M Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 14962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0366-9821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“I Don’t Believe Any Qualifications Are Required”: Exploring Global Stakeholders’ Perspectives Towards the Developmental Experiences of Esports Coaches
Esports is a global industry, with coaches widely regarded as having a pivotal role in facilitating player development and enhancing performance. Despite this, limited research has investigated the developmental experiences of esports coaches and how they are valued by diverse stakeholder groups. Consequently, the aim of this research is to explore global stakeholders’ perspectives towards the developmental experiences of esports coaches. Data we…
Tūrou Hawaiki: Morning karakia and waiata as culturally responsive pedagogy
This article presents the findings of a qualitative case study on voluntary participation in morning karakia (incantation, prayer) and waiata (song) sessions, led by a group of teacher educators. This study is informed by a selective review of literature from three relevant sources: the impact of music therapy practices, culturally responsive pedagogy, and the normalisation of te reo Māori (Māori language) and tikanga Māori (Māori protocols and c…
Under-representation of low and middle income countries (LMIC) in the research literature: Ethical issues arising from a survey of five leading medical journals: have the trends changed
Despite many initiatives taken by funding bodies and health care organisations, the 10/90 gap in health care and health system research between low and middle-income countries (LIMC) and high income countries is still widely recognised. We aimed to quantify the contribution of LMIC in high impact medical journals and compare the results with the previous survey conducted in 2000. Research articles were anaylsed to determine the origin of data and…
Michael Gove’s war on professional historical expertise: Conservative curriculum reform, extreme whig history and the place of imperial heroes in modern multicultural Britain
Six years of continuously baiting his opponents within the history profession eventually amounted to little where it mattered most. UK Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, finally backtracked in 2013 on his plans to impose a curriculum for English schools based on a linear chronology of the achievements of British national heroes. His ‘history as celebration’ curriculum was designed to instil pride amongst students in a supposedly shar…
George Osborne’s machonomics
Raging Hallelujah
Imitation and society: How Boasian anthropology reassembled the social
A growing body of research defends the contemporary relevance of 19th-century sociologist Gabriel Tarde's theory of the social. Bruno Latour, in particular, reads Tarde's emphasis on imitation, innovation, and opposition as a relationist alternative to Émile Durkheim's ostensible determinism. Scholars aligned with Latour's reconstruction have maintained that sociology and anthropology decisively abandoned Tarde's social epistemology in favor of a…
On Multispecies Mythology: A Critique of Animal Anthropology
This article argues that the turn to the animal is a return to mythology. By reading multispecies scholarship as narrativization of contemporary mythology, I claim that the field voices anxieties about human futures through figures of animal others. Multispecies ethnography implicitly grapples with an apocalyptic mythos prevailing in the wake of modernity's seemingly abandoned dreams (e.g. geopolitical peace, postcolonial development, environment…
Month Prevalence, Trends, Gender Differences, and the Impact of Mental Health Services on Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among Discharged Psychiatric Inpatients
The Animal Anthropology of Linda Schele's Spirits
tion of life, or bios, as a central political and epistemic category. The trend in ethnography has been to challenge this prioritization from the inside by extending forms of representation previously reserved for human subjects to other living beings. While such efforts in the anthropology of life and multispecies ethnography shift the Weld toward a more open ontology and a more ambitious empiricism, they also risk substituting biocentrism for a…
Listening in the Pakal controversy: A matter of care in Ancient Maya studies
This article explores the fraught historical politics of a 20th-century controversy over a Classic Maya king. The controversy ostensibly concerned the age at death of a ruler discovered in 1952 in an elaborate sarcophagus at the Mexican site of Palenque. Combining osteological and epigraphic techniques, Mexican scholars estimated that the ruler died at about 40 or 50years of age. Two decades later, an emerging collective of US hieroglyph experts …
Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church
Journal Article Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church Get access Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church. By William T. Cavanaugh. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011. 200pp. $18.00. Micah Watson Micah Watson 1Union UniversityJackson, Tennessee *[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and S…
Derrida, Stengers, Latour, and Subalternist Cosmopolitics
