Dr Jonathan Skinner – SL Anthropology application: CLA0217-1
Publications
Authored books, edited volumes and journal special issues
Skinner, J. (2012) The Interview: An Ethnographic Approach, Oxford: Berg Publications. ISBN
9781847889409 (Paperback)
Skinner, J. (Ed.) (2012) Special Edition: Interviewing Ireland - North and South, Irish Journal of
Anthropology, 15(1), pp.5-46. ISSN: 1393-8592 (Print)
Skinner, J. Ed. (2012) Writing The Dark Side of Travel, Oxford: Berghahn Publishers. ISBN 978-085745-341-9 (Paperback)
Skinner, J. and H. Neveu-Kringelbach (eds) (2012) Dancin’ Culture: knowledge, transformation and
identity in the anthropology of dance, Oxford: Berghahn (completed and in press for August 2012).
Skinner, J. and D. Theodossopoulos (eds) (2011) Great Expectations: Imagination, Anticipation, and
Enchantment in Tourism, Oxford: Berghahn Publishers. ISBN 978-0-85745-277-1 (Hardback)
Skinner, J. Ed. (2010) The Dark Side of Travel, Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and
Travel Writing, Special Edition, 11(1): 1-177. ISSN: 1465-2609 (Print)
Skinner, J. & M. Hills (eds) (2006) Managing Island Life: Social, Economic and Political Dimensions of
Formality and Informality in ‘Island’ Communities, Dundee: University of Abertay Press. ISBN 1899796-14-2 (Paperback)
Skinner, J. (Ed.) (2005) Special Edition: Embodiment and Teaching and Learning in Anthropology,
Anthropology in Action, 12(2), pp.1-82. ISSN 0967-201X (Print)
Skinner, J. (2004) Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat, Kingston, Jamaica:
Arawak Publications. ISBN 976-189-21-5 (Paperback)
Skinner, J. (Ed.) (2002) Special Edition: Managing Island Life, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of
Race, Nation and Culture, 8(2), pp.205-320. ISSN 1350-4630 (Print)
J. Skinner and C. Di Domenico and A. Law and M. Smith (eds) (2001) Boundaries and Identities:
Nation, Politics and Culture in Scotland, Dundee: University of Abertay Dundee Press. ISBN 1899796-0808
Articles and Book Chapters
2012
and J. Simonelli, ‘Applied and Public Anthropology in the United States and the United Kingdom’ in, J.
Carrier and D. Gewertz (eds) Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology, Oxford: Berg publishers,
pp.553-569.
‘A Four Part Introduction to the Interview: Introducing the Interview; Society, Sociology and the
Interview; Anthropology and the Interview; Anthropology and the Interview – Edited’ in, J. Skinner
(Ed.), The Interview: An Ethnographic Approach, Oxford: Berg Publications, pp.1-49.
‘Introduction: Writings on the Dark Side of Travel’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.) Writing the Dark Side of Travel,
Oxford: Berghahn, pp.1-28.
Skinner, J. (2012) ‘Editorial: Interviewing Ireland – the North and South experience’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.)
(2012) Interviewing Ireland: North and South, Irish Journal of Anthropology, Special Edition, pp.511.
‘Globalization and the Dance Import/Export Business: The Jive Story’ in, J. Skinner and H. NeveuKringelbach (eds) Dancin’ Culture: knowledge, transformation and identity in the anthropology of
dance, Oxford: Berghahn, pp.29-45.
and H. Neveu Kringelbach, ‘The Movement of Dancing Cultures’ in, J. Skinner and H. NeveuKringelbach (eds) Dancin’ Culture: knowledge, transformation and identity in the anthropology of
dance, Oxford: Berghahn, pp.1-25.
2011
‘A Distinctive Disaster: Montserrat island under pressure’ in, A. Soares and M. McCusker (eds) Islanded
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Identities: Constructions of Postcolonial Cultural Insularity, Amsterdam: Rodopoi, pp.63-89.
‘Displeasure on “Pleasure Island”: tourist expectation and desire on and off the Cuban dance floor’, in J.
Skinner and D. Theodossopoulos (eds) Great Expectations: Imagination, Anticipation, and
Enchantment in Tourism, Oxford: Berghahn Publishers, pp.116-136.
and D. Theodossopoulos (2011) ‘Introduction: the play of expectation in tourism’, in J. Skinner and D.
Theodossopoulos (eds) Great Expectations: Imagination, Anticipation, and Enchantment in Tourism,
Oxford: Berghahn Publishers, pp.1-26.
2010
‘Suffering Syndromes and the (Anti-)Social Body: A Review Article’, Anthropology in Action 17(1): 6672.
‘Introduction: Writings on the Dark Side of Travel’, Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and
Travel Writing (Special Edition edited by J. Skinner), 11(1): 1-28.
