The Anatomy of Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems

In this article, we look at the history of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS), its publication record, place in the Scandinavian IS tradition, and future directions. We show how the journal has evolved by looking at its readership, authorship, and publications over the years. We include former editor’s perspectives on SJIS as a basis for outlining the journal’s editorial focus and policy now and in the future. We provide guidance to prospective authors considering submitting their manuscripts to the journal in terms of types of studies and submissions that we welcome

Reminiscences and Reflections on my Retirement: Ten Takeaways that Worked for Me

In this paper, I reflect on a 45-year career in higher education. I hope that PhD students and assistant professors looking ahead to such a career along with some mid-career academics will find my experiences and the lessons I discuss useful and relevant

SCOPE FOR USABILITY TESTS IN IS DEVELOPMENT

Despite being a common, established concept in wide usage, usability tests can vary greatly in goals, techniques and results. A usability test purchased and performed for a specific software product, may result in either minor user interface improvements or radical U-turns in the development. Such variation has been discussed as a problem of the scientific reliability and validity of the testing method. In practice it is more important what ‘kind of data’ one can expect of the selected method than whether it is reliably always the same data. This expectation of information content or ‘scope’ is of importance for evaluators, who select and conduct usability tests for a specific purpose. However, the scope is not explicitly stated or even discussed: Too often the premise is that, because a usability test involves users, it brings the (necessary) user-centeredness to the design i.e. takes socio-technical fundamentals as inherently given. Through a literature review of testing practices and analytical considerations, we search for the scope of a usability test, which could deliberately approach the socio-technical tradition and equally develop both the system and the user organization. A case example represents a possible realization of the extended scope of usability test

The Anatomy of Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems

In this article, we look at the history of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS), its publication record, place in the Scandinavian IS tradition, and future directions. We show how the journal has evolved by looking at its readership, authorship, and publications over the years. We include former editor’s perspectives on SJIS as a basis for outlining the journal’s editorial focus and policy now and in the future. We provide guidance to prospective authors considering submitting their manuscripts to the journal in terms of types of studies and submissions that we welcome.Peer reviewe

Examining relational digital transformation through the unfolding of local practices of the Finnish taxi industry

Digital transformation has become a central construct in information systems (IS) research. Current conceptualizations largely attribute transformation to intentionality, focus on transformation within a single organization, or assign technology the role of a disruptive agent of change. Likewise, “digital” tends to be a general category of technology, rather than a specific technology enacted in a time and place. Inspired by Schatzkian practice theory and its site ontology, we suggest a contextual viewpoint on digital transformation and call it “relational digital transformation.” We analyzed the change dynamics in the context of taxi dispatch practice in Finland, studying the changing taxi dispatch platforms over years. We investigated five powerful industry actors: two incumbents, two entrants, and a federation of taxi entrepreneurs. We identified events of change in the material arrangements in sites and explain the changes through the process dynamics in the focal practice. We define relational digital transformation as a process through which practice-arrangement bundles of digital technologies evolve over time. This approach assumes the default nature of an industry is to be found in the changing relations between entities rather than in entities themselves. This provides a theoretical extension to the prevailing views of digital transformation in IS literature. It enables studying digital transformation in retrospect without attributing change agency to any entities or technologies a priori. We also contribute to practice-theoretical IS literature by demonstrating how the applicability of practice theoretical analysis extends beyond microphenomena to larger industry-level changes.©2020 Elsevier. This manuscript version is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY–NC–ND 4.0) license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

Scope of usability tests in IS development

Despite being a common, established concept in wide usage, usability tests can vary greatly in their goals, techniques, and results. A usability test that one purchases and performs for a specific software product may result in either minor user interface improvements or radical U-turns in development. Researchers have discussed such variation as a problem that concerns testing method’s scientific reliability and validity. In practice, what “kind of data” one can expect to obtain from the selected method has more importance than whether one always obtains the same data. This expectation about information content or “scope” has importance for those who select and conduct usability tests for a specific purpose. However, researchers rarely explicitly state or even discuss scope: too often they adopt the premise that, because a usability test involves users, it brings the (necessary) user-centeredness to the design (i.e., takes socio- technical fundamentals as inherently given). We reviewed the literature on testing practices and analytical consideration and searched for the scope of a usability test that could deliberately approach the socio-technical tradition and equally develop both the system and the user organization. A case example represents a possible realization of the extended scope of usability test.</p

