Barbara Bender
Biographic Data
| ID | 107043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Bender |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Bender |
| SIGNATURE | BENDER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6502-4041 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 834 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Green Subsidies and the Promotion of Eco‐Social Policy in Germany and the United States
The climate crisis poses an acute threat to humanity. Eco‐social policy can help mitigate this threat, but eco‐social policy and the green transition are expensive. Our paper contributes to a better understanding of the role that green subsidies play in advancing eco‐social politics and policies. We assert that green subsidies increase the political viability of eco‐social policies. Green subsidies lead trade unions and business organizations to …
Insider-outsider representation and the logic of membership and participation. A multi-level analysis of unions' positions and individual attitudes on welfare state reforms
The insider-outsider theses suggest that trade unions have usually had strong incentives to represent the interests of the insiders. However, we argue that unions' position on welfare state reforms will be affected by insiders and outsiders, depending on their level of membership and activity within the union. We combine macro-level data (content analysis of press releases) on six different unions in Germany with individual-level data (German Int…
Class Conflict or Consensus? Understanding Social Partner Positions on Social Policy Reforms
This paper addresses the positions of unions and employer associations towards the level of unemployment benefits and active labour market policy (ALMP). These are prominent examples of social compensation and social investment policies respectively. The new dataset 'Reform Monitor on Political Conflict' (ReMoPo) is based on expert interviews and a systematic text analysis of all relevant press releases. Over a time-span of 14 years (2000-2014) t…
Landscape: Politics and Perspectives
Twenty years of history, evolution and social change in gatherer-hunter studies
Notions of history, of evolution and of social change, are themselves the products of history. The five volumes that have evolved from the International Hunter-Gatherer Conferences held over the last three decades chart the changing preoccupations and conceptions of those involved in gatherer-hunter studies. An appreciation of the different volumes would, at the very least, have to recognize the effect of the venue, organizational structure and s…
Responses to Julian Thomas’s Comments
Negotiating the River: Cultural Tributaries in Far North Queensland My question to Veronica Strang: how far does the existence of the MRWCWG contribute to the boundedness of the identities of the groups concerned, and to what extent do you think that ‘social multiplicity’ is exclusively a feature of modernity? Might we not expect such performed and negotiated group identities to exist in other contexts as well?
Responses to Nick Shepherd’s Comments
Places of Longing and Belonging: Memories of the Group Area Proclamation of a South African Fishing Village
Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place
Bronze Age stone worlds of Bodmin Moor: Excavating Leskernick
Most archaeological work on the British Bronze Age has been undertaken in Wessex. Here a team fr om UCL' s Institute of Archaeology and Department of Anthropology describe their investigation of a very different Bronze Age landscape on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Their project, at the site of Leskernick, is innovative in its methodology and in how it is presented to the public
The roots of inequality
Subverting the Western Gaze: Mapping Alternative Worlds
Conflicting imaginations: Archaeology, anthropology and geomorphology on Leskernick Hill, Bodmin Moor, southwest Britain
Place and Landscape
Thinking across the divide: Perspectives on the conversations between physical and human geography
This paper reports on a meeting which was held at the RGS/IBG annual conference in London in September 2003, where we aimed to investigate and debate some of the ways in which human and physical geography could (and should?) reopen a dialogue. This conference session was timely for three reasons. First, whilst human geography has a long tradition of engaging in philosophical discussion, physical geographers have been rather more reluctant to exam…
Subverting the Western Gaze: Mapping alternative worlds
The 'Western Gaze' succinctly expresses a particular, historically constituted, way of perceiving and experiencing the world. It is a gaze that skims the surface; surveys the land from an ego-centred viewpoint; and invokes an active viewer (the subject) and a passive land (object). This active viewer is equated with 'culture' and the land with 'nature'; and viewer/culture are gendered male, land/ nature are gendered female. Finally, the Western G…
Time and Landscape
Landscapes are created out of peoples understanding and engagement with the world around them. They are always in process of being shaped and reshaped. Being of the moment and in process, they are always temporal. They are not a record but a recording, and this recording is much more than a reflection of human agency and action; it is creative of them. Landscapes provoke memory, facilitate (or impede) action. Nor are they a recording, for they ar…
Landscapes on-the-move
Both archaeologists and anthropologists have been slow to address the question of how people on the move engage with landscape. Anthropologists have tended to discuss the larger political and social terrain of diaspora without too much consideration of what this might involve in terms of intimate and personal engagement. Archaeologists espousing a more phenomenological approach have focused on intimate and personal engagement with place and well-…
Art and the Re-Presentation of the Past
This article considers conceptual links between producing installation art works in the present and interpreting prehistoric lifeworlds. We consider connections between the work of contemporary 'landscape', 'environmental' or 'ecological' artists and an on-going landscape archaeology project centred on Leskernick Hill, Bodmin Moor in the south-west of Britain. We argue that the production of art works in the present can be a powerful means of int…
