Paul Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-6547-7198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Navigating Metrics: Disparities and Challenges in Project Evaluations Across Global Development Organisations
This study e x amines variations in project evaluation practices among 10 major international development organisations and their alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Based on a mixed‐methods analysis of 4112 project evaluation reports (2015–2017 and 2020–2022) across six regions and 11 sectors, it reveals persistent methodological disparities, arising from differences in Likert scales, rubrics and the adoption …
Religious construction of disease: An exploratory appraisal of religious responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Uganda
This article presents empirical analysis of religious attitudes and interpretation of pandemics in Uganda. The study sought to analyze the religious explanatory models of pandemics offered by the three major religions of Uganda: Christianity, Islam and African Traditional religious belief system. The COVID-19 pandemic which ravaged the whole world, Uganda inclusive, was used as a case study. Based on a qualitative research process, the study reli…
State regulation of religion in Uganda: Fears and dilemmas of born-again churches
Since 2016 when the government of Uganda announced its intention to enact a policy about regulating religions and faith-based organizations, there have been contrasting responses from those this policy intends to regulate. The mainstream religious groups especially; the Moslem community, Anglican Church of Uganda, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Roman Catholic Church, Greek Orthodox church and generally all those that subscribe to the Inter-Rel…
Mapping Local Climate Zones for a Worldwide Database of the Form and Function of Cities
Progress in urban climate science is severely restricted by the lack of useful information that describes aspects of the form and function of cities at a detailed spatial resolution. To overcome this shortcoming we are initiating an international effort to develop the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) to gather and disseminate this information in a consistent manner for urban areas worldwide. The first step in developing WUDAP…
Addiction Treatment Coupled With Higher Education
The Science and Theology of Godly Love
Arguing that there are ways to move beyond the limitations of methodological atheism without compromising scientific objectivity, the essays gathered in The Science and Theology of Godly Love explore the potential for collaboration between social science and theology. They do so within the context of the interdisciplinary study of Godly Love, which examines the perceived experience of loving God, being loved by God, and thereby being motivated to…
Towards an Integrated View of the Necessity of Human Interdependence: Perspectives From Theology, Philosophy, and Psychology
In this article, we attempt to formulate an integrated view of the necessity of human interdependence from the disciplines of theology, philosophy, and psychology. First, we discuss the social personalist model of the Trinity so as to understand the utility of relatedness from a theological perspective. Next, we review the philosophical concept of phenomenology in order to make sense of the relationship between humans and the world in which they …
The Trinitarian Self: The Key to the Puzzle of Violence – By Charles K. Bellinger
Colonial Capitalism in Java
Control of Land and Labour in Colonial Java. By Jan Breman Javanese Peasants and the Colonial Sugar Industry. By R.E. Elson
Women, Labour and Fertility: Population Growth in Nineteenth Century Java
The sharp increase in Java's population after 1830 is usually explained in terms of higher living standards and consequent lower mortality resulting from Dutch colonization, but there is little historical evidence supporting such an interpretation and much to refute it. An alternative view is that Java's population growth after 1830 was due to increasing fertility. The major constraint to Javanese fertility prior to this period has been extended …
Evangelicals and Empire: Christian Alternatives to the Political Status Quo – Edited by Bruce Ellis Benson and Peter Goodwin Heltzel
Ritual and Social Change: Another Javanese Example
This paper was submitted for publication to American Anthropologist and in the usual manner was sent anonymously to three referees. The referees' coymerits are appended
Shared Fantasies and Elite Politics: The Sri Lankan 'Insurrection' of 1971
The conventional view that the 1971 Sri Lankan insurrection was a highly organized and centrally directed attempt by a Marxist conspiratorial party (Janata Vimukti Peramuna) to seize State power is both partial and incomplete. Partial, because it incorporates the urban bias inherent in Political Science and thus ignores significant aspects of the insurrection, such as the purely rural locus of the fighting. Incomplete, because it requires ad hoc …
