Iain Black
Biographic Data
| ID | 6453979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iain Black |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iain |
| FAMILY NAME | Black |
| SIGNATURE | BLACK I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heriot-Watt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5135-9126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond growth
Contemporary fisheries have been shaped by a paradigm of perpetual growth, characterized by increasing global production and consumption. While this growth has driven economic benefits and technological progress, it has jeopardized the sustainability of marine ecosystems, with implications for the long-term livelihoods and wellbeing of fishers, consumers and resource dependent coastal populations worldwide. This paper advocates for a shift beyond…
The Dynamic Interplay of Hope vs Fear Appeals in a Referendum Context
This article makes a contribution by articulating, for the first time, how hope and fear appeals were constructed as a rhetorical media device in a political advertising campaign context, specifically the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Based on a qualitative content analysis of both sides' campaigning materials, an understanding of the fluid, responsive and symbiotic nature of these emotional appeals and how they are utilized against the …
Imperial visions
This chapter describes the Bank Junction in the inter-war period and considers the rebuilding of the Bank of England by Sir Herbert Baker. By the 1920s Baker had a distinguished record as an architect in the service of empire. The question of rebuilding the Bank of England was first actively considered during the First World War. Once commissioned, Baker worked quickly to prepare his report, presenting it to the Rebuilding Committee. Baker's repo…
Changing the narrative
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has emerged as a dominant proxy for the success of a nation. At the micro level, a similar monetary orientation is manifest in the development of invidious materialism. This article supports a shift in the purpose of policy-making, away from GDP growth and towards an agenda in which participation and relationships are positioned as more desirable. It presents Oxfam Scotland’s Humankind Index as replacement measure of …
Changing the narrative in our relationship with consumption
This paper introduces two interrelated Open Space articles, Changing the narrative: Measuring progress by measuring what matters to families and Places of prosumption: Community gardens putting the ‘we’ into neighbourhoods . These articles explore how space can be created that facilitates relationships that do not rely on social and environmentally damaging consumption, and help create space for socially, environmentally and economically sustaina…
Places of prosumption
Prosumption encompasses acts of production and consumption, and studies on it have mostly taken a commercial focus, centred on the dominant individualistic narrative of ‘I’. This article seeks to extend debate regarding prosumption by exploring its possibilities for creating a new set of ‘we’ identities based around nature and community. It focuses on community gardens and how these places generate progressive forms of social relations that criti…
Market based political action
This paper critiques market based political action (consumption as voting) with the aim of assessing its use as a means of political and societal action capable of helping develop a sustainable economy. Despite being able to motivate change within the market place, overall it is found to be limited in its direct ability to affect social change and lead the development of a more sustainable economy. However, it is found to be a useful form of poli…
Geography, political economy and the circulation of finance capital in early industrial England
Market based political action
This paper critiques market based political action (consumption as voting) with the aim of assessing its use as a means of political and societal action capable of helping develop a sustainable economy. Despite being able to motivate change within the market place, overall it is found to be limited in its direct ability to affect social change and lead the development of a more sustainable economy. However, it is found to be a useful form of poli…
Geography, political economy and the circulation of finance capital in early industrial England
The Dynamic Interplay of Hope vs Fear Appeals in a Referendum Context
This article makes a contribution by articulating, for the first time, how hope and fear appeals were constructed as a rhetorical media device in a political advertising campaign context, specifically the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Based on a qualitative content analysis of both sides' campaigning materials, an understanding of the fluid, responsive and symbiotic nature of these emotional appeals and how they are utilized against the …
Geography, political economy and the circulation of finance capital in early industrial England
Market based political action
This paper critiques market based political action (consumption as voting) with the aim of assessing its use as a means of political and societal action capable of helping develop a sustainable economy. Despite being able to motivate change within the market place, overall it is found to be limited in its direct ability to affect social change and lead the development of a more sustainable economy. However, it is found to be a useful form of poli…
Changing the narrative
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has emerged as a dominant proxy for the success of a nation. At the micro level, a similar monetary orientation is manifest in the development of invidious materialism. This article supports a shift in the purpose of policy-making, away from GDP growth and towards an agenda in which participation and relationships are positioned as more desirable. It presents Oxfam Scotland’s Humankind Index as replacement measure of …
Changing the narrative in our relationship with consumption
This paper introduces two interrelated Open Space articles, Changing the narrative: Measuring progress by measuring what matters to families and Places of prosumption: Community gardens putting the ‘we’ into neighbourhoods . These articles explore how space can be created that facilitates relationships that do not rely on social and environmentally damaging consumption, and help create space for socially, environmentally and economically sustaina…
Places of prosumption
Prosumption encompasses acts of production and consumption, and studies on it have mostly taken a commercial focus, centred on the dominant individualistic narrative of ‘I’. This article seeks to extend debate regarding prosumption by exploring its possibilities for creating a new set of ‘we’ identities based around nature and community. It focuses on community gardens and how these places generate progressive forms of social relations that criti…
Imperial visions
This chapter describes the Bank Junction in the inter-war period and considers the rebuilding of the Bank of England by Sir Herbert Baker. By the 1920s Baker had a distinguished record as an architect in the service of empire. The question of rebuilding the Bank of England was first actively considered during the First World War. Once commissioned, Baker worked quickly to prepare his report, presenting it to the Rebuilding Committee. Baker's repo…
The Dynamic Interplay of Hope vs Fear Appeals in a Referendum Context
This article makes a contribution by articulating, for the first time, how hope and fear appeals were constructed as a rhetorical media device in a political advertising campaign context, specifically the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Based on a qualitative content analysis of both sides' campaigning materials, an understanding of the fluid, responsive and symbiotic nature of these emotional appeals and how they are utilized against the …
Beyond growth
Contemporary fisheries have been shaped by a paradigm of perpetual growth, characterized by increasing global production and consumption. While this growth has driven economic benefits and technological progress, it has jeopardized the sustainability of marine ecosystems, with implications for the long-term livelihoods and wellbeing of fishers, consumers and resource dependent coastal populations worldwide. This paper advocates for a shift beyond…
Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Consumption (sociology (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Sustainability (3 works) · Sustainable development (3 works)