Brook
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 82412 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brook |
| APELLIDO | Brook |
| FIRMA | BROOK |
| AFILIACIONES | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1005-1245 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 244 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Elite philanthropy in global capitalism
This paper, and the special section it introduces, argues that elite philanthropy is integral to the machinations of global capitalism through its interventions across three key phases in the cyclical maintenance of the capitalist system. First, philanthropy enables capital accumulation both by creating new markets, and by consolidating elite class interests through the intergenerational transfer of wealth and philanthropic legacy. Second, it fra…
The impact of rural emptiness on gender relations in postsocialist Albania
This article explores impacts of dramatic levels of outmigration from Puka, a remote region of northern Albania. Since 1991 depopulation, economic decline and state withdrawal have created conditions of what Dzenovska calls rural emptiness. Drawing on focus group discussions with women from eight villages, it explores how conditions of rural emptiness have led to a transformation of gender contracts, with women taking on additional responsibiliti…
Learning through interdisciplinary dialogue
Scientific innovations for sustainable development often make huge promises about overcoming climate change, or promote technological innovations that have potential development implications. However, the social outcomes of such interventions are often considered superficially; thus potentially reinforcing injustices or producing unforeseen, undesirable outcomes. Increasingly, projects claim to have an interdisciplinary dimension, but processes o…
Configuring the digital farmer
This paper explores the ‘digital farmer’ assemblage as an illuminating case of the behavioural turn in international development, in which smallholder farmers are digitally steered towards behaviours deemed necessary for market inclusion. Central to these interventions are digital platforms that function as human technologies to craft new kinds of market subject that can be inserted into value chains and wider circuits of capital and data. As suc…
Bridges, platforms and satellites
Global philanthropy, especially that of large US philanthropic foundations, has played an active but not unproblematic role in international development. In this paper, we theorize the institutional strategies by which global philanthropy exercises its disproportionate influence. In particular, we offer bridges, interdigitates, leapfrogging, platforms and satellites as metaphors for theorizing the connections and disconnections that philanthropic…
Actually existing’ right-wing populism in rural Europe
This study depicts various manifestations of what we call 'actually existing' right-wing populism. Based on empirical insights from eastern Germany, Spain, the UK and Ukraine, we explored how nationalist tendencies unfold in different contexts and what role agriculture and rural imageries play in this process. We analyse contextual factors (rural 'emptiness', socio-economic inequality, particularities of electoral systems, politics of Europeaniza…
Brexit and the Politics of the Rural
This article uses Woods' (2005) term 'politics of the rural' as a lens to trace connections between 'Brexit' and countryside protests that erupted in the late 1990s following the disruption of a century old political settlement for governing rural areas. Historically, the intertwining of rurality, hierarchy and empire in national identity has shielded rural elite interests and the power structures that uphold them from progressive political devel…
A Wave of Their Own
The Jewish New Wave in American film of the 1960s and 1970s is old news as far as actors (Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Richard Dreyfuss, et al.) are concerned. What has been almost totally neglected is the even more overarching if not definitive contribution of Jewish directors to the formation of the New Hollywood (1967–1980) writ large. This article explores the main factors behind this remarkable influence and examines in gre…
On Ross's Hitler in Los Angeles
On Ross's Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America Vincent Brook (bio) Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America. By Steven J. Ross. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. 414 pp., ISBN 9-781620-405628 (pb), US $21.65. Reprint, 2019: 432 pp., ISBN 978-1620405635 (pb), US $18.00. Expectations ran high in 2013 when it was reported that University of Southern California history professo…
On Whitehead's Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation
On Whitehead's Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation Vincent Brook Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation. By J. W. Whitehead. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. 332 pp., ISBN 9-780786-471454, US $45.00 (pb). First, a disclaimer: This review will concentrate less on what Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation is (a consistently eloquent and insightful auteurist study of Mike Nichols's film oeuvre) than on what it might have bee…
Inducing food insecurity
