Chris Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3722633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Economics Foundation |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5089-3340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Decent work in fishing in a changing climate
Climate change will increasingly impact the working conditions of employed fishers, who work in the most hazardous occupation in a sector already at high risk for forced labor and other decent work deficits. However, in comparison to other sectors, there has been little attention afforded to how climate change will impact working conditions onboard industrial vessels. Although the absence of a well-organized workforce makes it challenging to iden…
The illusion of social improvements: A case study of the role of Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) in fairwashing the UK Nephrops fishery
Fishery improvement projects (FIPs) are attempting to manage the labor dimensions of social responsibility through non-binding mechanisms that directly contradict the tenets of worker-centered approaches. Using the UK Nephrops FIP as a case study, we combined data from worker grievances reported to trade unions, government agencies, and researchers to demonstrate how the FIP concealed several cases of potential forced labor, in addition to other …
Deteriorating care home residents as 'matter out of place' in both care homes and hospitals: An ethnographic study
Do No Harm: How Fredericksburg's Civil Rights Trail Emerged Through Collaboration and Care
Reworking how the public understands a place’s past requires changing how that history is written and how it is practiced in public spaces. Freedom, A Work in Progress, the new civil rights trail in Fredericksburg, Virginia, is an attempt to center Black history in the ways both residents and visitors remember the past in a small Southern city. Throughout the twentieth century, heritage-themed tours, historical markers, and Civil War battle reena…
SAD geographies: Making light matter
This paper addresses the relationship between light and mental health through a multifaceted inquiry into the complex and contested condition of ‘Seasonal Affective Disorder’ (SAD). It does so by first charting a disciplinary neglect of seasonal depression in ‘geographies of mental health’, followed by a consideration of broader philosophical ideas about human sensibilities and the place of light in life. These interpretative resources are brough…
Higher Ground: A Panel Discussion on Questlove’s Summer of Soul
Organized by music writer Chris Williams, this panel discussion on Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Academy Award–winning 2021 documentary Summer of Soul ( . . . Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), which examines the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, was recorded on Zoom in September 2021 during the COVID-19 lockdown. Williams served as moderator, and panelists included Melissa A. Weber, Fredara Mareva Hadley, Scot Brown, and Tony Bolden. I…
Future advances in UK marine fisheries policy: Integrated nexus management, technological advance, and shifting public opinion
Having left the European Union, the UK Fisheries Act (hereafter referred to as the Act) provides a framework that may advance sustainable marine resource management. This requires the bias towards social-economic concerns to be recognised, and greater emphasis to be placed on securing the natural capital to support fisheries. A Joint Fisheries Statement (JFS) to be published in 2022 by the UK’s devolved fisheries authorities will set out how the …
Fishery improvement projects: A voluntary, corporate “tool” not fit for the purpose of mitigating labour abuses and guaranteeing labour rights for workers
The recent development of a Human Rights and Social Responsibility Policy for fishery improvement projects (FIPs) has accelerated industry and NGO-led initiatives to address human and labour rights violations in seafood supply chains through FIPs. However, this brief communication demonstrates that FIPs’ social requirements, as currently constituted and reported, suffer from many of the same problems as other voluntary, market-based initiatives t…
The future of marine fisheries management and conservation in the United Kingdom: Lessons learnt from over 100 years of biased policy
Marine wild-capture fisheries depend on the capacity of the ocean to provide a flow of harvestable resources to sustain the industry. Paradoxically, conventional fishing often undermines these resources by degrading the environment and overexploiting fish stocks. Many UK fisheries have declined for over a century due to a biased focus on their social-economic value and lack of recognition that they are social-ecological systems and need to be man…
A co-design framework for natural resource policy making: Insights from tree health and fisheries in the United Kingdom
Environmental and land use policy literature asserts the need for more holistic, participatory and co-designed forms of governance for the sustainable management of natural resources. Co-design is also increasingly recognised by government as a useful approach but is often applied with varying degrees of success. The purpose of this paper is to assess recent examples of policy co-design across three UK case studies focused on tree/woodland manage…
Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe: Lessons for the Twenty-first Century
