D Webster
Biographic Data
| ID | 2177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Webster |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Webster |
| SIGNATURE | WEBSTER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bishop's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9291-8537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Non-Alignment from New Delhi to Korea, 1949–1953
Non-alignment was officially born at a conference in Brijuni, Croatia (then Yugoslavia), in 1956 and then formalized in Belgrade in 1961. Yet its origins go back to the independence struggle of Indonesia in 1945–1949 and especially to diplomacy around the Korean War in 1950–1953. During that conflict, United States unilateralism pushed India, Indonesia, and Burma (now Myanmar) into forming an Asian bloc aligned for diplomatic purposes in the goal…
Creating Development Archives Ethically from an Over-Developed Country: Promises and Dilemmas of the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History (2013-2024)
Development archives, like all archives, are an expression of power. Furthermore, archives in over-developed countries tend to prioritize the records of government institutions and of influential men deemed to be “important.” At the same time, nongovernmental organizations in “donor” countries are able and expected to generate archival records related to development projects overseas. Conflict and storage issues in less developed countries can le…
International Development: A Postwar History, written by Corinna R. Unger, 2018
Mental maps and Canada’s post-war Asian policy
This article takes up the concept of mental maps as lens through which to survey Canada–Asia relations. Before Canadians could embrace Asia politically and economically, they had to stop imagining Asia as culturally distant. Their mental maps—the way they imagined the world—formed the invisible background to policy-making. Through an engagement with Greg Donaghy’s work on Canadian relations with Asia, this article makes the case for using mental …
Canada–Indonesia relations, past and present
Canada–Indonesia relations recently passed their 65th anniversary, but they still have a tentative air about them. Despite regular talk about developing a strong Canadian relationship with a country that potentially has much in common with Canada, Canada–Indonesia relations have mostly been friendly but shallow. An overview of the history of bilateral relations, from the opening of a Canadian mission in 1953 to recent bilateral deals committing O…
Truth and reconciliation in Southeast Asia and the Melanesian Pacific: Potential Canadian contributions and potential lessons for Canada
Recent experiences with truth and reconciliation processes in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific suggest that there is a role for historical research and memory in helping to build sustainable peace and stability in new nations—and conversely, that ignoring violent pasts undermines peacebuilding efforts. Two truth commissions have operated in this region, in Timor-Leste (East Timor) and Solomon Islands. There are also calls for truth and re…
The interpretation and probable dating of conversations found in Victor Campbell's field note-book, written while in a snow-cave on Inexpressible Island, Antarctica, during the winter of 1912
Scott's Northern Party, led by Victor Campbell, after almost a year at Cape Adare was moved south by Terra Nova . They landed at Evans Cove for five weeks’ sledging in the Wood Bay area. Bad ice-conditions prevented the vessel from returning. Campbell's party, stranded with little food and only summer equipment, faced the 1912 winter alone. For shelter they dug a snow-cave and there survived for seven months, living mainly on seals and penguins. …
Self-Determination Abandoned: The Road to the New York Agreement on West New Guinea (Papua), 1960–62
Development advisors in a time of cold war and decolonization: The United Nations Technical Assistance Administration, 1950–59
The United Nations Technical Assistance Administration (TAA) was the world organization’s main body for development advice throughout the 1950s. In technical assistance, the UN found a global mission at a time when its peace and security functions seemed ineffective. Technical assistance experts preached the need for less developed countries to plan and modernize. This process has been studied with regard to American modernization theory, but the…
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Human Rights in Canada's Foreign Policy: Lessons from East Timor
Canadians talk good game on international human rights, but vast gap too often exists between rhetoric and actions. Canadian policy towards Timor, which spent 24 years under brutal Indonesian muitary occupation before finaUy achieving its independence, is case in point. Canadian governments of both major parties faued during those years to live up to their high-minded words on human rights, choosing instead complicity with Indonesian policies.1A …
Severe emotional disturbance and violent offending among incarcerated adolescents
The study reported in this article examined the prevalence of eligibility for educational services for serious emotional disturbance (SED) among incarcerated youths, as well as how this designation relates to offender type. Administrative data from juvenile corrections, county child welfare agencies, and the state Department of Education (special education services for SED) were matched across systems and used to investigate the relationship of S…
Child Welfare in the United States: Policy, Practice and Innovations in Service Delivery
Child welfare in the United States is characterized by numerous and complex problems. By reviewing child welfare policy and trends in the United States, this article aims to stimulate discussion about innovative approaches that could allow child welfare professionals, both in the US and internationally, to better meet the needs of children and families
An international comparison of cancer survival: Toronto, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, metropolitan areas
