Kevin Morgan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3660424 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kevin Morgan |
| PRENOMES | Kevin |
| SOBRENOME | Morgan |
| ASSINATURA | MORGAN K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2933-2231 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 138 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 939 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 137 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Combining Pedagogical Tact with a Mastery Motivational Climate to Optimize Student Learning in Physical Education
This article proposes combining the concept of pedagogical tact with a mastery motivational climate to optimize student engagement and learning in Physical Education (PE). To promote a mastery climate, the acronym TARGET (task, authority, recognition, grouping, evaluation, and time) is presented. Pedagogical tact is defined as the ability to decide what is good and not good for an individual in any given situation and is considered in relation to…
Out of the Shadow of Bevin and Mann
In the fifteen years before the British General Strike of 1926, the idea of a general strike had become familiar in labour movement circles. The connection between these earlier uses of the concept and the solidarity action of 1926 have not been closely scrutinized. One result of this is that the different possible options for a solidarity stoppage have not sufficiently registered; ‘the’ general strike as it actually happened immediately became i…
The political dynamics of place-based missions
Mission-oriented innovation policy is often framed in aspatial terms, with limited attention to the politics of place. This paper examines how place-based missions are constituted through the case of Universal Free School Meals in Scotland and Wales. We show that ideological traditions become entangled across socio-economic and territorial dimensions, that political parties broker coalitions and navigate responses to place-based challenges, and t…
Developing creative coaches through action research
Although creativity has increasingly become a focus for general developmental attention in many fields, its practical implementation has been bedevilled by problems. Notwithstanding such doubts, the promise of creativity has been eagerly embraced within sport. In taking account of the on-going need to develop sports coaches’ knowledge and practice in situ, the aim of this project was to develop coaches’ creativity through an action research (AR) …
Serving the public
A revealing account of what we feed our citizens in schools, hospitals and prisons. Access to good food is the litmus test of a society's commitment to social justice and sustainable development. This book explores the 'good food revolution' in public institutions, asking what broader lessons can be learned. In schools the book examines the challenge of the whole school approach, where the message of the classroom is being aligned with the offer …
Conjunctural municipalism and the struggle for Zagreb
There is renewed interest in conjunctural approaches within urban studies, human geography and beyond to help interpret the troubles of the political present. Moves have been made to specify and systematise a methodological remit for conjunctural analysis, yet there is a risk of losing the political impulse motivating such approaches. As such, this article brings together different intellectual and political currents informing conjunctural analys…
Introductory comments
As Dual Conjuncture
In October 1956 the Martinican communist and parliamentary deputy Aimé Césaire announced his resignation from the French communist party in an open letter to Maurice Thorez. Widely cited in contexts of black Marxism and anti‐colonialism, the letter is a famous testimony to 1956 as a year of disillusionment with Stalinism. This paper shows that it has tended to be abstracted from its immediate political context and Césaire’s relationship with comm…
Critical application of TGfU in sports coaching
Background The foundational nature of the ‘Teaching Games for Understanding’ (TGfU) approach [Thorpe, R., D. Bunker, and L. Almond. 1986. Rethinking games teaching. Loughborough: University of Technology.] has led to considerable interest from researchers and practitioners since its inception [Stolz, S., and S. Pill. 2014. “Teaching Games and Sport for Understanding.” European Physical Education Review 20 (1): 36–71. https://doi.org/10.1177/13563…
Directionality and subsidiarity
This paper investigates how regional development policy can combine directionality in addressing societal challenges with subsidiarity, emphasising local participation and engagement. We revisit the theoretical foundations of the ‘entrepreneurial discovery process’ as the main mechanism for local engagement in current European Union regional policy frameworks. In its place, we propose an alternative theory of change with purposive collective acti…
Rural innovation and the green transition
Further Education Colleges (FECs) have been undervalued in discussions of regional innovation, despite their critical role in providing vocational and educational training. This paper argues that FECs in rural areas may be well positioned to lead innovative responses to contemporary challenges, such as those posed by the green transition. The paper focuses on the potential of rural FECs to facilitate transformative innovation. It presents a case …
Stuart Macintyre, Stephen White and José Gotovitch
