Tom Crook
Biographic Data
| ID | 640240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Crook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Crook |
| SIGNATURE | CROOK T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2387-1699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1911 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Militant cynicism
This article seeks to rethink the nature and significance of the fortnightly magazine Private Eye during its first two decades. Existing accounts have interpreted it almost exclusively through the lens of the “satire boom” (1961–63), and suggest that, in the final analysis, the magazine neither desired nor advanced any substantial critique of the political status quo. Besides neglecting its investigative facets, among other elements, these readin…
Alex Chase-Levenson. The Yellow Flag
Journal Article Alex Chase-Levenson. The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860. Get access Alex Chase-Levenson. The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 307. Cloth $105.00. Tom Crook Tom Crook Oxford Brookes University, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The A…
Professor John Henneberry FAcSS FRTPI MRICS, 1952–2021
At the Limits of Citizenship
In contrast to the democratic principle that all adults should enjoy the right to vote, which is now a global norm, nonvoting has escaped any sort of historical closure. Millions of electors have always failed to vote, whether under conditions of limited, mass, or fully universal suffrage—and, in most Western states, electoral abstention is now at record levels. Yet despite its long-standing status as a popular phenomenon, nonvoting has received …
Reading and Remembering the Anthropologist James F. Weiner
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Introduction
Climate Cultures
Model Institutions and the Geography of Social Reform in Early Victorian Britain
This article reconsiders the nature and novelty of social reform in Britain during the early Victorian period. Historians have long ceased to debate the period in terms of a ‘revolution in government’, or the beginnings of a welfare state. Instead, the current consensus presents a picture of only modest, fitful change. Neither the state, nor the overall ideological landscape, was radically transformed. This article seeks to reinject a sense of tr…
Pacific Climate Cultures
Low-lying Pacific island nations are experiencing the frontline of sea-level rises and climate change and are responding creatively and making-sense in their own vernacular terms. Pacific Climate Cultures aims to bring Oceanic philosophies to the frontline of social science theorization. It explores the home-grown ways that 'climate change' becomes absorbed into the combined effects of globalization and into a living nexus of relations amongst hu…
Earthrise +50
This article pivots from the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8, the first manned voyage to the moon, to reflect on the impact of 'earthrise' - seeing earth from lunar orbit - and to reflect on the vision's meanings in an extended cultural history. The emerging anthropology of space considers the 'overview effect' of seeing the world and all of humanity all at once, and contemporary disciplinary debates over figuring and responding to ecological crisis…
Healthy Boundaries
Reviewed by: Healthy Boundaries: Property, Law and Public Health in England and Wales, 1815–1872by James G. Hanley Tom Crook James G. Hanley. Healthy Boundaries: Property, Law and Public Health in England and Wales, 1815–1872. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2016. xi + 270 pp. Ill. $125.00 (978-1-58046-556-4). In this important new book, James Hanley recovers a key aspect of nineteenth-century sanit…
Governing Risks in Modern Britain
For more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening. Governing Risks in Modern Britain focuses on the steps taken to manage these dangers and to prevent accidents since approximately 1800. It brings together cutting-edge research to help us understand the multiple and contested ways in which dangers have been governed. It demonstrates that the category of ‘risk’, broad…
Governing Risks in Modern Britain
Conclusion
In the conclusion, Mohun, Le Roux, Crook and Esbester draw together the key themes of the volume, demonstrating how risk and risk-related problems are a valuable means of rethinking how Britons have been governed. The conclusion also suggests avenues for further exploration. Central to this are the links made to nations and practices beyond Britain, drawing from and differing to the British experience, and which require further detailed examinati…
Distant Strangers
‘What is modernity?’, asks James Vernon in the opening chapter of Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern. One might disagree with the answer Vernon has to offer, but the rationale for reposin
Housing and the financial crisis
New housing association development and its potential to reduce concentrations of deprivation
Social housing across Western Europe has become significantly more residualised as governments concentrate on helping vulnerable households. Many countries are trying to reduce the concentrations of deprivation by building for a wider range of households and tenures. In England this policy has two main strands: (1) including other tenures when regenerating areas originally built as mono-tenure social housing estates and (2) introducing social ren…
Ballot papers and the practice of elections
The humble ballot paper is a defining technology of elections throughout the world. This article interrogates its contested past by demonstrating – over a long period and in the context of three contrasting countries – how and why it emerged in the early modern period and how it was then used, abused and regulated in the context of the expanded, and eventually mass, electoral arenas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ironically, by the ti…
Habit as Switchpoint
