Alan Collins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Collins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins |
| SIGNATURE | COLLINS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9805-9091 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1043 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Navigating financial distress and perceived vulnerability to build (financial) resilience during austerity
This study examines how English local authorities (LAs) responded to prolonged austerity and how their perceived vulnerability shaped the sequencing of strategic decisions over time. Although financial shocks have been widely studied, less is known about how LAs interpret their vulnerability and how these interpretations influence decision-making and/or responses. Using data visualisation and evidence from semi-structured elite interviews, the re…
No such thing as a free movie? Cross-country evidence on the potential impact of Avod streaming services
This study investigates potential disruption from advertising-based video-on-demand (AVOD) streaming for new-release in-home films. Using stated-preference discrete choice experiments on representative samples from four major countries, we model demand and examine substitution patterns between AVOD and the incumbent transactional video-on-demand (TVOD) model. In addition, we consider illegal streaming alternatives, including the possibility of us…
Joke economics
Despite being a globally significant form of art and culture, the performance of comedy has seemingly maintained a very low profile in cultural economics. The case for greater research scrutiny of this art form is advanced alongside some possible reasons for the relatively low academic attention devoted to comedy. The scope for considering comedy in economic terms is also considered, and a range of research questions are raised to stimulate debat…
Promoting sustainable and high‐quality economic development in China via regional innovation poles
Using a panel data set comprising 284 prefecture‐level and above cities in China during 2005–2018, this study develops a theoretical mechanism harnessing the spatial Durbin model (SDM) to accumulate evidence and explain how innovation affects China's economic growth. It is found that regional economic growth is facilitated by local innovation activities as well as the absorption capacity of innovation and technology spilled over from other region…
Unpacking the Death Penalty in Asean
This book contributes conceptually, theoretically and morally to a deeper understanding of the distinctive Asian perceptions of justice and human rights
Legal and illegal export of cultural heritage artefacts from developing countries
Cultural heritage is an important part of the capital of developing countries that can be leveraged for sustainable development. However, it also needs protection as the rise in the illegal trade of cultural artefacts shows. South Africa as an example of a middle-income African country that seeks to promote cultural heritage for development. As part of the attempt to preserve cultural capital, the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) i…
The spiral model, scope conditions, and contestation in the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
In 2009 ASEAN established a human rights body—the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)—and tasked it with promoting and protecting human rights in Southeast Asia within ASEAN’s framework of cooperation and to encourage member states to ratify international human rights treaties and act in accordance with them. AICHR has ten Representatives, one for each ASEAN member, and these individuals are tasked with fulfilling AICHR’s m…
Selectively liberal? Social change and attitudes towards homosexual relations in the UK
This paper presents a model to identify why, for some, the expression of liberal attitudes towards the LGBT population may be strategic rather than sincere. We show that the British population displays considerably more tolerant views towards homosexuality compared to the end of the 1980s. However, there is evidence that this has slowed in recent years, especially in areas that have experienced the highest levels of immigration, particularly from…
Contemporary Security Studies
Contemporary Security Studies provides an introduction to Security Studies. It features a wide breadth and depth of coverage of the different theoretical approaches to the study of security and the ever-evolving range of issues that dominate the security agenda in the twenty-first century. In addition to covering a large range of topical security issues, from terrorism and inter-state armed conflict to cyber-security, health, and transnational cr…
A picture of regret
Whilst the properties of decision regret have been widely explored in experimental and game theoretic studies, the empirical features of regret from large-scale 'binary decision' national events in practice have garnered less scrutiny. This study is an empirical investigation of novel survey data reporting 'Brexit' voting choices and expressions of a desire to change voting choices post-referendum. We investigate if Leave voters are more or less …
The AICHR as a participatory space
The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) is often regarded unfavourably, depicted at best as irrelevant in the battle to promote and protect human rights in Southeast Asia, and at worst, complicit in the abuse of human rights by its silence in the face of the region's human rights' tragedies. While AICHR has many limitations, we regard it as a work-in-progress, evolving as it was always meant to. To understand this evolution…