Postcolonial science studies entails ostensibly contradictory critical and empirical commitments. Science studies scholars influenced by Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers embrace forms of realist, radical empiricism, while postcolonial studies scholars influenced by Jacques Derrida trace the limits of the knowable. This essay takes their common use of the term cosmopolitics as an unexpected point of departure for reconciling Derrida's program wi…
The poverty of postcolonial theory
Vivek Chibber Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital London and New York: Verso, 2013 306 pp ISBN 978 1 84467 976 8 (pb) US$29.95 Classical Marxist theory teaches that the proletarian revol
Mediating the Maya: Hieroglyphic imaging and objectivity
Drawing from the science studies literature on scientific visualization, this essay examines how techniques of imaging Maya hieroglyphs have established conditions that constrain contemporary scholars' systems of historical imagination and interpretation. I discuss imaging techniques innovated by three significant Mayanists: J. Eric S. Thompson, Merle Greene Robertson, and Linda Schele. Building on the work of historians of science Lorraine Dasto…
Staged Discovery and the Politics of Maya Hieroglyphic Things
Anthropologists of science conventionally examine the cultural politics of natural sciences. However, historical and social sciences also have cultural contexts and consequences. This article extends science studies to public engagement with Maya hieroglyphic decipherment. In the 1970s several scholars claimed to discover Maya hieroglyphs’ grammatical structure. Linda Schele popularized decipherment through sites including the Maya Meetings, publ…
Dissecting Postcolonial Biomedicine
This essay reviews Warwick Anderson's book The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen. I present the book as a model of postcolonial science studies research that exemplifies the complementarity of postcolonial studies and science studies
Cosmopolitics and the Subaltern: Problematizing Latour’s Idea of the Commons
This essay traces the ontological and political limits of Bruno Latour's conceptualization of the 'common world'. Latour formulates this concept in explicating how modernist scientific and political institutions require a metaphysical foundation that is anti-democratic in rigidly partitioning nature from society. In the stead of nature/society, Latour proposes a 'cosmopolitics' in which we recognize our embroilment in systems comprised of heterog…
Classrooms and Online Engagement
Does sending a home safety questionnaire increase recruitment to an injury prevention trial? A randomised controlled trial: Table 1
Few publications have examined maximising recruitment to randomised controlled trials in primary care. Mass mailings have been used as a recruitment strategy,1-3 but have had low response rates. Short messages in mass mailings have acheived better recruitment rates than longer messages.4 Within a primary care injury prevention trial we assessed response and recruitment rates to the trial using mass mailing, comparing an invitation to participate …
Cosmopolitics and the Subaltern: Problematizing Latour’s Idea of the Commons
This essay traces the ontological and political limits of Bruno Latour's conceptualization of the 'common world'. Latour formulates this concept in explicating how modernist scientific and political institutions require a metaphysical foundation that is anti-democratic in rigidly partitioning nature from society. In the stead of nature/society, Latour proposes a 'cosmopolitics' in which we recognize our embroilment in systems comprised of heterog…
Derrida, Stengers, Latour, and Subalternist Cosmopolitics
Postcolonial science studies entails ostensibly contradictory critical and empirical commitments. Science studies scholars influenced by Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers embrace forms of realist, radical empiricism, while postcolonial studies scholars influenced by Jacques Derrida trace the limits of the knowable. This essay takes their common use of the term cosmopolitics as an unexpected point of departure for reconciling Derrida's program wi…
On Multispecies Mythology: A Critique of Animal Anthropology
This article argues that the turn to the animal is a return to mythology. By reading multispecies scholarship as narrativization of contemporary mythology, I claim that the field voices anxieties about human futures through figures of animal others. Multispecies ethnography implicitly grapples with an apocalyptic mythos prevailing in the wake of modernity's seemingly abandoned dreams (e.g. geopolitical peace, postcolonial development, environment…
Michael Gove’s war on professional historical expertise: Conservative curriculum reform, extreme whig history and the place of imperial heroes in modern multicultural Britain
Six years of continuously baiting his opponents within the history profession eventually amounted to little where it mattered most. UK Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, finally backtracked in 2013 on his plans to impose a curriculum for English schools based on a linear chronology of the achievements of British national heroes. His ‘history as celebration’ curriculum was designed to instil pride amongst students in a supposedly shar…
Listening in the Pakal controversy: A matter of care in Ancient Maya studies
