Martin Evans
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3595473 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Martin Evans |
| NOMBRES | Martin |
| APELLIDO | Evans |
| FIRMA | EVANS M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3597-6487 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 209 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Gully erosion in India
Gully erosion, which is the rapid incision of soils by concentrated overland and/or subsurface runoff, affects India widely. However, Central and Western India suffer from particularly intense land degradation as prolonged gullying has resulted in the formation of extensive badlands therein. Considerable research has been conducted on these badlands, but drivers and characteristics of gully erosion in other regions suffering from widespread gully…
The Transnational Land Rush in Africa
Book review of The Transnational Land Rush in Africa: A Decade After the Spike edited by Logan Cochrane and Nathan Andrews, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, xxv + 287 pp
Monetary and Multidimensional Poverty
We consider the relationships between multidimensional and monetary poverty indices in international and national poverty profiles, and empirically explore the consequences of identifying poor people relying on a combination of both approaches. Taking first a cross-country perspective, focusing on 90 countries in the developing world, we corroborate that the incidence of poverty by money metrics and the global Multidimensional Poverty Index, a no…
Roundtable
Professor Harry Roderick Kedward (1937–2023), universally known as Rod Kedward, is best known for his groundbreaking studies of the French Resistance, discussed in diverse ways by several contributors to this roundtable.1 Yet as Chris Warne emphasizes below, Rod’s interests extended in time and space well beyond the Second World War. Indeed, to fully comprehend Rod, it is important to understand him as a soixante-huitard—close witness to many of …
Lectures postcoloniales en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis
Les études postcoloniales, développées dans le champ anglo-saxon depuis la fin des années 1970, reposent sur des sources multiples. De Frantz Fanon à Salman Rushdie, en passant par Edward Said ou Ranajit Guha, la pensée postcoloniale croise l'histoire et la littérature pour saisir et critiquer les effets des relations, des discours et des imaginaires coloniaux dans le présent. Elle débouche aujourd'hui, sur l'exigence d'actions concrètes anticolo…
Insecurity, Informal Trade and Timber Trafficking in the Gambia/Casamance Borderlands
The Gambia’s long frontier with Casamance, southern Senegal, has historically been porous allowing informal cross-border trade to flourish. With context from colonial times, the paper examines the post-independence period, during which flows of agricultural and forest products mainly from Casamance into The Gambia have continued, while processed foods and manufactured goods have been traded in the other direction. Certain flows have become pathol…
Displacement in Casamance, Senegal
The paper reflects on fieldwork conducted since 2000 with displaced communities in Lower and Middle Casamance, Senegal, amid West Africa’s arguably longest running civil conflict. While this is a small conflict in a geographically confined space, Casamance presents a microcosm of dynamics common to other displacement situations in Africa. In this context the paper explores how the understandings, lived experiences and practices of the displaced t…
Sistermatic, une boîte de nuit pour lesbiennes et queers noires
Fondé en 1986 par Yvonne Taylor, Lorna Edwards, Sharon Lee et Eddie Lockhart, Sistermatic était un collectif londonien de lesbiennes noires, de DJ et de férues de musique. Elles voulaient créer une boîte de nuit de femmes pour lesbiennes et femmes queer, tenue par des femmes de couleur et leurs amies – un lieu musical encore inexistant à l’époque dans le monde des boîtes de nuit londoniennes
Génération rebelle », musique et recherche
Paul Gilroy est né à Londres en 1956. Il a étudié à l’université du Sussex où il a obtenu son diplôme en 1978 avant de soutenir sa thèse de doctorat au Centre d’études culturelles contemporaines de l’université de Birmingham en 1986. Ses deux ouvrages There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack (Pas de trace de Noir sur l’Union Jack, 1987) et The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (L’Atlantique noir. Modernité et double conscience, 199…
Me voir comme un écrivain m'a vraiment aidé à façonner mon identité
Hanif Kureishi, né le 5 décembre 1954 à Bromley (London), est un écrivain, scénariste et dramaturge britannique. Auteur de romans, de recueils de nouvelles, d’essais et de pièces de théâtre, il est l’un des représentants les plus célèbres de la nouvelle « école » d’écrivains britanniques d’origine étrangère. Son roman, Le Bouddha de banlieue (The Buddha of Suburbia, 1990) a reçu le Whitbread Award du meilleur premier roman et a bénéficié d’une ad…
