Bell

Biographic Data

ID4640
NAMEBell
FAMILY NAMEBell
SIGNATUREBELL
AFFILIATIONSDurham University
ORCID0000-0002-3022-9864
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS180
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1897
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX8

  • Rethinking Growth Model Analysis: A Life Cycle and State-Centric Relational Approach

    Open AccessBell, Stephen Bell et al.ARTICLEPolitics & Society2026

    This article offers a critique of both the overall focus and key substantive arguments associated with growth model analysis and, in particular, of Baccaro and Pontusson's account of how and why governments adopt policies favourable to the promotion of particular growth models. Our critique centres upon two arguments. First, existing work downplays the role of the state in the politics and governance of growth models and, conversely, overstates t…

  • Bringing health research to life: Readers theatre as an innovative knowledge translation strategy

    Poppy Jackson, Alison Luke et al.ARTICLEArts & Health2025References: 2

    While the results are promising, further research is warranted to better understand its full potential

  • Decolonizing Primate Conservation Practice: A Case Study from North Morocco

    Open AccessSiân Water, Ahmed el Harrad et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022Cited by: 7References: 63

    Understanding the historical context of an area enables an incoming conservationist to reflect on their role in communities and to better position themselves both politically and socially within them. Here, we explore how outside agencies and institutions, including a former colonial power, have affected and influenced local communities who share their landscape with Barbary macaques ( Macaca sylvanus ) in Bouhachem forest, north Morocco. In the …

  • Interpreting People’s Behavior Toward Primates Using Qualitative Data: A Case Study from North Morocco

    Open AccessSiân Water, Ahmed el Harrad et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019Cited by: 3References: 53

    People’s perceptions of primates vary across and within cultures and may not be consistent with their behavior toward the primates themselves. We used qualitative data from semistructured and unstructured interviews with shepherds from 10 villages around Bouhachem oak forest in Morocco to describe and discuss shepherds’ behavior when they encounter Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus). When macaques enter agricultural fields to feed on crops, matur…

  • Domesticating In Home Displays in Selected British and Norwegian Households

    Open AccessTanja Winther, Bell et al.ARTICLEScience & Technology Studies2017

    The paper uses qualitative data from Norway and the United Kingdom to understand the new technology of In Home Display monitors as a material object loaded with meaning and norms that may affect social practices and relations. The displays are designed to encourage householders to reduce electricity consumption. In contrast to technologies associated with ‘smart meters’, the monitors under study cannot be used for controlling or automatising vari…

  • Biosocial Conservation: Integrating Biological and Ethnographic Methods to Study Human–Primate Interactions

    Open AccessJ M Setchell, Emilie Fairet et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2017Cited by: 26References: 133

    Biodiversity conservation is one of the grand challenges facing society. Many people interested in biodiversity conservation have a background in wildlife biology. However, the diverse social, cultural, political, and historical factors that influence the lives of people and wildlife can be investigated fully only by incorporating social science methods, ideally within an interdisciplinary framework. Cultural hierarchies of knowledge and the hege…

  • Governance, Participation and Local Perceptions of Protected Areas: Unwinding Traumatic Nature in the Blouberg Mountain Range

    Open AccessNatasha Louise Constant, Natasha Henschke et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Values2017Cited by: 4References: 6

    Local perceptions of protected areas are important for conservation and the sustainability of protected areas. We undertook qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork to explore relationships between people and protected areas in the Blouberg mountain range, South Africa. The history of land use and current relationships with protected areas reveal legacies of marginalisation and immiseration, giving credence to a theory of traumatic nature. The impa…

  • Contested Sites in Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Old City Initiative

    John Bell, Tom Najem et al.BOOKContested Sites in Jerusalem2017

  • Smart grids and the constitution of solar electricity conduct

    Open AccessHarriet Bulkeley, Gareth Powells et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning A…2016Cited by: 13References: 25

    In the face of challenges of energy security, low carbon transitions and the replacement of aging infrastructure networks, new logics for the development of smart electricity systems are emerging amongst utility providers and public authorities. Whilst often portrayed as a technical matter, orchestrated through the top-down intervention of major corporate or government actors, such shifts in the system of electricity provision also entail efforts…

  • The Co-Construction of Energy Provision and Everyday Practice: Integrating Heat Pumps in Social Housing in England

    Open AccessEllis Judson, Ellis P Judson et al.ARTICLEScience & Technology Studies2015

