E Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 16656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6042-6706 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The shared genetic architecture and evolution of human language and musical rhythm
This study aimed to test theoretical predictions over biological underpinnings of previously documented phenotypic correlations between human language-related and musical rhythm traits. Here, after identifying significant genetic correlations between rhythm, dyslexia and various language-related traits, we adapted multivariate methods to capture genetic signals common to genome-wide association studies of rhythm (N = 606,825) and dyslexia (N = 1,…
Working for the stomach: Sustaining peasant mining in south-western Uganda
In the mountainous areas of south-western Uganda, peasant miners are characterized as people who 'work for the stomach' and pursue an unsustainable activity: extracting alluvial gold with artisanal technology. After days of hard work in the mines, they allegedly squander their money on alcohol and sex. A common way of disapproving of these miners' behaviour is to compare them to lake fishers (ababariya). By focusing on the ababariya narrative as …
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations
Small-scale gold mining sustains millions of people's lives and yet it stimulates environmental harms and social conflicts. Global environmental crises drive calls for fundamental change to how people live on the planet. For small-scale gold mining, this raises questions about whether current dynamics can provide a basis for sustainability transformations. Proposing the notion of gold lifeways to focus on the lived experience of mining and gold r…
Forced Resettlement, Rural Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation along the Ugalla River in Tanzania
Critical social science perspectives on transformations to sustainability
This article introduces a special issue on the contribution of social science to addressing transformations to sustainability. Articles underline the importance of embracing theoretically rooted, empirically informed, and collaboratively generated knowledge to address sustainability challenges and transformative change. Emphasis is placed on the role of the social sciences in elaborating on the politicisation and pluralisation of transformation p…
Projected land use change in an oil-rich landscape in Uganda: A participatory modelling approach
Transforming matters: Sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining
The genetic architecture of structural left-right asymmetry of the human brain
Left-right hemispheric asymmetry is an important aspect of healthy brain organization for many functions including language, and it can be altered in cognitive and psychiatric disorders. No mechanism has yet been identified for establishing the human brain's left-right axis. We performed multivariate genome-wide association scanning of cortical regional surface area and thickness asymmetries, and subcortical volume asymmetries, using data from 32…
Discapacidad, actividad física y salud: Modelos conceptuales e implicaciones prácticas (Disability, physical activity and health: conceptual models and practical implications)
base terica para ser efectiva. Entre otras cosas, los profesionales deben tomar decisiones informadas sobre qu modelos conceptuales de la discapacidad y la salud adoptar, ya que estos tendrn una gran influencia sobre cmo se disean, implementan y evalan los programas de promocin. El presente trabajo expone tres modelos conceptuales de la discapacidad: el mdico, el social y el social-relacional. Se describen sus caractersticas bsicas y la concepcin…
Sustainable agriculture for health and prosperity: Stakeholders' Roles, Legitimacy and Modus Operandi
Food systems need to focus more on health, prosperity, and environmental sustainability. This requires changes in what, where, how and by whom food is produced, marketed, and consumed. Interdisciplinary research and trans-disciplinary collaboration are needed. Stakeholders need to agree on their respective roles, values, responsibilities and modus operandi so that research better responds to real-world challenges and opportunities. This viewpoint…
Climate risk management and rural poverty reduction
Climate variability is a major source of risk to smallholder farmers and pastoralists, particularly in dryland regions. A growing body of evidence links climate-related risk to the extent and the persistence of rural poverty in these environments. Stochastic shocks erode smallholder farmers' long-term livelihood potential through loss of productive assets. The resulting uncertainty impedes progress out of poverty by acting as a disincentive to in…
Participatory Development
Participatory development is a process of taking into account people's agency in development by involving them in decision making over planning processes that affect their lives. This permits them to exercise their right to challenge established values and institutions. Against universal and top‐down solutions put forward by development experts, participation raises the central issue of reflexivity while suggesting how different forms of knowledg…
Fair Trade Movement
This entry provides an outline of how the fair trade movement has developed and its success in stimulating the production, circulation, and consumption of fair trade products. Critical debate over the core message of the fair trade movement, that buying fair trade products can transform producers' lives in the global South, is highlighted. A body of ethnographic research contributes to this debate by examining the significance of fair trade in pr…
Forest livelihoods: Beekeeping as men’s work in Western Tanzania 1