Histoire comparée, transnationale et interdisciplinaire
Comparée, transnationale et interdisciplinaire... telle est la vision plurielle de l’histoire culturelle adoptée pour l’exposition Paris-Londres. Music migrations. 1962-1989. L’analyse de ces choix scientifiques permet de restituer à la musique sa place centrale dans la revendication des droits des populations immigrées à Paris et à Londres, à partir du début des années 1960. La production et la diffusion musicales sont ainsi au cœur d’un parcour…
Introduction
The unusual trajectory of settler colonialism in French Algeria, which culminated in Algerian independence and the exodus of European settlers, has often limited the interest of scholars who seek to understand settler colonialism as an enduring structure of oppression. For their part, scholars of French Algeria have yet to fully engage with the intellectual propositions of settler colonial studies, which has focused primarily on Anglophone and Is…
Towards an emotional history of settler decolonisation
This article focuses upon the complex emotional relationship between the settlers and Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle returned to power in May 1958 ostensibly to maintain French Algeria and with the new Fifth Republic many settlers felt emotional and politically secure after four years of conflict. Yet, as de Gaulle’s position shifted in 1959, this article traces the changing emotional landscape of the settlers, examining how they responded to de Ga…
Reprisal Violence and the Harkis in French Algeria, 1962
Rejecting notions of inherent violence, this article focuses upon the large numbers of Algerians from the French-organised anti-FLN Militias who were subjected to reprisals after the French exit from Algeria in 1962. Estimates of those killed range from 10,000 to 150,000, and the violence is justifiably described as brutal. The specificity of this violence has only emerged as a field of enquiry since the 1980s. Initially this stemmed from the imp…
Le Cinéma et la Guerre d'Algérie
The Algerian war of independence was not a total war like the Second World War. There were dimensions of total war, most obviously in spring 1956, when the recall of reservists by the French army w
Public Policy and Inequalities of Choice and Autonomy
Choice by service users has been promoted in social policy across many developed welfare states, often on the grounds that it will incentivize providers to enhance quality and efficiency. But this instrumental motivation for the promotion of choice overlooks the possibility that choice, understood in the deeper sense of autonomy, has intrinsic value, as suggested by egalitarian and capability‐based theories of social justice. This article argues …
Reducing Time-dependent Bias in Estimates of the Attributable Cost of Health Care–associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections
BACKGROUND: Previous estimates of the excess costs due to health care-associated infection (HAI) have scarcely addressed the issue of time-dependent bias. OBJECTIVE: We examined time-dependent bias by estimating the health care costs attributable to an HAI due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) using a unique dataset in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that makes it possible to distinguish between costs that occurred bef…
Colonial Fantasies Shattered
J. G. Ballard, author of the 1984 novel Empire of the Sun , was born in the Shanghai International Settlement in China in 1930, into a privileged colonial milieu with a chauffeur, a nanny, and servants. Ballard witnessed at first hand the collapse of the British Empire in Asia. The year 1945 was not a moment of imperial defeat, but of imperial reassertion for Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Britain, each of which saw their futures as global…
John Milton
For a variety of reasons, Milton has acquired over the years a somewhat intimidating reputation as a poet. Thanks largely to his association with Puritanism, he is often thought to be a grim, humourless, unfeeling religious zealot, remote from the joys and sorrows of everyday human experience. In fact, although he could certainly sound as fierce and uncompromising as any hell-fire preacher, he could also be as sensuous as Keats, as passionate as …
The Employment Effects of Recession on Couples in the UK
The effect that the 2008/09 recession has had on unemployment and, in particular, on the distribution of job losses across households is of key concern to policymakers. During the 1991 recession rising male unemployment was associated with a sharp increase in the number of workless households, with this polarisation of work between 'work-rich' and 'work-poor' persisting many years later. Part of the reason for this polarisation was that the desig…
The impact of the tax and benefit system on second earners
