Gavin Williams

Dados Biográficos

ID79467
NOMEGavin Williams
PRENOMESGavin
SOBRENOMEWilliams
ASSINATURAWILLIAMS G
AFILIAÇÕESSaint Peter's University
ORCID0000-0001-8087-0169
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS53
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES215
TOTAL COMO AUTOR51
TOTAL COMO EDITOR4
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1969
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H9

  • The minimal clinically important difference for the patient activation measure in a culturally and linguistically diverse cohort with chronic conditions

    Open AccessRobert A Boland, Joseph Descallar et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2026

    To estimate the Minimally Clinically Important Difference (MCID) for the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) in a culturally diverse sample of people with chronic disease. This study was embedded in a larger cluster randomised trial exploring chronic disease management interventions in a culturally diverse sample of 254 adults. Patients were consecutively recruited across 16 outpatient clinics in Sydney, Australia and completed a range of outcomes r…

  • The Reproduction of Caruso

    Open AccessGavin WilliamsARTICLECambridge Opera Journal2021

    Few figures loom larger in the early history of recorded sound than Enrico Caruso. Man and voice are ubiquitous in the making of gramophone markets, and conspicuous, too, as means of scholarly explanation by which a sound medium was born. In sound studies, Caruso has become a cipher for ‘audile technique’ (Jonathan Sterne's coinage), the bodily practices by which listeners came to engage musical media as something for their ears alone. This artic…

  • Shellac as Musical Plastic

    Gavin WilliamsARTICLEJournal of the American…2021

    Shellac was essential to the gramophone industry throughout the first half of the twentieth century, yet the material has long kept a low profile. At once inaudible and urgently required, shellac was a plastic and colonial commodity with wide-ranging applications. Building on recent scholarship that explores its ecological imbrication, this article additionally presents a case for understanding it as a musical thing. First, it shows how lac—the r…

  • Hearing the Crimean War

    Gavin WilliamsBOOKHearing the Crimean War2019Citada por: 6

    This book addresses the sounds of the Crimean War, along with the many ways nineteenth-century wartime is aurally constructed. It examines wide-ranging experiences of listeners in Britain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Daghestan, Chechnya, and Crimea, illustrating the close interplay between nineteenth-century geographies of empire and the modes by which wartime sound was archived and heard. This book covers topics including musi…

  • Listening to War

    Gavin WilliamsARTICLEMusic and Letters2016

    Listening to War is an original if deeply idiosyncratic book.It is in some ways a breakthrough achievement in sound studies, providing among other things a model for how ethnographic interrogations of contemporary political events might be carried out.Its focus is on 'wartime Iraq', a term that the author takes to mean Iraqi cities during a period from the US-led invasion on 20 March 2003 until roughly December 2011, when the last foreign combat …

  • Slaves, Workers, and Wine

    Gavin WilliamsARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2016Citada por: 2

    The ‘dop [tot] system’ refers to the practice of giving wine to male farm workers at regular intervals during the working day, which was general throughout the Cape winelands by 1890. How do we explain its emergence and ubiquity? To understand the system, we must interpret it historically. This article traces the history of the dop system from the establishment of a slave society at the Cape of Good Hope by 1658 to the Liquor Laws Commission of 1…

  • Pepe Roberts, 1943–2015

    Open AccessJanet Bujra, Gavin WilliamsARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2015Referências: 2

    Pepe (short for Penelope) was an exuberant and lively character who contributed much to the definition of ROAPE's remit in its earlier years.She was a member of the Editorial Working Group from 1981 until 1997, when she 'retired' to an old farmhouse in the South of France.Born in Wales, her parents were teachers who later moved to Southampton.Pepe went to Cambridge to do a degree in Social Anthropology.She became passionate about Africa after wor…

  • Não vamos esquecer (We will not forget)

    Open AccessGavin Williams, Leo Zeilig et al.ARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2014Referências: 6

    The views expressed here are our own unless specifically accredited

  • Ruth First

    Open AccessGavin WilliamsARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2014

    This is the text prepared for a lecture given to the Walter Rodney Memorial Series, African Studies Centre, Boston University, 8 November 1982, in tribute to Ruth First. It discusses her writing on South Africa and Namibia in the context of her political commitments and ultimately her assassination. It considers the forms and themes of her writing; her role as communist and journalist; the Congress Alliance; nationalism, socialism and the Freedom…

  • Who, Where, and When were the Cape Gentry

    Gavin WilliamsARTICLEEconomic History of Developing…2013Referências: 8

    The “Cape gentry” has come to be conventional in descriptions and in analyses of the south-western Cape during the rule of the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie). Implicit in the idea of a “Cape gentry” are ownership of land and of slaves, degrees of inequalities, tenure and exercise of political office, and recognition of status honour, which were perpetuated over generations in networks of intermarried kin. This paper emphasizes the releva…

