Oliver Smith
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 231000 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Oliver Smith |
| NOMBRES | Oliver |
| APELLIDO | Smith |
| FIRMA | SMITH O |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Plymouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7309-4509 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Less museum and more like Disney’ The infantilisation of dark histories
This paper uses the Bodmin Jail Attraction in Cornwall, UK, as a case study to explore how sites of dark tourism have been subsumed into infantilised consumer culture. In these commodified, disney-esque forms, rather than being spaces of reflection and education, they act to perpetuate objective violence. This allows us to fetishise the subjective violence of the past and disavow our participation in or acceptance of present and future harms. Usi…
Improving feedback literacy in a primary care rotation
Primary care education is a unique clinical experience for medical students. It is community-based and provides an opportunity for students to learn consultation skills with multiple sources of workplace-based feedback. Meaningful and demonstrable utilisation of this feedback by students remains an educational challenge. We showcase achievable changes to educational tasks in an established curriculum, which aim to improve student feedback literac…
A New Suggested Site for Troy (Yenibademli Höyük)
Nearly all archaeologists identify the remains of Troy with Hisarlik. This article in contrast looks at some alternative suggested locations and finding them to be implausible suggests a Bronze Age site – Yenibademli Höyük – on the North Aegean Island Imbros (Gökçeada). The popular identification of Hisarlik with Troy is questioned and doubted. It is argued on the basis of an ancient tradition Hisarlik cannot be the site of Troy and reveals descr…
Plastic Waste and the Environmental Crisis Industry
The secrets of Sobek – A crocodile mummy mitogenome from ancient Egypt
Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter
Deviant Leisure
Deviant Leisure
Lifestyle gambling, indebtedness and anxiety
While once subject to wide-ranging state control, gambling has successfully culturally embedded itself within the normalised and legitimised forms of leisure such as the night-time economy, sports fandom and online forums of socialisation. Consequently, this article argues that existing research which conceptualises gambling as separate from everyday life is largely obsolete in the contemporary context. We argue here that gambling has become an i…
Deviant leisure
This article explains why an understanding of deviant leisure is significant for criminology. Through reorienting our understanding of ‘deviance’ from a contravention of norms and values to encompassing engagement in behaviour and actions that contravene a moral ‘duty to the other’, the new ‘deviant leisure’ perspective outlined here describes activities that through their adherence to cultural values inscribed by consumer capitalism, have the po…
What’s Deviance Got to Do With It? Black Friday Sales, Violence and Hyper-conformity
Based upon original ethnographic and interview data, this article presents an initial theorization and analysis of the violence and disorder witnessed throughout UK high streets and superstores during the 2014 Black Friday sales. While the conduct of these ‘extreme shoppers’ appeared deviant, this article positions such behaviour as hyper-conformity to the cultural values of neoliberalism, embodying the competitive individualism, cultivation of e…
The Atlantis Story
The story of Atlantis appears in Plato's Timaeus-Critias (c. 355 BCE) as an oral tradition Solon acquired in Egypt and adapted into an epic poem, but which he left unfinished. Nevertheless, Solon told the story to his family relative Dropides, who passed it orally to his son (Critias the elder), who in turn told it to his grandson (Critias the younger). Either this oral transmission actually took place, or Plato was the fabricator. If the latter,…
Shopping with violence
This article argues that the 2014 adoption of the US shopping tradition of Black Friday sales to stores and supermarkets in the United Kingdom and beyond represents an important point of enquiry for the social sciences. We claim that the importation of the consumer event, along with the disorder and episodes of violence that accompany it, are indicative of the triumph of liberal capitalist consumer ideology while reflecting an embedded and cultiv…
Archaeogenomic insights into the adaptation of plants to the human environment
The colonization of the human environment by plants, and the consequent evolution of domesticated forms is increasingly being viewed as a co-evolutionary plant-human process that occurred over a long time period, with evidence for the co-evolutionary relationship between plants and humans reaching ever deeper into the hominin past. This developing view is characterized by a change in emphasis on the drivers of evolution in the case of plants. Rat…
Balancing Heritage and Environmental Policies for Sustainable Refurbishment of Historic Buildings
This paper analyses the environmentally sustainable retrofit of the Grade I-listed buildings at New Court for Trinity College, Cambridge. The paper critically reviews existing heritage and environmental policies as these relate to practice. The project on which the paper is based has brought together architects, engineers, building physicists, building conditions surveyors, and industry experts. The role of building physics and design, the monito…
Holding back the beers
An expanding body of work on Britain's night-time alcohol-based leisure economy has acknowledged the importance of collective forms of alcohol consumption in the establishment and reinforcement of key aspects of both subjective and group youth identities. This research project has addressed the ways in which drinking behaviours and leisure characteristics usually applied to 18–25 year olds are retained and continue to structure the identities of …
An economy of false securities? An analysis of murders inside gated residential developments in the United States
The move to gated communities has been linked to both rising affluence and anxiety. These attempts to withdraw from the perceived dangers of urban areas are also predicated on the pursuit of a neighbourhood ideal, and freedom from danger is usually central to this ideal. This paper critically reconsiders these propositions by examining news reports and media narratives surrounding the nature of homicidal violence occurring within such development…
XII * Literature 1780-1830
This chapter has five sections: 1. General; 2. Prose; 3. The Novel; 4. Poetry; 5. Drama. Section 1 is by Orianne Smith; section 2 is by Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi; section 3 is by Felicity James and Eliza O’Brien; section 4 is by David Stewart, Jason Whittaker, and Christopher Machell; section 5 is by Jeremy Davies
Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter
While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev’s place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book foregrounds his unique envisioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world. By investigating the development of a single theme in his work—his idea of the “spiritualization of matte…
Deviant leisure
This article explains why an understanding of deviant leisure is significant for criminology. Through reorienting our understanding of ‘deviance’ from a contravention of norms and values to encompassing engagement in behaviour and actions that contravene a moral ‘duty to the other’, the new ‘deviant leisure’ perspective outlined here describes activities that through their adherence to cultural values inscribed by consumer capitalism, have the po…
Lifestyle gambling, indebtedness and anxiety
While once subject to wide-ranging state control, gambling has successfully culturally embedded itself within the normalised and legitimised forms of leisure such as the night-time economy, sports fandom and online forums of socialisation. Consequently, this article argues that existing research which conceptualises gambling as separate from everyday life is largely obsolete in the contemporary context. We argue here that gambling has become an i…
Plastic Waste and the Environmental Crisis Industry
Deviant Leisure
Holding back the beers
An expanding body of work on Britain's night-time alcohol-based leisure economy has acknowledged the importance of collective forms of alcohol consumption in the establishment and reinforcement of key aspects of both subjective and group youth identities. This research project has addressed the ways in which drinking behaviours and leisure characteristics usually applied to 18–25 year olds are retained and continue to structure the identities of …
An economy of false securities? An analysis of murders inside gated residential developments in the United States
The move to gated communities has been linked to both rising affluence and anxiety. These attempts to withdraw from the perceived dangers of urban areas are also predicated on the pursuit of a neighbourhood ideal, and freedom from danger is usually central to this ideal. This paper critically reconsiders these propositions by examining news reports and media narratives surrounding the nature of homicidal violence occurring within such development…
What’s Deviance Got to Do With It? Black Friday Sales, Violence and Hyper-conformity
Based upon original ethnographic and interview data, this article presents an initial theorization and analysis of the violence and disorder witnessed throughout UK high streets and superstores during the 2014 Black Friday sales. While the conduct of these ‘extreme shoppers’ appeared deviant, this article positions such behaviour as hyper-conformity to the cultural values of neoliberalism, embodying the competitive individualism, cultivation of e…
Archaeogenomic insights into the adaptation of plants to the human environment
The colonization of the human environment by plants, and the consequent evolution of domesticated forms is increasingly being viewed as a co-evolutionary plant-human process that occurred over a long time period, with evidence for the co-evolutionary relationship between plants and humans reaching ever deeper into the hominin past. This developing view is characterized by a change in emphasis on the drivers of evolution in the case of plants. Rat…
Shopping with violence
This article argues that the 2014 adoption of the US shopping tradition of Black Friday sales to stores and supermarkets in the United Kingdom and beyond represents an important point of enquiry for the social sciences. We claim that the importation of the consumer event, along with the disorder and episodes of violence that accompany it, are indicative of the triumph of liberal capitalist consumer ideology while reflecting an embedded and cultiv…
Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter
While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev’s place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book foregrounds his unique envisioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world. By investigating the development of a single theme in his work—his idea of the “spiritualization of matte…
An economy of false securities? An analysis of murders inside gated residential developments in the United States
The move to gated communities has been linked to both rising affluence and anxiety. These attempts to withdraw from the perceived dangers of urban areas are also predicated on the pursuit of a neighbourhood ideal, and freedom from danger is usually central to this ideal. This paper critically reconsiders these propositions by examining news reports and media narratives surrounding the nature of homicidal violence occurring within such development…
XII * Literature 1780-1830
