Nigel Rapport
Nigel Rapport, MA (Cambridge), PhD (Manchester) is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where he is Founding Director of the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. He has also held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Justice at Concordia University of Montreal. He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Nigel Rapport has undertaken four pieces of participant-observation fieldwork: among farmers and tourists in a rural English village (1980-1); among the transient population of a Newfoundland city and suburb (1984-5); among new immigrants in an Israeli development-town (1988-9); and among health-care professionals and patients in a Scottish hospital (2000-1). His research interests include: social theory, phenomenology, identity and individuality, community, conversation analysis, and links between anthropology and literature and philosophy.
Nigel Rapport’s recent books include: The Trouble with Community: Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity (Pluto 2002); I am Dynamite: An Alternative Anthropology of Power (Routledge 2003); Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts [3rd edition] (Routledge 2014); Of Orderlies and Men: Hospital Porters Achieving Wellness at Work (Carolina Academic Press 2008); Anyone, the Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology (Berghahn 2012); Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human commonality (Pluto 2012); and (as editor) Democracy, Science and The Open Society: A European Legacy? (Transaction 2006); Human Nature as Capacity: Transcending Discourse and Classification (Berghahn 2010).
website: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/dept/staff/?staffid=146