This article analyses the theoretical and applied aspects of employment disincentives for second earners that exist in the British tax benefit system. The shortcomings of existing tax-benefit income profiles are examined, together with the underlying role of tax credits in disincentives compared with other factors. The potential of such disincentives to worsen employment of second earners in a recession is addressed. Conclusions suggest that a mo…
Peatland Geomorphology and Carbon Cycling
Peatlands in the northern hemisphere are important stores of soil carbon. The stability of peatlands is therefore important for the preservation of a major terrestrial carbon store as well as for the maintenance of the carbon storage function of peatlands. Peatland erosion has the potential to significantly impact carbon storage. This article reviews the evidence from eroding peatland systems, largely in the United Kingdom, to develop the thesis …
Chunnel vision Poverty, social exclusion and the debate on social welfare in France and Britain
Welfare to Work and the Organisation of Opportunity
Welfare to work policy is central to British reforms of its welfare state and social security system. We are not alone in our desire to assist unemployed and other claimants to find and retain work. It is therefore important to be able to look to other countries and consider lessons that could be drawn. Learning from abroad is a difficult and challenging exercise. While it is tempting to try and take the ‘best’ aspects of foreign policies and to …
Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa
This impressive monograph synthesizes research conducted over nearly two decades. Nugent is a long-standing advocate of comparative history, applied across space or between time periods, and this b
The problem of analyzing multiplicative composites
Revisiting the Politics of Belonging in Cameroon
The article introduces a themed section in the journal on hometown associations in Cameroon. It outlines the impact of ten years' work in this field and argues that notions of autochthony remain central in understanding Cameroonian politics. However the three articles go on to argue that some of the claims about home, belonging and politics are difficult to reconcile with the hazier reality observed on the ground. The articles aim to disturb any …
Unsettling connections
With the transnational turn in the social sciences attention has now turned to 'global civil society', 'transnational civil society', 'transnational networks' and, most recently, 'migrant' or 'diasporic civil society'. Claims are being made about the developmental potential of these new configurations of civil society, and the global connections forged by migrant and diaspora associational life have been reified into things called 'networks' for …
Primary patriotism, shifting identity
People's participation in hometown associations reveals a deep sense of belonging to their home place. It has been argued that promotion of this ‘primary patriotism’ by associations is potentially divisive as it may engender parochialism, increase the focus on autochthony, and enhance ethnicization of the political landscape. Contrasting views, however, do not see hometown associations as necessarily inimical to wider social and political cohesio…
The Employment Effects of Recession on Couples in the UK
The effect that the 2008/09 recession has had on unemployment and, in particular, on the distribution of job losses across households is of key concern to policymakers. During the 1991 recession rising male unemployment was associated with a sharp increase in the number of workless households, with this polarisation of work between 'work-rich' and 'work-poor' persisting many years later. Part of the reason for this polarisation was that the desig…
A note on the measurement of Sahlins' social profile of domestic production 1
Sahlins' quantitative approach to production in primitive societies, based on a comparison of the observed relation between production per worker and proportion of consumers to workers in households with a hypothetical “Chayanov” relation (representing production for livelihood), is examlned. Changes in the type of measurement made are suggested which allow the degree of divergence of the empirical production pattern from the Chayanov pattern to …
Milton's Imperial Epic
Written during the crucial first phase of English empire-building in the New World, Paradise Lost registers the radically divided attitudes toward the settlement of America that existed in seventeenth-century Protestant England. Evans looks at the relationship between Milton's epic and the pervasive colonial discourse of Milton's time. Evans bases his analysis on the literature of exploration and colonialism. The primary sources on which he draws…
Popular Consciousness, Moral Ideology, and Locality
After a brief sketch of the nature of popular consciousness, the role of ideology in shaping needs and human subjects through interpellation and character structure is examined. The significance of the sign is assessed and its function in shaping consciousness exemplified by a look at style and locality creation. It is not, however, suggested that the dominant ideology and its concomitant conservative popular consciousness are monolithic and the …
