Chris Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5044-1336 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 94 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 92 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Technologies and Applications of Geocomputational Tangible User Interfaces
Since the early 2000s, there has been rising research interest in using tangible user interfaces (TUIs) in geospatial education, terrain modeling and analysis, landscape design and planning, and collaborative decision making. Many of these systems explicitly model geospatial data and allow users to interact with complex computational workflows by direct manipulation of a shared tangible interface. However, prior research has largely examined thes…
In a ‘bad’ place? Location and the relationship between tax haven use and corporate reputation
One fit(spiration) for all? Gender differences in body satisfaction
Can community‐based conservation improve social acceptance of invasive species management? Lessons from New Zealand
Invasive species management (ISM) is often met with social conflict, particularly around lethal control methods. A key source of conflict is mistrust in government and other authorities undertaking ISM. Community‐based conservation (CBC) therefore holds potential for implementing ISM with reduced social conflict. Community groups are playing an important role in New Zealand's (NZ's) Predator Free 2050 (PF2050) goal, which aims to eradicate three …
Metaphorical understanding of Jesus’ resurrection
In addition to being a central tenet of Christianity, Jesus Christ’s resurrection is a powerful metaphor that relates to the human experience of change, hope and renewal. Although this event is frequently regarded literally, it can also be understood metaphorically to explore themes such as personal and collective transformation. This article seeks to explore some of these multifaceted meanings by considering historical contexts of relevant bibli…
Health Status And Delays In Referral-To-Treatment Waiting Times for Elective Admissions of Adults From Deprived Areas And Ethnic Minority Backgrounds
We studied all patients (total 53,611) whose referral-to-treatment (RTT) ended in hospital admission ('admitted pathways') between 01/2019 and 12/2023. Their health status and RTT waiting times were related to indices of deprivation (IMD: combined data from income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers to housing and services, and living environment) and to ethnicities (87% Caucasians; 6% South Asians; 5.1% Other Ethnicities; 0.9% Blacks…
Reflections on Peter Nagel’s article
This is a response to an article written by South African New Testament scholar, Peter Nagel. The article draws on the thoughts of another South African New Testament scholar Andries van Aarde and of German theologian Bernhard Lohse, on the history of the doctrine of the Trinity. Concluding observations include inquiring as to how the church will effectively address this type of study in its deliberations and decisions
Automatiser la « forteresse Europe »
La fortification des frontières de l’Europe est intrinsèquement liée à l’usage croissant des technologies numériques. Passeports biométriques, portiques automatisés, drones, capteurs, systèmes de détection placés aux frontières, etc., ces dispositifs facilitent l’identification des individus, et donc le contrôle des personnes étrangères qui cherchent à entrer dans l’Union européenne (UE). Des investissements publics faramineux sont alloués à la c…
Farmer‐led badger vaccination in Cornwall
In the United Kingdom, the management of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) challenges the coexistence of people and wildlife. Control of this cattle disease is hindered by transmission of its causative agent, Mycobacterium bovis , between cattle and badgers Meles meles . Badger culling has formed an element of bTB control policy for decades, but current government policy envisions expanding badger vaccination. Farming leaders are sceptical, citing concer…
Detecting climate milestones on the path to climate stabilization
The era of anthropogenic climate change can be described by defined climate milestones. These milestones mark changes in the historic trajectory of change, and include peak greenhouse gas emissions, peak greenhouse gas concentration, deceleration of warming, net-zero emissions, and a transition to global cooling. However, given internal variability in the Earth system and measurement uncertainty, definitively saying that a milestone has passed re…
Ascension of Jesus
This article stems from the author’s dialogue with New Testament scholar Andries van Aarde about the divinity of Jesus, during which the topic of Jesus’ ascension also arose. The author aims to focus on Van Aarde’s thinking about the ascension of Jesus. The article does not intend to provide a reflection on the exegetical and hermeneutical analysis of the biblical texts alluding to the ascension of Jesus Christ. Instead, it argues that these text…
Re-engaging incarcerated children and young people with education and learning using authentic inquiry in Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK
Children and young people who come into conflict with the law tend to be disengaged with education and learning. This paper reports on research from an EU Erasmus+ project in Spain, Italy, Germany and the UK. The research focused on the impact of Authentic Inquiry (AI) on learners in custodial or youth justice settings and the impact on educators and their pedagogy. Quantitative data (from 82 educators and 73 young people), demonstrated the young…
Building blocks of imagination
