Roy Willis

Dados Biográficos

ID80404
NOMERoy Willis
PRENOMESRoy
SOBRENOMEWillis
ASSINATURAWILLIS R
AFILIAÇÕESLancaster University
ORCID0000-0001-9551-7608
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS80
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES456
TOTAL COMO AUTOR80
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1966
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H14

  • Citizen and specialist co-design of energy policy

    Open AccessRoy Willis, Jacob Ainscough et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2024Referências: 10

    The design of energy and climate policy is usually seen as an ‘expert’ domain, relying on technical tools such as economic analysis. However, policy requires the support of politicians and citizens alike, through the democratic process. Many policies, such as reducing carbon emissions from homes and transport, also affect people’s lives directly. It is thus necessary to supplement technical analysis with methods that allow an exploration of peopl…

  • Attractions of delay

    Open AccessDuncan P Mclaren, Roy Willis et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning E Nature…2023Citada por: 19Referências: 46

    Concerns have been raised that a focus on greenhouse gas removals (GGR) in climate models, scientific literature and other media might deter measures to mitigate climate change through reduction of emissions at source - the phenomenon of 'mitigation deterrence'. Given the urgent need for climate action, any delay in emissions reduction would be worrying. We convened nine deliberative workshops to expose stakeholders to futures scenarios involving…

  • Taking deliberative research online

    Open AccessRoy Willis, Andy Yuille et al.ARTICLEQualitative Research2023Citada por: 2Referências: 24

    Researchers using deliberative techniques tend to favour in-person processes. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has added urgency to the question of whether meaningful deliberative research is possible in an online setting. This paper considers the reasons for taking deliberation online, including bringing people together more easily; convening international events; and reducing the environmental impact of research. It reports on four case studies: …

  • Real people or "economic processing units"? The limited understanding of people's roles in energy and climate governance

    Open AccessRoy WillisARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2022Citada por: 2Referências: 14

    Meeting internationally-agreed climate goals will require the involvement of people, in various roles: as members of families and communities, as voting citizens, as employees and as consumers. Yet to date, energy and climate policy enacted by governments has tended to sidestep this issue, treating the challenge as primarily a technical or economic, rather than social, undertaking. This research examines how people have been conceptualized in ene…

  • Life in the hole

    Open AccessNils Markusson, Duncan P Mclaren et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Futures…2022Citada por: 3Referências: 10

    Negative emissions techniques (NETs) promise to capture greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and sequester them. Since decarbonisation efforts have been slow, and the climate crisis is intensifying, it is increasingly likely that removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere will be necessary to meet internationally-agreed targets. Yet there are fears that pursuing NETs might undermine other mitigation efforts, primarily the reduction (rather tha…

  • Deliberative democracy and the climate crisis

    Open AccessRoy Willis, Nicole Curato et al.ARTICLEWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…2022Citada por: 30Referências: 33

    No democratic state has yet implemented a climate plan strong enough to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. This has led some to argue that democracy cannot cope with a challenge of this magnitude. In this article, we take stock of the claim that a more deliberative democratic system can strengthen our ability to respond effectively to the climate crisis. The most visible development in this direction is the recent citizens’ assemblies on clim…

  • Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance

    Roy Willis, K B S Chisanga et al.BOOKSome Spirits Heal, Others Only…2020

    Where does 'the self' in 'myself' begin and end? And what do ideas of 'spirit' tell us about the nature of human selfhood? To investigate these poorly understood matters, veteran anthropologist, neo-shaman and paranormal healer Roy Willis spent five months in a remote part of northern Zambia exploring human consciousness in a fascinating and sometimes terrifying series of adventures. This absorbing book tells the story of Willis' and his three lo…

  • The role of national politicians in global climate governance

    Open AccessRoy WillisARTICLEEnvironment and Planning E Nature…2020Citada por: 8Referências: 52

    The scientific case for co-ordinated global governance of the climate system is firmly established, but how does this fit with a politician's mandate as a democratically elected representative? What role do national politicians think they can and should play in climate governance? This paper tests these questions empirically, using data from interviews with 23 Members of the UK Parliament, and a focus group of civil society advocates, conducted b…

