Andrew Newman
Biographic Data
| ID | 92679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Newman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Newman |
| SIGNATURE | NEWMAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swinburne University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1828-8869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 97 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 96 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Connecting local ecological knowledge and Earth system models: Comparing Three Participatory Approaches
In this article we analyze participatory approaches used in three research studies where local ecological knowledge (LEK) and Earth system models (ESMs) were combined to deepen our understanding of human-environment systems and produce usable data tools for decision making. In all three cases, the combination of these complimentary types of knowledge produced richer data about the environmental conditions being studied. In the first, participants…
Deniz Yonucu's police, provocation, politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul forum: Introduction
The use of emotion regulation by visitors to contemporary art commissions in heritage sites
This paper explores how a series of contemporary art commissions displayed in heritage sites were used for emotion regulation purposes. The data used was qualitative and originated from a research project entitled Mapping Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (undertaken between 2017 and 2019). The respondents (n = 22) came from four groups who visited five contemporary artworks …
A causal ontology of objects, causal relations, and various kinds of action
The Impact on Older People’s Wellbeing of Leaving Heritage Volunteering and the Challenges of Managing this Process
The benefits of volunteering for older volunteers and for the organisations who host them is well-documented. The impact of being obliged to leave volunteering due to age-related conditions, and any challenges that this creates for volunteer managers, are under-researched. This study explored how volunteers and volunteer managers experienced this point in the volunteering lifecycle and whether the topic warranted further research. Semi-structured…
The afterlives of infrastructure: Response to “Adventures in Infrastructure: Making an African Hub in Paris” by Julie Kleinman
The role of the visual arts in the resilience of people living with dementia in care homes
This study responds to a gap in the literature relating to the resilience of people living with dementia in care homes. We applied an ecopsychosocial framework of resilience, theorising that sources of resilience may be personal, social and structural. Visual arts enrichment activities were examined to see how they might provide opportunities for resilience. The data used for this study were qualitative and originated from people with dementia ag…
D ouglas H unter . The Place of Stone: Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America’s Indigenous Past
Dighton Rock is a forty-ton boulder with inscriptions on one face. Until 1963, when it was lifted to higher ground, it sat in the tidewater of the Taunton River, at what is now Berkley, Massachusetts. In 1973, an octagonal structure was built around it. Now the site is Dighton Rock Museum, in Dighton Rock State Park. The markings on Dighton Rock are of indigenous provenance. There is no basis to claim otherwise. The story of The Place of Stone: D…
Of Mullas, Manuscripts, and Migration: The History and Historiography of 18th Century Iran
This chapter considers the general historiographical position, and questions the traditional take on it by assessing whether the picture of decline and collapse can be consistent with the significance of different trends of thought among the clerical community in Iran in the 18th century, as indicated by the relative popularity of significant texts, demonstrated by the numbers of those texts in manuscript collections.
‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’: The Great Gatsby in the 1980s
This essay illustrates the application of reception study, the subfield of literary history that emphasises the historical experiences of readers, to pedagogical contexts by investigating the teaching of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) in American high schools during the 1980s. Focusing on the episode in which Jay Gatsby leads Nick and Daisy on a tour of his mansion, the analysis draws on published lesson plans and other primary sou…
Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003 by Richard C. Keller
Reviewed by: Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003 by Richard C. Keller Andrew Newman (bio) Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003. By Richard C. Keller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 240. $35. Richard C. Keller’s Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003 begins fittingly, in a cemetery just outside of Paris, where many of the “forgotten” of France’s most deadly natural catastr…
Indigeneity and Early American Literature
Indigeneity is the abstract noun form of “indigenous,” defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “Born or produced naturally in a land or region”; in conventional usage, it refers primarily to “aboriginal inhabitants or natural products.” Indigeneity has a conceptually complex relationship to American literary history before 1830, insofar as, for most of the history of the field, “early American literature” has predominately referred to works w…
The Dido Story in Accounts of Early Modern European Imperialism—An Anthology
This anthology of excerpts from histories and travel accounts composed during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries features representations of indigenous oral traditions about the founding of European colonies in Sri Lanka, Melaka, Gujarat, Cambodia, Manila, Jakarta, Taiwan, New York, and the Cape of Good Hope. According to these accounts, the colonists first requested as much land as the hide of an ox could cover, and then cut t…
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A Publicly Engaged Anthropology
Carrying out research across the arts and humanities and social sciences: Developing the methodology for Dementia and Imagination
This paper analyses how the methodological approach for a major Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council-funded project entitled Dementia and Imagination Footnote1 was formulated. This multidisciplinary project brings together the arts and humanities with the social sciences with their different epistemological philosophies and subsequent understandings of research methods. The main objective was to determine …
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Presumption, policy and practice: The use of museums and galleries as agents of social inclusion in Great Britain
This article aims to analyse the basis for the construction of current policy designed to use museums and galleries as agents of social inclusion in Great Britain. It does this by first analysing their social role and their historical contribution to social policy. The article then goes on to present the findings of a research project that compared the rhetoric surrounding this issue with practice. It concludes that a series of issues are prevent…
Heritage builds communities: The application of heritage resources to the problems of social exclusion
The concept of 'social exclusion' has become central to the UK government's political philosophy. The need to combat the causes and deal with the symptoms of 'social exclusion' has become vital to many policy initiatives. The use of heritage resources to help deal with social problems has been practised since the early years of the 19th century and can provide a community with a focus, identity and pride as well as making a contribution to region…
Contested Ecologies: Environmental Activism and Urban Space in Immigrant Paris
In 2007, the City of Paris unveiled theJardins d'Éole, a new park built in a low-income, predominately immigrant district of the city. The park resulted from an environmentalist mobilization led by residents and is an innovative example of sustainable urban design. This article highlights the spatial contestation surrounding the mobilization to build and design the park, and its impact upon class-based, gendered, and ethno-racial inequalities in …
Remapping the Motor City and the Politics of Austerity
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAndrew NewmanAndrew Newman is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He has conducted ethnographic work in Detroit and Paris, France. His research focuses on the importance of ecology, infrastructure and social movements to the cultural and political lives of city dwellers. He has been involved with the Uniting Detroiters project since 2011 a…
How cultural capital, habitus and class influence the responses of older adults to the field of contemporary visual art
This article explores the responses of 38 older people to contemporary visual art through the results of a 28-month study entitled, Contemporary Visual Art and Identity Construction: Wellbeing amongst Older People. A framework for the analysis is provided by previous work on the consumption of art and by Bourdieu's constructs of cultural capital, habitus and field. Five groups of older people, with a range of different backgrounds, were taken to …
