Christine J Walley
Biographic Data
| ID | 76906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine J Walley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine J |
| FAMILY NAME | Walley |
| SIGNATURE | WALLEY C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6014-3167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 205 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Unsettling the self: Autoethnography and related kin
Autoethnography, intimate ethnography, and ethnographic memoir have become increasingly central modes of anthropological writing. Although this trend has historical precedents, as found in the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Ruth Behar, and others, this two-part special section explores the directions this work is taking, the potential contributions of such writing, and how we might analyze this trend. What does the expansion of these anthropological…
Living in the Paraindustrial
This article is an autoethnographic exploration of life in the former steel mill region of Southeast Chicago in the 'Rust Belt' of the Midwestern United States. It challenges assumptions about deindustrialization that depict one discrete historical stage following another (i.e., the postindustrial following the industrial) in favor of what is here defined as the 'paraindustrial' (or a setting in which active industry with minimal numbers of worke…
Bringing a Working-Class Archive Online: Multimodal Storytelling in a Post-Industrial City
Trump's election and the "white working class": What we missed
In the buildup to the extraordinarily divisive 2016 US presidential election, much discussion focused on an often-ignored group-the "white working class," which was identified early on as a key constituency of Donald Trump. During the election, many pollsters and journalists defined working class as a group comprising people who lack a four-year college degree. This definition, however, lumps together an extraordinarily broad range of groups with…
Transmedia as experimental ethnography: The Exit Zero Project, deindustrialization, and the politics of nostalgia
How might "transmedia" approaches-or working across media-fit into histories of textual and visual innovation within anthropology, and what might they contribute to the discipline in the current moment? I explore this question through the Exit Zero Project, which includes a book, documentary film, and planned interactive website that examine the impact of deindustrialization on Southeast Chicago and the relationship between industrial job loss an…
Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park
Rough Waters explores one of the most crucial problems of the contemporary era--struggles over access to, and use of, the environment. It combines insights from anthropology, history, and environmental studies, mounting an interdisciplinary challenge to contemporary accounts of "globalization." The book focuses on The Mafia Island Marine Park, a national park in Tanzania that became the center of political conflict during its creation in the mid-…
Our Ancestors Used to Bury their 'Development' in the Ground: Modernity and the Meanings of Development within a Tanzanian Marine Park
Building upon critiques that suggest that the concept of alternative modernities may too readily slip into an easy pluralism, this article instead directs attention to competing uses of the concept of the "modern" within a single location. Linking ideas of the modern with those of "development," this article explores the disparate meanings given to development within Tanzania's internationally-sponsored Mafia Island Marine Park. It considers how …
They Scorn us Because We are Uneducated: Knowledge and Power in a Tanzanian Marine Park
This article addresses the relationship between science and popular knowledge within Tanzania's Mafia Island Marine Park. It examines the ways in which various forms of knowledge circulate within the park, as well as how knowledge is evaluated and used by representatives of international organizations, national government officials, and Mafia residents. Despite the ostensibly `participatory' goals of the marine park, island residents continue to …
"Searching for "Voices: Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debate over Female Genital Operations
This article lays the groundwork for a feminist and anthropological political response to female genital "operations" that transcends the current debate over the phenomenon, which is couched in terms of cultural relativism or of politically-informed outrage. After an introduction, the study considers the politics involved in assigning a name to the procedure and explains the author's reason for choosing female genital "operation" over the more co…
"Searching for "Voices: Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debate over Female Genital Operations
This article lays the groundwork for a feminist and anthropological political response to female genital "operations" that transcends the current debate over the phenomenon, which is couched in terms of cultural relativism or of politically-informed outrage. After an introduction, the study considers the politics involved in assigning a name to the procedure and explains the author's reason for choosing female genital "operation" over the more co…
Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park
Rough Waters explores one of the most crucial problems of the contemporary era--struggles over access to, and use of, the environment. It combines insights from anthropology, history, and environmental studies, mounting an interdisciplinary challenge to contemporary accounts of "globalization." The book focuses on The Mafia Island Marine Park, a national park in Tanzania that became the center of political conflict during its creation in the mid-…
Trump's election and the "white working class": What we missed
In the buildup to the extraordinarily divisive 2016 US presidential election, much discussion focused on an often-ignored group-the "white working class," which was identified early on as a key constituency of Donald Trump. During the election, many pollsters and journalists defined working class as a group comprising people who lack a four-year college degree. This definition, however, lumps together an extraordinarily broad range of groups with…
Transmedia as experimental ethnography: The Exit Zero Project, deindustrialization, and the politics of nostalgia
How might "transmedia" approaches-or working across media-fit into histories of textual and visual innovation within anthropology, and what might they contribute to the discipline in the current moment? I explore this question through the Exit Zero Project, which includes a book, documentary film, and planned interactive website that examine the impact of deindustrialization on Southeast Chicago and the relationship between industrial job loss an…
