Robert Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1570-138X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 378 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 51 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
A Marxist Framework for Understanding Urban Sensory Pollutants
More Than Green
Understanding the value of urban green spaces for health and wellbeing has traditionally been guided by needs-based and services-based frameworks. However, these approaches have often struggled to capture the subjective experiences that shape how residents perceive and value green spaces, focusing primarily on objective, empirical and spatial dimensions. Drawing on surveys and interviews conducted across three differently sized parks in Haringey,…
Fair and Open CHERISH
This data paper presents the CHERISH (Climate Heritage and Environments of Reefs, Islands and Headlands) Project collection, deposited in the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). The collection comprises terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) digital photogrammetry datasets, created to establish baseline 3D records of coastal archaeological sites and monuments threatened by climate change. Spanning five Irish study are…
What does geography look like
Geographers have shown that power structures shape the doing of geography and the knowledge that we produce. These power structures are maintained, in part, by discourses that themselves are supported by the representative work of images. This paper explores how geography is visualised as an institutional academic discipline, using a discourse and content analysis of 196 images from 15 geography department websites and Instagram accounts. In thes…
Exploring fathers' child and family support during Aboriginal mothers' incarceration
Aboriginal women are one of the fastest-growing subgroups among the Australian incarcerated population. Their incarceration affects increasing numbers of children, families, and communities. Few studies have examined the role of fathers when mothers are incarcerated. Using 49 in-depth interviews with Aboriginal mothers in Western Australian prisons, we explore the types of child and family support fathers provide based on the incarcerated mother'…
Politics of rhythm and crisis in the slow death of higher education
This paper explores the role that conflicting rhythms of academic life and crisis have on the ability of academics to meet their commitments, such as providing support to students. Drawing from our experience in UK higher education, we argue that contemporary academic life can be seen as a constant process of being taken over by different crises. These crises tend to follow a rhythm of brief periods as emergencies subsequently operationalised int…
Understanding Pressures to Archaeological Heritage in the Face of Climate Change
Coastal heritage and archaeological sites are part of a complex system of socioenvironmental processes whose conditions are placed at risk from increasing climate-change pressures and impacts. Cultural-heritage managers are working to increase understanding of these pressures and create ways to assess, mitigate, and/or adapt to change. Coastal-zone assessments (CZA) are a recognized methodology in several national management plans to gather detai…
Collective obituary for James D. Marshall (1937–2021)
Eulogy for Jim Marshall (read at the funeral)Michael A. PetersBeijing Normal UniversityMy deepest condolences to Pepe, Dom and Marcus and to Jim’s grandchildren. Tina and I spent a lot of time at t
Geographies of night work
Night work is an area in which transformational changes are occurring, many identified by geographers, but in which the role of night itself – the ‘nocturnality’ of night work – has often been overlooked. This article looks at how geographical research into work and interdisciplinary research from night studies could inform one another, arguing that a focus on the nocturnality of night work can generate wider insights into existing social and eco…
An Epic Tale of England
Kynren is an outdoor spectacular pageantry performance which tells a tale of England, drawing on myth and history, to make several claims about Englishness and Britishness. It does so in the political wake, first, of constitutional crises in the UK centred around Brexit; and second, of debates around heritage, empire, race and nation which have been driven by responses to the Black Lives Matter movement. These themselves are manifestations of bro…
Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against Sars-CoV-2
Background A safe and efficacious vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), if deployed with high coverage, could contribute to the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine in a pooled interim analysis of four trials. Methods This analysis includes data from four ongoing blinded, randomised, controlled trials done across the UK, Brazil, and South Afri…
West of the wall
