Peter Atkins
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3697212 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Atkins |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Atkins |
| FIRMA | ATKINS P |
| AFILIACIONES | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-1629-7544 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Lethal Agents or Locally Extinct
Throughout the Hebrew Bible various aspects of the natural world are utilized by deities to enact violence and judgement on the earth. Sometimes these natural instruments of divine violence are inanimate, such as climatic or geological processes, but often other agents become involved in God’s violent activity too. This article focuses on the overlooked role wild animals play within divine violence in the Hebrew Bible and outlines two ways that t…
Blinding Birds, Bartered Bodies, and Bestial Betrothals
This article argues that a full analysis of intersectionality in Second Temple literature must attend to nonhuman animals. That is, the societal nexus of intersecting powers—generally recognised to include dynamics like gender, race, class, and disability—is incomplete unless it also attends to dynamics of species. In this article, we substantiate this view by exploring two case studies: portions from the Damascus Document and the Book of Tobit. …
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…
Absent Animals
The book of Ruth is the only text of the Hebrew Bible which lacks a single mention of a nonhuman animal. As such, it has not been studied by scholars with an interest in animals within biblical texts. This article critically addresses this omission of nonhuman animals from Ruth by locating this neglect within the context of other troubling ideological binaries (such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class) which are operative in the narrative. Thr…
The Son of Man Behaving Beastly
The temptation narrative in Mark’s gospel contains an unusual detail absent from the counterpart traditions in Matthew and Luke. In Mk 1.13, Jesus is described as being ‘with the wild animals’. Several Hebrew Bible texts and typologies have been suggested to explain this unique Markan feature; however, none has gained widespread support. This article takes a different approach and investigates this enigmatic Markan phrase by focusing on the descr…
Chemical Principles
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…
Liquid Materialities
The material that we call milk is a food that has been revered and ignored, respected and feared, in almost equal measure. This book is a history of attempts to bring it under control, manipulate its naturally variable composition and, in effect, redraw the boundaries between nature and society. In the name of quality, attempts were made to purify it of dirt and disease, and to impose norms about fat content, but these were always constrained by …
Hunger
Book Review| July 01 2009 Hunger: A Modern History Hunger: A Modern History. James Vernon. Peter Atkins Peter Atkins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 412–413. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.3.412 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Atkins; Hunger: A Modern History. Agricultural History 1 January 2009; 83 (3): 412–413. doi: https://doi.org…
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…
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…
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…
Poisons, pragmatic governance and deliberative democracy
Interdisciplinarity and positionality
(2004). Interdisciplinarity and positionality. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: Vol. 29, Interdisciplinarity: lessons from the social sciences, pp. 2-5
Food in Society
Science as truth
Chemistry's Tongue
Chemistry's Tongue
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…
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…
Science as truth
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…
Fear of animal foods
Chemistry's Tongue
Chemistry's Tongue
Science as truth
Food in Society
Interdisciplinarity and positionality
(2004). Interdisciplinarity and positionality. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: Vol. 29, Interdisciplinarity: lessons from the social sciences, pp. 2-5
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…
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…
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…
Fear of animal foods
Hunger
Book Review| July 01 2009 Hunger: A Modern History Hunger: A Modern History. James Vernon. Peter Atkins Peter Atkins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2009) 83 (3): 412–413. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.3.412 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Atkins; Hunger: A Modern History. Agricultural History 1 January 2009; 83 (3): 412–413. doi: https://doi.org…
Liquid Materialities
The material that we call milk is a food that has been revered and ignored, respected and feared, in almost equal measure. This book is a history of attempts to bring it under control, manipulate its naturally variable composition and, in effect, redraw the boundaries between nature and society. In the name of quality, attempts were made to purify it of dirt and disease, and to impose norms about fat content, but these were always constrained by …
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…
Chemical Principles
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…
Absent Animals
The book of Ruth is the only text of the Hebrew Bible which lacks a single mention of a nonhuman animal. As such, it has not been studied by scholars with an interest in animals within biblical texts. This article critically addresses this omission of nonhuman animals from Ruth by locating this neglect within the context of other troubling ideological binaries (such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class) which are operative in the narrative. Thr…
The Son of Man Behaving Beastly
The temptation narrative in Mark’s gospel contains an unusual detail absent from the counterpart traditions in Matthew and Luke. In Mk 1.13, Jesus is described as being ‘with the wild animals’. Several Hebrew Bible texts and typologies have been suggested to explain this unique Markan feature; however, none has gained widespread support. This article takes a different approach and investigates this enigmatic Markan phrase by focusing on the descr…
Blinding Birds, Bartered Bodies, and Bestial Betrothals
This article argues that a full analysis of intersectionality in Second Temple literature must attend to nonhuman animals. That is, the societal nexus of intersecting powers—generally recognised to include dynamics like gender, race, class, and disability—is incomplete unless it also attends to dynamics of species. In this article, we substantiate this view by exploring two case studies: portions from the Damascus Document and the Book of Tobit. …
Lethal Agents or Locally Extinct
Throughout the Hebrew Bible various aspects of the natural world are utilized by deities to enact violence and judgement on the earth. Sometimes these natural instruments of divine violence are inanimate, such as climatic or geological processes, but often other agents become involved in God’s violent activity too. This article focuses on the overlooked role wild animals play within divine violence in the Hebrew Bible and outlines two ways that t…
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