Andrew Ro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594073 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Ro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Ro |
| SIGNATURE | RO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Defence Force Academy |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8631-3512 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 231 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Characterization and process understanding of tropical cyclone-induced floods derived from observations in Shenzhen, China
Coastal cities like Shenzhen are confronting escalating flood risks under the combined impact of climate change and rapid urbanization, especially the tropical cyclones (TC)-induced flood. Incorporating the impact of climate change and urbanization on the flood, this study constructed a new TC-induced flood model on western Shenzhen embedded with a unique statistical approach. Based on extensive historical data and machine learning techniques, th…
Why We Need Debtors’ Unions
Decolonizing the Cultural Workplace: A New Organizing Front
Cars, Debt, and Carcerality
Consumer lore in the United States celebrates the automobile as a "freedom machine," consecrating the mobility of a free people. Yet, paradoxically, the car also functions at the crossroads of two great systems of unfreedom and immobility-the debt economy and the carceral state. Drawing on interviews with formerly incarcerated people, this article investigates this paradox in detail, tracing how the long arms of carcerality and debt operate in ta…
Is Care Work Already the Future
The Olympic Goose That Lays the Golden Egg
This chapter compares the respective bids of London and New York for the 2012 Olympics, assessing how different levels of government interact to promote place-based development strategies. Over the last two decades, global mega events have emerged as the opportunities of choice for city managers to promote and stimulate neoliberal urban development, and so the process of bidding for and hosting the Olympics has become ever more consequential. The…
The Mercurial Career of Creative Industries Policymaking in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States
This chapter provides a comparative analysis of creative industries policymaking in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and the United States. Creative industries policymaking is an increasingly favored development strategy for cities and national economies, both in the developed and developing world. As managers struggle to retain a competitive edge in the global economy, they look more and more toward creative workers to generate value for …
Who Built Zion? Palestinian Labor and the Case for Political Rights
Disabled Workers and the Unattainable Promise of Information Technology
The evolution and performance of river basin management in the Murray-Darling Basin
We explore bioregional management in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) in Australia through the institutional design characteristics of the MDB River Basin Organization (RBO), the actors and organizations who supported and resisted the establishment of the RBO, and the effectiveness of the RBO. During the last 25 years, there has been a major structural reform in the MDB RBO, which has changed from an interstate coordinating body to an Australian go…
Andrew Ross Responds
Whose Side Are You On
Degrees of Danger: In the United Arab Emirates
You are Not a Loan: A Debtors Movement
Written from the participant perspective of the author, the article documents the debt resistance movement that is one of the enduring offshoots of Occupy Wall Street. Addressing the household debt crisis in the wake of the financial crash, it focuses in particular on student debt, approaching an aggregate 1.2 trillion in the U.S., with defaulters numbering in the tens of millions. The emergence of The Occupy Student Debt Campaign is analyzed, al…
The Politics of Debt Resistance
Mortgaging the Future: Student Debt in the Age of Austerity
Till Death Do Us Part: The Marriage of Debt and Growth
Postwar GDP growth has been fueled by debt cycles. This debt-growth system may have reached its limits. Whole populations, in the cities and countryside-in the global South as well as the North-are groaning under unsustainable debt burdens. Drastic climate change can only be averted by degrowth. This essay analyzes the debt-growth system and points in the direction of an economy run on socially productive credit
Dossier from Strike Debt
Research Article| October 01 2013 Dossier from Strike Debt Andrew Ross Andrew Ross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2013) 112 (4): 782–783. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2345270 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew Ross; Dossier from Strike Debt. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 2013; 112 (4): 782–783. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2345270 …
The Greening of America Revisited: Can the U.S. Create High-Skill Green Jobs
Kinetics in counterinsurgency: Some influences on soldier combat performance in the 1st Australian Task Force in the Vietnam War
