Richard Arnold
Biographic Data
| ID | 197863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Arnold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Arnold |
| SIGNATURE | ARNOLD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Muskingum University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1350-0210 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Shamans, Portals, and Water Babies
Delamar Valley is a unique landscape located in southern Nevada that contains places associated with ceremony and Southern Paiute Creation. This ceremonial landscape is composed of volcanic places, a large Pleistocene Lake, and an underground hydrological system that allows for the movement of spiritual beings known as water babies between Delamar Valley and neighboring Pahranagat Valley. Paiute shamans traveled to Delamar Valley to interact with…
The climate consequences of the US-Russia global realignment
Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have expressed support for better ties between the US and Russia. In some ways, the countries have different interests. Trump would like to see lower energy prices to boost the US economy, while Putin needs higher prices to support his war effort. However, both Trump and Putin have a mutual interest in growing the oil and gas sector and likely will join forces to undermine progress at future internationa…
From Russia with hate
Was Alexei Navalny’s nationalism sincere or strategic—and how did it evolve over time? What can this tell us about Russian politics? Although historically a less diverse country at the level of everyday interactions, Russia saw the massive growth of an ethnonationalist movement in the first decade of the new millennium. Historically, nationalism and liberalism have been allies rather than opponents as a modern understanding of politics might sugg…
Selective and consistent news avoidance in Aotearoa New Zealand
This study explores selective and consistent news avoidance in Aotearoa New Zealand. Existing research suggests that selective news avoidance rates are high in Aotearoa New Zealand (Myllylahti M, Treadwell G. 2023. Trust in News in Aotearoa New Zealand 2023. Journalism, Media and Democracy: AUT Research Centre for Journalism, Media & Democracy., Myllylahti M, Treadwell G. 2024. Trust in News in Aotearoa New Zealand 2023. Journalism, Media and Dem…
The Last Push from the South?” Explaining the Spread of Russia’s Cossack Movement
Where did the Russian Cossack soldiers fighting in Ukraine come from? How can we explain that there are now 27,000 combatants who identify with this label? This article examines the commandeering of the Cossack legacy by the Russian state. The "authentic" Cossack movement in the early 1990s, has been commandeered by forces within the Russian government. We argue that the model of the new movement was pioneered first in Krasnodar and Rostov before…
Between Russia and Ukraine—The Cossack Boundary
Russia in a changing climate
Climate change will shape the future of Russia, and vice versa, regardless of who rules in the Kremlin. The world's largest country is warming faster than Earth as a whole, occupies more than half the Arctic Ocean coastline, and is waging a carbon‐intensive war while increasingly isolated from the international community and its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Officially, the Russian government argues that, as a major exporter of hydr…
Caribbean exceptionalism and the rise of Sino-Caricom relations in the post-bureaucratic era
This article explores the evolving relationship between China and CARICOM countries. It discusses how China has been using regional soft power to influence educational mobility. It speaks to the tensions inherent in debt diplomacy and educational mobility as economic and political regional integration (Caribbean exceptionalism) is engendered. As China pursues bilateral relations under South-South Cooperation rather than multilateral relations thr…
Nationalism and Sport
The connection between nationalism and sport seems at once both obvious and manifest, with the most lavish praise of the nation often arising at sporting events. While a sizeable body of academic literature exists on the connection between the two concepts, it remains overlapping and unstructured. This state of the field review essay accounts for the major works in this field and categorizes it according to the function it fulfills in the subfiel…
Constructing global citizenship education at the regional level
This conceptual paper examines the development of global citizenship education (GCE) by looking at economic regionalism’s political economy. First, this paper situates the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) citizenship education initiatives within the larger scope of global citizenship. Using a historical policy analysis, this article then explores the nexus between economic integration and the construction of citizenship by analysing CARICOM’s Huma…
Reflections from a Political Scientist
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The Radical Right in Post-Soviet Russia
