Robert B Potter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 215805 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert B Potter |
| NOMBRES | Robert B |
| APELLIDO | Potter |
| FIRMA | POTTER R B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Reading |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 308 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The Companion to Development Studies
Environment Justice is both a social movement and an associated approach to analysing and understanding the connections between social injustice and environmental problems. This chapter provides an overview of how this field has evolved, from analysis of the links between racism and the location of toxic pollutants to a multi-issue and multi-scaled analysis of the ways in which social discrimination leads to patterns of injustice in which more po…
The Contemporary Caribbean
This text focuses on the contemporary economic, social, geographical, environmental and political realities of the Caribbean region. Historical aspects of the Caribbean, such as slavery, the plantation system and plantocracy are explored in order to explain the contemporary nature of, and challenges faced by, the Caribbean. The book is divided into three parts, dealing respectively with: the foundations of the Caribbean, rural and urban bases of …
The Companion to Development Studies
The Companion to Development Studies
The Companion to Development Studies is an essential one-stop reference for anyone with an interest in development studies. Over 100 international experts have been brought together to present a comprehensive overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies.Building on the success of the first edition, the second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes new chapt…
Transnational Urbanism in Port of Spain
Port of Spain, Trinidad offers an ideal context in which to analyze pre-retirement return migration to a Global South urban realm, expanding transnational urban research beyond the conventional focus on Global North metropolitan destinations. In this article, we draw on the transnational narratives of a selected sample of relatively youthful Trinidadians, who have spent many years abroad acquiring education and professional experience, but who ha…
“Racism in a Melting Pot...?” Trinidadian mid-life transnational migrants’ views on race and colour-class on return to their homes of descent
Contemporary social variations in household water use, management strategies and awareness under conditions of ‘water stress’
Ever-growing Amman”, Jordan
Transnationalism Personified
In this paper we consider the nexus existing between returning transnational migrants to Trinidad and Tobago's adaptation experiences, matters pertaining to their transnational life‐paths, family and community experiences and their views on transnationalism and return. The research is based on an analysis of the detailed narratives provided by forty informants by means of semi‐structured interviews. The informants consisted of nine ‘second‐genera…
Repetitive Visiting as a Pre-return Transnational Strategy among Youthful Trinidadian Returnees
Building upon existing Caribbean research by Condon and Duval, we assess how repetitive visiting is, or is not, important to youthful return migrants in their 30s and 40s, who have decided to return more permanently to Trinidad. Is it influential in their social and economic adaptations on return, and does this transnational practice lead to a more permanent return? Our analysis is based on 40 detailed narratives which were collected in 2004–2005…
Questions of Friendship and Degrees of Transnationality among Second-Generation Return Migrants to Barbados
While the academic literature has demonstrated the importance of social networks in relation to the process of migration, investigations have rarely examined in detail the personal-social adjustment issues that migrants and return migrants face. This study examines the context and types of friendship pattern that young return migrants from Britain cultivate in Barbados. The research centres on a wholly under-researched demographic groupyoung retu…
The Past is Still Right Here in the Present
This paper deals with second-generation Barbadians or 'Bajan-Brits', who have decided to 'return' to the birthplace of their parents, focusing on their reactions to matters relating to race relations and racialised identities. The importance of race and the operation of the 'colour-class' system in the Caribbean are established at the outset. Based on fifty-two qualitative in-depth interviews, the paper initially considers the positive things tha…
Dual citizenship or dual identity? Does 'transnationalism' supplant 'nationalism' among returning Trinidadians
In this article we focus on the dual identities of relatively young Trinidadians who have decided to return to the island of their birth, or of their parents, while still in their thirties and forties. Highly-educated professional transnational migrants mostly make up our sample of 36; 26 possess dual citizenship. We focus on our informants' narratives about their transnational experiences, self-appraisals of their dual identities and how they va…
