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A history of violence, a decade of silence: Towards a Deleuzian third space between fight and flight in the nomadic texts of postmillennial decennie noire cinema
No full textHow does one move forward, as an ordinary citizen, when one lives in the aftermath of a conflict so brutal that it left 200,000 people dead, many of them civilians? This thesis aims to answer this question by exploring the possibility of a third space between fight and flight. In doing so, it draws upon the concepts of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Effectuating close readings of four postmillennial films that treat the little known Algerian civil war of the 1990s, known as la décennie noire, research into this conflict’s rare filmic depictions is shown to be highly germane, given the myriad sociopolitical challenges that infuse today’s society and the increasingly futile attempts of warring factions to coexist. Invoking the refusal by Deleuze of a set ontology and acknowledging his rhizomatic notions of change and becoming, as opposed to being and stability, the study will demonstrate the oppressive nature of binarism and show why both fight and flight can and should be problematised. Following the cinematic trajectories of marginalised characters, the Deleuzian body is presented as a transformative force capable of new and powerful movements, ultimately excavating a third space between fight and flight. It will be further demonstrated how identities are destabilised and deterritorialised, molarities become molecular and bodies collide, amidst a backdrop of affective intensities. Subjectivity is ultimately subsumed, thus opening a third space for civil war victims, where protagonists choose neither to take up arms nor to flee, hence rejecting fight and flight and choosing a third space between the two. This enables a hitherto obscure conflict to be reimagined and become more knowable, distilling a micropolitics where the past can return in different forms, as a traumatised body politic is wrested from the crucible of its ossified past. In conclusion, the imbrication of film with philosophy is considered, as a tool with which to address and enhance understanding of sociopolitical issues, especially amongst young people. Accordingly, it is suggested that findings could be incorporated into creative pedagogical methods, such as phenomenon-based learning. More specifically, it is proposed that the concept of a third space between fight and flight paves the way for a more nuanced understanding of conflict by both political and legal bodies
Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions
Get PDF© The Author(s) 2022.This article explores a conceptually modified notion of liminality in order to make better sense of contemporary ‘flexible’ working life. Previous conceptualizations of liminality rely on the assumed existence of socially sustained boundaries and the possibility of boundary spanning. Under conditions of liquid modernity, however, boundaries or thresholds have been destabilized to the point of collapse. Nonetheless, individuals still feel the need to establish and maintain intersubjective boundaries to preserve their own sense of well-being. To understand the new predicament faced by employees, we reconceptualise liminality for liquid times – through the notion of liquid liminality – and, simultaneously, problematize dominant conceptions of work-life balance. The implications that liquid liminality carries for the notion of flexible knowledge work are discussed. Our auto-ethnographic visual study of an academic returning from maternity leave uses a socio-material lens to exemplify the struggles of the contemporary flexible knowledge worker. It also demonstrates how the constant transition between workplace and home life is freighted with anxiety and exhaustion. We also outline opportunities for establishing new learning habits that follow from our theoretical framing and empirical analysis.Unfunde
Roberto Gerhard, Symphony No 5 reconstructed by Darren Sproston
No full textThis is a reconstruction of Roberto Gerhard's Fifth Symphony which was left incomplete and unpublished on his death. Archival material from the University of Cambridge has been used to recreate the workUnfunde
Palgrave Handbook of Parenting in Popular Culture
No full textSince the 1940s, Hollywood has dominated the construction of the festive season in the Anglo-American cultural imaginary. The Hollywood Christmas film, commonly combining generic elements of comedy, drama, and/or romance, invariably centres on the family, whether its formation, its estrangement, or its idiosyncrasies, vulnerabilities and, inevitably, its resilience.
Central to many such films, and building on a well-worn narrative that reaches all the way back to A Christmas Carol, is a man who must learn the ‘true’ meaning of Christmas. This lesson is invariably shaped by his fatherhood. (Re)discovering joy in the paternal role, or rejecting individual or financial achievement in favour of familial contentment, become pathways to masculine redemption. In exploring fatherhood in relation to this under-studied but commercially enduring form, this chapter examines examples including Elf (2003), Christmas with the Kranks (2004), Deck the Halls (2006), Four Christmases (2008), Love the Coopers (2015) and Daddy’s Home 2 (2017), interrogating the redemptive paternal narratives embedded within.
