P Laviolette
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 38252 |
|---|---|
| NOME | P Laviolette |
| PRENOMES | P |
| SOBRENOME | Laviolette |
| ASSINATURA | LAVIOLETTE P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Masaryk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1042-7043 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Tristesse Topic
This article explores some eschatological facets of vehicle/road ecologies. Hitchhiking, as a disappearing form of travel in the twenty-first century (at least in the Western world), serves as a memento mori metaphor for our post-COVID era. There are plenty of death-memory features in auto-stopping. From vanishing hitchers through to the uncanny aspects of fear, danger, environmental concerns, and the search to escape social constraint through ad…
Hitchhiking and the Production of Haptic Knowledge
Overall, the cultural and artistic practices that continue to surround hitchhiking subcultures are largely untapped by serious scholastic research. This paper, deliberately non-linear, explores the haptic dimensions of hitchhiking. We use this mode of travel to make certain observations about our late-modern, or cosmopolitan age, as well as about some of the subcultures surrounding adventurous, competitive, and alternative transport. The piece is…
In Memoriam
When we were about fourteen or fifteen years old, my two best mates and I ventured over to the house of one of our teachers late at night. He was responsible for teaching moral education instead of religion per se, and we actually liked him. Our mission was simple – to toilet paper his car. That is, to wrap it up completely in kitchen and bog roll. The end result was rather accomplished since we even managed to get the exhaust pipe, windscreen wi…
Response to Issue 32 (2) – ‘Off the Grid on the Road in Europe
Michael O'Regan (2023) starts the introduction to his guest-edited special issue on living ‘off grid’ with reference to the notion of ‘polycrisis’. This is especially apt for us to consider, because at the time the issue had gone to press, the world was learning about the horrific terrorist attacks by Hamas on 7 October 2023. These immediately resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths and hostage captures. The ensuing escalation of war between Isra…
Where the story begins anew
Figure 1 – Mini-fridge, Kreuzberg Berlin, 2023. Source: Photo by the author. Francisco Martínez starts his essay with a quotation by Édouard Glissant. He might just as easily have chosen something from Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space (1958) or Dick Hebdige’s Hiding in the Light (1988) to introduce what lays on the other side. Indeed, when evoking opacity and the suspension of time through concealment, the socially embodied imaginary is never …
Hitchhacking, Passenger Ethnography, and Four-Wheeled Hospitality
This article proposes hitchhacking as a way of problematising contemporary mobility and as a practice of what we call 'passenger ethnography'. To this end, we review some of the literature on hitchhiking and hosting, offering empirical examples from artistic projects and field vignettes in Estonia, Russia, and Finland. We also reflect on how hitching can be experienced as a means of knowledge production. Accordingly, we discuss how travelling tog…
A Tribute and Farewell to Professor Chris Tilley
My first meeting with Chris was in about 1980 at a Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) meeting in Cambridge. I was there out of curiosity, to know more about what was buzzing at the time, as a new paradigm emerging from a group of firebrand young archaeologists who had upended the established figures of the scientifically oriented New Archaeology with inspirational references to structuralism and post-structuralism and anthropology as the right s…
Christopher Yates Tilley (1955-2024)
Thinglessness
Beyond breadth
Autobiography in Anthropology
The year 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Helen Callaway and Judith Okely’s edited anthology Anthropology and Autobiography . During that generational span, which roughly mirrors the life history of this journal, the book has had far-reaching influences, anchoring a legacy that few such conference collections can imagine for themselves. Indeed, the volume has become a classic reference work for scholars in all walks of the social…
Echo and the Ecumene
A duo-biographical recollection of an encounter, this article comprises a dialogue between the authors. On the one hand, it is about a shared moment – a tandem ‘go-along’ tour of the Echo of the Urals exhibition in the Estonian National Museum. On the other, it is about certain similarities and differences in the disciplinary approaches to curating as well as to spectating an ‘inter-national’ museum space in Estonia’s second-largest city, Tartu
Introduction
Is the planet on a one-way collision course with self-destruction? Are cars, roads and everything that goes along with them the main culprits for the end of the world as we know it? In addressing the nebulous, amorphous and material ties between vehicles and infrastructure, this Special Section of SA/AS provides some cross-cultural histories for better understanding commonplace as well as alternative paths, tracks and travel experiences. It also …
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Mary Douglas and Raymond Firth at 100/120
Getting to the Other Ride
Hitchhiking
Mana and Māori culture
As a preliminary biographical exploration, this article provides an introductory study into Raymond Firth's early research, as it initially related to Māoridom. Using archival and creative collaborative techniques to look at anthropology's contemporary past, it contends that Firth is amongst the earliest founders of the ethnographic approach known as ‘the anthropology of/at home’. A significant interest in the biographic description of anthropolo…
