J Mercer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 8139 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J Mercer |
| PRENOMES | J |
| SOBRENOME | Mercer |
| ASSINATURA | MERCER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Birmingham City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8969-2626 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 65 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 231 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1957 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Introduction to the Special Issue
Digital intimacies
Stardom at the margins
Porn, Pedophilia, and Paganism
On July 11, 1992, eighteen years after the Carnation Revolution ended the fascist dictatorship in Portugal, the Portuguese public broadcaster ran a news story about the launch of the first ever gay magazine to reach Portuguese newsstands, one that was written in Portuguese despite still bearing the title of its parent publication, Gaie France . Five years earlier, on July 13, 1987, however, a petition had been signed at the Homosexual Summer Univ…
Tom Waugh, Hard to Imagine , and porn studies
RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Cultural Politics of Fame
A “messy ball of wool”
Obesity manifests as constraints and challenges across six polarised dichotomies, active in the lived experience of obesity. This study provides a unique way of conceptualising and understanding the complex and interacting meanings of the lived experience of obesity through the construction of polarised dichotomies. The polarities signify the oscillating experiences that people with obesity encounter, which may be either helpful or destructive in…
Charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent
When the ceaselessly industrious RuPaul Charles eventually decides to write the next volume of his autobiography, the chapter devoted to the final year of the 2010s will no doubt be narrated as the
Fifteen seconds of fame
In this article, we argue that the campy affectations of contestants of RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR) serve as the perfect vehicle through which GIFs and memes can be created and have the potential to go viral online. RPDR relies heavily on social media for its success, and we claim that the queens who go on to establish a celebrity persona beyond the show are often the ones who fully exploit this relationship by condensing themselves into self-brand…
Sex positivity and the persistence of shame
This essay considers how we make sense of the persistence of shame in the 20th anniversary year of Sexualities and a broader contemporary context in which the discourse of sex positivity has become predominant? This is an important moment in the development of the field to consider the status of sexual shame, not least because the discourse of sex positivity produces a call to action predicated on a repudiation of shame; shame as regressive, igno…
Popperbate
In this article I explore the contemporary amateur practice of making ‘popper training’ videos. These examples of amateur gay porn, usually circulated via porn aggregators such as Xtube, constitute what might be described as video collages that repurpose a range of found sources including commercial moving-image gay porn, still images, text and music. The resulting videos are designed for the express purpose of aiding a form of masturbation often…
Introduction
The year 2017 marks a date that without hyperbole can be described as a landmark for gay men in the United Kingdom. It is now 50 years since the introduction of the Sexual Offences Act of 1967, leg
Gay pornography
Gay pornography, online and onscreen, is a controversial and significantly under-researched area of cultural production. The book explores the iconography, themes and ideals that the genre presents. Indeed, John Mercer argues that gay pornography cannot be regarded as one-dimensional, but that it offers its audience a vision of plural masculinities that are more nuanced and ambiguous than they might seem. Mercer examines how the internet has gene…
The secret history
Oliver Carter and John Mercer from Birmingham City University and Sharif Mowlabocus of University of Sussex have acquired the personal video and film archive of an important anti censorhip activist who was the founder of a campaigning group during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. This is a very particular type of archive in that the texts are ostensibly gay male pornographic materials. Plans are now in place to make the archive available for scholarly use…
The enigma of the male sex symbol
When Daniel Craig emerged from the sea as the new James Bond in Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006), his appearance (and his physique) created a media furore. For the first time since the days of Sean Connery, James Bond was once again a sex symbol. Starting with the many examples offered by the James Bond franchise, this essay identifies the sex symbol as a ubiquitous but essentially ill-defined category of celebrity status. Challenging a 'com…
Introduction
On Friday 24 August 2012, the British newspaper The Sun, rejecting the calls of Buckingham Palace to respect Prince Harry's privacy, published nude mobile-phone images of the third in line to the t
Coming of age
This essay discusses the author's experience of researching gay pornography over a 20-year period between 1992 and 2012 alongside an analysis of the contemporary re-emergence of the mature male as figure of sexual interest in gay pornography. One of the functions that gay pornography performs has been to articulate ideals of sexual desire, and alternative bodies and modes of representation have often been relegated from view or situated as abject…
A mark of distinction
