Stephen Morton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Morton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Morton |
| SIGNATURE | MORTON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7122-0201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Spinifex, fire, and fate
Bushfires occur regularly in inland Australia because of the flammability of spinifex (Triodia species). Spinifex and fire are tied together by infertility: the plant is of limited palatability to consumers and accumulates into fuel. Spinifex regrows with cumulative rainfall, and fires recur every couple of decades. Aboriginal people burnt spinifex to foster food gathering, thereby creating a seral mosaic. Commentators conclude that this mosaic i…
Salman Rushdie in Context
Salman Rushdie in Context discusses Rushdie's life and work in the context of the multiple geographies he has inhabited and the wider socio-cultural contexts in which his writing is emerging, published and read. This book reveals the evolving political trajectory around transnationalism, multiculturalism and its discontents, so prominently engaged with by Salman Rushdie in relation to South Asia, its diasporas, Britain, and the USA in the late tw…
A history of CSIRO’s Central Australian Laboratory 2, 1980–2018
In the first 27 years of the Central Australian Laboratory (CAL), to 1980, research focussed almost entirely on the needs of the pastoral industry. By the 1980s, ongoing campaigns for Aboriginal land rights and demands to conserve biodiversity plainly showed that there were other land uses deserving research attention. Initially CAL’s research agenda expanded to include conservation in spinifex grasslands and grazing lands but remained biophysica…
A history of CSIRO’S Central Australian Laboratory, 1
CSIRO’s research in the arid zone was initiated after World War 2 when a strong push to develop the sparsely populated and isolated region of northern Australia was promoted as being in the national interest. This impetus had social and political origins but implementation depended on scientific insights into regional ‘potential’, which was couched at the time in terms of agronomic and pastoral use. Ray Perry was a key figure in early land resour…
Subaltern Affects
If affect theory is principally concerned to account for the visceral forces and intensities that relate human and non-human bodies, how might it help to make sense of the force and intensity of capitalist cultures of accumulation and extraction as they are lived, felt, and understood by subaltern bodies living and dying in the Global South? In what ways might the transmission of affect associated with the political and economic legacies of Europ…
Chapter 9 Colonial Violence, Law and Justice in Egypt
Testing scenario for intellectual disability, developmental delay, and autism challenged
Rethinking Foucault in an Age of Terror focuses on the relationship between literary culture, power, society and war, assessing the critical importance of Michel Foucault’s lecture series Society Must Be Defended for contemporary debates about war and terror in literary and cultural studies, as well as social and political thought. Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended develops his historical investigations of power and knowledge to examine how soc…
Secularism and the death and return of the author
In what ways has the contemporary British novel served to contribute to the ethos of secular liberalism that underpins the ideology of the colonial present before and after the “War on Terror”? This article seeks to address this question through a rereading of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and its critical reception. Beginning with a discussion of the secularism/theology binary in Roland Barthes’ essay “The Death of the Author”, the paper c…
The wageless life of the subaltern
One of the most striking legacies of the Subaltern Studies project has been the innovative methodologies and archives that it has mobilized to articulate the singular position of the subaltern outside the hegemonic terms of representation. Yet in its sweeping classification of non-hegemonic social groups and classes, Subaltern Studies has often tended to elide the precise economic determinants that define the subaltern as a class, and thereby for…
Las mujeres del «tercer mundo» y el pensamiento feminista occidental
Este artículo es un capítulo del libro Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak, de la «Serie Routledge de Pensadores Críticos» (Londres: Routledge, 2003), pp. 71-89.Traducción por Gabriela Castellanos.Resumen: Este artículo recoge las principales ideas de la filósofa y teórica del lenguaje Gayatri Spivak sobre las mujeres del llamado Tercer Mundo, haciendo uso de los conceptos acuñados o re-significados por ella sobre subalternidad y esencialismo estratégico.…
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In the 2000s, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JCL) continued to provide a forum for the expansion, layering and critical self-examination of the transnational Anglophone literary/cultural and scholarly fields. During this period of expansion and growth JCL participated in the formation of an emergent postcolonial canon in which certain authors and texts have served to function as tropes for a certain idea of nations and regions in the pos…
Postcolonial custodianship
