Stephen Robertson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Robertson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Robertson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERTSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4115-6215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State
Stranger Danger combines a skillfully constructed, richly detailed narrative of the moral panic about missing and exploited children in the 1970s and 1980s with an analysis of its political and policy consequences that persuasively ties it to the expansion of the carceral state. Paul M. Renfro's consideration of those put in the shadows by the glare of attention given a handful of white, middle-class children ensures that this powerful book offer…
Indigenous Genomic Databases: Pragmatic Considerations and Cultural Contexts
The potential to grow genomic knowledge and harness the subsequent clinical benefits has escalated the building of background variant databases (BVDs) for genetic diagnosis across the globe. Alongside the upsurge of this precision medicine, potential benefits have been highlighted for both rare genetic conditions and other diagnoses. However, with the ever-present "genomic divide," Indigenous peoples globally have valid concerns as they endure co…
B C, Before Computers: On Information Technology from Writing to the Age of Digital Data
The idea that the digital age has revolutionized our day-to-day experience of the world is nothing new, and has been amply recognized by cultural historians. In contrast, Stephen Robertson’s 'BC: Before Computers' is a work which questions the idea that the mid-twentieth century saw a single moment of rupture. It is about all the things that we had to learn, invent, and understand – all the ways we had to evolve our thinking – before we could ent…
Putting Harlem on the Map
Hope that sustains: Revisiting New Year’s divination at Suwa Taisha
This paper details the “cylinder-gruel rite” (tsutsugayu shinji) observed annually on 15 January at Suwa Taisha, a Shintō shrine complex in Nagano Prefecture. The oracular ritual is an instance of the Japanese tradition of New Year’s divination (toshiura), and involves the boiling of hollow reeds or bamboo in rice gruel to augur crop yields and economic prospects for the coming year. Whereas Japan’s modernization and shift away from an agricultur…
Digital Mapping as a Research Tool: Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915–1930
In his review, Joshua Sternfeld points to some of the strengths and weaknesses of Digital Harlem , but ultimately his assessment is skewed because he does not recognize the category of digital scholarship into which the site falls, and he does not evaluate the project in terms of what it is trying to accomplish. Digital Harlem was designed as a research tool to combine and map a heterogeneous set of sources so as to reveal spatial patterns and re…
Alex Goodall. Loyalty and Liberty: American Countersubversion from World War I to the McCarthy Era
Fears of subversion burst episodically into the standard narrative of twentieth-century American history, most notably as “red scares,” which are generally presented and studied in isolation from one another. Alex Goodall takes a different approach in this book, exploring an era of countersubversion spanning World War I and the interwar decades. Doing so allows him to bring together three strands of politics: antiradicalism, antifascism, and anti…
Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s
In the 1920s, as Harlem emerged as the largest black city in the world, a significant white presence remained in the neighborhood. Whites not only frequented nightlife, they owned and operated the vast majority of Harlem’s businesses, policed its streets, staffed its schools and hospital, drove its public transport and most of the vehicles traveling its streets, delivered goods, collected rent and insurance payments, and patronized sporting event…
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito
Soka Gakkai, a lay Buddhist organization perhaps best known as the voting base behind Japan's Clean Government Party (Komeito), constitutes the ethnographic “field” for this recent monograph from t
Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem
“W h i t e o n l o o k e r s . . . m u s t b e made to remember that Harlem is not merely exotic, it is human,” W. e. B. Du Bois wrote in the National Association for Coloured People’s magazine the Crisis in 1927. “It is not a spectacle and an entertainment, it is life; it is not chiefly cabarets, it is chiefly home.” In admonishing whites, Du Bois was assuming that homes presented a picture of black Americans different from that of public perfor…
Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem between the Wars
The phrase “Harlem in the 1920s” evokes images of the Harlem Renaissance, or of Marcus Garvey and soapbox orators haranguing crowds about politics and race. Yet the most ubiquitous feature of Harlem life between the world wars was the game of “numbers.” Thousands of wagers, usually of a dime or less, would be placed on a daily number derived from U.S. bank statistics. The rewards of “hitting the number,” a 600-to-1 payoff, tempted the ordinary me…
Harlem Undercover: Vice Investigators, Race, and Prostitution, 1910—1930
In 1928, the Committee of Fourteen, New York City's leading private antivice organization, employed a black teacher to conduct a five-month undercover investigation of Harlem's night-life. It had been ten years since the committee had subjected the neighborhood to such intensive surveillance. Typically explained as the result of racism, that neglect also reflected white investigators' increasing inability to gather information in Harlem. This art…
