Edward Hall Research Articles

The Battle of Blore Heath: Sources, Historiography and Implications for the Outbreak of Conflict, 1459-60

ABSTRACT Discussion of the battle of Blore Heath (23 September 1459) has focused on the role of Cheshire gentry. This reflects a historiographical tradition that began early in the sixteenth century with Edward Hall. Attempts to reframe analysis of the battle, and in particular to understand dispositions and manoeuvres on the battlefield itself, have placed weight on the evidence of Jehan de Waurin’s chronicle of Great Britain. Compiled from his vantage point at the duke of Burgundy’s court using newsletters and similar materials, Waurin’s account has significant limitations. These are assessed here, alongside further evidence in other narrative sources. This allows for a clearer understanding of the participation of men from across the north-west midlands in the king’s forces, as also of the small group of core followers who accompanied the earl of Salisbury on his journey to rendezvous with the duke of York and other opponents of the court party.

Edward Hall, Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory

Edward Hall, Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory

Rights in the Liberal Tradition

This is a republication of Judith N. Shklar’s paper “Rights in the Liberal Tradition” first published in an issue of Colorado College Studies in 1992. This is the first time the piece has been made digitally available. Edward Hall and Matt Sleat provide a brief foreword to the essay.

From Great Resignation to Great Re-Negotiation on space and time for more holistic individuals and organizations

PurposeThis paper aims to offer a new perspective to conceptualize the Great Resignation from the cognition of space and time, as well as the opportunity to re-negotiate space and time arrangements in personal and organizational lives. As a result, the paper provides new ideas for developing more holistic and sustainable individuals and organizations to survive and thrive in challenges of global disruptions.Design/methodology/approachDrawing from anthropology and psychology works in space and time, this paper proposes new ideas for individuals and organizations to negotiate space and time arrangements that facilitate holistic personal growth and sustainable organizational lives.FindingsThis research raises a critical point on the need to reconceptualize and renegotiate work arrangements about where we work and when we work. Anthropologist Edward Hall suggests that work should be viewed from multiple lenses that connotate different meanings of space and time in different parts of the world. Instead of separating professional and personal lives, we need to cultivate a more holistic mindset and renegotiate space and time settings at work.Originality/valueThis research broadened current conceptualizations of the Great Resignation and organizational behavior around work arrangements. From an interdisciplinary perspective, this paper suggests that individuals and organizations negotiate space and time arrangements for more agile and resilient future.

Contextual Component in Cross-Cultural Business Interaction With Asian Partners

The article aims to illuminate the issues of the impact of the current geopolitical situation on the economic relations between Russian companies and their foreign partners, especially Eastern business associates, in a multicultural environment. The purpose of the study is to consider this interaction from the perspective of the contextual cultural component. The author investigates the role of context in intercultural professional communication according to the classifications by Edward Hall and by Geert Hofstede. Special attention is paid to the need to implement a revised business English curriculum in the training of professional communication at the universities of international relations. The knowledge of cultural differences and the importance of their correct perception and interpretation benefit the effective pursuit of goals in the business sphere. Contextuality is analyzed at verbal and non-verbal levels of professional communication. Based on the comparison of the cultural specifics, the issue of business integration between Russian and Asian markets acquires a new political and economic meaning.

Cross Cultural Temporal Tendencies Between Monochronic and Polychronic Materialisation in the films A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) and The Uninvited (2009)

ABSTRACT Material culture is an extension of spatial–temporal perceptions and behaviour. The nature of the manner in which rhetorical material is woven into visual narrative become symbolic expressions of material assembly. Mikhail Bakhtin referred to such material assembly as “flesh” in the instance of the novel. In this article, I will extend Bakhtin's notion of “flesh” to film and demonstrate that Edward Hall's theory of mono-chronic and poly-chronic time apply to the materialisation of narrative flesh in the films discussed herein.

On the Differences Between Chinese and American Engineering Management Based on Edward Hall’s Cross-cultural Theory

On the Differences Between Chinese and American Engineering Management Based on Edward Hall’s Cross-cultural Theory

Queens Consort, Gender and Diplomacy: Catherine of Aragon, Claude of France and the Field of Cloth of Gold

AbstractIn 1520, two queens consort, Catherine of Aragon and Claude of France, attended the event now known as the Field of Cloth of Gold. This article analyses representations of their involvement across three sources; contemporary diplomatic correspondence and two later sources, Edward Hall's Chronicle (1548 and 1550) and the Hampton Court Palace painting of the Field (c. 1545). It examines how the producers of these sources shaped the function of the consort according to their own motivations, genre and the context of their own time. It argues that each source acknowledges the consorts as important to the event's success, but that while contemporary letters represent Catherine and Claude as individuals, the later sources exhibit shifting narratives to focus on the trope of ideal queenship. A similar shift was not apparent for kingship. This comparison of contemporary and later depictions of the consorts reveals a gendered reshaping of their role at the Field across time according to the needs of the creators which, in turn, sheds light on understandings of queenship and diplomatic engagement in early modern England.

