A Mccarthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 48154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Mccarthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccarthy |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARTHY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cawthron Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0500-5199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A habitability lens to boost effective local climate adaptation
Using WhatsApp to Teach Close Reading
This article explores the use of the instant messaging app, WhatsApp, to teach close reading, critical thinking, and argumentation skills. Academic and argumentative essays continue to be the dominant form of both formative and summative assessments, particularly in literary studies. However, many students who enter university in South Africa struggle with academic writing, particularly in the form of academic essays, to make arguments about lite…
“Is There Going to Be Another Competition Today?”
Valued for its affective and material affordances, competition has long been fundamental to children's participation in development. Despite this, the experiential and material worlds of child competitors have long been overlooked. Combining ethnographic insights from fieldwork in a Delhi NGO with archival sources and reflections on the legacies of Enlightenment philosophy, this article offers a child-centered corrective to Thomas Malaby's call t…
Untangling Nemesis and Echo from John Banville’s Narcissistic Shroud
In this article, I attempt to untangle the conflated representations of the two dead women who haunt Axel Vander, the narrator of large portions of John Banville’s 2002 novel, Shroud. The narrating protagonist has an inflated sense of his own centrality and a callous disregard for others. Cass Cleave and Magda are reduced to roles which bear striking resemblances to those of Nemesis and Echo in Ovid’s rendition of the myth of Narcissus. The artic…
Ethnicity, Migration and the Lunatic Asylum in Early Twentieth-Century Auckland, New Zealand
Journal Article Ethnicity, Migration and the Lunatic Asylum in Early Twentieth-Century Auckland, New Zealand Get access Angela McCarthy Angela McCarthy * *Professor of Scottish and Irish History, Department of History, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 1, April 2008, Pages 47…
Ethnicity, Migration and the Lunatic Asylum in Early Twentieth-Century Auckland, New Zealand
Journal Article Ethnicity, Migration and the Lunatic Asylum in Early Twentieth-Century Auckland, New Zealand Get access Angela McCarthy Angela McCarthy * *Professor of Scottish and Irish History, Department of History, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 1, April 2008, Pages 47…
Ethnicity, Migration and the Lunatic Asylum in Early Twentieth-Century Auckland, New Zealand
Journal Article Ethnicity, Migration and the Lunatic Asylum in Early Twentieth-Century Auckland, New Zealand Get access Angela McCarthy Angela McCarthy * *Professor of Scottish and Irish History, Department of History, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 1, April 2008, Pages 47…
Untangling Nemesis and Echo from John Banville’s Narcissistic Shroud
In this article, I attempt to untangle the conflated representations of the two dead women who haunt Axel Vander, the narrator of large portions of John Banville’s 2002 novel, Shroud. The narrating protagonist has an inflated sense of his own centrality and a callous disregard for others. Cass Cleave and Magda are reduced to roles which bear striking resemblances to those of Nemesis and Echo in Ovid’s rendition of the myth of Narcissus. The artic…
“Is There Going to Be Another Competition Today?”
Valued for its affective and material affordances, competition has long been fundamental to children's participation in development. Despite this, the experiential and material worlds of child competitors have long been overlooked. Combining ethnographic insights from fieldwork in a Delhi NGO with archival sources and reflections on the legacies of Enlightenment philosophy, this article offers a child-centered corrective to Thomas Malaby's call t…
Using WhatsApp to Teach Close Reading
This article explores the use of the instant messaging app, WhatsApp, to teach close reading, critical thinking, and argumentation skills. Academic and argumentative essays continue to be the dominant form of both formative and summative assessments, particularly in literary studies. However, many students who enter university in South Africa struggle with academic writing, particularly in the form of academic essays, to make arguments about lite…
A habitability lens to boost effective local climate adaptation
Sociology (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work) · Adaptation (eye (1 work) · Affordance (1 work)