Ethics, values and legality in the restoration of cultural artefacts
As a relatively new democracy, South Africa is seeking ways to protect and promote its African heritage. As part of this process, there is increased interest in the repatriation of South African cultural artefacts, mostly taken during the colonial era, currently held in western museums. There are also increasing international calls for the repatriation of cultural artefacts from western museum collections back to their originating countries in th…
Examining restitution and repatriation options for cultural artefacts
This paper examines some of the ethical issues and repatriation options related to the return of museum artefacts taken from African countries, mostly during the colonial era. In the context of a relatively new democracy, like South Africa, determining the value of cultural artefacts held in foreign collections, and thus the urgency and priority of their repatriation, may be important. Using a value-based approach, this paper details the design a…
If it flies, it dies”
Searching for a Smart City
The narrative used to describe smart cities, including the experimentation on them, affects the perception of the smart city. This study systematically assembles and analyses ‘public facing’ smart city project data from across the EU. Using a bibliographic analysis, including word frequency analyses across time and countries of project descriptions, we identify the dominant themes and constructs in the smart city narratives used by teams advancin…
On the judicial annulment of the ‘domestic’ trade moratorium in South African rhinoceros horn
The legalization of rhino horn ‘domestic’ trade in South Africa potentially unleashes market forces featuring new entry, new tastes and new rhino horn products. This risks escalating the rhino-poaching crisis further. It is argued that institutional contradictions have been engendered by the South African High Court ruling in Kruger and another v Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs and others [2015] JOL 34725 , whose assumptions are shown…
Place Effects and Chronic Disease Rates in a Rural State
High rates of chronic diseases and increasing nutritional polarization between different income groups in the United States are issues of concern to policymakers and public health officials. Spatial differences in access to food are mainly blamed as the cause for these nutritional inequalities. This study first detected hot and cold spots of food providers in West Virginia and then used those places in a quasi-experimental method (entropy balanci…
Selective liability, regulated digital commerce, and the subversion of product trading bans
This paper outlines and applies the concept of “selective liability” (i.e., operating as if there was a genuine choice between fault-based and strict liability legal regimes) to examine the apparent plausible deniability pact between online selling platforms and the sellers. Through an analysis of online trading data, this paper considered the issues inherent in prosecuting traders who use online auction platforms to sell ivory in contravention o…
Benefit transfer estimation of willingness-to-pay for U.S. wetlands conservation
Suicide, sentiment and crisis
A lack of clarity surrounds the precise nature of the transmission mechanism by which an economic crisis actually affects suicide. This study posits the hypothesis that this influence broadly translates as emotional reaction, ‘gut feelings’ and as such explicitly considers the use of subjective factors of economic performance to better explain variations in suicide rates. Alongside traditional economic indicators we use a ‘consumer sentiment’ mea…
W(h)ither the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean)? W(h)ither constructivism? Fixity of norms and the Asean Way
This article uses the reflection on the direction (whither) and health (wither) of constructivism and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that was witnessed in 2017 to see what these deliberations reveal about the fixity of norms and their contestation. The argument presented is that constitutive norms create fixed parameters of shared understandings but that within those parameters the meaning and application of the norm can be co…
Contemporary Security Studies
Contemporary Security Studies provides an introduction to Security Studies. It features a wide breadth and depth of coverage of the different theoretical approaches to the study of security and the ever-evolving range of issues that dominate the security agenda in the twenty-first century. In addition to covering a large range of topical security issues, from terrorism and inter-state armed conflict to cyber-security, health, and transnational cr…
Can existing mobile apps support healthier food purchasing behaviour? Content analysis of nutrition content, behaviour change theory and user quality integration
Objective To assess the quality of nutrition content and the integration of user quality components and behaviour change theory relevant to food purchasing behaviour in a sample of existing mobile apps. Design Descriptive comparative analysis of eleven mobile apps comprising an assessment of their alignment with existing evidence on nutrition, behaviour change and user quality, and their potential ability to support healthier food purchasing beha…
