T Mclellan
Biographic Data
| ID | 48355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Mclellan |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclellan |
| SIGNATURE | MCLELLAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Thammasat University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2023-570X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Asian Tricks and Research Misconduct: From Orientalism and Occidentalism to Solidarity against Audit Cultures
Science journalism and academic commentary often paints China as a nation plagued by publication misconduct and beset with an immature culture of research ethics. Aspects of this commentary are echoed in the day-to-day conversations of scientists at research institutions such as the southwest China-based Institute for Farms and Forests (IFF). Grounded in ethnographic research at IFF, I interrogate Orientalist and Occidentalist narratives about Ch…
The Time Politics of Agroforestry Science
This article examines the time politics of agroforestry science through an ethnographic study with scientists at the Institute for Farms and Forests (IFF) in China. IFF researchers seek to design complex agroforestry systems that emulate the regenerative cycles and evolutionary adaptations of natural forests, a goal which challenges the dominant temporalities of industrial agriculture and modernist development. Yet these aspirations are continual…
Science Interrupted: A Conversation with Timothy G. McLellan
investigates and breaks down audit cultures and the practice of dealing with bureaucracy within scientific research.The book takes place within a transnational agroforestry research institute in southwest China, the Institute for Farms and Forests (IFF), but rather than choosing to centre his analysis on China, McLellan uses his field site and his experience of being embedded within the institute for more than two years to make broader observatio…
Bureaucracy and distributed vulnerability at a Chinese research institute: Beyond the Faculty Perspective on Audit Cultures
Bureaucracy and audit are an increasingly pervasive fact of scientific and academic life. In this article, I examine this bureaucracy through the perspectives of non-faculty staff at a Chinese research institute: the Institute for Farms and Forests (IFF). I build upon the lament of a staff member called Tao that inflexible bureaucracy is the consequence of civil servants' determination to evade vulnerability. Bringing Tao and her colleagues' anal…
Tools for an efficient witness: Deskilling science and devaluing labor at an agro-environmental research institute
Expectations that research should not only generate real-world impacts but do so in a way that provides “value-for-money” pervade academia and the contemporary knowledge economy. In agricultural research for development, this imperative has spawned “tools” that promise rapidly scalable scientific knowledge on everything from gender inequality to environmental degradation. This promise of speed and scale relies on formal protocols that attempt to …
Impact, theory of change, and the horizons of scientific practice
Demands for research to generate impact , along with proliferating institutional regimes for evaluating impact, are a ubiquitous aspect of contemporary scientific practice. Based on participant observation at an agro-environmental research institute in southwest China, this article explores three iterations of a tool for planning and evaluating impactful science called 'theory of change' (TOC). Despite their ostensible common grounding in TOC, I …
Mushrooms and Cash Crops Can Coexist in Mountain Livelihoods: Wild Mushrooms as Economic and Recreational Resources in the Greater Mekong
Cash crop cultivation and harvesting of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are both important parts of rural livelihood portfolios worldwide. In mountainous areas of the Greater Mekong Subregion, government programs, scholars, and private-sector interests have promoted both as strategies for rural economic development. NTFPs are also often championed as an incentive for rural communities to protect forests. However, little is known about how cash…
Tracking the Process of International Norm Emergence: A Comparative Analysis of Six Agendas and Emerging Migrants’ Rights
This article provides a systematic understanding of international norm emergence and illuminates the various strategic pathways to altering global dialogue and standards of practice. It traces the steps leading to global norm emergence and identifies the range of conditions that are necessary or sufficient for potential norms to move from one step to the next. Accordingly, it analyzes the progress of six separate international norm agendas to dev…
Impact, theory of change, and the horizons of scientific practice
Demands for research to generate impact , along with proliferating institutional regimes for evaluating impact, are a ubiquitous aspect of contemporary scientific practice. Based on participant observation at an agro-environmental research institute in southwest China, this article explores three iterations of a tool for planning and evaluating impactful science called 'theory of change' (TOC). Despite their ostensible common grounding in TOC, I …
Tracking the Process of International Norm Emergence: A Comparative Analysis of Six Agendas and Emerging Migrants’ Rights
