D Uzzell
Biographic Data
| ID | 31516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Uzzell |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Uzzell |
| SIGNATURE | UZZELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7590-0079 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 292 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Unmarked lives, unsettled spaces: Creative public history and everyday heritage praxis at the ‘Epsom cluster’ asylum cemetery
This study adopts an interdisciplinary approach to interrogate a creative public history project commemorating Horton Cemetery in Epsom, Surrey – Europe’s largest asylum burial ground containing around 9,000 unmarked graves. The ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind’ project, supported by a Historic England ‘Everyday Heritage’ grant, facilitated numerous arts-based, historical workshops and a large scale, crowd-sourced memorial installation. Written qualita…
Mechanisms of Forming Architectural Identity: Expert Perceptions of a Case Study in Iraq
Every place has a special, distinct and unique identity that is formed over time through interactions across tangible and intangible material forms, thus giving a distinction to the place from the rest of the places. The formation takes place through organized relationships across the forms, and the process is subject to certain rules and controls according to the place. The new formations are affected by them, giving a distinction to the place t…
Perceived place qualities, restorative effects and self-reported wellbeing benefits of visits to heritage sites: Empirical evidence from a visitor survey in England
Heritage sites are complex environments that cannot be easily be located within a nature – built space dichotomy. Although a small but growing body of evidence supports the potential of visits to heritage sites in generating wellbeing benefits, there is a gap in understanding how such benefits may be related to the perceived qualities or affordances of heritage sites. We present an exploratory survey instrument designed and tested to generate emp…
National identities and war heritage: Acceptance and resistance of an authorised heritage discourse among visitors to the Australian War Memorial
This paper examines the convergence of national identities and war heritage, among first-, second- and third-plus-generation Australians. In Australia, interpretation of a First World War event, the Anzac story, is promoted as war heritage central to national identity. What meaning might this discourse have in today’s multicultural Australia? Qualitative interviews were conducted with 93 adult visitors to the Australian War Memorial, 37 of whom h…
Heritage sites, value and wellbeing: Learning from the Covid-19 pandemic in England
The COVID-19 lockdown of society in 2020 deprived people of access to many heritage sites. This made the public uniquely aware of why they visited heritage sites and what they valued about the visits, once heritage sites reopened. In particular, regaining access framed visits in terms of personal agency and wellbeing. Notions of capability, social connections, ontological security, and trust–all important elements of wellbeing–were widely shared …
Interpreting war heritage: Impacts of Anzac museum and battlefield visits on Australians' understanding of national identity
Nested assemblages: Migrants, War Heritage, Informal Learning and National Identities
This article examines relations between Anzac heritage and Australian national identity, among migrant visitors to the Australian War Memorial (AWM). What meaning could a story derived from Australian involvement in the First World War have to migrants who moved to Australia after the Second World War? Participants in qualitative interviews were eleven first-generation Australians, whose countries of birth were England, Greece, Ireland, New Zeala…
Environmental Policies and The Reproduction of Business as Usual: How Does It Work
This paper aims to advance knowledge about corporate environmentalism by using new concepts and methods. We broaden the concept of the firm as "differentiated composite actor" by including not only managers but workers and unionists as actors. We descend into the "hidden abode of production" using Lefebvre’s concept of "everyday life" to explore the barriers environmental policies experience in this sphere. We base our explorations on life-histor…
Beyond the nature–labour divide: Trade union responses to climate change in South Africa
We present the life histories of two environmentally engaged unionists in South Africa, who were decisive for formulating the environmental programmes of their respective trade unions. Their experiences of participating in the resistance against apartheid in universities and factories taught them the necessity to connect different struggles and equipped them with the knowledge and ability to connect the fight for workers’ rights with the fight ag…
The labour–nature relationship: Varieties of labour environmentalism
This special issue is a contribution to environmental labour studies, which aims to investigate the practices and theories that integrate labour and nature, by focusing on labour environmentalism. While nature is privately appropriated and exploited by Capital, workers’ organizations tend to construct nature as labour’s other, a place to enjoy or a place to be protected from destruction at best. In the following introductory article to this speci…
Families in an environmental context
Research on children’s learning in museums, children’s attempts to change their parents’ environmental practices, and how the different ‘logics’ of home and the workplace affect offshore oil workers’ transfer of environmental practices between the two, all focus on the critical role of the family in environmental change. This Open Space piece reflects on how environmental practices are strongly influenced by the family and the other institutions …
Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions
The young generations’ conceptualisation of cultural tourism: Colonial heritage attractions in South Korea
This study investigates how the younger generation conceptualise cultural tourism attractions associated with modern history in contemporary South Korea. Particular attention in this study is given to heritage attractions built in the Japanese colonising past. By analysing data obtained through a Multiple Sorting Procedure, this study identifies the underlying facets of heritage attractions the younger generation consider to be important when app…
Disconnected spaces: Introducing environmental perspectives into the trade union agenda top-down and bottom-up
This article compares how visions for integrating environmental issues into the union agenda are articulated from two different positions in the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO). The article is based on an analysis of ‘life history interviews’ and directs attention to the biographical circumstances under which individuals are able to work with environmental issues in unions. The analysis shows that the conditions for integrating environment…
The Space of Civil Society and the Practices of Resistance and Subordination
We argue that the majority of civil society conceptualizations employ a narrow concept of the state and a narrow concept of civil society. The life history of a Brazilian woman demonstrates that as individuals travel through state institutions and civil society organizations (CSOs), they carry conflicting worldviews with them which bear on the practices of CSOs. With Gramsci we recognize civil society as a space where movements and the state stru…
L'engagement écologique des syndicats au prisme de la division Nord-Sud
Les syndicats du Nord sont mieux dotés, plus riches, plus industrialisés et tendanciellement plus éloignés de l'environnement que leurs homologues du Sud, sans que cette observation soit une règle absolue. Placés dans des conditions plus difficiles, moins dépendants de l'industrie pour leur mode de vie, les syndicats du Sud adoptent plus facilement des positions de rupture envers l'ordre capitaliste. Les alliances avec les écologistes se trouvent…
Progresso conceptual na compreensão do medo do crime nas estações ferroviárias: A Ascensão da Política Antidemocrática no Ocidente
Este estudo investiga a discrepância entre as taxas reais de criminalidade e as percepções e crenças sobre o crime, focando no medo do crime em usuários de estações ferroviárias. A pesquisa examina como características psicológicas e ambientais influenciam esse medo, considerando as avaliações individuais dos passageiros sobre a probabilidade e o impacto de serem vítimas de crimes. A análise dos dados revela a natureza multifacetada dessas concep…
Experience of Lyme disease and preferences for precautions: A cross-sectional survey of UK patients
The results suggest that the risk of LD is set in the context of the restorative benefits of countryside practices, and that it may be counterproductive to overemphasize pre- or during-visit precautions. Simultaneously, having experienced LD is not associated with any withdrawal from countryside
What I’ve found is that your related experiences tend to make you dissatisfied’: Psychological obsolescence, consumer demand and the dynamics and environmental implications of de-stabilization in the …
Research on product life-spans tends to link the causes of psychological obsolescence with end-users and product designers, and posits the consequences of obsolescence in terms of increasing e-waste and energy use. Drawing upon qualitative fieldwork conducted with employees of a global computer firm and users of its laptop computers this article brings together the poles of production and consumption to explore the dynamics of de-stabilization in…
Whose Lyme is it anyway? Subject positions and the construction of responsibility for managing the health risks from Lyme disease
Are We Sitting Comfortably? Domestic Imaginaries, Laptop Practices, and Energy Use
The considerable literature on domestic energy consumption practices has tended to focus on either the (re)production and contestation of normative imaginaries, or the links between escalating standards and energy use. Far less has been written which links these related areas together. Accordingly, this paper is positioned at the intersection of debates on domestic consumption, energy use, and home cultures. Through a qualitative study of laptop …
The secret life of teens: Online versus offline photographic displays at home
In this article we describe findings from a recent study in which we interviewed four British teenage girls about their photo display practices, online and offline, in family homes. We adopted a phenomenological approach to inquiry, with a particular interest in exploring how photographic representations of self and family signal self-development in emerging adulthood. Findings reveal how teens portrayed themselves differently to friends, online,…
Making sense of unfamiliar risks in the countryside: The case of Lyme disease
Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma
Attitudes, norms, identity and environmental behaviour: Using an expanded theory of planned behaviour to predict participation in a kerbside recycling programme
In an effort to contribute to greater understanding of norms and identity in the theory of planned behaviour, an extended model was used to predict residential kerbside recycling, with self‐identity, personal norms, neighbourhood identification, and injunctive and descriptive social norms as additional predictors. Data from a field study ( N =527) using questionnaire measures of predictor variables and an observational measure of recycling behavi…
Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma
An examination of the values that motivate socially conscious and frugal consumer behaviours
This article extends social psychological research on the motivations for sustainable consumption from the predominant domain of ecologically conscious consumer behaviour to socially conscious and frugal consumer behaviours. A UK-based survey study examines relationships between socially conscious and frugal consumer behaviours and Schwartz's value types, personal and socio-political materialism, and demographics among the general public. Sociall…
An alternative structuralist approach to the psychology of tourism marketing
Elucidating the changing roles of civil society in urban sustainability transitions
The labour–nature relationship: Varieties of labour environmentalism
This special issue is a contribution to environmental labour studies, which aims to investigate the practices and theories that integrate labour and nature, by focusing on labour environmentalism. While nature is privately appropriated and exploited by Capital, workers’ organizations tend to construct nature as labour’s other, a place to enjoy or a place to be protected from destruction at best. In the following introductory article to this speci…
Interpreting war heritage: Impacts of Anzac museum and battlefield visits on Australians' understanding of national identity
Transformative environmental education: A collective rehearsal for reality
This paper puts forward an alternative view on sustainable development, arguing that the separation between the economy, the environment and the social in the Brundtland model obscures the societal character of the economy, the economic bases of the social, and the fact that the environment is a societal product. We differentiate between strong and weak sustainability, arguing that the threat of environmental degradation can only be addressed at …
Creating place identity through heritage interpretation
One of the principal functions of heritage interpretation is to enhance the visitor's sense of place and place identity. If this is to occur, the interpretation should be planned and designed with that outcome in mind. The research reported in this paper was an empirical study which, drawing on social identity theory, attempted to assess the effectiveness of a museum in contributing to visitors’ sense of place and awareness of a town's heritage. …
A Study of Multidimensional Religion Constructs and Values in the United Kingdom
A growing number of studies have systematically examined the relationships between religiousness and value priorities. However, few studies have utilized multidimensional constructs of religiousness or attempted to distinguish among the value priorities of the religious. Using a general public sample and a churchgoer sample in the United Kingdom, this article examines the associations between Schwartz's values, several general religion measures, …
Changing relations in global environmental change
Heritage sites, value and wellbeing: Learning from the Covid-19 pandemic in England
The COVID-19 lockdown of society in 2020 deprived people of access to many heritage sites. This made the public uniquely aware of why they visited heritage sites and what they valued about the visits, once heritage sites reopened. In particular, regaining access framed visits in terms of personal agency and wellbeing. Notions of capability, social connections, ontological security, and trust–all important elements of wellbeing–were widely shared …
Beyond the nature–labour divide: Trade union responses to climate change in South Africa
We present the life histories of two environmentally engaged unionists in South Africa, who were decisive for formulating the environmental programmes of their respective trade unions. Their experiences of participating in the resistance against apartheid in universities and factories taught them the necessity to connect different struggles and equipped them with the knowledge and ability to connect the fight for workers’ rights with the fight ag…
The young generations’ conceptualisation of cultural tourism: Colonial heritage attractions in South Korea
This study investigates how the younger generation conceptualise cultural tourism attractions associated with modern history in contemporary South Korea. Particular attention in this study is given to heritage attractions built in the Japanese colonising past. By analysing data obtained through a Multiple Sorting Procedure, this study identifies the underlying facets of heritage attractions the younger generation consider to be important when app…
Environmental psychological perspectives on landscape
Environmental Policies and The Reproduction of Business as Usual: How Does It Work
This paper aims to advance knowledge about corporate environmentalism by using new concepts and methods. We broaden the concept of the firm as "differentiated composite actor" by including not only managers but workers and unionists as actors. We descend into the "hidden abode of production" using Lefebvre’s concept of "everyday life" to explore the barriers environmental policies experience in this sphere. We base our explorations on life-histor…
Inhabitants' and Experts' Assessments of Environmental Quality for Urban Sustainability
In the context of sustainable urban development, we discuss the assessment of residential environmental quality and the importance of considering inhabitants' perceptions of natural resources in urban areas. Two series of studies, conducted in Guildford (United Kingdom) and in Rome (Italy), addressed the correspondence, or contrast, between inhabitants' and experts' assessment of urban quality concerning two crucial natural resources: air quality…
Management issues in the provision of countryside interpretation