Britain
A major aim of the Labour Government elected in May 1997 was to change British social policy away from passive income maintenance towards promoting employment, investment and opportunity. Many of its policy initiatives bear the clear imprint of a social development model. Investment in education and health are seen as paramount, community rebuilding through partnership‐based economic renewal and the promotion of social capital through neighbourho…
The Memory of Resistance
What makes people act against their own national identity? How real are the concepts of nationalism and patriotism? In what ways does the media control our perception of history in the making? This ground-breaking work addresses these important questions through an examination of the Algerian war of 1954-62 and the significant French resistance to their own leaders during the bitter conflict. Through the use of extensive interviews, it provides p…
The Suffering is Too Great
The paper addresses the dearth of studies of displaced people living in urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa through a survey of a particular group of internally displaced persons (IDPs) created by Senegal's Casamance conflict. They originate in a rural area along the Guinea-Bissau border and were displaced into Ziguinchor, the regional capital, mostly in the first half of the 1990s. Analysis of survey data reveals the dynamics of displacement and r…
Memories, Monuments, Histories
On 17 June 1940, during the period of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, Latvia was invaded by the Red Army and annexed as part of the Soviet Union. Then, just one year later, the country was invaded by Nazi Germany and subjected to a four-year occupation before being invaded by the USSR. Thereafter the country remained part of the Soviet Union until the break up of the latter in August 1991. Taking Latvia as a starting point, this article will explore how th…
Introduction
Public Policy and Inequalities of Choice and Autonomy
Choice by service users has been promoted in social policy across many developed welfare states, often on the grounds that it will incentivize providers to enhance quality and efficiency. But this instrumental motivation for the promotion of choice overlooks the possibility that choice, understood in the deeper sense of autonomy, has intrinsic value, as suggested by egalitarian and capability‐based theories of social justice. This article argues …
British Pension Policy in the Twenty‐first Century
Behind the Rhetoric
tant part of the development of the concept of social exclusion. In other countries, poverty research, primarily on income poverty, has had a longer history of the measurement of such failings and gaps -for example in Townsend's work in Britain (1979)
Insecurity, Informal Trade and Timber Trafficking in the Gambia/Casamance Borderlands
The Gambia’s long frontier with Casamance, southern Senegal, has historically been porous allowing informal cross-border trade to flourish. With context from colonial times, the paper examines the post-independence period, during which flows of agricultural and forest products mainly from Casamance into The Gambia have continued, while processed foods and manufactured goods have been traded in the other direction. Certain flows have become pathol…
Reprisal Violence and the Harkis in French Algeria, 1962
Rejecting notions of inherent violence, this article focuses upon the large numbers of Algerians from the French-organised anti-FLN Militias who were subjected to reprisals after the French exit from Algeria in 1962. Estimates of those killed range from 10,000 to 150,000, and the violence is justifiably described as brutal. The specificity of this violence has only emerged as a field of enquiry since the 1980s. Initially this stemmed from the imp…
The impact of the tax and benefit system on second earners
This article analyses the theoretical and applied aspects of employment disincentives for second earners that exist in the British tax benefit system. The shortcomings of existing tax-benefit income profiles are examined, together with the underlying role of tax credits in disincentives compared with other factors. The potential of such disincentives to worsen employment of second earners in a recession is addressed. Conclusions suggest that a mo…
Opening up the battlefield
This paper considers the evolution of war studies from its beginning as what was essentially military history, to the cultural turn, when scholars began to challenge these restrictive disciplinary boundaries to produce a more inclusive vision of the study of war
Briefing
Journal Article BRIEFING: SENEGAL: WADE AND THE CASAMANCE DOSSIER Get access Martin Evans Martin Evans Department of Geography at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 397, October 2000, Pages 649–658, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/99.397.649 Published: 01 October 2000
Social Protection in Vietnam and Obstacles to Progressivity
