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Editorial: Gender, Conflict and Political Settlements: What Do We Know?
Get PDFThis Editorial introduces the Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP) at the University of Edinburgh, and this Special Issue on Engendering Political Settlements which draws together findings and analysis from the gender theme of the PSRP
Red Paint: Transnational Movements of Deconstructing, Decolonizing, and Defacing Colonial Structures
No full textThis article examines the symbolic nature of using red paint on established colonial structures with transnational connections. When used by indigenous people on structures installed by or deemed to represent colonial powers, it becomes a shared act of reclamation and connects to a deeper connected history, subverting both the structure and the narrative it produces in its defacement. Deconstructing these colonial “relics” with the use of red paint repurposes them as decolonizing instruments. In this article, three case studies are employed to follow the evolving use of red paint on colonial structures and how this illustrates an attempt to create transnational-indigenous decolonizing practices. I begin with an exploration on the occupation of Alcatraz. The transnational connection is picked up when red paint is poured onto colonial monuments and used to inscribe messages around these structures of memory, explored in Tasmania and Namibia. I argue that red paint stands in as a practice of continued decolonizing, and an attempt to interrupt the colonial enshrinements in the nationalized narratives
Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction (Susan McHugh)
No full textOn Dreamcatchers
Get PDFIn this essay, a unique perspective of dreamcatchers is offered, including their history and their applicability to serve as a means of describing contemporary happenings in Native America
What is the General Practitioner’s understanding of multi-professional teamwork?
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Background
There has been a move to increase multidisciplinary working in primary care, driven both by policy changes and by workforce challenges. The perspectives of the General Practitioners have not been widely investigated.
Aim
The aim of this project was to explore what general practitioners (GPs) understand by ‘multi-disciplinary, primary healthcare team working’ in the current climate.
Design, Setting and Methods
A descriptive qualitative study, using semi-structured interviews was undertaken to explore the views of six GPs. Transcribed interviews were thematically analysed.
Results
Analysis of the interviews identified six broad themes. These were: practice team structure and function, GPs’ perceptions of their own role within the team, others’ roles within the team, communication issues, constraints impacting upon change and lastly, relationships with external organisations.
Conclusions
General practice multidisciplinary teams are at present in a considerable state of flux due to changes in the workforce, with the introduction of new members, notably paramedic practitioners, extended nursing team roles and physician associates. The extension of the team has implications for increasing the supervisory and leadership role of the GP, without GPs necessarily feeling that they have the skill set for extending that role. The transition from providing physician-only care to team care provision, is seen as inevitable, given the work force strictures on general practice, but this study suggests it is not universally welcomed
“(big)/little” moments of world-building revolution: a review of Smokii Sumac’s you are enough: love poems for the end of the world
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Gender, Social Networks and Conflict Processes
Get PDFWar is an inherently social process, from the mobilization of new, armed organizations, to the relational aftershocks of violence affecting families and local communities. This essay synthesizes existing feminist research on dynamics of conflict and peacebuilding and brings a social network approach to understanding gendered patterns of intersectional inequality. It presents a framework for understanding how civil war affects social structures vis-à-vis personal support networks, and in turn how that can constrain or enable women’s and men’s social and economic opportunities. Through a descriptive analysis of communities in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, I argue that war’s social processes, and ongoing militarization in particular, can create structural constraints for people seeking to participate peacefully in civilian life, and incentivize maintaining armed group connections. Network research shines light on the social processes that reproduce gendered inequalities and cleavages after conflict. It also reveals opportunities for bridging divides and transforming wartime networks into peacetime support structures
Artefacts of Emergency Law, Gender and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Mandatory Palestine
Get PDFThe article focuses on the account given by Hilda Wilson, during a year spent as an English schoolteacher in Palestine, of the emergency regulations adopted by the British authorities to quell the Great Arab Revolt which unfolded in the years 1936-1939. The article attempts to offer a more detailed inquiry into the real-life experience of women in order to give a more contextual, complex and relational account of the life of law in the Mandatory ‘peripheries’ during an anti-colonial uprising. Wilson’s account and her relationship with the indigenous anti-colonial revolt is investigated through a feminist and post-colonial legal approach which aims to re-write legal histories from below. As part of a broader critical legal approach to the history of law, this article aims to intervene in the discussion on methods and methodology in the writing of legal histories. In terms of methods, the paper relies on primary materials such as diaries and material objects as the primary tools for legal research. In terms of methodology, it applies interdisciplinary insights to the understanding of legal order/disorder and to the construction of hybrid legal subjectivities. In this sense, the article contributes to feminist perspectives on international law, focusing on the intersections between gender, race and law in order to give a different account of the space for women’s self-determination in Mandatory Palestine
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