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Rethinking Elvis
No full textElvis is someone who’s place in society and pop culture is inescapable, yet whose presence in the academic library and seminar room is virtually absent. In the decades-old, and now rather tired, staged battle between Elvis and the Beatles, on any quantifiable measure of scholarly interest, in academia the Fab Four would easily win. Despite Elvis’s iconism, and despite his evident and ongoing connection to a range of social issues, he constantly seems to miss the requirements for capturing scholarly attention. To some extent, Gilbert Rodman’s claim still holds true that intellectuals have traditionally been unwilling to see Presley as a figure of sufficient importance to undertake serious critical work on his life, his art, or his cultural impact. With their concerns for taste and text, film studies and popular music studies have tended to ignore Elvis. In contrast, disciplines that grapple with those same subjects as social issues have embraced the Elvis phenomenon because it is a useful case study when considering prejudice. In this section I will therefore explore three academic fields that have discussed Elvis Presley, or more precisely the issues that he represents: Southern studies, cultural studies, and legal studies. In addition to these, Elvis “scholar-fans” have produced a wealth of material, some of which is highly insightful and effectively blurs the lines between popular and academic publication. Finally, the chapter makes some suggestions about topics we might desire to see in future Elvis studies, based upon the concerns of fan studies and research on social identity. Though Elvis studies is more a trickle of scholarship than a sub-discipline, it has undergone an expansion in recent times and, like Elvis Presley himself, shows no sign of disappearing.Unfunde
Exploring adult safeguarding data in England: Mapping vulnerability and understanding trends
Get PDFThis author accepted manuscript is deposited under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC) licence. This means that anyone may distribute, adapt, and build upon the work for non-commercial purposes, subject to full attribution. If you wish to use this manuscript for commercial purposes, please contact [email protected] paper explored and mapped Safeguarding Adults England data for 2022-2023 by local authority to enable identification and exploration of any differences between local authorities. Methodology: Colour symbology maps were produced to enable visual analysis of safeguarding concerns and section 42 enquiries per 100,000 of the population, as well as the conversion of safeguarding concerns to section 42 enquiries. Statistical hotspots were calculated using the Getis-Ord Gi* for section 42 enquiries per 100,000 of the population across age classes. Findings: Findings show regional differences across England in terms of the number of documented concerns, section 42’s and conversion rates. Some regions had statistically significant higher or lower section 42 enquiries per 100,000 of population across age classes compared to their bordering geographical neighbours. Reflections on these findings lead to a series of recommendations. Originality: This paper addresses a need to explore further and analyse adult safeguarding data to inform practice, through choropleth mapping.Unfunde
Lost, Found, Given - Stored, Shown, Seen: Artists’ Responses to the West Cheshire Museums’ Collections
Get PDFHumifusus is the Latin botanical term used to describe plants that spread out across the ground. These images were made by pressing photographic paper face down into verges and meadows, allowing plants, soil (and the occasional insect) to imprint their trace. As part of my response to Eliza Potts' Herbarium, this process offered a richly spontaneous and chaotic way to record plants within their environment.
The use of video to reimagine and revivify connects me to Potts as another woman touching, and touched by, familiar landscapes, experiencing the pleasure of a haptic connection to place and plant. The sensorial overrides the pictorial, nature subsumes and entangles the human element as both merge playfully and chaotically to become one.Unfunde
‘Meeting God in an ordinary place’. What can we learn from Coffee Shop Sunday about meeting God using the internet to encourage and develop fellowship?
Get PDF© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupAll are welcome at the ‘common table’ to enjoy the ‘table talk’. How does Coffee Shop Sunday (CSS) (Coventry and Nuneaton Methodist Circuit Project) reflect that alongside pointing people to Jesus?
CSS began a worship service in a Coventry Costa Coffee Shop in December 2019, this was severely disrupted with covid-19 restrictions and their concept of ‘meeting God in an ordinary place’ moved online. The internet through Facebook and Zoom became the ordinary place they met God. Since March 2020, the online work has grown from initially meeting four days a week to daily activities with participants from five continents. Two of the principles of CSS are encouragement and fellowship.
