Caitrin Lynch
Biographic Data
| ID | 91563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caitrin Lynch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caitrin |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynch |
| SIGNATURE | LYNCH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3774-2924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Technology in Irish Literature and Culture
Technology in Irish Literature and Culture shows how such significant technologies—typewriters, gramophones, print, radio, television, computers—have influenced Irish literary practices and cultural production, while also examining how technology has been embraced as a theme in Irish writing. Once a largely rural and agrarian society, contemporary Ireland has embraced the communicative, performative and consumption habits of a culture utterly rel…
Appartenance et valorisation: Agentivité et travail dans une usine de la Nouvelle-Angleterre
De 2006 à 2011, l'anthropologue Caitrin Lynch s'est immergée dans la vie quotidienne d'une usine de la banlieue de Boston spécialisée dans la production d'aiguilles en acier. Cette entreprise familiale a pour particularité d'employer des travailleurs et des travailleuses dont l'âge médian s'élève à 74 ans. En observant et en interrogeant ces femmes et ces hommes, elle a enquêté sur le sens que revêt le travail pour les personnes âgées aux États-U…
Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions …
Introduction Transitions and Transformations Paradigms, Perspectives, and Possibilities
New genres and obsolete expertise in the new textiles economy
This paper examines the role of distinctions between genres in conflicts over expertise in an American textile mill. Riverway is a struggling 150-year-old New England textile mill where members of a diverse workforce focus on producing high quality fabric in a context that demands daily adaptive expertise. Based on fieldwork from 2015–19, we examine how Riverway workers interacted with documentation systems at the mill. They engaged with managers…
Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry
Caitrin Lynch shows how contemporary Sri Lankan women navigate a complex web of political, cultural, and socioeconomic forces. Lynch details precisely how gender, nationalism, and globalization influence everyday life in Sri Lanka.
Localizing Production
Keep Calm and Shop Til You Drop
Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market
AES Parsons Prize Winner
"Response 1 to "Towards a Gerontoludic Manifesto
Responses to commentary, “Toward a Gerontoludic Manifesto,” by Bob De Schutter and Vero Vanden Abeele in Anthropology & Aging Vol36, no.2, the special issue on “Aging the Technoscape,” followed by a reply by the commentary authors
Back in the Saddle Again: Ethics, Visibility, and Aging on Screen
This paper engages with filmic portrayals of older adults in the U.S. in order to ask questions about the impacts of mass media on reproducing, critiquing, or interrogating mainstream values and assumptions about aging. The study considers the recent Hollywood works The Expendables (2010) and R.E.D. (2010), as well as the independent documentary Young@Heart (2007). We forefront questions of visibility, invisibility, and recognition both in terms …
Design for Aging: Perspectives on Technology, Older Adults, and Educating Engineers
Does the development of new technologies invariably contribute positively to the daily lives of older adults in the contemporary United States and elsewhere? Eleven years into teaching anthropology to engineers, and five years into co-teaching a course on design for aging called 'Engineering for Humanity,' my answer is: Not always, but we can make it so
Cyber Ireland: Text, Image, Culture
Cyber Ireland explores, for the first time, the presence and significance of cyberculture in Irish literature. Bringing together such varied themes as Celtic mythology in video games, Joycean hypertex
Transitions and Transformations
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions …
Transitions and transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. The volume presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course tran…
The Book Launch and Beyond: Collaboration and Engaged Anthropology
Who Do You Think You Are: Intimate Pasts Made Public
The hugely successful BBC television series Who Do You Think You Are? TM follows celebrities tracing their family trees as part of a journey of self discovery in a format described here as "biogravision." The show's popularity runs in parallel with the rise in genealogy made possible by digital archives. What impact has this had on modes of self-narration and the move between private and public histories
Unlike Actors, Politicians or Eminent Military Men: The Meaning of Hard Work in Working Class Autobiography
2010). “Unlike Actors, Politicians or Eminent Military Men”: The Meaning of Hard Work in Working Class Autobiography. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 25, The Work of Life Writing, pp. 186-202
