David Shearer
Biographic Data
| ID | 830648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Shearer |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Shearer |
| SIGNATURE | SHEARER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1356-6391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 205 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
What factors explain extreme sport participation? A systematic review
Transfemoral amputation and prosthesis provision in Tanzania
This qualitative analysis informs future directions for research into improving prosthesis-related care for patients with TFA in Tanzania
Geoffrey ROBERTS, Stalin’s Library. A Dictator and His Books
In Stalin’s Library, author Geoffrey Roberts portrays the dictator Joseph Stalin as an intellectual revolutionary. Roberts does not deny or soften Stalin’s brutality or his ruthlessness. Rather he argues that Stalin’s voracious appetite for self-improvement through self-education and reading shaped and only reinforced his self-certainty and willingness to take any measures he felt necessary to achieve his goals. Stalin was a true Marxist in that …
Association of Covid-19 With Achieving Time-to-Surgery Benchmarks in Patients With Musculoskeletal Trauma
In this cohort study, there was no association between meeting time-to-surgery benchmarks in either open fracture or closed femur/hip fracture during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with before the pandemic. This is counter to concerns that the unprecedented challenges associated with managing the COVID-19 pandemic would be associated with clinically significant delays in acute management of urgent surgical cases and suggests that many hospital sy…
Impact of prostheses on quality of life and functional status of transfemoral amputees in Tanzania
Prosthesis provision to transfemoral amputees in an LMIC improved QOL and function. This benefit was greater for non-vascular amputation aetiologies. Quality of life and function returned to pre-prosthesis levels with discontinued use of prosthesis
Hard Lessons from South Sudan
South Sudan's tragic history of independent statehood raises important questions about the future of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). UNMISS cannot bring peace to the country on its own. For that to happen, South Sudan's militarised form of governance and political economy must be transformed. Recognising UNMISS's limitations does not, however, preclude a vital and continuing role for the mission. UNMISS must work to reduce ala…
Heroes Sung and Unsung
Petr Kuzmich Kozlov and Roy Chapman Andrews were well known figures in the world of popular culture, exploration, and science of their respective homelands, Imperial Russia and America. In the early years of the twentieth century, both were famous for spectacular discoveries in the deserts of Mongolia – Kozlov in archeology and Andrews in paleontology. Both were celebrity explorers in their native countries when they met in Mongolia in 1922, and …
Michael David-Fox. Crossing Borders
Soviet history, like histories of any number of countries, has been both plagued and stimulated by debates about exceptionalism. In the Soviet case, this debate has been fueled on the one side by Soviet self-perceptions of revolutionary iconoclasm, and on the other by critics who saw the USSR as a hostile aberration from something called “Western” modern development. In Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet U…
Sarah Davies, James Harris, Stalin’s World, Dictating the Soviet Order
Sarah Davies and James Harris have set themselves the task of trying to understand Stalin. They do this primarily through an examination of the kinds of information that Stalin had at hand, and through which he viewed the world. These two authors have spent years collectively culling and sifting through now available documents from Stalin’s personal archives—the mass of daily reports prepared for his reading, private correspondence, drafts of spe…
Conceptualising commitment
Sports fans derive much of their self-concept from their group membership and committing to a specific team is an essential component of fandom. Few studies, however, examine how sports fans commit to their team, or what commitment means for them. An exploratory qualitative study was, therefore, conducted to investigate sports fans’ understanding of commitment. Using focus groups, Welsh rugby fans from three regions in Wales discussed their commi…
Alain Blum, Yuri Shapoval, Faux coupables
Alain Blum and Yuri Shapoval have produced an insightful study of Soviet surveillance practices during the 1920s and early 1930s. Their book details the mechanics of political police surveillance and the kinds of information that went into surveillance reports. The authors describe how that information was used in the evolving system of political repression under the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and the corrosive effects of police surveillance …
Still falling short
The Israeli–Hezbollah conflict in the summer of 2006, although brief, had a lasting impact on the region and prompted an intense humanitarian response. The conflict raised challenging questions for the United Nations (UN) about how to assist a middle‐income yet extremely vulnerable population in a context where global and local relations are highly politicised. This paper focuses on two key questions that emerged from the humanitarian response. F…
Elements Near and Alien
Social disorder, mass repression, and the NKVD during the 1930s
Le desordre social, la repression de masse et le NKVD pendant les annees 1930.Dans cet article, nous etudions l’evolution de la politique sovietique de repression de masse pendant les annees 1930. Au debut de la decennie, les dirigeants du parti et de l’OGPU menerent des campagnes de repression de masse contre des classes jugees hostiles, en particulier les petits proprietaires terriens. Pendant la collectivisation et la dekoulakisation, la repre…
Aiding or Abetting? Humanitarian Aid and Its Economic Role in Civil War
Greed and Grievance
Current scholarship on civil wars and transitions from war to peace has made significant progress in understanding the political dimensions of internal conflict, but the economic motivations spurring political violence have been comparatively neglected. This pathbreaking volume identifies the economic and social factors underlying the perpetuation of civil wars, exploring as well the economic incentives and disincentives available to internationa…
