Dr Pauline Garvey

    Anthropology

    Gaeilge agus fáilte

    Associate Professor
    Director of Postgraduate Studies

    Rowan House
    1st Floor
    AN1.14
    (01) 708 3587

    Biography

    Pauline Garvey is associate professor in anthropology. She completed a BA in University College Dublin and M.Phil in Archaeology (British Academy Scholar in University of Cambridge, UK, 1994) before becoming a doctoral candidate in Anthropology in University College London. Her doctoral research was completed 2002 and she has been a tenured faculty member in Maynooth since 2003.

    Her research interests include material culture and Nordic domesticity, domestic exhibitions (housing theatre) in 20th century Sweden, design anthropology and the politics surrounding ethnographic collections in Ireland. 
    Garvey's book Unpacking IKEA: Swedish Design for the Purchasing Masses, published by Routledge (2018) was funded by the IRCHSS and Swedish Institute. The work features in the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences produced volume, Mosaic, to commemorate ten years of Irish research excellence internationally (http://www.irchss.ie/IRCHSS%2010%20Event%20Page/Mosaic%20(Dublin,%202010).pdf)
    Current research includes work on the ERC-funded research project The Anthropology of Smart Phones and Smart Ageing (ASSA) which is led by University College London - Maynooth University is a project partner. The research comprises of eleven anthopologists in ten countries. 
    Pauline has been editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space since 2013. 
     

    Research Projects

      Project Role Funding Body / Program Description Start Date End Date Award (€)
    SmartPhoneSmartAging: Smartphones, Smart Ageing and mHealth PI EU Horizon 2020 / 2265732 This project will investigate fundamental changes in people’s relationship to age and health associated with the global rise of the smartphone. The aim is to combine an intellectual challenge in understanding the contemporary nature of age and the impact of new media, with an applied challenge to use this knowledge to help make mHealth a more effective intervention. Through simultaneous 15 month ethnographies in China, Japan, Iran, Ireland, Nigeria and Tanzania (and supplementary work in Trinidad) a team will explore the experience of age for those between 45-70 i.e. neither clearly young nor elderly, who represent an unprecedented population that has resulted from changed life expectancy and changed aspirations. We will examine how this shift in the experience of age is impacted by the rise of smartphones that bring access to technologies associated with the young. mHealth started with youth orientated issues of fitness and wellbeing but is increasingly becoming a significant intervention in helping older populations deal with disease and frailties. mHealth has potential both for helping those with low access to professional care but also threatens to bypass and undermine professional medical services. Our aim is to complement technology led mHealth interventions with ethnography led participatory design, consisting of a collaboration between mHealth professionals with our ethnographically informed team and our informants. The applied anthropology will inform our intellectual advances in the field of digital anthropology. Reflections on mHealth will contribute to the core aim of advancing our understanding of the experience of age in this new interstitial period of life, and to appreciate the major transformations in society and sociality represented by the new ubiquity of the smartphone. Both the intellectual and applied components will be shown to depend upon sensitivity to the forms of cultural diversity uncovered by our comparative ethnographic approach. 01-FEB-18 30-SEP-22 52137
    Trash to Treasures: An Ethnographic Account of the Transformation of Value Within a Dublin Flea-Market. PI Irish Research Council (IRC) / 2265080 01-OCT-15 30-SEP-17 47980
    Unpacking IKEA Cultures: A Comparative Ethnography of IKEA consumers in Stockholm and Dublin. PI, researcher. / Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS 01-SEP-07 01-SEP-08 42000

    Books

      Year Publication
    2018 Unpacking Ikea: Swedish Design for the Purchasing Masses.
    Pauline Garvey (2018) Unpacking Ikea: Swedish Design for the Purchasing Masses. London: Routledge, CRESC Series. [Details]

