Dr Jonathan Skinner
Academic and research departments
Department of Hospitality and Events, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management.About
Biography
Dr Jonathan Skinner is a Senior Fellow member of the Higher Education Academy with a particular teaching interest in interviewing skills and qualitative research methods. He has undertaken fieldwork in the Eastern Caribbean on the island of Montserrat (carnival and festival tourism and trauma, colonial relations and disaster recovery) and in the US/UK (social dancing, arts health, contested heritage and St Patrick's Day). He recently applied his work on festivals and carnival to support sustainable lobster fishing practices in Sainte Luce, Madagascar (2019). He previously lectured at the University of Abertay Dundee (1996-2003), Queen's University Belfast (2003-2013) and the University of Roehampton (2013-2021). He is an experienced conference organiser and academic editor, keynote speaker, cruise ship lecturer and dance instructor. At Roehampton, served as Chair of the TECHNE (AHRC Doctoral Training Programme) Training Group, and Programme Convener for the Anthropology BSc. His co-edited book Leisure and Death won the 2020 Ed Bruner Book Prize for best new book.
Jonathan was awarded The Sociological Review Fellowship (1998/9), and has held Visiting Fellowships at the University of Oxford (2002/3), California State University - Sacramento (2007, and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2013). He has been Honorary Treasurer of the Association of Social Anthropologists (1999-2003), editor of the journal Anthropology in Action (2001-2007), and publications officer for the European Association of Social Anthropologists (2004-2008). He is currently an Adjunct Fellow of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, University of St Andrews, co-edits the award-winning book series 'Dance and Performance Studies' for Berghahn Publishers with Professor Helena Wulff (University of Stockholm) and is advisor to the Northern Ireland arts health charity Arts Care. He is also two-times Ulster Salsa Champion (2008, 2011) and a qualified Argentine tango instructor.
News
In the media
Alt Vibes festival (Alton Estate, March 2021)
ResearchResearch interests
Keywords: Contested and Choreographed Events; Tour Guides and Dark Tourism; Conservation and Festivals of the Sea
Funding Awards
Faculty Participant
2019-27 TECHNE2 AHRC DTP bid (>£15 million): Responsible for coordinating and writing ‘Training and Development’ component (375 studentships across the consortium over 5 cohorts)
Principal Investigator / Co-Investigator
2019-20 “Shoring Up Marine Cultural Heritage: extending Madagascar’s ‘festival of the sea’ amongst the orphaned young of Lamu’s Anidan Children’s Shelter, Kenya”, PI, Rising from the Depths Network - AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund
2018-20 ‘REHARBOURING HERITAGE: tying tangible and intangible marine heritage to the performing arts to develop community engagement in food security and sustainable livelihoods in East Africa coastal communities’, PI, Rising from the Depths Network - AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund
2017-18 ‘Slavery, Abolition and Resistance: St Patrick’s Day and 250 years of Methodism on Montserrat’, PI, Southlands Methodist Trust
2016-19 ‘Saving the sea turtles of Anguilla: combining community action with scientific evidence to drive legislative change’, Co-I, EU Commission: BEST 2.0 Medium Grants – voluntary Scheme for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Territories of European Overseas
2013 Invited International Fellow, School of US Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2009-11 “Leading dance for older people - a community health network”, Co-PI with Dr Sylvia O’Sullivan, University of Limerick, Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI)
2007-8 “MOTILITY 21: twenty-first century social engagement for the older citizen through social dance in NI”, PI, Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP) project funded through the Atlantic Philanthropies
2007-8 “Second Degree Dance: movement, meaning and learning”, PI, British Academy research grant
2006 “Cultural Sounds and Conservation Texts: Soundscapes of a lost Montserrat (British West Indies)”, PI, Higher Education Academy, Education for Sustainable Development Project grant
2006 Lecturers in Industry EU Proteus placement grant – secondment to research and assist with the creation of a professional dance company
2005-7 University Research Fellowship – PI, 3 yr fieldwork grant to research migration, movement and cosmopolitan identity on the dance floor, California
2004 QUB Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant – PI, to research teaching the anthropology of dance and to bring dance teachers into the classroom
2002-3 Visiting Fellowship, held at Refugee Studies Centre (Queen Elizabeth House), University of Oxford
2001 QinetiQ consultancy, PI, reviewing and analysing computer mediated communication research in the social sciences
1998-9 The Sociological Review Fellowship
1995 Sutasoma/Radcliffe-Brown Award
1994-8 Carnegie Trust Scholarship
Research interests
Keywords: Contested and Choreographed Events; Tour Guides and Dark Tourism; Conservation and Festivals of the Sea
Funding Awards
Faculty Participant
2019-27 TECHNE2 AHRC DTP bid (>£15 million): Responsible for coordinating and writing ‘Training and Development’ component (375 studentships across the consortium over 5 cohorts)
Principal Investigator / Co-Investigator
