Cook
Biographic Data
| ID | 3033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cook |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook |
| SIGNATURE | COOK |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birmingham City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6074-6571 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Intergenerational sport mobilities: The materialities and experiences of doing junior parkrun together
This paper aims to explores affective, sensory and material-mobility relations (Cook Citation2023) in the under-researched context of intergenerational participation in junior parkrun, in the UK. Junior parkrun is an international free, weekly 2 km event for children aged 4-14 and accompanying adults. Despite junior parkrun’s widespread growth since 2010, and parkrun’s current strategic focus on expanding participation, no published research has …
Sport mobilities: A Framework and Agenda for the Study of Sport in Mobilities
Sport moves people physically, emotionally, socially (Eichberg and Loland 2010) and movement is central to sport. Yet, engagement with sport in mobilities studies is rare. This paper outlines an agenda for sport mobilities approaches to catalyse greater engagement in the field with the world of sport and to strengthen dialogues with, and mobilities’ position within, interdisciplinary sport studies. We first establish the promise of sport mobiliti…
Teaching Mobilities from Where: The Disciplines, Institutions, Positionalities, and Spaces of Mobility Pedagogies
In this article, we take seriously where we teach mobilities from and why that matters. “Where from?” asks vital questions about how teaching and learning in mobilities are located in various traditions, spaces and bodies that shape knowledges co-produced in the classroom, application beyond it, and the future of the field more widely. Asking “where from?” helps identify how our mobilities pedagogies are situated and the perspectives they emphasi…
Running with a bag: Encumbrance, Materiality and Rhythm
Advancing social and cultural geography’s interest in sport, exercise and commuting, as well as the everyday experiences of movement, materiality, and rhythm, this paper provides the first account of run-commuting experiences through a focus on running with a bag. Run-commuting is an emerging active travel practice in which people run to and/or from work. It blurs the usual separation of mobilities related to work and those related to sport, exer…
Geographies of running cultures and practices
Running is inherently geographical, with spaces, places, movement and bodies central to the practice. Running has captured the geographical imagination over the last decade and this paper reaches across such work to provide a state-of-the-art synthesis of the geographies of running. The review is structured around six key themes that characterise contemporary running geographies and demonstrate the value geography and running bring to each other:…
Healthy Mobilities
In this article, we articulate a distinct conceptual direction at the intersection of health and mobilities scholarship that centers on healthy mobilities. We take inspiration from relational, multiscalar, and more-than-human approaches to foreground an approach that asks what being in everyday healthy motion may entail and whose health is considered. We trace this approach through two brief provocations: exercise and differential mobilities, inc…
Geographies of run-commuting in the UK
Drawing on the first academic research into run-commuting, this paper places running more firmly on the agenda within transport studies. Run-commuting is a rapidly growing mobile practice in which people run between work and home. Academically, very little is known about the practice, with scant research conducted into it. This paper begins to rectify this by critically exploring the geographies of run-commuting in the UK and the politics of mobi…
Alfred Marshall’s window on the emerging historical profession: 1871–1873
The historical profession in Oxbridge underwent dramatic change during the 1860s and 1870s. From an amateur profession, lacking a substantial curriculum, it became an established profession with canonical figures and set-texts. Parallel to the emergence of a new academic history in the early 1870s, Alfred Marshall (1842–1924) a young Cambridge don and moral scientist (and later famous economist) was engaged in wide reading of historical literatur…
Co - Producing Mobilities: Negotiating geographical knowledge in a conference session on the move
In an experimental session entitled Co-Producing Mobilities held at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 20 mobility scholars travelled around London on foot, by bus and by Tube to investigate how mobilities could be considered co-produced. In this paper, 18 participants reflect on this collaborative experiment and on how it influenced their thinking about mobilities, geographical knowledge and p…
The Tragedy of Cambridge Anthropology: Edwardian Historical Thought and the Contact of Peoples
The essay identifies and explores the intellectual formation of a hitherto overlooked constellation of ‘anthropologists’ in Edwardian Cambridge. Three core members of this group were William Ridgeway, Hector Munro Chadwick, and William H. R. Rivers, who today are more normally associated with (respectively) Classics, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Anthropology. However, in the decade before World War I all three were active members of the new Board of …
