David Middleton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Middleton |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Middleton |
| SIGNATURE | MIDDLETON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Knitting Lesson I: Ca. 1854
Through windowpanes the filtered winter lightPassing over a basket’s rumpled yarnCovers a mother’s radiant bent faceWhose cheek and chin rest on her daughter’s head. The young girl holds in small soft awkward handsLong knitting needles glinting in the threadsLooped round a knuckle, woven, then pulled tight,Part of a garment shadowed in her lap. With palms grown rough in mastering her craftThe mother, from behind, now clasps and guidesHer daughter…
Path Through the Wheat: Ca. 1867
The hillside’s tidal waves of yellow-green Break downward into full-grown stalks of wheat In which a peasant, shouldering his hoe Passes along a snaking narrow path -- A teeming place through which his hard thighs press And where his head just barely stays above The swaying grain, drunken in abundance, Farm buildings almost floating on the swells Beyond which sea gulls gliding white in air Fly down on out of sight to salty fields, Taking the chan…
Man with a Hoe: Ca. 1863
He leans on the short handle, knotted oak,Its flat blade pressed on brambled clay and stone.A boulder shoulders thorns up from the soilWhile oxen plow a far-off pastoral farm. Whose stubble-fires smoke white toward skies in haze.He dominates the land as serf and lord,The subject monarch of his stark domain,His thistle-crown root-bound in freehold earth. Not fallen from some paradise whose cropsTurned golden while he plucked a harp’s ripe strings,…
Peasant and Donkey Returning Home at Dusk: Ca. 1866-68
Between raised ochre plains and low slate skies Pressing against stray clustered tufts of trees A tapered wedge is driven blue through light Flaring from clouds that tatter in the air. And on a scarred black path that blindly winds Unoutlined at the utmost edge of dusk A peasant, brown and dark on dark brown earth Draws his tired donkey, burdened in the murk. Cross-hatched, then rubbed and blended, well-stumped lines Show sun-flecks streaming hom…
Motherly Precaution: 1862
Translated onto glass from copper plates As from Rembrandt or Brueghel or their heirs In whose busy depictions such an act Is incidental, some side-alley fact, Now placed here in the center by Millet -- This all too human scene, both rude and true: A mother wrinkling up her young son’s gown Before he wets himself on backdoor steps Where his six-year-old sister, shrinking, stares At the wobbly colossus, wholly exposed. His soft hand grips his moth…
Newborn lamb: 1866
Translated onto glass from copper plates As from Rembrandt or Brueghel or their heirs In whose busy depictions such an act Is incidental, some side-alley fact, Now placed here in the center by Millet -- This all too human scene, both rude and true: A mother wrinkling up her young son’s gown Before he wets himself on backdoor steps Where his six-year-old sister, shrinking, stares At the wobbly colossus, wholly exposed. His soft hand grips his moth…
Sheepfold by Moonlight: Ca. 1856
Low at the dusk’s far edge a blunted moon Descended from its fullness dimly glows. The night abides again on Chailly plain. A wandering shepherd labors in faint beams Till picket-fold and hut rise up once more From parts kept in a cart that no one sees. A raised staff comes back down to guide and goad Each sheep dissolved in darkness and a flock Shadowed by light but not the source of light. The bleating of a lost or straggling lamb Will go unhea…
Woman Sewing Beside Her Sleepy Child: Ca. 1858-62
An inner twilight deepens in the room: The smoky oil lamp pegged high on its stand, A child tucked-in beneath the blanketing beams, The shadowed mother mending in her chair. She pulls a woolen thread to close a seam In the work shirt of a father still afield Plowing his darkened rows until the stars Gleam twinkling from the yielding fertile earth. Behind the smoke that clusters into curls A bed whose drapes recall a garden wall Awaits her strong …
Return of the Flock: Ca. 1863-64
Across the blue horizon that divides Pale twilight skies from twilight-darkened earth A shepherd leads beneath a crescent moon His bending line of pliant moon-eyed sheep. The laggards and the leaders, nipped by dogs, Swirl from a formless mass of flesh and wool Toward faces separated yet the same, Soon lost to sun in starlight like the stars. The shepherd in procession grasps his staff, His right hand parting his cloak to show within His long blu…
Shepherdesses Watching a Flight of Wild Geese: 1866
Sheep graze along a plain in twilight quiet, Their earthward heads cropping dark clumps of grass, And near them, by a hedge where yellow leaves Grow golden in the evening’s mellowed air, Bent over yarn and needles knitting wool From these same sheep for mittens -- two young girls. Then suddenly one rises, shades her eyes And gestures to the other not to move, One arm crooked and one stretched out like the V’s Of geese intent on their archaic way …
Madame J.-F. Millet (Pauline-Virginie Ono, 1821-44): 1841
He painted her for nothing but her love, A Cherbourg tailor’s daughter without means For such a tender rendering as this: Desirous, tense, yet teasingly serene, Those earth-brown irises, that slightest smile, Hair clipped, severe, in a tied ribboned cap, The look of expectation, quiet surprise Directed at this man her brother knew Who stroked her there with his dark oils and eyes Until she came alive on canvas threads That held her as he held her…