The development of branding is a neglected theme in business history. This article examines the emergence on a large scale of the unique product brand name – distinct from a company name or product descriptor – in the UK in the later nineteenth century. It looks at the interaction of branding strategies and UK trade mark law, which is shown to have accorded property rights in word-based marks only gradually and shaped the development of branding …
Shopping for Suffrage
This article outlines the contribution of suffrage shops to the campaign of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU); it charts the emergence of stores nationwide, and provides for the first time a full list of WSPU shops. Amidst the WSPU’s various campaign activities, branch shops established new spaces for, and new dynamics in, the votes for women movement from 1909. Recognising these shops’ roles as new, semi‐public campaign spaces, the c…
Media and Militancy
The integrated and sophisticated nature of the Women's Social and Political Union's (WSPU) propaganda campaign – which included newspapers, pamphlets, posters and merchandise – is often overlooked in suffrage histories. This article traces the development of propaganda by the WSPU within the context of the organisation's changing militancy, to position propaganda as one of the major elements of the WSPU's campaign. The interaction between these t…
Making the News
In October 1912, husband and wife Frederick and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence were curtly expelled from the leadership of the militant suffragette organization, the Women's Social & Political Union (WS
In the Slammer
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the significance of the prison scenario and its various permutations in the texts of American commercial pornographic video. The paper will identify the prison as a highly eroticised all male environment, an arena where the active/passive dichotomy of gay pornography is staged and re-staged. The significances of the prison are multiple. The prison draws on a gay mythology of homosexual desire that has its o…
Homosexual Prototypes
Canadian Cities and their Immigrants
Following new federal regulations and procedures introduced in the 1960s, the nature of immigrant flows to Canada has changed radically. Over the last two decades, the immigrant population has increasingly become nonwhite and now comes mostly from macroregions other than Europe (including Britain) and the United States—notably, Asia. Thus the new immigrants exhibit greater cultural and racialized diversity than ever before. Most immigrants settle…
Reconsidering faculty roles and rewards in geography
In the USA there has been a reassessment of public and faculty attitudes to higher education and its practices. One concern has been the priority faculty and administrators in different disciplines attach to the roles and rewards accorded to teaching, research and public service. The Association of American Geographers (AAG) set up a task force to examine these issues with respect to geography. The proposals of that task force are presented here …
Ethnic Identity and Equality
Lussa Wood 1
NR 644874. A large quantity of microliths and three stone-built rings, perhaps cooking-places, represent occupation dated by 14C to the later 7th millennium bc; later material reflects activity on the site into Neolithic times. A R
Glacier Variations in Southern Patagonia
A mark of distinction
The development of branding is a neglected theme in business history. This article examines the emergence on a large scale of the unique product brand name – distinct from a company name or product descriptor – in the UK in the later nineteenth century. It looks at the interaction of branding strategies and UK trade mark law, which is shown to have accorded property rights in word-based marks only gradually and shaped the development of branding …
The Myth of the North American City. Continentalism Challenged
On comparing American and Canadian cities Values and culture: a context for comparing American and Canadian cities Social and demographic structures in Canada and the United States Economic organization and economic institutions in Canada and the United States: the fuel for urban growth and change Political structure, culture and institutions in Canada and the United States Urban form and institutions in Canada and the United States Urban form an…
A regression-time stone-workers' camp, 33ft OD, Lussa River, Isle of Jura
NR 644873. A seasonal camping site was represented by a layer of occupation material on a terrace above Lussa River; excavation yielded insects, seeds, charcoal, red ochre, pumice, a human hair and 1500 flint and quartz artefacts. Chisels and microliths predominate amongst a tool assemblage which is seen as the last of three microlithic phases in N Jura; radiocarbon dates fall in third millennium bc. The relationship between sites on Jura and Oro…
In the Slammer
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the significance of the prison scenario and its various permutations in the texts of American commercial pornographic video. The paper will identify the prison as a highly eroticised all male environment, an arena where the active/passive dichotomy of gay pornography is staged and re-staged. The significances of the prison are multiple. The prison draws on a gay mythology of homosexual desire that has its o…
Flint tools from the present tidal zone, Lussa Bay, Isle of Jura, Argyll
NR 643868. 4424 flint artefacts were collected from the tidal zone of Lussa Bay, of which 1064 were identifiable; the assemblage is dominated by blades, flakes partly backed with cortex, cores, scrapers and leaf-shaped flakes, but includes microliths and microburins. Comparison with the collection from Lealt Bay, Jura, indicates that the majority of the Lussa Bay material is earlier and belongs to the Boreal-Atlantic transition (c 5500 BC); an an…
