Jim Taylor
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3637521 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jim Taylor |
| PRENOMES | Jim |
| SOBRENOME | Taylor |
| ASSINATURA | TAYLOR J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lancaster University Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5461-1582 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 159 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1955 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Multiplicities and Contingency
This paper reconsiders explanations of ‘popular’ Buddhism in Thailand initiated in mid-twentieth century anthropological definitions of vernacular articulations of religiosity in village settings. Buddhist localism, in its various manifestations, is seen to contrast with a doctrinal or literate ‘great’ monastic tradition. In this persisting ethnographic argument, an actor may draw randomly on various syncretic elements of their religiosity accord…
Social change innovations, citizen science, miniSass and the SDGs
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) describe a course of action to address poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all (https://sdgs.un.org/goals). More specifically, SDG 6 clarifies how water quality, quantity and access are crucial to human well-being, and yet human activities are compromising water resources through over-exploitation, pollution, as well as contributing to the spread of disease. Globally aquati…
Waterscapes of power in Bangladesh
This paper is drawn from ethnographically informed research undertaken in 2016‒2017 pertaining to the planned modernisation of two large‐scale irrigation schemes in Bangladesh, funded by the Asian Development Bank. The research confirms existing critical irrigation anthropology on the politics and power of large‐scale irrigation modernisation and related drive to privatisation. The modernisation of the scheme aimed to increase water, energy and a…
Why Do We Hurt Ourselves? Understanding Self-Harm in Social Life
How to Survive and Thrive When Bad Things Happen
Sociological Approaches to Self‐injury
This paper reviews the burgeoning sociological literature on non‐suicidal self‐injury, in which individuals intentionally harm themselves by cutting, burning, scratching, or smashing their body parts. We identify challenges to studying self‐injury, such as conflicting definitions and categorizations. Comparing self‐injury to other behaviors such as suicide, body modification, and self‐mutilation, we assert that non‐suicidal self‐injury deserves i…
Remembrance and Tragedy
This is a reflection on the “Red Shirt” social movement in Thailand based on ethnographic research conducted in 2007–11. Under its umbrella organization, the National United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, the social movement generated a momentum never before seen in Thailand following the consequences of the 19 September 2006 coup d’état. The resistance and mass calls for democratic change came from the periphery, not the centre as in …
The Victoria History of the Counties of England. A History of the County of Northampton, Vol. VI
When God comes to town
Contemporary Urban Buddhist 'Cults' and the Socio-Political Order in Thailand
This paper is concerned with the ongoing intense interest in Thailand of two controversial urban Buddhist movements which have appeared since the beginning of the seventies, Santi Asok and Thammakaai. Essentially, I view both as a resonance of the perceived need for ‘change’ among an articulate aspiring new middle class. I also argue that both Santi Asok and Thammakaai in their expressions — Thammakaai the specious discursive function of capital,…
From Durban to Ahmedabad
Ethnic and Gender Differences in Intergenerational Mobility
This paper uses the traditional income framework and a non‐monetary framework to estimate intergenerational mobility in economic status for a sample of 26‐year‐old whites, blacks and Hispanics in the USA using data from the first and fifth sweeps of the National Educational Longitudinal Study (1988 and 2000). Intergenerational income mobility is found to be greater for males than for females, although there are differences between whites, blacks …
Reflections on the 7th Invitational Seminar on Research and Development in Health and Environmental Education
Cyber-Buddhism and Changing Urban Space in Thailand
Buddhism in Thailand has long been seen as a holistic cultural system, with an all-embracing normative cosmology that provides everyday meaning. However, it is also a diverse cultural system that produces alternative or Other counterstatist practices that have at times contested the power of the politico-administrative center. In this changing milieu, cyber-Buddhism has emerged as a response to the needs of an increasingly mobile, simulated, and …
Post-high school choices
Embodiment, Nation, and Religio-Politics in Thailand
In the Thai Buddhist monastic order, the Sangha/state confluence, religion and politics constitute an intertwined body/corpus as nation. The body in this context is consistently controlled and organized by religious discourse in the creation of religious technologies of the body. This paper examines the exuberance of two contemporary Thai religio-political articulations in relation to the body metaphor, both responses to the amoral and impersonal…
(Post-) Modernity, remaking tradition and the hybridisation of Thai Buddhism
(1999). (Post‐) Modernity, remaking tradition and the hybridisation of Thai Buddhism. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 163-187
UK Regional Policy