Irish Autobiography: Stories of Self in the Narrative of a Nation
Working Retirement: Age and Value in the United States
Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World
Advertising is a central part of the global system of commerce and culture. Every day it exposes consumers around the world to practices associated with the West, urban life, prosperity, and modernity. One consequence of this exposure is that it frees people's imaginations from time and place, and imposes a new and foreign reality. In this book Steven Kemper looks at a parallel trend, arguing that advertising firms in Nairobi, Caracas, and Colomb…
Anthropologizing Sri Lanka: A Eurocentric Misadventure
Anthropologizing Sri Lanka:. Eurocentric Misadventure. Susantha Goonatilake. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. 306 pp
Millennial Transitions
Millennial Transitions
Research Article| May 01 2000 Millennial Transitions Irene Stengs; Irene Stengs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hylton White; Hylton White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Caitrin Lynch; Caitrin Lynch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jeffrey A. Zimmermann Jeffrey A. Zimmermann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 344–…
Good Girls or Juki Girls? Learning and Identity in Garment Factories
The "good girls" of Sri Lankan modernity: Moral orders of nationalism and capitalism
In the Sri Lankan garment industry the term “good girls” refers to moral character and industrial productivity: a good girl both embodies Sinhala Buddhist traditions and is an efficient and productive factory worker. The “good girl” concept symbolizes a conjuncture of nationalist and capitalist gender ideals during this time of ethnic conflict and industrial development in the country. Although the women workers agree with many of the gendered ch…
Irish Autobiography: Stories of Self in the Narrative of a Nation
Who Do You Think You Are: Intimate Pasts Made Public
The hugely successful BBC television series Who Do You Think You Are? TM follows celebrities tracing their family trees as part of a journey of self discovery in a format described here as "biogravision." The show's popularity runs in parallel with the rise in genealogy made possible by digital archives. What impact has this had on modes of self-narration and the move between private and public histories
Anthropologizing Sri Lanka: A Eurocentric Misadventure
Anthropologizing Sri Lanka:. Eurocentric Misadventure. Susantha Goonatilake. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. 306 pp
Design for Aging: Perspectives on Technology, Older Adults, and Educating Engineers
Does the development of new technologies invariably contribute positively to the daily lives of older adults in the contemporary United States and elsewhere? Eleven years into teaching anthropology to engineers, and five years into co-teaching a course on design for aging called 'Engineering for Humanity,' my answer is: Not always, but we can make it so
Unlike Actors, Politicians or Eminent Military Men: The Meaning of Hard Work in Working Class Autobiography
2010). “Unlike Actors, Politicians or Eminent Military Men”: The Meaning of Hard Work in Working Class Autobiography. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 25, The Work of Life Writing, pp. 186-202
Nation, Woman, and the Indian Immigrant Bourgeoisie: An Alternative Formulation
Other| May 01 1994 Nation, Woman, and the Indian Immigrant Bourgeoisie: An Alternative Formulation Caitrin Lynch Caitrin Lynch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 425–437. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-2-425 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Caitrin Lynch; Nation, Woman, and the Indian Immigrant Bourgeoisie: An Alternative Form…
Nation, Woman, and the Indian Immigrant Bourgeoisie: An Alternative Formulation
Other| May 01 1994 Nation, Woman, and the Indian Immigrant Bourgeoisie: An Alternative Formulation Caitrin Lynch Caitrin Lynch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 425–437. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-2-425 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Caitrin Lynch; Nation, Woman, and the Indian Immigrant Bourgeoisie: An Alternative Form…
Juki-That's Not My Name
Research Article| May 01 1998 Juki—That's Not My Name Caitrin Lynch; Caitrin Lynch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Seamus Walsh Seamus Walsh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 313–317. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-2-313 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email…
Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories
Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories. NITA KUMAR, ed. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1994. 239 pp., tables, notes, references, index
Good Girls or Juki Girls? Learning and Identity in Garment Factories
The "good girls" of Sri Lankan modernity: Moral orders of nationalism and capitalism