Stone tools from a washing-limit deposit of the highest Post-Glacial transgression, Lealt Bay, Isle of Jura
NR 662902. Pollen analysis demonstrates that vegetation was broadly comparable in the post-glacial period along the NE coast of Jura and in mainland Argyll, while the highest post-glacial marine transgression is proved to have reached about 51ft OD on Jura early in the Atlantic period. Excavation at Lealt Bay yielded about 50,000 stone artefacts from the old marine deposit c 47ft OD; these show a variety of forms in use over a long period, and a …
Geography and Politics in America
Homosexual Prototypes
On Continentalism, Distinctiveness, and Comparative Urban Geography
Glenbatrick waterhole, a microlithic site on the Isle of Jura
[NR 518798]. Reports excavations of two camps, G1 and G2, on a lagoon-side close to thc washing limit of the highest post-glacial transgression. G1 yielded 189 microliths of an industry similar to Lussa Bay's but minus the tanged point. The 239 microliths from G2 followed immediately in typological terms. Also at G2 were two Neo leaf arrowheads. Two 14C dates were obtained, in late 4th and late 3rd millennium bc respectively
Attitudes of Homeowners and the Decision to Rehabilitate Property
Canadian Cities and their Immigrants
Following new federal regulations and procedures introduced in the 1960s, the nature of immigrant flows to Canada has changed radically. Over the last two decades, the immigrant population has increasingly become nonwhite and now comes mostly from macroregions other than Europe (including Britain) and the United States—notably, Asia. Thus the new immigrants exhibit greater cultural and racialized diversity than ever before. Most immigrants settle…
Coming of age
This essay discusses the author's experience of researching gay pornography over a 20-year period between 1992 and 2012 alongside an analysis of the contemporary re-emergence of the mature male as figure of sexual interest in gay pornography. One of the functions that gay pornography performs has been to articulate ideals of sexual desire, and alternative bodies and modes of representation have often been relegated from view or situated as abject…
The enigma of the male sex symbol
When Daniel Craig emerged from the sea as the new James Bond in Casino Royale (Martin Campbell, 2006), his appearance (and his physique) created a media furore. For the first time since the days of Sean Connery, James Bond was once again a sex symbol. Starting with the many examples offered by the James Bond franchise, this essay identifies the sex symbol as a ubiquitous but essentially ill-defined category of celebrity status. Challenging a 'com…
Introduction
On Friday 24 August 2012, the British newspaper The Sun, rejecting the calls of Buckingham Palace to respect Prince Harry's privacy, published nude mobile-phone images of the third in line to the t
Making the News
In October 1912, husband and wife Frederick and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence were curtly expelled from the leadership of the militant suffragette organization, the Women's Social & Political Union (WS
Fifteen seconds of fame
In this article, we argue that the campy affectations of contestants of RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR) serve as the perfect vehicle through which GIFs and memes can be created and have the potential to go viral online. RPDR relies heavily on social media for its success, and we claim that the queens who go on to establish a celebrity persona beyond the show are often the ones who fully exploit this relationship by condensing themselves into self-brand…
Urban Form in Canada and the United States
Differences between urban patterns in the United States and Canada are analyzed. The focus is on differences in urban form identified through a comparative investigation of the density gradients of residential population for metropolitan centers in both countries. (ANNOTATION)
Canadian and U. S. Cities
Microlithic and Bronze Age camps, 75-26 ft OD, N Carn, Isle of Jura
NR 685939. Mesolithic occupation on a natural platform at the head of N Carn bay included a small L-shaped setting and boulder interpreted as a possible hearth and seat. Charcoal from the setting yielded a radiocarbon date in 6th millennium bc, and associated flint and quartz artefacts included cores, flakes, steeply-trimmed microliths, microburins, scrapers, blades and gravers. Later activity on the site was represented by a fragment of a scale-…
Popperbate
In this article I explore the contemporary amateur practice of making ‘popper training’ videos. These examples of amateur gay porn, usually circulated via porn aggregators such as Xtube, constitute what might be described as video collages that repurpose a range of found sources including commercial moving-image gay porn, still images, text and music. The resulting videos are designed for the express purpose of aiding a form of masturbation often…
Shopping for Suffrage
This article outlines the contribution of suffrage shops to the campaign of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU); it charts the emergence of stores nationwide, and provides for the first time a full list of WSPU shops. Amidst the WSPU’s various campaign activities, branch shops established new spaces for, and new dynamics in, the votes for women movement from 1909. Recognising these shops’ roles as new, semi‐public campaign spaces, the c…
Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Finnischen Expedition nach Patagonien 1937-38 und Der Finnisch-Argentinischen Expeditionen 1947-53. Band IV. The Pleistocene of Fuego-Patagonia, Part I
Glacier Variations in Southern Patagonia
Density Decline Surfaces in Urban Areas
Stone tools from a washing-limit deposit of the highest Post-Glacial transgression, Lealt Bay, Isle of Jura
