Dr Huon Wardle

Dr Huon Wardle

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Email
hobw@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitics, common-sense, comedy, adventure, ethics, aesthetics, epoché, existential anthropology. Area specialities: Jamaica, the Caribbean.

My work as an anthropologist has centred on cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitics with an ethnographic focus on the Caribbean and its 'creolising' social-cultural processes. My writing moves between an ethnographic (descriptive-analytical) strand and an exploration of grounding concepts in anthropology: these include the idea of 'common-sense' as a human universal.

My enduring interest has been in individuals and how they make a meaningful world, finding freedoms for themselves; how they transcend cultural categories and constraints through cosmopolitanizing narrations of experience. Theoretically this has led me into thinking about the ideas that go into a cosmopolitan view, including openness or hospitality toward the ‘foreign’, empathy across categorical boundaries, utopian imagining and the idea of the transcendence of immediate or ‘temporal’ constraints.

PhD supervision

  • Josephine Mullen
  • Cristian Erazo Romero
  • Yichi Zhang
  • Shanay Davis
  • Siqi Ren
  • Chang Liu
  • Hector Trujillo

Selected publications

 

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