Ian Welsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 265443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Welsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Welsh |
| SIGNATURE | WELSH I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5685-3235 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 212 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Science, Scientism and Imaginaries of Publics in the UK: Passive Objects, Incipient Threats
Two-way public engagement with science is an important modern democratic practice that paradoxically coincides with the intensifications of state surveillance and policing of publics and social movements engaging with issues involving science. This raises important questions about the contemporary anatomies of publics, and what count as legitimate expressions of public concern over scientific stakes within the knowledge economy. Implicit in the t…
Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism: Retreat or Resurgence
Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism: Retreat or Resurgence?." Social Movement Studies, 11(3-4), pp. 469–470
Social Movements: The Key Concepts
Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism. Following an A-Z format, the entries defined and discussed are drawn from the following areas: the ‘old’ social movements of the nineteenth century the ‘new’ social movements of the 1960s and 1970s the rise of contemporary ‘…
The politics of unsustainability: Eco-politics in the post-ecologist era
1. Eco-Politics Beyond the Paradigm of Sustainability: A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda 2. Changing Public Discourse on the Environment: Danish Media Coverage of the Rio and Johannesburg UN Summits 3. Participation and Sustainable Development: The Post-Ecologist Transformation of Citizen Involvement in Denmark 4. Sustaining the Unsustainable: Symbolic Politics and the Politics of Simulation 5. Symbolic Environmental Legislation and Soci…
Human rights and genomics: Science, genomics and social movements at the 2004 London Social Forum
The third meeting of the European Social Forum (ESF) was held in London during October 2004 with a broad ranging formal agenda and a penumbra of affiliated workshops and cultural activities. We draw on participant observation in all sessions dealing with science and genomics and offer an evaluation of Rothman's (2000) argument that NGOs and protest movements have a vital role to play in consolidating and disseminating the UN Universal Declaration…
Eco-politics beyond the paradigm of sustainability: A conceptual framework and research agenda
This contribution sketches a conceptual framework for the analysis of the post-ecologist era and outlines a research agenda for investigating its politics of unsustainability. The article suggests that this new era and its particular mode of eco-politics necessitate a new environmental sociology. Following a review of some achievements and limitations of the paradigm of sustainability, the concept of post-ecologism is related to existing discours…
In defence of civilisation: Terrorism and environmental politics in the 21st century
The use of the term civilisation has assumed renewed prominence within high profile speeches by political leaders in the opening decade of the 21st century. Initially articulated in relation to the ‘war on terror’ following September 11 in 2001, the discourse of terrorism was extended to elements of environmental and social justice movements. This extension of the discourse of terrorism within the public sphere followed a period in which state su…
Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos
Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization. They explore how seemingly chaotic and highly differentiated social actors interacting globally through computer mediated communications, face-t…
Complexity and Social Movement(s): Process and Emergence in Planetary Action Systems
The rise of networked social movements contesting neo-liberal globalization and protesting the summits of global finance and governance organizations has posed an analytical challenge to social movement theorists and called into question the applicability to this global milieu of the familiar concepts and heuristics utilized in social movement studies. In this article, we argue that the self-defining alter-globalization movement(s) might instead …
Just When You Thought You Could Relax and Forget about the Bomb
Tritium on Ice is a popular science work by a physicist with a 25-year career specializing in the safety of civilian reactors and military installations used to produce tritium for nuclear weapons. The book provides an accessible and detailed account of a major shift in US policy permitting the production of tritium for military use in civilian reactors. The book is set in the context of the United States' historical commitment to a clear divide …
Network Movement in the Czech Republic: Peturbating Prague
The prominence of global fault lines organised around the environment and social justice revealed through global social movement activity has significant implications for established approaches to political and social science. In particular, the rise of network analyses and the increasing attention to complexity theory within the social sciences represent profound challenges to established paradigms. This paper engages with this intellectual terr…