Stuart Macintyre (1947-2021), Stephen White (1945-2023) and José Gotovitch (1940-2024) were three of the finest historians of their generation. They were also generous in their support for the journal Twentieth Century Communism. This appreciation takes stock of their achievement while offering reflections on the journal as it moves forward with a renewed body of editors and advisers
The opportunities and challenges of utilising collaborative action research for coaching within Hong Kong China rugby sevens
Background Despite Rugby sevens being an Olympic sport there is a paucity of research on how to coach it. For an emerging sevens nation like Hong Kong, where participant numbers are limited, the quality of coaching is a key area to focus upon to enhance performance.Methods Over a 12-week period, the aim of this study was to utilise collaborative action research (CAR) with four professional coaches (including myself) within a professional rugby se…
Dismantling Londongrad
Londongrad is at once a place, a process and a paradox.As a place, it refers to the manifold ways in which London has acquired a reputation for being a safe harbour for dirty money largely on account of a secure system of property rights, a cluster of professional enablers and a neoliberal politics that actively cultivated it.As a process, it illustrates the premier role that London plays in the global system of secrecy jurisdictions.As a paradox…
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Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads
This article conceptualises the circular economy as a space of immaterial, as well as material, metabolic flows mediated by capitalism and planetary urbanisation. World-ecology provides us with the critical lens to view the circular economy as part of an emergent regime of accumulation that may supersede neoliberalism. However, if each regime entails new frontier zones for appropriating cheap natures and dumping wastes, then the circular economy—…
Édouard Dolléans
Though Édouard Dolléans (1877–1954) was described by Malcolm Chase as Chartism’s first modern historian, his writings on the subject have never been translated into English and are largely unfamiliar to current historians of the movement. This paper discusses the two editions of Dolléans’s history of Chartism, published in 1912–13 and 1949, and the uses that Dolléans made of these materials in his wider labour histories and political journalism. …
Mundane innovation in the periphery
This article explores the role that foundational economy (FE) actors can play in innovation in peripheral regions. We argue that research which casts peripheral regions as backwaters of innovation may inadvertently underplay the potential for innovation in such places. Drawing on the peripheral innovation literature, and emerging research on the FE, we develop the concept of mundane innovation and explore its potential for peripheral regions. We …
Delivering micro-missions in public food transitions
Micro-missions represent small-scale, place-based strategies for societal innovation, distinct from grand missions that target national-level transformations. They offer potential for collaborative engagement among local stakeholders in the public sector, businesses, and civil society that aims to address local needs and promote wider innovation, particularly for social and ecological progress. Despite the potential for place-based micro-missions…
Putting missions in their place
We draw on first-hand experience and empirical evidence to address current concerns that the mission approach carries too much emphasis on technological innovation and top-down state-led action. We identify the concept of smaller scale ‘micro-missions’ that address place-based challenges. In so doing, we show a role for universities that extends beyond the entrepreneurial triple helix and demonstrate how a mission approach can be effective beyond…
Brexit and the Death of Devolution
Devolution was almost universally regarded as heralding a fundamental shift in the nature of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. But, since the 2016 Brexit referendum, the UK government has become increasingly hostile—not only towards the Labour and SNP‐run administrations in Scotland and Wales, but to the very existence of devolution. Recent legislative changes—particularly the UK Internal Market Act—have given central gove…
Authoritarian state capitalism
The phenomenon of state capitalism is attracting growing attention in economic geography and political economy. We contribute to the debate by exploring the authoritarian state capitalism variant whereby the state moves beyond a predominantly regulatory role and appears as the dominant actor. We take Russia to be a prominent example of authoritarian state capitalism because the central state has subjugated economy, created organisational structur…
Capitalism, Communism, and Democracy
Investigating the use of Appreciative Inquiry as a process for coach development within a National Governing Body talent development programme
Coach development continues to be positioned as a ‘problem to be solved’ for national governing bodies (NGBs) with policy makers persisting in their quest to find an effective solution to bring about sustained change. Here, we suggest that coach development should instead consider a strength-based approach to change in an effort to build on current practice. This study, conducted ‘in-situ’ by the Head of Performance, focused on coach development …
Bolshevization, Stalinization, and Party Ritual
This paper examines the national congresses of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in the period of the Communist International (1919– 43). Both in Britain and internationally, communist party congresses in this period lost any independent decision-making role and became a mechanism activated and controlled from above. Not surprisingly, they have attracted little serious scholarly notice in their own right, but this paper identifies three…
