Mark Hobart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Hobart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Hobart |
| SIGNATURE | HOBART M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Londres |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
CHAPTER 2 What Do We Mean by ‘Media Practices’?
CHAPTER 3 Media as Practice: A Brief Exchange
Cultural Studies and Everyday Life: A Balinese Case
This article aims to bring the intellectual rigour of Cultural Studies to Balinese ideas about culture which confuse culture with ideology. Cultural Studies is not the study of culture, but its critique which deconstructs culture as misrepresenting actuality as an Imaginary convenient to regimes of power. The New Order articulated ‘kebudayaan’ to create a submissive populace happy to embrace global tourism. Culture is no longer how how people do …
Theorising Media and Practice
Although practice theory has been a mainstay of social theory for nearly three decades, so far it has had very limited impact on media studies. This book draws on the work of practice theorists such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Bourdieu, Barth and Schatzki and rethinks the study of media from the perspective of practice theory. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from places such as Zambia, India, Hong Kong, the United States, Britain, Norway and …
How Balinese Argue
The Imaginary of Bali as paradise stands in stark contrast to what is actually going on. To understand the split requires examining who is authorized to represent Bali as what under what conditions. The issue concerns the nature of argument – whether argumentation and disagreement – and how it disarticulates and marginalize alternatives. The preferred, hegemonic style of argument in Bali is monologue, favoured by those in power, which effectively…
Staying Local in the Global Village: Bali in the Twentieth Century
One of the world's most intensively studied societies, Bali has hosted scholars and writers as renowned as Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Miguel Covarrubias, Fred Barth, and Hildred and Clifford Geertz. Staying Local in the Global Village is part of a continuing tradition in which Balinese and foreign scholars reflect on the processes of transformation that link Bali to Indonesia and the world beyond. The chapters in this volume are based on res…
Bali is a battlefield Or the triumph of the imaginary over actuality
The idea of Balinese culture as a unique, largely timeless, harmonious synthesis of religion, custom and art is remarkably resistant to historical and contemporary evidence to the contrary. Such a hegemonic vision, however imaginary, conveniently underwrites both local politics and tourism, and so national and global capitalism. Against this ideal of Bali-as-Paradise, a critical analysis suggests a quite different metaphor—Bali-as-a-battlefield—i…
When is Indonesia
Introduction: Rethinking Asian Media and Film
Entertainment Media in Indonesia
Introduction: Why is Entertainment Television in Indonesia Important? Mark Hobart. The Foreignizing Gaze: Producers, Audience and Symbols of the 'Traditional' Gareth Barkin. Fame, Fortune, Fantasi: Indonesian Idol and New Celebrity Penelope Coutas. Entertaining Illusions: How Indonesian Elites Imagine Reality TV Affects the Masses, Mark Hobart. Dangdut Soul: Who are 'the People' in Indonesian Popular Music? Andrew N. Weintraub. Afterword Richard …
Rethinking Balinese Dance
How should we set about understanding dance in Bali and its relevance to the study of Indonesia and the Malay world? Is it one of the great contributions to Malay civilization to be appreciated and studied alongside classical Indian and Japanese performance? Or, is it inextricable from religion and best considered as ritual? As a spectacle watched by hundreds of thousands of tourists a year, is it instead a culture industry? Or is it all these wo…
Just Talk? Anthropological Reflections on the Object of Media Studies in Indonesia
The Profanity of the Media
How should we best imagine the relationship of anthropology and media studies?Will this be a fruitful union?Arguably anthropology and media studies are at their best when they are critical, in the double sense not only of interrogating and seeking to understand the conditions of possibility of their subjects' thinking, but also of their own criteria and practices of inquiry.So I will consider how critical reflection on revered anthropological ten…
Introduction: The growth of ignorance?
