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James Gordon Rice - Associate Professor
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School of Social Sciences
James Gordon Rice
Íslenska
Associate Professor
Associate Professor - Anthropology
Location
Oddi / O-332
Phone
525-5456
Email
james [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics
Website
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James_Rice20
Consultation hours
Office hours by appointment
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6723-7243
Research portal – James Gordon Rice
Under construction throughout the autumn semester 2023
Courses 2022 - 2023
MAN601F - Ethnographic methods
MAN005F - Readings in a specific area
MAN429G - Assignment in anthropology
MAN507M - Urban Anthropology
MAN326G - Assignment in anthropology
MAN438G - Iceland: Anthropological Past, Present and Future
MAN348G - Anthropology of gender
MAN0A7F - Iceland: Anthropological Past, Present and Future
Education
2007
,
Ph.D.
,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
,
Anthropology
2002
,
MA
,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
,
Anthropology
2000
,
BA
,
York University, Toronto
,
Anthropology
Published works
2023
‘We Got Lucky with the Judge’: Access to Justice for Disabled Women in Iceland
Laws
Through an Intersectional Lens: Prevalence of Violence Against Disabled Women in Iceland
Violence Against Women
“Alleged Disabilities”: The Evolving Tactics of Child Protection in a Disability Rights Environment
Laws
Enabling measures for independent living and community inclusion: strategies and guidance - Iceland
European Commission
2022
Digitalisation and digital transformation in Iceland: Implications for persons with disabilities
European Commission
Incorporating a Reflexive Ethnographic Sensitivity in Child Protection Work
Rehabilitation in Practice
Appropriate Measures? Supporting Parents with ID in the Context of the CRPD
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Disability in Iceland (Late 9th–Early 20th Century)
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
Weapons and tactics: A story of parents with learning disabilities maintaining family integrity
British Journal of Learning Disabilities
Introduction
Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936 - Routledge/Taylor & Francis
Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936
Routledge/Taylor & Francis
2021
Child Protection, Disability and Obstetric Violence: Three Case Studies from Iceland
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
COVID-19 and people with disabilities: Assessing the impact of the crisis and informing disability-inclusive next steps - Iceland
European Commission
2020
Anthropology, Disability and the CRPD
Recognising Human Rights in Different Cultural Contexts - Palgrave Macmillan
“Our way of working is very different from that of the big nations down there”: The Icelandic Coast Guard, Exceptionalism and Fortress Europe.
Mobility and Transnational Iceland: Current Transformations and Global Entanglements. University of Iceland Press
The weight of history: child protection and parenting with a disability in 20th Century Iceland
The History of the Family
2019
Charities under austerity: ethnographies of poverty and marginality in Westernnon-profit and charity associations
Journal of Organizational Ethnography
ANED Task 2017-18 Disability assessment: Iceland
ANED - Academic Network of European Disability Experts
Ambiguous spaces: the charity-NGO nexus in Iceland
Journal of Organizational Ethnography
Serving neglect: Foodways in child protection cases
Food and Foodways
Balancing the scales: Custody deprivation and fostering in Iceland
International Social Work
Shifting the Balance of Power: The Strategic Use of the CRPD by Disabled People’s Organizations in Securing ‘a Seat at the Table’
Laws
(ANED) European Semester 2018/2019 shadow fiche on disability – Iceland
ANED- Academic Network of European Disability Experts
ANED: Living independently and being included in the community
ANED - Academic Network of European Disability Experts
2018
ANED 2016-17-Task Social Pillar (focus topics) Country report Country: Iceland
Academic Network of European Disability Experts (ANED)
‘Evidence’ of Neglect as a Form of Structural Violence
Social Inclusion
Achieving disability equality: Empowering disabled people to take the lead
Social Inclusion
Social networks, recruitment strategies and the ambiguities of employment activation programmes
Youth, Diversity and Employment: Comparative Perspectives on Labour Market Policies
Achieving Disability Equality
Social Inclusion
Notifying neglect: Child protection as an application of bureaucratic power against marginalized parents
Human Organization
Trading autonomy for services: Perceptions of users and providers of services for disabled people in Iceland,L'autonomie négociée. Les perceptions des usagers et des prestataires de services pour personnes handicapées en Islande
Alter
Evidence of neglect as a form of structural violence: parents with intellectual disabilities and custody deprivation
Social Inclusion
ANED European Semester 2017/2018 shadow fiche on disability: Iceland.
