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Photos in Transmotion: Images of Survivance in Ledfeather
Full text linkStephen Graham Jones’ Ledfeather (2008), a semi-epistolary, semi-historical novel, poses questions about how historical knowledge is made and what to do with it. While scholars have studied the novel’s postmodern attributes as methods for subversive critiques of historiography in indigenous colonial contexts, as of yet no study prioritizes the novel’s use of photographs toward these aims. After situating the novel’s engagement with photographs into histories of photography and indigenous colonization, I examine the rhetorical role of these photos in the complex Ledfeather narrative. Guided by Gerald Vizenor’s framing of “the indian [as] poselocked in portraiture” (Fugitive Poses 146), I argue that the photos enact Vizenor’s sense of transmotion, or “the tease of creation in pictures, memories, and stories” (Fugitive Poses 173). I end by considering the rhetorical relationships between images and words both in archival collections that are specific to these histories and in Ledfeather as postmodern historical fiction
Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege (Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien)
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"We're the conduit in an increasingly broken system": A qualitative exploration of how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted the provision of social prescribing for older adults in the UK.
No full textSocial prescribing helps to address the social determinants of health via engagement with community organisations. In England, the rollout of social prescribing coincided with onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which changed service delivery. Older adults are often the focus of social prescribing, and the pandemic had a disproportionate effect on this population due to their clinical risk, which resulted in a strict lockdown that negatively impacted their wellbeing. This study aimed to explore the UK-wide impact of the pandemic on social prescribing services for older adults (SO+)
Developing a quality-of-life measure for autistic children and young people in schools
Full text linkAim: To develop a quality-of-life measure to be used by both school staff and autistic children and young people (CYP) in schools, in which public and community involvement (PCIE) is at the heart of the research. Method: A prevalence questionnaire survey will be conducted with 20 primary and secondary schools across Kent, Surrey, and Sussex (KSS). 10 semi-structured interviews will be conducted with autistic CYP. This will inform development of a quality-of-life measure for autistic CYP. Results: Work so far has included PCIE in the early stages of the project, in which young people, school staff and collaborators have contributed to the study set up and designing study materials. Conclusion: With PCIE included in the planning of the project, the research team is confident that this will be useful further along in the project with dissemination and validating and implementing a quality-of-life measure for autistic CYP in schools
A Conversation with Lady Hale about Feminism, Law and Citizenship
Full text linkThis is the video and transcript of a conversation between Erika Rackley and Rosemary Hunter and Lady Hale, which formed one of the plenary sessions at the conference on ‘Feminism, Law and Citizenship’ held in Paris in July 2022. The conference was organised by Rosemary Auchmuty and Alexandrine Guyard-Nedelec
On the Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones and the Stories that Made Him, and well, Us Too
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EDITORIAL Bite-Sized Pedagogy in Experiential Learning Cycles and Effectiveness of Top Tips in Higher Education.
Full text linkBite-Sized learning is a modern approach to education that emphasises short, focused lessons that can be completed quickly and easily. Bite-Sized learning has become a popular strategy for delivering educational content in small, focused chunks. It has been shown to be effective in improving learning outcomes and productivity. This editorial focuses on the effectiveness of Bite-Sized learning and its benefits in relation to Kolb's model of experiential learning and provides rationale for Accepting Bite-Sized Pedagogical submissions to AJPP
The Social Reproduction of Value, Body Depletion, and Wages for the Wageless across the Global Social Factory
Full text linkIn this article, I reflect on the entanglements between production and social reproduction in structuring the process of value generation and exploitation, and how one can scale-up classic debates on domestic work to capture trends more broadly at work for the vast world of informal employment. I also reflect on how – in relation to patterns of exploitation co-shaped along the productive and reproductive continuum - bodily depletion should be understood as both input and output of what I call the process of ‘social reproduction of value’. This reading of value-generation not only centres the experience of millions of women worldwide, but also that of wageless workers across past and present histories of capitalism
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