Lisa Gilman
Biographic Data
| ID | 89368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Gilman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilman |
| SIGNATURE | GILMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4697-6485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
We are all human: Music, diplomacy and the Tumaini Festival in Malawi’s Dzaleka refugee camp
Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception and DNA testing
This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how people in this context respond to a DNA match into conversation with debates on kinship and personal life. Our aim is to conceptually engage with a salient emerging empirical theme, namely that people at the interface of donor conception/DTCGT respond to a (previously unknown) DNA match on a contin…
Exploring the generational ordering of kinship through decisions about DNA testing and gamete donor conception: What's the right age to know your donor relatives
The development of direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTCGT), in conjunction with social media, has had profound consequences for the management of information about donor conception. One outcome is that it is now possible to circumvent formal age-restrictions on accessing information about people related through donor conception. Consequently, many donor conceived people and their parents face questions regarding what is the 'right age' to seek…
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience
This article asks how well new developments in family life are reflected in law and policy, with a particular focus on donor conception. There has been an unprecedented 'opening up' of family life in recent decades; this increased diversity is, at least in part, linked to developments in reproductive technologies, including gamete donation. In family lives touched by donation, genetic relations with 'donor connections' take genetic connectedness …
The 'Selfish Element: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate
Multiple sociological studies have demonstrated how talk of 'good' motives enables people to maintain the presentation of a moral self in the context of stigmatised behaviours. Far fewer have examined why people sometimes describe acting for the 'wrong reasons' or choose to qualify, or reject, assumptions that they are motivated by a desire to 'do good'. In this article, I analyse one such situation: sperm donors who describe being partially moti…
Three Stories About Egg Sharing
Making Intangible Heritage: El Condor Pasa and Other Stories from Unesco
Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent
Tracing pathways of relatedness: How identity-release gamete donors negotiate biological (non-)parenthood
This article draws on an interview study with UK ‘identity-release’ sperm and egg donors, exploring how, in the context of a new ethic of openness around donor conception, they articulate their role in relation to offspring. I show that participants neither dismissed, nor straightforwardly activated, the relational significance of the ‘biological’ substance they donated. Instead, they renegotiated its meaning in ways which do not map straightforw…
Organizing Openness: How UK Policy Defines the Significance of Information and Information Sharing about Gamete Donation
Openness' is increasingly held up as a self-evident virtue, presented as inherently positive and progressive in both the public and personal sphere. This article examines how this ideal is realized in the regulation of gamete donation in the UK; what exactly is it that people are expected to be open about and with whom? Through an analysis of the policies and texts via which information about gamete donation is managed, we demonstrate that sharin…
Toxic money or paid altruism: The Meaning of Payments for Identity-Release Gamete Donors
Public discourses commonly frame gamete, organ and other forms of bodily donation as altruistic 'gifts'. However, despite on-going debates about the ethics of payments to donors, few studies have examined the views of donors themselves regarding the meaning of payments and their compatibility (or not) with understandings of these practices as gifts. This article addresses this issue, analysing 24 in-depth interviews withUKidentity-release gamete …
Dancing for Our Mother: Performance, Maternalism, and Joyce Banda's Brief Presidency in Malawi
Heralded across the world as a victory for women in leadership, Joyce Banda’s presidency (April 2012–May 2013) in Malawi was welcomed with hope and enthusiasm by many in the country and across the world. Replete in the discourse that pervaded the country was the hope that her leadership would be transformative because she would truly attend to the people, as a mother does her children or a woman her community. This essay examines the maternalism …
Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana
Book Review| July 01 2017 Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana. By Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Pp. Lisa Gilman Lisa Gilman University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal o…
Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities
An American Soldier’s iPod: Layers of Identity and Situated Listening in Iraq
Musical practices permeate the experiences of American troops fighting in the current Iraq war. Music serves many overlapping and sometimes contradictory roles in troops' day-to-day lives, such as providing ways to pass the time, socialize, relax, escape, motivate, process, mourn, remember, forget, and to express a wide range of emotions: pride, fear, joy, boredom, loss, anger. Similar to editors Susan Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi, and Charles Keil of…
The dance of politics: Gender, performance, and democratization in Malawi
Genre, Agency, and Meaning in the Analysis of Complex Performances: The Case of a Malawian Political Rally
Building on Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas about dialogism in complex genres and Richard Bauman's and others' scholarship on genre and intertextuality, this article offers a methodological strategy for analyzing performance. As illustrated through an analysis of a Malawian political rally, the proposed strategy highlights relationships among form, agency, and meaning to yield information about the intertangled webs of social and communicative work opera…
Dance, gender, and popular music in Malawi: The Case of Rap and Ragga
Rap and ragga musics have found a place on the musical landscape of Malawi over the last decade, exemplified in a nation-wide scene characterised by competitions. Recordings and associated materials of rap and ragga that inform Malawian youth interpretations tend to emphasise male participation and masculine symbols. Competitions are male-dominated in their organisational structure and participatory roles. Though the articulated focus of these ev…
