N Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 2165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8645-0704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 320 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1941 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Probiotic Approaches to Agricultural Microbiomes
In this paper we explore the nature of probiotic cultivation. Cultivation of the relations that biodynamic (BD) wine farmers establish with the microbes they materially cultivate in their vineyards for plant protection, biodiversity, and taste. We outline a suite of probiotic approaches to plant health and winemaking through which BD farmers recast vineyard microbes as biopolitical collaborators rather than scourge. We argue that these farmers’ p…
The Challenges and Solutions of In‐Person Big‐Team Science
Big‐Team Science (BTS) offers a powerful framework for advancing psychological research through large‐scale collaboration, yet the unique challenges of conducting in‐person BTS studies remain under‐examined. This manuscript draws on the Psychological Science Accelerator's in‐person stereotype threat study, which involved 2500+ Black undergraduate students at over 20 U.S. universities, to illustrate these challenges and solutions in action. The pr…
Algorithms at your service
The 2024 riots in the United Kingdom have been widely attributed to the mainstreaming of the far right and the spread of fake news regarding the Southport attack. While much attention has been paid to the influence exercised by fake news, little has been said about the role of racist conspiracy theories linked to violent extremism and terrorism. This article addresses this gap using mixed methods to examine how X’s recommendation systems likely f…
Martin Luther and the Arts
Martin Luther and the Arts: Music, Images, and Drama to Promote the Reformation. Andreas Loewe and Katherine Firth. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 236. Leiden: Brill, 2023. xiv + 281 pp. $139. - Volume 78 Issue 1
I would want to listen to it as a medicine’ – Lo-fi music and state anxiety, a mixed-methods pilot study on young adults
Faced with heightened state anxiety, today’s youth are turning to lo-fi music for relief – but does it truly work, how and why? This study represents a pioneering initial exploration of lo-fi music and state anxiety through the lens of critical realism. It employs a mixed-methods intervention design to assess the preliminary effectiveness of lo-fi music in alleviating state anxiety and explores its possible underlying mechanisms. A pre-post exper…
The ‘Good Kiwi’ and the ‘Good Environmental Citizen’
Alongside concerns for animal welfare, concerns for land, water, and climate are undermining established food identities in many parts of the world. In Aotearoa New Zealand, agrifood relations are bound tightly into national identities and the materialities of export dependence on dairying and agriculture more widely. Dairy/ing identities have been central to national development projects and the politics that underpin them for much of New Zealan…
Assessing the carbon storage value of kelp forest restoration in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, New Zealand
A co-design framework for natural resource policy making
Environmental and land use policy literature asserts the need for more holistic, participatory and co-designed forms of governance for the sustainable management of natural resources. Co-design is also increasingly recognised by government as a useful approach but is often applied with varying degrees of success. The purpose of this paper is to assess recent examples of policy co-design across three UK case studies focused on tree/woodland manage…
Rent as a regional asset
This paper reinterprets rent as geographical rent and argues that it can be mobilized as an asset to drive regional development in the form of geographical rent platforms (GRPs). Framing diverse regional development initiatives in Kaikōura, New Zealand (Aotearoa) as GRPs, the paper illustrates the potential of collectively developed and oriented place-based initiatives to enact futures from regional resourcefulness. It has particular value for re…
Experimentation as infrastructure
Radically new economic arrangements are needed for just and sustainable transitions to a more environmentally and ecologically resilient world. Yet little progress is being made to imagine the new economy-environment relations around which resources, actors, and ethics might be configured to enact the novel economic forms needed. This article uses a Social Studies of Economisation and Marketisation (SSEM) approach to examine a suite of differentl…
Apostles of Empire
Market making and the (re)production of knowledge in public universities
This collection of short essays presents and examines six vignettes of organisational change in British, New Zealand and European universities. Drawing on the social studies of economisation literature, formal research projects and auto-ethnographic insights, the authors detail profound changes in how knowledge is produced in universities. They examine policy documents, calculative techniques and management practices to illustrate how proliferati…