‘Leading Questions and Body Memories: A Case of Phenomenology and Physical Ethnography in the
Dance Interview’ in, A. Gallinat and P. Collins (Eds) Keeping An Open ‘I’: Memory and Experience
as Resources in Ethnography, Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp.111-128.
‘Review Article: The Space of Anthropology’, Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 18(3): 341–
345.
‘Work/Leisure Balances and the Creation of a Carnival Cosmopolitanism’, Special Issue edited by A.
Dawson and C. Dahl-Jorgensen, ‘Work Life: Flexibility, Globalization, Life-project and Identity’
Intergraph: Journal for Dialogic Anthropology 2(2), http://intergraphjournal.com/enhanced/vol2issue2/12.html.
2009
‘“Live in fragments no longer”: imagination and the connection in human nature’ in, N. Rapport (ed.)
Human Nature as Capacity: An Ethnographic Approach, Oxford: Berghahn Publications, pp.207-230.
‘Mount Chance, Montserrat, and the media: global British journalism under local fire’ in, E. Bird (ed.)
The Anthropology of News and Journalism: Global Perspectives, Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, pp.191-215.
‘Cyber ethnography and the disembedded Electronic Evergreen of Montserrat’ in, M. Srinivasan and R.
Mathur (eds) Ethnography and The Internet: An Exploration, Hyderabad: ICFAI University Press,
pp.125-148.
‘The “PB” and the aestheticization of violence in Northern Ireland’, Ethnography 9(3): 427-438.
‘Was St Pat’s trouble part of centuries-old practice?’, Irish Newsletter editorial, March 25, p.14.
2008
‘The text and the tale: the difference between scientific reports and scientists’ reportings on the eruption
of Mount Chance, Montserrat’, Journal of Risk Research 11(1-2): 255-267.
‘Ghosts in the Head and Ghost Towns in the Field: Ethnography and the Experience of Presence and
Absence’, Journeys: International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing (‘Senses of Spatial
Equilibrium and the Journey: Confounded, Discomposed, Recomposed’ Special Edition edited by A.
Irving, A. Sen and Nigel Rapport) Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.10-31.
‘Glimpses into the unmentionable: Montserrat, tourism and anthropological readings of “subordinate
exotic” and “comic exotic” travel writing’, Studies in Travel Writing 12(3): 167-191.
‘At the Electronic Evergreen: a computer-mediated ethnography of a newsgroup from Montserrat and
afar’ in, T. Adams and S. Smith (Eds) Electronic Tribes: The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers,
Shamans, and Scammers, Tucson: University of Texas Press, pp.124-140.
2007
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‘Emotional baggage: the meaning/feeling debate amongst tourists’ in, H. Wulff (Ed.) Emotions: A
Reader, Oxford: Berg, pp.339-353.
‘From the Precolonial to the Virtual: The Scope and Scape of Land, Land Use, and Land Loss on
Montserrat’ in, J. Besson & J. Momsen (Eds) Land and Development (2nd Edition), London:
Macmillan, pp.219-232.
‘Editorial: The Location of Culture and Politics in Latin American and Caribbeanist Anthropology’,
Anthropology in Action, 14(3), p.v-vi.
‘When “Big Men” don’t see eye-to-eye: consequences for natives and tourists on Montserrat’,
Practicing Anthropology 29(3), pp.40-42.
‘Editorial: Ethnographic Humanism - Migrant Experiences in the Quest for Well-Being’, Anthropology
in Action, 14(1&2), p.v.
2006
‘Modernist anthropology, ethnic tourism and national identity: the contest for the commoditization and
consumption of St. Patrick’s Day, Montserrat’ in, K. Meethan, A. Anderson & S. Miles (Eds)
Anthropology and the production and consumption of tourism, London: CAB International, pp.253271.
‘Disaster creation in the Caribbean and planning, policy and participation reconsidered’ in, J. Momsen
and J. Pugh (eds) Environmental Planning in the Caribbean: context and case studies, London:
Ashgate Publishers, pp.53-72.
‘Editorial: Indigenous Knowledge in Development’, Anthropology in Action, 13(3), pp.v-vi.
‘Introduction: Introducing Islands’ in, J. Skinner & M. Hills (eds) (2006) Managing Island Life: Social,
Economic and Political Dimensions of Formality and Informality in ‘Island’ Communities, Dundee:
University of Abertay Press, pp.1-14.
‘Formal and Informal “Island” Relations on Colonial Montserrat and Gibraltar’ in, J. Skinner & M. Hills
(eds) (2006) Managing Island Life: Social, Economic and Political Dimensions of Formality and
Informality in ‘Island’ Communities, Dundee: University of Abertay Press, pp.181-205.