The G7 ‘New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition’ follows an established approach of ‘connecting smallholder farmers to markets’, while extending the role and influence of corporate agri-business in new ways. This paper explores the implications of the ‘New Alliance’ model’s incorporation into the Sustainable Development Goals framework for smallholder producers already facing greater uncertainty in financialised agri-food chains, and in ligh…
The digital revolution in financial inclusion
This paper examines the growing importance of digital-based financial inclusion as a form of organising development interventions through networks of state institutions, international development organisations, philanthropic investment and fintech companies. The fintech-philanthropy-development complex generates digital ecosystems that map, expand and monetise digital footprints. Its 'know thy (irrational) customer' vision combines behavioural ec…
Living with Materiality or Confronting Asian Diversity? The Case of Iron-Biofortified Rice Research in the Philippines
This article draws on findings from a multi-sited study of international science policy processes in rice biofortification. It focuses on the ten-year period between the discovery of a “high-iron” elite line named IR68144-3B-2-2-3 and the publication, in 2005, of the findings of a bioefficacy study that proved crucial to securing the support necessary to scale up biofortification research as a global Challenge Program. During this time, IR68144 t…
Is international agricultural research a global public good? The case of rice biofortification
The status of international agricultural research as a global public good (GPG) has been widely accepted since the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. While the term was not used at the time of its creation, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) system that evolved at that time has been described as a 'prime example of the promise, performance and perils of an international approach to providing GPGs'. Contemp…
Biotic response to rapid climatic changes during the Late Glacial
Organisms can respond to rapid climatic changes in three ways: 1) adaptation by evolution, affecting physiology and morphology), 2) migration and population dynamics including biogeographical changes) and 3) extinction local or global). Here, the focus is on examples of the second type. Organisms, whether algae, trees, or animals, find their ecological niches in a multi- dimensional space of gradients such as temperature winter, summer, means or …
Biotechnology and the Politics of Truth
This paper investigates why and how issues around the diffusion of GM technologies and products to developing countries have become so central to a debate which has shifted away from technical issues of cost-benefit optimisation in a context of uniform mass production and consumption in the North, to the moral case for GM crops to feed the hungry and aid ‘development’ in the South. Using comparison between agricultural biotechnology and the ‘Gree…
Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Structure of the World Population
The digital revolution in financial inclusion
This paper examines the growing importance of digital-based financial inclusion as a form of organising development interventions through networks of state institutions, international development organisations, philanthropic investment and fintech companies. The fintech-philanthropy-development complex generates digital ecosystems that map, expand and monetise digital footprints. Its 'know thy (irrational) customer' vision combines behavioural ec…
Configuring the digital farmer
This paper explores the ‘digital farmer’ assemblage as an illuminating case of the behavioural turn in international development, in which smallholder farmers are digitally steered towards behaviours deemed necessary for market inclusion. Central to these interventions are digital platforms that function as human technologies to craft new kinds of market subject that can be inserted into value chains and wider circuits of capital and data. As suc…
Bridges, platforms and satellites
Global philanthropy, especially that of large US philanthropic foundations, has played an active but not unproblematic role in international development. In this paper, we theorize the institutional strategies by which global philanthropy exercises its disproportionate influence. In particular, we offer bridges, interdigitates, leapfrogging, platforms and satellites as metaphors for theorizing the connections and disconnections that philanthropic…
Brexit and the Politics of the Rural
This article uses Woods' (2005) term 'politics of the rural' as a lens to trace connections between 'Brexit' and countryside protests that erupted in the late 1990s following the disruption of a century old political settlement for governing rural areas. Historically, the intertwining of rurality, hierarchy and empire in national identity has shielded rural elite interests and the power structures that uphold them from progressive political devel…
Actually existing’ right-wing populism in rural Europe
This study depicts various manifestations of what we call 'actually existing' right-wing populism. Based on empirical insights from eastern Germany, Spain, the UK and Ukraine, we explored how nationalist tendencies unfold in different contexts and what role agriculture and rural imageries play in this process. We analyse contextual factors (rural 'emptiness', socio-economic inequality, particularities of electoral systems, politics of Europeaniza…
