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Dr Jane Marion Buckingham

School of Humanities; History

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

Research Projects

Research Groups

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

Affiliations

Publications


  • Buckingham, J. (2012) British colonial approaches to leprosy management: Care and confinement in British South India. Paramaribo, Suriname: Leprosy Workshop, 18-19 Oct 2012. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • 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. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Buckingham, J. and Nilakant, V. (2012) Conclusion: New Directions in Corporate Social Responsibility. In J. Buckingham and V. Nilakant (Ed.), Managing Responsibily: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance: 209-221. Farnham: Gower. (Chapter in Book)
  • 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, 5 Oct 2012. (Oral Presentation)
  • Buckingham, J. (2012) Guilds and Governance in Ancient India: Historical Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility. In J. Buckingham and V. Nilakant (Ed.), Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance: 93-116. Farnham: Gower. (Chapter in Book)
  • Buckingham, J. Nilakant. and V. (2012) Introduction: Globalizing Corporate Social Responsibility: Challenging Western Neo-Liberal Management Theory. In J. Buckingham and V. Nilakant (Ed.), Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance: 1-18. Farnham: Gower. (Chapter in Book)
  • Buckingham, J. and Nilakant, V. (Ed.) (2012) Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance. Farnham: Gower. 284pp. (Edited Book)
  • Buckingham, J. and Nilakant, V. (2012) Preface. In J. Buckingham and V. Nilakant (Ed.), Managing Responsibly: Alternative Approaches to Corporate Management and Governance: xiii-xv. Farnham: Gower. (Chapter in Book)
  • Buckingham, J. (2012) Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (Ed.), India in New Zealand: Local Identities, Global Relations. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2010. Book Review. (Other)
  • 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. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Raman, R., Buckingham, J. and Raman, A. (2012) The Madras Leper Hospital and leprosy management in 19th century India. Current Science 103(11): 1-4. (Journal Article)
  • Buckingham, J. (2012) Writing histories of disability in India. Centre for Contemporary Studies, Potti Sriramula Memorial Building, Chennai, India: 4 Feb 2012. (Oral Presentation)
  • 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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8608.2011.01632.x. (Journal Article)
  • Buckingham, J. (2011) Guilds in Ancient India and Corporate Social Responsibility. London, UK: King's College London - Seminar Series, 11 Oct 2011. (Oral Presentation)
  • 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 Oct 2011. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Buckingham, J. (2011) Popham's Police Plan: Power, Authority and Police in 18th Century Madras. Christchurch, New Zealand: University of Canterbury History Seminar, 21 Sep 2011. (Oral Presentation)
  • 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. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Jones, C., Morrison, G., Tau, T.M., Hawes, J., Clement, J., Boister, N. and Buckingham, J. (2011) Remembering the Past. In C. Jones, B. Matthews and J. Clement (Ed.), Treasures of the University of Canterbury Library: 83-108, 234-237. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • 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, 9 Sep 2011. (Oral Presentation)
  • 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. (Journal Article)
  • Buckingham, J. (2011) Writing Disability Histories of India. Christchurch, New Zealand: Second Annual New Zealand South Asia Centre Research Symposium, 31 Oct 2011. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • 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 Apr 2010. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Buckingham, J. (2010) Guilds In Ancient India. Christchurch, New Zealand: University of Canterbury, History Seminar, 10 Mar 2010. (Oral Presentation)
  • 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. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Buckingham, J. (2009) Leprosy, Compassion and Government Formation in Early Post-Colonial India. Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand: 18th New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference 2009, 6-8 Jul 2009. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Buckingham, J. (2009) The Impact of Globalisation on Tourism. Holycross College, Tiruchirapalli, India: Recent Trends in Tourism: World Heritage and Hospitality, 6 Aug 2009. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Buckingham, J. (2008) Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) - New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (NZIA). Wellington, New Zealand: Track 2 Dialogue, 7 Nov 2008. (Oral Presentation)
  • 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. (Other)
  • Buckingham, J. (2008) Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement. (ebook ed.). Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave. 248. (Authored Book)
  • Buckingham, J. (2007) Gandhi: Saint or Politician? University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: Festival of History, 8 Sep 2007. (Oral Presentation)
  • Buckingham, J. (2006) Institutionalization and Segregation. In G.L. Albrecht (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Disability, Vol. 2: 959-964. Thousand Oaks, London: Sage. (Chapter in Book)
  • 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. (Journal Article)
  • 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. (Journal Article)
  • Buckingham, J. (2005) 'To make the precedent fit the crime': British legal responses to sati in early nineteenth-century north India. In B.S. Godfrey and G. Dunstall (Ed.), Crime and Empire 1840-1940: Criminal Justice in Local and Global Context: 189-201. Cullompton: Willan Publishing. http://www.willanpublishing.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=1843921073. (Chapter in Book)
  • 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, 20 Jan 2003. (Oral Presentation)
  • Buckingham, J. (2002) Leprosy in Colonial South India: Medicine and Confinement. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 236. (Authored Book)