Building on Mary Poovey's reflections, this article outlines a two-fold genealogy of habit in the context of the philosophy and practice of liberalism. One aspect relates to the word 'habit', which by the 19th century had come to mean the repetitive actions of the body and mind, thus shedding its former association with dress and collective customs. The second relates to how 'habit' functioned as a means of mediating the tensions of liberalism, t…
Living Liberalism
Elaine Hadley, Living Liberalism: Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain (2010), x + 389 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, £25.00/$45.00). In recent years the history of Victorian libe
Evil, Barbarism and Empire
Evil and barbarism continue to be associated with the totalitarian 'extremes' of twentieth-century Europe. Addressing domestic and imperial conflicts in modern Britain and beyond, as well as varied fo
Planning Gains, Providing Homes
Planning gain has long been used in Britain for infrastructure funding and has been increasingly used to secure land and funding from private developers for new affordable homes. This paper examines the theoretical and policy underpinnings of planning gain. It describes the growth in the number of new affordable, including intermediate, homes delivered through planning gain, the variations between planning authorities in the incidence of planning…
Reforming Voting Practices in a Global Age
The secret ballot is now a global phenomenon. Voting remains a varied procedure, of course. Within legislatures it is still practised openly, and voting by show of hands is often used in the context of administrative meetings and other small-scale forums. But for parliamentary elections the secret ballot is regarded as the only mechanism capable of ensuring ‘free and fair elections’. For this particular kind of voting it is upheld as a global ide…
Civil Religion and the History of Democratic Modernity
The aim of this essay is to introduce readers to recent work on the concept of ‘civil religion’, what might be regarded as the democratic variant of political religion. Ever since 1967, when the sociologist Robert Bellah published his article ‘Civil Religion in America’, the concept has been the subject of intense debate and ongoing refinement. The essay reviews the recent contributions of Marcela Cristi and Emilio Gentile. However, it also seeks…
Exchanging Skin
This article proposes a theory of what knowledge is and a method of how knowledge comes about. To separate epistemology from knowledge provides the starting point for questioning epistemology in two ways. Firstly, the analytical relations by which anthropologists claim that they have gained ethnographic knowledge are examined and compared to the claims to knowledge made by male initiates in Bolivip, Papua New Guinea. Secondly, these aesthetics of…
Putting Matter in its Right Place
Journal Article Putting Matter in its Right Place: Dirt, Time and Regeneration in Mid-Victorian Britain Get access Tom Crook Tom Crook 1Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 13, Issue 2, January 2008, Pages 200–222, https://doi.org/10.3366/E1355550208000313 Published: 01 January 2008
Planning Gains, Providing Homes
Planning gain has long been used in Britain for infrastructure funding and has been increasingly used to secure land and funding from private developers for new affordable homes. This paper examines the theoretical and policy underpinnings of planning gain. It describes the growth in the number of new affordable, including intermediate, homes delivered through planning gain, the variations between planning authorities in the incidence of planning…
Pacific Climate Cultures
Low-lying Pacific island nations are experiencing the frontline of sea-level rises and climate change and are responding creatively and making-sense in their own vernacular terms. Pacific Climate Cultures aims to bring Oceanic philosophies to the frontline of social science theorization. It explores the home-grown ways that 'climate change' becomes absorbed into the combined effects of globalization and into a living nexus of relations amongst hu…
The Advent of the Secret Ballot in Britain and France, 1789–1914
These days the secret ballot is taken for granted and it is often seen as the natural complement of universal, democratic suffrage. Its emergence, however, was just as contested and varied as the franchise and raised similar issues concerning the nature and practice of citizenship. This article focuses on the emergence of the secret ballot in Britain and France, two countries with a long history of parliamentary and local elections. In Britain, t…
Norms, Forms and Beds
This article examines the spatialization of sleep in Victorian Britain across a range of institutions, including homes and dormitories. It situates the emergence of modern sleeping space at the intersection of two key narratives regarding the history of the body: Elias's `civilising process' and Foucault's account of the realization of a `disciplinary society'. Beginning in the early modern period, sleeping bodies were gradually accorded their ow…
If you don't believe our story, at least give us half of the money
Reports of poor crops, bad tasting water and stories of an ancestral connection with the Mt. Fubilan minesite at Ok Tedi have been reported by people in the Ningerum area since early 1984. In September 2000, a new generation presented a petition on behalf of the West Ningerum Pressure Association. The document had very carefully screened out any traces of customary explanation, and presented the case as if a manifest of poor crops, unfruitful tre…
New housing association development and its potential to reduce concentrations of deprivation
Social housing across Western Europe has become significantly more residualised as governments concentrate on helping vulnerable households. Many countries are trying to reduce the concentrations of deprivation by building for a wider range of households and tenures. In England this policy has two main strands: (1) including other tenures when regenerating areas originally built as mono-tenure social housing estates and (2) introducing social ren…
