Social Anthropology: Recent submissions
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Performing purity : the ethical worlds of public servants in Sikkim's organic conversion
(2024-12-04) - ThesisThis dissertation explores the ways in which officials engaged with the government-mediated conversion of the Indian Himalayan state of Sikkim to a ‘fully organic farming state,’ a process declared complete in 2016. My ... -
Vulnerable realities : an ethnography among female survivors of gender-based violence in Italy
(2024-12-04) - ThesisThis thesis sheds light on the intersection between gender-based violence, socio-economic precariousness, and vulnerability through a detailed ethnographic exploration of the intimate experiences of female survivors seeking ... -
Learning to become an artist : ethnographic reflections on art school and studying Fine Art within a university-based contemporary art practice
(2021-06-28) - ThesisThe thesis argues that becoming an artist today is inextricably linked with having studied art in a higher educational setting. The research is based upon ethnographic fieldwork within an undergraduate Fine Art program at ... -
'La planta prohibida' : multi-species cosmopolitics in the Mexican desert
(2024-12-04) - ThesisFocusing on the Chihuahuan Desert of north-central Mexico, I engage with multiple post-humanist theoretical approaches to understand how people relate to their world and the species with whom they co-habit. I focus on a ... -
Analogue rendering and digital imagining : creative praxis in music studios
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisThis thesis examines creative process in musical composition and performance, posing the question – how do music-making individuals consider themselves artists? Engaging with composers and musicians, this thesis unpacks ...