William Cunningham Bissell
Biographic Data
| ID | 85182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Cunningham Bissell |
| GIVEN NAMES | William Cunningham |
| FAMILY NAME | Bissell |
| SIGNATURE | BISSELL W C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lafayette College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mediated Ethnography
Cities have long challenged anthropologists to push beyond classical assumptions of the field, both methodologically and theoretically.From its origins, ethnography was predicated on certain core techniques: long-term immersion; embeddedness in place; face-to-face contact; facility with local idioms and everyday forms; and a detailed sense of sociocultural complexity developed over time.Anthropologists may not have studied villages per se, as Gee…
Social Memory, Silenced Voices, and Political Struggle: Remembering the Revolution in Zanzibar
The modern life of Swahili stonetowns
The modern life of Swahili stonetowns - 1
Burning the Mabanda: Incendiary Acts, Interpretive Frames, and Iconoclash in the Indian Ocean
September 01 2012 Burning the Mabanda: Incendiary Acts, Interpretive Frames, and Iconoclash in the Indian Ocean William Cunningham Bissell William Cunningham Bissell William Cunningham Bissell is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Lafayette College. His most recent book, Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar (2011), focuses on the irrationality and incoherence of modern planning. bissellw@lafayette…
Glassman, Jonathon: War of Words, War of Stones. Racial Thoughts and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar
Anthropos , Seite 255 - 256
From dhow culture to the diaspora: Ziff, film, and the framing of transnational imaginaries in the western Indian Ocean
Coastal East Africa has been dramatically re-imagined in recent years. Popular culture and mass media have played a central role in sparking new visions of how Zanzibar in particular “connects” with the wider world. For more than a decade now, both the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) and the Sauti za Busara music festival have worked to resituate Zanzibar regionally and within a wider diasporic and transnational Indian Ocean milieu. T…
Between Fixity and Fantasy: Assessing the Spatial Impact of Colonial Urban Dualism
This essay seeks to historicize shifting views of colonial urbanism since the 1960s. Dualistic oppositions once dominated scholarly understandings of colonial cities, but more recently postcolonial visions of hybridity and indeterminacy have come to the fore. More than shifts in academic paradigms are at stake; indeed, such divergent discourses raise critical questions as to how we should interpret urban forms and processes more generally. Instea…
Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar
Modernity and metropolis in East Africa
Cultivating Success in Uganda: Kigezi Farmers & Colonial Policies (review)
Where Humans and Spirits Meet: The Politics of Rituals and Identified Spirits in Zanzibar
From Iraq to Katrina and Back: Bureaucratic Planning as Strategic Failure, Fiction, and Fantasy
Bureaucratic planning is a complex sociocultural process rife with vested interests, contradictory aims, and internal conflicts. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the US occupation of Iraq, contemporary media discourses on planning have downplayed this complexity and diverted attention away from a more nuanced understanding of planning as a sociological process. In this article, I show how policy and press debates regarding bureaucratic planni…
Casting a long shadow: Colonial categories, cultural identities, and cosmopolitan spaces in globalizing Africa
(2007). Casting a long shadow: colonial categories, cultural identities, and cosmopolitan spaces in globalizing Africa. African Identities: Vol. 5, AFRICAN CITIES: IMPERIAL LEGACIES AND POSTCOLONIAL PREDICAMENTS, pp. 181-197
Engaging Colonial Nostalgia
When contemporary Africans express nostalgia for the colonial past, how are we to make sense of such sentiments? Anthropologists have tended to ignore colonial nostalgia, reacting with dismissal or distaste. This article seeks to account for this avoidance, exploring nostalgia as a crucial source for anthropology and a constitutive feature of Western modernity. Nostalgic sentiments of loss and longing are shaped by specific cultural concerns and …
Camera Zanzibar
Research Article| January 01 1999 Camera Zanzibar William Cunningham Bissell William Cunningham Bissell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 210–221. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-1-210 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citatio…
Engaging Colonial Nostalgia
When contemporary Africans express nostalgia for the colonial past, how are we to make sense of such sentiments? Anthropologists have tended to ignore colonial nostalgia, reacting with dismissal or distaste. This article seeks to account for this avoidance, exploring nostalgia as a crucial source for anthropology and a constitutive feature of Western modernity. Nostalgic sentiments of loss and longing are shaped by specific cultural concerns and …
Casting a long shadow: Colonial categories, cultural identities, and cosmopolitan spaces in globalizing Africa
(2007). Casting a long shadow: colonial categories, cultural identities, and cosmopolitan spaces in globalizing Africa. African Identities: Vol. 5, AFRICAN CITIES: IMPERIAL LEGACIES AND POSTCOLONIAL PREDICAMENTS, pp. 181-197
Where Humans and Spirits Meet: The Politics of Rituals and Identified Spirits in Zanzibar
From dhow culture to the diaspora: Ziff, film, and the framing of transnational imaginaries in the western Indian Ocean
Coastal East Africa has been dramatically re-imagined in recent years. Popular culture and mass media have played a central role in sparking new visions of how Zanzibar in particular “connects” with the wider world. For more than a decade now, both the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) and the Sauti za Busara music festival have worked to resituate Zanzibar regionally and within a wider diasporic and transnational Indian Ocean milieu. T…
Burning the Mabanda: Incendiary Acts, Interpretive Frames, and Iconoclash in the Indian Ocean