Diverse values of surplus for a community economy of fish(eries)
This paper develops a diverse economies account of fish ‘waste’ that revalues it as ‘surplus’. We examine ‘ Kai Ika ’, a community marine conservation experiment in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa New Zealand. Kai Ika rescues fish heads, frames and offal that were previously ‘going to waste’ and redistributes them to fish eaters who would otherwise struggle to access these foods. It involves fishers and community sector and Indigenous actors…
Economic valuation of the snapper recruitment effect from a well-established temperate no-take marine reserve on adjacent fisheries
Four propositions about how valuation intervenes in local environmental politics
Environmental valuation provides a way of soliciting and organising information about how people relate to their environments. By canvassing a broad spectrum of human–nature relationships, valuation practice seeks to make environmental decision‐making more inclusive of diverse human concerns and aspirations. When valuation is undertaken in real‐world decision‐making settings, choices must be made about how to adapt valuation into context. Generic…
Treating ecological deficit with debt
Re-assembling knowledge production with(out) the university
As an introduction to the themed issue, this paper interrogates the idea of university unbundling through a critical reading of Ronald Coase’s theory of transaction costs. Coase, who was initially interested in the structure of firms, later applied his transaction cost theory more broadly to anything that might be defined as ‘welfare’. Not unlike other abstract economic theories, in the age of market discipline, Coase’s ideas have been widely emp…
From unbundling to market making
In Britain and New Zealand the neoliberal assault on universities has shifted from new public management and funding models to the special status of the public university. The project aims to complete neoliberal business initiated 25 years ago by more fully marketising and financialising universities, starting with ‘unbundling’ and outsourcing and culminating in new forms of privatisation, rent-extraction and rebundling. This paper analyses two d…
Thinking forward from New Zealand from (and with) global restructuring
Global Restructuring (Fagan, R., and M. Webber. 1994. Global Restructuring: The Australian Experience. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.) and the two-volume Changing Places project (Britton, S., R. Le Heron, and E. Pawson. 1992. Changing Places in New Zealand: A Geography of Restructuring. Christchurch: The New Zealand Geographical Society.); and Le Heron, R., and E. Pawson, eds. 1996. Changing Places—New Zealand in the Nineties. Auckland: Long…
City renaming as brand promotion
Proposals to change the names of entire urban centres are rare. We examine the case of Blenheim, New Zealand, where in 2016, representatives of local businesses campaigned for its renaming as Marlborough City, in recognition of the region’s wine industry. Although defeated the proposal threatened to over-write established settlement history. It presumed to rename Blenheim under the aegis of New Zealand Inc., a shorthand for the pervasive yet nebu…
From value as theoretical object to rent as political project
Directing attention to ‘value’ and ‘valuing’ as objects of scholarly research offers a promising platform for building a new politics of geography and of livelihoods in relation to economic activities involving the commons, nonhuman species, and environmental resources. This paper responds to Kay and Kenny-Lazar’s survey of recent debates in this regard. It makes the claim that while refocusing scholarship on the materiality of value is a welcome…
Geographers at work in disruptive human–biophysical projects
Conclusion
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides a site where scholars from many parts of the world might bring together a cluster of ideas around the intellectual project of biological economies. It examines the potential of biological economies as an academic project a place where linked ideas come to be placed together, reworked and reassembled into new ways of c…
Assembling generative approaches in agri-food research
This introduction presents on overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores new practices and categories of knowledge making and new possibilities for transformative scholarship. It describes in assembling potentially co-productive lines of thinking that might foster a new moral economy of agri-food and build a platform for a new generation of more disruptively productive agri-food scholarship. The …
Enactive encounters with the Langstroth hive
This chapter explores the lively materialities of the work of honey bees and their keepers in New Zealand&s;s Bay of Plenty. It concentrates attention on the box of bees by narrating two encounters with everyday apicultural practices and their political and ecological economy that were staged as part of that research: being in the shed constructing Langstroth hives, and being with those hives in the field. The chapter deploys the playful metaphor…
