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Indigenous Poetics in Canada (Neal McLeod, ed.)
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The Faster Redder Road (Stephen Graham Jones)
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My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Life and Labor on the Reservation (Brenda Child)
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Ian Ward, Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England
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General Scheme of Access to Abortion Bill 2015
Get PDFIreland has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world. Abortion has been criminalised since 1861, and the passage of the 8th Amendment in 1983 introduced ‘the right to life of the unborn’ into the Constitution. The effects of the 8th Amendment are felt on a daily basis by women leaving Ireland for abortion, by pregnant women receiving maternal care, by doctors caring for pregnant women, and by lawyers working for the health service. As predicted by the then-Attorney General Peter Sutherland at the time of the referendum, the 8th Amendment has introduced an uncertain and practically unusable position to Irish law. It has, simply put, become “unliveable”.In late 2014 Labour Women, a branch of the Irish Labour Party, established a Commission for Repeal of the 8th Amendment. That Commission comprised three groups: a political group, a medical group, and a group of legal experts. The authors of this Draft Bill are those legal experts. In the accompanying paper, we first outline the legal status quo as regards abortion in Ireland before making a case for constitutional reform. Having established the desirability of, and need for, constitutional reform we then outline the working principles that informed our drafting of the Access to Abortion Bill 2015, bearing in mind our intention to craft a model for reform that would be workable from the perspective of women’s lives, medical practice, and politics. Although drafted as part of the Labour Women Commission, and with some (limited) input from the other Commission groups, the proposed draft is that of the authors (working within the confines of our remit as ‘legal experts’ to the Commission) and not of the Labour Party or of Labour Women. It is made available here for discussion, debate and development by all interested parties
It Gets Worse
No full textThe launch of Subversive Property concluded with a performance of ‘It Gets Worse’ by Len Lukowski of the band FAGGOT. Audio and words for ‘It Gets Worse’ can be found at: http://faggottheband.bandcamp.com/track/it-gets-worse
Access to Justice and the Qualification Directive
Get PDFThe Qualification Directive, adopted by the Council of the European Union in 2004, creates a legal obligation for Member States to grant subsidiary protection to those persons who do not qualify for refugee status but who are in need of protection on the basis of other international obligations of Member States. An element of the Qualification Directive relates to protection from serious harm, as defined in Article 15(c) of the Directive. This article analyses the meaning and application of Article 15(c) in the UK through a selection of cases from failed Afghan asylum seekers in Kent, and identifies the difficulties courts have had in interpreting and applying the provision. It stresses the need for clarification of the terms of Article 15(c) and the impact its lack of clarity has on those applying for subsidiary protection and those in the courts adjudicating on such applications. The essay on which this article is based was awarded the Kent Law School Scott-Moncrieff Essay Prize for the best essay on social justice in 2014
Research Note: Bingo and Feminist Political Economy
Get PDFI am currently conducting a multi-country comparative research project on bingo regulation in both commercial and charitable contexts. Charitable gaming is remarkably under-studied, even though in many jurisdictions it is the most widespread form of legalized gambling. In the project overall I argue that it not only provides a distinctive lens through which to theorize gambling liberalization and political economy, but it is also key to exploring (and critiquing) the increasing emphasis on voluntarism in reconstituted welfare states. In this paper specifically I explore how volutneers in charitable bingo halls are impacted by bingo revitalization efforts undertaken in Ontario and Alberta (Canada). I focus on how charities and government officials try to manage the tension between regulating and incentivizing the unpaid workers whose labour sustains the game. I explore two efforts undertaken to resolve this tension, via a volunteer credit scheme (in Alberta), and a scheme to professionalize the volunteer role (in Ontario). In both cases, efforts to revitalize charitable bingo have involved increased scrutiny of volunteers, alongside initiatives designed to maximize the value of volunteer labour to charities and provincial governments. These initiatives have failed to protect people who need charitable services from being coerced into working for free. Both initiatives have also reduced volunteer autonomy, and increased the class distance between bingo volunteers and players. I conclude with some lessons that bingo might hold for those interested in voluntarism and the feminist political economy of charitable labour
Abject Labours, Informal Markets: Revisiting the Law's (Re)Production Boundary
Get PDFOver the past few decades, feminist legal scholars have successfully gendered several areas of legal doctrine, inlcuding labour law. In particular, they draw extensively on feminist theorizing of social reproduction to argue for the increased labour law protection of women's care work. While sympathetic to feminist efforts to redraw the 'production boundary', I critique in this article feminists' own reluctance to include within this production boundary the reproductive labour of women like sex workers, dancers and surrogates. I argue instead for the recognition of reproductive labour performed for the market as valuable, legitimate work. I then assess the implications of this redrawing of the 'reproduction boundary' for labour law. Through an examination of three generations of Indian labour law, I suggest that labour laws geared towards the informal economy best address female reproductive labourers' demands for both recognition and redistribution, but that for this, labour law itself needs to be reconceptualized, especially as the postcolonial state re-engineers labour laws in the prevalent economic climate to deliver benefits rather than workers' rights. A slightly modified version of this article will be published in the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, vol 18, no 1 (2014)
Measuring Labour and Rethinking Value
No full textIn this lecture Lisa Adkins considers the form of labour which has been at the very heart of feminist theorizations of immaterial labour, namely domestic labour. She considers transformations to this labour in the context of financialization, and in particular the direct links which are being forged between domestic labour and the creation of financial value. Adkins considers the implications of these links, or more precisely, of the financialization of domestic labour, for the current state and future of the relations of social reproduction
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