David Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8296-3219 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 75 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 428 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Importance of Experience
The first part of this article considers the challenge of supporting pupils to write creatively about the natural world. It examines a text by a gifted young writer: Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty. It asks what the challenges might be for pupils who may be motivated to model their writing on McAnulty’s, but have limited experience of the natural world. Drawing on the scholarly work of John Dixon, Robert Eaglestone and others, the ar…
Culturally Imbued Trees
Australian Aboriginal song‐lines and Dreaming tracks follow the movement and interactions of ancestral beings and are marked by physical features associated with those ancestral beings at culturally significant places, often termed ‘sacred sites’. These locations can include living things like trees and other vegetation with culturally ascribed meanings. Not always visibly marked or intentionally altered, these plants comprise an integral part of…
Transformations of Race and Class in South Africa
This Discussion Article examines the exciting, innovative new book (2022) by Owen Crankshaw. It focuses on a summary including some comments on Crankshaw‘s key findings for the Greater Johannesburg Area for 1970–2011. It focuses primarily on his book’s Part 1 on issues of “Occupational Class Structure transformations”, but with some consideration also of Part 2 on geographical housing “Spatial Order transformations” by race and class (the author’…
Finding help for OCD in Australia
Objective People tend to live with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) for many years before receiving evidence-based treatment. This delay is partly due to a lack of access to information about which healthcare providers offer evidence-based treatment for OCD. This information was not easily accessible online for people in Australia.Methods In this study, we describe how an online directory of clinicians was developed and evaluated. We report on…
George Petrie (1790–1866) as a collector of Irish song
This chapter considers the contribution of George Petrie as a collector and publisher of Irish song. His upbringing, his professional career first as an artist and subsequently as an archaeologist, and his role as a leading figure in the Royal Irish Academy, all provided important contexts for his collection of traditional song. As the head of the orthographical and etymological section for the Memoir of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland he worked c…
Protected and conserved areas
In 2010, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted Aichi Biodiversity Target 11, committing to conserve, by 2020, at least 17 per cent of terrestrial and inland waters and 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas through systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs). Once national data are updated it is expected that Parties will have met the coverage elements of Target 11, especially…
Revolutionary abandon
In Nicaragua, the political trajectory of the governing FSLN has been understood as a transition from underground revolutionary circle toward clientelistic political machine. This article traces the emergence of these two key images in political and scholarly discourse, and shows how they have come to inform everyday politics in a community of rural government supporters, who-within a defunct agrarian cooperative-struggle to participate in the go…
Herrmann, Bernard
Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration
Extensive ecosystem restoration is increasingly seen as being central to conserving biodiversity 1 and stabilizing the climate of the Earth 2 . Although ambitious national and global targets have been set, global priority areas that account for spatial variation in benefits and costs have yet to be identified. Here we develop and apply a multicriteria optimization approach that identifies priority areas for restoration across all terrestrial biom…
Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine
BACKGROUND: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and the resulting coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) have afflicted tens of millions of people in a worldwide pandemic. Safe and effective vaccines are needed urgently. METHODS: In an ongoing multinational, placebo-controlled, observer-blinded, pivotal efficacy trial, we randomly assigned persons 16 years of age or older in a 1:1 ratio to receive two doses, 21 day…
Impact of Sediment Concentration on the Survival of Wastewater-Derived blaCTX-M-15-Producing E. coli, and the Implications for Dispersal into Estuarine Waters
The environmental cycling of antibiotic-resistant bla CTX-M-15 -producing E. coli following release from wastewater treatment plants is a major public health concern. This study aimed to (i) assess the impact of sediment concentrations on the rate of their inactivation following release from human wastewater into freshwater, and (ii) simulate their subsequent dispersal to the nearby coastline during a "worst-case" event where heavy rainfall coinc…
Pentecostalism and the Peasantry
With Pentecostalism frequently analysed as gaining traction in contexts of globalised individualisation and neoliberally-induced insecurity, scholars have paid less attention to the social purchase of the religion among the peasantry. This article draws on fieldwork in rural Nicaragua to argue that the distinctive relational form of campesinos - namely the rural household - should be central to the analysis of Pentecostal appeal. I argue that the…
Grounding Rights
Since the Sandinistas returned to power in Nicaragua in 2007, ideas about rights have been central to the governing party’s populist project. The rights in question are understood to require the production of ‘organized’ citizens who become integrated into the mechanisms of popular governance. But for rural Sandinistas who participated in the revolutionary agrarian reform of the 1980s, rights are about land. For some, realizing rights has require…
