Professor Neil F.C. Hudson

Neil Turnbull

This paper examines the way in which ‘authority’ and ‘authoritarianism’ have been confl ated in contemporary philosophical thought. More specifi cally, it will show how the psycho-social critique of political authority developed by the Frankfurt School in the 1930s established a paradigm for the critique of political authority as ‘authoritarian irrationalism’. The paper goes on to explore the l...

Vulnerability W . Neil Adger

This paper reviews research traditions of vulnerability to environmental change and the challenges for present vulnerability research in integrating with the domains of resilience and adaptation. Vulnerability is the state of susceptibility to harm from exposure to stresses associated with environmental and social change and from the absence of capacity to adapt. Antecedent traditions include t...

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Neil Smith’s Scale

In this essay, part of a special issue acknowledging the scholarship of Neil Smith, we trace his contributions to conceptualizing scale. From his important foundational text, Uneven Development, to his later works that fashioned a more malleable, constructivist, and socio-cultural approach, Neil Smith made lifelong contributions to our understanding of the processes of scale production—contribu...

Statement Benoı̂t Hudson

I am a computational geometer specializing in (a) quality mesh refinement, and (b) dynamic geometric algorithms. While computational geometry is beautiful in its own right, what drives my work is its application to scientific computing – in particular, the finite element method. My focus straddles theory and practice: I intend to implement all my algorithms, and I intend to mathematically analy...