Tanya J King
Biographic Data
| ID | 92934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanya J King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanya J |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7418-2343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Under Construction: Reproducing Colonial Landscape Perspectives in Natural Resource Management of Public Reserves
The values and land use preferences deemed legitimate in natural resource management are not neutral—they are circumscribed by inherited colonial structures that determine which landscape perspectives carry weight in public decision-making processes. This paper examines a land swap between a private developer and a local council in the coastal township of Indented Head, Victoria, Australia, which led to the creation of the Indented Head Woodland …
Who asked you? A systematic review exploring the origin of primary research into attitudes to marine protected areas in Australia
Tasking Students With Empathy: Field Observations, Covid-19, and Assessing an Anthropological Sensibility
In 2019 and 2020 students in an Australian university conducted a short ethnographic exercise, a ‘journal’, with an attunement to the multiplicity of meanings evident in a single space by a range of interlocutors. We emphasised and assessed ‘empathy’ as a short-hand for the kind of anthropological sensibility we hoped to encourage. By requesting an account that represented an awareness of how ‘others’ encounter and come to ‘know’ the world we pro…
Anthropology and #MeToo: Reimagining fieldwork
MeToo deals in the everyday ambiguous and intersectional, providing a space for discussion of the grey areas of sexual propriety. Since 2017, when the term was mobilised spectacularly in the US entertainment industry, other industries have undertaken an examination of their own practices and norms. In this paper we consider the implications of this political moment for the discipline of anthropology, and specifically the idea of ‘the field’ in th…
At Home on the Waves: Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today
Applying cultural-historical activity theory to understand the development of inclusive curriculum practices in higher education
One year after the implementation of an Inclusive Curriculum Capacity Building (ICCB) project in an Australian university Arts faculty, this paper revisits the curriculum, teaching staff and student outcomes, exploring what it takes to achieve lasting change. There are positive findings to report, but the study also finds that lasting change in curriculum development practices requires more than a ‘grassroots’ approach. The authors undertook a fo…
Emily McKee: Dwelling in Conflict. Negev Landscapes and the Boundaries of Belonging
Making connections in a regional city: Social capital and the primary social contract
Government policy in many countries encourages migration to regional centres to relieve pressure on major cities and to boost economic development. Migrants are more likely to remain in a new location if they have meaningful work and establish social connections there. This article explores how organisations and groups in a regional city provide newcomers with access to social capital resources which migrants can use to forge social connections. …
Encrypted Landscapes, Nation-States: The Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra
As visitors perambulate around the Australian National Botanic Gardens, in Canberra, relationships among citizens, environments, and the nation-state are enacted: The central is emphasized over the peripheral, the Canberran space is depicted as a literal miniature model of the wider nation, science is privileged in the design of that representation, and “nature” is appreciated as isolatable from humans but controllable by them. As with other arch…
The "Skipper Effect": Riddles of Luck and Rhetorics of Individualism
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Tanya King; The "Skipper Effect": Riddles of Luck and Rhetorics of Individualism. Human Organization 1 December 2011; 70 (4): 387–396. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.70.4.7671729107n37t02 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference…
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
Bad Habits and Prosthetic Performances: Negotiation of Individuality and Embodiment of Social Status in Australian Shark Fishing
Anthropological discussion of individuality, as a component of masculinity, has tended to focus on either the performance and championing of autonomy in the West (e.g., Kapferer) or the manner in which people in non-Western contexts become explicitly manifest through relationships with others (e.g., Strathern). In this paper, I consider an atypical example of masculine identity by describing intimate interpersonal relationships between Australian…
Crisis of Meanings: Divergent Experiences and Perceptions of the Marine Environment in Victoria, Australia
The oceans of the world are regularly depicted as under threat from human exploitation with the problem portrayed as being of ‘global’ concern. In a world market characterised by the division of labour, many of those who eat fish do so without directly experiencing the ocean as a domain of productive utility. Rather, their encounters are with representations that depict the ‘natural’ world as an aesthetic object of contemplation, and environmenta…