In doing so, it acknowledges the particular construction of white, middle-class fatherhood in these films, and discusses this in the wider context of anxious white masculinity in post-millennial Hollywood. Into the twenty-first century, when Hollywood began to embrace a wider diversity of representation and express a tentative ambivalence towards the monolithic white, middle-class, American, heteronormative nuclear unit that has heretofore constituted the cinematic “family”, the contemporary Christmas film remains as a curiously nostalgic, conservative expression of family and, particularly, paternal values.Unfunde
Editorial: Call a spad a spad: Special advisers advise, and ministers decide…Or do they?
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The Sage Handbook of Political Marketing
No full textIn 1990, the eminent scholar, former diplomat and policymaker Joseph S. Nye, a figure of profound influence, coined the concept of soft power. He defined it as “getting others to want the outcomes you want”. Nye argued that this is achieved through the persuasion and attraction of one’s ideas or the ability to set the political agenda to shape the preferences of others. This concept, at the heart and cutting edge of political marketing, international policy making, and modern public affairs, is a testament to Nye's intellectual prowess. This chapter asserts that the monitoring and knowledge of the soft power of nation-states is a critical component of modern political marketing.unfunde
Mental health, work productivity, and quality of life in people with severe Haemophilia A receiving prophylaxis: Findings from the CHESS data platform
Get PDF© 2025. The Author(s).Newer therapeutic options for people with severe haemophilia A (PwSHA), in addition to improved clinical and patient-reported outcomes (PROs), have offered more personalised treatment regimens. This analysis explored mental health, work productivity, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among PwSHA in Europe receiving a prophylactic treatment regimen.The Cost of Haemophilia: a Socio-economic Survey (CHESS) study is a retrospective cross-sectional study of adult men with haemophilia in Europe. We analysed data from CHESS participants with severe haemophilia A and no factor VIII (FVIII) inhibitors who received emicizumab or FVIII replacement prophylaxis. Data are from patient questionnaires and their treating health care providers. This analysis focused on PROs, including productivity and activity impairment via the Work Productivity and Activity Impairment, HRQoL via the EQ-5D-5L, and anxiety via the 7-item General Anxiety Disorder questionnaire (GAD-7) and depression via the 8-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8). SHA treatment and clinical characteristics were also collected, including bleeding events, joint health, and chronic pain. All findings were analysed descriptively.A total of 350 PwSHA met the inclusion criteria, 94 (27%) of whom provided PROs. Most (68%; n = 64) were receiving emicizumab (FVIII prophylaxis, 32%; n = 30). Clinical characteristics were generally comparable between emicizumab and FVIII prophylaxis groups, including reported chronic pain (63% and 70%) and problem joints (61% and 63%), with on-demand FVIII use for the treatment of breakthrough bleeding events more commonly reported in the FVIII prophylaxis group (34% vs. 56%). Overall, HRQoL showed comparable EQ-5D-5L scores between the treatment groups, with a marginally higher score in the emicizumab group (0.71 vs. 0.69) compared with the FVIII prophylaxis group. Anxiety and depression scores were both numerically lower in the emicizumab group, suggesting a lower burden of disease (anxiety 7-item General Anxiety Disorder questionnaire [GAD-7] mean scores, 6.0 vs. 7.3; depression PHQ-8 mean scores, 6.8 vs. 7.8). Employed PwSHA in the emicizumab group reported a lower impact of SHA on their work impairment (31% vs. 50%), and only 19% (vs. 33%) of the emicizumab group required assistance with daily activities. More PwSHA receiving FVIII prophylaxis reported a negative impact of SHA on their ability to participate in social activities (70% vs. 56%) and on their physical activity (57% vs. 44%).Patients receiving emicizumab prophylaxis appeared to have more favourable mental health, work productivity, and HRQoL-related outcomes than those receiving FVIII prophylaxis. These findings were observed in the context of comparable clinical characteristics between emicizumab and FVIII prophylaxis despite evidence of a more complex treatment history for the emicizumab group. This analysis has limitations, including a lack of adjustment for confounding factors.This analysis of the CHESS study was funded by F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd. The wider CHESS III–IV study was supported by unrestricted research grants from Roche and BioMarin
Pre-registration student nurse placement hours, competency, and outcomes: A systematic review
No full textAims: The aims of this systematic review were to a) identify studies on pre-registration student nurse placement hours, b) appraise the quality of studies to date, and c) synthesise the impact of different placement hours on student nurse competency and outcomes for people who use health services.
