MIT Anthropology - Faculty Bio - Christine J. Walley

CHRISTINE J. WALLEY | Publications

BOOKS

2004

Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an African Marine Park Princeton: Princeton University Press.

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

forthcoming		"Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter's Story." In The Insecure American, C. Besteman and H. Gusterson, eds.
2004		"Modernity and the Meaning of Development within the Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania." In: Swahili Modernities: Culture, Politics, and Identity on the East Coast of Africa, eds. Pat Caplan and Farouk Topan. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.
2003		"Our Ancestors Used to Bury Their 'Development' in the Ground:" Modernity and the Meaning of Development in Tanzania's Mafia Island Marine Park."Anthropological Quarterly . 76(1):33-54.
2002		Reprint of "Searching for 'Voices': Feminism, Anthropology and the Global Debates over Female Genital Operations," in Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood : Disputing U.S. Polemics, edited by Stanlie M. James and Claire C. Robertson, University of Illinois Press.
2002		"'They Scorn Us Because We are Uneducated': Power and Knowledge in a Tanzanian Marine Park." Ethnography 3(3):265-297.
1997		"Searching for 'Voices': Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debates over Female Genital Operations." Cultural Anthropology 12(3):405-438.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2004		"Best Intentions: The Story of Tanzania's People Park." In: The Boston Review, Vol. 29, No. 6 December/January.
2004 forthcoming		Article based on Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park in The Boston Review, summer issue.
1997/2004		Chole: An Introduction to its History and Environment. Copyright, Christine J. Walley, Dudley Iles and the Chole Society for Women's Development. (Publication in English and KiSwahili to raise money for community groups in Tanzania.)

UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

2004		"Globalization and the Narrative of Modernity."
1992		"Steeltown Stories: Deindustrialization on Chicago's Southeast Side." Unpublished master's thesis based on ethnographic research, NYU.

DOCUMENTARIES

2004		Co-Director and Producer, Exit Zero. A documentary about a changing working class neighborhood on Chicago's Southeast Side. Work-in-progress. Funded by Dean's Development Grant, MIT.
2004		Co- Producer, Containment: Life after Three Mile Island. One hour documentary. Sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Grants from Puffin and Hefner Foundations and the MIT Council for the Arts. Currently being shown at film festivals and on college campuses. Website: www.containment.net.

EDUCATIONAL VIDEO

2001

Co-Director and Producer. Chole: Kuendeleza Maisha ("Pushing Life Forward"). 13 minute video on behalf of a grassroots women's organization in Tanzania. Funded by the Women's Front of Norway with support from FOKUS/NORAD. Shown at Zanzibar International Film Festival,2002 as well as at organizational meetings of the Women's Front in Peru and Botswana. Used in KiSwahili language classes at Columbia, Yale and Cornell.

>> Faculty CVs

>> List of Publications

>> Other Media (Photo/Video)