Ian Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 280885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles Sturt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6826-6521 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Multilateralism of the Marginal: Least Developed Countries and International Climate Negotiations, 1995-2016
Multilateral deliberations are important sites for structuring political relations between countries from the Global North and the Global South. While outcomes of deliberations often reaffirm relations of hegemony and dependence, recent studies demonstrate that marginal actors sometimes leverage international rules and norms to thwart dominant political rationales. Using summary reports of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change…
National influenza surveillance systems in five European countries: A qualitative comparative framework based on WHO guidance
This new framework can be used to compare influenza surveillance systems qualitatively between countries to allow the identification of structural differences as well as to evaluate adherence to WHO guidance. The framework may be adapted for other infectious respiratory diseases
Petit « audit » climatique de la sociologie économique: Dix années de publications dans la Socio-Economic Review et de communications à Sase
Souhaitant explorer en quoi la sociologie économique peut contribuer à la compré- hension du dérèglement climatique et de l’action climatique, nous examinons ici comment la discipline s’est jusqu’ici emparée de la question. En prenant appui sur les communications des conférences annuelles de la société savante SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics) et les publications du journal Socio-Economic Review (SER) comme proxys pour analyse…
The treadmill of protection: How public finance constrains climate adaptation
As the physical impacts of the Anthropocene begin to make themselves felt around the globe, maintaining current levels of economic prosperity, in many communities, will consume an increasing portion of public finances. This is because existing investments in property and capital will require new forms of protection if they are to continue generating stable streams of public revenue. Since Anthropocene impacts are unevenly distributed, some territ…
Hazardous simulations: Pricing climate risk in US coastal insurance markets
After suffering heavy losses from a string of natural disasters in the early 1990s, the US (re)insurance sector embraced a new technology called catastrophe, or 'cat', models to help solve pervasive underestimations of risk. These first models succeeded in crafting consensus about how risks for future disasters should be spread via (re)insurance, but as extreme weather begins to diverge from historical records, cat-modelling firms have struggled …
Marketization as political technology: Unintended consequences of climate finance in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Climate finance involves the transfer of money from advanced economies into developing countries in order to contribute to carbon mitigation or climate adaptation efforts while simultaneously advancing poverty alleviation and sustainable development objectives. Dominant carbon mitigation efforts resemble what Michel Callon calls 'civilizing markets', a deliberate harnessing of formal markets to achieve social goals by engaging with multiple polit…
Three maps and three misunderstandings: A digital mapping of climate diplomacy
This article proposes an original analysis of the international debate on climate change through the use of digital methods. Its originality is twofold. First, it examines a corpus of reports covering 18 years of international climate negotiations, a dataset never explored before through digital techniques. This corpus is particularly interesting because it provides the most consistent and detailed reporting of the negotiations of the United Nati…
History for policy: What is the value of history for the in-principle assessment of government intervention in rural Australia
The case for the relevance of history to government policy analysis and development must contend with opposition from several sources, including the scepticism of many historians towards the idea of applied history. We argue that these objections have obscured the extent to which historical awareness can contribute to sound policy choices and cast light on the value of government intervention. We see particular value in the methods devised by Ric…
Maintaining the Power of Central Governments: Regional Land Transport in the Australian Federation, 1850–2007
Rural non-metropolitan land transportation within Australia is explored. The author uses the article to answer two pivotal questions: 1) How did a of land transportation develop in Australia?; 2) Why has this centralized pattern persisted into the 21st Century? By way of answers, the author presents an extensive history of regional land transportation within Australia, beginning with the development of railroads in the mid-1850s, enabling rural i…
Towards a more regional federalism: Rural and urban attitudes to institutions, governance and reform in Australia
Governance reform is increasingly understood in terms of partnerships, flexibility and growth in the ‘noninstitutionalised’ forms of decision-making, but what do Australians make of the governmental institutions still so crucial to the theory and reality of governance? In Australian discussions about new spatial approaches to governance, this question is especially fundamental because in its relatively brief 200 year postcolonisation history, Aus…
Local Leaders in a Global Setting: Dependency and Resistance in Regional New South Wales and Newfoundland
