John Marx
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Marx |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Marx |
| SIGNATURE | MARX J |
| AFFILIATIONS | , |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction
Introducing “Virtual Archives”
With this issue, Novel launches a new section titled “Virtual Archives.” Here we will publish short essays that update and explain the new or continued relevance of critical-theoretical works of scholarship essential to novel studies.Our first example takes the occasion of a recently published volume as an opportunity to capture the enduring value of Raymond Williams's writing for novel critics. The appearance of a new critical book is but one of…
Transgenerational Transmission of Preterm Birth Risk
Racial disparities in the transgenerational transmission of low birthweight risk
Objective: To examine the association of maternal low birthweight (LBW) with infant LBW and infant LBW subgroups (i.e. moderate and very LBW), overall and among non-Hispanic (NH) white and NH black mothers. Design: We conducted a population-based cohort study in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, using linked birth record data of NH white and NH black mother-infant pairs ( N = 6,633) born in 1979-1998 and 2009-2011, respectively. The exposure of int…
Mechanisms of Adherence in a Harm Reduction Housing Program
Advances in clinical therapies for people living with HIV have greatly increased life expectancies, but the high levels of adherence that are necessary for clinical success are infrequently achieved, especially for chronically homeless substance users. The Open Door is a harm reduction housing program that seeks to improve clinical outcomes for this population. We present findings from qualitative interviews with residents of the program, conduct…
The Whole Field of Postcolonial Literature
Neil Lazarus describes a field of postcolonial literature that is both too big and too small. Too big, in that this “vast and hitherto unevenly and indifferently theorized corpus” contains too many works published in too many places and circulating in too many ways to be neatly summed up (35). The field is too small, however, in that few postcolonial works actually garner anything like meaningful scholarly attention. Saying he is “tempted to over…
Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890–2011
Literary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for criticizing governments and for imagining how better governance and better states would work. Combining political theory with strong readings of a vast range of novels, John Marx shows that fiction over the long twentieth century has often envisioned good government not in Utopian but in pragmatic terms. Early-twentieth-century novels by Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster and Rabindrananth Tagore helped …
Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011
Literature and Governmentality
Recent scholarship on governmentality promises to reinvigorate literary critical analysis of how novels, poems, and plays help to organize the world's populations as they interact. In turn, literary criticism helps to illuminate the global implications of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, published in English as Security, Territory, Population (2007) and The Birth of Biopolitics (2008). By privileging varied practice over unify…
District 9
Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. Co-produced by Philippa Boyens. Executive Producers Bill Block, Elliot
Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire
The Whole Field of Postcolonial Literature
The Whole Field of Postcolonial Literature John Marx (bio) Keywords postcolonial literature, postcolonial studies, Marxist criticism, globalization and literature, Edward Said, Fredric Jameson The Postcolonial Unconscious. Neil Lazarus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Neil Lazarus describes a field of postcolonial literature that is both too big and too small. Too big, in that this "vast and hitherto unevenly and indifferently theori…
Soft Weapons
Reviewed by: Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit John Marx (bio) Gillian Whitlock . Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007. 248 pp. ISBN 0-226-89526-2, $20.00. Anyone who sets out to analyze writing from and about the world's hot spots faces the challenge of separating signal from noise without, as it were, ignoring the significance of the noise entirely. In the case of Gillian Whitlock's topic, autobiography fro…
The Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire
In the early twentieth century, subjects of the British Empire ceased to rely on a model of centre and periphery in imagining their world and came instead to view it as an interconnected network of cosmopolitan people and places. English language and literature were promoted as essential components of a commercial, cultural, and linguistic network that spanned the globe. John Marx argues that the early twentieth century was a key moment in the em…
Architecture and the Internet
Cyberspace, as the information space is called, has become accessible in the past decade through the World Wide Web. And although it can only be experienced through the mediation of computers, it is quickly becoming an alternative stage for everyday economic, cultural, and other human activities. As such, there is a potential and a need to design it according to place–like principles. Making places for human inhabitation is, of course, what archi…
Keane Et Al. Respond
We appreciate Pierce’s and Blackburn’s comment on our article and share their interest in evaluating the effects of privatizing services formerly provided by local health departments.1 A few resources are available, including a workbook that the National Association of County and City Health Officials designed to help local health departments examine their role in the provision of clinical services.2 Also, we recently completed a study of privati…