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
Journal Article Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. By Regina Kunzel. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii, 371 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-226-46226-4.) Get access Stephen Robertson Stephen Robertson University of SydneySydney, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Pages 281–282, https://doi.o…
Longitudinal studies to detect gene×environment interactions in common disease – Bang for your buck? A commentary on Chaufan's “How much can a large population study on genes, environments, their inte…
Boys, of Course, Cannot be Raped’: Age, Homosexuality and the Redefinition of Sexual Violence in New York City, 1880–1955
Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960
Journal Article Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880–1960 Get access Robertson Stephen. Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880–1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xii, 337 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). Jennifer Trost Jennifer Trost Muskingum College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American…
Hard Work: The Making of Labor History
Ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Women Workers and the New Zealand Arbitration Court, 1894-1920
Feminist historians have shown how the Australian arbitration system sustained and systematised the advantages of men over women in the workplace; the arbitration system acted as an agent in the construction of gender in the paid workforce and set the rate for 'women's work' at just over half the rate for 'men's work'.2 The impact on women of the only other arbitration system in the world, that of New Zealand, has not received any attention. The …
Boys, of Course, Cannot be Raped’: Age, Homosexuality and the Redefinition of Sexual Violence in New York City, 1880–1955
Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem
“W h i t e o n l o o k e r s . . . m u s t b e made to remember that Harlem is not merely exotic, it is human,” W. e. B. Du Bois wrote in the National Association for Coloured People’s magazine the Crisis in 1927. “It is not a spectacle and an entertainment, it is life; it is not chiefly cabarets, it is chiefly home.” In admonishing whites, Du Bois was assuming that homes presented a picture of black Americans different from that of public perfor…
Digital Mapping as a Research Tool: Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915–1930
In his review, Joshua Sternfeld points to some of the strengths and weaknesses of Digital Harlem , but ultimately his assessment is skewed because he does not recognize the category of digital scholarship into which the site falls, and he does not evaluate the project in terms of what it is trying to accomplish. Digital Harlem was designed as a research tool to combine and map a heterogeneous set of sources so as to reveal spatial patterns and re…
Harlem Undercover: Vice Investigators, Race, and Prostitution, 1910—1930
In 1928, the Committee of Fourteen, New York City's leading private antivice organization, employed a black teacher to conduct a five-month undercover investigation of Harlem's night-life. It had been ten years since the committee had subjected the neighborhood to such intensive surveillance. Typically explained as the result of racism, that neglect also reflected white investigators' increasing inability to gather information in Harlem. This art…
Women Workers and the New Zealand Arbitration Court, 1894-1920
Feminist historians have shown how the Australian arbitration system sustained and systematised the advantages of men over women in the workplace; the arbitration system acted as an agent in the construction of gender in the paid workforce and set the rate for 'women's work' at just over half the rate for 'men's work'.2 The impact on women of the only other arbitration system in the world, that of New Zealand, has not received any attention. The …
Ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Hard Work: The Making of Labor History
Boys, of Course, Cannot be Raped’: Age, Homosexuality and the Redefinition of Sexual Violence in New York City, 1880–1955
Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960
Journal Article Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880–1960 Get access Robertson Stephen. Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880–1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xii, 337 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). Jennifer Trost Jennifer Trost Muskingum College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American…
Longitudinal studies to detect gene×environment interactions in common disease – Bang for your buck? A commentary on Chaufan's “How much can a large population study on genes, environments, their inte…
Harlem Undercover: Vice Investigators, Race, and Prostitution, 1910—1930
In 1928, the Committee of Fourteen, New York City's leading private antivice organization, employed a black teacher to conduct a five-month undercover investigation of Harlem's night-life. It had been ten years since the committee had subjected the neighborhood to such intensive surveillance. Typically explained as the result of racism, that neglect also reflected white investigators' increasing inability to gather information in Harlem. This art…