The Network Paradigm
Networking is a much-discussed organisational practice. The authors analyse the nature and extent of networking activity within and between firms, making the criticism that present organisational theory pays insufficient attention to network relations between firms and public or quasi-public intermediary agencies. This is an especially important phenomenon in small and medium-sized firms. A critical depiction of networking at the interregional an…
Organic vs. conventional agriculture
The exaggerated death of geography
Globalization and digitalization have been presented as ineluctable forces which signal the ‘death of geography’. The paper takes issue with this fashionable narrative. The argument that ‘geography matters’ is pursued in three ways: first, by questioning the ‘distance-destroying’ capacity of information and communication technologies where social depth is conflated with spatial reach; second, by arguing that physical proximity may be essential fo…
Smart Specialisation
Why do some academic ideas gain political traction while others are ignored? In the fields of economic geography and urban and regional studies some ideas have clearly resonated more than others wi
Devolution and Development
One of the unintended consequences of devolution under New Labour is that it might make it more difficult to secure territorial justice between the nations and regions of the United Kingdom. Centralized regional policy, the aim of which was to promote economic equity between the regions, has been replaced by a devolved regional policy that aims to promote an economic dividend within each region. In the unlikely event that devolution yields a unif…
The urban foodscape
A new food equation is taking shape in response to burgeoning prices for basic foodstuffs and growing concerns about the security and sustainability of the agri-food system. Far from being confined to the countries of the global south, food security is now a major issue for the global north, where cities are most exposed to the new pressures on account of their ecological and political sensitivities. This article examines the evolution of urban f…
Nourishing the city
The urban food question is forcing itself up the political agenda in the Global North because of a new food equation that spells the end of the ‘cheap food’ era, fuelling nutritional poverty in the cities of Europe and North America. This article explores the rise of the urban food question in the Global North through the multiple prisms of theory, policy and political practice. First, it explores the theoretical ways in which the food system is …
The New Territorial Politics
The advent of democratic devolution in the UK will trigger a new debate about territorial justice and regional rivalry, issues which have been latent in UK politics for many years. Far from being a pre-modern residue, territorially-based politics can help to reform the UK's over-centralized state system. But if the 'dark side' of territorial politics is to be contained - in the shape of rivalry, chauvinism and parochialism, for example - the UK w…
English Question
England remains the 'gaping hole in the devolution settlement'. Debate about how England as a whole should engage with devolution overlooks how regionally fractured England is in terms of culture, society and economic fortunes. The discourse of 'north- south divide' underscores this unevenness. But it is also used to support an often unreflected assumption - by government and regional campaigners - that devolution to the (northern) regions will b…
Tying the Firm to the Region or Tying the Region to the Firm
In 1996 the Korean conglomerate LG announced plans to create up to 6100 jobs at a new greenfield electronics manufacturing operation in Newport, South Wales. The investment would have been unthinkable without the unique institutional capacity involved with inward investment attraction and development which exists in Wales. However, the scale of the LG investment has placed enormous demands on this institutional capacity and raises questions regar…
Reframing the foodscape
Cities are becoming key transition spaces where new food governance systems are being fashioned, creating ‘spaces of deliberation’ that bring together civil society, private actors, and local governments. In order to understand the potential of these new urban food policy configurations, this paper draws on urban political ecology scholarship as a critical lens to analyse governance-beyond-the-state processes and associated postpolitical configur…
Local and Green, Global and Fair
The core values of the ethical foodscape-ecological integrity and social justice-can assume very different political forms unless they are fashioned into a coherent and progressive narrative of sustainability. This paper explores the politics of sustainability through the prism of three major issues. First, the carbon-labelling controversy is used to highlight the potential conflict between green campaigners (who extol the benefits of local food)…
Greening the Realm
Morgan K. Greening the realm: sustainable food chains and the public plate, Regional Studies. Public procurement is one of the most powerful, yet paradoxical, functions of the state in Britain: powerful, because it deploys a purchasing budget of £150 billion per annum; paradoxical, because its economic significance is inversely related to its political status. Through the prism of the school food service, this paper explores the scope for, and th…
The Learning Region
