Mike King
Biographic Data
| ID | 3847649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9001-040X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
State antiquity and economic progress
It was one of the worst days of my life
Ethics of generative AI
Epistemologies of Struggle
Within the field of US social movement studies, there is periodic concern that the work produced by scholars is not more widely read and used by activists and organizers, yet there is little attention given to how epistemological norms within the field produce and maintain the disconnect between mainstream US social movement studies and movements on the ground. In this paper we trace the major contours of the problem: the positivism that saturate…
James M. Buchanan on “the relatively absolute absolutes” and “truth judgments” in politics
Animal researchers shoulder a psychological burden that animal ethics committees ought to address
Animal ethics committees (AECs) typically focus on the welfare of animals used in experiments, neglecting the potential welfare impact of that animal use on the animal laboratory personnel. Some of this work, particularly the killing of animals, can impose significant psychological burdens that can diminish the well-being of laboratory animal personnel, as well as their capacity to care for animals. We propose that AECs, which regulate animal res…
The Case for Welfare Biology
Exploring those characteristics which may help to foster and support people’s social-ecological resilience
Settler Colonialism, Race-Making Criminalization and State Violence
Keywords race and policing, decolonial criminology, police killings, white vigilantism, early-American policing, incarceration, race-making institutions, Los Angeles, Baltimore
Regulating quack medicine
Spiritual psychiatries
Cultural perspectives on mental wellbeing
The Epistemology of Spiritual Happiness
This paper uses the idea of spiritual happiness to explore some issues regarding the difference between science and spirituality. It suggests that those pursuing spirituality feel more inclined to adopt a modernist theoretical framework than those pursuing religion, and so are hesitant to declare that spirituality has a different ontology, methodology, taxonomy and epistemology than science. The argument is made here that they are indeed differen…
The 'knockout game
In the fall of 2013, the 'knockout game' - random black-on-white assaults - became the dominant storyline in the US media. Despite no measurable increase in these types of attacks, a moral panic emerged that drew from and amplified numerous previous panics around race and violent crime. While in many ways the 'knockout game' is the latest iteration of exaggerated and projected white fears of black violence in the US, the current racial formation …
I See Dead People
A Liturgical Transformation
Broken Windows,” Urban Policing, and the Social Contexts of Race and Neighborhood (Dis-)Empowerment
Disruption is Not Permitted
Being and Becoming
Politics and the Occult
Riots and social protest in an age of austerity
The last issue of Policing & Society devoted purely to policing and public protest was in 2005 (Volume 15 Number 3). Not only did both of us contribute to this, but so did three of the other author
Birmingham revisited – causal differences between the riots of 2011 and 2005
Despite the nature of the Birmingham 2011 riots being rather different from those which occurred in the Lozells area of Birmingham in 2005, this article argues that the underlying causal factors are broadly similar for both. The 2011 riots followed disorders in London after the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham and entailed elements of social protest, opportunistic looting and an instance of gang violence, resulting in three deaths. In …
Mapping Spirituality for the Twenty-first Century
This paper sets out a taxonomy or map for the study of spirituality called the Two-Fold Model of Spiritual Difference, with the aim of providing a scheme that is comprehensive at the broadest possible level. The scheme presents a global and epochal perspective that is appropriate for a pluralistic era, while recognizing that any taxonomy of the subject matter for the study of spirituality must be provisional, and tuned to the task in hand. To thi…
Identifying Common Causes of UK and French Riots Occurring Since the 1980s
This article constitutes a response to the article by Fabien Jobard (in this issue) concerning the recent riots in France. It explores differences and commonalities between the events in France in 2005 and the urban disorders that occurred in England and Wales from the 1980s to 2001, placing the latter into three distinct categorical and temporal waves. Initially, it revisits the essence of Jobard's piece before providing an overview of the UK ri…
The Impact of the Local
Much public order policing research attempts to, first, elucidate general trends of public order policing change and, secondly with respect to the policing of transnational summits in particular, focus on the deterministic effects of international and national priorities concerning the way they are policed. While the authors recognize the important contribution of such research towards an understanding of policing in this arena, in this article t…
Flashpoints Revisited