Sanitary inspection and the public sphere in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Inspection is widely recognized as a defining feature of the modern British state. Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, central and local inspectorates were established
Accommodating the outcast
This article examines a neglected aspect of British urban history: the governance of common lodging houses in Victorian and Edwardian London. The aim of the article is to detail the multiple ways they exercised the limits of urban governance. Providing cheap, nightly accommodation for the outcasts of urban society, common lodging houses were neither easily conceived, nor easily regulated. It is argued that their governance attests to an abundant …
Reforming Voting Practices in a Global Age
The secret ballot is now a global phenomenon. Voting remains a varied procedure, of course. Within legislatures it is still practised openly, and voting by show of hands is often used in the context of administrative meetings and other small-scale forums. But for parliamentary elections the secret ballot is regarded as the only mechanism capable of ensuring ‘free and fair elections’. For this particular kind of voting it is upheld as a global ide…
Schools for the moral training of the people’
(2006). 'Schools for the moral training of the people': Public Baths, Liberalism and the Promotion of Cleanliness in Victorian Britain. European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 21-47
Length Matters
Model Institutions and the Geography of Social Reform in Early Victorian Britain
This article reconsiders the nature and novelty of social reform in Britain during the early Victorian period. Historians have long ceased to debate the period in terms of a ‘revolution in government’, or the beginnings of a welfare state. Instead, the current consensus presents a picture of only modest, fitful change. Neither the state, nor the overall ideological landscape, was radically transformed. This article seeks to reinject a sense of tr…
Ballot papers and the practice of elections
The humble ballot paper is a defining technology of elections throughout the world. This article interrogates its contested past by demonstrating – over a long period and in the context of three contrasting countries – how and why it emerged in the early modern period and how it was then used, abused and regulated in the context of the expanded, and eventually mass, electoral arenas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ironically, by the ti…
Civil Religion and the History of Democratic Modernity
The aim of this essay is to introduce readers to recent work on the concept of ‘civil religion’, what might be regarded as the democratic variant of political religion. Ever since 1967, when the sociologist Robert Bellah published his article ‘Civil Religion in America’, the concept has been the subject of intense debate and ongoing refinement. The essay reviews the recent contributions of Marcela Cristi and Emilio Gentile. However, it also seeks…
Putting Matter in its Right Place
Journal Article Putting Matter in its Right Place: Dirt, Time and Regeneration in Mid-Victorian Britain Get access Tom Crook Tom Crook 1Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 13, Issue 2, January 2008, Pages 200–222, https://doi.org/10.3366/E1355550208000313 Published: 01 January 2008
Reading and Remembering the Anthropologist James F. Weiner
à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés
The Origin of the Major Features of the Geography of Northern Nigeria
Indigenous Human Rights
Growing Knowledge in Bolivip, Papua New Guinea
Knowledge practices in the Mountain Ok or Min area of Papua New Guinea have, since Fredrik Barth's pioneering Baktaman study, come to exemplify ‘secrecy’ in Melanesian ethnography and have consequently represented something of an enigma to anthropological interpretation. This paper reports research among the Angkaiyakmin of Bolivip village, Western Province, and addresses the problem posed by Min revelatory practices. The Barthian paradigm interp…
Length Matters
Schools for the moral training of the people’
(2006). 'Schools for the moral training of the people': Public Baths, Liberalism and the Promotion of Cleanliness in Victorian Britain. European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 21-47
Figures Twice Seen
Sanitary inspection and the public sphere in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Inspection is widely recognized as a defining feature of the modern British state. Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, central and local inspectorates were established
The Advent of the Secret Ballot in Britain and France, 1789–1914
These days the secret ballot is taken for granted and it is often seen as the natural complement of universal, democratic suffrage. Its emergence, however, was just as contested and varied as the franchise and raised similar issues concerning the nature and practice of citizenship. This article focuses on the emergence of the secret ballot in Britain and France, two countries with a long history of parliamentary and local elections. In Britain, t…
If you don't believe our story, at least give us half of the money
Reports of poor crops, bad tasting water and stories of an ancestral connection with the Mt. Fubilan minesite at Ok Tedi have been reported by people in the Ningerum area since early 1984. In September 2000, a new generation presented a petition on behalf of the West Ningerum Pressure Association. The document had very carefully screened out any traces of customary explanation, and presented the case as if a manifest of poor crops, unfruitful tre…
Power, Privacy and Pleasure
This paper examines the establishment and appropriation of a hitherto overlooked space: the modern cubicle. The principal aim of the paper is to develop a political understanding of cubicle space in terms of the everyday practice of liberalism, and in particular Victorian liberalism. The key function it played in this respect was to afford subjects the freedom to operate on themselves in private and effect a moral and physical individuation of th…
