R Taylor

Biographic Data

ID20258
NAMER Taylor
GIVEN NAMESR
FAMILY NAMETaylor
SIGNATURETAYLOR R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0009-0009-0499-5432
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS110
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1938
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX5

  • Systemic Racism in South Africa: Humanity Lost

    Open AccessR TaylorBOOKSystemic Racism in South Africa2024

  • Handing down of beautiful knowledge’: Yarning with workers about feeding practices and mealtimes in Australian First Nations families

    Open AccessL B Chilman, A Mudholkar et al.ARTICLEAppetite2024References: 34

    Mealtimes and feeding practices are shaped by culture and have long-term implications for social and emotional wellbeing. To date, there has been little research in Australia that has focused on First Nations families' feeding practices and mealtimes. This co-designed study aimed to explore First Nations' families feeding practices through yarning circles with workers (n = 14) at an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organization. Most workers (79%)…

  • The rise of big data and supporting technologies in keeping watch on the world's forests

    Open AccessR Taylor, Ryan C Taylor et al.ARTICLEThe International Forestry Review2020

    Technology-driven advances in the gathering, processing and delivery of big data are making it easier to monitor forests and make informed decisions over their use and management. This paper first describes how innovations in remote sensing and cloud computing are enabling generation of geospatial data more often, at lower cost and in more user-friendly formats. Second, it describes the evolution of systems and technologies to trace forest produc…

  • OP74 Is ‘volunteering’ a Public Health Intervention: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    S Richards, C Jenkinson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2013

  • Deepening Non-Racialism in South Africa

    R TaylorARTICLEPolitikon2012Cited by: 3References: 8

    Through an analysis of the Kathrada Foundation/GCRO (Gauteng City-Region Observatory) focus groups transcript pack on non-racialism, it is shown that prevailing conceptions of non-racialism are tied to being ‘colour-blind’ and to being opposed to racial prejudice and discrimination. Such conceptions, it is revealed, are too contradictory and shallow to have any meaningful transformative effect. The article argues that a deeper, more sociologicall…

  • Measuring human facial variation using 3D scanning and mapping

    Open AccessR Taylor, R V Taylor et al.ARTICLEHOMO2010

  • Consociational Theory: McGarry and O’Leary and the Northern Ireland conflict

    R TaylorBOOKConsociational theory2009

    John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary provide, in the substantive essay in Part I of this volume, an impressive summary of the arguments they have developed over many years with respect to the management of the ethnonational conflict in Northern Ireland. These two political scientists have without question produced the most significant body of academic literature on this conflict and its recent peace process.1

  • The injustice of a consociational solution to the Northern Ireland problem

    R TaylorCHAPTERConsociational theory2009

    The scholarly work of John McGarry and Brendan O’Leary, grounded in consociational theory, “has become the most orthodox modern explanation of the Northern Ireland problem” and has undoubtedly influenced the search for a political “solution.”1 McGarry and O’Leary powerfully assert – in this volume – that their explanation is intellectually rigorous and that their proposed solution is just in terms of “stability, fairness, and democracy.”2 As will…

  • The Belfast Agreement and the Limits of Consociationalism

    Open AccessR TaylorCHAPTERGlobal Change, Civil Society and…2008

    The previous two sections have examined issues of political, identity, and attitudinal change among all levels of Northern Irish society. However, these changes occur in the context of the institutional framework of the Belfast Agreement as a consociational conflict regulation device. To date, as Adrian Guelke has written, ‘too little attention has been paid to the drawbacks of consociational settlements’ (Guelke, 2003, 75); and, as Rudy Andeweg …

  • Bronze Age Burnt Mounds and Early Medieval Timber Structures at Town Farm Quarry, Burlescombe, Devon

    Jo Best, Tim Gent et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Journal2007Cited by: 1References: 4

    A multi-period site was exposed during topsoil stripping at Town Farm Quarry, Burlescombe, Devon, in 2005. Surviving remains included two Bronze Age burnt mounds with timber-lined troughs and pits, and a collection of well-preserved timber structures associated with a natural spring, constructed in the seventh century AD. A complete leather shoe of the same date was recovered from the fill of a hollowed tree trunk, probably used as a wellhead. A …

  • The Belfast Agreement and the Politics of Consociationalism: A Critique

    Open AccessR TaylorARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2006Cited by: 28References: 3

  • Abstracts in French, German, and Spanish

    Open AccessR TaylorARTICLEVoluntas Revista Internacional de…2005

  • Peace building and theory building

    R TaylorARTICLEPeace and Conflict Journal of…2004References: 1

  • Debate: “Biopolitics” and the Missing Political Scientists

    Open AccessMichael Atkinson, Robert Nigol et al.ARTICLESwiss Political Science Review2002Cited by: 2References: 16

  • Suicide and political regime in New South Wales and Australia during the 20th century

    Andrew Page, S Morrell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2002Cited by: 5References: 43

    Study objective: Australia has had a two party parliamentary political system for most of the period since its Federation in 1901, dominated either by a social democratic (Labor) or a conservative ideological perspective. This paper investigates whether such political differences at Federal and State levels have influenced suicide rates in the state of New South Wales (NSW) for the period 1901–1998. Design: Federal government type, NSW State gove…

  • Justice denied: Political violence in Kwazulu‐Natal after 1994

    R TaylorARTICLEAfrican Affairs2002Cited by: 4

    Journal Article Justice denied: political violence in Kwazulu‐Natal after 1994 Get access Rupert Taylor Rupert Taylor Professor Rupert Taylor is in the Department of Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 101, Issue 405, 1 October 2002, Pages 473–508, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/101.405.473 Published: 01 October 2002

  • Northern Ireland: Consociation or Social Transformation

    R TaylorCHAPTERNorthern Ireland and the divided…2001

    Taylor delivers a sustained critique of the consociational institutions in Northern Ireland's Agreement from an integrationist (social transformationist) perspective. He argues that a stable peace requires the rejection of the top‐down approach taken in the Agreement and, instead, the construction from the bottom‐up of a common society through integrated schools, residences, and workplaces, and through the organization of groups in civil society …

  • Political Alliances and Parliamentary Opposition Post-Apartheid South Africa

    Adam Habib, R TaylorARTICLEDemocratization2001Cited by: 17

    2001). Political Alliances and Parliamentary Opposition Post-Apartheid South Africa. Democratization: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 207-226

  • Parliamentary opposition & democratic consolidation in South Africa

    Open AccessAdam Habib, R TaylorARTICLEReview of African Political Economy1999

    We print below a contribution which argues the need for an effective electoral opposition in South Africa that is class and policy‐based rather than racially conceived. It can be linked both to recent articles on shifts in the ANC's policies and economic strategy (Saul, Gall, and Adams, all in Review 72 of 1997, McDonald in 75, and Padayachee, and Hall, in 76 — both 1998), and to earlier Debates pieces on the relationship between nationalism and …

  • Parliamentary opposition & democratic consolidation in South Africa

    Open AccessAdam Habib, R TaylorARTICLEReview of African Political Economy1999Cited by: 7References: 3

    We print below a contribution which argues the need for an effective electoral opposition in South Africa that is class and policy‐based rather than racially conceived. It can be linked both to recent articles on shifts in the ANC's policies and economic strategy (Saul, Gall, and Adams, all in Review 72 of 1997, McDonald in 75, and Padayachee, and Hall, in 76 — both 1998), and to earlier Debates pieces on the relationship between nationalism and …

  • Projecting Peace in Apartheid South Africa

    Open AccessR Taylor, Jacklyn Cock et al.ARTICLEPeace & Change1999Cited by: 1

    This article analyzes what it meant to pursue “peace” in apartheid South Africa, and shows that a clear and coherent strategy of achieving “peace with justice” was pursued —in the 1980s—by a network of non‐governmental organizations which were seeking to build a non‐racial democratic South Africa by building the future in the present. This approach added to the orthodox repertoire of non‐cooperation anddefiance, and played a crucial role in makin…

  • Interpreting the South African election of June 1999

    R Taylor, Thabisi HoeaneARTICLEPolitikon1999Cited by: 5References: 15

    After briefly reviewing the campaign and results of the South African election of 2 June 1999, this article outlines the dominant view that the election is best interpreted in terms of a pre‐specified conception of racial and ethnic identity (particularly with regard to party campaigning and voting behaviour). The article contests this racialized reading of the election, and through emphasizing the importance of economic and class considerations,…

  • Race’ and the transition to democracy in South Africa

    R TaylorARTICLECritical Arts1996Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Early Retirement Decisions and How They Affect Later Quality of Life

    Open AccessA John Maule, D R Cliff et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society1996Cited by: 5References: 11

    Older workers are often placed in an unenviable position in the face of stereotypes which define them as increasingly marginal in the work force, and view retirement in terms of status loss and disengagement. Yet voluntary early retirement schemes have been a recent feature of work organisations of all types in Britain, Western Europe and North America. The nature of the decision-making processes of those involved in such schemes has not been wid…

  • Political Science encounters 'race' and 'ethnicity

    R TaylorARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies1996Cited by: 11References: 27

    This article identifies the way in which 'race' and 'ethnicity' have come to be used as tools of analysis within the discipline of political science, with particular regard to explaining patterns of political behaviour, the breakup of states, and the preconditions for democracy. It is argued that much of this work, in the final analysis, falls short of establishing a coherent position as to the sociological salience of 'race' and 'ethnicity'. It …