2019-20 “Shoring Up Marine Cultural Heritage: extending Madagascar’s ‘festival of the sea’ amongst the orphaned young of Lamu’s Anidan Children’s Shelter, Kenya”, PI, Rising from the Depths Network - AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund
2018-20 ‘REHARBOURING HERITAGE: tying tangible and intangible marine heritage to the performing arts to develop community engagement in food security and sustainable livelihoods in East Africa coastal communities’, PI, Rising from the Depths Network - AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund
2017-18 ‘Slavery, Abolition and Resistance: St Patrick’s Day and 250 years of Methodism on Montserrat’, PI, Southlands Methodist Trust
2016-19 ‘Saving the sea turtles of Anguilla: combining community action with scientific evidence to drive legislative change’, Co-I, EU Commission: BEST 2.0 Medium Grants – voluntary Scheme for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Territories of European Overseas
2013 Invited International Fellow, School of US Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2009-11 “Leading dance for older people - a community health network”, Co-PI with Dr Sylvia O’Sullivan, University of Limerick, Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland (CARDI)
2007-8 “MOTILITY 21: twenty-first century social engagement for the older citizen through social dance in NI”, PI, Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP) project funded through the Atlantic Philanthropies
2007-8 “Second Degree Dance: movement, meaning and learning”, PI, British Academy research grant
2006 “Cultural Sounds and Conservation Texts: Soundscapes of a lost Montserrat (British West Indies)”, PI, Higher Education Academy, Education for Sustainable Development Project grant
2006 Lecturers in Industry EU Proteus placement grant – secondment to research and assist with the creation of a professional dance company
2005-7 University Research Fellowship – PI, 3 yr fieldwork grant to research migration, movement and cosmopolitan identity on the dance floor, California
2004 QUB Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant – PI, to research teaching the anthropology of dance and to bring dance teachers into the classroom
2002-3 Visiting Fellowship, held at Refugee Studies Centre (Queen Elizabeth House), University of Oxford
2001 QinetiQ consultancy, PI, reviewing and analysing computer mediated communication research in the social sciences
1998-9 The Sociological Review Fellowship
1995 Sutasoma/Radcliffe-Brown Award
1994-8 Carnegie Trust Scholarship
Publications
Highlights
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Skinner, J., F. Murphy and E. Heffernan (eds) (2021) Collaborations: Anthropology in a Neoliberal Age, London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-35000-226-5 (Hardback)
Skinner, J. and A. Gronseth (eds) (2021) Mobilities of Wellbeing: Migration, the State and Medical Knowledge, Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-5310-2031-6 (Paperback)
Skinner, J. and J. Feldman (2018) Tour Guides as Cultural Mediators – Special Issue of Ethnologia Europaea /Journal of European Ethnology and volume published by Museum Tusculanum Press, 48(2): 5-120. ISBN 978-87-635-46478 / ISSN 0425-4597.
Skinner, J. and A. Kaul (eds) (2018) Leisure and Death: Lively Encounters with Risk, Death, and Dying, Boulder, Co: University of Colorado Press. ISBN: 978-1-60732-728-8 (Paperback)
** 2018 US Public Radio recommended Summer reading (Natural History & Sustainability) **
** 2020 Ed Bruner Book Prize **
Skinner, J. and L. Jolliffe (eds) (2017) Visiting Murals: Politics, Heritage and Identity, London: Routledge. ISBN 9781472461438 (Hardback)
Skinner, J., A. Wilford and P. Antick (eds) (2016) Terror on Tour - Special Issue, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 12(5), http://liminalities.net/12-5/. ISSN: 1557-2935 (Online)
Skinner, J. and D. Bryan (eds) (2015) Consuming St Patrick’s Day, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-7631-5 (Hardback)
Skinner, J. (Ed.) (2014) ‘Applied and Social Anthropology, Arts and Health’ (Special Issue)Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice 21(1): 2-42. ISSN 0967-201X
Skinner, J. (Ed.) (2012) The Interview: An Ethnographic Approach, Oxford: Berg Publications. ISBN 9781847889409 (Paperback)
Skinner, J. (Ed.) (2012) Writing The Dark Side of Travel, Oxford: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0-85745-341-9 (Paperback)
Skinner, J. and H. Neveu-Kringelbach (eds) (2012) Dancing Cultures: Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance, Oxford: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0-85745-575-8 (Hardback)
Skinner, J. (Ed.) (2012) Interviewing Ireland: North and South, Irish Journal of Anthropology, Special Edition, 15(1): 5-46. ISSN: 1393-8592 (Print)
Skinner, J. and D. Theodossopoulos (eds) (2011) Great Expectations: Imagination, Anticipation, and Enchantment in Tourism, Oxford: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0-85745-277-1 (Hardback)
Skinner, J. (Ed.) (2010) The Dark Side of Travel, Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, Special Edition, 11(1): 1-177. ISSN: 1465-2609 (Print)
Skinner, J. and M. Hills (eds) (2006) Managing Island Life: Social, Economic and Political Dimensions of Formality and Informality in ‘Island’ Communities, Dundee: University of Abertay Press. ISBN 1-899796-14-2 (Paperback)
Skinner, J. (Ed.) (2005) Special Edition: Embodiment and Teaching and Learning in Anthropology, Anthropology in Action, 12(2), pp.1-82. ISSN 0967-201X (Print)
Skinner, J. (2004) Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat, Kingston, Jamaica: Arawak Publications. ISBN 976-189-21-5 (Paperback)
