Robert White
Biographic Data
| ID | 3606574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9579-7072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1884 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings
Farewell to Arms: Antony and Cleopatra
War and conflict, or peace and love? In Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare chooses to enact the debate openly as one waged between two contrasting ideologies in the widest conflict between empires, and the male protagonist as a commanding officer made famous in war faces a choice between starkly opposed value systems. As a variation on the theme of a love relationship complicated by the soldier’s past, Antony is shown in the throes of attempting to…
Spiritual Foundations for an Ecologically Sustainable Society
This article takes a broad macroevolutionary approach to our changing relationship to Nature in the light of the teachings or the Bahá’í Faith. It suggests that humanity is in a process of evolving consciousness leading to the development of a new planetary culture based on spiritual principles. In an ecological sense, humanity has in many respects appeared to be a delinquent species running out of control. Within a larger vision of humanity’s sp…
Attachment-based psychosocial programme for under-privileged school children with adverse life experiences in Istanbul, Turkey
Children experiencing educational neglect are likely to experience the harm associated with adverse life experiences and a range of emotional and psychological challenges. Using attachment theory and psychosocial frameworks, we devised and implemented an intervention designed to ameliorate the deleterious effects of challenging behaviours in an elementary school situated in a deprived neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey. For a period of eight month…
A decision support tool for assessing cumulative effects on an Arctic migratory tundra caribou population
Russell, D., A. Gunn, and R. White. 2021. A decision support tool for assessing cumulative effects on an Arctic migratory tundra caribou population. Ecology and Society 26(1):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12105-260104
Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy: Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (1820)
This book is conceived as a sustained critical study of John Keats’s collection of poems, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems (1820). It was published in the 2020 bicentenary. It treats the collection as an authorially organised and thematically unified volume rather than as a collection of occasional poems. An important thread, which I follow through the volume as a major unifying principle, has also gone largely unnoticed by c…
Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy: Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems
Multidimensional Unity: ‘A Dozen Features of Propriety’
This chapter considers the collection as a whole, suggesting some stylistic and thematic links and similitudes which establish the volume as one which has a considered unity. These facets are summarized as (1) enchantment and disenchantment (Fraistat), (2) dreams and visions, (3) the theme of loss, (4) a word, ‘adieu’, (5) bringing back the past, (6) antithetical states and contrast (7), the concept behind Milton’s ‘L’Allegro’ and ‘Il Penseroso’,…
Integrative character education (ICE): Grounding facilitated prosocial development in a humanistic perspective for a multicultural world
Character Education initiatives within schools have gained both proponents and opponents over recent years and continue to garner mixed reviews. Proponents argue that the need is urgent and the increasing level of school disruption, antisocial behavior and violence requires a focus on values/virtues/moral education and claim this is synonymous with good practice in education. Opponents ask, whose values will be taught and how does this address th…
Fever of the Tuskegee Study
A commentary on “Fevered Decisions: Race, Ethics, and Clinical Vulnerability in the Malarial Treatment of Neurosyphilis, 1922–1953,” by Matthew Gambino in the July‐August 2015 issue
Autodidactic sonnets
True to one of the themes in this issue of our journal, my essay raises two broadly pedagogical questions. First, what did Shakespeare learn about writing sonnets from his most accomplished contemporaries, Sidney and Spenser, and secondly what does he teach his own readers about how to read his sonnets? A single answer to both is proposed: he learned and taught that the abiding and primary subject of the sonnet is the sonnet itself and the kind o…
School-wide mediated prosocial development: Applying a sociocultural understanding to inclusive practice and character education
The issue of inclusive practice, particularly as it pertains to how school staff address antisocial behavior to improve learning and life outcomes for children has become a primary topic of discussion among educational stakeholders. Within an action research framework, this investigation used a mixed-method multiple case study approach to investigate what impact character education has on school climate and pupil behavior within five primary scho…
Raymond Darwin Cameron III (1941–2014)
Ray Cameron was widely known as an Arctic scientist and a caribou biologist. And Ray was just as well known and appreciated by colleagues, friends, and family as social and sociable, generous, and as helpful to others as a human can be. In his community of Ester, Alaska, Ray probably plowed more driveways for friends, hosted more gatherings, and organized more barn and house raisings than anyone
