Heather Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3615910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pomona College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3564-8985 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Edward Thomas (Cochfarf) « premier ami de la Bretagne »
Cet article met en évidence le rôle central joué par Edward Thomas (Cochfarf) dans les relations galloises-bretonnes au cours de la première décennie du XXe siècle. Il rend accessible en français, pour la première fois, des textes rédigés en gallois par Cochfarf, qu’il s’agisse de journalisme ou de correspondance privée, ainsi que des lettres qui lui ont été adressées en gallois par des Bretons. L’analyse de ces textes révèle la complexité de la …
Governing the impact of emerging technologies: Actors, technologies, and regulation
Tensions on the periphery: Breton druids in Cardiff (1899)
This article moves beyond the more usual focus on hierarchical relations between "major" and "minor" cultures to contribute to the emerging debate on the importance of the relations of peripheries with each other, by seeking out the hidden tensions in a rich corpus of travel writing relating to a neo-druidic event in Cardiff in 1899, to which a group of enthusiastic Bretons, mostly from the ranks of the newly formed Union Rgionaliste Bretonne [Br…
Technologies of inclusion and marginalization: Mobile phones and multiple exclusion homeless women
Little is known about women experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH) in the UK, and even less about their use of mobile phones. MEH describes a subset of homeless people with multiple and complex needs who experience forms of deep social exclusion. Marginalized and socially excluded women often avoid social services and survive through remaining elusive and invisible. This evasion is reflected in their mobile phone practices in which bo…
Sites of Celtic Authenticity in Post-Ossian Francophone Travelogues
Through a series of close readings from French-language travelogues on the “Celtic” north, this article illustrates the importance of place to the authentic experience of poetry among the generations that had fallen under the spell of Ossian at the end of the eighteenth century. It traces the motif of the “poetic encounter” through texts by Faujas de Saint-Fond, Necker de Saussure, Charles Nodier, Astolphe de Custine and Alfred Erny. Spanning alm…
Waking up from Delusion: Mindfulness (Sati) and Right Mind-and-Heart (Bodhicitta) for Educating Activists
In the face of current turbulent times including climate emergencies, species extinction, the erosion of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism-in short, a suffering world-the authors of this paper propose that education needs to be centrally an activist effort dedicated to healing and repairing the increasingly wounded and damaged world. To this end, this paper explores Buddhism as an educational program that centralizes a healing curriculum…
China and the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020–22
Narratives provide the storylines of conflict and in doing so become an arena of conflict themselves. When states mount information campaigns against each other, they are trying to change the narrative. The digital platforms of the new information environment have been identified by various analysts as a significant factor in contemporary strategy and crisis management. But while social media is noisier and more chaotic than traditional media, an…
India–Pakistan, 2019
Narratives provide the storylines of conflict and in doing so become an arena of conflict themselves. When states mount information campaigns against each other, they are trying to change the narrative. The digital platforms of the new information environment have been identified by various analysts as a significant factor in contemporary strategy and crisis management. But while social media is noisier and more chaotic than traditional media, an…
Understanding narratives and information campaigns
Narratives provide the storylines of conflict and in doing so become an arena of conflict themselves. When states mount information campaigns against each other, they are trying to change the narrative. The digital platforms of the new information environment have been identified by various analysts as a significant factor in contemporary strategy and crisis management. But while social media is noisier and more chaotic than traditional media, an…
US–Iran, 2020
Narratives provide the storylines of conflict and in doing so become an arena of conflict themselves. When states mount information campaigns against each other, they are trying to change the narrative. The digital platforms of the new information environment have been identified by various analysts as a significant factor in contemporary strategy and crisis management. But while social media is noisier and more chaotic than traditional media, an…
Russia and the Ukraine crisis, 2013–23
Narratives provide the storylines of conflict and in doing so become an arena of conflict themselves. When states mount information campaigns against each other, they are trying to change the narrative. The digital platforms of the new information environment have been identified by various analysts as a significant factor in contemporary strategy and crisis management. But while social media is noisier and more chaotic than traditional media, an…
Conclusion
Narratives provide the storylines of conflict and in doing so become an arena of conflict themselves. When states mount information campaigns against each other, they are trying to change the narrative. The digital platforms of the new information environment have been identified by various analysts as a significant factor in contemporary strategy and crisis management. But while social media is noisier and more chaotic than traditional media, an…
Introduction: New Dialogues with Breton Literature and Culture
Peer reviewed
Are the Bretons French? The Case of François Jaffrennou/Taldir ab Hernin
