J Barnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 14749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Barnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnes |
| SIGNATURE | BARNES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6586-422X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Future of Staple Foods
Staple foods are core components of our diets. In this paper, I look at the outlook for one of the world’s most widely eaten staples—bread—in a country which has one of the highest rates of consumption: Egypt. I examine, first, the wheat from which bread is made, looking at developments in Egyptian wheat farming, including efforts to breed new varieties, introduce water-saving planting techniques, and expand cultivation into the desert, as well a…
Placing the environment in Middle East studies
Crisis is a recurrent motif in discussions of the environment in the Middle East. Concerns about water scarcity, food insecurity, climate disasters, and resource degradation play into common associations of the region with conflict, malfunction, and despair. Yet this single story obscures as much as it illuminates. In this paper, I draw examples from my work on Nile water politics, climate change, and bread in Egypt to illustrate the power of thi…
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge
Walking with bread in Cairo
This paper presents a mode of collaboration between a researcher and research assistant for ethnographic data collection. We describe our experience as a researcher, who previously conducted fieldwork in Egypt but is now largely situated in the United States due to having young children, and a Cairo-based research assistant, who conducted participant observation of everyday practices of buying and eating subsidized bread for the researcher's book…
Food, sustainability, and art
Poor peer work does not boost student confidence
Students' low confidence, particularly in numerical topics, is thought to be a barrier to keeping them engaged with education. We studied the effects on confidence of exposure to a peer's work of varying quality (very good or bad) and neatness (messy or neat). Previous research underpinned our hypothesis that a peer's bad‐quality work—which students rarely see—might boost student confidence more than very good work. We also predicted that a peer'…
Against the Grain
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States." The Journal of Peasant Studies, 46(4), p. 853
Care and Conveyance
The Egyptian government has long subsidized bread as part of its program of social support. Most Egyptians eat this subsidized bread, known as baladi bread, daily. We examine everyday practices of handling baladi bread as casual care. Scholarship on care has drawn attention to the multiple ways in which care can be practiced around a range of human and nonhuman others. Casual care signals a mode of practice that constitutes care but that is not n…
The future of the Nile
The Nile is one of the world's major rivers; its basin is shared by 11 countries and is home to some 300 million people. This article reviews the multidisciplinary literature on the Nile to understand more about the outlook for this geopolitically significant river basin. I start by synthesizing the key results from recent climate change modeling studies, which show a warming trend for the basin, but considerable uncertainty regarding the directi…
Evidence in European Asylum Procedures
This book forms part of the series, Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe, edited by Jan Niessen and Elspeth Guild, and is based on the doctoral dissertation of the author, presented in October 2011 at the University of Helsinki. The author works as a lawyer for the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities in Helsinki. The law stated is as at 1 December 2011. At the outset, the author makes clear that the aim is not to unde…
Incubation of saccharin craving and within-session changes in responding for a cue previously associated with saccharin
Pumping possibility
This paper examines the role played by pumps as a technology of water access. In the desert that borders Egypt’s cultivated zone, pumps provide the water vital for reclamation, transforming desert into fields. Using two case studies of agricultural expansion into the desert margins, the paper explores the different ways in which farmers employ pumps to tap into the waters of the Nile. The pump is, as other scholars of science and technology studi…
Water worlds
The use and management of the world’s freshwater has become a critical focus of scholarly engagement. In the introduction to this special issue on water worlds, we highlight two contributions that science and technology studies offers to recent conceptualizations of water relations. The first emphasizes the multiple ontologies of water, resulting from its varied enactments in different sociotechnical assemblages. The second underscores water as a…
Mixing waters
Expert Evidence -- The Judicial Perception in Asylum and Human Rights Appeals
