Stephen Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8508-8667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Visitor activities in an imaginary country
A multimodal analysis of resource allocation across U.S. cancer registries
Has poetics peaked? A curmudgeonly commentary
The atmosfearics of scaryscapes: Retail tourism goes gothic
In a pandemic-warped world, consumer culture is characterized by an atmosphere of fear, which is found in all sorts of unsettling spaces. This paper explores the “atmosfearic scaryscape” of a retail brand that bestrides the globe and, with the aid of a classic Gothic trope considers the fear-full, fun-filled feelings it evokes. Situated at the interface of tourism and retailing, humour and horror, darkness and light, the research focuses on a fas…
What’s the story, allegory
If ever a literary genre were made for consumer research, that literary genre is allegory. The word comes from the Ancient Greek allegoreo, meaning to speak of the other in the marketplace. Building on the pioneering research of Barbara B. Stern, this article considers the character and characteristics of allegorical storytelling. It does so by means of an empirical study of a richly storied apparel brand, Hollister (HCo), whose sudden rise and r…
Association between Handwashing Behavior and Infectious Diseases among Low-Income Community Children in Urban New Delhi, India: A Cross-Sectional Study
Diarrheal diseases and respiratory infections (RI) are two leading causes of childhood mortality in low and middle-income countries. Effective handwashing at critical time-points may mitigate these diseases. However, there is a lack of published data investigating this association in school-aged children in India. This study is part of a larger prospective handwashing intervention study in a low-income community in New Delhi, India examining the …
Substance use, intimate partner violence, history of incarceration and vulnerability to HIV among young Black men who have sex with men in a Southern US city
In this longitudinal qualitative study we explored the lived experiences of young Black men who have sex with men in Dallas, Texas in relation to methamphetamine use, intimate partner violence and a history of incarceration as syndemic conditions that may contribute to their risk of transmitting or acquiring HIV. We conducted a total of 106 interviews (four repeat interviews every six months) with a cohort of 30 participants. Some reported condom…
Foreign aid, the mining sector and democratic ownership: The case of Canadian assistance to Peru
Historical Dictionary of Medieval Philosophy and Theology
This second edition concentrates on various philosophers and theologians from the medieval Arabian, Jewish, and Christian worlds. It principally centers on authors such as Abumashar, Saadiah Gaon and Alcuin from the eighth century and follows the intellectual developments of the three traditions up to the fifteenth-century Ibn Khaldun, Hasdai Crescas and Marsilio Ficino. The spiritual journeys presuppose earlier human sources, such as the philoso…
Up Rising: Rehabilitating J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise with R.D. Laing and Lauren Berlant
High-Rise by J.G. Ballard intriguingly contains a pivotal character named Dr. Robert Laing, surely an allusion to the then influential psychiatric writer, Dr. R.D. Laing. Re-reading Ballard's classic text through the prism of Laing’s theories, with further explication of the role of flat affect via Lauren Berlant, this article presents a new interpretation of a classic text that argues that Ballard ingeniously misdirected his readers into making …
The theme park: Hey, Mickey, whistle on this
The theme park, some say, is the quintessence of consumer society and roller-coasters, others maintain, are its foremost symbol and signifier. True or not, exaggerated or otherwise, there is no doubting theme parks’ iconicity – Disneyland above all – nor their continuing ability to “amuse the million”, academicians among them. Although the scholarly literature on theming in general and Disney in particular is nothing less than prodigious, it miss…
Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Joanna would like to thank her student, Amanda Sauermann, whose enthusiasm for the topic of animals inspired the development of a course in animal history in 2009; Carleton's History Department for supporting the course; and the many curious students in that course's various iterations.Thanks also to many human friends who taught her to see the horse differently and to Wyatt, Paddy, and Ruby for reinforcing those lessons.She also thanks her co-ed…
The development of a new geospatial framework for the palaeoanthropological site of the Sterkfontein Caves, Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng, South Africa
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provide an essential element in modern paleoanthropological inquiry through their ability to integrate a diverse range of data within a multidimensional spatial framework which can be used for data storage, analysis and modeling. One of the challenges of creating such a framework is the integration of legacy and new data (collected with digital technologies) at large sites with a long history of research. Th…
The aid orphan myth
The term ‘aid orphan’ refers to a developing country forgotten or abandoned by the development community. This metaphor has featured prominently in the development assistance policy and research literature over the past decade. Development practitioners, policy makers and researchers have defined aid orphans in manifold ways and often expressed concern over the potential fate or impact of such countries. In this paper we first examine the many de…