This is a different way of us sharing our thoughts in the way we formulate and "write-up" our strategies regarding COVID-19, incorporating an Indigenous way of sharing.A group of academic staff in the Centre for Aboriginal Studies (CAS), Curtin University, Perth, decided to share their reflections on the COVID-19 lockdown and the ensuing challenges inherent in being in teaching and learning in an Indigenous space through COVID-19 times.The manner…
On the biogeoastronomical night and cautious theory
In the final chapter of The Nocturnal City, I state that I wanted to try and answer two questions for myself when I started writing the book. The first question was whether ‘the night is a time out
Transforming rural light and dark under planetary urbanisation
Contemporary global lightscapes are becoming increasingly complex and varied, creating an unusual geography of technological development and diffusion that defies many easy narratives of global interconnectivity. Specifically, new LED lighting technologies are being created through rural experimentation in both Global North and Global South. This makes lighting, and darkness, an interesting lens through which to intervene in debates on the relati…
From light to dark
Tim Edensor’s From Light to Dark promises an exploration of a unique area of empirical interest – the role of light and dark in shaping place and space – and it delivers much more than this. The bo
The Nocturnal City
The making of pub atmospheres and George Orwell’s Moon Under Water
“If you are asked why you favour a particular public house, it would seem natural to put the beer first, but the thing that most appeals to me about the Moon Under Water is what people call its ‘atmosphere’ ”. George Orwell’s description of his ideal pub sits surprisingly close to contemporary social science use of the concept ‘atmosphere’. Blending my own participant observation work in the North-East of England with Orwell’s insights, I explore…
D-Icons Ireland – fulfilling the potential of a rich 3D resource
As a partner in the EU co-funded 3D-ICONS project, the Discovery Programme undertook the 3D documentation of some of the most iconic cultural heritage sites in Ireland. This pan-European project aimed to establish a complete pipeline for the production of 3D replicas of archaeological monuments and historic buildings, and to publish the content to Europeana for public access. The list of Irish icons range from wider cultural landscapes to smaller…
Knowing homes and writing worlds? Ethics of the ‘eco-’, ethics of the ‘geo-’ and how to light a planet
This paper attempts to explore the relationship between the 'eco-' prefix of the term 'ecosophy' and the 'geo-' prefix of the term geography, delving into the conceptualization of ‘earth’ that each prefix prioritizes. I argue that the geo- prefix has pushed geographers towards conceiving of the earth as a surface across which differences are spread, whereas the eco- prefix pushes us towards a conceptualization of the earth as ‘home’. To explore t…
The purpose of the MBA degree
This paper is a prolegomena to discussions about a differentiated Confucian MBA curriculum. We draw upon Kant’s notion of individual autonomy and our observations of practice to argue that there are three models extant for the MBA degree. One of these, that which emphasizes leadership, holds considerable potential if it develops in the context of a genuinely Confucian university. This distinctive MBA—which could emerge in China—would express Conf…
Pushed to the margins of the city
Alive after five’
The development of the ‘night-time economy’ in the UK through the 1990s has been associated with neoliberal urban governance. Academics have, however, begun to question the use and the scope of the concept of ‘neoliberalism’. This paper identifies two common approaches to studying neoliberalism, one exploring neoliberalism as a series of policy networks, the other exploring neoliberalism as the governance of subjectivities. It is argued that to u…
China Confronts Kant When University Students Experience the Angst of Freedom
An existential interpretation of student angst in Chinese universities raises issues of autonomy and freedom. The governance arrangements in China create a conflict for Chinese students who in their coursework are urged to become critical-minded and open-minded. In this essay, Kant’s moral theory provides access to this phenomenon. His theory of duty–rationality–autonomy–freedom relates the liberty of thought to principled action. Kantian ideals …
Night as Fragmenting Frontier
Social scientists have previously understood the night through a frontier metaphor. This has pitched night as an empty or lightly inhabited space into which the urban, capitalist day has been expanding. The contemporary increase in nocturnal research has complicated this picture, showing an increasing multiplicity of complexly lived, structured and experienced nights across the globe. This paper looks to retrieve the concept of night as frontier …
Controlling darkness