Skinner, J. (Ed.) (2002) Special Edition: Managing Island Life, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 8(2), pp.205-320. ISSN 1350-4630 (Print)
Skinner, J. and C. Di Domenico and A. Law and M. Smith (eds) (2001)Boundaries and Identities: Nation, Politics and Culture in Scotland,Dundee: University of Abertay Dundee Press. ISBN 1-899796-0808 (Paperback)
Historic over-exploitation and the more recent threats caused by fisheries by-catch, disease and climate change have left sea turtle populations in the Wider Caribbean at risk of extinction. In 1995, following regional declines in nesting and foraging populations, the island of Anguilla implemented a moratorium on the hunting of turtles. At the request of the Government of Anguilla for scientific data to either support or remove the moratorium, comprehensive population estimates were obtained, and foraging, nesting and migratory movements were examined. In addition, community perspectives on turtles and their protection were assessed. Between 2015 and 18 surveys of 30 nesting beaches estimated low nesting activity with a maximum of 41 hawksbill, 15 green, and 1–2 leatherback turtles nesting in Anguilla annually. The inter-nesting range of hawksbills exhibited high levels of geographic overlap and occurred within 1.5 km of nesting beaches. Migratory tracks of hawksbill turtles traversed through seven exclusive economic zones, two of which allow a legal turtle fishery. Site fidelity was observed in foraging areas of green turtles and genetic analysis revealed population differentiation between green turtle foraging sites in Anguilla and between hawksbill rookeries in Anguilla compared to other Leeward Islands, indicating the individual importance of each foraging and nesting site. The Anguillan public (n = 302) overwhelmingly agreed with the current ban on harvesting sea turtles and considered turtles important for ecotourism. Our work provides a case-study, that can be applied globally, of how scientific research combined with community perspectives can effectively inform policy and ultimately protect endangered species, and highlights that local Governments provided with high quality data in a timely fashion for their policy making timetable are more likely to integrate findings into their decision-making process.
Additional publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Soanes, L., J. Richardson, K. Eckert, K. Gumbs, L. Halsey, G. Hughes, R. Richardson, J. Skinner, S. Wynne and F. Mukhida (undated) ‘Saving the sea turtles of Anguilla: combining scientific data with community perspectives to inform policy decisions’ (unpublished full manuscript)
25. Skinner, J. (2020) ‘Intimacy, Zoom Tango and the COVID-19 Pandemic’, Anthropology in Action, 27(2): 87–92. doi:10.3167/aia.2020.270214.
24. Skinner, J. (2018) ‘Techniques and Technologies in the Tribune: Stewarding at Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham’, Ethnologia Europaea /Journal of European Ethnology, Special Issue on The Tour Guide as Cultural Mediator, 48(2): 96-110. ISBN 978-87-635-46478 / ISSN 0425-4597.
23. Skinner, J. (2018) ‘Plymouth, Montserrat: apocalyptic dark tourism at the Pompeii of the Caribbean’, International Journal of Tourism Cities, 4(1): 123-139. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJTC- 08-2017-0040.
22. Skinner, J. (2016) ‘Walking the Falls: Dark Tourism and the Significance of Movement on the Political Tour of West Belfast’, Tourist Studies, 16(1): 23-39.
21. (2016) and G. Gormley, ‘Point of view filming and the elicitation interview’, Perspectives on Medical Education, 5(4): 235-239. doi:10.1007/s40037-016-0278-0.
20. Skinner, J. (2016) ‘“Was here”: identity traces and digital footprints as survival writing’, Terror on Tour - Special Issue, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 12(5), http://liminalities.net/12-5/washere.pdf. ISSN: 1557-2935 (Online)
19. Skinner, J. (2013) ‘Social Dance for Successful Aging: The Practice of Health, Happiness, and Social Inclusion amongst Senior Citizens’, Anthropology & Ageing Quarterly, 34(1): 18-29.
18. Skinner, J. (2010) ‘Introduction: Writings on the Dark Side of Travel’, Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing (Special Edition edited by J. Skinner), 11(1): 1-28.
17. Skinner, J. (2010) ‘Work/Leisure Balances and the Creation of a Carnival Cosmopolitanism’, Special Issue edited by A. Dawson and C. Dahl-Jorgensen, ‘Work Life: Flexibility, Globalization, Life-project and Identity’ Intergraph: Journal for Dialogic Anthropology 2(2), http://www.intergraph-journal.net/enhanced/vol2issue2/12.html.
16. Skinner, J. (2008) ‘Glimpses into the unmentionable: Montserrat, tourism and anthropological readings of “subordinate exotic” and “comic exotic” travel writing’, Studies in Travel Writing, 12(3): 167-191.
15. Skinner, J. (2008) ‘Ghosts in the Head and Ghost Towns in the Field: Ethnography and the Experience of Presence and Absence’, Journeys: International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing (‘Senses of Spatial Equilibrium and the Journey: Confounded, Discomposed, Recomposed’ Special Edition edited by A. Irving, A. Sen and Nigel Rapport) 9(2): 10-31.
14. Skinner, J. (2008) ‘The “PB” and the aestheticization of violence in Northern Ireland’, Ethnography, 9(3): 427-438.
13. Skinner, J. (2008) ‘The text and the tale: the difference between scientific reports and scientists’ reportings on the eruption of Mount Chance, Montserrat’, Journal of Risk Research, 11(1-2): 255- 267.
12. Skinner, J. (2008) ‘Women Dancing Back - and Forth: Resistance and Self-Regulation in Belfast Salsa’, Dance Research Journal, 40(1): 65-77.
