David Fisher
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3607486 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Fisher |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Fisher |
| ASSINATURA | FISHER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lincoln University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0719-1765 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 157 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Face-to-face versus online-based lectures
Introduction There is much debate regarding the impact of COVID-induced lockdown on the standard of assessments, mainly since students were assessed at home via an online assessment platform. Regular orthodox lectures and assessments were carried out during the first term, while the strictly enforced South African COVID lockdown warranted that 2nd term lectures and assessments were based online. This created the fortunate control conditions to st…
Service Providing Hosts’ Perceptions and Responses to an Evolving Chinese Tourist Market
The past two decades has seen a flourishing of research on the characteristics and behaviors of Chinese tourists. Much early research viewed this phenomenon through an essentialist cultural lens; presuming a relatively static and homogeneous market. Recent scholarship has criticized this approach, as risking creating or reinforcing stereotypes of tourists, and overlooking other valid explanations for behavior. Thus, there is a call to focus on cu…
Holocene ice wedge formation in the Eureka Sound Lowlands, high Arctic Canada
Ice wedges are ubiquitous periglacial features in permafrost terrain. This study investigates the timing of ice wedge formation in the Fosheim Peninsula (Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg Islands). In this region, ice wedge polygons occupy ~50% of the landscape, the majority occurring below the marine limit in the Eureka Sound Lowlands. Numerical simulations suggest that ice wedges may crack to depths of 2.7–3.6 m following a rapid cooling of the ground…
Authenticity in tourism theory and experience. Practically indispensable and theoretically mischievous
A challenge to the new metaphysics
A conflict between van Inwagen’s metaontology and his ontology
Through the Dark Vale
The Stonehenge Palisade was a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age 2 km linear timberfence that ran alongside Stonehenge and its final Avenue approach. Within its middle section wasa 300–400 m gap. Four archaeology models of the Palisade, all of which include horizon viewing,are evaluated and revised against the presently known properties of this structure, and elementsof each retained after critique are integrated into an emergent interdisciplinary m…
Carica papaya seed extract slows human sperm
Geolocated social media as a rapid indicator of park visitation and equitable park access
Understanding why some parks are used more regularly or intensely than others can inform ways in which urban parkland is developed and managed to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding urban population. Although geolocated social media (GSM) indicators have been used to examine park visitation rates, studies applying this approach are generally limited to flagship parks, national parks, or a small subset of urban parks. Here, we use geolocated Fli…
Formal ratification of the subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch (Quaternary System/Period)
Mike Walker, Martin J. Head, Max Berkelhammer, Svante Björck, Hai Cheng, Les Cwynar, David Fisher, Vasilios Gkinis, Antony Long, John Lowe, Rewi Newnham, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Harvey Weiss. Episodes 2018;41:213-23. https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2018/018016
Modelling Lunar Extremes
Claims first made over half a century ago that certain prehistoric monuments utilised high-precision alignments on the horizon risings and settings of the Sun and the Moon have recently resurfaced. While archaeoastronomy early on retreated from these claims, as a way to preserve the discipline in an academic boundary dispute, it did so without a rigorous examination of Thom’s concept of a “lunar standstill”. Gough’s uncritical resurrection of Tho…
Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez
Romain Rolland and the Politics of Intellectual Engagement
This intellectual portrait of Romain Rolland (1866-1944)--French novelist, musicologist, dramatist, and Nobel prizewinner in 1915--focuses on his experiments with political commitment against the backdrop of European history between the two world wars. Best known as a biographer of Beethoven and for his novel, Jean-Christophe, Rolland was one of those nonconforming writers who perceived a crisis of bourgeois society in Europe before the Great War…
Transport Infrastructure and Social Inclusion
Until the building of the Karakorum Highway (1958–78), the region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, was extremely isolated, thus preserving distinct cultural traits. The few tourists accessing the area were primarily experienced mountaineers. The highway was established to provide a land link with China, principally as a result of turbulent geo-political rivalry. Once built, however, the road created a connexion to the outside world and allowed for …
Assessing the sustainability of tourism-related livelihoods in an urban World Heritage Site
The relationship between UNESCO World Heritage Sites and tourism has been described as a double-edged sword, with the benefits of tourism countered by its adverse impacts. To the extent that tourism-related livelihoods are dependent on World Heritage status, the loss of that status may have significant adverse effects, especially for poor people. The Sustainable Livelihood Framework has been used to analyse the development, or otherwise, of rural…