Research based on the use of evaluation instruments at the Forestry Commission's visitor centres and sites is discussed. In-depth interviews were held with forest managers and rangers focusing on issues such as ‘who contributes to interpretative provision?’, ‘who is the visitor?’ and ‘who makes up the target audience?’. The attitude of interpreters to evaluation is examined in the context of both the ill-formulated criteria of success currently a…
National identities and war heritage: Acceptance and resistance of an authorised heritage discourse among visitors to the Australian War Memorial
This paper examines the convergence of national identities and war heritage, among first-, second- and third-plus-generation Australians. In Australia, interpretation of a First World War event, the Anzac story, is promoted as war heritage central to national identity. What meaning might this discourse have in today’s multicultural Australia? Qualitative interviews were conducted with 93 adult visitors to the Australian War Memorial, 37 of whom h…
Cholos and Bureaus in Lima: Case History and Analysis
Nested assemblages: Migrants, War Heritage, Informal Learning and National Identities
This article examines relations between Anzac heritage and Australian national identity, among migrant visitors to the Australian War Memorial (AWM). What meaning could a story derived from Australian involvement in the First World War have to migrants who moved to Australia after the Second World War? Participants in qualitative interviews were eleven first-generation Australians, whose countries of birth were England, Greece, Ireland, New Zeala…
The Space of Civil Society and the Practices of Resistance and Subordination
We argue that the majority of civil society conceptualizations employ a narrow concept of the state and a narrow concept of civil society. The life history of a Brazilian woman demonstrates that as individuals travel through state institutions and civil society organizations (CSOs), they carry conflicting worldviews with them which bear on the practices of CSOs. With Gramsci we recognize civil society as a space where movements and the state stru…
What I’ve found is that your related experiences tend to make you dissatisfied’: Psychological obsolescence, consumer demand and the dynamics and environmental implications of de-stabilization in the …
Research on product life-spans tends to link the causes of psychological obsolescence with end-users and product designers, and posits the consequences of obsolescence in terms of increasing e-waste and energy use. Drawing upon qualitative fieldwork conducted with employees of a global computer firm and users of its laptop computers this article brings together the poles of production and consumption to explore the dynamics of de-stabilization in…
Are We Sitting Comfortably? Domestic Imaginaries, Laptop Practices, and Energy Use
The considerable literature on domestic energy consumption practices has tended to focus on either the (re)production and contestation of normative imaginaries, or the links between escalating standards and energy use. Far less has been written which links these related areas together. Accordingly, this paper is positioned at the intersection of debates on domestic consumption, energy use, and home cultures. Through a qualitative study of laptop …
Disconnected spaces: Introducing environmental perspectives into the trade union agenda top-down and bottom-up
This article compares how visions for integrating environmental issues into the union agenda are articulated from two different positions in the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO). The article is based on an analysis of ‘life history interviews’ and directs attention to the biographical circumstances under which individuals are able to work with environmental issues in unions. The analysis shows that the conditions for integrating environment…
Whose Lyme is it anyway? Subject positions and the construction of responsibility for managing the health risks from Lyme disease
Cholos and Bureaus in Lima: Case History and Analysis
Four Roles for the Community Researcher
Conflicting Explanations of Participatory Group Membership
An alternative structuralist approach to the psychology of tourism marketing
Management issues in the provision of countryside interpretation
Research based on the use of evaluation instruments at the Forestry Commission's visitor centres and sites is discussed. In-depth interviews were held with forest managers and rangers focusing on issues such as ‘who contributes to interpretative provision?’, ‘who is the visitor?’ and ‘who makes up the target audience?’. The attitude of interpreters to evaluation is examined in the context of both the ill-formulated criteria of success currently a…
A Co-Orientational Analysis of the Professional Placement in Europe
David Uzzell, A Co-Orientational Analysis of the Professional Placement in Europe, European Journal of Education, Vol. 22, No. 1, Practice, Politics and Function of Foreign Study in Higher Education (1987), pp. 85-100
Environmental psychological perspectives on landscape
Place and Identity Processes
Creating place identity through heritage interpretation
One of the principal functions of heritage interpretation is to enhance the visitor's sense of place and place identity. If this is to occur, the interpretation should be planned and designed with that outcome in mind. The research reported in this paper was an empirical study which, drawing on social identity theory, attempted to assess the effectiveness of a museum in contributing to visitors’ sense of place and awareness of a town's heritage. …
The Psycho-Spatial Dimension of Global Environmental Problems
Place Identification, Social Cohesion, and Enviornmental Sustainability