Small regional communities are having widely different experiences of globalisation but many share dependent relations with corporations and governments. Those which are under threat are often finding themselves dependent on their own resources, including the leadership of local people. This article compares the interpretations of change and the experiences of local leaders in two geographically and historically diverse situations. It finds that …
Neoliberalism, individualism and prospects for regional renewal
Earlier versions of regional policy have acknowledged a structural basis to spatial social inequality but more recent manifestations have implicitly denied a structural element. This is occurring amid rhetoric and action aimed at facilitating individual response to regional decline. Neoliberal individualism has been applied to regional issues, thereby translating structural problems into issues for which there only appear to be individualistic so…
The Contrasting Traditions of Farming and Railway Work in Australian Rural Communities
Gender and Drought: Experiences of Australian Women in the Drought of the 1990s
A unique collaborative, sociological study undertaken during 1995-7, explored the social construction of drought as a disaster, with farm families in two Australian states: Queensland (beef producers) and New South Wales (sheep/wheat producers). A decision was made to interview the women and men separately to test our hypothesis that there would be gender issues in any analysis of a disaster, but particularly one which has such a long-term impact…
Books
Power, Interests and the Extension of Sustainable Agriculture
Predictors of Stress Among Australian Farmers
Australian farms continue to suffer economic pressure which directly and indirectly produces stress among farm family members. This study uses qualitative and quantitative data to isolate factors which predict stress, Financial condition, perception of what is at stake, the combination of on‐farm and off‐farm obligations and the general frustrations of farm life are found to predict stress among both men and women. Gender relations and attachment…
Farming ‘practice’ as temporally and spatially situated intersections of biography, culture and social structure
This paper brings anthropological, sociological and geographical perspectives to bear on the problem of farm sustainability and, in particular, the legitimation of sustainable farm practices. It attempts to lay some theoretical foundations for explanation of the adoption of farming practices which may, or may not, promote sustainability. A brief survey of the literature surrounding these issues finds many of the current theoretical perspectives i…
The changing structure of rural communities
Rural Australia
Farm Coping Strategies
Politics in Place: Social Power Relations in an Australian Country Town
List of figures, maps 1. Introduction: the origins of a study 2. Power: concepts and applications 3. A history of Cowra 4. Elitism and local government 5. Spatial politics 6. The politics of development 7. Gender, race and human services 8. The making of local politics 9. Ideologies and resources 10.
Rural Local Government – For Whom
Gender and Drought: Experiences of Australian Women in the Drought of the 1990s
A unique collaborative, sociological study undertaken during 1995-7, explored the social construction of drought as a disaster, with farm families in two Australian states: Queensland (beef producers) and New South Wales (sheep/wheat producers). A decision was made to interview the women and men separately to test our hypothesis that there would be gender issues in any analysis of a disaster, but particularly one which has such a long-term impact…
Hazardous simulations: Pricing climate risk in US coastal insurance markets
After suffering heavy losses from a string of natural disasters in the early 1990s, the US (re)insurance sector embraced a new technology called catastrophe, or 'cat', models to help solve pervasive underestimations of risk. These first models succeeded in crafting consensus about how risks for future disasters should be spread via (re)insurance, but as extreme weather begins to diverge from historical records, cat-modelling firms have struggled …
Three maps and three misunderstandings: A digital mapping of climate diplomacy
This article proposes an original analysis of the international debate on climate change through the use of digital methods. Its originality is twofold. First, it examines a corpus of reports covering 18 years of international climate negotiations, a dataset never explored before through digital techniques. This corpus is particularly interesting because it provides the most consistent and detailed reporting of the negotiations of the United Nati…
The treadmill of protection: How public finance constrains climate adaptation
As the physical impacts of the Anthropocene begin to make themselves felt around the globe, maintaining current levels of economic prosperity, in many communities, will consume an increasing portion of public finances. This is because existing investments in property and capital will require new forms of protection if they are to continue generating stable streams of public revenue. Since Anthropocene impacts are unevenly distributed, some territ…
Neoliberalism, individualism and prospects for regional renewal
Earlier versions of regional policy have acknowledged a structural basis to spatial social inequality but more recent manifestations have implicitly denied a structural element. This is occurring amid rhetoric and action aimed at facilitating individual response to regional decline. Neoliberal individualism has been applied to regional issues, thereby translating structural problems into issues for which there only appear to be individualistic so…
Marketization as political technology: Unintended consequences of climate finance in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Climate finance involves the transfer of money from advanced economies into developing countries in order to contribute to carbon mitigation or climate adaptation efforts while simultaneously advancing poverty alleviation and sustainable development objectives. Dominant carbon mitigation efforts resemble what Michel Callon calls 'civilizing markets', a deliberate harnessing of formal markets to achieve social goals by engaging with multiple polit…