‘Trading On and Off Risk: A Review Essay’, Anthropology in Action, 13(1-2), pp.99-103.
‘Editorial: The Edge of the Union: Peace, Conflict and Policy in Northern Ireland’, Anthropology in
Action, 13(1-2), pp.v-vii.
2005
‘Editorial: Embodiment and Teaching and Learning in Anthropology’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.) (2005) Special
Edition: Embodiment and Teaching and Learning in Anthropology, Anthropology in Action, 12(2),
pp.v-ix.
and K. Simpson, ‘Community and Creativity in the Classroom: An Experiment in the Use of The Guest
Interview, Focus Group Interviews and Learning Journals in the Teaching and Learning of The
Anthropology of Modern Dance’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.) (2005) Special Edition: Embodiment and
Teaching and Learning in Anthropology, Anthropology in Action, 12(2): 28-43.
‘Editorial: Universities and the Politics of Accountability’, Anthropology in Action, 12(1), pp.v-vi.
2004
‘Editorial: Heritage, Tourism and Public Interest Anthropology’, Anthropology in Action, 11(2/3), p.1.
‘Nelson Graburn’ in, V. Amit (Ed.) Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology,
London: Routledge, pp.206-207.
‘Popper in the “Open”: Science, Morality, Culture and The Open Society’ in, N. Rapport (Ed.)
Democracy, Science and the “Open Society”: A European Legacy?, (Anthropological Journal on
European Cultures Special Edition), Volume 13, pp.133-150.
‘Editorial: Applications of Anthropology’, Anthropology in Action, 11(1), p.1.
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‘Michel-Rolph Trouillot’ in, V. Amit (Ed.) Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural
Anthropology, London: Routledge, pp.519-520.
‘James Boon’ in, V. Amit (Ed.) Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology, London:
Routledge, pp.66-67.
2003
‘Voyeurs, Voyagers and Disaster Tourism from Mount Chance, Montserrat’ in, D. Macleod (Ed.) Niche
Tourism and Anthropology, Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, pp.129-144.
‘Anti-social “social development”? The DFID approach and the ‘indigenous’ of Montserrat’ in, J.
Pottier, A. Bicker, P. Sillitoe (Eds) Negotiated Development: Power and Identity in Development,
London: Pluto Press, pp.98-120.
‘Editorial: Children as Partners in Development’, Anthropology in Action, 10(1), p.1.
‘The British (Orphan) Territories’, Anthropology Today, 10(2), pp.1-2.
‘Montserrat Place and Mons’rat Neaga: an example of impressionistic autoethnography’, The Online
Qualitative Report, 8(3): pp.513-529, http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR8-3/skinner.pdf.
‘Essential Anthropology?’, Anthropology Today, 19(4), pp.25-26.
‘Editorial: Scientific Innovations and the Anthropological Gaze’, Anthropology in Action, 10(3), p.1
2002
‘British Constructions with Constitutions: The Formal and Informal Nature of ‘Island’ Relations on
Montserrat and Gibraltar’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.) Special Edition: Managing Island Life, Social
Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 8(2), pp.301-320.
‘Managing Island Life: Social, Economic and Political dimensions of Formality and Informality in
‘Island’ Communities’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.) Special Edition: Managing Island Life, Social Identities:
Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 8(2), pp.205-215.
‘Narrative on the Net: Bill and his hyper- lives, loves and texts’, Auto/Biography, X(1&2), pp.21-29.
‘Considering ethics: from classroom teaching to research committee vetting’, Anthropology in Action,
9(1), pp.25-28.
‘Editorial: The Anthropology of change’, Anthropology in Action, 9(3), p.1.
‘Editorial: Visualising Anthropology’, Anthropology in Action, 9(2), p.1.
‘Editorial: Effective Ethics and the Effects of Ethics’, Anthropology in Action, 9(1), p.1.
2001
‘Taking Conspiracy Seriously: Fantastic Narratives and Mr Grey the Pan-Afrikanist on Montserrat’ in, J.
Parish and M. Parker (eds) The Age of Anxiety: Conspiracy Theory and the Human Sciences, Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers, pp.93-111.
‘Licence revoked: when calypso goes too far’ in, B. Watson and J. Hendry (eds) An Anthropology of
Indirect Communication, London: Routledge, pp.181-200.
‘Open Society and Open Minds: The BAAS “Science and Society” Festival’, Anthropology Today,
17(6), pp.26-27.
2000
‘The eruption of Chances Peak, Montserrat, and the narrative containment of risk’ in, P. Caplan (Ed.)
Risk Revisited, London: Pluto Press, pp.156-183.
‘ME and Julie: a study in narrative of illness experience and therapy in a Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
sufferer’, Auto/Biography, VIII(1 & 2), pp.33-40.
