Words — barclaybram

ACADEMIC

Bram, B. (2022) "Building the skill of happiness: WeChat’s role in the promotion of mental health in China" Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, vol. https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2021-0010

-Bram, B (2022) "Strong Women and Ambivalent Success: the Gendered Dynamics of China's Psy-boom" Ethos https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12328
-Bram, B. (2022), "Troubling Emotions in China's Psy-boom" Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory special section, politics of Negative Affect in China https://doi.org/10.1086/717183

Bram, B. (2020), Help‐seekers, Callers and Clients: Embodied History in China's psy‐boom. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 34: 286-300. doi:10.1111/maq.12578

Bram, B. (2020), A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao. Ng, Emily, Oakland: University of California Press, 2020, 224 pp. . Medical Anthropology Quarterly. doi:10.1111/maq.12615

Bram, B (2020) “Pandemic Time” Somatosphere [dispatches from the pandemic series]

Bram Shoemaker, Barclay (2014) “If terrorism and insurgency are the “weapons of the weak,” why do they sometimes win?” International Affairs Forum Oxford: Routledge, Taylor & Francis

Bram Shoemaker, Barclay (2014) “Terrorism with Chinese Characteristics” International Affairs Forum Oxford: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Bram Shoemaker, Barclay (2015) “China is What States Make of It: Evaluating the Possibility of “Peaceful Rise” Using Wendtian Constructivism” International Affairs Forum Vol 6, Issue 1.

THE 19%

Introduction

Involution: The Generation Turning Inward and Away From Xi’s Chinese Dream

The Explosive Rise of Psychotherapy in China

The Last Generation: Why China’s Youth Are Deciding Against Having Children

“Generation N”: The Impact of China’s Youth Nationalism

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Yu’s Family Kitchen” Kitchen Works: Restaurants vol. 6

“The Museum as Sacred Space” Looking to New Institutional Models China’s Cultural Landscape by Mid-Century eds. Fung, Nicole and Tanner, Leigh. Hong Kong: Asia Society Press

PAPERS PRESENTED

How to Tell Stories With Sound, podcast workshop, Dijonss 14/5/2023

“Strong Women: the Gendered Dynamics of China’s Psy-boom” Spiritual Crisis and Moral Transformation in China, University of Rochester, 13/11/2021

Foucault in the Age of Social Media Cultural Histories, Cultural Studies, Oxford University 30/1/2020

“Building the Skill of Happiness” ‘Indigenous’ Psychology and Mental Health in China workshop, SFU Vancouver, 23/11-24/11/2019

“Analogue methods in a digital world: what the Knowledge of London tells us about knowledge in the digital age”. Oxford Internet Institute Digital Ethnographies Seminar, OII Oxford University 5/6/2019

“How Wechat is helping to rise psychotherapeutic consciousness in China” CHEW Conference, Oxford University, 31/5-1/6/2019

“The Museum as Sacred Space: The Jianchuan Museum Cluster and the future of the Chinese Museum” Museum2050 Conference, Shanghai Long Museum, 9/6/2018

Essays

Against America, LRB

My Therapist, the Robot NYTimes

Sage Against the Machine: Can Robots Learn to Taste? The Economist

Next! Guernica

Cooking from Memory Granta

The Knowledge Granta

Welcome to the Age of the Avatar Financial Times

Inside the Startling, Chaotic rise of Alibaba’s Single’s Day Bonanza WiredUk

How Mindfulness Became a Cultural Phenomenon Another Man

On the Merits of Clubbing Alone Another Man

Wechat is Watching Nautilus