Counterinsurgency is often characterized by large numbers of small fire-fights interspersed with a few larger battles. Heavy firepower contributes to the outcome of the larger battles but the smaller contacts are often fought by infantry without heavy weapons support. Infantry combat performance in these fire-fights is therefore a key concern. It has been fashionable to discuss soldier combat performance in terms of ‘firers’, ‘non-firers’, and ‘p…
Away from Home: The Case of University Employees Overseas
As Anglophone universities expand overseas, what are some of the problems facing the protection of faculty rights? The essay describes the spectrum of potential threats to academic freedom at overseas sites and describes various measures undertaken by the AAUP and others to combat them. Protection needs to take account of commercially induced self-censorship, which is less visible than the overt efforts on the part of government authorities to qu…
Production
In this essay Andrew Ross reminisces about the methods and politics of collective production at Social Text in the 1980s and 1990s, recalling the hands-on participation of members of the Social Text collective in tasks like mailing out issues and the weekly meetings at which members reviewed submissions to the journal and debated questions of current interest. Ross also traces changes in the journal that reflected differences in the publishing cl…
The political and military effectiveness of Commonwealth forces in Confrontation 1963–661
Low-intensity conflicts such as counterinsurgencies tend to be characterized by a large number of contacts. The sheer number and often inconclusive nature of these incidents makes it difficult to determine whether military operations are effective. This article uses Confrontation as a case study, first building a database of incidents (including contacts) and then analysing the database statistically to identify patterns. This process shows that …
The New Geography of Work: Power to the Precarious
This article describes the emergence of a prized labor market in sectors that policymakers have designated as the creative industries. Statistics generated about these sectors have been legion. By contrast, there has been precious little attention to the quality of work life with which such livelihoods are associated. The article considers several features of creative work that have a qualitative dimension and recommends a policy-minded approach …
The Quandaries of Consumer-Based Labor Activism: A Low-Wage Case Study
This essay takes anti-sweatshop activism as a case-study of a labor movement that engages consumer politics with mixed results. It reviews the success of the media-honed strategies deployed to raise public concern about substandard workplace conditions in the global garment industry, and summarizes corporate efforts to redeem their tarnished image through the public relations vehicle of ‘corporate social responsibility’. The record of attention t…
The New Geography of Work: Power to the Precarious
This article describes the emergence of a prized labor market in sectors that policymakers have designated as the creative industries. Statistics generated about these sectors have been legion. By contrast, there has been precious little attention to the quality of work life with which such livelihoods are associated. The article considers several features of creative work that have a qualitative dimension and recommends a policy-minded approach …
Cyborgs at Large: Interview with Donna Haraway
Andrew Ross: Many people from different audiences and disciplines came to your work through A Manifesto for which has become a cult text since its appearance in Socialist Review in 1985. For those readers, who include ourselves, the recent publication of Primate Visions and the forthcoming Simians, Cyborgs, and Women provides the opportunity to see how your work as a historian of science was always more or less directly concerned with many of the…
The Mental Labor Problem
Social Text - 63 (Volume 18, Number 2), Summer 2000
The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life
Hardly a month goes by without some heady news announcement that scientists have isolated responsible for this or that life-threatening disease. Nature has offered up another secret to the intrepid seeker of knowledge. When all else is called into doubt, progress is surely reliable and unsullied in this sector of human endeavor. Things are on the right track after all. And yet, it is reported, there will always be naysayers: we can put men and wo…
Is Global Culture Warming up
During brief appearance at the 1990 Earth Day rally on Capitol Hill, Paul Ehrlich, biologist and ecological futurist, urged the assembled crowd and the television audience to accept that our problems are absolutely global: a cow breaks wind in Indonesia, and your grandchildren could die in food riots in the United States. What kind of logic was at work in this remark? Lateral thinking? Instant karma? Weird science? Under any circumstances, it sou…
You are Not a Loan: A Debtors Movement
