James Kneale
Biographic Data
| ID | 97837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Kneale |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Kneale |
| SIGNATURE | KNEALE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1205-0270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 257 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation
The pub is often romanticised as a site of idyllic English ‘working-class’ sociability that is now under threat. Such melancholic invocations of the pub’s plight are invoked amid the wider resurgence of a racialised English nationalism that makes particularly effective claims to a ‘white working-class’ and their putatively ‘left-behind’ anguish. This article challenges such dominant accounts, juxtaposing such racially defensive readings of the wo…
Good, homely, troublesome or improving? Historical geographies of drinking places, c. 1850–1950
This paper surveys historical geographies of drinking places designed for the consumption of alcohol between about 1850 and 1950, covering work published in English on sites in Europe, Russia, the Americas, and parts of Britain's empire. Five key aspects of drinking places are identified. The paper first considers them as significant social spaces associated with positive conceptions of both the public sphere and public space before exploring the…
A Fragile Network: Effecting Hail Insurance in Britain, 1840–1900
Hail insurance in Britain emerged as a product by and for farming communities, expanding as wheat production rose in the mid-nineteenth century before declining in the latter decades of the century amidst wide-scale conversion from arable to livestock farming. Drawing on detailed research conducted in the remaining archives of the three major hail insurers in this period, we demonstrate the challenges of establishing a new insurance product for f…
Making climate risks work: Governmentality and “foreign residence” in British life assurance, 1840–1940
Genealogies of life assurance have tended to focus on the governmental possibilities of actuarial calculations of mortality, but the case of foreign residence assurance draws attention to other ways in which British companies calculated climate risk between 1840 and 1940. Drawing on archival research, this paper demonstrates that the extra charges imposed on life assurance policies for foreign residence invited conversations about the risks of cl…
Drinking pattern is more strongly associated with under-reporting of alcohol consumption than socio-demographic factors: Evidence from a mixed-methods study
Heavy drinking and non-routine drinking patterns may be associated with greater under-reporting of alcohol consumption. Estimates of drinking above recommended levels are likely to be disproportionately under-estimated
Dr Granville’s Thunderbolt: Drink and the public in the life of one nineteenth-century doctor
In 1891 Dr Joseph Mortimer Granville wrote a series of letters to the Times that amounted to what one commentator described as “a plea for the use of more alcohol.” Though he was denounced by the British Medical Journal, Granville provoked a month-long debate on the merits and dangers of moderate drinking. Granville’s career was highly unorthodox, though common themes emerge from his biography that help explain his arguments for “rational drinkin…
PP41 Alcohol-Related ‘risk Factors’ Predict Under-Reporting of Alcohol Consumption more than Socio-Demographic Factors: Evidence from a Mixed-Methods Study
Background Under-reporting of alcohol consumption is widespread: surveys typically capture only 40-60% of alcohol sales. Little is known about the population distribution of under-reporting. Methods This study uses mixed methods to identify social, demographic, and alcohol-related ‘risk factors’ for under-reporting, using the nationally-representative Health Survey for England (HSE) 2011. Two methods of measuring alcohol consumption were used: a …
Speculating on Careless Lives: Annuitising the Biofinancial Subject
This paper is concerned with biofinancialisation; that is, with the ways in which contemporary processes of financialisation and biopolitics intermesh and interpolate. While the significance of the relation between the bios and circuits of finance has begun to be recognised, biofinancialisation remains little interrogated. In seeking to address this lacuna, the paper focuses on the recent transformation of the UK after-retirement market and, in p…
Histories and Geographies of Intoxicants and Intoxication: An Introduction
Plots: Space, Conspiracy, and Contingency in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and Spook Country
The author William Gibson is clearly interested in space. However, as a novelist rather than a geographer, Gibson is interested in two kinds of plots: with locations but also with stories. His novels bring these two forms of 'plot' together: his narratives essentially involve the location and tracking of missing people and objects though space, as well as complex conspiracies; in his most recent novels- Pattern Recognition and Spook Country-these…
Counterfactualism, utopia, and historical geography: Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt
Excessive Financialisation: Insuring Lifestyles, Enlivening Subjects, and Everyday Spaces of Biosocial Excess
