Prue Atkins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 314832 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Prue Atkins |
| NOMBRES | Prue |
| APELLIDO | Atkins |
| FIRMA | ATKINS P |
| AFILIACIONES | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6037-6873 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 164 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Feathered Man
The imagery of Nebuchadnezzar’s divine affliction in Daniel 4 is as complex as it is fantastic. A variety of literary images interweave to present the king’s affliction in explicitly animalising terms. Despite this complexity, most visual depictions of the text focus on a largely similar image – that of Nebuchadnezzar eating grass or living naked in the wild. However, in a 17th-century English tapestry series associated with Thomas Poyntz, an alt…
Collaborative assessment as a learning tool for social work students
Despite the body of evidence demonstrating learning gains in both knowledge and engagement for higher education students, social work educators appear to have been slow to incorporate collaborative assessment in undergraduate and graduate courses. This is disappointing given collaboration is an important practice skill and is a common graduate attribute required by accreditation bodies. In this exploratory study, the learning gains and experience…
Cheesemaking in Cheshire 1550–1750
This article supports a material turn in agricultural and food history by focusing on the utensils and equipment, along with the embodied practices involved in cheesemaking. The period of interest is the long seventeenth century when rich source material is available in the form of probate inventories—lists of the movable goods owned by deceased persons, mainly adult males, and widows. Our laboratory will be Cheshire, an English county that for 2…
Substance misuse by birth parents
Concerns that children in OOHC with a history of parental substance misuse may be more affected with regards to early-stage physical development, and later verbal cognitive development than those without this history in OOHC, may not be justified
A Green Social Work Study of Environmental and Social Justice in an Australian River Community
In Australia the impacts of climate change are resulting in considerable water scarcity, a scenario affecting the green and blue spaces that provide well-recognized individual health benefits. However, far less is known about the social health benefits of these spaces, particularly for those residing in rural Australian river communities. In this geographic context, water issues are compounded by a dominant culture that privileges the commodifica…
When Somerset Invaded Ayrshire
There are certain commodities that are part of the taken-for-granted background of Scottishness. Cheese is one of them. Dunlop, in particular, has been around since the eighteenth century but, despite its iconic status, its biography has yet to be fully explored. This paper is a preliminary probe, suggesting that Dunlop and its main rival, Scottish Cheddar, were locked in a struggle for pride of place in the national palate. The story is a comple…
Navy victuallers and the rise of Cheshire cheese
In the 1990s Charles Foster claimed that a commercial Cheshire cheese trade began in 1650, the year when the first coastwise cargo from Chester was recorded in the London port books. One purpose of this research note is to embellish Foster's claim by suggesting that an even greater influence on this trade was the adoption from the early 1840s by England's state-appointed victuallers of Cheshire cheese as one of their standard commodities. They th…
Nadja Durbach. Many Mouths
Nadja Durbach has written a food history of Britain that is innovative in its approach. It is not an attempt at a comprehensive narrative in the style of Derek Oddy’s From Plain Fare to Fusion Food: British Diet from the 1890s to the 1990s (Boydell, 2003), but rather a collection of selected stories, issues, and episodes that illustrate the complexity of the evolving politics of state feeding. The resulting whole is more than sum of its parts. It…
The long genealogy of quality in the British drinking-milk sector
Throughout most of the last 150 years milk in Britain has been an example of modernity in food production. It became a mass-produced, industrial product, with high volume, rapid tur nover, but limited choice. To modify Henry Ford’s humorous dictum, you could have any kind of milk you wanted as long as it was white and about 3% fat (Ford, 1923: 72). It is only in the last two or three decades that drinking-milk in Britain has become differentiated…
Supporting Implementation of Innovative Social Work Practice
Achieving client outcomes is understood as a complex, dynamic interplay of elements including the client, worker/s, programme setting and practice approach. How an organisation supports or constrains implementation of innovative social work practice is worthy of research attention. The emergence of frameworks for translating evidence-based practice into health and mental health settings reflects increasing interest in implementation. However, the…
Feeding Gotham
Feeding Gotham: the political economy and geography of food in New York, 1790–1860." Social History, 42(2), pp. 301–302
Children's experience of sport in Australia
Australia is known as a 'sporting nation' and sport is central to its cultural identity. Children's participation in leisure activities, including sport, is considered to be of such importance that it is enshrined as an international human right. There is a growing awareness, however, that children's experience of sport is not always positive and that abuse and harm may occur in organised sport. This paper reports on a study designed to explore c…
Child Athletes and Athletic Objectification
This article examines the risks associated with conceptualizing the child athlete's body primarily in aesthetic terms and as an instrument of sporting victory, and develops a concept of 'athletic objectification.' It draws on a recent research project involving Australian males and females aged between 18 and 25 who participated in organized sport as children. It identifies socially prevalent beliefs and values to which the athletic objectificati…
Secrecy Surrounding the Physical Abuse of Child Athletes in Australia
Over the past two decades there has been a growing awareness that sport may not be a positive experience for all children. For example, we know that some children experience sexual abuse in the context of organised sport, and that these offences are often committed by trusted adults, including coaches and club officials. However, less attention has been given to the physical abuse of child athletes. This paper presents a study that explored child…
Children's Experience of Sport
Internationally, children's participation in leisure activities, including sport, is considered to be of such importance that it is enshrined as a human right. However, there is a growing awareness that children's experience of sport is not always benign; abuse and harm frequently occur within a broad range of organised sport contexts. This systematic literature review examines the international research evidence from both peer reviewed and grey …
International curriculum transfer in geography in higher education
Internationalization of geography in higher education comes in many guises. This paper discusses some of these, with particular attention to curriculum development and transfer. The context is Bangladesh and a case study is presented of a link programme between three higher education institutions in that country and one in the UK. The British Council funded project INSPIRE provided funding and organizational support for a project that lasted 4 ye…
Are Spiritual Experiences through Music Seen as Intrinsic or Extrinsic
Music has a great capacity to afford spiritual experiences, but are those experiences intrinsic or extrinsic to the music? This paper reports the results of research aimed at answering that research question. One hundred and seventeen self-reported Christian religious people completed a survey, answering eight rating-item questions about strong musical experiences, both in a religious and a non-religious context. Factor analysis revealed that rat…
Coalition Culls and Zoonotic Ontologies
Diseases which can pass between animals and humans (zoonoses) have been headline news several times in the last ten years. This paper looks at bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in the United Kingdom, which, although not a major health hazard for humans, has been problematic for farmers and the veterinary health institutions. At its current rate of spread, the disease will cost the authorities £1 billion in compensation to farmers for slaughtered animals …
Small water bodies in Bangladesh
Excavations are easy in the soft, unconsolidated sediments of Bangladesh and are widespread for the creation of raised, flood‐free homestead platforms. Small water bodies form in the resulting hollows and are used for fisheries, livestock management, irrigation, bathing and washing clothes. Despite their importance to everyday life, there is no up‐to‐date inventory or monitoring. The paper uses remote sensing, GIS and a number of qualitative data…
Fear of animal foods
School Milk in Britain, 1900–1934
It seems to be generally accepted that school meals played a small but important role in the creation of conceptual and practical space for the first green shoots of the modern welfare state, and that their provision, no matter how modest at the outset, therefore represented a major departure in the history of social policy. As Bentley Gilbert notes: “The passage of the Education (Provision of Meals) Act of 1906, and the Education (Administrative…
The Bovine Scourge
There is already much outstanding scholarship on the subject of tuberculosis in Victorian and Edwardian Britain but relatively little on the spread of the disease through the food chain. Keir Waddington has addressed this gap with an account of the bovine strain and its health impact through the consumption of meat and milk. He begins with the widespread sale of diseased meat in the middle of the nineteenth century, much of which was tuberculous.…
Indigenous floating cultivation
Floating-bed cultivation has proved a successful means to produce agricultural crops in various wetland areas of the world. In freshwater lakes and wetlands, vegetables, flowers, and seedlings are grown in Bangladesh using this floating cultivation technique, without any additional irrigation or chemical fertiliser. No detailed study of this indigenous cultivation technique has been published to date, although the laboratory method, hydroponics, …
Laboratories, Laws, and the Career of a Commodity
Unlike most foods, milk is produced fresh at least twice every day, thus recreating, over 700 times a year, a commodity 'designed' by the combination of nature, commerce, and law. The paper is a study of the ontogenesis of this commodity in Britain since 1800, stressing the emergence of two new objectivities: dairy science and the law on adulteration. In the words of Christopher Hamlin, what mattered was the "manufacture of certainty, however fli…
Taste, trade and technology
White Poison? The Social Consequences of Milk Consumption, 1850–1930
This paper seeks to adduce evidence on the social consequences of milk consumption in the period 1850–1930. It is shown that the poor quality of supply partly resulted from the nature of the marketing system, with adulteration and the use of chemical preservatives as other factors. Local authority regulation and central government legislation were very slow in controlling the cleanliness of production and sale. Milk was heavily contaminated with …
Toxic torts
