Emma Hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 75911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7999-8093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“We go hunting …”
The high prevalence of food insecurity in the United Kingdom has been exacerbated by the cost-of-living crisis. In high-income countries, those experiencing food insecurity struggle to buy and consume foods that meet Government healthy eating recommendations, and are at increased risk of obesity, linked to poor diet quality. Individuals in high-income countries purchase most of their food to consume at home from supermarkets, making this an impor…
Navigating infant food insecurity
Food insecurity is increasingly being recognised as a public health issue in high income countries, exacerbated for many by the recent cost-of-living crisis. High food prices mean many households, especially those with children, are vulnerable to food insecurity. Since 2021, and the emergence of the UK’s ‘cost-of-living crisis’, food charities have reported increased requests for support from families with young children. However, the experience …
Participants or pretenders? Addressing the challenge of inauthentic participation encountered during three social research studies on experiences of food insecurity in the UK
Individuals participate in research for numerous reasons, however, the global economic downturn may have driven some to participate solely for monetary recompense. While inauthentic participation is more widely recognised in quantitative survey studies, it is increasingly becoming an issue in qualitative research. Drawing on our experiences and supported by the wider literature, we highlight ways in which inauthentic participation can be identifi…
The “Winds of Change” Blew in Many Directions
In September 2023, a group of scholars gathered to discuss histories of decolonization, and particularly histories of dissent and opposition in the aftermath of political independence. This roundtable, and the broader special section of which it is part, places “decolonization's discontents” at the center of the postindependence narrative(s) to better understand the limitations of the postcolonial state and anti-colonial politics; to explore both…
Colonial Government Periodicals in 1920s East Africa
The chapter focuses on government periodicals produced for African readerships in 1920s East Africa: Mambo Leo in Tanganyika and Habari in Kenya. These periodicals, on the one hand, attempted to establish colonial power and legitimacy. On the other hand, they were forums in which African writers could participate and develop anti-colonial critiques. Mambo Leo was published by Tanganyika’s Department of Education, and Habari was published initiall…
Colonial Government Periodicals in 1920s East Africa
The impact of the cost of living crisis and food insecurity on food purchasing behaviours and food preparation practices in people living with obesity
Lower income households are at greater risk of food insecurity and poor diet quality than higher income households. In high-income countries, food insecurity is associated with high levels of obesity, and in the UK specifically, the cost of living crisis (i.e., where the cost of everyday essentials has increased quicker than wages) is likely to have exacerbated existing dietary inequalities. There is currently a lack of understanding of the impac…
Writing
Journal Article Writing: The World of Newspapers Get access Emma Hunter Emma Hunter University of Edinburgh, Scotland Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2, June 2024, Pages 551–555, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae166 Published: 13 June 2024
Afterword
What is at stake in exploring colonialism and print from the perspective of social history? This collection of articles shows how a social history perspective can tie together people, places, and themes that are often kept separate, opening new avenues of inquiry. As the editors argue in their introduction, by focusing on “the materiality of printing and the ground-level practices and “tactics” of production and circulation,” we can locate “histo…
African Nationalisms
In the early twenty-first century, nations across Africa celebrated their fiftieth birthdays. The symbols employed to mark the occasion and the memories evoked bore witness to the joys as well as the trials and tribulations of a fifty-year history. For many, fifty years of independent nationhood was an occasion for celebration. 1 But at the same time, the history of nationalism and nationhood is not purely a celebratory story. The politics of the…
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. In volume II, leading scholars in their fields explore the dynamics of nationhood and nationalism's interactions…
A qualitative analysis of public health officials' experience in California during Covid-19
Objectives: The aim of this study was to collect qualitative data regarding the violence faced by public health officials during the COVID-19 pandemic and create a guideline of recommendations to protect this population moving forward. Methods: Two focus groups were conducted virtually from April 2022 to May 2022. All nine participants were public health officials from across California. A grounded theory approach was used to analyze the data fro…
