Stephen Howe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1217346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Howe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Howe |
| SIGNATURE | HOWE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9562-3619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Papua New Guinea's Public Services Commission since independence
This paper investigates reforms to the Public Services Commission (PSC) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) since independence in 1975. It looks at the original role of the PSC and then the various reforms it has been subject to: in 1986, 2003, and 2013, by constitutional and legislative change, and in 2019, by court ruling. We argue that since independence, PNG's PSC has been at different times made both less and more powerful. We explain these conflictin…
The impact of independence on reported aid performance
The New Imperial Histories Reader
Papua New Guinea economic survey
Although official statistics show that an economic recovery is underway in Papua New Guinea, the country's new Prime Minister has stated that the economy is “bleeding and struggling.” Disappointing 2019 first‐half‐year revenue results and the reintensification of foreign exchange shortages suggest that last year's (nonresource) recovery, which was based on unsustainable fiscal expansion, has not endured; that this year's growth statistics may nee…
Pacific seasonal workers
“Crowding out” is a widely accepted claim in migration analysis, which posits that the preference of profit‐maximising employers for irregular and minimally regulated migrants overregulated alternatives will undermine, if not condemn to failure, well‐regulated temporary migration schemes. In this paper, we test the crowding out hypothesis by examining the experience with well‐regulated seasonal migrant worker programs in the horticultural sectors…
West Indian intellectuals in Britain
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as on the subordinate societies, Studies in Imperialism seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history, the study of education and religion, sports history and children's literature.The cultural emphasis embraces studies of migration and …
Afterword
Does the name Hot Thumbs O’Reilly tug any memory strings for any reader here?
Gauging Change in Australian Aid
In this article, we use data from the 2013 and 2015 Australian Aid Stakeholder Surveys to gauge the extent of the changes to the Australian Government Aid Program since the 2013 federal election. The two surveys targeted the same set of stakeholders of the aid program, and both gathered data on a wide range of aspects of its functioning. As we assess the findings that emerged from the surveys, we situate our work amongst recent academic studies t…
Skill Development and Regional Mobility
Developing countries can lose part of their investment in training skilled workers who later emigrate. One innovative response is for migrants’ destination countries to help finance skilled emigrants’ training ex ante – linking skill creation and skill mobility. We describe one such project, the Australia-Pacific Technical College (APTC), which has financed vocational training in five Pacific island developing countries for employment both at hom…
Timothy H. Parsons. The Second British Empire
Survey of Recent Developments
Outgoing Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's second-term record is creditable, measured against the targets he set himself in 2010, but deficient in key areas: economic reform, infrastructure investment, and anti-corruption. Indonesia's 2009–14 parliament has been active in economic policymaking, and will leave as its legacy a raft of protectionist legislation. Both presidential candidates, Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo and Prabowo Subianto, h…
Colonized and Colonizers
This chapter attempts a broad historical and historiographical survey of relations between Irish history and that of the British Empire—both of Ireland as subject to English, then British conquest and colonization, and Irish roles in British imperial expansion, plus Irish people’s ambivalent place in the formation of what many historians now call the ‘British World’. It concludes that, whilst there has been a remarkable and welcome recent expansi…
Imperial Histories, Postcolonial Theories
A Framework for Understanding Aid Effectiveness Determinants, Strategies and Tradeoffs
Prominent reform agendas for aid abound. How do they relate to each other? This article tries to organise the aid reform literature by proposing a general framework for thinking about the determinants of aid effectiveness and strategies for improving the same. It presents three schools of thought on aid effectiveness: the recipient, donor and transaction costs schools. It argues that none of the reform agendas proposed by these schools dominates.…
Native America and the study of colonialism, Part 1
One of the most striking of all ‘postcolonial’ intellectual shifts, on a global perspective, has been a rapid and massive growth of the language and sometimes the conceptual tools of ‘colonialism’ and ‘decolonisation’ in relation to indigenous North Americans, past and indeed present. This has, however, so far very rarely involved substantive comparative analysis. This article (the first of two parts) attempts a broad survey of the intellectual g…
Empires and colonies - By Jonathan Hart
Questioning the (bad) question
The title of this article is consciously provocative, and thus cries out for immediate explanation and perhaps, in some sense, for the provocation to be disarmed. Why, then, is ‘Was Ireland a colony?’ a bad question - or rather, a question often badly posed? Reasons include the fact that the question is so intertwined with other disputes, including directly political ones, and because there are problems with the term ‘colony’ itself, which has in…
The debate on the rise of the British empire - By Anthony Webster
An Interview With Edward Said
A slightly shorter version of the following was published in Hebrew as ‘Soon I won't be here’ (with Daphna Vard) in Ha'aretz 26 February 1993. Since there was never an English-language version – Ha'aretz began publishing an English edition only a few years later – it has largely been forgotten, and has never been re-published. It was, we believe, the first major ‘introduction’ of Edward Said to a non-specialist Israeli audience: his The Question …
Who's an imperialist?