Written from the participant perspective of the author, the article documents the debt resistance movement that is one of the enduring offshoots of Occupy Wall Street. Addressing the household debt crisis in the wake of the financial crash, it focuses in particular on student debt, approaching an aggregate 1.2 trillion in the U.S., with defaulters numbering in the tens of millions. The emergence of The Occupy Student Debt Campaign is analyzed, al…
Mao Zedong’s Impact on Cultural Politics in the West
In China, the legacy of Mao Zedong is selectively remembered; the “late Mao,” in particular is officially considered to have made a “mistake” in launching the Cultural Revolution. In the West, we remember the romantic impact of Mao’s ideas on the Cold War left and on the generation of 1968, but we have little understanding of their often subterranean influence on the shape of cultural politics since the 1970s. This essay examines the historical c…
The lonely hour of scarcity
Mortgaging the Future: Student Debt in the Age of Austerity
Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property
Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property Andrew Ross (bio) Kurt Vonnegut published his first novel, Player Piano (1952), at a time of high, dystopian anxiety about the abuse of technology by the state and by industrialists alike. The novel—which depicts an unsavory future in which new technologies make everyone's skills obsolete—dutifully channeled these public concerns. Player pianos do not really figure in…
Dossier from Strike Debt
Research Article| October 01 2013 Dossier from Strike Debt Andrew Ross Andrew Ross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2013) 112 (4): 782–783. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2345270 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew Ross; Dossier from Strike Debt. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 2013; 112 (4): 782–783. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2345270 …
Disabled Workers and the Unattainable Promise of Information Technology
Getting out of the Gernsback Continuum
Decolonizing the Cultural Workplace: A New Organizing Front
The evolution and performance of river basin management in the Murray-Darling Basin
We explore bioregional management in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) in Australia through the institutional design characteristics of the MDB River Basin Organization (RBO), the actors and organizations who supported and resisted the establishment of the RBO, and the effectiveness of the RBO. During the last 25 years, there has been a major structural reform in the MDB RBO, which has changed from an interstate coordinating body to an Australian go…
The Politics of Debt Resistance
The political and military effectiveness of Commonwealth forces in Confrontation 1963–661
Low-intensity conflicts such as counterinsurgencies tend to be characterized by a large number of contacts. The sheer number and often inconclusive nature of these incidents makes it difficult to determine whether military operations are effective. This article uses Confrontation as a case study, first building a database of incidents (including contacts) and then analysing the database statistically to identify patterns. This process shows that …
The Quandaries of Consumer-Based Labor Activism: A Low-Wage Case Study
This essay takes anti-sweatshop activism as a case-study of a labor movement that engages consumer politics with mixed results. It reviews the success of the media-honed strategies deployed to raise public concern about substandard workplace conditions in the global garment industry, and summarizes corporate efforts to redeem their tarnished image through the public relations vehicle of ‘corporate social responsibility’. The record of attention t…
Reflections on the Sokal Affair
In the six months that bookstores stocked the special Science Wars issue Andrew Ross of Social Text, under eight hundred copies were sold, a modest number for a double issue on a topical subject, even for an obscure, small-circulation journal like Social Text. It's reasonable to conclude that relatively few people actually read the issue, and yet there seemed very few who did not have a strong opinion about the Sokal affair, as it came to be know…
The Rock 'n' Roll Ghost
White Africa’s Black Ally
In the first few days of September 1964, the Prime Minister of Malawi, Dr H. K. Banda, dismissed three of his most able ministers, O.E. Chirwa, qc, Minister, of Justice, W. M. K. Chiume, Foreign Minister, and Augustine Bwanausi Minister of Development; the response to this was
The Alcatraz Effect: Belief and Postmodernity
Visitors to Alcatraz Island, former Federal Penitentiary, know what to expect. To make the excursion worthwhile, however, demands a certain state of mind; their knowledge must be left hanging in the balance of a suspension of disbelief. Seeing, after all, is believing, which is no less than the commodity fetish of a tourist industry, content to trade in forms (as the phrase goes) of organized escapism. If that is so, then the trip out to Alcatraz…
The Waste Land and the Fantasy of Interpretation
