Douglas Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3632803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7158-8580 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
'Mais les passages n'appartiennent à personne': The Passage Choiseul in Georges Perec's Lieux
The Passage Choiseul is one of the twelve locations of Perec's unfinished Lieux project, devoted (mostly) to the description and remembering of sites of personal significance. However, Perec had difficulty explaining the inclusion of the covered arcade, maintaining that in general the Paris passages belonged to no-one. This article sets out to explore the possible meanings of the the arcade in Lieux on three levels: structural, personal and inter…
Mapping adolescent substance use recovery capital with bayesian networks: Distinct protective and risk factor patterns by recovery status
Introduction. Variable Geometries: Hexagonal France in Post-war French and Francophone Culture
Journal Article Introduction. Variable Geometries: Hexagonal France in Post-war French and Francophone Culture Get access Edward Welch, Edward Welch Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1106-4280 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Douglas Smith Douglas Smith University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7158-8580 Search for other …
Le Tour de l'Hexagone: Circulation and Iconography in Lorànt Deutsch's Hexagone and Lionel Daudet's Le Tour de la France, exactement
Contributing Factors to Reporting Intimate Partner Violence as a Clinical Concern
Enhancing coastal livelihoods through half-pearl aquaculture and handicrafts in Tonga and Fiji
The recent development of mabé (half-pearl) aquaculture has enabled new livelihood opportunities for remote coastal communities and peri-urban areas of Fiji and Tonga. This article explores how specific mabé projects have provided socio-economic benefits to individuals and groups engaged in mabé aquaculture and handicraft production and considers how these benefits contribute towards women’s empowerment. We examine both the economic dimensions of…
Belonging and loneliness in cyberspace: Impacts of social media on adolescents’ well-being
Objectives: The rapidly shifting landscape of social media technology presents challenges to researchers and clinicians attempting to understand the impact of such technology on individuals’ psychosocial development. In this paper, we provide a historical perspective on research exploring the relationship between social media use and loneliness and belonging among adolescents and young adults.Method: Rather than attempting an exhaustive review of…
Baudelaire's Afterlives: Immortality and its Discontents
'La Vérité emphatique du geste dans les grandes circonstances de la vie': Baudelaire, Barthes and the Hysterical Gesture
To associate Baudelaire and Barthes may seem a somewhat unlikely gesture. Barthes wrote about Baudelaire in a sustained way only once and with reference to a marginal part of the poet’s work, namely his failed theatrical projects. Yet Baudelaire remains a point of reference across the entire span of Barthes’s career, in particular as the author of a frequently cited quotation from ‘Exposition Universelle’ (1855): ‘la vérité emphatique du geste da…
The Great Prehistoric Art Swindle: André Breton and Palaeolithic Cave Painting
At Pech Merle in 1952, André Breton provoked a controversial incident by damaging a Palaeolithic wall painting that he suspected to be a fake. This episode provides an insight into the contested status of prehistoric sites in post-war France and the theoretical and ideological implications of their cultural mobilization. Such sites allowed for a disavowal of wartime trauma and supported the reaffirmation of French national identity and its civili…
Un bonheur d’Orly: The airport, modernity and nostalgia for a lost future
This article explores the meanings and affects associated with the Orly-Sud airport terminal opened in 1961. The new terminal functioned as a dual symbol of technological modernity and consumerism; strikingly innovative in its architecture and engineering, it also incorporated multiple retail outlets, a hotel and a cinema, thus operating as a prototype shopping mall. The novelist Georges Perec ironically described the pleasures of consumerism as …
The Burning Library: The Paperback Revolution and the End of the Book in 1960s France
In the mid-1960s, the paperback book became the object of intense intellectual debate in France, welcomed by some as a vehicle of cultural democratization and denounced by others as a vector of consumerist commodification. The debate was symptomatic of a wider crisis in print culture, whose centrality was called into question by three developments: the growth of an audiovisual mass culture; the challenge of experimental fiction; and the critique …
China's Frontier Regions: Ethnicity, Economic Integration and Foreign Relations
China has traditionally viewed her frontier regions--Zxinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Yunnan--as buffer zones. Yet their importance as commercial and cosmopolitan hubs, intimately involved in the transmission of goods, peoples and ideas between China and it west and southwest has meant they are crucial for China's ongoing development. The resurgence of China under Deng Xiaoping's policy of 'reform and opening' has therefore led to a focus on …