The New Zealand designer fashion industry
This paper uses the New Zealand designer fashion industry as an analytical lens through which to examine the co‐constitution of political projects in what we label ‘after‐neoliberalism’. The paper begins by tracing the making of New Zealand designer fashion as an industry, and relates this process to four political projects in which designer fashion is understood to have different possibilities – globalisation, the knowledge economy, creative cit…
Mobility and desire
Higher education is playing an important role in Singapore's most recent cycle of modernization: to re-make itself into a global city through the continued accumulation of capital, ‘talent,’ and knowledge. This paper is a critical analysis of the accounts of a group of international students enrolled at the National University of Singapore, a key strategic site in Singapore's bid to reconfigure itself into a knowledge hub. We discuss internationa…
The status quo is not an option’
Treating ecological deficit with debt
Code of practice for the pastoral care of international students
Export education in New Zealand has grown rapidly since 1990, earning significant foreign exchange and underwriting the finance of domestic education. As principal owner of education institutions, the national state is the primary investor. Previous governments treated the 'industry' as both windfall and cash‐cow as they advanced the neo‐liberal project of disentangling state from economy and making education providers self‐regulating. The curren…
City renaming as brand promotion
Proposals to change the names of entire urban centres are rare. We examine the case of Blenheim, New Zealand, where in 2016, representatives of local businesses campaigned for its renaming as Marlborough City, in recognition of the region’s wine industry. Although defeated the proposal threatened to over-write established settlement history. It presumed to rename Blenheim under the aegis of New Zealand Inc., a shorthand for the pervasive yet nebu…
Regional dynamics in the globalising wine industry
The rapid expansion of the New Zealand wine industry has rested largely on a specific wine commodity form, Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. Global demand for a specialised product has provided the impetus for substantial development at the regional level, an increasingly complex industry structure, and for the intrusion of international capital. This paper explores the contests and relations within the industry through attention to the commodity's va…
Progressive spaces of neoliberalism
At a time when neoliberalism is held by critical geographers to be responsible for global financial crisis and a new, neoconservative government with strong neoliberal elements is reforming tertiary education in New Zealand, it might appear suicidal for a geographer to be editing a special section on ‘Progressive Social Spaces of Neoliberalism (?)’ in Asia Pacific Viewpoint. I might reflect that the question mark may prove career saving but prefe…
Embedding the reforms in New Zealand schooling
Territoriality, enterprise and réglementation in industry governance
The term ‘governance’ is used differently in different literatures. This paper relates the uses of the term and the theoretical concepts to which it is attached in three bodies of literature – the new institutional economics, a geographic literature exploring spatial embeddedness, and the regulation approach. Each adopts a different theoretical point of entry and highlights a particular sphere of governance, centred on the enterprise, people in p…
Political projects and micro-practices of globalising education
This paper examines the framing of globalising education as an industry in New Zealand. It traces the development of industry institutions to promote and regulate cross-border educational relations and practices. The paper argues that the making of a national ‘international education industry’ has framed entrepreneurial education providers, international students and other subjects and spaces of globalising education for a particular form of gove…
Globalizing Economic Geographies in the Context of Globalizing Higher Education
This editorial sits appropriately between the JGHE Symposium: Teaching Economic Geography and the JGHE Symposium: Geography's Place in Higher Education. We begin with a proposition that relates directly to geographical pedagogy and to promises and prospects for the subject; depending on one's research, the conferences we attend, the sessions we participate in, who comes into the room, and who is able to have a say makes worlds of difference to ho…
Pacific flows
This paper contributes political and cultural-economy perspectives to the critique of the MIRAB model 20 years on. In it, we celebrate the politically grounded reading by MIRAB analysts of development in the small island nations of the Pacific and their attention to both the empirical and the structural in their treatment of the economies of these countries. We address aspects, however, of one of the common critiques of MIRAB analyses: their fail…
New value from asking ‘Is geography what geographers do?’
