Gareth Williams
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3603475 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gareth Williams |
| NOMBRES | Gareth |
| APELLIDO | Williams |
| FIRMA | WILLIAMS G |
| AFILIACIONES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2805-7426 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 147 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1148 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 141 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1913 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Ovid and Plato
Lillian Doherty
Reasons for Living Mediate Between Africultural Coping and Suicide Resilience
Karin Suzadail
“It’s about portraying that we are organised …” A case study looking at understanding identity changes within one Free school’s Physical Education and School Sport (Pess) programme
This research looked at the management of identity change within Physical Education and School Sport (PESS) at one of the first Free schools in England. Opened as a new institution within an unfamiliar setting, the school had to contend with limited resources for an ambitious programme based upon a full complement of examination courses and an emphasis on prestigious team sports using a traditional public-school model. A single case study methodo…
A systematic scoping review on the evidence behind debriefing practices for the wellbeing/emotional outcomes of healthcare workers
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Infrapolitics and Experience beyond the Fetishism of Left-Wing Melancholia
Enzo Traverso's Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory revisits the question of the historical Left's increasingly restricted horizon of expectations framing it as a symptom of the contemporary politics of emancipation's melancholic libido. In contrast, the current essay argues that the discussion regarding left-wing melancholia is predetermined by the modern epoch of subjectivity and the Enlightenment metaphysics of humanism that gi…
The End(s) of Reason in Tomis
This chapter focuses on the extent, manner, and consequences of Ovid’s philosophical “failure” in exile, but with the ultimate goal of reflecting anew—from a philosophical standpoint—on the nature of his elusive error . Partly through appeal to Empedocles’ sub-presence in Ovid’s both pre-exilic and Tomitan writings, the chapter first sets the lack of any sustained philosophical appeal in Tomis against the very different structuring principles tha…
Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid As Philosopher
Eschatology in Seneca
Senecan eschatology is not so much, or only, shaped by the constraints imposed by the inherited Stoic (and wider philosophical) tradition, or by the uncertainties that that tradition may have prompted in him. Even if his treatment of eschatology shows no great originality or consistency on a purely philosophical front, this chapter aims to show that his literary deployment of the eschatological idea is a very different matter: in his bold experim…
Infrapolitical Passages
This book clears a way through some of the dominant political determinations and violent symptoms of contemporary globalization. It considers globalization as a new, and increasingly unmoored, ordering for which modern political theory, including its theories of political subjectivation, has proven largely obsolete. Globalization is the hollowing out and expiration of the political-theological imagination of the modern juridical system of states.…
Infrapolitical Passages
This book makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility in the face of a tumultuous world of war and of technological value extraction on a planetary scale. Infrapolitical Passages proposes to clear a way through some of the dominant political determinations and violent symptoms of contemporary globalization. In doing so, Gareth Williams makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility …
Private Risks and Public Dangers
Contains papers selected from the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society. Most of the papers fall into the broad theme of risk and danger, and the public response to these in a multiplicity of modes of regulation and surveillance
Lucan’s Civil War in Nero’s Rome
From Memory to Modernity
Chapter 2 builds on the mnemonic significance of the Etna Idea as traced in Chapter 1, partly by relating Pietro Bembo’s activation of literary memory on Etna to the Classical phenomenon of mnemonic topography, or the embedding of the socio-historical, cultural, and literary past into descriptions of material landscape. De Aetna is also viewed in Chapter 2 in relation to the Renaissance tradition of travel writings that combined topographical sur…
Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 66. Norwegian Collections, Part Ii
Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 66. Norwegian Collections, Part Ii: Anglo-Saxon and Later British Coins 1016–1279, by Elina Screen." Archaeological Journal, 174(2), pp. 498–499
Making sense
Originally home meant the centre of the world – not in a geographical but in an ontological sense ... Home was the centre of the world because it was the place where a vertical line crossed a horizontal one. The vertical line was a path leading upwards to the sky and downwards to the underworld. The horizontal line represented the traffic of the world, all the possible roads leading across the earth to other places (Berger, 1984: 55–6). The late …
Silver Economy in the Viking Age
Regions around the North Sea with a monetized economy in the Pre-Viking and Viking AgesDavid Metcalf * South Scandinavian coinage in the ninth centuryBrita Malmer* Hedeby and its hinterland: a local numismatic regionRalf Weichmann* The evidence of pecking in the Cuerdale hoardMarion Archibald* Gold in England during the later Anglo-Saxon periodMark Blackburn* A survey of coin production and currency in Normandy, 864-945Jens Christian Moesgaard* V…
Viking Age Yorkshire
Aggersborg. The Viking-age Settlement and Fortress
The main excavations at Aggersborg took place in 1945–52, and the definitive publication has been long-awaited. However, the current publication has made positive use of the delay to incorporate mo
Performing the Micro-Social
This paper describes and critically assesses the use and development of a model of participatory theatre to reappropriate the ways in which a place in the deindustrialized south Wales valleys is represented. Neo-liberal policies which focus on individual responsibility, conditionality, sanctions and incentives frame the production of statistics on health inequality and deprivation in particular ways. While ‘place’ can be a resource for expressing…
Style and Form in Seneca’s Writing
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The Mexican Exception
West over sea
This volume is a collection of 30 papers on the broad subject of the Scandinavian expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic, with a particular emphasis on settlement. The volume has been prepared in tribute to the work of Barbara E. Crawford on this subject, and to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of her seminal book, Scandinavian Scotland. Reflecting Dr Crawford's interests, the papers cover a range of …
'Given to the Ground’ A Viking Age Mass Grave on Ridgeway Hill, Weymouth
This volume describes one of the most exciting and unexpected archaeological discoveries to have been made in Britain in recent years, that of a rare mass grave of executed vikings on Ridgeway Hill, Dorset. The burial was found by Oxford Archaeology in 2009 during the construction of the Weymouth Relief Road.
