Dr Jane Buckingham
Position
Senior Lecturer in History
Director of Graduate Studies
Disabilities Officer
Other positions
Director, New Zealand South Asia Centre, 2010-2011.
Chair of the Editorial Board: Social History of Medicine, Oxford University Press, 2004-2008.
Research consultant for South Asia and the South Pacific and co-ordinator of archival research for New Zealand and the Pacific, International Leprosy Association Global Leprosy Project, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, 2003-2008.
Project Manager for Pacific Leprosy Foundation Oral History Archive, the creation of an oral history archive of life stories of leprosy sufferers from the South Pacific region. 2004-ongoing. Project funded by the International Leprosy Association Global Leprosy Project, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, The Royal Society of New Zealand, Marsden Fund, and Pacific Leprosy Foundation.
Principal Investigator Marsden Project: 'Community and Isolation, a Social and Contemporary History of Leprosy in the South Pacific 2008-2011.
Indian Centre for Cultural Relations Visiting Scholar. Fellowship held at the Centre for Business Ethics, Loyola Institute of Business Admninistration, Chennai, India, June 2009-January 2010.
Member South Asian Archive Expert Group, South Asian Cultural and Historical Archive, Routledge, 2010 continuing
Member Disability History Association Publication Award Committee, 2011 continuing.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) in English and History, University of Sydney
PhD History, University of Sydney
Room
Room 315, History Building
Contact Details
Phone: +64(03) 364 2277
Internal Phone: 6277
Fax: +64 (03) 364 2003
jane.buckingham@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address
Dr Jane Buckingham
History Department
School of Humanities
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand
Undergraduate Courses
HIST137, HIST279/367, HIST275/375
Contribution to HIST133
Graduate Courses
HIST429, HIST480 supervision
Contribution to HIST450
I welcome enquiries for supervision at Honours, MA or PhD levels particularly in areas relating to my research interests noted below.
Research Interests
Thematic: History of medicine, health and the history and philosophy of disability, history of mission, especially medical mission, history of welfare, charity, and philanthrophy, history of civil and criminal law, business ethics and governance.
Regional: Indian history, particularly 18th-19th century colonial South India. Pacific and New Zealand history of welfare, health, medicine and disability.
Recent Publications/Creative Works
For up-to-date details of Jane Buckingham's research interests and publications, please visit her UC Spark .
Books
Buckingham, (2002) J. Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement. Basingstoke: Palgrave: (E-book, edition, 2008)
Articles
Alexander, J.M. 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.
Buckingham, J. (2011) The Inclusivity of Exclusion: Isolation and Community among Leprosy Affected People in the South Pacific. Health and History, (Special Issue), in press.
Buckingham, J. (2011) Writing histories of disability in India: strategies of inclusion, Disability and Society, 26(4), 419-431.
Alexander, J.M. and Buckingham, J. (2008) Deserving Dignity. Frontline (New Delhi), 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.
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.
Buckingham, J. (1997) The ‘morbid mark': The place of the leprosy sufferer in nineteenth century Hindu law. South Asia , 20(1), 57-80.
Edited Books
Buckingham, J. and Vencataraman, N. (eds.) (2012) Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance. Farnham, Surrey: Gower. (forthcoming).
Chapters in books
Buckingham, J. (2012) 'Guilds and Governance in Ancient India: Historical Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility'. In Buckingham, J. and Vencataraman, N (eds.), Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches ot Corporate Management and Governance. Farnham, Surrey: Gower. (forthcoming)
Buckingham, J. and Vencataraman, N., (2012) 'Globalizing Corporate Social Responsibility: Challenging Western neo-liberal management theory'. In Buckingham, J. and Vencataraman, N. (eds.), Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance. Farnham, Surrey: Gower. (forthcoming)
Buckingham, J. and Vencataraman, N., (2012) 'New Directions in Corporate Social Responsibility'. In Buckingham, J.and Vencataraman, N. (eds.), Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance. Farnham, Surrey: Gower. (forthcoming)
Buckingham, J. (2006) 'Institutionalization and Segregation' in Encyclopaedia of Disability, Vol. 2, Gary L Albrecht (ed), Thousand Oaks, California, Sage: 959-964.
Buckingham, J. (2005), "To make the precedent fit the crime": British legal responses to sati in early nineteenth-century north India' in Barry Godfrey and Graeme Dunstall (eds) Crime and Empire 1840-1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context, Cullompton, Devon, Willan Publishing: 189-201.
Creative Works
Co-Curator Gandhi: A Photographic Exhibition (2002)
Exhibited at Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, 2 August-3 November 2002 and toured New Zealand, 2002-2006.
Archive Creation
Creation of oral history archive consisting of life stories of leprosy sufferers from the South Pacific region and those who worked with them, 2004-2008. Project funded by the International Leprosy Association Global Leprosy Project, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford. Interviews conducted by Oral Historian Dorothy McMenamin and deposited in the Pacific Leprosy Foundation ARchive, Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury.