K I Macdonald
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 20427 |
|---|---|
| NOME | K I Macdonald |
| PRENOMES | K I |
| SOBRENOME | Macdonald |
| ASSINATURA | MACDONALD K I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4642-324X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 388 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Navigating human–plant reciprocity
Studies of human–nature relationships increasingly recognise not only nature's contributions to people but also the positive contributions of human practices to ecosystems. The concept of reciprocal contributions emphasises positive human–nature relationships. But trade‐offs between natural elements implies that human favouring of one element (e.g. via the protection of its habitat) can be detrimental to others. Discussing the concept of reciproc…
Unpacking farmers’ multiple values in grapevine variety choice
Understanding farmers’ values that underpin crop choices is pivotal for designing effective and adequate sustainable agricultural policies. While significant attention has been given to the agronomic, economic and socio-cultural values of smallholder farmers in the Global South, the plural values held by commercial farmers in the Global North—specifically ascribed to perennial crops—remain underexplored. Here, we adopt an emic perspective to inve…
Shifting to quality wine production in France's Midi
Transition toward quality wine production in the Midi region of southern France reflects wider norms in French quality agro-food production and regulation but also departs from it. • Diverse practices and policies comprising a move toward more sustainable wine production in the Midi are highly relevant to the shift to quality wine making but are not synonymous with it. • The Midi shift to quality wine production involves a dynamic re-articulation…
Assessing human well‐being constructs with environmental and equity aspects
Decades of theory and scholarship on the concept of human well‐being have informed a proliferation of approaches to assess well‐being and support public policy aimed at sustainability and improving quality of life. Human well‐being is multidimensional, and well‐being emerges when the dimensions and interrelationships interact as a system. In this paper, we illuminate two crucial components of well‐being that are often excluded from policy because…
Qualifying tradition
Within France, the Languedoc-Roussillon region (now part of Occitanie) is home to about one third of the nation's area of certified organic vineyards. Each year, the world's largest organic wine fair, Millésime Bio, takes place in the city of Montpellier. This trade fair is an important site where organic wine is not only sold but also given meaning in the market, and importantly, differentiated from but made commensurate with conventional wine. …
Did British Sociology Begin with the Scottish Enlightenment
Enclosing the global commons
Fields of green
This article critically examines the production of economistic fields of environmental governance in the context of global summits like Rio + 20. It focuses on the constitutive work performed by diverse actors in extending corporate sustainability logics, social technologies, and organizational forms initially enacted at the 2012 Corporate Sustainability Forum (CSF). Fields are defined as dynamic, relational arenas featuring particular logics, dy…
Orchestrating Nature
Grabbing ‘Green’
This paper traces the institutionalization of Environmentalism as a pre-condition for the production of ‘The Green Economy,’ particularly the containment of the oppositional possibilities of an environmentalist politics within the institutional and organizational terrain of a transnational managerial and capitalist class. This is a context in which many environmental organizations – once the site of planning, mobilizing and implementing oppositio…
Grabbing “Green”
Over the past two decades, the incorporation of market logics into environment and conservation policy has led to a reconceptualization of “nature.” Resulting constructs like ecosystem services and biodiversity derivatives, as well as finance mechanisms like Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, species banking, and carbon trading, offer new avenues for accumulation and set the context for new enclosures. As these practice…
The morality of cheese
Teeb Begins Now
This article uses theories of virtualism to analyse the role of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) project in the production of natural capital. Presented at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the project seeks to redress the 'economic invisibility of nature' by quantifying the value of ecosystems and biodiversity. This endeavour to put an economic value on ecosystems makes nature legibl…
Enclosing the global commons
Green grabs,' or the expropriation of land or resources for environmental purposes, constitute an important component of the current global land grab explosion. We argue that international environmental institutions are increasingly cultivating the terrain for green grabbing. As sites that circulate and sanction forms of knowledge, establish regulatory devices and programmatic targets, and align and articulate actors with these mechanisms, they s…
Family Investments in Children
This is a critique of a European Sociological Review paper by Bonke and Esping-Andersen on determinants of parental investment in childcare. The critique demonstrates that the data the authors cite do not provide evidence for the conclusions they draw. This is largely because the authors misread interaction effects, but also because they disattend to substantively simpler but formally equivalent accounts of their variables.
The Same Again, But Different
The Devil is in the (Bio)diversity
Intensified relations between biodiversity conservation organizations and private‐sector actors are analyzed through a historical perspective that positions biodiversity conservation as an organized political project. Within this view the organizational dimensions of conservation exist as coordinated agreement and action among a variety of actors that take shape within radically asymmetrical power relations. This paper traces the privileged posit…
Russia and Youth Crime
We present, within a comparative context, data from the first Russian research on attitudes to youth crime and sentencing. In Russia, the harsh treatment of young offenders, which existed in the Soviet period, has softened, but welfare-oriented juvenile justice still awaits legislative approval. We assess whether the Russian public would support such a reform agenda. Comparing the Russian data with research, conducted in England and Wales and oth…
Accessibility, Mobility and Connectivity
Memories of Tibet
Global hunting grounds
Increasingly, large international conservation organizations have come to rely upon market-oriented interventions, such as sport trophy hunting, to achieve multiple goals of biodiversity protection and 'development'. Such initiatives apply an understanding of 'nature'-defined through an emerging discourse of global ecology-to incorporate local ecologies within the material organizational sphere of capital and transnational institutions, generatin…
Sex Differences in Political Knowledge in Britain
This paper analyses, and examines the interpretation of, sex differences in political knowledge as measured in the context of nationally representative British surveys. The paper discusses the construction and operationalisation of ‘knowledge’ measures in survey research. British survey research finds striking sex differences in scores on political knowledge items. The inclusion of contextual variables, and of interactions between sex and other r…
Serving Sahibs with Pony and Pen
In 1923 W Heffer & Sons Ltd published Servant of Sahibs: A Book to be Read Aloud, an autobiographical account of Ghulam Rassul Galwan's service, from 1890 to 1901, with English and American adventurers traveling through Kashmir and Central Asia. The focus of the book on Rassul Galwan's growth through colonial labor, combined with the authenticity imposed on him and his account through a number of textual and editorial devices, allows the book to …
Use and Valuation
The aim of the paper is to raise some issues regarding the proper role of management and information in the political spaces of the virtual urban world. The spatial density of successful economic exploitation of the virtual economy suggests that anchoring in ways of life, modes of behaving, 'competencies', may matter. Discussion of historical public space indicates the importance of structured information for participants, as does reflection on t…
Investigating Portering Relations as a Locus for Transcultural Interaction in the Karakorum Region of Northern Pakistan
Since European contact about 1835 a specific set of coercive labor relations-porters carrying loads for foreign travel- ers-has significantly shaped local/Western interaction in the Karakorum region of Northern Pakistan. This paper offers a prelim- inary attempt to outline some theoretical and methodological issues relevant to understanding portering relations as a historical and contemporary site for structuring cross-cultural interaction in the…
Enclosing the global commons
Green grabs,' or the expropriation of land or resources for environmental purposes, constitute an important component of the current global land grab explosion. We argue that international environmental institutions are increasingly cultivating the terrain for green grabbing. As sites that circulate and sanction forms of knowledge, establish regulatory devices and programmatic targets, and align and articulate actors with these mechanisms, they s…
Sex Differences in Political Knowledge in Britain
This paper analyses, and examines the interpretation of, sex differences in political knowledge as measured in the context of nationally representative British surveys. The paper discusses the construction and operationalisation of ‘knowledge’ measures in survey research. British survey research finds striking sex differences in scores on political knowledge items. The inclusion of contextual variables, and of interactions between sex and other r…
Teeb Begins Now
This article uses theories of virtualism to analyse the role of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) project in the production of natural capital. Presented at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the project seeks to redress the 'economic invisibility of nature' by quantifying the value of ecosystems and biodiversity. This endeavour to put an economic value on ecosystems makes nature legibl…
The Devil is in the (Bio)diversity
Intensified relations between biodiversity conservation organizations and private‐sector actors are analyzed through a historical perspective that positions biodiversity conservation as an organized political project. Within this view the organizational dimensions of conservation exist as coordinated agreement and action among a variety of actors that take shape within radically asymmetrical power relations. This paper traces the privileged posit…
Grabbing “Green”
Over the past two decades, the incorporation of market logics into environment and conservation policy has led to a reconceptualization of “nature.” Resulting constructs like ecosystem services and biodiversity derivatives, as well as finance mechanisms like Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, species banking, and carbon trading, offer new avenues for accumulation and set the context for new enclosures. As these practice…
