Dr Eileen Rose Walsh
Position:
Departmental Lecturer in Anthropology of ChinaFaculty / College Address:
Oriental Institute / Institute for Chinese Studies / St. Cross CollegeEmail:
eileen.walsh@chinese.ox.ac.ukResearch Interests:
- Tourism and development
- Gender, ethnicity and identity
- Law and human rights
Current Projects:
- Domestic ethnic tourism in Yunnan
- Legal aid and education projects
Courses Taught:
- Lectures: Anthropology of China, and contributions to survey courses in the Society and Politics of China, MPhil and MSt courses n Chinese Studies
- Tutorials: Contemporary Gender Issues, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Anthropology of China
Recent publications:
Articles:
- “From Nu Guo to Nu’er Guo: Negotiating Desire in the Land of the Mosuo” Modern China, October 2005. 31(4) 448-486
- “"Sex "Suggested" and Power Play: Notes on Harassment in the Field" Invited submission to Berliner China-Hefte Series, Volume 28: 56-67. Bettina Gransow, Pál Nyíri, Shiaw-Chian Fong (eds), China: New Faces of Ethnography, Muenster: LIT, 2005. Pseudonym Helen Brannagh.
- “Creating Modernity by Touring Paradise: Domestic Ethnic Tourism in Yunnan, China”, second author Margaret Byrne Swain. Special issue (July 2004) of Journal of Tourism and Recreation Research. 29(2)2004
- “The Na” In Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures, Human Relations Area Files, Kluwer and Plenum. 2004
- “Living with the Myth of Matriarchy: Tourism and the Mosuo” In Tourism, Anthropology and China, Tan Chee-Beng, Sidney C.H.Cheung and Yang Hui ed.s, White Lotus Press. 2001
Book:
- Living the Myth of Matriarchy: Gender, Tourism and the Mosuo. Manuscript in process.
Recent Panel and Conference Participation (2004-present):
- “A Tale of Two Women” University of Washington China Colloquium Series. April, 2008
- “Staging Ethnicity: When Identity Is Marketed” Association for Asian Studies Meetings. Atlanta, April 2008
- Panel Chair and Co-organizer, When the Ethnic Goes Popular: Celebrity, Authenticity, and Visions of Ethnicity from Yunnan, Association for Asian Studies Meetings Session 138. Atlanta, April 2008
- “Cultural Preservation and Ethnic Tourism: The New Cultural Politics in Yunnan” American Anthropological Association Meetings. Washington, D.C. , November 2008
- “Primitivity, Cosmopolitanism and Sexual Autonomy” Canadian Anthropological Society and American Ethnological Society Conference. Toronto, May 2007
- “The Politics of Pollution at Lugu Lake” Association of Social Anthropologists Meetings, London, April 2007
- "From Namu to Najie: Tourism, Titillation and the Reshaping of Mosuo Identity" Association of Social Anthropologists Meetings, London, April 2007
- “Who Is Polluting Lugu Lake?" Association for Asian Studies Meetings. San Francisco, 2006
- Panel Organizer – The Rising Peril of HIV/AIDS in China, Skidmore College, March 24, 2005
- “Reflections on the Practice: Exoticism, Desire and Fieldwork” Invited Speaker, Senior Seminar Colloquia, Emerson College, March, 2005
- “Making Modern Primitives: Ethnic Tourism, Development and Desire”, Visiting Speaker Series, McGill University, February, 2005
- Panel Co-Organizer -Tourism and Consumption, European Assoc. of Chinese Studies XV Conference, Heidelberg University, August 25-29, 2004
Other info:
Additional teaching experience includes: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Tourism in East Asia, Gender and Sexuality, The Mao Years: Gender and Revolution in China, Social Issues in China: The Contemporary Scene, The History of Anthropological Theory, Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology,Ethnography of China, Ethnotourism as Encounter, Ethnicity and Nationalism in the PRC, Theorizing Gender Issues, Women in China, Introduction to Women’s Studies
