Timothy Mo
Biographic Data
| ID | 105010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Mo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Mo |
| SIGNATURE | MO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8588-4076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Design-Based Research in Higher Education
This conceptual paper aims to identify the characteristics of Design-Based Research (DBR) projects that support the sustainable, expansive or adaptive implementation of technological learning innovations in higher education and thus address this gap in the literature. Four examples of Design-Based Research implemented in different discipline contexts through technology enhanced learning interventions in higher education are retrospectively analys…
Determinants of Young Men’s Help-Seeking Behavior
Young men face unique barriers to accessing health care, contributing to poor health outcomes. We used data from 188 Australian men aged 18–34 years, who participated in a nationally representative cross-sectional survey, to examine the relationships between health literacy, health empowerment, social support, loneliness, and barriers to health care. Structural equation modeling was used to examine direct and indirect associations, adjusting for …
Unborn infrastructures
Energy infrastructures in divided cities
Within the rich literature on politically divided cities, infrastructure has rarely featured as a medium of urban contestation. Only transportation infrastructure has merited attention of late. This paper presents an in-depth investigation of energy infrastructures as instruments of separation, control and collaboration in three iconic divided cities: Berlin, Jerusalem and Nicosia. The purpose of the paper is threefold: 1) to identify the multipl…
Case Report
This case report highlights an adult phenotype of NCKAP1 -related NDD with goals to 1.) contribute insight into a rare genetic variant leading to NDD with ASD features and 2.) highlight adult manifestations of NCKAP1- related NDD as a patient in middle adulthood with the condition has not yet been reported
Gridlocked
This article studies the electricity grid as a manifestation and medium of energy dependency relations. It analyses the experience of managing the electricity grid on the politically divided island of Cyprus over the past six decades to reappraise notions of the grid as a sociotechnical connector. The insularity of the Cypriot grid has made collaboration across the political divide between the Greek Cypriot South and Turkish Cypriot North over th…
Navigating electricity dependencies in Cold War Berlin
This article explores how political division manifested itself in the electricity systems of West and East Berlin and analyses the strategies of both throughout the 40 years of the Cold War. It reveals how the goal of full energy independence propagated by both West and East proved illusory for material, geopolitical, institutional, economic and environmental reasons. Apart from vestiges of past interdependence, pressures to collaborate gained im…
Refracting Urbanism
This piece explores the role of history in the splintering urbanism thesis, and infrastructure studies more generally, to make the case for a more nuanced understanding of the multiple histories underpinning the networked city. I reflect on the use of history as an argumentative ploy in Splintering Urbanism, criticize common framings of the past in infrastructure studies, and map out an agenda for future scholarship on urban infrastructure histor…
Knowing and governing smart cities
Research on smart urbanism predominantly focusses on the production of digital knowledge. In response, this paper probes the potential and limitations of digital devices producing the kinds of knowledge needed for governing urban environments. Based on four case studies in Europe, the paper investigates what kinds of knowledge become privileged and what kinds of knowledge get overlooked when digital devices are deployed to inform urban governance…
Digital urban nature
Within policy and research debates on the smart city, the urban environment has become an arena of contestation. Claims that digitalisation will render the city more resource-efficient are countered by criticism of the tensions between smart and sustainability practices. Little attention has been paid, however, to the role of nature in digitally mediated urban environments. The flora, fauna and habitats of a city are a void in research and policy…
Politicised nexus thinking in practice
Infrastructures are key interfaces of urban resource use, connecting production to consumption, cities to their hinterland and energy to water and land use. They have, however, received scant attention in debates on nexus thinking in general, and the urban nexus in particular. Drawing on an emergent critical literature on the nexus in urban studies and science and technology studies, this article examines practices of (attempted) inter-sectoral i…
Rain and the city
Between coproduction and commons
This article explores new geographies of coproduction emerging in urban energy politics. It analyses processes of remunicipalisation of urban utilities, involving the re-establishment of public ownership with a strong democratic and ecological agenda for governing energy infrastructures, with case studies of the German cities of Berlin and Hamburg. Seeking ways of understanding these developments which transcend conventional binaries, such as pub…