    Book Chapters

      Year Publication
    2019 'Furniture and Furnishings: Material Culture and Making the Modern'
    Pauline Garvey (2019) 'Furniture and Furnishings: Material Culture and Making the Modern' In: A Cultural History of the Home. London: Bloomsbury. [Details]
    2018 'Consuming IKEA and Inspiration as Material Form, 2nd edition'
    Garvey, Pauline (2018) 'Consuming IKEA and Inspiration as Material Form, 2nd edition' In: Clarke, Alison J (eds). Design Anthropology: Object Cultures in Transition. London: Bloomsbury. [Details]
    2017 'Ireland's Ethnographic Horizons'
    Pauline Garvey and Adam Drazin (2017) 'Ireland's Ethnographic Horizons' In: Irish Ethnologies. Indiana: University of Notre Dame. [Details]
    2012 'Introduction: Presencing Assemblages'
    Garvey, Pauline, Seamas O'Siochain and Adam Drazin (2012) 'Introduction: Presencing Assemblages' In: Exhibit Ireland: Ethnographic Collections in Ireland. Dublin: Wordwell Press. [IR Link] [Details]
    2012 'Living rooms'
    Pauline Garvey (2012) 'Living rooms' In: International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. Amsterdam: Elsevier. [DOI] [Details]
    2011 'Consuming IKEA and inspiration as material form'
    Garvey, Pauline (2011) 'Consuming IKEA and inspiration as material form' In: Design Anthropology: Object Culture in the 21st Century. Wien, New York: Springer Verlag. [Details]
    2009 'Culture Materialised: IKEA furniture and other evangelitcal objects'
    Garvey, Pauline (2009) 'Culture Materialised: IKEA furniture and other evangelitcal objects' In: Lost and Found. Dublin: Wordwell Press. [IR Link] [Details]
    2005 'Drunk and (Dis) Orderly in Norway: Norwegian Drinking Parties in the Home'
    Garvey, Pauline (2005) 'Drunk and (Dis) Orderly in Norway: Norwegian Drinking Parties in the Home' In: Drinking Culture: AIcohol and the Expression of Identity, Class and Nation. Oxford: Berg. [Details]
    2001 'Organized Disorder: Moving Furniture in Norwegian Homes'
    Garvey, Pauline (2001) 'Organized Disorder: Moving Furniture in Norwegian Homes' In: Home Possessions: the Material Culture of the Home. Oxford: Berg. [Details]
    2001 'Drinking, Driving and Daring in Norway'
    Garvey, Pauline (2001) 'Drinking, Driving and Daring in Norway' In: Car Cultures. Oxford: Berg. [Details]

    Edited Books

      Year Publication
    2016 Special Issue of the Journal of Design History
    Garvey, Pauline and Adam Drazin (Ed.). (2016) Special Issue of the Journal of Design History Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details]
    2013 Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space
    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. [Details]
    2012 The Globe in a Glass Case: Ethnographic Collections in Irish Museums
    Seamas O’Siochain, Pauline Garvey and Adam Drazin (Ed.). (2012) The Globe in a Glass Case: Ethnographic Collections in Irish Museums Dublin: Wordwell. [Details]
    2009 Special Issue of Anthropology in Action and the Irish Journal of Anthropology
    Garvey, Pauline and Adam Drazin (eds) (Ed.). (2009) Special Issue of Anthropology in Action and the Irish Journal of Anthropology London: Berghahn Books. [Details]

    Peer Reviewed Journals

      Year Publication
    2016 '‘Design Dispersed: Design History, Design Practice and Anthropology: An Introduction’'
    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, [Details]
    2013 ''Ikea sofas are like H&M trousers': The potential of sensuous signs'
    Garvey, Pauline (2013) ''Ikea sofas are like H&M trousers': The potential of sensuous signs'. JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ANTHROPOLOGY, 2 :75-92 [IR Link] [Details]
    2005 'Domestic boundaries - Privacy, visibility and the Norwegian window'
    Garvey, P (2005) 'Domestic boundaries - Privacy, visibility and the Norwegian window'. Material Culture, 10 :157-176 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
    2011 'La mémoire en attente. Le muse ethnographique dans L’Irlande post-coloniale'
    Garvey, Pauline (2011) 'La mémoire en attente. Le muse ethnographique dans L’Irlande post-coloniale'. ETHNOLOGIE FRANÇAISE, 2 :253-262 [IR Link] [Details]
    2009 'Anthropology, Design and Technology in Ireland, a special edition'
    Garvey, Pauline and Adam Drazin (editors) (2009) 'Anthropology, Design and Technology in Ireland, a special edition'. IRISH JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 16 [Details]
    2009 ''Design and Having Designs in Ireland: Introduction''
    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 [IR Link] [Details]
    2008 'The Norwegian country cabin and functionalism: A tale of two modernities'
    Pauline Garvey (2008) 'The Norwegian country cabin and functionalism: A tale of two modernities'. Social Anthropology, 16 :203-220 [IR Link] [Details]
    2005 'Domestic Boundaries: Privacy, Visibility and the Norwegian Window'
    Garvey, Pauline (2005) 'Domestic Boundaries: Privacy, Visibility and the Norwegian Window'. Material Culture, 10 :157-176 [IR Link] [Details]
    2003 '‘How to have a ‘good home’: the practical aesthetic and normativity in Norway’'
    Garvey, Pauline (2003) '‘How to have a ‘good home’: the practical aesthetic and normativity in Norway’'. JOURNAL OF DESIGN HISTORY, 16 :241-251 [IR Link] [Details]

    Conference Contributions

      Year Publication
    2019 Ageing - ideology and practice: cases from ireland and italy.
    Pauline Garvey and Shireen Walton (2019) Ageing - ideology and practice: cases from ireland and italy. [Oral Presentation], Association of Social Anthropologists: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges, Norwich UK , 03-SEP-19 - 06-SEP-19 [Details]
    2018 Paper presented as part of the departmental seminar series.
    Garvey, Pauline (2018) Paper presented as part of the departmental seminar series. [Oral Presentation], Department of Folklore, University College Dublin, University College Dublin , 02-OCT-18 [Details]
    2014 Generating value and valuation as collaborative practice.
    Pauline Garvey, Johan Nilsson and Lotta Björklund Larsen (panel organisers) (2014) Generating value and valuation as collaborative practice. [Oral Presentation], European Association of Social Anthropologists, Tallin Estonia , 31-JUL-14 - 03-AUG-14 [Details]
    2013 Retrocycle.
    (2013) Retrocycle. [Public presentations], Retrocycle, Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin [Details]
    2012 Powerful and opaque corporate boundaries now constitute many aspects of everyday life, identity, biography, and the material world. We interrogate the anthropological encounter with these patrolled but slippery boundaries, and their implications for anthropological knowledge.
    Pauline Garvey and Adam Drazin, University College London (panel organisers). (2012) Powerful and opaque corporate boundaries now constitute many aspects of everyday life, identity, biography, and the material world. We interrogate the anthropological encounter with these patrolled but slippery boundaries, and their implications for anthropological knowledge. [Oral Presentation], European Association of Social Anthropologists, Nanterre, France , 10-JUL-12 - 13-JUL-12 [Details]
    2013 It's personal: subjectivity in Design History.
    (2013) It's personal: subjectivity in Design History. [Oral Presentation], The sensuous quality of domestic things, University of Hertfordshire [Details]
    2012 Govemark Seminar.
    (2012) Govemark Seminar. [Oral Presentation], Democratic Discourse, Democratic Design, National University of Ireland Maynooth [Details]
    2011 Anthropology seminar series.
    (2011) Anthropology seminar series. [Oral Presentation], Democratic Design, Anthropology Department, Queen's University Belfast [Details]
    2011 Material Culture Seminar Series.
    (2011) Material Culture Seminar Series. [Oral Presentation], Democractic Design and the Ikea flatpack, Anthropology Department, University College London [Details]
    2011 Opening the Flatpack: Ethnography, Art, and the Billy Bookcase postgraduate workshop Konstfack Stock.
    (2011) Opening the Flatpack: Ethnography, Art, and the Billy Bookcase postgraduate workshop Konstfack Stock. [Oral Presentation], The Materialisation of Brand, National college of Art, Craft and Design, (Konstfack) Stockholm [Details]
    2011 Anthropological Association of Ireland conference.
    (2011) Anthropological Association of Ireland conference. [Oral Presentation], ‘Per Albin Hansson built Ikea and Ingvar Kamprad Furnished it’, School of Art and Design, University of Ulster, Belfast [Details]
    2011 Material Culture Seminar.
    (2011) Material Culture Seminar. [Oral Presentation], Democratic Design, University College London, Anthropology Department [Details]
    2010 NUIM Business School seminar series.
    (2010) NUIM Business School seminar series. [Oral Presentation], Consuming IKEA, School of Business and Law, NUI Maynooth [Details]
    2010 NAIRTL-funded research cluster organised by Eamonn Slattery (NUIM) and Terence McDonough (NUIG).
    (2010) NAIRTL-funded research cluster organised by Eamonn Slattery (NUIM) and Terence McDonough (NUIG). [Oral Presentation], On folk museums and corporations, Strokestown Famine museum, Strokestown, Co. Roscommon.  [Details]
    2009 Ethnography, Creativity, Design, a two-day workshop.
    (2009) Ethnography, Creativity, Design, a two-day workshop. [Oral Presentation], ‘Inspiration as material form’, Maynooth [Details]
    2009 Ethnography, Creativity, Design, a two-day workshop in collaboration with Intel Ireland.
    (2009) Ethnography, Creativity, Design, a two-day workshop in collaboration with Intel Ireland. [Oral Presentation], Inspiration as material form, National University of Ireland Maynooth in collaboration with Intel Ireland [Details]
    2009 School of Marketing, DIT Dublin.
    (2009) School of Marketing, DIT Dublin. [Oral Presentation], On the museology of IKEA in Sweden, DIT Dublin [Details]
    2009 Seminar for Consumption and Leisure Studies.
    (2009) Seminar for Consumption and Leisure Studies. [Oral Presentation], Inspiration as material form: on the museology of IKEA in Sweden’, DIT Dubin [Details]
    2008 Department of Social Anthropology seminar series, Stockholm University.
    (2008) Department of Social Anthropology seminar series, Stockholm University. [Oral Presentation], IKEA and Taste: Some reflections from on-going ethnography, Stockholm University [Details]
    2008 Love Objects conference.
    (2008) Love Objects conference. [Oral Presentation], Love in a cold climate: Devotional objects and IKEA consumption in Sweden, National College of Art and Design Dublin [Details]

