Timothy Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3743759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Navigating Covid‐19 and racial trauma as a Black student at predominantly White institutions
Black students at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) contend with racial microaggressions that can lead to negative mental health and academic outcomes. The physical and mental health consequences of the novel coronavirus pandemic are well-known. What remains unknown is how targeted racial hate during a pandemic might have a compounded effect on Black essential workers. The current study examines how future essential workers in helping profe…
Capacity building for maritime security
Approaches to Critical Realism
The thought of Bernard Lonergan remains relatively unknown among those in the tradition of critical realism associated with Roy Bhaskar. In this paper, I argue that Lonergan’s approach to philosophical questions is both deeply consonant with the thought of Bhaskar and complementary to it. Following a brief overview of different approaches to critical realism, Lonergan’s epistemology is outlined, and parallels drawn with the thought of Bhaskar. Th…
The Early Modern Globalization of Indian Medicine
This essay discusses the methods and effect of the dissemination of South Asian medicinal substances and healing techniques throughout the Portuguese maritime colonial network. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Indian medicine played a significant role in global Portuguese colonial health care institutions. Analysis covers official reports about Indian medicines produced by Portuguese colonial medical authorities, and consignments of i…
Medicinal Mercury in Early Modern Portuguese Records
This chapter will present and explicate rare information regarding circumstances and techniques for the application of medicinal mercury in the Portuguese medical context during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through the use of Portuguese medical texts (including translated excerpts), the chapter will provide insight into how early modern Portuguese practitioners processed and employed mercury to treat various ailments. Of interest, to…
Maritime security in West Africa
This article will briefly examine the maritime security situation in 2013 in the Gulf of Guinea and the coast of West Africa, where a number of internationally integrative approaches for improving counter-piracy efforts are being developed. As the maritime domain is both vast and complex, the article focuses on two of the major problems causing the present situation of maritime insecurity – firstly, piracy and armed robbery at sea, and secondly, …
Africa's Moment
From citizen to refugee
Acquisition and Circulation of Medical Knowledge within the Early Modern Portuguese Colonial Empire
Slave Labor and Chocolate in Brazil
This article will explore the origins of commercial cacao production in Brazil, specifically as it is linked inseparably to compelled human labor—first of Native Americans employed in the Amazon rainforest and later of Africans imported for regimented plantation fieldwork in Bahia state. Coerced or enslaved labor, both Native American and African, produced almost all the cacao exported from Brazil until the latter quarter of the 19th century. Alt…
Abolishing the slave trade in Portuguese India
(2004). Abolishing the slave trade in Portuguese India: documentary evidence of popular and official resistance to crown policy, 1842–60. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 25, Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia, pp. 63-79
The role and practices of the curandeiro and saludador in early modern Portuguese society
This paper will explore the role and practices of magic-using folk healers - curandeiros and saludadores - in early modern Portuguese society. The article will examine the ambivalent place of the folk healer as a figure both central to and marginal in Portuguese popular culture. In considering some of the services offered by unlicensed popular healers and their recourse to the unorthodox magical means inherent in popular curing, the paper will in…
An Inquiry into Balanced Scorecards within Best Value Implementation in UK Local Government
The aim is of this paper is to conduct an exploratory study into the use of Balanced Scorecards as an approach to implementing Best Value in UK local government. Furthermore, a participant‐observation method is used to study the development into a Balanced Scorecard within local government. There is a need to critically evaluate approaches to implementing Best Value so that local government can determine how to achieve the service performance lev…
Defence of Mechanical Philosophy (1831)
An Inquiry into Balanced Scorecards within Best Value Implementation in UK Local Government
The aim is of this paper is to conduct an exploratory study into the use of Balanced Scorecards as an approach to implementing Best Value in UK local government. Furthermore, a participant‐observation method is used to study the development into a Balanced Scorecard within local government. There is a need to critically evaluate approaches to implementing Best Value so that local government can determine how to achieve the service performance lev…
The Early Modern Globalization of Indian Medicine
This essay discusses the methods and effect of the dissemination of South Asian medicinal substances and healing techniques throughout the Portuguese maritime colonial network. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Indian medicine played a significant role in global Portuguese colonial health care institutions. Analysis covers official reports about Indian medicines produced by Portuguese colonial medical authorities, and consignments of i…
Navigating Covid‐19 and racial trauma as a Black student at predominantly White institutions
Black students at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) contend with racial microaggressions that can lead to negative mental health and academic outcomes. The physical and mental health consequences of the novel coronavirus pandemic are well-known. What remains unknown is how targeted racial hate during a pandemic might have a compounded effect on Black essential workers. The current study examines how future essential workers in helping profe…
Slave Labor and Chocolate in Brazil