Changing anarchism: Anarchist theory and practice in a global age
Commander Brian Paddick, then Police Chief for the (London) Metropolitan Borough of Brixton, posted the following message on the direct action discussion forum
Rebel Colours: Framing' in Global Social Movements
This paper presents data gathered during and since the protests against the IMF and World Bank meetings in Prague in September 2000. It describes the interactional and deliberative processes that were undertaken by activists involved in framing the protests and the manifestation of this 'frame-work' in three separate marches denoted by different colours, which took place on September 26th during a 'global day of action'. The paper utilises ethnog…
The Political Economy of Fraud in a Globalised Industry: The Case of Seafarers' Certifications
This paper reports on the first systematic and international investigation of the fraudulent trade in seafarers' certifications of competence. The shipping industry more than any other traditional industry has been transformed by globalisation, so that there is now effectively a single global labour market for seafarers. International regulation of labour standards in the industry is extensive, but so is regulatory avoidance. This paper seeks to …
Risk, Reflexivity and Social Control in Child Protection: New Times or same Old Story
The article addresses some recent attempts to reassess the contemporary child protection system as potentially liberating. These are, first, discussions of child protection in the context of theories of reflexive modernization and the risk society, and, second, postmodernist feminist writings. After initial theoretical debate about some of these perspectives, the authors go on to present ethnographic research evidence showing that social control …
Anti-nuclear Movements: Failed Projects or Heralds of a Direct Action Milieu
This paper adopts a qualitative approach to argue that direct action social movements originating within the environmental and anti-nuclear milieu of the 1970s can be characterised by a process of capacity building. Capacity building adopts Melucci's argument that social movements are 'networks of networks'. The notion of capacity building is elaborated in terms of the mobilisation potential of movement actors and the diffusion of movement repert…
Differentiating Western Influences on Transition Societies in Eastern Europe: A Preliminary Exploration
(2000). Differentiating Western Influences on Transition Societies in Eastern Europe: A Preliminary Exploration. Journal of European Area Studies: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 79-103
Mobilising Modernity: The Nuclear Moment (International Library of Sociology)
Xenotransplantation, risk, regulation and surveillance: Social and technological dimensions of change
This paper examines xenotransplantation as one specific technique associated withthe "new genetics" The development of this particular technique is set within the context of emergent regulatory practices that simultaneously confront the national and global dimensions of the technique whilst balancing collective and individual risks and benefits.The adoption of an incremental, and arguably ad hoc, regulatory approach within the UK is assessed in r…
Contesting, constructing or producing nature: Phil Macnaghten and John Urry, Contested Natures
Book notes
FAX: Messages from a Near Future by Jorge Wilheim. London: Earthscan Publications, 1996. Pp. vi + 105. £8.99. ISBN I 85383 376 2 Degrees of Disaster, Prince William Sound: How Nature Reels and Rebounds by Jeff Wheelright. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp.335; index. £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 300 06815 8 Implementing Environmental Policy in China by Barbara J. Sinkule and Leonard Ortolano. Westport, CT and London: Praeger…
Risk, global governance and environmental politics
This article examines the role of risk as an analytical category that shapes the politics of the environment in an era of accelerating globalization. Particular attention is given to defining the environment in a manner which subordinates neither natural nor social scientific approaches. With this accomplished, the global turn in environmental governance is assessed in relation to domestic political consequences. It is argued that Northern defini…
The USSR's ecological legacy
Ecological Disaster: Cleaning Up the Hidden Legacy of the Soviet Regime by Murray Feshbach. New York: Twentieth Century Funds Press, 1995. Pp. x + 146; index. $9.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 87078 364 5 The Geography of Survival: Ecology in the Post‐Soviet Era by Ze'ev Wolfson (Boris Komarov). London: M.E. Sharpe, 1994. Pp. xi + 153, index. £36 (hardback); £15 (paperback). ISBN 1 56324 075 0 and 076 9 Europe Between East and South edited by Siro Lombar…
When is Non‐intervention an Intervention
The Nimby syndrome: Its significance in the history of the nuclear debate in Britain
The labelling of public opposition to nuclear developments in Britain as a ‘not in my back yard’ (NIMBY) response gained widespread credibility in the 1980s. In particular the term gained wide usage to describe the public's response to the search for suitable nuclear waste disposal sites. This paper will briefly consider the events leading up to the emergence of the term NIMBY assessing key avenues through which it found its way into the realm of…