In the human context, the ubiquitous faculty of imagination is taken for granted. Whether we are singularly equipped with this ability or whether it is an evolved faculty also present in other life forms is a question that has been an issue ever since Darwin. A variety of research projects have indicated the presence of mental processes in non-human taxa and the faculty of imagination developed with increasing complexity over time, to its present…
The performance effects of international study placements versus work placements
To be competitive, universities across the world are embedding an international perspective into every layer of an institution’s operational structure. For higher education (HE) providers that offer sandwich degrees (4-year undergraduate courses with a compulsory placement after the second year), this allows students to choose a range of options. Students can enter the labour market for one year, or they can go overseas to study at a foreign inst…
Regional temperature extremes and vulnerability under net zero CO 2 emissions
Signatories to the Paris Agreement have pledged to keep global warming to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and preferably below 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Beyond over-shooting Paris Agreement warming levels followed by net negative emissions, achieving a state of net zero carbon dioxide emissions is required to satisfy Paris Agreement warming goals. Research on climate changes under net zero CO 2 emissions is very limited to d…
Karl Marx’s moral philosophy and critical views of Western morality
This article reflects on Karl Marx’s moral thought, and his critical views of (human) rights, Christianity, Kant, and utilitarianism, and what he considers an alternative. The question of whether we should still take his moral approach seriously in today’s context is also briefly addressed towards the end. This is done partly through the lens of American philosopher Vanessa Wills from The George Washington University, United States of America (US…
Building blocks of agriculture
The origins of agriculture lie in the distant past, approximately 12 000 years ago, when hunter-gatherers of the Palaeolithic embraced sedentism at the dawn of the Neolithic. The variety of life history transitions emanating from this unique phenomenon have had an enormous impact on the biodiversity of the planet, while subjecting humanity to a variety of life-changing physical and social challenges right up to the present. The ever-present conse…
Challenging building blocks
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies is an acclaimed journal with broad coverage that promotes multidisciplinary, religious, and biblical aspects of studies in the international theological arena. The journal’s publication criteria are based on high ethical standards and the rigor of the methodology and conclusions reported
Nitrogen cycle impacts on CO 2 fertilisation and climate forcing of land carbon stores
Anthropogenic fossil fuel burning increases atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) concentration, which is adjusting the climate system. The direct impact of rising CO 2 levels and climate feedback alters the terrestrial carbon stores. Land stores are presently increasing, offsetting a substantial fraction of CO 2 emissions. Less understood is how this human-induced carbon cycle perturbation interacts with other terrestrial biogeochemical cycles. The…
The building blocks of art and its accompanying role and meaning
In this article, focusing on the building blocks of art with its concomitant role and meaning, we commence with a brief evolutionary overview of the origin of land vertebrates, which culminated in the rise of our species as we view it. We then review three iconic phases of human evolution, colloquially designated as the Neanderthals, the San and the Cro-Magnons, as manifested by their artistic endeavours. We are well aware that the Cro-Magnons ar…
Invasive Species
Invasive species are organisms like plants, animals, or microbes (e.g., fungi, bacteria, viruses) that are introduced to areas outside their historical or current distributions, most often through human‐mediated activity, and successfully establish populations that continue to reproduce and spread quickly. Collectively, invasive species are recognized as a major driver of global change that can pose a significant threat to ecosystems, economies, …
Networked Learning in 2021
Introduction (Networked Learning Editorial Collective): Since the turn of this century, much of the world has undergone a tectonic socio-technological change. Computers have left the isolated basements of research institutes and entered people's homes. Network connectivity has advanced from slow and unreliable modems to high-speed broadband. Devices have evolved: from stationary desktop computers to ever-present, always-connected smartphones. The…
Building blocks of language
Articulate language is a form of communication unique to humans. Over time, a spectrum of researchers has proposed various frameworks attempting to explain the evolutionary acquisition of this distinctive human attribute, some deploring the apparent lack of direct evidence elucidating the phenomenon, whilst others have pointed to the contributions of palaeoanthropology, the social brain hypothesis and the fact that even amongst contemporary human…
Building blocks of sexuality
This article broadly discusses the building blocks of sexuality by referring to differences in brain development in the womb, specific genetic factors influencing sex-reversal phenotypes and how they give rise to different sexes and sexual orientations. Gender identity and expression are reviewed, and a practical road map is presented within which religious denominations can responsibly engage with human sexuality, especially same-sex lifestyles,…