Imperialism and development
Journal Article Book Review Get access Imperialism and development: The East African Groundnut Scheme and its legacy, by Nicholas Westcott. Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2020. 260 pp. $25.95 (paper back). ISBN 9781847013453. Emma Hunter Emma Hunter University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 122, Issue 486, January 2023, Pages 175–17…
African Socialism
In 1962 a conference was held in Dakar, Senegal. Its purpose was to discuss ‘African socialism’ and indeed to attempt to define what it was. This proved difficult to do, for in 1962 African political leaders of many and varied ideological positions used the term ‘African socialism’ to describe their vision and policies. But although African socialism appeared to be the dominant ideology of early 1960s Africa, this dominance soon passed. Critics f…
Dialogues between Past and Present in Intellectual Histories of Mid-Twentieth-Century Africa
This contribution reflects on the theme of intellectual history and the present from the perspective of recent intellectual histories of mid-twentieth-century Africa. I focus on two aspects of the intellectual historian's work which relate to the importance of putting the past into dialogue with the present. First, using new histories of the historical event of mid-twentieth-century decolonization as a case study, I consider the potential offered…
Another World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century
This article proposes that there is a gap in our current understanding of the globalising and deglobalising dynamics of mid-twentieth-century East Africa, one that might be addressed by consolidating and taking forward recent developments in the historiography of decolonisation. Recent work by international historians has recovered the connected world of the 1940s to 1960s: the era of new postcolonial states, the ‘Bandung moment’, pan-African coo…
The intertwined history of independence and development in Lesotho
John Aerni-Flessner starts his study of the intertwined histories of independence and development in Lesotho with the words of Vaclav Havel, the Czech writer and dissident who became his country’s
Thinking East African
Mental health in the Pacific
The Pacific region faces a significant and growing burden of noncommunicable diseases and mental disorders. An emerging issue is the increasing overlap between physical and mental health conditions, which are often the result of interactive effects and lead to more severe consequences. In addition, climate change is amplifying health risks, as it poses both physical and existential threats to Pacific Island communities. The sustainable developmen…
It’s all about relationships”
In recent years, Australian government policies have promoted access to secondary education through boarding schools for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter respectfully termed Indigenous) students from remote communities. These students experience the poorest health of any Australian adolescent group. This exploratory study examines how boarding schools across Queensland promote and manage healthcare and wellbeing support for Indige…
Introduction
A growing literature explores the varying role of print media in the colonial world and the new types of publics such newspapers and periodicals produced. However, this literature has tended to focus on specific regions, and has often sidestepped the larger question of how to conceptualise the relationship between print media and colonial rule. While some have used the term ‘colonial public sphere’ or ‘colonial publics,’ others have preferred to …
Decolonizing History
On the back of the Royal Historical Society's 2018 report on race and ethnicity, as well as ongoing discussions about 'decolonizing the syllabus', this is a conversation piece titled, 'Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice'. While 'decolonization' has been a key framework for historical research, it has assumed increasingly varied and nebulous meanings in teaching, where calls for 'decolonizing' are largely divorced from the actual end of em…
Modernity, Print Media, and the Middle Class in Colonial East Africa
Modernity, Print Media, and the Middle Class in Colonial East Africa
This chapter takes a look at colonial East Africa. On the one hand, the chapter shows that the colonial economy and racial hierarchies of East Africa offered little potential for the growth of an African bourgeoisie. On the other hand, it demonstrates that in the cultural rather than the economic sphere, a slightly different picture emerges. Looking at the Swahili-language government and the mission newspapers of colonial Zanzibar and Tanganyika …
Citizenship, Belonging and Political Community in Africa
Dutiful Subjects, Patriotic Citizens, and the Concept of ‘Good Citizenship’ in Twentieth-Century Tanzania
The growing interest in citizenship among political theorists over the last two decades has encouraged historians of twentieth-century Africa to ask new questions of the colonial and early post-colonial period. These questions have, however, often focused on differential access to the rights associated with the legal status of citizenship, paying less attention to the ways in which conceptions of citizenship were developed, debated, and employed.…
