Robert Knox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3606316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Knox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Knox |
| SIGNATURE | KNOX R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1850 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: The case of subprime
Law's quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation
Calls to criminalise ‘ecocide’ are, it seems, everywhere. What unites these calls is both a sense of urgency and a need for international action. The need for a quick and plausible fix makes international law assume a very specific allure to those who seek to combat. We argue that the proposed crime of ecocide is unable to tackle the social reality of ecocide and may indeed compromise further our ability to do so. At the same time, it argues that…
Vaccinating capitalism: Racialised value in the Covid-19 economy
This article reflects on the concept of necropolitics and its usefulness for understanding the state response to COVID-19, and its unequal political and economic consequences. Focusing on the British state, the paper seeks to explore and explain the dominant forms of government intervention and regulation that sought to ameliorate the crisis and shows how this response was shaped by a set of racialised capitalist social relations. The article arg…
Marxist Approaches to International Law
This chapter attempts to chart a course through the complex terrain of Marxist theory as applied to international law, especially given that Marxist international legal theory can only be understood in relation to a number of other debates. Particularly important are Marxist debates about the relationship between the ‘base’ and ‘superstructure’, about the nature and function of the state, and theories of ideology and hegemony. To that end, the ch…
Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting The Global Colour Line
World Trade Law After Neo-liberalism
Civilizing interventions? Race, war and international law
Over the past decade there has been an explosion in literature on imperialism and international law. This scholarship has focused on the use of force, especially humanitarian intervention and the war on terror. These accounts foreground the issue of race, arguing that these legal arguments reproduce the dynamic of the civilising mission. This article argues that such analyses miss some key elements. Contemporary interventions must be counterposed…
The History of Ceylon, from the Earliest Period to the Year MDCCCXV: To Which is Subjoined, Robert Knox's Historical Relation of the Island
This 1817 book by 'A. M. Philalethes' traces the history of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from the classical period to 1815, providing details of the religion, laws and manners of the people. An appendix contains an account, originally published in 1681, by Robert Knox (1641–1720) of his nearly twenty-year captivity on the island. The identity of the pseudonymous 'Philalethes' is not certain: he may have been Robert Fellowes (1770–1847), who, however, n…
Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene, an informal term used to signal the impact of collective human activity on biological, physical and chemical processes on the Earth system, is assessed using stratigraphic criteria. It is complex in time, space and process, and may be considered in terms of the scale, relative timing, duration and novelty of its various phenomena. The lithostratigraphic signal includes both direct components, such as urban constructions and man-…
Homo Juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of the Law
In Homo Juridicus, Alain Supiot argues that law has an 'anthropological' function – constituting people as rational beings by linking together their biological and symbolic dimensions. The law also serves a 'dogmatic function', embodying Western values and serving as a bar to totalitarian scientism and tempering the excesses of technology in the workplace. However, the anthropological function of the law has been undermined by the advance of scie…
Marxism, International Law, and Political Strategy
The question of international law's role in progressive politics has become increasingly important. This is reflected in an upsurge in scholarship dealing with international law's relationship to imperial power and its progressive potential. There has also been an increase in the number of Marxist accounts of international law, with China Miéville's Between Equal Rights being particularly important. Miéville's book is very pessimistic as to the p…
Are we now living in the Anthropocene
The term Anthropocene, proposed and increasingly employed to denote the current interval of anthropogenic global environmental change, may be discussed on stratigraphic grounds. A case can be made for its consideration as a formal epoch in that, since the start of the Industrial Revolution, Earth has endured changes sufficient to leave a global stratigraphic signature distinct from that of the Holocene or of previous Pleistocene interglacial phas…
The Achaemenid Empire in South Asia and Recent Excavations in Akra in Northwest Pakistan
The impact of the Achaemenid annexation of northwestern Pakistan has remained a focus for archaeological research for more than a century. A lack of well-stratified settlements and a focus on artifacts that are not necessarily appropriate for assessing the effects of imperial control have until now obfuscated our understanding of this issue. In this article, we present the results of three seasons of excavations at Akra located in the North West …
Amaravati
Amaravati: Buddhist Sculpture from the Great Stūpa
Irish Students' Stereotypes About Some National and Subnational Groups Within Ireland and Great Britain
