Andrew Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3711436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5931-2621 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 359 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 65 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The New Nadir, Black Workers and the Cannibalization of the Grassroots Ecosystem
The Authoritarian Coup of Donald Trump's second presidency forecasts a deepening of internal neo-colonialism of the Black worker in the United States. This article critiques the political economy of the Black worker from 2015-2025 in order to demonstrate that the Black worker in the U.S. is in a New Nadir and that the Trump regime actively seeks to deepen the Nadir by robbing the working-class grassroots of resources necessary to survive and resi…
The Gaming Disorder Identification Test (Gadit) – A screening tool for Gaming Disorder based on ICD-11
Investigating the impact of anthropogenic radiofrequency electromagnetic fields on animals and plants in the environment
Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF EMF) from anthropogenic sources have become ubiquitous in the environment. International guidelines have been set by expert scientific bodies to protect human health from excessive exposure. There are no specifically established exposure guidelines to protect plants and animals. A previous systematic map identified 334 studies investigating the effects of RF EMF exposure from anthropogenic sources on anim…
Newly graduated Australian psychologists’ interest and confidence in psychological approaches for psychosis
Objective: Despite recommendations in international guidelines, implementation of psychological therapy for psychosis is limited.Clinician level factors (i.e.attitudes, confidence, and training) are significant barriers to implementation, but have not been investigated within the context of Australian professional psychology graduates.The current study aimed to examine predictors of interest and confidence in working therapeutically with people w…
The Business Climate and the Commodification of Place
Interlocality competition is a staple concern of modern economic geography. Yet, beyond the abstract bases of this competition in the very nature of capitalism, the question of how such interlocality competition arose in the post-1945 period remains underexplored. In this article we draw on the sociology of markets and metrics literature to examine the socially constructed nature of the “location market” that underpins interlocality competition f…
We just need the developer to develop”
Since the 1980s US city governments have increased their use of more speculative means of financing economic redevelopment. This has involved experimenting with a variety of financial and taxation instruments as a way of growing their economies and redeveloping their built environments. This very general tendency, of course, masks how some cities have done well through the use of these instruments while others have not. The work to date has tende…
The dissidents
Peter Reddaway's recently published memoir is timely. One cannot read it without thinking of its implications for Russia today, and for our relationship with both Russia's present rulers and its peoples. Reddaway was quick to make Russian friends, even during his first trip to the USSR as a Cambridge undergraduate in 1960, let alone during his time at Moscow University from 1963 to 1964. He came then to understand that neither the Soviet system n…
Kremlin winter
Kremlin winter: Russia and the second coming of Vladimir Putin; The return of the Russian Leviathan Kremlin winter: Russia and the second coming of Vladimir Putin. By Robert Service. London: Picador. 2019. 432pp. £17.99. Isbn978 1 50988 303 5. Available as e-book.The return of the Russian Leviathan. By Sergei Medvedev. Cambridge: Polity. 2019. 250pp. £43.00. Isbn978 1 50953 604 7. Available as e-book. Andrew Wood Andrew Wood Chatham House, UK Sea…
Military reform and militarism in Russia
Aleksandr Golts has a long record of reporting persuasively on military affairs in Russia. His latest book is clear, comprehensive, lively and moreover well flavoured with mordant observations. It also carries a substantiated warning as to the danger for Russia and the outside world of the lack of effective civilian control over the country's armed forces, to say nothing of other power structures. Golts sets out a series of attempts by President …
The long hangover
Shaun Walker demonstrates an impressive range of strengths in his study of the dominant official and, for that matter, popular Russian narrative on the country's past—and the future that, in Russian eyes, it deserves as a result. He has considerable grounding in Soviet and Russian history, significant experience as a foreign journalist based in Moscow and a natural human empathy which has enabled him to reach out to a broad spectrum of Russian ci…
Armageddon and paranoia
Rodric Braithwaite's new book is, like his other works, well and clearly written, informed by careful research and a thought-provoking read. The bulk of the text is devoted to an account of the nuclear confrontation between the United States and the USSR from 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, with an analysis of its evolving consequences. Like Across the Moscow river (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002), Moscow 1941 (Londo…
Scorched earth
Baberowski's Scorched earth is a translation into English of his most recent study of the Soviet Union (USSR) and Russia, of what happened from 1917 to date and why it still matters. It discusses Stalin's rule as the trauma that Russia today has yet to confront and heal. It is all the more significant due to the author's revisiting of some of his earlier ideas regarding the relationship between the Bolshevist system, the ideology that was suppose…
Towards a geography of intermediaries
The business of location
