Christopher Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Reed College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6339-8365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1926 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Role of Field Epidemiology in Environmental and Climate Change-Related Health Incidents in Wales: A Qualitative Analysis Through Expert Interviews
Climate change and environmental degradation pose significant challenges to public health globally, intensifying the frequency and severity of related health incidents. Field epidemiology, traditionally focused on infectious disease outbreaks, is now increasingly recognised as vital in addressing environmental and climate-related health threats. This study explores how organisations like Public Health Wales (PHW) can develop field epidemiology se…
Integrated solutions for sustainable fall prevention in primary care: A pragmatic hybrid-type 2 mixed methods implementation and effectiveness study
The iSOLVE implementation project established and evaluated integrated processes and pathways, including a decision-making tool and educational interventions for general medical practitioners (GPs) and the upskilling of allied health professionals (AHPs). The study used a mixed-methods (parallel) design comprising surveys, qualitative methodologies, and an embedded cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT). Sampling was conducted within a Primary…
Alternative Approaches to Human Rights: The Disparate Historical Paths of the European, Inter-American and African Regional Human Rights Systems
This book explores the comparative historical evolution of the European, Inter-American and African regional human rights systems. The book devotes attention to various factors that have shaped the systems: the different circumstances in which they were founded; the influence of major states and inter-state politics within their respective regions; gradual processes of institutional evolution; and the impact of human rights advocates and claimant…
The World We Became: Map Quest 2350, A Speculative Atlas Beyond Climate Crisis
Tackling how racial justice and climate crisis are entangled, this essay introduces a speculative cartography experiment entitled The World We Became: Map Quest 2350 . A collaboration between a collective of artists, poets, academics, curators, architects, and activists, this digital humanities project maps global ecological crises and shared Black, Asian, Pacific, Middle Eastern, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous futures. Intentionally p…
Music in North-East England, 1500-1800
The Role of Regional Cultural Values in Decisions about Hurricane Evacuation
This paper explores perceived risk within the context of regional cultural values. We describe aspects of local culture in Galveston, Texas, as emically defined, which affected response to a mandatory evacuation order for Hurricane Ike. Since over the past two decades about a third of residents failed to evacuate for hurricanes, we focused on understanding why residents would choose to stay. We used a matched-pair design to control for socioecono…
Church schools, educational markets and the rural idyll
Researchers have begun to explore the role that faith schools play in contemporary educational markets but the emphasis to date has been on urban rather than rural contexts. This article approaches the issue of marketisation through a qualitative case-study comparison of two Anglican primary schools in contrasting rural localities in England and Wales. Engaging with a range of stakeholders, including parents and pupils, the article explores reaso…
Asean, the “South China Sea” Arbitral Award, and the Code of Conduct: New Challenges, New Approaches
The paper examines the South China Sea disputes and primarily focuses on developments since 2013 when the Philippines filed International Arbitration. The argues that the South China Sea situation involves two fundamental and interdependent considerations: (1) the right of sovereign states to access their legal entitlements unimpeded, and (2) the extent to which Asia and the international community value a rules‐based regional order. Before there…
BlackHealingMatters in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter
Since at least 2013, the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) has reanimated public conversation, highlighting a pattern of present-day and historical state-sanctioned violence against Black people. Much of the conversation has centered on the premise that Black Lives Matter, a statement that challenges an anti-Black logic in which Black and life or rather Black and human are thought to be antagonistic entities. Black Lives Matter is a necessary state…
An Earful of Africa: Insights from Tanzania on Music and Music Learning
The British Courts and Extra-territoriality in Japan, 1859-1899
In The British Courts and Extra-territoriality in Japan, 1859-1899, Christopher Roberts reviews the Courts' day-to-day workings and examines the nature of, and fluctuations in, their case-load. By examining the Courts' case-load, it shows that, whilst some complaints that earlier commentators have made about the system's structure and the Consuls' lack of legal training and poor judgments may have been justified initially, the British authorities…
