Michael Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4048-0937 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism
SHAPES of things to come- medicine control and optimisation
Background: The Smart & Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems (SHAPES) Innovation Action comprised 36 partners across 14 countries to build, deploy and pilot an EU-standardised open platform integrating a range of technological, organisational, clinical, educational and societal Digital Solutions to support healthy and independent living of older adults at home. Aim: SHAPES explored 7 themes including ‘Medicine control and …
Burnt out by all the exploitation’: Involuted labour in creative fields
This article develops a neo-Bourdieusian analysis of how creative workers respond to the pressures of freelance, contract and project-based cultural production. Using data from 15 in-depth interviews with independent ‘creatives’ we enrol Bourdieu's fields and Clifford Geertz's account of involution – internal over-elaboration – to investigate the tendencies, nuances and outcomes of creative labour's production practices. To answer the field's pie…
Re-enchanting sustainable consumption: Cultural intermediaries, charisma, and fashion
Cultural intermediaries play an essential role in shaping the ‘moral textures’ of sustainable consumption. Drawing on Bourdieu and Weber’s cultural sociologies of religious personas, this article analyses how cultural intermediaries deploy different charismatic modalities in the field of fashion to advocate for sustainable consumption. Using illustrative methods and media examples, we illuminate how ‘prophetic’ taste influencers, ‘ascetic’ produc…
The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways…
Fashion in the Ancient World
‘Show me the clothes of a country and I can write its history.’ 1
Informal arts engagement programs in disadvantaged schools: Student aspirations and creative limits
It is widely argued that the arts have a range of cultural, economic, and educational benefits. However, under state austerity arts curricula are devalued in favour of industry skills. To address this gap in arts education, a new type of student focussed informal arts engagement program has emerged. This article draws on a qualitative study of disadvantaged Australian secondary students' experience of an arts engagement program and explores their…
Walls and the Ancient Greek Ritual Experience: The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis
The shape and form of boundary walls around and within Greek sanctuaries, and the impact those boundaries had on the experience of the ritual happening within, have attracted little scholarly attention, especially in comparison to work on the powerful impacts of other elements of sanctuary architecture, and architecture more widely. This article, using the case study of the high temenos walls and those of the Telesterion temple structure of the s…
Craft fields and the temporal structures of quilting
This article develops a Bourdieusian-inspired structuralist model of how craft and commerce intersect. Through interpretative engagement with targeted interviews (n = 17) of ‘serious leisure’ quilters drawn from a larger quantitative survey (n = 440), we find that attitudes to pattern sharing suspends the field between commercial and communitarian poles. Unlike fine art and popular culture fields, where the usurpation of dominant styles leads to …
Philosophy of Faith: Belief, Truth and Varieties of Commitment
A Philosophy of Faith: Belief, Truth and Varieties of Commitment
Faith occupies an important place in human lives. It can be directed towards God, friends, political systems and sports teams, and is said to help people through crises and to motivate people to achieve life goals. But what is faith? Philosophers and theologians have, for centuries, been concerned with questions about the rationality of faith, but more recently, have focussed on what kind of psychological attitude faith is. The authors of this bo…
Understanding Charter School Leaders’ Perceptions of Competition in Arizona
Purpose: School choice policies are expected to generate competition leading to improvement in school practices. However, little is known about how competition operates in public education—particularly in charter schools. This paper examines charter-school leaders’ competitive perception formation and the actions taken in response to competition. Research Methods: Using Arizona charter-school leaders’ responses to an original survey, Arizona Depa…
The internal group space
In this article we describe dynamic structures and relationships that arise in the internal space of groups, a space which materializes from the unconscious internal world of each group member and within the group as a whole. We use keys and doors as metaphors to explicate our understanding of the internal dynamics. We give examples of how these metaphors can be used to understand the structure, the function and the relationships within the group…
Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Variability of Bone Collagen to Determine the Number of Isotopically Distinct Specimens
Archaeological and palaeontological excavations frequently produce large quantities of highly fragmentary bone. These bones can help to answer questions regarding past environments and human and animal lifeways via a number of analytical techniques but this potential is limited by the inability to distinguish individual animals and generate sufficiently large samples. Using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values of bone collagen ( δ 13 C, δ 15…
