Academic Writing

My institutional profile gives some more detail about what I do as a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Otago.

My creative writing (as shown on the other pages of this website) is very much entwined with my academic practice, but this page features some of the writing I do for the media, or academic outlets.

Public writing on academic research

Meet Aotearoa’s Cyborg Kids

In The Spinoff (2022)

Fire and flood: grounding disaster, trauma, and emotion

In In(corrigibly) Plural (2018)

Christchurch remembers: the politics of memory on the anniversary of tragedy

In The Spinoff (2021)

Night terrors: counting loss in a global pandemic

In In(corrigibly) Plural (2020)

The uncomfortable truth about medical crowdfunding in New Zealand

In The Spinoff (2020)

Speaking to socks: An anthropologist gets Kon-Mari-ed

In In(corrigibly) Plural (2018)

Red flag waving: Precarity of kiwis in Australia is not just a Covid-19 issue

In In(corrigibly) Plural (2020)

Vaccination and the pain of dividuality

In Corpus (2017)

Academic publications (journal articles & technical reports)

Wardell, S. (2021). “Dividing the Light: Personal reflections on anthropological becomings.” Commoning Ethnography.

Wardell, S. (2021/forthcoming). “Threshold Concepts in Social Anthropology: Literature and Pedagogical Applications in a Bridging Project”. Teaching and Learning Anthropology. *forthcoming

Buhler, M., Wardell, S., Fitzgerald, R.P. (2021/forthcoming). “‘We’re all watching each other’: Dunedin supermarket workers and the 2020 pandemic lockdown.” Sites *forthcoming

Wardell, S. (2021/forthcoming). Dialogical Sense-Making in the Digital Public Sphere: Citizenship, Care, and Disability. Sites

Wardell, S. (2021). Wishing you well: The biopolitical subjectivities of medical crowdfunders during and after Aotearoa New Zealand’s COVID19 lockdown. BioSocieties.

Wardell, S. (2021). Southern/Cross. Sites, 18(1). 2 pages.

Wardell, S. (2021). Fingeryeyes; Social Scripts; Flow (Three Poems Exploring Digital Affect). Anthropology and Humanism 46(1).7 pages.

Neuwelt-Kearns, C., Baker, T., Calder-Dawn, O., Bartos, A.E., Wardell, S. (2021). Getting the crowd to care: Marketing illness through health-related crowdfunding in Aotearoa New Zealand. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space: Special Issue. Advance online publication https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X211009535.

Robinson, E., Wardell, S. (2020). Technical Report: Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on the healthcare experiences of medical crowdfunders in Aotearoa New Zealand. University of Otago.

Wardell, S. (2020). Naming and framing ecological distress. Medicine, Anthropology, Theory, 7(2), 187-201. http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5032

Trundle, C., Wardell, S. (2020). The meaning of pain: exploring the intersections of poetry and ethnography. Irish Journal of Anthropology: Special issue, 22(1), 238-253.

Wardell, S. (2019). Weaving together: Aroha as capacity and work. Sites, 16(2), 1-10.

Wardell, S. (2018). A Stranger in the Name of Jesus: Exploring cosmopolitan ethics in a Ugandan Christian Care Community. Sites, 15(2), 165-188.

Wardell, S. & Fitzgerald, R.P. (2018). Psychometrics as moral labour: subject formation at the intersection of neoliberal and spiritual discourse. BioSocieties, 1-23.

Fitzgerald, R.P., Wardell, S., & Legge, M. (2017). Fetal Genetic Difference and a Cosmopolitan Vernacular of the Right to Choose. Women’s Studies International Forum, 110-117.

Wardell, S., Fitzgerald, R. P., Legge, M., & Clift, K. (2014). A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the New Zealand media portrayal of Down syndrome. Disability and Health Journal, 7(2), 242–250.

Wardell, S. (2013). Doctors and All Blacks: How depression and its treatment is framed in New Zealand GP-targeted advertising. Sites, 10(2), 52-81.