Michael J Watts
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 96707 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael J Watts |
| NOMBRES | Michael J |
| APELLIDO | Watts |
| FIRMA | WATTS M J |
| AFILIACIONES | British Geological Survey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0379-8401 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 788 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Meritocracy and inherited advantage in the United States
The demise of the moral economy
Identifying Sources of Lead Exposure for Children in the Republic of Georgia, with Lead Isotope Ratios
In the Republic of Georgia, a 2018 national survey estimated that more than 40% of children aged 2-7 years had a blood lead concentration (BLC) of more than 5 μg/dL. The objective of this study was to document the feasibility of employing lead isotope ratios (LIRs) to identify and rank the Pb (lead) exposure sources most relevant to children across Georgia. A cross-sectional survey between November 2019 and February 2020 of 36 children previously…
The Use of Pb Isotope Ratios to Determine Environmental Sources of High Blood Pb Concentrations in Children
The incidence of lead (Pb) poisoning in children in Georgia has been identified as a major health concern, with a recent national survey identifying that 41% of children aged 2-7 years had blood lead concentrations (BLCs) greater than the blood lead reference value (BLRV) of ≥5 μg dL -1 . This study collected samples of blood, spices, paint, soil, dust, flour, tea, toys, milk, and water from 36 households in Georgia where a child had previously b…
Atrazine Removal from Municipal Wastewater Using a Membrane Bioreactor
As the demand for potable water increases, direct potable reuse of wastewater is an attractive alternative method to produce potable water. However, implementation of such a process will require the removal of emerging contaminants which could accumulate in the drinking water supply. Here, the removal of atrazine, a commonly used herbicide, has been investigated. Using real and synthetic wastewater, as well as sludge from two wastewater treatment…
Resilient planet
State as Illusion
Moral Economies of Corruption is an important intervention, and Steven Pierce provides an alternative way of viewing the long history of anticorruption programs in Nigeria. As Michael J. Watts' contribution discusses, there are a number of dangers that lurk in the discursive and performative orientation of the book. Sometimes the shifting character of what constitutes corruption produces less a systematic account of corruption than a history of s…
Reflections on circulation, logistics, and the frontiers of capitalist supply chains
Geographies of Limited Statehood
Starting from the presupposition that areas of limited statehood (ALS) are not ungoverned, but 'differently' governed, this chapter proposes a spatial grammar that analyses authority and governance as a socio-spatial relationship. This spatial grammar distinguishes four types of dynamic socio-spatial relations-territory, place, scale, and network-and enables us to spatially analyse (a) how political authority is contested, claimed, upheld, and di…
Colonialism, Decolonization, and Neocolonialism
Modern colonialism in its various norms and forms extended over the period from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. In the New World, which had been subjected to Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Dutch colonial rule in the First Age of Colonialism , the first wave of decolonization occurred in the eighteenth century. In this regard, the so‐called Classical Age of Imperialism in the last quarter of the nineteenth century was short, the first …
Violence
Given the close relations between violent conflict and modernity, it is no surprise that the complex forms, dynamics, and trajectories of violence have come to be seen as central to the understanding of modern life as much as it is an object of much social science theorizing, including geographical theory. It is now commonplace to acknowledge that the great arc of modernization – or for that matter the Enlightenment – bears all the marks of coerc…
Hazard Ranking Method for Populations Exposed to Arsenic in Private Water Supplies
Approximately one million people in the UK are served by private water supplies (PWS) where main municipal water supply system connection is not practical or where PWS is the preferred option. Chronic exposure to contaminants in PWS may have adverse effects on health. South West England is an area with elevated arsenic concentrations in groundwater and over 9000 domestic dwellings here are supplied by PWS. There remains uncertainty as to the exte…
Frontiers
The mafia of a Sicilian village, 1860–1960; a study of violent peasant entrepreneurs, by Anton Blok
It is well known what ideology is propagated through the multifarious forms of bourgeois propaganda among the masses of the North: the South is a lead weight which impedes a more rapid civil develo
Planet of the Wageless
Blind faith
Now and Then 1
Antipode was launched into the firmament of the 1970s. We might reflect upon how well the journal and its contributors fully appreciated the historical gravity and weight of what was surrounding the project to create “a radical journal of geography”. What sort of radicalism was on offer? The language was “social relevance” from “a radical (Left) political viewpoint”. In writing to celebrate Antipode 's birthday, this time in another, and similar,…
Righteous Oil? Human Rights, the Oil Complex, and Corporate Social Responsibility
One of the most important aspects of the rise of post-1945 global capitalism has been the call for transnational corporations to conform to basic human rights principles. This chapter reviews the efforts within the oil industry (with a particular focus on their operations in the less-developed countries) to develop corporate social responsibility and the related development of voluntary, legal, and statutory programs by governments, nongovernment…
Antinomies of community
Community is a fundamental modality for the conduct of modern politics. This paper explores the antinomies of community in an oil nation: Nigeria. Oil states stand in relation to a particular sort of capitalism (what I call petro‐capitalism) in which a key resource (petroleum) and a logic of extraction figure centrally in the making and breaking of community. I pose the following questions: how are communities imagined (or not), territorialized (…
Marketing Morality
Struggles over Geography
Violent Geographies. speaking the unspeakable and the politics of space
Why would essentially local, and in some ways parochial, movements be construed by those in power, and by those holding the reins of state power in partkviar, as a threat to the Nigerian state? What is there about the site-specific character of such irreducibly local social movements that explain in some way the mass violence which surrounds the efforts by the state to limit their appeal, their legitimacy, their goals? How can one explain the par…
Geographies of Global Change
Climate Change and Food Insecurity
Living under Contract
Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. This text, however, highlights the changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming. A relatively new and increasingly widespread way of organising peasant agriculture, contract farming promotes production of a wide variety of crops - from flowers to cocoa, from fresh vegetables to rice…
The space of vulnerability
Mass poverty results from long-term changes in social production and distribution mechanisms; famines result from violent short-term changes in the same mechanisms. Growth of mass poverty increases vulnerability to famine through raising the proportion of the population surviving on the margin... Famines increases mass poverty by permanently altering the distribution of assets in favor of the [rich] (Ghose, A.K., 1989: 127). The focus on entitlem…
Antinomies of community
Community is a fundamental modality for the conduct of modern politics. This paper explores the antinomies of community in an oil nation: Nigeria. Oil states stand in relation to a particular sort of capitalism (what I call petro‐capitalism) in which a key resource (petroleum) and a logic of extraction figure centrally in the making and breaking of community. I pose the following questions: how are communities imagined (or not), territorialized (…
Climate change and social vulnerability
Development I
The agrarian question in Africa
Frontiers
Space for Everything (A Commentary)
Mapping Meaning, Denoting Difference, Imagining Identity
This paper explores some common ground between cultural studies and geographic approaches to globalization and modernity. An understanding of the revalidation of place and locality associated with
Hunger, famine and the space of vulnerability
Ancient South Americans
Reflections on circulation, logistics, and the frontiers of capitalist supply chains
The Geography of Post‐colonial Africa
This overview of human geographic studies of sub Saharan Africa begins with the contributions made by West European geographers to the colonial service, and the growing interest in post‐war ‘development’ and to the anti‐imperial movements in the late colonial period (1945–60). The paper provides an intellectual map of the contributions by European and African geographers to the broad array of development problems which emerged after 1960. North A…
Crisis and Change in African Agriculture
The notion of a general crisis in African agriculture has entered current African development lexicon with great rapidity. In spite of questionable quality of some of most basic agricultural production statistics (see Berry, 1984), critics of quite different political and theoretical persuasion have promoted view of widespread structural stagnation (World Bank, 1981; Eicher, 1982; Lofchie and Commins, 1982). Sustained by realities of starving pea…
Violent Geographies. speaking the unspeakable and the politics of space
Why would essentially local, and in some ways parochial, movements be construed by those in power, and by those holding the reins of state power in partkviar, as a threat to the Nigerian state? What is there about the site-specific character of such irreducibly local social movements that explain in some way the mass violence which surrounds the efforts by the state to limit their appeal, their legitimacy, their goals? How can one explain the par…
Living under Contract
Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. This text, however, highlights the changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming. A relatively new and increasingly widespread way of organising peasant agriculture, contract farming promotes production of a wide variety of crops - from flowers to cocoa, from fresh vegetables to rice…
Geographies of Limited Statehood
Starting from the presupposition that areas of limited statehood (ALS) are not ungoverned, but 'differently' governed, this chapter proposes a spatial grammar that analyses authority and governance as a socio-spatial relationship. This spatial grammar distinguishes four types of dynamic socio-spatial relations-territory, place, scale, and network-and enables us to spatially analyse (a) how political authority is contested, claimed, upheld, and di…
Planet of the Wageless
Now and Then 1
Antipode was launched into the firmament of the 1970s. We might reflect upon how well the journal and its contributors fully appreciated the historical gravity and weight of what was surrounding the project to create “a radical journal of geography”. What sort of radicalism was on offer? The language was “social relevance” from “a radical (Left) political viewpoint”. In writing to celebrate Antipode 's birthday, this time in another, and similar,…