Jography: Exploring Meanings, Experiences and Spatialities of Recreational Road-running
Jogging is a relatively under-researched mobile practice with much existing literature focusing on ‘serious’ and competitive running. In this paper, we provide an account of some of the movements, meanings and experiences that together help produce the practice of jogging in the south-western English city of Plymouth. Drawing upon participant diaries and interviews, we uncover rich detail about how joggers ascribe not one but a number of meanings…
War of the Ghosts: Marshall, Veblen, and Bartlett
The article discusses the historical relationship between economics and the tradition of experimental psychology established at Cambridge University. At the same time, we explore how the Cambridge model of the mind was implemented in the United States by Thorstein Veblen, who claimed instinct theory as a novel foundation for his evolutionary-institutional economics. While Veblen identified Alfred Marshall's economics with an older version of psyc…
Race, Science, and the Nation: Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany
Chris Manias has written an important and necessary study of the nineteenth-century discovery of Europe's ancient human past. Comparing developments in philology, anthropology and archaeology in Fr
Manson chicks and microskirted cuties: Pornification in Thomas Pynchon'sInherent Vice
Many sexual encounters in Thomas Pynchon's fiction have occurred beyond the mainstream, generating theatres of perversity which dramatise the death wish and enact power relations from wider arenas. However, in Inherent Vice they change in nature. With the exception of scenes which use Charles Manson to fuel fantasies of domination and submission, they have lost their transgressive bite. Instead, the sheer profusion of variations, and the insoucia…
Squaring the Shield: William Ridgeway's Two Models of Early Greece
From the early 1880s the Cambridge-trained classicist William Ridgeway had applied cutting-edge anthropological theory to his reading of ancient Greek literature in order to develop an evolutionary account of the continuous development of early Greek social institutions. Then, at the turn of the century, he began to argue that archaeological evidence demonstrated that the Achaean warriors described by Homer were in origin Germanic tribesmen from …
The Making of the English: English History, British Identity, Aryan Villages, 1870-1914
In the last third of the nineteenth century an older model of folk migration was challenged and ultimately gave way to a new model of racial invasion. Where the first was associated with comparative philology and an evolutionary account of social institutions, the latter was associated with physiological ideas of race and a quasi-diffusionist idea of institutions. The debate began over the newly discovered pre-Roman prehistory of the British Isle…
From Ancients and Moderns to Geography and Anthropology: The Meaning of History in the Thought of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Alfred Marshall
Developments internal to the study of history have played a significant if overlooked role in the changing status of history within political economy. This article illustrates that claim by way of a survey of the place of history in the writings of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Alfred Marshall. It identifies a sea change in historical thought after the French Revolution, such that Smith's basic contrast of modern with ancient society was replaced in…
War Veterans in Zimbabwe's Revolution: Challenging Neo-Colonialism and Settler and International Capital, Zyakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba
Alfred Marshall, Economist: 1842-1924
Book Review| June 01 2010 Alfred Marshall, Economist: 1842–1924 By Peter Groenewegen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. ii; 200 pp. $94.95. Simon Cook Simon Cook Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (2): 387–388. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2010-009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Simon Cook; Alfred Marshall, Economi…
William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics
Book Review| June 01 2007 William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics . By Harro Maas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxii; 330 pp. $75.00. Simon Cook Simon Cook Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (2): 317–318. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2007-008 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon S…
Late Victorian visual reasoning and Alfred Marshall's economic science
Today the economic diagram is employed universally in teaching and research by professional economists. Yet the history of its construction shows that much that has been regarded as distinctive of twentieth-century visual culture was prefigured in the nineteenth. This paper will place the construction of the first economic diagrams by Alfred Marshall in the context both of contemporary visual technologies developed in other moral sciences, and of…
A Wrangling Machine
Research Article| November 01 2005 A Wrangling Machine Simon Cook Simon Cook Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (4): 689–709. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-37-4-689 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Simon Cook; A Wrangling Machine. History of Political Economy 1 November 2005; 37 (4): 689–709. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-37-4-689 Dow…
Between book and cinema: Late Victorian new media