The German Energiewende – What's happening? Introducing the special issue
Discarded surrogates, modified traditions, welcome complements
This article takes an historical perspective on current attempts to 'open up' established, centralized systems of urban infrastructure to alternative technologies designed to minimize resource use and environmental pollution. The process of introducing alternative technologies into, or alongside, centralized urban infrastructures is not a novel phenomenon, as is often assumed. The physical and institutional entrenchment of large technical systems…
Whose energy transition is it, anyway? Organisation and ownership of the Energiewende in villages, cities and regions
As one of the most ambitious national energy transition initiatives worldwide, the German Energiewende is attracting a huge amount of attention globally in both policy and research circles. The paper explores the implementation of Germany's energy transition through the lens of organisation and ownership in urban and regional contexts. Following a summary of the principal institutional challenges of the Energiewende at local and regional levels t…
Realigning the electric city. Legacies of energy autarky in Berlin and Hong Kong
Borderlands
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a picture of the relationship the researchers perceive between the art and research practices, unravelling the ways the authors shape and inform enactment of a purposeful nexus between art making and research. Design/methodology/approach – A hybridised methodology is adopted, where methods integral to narrative inquiry and a/r/tography are drawn together to generate a series of “pictures” of the int…
The politics of multi-scalar action in river basin management
Spatiality of the Commons
This editorial sets the scene for the special feature by explaining the importance of geography to the commons and its governance, critically appraising the existing literature on this theme, highlighting important contributions from recent research and mapping out a future research agenda. It begins by reflecting on how little explicit attention has been paid to date to the spatial dimensions of the commons. The author critiques on the one hand …
Spatiality of the Commons
This editorial sets the scene for the special feature by explaining the importance of geography to the commons and its governance, critically appraising the existing literature on this theme, highlighting important contributions from recent research and mapping out a future research agenda. It begins by reflecting on how little explicit attention has been paid to date to the spatial dimensions of the commons. The author critiques on the one hand …
Socio-technical Change and the Politics of Urban Infrastructure
This paper reconstructs the trajectory of energy efficiency policies in Berlin from the 1920s to today in order to illustrate how the shifting political and socioeconomic conditions of a city can shape urban energy provision and consumption. Taking a long-term perspective on the relationship between urban transitions and energy policy, it investigates how the geo-political turbulence, regime diversity and socioeconomic volatility experienced by 2…
Your Resilience is My Vulnerability
This paper uses an empirical analysis of a water conflict in the German state of Brandenburg to explore diverse constructions of vulnerability to water scarcity by local stakeholders. It demonstrates how, in the absence of effective formal institutions, these constructions are getting translated into conflictual resilience strategies practiced by these stakeholders, creating situations in which "your resilience is my vulnerability". The novel con…
Spatial Fit, from Panacea to Practice
Within the broad discourse on the concept of fit and its relevance for the governance of social-ecological systems, problems of spatial fit have attracted particular attention. Mismatches abound between the geographical extent of an environmental resource and the territorial scope of the institutions affecting its use. Managing water resources around river basins is, perhaps, the most prominent illustration of attempts to reconcile the boundaries…
A conversation with Timothy Mo
Timothy Mo is author of six internationally acclaimed novels, The Monkey King (1978), Sour Sweet (1982), An Insular Possession (1986), The Redundancy of Courage (1991), Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard (1995), Renegade or Halo2 (2000). His novels have received numerous accolades, among them the 1979 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Monkey King ; the1982 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) for Sour Sweet ; the 1982 Hawthornden Prize for Sour…
The governance of land use in river basins
Intermediaries and the Governance of Sociotechnical Networks in Transition
The author makes the case for studying intermediary organisations as a window on the shifting governance of water and energy services in Europe today. He explores the notion of intermediaries and intermediation in a wide range of literatures and demonstrates how the governance concept can provide focus to the term, indicating how intermediaries can influence the pursuit of collective goals under shifting governance structures and processes. Again…
The German Energiewende – What's happening? Introducing the special issue
Spatial Fit, from Panacea to Practice