In the Sri Lankan garment industry the term “good girls” refers to moral character and industrial productivity: a good girl both embodies Sinhala Buddhist traditions and is an efficient and productive factory worker. The “good girl” concept symbolizes a conjuncture of nationalist and capitalist gender ideals during this time of ethnic conflict and industrial development in the country. Although the women workers agree with many of the gendered ch…
Millennial Transitions
Research Article| May 01 2000 Millennial Transitions Irene Stengs; Irene Stengs Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hylton White; Hylton White Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Caitrin Lynch; Caitrin Lynch Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jeffrey A. Zimmermann Jeffrey A. Zimmermann Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 344–…
Millennial Transitions
Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World
Advertising is a central part of the global system of commerce and culture. Every day it exposes consumers around the world to practices associated with the West, urban life, prosperity, and modernity. One consequence of this exposure is that it frees people's imaginations from time and place, and imposes a new and foreign reality. In this book Steven Kemper looks at a parallel trend, arguing that advertising firms in Nairobi, Caracas, and Colomb…
Anthropologizing Sri Lanka: A Eurocentric Misadventure
Anthropologizing Sri Lanka:. Eurocentric Misadventure. Susantha Goonatilake. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. 306 pp
Irish Autobiography: Stories of Self in the Narrative of a Nation
Working Retirement: Age and Value in the United States
Unlike Actors, Politicians or Eminent Military Men: The Meaning of Hard Work in Working Class Autobiography
2010). “Unlike Actors, Politicians or Eminent Military Men”: The Meaning of Hard Work in Working Class Autobiography. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 25, The Work of Life Writing, pp. 186-202
Who Do You Think You Are: Intimate Pasts Made Public
The hugely successful BBC television series Who Do You Think You Are? TM follows celebrities tracing their family trees as part of a journey of self discovery in a format described here as "biogravision." The show's popularity runs in parallel with the rise in genealogy made possible by digital archives. What impact has this had on modes of self-narration and the move between private and public histories
Transitions and Transformations
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course transitions …
Transitions and transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses. The volume presents a broad range of ethnographic work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches to studying life-course tran…
The Book Launch and Beyond: Collaboration and Engaged Anthropology
Cyber Ireland: Text, Image, Culture
Cyber Ireland explores, for the first time, the presence and significance of cyberculture in Irish literature. Bringing together such varied themes as Celtic mythology in video games, Joycean hypertex
"Response 1 to "Towards a Gerontoludic Manifesto
Responses to commentary, “Toward a Gerontoludic Manifesto,” by Bob De Schutter and Vero Vanden Abeele in Anthropology & Aging Vol36, no.2, the special issue on “Aging the Technoscape,” followed by a reply by the commentary authors
Back in the Saddle Again: Ethics, Visibility, and Aging on Screen
This paper engages with filmic portrayals of older adults in the U.S. in order to ask questions about the impacts of mass media on reproducing, critiquing, or interrogating mainstream values and assumptions about aging. The study considers the recent Hollywood works The Expendables (2010) and R.E.D. (2010), as well as the independent documentary Young@Heart (2007). We forefront questions of visibility, invisibility, and recognition both in terms …
Design for Aging: Perspectives on Technology, Older Adults, and Educating Engineers
Does the development of new technologies invariably contribute positively to the daily lives of older adults in the contemporary United States and elsewhere? Eleven years into teaching anthropology to engineers, and five years into co-teaching a course on design for aging called 'Engineering for Humanity,' my answer is: Not always, but we can make it so
Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market
AES Parsons Prize Winner
Keep Calm and Shop Til You Drop
Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry
Caitrin Lynch shows how contemporary Sri Lankan women navigate a complex web of political, cultural, and socioeconomic forces. Lynch details precisely how gender, nationalism, and globalization influence everyday life in Sri Lanka.
Localizing Production
Sociology (15 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · History (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Citation (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works)