Green Criminology: An Introduction to the Study of Environmental Harm
Over the past ten years, the study of environmental harm and 'crimes against nature' has become an increasingly popular area of research amongst criminologists. This book represents the fi rst international, comprehensive and introductory text for green criminology, offering a concise exposition of theory and concepts and providing extensive geographical coverage, diversity and depth to the many issues pertaining to environmental harm and crime. …
Controversies in Environmental Sociology
Mental Illness: Is there an Association With Cancer Screening Among Women Veterans
The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on HIV and Aids Programs in a High Prevalence Country: The Case of Malawi
Valuing the environmental externalities of oasis farming in Left Banner, Alxa, China
I'm Not Too Sure what I Told you the Last Time: Methological Notes on Accounts from High-Risk Activists in the Irish Republican Movement
Social movement research often draws on intensive interviews with activists to provide rich, detailed information on recruitment processes. Intensive interview data, however, are subject to misunderstandings between researchers and respondents, poor memories, the possibility that respondents will intentionally mislead in their presentation of self, and other threats. Veterans or members of the Provisional IRA and Provisional Sinn Féin were interv…
Aspects of the Management of the Remains of Limestone Industries in the Yorkshire Dales
Survey, protection, consolidation and interpretation of aspects of limestone industries in the Yorkshire Dales National Park is discussed, particularly initial results of the Yorkshire Dales Lime Kiln Survey including works to protect the two Hoffmann kilns in the National Park. Attention is drawn to recent investigations of clamp or sow kilns, two of which have been dated to the late 17th century
Controversies in Environmental Sociology
Share ownership in Australia: The emergence of new tensions
The rise in private share ownership over the last decade is an interesting but relatively poorly researched issue in Australia. In the expectation that relations between large companies and their shareholders are already important and will become increasingly so, we report exploratory longitudinal studies of two aspects of the interaction. Regression analysis of shareholders' demographic and attitudinal characteristics, drawn from National Social…
Business in Action: Framing and Overflowing in the Logistics of an Australian Company
As market relations become more pervasive, so the classical sociological issue of the tension between 'economic' and 'social' explanations becomes more salient than ever. Michel Callon has proposed that the Actor-Network Theory (A-NT) developed in science and technology studies provides a useful approach to this tension. In this article we outline his innovatively traditional 'market test' of A-NT, and then test and illustrate it through a contra…
Marshall, Mannheim and Contested Citizenship
In this paper we address tensions in Marshall's account of the successive emergence of civil, political and social rights in citizenship. These tensions were Marshall's implicit and typically modern assumption of human nature, his privileging of the analytical rationality that follows from it, and the disjunction between the fixity of that rationality and the ‘evolution’ of his central metaphor. When he returned to it by emphasizing strains betwe…
Marshall, Mannheim and contested citizenship
In this paper we address tensions in Marshall's account of the successive emergence of civil, political and social rights in citizenship. These tensions were Marshall's implicit and typically modem assumption of human nature, his privileging of the analytical rationality that follows from it, and the disjunction between the fixity of that rationality and the 'evolution' of his central metaphor. When he returned to it by emphasizing strains betwee…
Animals and modernity: Changing Human-Animal Relations, 1949-98
In this article we provide an empirical test of Franklin's (1999) recent contribution to the burgeoning study of human-animal relations. Drawing on the anthropological claim that animals are good to think with, Franklin used theories of reflexive modernization to explain a shift to increasingly zoocentric and sentimentalized relations with animals. After deriving a series of expectations from this account, we tested them through a content-analysi…
The mental maps of British school leavers
Gould P. R. and White R. R. (1968) The mental maps of British school leavers, Reg. Studies 2, 161–182. Mental maps, or residential perception surfaces, are constructed for pupils about to leave twenty-three schools in Britain. While the surfaces vary with the locations of the schools, all display remarkably consistent patterns. A cartographic model is presented in which the mental map at a specific location is generated by convoluting a general, …
Comparing State Repression of Pro-State Vigilantes and Anti-State Insurgents: Northern Ireland, 1972-75
I compare the repression of "pro-state" paramilitary violence with the repression of anti-state insurgent violence. The setting examined is Northern Ireland between August 1972 and November 1975. During this time period, "pro-state" Protestant paramilitaries and "anti-state" Irish Republican paramilitaries engaged in significant levels of violence. Among the state's responses to this violence were the internment, without charge or trial, of suspe…