Within the broad discourse on the concept of fit and its relevance for the governance of social-ecological systems, problems of spatial fit have attracted particular attention. Mismatches abound between the geographical extent of an environmental resource and the territorial scope of the institutions affecting its use. Managing water resources around river basins is, perhaps, the most prominent illustration of attempts to reconcile the boundaries…
Socio-technical Change and the Politics of Urban Infrastructure
This paper reconstructs the trajectory of energy efficiency policies in Berlin from the 1920s to today in order to illustrate how the shifting political and socioeconomic conditions of a city can shape urban energy provision and consumption. Taking a long-term perspective on the relationship between urban transitions and energy policy, it investigates how the geo-political turbulence, regime diversity and socioeconomic volatility experienced by 2…
Cold spots' of Urban Infrastructure
This article explores the unfamiliar, but increasingly prevalent problem of overcapacity in urban infrastructure systems in regions subject to dramatic socio-economic restructuring. Taking the case of water supply and wastewater disposal systems in Eastern Germany as an example, it examines firstly how infrastructure overcapacities have emerged since reunification in 1990 as a result both of sharply declining water consumption in the wake of 'shr…
Digital urban nature
Within policy and research debates on the smart city, the urban environment has become an arena of contestation. Claims that digitalisation will render the city more resource-efficient are countered by criticism of the tensions between smart and sustainability practices. Little attention has been paid, however, to the role of nature in digitally mediated urban environments. The flora, fauna and habitats of a city are a void in research and policy…
The Dark Side of Light
Hölker, F., T. Moss, B. Griefahn, W. Kloas, C. C. Voigt, D. Henckel, A. Hänel, P. M. Kappeler, S. Völker, A. Schwope, S. Franke, D. Uhrlandt, J. Fischer, R. Klenke, C. Wolter, and K. Tockner. 2010. The dark side of light: a transdisciplinary research agenda for light pollution policy. Ecology and Society 15(4): 13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03685-150413
Politicised nexus thinking in practice
Infrastructures are key interfaces of urban resource use, connecting production to consumption, cities to their hinterland and energy to water and land use. They have, however, received scant attention in debates on nexus thinking in general, and the urban nexus in particular. Drawing on an emergent critical literature on the nexus in urban studies and science and technology studies, this article examines practices of (attempted) inter-sectoral i…
Realigning the electric city. Legacies of energy autarky in Berlin and Hong Kong
Rain and the city
Discarded surrogates, modified traditions, welcome complements
This article takes an historical perspective on current attempts to 'open up' established, centralized systems of urban infrastructure to alternative technologies designed to minimize resource use and environmental pollution. The process of introducing alternative technologies into, or alongside, centralized urban infrastructures is not a novel phenomenon, as is often assumed. The physical and institutional entrenchment of large technical systems…
The politics of multi-scalar action in river basin management
Your Resilience is My Vulnerability
This paper uses an empirical analysis of a water conflict in the German state of Brandenburg to explore diverse constructions of vulnerability to water scarcity by local stakeholders. It demonstrates how, in the absence of effective formal institutions, these constructions are getting translated into conflictual resilience strategies practiced by these stakeholders, creating situations in which "your resilience is my vulnerability". The novel con…
Lessons in promoting sustainable development in EU Structural Funds programmes
This paper assesses and compares the experiences of 12 Objective 1 and 2 regions across the EU which conducted pilot projects on methods of promoting sustainable development by means of Structural Fund programmes. It demonstrates how the regions translated the concept of sustainable development into practical applications that are compatible with structural funding procedures, relevant to the needs of specific programme areas and acceptable to pr…
Utilities, Land-Use Change, and Urban Development
This paper explores the interrelationships between urban land use, resource consumption, and utility service provision with a study of brownfield regeneration-from an infrastructure perspective. Drawing on recent research into the spatial strategies of utility companies, after liberalisation and privatisation, I identify disused industrial sites as 'cold-spots' of infrastructure systems where energy and water consumption has recently collapsed. U…
Divided City, Divided Infrastructures
The division of Berlin’s infrastructure systems following the blockade of 1948—1949 posed an enormous challenge to the city’s infrastructure planners on both sides of the political divide.This article is a study of the destabilization of apparently highly durable technical systems precipitated by the Berlin blockade and the subsequent efforts of those responsible to restabilize the systems. It investigates the different experiences of division in…
Navigating electricity dependencies in Cold War Berlin
