James Farr
Biographic Data
| ID | 302497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Farr |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Farr |
| SIGNATURE | FARR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6226-5341 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 313 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The role of urban community gardens in the food system in Brisbane, Australia
Urban community gardens are often discussed as part of a suite of measures to enhance food security and promote community and resilience within urban food systems. Some studies have cast doubt on the productive capacity of urban community gardens to provide an efficient supply of produce to enhance food security. This research investigated how people derive value from their involvement in community gardens in relation to the food system using a r…
Frontiers of cuisine: Persistence and substitution in the evolution of porridges in south Central Africa
Following Haaland's work on “porridge and pot” cuisine and Stahl's “cartographies of taste” as a means of exploring cultural and ecological dynamics, this paper highlights the continuities and important variations of cuisine in South Central Africa. This paper expands archaeobotanical discussions beyond subsistence to consider how cuisine and cookery reflect the broader dynamics of plant materiality, environment, and cultural and social expressio…
On Torgerson’s Lasswells
Religion, Trust, and Vaccine Hesitancy in Australia: An Examination of Two Surveys
Religion has been identified as a potential driver of vaccine hesitancy. Nevertheless, the connections between religion and immunisation refusal can be complex, while there is a deficit of research exploring religion and vaccination doubts in Australia. With that in mind, this study considers Australian vaccine hesitancy with respect to religion and trust by analysing the 2018 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes and the Australian dataset of th…
Excavations at the Iron Age Village Site of Fibobe II, Central Zambia
The period from c. AD 900 to AD 1300 in southern Africa is characterized by transitions from small-scale Iron Age mixed economy communities to the beginnings of more intensive food production and eventually the emergence of complex polities. In Zambia, this coincides with the appearance of larger and more permanent agro-pastoralist villages that began participating in Indian Ocean trade networks. Unlike other parts of southern Africa where stone …
Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: Implications for the Timing of Social and Subsistence Transitions in Iron Age Southern Africa
Novel trajectories of food production, urbanism, and inter-regional trade fueled the emergence of numerous complex Iron Age polities in central and southern Africa. Renewed research and re-dating efforts in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and along the Swahili Coast are transforming models for how inter-regional interaction spheres contributed to these patterns. While societies in present-day Zambia played an important role in the trade of copper, ivory, gol…
Islands of fertility: A Multispecies Ethnography of Human-Termite Interactions and Their Implications for Human Ecology and the Archaeology of Gender in the Tropics
Using multidisciplinary literature, this paper takes a multispecies approach to human-termite interactions across the tropics to demonstrate how termites exploit ecological effects of human behaviours and in turn provide humans with significant ecosystem services. These provisions are deeply entangled within cultural practices and ideologies. Conceptualisations of human and landscape fertility, and the role of termites in facilitating life, creat…
Educating Communists: Eugene Bechtold and the Chicago Workers School
“The educator must himself be educated.”Third Thesis on Feuerbach“Workers’ Education Is Workers’ Power.” This slogan—emblazoned atop the brochure announcing the courses for the Fall term of 1936—ca
The Communist Manifestoes: Media of Marxism and Bolshevik contagion in America
The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto
The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto covers the historical and biographical contexts and major contemporary interpretations of this classic text for understanding Marx and Engels, and for grasping Marxist political theory. The editors and contributors offer innovative accounts of the history of the text in relation to German revolutionaries, European socialism, and socialist political projects; rhetorical, dramaturgical, feminist an…
Methodological Pluralism and Disciplinary Politics
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Cambridge Companion to the Communist Manifesto
A Dialectic Perspective on Innovation: Conflicting Demands, Multiple Pathways, and Ambidexterity
Innovation, the development and intentional introduction of new and useful ideas by individuals, teams, and organizations, lies at the heart of human adaptation. Decades of research in different disciplines and at different organizational levels have produced a wealth of knowledge about how innovation emerges and the factors that facilitate and inhibit innovation. We propose that this knowledge needs integration. In an initial step toward this go…
Beliefs about Deliberation: Personal and Normative Dimensions
Democratic deliberative theory has long emphasized the importance of citizen deliberation as a form of political participation and a centrally important component of any vital democracy. Public deliberation and discourse among citizens has been less frequently investigated as a form of political participation than more standard indicators such as voting or volunteering for political organizations. This research examines the extent to which intern…
Locke, Natural Law, and New World Slavery
