Kevin Mckenzie
Biographic Data
| ID | 4104061 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Mckenzie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckenzie |
| SIGNATURE | MCKENZIE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cyprus |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Increasing access to a global health conference and enhancing research capacity
The foundational principles of global health (GH) organizations are rooted in the recognition and amelioration of inequities that result in poor health. Despite capacity enhancing strategies designed as bilateral partnerships with colleagues in low- and middle-income (LMIC) settings, international organizations from high-income countries (HIC) still struggle to address the lack of opportunities for professional development [...]
Vicissitudes of laughter
This paper is concerned with the way that laughter is employed to manage threats to interlocutor affiliation in talk among humanitarian aid workers as they describe their professional activities in settings of armed conflict. I first set out to situate my analysis within the tradition of work in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM), exploring how that approach differs in significant ways from work in pragmatics and related traditions o…
Taking the higher ground between West and Middle East
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Invoking the Specter of Racism
This paper explores how category membership features in talk where speakers address the issue of racial discrimination. In particular, it examines how category membership gets invoked to furnish speaker entitlement in the course of destabilizing and reworking the category-bound inferences that inform membership attribution. I begin with the analysis of two relatively short extracts of talk in which speakers invoke ethnic and racial group identity…
Formulating professional identity
Recent scholarly and practitioner research on the work of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has been concerned with questions about the moral legitimacy of humanitarian aid in settings of armed conflict. At issue is the extent to which NGO activities are said to affect the conduct and outcome of warfare, thereby potentially implicating humanitarian aid in the partisan interests which it has traditionally eschewed as a condition of its legitim…
Structure and Agency in Scholarly Formulations of Racism
The humanitarian imperative under fire
This paper explores how speakers manage the dilemmatic tension between competing demands for accountability in mundane explanations of humanitarian assistance in settings of armed conflict. Taking as analytic data talk recorded in interviews with the personnel of aid agencies and various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who work in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), we examine how demands for both non-partisan impartialit…
Conspiracy theory and the critical enterprise
This paper explores the argumentative work undertaken in talk and text about conspiracy theory (CT), relating this to recent scholarly debate regarding the significance of critical inquiry in the context of developments in poststructuralist and postmodern social theory. We examine discussion of CT as a site where the transformation between deconstructive, depth analytic critique and its opposite, realist claims takes place. Meta-theoretical formu…
The institutional provision for silence
This paper explores how what is both appropriate to and excluded from consideration in a given episode of talk involving question-and-answers between a speaker and audience is the outcome of complex negotiation. We consider the details of such collaborative work in talk at a press conference with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in discussion concerning his own and other countries’ military involvement in the Middle East. What gets exclude…
Discursive Psychology and the “New Racism”
Fact and the Narratives of War
The Psychology of Time-Travel
This paper explores how the temporal disjunction established in the production of narrative affords a way of managing the tension between competing demands for accountability in settings where the issue of cultural difference features as a participant concern. Specifically, in speculating upon the nature of cultural variation and cross-cultural contact, interview participants employ narrative accounts to manage the tension between the demand to f…
Discursive Psychology and the “New Racism”
The humanitarian imperative under fire
This paper explores how speakers manage the dilemmatic tension between competing demands for accountability in mundane explanations of humanitarian assistance in settings of armed conflict. Taking as analytic data talk recorded in interviews with the personnel of aid agencies and various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who work in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), we examine how demands for both non-partisan impartialit…
The institutional provision for silence
This paper explores how what is both appropriate to and excluded from consideration in a given episode of talk involving question-and-answers between a speaker and audience is the outcome of complex negotiation. We consider the details of such collaborative work in talk at a press conference with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in discussion concerning his own and other countries’ military involvement in the Middle East. What gets exclude…
The Psychology of Time-Travel
This paper explores how the temporal disjunction established in the production of narrative affords a way of managing the tension between competing demands for accountability in settings where the issue of cultural difference features as a participant concern. Specifically, in speculating upon the nature of cultural variation and cross-cultural contact, interview participants employ narrative accounts to manage the tension between the demand to f…
The Psychology of Time-Travel
This paper explores how the temporal disjunction established in the production of narrative affords a way of managing the tension between competing demands for accountability in settings where the issue of cultural difference features as a participant concern. Specifically, in speculating upon the nature of cultural variation and cross-cultural contact, interview participants employ narrative accounts to manage the tension between the demand to f…
Fact and the Narratives of War
Discursive Psychology and the “New Racism”
Conspiracy theory and the critical enterprise
This paper explores the argumentative work undertaken in talk and text about conspiracy theory (CT), relating this to recent scholarly debate regarding the significance of critical inquiry in the context of developments in poststructuralist and postmodern social theory. We examine discussion of CT as a site where the transformation between deconstructive, depth analytic critique and its opposite, realist claims takes place. Meta-theoretical formu…
The institutional provision for silence
This paper explores how what is both appropriate to and excluded from consideration in a given episode of talk involving question-and-answers between a speaker and audience is the outcome of complex negotiation. We consider the details of such collaborative work in talk at a press conference with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in discussion concerning his own and other countries’ military involvement in the Middle East. What gets exclude…
The humanitarian imperative under fire
This paper explores how speakers manage the dilemmatic tension between competing demands for accountability in mundane explanations of humanitarian assistance in settings of armed conflict. Taking as analytic data talk recorded in interviews with the personnel of aid agencies and various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who work in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), we examine how demands for both non-partisan impartialit…
Structure and Agency in Scholarly Formulations of Racism
Formulating professional identity
Recent scholarly and practitioner research on the work of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has been concerned with questions about the moral legitimacy of humanitarian aid in settings of armed conflict. At issue is the extent to which NGO activities are said to affect the conduct and outcome of warfare, thereby potentially implicating humanitarian aid in the partisan interests which it has traditionally eschewed as a condition of its legitim…
Invoking the Specter of Racism
This paper explores how category membership features in talk where speakers address the issue of racial discrimination. In particular, it examines how category membership gets invoked to furnish speaker entitlement in the course of destabilizing and reworking the category-bound inferences that inform membership attribution. I begin with the analysis of two relatively short extracts of talk in which speakers invoke ethnic and racial group identity…
Increasing access to a global health conference and enhancing research capacity
The foundational principles of global health (GH) organizations are rooted in the recognition and amelioration of inequities that result in poor health. Despite capacity enhancing strategies designed as bilateral partnerships with colleagues in low- and middle-income (LMIC) settings, international organizations from high-income countries (HIC) still struggle to address the lack of opportunities for professional development [...]
Vicissitudes of laughter
This paper is concerned with the way that laughter is employed to manage threats to interlocutor affiliation in talk among humanitarian aid workers as they describe their professional activities in settings of armed conflict. I first set out to situate my analysis within the tradition of work in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM), exploring how that approach differs in significant ways from work in pragmatics and related traditions o…
Taking the higher ground between West and Middle East
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Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social science (5 works)