From commitment to compliance
Whether it is the persecution of the Rohingya, the disappearance of human rights activists, the general limiting of freedom of speech across the region, or the resumption of the arbitrary use of the death penalty, Southeast Asia can be said to be facing a human rights crisis. This human rights crisis is though occurring at a time when the region’s institution, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), has never been so interested in hum…
Transformation and job creation in the cultural and creative industries in South Africa
The cultural and creative industries (CCIs) have been hailed as offering great potential to create jobs and to be socially inclusive. Since artistic success is defined by individual talent, or merit, the CCIs should be one sector that is especially open to, and appreciative of, social diversity in terms of race, class, cultural group and gender. However, as expected, recent studies in both the UK and the US have revealed that employment in the CC…
Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning
Many teaching methods implicitly assume that conceptual knowledge is independent of the situations in which it is learned and used.The authors examine one such method and argue that its lack of success is a direct result of this assumption.Drawing on recent research into learning in everyday activity and not just in the highly specialized conditions of schooling, they claim that knowledge is not independent but, rather, fundamentally "situated," …
A Systems Approach to Educational Testing
Our concern in this paper is with the validity of educational tests when they are employed as critical measures of educational outcomes within a dynamic system. The problem of validity arises if an educational system adapts itself to the characteristics of the outcome measures. We introduce the concept of systemically valid tests as ones that induce curricular and instructional changes in education systems (and learning strategy changes in studen…
Sexual Dissidence, Enterprise and Assimilation
This paper offers a pragmatic, principally economic perspective on the body of work analysing the genesis and development of urban 'gay villages'. The Soho Gay Village in central London is presented as a case study. Its evolution and principal features are considered in the light of the existing corpus of research into gay agglomerations and the documented experiences of some other urban gay villages in England. It is suggested that, even with di…
The Kitty Genovese murder and the social psychology of helping
This article argues that an iconic event in the history of helping research -- the story of the 38 witnesses who remained inactive during the murder of Kitty Genovese -- is not supported by the available evidence. Using archive material, the authors show that there is no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses observed the murder, or that witnesses remained inactive. Drawing a distinction between the robust bystander research…
The impact of fiscal austerity on suicide
Securitization, Frankenstein's Monster and Malaysian education
In 2002 the Malaysian government announced it would reintroduce English as a medium of instruction in all Malaysian primary schools. The reaction of the Tamil, Malay and Chinese educationalists was damning, with the latter referring to the decision as the 'final solution' for mandarin education in Malaysia's national education system. The furore created in 2002 led the Malaysian government to threaten Chinese educationalists with its draconian In…
The impact of fiscal austerity on suicide mortality
Fifty shades of gay
The development of urban gay villages in England has previously been explored via the conceptual toolkit of the New Economic Geography. While arguably retaining explanatory legitimacy in historical perspective, looking forward its validity is contended to be terminally undermined by changes in broader macro-social trends. The intention of this work is to address a relative lack of attention devoted to broader macro-level processes contributing to…
From commitment to compliance
Whether it is the persecution of the Rohingya, the disappearance of human rights activists, the general limiting of freedom of speech across the region, or the resumption of the arbitrary use of the death penalty, Southeast Asia can be said to be facing a human rights crisis. This human rights crisis is though occurring at a time when the region’s institution, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), has never been so interested in hum…
Introduction
Recent accounts of sexual commerce have drawn attention to the proliferation of online and sexual consumption. Yet the mediated exchange of sexual images and content folds into the spaces of the city in a variety of complex ways. Drawing on a variety of social science perspectives, this paper provides an introductory overview of a collection of papers exploring the changing contours of sexual consumption in the city and the distribution of sexual…
Creeping edgework
This article contributes to an understanding of voluntary health risk based on the regular, excessive intake of food and alcohol in the micro-cultural setting. By drawing on and extending edgework theory our aim is to conceptualise the riskiness of carnivalesque consumption as a medium for expression and performance in two separate community contexts. Using ethnographic research methods, we explore the consumption of calorie-dense, low nutrient f…