This essay systematically reformulates an earlier argument about Locke and new world slavery, adding attention to Indians, natural law, and Locke's reception. Locke followed Grotian natural law in constructing a just-war theory of slavery. Unlike Grotius, though, he severely restricted the theory, making it inapplicable to America. It only fit resistance to “absolute power” in Stuart England. Locke was nonetheless an agent of British colonialism …
Revisiting Lasswell
In Search of Social Capital: A Reply to Ben Fine
Transactions of European–American political science
In place of origins, disciplinary historians might better approach European–American political science, over the course of its three centuries, as a dynamic system of complex actions. Transactions are aspects or phases of this dynamic system, and they underscore that disciplinary historians' interpretations take place in the history of which they are about. Examples of these transactions since the eighteenth century are in evidence in the precedi…
Book Symposium on Political Methodologies: The Disorder of Political Inquiry. By Keith Topper
The Policy Scientist of Democracy: The Discipline of Harold D. Lasswell
The "policy scientist of democracy" was a model for engaged scholarship invented and embodied by Harold D. Lasswell. This disciplinary persona emerged in Lasswell's writings and wartime consultancies during the 1940s, well before he announced in his APSA presidential address, printed in the Review precisely 50 years ago, that political science was "the policy science par excellence." The policy scientist of democracy knew all about the process of…
The Science of Politics—as Civic Education—Then and Now
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Social Capital: A Conceptual History
Taking its departure from current debates over social capital, this article presents new textual findings in a backward-revealing conceptual history. In particular, it analyzes the texts and contexts of Lyda J. Hanifan who was rediscovered by Robert Putnam as having (allegedly first) used the term; it offers discoveries of earlier uses of the term and concept-most notably by John Dewey-thereby introducing critical pragmatism as another tradition …
The new science of politics
New ways to comprehend and control politics have been prophesied for the last half-millennium. Machiavelli blazed a ‘new route’ to traverse Renaissance statecraft. Hobbes constructed a new ‘civil science’ to pacify the revolutionary 1640s. Hume anticipated the novelty of the Enlightenment enterprise ‘to reduce politics to a science’. Adams conjured a ‘divine science of politics’ to consecrate a constitutional order without precedent. Hamilton her…
John Dewey and American Political Science
The constructive purpose of this essay is to initiate an exploration of what John Dewey wrote about political science and what political scientists wrote about him. It is a study of intention and reception. The textual strategies proceed, with mitigated skepticism, against a backdrop of recent claims about pragmatism and even Deweyism in the discipline. Yet, Dewey criticized the political science of his day, whether positivist or statist. He them…
Gender and American Social Science: The Formative Years
This collection of essays provides the first systematic and multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Other books have traced the history of academic social science without paying attention to gender, or have described women's social activism while ignoring its relation to the production of new social knowledge. In contr…
Social Capital: A Conceptual History
Taking its departure from current debates over social capital, this article presents new textual findings in a backward-revealing conceptual history. In particular, it analyzes the texts and contexts of Lyda J. Hanifan who was rediscovered by Robert Putnam as having (allegedly first) used the term; it offers discoveries of earlier uses of the term and concept-most notably by John Dewey-thereby introducing critical pragmatism as another tradition …
The Policy Scientist of Democracy: The Discipline of Harold D. Lasswell
The "policy scientist of democracy" was a model for engaged scholarship invented and embodied by Harold D. Lasswell. This disciplinary persona emerged in Lasswell's writings and wartime consultancies during the 1940s, well before he announced in his APSA presidential address, printed in the Review precisely 50 years ago, that political science was "the policy science par excellence." The policy scientist of democracy knew all about the process of…
Locke, Natural Law, and New World Slavery
This essay systematically reformulates an earlier argument about Locke and new world slavery, adding attention to Indians, natural law, and Locke's reception. Locke followed Grotian natural law in constructing a just-war theory of slavery. Unlike Grotius, though, he severely restricted the theory, making it inapplicable to America. It only fit resistance to “absolute power” in Stuart England. Locke was nonetheless an agent of British colonialism …
The History of Political Science
Political science is once again rediscovering its past and retelling its history. In last few years several works have brought an end to an era when our discipline's historical reflections were limited to rather brief presidential addresses of American Political Science Association, to even briefer literature reviews that prefaced articles in professional journals, and to never brief contributions to that more general enterprise of history of pol…
Political Science and the Enlightenment of Enthusiasm
I provide a narrative of the emergence of an expressly articulated "political science" in the Scottish Enlightenment. Political science was designed by Hume, Smith, and others to advance both a Newtonian method for the study of politics and a politics of moderation whose tasks included a critique of enthusiasm. In this way, political science, moderation, and (anti)enthusiasm were conceptually connected. The emergence of political science, underst…
John Dewey and American Political Science