The genesis of chronic illness
In this paper I demonstrate the way in which people's beliefs about the aetiology of their particular affliction (arthritis) need to be understood as part of a more comprehensive imaginative enterprise which I refer to as narrative reconstruction. The intrinsically teleological form of this enterprise means that identified 'causes' represent r only putative efficient connexions between the disease and antecedent factors but also narrative referen…
Theorising Inequalities in Health
This paper contributes to the development of theory and research on inequalities in health. Our central premise is that these are currently limited because they fail adequately to address the relationship between agency and structure, and that lay knowledge in the form of narrative has a significant contribution to make to this endeavour. The paper is divided into three sections. In the first section we briefly review the existing, largely quanti…
Public health research and lay knowledge
The determinants of health
The concept of social structure is one of the main building blocks of the social sciences, but it lacks any precise technical definition within general sociological theory. This paper reviews the way in which the concept has been deployed within medical sociology, arguing that in recent times it has been used primarily as a frame for the sociological interpretation of health inequalities and their social determinants. It goes on to examine the co…
A proper place to live
Beyond 'beer, fags, egg and chips'? Exploring lay understandings of social inequalities in health
This paper seeks to contribute to the limited body of work that has directly explored lay understandings of the causes of health inequalities. Using both quantitative and qualitative methodology, the views of people living in contrasting socio-economic neighbourhoods are compared. The findings support previous research in suggesting that lay theories about causality in relation to health inequalities, like lay concepts of health and illness in ge…
Places, people and mental health
Conversing After Sunset
In his note on lines 27–8 Luck gives two Ovidian parallels for conversation outlasting the day, P . 2.4.11–12 and P. 2.10.37–8, but he makes no reference to lines 2–3 of Callimachus' epigram on Heraclitus of Halicarnassus ( Epigr . 2[Pf.] = A.P . 7.80)
The movement for independent living
Knowledgeable narratives
This personal reflection on the development of 'narrative analysis' in studies of health and illness describes its emergence from medical sociologists' attempts to develop qualitative studies of the everyday experience of symptoms that accomplished more than the classification and enumeration of the contents of interview transcripts. The paper argues that lay narratives of illness are often marvellous stories which weave together a picture of the…
Ovid's Canace
Heroides 11 has long enjoyed a favourable reputation among critics, largely because Ovid appears to show a tactful restraint in his description of Canace's last moments and to refrain, for once in the Heroides , from descending into what Jacobson terms 'nauseating mawkishness'. Despite appearances, however, Ovid's wit is not entirely extinguished in this poem, for a devastating irony accompanies the certainty of Canace's imminent death. My object…
The Other Side of the Popular
The market route to mass higher education
Hope for the humblest? The role of self-help in chronic illness
This paper puts forward the proposition that modern self-help organizations are the progeny of an uneasy relationship between two ideologies: individualism and collectivism. Within this relationship individualism is the dominant partner. Using a case-study I examine the way in which these ideological influences can be seen to take concrete form in the history and activities of the National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society. I argue that certain char…
Bodies of knowledge
Developing public sociology through health impact assessment
The renewed interest in 'public sociology' has sparked debate and discussion about forms of sociological work and their relationship to the State and civil society. Medical sociologists are accustomed to engaging with a range of publics and audiences inside and outside universities and are in a position to make an informed contribution to this debate. This paper describes how some of the debates about sociological work are played out through a 'h…
Health inequalities
Health inequalities have been observed internationally across a number of dimensions (including, eg, socioeconomic position, ethnicity and gender) and have persisted over time.1 The lack of progress in addressing them has disappointed many within public health, particularly given an apparent prioritisation of health inequalities in UK policy.2 Building on recent research highlighting the limitations of addressing health inequalities by trying to …
Framing health inequalities for local intervention
This article explores how health inequalities are constructed as an object for policy intervention by considering four framings: politics, audit, evidence and treatment. A thematic analysis of 197 interviews conducted with local managers in England, Scotland and Wales is used to explore how these framings emerge from local narratives. The three different national policy regimes create contrasting contexts, especially regarding the different degre…
Contracts and the Quasi-market in Community Health Services
In the NHS quasi-market, contracts are the crucial mechanism through which purchasers influence providers of health care. Most attention has been given to the commissioning and contracting process in acute hospital services. However, there is another important but neglected sector of health care - community health services (CHS) - in which the specification and implementation of contracts is particularly difficult. In this article, three dimensio…