INTRODUCT ION ities in unemployment during the recession of the early 1990s, which bit deeply in the southern regions. However, the convergence of regional unemployment rates UK regional policy has existed at varying levels of intensity for nearly seven decades. Throughout its conceals persistent spatial disparities in unemployment at a higher level of disaggregation. Fig. 2 shows that existence, the overriding objective has been to provide econo…
Human Capital Formation and Local Economic Performance
BRADLEY S. and TAYLOR J. (1996) Human capital formation and local economic performance, Reg. Studies, 30, 1-14. This paper is concerned with the interaction between the vocational education and training system (VET) and local economic performance in Britain. After briefly discussing the shortcomings of Britain's VET system, the paper examines the way in which the education and training system and the local economy interact. In particular, it is a…
Research in UK Departments of Sociology
An Analysis of the Factors Determining the Geographical Distribution of Japanese Manufacturing Investment in the UK, 1984-91
The purpose of this paper is to discover which factors have been important in determining the geographical distribution of Japanese manufacturing establishments in the UK during 1984-91. A multivariate statistical analysis is undertaken, based on the Poisson model, to investigate the inter-county variation in the number of establishments locating in each UK county during two separate time periods (1984-88 and 1989-91). In addition to examining th…
Social activism and resistance on the Thai frontier
Recently, the print media in Thailand has given considerable attention to the cases of development-oriented and conservationist monks. One of these, Phra Prajak Khuttajitto, gained national attention by taking a stand against the civil and military bureaucracy and related capitalist interests in a nationwide plan to resettle Thailand's frontier villagers. This plan was called the Land Redistribution Project for the Poor in Degraded Forest Areas, …
Buddhist Revitalization, Modernization, and Social Change in Contemporary Thailand
This paper provides both an overview and an analysis of contemporary Thai Buddhism and the changing nature of its traditional relationship with the state. It argues that in recent times as modern urban Thai society has become increasingly differentiated, it has started to question the totalizing and instrumental politicoreligious and moral dimensions of national civic religion. Attention is focused in particular on the expanding and autonomous ur…
The Citation Record of Regional Studies and Related Journals, 1980–89
TAYLOR J. and JOHNES J. (1992) The citation record of Regional Studies and related journals, 1980–89, Reg. Studies 26, 93–97. This note compares the citation record of Regional Studies with that of other related academic journals in the field of urban and regional studies during 1980–89. Two variables are used to measure the citation record: first, the frequency of citations; and second, an impact factor which is a measure of the average number o…
DVD Demystified
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New Buddhist Movements in Thailand
Throughout Thai history there have been religious ascetics credited with the ability of precognition ( mii yaan ) as a result of accumulated virtues and meditation abilities. One such religious figure, perhaps the most widely acknowledged "saint" in modern times, was Phra Ajaan Man Phuurithatto (1870-1949). Of particular interest to this paper is the recorded prediction made by this ascetic monk shortly before his death, documented by a former di…
The Behaviour of Unemployment and Unfilled Vacancies
Journal Article The Behaviour of Unemployment and Unfilled Vacancies: Great Britain, 1958-71. An Alternative View Get access Jim Taylor Jim Taylor University of Lancaster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 82, Issue 328, 1 December 1972, Pages 1352–1365, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231311 Published: 01 December 1972
Buddhist Revitalization, Modernization, and Social Change in Contemporary Thailand
This paper provides both an overview and an analysis of contemporary Thai Buddhism and the changing nature of its traditional relationship with the state. It argues that in recent times as modern urban Thai society has become increasingly differentiated, it has started to question the totalizing and instrumental politicoreligious and moral dimensions of national civic religion. Attention is focused in particular on the expanding and autonomous ur…
UK Regional Policy
INTRODUCT ION ities in unemployment during the recession of the early 1990s, which bit deeply in the southern regions. However, the convergence of regional unemployment rates UK regional policy has existed at varying levels of intensity for nearly seven decades. Throughout its conceals persistent spatial disparities in unemployment at a higher level of disaggregation. Fig. 2 shows that existence, the overriding objective has been to provide econo…
Human Capital Formation and Local Economic Performance
BRADLEY S. and TAYLOR J. (1996) Human capital formation and local economic performance, Reg. Studies, 30, 1-14. This paper is concerned with the interaction between the vocational education and training system (VET) and local economic performance in Britain. After briefly discussing the shortcomings of Britain's VET system, the paper examines the way in which the education and training system and the local economy interact. In particular, it is a…
An Analysis of the Factors Determining the Geographical Distribution of Japanese Manufacturing Investment in the UK, 1984-91
