Brian Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3834-9457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 86 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 832 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 86 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1933 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order
As relevant as it was at the time of publication, this landmark work remains timely and urgent in demonstrating how to examine questions of race, politics and crime in contemporary society. A formative text in cultural studies and criminology, it shows the relevance of conjunctural analysis to the current emergence of forms of authoritarian populist politics. Examining the crisis of the British state in the 1970s, the book explores how interactin…
Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance
Subcultures, Cultures and Class: A Theoretical Overview
Sandra Jean Graham. Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry
In 1871, the Fisk Jubilee Singers set out on a tour to raise money for Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Even as they headed north for their concerts, their choice of material may have been in doubt. Though they were a black choir, and Fisk was a recently established black or “freedman’s” college, their director was the conveniently named George White, a white music teacher at the school. The singers wanted to perform popular songs; White …
Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
Micro Social Theory
Micro social theory covers a rich tradition in sociological thinking and research that focuses on the self or actor and social interaction. This new title in the Traditions in Social Theory series traces the development of the tradition and assesses its contemporary importance.
Townfield Origins: The Case of Cockfield, County Durham
This chapter is concerned with one possible antecedent type. R. J. Hodgson and Butlin Baker have outlined the key characteristics of the field systems of County Durham: a critical landscape divide runs from the Tyne valley to Chest er 4e-Street, Durham, Bishop Auckland and Barnard Castle. The progress of enclosure in boundary zones between contrasting areas often involved the silent and piecemeal restructuring of townfields long before the period…
Walking Methods: Research on the Move
This book introduces and critically explores walking as an innovative method for doing social research, showing how its sensate and kinaesthetic attributes facilitate connections with lived experiences, journeys and memories, communities and identities. The book situates walking methods historically, sociologically, and in relation to biographical and arts-based research, as well as new work on mobilities, the digital, spatial, and the sensory. T…
Subcultures, Cultures and Class
In modern societies, the most fundamental groups are the social classes, and the major cultural configurations will be, in a fundamental though often mediated way, 'class cultures'. This chapter discusses some of the broad shifts in class relations over the period as a whole, before coming to the specific question of the sub-cultures. It aims to move from the most phenomenal aspects of youth sub-cultures to the deeper meanings, in three stages. T…
I know that I’m in my own world; it’s OK, they know me here: The challenge of coping with Fasd in educational settings
In July 2012, the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group published their long-awaited report into the educational attainment of looked after children. This report included 10 key recommendations to improve practice. One was that ‘teachers should receive greater training to improve their understanding of and ability to manage issues such as trauma, attachment and Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)’. Members of the working group understood that t…
D. Michael Bottoms. An Aristocracy of Color: Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850–1890
Journal Article D. Michael Bottoms. An Aristocracy of Color: Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850–1890. Get access D. Michael Bottoms. An Aristocracy of Color: Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850–1890. (Race and Culture in the American West, number 5.) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2013. Pp. xiii, 274. $34.95. Brian Roberts Brian Roberts University of Northern Iowa Search for other works by this au…
Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order
The Social Production of News
A typology of graziers to inform a more targeted approach for developing natural resource management policies and agricultural extension programs
Subcultures, cultures and class
Naturalistic research into subcultures and deviance
Urban sustainability experiments in Asia: Patterns and pathways
Domesticating the West: The Re-Creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class
Domesticating the West: The Re-Creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class Domesticating the West: The Re-Creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class. By Jackson Brenda K.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xiii + 180 pp. Illustrations, map, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00, £37.95.) Brian Roberts Brian Roberts University of Northern Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
The CPUSA's Line and Atmosphere: Did Ellison and Wright Walk It as They Breathed It as They Wrote
The CPUSA's Line and Atmosphere:Did Ellison and Wright Walk It as They Breathed It as They Wrote? Brian Roberts (bio) I am grateful to the editors at Journal of Narrative Theory for arranging the present exchange between Barbara Foley andme. Foley's several and meticulously researched articles on African American writers and communism situate her as someone particularly well-positioned to comment on my recently published essay. I am pleased with …