Abstracts of Papers: Textile Society of America 16th Biennial Symposium

Abstracts of 175 papers: Monisha Ahmed — The Kashmir / Cashmere Shawl – Tradition and Transformation Philis Alvic — Eliza Calvert Hall, The Handwoven Coverlet Book, and Collecting Coverlet Patterns in Early Twentieth Century Appalachia Sarah Amarica — Global Threads: Histories of Labour and Cloth in Ann Hamilton and Ibrahim Mahama’s Installation Art Lynne Anderson — Schoolgirl Embroideries: Integrating Indigenous Motifs, Materials, and Text Jennifer Angus — Education through Co-Design Margaret Olugbemisola Areo and Adebowale Biodun Areo — Egungun: Concept, Content and the Dynamic Contextual Manifestations of Yoruba Ancestors Masquerade Alison Ariss — Wrapped in Wool: Coast Salish wool weaving, Vancouver, and unceded territory Joanne Arnett — The Best Dressed Nun in the Room: A Capsule Wardrobe Project Janice Arnold — FELT: The Fabric of Community: 3 Stories of Community Building with Traditional Feltmaking Nicole Asselin — Making and Unmaking: Reimagining Textile Waste Through Biodesign Mary Babcock — Notions from the Pacific: Embracing entanglement Suzi Ballenger and Charlotte Hamlin — Yours, mine and ours. Annin Barrett — Timberline Lodge Textiles: Creating a Sense of Place Kathryn Berenson — Italian Bedfellows: Tristan, Solomon and Bestes Kathryn Berenson — A Medieval Political Hanging Alice Bernardo — Reconnecting Local Resources Magali Berthon — Artisans Angkor: Reviving Cambodian Silk Crafts under French Patronage Vandana Bhandari — Namvali Textiles of Rajasthan: Culture and Counterculture Katharine Bissett-Johnson — Co-creating Craft; Australian Designers meet Artisans in India Ines Bogensperger — Hellenization and Cultural Change: Textiles in Documentary Papyri from Greco-Roman Egypt Darden Bradshaw — Contemporary Chilean Arpilleras: Writing Visual Culture Stephanie Bunn — Basketry and the ‘glocal’. Grass, straw, heather, rattan, - what’s in a ‘local’ Scottish basket? Jennifer Byram — Reawakening Choctaw Traditional Textiles Dominique Cardon — Ancient Colours for Today’s Colorists and Designers Robin Caudell — Common Sense & Pin Money: The Material Culture and Legacy of Lula Annie Butler 1909-2009 Debbie Chachra and Caitrin Lynch — Behind the Curtain: Textile Provenance as a New Frontier in Ethical Apparel Angela Clarke — Women’s Work: The Art and Ritual of Textile Production in the Italian Community of Vancouver Ruth Clifford — Balancing local tradition and global influences: design and business education for handloom weavers in India Sarah Clugage — The Tent-Dweller: Visual Markers of Migration in Art Sarah Confer — Dynamic Cultural Preservation in Peru: global influences and local impacts on traditional Andean weaving Geraldine Craig — Ia and Tcheu: locating a contemporary Hmong aesthetic Yasmine Dabbous — Protection and empowerment: The dual role textiles play among the Syrian refugee community in Sonja Dahl — Whitework: The Cloth and the Call to Action MJ Daines — Collecting and Constructing: Anni Albers\u27 migrant status and her interaction with indigenous textiles Jennifer Ling Datchuk and Anna Walker — The Personal is Political: Exploring Constructions of Identity in the Work of Jennifer Ling Datchuk Maggie D’Aversa — Resisting the Conversion of Silk Sutures to Synthetic Products in China. Is it cultural? Silvia Dolz — Fish in the desert - The North African textile tradition between indigenous identity and exogenous change in meaning Kelsie Doty — #NATURALDYE Penny Dransart — Mind’s Eye and Embodied Weaving: simultaneous contrasts of hue in Isluga textiles, northern Chile Eiluned Edwards — Handmade in India: re-branding Kachchhi block prints for global markets Eiluned Edwards — Samples from Sanganer: block prints commissioned for the Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur, India in 1899. Deborah Emmett — The embroidery artisans of the Kashmir Valley: cultural imports and exports from historical and contemporary perspectives. Åse Eriksen — The techniques of samitum, based on a