I'm Not Too Sure what I Told you the Last Time: Methological Notes on Accounts from High-Risk Activists in the Irish Republican Movement
Social movement research often draws on intensive interviews with activists to provide rich, detailed information on recruitment processes. Intensive interview data, however, are subject to misunderstandings between researchers and respondents, poor memories, the possibility that respondents will intentionally mislead in their presentation of self, and other threats. Veterans or members of the Provisional IRA and Provisional Sinn Féin were interv…
Theatrum mundi: The Theatre Metaphor in Calvin
Business in Action: Framing and Overflowing in the Logistics of an Australian Company
As market relations become more pervasive, so the classical sociological issue of the tension between 'economic' and 'social' explanations becomes more salient than ever. Michel Callon has proposed that the Actor-Network Theory (A-NT) developed in science and technology studies provides a useful approach to this tension. In this article we outline his innovatively traditional 'market test' of A-NT, and then test and illustrate it through a contra…
Explaining Support for Animal Rights: A Comparison of Two Recent Approaches to Humans, Nonhuman Animals, and Postmodernity
Questions on "animal rights" in a cross-national survey conducted in 1993 provide an opportunity to compare the applicability to this issue of two theories of the socio-political changes summed up in "postmodernity": Inglehart's (1997) thesis of "postmaterialist values" and Franklin's (1999) synthesis of theories of late modernity. Although Inglehart seems not to have addressed human-nonhuman animal relations, it is reasonable to apply his theory…
The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on HIV and Aids Programs in a High Prevalence Country: The Case of Malawi
Don't Mourn the Death of Theory, Organize! Globalization and the rhizome of anarcho-syndicalism
2002). Don't Mourn the Death of Theory, Organize! Globalization and the rhizome of anarcho-syndicalism. Continuum: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 317-333
Share ownership in Australia: The emergence of new tensions
The rise in private share ownership over the last decade is an interesting but relatively poorly researched issue in Australia. In the expectation that relations between large companies and their shareholders are already important and will become increasingly so, we report exploratory longitudinal studies of two aspects of the interaction. Regression analysis of shareholders' demographic and attitudinal characteristics, drawn from National Social…
Democracy in the Theatre: Louis Lumet's Théâtre Civique
Notes on the Aboriginal Races of the North-Western Provinces of South America
Notes on the Aboriginal Races of the North-Western Provinces of South America
Letters From South Africa in 1895
LETTERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA IN 1895 Get access ROBERT WHITE, C.B., C.M.G. D.S.O. ROBERT WHITE, C.B., C.M.G. D.S.O. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume XXXVII, Issue CXLVII, April 1938, Pages 167–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a101330 Published: 01 April 1938
The mental maps of British school leavers
Gould P. R. and White R. R. (1968) The mental maps of British school leavers, Reg. Studies 2, 161–182. Mental maps, or residential perception surfaces, are constructed for pupils about to leave twenty-three schools in Britain. While the surfaces vary with the locations of the schools, all display remarkably consistent patterns. A cartographic model is presented in which the mental map at a specific location is generated by convoluting a general, …
Ibsen in France: Romain Rolland and Norwegian Drama
Pictures in/and Print
Between Friends/Entre Amis. Edited by Lorraine Monk. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 294 pp. Robert Harney and Harold Troper. Immigrants: A Portrait of the Urban Experience, 1890-1930. Toronto and New York: Van Nostrand Rein- hold, 1975.212 pp. Michael Lesy. Real Life: Louisville in the Twenties. New York: Panth- eon Books, 1976. 237 pp. VousufKarsh. Karsh Portraits. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976.203 pp. Richard Avedon. Portra…
Democracy in the Theatre: Louis Lumet's Théâtre Civique
Fifteen Years of Calvin Studies in French (1965–1980)
A Mug's Game: Critical Shortcutting
Marie Boroff. Language and the Poet : Verbal Artistry in Frost, Stevens, and Moore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. 198 pp. Daniel Hoffman, ed. Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979. 618 pp. Rushworth M. Kidder. E. E. Cummings: An Introduction to the Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.275 + xxviii pp. David Shapiro. John Ashbery: An Introduction to the Poetry. N…
Borderline Cases: The Private‐Eye Novels of Howard Engel
Conservation of the Remains of the Lead Industry in the Yorkshire Dales
The remains of the lead industry are now recognised as an integral part of the 'natural beauty' of the Yorkshire Dales which the Yorkshire Dales National Park Committee has a statutory duty to preserve and enhance. The landscape impact of the industry, on woodland, settlement and communications as well as at mining and processing sites themselves, is briefly described, together with threats to the remains and protective measures taken. The latter…