Policy concertation - the determination of public policy by means of agreements struck between governments, employers and trade unions - continues to thrive in Western Europe despite the impact of liberalizing trends that were expected to lead to its demise. This volume brings together a team of 23 experts with the aim to undertake paired historical and political studies of policy concertation in ten West European countries, which were then subje…
Early Outcomes of a New NIH Program to Support Research in Residency
The work of physician–investigators has historically led to key discoveries and developments in modern medicine, but recent decades have seen significant declines in the number of U.S. physician–investigators. One of the barriers to physicians participating in research is the lack of mentored research opportunities during clinical training, especially during residency training. In response to this identified barrier and to expand the physician–in…
Worker-less social responsibility: How the proliferation of voluntary labour governance tools in seafood marginalise the workers they claim to protect
In response to labour and human rights violations onboard fishing vessels, the private sector is increasingly relying on market-based solutions in the form of voluntary, non-governmental social governance tools to improve working conditions for fishers. While the proliferation of these tools is relatively recent in fishing, there is substantial evidence from other sectors that these voluntary standards fail to transform working conditions. Yet, t…
Hospital transfers from care homes: Conceptualising staff decision-making as a form of risk work
When making decisions about whether to transfer residents to hospital, care home staff consider the possible benefits and risks of different courses of action. However, to date, an in-depth and theoretically informed engagement with these decision-making processes and their associated behaviours has been lacking. We conducted an ethnographic study of care home staff’s decision-making about resident hospital transfers in England between May 2018 a…
Building knowledge in urban agriculture: The challenges of local food production in São Paulo and Melbourne
The economic contribution of sea angling from charter boats: A case study from the south coast of England
Popular Music of the Greek World: A Note From the Organisers
In May 2019 the British School at Athens hosted an international conference on popular music of the Greek world. The conference aimed to explore and evaluate the diversity of Greek music apparent in the rich variety of local traditions and in the richness of urban popular music both established and emerging, and to examine its causes from broader musical, sociological and artistic perspectives. Rather than focus on particular forms, such as tradi…
Robert Owen’s Experiment at New Lanark: From Paternalism to Socialism
Based on a 2013 doctoral thesis, Ophélie Siméon’s volume in a series edited by Gregory Claeys represents an attempt to write a different kind of study of Robert Owen—“an intellectual biography through a sense of place” (9)—that connects New Lanark more umbilically to his later endeavors. Her avowed intent is to approach this history (where possible) “from below,” utilizing newly (post-2013) available material from the New Lanark Trust archives as…
Fishing for Justice: England's Inshore Fisheries’ Social Movements and Fixed Quota Allocation
English inshore fishers have long campaigned through the New Under 10m Fishermen's Association to have a fair share of the UK's fishing opportunities and to be involved in inshore fisheries management. They argue that their allocation of ∼2% of the UK Share of Total Allowable Catch species is unjust, with the inshore fleet contributing 78% of the workforce. Their concern, beyond quota shares, is that Local Ecological Knowledge / real time informa…
Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
The Shadow in the East’: Representations of the Russo-Japanese war in newspaper cartoons
The Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 captured the imagination of reading publics around the world and in Britain spawned a breadth of products aimed at a domestic audience, including cigarette cards, illustrated magazines and newspaper cartoons. This essay investigates the commentary on and interpretation of the war offered by cartoons appearing in the British Sunday paper the News of the World and the Welsh daily paper the Western Mail. Editorial…
Wanting and Having: Popular politics and liberal consumerism in England, 1830–70
Wanting and Having: popular politics and liberal consumerism in England, 1830–70." Social History, 41(3), pp. 346–347
Addressing Behavioral Health Disparities for Somali Immigrants Through Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Led by Community Health Workers
Our War History in Cartoons Is Unique’: J.M. Staniforth, British Public Opinion, and the South African War, 1899–1902
This article analyses the wartime cartoons of the News of the World’s J.M.Staniforth, whose work reached substantial audiences at the time and in republications. The cartoons tell us about the cartoonist’s views and also suggest the attitudes of his readership, particularly in respect of the approach and outbreak of war; responses to British military reverses; the welfare of servicemen and their families; the controversy surrounding the ‘scorched…
A primary care cardiovascular risk reduction clinic in Canada was more effective and no more expensive than usual on-demand primary care - a randomised controlled trial
The objective of this randomised controlled trial was to compare the effects and expense of three approaches to care (1) proactive cardiovascular risk reduction (CaRR) clinic; (2) nurse telephone calls; or (3) usual care for people with cardiovascular risk factors in a Primary Care, Health Service Organisation (HSO) in Ontario, Canada. Subjects included consenting patients with an identified cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor identified fro…