The purpose of this paper is to discover which factors have been important in determining the geographical distribution of Japanese manufacturing establishments in the UK during 1984-91. A multivariate statistical analysis is undertaken, based on the Poisson model, to investigate the inter-county variation in the number of establishments locating in each UK county during two separate time periods (1984-88 and 1989-91). In addition to examining th…
Regional Policy and the Interregional Movement of Manufacturing Industry in Great Britain
Available from British Library Lending Division - LD:D65076/86 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply Centre
Regional Unemployment Differences in Great Britain
Journal Article P. C. Cheshire. Regional Unemployment Differences in Great Britain Get access Regional Unemployment Differences in Great Britain. By P. C. Cheshire. Interregional Migration Models and their Application to Great Britain. By R. Weeden. (London: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 107. £2.00.) Jim Taylor Jim Taylor University of Lancaster. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Jo…
Spatial variations in the unemployment rate
Taylor J. and Bradley S. (1983) Spatial variations in the unemployment rate: a case study of North West England, Reg. Studies 17, 113–124. This paper extends earlier work on the categorization of unemployment by exploring the reasons for spatial variations in cyclical unemployment and non-cyclical unemployment. Regression analysis is used to divide total unemployment into a cyclical category and a non-cyclical category in twenty-eight Travel-to-W…
Cyber-Buddhism and Changing Urban Space in Thailand
Buddhism in Thailand has long been seen as a holistic cultural system, with an all-embracing normative cosmology that provides everyday meaning. However, it is also a diverse cultural system that produces alternative or Other counterstatist practices that have at times contested the power of the politico-administrative center. In this changing milieu, cyber-Buddhism has emerged as a response to the needs of an increasingly mobile, simulated, and …
Hidden female labour reserves
Taylor J. (1968) Hidden female labour reserves, Reg. Studies 2, 221–231. The growth of productive capacity is partly dependent upon the rate of increase in the physical stock of labour. The major part of any increase in the physical stock of labour in the U.K. will have to come from those localities which have relatively low participation rates for married women. Quite a sizeable proportion of married women would be induced to seek work if approp…
Embodiment, Nation, and Religio-Politics in Thailand
In the Thai Buddhist monastic order, the Sangha/state confluence, religion and politics constitute an intertwined body/corpus as nation. The body in this context is consistently controlled and organized by religious discourse in the creation of religious technologies of the body. This paper examines the exuberance of two contemporary Thai religio-political articulations in relation to the body metaphor, both responses to the amoral and impersonal…
Social activism and resistance on the Thai frontier
Recently, the print media in Thailand has given considerable attention to the cases of development-oriented and conservationist monks. One of these, Phra Prajak Khuttajitto, gained national attention by taking a stand against the civil and military bureaucracy and related capitalist interests in a nationwide plan to resettle Thailand's frontier villagers. This plan was called the Land Redistribution Project for the Poor in Degraded Forest Areas, …
Non-completion of a degree course and its effect on the subsequent experience of non-completers in the labour market
This paper reports the findings of a pilot study of the post-university experiences of graduates and non-completers during the first few years after leaving university. The research is based upon a follow-up survey of a sample of graduates and non-completers who entered the University of Lancaster in 1979 and 1980. Information was obtained by postal survey of their family background, educational qualifications and labour market experiences. Sever…
Remembrance and Tragedy
This is a reflection on the “Red Shirt” social movement in Thailand based on ethnographic research conducted in 2007–11. Under its umbrella organization, the National United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, the social movement generated a momentum never before seen in Thailand following the consequences of the 19 September 2006 coup d’état. The resistance and mass calls for democratic change came from the periphery, not the centre as in …
Reflections on the 7th Invitational Seminar on Research and Development in Health and Environmental Education
The Citation Record of Regional Studies and Related Journals, 1980–89
TAYLOR J. and JOHNES J. (1992) The citation record of Regional Studies and related journals, 1980–89, Reg. Studies 26, 93–97. This note compares the citation record of Regional Studies with that of other related academic journals in the field of urban and regional studies during 1980–89. Two variables are used to measure the citation record: first, the frequency of citations; and second, an impact factor which is a measure of the average number o…
Living on the Rim
With the rapidly disappearing primary forests in Thailand s Laospeaking provinces, some reclusive forest monks have been teaching villagers practical, moral, and environmentally friendly strategies for survival. Historically, the extension of Thaiisation , and an urbanized vision of progress and development, led to the unbridled clearing of these potentially hostile, patternless places. It is here, on the rim of social order, that ascetic monks h…