Cliffs at Gruchy: 1870-71
Downward from Gruchy, past its wind-wrenched elm,The path drops under pastures to a cliffWhere outcrop boulder-stones glint blue and iron,Breaking above great sweeps of sea and sky. Below the rocks, rowing in close to shoreThe fishermen, no bigger than the gullsThat turn above them crying at their catch,Glide over green and lavender to sand. Outside the scene, a higher, flatter rockProvided the perspective for these stonesThat point toward the ho…
Bringing Home Cows after Eden
Let Sleeping Lawyers Lie: Organized Crime, Lawyers and the Regulation of Legal Services: Table 1
The study examines the range of crimes in which solicitors become involved as primary offenders (mainly fraud) or on behalf of others (criminal planning and money laundering) and critically reviews the factors in their personal and working environment that may promote or inhibit such crimes and the ways that criminologists and socio-legal scholars have accounted for deviance and the regulation of the profession. It ends by discussing trends in co…
The use of actuarial risk assessment measures with UK internet child pornography offenders
The present study investigates the use of two actuarial assessment measures – Risk Matrix 2000 (Thornton et al, 2003) and Static 99 (Hanson & Thornton, 2000) – with individuals convicted of downloading child pornography on the internet. A UK community-based sample of convicted internet sex offenders (n = 73) was assessed using both a standard and a revised version of RM2000 and Static 99 and assessed for rates of reconviction. None of the offende…
An Introduction to Statistical Communication Theory
This IEEE Classic Reissue provides at an advanced level, a uniquely fundamental exposition of the applications of Statistical Communication Theory to a vast spectrum of important physical problems. Included are general analysis of signal detection, estimation, measurement, and related topics involving information transfer. Using the statistical Bayesian viewpoint, renowned author David Middleton employs statistical decision theory specifically ta…
Experience and Memory: Imaginary Futures in the Past
In what ways can lone parents be regarded as peripheral in British society
Health professionals, particularly those in the community, commonly encounter lone parents and their children. What are these professionals to make of lone parents? Do they, for example, have a unique health profile? Should health professionals take their family status into account as a means of explaining their health? Indeed, can lone parents be considered a group at all, in any meaningful sense? Since the late 1970s, British society has grown …
Three Types of Self-Respect
Grave Matters: Emergent Networks and Summation in Remembering and Reconciliation
We examine British war veterans' involvement in practices of remembering and reconciliation. These veterans were prisoners of war (POWs) in the Far East in World War II, building the Thai-Burma Railway before transfer to a copper mine in Japan. Some 50 years later, they participated in a "reconciliation visit" to Japan. We discuss how and in what ways their postwar lives and wartime experiences are gathered up in the processes of remembering and …
The Social Psychology of Experience: Studies in Remembering and Forgetting
Introducing Remembering and Forgetting in the Psychology of Experience Making Experiences Matter Memory in the Social Sciences Territorializing Experience Maurice Halbwachs on Memory Virtualizing Experience Henri Bergson on Memory Communicating Experience Interactional Organization of Remembering and Forgetting Projecting Experience Succession and Change in Communicative Action Localizing Experience Implacement, Incorporation and Habit in Zones o…
The Baby as Virtual Object: Agency and Difference in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Neonatal intensive care work may be understood as a network in which doctors, babies, parents, technology, and medical care are associated together in a complex social topology. The boundaries of what counts as the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are always shifting. The regular appearance of new members, new patients, and new technologies means that much effort must be expended to hold the unit together as a functional entity. We examine how…
Why we should care about respect
Respect is a concept that is often used in political and social discourse, but is rarely adequately conceptualised. In this article it is argued that there are three very good reasons for caring about respect. First, self-respect is an integral part of our image of our self. Second, 'social respect' mediates our social interactions. Judgments of our merits and status are part of the everyday interactions that we engage in. Respect matters because…
Flies and Grounders
El bebé como objeto virtual: Agencia y estabilidad en una unidad de cuidado
El trabajo de atención neonatal es una práctica social compleja. Puede entenderse como una red en la que los médicos, los bebés, los padres, la tecnología y la atención médica se alinean en relaciones dominadas por cuestiones de responsabilidad. La naturaleza de la atención neonatal implica que los límites de lo que se considera la unidad están en constante cambio. La aparición regular de nuevos miembros, nuevos pacientes y nuevas tecnologías sig…