Local Leaders in a Global Setting: Dependency and Resistance in Regional New South Wales and Newfoundland
Small regional communities are having widely different experiences of globalisation but many share dependent relations with corporations and governments. Those which are under threat are often finding themselves dependent on their own resources, including the leadership of local people. This article compares the interpretations of change and the experiences of local leaders in two geographically and historically diverse situations. It finds that …
Farming ‘practice’ as temporally and spatially situated intersections of biography, culture and social structure
This paper brings anthropological, sociological and geographical perspectives to bear on the problem of farm sustainability and, in particular, the legitimation of sustainable farm practices. It attempts to lay some theoretical foundations for explanation of the adoption of farming practices which may, or may not, promote sustainability. A brief survey of the literature surrounding these issues finds many of the current theoretical perspectives i…
The changing structure of rural communities
Multilateralism of the Marginal: Least Developed Countries and International Climate Negotiations, 1995-2016
Multilateral deliberations are important sites for structuring political relations between countries from the Global North and the Global South. While outcomes of deliberations often reaffirm relations of hegemony and dependence, recent studies demonstrate that marginal actors sometimes leverage international rules and norms to thwart dominant political rationales. Using summary reports of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change…
Maintaining the Power of Central Governments: Regional Land Transport in the Australian Federation, 1850–2007
Rural non-metropolitan land transportation within Australia is explored. The author uses the article to answer two pivotal questions: 1) How did a of land transportation develop in Australia?; 2) Why has this centralized pattern persisted into the 21st Century? By way of answers, the author presents an extensive history of regional land transportation within Australia, beginning with the development of railroads in the mid-1850s, enabling rural i…
Power, Interests and the Extension of Sustainable Agriculture
Predictors of Stress Among Australian Farmers
Australian farms continue to suffer economic pressure which directly and indirectly produces stress among farm family members. This study uses qualitative and quantitative data to isolate factors which predict stress, Financial condition, perception of what is at stake, the combination of on‐farm and off‐farm obligations and the general frustrations of farm life are found to predict stress among both men and women. Gender relations and attachment…
Rural Local Government – For Whom
Rural Australia
Farm Coping Strategies
Politics in Place: Social Power Relations in an Australian Country Town
List of figures, maps 1. Introduction: the origins of a study 2. Power: concepts and applications 3. A history of Cowra 4. Elitism and local government 5. Spatial politics 6. The politics of development 7. Gender, race and human services 8. The making of local politics 9. Ideologies and resources 10.
The changing structure of rural communities
Farming ‘practice’ as temporally and spatially situated intersections of biography, culture and social structure
This paper brings anthropological, sociological and geographical perspectives to bear on the problem of farm sustainability and, in particular, the legitimation of sustainable farm practices. It attempts to lay some theoretical foundations for explanation of the adoption of farming practices which may, or may not, promote sustainability. A brief survey of the literature surrounding these issues finds many of the current theoretical perspectives i…
Predictors of Stress Among Australian Farmers
Australian farms continue to suffer economic pressure which directly and indirectly produces stress among farm family members. This study uses qualitative and quantitative data to isolate factors which predict stress, Financial condition, perception of what is at stake, the combination of on‐farm and off‐farm obligations and the general frustrations of farm life are found to predict stress among both men and women. Gender relations and attachment…
Power, Interests and the Extension of Sustainable Agriculture
Books
The Contrasting Traditions of Farming and Railway Work in Australian Rural Communities
Gender and Drought: Experiences of Australian Women in the Drought of the 1990s
A unique collaborative, sociological study undertaken during 1995-7, explored the social construction of drought as a disaster, with farm families in two Australian states: Queensland (beef producers) and New South Wales (sheep/wheat producers). A decision was made to interview the women and men separately to test our hypothesis that there would be gender issues in any analysis of a disaster, but particularly one which has such a long-term impact…
Neoliberalism, individualism and prospects for regional renewal
Earlier versions of regional policy have acknowledged a structural basis to spatial social inequality but more recent manifestations have implicitly denied a structural element. This is occurring amid rhetoric and action aimed at facilitating individual response to regional decline. Neoliberal individualism has been applied to regional issues, thereby translating structural problems into issues for which there only appear to be individualistic so…
Local Leaders in a Global Setting: Dependency and Resistance in Regional New South Wales and Newfoundland