Expert Evidence — The Judicial Perception in Asylum and Human Rights Appeals: Prepared for the joint ILPA/IARLJ Conference Get access John Barnes John Barnes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Refugee Law, Volume 16, Issue 3, July 2004, Pages 349–357, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/16.3.349 Published: 01 July 2004
Honesty and Trust
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North Carolina’s Hurricane History
Measuring Culture
Baldwin. A Biography
Journal Article K. Middlemas and J. Barnes. Baldwin. A Biography.K. Middlemas. ed., Thomas Jones. Whitehall Diary. Volume I 1913-1925, Volume II 1926-1930 Get access Baldwin. A Biography. By K. Middlemas and J. Barnes. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Pp. xvii + 1149. 105s.)Thomas Jones. Whitehall Diary. Volume I 1913-1925, Volume II 1926-1930. Edited by K. Middlemas. (London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. xxiv + 358 (Volume I), Pp. x…
Water worlds
The use and management of the world’s freshwater has become a critical focus of scholarly engagement. In the introduction to this special issue on water worlds, we highlight two contributions that science and technology studies offers to recent conceptualizations of water relations. The first emphasizes the multiple ontologies of water, resulting from its varied enactments in different sociotechnical assemblages. The second underscores water as a…
Measuring Culture
Pumping possibility
This paper examines the role played by pumps as a technology of water access. In the desert that borders Egypt’s cultivated zone, pumps provide the water vital for reclamation, transforming desert into fields. Using two case studies of agricultural expansion into the desert margins, the paper explores the different ways in which farmers employ pumps to tap into the waters of the Nile. The pump is, as other scholars of science and technology studi…
Care and Conveyance
The Egyptian government has long subsidized bread as part of its program of social support. Most Egyptians eat this subsidized bread, known as baladi bread, daily. We examine everyday practices of handling baladi bread as casual care. Scholarship on care has drawn attention to the multiple ways in which care can be practiced around a range of human and nonhuman others. Casual care signals a mode of practice that constitutes care but that is not n…
Mixing waters
The future of the Nile
The Nile is one of the world's major rivers; its basin is shared by 11 countries and is home to some 300 million people. This article reviews the multidisciplinary literature on the Nile to understand more about the outlook for this geopolitically significant river basin. I start by synthesizing the key results from recent climate change modeling studies, which show a warming trend for the basin, but considerable uncertainty regarding the directi…
Walking with bread in Cairo
This paper presents a mode of collaboration between a researcher and research assistant for ethnographic data collection. We describe our experience as a researcher, who previously conducted fieldwork in Egypt but is now largely situated in the United States due to having young children, and a Cairo-based research assistant, who conducted participant observation of everyday practices of buying and eating subsidized bread for the researcher's book…
Placing the environment in Middle East studies
Crisis is a recurrent motif in discussions of the environment in the Middle East. Concerns about water scarcity, food insecurity, climate disasters, and resource degradation play into common associations of the region with conflict, malfunction, and despair. Yet this single story obscures as much as it illuminates. In this paper, I draw examples from my work on Nile water politics, climate change, and bread in Egypt to illustrate the power of thi…
The Future of Staple Foods
Staple foods are core components of our diets. In this paper, I look at the outlook for one of the world’s most widely eaten staples—bread—in a country which has one of the highest rates of consumption: Egypt. I examine, first, the wheat from which bread is made, looking at developments in Egyptian wheat farming, including efforts to breed new varieties, introduce water-saving planting techniques, and expand cultivation into the desert, as well a…
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge
Incubation of saccharin craving and within-session changes in responding for a cue previously associated with saccharin
Baldwin. A Biography
Journal Article K. Middlemas and J. Barnes. Baldwin. A Biography.K. Middlemas. ed., Thomas Jones. Whitehall Diary. Volume I 1913-1925, Volume II 1926-1930 Get access Baldwin. A Biography. By K. Middlemas and J. Barnes. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Pp. xvii + 1149. 105s.)Thomas Jones. Whitehall Diary. Volume I 1913-1925, Volume II 1926-1930. Edited by K. Middlemas. (London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Pp. xxiv + 358 (Volume I), Pp. x…
Measuring Culture
North Carolina’s Hurricane History
Honesty and Trust
4 ( .. ) 6 .. . : ()12 .. . 9 ()39 ., - . ( .. )