The aim of this book is to present a much-needed conceptualization of ‘the learning region’. The editors scrutinize key concepts and issues surrounding this phenomenon, which are then discussed in the context of recent literature. This unique conceptualization of the learning region presents a state of the art exploration of theories. Leading scholars from across Europe, the USA and South Africa draw upon various disciplines to explain how region…
A 'modern' industry in a 'mature' region
Municipal foodscapes
Restructuring steel
Spaces of Innovation
Healy A. and Morgan K. Spaces of innovation: learning, proximity and the ecological turn, Regional Studies. Contrary to the fashionable ‘death of distance’ thesis, the socio-spatial context for innovation remains as important as ever for firms, networks and the public institutions that tend to be neglected in orthodox narratives of learning. This article explores the changing socio-spatial dynamics of innovation through the medium of three argume…
Gender and Living Alone as Determinants of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among the Elderly Living at Home in Urban Nottingham
Regional Regeneration in Britain
The Conservative White Paper on Regional Industrial Development was a frank and belated admission that the geography of relative depression no longer corresponded to the official map of the assisted areas and, as a result, regional policy has recently been subjected to a radical review. This paper outlines some of the reasons for this review and explores the regional implications of the Conservative neo-market strategy. However, despite the econo…
Smart Specialisation on the move
Six years have passed since Smart Specialisation was incorporated in European Cohesion Policy and became the reference framework for innovation policy in European regions and countries. One year before the beginning of the new Cohesion Policy cycle, it is now the right time to strike a balance in the Smart Specialisation experience and support the design of the upcoming generation of policy strategies with sound evidence on what has worked and wh…
Party People, Communist Lives
This collection of biographical essays brings to life a diverse and colourful cavalcade of British revolutionaries from the first part of the 20th century. The cast includes pioneering women Communists, doughty trade union leaders and dusty apparatchiks, together with lawyers, poets, critics and the odd sexual outlaw. The book also depicts the tragic fate of groups of British Communists who encountered Stalinism at first hand in the USSR. Much of…
The Public Animateur
The primary aim of this article is to reprise the debate about the role and competence of the state in innovation and development, building on the contributions of new industrial policy. It then examines the experience of one of the most ambitious mission-led innovation programmes ever launched in Europe, the Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) programme, which has been influenced by industrial policy ideas. The article also identifies a number of…
The regional Animateur
(1997). The regional Animateur: Taking stock of the welsh development agency. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 70-94
New technology and regional development in austerity Britain
Cooke P., Morgan K. and Jackson D. (1984) New technology and regional development in austerity Britain: the case of the semiconductor industry, Reg. Studies 18, 277–289. Britain's poor economic performance is partly a reflection of low levels of investment in new technology and a consequent failure to innovate in many sectors. Recent government policies have sought to shift industrial expenditure priorities towards stimulating innovation. Regiona…
The Politics of Industrial Innovation in Britain
LITTLE NOVELTY IS NOW ATTACHED TO THE PHENOMENON OF Britain's relative industrial decline inasmuch as this had been the subject of interminable debate since well before the First World War. However, compelling reasons can be found now for examining one particular dimension of British performance, namely, industrial innovation. First, it is not too long since the ACARD reports appeared on Britain's capacity to embrace new technology. Secondly, NED…
Restructuring steel
Shorter Notices
New technology and regional development in austerity Britain
Cooke P., Morgan K. and Jackson D. (1984) New technology and regional development in austerity Britain: the case of the semiconductor industry, Reg. Studies 18, 277–289. Britain's poor economic performance is partly a reflection of low levels of investment in new technology and a consequent failure to innovate in many sectors. Recent government policies have sought to shift industrial expenditure priorities towards stimulating innovation. Regiona…
Regional Regeneration in Britain
The Conservative White Paper on Regional Industrial Development was a frank and belated admission that the geography of relative depression no longer corresponded to the official map of the assisted areas and, as a result, regional policy has recently been subjected to a radical review. This paper outlines some of the reasons for this review and explores the regional implications of the Conservative neo-market strategy. However, despite the econo…
A 'modern' industry in a 'mature' region
Divergent paths
Monopolies under Siege in Western Europe
The long?established public monopoly tradition in telecommunications is under attack, partly as a result of deregulation in the US, partly the result of new options being made available through technological change. This article identifies significant differences in the political response to the ‘communications revolution’ in Western Europe. Resumen Monopolios bajo sitio en Europa Occidental. El desafío de la deregulació en las telecomunicaciones…