Place ‘From One Glance’
Associations between place and wine are historically deep. Past and current narratives of wine production are wedded to environment attributes of particular places, and in both the European and Australasian settings this has been codified by way of formal labelling requirements for the place of origin for wines. In this paper we explore the role of place references on the front labels of Australian and New Zealand wines through a small initial su…
Governmental assemblages of internationalising universities
This paper critically appraises the internationalization practices currently embraced by some of East Asia's leading universities. We examine the 'governmental assemblage' that constitutes the 'international university' with a particular focus on the ways in which this transformation has involved an increased circulation of international students. Mobile students are caught up in the desires of universities and national governments to craft 'worl…
From unbundling to market making
In Britain and New Zealand the neoliberal assault on universities has shifted from new public management and funding models to the special status of the public university. The project aims to complete neoliberal business initiated 25 years ago by more fully marketising and financialising universities, starting with ‘unbundling’ and outsourcing and culminating in new forms of privatisation, rent-extraction and rebundling. This paper analyses two d…
Discussion. Theorising food regimes
Geographies of `The New Zealand Experiment
Diverse values of surplus for a community economy of fish(eries)
This paper develops a diverse economies account of fish ‘waste’ that revalues it as ‘surplus’. We examine ‘ Kai Ika ’, a community marine conservation experiment in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa New Zealand. Kai Ika rescues fish heads, frames and offal that were previously ‘going to waste’ and redistributes them to fish eaters who would otherwise struggle to access these foods. It involves fishers and community sector and Indigenous actors…
A co-design framework for natural resource policy making
Environmental and land use policy literature asserts the need for more holistic, participatory and co-designed forms of governance for the sustainable management of natural resources. Co-design is also increasingly recognised by government as a useful approach but is often applied with varying degrees of success. The purpose of this paper is to assess recent examples of policy co-design across three UK case studies focused on tree/woodland manage…
Asset mapping and Whanau action research
Te Runanga o Te Rarawa is the tribal council representing the interests of the marae (tribal commons) and hapu (a subtribal kin group) that make up the iwi (a Maori tribe) of Te Rarawa in the far north of Aotearoa/New Zealand. In April 2005, officials approached us to help them secure a valuable funding stream tagged to marshalling resources for material development in the area. They sought curriculum vitae and assistance in reframing the funding…
From value as theoretical object to rent as political project
Directing attention to ‘value’ and ‘valuing’ as objects of scholarly research offers a promising platform for building a new politics of geography and of livelihoods in relation to economic activities involving the commons, nonhuman species, and environmental resources. This paper responds to Kay and Kenny-Lazar’s survey of recent debates in this regard. It makes the claim that while refocusing scholarship on the materiality of value is a welcome…
Re-assembling knowledge production with(out) the university
As an introduction to the themed issue, this paper interrogates the idea of university unbundling through a critical reading of Ronald Coase’s theory of transaction costs. Coase, who was initially interested in the structure of firms, later applied his transaction cost theory more broadly to anything that might be defined as ‘welfare’. Not unlike other abstract economic theories, in the age of market discipline, Coase’s ideas have been widely emp…
Food fights
This article explores alternative food initiatives (AFI) and their performances of benign transgression. Through collaborative activist‐and‐academic‐storytelling we tease apart the divergent practices of AFIs to question what mediates these performances in the grey area between conventional and alternative practice. Grounded examples of AFIs performing alternative economy and related acts of ‘irritant’ civil disobedience show how subverting norma…
Publications de la Societe Fouad I de Papyrologie. Textes et Documents III. Les Papyrus Fouad I Nos. 1-89
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“Unremarkable” Recoveries
Much of the existing popular literature suggests that survival from life-threatening diseases encourages a process of self-transformation. Seventeen long-term survivors of metastatic cancer were interviewed about the impact of a life-threatening condition on their life stories. Contrary to the existing literature, which suggests such an event greatly transforms the individual, nearly all of those interviewed for this study framed their unusual re…
Territoriality, enterprise and réglementation in industry governance
The term ‘governance’ is used differently in different literatures. This paper relates the uses of the term and the theoretical concepts to which it is attached in three bodies of literature – the new institutional economics, a geographic literature exploring spatial embeddedness, and the regulation approach. Each adopts a different theoretical point of entry and highlights a particular sphere of governance, centred on the enterprise, people in p…
Géopolitique de l'eau Hérodote La découverte, 2001, n° 102, 170 p
Embedding the reforms in New Zealand schooling
Geographies of `The New Zealand Experiment
Code of practice for the pastoral care of international students
