David Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3593794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1754-8932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 75 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 74 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Biography of Bones
Buried in 1858, Cornelis Kok II’s grave lay undisturbed in Campbell, Northern Cape, until 1961 when a multiracial coalition, driven by their own sets of interests, unearthed the Griqua leader’s remains. The bones again took centre stage with the collapse of apartheid when different groups called for their return and reburial, with an assertion, variously, of ascendant Griqua, indigenous, Khoisan, and Khoikhoi identities. The 2007 reinterment agai…
The Mediterranean moment of Namibian rock art, or the legitimisation of colonial presence through heritage-making (1948-1954)
While critical heritage studies have emphasised the need to decolonise heritage practices, the legacy of colonial-era heritage-making remains largely underexplored. This article examines the early proclamations of five rock art sites as National Monuments in Namibia during the 1950s. Through an analysis of the historical and political dynamics, alongside the involvement of leading archaeologists with colonial administrations, this study uncovers …
Wild Structure and Melting Time
Merleau-Ponty’s early work on structure sought to grasp sense as arising within nature, but couldn’t reconcile structure with nature as conceived by physics. This turned him, instead, to perception and his later ontology. This paper suggests show how quantum mechanical systems behave in ways that echo structures and can be understood as generating differential conditions for sense in being. This suggestion hinges on conceptualizing them as struct…
Visualizing the Finish Line
As the number of journalism and mass communications programs offering a visual communications focused program grows, the curriculum of programs should be examined. This study uses open-ended questionnaire responses with program coordinators and capstone instructors in journalism and mass communications-based visual communications programs. It finds that capstones include internships, ethics courses, campaigns courses, and advanced praxis courses.…
Magical thinking and the test of humanity
Being there”
Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, this paper explores visual journalists personal experience with safety concerns as they gather imagery. It delves into visual journalists' impressions of organizational support and job satisfaction in times of crisis and how that relates to the images they produced and their impression of the journalism industry broadly. In this exploratory study, scholars partnered with the National Press Photographer…
Risks on the Belt and Road in Eurasia
A binary, geopolitical narrative of a new "Great Game" for power in Central Asia may be too simplistic.It remains unclear what regionalisation trends will become embedded in Central Asia, with the apparent rise of China.The paper examines potential for China's Belt and Road Initiative to build new Eurasian economic interdependence through connectivity infrastructure and to reduce dependency for some actors on Russia.A political risk and grounded …
Understanding the impact on children's citizenship of participating in community-based action research
This paper explores the lived experience of citizenship of working-class girls from a marginalised ex-mining town in northern England engaged as community researchers in participatory action research. The research aimed to better understand the relationships within their local community. Qualitative methods were used to examine the girls’ experience of the research and its impact on their sense of community, which is discussed using the lens of ‘…
Exploring Multiple Conditions of Participation on Community-based Heritage Management
Telling impressions
Quaternary Environments and Archaeology of the Northern Cape (South Africa)
Mining on the frontier
A Mixed Methods Study of Self-Efficacy, the Sources of Self-Efficacy, and Teaching Experience
Although teaching self-efficacy is associated with many benefits for teachers and students, little is known about how teachers develop a sense of efficacy in the early years of their careers. Drawing on survey ( N = 179) and interview ( N = 10) data, this study investigates the sources of self-efficacy in a national sample of teachers who participated in the Noyce program. All teachers completed an online survey that included both the Teacher Sen…
Geopolitical shift at a time of Covid-19 and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
How China will contribute to global governance has become a critical question in international relations, amplified by the linkages between the Covid-19 pandemic, escalating geopolitical contest and multilateralism in crisis. China has been doubling down on its authoritarian model of domestic governance while becoming more internationally assertive, including in existing and new multilateral institutions. Meanwhile, the United States appeared in …
Diamond Town Toil and Trauma
The discovery of South Africa's mineral wealth from the 1870s transformed what was a pastoral backveld amongst Britain's imperial possessions. Tent towns sprang up overnight as diggers and labour migrants “rushed” to the Diamond Fields. The colonial boundary was expanded rapidly to incorporate the new tracts; conquest followed in the region. The telling of Kimberley's history tends to valorise colonial “pioneers” and “city fathers,” their diamond…
