Matthew Phillips
Biographic Data
| ID | 3694382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Phillips |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Phillips |
| SIGNATURE | PHILLIPS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4183-7766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Conquering the World
On 2 March 1960, Thailand’s King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit travelled to Burma (modern-day Myanmar) for a state visit. Nearly two centuries since Burmese armies had destroyed the Thai capital of Ayutthaya, historic competition between the two polities was now imbued with contemporary significance. Burma was a post-colonial nation, a vanguard neutralist power in the Cold War, and a proponent of socialism domestically. Thailand, conversely, was ali…
Cold War Asia
This innovative, interdisciplinary and international collection of essays offers fresh perspectives on the history of global diplomacy. Experts in history, international relations, art history and performance art have come together to examine a series of visual sources relating to Asia's role in global diplomacy during the Cold War. They explore how leaders, including Indonesia's Sukarno, the Philippines' Imelda Marcos and Thailand's King Bhumibo…
Turning crisis into opportunities
This study explored how practising and pre-service teachers exercised their individual and collective agency in response to the school closures in Scotland and Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Seven practising and nine pre-service teachers completed an online log and participated in interviews on the challenges they faced working individually and collectively during COVID-19. Our findings indicate that previous experience, existing profess…
Indigenizing the Cold War
The Doof Ritual
The author examines the archetype of the uroboros as it appears in the opening ceremony of a bush doof music festival. Within this rite, a womb-like state is created for participants through the use of darkness, bodily stillness, and the sonic dominance of low-end frequencies. This state is symbolically associated with the archetype of the uroboros as described by Jungian psychoanalyst Erich Neumann. It is then posited that both music and human c…
Uniforms and degrees
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of student perceptions (age 16+) of the value of both obtaining a university degree and how it relates to the profession of policing. In addition, the paper details opinions of the perceived benefit of a degree with regard to potentially supporting career progression. Design/methodology/approach Participants were recruited directly, following input from a Midlands based University at a ra…
The perfect storm. An analysis of the processes that increase lethal violence in Mexico after 2006
Re-ordering the Cold War Cosmos
From the early Cold War, U.S. aid poured into Thailand. This flow of money, people, and expertise had a profound impact on the country’s social, political, and economic development. Payments and support to the Thai military proved instrumental in securing the power of Thailand’s authoritarian military leaders, while the proliferation of U.S.-funded road and infrastructure programs helped expand the control of the Thai state from the capital into …
Dancing with Dumont
Drawing from research into Australian bush doof festivals and raves, this paper details the happenings at an early morning conscious clubbing rave in Melbourne, Australia.I draw from my ethnographic research and from the work of Louis Dumont to demonstrate how the forms of sociality and subjectivity that emerge within the morning rave relate to deeper cultural and symbolic dynamics of individualistic societies.I use a Dumontian lens to analyse th…
For a love of ‘the Thais’
Since the inception of Thai studies, scholars have been preoccupied with the construction of a moral stance in the service of power. Intimate knowledge of the Thai interior and the ability to speak for the Thai ‘native’ has unwittingly supported intervention disguised as a warm embrace. Recent studies have shown how this sentimental mode of engagement was central to enabling US expansion during the early Cold War. Area Studies specialists who tra…
Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle Ages
Britain and Sihanouk’s Cambodia, by Nicholas Tarling
In recent years, attempts to understand the Cold War in South-east Asia have proliferated. Generally, these new studies have sought to understand better the ways in which states on the so-called periphery both responded to super-power rivalries, and helped to shape them. However, by focusing on British responses to regional events, Nicholas Tarling has long put forward a more nuanced view. In particular, he has identified that, while the overall …
Medical humanities
The inclusion of medical humanities with medical curricula is a question that has been the focus of attention for many within the evolving field. This study addressed the question from a medical education perspective and aimed to investigate what students at Trinity College Dublin learned from participating in a short medical humanities student-selected module in their first year of an undergraduate medical programme. A total of 156 students prov…
CRASH and burn
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the temporary disbandment of a gang unit on collecting gang intelligence and arresting gang members in one of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Community Policing Areas. Design/methodology/approach – An interrupted time series methodology (ARIMA) is utilised to examine 1,429 field interview cards and 1,174 arrests of gang members that occurred from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 201…
Urban conflict and legal strategy in medieval England
Urban conflict in medieval England often took one of two forms: public confrontation involving ritualistic acts of transgression on the one hand and legal challenges involving litigation on the other. This article explores an urban dispute in the latter category fought at Bishop's Lynn between 1346 and 1350. The rich series of records surviving from this dispute provides a rare opportunity to reconstruct in detail the legal strategies adopted thr…