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
Journal Article Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. By Regina Kunzel. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii, 371 pp. $29.00, ISBN 978-0-226-46226-4.) Get access Stephen Robertson Stephen Robertson University of SydneySydney, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 96, Issue 1, June 2009, Pages 281–282, https://doi.o…
Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem between the Wars
The phrase “Harlem in the 1920s” evokes images of the Harlem Renaissance, or of Marcus Garvey and soapbox orators haranguing crowds about politics and race. Yet the most ubiquitous feature of Harlem life between the world wars was the game of “numbers.” Thousands of wagers, usually of a dime or less, would be placed on a daily number derived from U.S. bank statistics. The rewards of “hitting the number,” a 600-to-1 payoff, tempted the ordinary me…
Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem
“W h i t e o n l o o k e r s . . . m u s t b e made to remember that Harlem is not merely exotic, it is human,” W. e. B. Du Bois wrote in the National Association for Coloured People’s magazine the Crisis in 1927. “It is not a spectacle and an entertainment, it is life; it is not chiefly cabarets, it is chiefly home.” In admonishing whites, Du Bois was assuming that homes presented a picture of black Americans different from that of public perfor…
Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s
In the 1920s, as Harlem emerged as the largest black city in the world, a significant white presence remained in the neighborhood. Whites not only frequented nightlife, they owned and operated the vast majority of Harlem’s businesses, policed its streets, staffed its schools and hospital, drove its public transport and most of the vehicles traveling its streets, delivered goods, collected rent and insurance payments, and patronized sporting event…
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito
Soka Gakkai, a lay Buddhist organization perhaps best known as the voting base behind Japan's Clean Government Party (Komeito), constitutes the ethnographic “field” for this recent monograph from t
Alex Goodall. Loyalty and Liberty: American Countersubversion from World War I to the McCarthy Era
Fears of subversion burst episodically into the standard narrative of twentieth-century American history, most notably as “red scares,” which are generally presented and studied in isolation from one another. Alex Goodall takes a different approach in this book, exploring an era of countersubversion spanning World War I and the interwar decades. Doing so allows him to bring together three strands of politics: antiradicalism, antifascism, and anti…
Hope that sustains: Revisiting New Year’s divination at Suwa Taisha
This paper details the “cylinder-gruel rite” (tsutsugayu shinji) observed annually on 15 January at Suwa Taisha, a Shintō shrine complex in Nagano Prefecture. The oracular ritual is an instance of the Japanese tradition of New Year’s divination (toshiura), and involves the boiling of hollow reeds or bamboo in rice gruel to augur crop yields and economic prospects for the coming year. Whereas Japan’s modernization and shift away from an agricultur…
Digital Mapping as a Research Tool: Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915–1930
In his review, Joshua Sternfeld points to some of the strengths and weaknesses of Digital Harlem , but ultimately his assessment is skewed because he does not recognize the category of digital scholarship into which the site falls, and he does not evaluate the project in terms of what it is trying to accomplish. Digital Harlem was designed as a research tool to combine and map a heterogeneous set of sources so as to reveal spatial patterns and re…
Putting Harlem on the Map
Indigenous Genomic Databases: Pragmatic Considerations and Cultural Contexts
The potential to grow genomic knowledge and harness the subsequent clinical benefits has escalated the building of background variant databases (BVDs) for genetic diagnosis across the globe. Alongside the upsurge of this precision medicine, potential benefits have been highlighted for both rare genetic conditions and other diagnoses. However, with the ever-present "genomic divide," Indigenous peoples globally have valid concerns as they endure co…
B C, Before Computers: On Information Technology from Writing to the Age of Digital Data
The idea that the digital age has revolutionized our day-to-day experience of the world is nothing new, and has been amply recognized by cultural historians. In contrast, Stephen Robertson’s 'BC: Before Computers' is a work which questions the idea that the mid-twentieth century saw a single moment of rupture. It is about all the things that we had to learn, invent, and understand – all the ways we had to evolve our thinking – before we could ent…
Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State
Stranger Danger combines a skillfully constructed, richly detailed narrative of the moral panic about missing and exploited children in the 1970s and 1980s with an analysis of its political and policy consequences that persuasively ties it to the expansion of the carceral state. Paul M. Renfro's consideration of those put in the shadows by the glare of attention given a handful of white, middle-class children ensures that this powerful book offer…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · History (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)