G Hughes
Biographic Data
| ID | 38031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Hughes |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Hughes |
| SIGNATURE | HUGHES G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4311-373X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Race, Science, Islam and the Search for New Gods
Beyond retributive and restorative justice: In search of mercy with Jordan's Bedouin
Popular debates about criminal justice reform often pose restorative justice as a humane (if utopian) alternative to retributive justice. Drawing on fieldwork with Jordan's Bedouin, I offer an unvarnished account of a longstanding and still-vibrant tradition of restorative justice that also includes violent and punitive elements. While acknowledging how Bedouin justice can fail women, the poor and the poorly connected, I highlight how Bedouin jus…
Being bad during Ramadan: Temporality, historicity and the refusal of coevalness in the anthropology of Islam
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Engineering gender, engineering the Jordanian State: Beyond the salvage ethnography of middle-class housewifery in the Middle East
The figure of the middle-class housewife or ' rabbat bayt' emerged in the late 19th-century Arabic-language public sphere amidst the colonial encounter. This gendering of middle-classness responded to a perceived cultural 'lag' yet now itself increasingly signifies backwardness in relation to ideals of middle-classness emphasizing women's education and community service over older norms of purity and propriety. Today, amidst unemployment, discrim…
Forum: Piracy, Protection, and the Anthropology of Law at Sea
Follow the relationship: A note on Jatin Dua’s Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Western Indian Ocean Protection recaptured: Reflections on Jatin Dua’s Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Western Indian Ocean Protection’s possibility: On histories and geographies of concepts
Staying Tuned: Connections beyond ‘the Field
Ethnographers today find themselves experimenting with new approaches to digital ethnography amid pandemic-related restrictions on research. Yet such developments only accelerate a broader trend toward the dissolution of the traditional ethnographic 'field' due to new communications technologies and the emergence of a globalized 'knowledge economy'. Through six contributions from around the world, this forum explores how the emergence of a more d…
"Envious Ethnography and the Ethnography of Envy in Anthropology's "Orient: Towards A Theory of Envy
Drawing on prevalent Euro-American folk models, extant theories of envy in the social sciences tend to reduce it to an emotion embodied in individual subjects, who are believed to envy those who have more and those who are hierarchically superordinate. Yet envy can also be viewed as a social, intersubjective phenomenon-one potentially incorporating humans and various other-than-human entities into complex and unpredictable relationships involving…
European social anthropology in 2018: An increasingly recursive public
In 2018, social anthropology finds itself increasingly concerned with its technical, legal and political conditions of possibility. The long‐term effects of austerity, financialisation and the technological transformation of media on teaching, research and publishing have led to intense struggles over the labour and property regimes underpinning the discipline. In responding to these challenges, anthropologists seem to be re‐conceptualising their…
Cutting the Face
The local uptake of new media in the Middle East is shaped by deep histories of imperialism, state building, resistance and accommodation. In contemporary Jordan, social media is simultaneously encouraging identification with tribes and undermining their gerontocratic power structures. Senior men stress their own importance as guarantors (‘faces’), who restore order following conflicts, promising to pay their rivals a large surety if their kin br…
Everyday Piety: Islam and Economy in Jordan by Sarah A. Tobin
Reviewed by: Everyday Piety: Islam and Economy in Jordan by Sarah A. Tobin Geoffrey Hughes Sarah A. Tobin, Everyday Piety: Islam and Economy in Jordan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. 248 pp. Everyday Piety explores the lives of middle-class, pious Muslims in Jordan's cosmopolitan capital of Amman. It comes at a time when Muslim lifeways continue to be discussed in popular media through a narrow security discourse that is often oblivious …
The Chastity Society: Disciplining Muslim men
At a time when Western humanitarian rescue discourses seek to save Muslim women from irrational and violent Islamic masculinities, the Jordanian Islamist charity 'the Chastity Society' seeks to train young men to restrain their excessive masculine passions to ensure that Muslim women are spared the fate of the benighted and oppressed Western woman. This article traces parallel emphases on gender essentialism, rationality, cultural pathology, and …
The Proliferation of Men: Markets, Property, and Seizure in Jordan
Spurred on by massive influxes of Palestinian refugees in previous decades, the 1970s and 1980s were marked by acute struggles over land and housing in Jordan. This article places those struggles within the context of a historical look at property in Jordan spanning from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire to more recent waves of refugees from Syria and Iraq. Drawing on recent research in the social studies of finance and feminist substantivist…
Infrastructures of legitimacy: The political lives of marriage contracts in Jordan
Documentary practices legitimizing marriage in what is now Jordan have taken different forms from the late Ottoman period to the present. I analyze the formal characteristics and materiality of these practices to show how initiatives to standardize, aggregate, and circulate information about marriage introduce new notions of personhood, state, and society. Such legitimizing infrastructures entail new forms of accountability that go beyond and eve…
Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture
Words, war and terror
