Robert Hollands
Biographic Data
| ID | 205242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Hollands |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Hollands |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLANDS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 252 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Rules for Cultural Radicals
This article explores the various forms of “social skill”, what we call “rules for cultural radicals”, that the Amber Film and Photography Collective (and primarily its founder and leading visionary, Murray Martin) used to create and sustain an egalitarian arts organization and oppositional cultural movement in the Northeast of England. The collective represented a radical challenge to the world of British filmmaking, featuring innovative practic…
Creative Democracy and the Arts: The Participatory Democracy of the Amber Collective
We use the term 'creative democracy' - coined by John Dewey - to explore the ways in which the creative activity of artists is shaped by democratic norms and practices. Using the case of the Amber Film and Photography Collective in the northeast of England, we discuss their process of creative democracy - featuring norms of project initiation, collective scrutiny and empowerment - and investigate how this practice became a vital feature of their …
There is no alternative?’: Challenging dominant understandings of youth politics in late modernity through a case study of the 2010 UK student occupation movement
Utilising an in-depth case study of a student occupation at Newcastle University as its focus, this article makes a critical appraisal of Beck, Giddens and Inglehart's ideas about youth and political agency in late modernity. In short, we argue that when considering the case of the 2010 UK student occupation movement, dominant theoretical thinking about young peoples' politics overemphasises the importance of individualism and ‘lifestyle politics…
The art of social movement: Cultural opportunity, mobilisation, and framing in the early formation of the Amber Collective
This article utilises social movement literature to help explain the early cultural formation of the Amber Collective-a longstanding egalitarian arts group from Northeast England-and the broader oppositional film movement of which it was a part. More specifically, we attempt theoretically to rework traditional social movement concepts like political opportunity, mobilisation and framing by developing their cultural corollaries. In doing so, we at…
Obesity Epidemic Entrepreneurs: Types, Practices and Interests
This article explores the enterprising act of socially constructing fatness, or overweight and obesity, as an individual and collective problem. We argue that this process is complex and hence draw liberally on and extend an eclectic range of scholarship (e.g. the sociology of the body, moral panic theory, critical weight studies) when presenting a typology of obesity epidemic entrepreneurs, that is, those who actively make fatness into a correct…
Cultural workers of the world unite, you’ve nothing to lose but your theatres: ‘Dny Neklidu’ (‘Days of Unrest’) and the initiative for a cultural Prague
Rethinking 'Current Crisis' Arguments: Gouldner and the Legacy of Critical Sociology
Proclamations of 'current crisis' in sociology are long-standing and have recently resurfaced in Britian and North America. This article explores the response of Alvin Gouldner to an earlier 1970s perceived 'current crisis'. It then discusses some of the key dimensions ascribed to the current 'current crisis' - fragmentation, the decline of the intellectual, the need for a higher profile for public and professional sociology - to evaluate the str…
Beyond Subculture and Post-subculture? The Case of Virtual Psytrance
Recently, there has been an engaging debate in youth studies between the efficacy of subcultural theory versus post-subcultural perspectives. While positions have ranged from reinterpretation and alternatives to youth subcultural theory, to a return to some form of subcultural analysis and emphasis on leisure inequalities, equally there have been both critiques and defences of post-subcultural and postmodernist perspective emphasising the fragmen…
Rappin' on the Reservation: Canadian Mohawk Youth's Hybrid Cultural Identities
This study of Canadian Mohawk youth examines the complex construction of hybrid identities, by looking at the interaction between their consumption of western media/ culture and local Native traditions and customs. The article poses the question, to what extent does western youth culture as expressed in TV, film, music and sport get taken up and moulded around a more contemporary Native youth identity? Utilising theoretical notions of hybridity a…
Urban Nightscapes: Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces and Corporate Power
