A Brooks
Biographic Data
| ID | 51559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Brooks |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Brooks |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6896-6635 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Boycotting racial capitalism
This article explores how racial capitalism in colonial Ireland was successfully challenged through the world’s first ever boycott. In the political economy of the late nineteenth-century, race and class were mutually constituted. The colonial landholding system of Ireland was a peripheral part of the British Empire. Catholic Irish tenants were cast as an inferior Celtic race in opposition to superior Anglo-Saxon Protestant English landlords. In …
Class, Social Justice, and Sustainable Fashion
Despite being a key creative sector in post-industrial economies and a skilledprofession, fashion design is often characterized by uncertainty and financial precarity. Even in the progressive field of sustainable fashion, it is difficult for working class designers to succeed. Growing awareness of the global environmental crisis has stimulated interest in sustainable design. Sustainability draws together three pillars: environmental, economic and…
Sube el consumo y bajan las oportunidades
El aumento de la demanda global de una mercancía puede, paradójicamente, reducir las oportunidades comerciales de productores orientados al mercado nacional. En Colombia, la creciente demanda de aguacates para exportación ha llevado a la expulsión de productores de otras variedades que durante décadas han abastecido el mercado nacional. Esto se debe a la entrada de inversionistas que han expandido la producción de aguacate tanto en los mercados n…
A Relational Comparison
This article sets the gendered effects of low-wage, cross-border labor in Palestine within a global frame of uneven development. Drawing on fieldwork close to Checkpoint 300, between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, we first provide an account that centers Palestinian women’s social reproduction as coconstitutive of male cross-border employment in the Israeli economy. Discussion then moves to consider gendered work in apartheid-era South Africa with the …
Animals and urban gentrification
Urban gentrification debates are essentially anthropocentric, ignoring how the presence of animals at the gentrification frontier can promote or oppose capital accumulation. By way of corrective, this article reviews geographical work on the relations of human and non-human animals in gentrifying neighbourhoods, arguing for a trans-species perspective on urban gentrification that considers the different ways animals are caught up in gentrificatio…
Assessing the economic impacts of post-harvest fisheries losses in Malawi
This paper presents the findings from a qualitative and quantitative fisheries value chain and post-harvest loss study conducted in four Malawian lakes: Malawi, Malombe, Chilwa and Chiuta. The research found that the estimated total value of the fisheries value chain was US $454 million in 2016 – or 7.2% of the projected 2017 GDP. This is over 2.5 times the previously reported (Government of Malawi, 2017) beach landing site value. The study found…
Succeeding from nature
Non-human life has economic agency. It acts on the cultural values of products. Naturalness is an important, yet ambiguous, property in the market and imbues vibrant materials with organic, healthy, traditional, and other contingent properties. However, "natural" products can be succeeded in form and function by "synthetic" alternatives. Their value is further affected by non-humans. Our signal case explores Portuguese cork bark, an agroforestry …
Bringing relational comparison into development studies
Global health volunteering is premised on a comparative understanding of development: hospitals in developing countries are ‘behind’ modern institutions in developed nations, and sharing volunteers’ skills will enable the latter to ‘catch-up’. We argue for a ‘relational comparison’ in development studies, which draws upon a geographical conception of inequality premised on understanding places in relation to one another rather than reifying diffe…
Global health volunteering, the Ebola outbreak, and instrumental humanitarianisms in Sierra Leone
Geographers have long been concerned with the spaces, scales, and conceptual significance of volunteering. They have, however, been slower to engage with the global surge in medical volunteering, whether in times of everyday or acute emergency. Volunteering is a crucial component of the architectures of global health and humanitarianism, but it remains marginal to the concerns of both health and development geographers. This paper seeks to addres…
Analyzing drivers of fish biomass and biodiversity within community fish refuges in Cambodia
Fiorella, K. J., E. R. Bageant, M. Kim, V. Sean, V. Try, H. J. MacDonell, E. Baran, Y. Kura, A. C. Brooks, C. B. Barrett, and S. Thilsted. 2019. Analyzing drivers of fish biomass and biodiversity within community fish refuges in Cambodia. Ecology and Society 24(3):18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11053-240318
The Binds of Global Health Partnership
Global health partnerships (GHPs) are the conceptual cousin of partnerships in the development sphere. Since their emergence in the 1990s, the GHP mode of working and funding has mainly been applied to single-disease, vertical interventions. However, GHPs are increasingly being used to enact Health Systems Strengthening and to address the global health worker shortage. In contrast to other critical explorations of GHPs, we explore in this article…