Eco-politics beyond the paradigm of sustainability: A conceptual framework and research agenda
This contribution sketches a conceptual framework for the analysis of the post-ecologist era and outlines a research agenda for investigating its politics of unsustainability. The article suggests that this new era and its particular mode of eco-politics necessitate a new environmental sociology. Following a review of some achievements and limitations of the paradigm of sustainability, the concept of post-ecologism is related to existing discours…
Science, Scientism and Imaginaries of Publics in the UK: Passive Objects, Incipient Threats
Two-way public engagement with science is an important modern democratic practice that paradoxically coincides with the intensifications of state surveillance and policing of publics and social movements engaging with issues involving science. This raises important questions about the contemporary anatomies of publics, and what count as legitimate expressions of public concern over scientific stakes within the knowledge economy. Implicit in the t…
Complexity and Social Movement(s): Process and Emergence in Planetary Action Systems
The rise of networked social movements contesting neo-liberal globalization and protesting the summits of global finance and governance organizations has posed an analytical challenge to social movement theorists and called into question the applicability to this global milieu of the familiar concepts and heuristics utilized in social movement studies. In this article, we argue that the self-defining alter-globalization movement(s) might instead …
Rebel Colours: Framing' in Global Social Movements
This paper presents data gathered during and since the protests against the IMF and World Bank meetings in Prague in September 2000. It describes the interactional and deliberative processes that were undertaken by activists involved in framing the protests and the manifestation of this 'frame-work' in three separate marches denoted by different colours, which took place on September 26th during a 'global day of action'. The paper utilises ethnog…
Changing anarchism: Anarchist theory and practice in a global age
Commander Brian Paddick, then Police Chief for the (London) Metropolitan Borough of Brixton, posted the following message on the direct action discussion forum
Risk, Reflexivity and Social Control in Child Protection: New Times or same Old Story
The article addresses some recent attempts to reassess the contemporary child protection system as potentially liberating. These are, first, discussions of child protection in the context of theories of reflexive modernization and the risk society, and, second, postmodernist feminist writings. After initial theoretical debate about some of these perspectives, the authors go on to present ethnographic research evidence showing that social control …
The Nimby syndrome: Its significance in the history of the nuclear debate in Britain
The labelling of public opposition to nuclear developments in Britain as a ‘not in my back yard’ (NIMBY) response gained widespread credibility in the 1980s. In particular the term gained wide usage to describe the public's response to the search for suitable nuclear waste disposal sites. This paper will briefly consider the events leading up to the emergence of the term NIMBY assessing key avenues through which it found its way into the realm of…
Network Movement in the Czech Republic: Peturbating Prague
The prominence of global fault lines organised around the environment and social justice revealed through global social movement activity has significant implications for established approaches to political and social science. In particular, the rise of network analyses and the increasing attention to complexity theory within the social sciences represent profound challenges to established paradigms. This paper engages with this intellectual terr…
The Political Economy of Fraud in a Globalised Industry: The Case of Seafarers' Certifications
This paper reports on the first systematic and international investigation of the fraudulent trade in seafarers' certifications of competence. The shipping industry more than any other traditional industry has been transformed by globalisation, so that there is now effectively a single global labour market for seafarers. International regulation of labour standards in the industry is extensive, but so is regulatory avoidance. This paper seeks to …
Differentiating Western Influences on Transition Societies in Eastern Europe: A Preliminary Exploration
(2000). Differentiating Western Influences on Transition Societies in Eastern Europe: A Preliminary Exploration. Journal of European Area Studies: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 79-103
Anti-nuclear Movements: Failed Projects or Heralds of a Direct Action Milieu
This paper adopts a qualitative approach to argue that direct action social movements originating within the environmental and anti-nuclear milieu of the 1970s can be characterised by a process of capacity building. Capacity building adopts Melucci's argument that social movements are 'networks of networks'. The notion of capacity building is elaborated in terms of the mobilisation potential of movement actors and the diffusion of movement repert…