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is both a process and also a consequence which is sought out—an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings, and leftovers. This volume develops an open-ended combination of empirical and theoretical questions including: What does it mean to claim that …
‘My Waka Journey’
It’s safe to say that the world of publishing is where much of my academic passion resides. After co-editing EASA’s flagship journal, Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, with Sarah Green for the past four years, what I feel I most strongly bring to AJEC is an interdisciplinary research profile and an international trajectory. With formative years in Edinburgh and London, I have been exposed to the diverse subfields of human ecology and med…
The Earlier Pages of Raymond Firth’s Intellectual Biography
Locating European anthropology
This commentary revisits the “Rethinking Euro-anthropology” Forums published in the journal Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. It reconsiders three specific issues: who are the subjects of European anthropology, who are its others, and who are its authors? Noting that European anthropology does not imply a spatial fixity (there is no “there there” in European anthropology), we suggest instead that European anthropological scholarship is t…
Trespass into the Liminal
This article outlines narratives of trespass. It analyses relations between the personal and the social in abandoned urban physical surroundings. Grounded in our own duo-auto-ethnographic encounters with off-limit places, the research examines the classic notion of liminality through a set of prisms that are less than orthodox. It does so by stressing the formative and transformative possibilities of those threshold spaces that often get bypassed…
Why did the Anthropologist Cross the Road? Hitch-Hiking as a Stochastic Modality of Travel
Alienation, dependence, fear, sociability, protest, time and mobility - these are all hitch-hiking themes. This paper questions how breaks of convention, such as those which exist in hitching a lift, impact upon the sensing of place and the encounter with road-scapes. As a method of travel, hitching ruptures normative journeys, whereby destinations are no longer extensions of the present. Hitchers act on a compelling need to move in an intensely …
Conversations with landscape , by Benediktsson, Karl and Katrín Anna Lund
Green and Extreme
Activities to do with the coastline and the aquatic environment such as fishing, boating and seaside holidays have been mainstays of the Cornish peninsula for generations. Building on this legacy of marine leisure, this paper explores both the fluidity and materiality of waves, tides and coastal seascapes through a metaphorical framework encompassing symbolic as well as literal issues of pollution and embodiment. It examines Cornwall's distinct s…
Landscaping Death
This article explores the cultural construction of death and revival in Cornwall. In examining the ways in which these issues intertwine with the affirmation of local landscape identities, it surmises that an obscure and diffuse sense of `deathliness' exists that generates collective and contested topographical memories and perceptions. By offering ethnographic interpretations of how people relate to contemporary burial places as well as a materi…
Why did the Anthropologist Cross the Road? Hitch-Hiking as a Stochastic Modality of Travel
Alienation, dependence, fear, sociability, protest, time and mobility - these are all hitch-hiking themes. This paper questions how breaks of convention, such as those which exist in hitching a lift, impact upon the sensing of place and the encounter with road-scapes. As a method of travel, hitching ruptures normative journeys, whereby destinations are no longer extensions of the present. Hitchers act on a compelling need to move in an intensely …
"A Matter of "Co-opportunism
This paper explores the dynamics of temporary urban residency. It looks at the relationships between domesticity, mobility and improvisational housing - all relevant to Britain's housing crisis. Hence, I offer a reflexive ethnographic description of 'short-life' co-op living based on a five year account of managing vacant properties that await refurbishment or re-development by two major Charitable Housing Trusts based in West London. In question…
A Disgruntled Tourist in King Arthur's Court
Welcome to Tintagel, the birthplace of King Arthur' is a phrase often repeated at this small village on the north coast of Cornwall where legend, childhood stories and merchandise all serve to attract thousands of visitors per year. As 'a place to go', the area provides stunning coastal scenery, a romantic ruined castle and a highly commercialised village. Tintagel Island, owned by the Duchy of Cornwall but managed by English Heritage, plays cent…
Anthropology in the UK
Focusing on the concept of the intellectual biography, I explore the relational and symbolic importance of life histories for the reflexive history of anthropology. Legacies of questioning disciplinary self-awareness exist for fieldwork, data analysis, writing up, and academic social networks. The intellectual biography, as a newly developing self-conscious genre, is becoming central to the way in which the discipline writes its own history. This…
Home is Where the Heart Stopped