The relationship of Africa, Asia and Latin America to Europe and North America in the post-war period is often couched in the language of development. Something seems to be amiss, however. Granted the vast sums invested in trying to find a solution to what is described as the problem of underdevelopment, by the criteria of the development planners matters should be getting better rather than worse. Instead it would seem that development projects …
An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance
Questioning the utopian image of western knowledge as a uniquely successful achievement in its application to economic and social development, this provocative volume, the latest in the EIDOS series, argues that it is unacceptable to dismiss problems encountered by development projects as the inadequate implementation of knowledge. Rather, it suggests that failures stem from the constitution of knowledge and its object. By focussing on the ways i…
The STSI-Soas Indonesian television project
The Balinese Television Project is a collaborative venture between STSI Denpasar and SOAS, starting in 1990, to record, document, preserve archivally, and transcribe important Balinese cultural television broadcasts for educational and research purposes. The project now has an archive of some 1,500 hours of selected broadcasts, and is supposed to be among the largest archives on non-Western television in the world. Although Indonesia has a very i…
The Stsi-Soas Indonesian Television Project
The Balinese Television Project is a collaborative venture between STSI Denpasar and SOAS, starting in 1990, to record, document, preserve archivally, and transcribe important Balinese cultural television broadcasts for educational and research purposes. The project now has an archive of some 1,500 hours of selected broadcasts, and is supposed to be among the largest archives on non-Western television in the world. Although Indonesia has a very i…
After culture: Anthropology as radical metaphysical critique
The end of the world news: Television and a problem of articulation in Bali
Presciently, a year before the riots in Indonesia which brought the downfall of Soeharto, people in Bali had been arguing that a new political and social order could only emerge after apocalyptic violence, although they might well be the victims. Anthropologists and cultural studies specialists still mostly fail to appreciate the sophistication and skill in reflective thinking of ordinary people who remain at best passive subjects rather than cri…
The Anthropology of Development: Discourse, Agency, and Culture
L'etude anthropologique sur le developpement a produit deux courants : l'anthropologie developpementale et l'anthropologie du developpement. la seconde semble etre plus appropriee pour parvenir a une reelle reussite. La presentation de deux ouvrages, celui de M. Hobart « An Anthropological Critique of Development » et celui d'A. Escobar « Encountering Development: the Making and Unmaking of the Third World », montre l'importance de leurs implicat…
Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Volume 1: Disciplines of Discourse
Man's Glassy Essence: Explorations in Semiotic Anthropology
Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece
This text takes a set of central topics from ancient Greek medicine and biology - relating especially to beliefs about animals, women and drugs - and studies first the interaction between scientific theorising and folklore, and second the ideological character of ancient scientific inquiry. Within this framework the author looks at the development of zoological taxonomy, the repercussions of prevailing Greek assumptions concerning the inferiority…
Michel Foucault and Anthropology
Through western eyes, or how my Balinese neighbour became a duck
An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance
Questioning the utopian image of western knowledge as a uniquely successful achievement in its application to economic and social development, this provocative volume, the latest in the EIDOS series, argues that it is unacceptable to dismiss problems encountered by development projects as the inadequate implementation of knowledge. Rather, it suggests that failures stem from the constitution of knowledge and its object. By focussing on the ways i…
Theorising Media and Practice
Although practice theory has been a mainstay of social theory for nearly three decades, so far it has had very limited impact on media studies. This book draws on the work of practice theorists such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Bourdieu, Barth and Schatzki and rethinks the study of media from the perspective of practice theory. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from places such as Zambia, India, Hong Kong, the United States, Britain, Norway and …
The Anthropology of Development: Discourse, Agency, and Culture
L'etude anthropologique sur le developpement a produit deux courants : l'anthropologie developpementale et l'anthropologie du developpement. la seconde semble etre plus appropriee pour parvenir a une reelle reussite. La presentation de deux ouvrages, celui de M. Hobart « An Anthropological Critique of Development » et celui d'A. Escobar « Encountering Development: the Making and Unmaking of the Third World », montre l'importance de leurs implicat…
The end of the world news: Television and a problem of articulation in Bali
Presciently, a year before the riots in Indonesia which brought the downfall of Soeharto, people in Bali had been arguing that a new political and social order could only emerge after apocalyptic violence, although they might well be the victims. Anthropologists and cultural studies specialists still mostly fail to appreciate the sophistication and skill in reflective thinking of ordinary people who remain at best passive subjects rather than cri…
Just Talk? Anthropological Reflections on the Object of Media Studies in Indonesia
Some Balinese uses of animal symbolism are aristocrats pigs
Competition
Short note: Indonesian and Malay studies at the University of California, Berkeley — ‘The interpretative study of java’ — The third bielefeld colloquium on Southeast Asia, 12–13 February 1982
(1982). Short note: Indonesian and Malay studies at the University of California, Berkeley — ‘The interpretative study of java’ — The third bielefeld colloquium on Southeast Asia, 12–13 February 1982. Indonesia Circle. School of Oriental & African Studies. Newsletter: Vol. 10, No. 29, pp. 44-49
Through western eyes, or how my Balinese neighbour became a duck
Michel Foucault and Anthropology
Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Volume 1: Disciplines of Discourse
Man's Glassy Essence: Explorations in Semiotic Anthropology
Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece
This text takes a set of central topics from ancient Greek medicine and biology - relating especially to beliefs about animals, women and drugs - and studies first the interaction between scientific theorising and folklore, and second the ideological character of ancient scientific inquiry. Within this framework the author looks at the development of zoological taxonomy, the repercussions of prevailing Greek assumptions concerning the inferiority…
The Anthropology of Development: Discourse, Agency, and Culture
L'etude anthropologique sur le developpement a produit deux courants : l'anthropologie developpementale et l'anthropologie du developpement. la seconde semble etre plus appropriee pour parvenir a une reelle reussite. La presentation de deux ouvrages, celui de M. Hobart « An Anthropological Critique of Development » et celui d'A. Escobar « Encountering Development: the Making and Unmaking of the Third World », montre l'importance de leurs implicat…
After culture: Anthropology as radical metaphysical critique
The end of the world news: Television and a problem of articulation in Bali
Presciently, a year before the riots in Indonesia which brought the downfall of Soeharto, people in Bali had been arguing that a new political and social order could only emerge after apocalyptic violence, although they might well be the victims. Anthropologists and cultural studies specialists still mostly fail to appreciate the sophistication and skill in reflective thinking of ordinary people who remain at best passive subjects rather than cri…
The STSI-Soas Indonesian television project
The Balinese Television Project is a collaborative venture between STSI Denpasar and SOAS, starting in 1990, to record, document, preserve archivally, and transcribe important Balinese cultural television broadcasts for educational and research purposes. The project now has an archive of some 1,500 hours of selected broadcasts, and is supposed to be among the largest archives on non-Western television in the world. Although Indonesia has a very i…
The Stsi-Soas Indonesian Television Project
The Balinese Television Project is a collaborative venture between STSI Denpasar and SOAS, starting in 1990, to record, document, preserve archivally, and transcribe important Balinese cultural television broadcasts for educational and research purposes. The project now has an archive of some 1,500 hours of selected broadcasts, and is supposed to be among the largest archives on non-Western television in the world. Although Indonesia has a very i…
Introduction: The growth of ignorance?
