Stephen Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4547-9460 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mourning St Stephen’s
In this article, I consider a photograph from 1955 showing parishioners from St. Stephen’s, Salford, along with an architectural model of their church, which they have carried in the “Whit Walk” religious parade through central Manchester. I explore their architectural methodology with sustained focus on this single photograph, which I propose to read in several ways in order to engage with the dynamics of haunting that it reveals. Different theo…
Turning Ten
The following invitation was published on the website of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (https://ahra-architecture.org/): “Architecture and Culture, the international award winni
Repetitive negative thinking mediates the relationship between experiential avoidance and emotional distress among South African university students
The psychological processes contributing to emotional distress among university students in South Africa have not been extensively researched. The current study sought to examine the mediating role of repetitive negative thinking on the relationship between experiential avoidance and student emotional distress. A convenience sample of 419 students from a large public university in South Africa participated in this study. The results indicated tha…
Royal Gardens in Republican Iran: A case study of the Golestan Palace Garden, Tehran
In 1925, the rise of Reza Shah Pahlavi’s regime led to the deliberate destruction of Qajar gardens (1785 to 1925), most of which were converted into military bases. A limited number, such as the Golestan Palace Garden, were partly preserved. However, there had been mass destruction of ‘unsolicited’ and ‘outdated’ buildings by the Qajars and the denigration of religious rituals. Following the fall of the monarchy and establishment of the Islamic R…
The Peruvian Amazon Company: An Accounting Perspective
This article presents an analysis of the operations of the Peruvian Amazon Company through an accounting lens. It is suggested that a focus on asset categories augments our knowledge of the company’s exploitation of the land and Indigenous peoples of Amazonia. In particular, the study explores the PAC’s questionable ownership of estates in the Putumayo, what its approach to valuing those estates implied about enslavement, how its treatment of “ex…
Re-Viewing the Review: A Preview
The average man is destitute of independence of opinion. He is not interested in contriving an opinion of his own, by study and reflection, but is only anxious to find out what his neighbor’s opini
Spinning Yarns: A Tale of Landscape Archaeology in the Leen Valley, Nottinghamshire
The cotton-spinning mills developed in Nottinghamshire by George Robinson and his sons in the late 18th century were acknowledged by contemporary writers to be pioneering. Faced with a crisis in their water supply, their early use of steam power was ground-breaking. Furthermore, their impact on the landscape was considerable. From the 1960s, researchers identified surviving earthworks and catalogued aspects of the business. Exploration of the mil…
Adapting to Crisis: Accounting Information Systems during the Weimar Hyperinflation
German corporations are characterized as having been adaptable in the face of numerous traumatizing events during the twentieth century. This article explores how firms adapted their accounting information systems during the hyperinflation of the 1920s. It suggests that responses to the crisis focused on system elements identified as key to continuing operations. Initially, firms amended selling and purchasing arrangements, modified financial rep…
Understanding landscape change in a former brownfield site
The term palimpsest is sometimes used as a way of conceptualising historic cultural landscapes that have been subject to changes. This paper uses an expanded version of the palimpsest concept (a temporal collage intermingling memories with tangible and intangible elements from different time periods across a range of scales) to focus on a former military site on the Thames Estuary, which, after a period of dereliction, has been developed as a bir…
Helen Chadwick’s ‘Composite Images’
This article traces the considerations of British artist Helen Chadwick (1953–1996) regarding ‘composite images’ and the potential liberation they opened up in the gap between image and form, surface and spectator. These will be discussed as the author follows two apparently contrasting trajectories of her thought; while her considerations of the image, and her own image-making, tend increasingly towards ‘pure surface’, her ambitions for spectato…
Unification and Dual Closure in the Italian Accountancy Profession, 1861–1906
Drawing on Parkin's [Marxism and class theory: A bourgeois critique. London: Tavistock Publications] concept of dual closure, this paper examines the attempt to secure the regulation of the accountancy profession in post-unification Italy. The state's establishment of a class of ‘expert accountants’ in 1865 represented an imperfect closure of the profession. In consequence, a chain of closure attempts ensued. These ventures involved shifting cons…
Role Bargaining Strategies for China’s Peaceful Rise
The bargaining for a new role in world politics presents a rising power with a strategic dilemma, as the new role entails a new power position in the system and a new social status in international society. China’s assertiveness in diplomacy after 2008 can be seen as a ‘role bargaining’ process between China and the outside world, such as China’s bargaining for a new role in the global financial system through the Asian Infrastructure Investment …
The applicability of the metacognitive model of worry and generalized anxiety disorder in a non-clinical multi-ethnic sample of university students
This study explored the applicability of the metacognitive model of excessive worry and generalized anxiety disorder to the understanding of worry in a multi-ethnic context. A convenience sample of 1224 university students (female = 57.9%; Black = 49.9%) with a mean age of 19.77 years (standard deviation = 2.323) participated in the study. Following exploratory factor analysis, hierarchical regression analyses were employed to analyse the data. I…
