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The Ghost of Patrick Geddes: Civics As Applied Sociology
No full textIn 1904 and 1905 Patrick Geddes (1905, 1906) read his famed, but today little-read, two-part paper, \'Civics: as Applied Sociology\', to the first meetings of the British Sociological Society. Geddes is often thought of as a \'pioneer of sociology\' (Mairet, 1957; Meller, 1990) and for some (eg Devine, 1999: 296) as \'a seminal influence on sociology\'. However, little of substance has been written to critically assess Geddes\'s intellectual legacy as a sociologist. His work is largely forgotten by sociologists in Britain (Abrams, 1968; Halliday, 1968; Evans, 1986). Few have been prepared to follow Geddes\'s ambition to bridge the chasm between nature and culture, environment and society, geography, biology and sociology. His conception of \'sociology\', oriented towards social action from a standpoint explicitly informed by evolutionary theory. A re-appraisal of the contemporary relevance of Geddes\'s thinking on civics as applied sociology has to venture into the knotted problem of evolutionary sociology. It also requires giving some cogency to Geddes\'s often fragmentary and inconsistent mode of address. Although part of a post-positivist, \'larger modernism\' Geddes remained mired in nineteenth century evolutionary thought and fought shy of dealing with larger issues of social class or the breakthrough work of early twentieth century sociology of Simmel, Weber and Durkheim. His apolitical notion of \'civics\' limits its relevance to academic sociology today.History of Sociology, Civics, Patrick Geddes, Scottish Generalism, Urban Sociology
Critical review of two books by Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul and India: A Portrait
No full textThis submission for the PhD by Research Publications consists of two published books by Patrick
French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul (2008) and India: A
Portrait (2011). The portfolio is accompanied by a critical review summarising the aims, objectives,
methodology, results and conclusions of the books, and showing how they form a coherent body of
work and contribute significantly to the expansion of knowledge.
The World Is What It Is (2008) is a biography of Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul, positioning him
within a Caribbean and early postcolonial literary lineage, despite his ancestral connections to India
and his “stateless” claims as a world novelist. India: A Portrait (2011) is a study of Indian politics,
economics and society since 1947, told mainly through the stories of individuals from different
sections of society, and using historical background to analyse rapid recent social change in the
period after economic “liberalization”.
The trajectory of the two publications is built around a conviction that individual experience can
illuminate a larger period or civilization, and that our ideas of the unfamiliar, whether in the past or
in different societies, can often be poorly grounded in the way people perceive themselves. In each
case, the books challenge existing notions and use evidence based on detailed research and
interviews in the field. In the case of The World Is What It Is, almost none of the archival material
used had previously been studied, and in India: A Portrait, subjective one-to-one interviews were
supplemented by new original data. For example, a survey was undertaken to determine what
proportion of MPs in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, were hereditary: this involved
double-sourcing information on the family background of all 545 Indian MPs – and revealed that
nepotism was more deeply embedded than had previously been realised.
Both books come out of a vision developed during two-and-a-half decades of research into colonial
and postcolonial history. The guiding motivation has been to communicate a distinct historical view
of the period before and after the end of the global British empire, in particular in South Asia and
among its diaspora
Patrick Power Library: Conference Room, ca. 1976
No full textb&w photographVery good conditionConference room of Patrick Power Library, complete with artsy macrame wall hanging. This became the Reserve Reading Room for students in the 1990's, and is now a high-tech Information Literacy classroom. Note the ashtrays along table!From Library fonds, 1999.22. Additional photos available
Reen, P S (Patrick S), 412185
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/412647Surname: REEN. Given Name(s) or Initials: P S (PATRICK S). Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 412185. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 48861.229357
Item: [2016.0049.44909] "Reen, P S (Patrick S), 412185
Letter from Patrick Vincent Rudden to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from President Patrick Vincent Rudden of St. Patrick�s College, Cavan, to Hagan. Announcing the intention of Bishop Patrick Finegan of Kilmore to send Mr. Harry Dillon to the Irish College, to take the place vacated by Mr. Matthews; giving a reference as to character and scholarship of Dillon
Letter from Patrick V. Rudden to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Patrick V. Rudden, President of St. Patrick�s College, Cavan, for Bishop Finegan, to Hagan, having lodged an amount to the College account collected for the Eucharistic Congress
Disciples of a crazy saint: The Buchen of Spiti
No full textThe Buchen are specialist religious performers from Spiti, a culturally Tibetan valley in North India. They are widely known for performing an elaborate exorcism ritual that culminates in a slab of stone, marked with images of demons, being smashed on a man’s belly. In winter groups of Buchen perform their religious theatre, a localised form of Ache Lhamo, the Tibetan Opera. This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford is the result of a research project and substantial fieldtrip funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, with project partnership from the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Patrick Sutherland has been photographing in Spiti for nearly two decades and working with the Buchen for several years.
The book consists of a self-reflexive essay by Patrick Sutherland illustrated with historical photographs and his own photographs, followed by four sections of photographs and captions by Patrick Sutherland. It concludes with a substantial essay, placing the Buchen into a wider cultural and historical context, by Tashi Tsering, founding Director of the Amnye Machen Institute (Tibetan Centre for Advanced Studies) in Dharamsala. This essay is also illustrated with historical photographs
A. T. Patrick Letters, MSS.2136
No full textAbstract: Letters from A. T. Patrick, serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, to Mary (Sally) Coffman, discussing their upcoming wedding and move to an apartment.Scope and Content Note: The A. T. Patrick Letters consists of thirty-seven letters from S/Sgt. A. T. Patrick to Mary E. Coffman in Keyser, West Virginia. He was a radio operator in the Army stationed in Walla Walla, Washington; Redmond, Oregon; and Avon Park, Florida. All of the letters were to "Sally." Every letter expressed how much he missed Sally and how he thought about her frequently. The collection Includes newspaper clippings of Army jokes and affidavit forms for marriage.Biographical/Historical Note: S/Sgt A.T. Patrick was a radio operator during World War II stationed in Walla Walla, Washington; Redmond, Oregon; and Avon Park, Florida. He enlisted in the Army in May 1941
Letter from Patrick O'Neill to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Patrick O'Neill, St. Patrick�s College, Maynooth (County Kildare), to Hagan, explaining the necessity for him to obtain a D.C.L. in line with his appointment to the chair of theology. Asking for advice on pursuing his studies in Rome, staying at the French College, for an added foreign language. He will be in Rome from November; he also wrote to Dr. W. Leonard about this
Letter from Patrick McAndrew to Cyrus Avery, dated June 30, 1935
No full textLetter from Patrick McAndrew to Cyrus Avery, dated June 30, 1935 congratulating Avery on his appointment to the Works Progress AdministrationThe Cyrus S. Avery Collection chronicles the life and times of Cyrus Stevens Avery. Known as the 'Father of Route 66', Avery served in government positions and elected offices as well as in highway associations that led him to have an influential impact on the planning and development of the initial American highway system. Through Avery's involvement with the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma and his own agricultural interests, the collection also documents a growing city and its' rural life in the early twentieth century
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