Michael Wood
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3606362 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Wood |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Wood |
| ASSINATURA | WOOD M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | James Cook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6216-142X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 120 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 478 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 118 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1965 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Interpol as an International Organization
Whatever may have been thought in the past, including within the United Nations (UN), there is now no reason to doubt the status of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) as an international organization. 1 That is important for many reasons, including its status under international and national law, which is fundamental for its dealings with states and other international organizations, not least the UN, and for immunities and…
They Will Terminate at District Headquarters
Late Enough
“What is there in the idea of Too late,” Henry James asks himself in a notebook. “Of some friendship or passion or bond—some affection long desired and waited for, that is formed too late?—I mean too late in life altogether” (James 182–83). Returning to this question the following year, James postponed the meeting further. The fictional couple he was writing about “never met in life” (James 241). They were to get together only when one of them wa…
Corporate Involvement in the Sustainable Development Goals
This study examines the extent of banks' involvement in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and factors influencing their participation in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Previous studies have highlighted the dearth of research conducted in developing countries. The study employed an explanatory sequential mixed‐methods approach across six countries underpinned by legitimacy and corporate sustainability theories. The quantitative phase involved 61…
Assembling mountains through food. Typical cheese and politics of mountainness in the Italian Alps
This confused music
This essay explores Proust's use of Vinteuil as a way to consider the relationship between artistic genius and perceived eccentricity. Vinteuil is presented both a ‘foolish old man’ and a composer of genius, thus staging a tension between the contingent and absolute nature of art. Proust's metaphorical use of music becomes a model for the creative process, where the ‘confused music’ of inspiration must be translated into coherent expression. Yet,…
The United Kingdom
This chapter analyses the stance of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) towards international law and the extent to which it sits within a broader European tradition. It discusses some of the UK’s most significant contributions to the international legal system, particularly through its role in establishing the multilateral system after World War II and support for international dispute settlement. It also considers some…
Reading Angles
In a coda to this remarkable book, David Kurnick makes a large and interesting claim: “Fiction sits at an odder angle to the real than is dreamt of in a lot of academic criticism” (182). Several words in this sentence (“odder,” “real,” “dreamt,” to start with) look as if they might open avenues to endless discussion. But the claim has considerable immediate force. It helps us to understand why so much fiction, old and new, works as well as it doe…
Weedy Life
Respect for any form of life entails nurturing all the potentialities proper to it, including those that might be unproductive from the human point of view. Are there lessons to be learnt about decolonisation of the tropics from a focus on ‘weeds’? The contributors to this photo-essay collectively consider here the lessons that can be learnt about the relationship between colonisation and decolonisation through a visual focus on life forms that h…
Rural recovery or rural spatial justice? Responding to multiple crises for the British countryside
This commentary proposes the adoption of a spatial justice approach to understanding the multiple crises facing rural Britain and developing policy responses. It introduces spatial justice as a concept rooted in urban studies but recently extended by an emerging literature on rural spatial justice, and outlines a multidimensional framework in which spatial justice may be concerned with the actual and perceived distribution of resources and opport…
A spatial justice perspective on EU rural sustainability as territorial cohesion
Territorial cohesion is a guiding set of EU principles to achieve sustainable development. However, evidence suggests that within and across rural and peripheral regions in particular, prosperity and social and economic wellbeing continue to lag behind other regions. The aim of this article is to examine how a spatial justice perspective can provide new development insights on rural sustainability. Introducing a spatial justice perspective to a s…
Supporting the integration of first-year undergraduate widening participation sport students into university
Programme induction activities are a central feature for supporting successful student entry into university, playing an important role in ensuring they quickly settle, feel included, are motivated to learn and able to form new friendships and networks with peers and staff. Research shows how entering university can be complex and challenging for all students regardless of background and experience. This is particularly the case for widening part…
Research, Rituals and Reciprocity
In this paper we draw on anthropological and linguistic research concerning Papua New Guinea (PNG), including the work of Alexandra Aikhenvald, to consider hospitality in fieldwork. We look at how fieldworkers and research participants construct and enact obligations and expectations that arise in the field. With reference to our own fieldwork experiences among the Kumula of the Western Province and the Penambi Wia of the Western Highlands Provin…