This chapter introduces some basic contours of Russia’s contemporary radical right scene. It distinguishes between systemic and non-systemic ultra-nationalist groups in Putin’s Russia, the principal difference being the groups’ and individual actors’ proximity and clarity of connections to the crypto-authoritarian regime. The systemic component consists of political groups, authors, and activists that are allowed or encouraged to participate in o…
The Beautiful Game
Over recent decades, FIFA, the governing body of international football, has elected to hold the quadrennial World Cup in countries without a strong football legacy (for instance, the United States
Racism and Russian Football Supporters’ Culture
Why is Russian football culture so racist and xenophobic? While many countries have problems with racism, abundant evidence shows this is particularly bad in Russia and, indeed, a major concern ahead of the 2018 World Cup. We argue that, while a host of contributing factors in some sense “overdetermine” high levels of racism among Russian fans, the main reason is the deep penetration of the international far right. In the 1990s, the under-institu…
Sport and Official Nationalism in Modern Russia
How can one explain the recent fascination with sport as a tool of government policy in Russia? This paper argues that sports policy in Russia is an essential part of policies to encourage nationalism and one which borrows heavily from the Soviet past. Based on the analysis of meeting transcripts available on the Kremlin website and other materials, this paper argues that there are five key mechanisms by which the Kremlin uses the Soviet sport le…
The evolution of violence within far-right mobilization
This article analyzes the temporal variation in far-right violence by examining it as a series of interrelated attacks that are embedded within and arising out of a broader cycle of far-right mobilization. It argues that the changing nature of far-right violence occurs as a trial-and-error process - what Sidney Tarrow terms "tactical innovation" - within a mobilizational cycle. As we demonstrate below, far-right mobilization is characterized by i…
The New Russian Nationalism. Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism 2000–2015
Russian Nationalism and Ethnic Violence
Nationalism is now the dominant narrative in Russian politics, and one with genuine popularity in society. Russian Nationalism and Ethnic Violence is a theoretical and empirical study which seeks to break the concept of "ethnic violence" into distinguishable types, examining the key question of why violence within the same conflict takes different forms at certain times and providing empirical insight into the politics of one of the most importan…
Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute), Shifting Fire Regimes, and the Carpenter One Fire in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Nevada
This paper focuses on the 2013 Carpenter One Fire in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area (SMNRA) to understand how linked social and ecological factors affect fire regimes in ecosystems that exist in close proximity to human settlement and places culturally significant to Indigenous peoples. Ignited in July, this fire ultimately spread to 11,283 ha and cost USD $18.5 million to contain and extinguish. Priority was placed on protecting v…
Systematic racist violence in Russia between ‘hate crime’ and ‘ethnic conflict’
Racist violence in Russia has recently become a subject of interest to scholars and analysts of Russian politics. What are the similarities and differences between racist violence in Russia and the West? How does the level of Russian racist violence compare to other societies? Do racist hate groups in Russia have similar origins to groups in the West? This article considers these questions. I first demonstrate that Russia is indeed the most dange…
Lord of the (Five) Rings
Although Russia appeared set to make an international comeback thanks to the 2014 Sochi Olympics, numerous international and domestic problems threaten to undermine the effect of the Games
Where’s the Diplomacy in Diplomacy? Using a Classic Board Game in “Introduction to International Relations”
One of the challenges of teaching American undergraduates in an “Introduction to International Relations” course is finding a way to make topics and themes seem relevant to students. This article recounts the author’s experiences using the board game “Diplomacy” in his course. The game places students in the role of decision makers in the international arena and simulates the international politics of pre-World War I Europe. In addition to being …
Testing constructivism
Despite attempts to portray Krasnodar Kray in southern Russia as a homeland for Cossacks, to date the Cossack identity there remains underdeveloped. Why has a Cossack identity in Krasnodar not become more popular? This article uses the case of the Kuban Cossacks as a test of constructivist theories of identity. The article takes as background the attempts of the Russian authorities to display the Cossacks as the indigenous people of the region fo…
The "White World's Future?"