reconstruction. — Joseph Fabish — Andamarcan Textiles Today: The Merging of Cultures Marianne Fairbanks — Weaving Lab: Public Production and Speculation Sarah Fee — The Origins of Chintz at the ROM: Collecting in the Name of Commerce Nancy Feldman — Shipibo Textiles 2010-2018: Artists of the Amazon Culturally Engaged, Deep Local to Pan Global Maria João Ferreira — Textiles, Trade and Taste Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw — The Fabric of War – The Global Trade in Australasian Wool from Crimea to Korea Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw — The Fabric of War – Wool and Local Land Wars in a Global Context Cynthia Fowler — Irish Identity in a Global Market: The Embroidered Landscapes of Lily Yeats Judy Frater — Closing the Power Gap Through Internet Technology: The Artisan View Maria Wronska-Friend — Batik of Java: global inspiration Paula Frisch — A Quilt for Now: My Patchwork Exploration of Safety, Threat & the Decisions We Make Dai Fujiwara — Color Hunting Julia Galliker — Ancient Textiles/Modern Hands: ‘Crowdsourcing’ Experimental Archaeology Through the Spiral Textile Project (spiraltextile.com) Medha Bhatt Ganguly — From the “Economic” to the “Symbolic”: The Journey of Trade beads from the Markets of Ujiji to the Dowries in Bead-work of Saurashtra — Xia Gao — Interweaving-Making Place and Place Making Surabi Ghosh — Carrying Cloth: Materials, Migration and Mediated Identity Denise Green — Mapping Regalia in Hupacasath Territory Rachel Green — Loss and Renewal: Chaguar Clothing of the Wichí of Argentina Gaby Greenlee — A Virgin Martyr in Indigenous Garb? A Curious Case of Andean Ancestry and Memorial Rites Recalled on a Christian Body Jane Groufsky — A Local Motif; Use of kōwhaiwhai patterns in printed textiles Louise Hamby — Milingimbi Artists Engagement with Koskela Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa — Looking at Coast Salish Textiles: Threads, twist and fibre Michele Hardy and Joanne Schmidt — Radical Access: Textiles and Museums Peter Harris and Showkat Ahmad Khan — Kashmir shawl weaving demonstration Joan Hart — The Deep Origins of Kashmir Shawls, Their Broad Dissemination and Changing Meaning Peggy Hart — Satinet, 1790-1860 Jana Hawley — Local Trash, Global Treasures Erica Hess — Developing Critical Understanding Through Design Anna Heywood-Jones — Tinctorial Cartographies: Plant, Dye and Place Donna Ho — Pajamas as (Banned) Streetwear in Shanghai: Local meets Global Jen Hoover — Shepherds and Shawls: Making Place in the Western Himalayas Laurel Horton — Dresden Embroidery in Early Kentucky Counterpanes Sylvia Houghteling — Kalamkari and Qalamkār-e Fārsī: A Continuous History of Cloth Connections between India and Iran I-Fen Huang — Local Crafts, World Exposition, and the Transformation of Embroidery in Early Twentieth Century China Jennifer Huang — Weaving Identities: Researching Atayal Textiles Barb Hunt — “Buttons all galore” – mother-of-pearl buttons as communication system Catherine Hunter — Indian Basketry in Yosemite Valley, 19th - 20th Century: Gertrude \u27Cosie\u27 Hutchings Mills, Tourists, and the National Park Service WhiteFeather Hunter — Biomateria; Biotextile Craft WhiteFeather Hunter — blóm + blóð Adil Iqbal — Cultivating Crafts: Weaving together Scottish and Pakistani narratives Adil Iqbal — Kasb-e-Hunar (Skilled Enclave) André Jackson — Self Identification Through Intersectionality: Turning Inward to Center, Normalize and Validate My Existence Carol James — Sprang Bonnets from Late Antique Egypt: Producer Knowledge and Exchange Through Experimental Reconstruction Donald Clay Johnson — Lucy Truman Aldrich, rebel collector of textiles Jess Jones — Lost Weavings of Atlanta: Mapping Historic Textile Works, Remnants, and Removals in Atlanta GA Lakshmi Kadambi — The Lambani Skirt Etsuko KageyamaNewly identified Iranian motif of silk textiles in Shōsōin storehouse in Japan Noelle Kahanu and Claire Regnault — He Makana Aloha: Co-curating memory, legacy and indigenous identity through the iconic Aloha Shirt