How Literatures Begin
This remarkable book offers seventeen detailed answers to what the editors call a “robust question” (3). The question itself is triple—what is a literature; what is a beginning; and how are they related? The book asks us to “take stock of the tremendous variations within different societies” (4). We do, with a slightly dizzying effect. What does ancient China have in common with modern Russia, or ancient Greece with post-colonial Africa? How clos…
The Artistic Object and Its Worlds
Introduction
The death of the novel, like the not unrelated deaths of God and the author, appears to be an event that is always happening; a sign of life, perhaps. This life is a metaphor, of course, a form of fiction itself, but it is also an instrument, a way of seeing. One of its virtues is that it invites us to consider both the practice and the theory of the novel, allows us to ask what novels do, and how they have been thought about over time.We know wh…
Planning for later life
From Territorial Cohesion to Regional Spatial Justice
The European Union's flagship Cohesion Policy faces evidence of dubious economic effectiveness and growing political and philosophical critiques of the very ideals of furthering European integration. This article examines ambitions for territorial cohesion as they have been operationalized through regional development in Wales. We argue that a potential alternative to the failed realization of territorial cohesion lies in the principles of spatia…
Anticipating Ulawun Volcano in New Britain, Papua New Guinea
This paper outlines some of the ways Mengen speakers have positioned Ulawun volcano, its inhabitants and outputs as beneficial features of daily life. By way of contrast, volcanology and more recent disaster planning discourses in Papua New Guinea, have often positioned Ulawun as a hazard that creates potential dangers and risks. The paper explores how these two distinct orientations to Ulawun’s past and future influence the possibilities of Ulaw…
Simple methods for estimating confidence levels, or tentative probabilities, for hypotheses instead of p values
In many fields of research, null hypothesis significance tests and p values are the accepted way of assessing the degree of certainty with which research results can be extrapolated beyond the sample studied. However, there are very serious concerns about the suitability of p values for this purpose. An alternative approach is to cite confidence intervals for a statistic of interest, but this does not directly tell readers how certain a hypothesi…
Unravelling the Global Wool Assemblage
This article applies an assemblage reading to the contemporary global woollen industry to demonstrate how assemblage thinking has value as a methodology for generating insights into the local impact of global economic restructuring; bridging concerns with the relationality of rural places and translocal production networks. Putting assemblage into research practice, we trace the interactions and interdependencies between human and non-human, orga…
Stereotypes and Evidentiality
Evidentiality and stereotyping are two highly productive concepts that have recently generated interesting, and in the case of stereotypes, often politically intense, research agendas. This paper initially outlines how some of this productivity relies on a certain indeterminacy concerning the key terms. After outlining debates about the key characteristics of evidentiality and stereotypes the paper considers recent work that links evidentiality t…
Spirits, Christians and Capitalists in the Rainforests of Papua New Guinea
Using data derived primarily from Kamula speakers living in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea, this paper outlines how various so-called bush spirits have been re-valued by their entanglement with Christianity and different types of resource extraction. Christianity’s impact on these spirits is positioned within this wider set of transformations where some spirits are subject to productive conversion into new sources of wealth, power and v…
America in the Movies or Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind
Yeats and Violence
INTRODUCTION: UP CLOSE AND SERIAL 1. Violent Men 2. The Platonic Year 3. The Temptation of Form 4. The Old Country 5. Violence upon the Roads
What Are Dual Process Models? Implications for Cultural Analysis in Sociology
In this paper we introduce the idea of the dual process framework (DPF), an interdisciplinary approach to the study of learning, memory, thinking, and action. Departing from the successful reception of Vaisey (2009), we suggest that intradisciplinary debates in sociology regarding the merits of 'dual process' formulations can benefit from a better understanding of the theoretical foundations of these models in cognitive and social psychology. We …
The country(side) is angry
The role of emotion in social movement mobilization and political protest has received renewed attention in the past decade. However, few, if any, studies have followed the emotional trajectories of activists through their involvement in protest activity. This paper explores the significance of emotion in rural protests in Britain since 1997. Drawing on first-hand and second-hand sources, it focuses on the emotions of participants in pro-hunting …
The Moral Basis of Moral Reform
Using data from the General Social Surveys 1973 to 1980 on beliefs and opinions about pornography, we attempt to evaluate two explanations of the social base of moral reform movements. We find that various structural conditions, such as being geographically mobile from rural areas, being self-employed, or being status discrepant, have no effect on anti-pornography social movement adherence when variables representing different socialization exper…
Conflicting Environmental Visions of the Rural
The development of wind turbine power stations in rural locations has become an increasingly controversial issue with conflict revolving around representations of nature and the balance that should be struck between the preservation of a local environment and landscape, and the wider concern of tacking climate change through reducing fuel dependency. As such, conflicts over 'windfarm' development provide a rare insight into how political actors n…
