Stephen Quilley
Biographic Data
| ID | 304379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Quilley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Quilley |
| SIGNATURE | QUILLEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7104-0323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Place-based rural development: Building Capacities, Multi-Actor Collaborations and Making Sense of the Local ‘Place
This paper studies the modalities and processes of place-based development in rural economies. Through a case study of the wine industry in Nova Scotia (Canada), it examines why place-based development is important for rural industrial revitalization, and how new economic development is achieved through capacity building, multi-actor collaborations, and local sense-making. This case study highlights the ways in which interactions among multiple a…
New industrial path development in “less glamorized regions”: Actors, agencies, and rural opportunities
This article analyses the case of the wine industry in rural Nova Scotia (Canada) and addresses the following question: what sparks a new wine industry path in rural regions that lack supportive preconditions and local assets? We examine this from the perspective of different actors and their agencies when creating the conditions and structures for shaping new path development. Our findings provide a novel, empirically based understanding of indi…
Schumacher against globalism and ecomodernism: Ecology, subsidiarity and the politics of scale
E. F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful is one of the most succinct elaborations of Catholic social teaching (CST) and 'distributism' - construed as an alternative to both capitalism and socialism. Extending the logic of Polanyi, both market and state, and their right- and left-wing ideological expressions, are shown to be contending forms of collectivism - in that both aggregate the agency of disembedded 'billiard ball' individuals. Schumacher's s…
Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D'Alisa and Federico Demaria, The Case for Degrowth
Ritual Matters: Changing Ontologies, Values, and Ecological Conscience Formation
Karl Polanyi (1944, 1968) argued that the 'disembedding' of the economy from society entailed a curtailment of social constraints on economic transactions. This disembedding coincided with what Max Weber (1946) called disenchantment, and the erosion of cognitive-experiential reciprocity between humans and nature. Following Lynn White Jr. (1967), many scholars of religion and ecology have argued that losing the sense of divinity immanent in the wo…
The potential role for sociologists in designing RCTs and of RCTs in refining sociological theory: A commentary on Deaton and Cartwright
Wicked Dilemmas of Scale and Complexity in the Politics of Degrowth
Health systems in an era of biophysical limits: The wicked dilemmas of modernity
The particularity of the universal: Critical reflections on Bourdieu's theory of symbolic power and the state
A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Ideology: Cognitive-Affective Structures and the Dynamics of Belief Systems
We propose a complex systems approach to the study of political belief systems, to overcome some of the fragmentation in the current scholarship on ideology. We review relevant work in psychology, sociology, and political science and identify major cleavages in the literature: the spatial vs. non-spatial divide (ideologies as reducible to a spatially organized set of dimensions vs. as complex conceptual structures) and the person-group problem (i…
Changing the World: Changing Oneself. Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the USA in the 1960s and 1970s
Entropy, the Anthroposphere and the Ecology of Civilization: An Essay on the Problem of 'Liberalism in One Village' in the Long View
In his theory of civilizing processes Elias drew attention, albeit obliquely, to the interweaving connections between ecological, biological, social and psychological processes operating at a variety of nested temporal scales. Elucidating a series of fundamental propositions, this paper is an attempt firstly to explicate the parameters of the general theory of humanity that is implicit in his concrete historical studies, and secondly to apply thi…
Integrative levels and 'the Great Evolution: Organicist biology and the sociology of Norbert Elias
The achievement of Norbert Elias was to develop a paradigmatic foundation for sociology as the lynchpin in a broader human science encompassing the social and biological dimensions of human development. The extent to which he remains at the margins of a discipline profoundly suspicious of the biological sciences is perhaps an index of his originality. But this outsider status also obscures the unoriginality of his work. Elias's unifying epistemol…
The Land Ethic as an Ecological Civilizing Process: Aldo Leopold, Norbert Elias, and Environmental Philosophy
Science, Cumulative Knowledge, Secondary Involvement and Synthesis: A Reply to Our Critics
Eliasian Sociology as a 'Central Theory' for the Human Sciences