The role of natural disaster in individual and relational adjustment in Sri Lankan mothers following the 2004 tsunami
The purpose of this study is to examine the associations between maternal mental health distress symptoms, including depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, the extent to which the presence of a child's disaster-related physical health problem(s) have interfered with daily functioning, and family cohesion over time among Sri Lankan mothers who survived the tsunami on 26 December 2004. Study variables were measured using a self-report quest…
Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Women’s Mental Health
Reading The Robe: Bazin and Widescreen
This article examines Bazin's theory of cinema through his reaction to widescreen technology. Bazin endorsed CinemaScope as a means of enhancing cinematic realism, but was critical of its launch vehicle, Henry Koster's The Robe (1953), which recounts the story of a Roman consul whose acquisition of the dead Christ's robe leads him to convert to Christianity. To emphasize the photographic trace of the real that defines his ontology of cinema, Bazi…
Introduction: Revisiting André Bazin
Andre Bazin remains the best-known film critic and theorist of the mid-twentieth century. A regular film reviewer and columnist, co-founder of Cahiers du cinema, defender of Orson Welles, champion of Italian Neo-Realism and mentor to the French New Wave, Bazin was a major figure in French film culture and beyond. 2008 marked the fiftieth anniversary of his death and of the publication of the first volume of his most influential book What is Cinem…
Consumer Chronicles: Cultures of Consumption in Modern French Literature
Jacques Rancière's Republic of the Senses: The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible
The Broken Hexagon: French Nuclear Culture between Empire and Cold War
By examining France's post-war transformation from an imperial into a nuclear and cultural power, this article explores how the triangular relationships between France, Algeria and the USA cause the traditional self-image of the nation as hexagon to break. Two arguments are made: first, that the French cultural and nuclear projects are not only intertwined but also conflictual, promoting both conciliation and friction in international relations; …
Empire and Culture Now: Francophone Perspectives on Globalisation
From One China to the Other: Cartier‐Bresson, Sartre and photography in the age of decolonization
This article explores the relationship between photography and its geopolitical context in the era of post‐war decolonization through an examination of Henri Cartier‐Bresson's book of 1954, From One China to the Other, his extended photoreportage on the fall of Nationalist China and the beginnings of the People's Republic in 1948–49. From One China to the Other occupies a significant place in three contexts: first, in the history of photojournali…
On the Waterfront
Sur les quais des brumes: Mist, Mystification and Demystification in the French Reception of Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront
The French reception of Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) constitutes a revealing case study in cultural relations between France and the United States during the Cold War, demonstrating how procedures of demystification may remystify the ideological object they critique. In an American context, On the Waterfront is widely regarded as a particularly overdetermined film, combining a literal politics of labour relations with an allegorical apol…
Le Temps du plastique’: The Critique of Synthetic Materials in 1950s France
The increasing pervasiveness of plastics in 1950s France was accompanied by a profoundly ambivalent critique of synthetic materials. Much postwar French culture tended to affirm traditional craft-based production, treating plastics with suspicion. Synthetic materials symbolised a ‘bad’ modernity, the emergence of a new consumer society of mechanised mass production and the death of an older artisanal way of life. More fundamentally, synthetics ch…
Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Women’s Mental Health
Beyond the Cave: Lascaux and the Prehistoric in Post-War French Culture
Discovered in 1940 a few months after the military collapse of France, the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux were to become for many writers and artists of the post-war period a symbol of the twin births of art and homo sapiens . This new primitivism may be explained with reference to three contexts: the institutional recognition of Modernism by the French state; the Gaullist rehabilitation of national cultural identity after Vichy; and Frenc…
Enhancing coastal livelihoods through half-pearl aquaculture and handicrafts in Tonga and Fiji
The recent development of mabé (half-pearl) aquaculture has enabled new livelihood opportunities for remote coastal communities and peri-urban areas of Fiji and Tonga. This article explores how specific mabé projects have provided socio-economic benefits to individuals and groups engaged in mabé aquaculture and handicraft production and considers how these benefits contribute towards women’s empowerment. We examine both the economic dimensions of…