Nation as grand narrative
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEmma HunterEMMA HUNTER is a lecturer in African History at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Political thought and the public sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, democracy and citizenship in the era of decolonization published by Cambridge University Press in 2015 and a co-editor of African print cultures: Newspapers and their publics in the 20th century, which will be published by Michigan Univ…
RevisitingUjamaa
Tanzania's post-colonial social and economic policies, often referred to with the shorthand term of ujamaa and variously translated as 'familyhood' or 'African socialism', have attracted the attention of scholars since their inception. While the first analysts were interested in these policies primarily as strategies of development, historians have recently begun to focus on the importance of ujamaa and related political metaphors, particularly t…
The impact of the cost of living crisis and food insecurity on food purchasing behaviours and food preparation practices in people living with obesity
Lower income households are at greater risk of food insecurity and poor diet quality than higher income households. In high-income countries, food insecurity is associated with high levels of obesity, and in the UK specifically, the cost of living crisis (i.e., where the cost of everyday essentials has increased quicker than wages) is likely to have exacerbated existing dietary inequalities. There is currently a lack of understanding of the impac…
Decolonizing History
On the back of the Royal Historical Society's 2018 report on race and ethnicity, as well as ongoing discussions about 'decolonizing the syllabus', this is a conversation piece titled, 'Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice'. While 'decolonization' has been a key framework for historical research, it has assumed increasingly varied and nebulous meanings in teaching, where calls for 'decolonizing' are largely divorced from the actual end of em…
Introduction
A growing literature explores the varying role of print media in the colonial world and the new types of publics such newspapers and periodicals produced. However, this literature has tended to focus on specific regions, and has often sidestepped the larger question of how to conceptualise the relationship between print media and colonial rule. While some have used the term ‘colonial public sphere’ or ‘colonial publics,’ others have preferred to …
Languages of Freedom in Decolonising Africa the Gladstone Prize Winner
The ‘triumph of liberalism’ in the mid-twentieth-century west is well known and much studied. But what has it meant for the way the decolonisation of Africa has been viewed, both at the time and since? In this paper, I suggest that it has quietly but effectively shaped our understanding of African political thinking in the 1950s to 1960s. Although the nationalist framing that once led historians to neglect those aspects of the political thinking …
Another World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century
This article proposes that there is a gap in our current understanding of the globalising and deglobalising dynamics of mid-twentieth-century East Africa, one that might be addressed by consolidating and taking forward recent developments in the historiography of decolonisation. Recent work by international historians has recovered the connected world of the 1940s to 1960s: the era of new postcolonial states, the ‘Bandung moment’, pan-African coo…
It’s all about relationships”
In recent years, Australian government policies have promoted access to secondary education through boarding schools for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter respectfully termed Indigenous) students from remote communities. These students experience the poorest health of any Australian adolescent group. This exploratory study examines how boarding schools across Queensland promote and manage healthcare and wellbeing support for Indige…
Language, Empire and the World
While German colonialism as an imperial system was once neglected by historians, this neglect was less acute in the case of the histories of individual German colonies. Yet here too, new perspectives on German colonial and postcolonial history, informed by an attention to global and transnational entanglements, might offer new insights. In this article, I take the controversy over Karl Roehl's translation of the Bible into Swahili as a case study…
Our common humanity’
If the concept of global civil society offers a way of thinking about the interwar period that does justice to the new linkages that were developing at the time, it also offers an opportunity to reflect on ‘the varied, contingent meanings of the global – and the limits to such globalist visions’, as this special issue makes clear. This article explores these themes in an African context in relation to two government periodicals, Mambo Leo and the…
Voluntarism, Virtuous Citizenship, and Nation-Building in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial Tanzania