The notions of housing and the home have shifted considerably over the past decades given the significant changes in technological developments, demographics and the constitution of the family nexus. One of the areas in which architecture, design and planning have been responding relates to the growing needs of an ageing population with increasing leisure time as well as exposure to disability or chronic diseases.Regarding the treatment or rehabi…
Ships of Relations
This paper challenges superficial views of 'recyclia' (or recycled art) so to consider more conceptual, holistic perspectives. In questioning how the 'cultural and visual art world' invests a new imagination and creativity onto abandoned possessions and derelict artefacts, the paper explores the recovery of social memory and the recycling of the past. With an emphasis on the conversion of Cornish shipping and fishing artefacts into recyclia and r…
Fearless Trembling
Phenomenologically and reflexively influenced, this paper investigates an experiential conception of the imagination through an exploration of an extreme bodily act. Foremost, it sets the scene for a conceptual consideration of dangerous practices such as cliff jumping. This potentially pushes the level in which we can reflect upon such a thing as an existential or embodied imagination. Here modernity's leveling of the docile body is challenged. …
Hazardous sport
Response to Issue 32 (2) – ‘Off the Grid on the Road in Europe
Michael O'Regan (2023) starts the introduction to his guest-edited special issue on living ‘off grid’ with reference to the notion of ‘polycrisis’. This is especially apt for us to consider, because at the time the issue had gone to press, the world was learning about the horrific terrorist attacks by Hamas on 7 October 2023. These immediately resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths and hostage captures. The ensuing escalation of war between Isra…
Mana and Māori culture
As a preliminary biographical exploration, this article provides an introductory study into Raymond Firth's early research, as it initially related to Māoridom. Using archival and creative collaborative techniques to look at anthropology's contemporary past, it contends that Firth is amongst the earliest founders of the ethnographic approach known as ‘the anthropology of/at home’. A significant interest in the biographic description of anthropolo…
Locating European anthropology
This commentary revisits the “Rethinking Euro-anthropology” Forums published in the journal Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. It reconsiders three specific issues: who are the subjects of European anthropology, who are its others, and who are its authors? Noting that European anthropology does not imply a spatial fixity (there is no “there there” in European anthropology), we suggest instead that European anthropological scholarship is t…
Authenticating belief and identity
For many visitors, the south western peninsula of mainland Britain is ‘different’. Diverse sources of evidence suggest that the Duchy of Cornwall continues to possess traits from a Celtic legacy. This paper outlines perceptions of ‘otherness’ which are synonymous with ‘Cornishness’, thus fitting into the newly developing framework concerned with the authenticity of belief systems and symbolism in the realm of heritage tourism. Hence we review the…
Matter in Place
Editorial
Landscaping Death
This article explores the cultural construction of death and revival in Cornwall. In examining the ways in which these issues intertwine with the affirmation of local landscape identities, it surmises that an obscure and diffuse sense of `deathliness' exists that generates collective and contested topographical memories and perceptions. By offering ethnographic interpretations of how people relate to contemporary burial places as well as a materi…
Ships of Relations
This paper challenges superficial views of 'recyclia' (or recycled art) so to consider more conceptual, holistic perspectives. In questioning how the 'cultural and visual art world' invests a new imagination and creativity onto abandoned possessions and derelict artefacts, the paper explores the recovery of social memory and the recycling of the past. With an emphasis on the conversion of Cornish shipping and fishing artefacts into recyclia and r…
Cultural landscapes in the 21st century
Green and Extreme
Activities to do with the coastline and the aquatic environment such as fishing, boating and seaside holidays have been mainstays of the Cornish peninsula for generations. Building on this legacy of marine leisure, this paper explores both the fluidity and materiality of waves, tides and coastal seascapes through a metaphorical framework encompassing symbolic as well as literal issues of pollution and embodiment. It examines Cornwall's distinct s…
Home is Where the Heart Stopped
The notions of housing and the home have shifted considerably over the past decades given the significant changes in technological developments, demographics and the constitution of the family nexus. One of the areas in which architecture, design and planning have been responding relates to the growing needs of an ageing population with increasing leisure time as well as exposure to disability or chronic diseases.Regarding the treatment or rehabi…
Hazardous sport
Anthropology in the UK
Focusing on the concept of the intellectual biography, I explore the relational and symbolic importance of life histories for the reflexive history of anthropology. Legacies of questioning disciplinary self-awareness exist for fieldwork, data analysis, writing up, and academic social networks. The intellectual biography, as a newly developing self-conscious genre, is becoming central to the way in which the discipline writes its own history. This…
"A Matter of "Co-opportunism
