Oliver Phillips
Biographic Data
| ID | 224562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Phillips |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Phillips |
| SIGNATURE | PHILLIPS O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 311 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Witches’ Thessaly
Blackmail in Zimbabwe: Troubling narratives of sexuality and human rights
Through analysis of a challenging scenario of homosexual blackmail in Zimbabwe, this article highlights the significance of the discursive and rhetorical realm in which law operates. Drawing on historical and contemporary sexual politics in Zimbabwe, it situates the practice of blackmail within its local context and considers how the victims' respective racial and sexual identities combined with their active sexual agency to pre-empt their repres…
Introduction to ‘Sexual Movements and Gendered Boundaries: Legal Negotiations of the Global and the Local’
New views on an old forest: Assessing the longevity, resilience and future of the Amazon rainforest
The aim of this paper is to investigate the longevity and diversity of the Amazonian rainforest and to assess its likely future. Palaeoclimate and palaeoecological records suggest that the Amazon rainforest originated in the late Cretaceous and has been a permanent feature of South America for at least the last 55 million years. The Amazon rainforest has survived the high temperatures of the Early Eocene climate optimum, the gradual Cenozoic cool…
(Dis)Continuities of Custom in Zimbabwe and South Africa: The Implications for Gendered and Sexual Rights
Oliver Phillips, (Dis)Continuities of Custom in Zimbabwe and South Africa: The Implications for Gendered and Sexual Rights, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 7, No. 2, Sexuality, Human Rights, and Health (2004), pp. 82-113
Myths and Realities of African Sexuality
Zimbabwean Law and the Production of a White Man's Disease
to support the presence of these people (gays and lesbians) in this country is to be an accomplice in promoting lechery.... It means, if we support them, we want our nation to be vile. We want our nation to be unchaste. We want our people to be animal-like and immoral in behaviour. In cultural terms, what it amounts to is that the homosexuals are like a witch weed in Zimbabwe, which in Shona we call 'bise'. It is therefore supposed to be eradicat…
The useful plants of Tambopata, Peru: I. Statistical hypotheses tests with a new quantitative technique
The useful plants of Tambopata, Peru: II. Additional hypothesis testing in quantitative ethnobotany
Notes on economic plants
Lucain
The useful plants of Tambopata, Peru: I. Statistical hypotheses tests with a new quantitative technique
The useful plants of Tambopata, Peru: II. Additional hypothesis testing in quantitative ethnobotany
Zimbabwean Law and the Production of a White Man's Disease
to support the presence of these people (gays and lesbians) in this country is to be an accomplice in promoting lechery.... It means, if we support them, we want our nation to be vile. We want our nation to be unchaste. We want our people to be animal-like and immoral in behaviour. In cultural terms, what it amounts to is that the homosexuals are like a witch weed in Zimbabwe, which in Shona we call 'bise'. It is therefore supposed to be eradicat…
New views on an old forest: Assessing the longevity, resilience and future of the Amazon rainforest
The aim of this paper is to investigate the longevity and diversity of the Amazonian rainforest and to assess its likely future. Palaeoclimate and palaeoecological records suggest that the Amazon rainforest originated in the late Cretaceous and has been a permanent feature of South America for at least the last 55 million years. The Amazon rainforest has survived the high temperatures of the Early Eocene climate optimum, the gradual Cenozoic cool…
Blackmail in Zimbabwe: Troubling narratives of sexuality and human rights
Through analysis of a challenging scenario of homosexual blackmail in Zimbabwe, this article highlights the significance of the discursive and rhetorical realm in which law operates. Drawing on historical and contemporary sexual politics in Zimbabwe, it situates the practice of blackmail within its local context and considers how the victims' respective racial and sexual identities combined with their active sexual agency to pre-empt their repres…
(Dis)Continuities of Custom in Zimbabwe and South Africa: The Implications for Gendered and Sexual Rights
Oliver Phillips, (Dis)Continuities of Custom in Zimbabwe and South Africa: The Implications for Gendered and Sexual Rights, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 7, No. 2, Sexuality, Human Rights, and Health (2004), pp. 82-113
Introduction to ‘Sexual Movements and Gendered Boundaries: Legal Negotiations of the Global and the Local’
Lucain
Notes on economic plants
The useful plants of Tambopata, Peru: I. Statistical hypotheses tests with a new quantitative technique
The useful plants of Tambopata, Peru: II. Additional hypothesis testing in quantitative ethnobotany
Zimbabwean Law and the Production of a White Man's Disease
to support the presence of these people (gays and lesbians) in this country is to be an accomplice in promoting lechery.... It means, if we support them, we want our nation to be vile. We want our nation to be unchaste. We want our people to be animal-like and immoral in behaviour. In cultural terms, what it amounts to is that the homosexuals are like a witch weed in Zimbabwe, which in Shona we call 'bise'. It is therefore supposed to be eradicat…
Myths and Realities of African Sexuality
(Dis)Continuities of Custom in Zimbabwe and South Africa: The Implications for Gendered and Sexual Rights
Oliver Phillips, (Dis)Continuities of Custom in Zimbabwe and South Africa: The Implications for Gendered and Sexual Rights, Health and Human Rights, Vol. 7, No. 2, Sexuality, Human Rights, and Health (2004), pp. 82-113
Introduction to ‘Sexual Movements and Gendered Boundaries: Legal Negotiations of the Global and the Local’
New views on an old forest: Assessing the longevity, resilience and future of the Amazon rainforest
The aim of this paper is to investigate the longevity and diversity of the Amazonian rainforest and to assess its likely future. Palaeoclimate and palaeoecological records suggest that the Amazon rainforest originated in the late Cretaceous and has been a permanent feature of South America for at least the last 55 million years. The Amazon rainforest has survived the high temperatures of the Early Eocene climate optimum, the gradual Cenozoic cool…
Blackmail in Zimbabwe: Troubling narratives of sexuality and human rights
Through analysis of a challenging scenario of homosexual blackmail in Zimbabwe, this article highlights the significance of the discursive and rhetorical realm in which law operates. Drawing on historical and contemporary sexual politics in Zimbabwe, it situates the practice of blackmail within its local context and considers how the victims' respective racial and sexual identities combined with their active sexual agency to pre-empt their repres…
The Witches’ Thessaly
Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works)