Global hunting grounds
Increasingly, large international conservation organizations have come to rely upon market-oriented interventions, such as sport trophy hunting, to achieve multiple goals of biodiversity protection and 'development'. Such initiatives apply an understanding of 'nature'-defined through an emerging discourse of global ecology-to incorporate local ecologies within the material organizational sphere of capital and transnational institutions, generatin…
The morality of cheese
Push and Shove
The contemporary occupation of portering in mountain regions has largely been structured through transcultural contact, contact between two groups historically symbolized by the oppressive dialectic of power relations: master/ servant, "sahib"/"coolie," trekker/porter, "him who rides"/"him who carries." The relative position of these groups within the power relations that characterize adventure tourism has altered through time. The oppression exe…
Accessibility, Mobility and Connectivity
Memories of Tibet
Pooling Cross-Sections
Grabbing ‘Green’
This paper traces the institutionalization of Environmentalism as a pre-condition for the production of ‘The Green Economy,’ particularly the containment of the oppositional possibilities of an environmentalist politics within the institutional and organizational terrain of a transnational managerial and capitalist class. This is a context in which many environmental organizations – once the site of planning, mobilizing and implementing oppositio…
Serving Sahibs with Pony and Pen
In 1923 W Heffer & Sons Ltd published Servant of Sahibs: A Book to be Read Aloud, an autobiographical account of Ghulam Rassul Galwan's service, from 1890 to 1901, with English and American adventurers traveling through Kashmir and Central Asia. The focus of the book on Rassul Galwan's growth through colonial labor, combined with the authenticity imposed on him and his account through a number of textual and editorial devices, allows the book to …
Is ‘Power’ Essentially Contested
The proper role of the values of the doer in the doing of political theory is a continuing and vexed problem. Is the holding of values an encumbrance or an integral part of the process? Recently Lukes has made a determined effort to argue, in the case of one particular concept, ‘power’, that theoretical and value disputes cannot in principle be disentangled: ‘I shall argue for a view of power (that is, a way of identifying it) which is radical in…
Problems in the Analysis of Life Histories
Rationality, Representation, and the Risk Mediating Characteristics of a Karakoram Mountain Farming System
Qualifying tradition
Within France, the Languedoc-Roussillon region (now part of Occitanie) is home to about one third of the nation's area of certified organic vineyards. Each year, the world's largest organic wine fair, Millésime Bio, takes place in the city of Montpellier. This trade fair is an important site where organic wine is not only sold but also given meaning in the market, and importantly, differentiated from but made commensurate with conventional wine. …
Fields of green
This article critically examines the production of economistic fields of environmental governance in the context of global summits like Rio + 20. It focuses on the constitutive work performed by diverse actors in extending corporate sustainability logics, social technologies, and organizational forms initially enacted at the 2012 Corporate Sustainability Forum (CSF). Fields are defined as dynamic, relational arenas featuring particular logics, dy…
Unpacking farmers’ multiple values in grapevine variety choice
Understanding farmers’ values that underpin crop choices is pivotal for designing effective and adequate sustainable agricultural policies. While significant attention has been given to the agronomic, economic and socio-cultural values of smallholder farmers in the Global South, the plural values held by commercial farmers in the Global North—specifically ascribed to perennial crops—remain underexplored. Here, we adopt an emic perspective to inve…
Russia and Youth Crime
We present, within a comparative context, data from the first Russian research on attitudes to youth crime and sentencing. In Russia, the harsh treatment of young offenders, which existed in the Soviet period, has softened, but welfare-oriented juvenile justice still awaits legislative approval. We assess whether the Russian public would support such a reform agenda. Comparing the Russian data with research, conducted in England and Wales and oth…
Use and Valuation
The aim of the paper is to raise some issues regarding the proper role of management and information in the political spaces of the virtual urban world. The spatial density of successful economic exploitation of the virtual economy suggests that anchoring in ways of life, modes of behaving, 'competencies', may matter. Discussion of historical public space indicates the importance of structured information for participants, as does reflection on t…
"Ordinal Regression?" A Comment
Problems in the Analysis of Life Histories
The Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Basic Statistics for Social Research
"Ordinal Regression?" A Comment
The Public Elementary‐school Pupil Within the Secondary‐school System of the 1890s
Categorized Variables and Simple Causal Models
Journal Article Categorized Variables and Simple Causal Models Get access K. I. MacDonald K. I. MacDonald University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 55, Issue 2, December 1976, Pages 503–506, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/55.2.503 Published: 01 December 1976