Private military force and challenges for the future
The article calls for greater clarity and analytical rigour in the debate over the role of private military actors in international affairs. It argues that the blanket term ‘mercenary’ is inappropriate and subsumes different types of private operation under one emotive, negative heading. The article goes on to outline the structures of five different types of privatised entities; independent military companies, proxy companies, security companies…
Private Armies and Military Intervention
From divided consensus to creative disorder
David Shearer, Du consensus dispersé au désordre créatif: l'historiographie soviétique en Grande-Bretagne et en Amérique du Nord. Cet article étudie les changements survenus dans l'historiographie soviétique de Grande-Bretagne et d'Amérique du Nord depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Pendant les premières décennies de la guerre froide qui suivit la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'opinion publique tout comme les travaux des historiens consacré…
Outsourcing War
Exploring the Limits of Consent
Wheeling and dealing in Soviet industry
David Shearer, Manoeuvres dans l'industrie soviétique: les syndicats, le commerce et l'économie politique à la fin des années 20. On décrit souvent l'industrialisation rapide et la transition de la NEP à une économie administrée de façon bureaucratique à la fin des années 20 et au début des années 30 comme s'il s'agissait d'un processus inéluctable. L'histoire du mouvement syndical dans l'industrie soviétique montre que ce ne fut pas le cas. L'as…
Greed and Grievance
Current scholarship on civil wars and transitions from war to peace has made significant progress in understanding the political dimensions of internal conflict, but the economic motivations spurring political violence have been comparatively neglected. This pathbreaking volume identifies the economic and social factors underlying the perpetuation of civil wars, exploring as well the economic incentives and disincentives available to internationa…
Private Armies and Military Intervention
Outsourcing War
Elements Near and Alien
Exploring the Limits of Consent
Private military force and challenges for the future
The article calls for greater clarity and analytical rigour in the debate over the role of private military actors in international affairs. It argues that the blanket term ‘mercenary’ is inappropriate and subsumes different types of private operation under one emotive, negative heading. The article goes on to outline the structures of five different types of privatised entities; independent military companies, proxy companies, security companies…
Social disorder, mass repression, and the NKVD during the 1930s
Le desordre social, la repression de masse et le NKVD pendant les annees 1930.Dans cet article, nous etudions l’evolution de la politique sovietique de repression de masse pendant les annees 1930. Au debut de la decennie, les dirigeants du parti et de l’OGPU menerent des campagnes de repression de masse contre des classes jugees hostiles, en particulier les petits proprietaires terriens. Pendant la collectivisation et la dekoulakisation, la repre…
Still falling short
The Israeli–Hezbollah conflict in the summer of 2006, although brief, had a lasting impact on the region and prompted an intense humanitarian response. The conflict raised challenging questions for the United Nations (UN) about how to assist a middle‐income yet extremely vulnerable population in a context where global and local relations are highly politicised. This paper focuses on two key questions that emerged from the humanitarian response. F…
From divided consensus to creative disorder
David Shearer, Du consensus dispersé au désordre créatif: l'historiographie soviétique en Grande-Bretagne et en Amérique du Nord. Cet article étudie les changements survenus dans l'historiographie soviétique de Grande-Bretagne et d'Amérique du Nord depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Pendant les premières décennies de la guerre froide qui suivit la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'opinion publique tout comme les travaux des historiens consacré…
Wheeling and dealing in Soviet industry
David Shearer, Manoeuvres dans l'industrie soviétique: les syndicats, le commerce et l'économie politique à la fin des années 20. On décrit souvent l'industrialisation rapide et la transition de la NEP à une économie administrée de façon bureaucratique à la fin des années 20 et au début des années 30 comme s'il s'agissait d'un processus inéluctable. L'histoire du mouvement syndical dans l'industrie soviétique montre que ce ne fut pas le cas. L'as…
Wheeling and dealing in Soviet industry
David Shearer, Manoeuvres dans l'industrie soviétique: les syndicats, le commerce et l'économie politique à la fin des années 20. On décrit souvent l'industrialisation rapide et la transition de la NEP à une économie administrée de façon bureaucratique à la fin des années 20 et au début des années 30 comme s'il s'agissait d'un processus inéluctable. L'histoire du mouvement syndical dans l'industrie soviétique montre que ce ne fut pas le cas. L'as…
Exploring the Limits of Consent
From divided consensus to creative disorder
David Shearer, Du consensus dispersé au désordre créatif: l'historiographie soviétique en Grande-Bretagne et en Amérique du Nord. Cet article étudie les changements survenus dans l'historiographie soviétique de Grande-Bretagne et d'Amérique du Nord depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Pendant les premières décennies de la guerre froide qui suivit la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'opinion publique tout comme les travaux des historiens consacré…
Outsourcing War
Private military force and challenges for the future
The article calls for greater clarity and analytical rigour in the debate over the role of private military actors in international affairs. It argues that the blanket term ‘mercenary’ is inappropriate and subsumes different types of private operation under one emotive, negative heading. The article goes on to outline the structures of five different types of privatised entities; independent military companies, proxy companies, security companies…
