Matthew Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linnaeus University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-2750-9990 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Values of the Archaeological Heritage Landscape in Sweden
In this article, I use the theoretical lens of critical heritage studies to analyse how different values of landscape, heritage, and contract archaeology relate in what I call the archaeological heritage landscape. The aim is to show how contract archaeology can strengthen heritage work and become a valuable resource for the wider society. Utilising an interdisciplinary viewpoint, I analyse the concept and values of the archaeological heritage la…
The Swedish Apparatus of Contract Archaeology and its Entanglement with Society
The Swedish contract archaeology (CA) system has witnessed changes and new goals in the last couple of decades, becoming more steered by the market while new demands have come from Swedish cultural heritage legislation and policies for producing relevant knowledge to society and widening the inclusion of the public. In this paper I examine the Swedish CA system and programs from its three main parties, according to critical heritage studies by Ro…
Independent Redistricting Commissions Are Associated with More Competitive Elections
Competitive elections are essential for democratic accountability, yet most US House of Representatives elections are uncompetitive. Using district-level data from 1982 to 2018, I examine the relationship between redistricting institutions and election competition. I extend the work of Carson, Crespin, and Williamson (2014) by separating independent and political commissions and find that, relative to legislative redistricting, independent commis…
Introduction
Asia is a region of exceptional religious diversity, with many Muslim groups figuring prominently in that diversity.With more than 50 percent of the global Muslim population expected to live in Asia by 2050-indeed, with respect to Muslim population, four of the top five states will be in Asia (namely India, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Bangladesh)-understanding the past, present, and future of religious relations in Asia is a matter of increasing imp…
When crackdowns and cooptation fail
This article examines an evolving mix of constraints facing two key religious opposition forces in Bangladesh, namely, a modern Islamist political party known as the Jama'at-e-Islami (JI; Assembly of Islam) and a traditional madrasa-based social protest movement known as Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI; Protection of Islam). The article examines both 'external' constraints emanating from the country's ruling party, the Awami League (AL; People's League), as…
Eye movements as a measure of word comprehension deficits in primary progressive aphasia
Contract Archaeology and Dissemination in a Contested Landscape
New legislation in Sweden has put further requirements on contract archaeology that the production of knowledge should be relevant for society and accessible to the public. What happens when heritage goals and laws are implemented in real contract archaeology projects? What is the relationship between different actors and stakeholders and the archaeological heritage landscape, and what are the reasons and factors for this? Who is included and exc…
Taliban law
After more than 40 years of war, Taliban law-both in theory and in practice-must be under-stood on at least two levels: a formal constitutional level and a domestic political level, with the latter also acknowledging potential gaps between national and local politics.Whilst international actors seek to promote basic constitutional rights, encourage political inclusion, and support the well-being of marginalised groups (including ethnic and religi…
Pandemic politics in South Asia
References to regime type figure prominently in analyses of the global COVID-19 pandemic and state responses to it: an 'authoritarian' transparency deficit in China allowed the pandemic to spread before disciplined bureaucratic intervention tackled it; 'democratic' openness left the United States vulnerable even as traditions of personal liberty and grassroots authority stifled a coordinated response. Within these analytical caricatures, or ideal…
Next Steps in the Study of Islam and Politics
During the past 20 years, scholars and policy makers have shown considerable interest in the politics of Islam.Area studies programmes-traditionally focused on East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America-have added new initiatives focused on the cross-regional world of Islam.Scholars have debated the analytical merits of terms like 'Islamism' to describe those who instrumentalise Islam to achieve state-based political ends.S…
Agha Shahid Ali and the Phenomenology of Postcolonial Nostalgia
Scholars have generally analyzed nostalgia in cognitive terms – the ideas of home it traffics in, the stories it tells itself about the world, the narratives its subjects imagine themselves acting in. Through readings of two poems by Kashmiri-American Agha Shahid Ali, this essay argues against such cognitive focus, proposing instead an affect-minded account of nostalgia that draws on phenomenological research so far ignored in both literary and p…
Mean Streets and Mental Health
