Dr Adam Reed
Reader
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 462974
- ader@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- Room 56
- Location
- United Colleges
- Office hours
- Wednesday 1pm?2pm and Friday 10am?11am
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 five 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
- Xiaoyang Zhang
- Camila Ferreira Marinelli
- Gregory Bablis
- David Humphrey
- Thalia Ostendorf
Selected publications
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Reading minor characters: an English literary society and its culture of investigation
Reed, A., 2019, In : PMLA. 134, 1, p. 66-80Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Introduction to special section 1: Anthropology and character
Reed, A. & Bialecki, J., May 2018, In : Social Anthropology. 26, 2, p. 159-167Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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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
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Literature and reading
Reed, A., Oct 2018, In : Annual Review of Anthropology. 47, p. 33-45 13 p., 47.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article
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Ageing with a captive society in London: Audrey, Ron and Smokey at the Zoo
Reed, A., 2017, In : Ethnos. 82, 3, p. 421-436Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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An office of ethics: meetings, roles and moral enthusiasm in animal protection
Reed, A., 18 Apr 2017, In : Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 23, S1, p. 166?181Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Introduction: towards an ethnography of meeting
Brown, H., Reed, A. & Yarrow, T., Apr 2017, In : Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 23, S1, p. 10-26Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Snared: ethics and nature in animal protection
Reed, A., Jan 2017, In : Ethnos. 82, 1, p. 68-85 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Afterword: Something to take back, Melanesia anthropology after relationality?
Reed, A. D. E., 2016, Cutting and Connecting: 'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange. Myhre, C. (ed.). Oxford: BerghahnResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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Commons Feeling in Animal Welfare and Online Libertarian Activism
Reed, A. D. E., 2016, Releasing the Commons: Rethinking the futures of the commons. Amin, A. & Howell, P. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 49-65 16 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter