Andrew Williams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3594504 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Williams |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Williams |
| FIRMA | WILLIAMS A |
| AFILIACIONES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8724-0856 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 130 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 967 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World
This paper re‐examines the British workhouse within the framework of racial capitalism and the Atlantic world. Traditionally understood as a domestic mechanism for managing poverty and labour in an era of industrial capitalism, we argue the workhouse was deeply intertwined with global systems of racial exploitation and accumulation from the 17 th to the 19 th centuries. Tracing the workhouse's connections to Britain's colonial plantations, the tr…
Symposium on Tommie Shelby's The Idea of Prison Abolition
The mystery of misreported trade
This research shows that misreporting of trade is rampant, which markedly reduces the quality of reported bilateral trade data. We devise a novel methodology to correct for misreported bilateral trade while accounting for the composition of product types and for trading partners. Based on bilateral data for 196 countries in the world at the product level over the period 1996–2017, we find that (i) our corrected trade data are significantly more r…
Sustainable skies and the Earth–space environment
Racism and the uneven geography of welfare sanctioning in England
This paper presents the first spatial analysis of racial disparities in the UK welfare sanction regime. As part of their austerity programme, the UK government tightened the conditionality of welfare programmes and intensified the use of financial penalties against welfare claimants who failed to demonstrate compliance with these conditions. Analysing Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) data from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Office f…
Public inquiry into state violence
This article examines the problem of recent UK public inquiries into military controversies both in general (the waging of war) and particular (individual killings). It first sets out their potential and actual value as well as the critiques that threaten their legitimacy. Arguing that the benefits of the process make the public inquiry worthy as an apt intra-state device for uncovering unlawful military violence, revealing the ‘truth’ of a matte…
Military social harm
This article presents a critical framework for understanding the harms produced by military institutions. Assessments of military harms are undertaken across the sociological study of the military, ranging from public-facing military issues to more inwardly directed research conducted by entities with vested state interests. Building upon and advancing the available scholarship, we introduce the concept of 'military social harm', drawing on crimi…
Universities should lead on the plant-based dietary transition
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change1Shukla PR Skea J Calvo Buendia E et al.Climate change and land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/Date accessed: April 7, 2023Google Scholar and the EAT–Lancet Commission2Willett W Rockström J Loken B et al.Food in the Anthropocene: the…
The effects of body size and training environment on the physical performance of adolescent basketball players
Leaner players have advantages in physical performance and individual characteristics play an important role, over and beyond club structure, in developing physical performance
Why Has the Franco-American Security Relationship Been so Semi—Hostile for so Long
Many people assume that Franco-American relations since 1776 have been far more harmonious than those of the United States’ relationship with Great Britain. After all, France fought on the side of the new aspiring republic in the American War of Independence against a colonial power. Although still a country ruled by a king, France itself became a republic shortly after the American Declaration of Independence was ratified. But in fact, France an…
A genealogy of the food bank
It is widely supposed that food banks and key aspects of the UK's wider food banking system – referral networks, eligibility tests, food vouchers, corporate sponsorship, and the close entanglement of food charity with local and national government – are new to the UK, either imported from North America or emerging ex nihilio with the Trussell Trust in the early 2000s. Drawing on local and national newspaper archives and data from Companies House,…
Introduction to symposium on international migration
A Modern Genotoxicity Testing Paradigm
Higher-throughput, mode-of-action-based assays provide a valuable approach to expedite chemical evaluation for human health risk assessment. In this study, we combined the high-throughput alkaline DNA damage-sensing CometChip ® assay with the TGx-DDI transcriptomic biomarker (DDI = DNA damage-inducing) using high-throughput TempO-Seq ® , as an integrated genotoxicity testing approach. We used metabolically competent differentiated human HepaRGTM …
Community land formalization and company land acquisition procedures
Indigenous and community lands, crucial for rural livelihoods, are typically held under informal customary tenure arrangements. This can leave the land vulnerable to outside commercial interests, so communities may seek to formalize their land rights in a government registry and obtain an official land document. But this process can be time-consuming and complex, and in contrast, companies can acquire land relatively quickly and find shortcuts ar…
Independent Sector
In October of 1978, a committee met to explore the possibility of a merger between the National Council on Philanthropy (NCOP) and the Coalition of National Voluntary Organizations (CONVO). The vision was more than the mere marriage of two small organizations facing uncertain futures. Participants in this endeavor dreamed of an entity that would represent the entire nonprofit sector. The organization they birthed in 1979, Independent Sector (IS),…
French airmen and the challenges of post-war order
Barriers and opportunities facing the UK Peatland Code
The ideal of equality
D.Parfit - Equality, Priority, and the Levelling Down Objection L.Temkin - The Pareto Argument for Inequality (extracts) G.A.Cohen - Equal Opportunities for Welfare (extracts) R.Arneson - Justice in the Distribution of Health Care R.Dworkin - Further Reading - Index
The Emergence of Globalism
The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939-1950, by Or Rosenboim." The International History Review, 40(2), pp. 458–459
The meddlers
America and the postwar world
America and the postwar world: remaking international society, 1945 – 1956." The Round Table, 109(1), pp. 103–104
Haldane
Tacit alliance
Values in foreign policy
As a young academic, many years ago now, I was given the short straw job of teaching the Masters students a course on foreign policy analysis, a job for which I was apparently qualified by a decade
Power, legitimacy and world order
A Compromised Fourth Estate
The suggestion that the activities of public relations professionals and news agencies help to shape news content in national and local news media is increasingly commonplace among journalists, academics and public relations professionals. The findings from this study provide substantive empirical evidence to support such claims. The study analyses the domestic news content of UK national “quality” newspapers (2207 items in the Guardian, The Time…
The geographies of food banks in the meantime
Geographies of food banks have focused predominantly on issues of neoliberal political-economy and food insecurity. In this paper, we trace alternative understandings of food banking - as spaces of care, and as liminal spaces of encounter capable of incubating political and ethical values, practices and subjectivities that challenge neoliberal austerity. Our aim is to develop a conceptual approach to voluntary welfare capable both of holding in t…
Contested space
This paper offers a critical reappraisal of the politics of food banking in the UK. Existing work has raised concerns about the institutionalisation of food banks, with charitable assistance apparently - even if inadvertently - undermining collectivist welfare and deflecting attention from fundamental injustices in the food system. This paper presents original ethnographic work that examines the neglected politics articulated within food banks th…
Incentives, Inequality, and Publicity
War on the Web
This study examined the immediate coverage of the 2003 Iraq War on the home pages of 246 international news Web sites. The results show that most of these online publications provided coverage and made Gulf War II their top story only hours after the war began. However, foreign news sites framed the war differently than U.S. sites. Domestic news sites focused more heavily on the military conflict, human interest, and media self-coverage while the…
Neoliberalism, Big Society, and Progressive Localism
In the UK the current Coalition government has introduced an unprecedented set of reforms to welfare, public services, and local governance under the rubric of 'localism'. Conventional analytics of neoliberalism have commonly portrayed the impacts of these changes in the architectures of governance in blanket terms: as an utterly regressive dilution of local democracy; as an extension of conservative political technology by which state welfare is…
Postsecular geographies
This paper explores the connections between emergent postsecularity and neoliberal forms of governance. The concept of the postsecular has been increasingly debated by human geographers seeking to understand the apparent paradox that, in late secularised societies, there seems to be a renewed visibility to religion in public life. Geographical scholarship has taken issue with broad‐scale suggestions of a shift from a secular to a postsecular soci…
Co-Constituting Neoliberalism
The increasing prominence of faith-based organisations (FBOs) in providing welfare in the UK has typically been regarded as a by-product of neoliberalism, as the gaps left by shrinking public service provision and the contracting out of service delivery have been filled by these and other Third Sector organisations. In this way, FBOs have been represented as merely being co-opted as inexpensive resource providers into the wider governmentalities …
Shining a Light on the Resource Curse
Hyperlocal Journalism
In the wake of the withdrawal of commercial journalism from local communities at the beginning of the 21st century, Hyperlocal Journalism critically explores the development of citizen-led community news operations. The book draws together a wide range of original research by way of case studies, interviews, and industry and policy analysis, to give a complete view of what is happening to communities as their local newspapers close or go into dec…
Audience views on user-generated content
News organizations increasingly view user-generated content (UGC) as a vital resource for audience engagement and empowerment. Researchers have investigated the production practices and journalistic cultures surrounding UGC, but have paid less attention to the audiences who produce and consume the content. This article seeks to fill this gap in knowledge, drawing on a series of focus groups to understand why audiences value particular forms of UG…
Evolution of Online Campaigning
Political candidates have responded to the public's desire to use the Internet as an interactive information source by creating their own online presence. This study is a content analysis of the Web sites and blogs of the 10 Americans vying to be the Democratic candidate for the 2004 presidential election. Focusing on interactivity, data indicated front pages hyperlink to participation areas such as Donation or Volunteer sections and rarely linke…
Blogging and Hyperlinking
(2005). Blogging and Hyperlinking: use of the Web to enhance viability during the 2004 US campaign. Journalism Studies: Vol. 6, Content and Effects of Media in the 2004 US Presidential Campaign, pp. 177-186
Welfare Convergence, Bureaucracy, and Moral Distancing at the Food Bank
This paper seeks to extend geographic thinking on the changing constitution of the UK welfare state, suggesting the need to supplement ideas of the “shadow state” with an analysis of the blurring of the bureaucratic practices through which welfare is now delivered by public, private and third sector providers alike. Focusing on the growing convergence of the bureaucratic practices of benefits officials and food bank organisations, we interrogate …
Food banks and the production of scarcity
This paper contributes to critical discussions of austerity by examining the constructions of scarcity that underpin it. Specifically, it shows how notions of scarcity (re)emergent in a period of austerity have shaped materially insufficient and stigmatising welfare systems. We do this through the example of UK food banks. We suggest that under austerity a particular moral economy of scarcity has become embedded at the level of common sense, incl…
Hyperlinking as Gatekeeping
This study focuses on the online coverage of American terrorist Timothy McVeigh's execution on the websites of the top 15 print newspapers cited by Columbia Journalism Review as the "Best American Newspapers." Using content analysis, the study compares the 15 newspapers' websites by measuring the number, destination, and characteristics of hyperlinks that accompany these stories. The results suggest that online newspapers use hyperlinks as a gate…
Towards a geography of tolerance
Four Rumours and an Explanation
Our analysis of 2207 domestic news reports in a structured sample of UK “quality” (the Guardian, The Times, the Independent and the Telegraph) and mid-market (Daily Mail) newspapers, revealed journalists’ extensive use of copy provided by public relations sources and news agencies, especially the UK-based Press Association. A political economic explanation for this reliance on news stories produced “outside the newsroom”, draws inspiration from G…
Resolving Accountability Ambiguity in Nonprofit Organizations
Accountability is a much studied subject in the social sciences and is known for its complexity, context dependence, and ambiguity. By conducting a comprehensive literature review and analysis across nonprofit, public, and private sector literatures, this article identifies the causes of ambiguities present in many accountability frameworks and describes the trend toward understanding accountability as a constructed concept combining both instrum…
Still bleeding
Shifting Ground
In this paper we examine the long-term interests that large institutional owners (for example, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, Hermes, and the Universities Superannuation Scheme) have in the development of global corporate governance standards, especially as governance standards increasingly become intertwined with other standards and regime parameters involved in the globalization debates. We argue that institutional owners h…
A genealogy of the food bank
It is widely supposed that food banks and key aspects of the UK's wider food banking system – referral networks, eligibility tests, food vouchers, corporate sponsorship, and the close entanglement of food charity with local and national government – are new to the UK, either imported from North America or emerging ex nihilio with the Trussell Trust in the early 2000s. Drawing on local and national newspaper archives and data from Companies House,…
Radiocarbon age constraints for a Pleistocene–Holocene transition rock art style
Postsecularity, Political Resistance, and Protest in the Occupy Movement
This paper examines and critically interprets the interrelations between religion and the Occupy movements of 2011. It presents three main arguments. First, through an examination of the Occupy Movement in the UK and USA—and in particular of the two most prominent Occupy camps (Wall Street and London Stock Exchange)—the paper traces the emergence of postsecularity evidenced in the rapprochement of religious and secular actors, discourses, and pra…
Cross-Cultural Values
Since 2010, scholars have made major contributions to cross-cultural research, especially regarding similarities and differences across world regions and countries in people's values, beliefs, and morality. This paper accumulates and analyzes extant multi-national and quantitative studies of these facets of global culture. The paper begins with a summary of the modern history of cross-cultural research, then systematically reviews major empirical…
The Labour Party's Attitude to the Soviet Union, 1927—35
The least that can be said of the relationship between the Labour Party and the Soviet Union during the period bounded by the end of the Anglo-Russian Joint Advisory Committee (ARJAC) experiment and the end of Lansbury's leadership is that it was complex and often contradictory. It is not enough to say, as Bill Jones does in The Russia Complex that the 'typical member of the Labour Party might have described Soviet Russia in glowing terms ... as …
Canada and Anglo‐Soviet relations
Clerics and courtly love in Andreas Capellanus' The Art of Courtly Love and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
In both The Canterbury Tales and The Art of Courtly Love Geoffrey Chaucer and Andreas Capellanus deal with various aspects of courtly love. In particular, both of them focus to some degree on the question of clerical celibacy. The use of tale telling and imaginary dialogues result in a contemporary overview of the role of the cleric in courtly love, the church rules on the subject, and the opinions of the people on a subject that is ripe for expl…
Cohen on Locke, Land and Labour
Rights, Equality and Procreation
Individual decisions about how to exercise the legal right to procreative liberty may generate either positive or negative externalities. From within a resource egalitarian perspective, such as that of Ronald Dworkin, it can be argued that procreative justice is asymmetric in the following respect. Justice need not require that parents be subsidised if they produce a public good, yet its ideal achievement may require their activities be taxed if …