    Challenges of energy security, low carbon transitions, and electricity network constraints have led to a shift to new, efficient technologies for household energy services. Studies of such technological innovations usually focus on consumer information and changes in behaviour to realise their full potential. We suggest that regarding such technologies in existing energy provision systems opens up questions concerning how and why such interventio…

  • Sociality and electricity in the United Kingdom: The influence of household dynamics on everyday consumption

    Open AccessBell, Ellis Judson et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2015Cited by: 29References: 18

  • Choosing Medersa: Discourses on Secular versus Islamic Education in Mali, West Africa

    Bell, Bell BellARTICLEAfrica Today2015Cited by: 1

  • Peak electricity demand and the flexibility of everyday life

    Open AccessGareth Powells, Harriet Bulkeley et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2014Cited by: 45References: 5

  • Making sense of American liberalism

    Bell, Jonathan Bell et al.BOOKMaking sense of American liberalism2012

  • Some Demographic and Cultural Characteristics of the La Perouse Aborigines

    Open AccessJ H Bell, Jeanie Bell et al.ARTICLEMankind2009

  • All Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women in Canada (review)

    BellARTICLECanadian ethnic studies2008

    Reviewed by: All Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women in Canada Sandra Bell Susan Scott . All Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women in Canada. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2007. 210 pp. Notes. Photographs. $26.95 sc. Canada is one of the few countries of the Western world without a social housing policy (16) and this book is about the effect such an omission has on some Canadian women. This is a heartbreaking book, not for the lightheart…

  • Person, Place, and Knowledge in the Conservation of the Saimaa Ringed Seal

    Bell, Sandra Bell et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2008Cited by: 9References: 7

    There is a strong connection between people's knowledge of nature and their relationship to place. Local environmental knowledge is multifaceted and influenced by changing social and economic circumstances that affect the way people come to know and relate to nature. A case study from Finland demonstrates how locality, personhood, and environmental perceptions cohere to challenge conservation practices. In this instance, local people fully uphold…

  • The political culture of poaching: A case study from northern Greece

    Open AccessBell, Sandra Bell et al.ARTICLEBiodiversity and Conservation2007

  • Race and Belonging: A Review of Recently Issued National Film Board DVDs

    Bell, Sandra Bell et al.ARTICLECanadian ethnic studies2007

    Race and Belonging: A Review of Recently Issued National Film Board DVDs Sandra Bell (bio) and Mythili Rajiva (bio) Race is a Four-Letter Word. Written and directed by Sobaz Benjamin. Produced by Annette Clarke. National Film Board of Canada, 2006. 55 mins, 19 secs, Language: English. Full Screen, $59.95. Closed captioned – decoder required. Dolby sound. Journey to Justice. Dir. Roger McTair. Written by Laine Drewery, Roger McTair and Alan Mendel…

  • Attrition in longitudinal studies: Who do you lose

    Open AccessAnne Young, Anne F Young et al.ARTICLEAustralian and New Zealand…2006

  • Real” Poachers and Predators: Shades of Meaning in Local Understandings of Threats to Fisheries

    K Hampshire, Bell et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2004Cited by: 15References: 10

    This article explores the idea of multiple and contested notions of nature, natural resource management, and the implications for local involvement with conservation, within the context of attitudes toward poachers and other predators of fish in the Nemunas Delta area of Lithuania. Qualitative research methods are used to elicit local understandings of threats to fishing livelihoods and to unravel the ambiguities surrounding people's perceptions …

  • Laurie Lisle — Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness

    Open AccessBell, Sandra BellARTICLELeft History An Interdisciplinary…2002

    Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method

  • Celibacy, Culture, and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence

    Sally L Kitch, E J Sobo et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2002

    This work is a cross-cultural inquiry into the practice of celibacy around the world and through the ages, among groups as diverse as: Kenyan villagers; US prisoners; Mazatec shamans; Buddhist nuns and monks; Shaker Church members; and anorexic women. The examples of celibacy described illustrate the complex relationship between human sexuality and its particular sociocultural context. Ideas about the body, gender, family, work, religion, health,…

  • Understanding African philosophy: A cross-cultural approach to classical and contemporary issues in Africa

    Richard H Bell, Bell et al.BOOKUnderstanding African philosophy2002

  • Guanxi: A Nesting of Groups

    Bell, Duran Bell et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology2000Cited by: 18References: 6