Marcus Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 91200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcus Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcus |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8919-6403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 648 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Reframing human rights-based approaches to the misuse of restraint. A binary approach is needed
Purpose The misuse of restrictive interventions including restraint, seclusion and pharmacological restraint is an increasing source of concern. This has led to calls to address the issue based on the principles of human rights. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on previously unaddressed aspects of adopting such an approach. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses frame analysis to critique what it suggests is a dominant uni dimensional…
Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
Return and repair: The rise of Jewish agrarian movements in North America
Dance against the void’: Derek Jarman, dance, queer classical receptions
This article considers three moments from the beginning, middle and end of Derek Jarman’s artistic career: Lindsay Kemp’s opening dance in Sebastiane (1976), Jarman’s words on a performance by Michael Clark in the 1980s, and Jarman’s last film Blue (1993), while holding onto the affective registers of his final diary entry (1994). Considering the ways in which Jarman indexed the ephemeral myth-making processes of queer life and art, the author de…
From Non-Believer to Believer: What Leads People to Change Their Climate Views
Studies have highlighted the political, economic, and psychological factors in the debate over anthropogenic climate change-a hegemony approach-but have rarely focused on the stories and possibilities of people's transitions from climate change non-believer to climate change believer. Based on publicly accessible narratives, this study examines the stories of those who have switched from non-believer to believer-a narrative approach-and the dilem…
How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens
Inferno: Catastrophically Queer
Queer lives are in constant conversation with failure. But what use is this to queer folk? This paper considers the queer performance rave INFERNO’s takeover of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. In an examination of the rave’s serendipitous network of deep affective relations, gestures, and affordances I articulate how failure functions within such a space. Moving past binary orientations of failure against or as a preference to succes…
Michael Bell. Review of "Lateness" by Peter Eisenman and Elisa Iturbe
Invisible no more: White racialization and the localness of racial identity
What does it mean to be white? How do whites see themselves and other white people, racially? These are empirical questions, questions that sociologists have spent decades trying to answer. Among numerous findings, none have been as pronounced as white racelessness; the theory that whites possess invisible, or raceless, identities. Despite its influence on our understanding of race, the construction of whiteness as an invisible identity has been …
The Arkansas traveler’s paradox: Covid-19 and the rural sociology of stupidity
Becoming White Teachers: Symbolic Interactions and Racializing the Raceless Norm in Predominantly Black Schools
Under the banner of critical whiteness studies, scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum have spent the past several decades investigating whiteness and white racial identity, both in the United States and abroad. Of the numerous findings, perhaps none is more pervasive than that of white racelessness: the idea that whites do not see themselves in racial terms but instead think of themselves as just normal. This article complicates white ra…
Relational Agriculture: Gender, Sexuality, and Sustainability in U.S. Farming
Although 97% of U.S. farms are “family-owned,” little research examines how gender and sexual relationships – inherent in familial dynamics – influence farmers’ practices and livelihoods. Gender and sexual dynamics – shaped by race and class – affect who is considered a farmer, land management decisions, and access to resources like land, subsidies, and knowledge. We use feminist and queer lenses to illuminate how today’s agricultural gender and …
We like insects here”: Entomophagy and society in a Zambian village
Aesthetics and Value in Literary Education: Reflections on F. R. Leavis
What is thought, and how can it be taught? Philosophy and literature have often promoted different conceptions although each requires, consciously or not, a mutually inclusive understanding. The question of value, which lurks at the centre of this, was given special salience by the literary critic, and ‘anti-philosopher’, F. R. Leavis who still illuminates the problematics of a value laden pedagogy. He was a native English version of the great Ge…
Affect and Taste: Bourdieu, Traditional Music, and the Performance of Possibilities
In his famousDistinction, Bourdieu set forth musical and artistic taste as reflections of class positions developed early in life. With classical music as an explanatory tool, Bourdieu argued that cultural capital becomes deeply embodied and difficult to change. In temperance of Bourdieu's use of class, we suggest an affective theory of taste through the case of traditional music, based on a performance of possibilities inspired by our experience…
In your face
Food fills us with contentedness, but also contentiousness. The more scholars fill up on the subject of food, the more we realize that there is a lot to digest as well as a lot of perpetual indigestion of enduring conflicts, both human and non-human. The phrase home economics are a lovely one, and are far more resonant of the broadness of vision and care that the term biological economies the author think wants to connote. For a home should be un…
