Gillian Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Culture Wars
The relationship between anthropologists’ ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoreti…
The Ways of Friendship
Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through…
Brexit is the Graveyard of Post-Industrial Britain”
Brexit is the Graveyard of Post-Industrial Britain
Cet article analyse le vote pour le Brexit dans le contexte historique d'aliénation postindustrielle de la Grande Bretagne et dans le contexte conjoncturel récent de crise morale fabriquée autour de la question de la migration. Il explique comment l'agrégation unique de ces facteurs historiques a été capable de déstabiliser l'autorité du gouvernement britannique lors du référendum sur l'Union Européenne de 2016 et de le décentrer. Il s'appuie sur…
Minutes, meetings, and ‘modes of existence
Inspired by Latour's aim to restore balance to the anthropological project by exoticizing the artefacts and procedures of so‐called ‘modern knowledge’, this essay gives an ethnographic description of emergent processes of knowledge production in the context of the planning and development of urban regeneration in London. Bureaucratic meetings are described as part of the organizational infrastructure that enables the crafting of new urban futures…
Social class and the cultural turn
The social science of the contemporary moment in Britain, and Europe, requires an interdisciplinary and ethnographic study of social class. The time is ripe for a mutually critical conversation between sociology and anthropology about the cultural turn in the study of social class. This matters, because the cultural turn in the social sciences must be adequate to the task of charting the potential threat to progressive society posed by the cultur…
Brexit Britain
In June 2016, UK voters decided in a referendum to leave the European Union. This outcome, known as Brexit, is in part the result of the Labour Party's having abandoned its traditional supporters in the postindustrial urban heartlands of Britain. Meanwhile, the Far Right has revealed its potential to radically disrupt liberal-democratic norms. Cleverly disguised, the racism of the populist right-wing UK Independence Party challenges the taken-for…
London's Olympic Legacy
This book provides a unique perspective on the behind the scenes planning of London's Olympic legacy. The author had unprecedented access to the legacy organisations, institutions, and individuals inv
'Worklessness'
Inspired by the examples of Stewart (1996) and Weston (2009), this article is an experiment in narrative form. It portrays the 'cultural poetics' (Stewart 1996) of lives lived in and through experiences of poverty in contemporary London and considers the potential of long-term participant-observation fieldwork, and the development of relations of mutual obligation in the field, to create a collaborative anthropology de fined by a politics of mutu…
The aboriginal people of England
This article explores the legal precedent of the case of Mandla versus Dowell-Lee (Mandla v Dowell-Lee 1983) to explain how the far right British National Party mobilizes ethnic strategies and specifically the category of "indigenous Britons," to turn post-colonial multiculturalism on its head and thereby disavow the realities of a post-industrial, multiracial working class in Britain. The article argues that the historical moment in contemporary…
The task of anthropology is to invent relations
Practising participant observation
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an anthropological viewpoint on the debate about the uses and abuses of the method of ethnography in the field of commercially‐motivated research. Design/methodology/approach – The objective of the paper is to explore the method of ethnography from an anthropological perspective, focusing specifically on the field research method of participant observation. This is in order to examine what of valu…
The invisible empire
All white in Barking/Men of the city
The hidden life of girls
Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain
Are schools failing working class children or does working class life present alternative means for gaining social status that conflict with what it means to do well at school? Focusing on Southeast L
Learning, violence and the social structure of value
Drawing on fieldwork among 'racist' white youths in Southeast London, this paper considers the ethical dilemma which arises for the ethnographer when the increasing proximity that developing empathy with her informants implies, is jeopardised because the disposition she is expected to adopt is at odds with what she feels it is right for a person to become. Is her only option to distance herself from what belonging amongst her informants entails? …
Learning, violence and the social structure of value1
Brexit Britain
In June 2016, UK voters decided in a referendum to leave the European Union. This outcome, known as Brexit, is in part the result of the Labour Party's having abandoned its traditional supporters in the postindustrial urban heartlands of Britain. Meanwhile, the Far Right has revealed its potential to radically disrupt liberal-democratic norms. Cleverly disguised, the racism of the populist right-wing UK Independence Party challenges the taken-for…
The aboriginal people of England
This article explores the legal precedent of the case of Mandla versus Dowell-Lee (Mandla v Dowell-Lee 1983) to explain how the far right British National Party mobilizes ethnic strategies and specifically the category of "indigenous Britons," to turn post-colonial multiculturalism on its head and thereby disavow the realities of a post-industrial, multiracial working class in Britain. The article argues that the historical moment in contemporary…
The task of anthropology is to invent relations
Minutes, meetings, and ‘modes of existence
Inspired by Latour's aim to restore balance to the anthropological project by exoticizing the artefacts and procedures of so‐called ‘modern knowledge’, this essay gives an ethnographic description of emergent processes of knowledge production in the context of the planning and development of urban regeneration in London. Bureaucratic meetings are described as part of the organizational infrastructure that enables the crafting of new urban futures…
Practising participant observation
