Phil O’keefe
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3586022 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Phil O’keefe |
| PRENOMES | Phil |
| SOBRENOME | O’keefe |
| ASSINATURA | O’KEEFE P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Northumbria University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 204 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Recollections of tropical geography
In praise of Geography as a field of study for the climate emergency
We argue that Geography should be centre stage for understanding today's climate emergency. It warrants this position because as a field of study it uniquely straddles physical/environmental and human/social scholarships. In the wider academic world, bringing together scholars across this "cultural" divide has traditionally been difficult, and continues to be so in current responses to human-induced climate change. Specifically, physical scholars…
Cities Demanding the Earth
Cities Demanding the Earth
In justified anger
There were certain assumptions underlying the (early) government response to the pandemic in Britain. The first one was to try and preserve capital accumulation for the very rich by making the rest of the population suffer, a population that had experienced austerity for years. The second assumption signifying thinly disguised racism was to deny that what originated in China had any relevance to the United Kingdom. A corollary of this was: if oth…
David Slater
David Slater is an enigmatic figure in radical geography. He is much regarded for his theoretical contributions to geography although few geographers seem to know to what he contributed. David Slater appeared on the radical geography scene in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Dar es Salaam was described, in the early 1970s, as being a ‘hotspot’ for radical geographers. He focused his work on a critique of modernisation theory, publishing a two-piece artic…
Disaster Resilience Integrated Framework for Transformation (DRIFT)
Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature
An understanding of nature is fundamental to the manner in which science sees and conducts itself, yet the concept is generally taken for granted. Nature is constituted as an external repository of facts that live according to autonomous natural laws. The "nature" of natural science is deemed autonomous from human activity while that of social science is seen as socially created. Geography has been particularly resistant to simplistic, contradict…
Is This America? Katrina as Cultural Trauma; Oil and Water
Developing a model for building resilience to climate risks for cultural heritage
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a model for developing climate adaptation strategies to reduce climate risk for cultural heritage. Cultural heritage has an important role in human well-being. This paper posits that cultural heritage requires an approach that recognises the uniqueness of cultural heritage. The paper draws from the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Making My City Resilient campa…
Human control of climate
Why Some Fields Might be Rectangular
This article is a preliminary investigation of possible spatial form which starts by rejecting the idea that spatial theory can be built from assumptions of isomorphism. It examines spatial form in high potential ridge valley areas which are densely populated, and identifies the transition in land configuration for pre-capitalist to capitalist modes of production. In building the argument simple geometric patterns that differentiate from the mode…
Introduction
Recent changes in the agrarian studies and geography literatures present differing views on the pace and trajectory of change in rural developing areas. In this special section of Human Geography, we contrast the theoretical and practice implications of these differing approaches, namely depeasantization, accumulation by dispossession and deproletarianization. Depeasantization refers to change in livelihood activities out of agriculture, long the…
The challenge of humanitarian aid
This article outlines current issues in the delivery of humanitarian assistance. It explores the postulates of humanitarian interventions. The increasing level of aid is mapped against changing patterns of natural disaster and complex emergency. The humanitarian system itself is explored by sectors, and levels of global funding are analysed. Over the last 15 years, there has been a rising demand for accountability by humanitarian actors, this is …
Institutions or solutions
Disaster resilience
Approaching disaster management through social learning
Purpose Coping with and adjusting to disruptive challenges has always been a characteristic of human development. Formalisation of this has led to the emergence of a number approaches addressing disruptive challenges. Often formalised practice has a narrow focus. Increasingly complex challenges require a refocus of formalised approaches. Drawing from these approaches, the purpose of this paper is to posit that a greater focus on preparedness thro…
Alternatives for Sustained Disaster Risk Reduction
The daily media is filled with images of catastrophic events which seem increasingly frequent and violent. In parallel there are a large range of scientific studies, debates in the policy arena, and a growing number of international institutions focused on disaster reduction. But a paradox remains that despite advances in technology, disasters continue to increase, affecting many individuals in rich as well as poor countries
Geographers and geography