Multiple-clause petitions to the English parliament in the later Middle Ages
This discussion considers how and why some parliamentary private petitions were written as lists of separate requests or complaints between the late thirteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries. These petitions constitute a small, but visually distinctive, sub-group of The National Archives series SC 8 (‘Ancient Petitions’). Although the practicalities of writing complicated requests were often a key factor, the article argues that other more subtle co…
Exploring Resiliency Within Schools
Although research has explored the effects of protective factors on fostering resiliency within individuals, the same level of inquiry has not emerged investigating the causes of why high-risk organizations are resilient to serious violent delinquency. One type of organization that seems particular appropriate for research inquiry is the school. Using a sample of 307 school principals from the School Survey on Crime and Safety, this study investi…
Power and its applications
The use of student-selected modules and the application of the medical humanities was recommended in the General Medical Council Tomorrow's Doctors 2003.1 Since then, increasing attention has been given to the inclusion of the arts and humanities into the medical education framework. It is intended that this would act as a complementary strand to the scientific approach in achieving the outcome of a ‘humane doctor’. Humanities as a group of disci…
Crafting Nationalist Consumption
Following the revolution of 1932 that ended absolute monarchy in Siam, a new government came into power that sought to legitimize its rule by encouraging mass identification with the state. Practically, the expansion of a wage economy and the development of a state-led education system were seen by government officials as central to promoting a sense of citizenship to as yet disinterested rural communities. Throughout its first decade in power, t…
Uncertain Justice for Nuclear Terror
CRASH and burn
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the temporary disbandment of a gang unit on collecting gang intelligence and arresting gang members in one of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Community Policing Areas. Design/methodology/approach – An interrupted time series methodology (ARIMA) is utilised to examine 1,429 field interview cards and 1,174 arrests of gang members that occurred from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 201…
Multiple-clause petitions to the English parliament in the later Middle Ages
This discussion considers how and why some parliamentary private petitions were written as lists of separate requests or complaints between the late thirteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries. These petitions constitute a small, but visually distinctive, sub-group of The National Archives series SC 8 (‘Ancient Petitions’). Although the practicalities of writing complicated requests were often a key factor, the article argues that other more subtle co…
Exploring Resiliency Within Schools
Although research has explored the effects of protective factors on fostering resiliency within individuals, the same level of inquiry has not emerged investigating the causes of why high-risk organizations are resilient to serious violent delinquency. One type of organization that seems particular appropriate for research inquiry is the school. Using a sample of 307 school principals from the School Survey on Crime and Safety, this study investi…
Power and its applications
The use of student-selected modules and the application of the medical humanities was recommended in the General Medical Council Tomorrow's Doctors 2003.1 Since then, increasing attention has been given to the inclusion of the arts and humanities into the medical education framework. It is intended that this would act as a complementary strand to the scientific approach in achieving the outcome of a ‘humane doctor’. Humanities as a group of disci…
Crafting Nationalist Consumption
Following the revolution of 1932 that ended absolute monarchy in Siam, a new government came into power that sought to legitimize its rule by encouraging mass identification with the state. Practically, the expansion of a wage economy and the development of a state-led education system were seen by government officials as central to promoting a sense of citizenship to as yet disinterested rural communities. Throughout its first decade in power, t…
Uncertain Justice for Nuclear Terror
Uncertain Justice for Nuclear Terror
Power and its applications
The use of student-selected modules and the application of the medical humanities was recommended in the General Medical Council Tomorrow's Doctors 2003.1 Since then, increasing attention has been given to the inclusion of the arts and humanities into the medical education framework. It is intended that this would act as a complementary strand to the scientific approach in achieving the outcome of a ‘humane doctor’. Humanities as a group of disci…
Crafting Nationalist Consumption
Following the revolution of 1932 that ended absolute monarchy in Siam, a new government came into power that sought to legitimize its rule by encouraging mass identification with the state. Practically, the expansion of a wage economy and the development of a state-led education system were seen by government officials as central to promoting a sense of citizenship to as yet disinterested rural communities. Throughout its first decade in power, t…
Urban conflict and legal strategy in medieval England
Urban conflict in medieval England often took one of two forms: public confrontation involving ritualistic acts of transgression on the one hand and legal challenges involving litigation on the other. This article explores an urban dispute in the latter category fought at Bishop's Lynn between 1346 and 1350. The rich series of records surviving from this dispute provides a rare opportunity to reconstruct in detail the legal strategies adopted thr…
Multiple-clause petitions to the English parliament in the later Middle Ages