Viral Architecture, Viral Landscapes: The Impact of Modern Science on Helen Chadwick's Art
This article addresses certain enduring interests that the British artist Helen Chadwick (1953–1996) pursued over the course of her career. While she produced a diverse range of work using a wide range of media, the article will focus on her theoretical considerations of the conjunction of self and world, emphasizing her interest in, and the importance she attached to, the understanding of nature and our place “within” it. She was dissatisfied wi…
A52>a6>a601>a5250>a601>a516>a52: The Ring Road as a Sublime Site
This article proposes to explore various aspects of the sublime as they might be encountered on a journey around that paradigmatic experience of sublime oxymoron, the ring road. In common with more conventional sublime objects, it can elude our perceptual and imaginative grasp while providing exhilarating transport. Although the arguments used to push through the construction of ring roads are usually made on highly rationalized grounds and accor…
Shaping up? Three acts of education studies as textual critique
This paper presents a study of dominant educational discourses through textual critique and argues that such an approach enables education studies to preserve an important distinction from teacher training. The texts deconstructed here are specific to English education, but the discourses at work have international relevance as the rhetorics of accountability, performance and measurement (which we call cells of discourse) have global reach. Ward …
Gordon Matta-Clark: Drawing on Architecture
January 01 2005 Gordon Matta-Clark: Drawing on Architecture Stephen Walker Stephen Walker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Stephen Walker Online ISSN: 1536-0105 Print ISSN: 1526-3819 © 2005 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005 Grey Room (2005) (18): 108–131. https://doi.org/10.1162/1526381043320787 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter…
Accounting and accountability in the Iona Community
This paper explores the issue of accounting and accountability in the spirituality and practices of an ecumenical Christian group – the Iona Community. Fundamental to the existence and operation of the Iona Community is their Rule, which requires all full‐members to account to each other for their use of money and time. This paper explores the development of that Rule and how it is actualised. It examines the accounting practices of individuals i…
From policy to practice: The implementation of a new framework for social work assessments of children and families
This paper describes a two‐year study conducted in 24 English councils to evaluate the implementation of the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families. The Framework promotes a holistic, multi‐agency approach towards the assessment of children in need. The study was carried out in two phases. Phase one explored how councils implemented the Framework and accompanying assessment records. Phase two used a variety of methods…
Baffling Archaeology: The Strange Gravity of Gordon Matta-Clark's Experience-Optics
This article examines some aspects of Gordon Matta-Clark's late filmic works. It notes there the convergence of a variety of concerns from his broader oeuvre (in particular, his criticism of the systematizing tendencies of disciplines such as Architecture, and his interest in the underground, Archaeology and Expanded Cinema) and the emergence of what Matta-Clark termed experience-optics. It goes on to explore experience-optics in terms of the rel…
'Men of small standing'? Locating accountants in English society during the mid-nineteenth century
Depicts the social status of the 19th century accountant as revealed by the 1851 census of the UK for Devon, Norfolk and Warwickshire. Counts the number of accountants and their density, and their status within the family (including female accountants). Includes their professional titles, and the position in the firmm. Shows how many servants they had compared to other occupations, the occupations of their womenfolk, and of their neighbours. Conc…
Laissez-Faire, Collectivism and Companies Legislation in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Social Crisis and Educational Research
Exploring Frontiers and Settling Territory: Shaping the Sociology of Education
Education and the State Vol. I: Schooling and the National Interest
From policy to practice: The implementation of a new framework for social work assessments of children and families
This paper describes a two‐year study conducted in 24 English councils to evaluate the implementation of the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families. The Framework promotes a holistic, multi‐agency approach towards the assessment of children in need. The study was carried out in two phases. Phase one explored how councils implemented the Framework and accompanying assessment records. Phase two used a variety of methods…
Understanding landscape change in a former brownfield site
The term palimpsest is sometimes used as a way of conceptualising historic cultural landscapes that have been subject to changes. This paper uses an expanded version of the palimpsest concept (a temporal collage intermingling memories with tangible and intangible elements from different time periods across a range of scales) to focus on a former military site on the Thames Estuary, which, after a period of dereliction, has been developed as a bir…
Role Bargaining Strategies for China’s Peaceful Rise
The bargaining for a new role in world politics presents a rising power with a strategic dilemma, as the new role entails a new power position in the system and a new social status in international society. China’s assertiveness in diplomacy after 2008 can be seen as a ‘role bargaining’ process between China and the outside world, such as China’s bargaining for a new role in the global financial system through the Asian Infrastructure Investment …