This study explores the relationship between mental health and place at microgeographic units of analysis. We examine self‐reported symptomology for depression and PTSD for 2,724 survey respondents interviewed in three types of randomly selected street segments: violent crime hot spots, cool spots, and cold spots. We find that the mean symptomology score is 61% higher for depression in violent crime hot spots than cold spots, and 85% higher for P…
My World Is Upside Down
The U.S. war with Iraq led to the displacement of millions of Iraqis, many of whom have resettled in the United States as refugees. We explore the challenges Iraqi families face after resettlement, with a particular focus on the agency of refugees and challenges/opportunities of familial social reproduction in a transnational context. We conducted 181 qualitative interviews with 38 Iraqis (11 youth, 27 adults) and 5 service providers. Our finding…
Is the Rule of Law an Antidote for Religious Tension? The Promise and Peril of Judicializing Religious Freedom
Although "rule of law" is often regarded as a solution for religious conflict, this article analyzes the role of legal processes and institutions in hardening boundaries and sharpening antagonisms among religious communities. Using case studies from Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, and Pakistan, we highlight four specific mechanisms through which legal procedures, structures, and instruments can further polarize already existing religious conflicts. T…
Hate Crimes in Post-9/11 Pennsylvania
Extant research suggests that police involvement with hate crimes and bias incidents may be affected by case- and community-level characteristics. Triggering events, such as the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 (9/11), or the recent heated debates concerning illegal immigration, may also mediate this relationship. The present study builds on prior research by replicating the work of Wilson and Ruback (2003), which explored whether historic…
Measuring the Impact of Instruction in Intercultural Communication on Secondary Spanish Learners' Attitudes and Motivation
Many scholars have argued that an intercultural approach to foreign language instruction best reflects the inherent interconnectedness of language and culture. However, abundant evidence of the effectiveness of such an approach is lacking, particularly at the secondary level. This two‐year curricular experiment, which took place in two public high schools in the United States, investigated the impact of explicit instruction in intercultural commu…
Is Criminology Out-of-Date? A Research Note on the Use of Common Types of Data
There is a need to explore trends in data use by researchers in criminology to assess the limitations of the knowledge base in the discipline. The current study explores the use of data published in three top criminology journals over a 10-year period to review: (1) data types (primary, secondary, or both), (2) the age of the data, and (3) whether scholars using data at least a decade old mention it as a limitation. The study found that the time …
Evidence of the Effectiveness of Health Sector Preparedness in Disaster Response
In this article, evidence that health sector preparedness improves response performance in disasters was examined. Case fatality and survival data were compared for four earthquakes, in relation to health sector emergency preparedness levels. Vast differences in performance were found. The two California systems, with a high preparedness index, had low case fatality rates (about one death per 100 injuries). Kobe, Japan, with mixed levels of prepa…
Mean Streets and Mental Health
This study explores the relationship between mental health and place at microgeographic units of analysis. We examine self‐reported symptomology for depression and PTSD for 2,724 survey respondents interviewed in three types of randomly selected street segments: violent crime hot spots, cool spots, and cold spots. We find that the mean symptomology score is 61% higher for depression in violent crime hot spots than cold spots, and 85% higher for P…
Measuring the Impact of Instruction in Intercultural Communication on Secondary Spanish Learners' Attitudes and Motivation
Many scholars have argued that an intercultural approach to foreign language instruction best reflects the inherent interconnectedness of language and culture. However, abundant evidence of the effectiveness of such an approach is lacking, particularly at the secondary level. This two‐year curricular experiment, which took place in two public high schools in the United States, investigated the impact of explicit instruction in intercultural commu…
My World Is Upside Down
The U.S. war with Iraq led to the displacement of millions of Iraqis, many of whom have resettled in the United States as refugees. We explore the challenges Iraqi families face after resettlement, with a particular focus on the agency of refugees and challenges/opportunities of familial social reproduction in a transnational context. We conducted 181 qualitative interviews with 38 Iraqis (11 youth, 27 adults) and 5 service providers. Our finding…
Is the Rule of Law an Antidote for Religious Tension? The Promise and Peril of Judicializing Religious Freedom