A co-design framework for natural resource policy making: Insights from tree health and fisheries in the United Kingdom
Environmental and land use policy literature asserts the need for more holistic, participatory and co-designed forms of governance for the sustainable management of natural resources. Co-design is also increasingly recognised by government as a useful approach but is often applied with varying degrees of success. The purpose of this paper is to assess recent examples of policy co-design across three UK case studies focused on tree/woodland manage…
The Concept of Bureaucratic Neutrality
SAD geographies: Making light matter
This paper addresses the relationship between light and mental health through a multifaceted inquiry into the complex and contested condition of ‘Seasonal Affective Disorder’ (SAD). It does so by first charting a disciplinary neglect of seasonal depression in ‘geographies of mental health’, followed by a consideration of broader philosophical ideas about human sensibilities and the place of light in life. These interpretative resources are brough…
Fishing for Justice: England's Inshore Fisheries’ Social Movements and Fixed Quota Allocation
English inshore fishers have long campaigned through the New Under 10m Fishermen's Association to have a fair share of the UK's fishing opportunities and to be involved in inshore fisheries management. They argue that their allocation of ∼2% of the UK Share of Total Allowable Catch species is unjust, with the inshore fleet contributing 78% of the workforce. Their concern, beyond quota shares, is that Local Ecological Knowledge / real time informa…
Our War History in Cartoons Is Unique’: J.M. Staniforth, British Public Opinion, and the South African War, 1899–1902
This article analyses the wartime cartoons of the News of the World’s J.M.Staniforth, whose work reached substantial audiences at the time and in republications. The cartoons tell us about the cartoonist’s views and also suggest the attitudes of his readership, particularly in respect of the approach and outbreak of war; responses to British military reverses; the welfare of servicemen and their families; the controversy surrounding the ‘scorched…
A strategy for trauma debriefing after railway suicides
The Concept of Bureaucratic Neutrality
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access CHRIS WILLIAMS CHRIS WILLIAMS University of Wales College of Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXV, October 1992, Pages 1058-a–1058, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXV.1058-a Published: 01 October 1992
A strategy for trauma debriefing after railway suicides
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access CHRIS WILLIAMS CHRIS WILLIAMS University of Wales College of Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 435, February 1995, Pages 228–229, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.435.228 Published: 01 February 1995
Urban governance, its changing style, authority and legitimacy, Urban History Group Conference, Leeds, 2–3 April 1998
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Current bibliography of urban history
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One Damn Election After Another’: Politics and the Local Dimension
The study of local political history (understood in its widest sense to include parliamentary and local elections, labour struggles, pressure group activity and local government administration) gathered momentum from the late I950S, particularly in the fields of labour and social history. Understandings of Chartism, the ‘labour aristocracy’ debate, the ‘rise of labour’ and inter-war politics were all enlightened by scholarship adopting a local fo…
That Boundless Ocean Of Mountains: British Alpinists and the Appeal of the Canadian Rockies, 1885-1920
Following the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885, mountaineers began to explore the Rocky Mountains. Prominent British climbers included Green, Outram and Collie. Taking issue with Sandford's interpretation, the appeal of the Rockies for British Alpinists is examined. The Rockies were compared with the Alps, viewed as an Alpine playground, and represented as an authentic wilderness. Superficial manifestations of imperialism need c…
The NUM and British politics, 1: 1944-1968
A primary care cardiovascular risk reduction clinic in Canada was more effective and no more expensive than usual on-demand primary care - a randomised controlled trial
The objective of this randomised controlled trial was to compare the effects and expense of three approaches to care (1) proactive cardiovascular risk reduction (CaRR) clinic; (2) nurse telephone calls; or (3) usual care for people with cardiovascular risk factors in a Primary Care, Health Service Organisation (HSO) in Ontario, Canada. Subjects included consenting patients with an identified cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor identified fro…
Our War History in Cartoons Is Unique’: J.M. Staniforth, British Public Opinion, and the South African War, 1899–1902
This article analyses the wartime cartoons of the News of the World’s J.M.Staniforth, whose work reached substantial audiences at the time and in republications. The cartoons tell us about the cartoonist’s views and also suggest the attitudes of his readership, particularly in respect of the approach and outbreak of war; responses to British military reverses; the welfare of servicemen and their families; the controversy surrounding the ‘scorched…
