Andrew Metcalfe
Biographic Data
| ID | 82795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Metcalfe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Metcalfe |
| SIGNATURE | METCALFE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6293-1706 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 488 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Codeveloping a Novel Intervention for People With Post‐Covid Condition: The Balance‐ACT Study
INTRODUCTION: Some people experience persistent symptoms, such as fatigue, brain fog and breathlessness, long after the onset of COVID-19 infection. This is known as the post-COVID syndrome (PCS). We developed a unique and holistic psycho-physiological intervention that integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a structured talking therapy, with principles of homeostasis. This aims to provide targeted support and treatment strategies fo…
Human research ethics committees
What Does Sustainability Mean? Knowledge Gleaned From Applying Mixed Methods Research to Wine Grape Growing
We present outcomes from a mixed methods research project in agricultural sciences. An atypical methodology for sciences was developed as the only way to avoid embedded assumptions commonly seen in sustainability investigations. Eighty-three upper echelon participants from the wine grape industry participated in 14 focus groups in five countries: Australia, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States. Quantitative measures were compar…
Solitude as a Community of Difference
Through an analysis of the experiences of early morning beach-goers at Bondi, this article shows that there is a fundamentally important form of solitude that is characterized by both separation and connection. This form of solitude cannot be understood when seen in terms of sociological theories of alienation or psychological theories of privacy, both of which one-sidedly emphasize separation. The article also shows that, associated with this so…
Ecological Being
This article develops an understanding of ecological being that, we argue, is based on the ontology of relation. We make a conceptual distinction between subject-based and relational ontological forms. While these ontological forms coexist in everyday life, we argue that ecological awareness arises only from the time and space of relational ontology. Ecological awareness involves open response to difference. When awareness is an attribute of a su…
How to Understand Custodial Belonging
Debates about ecological responsibility are interested in different forms of belonging. This article develops an understanding of a custodial form of belonging based on the logic of relation, which we distinguish from a proprietorial form of belonging based on the logic of identity. Theorists working on questions of belonging use a language of custodianship when describing a sense of responsibility and care that arises through connection or relat…
Sociology teaching as a vocation
Important issues are obscured if people assume that describing sociology as a vocation is talking of it as a career. Drawing on Max Weber and Martin Buber, I argue that a vocation only exists when there is a shift in the space, time and ontology of ordinary purposive life. When manifesting a vocation, the sociologist is not an acting subject but part of an unfolding presence. Understood vocationally, then, sociology should not be taught as an obj…
Food Waste Bins: Bridging Infrastructures and Practices
Recent years have seen an increasing number of councils begin separate food waste collections from domestic premises, a change that has resulted in householders having to sort food waste and keep it in separate bins until collection. Yet bins - of any kind - have been subject to little investigation, despite being a central element of the waste infrastructure. This paper attends to this omission by examining food bins. First of all, it explores t…
Belonging: From identity logic to relational logic
Recent work in Australian cultural studies has drawn on Mauss' analysis of gift-exchange to question the common presumption that social encounters necessarily involve either opposition or appropriation. This article agrees with these writers on empirical grounds, but argues that, rigorously speaking, exchange is based on identity logic which is necessarily oppositional. There is therefore a tension between, on the one hand, their use of the langu…
Hospitality: How Woundedness Heals
This article is based on the ethnography of a drop‐in center for the destitute. Making a distinction between curing and healing, we argue that this center heals through its hospitality; its open acceptance of mutual woundedness. Rather than being the problem to be cured, woundedness heals the fantasies of perfection that alienate us from each other and from our whole being. Hospitality brings people together in the wholeness of community, and the…
‘If they don't eat it, it's not a proper meal’: Images of risk and choice in fathers' accounts of family food practices
Food practices and parenting practices are currently the object of sustained public debate, in connection with health risks. This article discusses findings from a qualitative study of fathers' involvement in shopping, preparing and consuming food for or with their children. Perspectives from and about fathers have been somewhat marginal to previous research on food and health; this article examines the ways fathers conceptualised risk and risk m…
Concrete chips and soggy semolina: The contested spaces of the school dinner hall
Recent years have seen a renewed popular interest in school meals, following criticism that they lacked adequate nutritional value. Underlying this is an apparent concern with civilising children: feeding them the right types of food will ensure they are properly shaped and disciplined, becoming competent social actors. Current discourses often suggest a picture of two distinct and competing sets of actors: one (the state) has power to impose its…
My corner of the world: Bachelard and Bondi Beach