The origins of new media can be located in the late 19th century, in the visual archive of this period. This antecedent of today's new media appeared first within the pages of the printed book and article, and its origin is related to the increasingly database style of organization of print media at this time. The organizational form of the visual archive that appeared within such printed pages, however, can also be connected to developments in t…
Indonesia, West Java, Sunda
Wayang Golek: Performing Arts of Sunda (West Java)
Jography: Exploring Meanings, Experiences and Spatialities of Recreational Road-running
Jogging is a relatively under-researched mobile practice with much existing literature focusing on ‘serious’ and competitive running. In this paper, we provide an account of some of the movements, meanings and experiences that together help produce the practice of jogging in the south-western English city of Plymouth. Drawing upon participant diaries and interviews, we uncover rich detail about how joggers ascribe not one but a number of meanings…
Geographies of run-commuting in the UK
Drawing on the first academic research into run-commuting, this paper places running more firmly on the agenda within transport studies. Run-commuting is a rapidly growing mobile practice in which people run between work and home. Academically, very little is known about the practice, with scant research conducted into it. This paper begins to rectify this by critically exploring the geographies of run-commuting in the UK and the politics of mobi…
Geographies of running cultures and practices
Running is inherently geographical, with spaces, places, movement and bodies central to the practice. Running has captured the geographical imagination over the last decade and this paper reaches across such work to provide a state-of-the-art synthesis of the geographies of running. The review is structured around six key themes that characterise contemporary running geographies and demonstrate the value geography and running bring to each other:…
Running with a bag: Encumbrance, Materiality and Rhythm
Advancing social and cultural geography’s interest in sport, exercise and commuting, as well as the everyday experiences of movement, materiality, and rhythm, this paper provides the first account of run-commuting experiences through a focus on running with a bag. Run-commuting is an emerging active travel practice in which people run to and/or from work. It blurs the usual separation of mobilities related to work and those related to sport, exer…
Late Victorian visual reasoning and Alfred Marshall's economic science
Today the economic diagram is employed universally in teaching and research by professional economists. Yet the history of its construction shows that much that has been regarded as distinctive of twentieth-century visual culture was prefigured in the nineteenth. This paper will place the construction of the first economic diagrams by Alfred Marshall in the context both of contemporary visual technologies developed in other moral sciences, and of…
Co - Producing Mobilities: Negotiating geographical knowledge in a conference session on the move
In an experimental session entitled Co-Producing Mobilities held at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 20 mobility scholars travelled around London on foot, by bus and by Tube to investigate how mobilities could be considered co-produced. In this paper, 18 participants reflect on this collaborative experiment and on how it influenced their thinking about mobilities, geographical knowledge and p…
Sport mobilities: A Framework and Agenda for the Study of Sport in Mobilities
Sport moves people physically, emotionally, socially (Eichberg and Loland 2010) and movement is central to sport. Yet, engagement with sport in mobilities studies is rare. This paper outlines an agenda for sport mobilities approaches to catalyse greater engagement in the field with the world of sport and to strengthen dialogues with, and mobilities’ position within, interdisciplinary sport studies. We first establish the promise of sport mobiliti…
The Making of the English: English History, British Identity, Aryan Villages, 1870-1914
In the last third of the nineteenth century an older model of folk migration was challenged and ultimately gave way to a new model of racial invasion. Where the first was associated with comparative philology and an evolutionary account of social institutions, the latter was associated with physiological ideas of race and a quasi-diffusionist idea of institutions. The debate began over the newly discovered pre-Roman prehistory of the British Isle…
From Ancients and Moderns to Geography and Anthropology: The Meaning of History in the Thought of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Alfred Marshall
Developments internal to the study of history have played a significant if overlooked role in the changing status of history within political economy. This article illustrates that claim by way of a survey of the place of history in the writings of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Alfred Marshall. It identifies a sea change in historical thought after the French Revolution, such that Smith's basic contrast of modern with ancient society was replaced in…
Wayang Golek: Performing Arts of Sunda (West Java)
Indonesia, West Java, Sunda
Between book and cinema: Late Victorian new media
