Dr Adam Reed
Reader
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 2974
- ader@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- Room 56
- Location
- United Colleges
- Office hours
- Friday 10am-noon and noon-1pm
Research areas
I conducted my original research (1994-1995) in a maximum-security prison just outside Port Moresby, the national capital of Papua New Guinea. That work focuses 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.
More recently (1999-present), I have conducted research in the UK, working with members of a British literary society (fans of a particular novelist) as well as with various groups of London knowledge producers (walking tour guides, Internet journal keepers). Out of these projects come my continuing interests in popular theorizations of the city and urban imaginations, cultures of fiction reading & writing, senses of place, the material culture of books & other artefacts of literary culture, memory, mind and literary subjectivities.
In the last ten years, I have begun a new arm of research: an anthropological study of ethical campaigning in Scotland. This projects looks at the organizational ethics and ethical subjectivation at play in animal welfare campaigning, and is the beginning of a wider project that engages with the anthropology of ethics. This interest, in tandem with my interest in Anthropology and Literature, has recently led me to explore the concept of character, within Anthropology and across disciplines.
Finally, I have completed a pilot project working with Papua New Guinean migrants to Western Australian. This project looks at skilled labour migration from Papua New Guinea and in particular at the relationship to resource extraction; it focuses on concepts of 'skill', innovations in death ritual and on the influence of Pentecostalism in the migrant expereince.
PhD supervision
- Yichi Zhang
- Hannah Fitchett
- Luke McGinty
- Oliver French
- Tamika McLay
Selected publications
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Open access
Games of collaboration: an ethnographic examination of experts acting seriously
Reed, A. D. E., 10 May 2024, In: Suomen Antropologi. 48, 2, p. 27-49 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Explaining the politics of the author
Reed, A. D. E., 15 Dec 2023, Beyond description: anthropologies of explanation. Heywood, P. & Candea, M. (eds.). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, p. 221-240 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Life on the lifeboat: stylizing ethical dilemmas in the philosophy and activism of animal protection
Reed, A. D. E., 1 Sept 2023, In: Social Analysis. 67, 3, p. 90-101 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Off the rails: thin moral thinking and stylised ethical dilemmas
Heywood, P. & Reed, A. D. E., 1 Sept 2023, In: Social Analysis. 67, 3, p. 45-57 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dialogues: anthropology and theology
Havea, J., Tomlinson, M., Al-Azem, T., Rasanayagam, J., Juewei, V., Mair, J., Bongmba, E. K., Haynes, N., Lamb, R., Sivakumar, D., Furani, K., Moosa, E. & Reed, A. (Editor), Mar 2022, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 28, 1, p. 297-347Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Does the sound environment influence the behaviour of zoo-housed birds? A preliminary investigation of ten species across two zoos
Rose, P., Reed, A., Hurn, S., Badman-King, A. & Rice, T., 1 Nov 2022, In: Behavioural Processes. 203, 12 p., 104763.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sympathy for Oswald Mosley: politics of immersion and historical resemblance in the moral imagination of an English literary society
Reed, A. D. E., 31 Jan 2022, In: Comparative Studies in Society and History. 64, 1, p. 63-90 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Listening after the animals: sound and pastoral care in the zoo
Rice, T., Badman-King, A., Hurn, S., Rose, P. & Reed, A., 15 Sept 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Early View, 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Listening to the zoo: challenging zoo visiting conventions
Rice, T., Reed, A., Badman-King, A., Hurn, S. & Rose, P., 13 Sept 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Ethnos. Latest Articles, 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Introduction to special section 2: anthropology and character
Reed, A. & Bialecki, J., 7 Aug 2018, In: Social Anthropology. 26, 3, p. 305-313 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review