Alicia Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3890751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alicia Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alicia |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Turner Consulting Group (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0048-6250 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Framing China in the Pacific Islands
How did many Australians come to accept that competition, rather than cooperation, with China was necessary in the Pacific Islands? We use discourse analysis techniques to examine the role that framings in Australian official discourse, media, and commentary over the last decade (2011–2021) played in constructing China’s presence in the region as threatening such that many Australians have accepted that policies aimed at competing with China are …
Colonial secularism built in brick
This article examines colonial secularism in Burma through a history of the built environment of Rangoon. The creation of the colonial city in the 1850s as an ordered grid of ethnic neighbourhoods and established religions served as a pedagogy of the secular, teaching its population to internalise religious difference. And yet, against this secular vision in brick and pavement there were exceptional spaces that enacted alternative visions. The Th…
Pali Scholarship "in Its Truest Sense" in Burma
Why are histories of colonialism and religious transformation in Southeast Asia so often told as inextricably interrelated? Why were Buddhist movements identified as both the locus for resistance to colonialism and the central means of constructing colonial modernity? Part of the reason lies in how religion served as both a European technique of colonial governmentality and a local repository of techniques for comprehending and responding to chan…
Specialised Parliamentary Bodies
In the past, feminist scholarship was often highly sceptical of institution-building within existing political and governance institutions. This may have contributed to a neglect of the new phenomenon of specialised parliamentary bodies with a gender equality remit. This article explores whether such parliamentary bodies can be an effective means of promoting the substantive representation of women and whether they can be understood as part of th…
Saving Buddhism
The Bible, The Bottle And The Knife
While those who sought solidarity between Asians and Europeans in the colonial era often ended up replicating the colonial divisions they had hoped to overcome, the interstitial position of working class and beachcomber Buddhist monks allowed for more substantive modes of solidarity and critique. U Dhammaloka offered a sophisticated critique of British colonialism in its religious, cultural and material modes, but opted to focus his efforts on Bu…
A Buddhist Crossroads
The period from the later nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth \ncenturies—roughly between the Indian Revolt of 1857 and the withdrawal of most \nEuropean powers from direct rule in Asia—was one of immense change across \nSoutheast Asia and the Buddhist world. This century saw the emergence of the \nelements that we now take to constitute modern Buddhism, or the multiple \nmodern Buddhisms: the rise of the laity as practitioners and orga…
The Irish Pongyi in Colonial Burma
This article charts the career of U Dhammaloka, an Irish working-class sailor turned Buddhist monk, in the context of colonial Burma. Focusing on his popularity with the Burmese laity as a preacher and his conflicts with colonial authorities, it considers what scholars of Buddhism can learn from Dhammaloka's remarkable career. It argues that for all the challenges he mounted to the Christian missionaries, middle-class Buddhists and the colonial s…
Beachcombing, Going Native and Freethinking
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhammaloka, “The Irish Buddhist”: Rewriting the History of Early Western Buddhist Monastics’. Traditional accounts of pioneer Western Buddhist monastics begin with the 1899 ordination of H. Gordon Douglas (Aśoka), and highlight gentleman scholars writing for a European audience. They consign to obscurity a pre-existing world of Western Buddhist monastic…
Peace, scholarship and disciplinary limits
Through its explorations of the work of peace in Sri Lanka, Qadri Ismail's Abiding by Sri Lanka offers both a reconceptualization of democracy and a critique of certain academic disciplines as antithetical to peace and opposition to colonialism. This article considers his criticisms of history and anthropology in order to ask whether, in his terms, it would be possible to have a postcolonial, postempiricist analysis of religion. An exploration of…
Specialised Parliamentary Bodies
In the past, feminist scholarship was often highly sceptical of institution-building within existing political and governance institutions. This may have contributed to a neglect of the new phenomenon of specialised parliamentary bodies with a gender equality remit. This article explores whether such parliamentary bodies can be an effective means of promoting the substantive representation of women and whether they can be understood as part of th…
Framing China in the Pacific Islands
How did many Australians come to accept that competition, rather than cooperation, with China was necessary in the Pacific Islands? We use discourse analysis techniques to examine the role that framings in Australian official discourse, media, and commentary over the last decade (2011–2021) played in constructing China’s presence in the region as threatening such that many Australians have accepted that policies aimed at competing with China are …
Colonial secularism built in brick
