Dr Patrick McCartney

Experience

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  Uni

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  currently organising this conference #yogabodyANU2016http://chl.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/658/yoga-and-body-past-and-present-symposium?#tab

  • talking

    Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  • talking

    Jan 1998 - Jan 2000
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  Hope for a Generation

  Jan 2010 - May 2023

  I'm currently using my linguistic training to act as a language consultant on various projects related to communications, marketing, and language reclamation. I have been teaching Hindi, Urdu and Sanskrit as a private Tutor.

  • Language Consultant

    Aug 2016 - May 2023

  • Private Language Tutor

    Jan 2010 - Nov 2017
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  Indology

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2017

  Poser of questions
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  Australian National University

  Feb 2012 - Feb 2023

  phd student My research on the consumption of various 'spiritual lifestyles' and its link to religious nationalism intersects at the politics of imagination, the sociology of spirituality and the economics of religion. https://www.academia.edu/25871214/2-page_Summary_of_Post-Doc_Project Wrote a thesis titled: Shanti Mandir: Authenticity, Economy and Emotion in a Yoga Ashram. Submitted - September 2015.https://www.academia.edu/25626086/PhD_Dissertation_-_Shanti_Mandir_Authenticity_Economy_and_Emotion_in_a_Yoga_Ashram

  • PHD Candidate

    Feb 2012 - Feb 2023

  • Visiting Fellow

    Jul 2016 - Aug 2018

  • PhD Candidate

    Feb 2012 - May 2016
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  DAAD German Academic Exchange Service

  May 2014 - Feb 2015

  PHD Candidate Scholarship Holder

  I was awarded a prestigious scholarship from DAAD to spend 12 months in Heidelberg at the Südasien Institut to continue writing my thesis.

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  Global ethnographic

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2017

  Writer
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  Edanz Group Ltd

  Sept 2016 - Feb 2023

  Freelance Editor

  I work as a copy and substantive editor helping non-native speakers of English get published in world-class academic journals. I used to work for Edanz 2008-10 in the same role.

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  Department of Defence School of Languages - Institute of Modern Languages

  Nov 2016 - Feb 2023

  Rater

  I rate (i.e. assess) the learning of Hindi for the DOD School of Languages. I am subcontracted via the University of Queensland's Institute of Modern Languages.

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  University of Adelaide

  Feb 2017 - Jul 2017

  Lecturer

  I lectured in the following course in Semester 1, 2017 LING 5113: LANGUAGE PLANNINGThis course will be useful to all postgraduate students of Linguistics who are preparing for their role as researchers and language practitioners. The course will focus on language planning. Students will learn how to perspicaciously analyse multifaceted and complex issues concerning lexical engineering (the concoction of new words), prescriptivism and normativism versus descriptivism and native speech embracement, purism versus cross-fertilization, linguicide (language killing) and linguistic human rights, language revival (reclamation, revitalization and renewal), conscious versus subconscious linguistic evolution, language academies, language and nationhood, language education, the power of the word, the politics of language and the language of politics.The course will draw comparisons between a range of language planning phenomena all over the globe such as in Icelandic, Turkish, Estonian, French, Eskayan (southern Philippines), Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Hawaiian. It will identify common universal constraints on the one hand, and idiosyncratic features, points of difference, on the other hand.The course will innovatively classify Constructed Languages (Conlangs) into Auxiliary Languages (Auxlangs) such as Esperanto, Ido and Volapük, and Artistically-constructed Languages (Artlangs) such as Klingon, Quenya and Tsolyani. Similarly, it will explore and rigorously categorize Revived Languages (Revlangs) into Reclaimed Languages (Reclangs) such as Israeli (Revived Hebrew), Kaurna and Barngarla, and Renewed Languages (Renlangs) such as Te Reo Māori and Welsh.We shall also look at language policy and multilingualism, and examine the transparent and camouflaged impact of English on the world’s languages. Show less

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  Arena Magazine

  May 2017 - May 2017

  Imagining Sanskrit Land - Article

  Here is an article that I recently wrote for Arena Magazine. It's about Sanskrit, Global Yoga, and the politics of imagination.

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  JSPS Fellow, Graduate School of Global Climate Studies, Kyoto University

  Oct 2017 - Feb 2023

  Anthropologist

  Dr Patrick McCartney is currently a JSPS Fellow at Kyoto University, Japan and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra. Patrick's post-doctoral project, titled: “Yoga Scapes: The Economics of Imagination and Utopian Aspirations of Transglobal Yoga in Japan” works at the intersection of the politics of imagination, the economics of desire, the sociology of spirituality, and the anthropology of religion. Patrick focuses on the global yoga and spiritual tourism industries, which exist within the multi trillion-dollar global wellness industry. Within this globalised setting, Patrick works on untangling the subtler associations and processes involved in the socialisation of yoga practitioners into particular ideologies and ‘ways of life’. This is achieved through analysing the marketing strategies and rhetoric of the key social actors within this field, and how they use, or are inspired by, the Sanskrit episteme to legitimise certain worlds, identities and practices. This research is enriched with ethnography in yoga studios, online forums, yoga teacher-training courses, yoga festivals and retreats, and ‘Sanskrit-speaking’ villages.Principally, the aim of the 'Yoga in Japan' project is to explore the ways in which the global yoga narratives are reconstituted into the Japanese spiritual marketplace and yogascape. The main question is: What makes yoga in Japan typically Japanese? Show less

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  Kyoto University

  Nov 2017 - Feb 2023

  • Adjunct Lecturer

    Feb 2022 - Feb 2023

  • JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow

    Nov 2017 - Feb 2023
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  Nanzan University

  Aug 2018 - now

  • Research Fellow

    Aug 2018 - now

  • Research Fellow

    Aug 2018 - Feb 2023
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  Organization for Identity and Cultural Development

  Sept 2018 - Feb 2023

  Research and policy development

  • Research Fellow

    Sept 2018 - Feb 2023

  • Research Fellow

    Sept 2018 - Feb 2023
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  CIEE Council on International Educational Exchange

  Oct 2022 - May 2023

  Adjunct Professor
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  Hiroshima University

  Apr 2023 - now

  Phoenix Fellow

  PI on a project related to tracing the historical development of ancient guilds of street performers, from 2500 BCE to the current day, across all of Eurasia.