Bronze Age stone worlds of Bodmin Moor: Excavating Leskernick
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Stonehenge: Making Space
Leskernick: Stone Worlds; Alternative Narratives; Nested Landscapes
The first season of an on-going project focused on Leskernick Hill, north-west Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, entailed a preliminary settlement survey and limited excavation of a stone row terminal. Leskernick comprises a western and a southern settlement situated on the lower, stony slopes of the hill and including 51 circular stone houses constructed using a variety of building techniques. Walled fields associated with these houses vary in size from 0.…
Timely interventions
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Contentious Landscapes
Roymans' paper is ambitious - and short. Perhaps a little too short: there were a good many junctures where I felt there was much more that could be said, and certainly the bibliography could be greatly extended. The excitement of the paper lies in the methodological cross-over between archaeological and folkloric materials, which I found both convincing and informative, and in the time-depth that Roymans permits himself. In a rather odd reversal…
The Past in Contemporary Society: Then, Now
Gatherer-hunter to farmer: A social perspective
The theoretical approach to agricultural origins in the last decade has concentrated on techno-environmental and demographic causality. This paper attempts to show that both are dependent upon the social structure, and that this is where the enquiry should begin. The social properties of a tribal system are examined; first, in an anthropological framework using ethnographic illustrations, and then in an archaeological framework using prehistoric …
Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place
Time and Landscape
Landscapes are created out of peoples understanding and engagement with the world around them. They are always in process of being shaped and reshaped. Being of the moment and in process, they are always temporal. They are not a record but a recording, and this recording is much more than a reflection of human agency and action; it is creative of them. Landscapes provoke memory, facilitate (or impede) action. Nor are they a recording, for they ar…
Stonehenge: Making Space
Landscapes on-the-move
Both archaeologists and anthropologists have been slow to address the question of how people on the move engage with landscape. Anthropologists have tended to discuss the larger political and social terrain of diaspora without too much consideration of what this might involve in terms of intimate and personal engagement. Archaeologists espousing a more phenomenological approach have focused on intimate and personal engagement with place and well-…
Theorising Landscapes, and the Prehistoric Landscapes of Stonehenge
Critique des travaux des deux pionniers de la reconstitution du paysage : W.G. Hoskins et R. Williams. Expose des travaux de ce dernier sur le paysage de Stonehenge
Leskernick: Stone Worlds; Alternative Narratives; Nested Landscapes
The first season of an on-going project focused on Leskernick Hill, north-west Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, entailed a preliminary settlement survey and limited excavation of a stone row terminal. Leskernick comprises a western and a southern settlement situated on the lower, stony slopes of the hill and including 51 circular stone houses constructed using a variety of building techniques. Walled fields associated with these houses vary in size from 0.…
Emergent Tribal Formations in the American Midcontinent
Archaic societies in the American midcontinent tend to be viewed as 'archetypal' egalitarian, subsistence-oriented, gatherer-hunters. The strong techno-environmental orientation of most recent studies makes it hard to understand how and why increasingly socially differentiated gatherer-hunter societies emerged during the later Woodland period. In this article I attempt a social perspective on gatherer-hunters in general and those of the Archaic i…
Art and the Re-Presentation of the Past
This article considers conceptual links between producing installation art works in the present and interpreting prehistoric lifeworlds. We consider connections between the work of contemporary 'landscape', 'environmental' or 'ecological' artists and an on-going landscape archaeology project centred on Leskernick Hill, Bodmin Moor in the south-west of Britain. We argue that the production of art works in the present can be a powerful means of int…
Thinking across the divide: Perspectives on the conversations between physical and human geography
This paper reports on a meeting which was held at the RGS/IBG annual conference in London in September 2003, where we aimed to investigate and debate some of the ways in which human and physical geography could (and should?) reopen a dialogue. This conference session was timely for three reasons. First, whilst human geography has a long tradition of engaging in philosophical discussion, physical geographers have been rather more reluctant to exam…
Farming in Prehistory: From Hunter-Gatherer to Food-Producer
Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology: Essays in the Philosophy, History and Socio-Politics of Archaeology
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The Past in Contemporary Society: Then, Now
The early farmers of France
In the sixth millennium the more open soils of France were peopled by Tardenoisian hunters and gatherers. In the north there were groups along the coasts, particularly in Picardy and Brittany, and inland on the sandy soils of the Plain of Flanders and the Ile de France and on the granitic soils of the Armorican massif. Such groups continued to exist alongside farming groups until well into the third millennium
Conflicting imaginations: Archaeology, anthropology and geomorphology on Leskernick Hill, Bodmin Moor, southwest Britain
Stonehenge: Whose past? What past
Class Conflict or Consensus? Understanding Social Partner Positions on Social Policy Reforms
This paper addresses the positions of unions and employer associations towards the level of unemployment benefits and active labour market policy (ALMP). These are prominent examples of social compensation and social investment policies respectively. The new dataset 'Reform Monitor on Political Conflict' (ReMoPo) is based on expert interviews and a systematic text analysis of all relevant press releases. Over a time-span of 14 years (2000-2014) t…