This chapter presents the example of local African beekeeping to explore how the forest can act as an important locus for men's work in Western Tanzania. The beekeeping camp, and the organization entailed in working in the forest, is of signal importance to the lives of large numbers of men who engage in seasonal activities such as beekeeping, hunting and fishing. In popular thinking in Tanzania, beekeeping is typically characterised as the prese…
Transforming asymmetrical conflicts over natural resources in the Global South
This Special Feature re-examines the relationship between natural resources and processes of conflict and cooperation as they occur in the Global South. Here we introduce key issues and reflect on learning from recent research. While covering a range of resources, contributions share an emphasis on middle-range theory in terms of moving from empirical phenomenon to analytical understanding. What emerges are nuanced understandings of conflict and …
Building pathways out of poverty through climate smart agriculture and effective targeting
One focus of agricultural development is climate smart agricultural technologies and practices (CSA). Development practitioners invest in scaling these to have wider impact. Ineffective targeting stymies CSA’s contribution to poverty reduction by excluding many of the poor and/or including those for whom agriculture is not a pathway out of poverty. This viewpoint proposes the need to recognise differentiated livelihood pathways within smallholder…
Solidarities at a distance: Extending Fairtrade gold to east Africa
The Livelihood Impacts of Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Beneficiary Perspectives from Six Countries
Late Pleistocene rockshelter stratigraphies and palaeoenvironments in Northeastern Africa – Case study Mochena Borago (Ethiopia)
Ethical Turn in International Development
Becoming a region, becoming global, becoming imperceptible: Territorialising salmon in Chilean Patagonia
Intersubjetividad y domesticación en el devenir de una región global: La territorialización del salmón en la Patagonia chilena
Este artículo examina transformaciones en la Patagonia chilena, región líder en la producción de salmón para mercados globalizados. Utilizando una aproximación etnográfica, se abordan las posibilidades de considerar las intersubjetividades en los procesos de conformación de regiones importantes para la producción global de alimentos, argumentando contra algunas perspectivas que enfatizan en la interobjetividad al explorar relaciones humanas y no …
Reframing 'Crisis' in Fair Trade Coffee Production: Trajectories of Agrarian Change in Nicaragua
A focus on crisis provides a methodological window to understand how agrarian change shapes producer engagement in fair trade. This orientation challenges a separation between the market and development, situating fair trade within global processes that incorporate agrarian histories of social change and conflict. Reframing crisis as a condition of agrarian life, rather than emphasizing its cyclical manifestation within the global economy, reveal…
Transitions toward co-management: The process of marine resource management devolution in three east African countries
"The "Fair Trade Nation: Market-Oriented Development in Devolved European Regions
Scholars have largely ignored the roles played by government and public sector institutions in the fair trade movement. This article addresses the knowledge gap through examining government involvement in fair trade networks in the context of European devolution and the localization of international development action. Proposing a relational view of fair trade networks, and considering the Fair Trade Nation as a social category for development, i…
Occupying the Margins: Labour Integration and Social Exclusion in Artisanal Mining in Tanzania
This article examines the marginal position of artisanal miners in sub-Saharan Africa, and considers how they are incorporated into mineral sector change in the context of institutional and legal integration. Taking the case of diamond and gold mining in Tanzania, the concept of social exclusion is used to explore the consequences of marginalization on people's access to mineral resources and ability to make a living from artisanal mining. Becaus…
The Livelihood Impacts of Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Beneficiary Perspectives from Six Countries
Transitions toward co-management: The process of marine resource management devolution in three east African countries
The distance to community medical care and the likelihood of hospitalization: Is closer always better
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the influence that distance from residence to the nearest hospital had on the likelihood of hospitalization and mortality. METHODS: Hospitalizations were studied for Maine. New Hampshire, and Vermont during 1989 (adults) and for 1985 through 1989 (children) and for mortality (1989) in Medicare enrollees. RESULTS: After other known predictors of hospitalization (age, sex, bed supply, median household income, rural r…
Becoming a region, becoming global, becoming imperceptible: Territorialising salmon in Chilean Patagonia
Just Like Kalidasa: The Sakta Intellectuals of Seventeenth-century South India
Beginning in the seventeenth century, the Smārta intellectual community of South India entered into an unprecedented alliance with Śaṅkarācārya monastic institutions and their corresponding esoteric lineage, the Śrīvidyā school of Śākta tantrism. Among the prominent intellectuals of this period, Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita, grand-nephew of the renowned polymath Appayya Dīkṣita, and a number of his associates began to cultivate devotional relationships wit…
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations
Small-scale gold mining sustains millions of people's lives and yet it stimulates environmental harms and social conflicts. Global environmental crises drive calls for fundamental change to how people live on the planet. For small-scale gold mining, this raises questions about whether current dynamics can provide a basis for sustainability transformations. Proposing the notion of gold lifeways to focus on the lived experience of mining and gold r…