Was Africa rising? Narratives of development success and failure among the Mozambican middle class
Was Africa rising? Narratives of development success and failure among the Mozambican middle class. Territory, Politics, Governance. In the 2000s and 2010s, a narrative of ‘Africa Rising’ was popularized by businesses, donors, media and political leaders. High economic growth rates, increased investment from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and the export of natural resources supported claims of development success. One g…
Late Stone Age human remains from Ishango (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Sovereignty, the ‘resource curse’ and the limits of good governance
The idea of a resource curse has influenced policy makers and led to calls for good governance to avoid the pitfalls of oil sector development. Through discussion of Ghana's recent insertion into the global political economy of oil, this paper describes the limits of the resource curse framing and associated liberal institutional management approaches to the inherently political nature of oil exploration and production. The paper describes ways i…
Country planning for health interventions under development
Traditionally it has taken years or decades for new public health interventions targeting diseases found in developing countries to be accessible to those most in need. One reason for the delay has been insufficient anticipation of the eventual processes and evidence required for decision making by countries. This paper describes research into the anticipated processes and data needed to inform decision making on malaria vaccines, the most advanc…
Sorting out the Muddle in the Middle Pleistocene of Zambia
Improved rig for dynamically calibrating skinfold calipers
This article describes an improved rig for the dynamic calibration of skinfold calipers. The new unit is 5% lighter and almost 60% smaller than its predecessor (Carlyon et al., 1996, 1998) with a 9.5 mm solid aluminium base and a quick release caliper mount providing stability to both the rig and caliper. Automation of the gap controller with an electric motor standardizes the jaw opening and closing velocity, thereby enabling hands‐free operatio…
Richards Symonds and the Palazzo Farnese, 1640 50
The Italian notebooks of Richard Symonds (1617–60) not only show how an Englishman sought out words of art in Rome during his exile after the Civil War, but also shed new light on the collection that he visited. His account of a visit to the Palazzo Farnese relies far more on first-hand observation than those left by any previous British visitor to the palace; unlike his fellow-countryman, John Evelyn, Symonds describes words in the collection th…
Progenitors and Progeny of a Seminal Movement
The Genesis of an Awakening, a Case of Black and White on Black
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Animals and urban gentrification
Urban gentrification debates are essentially anthropocentric, ignoring how the presence of animals at the gentrification frontier can promote or oppose capital accumulation. By way of corrective, this article reviews geographical work on the relations of human and non-human animals in gentrifying neighbourhoods, arguing for a trans-species perspective on urban gentrification that considers the different ways animals are caught up in gentrificatio…
Late Stone Age human remains from Ishango (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Sovereignty, the ‘resource curse’ and the limits of good governance
The idea of a resource curse has influenced policy makers and led to calls for good governance to avoid the pitfalls of oil sector development. Through discussion of Ghana's recent insertion into the global political economy of oil, this paper describes the limits of the resource curse framing and associated liberal institutional management approaches to the inherently political nature of oil exploration and production. The paper describes ways i…
Bringing relational comparison into development studies
Global health volunteering is premised on a comparative understanding of development: hospitals in developing countries are ‘behind’ modern institutions in developed nations, and sharing volunteers’ skills will enable the latter to ‘catch-up’. We argue for a ‘relational comparison’ in development studies, which draws upon a geographical conception of inequality premised on understanding places in relation to one another rather than reifying diffe…
The Binds of Global Health Partnership
Global health partnerships (GHPs) are the conceptual cousin of partnerships in the development sphere. Since their emergence in the 1990s, the GHP mode of working and funding has mainly been applied to single-disease, vertical interventions. However, GHPs are increasingly being used to enact Health Systems Strengthening and to address the global health worker shortage. In contrast to other critical explorations of GHPs, we explore in this article…
A Relational Comparison
This article sets the gendered effects of low-wage, cross-border labor in Palestine within a global frame of uneven development. Drawing on fieldwork close to Checkpoint 300, between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, we first provide an account that centers Palestinian women’s social reproduction as coconstitutive of male cross-border employment in the Israeli economy. Discussion then moves to consider gendered work in apartheid-era South Africa with the …