The Traditionalization of Women's Dancing, Hegemony, and Politics in Malawi
Gilman explores the idea of "tradition" by teasing out some relationships between contemporary scholarly notions of tradition as process and more conservative ideas about tradition as reified, superorganic, authentic artifacts that are passed through time and space relatively unchanged. Through an exploration of how tradition has been perceived and used in Malawi's political sphere, Gilman argues that though tradition does exist as a selective pr…
Purchasing Praise: Women, Dancing, and Patronage in Malawi Party Politics
Africa Today - Volume 48, Number 4, Winter 2001
The Traditionalization of Women's Dancing, Hegemony, and Politics in Malawi
Gilman explores the idea of "tradition" by teasing out some relationships between contemporary scholarly notions of tradition as process and more conservative ideas about tradition as reified, superorganic, authentic artifacts that are passed through time and space relatively unchanged. Through an exploration of how tradition has been perceived and used in Malawi's political sphere, Gilman argues that though tradition does exist as a selective pr…
Organizing Openness: How UK Policy Defines the Significance of Information and Information Sharing about Gamete Donation
Openness' is increasingly held up as a self-evident virtue, presented as inherently positive and progressive in both the public and personal sphere. This article examines how this ideal is realized in the regulation of gamete donation in the UK; what exactly is it that people are expected to be open about and with whom? Through an analysis of the policies and texts via which information about gamete donation is managed, we demonstrate that sharin…
Tracing pathways of relatedness: How identity-release gamete donors negotiate biological (non-)parenthood
This article draws on an interview study with UK ‘identity-release’ sperm and egg donors, exploring how, in the context of a new ethic of openness around donor conception, they articulate their role in relation to offspring. I show that participants neither dismissed, nor straightforwardly activated, the relational significance of the ‘biological’ substance they donated. Instead, they renegotiated its meaning in ways which do not map straightforw…
Toxic money or paid altruism: The Meaning of Payments for Identity-Release Gamete Donors
Public discourses commonly frame gamete, organ and other forms of bodily donation as altruistic 'gifts'. However, despite on-going debates about the ethics of payments to donors, few studies have examined the views of donors themselves regarding the meaning of payments and their compatibility (or not) with understandings of these practices as gifts. This article addresses this issue, analysing 24 in-depth interviews withUKidentity-release gamete …
The 'Selfish Element: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate
Multiple sociological studies have demonstrated how talk of 'good' motives enables people to maintain the presentation of a moral self in the context of stigmatised behaviours. Far fewer have examined why people sometimes describe acting for the 'wrong reasons' or choose to qualify, or reject, assumptions that they are motivated by a desire to 'do good'. In this article, I analyse one such situation: sperm donors who describe being partially moti…
Dance, gender, and popular music in Malawi: The Case of Rap and Ragga
Rap and ragga musics have found a place on the musical landscape of Malawi over the last decade, exemplified in a nation-wide scene characterised by competitions. Recordings and associated materials of rap and ragga that inform Malawian youth interpretations tend to emphasise male participation and masculine symbols. Competitions are male-dominated in their organisational structure and participatory roles. Though the articulated focus of these ev…
Purchasing Praise: Women, Dancing, and Patronage in Malawi Party Politics
Africa Today - Volume 48, Number 4, Winter 2001
An American Soldier’s iPod: Layers of Identity and Situated Listening in Iraq
Musical practices permeate the experiences of American troops fighting in the current Iraq war. Music serves many overlapping and sometimes contradictory roles in troops' day-to-day lives, such as providing ways to pass the time, socialize, relax, escape, motivate, process, mourn, remember, forget, and to express a wide range of emotions: pride, fear, joy, boredom, loss, anger. Similar to editors Susan Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi, and Charles Keil of…
Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception and DNA testing
This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how people in this context respond to a DNA match into conversation with debates on kinship and personal life. Our aim is to conceptually engage with a salient emerging empirical theme, namely that people at the interface of donor conception/DTCGT respond to a (previously unknown) DNA match on a contin…
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience
This article asks how well new developments in family life are reflected in law and policy, with a particular focus on donor conception. There has been an unprecedented 'opening up' of family life in recent decades; this increased diversity is, at least in part, linked to developments in reproductive technologies, including gamete donation. In family lives touched by donation, genetic relations with 'donor connections' take genetic connectedness …
Genre, Agency, and Meaning in the Analysis of Complex Performances: The Case of a Malawian Political Rally
Building on Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas about dialogism in complex genres and Richard Bauman's and others' scholarship on genre and intertextuality, this article offers a methodological strategy for analyzing performance. As illustrated through an analysis of a Malawian political rally, the proposed strategy highlights relationships among form, agency, and meaning to yield information about the intertangled webs of social and communicative work opera…
Purchasing Praise: Women, Dancing, and Patronage in Malawi Party Politics
Africa Today - Volume 48, Number 4, Winter 2001
The Traditionalization of Women's Dancing, Hegemony, and Politics in Malawi
Gilman explores the idea of "tradition" by teasing out some relationships between contemporary scholarly notions of tradition as process and more conservative ideas about tradition as reified, superorganic, authentic artifacts that are passed through time and space relatively unchanged. Through an exploration of how tradition has been perceived and used in Malawi's political sphere, Gilman argues that though tradition does exist as a selective pr…