September 01 2012 Burning the Mabanda: Incendiary Acts, Interpretive Frames, and Iconoclash in the Indian Ocean William Cunningham Bissell William Cunningham Bissell William Cunningham Bissell is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Lafayette College. His most recent book, Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar (2011), focuses on the irrationality and incoherence of modern planning. bissellw@lafayette…
Between Fixity and Fantasy: Assessing the Spatial Impact of Colonial Urban Dualism
This essay seeks to historicize shifting views of colonial urbanism since the 1960s. Dualistic oppositions once dominated scholarly understandings of colonial cities, but more recently postcolonial visions of hybridity and indeterminacy have come to the fore. More than shifts in academic paradigms are at stake; indeed, such divergent discourses raise critical questions as to how we should interpret urban forms and processes more generally. Instea…
From Iraq to Katrina and Back: Bureaucratic Planning as Strategic Failure, Fiction, and Fantasy
Bureaucratic planning is a complex sociocultural process rife with vested interests, contradictory aims, and internal conflicts. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the US occupation of Iraq, contemporary media discourses on planning have downplayed this complexity and diverted attention away from a more nuanced understanding of planning as a sociological process. In this article, I show how policy and press debates regarding bureaucratic planni…
Camera Zanzibar
Research Article| January 01 1999 Camera Zanzibar William Cunningham Bissell William Cunningham Bissell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 210–221. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-1-210 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citatio…
Camera Zanzibar
Research Article| January 01 1999 Camera Zanzibar William Cunningham Bissell William Cunningham Bissell Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 210–221. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-11-1-210 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citatio…
Engaging Colonial Nostalgia
When contemporary Africans express nostalgia for the colonial past, how are we to make sense of such sentiments? Anthropologists have tended to ignore colonial nostalgia, reacting with dismissal or distaste. This article seeks to account for this avoidance, exploring nostalgia as a crucial source for anthropology and a constitutive feature of Western modernity. Nostalgic sentiments of loss and longing are shaped by specific cultural concerns and …
Casting a long shadow: Colonial categories, cultural identities, and cosmopolitan spaces in globalizing Africa
(2007). Casting a long shadow: colonial categories, cultural identities, and cosmopolitan spaces in globalizing Africa. African Identities: Vol. 5, AFRICAN CITIES: IMPERIAL LEGACIES AND POSTCOLONIAL PREDICAMENTS, pp. 181-197
From Iraq to Katrina and Back: Bureaucratic Planning as Strategic Failure, Fiction, and Fantasy
Bureaucratic planning is a complex sociocultural process rife with vested interests, contradictory aims, and internal conflicts. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the US occupation of Iraq, contemporary media discourses on planning have downplayed this complexity and diverted attention away from a more nuanced understanding of planning as a sociological process. In this article, I show how policy and press debates regarding bureaucratic planni…
Cultivating Success in Uganda: Kigezi Farmers & Colonial Policies (review)
Where Humans and Spirits Meet: The Politics of Rituals and Identified Spirits in Zanzibar
Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar
Modernity and metropolis in East Africa
Between Fixity and Fantasy: Assessing the Spatial Impact of Colonial Urban Dualism
This essay seeks to historicize shifting views of colonial urbanism since the 1960s. Dualistic oppositions once dominated scholarly understandings of colonial cities, but more recently postcolonial visions of hybridity and indeterminacy have come to the fore. More than shifts in academic paradigms are at stake; indeed, such divergent discourses raise critical questions as to how we should interpret urban forms and processes more generally. Instea…
Burning the Mabanda: Incendiary Acts, Interpretive Frames, and Iconoclash in the Indian Ocean
September 01 2012 Burning the Mabanda: Incendiary Acts, Interpretive Frames, and Iconoclash in the Indian Ocean William Cunningham Bissell William Cunningham Bissell William Cunningham Bissell is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Lafayette College. His most recent book, Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar (2011), focuses on the irrationality and incoherence of modern planning. bissellw@lafayette…
Glassman, Jonathon: War of Words, War of Stones. Racial Thoughts and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar
Anthropos , Seite 255 - 256
From dhow culture to the diaspora: Ziff, film, and the framing of transnational imaginaries in the western Indian Ocean
Coastal East Africa has been dramatically re-imagined in recent years. Popular culture and mass media have played a central role in sparking new visions of how Zanzibar in particular “connects” with the wider world. For more than a decade now, both the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) and the Sauti za Busara music festival have worked to resituate Zanzibar regionally and within a wider diasporic and transnational Indian Ocean milieu. T…
The modern life of Swahili stonetowns
The modern life of Swahili stonetowns - 1
Social Memory, Silenced Voices, and Political Struggle: Remembering the Revolution in Zanzibar
Mediated Ethnography
Cities have long challenged anthropologists to push beyond classical assumptions of the field, both methodologically and theoretically.From its origins, ethnography was predicated on certain core techniques: long-term immersion; embeddedness in place; face-to-face contact; facility with local idioms and everyday forms; and a detailed sense of sociocultural complexity developed over time.Anthropologists may not have studied villages per se, as Gee…
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