UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences

Dr Nicole Bourque

Dr Nicole BourqueQualifications: BA (University of New Brunswick, Canada), PhD (Cambridge)

Positions Held:
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Glasgow (1993- present)

telephone: +44 (0)141 330 5138
email: L.N.Bourque@socsci.gla.ac.uk

Research:
Popular religion in South America; religious change; use of space during rituals; gender and religion; conversion to Islam; Islam in Scotland, Ritual and Religious Change, Syncretism in the Ecuadorian and Bolivian Andes, Conversion to Islam in Britain, Use of Ritual Theory in the Analysis of Corporate Strategy Episodes, Religious Education in the UK.

Publications:

  • Bourque, N. & G. Johnson (2008) 'Strategy Workshops and "Away Days" as Ritual' in G. Hodgkinson and B. Starbuck (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Organisational Decision Making. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 552-564.  ISBN: 978-0-929046-8.
  • Bourque, N. (forthcoming) ‘Mapping Contested Boundaries: The Use of Oral and Verbal Mapping in the Central Ecuadorian Andes’ in P. Dransart and B. Sillars (eds.) Materialisations of Earth, Land and Water in the Andes. London: Antiquity Press  
  • Bourque, N. (2006) 'How Deborah Became Aisha': The Conversion Process and the Creation of Female Muslim Identity in Scotland' in K. van Nieuwkerk (ed) Conversion, Gender and Islam. Austin: University of Texas Press. pp 233-249. ISBN: 0-292-71302-9.
  • Bourque, N., V. Gayle and R.E.Wright (2005) ‘The Decline of Religion’ in J. Ermish and R.E.Wright (eds) Changing Scotland: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey. Bristol: Policy Press, pp 261-275. ISBN: 1-86134-593-3.
  • Bourque, N. 2002 ‘Learning and Re-learning How to Plant: The Impact of New Crops on the Spread and Control of New Agricultural Knowledge’ in H. Stobbart and R. Howard (ed.) Knowledge and Learning in the Andes: Ethnographic Perspectives Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. pp 194-206. ISBN: 0-85323-518-X
  • Bourque, N. (2001) ‘Eating Your Words: Communicating With Food in the Ecuadorian Andes’ in Joy Hendry and Alan Bicker (eds).An Anthropology of Indirect Communication . London: Routledge. pp 85-100. ISBN: 0-415-24745-4.
  • Bourque, N. (2000) ‘An Anthropologists View of Ritual’ in E. Bispham and C.Smith (eds) Religion and Ritual in Ancient and Archaic Rome. London: Routledge.
  • Bourque, N. (1999) ‘Working Gender, Cooking and Ploughing in the Central Ecuadorian Andes’ Acta Americana 7:1
  • Bourque, N. (1998) ‘Doing Anthropology in your own backyard: The experience of doing fieldwork amongst converts to Islam in Glasgow’ Anthropology in Action 4(3)
  • Bourque, N. (1998) ‘Being British and Muslim: Dual Identity Amongst New and Young Muslims’ in Alan Jones (ed) University Lectures in Islamic Studies Volume 2. London: Altajir World of Islam Trust.
  • Burman, N., L. Mann and N. Bourque (1998) ‘Feasibility Study of Legal Representation Among White and Ethnic Minority Criminal Accused’. Scottish Office Report.
  • Bourque, N. (1997) ‘Making Space: Social Change, Identity and the Creation of Boundaries in the Central Ecuadorian Andes’ Bulletin of Latin American Studies” 16(2): 153-168.
  • Bourque, N. (1996) ‘Working Gender: The Construction of Gender and the Use of Power in the Central Ecuadorian Andes’ Institute of Latin American Studies Occasional Paper No. 64, University of Glasgow (ISSN - 0305 8646).
  • Bourque, N. (1995) ‘Savages and Angels: Spiritual, Social and Physical Development in Andean Life- cycle Festivals’ Ethnos 60(1-2): 99-114.
  • Bourque, N. (1995) ‘Developing People and Plants: Life-cycle and Agricultural Festivals in the Andes’ Ethnology 34(1): 75-87.
  • Bourque, N. (1995) ‘Priests and Saints: Syncretism and Power in the Andes’ Scottish Journal of Religious Studies 16(1): 25-36.
  • Bourque, N. (1995) ‘Households and Markets: Exchange, Consumption and Change in Peasant Households in the Ecuadorian Andes’ Centre forDevelopment Studies Occasional Paper No.15, University of Glasgow (ISSN-0952-8849)
  • Bourque, N. (1994) ‘Spatial Meaning in Andean Festivals: Corpus Christi and Octavo’ Ethnology 33 (3):229-244.
  • Bourque, N. (1993) ‘Saints’ Cults in a Quichua Village in the Central Ecuadorian Highlands’ in S. Rostas and A.Droogers (eds.) The Popular Use of Popular Religion in Latin America. Amsterdam: Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, pp. 179-192.
  • Bourque, N. (1988) ‘What the Devil is Going On in the Mines: A Diachronic and Symbolic Analysis of the Spirit Owner of Bolivia’s Tin Mines’ Nexus: The Canadian Journal of Student Anthropology 8.

Recent grants (since 1993):

  • January 2008 - Jan 2011: Does Religious Education Work?  AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme, £365 326.  Co-investigators: University of Glasgow, Queen's University Belfast, Kings College London.
  • September 2006 - September 2008:  Theoretical Perspectives on Strategy Workshops.  Advanced Institute of Management (AIM).  Co-investigators: Gerry Johnson, Shameen Prashantham, Steve Floyd.
  • September 2006 - September 2008: Empirical Research on Strategy Workshops.  Advanced Institute of Management (AIM).  Co-investigators: Gerry Johnson, Shameen Prashantham, Steve Floyd.
  • March-July 2005: Research on Religious Change in Andean Ecuador, Faculty Research Grant, £2000
  • July-Aug 2002 Research on Conversion to Protestantism in Bolivia. Funding: John Robertson Bequest, £1000
  • July-Aug 2001: research on Transportation Ritualism, Bolivia Funding: John Robertson Bequest, £1,000
  • October 1996-January 1997: Research on Ethnic Minorities in the Glasgow Court Funding: Scottish Office, £5,865
  • Grant Holder: Dr. Michele Burman, Sociology Department, University of Glasgow Research Assistant: Mrs. Leslie Mann
  • June 1996-August 1996: Research on Religious and Economic Change in Ecuador Funding: John Robertson Bequest, £3000
  • Oct 1993-Oct 1996: Research on Conversion to Islam in Scotland/BritainFunding: SHEFCA New Initiative Grant