‘Black skins–white masks’
This paper illustrates the opportunities afforded by the adoption of postcolonial discourse in development geography, drawing specifically on issues of transnationalism, hybridity and inbetweeness. The utility of such notions and associated approaches is illustrated by the authors’ current research on the migration of young, second generation and foreign‐born ‘Bajan‐Brits’ to the small Caribbean island nation of Barbados, the homeland of their pa…
Havana
Mad Dogs and Transnational Migrants?” Bajan-Brit Second-Generation Migrants and Accusations of Madness
Second-generation British-Barbadians (“Bajan-Brits”) returning to the land of their parents are frequently accused by indigenous Barbadian nationals of being mad. Narratives of the migrants reflect four major sets of factors: (1) madness as perceived behavioral and cultural differences; (2) explanations that relate to the historical-clinical circumstances surrounding the incidence of mental ill health among first-generation West Indian migrants t…
Caribbean Transnational Return Migrants as Agents of Change
This article challenges several of the firmly held convictions drawn from extant research on return migration to the Caribbean. For many contemporary small island societies undergoing rapid change and transformation, modernization and integration into the wider global economy, today's younger and more youthful return migrants are no longer an ineffective demographic cohort. Despite their numerically small size, many are demonstrating they can be …
Doing Development Research
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Raison d'etre of Doing Development Research PART TWO: STRATEGIC ISSUES IN PLANNING SOUND RESEARCH Doing Fieldwork in Developing Countries - Tony Binns Planning and Logistics Ethical Practices in Doing Development Research - Lynne Brydon Working in Different Cultures - Caesar R A Apentiik and Jane L Parpart Issues of Race, Ethnicity and Identity Women, Men and Fieldwork - Janet Henshall Momsen Gender Relations and Power …
Both black and symbolically white
The research presented in this article centres on an under-researched demographic group of young return migrants, namely, second-generation Barbadians, or 'Bajan-Brits', who have decided to 'return' to the birthplace of their parents. Based on 51 in-depth interviews, the essay examines the experiences of second-generation return migrants from an interpretative perspective framed within post-colonial discourse. The article first considers the Baja…
Young, gifted and back’
This paper presents the findings of an exploratory study of a relatively new group of Caribbean migrants, namely second-generation overseas-born Barbadians who have decided to migrate to the country of birth of at least one of their parents, paying particular attention to the development-oriented implications of these migrants. After a brief review of the circumstances surrounding this relatively new and innovative migratory cohort, the insights …
The provenance of Progress in Development Studies
The environment of development
Making progress in development studies
Environmental problems in an urbanizing world
Progress, development and change
Both black and symbolically white
The research presented in this article centres on an under-researched demographic group of young return migrants, namely, second-generation Barbadians, or 'Bajan-Brits', who have decided to 'return' to the birthplace of their parents. Based on 51 in-depth interviews, the essay examines the experiences of second-generation return migrants from an interpretative perspective framed within post-colonial discourse. The article first considers the Baja…
Doing Development Research
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Raison d'etre of Doing Development Research PART TWO: STRATEGIC ISSUES IN PLANNING SOUND RESEARCH Doing Fieldwork in Developing Countries - Tony Binns Planning and Logistics Ethical Practices in Doing Development Research - Lynne Brydon Working in Different Cultures - Caesar R A Apentiik and Jane L Parpart Issues of Race, Ethnicity and Identity Women, Men and Fieldwork - Janet Henshall Momsen Gender Relations and Power …
Young, gifted and back’
This paper presents the findings of an exploratory study of a relatively new group of Caribbean migrants, namely second-generation overseas-born Barbadians who have decided to migrate to the country of birth of at least one of their parents, paying particular attention to the development-oriented implications of these migrants. After a brief review of the circumstances surrounding this relatively new and innovative migratory cohort, the insights …
Caribbean Transnational Return Migrants as Agents of Change
This article challenges several of the firmly held convictions drawn from extant research on return migration to the Caribbean. For many contemporary small island societies undergoing rapid change and transformation, modernization and integration into the wider global economy, today's younger and more youthful return migrants are no longer an ineffective demographic cohort. Despite their numerically small size, many are demonstrating they can be …