Reading Ralph Ellison Synthesizing the CP and the Naacp: Sympathetic Narrative Strategy, Sympathetic Bodies
During the late 1990s, as part of a larger project examining the relationship of African American writers to the political left, Barbara Foley published a series of articles on Ralph Ellison's relationship to the United States Communist Party (CP) of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. In "The Rhetoric of Anticommunism in Invisible Man," for instance, Foley rejects Invisible Man's critique of Communism (which critique she sees in Ellison's representation …
Health Narratives, Time Perspectives and Self-Images
Poetics and the composition of life
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Biography, time and local history-making
This article examines how individuals compose biographical interpretations of their lives. The intention is to explore how individuals make their personal histories within wider history-making local communities. Such historical narratives are composed by families and groups and are also formed within societal narratives (e.g. popular stereotypes, ideological themes). While the connection between narrative and time has commonly been described here…
Shopping, Saving and Spending in Wartime: The Experience of a Welsh Mining Valley
This article is an account of shopping, saving and spending in a small Welsh mining valley during World War II. It is based on part of an unpublished study by Mass- Observation during I942-43 (‘Mining town - I942’), which was concerned with the ordinary lives and views of people under the restrictions and pressures of wartime. The study of Blaina and Nantyglo in south Wales provides a fascinating insight into war experience of a community which h…
Family Men: Middle-Class Fatherhood in Early Industrializing America
Antebellum middle-class fathers have been stiffed by historians of the American family. Scholars have accused those men of abandoning the home to women and of choosing ambition and profession over the traditional fathering duties of their colonial forebears. Stereotyped in their public identities as businessmen, their domestic roles have been generalized as “declining,” “absent,” even “withered away.” Shawn Johansen's book attempts to expose this…
Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order
As relevant as it was at the time of publication, this landmark work remains timely and urgent in demonstrating how to examine questions of race, politics and crime in contemporary society. A formative text in cultural studies and criminology, it shows the relevance of conjunctural analysis to the current emergence of forms of authoritarian populist politics. Examining the crisis of the British state in the 1970s, the book explores how interactin…
Urban sustainability experiments in Asia: Patterns and pathways
A typology of graziers to inform a more targeted approach for developing natural resource management policies and agricultural extension programs
Police Performance and State Rule: Control and Autonomy in the Exercise of Coercion
Health Narratives, Time Perspectives and Self-Images
Biography, time and local history-making
This article examines how individuals compose biographical interpretations of their lives. The intention is to explore how individuals make their personal histories within wider history-making local communities. Such historical narratives are composed by families and groups and are also formed within societal narratives (e.g. popular stereotypes, ideological themes). While the connection between narrative and time has commonly been described here…
International co-operation for Antarctic development: The test for the Antarctic Treaty
It has been suggested to me that I should take this opportunity to initiate discussion about the Antarctic Treaty: in particular to review how far the Treaty is meeting our present practical needs. During the forty years or more during which I have been associated with Antarctic affairs, I have seen some degree of international order evolved out of chaos; harmony has replaced discord; many apparently insoluble problems have been resolved one afte…
Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions
This list was first published in the second edition of the Antarctic Pilot (London, Hydrographie Department, 1948, p. 6–25). Since that time it has been possible to make a large number of important corrections and additions. A check-list of this kind has been found necessary for classifying original log books, published narratives and other documents connected with the expeditions. It is hoped that it will also prove of value to those engaged in …
The Cambridge Expedition to Vatnajokull, 1932
I know that I’m in my own world; it’s OK, they know me here: The challenge of coping with Fasd in educational settings
In July 2012, the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group published their long-awaited report into the educational attainment of looked after children. This report included 10 key recommendations to improve practice. One was that ‘teachers should receive greater training to improve their understanding of and ability to manage issues such as trauma, attachment and Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)’. Members of the working group understood that t…
American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture
American Alchemy is a welcome addition to work on the California gold rush and on nineteenth-century white, middle-class culture. Brian Roberts provides rich literary analysis of letters and diaries written primarily by women who stayed in the East and men who ventured to the West. California, Roberts argues, seemed as if it might offer middle-class white men a respite from the world of competition, hierarchy, and social rigidity that, for them, …