Tubewells have been so popular in rural Bangladesh that about 12 million have been installed, yielding water that is convenient, free and low in bacteria. But every fourth well is polluted with arsenic, with the result that millions of people are exposed to a severe environmental hazard. We explore this crisis from the viewpoint of legal geographies. The case of Sutradhar v NERC is taken as an exemplar of a debate about ‘proximity’ between scient…
Sophistication detected
Sophistication detected: or, the adulteration of the milk supply, 1850-1914 But the milk . . . should not pass unanalysed, the produce of faded cabbage leaves and sour draff, lowered with hot water, frothed with bruised snails; carried through the streets in open pails, exposed to foul risings discharged from doors and windows, spittle, snot, and tobacco quids, from foot-passengers; overflowings from mud carts, spatterings from coach wheels, dirt…
Supporting Implementation of Innovative Social Work Practice
Achieving client outcomes is understood as a complex, dynamic interplay of elements including the client, worker/s, programme setting and practice approach. How an organisation supports or constrains implementation of innovative social work practice is worthy of research attention. The emergence of frameworks for translating evidence-based practice into health and mental health settings reflects increasing interest in implementation. However, the…
Secrecy Surrounding the Physical Abuse of Child Athletes in Australia
Over the past two decades there has been a growing awareness that sport may not be a positive experience for all children. For example, we know that some children experience sexual abuse in the context of organised sport, and that these offences are often committed by trusted adults, including coaches and club officials. However, less attention has been given to the physical abuse of child athletes. This paper presents a study that explored child…
Social implications of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh
Besides its toxicity, groundwater arsenic contamination creates widespread social problems for its victims and their families in Bangladesh. There is, for instance, a tendency to ostracise arsenic-affected people, arsenicosis being thought of as a contagious disease. Within the community, arsenic-affected people are barred from social activities and often face rejection, even by their immediate family members. Women with visible arsenicosis sympt…
GIS for development
Is it possible to make appropriate use of GIS for ‘development’ (here defined as change desirable for the poor) in countries where human and financial resources may be limited? We argue that it is, and should be taught, but that there are no quick fixes
London's Intra-Urban Milk Supply, circa 1790-1914
Laboratories, Laws, and the Career of a Commodity
Unlike most foods, milk is produced fresh at least twice every day, thus recreating, over 700 times a year, a commodity 'designed' by the combination of nature, commerce, and law. The paper is a study of the ontogenesis of this commodity in Britain since 1800, stressing the emergence of two new objectivities: dairy science and the law on adulteration. In the words of Christopher Hamlin, what mattered was the "manufacture of certainty, however fli…
Poisons, pragmatic governance and deliberative democracy
International curriculum transfer in geography in higher education
Internationalization of geography in higher education comes in many guises. This paper discusses some of these, with particular attention to curriculum development and transfer. The context is Bangladesh and a case study is presented of a link programme between three higher education institutions in that country and one in the UK. The British Council funded project INSPIRE provided funding and organizational support for a project that lasted 4 ye…
School Milk in Britain, 1900–1934
It seems to be generally accepted that school meals played a small but important role in the creation of conceptual and practical space for the first green shoots of the modern welfare state, and that their provision, no matter how modest at the outset, therefore represented a major departure in the history of social policy. As Bentley Gilbert notes: “The passage of the Education (Provision of Meals) Act of 1906, and the Education (Administrative…
The Bovine Scourge
There is already much outstanding scholarship on the subject of tuberculosis in Victorian and Edwardian Britain but relatively little on the spread of the disease through the food chain. Keir Waddington has addressed this gap with an account of the bovine strain and its health impact through the consumption of meat and milk. He begins with the widespread sale of diseased meat in the middle of the nineteenth century, much of which was tuberculous.…
Mother's milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940
My contribution to this journal issue is to reconstruct the darker side of the most popular of infant foods. I will give a brief overview of contamination and disease in Britain's milk supply between 1880 and 1940, with particular reference to the impact upon infants. Not surprisingly, young children consumed a substantial proportion of market milk and, as a result, they seem to have suffered heavily from diseases such as bovine tuberculosis and …
The Evolution of Retail Systems, c.1800-1914
Part 1 The economic and social context of retailing: the old world - Britain and Germany the new world - Canada. Part 2 Fairs, market and pedlars: Britain Germany Canada. Part 3 Shops, co-op vs department stores, multiples and mail order: Britain Germany Canada
Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-19411
Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-1941. The introduction of school milk in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century was a relatively slow process. This article seeks to understand state and private sector initiatives in the light of four issues: nutrition, political factors, problems in the dairy industry, and the moulding of the consumers of the future. Overall, the nutritional benefits of school mil…
Children's experience of sport in Australia
Australia is known as a 'sporting nation' and sport is central to its cultural identity. Children's participation in leisure activities, including sport, is considered to be of such importance that it is enshrined as an international human right. There is a growing awareness, however, that children's experience of sport is not always positive and that abuse and harm may occur in organised sport. This paper reports on a study designed to explore c…
Environmental Irony
The arsenic crisis that affects at least thirty million water consumers in Bangladesh has been called the world's greatest ever environmental health disaster. Although the problem and the potential solutions have been presented confidently in the media, the argument of this paper is that, ironically, very little of the science or the technology is certain. From the spatial and depth variabilities of contamination, through safety thresholds, to th…
The Retail Milk Trade in London, c. 1790–1914
Are Spiritual Experiences through Music Seen as Intrinsic or Extrinsic
Music has a great capacity to afford spiritual experiences, but are those experiences intrinsic or extrinsic to the music? This paper reports the results of research aimed at answering that research question. One hundred and seventeen self-reported Christian religious people completed a survey, answering eight rating-item questions about strong musical experiences, both in a religious and a non-religious context. Factor analysis revealed that rat…
Coalition Culls and Zoonotic Ontologies
Diseases which can pass between animals and humans (zoonoses) have been headline news several times in the last ten years. This paper looks at bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in the United Kingdom, which, although not a major health hazard for humans, has been problematic for farmers and the veterinary health institutions. At its current rate of spread, the disease will cost the authorities £1 billion in compensation to farmers for slaughtered animals …
A Green Social Work Study of Environmental and Social Justice in an Australian River Community
In Australia the impacts of climate change are resulting in considerable water scarcity, a scenario affecting the green and blue spaces that provide well-recognized individual health benefits. However, far less is known about the social health benefits of these spaces, particularly for those residing in rural Australian river communities. In this geographic context, water issues are compounded by a dominant culture that privileges the commodifica…
The long genealogy of quality in the British drinking-milk sector
Throughout most of the last 150 years milk in Britain has been an example of modernity in food production. It became a mass-produced, industrial product, with high volume, rapid tur nover, but limited choice. To modify Henry Ford’s humorous dictum, you could have any kind of milk you wanted as long as it was white and about 3% fat (Ford, 1923: 72). It is only in the last two or three decades that drinking-milk in Britain has become differentiated…
Child Athletes and Athletic Objectification
This article examines the risks associated with conceptualizing the child athlete's body primarily in aesthetic terms and as an instrument of sporting victory, and develops a concept of 'athletic objectification.' It draws on a recent research project involving Australian males and females aged between 18 and 25 who participated in organized sport as children. It identifies socially prevalent beliefs and values to which the athletic objectificati…
Children's Experience of Sport
Internationally, children's participation in leisure activities, including sport, is considered to be of such importance that it is enshrined as a human right. However, there is a growing awareness that children's experience of sport is not always benign; abuse and harm frequently occur within a broad range of organised sport contexts. This systematic literature review examines the international research evidence from both peer reviewed and grey …
London's Intra-Urban Milk Supply, circa 1790-1914
The Growth of London's Railway Milk Trade, c. 1845–1914
The Retail Milk Trade in London, c. 1790–1914
The spatial configuration of class solidarity in London's West End 1792–1939
For more than two hundred years after the Glorious Revolution, the British aristocracy gained control of ‘every aspect of government, both executive and legislative. They dominated the Cabinet, the highest ranks of the armed forces, the civil service and, to a lesser extent, the judiciary’. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries there was a shift in their centre of gravity from that of a rural elite, to a group whose influence was m…
Urban Population Development in Western Europe from the Late-Eighteenth to the Early-Twentieth Century
Sophistication detected
Sophistication detected: or, the adulteration of the milk supply, 1850-1914 But the milk . . . should not pass unanalysed, the produce of faded cabbage leaves and sour draff, lowered with hot water, frothed with bruised snails; carried through the streets in open pails, exposed to foul risings discharged from doors and windows, spittle, snot, and tobacco quids, from foot-passengers; overflowings from mud carts, spatterings from coach wheels, dirt…
White Poison? The Social Consequences of Milk Consumption, 1850–1930
This paper seeks to adduce evidence on the social consequences of milk consumption in the period 1850–1930. It is shown that the poor quality of supply partly resulted from the nature of the marketing system, with adulteration and the use of chemical preservatives as other factors. Local authority regulation and central government legislation were very slow in controlling the cleanliness of production and sale. Milk was heavily contaminated with …
The Evolution of Retail Systems, c.1800-1914