The "White World's Future?"An Analysis of the Russian Far Right Richard Arnold and Ekaterina Romanova Russia has witnessed dangerously high levels of hate-based violence on ethnic or racial minorities carried out by groups described either as "Neo-Nazi" or "skinhead" in the Russian media.1 These groups have been active in using violence against those who are racially different. In 2009, for example, at least 72 people were killed and 359 injured …
The “White World's Future?” An Analysis of the Russian Far Right
Confronting the angry rock
Numic people in the western United States are co-adapted with their traditional lands and these lands are spiritually and physically co-adapted with these people. This relationship has been documented through studies funded by the Department of Energy, Nevada Operations. 1 The u.s. Department of Energy Nevada Operations studies of American Indiacultural impacts from the transportation of Low Level Radioactive Waste were managed by Frank DiSanza. …
Lord of the (Five) Rings
Although Russia appeared set to make an international comeback thanks to the 2014 Sochi Olympics, numerous international and domestic problems threaten to undermine the effect of the Games
Sport and Official Nationalism in Modern Russia
How can one explain the recent fascination with sport as a tool of government policy in Russia? This paper argues that sports policy in Russia is an essential part of policies to encourage nationalism and one which borrows heavily from the Soviet past. Based on the analysis of meeting transcripts available on the Kremlin website and other materials, this paper argues that there are five key mechanisms by which the Kremlin uses the Soviet sport le…
Where’s the Diplomacy in Diplomacy? Using a Classic Board Game in “Introduction to International Relations”
One of the challenges of teaching American undergraduates in an “Introduction to International Relations” course is finding a way to make topics and themes seem relevant to students. This article recounts the author’s experiences using the board game “Diplomacy” in his course. The game places students in the role of decision makers in the international arena and simulates the international politics of pre-World War I Europe. In addition to being …
Racism and Russian Football Supporters’ Culture
Why is Russian football culture so racist and xenophobic? While many countries have problems with racism, abundant evidence shows this is particularly bad in Russia and, indeed, a major concern ahead of the 2018 World Cup. We argue that, while a host of contributing factors in some sense “overdetermine” high levels of racism among Russian fans, the main reason is the deep penetration of the international far right. In the 1990s, the under-institu…
The evolution of violence within far-right mobilization
This article analyzes the temporal variation in far-right violence by examining it as a series of interrelated attacks that are embedded within and arising out of a broader cycle of far-right mobilization. It argues that the changing nature of far-right violence occurs as a trial-and-error process - what Sidney Tarrow terms "tactical innovation" - within a mobilizational cycle. As we demonstrate below, far-right mobilization is characterized by i…
The New Russian Nationalism. Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism 2000–2015
Testing constructivism
Despite attempts to portray Krasnodar Kray in southern Russia as a homeland for Cossacks, to date the Cossack identity there remains underdeveloped. Why has a Cossack identity in Krasnodar not become more popular? This article uses the case of the Kuban Cossacks as a test of constructivist theories of identity. The article takes as background the attempts of the Russian authorities to display the Cossacks as the indigenous people of the region fo…
Visions of Hate
The type of violence Russian skinheads use against any given ethnic minority corresponds to the "crimes" it has supposedly committed against the Russian people
Landscapes of Origin in the Americas
Systematic racist violence in Russia between ‘hate crime’ and ‘ethnic conflict’
Racist violence in Russia has recently become a subject of interest to scholars and analysts of Russian politics. What are the similarities and differences between racist violence in Russia and the West? How does the level of Russian racist violence compare to other societies? Do racist hate groups in Russia have similar origins to groups in the West? This article considers these questions. I first demonstrate that Russia is indeed the most dange…
The Dynamics and Quality of Trans–Tasman Migration, 1885–1910
The Last Push from the South?” Explaining the Spread of Russia’s Cossack Movement
Where did the Russian Cossack soldiers fighting in Ukraine come from? How can we explain that there are now 27,000 combatants who identify with this label? This article examines the commandeering of the Cossack legacy by the Russian state. The "authentic" Cossack movement in the early 1990s, has been commandeered by forces within the Russian government. We argue that the model of the new movement was pioneered first in Krasnodar and Rostov before…
Russia in a changing climate
Climate change will shape the future of Russia, and vice versa, regardless of who rules in the Kremlin. The world's largest country is warming faster than Earth as a whole, occupies more than half the Arctic Ocean coastline, and is waging a carbon‐intensive war while increasingly isolated from the international community and its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Officially, the Russian government argues that, as a major exporter of hydr…
Collaborative Research and Co-Learning
We discuss linked Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) ecological knowledge and place-based spirituality related to federal lands in the southern Great Basin, USA. Nuwuvi or ‘the people’ are Numic speakers who consider this area to be their ancestral homeland and a close relative since the time when the world was new. The current land holdings of these six federally and one non-federally recognized Native American nations are a fraction of the pre-contact pe…
Abkhazia
Modelling the effects of low indoor temperatures on the lung function of children with asthma
INTRODUCTION: While many epidemiological studies have shown that low outdoor temperatures are associated with increased rates of hospitalisation and mortality (especially for respiratory or cardiovascular disease), very few studies have looked at the association between indoor temperatures and health. Such studies are clearly warranted, as people have greater exposure to the indoor environment than the outdoor environment. OBJECTIVES: To examine …
Moscow's Sova Center
The SOVA Center provides valuable information and insight pertaining to right-wing, xenophobic, and extremist groups in Russia
Between Russia and Ukraine—The Cossack Boundary
Constructing global citizenship education at the regional level
This conceptual paper examines the development of global citizenship education (GCE) by looking at economic regionalism’s political economy. First, this paper situates the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) citizenship education initiatives within the larger scope of global citizenship. Using a historical policy analysis, this article then explores the nexus between economic integration and the construction of citizenship by analysing CARICOM’s Huma…
A note regarding ‘On the power-law distribution of language family sizes’
Wichmann (2005) discusses the power-law distribution n = ar − b as a description of the relationship between the number of languages n in a language family, and the rank r of that family in a list ordered by decreasing n . Two datasets are used by Wichmann, one from Ethnologue (Grimes 2000), which lists 130 language families, and one from Ruhlen (1987), listing 21 families. We have reanalysed these data and find that the method of fitting a power…
Organisational Dilemmas of the US EPA
The Dynamics and Quality of Trans–Tasman Migration, 1885–1910
Will retail wag the dog
Multiple myeloma in south Cumbria
Accepted for publication 16 September 1998 In 1985 a paper in this journal analysed an apparent cluster of multiple myeloma in South Cumbria, England.1 The study was prompted by reports of seven cases of multiple myeloma in Walney Island. This is a small community adjacent to a shipyard that builds nuclear sub marines and is 15 miles away from Sellafield Nuclear Processing Plant. These seven cases occurred over seven year time period 1974-1980, d…
My Great-Grandpa
October Aspens
The Day You Died
From the Ark, Listening
Orion
Confronting the angry rock
Numic people in the western United States are co-adapted with their traditional lands and these lands are spiritually and physically co-adapted with these people. This relationship has been documented through studies funded by the Department of Energy, Nevada Operations. 1 The u.s. Department of Energy Nevada Operations studies of American Indiacultural impacts from the transportation of Low Level Radioactive Waste were managed by Frank DiSanza. …
Organisational Dilemmas of the US EPA
A note regarding ‘On the power-law distribution of language family sizes’
Wichmann (2005) discusses the power-law distribution n = ar − b as a description of the relationship between the number of languages n in a language family, and the rank r of that family in a list ordered by decreasing n . Two datasets are used by Wichmann, one from Ethnologue (Grimes 2000), which lists 130 language families, and one from Ruhlen (1987), listing 21 families. We have reanalysed these data and find that the method of fitting a power…
Thugs with Guns”
How can one understand the phenomenon known as “ethnic violence?” Does subsuming events under the category “ethnic violence” assist our understanding or does it obscure it? Are there lessons that the form ethnic violence takes can teach us? These questions are important not only for anyone interested in the causes and prevention of ethnic violence but also for those who wish to understand group behavior more generally. I explore this question mor…
Landscapes of Origin in the Americas
Visions of Hate
The type of violence Russian skinheads use against any given ethnic minority corresponds to the "crimes" it has supposedly committed against the Russian people
Moscow's Sova Center
The SOVA Center provides valuable information and insight pertaining to right-wing, xenophobic, and extremist groups in Russia
O4-1.2 Identifying an optimal exposure metric for measuring the short-term effects of low indoor temperatures on asthmatic children's lung function
Introduction Many epidemiological studies have shown that low outdoor temperatures lead to increased mortality and hospitalisation, generally finding the strongest association to be with temperature below a given threshold measured at a lag of 7–14 days. In contrast, very little work has been done on the health effects of exposure to low indoor temperatures, and none on the best metric of this exposure, despite the fact that people have greater e…
P1-495 Measuring the placebo effect in unblinded randomised community trials
Introduction The double blinded randomised control trial has been developed to provide gold standard estimation of causal effects. However, in many circumstances it is impossible to design studies that meet this standard of blinding and placebo effects potentially affect the estimates. One example of a study where it was impossible to blind the participants is the Heating Housing and Health Study (HHHS). Here the intervention was the installation…
The "White World's Future?"
The "White World's Future?"An Analysis of the Russian Far Right Richard Arnold and Ekaterina Romanova Russia has witnessed dangerously high levels of hate-based violence on ethnic or racial minorities carried out by groups described either as "Neo-Nazi" or "skinhead" in the Russian media.1 These groups have been active in using violence against those who are racially different. In 2009, for example, at least 72 people were killed and 359 injured …
The “White World's Future?” An Analysis of the Russian Far Right
Collaborative Research and Co-Learning
We discuss linked Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) ecological knowledge and place-based spirituality related to federal lands in the southern Great Basin, USA. Nuwuvi or ‘the people’ are Numic speakers who consider this area to be their ancestral homeland and a close relative since the time when the world was new. The current land holdings of these six federally and one non-federally recognized Native American nations are a fraction of the pre-contact pe…
Abkhazia
Modelling the effects of low indoor temperatures on the lung function of children with asthma
INTRODUCTION: While many epidemiological studies have shown that low outdoor temperatures are associated with increased rates of hospitalisation and mortality (especially for respiratory or cardiovascular disease), very few studies have looked at the association between indoor temperatures and health. Such studies are clearly warranted, as people have greater exposure to the indoor environment than the outdoor environment. OBJECTIVES: To examine …
Lord of the (Five) Rings
Although Russia appeared set to make an international comeback thanks to the 2014 Sochi Olympics, numerous international and domestic problems threaten to undermine the effect of the Games
Where’s the Diplomacy in Diplomacy? Using a Classic Board Game in “Introduction to International Relations”
One of the challenges of teaching American undergraduates in an “Introduction to International Relations” course is finding a way to make topics and themes seem relevant to students. This article recounts the author’s experiences using the board game “Diplomacy” in his course. The game places students in the role of decision makers in the international arena and simulates the international politics of pre-World War I Europe. In addition to being …
Testing constructivism
Despite attempts to portray Krasnodar Kray in southern Russia as a homeland for Cossacks, to date the Cossack identity there remains underdeveloped. Why has a Cossack identity in Krasnodar not become more popular? This article uses the case of the Kuban Cossacks as a test of constructivist theories of identity. The article takes as background the attempts of the Russian authorities to display the Cossacks as the indigenous people of the region fo…
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