1. Introduction. Making urban nightscapes Part I - Understanding Nightlife Processes and Spaces, Producing, Regulating and Consuming Urban Nightscapes 2. Producing nightlife: Corporatisation, branding and market segmentation in the urban entertainment economy 3. Regulating nightlife: Profit, fun and (dis)order 4. Consuming nightlife: Youth cultural identities, transitions and lifestyle divisions Part II - Urban Nightlife Stories. Experiencing Mai…
Producing nightlife in the new urban entertainment economy: Corporatization, Branding and Market Segmentation
This article explores the production of the nightlife industry within a new urban entertainment economy. We do this by drawing upon debates about the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism, and the assumed shift away from standardized and mass towards more segmented and niche consumer markets. In contrast to some of the more self-congratulatory accounts of varied, flexible niche urban consumption, our starting point is to pursue more neo-Fordist…
Divisions in the Dark: Youth Cultures, Transitions and Segmented Consumption Spaces in the Night-time Economy
This paper tackles the question of how we might begin to re-conceptualize contemporary youth cultural identities in the context of social divisions created through different transitional pathways, by reference to some recent ethnographic work on young adults and nightlife. Traditionally, there has been a historic divide between analyses of youth cultures on the one hand, and studies of youth transitions on the other. This has led to charges that …
Changing times for an old industrial city: Hard times, hedonism and corporate power in Newcastle's nightlife
Here, focusing on the experience of Newcastle, Chatterton and Hollands continue debates around culture, capital and the 'creative' city already initiated in this journal (see Chatterton, 'Will the real creative city please stand up?' in City 4(3) (2000), and Harcup in City 4(2) (2000), for example). Research on the form, origins, regulation and ownership of the city's nightlife lead to an image of a city which in many ways exemplifies patterns of…
Theorising Urban Playscapes: Producing, Regulating and Consuming Youthful Nightlife City Spaces
This article develops a theoretical understanding of the relationship between young people and city space. More specifically, our focus concerns what we have termed 'urban playscapes'—young people's activities in bars, pubs, night-clubs and music venues within the night-time entertainment economy. The paper theoretically and empirically explores three interrelated aspects of these playscapes: production and the increasing role of a small number o…
Anticolonialism in British Politics. The Left and the End of Empire, 1918-1964
The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France and Black Africa, 1939–1956
Journal Article The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France and Black Africa, 1939–1956 Get access The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France and Black Africa, 1939–1956 by John Kent. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1992. pp. xi+365. £45.00. ISBN 0 19 820302 0. ROBERT HOLLAND ROBERT HOLLAND Institute of Commonwealth Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Iss…
Leisure, Sport and Working Class Cultures
An Introduction to American Politics
The Men Who Ruled India: Vol. I, the Founders
Union of India
year, on the departure of the Cabinet Mission to India, Mr. Attlee, in a declaration of policy, emphasized the established principle that it was for the Indian peoples themselves to choose their future status and constitution. When, after months of laborious mediation, the Mission failed to induce agreement between contending elements in India, the British Government was constrained to modify the principle to the extent of permitting the Mission …
Theorising Urban Playscapes: Producing, Regulating and Consuming Youthful Nightlife City Spaces
This article develops a theoretical understanding of the relationship between young people and city space. More specifically, our focus concerns what we have termed 'urban playscapes'—young people's activities in bars, pubs, night-clubs and music venues within the night-time entertainment economy. The paper theoretically and empirically explores three interrelated aspects of these playscapes: production and the increasing role of a small number o…
Divisions in the Dark: Youth Cultures, Transitions and Segmented Consumption Spaces in the Night-time Economy
This paper tackles the question of how we might begin to re-conceptualize contemporary youth cultural identities in the context of social divisions created through different transitional pathways, by reference to some recent ethnographic work on young adults and nightlife. Traditionally, there has been a historic divide between analyses of youth cultures on the one hand, and studies of youth transitions on the other. This has led to charges that …
Producing nightlife in the new urban entertainment economy: Corporatization, Branding and Market Segmentation