The Flashpoints model, developed by David Waddington and colleagues in the late 1980s, has been utilized to examine various public order occurrences, ranging from urban rioting, industrial unrest and animal rights protests of the 1990s, primarily focusing on the United Kingdom, with some examples from the United States of America. This article revisits and reappraises the model in the light of critical debates both directed at the model itself an…
Regulating quack medicine
The 'knockout game
In the fall of 2013, the 'knockout game' - random black-on-white assaults - became the dominant storyline in the US media. Despite no measurable increase in these types of attacks, a moral panic emerged that drew from and amplified numerous previous panics around race and violent crime. While in many ways the 'knockout game' is the latest iteration of exaggerated and projected white fears of black violence in the US, the current racial formation …
The Impact of the Local
Much public order policing research attempts to, first, elucidate general trends of public order policing change and, secondly with respect to the policing of transnational summits in particular, focus on the deterministic effects of international and national priorities concerning the way they are policed. While the authors recognize the important contribution of such research towards an understanding of policing in this arena, in this article t…
Birmingham revisited – causal differences between the riots of 2011 and 2005
Despite the nature of the Birmingham 2011 riots being rather different from those which occurred in the Lozells area of Birmingham in 2005, this article argues that the underlying causal factors are broadly similar for both. The 2011 riots followed disorders in London after the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham and entailed elements of social protest, opportunistic looting and an instance of gang violence, resulting in three deaths. In …
Disruption is Not Permitted
Policing and public order issues in Canada
Little academic work has been published to date on the policing system of Canada despite its complex diversity and comparative interest as a contrast to that of the US. Even less has been written on the topic of Canadian public order policing. This article seeks to redress this by initially locating policing development in Canada within various ‘models’ of policing. It then focuses on public order policing change through major contemporary concer…
Coping with disorder? the changing relationship between police public order strategy and practice—a critical analysis of the Burnley Riot
This article identifies significant recent public order policing strategy change on the part of the public police—first, in recognition of the dynamic relationship between disorder and policing, and second, concerning a more flexible conceptualization of the traditional “riot curve”. This would potentially move the policing of social disorder away from a situation of what Wright refers to in Policing: An Introduction to Concepts and Practice (200…
James M. Buchanan on “the relatively absolute absolutes” and “truth judgments” in politics
Exploring those characteristics which may help to foster and support people’s social-ecological resilience
Riots and social protest in an age of austerity
The last issue of Policing & Society devoted purely to policing and public protest was in 2005 (Volume 15 Number 3). Not only did both of us contribute to this, but so did three of the other author
D’une gestion policière réactive à la gestion des manifestants ? La police et les manifestations anti-mondialisation au Canada1
Des débats ont animés cette dernière décennie autour de la question d’une évolution supposée de la gestion de l’ordre « occidentale » et de ses pratiques, quittant un mode réactif, confrontationel et visant la dispersion des manifestants, pour un modèle davantage ancré sur la notion de dé-escalade du conflit, avec une gestion fondée sur les renseignements, la communication mutuelle et des négociations : vers la « gestion » des manifestants. Les r…
Programmed Graphics in Computer Art and Animation
In the early days of computer graphics, artists had to learn programming in order to use the new technology. Today, when such a wide range of software packages runs on affordable hardware, one might ask why artists should continue to learn to program. While this question has been considered for many years, today even experienced artists are looking at the sophistication and affordability of current software and realizing that much of their progra…
State antiquity and economic progress
Epistemologies of Struggle
Within the field of US social movement studies, there is periodic concern that the work produced by scholars is not more widely read and used by activists and organizers, yet there is little attention given to how epistemological norms within the field produce and maintain the disconnect between mainstream US social movement studies and movements on the ground. In this paper we trace the major contours of the problem: the positivism that saturate…
The Case for Welfare Biology
Settler Colonialism, Race-Making Criminalization and State Violence
Keywords race and policing, decolonial criminology, police killings, white vigilantism, early-American policing, incarceration, race-making institutions, Los Angeles, Baltimore
