Ara Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ara Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ara |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Worldly Power and Local Alterity
Since the 1990s, queer anthropology has described sexuality and gender in relation to a transnational scale. A transnational approach expands the classic anthropological view of cultural difference manifest in insular societies to consider the effects of global forces on queer being. This chapter provides an overview of key strands of transnational queer anthropology. Focusing on the ways that transnational analysis departs from twentieth-century…
Desiring infrastructure
Infrastructure has been an object of political action in its form as public good. Kai Bosworth's article, ‘What is “affective infrastructure,”’ views political action as a result of infrastructure, that is, the kind of social infrastructure that fosters the critical affect that activism depends on. Beginning with an outline of the material-political concept of infrastructure, this essay engages Bosworth's theoretical formulation of affective infr…
Ethnopornography
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of ra…
Queer Anthropology
Once a slur, the term ‘queer’ now is used to critique restrictive, dominant norms of respectable conduct and to recast sexual and gender variations in positive terms. With roots in twentieth-century anthropological studies of sex and gender, queer anthropology is also part of interdisciplinary scholarship on queer existence that defines sex and gender as key axes for the distribution of status, resources, membership, and value in a society. The a…
The Infrastructure of Intimacy
This essay brings together two different rubrics that are animating recent strands of critical analysis: intimacy and infrastructure. Intimacy has emerged in feminist and queer scholarship as a rubric to depict how regimes of power shape relations and identification, particularly through the operations of discursive norms. This essay proposes that infrastructure offers another rubric for excavating material-symbolic assemblages that embed intimat…
Intimität. Eine nützliche Kategorie transnationaler Analyse
Bards of Heart, Wind, Sky
September–October 2014 • 51 special section Native Lit Sara Wilson: Why Mongolia? What is it about this place that has allowed your work as translator and scholar to take shape? Simon Wickham-Smith: Well, I came to Mongolia because I was working on literature—the sixth Dalai Lama’s poetry and “secret” biography —and I just got caught up in the work of the poet Danzanravjaa as a kind of parallel narrative . Then, through making a strong connection…
Foreign Bodies and National Scales
Medical tourism describes a new pattern of movement of people for medical care, particularly from wealthier to poorer countries. Using the example of Thailand, where annually a million non-Thai patients seek medical treatment, this article provides a critical analysis of the political economic contexts for this medical migration. Drawing on urban geography and heterodox economics, the article considers medical tourism as an interaction of bodily,…
Post-Fordist Desires
Entries
Queer Isles
Book Review| October 01 2008 Queer Isles The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia Tom Boellstorff Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii + 282 pp. Ara Wilson Ara Wilson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2008) 14 (4): 659–663. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-012 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ara Wilson; Queer Isles. GLQ …
The Sacred Geography of Bangkok's Markets
Vernacular shrines pervade the markets of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand and a globalized city in Southeast Asia. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Bangkok, this article traces the history of cross-border flows and shifting political economic arrangements that remapped the sacred geography of the city. It considers the consolidation of a pantheon of enchanted figures into a modern 'prosperity religion' that is practiced in commercial…
Association for Feminist Anthropology
The Intimate Economies of Bangkok
Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures the intimate effects of the global economy in this vibrant city. The Intimate Economies of Bangkok is a multifaceted portrait of the intertwining of identities, relationships, and economics duri…
Romance on a Global Stage
The Empire of Direct Sales and the Making of Thai Entrepreneurs
This article offers an ethnographic investigation of contemporary capitalist discourses about entrepreneurship by exploring the expanse of the direct sales industry into Thailand. Direct selling is a century-old merchandising approach that developed in the United States as an 'alternative' form of capitalism. Since the 1980s, the direct sales approach of Amway, Avon, and other firms has become increasingly globalized and has achieved some success…
Introduction to Sharryn Kasmir's and Ara Wilson's Articles
Decentralization and the Avon Lady in Bangkok, Thailand
Lesbian Visibility and Sexual Rights at Beijing
Candidates for At-Large Member of the Executive Committee-1 year State B
The Infrastructure of Intimacy
This essay brings together two different rubrics that are animating recent strands of critical analysis: intimacy and infrastructure. Intimacy has emerged in feminist and queer scholarship as a rubric to depict how regimes of power shape relations and identification, particularly through the operations of discursive norms. This essay proposes that infrastructure offers another rubric for excavating material-symbolic assemblages that embed intimat…
The Empire of Direct Sales and the Making of Thai Entrepreneurs
This article offers an ethnographic investigation of contemporary capitalist discourses about entrepreneurship by exploring the expanse of the direct sales industry into Thailand. Direct selling is a century-old merchandising approach that developed in the United States as an 'alternative' form of capitalism. Since the 1980s, the direct sales approach of Amway, Avon, and other firms has become increasingly globalized and has achieved some success…
Foreign Bodies and National Scales
Medical tourism describes a new pattern of movement of people for medical care, particularly from wealthier to poorer countries. Using the example of Thailand, where annually a million non-Thai patients seek medical treatment, this article provides a critical analysis of the political economic contexts for this medical migration. Drawing on urban geography and heterodox economics, the article considers medical tourism as an interaction of bodily,…
Ethnopornography
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of ra…