Selling poetry by the Pound: T.S. Eliot and The Waste Land brand
Although the battle between culture and commerce isn't over, the conflict has entered a new phase. Research reveals that elite artists like Picasso, Dalí and Warhol – among others – were canny commercial operators who knew their own worth and weren't reluctant to exploit it. However, we are less well informed of culture and commerce's co-dependency in artistic spheres where money rarely intrudes. This paper examines the marketing activities of T.…
Dire consequences or empty threats? Western pressure for peace, justice and democracy in Kenya
This paper examines Western countries' pressure – or lack thereof – for peace, justice and democracy in Kenya. It analyzes the period since the 2008 National Accord, which defused the 2007–08 post-election crisis, focusing on the lead-up to and immediate aftermath of the 2013 elections. The paper draws extensively on interviews conducted in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013 with Western officials based in Nairobi, as well as informed Kenyans. It argues, …
Canada’s foreign aid before and after Cida: Not a Samaritan state
This article reviews Keith Spicer’s 1966 book on Canada’s foreign aid program, A Samaritan State? External Aid in Canada’s Foreign Policy. Spicer’s essentially realist perspective on the reasons why Canada did and should provide development assistance is not only inconsistent with more recent views that justify aid at least in part on humanitarian grounds; it is also difficult to support even from the evidence he presents. The article concludes b…
Titanic: Consuming the Myths and Meanings of an Ambiguous Brand
Myths have come of age in consumer research.In the 22 years since Levy's inaugural article, the literature has grown at an impressive rate.Yet important questions remain unanswered: What makes some myths especially meaningful to consumers?Why are certain consumer myths more prevalent and less perishable than others?This article argues that ambiguity is an influential factor.Using the RMS Titanic as an empirical exemplar, it unpacks the principal …
Justice pénale internationale et violences électorales: Les enjeux de la CPI au Kenya
La Cour pénale internationale (CPI) a autorisé, en 2010, l’ouverture d’une enquête officielle sur les violences qui ont ravagé le Kenya à la suite des élections présidentielles de 2007. C’est la première fois dans le pays que les principaux responsables de violences électorales qui sévissent depuis 1990 sont poursuivis de manière crédible par une instance judiciaire. La CPI apparaît pour le Kenya comme le seul espoir de rompre avec la complète im…
Animal crackers: Making progress on The Penguin's Progress
The vast majority of academic articles, according to eminent literary critic John Sutherland, read like they're written by robots in a Japanese car factory. And that a Toyota-style recall is sorely needed. This statement may or may not be true, but many scholars would surely concede that remedial writing measures are necessary. This paper describes one such measure, an illustrated novel that's similar to Shrek, only with advertising characters li…
Philosophical debates at Paris in the early fourteenth century
Donor responses to the 2008 Kenyan crisis: Finally getting it right
This contribution analyses Western governments’ responses to the 2008 Kenyan crisis. It argues that while donors’ reactions to the crisis were a vast improvement over their responses to previous elections and eruptions of political violence, they failed to learn some important lessons from the past and take a more proactive role in preventing violence, notably because they disregarded key governance problems that made violence easily imaginable, …
The Rise and Fall of the Australian Greens: The 2002 Cunningham By-election and its Implications
This article examines the 2002 by-election in the Australian federal seat of Cunningham, in which the Australian Greens secured their first and only member of the House of Representatives. This case study of Greens voting suggests that the electoral support base of the Greens in Cunningham was consistent with what is known about the support base of the Greens elsewhere in Australia. At the same time, it makes the case that local factors were at l…
Creating the world's best development agency’? Confusion and Contradictions in Cida's New Policy Blueprint
Analysis of Canada's International Policy Statement as a blueprint for radically improving the work of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The overarching objective and motivation of the Statement's chapter on development—improving aid delivery, not only to combat poverty abroad, but also to serve Canadian interests, including the provision for Canada of a more prominent role in international affairs—is examined. The principal m…
Democratisations in Africa: Attempts, hindrances and prospects
This article focuses on four sub-Saharan countries that offer different insights into postcolonial democratic experiences on the continent. Botswana has enjoyed decades of uninterrupted multiparty politics (but single-party rule) under a political system that mixes Western-style liberal democracy with traditional top-down structures. Benin has democratised rapidly and relatively successfully after a long period of dictatorial rule, providing a tr…
Titanic: Consuming the Myths and Meanings of an Ambiguous Brand
Myths have come of age in consumer research.In the 22 years since Levy's inaugural article, the literature has grown at an impressive rate.Yet important questions remain unanswered: What makes some myths especially meaningful to consumers?Why are certain consumer myths more prevalent and less perishable than others?This article argues that ambiguity is an influential factor.Using the RMS Titanic as an empirical exemplar, it unpacks the principal …
The Center Cannot Hold: Consuming the Utopian Marketplace: Figure 1
This article draws upon the utopian studies literature to integrate two strands of contemporary consumer research, the study of place and space and the analysis of consumer/marketer relations. Based on a longitudinal study of a festival shopping mall, we provide an emergent theory of how the utopian marketplace is experienced, a theory that hinges around three interlinked conceptual categories: sensing displace, creating playspace, and performing…
Authoritarian leaders and multiparty elections in Africa: How foreign donors help to keep Kenya's Daniel arap Moi in power
This article argues that prior accounts of Moi and KANU's re-election in Kenya's 1992 and 1997 polls overemphasise divisions within the opposition and underestimate the role of international actors. Drawing on interviews with central players and internal donor documents, the author demonstrates that aid donors played a central part not only in initially advancing the cause of multipartyism but subsequently also, on several occasions, actively imp…
Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis
Theorising Kenya's protracted transition to democracy
In their seminal text Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, Guillermo O’Donnell and Philippe Schmitter (1986:6) define a transition as “the interval between one political system and another”. According to the authors, the beginning and end of this process are relatively easy to trace. The transition begins with a split in the authoritarian regime, after which regime elites who believe in the necessity of electoral legitimation become dominant. The…
Con discriminación y represión no hay democracia: The Lesbian and Gay Movement in Argentina
Dire consequences or empty threats? Western pressure for peace, justice and democracy in Kenya
This paper examines Western countries' pressure – or lack thereof – for peace, justice and democracy in Kenya. It analyzes the period since the 2008 National Accord, which defused the 2007–08 post-election crisis, focusing on the lead-up to and immediate aftermath of the 2013 elections. The paper draws extensively on interviews conducted in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013 with Western officials based in Nairobi, as well as informed Kenyans. It argues, …
Donor responses to the 2008 Kenyan crisis: Finally getting it right
This contribution analyses Western governments’ responses to the 2008 Kenyan crisis. It argues that while donors’ reactions to the crisis were a vast improvement over their responses to previous elections and eruptions of political violence, they failed to learn some important lessons from the past and take a more proactive role in preventing violence, notably because they disregarded key governance problems that made violence easily imaginable, …
Born-Again Politicians Hijacked our Revolution: Reassessing Malawi's Transition to Democracy
(2004). “Born-Again Politicians Hijacked our Revolution!”: Reassessing Malawi’s Transition to Democracy. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 38, A Decade of Democracy in Southern Africa / Une décennie de démocratie en Afrique australe, pp. 705-722
Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures
The development of a new geospatial framework for the palaeoanthropological site of the Sterkfontein Caves, Cradle of Humankind, Gauteng, South Africa
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provide an essential element in modern paleoanthropological inquiry through their ability to integrate a diverse range of data within a multidimensional spatial framework which can be used for data storage, analysis and modeling. One of the challenges of creating such a framework is the integration of legacy and new data (collected with digital technologies) at large sites with a long history of research. Th…
Democratisations in Africa: Attempts, hindrances and prospects
This article focuses on four sub-Saharan countries that offer different insights into postcolonial democratic experiences on the continent. Botswana has enjoyed decades of uninterrupted multiparty politics (but single-party rule) under a political system that mixes Western-style liberal democracy with traditional top-down structures. Benin has democratised rapidly and relatively successfully after a long period of dictatorial rule, providing a tr…
Gender, Nationality and Cultural Representations of Ireland: An Irish Woman's Place
Ireland has struggled with its ‘feminine’ identity throughout its history. The so-called ‘chasmic dichotomy of male and female' is embedded in colonial and postcolonial constructions of Irishness and it continues to manifest itself in contemporary cultural representations of Ireland and Irishness. This study explores issues of gender and nationality via a reading of a 70-second television advertisement for Caffrey's Irish Ale, titled ‘New York’. …
The Complex Model of City Centre Retailing: An Historical Application
Despite its conceptual significance, R. L. Davies' complex model of city centre retailing has received relatively few empirical airings.This is largely attributable to its reliance upon the free play of market forces,a state of affairs which rarely pertains in today's highly planned retail environment. The concept, however,may provide a useful insight into the spatial structure of the city centre in periods prior to the present. This paper examin…