This article explores the poetry of François Jaffrennou, who published under the druidic pseudonym Taldir ab Hernin, as a case study in decolonized multilingualism. Close readings of Taldir's writing in Breton, Welsh and French reveal the pressures of negotiating a hybrid Celtic-French identity, as he affirms his Celticity while maintaining a careful relationship with France. Taldir criticizes the French state in his Welsh texts, whereas in Frenc…
The Unavoidable Technology: How Artificial Intelligence Can Strengthen Nuclear Stability
Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing at a rapid pace—both the technology itself and its applications. It is becoming unavoidable in both the civilian and military domains and will soon impact
Could the Houthis Be the Next Hizballah? Iranian Proxy Development in Yemen and the Future of the Houthi Movement
The authors analyze the prospect that Iran will further invest in Yemen's Houthis and develop them into an enduring proxy group. The authors examine the Houthi movement's history, the Houthis' current relations with Iran, Iran's history of proxy development, and the trajectory of the Houthi-Iran relationship, and then pose scenarios for the future. The report should be of interest to a wide audience in the foreign policy and defense community
The hacker and the state: Cyber attacks and the new normal of geopolitics
Ben Buchanan's latest book, The hacker and the state, reads like a hacker's toolkit, covering opportunities for cyber activities to coerce, sabotage, ransom and disrupt, with fascinating accompanying vignettes of the most recent cyber attacks and crises. Buchanan demonstrates the versatility of cyber as a tool for subterfuge, but this versatility is limited to ‘shaping geopolitics and seizing the advantage, [and] they (cyber operations) are compa…
States of Emergency: New Writing on Deportation and Democracy
The poetry of Celtic places
This paper examines the radical shift in the place of Celts in the French imagination during the course of the nineteenth century, by focusing on two versions of a passage describing Wales by Michelet: the first written in his travel journal (1834), the second published by his widow (1893). Wales, by virtue of being a Celtic place, allows Michelet to deepen his understanding of France. Whereas juxtaposition of the two versions of his text reveals…
Asymmetric arms control and strategic stability: Scenarios for limiting hypersonic glide vehicles
Can arms control incorporate emerging technology? Other articles in this special issue identify potential risks emerging technologies pose to stability and how they are intertwined with international politics. Is there a future for multilateral strategic arms control? This article looks ahead to explore how arms control might reduce those risks but in order to do so we must update concepts of both arms control and strategic stability. Building on…
Trends in the Draw of Americans to Foreign Terrorist Organizations from 9/11 to Today
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has recently been more successful than al Qaeda in gaining U.S. terrorist recruits. The authors undertake a demographic profile of individuals drawn to foreign terrorist organizations and find that the affiliates average terrorists recruited by ISIL is younger, less educated, and more likely to be African American/black or Caucasian/white and a U.S.-born citizen.
Strategic Stability, Uncertainty and the Future of Arms Control
The United States’ new Nuclear Posture Review reflects changes in how the US thinks about its broader strategic environment
Marx, Mariátegui, and Mining
The nuclear education of Donald J. Trump
During the 2016 American presidential campaign, Democrats and Republicans alike repeatedly raised concerns at the prospect of Donald Trump being in charge of America’s nuclear arsenal based on his seemingly unstable personality. Unfortunately, this emphasis on Trump’s character distracted attention from any in-depth investigation into his long-standing interest in nuclear issues. This article seeks to remedy this shortcoming by highlighting the n…
Prohibition and Its Discontents
States and civil-society groups pursuing a ban on nuclear weapons do not all share the same motivations
Asymmetric arms control and strategic stability: Scenarios for limiting hypersonic glide vehicles
Can arms control incorporate emerging technology? Other articles in this special issue identify potential risks emerging technologies pose to stability and how they are intertwined with international politics. Is there a future for multilateral strategic arms control? This article looks ahead to explore how arms control might reduce those risks but in order to do so we must update concepts of both arms control and strategic stability. Building on…
Adolescents' Reported Usage of Selected Foods in Relation to Their Perceptions and Social Norms for Those Foods
Power from Experience: Urban Popular Movements in Late Twentieth Century Mexico
Power from Experience: Urban Popular Movements in Late Twentieth Century Mexico. By Paul Lawrence Haber. University Park: Penn State Press. 2006. 320p. $55.00. With social peace in Mexico unraveling just five years after the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was voted from power in 2000, it would seem an apt time for a new book-length study on urban popular movements in Mexico. This is ironic because by the end of the twenthieth…
What lies beneath: An Eco-Historical View of High Andes Water Pollution
This article in two parts provides a sketch of the Suma Quta (in Aymara language, "Beautiful Lake") Project, an experiment in "bottom-up science" begun in the Lake Titicaca basin in Peru in 2009. The article explores the question of why water resource and fisheries management has fallen into crisis in what has been in millennial terms one of the world's most meticulously managed hydroscapes. It argues that post-Conquest patterns of village autono…
The Unavoidable Technology: How Artificial Intelligence Can Strengthen Nuclear Stability
Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing at a rapid pace—both the technology itself and its applications. It is becoming unavoidable in both the civilian and military domains and will soon impact
