David O’brien
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3586319 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David O’brien |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | O’brien |
| ASSINATURA | O’BRIEN D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9687-8736 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Neo-Propaganda is in Vogue
This article explores ways Chinese Communist Party (CCP) narratives around Xinjiang are perpetuated via seemingly apolitical texts produced by non-government actors, a trend within “neo-propaganda.” Echoing wider discourses allows texts to move “amphibiously” across public spheres. We explore this dynamic via the work of fashion photographer Ma Hailun (马海伦), appearing beyond Chinese media, in Vogue, international exhibitions, and social media. Ma…
The silk roads and shared heritage in Europe
This article offers critical engagement with ideas of shared heritage, considering representation of the silk roads in Europe as a counterpoint to their representation in China. Often cast as a ‘bridge’ between ‘East and West’ or ‘China and Rome’ (e.g. UNESCO’s description of the Silk Road Heritage Corridors), the silk roads are regularly depicted as an abstraction of interconnection. And as an abstraction, the idea of shared heritage is often em…
East Turkistan's Right to Sovereignty
Fairness, autonomy, and a right to higher education
In The Right to Higher Education , Christopher Martin develops a powerful, autonomy-based argument that there is a moral right to access to higher education. I raise three concerns about whether this argument succeeds. The first is a concern about the conception of autonomy at the heart of Martin’s argument; the second is a concern about possible overgeneralizations of the argument; and the third is a concern about whether Martin’s view is conson…
People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China
How Far Can Political Liberalism Support Reforms in Higher Education
According to a standard picture in the educational policy and educational ethics literature, justice requires significant alterations to higher-education arrangements, in order to equalize opportunity and benefit badly-off social groups. I argue that, if political liberalism is correct, then a range of higher-education reforms favored by the standard picture lack support. After canvassing the standard picture (section 2), I explain why political …
Children, Partiality, and Equality
It is a precept of commonsense morality that parents have permissions to be partial toward their own children in various ways: they are permitted to act in a variety of ways that favor the interests of (only) their own children. But how are such permissions to be reconciled with more general principles of justice? In this article, I discuss this question as it arises for one kind of liberal egalitarian theory of justice. Given their robust commit…
Making the Past Serve the Present”
In this article, we explore how tourism in Xinjiang is politically weaponised. Commodifying Uyghur cultural heritage for tourism allows the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to insist it is not committing cultural genocide, but actually “conserving” Uyghur culture. This directly bears on the CCP’s internment of Muslim minorities in “re-education” camps, ostensibly to target Islamic “extremism.” We explore how tourism to Xinjiang is presented as a “su…
Neo-mercantilism in action
Egalitarian Machine Learning
Re-thinking Elemental's incremental housing
The Elemental architecture studio designed Villa Verde, one of the world's most iconic incremental housing projects. Villa Verde was initiated to house residents of the city of Constitución in southern Chile under a participative framework. The aim was to encourage the residents to complete the "other half" of the "core" houses supplied by the developer, self-managing a process of housing modification and extensions to suit their needs and aspira…
Contested incrementalism
Quinta Monroy is an award-winning co-designed settlement for 93 families on half a hectare of land at Iquique in northern Chile. Neighbors' complaints about the disorderly settlement peaked after the landowner's death and provoked untenured residents to seek government subsidies to redevelop the settlement. From 2003, a government social housing project was coordinated by the “Elemental” architecture firm with US$10,000 per household. With the re…
Responding to China’s crimes against humanity in Xinjiang
This commentary makes the argument that constructive dialogue with China represents the only viable route for the emerging “coalition of the willing” to bring an end to the crimes against humanity the Uyghurs are currently experiencing. The most frequently suggested tactics – ostracism, international legal recourse, and economic sanctions – are all doomed to fail (because of China’s size) and will, rather, likely embolden China’s sense of victimh…
Beyond the freedom to build
In 2003, the Chilean architecture firm Elemental began to revisit the idea of partially completed housing harnessing the productive capacities of the informal process within a more formal framework. The Quinta Monroy project in the northern Chilean city of Iquique was the first such project and involved the in-situ replacement of an informal settlement. The desire of residents was for a middle-class house that was beyond the scope of their budget…
The politics of everyday China
This book looks at how the contract between the Chinese state and its citizens produces ready compliance and apparent support despite the problems of corruption, food scandals, air pollution and the constraints on personal freedom. It explores the ways in which China's past is presented as both a mandate for political monopoly and a promise of a glorious future. It does so through the voice of China's own people, by exploring the lived experience…
Incremental housing
Purpose This paper analyses the incremental housing process developed at Villa Verde, a housing project designed by the Chilean architecture firm Elemental, whose director Alejandro Aravena received the Pritzker Prize in 2016. This project is conceived within a social housing framework and designed as an affordable “half-house” to be incrementally extended by the owners. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on research undertaken in Au…
Defining the right path
