Nicholas Demaria Harney
Biographic Data
| ID | 99023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Demaria Harney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas Demaria |
| FAMILY NAME | Harney |
| SIGNATURE | HARNEY N D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4614-5566 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Calibrating home, hospitality and reciprocity in migration
Hospitality, as an analytic and a lived experience, is central to the day-to-day workings of home, and to managing the tensions and contradictions inherent in place attachment and appropriation on any scale - from the domestic to the national one. This emerges as a contentious and yet under-researched social question whenever newcomers such as immigrants and refugees lay some claim for guesthood. Following this premise, and based also on our fiel…
Interculturalism, Inequality and Hospitality in Italy
In this article, I address the challenges of interculturalist policy in practice as its enactment becomes entangled with local idioms of hospitality and interpretations of time in migrant encounters that undermine the co-evalness that is necessary for intercultural communication. In Campania, transport workers in a pilot project focused on improving relationships with Italian and migrant riders but inevitably anticipated certain kinds of migrants…
Shadow Work (Ivan Illich)
Shadow Work (1981), written by the polymath ex‐catholic priest Ivan Illich (1926–2002), critiques what Illich sees as the contrived structures of desire present in modern commodity‐intensive society. Shadow work is the “unpaid servitude” modern people tolerate to satisfy the desires experts suggest they need. Shadow Work extends Illich's earlier critiques of the way institutions and professions in the modern industrialized world dehumanize by cre…
Temporalities of migration and reflexive ethnography
Negli ultimi decenni gli etnografi hanno faticato a trovare la metodologia di ricerca appropriata per studiare il nostro mondo altamente globalizzato. C’e stato, infatti, un intenso e proficuo lavoro che ha aperto nuovi ambiti ricerca. In questo articolo, vorrei esaminare una seconda dimensione che - credo - gli etnografi della migrazione dovrebbero prendere in considerazione: il tempo. Gli etnografi devono affrontare la coesistenza di piu beni t…
Tuff City
Migrant strategies, informal economies and ontological security
Purpose Naples, Italy in the last decade has become a destination for Ukrainian migrants escaping the economic uncertainty of their homeland. A sign of the city's importance in the diaspora is that the Ukrainian government in 2008 opened a local consulate. Estimates are that nearly a million Ukrainians have used Italy as a point of labour transit, even if only a fifth of those are formally registered. The purpose of this paper is to examine the s…
Neoliberal restructuring and multicultural legacies
In this article, I address the impact of neoliberalism and the attendant techniques of financialization on multiculturalism in Canada through ethnographic research at a non-profit, multicultural heritage institution. I consider how the workers at this non-profit maintained their solidaristic, pre-neoliberal conception of multiculturalism even as they experimented with a sociality dominated by market exchange. Even as worker subjectivity was trans…
Knowledge and Value in a Globalizing World
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Setha Low are contributing editors of "World Anthropologies," the AAA Committee on World Anthropologies column in Anthropology News. Keywords: association business, Committee on World Anthropologies
Haitians in New York City
Transnational ruptures
Shadow Work (Ivan Illich)
Shadow Work (1981), written by the polymath ex‐Catholic priest Ivan Illich (1926–2002), critiques what Illich sees as the contrived structures of desire present in modern commodity‐intensive society. Shadow work refers to the “unpaid servitude” modern people tolerate to satisfy the desires experts suggest they need. Shadow Work extends his earlier critiques of the way institutions and professions in the modern industrialized world dehumanize by c…
Tracking Transnationalism
In this introduction to the special issue we argue that a reconsideration of the notion of ‘migrancy’ can add greater emphasis to a particular methodological terrain within the burgeoning literature on transnationalism. The legacy of anthropological work on migrancy in southern Africa and the more recent use of the term as a trope in the ‘postmodern’ world by academics in cultural studies raise three intertwined features of a migrancy perspective…
Transnationalism and Entrepreneurial Migrancy in Naples, Italy
This article examines the conceptual limitations in the current literature about transnational migration, which tends to focus on forms of state control or the new ways offered by technological innovation for migrant subjects to maintain connections with their places of origin. Through ethnographic fieldwork in Naples, Italy, this article reconsiders how the concept of migrancy might force us to linger further over the actor's perspective in migr…
The Politics of Urban Space
This paper examines the politics of urban space through a consideration of three ways Italians in Toronto, Canada, create, make claims to and express their belonging in particular neighbourhoods in the city. The article considers forms of claiming and colonizing space that are not overtly violent or confrontational with respect to other groups living within the plural city but, in effect, are assertions of power over particular places with which …