Consideration of the work of site selection consultants provides a window onto the frictions inherent in the location decision. In this paper, we draw upon interviews to interpret site selection consultants as intermediaries between a demand for locations emanating from MNEs and a supply of locations provided by national and subnational territories. We show how this intermediary role extends beyond the economizing on search costs and into the rar…
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Russia's dead end
A difficult neighbourhood
John Besemeres's latest book is not one to read in a rush. There are those who will find the arguments outlined in his introduction, written in the first quarter of 2016, unpalatable, as they expose the West's continuing reluctance to face up to the ‘blindingly obvious’ challenge from Moscow. There are others who will suppose, in addition, that because the author has immersed himself in Polish as well as Russian history, he has succumbed to the p…
Territory, the State and Urban Politics
Lessons and Perspectives from a 25-Year Bioelectromagnetics Research Program
The question of whether electromagnetic fields from electric power or telecommunications systems can be linked unequivocally to health detriments has occupied scientific research endeavors for nearly half a century. For 25 years, the bioelectromagnetic research group at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia, has pursued a series of investigations with relevant endpoints, such as neurophysiological and neuropsychological effects, cell calci…
Urban Entrepreneurialism
Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain
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Remaking English Society
Why write textbooks
Dangerous Talk
The New Post-suburban Politics
Settlements variously termed ‘ex-urbs’, ‘edge cities’, ‘technoburbs’ are taken to signal something different from suburbia and as a consequence might be considered post-suburban. Existing literature has focused on defining post-suburbia as a new era and as a new form of settlement space. Whether post-suburbia can also be delimited in terms of its distinctive politics is the open question explored here. The paper begins by considering the need to …
The New Post-suburban Politics
Settlements variously termed ‘ex-urbs’, ‘edge cities’, ‘technoburbs’ are taken to signal something different from suburbia and as a consequence might be considered post-suburban. Existing literature has focused on defining post-suburbia as a new era and as a new form of settlement space. Whether post-suburbia can also be delimited in terms of its distinctive politics is the open question explored here. The paper begins by considering the need to …
A Postsuburban World? An Outline of a Research Agenda
The emergence over the last 30-40 years of what is variously termed edge city, edgeless, and postsuburban development in North America and elsewhere raises a set of challenges for urban theory and existing ways of understanding the politics of urban growth and management. These challenges and their global import have been outlined in their broadest terms by members of a 'Los Angeles School'. In this paper we try to develop the detail of some of t…
Less is more
Lost in translation? Local interests, global actors and inward investment regimes
Global economic integration is often viewed as a process orchestrated from 'above' by constituents of an emergent transnational class. Yet such perspectives neglect the autonomous contributions made from 'below' by subnational political coalitions that mediate between global and local interests. In this article we consider the issue of political mobilization at the subnational scale around the material and discursive interests of mobile capital. …
Domesticating Urban Theory? US Concepts, British Cities and the Limits of Cross-national Applications
The efficacy of the urban regime and growth machine concepts beyond the US remains a matter of considerable debate. Some argue that these frameworks retain considerable value so long as they are 'properly' applied and that recent concerns about the limits to these frameworks result from no more than their 'misapplication'. I critically examine this argument through a review of recent work on the mobilisation of business interests in British citie…
The Scalar Transformation of the U.S. Commercial Property‐Development Industry
Economic geographers have commonly interpreted globalization in terms of a scalar transformation of economic activities in which the dominant form of economic organization progressively shifts from local to more global scales. This article critically examines this thesis in the context of a study of the U.S. commercial property‐development industry. The first section argues that the literature on commercial property development tends to highlight…
Organizing for Local Economic Development
In this paper, the organization of activities designed to promote local economic development (LED) in the USA is explored. The emergence of local economic development networks (LEDNs) as critical mediators in attracting new business investment into metropolitan areas is addressed. These networks comprise private and state organizations with major institutionalized stakes in LED. Each organization has a distinct set of powers and responsibilities …
Geographies of knowledge, practices of globalization
In this paper we initiate a dialogue between work on the geographies of globalization and knowledge economies, areas of inquiry that have tended to develop in isolation. We argue for a critical harnessing of these two bodies of work to (1) understand how and where different types of knowledge are acquired, produced and mobilized by firms as they seek to ‘go global’, (2) map the multi‐scalar geographies of knowledge that enable practices of global…
Fear, Hatred and the Hidden Injuries of Class in Early Modern England
