Linda Connor (anthropologist)

Connor graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours in Anthropology) in 1974 and a PhD in Anthropology in 1982. She is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.{{Cite web|title=Academy Fellow: Professor Linda Connor ASSA|url=https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9U6AAI|access-date=2020-10-05|website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia|language=en-US}} From 2009-2018 she was Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney.{{Cite web|url=https://sydney.edu.au/arts/anthropology/staff/profiles/linda.connor.php|title=Professor Linda Connor - The University of Sydney|last=Sydney|first=The University of|website=sydney.edu.au}} She served two years as President of the Australian Anthropological Society from 2009–2010 and Vice President of the National Tertiary Education Union Sydney University Branch{{Cite web|url=https://www.nteu.org.au/sydney/officers|title=Officers - University of Sydney|website=www.nteu.org.au|access-date=2019-05-06}} from 2018-21. She has held positions at the University of Newcastle, the Australian Research Council, University of California, and East-West Center, Hawai’i.

Connor has researched and published on religion and ritual,{{Cite journal|last=Connor|first=Linda H.|date=1995|title=The Action of the Body on Society: Washing a Corpse in Bali|journal=The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute|volume=1|issue=3|pages=537–559|doi=10.2307/3034574|issn=1359-0987|jstor=3034574}} medical anthropology,{{Cite journal|last=Connor|first=Linda H.|date=2004|title=Relief, risk and renewal: mixed therapy regimens in an Australian suburb|journal=Social Science & Medicine|volume=59|issue=8|pages=1695–1705|doi=10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.01.030|pmid=15279926|issn=0277-9536}} development,{{Cite journal|last1=Mcmanus|first1=Phil|last2=Connor|first2=Linda H|date=2013|title=What's Mine Is Mine(D): Contests Over Marginalisation Of rural life in the Upper Hunter, NSW|journal=Rural Society|volume=22|issue=2|pages=166–183|doi=10.5172/rsj.2013.22.2.166|s2cid=109486459 |issn=1037-1656}} visual anthropology,{{Cite journal|last1=Connor|first1=Linda|last2=Asch|first2=Patsy|date=1995|title=Subjects, Images, Voices: Representing Gender in Ethnographic Film|journal=Visual Anthropology Review|volume=11|issue=1|pages=5–18|doi=10.1525/var.1995.11.1.5}} shamanism and healing,{{Cite journal|last=Connor|first=Linda H.|date=1995|title=Acquiring invisible strength: A Balinese discourse of harm and well‐being|journal=Indonesia Circle. School of Oriental & African Studies. Newsletter|volume=23|issue=66|pages=124–153|doi=10.1080/03062849508729843|issn=0306-2848}} and rural environmental change,{{Cite journal|last1=Connor|first1=Linda|last2=Higginbotham|first2=Nick|last3=Freeman|first3=Sonia|last4=Albrecht|first4=Glenn|date=2008|title=Watercourses and Discourses: Coalmining in the Upper Hunter Valley, New South Wales|journal=Oceania|volume=78|issue=1|pages=76–90|doi=10.1002/j.1834-4461.2008.tb00029.x|issn=0029-8077|hdl=1959.13/40190|hdl-access=free}} predominantly in Indonesia, India and Australia. Funding sources include the Australian Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Ford Foundation. In Indonesia, she studied transformations of development, economy and social life in Bali,{{Cite book|last1=Rubinstein|first1=R|last2=Connor|first2=L|date=1999|title=Staying Local in the Global Village: Bali in the Twentieth Century|jstor=j.ctt6wr0k5|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|location=Honolulu|isbn=9780824821173}} as well as processes of citizenship and decentralization in rural communities.{{Cite journal|last1=Connor|first1=L|last2=Vickers|first2=A|date=2003|title=Crisis, citizenship, and cosmopolitanism: Living in a local and global risk society in Bali.|journal=Indonesia|volume=75|issue=75|pages=153–180|jstor=3351311}} From 1978 to 1990 she collaborated with ethnographic filmmakers Patsy and Timothy Asch to produce a series of films and a film monograph based on the life and work of a Balinese healer, Jero Tapakan, and her village.Asch, P., Asch. T., and Connor, L. 1981. [https://store.der.org/a-balinese-trance-seance--jero-on-jero-p986.aspx Jero on Jero. 'A Balinese Trance Seance' Observed.] Dist.: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), Royal Anthropological Institute and ANU (RSPAS), Canberra.Asch, P., Connor, L., and Asch. T. 1983. [https://raifilm.org.uk/films/jero-tapakan-stories-from-the-life-of-a-balinese-healer/ Jero Tapakan: Stories from the life of a Balinese healer.] ANU, Canberra.Asch, P., Asch. T., and Connor, L. 1983. [https://store.der.org/the-medium-is-the-masseuse--jero-tapakan-p314.aspx The Medium is the Masseuse]. Dist.: DER, Royal Anthropological Institute and ANU (RSPAS), Canberra.Asch, P., Asch. T., and Connor, L. 1991. [https://store.der.org/releasing-the-spirits-p469.aspx Releasing the Spirits: A Village Cremation in Bali]. Dist.: DER, Royal Anthropological Institute and ANU (RSPAS), Canberra. In North India in the mid-1990s, she investigated questions of displacement, identity, and cultural innovation, as part of a team studying healing in diasporic Tibetan communities.Connor, L. and Samuel, G. (eds.) 2001. [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/204477 Healing Powers and Modernity: Shamanism, Science and Traditional Medicine in Asian Societies]. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey. 283pp Since 2002 she has worked on interdisciplinary projects focused on coal-affected localities, climate change and energy transitions in the Hunter Valley and North West New South Wales Australia.{{Cite journal|last=Connor|first=Linda H.|date=2016|title=Energy futures, state planning policies and coal mine contests in rural New South Wales|journal=Energy Policy|language=en|volume=99|pages=233–241|doi=10.1016/j.enpol.2016.05.026}}{{Cite web|url=http://coalrush.net/|title=Home|website=The Coal Rush and Beyond|language=en-AU}} She is currently undertaking ethnographic research on social legitimacy of renewable energy development in Upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia as part of an ARC funded cross-national team.{{Cite web|year=2019|title=ARC Project ID: DP180101368|url=https://www.decarbenergy.net}}

Goodman, J., Connor, L., Ghosh, D., Morton, T. S., Marshall, J., Mueller, K., Menon, M., Kholi, K., Pearse, R. and Rosewarne, S. 2020. The End of the Coal Rush: A Turning Point for Global Energy and Climate Policy? Cambridge University Press.

Connor, L. 2016. [https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Change-and-Anthropos-Planet-people-and-places-1st-Edition/Connor/p/book/9780415718530 Climate Change and Anthropos: Planet, People and Places]. London: Routledge/Earthscan.

Marshall, J. and Connor, L. (eds.) 2016. [http://www.routledge.com/products/9781138023291 Environmental Change and the World’s Futures: Ecologies, Ontologies and Mythologies.] London: Routledge/Earthscan.

Connor, L. 2010. [https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=833658748211485;res=IELBUS “Anthropogenic Climate Change and Cultural Crisis: An Anthropological Perspective.”] Australian Journal of Political Economy 66:247-267.

Higginbotham, N., Albrecht, G. and Connor, L. 2001. [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2401534 Health Social Science: A Transdisciplinary and Complexity Perspective]. Melbourne, Oxford University Press. 382pp.

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