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Associate Professor Jane Marion Buckingham

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Department: History

Email: jane.buckingham@canterbury.ac.nz

Phone Number: +64 3 369 3999 ext. null

Office: Karl Popper 504

Language: English

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Fields of Research

  • History of medicine and law
  • Indian history, particularly social and religious history

Researcher Summary

Research interests include the history of medicine, health, civil and criminal law and disability; history of mission, especially medical missionaries; history of welfare, charity, and philanthropy. Also, Indian history, particularly early colonial South India and early colonial state formation, and Pacific history, particularly history of health and medicine.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • History, History of Art, Classics and Curatorial Studies: Modern History; Modern History: Asian; Modern History: Pacific

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Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Authored Books
  • Buckingham J. (2008) Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement [eBook]. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 248. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781403932730.
  • Buckingham J. (2002) Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 236pp.
Journal Articles
  • Chambers ST., Ioteba N., Timeon E., Rimon E., Murdoch H., Green J., Trowbridge E., Buckingham J., Cunanan A. and Williman J. (2020) Surveillance of leprosy in Kiribati, 1935-2017. Emerging Infectious Diseases 26(5): 833-840. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2605.181746.
  • Buckingham J. (2017) Indenture and the Indian experience of leprosy on Makogai Island, Fiji. The Journal of Pacific History 52(3): 325-342. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2017.1371107.
  • Luker V. and Buckingham J. (2017) Histories of Leprosy: subjectivities, community, and Pacific worlds. Leprosy in the Pacific: Special Issue Journal of Pacific History 52(3): 265-286. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2017.1379124.
  • Buckingham J. (2014) Leprosy, Philanthropy and Social Capital in New Zealand/Pacific Relations 1950-60s. Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies 2(1): 39-56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/nzps.2.1.39_1.
  • Raman R., Buckingham J. and Raman A. (2013) On the etiology and transmission of leprosy in nineteenth century Madras, India. Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology 79(2): 261-263. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0378-6323.107660.
  • Raman R., Buckingham J. and Raman A. (2012) The Madras leper hospital and leprosy management in 19th century India. Current Science 103(11): 1354-1357.
  • Alexander JM. and Buckingham J. (2011) Common good leadership in business management: an ethical model from the Indian tradition. Business Ethics: A European Review 20(4): 317-327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8608.2011.01632.x.
  • Buckingham J. (2011) The Inclusivity of Exclusion: Isolation and Community among Leprosy Affected People in the South Pacific. Health and History 13(2 Special Issue Health and Disability): 65-83. http://dx.doi.org/10.5401/healthhist.13.2.0065.
  • Buckingham J. (2011) Writing histories of disability in India: strategies of inclusion. Disability and Society 26(4): 419-431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2011.567792.
  • Alexander JM. and Buckingham J. (2008) Deserving Dignity. Frontline 25(10): 97-101.
  • Buckingham J. (2006) Patient Welfare vs the Health of the Nation: Governmentality and Sterilisation of Leprosy Sufferers in Early Post-Colonial India. Social History of Medicine 19(3): 483-499. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkl046.
  • Buckingham J. (2006) The Pacific Leprosy Foundation Archive and Oral Histories of Leprosy in the South Pacific. Journal of Pacific History 41(1): 81-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223340600652441.
  • Buckingham J. (1997) The 'morbid mark': The place of the leprosy sufferer in nineteenth century Hindu law. South Asia 20(1): 57-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856409708723289.
Edited Volumes
  • Buckingham J; Menke H; Gounder F; Kumar A; Hassankhan MS (Ed.) (2020) Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era. (1st ed. ed.) Routledge. 262. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003140597.
  • Buckingham J; Menke H; Gounder F; Kumar A; Hassankhan MS (Ed.) (2020) Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Era. New Delhi: Manohar. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003140597.
  • Bandhyopadhyay S; Buckingham JM (Ed.) (2018) Indians and the Antipodes: Networks, Boundaries, and Circulation. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199483624.001.0001.