Social science research into darkness (and light) has largely focused on public spaces. In particular it has been interested in night-time cityscapes, but also spaces of leisure and rural landscapes. This paper instead turns its eye towards the more private experiences of darkness in the home. In this paper I look to explore the active role that darkness plays in constituting our relation to the home, arguing that it takes on a central role. Draw…
Memory Frictions
This paper concerns the frictions of engagement when transitional justice mechanisms are implemented in local contexts. My focus is the practice of truth-telling as part of a global paradigm of redemptive memory. I first trace the genealogy of this paradigm, examining how it came to appear 'natural' and 'universal.' Second, I explore struggles over memory that ensued when Sierra Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) assertively promot…
Beyond night-time economy
Controlling darkness
Social science research into darkness (and light) has largely focused on public spaces. In particular it has been interested in night-time cityscapes, but also spaces of leisure and rural landscapes. This paper instead turns its eye towards the more private experiences of darkness in the home. In this paper I look to explore the active role that darkness plays in constituting our relation to the home, arguing that it takes on a central role. Draw…
Neoliberal Subjectivities and the Development of the Night-Time Economy in British Cities
This article provides a review of the academic literature on the night-time economy (NTE) of British cities. The first half of the article concentrates on the development of the contemporary NTE by academics in the 1990s, showing how such ideas were translated to policy makers through their concomitance with other policies such as urban entrepreneurialism and market liberalization which fitted into neoliberal policy trends. The second half of the…
Ulu Knife Use in Western Alaska
Bringing Deleuze and Guattari down to Earth through Gregory Bateson
Perhaps because of their dismissal of him as living 'une carrière à l'américaine', there have been few attempts to explore the relationship between the work of Gregory Bateson and that of Deleuze and Guattari. This paper offers two ways in which we might do this. First, it explores the concepts, such as plateau of intensity and rhizome, which migrate from Bateson into Capitalism and Schizophrenia. This helps focus on this text as an attempt to cr…
Alive after five’
The development of the ‘night-time economy’ in the UK through the 1990s has been associated with neoliberal urban governance. Academics have, however, begun to question the use and the scope of the concept of ‘neoliberalism’. This paper identifies two common approaches to studying neoliberalism, one exploring neoliberalism as a series of policy networks, the other exploring neoliberalism as the governance of subjectivities. It is argued that to u…
Humanistic Psychology as Ideology
This essay stresses the importance of viewing psychological theories in terms of the socioeconomic environment in which they exist. Specifically, we examine the relationship between the humanistic psychology of Abraham Maslow and the economic practices of American society. We find that Maslow's contradictions-the most significant being that his work contains both democratic and elitist worldviews-are understandable when viewed as expressions of c…
Night as Fragmenting Frontier
Social scientists have previously understood the night through a frontier metaphor. This has pitched night as an empty or lightly inhabited space into which the urban, capitalist day has been expanding. The contemporary increase in nocturnal research has complicated this picture, showing an increasing multiplicity of complexly lived, structured and experienced nights across the globe. This paper looks to retrieve the concept of night as frontier …
Geographies of night work
Night work is an area in which transformational changes are occurring, many identified by geographers, but in which the role of night itself – the ‘nocturnality’ of night work – has often been overlooked. This article looks at how geographical research into work and interdisciplinary research from night studies could inform one another, arguing that a focus on the nocturnality of night work can generate wider insights into existing social and eco…
Streetlighting in England and Wales
To dim or not to dim? That is the choice that streetlighting engineers across the world are currently having to make. In the context of austerity politics, increased local-scale responsibility for climate-change mitigation and the emergence of technological developments, this choice of how to provide streetlighting has become newly politicised. In particular, new opportunities for streetlighting practice, including the use of efficient LED lighti…
High resolution 3-dimensional documentation of archaeological monuments & landscapes using airborne LiDAR
Programmed failure
Political Matter
Transforming rural light and dark under planetary urbanisation