Putting Matter in its Right Place
Journal Article Putting Matter in its Right Place: Dirt, Time and Regeneration in Mid-Victorian Britain Get access Tom Crook Tom Crook 1Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 13, Issue 2, January 2008, Pages 200–222, https://doi.org/10.3366/E1355550208000313 Published: 01 January 2008
Accommodating the outcast
This article examines a neglected aspect of British urban history: the governance of common lodging houses in Victorian and Edwardian London. The aim of the article is to detail the multiple ways they exercised the limits of urban governance. Providing cheap, nightly accommodation for the outcasts of urban society, common lodging houses were neither easily conceived, nor easily regulated. It is argued that their governance attests to an abundant …
Norms, Forms and Beds
This article examines the spatialization of sleep in Victorian Britain across a range of institutions, including homes and dormitories. It situates the emergence of modern sleeping space at the intersection of two key narratives regarding the history of the body: Elias's `civilising process' and Foucault's account of the realization of a `disciplinary society'. Beginning in the early modern period, sleeping bodies were gradually accorded their ow…
Exchanging Skin
This article proposes a theory of what knowledge is and a method of how knowledge comes about. To separate epistemology from knowledge provides the starting point for questioning epistemology in two ways. Firstly, the analytical relations by which anthropologists claim that they have gained ethnographic knowledge are examined and compared to the claims to knowledge made by male initiates in Bolivip, Papua New Guinea. Secondly, these aesthetics of…
Civil Religion and the History of Democratic Modernity
The aim of this essay is to introduce readers to recent work on the concept of ‘civil religion’, what might be regarded as the democratic variant of political religion. Ever since 1967, when the sociologist Robert Bellah published his article ‘Civil Religion in America’, the concept has been the subject of intense debate and ongoing refinement. The essay reviews the recent contributions of Marcela Cristi and Emilio Gentile. However, it also seeks…
Evil, Barbarism and Empire
Evil and barbarism continue to be associated with the totalitarian 'extremes' of twentieth-century Europe. Addressing domestic and imperial conflicts in modern Britain and beyond, as well as varied fo
Planning Gains, Providing Homes
Planning gain has long been used in Britain for infrastructure funding and has been increasingly used to secure land and funding from private developers for new affordable homes. This paper examines the theoretical and policy underpinnings of planning gain. It describes the growth in the number of new affordable, including intermediate, homes delivered through planning gain, the variations between planning authorities in the incidence of planning…
Reforming Voting Practices in a Global Age
The secret ballot is now a global phenomenon. Voting remains a varied procedure, of course. Within legislatures it is still practised openly, and voting by show of hands is often used in the context of administrative meetings and other small-scale forums. But for parliamentary elections the secret ballot is regarded as the only mechanism capable of ensuring ‘free and fair elections’. For this particular kind of voting it is upheld as a global ide…
Living Liberalism
Elaine Hadley, Living Liberalism: Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain (2010), x + 389 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, £25.00/$45.00). In recent years the history of Victorian libe
Habit as Switchpoint
Building on Mary Poovey's reflections, this article outlines a two-fold genealogy of habit in the context of the philosophy and practice of liberalism. One aspect relates to the word 'habit', which by the 19th century had come to mean the repetitive actions of the body and mind, thus shedding its former association with dress and collective customs. The second relates to how 'habit' functioned as a means of mediating the tensions of liberalism, t…
Ballot papers and the practice of elections
The humble ballot paper is a defining technology of elections throughout the world. This article interrogates its contested past by demonstrating – over a long period and in the context of three contrasting countries – how and why it emerged in the early modern period and how it was then used, abused and regulated in the context of the expanded, and eventually mass, electoral arenas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ironically, by the ti…
Governing Risks in Modern Britain
For more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening. Governing Risks in Modern Britain focuses on the steps taken to manage these dangers and to prevent accidents since approximately 1800. It brings together cutting-edge research to help us understand the multiple and contested ways in which dangers have been governed. It demonstrates that the category of ‘risk’, broad…
Governing Risks in Modern Britain
Conclusion
In the conclusion, Mohun, Le Roux, Crook and Esbester draw together the key themes of the volume, demonstrating how risk and risk-related problems are a valuable means of rethinking how Britons have been governed. The conclusion also suggests avenues for further exploration. Central to this are the links made to nations and practices beyond Britain, drawing from and differing to the British experience, and which require further detailed examinati…
Distant Strangers
‘What is modernity?’, asks James Vernon in the opening chapter of Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern. One might disagree with the answer Vernon has to offer, but the rationale for reposin
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