Export education in New Zealand has grown rapidly since 1990, earning significant foreign exchange and underwriting the finance of domestic education. As principal owner of education institutions, the national state is the primary investor. Previous governments treated the 'industry' as both windfall and cash‐cow as they advanced the neo‐liberal project of disentangling state from economy and making education providers self‐regulating. The curren…
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy
Pacific flows
This paper contributes political and cultural-economy perspectives to the critique of the MIRAB model 20 years on. In it, we celebrate the politically grounded reading by MIRAB analysts of development in the small island nations of the Pacific and their attention to both the empirical and the structural in their treatment of the economies of these countries. We address aspects, however, of one of the common critiques of MIRAB analyses: their fail…
Globalizing Economic Geographies in the Context of Globalizing Higher Education
This editorial sits appropriately between the JGHE Symposium: Teaching Economic Geography and the JGHE Symposium: Geography's Place in Higher Education. We begin with a proposition that relates directly to geographical pedagogy and to promises and prospects for the subject; depending on one's research, the conferences we attend, the sessions we participate in, who comes into the room, and who is able to have a say makes worlds of difference to ho…
The New Zealand designer fashion industry
This paper uses the New Zealand designer fashion industry as an analytical lens through which to examine the co‐constitution of political projects in what we label ‘after‐neoliberalism’. The paper begins by tracing the making of New Zealand designer fashion as an industry, and relates this process to four political projects in which designer fashion is understood to have different possibilities – globalisation, the knowledge economy, creative cit…
Place ‘From One Glance’
Associations between place and wine are historically deep. Past and current narratives of wine production are wedded to environment attributes of particular places, and in both the European and Australasian settings this has been codified by way of formal labelling requirements for the place of origin for wines. In this paper we explore the role of place references on the front labels of Australian and New Zealand wines through a small initial su…
Asset mapping and Whanau action research
Te Runanga o Te Rarawa is the tribal council representing the interests of the marae (tribal commons) and hapu (a subtribal kin group) that make up the iwi (a Maori tribe) of Te Rarawa in the far north of Aotearoa/New Zealand. In April 2005, officials approached us to help them secure a valuable funding stream tagged to marshalling resources for material development in the area. They sought curriculum vitae and assistance in reframing the funding…
The status quo is not an option’
Regional dynamics in the globalising wine industry
The rapid expansion of the New Zealand wine industry has rested largely on a specific wine commodity form, Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. Global demand for a specialised product has provided the impetus for substantial development at the regional level, an increasingly complex industry structure, and for the intrusion of international capital. This paper explores the contests and relations within the industry through attention to the commodity's va…
Progressive spaces of neoliberalism
At a time when neoliberalism is held by critical geographers to be responsible for global financial crisis and a new, neoconservative government with strong neoliberal elements is reforming tertiary education in New Zealand, it might appear suicidal for a geographer to be editing a special section on ‘Progressive Social Spaces of Neoliberalism (?)’ in Asia Pacific Viewpoint. I might reflect that the question mark may prove career saving but prefe…
Filling hollowed out spaces with localised meanings, practices and hope
The contracting out to private providers of services previously delivered within the state has been framed critically as ‘hollowing out’ and read for its erosion of social democracy, social justice and welfare, as well as its inefficiencies in practice. It is commonly dismissed as neoliberalism. In this paper, we highlight the gains made through this new contractualism by Te Oranga, the Family, Health and Education division of Te Runanga o Te Rar…
Discussion. Theorising food regimes
Conversing social science with others
New value from asking ‘Is geography what geographers do?’
Myopia and the global financial crisis
Political projects and micro-practices of globalising education
This paper examines the framing of globalising education as an industry in New Zealand. It traces the development of industry institutions to promote and regulate cross-border educational relations and practices. The paper argues that the making of a national ‘international education industry’ has framed entrepreneurial education providers, international students and other subjects and spaces of globalising education for a particular form of gove…
Performing Research Capability Building in New Zealand's Social Sciences
Many governments are seeking to 'mature' social science through research capability. The Building Research Capability in the Social Sciences (BRCSS) experiment gave New Zealand's social science community a chance to mature itself through capability building. We examine the emergence of BRCSS's 'sustainability' research theme. Selected as one of five key research themes because of its public good investment priority and the level of social science…
The Construction and Realisation of Geographic Brand Rent in New Zealand Wine
This paper examines the concept of geographic brand rent in production and marketing of New Zealand wine. It is argued that the region of origin for fine wine is not only a recognised feature of its value but that this may be conceived as a form of brand rent and furthermore that it is measurable. The analysis uses both cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches to consider grape and vineyard land prices, as well as interviews with industry info…
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