This article offers a historical perspective on the concept of voluntarism in modern Africa. It does so by exploring the ways in which postcolonial states grappled with the legacies of colonial-era concepts of voluntarism, using Tanzania as a case study. It argues that the postcolonial state sought to combine two strands of colonial thinking about voluntarism in a new conception of "virtuous citizenship." But this was a fragile construction, and …
Out of sight, out of mind—1. Emergent patterns of self-harm among aborigines of remote Australia
Cross-Cultural Psychiatry in Micronesia
Patients evaluated by the authors as consulting clinical psychiatrists in a cross- cultural setting, Micronesia, form the basis for an examination of regional variations in demographic characteristics, diagnoses, and referral patterns. Different rates of occurrence of disorders, selective referral practices, and diversity in manifestation of symptomatology are all considered. The authors offer suggestions regarding social and cultural factors whi…
Psychiatric Consultation in Micronesia
The authors report on 37 referrals seen for psychiatric consultation during visits to various islands in Micronesia. A large number demonstrated either organic mental disorders or con tributory medical illnesses. Observed differences between males and females are examined. In such cross-cultural settings, the authors emphasize the need for psychiatric expertise respon sive not only to the dimension of culture in evaluation and treatment, but also…
A Question of Power
Non‐traditional self‐mutilation among young adult Aborigines in the Kimberley region of Western Australia has emerged in the 1980s in parallel to increases in other forms of intentional personal violence (including suicide, homicide and deaths from accidents). Having noted certain characteristics in common with self‐mutilators encountered in psychiatric practice in the wider society, the author proceeds to a socio‐historical analysis that foregro…
Stains on the caring mantle Doctors in Aboriginal Australia have a history
Doctors new to Aboriginal Australia are not infrequently surprised that their choice to work with the needy and underprivileged is not cause for unconditional positive regard. The naïveté of this position reflects the assumption that the nature of medical work somehow separates doctors from other less caring Europeans who have intruded into Aboriginal Australia. In this paper the ambivalence with which medical professionals are viewed by Aborigin…
Out of sight, out of mind—1. Emergent patterns of self-harm among aborigines of remote Australia
Out of sight, out of mind—2. Social and historical contexts of self-harmful behaviour among aborigines of remote Australia
The accommodation and support needs of people with a mental illness
This paper reports the results of a consumer-focused assessment of the accommodation and support needs of people with a mental illness living in a regional city. The study utilises a 'pathway to stability' approach to assess the phase-contingent accommodation and support needs of mental health consumers through interviews and focus groups with consumers, carers and service providers. The study identifies five broad phases of the life course impac…
Indigenous health and the contribution of sociology
few researchers seem to have reflected explicitly on the strengths and weaknesses of social science practised as episteme, techne, and phronesis, respectively. Even fewer are carrying out actual research on the basis of such reflection, and fewer still have set out the methodological considerations and guidelines for a phronesis-based social science (Bent Flyvbjerg 2001: 129)
The Use of Touch‐Screen Technology for Health‐Related Information in Indigenous Communities
The low health status of indigenous communities in Australia, and other countries, has been a continuing societal problem. One way to improve health status involves the provision of health‐related information. Computer‐based systems offer new ways to provide such information: thus their application can be seen as process innovations. This paper describes the use of touch‐screen technology to present health information in a culturally relevant fas…
RevisitingUjamaa
Tanzania's post-colonial social and economic policies, often referred to with the shorthand term of ujamaa and variously translated as 'familyhood' or 'African socialism', have attracted the attention of scholars since their inception. While the first analysts were interested in these policies primarily as strategies of development, historians have recently begun to focus on the importance of ujamaa and related political metaphors, particularly t…
Our common humanity’
If the concept of global civil society offers a way of thinking about the interwar period that does justice to the new linkages that were developing at the time, it also offers an opportunity to reflect on ‘the varied, contingent meanings of the global – and the limits to such globalist visions’, as this special issue makes clear. This article explores these themes in an African context in relation to two government periodicals, Mambo Leo and the…
Language, Empire and the World
While German colonialism as an imperial system was once neglected by historians, this neglect was less acute in the case of the histories of individual German colonies. Yet here too, new perspectives on German colonial and postcolonial history, informed by an attention to global and transnational entanglements, might offer new insights. In this article, I take the controversy over Karl Roehl's translation of the Bible into Swahili as a case study…