A confirmatory factor analysis of university students’ high-context and low-context communication

This study aimed to examine the framework of Edward Hall’s high-context and low-context distinction in communication, which is one of the most widely used methods for comparing different cultures in terms of communication styles of individuals who are currently students. Choosing the survey as the data collection method, a questionnaire was prepared and applied to university students. Two hundred and eighteen people participated in the survey and 162 surveys were accepted. In the study, the relationships between communication types and demographic characteristics were also examined. It was found that these characteristics did not create significant differences in the types of communication. First-level confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was applied to the data obtained through structural equation modelling (SEM). According to the results obtained by confirmatory factor analysis, communication in a high context (Y) factor has eight observed variables. There are seven observed variables of communication in a low context (D) factor.
 Keywords: Communication, high-context communication, low-context communication, structural equation modelling (SEM);

Edward Hall, Value, Conflict and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory

Edward Hall, <i>Value, Conflict and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory</i>

Racial and Cultural Tension in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun

The culture in which we are brought up shapes our traits and identity. When people move from one place to another, they get acquainted with new cultures. Then, they vacillate on the conflicting modes of dilemma – whether to follow the new culture or not. Cultural conflict arises when people cannot discard the original culture they carry from their birth. This paper explores how an African-American family confronts racial discrimination and culture clash in America, and how they react against the racial injustice. The voices that African-America people raise against racial discrimination and segregation are overtly or covertly represented in the African-American literature, as in the play- “A Raisin in the Sun”. This study explores the conflict between American culture and African culture in the play conceptualizing the theoretical frame work of cultural studies developed by Geert Hofstede and Edward Hall. This study answers the question: how does the African-American family (Younger family) confront the culture clash, and combat against racial discrimination in the play? The conflict between the Younger family and the white representative indicates the racial and culture clash between the African and the America culture as dramatized in the play.

Social distancing in the time of COVID-19: A case study from Australia

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing has been encouraged to stem the propagation of the virus ( WHO 2020). In Australia where I live, wall posters and markers on the floor reminding us of social distancing and advising us to keep one and a half metres from each other have become ubiquitous, adding a new layer to the linguistic landscape. Yet, social distancing varies across countries . Indeed, in his seminal 1966 work The Hidden Dimension examining public and private use of space, anthropologist Edward Hall warned us of the cultural specificity of proxemics and distancing. Thus, using a small corpus of distance markers found in Australia, the present paper aims at exploring a few cultural aspects of social distancing, while presenting some of the ways in which the authors of the signs and their targeted audience are engaging with these signs.

INFLUENCE OF CULTURAL DYNAMICS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEDIA FRAMING AND THE PERCEPTION OF OBESITY AMONG MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN IN NAIROBI COUNTY, KENYA

Purpose: To assess the moderating influence of cultural dynamics on the relationship between media framing and the perception of obesity among middle-aged women in Nairobi County, Kenya.&#x0D; Methodology: This study applied the one-group pretest-posttest experimental design. In the one-group pretest-posttest experimental design all study participants provided with the same treatment and assessment. The researcher therefore, collected data using the pre-and posttest questionnaires. The treatment administered was a television program titled Slimpossible, which showcased middle-aged Kenyan women suffering from the stigma of obesity who were participating in a competition to lose their weight. The multi-stage cluster sampling technique was applied in this study. Out of the target population of 1848 participants, the study sample was 317 academic female staff found in three public universities in Nairobi County, Kenya. In this research study, the analysis applied descriptive statistics and the inferential analysis tools such as the Factor analysis (The Keiser-Meyer –Olkin (KMO) test), Pearson’s correlation coefficient and regression analysis (logical regression).&#x0D; Findings: The study sought to assess the moderating influence of cultural dynamics on the relationship between media framing and the perception of obesity among middle-aged women in Nairobi County, Kenya. Therefore, the finding also brought about interactions between cultural dynamics and the independent media frames in connection to the perception of obesity. It was concluded that the perception of obesity from the African culture and Western culture was different. The respondents had positive outlook on middle-aged obese women opposed to the dictates of Western culture.&#x0D; Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: In terms of contribution to theory, this study emanated from the cross-cultural communication theory. The theory recognizes the value of culture and how it relates to people’s perception on obesity. Hurn and Tomalin (2013) opined that some of the most strategic researchers in the field of cross-cultural communication include Edward Hall, Mildred Hall and Geert Hofstede in the 1950s.

In defence of a liberal realism and a realist political ethics: On Edward Hall’s Value, Conflict, and Order

This review argues that Edward Hall’s outstanding new book on the political thought of three outstanding 20th-century thinkers – Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire and Bernard Williams – has three major substantial contributions to contemporary realism: it offers convincing realist interpretations of their oeuvres, extracts inspiring new ideas from their works for future theorizing and provides powerful arguments in defence of a liberal realist position. However, given Hall’s expertise in Williams’ thought, it might be surprising that the chapters about Hampshire seem the most interesting and most convincing parts of the book because they address some of the most fundamental issues of realism in an especially concise and well-written form.

Edward Hall: Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 229.)

Edward Hall: Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 229.)