Challenging building blocks
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies is an acclaimed journal with broad coverage that promotes multidisciplinary, religious, and biblical aspects of studies in the international theological arena. The journal’s publication criteria are based on high ethical standards and the rigor of the methodology and conclusions reported
Voices From the Front Line
The article explores the condition of state social work in England today. It is based on interviews with experienced social workers employed by local authority social services departments across the north of England. These front line state social workers provide a penetrating insight into the diverse ways in which their work has been transformed and degraded and the manner in which the needs of clients have been largely ignored. From their perspe…
Communicative Openness Within Adoptive Families
Policy and practice relating to openness in adoption have changed substantially in the last 30 years. There is a growing body of empirical research that supports both structural and communicative openness, and there is widespread consensus that communicative openness is desirable within adoptive families. Despite this, there is evidence that some adoptive parents and their adopted children struggle to achieve the level of communicative openness t…
Validation of the Flow Theory in an On-Site Whitewater Kayaking Setting
The validation of the flow theory in an on-site whitewater setting is examined. A-priori hypotheses emphasized 3 concerns: (1) the relationship between a four channel model of flow and specific levels of flow indicators, (2) differences in the explanatory power of the four channel model and an original model of flow, and (3) the relationship between river difficulty and the frequencies of four channels (flow, anxiety, apathy, and boredom). On-sit…
Can I risk using public services? Perceived consequences of seeking help and health care among households living in poverty
OBJECTIVES: To improve understanding of how families living in adverse conditions perceive their encounters with public services and how past experiences influence current and future attempts to seek help. DESIGN: Qualitative interviews with adult members of households living in poverty in deprived areas, plus observations conducted in the surrounding neighbourhoods and service settings. PARTICIPANTS: Purposive sample of 25 adults living in a dep…
Soviet Hegemony in Eastern Europe
Most Western observers have concluded that in the conflicts between the U.S.S.R. and the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe, the Soviets resorted to military intervention only when certain ideological or strategic issues were at stake. This study suggests that in the conflicts between the leaders of the CPSU and the leaders of the Communist Parties of Yugoslavia, Poland, Albania, Rumania, and Czechoslovakia there was only one real issue at stake…
Impact of FDI, ODA and Migrant Remittances on Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Excavating the Borders of Literary Anglo-Saxonism in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Australia
Comparing nineteenth-century British and Australian Anglo-Saxonist literature enables a "decentered" exploration of Anglo-Saxonism's intersections with national, imperial, and colonial discourses, challenging assumptions that this discourse was an uncritical vehicle of English nationalism and British manifest destiny. Far from reflecting a stable imperial center, evocations of "ancient Englishness" in British literature were polyvalent and self-c…
Rice Price Stabilisation in Indonesia
One important reason the Indonesian government stores rice is to reduce risk for growers who have restricted access to private insurance It does so to stabilise their real incomes, and to promote rice production with a view to ‘self-sufficiency’. This paper shows that grower risks are reduced only to the extent that growers' real incomes ate linked through taxation to the financial flows of the storage scheme. This is because their real incomes a…
Social work and the radical right
Anglo‐Saxonism in Nineteenth‐Century Poetry
This article essays the first survey of 19th‐century poetry that imitates, alludes to, or draws on, theories about Anglo‐Saxon language and/or literature. Criticism has so far overlooked such a field as forming a distinct body of literature with shared preoccupations and influences, although some previous attention has been paid to the Anglo‐Saxonism of individual poets or texts. This essay, then, provides the first scoping exercise of the extent…
Pulling Teeth in Eighteenth-Century Paris
PULLING TEETH IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PARIS Get access Colin Jones Colin Jones University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 166, Issue 1, February 2000, Pages 100–145, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/166.1.100 Published: 01 February 2000
Soviet Influence in Eastern Europe
Ascension of Jesus
This article stems from the author’s dialogue with New Testament scholar Andries van Aarde about the divinity of Jesus, during which the topic of Jesus’ ascension also arose. The author aims to focus on Van Aarde’s thinking about the ascension of Jesus. The article does not intend to provide a reflection on the exegetical and hermeneutical analysis of the biblical texts alluding to the ascension of Jesus Christ. Instead, it argues that these text…
Controversial Terminology
In recent years, research on the concept of ‘empire’ has seen an upswing of interest in both Political Science and History. Definitions of ‘empire’ abound, as they do for words such as ‘discourse’, ‘performance’ and ‘culture’. Countless books and edited volumes concerning questions of ‘empire’ have been published since the turn of the century. On the most general level, however, the majority of studies on questions of ‘empire’ tend to neglect the…
