Roderick A Mcdonald

Biographic Data

ID363688
NAMERoderick A Mcdonald
GIVEN NAMESRoderick A
FAMILY NAMEMcdonald
SIGNATUREMCDONALD R A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Exeter
ORCID0000-0002-6922-3195
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS161
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • Understanding farmers' perspectives and engagement with wildlife conservation practices: Insights from a European wildcat reintroduction

    Open AccessThomas R Dando, Sarah Crowley et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Farmers are important stakeholders in many conservation projects; however, their relationships with conservation practices and institutions are complex and can reflect competing visions and priorities for the same spaces. The reintroduction of carnivores into farmed landscapes can be especially contentious because of actual or perceived risks to livestock and livelihoods. Effective engagement between conservationists and farmers is essential for …

  • Stakeholder discourse coalitions and polarisation in the hen harrier conservation debate in news media

    Open AccessFilippo Marino, Sarah Crowley et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2023

    Conservation conflicts are complex and can be deep‐rooted, with stakeholders holding entrenched policy positions. The actors involved producing verbal interconnected interactions that form policy debates. Thus, conservation debates can be viewed as network phenomena with stakeholders forming coalitions in support of, or opposition to, certain policies and practices. We used Discourse Network Analysis of print media to investigate the structure an…

  • Stakeholder perspectives on the prospect of lynx Lynx lynx reintroduction in Scotland

    Open AccessDavid Bavin, J Macpherson et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2023

    Conservation translocations are complex and challenging, but are frequently employed to tackle biodiversity decline. Large predator translocations can be particularly emotive and contentious, in part because they present actual or perceived risks to the safety and livelihoods of people. Understanding the social feasibility of conservation translocations is imperative, and provides opportunities to identify and address these risks. In Britain, the…

  • Badger vaccination in England: Progress, operational effectiveness and participant motivations

    Open AccessClare H Benton, Jessica Helen Phoenix et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2020

    In 2010 a vaccine was licensed for use in badgers in the United Kingdom to reduce the severity of Mycobacterium bovis infection, and hence the risks of onward transmission to cattle. National legislation was enacted to allow its deployment by lay persons, but the efficiency and feasibility of badger vaccination has been the subject of ongoing debate. We conducted quantitative analysis on badger vaccination records and undertook interviews and par…

  • Understanding diverse approaches to predator management among gamekeepers in England

    Open AccessGeorge J F Swan, Steve M Redpath et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2020

    Disagreements and disputes over the management of predatory animals are a frequent feature of conservation conflicts. In the UK, there are long‐standing conflicts surrounding legal and illegal killing of predators as part of management fostering game species as quarry for sport shooting. Despite the central role of gamekeepers as stakeholders and actors in this predominant form of predator management, little direct attention has been paid to thei…

  • Using Q‐methodology to understand stakeholder perspectives on a carnivore translocation

    Open AccessDavid Bavin, J Macpherson et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2020

    Reversing global declines in predator populations is a major conservation objective, though people frequently come into conflict over carnivore conservation. As part of a national recovery programme for the pine marten Martes martes , a protected mesocarnivore in the UK, we used Q‐methodology to understand the perspectives of residents living in an area in which a pine marten translocation project was planned. In contrast to binary ‘for or agains…

  • From Conflict to Bridges: Towards Constructive Use of Conflict Frames in the Control of Bovine Tuberculosis

    Open AccessCaroline Keenan, Clare Saunders et al.ARTICLESociologia Ruralis2020Cited by: 2References: 73

    Control of bovine tuberculosis in cattle (bTB) in England and Wales is characterised by conversational and policy impasses, particularly in relation to badger culling. We created four online discussion groups comprising of badger cull supporters, cull-opponents, aligned antagonists (mixing supporters and opponents affiliated with farming or an environmental/conservation group) and non-aligned antagonists (mixing supporters and opponents who were …

  • Perspectives of ammunition users on the use of lead ammunition and its potential impacts on wildlife and humans

    Open AccessJulia L Newth, Alice Lawrence et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2019

    Recent national and international policy initiatives have aimed to reduce the exposure of humans and wildlife to lead from ammunition. Despite restrictions, in the UK, lead ammunition remains the most widespread source of environmental lead contamination to which wildlife may be exposed. The risks arising from the use of lead ammunition and the measures taken to mitigate these have prompted intense and sometimes acrimonious discussion between sta…

  • Hunting behaviour in domestic cats: An exploratory study of risk and responsibility among cat owners

    Open AccessSarah Crowley, Martina Cecchetti et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2019

    The potential impact of domestic cats on wildlife is the subject of growing international interest and concern. While feral cats are often the primary focus of research and debate, in many societies a substantial proportion of domestic cats are owned by private individuals. We present a typology that classifies domestic cats in relation to varying degrees of human control over their reproduction, movement, and provisioning. Understanding the perc…

  • Killing squirrels: Exploring motivations and practices of lethal wildlife management

    Open AccessSarah L Crowley, Sarah Crowley et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning E Nature…2018Cited by: 35References: 68

    Wildlife management, pest control and conservation projects often involve killing nonhuman animals. In the United Kingdom, introduced grey squirrels Sciurus carolinensis are killed in large numbers to protect remnant populations of European red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris. Grey squirrels are also killed outside of red squirrel areas to protect broadleaved trees from squirrel damage, and as part of routine pest control, opportunistically, and somet…

  • From contradiction to contrast in a countryside conflict: Using Q Methodology to reveal a diplomatic space for doing TB differently

    Open AccessStephan Price, Clare Saunders et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2017Cited by: 1References: 33