Repetitive Visiting as a Pre-return Transnational Strategy among Youthful Trinidadian Returnees
Building upon existing Caribbean research by Condon and Duval, we assess how repetitive visiting is, or is not, important to youthful return migrants in their 30s and 40s, who have decided to return more permanently to Trinidad. Is it influential in their social and economic adaptations on return, and does this transnational practice lead to a more permanent return? Our analysis is based on 40 detailed narratives which were collected in 2004–2005…
Dual citizenship or dual identity? Does 'transnationalism' supplant 'nationalism' among returning Trinidadians
In this article we focus on the dual identities of relatively young Trinidadians who have decided to return to the island of their birth, or of their parents, while still in their thirties and forties. Highly-educated professional transnational migrants mostly make up our sample of 36; 26 possess dual citizenship. We focus on our informants' narratives about their transnational experiences, self-appraisals of their dual identities and how they va…
Mad Dogs and Transnational Migrants?” Bajan-Brit Second-Generation Migrants and Accusations of Madness
Second-generation British-Barbadians (“Bajan-Brits”) returning to the land of their parents are frequently accused by indigenous Barbadian nationals of being mad. Narratives of the migrants reflect four major sets of factors: (1) madness as perceived behavioral and cultural differences; (2) explanations that relate to the historical-clinical circumstances surrounding the incidence of mental ill health among first-generation West Indian migrants t…
The Latin American City
Urbanization in the Caribbean and Trends of Global Convergence-Divergence
The author first shows that the Caribbean is comparatively highly urbanized and that this trend toward urbanization occurred mainly since World War II. He maintains that contemporary Caribbean urbanization can only be understood in terms of the joint processes of global convergence-divergence. Convergence represents the universal adoption of Western norms of consumption whilst divergence connotes increasingly varied production possibilities betwe…
Ever-growing Amman”, Jordan
The Past is Still Right Here in the Present
This paper deals with second-generation Barbadians or 'Bajan-Brits', who have decided to 'return' to the birthplace of their parents, focusing on their reactions to matters relating to race relations and racialised identities. The importance of race and the operation of the 'colour-class' system in the Caribbean are established at the outset. Based on fifty-two qualitative in-depth interviews, the paper initially considers the positive things tha…
Environment and Housing in Third World Cities
Disastrous Environments, Vulnerability and Response Hazardous Environments and Low-Income Neighbourhoods Housing, Environmental Problems and Resources
Spatial Inequalities in Barbados, West Indies
After a brief introduction concerning spatial development theory, this paper presents a method for the identification, analysis and monitoring of spatial inequalities in developing countries. This is referred to as the semantic grid technique. It is also demonstrated how a simple form of non-parametric factor analysis can be employed to analyse the data obtained by use of the method. Its value as an appropriate, parsimonious and non-computer depe…
Transnationalism Personified
In this paper we consider the nexus existing between returning transnational migrants to Trinidad and Tobago's adaptation experiences, matters pertaining to their transnational life‐paths, family and community experiences and their views on transnationalism and return. The research is based on an analysis of the detailed narratives provided by forty informants by means of semi‐structured interviews. The informants consisted of nine ‘second‐genera…
Havana
Urban-rural interaction
Environmental Problems in Third World Cities
Sociopsychological methods for tourism research
The Multivariate Functional Structure of the Urban Retailing System
The complex nature of functional associations and variations occurring within intra-urban retailing systems is examined in this paper. It is suggested that retail geographers have over-emphasized the importance of the size differentiation of urban retailing centres as a consequence of their efforts to validate the existence of hierarchies or continua. As a result, the types of non-size-related functional specialization embodied within Berry's thr…
Questions of Friendship and Degrees of Transnationality among Second-Generation Return Migrants to Barbados
While the academic literature has demonstrated the importance of social networks in relation to the process of migration, investigations have rarely examined in detail the personal-social adjustment issues that migrants and return migrants face. This study examines the context and types of friendship pattern that young return migrants from Britain cultivate in Barbados. The research centres on a wholly under-researched demographic groupyoung retu…
