Ben Jone
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3591978 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ben Jone |
| PRENOMES | Ben |
| SOBRENOME | Jone |
| ASSINATURA | BEN JONE |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3168-0726 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 110 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Unsettling education
‘These KMA People are also our Customers’
Street vendors are some of the most put-upon actors in urban Africa and elsewhere, vulnerable to harassment by government, commercial businesses, and residents. We look at a group of vendors occupying a sidewalk next to the offices of the Kumasi Metropolitan Authority (KMA) in Ghana’s second city. We demonstrate how the sidewalk functions as a family-like space for the coconut sellers. They not only work there, but also use the sidewalk as a spac…
It was like a big union’
This article deals with the competing histories, mythologies and popular memories of the acid house and rave scene in the UK from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. We explore its cultural importance through an analysis of the feelings articulated by commentators across the political spectrum, from the disgust and anxiety expressed by contemporary journalists at the Daily Mail, via the popular memory of rave as resolving the issue of terrace viole…
Urban History in Kumase, Ghana
This note seeks to bring awareness to the wide variety of archival documents available for research in urban history in Kumase, Ghana’s second city and capital of the historic Asante Kingdom. We draw mainly on our experiences researching the history of Jackson Park, one of colonial Kumase’s earliest public parks
Becoming “business class”
Our paper looks at the lives of educated young men in a Pentecostal church in eastern Uganda. The way young men conduct themselves, how they dress, how they speak in church, whether or not they are good with technology, help to define their claims to an educated identity. Youth leaders are valued for the liveliness they bring to church, for the ways they innovate in areas of praise and worship. At the same time, they are often criticised for the …
Migrant workers’ education in China
Decent exposure
We examine ‘exposure’ as a new subjectivity among young women in Lira City in northern Uganda. Socialising with men in bars, ‘managing’ boyfriends, being a good Christian wife, are all ways of mixing experiences of formal education with the challenges of navigating a way forward in the complex and evolving context of Lira City. Young women strive to acquire skills of hustling, networking and navigating social situations, which they begin to devel…
Police Obligations to Aggressors with Mental Illness
Police killings of individuals with mental illness have prompted calls for greater funding of mental health services to shift responsibilities away from the police. Such investments can reduce police interactions with vulnerable populations but are unlikely to eliminate them entirely, particularly in cases where individuals with mental illness have a weapon or are otherwise dangerous. It remains a pressing question, then, how police should respon…
The Police Identity Crisis
Casual culture and football hooligan autobiographies
This article explores the development of an important subculture which has received scant academic attention: football's casual movement of the 1980s.By analysing hooligan autobiographies, it investigates how the casual look spread from Merseyside and Manchester in the late 1970s to encompass every major city and town in Britain by the middle of the following decade.It delineates the attractions of the hooligan firms and shows how, through their …
Football Casuals, Fanzines, and Acid House
This article illuminates the dynamics of two of the most significant yet neglected youth subcultures of the late twentieth century: football's casual culture and the acid house scene. Through the lens of two influential fanzines, Liverpool's The End and London's Boy's Own I make a series of arguments about the relationship between 'popular individualism', emotion, and working-class communities. I argue that while conceptualizing the fanzines as '…
Education as identity
In eastern Uganda "being educated" is an identity that people work on throughout their lives. They develop an educated identity through participating on committees, educating their children, and subscribing to a recognizable set of behaviors. Education is a "scaffold" that can be built up or knocked down, one that is related to, but broader than, experiences of going to school or being young. Moreover, "being educated" has ongoing political advan…
Money looks for money
Savings groups are an important feature of life in rural Uganda and elsewhere. They have been celebrated as an 'alternative', community-based approach to economic development with a particular focus on empowering women. In this article we offer a more critical perspective, showing how a savings group in a village in eastern Uganda informs more general experiences of financialization. Joining the group was not really an 'alternative' to other form…
Police-Generated Killings
This article offers a normative analysis of some of the most controversial incidents involving police—what I call police-generated killings. In these cases, bad police tactics create a situation where deadly force becomes necessary, becomes perceived as necessary, or occurs unintentionally. Police deserve blame for such killings because they choose tactics that unnecessarily raise the risk of deadly force, thus violating their obligation to prior…