Dutiful Subjects, Patriotic Citizens, and the Concept of ‘Good Citizenship’ in Twentieth-Century Tanzania
The growing interest in citizenship among political theorists over the last two decades has encouraged historians of twentieth-century Africa to ask new questions of the colonial and early post-colonial period. These questions have, however, often focused on differential access to the rights associated with the legal status of citizenship, paying less attention to the ways in which conceptions of citizenship were developed, debated, and employed.…
A history of maendeleo
This chapter tells the story of the changing use of the term maendeleo in colonial Tanganyika between the turn of the century and independence in 1961. Hunter argues that it is only by appreciating the broad way in which maendeleo was understood in local contexts and the way that it served in part as a space in which to reflect on the meaning of modernity that we can make sense of its power then and now, and that the history of this keyword provi…
Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania
Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania is a study of the interplay of vernacular and global languages of politics in the era of decolonization in Africa. Decolonization is often understood as a moment when Western forms of political order were imposed on non-Western societies, but this book draws attention instead to debates over universal questions about the nature of politics, concept of freedom and the meaning of citizenship. Thes…
Agency, Citizenship and Resistance in Africa
"Agency, Citizenship and Resistance in Africa." Journal of Southern African Studies, 41(6), pp. 1362–1363
Voluntarism, Virtuous Citizenship, and Nation-Building in Late Colonial and Early Postcolonial Tanzania
This article offers a historical perspective on the concept of voluntarism in modern Africa. It does so by exploring the ways in which postcolonial states grappled with the legacies of colonial-era concepts of voluntarism, using Tanzania as a case study. It argues that the postcolonial state sought to combine two strands of colonial thinking about voluntarism in a new conception of "virtuous citizenship." But this was a fragile construction, and …
African Print Cultures
The essays collected in African Print Cultures claim African newspapers as subjects of historical and literary study. Newspapers were not only vehicles for anticolonial nationalism. They were also incubators of literary experimentation and networks by which new solidarities came into being. By focusing on the creative work that African editors and contributors did, this volume brings an infrastructure of African public culture into view. The firs…
Intellectual traditions in South Africa
Intellectual traditions in South Africa: ideas, individuals and institutions." Intellectual History Review, 26(2), pp. 316–317
Nation as grand narrative
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEmma HunterEMMA HUNTER is a lecturer in African History at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Political thought and the public sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, democracy and citizenship in the era of decolonization published by Cambridge University Press in 2015 and a co-editor of African print cultures: Newspapers and their publics in the 20th century, which will be published by Michigan Univ…
Languages of Freedom in Decolonising Africa the Gladstone Prize Winner
The ‘triumph of liberalism’ in the mid-twentieth-century west is well known and much studied. But what has it meant for the way the decolonisation of Africa has been viewed, both at the time and since? In this paper, I suggest that it has quietly but effectively shaped our understanding of African political thinking in the 1950s to 1960s. Although the nationalist framing that once led historians to neglect those aspects of the political thinking …
Newspapers as Sources for African History
Newspapers have become increasingly important as a source for African history, and the range of historical questions newspapers have been employed to address has expanded dramatically. Newspapers are not only sources for political history, they also have much to teach us about the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Africa. They were spaces of literary and textual experimentation. They also played an important role in the creation of ne…
Modernity, Print Media, and the Middle Class in Colonial East Africa
Modernity, Print Media, and the Middle Class in Colonial East Africa
This chapter takes a look at colonial East Africa. On the one hand, the chapter shows that the colonial economy and racial hierarchies of East Africa offered little potential for the growth of an African bourgeoisie. On the other hand, it demonstrates that in the cultural rather than the economic sphere, a slightly different picture emerges. Looking at the Swahili-language government and the mission newspapers of colonial Zanzibar and Tanganyika …
Modernity, Print Media, and the Middle Class in Colonial East Africa
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