Natalie Djohari
Biographic Data
| ID | 92122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie Djohari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie |
| FAMILY NAME | Djohari |
| SIGNATURE | DJOHARI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7636-2863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
No Clear Line in the Sand
The discourse surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education has reached a critical juncture, often framed as a crisis. This paper, co-authored with undergraduate social science students, explores the nuanced and evolving role of generative AI (GenAI) in academic settings. Through a focus group discussion, we examine how students engage with GenAI as a means to enhance learning and augment cognitive practices, structure assignments,…
Generative AI and Socio-Technological Advancements
Introduction to the Special Section on Generative AI and Socio-Technological Advancements in Anthropology
For love and money
Antiques Roadshow Events are held in historic locations across the United Kingdom. On site, experts evaluate objects brought in by attendees, who are often cast as passive recipients, while edited highlights make up the long‐running BBC TV program. Through Collaborative Event Ethnography at one Roadshow Event we show how object stories are navigated through “value talk” between attendees and experts in front of live audiences. Value is not a meas…
Sharenting and social media properties
In this paper, we demonstrate how social media technologies can co-produce data-related harms unless preventative measures are instituted. To this end, we draw on a passive ethnography of a public Facebook group in the UK practicing sharenting which occurs when parents and guardians post sensitive and identifying information about children in their care on social media. Theoretically, we draw on the 'harm translation' concept from digital crimino…
Both visible and invisible
Technological innovations in fisheries have generally been seen to exclude women, exacerbating both their economic marginalization and lack of political voice. Such a view however ignores the complexities underpinning the interface between technologies and social relationships, in particular, those of gender. In this article, we explore the impact of ring seine expansion in Cuddalore, a costal district of Tamil Nadu on the east coast of southern …
Peer-led focus groups as ‘dialogic spaces’ for exploring young people’s evolving values
Although peer-led focus groups are widely used in research with children and young people, surprisingly little has been written that evaluates their methodological appropriateness. Drawing on data from 10 peer-led focus group sessions across 5 international schools, this article demonstrates how focus group discussions around moral and social values, which become more meaningful though the self-reflection provoked in encounters with different exp…
The visibility of gambling sponsorship in football related products marketed directly to children
UK law prohibits direct marketing of gambling to children. However, our data, gathered between 2018 and 2020, demonstrate that gambling logos occur frequently in football-related products and media consumed by children. This is a pressing issue for policymakers because research suggests that although children engage with football as spectators, they engage more often through readily available material culture. Discussions in the media about spons…
Anthropological Controversies
This book uses controversies as a gateway through which to explore the origins, ethics, key moments, and people in the history of anthropology. It draws on a variety of cases including complicity in "human zoos", Malinowski’s diaries, and the Human Terrain System to explore how anthropological controversies act as a driving force for change, how they offer a window into the history of and research practice in the discipline, and how they might fr…
Rethinking ‘safe spaces’ in children’s geographies
In this editorial, we provide a preliminary definition of ‘safe spaces’ before exploring how the collected authors have taken a fresh approach to understanding ‘safe spaces’ though a geographical lens. Until now, the material ‘location’ of safe spaces have remained under theorised, but by turning attention to how children and young people co-produce and bring safe spaces into being through their situated practices, this Special Issue provides ric…
The comfort of the river
This paper draws on ethnographic research with angling intervention programmes working with ‘disaffected’ young people in the UK to demonstrate how young people use the affective geographies of waterscapes to regulate their feelings and escape stressful lives. But rather than interpret the restorative or therapeutic quality of waterscapes as the consequence of (passive) immersion into green/blue spaces, we argue that ‘comfort’ is derived from an …
Trading in unicorns
Since the 1970s, an international market has been growing in the production and sale of fabric specifically woven for 'babywearing'. These 'wraps', a simple piece of cloth for baby carrying, have a long tradition throughout the world but are increasingly marketed to 'high-end' collectors as well as 'modern' young parents. New releases of limited edition and boutique ranges create competition over highly desirable and often quite unattainable wrap…
The one that got away’
In recent years a professional sector has emerged within the UK delivering angling-based intervention programmes targeted at young people ‘disengaged’ with education. These coaches bring with them an angling cultural background, which influences their interactions with young people as ‘novices’, emerging in ‘angler talk’ that accompanies waterside coaching. We argue that young people's exposure to ‘angler talk’ amounts to a cultural apprenticeshi…