Was Africa rising? Narratives of development success and failure among the Mozambican middle class
Was Africa rising? Narratives of development success and failure among the Mozambican middle class. Territory, Politics, Governance. In the 2000s and 2010s, a narrative of ‘Africa Rising’ was popularized by businesses, donors, media and political leaders. High economic growth rates, increased investment from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and the export of natural resources supported claims of development success. One g…
Global health volunteering, the Ebola outbreak, and instrumental humanitarianisms in Sierra Leone
Geographers have long been concerned with the spaces, scales, and conceptual significance of volunteering. They have, however, been slower to engage with the global surge in medical volunteering, whether in times of everyday or acute emergency. Volunteering is a crucial component of the architectures of global health and humanitarianism, but it remains marginal to the concerns of both health and development geographers. This paper seeks to addres…
Country planning for health interventions under development
Traditionally it has taken years or decades for new public health interventions targeting diseases found in developing countries to be accessible to those most in need. One reason for the delay has been insufficient anticipation of the eventual processes and evidence required for decision making by countries. This paper describes research into the anticipated processes and data needed to inform decision making on malaria vaccines, the most advanc…
Assessing the economic impacts of post-harvest fisheries losses in Malawi
This paper presents the findings from a qualitative and quantitative fisheries value chain and post-harvest loss study conducted in four Malawian lakes: Malawi, Malombe, Chilwa and Chiuta. The research found that the estimated total value of the fisheries value chain was US $454 million in 2016 – or 7.2% of the projected 2017 GDP. This is over 2.5 times the previously reported (Government of Malawi, 2017) beach landing site value. The study found…
Succeeding from nature
Non-human life has economic agency. It acts on the cultural values of products. Naturalness is an important, yet ambiguous, property in the market and imbues vibrant materials with organic, healthy, traditional, and other contingent properties. However, "natural" products can be succeeded in form and function by "synthetic" alternatives. Their value is further affected by non-humans. Our signal case explores Portuguese cork bark, an agroforestry …
Res Ipsa Loquitur
The Genesis of an Awakening, a Case of Black and White on Black
Progenitors and Progeny of a Seminal Movement
Richards Symonds and the Palazzo Farnese, 1640 50
The Italian notebooks of Richard Symonds (1617–60) not only show how an Englishman sought out words of art in Rome during his exile after the Civil War, but also shed new light on the collection that he visited. His account of a visit to the Palazzo Farnese relies far more on first-hand observation than those left by any previous British visitor to the palace; unlike his fellow-countryman, John Evelyn, Symonds describes words in the collection th…
Improved rig for dynamically calibrating skinfold calipers
This article describes an improved rig for the dynamic calibration of skinfold calipers. The new unit is 5% lighter and almost 60% smaller than its predecessor (Carlyon et al., 1996, 1998) with a 9.5 mm solid aluminium base and a quick release caliper mount providing stability to both the rig and caliper. Automation of the gap controller with an electric motor standardizes the jaw opening and closing velocity, thereby enabling hands‐free operatio…
Sorting out the Muddle in the Middle Pleistocene of Zambia
Country planning for health interventions under development
Traditionally it has taken years or decades for new public health interventions targeting diseases found in developing countries to be accessible to those most in need. One reason for the delay has been insufficient anticipation of the eventual processes and evidence required for decision making by countries. This paper describes research into the anticipated processes and data needed to inform decision making on malaria vaccines, the most advanc…
Sovereignty, the ‘resource curse’ and the limits of good governance
The idea of a resource curse has influenced policy makers and led to calls for good governance to avoid the pitfalls of oil sector development. Through discussion of Ghana's recent insertion into the global political economy of oil, this paper describes the limits of the resource curse framing and associated liberal institutional management approaches to the inherently political nature of oil exploration and production. The paper describes ways i…
Late Stone Age human remains from Ishango (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Was Africa rising? Narratives of development success and failure among the Mozambican middle class
Was Africa rising? Narratives of development success and failure among the Mozambican middle class. Territory, Politics, Governance. In the 2000s and 2010s, a narrative of ‘Africa Rising’ was popularized by businesses, donors, media and political leaders. High economic growth rates, increased investment from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and the export of natural resources supported claims of development success. One g…