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an anthropological viewpoint on the debate about the uses and abuses of the method of ethnography in the field of commercially‐motivated research. Design/methodology/approach – The objective of the paper is to explore the method of ethnography from an anthropological perspective, focusing specifically on the field research method of participant observation. This is in order to examine what of valu…
Social class and the cultural turn
The social science of the contemporary moment in Britain, and Europe, requires an interdisciplinary and ethnographic study of social class. The time is ripe for a mutually critical conversation between sociology and anthropology about the cultural turn in the study of social class. This matters, because the cultural turn in the social sciences must be adequate to the task of charting the potential threat to progressive society posed by the cultur…
Brexit is the Graveyard of Post-Industrial Britain
Cet article analyse le vote pour le Brexit dans le contexte historique d'aliénation postindustrielle de la Grande Bretagne et dans le contexte conjoncturel récent de crise morale fabriquée autour de la question de la migration. Il explique comment l'agrégation unique de ces facteurs historiques a été capable de déstabiliser l'autorité du gouvernement britannique lors du référendum sur l'Union Européenne de 2016 et de le décentrer. Il s'appuie sur…
Learning, violence and the social structure of value1
Educational Failure and Working Class White Children in Britain
Are schools failing working class children or does working class life present alternative means for gaining social status that conflict with what it means to do well at school? Focusing on Southeast L
Learning, violence and the social structure of value
Drawing on fieldwork among 'racist' white youths in Southeast London, this paper considers the ethical dilemma which arises for the ethnographer when the increasing proximity that developing empathy with her informants implies, is jeopardised because the disposition she is expected to adopt is at odds with what she feels it is right for a person to become. Is her only option to distance herself from what belonging amongst her informants entails? …
Learning, violence and the social structure of value1
The hidden life of girls
The invisible empire
All white in Barking/Men of the city
'Worklessness'
Inspired by the examples of Stewart (1996) and Weston (2009), this article is an experiment in narrative form. It portrays the 'cultural poetics' (Stewart 1996) of lives lived in and through experiences of poverty in contemporary London and considers the potential of long-term participant-observation fieldwork, and the development of relations of mutual obligation in the field, to create a collaborative anthropology de fined by a politics of mutu…
The aboriginal people of England
This article explores the legal precedent of the case of Mandla versus Dowell-Lee (Mandla v Dowell-Lee 1983) to explain how the far right British National Party mobilizes ethnic strategies and specifically the category of "indigenous Britons," to turn post-colonial multiculturalism on its head and thereby disavow the realities of a post-industrial, multiracial working class in Britain. The article argues that the historical moment in contemporary…
The task of anthropology is to invent relations
Practising participant observation
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an anthropological viewpoint on the debate about the uses and abuses of the method of ethnography in the field of commercially‐motivated research. Design/methodology/approach – The objective of the paper is to explore the method of ethnography from an anthropological perspective, focusing specifically on the field research method of participant observation. This is in order to examine what of valu…
London's Olympic Legacy
This book provides a unique perspective on the behind the scenes planning of London's Olympic legacy. The author had unprecedented access to the legacy organisations, institutions, and individuals inv
Minutes, meetings, and ‘modes of existence
Inspired by Latour's aim to restore balance to the anthropological project by exoticizing the artefacts and procedures of so‐called ‘modern knowledge’, this essay gives an ethnographic description of emergent processes of knowledge production in the context of the planning and development of urban regeneration in London. Bureaucratic meetings are described as part of the organizational infrastructure that enables the crafting of new urban futures…
Social class and the cultural turn
The social science of the contemporary moment in Britain, and Europe, requires an interdisciplinary and ethnographic study of social class. The time is ripe for a mutually critical conversation between sociology and anthropology about the cultural turn in the study of social class. This matters, because the cultural turn in the social sciences must be adequate to the task of charting the potential threat to progressive society posed by the cultur…
Brexit Britain
In June 2016, UK voters decided in a referendum to leave the European Union. This outcome, known as Brexit, is in part the result of the Labour Party's having abandoned its traditional supporters in the postindustrial urban heartlands of Britain. Meanwhile, the Far Right has revealed its potential to radically disrupt liberal-democratic norms. Cleverly disguised, the racism of the populist right-wing UK Independence Party challenges the taken-for…
Brexit is the Graveyard of Post-Industrial Britain”
Brexit is the Graveyard of Post-Industrial Britain
Cet article analyse le vote pour le Brexit dans le contexte historique d'aliénation postindustrielle de la Grande Bretagne et dans le contexte conjoncturel récent de crise morale fabriquée autour de la question de la migration. Il explique comment l'agrégation unique de ces facteurs historiques a été capable de déstabiliser l'autorité du gouvernement britannique lors du référendum sur l'Union Européenne de 2016 et de le décentrer. Il s'appuie sur…
Culture Wars
The relationship between anthropologists’ ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoreti…
The Ways of Friendship
Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (8 works) · Ethnography (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)