Performing the Micro-Social
This paper describes and critically assesses the use and development of a model of participatory theatre to reappropriate the ways in which a place in the deindustrialized south Wales valleys is represented. Neo-liberal policies which focus on individual responsibility, conditionality, sanctions and incentives frame the production of statistics on health inequality and deprivation in particular ways. While ‘place’ can be a resource for expressing…
Divergence or convergence? Health inequalities and policy in a devolved Britain
Since the advent of political devolution in the UK, it has been widely reported that markedly different health policies have emerged. However, most of these analyses are based on a comparison of health care policies and, as such, only tell part of a complex and evolving story. This paper considers official responses to a shared public health policy aim, the reduction of health inequalities, through an examination of national policy statements pro…
Performance Assessment and Wicked Problems
This article considers the background to one of the projects in the UK Economic and Social Research Council's Public Services Programme: a major; three-year investigation of how health inequalities are being framed for intervention at a local level in post-devolution England, Scotland and Wales. A particular interest is in the difference that performance assessment makes as it engages to a greater or lesser extent with health inequalities
Developing a civic intelligence
Writing in the Mother-Tongue
‘This poem is the feeblest and least poetical of all the Heroides , and has certain solecisms in diction and metre, which are either spurious or show that the epistle is an unfinished and careless performance.’ So Arthur Palmer in the preface to his commentary on Heroides 8, Hermione's letter to Orestes imploring him to rescue her from Neoptolemus, her abductor; and Peter Knox fans the flames of doubt about the authenticity of the letter (or at l…
Social planning
Recent Exploration and Survey in the North of British East Africa
Romashov and Nazanskij
Some Notes on Burial Customs in Seventeenth-Century Caernarfonshire
The mass of wills and inventories preserved among the probate records of the various dioceses of Wales and England, dating from Tudor and Stuart times, are arguably the earliest records to survive in bulk which reveal details of ordinary every-day life. In a recent exercise, records of over 1500 individuals, dating from the period 1630–90 and relating to Caernarfonshire, were examined and an attempt made to categorize and collate such information
The Economics of Teacher Supply
Journal Article The Economics of Teacher Supply Get access The Economics of Teacher Supply. By Antoni Zabalza, Philip Turnbull, and GARETH WILLIAMS. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 280. £13.75.) Maurice Peston Maurice Peston Queen Mary College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 357, 1 March 1980, Pages 183–184, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231672 Publi…
The Economics of Teacher Supply
The Economics of Teacher Supply
Reflections on the responses of employers to educational qualifications
Probate Records
Prior to the advent of Government reports, and the increase in literacy among the common people in the nineteenth century, there is a dearth of documentary material facing the social historian in England and Wales. While there are many chance records of farming practices, social conditions and the like dotted here and there among such accumulations as estate records and court rolls from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it is not common t…
Of adversity and innovation in higher education
This paper is an edited version of an address given on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Polytechnic of North London. It explores one of the issues to be considered by the SRHE National Enquiry into the Future of Higher Education sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust. The ideas being put forward are preliminary personal thoughts and may or may not be taken up in the reports of the Enquiry. The theme of innovation is co…
The Economics of Education
The economics of education
(1982). The economics of education: Current debates and prospects. British Journal of Educational Studies: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 97-107
Causes of the new centralism in English education
Causality, Morality, and Radicalism
The article commences with a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the 'sociology of sociology' enterprise. It is argued that a careful use of the approach can be illuminating in so far as it relates perceived internal contradiction in a given work to the wider intellectual milieux. The first section deals with the way in which some writers have depicted the strains between individuals and their worlds. I then go on to examine the way in …
Research highlights. No. 3
The movement for independent living
Activity, health and fitness in old age
The genesis of chronic illness
In this paper I demonstrate the way in which people's beliefs about the aetiology of their particular affliction (arthritis) need to be understood as part of a more comprehensive imaginative enterprise which I refer to as narrative reconstruction. The intrinsically teleological form of this enterprise means that identified 'causes' represent r only putative efficient connexions between the disease and antecedent factors but also narrative referen…
Having Epilepsy
Education as Social Policy
How Amateur was my valley
The Economics of Information and Human Capital. Volume II of Knowledge
Social planning
The Rehabilitation Detectives
Microbiological diagnosis of suppurative keratitis in Bangladesh
Borrowed time
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