Although "rule of law" is often regarded as a solution for religious conflict, this article analyzes the role of legal processes and institutions in hardening boundaries and sharpening antagonisms among religious communities. Using case studies from Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, and Pakistan, we highlight four specific mechanisms through which legal procedures, structures, and instruments can further polarize already existing religious conflicts. T…
The Swedish Apparatus of Contract Archaeology and its Entanglement with Society
The Swedish contract archaeology (CA) system has witnessed changes and new goals in the last couple of decades, becoming more steered by the market while new demands have come from Swedish cultural heritage legislation and policies for producing relevant knowledge to society and widening the inclusion of the public. In this paper I examine the Swedish CA system and programs from its three main parties, according to critical heritage studies by Ro…
Independent Redistricting Commissions Are Associated with More Competitive Elections
Competitive elections are essential for democratic accountability, yet most US House of Representatives elections are uncompetitive. Using district-level data from 1982 to 2018, I examine the relationship between redistricting institutions and election competition. I extend the work of Carson, Crespin, and Williamson (2014) by separating independent and political commissions and find that, relative to legislative redistricting, independent commis…
Hate Crimes in Post-9/11 Pennsylvania
Extant research suggests that police involvement with hate crimes and bias incidents may be affected by case- and community-level characteristics. Triggering events, such as the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 (9/11), or the recent heated debates concerning illegal immigration, may also mediate this relationship. The present study builds on prior research by replicating the work of Wilson and Ruback (2003), which explored whether historic…
Evidence of the Effectiveness of Health Sector Preparedness in Disaster Response
In this article, evidence that health sector preparedness improves response performance in disasters was examined. Case fatality and survival data were compared for four earthquakes, in relation to health sector emergency preparedness levels. Vast differences in performance were found. The two California systems, with a high preparedness index, had low case fatality rates (about one death per 100 injuries). Kobe, Japan, with mixed levels of prepa…
Is Criminology Out-of-Date? A Research Note on the Use of Common Types of Data
There is a need to explore trends in data use by researchers in criminology to assess the limitations of the knowledge base in the discipline. The current study explores the use of data published in three top criminology journals over a 10-year period to review: (1) data types (primary, secondary, or both), (2) the age of the data, and (3) whether scholars using data at least a decade old mention it as a limitation. The study found that the time …
Measuring the Impact of Instruction in Intercultural Communication on Secondary Spanish Learners' Attitudes and Motivation
Many scholars have argued that an intercultural approach to foreign language instruction best reflects the inherent interconnectedness of language and culture. However, abundant evidence of the effectiveness of such an approach is lacking, particularly at the secondary level. This two‐year curricular experiment, which took place in two public high schools in the United States, investigated the impact of explicit instruction in intercultural commu…
Is the Rule of Law an Antidote for Religious Tension? The Promise and Peril of Judicializing Religious Freedom
Although "rule of law" is often regarded as a solution for religious conflict, this article analyzes the role of legal processes and institutions in hardening boundaries and sharpening antagonisms among religious communities. Using case studies from Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, and Pakistan, we highlight four specific mechanisms through which legal procedures, structures, and instruments can further polarize already existing religious conflicts. T…
Hate Crimes in Post-9/11 Pennsylvania
Extant research suggests that police involvement with hate crimes and bias incidents may be affected by case- and community-level characteristics. Triggering events, such as the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 (9/11), or the recent heated debates concerning illegal immigration, may also mediate this relationship. The present study builds on prior research by replicating the work of Wilson and Ruback (2003), which explored whether historic…
Mean Streets and Mental Health
This study explores the relationship between mental health and place at microgeographic units of analysis. We examine self‐reported symptomology for depression and PTSD for 2,724 survey respondents interviewed in three types of randomly selected street segments: violent crime hot spots, cool spots, and cold spots. We find that the mean symptomology score is 61% higher for depression in violent crime hot spots than cold spots, and 85% higher for P…
My World Is Upside Down
The U.S. war with Iraq led to the displacement of millions of Iraqis, many of whom have resettled in the United States as refugees. We explore the challenges Iraqi families face after resettlement, with a particular focus on the agency of refugees and challenges/opportunities of familial social reproduction in a transnational context. We conducted 181 qualitative interviews with 38 Iraqis (11 youth, 27 adults) and 5 service providers. Our finding…