The last two decades have witnessed, as part of a wider financialisation of British economy and society, a creeping privatisation of social welfare provision. Political justification for the expansion of privatised social insurance markets has frequently been couched in the language of responsibility. However, as the 'credit crunch' spectacularly attests and as studies of the dynamics of financialisation have succeeded in showing, financialised c…
Locating haunting: A Ghost-Hunter's Guide
Recent work in human geography seems to support Roger Luckhurst's (2002) claim that the humanities and social sciences are undergoing a `spectral turn'. This paper is intended as a contribution to this `turn' and to assist those who might be interested in investigating haunting. It begins by discussing the meaning and value of ideas of haunting, identifying a number of ways in which it makes analysis productively hesitant. Second, since hauntings…
From beyond: H. P. Lovecraft and the place of horror
The work of the American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft offers a valuable opportunity to study the representation of space in literature, but while Lovecraft's biography provides a useful way of making sense of his horror fictions, it also risks obscuring the importance of his represented spaces. Many of these impossible spaces mark a threshold between the known and unknown, and the paper argues that an attention to narrative demonstrates that the…
Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction
"Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and television genres - has received increasing academic attention in recent years. For philosophers, critical theorists and others it opens up a space in which the here-and-now can be made strange or remade; where virtual reality and cyborg are no longer gimmicks or predictions, but new spaces and subjects. Lost in Space brings together an international collection of authors to explo…
Modernity, Pleasure, and the Metropolis
Science fiction or future fact? Exploring imaginative geographies of the new millennium
In this article, we examine the imaginative geographies of the new millennium through a critical reading of cyberfiction. This fiction, we argue, through its use of estrangement and defamiliarization, and its destabilization of the foundational assumptions of modernism, provides a cognitive space in which to contemplate future spatialities given the present postmodern condition–a cognitive space which is already providing an imaginal sphere in wh…
The place of drink: Temperance and the Public, 18561914
The place of drink: Temperance and the Public, 1856-1914
Discussions of the place of drink in Britain between 1856 and 1914 were centrally concerned with alcohol as a public problem. Temperance organizations like the United Kingdom Alliance largely abandoned their attempts to reform individuals and instead demanded the prohibition of drink sales. This new concern for the public sphere of politics and public opinion was matched by a new sensitivity to the social contexts of drinking, the role of the dri…
A problem of supervision»: Moral geographies of the nineteenth-century British public house
Excessive Financialisation: Insuring Lifestyles, Enlivening Subjects, and Everyday Spaces of Biosocial Excess
The last two decades have witnessed, as part of a wider financialisation of British economy and society, a creeping privatisation of social welfare provision. Political justification for the expansion of privatised social insurance markets has frequently been couched in the language of responsibility. However, as the 'credit crunch' spectacularly attests and as studies of the dynamics of financialisation have succeeded in showing, financialised c…
Locating haunting: A Ghost-Hunter's Guide
Recent work in human geography seems to support Roger Luckhurst's (2002) claim that the humanities and social sciences are undergoing a `spectral turn'. This paper is intended as a contribution to this `turn' and to assist those who might be interested in investigating haunting. It begins by discussing the meaning and value of ideas of haunting, identifying a number of ways in which it makes analysis productively hesitant. Second, since hauntings…
Science fiction or future fact? Exploring imaginative geographies of the new millennium
In this article, we examine the imaginative geographies of the new millennium through a critical reading of cyberfiction. This fiction, we argue, through its use of estrangement and defamiliarization, and its destabilization of the foundational assumptions of modernism, provides a cognitive space in which to contemplate future spatialities given the present postmodern condition–a cognitive space which is already providing an imaginal sphere in wh…
Speculating on Careless Lives: Annuitising the Biofinancial Subject
This paper is concerned with biofinancialisation; that is, with the ways in which contemporary processes of financialisation and biopolitics intermesh and interpolate. While the significance of the relation between the bios and circuits of finance has begun to be recognised, biofinancialisation remains little interrogated. In seeking to address this lacuna, the paper focuses on the recent transformation of the UK after-retirement market and, in p…
From beyond: H. P. Lovecraft and the place of horror
The work of the American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft offers a valuable opportunity to study the representation of space in literature, but while Lovecraft's biography provides a useful way of making sense of his horror fictions, it also risks obscuring the importance of his represented spaces. Many of these impossible spaces mark a threshold between the known and unknown, and the paper argues that an attention to narrative demonstrates that the…
