Diana Davis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3758723 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Diana Davis |
| PRENOMES | Diana |
| SOBRENOME | Davis |
| ASSINATURA | DAVIS D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8752-7195 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 243 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1963 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Decolonizing Veterinary History
Although nearly erased from history, the first formally trained South African veterinarian was the little-known Dr Jotello Festiri Soga (1865–1906), son of the Xhosa Reverend Tiyo Soga and his Scottish wife. By detailing Soga's remarkable trajectory, this paper helps to decolonize the history of veterinary medicine, long dominated by the ‘great deeds’ of a succession of white men, and only recently beginning to diversify. This sort of knowledge d…
Using High-Resolution Digital Photography and Micro-CT Scanning to Investigate Deathwatch Beetle Damage to an Historic Timber from HMS Victory
Wood-boring insects such as the deathwatch beetle can cause significant damage to historical artefacts and timbers, but the extent of internal damage (and tunnelling activity in general) can be difficult to understand and quantify without the use of destructive sampling techniques. This study explored the potential of high-resolution photography and micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) to investigate beetle activity and inform on the extent of in…
Guillaume Blanc. L'Invention du colonialisme vert
Wood-borers in Historic Ships
Using evidence of wood-borers in several of the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s historic ships, this article will examine the threat posed to the historic fabric by non-marine species and the reasons that we struggle to eradicate the problem. The relationship between fungal attack and beetle activity will be discussed, and the need for supporting research into this and other aspects of damage due to wood-boring species. HMS Victory, HMS Warri…
The Arid Lands
From the Divine to the Desertified
Deserts in the Middle East have been crucial to our understanding of arid lands since the ancient Greek and Roman period if not before. Long viewed as a region that contained certain riches but that was hot, sandy/rocky and difficult for travel, key changes in western perceptions of Middle Eastern deserts took place during eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These changes (which cast deserts as deforested, overgrazed spaces) were driven by geopo…
A rite of social passage
In 1835 Nathan Rothschild purchased Gunnersbury Park. Set in only 75 acres, this Regency villa in Ealing, just outside London, was the antithesis of a landed estate. The house remained in the family until 1925. This article argues that the architecture, interior decoration, garden and social use of Gunnersbury Park, although consonant with villa tradition, were shaped by the choices of this Jewish mercantile family, instrumental in Rothschild sel…
Ecologies of the colonial present
Tree-planting has long been an obsession of postcolonial environmental governance. Never innocent of its imperial history, the practice persists in global regimes of forestry today. For over two centuries, afforestation has been viewed as a panacea for a variety of ills including civilizational decline, diminished precipitation, warming temperatures, soil erosion, and decreasing biodiversity. As a result, tree plantations, despite their demonstra…
Desertification
Desertification has generated a great deal of controversy since the term was coined nearly 100 years ago. Strongly informed by a long Anglo‐European history of thinking about desert regions and indigenous people, desertification most commonly conjures images of spreading deserts that threaten lives and livelihoods. This largely colonial notion, however, has been disproved as it has been shown repeatedly that deserts are not inexorably expanding. …
The Arid Lands
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered. Deserts are commonly imagined as barren, defiled, worthless places, wastelands in need of development. This understanding has fueled extensive anti-desertification efforts—a multimillion-dollar global campaign driven by perceptions of a looming crisis. In this book…
Arts-based community development
It focuses on community perceptions of the extent arts-based programmes are integrated with other community development programmes and harnessing economic, social and cultural potentials. Results suggest that while the arts play an important role in communities, they are under-valued, under-accessed and under-used. This article issues new challenges to artists and community arts workers and suggests the need to work more proactively and collabora…
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
Reflections on the American environment
Enclosing Nature in North Africa
Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa
The modernist fables that underlie the developmentalist states of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have only recently begun to attract the attention of scholars in their own right.As French and British colonial fantasies of recovering the supposed agricultural productivity of Roman North Africa have given way to the similarly delusional dreams of experts who have sought to modernize postcolonial states in the region, the subject of their u…
Power, Knowledge, and Environmental History in the Middle East and North Africa
To consider in what ways incorporating the emerging field of environmental history into studies of the Middle East challenges our views of the past and/or present, it is necessary first to take stock of our mainstream notions of the environment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and how we think it has changed over the last several thousand years. The most common received wisdom about the environment in the MENA is that it is an arid, mar…
Historical political ecology
Brutes, beasts and empire
Neoliberalism, environmentalism, and agricultural restructuring in Morocco
Neoliberal restructuring in Morocco has been taking place for over twenty years. Beginning with a decade of structural adjustment, from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, parts of the public sector have been privatized, state services such as health care and education reduced, tariffs lowered and exports heavily promoted. In the dryland agricultural areas, a declensionist colonial environmental narrative has been appropriated to help justify and…
Potential Forests
Indigenous knowledge and the desertification debate