The nuclear education of Donald J. Trump
During the 2016 American presidential campaign, Democrats and Republicans alike repeatedly raised concerns at the prospect of Donald Trump being in charge of America’s nuclear arsenal based on his seemingly unstable personality. Unfortunately, this emphasis on Trump’s character distracted attention from any in-depth investigation into his long-standing interest in nuclear issues. This article seeks to remedy this shortcoming by highlighting the n…
Writing to Paris: Poets, Nobles and Savages in Nineteenth‐Century Brittany
In this article, representations of Brittany in nineteenth‐century French‐language literature are studied in order to investigate the way in which cultural cross‐currents can be observed in the detail of the text. A lexical approach shows how writers have re‐worked motifs and clichés about Brittany (particular attention is paid to the lexical field of ‘sauvage’), and to how writers' precise choice of words can reveal the complexity of the relatio…
Technologies of inclusion and marginalization: Mobile phones and multiple exclusion homeless women
Little is known about women experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH) in the UK, and even less about their use of mobile phones. MEH describes a subset of homeless people with multiple and complex needs who experience forms of deep social exclusion. Marginalized and socially excluded women often avoid social services and survive through remaining elusive and invisible. This evasion is reflected in their mobile phone practices in which bo…
Fighting Corporate Swine
Much as developing countries have been saddled with unwanted incinerators, refineries, waste dumps, or dangerous assembly sectors in an era of global outsourcing, a great many U.S. rural communities have in the last decade and a half found themselves face-to-face with massive industrial livestock complexes. This article examines the alliances that emerged in opposition to corporate livestock complexes including farm and rural community associatio…
Of Free Trade and Debt Bondage: Fighting Banks and the State in Mexico
Years from now, economic historians studying the 1990s will likely pinpoint Mexico as the birthplace of a new and devastating sort of financial crisis. In a sequence of events that scholars of Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, and Indonesia will now find familiar, Mexican leaders' announcement in December 1994 of a controlled currency devaluation created a financial panic of devastating proportions. Set off by market jitters over a presidential su…
Strategic Stability, Uncertainty and the Future of Arms Control
The United States’ new Nuclear Posture Review reflects changes in how the US thinks about its broader strategic environment
Questioning the holy trinity: Why the U.S. nuclear triad still makes sense
Despite renewed enthusiasm for nuclear disarmament, a contemporary security environment far removed from that of the Cold War, and increasing budgetary pressures at home, U.S. interests continue to be best served by retaining a triad of nuclear forces. While options for a reduced force structure may appear to offer short-term political and economic expediency, in the long run a three-legged deterrent—possibly consisting of fewer delivery vehicles…
State Repression and the Labors of Memory
Adolescents' Reported Usage of Selected Foods in Relation to Their Perceptions and Social Norms for Those Foods
Dafydd ap Gwilym and the debt to Europe
My discussion aims not so much to provide an answer to the thorny question of whether Dafydd ap Gwilym was a Europhile - this has been attempted by many a critic — as to examine the way in which this question has become the accepted framework within which to study Dafydd’s work. In my introductory section I discuss the ways in which criticism has investigated Dafydd’s possible debt to Continental traditions, with special reference to love poems (…
Urban‐rural differences in dietary habits and influences among Australian adolescents
Junior high school students (2,082) in Tasmania, Australia, were surveyed using a printed questionnaire. For 22 commonly-used foods collectively, MANOVA indicated that rural students differed significantly from urban students in their consumption frequency for the foods, their perception of the usage of the foods by their parents and their friends, their liking for the foods and their perceptions of those foods' healthfulness. Regression analyses…
Of Free Trade and Debt Bondage: Fighting Banks and the State in Mexico
Years from now, economic historians studying the 1990s will likely pinpoint Mexico as the birthplace of a new and devastating sort of financial crisis. In a sequence of events that scholars of Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, and Indonesia will now find familiar, Mexican leaders' announcement in December 1994 of a controlled currency devaluation created a financial panic of devastating proportions. Set off by market jitters over a presidential su…
Writing to Paris: Poets, Nobles and Savages in Nineteenth‐Century Brittany
In this article, representations of Brittany in nineteenth‐century French‐language literature are studied in order to investigate the way in which cultural cross‐currents can be observed in the detail of the text. A lexical approach shows how writers have re‐worked motifs and clichés about Brittany (particular attention is paid to the lexical field of ‘sauvage’), and to how writers' precise choice of words can reveal the complexity of the relatio…
Nafta Stories: Fears and Hopes in Mexico and the United States
NAFTA Stories: Fears and Hopes in Mexico and the United States. Ann E. Kingsolver. Boulder: Lynn Rienner Publishers, 2001. 252 pp
Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside
Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside. By Marcus J. Kurtz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 264p. $70.00. Marcus Kurtz makes his contribution to a sizable body of works examining the impact of economic liberalization on political opening in Latin America, arguing that the countryside in Latin America offers us a crucial piece of the puzzle of why transitions to democracies may succeed despite widening social ine…
State Repression and the Labors of Memory
Fighting Corporate Swine
Much as developing countries have been saddled with unwanted incinerators, refineries, waste dumps, or dangerous assembly sectors in an era of global outsourcing, a great many U.S. rural communities have in the last decade and a half found themselves face-to-face with massive industrial livestock complexes. This article examines the alliances that emerged in opposition to corporate livestock complexes including farm and rural community associatio…
On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way (review)
Reviewed by: On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way Heather Williams On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way. By Steven Adler . Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004; pp. xiii + 250. $29.50 paper. How much of art is commodified? Where does one draw the tethered line between art and entertainment? How much of "old" Broadway is still functioning? All of these questions and others are offered for considerati…
Power from Experience: Urban Popular Movements in Late Twentieth Century Mexico
Power from Experience: Urban Popular Movements in Late Twentieth Century Mexico. By Paul Lawrence Haber. University Park: Penn State Press. 2006. 320p. $55.00. With social peace in Mexico unraveling just five years after the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was voted from power in 2000, it would seem an apt time for a new book-length study on urban popular movements in Mexico. This is ironic because by the end of the twenthieth…
Me zo bet sklav: African Americans and Breton Literature
Theories of colonialism, and a people's sense of themselves as having been colonized, derive from analogies. Here the use made of the African American experience in Breton literature is explored, making comparison with other international reference points in Breton literature. First I trace what I call an 'international outlook' in Breton culture, before turning to translation, and the specific example of translations into Breton of poems by Lang…
Travel writing and Wales
In 1766, Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was strongly advised by his circle of correspondents against his yearning to undertake a journey to Wales. Rousseau believed that Wales “entirely re
Glacial Retreat in the Andes
Peru’s Media-Friendly Mining Ban Conceals Toxic Inaction
Humala’s 2014 ban on informal mining has made for good press, but done little for the local communities the mines pollute or the majority of mineworkers they employ
UN Climate Conference Exposes Peru’s Poor Record on Sustainability
"UN Climate Conference Exposes Peru’s Poor Record on Sustainability." NACLA Report on the Americas, 47(4), pp. 60–61
Introduction: Global Water Grab in the Andes
International demand for gold, groceries, and energy is driving destructive policies that pollute and deplete the water supplies of rural communities and parched cities
What lies beneath: An Eco-Historical View of High Andes Water Pollution
This article in two parts provides a sketch of the Suma Quta (in Aymara language, "Beautiful Lake") Project, an experiment in "bottom-up science" begun in the Lake Titicaca basin in Peru in 2009. The article explores the question of why water resource and fisheries management has fallen into crisis in what has been in millennial terms one of the world's most meticulously managed hydroscapes. It argues that post-Conquest patterns of village autono…
Questioning the holy trinity: Why the U.S. nuclear triad still makes sense
Despite renewed enthusiasm for nuclear disarmament, a contemporary security environment far removed from that of the Cold War, and increasing budgetary pressures at home, U.S. interests continue to be best served by retaining a triad of nuclear forces. While options for a reduced force structure may appear to offer short-term political and economic expediency, in the long run a three-legged deterrent—possibly consisting of fewer delivery vehicles…
The nuclear education of Donald J. Trump
During the 2016 American presidential campaign, Democrats and Republicans alike repeatedly raised concerns at the prospect of Donald Trump being in charge of America’s nuclear arsenal based on his seemingly unstable personality. Unfortunately, this emphasis on Trump’s character distracted attention from any in-depth investigation into his long-standing interest in nuclear issues. This article seeks to remedy this shortcoming by highlighting the n…
Prohibition and Its Discontents
States and civil-society groups pursuing a ban on nuclear weapons do not all share the same motivations
Trends in the Draw of Americans to Foreign Terrorist Organizations from 9/11 to Today
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has recently been more successful than al Qaeda in gaining U.S. terrorist recruits. The authors undertake a demographic profile of individuals drawn to foreign terrorist organizations and find that the affiliates average terrorists recruited by ISIL is younger, less educated, and more likely to be African American/black or Caucasian/white and a U.S.-born citizen.
Strategic Stability, Uncertainty and the Future of Arms Control
The United States’ new Nuclear Posture Review reflects changes in how the US thinks about its broader strategic environment
Marx, Mariátegui, and Mining
The poetry of Celtic places
This paper examines the radical shift in the place of Celts in the French imagination during the course of the nineteenth century, by focusing on two versions of a passage describing Wales by Michelet: the first written in his travel journal (1834), the second published by his widow (1893). Wales, by virtue of being a Celtic place, allows Michelet to deepen his understanding of France. Whereas juxtaposition of the two versions of his text reveals…
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