11. Skinner, J. (2007) ‘The Salsa Class: a complexity of globalization, cosmopolitans and emotions’, Identities (Special Edition on Emotions and Globalization), 14(4): 485-506.
10. Skinner, J. (2005) ‘Interning the serpent: witchcraft, religion and the law on Montserrat in the twentieth century’, History and Anthropology, 16(2): 1-23.
9. Skinner, J. and K. Simpson (2005), ‘Community and Creativity in the Classroom: An Experiment in the Use of The Guest Interview, Focus Group Interviews and Learning Journals in the Teaching
and Learning of The Anthropology of Modern Dance’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.) (2005) Special Edition: Embodiment and Teaching and Learning in Anthropology, Anthropology in Action, 12(2): 28-43.
8. Skinner, J. (2004) ‘Consciousness in Poetry from Fergus and the Writers’ Maroon of Montserrat’, Wadabagei, 7(2): 3-26.
7. Skinner, J. (2004) ‘Nationalist poets and “barbarian poetry”: Scotland’s Douglas Dunn and Montserrat’s Howard Fergus’, Forum for Modern Language Studies [Caribbean Special Edition], XL(4): 377-388.
6. Skinner, J. (2003) ‘At the busk and after dusk: ceroc and the construction of dance times and places’, Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology, Volume 42: 117-127.
5. Skinner, J. (2002) ‘British Constructions with Constitutions: The Formal and Informal Nature of ‘Island’ Relations on Montserrat and Gibraltar’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.) Special Edition: Managing Island Life, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 8(2): 301-320.
4. Skinner, J. (2002) ‘Narrative on the Net: Bill and his hyper- lives, loves and texts’, Auto/Biography, X(1&2): 21-29.
3. Skinner, J. (2000) ‘ME and Julie: a study in narrative of illness experience and therapy in a Myalgic Encephalomyelitis sufferer’, Auto/Biography, VIII(1 & 2): 33-40.
2. Skinner, J. (1996/7) ‘Contesting Nationalism: Overcoming the Politics of Nationality’, Belgrade Circle Journal, Special Edition - Numbers 3-4 [1996] and 1-2 [1997]: 162-171.
1. Skinner, J. (1996) ‘Conversing Montserrat: Perspectives and worldviews on development and dependence’, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Entwicklungsethnologie, Volume 2: 44-57.
Book Chapters
35. Skinner, J. and M. Banaszkiewicz (2022) ‘Exclusion Tourism: sci fi and subjunctive plays in apocalyptic destinations from Chernobyl to Plymouth, Montserrat’ in, M. Sigla, I. Yeoman, U. McMahon (eds) Science Fiction, Disruption and Tourism, Bristol: Channel View Publications, forthcoming.
34. Skinner, J. (2021) ‘Let The Dance Begin - Strabane: a cross-border, cross-community creative intervention’, in J. Skinner and A. Gronseth (eds) Mobilities of Wellbeing: Migration, the State and Medical Knowledge. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, pp.143-173.
33. Skinner, J. (2020) ‘Most humanistic, most scientific: experiencing anthropology in the humanities and life sciences’ in, J. Skinner, F. Murphy and E. Heffernan (eds) Collaborations: Anthropology in a Neoliberal Age, London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp.65-84.
32. Skinner, J. (2019) ‘The View from the UK’, in N. Graburn, N. Salazar, and Y. Zhu (eds) Conceptual Histories of Tourism: A Transcultural Dialog. UC Berkeley: Department of Anthropology, pp.33-40. Open access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9180d4jf.
31. Skinner, J. with C. Rooks, G. Marvin and C. Ross (2019) ‘Insight into Africa: wildlife tourism as educational transformation’, in M. Mkono (ed.) Positive Tourism in Africa, London: Routledge, pp.91-98.
30. Skinner, J. (2019) ‘“This research project is not ready”: ethics and institutional hurdles in a neoliberal era’ in, H. Andrews and J. Takamitsu (eds) Tourism Ethnographies: Ethics, Methods, Application and Reflexivity, London: Taylor & Francis, pp.16-32.
29. Skinner, J. (2018) ‘“It’s Tango!” Communicating Intangible Cultural Heritage for the Dance Tourist’, in, C. Palmer and J. Tivers (eds) Creating Heritage for Tourism, London: Routledge, pp.77-88.
28. Skinner, J. (2017) ‘“The smoke of an eruption, and the dust of an earthquake”: Dark Tourism, the Sublime and the Re-Animation of the Disaster Location’ in, P. Stone, R. Hartmann, T. Seaton, R. Sharpley and L. White (Eds) Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.125-150.
27. Skinner, J. (2015) ‘The Ambivalent Consumption of St. Patrick’s Day amongst the Black Irish of Montserrat’ in J. Skinner and D. Bryan (eds) Consuming St. Patrick’s Day, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.186-208.
26. Skinner, J. (2015) ‘Tango Heart and Soul: Solace, Suspension, and the Imagination in the Dance Tourist’ in, M. Harris and N. Rapport (eds) The Imagination: A Universal Process of Knowledge, Oxford: Berghahn, pp.61-76.
25. Skinner, J. (2014) ‘Maze Breaks in Northern Ireland: Terrorism, Tourism and Storytelling in the Shadows of Modernity’ in, I. Convery, G. Corsane and P. Davis (eds), Displaced Heritage: Dealing with Disaster and Suffering, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, pp.85-93.