A sample of Irish undergraduates was asked to characterize the English, Irish, Welsh, Scots, Northern Irish Catholics, Northern Irish Protestants, Southern Irish Catholics, and Southern Irish Protestants using both a check list and a free response format. Analyses of the social and personal stereotypes indicated that the English were described in different and significantly less favorable terms than the Irish. The enmities and strife in Northern …
Precise Determination of Longitude in the United States
T I lHE scientific community dealing with earth characteristics, marine and air navigation, and modern concepts of national defense is vitally concerned with longitudinal ties between continents. Expanded interest in modern geodesy has resulted particularly from research programs in developing intercontinental guided missiles and earth-circling satellites. The art of navigation has always been the most practical application of longitude, but in t…
An Historical Relation of Ceylon
Rennell's Journal, 1764-1767
Some Additional Observations on a Collection of Human Crania and Other Human Bones, at Present Preserved in the Crypt of a Church at Hythe, in Kent
Robert Knox, Some Additional Observations on a Collection of Human Crania and Other Human Bones, at Present Preserved in the Crypt of a Church at Hythe, in Kent, Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, Vol. 2 (1863), pp. 136-140
Some Observations on a Collection of Human Crania and Other Human Bones at Present Preserved in the Crypt of a Church at Hythe in Kent
Robert Knox, Some Observations on a Collection of Human Crania and Other Human Bones at Present Preserved in the Crypt of a Church at Hythe in Kent, Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, Vol. 1 (1861), pp. 238-245
Abstract of Observations on the Assyrian Marbles, and on Their Place in History and in Art
The races of men: A fragment.
Civilizing interventions? Race, war and international law
Over the past decade there has been an explosion in literature on imperialism and international law. This scholarship has focused on the use of force, especially humanitarian intervention and the war on terror. These accounts foreground the issue of race, arguing that these legal arguments reproduce the dynamic of the civilising mission. This article argues that such analyses miss some key elements. Contemporary interventions must be counterposed…
Marxism, International Law, and Political Strategy
The question of international law's role in progressive politics has become increasingly important. This is reflected in an upsurge in scholarship dealing with international law's relationship to imperial power and its progressive potential. There has also been an increase in the number of Marxist accounts of international law, with China Miéville's Between Equal Rights being particularly important. Miéville's book is very pessimistic as to the p…
World Trade Law After Neo-liberalism
The Achaemenid Empire in South Asia and Recent Excavations in Akra in Northwest Pakistan
The impact of the Achaemenid annexation of northwestern Pakistan has remained a focus for archaeological research for more than a century. A lack of well-stratified settlements and a focus on artifacts that are not necessarily appropriate for assessing the effects of imperial control have until now obfuscated our understanding of this issue. In this article, we present the results of three seasons of excavations at Akra located in the North West …
Law's quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation
Calls to criminalise ‘ecocide’ are, it seems, everywhere. What unites these calls is both a sense of urgency and a need for international action. The need for a quick and plausible fix makes international law assume a very specific allure to those who seek to combat. We argue that the proposed crime of ecocide is unable to tackle the social reality of ecocide and may indeed compromise further our ability to do so. At the same time, it argues that…
The races of men: A fragment.
Some Observations on a Collection of Human Crania and Other Human Bones at Present Preserved in the Crypt of a Church at Hythe in Kent
Robert Knox, Some Observations on a Collection of Human Crania and Other Human Bones at Present Preserved in the Crypt of a Church at Hythe in Kent, Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, Vol. 1 (1861), pp. 238-245
Abstract of Observations on the Assyrian Marbles, and on Their Place in History and in Art
Some Additional Observations on a Collection of Human Crania and Other Human Bones, at Present Preserved in the Crypt of a Church at Hythe, in Kent
Robert Knox, Some Additional Observations on a Collection of Human Crania and Other Human Bones, at Present Preserved in the Crypt of a Church at Hythe, in Kent, Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, Vol. 2 (1863), pp. 136-140
Rennell's Journal, 1764-1767
An Historical Relation of Ceylon
Precise Determination of Longitude in the United States
T I lHE scientific community dealing with earth characteristics, marine and air navigation, and modern concepts of national defense is vitally concerned with longitudinal ties between continents. Expanded interest in modern geodesy has resulted particularly from research programs in developing intercontinental guided missiles and earth-circling satellites. The art of navigation has always been the most practical application of longitude, but in t…
Irish Students' Stereotypes About Some National and Subnational Groups Within Ireland and Great Britain