The idea of custodianship has an ambivalent relationship to culture. While the term is conventionally associated with guardianship, in the sense of looking after a person, building, archaeological
Sovereignty and necropolitics at the Line of Control
This paper considers how the sovereignty of the Indian government over Kashmir is asserted and contested around the Line of Control, and the military checkpoints that visualize such forms of sovereignty. Beginning with a discussion of the ways in which the Government of India’s Armed Forces Special Powers Act and the Public Safety Act provide a paralegal context for extrajudicial killings and torture, the article proceeds to consider how recent l…
States of Emergency
States of Emergency
Terrorism, insurgency and Indian-English literature, 1830-1947
by Alex Tickell, London, Routledge, 2012, 273 pp., £85.00, ISBN 978 0 4158 7715 2 Liberal narratives of British colonialism in India have tended to frame the use of emergency powers to counter an
Fictions of sedition and the framing of Indian revolutionaries in colonial India
In the context of British colonial India in the early twentieth century, legal and literary narratives of sedition worked together – often in mutually reinforcing ways – to provide an important technique of power and control. In this respect, literary and legal representations of sedition as a form of criminality can tell us much about the relationship between the law and colonial governmentality. By tracing the ways in which India’s “revolutiona…
Cosmopolitan criticism and postcolonial literature
by Robert Spencer, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 240 pp., £50.00, ISBN 978 0 2302 3166 5 In his well-known essay on postmodernism, Fredric Jameson enjoins his readers to attend to a centra
Hannah Arendt 'After Modernity'
As one of the most incisive political philosophers of the post-war epoch, Hannah Arendt is well known for her critical reflections on anti-Semitism and the limitations of humanism; violence and revolutionary politics; morality and evil; judgement; and the aetiology of genocide and totalitarianism. Her reflections on the collapse of the public sphere and the loss of the shared human way of experiencing the world in the face of totalitarian state b…
Subalternity and Aesthetic Education in the Thought of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
States of emergency and the apartheid legal order in South African fiction
This essay considers how narratives of emergency in apartheid South Africa are figured in Richard Rive's Emergency (1964) and Emergency Continued (1990). Beginning with a discussion of the role of emergency legislation in apartheid South Africa, the essay proceeds to consider how the rhetoric and force of the apartheid legal order is both foregrounded and contested in Rive's fiction. The essay considers in particular the ways in which Rive's fict…
Terror and the Postcolonial
Terror and the Postcolonial
Exploring Central Australia
Sovereignty, Sacrifice and States of Emergency in Colonial Ireland
In an article published in March 1870, Jenny Marx-Longuet, daughter of the author of The Communist Manifesto , declared that 'Theoretical fiction has it that constitutional liberty is the rule and its suspension an exception, but the whole history of English rule in Ireland shows that a state of emergency is the rule and that the application of the constitution is the exception.' Writing in response to the Gladstone government's 'Peace Preservati…
Terrorism, Orientalism and Imperialism
This essay argues that there are striking parallels between what Edward Said called orientalism and the dominant discourse of counter-terrorism underpinning the war on terrorism. Beginning with a discussion of the contribution that postcolonial thinkers such as Edward Said, Achille Mbembe, Paul Gilroy and Gayatri Spivak have made to understanding the imperialist determinants of the discourse of terrorism, the essay proceeds to examine how the ori…
Annie Moore and the archives of displacement
Annie Moore, the first immigrant to enter the USA through the Ellis Island immigrant processing station, stands as an originary figure of the so-called golden age of European immigration to the USA in the late nineteenth century. The contemporary archivization of the Irish immigrant Annie Moore in the Ellis Island Museum, New York and the Cobh Harbour Heritage Centre in County Cork, Ireland repeats the democratic rhetoric of immigration which und…
Fictions of sedition and the framing of Indian revolutionaries in colonial India
In the context of British colonial India in the early twentieth century, legal and literary narratives of sedition worked together – often in mutually reinforcing ways – to provide an important technique of power and control. In this respect, literary and legal representations of sedition as a form of criminality can tell us much about the relationship between the law and colonial governmentality. By tracing the ways in which India’s “revolutiona…
Sovereignty and necropolitics at the Line of Control
This paper considers how the sovereignty of the Indian government over Kashmir is asserted and contested around the Line of Control, and the military checkpoints that visualize such forms of sovereignty. Beginning with a discussion of the ways in which the Government of India’s Armed Forces Special Powers Act and the Public Safety Act provide a paralegal context for extrajudicial killings and torture, the article proceeds to consider how recent l…