The challenges of ideal theory and appeal of secular apocalyptic thought
Why do thinkers hostile or agnostic toward Christianity find in its apocalyptic doctrines—often seen as bizarre—appealing tools for interpreting politics? This article tackles that puzzle. First, it clarifies the concept of secular apocalyptic thought and its relation to Christianity. I propose that, to avoid imprecision, the study of secular apocalyptic thought should focus on cases where religious apocalyptic thought's influence on secular thin…
We are passing our leisure time
In the trading centre of Atine Atirir in eastern Uganda, young men gather to play ludo. They are educated but most do not have salaried employment. Many farm and do some form of casual labour. They talk about the importance of leisure and 'leisure time' and discuss the prospects of Arsenal in the English Premier League. In this article I explore the relationship between education, farming and 'leisure time' and look at the ways in which young men…
Avoiding Data Pitfalls
Remembering Alun
One of the very many things Alun was really good at was writing obituaries. I was scrolling through History Workshop yesterday and found Alun’s tributes to John Saville, George Ewart Evans, Raphael Samuel, John Gurney, and, most recently Andy Durr. Steeped in the History Workshop ethos from his time at Ruskin, Alun sometimes appeared as a sort of keeper of both oral traditions and collective memories. Alun had a prodigious memory. Becca Seale rec…
The civil war in Mozambique
When writing this review, I came across another of the same book on the H-Luso-Africa strand of h-net.org. Towards the end of what is an otherwise fairly straightforward account, the reviewer claim
A More Receptive Crowd than Before’
In the mid-2000s, the gender work of the World Bank took a different turn with a new Gender Action Plan. Up until then, gender equality had been on the margins of the World Bank, concentrated around a small number of advocates. This particular articulation of gender took as its tagline ‘gender equality as smart economics’. The Plan attracted three times the original budget of US$24.5 million, and moved gender analysis into new fields of work: lab…
Working with the media taught us a lot
One of the more important ventures in the world of media and development over the past decade has been The Guardian newspaper’s ‘Katine’ project in Uganda. The newspaper, with funding from its readers and Barclays Bank, put more than 2.5 million pounds into a Ugandan sub-county over the course of 4 years. The project was profiled on a dedicated Guardian microsite, with regular updates in the printed edition of the newspaper. In this article, I lo…
Neoliberal Moral Economy
Christianity, Development and Modernity in Africa by Paul Gifford London
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Working-Class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century
Working-Class Writing and Publishing in the Late Twentieth Century: Literature, Culture and Community." Contemporary British History, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Street Archives and City Life
Instrumental, Narrow, Normative? Reviewing recent work on religion and development
There is a growing body of research on religion and development, primarily from development scholars and practitioners. In many ways this represents a new departure for development studies, which has been largely uninterested in religion in the past. This growing interest can be explained through a number of inter-linking factors, including the persistence of religion in much of the world, and the sense that existing approaches to development hav…
Optimal Times to Contact Sample Households
Journal Article Optimal Times to Contact Sample Households Get access M. F. WEEKS, M. F. WEEKS The authors are staff members of the Research Triangle Institute P.O. Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709. M. F. Weeks is a survey specialist in the Survey Operations Center; B. L. Jones, R. E. Folsom, Jr., and C. H. Benrud are statisticians in the Sampling Research and Design Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
The Church in the Village, the Village in the Church
L’Église dans le village, le village dans l’Église. Le pentecôtisme à Teso, Ouganda. — Cet article, qui s’appuie sur l’étude de cas d’une église pentecôtiste dans la région de Teso, dans l’est de l’Ouganda, poursuit une méthodologie qui place les églises au même plan que les institutions coutumières et gouvernementales. Nous verrons comment les villageois membres d’une église pentecôtiste continuent de participer à d’autres institutions au niveau…
Slum Clearance, Privatization and Residualization
This article contributes to a growing literature on working-class suburbanization by arguing that both the residualization and privatization of council housing need to be properly historicized. This case study of housing policy in the borough of Brighton demonstrates that council house sales between the 1950s and 1970s were important in the residualization of inter-war estates well before the 'right to buy' legislation of the 1980s. Concerns abou…
We are passing our leisure time
