B Bowles
Biographic Data
| ID | 65640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Bowles |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowles |
| SIGNATURE | BOWLES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0472-8379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What Do You Mean You Haven't Got Tools
Itinerant boat dwellers (boaters) in London and South East England speak about many internal divisions within the community. 'Dirty boaters' are contrasted with 'shiny boaters'; 'yuppies' and 'hipsters' are contrasted 'oldtimers,' 'crusties' or 'pirates'. For many, be they boaters, outsiders or other writers, these distinctions have something to do with class background. However, my ethnographic research with the boaters shows that, although clas…
The Linear Village? Chasing “Community” amongst Boat Dwellers on the Waterways of South East England
Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure
This paper explores the ways that private equity practices of financialised value extraction have migrated to the water sector in England. In line with the financialisation literature more broadly, we show how private equity investors have found innovative financial mechanisms for increasing investor returns that are unrelated to productive activity. The resulting financialised, highly-indebted corporate structures create costs and risks for util…
Resilience, infrastructure and the anti-social contract in neoliberal Britain
Resilience', a quintessentially neoliberal concept, has never been a politically neutral discourse, its intellectual roots situated in the work of Friedrich Hayek and the birth of neoliberal economics. Nevertheless, resilience in infrastructure is often cast as a technocratic, apolitical consideration. This article argues that this is not the case. Using data collected during fieldwork with the UK Government Cabinet Office during a consultation o…
Known Unknowns
Goldstein, D. M. (2012), Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City (Durham: Duke University Press), 344 pp., 9 photographs, 1 map, ISBN: 978-0-8223-5311-9 (paperback). Daniel M. Goldstein’s Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City (2012) is a thickly described and richly detailed ethnography of uncertainty in the barrios of Cochabamba, Bolivia. It holds important insights for legal anthropology, particularly where t…
'Whose Anthropology Is It, Anyway?'
This special issue of Anthropology in Action collects essays arising from the 4th Post-graduate Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute, held at Brunel University (London) on 3–4 September 2014. The event aimed to explore a variety of perspectives concerning the production and the ownership of anthropological knowledge, including issues of authority and ethical responsibility. We also welcomed reflections on the opening of new interstit…
Dangerous Waters
When living aboard a narrowboat on the waterways of southern England with the itinerant boat‐dwellers who term themselves “Boaters,” one has to be cautious and vigilant in the face of a number of potential threats to the safety and security of one's self and one's vessel. Moorings in certain areas are attacked and burgled frequently and most Boaters have stories of unwarranted violent attacks or, at least, heated confrontations with locals reside…
Performing national consensus
Though often remembered simply as entertaining, well-crafted melodramas seasoned with Provençal local colour, Marcel Pagnol’s hit plays and films from the 1930s also contain strong elements of social realism and an exceptionally broad, coherent depiction of the fracture lines running through French society as a whole. Beyond addressing class and racial tensions in large cities such as his beloved Marseille, Pagnol highlighted ideological rivalrie…
Politicizing Pagnol
Journal Article Politicizing Pagnol: Rural France, Film, and Ideology Under the Popular Front Get access Brett Bowles Brett Bowles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 2005, Pages 112–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/cri001 Published: 01 March 2005
Resilience, infrastructure and the anti-social contract in neoliberal Britain
Resilience', a quintessentially neoliberal concept, has never been a politically neutral discourse, its intellectual roots situated in the work of Friedrich Hayek and the birth of neoliberal economics. Nevertheless, resilience in infrastructure is often cast as a technocratic, apolitical consideration. This article argues that this is not the case. Using data collected during fieldwork with the UK Government Cabinet Office during a consultation o…
Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure
This paper explores the ways that private equity practices of financialised value extraction have migrated to the water sector in England. In line with the financialisation literature more broadly, we show how private equity investors have found innovative financial mechanisms for increasing investor returns that are unrelated to productive activity. The resulting financialised, highly-indebted corporate structures create costs and risks for util…
Politicizing Pagnol
Journal Article Politicizing Pagnol: Rural France, Film, and Ideology Under the Popular Front Get access Brett Bowles Brett Bowles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 2005, Pages 112–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/cri001 Published: 01 March 2005
Performing national consensus
Though often remembered simply as entertaining, well-crafted melodramas seasoned with Provençal local colour, Marcel Pagnol’s hit plays and films from the 1930s also contain strong elements of social realism and an exceptionally broad, coherent depiction of the fracture lines running through French society as a whole. Beyond addressing class and racial tensions in large cities such as his beloved Marseille, Pagnol highlighted ideological rivalrie…
Dangerous Waters
When living aboard a narrowboat on the waterways of southern England with the itinerant boat‐dwellers who term themselves “Boaters,” one has to be cautious and vigilant in the face of a number of potential threats to the safety and security of one's self and one's vessel. Moorings in certain areas are attacked and burgled frequently and most Boaters have stories of unwarranted violent attacks or, at least, heated confrontations with locals reside…
'Whose Anthropology Is It, Anyway?'
This special issue of Anthropology in Action collects essays arising from the 4th Post-graduate Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute, held at Brunel University (London) on 3–4 September 2014. The event aimed to explore a variety of perspectives concerning the production and the ownership of anthropological knowledge, including issues of authority and ethical responsibility. We also welcomed reflections on the opening of new interstit…
Known Unknowns
Goldstein, D. M. (2012), Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City (Durham: Duke University Press), 344 pp., 9 photographs, 1 map, ISBN: 978-0-8223-5311-9 (paperback). Daniel M. Goldstein’s Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City (2012) is a thickly described and richly detailed ethnography of uncertainty in the barrios of Cochabamba, Bolivia. It holds important insights for legal anthropology, particularly where t…
The Linear Village? Chasing “Community” amongst Boat Dwellers on the Waterways of South East England
Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure
This paper explores the ways that private equity practices of financialised value extraction have migrated to the water sector in England. In line with the financialisation literature more broadly, we show how private equity investors have found innovative financial mechanisms for increasing investor returns that are unrelated to productive activity. The resulting financialised, highly-indebted corporate structures create costs and risks for util…
Resilience, infrastructure and the anti-social contract in neoliberal Britain
Resilience', a quintessentially neoliberal concept, has never been a politically neutral discourse, its intellectual roots situated in the work of Friedrich Hayek and the birth of neoliberal economics. Nevertheless, resilience in infrastructure is often cast as a technocratic, apolitical consideration. This article argues that this is not the case. Using data collected during fieldwork with the UK Government Cabinet Office during a consultation o…
What Do You Mean You Haven't Got Tools
Itinerant boat dwellers (boaters) in London and South East England speak about many internal divisions within the community. 'Dirty boaters' are contrasted with 'shiny boaters'; 'yuppies' and 'hipsters' are contrasted 'oldtimers,' 'crusties' or 'pirates'. For many, be they boaters, outsiders or other writers, these distinctions have something to do with class background. However, my ethnographic research with the boaters shows that, although clas…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works)