    ANET/COS

      Year Publication
    2012 ’Light’, invited contribution to the CIM (Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement) Teaching Resource, Queens University Belfast. Based in Queens University Belfast. CIM researchers analyze how globalizing forces may stimulate or hamper forms of cultural production through an examination of creative practices across Europe, South Asia, West Africa, Australia, South America and the Caribbean. http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/cim/.
    Pauline Garvey (2012) ’Light’, invited contribution to the CIM (Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement) Teaching Resource, Queens University Belfast. Based in Queens University Belfast. CIM researchers analyze how globalizing forces may stimulate or hamper forms of cultural production through an examination of creative practices across Europe, South Asia, West Africa, Australia, South America and the Caribbean. http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/cim/. ANET/COS [Details]

    Book Review

      Year Publication
    2002 Review of Victor Buchli (ed) 2002 Material Culture Reader.
    Dr Pauline Garvey (2002) Review of Victor Buchli (ed) 2002 Material Culture Reader. Book Review [Details]

    Invited papers

      Year Publication
    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.
    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 [IR Link] [Details]

    Conference Hosted

      Year Publication
    2010 Crisis and Imagination.
    Steve Coleman, Abdullahi El-Tom, Pauline Garvey, Patty Gray, Anthony Kelly, Karen Kelly, Mark Maguir (2010) Crisis and Imagination. Conference Hosted [Details]
    2009 Ethnography, Creativity, Design.
    Mark Maguire and Pauline Garvey (2009) Ethnography, Creativity, Design. Conference Hosted [Details]
    2007 The Globe in a Glass Case: Ethnographic collections in Ireland.
    Pauline Garvey, Seamas O'Siochain (2007) The Globe in a Glass Case: Ethnographic collections in Ireland. Conference Hosted [Details]
    2007 Talking Objects: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Material Culture.
    Pauline Garvey, Joanna Bruck, Adam Drazin (2007) Talking Objects: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Material Culture. Conference Hosted [Details]

    Education

      Year Institution Qualification Subject
    2002 Anthropology Department PhD

    Reviews

      Journal Role
    Home Cultures Editor

    Recent Postgraduates

      Graduation Student Name University Degree Thesis
    2004 Keith Parker Maynooth University
    2005 Silvia Loeffler Maynooth University
    2011 Shannon Damery Maynooth University
    2013 Malise Gibney Maynooth University
    2013 Kathleen Levacher Maynooth University
    2010 Johan Nilsson Maynooth University
    2009 Chiara Garattini Maynooth University PhD Prisoners of Time: Infantile Funerary Practices in Ireland
    2007 Chiara Dallevalle Maynooth University PhD Multiple Identities: Contemporary Migration in the Mediterranean Basin
    2015 Alison Troutner Maynooth University
    2017 Katie Cremer Maynooth University
    2018 Amiee Flynn-Curran Maynooth University PhD In-the-world-but-not-of-the-world-Marginality-faith-and-politics-in-a-San-Francisco-Bay-Area-Mormon-community

    External Collaborators

      Name Role / Description Country
    Daniel Miller/ University College London Research collaborator in ERC funded research UNITED KINGDOM
    Adam Drazin/ University College London Joint editor of international peer-reviewed journal Home Cultures UNITED KINGDOM
    Shireen Walton/ University College London Writing collaboration for international ASA conference UNITED KINGDOM
    Victor Buchli/ University College London Co-editor of international peer-reviewed journal UNITED KINGDOM