Un bonheur d’Orly: The airport, modernity and nostalgia for a lost future
This article explores the meanings and affects associated with the Orly-Sud airport terminal opened in 1961. The new terminal functioned as a dual symbol of technological modernity and consumerism; strikingly innovative in its architecture and engineering, it also incorporated multiple retail outlets, a hotel and a cinema, thus operating as a prototype shopping mall. The novelist Georges Perec ironically described the pleasures of consumerism as …
Hiring New Teachers: What Do School Districts Look For
What qualities do Canadian school administrators seek in prospective teachers? In this study, part of a larger survey investigation of school district hiring preferences in a Western Canadian province, we sought to answer this question. Educational institutions and organizations are encountering sustained social and economic pressures for demonstrable accountability in providing educational services. The two provincial teacher education instituti…
Contributing Factors to Reporting Intimate Partner Violence as a Clinical Concern
The Burning Library: The Paperback Revolution and the End of the Book in 1960s France
In the mid-1960s, the paperback book became the object of intense intellectual debate in France, welcomed by some as a vehicle of cultural democratization and denounced by others as a vector of consumerist commodification. The debate was symptomatic of a wider crisis in print culture, whose centrality was called into question by three developments: the growth of an audiovisual mass culture; the challenge of experimental fiction; and the critique …
Empire and Culture Now: Francophone Perspectives on Globalisation
Le Temps du plastique’: The Critique of Synthetic Materials in 1950s France
The increasing pervasiveness of plastics in 1950s France was accompanied by a profoundly ambivalent critique of synthetic materials. Much postwar French culture tended to affirm traditional craft-based production, treating plastics with suspicion. Synthetic materials symbolised a ‘bad’ modernity, the emergence of a new consumer society of mechanised mass production and the death of an older artisanal way of life. More fundamentally, synthetics ch…
Liberating Strasbourg: Malraux and German thought
Malraux alternately acknowledged and disavowed the influence of German ideas on his thought. Concentrating on his theory of the imaginary museum, this article proposes a survey of four areas of convergence between Malraux's thought and German ideas: the critique of decadence, Expressionism, iconology and technology. In refusing the relativism of Nietzsche and Spengler, Malraux highlights his universalist commitment to an existentialist humanism w…
International evidence on how income inequality and credit market imperfections affect private saving rates
The Confucian Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Editing Eighteenth-Century Texts: Papers Given at the Editorial Conference University of Toronto, October 1967
Reply to Stark
Sources of the African Past
Sources of the African Past
Sources of the African past
Ezra Pound: Poetry and Politics
David Anderson, ed. Pound's Cavalcanti: An Edition of the Translations, Notes and Essays. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. 297 + xxxvi pp. Daniel Hoffman, ed. Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. 247 + xx pp. E. Fuller Torrey, M.D. The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeths. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984. 339 + xx pp. These three books testify to the continuing growth…
The Confucian Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Hiring New Teachers: What Do School Districts Look For
What qualities do Canadian school administrators seek in prospective teachers? In this study, part of a larger survey investigation of school district hiring preferences in a Western Canadian province, we sought to answer this question. Educational institutions and organizations are encountering sustained social and economic pressures for demonstrable accountability in providing educational services. The two provincial teacher education instituti…
Castration and Its Discontents: Psychoanalysis, Anthropology and Masculinity in Leiris's l'AGE d'Homme
CASTRATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: PSYCHOANALYSIS, ANTHROPOLOGY AND MASCULINITY IN LEIRIS'S L'AGE D'HOMME Get access DOUGLAS SMITH DOUGLAS SMITH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIII, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 38–49, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIII.1.38 Published: 01 January 1999
Working the Rough Stone: Freemasonry and Society in Eighteenth-Century Russia
International evidence on how income inequality and credit market imperfections affect private saving rates
Liberating Strasbourg: Malraux and German thought