The Ghosts That Walk: A Critique of Objectivism in Marxism
Fraternity and Terror: The Organization of Violence in Everyday Life
This paper was inspired by participant observation in the Coalfields towns of the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. It is an attempt to demonstrate the significance of violence in the political practice of coal-miners. This significance has been overlooked in the recent enthusiasm for studies of ‘dominant ideologies’. Beyond this, the paper is an attempt to theorize the role of routine violence in the formation, maintenance and dissolution of soc…
Creative Practice: The time of grace
This article addresses the time of creative practice, the transformations brought about by the ritualization of activity. We argue that the discipline of ascetic practice allows the emergence of gift, that is, that it allows things to happen through rituals rather than the will of participants. This is a giving- and-receiving that occurs in open states that suspend the boundaries of the subject, of inside and outside, of giver or receiver. The va…
Caring for the Destitute: Finding a Calling
It is commonly assumed that the motives of caregivers influence the quality of care given. Many assume that good caring can only take place where the caregiver's motives are altruistic, where the giver has no desire for returns or rewards. Others argue that there are always subjective motives involved, that givers always receive something in return: apparently selfless motives mask the workings of ubiquitous exchange logic. While the focus on the…
The Screen and the Drum: On Form, Function, Fit and Failure in Contemporary Home Consumption
This paper explores consumers' connections to their domestic objects. Focusing on two particular objects (televisions and vacuum cleaners), the paper reflects upon why consumers desire particular domestic objects and how they assemble, arrange and use things in the home. It reveals how functionality is intimately infused with form, how design informs the consumption of everyday domestic objects and how both function and form can fail, deceive and…
Practices of Object Maintenance and Repair: How consumers attend to consumer objects within the home
This article examines the practices of object maintenance in the home. Drawing on depth ethnographic research with households in north-east England, the article uses three object stories to show that ordinary consumer objects are continually becoming in the course of their lives in the home and that practices of object maintenance are central to this becoming. Located in a field of action and practice, consumer objects are shown to display traces…
The Dull Compulsion of Economic Relations: A Critique of the Zers-Sum Conception of Oppression
According to one of the most influential formulations of the zero-sum conception of oppression, the proletariat has nothing to lose in uprising but its chains. The oppressed people studied in this paper, however, had much more at stake. The dull compulsion of economic relations acted as a ‘tertiary negative injunction’, stopping their escape from the wage-labour/capital relation and trapping their political practice within double binds. They were…
Meetings: Gifts without exchange
This article examines the different theories of meeting offered by Durkheim, Mauss, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Bohm, Levinas and Buber. Through this examination we question the common assumption that social life, and more particularly the gift, is based on exchange — on the sequence of giving, receiving and reciprocating — which is fundamentally a Hegelian logic of subjects and objects. While many aspects of social life take this form, true meeting is…
From the De-Centred Subject to Relationality
Inside and outside the school lunchbox: Themes and reflections
We examine here the discourses surrounding the lunchbox taken to school by children: aspects both of the contents and of how children consume and understand these.1 The observations presented here form part of the preliminary stages of a broader project examining ‘Men, Children and Food’. The project itself is part of a large research programme – ‘Changing Families, Changing Food’ – funded by the Leverhulme Trust (award number F/00118/AQ) from 20…
The significance of signs
In Camera Lucida, Barthes makes a distinction between a semiological approach and a phenomenological approach to the sign. While semiotic theory has usually focused on signs that work through mediation and representation, in this article we investigate the possibility of a sign that is immediate, experienced as a presence. This is not a sign of, or even the impossibility of a sign of; rather, it is a sign that just is, without an elsewhere to ref…
The Teacher’s Vocation: Ontology of Response
Moving things along: The Conduits and Practices of Divestment in Consumption
This paper provides a geographical analysis of divestment. Drawing on two years of intensive qualitative research with households, we explore empirically the range of conduits that figure in household divestment, showing how surplus and excess things are routinely moved through specific conduits. We argue that, rather than focusing on the trajectories of things in divestment, it is practices of divestment that merit attention, and that divestment…
Identity, Mobility, and the Throwaway Society
This paper provides a critique of the concept of the throwaway society. Drawing on two years of intensive qualitative research, we argue that the concept of the throwaway society does not bear scrutiny. Rather than throwing things away households are shown consistently to engage in simultaneous practices of saving and wasting when getting rid of consumer objects. Saving and wasting are shown to be critical to materialising identities and the key …
Passionate Sociology