Timely interventions
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Contentious Landscapes
Roymans' paper is ambitious - and short. Perhaps a little too short: there were a good many junctures where I felt there was much more that could be said, and certainly the bibliography could be greatly extended. The excitement of the paper lies in the methodological cross-over between archaeological and folkloric materials, which I found both convincing and informative, and in the time-depth that Roymans permits himself. In a rather odd reversal…
The early farmers of France
In the sixth millennium the more open soils of France were peopled by Tardenoisian hunters and gatherers. In the north there were groups along the coasts, particularly in Picardy and Brittany, and inland on the sandy soils of the Plain of Flanders and the Ile de France and on the granitic soils of the Armorican massif. Such groups continued to exist alongside farming groups until well into the third millennium
Farming in Prehistory: From Hunter-Gatherer to Food-Producer
Farming in Prehistory: From Hunter-Gatherer to Food Producer
Farming in Prehistory: From Hunter-Gatherer to Food-Producer
Gatherer-hunter to farmer: A social perspective
The theoretical approach to agricultural origins in the last decade has concentrated on techno-environmental and demographic causality. This paper attempts to show that both are dependent upon the social structure, and that this is where the enquiry should begin. The social properties of a tribal system are examined; first, in an anthropological framework using ethnographic illustrations, and then in an archaeological framework using prehistoric …
An Anthropological Analysis of Food-Getting Technology
Technology, material culture, and artifacts are unexciting words, yet the ideas for which they stand are of immeasurable importance in the lives of all peoples -- in the past, in the present, and presumably in any future that we may conceive. These key words most often evoke thoughts about the mundane or the highly technical. From another perspective technological achievements may be seen as responsible for many of our ills, and yet it is reasona…
Anthropology for archaeologists
Prehistoric Developments in the American Midcontinent and in Brittany, Northwest France
Emergent Tribal Formations in the American Midcontinent
Archaic societies in the American midcontinent tend to be viewed as 'archetypal' egalitarian, subsistence-oriented, gatherer-hunters. The strong techno-environmental orientation of most recent studies makes it hard to understand how and why increasingly socially differentiated gatherer-hunter societies emerged during the later Woodland period. In this article I attempt a social perspective on gatherer-hunters in general and those of the Archaic i…
Thatcherism and Anthropological Research Funding
Critical issues for practice in residential treatment: The view from within
A large proportion of children in residential treatment engage in extreme acting-out behavior and suffer from severe attachment disorders and abuse reactivity. At the same time, practice is increasingly alienated from theory and public policy. The challenges to practitioners posed by these difficulties are described and illustrated by vignettes, their impact on residential group care practice is discussed, and their implications for the redesign …
Stonehenge: Whose past? What past
Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions
The Neolithic Rethought
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Theorising Landscapes, and the Prehistoric Landscapes of Stonehenge
Critique des travaux des deux pionniers de la reconstitution du paysage : W.G. Hoskins et R. Williams. Expose des travaux de ce dernier sur le paysage de Stonehenge
Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology: Essays in the Philosophy, History and Socio-Politics of Archaeology
The Past in Contemporary Society: Then, Now
Timely interventions
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Contentious Landscapes
Roymans' paper is ambitious - and short. Perhaps a little too short: there were a good many junctures where I felt there was much more that could be said, and certainly the bibliography could be greatly extended. The excitement of the paper lies in the methodological cross-over between archaeological and folkloric materials, which I found both convincing and informative, and in the time-depth that Roymans permits himself. In a rather odd reversal…
Leskernick: Stone Worlds; Alternative Narratives; Nested Landscapes
The first season of an on-going project focused on Leskernick Hill, north-west Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, entailed a preliminary settlement survey and limited excavation of a stone row terminal. Leskernick comprises a western and a southern settlement situated on the lower, stony slopes of the hill and including 51 circular stone houses constructed using a variety of building techniques. Walled fields associated with these houses vary in size from 0.…
Stonehenge: Making Space
Bronze Age stone worlds of Bodmin Moor: Excavating Leskernick
Introductory comments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Art and the Re-Presentation of the Past
This article considers conceptual links between producing installation art works in the present and interpreting prehistoric lifeworlds. We consider connections between the work of contemporary 'landscape', 'environmental' or 'ecological' artists and an on-going landscape archaeology project centred on Leskernick Hill, Bodmin Moor in the south-west of Britain. We argue that the production of art works in the present can be a powerful means of int…
Landscapes on-the-move
Both archaeologists and anthropologists have been slow to address the question of how people on the move engage with landscape. Anthropologists have tended to discuss the larger political and social terrain of diaspora without too much consideration of what this might involve in terms of intimate and personal engagement. Archaeologists espousing a more phenomenological approach have focused on intimate and personal engagement with place and well-…
Geography (24 works) · History (18 works) · Archaeology (17 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (16 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Prehistory (10 works) · History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (6 works)