Joint remembering: Constructing an account of shared experience through conversational discourse
The object of study is the ways in which people construct a joint account, in conversational discourse, of a particular common experience. The data source is the recorded conversation of a group of eight people who are recalling together the substance and storyline of the feature film “E.T.,” which they had all recently seen. Conversational joint remembering is described in terms of three hierarchically related functions: (1) framing and orientat…
Conversational Remembering and Family Relationships: How Children Learn to Remember
We analysed extracts from conversations between mothers and pairs of siblings aged between two and six years. Each conversation was recorded in their own homes by the mothers themselves, with no observer present, as they and their children looked through their collections of family snapshots. The analysis centres on the ways in which the mothers and children used the pictures as depictions of a shared past that could be constructed and communicat…
A Study of Assisted Problem-solving
This study examines the interactions between 12 mothers and their children in a problem-solving situation. Each child tries to assemble a construction toy, and his mother attempts to help him in such a way that he will eventually be able to do it alone. The paper introduces a system for describing the course of these interactions and it tests and confirms hypotheses relating to the underlying determinants of effective instruction. Those mothers w…
The Baby as Virtual Object: Agency and Difference in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Neonatal intensive care work may be understood as a network in which doctors, babies, parents, technology, and medical care are associated together in a complex social topology. The boundaries of what counts as the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are always shifting. The regular appearance of new members, new patients, and new technologies means that much effort must be expended to hold the unit together as a functional entity. We examine how…
Conversational Remembering and Uncertainty: Interdependencies of Experience as Individual and Collective Concerns in Teamwork
Conversational remembering in a medical team is examined for the way it displays and produces interdependencies between members'claims to experience and collectively reasoned understandings of uncertainties in team practice. Analysis of examples of transcribed talk, recorded in weekly team meetings at a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, presents three interrelated issues. First, how claims concerning uncertainties ofpast, present, and future experien…
Succession and Change in the Sociocultural Use of Memory: Building-in the Past in Communicative Action
The study of memory as a cultural phenomenon is for the most part focused on the intentional social organization of past experience. However, the past features in unintentional ways in how we conduct our lives in the changing modes of narrative, figurative representation and in the fashioning and collecting of cultural artefacts. This paper provides analysis that illustrates how we can study such 'in-builtness' of the past in the present if we ex…
Performing the Past in Electronic Archives: Interdependencies in the Discursive and Non-Discursive Ordering of Institutional Rememberings
This paper examines interdependencies in the discursive and non-discursive ordering of institutional memory in organizational settings. Issues of what happens to historical consciousness in the time of modern technology are examined with reference to how the past is used in the context of electronic archiving of email in corporate cultures. Drawing from ideas in the work of Martin Heidegger concerning interdependencies between the use of technolo…
Grave Matters: Emergent Networks and Summation in Remembering and Reconciliation
We examine British war veterans' involvement in practices of remembering and reconciliation. These veterans were prisoners of war (POWs) in the Far East in World War II, building the Thai-Burma Railway before transfer to a copper mine in Japan. Some 50 years later, they participated in a "reconciliation visit" to Japan. We discuss how and in what ways their postwar lives and wartime experiences are gathered up in the processes of remembering and …
Voices of Experience: Talk, Identity and Membership in Reminiscence Groups
This paper presents a discourse analysis of talk in reminiscence groups. Two main issues are addressed. First, we examine how speakers' identities are accomplished through the way they position themselves in social relationships and social practices of ‘remembered pasts’. Particular analytical attention is given to how people claim entitlements to the significance and consequences of their lived experience. Second, issues of membership are examin…
Bartlett and Socially Ordered Consciousness: A Discursive Perspective. Comments on Rosa (1996)
In commenting on Alberto Rosa's paper-'Bartlett's Psycho-anthropological Project' (1996) we examine the analytic use of intellectual histories in defining disciplinary issues and discuss Bartlett's use of cultural issues in his presentation of himself in autobiography as a psychologist; we examine continuities of interest in sociocultural issues in Bartlett's work and identify the discursive analysis of remembering as illustrating Bartlett's inte…
Three Types of Self-Respect