This paper explores the dynamics of temporary urban residency. It looks at the relationships between domesticity, mobility and improvisational housing - all relevant to Britain's housing crisis. Hence, I offer a reflexive ethnographic description of 'short-life' co-op living based on a five year account of managing vacant properties that await refurbishment or re-development by two major Charitable Housing Trusts based in West London. In question…
Matter in Place
Editorial
Fearless Trembling
Phenomenologically and reflexively influenced, this paper investigates an experiential conception of the imagination through an exploration of an extreme bodily act. Foremost, it sets the scene for a conceptual consideration of dangerous practices such as cliff jumping. This potentially pushes the level in which we can reflect upon such a thing as an existential or embodied imagination. Here modernity's leveling of the docile body is challenged. …
A Disgruntled Tourist in King Arthur's Court
Welcome to Tintagel, the birthplace of King Arthur' is a phrase often repeated at this small village on the north coast of Cornwall where legend, childhood stories and merchandise all serve to attract thousands of visitors per year. As 'a place to go', the area provides stunning coastal scenery, a romantic ruined castle and a highly commercialised village. Tintagel Island, owned by the Duchy of Cornwall but managed by English Heritage, plays cent…
Authenticating belief and identity
For many visitors, the south western peninsula of mainland Britain is ‘different’. Diverse sources of evidence suggest that the Duchy of Cornwall continues to possess traits from a Celtic legacy. This paper outlines perceptions of ‘otherness’ which are synonymous with ‘Cornishness’, thus fitting into the newly developing framework concerned with the authenticity of belief systems and symbolism in the realm of heritage tourism. Hence we review the…
Homo Directus Directionality as a Cultural Metaphor for Cornishness
This paper deconstructs certain colloquial terms, objects and physical actions to reveal their importance in the cultural construction of landscape metaphor. Vernacular uses of language and displacement allow long-term inhabitants of Britain’s southwestern Cornish peninsula to assimilate environments and localities into a particular ontological framework of orientation. While exploring the directional nature of certain linguistic and embodied spa…
Conversations with landscape , by Benediktsson, Karl and Katrín Anna Lund
Trespass into the Liminal
This article outlines narratives of trespass. It analyses relations between the personal and the social in abandoned urban physical surroundings. Grounded in our own duo-auto-ethnographic encounters with off-limit places, the research examines the classic notion of liminality through a set of prisms that are less than orthodox. It does so by stressing the formative and transformative possibilities of those threshold spaces that often get bypassed…
Why did the Anthropologist Cross the Road? Hitch-Hiking as a Stochastic Modality of Travel
Alienation, dependence, fear, sociability, protest, time and mobility - these are all hitch-hiking themes. This paper questions how breaks of convention, such as those which exist in hitching a lift, impact upon the sensing of place and the encounter with road-scapes. As a method of travel, hitching ruptures normative journeys, whereby destinations are no longer extensions of the present. Hitchers act on a compelling need to move in an intensely …
Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is both a process and also a consequence which is sought out—an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings, and leftovers. This volume develops an open-ended combination of empirical and theoretical questions including: What does it mean to claim that …
‘My Waka Journey’
It’s safe to say that the world of publishing is where much of my academic passion resides. After co-editing EASA’s flagship journal, Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, with Sarah Green for the past four years, what I feel I most strongly bring to AJEC is an interdisciplinary research profile and an international trajectory. With formative years in Edinburgh and London, I have been exposed to the diverse subfields of human ecology and med…
The Earlier Pages of Raymond Firth’s Intellectual Biography
Locating European anthropology
This commentary revisits the “Rethinking Euro-anthropology” Forums published in the journal Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. It reconsiders three specific issues: who are the subjects of European anthropology, who are its others, and who are its authors? Noting that European anthropology does not imply a spatial fixity (there is no “there there” in European anthropology), we suggest instead that European anthropological scholarship is t…
Getting to the Other Ride
Hitchhiking
Mana and Māori culture
As a preliminary biographical exploration, this article provides an introductory study into Raymond Firth's early research, as it initially related to Māoridom. Using archival and creative collaborative techniques to look at anthropology's contemporary past, it contends that Firth is amongst the earliest founders of the ethnographic approach known as ‘the anthropology of/at home’. A significant interest in the biographic description of anthropolo…
Introduction
Is the planet on a one-way collision course with self-destruction? Are cars, roads and everything that goes along with them the main culprits for the end of the world as we know it? In addressing the nebulous, amorphous and material ties between vehicles and infrastructure, this Special Section of SA/AS provides some cross-cultural histories for better understanding commonplace as well as alternative paths, tracks and travel experiences. It also …
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