James Lowe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Lowe |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowe |
| SIGNATURE | LOWE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8575-0924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A History of Genomics across Species, Communities and Projects
This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the history of genomics across three different species from the 1980s to the recent past
Pigs and Chips: The Making of a Biotechnology Innovation Ecosystem
This paper presents a longitudinal case study in UK biotechnology covering some 30 years during which genomic technologies were introduced into pig breeding. This case study demonstrates how co-innovation involving existing small and medium sized enterprises, together with contributions from academics, has enabled companies to obtain the resources needed for value creation. Important contributions at critical junctures from public funding, pivota…
Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research
Biologists who work on the pig (Sus scrofa) take advantage of its similarity to humans by constructing the inferential and material means to traffic data, information and knowledge across the species barrier. Their research has been funded due to its perceived value for agriculture and medicine. Improving selective breeding practices, for instance, has been a driver of genomics research. The pig is also an animal model for biomedical research and…
The role of the 'ambiguous home' in service users' management of their mental health
Research on mental health geographies and housing has focused on pattern and distribution, rather than social and cultural constructions of home. Here we attempt to understand meanings and roles of home for individuals with mental illness in the UK within the context of a deep-seated housing crisis. The discussion is sharpened by the notion of the ambiguous home, ranging from a place for retreat, separation or even isolation from the world, with …
Adjusting to precarity: How and why the Roslin Institute forged a leading role for itself in international networks of pig genomics research
From the 1980s onwards, the Roslin Institute and its predecessor organizations faced budget cuts, organizational upheaval and considerable insecurity. Over the next few decades, it was transformed by the introduction of molecular biology and transgenic research, but remained a hub of animal geneticists conducting research aimed at the livestock-breeding industry. This paper explores how these animal geneticists embraced genomics in response to th…
Austerity Britain, poverty management and the missing geographies of mental health
Power, powerlessness and the politics of mobility: Reconsidering mental health geographies
Genetics without genes? The centrality of genetic markers in livestock genetics and genomics
In this paper, rather than focusing on genes as an organising concept around which historical considerations of theory and practice in genetics are elucidated, we place genetic markers at the heart of our analysis. This reflects their central role in the subject of our account, livestock genetics concerning the domesticated pig, Sus scrofa. We define a genetic marker as a (usually material) element existing in different forms in the genome, that …
Sequencing through thick and thin: Historiographical and philosophical implications
Normal development and experimental embryology: Edmund Beecher Wilson and Amphioxus
Science in the twentieth century and beyond
Managing variation in the investigation of organismal development: Problems and opportunities
Shopfloor Responsibilities Under Lean Teamworking
This paper reports managerial views of the responsibilities of teams, team members and functional specialists under lean production, based on the findings of an international study of management practices in the automotive components industry. The findings show limited evidence of shopfloor worker autonomy under lean team-working or of increases in technical skill; blue-collar specialists remain responsible for maintenance activities. However, th…
Climate change scenarios for global impacts studies
“Front‐end reflections”: Supervisory systems in the UK’s Japanese transplants and in “Japanized” companies
The Japanization debate in the UK has moved considerably since first mooted in 1987. On the one hand academics ‐ advocates as well as sceptics ‐ have questioned its continued usefulness as an analytical framework. On the other, there has been greater sophistication, refinement and clarity on what is being studied, and particularly surrounding aspects of the transferability of the Japanese model. This paper reports on a study of production supervi…
Manufacturing Control: Supervisory Systems on the 'New' Shopfloor
Primary ethnographic research is drawn on in this paper so as to examine the nature of supervisory systems in two manufacturing organisations which have both, to varying degrees, implemented 'new' manufacturing techniques such as just-in-time and total quality management and have organised around 'teams'. Debates in industrial sociology and the labour process have understandably concentrated on the implications of such developments for workers; t…
The Creative Process of James Agee
An Appropriate Role' Reconsidered: Practical Anthropology in Contemporary Society
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James Lowe; "An Appropriate Role" Reconsidered: Practical Anthropology in Contemporary Society. Human Organization 1 December 1978; 37 (4): 420–424. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.37.4.v58102v820065747 Download citation file: Ris (Zot…
Regional Policy and the Distribution of Investment
Climate change scenarios for global impacts studies
The role of the 'ambiguous home' in service users' management of their mental health
Research on mental health geographies and housing has focused on pattern and distribution, rather than social and cultural constructions of home. Here we attempt to understand meanings and roles of home for individuals with mental illness in the UK within the context of a deep-seated housing crisis. The discussion is sharpened by the notion of the ambiguous home, ranging from a place for retreat, separation or even isolation from the world, with …
Power, powerlessness and the politics of mobility: Reconsidering mental health geographies
Shopfloor Responsibilities Under Lean Teamworking
This paper reports managerial views of the responsibilities of teams, team members and functional specialists under lean production, based on the findings of an international study of management practices in the automotive components industry. The findings show limited evidence of shopfloor worker autonomy under lean team-working or of increases in technical skill; blue-collar specialists remain responsible for maintenance activities. However, th…
Manufacturing Control: Supervisory Systems on the 'New' Shopfloor
Primary ethnographic research is drawn on in this paper so as to examine the nature of supervisory systems in two manufacturing organisations which have both, to varying degrees, implemented 'new' manufacturing techniques such as just-in-time and total quality management and have organised around 'teams'. Debates in industrial sociology and the labour process have understandably concentrated on the implications of such developments for workers; t…
Austerity Britain, poverty management and the missing geographies of mental health
Genetics without genes? The centrality of genetic markers in livestock genetics and genomics
