Professor Adrian Franklin | |
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Born | Canterbury, Kent, England | 19 December 1955
Nationality | British and Australian |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Kent University of Bristol |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Social Anthropology,Sociology,Cultural Studies |
Institutions | University of South Australia University of Tasmania University of Oslo University of Bristol |
Adrian S. Franklin (born 19 December 1955) is a British social anthropologist,currently Professor of Creative Industries and Cultural Policy at the University of South Australia. He has worked on television for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. [1] He worked on several ABC radio and television programs such as By Design on ABC Radio National and the television series Collectors where,with Gordon Brown and Claudia Chan Shaw,he was one of the panel of experts (specialising in the mid-twentieth century,contemporary decorative arts,design,glass,furniture,and ceramics. [2] [3]
Franklin was born in Canterbury,England [1] and holds a Master of Arts in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent,and was awarded his PhD from the University of Bristol in 1989 for his thesis Privatism,the Home and Working Class Culture. [4] He has held previous professorships at Bristol University,the University of Oslo and the University of Tasmania.
Creativity;more-than-human studies;animal studies;art museums and art publics;festivals;urban studies;human social bonds and loneliness studies;design;contemporary social theory;tourism.
Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the island state of Tasmania,Australia. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians,it is the southernmost and least-populated Australian state capital city,and second-smallest if territories are taken into account,before Darwin,Northern Territory. Hobart is located in Tasmania's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent,making it the most southern of Australia's capital cities. Its skyline is dominated by the 1,271-metre (4,170 ft) kunanyi/Mount Wellington,and its harbour forms the second-deepest natural port in the world,with much of the city's waterfront consisting of reclaimed land. The metropolitan area is often referred to as Greater Hobart,to differentiate it from the City of Hobart,one of the seven local government areas that cover the city. It has a mild maritime climate.
Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining the behavior of the participants in a given social situation and understanding the group members' own interpretation of such behavior.
Qualitative research is a type of research that aims to gather and analyse non-numerical (descriptive) data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality,including understanding their attitudes,beliefs,and motivation. This type of research typically involves in-depth interviews,focus groups,or observations in order to collect data that is rich in detail and context. Qualitative research is often used to explore complex phenomena or to gain insight into people's experiences and perspectives on a particular topic. It is particularly useful when researchers want to understand the meaning that people attach to their experiences or when they want to uncover the underlying reasons for people's behavior. Qualitative methods include ethnography,grounded theory,discourse analysis,and interpretative phenomenological analysis. Qualitative research methods have been used in sociology,anthropology,political science,psychology,communication studies,social work,folklore,educational research,information science and software engineering research.
Commodification is the process of transforming inalienable,free,or gifted things into commodities,or objects for sale. It has a connotation of losing an inherent quality or social relationship when something is integrated by a capitalist marketplace. Concepts that have been argued as being commodified include broad items such as the body,intimacy,public goods,animals and holidays.
The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university,primarily located in Tasmania,Australia. Founded in 1890,it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College,one of the university's residential colleges,first proposed in 1840 in Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Franklin's Legislative Council,was modelled on the Oxford and Cambridge colleges,and was founded in 1846,making it the oldest tertiary institution in the country. The university is a sandstone university,a member of the international Association of Commonwealth Universities,and the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning.
We The Curious is a science and arts centre and educational charity in Bristol,England. It features over 250 interactive exhibits over two floors,and members of the public and school groups can also engage with the Live Science Team over programming in the kitchen,studio and on live lab. We The Curious is also home of the United Kingdom's first 3D planetarium. The centre describes its aim as being "to create a culture of curiosity".
Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned,in part,with the study and production of ethnographic photography,film and,since the mid-1990s,new media. More recently it has been used by historians of science and visual culture. Although sometimes wrongly conflated with ethnographic film,visual anthropology encompasses much more,including the anthropological study of all visual representations such as dance and other kinds of performance,museums and archiving,all visual arts,and the production and reception of mass media. Histories and analyses of representations from many cultures are part of visual anthropology:research topics include sandpaintings,tattoos,sculptures and reliefs,cave paintings,scrimshaw,jewelry,hieroglyphics,paintings and photographs. Also within the province of the subfield are studies of human vision,properties of media,the relationship of visual form and function,and applied,collaborative uses of visual representations.
Material culture is the aspect of culture manifested by the physical objects and architecture of a society. The term is primarily used in archaeology and anthropology,but is also of interest to sociology,geography and history. The field considers artifacts in relation to their specific cultural and historic contexts,communities and belief systems. It includes the usage,consumption,creation and trade of objects as well as the behaviors,norms and rituals that the objects create or take part in.
Val Plumwood was an Australian philosopher and ecofeminist known for her work on anthropocentrism. From the 1970s she played a central role in the development of radical ecosophy. Working mostly as an independent scholar,she held positions at the University of Tasmania,North Carolina State University,the University of Montana,and the University of Sydney,and at the time of her death was Australian Research Council Fellow at the Australian National University. She is included in Routledge's Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (2001).
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Joanna Bourke,is a British historian and academic. She is professor of history at Birkbeck,University of London.
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Henrietta Marrie is a Gimuy Walubara Yidinji elder,an Australian Research Council Fellow and Honorary Professor with the University of Queensland.
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The College of Arts,Law and Education was founded in 2017 as a college of the University of Tasmania that incorporated the School of Humanities,the School of Social Sciences,the School of Creative Arts and the Faculties of Law and Education. The College offers undergraduate,postgraduate and research programs.
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