The Foundation Review 8.2 Full Issue
The Foundation Review
The second middle: Conducers and the agrifood economy
Environmental apartheid: Eco-health and rural marginalization in South Africa
An Invitation to Qualitative Fieldwork: A Multilogical Approach
1. The Multilogical Approach I. Ways of Relating 2. Participants and Communities - the They Voice 3. Researchers - the You Voice 4. The Audience - the We Voice II. Ways of Gathering 5. Listening: Interview Methods 6. Looking: Ethnographic Observation 7. Participating: Action Research, Collaboration, and Auto-Ethnography III. Ways of Telling 8. The Multilogics of Writing 9. The Promise of Field Work
An Invitation to Qualitative Fieldwork: A Multilogical Approach
In an attempt to cope with the profusion of tools and techniques for qualitative methods, texts for students have tended to respond in the following two ways: "how to" or "why to." In contrast, this book takes on both tasks to give students a more complete picture of the field. An Invitation to Qualitative Fieldwork is a helpful guide, a compendium of tips, and a workbook for skills. Whether for a class, as a reference book, or something to retur…
Towards a Definition of the ‘long modernist novel’
This paper considers a number of long fictions from the modernist period to see how far their length serves specifically modernist concerns, especially temporality and history. Various extended narratives suit modernist aesthetic mythopoeia for which Nietzsche's essay on The Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life provides a philosophical articulation. Joyce's Ulysses, Proust's A la recherche, and Mann's Joseph and his Brothers (along wi…
Creating and consuming the heartland: Symbolic boundaries in representations of femininity and rurality in U.S. Magazines
Linked and Situated: Grounded Knowledge
Local knowledge registers prominently in scholarly efforts to resolve environmental problems, ushering in widespread use of participatory practices of deliberation. Without the incorporation of local knowledge, many scholars contend that environmental science and planning remain beholden to the unbridled reign of the expert, and the daunting complexity of environmental problems remains seemingly impossible to penetrate. Following in this vein of …
An Ecological Perspective on Medical Care: Environmental, Occupational, and Public Health Impacts of Medical Supply and Pharmaceutical Chains
Coming Back Across the Fence: Masculinity and the Transition to Sustainable Agriculture
In this paper we explore the social construction of agricultural masculinity and its role in the transition to sustainable agriculture. We draw our evidence from a participatory qualitative study comparing members of the sustainable agriculture group Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) with their non-PFI neighbors. On the non-PFI farms, men more often represented what we callmonologic masculinity, a conventional masculinity with rigid and polarized g…
The Question of Rural Masculinities
By way of introduction to this special issue on rural masculinities, we provide an overview of masculinity studies, emphasizing the influential work of Robert W. Connell on hegemonic masculinity. We go on to distinguish between two main avenues of rural inquiry in masculinity studies: studies of the masculine in the rural and studies of the rural in the masculine, or what we also term the masculine rural and the rural masculine. We apply this dis…
The Fruit of Difference: The Rural-Urban Continuum as a System of Identity1
Today sociologists tend to doubt the rural-urban continuum, the idea that community is more characteristic of country places than cities. Based on an ethnographic study of an English exurban village, I argue that the continuum remains an important source of identity for country residents, one from which they derive social-psychological and material benefits. They root this conception of themselves as country people in nature, making this identity…
The ghosts of place
The two-ness of rural life and the ends of rural scholarship
Activating the Countryside: Rural Power, the Power of the Rural and the Making of Rural Politics
Against the current moment of rural doubt, we argue that the material, symbolic and relational practices of the rural continue to be articulate aspects of our politics. We term the material practices 'rural power' and the symbolic practices 'the power of the rural'. The relational practices we term 'rural constituencies' when relations are bounded materially and 'constituencies of the rural' when they are bounded symbolically. We apply this frame…
Ecogender: Locating Gender in Environmental Social Science
Ecofeminism contends that there are important interconnections between the domination of women and the domination of the environment, a perspective that might be expected to attract the interest of environmental social scientists. However, environmental social scientists have largely ignored ecofeminism, despite feminism's increasing incorporation in general social science. This may be attributed to the common contention that ecofeminism suffers …
An Exemplary Scheme? An Evaluation of the Integrated Children's System
We outline selected central results from a formative evaluation of four pilot sites in England and Wales of the Integrated Children's System (ICS) – one part of the UK's e-Government strategy. We concentrate on the aspiration of the ICS towards ‘integration’ and ‘systematization’ of services within children's services, at local and national levels. We look in turn at, the use of the ICS as a foundation for aggregate statistical profiles; the expe…