Broken Windows,” Urban Policing, and the Social Contexts of Race and Neighborhood (Dis-)Empowerment
Policing change in Eastern and central Europe
Currently the states of Central and Eastern Europe are collectively subject to major social, political, economic and ideological transformation. Individually though they represent different patterns and stages of ‘democratic’ reform. This paper focuses especially on the transition in policing in these states and mounts a preliminary examination of the potential directions of change. It outlines some central pull‐factors for policing system change…
The impact of EC border policies on the policing of ‘refugees’ in eastern and central Europe
It is increasingly becoming common knowledge that one of the major effects of the Single European Act 1986 will be to increase freedom of movement for some within the internal borders of the 12 European Community member States from 1993, while correspondingly restricting the influx of ‘outsiders’. What is still lacking, however, is informed research on the extent of this ‘exclusion’ and the likely impact of such exclusionist policy on the policin…
Sculptor
The author describes Sculptor, a three-dimensional computer modelling system that allows the use of sculptural methods for the construction of objects. These objects can be subsequently realised as physical sculptures through the use of a contour-slicing routine, though the major use of the system has been in the production of computer images of three-dimensional ‘scenes’. The origins, structure and usage of the system are described, followed by …
Sculptor
The author describes Sculptor, a three-dimensional computer modelling system that allows the use of sculptural methods for the construction of objects. These objects can be subsequently realised as physical sculptures through the use of a contour-slicing routine, though the major use of the system has been in the production of computer images of three-dimensional ‘scenes’. The origins, structure and usage of the system are described, followed by …
The impact of EC border policies on the policing of ‘refugees’ in eastern and central Europe
It is increasingly becoming common knowledge that one of the major effects of the Single European Act 1986 will be to increase freedom of movement for some within the internal borders of the 12 European Community member States from 1993, while correspondingly restricting the influx of ‘outsiders’. What is still lacking, however, is informed research on the extent of this ‘exclusion’ and the likely impact of such exclusionist policy on the policin…
The impact of Western European border policies on the control of ‘refugees’ in Eastern and Central Europe
Much of the contemporary debate on Western European exclusionary border policies focuses on the nature of that exclusion, rather than the impact such policies are likely to have on border controls of other migrant receiving or producing states. This article addresses some of the issues of Western European border control harmonisation in the context of Eastern and Central Europe, and Hungary in particular. It suggests that the concept of 'Fortress…
Programmed Graphics in Computer Art and Animation
In the early days of computer graphics, artists had to learn programming in order to use the new technology. Today, when such a wide range of software packages runs on affordable hardware, one might ask why artists should continue to learn to program. While this question has been considered for many years, today even experienced artists are looking at the sophistication and affordability of current software and realizing that much of their progra…
Policing and public order issues in Canada
Little academic work has been published to date on the policing system of Canada despite its complex diversity and comparative interest as a contrast to that of the US. Even less has been written on the topic of Canadian public order policing. This article seeks to redress this by initially locating policing development in Canada within various ‘models’ of policing. It then focuses on public order policing change through major contemporary concer…
Le contrôle des différences en Europe
logiques scuritaires et conomiques
Policing change in Eastern and central Europe
Currently the states of Central and Eastern Europe are collectively subject to major social, political, economic and ideological transformation. Individually though they represent different patterns and stages of ‘democratic’ reform. This paper focuses especially on the transition in policing in these states and mounts a preliminary examination of the potential directions of change. It outlines some central pull‐factors for policing system change…
Concerning the Spiritual in Twentieth-Century Art and Science
A recent proliferation of writings on the spiritual by scientists suggests that this is an appropriate time to reevaluate the spiritual in twentieth-century art. The author looks at three artistic groupings— Wassily Kandinsky and the Bauhaus school, the Abstract Expressionists and the contemporary electronic arts—and traces the influences of various spiritual movements on them. The author then turns to the spiritual in modern science, observing t…
Gallery Artworks
Gallery Artworks