Journal Article Fear, Hatred and the Hidden Injuries of Class in Early Modern England Get access Andy Wood Andy Wood School of History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 39, Issue 3, Spring 2006, Pages 803-826, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2006.0024 Published: 01 March 2006
Turn Again? Rethinking Institutions and the Governance of Local and Regional Economies
Analysing the Politics of Local Economic Development
There are a number of recent trends in the organisation of local economic development activities that are seen to point to a general convergence between UK and US contexts. Various attempts have been made to encompass this convergence, primarily through the application of a set of common concepts such as the 'growth coalition' and 'urban regime'. This paper draws on a recently completed research project to highlight differences in the organisatio…
The business of location
Consideration of the work of site selection consultants provides a window onto the frictions inherent in the location decision. In this paper, we draw upon interviews to interpret site selection consultants as intermediaries between a demand for locations emanating from MNEs and a supply of locations provided by national and subnational territories. We show how this intermediary role extends beyond the economizing on search costs and into the rar…
The place of custom in plebeian political culture
(1997). The place of custom in plebeian political culture: England, 1550–1800. Social History: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 46-60
Towards a geography of intermediaries
Comparative urban politics and the question of scale
Critics of US theories of urban politics have drawn attention to the 'localist' nature of growth coalition and urban regime frameworks, arguing that they focus parochially on the urban scale and thereby neglect economic and political forces and processes of wider extent. Explicit attention to questions of scale raises the prospect of a more robust urban theory, capable of adapting to a range of different national contexts. However, these more rec…
Stealing the skills agenda? Devolution, business and post-16 education and training in Wales
English This article considers the role of business interests within the devolved political and governmental arrangements introduced by New Labour. We focus on the involvement of business in shaping post-16 education and training policy in Wales. Continuities apparent in the process of devolution across its administrative and political forms have produced a distinctive Welsh political economy involving public sector-dominated policy agendas perio…
A Rhetoric of Ubiquity
This article develops the notion of omnitopia as an experience of place as the convergence of multiple spaces such that each individual locale appears as a manifestation of the whole. Aided by thick description of airport “terminal space,” the article proposes three central aspects of omnitopia: generic environments, continual movement, and atomized interactions. In so doing, the article extends upon previous inquiries into utopia and heterotopia…
Talking Business
Much of the recent literature about local governance of Britain's cities has examined the power of a newly evolving 'business elite'. However, in trying to understand changing governance forms, these analyses have generally lacked sensitivity to the role of actors (businesspeople) and their representative organizations. Analytical categories drawn from social movement theory (SMT) are introduced to develop a more actor-centred approach to the rol…
We just need the developer to develop”
Since the 1980s US city governments have increased their use of more speculative means of financing economic redevelopment. This has involved experimenting with a variety of financial and taxation instruments as a way of growing their economies and redeveloping their built environments. This very general tendency, of course, masks how some cities have done well through the use of these instruments while others have not. The work to date has tende…
Subordination, Solidarity and the Limits of Popular Agency in a Yorkshire Valley c.1596-1615
Over the past decade, social historians of early modern England have found themselves drawn to the study of popular politics. Unlike earlier approaches to the subject, which tended to focus upon unitary processes of ‘politicization’, the new social history of politics has developed a broader sense of the political, centred upon power relations, agency and resistance.1 Most notably, this new social history of politics has questioned the validity o…
Social Conflict and Change in the Mining Communities of North-West Derbyshire, c. 1600–1700
Increased demand for lead on both domestic and international markets spurred on technological and organizational innovation in Derbyshire's lead mining industry. Population expanded due to immigration into the mining areas, and problems of poverty and proletarianization were created as the traditional small producers were marginalized by new capitalized mineworkings owned by aristocrats, merchants and gentlemen. Social conflict intensified over t…
The dissidents
Peter Reddaway's recently published memoir is timely. One cannot read it without thinking of its implications for Russia today, and for our relationship with both Russia's present rulers and its peoples. Reddaway was quick to make Russian friends, even during his first trip to the USSR as a Cambridge undergraduate in 1960, let alone during his time at Moscow University from 1963 to 1964. He came then to understand that neither the Soviet system n…
Devolution and the Politics of Business Representation in Britain
In this paper we seek to exploit some of the insights of a strategic - relational approach in examining the response of business interests to the newly devolved and regionalised governance context in Britain. In the analysis, the focus is directed particularly at the changing context within which business politics operates in the British regions and, importantly, on the perceptions of business actors and interests of their position in these chang…