Children's Perceived Water Futures in the United States Southwest
This study examines children's perceptions of water via 3,120 pieces of artwork collected from 1,560 schoolchildren (age 9-11) in Arizona, United States, with a specific focus on how these are gendered. Each child produced two pieces of art, one depicting water in their community today and one 100 years in the future. Using content analysis, the study finds that (1) students' depictions of the future contain statistically significantly more pollu…
Human Security in Southeast Asia – By Yukiko Nishikawa
Brunei Darussalam: Consolidating the Foundations of its Future
Founded in 1974, Southeast Asian Affairs provides, without fear or favour, informed and in-depth annual analyses of this vibrant region and its component countries. It is the only publication which does this and is in its own class without peers. It is a mandatory reference and read for those seriously interested in knowing Southeast Asia."- Professor A.B. Shamsul, Founding DirectorInstitute of Ethnic Studies, Universiti Bebangsaan Malaysia"Now i…
Entropy, Sacrifice and Lévi-Strauss’s Dismissal of Ritual
Levi-Strauss’s scientism positions structuralism midway between information theory and semiotics, a limitation that appears most clearly in his treatment of ritual. At specific junctures Levi-Strauss could have taken his research more towards semiotics, but opted to hew closely to the information paradigm. Phenomena of ritual repetition, redundancy and the extreme case of sacrificial destruction can only be treated as instances of inefficiency an…
Region and Identity: The Many Faces of Southeast Asia
This article examines the origins of Southeast Asia as a region, including the extent to which regularized interstate relations existed throughout the region prior to World War II. In addition, the article examines the origins of Southeast Asia's recognition as a region together with notions of cultural homogeneity and identity. At one level, these interdependent variables are relevant to the analysis because much of the scholarly literature has …
Transdisciplinary Anthropology at Arizona State: The School of Human Evolution and Social Change
academic affairs, human evolution, program development
Sound Ideas: Music, Machine and Experience
Reviewed by: Sound Ideas: Music, Machine and Experience Christopher Roberts Evens, Aden. Sound Ideas: Music, Machine and Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Pp. 202. Music has long been a problematic topic in the field of aesthetics. Though at first it seems the most distinguishable art form, try as one might to discover music’s essence, the investigation will always depend on evidence of musicality that bleeds into rela…
The Theatrical Satanism of Self-Awareness Itself: Religion, Art and Anarchy in Pasolini's Salò
In 1975, Italian poet, novelist and director Pier Paolo Pasolini released Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma [Salo or 120 Days of Sodom]. The Republic of Salo, the northeast Italian province to which
Brunei Darussalam: Cautious on Political Reform, Comfortable in Asean, Pushing for Economic Diversification
By the end of 2008, the political scene in Brunei was dominated by preparations for the commemoration of Brunei's Silver Jubilee celebrating twenty-five years of independence from colonial rule. On the eve of the National Day in early 2009, Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah delivered a titah (a speech or decree) where he declared his intention to increase the growth of industries, to continue to reduce poverty, to increase rice production, and to ensu…
Cognitive behaviour therapy-based intervention by community health workers for mothers with depression and their infants in rural Pakistan: A cluster-randomised controlled trial
Social conflict and sacrificial rhetoric: Luther’s discursive intervention and the religious division of labor
‘Sacrifice’ is a religious term whose use extends far beyond the church door. People from all walks of life speak of ‘sacrifice’ when they want to evoke an irreducible conflict in the relations between self, family, and society. In America, hardly a speech goes by without political leaders insisting upon the necessity and virtue of sacrifice, but rarely will they clarify who is sacrificing what, and to whom. Indeed, this is not only an American p…
Myanmar and the argument for engagement: A clash of contending moralities
Adorno and the Political
Comparison of overweight and obesity prevalence in school‐aged youth from 34 countries and their relationships with physical activity and dietary patterns
The purposes of this systematic review were to present and compare recent estimates of the prevalence of overweight and obesity in school‐aged youth from 34 countries and to examine associations between overweight and selected dietary and physical activity patterns. Data consisted of a cross‐sectional survey of 137 593 youth (10–16 years) from the 34 (primarily European) participating countries of the 2001–2002 Health Behaviour in School‐Aged Chi…