ANED- Academic Network of European Disability Experts
“Being Number One is the Biggest Obstacle”
Nordic Welfare Research
2017
European Semester 2016/2017 shadow fiche on disability: Iceland
‘Framed’: Terminating the Parenting Rights of Parents with Intellectual Disability in Iceland
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
How can states ensure access to personal assistance when service delivery is decentralized?
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
ANED Country report on Social Protection and Article 28: Iceland
Academic Network of European Disability Experts
Kosningar, lýðræði og fatlað fólk
Stjórnmál & Stjórnsýsla
The Inclusion of the Lived Experience of Disability in Policymaking
Laws
‘It’s not complicated’: Physical disability and farming in rural Iceland
Disability and Rurality: Identity, Gender and Belonging - Routledge
2016
Are Cutbacks to Personal Assistance Violating Sweden’s Obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities?
Laws
Negotiating independence, choice and autonomy
Disability and Society
European Semester 2015/2016 shadow fiche on disability (Iceland)
Stigmatic representation of intellectual disability and termination of parental custody rights
Intellectual Disability and Stigma: Stepping Out from the Margins - Palgrave Macmillan
2015
Spaces of indifference: Bureaucratic governance and disability rights in Iceland
Disability Research Today: International Perspectives - Routledge
2014
Charity in pre-and post-crisis iceland
Gambling Debt: Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy - University of Colorado Press
‘Now is necessity’: Icelandic charity during the crisis years
Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism
ANED 2014 Task 3 - Accessibility to Healthcare Country: Iceland
ANED 2014 Task 4 - Accessibility of Healthcare - Iceland
Welcome to 2004 (no that's not a typo...)
Reykjavík Grapevine
2012
“I’m not enough of a loser”: A crip interpretation of disability and charity in Iceland
lambda nordica
Vulnerability at the intersection of poverty and disability
Vulnerable Groups & Inclusion
ANED 2012 Task 4 - National Accessibility Report: Country: Iceland
Academic Network of European Disability Experts
2011
Maintaining the status quo: Charity in the context of disability
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum XII: Félags- og mannvísindadeild
Fátækt og félagslegar aðstæður öryrkja: Rannsókn unnin í tilefni af Evrópuári gegn fátækt og félagslegri einangrun
Fátækt, fötlun og velferð
Stjórnmál & Stjórnsýsla
Exceptional waves: Parents of disabled children negotiating 30 years of Icelandic social policy
Tímarit um menntarannsóknir
2010
Eligibility for disability benefits in European countries: Country – Iceland
Academic Network of European Disability Experts
Questions of disempowerment in disability specific entitlements in Iceland
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum XI
ANED Flash Report: economic crisis and pensions Country: Iceland
Academic Network of European Disability Experts
Never Give Up: The Grapevine talks with Freyja Haraldsdóttir about disability rights in Iceland
Reykjavík Grapevine
ANED country report on equality of educational and training opportunities for young disabled people
Academic Network of European Disability Experts
2009
ANED country report on the implementation of policies supporting independent living for disabled people – Iceland
ANED Report on the employment of disabled people in European countries: Revised 2009
Academic Network of European Disability Experts
ANED Report on the social inclusion and social protection of disabled people in European countries: Revised 2009 – Iceland.
Academic Network of European Disability Experts
The operationalization of disability in policy and practice
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum X
“We only help women with children here”: Male clients at an Icelandic material aid charity.
Norma: Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies
2008
Report on the social inclusion and social protection of disabled people in European countries – Iceland
Academic Network of European Disability Experts
Report on the employment of disabled people in European countries – Iceland
Academic Network of European Disability Experts
2007
Icelandic charity donations: Reciprocity reconsidered
Ethnology
The Charity Complex: An Ethnography of a Material Aid Agency in Reykjavík, Iceland
Charity in the Land of Plenty
Reykjavík Grapevine
Subject to classification: the practices of charity in Reykjavík, Iceland
Rannsóknir í Félgasvísindum VIII
2002
‘Community’ and Contradictions: The Role of a Community Centre in a St. John’s Housing Project
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