Michael Mason
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3635650 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Mason |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Mason |
| ASSINATURA | MASON M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8494-9891 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 183 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1936 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Forging fragility
This theme issue introduces the concept of capitalogenic flows to explain how ‘fragile landscapes’ are forged across , and signify, the Middle East through infrastructures of extraction, militarisation and global supply chains. Drawing on critical political ecology and Capitalocene scholarship, we show that environmental degradation in the region is not inherent but produced through historically specific circuits and spatialisations of capital. I…
Hydro-transparency and transboundary water governance
This paper introduces hydro-transparency as an analytical concept that refers to how and why water data/information is disclosed, who transfers and receives such data/information, and the political-economic structures shaping information flows. Informed by a synthesis of critical transparency studies with hydropolitical analysis, it invites examination of the political conditions shaping differential availability of information about the movement…
Environment
Heat, History: Lessons from the Middle East for a Warming Planet, by On Barak. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2024. 328 pages. $95 cloth; $29.95 paper, e-book
Working on the Railway
The treatment of the workers by the privileged classes may be taken as a criterion of the ethical standard attained by a community. [Forward by Lord Lugard in G. St. Orde-Browne, The African Labourer, 1933:v]
Beyond Code of the Street and Psychopathic Features
The role of self-compassion in relation to code of the street, psychopathic features, and masculinity was examined among a sample of 207 African American men. Participants were recruited online through the MTurk website. Using correlational and Preacher and Hayes (2008) bootstrapping analyses, results showed that masculinity was positively correlated with code of the street but not self-compassion or psychopathy. The correlational analyses also r…
The Untold Story of the Golan Heights
Human rights abuses and violations in Saudi Arabia attract international condemnation. But within the country, an Islamic civil rights movement, ‘HASM’, has called for change. While its members have received international human rights awards, the Saudi authorities have persecuted and imprisoned them. This book is the first to study human rights in the kingdom from the perspective of these prominent Saudi civil rights activists, uncovering the act…
Infrastructure under pressure
Water infrastructure is an active element of state-making in southern Iraq, although major failings in water governance have in recent years triggered violent protests. Informed by scholarship on state clientelism and the political ecology of infrastructure, I examine the conflict-affected trajectories affecting public water management in Basra governorate. The degraded water treatment network manifests a post-2003 political system structured by …
Hydraulic patronage
Climate Change and Conflict in the Middle East
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Urban greenspace is associated with reduced psychological stress among adolescents
Text Message Delivered Peer Network Counseling for Adolescent Smokers
Fluid Sovereignty
The concept of fluid sovereignty denotes configurations of state authority in which flows of living and nonliving things, within and across borders, render insecure claims of unconditional territorial control. Loss of monopoly control of the means of violence within a territory conventionally signals weak political sovereignty. Bordering Israel (including the occupied Golan Heights) and Syria, the Hasbani Basin in southern Lebanon seems to exempl…
Climate Insecurity in (Post)Conflict Areas
Within the United Nations, the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs have all highlighted climate risks as relevant to their work in areas affected by conflict, endorsing human security approaches as valid for mapping the relationships between climate stresses and conflict-related harm. While this policy interest has limited operational presence, I discus…
Text Messaging to Increase Readiness to Change Alcohol Use in College Students
Climate change, securitisation and theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict
Securitisation theory serves as a useful corrective to the 'climate determinism' evident in mainstream debates on the security effects of climate change, but there are divergences within this approach over what constitutes 'successful' securitisation. For theCopenhagenSchool, climate change has not been securitised because relevant state actors do not yet accept that emergency measures are necessary to tackle 'dangerous' climate risks. In contras…
Questioning environmental security
