Research areas
Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitics, common-sense, comedy, adventure, ethics, aesthetics, epoché, existential anthropology. Area specialities: Jamaica, the Caribbean.
My work as an anthropologist has centred on cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitics with an ethnographic focus on the Caribbean and its 'creolising' social-cultural processes. My writing moves between an ethnographic (descriptive-analytical) strand and an exploration of grounding concepts in anthropology: these include the idea of 'common-sense' as a human universal.
My enduring interest has been in individuals and how they make a meaningful world, finding freedoms for themselves; how they transcend cultural categories and constraints through cosmopolitanizing narrations of experience. Theoretically this has led me into thinking about the ideas that go into a cosmopolitan view, including openness or hospitality toward the ‘foreign’, empathy across categorical boundaries, utopian imagining and the idea of the transcendence of immediate or ‘temporal’ constraints.
PhD supervision
- Josephine Mullen
- Cristian Erazo Romero
- Yichi Zhang
- Shanay Davis
- Siqi Ren
- Chang Liu
- Hector Trujillo
Selected publications
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Afterword
Rapport, N. J. & Wardle, H., 17 Nov 2023, Cosmopolitan moment, cosmopolitan method. Wardle, H. & Rapport, N. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 187-195 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Anthropology as an existential enquiry
Wardle, H., 1 Aug 2023, Routledge international handbook of existential human science. Wardle, H., Rapport, N. & Piette, A. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 36-49 14 p. (Routledge international handbooks).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Cosmopolitan moment, cosmopolitan method
Wardle, H. (ed.) & Rapport, N. J. (ed.), 17 Nov 2023, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 198 p. (Routledge studies in anthropology)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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General introduction
Wardle, H., Piette, A. & Rapport, N., 1 Aug 2023, Routledge international handbook of existential human science. Wardle, H., Rapport, N. & Piette, A. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 1-6 6 p. (Routledge international handbooks).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Hart, Keith. Self in the world: connecting life's extremes.
Wardle, H., Mar 2023, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 29, 1, p. 214-215 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Magic, self and (world) society: groundwork for an existential and cosmopolitan anthropology
Wardle, H., 2 Nov 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Anthropological Forum. Latest Articles, 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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On the structure of cosmopolitan encounters
Wardle, H., 17 Nov 2023, Cosmopolitan moment, cosmopolitan method. Wardle, H. & Rapport, N. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 177-186 10 p. (Routledge studies in anthropology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Routledge international handbook of existential human science
Wardle, H. (ed.), Rapport, N. (ed.) & Piette, A. (ed.), 1 Aug 2023, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 304 p. (Routledge international handbooks)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Section I: introduction
Wardle, H., 1 Aug 2023, Routledge international handbook of existential human science. Wardle, H., Rapport, N. & Piette, A. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 9-11 3 p. (Routledge international handbooks).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Book review of The confounding island: Jamaica and the postcolonial predicamentThe confounding island: Jamaica and the postcolonial predicament: Patterson, Orlando. The confounding island: Jamaica and the postcolonial predicament. xii, 409 pp., tables, bibliogr. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2019. £29.95 (cloth)
Wardle, H., 1 Dec 2022, In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 28, 4, p. 1380-1381 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review