State as Illusion
Moral Economies of Corruption is an important intervention, and Steven Pierce provides an alternative way of viewing the long history of anticorruption programs in Nigeria. As Michael J. Watts' contribution discusses, there are a number of dangers that lurk in the discursive and performative orientation of the book. Sometimes the shifting character of what constitutes corruption produces less a systematic account of corruption than a history of s…
Ancient South Americans
Books/Livres
Crisis and Change in African Agriculture
The notion of a general crisis in African agriculture has entered current African development lexicon with great rapidity. In spite of questionable quality of some of most basic agricultural production statistics (see Berry, 1984), critics of quite different political and theoretical persuasion have promoted view of widespread structural stagnation (World Bank, 1981; Eicher, 1982; Lofchie and Commins, 1982). Sustained by realities of starving pea…
The Agrarian Question in Africa
Development Economics on Trial
Journal Article Development Economics on Trial: The Anthropological Case for a Prosecution Get access Development Economics on Trial: The Anthropological Case for a Prosecution, by Polly Hill. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986. xiii+198 pp. £22.50 hardback, £7.95 paperback. ISBN 0 521 31104 2 and 31096 2. MICHAEL J. WATTS MICHAEL J. WATTS University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
The agrarian question in Africa
Mapping Meaning, Denoting Difference, Imagining Identity
This paper explores some common ground between cultural studies and geographic approaches to globalization and modernity. An understanding of the revalidation of place and locality associated with
Space for Everything (A Commentary)
Hunger, famine and the space of vulnerability
The Geography of Post‐colonial Africa
This overview of human geographic studies of sub Saharan Africa begins with the contributions made by West European geographers to the colonial service, and the growing interest in post‐war ‘development’ and to the anti‐imperial movements in the late colonial period (1945–60). The paper provides an intellectual map of the contributions by European and African geographers to the broad array of development problems which emerged after 1960. North A…
Development I
The space of vulnerability
Mass poverty results from long-term changes in social production and distribution mechanisms; famines result from violent short-term changes in the same mechanisms. Growth of mass poverty increases vulnerability to famine through raising the proportion of the population surviving on the margin... Famines increases mass poverty by permanently altering the distribution of assets in favor of the [rich] (Ghose, A.K., 1989: 127). The focus on entitlem…
Climate change and social vulnerability
Climate Change and Food Insecurity
Living under Contract
Wracked by poverty, famine, and drought, Africa is typically represented as agriculturally stagnant, backward, and crisis-prone. This text, however, highlights the changing character of sub-Saharan agrarian systems by focusing on contract farming. A relatively new and increasingly widespread way of organising peasant agriculture, contract farming promotes production of a wide variety of crops - from flowers to cocoa, from fresh vegetables to rice…
Geographies of Global Change
Violent Geographies. speaking the unspeakable and the politics of space
Why would essentially local, and in some ways parochial, movements be construed by those in power, and by those holding the reins of state power in partkviar, as a threat to the Nigerian state? What is there about the site-specific character of such irreducibly local social movements that explain in some way the mass violence which surrounds the efforts by the state to limit their appeal, their legitimacy, their goals? How can one explain the par…
Marketing Morality
Struggles over Geography
Antinomies of community
Community is a fundamental modality for the conduct of modern politics. This paper explores the antinomies of community in an oil nation: Nigeria. Oil states stand in relation to a particular sort of capitalism (what I call petro‐capitalism) in which a key resource (petroleum) and a logic of extraction figure centrally in the making and breaking of community. I pose the following questions: how are communities imagined (or not), territorialized (…
Righteous Oil? Human Rights, the Oil Complex, and Corporate Social Responsibility
One of the most important aspects of the rise of post-1945 global capitalism has been the call for transnational corporations to conform to basic human rights principles. This chapter reviews the efforts within the oil industry (with a particular focus on their operations in the less-developed countries) to develop corporate social responsibility and the related development of voluntary, legal, and statutory programs by governments, nongovernment…
Blind faith
Now and Then 1
Antipode was launched into the firmament of the 1970s. We might reflect upon how well the journal and its contributors fully appreciated the historical gravity and weight of what was surrounding the project to create “a radical journal of geography”. What sort of radicalism was on offer? The language was “social relevance” from “a radical (Left) political viewpoint”. In writing to celebrate Antipode 's birthday, this time in another, and similar,…
Planet of the Wageless
The mafia of a Sicilian village, 1860–1960; a study of violent peasant entrepreneurs, by Anton Blok
It is well known what ideology is propagated through the multifarious forms of bourgeois propaganda among the masses of the North: the South is a lead weight which impedes a more rapid civil develo
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