This article explores the production of the nightlife industry within a new urban entertainment economy. We do this by drawing upon debates about the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism, and the assumed shift away from standardized and mass towards more segmented and niche consumer markets. In contrast to some of the more self-congratulatory accounts of varied, flexible niche urban consumption, our starting point is to pursue more neo-Fordist…
Obesity Epidemic Entrepreneurs: Types, Practices and Interests
This article explores the enterprising act of socially constructing fatness, or overweight and obesity, as an individual and collective problem. We argue that this process is complex and hence draw liberally on and extend an eclectic range of scholarship (e.g. the sociology of the body, moral panic theory, critical weight studies) when presenting a typology of obesity epidemic entrepreneurs, that is, those who actively make fatness into a correct…
There is no alternative?’: Challenging dominant understandings of youth politics in late modernity through a case study of the 2010 UK student occupation movement
Utilising an in-depth case study of a student occupation at Newcastle University as its focus, this article makes a critical appraisal of Beck, Giddens and Inglehart's ideas about youth and political agency in late modernity. In short, we argue that when considering the case of the 2010 UK student occupation movement, dominant theoretical thinking about young peoples' politics overemphasises the importance of individualism and ‘lifestyle politics…
Beyond Subculture and Post-subculture? The Case of Virtual Psytrance
Recently, there has been an engaging debate in youth studies between the efficacy of subcultural theory versus post-subcultural perspectives. While positions have ranged from reinterpretation and alternatives to youth subcultural theory, to a return to some form of subcultural analysis and emphasis on leisure inequalities, equally there have been both critiques and defences of post-subcultural and postmodernist perspective emphasising the fragmen…
Rethinking 'Current Crisis' Arguments: Gouldner and the Legacy of Critical Sociology
Proclamations of 'current crisis' in sociology are long-standing and have recently resurfaced in Britian and North America. This article explores the response of Alvin Gouldner to an earlier 1970s perceived 'current crisis'. It then discusses some of the key dimensions ascribed to the current 'current crisis' - fragmentation, the decline of the intellectual, the need for a higher profile for public and professional sociology - to evaluate the str…
The art of social movement: Cultural opportunity, mobilisation, and framing in the early formation of the Amber Collective
This article utilises social movement literature to help explain the early cultural formation of the Amber Collective-a longstanding egalitarian arts group from Northeast England-and the broader oppositional film movement of which it was a part. More specifically, we attempt theoretically to rework traditional social movement concepts like political opportunity, mobilisation and framing by developing their cultural corollaries. In doing so, we at…
Union of India
year, on the departure of the Cabinet Mission to India, Mr. Attlee, in a declaration of policy, emphasized the established principle that it was for the Indian peoples themselves to choose their future status and constitution. When, after months of laborious mediation, the Mission failed to induce agreement between contending elements in India, the British Government was constrained to modify the principle to the extent of permitting the Mission …
Rappin' on the Reservation: Canadian Mohawk Youth's Hybrid Cultural Identities
This study of Canadian Mohawk youth examines the complex construction of hybrid identities, by looking at the interaction between their consumption of western media/ culture and local Native traditions and customs. The article poses the question, to what extent does western youth culture as expressed in TV, film, music and sport get taken up and moulded around a more contemporary Native youth identity? Utilising theoretical notions of hybridity a…
Changing times for an old industrial city: Hard times, hedonism and corporate power in Newcastle's nightlife
Here, focusing on the experience of Newcastle, Chatterton and Hollands continue debates around culture, capital and the 'creative' city already initiated in this journal (see Chatterton, 'Will the real creative city please stand up?' in City 4(3) (2000), and Harcup in City 4(2) (2000), for example). Research on the form, origins, regulation and ownership of the city's nightlife lead to an image of a city which in many ways exemplifies patterns of…
The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France and Black Africa, 1939–1956
Journal Article The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France and Black Africa, 1939–1956 Get access The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France and Black Africa, 1939–1956 by John Kent. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1992. pp. xi+365. £45.00. ISBN 0 19 820302 0. ROBERT HOLLAND ROBERT HOLLAND Institute of Commonwealth Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Iss…