Dance, gender, and popular music in Malawi: The Case of Rap and Ragga
Rap and ragga musics have found a place on the musical landscape of Malawi over the last decade, exemplified in a nation-wide scene characterised by competitions. Recordings and associated materials of rap and ragga that inform Malawian youth interpretations tend to emphasise male participation and masculine symbols. Competitions are male-dominated in their organisational structure and participatory roles. Though the articulated focus of these ev…
The dance of politics: Gender, performance, and democratization in Malawi
Genre, Agency, and Meaning in the Analysis of Complex Performances: The Case of a Malawian Political Rally
Building on Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas about dialogism in complex genres and Richard Bauman's and others' scholarship on genre and intertextuality, this article offers a methodological strategy for analyzing performance. As illustrated through an analysis of a Malawian political rally, the proposed strategy highlights relationships among form, agency, and meaning to yield information about the intertangled webs of social and communicative work opera…
An American Soldier’s iPod: Layers of Identity and Situated Listening in Iraq
Musical practices permeate the experiences of American troops fighting in the current Iraq war. Music serves many overlapping and sometimes contradictory roles in troops' day-to-day lives, such as providing ways to pass the time, socialize, relax, escape, motivate, process, mourn, remember, forget, and to express a wide range of emotions: pride, fear, joy, boredom, loss, anger. Similar to editors Susan Crafts, Daniel Cavicchi, and Charles Keil of…
Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities
Dancing for Our Mother: Performance, Maternalism, and Joyce Banda's Brief Presidency in Malawi
Heralded across the world as a victory for women in leadership, Joyce Banda’s presidency (April 2012–May 2013) in Malawi was welcomed with hope and enthusiasm by many in the country and across the world. Replete in the discourse that pervaded the country was the hope that her leadership would be transformative because she would truly attend to the people, as a mother does her children or a woman her community. This essay examines the maternalism …
Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana
Book Review| July 01 2017 Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana. By Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Pp. Lisa Gilman Lisa Gilman University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal o…
Organizing Openness: How UK Policy Defines the Significance of Information and Information Sharing about Gamete Donation
Openness' is increasingly held up as a self-evident virtue, presented as inherently positive and progressive in both the public and personal sphere. This article examines how this ideal is realized in the regulation of gamete donation in the UK; what exactly is it that people are expected to be open about and with whom? Through an analysis of the policies and texts via which information about gamete donation is managed, we demonstrate that sharin…
Toxic money or paid altruism: The Meaning of Payments for Identity-Release Gamete Donors
Public discourses commonly frame gamete, organ and other forms of bodily donation as altruistic 'gifts'. However, despite on-going debates about the ethics of payments to donors, few studies have examined the views of donors themselves regarding the meaning of payments and their compatibility (or not) with understandings of these practices as gifts. This article addresses this issue, analysing 24 in-depth interviews withUKidentity-release gamete …
Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent
Tracing pathways of relatedness: How identity-release gamete donors negotiate biological (non-)parenthood
This article draws on an interview study with UK ‘identity-release’ sperm and egg donors, exploring how, in the context of a new ethic of openness around donor conception, they articulate their role in relation to offspring. I show that participants neither dismissed, nor straightforwardly activated, the relational significance of the ‘biological’ substance they donated. Instead, they renegotiated its meaning in ways which do not map straightforw…
Three Stories About Egg Sharing
Making Intangible Heritage: El Condor Pasa and Other Stories from Unesco
The 'Selfish Element: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate
Multiple sociological studies have demonstrated how talk of 'good' motives enables people to maintain the presentation of a moral self in the context of stigmatised behaviours. Far fewer have examined why people sometimes describe acting for the 'wrong reasons' or choose to qualify, or reject, assumptions that they are motivated by a desire to 'do good'. In this article, I analyse one such situation: sperm donors who describe being partially moti…
A Sense of Connectedness in Reproductive Donation. Contrasting Policy With Donor and Donor Kin Lived Experience
This article asks how well new developments in family life are reflected in law and policy, with a particular focus on donor conception. There has been an unprecedented 'opening up' of family life in recent decades; this increased diversity is, at least in part, linked to developments in reproductive technologies, including gamete donation. In family lives touched by donation, genetic relations with 'donor connections' take genetic connectedness …
We are all human: Music, diplomacy and the Tumaini Festival in Malawi’s Dzaleka refugee camp
Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception and DNA testing
This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how people in this context respond to a DNA match into conversation with debates on kinship and personal life. Our aim is to conceptually engage with a salient emerging empirical theme, namely that people at the interface of donor conception/DTCGT respond to a (previously unknown) DNA match on a contin…
Exploring the generational ordering of kinship through decisions about DNA testing and gamete donor conception: What's the right age to know your donor relatives
The development of direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTCGT), in conjunction with social media, has had profound consequences for the management of information about donor conception. One outcome is that it is now possible to circumvent formal age-restrictions on accessing information about people related through donor conception. Consequently, many donor conceived people and their parents face questions regarding what is the 'right age' to seek…
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