Panhellenism
The Oracle at Delphi: Unknowability at the Heart of the Ancient Greek World
The Oracle at Delphi:Unknowability at the Heart of the Ancient Greek World Michael Scott (bio) history has been famously described as just one damn thing after another—an endless list of events. Yet, of course, to define history as such would be to sell it very short indeed. The canvas of our human past is vast, varied, and complex, existing in an infinite number of simultaneous events, a similar number of perceptions and interpretations of those…
Staying With the Trouble: Grapplings With the More-Than-Human in a Qualitative Inquiry Course
This article attends to the possibilities that emerged from pedagogical invitation to the more-than-human in a qualitative inquiry course. We focus on the situated ethical and (micro)political grapplings that emerged from paying attention to the more-than-human alongside asymmetrical human and more-than-human lifeworlds. Our orientation toward the ethical and (micro)political is enacted through visual, poetic, and narrative storytelling that atte…
Knowledge and awareness of HIV self-testing among Australian gay and bisexual men: A comparison of never, sub-optimal and optimal testers willingness to use
This paper explores the willingness to use and pay for HIV Self-testing (HIVST) among Australian gay and bisexual men (GBM). Bivariate and univariate multinominal logistic regression of data from an online survey was performed. Thirty-one (13%) had never HIV tested and 41.9% (88) were testing sub-optimally by Australian guidelines. Half (58.4%, 136) had never heard of HIVST, however, 56.2% (131) reported willingness to use HIVST, with sub-optimal…
Mindfulness Training plus Nature Exposure for Veterans with Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders: A Model Intervention
There is a need to develop novel complementary interventions aimed at enhancing treatment engagement and/or response for veterans with psychiatric and substance use disorders. There is evidence that both mindfulness training and nature exposure (MT/NE) may be beneficial for this population and that combining the two approaches into one intervention might result in synergistic benefit. However, to date, the MT/NE concept has not been tested. This …
Now they’re coming after our schools’: Interrogating urban intimacies of children and displacement
Education scholars grappling with policy issues related to community and identity issues may pay attention to the work of emotion. Rationalist, psychological frameworks that bound many educational researchers' policy analyses are limited in scope: the policy process is seen as a linear cause-and-effect process. A feminist geographic attention to this research offers a more complex understanding of the experiences of policy. Using children's displ…
El "lado oscuro" de la gobernanza del uso de suelo: Las Narrativas Espacio-Temporales Y La Neutralización Del Riesgo Ambiental
El "lado oscuro" de la
Pop-up Polanyi: Cultural entrepreneurs and the ‘vacancy fix’
Towards an ideal typical live music city
Revisiting Delphi: Religion and Story Telling in Ancient Greece
"Revisiting Delphi: Religion and Story Telling in Ancient Greece." Material Religion, 14(2), pp. 270–271
Realism and Religion: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives
Cultural entrepreneurs, cultural entrepreneurship: Music producers mobilising and converting Bourdieu's alternative capitals
Max Weber: On Charisma and Institution Building
Hipster Capitalism' in the Age of Austerity? Polanyi Meets Bourdieu's New Petite Bourgeoisie
This article dialogues Polanyi and Bourdieu to propose a new research agenda within the sociology of cultural production. Extending recent literature on hipsters, this iconic figure is shifted from the world of consumption to the world of production via Bourdieu's conceptualisation of the new petite bourgeoisie. Using secondary empirical material of cultural micro-enterprises, two ideal-typical career strategies are sketched: cultural-capital ori…
Re-theorizing social network analysis and environmental governance: Insights from human geography
There are growing calls for social network analysis methods to be more extensively deployed in environmental governance practice. A key claim is that social network analysis can generate knowledge to build trust, enable consensus, and facilitate the dissemination of information necessary to make environmental protection ‘successful’. By bringing social network analysis into dialogue with heterodox social theories relevant to human geographers and…
Staying With the Trouble: Grapplings With the More-Than-Human in a Qualitative Inquiry Course
This article attends to the possibilities that emerged from pedagogical invitation to the more-than-human in a qualitative inquiry course. We focus on the situated ethical and (micro)political grapplings that emerged from paying attention to the more-than-human alongside asymmetrical human and more-than-human lifeworlds. Our orientation toward the ethical and (micro)political is enacted through visual, poetic, and narrative storytelling that atte…
Science into policy? Discourse, coastal management and knowledge
The networked state: New Zealand on Air and New Zealand's pop renaissance
When New Zealand's 'third-way' Labour government came to power in 1999 it placed a greater policy and funding emphasis on the arts and culture. Like other 'promotional states' (Cloonan 1999) the Labour government sought to support the domestic popular music industry through a voluntary radio quota. Drawing on qualitative research, this article describes the ways in which the state, through New Zealand on Air, negotiates and leverages domestic pop…
Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Variability of Bone Collagen to Determine the Number of Isotopically Distinct Specimens
Archaeological and palaeontological excavations frequently produce large quantities of highly fragmentary bone. These bones can help to answer questions regarding past environments and human and animal lifeways via a number of analytical techniques but this potential is limited by the inability to distinguish individual animals and generate sufficiently large samples. Using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values of bone collagen ( δ 13 C, δ 15…
The promotional state 'after neo-liberalism: Ideologies of governance and New Zealand's pop renaissance
This article responds to Frith and Cloonan's (2008) call for researchers considering the relationship between the state and popular music to analyse more closely the ideologies of governance that undergird music policy. Building on Cloonan's 'promotional state' and drawing on recent New Zealand experience, this paper shows how New Zealand's Labour government (1999-2008) developed policies to support the export of 'Kiwi' pop which requires a recon…
The International Status of South West Africa
Journal Article The International Status of South West Africa Get access Michael Scott Michael Scott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 34, Issue 3, July 1958, Pages 318–329, https://doi.org/10.2307/2605115 Published: 01 July 1958
Attitude to Africa
A Philosophy of Faith: Belief, Truth and Varieties of Commitment
Faith occupies an important place in human lives. It can be directed towards God, friends, political systems and sports teams, and is said to help people through crises and to motivate people to achieve life goals. But what is faith? Philosophers and theologians have, for centuries, been concerned with questions about the rationality of faith, but more recently, have focussed on what kind of psychological attitude faith is. The authors of this bo…
El "lado oscuro" de la gobernanza del uso de suelo: Las Narrativas Espacio-Temporales Y La Neutralización Del Riesgo Ambiental
El "lado oscuro" de la
Religious Language
This study reviews some of the principal themes in contemporary work on religious language. Unlike other recent surveys, the most pressing issues about religious language are addressed from the perspective of the philosophy of language; different positions taken on these issues by philosophers of religion and theologians are considered. Topics that are covered include: the subject matter of religious discourse, reductionism and subjectivism, expr…
Time and Change
Journal Article Time And Change Get access Michael Scott Michael Scott University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 179, April 1995, Pages 213–218, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220420 Published: 01 April 1995
Re-enchanting sustainable consumption: Cultural intermediaries, charisma, and fashion
Cultural intermediaries play an essential role in shaping the ‘moral textures’ of sustainable consumption. Drawing on Bourdieu and Weber’s cultural sociologies of religious personas, this article analyses how cultural intermediaries deploy different charismatic modalities in the field of fashion to advocate for sustainable consumption. Using illustrative methods and media examples, we illuminate how ‘prophetic’ taste influencers, ‘ascetic’ produc…
Now they’re coming after our schools’: Interrogating urban intimacies of children and displacement
Education scholars grappling with policy issues related to community and identity issues may pay attention to the work of emotion. Rationalist, psychological frameworks that bound many educational researchers' policy analyses are limited in scope: the policy process is seen as a linear cause-and-effect process. A feminist geographic attention to this research offers a more complex understanding of the experiences of policy. Using children's displ…
Political embeddedness in environmental contexts: The intersections of social networks and planning institutions in coastal land use
Despite well-documented climate change risks, coastal developments are still built. This article argues that the success or failure of development approval is conditioned by political embeddedness: the intersections of social network and institutional power. By synthesizing Granovetter’s theory of structural embeddedness with a Polanyian account of land’s institutional embeddedness in protective zoning, two-mode social network analysis methods ar…
Popular music as social policy: Hybrid-hierarchies and social inclusion through New Zealand's pop renaissance
This article addresses an interpretive gap in the creative industries as social policy literature. To date researchers have considered how contemporary governance formations enable artisans into markets and how state maintenance functions are reconfigured through creative industry workfare programmes. Drawing on research of state involvement with New Zealand's music industries it is argued that these supports evince another older form of social i…
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Action
Etude de la philosophie de l'action developpee par Wittgenstein dans son oeuvre tardive, a partir de sa reflexion sur le mouvement volontaire. Examinant les notions de sensation kinesthesique, d'innervation et d'essai, l'A. compare la theorie de la volonte de Wittgenstein a la theorie ideo-motrice de W. James