‘Who's an imperialist?’ examines the meanings of the word ‘empire’, which has been intertwined with several other equally contentious words: imperialism, colonialism, neocolonialism, and globalization. Ideas about empire have changed across the past century from general approval to near-universal distaste. Defining something as imperial or colonial today almost always implies hostility to it, viewing it as inherently immoral or illegitimate. The …
Empire by sea
‘Empire by sea’ traces the rise of the ‘long-distance’ overseas imperialisms of the Western European powers and explores the economic effects of empire. Some argue that African, Asian, and other precolonial economies possessed all the preconditions for future commercial and industrial dynamism, and that colonial rule destroyed these, blocking the possibility of their emerging elsewhere. Others argue that, on the contrary, colonialism played an ec…
Ireland and Empire
A growing band of historians, political commentators, and cultural critics has sought to analyse Ireland's past and present in colonial terms. For some, including Irish Republicans, it is the only proper framework for understanding Ireland. Others reject the very use of the colonial label for Ireland's history; while using the term for the present arouses outrage, especially amongst Ulster Unionists. This book evaluates and analyses these controv…
Empire
Stephen Howe interprets the meaning of the idea of 'empire' through the ages, disentangling the multiple uses and abuses of the labels 'empire', 'colonialism', and the like while examining the aftermath of imperialism on the contemporary world
Afterword Transnationalisms Good, Bad, Real, Imagined, Thick and Thin
Afrocentrism
Empire
Stephen Howe interprets the meaning of the idea of 'empire' through the ages, disentangling the multiple uses and abuses of the labels 'empire', 'colonialism', and the like while examining the aftermath of imperialism on the contemporary world
Afrocentrism
Questioning the (bad) question
The title of this article is consciously provocative, and thus cries out for immediate explanation and perhaps, in some sense, for the provocation to be disarmed. Why, then, is ‘Was Ireland a colony?’ a bad question - or rather, a question often badly posed? Reasons include the fact that the question is so intertwined with other disputes, including directly political ones, and because there are problems with the term ‘colony’ itself, which has in…
The Maltese general election of 1987
Pacific seasonal workers
“Crowding out” is a widely accepted claim in migration analysis, which posits that the preference of profit‐maximising employers for irregular and minimally regulated migrants overregulated alternatives will undermine, if not condemn to failure, well‐regulated temporary migration schemes. In this paper, we test the crowding out hypothesis by examining the experience with well‐regulated seasonal migrant worker programs in the horticultural sectors…
West Indian intellectuals in Britain
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as on the subordinate societies, Studies in Imperialism seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history, the study of education and religion, sports history and children's literature.The cultural emphasis embraces studies of migration and …
A Framework for Understanding Aid Effectiveness Determinants, Strategies and Tradeoffs
Prominent reform agendas for aid abound. How do they relate to each other? This article tries to organise the aid reform literature by proposing a general framework for thinking about the determinants of aid effectiveness and strategies for improving the same. It presents three schools of thought on aid effectiveness: the recipient, donor and transaction costs schools. It argues that none of the reform agendas proposed by these schools dominates.…
Gauging Change in Australian Aid
In this article, we use data from the 2013 and 2015 Australian Aid Stakeholder Surveys to gauge the extent of the changes to the Australian Government Aid Program since the 2013 federal election. The two surveys targeted the same set of stakeholders of the aid program, and both gathered data on a wide range of aspects of its functioning. As we assess the findings that emerged from the surveys, we situate our work amongst recent academic studies t…
Native America and the study of colonialism, Part 1
One of the most striking of all ‘postcolonial’ intellectual shifts, on a global perspective, has been a rapid and massive growth of the language and sometimes the conceptual tools of ‘colonialism’ and ‘decolonisation’ in relation to indigenous North Americans, past and indeed present. This has, however, so far very rarely involved substantive comparative analysis. This article (the first of two parts) attempts a broad survey of the intellectual g…
Public distribution of food in India
The interpreter
An Interview With Edward Said
A slightly shorter version of the following was published in Hebrew as ‘Soon I won't be here’ (with Daphna Vard) in Ha'aretz 26 February 1993. Since there was never an English-language version – Ha'aretz began publishing an English edition only a few years later – it has largely been forgotten, and has never been re-published. It was, we believe, the first major ‘introduction’ of Edward Said to a non-specialist Israeli audience: his The Question …
Speaking of 98
1 Ruskin College, Oxford, UK
The Maltese general election of 1987
The Movement for Colonial Freedom, 1954–1964
Anticolonialism in British Politics
This is the first full scholarly study of British anticolonialism. British anticolonialism was an offshoot of a massive global upsurge of sentiment which has dominated much of the history of this century. In this wide-ranging and important book, Stephen Howe surveys the attitudes and activities relating to colonial issues of British critics of Empire during the years of decolonisation. He also evaluates the changing ways in which, arising out of …
Public distribution of food in India
The interpreter
Anticolonialism in British Politics. The Left and the End of Empire, 1918-1964
The Personal Pronouns in the Germanic Languages
The Influence of Aggregation on the Ordering of Distributions
Researchers often compare distributions using some criterion or other of inequality, poverty, or welfare. It is standard practice to base such comparative analysis on aggregated data. But will the results obtained be dependent on the degree of aggregation of the data? This paper argues, on the basis of a simulation study, that they will be, since the probability of obtaining a ranking can increase rapidly with the degree of aggregation. Aggregati…
The Personal Pronouns in the Germanic Languages
Afrocentrism
Speaking of 98
1 Ruskin College, Oxford, UK
Who's an imperialist?