Taking Custody to the Community: The Dynamics of Social Control and Social Integration
(1991). Taking Custody to the Community. Current Issues in Criminal Justice: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 171-184
A smith's hoard from Tattershall Thorpe, Lincolnshire: A synopsis
During 1981, excavation of a large sand and gravel pit in Tattershall Thorpe, Lincolnshire, revealed many traces of Neolithic occupation and three Roman pits (fig. 8). In the southwestern part of the site, a sub-rectangular feature, aligned approximately east-west (pl. II a ), was found to contain a large number of iron tools and other objects, including Roman coins and glass which initially caused the material to be reported as Romano-British. S…
Interlocutors, Interpellants, Interpreters, Interpretants
William Styron. The Confessions of Nat Turner. Vintage International Edition. New York: Vintage Books, 1993. Albert E. Stone. The Return of Nat Turner: History, Literature, and Cultural Politics in Sixties America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992. Even though Vintage has recently brought out a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of The Confessions of Nat Turner, and even though Samuel Coale's 1991 William Styron Revisited argues that, even…
Theatrum mundi: The Theatre Metaphor in Calvin
Comme on Dit’: The Proverb in Calvin’s Sermons
Missing a Generation: The rat man and hamlet
The deformity of theory in psychoanalysis
Comparing State Repression of Pro-State Vigilantes and Anti-State Insurgents: Northern Ireland, 1972-75
I compare the repression of "pro-state" paramilitary violence with the repression of anti-state insurgent violence. The setting examined is Northern Ireland between August 1972 and November 1975. During this time period, "pro-state" Protestant paramilitaries and "anti-state" Irish Republican paramilitaries engaged in significant levels of violence. Among the state's responses to this violence were the internment, without charge or trial, of suspe…
Rationality and Rhetoric in the Corporate World: The Corporate Annual Report as an Aristotelian Genre
This paper is part of a research programme into corporate annual reports. Reports do provide the information on the past performance, present state and future prospects which investors in listed companies require for the rational choices attributed to them. They also reveal the companies' responsiveness to the publics comprising the civil societies in which they are embedded. This effect requires more than strict rationality. To use Simon's disti…
The life of class: A case study in a sociological concept
This study in the use of a sociological concept is based in recent sociologies of knowledge. The empirical material is Pakulski and Waters' (1996a) argument for 'the death of class'. Three anomalies are identified in their claim: puzzles of 'reflexion' (referring to a precondition that sociology be self-exemplifying); of 'repetition' (denoting an isomorphism between Pakulski and Waters' case and Bernstein's revisionism; and of 'reception' (referr…
Explaining Support for Animal Rights: A Comparison of Two Recent Approaches to Humans, Nonhuman Animals, and Postmodernity
Questions on "animal rights" in a cross-national survey conducted in 1993 provide an opportunity to compare the applicability to this issue of two theories of the socio-political changes summed up in "postmodernity": Inglehart's (1997) thesis of "postmaterialist values" and Franklin's (1999) synthesis of theories of late modernity. Although Inglehart seems not to have addressed human-nonhuman animal relations, it is reasonable to apply his theory…
Animals and modernity: Changing Human-Animal Relations, 1949-98
In this article we provide an empirical test of Franklin's (1999) recent contribution to the burgeoning study of human-animal relations. Drawing on the anthropological claim that animals are good to think with, Franklin used theories of reflexive modernization to explain a shift to increasingly zoocentric and sentimentalized relations with animals. After deriving a series of expectations from this account, we tested them through a content-analysi…
Don't Mourn the Death of Theory, Organize! Globalization and the rhizome of anarcho-syndicalism
2002). Don't Mourn the Death of Theory, Organize! Globalization and the rhizome of anarcho-syndicalism. Continuum: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 317-333
Marshall, Mannheim and Contested Citizenship
In this paper we address tensions in Marshall's account of the successive emergence of civil, political and social rights in citizenship. These tensions were Marshall's implicit and typically modern assumption of human nature, his privileging of the analytical rationality that follows from it, and the disjunction between the fixity of that rationality and the ‘evolution’ of his central metaphor. When he returned to it by emphasizing strains betwe…
Marshall, Mannheim and contested citizenship
In this paper we address tensions in Marshall's account of the successive emergence of civil, political and social rights in citizenship. These tensions were Marshall's implicit and typically modem assumption of human nature, his privileging of the analytical rationality that follows from it, and the disjunction between the fixity of that rationality and the 'evolution' of his central metaphor. When he returned to it by emphasizing strains betwee…
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