Desert 'wastes' of the Maghreb
The origins of the word 'desertification', most commonly attributed to Aubréville's 1949 work on tropical African forests, may be traced back much earlier, to nineteenth-century French colonial North Africa. The concept of desertification was central to French colonial thinking about the North African environment. This paper argues that an environmental history of the Maghreb was constructed during the French colonial period which blamed local No…
A Comment on a Haunting Number and a Challenge for Psychology
The past decade has seen a substantial increase in the publication rate of lesbian-, gay-, and bisexual-related research and theoretical articles in major counseling journals, and their content is consistently affirmative.However, this substantial increase comprises only 2% of all articles published. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual research appears not to be adequately supported in psychology graduate institutions and training programs.This article ex…
Veterinary Geography as Interdisciplinary Research
The social context of working equines in the Urban Middle East
Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa
The modernist fables that underlie the developmentalist states of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have only recently begun to attract the attention of scholars in their own right.As French and British colonial fantasies of recovering the supposed agricultural productivity of Roman North Africa have given way to the similarly delusional dreams of experts who have sought to modernize postcolonial states in the region, the subject of their u…
Neoliberalism, environmentalism, and agricultural restructuring in Morocco
Neoliberal restructuring in Morocco has been taking place for over twenty years. Beginning with a decade of structural adjustment, from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, parts of the public sector have been privatized, state services such as health care and education reduced, tariffs lowered and exports heavily promoted. In the dryland agricultural areas, a declensionist colonial environmental narrative has been appropriated to help justify and…
Indigenous knowledge and the desertification debate
Desert 'wastes' of the Maghreb
The origins of the word 'desertification', most commonly attributed to Aubréville's 1949 work on tropical African forests, may be traced back much earlier, to nineteenth-century French colonial North Africa. The concept of desertification was central to French colonial thinking about the North African environment. This paper argues that an environmental history of the Maghreb was constructed during the French colonial period which blamed local No…
Historical political ecology
Potential Forests
Ecologies of the colonial present
Tree-planting has long been an obsession of postcolonial environmental governance. Never innocent of its imperial history, the practice persists in global regimes of forestry today. For over two centuries, afforestation has been viewed as a panacea for a variety of ills including civilizational decline, diminished precipitation, warming temperatures, soil erosion, and decreasing biodiversity. As a result, tree plantations, despite their demonstra…
Power, Knowledge, and Environmental History in the Middle East and North Africa
To consider in what ways incorporating the emerging field of environmental history into studies of the Middle East challenges our views of the past and/or present, it is necessary first to take stock of our mainstream notions of the environment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and how we think it has changed over the last several thousand years. The most common received wisdom about the environment in the MENA is that it is an arid, mar…
Brutes, beasts and empire
Gender, Indigenous Knowledge, and Pastoral Resource Use in Morocco
According to the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture, the rangelands of southern Morocco are suffering from intense degradation and desertification, mostly because of irrational overstocking and overgrazing by pastoralists (ORMVA 1993). This claim, I believe, is largely a result of incorrect understandings of range ecology in arid environments (Ellis and Swift 1988; Warren 1995), topped by concern on the part of the United Nations and other national…
From the Divine to the Desertified
Deserts in the Middle East have been crucial to our understanding of arid lands since the ancient Greek and Roman period if not before. Long viewed as a region that contained certain riches but that was hot, sandy/rocky and difficult for travel, key changes in western perceptions of Middle Eastern deserts took place during eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These changes (which cast deserts as deforested, overgrazed spaces) were driven by geopo…
Reflections on the American environment
Wood-borers in Historic Ships
Using evidence of wood-borers in several of the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s historic ships, this article will examine the threat posed to the historic fabric by non-marine species and the reasons that we struggle to eradicate the problem. The relationship between fungal attack and beetle activity will be discussed, and the need for supporting research into this and other aspects of damage due to wood-boring species. HMS Victory, HMS Warri…
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
A Comment on a Haunting Number and a Challenge for Psychology
The past decade has seen a substantial increase in the publication rate of lesbian-, gay-, and bisexual-related research and theoretical articles in major counseling journals, and their content is consistently affirmative.However, this substantial increase comprises only 2% of all articles published. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual research appears not to be adequately supported in psychology graduate institutions and training programs.This article ex…
The social context of working equines in the Urban Middle East
The Genesis of a Writer
One possible and useful means of trying to determine how far Mackenzie may have fulfilled the undoubted promise he showed, is through an examination of his life. Most pertinent of all, and the purpose of this paper, is a consideration of the forces which, in the backwater Perth of the late twenties and early thirties, impelled Mackenzie to take up writing as a profession at a time when Australian society, 'utilitarian in the choice of purposes to…
Specific Dyslexia
The Genesis of a Writer