For the last three decades, sociology has been in a permanent state of theoretical and programmatic disarray. Symptoms of the crisis include ambivalence about the possible scientific status of sociological knowledge, theoretical and methodological fragmentation and ambivalence about the appropriate degree of political and ethical 'involvement' in the sociological stance, and deep-seated anxieties about the relationship between sociology and neigh…
Towards a ‘central theory’: The scope and relevance of the sociology of Norbert Elias
Introduction There were periods during the twentieth century when sociology was imbued with a certain social and intellectual prestige. Sometimes this was for the wrong reasons, as during the late 1960s when students entering the proliferating sociology departments conflated the scientific investigation of social processes with the politics of emancipation. A decade earlier, practitioners of the newly professionalized discipline of ‘systematic so…
Ecology, ‘human nature’ and civilizing processes: Biology and sociology in the work of Norbert Elias
Introduction One of the great strengths of Norbert Elias's work is that he sought to develop sociology as a rigorous science of society. He argued that the scientific investigation of social processes, although at an early stage of development, could be potentially as rigorous and as open to generalization as any of the natural sciences. ‘The structure of a given system of rules, as a figuration of interdependent people, can be determined with al…
The Sociology of Norbert Elias
Norbert Elias has been described as a great sociologist and over recent years there has been a steady upsurge of interest in his work. Yet despite the fact that he was active for nearly sixty years from the 1920s to the 1960s it was only in the 1980s that English translations of his works became widely available and the importance of his contribution to the sociological endeavour was fully recognised in the English speaking world. This 2004 book …
Manchester First: From Municipal Socialism to the Entrepreneurial City
After coming to power in 1984, Manchester's 'New Urban Left' were for a while at the forefront of those radical councils seeking to use the local state both as the primary site of resistance to the Thatcher government, but also to develop a genuinely 'prefigurative' local socialism. However, in Manchester this experiment proved short-lived. The subsequent entrepreneurial project has proved both durable and more distinctive. This article provides …
Entrepreneurial Manchester: The Genesis of Elite Consensus
The article reviews the changing strategies of Manchester's Labour‐controlled city council from 1987 and the emergence of “urban entrepreneurialism” as the hegemonic framework for local strategy. It is argued that the supply‐side emphasis on “bricks and mortar” regeneration, flagship developments, and place‐marketing depended on the emergence of both tacit and formal partnerships and the consolidation of an elite consensus. Such partnerships were…
Manchester First: From Municipal Socialism to the Entrepreneurial City
After coming to power in 1984, Manchester's 'New Urban Left' were for a while at the forefront of those radical councils seeking to use the local state both as the primary site of resistance to the Thatcher government, but also to develop a genuinely 'prefigurative' local socialism. However, in Manchester this experiment proved short-lived. The subsequent entrepreneurial project has proved both durable and more distinctive. This article provides …
Eliasian Sociology as a 'Central Theory' for the Human Sciences
For the last three decades, sociology has been in a permanent state of theoretical and programmatic disarray. Symptoms of the crisis include ambivalence about the possible scientific status of sociological knowledge, theoretical and methodological fragmentation and ambivalence about the appropriate degree of political and ethical 'involvement' in the sociological stance, and deep-seated anxieties about the relationship between sociology and neigh…
Entrepreneurial Manchester: The Genesis of Elite Consensus
The article reviews the changing strategies of Manchester's Labour‐controlled city council from 1987 and the emergence of “urban entrepreneurialism” as the hegemonic framework for local strategy. It is argued that the supply‐side emphasis on “bricks and mortar” regeneration, flagship developments, and place‐marketing depended on the emergence of both tacit and formal partnerships and the consolidation of an elite consensus. Such partnerships were…
A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Ideology: Cognitive-Affective Structures and the Dynamics of Belief Systems
We propose a complex systems approach to the study of political belief systems, to overcome some of the fragmentation in the current scholarship on ideology. We review relevant work in psychology, sociology, and political science and identify major cleavages in the literature: the spatial vs. non-spatial divide (ideologies as reducible to a spatially organized set of dimensions vs. as complex conceptual structures) and the person-group problem (i…
Entropy, the Anthroposphere and the Ecology of Civilization: An Essay on the Problem of 'Liberalism in One Village' in the Long View