Italian Diasporas Share the Neighbourhood (in the English-speaking World)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Alternative Economies of Emigration and Immigration, the Real and the Constitution of Italian Nation Spaces
In this paper I consider how we might interpret the implications of the coincidence of emigration and immigration in Italy. Some scholars have situated Italy's population changes in the past 30 years within the framework of the ‘Mediterranean model of Migration’. Although this model offers a general picture of the structural features in common among ‘Mediterranean’ countries, it assumes the existence of the nation rather than questioning its very…
Rumour, migrants, and the informal economies of Naples, Italy
Purpose This paper aims to consider the use of rumour by Bangladeshi migrant entrepreneurs in Naples, Italy to comment on informal economic practices and migrant moral hierarchies present in that city. Design/methodology/approach It is based on ethnographic fieldwork among migrants conducted by the author in the Naples region in 2004 and 2005. Rumour has been interpreted by some scholars as a way to promote community cohesion and by others to pro…
Building Italian Regional Identity in Toronto
The landscape of greater Toronto is dotted with Italian ethnoregional community centres constructed with financial and diplomatic help from Italian regional governments. These eth noregional centres are physical representations of Italian Canadi anness and used by Italian Canadians to create meaningful spaces, to generate collective sentiment and locate themselves in the land of immigration. The ethnographic examples used in this paper, I suggest…
Che Bella Figura! The Power of Performance in an Italian Ladies' Club in Chicago
Che Bella Figura! The Power of Performance in an Italian Ladies' Club in Chicago. Gloria Nardini. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999. vii. 164 pp., tables, appendix, endnotes, works cited, index
Eh, Paesan
Shouts of 'Forza Italia!' rang out along St Clair Avenue West each time Italy won a game in World Cup 1994. But is a soccer tournament all that almost a half-million Italians in Toronto have in common? What does it mean to be Italian in Toronto? In this book Nicholas DeMaria Harney invites us to explore with him the symbols and sites of Italian culture in Toronto. Ethnic identity, we discover, is a process - it is constantly being remade and repr…
Mal'occhiu. Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress
Mal'occhiu. Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress. Sam Migliore. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.160 pp
From the Shores of Hardship
Rumour, migrants, and the informal economies of Naples, Italy
Purpose This paper aims to consider the use of rumour by Bangladeshi migrant entrepreneurs in Naples, Italy to comment on informal economic practices and migrant moral hierarchies present in that city. Design/methodology/approach It is based on ethnographic fieldwork among migrants conducted by the author in the Naples region in 2004 and 2005. Rumour has been interpreted by some scholars as a way to promote community cohesion and by others to pro…
Tracking Transnationalism
In this introduction to the special issue we argue that a reconsideration of the notion of ‘migrancy’ can add greater emphasis to a particular methodological terrain within the burgeoning literature on transnationalism. The legacy of anthropological work on migrancy in southern Africa and the more recent use of the term as a trope in the ‘postmodern’ world by academics in cultural studies raise three intertwined features of a migrancy perspective…
Transnationalism and Entrepreneurial Migrancy in Naples, Italy
This article examines the conceptual limitations in the current literature about transnational migration, which tends to focus on forms of state control or the new ways offered by technological innovation for migrant subjects to maintain connections with their places of origin. Through ethnographic fieldwork in Naples, Italy, this article reconsiders how the concept of migrancy might force us to linger further over the actor's perspective in migr…
Calibrating home, hospitality and reciprocity in migration
Hospitality, as an analytic and a lived experience, is central to the day-to-day workings of home, and to managing the tensions and contradictions inherent in place attachment and appropriation on any scale - from the domestic to the national one. This emerges as a contentious and yet under-researched social question whenever newcomers such as immigrants and refugees lay some claim for guesthood. Following this premise, and based also on our fiel…
Che Bella Figura! The Power of Performance in an Italian Ladies' Club in Chicago
Che Bella Figura! The Power of Performance in an Italian Ladies' Club in Chicago. Gloria Nardini. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999. vii. 164 pp., tables, appendix, endnotes, works cited, index
The Alternative Economies of Emigration and Immigration, the Real and the Constitution of Italian Nation Spaces
In this paper I consider how we might interpret the implications of the coincidence of emigration and immigration in Italy. Some scholars have situated Italy's population changes in the past 30 years within the framework of the ‘Mediterranean model of Migration’. Although this model offers a general picture of the structural features in common among ‘Mediterranean’ countries, it assumes the existence of the nation rather than questioning its very…