One possible and useful means of trying to determine how far Mackenzie may have fulfilled the undoubted promise he showed, is through an examination of his life. Most pertinent of all, and the purpose of this paper, is a consideration of the forces which, in the backwater Perth of the late twenties and early thirties, impelled Mackenzie to take up writing as a profession at a time when Australian society, 'utilitarian in the choice of purposes to…
A Checklist of Kenneth Mackenzie’s Works
Davis provides a bibliography for Kenneth Mackenzie (1913-1955), including published works (as Seaforth Mackenzie), poetry, prose and short stories, essays and manuscript material
A Measure of Preference for Speaking Rather than Writing and its Relationship To Expressive Language Skills in Adolescents
A description is given of the development of a 15 item inventory for measuring the degree of preference for speaking versus writing (SWPI) in a variety of situations appropriate to secondary school students. Preference for speaking was correlated positively with sociability and with the quality of oral expression but not with the quality of written expression. There was no relationship between preference for speaking or writing and the following …
Language and Social Class
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The maternal behavior of a home-reared, language using chimpanzee
Gender, Indigenous Knowledge, and Pastoral Resource Use in Morocco
According to the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture, the rangelands of southern Morocco are suffering from intense degradation and desertification, mostly because of irrational overstocking and overgrazing by pastoralists (ORMVA 1993). This claim, I believe, is largely a result of incorrect understandings of range ecology in arid environments (Ellis and Swift 1988; Warren 1995), topped by concern on the part of the United Nations and other national…
The social context of working equines in the Urban Middle East
Veterinary Geography as Interdisciplinary Research
A Comment on a Haunting Number and a Challenge for Psychology
The past decade has seen a substantial increase in the publication rate of lesbian-, gay-, and bisexual-related research and theoretical articles in major counseling journals, and their content is consistently affirmative.However, this substantial increase comprises only 2% of all articles published. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual research appears not to be adequately supported in psychology graduate institutions and training programs.This article ex…
Indigenous knowledge and the desertification debate
Desert 'wastes' of the Maghreb
The origins of the word 'desertification', most commonly attributed to Aubréville's 1949 work on tropical African forests, may be traced back much earlier, to nineteenth-century French colonial North Africa. The concept of desertification was central to French colonial thinking about the North African environment. This paper argues that an environmental history of the Maghreb was constructed during the French colonial period which blamed local No…
Potential Forests
Neoliberalism, environmentalism, and agricultural restructuring in Morocco
Neoliberal restructuring in Morocco has been taking place for over twenty years. Beginning with a decade of structural adjustment, from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, parts of the public sector have been privatized, state services such as health care and education reduced, tariffs lowered and exports heavily promoted. In the dryland agricultural areas, a declensionist colonial environmental narrative has been appropriated to help justify and…
Brutes, beasts and empire
Historical political ecology
Power, Knowledge, and Environmental History in the Middle East and North Africa
To consider in what ways incorporating the emerging field of environmental history into studies of the Middle East challenges our views of the past and/or present, it is necessary first to take stock of our mainstream notions of the environment in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and how we think it has changed over the last several thousand years. The most common received wisdom about the environment in the MENA is that it is an arid, mar…
Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa
The modernist fables that underlie the developmentalist states of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have only recently begun to attract the attention of scholars in their own right.As French and British colonial fantasies of recovering the supposed agricultural productivity of Roman North Africa have given way to the similarly delusional dreams of experts who have sought to modernize postcolonial states in the region, the subject of their u…
Enclosing Nature in North Africa
Reflections on the American environment
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France
The Arid Lands
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered. Deserts are commonly imagined as barren, defiled, worthless places, wastelands in need of development. This understanding has fueled extensive anti-desertification efforts—a multimillion-dollar global campaign driven by perceptions of a looming crisis. In this book…
Arts-based community development
It focuses on community perceptions of the extent arts-based programmes are integrated with other community development programmes and harnessing economic, social and cultural potentials. Results suggest that while the arts play an important role in communities, they are under-valued, under-accessed and under-used. This article issues new challenges to artists and community arts workers and suggests the need to work more proactively and collabora…
Desertification
Desertification has generated a great deal of controversy since the term was coined nearly 100 years ago. Strongly informed by a long Anglo‐European history of thinking about desert regions and indigenous people, desertification most commonly conjures images of spreading deserts that threaten lives and livelihoods. This largely colonial notion, however, has been disproved as it has been shown repeatedly that deserts are not inexorably expanding. …
Ecologies of the colonial present
Tree-planting has long been an obsession of postcolonial environmental governance. Never innocent of its imperial history, the practice persists in global regimes of forestry today. For over two centuries, afforestation has been viewed as a panacea for a variety of ills including civilizational decline, diminished precipitation, warming temperatures, soil erosion, and decreasing biodiversity. As a result, tree plantations, despite their demonstra…
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