Deep Identity, Shallow Time: Sustaining a Future in Victorian Fishing Communities
Like commercial fishers everywhere, it seems, those living in coastal communities of Victoria perceive themselves to be under threat from recreational fishers, environmentalists, imposed management regimes, and modernisation and globalisation of the industry. In responding to these threats they appeal to conventional props of tradition—to continuity in genealogical time, affiliation with place and specialised knowledge and practice. This seems pa…
Damming the Flow: Cultural Barriers to Perceived 'Procedural Justice' in Wonthaggi, Victoria
Drier conditions in Australia have compelled governments to implement projects such as the desalination plant in the South Gippsland town of Wonthaggi. The desalination plant is still under construction, but South Gippsland is already host to wind turbines and marine protected areas, reflecting public pressure to develop renewable energy sources and conserve resources. However, all projects have been met with vocal opposition. Using the desalinat…
Making connections in a regional city: Social capital and the primary social contract
Government policy in many countries encourages migration to regional centres to relieve pressure on major cities and to boost economic development. Migrants are more likely to remain in a new location if they have meaningful work and establish social connections there. This article explores how organisations and groups in a regional city provide newcomers with access to social capital resources which migrants can use to forge social connections. …
Bad Habits and Prosthetic Performances: Negotiation of Individuality and Embodiment of Social Status in Australian Shark Fishing
Anthropological discussion of individuality, as a component of masculinity, has tended to focus on either the performance and championing of autonomy in the West (e.g., Kapferer) or the manner in which people in non-Western contexts become explicitly manifest through relationships with others (e.g., Strathern). In this paper, I consider an atypical example of masculine identity by describing intimate interpersonal relationships between Australian…
Tasking Students With Empathy: Field Observations, Covid-19, and Assessing an Anthropological Sensibility
In 2019 and 2020 students in an Australian university conducted a short ethnographic exercise, a ‘journal’, with an attunement to the multiplicity of meanings evident in a single space by a range of interlocutors. We emphasised and assessed ‘empathy’ as a short-hand for the kind of anthropological sensibility we hoped to encourage. By requesting an account that represented an awareness of how ‘others’ encounter and come to ‘know’ the world we pro…
Applying cultural-historical activity theory to understand the development of inclusive curriculum practices in higher education
One year after the implementation of an Inclusive Curriculum Capacity Building (ICCB) project in an Australian university Arts faculty, this paper revisits the curriculum, teaching staff and student outcomes, exploring what it takes to achieve lasting change. There are positive findings to report, but the study also finds that lasting change in curriculum development practices requires more than a ‘grassroots’ approach. The authors undertook a fo…
Emily McKee: Dwelling in Conflict. Negev Landscapes and the Boundaries of Belonging
Damming the Flow: Cultural Barriers to Perceived 'Procedural Justice' in Wonthaggi, Victoria
Drier conditions in Australia have compelled governments to implement projects such as the desalination plant in the South Gippsland town of Wonthaggi. The desalination plant is still under construction, but South Gippsland is already host to wind turbines and marine protected areas, reflecting public pressure to develop renewable energy sources and conserve resources. However, all projects have been met with vocal opposition. Using the desalinat…
Damming the Flow: Cultural Barriers to Perceived 'Procedural Justice' in Wonthaggi, Victoria
Drier conditions in Australia have compelled governments to implement projects such as the desalination plant in the South Gippsland town of Wonthaggi. The desalination plant is still under construction, but South Gippsland is already host to wind turbines and marine protected areas, reflecting public pressure to develop renewable energy sources and conserve resources. However, all projects have been met with vocal opposition. Using the desalinat…
Deep Identity, Shallow Time: Sustaining a Future in Victorian Fishing Communities
Like commercial fishers everywhere, it seems, those living in coastal communities of Victoria perceive themselves to be under threat from recreational fishers, environmentalists, imposed management regimes, and modernisation and globalisation of the industry. In responding to these threats they appeal to conventional props of tradition—to continuity in genealogical time, affiliation with place and specialised knowledge and practice. This seems pa…