Discourse on Method
Mad Cows and Hounded Deer
The author explores the place of animals in rural politics. Recognising that rurality is socially constructed by its participants, he examines how animals are represented in constructs of the rural and in political debates arising from contests between conflicting constructs. In particular, two case studies are discussed-one concerning an attempt to ban staghunting on public-owned land in Somerset; the other concerning the so-called 'BSE crisis' …
Movie-Made America
ASA’s Bachelor’s and Beyond Survey
With the support of the National Science Foundation, the American Sociological Association conducted a longitudinal survey of sociology majors from the class of 2005, following them from senior year into careers or graduate school. The first part of this article provides a context for the results from the What Can I Do with a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology? study and a summary of its key findings. Wave I data demonstrate strong student interest i…
Discourses of power and rurality
Rural recovery or rural spatial justice? Responding to multiple crises for the British countryside
This commentary proposes the adoption of a spatial justice approach to understanding the multiple crises facing rural Britain and developing policy responses. It introduces spatial justice as a concept rooted in urban studies but recently extended by an emerging literature on rural spatial justice, and outlines a multidimensional framework in which spatial justice may be concerned with the actual and perceived distribution of resources and opport…
Ethnographic artifacts and value transformations
Transactions of ethnographic artifacts between Indigenous producers, European collectors, museums, and the state create and transform multiple notions of value. In this paper we discuss how an artifact's value is generated and transformed through various transactions linked to the documentation and property claims made by scientific collectors, such as Eric Mjöberg, Herman Klaatsch, and Ursula McConnel. Such artifacts have now entered a new dynam…
Socio-economic status, delay of gratification, and impulse buying
Rhizomic Radicalism and Arborescent Advocacy
It has become commonplace to describe new social movements as 'rhizomic' in form, yet the full implications of this metaphor are rarely teased out, and the corollary that other political organisations are arborescent in form has been largely neglected in social science research. In this paper we employ Deleuze and Guattari's concept of rhizomic and arborescent assemblages to theorise a transition in the practice of political representation, drawi…
Yeats and Violence
What happens when civilization crumbles? What apocalyptic events wait in the wings? These are the questions asked by Yeats's poem 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen'. Michael Wood explores the life of this poem through its form and historical context, examining how it seeks to make sense of a chaotic world whilst preserving the disorder of experience
The Principle of Non-intervention
This article examines the existence, nature, and content of the non-intervention principle in contemporary international law, concentrating on the application of the principle to areas other than the use of force. It looks at the historical development of the principle and the sources and evidence of the law, in particular resolutions of the UN General Assembly, the decisions of the International Court of Justice, and the practice of states. The …
Security Council Working Methods and Procedure
The Council should not commit itself to procedures which in practice might prove to be excessively rigid, since each dispute with which the Council has to deal has unique characteristics. Attention has been drawn to the danger that any premature formalization of the procedures of the Council might impede the latter in the discharge of its responsibilities under the Charter. 1
Unravelling the Global Wool Assemblage
This article applies an assemblage reading to the contemporary global woollen industry to demonstrate how assemblage thinking has value as a methodology for generating insights into the local impact of global economic restructuring; bridging concerns with the relationality of rural places and translocal production networks. Putting assemblage into research practice, we trace the interactions and interdependencies between human and non-human, orga…
The Methodology of Political Economy
Self-Defense Against Nonstate Actors
Daniel Bethlehem has set down sixteen principles relevant to the scope of a state’s right of self-defense against an imminent or actual armed attack by nonstate actors “with the intention of stimulating a wider debate.” While these principles “are published under [the author’s] responsibility alone,” they have “nonetheless been informed by detailed discussions over recent years with foreign ministry, defense ministry, and military legal advisers …
Reporting an Unsettled Countryside
Most analyses of the role of the media in shaping and reproducing popular discourses of rurality have focused on film, television drama and literature. Comparatively little attention has been directed towards the role of the news media in framing perceptions of contemporary rural issues through reportage and commentary. This paper examines the engagement of the news media with a series of rural protests that developed in Britain between 1997 and …
Places, loss and logging among the Kamula
This paper outlines some of the relationships between Kamula understandings of embodied personhood and place. It seeks to supplement existing accounts of place in the Bosavi region of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Such understandings have largely been based on song, poetry and myth (Feld ; Schieffelin ). By way of contrast, this paper describes comparatively mundane Kamula experiences of place. The Kamula talk I consider emphasizes socially mediated fo…