They Scorn us Because We are Uneducated: Knowledge and Power in a Tanzanian Marine Park
This article addresses the relationship between science and popular knowledge within Tanzania's Mafia Island Marine Park. It examines the ways in which various forms of knowledge circulate within the park, as well as how knowledge is evaluated and used by representatives of international organizations, national government officials, and Mafia residents. Despite the ostensibly `participatory' goals of the marine park, island residents continue to …
Unsettling the self: Autoethnography and related kin
Autoethnography, intimate ethnography, and ethnographic memoir have become increasingly central modes of anthropological writing. Although this trend has historical precedents, as found in the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Ruth Behar, and others, this two-part special section explores the directions this work is taking, the potential contributions of such writing, and how we might analyze this trend. What does the expansion of these anthropological…
Our Ancestors Used to Bury their 'Development' in the Ground: Modernity and the Meanings of Development within a Tanzanian Marine Park
Building upon critiques that suggest that the concept of alternative modernities may too readily slip into an easy pluralism, this article instead directs attention to competing uses of the concept of the "modern" within a single location. Linking ideas of the modern with those of "development," this article explores the disparate meanings given to development within Tanzania's internationally-sponsored Mafia Island Marine Park. It considers how …
Living in the Paraindustrial
This article is an autoethnographic exploration of life in the former steel mill region of Southeast Chicago in the 'Rust Belt' of the Midwestern United States. It challenges assumptions about deindustrialization that depict one discrete historical stage following another (i.e., the postindustrial following the industrial) in favor of what is here defined as the 'paraindustrial' (or a setting in which active industry with minimal numbers of worke…
"Searching for "Voices: Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debate over Female Genital Operations
This article lays the groundwork for a feminist and anthropological political response to female genital "operations" that transcends the current debate over the phenomenon, which is couched in terms of cultural relativism or of politically-informed outrage. After an introduction, the study considers the politics involved in assigning a name to the procedure and explains the author's reason for choosing female genital "operation" over the more co…
They Scorn us Because We are Uneducated: Knowledge and Power in a Tanzanian Marine Park
This article addresses the relationship between science and popular knowledge within Tanzania's Mafia Island Marine Park. It examines the ways in which various forms of knowledge circulate within the park, as well as how knowledge is evaluated and used by representatives of international organizations, national government officials, and Mafia residents. Despite the ostensibly `participatory' goals of the marine park, island residents continue to …
Our Ancestors Used to Bury their 'Development' in the Ground: Modernity and the Meanings of Development within a Tanzanian Marine Park
Building upon critiques that suggest that the concept of alternative modernities may too readily slip into an easy pluralism, this article instead directs attention to competing uses of the concept of the "modern" within a single location. Linking ideas of the modern with those of "development," this article explores the disparate meanings given to development within Tanzania's internationally-sponsored Mafia Island Marine Park. It considers how …
Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park
Rough Waters explores one of the most crucial problems of the contemporary era--struggles over access to, and use of, the environment. It combines insights from anthropology, history, and environmental studies, mounting an interdisciplinary challenge to contemporary accounts of "globalization." The book focuses on The Mafia Island Marine Park, a national park in Tanzania that became the center of political conflict during its creation in the mid-…
Transmedia as experimental ethnography: The Exit Zero Project, deindustrialization, and the politics of nostalgia
How might "transmedia" approaches-or working across media-fit into histories of textual and visual innovation within anthropology, and what might they contribute to the discipline in the current moment? I explore this question through the Exit Zero Project, which includes a book, documentary film, and planned interactive website that examine the impact of deindustrialization on Southeast Chicago and the relationship between industrial job loss an…
Trump's election and the "white working class": What we missed
In the buildup to the extraordinarily divisive 2016 US presidential election, much discussion focused on an often-ignored group-the "white working class," which was identified early on as a key constituency of Donald Trump. During the election, many pollsters and journalists defined working class as a group comprising people who lack a four-year college degree. This definition, however, lumps together an extraordinarily broad range of groups with…
Bringing a Working-Class Archive Online: Multimodal Storytelling in a Post-Industrial City
Unsettling the self: Autoethnography and related kin
Autoethnography, intimate ethnography, and ethnographic memoir have become increasingly central modes of anthropological writing. Although this trend has historical precedents, as found in the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Ruth Behar, and others, this two-part special section explores the directions this work is taking, the potential contributions of such writing, and how we might analyze this trend. What does the expansion of these anthropological…
Living in the Paraindustrial
This article is an autoethnographic exploration of life in the former steel mill region of Southeast Chicago in the 'Rust Belt' of the Midwestern United States. It challenges assumptions about deindustrialization that depict one discrete historical stage following another (i.e., the postindustrial following the industrial) in favor of what is here defined as the 'paraindustrial' (or a setting in which active industry with minimal numbers of worke…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Autoethnography (2 works)