Research Article| October 01 1984 The Waste Land and the Fantasy of Interpretation Andrew Ross Andrew Ross Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1984) 8: 134–158. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928561 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Andre…
Criticism and Objectivity
Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History
The Work of Nature in the Age of Electronic Emission
A student of mine once revealed that he never consulted weather forecasts. weather is for other he announced, by way of explanation. I responded by suggesting that I didn't think this was a very citizen-like thing to say. Having written the essay that follows (largely as a result of that conversation), I recognize now that I was both right and wrong in responding the way I did. The weather is not simply for other people, because we share other pe…
The Rock 'n' Roll Ghost
Introduction [To the Special Issue]
Life and Work of Dr J. Th. Van der Kemp 1747-1811
Cyborgs at Large: Interview with Donna Haraway
Andrew Ross: Many people from different audiences and disciplines came to your work through A Manifesto for which has become a cult text since its appearance in Socialist Review in 1985. For those readers, who include ourselves, the recent publication of Primate Visions and the forthcoming Simians, Cyborgs, and Women provides the opportunity to see how your work as a historian of science was always more or less directly concerned with many of the…
Postmodernism/Jameson/Critique
No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture
Is Global Culture Warming up
During brief appearance at the 1990 Earth Day rally on Capitol Hill, Paul Ehrlich, biologist and ecological futurist, urged the assembled crowd and the television audience to accept that our problems are absolutely global: a cow breaks wind in Indonesia, and your grandchildren could die in food riots in the United States. What kind of logic was at work in this remark? Lateral thinking? Instant karma? Weird science? Under any circumstances, it sou…
Getting out of the Gernsback Continuum
The Ecology of Images
Research Article| January 01 1992 The Ecology of Images Andrew Ross Andrew Ross Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1992) 91 (1): 215–238. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-91-1-215 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Andrew Ross; The Ecology of Images. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1992; 91 (1): 215–238. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215…
Strange Weather: Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits
Strange Weather: Culture, Science, and Technology in the Age of Limits
The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life
Hardly a month goes by without some heady news announcement that scientists have isolated responsible for this or that life-threatening disease. Nature has offered up another secret to the intrepid seeker of knowledge. When all else is called into doubt, progress is surely reliable and unsullied in this sector of human endeavor. Things are on the right track after all. And yet, it is reported, there will always be naysayers: we can put men and wo…
Earth to Gore, Earth to Gore
As my title suggests, these comments are addressed to one of most dismal spectacles that Clinton administration has served up-the case of disappearing ozone man, as David Corn recently described our vicepresident in pages of Nation.1 Ozone man was moniker used by George Bush on campaign trail of 1992 to direct ridicule at erstwhile gentle green giant from Tennessee and his environmentally minded constituency, reviled by same Bush as the spotted o…
Race and Racism: A Symposium
Tricia Rose, Andrew Ross, Robin D. G. Kelley, Joe Wood, Howard Winant, Jacquie Jones, Michael Eric Dyson, Phillip Brian Harper, Steven Gregory, Grant Farred, Gina Dent, David Roediger, Amiri Baraka, Stanley Aronowitz, Lewis R. Gordon, Kevin Gaines, Race and Racism: A Symposium, Social Text, No. 42 (Spring, 1995), pp. 1-52
The lonely hour of scarcity
A Few Good Species
The Labor behind the Cult of Work
I participated in the strike moratorium in March as only one of thousands of non-Yale faculty who have been saddened and angered by the university's responses to the current labor disputes. No doubt, many of the unsympathetic Yale faculty and administrators viewed our presence and our remarks there as further evidence of the outsider's unfamiliarity with the fragile web of affinities and obligations that binds together a vibrant college community…
Reflections on the Sokal Affair
In the six months that bookstores stocked the special Science Wars issue Andrew Ross of Social Text, under eight hundred copies were sold, a modest number for a double issue on a topical subject, even for an obscure, small-circulation journal like Social Text. It's reasonable to conclude that relatively few people actually read the issue, and yet there seemed very few who did not have a strong opinion about the Sokal affair, as it came to be know…
The Mental Labor Problem
Social Text - 63 (Volume 18, Number 2), Summer 2000
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