  • The use of composite narratives to present interview findings

    Open AccessRoy WillisARTICLEQualitative Research2019Citada por: 43Referências: 19

    This research note describes the use of composite narratives to present interview data. A composite narrative uses data from several individual interviews to tell a single story. In the research discussed here, investigating how politicians consider climate change, four composites were created from fourteen interviews with Members of the UK Parliament. A method for creating composite narratives is described. Three, linked, benefits of the techniq…

  • Constructing a ‘Representative Claim’ for Action on Climate Change

    Open AccessRoy WillisARTICLEPolitical Studies2018Citada por: 12Referências: 41

    At the 2015 Paris Summit, global leaders agreed a strategy to tackle climate change. Under the agreement, each country must prepare a national plan. What challenges does this pose for politicians? How do they reconcile their representative role with understandings of climate change and measures required to address it? This article analyses interviews with UK politicians, through the framework of the ‘representative claim’ developed by Michael Saw…

  • How Members of Parliament understand and respond to climate change

    Open AccessRoy Willis, Rebecca WillisARTICLEThe Sociological Review2018Citada por: 16Referências: 36

    Action on climate change, to meet the targets set in the 2015 Paris Agreement, requires strong political support at the national level. Whilst the political and governance challenges of climate change have been discussed at length, there is little understanding of how politicians, as influential individuals within the political system, understand or respond to climate change. This article presents findings from 14 qualitative interviews with Memb…

  • Taming the Climate? Corpus analysis of politicians' speech on climate change

    Open AccessRoy Willis, Rebecca WillisARTICLEEnvironmental Politics2017Citada por: 15Referências: 41

    The politics of climate change is much discussed, but there has been little investigation into how politicians themselves understand or articulate the issue. Corpus analysis, a method developed within linguistics, is used to investigate how UK politicians talk about climate change, using the example of the 2008 Climate Change Bill. Corpus techniques, including keyword analysis, collocation and semantic tagging, are used, alongside critical readin…

  • Animals Old and New. Multiple Perspectives on the Meaning of Beasthood

    Roy WillisARTICLEReviews in Anthropology2004Referências: 1

    ROY WILLIS is Emeritus Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, where he teaches anthropology of consciousness and shamanism. His many academic publications include CitationMan and Beast (1974) and CitationSignifying Animals (1990)

  • Social Anthropology

    Open AccessRoy WillisARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2003

  • Asa 2003

    Open AccessRoy WillisARTICLEAnthropology Today2003Referências: 1

    Fifth Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth, University of Manchester, 14-18 July 2003

  • Animals and Ancestors

    Roy WillisARTICLEAnthrozoös2002Citada por: 1

  • Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance

    Farouk Topan, Roy WillisARTICLEAfrica2001

    Roy Willis, Some Spirits Heal, Others only Dance: a journey into human selfhood in an African village. Oxford: Berg, 1999, 220 pp., £42.00, ISBN 1 85973 283 6 (hard covers), £14.99, ISBN 0 85973 288 7 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 4

  • Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance

    Christopher M Annear, Roy WillisARTICLEThe International Journal of…2001

  • Some Spirits Heal, Others Only Dance

    Deborah Durham, Roy Willis et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2000Citada por: 1

  • Inculturation and African Religion

    Roy Willis, Stephen Owoahene-AcheampongARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa1999

    The devastating conditions prevailing in Africa continue to intrigue observers. This study argues that understanding the conditions requires setting them within a broad contextual framework of development of the peoples' cultural, economic, political, religious, and social systems from pre-colonial times to the present. It breaks new ground by clearly demonstrating the impact of the social and religious teachings and practices of the colonists on…

  • The Cool Knife

    Roy Willis, T O BeidelmanARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1998Citada por: 10

  • Inculturation and Healing

    Roy Willis, Stuart C BateARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa1997

  • Shaman, an International Journal for Shamanistic Research. Vol. 1, No. 1

    Roy WillisARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1996

  • Puzzling about peace

    Roy WillisARTICLEPeace and Conflict Journal of…1996

  • Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of Africa

    Roy Willis, Katsuyoshi Fukui et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1995