Biotechnology and the Politics of Truth
This paper investigates why and how issues around the diffusion of GM technologies and products to developing countries have become so central to a debate which has shifted away from technical issues of cost-benefit optimisation in a context of uniform mass production and consumption in the North, to the moral case for GM crops to feed the hungry and aid ‘development’ in the South. Using comparison between agricultural biotechnology and the ‘Gree…
Inducing food insecurity
The G7 ‘New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition’ follows an established approach of ‘connecting smallholder farmers to markets’, while extending the role and influence of corporate agri-business in new ways. This paper explores the implications of the ‘New Alliance’ model’s incorporation into the Sustainable Development Goals framework for smallholder producers already facing greater uncertainty in financialised agri-food chains, and in ligh…
Is international agricultural research a global public good? The case of rice biofortification
The status of international agricultural research as a global public good (GPG) has been widely accepted since the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. While the term was not used at the time of its creation, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) system that evolved at that time has been described as a 'prime example of the promise, performance and perils of an international approach to providing GPGs'. Contemp…
The impact of rural emptiness on gender relations in postsocialist Albania
This article explores impacts of dramatic levels of outmigration from Puka, a remote region of northern Albania. Since 1991 depopulation, economic decline and state withdrawal have created conditions of what Dzenovska calls rural emptiness. Drawing on focus group discussions with women from eight villages, it explores how conditions of rural emptiness have led to a transformation of gender contracts, with women taking on additional responsibiliti…
Learning through interdisciplinary dialogue
Scientific innovations for sustainable development often make huge promises about overcoming climate change, or promote technological innovations that have potential development implications. However, the social outcomes of such interventions are often considered superficially; thus potentially reinforcing injustices or producing unforeseen, undesirable outcomes. Increasingly, projects claim to have an interdisciplinary dimension, but processes o…
Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Structure of the World Population
Biotechnology and the Politics of Truth
This paper investigates why and how issues around the diffusion of GM technologies and products to developing countries have become so central to a debate which has shifted away from technical issues of cost-benefit optimisation in a context of uniform mass production and consumption in the North, to the moral case for GM crops to feed the hungry and aid ‘development’ in the South. Using comparison between agricultural biotechnology and the ‘Gree…
Biotic response to rapid climatic changes during the Late Glacial
Organisms can respond to rapid climatic changes in three ways: 1) adaptation by evolution, affecting physiology and morphology), 2) migration and population dynamics including biogeographical changes) and 3) extinction local or global). Here, the focus is on examples of the second type. Organisms, whether algae, trees, or animals, find their ecological niches in a multi- dimensional space of gradients such as temperature winter, summer, means or …
Living with Materiality or Confronting Asian Diversity? The Case of Iron-Biofortified Rice Research in the Philippines
This article draws on findings from a multi-sited study of international science policy processes in rice biofortification. It focuses on the ten-year period between the discovery of a “high-iron” elite line named IR68144-3B-2-2-3 and the publication, in 2005, of the findings of a bioefficacy study that proved crucial to securing the support necessary to scale up biofortification research as a global Challenge Program. During this time, IR68144 t…
Is international agricultural research a global public good? The case of rice biofortification
The status of international agricultural research as a global public good (GPG) has been widely accepted since the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. While the term was not used at the time of its creation, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) system that evolved at that time has been described as a 'prime example of the promise, performance and perils of an international approach to providing GPGs'. Contemp…
Inducing food insecurity
The G7 ‘New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition’ follows an established approach of ‘connecting smallholder farmers to markets’, while extending the role and influence of corporate agri-business in new ways. This paper explores the implications of the ‘New Alliance’ model’s incorporation into the Sustainable Development Goals framework for smallholder producers already facing greater uncertainty in financialised agri-food chains, and in ligh…
The digital revolution in financial inclusion
