Stuart Oliver
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart Oliver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | Oliver |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | St Mary's University College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Life in an in-between landscape: Norman Angell, Tom Driberg, and the Blackwater Marshlands
In this essay I examine the process of making meaningful places through a consideration of the life geographies of Norman Angell and Tom Driberg, two former residents of the Blackwater marshes, Essex. The essay begins by outlining how the cultural tradition of the west has tended to present marshes as marginal locations, and marshland landscapes as problematically ambiguous, and it shows how this characterization has influenced accounts of the Bl…
Liquid materialities in the landscape of the T hames: Mills and weirs from the eighth century to the nineteenth century
The geography of the former watermills on the River T hames demonstrates the state of contingency upon which the liquid materiality of landscape is founded. Watermills were introduced into E ngland during the R oman occupation and came to have an important role in the socioecology of the T hames, and an important place in its medieval and early‐modern landscape. The pattern of mills established on the river by the eleventh century remained stable…
Navigability and the improvement of the river Thames, 1605–1815
Through ‘improvement’ the Thames was subjected to a bureaucratic regime of engineered discipline that was brought into effect by the early nineteenth century. Over recent years, rivers have been explained with reference to their materiality and their social identity, and the Thames of the past can perhaps best be understood as a discursively produced materiality. In the medieval and early‐modern periods, the Thames was perceived as a gift or as a…
Geography's difficult engagement with the psychological therapies
The consideration of psychoanalytic issues presents geography and geographers with a number of difficulties; this paper examines those difficulties from within a humanistic perspective. The most common geographical engagements with the psychological therapies have been with their psychodynamic and, to a lesser extent, humanist methodological forms. A humanist perspective on this engagement suggests that it has led to two associated problems. At a…
The Thames Embankment and the disciplining of nature in modernity
The embanking of the Thames was an emblematic stage in the construction of modernity's discourse of 'the natural', re-engineering the river as a concrete framing of nature between the embankment walls and a representational framing of the natural within an engineering ideology. The legitimacy of embanking's control was, therefore, about both physical mechanisms and a particular discourse of the natural, but the Thames embankments did not merely r…
The Thames Embankment and the disciplining of nature in modernity
The embanking of the Thames was an emblematic stage in the construction of modernity's discourse of 'the natural', re-engineering the river as a concrete framing of nature between the embankment walls and a representational framing of the natural within an engineering ideology. The legitimacy of embanking's control was, therefore, about both physical mechanisms and a particular discourse of the natural, but the Thames embankments did not merely r…
Geography's difficult engagement with the psychological therapies
The consideration of psychoanalytic issues presents geography and geographers with a number of difficulties; this paper examines those difficulties from within a humanistic perspective. The most common geographical engagements with the psychological therapies have been with their psychodynamic and, to a lesser extent, humanist methodological forms. A humanist perspective on this engagement suggests that it has led to two associated problems. At a…
Navigability and the improvement of the river Thames, 1605–1815
Through ‘improvement’ the Thames was subjected to a bureaucratic regime of engineered discipline that was brought into effect by the early nineteenth century. Over recent years, rivers have been explained with reference to their materiality and their social identity, and the Thames of the past can perhaps best be understood as a discursively produced materiality. In the medieval and early‐modern periods, the Thames was perceived as a gift or as a…
Liquid materialities in the landscape of the T hames: Mills and weirs from the eighth century to the nineteenth century
The geography of the former watermills on the River T hames demonstrates the state of contingency upon which the liquid materiality of landscape is founded. Watermills were introduced into E ngland during the R oman occupation and came to have an important role in the socioecology of the T hames, and an important place in its medieval and early‐modern landscape. The pattern of mills established on the river by the eleventh century remained stable…
Life in an in-between landscape: Norman Angell, Tom Driberg, and the Blackwater Marshlands
In this essay I examine the process of making meaningful places through a consideration of the life geographies of Norman Angell and Tom Driberg, two former residents of the Blackwater marshes, Essex. The essay begins by outlining how the cultural tradition of the west has tended to present marshes as marginal locations, and marshland landscapes as problematically ambiguous, and it shows how this characterization has influenced accounts of the Bl…
The Thames Embankment and the disciplining of nature in modernity
The embanking of the Thames was an emblematic stage in the construction of modernity's discourse of 'the natural', re-engineering the river as a concrete framing of nature between the embankment walls and a representational framing of the natural within an engineering ideology. The legitimacy of embanking's control was, therefore, about both physical mechanisms and a particular discourse of the natural, but the Thames embankments did not merely r…
Geography's difficult engagement with the psychological therapies
The consideration of psychoanalytic issues presents geography and geographers with a number of difficulties; this paper examines those difficulties from within a humanistic perspective. The most common geographical engagements with the psychological therapies have been with their psychodynamic and, to a lesser extent, humanist methodological forms. A humanist perspective on this engagement suggests that it has led to two associated problems. At a…
Navigability and the improvement of the river Thames, 1605–1815
Through ‘improvement’ the Thames was subjected to a bureaucratic regime of engineered discipline that was brought into effect by the early nineteenth century. Over recent years, rivers have been explained with reference to their materiality and their social identity, and the Thames of the past can perhaps best be understood as a discursively produced materiality. In the medieval and early‐modern periods, the Thames was perceived as a gift or as a…
Liquid materialities in the landscape of the T hames: Mills and weirs from the eighth century to the nineteenth century
The geography of the former watermills on the River T hames demonstrates the state of contingency upon which the liquid materiality of landscape is founded. Watermills were introduced into E ngland during the R oman occupation and came to have an important role in the socioecology of the T hames, and an important place in its medieval and early‐modern landscape. The pattern of mills established on the river by the eleventh century remained stable…
Life in an in-between landscape: Norman Angell, Tom Driberg, and the Blackwater Marshlands
In this essay I examine the process of making meaningful places through a consideration of the life geographies of Norman Angell and Tom Driberg, two former residents of the Blackwater marshes, Essex. The essay begins by outlining how the cultural tradition of the west has tended to present marshes as marginal locations, and marshland landscapes as problematically ambiguous, and it shows how this characterization has influenced accounts of the Bl…
Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works)