  • Luker V; Buckingham J (Ed.) (2017) Journal of Pacific History 52(3) Special Issue: Leprosy in the Pacific. 265-426.
  • Buckingham J. and Nilakant V. (2016) Managing responsibly: Alternative approaches to corporate management and governance. Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance 1-230. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315593630.
  • Locke PEG; Buckingham JM (Ed.) (2016) Conflict, Negotiation, and Coexistence: Rethinking Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 366.
  • Buckingham J. and Nilakant V. (2012) Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance. Farnham: Gower. 284pp.
Chapters
  • Buckingham J. (2022) Chaulmoogra - Indian Ocean World leprosy remedies in the South Pacific. In Gerritsen A; Cleetus B (Ed.), Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000Bloomsbury.
  • Buckingham J. (2020) Disability, Leprosy, and Plantation Health among Indian Indentured Labourers in Fiji, 1879-1911. In Menke H; Buckingham J; Gounder F; Kumar A; Hussankhan MS (Ed.), Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Era (First ed.): 199-220. New Delhi: Manohar.
  • Buckingham J., Menke H., Gounder F., Kumar A. and Hassankhan MS. (2020) Introduction. In Menke H; Buckingham J; Gounder F; Kumar A; Hassankhan MS (Ed.), Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Era (First ed.): 11-23.Manohar.
  • (2018) Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India. In Pati B; Harrison M (Ed.), Routledge India. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351262200.
  • Bandhyopadhyay S. and Buckingham J. (2018) Introduction. In Bandhyopadhyay S; Buckingham J (Ed.), Indians and the Antipodes: Networks, Boundaries, and Circulation: 1-25. New Delhi: Oxford Univeristy Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199483624.003.0001.
  • Buckingham J. (2018) Disability and Work in South Asia and the United Kingdom. In Rembis M; Kudlick C; Nielsen K (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Disability History: 197-212. New York: Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190234959.013.12.
  • Buckingham J. (2018) The sentencing of assisted suicide in the Nizamut Adawlut, 1810-1829: Religion, health and gender in the formation of British Indian criminal law. In Pati B; Harrison M (Ed.), Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India: 16-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351262200-2.
  • Buckingham J. (2018) The sentencing of assisted suicide in the Nizamut Adawlut, 1810-1829: Religion, health and gender in the formation of British Indian criminal law. In Pati B; Harrison M (Ed.), Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India: 16-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351262200-2.
  • (2016) Conclusion: New Directions in Corporate Social Responsibility. Managing Responsibly: 227-240.Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315593630-18.
  • Buckingham J. (2016) Symbolism and Power: Elephants, and Gendered Authority in the Mughal World. In Locke PEG; Buckingham JM (Ed.), Conflict, Negotiation, Coexistence; Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia: 92-114. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199467228.003.0005.
  • Buckingham J. and Nilakant V. (2016) Introduction: Globalizing corporate social responsibility - challenging western neo-liberal management theory. Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance: 209-221. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315593630-18.
  • Buckingham J. and Nilakant V. (2016) Preface. : xiii-xv.
  • Buckingham J. (2012) Guilds and Governance in Ancient India: Historical Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility. In Buckingham J; Nilakant V (Ed.), Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance: 93-116. Farnham: Gower.
  • Buckingham J. and Nilakant V. (2012) Conclusion: New Directions in Corporate Social Responsibility. In Buckingham J; Nilakant V (Ed.), Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance: 209-221. Farnham: Gower.
  • Buckingham J. and Nilakant V. (2012) Introduction: Globalizing Corporate Social Responsibility: Challenging Western Neo-Liberal Management Theory. In Buckingham J; Nilakant V (Ed.), Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance: 1-18. Farnham: Gower.
  • Jones C., Morrison G., Tau TM., Hawes J., Clement J., Boister N. and Buckingham J. (2011) Remembering the Past. In Jones C; Matthews B; Clement J (Ed.), Treasures of the University of Canterbury Library Christchurch: Canterbury University Press.
  • Buckingham J. (2006) Institutionalization and Segregation. In Albrecht GL (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Disability, Vol. 2: 959-964. Thousand Oaks, London: Sage.
  • Buckingham J. (2005) To make the precedent fit the crime': British legal responses to sati in early nineteenth-century north India. In Godfrey BS; Dunstall G (Ed.), Crime and Empire 1840-1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context: 189-201. Cullompton: Willan Publishing.