  • In memoriam Chris Allen (8 December 1942–29 September 2008)

    Open AccessGavin WilliamsARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2009

    In memoriam Chris Allen (8 December 1942–29 September 2008)." Review of African Political Economy, 36(120), pp. 271–272

  • Chris Allen (8 December 1942–29 September 2008)

    Open AccessGavin WilliamsARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2009

    Chris Allen (8 December 1942–29 September 2008)." Review of African Political Economy, 36(122), pp. 651–652

  • Black Economic Empowerment in the South African Wine Industry

    Open AccessGavin WilliamsARTICLEJournal of Agrarian Change2005Citada por: 9Referências: 10

  • Political economies & the study of Africa

    Open AccessGavin WilliamsARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2004Citada por: 1Referências: 16

    This paper is a revised version of a keynote address to the Review of African Political Economy Conference in Birmingham on 5 September 2003. It situates the contributions of the Review of African Political Economy to understanding Africa in relation to the defining texts of political economy and economic science and of political domination. It rejects culturalist, rationalist and causal explanations of African societies in favour of historical a…

  • Democracy as Idea and Democracy as Process in Africa

    Gavin WilliamsARTICLEThe Journal of African American…2003

  • Liberalizing markets and reforming land in South Africa

    Gavin Williams, Joachim Ewert et al.ARTICLEJournal of Contemporary African…1998Citada por: 9Referências: 17

    (1998). Liberalizing markets and reforming land in South Africa. Journal of Contemporary African Studies: Vol. 16, South Africa in Transition, pp. 65-94

  • Ruth first's contribution to African studies

    Gavin WilliamsARTICLEJournal of Contemporary African…1996Citada por: 1Referências: 5

  • Setting the agenda

    Gavin WilliamsARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies1996Citada por: 14Referências: 17

    This article offers a critique of the presuppositions of the recommendations put forward in the World Bank's 'Options for Land Reform and Rural Restructuring in South Africa' 1993. It examines the documents which informed the proposals; the adequacy of their accounts of the experiences, notably of land reforms in Kenya, on which they draw; the strength of their evidence and arguments, particularly regarding agricultural performance and policies; …

  • Land and freedom in South Africa

    Open AccessColin Murray, Gavin WilliamsARTICLEReview of African Political Economy1994Citada por: 4

    We will not sit back and watch as the wealth builds up in the cities, while on the edges of these cities, in the small towns and in the countryside, we continue to starve

  • Why structural adjustment is necessary and why it doesn't work

    Open AccessGavin WilliamsARTICLEReview of African Political Economy1994Citada por: 14

    (1994). Why structural adjustment is necessary and why it doesn't work. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 21, No. 60, pp. 214-225

  • Garveyism, Akinpelu Obisesan and his Contemporaries

    Gavin WilliamsCHAPTERLegitimacy and the State in…1993

    During a brief period between December 1920 and April 1922, a group of educated young men in Ibadan, among them J. Akinpelu Obisesan,1 developed an enthusiasm for the ideas of Marcus Garvey. Why was this group attracted to Garvey's message, what were they trying to achieve, and why was their interest in Garvey, and more broadly in nationalism, so ephemeral

  • The Land Question

    Elizabeth Francis, Gavin WilliamsARTICLECanadian Journal of African…1993

    RésuméEn Afrique du Sud, des lois récentes et des propositions par le gouvernement sur le droit foncier ressuscitent des politiques des politiques encourageant le régime foncier individuel et la consolidation de la division de la terre en “unités agricoles économiques,” selon des politiques administratives envisagées par l'état d'Afrique du Sud dans les années 50 et appliquées par le Kenya coloniale. L'article examine l'expérience kenyanne dans c…

  • St Peter's College

    Gavin WilliamsARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal1991

    Journal Article ST PETER'S COLLEGE Get access GAVIN WILLIAMS GAVIN WILLIAMS St Peter's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 31, Issue 1, SPRING 1991, Pages 230-a–230, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/31.1.230-a Published: 01 March 1991

  • The World Bank in rural Nigeria, revisited

    Open AccessGavin WilliamsARTICLEReview of African Political Economy1988

    The World Bank's policy recommendations have come under extensive and often critical scrutiny in Nigeria, as elsewhere, since the military government adopted the main tenets of the World Bank's Structural Adjustment Programme [SAP]. SAP has had a major impact on agriculture, notably as a result of the substantial devaluation of the naira through the creation of the Foreign Exchange Market [FEM] and the abolition of the Commodity Marketing Boards …

  • The Land Question

    Elizabeth Francis, Gavin Williams