Freeze-framing territory
This paper explores how temporal symbolism is used to construct land as an object of enduring value. Using anthropological and ethnographic sources, I highlight how different practices of landholding are informed by different understandings of “permanence”. I elaborate on how institutions of landholding employ “temporal signposts” to mark out land allocation and access arrangements over time. In conclusion, I explore the political roles of inter-…
Adapting Rubbish Theory for heritage tourism
Michael Thompson's Rubbish Theory explains how the values of objects change and that to understand how we value objects we need to understand ‘rubbish’, that is, objects which hold no value. He explained that most objects lose value after they are created and eventually become rubbish. However, there are some objects that maintain their value, which he calls ‘durables’. His theory explains how some objects move from rubbish to having durable valu…
Re-creation tourism
Recent rapid developments in biotechnology and genomics mean that ‘de-extinction’ – the resurrection of extinct species – is now a real possibility. The opportunity to see living examples of long-dead creatures has important implications (benefits and risks) for nature-based tourism. This paper introduces the topic of de-extinction, briefly discusses how it relates to tourism and indicates areas for further research
Ice Cores from the St. Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada
A major achievement in research supported by the Kluane Lake Research Station was the recovery, in 2001 – 02, of a suite of cores from the icefields of the central St. Elias Mountains, Yukon, by teams of researchers from Canada, the United States, and Japan. This project led to the development of parallel, long (103 – 104 year) ice-core records of climate and atmospheric change over an altitudinal range of more than 2 km, from the Eclipse Icefiel…
National stereotypes in tourist guidebooks
Does Morality Matter in Security Policy
Formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch
This discussion paper, by a Working Group of INTIMATE (Integration of ice‐core, marine and terrestrial records) and the Subcommision on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), considers the prospects for a formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch. Although previous attempts to subdivide the Holocene have proved inconclusive, recent developments in Quaternary stratigraphy, notably the definition …
Morality and War
There has been a recent revival of interest in the just‐war tradition. But can a medieval theory help us answer twenty‐first‐century security concerns? The book explores how just‐war thinking needs to be developed to provide such guidance. Part One examines challenges to just‐war thinking, including those posed by moral scepticism and relativism. It explores the nature and grounds of moral reasoning; the relation between public and private morali…
Morality and War
David Fisher explores how just war thinking can and should be developed to provide such guidance. Morality and War examines philosophical challenges to just war thinking, including those posed by moral scepticism and relativism. It explores the nature and grounds of moral reasoning, the relation between public and private morality, and how just war teaching needs to be refashioned to provide practical guidance not just to politicians and generals…
The fall of Berlin
Experiencing Film Tourism
The OE goes ‘home’
In this article we examine cultural aspects of the working holiday experience using the New Zealand Overseas Experience (OE) as a significant and revealing exemplar of this kind of travel. To date, the working holiday experience has been poorly served by tourism and migration literature in general terms, with even less attention paid to cultural aspects of these experiences in relation to both their origin and form. Using archival material and in…
Authenticity in tourism theory and experience. Practically indispensable and theoretically mischievous
The Demonstration Effect Revisited
National stereotypes in tourist guidebooks
The Mt Logan Holocene—late Wisconsinan isotope record
The ice core recovered from Prospector Russell Col on Mt Logan (5.4 km a.s.l.), in the Yukon spans over 20 000 years. This unique record offers a Pacific view of the stable isotope and chemical record from the Lateglacial to the present. The timescale is based on seasonal counted years, the largest known volcanic acid signatures and the major shift in stable isotopes and chemistry at the end of the Younger Dryas. There are large and sustained cha…
Holocene climatic records from Agassiz Ice Cap, Ellesmere Island, NWT, Canada
Four ice cores from the top of the Agassiz Ice Cap and down a flow line have been variously analysed for 8 ( 18 O), ECM (solid conductivity) and ice-melt layer stratigraphy. Stratigraphic correlation of volcanic horizons is used to date the last 8000 years of the cores. The timescales at the Wisconsin/ Holocene transition are pinned at the new GRIP ice-core date. Both 8 and summer-melt records from cores A84 and A87 imply summer temperatures have…
Reverse Diaspora and the Evolution of a Cultural Tradition
There has been considerable interest recently in various new forms of transnational migration and patterns of travel. Often these are understood as novel consequences of the numerous transformations involved in the different dimensions of globalisation. In this paper we argue that, while new technologies and recent social and economic changes clearly influence the formation of these new transnational migratory forms, the role of cultural and hist…
Modelling Lunar Extremes