Threats to and from 'the environment' inform geographical depictions of danger with widespread reach in political and policy circles. These fears invoke an existential anxiety about collapsing conditions of life - from 'dangerous climate change', and species extinctions to fossil fuel depletion and global water shortages. The 'securitisation' of socio-environmental processes is at once both a consequence and driver of such concerns, prescribing u…
The New Accountability
The growth of pollution that crosses national borders represents a significant threat to human health and ecological sustainability. Various international agreements exist between countries to reduce risks to their populations, however there is often a mismatch between national territories of state responsibility and transboundary hazards. All too often, state priorities do not correspond to the priorities of the people affected by pollution, who…
Valuing but Not Liking School
Research has found strong linkages between adolescent substance use and attitudes toward school. Few studies of this relationship, however, consider the different dimensions of students’ school attitudes, separating perceptions of the importance of school from the quality of students’ affective experiences therein. Using a sample of 301 urban adolescents, evenly divided into substance users and nonusers, this study examines the relationships betw…
Critical salvoes in the corporate greenhouse
The corporate greenhouse: climate change policy in a globalizing world by Yda Schreuder, London, Zed Books, 2009, viii + 256 pp., index, £70.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-84277-957-6; £18.99 (paperback
The spirituality of young Australians
A research project conducted in 2003–2006, the Spirit of Generation Y, using both extended interviews and a nationwide survey, revealed three main strands in the spirituality of young Australians: traditional, alternative and humanist. Their involvement in traditional religions was declining, like that of their parents, and although some adopted alternative spiritualities, the stronger trends were toward indifference or humanism. Eclecticism in w…
Collaborative Partnerships for Urban Development
Collaborative partnerships-featuring intergovernmental and/or public-private sector cooperation-have been identified as a leading organisational expression of the 'new urban governance'. The paper examines the Vancouver Agreement-an urban development compact between the governments of Canada, British Columbia, and the City of Vancouver. Signed in March 2000 for a five-year term, and renewed in April 2005, the Vancouver Agreement has been widely a…
Citizenship Entitlements Beyond Borders? Identifying Mechanisms of Access and Redress for Affected Publics in International Environmental Law
I argue that although international law is state centric in nature, there is a growing body of international environmental law that allows at least some input from public actors in implementing key substantive and procedural obligations. The evolution of these environmental entitlements is linked to the global diffusion of democratic norms of civic participation, the appli-cation of the nondiscrimination principle in both public and private inter…
The life and death of environmental subjects
Review Essay of: Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects by Arun Agrawal. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi þ 325; index. £60.00 (hardback); £14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8 223 3480 1 and 0 8223 3492 5 Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy by Bruno Latour, translated by Catherine Porter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. x þ 307; index. £39.95 (hardback); £16.95 (paperb…
Representing Transnational Environmental Interests
What opportunities does the World Trade Organisation (WTO) offer for the representation of transnational environmental concerns by non-governmental organisations (NGOs)? Even prior to the Seattle protests in 1999, social movement pressure prompted WTO to increase its engagement with civil society groups, derestrict documents, facilitate NGO-oriented symposia and briefings, and extend access to ministerial meetings. A survey of NGO participants in…
Transnational environmental obligations
The growth of transnational environmental harm is not only leading to new obligations between states, it is also recasting democratic accountability for the crossboundary environmental performance of public and private actors. Informed by pragmatist ideas on public discourse, I propose a conceptual schema for understanding the moral geography of these new transnational environmental obligations: they mark out non‐territorial spaces of public comm…
Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960
Maps Tables Figures Preface 1. Slavery, colonialism and economic growth, 1640-1960 2. The Dahomean economy, 1640-1890 3. Struggles with the gods: economic life in the 1880s 4. Production, 1890-1914 5. Demand, 1890-1914 6. Exchange, 1890-1914 7. The alien state, 1890-1914 8. Social struggles for economic ends, 1890-1914 9. The mechanism of accumulation 10. Capitalism and colonialism, 1915-60 11. The Dahomean national movement 12. Epilogue Notes Ap…
Captive and client labour and the economy of the Bida Emirate