We were driven initially to write this Commentary by a sense of exhilaration and exasperation. The exhilaration came from the opportunity to address global issues of climate change through adaptation at the local level, an issue that will be addressed in Copenhagen in December 2009. The sense of exasperation came from an increasingly populist but determinist universalising geography that was determinist in both a physical/biological sense but als…
The vulnerable society
The future of nuclear power in Europe
Two interlinked and complex problems face energy policy‐makers: future energy supplies and climate change. The choices made on energy mix will lock development pathways for some considerable time ahead. Climate change is a challenging problem. Decarbonising the energy system requires sustainable and environmentally friendly technologies that work within the context of the planetary environment and do not cause “collateral damage”. Several approac…
Mainstreaming the African environment in development
We write against a background of depressing news items.The latest round of WTO negotiations over trade tariffs and subsidies has been suspended amid mutual recrimination by the EU and USA.At the same time, as unauthorised landings of desperate and destitute African migrants on the southern shores and outposts of the European Union reach an annual peak, EU countries are concluding multi-lateral and bi-lateral 'sustainable fishing' deals with gover…
Politics, history & problems of humanitarian assistance in Sudan
It is increasingly widely recognised that humanitarian assistance is broadly understood in two distinct ways: one is to see it as a part of foreign policy, which is the customary position of donating states; the other is to see it as independent of governments and a matter of relieving suffering without distinction and is embodied in the Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross/ Red Crescent family. The present authors argue that any intervention …
Climate change and disaster management
Climate change, although a natural phenomenon, is accelerated by human activities. Disaster policy response to climate change is dependent on a number of factors, such as readiness to accept the reality of climate change, institutions and capacity, as well as willingness to embed climate change risk assessment and management in development strategies. These conditions do not yet exist universally. A focus that neglects to enhance capacity-buildin…
"Theses on Peasantry" Revisited
Climate change and disaster management
Climate change, although a natural phenomenon, is accelerated by human activities. Disaster policy response to climate change is dependent on a number of factors, such as readiness to accept the reality of climate change, institutions and capacity, as well as willingness to embed climate change risk assessment and management in development strategies. These conditions do not yet exist universally. A focus that neglects to enhance capacity-buildin…
Global Systems and Local Disasters
Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature
An understanding of is fundamental to the manner in which science sees and conducts itself, yet the concept is generally taken for granted. Nature is constituted as an external repository of facts that live according to autonomous natural laws. The nature of natural science is deemed autonomous from human activity while that of social science is seen as socially created. Geography has been particularly resistant to simplistic, contradictory conce…
Disaster Resilience Integrated Framework for Transformation (DRIFT)
Land Use and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe
Given a continuation of current trends, with increasing population growth and declining food production, Southern Africa (excluding South Africa) which could nearly feed itself during 1979-81, will be only 64 per cent self-sufficient by the turn of the century. Zimbabwe has a particularly important rôle to play in trying to prevent such a disaster. It is by far the most important exporter of food and cash crops in the region, and has been allocat…
In praise of Geography as a field of study for the climate emergency
We argue that Geography should be centre stage for understanding today's climate emergency. It warrants this position because as a field of study it uniquely straddles physical/environmental and human/social scholarships. In the wider academic world, bringing together scholars across this "cultural" divide has traditionally been difficult, and continues to be so in current responses to human-induced climate change. Specifically, physical scholars…
International Disaster Relief
Hunger
Crisis and Opportunity
Sustainable solutions to land use conflicts
Landuse and Development
Introduction
Recent changes in the agrarian studies and geography literatures present differing views on the pace and trajectory of change in rural developing areas. In this special section of Human Geography, we contrast the theoretical and practice implications of these differing approaches, namely depeasantization, accumulation by dispossession and deproletarianization. Depeasantization refers to change in livelihood activities out of agriculture, long the…
Politics, history & problems of humanitarian assistance in Sudan
It is increasingly widely recognised that humanitarian assistance is broadly understood in two distinct ways: one is to see it as a part of foreign policy, which is the customary position of donating states; the other is to see it as independent of governments and a matter of relieving suffering without distinction and is embodied in the Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross/ Red Crescent family. The present authors argue that any intervention …
Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature
David Slater