The Nimby syndrome: Its significance in the history of the nuclear debate in Britain
The labelling of public opposition to nuclear developments in Britain as a ‘not in my back yard’ (NIMBY) response gained widespread credibility in the 1980s. In particular the term gained wide usage to describe the public's response to the search for suitable nuclear waste disposal sites. This paper will briefly consider the events leading up to the emergence of the term NIMBY assessing key avenues through which it found its way into the realm of…
The politics of nuclear waste
The Politics of Radioactive Waste Disposal by Ray Kemp. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992. Pp.xii + 183; indices. £10.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 7190 3184 2. The International Politics of Nuclear Waste by Andrew Blowers, David Lowry and Barry D. Solomon. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991. Pp.xxii + 352; indices. £17.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 333 49364 8
When is Non‐intervention an Intervention
Risk, global governance and environmental politics
This article examines the role of risk as an analytical category that shapes the politics of the environment in an era of accelerating globalization. Particular attention is given to defining the environment in a manner which subordinates neither natural nor social scientific approaches. With this accomplished, the global turn in environmental governance is assessed in relation to domestic political consequences. It is argued that Northern defini…
The USSR's ecological legacy
Ecological Disaster: Cleaning Up the Hidden Legacy of the Soviet Regime by Murray Feshbach. New York: Twentieth Century Funds Press, 1995. Pp. x + 146; index. $9.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 87078 364 5 The Geography of Survival: Ecology in the Post‐Soviet Era by Ze'ev Wolfson (Boris Komarov). London: M.E. Sharpe, 1994. Pp. xi + 153, index. £36 (hardback); £15 (paperback). ISBN 1 56324 075 0 and 076 9 Europe Between East and South edited by Siro Lombar…
Book notes
FAX: Messages from a Near Future by Jorge Wilheim. London: Earthscan Publications, 1996. Pp. vi + 105. £8.99. ISBN I 85383 376 2 Degrees of Disaster, Prince William Sound: How Nature Reels and Rebounds by Jeff Wheelright. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1996. Pp.335; index. £12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 300 06815 8 Implementing Environmental Policy in China by Barbara J. Sinkule and Leonard Ortolano. Westport, CT and London: Praeger…
Xenotransplantation, risk, regulation and surveillance: Social and technological dimensions of change
This paper examines xenotransplantation as one specific technique associated withthe "new genetics" The development of this particular technique is set within the context of emergent regulatory practices that simultaneously confront the national and global dimensions of the technique whilst balancing collective and individual risks and benefits.The adoption of an incremental, and arguably ad hoc, regulatory approach within the UK is assessed in r…
Contesting, constructing or producing nature: Phil Macnaghten and John Urry, Contested Natures
Differentiating Western Influences on Transition Societies in Eastern Europe: A Preliminary Exploration
(2000). Differentiating Western Influences on Transition Societies in Eastern Europe: A Preliminary Exploration. Journal of European Area Studies: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 79-103
Mobilising Modernity: The Nuclear Moment (International Library of Sociology)
Anti-nuclear Movements: Failed Projects or Heralds of a Direct Action Milieu
This paper adopts a qualitative approach to argue that direct action social movements originating within the environmental and anti-nuclear milieu of the 1970s can be characterised by a process of capacity building. Capacity building adopts Melucci's argument that social movements are 'networks of networks'. The notion of capacity building is elaborated in terms of the mobilisation potential of movement actors and the diffusion of movement repert…
Risk, Reflexivity and Social Control in Child Protection: New Times or same Old Story
The article addresses some recent attempts to reassess the contemporary child protection system as potentially liberating. These are, first, discussions of child protection in the context of theories of reflexive modernization and the risk society, and, second, postmodernist feminist writings. After initial theoretical debate about some of these perspectives, the authors go on to present ethnographic research evidence showing that social control …
Just When You Thought You Could Relax and Forget about the Bomb
Tritium on Ice is a popular science work by a physicist with a 25-year career specializing in the safety of civilian reactors and military installations used to produce tritium for nuclear weapons. The book provides an accessible and detailed account of a major shift in US policy permitting the production of tritium for military use in civilian reactors. The book is set in the context of the United States' historical commitment to a clear divide …
