Timothy Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0866-7566 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
That Awful Night in October’: Sensory Experiences of Britain’s 1987 Hurricane
This article explores sensory experiences of the 1987 'Hurricane' in Britain. Through mass observers' testimonies, we examine the impact of sensory disruption to domestic 'sensoria'. We examine in turn disturbing noises; the anxieties circulating around windows; the loss of power to heat and light domestic environments, and, finally, the kinetic power of the storm to threaten the bounds between interior and exterior worlds. Finally, we place obse…
A Kind of Sensory, Strange Thing to Experience: Speaking Environmental Disaster in the Sea Empress Project Archive
This article explores embodied encounters with the Sea Empress oil spill of 1996 and their representation in oral narratives. Through a close reading of the personal testimonies collected in the Sea Empress Project archive, I examine the relationship between intense sensory experiences of environmental change and everyday interpretations of the disaster and its legacy. The article first outlines the ways in which this collection of voices reveals…
Tide Times: Responding to Cramond
This article explores site-responsiveness in the context of a collaborative work, Tide Times, by Laura Bissell (writer) and Timothy Cooper (electroacoustic composer) created for the island of Cramond. In this co-written submission we examine the ways in which the work responded to our experience of exploring the tidal island on the East Coast of Scotland during five visits between April and August 2018. Contextualising Tide Times through Ingold’s…
Shorter Time to Full Preterm Feeding Using Intact Protein Formula: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Results suggest shorter time to full enteral feeding and higher feeding volume achieved by study end in preterm infants receiving intact protein preterm formula versus extensively hydrolyzed formula
Waste and ‘Everyday Environmentalism’ in Modern Britain
Following recent work by social historians and geographers on the concept of ‘everyday life’, I argue that current historical uses of the term are problematic, at least for environmental historians, in that they lack a sufficiently disciplined or coherent conceptual basis. Henri Lefebvre’s approach to everyday life offers one productive way of rethinking the significance of the environment for social history. Through an empirical study of the pol…
The Torrey Canyon Disaster, Everyday Life, and the “Greening” of Britain
This article challenges the predominant narrative of the rise of modern environmentalism that supports much of the historiography on environmental ideas and movements. Through a study of the effects of the Torrey Canyon disaster of 1967, we show that everyday life is a vital mediator of environmental catastrophes and has played a crucial role in rendering ambiguous popular attitudes toward the impact of disasters on the natural world. Using oral …
James Rodger Fleming and Ann Johnson, Toxic Airs: Body, Planet, Place in Historical Perspective
Journal Article James Rodger Fleming and Ann Johnson, Toxic Airs: Body, Planet, Place in Historical Perspective Get access James Rodger Fleming and Ann Johnson, Toxic Airs: Body, Planet, Place in Historical Perspective, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 284. £23.95. ISBN 978 0 8229 6290 8. Timothy Cooper Timothy Cooper University of Exeter [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
Community and Exclusion: The Torrey Canyon Disaster of 1967
Oral historians have only recently begun to record the memories of communities affected by major oil spills. In this article we investigate how the first supertanker oil spill in 1967, the Torrey Canyon, is remembered in the coastal communities of Cornwall. Environmental disasters cause more than just environmental damage. They also challenge communities, bringing to the forefront social tensions and conflicts. This study reveals the widespread s…
The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture (review)
Reviewed by: The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture Timothy Cooper (bio) The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture. By Tamara Ketabgian. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. Pp. x+237. $35. With The Lives of Machines, Tamara Ketabgian has produced an illuminating investigation into the affective power of technology in Victorian literature and art. Ket…
Refuse and the 'Risk Society: The Political Ecology of Risk in Inter-war Britain
This article responds to current critiques of Ulrich Beck's 'risk society' thesis by historians of science and medicine. Those who have engaged with the concept of risk society have been content to accept the fundamental categories of Beck's analysis. In contrast, we argue that Beck's risk society thesis underplays two key themes. First, the role of capitalist social relations as the driver of technological change and the transformation of everyd…
Peter Lund Simmonds and the Political Ecology of Waste Utilization in Victorian Britain
This article investigates the category of waste and its ideological function within Victorian political ecology. It seeks to draw out the connections between conceptions of nature, understandings of technology, and political economy in mid-Victorian capitalist ideology. It does so through a detailed reading of the corpus of one Victorian writer and commentator on technological subjects, Peter Lund Simmonds. Simmonds is interesting both as an ever…
The politics of environmental history
Recycling Modernity: Waste and Environmental History
In this article, I discuss some of the questions that arise for environmental historians from recent historical and theoretical studies of waste. This article is not an attempt to methodically review the entire corpus of work on waste within the social sciences and humanities. Rather I seek to draw attention to the ways in which waste constitutes an important problem for environmental history in particular. The article is in four sections. The fi…