This article examines colonial secularism in Burma through a history of the built environment of Rangoon. The creation of the colonial city in the 1850s as an ordered grid of ethnic neighbourhoods and established religions served as a pedagogy of the secular, teaching its population to internalise religious difference. And yet, against this secular vision in brick and pavement there were exceptional spaces that enacted alternative visions. The Th…
Beachcombing, Going Native and Freethinking
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhammaloka, “The Irish Buddhist”: Rewriting the History of Early Western Buddhist Monastics’. Traditional accounts of pioneer Western Buddhist monastics begin with the 1899 ordination of H. Gordon Douglas (Aśoka), and highlight gentleman scholars writing for a European audience. They consign to obscurity a pre-existing world of Western Buddhist monastic…
Pali Scholarship "in Its Truest Sense" in Burma
Why are histories of colonialism and religious transformation in Southeast Asia so often told as inextricably interrelated? Why were Buddhist movements identified as both the locus for resistance to colonialism and the central means of constructing colonial modernity? Part of the reason lies in how religion served as both a European technique of colonial governmentality and a local repository of techniques for comprehending and responding to chan…
Peace, scholarship and disciplinary limits
Through its explorations of the work of peace in Sri Lanka, Qadri Ismail's Abiding by Sri Lanka offers both a reconceptualization of democracy and a critique of certain academic disciplines as antithetical to peace and opposition to colonialism. This article considers his criticisms of history and anthropology in order to ask whether, in his terms, it would be possible to have a postcolonial, postempiricist analysis of religion. An exploration of…
The Irish Pongyi in Colonial Burma
This article charts the career of U Dhammaloka, an Irish working-class sailor turned Buddhist monk, in the context of colonial Burma. Focusing on his popularity with the Burmese laity as a preacher and his conflicts with colonial authorities, it considers what scholars of Buddhism can learn from Dhammaloka's remarkable career. It argues that for all the challenges he mounted to the Christian missionaries, middle-class Buddhists and the colonial s…
Beachcombing, Going Native and Freethinking
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhammaloka, “The Irish Buddhist”: Rewriting the History of Early Western Buddhist Monastics’. Traditional accounts of pioneer Western Buddhist monastics begin with the 1899 ordination of H. Gordon Douglas (Aśoka), and highlight gentleman scholars writing for a European audience. They consign to obscurity a pre-existing world of Western Buddhist monastic…
The Bible, The Bottle And The Knife
While those who sought solidarity between Asians and Europeans in the colonial era often ended up replicating the colonial divisions they had hoped to overcome, the interstitial position of working class and beachcomber Buddhist monks allowed for more substantive modes of solidarity and critique. U Dhammaloka offered a sophisticated critique of British colonialism in its religious, cultural and material modes, but opted to focus his efforts on Bu…
A Buddhist Crossroads
The period from the later nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth \ncenturies—roughly between the Indian Revolt of 1857 and the withdrawal of most \nEuropean powers from direct rule in Asia—was one of immense change across \nSoutheast Asia and the Buddhist world. This century saw the emergence of the \nelements that we now take to constitute modern Buddhism, or the multiple \nmodern Buddhisms: the rise of the laity as practitioners and orga…
Saving Buddhism
Specialised Parliamentary Bodies
In the past, feminist scholarship was often highly sceptical of institution-building within existing political and governance institutions. This may have contributed to a neglect of the new phenomenon of specialised parliamentary bodies with a gender equality remit. This article explores whether such parliamentary bodies can be an effective means of promoting the substantive representation of women and whether they can be understood as part of th…
Pali Scholarship "in Its Truest Sense" in Burma
Why are histories of colonialism and religious transformation in Southeast Asia so often told as inextricably interrelated? Why were Buddhist movements identified as both the locus for resistance to colonialism and the central means of constructing colonial modernity? Part of the reason lies in how religion served as both a European technique of colonial governmentality and a local repository of techniques for comprehending and responding to chan…
Colonial secularism built in brick
This article examines colonial secularism in Burma through a history of the built environment of Rangoon. The creation of the colonial city in the 1850s as an ordered grid of ethnic neighbourhoods and established religions served as a pedagogy of the secular, teaching its population to internalise religious difference. And yet, against this secular vision in brick and pavement there were exceptional spaces that enacted alternative visions. The Th…
Framing China in the Pacific Islands
How did many Australians come to accept that competition, rather than cooperation, with China was necessary in the Pacific Islands? We use discourse analysis techniques to examine the role that framings in Australian official discourse, media, and commentary over the last decade (2011–2021) played in constructing China’s presence in the region as threatening such that many Australians have accepted that policies aimed at competing with China are …
Sociology (8 works) · Buddhism (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (4 works)