This paper explores the ‘Sinicization’ of Islam in Mainland China, focusing on Moon Lake Mosque (a historically significant mosque in Ningbo Zhejiang Province). Islam has a long history within China, but it is upon the CCP’s recent attempts to align Islam with ‘Chinese Socialist Characteristics’ that we explore here. Examining the propaganda around the mosque, we trace how tensions about Islam are both represented and (circum)navigated. These pos…
The Unit and Currency of Egalitarian Concern
According to (welfarist) telic egalitarianism, it is, in one respect, noninstrumentally bad if some people are unfairly worse off than others. This paper is about two ambiguities in telic egalitarianism. The first ambiguity concerns the so-called temporal unit of egalitarian concern (McKerlie 1989; Temkin 1993). This is the question of whether inequality during whole lives, inequality during certain segments of lives, or some combination of these…
Rapid on-site identification of hazardous organic compounds at fire scenes using person-portable gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)–part 2
Building and factory fires pose a great risk to human and environmental health, due to the release of hazardous by-products of combustion. These hazardous compounds can dissipate into the environment through fire water run-off, and the impact can be immediate or chronic. Current laboratory-based methods do not report hazardous compounds released from a fire scene at the time and location of the event. Reporting of results is often delayed due to …
Rapid on-site identification of hazardous organic compounds at fire scenes using person-portable gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)—part 1
Recent advancements in person-portable instrumentation have resulted in the potential to provide contemporaneous results through rapid in-field analyses. These technologies can be utilised in emergency response scenarios to aid first responders in appropriate site risk assessment and management. Large metropolitan fires can pose great risk to human and environmental health due to the rapid release of hazardous compounds into the atmosphere. Under…
Integration involves a trade-off between fertility and status for World War II evacuees
Understanding how refugees integrate into host societies has broad implications for researchers interested in intergroup conflict and for governments concerned with promoting social cohesion. Using detailed records tracking the movements and life histories of Finnish evacuees during World War II, we find that evacuees who intermarry are more likely to be educated, work in professional occupations, marry someone higher in social status and remain …
No CCP, No New China
Guided by Michel Foucault's concept of “pastoral power,” this article examines the ways in which contemporary discourses within official narratives in China portray the state in a paternal fashion to reinforce its legitimacy. Employing interdisciplinary approaches, this article explores a number of sites in Urumqi, the regional capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), in order to map how a coherent official narrative of power and …
Down a narrow road
Past and Future Directions in Content Area Literacies
In this column, content area literacy scholars Tom Bean and David O'Brien challenge the older “infusion” model of content area literacy with its emphasis on generic strategies. Rather, they argue for and provide examples of projects that draw on the unique dimensions of various disciplines like history, science, and English, particularly in light of the Common Core State Standards. They offer alternative approaches that capitalize on students' in…
Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English
This November issue of RTE once again contains the Annual Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English, available only here, on the NCTE website
New Labour and the Public Sector in Britain
In Britain, New Labour has a distinctive public philosophy that contains an ideal often found in the socialist tradition—that is, citizens attaining moral personhood within and through the community. Old Labour generally sought to realize such an ideal in a universal welfare state characterized by a command form of service delivery. New Labour has responded to dilemmas, akin to those highlighted by the New Right, by transforming this model of the…
No CCP, No New China
Guided by Michel Foucault's concept of “pastoral power,” this article examines the ways in which contemporary discourses within official narratives in China portray the state in a paternal fashion to reinforce its legitimacy. Employing interdisciplinary approaches, this article explores a number of sites in Urumqi, the regional capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), in order to map how a coherent official narrative of power and …
Defining the right path
This paper explores the ‘Sinicization’ of Islam in Mainland China, focusing on Moon Lake Mosque (a historically significant mosque in Ningbo Zhejiang Province). Islam has a long history within China, but it is upon the CCP’s recent attempts to align Islam with ‘Chinese Socialist Characteristics’ that we explore here. Examining the propaganda around the mosque, we trace how tensions about Islam are both represented and (circum)navigated. These pos…
Making the Past Serve the Present”
In this article, we explore how tourism in Xinjiang is politically weaponised. Commodifying Uyghur cultural heritage for tourism allows the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to insist it is not committing cultural genocide, but actually “conserving” Uyghur culture. This directly bears on the CCP’s internment of Muslim minorities in “re-education” camps, ostensibly to target Islamic “extremism.” We explore how tourism to Xinjiang is presented as a “su…
Integration involves a trade-off between fertility and status for World War II evacuees
Understanding how refugees integrate into host societies has broad implications for researchers interested in intergroup conflict and for governments concerned with promoting social cohesion. Using detailed records tracking the movements and life histories of Finnish evacuees during World War II, we find that evacuees who intermarry are more likely to be educated, work in professional occupations, marry someone higher in social status and remain …