Subalternity and Aesthetic Education in the Thought of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Las mujeres del «tercer mundo» y el pensamiento feminista occidental
Este artículo es un capítulo del libro Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak, de la «Serie Routledge de Pensadores Críticos» (Londres: Routledge, 2003), pp. 71-89.Traducción por Gabriela Castellanos.Resumen: Este artículo recoge las principales ideas de la filósofa y teórica del lenguaje Gayatri Spivak sobre las mujeres del llamado Tercer Mundo, haciendo uso de los conceptos acuñados o re-significados por ella sobre subalternidad y esencialismo estratégico.…
Terrorism, insurgency and Indian-English literature, 1830-1947
by Alex Tickell, London, Routledge, 2012, 273 pp., £85.00, ISBN 978 0 4158 7715 2 Liberal narratives of British colonialism in India have tended to frame the use of emergency powers to counter an
Secularism and the death and return of the author
In what ways has the contemporary British novel served to contribute to the ethos of secular liberalism that underpins the ideology of the colonial present before and after the “War on Terror”? This article seeks to address this question through a rereading of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and its critical reception. Beginning with a discussion of the secularism/theology binary in Roland Barthes’ essay “The Death of the Author”, the paper c…
S
In the 2000s, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JCL) continued to provide a forum for the expansion, layering and critical self-examination of the transnational Anglophone literary/cultural and scholarly fields. During this period of expansion and growth JCL participated in the formation of an emergent postcolonial canon in which certain authors and texts have served to function as tropes for a certain idea of nations and regions in the pos…
Cosmopolitan criticism and postcolonial literature
by Robert Spencer, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 240 pp., £50.00, ISBN 978 0 2302 3166 5 In his well-known essay on postmodernism, Fredric Jameson enjoins his readers to attend to a centra
States of emergency and the apartheid legal order in South African fiction
This essay considers how narratives of emergency in apartheid South Africa are figured in Richard Rive's Emergency (1964) and Emergency Continued (1990). Beginning with a discussion of the role of emergency legislation in apartheid South Africa, the essay proceeds to consider how the rhetoric and force of the apartheid legal order is both foregrounded and contested in Rive's fiction. The essay considers in particular the ways in which Rive's fict…
There were collisions and explosions. The world was no longer calm.’ Terror and precarious life in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown
Calling Up Annie Moore
Susan Kelly lived in New York City from 1998 to 2001 and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program,the World Trade Center's studio residency, and the 16 Beaver Group. Currently she is working toward a Ph.D. at Goldsmith's College, London. Stephen Morton is a lecturer in Anglophone literature and culture at the University of Southampton, U.K. He is the author of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2002
Postcolonialism and spectrality
As the writing of Aijaz Ahmad and Arif Dirlik illustrates, the direction of postcolonial criticism has moved towards an interrogation of its location within contemporary geopolitical power relationships. This self-critical emphasis has worked to foreground the ideological determinants of post-colonial theory, but it can also obscure the political efficacy of western critical frameworks. By emphasizing postcolonial theory's complicity with global …
Public health medicine and local authorities
Estimates of abundance of burrowing frogs in spinifex grasslands of the Tanami Desert, Northern Territory
Four species of burrowing frogs (Cyclorana maini, Neobatrachus sp.(probably N. aquilonius), Notaden nichollsi and Uperoleia micromeles.were captured in pit-traps at eight sites in spinifex sandplain of the Tanami Desert, during a week-long period of summer rain.The numbers of captures were used to provide rough estimates of the abundance of frogs, of between 34 and 68 per hectare.It is suggested that these substantial densities were supprorted by…
Postcolonialism and spectrality
As the writing of Aijaz Ahmad and Arif Dirlik illustrates, the direction of postcolonial criticism has moved towards an interrogation of its location within contemporary geopolitical power relationships. This self-critical emphasis has worked to foreground the ideological determinants of post-colonial theory, but it can also obscure the political efficacy of western critical frameworks. By emphasizing postcolonial theory's complicity with global …
‘Oh it’s a wonderful practice ... you can talk to them’
This paper uses 85 semistructured interviews with people with type 2 diabetes, and with the health professionals who deliver their diabetes care, to explore the issues that they perceive as central to effective management of diabetes, primarily within a primary care setting. Attention is especially focused on the nature of the patient-practitioner relationship, and on the implications of this for patient empowerment and the effective self-managem…
One Place after Another
