Helen Mackay
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 338617 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Helen Mackay |
| PRENOMES | Helen |
| SOBRENOME | Mackay |
| ASSINATURA | MACKAY H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5516-1109 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Decentralisation and Legal Pluralism in Small Towns in Uganda
Weak decentralization, authoritarianism and limited economic development in small towns in Uganda have been seen as key obstacles to political inclusion. However, small towns in theory also hold hope for political inclusion due to the potential for more direct citizen engagement and flexibility to be able to respond to citizens' needs. Drawing on 58 focus groups, 24 key informant interviews, and three feedback meetings across seven towns, this re…
Translocal Livelihoods, Socio‐Economic Differentiation and Lower Level Urbanisation in Uganda
In sub‐Saharan Africa, more than a quarter of the urban population lives in small towns, with rapid lower level urbanisation being driven largely by lacking rural opportunities. A growing interest in translocality considers relationships that position livelihoods within multiple spatial contexts. Terms of inclusion in translocal relationships vary, and the socio‐economic differentiation emerging out of these relationships is understudied. We use …
Analysing inclusivity within small town development in Uganda and Tanzania
Framed within debates about the inclusivity of urban development, Ubuntu philosophy and an interest in non-metropolitan growth of ordinary places, 15 small but developing towns were selected across Uganda and Tanzania. Growth and development were evidenced by increase in night-time lights and densification/expansion of built-up areas. Analysis of c. 4,000 individuals asked which towns were more, or less, inclusive and why. An inclusivity index co…
Translocality and Inclusive Urbanisation in Small Towns in Tanzania
Inclusive urbanisation is being promoted in development discourse, and a scholarly debate is emerging, but the conceptualisation and empirical understanding of this process should be placed in relation to urbanisation trends. In sub-Saharan Africa more than a quarter of the urban population lives in small towns. These are predicted to experience the most rapid population growth in the coming decades, with urbanisation driven largely by lacking ru…
New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe
Lake settlements, particularly crannogs, pose several contradictions—visible yet inaccessible, widespread yet geographically restricted, persistent yet vulnerable. To further our understanding, we developed the integrated use of palaeolimnological (scanning XRF, pollen, spores, diatoms, chironomids, Cladocera, microcharcoal, biogenic silica, SEM-EDS, stable-isotopes) and biomolecular (faecal stanols, bile acids, sedaDNA) analyses of crannog cores…
Characterising life in settlements and structures
Roundhouses are ubiquitous features of Iron Age landscapes across North West Europe, yet the way they were used internally is not well understood. We demonstrate how spatial analyses of steroid lipid biomarkers advances our understanding of household activities, living conditions and animal management associated with a well-preserved 5th century BCE roundhouse from Scotland's first Iron Age wetland village, Black Loch of Myrton, especially when c…
Middens, Waste Disposal, and Health at Çatalhöyük
The transition from a mobile hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a settled way of living is one of the most significant processes in human history. There were undeniable benefits to this process, with increased food security and longer lifespans, but there were also negative consequences associated with an increased density of living. At Çatalhöyük we have over one thousand years of continuous occupation from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic pe…
Food sources and access strategies in Ugandan secondary cities
This article arises from an interest in African urbanization and in the food, farming and nutritional transitions that some scholars present as integral to urban life. The paper investigates personal urban food environments, food sources and access strategies in two secondary Ugandan cities, Mbale and Mbarara, drawing on in-depth interviews and applying an intersectional lens. Food sources were similar across dimensions of difference but food acc…
Geoarchaeology from landscapes to material culture
A feminist geographic analysis of perceptions of food and health in Ugandan cities
This article contributes to a feminist geographic analysis of how urban food and health environments and non-communicable disease experience may be being constructed, and contested, by healthcare professionals (local elites) in two secondary Ugandan cities (Mbale and Mbarara). I use thematic and group interaction analysis of focus group data to explore material and discursive representations. Findings make explicit how healthcare professionals ha…
Parasite infection at the early farming community of Çatalhöyük
Nasty, Brutish and Short?; The Life Cycle of an Iron Age Roundhouse at Black Loch of Myrton, SW Scotland
Excavations at Black Loch of Myrton, Dumfries & Galloway are revealing the very well-preserved remains of an Iron Age settlement, the wetland context ensuring that the timber structures have remained intact and that the detritus of daily occupation survives for us to pick apart and understand. One of the structures in this settlement is an exceptionally well-preserved roundhouse, the material remains of which have been subjected to a barrage of a…