Rationality and Relativism: A Defence of Absolutism
While rejecting both extremes, Jarvie tries to establish a middle ground between relativism and absolutism. His case for rejecting relativism is accepted and it is suggested that relativism as the theory that the truth and falsity of statements is culturally relative is self-refuting and, even if it is not, that there are no obvious reasons for accepting it. It is queried whether logically there could be a middle ground between the two doctrines.…
What is a Gypsy
The Essential Duplicity of Apartheid
The Search for Oil: Discussion
Attitude to Africa
The International Status of South West Africa
Journal Article The International Status of South West Africa Get access Michael Scott Michael Scott Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 34, Issue 3, July 1958, Pages 318–329, https://doi.org/10.2307/2605115 Published: 01 July 1958
Elections générales en Afrique du Sud
The Essential Duplicity of Apartheid
Afrique du sud, société anonyme
What is a Gypsy
Max Weber: On Charisma and Institution Building
Views on Voices
The Comedy of Errors
The Comedy of Errors is a farce and as such belongs to an art form relying for its strength and theme on the ingenuity of its structure. From Plautus to Ayckbourn farce has exploited social archetypes and institutions so as to entertain its audiences by laughing at the world and its absurdities. The process is naturally thematic, the social, moral or psychological content being an integral part of its dramatic form and balance.1 Thus the aestheti…
Antony and Cleopatra
Renaissance Drama and a Modern Audience
Rationality and Relativism: A Defence of Absolutism
While rejecting both extremes, Jarvie tries to establish a middle ground between relativism and absolutism. His case for rejecting relativism is accepted and it is suggested that relativism as the theory that the truth and falsity of statements is culturally relative is self-refuting and, even if it is not, that there are no obvious reasons for accepting it. It is queried whether logically there could be a middle ground between the two doctrines.…
No Free Lunch: Food and Revolution in Cuba Today
Imaginary Audition: Shakespeare on Stage and Page
Changing the Culture: The Transitional Stage of the British University
Changing the culture: The transitional stage of the British university
Time and Change
Journal Article Time And Change Get access Michael Scott Michael Scott University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 179, April 1995, Pages 213–218, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220420 Published: 01 April 1995
The Morality of Theodicies
Kenneth Surin has argued that theoretical theodicies of the kind associated with Swinburne and Hick face two major moral criticisms: first that they tacitly sanction evils; second that they display moral blindness in the face of unconditional evils. The paper upholds Surin's criticisms in the light of recent defences of theodicy. It concludes by considering and criticizing Wetzel's arguments for saying that theodicy is unavoidable for those who b…
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Action
Etude de la philosophie de l'action developpee par Wittgenstein dans son oeuvre tardive, a partir de sa reflexion sur le mouvement volontaire. Examinant les notions de sensation kinesthesique, d'innervation et d'essai, l'A. compare la theorie de la volonte de Wittgenstein a la theorie ideo-motrice de W. James
Can Theological Realism Be Refuted
In a number of recent articles D. Z. Phillips has presented an exposition and defence of his views on theological realism, views which are based on his reading of Wittgenstein. Eschewing the label ‘anti-realist’ so often applied to his philosophy, Phillips claims that realists and anti-realists alike have ‘failed to appreciate how radical a challenge Wittgenstein makes to our philosophical assumptions’ (SL 22). Far from supporting non-realism abo…
Pieter Huiser Models, Theories and Narratives: Conditions for the Justification of Religious Realism . (Amsterdam: De Kok, 1998)
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Religion as an environmental influence on enterprise culture – The case of Britain in the 1980s
This paper explores the role of religion in the formation and development of the enterprise culture. The approach is that of legitimisation leading to an increase in environmental munificence. It is argued that entrepreneurial activity was encouraged by the use of an entrepreneurial theology specifically articulated by Margaret Thatcher. Parallels are drawn to Max Weber’s work on the Protestant work ethic, particularly in the way that he argued t…
Philosophy of religion: A critical survey of Internet resources
In a survey of Internet resources available to philosophers of religion, the authors critically discuss philosophy sites, e-journals, virtual libraries etc that are relevant to philosophy of religion. They conclude that the Internet is increasingly becoming a helpful and even indispensable source of information
Framing the realism question
This paper begins with a revaluation of Carnap's critique of existence questions, and finds that with modification his argument is successful in giving a prima facie cause for doubt that the ontological question addressed by religious realists and non-realists has content. The second part of the paper argues that these doubts can be met with proper attention to the role of truth in the religious realism debate. The paper concludes by arguing for …
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