The Environmental Goffman: Toward an Environmental Sociology of Everyday Life
While environmental sociology has imported many macro theorists from the larger discipline, it has almost completely ignored Goffman. The primary project of this article is to fill that gap by proposing and initiating a Goffmanesque environmental sociology of everyday life, primarily through Goffman's 1974 Goffman , E. 1974 . Frame analysis: An essay on the organization of experience . Boston : Northeastern University Press . [Google Scholar] wor…
Mobilities and Ruralities: An Introduction
The rural is on the move, now as always. In rural studies, however, there has long been a bias toward imagining the rural as stable. The old gemeinschaft-gesellschaft continuum saw the rural as the realm of long-standing ascriptive ties of family, community, place, and ethnicity, in contrast to the achieved statuses of urban life. Where there was mobility in rural life, it was to leave it behind for the competitive uncertainties of life among str…
Relational Agriculture: Gender, Sexuality, and Sustainability in U.S. Farming
Although 97% of U.S. farms are “family-owned,” little research examines how gender and sexual relationships – inherent in familial dynamics – influence farmers’ practices and livelihoods. Gender and sexual dynamics – shaped by race and class – affect who is considered a farmer, land management decisions, and access to resources like land, subsidies, and knowledge. We use feminist and queer lenses to illuminate how today’s agricultural gender and …
Linked and Situated: Grounded Knowledge
Local knowledge registers prominently in scholarly efforts to resolve environmental problems, ushering in widespread use of participatory practices of deliberation. Without the incorporation of local knowledge, many scholars contend that environmental science and planning remain beholden to the unbridled reign of the expert, and the daunting complexity of environmental problems remains seemingly impossible to penetrate. Following in this vein of …
The Dialogue of Solidarities, or why the Lion Spared Androcles
When properly applied, the gemeinschaft/gesellschaft theoretical tradition can help us understand the problem of collective action. I argue that collective action is most likely in circumstances in which the actors feel both a solidarity of interests and a solidarity of sentiments with each other. I call this interaction of interests and sentiments the dialogue of solidarities, and I suggest that it is the basis of what mobilizes a community acro…
Farming without a recipe: Wisconsin graziers and new directions for agricultural science
Invisible no more: White racialization and the localness of racial identity
What does it mean to be white? How do whites see themselves and other white people, racially? These are empirical questions, questions that sociologists have spent decades trying to answer. Among numerous findings, none have been as pronounced as white racelessness; the theory that whites possess invisible, or raceless, identities. Despite its influence on our understanding of race, the construction of whiteness as an invisible identity has been …
Creating and consuming the heartland: Symbolic boundaries in representations of femininity and rurality in U.S. Magazines
Did New England Go Downhill
Evidence from landscape history and agricultural censuses does not support thesis of a regionwide nineteenth-century decline in farming for New England. On basis of output per farm acre, New England has been one of most productive agricultural regions in United States. Urban and industrial growth and associated changes in rural culture are more important than comparative advantage in explaining actual post-1900 decline in agriculture. THE decline…
The ghosts of taste: Food and the cultural politics of authenticity
Regulated freedoms: The market and the state, agriculture and the environment
The second middle: Conducers and the agrifood economy
The Spatial Distribution of Second Homes: A Modified Gravity Model
Vacation home developments impose benefits and costs on the residents of the area in which the development is located. In an effort to provide more information about the location decisionmaking process for individual vacation home owners, a gravity model is developed and empirically tested which identifies those factors which influence that decision-making process. The traditional gravity model is modified to accommodate the unique character of t…
For the public good: Weaving a multifunctional landscape in the Corn Belt
Maculate Conceptions: Power, Process, and Creativity in Participatory Research
Justifiably concerned about power dynamics between researchers and participants in participatory research, much of the literature proposes guidelines for including participant voices at every step of the research process. We find these guidelines insufficient for dealing with constraints set up by the social organizational structures in which researchers and participants find themselves. We argue that the process of building relationships between…
Shifting agrifood systems: A comment
Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village
The Spatial Distribution of Second Homes: A Modified Gravity Model
Vacation home developments impose benefits and costs on the residents of the area in which the development is located. In an effort to provide more information about the location decisionmaking process for individual vacation home owners, a gravity model is developed and empirically tested which identifies those factors which influence that decision-making process. The traditional gravity model is modified to accommodate the unique character of t…
Government Revenue Stabilisation in Primary-Producing Countries: A Model for Zambia