‘Who's an imperialist?’ examines the meanings of the word ‘empire’, which has been intertwined with several other equally contentious words: imperialism, colonialism, neocolonialism, and globalization. Ideas about empire have changed across the past century from general approval to near-universal distaste. Defining something as imperial or colonial today almost always implies hostility to it, viewing it as inherently immoral or illegitimate. The …
Empire by sea
‘Empire by sea’ traces the rise of the ‘long-distance’ overseas imperialisms of the Western European powers and explores the economic effects of empire. Some argue that African, Asian, and other precolonial economies possessed all the preconditions for future commercial and industrial dynamism, and that colonial rule destroyed these, blocking the possibility of their emerging elsewhere. Others argue that, on the contrary, colonialism played an ec…
Ireland and Empire
A growing band of historians, political commentators, and cultural critics has sought to analyse Ireland's past and present in colonial terms. For some, including Irish Republicans, it is the only proper framework for understanding Ireland. Others reject the very use of the colonial label for Ireland's history; while using the term for the present arouses outrage, especially amongst Ulster Unionists. This book evaluates and analyses these controv…
Empire
Stephen Howe interprets the meaning of the idea of 'empire' through the ages, disentangling the multiple uses and abuses of the labels 'empire', 'colonialism', and the like while examining the aftermath of imperialism on the contemporary world
Afterword Transnationalisms Good, Bad, Real, Imagined, Thick and Thin
An Interview With Edward Said
A slightly shorter version of the following was published in Hebrew as ‘Soon I won't be here’ (with Daphna Vard) in Ha'aretz 26 February 1993. Since there was never an English-language version – Ha'aretz began publishing an English edition only a few years later – it has largely been forgotten, and has never been re-published. It was, we believe, the first major ‘introduction’ of Edward Said to a non-specialist Israeli audience: his The Question …
The debate on the rise of the British empire - By Anthony Webster
Questioning the (bad) question
The title of this article is consciously provocative, and thus cries out for immediate explanation and perhaps, in some sense, for the provocation to be disarmed. Why, then, is ‘Was Ireland a colony?’ a bad question - or rather, a question often badly posed? Reasons include the fact that the question is so intertwined with other disputes, including directly political ones, and because there are problems with the term ‘colony’ itself, which has in…
Empires and colonies - By Jonathan Hart
Colonized and Colonizers
This chapter attempts a broad historical and historiographical survey of relations between Irish history and that of the British Empire—both of Ireland as subject to English, then British conquest and colonization, and Irish roles in British imperial expansion, plus Irish people’s ambivalent place in the formation of what many historians now call the ‘British World’. It concludes that, whilst there has been a remarkable and welcome recent expansi…
Imperial Histories, Postcolonial Theories
A Framework for Understanding Aid Effectiveness Determinants, Strategies and Tradeoffs
Prominent reform agendas for aid abound. How do they relate to each other? This article tries to organise the aid reform literature by proposing a general framework for thinking about the determinants of aid effectiveness and strategies for improving the same. It presents three schools of thought on aid effectiveness: the recipient, donor and transaction costs schools. It argues that none of the reform agendas proposed by these schools dominates.…
Native America and the study of colonialism, Part 1
One of the most striking of all ‘postcolonial’ intellectual shifts, on a global perspective, has been a rapid and massive growth of the language and sometimes the conceptual tools of ‘colonialism’ and ‘decolonisation’ in relation to indigenous North Americans, past and indeed present. This has, however, so far very rarely involved substantive comparative analysis. This article (the first of two parts) attempts a broad survey of the intellectual g…
Survey of Recent Developments
Outgoing Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's second-term record is creditable, measured against the targets he set himself in 2010, but deficient in key areas: economic reform, infrastructure investment, and anti-corruption. Indonesia's 2009–14 parliament has been active in economic policymaking, and will leave as its legacy a raft of protectionist legislation. Both presidential candidates, Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo and Prabowo Subianto, h…
History (20 works) · Political science (20 works) · Law (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Empire (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Australian History and Society (7 works)