Design: A mixed method systematic review involving five steps: framing questions, study identification, assessing quality using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool, summarising evidence around major focus areas, and interpreting findings, using thematic synthesis.
Data sources: Searches were conducted to identify peer-reviewed studies, theses, and reviews in MEDLINE, EmBase, the Education Resources Information Center, the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature, PROSPERO, Cochrane Library, PsycInfo, Web of Science (Social Science Citation Index), and the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database.
Review methods: The population was pre-registration nurses, and included peer-reviewed studies, theses, and reviews that referred to practice hours, the impact of practice hours on competency, and studies that linked practice hours to health service user outcomes. Searches were imported into Covidence software, with all documents screened independently by two reviewers at the title and abstract and full text stages. All authors independently assessed methodological quality with discussion occurring until consensus was reached. Reporting is consistent with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses and the protocol is registered in PROSPERO.
Results: A total of 4958 documents were screened, with 49 articles forming the final dataset. Overall, the literature is characterised by small scale evaluations in single universities, primarily focused on the replacement of practice hours with simulation.
Conclusion: There is a lack of high-quality evidence to underpin practice placement hours. Given calls to significantly accelerate the graduation of nurses to address crisis-level nursing shortages the lack of a strong evidence base on practice hours warrants global attention.Unfunde
Detecting child sexual abuse in perpetrators: The effects of perpetrator age and of training on observers
Get PDF© 2025 The Author(s). Child Abuse Review published by Association of Child Protection Professionals and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.The early detection of sexually abusive relationships between adults and children is important. However, media propagation of child sex offender stereotypes may inhibit offender detection. This study used a vignette‐based online questionnaire to explore to what extent the signs of abuse can be detected in a relationship between a child and his football coach and whether the ‘dirty old man’ age stereotype impacts detection. Whether adults already trained in detecting child sexual abuse (CSA) rated the potential for CSA differently than untrained adults in scenarios where it was included was also explored. The analysis indicated a significantly higher rating for CSA in ‘abuse’ scenarios than ‘no‐abuse’ scenarios across all participants, with a large effect size. However, there was no significant difference in rating for CSA based on abuser age. Additionally, CSA‐trained participants did not rate abuse scenarios significantly differently than untrained participants. Extensive reporting of high‐profile cases that did not include a stereotypical offender was considered a potential mitigating factor for the age stereotype. The focus of existing CSA training on signs in victims, rather than signs of abusive relationships, is considered a potential explanation for the comparable ratings for CSA between trained and untrained participants.Unfunde
Decision support tool for physical health (DST-PH): stratifying risks to reduce avoidable deaths in people with intellectual disability
Get PDF©Sujeet Jaydeokar, Mahesh Odiyoor, Faye Bohen, Trixie Motterhead and Daniel James Acton. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited.Purpose: People with intellectual disability die prematurely and from avoidable causes. Innovative solutions and proactive strategies have been limited in addressing this disparity. This paper aims to detail the process of developing a risk stratification tool to identify those individuals who are higher risk of premature mortality.
Design/methodology/approach: This study used population health management principles to conceptualise a risk stratification tool for avoidable deaths in people with intellectual disability. A review of the literature examined the existing evidence of causes of death in people with intellectual disability. A qualitative methodology using focused groups of specialist clinicians was used to understand the factors that contributed towards avoidable deaths in people with intellectual disability. Delphi groups were used for consensus on the variables for inclusion in the risk stratification tool (Decision Support Tool for Physical Health). Findings: A pilot of the Decision Support Tool for Physical Health within specialist intellectual disability service demonstrated effective utility and acceptability in clinical practice. The tool has also demonstrated good face and construct validity. A further study is currently being completed to examine concurrent and predictive validity of the tool.
Originality/value: To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the only study that has used a systematic approach to designing a risk stratification tool for identifying premature mortality in people with intellectual disability. The Decision Support Tool for Physical Health in clinical practice aims to guide clinical responses and prioritise those identified as at higher risk of avoidable deaths.Unfunde
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