24. Skinner, J. (2013) ‘Social Dance as Social Space’ in, O. Kuhlke and A. Pine (eds), Geography of Dance: Bodies, Space and Movement, Volume 2: Global Movements, Lanham: Lexington Books, pp.101-114.
23. Skinner, J. (2012) and J. Simonelli, ‘Applied and Public Anthropology in the United States and the United Kingdom’ in, J. Carrier and D. Gewertz (eds) Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology, Oxford: Berg publishers, pp.553-569.
22. Skinner, J. (2012) ‘Globalization and the Dance Import/Export Business: The Jive Story’ in, J. Skinner and H. Neveu-Kringelbach (eds) Dancing Cultures: globalization, tourism and identity in the anthropology of dance, Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp.29-45.
21. Skinner, J. (2011) ‘Displeasure on “Pleasure Island”: tourist expectation and desire on and off the Cuban dance floor’, in J. Skinner and D. Theodossopoulos (eds) Great Expectations: Imagination, Anticipation, and Enchantment in Tourism, Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp.116-136.
20. Skinner, J. (2011) ‘A Distinctive Disaster: Montserrat island under pressure’ in, A. Soares and M. McCusker (eds) Islanded Identities: Constructions of Postcolonial Cultural Insularity, Amsterdam: Rodopoi, pp.63-89.
19. Skinner, J. (2010) ‘Leading Questions and Body Memories: A Case of Phenomenology and Physical Ethnography in the Dance Interview’ in, A. Gallinat and P. Collins (eds) The Ethnographic Self as Resource: Writing Memory and Experience into Ethnography, Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp.111-128.
18. Skinner, J. (2010) ‘“Live in fragments no longer”: imagination and the connection in human nature’ in, N. Rapport (Ed.) Human Nature as Capacity: An Ethnographic Approach, Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp.207-230.
17. Skinner, J. (2009) ‘Cyber ethnography and the disembedded Electronic Evergreen of Montserrat’ in, M. Srinivasan and R. Mathur (eds) Ethnography and The Internet: An Exploration, Hyderabad: ICFAI University Press, pp.125-148.
16. Skinner, J. (2009) ‘Mount Chance, Montserrat, and the media: global British journalism under local fire’ in, E. Bird (Ed.) The Anthropology of News and Journalism: Global Perspectives, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp.191-215.
15. Skinner, J. (2008) ‘At the Electronic Evergreen: a computer-mediated ethnography of a newsgroup from Montserrat and afar’ in, T. Adams and S. Smith (eds) Electronic Tribes: The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers, Tucson: University of Texas Press, pp.124-140.
14. Skinner, J. (2007) ‘Emotional baggage: the meaning/feeling debate amongst tourists’ in, H. Wulff (Ed.) Emotions: A Cultural Reader, Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp.339-353.
13. Skinner, J. (2007) ‘From the Precolonial to the Virtual: The Scope and Scape of Land, Land Use, and Land Loss on Montserrat’ in, J. Besson & J. Momsen (eds) Caribbean Land and Development Revisited (2nd Edition), London: Macmillan, pp.219-232.
12. Skinner, J. (2006) ‘Modernist anthropology, ethnic tourism and national identity: the contest for the commoditization and consumption of St. Patrick’s Day, Montserrat’ in, K. Meethan, A. Anderson & S. Miles (eds) Tourism, Consumption and Representation: Narratives of Place and Self, London: CAB International, pp.253-271.
11. Skinner, J. (2006) ‘Disaster creation in the Caribbean and planning, policy and participation reconsidered’ in, J. Momsen and J. Pugh (eds) Environmental Planning in the Caribbean: context and case studies, London: Ashgate Publishers, pp.53-72.
10. Skinner, J. (2006) ‘Formal and Informal “Island” Relations on Colonial Montserrat and Gibraltar’ in, J. Skinner & M. Hills (eds) (2006) Managing Island Life: Social, Economic and Political Dimensions of Formality and Informality in ‘Island’ Communities, Dundee: University of Abertay Press, pp.181-205.
9. Skinner, J. (2005) ‘Colonising Narratives, Double Consciousness and Barbarian Writing: Fergus and the Writers’ Maroon of Montserrat’ in, J. Besson & K. Olwig (eds) Caribbean Narratives of Belonging: Fields of Relations, Sites of Identity, Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean, pp.245-262.
8. Skinner, J. (2003) ‘Voyeurs, Voyagers and Disaster Tourism from Mount Chance, Montserrat’ in, D. Macleod (Ed.) Niche Tourism and Anthropology, Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, pp.129-144.
7. Skinner, J. (2003) ‘Anti-social “social development”? The DFID approach and the ‘indigenous’ of Montserrat’ in, J. Pottier, A. Bicker, P. Sillitoe (eds) Negotiated Development: Power and Identity in Development, London: Pluto Press, pp.98-120.
6. Skinner, J. (2001) ‘Taking Conspiracy Seriously: Fantastic Narratives and Mr Grey the Pan-Afrikanist on Montserrat’ in, J. Parish and M. Parker (eds) The Age of Anxiety: Conspiracy Theory and the Human Sciences, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp.93-111.
5. Skinner, J. (2001) ‘Licence revoked: when calypso goes too far’ in, B. Watson and J. Hendry (eds) An Anthropology of Indirect Communication, London: Routledge, pp.181-200.