Conference Contributions - Other
  • Buckingham J. (2021) The Moral World of the Elephant in Akbar’s India. Department of History, Ashoka University, India (virtual conference): Animals and South Asian History International Symposium, 17-18 Dec 2021.
  • Buckingham J. (2019) The moral world of the elephant in Mughal India. Ōtautahi (Christchurch), Aotearoa: Australasian Animal Studies Conference 2019, 1-4 Jul 2019.
  • Buckingham J. (2018) Disability and Indian indentured labour in the South Pacific. University of Sheffield: Histories of Disability: local, global and colonial stories, 7-8 Jun 2018.
  • Buckingham J. (2018) Plantation health – legacies of colonial labour migration in Fiji. Anton de Kom University of Suriname: Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour, 19-12 Jun 2018.
  • Buckingham J. (2017) Remembering Makogai: Twentieth century memories of migration and community among leprosy affected people on Makogai Island, Fiji. Christchurch, New Zealand: Oceanic Memory: Islands, Ecologies, Peoples, 30 Nov-1 Dec 2017.
  • Buckingham J. (2016) Highlights of the Day' Discussant. Palmerston North, New Zealand: Sustainable Environments in 21st Century India, 31 Mar-1 Apr 2016.
  • Buckingham J. (2016) What is the History of Leprosy and Who Writes It? Tokyo, Japan: International Symposium on Leprosy/Hansen’s Disease History as Heritage of Humanity, 28-30 Jan 2016.
  • Buckingham JM. (2016) Leprosy and Indian Indentured Experience in Fiji. Suva, Fiji: Migration and Identity: Histories of indentured labour in Fiji, 29 Jun 2016.
  • Buckingham J. (2015) Concluding remarks and reflection. Leuven, Belgium: Colloquium: Histories of Leprosy and Colonial Hygiene, 10-10 Mar 2015.
  • Buckingham J. (2015) Indenture and the Indian Experience of Leprosy on Makogai Island, Fiji. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: Workshop: Indian Migration to the Pacific and Indian Ocean States, 15-15 Apr 2015.
  • Buckingham J. (2015) Leprosy, Philanthropy and Social Capital in New Zealand/Pacific Relations 1950-60s. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: New Zealand Historical Association Conference (NZHA), 2-4 Dec 2015.
  • Buckingham J. (2015) Symbolism and Power: Elephants and Gendered Authority in the Mughal World. Christchurch, New Zealand: 21st Biennial New Zealand Asian Studies Society Conference (NZASIA), 29 Nov-1 Dec 2015.
  • Buckingham J. (2014) Disability and Migration: Leprosy and Indian Indentured Labour in Fiji, 1900-1950. Christchurch, New Zealand: Health, Labour and Migration in the 19-20th century South Pacific, 5-5 Jun 2014.
  • Buckingham J. (2014) Health, Migration and Labour: Leprosy and Indian indentured labour in Fiji 1900-1950. Delhi University (IGH) New Delhi, India: Health, Migration and Labour Workshop, 8-8 Nov 2014.
  • Buckingham Jane. (2014) Assisted Suicide-nineteenth century discourses on sati and samadh. Christchurch, New Zealand: NZSAC Annual Symposium, 22-22 Aug 2014.
  • Buckingham J. (2013) Indenture and the Indian Experience of Leprosy on Makogai Island, Fiji. Christchurch, New Zealand: New Zealand South Asia Centre Fourth Annual Symposium, 2013, 4-4 Sep 2013.
  • Buckingham J. (2013) Symbolism and Power: Elephants and Authority in the Mughal World. Christchurch, New Zealand: Symposium on Human-Elephant Relations in South and Southeast Asia, 7-8 May 2013.
  • Buckignham J. (2012) Disability and the leprosy affected Fijian Indian Community in the South Pacific. Christchurch, New Zealand: New Zealand South Asia Centre, Third Annual Symposium, Culture, Identity and Environment in South Asia, 14-14 Sep 2012.
  • Buckingham J. (2012) British colonial approaches to leprosy management: Care and confinement in British South India. Paramaribo, Suriname: Leprosy Workshop, 18-19 Oct 2012.
  • Buckingham J. (2012) Communities within isolation: The experience of Indian leprosy patients on Makogai Island. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: 20th Pacific History Association Conference (PHA), 6-8 Dec 2012.
  • Buckingham J. (2012) Fractured Gaze: European Physicians in the Seventeenth Century Mughal Court. University of Hawai'i at Manoa, HI, USA: Workshop: European Encounters with Islam in Asia 1500-1800, 28-29 Sep 2012.
  • Buckingham J. (2012) Teaching and learning history in the context of natural disaster. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: 20th Pacific History Association Conference (PHA), 6-8 Dec 2012.
  • Buckingham J. (2011) Power and Philanthropy in Late 18th Century Madras. Coventry, U.K: The Problem of Power - University of Warwick, 6-7 Oct 2011.
  • Buckingham J. (2011) Writing Disability Histories of India. Christchurch, New Zealand: Second Annual New Zealand South Asia Centre Research Symposium, 31-31 Oct 2011.