This article explores how political division manifested itself in the electricity systems of West and East Berlin and analyses the strategies of both throughout the 40 years of the Cold War. It reveals how the goal of full energy independence propagated by both West and East proved illusory for material, geopolitical, institutional, economic and environmental reasons. Apart from vestiges of past interdependence, pressures to collaborate gained im…
Promoting Sustainable Development in EU Structural Fund Programmes
This paper summarises the main results from a study into methods of imple-menting sustainable development principles in EU Structural programmes. It demon-strates how 12 pilot regions translated the concept of sustainable development into practical applications which are compatible with structural funding procedures, rele-vant to the needs of specific programme areas and acceptable to programme partner-ships. The selected regions – from France, G…
An Insular Possession
Cities in the Inflation
Cities in the Inflation: Municipal Government in Berlin, Cologne, and Frankfurt am Main during the Early Years of the Weimar Republic Get access Timothy Moss, DPhil Timothy Moss, DPhil St Anthonys College, Oxford, 1991 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 11, Issue 1, January 1993, Pages 63–64, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/11.1.63 Published: 01 January 1993
Unearthing Water Flows, Uncovering Social Relations
In the past [waste] water simply flowed over the street, ... then engineers brought the water underground. The urban planners were thus free to do what they liked above ground ... and were glad that the sewers were below. And now we [water managers] are coming and laying claims to open spaces and streets. That annoys the urban planners ... . Ultimately the challenge is to make water visible
How institutions change
Reshaping Institutions - Linking Institutional Change to Social Practice - Institutionalising Social Learning. Contributions from: Dr. Heiko Breit, Dr. Thomas Doring, Prof. Dr. Lutz Eckensberger, Dr. Anita Engels, Dr. Florian Dunckmann, Michael Huber, Dr. Claudia Mayer, Ronald Mitchell, Dr. Timothy Moss, Dr. Andreas Obser, Dipl. Geogr. Verena Sandner, Bernd Siebenhuner, Dr. Markus Troja, Dr. Thomas Widlok
Lessons in promoting sustainable development in EU Structural Funds programmes
This paper assesses and compares the experiences of 12 Objective 1 and 2 regions across the EU which conducted pilot projects on methods of promoting sustainable development by means of Structural Fund programmes. It demonstrates how the regions translated the concept of sustainable development into practical applications that are compatible with structural funding procedures, relevant to the needs of specific programme areas and acceptable to pr…
Utilities, Land-Use Change, and Urban Development
This paper explores the interrelationships between urban land use, resource consumption, and utility service provision with a study of brownfield regeneration-from an infrastructure perspective. Drawing on recent research into the spatial strategies of utility companies, after liberalisation and privatisation, I identify disused industrial sites as 'cold-spots' of infrastructure systems where energy and water consumption has recently collapsed. U…
Promoting Sustainable Development in EU Structural Fund Programmes
This paper summarises the main results from a study into methods of imple-menting sustainable development principles in EU Structural programmes. It demon-strates how 12 pilot regions translated the concept of sustainable development into practical applications which are compatible with structural funding procedures, rele-vant to the needs of specific programme areas and acceptable to programme partner-ships. The selected regions – from France, G…
In conversation
In early 2002, Simeon Dumdum, Timothy Mo, and Resil Mojares came together in Cebu to discuss the Cebuano tradition of English‐language creative writing, the legacy of Spanish and American colonialism, English in the Philippines and much else. Simeon Dumdum was born in the town of Balamban, Cebu island. He went to Ireland as a teenage seminarian before pursuing a legal career and is regarded as one of the best poets the Visayas has ever produced. …
The governance of land use in river basins
Cold spots' of Urban Infrastructure
This article explores the unfamiliar, but increasingly prevalent problem of overcapacity in urban infrastructure systems in regions subject to dramatic socio-economic restructuring. Taking the case of water supply and wastewater disposal systems in Eastern Germany as an example, it examines firstly how infrastructure overcapacities have emerged since reunification in 1990 as a result both of sharply declining water consumption in the wake of 'shr…
Divided City, Divided Infrastructures
The division of Berlin’s infrastructure systems following the blockade of 1948—1949 posed an enormous challenge to the city’s infrastructure planners on both sides of the political divide.This article is a study of the destabilization of apparently highly durable technical systems precipitated by the Berlin blockade and the subsequent efforts of those responsible to restabilize the systems. It investigates the different experiences of division in…
A Q-methodological Investigation into the Meanings of Cigarette Consumption