In his theory of civilizing processes Elias drew attention, albeit obliquely, to the interweaving connections between ecological, biological, social and psychological processes operating at a variety of nested temporal scales. Elucidating a series of fundamental propositions, this paper is an attempt firstly to explicate the parameters of the general theory of humanity that is implicit in his concrete historical studies, and secondly to apply thi…
Integrative levels and 'the Great Evolution: Organicist biology and the sociology of Norbert Elias
The achievement of Norbert Elias was to develop a paradigmatic foundation for sociology as the lynchpin in a broader human science encompassing the social and biological dimensions of human development. The extent to which he remains at the margins of a discipline profoundly suspicious of the biological sciences is perhaps an index of his originality. But this outsider status also obscures the unoriginality of his work. Elias's unifying epistemol…
The particularity of the universal: Critical reflections on Bourdieu's theory of symbolic power and the state
New industrial path development in “less glamorized regions”: Actors, agencies, and rural opportunities
This article analyses the case of the wine industry in rural Nova Scotia (Canada) and addresses the following question: what sparks a new wine industry path in rural regions that lack supportive preconditions and local assets? We examine this from the perspective of different actors and their agencies when creating the conditions and structures for shaping new path development. Our findings provide a novel, empirically based understanding of indi…
Ritual Matters: Changing Ontologies, Values, and Ecological Conscience Formation
Karl Polanyi (1944, 1968) argued that the 'disembedding' of the economy from society entailed a curtailment of social constraints on economic transactions. This disembedding coincided with what Max Weber (1946) called disenchantment, and the erosion of cognitive-experiential reciprocity between humans and nature. Following Lynn White Jr. (1967), many scholars of religion and ecology have argued that losing the sense of divinity immanent in the wo…
The Land Ethic as an Ecological Civilizing Process: Aldo Leopold, Norbert Elias, and Environmental Philosophy
Health systems in an era of biophysical limits: The wicked dilemmas of modernity
Science, Cumulative Knowledge, Secondary Involvement and Synthesis: A Reply to Our Critics
Entrepreneurial Manchester: The Genesis of Elite Consensus
The article reviews the changing strategies of Manchester's Labour‐controlled city council from 1987 and the emergence of “urban entrepreneurialism” as the hegemonic framework for local strategy. It is argued that the supply‐side emphasis on “bricks and mortar” regeneration, flagship developments, and place‐marketing depended on the emergence of both tacit and formal partnerships and the consolidation of an elite consensus. Such partnerships were…
Manchester First: From Municipal Socialism to the Entrepreneurial City
After coming to power in 1984, Manchester's 'New Urban Left' were for a while at the forefront of those radical councils seeking to use the local state both as the primary site of resistance to the Thatcher government, but also to develop a genuinely 'prefigurative' local socialism. However, in Manchester this experiment proved short-lived. The subsequent entrepreneurial project has proved both durable and more distinctive. This article provides …
Towards a ‘central theory’: The scope and relevance of the sociology of Norbert Elias
Introduction There were periods during the twentieth century when sociology was imbued with a certain social and intellectual prestige. Sometimes this was for the wrong reasons, as during the late 1960s when students entering the proliferating sociology departments conflated the scientific investigation of social processes with the politics of emancipation. A decade earlier, practitioners of the newly professionalized discipline of ‘systematic so…
Ecology, ‘human nature’ and civilizing processes: Biology and sociology in the work of Norbert Elias
Introduction One of the great strengths of Norbert Elias's work is that he sought to develop sociology as a rigorous science of society. He argued that the scientific investigation of social processes, although at an early stage of development, could be potentially as rigorous and as open to generalization as any of the natural sciences. ‘The structure of a given system of rules, as a figuration of interdependent people, can be determined with al…
The Sociology of Norbert Elias
Norbert Elias has been described as a great sociologist and over recent years there has been a steady upsurge of interest in his work. Yet despite the fact that he was active for nearly sixty years from the 1920s to the 1960s it was only in the 1980s that English translations of his works became widely available and the importance of his contribution to the sociological endeavour was fully recognised in the English speaking world. This 2004 book …
Science, Cumulative Knowledge, Secondary Involvement and Synthesis: A Reply to Our Critics
