Despite the abundant attention paid to analysing and critically discussing travel texts, and the ... more Despite the abundant attention paid to analysing and critically discussing travel texts, and the attention to tourism practices, a surprising lacuna exists around the industry that fuels the production and circulation of travel writing and photography. If tourism, as Franklin (2008) has argued, is about the ordering of desire, then questioning how the desire to travel is imagined, experienced and stimulated by producers of travel literature should enable us to address how tourism imaginaries, expectations, powers and practices are reproduced, and by whom. In this article, we argue that close attention to the everyday practices of travel journalism can highlight the kinds of ethical positions, compromises and frameworks that shape the texts that circulate, and in so doing reveal how particular tropes and stereotypes are created and replicated.
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2004
... involved. Before turning to the dilemmas that emerged in our case studies, we provide a short... more ... involved. Before turning to the dilemmas that emerged in our case studies, we provide a short description of community planning in the context of Scottish local governance, and contrast it with Norwegian municipal master planning. ...
Environment and Planning C-government and Policy, 2004
... involved. Before turning to the dilemmas that emerged in our case studies, we provide a short... more ... involved. Before turning to the dilemmas that emerged in our case studies, we provide a short description of community planning in the context of Scottish local governance, and contrast it with Norwegian municipal master planning. ...
Despite the abundant attention paid to analysing and critically discussing travel texts, and the ... more Despite the abundant attention paid to analysing and critically discussing travel texts, and the attention to tourism practices, a surprising lacuna exists around the industry that fuels the production and circulation of travel writing and photography. If tourism, as Franklin (2008) has argued, is about the ordering of desire, then questioning how the desire to travel is imagined, experienced and stimulated by producers of travel literature should enable us to address how tourism imaginaries, expectations, powers and practices are reproduced, and by whom. In this article, we argue that close attention to the everyday practices of travel journalism can highlight the kinds of ethical positions, compromises and frameworks that shape the texts that circulate, and in so doing reveal how particular tropes and stereotypes are created and replicated.
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2004
... involved. Before turning to the dilemmas that emerged in our case studies, we provide a short... more ... involved. Before turning to the dilemmas that emerged in our case studies, we provide a short description of community planning in the context of Scottish local governance, and contrast it with Norwegian municipal master planning. ...
Environment and Planning C-government and Policy, 2004
... involved. Before turning to the dilemmas that emerged in our case studies, we provide a short... more ... involved. Before turning to the dilemmas that emerged in our case studies, we provide a short description of community planning in the context of Scottish local governance, and contrast it with Norwegian municipal master planning. ...
Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of ... more Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power. Revisiting classic anthropological notions of power, it asks how changing energy related infrastructures are implicated in the consolidation, extension or subversion of contemporary political regimes and discovers what they tell us about politics today.
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This article contains the text and discussion of a debate held at the IUAES World Congress in Ant... more This article contains the text and discussion of a debate held at the IUAES World Congress in Anthropology at Manchester University in 2013. The motion was proposed by Bela Feldman-Bianco (State University of Campinas), seconded by Noel Salazar (University of Leuven) and was opposed by Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University), seconded by Nicholas de Genova (then at Goldsmiths’ College). The debate was chaired by Simone Abram (Durham University).
Electifying Anthropology: Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures, 2019
What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternati... more What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about 'it' in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is not one thing?
This book re-describes electricity and its infrastructures using insights from anthropology and science and technology studies, raising fascinating questions about the contemporary world and its future. Through ethnographic studies of bulbs, bicycles, dams, power grids and much more, the contributors shed light on practices that are often overlooked, showing how electricity is enacted in multiple ways. Electrifying Anthropology moves beyond the idea of electricity as an immovable force, and instead offers a set of potential trajectories for thinking about electricity and its effects in contemporary society.
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book in open access: https://berghahnbooks.com/title/LoloumEthnographies
(then at Goldsmiths’ College). The debate was chaired by Simone Abram
(Durham University).
This book re-describes electricity and its infrastructures using insights from anthropology and science and technology studies, raising fascinating questions about the contemporary world and its future. Through ethnographic studies of bulbs, bicycles, dams, power grids and much more, the contributors shed light on practices that are often overlooked, showing how electricity is enacted in multiple ways. Electrifying Anthropology moves beyond the idea of electricity as an immovable force, and instead offers a set of potential trajectories for thinking about electricity and its effects in contemporary society.