Paul Clough
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Clough |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Clough |
| SIGNATURE | CLOUGH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1739-175X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Leveraging large language models for thematic analysis: A case study in the charity sector
This study explores how large language models (LLMs) can support deductive and inductive thematic coding in real-life contexts, balancing AI-driven efficiency with essential human oversight. Using three datasets from Tearfund, a UK-based Christian charity, we propose a dual-role human–LLM collaborative framework where the LLM functions as an initial annotator and a validator. In the deductive phase, GPT-4o and GPT-4o-mini were compared against hu…
Powers of Good and Evil: Social Transformation and Popular Belief
A key theme in the anthropology of beliefs is the relationship between socio-economic change and changes in the belief system. It has been widely argued that rapid economic change, particularly the introduction of capitalism, leads to an increase in beliefs in, and representations of, evil and the devil. These beliefs, it is argued, constitute forms of resistance to, or rejection of, "modernity." This volume builds on these arguments, suggesting …
Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa: Indigenous Accumulation in Hausaland
The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998). The book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limit…
Investigating clickbait in Chinese social media: A study of WeChat
Immunology, the Human Self, and the Neoliberal Regime
The Impact of Rural Political Economy on Gender Relations in Islamizing Hausaland, Nigeria
This article departs from general anthropological debates about the nature of gender to focus more narrowly on the impact of political economy and religion on gender relations. It explores the dialectic between commodification, Islamic conversion and gender relations in the Hausa hamlet of Marmara, in northern Nigeria. Despite changes in political economy and in religion, there has been great continuity in gender relations. The article ends with …
Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web
Place names are often used to describe and to enquire about geographical information. It is common for users to employ vernacular names that have vague spatial extent and which do not correspond to the official and administrative place name terminology recorded within typical gazetteers. There is a need therefore to enrich gazetteers with knowledge of such vague places and hence improve the quality of place name‐based information retrieval. Here …
The Relevance of Kinship to Moral Reasoning in Culture and in the Philosophy of Ethics
This article argues that the moral dimensions of the term 'cul ture' have been under-theorized in anthropology. The argument stems from a particular reading of the Western philosophy of ethics. Based in economic anthropology, I explore how an understanding of the moral imperative can illuminate differences in processes of accumulation. After a discussion of the concept of morality in philosophy and in recent anthropology, I go on to examine the p…
Knowledge in Passing: Reflexive Anthropology and Religious Awareness
In this article,1 I outline affinities between a Roman Catholic way of thinking in which I was raised, and the local Muslim shape of thought which I encountered during fieldwork. Thus, I engage with some of the recent literature on issues of "reflexivity" in ethnographic practice. But I go beyond a reflexive critique of my fieldwork experience and analysis, to argue that this critique can actually engender substantive comparisons between particul…
Powers of Good and Evil: Social Transformation and Popular Belief
A key theme in the anthropology of beliefs is the relationship between socio-economic change and changes in the belief system. It has been widely argued that rapid economic change, particularly the introduction of capitalism, leads to an increase in beliefs in, and representations of, evil and the devil. These beliefs, it is argued, constitute forms of resistance to, or rejection of, modernity. This volume builds on these arguments, suggesting th…
The Relevance of Religion and Culture to Commercial Accumulation: Fieldwork on Muslim Hausa Exchange and Agricultural Trade in Northern Nigeria
During 1976, I began research in rural sociology while still a lecturer in contemporary history and social science at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, northern Nigeria. The intellectual source of my interest was the keen international debate in Marxist political economy concerning the causes of economic underdevelopment. But my personal reason for choosing rural sociology was my desire, after six years enjoying the company of city Nigerians, to …
The social relations of grain marketing in Northern Nigeria
Clough examines the social relations of the internal marketing of one crop in the northern part of Nigeria, guineacorn, through case studies of rural traders. He examines the relationships between traders of varying degrees of wealth and political power, the manner and extent of profit‐making in the purchase and sale of peasant produce, and the particular social rules governing the interaction between the different levels of trader in guineacorn.…
Farmers and Traders in Hausaland
The social relations of grain marketing in Northern Nigeria
Clough examines the social relations of the internal marketing of one crop in the northern part of Nigeria, guineacorn, through case studies of rural traders. He examines the relationships between traders of varying degrees of wealth and political power, the manner and extent of profit‐making in the purchase and sale of peasant produce, and the particular social rules governing the interaction between the different levels of trader in guineacorn.…
Farmers and Traders in Hausaland
Powers of Good and Evil: Social Transformation and Popular Belief
A key theme in the anthropology of beliefs is the relationship between socio-economic change and changes in the belief system. It has been widely argued that rapid economic change, particularly the introduction of capitalism, leads to an increase in beliefs in, and representations of, evil and the devil. These beliefs, it is argued, constitute forms of resistance to, or rejection of, "modernity." This volume builds on these arguments, suggesting …
Powers of Good and Evil: Social Transformation and Popular Belief