  • Buckingham J., Nilakant V., Sanyal A. and Basu A. (2011) New Zealand South Asia Centre Collaborative Projects: 'Managing Responsibly'. Christchurch, New Zealand: Second Annual New Zealand South Asia Centre Research Symposium, 31-31 Oct 2011.
  • Buckingham J. (2010) Government and community based approaches to ethical management in ancient India. Christchurch, New Zealand: New Zealand South Asia Centre One Day Symposium: Success and the Selfless Manager, 22-22 Apr 2010.
  • Buckingham J. (2010) The Inclusivity of Exclusion: Social Disability and Community among Leprosy Sufferers in Twentieth Century South Pacific. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago Disability Symposium, 5-7 Aug 2010.
  • Buckingham J. (2009) Leprosy, Compassion and Government Formation in Early Post-Colonial India. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: 18th New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference 2009, 6-8 Jul 2009.
  • Buckingham J. (2009) The Impact of Globalisation on Tourism. Holycross College, Tiruchirapalli, India: Recent Trends in Tourism: World Heritage and Hospitality, 6-6 Aug 2009.
  • Buckingham J. (2004) Gendered Medicine? Missionary women of the Church Missionary Society and the imperial comprehension of the Indian patient. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand: Gender and Empire Symposium, 29 Oct 2004.
  • Buckingham J. (2004) Patient Welfare vs the Health of the Nation: Debates over the sterilisation of leprosy sufferers in independent India. Sydney, Australia: Medicine at the Border: The History, Culture and Politics of Global Health, 1 Jul 2004.
  • Buckingham J. (2003) To Make the Precedent fit the Crime': British legal responses to sati in early nineteenth-century north India. University of Cantebury, Christchurch, New Zealand: Comparative Histories of Crime and Criminality, 1 Nov 2003.
  • Buckingham J. (2001) Sati, Samadh and the Criminalisation of Assisted Suicide in Nineteenth Century India. Christchurch, New Zealand: Asian Futures, Asian Traditions: New Zealand Asian Studies Society 14th International Conference, 28 Nov 2001.
  • Buckingham J. (1997) Leprosy and the Development of Colonial Medical Science. Auckland, New Zealand: Australasian Association for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Science Conference, 1 Jan 1997.
  • Buckingham J. (1997) The Criminal Leper Ward, Madras Leper Hospital: Concepts of leprosy and criminality in Colonial South India. Bath, UK: British Asian Studies Association Conference, 1 Jan 1997.
Oral Presentations
  • Buckingham J. (2022) Disability and Violence on British Colonial Plantations. UC History, 16 Mar 2022.
  • Buckingham J. (2022) Historical Approaches – Oral History. University of Canterbury: Macmillan Brown Centre Research Workshop, 25 Feb 2022.
  • Buckingham J. (2021) Cases of Assisted Suicide in the Nizamut Adawlut, 1810-1829: Religion, Health, and Gender in the formation of British Indian Criminal law. University of Canterbury: History Department Seminar, 21 Jul 2021.
  • Buckingham J. (2020) Chaulmoogra - trading and treating with leprosy remedies in the South Pacific. University of Canterbury Arts Centre: Department of Humanities and Creative Arts Conference, 27 Nov 2020.
  • Buckingham J. (2018) Disability and Indentured Labour in the South Pacific. , South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany: Medical Anthropology Forum, 12 Jun 2018.
  • Buckingham J. (2018) Remembering Makogai: Twentieth century memories of migration and community among leprosy affected people on Makogai Island, Fiji. Inter-culturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre (IMMRC), Faculty of Social Sciences, KU .
  • Buckingham J. (2018) The Moral World of the Elephant in Akbar’s India. Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt, Germany: 11 Jun 2018.
  • Buckingham J. (2017) Health, Migration and Labour: Leprosy and Indian indentured labour in Fiji 1900-1950. University of Otago: 22nd NZASIA Biennial International Conference, 28 Nov 2017.
  • Buckingham J. (2016) Disability and Labour: History of Marginalisation. Jawarhal Nehru University, New Delhi, India: Lecture presented at Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion (CSDE) School of Social Sciences.
  • Buckingham J. (2016) Health Migration and Labour in the South Pacific - the Indian experience. Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India: Lecture presented at Zakir Hussain Centre for Educational Studies.
  • Buckingham J. (2015) Challenging the stigma of leprosy in the Southern Pacific. Provinciehuis Vlaams-Brabant, Leuven, Belgium: 5th Disability Film Festival, Limited Edition, Leuven, Belgium.
  • Buckingham J. (2014) Gender and Assisted Suicide. History Department, JNU, New Delhi: Postgraduate and Academic Seminar.
  • Buckingham J. (2012) Central Leprosy Hospital, Makogai Island, Fiji, 1911-1969. University of Hawai'i at Hilo, Hawai'i, USA: Guest Lecture to class (3rd and 4th year): Disease and Medicine in Hawai'i.