The constructive purpose of this essay is to initiate an exploration of what John Dewey wrote about political science and what political scientists wrote about him. It is a study of intention and reception. The textual strategies proceed, with mitigated skepticism, against a backdrop of recent claims about pragmatism and even Deweyism in the discipline. Yet, Dewey criticized the political science of his day, whether positivist or statist. He them…
Can Political Science History be Neutral
In the December 1988 issue of thisReview, John Dryzek and Stephen Leonard argued the need for "context-sensitive" histories of the discipline of political science. In their view, disciplinary history must guide practical inquiry if it is to be most useful. The course of their argument draws the criticisms of three political scientists concerned about the history of political science-James Farr, John Gunnell, and Raymond Seidelman. Dryzek and Leon…
I. “So Vile and Miserable an Estate” the Problem of Slavery in Locke's Political Thought
A Slow Boat to Nowhere: The Multi-Racial Crews of the American Whaling Industry
Francis Lieber and the Interpretation of American Political Science
This essay hopes to contribute to the revival of interest in the history of American political science. In particular, it focusses on the hermeneutical conception of political science as found in the nearly-forgotten work of Francis Lieber, especially in his Legal and Political Hermeneutics of 1837. The Hermeneutics traced out a set of elementary principles and regulative rules for the interpretation and construction of words, acts, and texts. Th…
John Locke on the Glorious Revolution: A Rediscovered Document
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Revisiting Lasswell
Situational Analysis: Explanation in Political Science
This essay forwards situational analysis as the model of explanation most appropriate for an adequate reflective understanding of political science. It keeps centermost our concerns with intentionality, rationality, contextuality, and meaning. It promises to be as general a model of explanation as we can expect because it forges an underlying unity amongst diverse explanatory practices, including substantive models, law-like generalizations, idio…
Historical Concepts in Political Science: "The Case of "Revolution
Historical concepts are repeatedly used for description and explanation in political science, despite their attempted prohibition by the received view of general theory. Historical concepts are of two kinds. They are either those concepts with histories of their own in the sense that their meanings change with political changes, or they are those concepts that delimit a specific historical period. Revolution is a concept of the former kind largel…
Popper's Hermeneutics
Revisiting Kalundu Mound, Zambia: Implications for the Timing of Social and Subsistence Transitions in Iron Age Southern Africa
Novel trajectories of food production, urbanism, and inter-regional trade fueled the emergence of numerous complex Iron Age polities in central and southern Africa. Renewed research and re-dating efforts in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and along the Swahili Coast are transforming models for how inter-regional interaction spheres contributed to these patterns. While societies in present-day Zambia played an important role in the trade of copper, ivory, gol…
Gender and American Social Science: The Formative Years
This collection of essays provides the first systematic and multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Other books have traced the history of academic social science without paying attention to gender, or have described women's social activism while ignoring its relation to the production of new social knowledge. In contr…
Hume, Hermeneutics, and History: A "Sympathetic" Account
It has been observed that Hume is the hero of analytic philosophy in its phase, Kant the hero of analytic philosophy in its ordinarylanguage and hermeneutic phase. I The soundness of this observation rests upon the standard positivist interpretation of Hume's philosophy. But Hume's philosophy harbors a systematic ambivalence which emerges most clearly in his account of the methodology of history and the moral sciences. Indeed it can be argued tha…
In Search of Social Capital: A Reply to Ben Fine
Transactions of European–American political science
In place of origins, disciplinary historians might better approach European–American political science, over the course of its three centuries, as a dynamic system of complex actions. Transactions are aspects or phases of this dynamic system, and they underscore that disciplinary historians' interpretations take place in the history of which they are about. Examples of these transactions since the eighteenth century are in evidence in the precedi…
The Way of Hypotheses: Locke on Method
Marx's Laws
Marx was a party to 19th-century debates about what he called the ‘historical social sciences' and their laws. But he was more forthright in rejecting positivism and empiricism than he was in articulating his own constructive position. However, his scattered remarks on method and his own scientific practice provide the appropriate materials for an adequate reconstruction of his views. This essay develops a case that Marx was a scientific realist …
Excavations at the Iron Age Village Site of Fibobe II, Central Zambia
The period from c. AD 900 to AD 1300 in southern Africa is characterized by transitions from small-scale Iron Age mixed economy communities to the beginnings of more intensive food production and eventually the emergence of complex polities. In Zambia, this coincides with the appearance of larger and more permanent agro-pastoralist villages that began participating in Indian Ocean trade networks. Unlike other parts of southern Africa where stone …
Book Symposium on Political Methodologies: The Disorder of Political Inquiry. By Keith Topper
The Science of Politics—as Civic Education—Then and Now
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
Hume, Hermeneutics, and History: A "Sympathetic" Account