This article explores the fraught historical politics of a 20th-century controversy over a Classic Maya king. The controversy ostensibly concerned the age at death of a ruler discovered in 1952 in an elaborate sarcophagus at the Mexican site of Palenque. Combining osteological and epigraphic techniques, Mexican scholars estimated that the ruler died at about 40 or 50years of age. Two decades later, an emerging collective of US hieroglyph experts …
Staged Discovery and the Politics of Maya Hieroglyphic Things
Anthropologists of science conventionally examine the cultural politics of natural sciences. However, historical and social sciences also have cultural contexts and consequences. This article extends science studies to public engagement with Maya hieroglyphic decipherment. In the 1970s several scholars claimed to discover Maya hieroglyphs’ grammatical structure. Linda Schele popularized decipherment through sites including the Maya Meetings, publ…
George Osborne’s machonomics
Imitation and society: How Boasian anthropology reassembled the social
A growing body of research defends the contemporary relevance of 19th-century sociologist Gabriel Tarde's theory of the social. Bruno Latour, in particular, reads Tarde's emphasis on imitation, innovation, and opposition as a relationist alternative to Émile Durkheim's ostensible determinism. Scholars aligned with Latour's reconstruction have maintained that sociology and anthropology decisively abandoned Tarde's social epistemology in favor of a…
The Animal Anthropology of Linda Schele's Spirits
tion of life, or bios, as a central political and epistemic category. The trend in ethnography has been to challenge this prioritization from the inside by extending forms of representation previously reserved for human subjects to other living beings. While such efforts in the anthropology of life and multispecies ethnography shift the Weld toward a more open ontology and a more ambitious empiricism, they also risk substituting biocentrism for a…
Month Prevalence, Trends, Gender Differences, and the Impact of Mental Health Services on Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among Discharged Psychiatric Inpatients
The poverty of postcolonial theory
Vivek Chibber Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital London and New York: Verso, 2013 306 pp ISBN 978 1 84467 976 8 (pb) US$29.95 Classical Marxist theory teaches that the proletarian revol
Does sending a home safety questionnaire increase recruitment to an injury prevention trial? A randomised controlled trial: Table 1
Few publications have examined maximising recruitment to randomised controlled trials in primary care. Mass mailings have been used as a recruitment strategy,1-3 but have had low response rates. Short messages in mass mailings have acheived better recruitment rates than longer messages.4 Within a primary care injury prevention trial we assessed response and recruitment rates to the trial using mass mailing, comparing an invitation to participate …
Classrooms and Online Engagement
Dissecting Postcolonial Biomedicine
This essay reviews Warwick Anderson's book The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen. I present the book as a model of postcolonial science studies research that exemplifies the complementarity of postcolonial studies and science studies
Cosmopolitics and the Subaltern: Problematizing Latour’s Idea of the Commons
This essay traces the ontological and political limits of Bruno Latour's conceptualization of the 'common world'. Latour formulates this concept in explicating how modernist scientific and political institutions require a metaphysical foundation that is anti-democratic in rigidly partitioning nature from society. In the stead of nature/society, Latour proposes a 'cosmopolitics' in which we recognize our embroilment in systems comprised of heterog…
Staged Discovery and the Politics of Maya Hieroglyphic Things
Anthropologists of science conventionally examine the cultural politics of natural sciences. However, historical and social sciences also have cultural contexts and consequences. This article extends science studies to public engagement with Maya hieroglyphic decipherment. In the 1970s several scholars claimed to discover Maya hieroglyphs’ grammatical structure. Linda Schele popularized decipherment through sites including the Maya Meetings, publ…
The poverty of postcolonial theory
Vivek Chibber Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital London and New York: Verso, 2013 306 pp ISBN 978 1 84467 976 8 (pb) US$29.95 Classical Marxist theory teaches that the proletarian revol
Mediating the Maya: Hieroglyphic imaging and objectivity
Drawing from the science studies literature on scientific visualization, this essay examines how techniques of imaging Maya hieroglyphs have established conditions that constrain contemporary scholars' systems of historical imagination and interpretation. I discuss imaging techniques innovated by three significant Mayanists: J. Eric S. Thompson, Merle Greene Robertson, and Linda Schele. Building on the work of historians of science Lorraine Dasto…
The Animal Anthropology of Linda Schele's Spirits
tion of life, or bios, as a central political and epistemic category. The trend in ethnography has been to challenge this prioritization from the inside by extending forms of representation previously reserved for human subjects to other living beings. While such efforts in the anthropology of life and multispecies ethnography shift the Weld toward a more open ontology and a more ambitious empiricism, they also risk substituting biocentrism for a…