Historical notes on Heard and McDonald Islands
The discovery of Heard Island (lat. 53°; 10′ S., long. 73°; 35′ E.) has usually been attributed to Capt. John J. Heard of the American barque Oriental , who sighted the island on 25 November 1853 during a voyage from Boston to Melbourne. The relevant passage from Captain Heard's log book has been published by the American Geographical Society. He did not get nearer than twenty miles and mentions only one island, which can definitely be identified…
Notes on the Barrow Collection of Arctic Equipment
SIR JOHN BARROW, one of the founders of the R.G.S., was born in 1764 and died in 1848. He served as Second Secretary of the Admiralty between 1804 and 1845, and during that time did much to further Arctic exploration. Sir John had four sons, the second of whom, John (1808-98), followed his father to the Admiralty and became Keeper of the Records. He has frequently been confused with his father by subsequent writers and even by some of his contemp…
Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
Reading Ralph Ellison Synthesizing the CP and the Naacp: Sympathetic Narrative Strategy, Sympathetic Bodies
During the late 1990s, as part of a larger project examining the relationship of African American writers to the political left, Barbara Foley published a series of articles on Ralph Ellison's relationship to the United States Communist Party (CP) of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. In "The Rhetoric of Anticommunism in Invisible Man," for instance, Foley rejects Invisible Man's critique of Communism (which critique she sees in Ellison's representation …
The Impact of Daikyo as a Foreign Investor on the Cairns - Far North Queensland Regional Economy
Foreign investment has played a major role in the development of tourism in the Cairns-Far North Queensland region of Australia, one of the nation's most internationalised regional economies. As the owner of a significant number of hotels and tourism operations, the Daikyo Corporation from Japan is the major foreign player, contributing substantially to employment and regional production. In this paper we use input-output analysis to estimate the…
The names “East Antarctica” and “West Antarctica”
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Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions (continued)
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Illustrated ice glossary
This illustrated glossary of sea ice and associated terms is an abstract of a fuller illustrated glossary, also covering land ice terms, which the Institute has had in preparation for many years, and hopes to issue before long as a Special Publication. It is a development of an Admiralty glossary, published in 1953, with such modifications as seem to be required for international agreement
The Place-names of Svalbard
In the following notes an attempt has been made to summarise the main facts which anyone dealing with the literature and cartography of Svalbard would require to know in order to give a correct rendering of the place-names and to understand the changes in form which have taken place. The writer wishes to express his grateful thanks to Professor A. Sommerfelt for much assistance in connection with the linguistic aspects of the subject, and to Dr A…
Game Conservation in Arctic Canada
It is only within comparatively recent years that the problem of conserving the game resources of the Northwest Territories has become a matter requiring the serious attention of those responsible for the administration of the Territories. The slow development of a crisis arose from the lack of co-ordinated knowledge and from the assumption that a sparse human population scattered over an immense area would not necessarily lead to any serious dep…
Whale Oil and Other Products of the Whaling Industry
The extraction of oil from whales is a very ancient process, but no regular oil production existed until the Basques started the whaling industry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. With their primitive equipment, they only made use of the blubber, the part of the whale richest in oil. The blubber was cut up into small pieces which were cooked in open iron cauldrons. This method was in use until the beginning of the present century, when les…
Design for a Sledge-Wheel
The wheel was constructed as shown in the accompanying sketch. It was made from a bicycle wheel and a thin sheet of iron 4 in. wide. The bolts fixing this tread on to the rim projected so as to grip the ice. An ordinary cyclometer was attached to the axle so as to “tick over” by contact with a projection on the spoke
The Cambridge Expedition to Vatnajokull, 1932: Discussion
Greenland as a Switch for Cyclones: Discussion
The Cambridge Expedition to Vatnajokull, 1932
The Cambridge Expedition to Scoresby Sound, East Greenland, in 1933
The Physics of an Ice-Cap: Discussion
Whaling, 1938–39
In order to safeguard the stock of whales in northern seas, special regulations for Svalbard have been proposed by the Norwegian Government. These regulations forbid both Norwegian and foreign subjects to use a land station for the taking and treatment of whales in Svalbard and Jan Mayen. They follow the international agreements of 1937 and 1938 which provide for the closing of the Northern Hemisphere for pelagic baleen whaling and restriction of…
Whale Oil and Other Products of the Whaling Industry
The extraction of oil from whales is a very ancient process, but no regular oil production existed until the Basques started the whaling industry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. With their primitive equipment, they only made use of the blubber, the part of the whale richest in oil. The blubber was cut up into small pieces which were cooked in open iron cauldrons. This method was in use until the beginning of the present century, when les…