The present paper analyzes the incidence and progressivity of Vietnamese state income transfers using survey data from the Vietnamese Household Living Standards Survey 2004. Data quality and sample selection issues are highlighted, especially in the coverage of rural‐urban migrants. Simple income‐based profiles of incidence are matched to several influences that confound and complicate the measurement of progressivity. The issue of the informal e…
The Role of Job Outcomes and Values in Understanding the Union's Impact on Job Satisfaction
In this paper, the consequences of being a union member for a person's job satisfaction is explored. Berger, Olson, and Boudreau (1983) suggest that union membership is related to the job outcomes that people receive and the job values that they hold (or else that people with particular values choose unionized work settings); so that if these factors are controlled, it is hypothesized that there is no effect of union membership on job satisfactio…
Colonial Fantasies Shattered
J. G. Ballard, author of the 1984 novel Empire of the Sun , was born in the Shanghai International Settlement in China in 1930, into a privileged colonial milieu with a chauffeur, a nanny, and servants. Ballard witnessed at first hand the collapse of the British Empire in Asia. The year 1945 was not a moment of imperial defeat, but of imperial reassertion for Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Britain, each of which saw their futures as global…
Peatland Geomorphology and Carbon Cycling
Peatlands in the northern hemisphere are important stores of soil carbon. The stability of peatlands is therefore important for the preservation of a major terrestrial carbon store as well as for the maintenance of the carbon storage function of peatlands. Peatland erosion has the potential to significantly impact carbon storage. This article reviews the evidence from eroding peatland systems, largely in the United Kingdom, to develop the thesis …
Jeddah 68/69
A note on the measurement of Sahlins' social profile of domestic production 1
Sahlins' quantitative approach to production in primitive societies, based on a comparison of the observed relation between production per worker and proportion of consumers to workers in households with a hypothetical “Chayanov” relation (representing production for livelihood), is examlned. Changes in the type of measurement made are suggested which allow the degree of divergence of the empirical production pattern from the Chayanov pattern to …
A note on the measurement of Sahlins' social profile of domestic production
Education for responsive climatic design
A Monte Carlo study of the effects of correlated method variance in moderated multiple regression analysis
Job Enrichment and Job Satisfaction in Quality of Working Life and Nonquality of Working Life Work Sites
Quality of Working Life (QWL) programs are designed to increase the enrichment of jobs, the autonomy of workers, and the degree of collaboration among workers and between workers and management. This study examines the impact of QWL programs in five petrochemical plants by contrasting worker attitudes and job perceptions in these plants with perceptions from those in the same industry as well as from those in plants in different industries. Few d…
Popular Consciousness, Moral Ideology, and Locality
After a brief sketch of the nature of popular consciousness, the role of ideology in shaping needs and human subjects through interpellation and character structure is examined. The significance of the sign is assessed and its function in shaping consciousness exemplified by a look at style and locality creation. It is not, however, suggested that the dominant ideology and its concomitant conservative popular consciousness are monolithic and the …
The discussion about proposals to change the Western Culture program at Stanford University
The Role of Job Outcomes and Values in Understanding the Union's Impact on Job Satisfaction
In this paper, the consequences of being a union member for a person's job satisfaction is explored. Berger, Olson, and Boudreau (1983) suggest that union membership is related to the job outcomes that people receive and the job values that they hold (or else that people with particular values choose unionized work settings); so that if these factors are controlled, it is hypothesized that there is no effect of union membership on job satisfactio…
The Motivational Potential of Jobs
A recent note by Ferris and Gilmore (1985) on the use of alternative Motivating Potential Score formulae has led us to undertake this replication of their work. Four versions of the formula were tested in a large heterogeneous sample of 1193 male blue-collar employees. Over-all job satisfaction and satisfaction with work itself were the dependent variables. A measure, unique to this paper, of Growth Need Strength was used as a moderator. The best…
The problem of analyzing multiplicative composites
Beveridge and his Assumptive Worlds