October 01 2001 Gallery Artworks Dona J. Geib, Dona J. Geib Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Mark Millstein, Mark Millstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Serban Epure, Serban Epure Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Richard Wright, Richard Wright Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Cynthia Beth Rubin, Cynthia Beth …
Coping with disorder? the changing relationship between police public order strategy and practice—a critical analysis of the Burnley Riot
This article identifies significant recent public order policing strategy change on the part of the public police—first, in recognition of the dynamic relationship between disorder and policing, and second, concerning a more flexible conceptualization of the traditional “riot curve”. This would potentially move the policing of social disorder away from a situation of what Wright refers to in Policing: An Introduction to Concepts and Practice (200…
D’une gestion policière réactive à la gestion des manifestants ? La police et les manifestations anti-mondialisation au Canada1
Des débats ont animés cette dernière décennie autour de la question d’une évolution supposée de la gestion de l’ordre « occidentale » et de ses pratiques, quittant un mode réactif, confrontationel et visant la dispersion des manifestants, pour un modèle davantage ancré sur la notion de dé-escalade du conflit, avec une gestion fondée sur les renseignements, la communication mutuelle et des négociations : vers la « gestion » des manifestants. Les r…
The Disorderly Crowd
Following the publication in 1895 of Gustav Le Bon's seminal work, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, psychological explanations of collective disorder unremittingly emphasised the supposedly anomalous and irrational nature of the phenomenon. Recently, however, this ‘classical’ theoretical tradition has been supplanted by increasingly enlightened social psychological and socio-political approaches which emphasise the importance to our unders…
Flashpoints Revisited
The Flashpoints model, developed by David Waddington and colleagues in the late 1980s, has been utilized to examine various public order occurrences, ranging from urban rioting, industrial unrest and animal rights protests of the 1990s, primarily focusing on the United Kingdom, with some examples from the United States of America. This article revisits and reappraises the model in the light of critical debates both directed at the model itself an…
Global Security and Policing Change
This paper initially explores the concept and process of ‘securitisation’ by referring to the current academic debate. It then considers the concrete impact of this process on contemporary police structures and policing trends. The paper argues that issues of global security have influenced policing change at the European level; led to the formation of a new police agency, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), at the national level; and are …
The Impact of the Local
Much public order policing research attempts to, first, elucidate general trends of public order policing change and, secondly with respect to the policing of transnational summits in particular, focus on the deterministic effects of international and national priorities concerning the way they are policed. While the authors recognize the important contribution of such research towards an understanding of policing in this arena, in this article t…
Identifying Common Causes of UK and French Riots Occurring Since the 1980s
This article constitutes a response to the article by Fabien Jobard (in this issue) concerning the recent riots in France. It explores differences and commonalities between the events in France in 2005 and the urban disorders that occurred in England and Wales from the 1980s to 2001, placing the latter into three distinct categorical and temporal waves. Initially, it revisits the essence of Jobard's piece before providing an overview of the UK ri…
Mapping Spirituality for the Twenty-first Century
This paper sets out a taxonomy or map for the study of spirituality called the Two-Fold Model of Spiritual Difference, with the aim of providing a scheme that is comprehensive at the broadest possible level. The scheme presents a global and epochal perspective that is appropriate for a pluralistic era, while recognizing that any taxonomy of the subject matter for the study of spirituality must be provisional, and tuned to the task in hand. To thi…
Being and Becoming
Politics and the Occult
Riots and social protest in an age of austerity
The last issue of Policing & Society devoted purely to policing and public protest was in 2005 (Volume 15 Number 3). Not only did both of us contribute to this, but so did three of the other author
Birmingham revisited – causal differences between the riots of 2011 and 2005
Despite the nature of the Birmingham 2011 riots being rather different from those which occurred in the Lozells area of Birmingham in 2005, this article argues that the underlying causal factors are broadly similar for both. The 2011 riots followed disorders in London after the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham and entailed elements of social protest, opportunistic looting and an instance of gang violence, resulting in three deaths. In …
Broken Windows,” Urban Policing, and the Social Contexts of Race and Neighborhood (Dis-)Empowerment
Disruption is Not Permitted
I See Dead People
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