The origins of new media can be located in the late 19th century, in the visual archive of this period. This antecedent of today's new media appeared first within the pages of the printed book and article, and its origin is related to the increasingly database style of organization of print media at this time. The organizational form of the visual archive that appeared within such printed pages, however, can also be connected to developments in t…
Late Victorian visual reasoning and Alfred Marshall's economic science
Today the economic diagram is employed universally in teaching and research by professional economists. Yet the history of its construction shows that much that has been regarded as distinctive of twentieth-century visual culture was prefigured in the nineteenth. This paper will place the construction of the first economic diagrams by Alfred Marshall in the context both of contemporary visual technologies developed in other moral sciences, and of…
A Wrangling Machine
Research Article| November 01 2005 A Wrangling Machine Simon Cook Simon Cook Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2005) 37 (4): 689–709. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-37-4-689 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Simon Cook; A Wrangling Machine. History of Political Economy 1 November 2005; 37 (4): 689–709. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-37-4-689 Dow…
William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics
Book Review| June 01 2007 William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics . By Harro Maas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxii; 330 pp. $75.00. Simon Cook Simon Cook Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (2): 317–318. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2007-008 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon S…
Alfred Marshall, Economist: 1842-1924
Book Review| June 01 2010 Alfred Marshall, Economist: 1842–1924 By Peter Groenewegen. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. ii; 200 pp. $94.95. Simon Cook Simon Cook Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2010) 42 (2): 387–388. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2010-009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Simon Cook; Alfred Marshall, Economi…
War Veterans in Zimbabwe's Revolution: Challenging Neo-Colonialism and Settler and International Capital, Zyakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba
From Ancients and Moderns to Geography and Anthropology: The Meaning of History in the Thought of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Alfred Marshall
Developments internal to the study of history have played a significant if overlooked role in the changing status of history within political economy. This article illustrates that claim by way of a survey of the place of history in the writings of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Alfred Marshall. It identifies a sea change in historical thought after the French Revolution, such that Smith's basic contrast of modern with ancient society was replaced in…
Squaring the Shield: William Ridgeway's Two Models of Early Greece
From the early 1880s the Cambridge-trained classicist William Ridgeway had applied cutting-edge anthropological theory to his reading of ancient Greek literature in order to develop an evolutionary account of the continuous development of early Greek social institutions. Then, at the turn of the century, he began to argue that archaeological evidence demonstrated that the Achaean warriors described by Homer were in origin Germanic tribesmen from …
The Making of the English: English History, British Identity, Aryan Villages, 1870-1914
In the last third of the nineteenth century an older model of folk migration was challenged and ultimately gave way to a new model of racial invasion. Where the first was associated with comparative philology and an evolutionary account of social institutions, the latter was associated with physiological ideas of race and a quasi-diffusionist idea of institutions. The debate began over the newly discovered pre-Roman prehistory of the British Isle…
Race, Science, and the Nation: Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany
Chris Manias has written an important and necessary study of the nineteenth-century discovery of Europe's ancient human past. Comparing developments in philology, anthropology and archaeology in Fr
Manson chicks and microskirted cuties: Pornification in Thomas Pynchon'sInherent Vice
Many sexual encounters in Thomas Pynchon's fiction have occurred beyond the mainstream, generating theatres of perversity which dramatise the death wish and enact power relations from wider arenas. However, in Inherent Vice they change in nature. With the exception of scenes which use Charles Manson to fuel fantasies of domination and submission, they have lost their transgressive bite. Instead, the sheer profusion of variations, and the insoucia…
Alfred Marshall’s window on the emerging historical profession: 1871–1873
The historical profession in Oxbridge underwent dramatic change during the 1860s and 1870s. From an amateur profession, lacking a substantial curriculum, it became an established profession with canonical figures and set-texts. Parallel to the emergence of a new academic history in the early 1870s, Alfred Marshall (1842–1924) a young Cambridge don and moral scientist (and later famous economist) was engaged in wide reading of historical literatur…
Co - Producing Mobilities: Negotiating geographical knowledge in a conference session on the move
In an experimental session entitled Co-Producing Mobilities held at the 2014 Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, 20 mobility scholars travelled around London on foot, by bus and by Tube to investigate how mobilities could be considered co-produced. In this paper, 18 participants reflect on this collaborative experiment and on how it influenced their thinking about mobilities, geographical knowledge and p…
