farmers and inspectors or FAC staff. I argue that FAC staff and farm inspectors actively use these conversations to build rapport with farmers, and to emphasise their common identity as members of the farming community, while de-emphasising sectarian
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Building Rapport
‘Curing’ and ‘Charming’ as Cultural Intimacy in Everyday Bureaucratic Encounters in the Northern Ireland Farming Community
Irene Ketonen-Keating
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 62–78 (17 total)
The Uses of Professional Networking in the Emerging Methodology for an Anthropology of Public Policy
Michael G. Powell
By considering multiple perspectives on the problem of networking and networks in public policy circles, as well as the wider professional world, this article aims to both draw out and blur boundaries and definitions among multiple levels of networking as an analytic concept, a fieldwork method and a practice observed among policymakers. In making this distinction and explaining it in relation to theorisations of fieldwork rapport and 'complicity,' the article attempts to show that the distance and collegiality that defines professional networking is a viable and potentially quite insightful mode, means and method for conducting fieldwork, particularly for multisited anthropology of public policy projects. To that end, this article offers both conceptual ideas, as well as practical advice for conceiving and conducting fieldwork for an anthropology of public policy project.
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 26–37 (11 total)
The grey zone, distortion and the ownership of causation
A response to Don Gardner
Nigel Rapport
instances where a culture's symbolic truths coincide with ontological ones (see Rapport 2011 ).) (ii) Following on from this, a cultural relation is not the same as an identity . There is a fundamental difference between the way, on the one hand, human
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Other
- Pages:
- 94–102 (9 total)
Being Inside and Outside Social Relations
Nigel Rapport
desire to assimilate – extending in my own case to undertaking anthropological fieldwork in Britain as part of a learning how to belong ( Rapport 1993 , 1994 ) – but it was not enunciated as replacing one ‘tribal’ identity with another. To be British was
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2018
- Article Type:
- Discussion
- Pages:
- 117–124 (08 total)
Cosmopolitan Politesse
Goodness, Justice, Civil Society
Nigel Rapport
, by virtue of the imposition of alien and alienating labels, categories and taxonomies, Simmel (1971) described as ‘tragic’ (cf. Rapport 2017) . We distort the Other’s identity when we ‘know’ them in the conventional and collectivising terms of a
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2018
- Article Type:
- Discussion
- Pages:
- 92–99 (08 total)
How to Scale Factional Divisions in Conflict Situations
Finding Perpetrators and Switchboard Operators in Post-Authoritarian Argentina
Antonius C.G.M. Robben
In conducting fieldwork among perpetrators of state violence, it is a major methodological problem to gain access to competing factions within the research population. Ethnographers often succeed in finding access to at least one faction but this successful rapport might then immediately close off other factions that mistrust the ethnographer’s politics, intentions, or alleged sympathies. The ethnographic challenge is to find intermediaries or switchboard operators, as they are called in this article, who have established informal channels of communication between hostile factions. Switchboard operators have the following characteristics: discretion, neutrality, lack of formal power, disinterestedness, trustworthiness, and they act as a conduit of communication. This article describes how switchboard operators were located in Argentina, and how they played a crucial role in my fieldwork among a broad spectrum of military perpetrators who had terrorized the Argentine people between 1976 and 1983 with enforced disappearances and state repression.
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 81–91 (11 total)
Perceptions du traitement de l'islam et du monde musulman dans les manuels d'histoire par des enseignants du secondaire au Québec
Amina Triki-Yamani, Marie McAndrew, and Sahar El Shourbagi
Perceptions of the Treatment of Islam and the Muslim World in History Textbooks by Secondary School Teachers in Quebec
This article focuses on the ways in which Francophone Quebecois secondary 1 and 2 junior high school teachers adapt and transmit the treatment of Islam and the Muslim world in textbooks used for history and citizenship education. The authors focus on the teachers' capacity to identify factual errors, stereotypes or ethnocentric biases concerning these questions. In order to do this, they analyze fourteen semi-structured interviews carried out with teachers on the island of Montreal, considering dimensions and indicators that relate to their relationship to the formal curriculum, as well as to scholarly and social knowledge of these issues. At the same time, we consider their relationship to the real curriculum or to scholarly knowledge as these are transmitted in real-life learning situations.
French Notre article porte sur la manière dont les enseignants du premier cycle du secondaire québécois francophone s'approprient et transmettent le traitement de l'islam et du monde musulman dans le matériel didactique de la discipline d'histoire et d'éducation à la citoyenneté et plus particulièrement, sur leur capacité à identi er les erreurs factuelles, les stéréotypes ou les biais ethnocentriques concernant ces questions. Pour ce faire, nous avons relevé, dans l'analyse des quatorze entretiens semi-directifs menés auprès d'enseignants de l'Ile-de-Montréal, les dimensions et indicateurs portant, d'une part, sur leur rapport au curriculum prescrit, et plus précisément sur leur rapport aux savoirs scolaires, sociaux et parfois de référence sur ces enjeux, et, d'autre part, sur leur rapport au curriculum réel ou aux savoirs scolaires tels que transmis en situation réelle d'apprentissage.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 97–117 (21 total)
'Tensile Nationality'
National Identity as an Everyday Way of Being in a Scottish Hospital
Nigel Rapport
This article reports on research undertaken in a Scottish hospital on the theme of national identity, specifically Scottishness. It examines the ways and extents to which Scottishness was expressed in the workplace: as a quotidian aspect of individual and institutional identity, in a situation of high-pro file political change. The research was to situate nationality as a naturally occurring 'language-game': to explore everyday speech-acts which deployed reference to nationality/Scottishness and compare these to other kinds of overt affirmation of identity and other speech-acts when no such identity-affirmations were ostensibly made. In a contemporary Scottish setting where the inauguration of a new Parliament has made national identity a prominent aspect of public debate, the research illuminates the place of nationality amid a complex of workaday language-games and examines the status of national identity as a 'public event'.
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 60–73 (13 total)
A Quantum Anthropology of Contemporary Moments of Being
Seven Observations
Nigel Rapport
Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, with James D. Faubion and Tobias Rees, Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008), viii+141 pp. ISBN 9780822343707.
Towards a post‐cultural anthropology of personally embodied knowledge1
NIGEL RAPPORT
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2001
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 95–102 (7 total)