David Slater is an enigmatic figure in radical geography. He is much regarded for his theoretical contributions to geography although few geographers seem to know to what he contributed. David Slater appeared on the radical geography scene in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Dar es Salaam was described, in the early 1970s, as being a ‘hotspot’ for radical geographers. He focused his work on a critique of modernisation theory, publishing a two-piece artic…
Relief & rehabilitation in complex emergencies
Since the late 1980s international aid for development has fallen while humanitarian assistance for emergencies has increased. This change of emphasis reflects the collapse of the USSR and consequent political instability in the former Soviet Union, its former satellites and client states. It also reflects donor disillusion with the failure of many development projects. Much humanitarian assistance is delivered in complex emergencies such as in A…
Alternatives for Sustained Disaster Risk Reduction
The daily media is filled with images of catastrophic events which seem increasingly frequent and violent. In parallel there are a large range of scientific studies, debates in the policy arena, and a growing number of international institutions focused on disaster reduction. But a paradox remains that despite advances in technology, disasters continue to increase, affecting many individuals in rich as well as poor countries
Geographers and geography
We were driven initially to write this Commentary by a sense of exhilaration and exasperation. The exhilaration came from the opportunity to address global issues of climate change through adaptation at the local level, an issue that will be addressed in Copenhagen in December 2009. The sense of exasperation came from an increasingly populist but determinist universalising geography that was determinist in both a physical/biological sense but als…
Mainstreaming the African environment in development
We write against a background of depressing news items.The latest round of WTO negotiations over trade tariffs and subsidies has been suspended amid mutual recrimination by the EU and USA.At the same time, as unauthorised landings of desperate and destitute African migrants on the southern shores and outposts of the European Union reach an annual peak, EU countries are concluding multi-lateral and bi-lateral 'sustainable fishing' deals with gover…
Planning for sustainability
Energy – power to some people
Toxic terrorism
Energy and the southern African regional confrontation
Change in Administrative Structures
Change in Administrative Structures: a case study of Kenyan agricultural development Get access Change in Administrative Structures: a case study of Kenyan agricultural development, by Christopher Trapman. Overseas Development Institute, London, 1974. 100pp. 8 tables, 1 chart, 1 map. Paperback £2.00. PHIL O'KEEFE PHIL O'KEEFE University of Bradford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 74…
Theses on Peasantry
Global Systems and Local Disasters
Chinese Earthquake Policy
International Disaster Relief
The Macnamara medicine show
The impact of disasters is heaviest upon the poorest classes of the population. We describe here an attempt to present this radical interpretation of disasters by way of theatrical methods. The evolution and content of an educational experiment carried out at the University of East Anglia in November 1976 is described. We conclude that it is essential to include affective learning opportunities in course design
The North Will Rise again
Landuse and Development
Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature
An understanding of is fundamental to the manner in which science sees and conducts itself, yet the concept is generally taken for granted. Nature is constituted as an external repository of facts that live according to autonomous natural laws. The nature of natural science is deemed autonomous from human activity while that of social science is seen as socially created. Geography has been particularly resistant to simplistic, contradictory conce…
The United States and South Africa in the Changing International Division of Labor
Landuse and Development
Hunger
Revisionist Geography
Reflections on Transition
The Changing International Division of Labor and South Africa
Renewable energy
Energy and the southern African regional confrontation
Ecology for Beginners
The Limits to Capital
The Urban Ecology of Health
Recession in Africa. Background Papers to the Seminar "Africa - Which Way out of the Recession?." Uppsala, September 1982
In September 1982 a number of researchers and representatives of the Nordic development agencies as well as members of several international organizations were invited to discuss the nature and origin of the "recession" in Sub-Saharan Africa. In preparing the seminar a number of scholars were invited to write background papers. The country case studies and a paper on strategic issues are presented in this volume. By way of an introduction a prese…
Geography, Marx and the Concept of Nature
Recent Developments in British Radical Geography
Energy and Development in Kenya
Land Use and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe
Given a continuation of current trends, with increasing population growth and declining food production, Southern Africa (excluding South Africa) which could nearly feed itself during 1979-81, will be only 64 per cent self-sufficient by the turn of the century. Zimbabwe has a particularly important rôle to play in trying to prevent such a disaster. It is by far the most important exporter of food and cash crops in the region, and has been allocat…
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