Rachel Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3736060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9636-587X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Buttons: Life Writing from a Small Collection
This essay explores the role of everyday objects in life writing, using the example of a collection of buttons. Writing as bricoleur, and influenced by thing theory, I follow a digressive path and wonder how key aspects of life writing, such as memory, the body, and identity, are influenced when one writes from and with objects
Speaking Objects: A (Suit)case Study
Recent developments in literary and life writing scholarship have interrogated the division and hierarchy between subject and object or human and non-human. This material turn interests me as it suggests a desire to re-make the relationship between autobiographical subjectivity and inanimate objects as well as an attempt to explore the power of spaces and objects in autobiographical writing. This essay will take the example of a small suitcase, w…
Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies: Volume 1
This chapter explores the historical foundations of British disability studies, arguing that social model ideas developed in the 1970s continue to be of relevance today. The chapter begins with a note on terminology before outlining the origins and development of disability studies and, in particular, the social model of disability in the UK. From the outset, social model ideas were widely endorsed by wheelchair users and people with physical imp…
Empathy Is not Evidence: 4 Traps of Commodified Empathy
Product teams, including our own, often interpret empathy as evidence. However, in practice, empathy is actually something that drives us to seek evidence. By observing and evaluating various examples within Shopify, we have identified 4 traps that are common in the way empathy is manifested. We modelled the relationship between empathy, problems, evidence, and decisions to provide strategies for how to use empathy effectively while being sympath…
Carving, Forging, Stealing
Keywords: memoirsethicsautismdisabilityparenting
Seeing is believing: An ethnographer's encounter with television documentary production
The subdiscipline of visual anthropology and, more specifically, ethnographic filmmaking, has always had a complex relationship with the broader field of television documentary production. Anthropological knowledge, approaches and expertise have frequently been used in the production of television documentaries, while many anthropologists have sought to use television as a way to engage a wider audience with their work. But as anthropologists hav…
Preserving the Environment: New Strategies for Behavior Change. By E. Scott Geller, Richard A. Winett, Peter B. Everett
Preserving the Environment: New Strategies for Behavior Change. By E. Scott Geller, Richard A. Winett, Peter B. Everett." Journal of Leisure Research, 14(4), pp. 365–366
Empathy Is not Evidence: 4 Traps of Commodified Empathy
Product teams, including our own, often interpret empathy as evidence. However, in practice, empathy is actually something that drives us to seek evidence. By observing and evaluating various examples within Shopify, we have identified 4 traps that are common in the way empathy is manifested. We modelled the relationship between empathy, problems, evidence, and decisions to provide strategies for how to use empathy effectively while being sympath…
Speaking Objects: A (Suit)case Study
Recent developments in literary and life writing scholarship have interrogated the division and hierarchy between subject and object or human and non-human. This material turn interests me as it suggests a desire to re-make the relationship between autobiographical subjectivity and inanimate objects as well as an attempt to explore the power of spaces and objects in autobiographical writing. This essay will take the example of a small suitcase, w…
Preserving the Environment: New Strategies for Behavior Change. By E. Scott Geller, Richard A. Winett, Peter B. Everett
Preserving the Environment: New Strategies for Behavior Change. By E. Scott Geller, Richard A. Winett, Peter B. Everett." Journal of Leisure Research, 14(4), pp. 365–366
Seeing is believing: An ethnographer's encounter with television documentary production
The subdiscipline of visual anthropology and, more specifically, ethnographic filmmaking, has always had a complex relationship with the broader field of television documentary production. Anthropological knowledge, approaches and expertise have frequently been used in the production of television documentaries, while many anthropologists have sought to use television as a way to engage a wider audience with their work. But as anthropologists hav…
Carving, Forging, Stealing
Keywords: memoirsethicsautismdisabilityparenting
Manifestos for the Future of Critical Disability Studies: Volume 1
This chapter explores the historical foundations of British disability studies, arguing that social model ideas developed in the 1970s continue to be of relevance today. The chapter begins with a note on terminology before outlining the origins and development of disability studies and, in particular, the social model of disability in the UK. From the outset, social model ideas were widely endorsed by wheelchair users and people with physical imp…
Empathy Is not Evidence: 4 Traps of Commodified Empathy
Product teams, including our own, often interpret empathy as evidence. However, in practice, empathy is actually something that drives us to seek evidence. By observing and evaluating various examples within Shopify, we have identified 4 traps that are common in the way empathy is manifested. We modelled the relationship between empathy, problems, evidence, and decisions to provide strategies for how to use empathy effectively while being sympath…
Buttons: Life Writing from a Small Collection
This essay explores the role of everyday objects in life writing, using the example of a collection of buttons. Writing as bricoleur, and influenced by thing theory, I follow a digressive path and wonder how key aspects of life writing, such as memory, the body, and identity, are influenced when one writes from and with objects
Speaking Objects: A (Suit)case Study
Recent developments in literary and life writing scholarship have interrogated the division and hierarchy between subject and object or human and non-human. This material turn interests me as it suggests a desire to re-make the relationship between autobiographical subjectivity and inanimate objects as well as an attempt to explore the power of spaces and objects in autobiographical writing. This essay will take the example of a small suitcase, w…
Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Biography (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)