    Environmental conflicts are often framed by an assumption that there are clear divisions between interested parties. As a result, there is a tendency to polarise debates, simplify arguments and miss opportunities for constructive engagement. While these conflicts are rarely amenable to resolution through direct dialogue, diplomacy may offer a means to generate possible political settlements. In this paper, we seek to identify the scope for such d…

  • Nonhuman citizens on trial: The ecological politics of a beaver reintroduction

    Open AccessSarah L Crowley, Sarah Crowley et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2017Cited by: 13References: 44

    Wildlife reintroductions can unsettle social and ecological norms, and are often controversial. In this paper, we examine the recent (re)introduction of Eurasian beavers to England, to analyse responses to an unauthorised release of a formerly resident species. Although the statutory response to the introduction was to attempt to reassert ecological and political order by recapturing the beavers, this action was strongly opposed by a diverse coll…

  • History, Literature, and Music in Scotland, 700-1560

    Roderick A McdonaldBOOKHistory, Literature, and Music in…2016

  • Michael Penman. Robert the Bruce: King of the Scots

    Roderick A McdonaldARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

    The year 2014 was an eventful one for Scotland. In addition to the Referendum on Scottish Independence in September, June 2014 witnessed the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn (June 23–24, 1314), arguably the most famous battle in Scottish history, in which the Scottish king Robert I (r. 1306–1329) vanquished the much larger and better equipped army of King Edward II of England. Given the significance of Bannockburn and its indelible …

  • Expert opinion‐based relative landscape isolation maps for badgers across E ngland and W ales

    Open AccessThomas R Etherington, Thomas Etherington et al.ARTICLEArea2014References: 35

    Landscape epidemiological studies often produce maps that visualise spatial variation in disease incidence or prevalence. Within E ngland and W ales a component of the spatial variation in the incidence of bovine tuberculosis ( bTB ) is endemic infection in the E uropean badger ( Meles meles ) population. This reservoir of infection presents a major obstacle to control and eradication of the disease in cattle, which is currently one of the major …

  • Apprenticing to Freedom in the West Indies

    Olwyn M Blouet, Roderick A Mcdonald et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2002

    effect on August I, 1834, instituted a period of Apprenticeship before full Only children under age six were immediately free. All other ex-slaves were bound to their former owners for a fixed period: six years for plantation laborers (known as praedials, that is, agricultural workers) and four years for domestics and non-field workers (non-praedials). Apprentices were expected not only to labor but also to be in training for full As British auth…

  • Inscribing Experience: An American Working Woman and an English Gentlewoman Encounter Jamaica's Slave Society, 1801-1805

    Susan E Klepp, Roderick A McdonaldARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2001Cited by: 1

    Susan E. Klepp, Roderick A. McDonald, Inscribing Experience: An American Working Woman and an English Gentlewoman Encounter Jamaica's Slave Society, 1801-1805, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Jul., 2001), pp. 637-660

  • Eliza Chadwick Roberts: A Voyage to Jamaica, 1805

    Susan E Klepp, Roderick A McdonaldARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2001

  • Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People. Vol. 2: From the Ending of Slavery to the Twenty-First Century

    Roderick A McdonaldARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2000Cited by: 1

    In the first volume of their history of the Bahamian people, published in 1992, Michael Craton, professor at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, and Gail Saunders, Archivist of the Bahamas, presented a remarkably rich chronicle of the period “From Aboriginal Times to the End of Slavery,” which this journal’s reviewer praised as a “work [that] really shines,” and “a model for histories of all former colonies” (HAHR 73: 702–03). With this second v…

  • Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South

    Roderick A Mcdonald, Michael A GomezARTICLEThe American Historical Review1999Cited by: 2

  • Treachery in the Remotest Territories of Scotland: Northern Resistance to the Canmore Dynasty, 1130-1230

    Open AccessRoderick A McdonaldARTICLEJournal of History1999

    This paper explores a hitherto largely neglected facet of medieval Scottish history: resistance to the kings of the so-called Canmore dynasty (Malcolm III and his descendants) from the northern regions of Moray and Ross between the late eleventh and early thirteenth centuries. It explores incidents of insurrection between about 1100 and 1230, analyzing leadership, timing, military aspects, and the geographical context. Far from representing merel…

  • West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan

    Mavis C Campbell, Roderick A McdonaldARTICLEThe American Historical Review1999References: 1

    These layers of connection with the British Caribbean echo Dick's involvement with the region throughout his academic career.He developed an interest in British West Indian history as a postgraduate student at the London School of Economics (LSE), and thereafter the topic has been the principal focus of his research.Although he spent most of his academic career teaching in his native state of Kansas, landlocked in the midwestern United States, he…

  • Debt, Investment, Slaves: Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825-1885

    Roderick A Mcdonald, Richard Holcombe Kilbourne et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article Debt, Investment, Slaves: Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825–1885. By Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995 and Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. By Judith Kelleher Schafer. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994 Get access Roderick A. McDonald Roderick A. McDonald Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey Search for other works…

  • Matrimonial politics and core-periphery interactions in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century Scotland

    Roderick A McdonaldARTICLEJournal of Medieval History1995References: 1

    The medieval kingdom of Scotland was an amalgam of diverse ethnic elements which included Gaels, Britons, Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians and Normans. This paper explores one mechanism which is generally considered to have been of tremendous importance in fostering accommodation and understanding between cultures in medieval society: matrimony. An examination of the marriage alliances of prominent members of the native nobility of eastern Scotland de…

  • The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana

    Joseph P Reidy, Roderick A McdonaldARTICLEThe American Historical Review1995Cited by: 14