This chapter has five sections: 1. General; 2. Prose; 3. The Novel; 4. Poetry; 5. Drama. Section 1 is by Orianne Smith; section 2 is by Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi; section 3 is by Felicity James and Eliza O’Brien; section 4 is by David Stewart, Jason Whittaker, and Christopher Machell; section 5 is by Jeremy Davies
Holding back the beers
An expanding body of work on Britain's night-time alcohol-based leisure economy has acknowledged the importance of collective forms of alcohol consumption in the establishment and reinforcement of key aspects of both subjective and group youth identities. This research project has addressed the ways in which drinking behaviours and leisure characteristics usually applied to 18–25 year olds are retained and continue to structure the identities of …
Balancing Heritage and Environmental Policies for Sustainable Refurbishment of Historic Buildings
This paper analyses the environmentally sustainable retrofit of the Grade I-listed buildings at New Court for Trinity College, Cambridge. The paper critically reviews existing heritage and environmental policies as these relate to practice. The project on which the paper is based has brought together architects, engineers, building physicists, building conditions surveyors, and industry experts. The role of building physics and design, the monito…
Shopping with violence
This article argues that the 2014 adoption of the US shopping tradition of Black Friday sales to stores and supermarkets in the United Kingdom and beyond represents an important point of enquiry for the social sciences. We claim that the importation of the consumer event, along with the disorder and episodes of violence that accompany it, are indicative of the triumph of liberal capitalist consumer ideology while reflecting an embedded and cultiv…
Archaeogenomic insights into the adaptation of plants to the human environment
The colonization of the human environment by plants, and the consequent evolution of domesticated forms is increasingly being viewed as a co-evolutionary plant-human process that occurred over a long time period, with evidence for the co-evolutionary relationship between plants and humans reaching ever deeper into the hominin past. This developing view is characterized by a change in emphasis on the drivers of evolution in the case of plants. Rat…
Deviant leisure
This article explains why an understanding of deviant leisure is significant for criminology. Through reorienting our understanding of ‘deviance’ from a contravention of norms and values to encompassing engagement in behaviour and actions that contravene a moral ‘duty to the other’, the new ‘deviant leisure’ perspective outlined here describes activities that through their adherence to cultural values inscribed by consumer capitalism, have the po…
What’s Deviance Got to Do With It? Black Friday Sales, Violence and Hyper-conformity
Based upon original ethnographic and interview data, this article presents an initial theorization and analysis of the violence and disorder witnessed throughout UK high streets and superstores during the 2014 Black Friday sales. While the conduct of these ‘extreme shoppers’ appeared deviant, this article positions such behaviour as hyper-conformity to the cultural values of neoliberalism, embodying the competitive individualism, cultivation of e…
The Atlantis Story
The story of Atlantis appears in Plato's Timaeus-Critias (c. 355 BCE) as an oral tradition Solon acquired in Egypt and adapted into an epic poem, but which he left unfinished. Nevertheless, Solon told the story to his family relative Dropides, who passed it orally to his son (Critias the elder), who in turn told it to his grandson (Critias the younger). Either this oral transmission actually took place, or Plato was the fabricator. If the latter,…
Lifestyle gambling, indebtedness and anxiety
While once subject to wide-ranging state control, gambling has successfully culturally embedded itself within the normalised and legitimised forms of leisure such as the night-time economy, sports fandom and online forums of socialisation. Consequently, this article argues that existing research which conceptualises gambling as separate from everyday life is largely obsolete in the contemporary context. We argue here that gambling has become an i…
Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter
Deviant Leisure
Deviant Leisure
The secrets of Sobek – A crocodile mummy mitogenome from ancient Egypt
A New Suggested Site for Troy (Yenibademli Höyük)
Nearly all archaeologists identify the remains of Troy with Hisarlik. This article in contrast looks at some alternative suggested locations and finding them to be implausible suggests a Bronze Age site – Yenibademli Höyük – on the North Aegean Island Imbros (Gökçeada). The popular identification of Hisarlik with Troy is questioned and doubted. It is argued on the basis of an ancient tradition Hisarlik cannot be the site of Troy and reveals descr…
Plastic Waste and the Environmental Crisis Industry
Improving feedback literacy in a primary care rotation
Primary care education is a unique clinical experience for medical students. It is community-based and provides an opportunity for students to learn consultation skills with multiple sources of workplace-based feedback. Meaningful and demonstrable utilisation of this feedback by students remains an educational challenge. We showcase achievable changes to educational tasks in an established curriculum, which aim to improve student feedback literac…
Less museum and more like Disney’ The infantilisation of dark histories
This paper uses the Bodmin Jail Attraction in Cornwall, UK, as a case study to explore how sites of dark tourism have been subsumed into infantilised consumer culture. In these commodified, disney-esque forms, rather than being spaces of reflection and education, they act to perpetuate objective violence. This allows us to fetishise the subjective violence of the past and disavow our participation in or acceptance of present and future harms. Usi…
Political science (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Social science (6 obras) · Criminology (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras)