Mary Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 223284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3252-9956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: The case of subprime
State, capital and nation in Green New Deal Politics: Lessons from the British Labour Party’s 2019 programme
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain
Recent declarations of the end of neoliberalism in the United Kingdom, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic, are underpinned by diffuse and unstructured understandings of the neoliberal state. We argue that state intervention is both necessary and unavoidable under neoliberalism. This article shows that the 'market-based' reforms and the 'rollback of the state' that overtly characterise neoliberalism are heavily reliant upon public policy and e…
Reform versus Transformation: Reflections on the Legacy of Corbynism’s Economic Programme
In the context of divisive disagreements about how the British left should orient itself towards the current Labour Party, this intervention uses the Gorzian category of non-reformist reforms to critically evaluate the 2017–19 policy programme developed by the Corbyn-led Labour Party and draw out the implications for current strategic debates. It argues that the radical core of the Corbynite economic programme lay in its proposals for widening ow…
Rent and financialisation as concrete totality: The case for provisioning approaches as method of abstraction
Drawing on dialogues between Michael Ball and Ben Fine, this paper proposes provisioning approaches as a way of reintegrating theoretical and institutional work on rent. Recent debates on financialisation and rent theory overlook the potential contribution of provisioning approaches because urban studies typically take the work of Ball as reference point. By looking at provisioning approaches beyond Ball, the paper shows that such approaches are …
While You’re Down There”: The Unexplored Role of Estheticians in the Health of Their Clients
Young women (18-25 years) are more likely to engage in pubic hair removal and experience higher rates of negative sexual health outcomes (e.g., sexually transmitted infections [STIs]). Hair removal salons may serve as novel environments for health interventions. The Sexual Health and Esthetician (SHE) Study aimed to better understand the pubic hair removal profession, explore the esthetician-client relationship, and assess potential for esthetici…
Researching Sex and Sexualities
The great British housing crisis
Noting the recent resurgence of housing as a political issue, this article takes a historic view of the origins of the current housing crisis. While the foundations of the contemporary housing system were laid in the period following the First World War, the roots of the crisis lie in two developments in the 1980s: the privatisation of the social housing stock through the Right to Buy and the growth of mortgage lending in response to financial li…
(De)constructing the financialised culture of owner-occupation in the UK, with the aid of the 10Cs
Taking owner-occupation as the quintessential form of financialised housing provision, this paper investigates how housing cultures, understood as a set of shared behaviours and beliefs about housing, have been (re)shaped in the UK in a way that favours owner-occupation, and the implications of this shift for agents’ subjectivities. Utilising the systems of provision/10Cs approach, which takes as its starting point that the norms and meanings ass…
Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation
This paper offers a wide-ranging introduction to the symposium on the material culture of financialisation. It begins by addressing the nature of financialisation itself, drawing on a tight definition in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financialisation from its effects and from the looser associations prevalent within much of the literature such as the presence of credit or even simply (more extensive) monetary relations. In order to locat…
South Africa's renegade reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films
In Renegade Reels, Litheko Modisane demonstrates that to fully unpack the social meanings of film, we must go beyond merely analysing its content, the conditions of its production, or individual mo
The ANC brand is bulletproof: Accountability and the logic of the brand in South African politics
In this paper, I draw on analyses of the brand in the commercial world to explore the implications of branding when applied to political parties and politicians. Specifically, I examine the ramifications of the logic of the brand for accountability within a multi-party democracy. I argue that in branding discourse, the brand serves as a risk-management strategy by creating relations of loyalty with consumers, designed to secure forgiveness for po…
The constraints of colour: Popular music listening and the interrogation of 'race' in post-apartheid South Africa
In post-apartheid popular culture, there is a tension between the persistence of 'race' as a structural category of difference, and its transformation in the lives of young South Africans. In this paper, through the examination of case-studies, I explore how popular music may allow for the mediation of this tension. Drawing on Heidegger's notion of an 'equipmental whole' to conceptualise 'race', I discuss the specific ways in which individuals ma…
Another Advanced Test of Theory of Mind: Evidence from Very High Functioning Adults with Autism or Asperger Syndrome
Previous studies have found a subgroup of people with autism or Asperger Syndrome who pass second‐order tests of theory of mind. However, such tests have a ceiling in developmental terms corresponding to a mental age of about 6 years. It is therefore impossible to say if such individuals are intact or impaired in their theory of mind skills. We report the performance of very high functioning adults with autism or Asperger Syndrome on an adult tes…
A reply to Helen Speight
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Profit and Purpose in the Development of Thomas Cromwell's Landed Estates
Despite the very considerable scholarly attention focused on Thomas Cromwell in recent decades, surprisingly little is known or written about his private financial affairs and, in particular, about the acquisition and management of his landed estates. His principal but badly outdated biographer, R. B. Merriman, was content with a few sweeping generalizations about immense ill-gotten wealth; the only modern biography devotes to this topic barely t…
The Art of the Possible’: Thomas Cromwell's Management of West Country Government
The relationships between central government and local community have attracted much attention among historians of early Tudor England. Administrative studies have long since described the network of offices and institutions which theoretically implemented executive action; more recent work has analysed the social and political structure of individual counties. But the actual mechanics of interaction between centre and locality have received less…
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain
Recent declarations of the end of neoliberalism in the United Kingdom, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic, are underpinned by diffuse and unstructured understandings of the neoliberal state. We argue that state intervention is both necessary and unavoidable under neoliberalism. This article shows that the 'market-based' reforms and the 'rollback of the state' that overtly characterise neoliberalism are heavily reliant upon public policy and e…
The great British housing crisis
Noting the recent resurgence of housing as a political issue, this article takes a historic view of the origins of the current housing crisis. While the foundations of the contemporary housing system were laid in the period following the First World War, the roots of the crisis lie in two developments in the 1980s: the privatisation of the social housing stock through the Right to Buy and the growth of mortgage lending in response to financial li…
Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation
This paper offers a wide-ranging introduction to the symposium on the material culture of financialisation. It begins by addressing the nature of financialisation itself, drawing on a tight definition in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financialisation from its effects and from the looser associations prevalent within much of the literature such as the presence of credit or even simply (more extensive) monetary relations. In order to locat…
Rent and financialisation as concrete totality: The case for provisioning approaches as method of abstraction
Drawing on dialogues between Michael Ball and Ben Fine, this paper proposes provisioning approaches as a way of reintegrating theoretical and institutional work on rent. Recent debates on financialisation and rent theory overlook the potential contribution of provisioning approaches because urban studies typically take the work of Ball as reference point. By looking at provisioning approaches beyond Ball, the paper shows that such approaches are …
Researching Sex and Sexualities
Profit and Purpose in the Development of Thomas Cromwell's Landed Estates
Despite the very considerable scholarly attention focused on Thomas Cromwell in recent decades, surprisingly little is known or written about his private financial affairs and, in particular, about the acquisition and management of his landed estates. His principal but badly outdated biographer, R. B. Merriman, was content with a few sweeping generalizations about immense ill-gotten wealth; the only modern biography devotes to this topic barely t…
The Art of the Possible’: Thomas Cromwell's Management of West Country Government
The relationships between central government and local community have attracted much attention among historians of early Tudor England. Administrative studies have long since described the network of offices and institutions which theoretically implemented executive action; more recent work has analysed the social and political structure of individual counties. But the actual mechanics of interaction between centre and locality have received less…
State, capital and nation in Green New Deal Politics: Lessons from the British Labour Party’s 2019 programme
(De)constructing the financialised culture of owner-occupation in the UK, with the aid of the 10Cs
Taking owner-occupation as the quintessential form of financialised housing provision, this paper investigates how housing cultures, understood as a set of shared behaviours and beliefs about housing, have been (re)shaped in the UK in a way that favours owner-occupation, and the implications of this shift for agents’ subjectivities. Utilising the systems of provision/10Cs approach, which takes as its starting point that the norms and meanings ass…
The ANC brand is bulletproof: Accountability and the logic of the brand in South African politics
In this paper, I draw on analyses of the brand in the commercial world to explore the implications of branding when applied to political parties and politicians. Specifically, I examine the ramifications of the logic of the brand for accountability within a multi-party democracy. I argue that in branding discourse, the brand serves as a risk-management strategy by creating relations of loyalty with consumers, designed to secure forgiveness for po…
The constraints of colour: Popular music listening and the interrogation of 'race' in post-apartheid South Africa
In post-apartheid popular culture, there is a tension between the persistence of 'race' as a structural category of difference, and its transformation in the lives of young South Africans. In this paper, through the examination of case-studies, I explore how popular music may allow for the mediation of this tension. Drawing on Heidegger's notion of an 'equipmental whole' to conceptualise 'race', I discuss the specific ways in which individuals ma…
A reply to Helen Speight
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Art of the Possible’: Thomas Cromwell's Management of West Country Government
The relationships between central government and local community have attracted much attention among historians of early Tudor England. Administrative studies have long since described the network of offices and institutions which theoretically implemented executive action; more recent work has analysed the social and political structure of individual counties. But the actual mechanics of interaction between centre and locality have received less…
Profit and Purpose in the Development of Thomas Cromwell's Landed Estates
Despite the very considerable scholarly attention focused on Thomas Cromwell in recent decades, surprisingly little is known or written about his private financial affairs and, in particular, about the acquisition and management of his landed estates. His principal but badly outdated biographer, R. B. Merriman, was content with a few sweeping generalizations about immense ill-gotten wealth; the only modern biography devotes to this topic barely t…
A reply to Helen Speight
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Another Advanced Test of Theory of Mind: Evidence from Very High Functioning Adults with Autism or Asperger Syndrome
Previous studies have found a subgroup of people with autism or Asperger Syndrome who pass second‐order tests of theory of mind. However, such tests have a ceiling in developmental terms corresponding to a mental age of about 6 years. It is therefore impossible to say if such individuals are intact or impaired in their theory of mind skills. We report the performance of very high functioning adults with autism or Asperger Syndrome on an adult tes…
The constraints of colour: Popular music listening and the interrogation of 'race' in post-apartheid South Africa
In post-apartheid popular culture, there is a tension between the persistence of 'race' as a structural category of difference, and its transformation in the lives of young South Africans. In this paper, through the examination of case-studies, I explore how popular music may allow for the mediation of this tension. Drawing on Heidegger's notion of an 'equipmental whole' to conceptualise 'race', I discuss the specific ways in which individuals ma…
South Africa's renegade reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films
In Renegade Reels, Litheko Modisane demonstrates that to fully unpack the social meanings of film, we must go beyond merely analysing its content, the conditions of its production, or individual mo
The ANC brand is bulletproof: Accountability and the logic of the brand in South African politics
In this paper, I draw on analyses of the brand in the commercial world to explore the implications of branding when applied to political parties and politicians. Specifically, I examine the ramifications of the logic of the brand for accountability within a multi-party democracy. I argue that in branding discourse, the brand serves as a risk-management strategy by creating relations of loyalty with consumers, designed to secure forgiveness for po…
(De)constructing the financialised culture of owner-occupation in the UK, with the aid of the 10Cs
Taking owner-occupation as the quintessential form of financialised housing provision, this paper investigates how housing cultures, understood as a set of shared behaviours and beliefs about housing, have been (re)shaped in the UK in a way that favours owner-occupation, and the implications of this shift for agents’ subjectivities. Utilising the systems of provision/10Cs approach, which takes as its starting point that the norms and meanings ass…
Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation
This paper offers a wide-ranging introduction to the symposium on the material culture of financialisation. It begins by addressing the nature of financialisation itself, drawing on a tight definition in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financialisation from its effects and from the looser associations prevalent within much of the literature such as the presence of credit or even simply (more extensive) monetary relations. In order to locat…
The great British housing crisis
Noting the recent resurgence of housing as a political issue, this article takes a historic view of the origins of the current housing crisis. While the foundations of the contemporary housing system were laid in the period following the First World War, the roots of the crisis lie in two developments in the 1980s: the privatisation of the social housing stock through the Right to Buy and the growth of mortgage lending in response to financial li…
Researching Sex and Sexualities
While You’re Down There”: The Unexplored Role of Estheticians in the Health of Their Clients
Young women (18-25 years) are more likely to engage in pubic hair removal and experience higher rates of negative sexual health outcomes (e.g., sexually transmitted infections [STIs]). Hair removal salons may serve as novel environments for health interventions. The Sexual Health and Esthetician (SHE) Study aimed to better understand the pubic hair removal profession, explore the esthetician-client relationship, and assess potential for esthetici…
Reform versus Transformation: Reflections on the Legacy of Corbynism’s Economic Programme
In the context of divisive disagreements about how the British left should orient itself towards the current Labour Party, this intervention uses the Gorzian category of non-reformist reforms to critically evaluate the 2017–19 policy programme developed by the Corbyn-led Labour Party and draw out the implications for current strategic debates. It argues that the radical core of the Corbynite economic programme lay in its proposals for widening ow…
Rent and financialisation as concrete totality: The case for provisioning approaches as method of abstraction
Drawing on dialogues between Michael Ball and Ben Fine, this paper proposes provisioning approaches as a way of reintegrating theoretical and institutional work on rent. Recent debates on financialisation and rent theory overlook the potential contribution of provisioning approaches because urban studies typically take the work of Ball as reference point. By looking at provisioning approaches beyond Ball, the paper shows that such approaches are …
State, capital and nation in Green New Deal Politics: Lessons from the British Labour Party’s 2019 programme
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated: The persistence of neoliberalism in Britain
Recent declarations of the end of neoliberalism in the United Kingdom, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic, are underpinned by diffuse and unstructured understandings of the neoliberal state. We argue that state intervention is both necessary and unavoidable under neoliberalism. This article shows that the 'market-based' reforms and the 'rollback of the state' that overtly characterise neoliberalism are heavily reliant upon public policy and e…
Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: The case of subprime
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (5 works) · Economy (4 works)