Claims first made over half a century ago that certain prehistoric monuments utilised high-precision alignments on the horizon risings and settings of the Sun and the Moon have recently resurfaced. While archaeoastronomy early on retreated from these claims, as a way to preserve the discipline in an academic boundary dispute, it did so without a rigorous examination of Thom’s concept of a “lunar standstill”. Gough’s uncritical resurrection of Tho…
Assessing the sustainability of tourism-related livelihoods in an urban World Heritage Site
The relationship between UNESCO World Heritage Sites and tourism has been described as a double-edged sword, with the benefits of tourism countered by its adverse impacts. To the extent that tourism-related livelihoods are dependent on World Heritage status, the loss of that status may have significant adverse effects, especially for poor people. The Sustainable Livelihood Framework has been used to analyse the development, or otherwise, of rural…
Signal and noise in four ice-core records from the Agassiz Ice Cap, Ellesmere Island, Canada
Four ice cores and two deep pit/auger sequences from the top of the Agassiz Ice Cap have been variously analysed for δ(O 18 ), ECM (solid conductivity) and ice melt-layer stratigraphy. The high- resolution data are presented on time scales covering about the last 1000 years. The 8 time series are compared and the noise examined in terms of snow-drifting and wind-scouring of winter snow from the higher exposed parts of flow lines. The highly scour…
Transport Infrastructure and Social Inclusion
Until the building of the Karakorum Highway (1958–78), the region of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, was extremely isolated, thus preserving distinct cultural traits. The few tourists accessing the area were primarily experienced mountaineers. The highway was established to provide a land link with China, principally as a result of turbulent geo-political rivalry. Once built, however, the road created a connexion to the outside world and allowed for …
Freeze-framing territory
This paper explores how temporal symbolism is used to construct land as an object of enduring value. Using anthropological and ethnographic sources, I highlight how different practices of landholding are informed by different understandings of “permanence”. I elaborate on how institutions of landholding employ “temporal signposts” to mark out land allocation and access arrangements over time. In conclusion, I explore the political roles of inter-…
Re-creation tourism
Recent rapid developments in biotechnology and genomics mean that ‘de-extinction’ – the resurrection of extinct species – is now a real possibility. The opportunity to see living examples of long-dead creatures has important implications (benefits and risks) for nature-based tourism. This paper introduces the topic of de-extinction, briefly discusses how it relates to tourism and indicates areas for further research
Was Iraq an unjust war? A debate on the Iraq war and reflections on Libya
Journal Article Was Iraq an unjust war? A debate on the Iraq war and reflections on Libya Get access DAVID FISHER, DAVID FISHER 1Teaches ethics and war at Kings College London, where he was recently awarded a Doctorate degree in war studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar NIGEL BIGGAR NIGEL BIGGAR 2Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, where he also directs the McDona…
Grid–group analysis and tourism
Cultural bias, or grid–group theory, was developed by Mary Douglas in the 1980s to explain individual behavior within a particular society. In this paper, grid–group theory is adapted to show how it may be used in a tourism context. The advantages of this approach are that the same typology can be used for both hosts and guests, not only in general terms, but also for given types of behavior. Grid–group theory shows how the same individual may ex…
A challenge to the new metaphysics
Through the Dark Vale
The Stonehenge Palisade was a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age 2 km linear timberfence that ran alongside Stonehenge and its final Avenue approach. Within its middle section wasa 300–400 m gap. Four archaeology models of the Palisade, all of which include horizon viewing,are evaluated and revised against the presently known properties of this structure, and elementsof each retained after critique are integrated into an emergent interdisciplinary m…
Adapting Rubbish Theory for heritage tourism
Michael Thompson's Rubbish Theory explains how the values of objects change and that to understand how we value objects we need to understand ‘rubbish’, that is, objects which hold no value. He explained that most objects lose value after they are created and eventually become rubbish. However, there are some objects that maintain their value, which he calls ‘durables’. His theory explains how some objects move from rubbish to having durable valu…
High-resolution multiproxy climatic records from ice cores, tree-rings, corals and documentary sources using eigenvector techniques and maps
Palaeotemperature sensitive series from tree-rings, ice cores, corals and documentary sources are combined to producepalaeo summer-temperaturereconstructions (AD 1970-1761)and geographical eigenvector (EOF) maps in both hemispheres. They are compared favourably to those of existing summer-temperature average series. There are 51 palaeoseries in the Northern Hemisphere (mostly north of 40° N) and 16 series in the Southern Hemisphere. The statistic…
The ethics of intervention
Comparison of 10 5 Years of Oxygen Isotope and Insoluble Impurity Profiles from the Devon Island and Camp Century Ice Cores
Oxygen-isotope profiles for the Devon Island ice cap and Camp Century Greenland are affected by a number of variables, some of which must have been the same for both sites. The two δ( 18 O) records spanning about 120,000 years are brought into relative alignment by comparison of major δ features, and subsequent verification that the insoluble particulate concentration records were also in phase for this alignment. The difference between the δ pro…