  • Buckingham J. (2012) Disability and migration: Leprosy and indentured labour in Fiji 1900-1960. University of California, CA, USA: Presentation of work in progress to Greater Bay Area Consortium for Disability Studies.
  • Buckingham J. (2012) Writing histories of disability in India. Centre for Contemporary Studies, Potti Sriramula Memorial Building, Chennai, India.
  • Buckingham J. (2012) Writings in Critical History: History as Analysis'. Loyola College, Chennai, India: Guest Lecture to History Association, Loyola College (Postgraduate students, visitors and staff).
  • Buckingham J. (2011) Central Leprosy Hospital, Makogai Island, Fiji 1911-1969. Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand: Makogai Island: 100 Years of Leprosy in the South Pacific.
  • Buckingham J. (2011) Guilds in Ancient India and Corporate Social Responsibility. London, UK: King's College London - Seminar Series.
  • Buckingham J. (2011) Popham's Police Plan: Power, Authority and Police in 18th Century Madras. Christchurch, New Zealand: University of Canterbury History Seminar.
  • Buckingham J. (2011) The inclusivity of exclusion: isolation and community among leprosy-affected people in the South Pacific.. Christchurch, New Zealand: University of Canterbury, History Seminar.
  • Buckingham J. (2010) Guilds In Ancient India. Christchurch, New Zealand: University of Canterbury, History Seminar.
  • Buckingham J. (2010) India and New Zealand in a Changing Asia. University of Victoria, Wellington, Christchurch: Round Table, Centre for Strategic Studies.
  • Buckingham J. (2010) MFAT (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade)/Academic and Research Round Table linked to NZ/Indian Free Trade Agreement Talks. Wellington, New Zealand: MFAT Academic and Research Round Table.
  • Buckingham J. (2009) Presentation. Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), Delhi, India: Inaugural India-New Zealand Track II Dialogue.
  • Buckingham J. (2008) Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) - New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (NZIA). Wellington, New Zealand: Track 2 Dialogue, 01 Dec 1977.
  • Buckingham J. (2007) Gandhi: Saint or Politician? University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: Festival of History, 17 Oct 2008.
  • Buckingham J. (2005) Gendered Medicine? Missionary Women and the Imperial Comprehension of the Indian Patient. Christchurch, New Zealand: School of History Research Seminar, University of Canterbury, 05 Apr 2004.
  • Buckingham J. (2003) Religion, Health, Sexuality and the Criminality of Assisted Suicide in Early Nineteenth Century British India. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK: Seminar Series on Leprosy History, 23 Sep 2005.
  • Buckingham J. (1998) "Smoke, Mercury and Leprosy in Colonial India". presented to Auckland Medical Historical Society. .
  • Buckingham J. (1997) Sati Samadh and the Criminalisation of Assisted Suicide in Nineteenth Century North India. University of Canterbury (1997), University of Auckland (1998): Staff seminars, 01 Nov 2000.
Other
  • Buckingham J. (2020) Bearing Witness: Essays in Honour of Brij V. Lal by Doug Munro and Jack Corbett (eds). ANU Press, Canberra, 2017. pp. 333 $64.99 ISBN 9781760461218. 25 Jan 2020. New Zealand Journal of History 54(1): 133-134. University of Auckland. [Book Review].
  • Buckingham JM. (2017) Buckingham on Newman, 'Writing Disability: A Critical History' Book Review. Internet: H-Net Reviews. [H-Disability Internet].
  • Buckingham J. and Locke P. (2016) Rethinking Human-Elephant Relations in South Asia (OUP blog). Online publication: Oxford University Press.
  • Buckingham J., Bartlett D., Lovell-Smith M., Thomson CJ., Jenkin R. and Middendorf J. (2016) Voices against War: Courage, Conviction and conscientious objection in WWI Canterbury. [Website].
  • Buckingham JM. (2016) Whose History is it? Perspectives on the ways leprosy history gets written and the viewpoint it represents. WHO Goodwill Ambassador's Newsletter for the Elimination of Leprosy April(79): 4. [newsletter].
  • Buckingham J. (2015) Respondent to Paper 'Leprosy and Anthropology', Dr Stephen Snelders 'Histories of Leprosy and Colonial Hygiene', One Day Colloquium organized by KU Leuven, UGent and VUB, 10 March 2015. .
  • Buckingham J. (2012) Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (Ed.), India in New Zealand: Local Identities, Global Relations. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2010. [Book Review].
  • Buckingham J. (2008) Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History, by Rod Edmond (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2006). The English Historical Review CXXIII(505): 1578-1579. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cen295. [Book Review].
Exhibition/Curatorial Exercises
  • Buckingham JM. and Malik A. (2002) Gandhi: A Photographic Exhibition. Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Editorial Work