The paper will explore (1) How the internet became the ‘ordinary’ place to meet God for people from different denominations and cultures. (2) How fellowship is experienced, using Russell’s ‘round table ecclesiology’ model where those present participate in a way which reflects their own journey of ‘faith and struggle’. (3) How does CSS point other people to Jesus through its activities. Barth emphasises that churches or a Christian’s activities should not focus on themselves but ‘point to Jesus’. By reviewing CSS activities, I will demonstrate that they point others to Jesus.Unfunde
Bringing a social justice lens to Matthews’ five propositions for genuine students-as-partners practice: A narrative review
Get PDFIn 2017, in the second issue of the International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP), Matthews presented five propositions for genuine students-as-partners practice. Whilst these propositions did not focus directly on social justice, a social justice ethos (seeking to achieve parity of partici-pation for all in higher education) was implicit within the discussion. Working with students as partners (SaP) can contribute to social justice, and a social justice perspective can contribute to the practice and conceptualization of students-as-partners work. From this perspective, I present a narrative literature review that brings a social justice lens to Matthews’ five propositions by ex-amining 26 publications (research articles, case studies, reflective essays, and opinion pieces) in IJSaP concerning students-as-partners work. These are identified using the search terms “justice”, “equity”, “inclusion”, and “ethical”. The review provides clear examples of how the practice of working with students as partners can promote equity and inclusion in higher education, thereby striving toward social justice.Unfunde
Five top tips for supporting flexible working in the legal sector
No full textTo access this article please click on the URL under the Additional Links sectionWomen in Law Pledge signatories met at a recent round table to discuss flexible working and how it can be used to promote the progression and retention of women in the legal sector. Our Women Solicitors Network committee co-chairs Chantal Davies and Liz Turner explore the findings of the discussion and set out five top tips to support you with your approach to flexible working.Unfunde
Achieving Purnam through Equitable Education: A Pathway to Wholeness in Health Service Management
Get PDFThe concept of Purnam, or wholeness, emphasizes achieving balance and fulfilment (Chatterjee, 2022). In the context of education, Purnam entails providing equitable opportunities and support for all students, regardless of their background. This paper explores how equitable education can help achieve Purnam, particularly for international students from India. International mobility of student from India to the rest of the world has been a key feature of the power shift from global North to Global South. For Indian students coming to study in the UK for the first time, it is the duty of these host Universities to foster Purnam and satisfaction for international students. By examining theoretical frameworks such as Vygotsky's Social Constructivism, Deutsch's Social Interdependence theory, and Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory, the paper delves into the importance of collaborative learning in fostering wholeness. The discussion will also address the unique challenges faced by international students and propose strategies for bridging cultural gaps in education. Finally, the paper highlights the significance of management education in healthcare as a means to achieve Purnam for both students and the healthcare sector
Aliens: A Companion
Get PDFThis is an Accepted Manuscript that has been published in [Aliens: A Companion] edited by [Elana Gomel & Simon Bacon] in the series [Genre Fiction and Film Companions].In the uncharted territory of space, humans ourselves become alien. This understanding is central to Nnedi Okorafor’s Nebula and Hugo award-winning novella Binti (2015) and its sequels Home (2017) and The Night Masquerade (2018). Through the interactions between humans and the trilogy’s “alien” Meduse, Okorafor’s text makes unfamiliar and radically expands the familiar territory of race. Typically, aliens in science fiction are rigidly defined as either enemies or friends of humanity. Yet, the Meduse transcend this simplistic dualism, and therefore comprise a central component of Binti’s Africanfuturist meditation on race.Unfunde
Retracing Footsteps - The Changing Landscape Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon
Get PDFThe exhibition draws on Bos’ extensive archival and ethnographic research, which feeds into a long-term research project exploring the cultural and historical geographies of Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon. Quayle also undertook preliminary research at Tate Britain in the Prints and Drawings Study Room as part of related research which investigates J.M.W. Turner's 1799 Welsh Tour in the context of a contemporary understanding of the sublime, which follows formative research of Turner's print publications and artist travel as part of his undergraduate dissertation.Retracing Footsteps - The Changing Landscape of Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon is the working title of a long-term, interdisciplinary research project by artist Cian Quayle (Art and Design) and cultural geographer Daniel Bos (Geography and the Environment) at the University of Chester. The first iteration of their collaborative research, which also involved the participation of two BA Photography graduates Jane Evans and Emma Petruzzelli, was exhibited at CASC in Castlefield Gallery New Art Spaces: Chester. The exhibition also formed part of Chester Contemporary [Fringe] (September 22 - December 1, 2023). The project emerged as a result of Bos' study of 19th c. Snowdon summit hotels, visitor books, in which tourists recorded their experience of ascending the mountain. The visitor books are housed at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Bangor University. Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon is an iconic mountain, a signifier of Welsh identity and a place rooted in history, myth, folklore and legend. The mountain attracts over 600,000 visitors a year and the project sets out to respond to the mountain and surrounding landscape as it is walked, and experienced today, at the same time as considering the threat and impacts on the ecology, environment and local communities. From May 2023 the team undertook fieldwork based on a series of ascents to photograph and video record their experience and encounter of the mountain. An edit and selection of photographs was made towards the end of summer 2023. The exhibition, which manifest initial practice and research completed up to this point was conceived and curated by Quayle, and Bos selected a collection of extracts from the visitors books, which were juxtaposed with a final selection of images, which the project team edited and selected from a larger body of work. The visitor book extracts were typeset in Albertus by Darren Prior, and an exhibition brochure was designed by Dr Alan Summers.University of Cheste
Deconstructing the dominant pregnancy script: A feminist analysis of pregnancy and parenting in contemporary British and American fiction, film, and on social media
No full textIn the global North, there is a dominant pregnancy script (DPS) where the expectation is that the pregnant body, and people’s parenting styles, should fit a universal category. What this means is that Black, transgender, non-conforming pregnancies (for example, surrogate pregnancy), and other marginalised bodies are missing from narratives in fiction, film and on social media platforms. To challenge this, my thesis conceptualises a new, feminist pregnancy script (FPS) that advocates for pregnant people, mothers, or parents, to, as motherhood scholar Andrea O’Reilly puts it, have agency, autonomy, authenticity and authority in their choices. Crucially, the FPS is inclusive and supportive of pregnancy, mothering, or parenting that does not adhere to the ‘rules’ of the DPS.
The paradoxical and demanding expectations of the DPS mean that many representations of pregnancy and parenting experiences in fiction, film and on social media are not equal, diverse, or inclusive, and neither empower pregnant people and
parents, nor encourage choice. The DPS and its multivalent cultural manifestations revere the ‘good’ mother – someone who is white, heterosexual, married and in a nuclear family; this same ‘good mother’ is altruistic, patient, loving, selfless, devoted
and cheerful. However, representations of pregnancy and parenting also have the potential to resist and challenge such embedded, dominant norms. It is through digital texts in particular that audiences can interpret, interact with and revoke
heteropatriarchal inscriptions of ‘correct’ pregnancy and parenting experiences. By uncovering and subsequently deconstructing the DPS through textual analysis, my thesis proposes a feminist reimagining. The FPS challenges social systems where
pregnancy and parenting must be done in a ‘correct’ way to be accepted, and it underlines how attitudes in the global North reflect structures where neoliberalism and global capitalism benefit only a privileged few. It is time for change
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