This paper examines the growing importance of digital-based financial inclusion as a form of organising development interventions through networks of state institutions, international development organisations, philanthropic investment and fintech companies. The fintech-philanthropy-development complex generates digital ecosystems that map, expand and monetise digital footprints. Its 'know thy (irrational) customer' vision combines behavioural ec…
On Whitehead's Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation
On Whitehead's Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation Vincent Brook Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation. By J. W. Whitehead. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. 332 pp., ISBN 9-780786-471454, US $45.00 (pb). First, a disclaimer: This review will concentrate less on what Mike Nichols and the Cinema of Transformation is (a consistently eloquent and insightful auteurist study of Mike Nichols's film oeuvre) than on what it might have bee…
On Ross's Hitler in Los Angeles
On Ross's Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America Vincent Brook (bio) Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America. By Steven J. Ross. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. 414 pp., ISBN 9-781620-405628 (pb), US $21.65. Reprint, 2019: 432 pp., ISBN 978-1620405635 (pb), US $18.00. Expectations ran high in 2013 when it was reported that University of Southern California history professo…
A Wave of Their Own
The Jewish New Wave in American film of the 1960s and 1970s is old news as far as actors (Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Richard Dreyfuss, et al.) are concerned. What has been almost totally neglected is the even more overarching if not definitive contribution of Jewish directors to the formation of the New Hollywood (1967–1980) writ large. This article explores the main factors behind this remarkable influence and examines in gre…
Actually existing’ right-wing populism in rural Europe
This study depicts various manifestations of what we call 'actually existing' right-wing populism. Based on empirical insights from eastern Germany, Spain, the UK and Ukraine, we explored how nationalist tendencies unfold in different contexts and what role agriculture and rural imageries play in this process. We analyse contextual factors (rural 'emptiness', socio-economic inequality, particularities of electoral systems, politics of Europeaniza…
Brexit and the Politics of the Rural
This article uses Woods' (2005) term 'politics of the rural' as a lens to trace connections between 'Brexit' and countryside protests that erupted in the late 1990s following the disruption of a century old political settlement for governing rural areas. Historically, the intertwining of rurality, hierarchy and empire in national identity has shielded rural elite interests and the power structures that uphold them from progressive political devel…
Configuring the digital farmer
This paper explores the ‘digital farmer’ assemblage as an illuminating case of the behavioural turn in international development, in which smallholder farmers are digitally steered towards behaviours deemed necessary for market inclusion. Central to these interventions are digital platforms that function as human technologies to craft new kinds of market subject that can be inserted into value chains and wider circuits of capital and data. As suc…
Bridges, platforms and satellites
Global philanthropy, especially that of large US philanthropic foundations, has played an active but not unproblematic role in international development. In this paper, we theorize the institutional strategies by which global philanthropy exercises its disproportionate influence. In particular, we offer bridges, interdigitates, leapfrogging, platforms and satellites as metaphors for theorizing the connections and disconnections that philanthropic…
The impact of rural emptiness on gender relations in postsocialist Albania
This article explores impacts of dramatic levels of outmigration from Puka, a remote region of northern Albania. Since 1991 depopulation, economic decline and state withdrawal have created conditions of what Dzenovska calls rural emptiness. Drawing on focus group discussions with women from eight villages, it explores how conditions of rural emptiness have led to a transformation of gender contracts, with women taking on additional responsibiliti…
Learning through interdisciplinary dialogue
Scientific innovations for sustainable development often make huge promises about overcoming climate change, or promote technological innovations that have potential development implications. However, the social outcomes of such interventions are often considered superficially; thus potentially reinforcing injustices or producing unforeseen, undesirable outcomes. Increasingly, projects claim to have an interdisciplinary dimension, but processes o…
Elite philanthropy in global capitalism
This paper, and the special section it introduces, argues that elite philanthropy is integral to the machinations of global capitalism through its interventions across three key phases in the cyclical maintenance of the capitalist system. First, philanthropy enables capital accumulation both by creating new markets, and by consolidating elite class interests through the intergenerational transfer of wealth and philanthropic legacy. Second, it fra…
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