Managerial and Professional Beliefs Influencing Public Health Privatization
This article describes managerial and professional beliefs underlying decisions to privatize public health services. We drew a stratified, nationally representative sample of local health departments and interviewed 347 department directors by telephone. We used logistic regression to establish the independent effects of various beliefs on the decision to privatize. Over half of directors did not believe that there was valid evidence that privati…
Services Privatized in Local Health Departments
Privatization of public health is seemingly an oxymoron. Functions such as environmental regulation and communicable disease control would seem to be the unique purview of governmental public health departments. These services constitute public goods in that they affect entire communities, whereas personal health services are private goods, privately consumed by individuals.1 Recent pressures such as the penetration of managed care has led to shi…
The Perceived Impact of Privatization on Local Health Departments
Objectives. This article presents nationally representative data on the effects of privatization on local health departments (LHDs). Methods. A stratified representative national sample of 380 LHDs was drawn from a national list of 2488 departments. Telephone interviews were conducted with 347 LHD directors. Results. One half of the directors of LHDs with privatized services reported that privatization helped the performance of core functions. Pr…
Capitalism after Globalization
Diaspora 6:2 1997 Capitalism after Globalization John Marx Trinity College, Hartford Millennial Dreams: Contemporary Culture and Capital in the North. Paul Smith. New York: Verso, 1997. Rarely do historical events cooperate with the work of cultural studies as readily as they appear to have done with Paul Smith’s Millennial Dreams: Contemporary Culture and Capital in the North. Several months after his book first appeared in stores, a worldwide s…
District 9
Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. Co-produced by Philippa Boyens. Executive Producers Bill Block, Elliot
Services Privatized in Local Health Departments
Privatization of public health is seemingly an oxymoron. Functions such as environmental regulation and communicable disease control would seem to be the unique purview of governmental public health departments. These services constitute public goods in that they affect entire communities, whereas personal health services are private goods, privately consumed by individuals.1 Recent pressures such as the penetration of managed care has led to shi…
The Perceived Impact of Privatization on Local Health Departments
Objectives. This article presents nationally representative data on the effects of privatization on local health departments (LHDs). Methods. A stratified representative national sample of 380 LHDs was drawn from a national list of 2488 departments. Telephone interviews were conducted with 347 LHD directors. Results. One half of the directors of LHDs with privatized services reported that privatization helped the performance of core functions. Pr…
Managerial and Professional Beliefs Influencing Public Health Privatization
This article describes managerial and professional beliefs underlying decisions to privatize public health services. We drew a stratified, nationally representative sample of local health departments and interviewed 347 department directors by telephone. We used logistic regression to establish the independent effects of various beliefs on the decision to privatize. Over half of directors did not believe that there was valid evidence that privati…
Capitalism after Globalization
Diaspora 6:2 1997 Capitalism after Globalization John Marx Trinity College, Hartford Millennial Dreams: Contemporary Culture and Capital in the North. Paul Smith. New York: Verso, 1997. Rarely do historical events cooperate with the work of cultural studies as readily as they appear to have done with Paul Smith’s Millennial Dreams: Contemporary Culture and Capital in the North. Several months after his book first appeared in stores, a worldwide s…
Services Privatized in Local Health Departments
Privatization of public health is seemingly an oxymoron. Functions such as environmental regulation and communicable disease control would seem to be the unique purview of governmental public health departments. These services constitute public goods in that they affect entire communities, whereas personal health services are private goods, privately consumed by individuals.1 Recent pressures such as the penetration of managed care has led to shi…
The Perceived Impact of Privatization on Local Health Departments
Objectives. This article presents nationally representative data on the effects of privatization on local health departments (LHDs). Methods. A stratified representative national sample of 380 LHDs was drawn from a national list of 2488 departments. Telephone interviews were conducted with 347 LHD directors. Results. One half of the directors of LHDs with privatized services reported that privatization helped the performance of core functions. Pr…
Keane Et Al. Respond
We appreciate Pierce’s and Blackburn’s comment on our article and share their interest in evaluating the effects of privatizing services formerly provided by local health departments.1 A few resources are available, including a workbook that the National Association of County and City Health Officials designed to help local health departments examine their role in the provision of clinical services.2 Also, we recently completed a study of privati…
Managerial and Professional Beliefs Influencing Public Health Privatization