The purpose of this essay is to discuss a number of aspects relating to the client and captive labour force in the Bida emirate in the immediate pre-colonial period. Using data collected in surveys of 1611 captive and client villages in the 1930s, it has been possible to estimate the origins of a large part of this force and to establish the different periods of its recruitment. Comments are made regarding the role of this labour force in the pre…
Population density and ‘slave raiding’—The case of the middle belt of Nigeria
The expansion of the Sokoto Caliphate into the lands of the diverse non-Muslim peoples of the Middle Belt area is a familiar theme in the nineteenth-century history of the Central Sudan. As the Middle Belt is known to have an overall lower population density than adjoining areas to the north and south, the explanation has been proposed that this was due to slave raiding by Muslim states. A study of the history of this area does not support this o…
Transnational environmental obligations
The growth of transnational environmental harm is not only leading to new obligations between states, it is also recasting democratic accountability for the crossboundary environmental performance of public and private actors. Informed by pragmatist ideas on public discourse, I propose a conceptual schema for understanding the moral geography of these new transnational environmental obligations: they mark out non‐territorial spaces of public comm…
An Expedition in the Southern Libyan Desert
Questioning environmental security
Threats to and from 'the environment' inform geographical depictions of danger with widespread reach in political and policy circles. These fears invoke an existential anxiety about collapsing conditions of life - from 'dangerous climate change', and species extinctions to fossil fuel depletion and global water shortages. The 'securitisation' of socio-environmental processes is at once both a consequence and driver of such concerns, prescribing u…
Fluid Sovereignty
The concept of fluid sovereignty denotes configurations of state authority in which flows of living and nonliving things, within and across borders, render insecure claims of unconditional territorial control. Loss of monopoly control of the means of violence within a territory conventionally signals weak political sovereignty. Bordering Israel (including the occupied Golan Heights) and Syria, the Hasbani Basin in southern Lebanon seems to exempl…
Climate change, securitisation and theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict
Securitisation theory serves as a useful corrective to the 'climate determinism' evident in mainstream debates on the security effects of climate change, but there are divergences within this approach over what constitutes 'successful' securitisation. For theCopenhagenSchool, climate change has not been securitised because relevant state actors do not yet accept that emergency measures are necessary to tackle 'dangerous' climate risks. In contras…
Climate Insecurity in (Post)Conflict Areas
Within the United Nations, the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs have all highlighted climate risks as relevant to their work in areas affected by conflict, endorsing human security approaches as valid for mapping the relationships between climate stresses and conflict-related harm. While this policy interest has limited operational presence, I discus…
Three Nigerian Emirates. A Study in Oral History
Hydraulic patronage
Infrastructure under pressure
Water infrastructure is an active element of state-making in southern Iraq, although major failings in water governance have in recent years triggered violent protests. Informed by scholarship on state clientelism and the political ecology of infrastructure, I examine the conflict-affected trajectories affecting public water management in Basra governorate. The degraded water treatment network manifests a post-2003 political system structured by …
Valuing but Not Liking School
Research has found strong linkages between adolescent substance use and attitudes toward school. Few studies of this relationship, however, consider the different dimensions of students’ school attitudes, separating perceptions of the importance of school from the quality of students’ affective experiences therein. Using a sample of 301 urban adolescents, evenly divided into substance users and nonusers, this study examines the relationships betw…
Representing Transnational Environmental Interests
What opportunities does the World Trade Organisation (WTO) offer for the representation of transnational environmental concerns by non-governmental organisations (NGOs)? Even prior to the Seattle protests in 1999, social movement pressure prompted WTO to increase its engagement with civil society groups, derestrict documents, facilitate NGO-oriented symposia and briefings, and extend access to ministerial meetings. A survey of NGO participants in…
The Northern Tribes of Nigeria, An Ethnographic Account of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria together with a Report on the 1921 Decennial Census
Climate Change and Conflict in the Middle East
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Collaborative Partnerships for Urban Development