This article provides a systematic understanding of international norm emergence and illuminates the various strategic pathways to altering global dialogue and standards of practice. It traces the steps leading to global norm emergence and identifies the range of conditions that are necessary or sufficient for potential norms to move from one step to the next. Accordingly, it analyzes the progress of six separate international norm agendas to dev…
Bureaucracy and distributed vulnerability at a Chinese research institute: Beyond the Faculty Perspective on Audit Cultures
Bureaucracy and audit are an increasingly pervasive fact of scientific and academic life. In this article, I examine this bureaucracy through the perspectives of non-faculty staff at a Chinese research institute: the Institute for Farms and Forests (IFF). I build upon the lament of a staff member called Tao that inflexible bureaucracy is the consequence of civil servants' determination to evade vulnerability. Bringing Tao and her colleagues' anal…
Tracking the Process of International Norm Emergence: A Comparative Analysis of Six Agendas and Emerging Migrants’ Rights
This article provides a systematic understanding of international norm emergence and illuminates the various strategic pathways to altering global dialogue and standards of practice. It traces the steps leading to global norm emergence and identifies the range of conditions that are necessary or sufficient for potential norms to move from one step to the next. Accordingly, it analyzes the progress of six separate international norm agendas to dev…
Mushrooms and Cash Crops Can Coexist in Mountain Livelihoods: Wild Mushrooms as Economic and Recreational Resources in the Greater Mekong
Cash crop cultivation and harvesting of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are both important parts of rural livelihood portfolios worldwide. In mountainous areas of the Greater Mekong Subregion, government programs, scholars, and private-sector interests have promoted both as strategies for rural economic development. NTFPs are also often championed as an incentive for rural communities to protect forests. However, little is known about how cash…
Impact, theory of change, and the horizons of scientific practice
Demands for research to generate impact , along with proliferating institutional regimes for evaluating impact, are a ubiquitous aspect of contemporary scientific practice. Based on participant observation at an agro-environmental research institute in southwest China, this article explores three iterations of a tool for planning and evaluating impactful science called 'theory of change' (TOC). Despite their ostensible common grounding in TOC, I …
Tools for an efficient witness: Deskilling science and devaluing labor at an agro-environmental research institute
Expectations that research should not only generate real-world impacts but do so in a way that provides “value-for-money” pervade academia and the contemporary knowledge economy. In agricultural research for development, this imperative has spawned “tools” that promise rapidly scalable scientific knowledge on everything from gender inequality to environmental degradation. This promise of speed and scale relies on formal protocols that attempt to …
Science Interrupted: A Conversation with Timothy G. McLellan
investigates and breaks down audit cultures and the practice of dealing with bureaucracy within scientific research.The book takes place within a transnational agroforestry research institute in southwest China, the Institute for Farms and Forests (IFF), but rather than choosing to centre his analysis on China, McLellan uses his field site and his experience of being embedded within the institute for more than two years to make broader observatio…
Bureaucracy and distributed vulnerability at a Chinese research institute: Beyond the Faculty Perspective on Audit Cultures
Bureaucracy and audit are an increasingly pervasive fact of scientific and academic life. In this article, I examine this bureaucracy through the perspectives of non-faculty staff at a Chinese research institute: the Institute for Farms and Forests (IFF). I build upon the lament of a staff member called Tao that inflexible bureaucracy is the consequence of civil servants' determination to evade vulnerability. Bringing Tao and her colleagues' anal…
Asian Tricks and Research Misconduct: From Orientalism and Occidentalism to Solidarity against Audit Cultures
Science journalism and academic commentary often paints China as a nation plagued by publication misconduct and beset with an immature culture of research ethics. Aspects of this commentary are echoed in the day-to-day conversations of scientists at research institutions such as the southwest China-based Institute for Farms and Forests (IFF). Grounded in ethnographic research at IFF, I interrogate Orientalist and Occidentalist narratives about Ch…
The Time Politics of Agroforestry Science
This article examines the time politics of agroforestry science through an ethnographic study with scientists at the Institute for Farms and Forests (IFF) in China. IFF researchers seek to design complex agroforestry systems that emulate the regenerative cycles and evolutionary adaptations of natural forests, a goal which challenges the dominant temporalities of industrial agriculture and modernist development. Yet these aspirations are continual…
Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Conversation (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works) · Audit (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)