Church schools, educational markets and the rural idyll
Researchers have begun to explore the role that faith schools play in contemporary educational markets but the emphasis to date has been on urban rather than rural contexts. This article approaches the issue of marketisation through a qualitative case-study comparison of two Anglican primary schools in contrasting rural localities in England and Wales. Engaging with a range of stakeholders, including parents and pupils, the article explores reaso…
Democracy Is Power: Rebuilding Unions from the Bottom Up
Myanmar and the argument for engagement: A clash of contending moralities
Entropy, Sacrifice and Lévi-Strauss’s Dismissal of Ritual
Levi-Strauss’s scientism positions structuralism midway between information theory and semiotics, a limitation that appears most clearly in his treatment of ritual. At specific junctures Levi-Strauss could have taken his research more towards semiotics, but opted to hew closely to the information paradigm. Phenomena of ritual repetition, redundancy and the extreme case of sacrificial destruction can only be treated as instances of inefficiency an…
Region and Identity: The Many Faces of Southeast Asia
This article examines the origins of Southeast Asia as a region, including the extent to which regularized interstate relations existed throughout the region prior to World War II. In addition, the article examines the origins of Southeast Asia's recognition as a region together with notions of cultural homogeneity and identity. At one level, these interdependent variables are relevant to the analysis because much of the scholarly literature has …
The Finding of the Middlesex Canal Records: An Interesting Incident in Economic Research
The first important and courageous improvement in inland transportation to reach fruition in the United States was the Middlesex Canal uniting Boston and Chelmsford and the upper reaches of the Merrimac River. It was built under stress and hardship when the science of civil engineering in this country was in its infancy. Today one short segment of the trough of the former waterway is a public parking place for pleasure cars, another segment forms…
The Middlesex Canal, 1793-1860
The Middlesex Canal, 1793-1860
Journal Article The Middlesex Canal, 1793–1860. By Christopher Roberts. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938. Harvard Economic Studies, Vol. LXI. xii + 252 pp. Appendix and bibliography. $3.00.) Get access Ray Allen Billington Ray Allen Billington Smith College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 25, Issue 3, December 1938, Pages 411–412, https://doi.org/10.2307/189728…
The Middlesex Canal, 1793-1860
Democracy Is Power: Rebuilding Unions from the Bottom Up
Comparison of overweight and obesity prevalence in school‐aged youth from 34 countries and their relationships with physical activity and dietary patterns
The purposes of this systematic review were to present and compare recent estimates of the prevalence of overweight and obesity in school‐aged youth from 34 countries and to examine associations between overweight and selected dietary and physical activity patterns. Data consisted of a cross‐sectional survey of 137 593 youth (10–16 years) from the 34 (primarily European) participating countries of the 2001–2002 Health Behaviour in School‐Aged Chi…
Questioning Platonism: Continental Interpretations of Plato
Social conflict and sacrificial rhetoric: Luther’s discursive intervention and the religious division of labor
‘Sacrifice’ is a religious term whose use extends far beyond the church door. People from all walks of life speak of ‘sacrifice’ when they want to evoke an irreducible conflict in the relations between self, family, and society. In America, hardly a speech goes by without political leaders insisting upon the necessity and virtue of sacrifice, but rarely will they clarify who is sacrificing what, and to whom. Indeed, this is not only an American p…
Myanmar and the argument for engagement: A clash of contending moralities
Adorno and the Political
Cognitive behaviour therapy-based intervention by community health workers for mothers with depression and their infants in rural Pakistan: A cluster-randomised controlled trial
Brunei Darussalam: Cautious on Political Reform, Comfortable in Asean, Pushing for Economic Diversification
By the end of 2008, the political scene in Brunei was dominated by preparations for the commemoration of Brunei's Silver Jubilee celebrating twenty-five years of independence from colonial rule. On the eve of the National Day in early 2009, Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah delivered a titah (a speech or decree) where he declared his intention to increase the growth of industries, to continue to reduce poverty, to increase rice production, and to ensu…
Sound Ideas: Music, Machine and Experience