Building Italian Regional Identity in Toronto
The landscape of greater Toronto is dotted with Italian ethnoregional community centres constructed with financial and diplomatic help from Italian regional governments. These eth noregional centres are physical representations of Italian Canadi anness and used by Italian Canadians to create meaningful spaces, to generate collective sentiment and locate themselves in the land of immigration. The ethnographic examples used in this paper, I suggest…
Eh, Paesan
Shouts of 'Forza Italia!' rang out along St Clair Avenue West each time Italy won a game in World Cup 1994. But is a soccer tournament all that almost a half-million Italians in Toronto have in common? What does it mean to be Italian in Toronto? In this book Nicholas DeMaria Harney invites us to explore with him the symbols and sites of Italian culture in Toronto. Ethnic identity, we discover, is a process - it is constantly being remade and repr…
Interculturalism, Inequality and Hospitality in Italy
In this article, I address the challenges of interculturalist policy in practice as its enactment becomes entangled with local idioms of hospitality and interpretations of time in migrant encounters that undermine the co-evalness that is necessary for intercultural communication. In Campania, transport workers in a pilot project focused on improving relationships with Italian and migrant riders but inevitably anticipated certain kinds of migrants…
Migrant strategies, informal economies and ontological security
Purpose Naples, Italy in the last decade has become a destination for Ukrainian migrants escaping the economic uncertainty of their homeland. A sign of the city's importance in the diaspora is that the Ukrainian government in 2008 opened a local consulate. Estimates are that nearly a million Ukrainians have used Italy as a point of labour transit, even if only a fifth of those are formally registered. The purpose of this paper is to examine the s…
Temporalities of migration and reflexive ethnography
Negli ultimi decenni gli etnografi hanno faticato a trovare la metodologia di ricerca appropriata per studiare il nostro mondo altamente globalizzato. C’e stato, infatti, un intenso e proficuo lavoro che ha aperto nuovi ambiti ricerca. In questo articolo, vorrei esaminare una seconda dimensione che - credo - gli etnografi della migrazione dovrebbero prendere in considerazione: il tempo. Gli etnografi devono affrontare la coesistenza di piu beni t…
Neoliberal restructuring and multicultural legacies
In this article, I address the impact of neoliberalism and the attendant techniques of financialization on multiculturalism in Canada through ethnographic research at a non-profit, multicultural heritage institution. I consider how the workers at this non-profit maintained their solidaristic, pre-neoliberal conception of multiculturalism even as they experimented with a sociality dominated by market exchange. Even as worker subjectivity was trans…
Italian Diasporas Share the Neighbourhood (in the English-speaking World)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
From the Shores of Hardship
Mal'occhiu. Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress
Mal'occhiu. Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress. Sam Migliore. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.160 pp
Eh, Paesan
Shouts of 'Forza Italia!' rang out along St Clair Avenue West each time Italy won a game in World Cup 1994. But is a soccer tournament all that almost a half-million Italians in Toronto have in common? What does it mean to be Italian in Toronto? In this book Nicholas DeMaria Harney invites us to explore with him the symbols and sites of Italian culture in Toronto. Ethnic identity, we discover, is a process - it is constantly being remade and repr…
Che Bella Figura! The Power of Performance in an Italian Ladies' Club in Chicago
Che Bella Figura! The Power of Performance in an Italian Ladies' Club in Chicago. Gloria Nardini. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999. vii. 164 pp., tables, appendix, endnotes, works cited, index
Building Italian Regional Identity in Toronto
The landscape of greater Toronto is dotted with Italian ethnoregional community centres constructed with financial and diplomatic help from Italian regional governments. These eth noregional centres are physical representations of Italian Canadi anness and used by Italian Canadians to create meaningful spaces, to generate collective sentiment and locate themselves in the land of immigration. The ethnographic examples used in this paper, I suggest…
The Politics of Urban Space
This paper examines the politics of urban space through a consideration of three ways Italians in Toronto, Canada, create, make claims to and express their belonging in particular neighbourhoods in the city. The article considers forms of claiming and colonizing space that are not overtly violent or confrontational with respect to other groups living within the plural city but, in effect, are assertions of power over particular places with which …
Italian Diasporas Share the Neighbourhood (in the English-speaking World)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Alternative Economies of Emigration and Immigration, the Real and the Constitution of Italian Nation Spaces
In this paper I consider how we might interpret the implications of the coincidence of emigration and immigration in Italy. Some scholars have situated Italy's population changes in the past 30 years within the framework of the ‘Mediterranean model of Migration’. Although this model offers a general picture of the structural features in common among ‘Mediterranean’ countries, it assumes the existence of the nation rather than questioning its very…