It has been observed that Hume is the hero of analytic philosophy in its phase, Kant the hero of analytic philosophy in its ordinarylanguage and hermeneutic phase. I The soundness of this observation rests upon the standard positivist interpretation of Hume's philosophy. But Hume's philosophy harbors a systematic ambivalence which emerges most clearly in his account of the methodology of history and the moral sciences. Indeed it can be argued tha…
Historical Concepts in Political Science: "The Case of "Revolution
Historical concepts are repeatedly used for description and explanation in political science, despite their attempted prohibition by the received view of general theory. Historical concepts are of two kinds. They are either those concepts with histories of their own in the sense that their meanings change with political changes, or they are those concepts that delimit a specific historical period. Revolution is a concept of the former kind largel…
Popper's Hermeneutics
Marx No Empiricist
A Slow Boat to Nowhere: The Multi-Racial Crews of the American Whaling Industry
Academic Marxism Unleashed
John Locke on the Glorious Revolution: A Rediscovered Document
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
Situational Analysis: Explanation in Political Science
This essay forwards situational analysis as the model of explanation most appropriate for an adequate reflective understanding of political science. It keeps centermost our concerns with intentionality, rationality, contextuality, and meaning. It promises to be as general a model of explanation as we can expect because it forges an underlying unity amongst diverse explanatory practices, including substantive models, law-like generalizations, idio…
After Marx
I. “So Vile and Miserable an Estate” the Problem of Slavery in Locke's Political Thought
Marx's Laws
Marx was a party to 19th-century debates about what he called the ‘historical social sciences' and their laws. But he was more forthright in rejecting positivism and empiricism than he was in articulating his own constructive position. However, his scattered remarks on method and his own scientific practice provide the appropriate materials for an adequate reconstruction of his views. This essay develops a case that Marx was a scientific realist …
Marx, Science, and the Dialectical Method
The Way of Hypotheses: Locke on Method
The States of the Discipline Political Science: The State of the Discipline . By Ada Finifter Political Science: The Science of Politics . By Herbert Weisberg
The History of Political Science
Political science is once again rediscovering its past and retelling its history. In last few years several works have brought an end to an era when our discipline's historical reflections were limited to rather brief presidential addresses of American Political Science Association, to even briefer literature reviews that prefaced articles in professional journals, and to never brief contributions to that more general enterprise of history of pol…
Political Science and the Enlightenment of Enthusiasm
I provide a narrative of the emergence of an expressly articulated "political science" in the Scottish Enlightenment. Political science was designed by Hume, Smith, and others to advance both a Newtonian method for the study of politics and a politics of moderation whose tasks included a critique of enthusiasm. In this way, political science, moderation, and (anti)enthusiasm were conceptually connected. The emergence of political science, underst…
Slaves Bought with Money: A Reply to Drescher
Crossroads of Social Science: The ICPSR 25th Anniversary Volume. Heinz Eulau
Political Innovation and Conceptual Change
Journal Article Political Innovation and Conceptual Change. Ed. by Terence Ball, James Farr, and Russell L. Hanson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. x + 366 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $15.95.) Get access Gillis J. Harp Gillis J. Harp University of Prince Edward Island, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 636–637, https://…
Francis Lieber and the Interpretation of American Political Science
This essay hopes to contribute to the revival of interest in the history of American political science. In particular, it focusses on the hermeneutical conception of political science as found in the nearly-forgotten work of Francis Lieber, especially in his Legal and Political Hermeneutics of 1837. The Hermeneutics traced out a set of elementary principles and regulative rules for the interpretation and construction of words, acts, and texts. Th…
James Madison on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Power To Improve and Perpetuate the Union A Proper Energy in the Executive The True Principles of Republican Government Supporting and Restraining the Executive Rights Political Liberty A Few Obvious Truths The Very Essence of Free and Responsible Government The Framers' Muse Bibliography Index
Can Political Science History be Neutral
In the December 1988 issue of thisReview, John Dryzek and Stephen Leonard argued the need for "context-sensitive" histories of the discipline of political science. In their view, disciplinary history must guide practical inquiry if it is to be most useful. The course of their argument draws the criticisms of three political scientists concerned about the history of political science-James Farr, John Gunnell, and Raymond Seidelman. Dryzek and Leon…
The Cambridge Companion to Marx
Marx was a highly original and polymathic thinker, unhampered by disciplinary boundaries, whose intellectual influence has been enormous. Yet in the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe the question arises as to how important his work really is for us now. An important dimension of this volume is to place Marx's writings in their historical context and to separate what he actually said from what others (in particular, Engels…
Inquiry and Change: The Troubled Attempt to Understand and Shape Society. Charles E. Lindblom
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