4. Skinner, J. (2000) ‘The eruption of Chances Peak, Montserrat, and the narrative containment of risk’ in, P. Caplan (Ed.) Risk Revisited, London: Pluto Press, pp.156-183.
3. Skinner, J. (1998) ‘Of elephants and men: the freak as Victorian and contemporary spectacle’ in, G. Day (Ed.) Varieties of Victorianism: The Uses of a Past, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.250- 262.
2. Skinner, J. (1996) ‘Teaching the Past, Protesting the Present, Altering the Future’ in, C. Barker and M. Tyldesley (eds) Alternative Futures and Popular Protest II, Manchester: The Manchester Metropolitan University, (no page references available).
1. Skinner, J. (1995) ‘Orientalists and Orientalism: William Robertson-Smith and Edward W. Said’ in, W. Johnstone (Ed.) William Robertson Smith: Essays in Reassessment, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, pp.376-382.
Other Writings (introductions, popular articles, reviews, blogs, podcasts)
75. Skinner, J. (2021) ‘Salsa in the City’ in L. Pountney and T. Maric (eds) Introducing Anthropology: What Makes Us Human? London: Polity Press, pp.77-78.
74. Skinner, J. (2021) ‘The Festival of the Sea – Sainte Luce, Madagascar’, end of project blog, https://risingfromthedepths.com/innovation-projects/the-festival-of-the-sea-sainte-luce- madagascar/.
73. Skinner, J. (2020) ‘Foreword’ in, J. Skinner, F. Murphy and E. Heffernan (eds) Collaborations: Anthropology in a Neoliberal Age, London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp.x-xv.
72. Skinner, J. and E. Heffernan and F. Murphy (2020) ‘Introduction’ in, J. Skinner, F. Murphy and E. Heffernan (eds) Collaborations: Anthropology in a Neoliberal Age, London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp.1-20.
71. De Miguel Molina, M. and J. Skinner (2019) “Walls of Expression and Dark Murals Tourism.” Anthropology News website, 15 November 2019. DOI: 10.1111/AN.1310, http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2019/11/15/walls-of-expression-and-dark-murals- tourism/.
70. Skinner, J. (2019) ‘“Scoping” Maritime Cultural Heritage: A visit to SEED Madagascar and Sainte Luce to prepare for June’s Festival of the Sea’, AHRC Rising from the Depths Webpages, 25 July 2019, https://risingfromthedepths.com/blog/innovation-projects/scoping-maritime-cultural- heritage-a-visit-to-seed-madagascar-and-sainte-luce-to-prepare-for-junes-festival-of-the-sea/.
69. Skinner, J. (2018) ‘The Body in Fieldwork Analysis and Writing’, Somatics Toolkit expert podcasts, 4 December 2018, http://somaticstoolkit.coventry.ac.uk/episode-03-jonathan- skinner-on-concerns-regarding-the-body-in-fieldwork-analysis-and-writing/.
68. Skinner, J. (2018) and A. Kaul, ‘Introduction’ in J. Skinner and A. Kaul (eds) Leisure and Death: Lively Encounters with Risk, Death, and Dying, Boulder, Co: University of Colorado Press, pp.3- 40.
67. Skinner, J. and J. Feldman (2018) ‘Tour Guides as Cultural Mediators: Performances and Positioning’, Ethnologia Europaea /Journal of European Ethnology, Special Issue on The Tour Guide as Cultural Mediator, 48(2): 5-13. ISBN 978-87-635-46478 / ISSN 0425-4597.
66. Skinner, J. (2018) ‘Love Island UK?’, 13 August 2018 University of Roehampton blog, https://blog.roehampton.ac.uk/2018/08/13/love-island-an-academic-opinion/.
65. Skinner, J. (2018) ‘Death by Proxy: Breaking New Ground with Leisure and Death and The Rolling Stones’, 7 August 2018, University of Colorado Press blog, https://upcolorado.com/about-us/blog/item/3503-death-by-proxy-breaking-new-ground-with- leisure-and-death-and-the-rolling-stones.
64. Skinner, J. (2018) ‘By the time you read this, David Goodall will be dead: the question of suicide tourism and the outsourcing of English pain’, 10 May 2018, Anthroehampton Blog, http://eportfolios.roehampton.ac.uk/anthroehampton/2018/05/10/by-the-time-you-read-this- david-goodall-will-be-dead-the-question-of-suicide-tourism-and-the-outsourcing-of-english- pain/.
63. Skinner, J. (2018) ‘“On the Face of It”: Wall-to-Wall home Ethnography’ in, M. de Miguel- Molina, M. Carabal-Montagud, B. de Miguel-Molin and V. Santamarina-Campos (eds) Conservation, Tourism and Identity of Contemporary Community Art. New Jersey: Apple Academic Press, pp.95-104.
62. Skinner, J. (2017) and J. Westerman, ‘Still Loitering Around Alvalade’, illustrated tourist pamphlet in the Trigger Point Series: Building up and Falling down, back cover.
61. Skinner, J. (2017) and L. Jolliffe, ‘Preface’, in J. Skinner and L. Jolliffe (eds) Visiting Murals: Politics, Heritage and Identity, London: Ashgate/Routledge, pp.xvi-xviii.