Burying the 'Refuse Revolution: The Rise of Controlled Tipping in Britain, 1920-1960
This paper investigates the emergence of 'controlled tipping' as the dominant method of municipal waste disposal in Britain between 1920 and 1960. The triumph of controlled tipping, despite the availability of alternative disposal technologies, needs to be understood in the context of the contested meanings of 'waste' and 'wasteland', which helped to determine attitudes and approaches to disposal. Following the conclusion of the First World War t…
War on Waste: The Politics of Waste and Recycling in Post-War Britain, 1950-1975
This is a postprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in Capitalism Nature Socialism© 2009 Copyright Taylor & Francis; Capitalism Nature Socialism is available online at http://www.informaworld.com
Challenging the ?refuse revolution: War, Waste and the Rediscovery of Recycling, 1900?50
This article argues that the experiences of war played an important role in reshaping the social practices of waste disposal between 1900 and 1950. Before 1914 recycling was declining in the face of the challenge presented by the emerging culture of hygiene and the introduction of incinerator technology. This decline was partially reversed between 1914 and 1945 by the wartime imperative to utilize resources efficiently. The need to preserve both …
Challenging the ?refuse revolution: War, Waste and the Rediscovery of Recycling, 1900?50
This article argues that the experiences of war played an important role in reshaping the social practices of waste disposal between 1900 and 1950. Before 1914 recycling was declining in the face of the challenge presented by the emerging culture of hygiene and the introduction of incinerator technology. This decline was partially reversed between 1914 and 1945 by the wartime imperative to utilize resources efficiently. The need to preserve both …
Recycling Modernity: Waste and Environmental History
In this article, I discuss some of the questions that arise for environmental historians from recent historical and theoretical studies of waste. This article is not an attempt to methodically review the entire corpus of work on waste within the social sciences and humanities. Rather I seek to draw attention to the ways in which waste constitutes an important problem for environmental history in particular. The article is in four sections. The fi…
Peter Lund Simmonds and the Political Ecology of Waste Utilization in Victorian Britain
This article investigates the category of waste and its ideological function within Victorian political ecology. It seeks to draw out the connections between conceptions of nature, understandings of technology, and political economy in mid-Victorian capitalist ideology. It does so through a detailed reading of the corpus of one Victorian writer and commentator on technological subjects, Peter Lund Simmonds. Simmonds is interesting both as an ever…
Burying the 'Refuse Revolution: The Rise of Controlled Tipping in Britain, 1920-1960
This paper investigates the emergence of 'controlled tipping' as the dominant method of municipal waste disposal in Britain between 1920 and 1960. The triumph of controlled tipping, despite the availability of alternative disposal technologies, needs to be understood in the context of the contested meanings of 'waste' and 'wasteland', which helped to determine attitudes and approaches to disposal. Following the conclusion of the First World War t…
Refuse and the 'Risk Society: The Political Ecology of Risk in Inter-war Britain
This article responds to current critiques of Ulrich Beck's 'risk society' thesis by historians of science and medicine. Those who have engaged with the concept of risk society have been content to accept the fundamental categories of Beck's analysis. In contrast, we argue that Beck's risk society thesis underplays two key themes. First, the role of capitalist social relations as the driver of technological change and the transformation of everyd…
War on Waste: The Politics of Waste and Recycling in Post-War Britain, 1950-1975
This is a postprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in Capitalism Nature Socialism© 2009 Copyright Taylor & Francis; Capitalism Nature Socialism is available online at http://www.informaworld.com
The Torrey Canyon Disaster, Everyday Life, and the “Greening” of Britain
This article challenges the predominant narrative of the rise of modern environmentalism that supports much of the historiography on environmental ideas and movements. Through a study of the effects of the Torrey Canyon disaster of 1967, we show that everyday life is a vital mediator of environmental catastrophes and has played a crucial role in rendering ambiguous popular attitudes toward the impact of disasters on the natural world. Using oral …
The politics of environmental history
Challenging the ?refuse revolution: War, Waste and the Rediscovery of Recycling, 1900?50
This article argues that the experiences of war played an important role in reshaping the social practices of waste disposal between 1900 and 1950. Before 1914 recycling was declining in the face of the challenge presented by the emerging culture of hygiene and the introduction of incinerator technology. This decline was partially reversed between 1914 and 1945 by the wartime imperative to utilize resources efficiently. The need to preserve both …
War on Waste: The Politics of Waste and Recycling in Post-War Britain, 1950-1975
This is a postprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in Capitalism Nature Socialism© 2009 Copyright Taylor & Francis; Capitalism Nature Socialism is available online at http://www.informaworld.com
The politics of environmental history
Recycling Modernity: Waste and Environmental History
In this article, I discuss some of the questions that arise for environmental historians from recent historical and theoretical studies of waste. This article is not an attempt to methodically review the entire corpus of work on waste within the social sciences and humanities. Rather I seek to draw attention to the ways in which waste constitutes an important problem for environmental history in particular. The article is in four sections. The fi…