A sample of Irish undergraduates was asked to characterize the English, Irish, Welsh, Scots, Northern Irish Catholics, Northern Irish Protestants, Southern Irish Catholics, and Southern Irish Protestants using both a check list and a free response format. Analyses of the social and personal stereotypes indicated that the English were described in different and significantly less favorable terms than the Irish. The enmities and strife in Northern …
Amaravati: Buddhist Sculpture from the Great Stūpa
Amaravati
The Achaemenid Empire in South Asia and Recent Excavations in Akra in Northwest Pakistan
The impact of the Achaemenid annexation of northwestern Pakistan has remained a focus for archaeological research for more than a century. A lack of well-stratified settlements and a focus on artifacts that are not necessarily appropriate for assessing the effects of imperial control have until now obfuscated our understanding of this issue. In this article, we present the results of three seasons of excavations at Akra located in the North West …
Are we now living in the Anthropocene
The term Anthropocene, proposed and increasingly employed to denote the current interval of anthropogenic global environmental change, may be discussed on stratigraphic grounds. A case can be made for its consideration as a formal epoch in that, since the start of the Industrial Revolution, Earth has endured changes sufficient to leave a global stratigraphic signature distinct from that of the Holocene or of previous Pleistocene interglacial phas…
Homo Juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of the Law
In Homo Juridicus, Alain Supiot argues that law has an 'anthropological' function – constituting people as rational beings by linking together their biological and symbolic dimensions. The law also serves a 'dogmatic function', embodying Western values and serving as a bar to totalitarian scientism and tempering the excesses of technology in the workplace. However, the anthropological function of the law has been undermined by the advance of scie…
Marxism, International Law, and Political Strategy
The question of international law's role in progressive politics has become increasingly important. This is reflected in an upsurge in scholarship dealing with international law's relationship to imperial power and its progressive potential. There has also been an increase in the number of Marxist accounts of international law, with China Miéville's Between Equal Rights being particularly important. Miéville's book is very pessimistic as to the p…
Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene, an informal term used to signal the impact of collective human activity on biological, physical and chemical processes on the Earth system, is assessed using stratigraphic criteria. It is complex in time, space and process, and may be considered in terms of the scale, relative timing, duration and novelty of its various phenomena. The lithostratigraphic signal includes both direct components, such as urban constructions and man-…
The History of Ceylon, from the Earliest Period to the Year MDCCCXV: To Which is Subjoined, Robert Knox's Historical Relation of the Island
This 1817 book by 'A. M. Philalethes' traces the history of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from the classical period to 1815, providing details of the religion, laws and manners of the people. An appendix contains an account, originally published in 1681, by Robert Knox (1641–1720) of his nearly twenty-year captivity on the island. The identity of the pseudonymous 'Philalethes' is not certain: he may have been Robert Fellowes (1770–1847), who, however, n…
Civilizing interventions? Race, war and international law
Over the past decade there has been an explosion in literature on imperialism and international law. This scholarship has focused on the use of force, especially humanitarian intervention and the war on terror. These accounts foreground the issue of race, arguing that these legal arguments reproduce the dynamic of the civilising mission. This article argues that such analyses miss some key elements. Contemporary interventions must be counterposed…
Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting The Global Colour Line
World Trade Law After Neo-liberalism
Marxist Approaches to International Law
This chapter attempts to chart a course through the complex terrain of Marxist theory as applied to international law, especially given that Marxist international legal theory can only be understood in relation to a number of other debates. Particularly important are Marxist debates about the relationship between the ‘base’ and ‘superstructure’, about the nature and function of the state, and theories of ideology and hegemony. To that end, the ch…
Vaccinating capitalism: Racialised value in the Covid-19 economy
This article reflects on the concept of necropolitics and its usefulness for understanding the state response to COVID-19, and its unequal political and economic consequences. Focusing on the British state, the paper seeks to explore and explain the dominant forms of government intervention and regulation that sought to ameliorate the crisis and shows how this response was shaped by a set of racialised capitalist social relations. The article arg…
Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: The case of subprime
Law's quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation
Calls to criminalise ‘ecocide’ are, it seems, everywhere. What unites these calls is both a sense of urgency and a need for international action. The need for a quick and plausible fix makes international law assume a very specific allure to those who seek to combat. We argue that the proposed crime of ecocide is unable to tackle the social reality of ecocide and may indeed compromise further our ability to do so. At the same time, it argues that…
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