The Implementation of Connecting People in Community Mental Health Teams in England
Loneliness and social isolation have become significant concerns in many countries, particularly amongst people experiencing mental health problems. A social intervention—Connecting People—has been found to increase their access to social capital, though it has been difficult to implement with high fidelity in community mental health teams (CMHTs) in England. This study aimed to evaluate outcomes for mental health service users of a practitioner-…
Cybersecurity threats in the auto industry
From “Block-Things” to “Time-Things”
"In Real Life - A Reflection on the "Online Exhibition
Is the move to exhibit online really defined by a distinction of space – “IRL” [In Real Life] physical space vs. the Internet? At the time of writing, almost a year into the pandemic, the way we access museums and galleries begs questions of this supposed divide between digital and physical worlds. What is more, what has become, at an impressive speed, an almost compulsory generalised drive to deliver online projects has resulted in a variable ex…
In Real Life
La tendance de l'exposition virtuelle se dfinit-elle par la distinction entre l'espace physique IRL [In Real Life -dans la vraie vie] et celui d'Internet 1 ? Au moment o nous crivons, un peu moins d'un an aprs le dbut de la pandmie, la faon dont nous accdons aux muses et aux galeries soulve des questions concernant le prtendu foss entre mondes numrique et physique. De plus, ce qui est devenu, une vitesse impressionnante, une volont gnralise et qu…
Burning down the house
Social Media Goes to the Movies
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of participation in social media networks on theatrical movie attendance, with particular attention paid to the fear-of-missing-out (FoMO) and social media social capital. Using an online survey (N = 472), it was determined that the direct social utility of the theatrical experience was a better predictor of theatrical attendance than social media FoMO or social capital. However, both bridgin…
The Making of Scottish Jewry
This study places Jewish settlement in Scotland in the wider context of mass migration from Russia to the USA. It uses US passenger lists to trace a sample of Jewish migrants back to their places of origin in Russia. It also uses the 1930 US Federal Census to trace the migration paths of a sample of Scottish-born Jews after they had emigrated to the USA. Crucially, this paper argues that the Jews in Scotland did not constitute a national Jewry pr…
Elusive Identities
In 2007, in order to facilitate the building and operations of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the Astronomy Geographic Advantage Act proclaimed a large ‘astronomy reserve’ in the central Upper Karoo, a roughly rhombic space covering some 120,000 square kilometres. As it happens, this geographic reserve coincides almost exactly with a region described by |Xam prisoners of the mid 19th century as |Xam-ka! au, their homeland. We show how archival…
In mod we trust? Human trust, Bitcoin, and the burning waste of time
Discrepant legacies
Enhancing social networks
People with severe mental health problems such as psychosis have access to less social capital, defined as resources within social networks, than members of the general population. However, a lack of theoretically and empirically informed models hampers the development of social interventions which seek to enhance an individual's social networks. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study, which used ethnographic field methods in six …
Developing and Modeling Complex Social Interventions
Objectives: Modeling the processes involved in complex social interventions is important in social work practice, as it facilitates their implementation and translation into different contexts. This article reports the process of developing and modeling the connecting people intervention (CPI), a model of practice that supports people with mental health problems to enhance their social networks. Method: The CPI model was developed through an iter…
Effect of the Connecting People Intervention on Social Capital
Objective: This pilot study evaluated the effect of the Connecting People Intervention (CPI) on access to social capital, social inclusion, and mental well-being. Method: A prospective one-group pretest –posttest preexperimental study of 155 people with a mental health problem or a learning disability receiving care and support from health and social care practitioners trained in the CPI was used. Results: Participants exposed to practice with hi…
Social Media Goes to the Movies
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of participation in social media networks on theatrical movie attendance, with particular attention paid to the fear-of-missing-out (FoMO) and social media social capital. Using an online survey (N = 472), it was determined that the direct social utility of the theatrical experience was a better predictor of theatrical attendance than social media FoMO or social capital. However, both bridgin…
Elusive Identities