Network Movement in the Czech Republic: Peturbating Prague
The prominence of global fault lines organised around the environment and social justice revealed through global social movement activity has significant implications for established approaches to political and social science. In particular, the rise of network analyses and the increasing attention to complexity theory within the social sciences represent profound challenges to established paradigms. This paper engages with this intellectual terr…
Changing anarchism: Anarchist theory and practice in a global age
Commander Brian Paddick, then Police Chief for the (London) Metropolitan Borough of Brixton, posted the following message on the direct action discussion forum
Rebel Colours: Framing' in Global Social Movements
This paper presents data gathered during and since the protests against the IMF and World Bank meetings in Prague in September 2000. It describes the interactional and deliberative processes that were undertaken by activists involved in framing the protests and the manifestation of this 'frame-work' in three separate marches denoted by different colours, which took place on September 26th during a 'global day of action'. The paper utilises ethnog…
The Political Economy of Fraud in a Globalised Industry: The Case of Seafarers' Certifications
This paper reports on the first systematic and international investigation of the fraudulent trade in seafarers' certifications of competence. The shipping industry more than any other traditional industry has been transformed by globalisation, so that there is now effectively a single global labour market for seafarers. International regulation of labour standards in the industry is extensive, but so is regulatory avoidance. This paper seeks to …
Complexity and Social Movement(s): Process and Emergence in Planetary Action Systems
The rise of networked social movements contesting neo-liberal globalization and protesting the summits of global finance and governance organizations has posed an analytical challenge to social movement theorists and called into question the applicability to this global milieu of the familiar concepts and heuristics utilized in social movement studies. In this article, we argue that the self-defining alter-globalization movement(s) might instead …
Complexity and Social Movements: Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos
Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization. They explore how seemingly chaotic and highly differentiated social actors interacting globally through computer mediated communications, face-t…
Human rights and genomics: Science, genomics and social movements at the 2004 London Social Forum
The third meeting of the European Social Forum (ESF) was held in London during October 2004 with a broad ranging formal agenda and a penumbra of affiliated workshops and cultural activities. We draw on participant observation in all sessions dealing with science and genomics and offer an evaluation of Rothman's (2000) argument that NGOs and protest movements have a vital role to play in consolidating and disseminating the UN Universal Declaration…
Eco-politics beyond the paradigm of sustainability: A conceptual framework and research agenda
This contribution sketches a conceptual framework for the analysis of the post-ecologist era and outlines a research agenda for investigating its politics of unsustainability. The article suggests that this new era and its particular mode of eco-politics necessitate a new environmental sociology. Following a review of some achievements and limitations of the paradigm of sustainability, the concept of post-ecologism is related to existing discours…
In defence of civilisation: Terrorism and environmental politics in the 21st century
The use of the term civilisation has assumed renewed prominence within high profile speeches by political leaders in the opening decade of the 21st century. Initially articulated in relation to the ‘war on terror’ following September 11 in 2001, the discourse of terrorism was extended to elements of environmental and social justice movements. This extension of the discourse of terrorism within the public sphere followed a period in which state su…
The politics of unsustainability: Eco-politics in the post-ecologist era
1. Eco-Politics Beyond the Paradigm of Sustainability: A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda 2. Changing Public Discourse on the Environment: Danish Media Coverage of the Rio and Johannesburg UN Summits 3. Participation and Sustainable Development: The Post-Ecologist Transformation of Citizen Involvement in Denmark 4. Sustaining the Unsustainable: Symbolic Politics and the Politics of Simulation 5. Symbolic Environmental Legislation and Soci…
Social Movements: The Key Concepts
Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism. Following an A-Z format, the entries defined and discussed are drawn from the following areas: the ‘old’ social movements of the nineteenth century the ‘new’ social movements of the 1960s and 1970s the rise of contemporary ‘…
Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism: Retreat or Resurgence
Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism: Retreat or Resurgence?." Social Movement Studies, 11(3-4), pp. 469–470
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