Expert Evidence -- The Judicial Perception in Asylum and Human Rights Appeals
Expert Evidence — The Judicial Perception in Asylum and Human Rights Appeals: Prepared for the joint ILPA/IARLJ Conference Get access John Barnes John Barnes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Refugee Law, Volume 16, Issue 3, July 2004, Pages 349–357, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/16.3.349 Published: 01 July 2004
Pumping possibility
This paper examines the role played by pumps as a technology of water access. In the desert that borders Egypt’s cultivated zone, pumps provide the water vital for reclamation, transforming desert into fields. Using two case studies of agricultural expansion into the desert margins, the paper explores the different ways in which farmers employ pumps to tap into the waters of the Nile. The pump is, as other scholars of science and technology studi…
Water worlds
The use and management of the world’s freshwater has become a critical focus of scholarly engagement. In the introduction to this special issue on water worlds, we highlight two contributions that science and technology studies offers to recent conceptualizations of water relations. The first emphasizes the multiple ontologies of water, resulting from its varied enactments in different sociotechnical assemblages. The second underscores water as a…
Mixing waters
Evidence in European Asylum Procedures
This book forms part of the series, Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe, edited by Jan Niessen and Elspeth Guild, and is based on the doctoral dissertation of the author, presented in October 2011 at the University of Helsinki. The author works as a lawyer for the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities in Helsinki. The law stated is as at 1 December 2011. At the outset, the author makes clear that the aim is not to unde…
Incubation of saccharin craving and within-session changes in responding for a cue previously associated with saccharin
The future of the Nile
The Nile is one of the world's major rivers; its basin is shared by 11 countries and is home to some 300 million people. This article reviews the multidisciplinary literature on the Nile to understand more about the outlook for this geopolitically significant river basin. I start by synthesizing the key results from recent climate change modeling studies, which show a warming trend for the basin, but considerable uncertainty regarding the directi…
Poor peer work does not boost student confidence
Students' low confidence, particularly in numerical topics, is thought to be a barrier to keeping them engaged with education. We studied the effects on confidence of exposure to a peer's work of varying quality (very good or bad) and neatness (messy or neat). Previous research underpinned our hypothesis that a peer's bad‐quality work—which students rarely see—might boost student confidence more than very good work. We also predicted that a peer'…
Against the Grain
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States." The Journal of Peasant Studies, 46(4), p. 853
Care and Conveyance
The Egyptian government has long subsidized bread as part of its program of social support. Most Egyptians eat this subsidized bread, known as baladi bread, daily. We examine everyday practices of handling baladi bread as casual care. Scholarship on care has drawn attention to the multiple ways in which care can be practiced around a range of human and nonhuman others. Casual care signals a mode of practice that constitutes care but that is not n…
Food, sustainability, and art
Walking with bread in Cairo
This paper presents a mode of collaboration between a researcher and research assistant for ethnographic data collection. We describe our experience as a researcher, who previously conducted fieldwork in Egypt but is now largely situated in the United States due to having young children, and a Cairo-based research assistant, who conducted participant observation of everyday practices of buying and eating subsidized bread for the researcher's book…
Placing the environment in Middle East studies
Crisis is a recurrent motif in discussions of the environment in the Middle East. Concerns about water scarcity, food insecurity, climate disasters, and resource degradation play into common associations of the region with conflict, malfunction, and despair. Yet this single story obscures as much as it illuminates. In this paper, I draw examples from my work on Nile water politics, climate change, and bread in Egypt to illustrate the power of thi…
Parenting and the production of ethnographic knowledge
The Future of Staple Foods
Staple foods are core components of our diets. In this paper, I look at the outlook for one of the world’s most widely eaten staples—bread—in a country which has one of the highest rates of consumption: Egypt. I examine, first, the wheat from which bread is made, looking at developments in Egyptian wheat farming, including efforts to breed new varieties, introduce water-saving planting techniques, and expand cultivation into the desert, as well a…
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