In 2007, in order to facilitate the building and operations of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the Astronomy Geographic Advantage Act proclaimed a large ‘astronomy reserve’ in the central Upper Karoo, a roughly rhombic space covering some 120,000 square kilometres. As it happens, this geographic reserve coincides almost exactly with a region described by |Xam prisoners of the mid 19th century as |Xam-ka! au, their homeland. We show how archival…
Diabetes, Chronic Illness and the Bodily Roots of Ecstatic Temporality
The Implementation of Connecting People in Community Mental Health Teams in England
Loneliness and social isolation have become significant concerns in many countries, particularly amongst people experiencing mental health problems. A social intervention—Connecting People—has been found to increase their access to social capital, though it has been difficult to implement with high fidelity in community mental health teams (CMHTs) in England. This study aimed to evaluate outcomes for mental health service users of a practitioner-…
Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre, South Africa
This paper reviews the development of the Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art Centre, in South Africa, open for just over a decade. The run-up to the project’s launch was not without difficulties, caused by both community and official mandates. Yet despite achieving a measure of critical acclaim the site has only niche market appeal. Sustainability was possible only after securing operational subsidization. As that support begins to be scaled down, Wildebee…
Narrating Biesje Poort
Rock engraving sites at Biesje Poort near Kakamas have been the focus of work by researchers and participants from the Kalahari. Narratives arising from this joint encounter with rock art and spatially associated artefacts, Later Stone Age and colonial in context, within this landscape and the contemporary socio-political setting, have highlighted issues of interpretive ambiguity and vagueness. There are marked gaps in the storyline, the differen…
Life on the edge
Economies of scale and scope in e-learning
Economies of scale are often cited in the higher education literature as being one of the drivers for the deployment of e‐learning. They are variously used to support the notions that higher education is becoming more global, that national policy towards e‐learning should promote scale efficiencies, that larger institutions will be better able to compete in the future, and that there should be substantial investment in the development of e‐learni…
Exploring Multiple Conditions of Participation on Community-based Heritage Management
Cars with the Boom
This article traces the technological and cultural transformation of car audio from its World War II-era status as an aid to middle-class information efficiency through a process of fragmentation, including the development of "boom cars." These ultraloud sound systems, enabled by wartime innovations and postwar abundance, increasingly became indexes of opposition for those at the ethnic and economic margins of American life. Boom cars turned the …
Rock Art as Source and Resource
There has been much discussion in recent years on the uses and practice of history beyond the academy,’ where a wide diversity of heritage, memory, community, tourism and educational projects can be said to complement, and sometimes contest, the more traditional academic ‘routines and spaces of. ..teaching and research procedures’.* These other contexts, while now burgeoning as perhaps never before, are of course not new. The track record of some…
Being there”
Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study, this paper explores visual journalists personal experience with safety concerns as they gather imagery. It delves into visual journalists' impressions of organizational support and job satisfaction in times of crisis and how that relates to the images they produced and their impression of the journalism industry broadly. In this exploratory study, scholars partnered with the National Press Photographer…
Risks on the Belt and Road in Eurasia
A binary, geopolitical narrative of a new "Great Game" for power in Central Asia may be too simplistic.It remains unclear what regionalisation trends will become embedded in Central Asia, with the apparent rise of China.The paper examines potential for China's Belt and Road Initiative to build new Eurasian economic interdependence through connectivity infrastructure and to reduce dependency for some actors on Russia.A political risk and grounded …
Gone to work to America”
Why did the Irish-born population of Wales decline so sharply in the decade 1861–1870? This paper argues that during the 1850s and 1860s, large numbers of Irish men and women travelled to south Wales in order to finance emigration to the USA. Using the US Federal Census, this paper shows how Irish step-migration through Wales led principally to the Pennsylvania coalfields. This type of migration is termed the Knight’s-move: a sideways move from a…
Octavia Butler's (R)evolutionary Movement for the Twenty-First Century
In the ruined landscape of twenty-first-century California, Lauren Olamina, the main character of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, founds a new religion, Earthseed. Earthseed deifies the cosmic pervasiveness of change with a simple statement: "God is Change." While several scholars have usefully explicated the religious origins and affective qualities of the Earthseed community, I argue that Earthseed goes further…