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak offers an overtly political challenge to the way we think about literature and culture. As she highlights the many legacies of colonialism, she re-defines the ethical horizons of contemporary critical thought. This volume focuses on her key theoretical concepts, intellectual context and critical reception, providing an accessible introduction to one of the most important thinkers of our time.Stephen Morton introduces Sp…
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Workers of the World Unite' and Other Impossible Propositions
This article examines Hardt and Negri's claim in Empire (2002) that the horizontal articulation of local social movements is anachronistic and therefore untenable. Starting with a discussion of what Hardt and Negri mean by the multitude, the article proceeds to examine how the vocabularies of proletarian internationalism are rethought as missed opportunities in the work of Slavoj Zizek and Robert Young. In response to this rethinking, the article…
Annie Moore and the archives of displacement
Annie Moore, the first immigrant to enter the USA through the Ellis Island immigrant processing station, stands as an originary figure of the so-called golden age of European immigration to the USA in the late nineteenth century. The contemporary archivization of the Irish immigrant Annie Moore in the Ellis Island Museum, New York and the Cobh Harbour Heritage Centre in County Cork, Ireland repeats the democratic rhetoric of immigration which und…
Calling Up Annie Moore
Susan Kelly lived in New York City from 1998 to 2001 and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program,the World Trade Center's studio residency, and the 16 Beaver Group. Currently she is working toward a Ph.D. at Goldsmith's College, London. Stephen Morton is a lecturer in Anglophone literature and culture at the University of Southampton, U.K. He is the author of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2002
Terrorism, Orientalism and Imperialism
This essay argues that there are striking parallels between what Edward Said called orientalism and the dominant discourse of counter-terrorism underpinning the war on terrorism. Beginning with a discussion of the contribution that postcolonial thinkers such as Edward Said, Achille Mbembe, Paul Gilroy and Gayatri Spivak have made to understanding the imperialist determinants of the discourse of terrorism, the essay proceeds to examine how the ori…
Foucault in an Age of Terror
This book focuses on the relationship between literary culture, power, society and war. It assesses the critical importance of Michel Foucault's lecture series Society Must Be Defended for contemporar
There were collisions and explosions. The world was no longer calm.’ Terror and precarious life in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown
Terror and the Postcolonial
Terror and the Postcolonial
Books
States of emergency and the apartheid legal order in South African fiction
This essay considers how narratives of emergency in apartheid South Africa are figured in Richard Rive's Emergency (1964) and Emergency Continued (1990). Beginning with a discussion of the role of emergency legislation in apartheid South Africa, the essay proceeds to consider how the rhetoric and force of the apartheid legal order is both foregrounded and contested in Rive's fiction. The essay considers in particular the ways in which Rive's fict…
Hannah Arendt 'After Modernity'
As one of the most incisive political philosophers of the post-war epoch, Hannah Arendt is well known for her critical reflections on anti-Semitism and the limitations of humanism; violence and revolutionary politics; morality and evil; judgement; and the aetiology of genocide and totalitarianism. Her reflections on the collapse of the public sphere and the loss of the shared human way of experiencing the world in the face of totalitarian state b…
Subalternity and Aesthetic Education in the Thought of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Fictions of sedition and the framing of Indian revolutionaries in colonial India
In the context of British colonial India in the early twentieth century, legal and literary narratives of sedition worked together – often in mutually reinforcing ways – to provide an important technique of power and control. In this respect, literary and legal representations of sedition as a form of criminality can tell us much about the relationship between the law and colonial governmentality. By tracing the ways in which India’s “revolutiona…
Cosmopolitan criticism and postcolonial literature
by Robert Spencer, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 240 pp., £50.00, ISBN 978 0 2302 3166 5 In his well-known essay on postmodernism, Fredric Jameson enjoins his readers to attend to a centra
States of Emergency
States of Emergency
Terrorism, insurgency and Indian-English literature, 1830-1947
by Alex Tickell, London, Routledge, 2012, 273 pp., £85.00, ISBN 978 0 4158 7715 2 Liberal narratives of British colonialism in India have tended to frame the use of emergency powers to counter an
Sovereignty and necropolitics at the Line of Control
This paper considers how the sovereignty of the Indian government over Kashmir is asserted and contested around the Line of Control, and the military checkpoints that visualize such forms of sovereignty. Beginning with a discussion of the ways in which the Government of India’s Armed Forces Special Powers Act and the Public Safety Act provide a paralegal context for extrajudicial killings and torture, the article proceeds to consider how recent l…
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