Starts with excerpt from Geoffrey Hughes, Words of War ( ET 17, 1989). The lexicon of war in the twenty-first century. The major development since this article was published (1989, the year that the Berlin Wall came down) was the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001, now styled ‘9/11’. This used a stupefyingly original strategy of attacking the heart of America's capitalist and military establishment wi…
Narratives of Neglect: Community, Regeneration and the Governance of Security
Geophysical surveys at King Lobengula's Palace KoBulawayo, Zimbabwe
This report covers the application of magnetic survey, primarily using a magnetic susceptibility field instrument, at the historically attested site of KoBulawayo, Zimbabwe. The approximate position of the site was known before the geophysical survey took place; it was believed to comprise a Royal Enclosure, a surrounding open space possibly used as a military parade ground and the Commoner/Peripheral Settlement of Lobengula, King of the Ndebele.…
Words in time: A Social History of the English Vocabulary
What is register
A concise history of English used in different ways for different purposes
Words of War
A historical review of the vocabulary of warfare
The Chastity Society: Disciplining Muslim men
At a time when Western humanitarian rescue discourses seek to save Muslim women from irrational and violent Islamic masculinities, the Jordanian Islamist charity 'the Chastity Society' seeks to train young men to restrain their excessive masculine passions to ensure that Muslim women are spared the fate of the benighted and oppressed Western woman. This article traces parallel emphases on gender essentialism, rationality, cultural pathology, and …
Infrastructures of legitimacy: The political lives of marriage contracts in Jordan
Documentary practices legitimizing marriage in what is now Jordan have taken different forms from the late Ottoman period to the present. I analyze the formal characteristics and materiality of these practices to show how initiatives to standardize, aggregate, and circulate information about marriage introduce new notions of personhood, state, and society. Such legitimizing infrastructures entail new forms of accountability that go beyond and eve…
Geophysical surveys at King Lobengula's Palace KoBulawayo, Zimbabwe
This report covers the application of magnetic survey, primarily using a magnetic susceptibility field instrument, at the historically attested site of KoBulawayo, Zimbabwe. The approximate position of the site was known before the geophysical survey took place; it was believed to comprise a Royal Enclosure, a surrounding open space possibly used as a military parade ground and the Commoner/Peripheral Settlement of Lobengula, King of the Ndebele.…
The Proliferation of Men: Markets, Property, and Seizure in Jordan
Spurred on by massive influxes of Palestinian refugees in previous decades, the 1970s and 1980s were marked by acute struggles over land and housing in Jordan. This article places those struggles within the context of a historical look at property in Jordan spanning from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire to more recent waves of refugees from Syria and Iraq. Drawing on recent research in the social studies of finance and feminist substantivist…
Cutting the Face
The local uptake of new media in the Middle East is shaped by deep histories of imperialism, state building, resistance and accommodation. In contemporary Jordan, social media is simultaneously encouraging identification with tribes and undermining their gerontocratic power structures. Senior men stress their own importance as guarantors (‘faces’), who restore order following conflicts, promising to pay their rivals a large surety if their kin br…
Engineering gender, engineering the Jordanian State: Beyond the salvage ethnography of middle-class housewifery in the Middle East
The figure of the middle-class housewife or ' rabbat bayt' emerged in the late 19th-century Arabic-language public sphere amidst the colonial encounter. This gendering of middle-classness responded to a perceived cultural 'lag' yet now itself increasingly signifies backwardness in relation to ideals of middle-classness emphasizing women's education and community service over older norms of purity and propriety. Today, amidst unemployment, discrim…
Staying Tuned: Connections beyond ‘the Field
Ethnographers today find themselves experimenting with new approaches to digital ethnography amid pandemic-related restrictions on research. Yet such developments only accelerate a broader trend toward the dissolution of the traditional ethnographic 'field' due to new communications technologies and the emergence of a globalized 'knowledge economy'. Through six contributions from around the world, this forum explores how the emergence of a more d…
"Envious Ethnography and the Ethnography of Envy in Anthropology's "Orient: Towards A Theory of Envy
Drawing on prevalent Euro-American folk models, extant theories of envy in the social sciences tend to reduce it to an emotion embodied in individual subjects, who are believed to envy those who have more and those who are hierarchically superordinate. Yet envy can also be viewed as a social, intersubjective phenomenon-one potentially incorporating humans and various other-than-human entities into complex and unpredictable relationships involving…
Words of War
A historical review of the vocabulary of warfare
What is register
A concise history of English used in different ways for different purposes
Words in time: A Social History of the English Vocabulary
Geophysical surveys at King Lobengula's Palace KoBulawayo, Zimbabwe
This report covers the application of magnetic survey, primarily using a magnetic susceptibility field instrument, at the historically attested site of KoBulawayo, Zimbabwe. The approximate position of the site was known before the geophysical survey took place; it was believed to comprise a Royal Enclosure, a surrounding open space possibly used as a military parade ground and the Commoner/Peripheral Settlement of Lobengula, King of the Ndebele.…
Narratives of Neglect: Community, Regeneration and the Governance of Security
Words, war and terror