This discussion considers how and why some parliamentary private petitions were written as lists of separate requests or complaints between the late thirteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries. These petitions constitute a small, but visually distinctive, sub-group of The National Archives series SC 8 (‘Ancient Petitions’). Although the practicalities of writing complicated requests were often a key factor, the article argues that other more subtle co…
Exploring Resiliency Within Schools
Although research has explored the effects of protective factors on fostering resiliency within individuals, the same level of inquiry has not emerged investigating the causes of why high-risk organizations are resilient to serious violent delinquency. One type of organization that seems particular appropriate for research inquiry is the school. Using a sample of 307 school principals from the School Survey on Crime and Safety, this study investi…
Britain and Sihanouk’s Cambodia, by Nicholas Tarling
In recent years, attempts to understand the Cold War in South-east Asia have proliferated. Generally, these new studies have sought to understand better the ways in which states on the so-called periphery both responded to super-power rivalries, and helped to shape them. However, by focusing on British responses to regional events, Nicholas Tarling has long put forward a more nuanced view. In particular, he has identified that, while the overall …
Medical humanities
The inclusion of medical humanities with medical curricula is a question that has been the focus of attention for many within the evolving field. This study addressed the question from a medical education perspective and aimed to investigate what students at Trinity College Dublin learned from participating in a short medical humanities student-selected module in their first year of an undergraduate medical programme. A total of 156 students prov…
CRASH and burn
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the temporary disbandment of a gang unit on collecting gang intelligence and arresting gang members in one of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Community Policing Areas. Design/methodology/approach – An interrupted time series methodology (ARIMA) is utilised to examine 1,429 field interview cards and 1,174 arrests of gang members that occurred from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 201…
Petitions and Strategies of Persuasion in the Middle Ages
For a love of ‘the Thais’
Since the inception of Thai studies, scholars have been preoccupied with the construction of a moral stance in the service of power. Intimate knowledge of the Thai interior and the ability to speak for the Thai ‘native’ has unwittingly supported intervention disguised as a warm embrace. Recent studies have shown how this sentimental mode of engagement was central to enabling US expansion during the early Cold War. Area Studies specialists who tra…
Re-ordering the Cold War Cosmos
From the early Cold War, U.S. aid poured into Thailand. This flow of money, people, and expertise had a profound impact on the country’s social, political, and economic development. Payments and support to the Thai military proved instrumental in securing the power of Thailand’s authoritarian military leaders, while the proliferation of U.S.-funded road and infrastructure programs helped expand the control of the Thai state from the capital into …
Dancing with Dumont
Drawing from research into Australian bush doof festivals and raves, this paper details the happenings at an early morning conscious clubbing rave in Melbourne, Australia.I draw from my ethnographic research and from the work of Louis Dumont to demonstrate how the forms of sociality and subjectivity that emerge within the morning rave relate to deeper cultural and symbolic dynamics of individualistic societies.I use a Dumontian lens to analyse th…
The perfect storm. An analysis of the processes that increase lethal violence in Mexico after 2006
The Doof Ritual
The author examines the archetype of the uroboros as it appears in the opening ceremony of a bush doof music festival. Within this rite, a womb-like state is created for participants through the use of darkness, bodily stillness, and the sonic dominance of low-end frequencies. This state is symbolically associated with the archetype of the uroboros as described by Jungian psychoanalyst Erich Neumann. It is then posited that both music and human c…
Uniforms and degrees
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of student perceptions (age 16+) of the value of both obtaining a university degree and how it relates to the profession of policing. In addition, the paper details opinions of the perceived benefit of a degree with regard to potentially supporting career progression. Design/methodology/approach Participants were recruited directly, following input from a Midlands based University at a ra…
Conquering the World
On 2 March 1960, Thailand’s King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit travelled to Burma (modern-day Myanmar) for a state visit. Nearly two centuries since Burmese armies had destroyed the Thai capital of Ayutthaya, historic competition between the two polities was now imbued with contemporary significance. Burma was a post-colonial nation, a vanguard neutralist power in the Cold War, and a proponent of socialism domestically. Thailand, conversely, was ali…
Cold War Asia
This innovative, interdisciplinary and international collection of essays offers fresh perspectives on the history of global diplomacy. Experts in history, international relations, art history and performance art have come together to examine a series of visual sources relating to Asia's role in global diplomacy during the Cold War. They explore how leaders, including Indonesia's Sukarno, the Philippines' Imelda Marcos and Thailand's King Bhumibo…
Turning crisis into opportunities
This study explored how practising and pre-service teachers exercised their individual and collective agency in response to the school closures in Scotland and Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Seven practising and nine pre-service teachers completed an online log and participated in interviews on the challenges they faced working individually and collectively during COVID-19. Our findings indicate that previous experience, existing profess…
Indigenizing the Cold War
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