Paul Merchant
Biographic Data
| ID | 992322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Merchant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Merchant |
| SIGNATURE | MERCHANT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4893-7460 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
ReFocus
Collecting What the Sea Gives Back
This article proposes a new mode of understanding the entanglement of ecological and postcolonial questions in contemporary Chilean filmmaking, through the lens of directorial subjectivity. BothTierra sola(Solitary Land, Tiziana Panizza, 2017), andEl botón de nácar(The Pearl Button, Patricio Guzmán, 2015) contest hegemonic structures of belonging by constructing an alternative 'oceanic archive'. Yet where Guzmán's metaphorical meditations on indi…
Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human
What oral historians and historians of science can learn from each other
This paper is concerned with the use of interviews with scientists by members of two disciplinary communities: oral historians and historians of science. It examines the disparity between the way in which historians of science approach autobiographies and biographies of scientists on the one hand, and the way in which they approach interviews with scientists on the other. It also examines the tension in the work of oral historians between a long-…
Particular popular science
This paper draws on extended life story oral history interviews with scientists who, beginning in the 1980s, turned to writing popular books, making radio and television programmes and taking to the stage for public lectures and debates, with relations between science and religion often a key topic: Peter Atkins, Nicholas Humphrey, Steve Jones, John Polkinghorne, Russell Stannard and Lewis Wolpert. I show that these interviews capture aspects of …
The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War - by Morello, Gustavo
Nature Trails
This paper examines the introduction of a novel and modern form of natural history education in Britain in the 1960s, the nature trail. The rise in the number of nature reserves owned by county conservation trusts and the Nature Conservancy after the Second World War raised the issue of how they might best be used by members of the public. Reserves were initially seen by many as places from which the public should be excluded. The American concep…
Animal landscapes
The paper considers otter hunting and wildfowling in England between 1945 and 1970, showing how arguments over human conduct in relation to the animal were linked to scientific studies of populations, moral arguments over cruelty and the abilities of field sports to restyle themselves as modern. If wildfowling restyles itself as a new conservationist practice, otter hunting is increasingly regarded as a form of landed barbarism. Detailed studies …
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.In this fourth collection of reflections on writing and the writing life, the late William Stafford's lifelong refusal to separate his work from the task of living responsibly -- What a person is shows up in what a person does -- ri…
Ancestor
A Jonson Source for Herrick's “Upon Julia's Clothes”
A JONSON SOURCE FOR HERRICK'S “UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES” Get access PAUL MERCHANT PAUL MERCHANT University of Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 21, Issue 3, March 1974, Pages 93-a–93, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/21-3-93a Published: 01 March 1974
Animal landscapes
The paper considers otter hunting and wildfowling in England between 1945 and 1970, showing how arguments over human conduct in relation to the animal were linked to scientific studies of populations, moral arguments over cruelty and the abilities of field sports to restyle themselves as modern. If wildfowling restyles itself as a new conservationist practice, otter hunting is increasingly regarded as a form of landed barbarism. Detailed studies …
What oral historians and historians of science can learn from each other
This paper is concerned with the use of interviews with scientists by members of two disciplinary communities: oral historians and historians of science. It examines the disparity between the way in which historians of science approach autobiographies and biographies of scientists on the one hand, and the way in which they approach interviews with scientists on the other. It also examines the tension in the work of oral historians between a long-…
Collecting What the Sea Gives Back
This article proposes a new mode of understanding the entanglement of ecological and postcolonial questions in contemporary Chilean filmmaking, through the lens of directorial subjectivity. BothTierra sola(Solitary Land, Tiziana Panizza, 2017), andEl botón de nácar(The Pearl Button, Patricio Guzmán, 2015) contest hegemonic structures of belonging by constructing an alternative 'oceanic archive'. Yet where Guzmán's metaphorical meditations on indi…
Nature Trails
This paper examines the introduction of a novel and modern form of natural history education in Britain in the 1960s, the nature trail. The rise in the number of nature reserves owned by county conservation trusts and the Nature Conservancy after the Second World War raised the issue of how they might best be used by members of the public. Reserves were initially seen by many as places from which the public should be excluded. The American concep…
A Jonson Source for Herrick's “Upon Julia's Clothes”
A JONSON SOURCE FOR HERRICK'S “UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES” Get access PAUL MERCHANT PAUL MERCHANT University of Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 21, Issue 3, March 1974, Pages 93-a–93, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/21-3-93a Published: 01 March 1974
Ancestor
The Answers Are Inside the Mountains
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.In this fourth collection of reflections on writing and the writing life, the late William Stafford's lifelong refusal to separate his work from the task of living responsibly -- What a person is shows up in what a person does -- ri…
Animal landscapes
The paper considers otter hunting and wildfowling in England between 1945 and 1970, showing how arguments over human conduct in relation to the animal were linked to scientific studies of populations, moral arguments over cruelty and the abilities of field sports to restyle themselves as modern. If wildfowling restyles itself as a new conservationist practice, otter hunting is increasingly regarded as a form of landed barbarism. Detailed studies …
Nature Trails
This paper examines the introduction of a novel and modern form of natural history education in Britain in the 1960s, the nature trail. The rise in the number of nature reserves owned by county conservation trusts and the Nature Conservancy after the Second World War raised the issue of how they might best be used by members of the public. Reserves were initially seen by many as places from which the public should be excluded. The American concep…
The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War - by Morello, Gustavo
Particular popular science
This paper draws on extended life story oral history interviews with scientists who, beginning in the 1980s, turned to writing popular books, making radio and television programmes and taking to the stage for public lectures and debates, with relations between science and religion often a key topic: Peter Atkins, Nicholas Humphrey, Steve Jones, John Polkinghorne, Russell Stannard and Lewis Wolpert. I show that these interviews capture aspects of …
What oral historians and historians of science can learn from each other
This paper is concerned with the use of interviews with scientists by members of two disciplinary communities: oral historians and historians of science. It examines the disparity between the way in which historians of science approach autobiographies and biographies of scientists on the one hand, and the way in which they approach interviews with scientists on the other. It also examines the tension in the work of oral historians between a long-…
Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human
ReFocus
Collecting What the Sea Gives Back
This article proposes a new mode of understanding the entanglement of ecological and postcolonial questions in contemporary Chilean filmmaking, through the lens of directorial subjectivity. BothTierra sola(Solitary Land, Tiziana Panizza, 2017), andEl botón de nácar(The Pearl Button, Patricio Guzmán, 2015) contest hegemonic structures of belonging by constructing an alternative 'oceanic archive'. Yet where Guzmán's metaphorical meditations on indi…
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