What is passionate sociology? Does sociology merit passion? Too often sociology is taught as a detached system of thought and practice. Passion is regarded as something to be avoided or treated with suspicion. Now at last we have a book that frankly argues for passion as being necessary for sociology. The text is not simply about passionate sociology, it demonstrates passionate sociology
Practices of Object Maintenance and Repair: How consumers attend to consumer objects within the home
This article examines the practices of object maintenance in the home. Drawing on depth ethnographic research with households in north-east England, the article uses three object stories to show that ordinary consumer objects are continually becoming in the course of their lives in the home and that practices of object maintenance are central to this becoming. Located in a field of action and practice, consumer objects are shown to display traces…
Storage and Clutter: Discourses and Practices of Order in the Domestic World
This article examines discourses and practices of storage and clutter in relation to the social construction of the home in contemporary Britain. The role of storage practices has been overlooked in much of the literature on consumption, material culture, design and the home. And yet, especially since the 1990s, there has been an explosion in popular cultural forms of discussion and representations of the home while much of this has explored the …
My corner of the world: Bachelard and Bondi Beach
Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain
Introduction: 'Free Time' in the 20th Century PART 1: COMMERCIAL SPORT AND LEISURE The 'Peculiar Economics' of the People's Games Going to the Pictures: America and the Cinema Mediating the Event: Sport and the Media PART 2: LEISURE, THE HOME AND VOLUNTARY ACTIVITY Leisure and the Home: Radio and Television Youth and the Problem of Leisure The Club Principle PART 3: PUBLIC POLICY: THE ROLE OF THE STATE State and Politics in Sport and Leisure From…
The Curriculum Vitae: Confessions of a Wage-Labourer
This paper examines the curriculum vitae as a confessional document. The C.V. and similar devices have a crucial role in encouraging workers to take personal responsibility for the step leading from the surveillance, normalising judgements and examinations of the school to the new disciplinary and confessional regimes of the paid workplace. They also have an important role in making wage-labour seem both `free' and destined. The article argues th…
The Demonology of Class: The iconography of the coalminer and the symbolic construction of political boundaries
Food Waste Bins: Bridging Infrastructures and Practices
Recent years have seen an increasing number of councils begin separate food waste collections from domestic premises, a change that has resulted in householders having to sort food waste and keep it in separate bins until collection. Yet bins - of any kind - have been subject to little investigation, despite being a central element of the waste infrastructure. This paper attends to this omission by examining food bins. First of all, it explores t…
Inside and outside the school lunchbox: Themes and reflections
We examine here the discourses surrounding the lunchbox taken to school by children: aspects both of the contents and of how children consume and understand these.1 The observations presented here form part of the preliminary stages of a broader project examining ‘Men, Children and Food’. The project itself is part of a large research programme – ‘Changing Families, Changing Food’ – funded by the Leverhulme Trust (award number F/00118/AQ) from 20…
For Freedom and Dignity: Historical Agency and Class Structures in the Coalfields of NSW
Sport, Politics and the Working Class
Football in the mining communities of east Northumberland, 1882–1914
(1988). Football in the mining communities of east Northumberland, 1882–1914. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 269-291
Canada Learns to Play: The Emergence of Organized Sport, 1807-1914
Creative Practice: The time of grace
This article addresses the time of creative practice, the transformations brought about by the ritualization of activity. We argue that the discipline of ascetic practice allows the emergence of gift, that is, that it allows things to happen through rituals rather than the will of participants. This is a giving- and-receiving that occurs in open states that suspend the boundaries of the subject, of inside and outside, of giver or receiver. The va…
Mud and Steel: The Imagination of Newcastle
According to James Docherty, modern Newcastle 'is widely regarded as an ideal place for market research because the people are considered statistically representative of Australians'. This may explain why the district's electoral swings are solemnly investigated for signs of health or morbidity in the Australian Labor Party's 'heartland'. While it is not clear what 'heartland' and 'typical Australian' connote, there is no doubt that Newcastle has…
Manning the Mines: Organising women out of class struggle
Stories of Crisis: Restructuring Australian Industry and Rewriting the Past
Concrete chips and soggy semolina: The contested spaces of the school dinner hall
Recent years have seen a renewed popular interest in school meals, following criticism that they lacked adequate nutritional value. Underlying this is an apparent concern with civilising children: feeding them the right types of food will ensure they are properly shaped and disciplined, becoming competent social actors. Current discourses often suggest a picture of two distinct and competing sets of actors: one (the state) has power to impose its…
The Development of Sporting Facilities: A Case Study of East Northumberland, England, 1850-1914
The paper provides an historical description of the enclosure of sporting facilities in East Northumberland. It demonstrates the importance of the larger social context and the interaction between different social groups in the creation of commercial grounds, community recreation grounds, public parks and recreation grounds. From a theoretical perspective it was found that neither social control nor hegemony encompassed the reality. However, stru…