60. Skinner, J. (2017) and L. Jolliffe, ‘“Wall-to-wall coverage”: an introduction to murals tourism’, in J. Skinner and L. Jolliffe (eds) Visiting Murals: Politics, Heritage and Identity, London: Ashgate/Routledge, pp.3-23.
59. Skinner, J. (2016) and A. Wilford, P. Antick, ‘Terror and the Tour: Introduction’, Terror on Tour - Special Issue, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 12(5), http://liminalities.net/12- 5/intro.pdf. ISSN: 1557-2935 (Online)
58. Skinner, J. (2016) ‘High drama in the anthropology of risk’, in Pierre Lecocq (Ed.) Honors Committee UNIAPAC Foundation Board Think Tank Meeting: 'Risk as Source of Life', Paris: Fonds De Dotation UNIAPAC, pp.12-23.
57. Skinner, J. (2015) ‘Let’s Get Gritty on the Black and Green’, MNIalive.com - Global Caribbean Media, 21 May 2015, http://www.mnialive.com/articles/let-s-get-gritty-on-the-black-and-green.
56. Skinner, J. (2015) and D. Bryan, ‘Introduction’ in J. Skinner and D. Bryan (eds) Consuming St. Patrick’s Day, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.1-8.
55. Skinner, J. (2014) Skinner, J. (ed.) (2014) ‘Applied and Social Anthropology, Arts and Health: Introduction: Cross Border Interventions’ (Special Issue) Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice 21(1): 2-3.
54. Skinner, J. (2014) ‘Argentine Tango: Social Dance Health ‘to’ You’, portfolio with photos, Anthropology & Aging Quarterly 34(4): 261-264.
53. Skinner, J. (2012) ‘A Four Part Introduction to the Interview: Introducing the Interview; Society, Sociology and the Interview; Anthropology and the Interview; Anthropology and the Interview – Edited’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.), The Interview: An Ethnographic Approach, Oxford: Berg Publications, pp.1-49.
52. Skinner, J. (2012) ‘Introduction: Writings on the Dark Side of Travel’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.) Writing the Dark Side of Travel, Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp.1-28.
51. Skinner, J. (2012) and H. Neveu Kringelbach, ‘Introducing the Movement of Dancin’ Culture’ in, J. Skinner and H. Neveu-Kringelbach (eds) Dancing Cultures: globalization, tourism and identity in the anthropology of dance, Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp.1-25.
50. Skinner, J. (2012) ‘Arts (Health) Care On the Move and Coming of Age’, Reflections, December 2012: 9.
49. Skinner, J. (2012) ‘Editorial: Interviewing Ireland – the North and South experience’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.) (2012) Interviewing Ireland: North and South, Irish Journal of Anthropology, Special Edition, 15(1): 5-11.
48. Skinner, J. and D. Theodossopoulos (2011) ‘Introduction: the play of expectation in tourism’, in J. Skinner and D. Theodossopoulos (eds) Great Expectations: Imagination, Anticipation, and Enchantment in Tourism, Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp.1-26.
47. Skinner, J. (2010) ‘Review Article: The Space of Anthropology’, Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 18(3): 341–345.
46. Skinner, J. (2010) ‘Suffering Syndromes and the (Anti-)Social Body: A Review Article’, Anthropology in Action 17(1): 66-72.
45. Skinner, J. (2009) ‘Was St Pat’s trouble part of centuries-old practice?’, Irish Newsletter editorial, March 25, p.14.
44. Skinner, J. (2009) ‘A Natural Turn to the Anthropology of Dance’ in, V. Strang (ed.) What Anthropologists Do, Oxford: Berg, pp.147-148.
43. Skinner, J. (2007) ‘Author’s Reply to Before the Volcano book review’, <http://www.irlandeses.org/0711festino1.htm>, accessed 6th December.
42. Skinner, J. (2007) ‘Editorial: The Location of Culture and Politics in Latin American and Caribbeanist Anthropology’, Anthropology in Action, 14(3), pp.v-vi.
41. Skinner, J. (2007) ‘Leading Questions’, Anthropology News, American Anthropological Association newsletter, February 2007, 48(2), pp.17-18.
40. Skinner, J. (2007) ‘When “Big Men” don’t see eye-to-eye: consequences for natives and tourists on Montserrat’, Practicing Anthropology 29(3), pp.40-42.
39. Skinner, J. (2007) ‘Editorial: Ethnographic Humanism - Migrant Experiences in the Quest for Well-Being’, Anthropology in Action, 14(1&2), p.v.
38. Skinner, J. (2007) ‘Salsa in the city and the city in the salsa: Belfast, Sacramento and the cosmopolitan’, SouthWestern Anthropological Association Newsletter - Distinguished Speaker Forum, 48(2), pp.4-12.
37. Skinner, J. (2007) ‘Communities of Practice in the Classroom’, Reflections, Queen’s University Belfast teaching and learning journal, May 2007, No.4, p.4.
36. Skinner, J. (2006) ‘Editorial: Indigenous Knowledge in Development’, Anthropology in Action, 13(3), pp.v-vi.
35. Skinner, J. (2006) ‘Introduction: Introducing Islands’ in, J. Skinner & M. Hills (eds) (2006) Managing Island Life: Social, Economic and Political Dimensions of Formality and Informality in ‘Island’ Communities, Dundee: University of Abertay Press, pp.1-14.