Selling poetry by the Pound: T.S. Eliot and The Waste Land brand
Although the battle between culture and commerce isn't over, the conflict has entered a new phase. Research reveals that elite artists like Picasso, Dalí and Warhol – among others – were canny commercial operators who knew their own worth and weren't reluctant to exploit it. However, we are less well informed of culture and commerce's co-dependency in artistic spheres where money rarely intrudes. This paper examines the marketing activities of T.…
Creating the world's best development agency’? Confusion and Contradictions in Cida's New Policy Blueprint
Analysis of Canada's International Policy Statement as a blueprint for radically improving the work of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The overarching objective and motivation of the Statement's chapter on development—improving aid delivery, not only to combat poverty abroad, but also to serve Canadian interests, including the provision for Canada of a more prominent role in international affairs—is examined. The principal m…
The theme park: Hey, Mickey, whistle on this
The theme park, some say, is the quintessence of consumer society and roller-coasters, others maintain, are its foremost symbol and signifier. True or not, exaggerated or otherwise, there is no doubting theme parks’ iconicity – Disneyland above all – nor their continuing ability to “amuse the million”, academicians among them. Although the scholarly literature on theming in general and Disney in particular is nothing less than prodigious, it miss…
The aid orphan myth
The term ‘aid orphan’ refers to a developing country forgotten or abandoned by the development community. This metaphor has featured prominently in the development assistance policy and research literature over the past decade. Development practitioners, policy makers and researchers have defined aid orphans in manifold ways and often expressed concern over the potential fate or impact of such countries. In this paper we first examine the many de…
Harold Hotelling and the principle of minimum differentiation
Institutional Change in Retailing: A Geographical Interpretation
Has poetics peaked? A curmudgeonly commentary
The atmosfearics of scaryscapes: Retail tourism goes gothic
In a pandemic-warped world, consumer culture is characterized by an atmosphere of fear, which is found in all sorts of unsettling spaces. This paper explores the “atmosfearic scaryscape” of a retail brand that bestrides the globe and, with the aid of a classic Gothic trope considers the fear-full, fun-filled feelings it evokes. Situated at the interface of tourism and retailing, humour and horror, darkness and light, the research focuses on a fas…
Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Joanna would like to thank her student, Amanda Sauermann, whose enthusiasm for the topic of animals inspired the development of a course in animal history in 2009; Carleton's History Department for supporting the course; and the many curious students in that course's various iterations.Thanks also to many human friends who taught her to see the horse differently and to Wyatt, Paddy, and Ruby for reinforcing those lessons.She also thanks her co-ed…
Animal crackers: Making progress on The Penguin's Progress
The vast majority of academic articles, according to eminent literary critic John Sutherland, read like they're written by robots in a Japanese car factory. And that a Toyota-style recall is sorely needed. This statement may or may not be true, but many scholars would surely concede that remedial writing measures are necessary. This paper describes one such measure, an illustrated novel that's similar to Shrek, only with advertising characters li…
Do Richer Media Mean Better Learning? A Framework for Evaluating Learning Experiences in Museum Web Site Design
This paper is significant because it challenges two orthodoxies of current museum web design practice. Firstly that use of richer multimedia results in more powerful visitor learning experiences; secondly that models and theories of learning developed in the formal education sector are not relevant or applicable to informal learning in heritage institutions. \n \nBuilding on previous research demonstrating a trend towards use of richer multimedia…
Economic Aid: An Inventory of Problems for Attitude Research
Journal Article Economic Aid: An Inventory of Problems for Attitude Research Get access STEPHEN C. BROWN STEPHEN C. BROWN Economic Development Division, Department of StateWashington, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 3, FALL 1958, Pages 416–420, https://doi.org/10.1086/266809 Published: 01 January 1958
Semantic Memory Ability Tests as Predictors of Freshman College Achievement
Scriptum in Librum Primum Sententiarum: Ordinatio. Vol. I: Prologus et Distinctio Prima
Popular’ v . ‘Serious’ Music
Journal Article ‘POPULAR’ V. ‘SERIOUS’ MUSIC Get access STEPHEN BROWN STEPHEN BROWN R.R. No. 1 O'Fallon, Illinois 62269 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume LI, Issue 3, July 1970, Pages 346-b–347, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/LI.3.346-b Published: 01 July 1970
Expositionis in Libros Artis Logicae Prooemium et Expositio in Librum Porphyrii de Praedicabilibus
Adam Wodeham: An Introduction to His Life and Writings
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Voice of the New West: John G. Jackson, His Life and Times
Voice of the New West: John G. Jackson, His Life and Times
Voice of the New West: John G. Jackson: His Life and Times