Design for a Sledge-Wheel
The wheel was constructed as shown in the accompanying sketch. It was made from a bicycle wheel and a thin sheet of iron 4 in. wide. The bolts fixing this tread on to the rim projected so as to grip the ice. An ordinary cyclometer was attached to the axle so as to “tick over” by contact with a projection on the spoke
Scientific Results of Cambridge Expeditions to Iceland, 1932-38
Antarctic Whaling, 1938–39
The most striking feature of the pelagic operations in the season 1938–39 was the great decline in the catch in spite of the employment of three factory ships and twenty-six catchers more than in the previous season
Notes on the Selection and Care of Polar Footwear
The choice of footwear is still one of the most outstanding problems which confront a traveller in the polar regions. Differences of opinion have arisen for various reasons, but perhaps the most common one is lack of experience of the available types. Personal views are influenced by the nature of the journeys already undertaken, the climatic conditions and the types of country experienced, whether the individual has had to repair his own footwea…
Notes on the Barrow Collection of Arctic Equipment
SIR JOHN BARROW, one of the founders of the R.G.S., was born in 1764 and died in 1848. He served as Second Secretary of the Admiralty between 1804 and 1845, and during that time did much to further Arctic exploration. Sir John had four sons, the second of whom, John (1808-98), followed his father to the Admiralty and became Keeper of the Records. He has frequently been confused with his father by subsequent writers and even by some of his contemp…
Game Conservation in Arctic Canada
It is only within comparatively recent years that the problem of conserving the game resources of the Northwest Territories has become a matter requiring the serious attention of those responsible for the administration of the Territories. The slow development of a crisis arose from the lack of co-ordinated knowledge and from the assumption that a sparse human population scattered over an immense area would not necessarily lead to any serious dep…
The Reindeer Industry in Alaska
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The Study of Man's Reaction to a Polar Climate
Studies of the avenues by which heat is lost from the human body are of basic importance in the understanding of man's reaction to a polar climate. The following notes aim to draw attention to some of the more important physiological work that has recently been published in this field
Sound Effects in Polar Conditions
The impressive and all-pervading quietness following a fall of snow is a commonplace experience, though, so far as the writer is aware, only one set of measurements of the sound absorption of snow has been published. A cold spell in December 1938 provided a suitable opportunity to make such measurements in the reverberating chamber of the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington
South-East Victoria Island and the Queen Maud Gulf: Discussion
The Arctic Institute of North America
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The Protection of Fur Seals in the North Pacific Ocean
The fur seals of the North Pacific comprise three distinct herds, which do not intermingle in any way, having distinct breeding grounds, feeding grounds, and routes of migration. By far the most important of the three herds is that which resorts to the American Pribilof Islands. This herd breeds upon the islands of St Paul and St George during the summer, and in winter passes down through the channels of the Aleutian Islands into the Pacific Ocea…
Administrative Divisions of the Soviet Arctic and Sub-Arctic
The following notes and accompanying map have resulted from an attempt to devise a regional classification for the Institute's increasing collection of reports, maps and other documentary material dealing with northern Russia. Changes in the position and function of administrative boundaries present a special cartographic problem when they are of such bewildering frequency, for the dynamism inherent in the Soviet administrative structure since it…
The Kuril Islands (Chishima)
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The Place-names of Svalbard
In the following notes an attempt has been made to summarise the main facts which anyone dealing with the literature and cartography of Svalbard would require to know in order to give a correct rendering of the place-names and to understand the changes in form which have taken place. The writer wishes to express his grateful thanks to Professor A. Sommerfelt for much assistance in connection with the linguistic aspects of the subject, and to Dr A…
International organisations for polar exploration
An Austrian polar explorer, Karl Weyprecht, was the first to advance a definite scheme for investigating the polar regions on an international level. Weyprecht's idea was that each interested government should establish one or more stations in the polar regions, and that scientific work should be done simultaneously at all stations according to a previously co-ordinated plan. Weyprecht's plan was discussed by an international conference which met…
Historical notes on Heard and McDonald Islands
The discovery of Heard Island (lat. 53°; 10′ S., long. 73°; 35′ E.) has usually been attributed to Capt. John J. Heard of the American barque Oriental , who sighted the island on 25 November 1853 during a voyage from Boston to Melbourne. The relevant passage from Captain Heard's log book has been published by the American Geographical Society. He did not get nearer than twenty miles and mentions only one island, which can definitely be identified…
Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949–52
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