R G Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 179429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R G Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | R G |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0318-8494 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 330 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1909 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Applied Baudrillard: From the Virtual Economy of Metaverses, NFTs, and Deepfakes, to a New Nihilism and Hatred of Capitalism
Jean Baudrillard's (1929–2007) theoretical writings are applied to an examination of today's global virtual economy and society. New advances in virtual culture, which flourished during and after the COVID-19 pandemic—esp., metaverses (immersive virtual worlds), non-fungible tokens, and deepfakes (synthetic media)—are discussed to show the prescience of Baudrillard's theory for how our global consumer society of the image is now defined by the pr…
Why skyscrapers after Covid-19
Dubai in extremis
Dubai, the most extreme example to date of a realized neo-liberal capitalist urban utopia, is perhaps at its point of death. That is to say that, barring suicide, the only hope Dubai's bonded labour - those tricked, forced and exploited into negated lives of low-paid wage servitude - have of losing their chains, given the emirate's resilience to objections and protests from a multitude of commentators and activists, seems to be the stalling of co…
Baudrillard Redux: Antidotes to Integral Reality
T]here’s something entertaining in the spectacle of the present world racing out of control and ultimately unhinging itself , incapable as it is of escaping its own logic, as though it were caught in its own trap. (Jean Baudrillard
Mongrel Globalization
World city topologies
This paper develops ideas from poststructuralism, actor-network theory, nonrepresentational theory and complexity theory to begin to produce a topological consideration of cities in global networks. In other words, the paper argues that fluids and flows, actant networks, performances and practices fold the spaces and times of cities in ways that question the privileging of geometrical space (near and far) and linear time (now and then) in explana…
World city actor-networks
This paper introduces some new theoretical ideas to a literature that is just beginning to conceptualize globalization and cities as networks. The idea of networks is a fashionable one, but the idea is not new and has taken several forms over the years. This paper discusses some of the more recent and influential ideas about networks to argue for some new theoretical and empirical directions in the field of globalization and world cities. First, …
The Catastrophe of Paradox: Questions and Answers on Hyperreal America with Jean Baudrillard
In December 1992, Baudrillard delivered the lecture “Hyperreal America” at Essex University in the United Kingdom. In his lecture, Baudrillard talked around his now famous book America (published in French in 1986 and in English in 1988) in which he argued that the fascination and catastrophe of America is its hyperreality, which allows the idea and paradox that there utopia has been achieved. The lecture was subsequently translated by David Mace…
Globalization and world cities: Some measurement methodologies
Geographies of Globalization: United States Law Firms in World Cities
The empirical core of this paper is a geographical analysis of U.S, law firms' foreign offices in 1997. This "geography of globalization" is introduced through a theoretical discussion of "geography in globalization" where Storper's "economic reflexivity" is related to Sassen's "geographical centrality," to provide a conceptual framework combining territorialism with network. Three "globalization arenas" are identified (Western Europe, Eastern Eu…
A roster of world cities
The Long Arm of the Law: London's Law Firms in a Globalising World Economy
The 'geography of law' is an emerging subdiscipline within human geography. However, the 'geography of law firms' and their functional capabilities remains strangely neglected in both producer-service and world-city literatures. In this paper we begin to address these gaps by investigating the importance of London in the globalisation of law and the uneven nature of that globalisation. We focus upon why, how, and where leading London law firms ar…
On the Road to Catharsis: A Theoretical Framework for Change
This article discusses the use of confrontational theater and critical ethno-drama as a potential route toward examining and illuminating the construction of performance catharsis. Staged catharsis is discussed as a means of sharing and mapping the collectiv ized understandings produced by audiences and participants. Theoretically, such a process may result in a better comprehension of a collectivized emotional position as the underpinning of a n…
Towards a Composite Educational Research Methodology: Balancing the Authority Equation in Aboriginal Education
In northern Australia Aboriginal 'settlements' or communities are, in the main, the product of a variety of west-centric priorities, the needs, for example of missionaries to keep prospective converts conveniently at hand to maintain the pressure of the Christian conversion process or for government agencies to distribute welfare from single accessible locations. The establishment of fixed communities usually brought considerable advantage and po…
Addressing Issues of Equity and Access in the Delivery of Arts Education to Aboriginal Students
The over-riding objective of an Aboriginal Education Policy should be to achieve equity between Aboriginal people and other Australians in participation at all stages of education by the turn of the century. Education opportunities must be available to Aboriginal people regardless of where they live and in a manner that is appropriate to the diverse cultural and social situations in which they live. It is therefore essential to ensure access for …
Induced abortion and spontaneous fetal loss in subsequent pregnancies
The effect of induced abortion on spontaneous pregnancy loss in subsequent pregnancies was studied based on 3,416 pairs of matched data in a follow-up investigation. Pregnancy outcome was examined also in relation to abortion procedure, gestation length at time of abortion, and number of previous abortions. In general there was no significant association between prior induced abortion and risks of pregnancy loss with the relative risks of 1.10, 0…