1999
‘Globalisation in an age of migration’, The Sociological Review, 47(3), pp.603-608.
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‘Island Migrations, Island Cultures’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.) Island Migrations, Island Cultures, Anthropology
in Action, 6(2), pp.1-5.
‘Anthropological ethics’, Anthropology Today, 15(3), pp.23-24.
1997
‘“Doing ethnography” as action and in-action’, Anthropology in Action, 4(2), pp.13-16.
‘The GAPP experience’, Anthropology in Action, 4(3), pp.38-39.
1996/7
‘Contesting Nationalism: Overcoming the Politics of Nationality’, Belgrade Circle Journal, Special
Edition - Numbers 3-4 [1996] and 1-2 [1997], pp.162-171.
1996
‘Conversing Montserrat: Perspectives and worldviews on development and dependence’,
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Entwicklungsethnologie e. V., Volume 2, pp.44-57.
‘Visions of Development: “Ours” and “Theirs”’, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Entwicklungsethnologie e. V.,
Volume 2, p.107-110.
‘Visions of Development: Haben oder Sein’, Anthropology Today, 12(1), pp.24-25.
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Funding Awards
Funding Awards (greater than £4k)
2012
‘Maze Conflict Resolution Centre’: Maze/Long Kesh Reference Group consortia
member, PEACE III EU Award (£18 million)
2009-11
“Leading dance for older people - a community health network”, Co-PI with Dr Sylvia
O’Sullivan, University of Limerick, Centre for Ageing Research and Development in
Ireland (CARDI) (£7,770): www.dancebeyond.co.uk.
2008
“Student Centred Marketing and Recruitment Pilot”, lead applicant, QUB Marketing and
Recruitment Committee (£5,000)
2007-8
"MOTILITY 21: twenty-first century social engagement for the older citizen through
social dance in NI", Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP) project funded through the
Atlantic Philanthropies (£7,098)
2007-8
“Second Degree Dance: movement, meaning and learning”, British Academy research
grant (£6,000)
2006
“Cultural Sounds and Conservation Texts: Soundscapes of a lost Montserrat (British West
Indies)”, Higher Education Academy, Education for Sustainable Development Project
grant (£4,000): www.qub.ac.uk/montserrat.
2006
Lecturers in Industry placement grant – secondment to research and assist with the
creation of a professional dance company (£10,000)
2005-10
Creative Enterprise Centre - co-applicant for the establishment of a creative arts centre at
QUB with a Director, researchers and MA Programme, funded by the NI Department of
Education and Learning (£500,000)
2005-7
University Research Fellowship – 3 yr fieldwork grant to research migration, movement
and cosmopolitan identity on the dance floor, California (£10,000)
2004
QUB Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant – to research teaching the
anthropology of dance and to bring dance teachers into the classroom (£4,900)
2002/3
Visiting Fellowship, held at Refugee Studies Centre (Queen Elizabeth House), University of
Oxford – to work on Montserrat publications (£10,000)
2001
MOD QinetiQ, Portsmouth – consultancy, see below (£36,263)
1998/9
The Sociological Review Fellowship – to work on monograph Before the Volcano, Keele
University (£17,500)
1994-1998 Carnegie Trust Scholarship - for fieldwork on Montserrat (£4,000)
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Consultancies and Media
2010 to present
Appointed external consultant in Tourism to the Northern Ireland Government Steering Reference
Group on the Maze Prison/Long Kesh regeneration project.
2008 to present
Appointed external consultant on dance movement and physiotherapy, University of Huddersfield
(£1,000/yr).
2005
Media radio discussant – anthropology/tourism spokesperson – on ‘Excess Baggage’, BBC Radio Four,
broadcast 19th November 2005.
2004
Media television discussant – anthropology spokesperson – on ‘Superstitions and belief systems’, Ulster
Television, broadcast 13th February 2004.
2002
Media television discussant - anthropology spokesperson - in ‘Faith without Walls’ series, Grampian
Television (“Morals”, and “The Art of Happiness” episodes), broadcast 23rd and 29th September 2002.
2001
University of Abertay Dundee consultant for the Centre for Human Sciences [CHS], Portsmouth.
‘Identifying and Visualising Measures of Merit for the Impact of Information on Perceptions and
Behaviour in the Marketplace’: socio-cultural impact assessment and analysis of new information and
communication technologies [ICTs] (£36,263).
1998-1999
Consultant to the Overseas Development Institute [ODI], London, during their evaluation of the
Department for International Development’s [DFID] response to the Montserrat volcanic emergency,
acknowledged in: Clay, E. et al (1999) An Evaluation of HMG’s Response to the Montserrat Volcanic
Emergency, Evaluation Report EV635, Department for International Development, Clay et al 1999).