Is ‘Power’ Essentially Contested
The proper role of the values of the doer in the doing of political theory is a continuing and vexed problem. Is the holding of values an encumbrance or an integral part of the process? Recently Lukes has made a determined effort to argue, in the case of one particular concept, ‘power’, that theoretical and value disputes cannot in principle be disentangled: ‘I shall argue for a view of power (that is, a way of identifying it) which is radical in…
Residential segregation in united states cities
On Professional Journalism
I think it is not the function of the press to solve the problems of the world. I think the function is to per ceive and identify and clarify the problems and to give the readers the information through which they can find solutions
Interpretation of Residual Paths and Decomposition of Variance
It is noted that a 'forwards incremental'decomposition of variance meshes particularly well with a recursive path analysis formulation of a social process, and it can readily be calculated from the model, knowing only the paths. From this it is suggested that it may be substantively illuminating to trace residual effects forwards through a standardized model, and not to confine interpretation of residual effects to the 'parent' variables. A simpl…
On the Formulation of a Structural Model of the Mobility Table
The note explores the implications of alternative formulations of the Hauser structural model of the mobility table
Return to Indianapolis
What Data Can Say
Population Change in the Upper Braldu Valley, Baltistan, 1900-1990
This paper examines population change in the upper Braldu Valley of the Karakoram range in northern Pakistan between 1900 and 1990. Population has declined over the 90-year period of observation and the majority of that decline is accounted for by females.... The paper discusses apparent demographic trends in a contemporary and historical context and questions the extension of vague, unqualified, context-independent population statistics to an ar…
Pooling Cross-Sections
Investigating Portering Relations as a Locus for Transcultural Interaction in the Karakorum Region of Northern Pakistan
Since European contact about 1835 a specific set of coercive labor relations-porters carrying loads for foreign travel- ers-has significantly shaped local/Western interaction in the Karakorum region of Northern Pakistan. This paper offers a prelim- inary attempt to outline some theoretical and methodological issues relevant to understanding portering relations as a historical and contemporary site for structuring cross-cultural interaction in the…
Rationality, Representation, and the Risk Mediating Characteristics of a Karakoram Mountain Farming System
Push and Shove
The contemporary occupation of portering in mountain regions has largely been structured through transcultural contact, contact between two groups historically symbolized by the oppressive dialectic of power relations: master/ servant, "sahib"/"coolie," trekker/porter, "him who rides"/"him who carries." The relative position of these groups within the power relations that characterize adventure tourism has altered through time. The oppression exe…
Use and Valuation
The aim of the paper is to raise some issues regarding the proper role of management and information in the political spaces of the virtual urban world. The spatial density of successful economic exploitation of the virtual economy suggests that anchoring in ways of life, modes of behaving, 'competencies', may matter. Discussion of historical public space indicates the importance of structured information for participants, as does reflection on t…
Serving Sahibs with Pony and Pen
In 1923 W Heffer & Sons Ltd published Servant of Sahibs: A Book to be Read Aloud, an autobiographical account of Ghulam Rassul Galwan's service, from 1890 to 1901, with English and American adventurers traveling through Kashmir and Central Asia. The focus of the book on Rassul Galwan's growth through colonial labor, combined with the authenticity imposed on him and his account through a number of textual and editorial devices, allows the book to …
Sex Differences in Political Knowledge in Britain
This paper analyses, and examines the interpretation of, sex differences in political knowledge as measured in the context of nationally representative British surveys. The paper discusses the construction and operationalisation of ‘knowledge’ measures in survey research. British survey research finds striking sex differences in scores on political knowledge items. The inclusion of contextual variables, and of interactions between sex and other r…
Global hunting grounds
Increasingly, large international conservation organizations have come to rely upon market-oriented interventions, such as sport trophy hunting, to achieve multiple goals of biodiversity protection and 'development'. Such initiatives apply an understanding of 'nature'-defined through an emerging discourse of global ecology-to incorporate local ecologies within the material organizational sphere of capital and transnational institutions, generatin…
Memories of Tibet
Russia and Youth Crime
We present, within a comparative context, data from the first Russian research on attitudes to youth crime and sentencing. In Russia, the harsh treatment of young offenders, which existed in the Soviet period, has softened, but welfare-oriented juvenile justice still awaits legislative approval. We assess whether the Russian public would support such a reform agenda. Comparing the Russian data with research, conducted in England and Wales and oth…
Accessibility, Mobility and Connectivity
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