Mapping and characterising the urban agricultural landscape of two intermediate-sized Ghanaian cities
Special issue introduction
In 2015, the three editors of this special issue met at the annual conference of the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The LCIRAH event was an interdisciplinary conference that brought together leading researchers in the field of food and nutrition security. Most participants had backgrounds in agriculture, economics, nutrition science, and public h…
Lust's Dominion and the Readmission of the Jews
Journal Article Lust's Dominion and the Readmission of the Jews Get access Hugh Mackay Hugh Mackay The University of Southampton [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume 59, Issue 241, September 2008, Pages 542–567, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgn099 Published: 10 July 2008
Characterising life in settlements and structures
Roundhouses are ubiquitous features of Iron Age landscapes across North West Europe, yet the way they were used internally is not well understood. We demonstrate how spatial analyses of steroid lipid biomarkers advances our understanding of household activities, living conditions and animal management associated with a well-preserved 5th century BCE roundhouse from Scotland's first Iron Age wetland village, Black Loch of Myrton, especially when c…
Food sources and access strategies in Ugandan secondary cities
This article arises from an interest in African urbanization and in the food, farming and nutritional transitions that some scholars present as integral to urban life. The paper investigates personal urban food environments, food sources and access strategies in two secondary Ugandan cities, Mbale and Mbarara, drawing on in-depth interviews and applying an intersectional lens. Food sources were similar across dimensions of difference but food acc…
A feminist geographic analysis of perceptions of food and health in Ugandan cities
This article contributes to a feminist geographic analysis of how urban food and health environments and non-communicable disease experience may be being constructed, and contested, by healthcare professionals (local elites) in two secondary Ugandan cities (Mbale and Mbarara). I use thematic and group interaction analysis of focus group data to explore material and discursive representations. Findings make explicit how healthcare professionals ha…
Nasty, Brutish and Short?; The Life Cycle of an Iron Age Roundhouse at Black Loch of Myrton, SW Scotland
Excavations at Black Loch of Myrton, Dumfries & Galloway are revealing the very well-preserved remains of an Iron Age settlement, the wetland context ensuring that the timber structures have remained intact and that the detritus of daily occupation survives for us to pick apart and understand. One of the structures in this settlement is an exceptionally well-preserved roundhouse, the material remains of which have been subjected to a barrage of a…
Mapping and characterising the urban agricultural landscape of two intermediate-sized Ghanaian cities
Parasite infection at the early farming community of Çatalhöyük
New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe
Lake settlements, particularly crannogs, pose several contradictions—visible yet inaccessible, widespread yet geographically restricted, persistent yet vulnerable. To further our understanding, we developed the integrated use of palaeolimnological (scanning XRF, pollen, spores, diatoms, chironomids, Cladocera, microcharcoal, biogenic silica, SEM-EDS, stable-isotopes) and biomolecular (faecal stanols, bile acids, sedaDNA) analyses of crannog cores…
Middens, Waste Disposal, and Health at Çatalhöyük
The transition from a mobile hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a settled way of living is one of the most significant processes in human history. There were undeniable benefits to this process, with increased food security and longer lifespans, but there were also negative consequences associated with an increased density of living. At Çatalhöyük we have over one thousand years of continuous occupation from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic pe…
Special issue introduction
In 2015, the three editors of this special issue met at the annual conference of the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The LCIRAH event was an interdisciplinary conference that brought together leading researchers in the field of food and nutrition security. Most participants had backgrounds in agriculture, economics, nutrition science, and public h…
Lust's Dominion and the Readmission of the Jews
Journal Article Lust's Dominion and the Readmission of the Jews Get access Hugh Mackay Hugh Mackay The University of Southampton [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume 59, Issue 241, September 2008, Pages 542–567, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgn099 Published: 10 July 2008
Special issue introduction
In 2015, the three editors of this special issue met at the annual conference of the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The LCIRAH event was an interdisciplinary conference that brought together leading researchers in the field of food and nutrition security. Most participants had backgrounds in agriculture, economics, nutrition science, and public h…
Nasty, Brutish and Short?; The Life Cycle of an Iron Age Roundhouse at Black Loch of Myrton, SW Scotland