Exploring Frontiers and Settling Territory: Shaping the Sociology of Education
The Peruvian Amazon Company: An Accounting Perspective
This article presents an analysis of the operations of the Peruvian Amazon Company through an accounting lens. It is suggested that a focus on asset categories augments our knowledge of the company’s exploitation of the land and Indigenous peoples of Amazonia. In particular, the study explores the PAC’s questionable ownership of estates in the Putumayo, what its approach to valuing those estates implied about enslavement, how its treatment of “ex…
Adapting to Crisis: Accounting Information Systems during the Weimar Hyperinflation
German corporations are characterized as having been adaptable in the face of numerous traumatizing events during the twentieth century. This article explores how firms adapted their accounting information systems during the hyperinflation of the 1920s. It suggests that responses to the crisis focused on system elements identified as key to continuing operations. Initially, firms amended selling and purchasing arrangements, modified financial rep…
The applicability of the metacognitive model of worry and generalized anxiety disorder in a non-clinical multi-ethnic sample of university students
This study explored the applicability of the metacognitive model of excessive worry and generalized anxiety disorder to the understanding of worry in a multi-ethnic context. A convenience sample of 1224 university students (female = 57.9%; Black = 49.9%) with a mean age of 19.77 years (standard deviation = 2.323) participated in the study. Following exploratory factor analysis, hierarchical regression analyses were employed to analyse the data. I…
Shaping up? Three acts of education studies as textual critique
This paper presents a study of dominant educational discourses through textual critique and argues that such an approach enables education studies to preserve an important distinction from teacher training. The texts deconstructed here are specific to English education, but the discourses at work have international relevance as the rhetorics of accountability, performance and measurement (which we call cells of discourse) have global reach. Ward …
Divided Nations and Reunification Strategies
Contemporary international trends and recent research based upon international integration theo ry suggest a tacit reunification strategy for divided nations. This theory emphasizes the creation of international and domestic background conditions conducive to collaboration and does not recom mend explicit reunification terms. International con ditions favorable to collaboration are ones which reduce ties to cold war patrons and permit more flexib…
A New Isolationism: Threat or Promise
Education and the State Vol. I: Schooling and the National Interest
Exploring Frontiers and Settling Territory: Shaping the Sociology of Education
Social Crisis and Educational Research
Laissez-Faire, Collectivism and Companies Legislation in Nineteenth-Century Britain
'Men of small standing'? Locating accountants in English society during the mid-nineteenth century
Depicts the social status of the 19th century accountant as revealed by the 1851 census of the UK for Devon, Norfolk and Warwickshire. Counts the number of accountants and their density, and their status within the family (including female accountants). Includes their professional titles, and the position in the firmm. Shows how many servants they had compared to other occupations, the occupations of their womenfolk, and of their neighbours. Conc…
Baffling Archaeology: The Strange Gravity of Gordon Matta-Clark's Experience-Optics
This article examines some aspects of Gordon Matta-Clark's late filmic works. It notes there the convergence of a variety of concerns from his broader oeuvre (in particular, his criticism of the systematizing tendencies of disciplines such as Architecture, and his interest in the underground, Archaeology and Expanded Cinema) and the emergence of what Matta-Clark termed experience-optics. It goes on to explore experience-optics in terms of the rel…
Accounting and accountability in the Iona Community
This paper explores the issue of accounting and accountability in the spirituality and practices of an ecumenical Christian group – the Iona Community. Fundamental to the existence and operation of the Iona Community is their Rule, which requires all full‐members to account to each other for their use of money and time. This paper explores the development of that Rule and how it is actualised. It examines the accounting practices of individuals i…
From policy to practice: The implementation of a new framework for social work assessments of children and families
This paper describes a two‐year study conducted in 24 English councils to evaluate the implementation of the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families. The Framework promotes a holistic, multi‐agency approach towards the assessment of children in need. The study was carried out in two phases. Phase one explored how councils implemented the Framework and accompanying assessment records. Phase two used a variety of methods…
Gordon Matta-Clark: Drawing on Architecture
January 01 2005 Gordon Matta-Clark: Drawing on Architecture Stephen Walker Stephen Walker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Stephen Walker Online ISSN: 1536-0105 Print ISSN: 1526-3819 © 2005 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005 Grey Room (2005) (18): 108–131. https://doi.org/10.1162/1526381043320787 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter…
A52>a6>a601>a5250>a601>a516>a52: The Ring Road as a Sublime Site
This article proposes to explore various aspects of the sublime as they might be encountered on a journey around that paradigmatic experience of sublime oxymoron, the ring road. In common with more conventional sublime objects, it can elude our perceptual and imaginative grasp while providing exhilarating transport. Although the arguments used to push through the construction of ring roads are usually made on highly rationalized grounds and accor…
Shaping up? Three acts of education studies as textual critique
