Josh Lalor

Education:

Ph.D., Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Thesis: The Struggle for Waterford Crystal: A Workers’ Story of the Rise and Fall(out) of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger

M.A., Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Major Research Paper: “Exploring the Implications of ‘Policy’ Through the Memorandum of Understanding Between Newfoundland and Labrador and Ireland” (Pass with Distinction)

Hon. B.A., Anthropology/political science, University of Toronto
University of Toronto-University of Namibia Internship on Socio-cultural Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Namibia
Major Research Paper (with Adelina Kalundungo): Fighting Gender Inequality and HIV/AIDS in Namibia.

Contact:

Email: jd.lalor@mun.ca

Research Interests:

The anthropology of labour; working-class studies; globalization; neoliberalism; social reproduction; social inequality; ethnographies of capitalism; historical ethnography; strategically situated ethnography; and, the anthropology of Europe, particularly Ireland.

Selected Publications and Presentations:

  • Lalor, Josh. 2015. “Redundant workers, forgotten citizens?: The case of Waterford Crystal” in The Sociology of Unemployment, eds. Tom Boland and Ray Griffin. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • “The ‘Antipolitics’ of Job-Seeking Programmes in Austerity Ireland.” Presented at the Canadian Anthropology Society/La Société Canadienne d’Anthropologie Meeting at York University in Toronto, April 29 - May 3 2014.
  • Richard F. Salisbury Address: “Redundant Workers, Disillusioned Citizens: The Case of the Waterford Crystal Workers’ Appeal for Social Justice.” Presented at the Canadian Anthropology Society/La Société Canadienne d’Anthropologie Meeting at the University of Victoria in Victoria, May 8 - 11 2013.
  • Lalor, Joshua D. "Ethnicity, Culture, and Globalization: Exploring the Memorandum of Understanding Between Newfoundland and Labrador and Ireland." Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, 24, 1 (Spring 2009): 25-53. (Peer Reviewed)
  • “‘Policy’ as Narrative: Evoking the ‘Natural’ between Newfoundland and Ireland.” Presented at the Canadian Anthropology Society/La Société Canadienne d’Anthropologie and the American Ethnological Society Joint Meeting at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, May 13-16 2009.
  • Lalor, Joshua D. and Adelina Kalundungo. "Fighting Gender Inequality and HIV/AIDS in Namibia." In Lee and Lorway (eds) Social and Cultural Aspects of HIV/AIDS, Reports From the Field: 2004. Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto: December, 2004.
  • “Preliminary Findings: Fighting Gender Inequality and HIV/AIDS in Namibia.” Presented by Joshua D. Lalor and Adelina Kalundungo at the University of Toronto-University of Namibia Internship Conference on Socio-cultural Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Namibia. July 23, 2004.