Scott Oliver
Biographic Data
| ID | 193478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Oliver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliver |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | St Mary's University College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2316-1902 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1875 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Inventing the managed realignment of the coast
Climate change and rising sea levels have led to managed realignment at the coast, but the practice of realignment has an ambiguous socioecological identity that has hindered its widespread use. Realignment represents the realization of the nature-based coastal management strategies first proposed in the United States during the Shoreline Debate of the early 1980s. It was put into practice in 1990 on Northey Island, Essex, as an experimental resp…
African American Culinary History and the Genesis of American Cuisine
American Southern foodways emerged in large part within the kitchens of slave plantations, where enslaved Black cooks incorporated African, Native American, and European practices and foods to create distinctly American food traditions. We use animal remains excavated from James Madison’s Montpelier to illuminate early American cuisines in the Virginia piedmont. Black foodways at Montpelier were not monolithic. Pork and beef were the dominant mea…
Life in an in-between landscape
In this essay I examine the process of making meaningful places through a consideration of the life geographies of Norman Angell and Tom Driberg, two former residents of the Blackwater marshes, Essex. The essay begins by outlining how the cultural tradition of the west has tended to present marshes as marginal locations, and marshland landscapes as problematically ambiguous, and it shows how this characterization has influenced accounts of the Bl…
Navigability and the improvement of the river Thames, 1605–1815
Through ‘improvement’ the Thames was subjected to a bureaucratic regime of engineered discipline that was brought into effect by the early nineteenth century. Over recent years, rivers have been explained with reference to their materiality and their social identity, and the Thames of the past can perhaps best be understood as a discursively produced materiality. In the medieval and early‐modern periods, the Thames was perceived as a gift or as a…
Geography's difficult engagement with the psychological therapies
The consideration of psychoanalytic issues presents geography and geographers with a number of difficulties; this paper examines those difficulties from within a humanistic perspective. The most common geographical engagements with the psychological therapies have been with their psychodynamic and, to a lesser extent, humanist methodological forms. A humanist perspective on this engagement suggests that it has led to two associated problems. At a…
The Thames Embankment and the disciplining of nature in modernity
The embanking of the Thames was an emblematic stage in the construction of modernity's discourse of 'the natural', re-engineering the river as a concrete framing of nature between the embankment walls and a representational framing of the natural within an engineering ideology. The legitimacy of embanking's control was, therefore, about both physical mechanisms and a particular discourse of the natural, but the Thames embankments did not merely r…
Non-Historic Stone Relics of the Mediterranean
small delicately-chipped specimen, somewhat slug-shaped.Of the Canterbury specimens the greater number were of a drift type; but among them was one which, though stated to have been found in the gravel, was not of that type, and resembled the implements found at Spiennes, in Belgium.On examining the specimen, the statement of the labourer who found it-viz., that it came from the gravel-proved incorrect, as on it there were indubitable marks of ha…
The Thames Embankment and the disciplining of nature in modernity
The embanking of the Thames was an emblematic stage in the construction of modernity's discourse of 'the natural', re-engineering the river as a concrete framing of nature between the embankment walls and a representational framing of the natural within an engineering ideology. The legitimacy of embanking's control was, therefore, about both physical mechanisms and a particular discourse of the natural, but the Thames embankments did not merely r…
Geography's difficult engagement with the psychological therapies
The consideration of psychoanalytic issues presents geography and geographers with a number of difficulties; this paper examines those difficulties from within a humanistic perspective. The most common geographical engagements with the psychological therapies have been with their psychodynamic and, to a lesser extent, humanist methodological forms. A humanist perspective on this engagement suggests that it has led to two associated problems. At a…
Navigability and the improvement of the river Thames, 1605–1815
Through ‘improvement’ the Thames was subjected to a bureaucratic regime of engineered discipline that was brought into effect by the early nineteenth century. Over recent years, rivers have been explained with reference to their materiality and their social identity, and the Thames of the past can perhaps best be understood as a discursively produced materiality. In the medieval and early‐modern periods, the Thames was perceived as a gift or as a…
Life in an in-between landscape
In this essay I examine the process of making meaningful places through a consideration of the life geographies of Norman Angell and Tom Driberg, two former residents of the Blackwater marshes, Essex. The essay begins by outlining how the cultural tradition of the west has tended to present marshes as marginal locations, and marshland landscapes as problematically ambiguous, and it shows how this characterization has influenced accounts of the Bl…
Non-Historic Stone Relics of the Mediterranean
small delicately-chipped specimen, somewhat slug-shaped.Of the Canterbury specimens the greater number were of a drift type; but among them was one which, though stated to have been found in the gravel, was not of that type, and resembled the implements found at Spiennes, in Belgium.On examining the specimen, the statement of the labourer who found it-viz., that it came from the gravel-proved incorrect, as on it there were indubitable marks of ha…
Non-Historic Stone Relics of the Mediterranean
small delicately-chipped specimen, somewhat slug-shaped.Of the Canterbury specimens the greater number were of a drift type; but among them was one which, though stated to have been found in the gravel, was not of that type, and resembled the implements found at Spiennes, in Belgium.On examining the specimen, the statement of the labourer who found it-viz., that it came from the gravel-proved incorrect, as on it there were indubitable marks of ha…
The Thames Embankment and the disciplining of nature in modernity
The embanking of the Thames was an emblematic stage in the construction of modernity's discourse of 'the natural', re-engineering the river as a concrete framing of nature between the embankment walls and a representational framing of the natural within an engineering ideology. The legitimacy of embanking's control was, therefore, about both physical mechanisms and a particular discourse of the natural, but the Thames embankments did not merely r…
Geography's difficult engagement with the psychological therapies
The consideration of psychoanalytic issues presents geography and geographers with a number of difficulties; this paper examines those difficulties from within a humanistic perspective. The most common geographical engagements with the psychological therapies have been with their psychodynamic and, to a lesser extent, humanist methodological forms. A humanist perspective on this engagement suggests that it has led to two associated problems. At a…
Navigability and the improvement of the river Thames, 1605–1815
Through ‘improvement’ the Thames was subjected to a bureaucratic regime of engineered discipline that was brought into effect by the early nineteenth century. Over recent years, rivers have been explained with reference to their materiality and their social identity, and the Thames of the past can perhaps best be understood as a discursively produced materiality. In the medieval and early‐modern periods, the Thames was perceived as a gift or as a…
Life in an in-between landscape
In this essay I examine the process of making meaningful places through a consideration of the life geographies of Norman Angell and Tom Driberg, two former residents of the Blackwater marshes, Essex. The essay begins by outlining how the cultural tradition of the west has tended to present marshes as marginal locations, and marshland landscapes as problematically ambiguous, and it shows how this characterization has influenced accounts of the Bl…
African American Culinary History and the Genesis of American Cuisine
American Southern foodways emerged in large part within the kitchens of slave plantations, where enslaved Black cooks incorporated African, Native American, and European practices and foods to create distinctly American food traditions. We use animal remains excavated from James Madison’s Montpelier to illuminate early American cuisines in the Virginia piedmont. Black foodways at Montpelier were not monolithic. Pork and beef were the dominant mea…
Inventing the managed realignment of the coast
Climate change and rising sea levels have led to managed realignment at the coast, but the practice of realignment has an ambiguous socioecological identity that has hindered its widespread use. Realignment represents the realization of the nature-based coastal management strategies first proposed in the United States during the Shoreline Debate of the early 1980s. It was put into practice in 1990 on Northey Island, Essex, as an experimental resp…
Sociology (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Geology (3 works)