In the study reported in this article the roles of social cohesion, residential satisfaction, and place identification are examined for their effect on place-related social identity and its consequential impact on attitudes to environmental sustainability. Two neighborhoods in Guildford, Surrey, England were selected on the basis of their social histories, housing types, and socioeconomic composition. Ninety residents in each neighborhood were sa…
Affective Appraisals of the Daily Commute: Comparing Perceptions of Drivers, Cyclists, Walkers, and Users of Public Transport
To date, most research on travel behavior has been limited to studying utilitarian appraisals of car users and users of public transport. Studies on affective experiences are usually limited to commuter stress. A survey among university employees revealed that in support of previous research, car commuters find their journey more stressful than other mode users. The main sources of this stress are delays and other road users. Users of public tran…
Inhabitants' and Experts' Assessments of Environmental Quality for Urban Sustainability
In the context of sustainable urban development, we discuss the assessment of residential environmental quality and the importance of considering inhabitants' perceptions of natural resources in urban areas. Two series of studies, conducted in Guildford (United Kingdom) and in Rome (Italy), addressed the correspondence, or contrast, between inhabitants' and experts' assessment of urban quality concerning two crucial natural resources: air quality…
Temporal pessimism and spatial optimism in environmental assessments: An 18-nation study
Transformative environmental education: A collective rehearsal for reality
This paper puts forward an alternative view on sustainable development, arguing that the separation between the economy, the environment and the social in the Brundtland model obscures the societal character of the economy, the economic bases of the social, and the fact that the environment is a societal product. We differentiate between strong and weak sustainability, arguing that the threat of environmental degradation can only be addressed at …
Changing relations in global environmental change
An examination of the values that motivate socially conscious and frugal consumer behaviours
This article extends social psychological research on the motivations for sustainable consumption from the predominant domain of ecologically conscious consumer behaviour to socially conscious and frugal consumer behaviours. A UK-based survey study examines relationships between socially conscious and frugal consumer behaviours and Schwartz's value types, personal and socio-political materialism, and demographics among the general public. Sociall…
Attitudes, norms, identity and environmental behaviour: Using an expanded theory of planned behaviour to predict participation in a kerbside recycling programme
In an effort to contribute to greater understanding of norms and identity in the theory of planned behaviour, an extended model was used to predict residential kerbside recycling, with self‐identity, personal norms, neighbourhood identification, and injunctive and descriptive social norms as additional predictors. Data from a field study ( N =527) using questionnaire measures of predictor variables and an observational measure of recycling behavi…
A Study of Multidimensional Religion Constructs and Values in the United Kingdom
A growing number of studies have systematically examined the relationships between religiousness and value priorities. However, few studies have utilized multidimensional constructs of religiousness or attempted to distinguish among the value priorities of the religious. Using a general public sample and a churchgoer sample in the United Kingdom, this article examines the associations between Schwartz's values, several general religion measures, …
The secret life of teens: Online versus offline photographic displays at home
In this article we describe findings from a recent study in which we interviewed four British teenage girls about their photo display practices, online and offline, in family homes. We adopted a phenomenological approach to inquiry, with a particular interest in exploring how photographic representations of self and family signal self-development in emerging adulthood. Findings reveal how teens portrayed themselves differently to friends, online,…
Making sense of unfamiliar risks in the countryside: The case of Lyme disease
Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma
What I’ve found is that your related experiences tend to make you dissatisfied’: Psychological obsolescence, consumer demand and the dynamics and environmental implications of de-stabilization in the …
Research on product life-spans tends to link the causes of psychological obsolescence with end-users and product designers, and posits the consequences of obsolescence in terms of increasing e-waste and energy use. Drawing upon qualitative fieldwork conducted with employees of a global computer firm and users of its laptop computers this article brings together the poles of production and consumption to explore the dynamics of de-stabilization in…
Whose Lyme is it anyway? Subject positions and the construction of responsibility for managing the health risks from Lyme disease
Are We Sitting Comfortably? Domestic Imaginaries, Laptop Practices, and Energy Use
The considerable literature on domestic energy consumption practices has tended to focus on either the (re)production and contestation of normative imaginaries, or the links between escalating standards and energy use. Far less has been written which links these related areas together. Accordingly, this paper is positioned at the intersection of debates on domestic consumption, energy use, and home cultures. Through a qualitative study of laptop …
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