Contemporary global lightscapes are becoming increasingly complex and varied, creating an unusual geography of technological development and diffusion that defies many easy narratives of global interconnectivity. Specifically, new LED lighting technologies are being created through rural experimentation in both Global North and Global South. This makes lighting, and darkness, an interesting lens through which to intervene in debates on the relati…
Pushed to the margins of the city
The Gamble
This article examines the role remittances play in three sending communities in the municipality of Peribán, located in the highlands of Michoacán, México. Drawing from fieldwork conducted by Dickinson College's Mexican Mosaics, it discusses the evolution of migration from the region and explores both macro- and micro-level data to better understand the motivations and factors that lead to circular migration and the sending of collective remittan…
Understanding Pressures to Archaeological Heritage in the Face of Climate Change
Coastal heritage and archaeological sites are part of a complex system of socioenvironmental processes whose conditions are placed at risk from increasing climate-change pressures and impacts. Cultural-heritage managers are working to increase understanding of these pressures and create ways to assess, mitigate, and/or adapt to change. Coastal-zone assessments (CZA) are a recognized methodology in several national management plans to gather detai…
An Epic Tale of England
Kynren is an outdoor spectacular pageantry performance which tells a tale of England, drawing on myth and history, to make several claims about Englishness and Britishness. It does so in the political wake, first, of constitutional crises in the UK centred around Brexit; and second, of debates around heritage, empire, race and nation which have been driven by responses to the Black Lives Matter movement. These themselves are manifestations of bro…
From light to dark
Tim Edensor’s From Light to Dark promises an exploration of a unique area of empirical interest – the role of light and dark in shaping place and space – and it delivers much more than this. The bo
Politics of rhythm and crisis in the slow death of higher education
This paper explores the role that conflicting rhythms of academic life and crisis have on the ability of academics to meet their commitments, such as providing support to students. Drawing from our experience in UK higher education, we argue that contemporary academic life can be seen as a constant process of being taken over by different crises. These crises tend to follow a rhythm of brief periods as emergencies subsequently operationalised int…
D-Icons Ireland – fulfilling the potential of a rich 3D resource
As a partner in the EU co-funded 3D-ICONS project, the Discovery Programme undertook the 3D documentation of some of the most iconic cultural heritage sites in Ireland. This pan-European project aimed to establish a complete pipeline for the production of 3D replicas of archaeological monuments and historic buildings, and to publish the content to Europeana for public access. The list of Irish icons range from wider cultural landscapes to smaller…
New Horizons in Hollywood
Shorter notices
The Future of Political Science. By Harold D. Lasswell. Tavistock Publications, 1964. Pp. xii+256. 50/‐. Mass Persuasion in Communist China. By Frederick T. G. Yu. Pall Mall Press, 1964. Pp. viii+168. 40/‐. The Emerging Elite: a Study of Political Leadership in Ceylon. By Marshall R. Singer. M.I. T. Press, 1964. Pp. xx+204. $7.50. The Allocation of Economic Resources. By Moses Abramovitz and others. Stanford University Press, paper‐back edition, …
Programmed failure
Economics and Marxism
Administrative Discretionary Justice
Narcissism and the Use of Personal Pronouns
In this study we explored the relationship between narcissism and the individual's use of personal pronouns during extemporaneous monologues The subjects, 24 males and 24 females, were asked to talk for approximately 5 minutes on any topic they chose Following the monologues the subjects were administered the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and the Rotter Internal‐External Locus of Control Scale The mono…
Humanistic Psychology as Ideology
This essay stresses the importance of viewing psychological theories in terms of the socioeconomic environment in which they exist. Specifically, we examine the relationship between the humanistic psychology of Abraham Maslow and the economic practices of American society. We find that Maslow's contradictions-the most significant being that his work contains both democratic and elitist worldviews-are understandable when viewed as expressions of c…
Impedance Cardiogaphy Derived Hemodynamic Responses During Barorecoptor Testing with Amyl Nitrite and Phenylephrine
The Relationship of Heart Rate Variablity Responses With Baroreflex Sensitivity
Cpap Treatment of Sleep Apnea Improves Cardiac Contractility to Stress
s of Papers for 1999 Annual Meeting: Paper Session: Psychosomatic Factors in Pulmonary Medicine
Processes, Acts, and Experiences