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether socioeconomic status has a differential effect on the survival of adults diagnosed with cancer in Canada and the United States. METHODS: The Ontario Cancer Registry and the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program provided a total of 58,202 and 76,055 population-based primary malignant cancer cases for Toronto, Ontario, and Detroit, Mich, respectively. Socioecon…
The Political Economy of Food Production and Nutrition in Southern Africa in Historical Perspective
The abundant health enjoyed by these people [the Xhosa] must undoubtedly be principally ascribed to the simple food on which they live: milk, the principal dish, which is supplied in abundance by numerous herds of cows; meat, mostly roasted; corn, millet and watermelons, prepared in different ways, appease hunger... -Ludwig Alberti (1807)1 The tuberculosis scourge is undoubtedly on the upgrade in the Native Territories and especially in this dist…
Tembe-Thonga Kinship: The Marriage of Anthropology and History
D. Webster - Le système de parenté tembe-thonga : les noces de l'histoire et de l'anthropologie. L'auteur dénonce l'usage trop fréquent du « présent ethnographique » en démontrant, par comparaison entre la situation actuelle, les descriptions anciennes comme celle de Junod, et la tradition orale, que les structures familiales du groupe ont changé parallèlement aux transformations politiques, tant endo- qu'exogènes
The Crime Industry
Drivers After Sentence
An international comparison of cancer survival: Toronto, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, metropolitan areas
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether socioeconomic status has a differential effect on the survival of adults diagnosed with cancer in Canada and the United States. METHODS: The Ontario Cancer Registry and the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program provided a total of 58,202 and 76,055 population-based primary malignant cancer cases for Toronto, Ontario, and Detroit, Mich, respectively. Socioecon…
Development advisors in a time of cold war and decolonization: The United Nations Technical Assistance Administration, 1950–59
The United Nations Technical Assistance Administration (TAA) was the world organization’s main body for development advice throughout the 1950s. In technical assistance, the UN found a global mission at a time when its peace and security functions seemed ineffective. Technical assistance experts preached the need for less developed countries to plan and modernize. This process has been studied with regard to American modernization theory, but the…
Child Welfare in the United States: Policy, Practice and Innovations in Service Delivery
Child welfare in the United States is characterized by numerous and complex problems. By reviewing child welfare policy and trends in the United States, this article aims to stimulate discussion about innovative approaches that could allow child welfare professionals, both in the US and internationally, to better meet the needs of children and families
Severe emotional disturbance and violent offending among incarcerated adolescents
The study reported in this article examined the prevalence of eligibility for educational services for serious emotional disturbance (SED) among incarcerated youths, as well as how this designation relates to offender type. Administrative data from juvenile corrections, county child welfare agencies, and the state Department of Education (special education services for SED) were matched across systems and used to investigate the relationship of S…
The Political Economy of Food Production and Nutrition in Southern Africa in Historical Perspective
The abundant health enjoyed by these people [the Xhosa] must undoubtedly be principally ascribed to the simple food on which they live: milk, the principal dish, which is supplied in abundance by numerous herds of cows; meat, mostly roasted; corn, millet and watermelons, prepared in different ways, appease hunger... -Ludwig Alberti (1807)1 The tuberculosis scourge is undoubtedly on the upgrade in the Native Territories and especially in this dist…
Self-Determination Abandoned: The Road to the New York Agreement on West New Guinea (Papua), 1960–62
Tembe-Thonga Kinship: The Marriage of Anthropology and History
D. Webster - Le système de parenté tembe-thonga : les noces de l'histoire et de l'anthropologie. L'auteur dénonce l'usage trop fréquent du « présent ethnographique » en démontrant, par comparaison entre la situation actuelle, les descriptions anciennes comme celle de Junod, et la tradition orale, que les structures familiales du groupe ont changé parallèlement aux transformations politiques, tant endo- qu'exogènes
Drivers After Sentence
The Crime Industry
The Political Economy of Food Production and Nutrition in Southern Africa in Historical Perspective
The abundant health enjoyed by these people [the Xhosa] must undoubtedly be principally ascribed to the simple food on which they live: milk, the principal dish, which is supplied in abundance by numerous herds of cows; meat, mostly roasted; corn, millet and watermelons, prepared in different ways, appease hunger... -Ludwig Alberti (1807)1 The tuberculosis scourge is undoubtedly on the upgrade in the Native Territories and especially in this dist…
Tembe-Thonga Kinship: The Marriage of Anthropology and History
D. Webster - Le système de parenté tembe-thonga : les noces de l'histoire et de l'anthropologie. L'auteur dénonce l'usage trop fréquent du « présent ethnographique » en démontrant, par comparaison entre la situation actuelle, les descriptions anciennes comme celle de Junod, et la tradition orale, que les structures familiales du groupe ont changé parallèlement aux transformations politiques, tant endo- qu'exogènes
An international comparison of cancer survival: Toronto, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, metropolitan areas
OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether socioeconomic status has a differential effect on the survival of adults diagnosed with cancer in Canada and the United States. METHODS: The Ontario Cancer Registry and the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program provided a total of 58,202 and 76,055 population-based primary malignant cancer cases for Toronto, Ontario, and Detroit, Mich, respectively. Socioecon…
Child Welfare in the United States: Policy, Practice and Innovations in Service Delivery
Child welfare in the United States is characterized by numerous and complex problems. By reviewing child welfare policy and trends in the United States, this article aims to stimulate discussion about innovative approaches that could allow child welfare professionals, both in the US and internationally, to better meet the needs of children and families
Severe emotional disturbance and violent offending among incarcerated adolescents
The study reported in this article examined the prevalence of eligibility for educational services for serious emotional disturbance (SED) among incarcerated youths, as well as how this designation relates to offender type. Administrative data from juvenile corrections, county child welfare agencies, and the state Department of Education (special education services for SED) were matched across systems and used to investigate the relationship of S…
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Human Rights in Canada's Foreign Policy: Lessons from East Timor
Canadians talk good game on international human rights, but vast gap too often exists between rhetoric and actions. Canadian policy towards Timor, which spent 24 years under brutal Indonesian muitary occupation before finaUy achieving its independence, is case in point. Canadian governments of both major parties faued during those years to live up to their high-minded words on human rights, choosing instead complicity with Indonesian policies.1A …
Development advisors in a time of cold war and decolonization: The United Nations Technical Assistance Administration, 1950–59
The United Nations Technical Assistance Administration (TAA) was the world organization’s main body for development advice throughout the 1950s. In technical assistance, the UN found a global mission at a time when its peace and security functions seemed ineffective. Technical assistance experts preached the need for less developed countries to plan and modernize. This process has been studied with regard to American modernization theory, but the…
Self-Determination Abandoned: The Road to the New York Agreement on West New Guinea (Papua), 1960–62
The interpretation and probable dating of conversations found in Victor Campbell's field note-book, written while in a snow-cave on Inexpressible Island, Antarctica, during the winter of 1912
Scott's Northern Party, led by Victor Campbell, after almost a year at Cape Adare was moved south by Terra Nova . They landed at Evans Cove for five weeks’ sledging in the Wood Bay area. Bad ice-conditions prevented the vessel from returning. Campbell's party, stranded with little food and only summer equipment, faced the 1912 winter alone. For shelter they dug a snow-cave and there survived for seven months, living mainly on seals and penguins. …
Truth and reconciliation in Southeast Asia and the Melanesian Pacific: Potential Canadian contributions and potential lessons for Canada
Recent experiences with truth and reconciliation processes in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific suggest that there is a role for historical research and memory in helping to build sustainable peace and stability in new nations—and conversely, that ignoring violent pasts undermines peacebuilding efforts. Two truth commissions have operated in this region, in Timor-Leste (East Timor) and Solomon Islands. There are also calls for truth and re…
Canada–Indonesia relations, past and present
Canada–Indonesia relations recently passed their 65th anniversary, but they still have a tentative air about them. Despite regular talk about developing a strong Canadian relationship with a country that potentially has much in common with Canada, Canada–Indonesia relations have mostly been friendly but shallow. An overview of the history of bilateral relations, from the opening of a Canadian mission in 1953 to recent bilateral deals committing O…
International Development: A Postwar History, written by Corinna R. Unger, 2018
Mental maps and Canada’s post-war Asian policy
This article takes up the concept of mental maps as lens through which to survey Canada–Asia relations. Before Canadians could embrace Asia politically and economically, they had to stop imagining Asia as culturally distant. Their mental maps—the way they imagined the world—formed the invisible background to policy-making. Through an engagement with Greg Donaghy’s work on Canadian relations with Asia, this article makes the case for using mental …
Creating Development Archives Ethically from an Over-Developed Country: Promises and Dilemmas of the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History (2013-2024)
Development archives, like all archives, are an expression of power. Furthermore, archives in over-developed countries tend to prioritize the records of government institutions and of influential men deemed to be “important.” At the same time, nongovernmental organizations in “donor” countries are able and expected to generate archival records related to development projects overseas. Conflict and storage issues in less developed countries can le…
Non-Alignment from New Delhi to Korea, 1949–1953
Non-alignment was officially born at a conference in Brijuni, Croatia (then Yugoslavia), in 1956 and then formalized in Belgrade in 1961. Yet its origins go back to the independence struggle of Indonesia in 1945–1949 and especially to diplomacy around the Korean War in 1950–1953. During that conflict, United States unilateralism pushed India, Indonesia, and Burma (now Myanmar) into forming an Asian bloc aligned for diplomatic purposes in the goal…
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