A common problem in primary-producing countries is that commodity price instability causes substantial variation in government revenues. A conceptually simple yet rarely used domestic policy measure intended to smooth annual fiscal receipts is the establishment of a development stabilisation fund. The need for such a fund in Zambia and itsmodus operandiare discussed in the context of a review of budgetary performance since 1965. A simulation sugg…
Contemporary Surrealism/Narrative Painting: Comments on Pratchenko's Article
Surrealism: An Alternative Approach: Veristic Attitudes in the Work and Writings of Contemporary Surrealists
When considering Surrealism, art historians, critics, educators and aestheticians have, since the 1940s, focused attention chiefly upon automatism, to the exclusion of veristic trends. However, a remarkable number of artists have remained intensely committed to the veristic. Their written philosophies form a foundation for others to build upon in evaluating the movement. It is suggested that perhaps only through the words of contemporary veristic…
Did New England Go Downhill
Evidence from landscape history and agricultural censuses does not support thesis of a regionwide nineteenth-century decline in farming for New England. On basis of output per farm acre, New England has been one of most productive agricultural regions in United States. Urban and industrial growth and associated changes in rural culture are more important than comparative advantage in explaining actual post-1900 decline in agriculture. THE decline…
Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
Narration as Action: Goethe's ‘Bekenntnisse Einer Schönen Seele’ and Angela Carters Nights at the Circus
The Fruit of Difference: The Rural-Urban Continuum as a System of Identity1
Today sociologists tend to doubt the rural-urban continuum, the idea that community is more characteristic of country places than cities. Based on an ethnographic study of an English exurban village, I argue that the continuum remains an important source of identity for country residents, one from which they derive social-psychological and material benefits. They root this conception of themselves as country people in nature, making this identity…
Deep fecology: Mikhail Bakhtin and the call of nature∗
The Dialectic of Technology: Commentary on Warner and England 1
Warner and England (1995) make a welcome argument for a technological science perspective for sociology based on a theory of humans as technological agents and an epistemology that includes ethical values. As with any sociological perspective, however, Warner and England's comments help to focus on and understand some aspects of social life and not others. This commentary provides a complementary focus by emphasizing the dialectical relationship …
Paradise: Class, Commuters, and Ethnicity in Rural Ontario
Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village
Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village
Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village
In Childerley, a small village two hours from London, stockbrokers and stock-keepers live side by side in thatched cottages, converted barns and modern homes. Why do these villagers find living so compelling? Why, despite our urban lives, do so many of us strive for a home in the country, closer to nature? Michael Bell suggests that we are looking for a natural conscience: an unshakeable source of identity and moral value that is free from social…
Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village
Hearts of darkness: Psychic maps of Europe in D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, and Joseph Conrad
(1996). Hearts of darkness: Psychic maps of Europe in D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, and Joseph Conrad. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, pp. 1539-1544
The Prose and the Passion: Anthropology, Literature and the Writing of E. M. Forster
The ghosts of place
Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words
The Dialogue of Solidarities, or why the Lion Spared Androcles
When properly applied, the gemeinschaft/gesellschaft theoretical tradition can help us understand the problem of collective action. I argue that collective action is most likely in circumstances in which the actors feel both a solidarity of interests and a solidarity of sentiments with each other. I call this interaction of interests and sentiments the dialogue of solidarities, and I suggest that it is the basis of what mobilizes a community acro…
The social economy of rural life: An introduction
Regulated freedoms: The market and the state, agriculture and the environment
The Question of Rural Masculinities
By way of introduction to this special issue on rural masculinities, we provide an overview of masculinity studies, emphasizing the influential work of Robert W. Connell on hegemonic masculinity. We go on to distinguish between two main avenues of rural inquiry in masculinity studies: studies of the masculine in the rural and studies of the rural in the masculine, or what we also term the masculine rural and the rural masculine. We apply this dis…
Coming Back Across the Fence: Masculinity and the Transition to Sustainable Agriculture
In this paper we explore the social construction of agricultural masculinity and its role in the transition to sustainable agriculture. We draw our evidence from a participatory qualitative study comparing members of the sustainable agriculture group Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) with their non-PFI neighbors. On the non-PFI farms, men more often represented what we callmonologic masculinity, a conventional masculinity with rigid and polarized g…
Dialogue and Isodemocracy: An Essay on the Social Conditions of Good Talk
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