ROBERT GIBB
Biographic Data
| ID | 5985229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | ROBERT GIBB |
| GIVEN NAMES | ROBERT |
| FAMILY NAME | GIBB |
| SIGNATURE | GIBB R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Re-learning hope
Informed by Irving Horowitz's view of the Festschrift, this article adopts both a retrospective and a prospective approach to the work of the sociologist Bridget Fowler. On the one hand, it assesses some of the key characteristics and contributions of her three single-authored books: The Alienated Reader: Women and Popular Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century (1991), Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory (1997) and The Obituary as Collectiv…
Communicative Practices and Contexts of Interaction in the Refugee Status Determination Process in France
This chapter draws on material from an anthropological study of the asylum process in France, conducted between 2007 and 2009, to explore the following questions: What can ethnographic research contribute to knowledge and understanding of the kinds of communication that take place at successive stages of the refugee status determination process in France? What light can it throw, more specifically, on the relationship between forms of communicati…
Breaking the silence (again)
Ethnographic research is often multilingual, requiring the researcher to work in two or more different languages, if necessary with the assistance of an interpreter. Given this, surprisingly few ethnographers have attempted to discuss in detail how their own knowledge of different languages and their decisions to use interpreters and/or translators during fieldwork have affected the research they have conducted. Drawing on material from our own r…
Responses to Ageeth Sluis and Elise Edwards, ‘Rethinking combined departments
The choice of interdisciplinarities Stephen M. Lyon Multidisciplinarity as a necessity and challenge: the Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague (FHS UK) Yasar Abu Ghosh, Pavel Himl, Tereza Stöckelová and Lucie Storchová Response to Sluis and Edwards, 'Rethinking combined departments' Robert Gibb Response to Sluis and Edwards, 'Rethinking combined departments' Jakob Krause-Jensen Response to Sluis …
Indigeneity and autochthony
The term indigenous tends to be used for people who are already marginalised, while autochthonous is generally reserved for people who are dominant in a given area but fear future marginalisation. Anthropologists often sympathise with the former, while being highly critical of the latter, although a bitter debate opposes opponents and proponents of indigeneity and autochthony. We argue that the implicit criteria used in this debate need to be dis…
An interview with Adam Kuper
Prickly Polemics at Critique of Anthropology
Claude Lévi-Strauss - Denis Bertholet
The broken myth
The article provides information on the unrest and republican model of integration in France. The pre-dominant epistemological position on the French anthropology defines the discipline as the study of distant societies. Questions have been raised by the state of affairs regarding the origin of anthropology and reproduction of the discipline in the country
Books Reviewed
Breaking the silence (again)
Ethnographic research is often multilingual, requiring the researcher to work in two or more different languages, if necessary with the assistance of an interpreter. Given this, surprisingly few ethnographers have attempted to discuss in detail how their own knowledge of different languages and their decisions to use interpreters and/or translators during fieldwork have affected the research they have conducted. Drawing on material from our own r…
The broken myth
The article provides information on the unrest and republican model of integration in France. The pre-dominant epistemological position on the French anthropology defines the discipline as the study of distant societies. Questions have been raised by the state of affairs regarding the origin of anthropology and reproduction of the discipline in the country
Books Reviewed
Prickly Polemics at Critique of Anthropology
Claude Lévi-Strauss - Denis Bertholet
The broken myth
The article provides information on the unrest and republican model of integration in France. The pre-dominant epistemological position on the French anthropology defines the discipline as the study of distant societies. Questions have been raised by the state of affairs regarding the origin of anthropology and reproduction of the discipline in the country
An interview with Adam Kuper
Indigeneity and autochthony
The term indigenous tends to be used for people who are already marginalised, while autochthonous is generally reserved for people who are dominant in a given area but fear future marginalisation. Anthropologists often sympathise with the former, while being highly critical of the latter, although a bitter debate opposes opponents and proponents of indigeneity and autochthony. We argue that the implicit criteria used in this debate need to be dis…
Responses to Ageeth Sluis and Elise Edwards, ‘Rethinking combined departments
The choice of interdisciplinarities Stephen M. Lyon Multidisciplinarity as a necessity and challenge: the Department of General Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague (FHS UK) Yasar Abu Ghosh, Pavel Himl, Tereza Stöckelová and Lucie Storchová Response to Sluis and Edwards, 'Rethinking combined departments' Robert Gibb Response to Sluis and Edwards, 'Rethinking combined departments' Jakob Krause-Jensen Response to Sluis …
Breaking the silence (again)
Ethnographic research is often multilingual, requiring the researcher to work in two or more different languages, if necessary with the assistance of an interpreter. Given this, surprisingly few ethnographers have attempted to discuss in detail how their own knowledge of different languages and their decisions to use interpreters and/or translators during fieldwork have affected the research they have conducted. Drawing on material from our own r…
Communicative Practices and Contexts of Interaction in the Refugee Status Determination Process in France
This chapter draws on material from an anthropological study of the asylum process in France, conducted between 2007 and 2009, to explore the following questions: What can ethnographic research contribute to knowledge and understanding of the kinds of communication that take place at successive stages of the refugee status determination process in France? What light can it throw, more specifically, on the relationship between forms of communicati…
Re-learning hope
Informed by Irving Horowitz's view of the Festschrift, this article adopts both a retrospective and a prospective approach to the work of the sociologist Bridget Fowler. On the one hand, it assesses some of the key characteristics and contributions of her three single-authored books: The Alienated Reader: Women and Popular Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century (1991), Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory (1997) and The Obituary as Collectiv…
Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Cultural Identity and Heritage (2 works) · French Urban and Social Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)