted, but is accompanied by a subtle shift into ‘projects for women’. The article considers the problem through a case study of a programme in one international development organization – the FAO. The programme promotes small scale fish farming in souther…
Prediction of performance in initial Officer training using reference reports
The usefulness of reference reports has tended to be neglected in personnel selection research, and available evidence is not encouraging. In the study reported, ratings on the headteacher's report form used in Royal Navy Officer selection were examined and compared with training performance. Although the ratings of candidates ( n = 263) were subject to restriction of range and possible leniency effects, amongst entrants ( n = 103) a total score …
Perceptional inequality and preferential judgements
Fish and Feminists
Despite apparent acceptance of gender analysis within development organizations, this is still only rarely translated into gender?sensitive practice. The language of gender and development is adopted, but is accompanied by a subtle shift into ‘projects for women’. The article considers the problem through a case study of a programme in one international development organization – the FAO. The programme promotes small scale fish farming in souther…
Digging Fish Ponds
The promotion of small-scale fish farming in Africa has had only limited success. Although on many occasions there is apparently no difficulty in getting people to dig ponds, subsequent management and maintenance tend to be poor and ponds are often abandoned. Because of the legacy of past development interventions, many farmers dig fish ponds in anticipation of benefit or to associate themselves with a
Men in Women's Groups
Summaries The article is an examination of the meanings associated with women's clubs in sub?Saharan Africa. Such clubs have frequently been treated by donors as the preferred vehicle for policies of poverty alleviation. However, misplaced assumptions may have been made about the reasons for their formation and their automatic association with women's gender interests. In particular, there is a difference between groups arising directly and expli…
Better Red
Journal Article Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. Constance Coiner. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. xii + 282 pages. Get access Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. Constance Coiner. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. xii + 282 pages. Elizabeth Harrison Elizabeth Harrison Beijing Foreign Studies University Search for other works…
Men, Women and Work in Rural Zambia
The Problem with the Locals
This article examines the proliferation of development discourses about participation and partnership, focusing on natural resources management policy in Ethiopia. It argues that relationships between the state and donors and between donors themselves are contested and negotiated. The generation of policy is a value-laden process. However, because these institutions are not monolithic, the agency and positioning of those individuals charged with …
Introduction
Culture and Public Action
Culture and Public Action. Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 442 pp
Unpacking the Anti-corruption Agenda
This paper explores the dilemmas involved in an anthropological examination of both corruption and the international anti-corruption agenda, arguing that the two must be seen as closely related. The dilemma for anthropologists is that in either unpacking the "meaning" of corruption at a local level, or deconstructing the anti-corruption agenda, the realities of power involved in the attribution of corruption may be overlooked. It is concluded tha…
Feminisms in development
This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies. Feminism s emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function often undermines feminist intent through bureauc…
Corruption
This article engages with the ways in which corruption has taken centre stage in much development policy making and rhetoric. It argues that there is a need to destabilise ‘taken for granted’ assumptions about what corruption is and how it operates. This means generating an understanding of how meanings of corruption vary, and how this variation is determined by the social characteristics of those engaged in corruption talk. It also means examina…
Gender Myths and Feminist Fables
Gender and development has grown enormously as a field over the last thirty years. In this introduction, we interrogate the ambivalence that underpins feminist engagement with development and examine what current dilemmas may suggest about the relationship between feminist knowledge and development practice. In recent years, there has been growing frustration with the simplistic slogans that have come to characterize much gender and development t…
Gender Myths and Feminist Fables
Gender Myths and Feminist Fables
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Talking Development and Development Talk Gender Myths and Feminist Fables Power and the Institutional Context: Implications for Gender and Development Myth Making and Fable Spinning within Feminism Conclusion References
Gender Myths and Feminist Fables
The incinerator and the beach
This article interrogates the complex ways in which "community" is constructed in a Sussex town. It contributes to long-standing debates in anthropology about the meaning of community, considering the relevance of these to current policy agendas of localism and "Big Society." The article opens with an account of apparently strong community resistance to changes induced from outside. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, it goes on to argue …
Performing Partnership
The related ideals of "partnership" and "participation" are dominant motifs framing public policy in both northern and southern contexts. However, they have been subject to considerable academic critique, particularly from anthropologists. This critique has both practical and theoretical dimensions, including those that draw on notions of governmentality to argue that participation and partnership reflect and are constitutive of relations of powe…
Ageing activists
Based on research with members of two Senior Citizens Forums in the South East of England, this article examines the biographies and motivations of those who get involved in such activities, with particular emphasis on (a) how they see themselves in relation to ‘other older people’ and (b) their relationships with the places in which they live. We address these issues in relation to the characterisation of participants in such forums as the ‘usua…
Bouncing back? Recession, resilience and everyday lives
This paper critically engages with a recent shift towards an emphasis on ‘resilience’ in policy and academic fields. The paper suggests that this shift is problematic for several reasons: that it supports normative value judgements; that it may overemphasize the ability of people to ‘bounce back’ and undervalue the hidden costs of resilience, especially those with gendered dimensions; and that it may be associated with policy prescriptions that s…
Beyond the looking glass? 'Aidland' reconsidered
This paper engages with an emerging genre in anthropology's engagement with international development - writing about 'Aidland' which focus attention on the lives, motivations and personalities of 'development professionals'. It suggests that there are two possible problems with the growing popularity of work on Aidland: first, that it rests on a reified and dated view of the worlds of aid and development; second, that an ethnographic focus on de…
Recruiting families to a childhood obesity management trial. Active vs passive methods
Italy opened the doors of my religious consciousness’
This article discusses the relationship of Catholicism and Russian national identity in the work of Vasilii Rozanov (1856–1919), with particular reference to his Italian Impressions (1909). In this work, largely neglected by scholars, Rozanov describes his travels to Italy (and to a lesser extent Germany) and his thoughts on what he saw there, writing a counterpoint to Fedor Dostoevskii's Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863). The article arg…
Successful small-scale irrigation or environmental destruction? The political ecology of competing claims on water in the Uluguru Mountains,Tanzania
In the Uluguru Mountains of Tanzania, an expansion in informal hosepipe irrigation by small-scale farmers has enabled the development of horticulture, and resulted in improvements in farmers' livelihoods. This has largely taken place independently of external support, and can be seen as an example of the 'private' irrigation that is increasingly viewed as important for sub-Saharan Africa. However, these activities are seen by representatives of g…
Political science (22 obras) · Sociology (22 obras) · Law (16 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Narrative (6 obras)