Pandemic politics in South Asia
References to regime type figure prominently in analyses of the global COVID-19 pandemic and state responses to it: an 'authoritarian' transparency deficit in China allowed the pandemic to spread before disciplined bureaucratic intervention tackled it; 'democratic' openness left the United States vulnerable even as traditions of personal liberty and grassroots authority stifled a coordinated response. Within these analytical caricatures, or ideal…
Next Steps in the Study of Islam and Politics
During the past 20 years, scholars and policy makers have shown considerable interest in the politics of Islam.Area studies programmes-traditionally focused on East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America-have added new initiatives focused on the cross-regional world of Islam.Scholars have debated the analytical merits of terms like 'Islamism' to describe those who instrumentalise Islam to achieve state-based political ends.S…
Agha Shahid Ali and the Phenomenology of Postcolonial Nostalgia
Scholars have generally analyzed nostalgia in cognitive terms – the ideas of home it traffics in, the stories it tells itself about the world, the narratives its subjects imagine themselves acting in. Through readings of two poems by Kashmiri-American Agha Shahid Ali, this essay argues against such cognitive focus, proposing instead an affect-minded account of nostalgia that draws on phenomenological research so far ignored in both literary and p…
Taliban law
After more than 40 years of war, Taliban law-both in theory and in practice-must be under-stood on at least two levels: a formal constitutional level and a domestic political level, with the latter also acknowledging potential gaps between national and local politics.Whilst international actors seek to promote basic constitutional rights, encourage political inclusion, and support the well-being of marginalised groups (including ethnic and religi…
Introduction
Asia is a region of exceptional religious diversity, with many Muslim groups figuring prominently in that diversity.With more than 50 percent of the global Muslim population expected to live in Asia by 2050-indeed, with respect to Muslim population, four of the top five states will be in Asia (namely India, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Bangladesh)-understanding the past, present, and future of religious relations in Asia is a matter of increasing imp…
When crackdowns and cooptation fail
This article examines an evolving mix of constraints facing two key religious opposition forces in Bangladesh, namely, a modern Islamist political party known as the Jama'at-e-Islami (JI; Assembly of Islam) and a traditional madrasa-based social protest movement known as Hefazat-e-Islam (HeI; Protection of Islam). The article examines both 'external' constraints emanating from the country's ruling party, the Awami League (AL; People's League), as…
Eye movements as a measure of word comprehension deficits in primary progressive aphasia
Contract Archaeology and Dissemination in a Contested Landscape
New legislation in Sweden has put further requirements on contract archaeology that the production of knowledge should be relevant for society and accessible to the public. What happens when heritage goals and laws are implemented in real contract archaeology projects? What is the relationship between different actors and stakeholders and the archaeological heritage landscape, and what are the reasons and factors for this? Who is included and exc…
Independent Redistricting Commissions Are Associated with More Competitive Elections
Competitive elections are essential for democratic accountability, yet most US House of Representatives elections are uncompetitive. Using district-level data from 1982 to 2018, I examine the relationship between redistricting institutions and election competition. I extend the work of Carson, Crespin, and Williamson (2014) by separating independent and political commissions and find that, relative to legislative redistricting, independent commis…
Values of the Archaeological Heritage Landscape in Sweden
In this article, I use the theoretical lens of critical heritage studies to analyse how different values of landscape, heritage, and contract archaeology relate in what I call the archaeological heritage landscape. The aim is to show how contract archaeology can strengthen heritage work and become a valuable resource for the wider society. Utilising an interdisciplinary viewpoint, I analyse the concept and values of the archaeological heritage la…
The Swedish Apparatus of Contract Archaeology and its Entanglement with Society
The Swedish contract archaeology (CA) system has witnessed changes and new goals in the last couple of decades, becoming more steered by the market while new demands have come from Swedish cultural heritage legislation and policies for producing relevant knowledge to society and widening the inclusion of the public. In this paper I examine the Swedish CA system and programs from its three main parties, according to critical heritage studies by Ro…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Democracy (3 works)