In the trading centre of Atine Atirir in eastern Uganda, young men gather to play ludo. They are educated but most do not have salaried employment. Many farm and do some form of casual labour. They talk about the importance of leisure and 'leisure time' and discuss the prospects of Arsenal in the English Premier League. In this article I explore the relationship between education, farming and 'leisure time' and look at the ways in which young men…
Education as identity
In eastern Uganda "being educated" is an identity that people work on throughout their lives. They develop an educated identity through participating on committees, educating their children, and subscribing to a recognizable set of behaviors. Education is a "scaffold" that can be built up or knocked down, one that is related to, but broader than, experiences of going to school or being young. Moreover, "being educated" has ongoing political advan…
Money looks for money
Savings groups are an important feature of life in rural Uganda and elsewhere. They have been celebrated as an 'alternative', community-based approach to economic development with a particular focus on empowering women. In this article we offer a more critical perspective, showing how a savings group in a village in eastern Uganda informs more general experiences of financialization. Joining the group was not really an 'alternative' to other form…
Looking Good
The Making of Meaning
Churches and development projects are a shared feature of the landscape of much of rural Africa. In this article I look at these two very different sorts of institution in a village in the Teso region of eastern Uganda, exploring the ways in which people do, or do not, make meaning through their participation in churches and development projects. In this context recently-formed Pentecostal churches have become a significant part of the local land…
The Uses of Nostalgia
Recent characterizations of post-war working class autobiography as predominantly nostalgic require revision. Brighton's QueenSpark publications demonstrate a greater diversity in tone, style and form than has previously been recognized. I argue that while council housing and slum clearance transformed working class communities between the 1920s and the 1960s, the social and political contexts in which these experiences were later remembered also…
Police-Generated Killings
This article offers a normative analysis of some of the most controversial incidents involving police—what I call police-generated killings. In these cases, bad police tactics create a situation where deadly force becomes necessary, becomes perceived as necessary, or occurs unintentionally. Police deserve blame for such killings because they choose tactics that unnecessarily raise the risk of deadly force, thus violating their obligation to prior…
A More Receptive Crowd than Before’
In the mid-2000s, the gender work of the World Bank took a different turn with a new Gender Action Plan. Up until then, gender equality had been on the margins of the World Bank, concentrated around a small number of advocates. This particular articulation of gender took as its tagline ‘gender equality as smart economics’. The Plan attracted three times the original budget of US$24.5 million, and moved gender analysis into new fields of work: lab…
Bringing Religion Back In
The born-again discourse is a central characteristic of Pentecostal Christianity in Africa.In the study of African Christianities, this discourse and the way it (re)shapes people's moral, religious, and social identities has received much attention.However, hardly any attention has been paid to its effects on men as gendered beings.In the study of men and masculinities in Africa, on the other hand, neither religion in general nor born-again Chris…
Becoming “business class”
Our paper looks at the lives of educated young men in a Pentecostal church in eastern Uganda. The way young men conduct themselves, how they dress, how they speak in church, whether or not they are good with technology, help to define their claims to an educated identity. Youth leaders are valued for the liveliness they bring to church, for the ways they innovate in areas of praise and worship. At the same time, they are often criticised for the …
Decent exposure
We examine ‘exposure’ as a new subjectivity among young women in Lira City in northern Uganda. Socialising with men in bars, ‘managing’ boyfriends, being a good Christian wife, are all ways of mixing experiences of formal education with the challenges of navigating a way forward in the complex and evolving context of Lira City. Young women strive to acquire skills of hustling, networking and navigating social situations, which they begin to devel…
Football Casuals, Fanzines, and Acid House
This article illuminates the dynamics of two of the most significant yet neglected youth subcultures of the late twentieth century: football's casual culture and the acid house scene. Through the lens of two influential fanzines, Liverpool's The End and London's Boy's Own I make a series of arguments about the relationship between 'popular individualism', emotion, and working-class communities. I argue that while conceptualizing the fanzines as '…
Some Determinants of Variations in Expenditure on Secondary Education