Small regional communities are having widely different experiences of globalisation but many share dependent relations with corporations and governments. Those which are under threat are often finding themselves dependent on their own resources, including the leadership of local people. This article compares the interpretations of change and the experiences of local leaders in two geographically and historically diverse situations. It finds that …
Towards a more regional federalism: Rural and urban attitudes to institutions, governance and reform in Australia
Governance reform is increasingly understood in terms of partnerships, flexibility and growth in the ‘noninstitutionalised’ forms of decision-making, but what do Australians make of the governmental institutions still so crucial to the theory and reality of governance? In Australian discussions about new spatial approaches to governance, this question is especially fundamental because in its relatively brief 200 year postcolonisation history, Aus…
Maintaining the Power of Central Governments: Regional Land Transport in the Australian Federation, 1850–2007
Rural non-metropolitan land transportation within Australia is explored. The author uses the article to answer two pivotal questions: 1) How did a of land transportation develop in Australia?; 2) Why has this centralized pattern persisted into the 21st Century? By way of answers, the author presents an extensive history of regional land transportation within Australia, beginning with the development of railroads in the mid-1850s, enabling rural i…
History for policy: What is the value of history for the in-principle assessment of government intervention in rural Australia
The case for the relevance of history to government policy analysis and development must contend with opposition from several sources, including the scepticism of many historians towards the idea of applied history. We argue that these objections have obscured the extent to which historical awareness can contribute to sound policy choices and cast light on the value of government intervention. We see particular value in the methods devised by Ric…
Three maps and three misunderstandings: A digital mapping of climate diplomacy
This article proposes an original analysis of the international debate on climate change through the use of digital methods. Its originality is twofold. First, it examines a corpus of reports covering 18 years of international climate negotiations, a dataset never explored before through digital techniques. This corpus is particularly interesting because it provides the most consistent and detailed reporting of the negotiations of the United Nati…
Marketization as political technology: Unintended consequences of climate finance in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Climate finance involves the transfer of money from advanced economies into developing countries in order to contribute to carbon mitigation or climate adaptation efforts while simultaneously advancing poverty alleviation and sustainable development objectives. Dominant carbon mitigation efforts resemble what Michel Callon calls 'civilizing markets', a deliberate harnessing of formal markets to achieve social goals by engaging with multiple polit…
Petit « audit » climatique de la sociologie économique: Dix années de publications dans la Socio-Economic Review et de communications à Sase
Souhaitant explorer en quoi la sociologie économique peut contribuer à la compré- hension du dérèglement climatique et de l’action climatique, nous examinons ici comment la discipline s’est jusqu’ici emparée de la question. En prenant appui sur les communications des conférences annuelles de la société savante SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics) et les publications du journal Socio-Economic Review (SER) comme proxys pour analyse…
The treadmill of protection: How public finance constrains climate adaptation
As the physical impacts of the Anthropocene begin to make themselves felt around the globe, maintaining current levels of economic prosperity, in many communities, will consume an increasing portion of public finances. This is because existing investments in property and capital will require new forms of protection if they are to continue generating stable streams of public revenue. Since Anthropocene impacts are unevenly distributed, some territ…
Hazardous simulations: Pricing climate risk in US coastal insurance markets
After suffering heavy losses from a string of natural disasters in the early 1990s, the US (re)insurance sector embraced a new technology called catastrophe, or 'cat', models to help solve pervasive underestimations of risk. These first models succeeded in crafting consensus about how risks for future disasters should be spread via (re)insurance, but as extreme weather begins to diverge from historical records, cat-modelling firms have struggled …
National influenza surveillance systems in five European countries: A qualitative comparative framework based on WHO guidance
This new framework can be used to compare influenza surveillance systems qualitatively between countries to allow the identification of structural differences as well as to evaluate adherence to WHO guidance. The framework may be adapted for other infectious respiratory diseases
Multilateralism of the Marginal: Least Developed Countries and International Climate Negotiations, 1995-2016
Multilateral deliberations are important sites for structuring political relations between countries from the Global North and the Global South. While outcomes of deliberations often reaffirm relations of hegemony and dependence, recent studies demonstrate that marginal actors sometimes leverage international rules and norms to thwart dominant political rationales. Using summary reports of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change…
Political science (17 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Rural development and sustainability (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Business (6 works)