Labour’s Paradoxical Interests and the Evolution of Corporate Finance
The Limits of Lockean Rights in Property
Ecological and landscape effects of afforestation at a second rotation plantation
Ecological and aesthetic criticisms of commercial coniferous plantings in the early 20th century, together with growing environmental awareness of issues such as multiple‐use, sustainability and biodiversity, have prompted new policies and approaches to forest management. This paper examines the management and development of Fernworthy Plantation, Devon to illustrate the extent to which the management strategies have changed through time in respo…
Incentives, Inequality, and Publicity
Resource Egalitarianism and the Limits to Basic Income
In his widely-discussed book, Real Freedom for All , Philippe Van Parijs argues that justice requires the provision of a universal, unconditional basic income. Some critics reject that conclusion on the grounds that it violates requirements of reciprocity or prohibitions on exploitation, free-riding and parasitism. This paper explores a less familiar critique, which operates within the same resource egalitarian parameters as Van Parijs's argument…
Conflict resolution after the Cold War
This article considers some implications of the Moldovan conflict from 1991 to the present for thinking about International Relations (IR) and conflict theory, as well as more specifically about the complexities of the conflict itself. This encompasses an examination of the roles of key external actors, and particularly of the Russian Republic and of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as well as a subjective view of th…
Egalitarian justice and interpersonal comparison
This paper surveys the strengths and weaknesses of three widely–discussed egalitarian standards of interpersonal comparison:welfare, resource, andcapability. We argue that welfare egalitarianism is beset by numerous serious problems, and should be rejected. Capability and resourcist standards conform with egalitarian convictions more closely, but each faces distinctive problems. We itemise a set of desiderata which a fully adequate account of int…
The Alleged Incompleteness of Public Reason
France and the New World Order, 1940–1947
Using a number of archive sources concentrating on the Occupation years and the period just after the Liberation, this article throws light on the contribution of France to the ‘New World Order’, a concept normally thought of as ‘Anglo-Saxon’ or ‘Anglo-American’. Even in defeat, those looking forward to the reconstruction of France in the postwar period considered a number of approaches as to how a French state-oriented system would work in a wor…
Dworkin on Capability
Sir John Bradbury and the Reparations Commission, 1920-25
This article looks at a neglected episode during the work of the Reparations Commission of 1920-25 leading up to the Dawes Plan of 1924, when the British delegate to the Commission, Sir John Bradbury, drew up a plan to reschedule German reparation payments in an attempt to take the venom out of the debate over these payments. It takes as its documentary basis the previously unpublished papers of Sir John in his role as Britain's representative on…
Equality for the Ambitious
Journal Article Equality for the Ambitious Get access Sovereign Virtue: the Theory and Practice of Equality. By R.M. Dworkin. ( Harvard UP, 2000. Pp. 511. Price £23.50.) Andrew Williams Andrew Williams University of Reading Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 52, Issue 208, July 2002, Pages 377–389, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.00276 Published: 07 January 2003
Real Libertarianism Assessed
Before the special relationship
Hyperlinking as Gatekeeping
This study focuses on the online coverage of American terrorist Timothy McVeigh's execution on the websites of the top 15 print newspapers cited by Columbia Journalism Review as the "Best American Newspapers." Using content analysis, the study compares the 15 newspapers' websites by measuring the number, destination, and characteristics of hyperlinks that accompany these stories. The results suggest that online newspapers use hyperlinks as a gate…
III. In Knots
Science and the St Elias
The past, present, and future contributions of science in the St Elias Mountains, and its relationship with regional development, resource management, and traditional ecological knowledge is examined. Science has evolved from an early foundation of exploration, through stages of resource inventories and surveys, to deductive scientific research and, more recently, a promising reconnection with traditional knowledge. Directly and indirectly, event…
I — Andrew Williams
It is difficult for prioritarians to explain the degree to which justice requires redress for misfortune in a way that avoids imposing unreasonably high costs on more advantaged individuals whilst also economising on intuitionist appeals to judgment. An appeal to hypothetical insurance may be able to solve the problems of cost and judgment more successfully, and can also be defended from critics who claim that resource egalitarianism is best unde…
Governance and sustainability
English This article argues that changing governance modes in the European Union (EU), including territorial multi-level governance and the dispersion of decision-making authority in policy networks, along with the separation of functions at all governance levels, is often characterised by fragmentation in the policy process. This causes difficulties for policy makers in identifying and avoiding unintended ex post policy outcomes, including ‘trad…
States, Borders and the Idea of the 'Common State
The post-Cold War period has seen a growing appreciation of the problems of the 'failed state' and the factors that contribute to them. The article argues that we need to find different ways of configuring such entities and posits the idea of the 'Common State' as one such reconfiguration. The case study is drawn from observations of the conflict in Moldova over the last 10 years or so. It also considers alternative ways of viewing a possible sol…
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