Spatial and Structural Variations in the Quality Characteristics of Intra-Urban Retailing Centres
Robert B. Potter, Spatial and Structural Variations in the Quality Characteristics of Intra-Urban Retailing Centres, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1980), pp. 207-228
Contemporary social variations in household water use, management strategies and awareness under conditions of ‘water stress’
East Indians in a West Indian Town
Aggregate Consumer Behaviour and Perception in Relation to Urban Retailing Structure
Transnational Urbanism in Port of Spain
Port of Spain, Trinidad offers an ideal context in which to analyze pre-retirement return migration to a Global South urban realm, expanding transnational urban research beyond the conventional focus on Global North metropolitan destinations. In this article, we draw on the transnational narratives of a selected sample of relatively youthful Trinidadians, who have spent many years abroad acquiring education and professional experience, but who ha…
Directional Bias within the Usage and Perceptual Fields of Urban Consumers
Empirical investigations have indicated that consumers within urban areas exhibit a bias toward patronizing those shopping centers which lie in a downtown direction from their places of residence. An analysis of the shopping behavior of 192 questionnaire respondents in Stockport, England reaffirmed the validity of this empirical notion. For every center visited which lay in an uptown direction from the consumers' places of residence, on average, …
The Nature of Consumer Usage Fields in an Urban Environment
Aggregate Consumer Behaviour and Perception in Relation to Urban Retailing Structure
Urban development in the world dryland regions
Factors Influencing Consumer Decision-Making
Perception of Urban Retailing Facilities
An analysis of the spatial zones within which urban residents possess information regarding urban retailing facilities is provided in this paper. At the outset, a conceptual model of consumer behaviour and perception is presented and subsequently, the definition and measurement of consumer information fields within an urban environment are discussed. Following this, the findings of an empirical study of the scale and spatial extent of consumer in…
Recent developments in planning the settlement hierarchy of Barbados
Spatial and Structural Variations in the Quality Characteristics of Intra-Urban Retailing Centres
Robert B. Potter, Spatial and Structural Variations in the Quality Characteristics of Intra-Urban Retailing Centres, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1980), pp. 207-228
The Multivariate Functional Structure of the Urban Retailing System
The complex nature of functional associations and variations occurring within intra-urban retailing systems is examined in this paper. It is suggested that retail geographers have over-emphasized the importance of the size differentiation of urban retailing centres as a consequence of their efforts to validate the existence of hierarchies or continua. As a result, the types of non-size-related functional specialization embodied within Berry's thr…
Congruence between space preferences and sociodemographic structure in Barbados, West Indies
Spatial Perceptions and Public Involvement in Third World Urban Planning
Grocery Store Cognitions of Disadvantaged Consumer Groups
Spatial Inequalities in Barbados, West Indies
After a brief introduction concerning spatial development theory, this paper presents a method for the identification, analysis and monitoring of spatial inequalities in developing countries. This is referred to as the semantic grid technique. It is also demonstrated how a simple form of non-parametric factor analysis can be employed to analyse the data obtained by use of the method. Its value as an appropriate, parsimonious and non-computer depe…
Urbanization and Planning in the Third World
Urbanization and Planning in the Third World
Urbanisation and Planning in the 3rd World
A Nonparametric Approach to Canonical Correlation in Geography
Canonical correlation has been used in geography to distinguish the interrelationships existing between two data sets. In this paper, a nonparametric method that may be performed by hand is present
East Indians in a West Indian Town
Sociopsychological methods for tourism research
Urban Housing in Barbados, West Indies
Thinking concerning Third World housing has changed considerably over the past 20 years. The focus of this paper is urban housing in Barbados, where the evolution of the self-help vernacular architectural system during the early colonial era involved the combination of West African and southern English folk house types. It was the plantation-dominated land tenure system which, in combination with the local vernacular, gave rise to a distinctive f…
The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries
Indigenous Environmental Learning in a Small Developing Country
The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries
The Structure of Urban Systems
Cities and Development in the Third World
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