The Teacher’s Vocation: Ontology of Response
It Was the Right Time To Do It: Moving House, the Life-Course andKairos
While much has been written on the two issues of home and of residential mobility, little has been written on the experience of moving house. This paper aims to fill this gap. While work on residential mobility has tended to conceptualise it in terms of transitions in the life‐course as triggering moves, this paper explores how these moves are experienced and narrated by those moving house. In doing so, it develops the concept of kairos, an ancie…
Leisure and Recreation in a Victorian Mining Community: The Social Economy of Leisure in North-East England, 1820–1914
Amusements they must have, or life would hardly be worth living...' Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 1895 This text explores life in the mining villages of the north-east of England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a time of massive social and industrial change. The sporting lives of these communities are often marginalized by historians, but this thoroughly researched account reveals how play as well as work were central to the lives…
Leisure, Sport and Working Class Cultures
Presence of the Gift
Philosophers, social theorists and cultural theorists have generally followed Mauss in assuming that gifts entail obligatory exchanges between distinct parties who give, receive and reciprocate, and, that the social emerges through this sequence of obligations. It is the obligation to reciprocate, for example, that led Derrida to claim that the gift is impossible. We consider the alternative ideas that non-exchange gifts are not only possible but…
LE SPORT AU Canada FRANÇAIS AU 19e SIÈCLE: Le Cas De Montréal, 1800–1914
L'histoire du sport s'enracine dans celle d'une société, de ses institutions, de ses structures sociales, de ses bases économiques, des forces de changement en présence. Le sujet de l'émergence du sport organisé dans la population francophone de Montréal, (puisque cette ville fut le noyau des débuts du sport organisé), a été divisé en trois parties: la croissance des clubs sportifs sociaux, le développement de sport d'équipe organisé, l'histoire …
Footballers and Businessmen: The Origins of Professional Soccer in England
Research
Manning the Mines: Organising women out of class struggle
Football in the mining communities of east Northumberland, 1882–1914
(1988). Football in the mining communities of east Northumberland, 1882–1914. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 269-291
Canada Learns to Play: The Emergence of Organized Sport, 1807-1914
The Struggle To Be Human: The Moral Dimension of Class Struggle
The importance of freedom and dignity: A reply to John Iremonger
(1989). he importance of freedom and dignity: A reply to John Iremonger. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 49-68
Leisure, Sport and Working Class Cultures
Sport and space: A case‐study of the growth of recreational facilities in East Northumberland, 1850–1914
(1990). Sport and space: a case‐study of the growth of recreational facilities in East Northumberland, 1850–1914. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 348-364
For Freedom and Dignity: Historical Agency and Class Structures in the Coalfields of NSW
Sport, Politics and the Working Class
The Demonology of Class: The iconography of the coalminer and the symbolic construction of political boundaries
The Anatomy of Power in Amateur Sport in Ontario 1918-1936
For Freedom and Dignity: Historical Agency and Class Structures in the Coalfield of N.S.W
The Social History of English Rowing
Useful Pleasures: The Shaping of Leisure in Alberta, 1846-1945
The Curriculum Vitae: Confessions of a Wage-Labourer
This paper examines the curriculum vitae as a confessional document. The C.V. and similar devices have a crucial role in encouraging workers to take personal responsibility for the step leading from the surveillance, normalising judgements and examinations of the school to the new disciplinary and confessional regimes of the paid workplace. They also have an important role in making wage-labour seem both `free' and destined. The article argues th…
Living in a Clinic: The Power of Public Health Promotions
Drawing on an anthropological study of the Cessnock area of New South Wales, this paper considers the politics of recent health promotion campaigns in Australia, placing the new ‘healthist’ discourse in its historical context. Whereas Cessnock people were once said to be bestial, or childish, or sick, they are now said to be fat. Whereas Methodism was once prescribed as the solution, doctors now order a rational and maximising attitude to life. I…
The History of Black Mineworkers in South Africa: Volume 1 - The Techniques of Resistance, 1871-1848
Mud and Steel: The Imagination of Newcastle
According to James Docherty, modern Newcastle 'is widely regarded as an ideal place for market research because the people are considered statistically representative of Australians'. This may explain why the district's electoral swings are solemnly investigated for signs of health or morbidity in the Australian Labor Party's 'heartland'. While it is not clear what 'heartland' and 'typical Australian' connote, there is no doubt that Newcastle has…
The Development of Sporting Facilities: A Case Study of East Northumberland, England, 1850-1914
The paper provides an historical description of the enclosure of sporting facilities in East Northumberland. It demonstrates the importance of the larger social context and the interaction between different social groups in the creation of commercial grounds, community recreation grounds, public parks and recreation grounds. From a theoretical perspective it was found that neither social control nor hegemony encompassed the reality. However, stru…
Stories of Crisis: Restructuring Australian Industry and Rewriting the Past
The Meaning of Amateurism: A Case Study of Canadian Sport, 1884-1970
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