Malraux alternately acknowledged and disavowed the influence of German ideas on his thought. Concentrating on his theory of the imaginary museum, this article proposes a survey of four areas of convergence between Malraux's thought and German ideas: the critique of decadence, Expressionism, iconology and technology. In refusing the relativism of Nietzsche and Spengler, Malraux highlights his universalist commitment to an existentialist humanism w…
Beyond the Cave: Lascaux and the Prehistoric in Post-War French Culture
Discovered in 1940 a few months after the military collapse of France, the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux were to become for many writers and artists of the post-war period a symbol of the twin births of art and homo sapiens . This new primitivism may be explained with reference to three contexts: the institutional recognition of Modernism by the French state; the Gaullist rehabilitation of national cultural identity after Vichy; and Frenc…
Le structuralisme au miroir: Lévi-Strauss et le modernisme
(Un)Reconstructed Space: The Imaginary in Post-War France (Sartre, Malraux, Merleau-Ponty, Blanchot)
Giving the Game Away: Play and Exchange in Situationism and Structuralism
Since 1989 Situationism has been the object of renewed critical attention. Recent discussion has, however, tended to neglect the anthropological dimension of Situationist theory, and in particular the key relationship between play and exchange. In fact, this relationship, articulated through the Situationist account of the gift, is essential to an understanding of the antagonism between Situationism and structuralism, whose intellectual and acade…
Funny Face Humanism in Post-War French Photography and Philosophy
The cultural reconstruction of post-war France was dominated by an ideology of humanism that marked both philosophical discussion and photographic practice. While the humanist consensus concealed philosophical divergences between conservative and progressive visions of society, photography found itself split between its dual possibilities of recording the real and expressing a subjective vision. If Malraux enlisted photography as the means to ass…
Love and Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin
Alter Ego: The Critical Writings of Michel Leiris
Journal Article Alter Ego: The Critical Writings of Michel Leiris Get access Douglas Smith Douglas Smith University College Dublin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LX, Issue 1, January 2006, Pages 149–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kni352 Published: 01 January 2006
L'Année 1945: Actes du colloque de Paris IV-Sorbonne (janvier 2002)
Réunis par Étienne-Alain Hubert et Michel Murat. Paris, Champion, 2004. 327 pp. Hb €55.00. L'Année 1945, the proceedings of an interdisciplinary conference held at the Sorbonne in 2002, presents itself as an attempt to articulate culture and history through a synchronic focus on a single year. It covers a wide range of cultural activities, mixing anecdotal first-hand accounts (Roger Grenier and Pierre Daix) with analysis and criticism by high-pro…
Le Temps du plastique’: The Critique of Synthetic Materials in 1950s France
The increasing pervasiveness of plastics in 1950s France was accompanied by a profoundly ambivalent critique of synthetic materials. Much postwar French culture tended to affirm traditional craft-based production, treating plastics with suspicion. Synthetic materials symbolised a ‘bad’ modernity, the emergence of a new consumer society of mechanised mass production and the death of an older artisanal way of life. More fundamentally, synthetics ch…
Sur les quais des brumes: Mist, Mystification and Demystification in the French Reception of Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront
The French reception of Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) constitutes a revealing case study in cultural relations between France and the United States during the Cold War, demonstrating how procedures of demystification may remystify the ideological object they critique. In an American context, On the Waterfront is widely regarded as a particularly overdetermined film, combining a literal politics of labour relations with an allegorical apol…
From One China to the Other: Cartier‐Bresson, Sartre and photography in the age of decolonization
This article explores the relationship between photography and its geopolitical context in the era of post‐war decolonization through an examination of Henri Cartier‐Bresson's book of 1954, From One China to the Other, his extended photoreportage on the fall of Nationalist China and the beginnings of the People's Republic in 1948–49. From One China to the Other occupies a significant place in three contexts: first, in the history of photojournali…
On the Waterfront
The Broken Hexagon: French Nuclear Culture between Empire and Cold War
By examining France's post-war transformation from an imperial into a nuclear and cultural power, this article explores how the triangular relationships between France, Algeria and the USA cause the traditional self-image of the nation as hexagon to break. Two arguments are made: first, that the French cultural and nuclear projects are not only intertwined but also conflictual, promoting both conciliation and friction in international relations; …
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