Let Sleeping Lawyers Lie: Organized Crime, Lawyers and the Regulation of Legal Services: Table 1
The study examines the range of crimes in which solicitors become involved as primary offenders (mainly fraud) or on behalf of others (criminal planning and money laundering) and critically reviews the factors in their personal and working environment that may promote or inhibit such crimes and the ways that criminologists and socio-legal scholars have accounted for deviance and the regulation of the profession. It ends by discussing trends in co…
Remembering as Social Practice: Identity and Life Story Work in Transitions of Care for People with Profound Learning Disabilities
This work represents the development of two lines of interest, one in the study of social practices of remembering and the other concerning issues of identity in the care of people with profound learning difficulties. We examine of the way life story work is used as a resource in providing for continuities in the experience of people with profound learning difficulties when moved from hospital to community based care. Our concern is the way carer…
Is reminiscence working: Accounting for the therapeutic benefits of reminiscence work with older people
The use of actuarial risk assessment measures with UK internet child pornography offenders
The present study investigates the use of two actuarial assessment measures – Risk Matrix 2000 (Thornton et al, 2003) and Static 99 (Hanson & Thornton, 2000) – with individuals convicted of downloading child pornography on the internet. A UK community-based sample of convicted internet sex offenders (n = 73) was assessed using both a standard and a revised version of RM2000 and Static 99 and assessed for rates of reconviction. None of the offende…
In what ways can lone parents be regarded as peripheral in British society
Health professionals, particularly those in the community, commonly encounter lone parents and their children. What are these professionals to make of lone parents? Do they, for example, have a unique health profile? Should health professionals take their family status into account as a means of explaining their health? Indeed, can lone parents be considered a group at all, in any meaningful sense? Since the late 1970s, British society has grown …
Why we should care about respect
Respect is a concept that is often used in political and social discourse, but is rarely adequately conceptualised. In this article it is argued that there are three very good reasons for caring about respect. First, self-respect is an integral part of our image of our self. Second, 'social respect' mediates our social interactions. Judgments of our merits and status are part of the everyday interactions that we engage in. Respect matters because…
A Study of Assisted Problem-solving
This study examines the interactions between 12 mothers and their children in a problem-solving situation. Each child tries to assemble a construction toy, and his mother attempts to help him in such a way that he will eventually be able to do it alone. The paper introduces a system for describing the course of these interactions and it tests and confirms hypotheses relating to the underlying determinants of effective instruction. Those mothers w…
T. Sturge Moore: Twenty-Three Poems
Reliquiae
The Dark Hours
Joint remembering: Constructing an account of shared experience through conversational discourse
The object of study is the ways in which people construct a joint account, in conversational discourse, of a particular common experience. The data source is the recorded conversation of a group of eight people who are recalling together the substance and storyline of the feature film “E.T.,” which they had all recently seen. Conversational joint remembering is described in terms of three hierarchically related functions: (1) framing and orientat…
Witching on Hardscrabble
Sapphics against Anger and Other Poems
Conversational Remembering and Family Relationships: How Children Learn to Remember
We analysed extracts from conversations between mothers and pairs of siblings aged between two and six years. Each conversation was recorded in their own homes by the mothers themselves, with no observer present, as they and their children looked through their collections of family snapshots. The analysis centres on the ways in which the mothers and children used the pictures as depictions of a shared past that could be constructed and communicat…
Is reminiscence working: Accounting for the therapeutic benefits of reminiscence work with older people
Voices of Experience: Talk, Identity and Membership in Reminiscence Groups
This paper presents a discourse analysis of talk in reminiscence groups. Two main issues are addressed. First, we examine how speakers' identities are accomplished through the way they position themselves in social relationships and social practices of ‘remembered pasts’. Particular analytical attention is given to how people claim entitlements to the significance and consequences of their lived experience. Second, issues of membership are examin…
Cognition and Communication at Work
This book brings together contributions from researchers within various social science disciplines who seek to redefine the methods and topics that constitute the study of work. They investigate work activity in ways that do not reduce it to a 'psychology' of individual cognition nor to a 'sociology' of societal structures and communication. A key theme in the material is the relationship between theory and practice. This is not an abstract probl…