Barbara Kahl — Using Invasive Species for Fiber and Dyeing: Controlling Weeds and Controlling Materials Costs for Artisans Elizabeth Kalbfleisch — Celebration or Craftsploitation? Cultural Diplomacy, Marketing and Coast Salish Knitting Jasleen Kandhari — The Kenyan Kanga Textile: Expressions of Swahili Identity and Cross Cultural Influences from India Miwa Kanetani and Ayami Nakatani — Unweaving textiles, disentangling ropes: Exploration of “lineware” as an analytical category Anjali Karolia and Jyoti Navlani — Balotra: the transforming journey for urban demands Anna Rose Keefe — Re-fashioning Newport: Reuse of Textiles during the Gilded Age Minjee Kim — Korean Patchwork Textiles: From Boudoir Craft to Global Collection Desiree Koslin — Pathfinding Restart: crossing tradition, activism and contemporaneity in Sami Art Sumru Krody — Occam’s Razor: Origins of a Classical Turkish Carpet Design Ashley Kubley — Lost Arts Found: Henequen Artisanship of the Modern Maya Ashley Kubley — Coarse Craft: An Investigation into the Re-emergence of Traditional Mayan Fiber Craftsmanship and Neo-Artisanal Culture in the Post-industrial Landscape of Yucatan Sabena Kull — A Seventeenth-century South American Hanging and Valance: Embroidering Imperial Power and Local Identity in Colonial Peru Eleanor Laughlin — The Beata’s Rebozo: A Garment of Religious Devotion and Freedom Margaret Leininger — India to Appalachia: How Cottage Industries Preserve Textile Heritage Beverly Lemire — Native American Embroidered Goods in the 19th-Century British Empire: Fashioning New Meanings Precious Lovell — Reinterpreting European Cloth Through Afro-Brazilian Culture Shannon Ludington — Embroidering Paradise: Suzanis As a Place of Creative Agency and Acculturation For Uzbek Women in 19th Century Bukhara Kristin Scheel — The meaning and purpose of ancient designs in today’s fashion designs – appropriation and power? Suzanne MacAulay — Hapsburg Eagles and Rattlesnakes: Localizing Embroidery Motifs on the Spanish Colonial Frontier Zone Dakota Mace — Woven Juxtaposition: Discourse on The Appropriation of Native American Design & Symbolism Hinda Mandell — Frederick and Anna Douglass\u27s Parking Lot Hinda Mandell — Frederick and Anna Douglass\u27s Parking Lot: Yarn as Commemorative Tool Fighting Urban Renewal Gary Markle — Wear/Where Do We Belong? Ivana Markova — Silybum Marianum Seed Fibers: A Comparison Analysis of Morphological Characteristics Paula Matthusen and Olivia Valentine — between systems and grounds: a generative, sonic textile construction and installation system Nina Maturu — Sustaining Weaver’s Craft and Livelihoods in Andhra Pradesh, India Tara Mayer — Displaced Objects of Empire in the Museum of Vancouver: The 1930s Detritus of Imperial Travel Louise Mitchell — Mary Jane Hannaford (1840- 1930) and her applique quilts Nazanin Hedayat Munroe — Wrapped Up: Talismanic Garments in Early Modern Islamic Culture Addison Nace — Weaving Authenticity: Artesanías or the Art of the Textile in Chiapas, Mexico Vanessa Nicholas — Recovering Canadian Ecology in a Quilt of Maple Leaves Gabriela Nirino — Blue is Never Just a Color Sara Oka — No Sweat Keiko Okamoto — The Modern Development of Kyoto Textiles - The Processes and Designs of Hand-Painted Yūzen Dyeing Between 1950 and the Present Sumiyo Okumura — Silk Velvets Identified as Byzantine: Were Silk Velvets Woven under the Byzantine Empire? Emily Pascoe — Local Wear Susan Pavel — du\u27kWXaXa\u27?t3w3l Sacred Change for Each Other Susan Pavel — Gifts from The Creator Jessica Payne — Shetland Lace Knitting: transformation through relocation Elena Phipps — Weaving Brilliance in Bolivian Aymara Textile Traditions Barbara Setsu Pickett — Rahul Jain\u27s Velvet Drawloom: An Example of Deep Local to Pan Global — Janet Pollock — Ties that Bind: Finding Meaning in the Making of Sacred Textiles María Dávila and Eduardo Portillo — From Silk to Venezuelan fibers Jane Przybysz — Place-Based Post-WWII Polish Textiles Sarah Quinton — Home and Away: Seeing through textiles as a curatorial