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Academic Reflection – Narratives of Justice and the Welfare State in Times of Austerity
Get PDFConsiders the continuing relevance of chapter 2 of Nicola Lacey's Unspeakable Subjects (1998), on 'Theories of Justice and the Welfare State', to welfare reform within the contemporary neo-liberal state in Britain. Concludes that Lacey’s concern in that chapter, to open ideas of social justice to a recognition of collective differences and to challenge the public/private divide that stabilises and reinforces normative gender, is ever-more urgent in a political moment that refuses precisely these recognitions
Article – Speaking the Unspeakable? Nicola Lacey’s Unspeakable Subjects and Consent in the Age of #MeToo
Get PDFIn the midst of the #MeToo movement, a woman named Grace came forward describing an experience – that she had labelled sexual assault – with actor/comedian Aziz Ansari. This encounter did not reflect a clear and dichotomous giving or withholding of consent in line with a yes or no to sex. Because of this ambiguity, Grace’s assault became somewhat of a catalyst for #MeToo. The movement was divided into critics on the one hand, who argued her evening with Ansari was no more than an episode of bad heterosex, and supporters on the other, for whom Grace’s account resonated and who subsequently backed the need for deeper conversations on the topic of sexual consent. Considering these debates and Grace’s experience, this paper looks to the work of Nicola Lacey in Unspeakable Subjects to analyse how current ideas of sexual consent, in the 2003 Sexual Offences Act and beyond, fail to reflect a nuanced understanding of sexual harms, consequently neglecting ambiguous experiences in heterosex – like Grace’s – of consented to unwanted sex. Through an exploration of Lacey’s concept of sexual integrity, scholarship in the area of BDSM and other sociolegal approaches to considering consent and sex more ethically, this paper advocates expanding our view of consent to involve a critical analysis of how multiple power dynamics can intersect to affect individuals’ abilities to freely and meaningfully consent in heterosex
Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley (Sarah Marie Wiebe)
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Reservation Politics: Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal Conflict (Raymond I. Orr)
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Otherwise, Revolution!: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead (Rebecca Tillett)
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The Keyboard Letters QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM (Diane Glancy)
No full textDiane Glancy titles her book with the exceptional title The Keyboard Letters QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM. This innovative collection includes poems, notes, short prose (preface and backmatter are essential to the whole), allusions to paintings, and texts. The sum is a cartographer’s manual to the 21st century. Pieces calibrate backroads of Texas, their trajectory, with stopover points at the New Bedford Whaling Museum to see exhibits of the Pequod (or did Melville mean Pequot?) and the Mideast country of Jordan. Christopher Columbus’s ship is a moving point/target. In the acknowledgements, Glancy writes about some of her influences: “A visit to the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. A list of the most important discoveries of the world. A PBS television program on mathematics. A stormy day in North Texas. . .” (66). These are very personal to her experience, so the book has a journal-like quality; this is a log of her physical and imaginative explorations
Identification of the perceived ongoing Continuing Professional Development needs of six dentists at the end of Dental Foundation Training with Health Education Kent Surrey and Sussex
No full textAim: This project aimed to identify the ongoing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) needs of six dentists at the end of Dental Foundation Training (DFT) with Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex (HEKSS), in relation to the gap between self-perceived and optimum competence levels across a range of learning areas in the DFT curriculum. Method: Qualitative Case Study methodology was used. Six dentists were interviewed by the investigator using Repertory Grid based semi-structured interviews. Data was analysed by thematic analysis. Results: Dentists perceived that CPD activities were required to develop knowledge, skill, attitudes and behaviour. Other supportive CPD activities were perceived to aid this development. Individual circumstances were perceived to either facilitate or impede opportunities for development. Conclusion: A range of CPD activities are required at the end of DFT, including passive learning activities, practical experience, practical courses, exposure to a range of patients, and support and guidance from colleagues. Individual circumstances may be barriers to, or opportunities for, securing such CPD activities
Chasms and Collisions: Native American Women's Decolonial Labor
Get PDF“[My basket narratives] weave old forms of articulation with new forms of iconography to create a collision, which echoes the cultural experience of my life.” --Sarah Sense“I have always felt there is a significant chasm that divides Native people from non-Natives…that began at first contact and continues to this day.” --Shan GoshornIn this article, I argue Native American visual artists understand and characterize the fallout of the project of “cultural simulations” that preoccupy systems of continued colonial occupation in the Americas. As suggested in the above quotes, Native aritsts are attentive to Indigenous visualities that trouble settler colonial designs of signifying the indian -- visualities that are hyper-aware of settler colonial methods of reading Native subjects by binding them to metrics of authenticity. What’s more, their works record Indigenous subjects not as static representations but as dynamic, living peoples that have complicated relationships to the settler state; each of her “visual records” is not a document of closure but is a decolonizing blueprint fortified by the vitality of Indigenous lived experience. The “chasm” of misunderstanding about which Eastern Band Cherokee artist Shan Goshorn argues and the “collision” of cultural expressions about which Choctaw/Chitimacha artist Sarah Sense describes provides a way of thinking about artistic renderings of lived experience for Native women -- decolonized expressions that critically and creatively reckon with both the chasm and collision of historical and contemporary genocidal terror. The labor of reckoning which Sense and Goshorn take on in their works recognizes that the invention of cultural simulations is the specter of white desire – a necessary fiction which protects and projects white innocence from the on-going project of cultural genocide. If the willful work of settler historical amnesia (erasure) must be coupled with inflexible symbolic violence (invention) for the project of colonialism to continue and thrive, then the tribally specific (from the ground up) labor of Native artists must also be commensurate with the hemispheric/global Indigenous connective tissue (lateral) of Native women’s work against all forms of violence and oppression. It seems to me that dimension best addresses the oblate nature of discursive dominance, and it seems to me that Sense and Goshorn are entirely aware of just tha
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