Crisis of Meanings: Divergent Experiences and Perceptions of the Marine Environment in Victoria, Australia
The oceans of the world are regularly depicted as under threat from human exploitation with the problem portrayed as being of ‘global’ concern. In a world market characterised by the division of labour, many of those who eat fish do so without directly experiencing the ocean as a domain of productive utility. Rather, their encounters are with representations that depict the ‘natural’ world as an aesthetic object of contemplation, and environmenta…
Bad Habits and Prosthetic Performances: Negotiation of Individuality and Embodiment of Social Status in Australian Shark Fishing
Anthropological discussion of individuality, as a component of masculinity, has tended to focus on either the performance and championing of autonomy in the West (e.g., Kapferer) or the manner in which people in non-Western contexts become explicitly manifest through relationships with others (e.g., Strathern). In this paper, I consider an atypical example of masculine identity by describing intimate interpersonal relationships between Australian…
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
The "Skipper Effect": Riddles of Luck and Rhetorics of Individualism
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Tanya King; The "Skipper Effect": Riddles of Luck and Rhetorics of Individualism. Human Organization 1 December 2011; 70 (4): 387–396. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.70.4.7671729107n37t02 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference…
Encrypted Landscapes, Nation-States: The Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra
As visitors perambulate around the Australian National Botanic Gardens, in Canberra, relationships among citizens, environments, and the nation-state are enacted: The central is emphasized over the peripheral, the Canberran space is depicted as a literal miniature model of the wider nation, science is privileged in the design of that representation, and “nature” is appreciated as isolatable from humans but controllable by them. As with other arch…
Making connections in a regional city: Social capital and the primary social contract
Government policy in many countries encourages migration to regional centres to relieve pressure on major cities and to boost economic development. Migrants are more likely to remain in a new location if they have meaningful work and establish social connections there. This article explores how organisations and groups in a regional city provide newcomers with access to social capital resources which migrants can use to forge social connections. …
Applying cultural-historical activity theory to understand the development of inclusive curriculum practices in higher education
One year after the implementation of an Inclusive Curriculum Capacity Building (ICCB) project in an Australian university Arts faculty, this paper revisits the curriculum, teaching staff and student outcomes, exploring what it takes to achieve lasting change. There are positive findings to report, but the study also finds that lasting change in curriculum development practices requires more than a ‘grassroots’ approach. The authors undertook a fo…
Emily McKee: Dwelling in Conflict. Negev Landscapes and the Boundaries of Belonging
At Home on the Waves: Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today
Anthropology and #MeToo: Reimagining fieldwork
MeToo deals in the everyday ambiguous and intersectional, providing a space for discussion of the grey areas of sexual propriety. Since 2017, when the term was mobilised spectacularly in the US entertainment industry, other industries have undertaken an examination of their own practices and norms. In this paper we consider the implications of this political moment for the discipline of anthropology, and specifically the idea of ‘the field’ in th…
Tasking Students With Empathy: Field Observations, Covid-19, and Assessing an Anthropological Sensibility
In 2019 and 2020 students in an Australian university conducted a short ethnographic exercise, a ‘journal’, with an attunement to the multiplicity of meanings evident in a single space by a range of interlocutors. We emphasised and assessed ‘empathy’ as a short-hand for the kind of anthropological sensibility we hoped to encourage. By requesting an account that represented an awareness of how ‘others’ encounter and come to ‘know’ the world we pro…
Who asked you? A systematic review exploring the origin of primary research into attitudes to marine protected areas in Australia
Under Construction: Reproducing Colonial Landscape Perspectives in Natural Resource Management of Public Reserves
The values and land use preferences deemed legitimate in natural resource management are not neutral—they are circumscribed by inherited colonial structures that determine which landscape perspectives carry weight in public decision-making processes. This paper examines a land swap between a private developer and a local council in the coastal township of Indented Head, Victoria, Australia, which led to the creation of the Indented Head Woodland …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works)