The claims of educational expenditure on the public purse are large and, until recently, have been growing. In a period of increased concern for accountability in the public sector it is not surprising to find attention increasingly directed to this rather neglected aspect of the education service. Two recent publications by the Department of Education and Science, under the title ‘School Standards and Spending’ (DES, 1983, 1984), have addressed …
Police Obligations to Aggressors with Mental Illness
Police killings of individuals with mental illness have prompted calls for greater funding of mental health services to shift responsibilities away from the police. Such investments can reduce police interactions with vulnerable populations but are unlikely to eliminate them entirely, particularly in cases where individuals with mental illness have a weapon or are otherwise dangerous. It remains a pressing question, then, how police should respon…
Casual culture and football hooligan autobiographies
This article explores the development of an important subculture which has received scant academic attention: football's casual movement of the 1980s.By analysing hooligan autobiographies, it investigates how the casual look spread from Merseyside and Manchester in the late 1970s to encompass every major city and town in Britain by the middle of the following decade.It delineates the attractions of the hooligan firms and shows how, through their …
The challenges of ideal theory and appeal of secular apocalyptic thought
Why do thinkers hostile or agnostic toward Christianity find in its apocalyptic doctrines—often seen as bizarre—appealing tools for interpreting politics? This article tackles that puzzle. First, it clarifies the concept of secular apocalyptic thought and its relation to Christianity. I propose that, to avoid imprecision, the study of secular apocalyptic thought should focus on cases where religious apocalyptic thought's influence on secular thin…
Working with the media taught us a lot
One of the more important ventures in the world of media and development over the past decade has been The Guardian newspaper’s ‘Katine’ project in Uganda. The newspaper, with funding from its readers and Barclays Bank, put more than 2.5 million pounds into a Ugandan sub-county over the course of 4 years. The project was profiled on a dedicated Guardian microsite, with regular updates in the printed edition of the newspaper. In this article, I lo…
Optimal Times to Contact Sample Households
Journal Article Optimal Times to Contact Sample Households Get access M. F. WEEKS, M. F. WEEKS The authors are staff members of the Research Triangle Institute P.O. Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709. M. F. Weeks is a survey specialist in the Survey Operations Center; B. L. Jones, R. E. Folsom, Jr., and C. H. Benrud are statisticians in the Sampling Research and Design Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Some Determinants of Variations in Expenditure on Secondary Education
The claims of educational expenditure on the public purse are large and, until recently, have been growing. In a period of increased concern for accountability in the public sector it is not surprising to find attention increasingly directed to this rather neglected aspect of the education service. Two recent publications by the Department of Education and Science, under the title ‘School Standards and Spending’ (DES, 1983, 1984), have addressed …
Ethnic differences in the Youth Labour Market in Sheffield and Bradford
Bringing Religion Back In
The born-again discourse is a central characteristic of Pentecostal Christianity in Africa.In the study of African Christianities, this discourse and the way it (re)shapes people's moral, religious, and social identities has received much attention.However, hardly any attention has been paid to its effects on men as gendered beings.In the study of men and masculinities in Africa, on the other hand, neither religion in general nor born-again Chris…
The Church in the Village, the Village in the Church
L’Église dans le village, le village dans l’Église. Le pentecôtisme à Teso, Ouganda. — Cet article, qui s’appuie sur l’étude de cas d’une église pentecôtiste dans la région de Teso, dans l’est de l’Ouganda, poursuit une méthodologie qui place les églises au même plan que les institutions coutumières et gouvernementales. Nous verrons comment les villageois membres d’une église pentecôtiste continuent de participer à d’autres institutions au niveau…
The Teso Insurgency Remembered
From 1986 to 1993 the Teso region of eastern Uganda experienced a violent insurgency. The insurgency was remembered as a time of brutality, when norms of respect and reciprocity were broken down. Younger men targeted and killed older men, and life retreated inwards. In the years since the insurgency a number of institutional developments have reflected on this experience. A growing number of Pentecostal churches have been established in the regio…
The Illusion of Cultural Identity by Jean‐François Bayart
Beyond the state in rural Uganda
The Uses of Nostalgia
Recent characterizations of post-war working class autobiography as predominantly nostalgic require revision. Brighton's QueenSpark publications demonstrate a greater diversity in tone, style and form than has previously been recognized. I argue that while council housing and slum clearance transformed working class communities between the 1920s and the 1960s, the social and political contexts in which these experiences were later remembered also…
Slum Clearance, Privatization and Residualization