Devolution and the political representation of business interests in the UK
Beyond Post-Revisionism? The Civil War Allegiances of the Miners of the Derbyshire ‘Peak Country’
This essay challenges the established interpretation of the political allegiances of the miners of north-west Derbyshire. It shows that, far from being dominated by parliamentarian and puritan ideas in 1642, the miners were deeply divided in their response to the war. Both the king and the parliament were able to recruit troops from amongst the miners throughout the first civil war. From this, a broader critique of recent historical work on popul…
The Capitalist Imperative
Social Conflict and Change in the Mining Communities of North-West Derbyshire, c. 1600–1700
Increased demand for lead on both domestic and international markets spurred on technological and organizational innovation in Derbyshire's lead mining industry. Population expanded due to immigration into the mining areas, and problems of poverty and proletarianization were created as the traditional small producers were marginalized by new capitalized mineworkings owned by aristocrats, merchants and gentlemen. Social conflict intensified over t…
Organizing for Local Economic Development
In this paper, the organization of activities designed to promote local economic development (LED) in the USA is explored. The emergence of local economic development networks (LEDNs) as critical mediators in attracting new business investment into metropolitan areas is addressed. These networks comprise private and state organizations with major institutionalized stakes in LED. Each organization has a distinct set of powers and responsibilities …
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Anne Green of the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick, examines the changing structure of female participation in the labour market. Against this background it is her contention that the economic activity rate is no longer an adequate measure of contrasting patterns of labour force participation–across areas and within and between population sub-groups. Rather, she argues what is ne…
Analysing the Politics of Local Economic Development
There are a number of recent trends in the organisation of local economic development activities that are seen to point to a general convergence between UK and US contexts. Various attempts have been made to encompass this convergence, primarily through the application of a set of common concepts such as the 'growth coalition' and 'urban regime'. This paper draws on a recently completed research project to highlight differences in the organisatio…
Structures Investment and Economic Growth
Interest has grown again in recent years about the long-term and cyclical nature of building investment and its effect on the macroeconomy. This paper investigates the nature of building trends and cycles from the 19th century to the present day for eight major OECD economies. Focusing predominantly on non-housing structures, the Kalman filter is used to decompose the series into trends and cycles. It was found that building cycles exist in all c…
The place of family therapy in the Australian undergraduate social work curricula
Given the renewed interest in the family as a unit of attention and intervention in social work, as evidenced by the family preservation movement and recent family oriented child protection legislation adopted in a number of Australian states, this paper argues that it is important and timely to examine the place of family theory and family therapy in the undergraduate social work curriculum. Drawing on local and international literature, togethe…
The place of custom in plebeian political culture
(1997). The place of custom in plebeian political culture: England, 1550–1800. Social History: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 46-60
Beyond Post-Revisionism? The Civil War Allegiances of the Miners of the Derbyshire ‘Peak Country’
This essay challenges the established interpretation of the political allegiances of the miners of north-west Derbyshire. It shows that, far from being dominated by parliamentarian and puritan ideas in 1642, the miners were deeply divided in their response to the war. Both the king and the parliament were able to recruit troops from amongst the miners throughout the first civil war. From this, a broader critique of recent historical work on popul…
Making sense of urban entrepreneurialism
David Harvey's 1989 article, ‘From managerialism to entrepreneurialism: the transformation of urban governance’, has very quickly become a ‘citation classic’. This article provides a brief summary of Harvey's argument focusing on the distinguishing characteristics of urban entrepreneurialism, the strategies undertaken by governing coalitions and the importance of inter‐urban competition to the entrepreneurial thesis. Harvey's arguments have stimu…
Four times heroic
The Port of Veracruz is known in the epic of Mexican history as the city “four times heroic”—a phrase that glorifies acts of local sacrifice in the name of national sovereignty. Battles fought on home turf against the Spanish in 1825, the French in 1838, the North Americans in 1847 and the gringos again in 1914 constitute four dramatic episodes that distinguish the port as a site of Mexican defense against foreign invaders. In the 1914 U.S. inter…
Housing Investment
Using long-run data for today's advanced economies, the pattern of housing investment is examined from the 19th century to the present day. Housing investment is shown to be subject to long cycles, the most pronounced of which were in the post-1945 era. Since 1970 the trend of housing investment has been flat for most countries considered, and falling as shares of national income. Fluctuations in housing investment demand may have helped to stabi…