Collaborative partnerships-featuring intergovernmental and/or public-private sector cooperation-have been identified as a leading organisational expression of the 'new urban governance'. The paper examines the Vancouver Agreement-an urban development compact between the governments of Canada, British Columbia, and the City of Vancouver. Signed in March 2000 for a five-year term, and renewed in April 2005, the Vancouver Agreement has been widely a…
Evaluating Participative Capacity-building in Environmental Policy
For provincial fish protection and parks policy in British Columbia, the provincial government has recently experimented with the devolution of environmental management design through a range of participatory instruments. This paper examines this 'participative capacity-building' according to key criteria adopted by the provincial environmental bureaucracy. The corporate rationale for the use of participatory policy instruments is outlined, uncov…
The History of Mr. Johnson
RésuméLes petits fonctionnaires qui, originaires des enclaves mercantilistes d'Afrique de l'Ouest, avaient reçu une éducation occidentale se considéraient comme les hirondelles annonciatrices de la civilisation, les précurseurs d'un inévitable renouveau du Progrès. Leurs supérieurs dans la région colonisée du nord du Nigéria les considéraient comme les bacilles de la corruption. La tension résultant de ces deux perspectives a donné lieu à des gue…
The History of Mr. Johnson
Michael Mason, The History of Mr. Johnson: Progress and Protest in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1921, Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines, Vol. 27, No. 2 (1993), pp. 196-217
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Papers
Trade unions as environmental actors
Raiders and Refugees
Citizenship Entitlements Beyond Borders? Identifying Mechanisms of Access and Redress for Affected Publics in International Environmental Law
I argue that although international law is state centric in nature, there is a growing body of international environmental law that allows at least some input from public actors in implementing key substantive and procedural obligations. The evolution of these environmental entitlements is linked to the global diffusion of democratic norms of civic participation, the appli-cation of the nondiscrimination principle in both public and private inter…
The Gbandes
An Expedition in the Southern Libyan Desert
The Golden Evening
Population density and ‘slave raiding’—The case of the middle belt of Nigeria
The expansion of the Sokoto Caliphate into the lands of the diverse non-Muslim peoples of the Middle Belt area is a familiar theme in the nineteenth-century history of the Central Sudan. As the Middle Belt is known to have an overall lower population density than adjoining areas to the north and south, the explanation has been proposed that this was due to slave raiding by Muslim states. A study of the history of this area does not support this o…
Biafra. Selected Speeches with Journals of Events
Population Density and ‘Slave Raiding’—A Reply
I rejoice with Messrs Gleave and Prothero in the opportunity for interdisciplinary discussion of a problem which is of interest to both historians and geographers. Before replying to their lengthy ‘Comment’ I feel that an explanatory note regarding the genesis of my article might remove any misapprehensions that it was done as a simple exercise in cavil
The Northern Tribes of Nigeria, An Ethnographic Account of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria together with a Report on the 1921 Decennial Census
Captive and client labour and the economy of the Bida Emirate
The purpose of this essay is to discuss a number of aspects relating to the client and captive labour force in the Bida emirate in the immediate pre-colonial period. Using data collected in surveys of 1611 captive and client villages in the 1930s, it has been possible to estimate the origins of a large part of this force and to establish the different periods of its recruitment. Comments are made regarding the role of this labour force in the pre…
Three Nigerian Emirates. A Study in Oral History
West African Travels and Adventures
Studies in Ibo Political Systems. Chieftaincy and Politics in Four Niger States
The Ibo People and the Europeans. The Genesis of a Relationship to 1906
The Gbandes
Livres/Books
Why is Leopold Bloom a Cuckold
The Development of an African Working Class
The Antecedents of Nineteenth-Century Islamic Government in Nupe
The Way We Look Now
The Growth of Islam among the Yoruba, 1841-1908
Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960
Maps Tables Figures Preface 1. Slavery, colonialism and economic growth, 1640-1960 2. The Dahomean economy, 1640-1890 3. Struggles with the gods: economic life in the 1880s 4. Production, 1890-1914 5. Demand, 1890-1914 6. Exchange, 1890-1914 7. The alien state, 1890-1914 8. Social struggles for economic ends, 1890-1914 9. The mechanism of accumulation 10. Capitalism and colonialism, 1915-60 11. The Dahomean national movement 12. Epilogue Notes Ap…
Books/Livres
The Islamic Regime of Fuuta Tooro
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Papers
Against Racism
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. Vol. 3
Migrant Laborers
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