This Q-methodological study identified shared subjective explanations of smoking among non-smokers, current smokers and ex-smokers, to consider whether some representations were protective or facilitated quitting. Four factors were identified: named independent addiction; independent non-addiction; anti-smoking; and social addiction. The first two factors were dominated by current and ex-smokers, and the last two by non-smokers. Differences emerg…
Intermediaries and the Governance of Sociotechnical Networks in Transition
The author makes the case for studying intermediary organisations as a window on the shifting governance of water and energy services in Europe today. He explores the notion of intermediaries and intermediation in a wide range of literatures and demonstrates how the governance concept can provide focus to the term, indicating how intermediaries can influence the pursuit of collective goals under shifting governance structures and processes. Again…
A conversation with Timothy Mo
Timothy Mo is author of six internationally acclaimed novels, The Monkey King (1978), Sour Sweet (1982), An Insular Possession (1986), The Redundancy of Courage (1991), Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard (1995), Renegade or Halo2 (2000). His novels have received numerous accolades, among them the 1979 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Monkey King ; the1982 Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) for Sour Sweet ; the 1982 Hawthornden Prize for Sour…
The Dark Side of Light
Hölker, F., T. Moss, B. Griefahn, W. Kloas, C. C. Voigt, D. Henckel, A. Hänel, P. M. Kappeler, S. Völker, A. Schwope, S. Franke, D. Uhrlandt, J. Fischer, R. Klenke, C. Wolter, and K. Tockner. 2010. The dark side of light: a transdisciplinary research agenda for light pollution policy. Ecology and Society 15(4): 13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03685-150413
Spatial Fit, from Panacea to Practice
Within the broad discourse on the concept of fit and its relevance for the governance of social-ecological systems, problems of spatial fit have attracted particular attention. Mismatches abound between the geographical extent of an environmental resource and the territorial scope of the institutions affecting its use. Managing water resources around river basins is, perhaps, the most prominent illustration of attempts to reconcile the boundaries…
Spatiality of the Commons
This editorial sets the scene for the special feature by explaining the importance of geography to the commons and its governance, critically appraising the existing literature on this theme, highlighting important contributions from recent research and mapping out a future research agenda. It begins by reflecting on how little explicit attention has been paid to date to the spatial dimensions of the commons. The author critiques on the one hand …
Spatiality of the Commons
This editorial sets the scene for the special feature by explaining the importance of geography to the commons and its governance, critically appraising the existing literature on this theme, highlighting important contributions from recent research and mapping out a future research agenda. It begins by reflecting on how little explicit attention has been paid to date to the spatial dimensions of the commons. The author critiques on the one hand …
Socio-technical Change and the Politics of Urban Infrastructure
This paper reconstructs the trajectory of energy efficiency policies in Berlin from the 1920s to today in order to illustrate how the shifting political and socioeconomic conditions of a city can shape urban energy provision and consumption. Taking a long-term perspective on the relationship between urban transitions and energy policy, it investigates how the geo-political turbulence, regime diversity and socioeconomic volatility experienced by 2…
Your Resilience is My Vulnerability
This paper uses an empirical analysis of a water conflict in the German state of Brandenburg to explore diverse constructions of vulnerability to water scarcity by local stakeholders. It demonstrates how, in the absence of effective formal institutions, these constructions are getting translated into conflictual resilience strategies practiced by these stakeholders, creating situations in which "your resilience is my vulnerability". The novel con…
Whose energy transition is it, anyway? Organisation and ownership of the Energiewende in villages, cities and regions
As one of the most ambitious national energy transition initiatives worldwide, the German Energiewende is attracting a huge amount of attention globally in both policy and research circles. The paper explores the implementation of Germany's energy transition through the lens of organisation and ownership in urban and regional contexts. Following a summary of the principal institutional challenges of the Energiewende at local and regional levels t…
Realigning the electric city. Legacies of energy autarky in Berlin and Hong Kong
Borderlands
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a picture of the relationship the researchers perceive between the art and research practices, unravelling the ways the authors shape and inform enactment of a purposeful nexus between art making and research. Design/methodology/approach – A hybridised methodology is adopted, where methods integral to narrative inquiry and a/r/tography are drawn together to generate a series of “pictures” of the int…
The politics of multi-scalar action in river basin management
The German Energiewende – What's happening? Introducing the special issue
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