The War Magician
Morality and the Bomb
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Morality and the Bomb. BY David Fisher (London: Croom Helm, 1985. Pp. 136. Price £15.95) Leslie Stevenson Leslie Stevenson University of St. Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 141, October 1985, Pages 437–439, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219479 Published: 01 October 1985
Identity, Ownership and the Liturgical Text
Nerin, William F., Family Reconstruction
The Deadly Embrace
Experiential Being and the Inherent Self
The Deadly Embrace
Crisis moral communities
Prior Consent to International Satellite Broadcasting
Signal and noise in four ice-core records from the Agassiz Ice Cap, Ellesmere Island, Canada
Four ice cores and two deep pit/auger sequences from the top of the Agassiz Ice Cap have been variously analysed for δ(O 18 ), ECM (solid conductivity) and ice melt-layer stratigraphy. The high- resolution data are presented on time scales covering about the last 1000 years. The 8 time series are compared and the noise examined in terms of snow-drifting and wind-scouring of winter snow from the higher exposed parts of flow lines. The highly scour…
The ethics of intervention
Holocene climatic records from Agassiz Ice Cap, Ellesmere Island, NWT, Canada
Four ice cores from the top of the Agassiz Ice Cap and down a flow line have been variously analysed for 8 ( 18 O), ECM (solid conductivity) and ice-melt layer stratigraphy. Stratigraphic correlation of volcanic horizons is used to date the last 8000 years of the cores. The timescales at the Wisconsin/ Holocene transition are pinned at the new GRIP ice-core date. Both 8 and summer-melt records from cores A84 and A87 imply summer temperatures have…
The Papers of Henry Laurens. Volume XIII
Solid electrical conductivity (ECM) from four Agassiz ice cores, Ellesmere Island NWT, Canada
The solid DC electrical conductivity (ECM – Electrical Conductivity Method) of polar ice cores has become an important tool in identifying and quantifying volcanic acid layers, and this paper addresses the question of how much signal and noise there is in single ECM series. A number of high-resolution (10 samples/year) ice-core ECM records from the Agassiz Ice Cap are correlated over the last 900 years. Corre lations decrease with distance apart …
Foreword to chapter 1
A Holocene Record of Atmospheric Dust Deposition on the Penny Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Canada
An >11,550-yr-long record of atmospheric dust deposition was developed from an ice core (P95) drilled through the Penny ice cap, Baffin Island. The P95 record documents environmental changes that affected the production and transport of dust in the eastern Canadian Arctic during the late Pleistocene and Holocene. Dust deposition on the Penny ice cap was greatest in late-glacial time when the climate was dry and windy and comparatively low in the …
A Holocene Ice-Core Pollen Record from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
A Holocene record of pollen deposition was obtained from an ice core drilled through the Agassiz Ice Cap. The pollen records long-range atmospheric transport to the ice cap. Pollen concentrations were highest in the early Holocene (∼15 grains/L), decreased in the mid-Holocene (∼6 grains/L), and increased in the late Holocene (∼9 grains/L). In the early Holocene, the higher concentration of tree pollen at a time when large parts of Canada were sti…
Exposing Electronics. Bernard Finn , Robert Bud , Helmuth Trischler
High-resolution multiproxy climatic records from ice cores, tree-rings, corals and documentary sources using eigenvector techniques and maps
Palaeotemperature sensitive series from tree-rings, ice cores, corals and documentary sources are combined to producepalaeo summer-temperaturereconstructions (AD 1970-1761)and geographical eigenvector (EOF) maps in both hemispheres. They are compared favourably to those of existing summer-temperature average series. There are 51 palaeoseries in the Northern Hemisphere (mostly north of 40° N) and 16 series in the Southern Hemisphere. The statistic…
The Demonstration Effect Revisited
Being big or growing fast
Domestic regulation of international humanitarian relief in disasters and armed conflict
In both disasters and armed conflicts, domestic regulatory control over the entry and operation of international humanitarian relief operations can significantly affect their ability to address the critical needs of affected persons. The types of regulatory problems that arise, such as customs barriers, visa issues and taxation of aid, are often similar, but both the underlying dynamics and the applicable international law can be quite different.…
The Mt Logan Holocene—late Wisconsinan isotope record
The ice core recovered from Prospector Russell Col on Mt Logan (5.4 km a.s.l.), in the Yukon spans over 20 000 years. This unique record offers a Pacific view of the stable isotope and chemical record from the Lateglacial to the present. The timescale is based on seasonal counted years, the largest known volcanic acid signatures and the major shift in stable isotopes and chemistry at the end of the Younger Dryas. There are large and sustained cha…
Grid–group analysis and tourism
Cultural bias, or grid–group theory, was developed by Mary Douglas in the 1980s to explain individual behavior within a particular society. In this paper, grid–group theory is adapted to show how it may be used in a tourism context. The advantages of this approach are that the same typology can be used for both hosts and guests, not only in general terms, but also for given types of behavior. Grid–group theory shows how the same individual may ex…
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