Encouraging Walking
An activity-based approach is used to analyse one specific short-trip purpose that has persistently frustrated transport analysts trying to induce more walk, cycle or public transport based trips. This study of the journey-to-school trip is motivated by a general consensus that, to effect a more sustainable transport system, there is a necessity to reduce car use (especially for short trips). Resistance to modal transfer from cars has been shown …
A People-Oriented Asean
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 30, Number 2, August 2008
Norm diffusion and Asean's adoption and adaption of global HIV/Aids norms
This article examines the diffusion of norms from a global actor, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). This entails using three processes of norm diffusion (localization, subsidiarity, and mimetic adoption) to examine and explain the adoption and adaption of global norms in the Association's four ASEAN Work Programmes (AWPs) on HIV/AIDS. In so doing, the article reveals th…
Sexuality and Sexual Services in the Urban Economy and Socialscape
Drawing primarily on some concepts in social theory, sociobiological reasoning and neo-classical economics, this paper provides an introductory overview to a collection of papers on an urban sexual theme. The papers address this theme from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives and each contribution examines various facets and dimensions of the interplay of sexual desire and urban living. A simple conceptual model is offered to provide some …
State-Induced Security Dilemma
The security dilemma, first coined by John Herz in 1950, has come to explain why states that do not seek to harm one another can still end up in competition and war. Its very essence is one of tragedy. The security dilemma has been expounded since by a number of authors, and in this article I examine one such development; Jack Snyder’s definition of the security dilemma, being applicable where one state requiresthe insecurity of another. I label …
Tourism development and natural capital
The Ethnic Security Dilemma
In the aftermath of the Cold War, the security literature has increasingly become focused on problems within states. This has led a number of scholars to apply ideas traditionally associated with international security to internal security issues. One such case concerns the application of the security dilemma to ethnic tensions. This article considers this appli cation with reference to Malaysia and argues that not only can the security dilemma b…
Bringing communities back
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is building a people-oriented community in Southeast Asia and it has all the hallmarks of a Deutschian security community, with its emphasis on people-to-people contact and the involvement of civil society organisations in the community’s creation. In this article the argument is made that it is precisely the involvement of the masses that creates the peace inertia associated with security commun…
Chinese Educationalists in Malaysia
During 2002 the Malaysian government announced that English would be the language of instruction used in all primary schools to teach science and math. This decision was called “The Final Solution” by Chinese educationalists. This article shows how these professionals have sought to safeguard the character of Chinese primary schools, important transmitters of identity from one generation to the next, by acting as a pressure group against this new…
From H = log sn to conceptual framework
Information" has become a widely used term in psychology, especially within cognitive psychology. However, despite its status as a technical term, the word now rarely receives explicit definition. By contrast, when information entered the vocabulary of psychologists in the late 1940s, it had an explicit mathematical definition largely derived from developments in information theory. This article examines how information entered psychology, how it…
Transformation and job creation in the cultural and creative industries in South Africa
The cultural and creative industries (CCIs) have been hailed as offering great potential to create jobs and to be socially inclusive. Since artistic success is defined by individual talent, or merit, the CCIs should be one sector that is especially open to, and appreciative of, social diversity in terms of race, class, cultural group and gender. However, as expected, recent studies in both the UK and the US have revealed that employment in the CC…
W(h)ither the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean)? W(h)ither constructivism? Fixity of norms and the Asean Way
This article uses the reflection on the direction (whither) and health (wither) of constructivism and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that was witnessed in 2017 to see what these deliberations reveal about the fixity of norms and their contestation. The argument presented is that constitutive norms create fixed parameters of shared understandings but that within those parameters the meaning and application of the norm can be co…
Escaping a security dilemma
Transformation, job creation and subsidies to creative industries
Many governments have tried to stimulate economic growth via policy in the creative industries. South Africa is no different but additionally has an overarching aim of achieving social and labour market ‘transformation’ to move away from the legacy of the apartheid era. The effectiveness of incentives provided to the film and television sector in South Africa are considered in terms of their stated objectives of job creation, skills and knowledge…
