Dr Andrew Whitehouse
Teaching Fellow
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a.whitehouse@abdn.ac.uk
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/birdsong/
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G17 Edward Wright Building
Teaching Fellow
MA, PhD
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Biography
I joined the department as a Teaching Fellow from the University of St Andrews, where I studied for my PhD. Previously, I studied for an MA in Environmental Anthropology at the University of Kent and a BSc in Environmental Management at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Research Interests
I conducted my doctoral research on the island of Islay in the Inner Hebrides of western Scotland. Here I investigated the relationship between nature conservation organisations and farmers, focussing on the development of the relationship since the 1970s. Within my thesis I consider how various symbols that represent this relationship are employed within discourse as part of the situating practices of individuals and organisations. I also examine regularities within the discourse of farming and conservation in Islay that point towards shared models of connection.
I am now conducting research into anthropological approaches to bird sounds, in conjunction with Tim Ingold. This AHRC-funded project examines how people perceive bird sounds, how they identify sounds as being made by particular kinds of birds and how these sounds then become incorporated into people's lives. Research will mostly be conducted in northeast Scotland but I am interested in human responses to bird sounds in any situation.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/birdsong/
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Current Research
Selected Publications:
2010 "Something borrowed, something new? Practices and politics of imitation: an introduction" ETNOFOOR 22:1 7-10 (with Petra Tjitske Kalshoven)
2009 "'A disgrace to a farmer': conservation and agriculture on a nature reserve in Islay, Scotland' Conservation and Society 7:3 165-175
"An anthropologist listens to birds" Sound and anthropology: body, environment and human sound making, http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/soundanth/work/whitehouse/
Forthcoming "The balance of nature: entangled science and ethics in debates about raptors in Scotland", in Animals and science M. Bolton & C. Degnen (eds) Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Forthcoming "How the land should be: narrating progress on farms in Islay, Scotland" in A. Arnason, N.Ellison, J.Vergunst & A.Whitehouse (eds.) Landscapes beyond land: routes, aesthetics, narratives. Oxford: Berghahn.
Forthcoming Landscapes beyond land: routes, aesthetics, narratives (edited with A. Arnason, N. Ellison & J. Vergunst). Oxford: Berghahn.
Reviews:
2009 "Where the wild things are now: domestication reconsidered" Social Anthropology 17: 3 353-355.
2008 "Skilled visions: between apprenticeship and standards" Social Anthropology 16: 1 117-118.
2006 "Sound and anthropology" conference review (with Katy Fox). Anthropology Today Vol. 22 No. 6 25-26.
Conference Papers:
"One with the birds? Listening through recording and imitation" Departmental Seminar, Newcastle University, March 2010.
"On knowing and learning bird sounds" Listening to Birds symposium, Aberdeen, June 2009.
"The language of sound: exploring interaction between people and birds" ASA conference 2009, Bristol, April 2009. Minding Animals conference, Newcastle, Australia, July 2009.
"The rare and the everyday in nature conservation" ACES symposium, Aberdeen, February 2009. ECCB conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2009.
"Bird sounds and senses of being" ASA conference 2008, Auckland, New Zealand December 2008. Departmental Seminar, University of Aberdeen February 2009.
"'Like chips without salt and vinegar': bird sounds and the rhythms of life" Theoretical Archaeology Group conference, New York, May 2008. Departmental seminar at Queen's University Belfast, April 2008.
"An anthropologist listens to birds" Neal's Yard, Cambridge, November 2007. Anthropology of Britain workshop, Aberdeen January 2008.
"Becoming continuity: how conservation stopped being a change in Islay, Scotland" Anthropology of Britain workshop, Newcastle January 2007.
"Towards an anthropology of bird sounds", at the conference "Sound and Anthropology", University of St Andrews, June 2006.
"The balance of nature: entangled science and ethics in debates about raptors in Scotland" at the conference "Animals and Science" University of Manchester, June 2005.