Transforming matters: Sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining
Solidarities at a distance: Extending Fairtrade gold to east Africa
The genetic architecture of structural left-right asymmetry of the human brain
Left-right hemispheric asymmetry is an important aspect of healthy brain organization for many functions including language, and it can be altered in cognitive and psychiatric disorders. No mechanism has yet been identified for establishing the human brain's left-right axis. We performed multivariate genome-wide association scanning of cortical regional surface area and thickness asymmetries, and subcortical volume asymmetries, using data from 32…
Reframing 'Crisis' in Fair Trade Coffee Production: Trajectories of Agrarian Change in Nicaragua
A focus on crisis provides a methodological window to understand how agrarian change shapes producer engagement in fair trade. This orientation challenges a separation between the market and development, situating fair trade within global processes that incorporate agrarian histories of social change and conflict. Reframing crisis as a condition of agrarian life, rather than emphasizing its cyclical manifestation within the global economy, reveal…
Projected land use change in an oil-rich landscape in Uganda: A participatory modelling approach
Transforming asymmetrical conflicts over natural resources in the Global South
This Special Feature re-examines the relationship between natural resources and processes of conflict and cooperation as they occur in the Global South. Here we introduce key issues and reflect on learning from recent research. While covering a range of resources, contributions share an emphasis on middle-range theory in terms of moving from empirical phenomenon to analytical understanding. What emerges are nuanced understandings of conflict and …
Building pathways out of poverty through climate smart agriculture and effective targeting
One focus of agricultural development is climate smart agricultural technologies and practices (CSA). Development practitioners invest in scaling these to have wider impact. Ineffective targeting stymies CSA’s contribution to poverty reduction by excluding many of the poor and/or including those for whom agriculture is not a pathway out of poverty. This viewpoint proposes the need to recognise differentiated livelihood pathways within smallholder…
Intersubjetividad y domesticación en el devenir de una región global: La territorialización del salmón en la Patagonia chilena
Este artículo examina transformaciones en la Patagonia chilena, región líder en la producción de salmón para mercados globalizados. Utilizando una aproximación etnográfica, se abordan las posibilidades de considerar las intersubjetividades en los procesos de conformación de regiones importantes para la producción global de alimentos, argumentando contra algunas perspectivas que enfatizan en la interobjetividad al explorar relaciones humanas y no …
A Race on the Edge of Time. Radar--The Decisive Weapon of World War II
Racial differences in social support and mental health in men with HIV infection: A pilot study
The mediating role of social support in the mental health and behaviours of persons coping with life-threatening chronic illness is of potentially great importance in determining the quality of life of persons with HIV infection (PWHs). As part of a biracial pilot study of the ways black and white men manage the stresses of sexually acquired HIV infection, we have examined the relationship between social support and mental health and behaviours. …
Treatment issues: Towards a stepped-care model
Dr Abrams is a nationally recognised researcher in addictive behaviours and chronic disease prevention who has contributed much to our understanding of substance abuse treatment, both empirically and conceptually.I'm particularly pleased that he will be making the presentation this morning that will set the stage for our discussion of the behavioural therapy components of smoking cessation treatment
FMDP Reactor Alternative Summary Report: Volume 3 - partially complete LWR alternative
The Department of Energy Office of Fissile Materials Disposition (DOE/MD) initiated a detailed analysis activity to evaluate each of ten plutonium disposition alternatives that survived an initial screening process. This document, Volume 3 of a four volume report summarizes the results of these analyses for the partially complete LWR (PCLWR) reactor based plutonium disposition alternative
A survey of women with HIV about their expectations for care
As an increasing number of women become infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), it is important to understand their expectations regarding the health care services they receive. In 1995 a new centre was opened at an academic centre in St Louis, Missouri, to provide comprehensive care to women with HIV. To assist in the Centre's development, we interviewed 50 of 119 enrolled clients (42%) using a survey instrument focusing on what th…
The distance to community medical care and the likelihood of hospitalization: Is closer always better
OBJECTIVES: This study examined the influence that distance from residence to the nearest hospital had on the likelihood of hospitalization and mortality. METHODS: Hospitalizations were studied for Maine. New Hampshire, and Vermont during 1989 (adults) and for 1985 through 1989 (children) and for mortality (1989) in Medicare enrollees. RESULTS: After other known predictors of hospitalization (age, sex, bed supply, median household income, rural r…
Forced Resettlement, Rural Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation along the Ugalla River in Tanzania
Occupying the Margins: Labour Integration and Social Exclusion in Artisanal Mining in Tanzania