The concept of intentionality addresses "aboutness," how one thing can be about, or refer to, some other thing. The argument I present in this article is that intentionality is an essential ecological concept that depends equally on process (the domain of physics), act (the domain of biology), and experience (the domain of psychology). The meaning of intentionality does not reside in any 1 of these realms, but rests simultaneously on all 3. A cas…
Theoretical Hubris and the Willingness To Be Radical
J.J. Gibson's direct perception thesis is the cornerstone of ecological psychology. Not to understand this is not to understand ecological psychology. Beginning in the summer of 1968, when I first met Gibson, and after working with him for the next year at Cornell, I underwent a conversion crisis. I came to appreciate his thesis through a few philosophical insights that I here share with the reader through an open letter to Gibson, where I seek t…
The Agent-Environment Interface
A fundamental problem for ecological and cognitive psychology alike is to explain how agents are situated, that is, functionally coupled to their environments so as to facilitate adaptive actions. Herbert Simon (1969/1996) argued that such coupling is artifactual (rule governed), being mediated by symbol functions and necessarily involving information processing. An alternative to this computational approach is offered by James Gibson's (1979/198…
Ulu Knife Use in Western Alaska
Marshall—Making Wittgenstein Smile
In the 1980s and 1990s the discipline of philosophy of education had an impact on schooling and the public service in New Zealand because of the contracted work of James Marshall and Michael Peters. This personal reflection by Robert Shaw is a tribute to James Marshall and provides insight into the relationship between Ministry officials, the community, and educational researchers
Could Optical ‘Pushes’ Be Inertial Forces? A Geometro-Dynamical Hypothesis
Under various circumstances perceived optical disturbances have been shown to upset an observer’s upright posture (e.g., Lee’s gliding room), but no principled explanation has yet been proposed that will handle these phenomena. These so-called optical ‘pushes’ are conveyed by kinematic information but they act on the observer as if they were kinetic forces. Information (geometry and time) and forces (geometry, time, and mass) thus are mismatched …
Memory Frictions
This paper concerns the frictions of engagement when transitional justice mechanisms are implemented in local contexts. My focus is the practice of truth-telling as part of a global paradigm of redemptive memory. I first trace the genealogy of this paradigm, examining how it came to appear 'natural' and 'universal.' Second, I explore struggles over memory that ensued when Sierra Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) assertively promot…
The Gamble
This article examines the role remittances play in three sending communities in the municipality of Peribán, located in the highlands of Michoacán, México. Drawing from fieldwork conducted by Dickinson College's Mexican Mosaics, it discusses the evolution of migration from the region and explores both macro- and micro-level data to better understand the motivations and factors that lead to circular migration and the sending of collective remittan…
High resolution 3-dimensional documentation of archaeological monuments & landscapes using airborne LiDAR
Neoliberal Subjectivities and the Development of the Night-Time Economy in British Cities
This article provides a review of the academic literature on the night-time economy (NTE) of British cities. The first half of the article concentrates on the development of the contemporary NTE by academics in the 1990s, showing how such ideas were translated to policy makers through their concomitance with other policies such as urban entrepreneurialism and market liberalization which fitted into neoliberal policy trends. The second half of the…
Heidegger's Technologies
Heidegger's Technologies: Postphenomenological Perspectives (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy) – By D. Ihde." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 43(sup1), p. 135
The Implications for Science Education of Heidegger’s Philosophy of Science
Science teaching always engages a philosophy of science. This article introduces a modern philosophy of science and indicates its implications for science education. The hermeneutic philosophy of science is the tradition of Kant, Heidegger, and Heelan. Essential to this tradition are two concepts of truth, truth as correspondence and truth as disclosure. It is these concepts that enable access to science in and of itself. Modern science forces as…
Political Matter
Beyond night-time economy
Streetlighting in England and Wales
To dim or not to dim? That is the choice that streetlighting engineers across the world are currently having to make. In the context of austerity politics, increased local-scale responsibility for climate-change mitigation and the emergence of technological developments, this choice of how to provide streetlighting has become newly politicised. In particular, new opportunities for streetlighting practice, including the use of efficient LED lighti…
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