François Mitterrand’s Visit to Sarajevo, 28 June 1992
At 10:30 in the morning on 28 June 1992, a Dauphin helicopter landed at Sarajevo airport carrying a precious cargo: the French president, François Mitterrand. Since the beginning of the Bosnian War, Bosnian Serb forces had controlled the airport and restricted the delivery of humanitarian aid to the city’s destitute population, which formed an important cornerstone of their siege strategy. In reaching the airport, the president secured its re-ope…
The two souls of social work
This article looks at the hidden history of ‘popular social work’. It suggests that suspicion of state-directed social welfare and social work has a long history, that state-directed welfare is rarely unconditional and non-stigmatising, but that these values are enshrined and embedded within popular social work, which is often rooted in social movement activity. The article argues that we need to see social work as a much more contested activity,…
New Old English
This article begins by noting that the narrative coherence of literary history as a genre, and the inclusions and exclusions that it is forced to make, depend on the often unacknowledged metaphors that attend its practice. Literary history which is conceived as an unbroken continuity (‘the living stream of English’) has found the incorporation of Old English (also called Anglo‐Saxon) to be problematic and an issue of contention. After surveying t…
Did the World Bank Drive Tariff Reforms in Eastern Africa
Jane Austen and the Public Sphere
Without renouncing his speculations on the historical emergence of the idea of the public sphere, Habermas’s later writings explore the potential of language itself, when oriented towards reaching understanding, to sustain public sphere values. Stressing transformation rather than structure, he sees such intersubjective understandings as the means by which social norms are maintained and critiqued. The works of Austen and her family show a simila…
Authoritarian Politics in Communist Europe
Soviet Hegemony in Eastern Europe
Most Western observers have concluded that in the conflicts between the U.S.S.R. and the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe, the Soviets resorted to military intervention only when certain ideological or strategic issues were at stake. This study suggests that in the conflicts between the leaders of the CPSU and the leaders of the Communist Parties of Yugoslavia, Poland, Albania, Rumania, and Czechoslovakia there was only one real issue at stake…
Authoritarian Politics in Communist Europe
Soviet Influence in Eastern Europe
Corporatism and Welfare
Soviet Influence in Eastern Europe
Language learning and teaching – theory and practice
The author posits six principles central to FL teaching, which are illustrated by examples from German and English. Teaching the irregular, or the exceptional, before the regular or usual is more productive than the current practice in FL classrooms. Similarly, it is better to emphasise constructions in the target language that are clearly different from those in the LI. The validity of teaching informal varieties of the L2 comprises the second p…
Women, Death, and the Law during the Christian Persecutions
Blessed, too, are the women who are there with you as partners in your glorious confession ... by displaying valour above their sex, by their steadfastness they have set an example to the rest of womankind as well (Cyprian, Letter 6.iii.1). Indeed there are virgins to be found in this company: to their yield of sixtyfold the reward of a hundredfold has now been added, and they have gone forward to receive their crowns thanks to this twofold glory…
Social work and the radical right
Rice Price Stabilisation in Indonesia
One important reason the Indonesian government stores rice is to reduce risk for growers who have restricted access to private insurance It does so to stabilise their real incomes, and to promote rice production with a view to ‘self-sufficiency’. This paper shows that grower risks are reduced only to the extent that growers' real incomes ate linked through taxation to the financial flows of the storage scheme. This is because their real incomes a…
Plus Ça Change, Plus Ça Reste le Même? The New Zanzibar Land Law Project
The picture of pre-Protectorate and Protectorate land tenure that emerges from the reported judicial resolutions of land disputes in Zanzibar and the legislation introduced is that of overlapping interests in one and same parcel of land (such as planting banana trees on someone else's land), a charitable toleration of land occupation by persons who had little but their labour to subsist by (such as not having to pay rents on the Sultan's lands or…
Racism and the Social Judgment Process
Based on a framework suggested by information integration theory, this study examined how prejudice affects the use of stereotypes when forming social judgments. Participants reviewed applications for a minority scholarship and rated their liking for each applicant. Embedded in the applications were trait descriptions that varied in the amount, stereotypicality, and valence of the information provided. Evaluations by high-prejudice participants w…
Validation of the Flow Theory in an On-Site Whitewater Kayaking Setting
The validation of the flow theory in an on-site whitewater setting is examined. A-priori hypotheses emphasized 3 concerns: (1) the relationship between a four channel model of flow and specific levels of flow indicators, (2) differences in the explanatory power of the four channel model and an original model of flow, and (3) the relationship between river difficulty and the frequencies of four channels (flow, anxiety, apathy, and boredom). On-sit…