practice Bibiana Ramonda — Carpets in Cordoba, Argentina. Between cross-culturalization and a local expression Anna Richard and Roxane Shaughnessy — The Untold Story of Inuit Printed Fabric Experiments from Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada Vivienne Richmond — Stitching empire, shaping minds: the colonial dissemination of British needlework instruction Nancy Rosoff — Rayed Head Imagery on Nasca, Sihuas, and Pucara Textiles during the Early Intermediate Period Annie Ross — Indigenous Sustainable Technologies and Ecosystems: Weave it Back Together Kathryn RoussoContaining Tradition, Embracing Change: Weaving Together Plant Materials in northern Latin America. Ann Pollard Rowe — The Cuzco Woman\u27s Shawl MacKenzie Moon Ryan — Swahili Coastal Chic: Kanga Cloth in Photograph and Swatch ca. 1900 Stephanie Sabo — Conflict Zones: Cultural Exchange and Labor Power in the Production of Contemporary Art Textile Works Yara Saegh and Anne Bissonette — The Sultan’s Carpet: An Investigation of an Ottoman Cairene Textile in the Collection of the Nickle Galleries Ann Salmonson — The Master’s Inheritance: Passing On Wuhan Han Embroidery Rajarshi Sangupta — An Artisanal History of Kalam? Joan Saverino — Ozaturu: A Calabrian Bed Covering, Local Embodiment, and Women’s Expressivity Alice Scherer — From Basket Making to Beadworking: Loose-Warp Woven Beadwork of the Tlingit, Wasco, and Pit River Indians Vera Sheehan — N’Bamakwana Lasawaw8ganek N’Babajigwezijik, “We Wear the Clothing of Our Ancestors” Angela Sheng — The Chinese Contribution to the Samitum? Revisiting the so-called “Zandaniji” and Other Finds in Central Asia and China, 5th - 10th Century Rachel Silberstein — Wearing Other People’s Clothes: The Second-Hand Clothes Seller in Turn of the Century China Juliana Silva — Living Organisms for Living Spaces Maya Stanfield-MazziThe Passion Cloths of Chachapoyas, Peru: Eternal Life Expressed in a Local Idiom Lila Stone — The Radical Fiber Arts Practices of The Yarn Mission: A Case Study Amy Swanson — Kyrgyzstan\u27s \u27Deep Local\u27 Fiber and Textile Traditions at a Crossroads Lee Talbot — Embroidery and the Opening of Korea in the Late 19th /Early 20th Century — Dr. Angharad Thomas — Sanquhar gloves: an exemplification of Deep Local to Pan Global? Diana Thomas — The Wagga Quilt in History and Fiction Kelly Thompson — Weaving a Turn: translating data, material and space. Natasha Thoreson — Revealing a New Tradition: Reevaluating British Printed Textiles of the 1970s Cara Tremain — Amid Bodies and Spaces: Textiles in the Ancient Maya World Virginia Gardner Troy — Promoting American Textiles Abroad at Midcentury Kendra Van CleaveThe Lévite Dress: Untangling the Cultural Influences of Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Lisa VandenBerghe — The “Deep Local” of Domestic Needlework in Early Modern England Kathleen Vaughan — The Urban River as Entity and Imaginary: Textile mapping and storytelling of the St. Lawrence shoreline at Pointe-St-Charles Marianne Vedeler — The Social Fabric of Silk in the Age of the Vikings Carol Ventura — Tapestry Crochet in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East: Tradition and Innovation Mercy Wanduara — Looking at the Past and Current Status of Kenya’s textiles and clothing Wendy Weiss — Mashru Redux: from the Calico Museum in Ahmedabad to a Loom in the Great Plains Eileen Wheeler — Manipulating the Threads of Culture: Contemporary Shibori Artist Yvonne Wakabayashi Liz Williamson — Local colour: the search for a plant dye industry in Australia Arielle Winnik — Understanding Clothing in Heaven: Local Maronite Burial Practices in the 13th century CE Jacqueline Witkowski — Threading together politics and poetics in Cecilia Vicuña’s fibre art Stephanie Wood — Mesoamerican (Text)iles: Persistence of Indigenous Iconography in Women’s Weaving Masako Yoshida — The Global Influence of China and Europe on Local Japanese Tapestries from the 19th to early 20th Centuries Callen Zimmerman — Getting Located: Queer Semiotics in Dres