The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and its Diaspora
For at least two centuries, and arguably much longer, Ireland has exerted an important influence on the development of the traditional, popular and art musics of other regions, and in particular those of Britain and the United States. During the past decade or so, the traditional musics of the so-called Celtic regions have become a focus of international interest. The phenomenal success of shows such as Riverdance (which appeared in 1995, spawned…
Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene
Status and Prospects for Achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 11
This paper reviews the current status of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 at the global level. Although there remain gaps in the coverage of ecological regions and areas important for biodiversity and ecosystem services, 10 per cent coverage of coastal and marine areas under national jurisdiction has already been surpassed. The full implementation of agreed national priority actions and other commitments, including those in National Biodiversity Stra…
Acknowledging the work of poetry
A poetic playground
The literary map of the Peak District is surprisingly thin. This article explores how this lacuna has been addressed by a range of contemporary writers who have made the Peak District a site of poetic hyperactivity: a landscape of creative processes and practices; projects and poems of place. Paying particular attention to texts by Helen Mort, Mark Goodwin and Alec Finlay, the article contends that much contemporary Peak District poetry is underp…
Concepts of “Applied and Public Sociology
The argument focuses on current concepts of “applied” and “public” sociology proposed especially by the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology (AACS) and by Michael Burawoy within the American Sociological Association (ASA) in 2004, respectively. A broader concept of “engaged scholarship” is proposed by the author which spans many academic disciplines and fields, that is, can encompass a “bigger picture,” unlike applied or public sociolog…
Literary Mapping in the Digital Age
Drawing on the expertise of leading researchers from around the globe, this pioneering collection of essays explores how geospatial technologies are revolutionizing the discipline of literary studies. The book offers the first intensive examination of digital literary cartography, a field whose recent and rapid development has yet to be coherently analysed. This collection not only provides an authoritative account of the current state of the fie…
Bela Bartok
Béla Bartók
This biography of Béla Bartók (1881–1945) presents a new view of the innovative Hungarian musician. The book traces Bartók's international career as an ardent ethno-musicologist and composer, teacher, and pianist, while also providing a detailed discussion of most of his works. Further, it explores how Europe's political and cultural tumult affected Bartók's work, travel, and reluctant emigration to the safety of America in his final years. The b…
Is unemployment and low income harmful to health? Evidence from Britain
This study investigates how unemployment and income influence the length of time an individual remains in good health. This is a complex relationship since unemployment or low income deteriorates health but poor health can become a barrier to obtaining higher income or gaining re-employment. Data are from the British Household Panel Survey, using two measures of physical health: an index of mobility problems and a measure of self-assessed health.…
Have Wolves Restored Riparian Willows in Northern Yellowstone?
Geographical Technologies and the Interdisciplinary Study of Peoples and Cultures of the Past
Introducing Geographical Information Systems (GIS
Madness and Civilization
Introduction by David Cooper, Preface 1.Stultifera Navis 2.The Great Confinement 3.The Insane 4.Passion and Delirium 5. Aspects of Madness 6.Doctors and Patients 7.The Great Fear 8.The New Division 9.The Birth of the Asylum, Conclusion, Notes
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Connection Between Oral Language and Early Reading
To clarify the relationship between oral language and early reading development, the authors administered to 39 children a broad range of oral language measures in 3 areas (metalinguistics, structural language, and narrative discourse); measures of background variables (IQ, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, gender, family literacy); and measures of reading ability (word recognition, pseudoword reading, passage comprehension) in kindergarten and in…
Mapping the English Lake District
To date, much of the work that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to study human geographies applies a social science paradigm to quantitative data. There is a growing recognition of the need, however, to test whether GIS can be used to map out the qualitative ‘data’ provided by the articulation of subjective spatial experiences. This paper expands the conceptual possibilities opened up by the use of GIS technology through an exploration…
Element localization in archaeological bone using synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence
Behavioral risk factors in kindergarten
Is unemployment and low income harmful to health? Evidence from Britain
This study investigates how unemployment and income influence the length of time an individual remains in good health. This is a complex relationship since unemployment or low income deteriorates health but poor health can become a barrier to obtaining higher income or gaining re-employment. Data are from the British Household Panel Survey, using two measures of physical health: an index of mobility problems and a measure of self-assessed health.…
Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet
Mapping It out
Acknowledging the work of poetry
Revolutionary abandon
In Nicaragua, the political trajectory of the governing FSLN has been understood as a transition from underground revolutionary circle toward clientelistic political machine. This article traces the emergence of these two key images in political and scholarly discourse, and shows how they have come to inform everyday politics in a community of rural government supporters, who-within a defunct agrarian cooperative-struggle to participate in the go…