34. Skinner, J. (2006) ‘Trading On and Off Risk: A Review Essay’, Anthropology in Action, 13(1-2), pp.99-103.
33. Skinner, J. (2006) ‘Editorial: The Edge of the Union: Peace, Conflict and Policy in Northern Ireland’, Anthropology in Action, 13(1-2), pp.v-vii.
32. Skinner, J. (2005) ‘Editorial: Embodiment and Teaching and Learning in Anthropology’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.) (2005) Special Edition: Embodiment and Teaching and Learning in Anthropology, Anthropology in Action, 12(2), pp.v-ix.
31. Skinner, J. (2005) ‘Editorial: Universities and the Politics of Accountability’, Anthropology in Action, 12(1), pp.v-vi.
30. Skinner, J. (2004) ‘Nelson Graburn’ in, V. Amit (Ed.) Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology, London: Routledge, pp.206-207.
29. Skinner, J. (2004) ‘Editorial: Heritage, Tourism and Public Interest Anthropology’, Anthropology in Action, 11(2/3), p.1.
28. Skinner, J. (2004) ‘Popper in the “Open”: Science, Morality, Culture and The Open Society’ in, N. Rapport (Ed.) Democracy, Science and the “Open Society”: A European Legacy?, (Anthropological Journal on European Cultures Special Edition), Volume 13, pp.133-150.
27. Skinner, J. (2004) ‘Editorial: Applications of Anthropology’, Anthropology in Action, 11(1), p.1.
26. Skinner, J. (2004) ‘Michel-Rolph Trouillot’ in, V. Amit (Ed.) Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology, London: Routledge, pp.519-520.
25. Skinner, J. (2004) ‘James Boon’ in, V. Amit (Ed.) Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology, London: Routledge, pp.66-67.
24. Skinner, J. (2003) ‘Editorial: Children as Partners in Development’, Anthropology in Action, 10(1), p.1.
23. Skinner, J. (2003) ‘Editorial: The British (Orphan) Territories’, Anthropology Today, 10(2), pp.1- 2.
22. Skinner, J. (2003) ‘Montserrat Place and Mons’rat Neaga: an example of impressionistic autoethnography’, The Online Qualitative Report, 8(3): pp.513-529, http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR8-3/skinner.pdf.
21. Skinner, J. (2003) ‘Essential Anthropology?’, Anthropology Today, 19(4), pp.25-26.
20. Skinner, J. (2003) ‘Editorial: Scientific Innovations and the Anthropological Gaze’, Anthropology in Action, 10(3), p.1
19. Skinner, J. (2002) ‘Managing Island Life: Social, Economic and Political dimensions of Formality and Informality in ‘Island’ Communities’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.) Special Edition: Managing Island Life, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 8(2), pp.205-215.
18. Skinner, J. (2002) ‘Considering ethics: from classroom teaching to research committee vetting’, Anthropology in Action, 9(1), pp.25-28.
17. Skinner, J. (2002) ‘Editorial: The Anthropology of change’, Anthropology in Action, 9(3), p.1.
16. Skinner, J. (2002) ‘Editorial: Visualising Anthropology’, Anthropology in Action, 9(2), p.1.
15. Skinner, J. (2002) ‘Editorial: Effective Ethics and the Effects of Ethics’, Anthropology in Action, 9(1), p.1.
14. Skinner, J. (2001) ‘Tourism, heritage and community’ in, J. Skinner and C. Di Domenico and A. Law and M. Smith (eds), Scotland’s Boundaries and Identities in the New Millennium, University of Abertay Press, pp.163-169.
13. Skinner, J. (2001) ‘Open Society and Open Minds: The BAAS “Science and Society” Festival’, Anthropology Today, 17(6), pp.26-27.
12. Skinner, J. (1999) ‘Globalisation in an age of migration’, The Sociological Review, 47(3), pp.603- 608.
11. Skinner, J. (1999) ‘Island Migrations, Island Cultures’ in, J. Skinner (Ed.) Island Migrations, Island Cultures, Anthropology in Action, 6(2), pp.1-5.
10. Skinner, J. (1999) ‘Anthropological ethics’, Anthropology Today, 15(3), pp.23-24.
9. Skinner, J. (1998) ‘ASA Impressions’, Anthropology Today, 14(3), pp.21-22.
8. Skinner, J. (1997) ‘“Doing ethnography” as action and in-action’, Anthropology in Action, 4(2), pp.13-16.
7. Skinner, J. (1997) ‘The GAPP experience’, Anthropology in Action, 4(3), pp.38-39.
6. Skinner, J. (1996) ‘Visions of Development: “Ours” and “Theirs”’, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Entwicklungsethnologie, Volume 2, p.107-110.
5. Skinner, J. (1996) ‘Visions of Development: Haben oder Sein’, Anthropology Today, 12(1), pp.24- 25.
4. Skinner, J. (1996) ‘Expressions of Identity’, Anthropology Today, 12(5), pp.22-23.
3. Skinner, J. (1994) ‘The Post-Colonial Sideshow’, Cascando, Issue 4, pp.73-76.
2. Skinner, J. (1994) ‘William Robertson Smith Congress’, Anthropology Today, 10(3), pp.21-22.
1. Skinner, J. (1994) ‘Key Symposium for Conflict Resolution’, Anthropology Today, 10(5), pp.22-23.