Leisure, Sport and Working Class Cultures
An Introduction to American Politics
The Men Who Ruled India: Vol. I, the Founders
Rules for Cultural Radicals
This article explores the various forms of “social skill”, what we call “rules for cultural radicals”, that the Amber Film and Photography Collective (and primarily its founder and leading visionary, Murray Martin) used to create and sustain an egalitarian arts organization and oppositional cultural movement in the Northeast of England. The collective represented a radical challenge to the world of British filmmaking, featuring innovative practic…
Creative Democracy and the Arts: The Participatory Democracy of the Amber Collective
We use the term 'creative democracy' - coined by John Dewey - to explore the ways in which the creative activity of artists is shaped by democratic norms and practices. Using the case of the Amber Film and Photography Collective in the northeast of England, we discuss their process of creative democracy - featuring norms of project initiation, collective scrutiny and empowerment - and investigate how this practice became a vital feature of their …
Cultural workers of the world unite, you’ve nothing to lose but your theatres: ‘Dny Neklidu’ (‘Days of Unrest’) and the initiative for a cultural Prague
Union of India
year, on the departure of the Cabinet Mission to India, Mr. Attlee, in a declaration of policy, emphasized the established principle that it was for the Indian peoples themselves to choose their future status and constitution. When, after months of laborious mediation, the Mission failed to induce agreement between contending elements in India, the British Government was constrained to modify the principle to the extent of permitting the Mission …
The Men Who Ruled India: Vol. I, the Founders
An Introduction to American Politics
Leisure, Sport and Working Class Cultures
The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France and Black Africa, 1939–1956
Journal Article The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France and Black Africa, 1939–1956 Get access The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France and Black Africa, 1939–1956 by John Kent. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1992. pp. xi+365. £45.00. ISBN 0 19 820302 0. ROBERT HOLLAND ROBERT HOLLAND Institute of Commonwealth Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Iss…
Anticolonialism in British Politics. The Left and the End of Empire, 1918-1964
Divisions in the Dark: Youth Cultures, Transitions and Segmented Consumption Spaces in the Night-time Economy
This paper tackles the question of how we might begin to re-conceptualize contemporary youth cultural identities in the context of social divisions created through different transitional pathways, by reference to some recent ethnographic work on young adults and nightlife. Traditionally, there has been a historic divide between analyses of youth cultures on the one hand, and studies of youth transitions on the other. This has led to charges that …
Changing times for an old industrial city: Hard times, hedonism and corporate power in Newcastle's nightlife
Here, focusing on the experience of Newcastle, Chatterton and Hollands continue debates around culture, capital and the 'creative' city already initiated in this journal (see Chatterton, 'Will the real creative city please stand up?' in City 4(3) (2000), and Harcup in City 4(2) (2000), for example). Research on the form, origins, regulation and ownership of the city's nightlife lead to an image of a city which in many ways exemplifies patterns of…
Theorising Urban Playscapes: Producing, Regulating and Consuming Youthful Nightlife City Spaces
This article develops a theoretical understanding of the relationship between young people and city space. More specifically, our focus concerns what we have termed 'urban playscapes'—young people's activities in bars, pubs, night-clubs and music venues within the night-time entertainment economy. The paper theoretically and empirically explores three interrelated aspects of these playscapes: production and the increasing role of a small number o…
Urban Nightscapes: Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces and Corporate Power
1. Introduction. Making urban nightscapes Part I - Understanding Nightlife Processes and Spaces, Producing, Regulating and Consuming Urban Nightscapes 2. Producing nightlife: Corporatisation, branding and market segmentation in the urban entertainment economy 3. Regulating nightlife: Profit, fun and (dis)order 4. Consuming nightlife: Youth cultural identities, transitions and lifestyle divisions Part II - Urban Nightlife Stories. Experiencing Mai…
Producing nightlife in the new urban entertainment economy: Corporatization, Branding and Market Segmentation