Part 1 The economic and social context of retailing: the old world - Britain and Germany the new world - Canada. Part 2 Fairs, market and pedlars: Britain Germany Canada. Part 3 Shops, co-op vs department stores, multiples and mail order: Britain Germany Canada
Food, Diet and Economic Change Past and Present
A geography of the sex ratio in India / Une géographie du sex-ratio en Inde
A Geography of the Sex Ratio in India. The 1991 Census of India found that for every 1000 males there were only 927 females. This sex ratio shows that the country has one of the lowest proportions of girls and women in its population in the world. The paper seeks to explain why and also broadens the discussion by investigating the male/female balance in different regions, between the city and the countryside, and among scheduled castes and tribus
The Maltese food system and the Mediterranean
GIS for development
Is it possible to make appropriate use of GIS for ‘development’ (here defined as change desirable for the poor) in countries where human and financial resources may be limited? We argue that it is, and should be taught, but that there are no quick fixes
Where Angels Fear to Tread? Mapping Women and Men in India
The authors have produced the Atlas of Women and Men in India, using material from the 1991 Census, mainly at district level. The Atlas may be unacceptable to Indian geographers because it seeks to question the authority of numerical data and of maps, and to Western geographers because this is "mapping before we understand the process". The authors introduce maps of the sex ratio in India and explore through a map of changes in the sex ratio 1981…
Food in Society
Mother's milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940
My contribution to this journal issue is to reconstruct the darker side of the most popular of infant foods. I will give a brief overview of contamination and disease in Britain's milk supply between 1880 and 1940, with particular reference to the impact upon infants. Not surprisingly, young children consumed a substantial proportion of market milk and, as a result, they seem to have suffered heavily from diseases such as bovine tuberculosis and …
Interdisciplinarity and positionality
(2004). Interdisciplinarity and positionality. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: Vol. 29, Interdisciplinarity: lessons from the social sciences, pp. 2-5
Social implications of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh
Besides its toxicity, groundwater arsenic contamination creates widespread social problems for its victims and their families in Bangladesh. There is, for instance, a tendency to ostracise arsenic-affected people, arsenicosis being thought of as a contagious disease. Within the community, arsenic-affected people are barred from social activities and often face rejection, even by their immediate family members. Women with visible arsenicosis sympt…
Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-19411
Fattening children or fattening farmers? School milk in Britain, 1921-1941. The introduction of school milk in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century was a relatively slow process. This article seeks to understand state and private sector initiatives in the light of four issues: nutrition, political factors, problems in the dairy industry, and the moulding of the consumers of the future. Overall, the nutritional benefits of school mil…
Toxic torts
Tubewells have been so popular in rural Bangladesh that about 12 million have been installed, yielding water that is convenient, free and low in bacteria. But every fourth well is polluted with arsenic, with the result that millions of people are exposed to a severe environmental hazard. We explore this crisis from the viewpoint of legal geographies. The case of Sutradhar v NERC is taken as an exemplar of a debate about ‘proximity’ between scient…
Poisons, pragmatic governance and deliberative democracy
School Milk in Britain, 1900–1934
It seems to be generally accepted that school meals played a small but important role in the creation of conceptual and practical space for the first green shoots of the modern welfare state, and that their provision, no matter how modest at the outset, therefore represented a major departure in the history of social policy. As Bentley Gilbert notes: “The passage of the Education (Provision of Meals) Act of 1906, and the Education (Administrative…
The Bovine Scourge
There is already much outstanding scholarship on the subject of tuberculosis in Victorian and Edwardian Britain but relatively little on the spread of the disease through the food chain. Keir Waddington has addressed this gap with an account of the bovine strain and its health impact through the consumption of meat and milk. He begins with the widespread sale of diseased meat in the middle of the nineteenth century, much of which was tuberculous.…
Indigenous floating cultivation
Floating-bed cultivation has proved a successful means to produce agricultural crops in various wetland areas of the world. In freshwater lakes and wetlands, vegetables, flowers, and seedlings are grown in Bangladesh using this floating cultivation technique, without any additional irrigation or chemical fertiliser. No detailed study of this indigenous cultivation technique has been published to date, although the laboratory method, hydroponics, …
Laboratories, Laws, and the Career of a Commodity
Unlike most foods, milk is produced fresh at least twice every day, thus recreating, over 700 times a year, a commodity 'designed' by the combination of nature, commerce, and law. The paper is a study of the ontogenesis of this commodity in Britain since 1800, stressing the emergence of two new objectivities: dairy science and the law on adulteration. In the words of Christopher Hamlin, what mattered was the "manufacture of certainty, however fli…
Taste, trade and technology
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