Dr Pauline Garvey
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Biography
Pauline Garvey is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Maynooth University. Her recent book, (co-written with Daniel Miller) is entitled Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When Life Becomes Craft, University College London/ University of Chicago Press (2021).
Other works include her monograph Unpacking IKEA: Swedish Design for the Purchasing Masses, Routledge (2018), and Exhibit Ireland, Wordwell, (2012), co-edited with Adam Drazin and Seamas O'Siochain. Research for Unpacking IKEA work was funded by the Irish Research Council and The Swedish Institute. This project featured in the IRC-produced volume Mosaic to commemorate 10 years of funded research excellence. Other publications include a special edition of the Journal of Design History dedicated to anthropological engagements with design entitled Design Dispersed, (2016, with Adam Drazin UCL), 'Material Culture and Making the Modern' published in A Cultural History of the Home in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury 2021), edited by D. Stratigakos and papers in various journals including Social Anthropology, Journal of Material Culture, Journal of Design History, Journal of Business Anthropology, Ethnologie Francaise, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute amongst others.
Pauline's research interests include mass consumption, material culture, design and digital anthropology, and ageing in Ireland. Recent research projects include the Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing led by University College London and funded by the European Research Council. Her current research pilot (with Joseph Timoney, Computer Science, Maynooth University) is entitled Social Prescribing, Anthropological Research and Digital Innovation (SPARDI) and is funded by MaynoothWorks.
Pauline is currently External Examiner for the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queens University Belfast. She has occupied the role of Visiting Scholar in the Department of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Singapore University of Technology and Design (2022) and the Slovak Academy of Sciences (2022). She is co-editor the international peer-reviewed journal Home Cultures, the Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space (published by Taylor and Francis), and sits on the Editorial Board of the Nordic Journal of Social Research.
Research Interests
Pauline is currently working on an ERC-funded project The Anthropology of Smart Phones and Smart Ageing which involves a close collaboration of eleven anthropologists in 10 countries.
Research Projects
Book
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Pauline Garvey and Daniel Miller (2021) Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When Life Becomes Craft. London: University College London Press. [Link] | |
2021 | Daniel Miller, Laila Abed Rabho, Patrick Awondo, Maya de Vries, Marília Duque, Pauline Garvey, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Charlotte Hawkins, Alfonso Otaegui, Shireen Walton, and Xinyuan Wang (2021) The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology. London: University College London Press. [Link] | |
2018 | Pauline Garvey (2018) Unpacking Ikea: Swedish Design for the Purchasing Masses. London: Routledge, CRESC Series. |
Edited Book
Year | Publication | |
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2016 | Garvey, Pauline and Adam Drazin (Ed.). (2016) Special Issue of the Journal of Design History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, [Link] | |
2013 | Pauline Garvey, Victor Buchli (University Colege London), Setha Low (CUNY) (Ed.). (2013) Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space. London: Taylor and Francis, | |
2012 | Seamas O’Siochain, Pauline Garvey and Adam Drazin (Ed.). (2012) Exhibit Ireland: Ethnographic Collections in Irish Museums. Dublin: Wordwell, | |
2009 | Garvey, Pauline and Adam Drazin (eds) (Ed.). (2009) Special Issue of Anthropology in Action and the Irish Journal of Anthropology. London: Berghahn Books, |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Miller D.; Garvey P. (2022) 'Grandparenting as the resolution of kinship as experience'. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2020 | Drazkiewicz, E; Strong, T; Scheper-Hughes, N; Turpin, H; Murphy, F; Saris, AJ; Garvey, P; Mishtal, J; Wulff, H; French, B; Miller, D; Maguire, L; Mhordha, MN (2020) 'Repealing Ireland's Eighth Amendment: abortion rights and democracy today'. Social Anthropology, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | Pauline Garvey and Adam Drazin (invited editors for Special Issue) (2016) '‘Design Dispersed: Design History, Design Practice and Anthropology: An Introduction’'. Journal of Design History, . [Full-Text] | |
2008 | Garvey P. (2008) 'The Norwegian country cabin and functionalism: A tale of two modernities'. Social Anthropology, 16 (2):203-220. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2013 | Garvey, Pauline (2013) ''Ikea sofas are like H&M trousers': The potential of sensuous signs'. JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ANTHROPOLOGY, 2 :75-92. [Full-Text] | |
2005 | Garvey, P (2005) 'Domestic boundaries - Privacy, visibility and the Norwegian window'. Material Culture, 10 :157-176. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2011 | Garvey, Pauline (2011) 'La mémoire en attente. Le muse ethnographique dans L’Irlande post-coloniale'. ETHNOLOGIE FRANÇAISE, 2 :253-262. [Full-Text] | |
2009 | Garvey, Pauline and Adam Drazin (editors) (2009) 'Anthropology, Design and Technology in Ireland, a special edition'. ANTHROPOLOGY IN ACTION AND IRISH JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 16 . | |
2009 | Pauline Garvey and Adam Drazin (invited editors) (2009) ''Design and Having Designs in Ireland: Introduction''. ANTHROPOLOGY IN ACTION AND IRISH JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 16 :4-18. [Full-Text] | |
2003 | Garvey, Pauline (2003) '‘How to have a ‘good home’: the practical aesthetic and normativity in Norway’'. Journal of Design History, 16 :241-251. [Full-Text] | |
2023 | Garvey, P.; Wang, X. (2023) 'Ageing and the Transportal Home'. Anthropology and Aging, 44 . [Link] [DOI] | |
2016 | Garvey P.; Drazin A. (2016) 'Special Issue: Design Dispersed: Design History, Design Practice and Anthropology'. Journal of Design History, 29 (1):1-7. [DOI] | |
2009 | Adam Drazin; Pauline Garvey (2009) 'An Exploration by Way of Introduction: Design and the Having of Designs in Ireland'. Anthropology in Action, . [DOI] | |
2003 | P. Garvey (2003) 'How to Have a 'Good Home': The Practical Aesthetic and Normativity in Norway'. Journal of Design History, . [DOI] | |
2013 | Pauline Garvey (2013) '‘Ikea sofas are like H&M trousers’: the potential of sensuous signs'. JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ANTHROPOLOGY, . [DOI] |
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Pauline Garvey (2021) 'Furniture and Furnishings: Material Culture and Making the Modern' In: A Cultural History of the Home. London : Bloomsbury. [Link] | |
2017 | Garvey P.; Drazin A. (2017) 'Ireland's ethnographic Horizons' In: Irish Ethnologies. | |
2018 | Pauline Garvey (2018) 'Consuming IKEA and Inspiration as Material Form, 2nd edition' In: Design Anthropology: Object Cultures in Transition. London : Bloomsbury. | |
2012 | Pauline Garvey, Seamas O'Siochain and Adam Drazin (2012) 'Introduction: Presencing Assemblages' In: Exhibit Ireland: Ethnographic Collections in Ireland. Dublin : Wordwell Press. [Full-Text] | |
2012 | Pauline Garvey (2012) 'Living rooms' In: International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. Amsterdam : Elsevier. [DOI] | |
2011 | Garvey, Pauline (2011) 'Consuming IKEA and inspiration as material form' In: A.J. Clarke(Eds.). Design Anthropology: Object Culture in the 21st Century. Wien, New York : Springer Verlag. | |
2009 | Garvey, Pauline (2009) 'Culture Materialised: IKEA furniture and other evangelitcal objects' In: J. Fenwick(Eds.). Lost and Found. Dublin : Wordwell Press. [Full-Text] | |
2005 | Garvey, Pauline (2005) 'Drunk and (Dis) Orderly in Norway: Norwegian Drinking Parties in the Home' In: T. Wison (editor)(Eds.). Drinking Culture: AIcohol and the Expression of Identity, Class and Nation. Oxford : Berg. | |
2001 | Garvey, Pauline (2001) 'Organized Disorder: Moving Furniture in Norwegian Homes' In: Daniel Miller(Eds.). Home Possessions: the Material Culture of the Home. Oxford : Berg. | |
2001 | Garvey, Pauline (2001) 'Drinking, Driving and Daring in Norway' In: Daniel Miller (editor)(Eds.). Car Cultures. Oxford : Berg. |
Conference Contribution
ANET/COS
Invited papers
Year | Publication | |
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2011 | Pauline Garvey (2011) ‘Ikea as folk museum’, in Gareth Kennedy (ed) Ikea Butter Churn for Gneeveguilla. Invited contributor to the catalogue that forms part of this art installation, funded by Kerry County Council and on tour throughout Ireland during 2011 / 2012. [Invited papers] [Full-Text] |
Note
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Drążkiewicz E.; Strong T.; Scheper-Hughes N.; Turpin H.; Saris A.J.; Mishtal J.; Wulff H.; French B.; Garvey P.; Miller D.; Murphy F.; Maguire L.; Mhórdha M.N. (2020) Repealing Ireland's Eighth Amendment: abortion rights and democracy today. [Note] [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Reviews
Year | Publication | |
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2011 | Garvey P.; Drazin A. (2011) Memory in waiting. The ethnographical museum in post-colonial Ireland | La mémoire en attente: Le musée ethnographique dans l'Irlande post-coloniale. [Reviews] [DOI] |
Other Publication
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Pauline Garvey (2021) Furniture and Furnishings: Material Culture and Making the Modern. [DOI] | |
2021 | (2021) Smartphones and ageing. [DOI] | |
2021 | (2021) Ageing and retirement. [DOI] | |
2021 | Daniel Miller; Laila Abed Rabho; Patrick Awondo; Maya de Vries; Marília Duque; Pauline Garvey; Laura Haapio-Kirk; Charlotte Hawkins; Alfonso Otaegui; Shireen Walton; Xinyuan Wang (2021) The Global Smartphone. [DOI] | |
2021 | (2021) Downsizing. [DOI] | |
2021 | (2021) Life purpose. [DOI] | |
2021 | Pauline Garvey (2021) Organized Disorder: Moving Furniture in Norwegian Homes. [DOI] | |
2021 | Pauline Garvey; Daniel Miller (2021) Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland. [DOI] | |
2020 | Pauline Garvey (2020) Driving, Drinking and Daring in Norway. [DOI] | |
2017 | Pauline Garvey (2017) Unpacking Ikea. [DOI] | |
2017 | Pauline Garvey (2017) Benign intervention. [DOI] | |
2017 | Pauline Garvey (2017) Storage solutions. [DOI] | |
2017 | Pauline Garvey (2017) Home staging, housing theatre. [DOI] | |
2017 | Pauline Garvey; Adam Drazin (2017) Ireland’s Ethnographic Horizons. [DOI] | |
2017 | Pauline Garvey (2017) Still life?. [DOI] | |
2017 | Pauline Garvey (2017) Unpacking IKEA. [DOI] | |
2017 | Pauline Garvey (2017) Consuming IKEA and Inspiration as Material Form. [DOI] | |
2011 | Pauline Garvey (2011) Consuming IKEA: Inspiration as Material Form. [DOI] | |
2017 | Pauline Garvey (2017) Standardisation, democracy and equality. [DOI] |
Professional Associations
Honors and Awards
Committees
Other Activities
Outreach Activities
Teaching Interests
Throughout my career, I have made inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional teaching collaborations in Ireland and internationally.
I have given taught in National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2024), Lyon (2022) Queens (2022) University College London, Vienna, Slovakian Academy of Sciences, Singapore University of Technology and Design.
I have shown both education leadership and programme development in my on-going long-term work within the Anthropology Department.
In 2020, a past student of Anthropology (BA) and Design and Innovation (MA) committed €8000 over four years as a bursary to financially help MA students. This led to the establishment of The Susan Hunter Scholarship in Material Culture. Her only caveat was that the scholarship should be in material culture. This undergraduate course ‘had a profound effect on me. In a way it explained what the ‘subject’ Anthropology was/is…. The scholarship I set up after graduating was as a direct result of that module. And it was why I specified that it should go to a student whose field was Material Culture’
From 2014-2022: I have acted as Chair for Department Review of PhD Progression for 8 years and been a regular department representative on the John and Pat Hume Funding Committee. I have shown leadership and experience in designing and implementing a variety of assessment tasks
In 2021, I redesigned the Postgraduate Curriculum for the Department of Anthropology. In collaboration with my Head of Department, Hana Cervinkova, I revaluated all the course offerings, the pedagogic objectives for this level, the credit requirements for our postgraduate students. This redevelopment was intended to incorporate a theoretical strand for those students who are new to the discipline, but also incorporate a strand that would familiarise them with ethical requirements and practical how-to advice in the development of research proposal. As well as deciding the meta-level conceptual aspects of the postgraduate curriculum, I worked with departmental administrators in deciding on the timetable and arranged early evening lectures to attract potential students who might be employed. I allocated the times for international guest speakers and oversaw the promotional material advertising the programme in international conferences in Ireland, Europe, and the US. I assumed responsivity for the Postgraduate Information Evenings and Open Days for 7 years between 2015-2022 and spoke to our 3rd year students each spring to encourage them to consider a postgraduate degree in Anthropology.
2019: MOOC: As part of my participation in the ASSA project, I contributed to the highly successful launch of our massive open online course: An Anthropology of Smartphones: Communication, Ageing and Health, hosted on FutureLearn. We currently have 1832 people registered.
Teaching that Enhances Departmental Initiatives:
2014-2022: Departmental Director of Postgraduate Studies.
I occupied a key role in the department in directing the postgraduate programme in Anthropology for eight years. This involved ongoing communication with young scholars, assisting applications for entry into the programme, overseeing annual progress reports, participating in John and Pat Hume funding applications and advising when issues arose. This role requires a blend of capacities from the fine-tuned knowledge of the programme, to sensitivity to the needs and requirements of colleagues, and the inevitable pastoral work demanded of when overseeing student progression. Over that period of time we had about 10-20 MA students and 10 PhD students and I carried responsibility for fielding the queries for both MA and doctoral students as they moved through the structured PhD programme.
In step with University requirements, and responding to the launch of the BBS International Business and Global Cultures as a stand-alone degree, I introduced a module on Consumption that will form a core offering for this cohort of students.
2012 - 2014: I collaborateded with Dr Mark Maguire and Dr Frank Devitt in the planning and establishment of a new postgraduate programme, the MSc in Design Innovation.
2013: I created the Postgraduate Certificate in Anthropology on realizing that there was a significant cohort of prospective students interested in undertaking postgraduate study in Anthropology but lacked essential training in the discipline.
2013: I led a pilot scheme in collaboration with the Access Office - the first of its kind in the university - to incorporate a critical writing and reading course into second year tutorials. Hitherto fore, this course was available only to incoming mature students.
2010: I personally established and taught on a joint module between the MA Social Anthropology at Maynooth University, and the MA Material and Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin with the aim of establishing material culture dialogues between anthropologists and design students.
I have contributed to a teaching collaboration designed by Johan Lindqvist (Anthropology, Stockholm) and John Freyer (Univerisity of Iowa and Fulbright Fellow, Stockholm) with colleagues in Stockholm's University College of Arts, Craft and Design Konstfack.