Levels of customary physical activity among the old and the very old living at home
With an activity inventory designed specifically for use among elderly people, detailed profiles of customary physical activity were obtained from 507 old (aged 65-74 years) and 535 very old (aged 75 years and over) individuals randomly sampled from the community. Participation in four categories of activity was assessed: outdoor productive activities; indoor productive activities; leisure activities; and walking. Customary engagement in many act…
Normal values for range of shoulder abduction in men and women aged over 65 years
The range of movement of the shoulder in abduction at 45 degrees of flexion was objectively measured using a standard technique in a demographically representative survey of 1000 men and women living in their own homes. Sampling was stratified to obtain approximately equal numbers of those aged 65-74 years and those aged 75 and over. The response rate was 80%. Normal values for shoulder abduction grouped by age and sex are presented as frequency …
Microcircuits of Capital
European Integration and Telecommunications
Complexity characterises technical and institutional restructuring in telecommunications. This makes it difficult to determine the social and economic implications of transformations in an industry that has outgrown its monopolistic origins. This paper focuses on the external forces influencing the European Community's efforts to fashion a more open, integrated and competitive telecommunication environment. Attention is given to organisational, r…
Barriers to growth
Great claims have been made about the growth prospects of the telematics sector, the primary source of communications networks and services. However, this article argues that the telematics sector faces some formidable barriers to growth, especially with respect to skills provision
Microcircuits of Capital
The electronics industry has aroused great interest as one of the few growth industries in the economic recession, but like other industries before it, its development has been highly uneven. This work analyzes this process of uneven development at international, national and regional scales. It shows how developments in particular regions and countries both shape, and are shaped by, their wider economic context. Only by looking at this reciproca…
Customary Physical Activity, Psychological Well-being and Successful Ageing
Profiles of customary physical activity (CPA) and psychological wellbeing were obtained from a random community sample of 1,042 individuals aged 65 years and over. Activities were assessed with regard to their estimated minimum energy cost and/or their assumed contribution to functional capacity. The structure of CPA, and associations between activity levels, morale and mental health were then investigated. Women and men showed clear differences …
Microcircuits of Capital
Competition and Collaboration in Electronics
The international electronics sector is undergoing a new bout of restructuring in response to a combination of changes in markets, regulation, and technology. The main restructuring pressures are identified and the effects in two of the principal electronics industries, namely, data processing and telecommunications, are examined. At this sectoral level the results of the analysis suggest that even the very largest firms are having great difficul…
Theses and Dissertations
Digital highways
The Network Paradigm
Networking is a much-discussed organisational practice. The authors analyse the nature and extent of networking activity within and between firms, making the criticism that present organisational theory pays insufficient attention to network relations between firms and public or quasi-public intermediary agencies. This is an especially important phenomenon in small and medium-sized firms. A critical depiction of networking at the interregional an…
Documentary Essay
The Archives of the British Communist Party
Journal Article The Archives of the British Communist Party: A Historical Overview* Get access KEVIN MORGAN KEVIN MORGAN University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 404–421, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/7.3.404 Published: 01 January 1996
The regional Animateur
(1997). The regional Animateur: Taking stock of the welsh development agency. Regional & Federal Studies: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 70-94
Customary physical activity and survival in later life
OBJECTIVE: To assess the value of broadly based customary physical activity scores, derived from a questionnaire inventory, in predicting 10 year mortality among elderly people. DESIGN: A 10 year survival analysis of participants in the first wave of the Nottingham longitudinal study of activity and ageing who, in face to face interviews in 1985, provided detailed information on customary physical activity, health, and lifestyle. SETTING: Urban a…
Physical illness and disability among elderly people in England and Wales
STUDY OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted as part of the MRC cognitive function and ageing study. It aimed to estimate the lifetime prevalence of self reported physical illnesses and other health related events, and the prevalence of limiting disability in people over 65 in six areas of England and Wales. DESIGN: Screening phase of a two stage prevalence study. SETTING: Geographically delimited areas in four urban and two rural areas including in…
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