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  • Social History of Medicine Editorial Board Member ( 1997 - 2002)
  • Social History of Medicine, Oxford University Press Editorial Board Member ( 0 - 2023)

Review and Refereeing

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  • Asian Medicine ( 2005 )
  • Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity ( 2000 - 2005)
  • História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos ( 2000 - 2005)
  • História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos ( 2006 - 2023)
  • International Journal of Leprosy ( 2006 - 2023)
  • International Journal of Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases ( 2000 - 2005)
  • Medical Anthropology ( 2000 - 2005)
  • Medical Anthropology ( 2003 )
  • Medical Anthropology ( 2006 - 2023)
  • New Zealand Journal of History ( 2006 - 2023)
  • New Zealand Journal of History ( 2000 - 2005)
  • Social History of Medicine ( 2006 - 2023)
  • Social History of Medicine ( 2010 )

Affiliations

  • International Leprosy Association (ILA) Global Project on the History of Leprosy (Professional Organisation): Coordinator of New Zealand and Pacific archival research
  • International Leprosy Association (ILA) Global Project on the History of Leprosy (Professional Organisation): Research consultant for South Asia & South Pacific

Research Groups

  • New Zealand South Asia Centre (NZSAC)

Research Projects

  • Community and Isolation, a Social and Contemporary History of Leprosy in the South Pacific
  • Voices Against War: Courage, Conviction and Conscientious Objection in WW1 Canterbury

Future Research

  • Marsden Project: Community and Isolation, a Social and Contemporary History of Leprosy in the South Pacific
  • History of Government and Philanthropy in early Colonial South India

Key Methodologies

  • Historical method

Equipment

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