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Communicating the Impact of a Family Music Project to Wider Audiences
Jude Robinson
There has been increasing pressure for anthropologists to communicate their ideas and thinking to new publics and so actively engage in national and international debates relating to their field. However, this is not an unproblematic practice and the politics of representation requires anthropologists to consider the sometimes conflicting dimensions of the moral, ethical, political, social, personal and academic. My fieldwork with families linked to In Harmony Liverpool, a children's music project in England, involved inviting participants variously to take part in interviews, draw maps of musical sites in their homes, construct playlists of favourite songs and take photographs of sites in their homes where music 'happens'. As my aim is to produce a visual and audio display to communicate with wider audiences, I consider the issues of representation, authenticity, potential damage and 'othering' in the planning of the research and how this shaped data collection and the plans for dissemination.
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 12–19 (7 total)
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 May 2015
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 256–258 (2 total)
Kathryn Robinson
In imagining Indonesia’s future, its character as a country with the world’s largest Islamic population emerges as a critical issue. In the post-Suharto period, some commentators have seen the emergence of Islamist politics as a threat to newly attained freedoms. No sooner had women been freed from the constraints of ‘state ibuism’, i.e., the official policy promoting the role of wife and mother (ibu) of the New Order (see Suryakusuma 1996), which endorsed patriarchal familism as a cornerstone of authoritarian politics, than they faced a new kind of patriarchal authority in the demands for the enactment of shari’a as state law. For example, during her 2005 visit to Australia, Indonesian feminist commentator Julia Suryakusuma raised the specter of Islam as the greatest current threat to gender equity and to women as social actors in civic life, whose rights in the domestic sphere are now protected by the state. The growing influence of Middle Eastern Islam in Indonesia, evidenced by funding for organizations, translations of publications, and the increase in Islamist rhetoric, has caused alarm among many observers. This apprehension draws on the stereotype of the Middle East as the source of all that is ‘bad’ about Islam, taken as an undifferentiated whole. But this view of Islam fails to acknowledge debates within Islam and diversity in Islamic practice, not the least of which are the varieties of Islam that can be found throughout the Indonesian archipelago. These diverse practices have emerged as local communities and indigenous polities responded in distinctive and often unique ways during the long period of Islamic conversion, beginning from the thirteenth century.
Donna Robinson Divine, Aviel Roshwald, Arieh Saposnik, and Yossi Shain
identity. The longest-serving Israeli Prime Minister has a degree from MIT located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And the country's current President attended Ramaz, a prestigious New York City Day School. Don't write us off just yet. Donna Robinson Divine
The Future of Museums
Recover and Reimagine (A Conversation)
Craig Barker, Helena Robinson, James L. Flexner, Anna Lawrenson, and Alex Burchmore
definition—which has remained relatively unchanged since around the 1970s—and whether it needs to be revised ( Robinson 2021 ). What this tells us is that museums are very much in a state of flux and that museums are being called upon to do more in an
Donna Robinson Divine
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007).
In Israel Studies Review
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 50–56 (7 total)
Amy Cox Hall, Sergio González Varela, Jessica S.R. Robinson, Peter Weisensel, and David Wills
and well-written book is simply a joy to read. After reading this text I hope, as Usher does, that “women should acknowledge their strengths as researchers and go confidently, but humbly, into the field” (66). Jessica S. R. Robinson University of
Museums, Collecting, Agency
A Symposium
Tanya Zoe Robinson
On 1–2 April 2014, the Institute of Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia (UWS), hosted Museums, Collecting, Agency: A Symposium, in partnership with the Museums and Heritage Studies Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (VUW). Held at the Australian Museum (AM) in Sydney, the event brought together an outstanding lineup of speakers from Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, the United States, and Britain to explore questions of agency in relation to ethnographic museum collections and museum-like practices of collecting, with an emphasis on the histories and legacies of colonialism. In doing so, the speakers and audience (mainly academics, museum professionals, and museum studies students from Australia and the Pacific) ably brought these issues into the present through varied histories and practice-based case studies that ensured a very “living” approach to this growing research area.
Boys, Inclusive Masculinities and Injury
Some Research Perspectives
Adam White and Stefan Robinson
ABSTRACT
The social function of sport has traditionally been to develop an economically efficient workforce and to prevent young men from becoming effeminate, and by extension homosexual. However, since the 1980s both the social positioning of homosexuality has changed, as has the economic requirements of the Anglo-American workforce. As such, the social function of contemporary sport is negated. With modern athletes now opting for softer masculine presentations, we start the debate on the intersection of sport, health, and inclusive masculinities, an area lacking scholarly attention so far. Through exploring masculinity-challenging discourses, participation rates and athletes’ self-withdrawal from sport when injured, we begin to theorize how modern athletes may view potentially risky and injurious sporting activities, suggesting that boys today are less inclined to engage in injurious activities, and, when they do, opting for softer and safer strategies.