The Sacred Geography of Bangkok's Markets
Vernacular shrines pervade the markets of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand and a globalized city in Southeast Asia. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Bangkok, this article traces the history of cross-border flows and shifting political economic arrangements that remapped the sacred geography of the city. It considers the consolidation of a pantheon of enchanted figures into a modern 'prosperity religion' that is practiced in commercial…
Decentralization and the Avon Lady in Bangkok, Thailand
Lesbian Visibility and Sexual Rights at Beijing
Post-Fordist Desires
Queer Anthropology
Once a slur, the term ‘queer’ now is used to critique restrictive, dominant norms of respectable conduct and to recast sexual and gender variations in positive terms. With roots in twentieth-century anthropological studies of sex and gender, queer anthropology is also part of interdisciplinary scholarship on queer existence that defines sex and gender as key axes for the distribution of status, resources, membership, and value in a society. The a…
Desiring infrastructure
Infrastructure has been an object of political action in its form as public good. Kai Bosworth's article, ‘What is “affective infrastructure,”’ views political action as a result of infrastructure, that is, the kind of social infrastructure that fosters the critical affect that activism depends on. Beginning with an outline of the material-political concept of infrastructure, this essay engages Bosworth's theoretical formulation of affective infr…
Intimität. Eine nützliche Kategorie transnationaler Analyse
Romance on a Global Stage
Candidates for At-Large Member of the Executive Committee-1 year State B
Lesbian Visibility and Sexual Rights at Beijing
Decentralization and the Avon Lady in Bangkok, Thailand
The Empire of Direct Sales and the Making of Thai Entrepreneurs
This article offers an ethnographic investigation of contemporary capitalist discourses about entrepreneurship by exploring the expanse of the direct sales industry into Thailand. Direct selling is a century-old merchandising approach that developed in the United States as an 'alternative' form of capitalism. Since the 1980s, the direct sales approach of Amway, Avon, and other firms has become increasingly globalized and has achieved some success…
Introduction to Sharryn Kasmir's and Ara Wilson's Articles
The Intimate Economies of Bangkok
Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures the intimate effects of the global economy in this vibrant city. The Intimate Economies of Bangkok is a multifaceted portrait of the intertwining of identities, relationships, and economics duri…
Romance on a Global Stage
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Queer Isles
Book Review| October 01 2008 Queer Isles The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia Tom Boellstorff Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii + 282 pp. Ara Wilson Ara Wilson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2008) 14 (4): 659–663. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2008-012 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ara Wilson; Queer Isles. GLQ …
The Sacred Geography of Bangkok's Markets
Vernacular shrines pervade the markets of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand and a globalized city in Southeast Asia. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Bangkok, this article traces the history of cross-border flows and shifting political economic arrangements that remapped the sacred geography of the city. It considers the consolidation of a pantheon of enchanted figures into a modern 'prosperity religion' that is practiced in commercial…
Entries
Post-Fordist Desires
Foreign Bodies and National Scales
Medical tourism describes a new pattern of movement of people for medical care, particularly from wealthier to poorer countries. Using the example of Thailand, where annually a million non-Thai patients seek medical treatment, this article provides a critical analysis of the political economic contexts for this medical migration. Drawing on urban geography and heterodox economics, the article considers medical tourism as an interaction of bodily,…
Intimität. Eine nützliche Kategorie transnationaler Analyse
Bards of Heart, Wind, Sky
September–October 2014 • 51 special section Native Lit Sara Wilson: Why Mongolia? What is it about this place that has allowed your work as translator and scholar to take shape? Simon Wickham-Smith: Well, I came to Mongolia because I was working on literature—the sixth Dalai Lama’s poetry and “secret” biography —and I just got caught up in the work of the poet Danzanravjaa as a kind of parallel narrative . Then, through making a strong connection…
The Infrastructure of Intimacy
This essay brings together two different rubrics that are animating recent strands of critical analysis: intimacy and infrastructure. Intimacy has emerged in feminist and queer scholarship as a rubric to depict how regimes of power shape relations and identification, particularly through the operations of discursive norms. This essay proposes that infrastructure offers another rubric for excavating material-symbolic assemblages that embed intimat…
Queer Anthropology
Once a slur, the term ‘queer’ now is used to critique restrictive, dominant norms of respectable conduct and to recast sexual and gender variations in positive terms. With roots in twentieth-century anthropological studies of sex and gender, queer anthropology is also part of interdisciplinary scholarship on queer existence that defines sex and gender as key axes for the distribution of status, resources, membership, and value in a society. The a…
Ethnopornography
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of ra…
Desiring infrastructure
Infrastructure has been an object of political action in its form as public good. Kai Bosworth's article, ‘What is “affective infrastructure,”’ views political action as a result of infrastructure, that is, the kind of social infrastructure that fosters the critical affect that activism depends on. Beginning with an outline of the material-political concept of infrastructure, this essay engages Bosworth's theoretical formulation of affective infr…
Worldly Power and Local Alterity
Since the 1990s, queer anthropology has described sexuality and gender in relation to a transnational scale. A transnational approach expands the classic anthropological view of cultural difference manifest in insular societies to consider the effects of global forces on queer being. This chapter provides an overview of key strands of transnational queer anthropology. Focusing on the ways that transnational analysis departs from twentieth-century…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Economics (5 works)