Private Armies and Military Intervention
Aiding or Abetting? Humanitarian Aid and Its Economic Role in Civil War
Greed and Grievance
Current scholarship on civil wars and transitions from war to peace has made significant progress in understanding the political dimensions of internal conflict, but the economic motivations spurring political violence have been comparatively neglected. This pathbreaking volume identifies the economic and social factors underlying the perpetuation of civil wars, exploring as well the economic incentives and disincentives available to internationa…
Social disorder, mass repression, and the NKVD during the 1930s
Le desordre social, la repression de masse et le NKVD pendant les annees 1930.Dans cet article, nous etudions l’evolution de la politique sovietique de repression de masse pendant les annees 1930. Au debut de la decennie, les dirigeants du parti et de l’OGPU menerent des campagnes de repression de masse contre des classes jugees hostiles, en particulier les petits proprietaires terriens. Pendant la collectivisation et la dekoulakisation, la repre…
Elements Near and Alien
Still falling short
The Israeli–Hezbollah conflict in the summer of 2006, although brief, had a lasting impact on the region and prompted an intense humanitarian response. The conflict raised challenging questions for the United Nations (UN) about how to assist a middle‐income yet extremely vulnerable population in a context where global and local relations are highly politicised. This paper focuses on two key questions that emerged from the humanitarian response. F…
Conceptualising commitment
Sports fans derive much of their self-concept from their group membership and committing to a specific team is an essential component of fandom. Few studies, however, examine how sports fans commit to their team, or what commitment means for them. An exploratory qualitative study was, therefore, conducted to investigate sports fans’ understanding of commitment. Using focus groups, Welsh rugby fans from three regions in Wales discussed their commi…
Alain Blum, Yuri Shapoval, Faux coupables
Alain Blum and Yuri Shapoval have produced an insightful study of Soviet surveillance practices during the 1920s and early 1930s. Their book details the mechanics of political police surveillance and the kinds of information that went into surveillance reports. The authors describe how that information was used in the evolving system of political repression under the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and the corrosive effects of police surveillance …
Sarah Davies, James Harris, Stalin’s World, Dictating the Soviet Order
Sarah Davies and James Harris have set themselves the task of trying to understand Stalin. They do this primarily through an examination of the kinds of information that Stalin had at hand, and through which he viewed the world. These two authors have spent years collectively culling and sifting through now available documents from Stalin’s personal archives—the mass of daily reports prepared for his reading, private correspondence, drafts of spe…
Michael David-Fox. Crossing Borders
Soviet history, like histories of any number of countries, has been both plagued and stimulated by debates about exceptionalism. In the Soviet case, this debate has been fueled on the one side by Soviet self-perceptions of revolutionary iconoclasm, and on the other by critics who saw the USSR as a hostile aberration from something called “Western” modern development. In Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet U…
Heroes Sung and Unsung
Petr Kuzmich Kozlov and Roy Chapman Andrews were well known figures in the world of popular culture, exploration, and science of their respective homelands, Imperial Russia and America. In the early years of the twentieth century, both were famous for spectacular discoveries in the deserts of Mongolia – Kozlov in archeology and Andrews in paleontology. Both were celebrity explorers in their native countries when they met in Mongolia in 1922, and …
Association of Covid-19 With Achieving Time-to-Surgery Benchmarks in Patients With Musculoskeletal Trauma
In this cohort study, there was no association between meeting time-to-surgery benchmarks in either open fracture or closed femur/hip fracture during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with before the pandemic. This is counter to concerns that the unprecedented challenges associated with managing the COVID-19 pandemic would be associated with clinically significant delays in acute management of urgent surgical cases and suggests that many hospital sy…
Impact of prostheses on quality of life and functional status of transfemoral amputees in Tanzania
Prosthesis provision to transfemoral amputees in an LMIC improved QOL and function. This benefit was greater for non-vascular amputation aetiologies. Quality of life and function returned to pre-prosthesis levels with discontinued use of prosthesis
Hard Lessons from South Sudan
South Sudan's tragic history of independent statehood raises important questions about the future of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). UNMISS cannot bring peace to the country on its own. For that to happen, South Sudan's militarised form of governance and political economy must be transformed. Recognising UNMISS's limitations does not, however, preclude a vital and continuing role for the mission. UNMISS must work to reduce ala…
Geoffrey ROBERTS, Stalin’s Library. A Dictator and His Books
In Stalin’s Library, author Geoffrey Roberts portrays the dictator Joseph Stalin as an intellectual revolutionary. Roberts does not deny or soften Stalin’s brutality or his ruthlessness. Rather he argues that Stalin’s voracious appetite for self-improvement through self-education and reading shaped and only reinforced his self-certainty and willingness to take any measures he felt necessary to achieve his goals. Stalin was a true Marxist in that …
Transfemoral amputation and prosthesis provision in Tanzania
This qualitative analysis informs future directions for research into improving prosthesis-related care for patients with TFA in Tanzania
What factors explain extreme sport participation? A systematic review
Political science (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Soviet and Russian History (6 works) · Economics (5 works)