This article examines the marginal position of artisanal miners in sub-Saharan Africa, and considers how they are incorporated into mineral sector change in the context of institutional and legal integration. Taking the case of diamond and gold mining in Tanzania, the concept of social exclusion is used to explore the consequences of marginalization on people's access to mineral resources and ability to make a living from artisanal mining. Becaus…
“The ladder that sends us to wealth”: Artisanal mining and poverty reduction in Tanzania
The spectacle of modernity: Blood, microscopes and mirrors in colonial Tanganyika
Controls on lake level in the early to mid Holocene, Hawes Water, Lancashire, UK
This study presents a new interpretation of the evidence for Holocene lake-level changes from Hawes Water in NW England constrained by detailed stratigraphic data, radiocarbon chronology and palaeo-environmental evidence. Lake levels are seen to decline gradually from the start of the Holocene through to 9960 cal. yr BP, in response to lake infilling and the prevailing dry climatic conditions. Low lake levels then persist until 6000 cal. yr BP, p…
Transitions toward co-management: The process of marine resource management devolution in three east African countries
"The "Fair Trade Nation: Market-Oriented Development in Devolved European Regions
Scholars have largely ignored the roles played by government and public sector institutions in the fair trade movement. This article addresses the knowledge gap through examining government involvement in fair trade networks in the context of European devolution and the localization of international development action. Proposing a relational view of fair trade networks, and considering the Fair Trade Nation as a social category for development, i…
Just Like Kalidasa: The Sakta Intellectuals of Seventeenth-century South India
Beginning in the seventeenth century, the Smārta intellectual community of South India entered into an unprecedented alliance with Śaṅkarācārya monastic institutions and their corresponding esoteric lineage, the Śrīvidyā school of Śākta tantrism. Among the prominent intellectuals of this period, Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita, grand-nephew of the renowned polymath Appayya Dīkṣita, and a number of his associates began to cultivate devotional relationships wit…
Reframing 'Crisis' in Fair Trade Coffee Production: Trajectories of Agrarian Change in Nicaragua
A focus on crisis provides a methodological window to understand how agrarian change shapes producer engagement in fair trade. This orientation challenges a separation between the market and development, situating fair trade within global processes that incorporate agrarian histories of social change and conflict. Reframing crisis as a condition of agrarian life, rather than emphasizing its cyclical manifestation within the global economy, reveal…
Ethical Turn in International Development
Becoming a region, becoming global, becoming imperceptible: Territorialising salmon in Chilean Patagonia
Intersubjetividad y domesticación en el devenir de una región global: La territorialización del salmón en la Patagonia chilena
Este artículo examina transformaciones en la Patagonia chilena, región líder en la producción de salmón para mercados globalizados. Utilizando una aproximación etnográfica, se abordan las posibilidades de considerar las intersubjetividades en los procesos de conformación de regiones importantes para la producción global de alimentos, argumentando contra algunas perspectivas que enfatizan en la interobjetividad al explorar relaciones humanas y no …
Late Pleistocene rockshelter stratigraphies and palaeoenvironments in Northeastern Africa – Case study Mochena Borago (Ethiopia)
Solidarities at a distance: Extending Fairtrade gold to east Africa
The Livelihood Impacts of Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Beneficiary Perspectives from Six Countries
Participatory Development
Participatory development is a process of taking into account people's agency in development by involving them in decision making over planning processes that affect their lives. This permits them to exercise their right to challenge established values and institutions. Against universal and top‐down solutions put forward by development experts, participation raises the central issue of reflexivity while suggesting how different forms of knowledg…
Fair Trade Movement
This entry provides an outline of how the fair trade movement has developed and its success in stimulating the production, circulation, and consumption of fair trade products. Critical debate over the core message of the fair trade movement, that buying fair trade products can transform producers' lives in the global South, is highlighted. A body of ethnographic research contributes to this debate by examining the significance of fair trade in pr…
Forest livelihoods: Beekeeping as men’s work in Western Tanzania 1
This chapter presents the example of local African beekeeping to explore how the forest can act as an important locus for men's work in Western Tanzania. The beekeeping camp, and the organization entailed in working in the forest, is of signal importance to the lives of large numbers of men who engage in seasonal activities such as beekeeping, hunting and fishing. In popular thinking in Tanzania, beekeeping is typically characterised as the prese…
Transforming asymmetrical conflicts over natural resources in the Global South
This Special Feature re-examines the relationship between natural resources and processes of conflict and cooperation as they occur in the Global South. Here we introduce key issues and reflect on learning from recent research. While covering a range of resources, contributions share an emphasis on middle-range theory in terms of moving from empirical phenomenon to analytical understanding. What emerges are nuanced understandings of conflict and …
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