The Movement of Manufacturing Industry in Great Britain
This paper is concerned with the movement of manufacturing industry between GB counties during the period 1972-81. After discussing the nature of movement data, the inter-regional and inter-county movement of manufacturing establishments is examined for the period 1972-81. The main focus of the paper, however, lies in the development of a model of industrial movement based upon a stock-adjustment approach distinguishing between actual and optimal…
The Transition to Democracy in Portugal and Spain
The relatively recent proliferation of books and articles on Spain and Portugal is obviously a consequence of the profound socio-political changes that have occurred in those countries over the past decade. The range and variety of this growth area of academic literature has been considerable. It is almost as if after more than forty years of dictatorship, everybody wanted to acquire, in a few years, the knowledge they had been deprived of before…
Sociological Approaches to Self‐injury
This paper reviews the burgeoning sociological literature on non‐suicidal self‐injury, in which individuals intentionally harm themselves by cutting, burning, scratching, or smashing their body parts. We identify challenges to studying self‐injury, such as conflicting definitions and categorizations. Comparing self‐injury to other behaviors such as suicide, body modification, and self‐mutilation, we assert that non‐suicidal self‐injury deserves i…
Ethnic and Gender Differences in Intergenerational Mobility
This paper uses the traditional income framework and a non‐monetary framework to estimate intergenerational mobility in economic status for a sample of 26‐year‐old whites, blacks and Hispanics in the USA using data from the first and fifth sweeps of the National Educational Longitudinal Study (1988 and 2000). Intergenerational income mobility is found to be greater for males than for females, although there are differences between whites, blacks …
Post-high school choices
(Post-) Modernity, remaking tradition and the hybridisation of Thai Buddhism
(1999). (Post‐) Modernity, remaking tradition and the hybridisation of Thai Buddhism. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 163-187
The effects of task-specific self-schemata on attributions for success and failure
Copernicus on the Evils of Inflation and the Establishment of A Sound Currency
Hidden female labour reserves
Taylor J. (1968) Hidden female labour reserves, Reg. Studies 2, 221–231. The growth of productive capacity is partly dependent upon the rate of increase in the physical stock of labour. The major part of any increase in the physical stock of labour in the U.K. will have to come from those localities which have relatively low participation rates for married women. Quite a sizeable proportion of married women would be induced to seek work if approp…
The Behaviour of Unemployment and Unfilled Vacancies
Journal Article The Behaviour of Unemployment and Unfilled Vacancies: Great Britain, 1958-71. An Alternative View Get access Jim Taylor Jim Taylor University of Lancaster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 82, Issue 328, 1 December 1972, Pages 1352–1365, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231311 Published: 01 December 1972
High unemployment and coloured leavers
Regional Unemployment Differences in Great Britain
Journal Article P. C. Cheshire. Regional Unemployment Differences in Great Britain Get access Regional Unemployment Differences in Great Britain. By P. C. Cheshire. Interregional Migration Models and their Application to Great Britain. By R. Weeden. (London: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 107. £2.00.) Jim Taylor Jim Taylor University of Lancaster. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Jo…
Unemployment and Wage Inflation
Unemployment and Wage Inflation with Special Reference to Britain and the U.S.A
The Theory and Measurement of Labour Hoarding
Inflation
Journal Article Inflation: Global, International and National Aspects Get access Inflation: Global, International and National Aspects. By Assar Lindbeck. (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1980. Pp. 117. Bfr 340.) Jim Taylor Jim Taylor University of Lancaster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 363, 1 September 1981, Pages 771–773, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232850 Publishe…
Profit, Relative Prices and Unemployment
Journal Article Profit, Relative Prices and Unemployment: A Comment Get access Jim Taylor, Jim Taylor University of Lancaster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jim Cunningham Jim Cunningham Cambridge Econometrics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 365, 1 March 1982, Pages 161–169, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232263 Published: 01 March …
World Inflation and the Developing Countries
Journal Article World Inflation and the Developing Countries Get access World Inflation and the Developing Countries. By William R. CLINE et al. (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1981. Pp. xiv + 266. $15.95 hardback, $5.95 paperback.) Jim Taylor Jim Taylor University of Lancaster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 366, 1 June 1982, Pages 443–445, https://doi.org/10…
Unemployment Stocks and Flows in the Travel-to-Work Areas of the North-West Region
This paper examines spatial variations in unemployment stocks and flows in the North-West region of Great Britain. It utilises information describing the monthly flow of persons through the unemployment register. Combining the stock data with the flow data, it is possible to infer the mean duration of unemployment so that the relative contribution of the inflow rate and the mean duration of unemployment in determining spatial variations in the un…