Another Spouted Ostrich Eggshell Container from the Northern Cape
Nawabdanas
Archaeological investigations, principally the rescue exavations of two Ceramic Later Stone Age (LSA) sites, forming part of an impact assessment at the site of the proposed Trans Hex Tin Mine at Renosterkop, or !Nawabdanas, near Kakamas, are reported. Materials recovered are analysed and interpreted against other archaeological and historical data for the region. While probably pre-dating the late eighteenth century historical accounts of the Or…
Communications
Admissions from surgical waiting lists
Many factors tend to reduce the efficiency of bed utilization in general hospitals. A numerically small, but clinically well-recognized, cause of wastage arises from the failure of waiting list patients to attend for admission when offered beds. The relative severity of the problem varies between clinical specialties, according to the proportions of total admissions accounted for by waiting list patients. In general medicine, such wastage is smal…
Healthy cities
Today the global village is the metaphor that informs our actions and guides our conduct. The world economy now depends on long distribution lines, major transportation subsidies, large-scale production systems and a separation of authority and responsibility. Every community becomes totally dependent on others as suppliers of its materials, products, capital and as recipients of its wastes. This results in fragmented, passive and unhealthy commu…
A Paediatrician and Peri-Natal Bereavement
(1987). A PAEDIATRICIAN AND PERI-NATAL BEREAVEMENT. Bereavement Care: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 16-18
Museums
Engraved in Place and Time
A Semiotic Investigation of Messiaen's 'Abime des oiseaux
Cairncross at Rooiberg, Armoed
Nawabdanas
Archaeological investigations, principally the rescue exavations of two Ceramic Later Stone Age (LSA) sites, forming part of an impact assessment at the site of the proposed Trans Hex Tin Mine at Renosterkop, or !Nawabdanas, near Kakamas, are reported. Materials recovered are analysed and interpreted against other archaeological and historical data for the region. While probably pre-dating the late eighteenth century historical accounts of the Or…
Stone Bowls in the Northern Cape
Discrepant legacies
Public Policy and Private Promotion in Tourism
In 1980 Michigan undertook a new direction in public policy with regard to room tax programmes used to fund local tourism promotion programmes. That change has led to what most in Michigan believe is a successful programmme that supports a large number of financially sound, community-based marketing organisations. It is successful because it leaves decisions about uses of funds in the hands of the lodging owners, and it limits government involvem…
Edward S. Casey
Another Spouted Ostrich Eggshell Container from the Northern Cape
Identification of Cantonese tones by children with sensory hearing impairment
The present study examined the tonal identification abilities of a control group (n = 23 normal hearing children, mean age = 13.6 years; SD = 1.9) and two experimental groups: a mild to moderate hearing-impaired group (n = 11, mean age = 15.8 years, SD = 1.9); and, a moderately severe hearing-impaired group (n = 11, mean age = 14.3 years, SD = 3.7). The two experimental groups were tested monaurally in a sound field under two different hearing ai…
Rock Art as Source and Resource
There has been much discussion in recent years on the uses and practice of history beyond the academy,’ where a wide diversity of heritage, memory, community, tourism and educational projects can be said to complement, and sometimes contest, the more traditional academic ‘routines and spaces of. ..teaching and research procedures’.* These other contexts, while now burgeoning as perhaps never before, are of course not new. The track record of some…
Earnings trends among older employees in England and Wales, 1972–2001
This article considers the hypothesis that ‘older people in full-time employment normally receive earnings below the level previously enjoyed’, by examining the money and real earnings of older British full-time employees as they age. After a review of the factors that influence earnings, data from the New Earnings Survey of Great Britain are used to estimate average gross weekly money and real earnings of two cohorts of manual and non-manual wor…
The Water Journey
A Burial from Driekopseiland, Northern Cape
The Open Figure of Experience and Mind
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Phenomenological Realism and the Moving Image of Experience
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Merleau-Ponty
Diabetes, Chronic Illness and the Bodily Roots of Ecstatic Temporality
Economies of scale and scope in e-learning
Economies of scale are often cited in the higher education literature as being one of the drivers for the deployment of e‐learning. They are variously used to support the notions that higher education is becoming more global, that national policy towards e‐learning should promote scale efficiencies, that larger institutions will be better able to compete in the future, and that there should be substantial investment in the development of e‐learni…
Japanese Popular Music
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