The Binds of Global Health Partnership
Global health partnerships (GHPs) are the conceptual cousin of partnerships in the development sphere. Since their emergence in the 1990s, the GHP mode of working and funding has mainly been applied to single-disease, vertical interventions. However, GHPs are increasingly being used to enact Health Systems Strengthening and to address the global health worker shortage. In contrast to other critical explorations of GHPs, we explore in this article…
Bringing relational comparison into development studies
Global health volunteering is premised on a comparative understanding of development: hospitals in developing countries are ‘behind’ modern institutions in developed nations, and sharing volunteers’ skills will enable the latter to ‘catch-up’. We argue for a ‘relational comparison’ in development studies, which draws upon a geographical conception of inequality premised on understanding places in relation to one another rather than reifying diffe…
Global health volunteering, the Ebola outbreak, and instrumental humanitarianisms in Sierra Leone
Geographers have long been concerned with the spaces, scales, and conceptual significance of volunteering. They have, however, been slower to engage with the global surge in medical volunteering, whether in times of everyday or acute emergency. Volunteering is a crucial component of the architectures of global health and humanitarianism, but it remains marginal to the concerns of both health and development geographers. This paper seeks to addres…
Analyzing drivers of fish biomass and biodiversity within community fish refuges in Cambodia
Fiorella, K. J., E. R. Bageant, M. Kim, V. Sean, V. Try, H. J. MacDonell, E. Baran, Y. Kura, A. C. Brooks, C. B. Barrett, and S. Thilsted. 2019. Analyzing drivers of fish biomass and biodiversity within community fish refuges in Cambodia. Ecology and Society 24(3):18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11053-240318
Assessing the economic impacts of post-harvest fisheries losses in Malawi
This paper presents the findings from a qualitative and quantitative fisheries value chain and post-harvest loss study conducted in four Malawian lakes: Malawi, Malombe, Chilwa and Chiuta. The research found that the estimated total value of the fisheries value chain was US $454 million in 2016 – or 7.2% of the projected 2017 GDP. This is over 2.5 times the previously reported (Government of Malawi, 2017) beach landing site value. The study found…
Succeeding from nature
Non-human life has economic agency. It acts on the cultural values of products. Naturalness is an important, yet ambiguous, property in the market and imbues vibrant materials with organic, healthy, traditional, and other contingent properties. However, "natural" products can be succeeded in form and function by "synthetic" alternatives. Their value is further affected by non-humans. Our signal case explores Portuguese cork bark, an agroforestry …
Animals and urban gentrification
Urban gentrification debates are essentially anthropocentric, ignoring how the presence of animals at the gentrification frontier can promote or oppose capital accumulation. By way of corrective, this article reviews geographical work on the relations of human and non-human animals in gentrifying neighbourhoods, arguing for a trans-species perspective on urban gentrification that considers the different ways animals are caught up in gentrificatio…
A Relational Comparison
This article sets the gendered effects of low-wage, cross-border labor in Palestine within a global frame of uneven development. Drawing on fieldwork close to Checkpoint 300, between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, we first provide an account that centers Palestinian women’s social reproduction as coconstitutive of male cross-border employment in the Israeli economy. Discussion then moves to consider gendered work in apartheid-era South Africa with the …
Sube el consumo y bajan las oportunidades
El aumento de la demanda global de una mercancía puede, paradójicamente, reducir las oportunidades comerciales de productores orientados al mercado nacional. En Colombia, la creciente demanda de aguacates para exportación ha llevado a la expulsión de productores de otras variedades que durante décadas han abastecido el mercado nacional. Esto se debe a la entrada de inversionistas que han expandido la producción de aguacate tanto en los mercados n…
Boycotting racial capitalism
This article explores how racial capitalism in colonial Ireland was successfully challenged through the world’s first ever boycott. In the political economy of the late nineteenth-century, race and class were mutually constituted. The colonial landholding system of Ireland was a peripheral part of the British Empire. Catholic Irish tenants were cast as an inferior Celtic race in opposition to superior Anglo-Saxon Protestant English landlords. In …
Class, Social Justice, and Sustainable Fashion
Despite being a key creative sector in post-industrial economies and a skilledprofession, fashion design is often characterized by uncertainty and financial precarity. Even in the progressive field of sustainable fashion, it is difficult for working class designers to succeed. Growing awareness of the global environmental crisis has stimulated interest in sustainable design. Sustainability draws together three pillars: environmental, economic and…
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