Addressing Behavioral Health Disparities for Somali Immigrants Through Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Led by Community Health Workers
Wanting and Having: Popular politics and liberal consumerism in England, 1830–70
Wanting and Having: popular politics and liberal consumerism in England, 1830–70." Social History, 41(3), pp. 346–347
Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
The Shadow in the East’: Representations of the Russo-Japanese war in newspaper cartoons
The Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 captured the imagination of reading publics around the world and in Britain spawned a breadth of products aimed at a domestic audience, including cigarette cards, illustrated magazines and newspaper cartoons. This essay investigates the commentary on and interpretation of the war offered by cartoons appearing in the British Sunday paper the News of the World and the Welsh daily paper the Western Mail. Editorial…
Fishing for Justice: England's Inshore Fisheries’ Social Movements and Fixed Quota Allocation
English inshore fishers have long campaigned through the New Under 10m Fishermen's Association to have a fair share of the UK's fishing opportunities and to be involved in inshore fisheries management. They argue that their allocation of ∼2% of the UK Share of Total Allowable Catch species is unjust, with the inshore fleet contributing 78% of the workforce. Their concern, beyond quota shares, is that Local Ecological Knowledge / real time informa…
The economic contribution of sea angling from charter boats: A case study from the south coast of England
Popular Music of the Greek World: A Note From the Organisers
In May 2019 the British School at Athens hosted an international conference on popular music of the Greek world. The conference aimed to explore and evaluate the diversity of Greek music apparent in the rich variety of local traditions and in the richness of urban popular music both established and emerging, and to examine its causes from broader musical, sociological and artistic perspectives. Rather than focus on particular forms, such as tradi…
Robert Owen’s Experiment at New Lanark: From Paternalism to Socialism
Based on a 2013 doctoral thesis, Ophélie Siméon’s volume in a series edited by Gregory Claeys represents an attempt to write a different kind of study of Robert Owen—“an intellectual biography through a sense of place” (9)—that connects New Lanark more umbilically to his later endeavors. Her avowed intent is to approach this history (where possible) “from below,” utilizing newly (post-2013) available material from the New Lanark Trust archives as…
Building knowledge in urban agriculture: The challenges of local food production in São Paulo and Melbourne
Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe: Lessons for the Twenty-first Century
Policy concertation - the determination of public policy by means of agreements struck between governments, employers and trade unions - continues to thrive in Western Europe despite the impact of liberalizing trends that were expected to lead to its demise. This volume brings together a team of 23 experts with the aim to undertake paired historical and political studies of policy concertation in ten West European countries, which were then subje…
Early Outcomes of a New NIH Program to Support Research in Residency
The work of physician–investigators has historically led to key discoveries and developments in modern medicine, but recent decades have seen significant declines in the number of U.S. physician–investigators. One of the barriers to physicians participating in research is the lack of mentored research opportunities during clinical training, especially during residency training. In response to this identified barrier and to expand the physician–in…
Worker-less social responsibility: How the proliferation of voluntary labour governance tools in seafood marginalise the workers they claim to protect
In response to labour and human rights violations onboard fishing vessels, the private sector is increasingly relying on market-based solutions in the form of voluntary, non-governmental social governance tools to improve working conditions for fishers. While the proliferation of these tools is relatively recent in fishing, there is substantial evidence from other sectors that these voluntary standards fail to transform working conditions. Yet, t…
Hospital transfers from care homes: Conceptualising staff decision-making as a form of risk work
When making decisions about whether to transfer residents to hospital, care home staff consider the possible benefits and risks of different courses of action. However, to date, an in-depth and theoretically informed engagement with these decision-making processes and their associated behaviours has been lacking. We conducted an ethnographic study of care home staff’s decision-making about resident hospital transfers in England between May 2018 a…
Higher Ground: A Panel Discussion on Questlove’s Summer of Soul
Organized by music writer Chris Williams, this panel discussion on Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Academy Award–winning 2021 documentary Summer of Soul ( . . . Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), which examines the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, was recorded on Zoom in September 2021 during the COVID-19 lockdown. Williams served as moderator, and panelists included Melissa A. Weber, Fredara Mareva Hadley, Scot Brown, and Tony Bolden. I…
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