Fiona P Mcdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 78543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona P Mcdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONALD F P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-4591-7363 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Data as Living Entities— Reflections on Values-Driven Approaches to Relational Data in Partnered Research
Data relationality is not a typical research value in western academia. This article focuses on the often-overlooked value of data relationships (or relationships with data) in research collaborations, particularly in partnered research with industry, community partners, and Indigenous communities. Drawing on our own research contexts in Canada, we show how relationships with data, informed by shared values among research partners, can lead to mo…
Critical Research Spaces as Scholarship
The creation of critical research spaces, such as ethnography labs, studios, and other collaborative research environments, requires attention and attunement in anthropology to focus on the kinds of imaginative and generative spaces where creative ethnographic research can unfold as scholarship . This article reflects on the recent design, construction, and implementation process of the Collaborative + Experimental Ethnography Lab at the Universi…
Feamainne (Seaweed) Sensory Biocultural Heritage in Ireland's Gaeltacht Archipelago
The significance and representation of seaweed in Éire (Ireland) is remediated through a complex historical and sensory discussion that situates seaweed as biocultural heritage. The deeply sensory stories of seaweed in Ireland foreground highly localized efforts to use seaweed‐ based traditions to support local practices that emerge from longstanding agro‐ecologies in the Islands of western Ireland, known as the Gaeltacht region. This discussion …
Wedding Clothes and the Osage Community
The work is a book review considering the title Wedding Clothes and the Osage Community: A Giving Heritage by Daniel C. Swan and Jim Cooley (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019
Reframing Activism, Labor, and Collaborative Futures in Visual Anthropology
Collaboration in Virtual Environments
During COVID-19, many collaborative research teams and community partners pivoted to undertake their work in a virtual way. In this discussion, we capture the mechanics, logic, and situations under which virtual methods became relevant to applied interdisciplinary work. Using a shared voice, we chart the nuances of training and research through the redesign, the reimagining of research protocols, and the nuanced cultural gaps that exist between v…
Reframe, Redesign, Realign
Empathy, Care, and Dialogue
Performing Water Rights on Cochiti Dam
A Multimodal Approach to the Anthropocene
providing a diverse community of users with an entry point into some of the big concepts and debates that dominate interdisciplinary discussions about the Anthropocene.It provides a pedagogical framework to guide individual, collaborative, interactive, and open learning in both formal and informal learning environments.As a living document, it continues to grow through the addition of new content (e.g., learning modules, podcasts, interviews, blo…
Ethnographic Terminalia
Ethnographic Terminalia is a collective project that brings together art and anthropology within the gallery space. This article traces the origin of the project, its past and current exhibitions, and situates for the reader the scope of how various projects from installations, to sound works, sculptures, photography, film, community‐based works, material culture, and performance transcend the borders of art and anthropology. The essays that foll…
Ethnographic Terminalia 2010
The projects presented in Ethnographic Terminalia 2010: New Orleans—27 Works contextualize each work within the 2010 exhibition installed in New Orleans at the Du Mois Gallery. The summary of each project in this article captures the methodology of research that informs the conversation between art and anthropology, as well as demonstrating the full scope of the exhibition that includes works from film to photography, material culture, installati…
Ethnographic Terminalia
Ethnographic Terminalia is a collective project that brings together art and anthropology within the gallery space. This article traces the origin of the project, its past and current exhibitions, and situates for the reader the scope of how various projects from installations, to sound works, sculptures, photography, film, community‐based works, material culture, and performance transcend the borders of art and anthropology. The essays that foll…
Reframe, Redesign, Realign
A Multimodal Approach to the Anthropocene
providing a diverse community of users with an entry point into some of the big concepts and debates that dominate interdisciplinary discussions about the Anthropocene.It provides a pedagogical framework to guide individual, collaborative, interactive, and open learning in both formal and informal learning environments.As a living document, it continues to grow through the addition of new content (e.g., learning modules, podcasts, interviews, blo…
Ethnographic Terminalia
Ethnographic Terminalia is a collective project that brings together art and anthropology within the gallery space. This article traces the origin of the project, its past and current exhibitions, and situates for the reader the scope of how various projects from installations, to sound works, sculptures, photography, film, community‐based works, material culture, and performance transcend the borders of art and anthropology. The essays that foll…
Ethnographic Terminalia 2010
The projects presented in Ethnographic Terminalia 2010: New Orleans—27 Works contextualize each work within the 2010 exhibition installed in New Orleans at the Du Mois Gallery. The summary of each project in this article captures the methodology of research that informs the conversation between art and anthropology, as well as demonstrating the full scope of the exhibition that includes works from film to photography, material culture, installati…
Performing Water Rights on Cochiti Dam
A Multimodal Approach to the Anthropocene
providing a diverse community of users with an entry point into some of the big concepts and debates that dominate interdisciplinary discussions about the Anthropocene.It provides a pedagogical framework to guide individual, collaborative, interactive, and open learning in both formal and informal learning environments.As a living document, it continues to grow through the addition of new content (e.g., learning modules, podcasts, interviews, blo…
Reframe, Redesign, Realign
Empathy, Care, and Dialogue
Reframing Activism, Labor, and Collaborative Futures in Visual Anthropology
Collaboration in Virtual Environments
During COVID-19, many collaborative research teams and community partners pivoted to undertake their work in a virtual way. In this discussion, we capture the mechanics, logic, and situations under which virtual methods became relevant to applied interdisciplinary work. Using a shared voice, we chart the nuances of training and research through the redesign, the reimagining of research protocols, and the nuanced cultural gaps that exist between v…
Wedding Clothes and the Osage Community
The work is a book review considering the title Wedding Clothes and the Osage Community: A Giving Heritage by Daniel C. Swan and Jim Cooley (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019
Feamainne (Seaweed) Sensory Biocultural Heritage in Ireland's Gaeltacht Archipelago
The significance and representation of seaweed in Éire (Ireland) is remediated through a complex historical and sensory discussion that situates seaweed as biocultural heritage. The deeply sensory stories of seaweed in Ireland foreground highly localized efforts to use seaweed‐ based traditions to support local practices that emerge from longstanding agro‐ecologies in the Islands of western Ireland, known as the Gaeltacht region. This discussion …
Data as Living Entities— Reflections on Values-Driven Approaches to Relational Data in Partnered Research
Data relationality is not a typical research value in western academia. This article focuses on the often-overlooked value of data relationships (or relationships with data) in research collaborations, particularly in partnered research with industry, community partners, and Indigenous communities. Drawing on our own research contexts in Canada, we show how relationships with data, informed by shared values among research partners, can lead to mo…
Critical Research Spaces as Scholarship
The creation of critical research spaces, such as ethnography labs, studios, and other collaborative research environments, requires attention and attunement in anthropology to focus on the kinds of imaginative and generative spaces where creative ethnographic research can unfold as scholarship . This article reflects on the recent design, construction, and implementation process of the Collaborative + Experimental Ethnography Lab at the Universi…
Computer Science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Citation (5 works) · Library science (5 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)