Reviewed by: Sound Ideas: Music, Machine and Experience Christopher Roberts Evens, Aden. Sound Ideas: Music, Machine and Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Pp. 202. Music has long been a problematic topic in the field of aesthetics. Though at first it seems the most distinguishable art form, try as one might to discover music’s essence, the investigation will always depend on evidence of musicality that bleeds into rela…
The Theatrical Satanism of Self-Awareness Itself: Religion, Art and Anarchy in Pasolini's Salò
In 1975, Italian poet, novelist and director Pier Paolo Pasolini released Salo o le 120 giornate di Sodoma [Salo or 120 Days of Sodom]. The Republic of Salo, the northeast Italian province to which
Brunei Darussalam: Consolidating the Foundations of its Future
Founded in 1974, Southeast Asian Affairs provides, without fear or favour, informed and in-depth annual analyses of this vibrant region and its component countries. It is the only publication which does this and is in its own class without peers. It is a mandatory reference and read for those seriously interested in knowing Southeast Asia."- Professor A.B. Shamsul, Founding DirectorInstitute of Ethnic Studies, Universiti Bebangsaan Malaysia"Now i…
Entropy, Sacrifice and Lévi-Strauss’s Dismissal of Ritual
Levi-Strauss’s scientism positions structuralism midway between information theory and semiotics, a limitation that appears most clearly in his treatment of ritual. At specific junctures Levi-Strauss could have taken his research more towards semiotics, but opted to hew closely to the information paradigm. Phenomena of ritual repetition, redundancy and the extreme case of sacrificial destruction can only be treated as instances of inefficiency an…
Region and Identity: The Many Faces of Southeast Asia
This article examines the origins of Southeast Asia as a region, including the extent to which regularized interstate relations existed throughout the region prior to World War II. In addition, the article examines the origins of Southeast Asia's recognition as a region together with notions of cultural homogeneity and identity. At one level, these interdependent variables are relevant to the analysis because much of the scholarly literature has …
Transdisciplinary Anthropology at Arizona State: The School of Human Evolution and Social Change
academic affairs, human evolution, program development
Human Security in Southeast Asia – By Yukiko Nishikawa
The British Courts and Extra-territoriality in Japan, 1859-1899
In The British Courts and Extra-territoriality in Japan, 1859-1899, Christopher Roberts reviews the Courts' day-to-day workings and examines the nature of, and fluctuations in, their case-load. By examining the Courts' case-load, it shows that, whilst some complaints that earlier commentators have made about the system's structure and the Consuls' lack of legal training and poor judgments may have been justified initially, the British authorities…
Children's Perceived Water Futures in the United States Southwest
This study examines children's perceptions of water via 3,120 pieces of artwork collected from 1,560 schoolchildren (age 9-11) in Arizona, United States, with a specific focus on how these are gendered. Each child produced two pieces of art, one depicting water in their community today and one 100 years in the future. Using content analysis, the study finds that (1) students' depictions of the future contain statistically significantly more pollu…
An Earful of Africa: Insights from Tanzania on Music and Music Learning
Church schools, educational markets and the rural idyll
Researchers have begun to explore the role that faith schools play in contemporary educational markets but the emphasis to date has been on urban rather than rural contexts. This article approaches the issue of marketisation through a qualitative case-study comparison of two Anglican primary schools in contrasting rural localities in England and Wales. Engaging with a range of stakeholders, including parents and pupils, the article explores reaso…
Asean, the “South China Sea” Arbitral Award, and the Code of Conduct: New Challenges, New Approaches
The paper examines the South China Sea disputes and primarily focuses on developments since 2013 when the Philippines filed International Arbitration. The argues that the South China Sea situation involves two fundamental and interdependent considerations: (1) the right of sovereign states to access their legal entitlements unimpeded, and (2) the extent to which Asia and the international community value a rules‐based regional order. Before there…
BlackHealingMatters in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter
Since at least 2013, the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) has reanimated public conversation, highlighting a pattern of present-day and historical state-sanctioned violence against Black people. Much of the conversation has centered on the premise that Black Lives Matter, a statement that challenges an anti-Black logic in which Black and life or rather Black and human are thought to be antagonistic entities. Black Lives Matter is a necessary state…
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