Architettura post Covid-19. La prossemica come strumento di progetto

L’esplosione del virus e la diffusione a scala mondiale del concetto di distanziamento sociale hanno resa necessaria la riorganizzazione dello spazio che ci circonda secondo nuove misure. A questo proposito potrebbe tornare utile la prossemica, disciplina teorizzata negli anni ‘60 del secolo scorso dall’antropologo americano Edward Hall con lo scopo di studiare il significato che gli uomini attribuiscono ai concetti di distanza e spazio. Nel processo di ripensamento dell’architettura a cui andiamo incontro, le teorie di Hall potranno offrire un aiuto prezioso che investa tutte le scale, dalla città al quartiere al singolo edificio. Abbiamo la possibilità, imperdibile, di rivedere il modello di città contemporanea: che sia l’occasione di ripensare gli spazi a scala umana in vista di una nuova normalità.

Crowd density detection method based on crowd gathering mode and multi-column convolutional neural network

Crowds and stampedes often occur in crowd gathering places, resulting in a large number of casualties and causing great negative social impacts. Traditional research on the dynamic assessment of crowd gathering safety mainly relies on real-time video monitoring, but lacks reliable methods for processing a large amount of video data from different sources, different perspectives and different granularities. Based on Edward Hall's personal space theory, this article considers crowd psychology and other factors, and establishes static basic model of crowd gathering patterns. In order to fuse real-time multi-granularity surveillance videos with different perspectives, a multi-column convolutional neural network (M-CNN) was used to extract the local density characteristics of the crowd in a low-altitude perspective, thereby establishing a holographic model of the temporal and spatial evolution of the crowd situation, and a new crowd gathering safety assessment method. This method was actually applied to the safety assessment of crowd gathering in Suzhou landmark-Urban Living Fountain Square, and achieved good results, providing theoretical support for the safety management of crowd gathering places.

The cross-cultural communications impact on increasing business profitability in digital technologies use

The main objective in this paper is to analyze the impact of cross-cultural communication on increasing business profitability. In order to do that, the research is based on three main concepts: cross-cultural skills, which are considered in our study one the most strategical tools for companies’ success, concerning both the profitability and the image of any company. Cross-cultural communication, as stated by the anthropologist Edward Hall in his book The Hidden Dimension. Hall is most associated with proxemics, the study of the human use of space within the context of culture. Bearing in mind Hall’s considerations, the paper emphasized the need and importance of cross-cultural education for employees, as long as the goal of the companies is to position themselves internationally. Intercultural communication. Hall’s ideas have also had a significant impact in communication theory, especially intercultural communication, where it inspired research on spatial perception that continues to this day. In the digital economy, there are different indicators for measuring the level of cross-cultural skills within a company: a financial indicator such as return on sales has an important role. Sales play a fundamental role in the activities of any company and they are causally related to the cross-cultural skills of employees and entrepreneurs concerning company’s management. Business management style as well as the type of cross-cultural communication existing in the company will determine the international position of any company. Communication and cross-cultural skills contribute to a positive image of the company, since these are skills pointing out at companies with multilingual staff, with personal and professional experience living and working in different countries, experts on using innovative technologies, characteristics which will strongly impact on final profitability results. The paper concludes focusing on the importance for all the international companies to invest in the concept of intercultural communication and cross-cultural skills as a way of behaving in business, since these skills will reward them with increasing ratios of business profitability in international markets.

Экстенсии как техносоматические сборки: к истории одной идеи

В статье рассматривается более чем полуторавековая история понятия экстенсия, введенного в широкий оборот американским антропологом, основателем проксемики Эдвардом Холлом, и использование этого понятия в ряде дисциплин, включая антропоэкологию, психоанализ, теорию медиа и социологию. Определяется вклад отдельных исследователей в разработку этого понятия и сопряженных или конкурирующих с ним концептов. Определяется место экстенсий в ряду других типов техносоматических сборок. Предлагается рабочая типология самих экстенсий, учитывающая их относительные размеры, топологическое положение относительно тела и конкретные функции или способности человека, которые эти экстенсии усиливают, или заменяют и вытесняют. Анализ истории развития понятия экстенсия позволяет утверждать, что все артефакты человеческой культуры могут рассматриваться как экстенсии определенных телесных органов или функций, как их продолжение или амплификация, и что тело и психика человека еще до его рождения оказываются сопряженными со множеством технических артефактов (инструментов, аппаратов, машин, инфраструктур) и выступают в качестве элементов техносоматических ассамбляжей. Экстенсия как особый тип гибридной техносоматической реальности, как химерическое понятие, объединяющее в своем содержании телесное (природное) и произведенное человеком (культурное, техническое, искусственное), становится в такой расширенной трактовке синонимом техники или культуры в целом, мостом между психикой и телом, с одной стороны, и миром технокультурных артефактов, с другой. Кратко рассматриваются следствия этого утверждения для исследований человеческих телесности, смерти и памяти.

BSAVA Congress 2020

Emeritus Professor Edward Hall has been announced as the 2020 Bourgelat Award winner. This award is presented by the BSAVA as the primary recognition for really outstanding international contributions to the field of small animal practice. John Bonner reports.