Gatekeepers of the Urban Commons? Vigilant Citizenship and Neoliberal Space in Multiethnic Paris
This article draws from ethnographic research on a recently built park in one of Paris' predominately West African and Maghrebi districts. It demonstrates how urban design is used to “build‐in” neoliberal subjectivities to the city. This design approach appropriates a tradition of street democracy held by neighborhood associations and redirects their disproportionately middle class, French membership into managerial roles traditionally held by mu…
The Impact of Museums upon Identity
The aim of this paper is to determine how socially excluded visitors to two museum exhibitions and two museum‐based community development projects use that experience to construct individual and social identities. In order to do this it will determine the ways in which the contexts of the exhibitions and community development projects were constructed and how and why visitors and participants make meaning in these contexts. To do this it uses the…
Museums and the Active Citizen: Tackling the Problems of Social Exclusion
The aim of this paper is to attempt to determine the role of museums in combating social exclusion through facilitating active citizenship. It does this by presenting the results of an analysis that used a modified form of a model of citizenship created by Makela as a framework to explore the data generated by an empirical study. By focusing upon respondents in an holistic way, so understanding their experiences of museum based exhibitions and co…
Imagining the social impact of museums and galleries: Interrogating cultural policy through an empirical study
This paper aims to contribute to an understanding of how museums and galleries are regulated through an examination of the production and implementation of policy. It concentrates on those aspects that view them as vehicles through which social policy, such as that dealing with social inequality, can be implemented. To do this, it identifies the ways that motivations, behaviours and social outcomes of engagement are imagined by New Public Managem…
Capital and the evaluation of the museum experience
This article aims to contribute to the understanding of how users of museums and galleries make sense of their experience. In order to do this it analyses the results of a research project that aimed to determine the ability of museums to ameliorate the effects of social exclusion. The results are analysed using the constructs of human, social, cultural and identity capital. The analysis presents a complex picture that contributes to an understan…
The consumption of contemporary visual art: Identity formation in late adulthood
This paper examines the responses of older people to the British Art Show 6, which is an exhibition of recent developments in contemporary visual art in the UK. One group of respondents attended two "meet the artist talks" and a second group attended an artist-led workshop where they produced work that had been stimulated by the exhibition. The focus groups that resulted were analysed using theoretical frameworks related to identity construction.…
The Impact on Older People’s Wellbeing of Leaving Heritage Volunteering and the Challenges of Managing this Process
The benefits of volunteering for older volunteers and for the organisations who host them is well-documented. The impact of being obliged to leave volunteering due to age-related conditions, and any challenges that this creates for volunteer managers, are under-researched. This study explored how volunteers and volunteer managers experienced this point in the volunteering lifecycle and whether the topic warranted further research. Semi-structured…
Carrying out research across the arts and humanities and social sciences: Developing the methodology for Dementia and Imagination
This paper analyses how the methodological approach for a major Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council-funded project entitled Dementia and Imagination Footnote1 was formulated. This multidisciplinary project brings together the arts and humanities with the social sciences with their different epistemological philosophies and subsequent understandings of research methods. The main objective was to determine …
Contemporary visual art and the construction of identity: Maintenance and Revision Processes in Older Adults
This article explores how older visitors use meanings created through encounters with contemporary visual art in art galleries for identity maintenance and revision processes. The analysis is based on the results of a 28-month study of the responses of older people to contemporary visual art in art galleries in north-east England, UK. The identity processes used in this study are those defined as maintenance and revision as understood by Kroger (…
The afterlives of infrastructure: Response to “Adventures in Infrastructure: Making an African Hub in Paris” by Julie Kleinman
The role of the visual arts in the resilience of people living with dementia in care homes
This study responds to a gap in the literature relating to the resilience of people living with dementia in care homes. We applied an ecopsychosocial framework of resilience, theorising that sources of resilience may be personal, social and structural. Visual arts enrichment activities were examined to see how they might provide opportunities for resilience. The data used for this study were qualitative and originated from people with dementia ag…