Abortion in Hawaii: The first 124 days
Abortion in Hawaii: the first 124 days. R G Smith, P G Steinhoff, M Diamond, and N BrownCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.61.3.530 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Action and Transnational Cinema
A review of Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu (eds), Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2005
Ancient Tales and Folk-Lore of Japan
A roster of world cities
World city actor-networks
This paper introduces some new theoretical ideas to a literature that is just beginning to conceptualize globalization and cities as networks. The idea of networks is a fashionable one, but the idea is not new and has taken several forms over the years. This paper discusses some of the more recent and influential ideas about networks to argue for some new theoretical and empirical directions in the field of globalization and world cities. First, …
World city topologies
This paper develops ideas from poststructuralism, actor-network theory, nonrepresentational theory and complexity theory to begin to produce a topological consideration of cities in global networks. In other words, the paper argues that fluids and flows, actant networks, performances and practices fold the spaces and times of cities in ways that question the privileging of geometrical space (near and far) and linear time (now and then) in explana…
The Long Arm of the Law: London's Law Firms in a Globalising World Economy
The 'geography of law' is an emerging subdiscipline within human geography. However, the 'geography of law firms' and their functional capabilities remains strangely neglected in both producer-service and world-city literatures. In this paper we begin to address these gaps by investigating the importance of London in the globalisation of law and the uneven nature of that globalisation. We focus upon why, how, and where leading London law firms ar…
Geographies of Globalization: United States Law Firms in World Cities
The empirical core of this paper is a geographical analysis of U.S, law firms' foreign offices in 1997. This "geography of globalization" is introduced through a theoretical discussion of "geography in globalization" where Storper's "economic reflexivity" is related to Sassen's "geographical centrality," to provide a conceptual framework combining territorialism with network. Three "globalization arenas" are identified (Western Europe, Eastern Eu…
Abortion in Hawaii: The first 124 days
Abortion in Hawaii: the first 124 days. R G Smith, P G Steinhoff, M Diamond, and N BrownCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.61.3.530 Published Online: August 29, 2011
On the Road to Catharsis: A Theoretical Framework for Change
This article discusses the use of confrontational theater and critical ethno-drama as a potential route toward examining and illuminating the construction of performance catharsis. Staged catharsis is discussed as a means of sharing and mapping the collectiv ized understandings produced by audiences and participants. Theoretically, such a process may result in a better comprehension of a collectivized emotional position as the underpinning of a n…
Dubai in extremis
Dubai, the most extreme example to date of a realized neo-liberal capitalist urban utopia, is perhaps at its point of death. That is to say that, barring suicide, the only hope Dubai's bonded labour - those tricked, forced and exploited into negated lives of low-paid wage servitude - have of losing their chains, given the emirate's resilience to objections and protests from a multitude of commentators and activists, seems to be the stalling of co…
The Catastrophe of Paradox: Questions and Answers on Hyperreal America with Jean Baudrillard
In December 1992, Baudrillard delivered the lecture “Hyperreal America” at Essex University in the United Kingdom. In his lecture, Baudrillard talked around his now famous book America (published in French in 1986 and in English in 1988) in which he argued that the fascination and catastrophe of America is its hyperreality, which allows the idea and paradox that there utopia has been achieved. The lecture was subsequently translated by David Mace…
Towards a Composite Educational Research Methodology: Balancing the Authority Equation in Aboriginal Education
In northern Australia Aboriginal 'settlements' or communities are, in the main, the product of a variety of west-centric priorities, the needs, for example of missionaries to keep prospective converts conveniently at hand to maintain the pressure of the Christian conversion process or for government agencies to distribute welfare from single accessible locations. The establishment of fixed communities usually brought considerable advantage and po…
Induced abortion and spontaneous fetal loss in subsequent pregnancies
The effect of induced abortion on spontaneous pregnancy loss in subsequent pregnancies was studied based on 3,416 pairs of matched data in a follow-up investigation. Pregnancy outcome was examined also in relation to abortion procedure, gestation length at time of abortion, and number of previous abortions. In general there was no significant association between prior induced abortion and risks of pregnancy loss with the relative risks of 1.10, 0…
Why skyscrapers after Covid-19
Baudrillard Redux: Antidotes to Integral Reality
T]here’s something entertaining in the spectacle of the present world racing out of control and ultimately unhinging itself , incapable as it is of escaping its own logic, as though it were caught in its own trap. (Jean Baudrillard
Addressing Issues of Equity and Access in the Delivery of Arts Education to Aboriginal Students
The over-riding objective of an Aboriginal Education Policy should be to achieve equity between Aboriginal people and other Australians in participation at all stages of education by the turn of the century. Education opportunities must be available to Aboriginal people regardless of where they live and in a manner that is appropriate to the diverse cultural and social situations in which they live. It is therefore essential to ensure access for …
Ancient Tales and Folk-Lore of Japan
Action and Transnational Cinema
A review of Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu (eds), Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2005
Abortion in Hawaii: The first 124 days