No historical document is cited more frequently in postwar social policy debate than the Beveridge Report (Beveridge 1942). The last official review of the UK social security system described itself as the most fundamental ‘since Beveridge’. The most thoroughgoing independent review of taxes and benefits, the Meade Committee (1978), advocated ‘a new Beveridge Scheme’ (pp. 269--94). Critics lay the blame for what they see as the failure of social …
Memories of resistance to the Algerian war
The Effect of Scale Changes on Meta-Analysis of Multiplicative and Main Effects Models
It is well-known that when researchers explore conditional relationships, they have to be quite careful about the impact of scaling on the size of these relationships. In this article, the impact of such changes on meta-analyses of conditional relationships is explored. A number of parameters (correlations, regression coefficients, standardized regression coefficients, semipartial correlations, and partial correlations) are examined. Their streng…
Milton's Imperial Epic
Written during the crucial first phase of English empire-building in the New World, Paradise Lost registers the radically divided attitudes toward the settlement of America that existed in seventeenth-century Protestant England. Evans looks at the relationship between Milton's epic and the pervasive colonial discourse of Milton's time. Evans bases his analysis on the literature of exploration and colonialism. The primary sources on which he draws…
Behind the Rhetoric
tant part of the development of the concept of social exclusion. In other countries, poverty research, primarily on income poverty, has had a longer history of the measurement of such failings and gaps -for example in Townsend's work in Britain (1979)
On the Asymmetry of g
In this paper the strength of general intelligence at different levels of g is explored. This represents a replication of 1996 work by Dreary, et al. using a very large sample of young persons. By examining differences in correlation between subscales and by undertaking a confirmatory factor analysis of a standard ability measure, the Armed Services Vocational Ability Battery, at high and low levels of g ( n = c. 600 at each level), it is shown t…
The Memory of Resistance
What makes people act against their own national identity? How real are the concepts of nationalism and patriotism? In what ways does the media control our perception of history in the making? This ground-breaking work addresses these important questions through an examination of the Algerian war of 1954-62 and the significant French resistance to their own leaders during the bitter conflict. Through the use of extensive interviews, it provides p…
The Effect of Gender on Pre‐Sentence Reports
This study analysed the information contained in 6,972 pre‐sentence reports. The allocation of cases was found to be influenced by gender: male probation officers were allocated more male clients, and female officers more female clients. Male and female officers also seem to be allocated cases with different types of current offences, but with similar offence‐related characteristics. Differences were found between male and female subjects on repo…
British Pension Policy in the Twenty‐first Century
Briefing
Journal Article BRIEFING: SENEGAL: WADE AND THE CASAMANCE DOSSIER Get access Martin Evans Martin Evans Department of Geography at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 99, Issue 397, October 2000, Pages 649–658, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/99.397.649 Published: 01 October 2000
Britain
A major aim of the Labour Government elected in May 1997 was to change British social policy away from passive income maintenance towards promoting employment, investment and opportunity. Many of its policy initiatives bear the clear imprint of a social development model. Investment in education and health are seen as paramount, community rebuilding through partnership‐based economic renewal and the promotion of social capital through neighbourho…
The Algerian War and the French Army, 1954–62
The Algerian War 1954-62 was one of the most prolonged and violent examples of decolonization. At times horribly savage, it was an undeclared war in the sense that no formal declaration of hostilities
Anti-War Activists
Our English friends from Salford and Portsmouth should be congratulated on their decision to meddle in matters of internal conflict in French history, of internal conflict in Algerian history and of conflict between French and Algerians. There are times when it is important for matters to be looked at afresh from a different viewpoint. From my own experience working in universities, I know that a university needs someone to come from outside to o…
Understanding social exclusion
This text explores the issue of social exclusion, considering its measurement, main determinants, and ways in which it may be reduced. The editors show how a focus on the topic may alter the relevant policy questions by fostering debate in government
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