Pulling Teeth in Eighteenth-Century Paris
PULLING TEETH IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PARIS Get access Colin Jones Colin Jones University of Warwick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 166, Issue 1, February 2000, Pages 100–145, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/166.1.100 Published: 01 February 2000
Archives of the Dance
Archives of the Dance (20)
The archive of the National Resource Centre for Dance (NRCD) has a wealth of materials covering over a century of dance in the UK and abroad. Although most relate to theatre dance, these materials document the breadth of dance practice, in keeping with the centre’s remit to be a national support service for dance education and research. Like many performing arts collections, the NRCD’s archive holds a range of material types: all varieties of pri…
Voices From the Front Line
The article explores the condition of state social work in England today. It is based on interviews with experienced social workers employed by local authority social services departments across the north of England. These front line state social workers provide a penetrating insight into the diverse ways in which their work has been transformed and degraded and the manner in which the needs of clients have been largely ignored. From their perspe…
Baroreflex Sensitivity Is Reduced in Depression
OBJECTIVES: Depression is independently associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, including sudden cardiac death, and this risk is observed even in patients who have been successfully treated for depression. Recent studies have emphasized the importance of impaired baroreceptor sensitivity (BRS) as a predisposing factor for sudden death in patients with manifest cardiac disease. Our objective was to test the hypothesis tha…
Studying Social Policy and Resilience to Adversity in Different Welfare States
Is poverty more damaging to health in Britain than in Sweden, and if so, why? Following previous research by the authors that suggested such an effect, a new comparative study is examining whether there are aspects of the social and policy context in Britain that add to and reinforce the health-damaging experience of being poor. Conversely, are there other aspects of living in Sweden that are supportive for people in poverty, which make the exper…
Jane Austen and the Public Sphere
Without renouncing his speculations on the historical emergence of the idea of the public sphere, Habermas’s later writings explore the potential of language itself, when oriented towards reaching understanding, to sustain public sphere values. Stressing transformation rather than structure, he sees such intersubjective understandings as the means by which social norms are maintained and critiqued. The works of Austen and her family show a simila…
Eclipse of Empire
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author Recommends : The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen , edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster (Cambridge UP, 1997) has useful essays on ‘Class’ and ‘Money’ as well as ‘Style’ and on individual novels, reflecting a new awareness of Austen’s participation in a discourse rather wider than the initially domestic focus of her novels might suggest. Edward Said’s reading of Mansfield Park in the contexts of its significant silence over the …
Communicative Openness Within Adoptive Families
Policy and practice relating to openness in adoption have changed substantially in the last 30 years. There is a growing body of empirical research that supports both structural and communicative openness, and there is widespread consensus that communicative openness is desirable within adoptive families. Despite this, there is evidence that some adoptive parents and their adopted children struggle to achieve the level of communicative openness t…
Can I risk using public services? Perceived consequences of seeking help and health care among households living in poverty
OBJECTIVES: To improve understanding of how families living in adverse conditions perceive their encounters with public services and how past experiences influence current and future attempts to seek help. DESIGN: Qualitative interviews with adult members of households living in poverty in deprived areas, plus observations conducted in the surrounding neighbourhoods and service settings. PARTICIPANTS: Purposive sample of 25 adults living in a dep…
Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web
Place names are often used to describe and to enquire about geographical information. It is common for users to employ vernacular names that have vague spatial extent and which do not correspond to the official and administrative place name terminology recorded within typical gazetteers. There is a need therefore to enrich gazetteers with knowledge of such vague places and hence improve the quality of place name‐based information retrieval. Here …
What do recent advances in quantifying climate and carbon cycle uncertainties mean for climate policy
Global policy targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions are being negotiated. The amount of emitted carbon dioxide remaining in the atmosphere is controlled by carbon cycle processes in the ocean and on land. These processes are themselves affected by climate. The resulting 'climate-carbon cycle feedback' has recently been quantified, but the policy implications have not. Using a scheme to emulate the range of state-of-the-art model results…
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