A poetic playground
The literary map of the Peak District is surprisingly thin. This article explores how this lacuna has been addressed by a range of contemporary writers who have made the Peak District a site of poetic hyperactivity: a landscape of creative processes and practices; projects and poems of place. Paying particular attention to texts by Helen Mort, Mark Goodwin and Alec Finlay, the article contends that much contemporary Peak District poetry is underp…
Concepts of “Applied and Public Sociology
The argument focuses on current concepts of “applied” and “public” sociology proposed especially by the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology (AACS) and by Michael Burawoy within the American Sociological Association (ASA) in 2004, respectively. A broader concept of “engaged scholarship” is proposed by the author which spans many academic disciplines and fields, that is, can encompass a “bigger picture,” unlike applied or public sociolog…
Brief communication
Histomorphometric aging methods report varying degrees of precision, measured through Standard Error of the Estimate (SEE). These techniques have been developed from variable samples sizes ( n ) and the impact of n on reported aging precision has not been rigorously examined in the anthropological literature. This brief communication explores the relation between n and SEE through a review of the literature (abstracts, articles, book chapters, th…
The Poetics of Place and Space
This article draws upon the ‘spatial turn’ in critical practice to open up thinking about Romantic and post‐Romantic representations of geo‐specific space. The opening section maps out the philosophical foundations for spatial literary criticism by tracing two main strands of spatial theory: one which emerges out of Heideggerian phenomenology; and the other which is based on the Marxist cultural analysis of Henri Lefebvre. The article then highli…
Ontogeny of School Failure
The ontogeny of school failure was addressed by examining the characteristics of 112 first-grade children, 63 of whom were considered at risk for school failure. Measures of achievement, intelligence, behavior, language, and learning potential were used with cluster analysis techniques to identify six empirically derived clusters that were replicated across two samples. Three profiles represented variations of normal performance, and three repres…
The World Map in Equal Area Presentation
Deinstitutionalization in Psychiatry, Everyday Life and Democracy
Madness and Civilization
Introduction by David Cooper, Preface 1.Stultifera Navis 2.The Great Confinement 3.The Insane 4.Passion and Delirium 5. Aspects of Madness 6.Doctors and Patients 7.The Great Fear 8.The New Division 9.The Birth of the Asylum, Conclusion, Notes
Freud Revisited
Sartre on Genet
There is a sense in which no biography has ever yet been written. Sartre’s Saint Genet, if one pursues this argument, may be seen as the first biography—and in a sense the last, since it defines prototypically the minimum and perhaps nearly the maximum limits of all future
Two Types of Rationality
The Established and the Outsiders
Some botanical and phytochemical observations in Netherlands New Guinea “New Zealand New Guinea Expedition 1961”
The Death of the Family
Eucharistic milieu in John Calvin and Eastern Orthodoxy
Illusions of equality
Deinstitutionalization in Psychiatry, Everyday Life and Democracy
The World Map in Equal Area Presentation
Agnes Heller and our Needs
Behavioral risk factors in kindergarten
Ontogeny of School Failure
The ontogeny of school failure was addressed by examining the characteristics of 112 first-grade children, 63 of whom were considered at risk for school failure. Measures of achievement, intelligence, behavior, language, and learning potential were used with cluster analysis techniques to identify six empirically derived clusters that were replicated across two samples. Three profiles represented variations of normal performance, and three repres…
Sunduza
The Music of Bela Bartok
Mapping It out
The Oxford-Hammond Atlas of the World
Automatic detection of tonality using note distribution
Western musical compositions written in the period of common‐practice tonality tend to use key signatures which are effectively a measure of their local harmonic ‘weight’. The authors report a rule‐based system for the automated detection of tonality which makes use of the total duration of individual note classes. From a collection of experimental data, the distribution of note classes is observed. Using these empirical results a heuristic searc…
Bartók, Concerto for orchestra
Sexual negotiation in the Aids era
OBJECTIVE: To test the safety of the 'negotiated safety' strategy-the strategy of dispensing with condoms within HIV-seronegative concordant regular sexual relationships under certain conditions. METHOD: Data from recently recruited cohort of homosexually active men (Sydney Men and Sexual Health cohort, n = 1037) are used to revisit negotiated safety. The men were surveyed using a structured questionnaire and questions addressing their sexual rel…
The Unfolding of Tonality in the Music of Bela Bartok
The music of Bela Bartok has attracted interest from analysts because of its apparent retention of residual tonal centricity within a musical context which is sometimes densely chromatic. The means by which such residual tonality is expressed in Bartok's music has been considered by a number of writers including George Perle, Elliott Antokoletz and PaulWilson.l In 1943 the composer remarked that his music was 'always based on a single fundamental…
Bartok
Herrmann, Bernard
Preferred and Actual Futures
This paper draws on 'views and visions' responses collected at the time of the Land Use-UK project in 1996. Surveyors were groups of school children with contributions in more remote locations from adults. As well as mapping the landscape participants were asked about their hopes and visions for the grid squares surveyed. One kilometre squares were identified by stratified random sampling techniques from the Ordnance Survey National Grid. The res…
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