Listening in the Pakal controversy: A matter of care in Ancient Maya studies
This article explores the fraught historical politics of a 20th-century controversy over a Classic Maya king. The controversy ostensibly concerned the age at death of a ruler discovered in 1952 in an elaborate sarcophagus at the Mexican site of Palenque. Combining osteological and epigraphic techniques, Mexican scholars estimated that the ruler died at about 40 or 50years of age. Two decades later, an emerging collective of US hieroglyph experts …
Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church
Journal Article Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church Get access Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church. By William T. Cavanaugh. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2011. 200pp. $18.00. Micah Watson Micah Watson 1Union UniversityJackson, Tennessee *[email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and S…
Derrida, Stengers, Latour, and Subalternist Cosmopolitics
Postcolonial science studies entails ostensibly contradictory critical and empirical commitments. Science studies scholars influenced by Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers embrace forms of realist, radical empiricism, while postcolonial studies scholars influenced by Jacques Derrida trace the limits of the knowable. This essay takes their common use of the term cosmopolitics as an unexpected point of departure for reconciling Derrida's program wi…
Month Prevalence, Trends, Gender Differences, and the Impact of Mental Health Services on Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among Discharged Psychiatric Inpatients
On Multispecies Mythology: A Critique of Animal Anthropology
This article argues that the turn to the animal is a return to mythology. By reading multispecies scholarship as narrativization of contemporary mythology, I claim that the field voices anxieties about human futures through figures of animal others. Multispecies ethnography implicitly grapples with an apocalyptic mythos prevailing in the wake of modernity's seemingly abandoned dreams (e.g. geopolitical peace, postcolonial development, environment…
George Osborne’s machonomics
Raging Hallelujah
Imitation and society: How Boasian anthropology reassembled the social
A growing body of research defends the contemporary relevance of 19th-century sociologist Gabriel Tarde's theory of the social. Bruno Latour, in particular, reads Tarde's emphasis on imitation, innovation, and opposition as a relationist alternative to Émile Durkheim's ostensible determinism. Scholars aligned with Latour's reconstruction have maintained that sociology and anthropology decisively abandoned Tarde's social epistemology in favor of a…
Michael Gove’s war on professional historical expertise: Conservative curriculum reform, extreme whig history and the place of imperial heroes in modern multicultural Britain
Six years of continuously baiting his opponents within the history profession eventually amounted to little where it mattered most. UK Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, finally backtracked in 2013 on his plans to impose a curriculum for English schools based on a linear chronology of the achievements of British national heroes. His ‘history as celebration’ curriculum was designed to instil pride amongst students in a supposedly shar…
Tūrou Hawaiki: Morning karakia and waiata as culturally responsive pedagogy
This article presents the findings of a qualitative case study on voluntary participation in morning karakia (incantation, prayer) and waiata (song) sessions, led by a group of teacher educators. This study is informed by a selective review of literature from three relevant sources: the impact of music therapy practices, culturally responsive pedagogy, and the normalisation of te reo Māori (Māori language) and tikanga Māori (Māori protocols and c…
Under-representation of low and middle income countries (LMIC) in the research literature: Ethical issues arising from a survey of five leading medical journals: have the trends changed
Despite many initiatives taken by funding bodies and health care organisations, the 10/90 gap in health care and health system research between low and middle-income countries (LIMC) and high income countries is still widely recognised. We aimed to quantify the contribution of LMIC in high impact medical journals and compare the results with the previous survey conducted in 2000. Research articles were anaylsed to determine the origin of data and…
“I Don’t Believe Any Qualifications Are Required”: Exploring Global Stakeholders’ Perspectives Towards the Developmental Experiences of Esports Coaches
Esports is a global industry, with coaches widely regarded as having a pivotal role in facilitating player development and enhancing performance. Despite this, limited research has investigated the developmental experiences of esports coaches and how they are valued by diverse stakeholder groups. Consequently, the aim of this research is to explore global stakeholders’ perspectives towards the developmental experiences of esports coaches. Data we…
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