Hermetic Light: Essays on the Gnostic Spirit in Modern Literature and Thought
Bartlett and Socially Ordered Consciousness: A Discursive Perspective. Comments on Rosa (1996)
In commenting on Alberto Rosa's paper-'Bartlett's Psycho-anthropological Project' (1996) we examine the analytic use of intellectual histories in defining disciplinary issues and discuss Bartlett's use of cultural issues in his presentation of himself in autobiography as a psychologist; we examine continuities of interest in sociocultural issues in Bartlett's work and identify the discursive analysis of remembering as illustrating Bartlett's inte…
The Social Organization of Conversational Remembering: Experience as Individual and Collective Concerns
This article examines the social organization of remembering in conversation. Examples of conversational remembering are used to discuss the way the sequential organization of talk co-opts others into the project of remembering; how we interactively commit others to the individual and collective relevance of our experience claims; and, finally, how conversational remembering is rhetorically organized in terms of the interdependencies of our own a…
Aramis or The Love of Technology, Bruno Latour
Sociocultural Psychology: Theory and Practice of Doing and Knowing (Book)
1997). Sociocultural Psychology: Theory and Practice of Doing and Knowing (Book) Mind, Culture, and Activity: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 200-206
Conversational Remembering and Uncertainty: Interdependencies of Experience as Individual and Collective Concerns in Teamwork
Conversational remembering in a medical team is examined for the way it displays and produces interdependencies between members'claims to experience and collectively reasoned understandings of uncertainties in team practice. Analysis of examples of transcribed talk, recorded in weekly team meetings at a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, presents three interrelated issues. First, how claims concerning uncertainties ofpast, present, and future experien…
Remembering as Social Practice: Identity and Life Story Work in Transitions of Care for People with Profound Learning Disabilities
This work represents the development of two lines of interest, one in the study of social practices of remembering and the other concerning issues of identity in the care of people with profound learning difficulties. We examine of the way life story work is used as a resource in providing for continuities in the experience of people with profound learning difficulties when moved from hospital to community based care. Our concern is the way carer…
The Deep End
Performing the Past in Electronic Archives: Interdependencies in the Discursive and Non-Discursive Ordering of Institutional Rememberings
This paper examines interdependencies in the discursive and non-discursive ordering of institutional memory in organizational settings. Issues of what happens to historical consciousness in the time of modern technology are examined with reference to how the past is used in the context of electronic archiving of email in corporate cultures. Drawing from ideas in the work of Martin Heidegger concerning interdependencies between the use of technolo…
El bebé como objeto virtual: Agencia y estabilidad en una unidad de cuidado
El trabajo de atención neonatal es una práctica social compleja. Puede entenderse como una red en la que los médicos, los bebés, los padres, la tecnología y la atención médica se alinean en relaciones dominadas por cuestiones de responsabilidad. La naturaleza de la atención neonatal implica que los límites de lo que se considera la unidad están en constante cambio. La aparición regular de nuevos miembros, nuevos pacientes y nuevas tecnologías sig…
The baby as a virtual object: Agency and stability in a neonatal care unit
Neonatal care work is a complex social practice. It maybe understood as a network in which doctors, babies, parents, technology and medicalcare are aligned together in relationships dominated by issues of accountability. The nature of neonatal care means that the boundaries of what counts as the unit are always shifting. The regular appearance of new members, new patients and new technologies mean that much effort must be expended to hold the uni…
Succession and Change in the Sociocultural Use of Memory: Building-in the Past in Communicative Action
The study of memory as a cultural phenomenon is for the most part focused on the intentional social organization of past experience. However, the past features in unintentional ways in how we conduct our lives in the changing modes of narrative, figurative representation and in the fashioning and collecting of cultural artefacts. This paper provides analysis that illustrates how we can study such 'in-builtness' of the past in the present if we ex…
Flies and Grounders
Why we should care about respect
Respect is a concept that is often used in political and social discourse, but is rarely adequately conceptualised. In this article it is argued that there are three very good reasons for caring about respect. First, self-respect is an integral part of our image of our self. Second, 'social respect' mediates our social interactions. Judgments of our merits and status are part of the everyday interactions that we engage in. Respect matters because…
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