The Use of the Pharaonic Past in Modern Egyptian Nationalism
Ancient history is often used by modern nations to inspire the processes of nation building. Events, monuments and artifacts of centuries past are often reflected in how a modern nation perceives itself and its future. It may be possible to see the present nation and its citizens as the current descendants, whether physically or merely in spirit, of a once great civilization of the past. Such an identification can take the form of an official ide…
A spatial justice perspective on EU rural sustainability as territorial cohesion
Territorial cohesion is a guiding set of EU principles to achieve sustainable development. However, evidence suggests that within and across rural and peripheral regions in particular, prosperity and social and economic wellbeing continue to lag behind other regions. The aim of this article is to examine how a spatial justice perspective can provide new development insights on rural sustainability. Introducing a spatial justice perspective to a s…
Initiating God's Word into the Kamula's Recent Past
Elements of the Kamula people's celebration of their version of the New Testament involved the conjunction of two transformed ritual sequences. One was based on a standard Summer Institute of Linguistics Bible Dedication ceremony, and the other, transformations of pre-colonial ritual sequences concerning initiation and raiding. This conjunction created the possibility of at least two overtly distinct, but intersecting, interpretations—one suggest…
In Search of the Trojan War
Tales of Troy and its heroes--Achilles and Hector, Paris and the legendary beauty Helen--have fired the human imagination for 3,000 years. With In Search of the Trojan War, Michael Wood brings vividly to life the legend and lore of the Heroic Age in an archaeological adventure that sifts through the myths and speculation to provide a fresh view of the riches and the reality of ancient Troy. This gripping story shows why the legend of Troy forms t…
A Study of Fire Imagery in Some Plays by Paul Claudel
A STUDY OF FIRE IMAGERY IN SOME PLAYS BY PAUL CLAUDEL Get access MICHAEL WOOD MICHAEL WOOD COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XIX, Issue 2, April 1965, Pages 144–158, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XIX.2.144 Published: 01 April 1965
The Theme of the Prison in Le Soulier De Satin
THE THEME OF THE PRISON IN LE SOULIER DE SATIN Get access MICHAEL WOOD MICHAEL WOOD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XXII, Issue 3, July 1968, Pages 225–238, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XXII.3.225 Published: 01 July 1968
Archaeology and Islam in Indonesia
Some Indonesian archaeologists, however, have focused on the nation's Islamic past. Uka Tjandrasasmita is one of Indonesia's leading archaeologists and is largely behind the writing of Volume III of the Sejarah Nasional Indonesia, the national history that was the "standard text" for the teaching of history in Indonesian schools during the New Order; the volume he worked on dealt with Indonesia's Islamic history. For many years he held the positi…
On the brink
Australian State Administration
Striking the Rate in Glenorchy
Movie-Made America
Western Australia
The “new federalisms” of Whitlam and Fraser and their impact on local government
(1977). The “new federalisms” of Whitlam and Fraser and their impact on local government. Politics: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 104-115
Western Australia
Voting in small electorates
Western Australia
Western Australia
Alternatives and options in computer content analysis
Rule enforcement in a public setting
Western Australia
G. H. Mead's Social Behaviorism vs. The Astructural Bias of Symbolic Interactionism
Symbolic inleractionism has been criticized for having an astructural bias. This paper presents a response to that criticism by examining the ontological stance contained in Mead's social behaviorism and contrasting it with the ontological stance of symbolic interactionism's chief architect, Herbert Blumer. Mead's social behaviorism is shown to be a nondualist philosophy of conduct based solidly on conceptions of the human community and of indivi…
Western Australia
The Moral Basis of Moral Reform
Using data from the General Social Surveys 1973 to 1980 on beliefs and opinions about pornography, we attempt to evaluate two explanations of the social base of moral reform movements. We find that various structural conditions, such as being geographically mobile from rural areas, being self-employed, or being status discrepant, have no effect on anti-pornography social movement adherence when variables representing different socialization exper…
Memory for topographic contour maps
Map reading is becoming recognized as an information processing task. This research compared the memory for topographic contour maps in experimental samples who had answered questions about contours during a 20‐minute inspection phase, and in control samples who had answered questions about distances on the map and determined several six‐figure map references during a similar inspection period. The samples were selected from 13–15‐year‐old pupils…
In Search of the Trojan War
Tales of Troy and its heroes--Achilles and Hector, Paris and the legendary beauty Helen--have fired the human imagination for 3,000 years. With In Search of the Trojan War, Michael Wood brings vividly to life the legend and lore of the Heroic Age in an archaeological adventure that sifts through the myths and speculation to provide a fresh view of the riches and the reality of ancient Troy. This gripping story shows why the legend of Troy forms t…
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called 'Boom' in contemporary Latin American fiction. Published in 1967, the novel was an instant success, running to hundreds of editions, winning four international prizes, and being translated into 27 languages. In 1982, its author received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Michael Wood places the novel in the context of modern Colombia's violent history, and helps th…
The Gift Economy
Garcia Marquez
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