Papers by Sally D Anderson
Thinking Through Sociality
Land, 2022
Interrelationships between urban and rural areas are fundamental for the development and safeguar... more Interrelationships between urban and rural areas are fundamental for the development and safeguarding of viable future living conditions and quality of life. These areas are not well-delineated or self-sufficient, and existing interrelations may privilege one over the other. Major urban challenges facing China and Europe are related to changes in climate, environment, and to decision-making that makes urban and rural landscapes more susceptible to environmental pressures. Focusing on the six European and Chinese cities and surrounding rural areas, under study in the joint EC and MOST-funded REGREEN project, we examine how nature-based solutions (NBS) may assist in counteracting these pressures. We explore urban-rural dependencies and partnerships regarding NBS that can enhance resilience in Europe and China. We analyse differences between European and Chinese systems of governance, reflecting on the significance of the scale of research needed to understand how NBS provide benefits....
Berghahn Books, Dec 31, 2022
Anthropological Forum, 2021
While much theoretical work on value takes point of departure in what adults presumably value, th... more While much theoretical work on value takes point of departure in what adults presumably value, this chapter addresses the valuing work children do. Articulating ideals of 'being social' and 'being oneself' as good forms of personhood, Danish teachers oblige children to enact a good form of 'being together as a class,' a sociability considered vital to democratic society. Drawing on discussions of value exemplarity, I suggest that Danish school classes may be viewed from an adult perspective as exemplars representing, and to some extent realising, a high-sung value of egalitarian community. For children tasked with living out an idealised social form, the class is a limited social field, one they 'value' through myriad small valuing acts lodged in the sociable give and take of everyday class activity. The verb form is crucial here for exploring, not how children take on adult values, but rather what comes to matter to children as they, inescapably themselves, navigate the 'class' as an imposed social field and highly valued form of sociability.
Anthropologies of Education
Tidsskrift for Islamforskning, 2017
This article is based on fieldwork with young Muslim refugees from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, wh... more This article is based on fieldwork with young Muslim refugees from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, who attend small-town schools in the Danish countryside. The article explores the Danish schools’ ’mixed bag’ approach to religious education. Drawing on theology, philosophy, cultural history and the sociology of religion, the national curriculum privileges evangelical Lutheran Christianity while postulating a universal ’religious dimension’ in people’s lives. The article discusses how this school theology that highlights a common human religious attitude simultaneously excludes any serious discussion of a child’s relationship with God and the many other dimensions of religion that impact the lives of Muslim refugee children. While reporting that they enjoy learning about Christianity, Muslim children also feel compelled by God, family, classmates and their teacher’s lack of knowledge of Islam to find and hold on to their own religious convictions. In this they are surprisingly little hel...
Tidsskriftet Antropologi, Jun 1, 2003
A Companion to the Anthropology of Education, 2011
... promoted voluntary associations, particularly gymnastic and sport associations, as significan... more ... promoted voluntary associations, particularly gymnastic and sport associations, as significant sites of popular enlightenment and national, demo-cratic upbringing (Trangbæk 1998; see alsoKorsgaard, 1997a, 1997b ... Benveniste, Emile 1974 Deux modèles linguistiques de la cité ...
Tidsskriftet Antropologi, 2000
... start-ing, of grasping at loose ends, one by one, and patiently tracing their paths ... Today... more ... start-ing, of grasping at loose ends, one by one, and patiently tracing their paths ... Today, researchers, probing theories of cultural and structural production and reproduction, study the actions and ... this public concern to the fact that during that same period, British children were ...
The literature on sociability takes one through a wide range of fields and disciplines: from huma... more The literature on sociability takes one through a wide range of fields and disciplines: from human evolution and child development, over computer technology, moral education, urban planning, to sociology, anthropology, history, and moral and political philosophy. Such broad application suggests that sociability matters. And yet the concept is undertheorized, often treated as if all are familiar with and agreed upon its meaning and application (e.g. Ericsson 1989). Much usage relies on intuitive understandings of sociability as "the tendency to seek the company of others, to be friendly" (Flanagan 1999: 9). Moreover, one finds sociability and sociality used interchangeably, both concepts being applied to 1) human and animal behavior, 2) fraternizing with non-kin, 3) civil encounters with people beyond one's personal and professional network, and 4) gatherings in voluntary associations, societies, and clubs.
This paper sets out the field of 'pedagogical anthropology' presently under construction in Denma... more This paper sets out the field of 'pedagogical anthropology' presently under construction in Denmark. Informed by ethnographic and anthropological studies of schools, children and education, this new field is indelibly stamped by regional idioms and institutionalizations of education that privilege certain research questions and focus ethnographic and theoretical gazes. Two such idioms, the notion of the 'the social' and faellesskab as 'a social whole,' inform Danish pedagogical practices in a wide range of educational settings, as well as many Danish ethnographic studies of the same. A comparative 'anthropology of education,' with its potential to broaden horizons, generate new gazes and questions, offers a welcome antidote to getting trapped in implicit regional worldviews. Yet introducing an unreflected Anglophone 'anthropology of education' creates problems of translation that are of anthropological interest in themselves. A question for the future is thus how we might forge an encompassing, comparative anthropology of education that both appreciates and is able to theorize the problems of translation thrown up by the idiomatic particularities of various ethnographies and anthropologies of 'education.'
Books by Sally D Anderson
Civil Sociality Children, Sport, and Cultural Policy in Denmark
This book is about cultural policy, children's sport, and " civil sociality " in Denmark. Based o... more This book is about cultural policy, children's sport, and " civil sociality " in Denmark. Based on many years of familiarity with Danish society, and countless hours of intensive fieldwork, Dr. Anderson provides a unique anthropological perspective on the process by which state cultural policy actively engages civil society in a quest to shape social relations in the public sphere. The particular domain of policy and social activity is non-school, voluntary sport, in its various forms. By definition, of course, such activity takes place outside the regular Danish school curriculum, but it is not for this reason any less " educational. " Indeed, although it is very broadly attended and institutionalized, perhaps because Danish after-school sport is not compulsory, it is all the more compelling for children and youth, and therefore more powerful in certain ways. Dr. Anderson shows us how afterschool sport in Denmark both transmits and produces social knowledge, and powerfully shapes social relations.
A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies Series Editors
Book Chapters by Sally D Anderson
Thinking Through Sociality, 2015
Lokale liv, fjerne forbindelser, 2005
Integration: Antropologiske Perspektiver (red. K.F. Olwig & K. Pærregaard) Museum Tusculanum, 2010
Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities (eds. N. Dyck and E. P. Archetti) Berg, 2003
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Papers by Sally D Anderson
Books by Sally D Anderson
A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies Series Editors
Book Chapters by Sally D Anderson
A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies Series Editors