A problem of supervision»: Moral geographies of the nineteenth-century British public house
The place of drink: Temperance and the Public, 1856-1914
Discussions of the place of drink in Britain between 1856 and 1914 were centrally concerned with alcohol as a public problem. Temperance organizations like the United Kingdom Alliance largely abandoned their attempts to reform individuals and instead demanded the prohibition of drink sales. This new concern for the public sphere of politics and public opinion was matched by a new sensitivity to the social contexts of drinking, the role of the dri…
Plots: Space, Conspiracy, and Contingency in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and Spook Country
The author William Gibson is clearly interested in space. However, as a novelist rather than a geographer, Gibson is interested in two kinds of plots: with locations but also with stories. His novels bring these two forms of 'plot' together: his narratives essentially involve the location and tracking of missing people and objects though space, as well as complex conspiracies; in his most recent novels- Pattern Recognition and Spook Country-these…
A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation
The pub is often romanticised as a site of idyllic English ‘working-class’ sociability that is now under threat. Such melancholic invocations of the pub’s plight are invoked amid the wider resurgence of a racialised English nationalism that makes particularly effective claims to a ‘white working-class’ and their putatively ‘left-behind’ anguish. This article challenges such dominant accounts, juxtaposing such racially defensive readings of the wo…
The place of drink: Temperance and the Public, 18561914
Counterfactualism, utopia, and historical geography: Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt
Making climate risks work: Governmentality and “foreign residence” in British life assurance, 1840–1940
Genealogies of life assurance have tended to focus on the governmental possibilities of actuarial calculations of mortality, but the case of foreign residence assurance draws attention to other ways in which British companies calculated climate risk between 1840 and 1940. Drawing on archival research, this paper demonstrates that the extra charges imposed on life assurance policies for foreign residence invited conversations about the risks of cl…
Modernity, Pleasure, and the Metropolis
A problem of supervision»: Moral geographies of the nineteenth-century British public house
Science fiction or future fact? Exploring imaginative geographies of the new millennium
In this article, we examine the imaginative geographies of the new millennium through a critical reading of cyberfiction. This fiction, we argue, through its use of estrangement and defamiliarization, and its destabilization of the foundational assumptions of modernism, provides a cognitive space in which to contemplate future spatialities given the present postmodern condition–a cognitive space which is already providing an imaginal sphere in wh…
The place of drink: Temperance and the Public, 18561914
The place of drink: Temperance and the Public, 1856-1914
Discussions of the place of drink in Britain between 1856 and 1914 were centrally concerned with alcohol as a public problem. Temperance organizations like the United Kingdom Alliance largely abandoned their attempts to reform individuals and instead demanded the prohibition of drink sales. This new concern for the public sphere of politics and public opinion was matched by a new sensitivity to the social contexts of drinking, the role of the dri…
Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction
"Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and television genres - has received increasing academic attention in recent years. For philosophers, critical theorists and others it opens up a space in which the here-and-now can be made strange or remade; where virtual reality and cyborg are no longer gimmicks or predictions, but new spaces and subjects. Lost in Space brings together an international collection of authors to explo…
Modernity, Pleasure, and the Metropolis
From beyond: H. P. Lovecraft and the place of horror
The work of the American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft offers a valuable opportunity to study the representation of space in literature, but while Lovecraft's biography provides a useful way of making sense of his horror fictions, it also risks obscuring the importance of his represented spaces. Many of these impossible spaces mark a threshold between the known and unknown, and the paper argues that an attention to narrative demonstrates that the…
Locating haunting: A Ghost-Hunter's Guide
Recent work in human geography seems to support Roger Luckhurst's (2002) claim that the humanities and social sciences are undergoing a `spectral turn'. This paper is intended as a contribution to this `turn' and to assist those who might be interested in investigating haunting. It begins by discussing the meaning and value of ideas of haunting, identifying a number of ways in which it makes analysis productively hesitant. Second, since hauntings…
Excessive Financialisation: Insuring Lifestyles, Enlivening Subjects, and Everyday Spaces of Biosocial Excess