This article explores the production of the nightlife industry within a new urban entertainment economy. We do this by drawing upon debates about the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism, and the assumed shift away from standardized and mass towards more segmented and niche consumer markets. In contrast to some of the more self-congratulatory accounts of varied, flexible niche urban consumption, our starting point is to pursue more neo-Fordist…
Rappin' on the Reservation: Canadian Mohawk Youth's Hybrid Cultural Identities
This study of Canadian Mohawk youth examines the complex construction of hybrid identities, by looking at the interaction between their consumption of western media/ culture and local Native traditions and customs. The article poses the question, to what extent does western youth culture as expressed in TV, film, music and sport get taken up and moulded around a more contemporary Native youth identity? Utilising theoretical notions of hybridity a…
Beyond Subculture and Post-subculture? The Case of Virtual Psytrance
Recently, there has been an engaging debate in youth studies between the efficacy of subcultural theory versus post-subcultural perspectives. While positions have ranged from reinterpretation and alternatives to youth subcultural theory, to a return to some form of subcultural analysis and emphasis on leisure inequalities, equally there have been both critiques and defences of post-subcultural and postmodernist perspective emphasising the fragmen…
Cultural workers of the world unite, you’ve nothing to lose but your theatres: ‘Dny Neklidu’ (‘Days of Unrest’) and the initiative for a cultural Prague
Rethinking 'Current Crisis' Arguments: Gouldner and the Legacy of Critical Sociology
Proclamations of 'current crisis' in sociology are long-standing and have recently resurfaced in Britian and North America. This article explores the response of Alvin Gouldner to an earlier 1970s perceived 'current crisis'. It then discusses some of the key dimensions ascribed to the current 'current crisis' - fragmentation, the decline of the intellectual, the need for a higher profile for public and professional sociology - to evaluate the str…
Obesity Epidemic Entrepreneurs: Types, Practices and Interests
This article explores the enterprising act of socially constructing fatness, or overweight and obesity, as an individual and collective problem. We argue that this process is complex and hence draw liberally on and extend an eclectic range of scholarship (e.g. the sociology of the body, moral panic theory, critical weight studies) when presenting a typology of obesity epidemic entrepreneurs, that is, those who actively make fatness into a correct…
There is no alternative?’: Challenging dominant understandings of youth politics in late modernity through a case study of the 2010 UK student occupation movement
Utilising an in-depth case study of a student occupation at Newcastle University as its focus, this article makes a critical appraisal of Beck, Giddens and Inglehart's ideas about youth and political agency in late modernity. In short, we argue that when considering the case of the 2010 UK student occupation movement, dominant theoretical thinking about young peoples' politics overemphasises the importance of individualism and ‘lifestyle politics…
The art of social movement: Cultural opportunity, mobilisation, and framing in the early formation of the Amber Collective
This article utilises social movement literature to help explain the early cultural formation of the Amber Collective-a longstanding egalitarian arts group from Northeast England-and the broader oppositional film movement of which it was a part. More specifically, we attempt theoretically to rework traditional social movement concepts like political opportunity, mobilisation and framing by developing their cultural corollaries. In doing so, we at…
Rules for Cultural Radicals
This article explores the various forms of “social skill”, what we call “rules for cultural radicals”, that the Amber Film and Photography Collective (and primarily its founder and leading visionary, Murray Martin) used to create and sustain an egalitarian arts organization and oppositional cultural movement in the Northeast of England. The collective represented a radical challenge to the world of British filmmaking, featuring innovative practic…
Creative Democracy and the Arts: The Participatory Democracy of the Amber Collective
We use the term 'creative democracy' - coined by John Dewey - to explore the ways in which the creative activity of artists is shaped by democratic norms and practices. Using the case of the Amber Film and Photography Collective in the northeast of England, we discuss their process of creative democracy - featuring norms of project initiation, collective scrutiny and empowerment - and investigate how this practice became a vital feature of their …
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Social science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Night-time city culture (5 works) · Nightlife (5 works)