Houses in a Landscape
The Ship of Theseus and the Problem of "Postwar" Answers to Contemporary Guatemalan Problems
This article considers the problems caused by the ubiquitous use of terms such as “postwar” and “postconflict” in the analysis of contemporary Guatemala. The terms feed a historical reductionism which conflates present-day social problems with the violence of the past while also conflating continuity, change, and historical and analytical categories. Drawing upon Plutarch's thought experiment “The Ship of Theseus”, we explore the paradox at the h…
Breaking Other People's Toys
This paper explores the personal transformations of students learning critical anthropology on a Development Studies course. Students personal projects intertwine with their disciplinary and professional choices. I show how learning that radically challenges the development paradigm may lead to internal personal conflicts and life-project crises. How should teachers of anthropology design and teach such courses and what is the impact on students …
Prisoners of freedom
Rethinking ‘safe spaces’ in children’s geographies
In this editorial, we provide a preliminary definition of ‘safe spaces’ before exploring how the collected authors have taken a fresh approach to understanding ‘safe spaces’ though a geographical lens. Until now, the material ‘location’ of safe spaces have remained under theorised, but by turning attention to how children and young people co-produce and bring safe spaces into being through their situated practices, this Special Issue provides ric…
The comfort of the river
This paper draws on ethnographic research with angling intervention programmes working with ‘disaffected’ young people in the UK to demonstrate how young people use the affective geographies of waterscapes to regulate their feelings and escape stressful lives. But rather than interpret the restorative or therapeutic quality of waterscapes as the consequence of (passive) immersion into green/blue spaces, we argue that ‘comfort’ is derived from an …
Anthropological Controversies
This book uses controversies as a gateway through which to explore the origins, ethics, key moments, and people in the history of anthropology. It draws on a variety of cases including complicity in "human zoos", Malinowski’s diaries, and the Human Terrain System to explore how anthropological controversies act as a driving force for change, how they offer a window into the history of and research practice in the discipline, and how they might fr…
Trading in unicorns
Since the 1970s, an international market has been growing in the production and sale of fabric specifically woven for 'babywearing'. These 'wraps', a simple piece of cloth for baby carrying, have a long tradition throughout the world but are increasingly marketed to 'high-end' collectors as well as 'modern' young parents. New releases of limited edition and boutique ranges create competition over highly desirable and often quite unattainable wrap…
Breaking Other People's Toys
This paper explores the personal transformations of students learning critical anthropology on a Development Studies course. Students personal projects intertwine with their disciplinary and professional choices. I show how learning that radically challenges the development paradigm may lead to internal personal conflicts and life-project crises. How should teachers of anthropology design and teach such courses and what is the impact on students …
Sharenting and social media properties
In this paper, we demonstrate how social media technologies can co-produce data-related harms unless preventative measures are instituted. To this end, we draw on a passive ethnography of a public Facebook group in the UK practicing sharenting which occurs when parents and guardians post sensitive and identifying information about children in their care on social media. Theoretically, we draw on the 'harm translation' concept from digital crimino…
Both visible and invisible
Technological innovations in fisheries have generally been seen to exclude women, exacerbating both their economic marginalization and lack of political voice. Such a view however ignores the complexities underpinning the interface between technologies and social relationships, in particular, those of gender. In this article, we explore the impact of ring seine expansion in Cuddalore, a costal district of Tamil Nadu on the east coast of southern …
Prisoners of freedom
Breaking Other People's Toys
This paper explores the personal transformations of students learning critical anthropology on a Development Studies course. Students personal projects intertwine with their disciplinary and professional choices. I show how learning that radically challenges the development paradigm may lead to internal personal conflicts and life-project crises. How should teachers of anthropology design and teach such courses and what is the impact on students …
The Ship of Theseus and the Problem of "Postwar" Answers to Contemporary Guatemalan Problems
This article considers the problems caused by the ubiquitous use of terms such as “postwar” and “postconflict” in the analysis of contemporary Guatemala. The terms feed a historical reductionism which conflates present-day social problems with the violence of the past while also conflating continuity, change, and historical and analytical categories. Drawing upon Plutarch's thought experiment “The Ship of Theseus”, we explore the paradox at the h…