The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran, Silk for Silver 1600-1730
Journal Article The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran, Silk for Silver 1600–1730 Get access Andrew J. Newman Andrew J. Newman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semitic Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, SPRING , Pages 177–179, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/47.1.177 Published: 01 February 2002
A Metaphysical Introduction to a Relational Theory of Space
Journal Article A Metaphysical Introduction to a Relational Theory of Space Get access Andrew Newman Andrew Newman University of Tulsa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 155, April 1989, Pages 200–220, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219639 Published: 01 April 1989
For a New Writing — A New Criticism Nathalie Sarraute, Le Planétarium
Al-Shīrāzi, Ṣadr al-Din, The Wisdom of the Throne, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mulla Ṣadrā, introduction, translation and notes by James Winston Morris, Princeton Library of Asian Translation…
Al-Shīrāzi, Ṣadr al-Din, The Wisdom of the Throne, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mulla Ṣadrā, introduction, translation and notes by James Winston Morris, Princeton Library of Asian Translations (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981). Pp. xiii + 275. - Volume 16 Issue 1
A Metaphysical Introduction to a Relational Theory of Space
Journal Article A Metaphysical Introduction to a Relational Theory of Space Get access Andrew Newman Andrew Newman University of Tulsa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 155, April 1989, Pages 200–220, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219639 Published: 01 April 1989
The nature of the Akhbārī/Uṣūlī dispute in late Ṣafawid Iran. Part 1: ‘Abdallāh al-Samāhijī's ‘ Munyat al-Mumārisīn ’
The Akhbārī/Uṣūlī controversy within Twelver Shī‘ism has been portrayed in Western-language scholarship primarily as a scholastic dispute over jurisprudential methodology which came to fruition only in eleventh/seventeenthcentury Ṣafawid Iran. Uṣūlism is generally characterized as having stressed recourse to rationalist, subjective forms of analysis—particularly the principle of ijtihād (independent judicial reasoning)—on legal questions where th…
The nature of the Akhbārī/Uṣūlī dispute in late Ṣafawid Iran, Part 2: The conflict reassessed
The main purpose of this two-part essay is to reconsider the interpretation Western scholarship has generally placed on the Akhbārī/Uṣūlī confrontation in Twelver Shī'ism. To this end, Part 1 (BSOAS, LV, 1, 1991, 22-51) presented an edition and translation of the relevant section of 'Abdallāh al-Samāhijī's twelfth/eighteenth-century treatise, 'Munyat al-Mumārisīn'. The importance of this text to the present discussion is twofold. First, Western s…
The Myth of the Clerical Migration to Safawid Iran: Arab Shiite Opposition to Ali al-Karaki and Safawid Shiism
The Myth of the Clerical Migration To Safawid Iran
Western-language scholars have long suggested that following Ismāīl's profession of faith at the capture of Tabriz many Arab Twelver scholars emigrated to Safawid territory to participate in the effort to spread the faith throughout Safawid territory. Alī al-Karaki is cited in many secondary sources as one of the many Arab scholars supposed to have journeyed to Safawid territory in the fifty years after Tabriz and the few criticisms of al-Karakī …
The Physical Basis of Predication
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REVEALING THE HOLY LAND: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF PALESTINE. By Kathleen Stewart Howe. Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 1997. 144pp. $US 60 (hb), $US 29.95 (pb). THE EMERGENCE OF THE ‘ABBASID AUTOCRACY: THE ‘ABBASID ARMY, KHURASAN AND ADHARBAYJAN. By Fukuzo Amabe, Kyoto University Press, 1995 xi + 322pp. THE BUKHARANS: A DYNASTIC, DIPLOMATIC AND COMMERCIAL HISTORY, 1550–1702. By Audrey Burton. Richmond, Surrey, UK; Curzon Press, 1997; xxxvii …
Heritage builds communities: The application of heritage resources to the problems of social exclusion
The concept of 'social exclusion' has become central to the UK government's political philosophy. The need to combat the causes and deal with the symptoms of 'social exclusion' has become vital to many policy initiatives. The use of heritage resources to help deal with social problems has been practised since the early years of the 19th century and can provide a community with a focus, identity and pride as well as making a contribution to region…
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BETWEEN MARRIAGE AND THE MARKET: INTIMATE POLITICS AND SURVIVAL IN CAIRO. By Homa Hoodfar. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1997. xviii, 302 pp
Sufism and Anti-Sufism in Safavid Iran: The Authorship of the "?ad?qat al-Sh??a" Revisited
L'A. traite de l'attribution du Hadiqat al-Shi'a, histoire de l'islam ou a ete inseree une diatribe contre le soufisme, et qui date des alentours de 1640, a al-Muqqadas al-Ardabili. Il etudie l'anti-soufisme iranien de cette epoque, pour attribuer l'oeuvre a al-Qummi
The Role of the Sādāt in Safavid Iran: Confrontation or Accommodation
Religious Authority in Shicite Islam from the Office of Mufti to the Institution of Marjac , Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi, Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation, 1996, xii…