This article contributes to a growing literature on working-class suburbanization by arguing that both the residualization and privatization of council housing need to be properly historicized. This case study of housing policy in the borough of Brighton demonstrates that council house sales between the 1950s and 1970s were important in the residualization of inter-war estates well before the 'right to buy' legislation of the 1980s. Concerns abou…
Instrumental, Narrow, Normative? Reviewing recent work on religion and development
There is a growing body of research on religion and development, primarily from development scholars and practitioners. In many ways this represents a new departure for development studies, which has been largely uninterested in religion in the past. This growing interest can be explained through a number of inter-linking factors, including the persistence of religion in much of the world, and the sense that existing approaches to development hav…
Humphrey Jennings, the Left and the Experience of Modernity in mid twentieth-century Britain
This article considers how Humphrey Jennings sought to represent the experience of modernity. While this concern runs through his career, we focus here on the two works which represent the fullest exposition of his ideas. Pandaemonium was a project that Jennings began in the late 1930s and pursued until his death in 1950. Posthumously published, this book consisted of a montage of original sources which documented the ways in which industrializat…
The Making of Meaning
Churches and development projects are a shared feature of the landscape of much of rural Africa. In this article I look at these two very different sorts of institution in a village in the Teso region of eastern Uganda, exploring the ways in which people do, or do not, make meaning through their participation in churches and development projects. In this context recently-formed Pentecostal churches have become a significant part of the local land…
Christianity, Development and Modernity in Africa by Paul Gifford London
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Looking Good
Neoliberal Moral Economy
A More Receptive Crowd than Before’
In the mid-2000s, the gender work of the World Bank took a different turn with a new Gender Action Plan. Up until then, gender equality had been on the margins of the World Bank, concentrated around a small number of advocates. This particular articulation of gender took as its tagline ‘gender equality as smart economics’. The Plan attracted three times the original budget of US$24.5 million, and moved gender analysis into new fields of work: lab…
Working with the media taught us a lot
One of the more important ventures in the world of media and development over the past decade has been The Guardian newspaper’s ‘Katine’ project in Uganda. The newspaper, with funding from its readers and Barclays Bank, put more than 2.5 million pounds into a Ugandan sub-county over the course of 4 years. The project was profiled on a dedicated Guardian microsite, with regular updates in the printed edition of the newspaper. In this article, I lo…
Avoiding Data Pitfalls
Remembering Alun
One of the very many things Alun was really good at was writing obituaries. I was scrolling through History Workshop yesterday and found Alun’s tributes to John Saville, George Ewart Evans, Raphael Samuel, John Gurney, and, most recently Andy Durr. Steeped in the History Workshop ethos from his time at Ruskin, Alun sometimes appeared as a sort of keeper of both oral traditions and collective memories. Alun had a prodigious memory. Becca Seale rec…
The civil war in Mozambique
When writing this review, I came across another of the same book on the H-Luso-Africa strand of h-net.org. Towards the end of what is an otherwise fairly straightforward account, the reviewer claim
The challenges of ideal theory and appeal of secular apocalyptic thought
Why do thinkers hostile or agnostic toward Christianity find in its apocalyptic doctrines—often seen as bizarre—appealing tools for interpreting politics? This article tackles that puzzle. First, it clarifies the concept of secular apocalyptic thought and its relation to Christianity. I propose that, to avoid imprecision, the study of secular apocalyptic thought should focus on cases where religious apocalyptic thought's influence on secular thin…
We are passing our leisure time
In the trading centre of Atine Atirir in eastern Uganda, young men gather to play ludo. They are educated but most do not have salaried employment. Many farm and do some form of casual labour. They talk about the importance of leisure and 'leisure time' and discuss the prospects of Arsenal in the English Premier League. In this article I explore the relationship between education, farming and 'leisure time' and look at the ways in which young men…
Police-Generated Killings
This article offers a normative analysis of some of the most controversial incidents involving police—what I call police-generated killings. In these cases, bad police tactics create a situation where deadly force becomes necessary, becomes perceived as necessary, or occurs unintentionally. Police deserve blame for such killings because they choose tactics that unnecessarily raise the risk of deadly force, thus violating their obligation to prior…
The Police Identity Crisis
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