In this paper, rather than focusing on genes as an organising concept around which historical considerations of theory and practice in genetics are elucidated, we place genetic markers at the heart of our analysis. This reflects their central role in the subject of our account, livestock genetics concerning the domesticated pig, Sus scrofa. We define a genetic marker as a (usually material) element existing in different forms in the genome, that …
Sequencing through thick and thin: Historiographical and philosophical implications
Normal development and experimental embryology: Edmund Beecher Wilson and Amphioxus
Managing variation in the investigation of organismal development: Problems and opportunities
An Appropriate Role' Reconsidered: Practical Anthropology in Contemporary Society
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James Lowe; "An Appropriate Role" Reconsidered: Practical Anthropology in Contemporary Society. Human Organization 1 December 1978; 37 (4): 420–424. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.37.4.v58102v820065747 Download citation file: Ris (Zot…
Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research
Biologists who work on the pig (Sus scrofa) take advantage of its similarity to humans by constructing the inferential and material means to traffic data, information and knowledge across the species barrier. Their research has been funded due to its perceived value for agriculture and medicine. Improving selective breeding practices, for instance, has been a driver of genomics research. The pig is also an animal model for biomedical research and…
Adjusting to precarity: How and why the Roslin Institute forged a leading role for itself in international networks of pig genomics research
From the 1980s onwards, the Roslin Institute and its predecessor organizations faced budget cuts, organizational upheaval and considerable insecurity. Over the next few decades, it was transformed by the introduction of molecular biology and transgenic research, but remained a hub of animal geneticists conducting research aimed at the livestock-breeding industry. This paper explores how these animal geneticists embraced genomics in response to th…
Regional Policy and the Distribution of Investment
Regional Policy and the Distribution of Investment
An Appropriate Role' Reconsidered: Practical Anthropology in Contemporary Society
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James Lowe; "An Appropriate Role" Reconsidered: Practical Anthropology in Contemporary Society. Human Organization 1 December 1978; 37 (4): 420–424. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.37.4.v58102v820065747 Download citation file: Ris (Zot…
The Creative Process of James Agee
Manufacturing Control: Supervisory Systems on the 'New' Shopfloor
Primary ethnographic research is drawn on in this paper so as to examine the nature of supervisory systems in two manufacturing organisations which have both, to varying degrees, implemented 'new' manufacturing techniques such as just-in-time and total quality management and have organised around 'teams'. Debates in industrial sociology and the labour process have understandably concentrated on the implications of such developments for workers; t…
“Front‐end reflections”: Supervisory systems in the UK’s Japanese transplants and in “Japanized” companies
The Japanization debate in the UK has moved considerably since first mooted in 1987. On the one hand academics ‐ advocates as well as sceptics ‐ have questioned its continued usefulness as an analytical framework. On the other, there has been greater sophistication, refinement and clarity on what is being studied, and particularly surrounding aspects of the transferability of the Japanese model. This paper reports on a study of production supervi…
Climate change scenarios for global impacts studies
Shopfloor Responsibilities Under Lean Teamworking
This paper reports managerial views of the responsibilities of teams, team members and functional specialists under lean production, based on the findings of an international study of management practices in the automotive components industry. The findings show limited evidence of shopfloor worker autonomy under lean team-working or of increases in technical skill; blue-collar specialists remain responsible for maintenance activities. However, th…
Science in the twentieth century and beyond
Managing variation in the investigation of organismal development: Problems and opportunities
Normal development and experimental embryology: Edmund Beecher Wilson and Amphioxus
Sequencing through thick and thin: Historiographical and philosophical implications
Genetics without genes? The centrality of genetic markers in livestock genetics and genomics
In this paper, rather than focusing on genes as an organising concept around which historical considerations of theory and practice in genetics are elucidated, we place genetic markers at the heart of our analysis. This reflects their central role in the subject of our account, livestock genetics concerning the domesticated pig, Sus scrofa. We define a genetic marker as a (usually material) element existing in different forms in the genome, that …
Austerity Britain, poverty management and the missing geographies of mental health
Power, powerlessness and the politics of mobility: Reconsidering mental health geographies
Adjusting to precarity: How and why the Roslin Institute forged a leading role for itself in international networks of pig genomics research
From the 1980s onwards, the Roslin Institute and its predecessor organizations faced budget cuts, organizational upheaval and considerable insecurity. Over the next few decades, it was transformed by the introduction of molecular biology and transgenic research, but remained a hub of animal geneticists conducting research aimed at the livestock-breeding industry. This paper explores how these animal geneticists embraced genomics in response to th…
Pigs and Chips: The Making of a Biotechnology Innovation Ecosystem
This paper presents a longitudinal case study in UK biotechnology covering some 30 years during which genomic technologies were introduced into pig breeding. This case study demonstrates how co-innovation involving existing small and medium sized enterprises, together with contributions from academics, has enabled companies to obtain the resources needed for value creation. Important contributions at critical junctures from public funding, pivota…
Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research
Biologists who work on the pig (Sus scrofa) take advantage of its similarity to humans by constructing the inferential and material means to traffic data, information and knowledge across the species barrier. Their research has been funded due to its perceived value for agriculture and medicine. Improving selective breeding practices, for instance, has been a driver of genomics research. The pig is also an animal model for biomedical research and…
The role of the 'ambiguous home' in service users' management of their mental health
Research on mental health geographies and housing has focused on pattern and distribution, rather than social and cultural constructions of home. Here we attempt to understand meanings and roles of home for individuals with mental illness in the UK within the context of a deep-seated housing crisis. The discussion is sharpened by the notion of the ambiguous home, ranging from a place for retreat, separation or even isolation from the world, with …
A History of Genomics across Species, Communities and Projects
This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the history of genomics across three different species from the 1980s to the recent past
Computer Science (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Biology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Genetics (4 works) · Genome (4 works)