Custom and the Social Organisation of Writing in Early Modern England
Social historians of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England have tended to see literacy as a modernising force which eroded oral tradition and overrode local identities. Whereas the increasing literacy of the period has long appeared an important constituent element of Tudor and Stuart England's early modernity, custom has been represented as its mirror image. Attached to cumbersome local identities, borne from the continuing authority of spe…
Local governance and local business interests
Since 1980 the dominance of elected municipal government in Britain has given way to a broader local governance. While the precise configuration of this change has been debated in detail, approaches to the processes of restructuring and the operation and relative efficacy of new arrangements remain empirically limited and theoretically underdeveloped. We explore the usefulness of a range of contemporary theoretical accounts including regulationis…
The origins of family systems wok Social workers' contributions to the development of family theory and practice
This paper provides an account of the earliest contributions to family theory and practice by social workers, beginning in the late nineteenth century. The paper argues that the first widespread practice of ‘family work’ by the helping professions was carried out by social workers, primarily women, despite this being rarely acknowledged in the family therapy literature. An analysis of gender and its place in the development of professional status…
Turn Again? Rethinking Institutions and the Governance of Local and Regional Economies
Talking Business
Much of the recent literature about local governance of Britain's cities has examined the power of a newly evolving 'business elite'. However, in trying to understand changing governance forms, these analyses have generally lacked sensitivity to the role of actors (businesspeople) and their representative organizations. Analytical categories drawn from social movement theory (SMT) are introduced to develop a more actor-centred approach to the rol…
Contemporary black British Urban fiction
(2002). Contemporary black British Urban fiction: A ‘Ghetto perspective'? Wasafiri: Vol. 17, No. 36, pp. 18-22
The Evaluation of Community Economic Development Initiatives
Community economic development (CED) initiatives expanded rapidly in urban and regional policy in the 1990s. Traditional evaluation methodology has, however, proved to be extremely difficult to apply effectively to CED. This paper examines existing monitoring and evaluation procedures for CED, the problems faced in applying traditional methodology and possible ways forward to ensure that more effective monitoring and evaluation can be undertaken.…
A Rhetoric of Ubiquity
This article develops the notion of omnitopia as an experience of place as the convergence of multiple spaces such that each individual locale appears as a manifestation of the whole. Aided by thick description of airport “terminal space,” the article proposes three central aspects of omnitopia: generic environments, continual movement, and atomized interactions. In so doing, the article extends upon previous inquiries into utopia and heterotopia…
Domesticating Urban Theory? US Concepts, British Cities and the Limits of Cross-national Applications
The efficacy of the urban regime and growth machine concepts beyond the US remains a matter of considerable debate. Some argue that these frameworks retain considerable value so long as they are 'properly' applied and that recent concerns about the limits to these frameworks result from no more than their 'misapplication'. I critically examine this argument through a review of recent work on the mobilisation of business interests in British citie…
The Scalar Transformation of the U.S. Commercial Property‐Development Industry
Economic geographers have commonly interpreted globalization in terms of a scalar transformation of economic activities in which the dominant form of economic organization progressively shifts from local to more global scales. This article critically examines this thesis in the context of a study of the U.S. commercial property‐development industry. The first section argues that the literature on commercial property development tends to highlight…
Devolution and the Politics of Business Representation in Britain
In this paper we seek to exploit some of the insights of a strategic - relational approach in examining the response of business interests to the newly devolved and regionalised governance context in Britain. In the analysis, the focus is directed particularly at the changing context within which business politics operates in the British regions and, importantly, on the perceptions of business actors and interests of their position in these chang…
Comparative urban politics and the question of scale
Critics of US theories of urban politics have drawn attention to the 'localist' nature of growth coalition and urban regime frameworks, arguing that they focus parochially on the urban scale and thereby neglect economic and political forces and processes of wider extent. Explicit attention to questions of scale raises the prospect of a more robust urban theory, capable of adapting to a range of different national contexts. However, these more rec…
The Best Surprise Is No Surprise”
This essay explores the critical role of motels as markers of transition between idiosyncratic locales and homogenized chains. Toward that end, the essay expands on a newly proposed concept of omnitopia—an intersection of architectural design and human practice through which distinct places become nodes of a perpetual continuum—by focusing on the construction of “place” in roadside motels. From the analysis of omnitopia found in early-20th-centur…
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