Spatial variations in the unemployment rate
Taylor J. and Bradley S. (1983) Spatial variations in the unemployment rate: a case study of North West England, Reg. Studies 17, 113–124. This paper extends earlier work on the categorization of unemployment by exploring the reasons for spatial variations in cyclical unemployment and non-cyclical unemployment. Regression analysis is used to divide total unemployment into a cyclical category and a non-cyclical category in twenty-eight Travel-to-W…
The Transition to Democracy in Portugal and Spain
The relatively recent proliferation of books and articles on Spain and Portugal is obviously a consequence of the profound socio-political changes that have occurred in those countries over the past decade. The range and variety of this growth area of academic literature has been considerable. It is almost as if after more than forty years of dictatorship, everybody wanted to acquire, in a few years, the knowledge they had been deprived of before…
Regional Policy and the Interregional Movement of Manufacturing Industry in Great Britain
Available from British Library Lending Division - LD:D65076/86 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply Centre
The employability of graduates
League tables which show which universities do well and which do badly in getting graduates into jobs have received increasing attention in recent years, especially as a result of the current interest in constructing performance indicators for universities. This paper examines whether a suitable indicator of graduate employability can be constructed from the annual survey of the first destinations of new graduates. Indicators can be constructed b…
Predicting Athletic Performance with Self‐ Confidence and Somatic and Cognitive Anxiety as a Function of Motor and Physiological Requirements in Six Sports
The purpose of the present study is to examine the ability of certain psychological attributes to predict performance in six National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I collegiate sports Eighty‐four athletes from the varsity sports teams of cross country running, alpine and nordic skiing tennis, basketball, and track and field at the University of Colorado completed a questionnaire adapted from Martens (1977, Martens et al 1983) that meas…
The effects of task-specific self-schemata on attributions for success and failure
The Political Economy of British Regional Policy
The Movement of Manufacturing Industry in Great Britain
This paper is concerned with the movement of manufacturing industry between GB counties during the period 1972-81. After discussing the nature of movement data, the inter-regional and inter-county movement of manufacturing establishments is examined for the period 1972-81. The main focus of the paper, however, lies in the development of a model of industrial movement based upon a stock-adjustment approach distinguishing between actual and optimal…
An evaluation of performance indicators based upon the first destination of university graduates
This paper evaluates various performance indicators based upon the First Destination Record. These indicators purport to measure the success or otherwise of graduates in different degree subjects in obtaining a satisfactory first destination after their graduation. It is important to evaluate these indicators of the graduate labour market since they are used by potential entrants into higher education and by those charged with controlling resourc…
Ethnic minorities in the graduate labour market
This article analyses data obtained from the National Survey of 1980 Graduates and Diplomates which was undertaken in 1986. The purpose is to compare the work histories of white and ethnic minority graduates in relation to their family background and educational experience. The main conclusion is that once they are established in a job, black and Asian graduates do at least as well as white graduates in the labour market; and they do so despite d…
New Buddhist Movements in Thailand
Throughout Thai history there have been religious ascetics credited with the ability of precognition ( mii yaan ) as a result of accumulated virtues and meditation abilities. One such religious figure, perhaps the most widely acknowledged "saint" in modern times, was Phra Ajaan Man Phuurithatto (1870-1949). Of particular interest to this paper is the recorded prediction made by this ascetic monk shortly before his death, documented by a former di…
Living on the Rim
With the rapidly disappearing primary forests in Thailand s Laospeaking provinces, some reclusive forest monks have been teaching villagers practical, moral, and environmentally friendly strategies for survival. Historically, the extension of Thaiisation , and an urbanized vision of progress and development, led to the unbridled clearing of these potentially hostile, patternless places. It is here, on the rim of social order, that ascetic monks h…
Non-completion of a degree course and its effect on the subsequent experience of non-completers in the labour market
This paper reports the findings of a pilot study of the post-university experiences of graduates and non-completers during the first few years after leaving university. The research is based upon a follow-up survey of a sample of graduates and non-completers who entered the University of Lancaster in 1979 and 1980. Information was obtained by postal survey of their family background, educational qualifications and labour market experiences. Sever…
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