A key theme in the anthropology of beliefs is the relationship between socio-economic change and changes in the belief system. It has been widely argued that rapid economic change, particularly the introduction of capitalism, leads to an increase in beliefs in, and representations of, evil and the devil. These beliefs, it is argued, constitute forms of resistance to, or rejection of, modernity. This volume builds on these arguments, suggesting th…
Knowledge in Passing: Reflexive Anthropology and Religious Awareness
In this article,1 I outline affinities between a Roman Catholic way of thinking in which I was raised, and the local Muslim shape of thought which I encountered during fieldwork. Thus, I engage with some of the recent literature on issues of "reflexivity" in ethnographic practice. But I go beyond a reflexive critique of my fieldwork experience and analysis, to argue that this critique can actually engender substantive comparisons between particul…
Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa: Indigenous Accumulation in Hausaland
The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998). The book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limit…
The Impact of Rural Political Economy on Gender Relations in Islamizing Hausaland, Nigeria
This article departs from general anthropological debates about the nature of gender to focus more narrowly on the impact of political economy and religion on gender relations. It explores the dialectic between commodification, Islamic conversion and gender relations in the Hausa hamlet of Marmara, in northern Nigeria. Despite changes in political economy and in religion, there has been great continuity in gender relations. The article ends with …
Farmers and Traders in Hausaland
The social relations of grain marketing in Northern Nigeria
Clough examines the social relations of the internal marketing of one crop in the northern part of Nigeria, guineacorn, through case studies of rural traders. He examines the relationships between traders of varying degrees of wealth and political power, the manner and extent of profit‐making in the purchase and sale of peasant produce, and the particular social rules governing the interaction between the different levels of trader in guineacorn.…
The Relevance of Religion and Culture to Commercial Accumulation: Fieldwork on Muslim Hausa Exchange and Agricultural Trade in Northern Nigeria
During 1976, I began research in rural sociology while still a lecturer in contemporary history and social science at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, northern Nigeria. The intellectual source of my interest was the keen international debate in Marxist political economy concerning the causes of economic underdevelopment. But my personal reason for choosing rural sociology was my desire, after six years enjoying the company of city Nigerians, to …
Powers of Good and Evil: Social Transformation and Popular Belief
A key theme in the anthropology of beliefs is the relationship between socio-economic change and changes in the belief system. It has been widely argued that rapid economic change, particularly the introduction of capitalism, leads to an increase in beliefs in, and representations of, evil and the devil. These beliefs, it is argued, constitute forms of resistance to, or rejection of, modernity. This volume builds on these arguments, suggesting th…
Knowledge in Passing: Reflexive Anthropology and Religious Awareness
In this article,1 I outline affinities between a Roman Catholic way of thinking in which I was raised, and the local Muslim shape of thought which I encountered during fieldwork. Thus, I engage with some of the recent literature on issues of "reflexivity" in ethnographic practice. But I go beyond a reflexive critique of my fieldwork experience and analysis, to argue that this critique can actually engender substantive comparisons between particul…
The Relevance of Kinship to Moral Reasoning in Culture and in the Philosophy of Ethics
This article argues that the moral dimensions of the term 'cul ture' have been under-theorized in anthropology. The argument stems from a particular reading of the Western philosophy of ethics. Based in economic anthropology, I explore how an understanding of the moral imperative can illuminate differences in processes of accumulation. After a discussion of the concept of morality in philosophy and in recent anthropology, I go on to examine the p…
Modelling vague places with knowledge from the Web
Place names are often used to describe and to enquire about geographical information. It is common for users to employ vernacular names that have vague spatial extent and which do not correspond to the official and administrative place name terminology recorded within typical gazetteers. There is a need therefore to enrich gazetteers with knowledge of such vague places and hence improve the quality of place name‐based information retrieval. Here …
The Impact of Rural Political Economy on Gender Relations in Islamizing Hausaland, Nigeria
This article departs from general anthropological debates about the nature of gender to focus more narrowly on the impact of political economy and religion on gender relations. It explores the dialectic between commodification, Islamic conversion and gender relations in the Hausa hamlet of Marmara, in northern Nigeria. Despite changes in political economy and in religion, there has been great continuity in gender relations. The article ends with …
Immunology, the Human Self, and the Neoliberal Regime
Investigating clickbait in Chinese social media: A study of WeChat
Powers of Good and Evil: Social Transformation and Popular Belief
A key theme in the anthropology of beliefs is the relationship between socio-economic change and changes in the belief system. It has been widely argued that rapid economic change, particularly the introduction of capitalism, leads to an increase in beliefs in, and representations of, evil and the devil. These beliefs, it is argued, constitute forms of resistance to, or rejection of, "modernity." This volume builds on these arguments, suggesting …
Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa: Indigenous Accumulation in Hausaland
The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998). The book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limit…
Leveraging large language models for thematic analysis: A case study in the charity sector
This study explores how large language models (LLMs) can support deductive and inductive thematic coding in real-life contexts, balancing AI-driven efficiency with essential human oversight. Using three datasets from Tearfund, a UK-based Christian charity, we propose a dual-role human–LLM collaborative framework where the LLM functions as an initial annotator and a validator. In the deductive phase, GPT-4o and GPT-4o-mini were compared against hu…
Sociology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Economy (4 works)