Chapter 14. The Japan-Korea Culture Exchange Project
Religion and the Death Penalty: A call for Reckoning – Edited by Erik C. Owens, John D. Carlson, and Eric P. Elshtain
From Kinship to Contract? Production Chains in the Javanese Woodworking Industries
In many newly industrializing regions, locally owned small firms compete successfully with vertically integrated transnational factories. Their success has been attributed to specialization: localized clusters of very specialized, small-scale producers are linked by contracts into production chains for a particular commodity. In many cases the small firms are constituted by highly corporate, patriarchal households and this combination of and cont…
Markets And Shopping
James Carrier (ed.). Meanings of the market: the free market in Western culture. Oxford: Berg. 1997. xvi+276pp. £39.99/US$55.00 (cloth) ISBN 1 85973 1449; £14.99/US$19.50 (paper) ISBN 1 85973 149 X. Kim Humphery. Shelf life: supermarkets and the changing cultures of consumption. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 1998. ix+270pp., b + w illus. £45.00 (cloth) ISBN 0 521 62316 2; £15.95 (paper) ISBN 0 521 626307. Marianne Lien. Marketing and…
Sri Lankan Fishermen: Rural Capitalism and Peasant Society
Commodification and consumption in a central Borneo community
Malgre de nombreux changements, les relations concernant les produits de base et l'emploi de l'argent dans la communaute des Lahanan du Borneo central sont structures : travail, terre, matieres premieres et biens de prestige sont encore difficile a acheter avec de l'argent. Il existe trois spheres de consommation et d'echange : (1) les articles de subsistance, (2) les produits et matieres premieres de l'economie externe industrialisee toujours ec…
Gender differences in tobacco use and the commodification of tobacco in Central Borneo
Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka
Economic Change and Public Health in a Remote Sarawak Community
Physical health standards in remote Sarawak communities have been raised by a series of public health measures including the virtual elimination of formerly widespread diseases, improved maternal and child care, lower infant mortality, and rapid treatment of illness and injuries. But these undoubted successes should be contextualized by situating public health interventions within the broader processes of economic and social change that are rapid…
Southeast Asian Issue
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath
Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath
What's a Fair Price? Price-Setting and Trading Partnerships in Javanese Markets
Interpretations which attribute the structure and organization of peasant markets to deficiencies in the flow of information draw their explanatory power from the assumption that peasant trading practices, such as the use of bargaining rather than posted prices, are less efficient than trading practices in industralised economies. An examination of the ways in which information about prices is allocated and acquired inJavanese markets, set within…
Shared Poverty as Ideology: Agrarian Relationships in Colonial Java
Sea Tenure in Southern Sri Lanka
Application d'un modele ideal de la tenure fonciere a Sri Lanka (Obeyeskere, 1967) a l'analyse de la peche cotiere utilisant des seines de plage dans le village de Mawelle, habite par la caste de pecheurs Karave, sur la cote sud du pays. Ce modele contient trois elements: le concept de territoire en tant que propriete commune de personnes apparentees, l'utilisation des genealogies pour attribuer des parts variables de ce domaine, et un systeme de…
Sugar, Rice and Irrigation in Colonial Java
A key argument in Agricultural Involution concerns the relationship between rice and sugar cultivation. In Geertz's view the irrigation systems which accompanied the export sugar economy increased both the extent and the fertility of the sawah and made it possible for the Javanese to raise rice yields through evermore labor intensive methods. This claim is misleading because it overemphasizes the agronomic similarities between sugar and rice, and…
Striking a Bargain in Javanese Markets
Gender differences in tobacco use and the commodification of tobacco in Central Borneo
Sri Lankan Fishermen: Rural Capitalism and Peasant Society
Innovation in a Cultural Vacuum: The Mechanization of Sri Lanka Fisheries
Because foreign consultants concentrated on large industrial craft, attempts to mechanize Sri Lanka peasant fishing by means of three and one-half ton inboard-motor craft were based on inadequate knowledge. The mechanization program was based on the implicit assumption that the values and attitudes governing the operation of the craft would be those of an urban mercantile community, and that the boat operators would have full access to facilities…
Commodification and consumption in a central Borneo community