Abortion in Hawaii: the first 124 days. R G Smith, P G Steinhoff, M Diamond, and N BrownCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.61.3.530 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Induced abortion and spontaneous fetal loss in subsequent pregnancies
The effect of induced abortion on spontaneous pregnancy loss in subsequent pregnancies was studied based on 3,416 pairs of matched data in a follow-up investigation. Pregnancy outcome was examined also in relation to abortion procedure, gestation length at time of abortion, and number of previous abortions. In general there was no significant association between prior induced abortion and risks of pregnancy loss with the relative risks of 1.10, 0…
Addressing Issues of Equity and Access in the Delivery of Arts Education to Aboriginal Students
The over-riding objective of an Aboriginal Education Policy should be to achieve equity between Aboriginal people and other Australians in participation at all stages of education by the turn of the century. Education opportunities must be available to Aboriginal people regardless of where they live and in a manner that is appropriate to the diverse cultural and social situations in which they live. It is therefore essential to ensure access for …
On the Road to Catharsis: A Theoretical Framework for Change
This article discusses the use of confrontational theater and critical ethno-drama as a potential route toward examining and illuminating the construction of performance catharsis. Staged catharsis is discussed as a means of sharing and mapping the collectiv ized understandings produced by audiences and participants. Theoretically, such a process may result in a better comprehension of a collectivized emotional position as the underpinning of a n…
Towards a Composite Educational Research Methodology: Balancing the Authority Equation in Aboriginal Education
In northern Australia Aboriginal 'settlements' or communities are, in the main, the product of a variety of west-centric priorities, the needs, for example of missionaries to keep prospective converts conveniently at hand to maintain the pressure of the Christian conversion process or for government agencies to distribute welfare from single accessible locations. The establishment of fixed communities usually brought considerable advantage and po…
A roster of world cities
The Long Arm of the Law: London's Law Firms in a Globalising World Economy
The 'geography of law' is an emerging subdiscipline within human geography. However, the 'geography of law firms' and their functional capabilities remains strangely neglected in both producer-service and world-city literatures. In this paper we begin to address these gaps by investigating the importance of London in the globalisation of law and the uneven nature of that globalisation. We focus upon why, how, and where leading London law firms ar…
Globalization and world cities: Some measurement methodologies
Geographies of Globalization: United States Law Firms in World Cities
The empirical core of this paper is a geographical analysis of U.S, law firms' foreign offices in 1997. This "geography of globalization" is introduced through a theoretical discussion of "geography in globalization" where Storper's "economic reflexivity" is related to Sassen's "geographical centrality," to provide a conceptual framework combining territorialism with network. Three "globalization arenas" are identified (Western Europe, Eastern Eu…
The Catastrophe of Paradox: Questions and Answers on Hyperreal America with Jean Baudrillard
In December 1992, Baudrillard delivered the lecture “Hyperreal America” at Essex University in the United Kingdom. In his lecture, Baudrillard talked around his now famous book America (published in French in 1986 and in English in 1988) in which he argued that the fascination and catastrophe of America is its hyperreality, which allows the idea and paradox that there utopia has been achieved. The lecture was subsequently translated by David Mace…
World city topologies
This paper develops ideas from poststructuralism, actor-network theory, nonrepresentational theory and complexity theory to begin to produce a topological consideration of cities in global networks. In other words, the paper argues that fluids and flows, actant networks, performances and practices fold the spaces and times of cities in ways that question the privileging of geometrical space (near and far) and linear time (now and then) in explana…
World city actor-networks
This paper introduces some new theoretical ideas to a literature that is just beginning to conceptualize globalization and cities as networks. The idea of networks is a fashionable one, but the idea is not new and has taken several forms over the years. This paper discusses some of the more recent and influential ideas about networks to argue for some new theoretical and empirical directions in the field of globalization and world cities. First, …
Mongrel Globalization
Baudrillard Redux: Antidotes to Integral Reality
T]here’s something entertaining in the spectacle of the present world racing out of control and ultimately unhinging itself , incapable as it is of escaping its own logic, as though it were caught in its own trap. (Jean Baudrillard
Dubai in extremis
Dubai, the most extreme example to date of a realized neo-liberal capitalist urban utopia, is perhaps at its point of death. That is to say that, barring suicide, the only hope Dubai's bonded labour - those tricked, forced and exploited into negated lives of low-paid wage servitude - have of losing their chains, given the emirate's resilience to objections and protests from a multitude of commentators and activists, seems to be the stalling of co…
Why skyscrapers after Covid-19
Applied Baudrillard: From the Virtual Economy of Metaverses, NFTs, and Deepfakes, to a New Nihilism and Hatred of Capitalism
Jean Baudrillard's (1929–2007) theoretical writings are applied to an examination of today's global virtual economy and society. New advances in virtual culture, which flourished during and after the COVID-19 pandemic—esp., metaverses (immersive virtual worlds), non-fungible tokens, and deepfakes (synthetic media)—are discussed to show the prescience of Baudrillard's theory for how our global consumer society of the image is now defined by the pr…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Globalization (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Global Urban Networks and Dynamics (8 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)