Houses in a Landscape
The one that got away’
In recent years a professional sector has emerged within the UK delivering angling-based intervention programmes targeted at young people ‘disengaged’ with education. These coaches bring with them an angling cultural background, which influences their interactions with young people as ‘novices’, emerging in ‘angler talk’ that accompanies waterside coaching. We argue that young people's exposure to ‘angler talk’ amounts to a cultural apprenticeshi…
Trading in unicorns
Since the 1970s, an international market has been growing in the production and sale of fabric specifically woven for 'babywearing'. These 'wraps', a simple piece of cloth for baby carrying, have a long tradition throughout the world but are increasingly marketed to 'high-end' collectors as well as 'modern' young parents. New releases of limited edition and boutique ranges create competition over highly desirable and often quite unattainable wrap…
The comfort of the river
This paper draws on ethnographic research with angling intervention programmes working with ‘disaffected’ young people in the UK to demonstrate how young people use the affective geographies of waterscapes to regulate their feelings and escape stressful lives. But rather than interpret the restorative or therapeutic quality of waterscapes as the consequence of (passive) immersion into green/blue spaces, we argue that ‘comfort’ is derived from an …
Rethinking ‘safe spaces’ in children’s geographies
In this editorial, we provide a preliminary definition of ‘safe spaces’ before exploring how the collected authors have taken a fresh approach to understanding ‘safe spaces’ though a geographical lens. Until now, the material ‘location’ of safe spaces have remained under theorised, but by turning attention to how children and young people co-produce and bring safe spaces into being through their situated practices, this Special Issue provides ric…
Peer-led focus groups as ‘dialogic spaces’ for exploring young people’s evolving values
Although peer-led focus groups are widely used in research with children and young people, surprisingly little has been written that evaluates their methodological appropriateness. Drawing on data from 10 peer-led focus group sessions across 5 international schools, this article demonstrates how focus group discussions around moral and social values, which become more meaningful though the self-reflection provoked in encounters with different exp…
The visibility of gambling sponsorship in football related products marketed directly to children
UK law prohibits direct marketing of gambling to children. However, our data, gathered between 2018 and 2020, demonstrate that gambling logos occur frequently in football-related products and media consumed by children. This is a pressing issue for policymakers because research suggests that although children engage with football as spectators, they engage more often through readily available material culture. Discussions in the media about spons…
Anthropological Controversies
This book uses controversies as a gateway through which to explore the origins, ethics, key moments, and people in the history of anthropology. It draws on a variety of cases including complicity in "human zoos", Malinowski’s diaries, and the Human Terrain System to explore how anthropological controversies act as a driving force for change, how they offer a window into the history of and research practice in the discipline, and how they might fr…
Both visible and invisible
Technological innovations in fisheries have generally been seen to exclude women, exacerbating both their economic marginalization and lack of political voice. Such a view however ignores the complexities underpinning the interface between technologies and social relationships, in particular, those of gender. In this article, we explore the impact of ring seine expansion in Cuddalore, a costal district of Tamil Nadu on the east coast of southern …
For love and money
Antiques Roadshow Events are held in historic locations across the United Kingdom. On site, experts evaluate objects brought in by attendees, who are often cast as passive recipients, while edited highlights make up the long‐running BBC TV program. Through Collaborative Event Ethnography at one Roadshow Event we show how object stories are navigated through “value talk” between attendees and experts in front of live audiences. Value is not a meas…
Sharenting and social media properties
In this paper, we demonstrate how social media technologies can co-produce data-related harms unless preventative measures are instituted. To this end, we draw on a passive ethnography of a public Facebook group in the UK practicing sharenting which occurs when parents and guardians post sensitive and identifying information about children in their care on social media. Theoretically, we draw on the 'harm translation' concept from digital crimino…
No Clear Line in the Sand
The discourse surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education has reached a critical juncture, often framed as a crisis. This paper, co-authored with undergraduate social science students, explores the nuanced and evolving role of generative AI (GenAI) in academic settings. Through a focus group discussion, we examine how students engage with GenAI as a means to enhance learning and augment cognitive practices, structure assignments,…
Generative AI and Socio-Technological Advancements
Introduction to the Special Section on Generative AI and Socio-Technological Advancements in Anthropology
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