The last two decades have witnessed, as part of a wider financialisation of British economy and society, a creeping privatisation of social welfare provision. Political justification for the expansion of privatised social insurance markets has frequently been couched in the language of responsibility. However, as the 'credit crunch' spectacularly attests and as studies of the dynamics of financialisation have succeeded in showing, financialised c…
Counterfactualism, utopia, and historical geography: Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt
Histories and Geographies of Intoxicants and Intoxication: An Introduction
Plots: Space, Conspiracy, and Contingency in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition and Spook Country
The author William Gibson is clearly interested in space. However, as a novelist rather than a geographer, Gibson is interested in two kinds of plots: with locations but also with stories. His novels bring these two forms of 'plot' together: his narratives essentially involve the location and tracking of missing people and objects though space, as well as complex conspiracies; in his most recent novels- Pattern Recognition and Spook Country-these…
Speculating on Careless Lives: Annuitising the Biofinancial Subject
This paper is concerned with biofinancialisation; that is, with the ways in which contemporary processes of financialisation and biopolitics intermesh and interpolate. While the significance of the relation between the bios and circuits of finance has begun to be recognised, biofinancialisation remains little interrogated. In seeking to address this lacuna, the paper focuses on the recent transformation of the UK after-retirement market and, in p…
PP41 Alcohol-Related ‘risk Factors’ Predict Under-Reporting of Alcohol Consumption more than Socio-Demographic Factors: Evidence from a Mixed-Methods Study
Background Under-reporting of alcohol consumption is widespread: surveys typically capture only 40-60% of alcohol sales. Little is known about the population distribution of under-reporting. Methods This study uses mixed methods to identify social, demographic, and alcohol-related ‘risk factors’ for under-reporting, using the nationally-representative Health Survey for England (HSE) 2011. Two methods of measuring alcohol consumption were used: a …
Drinking pattern is more strongly associated with under-reporting of alcohol consumption than socio-demographic factors: Evidence from a mixed-methods study
Heavy drinking and non-routine drinking patterns may be associated with greater under-reporting of alcohol consumption. Estimates of drinking above recommended levels are likely to be disproportionately under-estimated
Dr Granville’s Thunderbolt: Drink and the public in the life of one nineteenth-century doctor
In 1891 Dr Joseph Mortimer Granville wrote a series of letters to the Times that amounted to what one commentator described as “a plea for the use of more alcohol.” Though he was denounced by the British Medical Journal, Granville provoked a month-long debate on the merits and dangers of moderate drinking. Granville’s career was highly unorthodox, though common themes emerge from his biography that help explain his arguments for “rational drinkin…
A Fragile Network: Effecting Hail Insurance in Britain, 1840–1900
Hail insurance in Britain emerged as a product by and for farming communities, expanding as wheat production rose in the mid-nineteenth century before declining in the latter decades of the century amidst wide-scale conversion from arable to livestock farming. Drawing on detailed research conducted in the remaining archives of the three major hail insurers in this period, we demonstrate the challenges of establishing a new insurance product for f…
Making climate risks work: Governmentality and “foreign residence” in British life assurance, 1840–1940
Genealogies of life assurance have tended to focus on the governmental possibilities of actuarial calculations of mortality, but the case of foreign residence assurance draws attention to other ways in which British companies calculated climate risk between 1840 and 1940. Drawing on archival research, this paper demonstrates that the extra charges imposed on life assurance policies for foreign residence invited conversations about the risks of cl…
Good, homely, troublesome or improving? Historical geographies of drinking places, c. 1850–1950
This paper surveys historical geographies of drinking places designed for the consumption of alcohol between about 1850 and 1950, covering work published in English on sites in Europe, Russia, the Americas, and parts of Britain's empire. Five key aspects of drinking places are identified. The paper first considers them as significant social spaces associated with positive conceptions of both the public sphere and public space before exploring the…
A pub for England: Race and class in the time of the nation
The pub is often romanticised as a site of idyllic English ‘working-class’ sociability that is now under threat. Such melancholic invocations of the pub’s plight are invoked amid the wider resurgence of a racialised English nationalism that makes particularly effective claims to a ‘white working-class’ and their putatively ‘left-behind’ anguish. This article challenges such dominant accounts, juxtaposing such racially defensive readings of the wo…
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