The Cognitive Structure of Emotions
It has long been clear that the way in which people interpret the world affects our emotional reactions. What has been less clear is exactly how such different interpretations lead to different emotions. This is the central question addressed by The Cognitive Structure of Emotions. Taking a cognitive science perspective, a systematic account is presented of the cognitive structures that underlie a wide range of different emotions. Detailed propos…
The Cognitive Structure of Emotions
REVIEWSthree eliciting conditions, and usually form part of a sequence that arises from different perspectives and changes in the situation as the action or situation unfolds.The authors describe their theory as one of successive differentiation, starting with a topmost division of positive and negative valence.Then, as more information is processed, "increasingly differentiated emo tional states may result."However, the authors do not mean to pr…
A Systems Approach to Educational Testing
Our concern in this paper is with the validity of educational tests when they are employed as critical measures of educational outcomes within a dynamic system. The problem of validity arises if an educational system adapts itself to the characteristics of the outcome measures. We introduce the concept of systemically valid tests as ones that induce curricular and instructional changes in education systems (and learning strategy changes in studen…
Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning
Many teaching methods implicitly assume that conceptual knowledge is independent of the situations in which it is learned and used.The authors examine one such method and argue that its lack of success is a direct result of this assumption.Drawing on recent research into learning in everyday activity and not just in the highly specialized conditions of schooling, they claim that knowledge is not independent but, rather, fundamentally "situated," …
Sex Differences in Stipulated Preferences in Personal Advertisements
A study was conducted on the content of personal advertisements using data from 259 placements in a national English newspaper. Univariate statistical tests and a multivariate classification analysis confirmed the previous findings in American studies of women seeking financial resources and men offering financial resources and seeking physical attributes. In contrast to previous studies, women are not significantly more likely to describe physic…
The Ethnic Security Dilemma
In the aftermath of the Cold War, the security literature has increasingly become focused on problems within states. This has led a number of scholars to apply ideas traditionally associated with international security to internal security issues. One such case concerns the application of the security dilemma to ethnic tensions. This article considers this appli cation with reference to Malaysia and argues that not only can the security dilemma b…
Resisting a Diagnostic Technique
This paper looks at the deployment of a medical technique, reflex anal dilatation and contrasts the way in which its deployment was a subject of enormous controversy in the Cleveland child sexual abuse affair with its comparatively unproblematic previous use to identify homosexuality. We interpret this contrast using two general frameworks: recent work in the sociology of scientific knowledge, particularly actor-network theory, and Foucauldian wo…
Tourism development and natural capital
Random utility maximiser seeks similar
Thinking Economically about Sustainable Tourism
Encouraging Walking
An activity-based approach is used to analyse one specific short-trip purpose that has persistently frustrated transport analysts trying to induce more walk, cycle or public transport based trips. This study of the journey-to-school trip is motivated by a general consensus that, to effect a more sustainable transport system, there is a necessity to reduce car use (especially for short trips). Resistance to modal transfer from cars has been shown …
Burma's civil war
In this article, Burma's civil war is explained with reference to societal security. It is argued that at the heart of the civil war lies the nation‐building approach of the dominant Burman ethnic group, which has sought to assimilate Burma's ethnic minorities. The minorities have resisted this assimilation, or Burmanisation, because they wish to protect their identities. A solution to the civil war is therefore dependent upon Burma's multiethnic…
Sexuality and Sexual Services in the Urban Economy and Socialscape
Drawing primarily on some concepts in social theory, sociobiological reasoning and neo-classical economics, this paper provides an introductory overview to a collection of papers on an urban sexual theme. The papers address this theme from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives and each contribution examines various facets and dimensions of the interplay of sexual desire and urban living. A simple conceptual model is offered to provide some …
Sexual Dissidence, Enterprise and Assimilation
