Simone Abram (Reader)
Dr Simone Abram is Reader at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change. She is Secretary of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth and a Member of Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Her research interests encompass the anthropology of planning, tourism and sociology of science. She has done extensive ethnographic fieldwork in France (1991-2), England (1997) and Norway (2000), and has been a visiting fellow at the universities of Oslo and Gothenburg, and at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris).
Selected outputs:
Abram, S. & Waldren, J. (Eds). 1998. Anthropological perspectives on local development : knowledge and sentiments in conflict (European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series). London: Routledge.
Abram, S., J. Waldren & D.V.L. Macleod (Eds). 1997. Tourists and tourism : identifying with people and places. Oxford: Berg.
Murdoch, J. & S. Abram. 2002. Rationalities of planning : development versus environment in planning for housing. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Abram, S 2005. ‘Science/Technology as Politics by other means’. Focaal, International journal of Ethnography 46: 3-20.
Abram, S. 2004. Personality and professionalism in a Norwegian district council. Planning Theory 3, 21-40.
Abram, S (2007) ‘Bricks coming out of the ground: Reconstructing Norfolk Park’. In S. Macdonald (Ed.) Materializing Sheffield: Place, Culture, Identity. Sheffield: Humanities Research Institute Online.
Abram, S. 2007, ‘Participatory depoliticisation: the bleeding heart of neo-liberalism’. In Catherine Neveu (Ed.) Cultures et pratiques participatives: perspectives comparatives Paris: l'Harmattan
Abram, S. 2007 ‘Public participation and the problem of exclusion’. In C. Garston and M Lindh de Montoya (Eds). Transparency in a New Global Order. Edward Elgar.
Abram, S. 2007 ‘Disciplining local government’ in S Ardener and F Moore (Eds) Professional Identities: Policy and Practice in Business and Bureaucracy. Oxford: Berghahn
Abram, S. 2004. The Smell of Money: minor risks and olfactory sensibitlities – the anatomy of a protest. In Facility Siting: Risk, Power and Identity in Land-use Planning (eds) Å. Boholm & R. Löftstedt. London: Earthscan. Pp 72-88.
Abram, S. 2003. Anthropologies in policies, anthropologies in places. In Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology (ed.) T. Hylland Eriksen: Pluto Press. Pp 138-157.
Abram, S. 2003. Gazing on Rurality. In Country Visions (ed.) P. Cloke: Pearson. Pp 32-48.
2006 Living through Regeneration.
Abram, S. (2007) ‘Living Through Regeneration - Capturing Multiple Stakeholder Perceptions to Enrich the Qualitative Research Methods Curriculum’ CEBE Transactions The online journal of the Centre for Education in the Built Environment 4(2): 67-84.