Interpreting Welfare Reform
This article deploys Mark Bevir's concept of decentred tradition to interpret the emergence of New Labour's welfare reforms, and critical responses to them, in terms of continuity and change within the social democratic tradition. It does so by exploring the historical interaction of beliefs, traditions, and dilemmas to make three main claims about the ways Gordon Brown and Roy Hattersley each constructed beliefs about welfare provision. First, i…
Reconstructing Social Democracy
Books reviewed in this article: Driver, Stephen and Martell, Luke, New Labour: Politics afterThatcherism Jordan, Bill, The New Politics of Welfare: Social Justice in a GlobalContext Levitas, Ruth, The Inclusive Society? Social Exclusion and NewLabour Powell, Martin (ed.), New Labour, New Welfare State? The ‘ThirdWay’ in British Social Policy
The search for subsidiarity
This article focuses on the subsidiarity debate on restructuring the operational relationship for humanitarian action between the UN and regional intergovernmental organizations. The principle of subsidiarity favours decentralized control within a tiered governance system. In light of financial and political pressures to regionalize humanitarian action, this article explores the competencies of prominent African regional organizations. This compa…
Neo-mercantilism in action
Egalitarian Machine Learning
Responding to China’s crimes against humanity in Xinjiang
This commentary makes the argument that constructive dialogue with China represents the only viable route for the emerging “coalition of the willing” to bring an end to the crimes against humanity the Uyghurs are currently experiencing. The most frequently suggested tactics – ostracism, international legal recourse, and economic sanctions – are all doomed to fail (because of China’s size) and will, rather, likely embolden China’s sense of victimh…
Beyond the freedom to build
In 2003, the Chilean architecture firm Elemental began to revisit the idea of partially completed housing harnessing the productive capacities of the informal process within a more formal framework. The Quinta Monroy project in the northern Chilean city of Iquique was the first such project and involved the in-situ replacement of an informal settlement. The desire of residents was for a middle-class house that was beyond the scope of their budget…
Towards a framework for local democracy in a war‐torn society
This article examines several bilateral and multilateral programmes that were designed to forward El Salvador's transition from a war‐torn society to a democratic polity. Both procedural and substantive democratic strengthening measures were pursued by external donors within the national framework for reconstruction, and independently through larger Central American initiatives. Because links between development and democracy are not clearly unde…
Art in an Expanded Field
The discipline of history has traditionally been divided into two separate and largely independent subfields, one focusing on the East and the other on the West. Multiculturalism has complicated this pic ture by drawing attention to other regions and to previously marginalized cultures within the West, but diversification in this re gard has done little to increase dialogue between Asianists and schol ars of Western art. Change, however, may be a…
Towards a framework for local democracy in a war‐torn society
This article examines several bilateral and multilateral programmes that were designed to forward El Salvador's transition from a war‐torn society to a democratic polity. Both procedural and substantive democratic strengthening measures were pursued by external donors within the national framework for reconstruction, and independently through larger Central American initiatives. Because links between development and democracy are not clearly unde…
Reconstructing Social Democracy
Books reviewed in this article: Driver, Stephen and Martell, Luke, New Labour: Politics afterThatcherism Jordan, Bill, The New Politics of Welfare: Social Justice in a GlobalContext Levitas, Ruth, The Inclusive Society? Social Exclusion and NewLabour Powell, Martin (ed.), New Labour, New Welfare State? The ‘ThirdWay’ in British Social Policy
The search for subsidiarity
This article focuses on the subsidiarity debate on restructuring the operational relationship for humanitarian action between the UN and regional intergovernmental organizations. The principle of subsidiarity favours decentralized control within a tiered governance system. In light of financial and political pressures to regionalize humanitarian action, this article explores the competencies of prominent African regional organizations. This compa…
New Labour and the Public Sector in Britain
In Britain, New Labour has a distinctive public philosophy that contains an ideal often found in the socialist tradition—that is, citizens attaining moral personhood within and through the community. Old Labour generally sought to realize such an ideal in a universal welfare state characterized by a command form of service delivery. New Labour has responded to dilemmas, akin to those highlighted by the New Right, by transforming this model of the…
Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English
The committee reviews important research works in the teaching of English that have been published in the last year. Committee members include Richard Beach, Peggy DeLapp, Deborah Dillon, Lee Galda, Timothy Lensmire, Lauren Liang, David O’Brien, and Constance Walker
Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English
The committee reviews important research works in the teaching of English that have been published in the last year. Committee members include Richard Beach, Peggy DeLapp, Lee Galda, Lori Helman, Timothy Lensmire, and David O’Brien, Gert Rijlaarsdam, and Tanja Janssen
The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria 1930-1954 (review)
Interpreting Welfare Reform
This article deploys Mark Bevir's concept of decentred tradition to interpret the emergence of New Labour's welfare reforms, and critical responses to them, in terms of continuity and change within the social democratic tradition. It does so by exploring the historical interaction of beliefs, traditions, and dilemmas to make three main claims about the ways Gordon Brown and Roy Hattersley each constructed beliefs about welfare provision. First, i…
Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English
The committee reviews important research works in the teaching of English that have been published in the last year. Committee members include Richard Beach, Martha Bigelow, Deborah Dillon, Lee Galda, Lori Helman, Julie Kalnin, Cynthia Lewis, David O’Brien and Mistilina Sato, Karen Jorgensen, Lauren Liang, Gert Rijlaarsdam, and Tanja Janssen
Digital Literacies Go to School
Oftentimes it seems that education, as an institution, is populated by persons who work to preserve practices of the past and who do not depend upon or explore the advantages of digital literacies. Digital literacies, however, are here to stay—they are at the core of new literacies—and educators should consider how to best weave together old, new, and future literacies so that young people leave school literate in the ways of school and the ways …
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Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
Today we thrive on an abundance of relatively cheap computing power and have the luxury of wasting most of it. It is quickly becoming not only possible but also financially sound, for educators to significantly complement, supplement, or even replace traditional print curricula with digital print and media, online curricula and websites, and online communication tools. Different generations perceive this abundance in contrasting ways, and these p…
Reading Multimodally
Technological changes and the proliferation of digital devices have created new reading experiences for students. The rapid transition from print to digital texts is evident in the movement toward the adoption of an e‐book standard, increasing sales of e‐book readers and tablet devices, and projections that universities and public schools may use more e‐textbooks and e‐book devices than print curricula in the near future. Considering these change…
Past and Future Directions in Content Area Literacies
In this column, content area literacy scholars Tom Bean and David O'Brien challenge the older “infusion” model of content area literacy with its emphasis on generic strategies. Rather, they argue for and provide examples of projects that draw on the unique dimensions of various disciplines like history, science, and English, particularly in light of the Common Core State Standards. They offer alternative approaches that capitalize on students' in…
Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English
This November issue of RTE once again contains the Annual Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English, available only here, on the NCTE website
Navigating High Schools
Down a narrow road
No CCP, No New China
Guided by Michel Foucault's concept of “pastoral power,” this article examines the ways in which contemporary discourses within official narratives in China portray the state in a paternal fashion to reinforce its legitimacy. Employing interdisciplinary approaches, this article explores a number of sites in Urumqi, the regional capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), in order to map how a coherent official narrative of power and …
The Unit and Currency of Egalitarian Concern
According to (welfarist) telic egalitarianism, it is, in one respect, noninstrumentally bad if some people are unfairly worse off than others. This paper is about two ambiguities in telic egalitarianism. The first ambiguity concerns the so-called temporal unit of egalitarian concern (McKerlie 1989; Temkin 1993). This is the question of whether inequality during whole lives, inequality during certain segments of lives, or some combination of these…
Rapid on-site identification of hazardous organic compounds at fire scenes using person-portable gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)–part 2
Building and factory fires pose a great risk to human and environmental health, due to the release of hazardous by-products of combustion. These hazardous compounds can dissipate into the environment through fire water run-off, and the impact can be immediate or chronic. Current laboratory-based methods do not report hazardous compounds released from a fire scene at the time and location of the event. Reporting of results is often delayed due to …
Rapid on-site identification of hazardous organic compounds at fire scenes using person-portable gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)—part 1
Recent advancements in person-portable instrumentation have resulted in the potential to provide contemporaneous results through rapid in-field analyses. These technologies can be utilised in emergency response scenarios to aid first responders in appropriate site risk assessment and management. Large metropolitan fires can pose great risk to human and environmental health due to the rapid release of hazardous compounds into the atmosphere. Under…
Integration involves a trade-off between fertility and status for World War II evacuees
Understanding how refugees integrate into host societies has broad implications for researchers interested in intergroup conflict and for governments concerned with promoting social cohesion. Using detailed records tracking the movements and life histories of Finnish evacuees during World War II, we find that evacuees who intermarry are more likely to be educated, work in professional occupations, marry someone higher in social status and remain …
The politics of everyday China
This book looks at how the contract between the Chinese state and its citizens produces ready compliance and apparent support despite the problems of corruption, food scandals, air pollution and the constraints on personal freedom. It explores the ways in which China's past is presented as both a mandate for political monopoly and a promise of a glorious future. It does so through the voice of China's own people, by exploring the lived experience…
Incremental housing
Purpose This paper analyses the incremental housing process developed at Villa Verde, a housing project designed by the Chilean architecture firm Elemental, whose director Alejandro Aravena received the Pritzker Prize in 2016. This project is conceived within a social housing framework and designed as an affordable “half-house” to be incrementally extended by the owners. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on research undertaken in Au…
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