This article describes managerial and professional beliefs underlying decisions to privatize public health services. We drew a stratified, nationally representative sample of local health departments and interviewed 347 department directors by telephone. We used logistic regression to establish the independent effects of various beliefs on the decision to privatize. Over half of directors did not believe that there was valid evidence that privati…
The Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire
In the early twentieth century, subjects of the British Empire ceased to rely on a model of centre and periphery in imagining their world and came instead to view it as an interconnected network of cosmopolitan people and places. English language and literature were promoted as essential components of a commercial, cultural, and linguistic network that spanned the globe. John Marx argues that the early twentieth century was a key moment in the em…
Architecture and the Internet
Cyberspace, as the information space is called, has become accessible in the past decade through the World Wide Web. And although it can only be experienced through the mediation of computers, it is quickly becoming an alternative stage for everyday economic, cultural, and other human activities. As such, there is a potential and a need to design it according to place–like principles. Making places for human inhabitation is, of course, what archi…
The Whole Field of Postcolonial Literature
The Whole Field of Postcolonial Literature John Marx (bio) Keywords postcolonial literature, postcolonial studies, Marxist criticism, globalization and literature, Edward Said, Fredric Jameson The Postcolonial Unconscious. Neil Lazarus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Neil Lazarus describes a field of postcolonial literature that is both too big and too small. Too big, in that this "vast and hitherto unevenly and indifferently theori…
Soft Weapons
Reviewed by: Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit John Marx (bio) Gillian Whitlock . Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007. 248 pp. ISBN 0-226-89526-2, $20.00. Anyone who sets out to analyze writing from and about the world's hot spots faces the challenge of separating signal from noise without, as it were, ignoring the significance of the noise entirely. In the case of Gillian Whitlock's topic, autobiography fro…
Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire
District 9
Directed by Neill Blomkamp. Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. Co-produced by Philippa Boyens. Executive Producers Bill Block, Elliot
Literature and Governmentality
Recent scholarship on governmentality promises to reinvigorate literary critical analysis of how novels, poems, and plays help to organize the world's populations as they interact. In turn, literary criticism helps to illuminate the global implications of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, published in English as Security, Territory, Population (2007) and The Birth of Biopolitics (2008). By privileging varied practice over unify…
Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890–2011
Literary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for criticizing governments and for imagining how better governance and better states would work. Combining political theory with strong readings of a vast range of novels, John Marx shows that fiction over the long twentieth century has often envisioned good government not in Utopian but in pragmatic terms. Early-twentieth-century novels by Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster and Rabindrananth Tagore helped …
Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011
The Whole Field of Postcolonial Literature
Neil Lazarus describes a field of postcolonial literature that is both too big and too small. Too big, in that this “vast and hitherto unevenly and indifferently theorized corpus” contains too many works published in too many places and circulating in too many ways to be neatly summed up (35). The field is too small, however, in that few postcolonial works actually garner anything like meaningful scholarly attention. Saying he is “tempted to over…
Mechanisms of Adherence in a Harm Reduction Housing Program
Advances in clinical therapies for people living with HIV have greatly increased life expectancies, but the high levels of adherence that are necessary for clinical success are infrequently achieved, especially for chronically homeless substance users. The Open Door is a harm reduction housing program that seeks to improve clinical outcomes for this population. We present findings from qualitative interviews with residents of the program, conduct…
Transgenerational Transmission of Preterm Birth Risk
Racial disparities in the transgenerational transmission of low birthweight risk
Objective: To examine the association of maternal low birthweight (LBW) with infant LBW and infant LBW subgroups (i.e. moderate and very LBW), overall and among non-Hispanic (NH) white and NH black mothers. Design: We conducted a population-based cohort study in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, using linked birth record data of NH white and NH black mother-infant pairs ( N = 6,633) born in 1979-1998 and 2009-2011, respectively. The exposure of int…
Introducing “Virtual Archives”
With this issue, Novel launches a new section titled “Virtual Archives.” Here we will publish short essays that update and explain the new or continued relevance of critical-theoretical works of scholarship essential to novel studies.Our first example takes the occasion of a recently published volume as an opportunity to capture the enduring value of Raymond Williams's writing for novel critics. The appearance of a new critical book is but one of…
Introduction
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