Religious Authority in Shicite Islam from the Office of Mufti to the Institution of Marjac, Ahmad Kazemi Moussavi, Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation, 1996, xiii + 338pp., references, glossary and index. - Volume 32 Issue 3
Cooperative threat reduction: ‘Locking in’ tomorrow's security
(2001). Cooperative threat reduction: ‘Locking in’ tomorrow's security. Contemporary Security Policy: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 83-106
The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran, Silk for Silver 1600-1730
Journal Article The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran, Silk for Silver 1600–1730 Get access Andrew J. Newman Andrew J. Newman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Semitic Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, SPRING , Pages 177–179, https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/47.1.177 Published: 01 February 2002
Society and culture in the early modern Middle East: Studies on Iran in the Safavid period
The volume comprises a collection of 20 of the 43 papers presented at the Third International Round Table on Safavid Persia, held at the University of Edinburgh in August, 1998 and edited by the Round Table's organiser. The Third Round Table, the largest of the series to date, continued the emphasis of its predecessors on understanding and appreciating the legacy of the Safavid period by means of exchanges between both established and 'newer' sch…
Capital and the evaluation of the museum experience
This article aims to contribute to the understanding of how users of museums and galleries make sense of their experience. In order to do this it analyses the results of a research project that aimed to determine the ability of museums to ameliorate the effects of social exclusion. The results are analysed using the constructs of human, social, cultural and identity capital. The analysis presents a complex picture that contributes to an understan…
The disarmament of Iraq: WMD nonproliferation template
Both the Bush Administration and the Howard government have recently prioritised the re‐interpreting of history. The meagre returns in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have elicited
Presumption, policy and practice: The use of museums and galleries as agents of social inclusion in Great Britain
This article aims to analyse the basis for the construction of current policy designed to use museums and galleries as agents of social inclusion in Great Britain. It does this by first analysing their social role and their historical contribution to social policy. The article then goes on to present the findings of a research project that compared the rhetoric surrounding this issue with practice. It concludes that a series of issues are prevent…
Arms Control, Proliferation and Terrorism: The Bush Administration's Post-September 11 Security Strategy
The current Bush Administration considers ‘outlaw regimes’ and their terrorist clients acquiring weapons of mass destruction (WMD) the gravest danger to international security. Thus, arms control, proliferation and terrorism are inextricably linked. The administration also believes that arms control and non-proliferation, as traditionally practiced, do not provide effective tools for preventing WMD spread. As evidenced in Iraq, Washington subscri…
From pre-emption to negotiation? The failure of the Iraq-as-deterrent nuclear non-proliferation model
This article critically examines one of the most important corollaries of the Bush administration's 2003 invasion of Iraq: the expectation that the war would deter other proliferators from pursuing their purported nuclear ambitions. Although Iraq likely provided the final impetus for Libya to renounce its nuclear program, it is argued that in the cases of Iran and North Korea, regime change did not act as a deterrent. Indeed, there is evidence to…
Museums and the Active Citizen: Tackling the Problems of Social Exclusion
The aim of this paper is to attempt to determine the role of museums in combating social exclusion through facilitating active citizenship. It does this by presenting the results of an analysis that used a modified form of a model of citizenship created by Makela as a framework to explore the data generated by an empirical study. By focusing upon respondents in an holistic way, so understanding their experiences of museum based exhibitions and co…
Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire
The Safavid dynasty, which reigned from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth century, links medieval with modern Iran. The Safavids witnessed wide-ranging developments in politics, warfare, science, philosophy, religion, art and architecture. But how did this dynasty manage to produce the longest lasting and most glorious of Iran’s Islamic-period eras? Andrew Newman offers a complete re-evaluation of the Safavid place in history as they presided …
The Impact of Museums upon Identity
The aim of this paper is to determine how socially excluded visitors to two museum exhibitions and two museum‐based community development projects use that experience to construct individual and social identities. In order to do this it will determine the ways in which the contexts of the exhibitions and community development projects were constructed and how and why visitors and participants make meaning in these contexts. To do this it uses the…
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