The relationship of Africa, Asia and Latin America to Europe and North America in the post-war period is often couched in the language of development. Something seems to be amiss, however. Granted the vast sums invested in trying to find a solution to what is described as the problem of underdevelopment, by the criteria of the development planners matters should be getting better rather than worse. Instead it would seem that development projects …
An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance
Questioning the utopian image of western knowledge as a uniquely successful achievement in its application to economic and social development, this provocative volume, the latest in the EIDOS series, argues that it is unacceptable to dismiss problems encountered by development projects as the inadequate implementation of knowledge. Rather, it suggests that failures stem from the constitution of knowledge and its object. By focussing on the ways i…
The Profanity of the Media
How should we best imagine the relationship of anthropology and media studies?Will this be a fruitful union?Arguably anthropology and media studies are at their best when they are critical, in the double sense not only of interrogating and seeking to understand the conditions of possibility of their subjects' thinking, but also of their own criteria and practices of inquiry.So I will consider how critical reflection on revered anthropological ten…
Just Talk? Anthropological Reflections on the Object of Media Studies in Indonesia
Entertainment Media in Indonesia
Introduction: Why is Entertainment Television in Indonesia Important? Mark Hobart. The Foreignizing Gaze: Producers, Audience and Symbols of the 'Traditional' Gareth Barkin. Fame, Fortune, Fantasi: Indonesian Idol and New Celebrity Penelope Coutas. Entertaining Illusions: How Indonesian Elites Imagine Reality TV Affects the Masses, Mark Hobart. Dangdut Soul: Who are 'the People' in Indonesian Popular Music? Andrew N. Weintraub. Afterword Richard …
Rethinking Balinese Dance
How should we set about understanding dance in Bali and its relevance to the study of Indonesia and the Malay world? Is it one of the great contributions to Malay civilization to be appreciated and studied alongside classical Indian and Japanese performance? Or, is it inextricable from religion and best considered as ritual? As a spectacle watched by hundreds of thousands of tourists a year, is it instead a culture industry? Or is it all these wo…
When is Indonesia
Introduction: Rethinking Asian Media and Film
Staying Local in the Global Village: Bali in the Twentieth Century
One of the world's most intensively studied societies, Bali has hosted scholars and writers as renowned as Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Miguel Covarrubias, Fred Barth, and Hildred and Clifford Geertz. Staying Local in the Global Village is part of a continuing tradition in which Balinese and foreign scholars reflect on the processes of transformation that link Bali to Indonesia and the world beyond. The chapters in this volume are based on res…
Bali is a battlefield Or the triumph of the imaginary over actuality
The idea of Balinese culture as a unique, largely timeless, harmonious synthesis of religion, custom and art is remarkably resistant to historical and contemporary evidence to the contrary. Such a hegemonic vision, however imaginary, conveniently underwrites both local politics and tourism, and so national and global capitalism. Against this ideal of Bali-as-Paradise, a critical analysis suggests a quite different metaphor—Bali-as-a-battlefield—i…
How Balinese Argue
The Imaginary of Bali as paradise stands in stark contrast to what is actually going on. To understand the split requires examining who is authorized to represent Bali as what under what conditions. The issue concerns the nature of argument – whether argumentation and disagreement – and how it disarticulates and marginalize alternatives. The preferred, hegemonic style of argument in Bali is monologue, favoured by those in power, which effectively…
CHAPTER 2 What Do We Mean by ‘Media Practices’?
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (13 works) · Asian Studies and History (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works)