This article will explore the origins of commercial cacao production in Brazil, specifically as it is linked inseparably to compelled human labor—first of Native Americans employed in the Amazon rainforest and later of Africans imported for regimented plantation fieldwork in Bahia state. Coerced or enslaved labor, both Native American and African, produced almost all the cacao exported from Brazil until the latter quarter of the 19th century. Alt…
Abolishing the slave trade in Portuguese India
(2004). Abolishing the slave trade in Portuguese India: documentary evidence of popular and official resistance to crown policy, 1842–60. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 25, Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia, pp. 63-79
The role and practices of the curandeiro and saludador in early modern Portuguese society
This paper will explore the role and practices of magic-using folk healers - curandeiros and saludadores - in early modern Portuguese society. The article will examine the ambivalent place of the folk healer as a figure both central to and marginal in Portuguese popular culture. In considering some of the services offered by unlicensed popular healers and their recourse to the unorthodox magical means inherent in popular curing, the paper will in…
Maritime security in West Africa
This article will briefly examine the maritime security situation in 2013 in the Gulf of Guinea and the coast of West Africa, where a number of internationally integrative approaches for improving counter-piracy efforts are being developed. As the maritime domain is both vast and complex, the article focuses on two of the major problems causing the present situation of maritime insecurity – firstly, piracy and armed robbery at sea, and secondly, …
Defence of Mechanical Philosophy (1831)
An Inquiry into Balanced Scorecards within Best Value Implementation in UK Local Government
The aim is of this paper is to conduct an exploratory study into the use of Balanced Scorecards as an approach to implementing Best Value in UK local government. Furthermore, a participant‐observation method is used to study the development into a Balanced Scorecard within local government. There is a need to critically evaluate approaches to implementing Best Value so that local government can determine how to achieve the service performance lev…
Abolishing the slave trade in Portuguese India
(2004). Abolishing the slave trade in Portuguese India: documentary evidence of popular and official resistance to crown policy, 1842–60. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 25, Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia, pp. 63-79
The role and practices of the curandeiro and saludador in early modern Portuguese society
This paper will explore the role and practices of magic-using folk healers - curandeiros and saludadores - in early modern Portuguese society. The article will examine the ambivalent place of the folk healer as a figure both central to and marginal in Portuguese popular culture. In considering some of the services offered by unlicensed popular healers and their recourse to the unorthodox magical means inherent in popular curing, the paper will in…
Slave Labor and Chocolate in Brazil
This article will explore the origins of commercial cacao production in Brazil, specifically as it is linked inseparably to compelled human labor—first of Native Americans employed in the Amazon rainforest and later of Africans imported for regimented plantation fieldwork in Bahia state. Coerced or enslaved labor, both Native American and African, produced almost all the cacao exported from Brazil until the latter quarter of the 19th century. Alt…
Acquisition and Circulation of Medical Knowledge within the Early Modern Portuguese Colonial Empire
From citizen to refugee
Maritime security in West Africa
This article will briefly examine the maritime security situation in 2013 in the Gulf of Guinea and the coast of West Africa, where a number of internationally integrative approaches for improving counter-piracy efforts are being developed. As the maritime domain is both vast and complex, the article focuses on two of the major problems causing the present situation of maritime insecurity – firstly, piracy and armed robbery at sea, and secondly, …
Africa's Moment
Medicinal Mercury in Early Modern Portuguese Records
This chapter will present and explicate rare information regarding circumstances and techniques for the application of medicinal mercury in the Portuguese medical context during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through the use of Portuguese medical texts (including translated excerpts), the chapter will provide insight into how early modern Portuguese practitioners processed and employed mercury to treat various ailments. Of interest, to…
Approaches to Critical Realism
The thought of Bernard Lonergan remains relatively unknown among those in the tradition of critical realism associated with Roy Bhaskar. In this paper, I argue that Lonergan’s approach to philosophical questions is both deeply consonant with the thought of Bhaskar and complementary to it. Following a brief overview of different approaches to critical realism, Lonergan’s epistemology is outlined, and parallels drawn with the thought of Bhaskar. Th…
The Early Modern Globalization of Indian Medicine
This essay discusses the methods and effect of the dissemination of South Asian medicinal substances and healing techniques throughout the Portuguese maritime colonial network. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Indian medicine played a significant role in global Portuguese colonial health care institutions. Analysis covers official reports about Indian medicines produced by Portuguese colonial medical authorities, and consignments of i…
Capacity building for maritime security
Navigating Covid‐19 and racial trauma as a Black student at predominantly White institutions
Black students at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) contend with racial microaggressions that can lead to negative mental health and academic outcomes. The physical and mental health consequences of the novel coronavirus pandemic are well-known. What remains unknown is how targeted racial hate during a pandemic might have a compounded effect on Black essential workers. The current study examines how future essential workers in helping profe…
Political science (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Portuguese (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works)