Rumour, migrants, and the informal economies of Naples, Italy
Purpose This paper aims to consider the use of rumour by Bangladeshi migrant entrepreneurs in Naples, Italy to comment on informal economic practices and migrant moral hierarchies present in that city. Design/methodology/approach It is based on ethnographic fieldwork among migrants conducted by the author in the Naples region in 2004 and 2005. Rumour has been interpreted by some scholars as a way to promote community cohesion and by others to pro…
Shadow Work (Ivan Illich)
Shadow Work (1981), written by the polymath ex‐Catholic priest Ivan Illich (1926–2002), critiques what Illich sees as the contrived structures of desire present in modern commodity‐intensive society. Shadow work refers to the “unpaid servitude” modern people tolerate to satisfy the desires experts suggest they need. Shadow Work extends his earlier critiques of the way institutions and professions in the modern industrialized world dehumanize by c…
Tracking Transnationalism
In this introduction to the special issue we argue that a reconsideration of the notion of ‘migrancy’ can add greater emphasis to a particular methodological terrain within the burgeoning literature on transnationalism. The legacy of anthropological work on migrancy in southern Africa and the more recent use of the term as a trope in the ‘postmodern’ world by academics in cultural studies raise three intertwined features of a migrancy perspective…
Transnationalism and Entrepreneurial Migrancy in Naples, Italy
This article examines the conceptual limitations in the current literature about transnational migration, which tends to focus on forms of state control or the new ways offered by technological innovation for migrant subjects to maintain connections with their places of origin. Through ethnographic fieldwork in Naples, Italy, this article reconsiders how the concept of migrancy might force us to linger further over the actor's perspective in migr…
Haitians in New York City
Transnational ruptures
Knowledge and Value in a Globalizing World
Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and Setha Low are contributing editors of "World Anthropologies," the AAA Committee on World Anthropologies column in Anthropology News. Keywords: association business, Committee on World Anthropologies
Neoliberal restructuring and multicultural legacies
In this article, I address the impact of neoliberalism and the attendant techniques of financialization on multiculturalism in Canada through ethnographic research at a non-profit, multicultural heritage institution. I consider how the workers at this non-profit maintained their solidaristic, pre-neoliberal conception of multiculturalism even as they experimented with a sociality dominated by market exchange. Even as worker subjectivity was trans…
Migrant strategies, informal economies and ontological security
Purpose Naples, Italy in the last decade has become a destination for Ukrainian migrants escaping the economic uncertainty of their homeland. A sign of the city's importance in the diaspora is that the Ukrainian government in 2008 opened a local consulate. Estimates are that nearly a million Ukrainians have used Italy as a point of labour transit, even if only a fifth of those are formally registered. The purpose of this paper is to examine the s…
Tuff City
Temporalities of migration and reflexive ethnography
Negli ultimi decenni gli etnografi hanno faticato a trovare la metodologia di ricerca appropriata per studiare il nostro mondo altamente globalizzato. C’e stato, infatti, un intenso e proficuo lavoro che ha aperto nuovi ambiti ricerca. In questo articolo, vorrei esaminare una seconda dimensione che - credo - gli etnografi della migrazione dovrebbero prendere in considerazione: il tempo. Gli etnografi devono affrontare la coesistenza di piu beni t…
Shadow Work (Ivan Illich)
Shadow Work (1981), written by the polymath ex‐catholic priest Ivan Illich (1926–2002), critiques what Illich sees as the contrived structures of desire present in modern commodity‐intensive society. Shadow work is the “unpaid servitude” modern people tolerate to satisfy the desires experts suggest they need. Shadow Work extends Illich's earlier critiques of the way institutions and professions in the modern industrialized world dehumanize by cre…
Interculturalism, Inequality and Hospitality in Italy
In this article, I address the challenges of interculturalist policy in practice as its enactment becomes entangled with local idioms of hospitality and interpretations of time in migrant encounters that undermine the co-evalness that is necessary for intercultural communication. In Campania, transport workers in a pilot project focused on improving relationships with Italian and migrant riders but inevitably anticipated certain kinds of migrants…
Calibrating home, hospitality and reciprocity in migration
Hospitality, as an analytic and a lived experience, is central to the day-to-day workings of home, and to managing the tensions and contradictions inherent in place attachment and appropriation on any scale - from the domestic to the national one. This emerges as a contentious and yet under-researched social question whenever newcomers such as immigrants and refugees lay some claim for guesthood. Following this premise, and based also on our fiel…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works)