NR 662902. Pollen analysis demonstrates that vegetation was broadly comparable in the post-glacial period along the NE coast of Jura and in mainland Argyll, while the highest post-glacial marine transgression is proved to have reached about 51ft OD on Jura early in the Atlantic period. Excavation at Lealt Bay yielded about 50,000 stone artefacts from the old marine deposit c 47ft OD; these show a variety of forms in use over a long period, and a …
The Lower Boundary of the Holocene
A decision appears imminent to define the lower boundary of the Holocene formally in terms of the European sequence, as comprising all or part of the interval between the end of the Bølling Interstade and the end of the Younger Dryas Stade ( ca. 12,100–10,350 14 C years BP). However, a lower boundary in this position can define the base of a European provincial stage only (the Flandrian). The interval contains no boundary suitable for global use,…
Flint tools from the present tidal zone, Lussa Bay, Isle of Jura, Argyll
NR 643868. 4424 flint artefacts were collected from the tidal zone of Lussa Bay, of which 1064 were identifiable; the assemblage is dominated by blades, flakes partly backed with cortex, cores, scrapers and leaf-shaped flakes, but includes microliths and microburins. Comparison with the collection from Lealt Bay, Jura, indicates that the majority of the Lussa Bay material is earlier and belongs to the Boreal-Atlantic transition (c 5500 BC); an an…
The Neolithic Level at Lussa Wood 1, N. Jura, Argyll
Lussa Wood i (NCR 644874) is under excavation as part of the writer's investigations* into pre-Neolithic activity in Jura. In essence the site, at 55 ft. OD on extensive flat land, consists of some 9 in. of recently-ploughed soil capping a thick gravel layer containing structures and micro lithic industry. Close together on the top of the gravel, and mixed with the uppermost microlithic artefacts, were five Neolithic-type relics. One, an edge-chi…
Microlithic and Bronze Age camps, 75-26 ft OD, N Carn, Isle of Jura
NR 685939. Mesolithic occupation on a natural platform at the head of N Carn bay included a small L-shaped setting and boulder interpreted as a possible hearth and seat. Charcoal from the setting yielded a radiocarbon date in 6th millennium bc, and associated flint and quartz artefacts included cores, flakes, steeply-trimmed microliths, microburins, scrapers, blades and gravers. Later activity on the site was represented by a fragment of a scale-…
City Manager Communities in the Montreal Metropolitan Area
A regression-time stone-workers' camp, 33ft OD, Lussa River, Isle of Jura
NR 644873. A seasonal camping site was represented by a layer of occupation material on a terrace above Lussa River; excavation yielded insects, seeds, charcoal, red ochre, pumice, a human hair and 1500 flint and quartz artefacts. Chisels and microliths predominate amongst a tool assemblage which is seen as the last of three microlithic phases in N Jura; radiocarbon dates fall in third millennium bc. The relationship between sites on Jura and Oro…
Glenbatrick waterhole, a microlithic site on the Isle of Jura
[NR 518798]. Reports excavations of two camps, G1 and G2, on a lagoon-side close to thc washing limit of the highest post-glacial transgression. G1 yielded 189 microliths of an industry similar to Lussa Bay's but minus the tanged point. The 239 microliths from G2 followed immediately in typological terms. Also at G2 were two Neo leaf arrowheads. Two 14C dates were obtained, in late 4th and late 3rd millennium bc respectively
Spatial Modifications to Models of the Urban Policy Process
Glacial history of Southernmost South America
In southernmost South America, an incomplete radiometrically dated glacial chronology has been obtained by K–Ar dating for the interval 3.5-1 MY ago, and a more detailed chronology by C-14 dating for the last 25,000 years, with some older minimal ages. The first major glaciation was about 3.5 MY ago during the middle Pliocene. Little is yet known about glacial fluctuations during the interval 3.5-2.1 MY ago. Between 2.1 and 1 MY ago many glaciati…
The Cycle of Invasion and Unification in the Western Sahara
Journal Article THE CYCLE OF INVASION AND UNIFICATION IN THE WESTERN SAHARA Get access JOHN MERCER JOHN MERCER John Mercer is a free-lance writer who lives in Scotland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 75, Issue 301, October 1976, Pages 498–510, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096774 Published: 01 October 1976
Geography and Politics in America
The Investigation of the King's Cave, Isle of Jura, Argyll
The evidence illuminates many facets oj island life during the last two millennia. The very varied artefacts include a wide range in bone and antler, whilst of the large quantity of unworked bones perhaps the most immediately valuable are those throwing light on the island's small mammal sequence, most notably on the physical evolution of the short-tailed field vole. Numerous lines of evidence converge to suggest that a major occupation was by a …
A Geography of Scotland
Spanish Sahara
Cup-marks at Carn, N Jura, Argyll
Barr River, a microlithic site in Morven, Argyll
On Continentalism, Distinctiveness, and Comparative Urban Geography
The Canary Islanders in Western Mediterranean Politics
Journal Article THE CANARY ISLANDERS IN WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS Get access JOHN MERCER JOHN MERCER John Mercer's book The Camay Islanders, their prehistory, conquest and survival will be published in 1979 (Rex CoUings). He is also the author of Spanish Sahara (1976). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 78, Issue 311, April 1979, Pages 159–176, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjourna…
Canadian and U.S. Cities
Canadian and U. S. Cities
Attitudes of Homeowners and the Decision to Rehabilitate Property
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