Malgre de nombreux changements, les relations concernant les produits de base et l'emploi de l'argent dans la communaute des Lahanan du Borneo central sont structures : travail, terre, matieres premieres et biens de prestige sont encore difficile a acheter avec de l'argent. Il existe trois spheres de consommation et d'echange : (1) les articles de subsistance, (2) les produits et matieres premieres de l'economie externe industrialisee toujours ec…
Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka
Economic Change and Public Health in a Remote Sarawak Community
Physical health standards in remote Sarawak communities have been raised by a series of public health measures including the virtual elimination of formerly widespread diseases, improved maternal and child care, lower infant mortality, and rapid treatment of illness and injuries. But these undoubted successes should be contextualized by situating public health interventions within the broader processes of economic and social change that are rapid…
Protecting Peasants from Capitalism: The Subordination of Javanese Traders by the Colonial State
Colonial Java represents the paradigmatic case of an ethnically stratified economy. The Dutch controlled large-scale agricultural production and processing and the sale of these products in European markets. They also monopolised the import of European manufactured commodities, such as cloth. The Javanese provided labour for the cultivation and processing of export crops, maintaining themselves by subsistence farming and subsidiary occupations, s…
Part-Time Private Practice: Practical and Ethical Considerations
The advantages, disadvantages, potential problems, and alternative practice methods of part-time private practice are discussed in this article. The authors report the results of a survey of clinical social workers in private practice and focus specifically on part-time practitioners
Colonial Capitalism in Java
Control of Land and Labour in Colonial Java. By Jan Breman Javanese Peasants and the Colonial Sugar Industry. By R.E. Elson
Markets And Shopping
James Carrier (ed.). Meanings of the market: the free market in Western culture. Oxford: Berg. 1997. xvi+276pp. £39.99/US$55.00 (cloth) ISBN 1 85973 1449; £14.99/US$19.50 (paper) ISBN 1 85973 149 X. Kim Humphery. Shelf life: supermarkets and the changing cultures of consumption. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 1998. ix+270pp., b + w illus. £45.00 (cloth) ISBN 0 521 62316 2; £15.95 (paper) ISBN 0 521 626307. Marianne Lien. Marketing and…
Innovation in a Cultural Vacuum: The Mechanization of Sri Lanka Fisheries
Because foreign consultants concentrated on large industrial craft, attempts to mechanize Sri Lanka peasant fishing by means of three and one-half ton inboard-motor craft were based on inadequate knowledge. The mechanization program was based on the implicit assumption that the values and attitudes governing the operation of the craft would be those of an urban mercantile community, and that the boat operators would have full access to facilities…
Sea Tenure in Southern Sri Lanka
Application d'un modele ideal de la tenure fonciere a Sri Lanka (Obeyeskere, 1967) a l'analyse de la peche cotiere utilisant des seines de plage dans le village de Mawelle, habite par la caste de pecheurs Karave, sur la cote sud du pays. Ce modele contient trois elements: le concept de territoire en tant que propriete commune de personnes apparentees, l'utilisation des genealogies pour attribuer des parts variables de ce domaine, et un systeme de…
Sugar, Rice and Irrigation in Colonial Java
A key argument in Agricultural Involution concerns the relationship between rice and sugar cultivation. In Geertz's view the irrigation systems which accompanied the export sugar economy increased both the extent and the fertility of the sawah and made it possible for the Javanese to raise rice yields through evermore labor intensive methods. This claim is misleading because it overemphasizes the agronomic similarities between sugar and rice, and…
Shared Poverty as Ideology: Agrarian Relationships in Colonial Java
Briefly noted
L.G. Bagshawe (trans.). The Maniyadanabon of Shin Sandalinka, Data Paper No. 115, Southeast Asia Program, Cornelll University, Ithaca (N.Y.), 1981. 132 pp, foreword, translator's preface, glossary, preface to 1968 edition by U Myint Hswei. Paper: US$7.00. A. Chamid, The Poorest of the Poor: Three Case Studies from Indonesia, trans, by K. Foulcher, Center of Southeast Asian Studies Working Paper No. 26, Monash University, Melbourne, 1982. 42 pp, p…
Sri Lankan Fishermen: Rural Capitalism and Peasant Society
Part-Time Private Practice: Practical and Ethical Considerations
The advantages, disadvantages, potential problems, and alternative practice methods of part-time private practice are discussed in this article. The authors report the results of a survey of clinical social workers in private practice and focus specifically on part-time practitioners
The ice cream stories: A study in normal and psychotic narrations
An adaptation of the Pear Stories study originally undertaken by Chafe and his collaborators (1980) was presented to 22 psychotic patients with discharge diagnoses of schizophrenia and mania, and 25 normal controls. The psychotic and normal populations showed definable differences in encoding strategies. Psychotic narratives evinced defects in narration ranging from serious neologizing, disruptions in syntax, and narrative technique. Normals and …
Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870–1979. ANN Laura STOLER
Striking a Bargain in Javanese Markets
Travellers' Tales: From Anecdote to Vignette
Presentation d'une serie de carnets de route, de terrain, rapportes lors de la reunion Travellers' Tales Session' de l'Association australienne d'anthropologie en aout 1988 a l'Universite de Newcastle
The Invisible Economy: Javanese Commerce in the Late Colonial State
Javanese economic history is conventionally represented as an involutionary process in which rural Javanese, protected from the deleterious effects of capitalism by the colonial State, intensified subsistence agriculture to provide each household with a meagre living. This study challenges the conventional interpretation in two respects. Firstly it demonstrates that before the Dutch established economic control and again around 1900, trade and pe…
Management of Panic Disorders
Panic disorders are medical conditions requiring an eclectic treatment approach that often combines pharmacotherapeutics with education, cognitive-behavior therapy, and psychodynamic therapy. This article focuses on the management of medication within this framework. The medications that have been found to be effective include tricyclic antidepressants, fluoxetine, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, and higher potency benzodiazepines. Although alprazo…
What's a Fair Price? Price-Setting and Trading Partnerships in Javanese Markets
Interpretations which attribute the structure and organization of peasant markets to deficiencies in the flow of information draw their explanatory power from the assumption that peasant trading practices, such as the use of bargaining rather than posted prices, are less efficient than trading practices in industralised economies. An examination of the ways in which information about prices is allocated and acquired inJavanese markets, set within…
Protecting Peasants from Capitalism: The Subordination of Javanese Traders by the Colonial State
Colonial Java represents the paradigmatic case of an ethnically stratified economy. The Dutch controlled large-scale agricultural production and processing and the sale of these products in European markets. They also monopolised the import of European manufactured commodities, such as cloth. The Javanese provided labour for the cultivation and processing of export crops, maintaining themselves by subsistence farming and subsidiary occupations, s…
Southeast Asian Issue
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath
Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath
Economic Change and Public Health in a Remote Sarawak Community
Physical health standards in remote Sarawak communities have been raised by a series of public health measures including the virtual elimination of formerly widespread diseases, improved maternal and child care, lower infant mortality, and rapid treatment of illness and injuries. But these undoubted successes should be contextualized by situating public health interventions within the broader processes of economic and social change that are rapid…
Gender differences in tobacco use and the commodification of tobacco in Central Borneo
Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka
Commodification and consumption in a central Borneo community
Malgre de nombreux changements, les relations concernant les produits de base et l'emploi de l'argent dans la communaute des Lahanan du Borneo central sont structures : travail, terre, matieres premieres et biens de prestige sont encore difficile a acheter avec de l'argent. Il existe trois spheres de consommation et d'echange : (1) les articles de subsistance, (2) les produits et matieres premieres de l'economie externe industrialisee toujours ec…
Sri Lankan Fishermen: Rural Capitalism and Peasant Society
Markets And Shopping
James Carrier (ed.). Meanings of the market: the free market in Western culture. Oxford: Berg. 1997. xvi+276pp. £39.99/US$55.00 (cloth) ISBN 1 85973 1449; £14.99/US$19.50 (paper) ISBN 1 85973 149 X. Kim Humphery. Shelf life: supermarkets and the changing cultures of consumption. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 1998. ix+270pp., b + w illus. £45.00 (cloth) ISBN 0 521 62316 2; £15.95 (paper) ISBN 0 521 626307. Marianne Lien. Marketing and…
From Kinship to Contract? Production Chains in the Javanese Woodworking Industries
In many newly industrializing regions, locally owned small firms compete successfully with vertically integrated transnational factories. Their success has been attributed to specialization: localized clusters of very specialized, small-scale producers are linked by contracts into production chains for a particular commodity. In many cases the small firms are constituted by highly corporate, patriarchal households and this combination of and cont…
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