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Adam Reed
My research centres on fieldwork carried out in the United Kingdom and Papua New Guinea (and with the Papua New Guinean diaspora in Western Australia). I conducted my original research in a prison just outside Port Moresby, the national capital of Papua New Guinea. That work focused on issues around cultures of incarceration, including attention to colonial & postcolonial governmentality, the politics of vision, money, aesthetics of documents,articulations of loss and exile and popular narratives of nationhood, the city and crime.
Since then, I have conducted extensive research in the UK. This includes work with various kinds of London knowledge producers (walking tour guides, Internet journal keepers) and with an English literary society. Out of these projects come my interests in popular theorizations of the city and urban imaginations, cultures and politics of fiction reading, the material culture of books, memory, mind and literary subjectivities. In more recent years, I conducted research with an animal protection organization in Scotland, which centres on questions of ethical self-cultivation, animal activism and the lawmaking process. A monograph book is due out this year [or early next year].
At much the same time, I began working with Papua New Guinean communities living in Western Australia. The emerging focus here is on pentecostal experiences of waiting, prophecy and bible reading. I am currently planning for a book project centred on bible reading, literature and narration.
Very recently, I have also begun a fieldwork project on mediumship and Spirituallism in Scotland, which aims to bring together theoretical interests from literary anthropology and anthropology and religion.
Address: St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
Since then, I have conducted extensive research in the UK. This includes work with various kinds of London knowledge producers (walking tour guides, Internet journal keepers) and with an English literary society. Out of these projects come my interests in popular theorizations of the city and urban imaginations, cultures and politics of fiction reading, the material culture of books, memory, mind and literary subjectivities. In more recent years, I conducted research with an animal protection organization in Scotland, which centres on questions of ethical self-cultivation, animal activism and the lawmaking process. A monograph book is due out this year [or early next year].
At much the same time, I began working with Papua New Guinean communities living in Western Australia. The emerging focus here is on pentecostal experiences of waiting, prophecy and bible reading. I am currently planning for a book project centred on bible reading, literature and narration.
Very recently, I have also begun a fieldwork project on mediumship and Spirituallism in Scotland, which aims to bring together theoretical interests from literary anthropology and anthropology and religion.
Address: St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
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