Burying the 'Refuse Revolution: The Rise of Controlled Tipping in Britain, 1920-1960
This paper investigates the emergence of 'controlled tipping' as the dominant method of municipal waste disposal in Britain between 1920 and 1960. The triumph of controlled tipping, despite the availability of alternative disposal technologies, needs to be understood in the context of the contested meanings of 'waste' and 'wasteland', which helped to determine attitudes and approaches to disposal. Following the conclusion of the First World War t…
Peter Lund Simmonds and the Political Ecology of Waste Utilization in Victorian Britain
This article investigates the category of waste and its ideological function within Victorian political ecology. It seeks to draw out the connections between conceptions of nature, understandings of technology, and political economy in mid-Victorian capitalist ideology. It does so through a detailed reading of the corpus of one Victorian writer and commentator on technological subjects, Peter Lund Simmonds. Simmonds is interesting both as an ever…
The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture (review)
Reviewed by: The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture Timothy Cooper (bio) The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture. By Tamara Ketabgian. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. Pp. x+237. $35. With The Lives of Machines, Tamara Ketabgian has produced an illuminating investigation into the affective power of technology in Victorian literature and art. Ket…
Refuse and the 'Risk Society: The Political Ecology of Risk in Inter-war Britain
This article responds to current critiques of Ulrich Beck's 'risk society' thesis by historians of science and medicine. Those who have engaged with the concept of risk society have been content to accept the fundamental categories of Beck's analysis. In contrast, we argue that Beck's risk society thesis underplays two key themes. First, the role of capitalist social relations as the driver of technological change and the transformation of everyd…
James Rodger Fleming and Ann Johnson, Toxic Airs: Body, Planet, Place in Historical Perspective
Journal Article James Rodger Fleming and Ann Johnson, Toxic Airs: Body, Planet, Place in Historical Perspective Get access James Rodger Fleming and Ann Johnson, Toxic Airs: Body, Planet, Place in Historical Perspective, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 284. £23.95. ISBN 978 0 8229 6290 8. Timothy Cooper Timothy Cooper University of Exeter [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
Community and Exclusion: The Torrey Canyon Disaster of 1967
Oral historians have only recently begun to record the memories of communities affected by major oil spills. In this article we investigate how the first supertanker oil spill in 1967, the Torrey Canyon, is remembered in the coastal communities of Cornwall. Environmental disasters cause more than just environmental damage. They also challenge communities, bringing to the forefront social tensions and conflicts. This study reveals the widespread s…
The Torrey Canyon Disaster, Everyday Life, and the “Greening” of Britain
This article challenges the predominant narrative of the rise of modern environmentalism that supports much of the historiography on environmental ideas and movements. Through a study of the effects of the Torrey Canyon disaster of 1967, we show that everyday life is a vital mediator of environmental catastrophes and has played a crucial role in rendering ambiguous popular attitudes toward the impact of disasters on the natural world. Using oral …
Waste and ‘Everyday Environmentalism’ in Modern Britain
Following recent work by social historians and geographers on the concept of ‘everyday life’, I argue that current historical uses of the term are problematic, at least for environmental historians, in that they lack a sufficiently disciplined or coherent conceptual basis. Henri Lefebvre’s approach to everyday life offers one productive way of rethinking the significance of the environment for social history. Through an empirical study of the pol…
Tide Times: Responding to Cramond
This article explores site-responsiveness in the context of a collaborative work, Tide Times, by Laura Bissell (writer) and Timothy Cooper (electroacoustic composer) created for the island of Cramond. In this co-written submission we examine the ways in which the work responded to our experience of exploring the tidal island on the East Coast of Scotland during five visits between April and August 2018. Contextualising Tide Times through Ingold’s…
Shorter Time to Full Preterm Feeding Using Intact Protein Formula: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Results suggest shorter time to full enteral feeding and higher feeding volume achieved by study end in preterm infants receiving intact protein preterm formula versus extensively hydrolyzed formula
A Kind of Sensory, Strange Thing to Experience: Speaking Environmental Disaster in the Sea Empress Project Archive
This article explores embodied encounters with the Sea Empress oil spill of 1996 and their representation in oral narratives. Through a close reading of the personal testimonies collected in the Sea Empress Project archive, I examine the relationship between intense sensory experiences of environmental change and everyday interpretations of the disaster and its legacy. The article first outlines the ways in which this collection of voices reveals…
That Awful Night in October’: Sensory Experiences of Britain’s 1987 Hurricane
This article explores sensory experiences of the 1987 'Hurricane' in Britain. Through mass observers' testimonies, we examine the impact of sensory disruption to domestic 'sensoria'. We examine in turn disturbing noises; the anxieties circulating around windows; the loss of power to heat and light domestic environments, and, finally, the kinetic power of the storm to threaten the bounds between interior and exterior worlds. Finally, we place obse…
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