Eliasian Sociology as a 'Central Theory' for the Human Sciences
For the last three decades, sociology has been in a permanent state of theoretical and programmatic disarray. Symptoms of the crisis include ambivalence about the possible scientific status of sociological knowledge, theoretical and methodological fragmentation and ambivalence about the appropriate degree of political and ethical 'involvement' in the sociological stance, and deep-seated anxieties about the relationship between sociology and neigh…
The Land Ethic as an Ecological Civilizing Process: Aldo Leopold, Norbert Elias, and Environmental Philosophy
Integrative levels and 'the Great Evolution: Organicist biology and the sociology of Norbert Elias
The achievement of Norbert Elias was to develop a paradigmatic foundation for sociology as the lynchpin in a broader human science encompassing the social and biological dimensions of human development. The extent to which he remains at the margins of a discipline profoundly suspicious of the biological sciences is perhaps an index of his originality. But this outsider status also obscures the unoriginality of his work. Elias's unifying epistemol…
Entropy, the Anthroposphere and the Ecology of Civilization: An Essay on the Problem of 'Liberalism in One Village' in the Long View
In his theory of civilizing processes Elias drew attention, albeit obliquely, to the interweaving connections between ecological, biological, social and psychological processes operating at a variety of nested temporal scales. Elucidating a series of fundamental propositions, this paper is an attempt firstly to explicate the parameters of the general theory of humanity that is implicit in his concrete historical studies, and secondly to apply thi…
A Complex Systems Approach to the Study of Ideology: Cognitive-Affective Structures and the Dynamics of Belief Systems
We propose a complex systems approach to the study of political belief systems, to overcome some of the fragmentation in the current scholarship on ideology. We review relevant work in psychology, sociology, and political science and identify major cleavages in the literature: the spatial vs. non-spatial divide (ideologies as reducible to a spatially organized set of dimensions vs. as complex conceptual structures) and the person-group problem (i…
Changing the World: Changing Oneself. Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the USA in the 1960s and 1970s
Wicked Dilemmas of Scale and Complexity in the Politics of Degrowth
Health systems in an era of biophysical limits: The wicked dilemmas of modernity
The particularity of the universal: Critical reflections on Bourdieu's theory of symbolic power and the state
The potential role for sociologists in designing RCTs and of RCTs in refining sociological theory: A commentary on Deaton and Cartwright
Ritual Matters: Changing Ontologies, Values, and Ecological Conscience Formation
Karl Polanyi (1944, 1968) argued that the 'disembedding' of the economy from society entailed a curtailment of social constraints on economic transactions. This disembedding coincided with what Max Weber (1946) called disenchantment, and the erosion of cognitive-experiential reciprocity between humans and nature. Following Lynn White Jr. (1967), many scholars of religion and ecology have argued that losing the sense of divinity immanent in the wo…
Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D'Alisa and Federico Demaria, The Case for Degrowth
New industrial path development in “less glamorized regions”: Actors, agencies, and rural opportunities
This article analyses the case of the wine industry in rural Nova Scotia (Canada) and addresses the following question: what sparks a new wine industry path in rural regions that lack supportive preconditions and local assets? We examine this from the perspective of different actors and their agencies when creating the conditions and structures for shaping new path development. Our findings provide a novel, empirically based understanding of indi…
Schumacher against globalism and ecomodernism: Ecology, subsidiarity and the politics of scale
E. F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful is one of the most succinct elaborations of Catholic social teaching (CST) and 'distributism' - construed as an alternative to both capitalism and socialism. Extending the logic of Polanyi, both market and state, and their right- and left-wing ideological expressions, are shown to be contending forms of collectivism - in that both aggregate the agency of disembedded 'billiard ball' individuals. Schumacher's s…
Place-based rural development: Building Capacities, Multi-Actor Collaborations and Making Sense of the Local ‘Place
This paper studies the modalities and processes of place-based development in rural economies. Through a case study of the wine industry in Nova Scotia (Canada), it examines why place-based development is important for rural industrial revitalization, and how new economic development is achieved through capacity building, multi-actor collaborations, and local sense-making. This case study highlights the ways in which interactions among multiple a…
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