This paper offers a pragmatic, principally economic perspective on the body of work analysing the genesis and development of urban 'gay villages'. The Soho Gay Village in central London is presented as a case study. Its evolution and principal features are considered in the light of the existing corpus of research into gay agglomerations and the documented experiences of some other urban gay villages in England. It is suggested that, even with di…
State-Induced Security Dilemma
The security dilemma, first coined by John Herz in 1950, has come to explain why states that do not seek to harm one another can still end up in competition and war. Its very essence is one of tragedy. The security dilemma has been expounded since by a number of authors, and in this article I examine one such development; Jack Snyder’s definition of the security dilemma, being applicable where one state requiresthe insecurity of another. I label …
Securitization, Frankenstein's Monster and Malaysian education
In 2002 the Malaysian government announced it would reintroduce English as a medium of instruction in all Malaysian primary schools. The reaction of the Tamil, Malay and Chinese educationalists was damning, with the latter referring to the decision as the 'final solution' for mandarin education in Malaysia's national education system. The furore created in 2002 led the Malaysian government to threaten Chinese educationalists with its draconian In…
The Impact of Foreign Ownership and Efficiency on Pollution Abatement Expenditure by Chemical Plants
This paper examines the impact of foreign ownership and efficiency on chemical plants' pollution abatement expenditure. The model estimates presented reveal not only which factors are the key determinants of whether any abatement expenditure occurs but also explain how much was spent on the principal categories of pollution control. These chemical plant results present a conspicuous contrast with earlier results based on other industrial sectors.…
The Lure of the Multiplex? The Interplay of Time, Distance, and Cinema Attendance
Models of cinema demand have tended to employ aggregate data and focus on price and income as key variables. Surprisingly, the effects of travel time and location have not been formally investigated. The authors do so, following developments in the environmental economics literature, by presenting estimates of individual travel cost models for multiplex and nonmultiplex cinemas. A key finding is that travel time has a significant negative effect …
The embodiment of reconciliation
Frederic Bartlett (1886-1969) was one of the most prominent figures in British academic psychology during the 20th century. His psychological work has had a mixed reception, but there is no doubt that it continues to be much cited. Bartlett and his work have also attracted considerable historical attention both within history of ideas accounts and in attempts to understand the establishment of British academic psychology. The present article argu…
Chinese Educationalists in Malaysia
During 2002 the Malaysian government announced that English would be the language of instruction used in all primary schools to teach science and math. This decision was called “The Final Solution” by Chinese educationalists. This article shows how these professionals have sought to safeguard the character of Chinese primary schools, important transmitters of identity from one generation to the next, by acting as a pressure group against this new…
Addict Death
The full implications of the problem of the death of addicts have been ignored in the economic analysis of policy toward drugs. This article argues that drug dealers can, in theory, play an important role in sustaining the lives of addicts. This needs to be taken into account in policy enforcement and could lead to some radical changes to conventional policy proposals
From H = log sn to conceptual framework
Information" has become a widely used term in psychology, especially within cognitive psychology. However, despite its status as a technical term, the word now rarely receives explicit definition. By contrast, when information entered the vocabulary of psychologists in the late 1940s, it had an explicit mathematical definition largely derived from developments in information theory. This article examines how information entered psychology, how it…
The Kitty Genovese murder and the social psychology of helping
This article argues that an iconic event in the history of helping research -- the story of the 38 witnesses who remained inactive during the murder of Kitty Genovese -- is not supported by the available evidence. Using archive material, the authors show that there is no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses observed the murder, or that witnesses remained inactive. Drawing a distinction between the robust bystander research…
Developing Britain's Port Infrastructure
The authors draw on historical evidence, recent public inquiry documentation and maritime port-capacity forecasts to examine the logic and consistency of British seaport infrastructure development. In light of the rejection of the Dibden Bay (Southampton) container-port proposal, the authors counterpoint the UK government position with the views and evidence presented by key players in the port and shipping industry. The respective standpoints ar…
A People-Oriented Asean
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs - Volume 30, Number 2, August 2008
Political science (44 works) · Sociology (43 works) · Economics (32 works) · Law (32 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Computer Science (21 works) · Law (21 works) · Epistemology (16 works) · Business (14 works) · Politics (13 works)