Excavations at Black Loch of Myrton, Dumfries & Galloway are revealing the very well-preserved remains of an Iron Age settlement, the wetland context ensuring that the timber structures have remained intact and that the detritus of daily occupation survives for us to pick apart and understand. One of the structures in this settlement is an exceptionally well-preserved roundhouse, the material remains of which have been subjected to a barrage of a…
Mapping and characterising the urban agricultural landscape of two intermediate-sized Ghanaian cities
Food sources and access strategies in Ugandan secondary cities
This article arises from an interest in African urbanization and in the food, farming and nutritional transitions that some scholars present as integral to urban life. The paper investigates personal urban food environments, food sources and access strategies in two secondary Ugandan cities, Mbale and Mbarara, drawing on in-depth interviews and applying an intersectional lens. Food sources were similar across dimensions of difference but food acc…
Geoarchaeology from landscapes to material culture
A feminist geographic analysis of perceptions of food and health in Ugandan cities
This article contributes to a feminist geographic analysis of how urban food and health environments and non-communicable disease experience may be being constructed, and contested, by healthcare professionals (local elites) in two secondary Ugandan cities (Mbale and Mbarara). I use thematic and group interaction analysis of focus group data to explore material and discursive representations. Findings make explicit how healthcare professionals ha…
Parasite infection at the early farming community of Çatalhöyük
Characterising life in settlements and structures
Roundhouses are ubiquitous features of Iron Age landscapes across North West Europe, yet the way they were used internally is not well understood. We demonstrate how spatial analyses of steroid lipid biomarkers advances our understanding of household activities, living conditions and animal management associated with a well-preserved 5th century BCE roundhouse from Scotland's first Iron Age wetland village, Black Loch of Myrton, especially when c…
Middens, Waste Disposal, and Health at Çatalhöyük
The transition from a mobile hunter-gatherer lifestyle to a settled way of living is one of the most significant processes in human history. There were undeniable benefits to this process, with increased food security and longer lifespans, but there were also negative consequences associated with an increased density of living. At Çatalhöyük we have over one thousand years of continuous occupation from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic pe…
New integrated molecular approaches for investigating lake settlements in north-western Europe
Lake settlements, particularly crannogs, pose several contradictions—visible yet inaccessible, widespread yet geographically restricted, persistent yet vulnerable. To further our understanding, we developed the integrated use of palaeolimnological (scanning XRF, pollen, spores, diatoms, chironomids, Cladocera, microcharcoal, biogenic silica, SEM-EDS, stable-isotopes) and biomolecular (faecal stanols, bile acids, sedaDNA) analyses of crannog cores…
Decentralisation and Legal Pluralism in Small Towns in Uganda
Weak decentralization, authoritarianism and limited economic development in small towns in Uganda have been seen as key obstacles to political inclusion. However, small towns in theory also hold hope for political inclusion due to the potential for more direct citizen engagement and flexibility to be able to respond to citizens' needs. Drawing on 58 focus groups, 24 key informant interviews, and three feedback meetings across seven towns, this re…
Translocal Livelihoods, Socio‐Economic Differentiation and Lower Level Urbanisation in Uganda
In sub‐Saharan Africa, more than a quarter of the urban population lives in small towns, with rapid lower level urbanisation being driven largely by lacking rural opportunities. A growing interest in translocality considers relationships that position livelihoods within multiple spatial contexts. Terms of inclusion in translocal relationships vary, and the socio‐economic differentiation emerging out of these relationships is understudied. We use …
Analysing inclusivity within small town development in Uganda and Tanzania
Framed within debates about the inclusivity of urban development, Ubuntu philosophy and an interest in non-metropolitan growth of ordinary places, 15 small but developing towns were selected across Uganda and Tanzania. Growth and development were evidenced by increase in night-time lights and densification/expansion of built-up areas. Analysis of c. 4,000 individuals asked which towns were more, or less, inclusive and why. An inclusivity index co…
Translocality and Inclusive Urbanisation in Small Towns in Tanzania
Inclusive urbanisation is being promoted in development discourse, and a scholarly debate is emerging, but the conceptualisation and empirical understanding of this process should be placed in relation to urbanisation trends. In sub-Saharan Africa more than a quarter of the urban population lives in small towns. These are predicted to experience the most rapid population growth in the coming decades, with urbanisation driven largely by lacking ru…
Geography (10 obras) · Archaeology (7 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Agriculture (5 obras) · Economics (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 obras) · Economic growth (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (4 obras)