John Mattausch
Biographic Data
| ID | 259515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Mattausch |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Mattausch |
| SIGNATURE | MATTAUSCH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gandhi’s Prescription
For Gandhi, swaraj was premised upon the ethic of self-mastery and self-reliance, including taking responsibility for personal and public hygiene, which Gandhi himself was keen to practise and instil in his followers. While the article shows that much of Gandhi’s biography and development occurred by chance, it focuses ultimately on the persistence of ‘night scavenging’ in India today, perhaps the starkest failure of Gandhi’s swaraj campaign. The…
Chance and Societal Change
This article advances a theory of societal change I am developing: rather than the usual pseudo-evolutionary view which presents each phase of societal change as supplanting its predecessor, I argue that societal change is accumulative in character and that in this process of accumulation chance may play a part. In the first part of the article, using the historically important example of the British rise to paramountcy in Gujarat (now a state in…
After ‘ethnicity’
In an earlier article1 I have argued that British ‘African Asians’ can not legitimately be described as an ‘ethnic’ community. This argument was made by means of a critique of sections from the 4th PSI Survey. I show that the attitudinal responses of British ‘African Asians’, as evidenced in the Survey, do not reveal any special emphasis upon the components of ethnicity (religion, skin colour, ‘extra‐British’ origins, ‘racial’ grouping) specified…
A Case of Mistaken Identity
From subjects to citizens
In the 25 years since their expulsion the Uganda Asian refugees, in concert with earlier arrivals from East Africa, have made remarkable economic and cultural progress to become one of Britain's wealthiest minority ethnic communities with a strong cultural presence. The majority of the refugees and migrants are Gujaratis, a people with whom the British have shared a joint history spanning four centuries and three continents. In this article, I tr…
A ‘penury of bookes’
A Commitment to Campaign. A Sociological Study of CND
This article reviews the book "A commitment to campaign. A sociological study of CND" by John Mattausch
All God's creatures got rights
Against Liberation: Putting Animals in Perspective by Michael P.T. Leahy. London: Routledge, 1991. Pp.xi + 273; index. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0415 03584 8
The Peace Movement
In his discussion of the peace movement, Artur Meier ( International Sociology 3: 77-87) put forward a number of interesting sociological arguments and outlined a programme for future research. Using CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) as a case study and drawing upon an accumulation of British research, this paper follows Meier's research recommendations and attempts to answer some of Meier's questions. It is shown that, contrary to Meier's b…
From subjects to citizens
In the 25 years since their expulsion the Uganda Asian refugees, in concert with earlier arrivals from East Africa, have made remarkable economic and cultural progress to become one of Britain's wealthiest minority ethnic communities with a strong cultural presence. The majority of the refugees and migrants are Gujaratis, a people with whom the British have shared a joint history spanning four centuries and three continents. In this article, I tr…
A Commitment to Campaign. A Sociological Study of CND
This article reviews the book "A commitment to campaign. A sociological study of CND" by John Mattausch
Chance and Societal Change
This article advances a theory of societal change I am developing: rather than the usual pseudo-evolutionary view which presents each phase of societal change as supplanting its predecessor, I argue that societal change is accumulative in character and that in this process of accumulation chance may play a part. In the first part of the article, using the historically important example of the British rise to paramountcy in Gujarat (now a state in…
The Peace Movement
In his discussion of the peace movement, Artur Meier ( International Sociology 3: 77-87) put forward a number of interesting sociological arguments and outlined a programme for future research. Using CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) as a case study and drawing upon an accumulation of British research, this paper follows Meier's research recommendations and attempts to answer some of Meier's questions. It is shown that, contrary to Meier's b…
A Case of Mistaken Identity
A ‘penury of bookes’
Gandhi’s Prescription
For Gandhi, swaraj was premised upon the ethic of self-mastery and self-reliance, including taking responsibility for personal and public hygiene, which Gandhi himself was keen to practise and instil in his followers. While the article shows that much of Gandhi’s biography and development occurred by chance, it focuses ultimately on the persistence of ‘night scavenging’ in India today, perhaps the starkest failure of Gandhi’s swaraj campaign. The…
After ‘ethnicity’
In an earlier article1 I have argued that British ‘African Asians’ can not legitimately be described as an ‘ethnic’ community. This argument was made by means of a critique of sections from the 4th PSI Survey. I show that the attitudinal responses of British ‘African Asians’, as evidenced in the Survey, do not reveal any special emphasis upon the components of ethnicity (religion, skin colour, ‘extra‐British’ origins, ‘racial’ grouping) specified…
The Peace Movement
In his discussion of the peace movement, Artur Meier ( International Sociology 3: 77-87) put forward a number of interesting sociological arguments and outlined a programme for future research. Using CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) as a case study and drawing upon an accumulation of British research, this paper follows Meier's research recommendations and attempts to answer some of Meier's questions. It is shown that, contrary to Meier's b…
All God's creatures got rights
Against Liberation: Putting Animals in Perspective by Michael P.T. Leahy. London: Routledge, 1991. Pp.xi + 273; index. £35 (hardback). ISBN 0415 03584 8
A Commitment to Campaign. A Sociological Study of CND
This article reviews the book "A commitment to campaign. A sociological study of CND" by John Mattausch
A ‘penury of bookes’
From subjects to citizens
In the 25 years since their expulsion the Uganda Asian refugees, in concert with earlier arrivals from East Africa, have made remarkable economic and cultural progress to become one of Britain's wealthiest minority ethnic communities with a strong cultural presence. The majority of the refugees and migrants are Gujaratis, a people with whom the British have shared a joint history spanning four centuries and three continents. In this article, I tr…
A Case of Mistaken Identity
After ‘ethnicity’
In an earlier article1 I have argued that British ‘African Asians’ can not legitimately be described as an ‘ethnic’ community. This argument was made by means of a critique of sections from the 4th PSI Survey. I show that the attitudinal responses of British ‘African Asians’, as evidenced in the Survey, do not reveal any special emphasis upon the components of ethnicity (religion, skin colour, ‘extra‐British’ origins, ‘racial’ grouping) specified…
Chance and Societal Change
This article advances a theory of societal change I am developing: rather than the usual pseudo-evolutionary view which presents each phase of societal change as supplanting its predecessor, I argue that societal change is accumulative in character and that in this process of accumulation chance may play a part. In the first part of the article, using the historically important example of the British rise to paramountcy in Gujarat (now a state in…
Gandhi’s Prescription
For Gandhi, swaraj was premised upon the ethic of self-mastery and self-reliance, including taking responsibility for personal and public hygiene, which Gandhi himself was keen to practise and instil in his followers. While the article shows that much of Gandhi’s biography and development occurred by chance, it focuses ultimately on the persistence of ‘night scavenging’ in India today, perhaps the starkest failure of Gandhi’s swaraj campaign. The…
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