This paper presents a study of dominant educational discourses through textual critique and argues that such an approach enables education studies to preserve an important distinction from teacher training. The texts deconstructed here are specific to English education, but the discourses at work have international relevance as the rhetorics of accountability, performance and measurement (which we call cells of discourse) have global reach. Ward …
Viral Architecture, Viral Landscapes: The Impact of Modern Science on Helen Chadwick's Art
This article addresses certain enduring interests that the British artist Helen Chadwick (1953–1996) pursued over the course of her career. While she produced a diverse range of work using a wide range of media, the article will focus on her theoretical considerations of the conjunction of self and world, emphasizing her interest in, and the importance she attached to, the understanding of nature and our place “within” it. She was dissatisfied wi…
Helen Chadwick’s ‘Composite Images’
This article traces the considerations of British artist Helen Chadwick (1953–1996) regarding ‘composite images’ and the potential liberation they opened up in the gap between image and form, surface and spectator. These will be discussed as the author follows two apparently contrasting trajectories of her thought; while her considerations of the image, and her own image-making, tend increasingly towards ‘pure surface’, her ambitions for spectato…
Unification and Dual Closure in the Italian Accountancy Profession, 1861–1906
Drawing on Parkin's [Marxism and class theory: A bourgeois critique. London: Tavistock Publications] concept of dual closure, this paper examines the attempt to secure the regulation of the accountancy profession in post-unification Italy. The state's establishment of a class of ‘expert accountants’ in 1865 represented an imperfect closure of the profession. In consequence, a chain of closure attempts ensued. These ventures involved shifting cons…
Role Bargaining Strategies for China’s Peaceful Rise
The bargaining for a new role in world politics presents a rising power with a strategic dilemma, as the new role entails a new power position in the system and a new social status in international society. China’s assertiveness in diplomacy after 2008 can be seen as a ‘role bargaining’ process between China and the outside world, such as China’s bargaining for a new role in the global financial system through the Asian Infrastructure Investment …
The applicability of the metacognitive model of worry and generalized anxiety disorder in a non-clinical multi-ethnic sample of university students
This study explored the applicability of the metacognitive model of excessive worry and generalized anxiety disorder to the understanding of worry in a multi-ethnic context. A convenience sample of 1224 university students (female = 57.9%; Black = 49.9%) with a mean age of 19.77 years (standard deviation = 2.323) participated in the study. Following exploratory factor analysis, hierarchical regression analyses were employed to analyse the data. I…
Understanding landscape change in a former brownfield site
The term palimpsest is sometimes used as a way of conceptualising historic cultural landscapes that have been subject to changes. This paper uses an expanded version of the palimpsest concept (a temporal collage intermingling memories with tangible and intangible elements from different time periods across a range of scales) to focus on a former military site on the Thames Estuary, which, after a period of dereliction, has been developed as a bir…
Re-Viewing the Review: A Preview
The average man is destitute of independence of opinion. He is not interested in contriving an opinion of his own, by study and reflection, but is only anxious to find out what his neighbor’s opini
Spinning Yarns: A Tale of Landscape Archaeology in the Leen Valley, Nottinghamshire
The cotton-spinning mills developed in Nottinghamshire by George Robinson and his sons in the late 18th century were acknowledged by contemporary writers to be pioneering. Faced with a crisis in their water supply, their early use of steam power was ground-breaking. Furthermore, their impact on the landscape was considerable. From the 1960s, researchers identified surviving earthworks and catalogued aspects of the business. Exploration of the mil…
Adapting to Crisis: Accounting Information Systems during the Weimar Hyperinflation
German corporations are characterized as having been adaptable in the face of numerous traumatizing events during the twentieth century. This article explores how firms adapted their accounting information systems during the hyperinflation of the 1920s. It suggests that responses to the crisis focused on system elements identified as key to continuing operations. Initially, firms amended selling and purchasing arrangements, modified financial rep…
Royal Gardens in Republican Iran: A case study of the Golestan Palace Garden, Tehran
In 1925, the rise of Reza Shah Pahlavi’s regime led to the deliberate destruction of Qajar gardens (1785 to 1925), most of which were converted into military bases. A limited number, such as the Golestan Palace Garden, were partly preserved. However, there had been mass destruction of ‘unsolicited’ and ‘outdated’ buildings by the Qajars and the denigration of religious rituals. Following the fall of the monarchy and establishment of the Islamic R…
The Peruvian Amazon Company: An Accounting Perspective
This article presents an analysis of the operations of the Peruvian Amazon Company through an accounting lens. It is suggested that a focus on asset categories augments our knowledge of the company’s exploitation of the land and Indigenous peoples of Amazonia. In particular, the study explores the PAC’s questionable ownership of estates in the Putumayo, what its approach to valuing those estates implied about enslavement, how its treatment of “ex…
Turning Ten
The following invitation was published on the website of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (https://ahra-architecture.org/): “Architecture and Culture, the international award winni
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