The Tragedy of Cambridge Anthropology: Edwardian Historical Thought and the Contact of Peoples
The essay identifies and explores the intellectual formation of a hitherto overlooked constellation of ‘anthropologists’ in Edwardian Cambridge. Three core members of this group were William Ridgeway, Hector Munro Chadwick, and William H. R. Rivers, who today are more normally associated with (respectively) Classics, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Anthropology. However, in the decade before World War I all three were active members of the new Board of …
Jography: Exploring Meanings, Experiences and Spatialities of Recreational Road-running
Jogging is a relatively under-researched mobile practice with much existing literature focusing on ‘serious’ and competitive running. In this paper, we provide an account of some of the movements, meanings and experiences that together help produce the practice of jogging in the south-western English city of Plymouth. Drawing upon participant diaries and interviews, we uncover rich detail about how joggers ascribe not one but a number of meanings…
War of the Ghosts: Marshall, Veblen, and Bartlett
The article discusses the historical relationship between economics and the tradition of experimental psychology established at Cambridge University. At the same time, we explore how the Cambridge model of the mind was implemented in the United States by Thorstein Veblen, who claimed instinct theory as a novel foundation for his evolutionary-institutional economics. While Veblen identified Alfred Marshall's economics with an older version of psyc…
Healthy Mobilities
In this article, we articulate a distinct conceptual direction at the intersection of health and mobilities scholarship that centers on healthy mobilities. We take inspiration from relational, multiscalar, and more-than-human approaches to foreground an approach that asks what being in everyday healthy motion may entail and whose health is considered. We trace this approach through two brief provocations: exercise and differential mobilities, inc…
Geographies of run-commuting in the UK
Drawing on the first academic research into run-commuting, this paper places running more firmly on the agenda within transport studies. Run-commuting is a rapidly growing mobile practice in which people run between work and home. Academically, very little is known about the practice, with scant research conducted into it. This paper begins to rectify this by critically exploring the geographies of run-commuting in the UK and the politics of mobi…
Geographies of running cultures and practices
Running is inherently geographical, with spaces, places, movement and bodies central to the practice. Running has captured the geographical imagination over the last decade and this paper reaches across such work to provide a state-of-the-art synthesis of the geographies of running. The review is structured around six key themes that characterise contemporary running geographies and demonstrate the value geography and running bring to each other:…
Teaching Mobilities from Where: The Disciplines, Institutions, Positionalities, and Spaces of Mobility Pedagogies
In this article, we take seriously where we teach mobilities from and why that matters. “Where from?” asks vital questions about how teaching and learning in mobilities are located in various traditions, spaces and bodies that shape knowledges co-produced in the classroom, application beyond it, and the future of the field more widely. Asking “where from?” helps identify how our mobilities pedagogies are situated and the perspectives they emphasi…
Running with a bag: Encumbrance, Materiality and Rhythm
Advancing social and cultural geography’s interest in sport, exercise and commuting, as well as the everyday experiences of movement, materiality, and rhythm, this paper provides the first account of run-commuting experiences through a focus on running with a bag. Run-commuting is an emerging active travel practice in which people run to and/or from work. It blurs the usual separation of mobilities related to work and those related to sport, exer…
Sport mobilities: A Framework and Agenda for the Study of Sport in Mobilities
Sport moves people physically, emotionally, socially (Eichberg and Loland 2010) and movement is central to sport. Yet, engagement with sport in mobilities studies is rare. This paper outlines an agenda for sport mobilities approaches to catalyse greater engagement in the field with the world of sport and to strengthen dialogues with, and mobilities’ position within, interdisciplinary sport studies. We first establish the promise of sport mobiliti…
Intergenerational sport mobilities: The materialities and experiences of doing junior parkrun together
This paper aims to explores affective, sensory and material-mobility relations (Cook Citation2023) in the under-researched context of intergenerational participation in junior parkrun, in the UK. Junior parkrun is an international free, weekly 2 km event for children aged 4-14 and accompanying adults. Despite junior parkrun’s widespread growth since 2010, and parkrun’s current strategic focus on expanding participation, no published research has …
Sociology (16 works) · Social science (11 works) · History (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Mobilities (6 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (5 works)