Starts with excerpt from Geoffrey Hughes, Words of War ( ET 17, 1989). The lexicon of war in the twenty-first century. The major development since this article was published (1989, the year that the Berlin Wall came down) was the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001, now styled ‘9/11’. This used a stupefyingly original strategy of attacking the heart of America's capitalist and military establishment wi…
Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture
Infrastructures of legitimacy: The political lives of marriage contracts in Jordan
Documentary practices legitimizing marriage in what is now Jordan have taken different forms from the late Ottoman period to the present. I analyze the formal characteristics and materiality of these practices to show how initiatives to standardize, aggregate, and circulate information about marriage introduce new notions of personhood, state, and society. Such legitimizing infrastructures entail new forms of accountability that go beyond and eve…
The Proliferation of Men: Markets, Property, and Seizure in Jordan
Spurred on by massive influxes of Palestinian refugees in previous decades, the 1970s and 1980s were marked by acute struggles over land and housing in Jordan. This article places those struggles within the context of a historical look at property in Jordan spanning from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire to more recent waves of refugees from Syria and Iraq. Drawing on recent research in the social studies of finance and feminist substantivist…
Everyday Piety: Islam and Economy in Jordan by Sarah A. Tobin
Reviewed by: Everyday Piety: Islam and Economy in Jordan by Sarah A. Tobin Geoffrey Hughes Sarah A. Tobin, Everyday Piety: Islam and Economy in Jordan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. 248 pp. Everyday Piety explores the lives of middle-class, pious Muslims in Jordan's cosmopolitan capital of Amman. It comes at a time when Muslim lifeways continue to be discussed in popular media through a narrow security discourse that is often oblivious …
The Chastity Society: Disciplining Muslim men
At a time when Western humanitarian rescue discourses seek to save Muslim women from irrational and violent Islamic masculinities, the Jordanian Islamist charity 'the Chastity Society' seeks to train young men to restrain their excessive masculine passions to ensure that Muslim women are spared the fate of the benighted and oppressed Western woman. This article traces parallel emphases on gender essentialism, rationality, cultural pathology, and …
Cutting the Face
The local uptake of new media in the Middle East is shaped by deep histories of imperialism, state building, resistance and accommodation. In contemporary Jordan, social media is simultaneously encouraging identification with tribes and undermining their gerontocratic power structures. Senior men stress their own importance as guarantors (‘faces’), who restore order following conflicts, promising to pay their rivals a large surety if their kin br…
European social anthropology in 2018: An increasingly recursive public
In 2018, social anthropology finds itself increasingly concerned with its technical, legal and political conditions of possibility. The long‐term effects of austerity, financialisation and the technological transformation of media on teaching, research and publishing have led to intense struggles over the labour and property regimes underpinning the discipline. In responding to these challenges, anthropologists seem to be re‐conceptualising their…
"Envious Ethnography and the Ethnography of Envy in Anthropology's "Orient: Towards A Theory of Envy
Drawing on prevalent Euro-American folk models, extant theories of envy in the social sciences tend to reduce it to an emotion embodied in individual subjects, who are believed to envy those who have more and those who are hierarchically superordinate. Yet envy can also be viewed as a social, intersubjective phenomenon-one potentially incorporating humans and various other-than-human entities into complex and unpredictable relationships involving…
Forum: Piracy, Protection, and the Anthropology of Law at Sea
Follow the relationship: A note on Jatin Dua’s Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Western Indian Ocean Protection recaptured: Reflections on Jatin Dua’s Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Western Indian Ocean Protection’s possibility: On histories and geographies of concepts
Staying Tuned: Connections beyond ‘the Field
Ethnographers today find themselves experimenting with new approaches to digital ethnography amid pandemic-related restrictions on research. Yet such developments only accelerate a broader trend toward the dissolution of the traditional ethnographic 'field' due to new communications technologies and the emergence of a globalized 'knowledge economy'. Through six contributions from around the world, this forum explores how the emergence of a more d…
Engineering gender, engineering the Jordanian State: Beyond the salvage ethnography of middle-class housewifery in the Middle East
The figure of the middle-class housewife or ' rabbat bayt' emerged in the late 19th-century Arabic-language public sphere amidst the colonial encounter. This gendering of middle-classness responded to a perceived cultural 'lag' yet now itself increasingly signifies backwardness in relation to ideals of middle-classness emphasizing women's education and community service over older norms of purity and propriety. Today, amidst unemployment, discrim…
Being bad during Ramadan: Temporality, historicity and the refusal of coevalness in the anthropology of Islam
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Beyond retributive and restorative justice: In search of mercy with Jordan's Bedouin
Popular debates about criminal justice reform often pose restorative justice as a humane (if utopian) alternative to retributive justice. Drawing on fieldwork with Jordan's Bedouin, I offer an unvarnished account of a longstanding and still-vibrant tradition of restorative justice that also includes violent and punitive elements. While acknowledging how Bedouin justice can fail women, the poor and the poorly connected, I highlight how Bedouin jus…
Race, Science, Islam and the Search for New Gods
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works)