"Diversity and diversification: farmers' negotiation of change in Islay, Scotland" at the XXI congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology, Keszthely, Hungary August 2005.
"The people who make the difference: How farmers in Islay negotiate and conceptualise change and their relationship with the outside world" ASA Conference, 2004, Durham.
"Conservation, counting and the meaning and morality of rarity in Islay" ASA Conference, 2003, Manchester.
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Teaching Responsibilities
Postgraduate and undergraduate supervision. Course co-ordinator for Anthropology and Landscape AT4516. Course coordinator for the 6th Century Course 'Humans and Other Animals' SX1001/SX1501.
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Publications
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2009). 'A disgrace to a farmer: Conservation and Agriculture on a Nature Reserve in Islay, Scotland'. Conservation and Society, vol 7, no. 3, pp. 165-175.
[Online] DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.64733
Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2009). 'Cassidy, Rebecca and Molly Mullin (eds). "Where the wild things are now: domestication reconsidered": Oxford: Berg. xv + 309 pp. Hb.: £55.00. ISBN: 978 1 84520 152 4. Pb.: £19.99. ISBN: 978 1 84520 153 1'. Social Anthropology, vol 17, no. 3, pp. 353-355.
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2008). 'Grasseni, Cristina.2007. Skilled visions: between apprenticeship and standards.: Oxford and NewYork: Berghahn. viii + 22 pp.Hb.:$75.00.ISBN:9781845452100'. Social Anthropology, vol 16, no. 1, pp. 117-118.
Contributions to Conferences
Papers
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2010). 'One with the birds?: Listening through recording and imitation'. Paper presented at Departmental Seminar, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 17/03/10 - 17/03/10,.
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2010). 'Senses of place: Listening to birds and place-making in Britain, Australia and New Zealand'. Paper presented at Departmental Seminar, London, United Kingdom, 1/03/10 - 1/03/10,.
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2009). 'Senses of Being: Narratives of bird sounds and place-making in Britain, Australia and New Zealand'. Paper presented at Departmental seminar, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 19/02/09 - 19/02/09,.
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2009). 'The rare and the everyday in nature conservation'. Paper presented at Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability 1st Symposium, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 27/02/09 - 27/02/09,.
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2009). 'The rare and the everyday in nature conservation'. Paper presented at 2nd European Congress of Conservation Biology, Prague, Czech Republic, 1/09/09 - 5/09/09,.
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2009). 'The language of sound: Exploring interaction between people and birds'. Paper presented at Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Bristol, United Kingdom, 6/04/09 - 9/04/09,.
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2009). 'The language of sound: Exploring interaction between people and birds'. Paper presented at Minding Animals, Newcastle, Australia, 12/07/09 - 18/07/09,.
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2009). 'Senses of Being: Narratives of bird sounds and place-making in Britain, Australia and New Zealand'. Paper presented at Minding Animals, Newcastle, Australia, 12/07/09 - 18/07/09,.
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2009). 'On knowing and learning bird sounds'. Paper presented at Listening to Birds Symposium, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 31/05/09 - 2/06/09,.
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2008). 'An anthropologist listens to birds'. Paper presented at Learning and unlearning to be British, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 10/01/08 - 11/01/08,.
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2008). 'Like chips without salt and vinegar': Bird sounds and the rhythms of life'. Paper presented at Theoretical Archaeology Group, New York, United Kingdom, 23/05/08 - 25/05/08,.
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2008). 'Like chips without salt and vinegar': Bird sounds and the rhythms of life'. Paper presented at Departmental Seminar, Belfast, United Kingdom, 22/04/08 - 22/04/08,.
- Whitehouse, AJ. (2008). 'Senses of Being: Narratives of bird sounds and place-making in Britain, Australia and New Zealand'. Paper presented at Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 8/12/08 - 12/12/08,.
Books and Reports
Books
- Ellison, N., Arnason, A., Whitehouse, AJ. & Vergunst, J. (in press). 'Landscape beyond land: routes, aesthetics, narratives'. Berghahn Books, Oxford.
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