Linda Connor (anthropologist)
Linda Helen Connor FASSA (born 1950 in Sydney) is an Australian anthropologist. She is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney.
Background and career[]
Connor graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours in Anthropology) in 1974 and a PhD in Anthropology in 1982. She is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.[1] From 2009-2018 she was Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney.[2] She served two years as President of the Australian Anthropological Society from 2009–2010 and Vice President of the National Tertiary Education Union Sydney University Branch[3] from 2018-21. She has held positions at the University of Newcastle, the Australian Research Council, University of California, and East-West Center, Hawai’i.
Research[]
Connor has researched and published on religion and ritual,[4] medical anthropology,[5] development,[6] visual anthropology,[7] shamanism and healing,[8] and rural environmental change,[9] predominantly in Indonesia, India and Australia. Funding sources include the Australian Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Ford Foundation. In Indonesia, she studied transformations of development, economy and social life in Bali,[10] as well as processes of citizenship and decentralization in rural communities.[11] From 1978 to 1990 she collaborated with ethnographic filmmakers Patsy and Timothy Asch to produce a series of films and a film monograph based on the life and work of a Balinese healer, Jero Tapakan, and her village.[12][13][14][15] In North India in the mid-1990s, she investigated questions of displacement, identity, and cultural innovation, as part of a team studying healing in diasporic Tibetan communities.[16] Since 2002 she has worked on interdisciplinary projects focused on coal-affected localities, climate change and energy transitions in the Hunter Valley and North West New South Wales Australia.[17][18] She is currently undertaking ethnographic research on social legitimacy of renewable energy development in Upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia as part of an ARC funded cross-national team.[19]
Selected publications[]
Goodman, J., Connor, L., Ghosh, D., Morton, T. S., Marshall, J., Mueller, K., Menon, M., Kholi, K., Pearse, R. and Rosewarne, S. 2020. The End of the Coal Rush: A Turning Point for Global Energy and Climate Policy? Cambridge University Press.
Connor, L. 2016. Climate Change and Anthropos: Planet, People and Places. London: Routledge/Earthscan.
Marshall, J. and Connor, L. (eds.) 2016. Environmental Change and the World’s Futures: Ecologies, Ontologies and Mythologies. London: Routledge/Earthscan.
Connor, L. 2010. “Anthropogenic Climate Change and Cultural Crisis: An Anthropological Perspective.” Australian Journal of Political Economy 66:247-267.
Higginbotham, N., Albrecht, G. and Connor, L. 2001. Health Social Science: A Transdisciplinary and Complexity Perspective. Melbourne, Oxford University Press. 382pp.
References[]
- ^ "Academy Fellow: Professor Linda Connor ASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
- ^ Sydney, The University of. "Professor Linda Connor - The University of Sydney". sydney.edu.au.
- ^ "Officers - University of Sydney". www.nteu.org.au. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
- ^ Connor, Linda H. (1995). "The Action of the Body on Society: Washing a Corpse in Bali". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 1 (3): 537–559. doi:10.2307/3034574. ISSN 1359-0987. JSTOR 3034574.
- ^ Connor, Linda H. (2004). "Relief, risk and renewal: mixed therapy regimens in an Australian suburb". Social Science & Medicine. 59 (8): 1695–1705. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.01.030. ISSN 0277-9536. PMID 15279926.
- ^ Mcmanus, Phil; Connor, Linda H (2013). "What's Mine Is Mine(D): Contests Over Marginalisation Of rural life in the Upper Hunter, NSW". Rural Society. 22 (2): 166–183. doi:10.5172/rsj.2013.22.2.166. ISSN 1037-1656.
- ^ Connor, Linda; Asch, Patsy (1995). "Subjects, Images, Voices: Representing Gender in Ethnographic Film". Visual Anthropology Review. 11 (1): 5–18. doi:10.1525/var.1995.11.1.5.
- ^ Connor, Linda H. (1995). "Acquiring invisible strength: A Balinese discourse of harm and well‐being". Indonesia Circle. School of Oriental & African Studies. Newsletter. 23 (66): 124–153. doi:10.1080/03062849508729843. ISSN 0306-2848.
- ^ Connor, Linda; Higginbotham, Nick; Freeman, Sonia; Albrecht, Glenn (2008). "Watercourses and Discourses: Coalmining in the Upper Hunter Valley, New South Wales". Oceania. 78 (1): 76–90. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.2008.tb00029.x. hdl:1959.13/40190. ISSN 0029-8077.
- ^ Rubinstein, R; Connor, L (1999). "Staying Local in the Global Village: Bali in the Twentieth Century". Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. JSTOR j.ctt6wr0k5. Cite journal requires
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(help) - ^ Connor, L; Vickers, A (2003). "Crisis, citizenship, and cosmopolitanism: Living in a local and global risk society in Bali". Indonesia. 75 (75): 153–180. JSTOR 3351311.
- ^ Asch, P., Asch. T., and Connor, L. 1981. Jero on Jero. 'A Balinese Trance Seance' Observed. Dist.: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), Royal Anthropological Institute and ANU (RSPAS), Canberra.
- ^ Asch, P., Connor, L., and Asch. T. 1983. Jero Tapakan: Stories from the life of a Balinese healer. ANU, Canberra.
- ^ Asch, P., Asch. T., and Connor, L. 1983. The Medium is the Masseuse. Dist.: DER, Royal Anthropological Institute and ANU (RSPAS), Canberra.
- ^ Asch, P., Asch. T., and Connor, L. 1991. Releasing the Spirits: A Village Cremation in Bali. Dist.: DER, Royal Anthropological Institute and ANU (RSPAS), Canberra.
- ^ Connor, L. and Samuel, G. (eds.) 2001. Healing Powers and Modernity: Shamanism, Science and Traditional Medicine in Asian Societies. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey. 283pp
- ^ Connor, Linda H. (2016). "Energy futures, state planning policies and coal mine contests in rural New South Wales". Energy Policy. 99: 233–241. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2016.05.026.
- ^ "Home". The Coal Rush and Beyond.
- ^ "ARC Project ID: DP180101368". 2019.
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