Lay adjudication system as a democratic institution: an evaluation of the citizen judge system [Saiban-in Seido] in Japan

A lay adjudication system that has been the subject of international and domestic reforms democratising criminal justice procedures often reveals a challenging balance amongst the intertwined principles of criminal procedures. In addition, the various stages of lay adjudication procedures, such as its introduction, practice, development, and abolition, have been influenced by political and societal force. Lay adjudicator participation may be an important mechanism for introducing and sustaining the concept of democracy in criminal trial procedures. Whilst the establishment of well-balanced links between international fundamental human rights principles, efficiency and popular justice are significant features in judicial reforms internationally and domestically, the introduction of a lay adjudication procedure can be an appealing addition to judicial reform. A fundamental concern is whether it represents a successful mechanism for democratising criminal procedures. This thesis addresses the issue by examining the 'Saiban-in no Sankasuru Keijisaiban ni kansuru Horitsu', promulgated in 2009, as a result of the 1999 judicial reform in Japan. It does this by firstly setting out evaluative criteria developed through an examination of theoretical perspectives of lay adjudication. It then applies these criteria using quantitative data derived from the Japanese Supreme Court and qualitative data from interviews with former citizen judges and legal professionals who have experience of citizen judge trials. It argues that the introduction and practice of the citizen judge system has been successful. Both procedural and practice tests of the citizen judge system have shown the extent to which citizen judge participation has been accepted and has achieved its targets. The representative and engaging format of the citizen judge system has led to satisfaction and confidence in their duties as citizen judges. However, powerful controls by legal professionals have remained in place throughout the four stages of the citizen judge procedures - the pre-trial arrangement conference process, the selection process of citizen judges, the decision-making process, and the post-trial phrase. Moreover, the controls have supported citizen judges’ participation but, at the same time, they could be a direct and indirect impediment to the democratic functions of citizen judges

Fatal consequences: Romantic confessional writing of the 1820s

This thesis investigates what happened when, in 1798, Thomas Malthus identified a series of tropes surrounding the pursuit of desire which would later inform the confessional writers of the 1820s. Over this period, I argue that we witness a transition from a religious mode of confession to a more secular discourse. Chapter One considers Malthus’s view of man as an economic and reproductive agent, exploring his representation of the somatic tropes articulated in the work of the prose writers succeeding him. Chapter Two examines how Thomas De Quincey’s opium-based confessions represent a potential short-cut to life-writing. However, his dread of literary obscurity is revealed through themes of impotence, restricted expansion and enforced containment. Furthermore, I show how drug-induced reveries are for De Quincey potentially a transitory and insubstantial basis for a sustained discourse. Chapter Three develops the theme of impotence within a sexual context, through an exploration of William Hazlitt’s Liber Amoris. This motif symbolises Hazlitt’s personal and literary failure, as well as reflecting the wider political and social disillusionment of the 1820s. Chapter Four examines Charles Lamb’s confessional writing, and its themes of over-eating and drinking. These apparently more innocent consumption-centred narratives conceal a darker, sexualised discourse. They also represent the emergence of such tropes as indicators of individual and national identity. The final chapter concerns James Hogg, particularly his often over-looked text, The Shepherd’s Guide, which contains the origins of his later Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Hogg’s work on animal husbandry anticipates questions of authorship, literary selfwriting and writing methodology. Overall, this thesis reappraises Malthus’s status as a literary figure and emphasises his role as a primogenitor of Romantic confessional writing; in doing so it provides a fresh investigation of confession as a key genre of 1820s prose writin