Journal Article Voice of the New West: John G. Jackson: His Life and Times. By Stephen W. Brown. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1985. xxv + 262 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.95.) Get access Charles D. Lowery Charles D. Lowery Mississippi State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Page 946, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Institutional Change in Retailing: A Geographical Interpretation
The Microlocational Perceptions of City Centre Retailers
The study of micro-retail location has attracted relatively little geographical attention hitherto and this paper examines the micro-spatial perceptions of retailers in the centre of Belfast.It demonstrates the functional significance of 'generative,' 'shared' and 'suscipient' businesses and reveals a discrepancy between the spatial structure of city centre retailing and the perceived pattern of functional relationships
The Complex Model of City Centre Retailing: An Historical Application
Despite its conceptual significance, R. L. Davies' complex model of city centre retailing has received relatively few empirical airings.This is largely attributable to its reliance upon the free play of market forces,a state of affairs which rarely pertains in today's highly planned retail environment. The concept, however,may provide a useful insight into the spatial structure of the city centre in periods prior to the present. This paper examin…
Harold Hotelling and the principle of minimum differentiation
Four on Methods from Sage
The Wheel of Retail Gravitation
Reilly's Law of Retail Gravitation ranks among the classics of marketing geography. In this paper an examination of the evolution of Reilly's law is made, the contemporaneous wheel of retailing theory being used as an organisational framework. In line with the wheel, the gravity model commenced as a simple conceptualisation of consumer spatial behaviour, became increasingly sophisticated through time, and thereby created conditions conducive to t…
L’Unité du Concept D’Être au Début du Quatorzième Siècle
Lenin, Stalin and the Failure of the Red Army in the Soviet-Polish War of 1920
The Red Army's defeat in the Battle of Warsaw in August 1920 was a significant moment in the early history of the Soviet state. Any hopes Soviet leaders might have entertained of exporting their revolution beyond the borders of the former Russian Empire were dashed at Warsaw. Western observers were as amazed as they were relieved at the remarkable reversal of fortunes that took place In the Soviet-Polish War in mid-August 1920. Up to that point i…
Lenin, Stalin and the Failure of the Red Army in the Soviet-Polish War of 1920
Contact employees: Relationships among workplace fairness, job satisfaction and prosocial service behaviors
Customer Evaluations of Service Complaint Experiences: Implications for Relationship Marketing
Many companies consider investments in complaint handling as means of increasing customer commitment and building customer loyalty. Firms are not well informed, however, on how to deal successfully with service failures or the impact of complaint handling strategies. In this study, the authors find that a majority of complaining customers were dissatisfied with recent complaint handling experiences. Using justice theory, the authors also demonstr…
Gender, Nationality and Cultural Representations of Ireland: An Irish Woman's Place
Ireland has struggled with its ‘feminine’ identity throughout its history. The so-called ‘chasmic dichotomy of male and female' is embedded in colonial and postcolonial constructions of Irishness and it continues to manifest itself in contemporary cultural representations of Ireland and Irishness. This study explores issues of gender and nationality via a reading of a 70-second television advertisement for Caffrey's Irish Ale, titled ‘New York’. …
Defying Gravity: An Interview with Dennis Altman on the 30th Anniversary of Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation
Dennis Altman has been one of the leading activists and writers in the Gay Movement since the publication of his highly influential book Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation 30 years ago. In this interview, he is asked about his contributions to the lesbian and gay movement, his contemporary appraisals of the movement, and his thoughts on globalization and the future
Authoritarian leaders and multiparty elections in Africa: How foreign donors help to keep Kenya's Daniel arap Moi in power
This article argues that prior accounts of Moi and KANU's re-election in Kenya's 1992 and 1997 polls overemphasise divisions within the opposition and underestimate the role of international actors. Drawing on interviews with central players and internal donor documents, the author demonstrates that aid donors played a central part not only in initially advancing the cause of multipartyism but subsequently also, on several occasions, actively imp…
Con discriminación y represión no hay democracia: The Lesbian and Gay Movement in Argentina
Teaching Old Brands New Tricks: Retro Branding and the Revival of Brand Meaning
Retro brands are relaunched historical brands with updated features. The authors conduct a “netnographic” analysis of two prominent retro brands, the Volkswagen New Beetle and Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace, that reveals the importance of Allegory (brand story), Aura (brand essence), Arcadia (idealized community), and Antinomy (brand paradox). Retro brand meanings are predicated on a utopian communal element and an enlivening paradoxical…
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