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Review of "Gerhard Richter: Painting after the Subject of History"
No full textThis essay is a Benjamin H. D, Buchloh's important new book on the German artist Gerhard Richter
Men’s marriage trends in Asia: changes and continuities
Get PDFFocusing on men’s negotiation of traditional norms and new gender dynamics amidst rapid social changes, the current study reveals nuanced trends and inter-regional heterogeneity in marriage behavior of men during the past decades in Asian societies. Since the 1970s, marriage age for men across Asia has risen and the slope of change is especially sharp in East Asia; while men in East and Southeast Asia increasingly remain single in their 30s and early 40s, earlier and almost universal marriage continues to dominate men’s nuptiality in South Asian societies. We contextualize these empirical patterns in the complex interplay of aggregate-level socioeconomic development, the changing labor market conditions (as reflected in a high level of job insecurity and informalization), shifting gender dynamics in educational attainment and labor market participation, and remaining legacies of traditional gender role expectations. This study offers compelling empirical evidence for further theorizing marriage and gender in Asia
Threat analysis of forest fragmentation and degradation for Peruvian Primates
Get PDFPeru has 55 primate taxa (including all species and subspecies), a third of which are threatened. The major drivers of habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation are grazing, forestry, agriculture and transport infrastructure. Other activities such as hunting exacerbate these threats. We assessed the threats from degradation and fragmentation facing Peruvian primates to aid in the design and implementation of mitigation strategies. Through GIS-based mapping, statistical modeling and specialist assessments, we evaluated all primate taxa using the IUCN Conservation Measures Partnership Unified Classifications of Direct Threats across five categories (direct threats to primates, threats to habitat, causes of fragmentation, factors exacerbating fragmentation and threats to primates and habitats as a consequence of fragmentation), highlighting which were most common and most severe. Our results showed that all primate taxa were affected by degradation and fragmentation in Peru. The most common and severe direct threat was hunting, whereas housing and urban development, smallholder crop farming, smallholder grazing and large-scale logging were the most common and severe threats across the other categories. The families Cebidae and Atelidae face the highest overall threat. Our analysis showed that the current IUCN listing of Leontocebus leucogenys [LC] underestimates the true threat level this species faces and that Lagothrix lagothricha tschudii [DD] should be listed under one of the threat categories. In Peru, the need for mitigating the threat of habitat fragmentation is clear. To ensure the survival of Peru’s diverse primate taxa, forest connectivity needs to be maintained or recovered through the protection and restoration of key areas considering their biological and social needs
American-type art criticism: Review of Art Criticism and Modernism in the United States by Stephen Moonie, Routledge, 2022
Get PDFAbstract: This essay reviews Stephen Moonie’s book Art Criticism and Modernism in the United States (2002), which contributes to the steadily growing field of art-historical research into art criticism. Until recently, art criticism has received scant attention partly because such writing is often considered ‘literary’, ‘unacademic’, or constitutively defined by ‘subjectivity’ in comparison to its siblings art history and aesthetics. Moonie’s book focuses upon North American art criticism from the late 1940s to the early 1970s, particularly the writings produced in and around Artforum in dialogue with Clement Greenberg’s difficult legacy. Such criticism dovetailed with developments in contemporary painting, sculpture, and film, but also presented itself as avowedly more intellectual, philosophically engaged, and self-reflexive than other forms of art criticism current at the time. This review, therefore, examines how Moonie elucidates this emergent mode of art criticism, particularly in light of its recourse to philosophical concepts as interpretative aids.
An advance copy was published on the Journal of Art Historiography blog and will be officially published in issue 29, December 202
Inclusive leadership in for-profit organisations, a literature perspective
No full textUnderstanding inclusive leadership in the literature offers an essential scientific background to further developing inclusive leadership in practice and theory in commercial, for-profit organisations. The current upsurge of interest in inclusive leadership in practice and theory means that this research is more relevant now than ever. This literature review explores how inclusive leadership is conceptualised and measured. The search occurred between September 2020 and August 2021, and 33 papers matched the inclusion criteria
Using [un]popular culture in social work education: the only way is Essex and Katie Price: what Harvey did next?
Get PDFTraditional social work education in the UK has been successful in terms of widening participation, although there are some threats to this. Within the post 92 university sector in particular, social work students come from a diverse range of backgrounds. Some of these students will not have had positive experiences of formative education or would have been subject to state discrimination and hostility. We report on the use of pedagogical approaches which aim to support social work students to feel a sense of security and belonging within the higher education environment, develop safe ways to engage in critical self reflection, helps students engage with often nebulous, and complex theoretical concepts, and most importantly, serve to challenge the exclusionary culture of higher education, which at times can make students feel unworthy. We address these issues by using [un]popular culture in our teaching practices. Two UK TV programs in particular, TOWIE and Katie Price: What Harvey did Next, offer a wealth of pedagogical material and opportunities for deep learning. Using recognizable figures from popular culture, gives social work students permission to explore matters and theory relevant to social work, not least class, taste, gender and disability
Incorporating personal narratives in positive psychology interventions to manage chronic pain
Get PDFIn this perspective paper, we argue for incorporating personal narratives in positive psychology interventions for chronic pain. Narratives refer to the telling and retelling of events. Narratives detail accounts of events and provide rich, in-depth information on human interactions, relationships, and perspectives. As such, narratives have been used to understand people’s experiences with pain and pain coping mechanisms—as well as to facilitate therapeutic outcomes. Furthermore, narrative research has shown that narration can help restore and promote relief, calm, hope, self-awareness, and self-understanding in chronic pain sufferers. Positive psychology interventions have been successful in improving the lives of people living with chronic pain, but these psychology interventions do not typically incorporate personal narratives. Still, narrative, and positive psychology scholarship foci overlap, as both aim to enhance people’s quality of life, happiness, and well-being, and to promote the understanding of psychosocial strengths and resources. In this article, we provide a rationale for incorporating personal narratives as an agentic form of positive psychology intervention. To that aim, we outline areas of convergence between positive psychology and narrative research and show how combining positive psychology exercises and narration can have additive benefits for pain sufferers. We also show how integrating narration in positive psychology intervention research can have advantages for healthcare research and policy
Interview about Shakespeare's first folio on BBC Radio Suffolk
No full textInterview with Sarah Lilley on the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio of plays
Examining language, framing and 'perpetrator' identity: Content analysis and literature review analysis briefing
Get PDFThe aim of this study was to understand the language (by this, we mean terminology) used by domestic abuse intervention programmes. Specifically, how is the user of the programme referred to and how the language used characterises them within the context of the programme. The review was taken in support of the Drive Systems Change Evaluation and the ‘listening and sharing’ findings webinar held in April 2023. Using the Office of the Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s mapped publicly-available data on perpetrator programmes , the content analysis was carried out between January – March 2023 by Dr Olumide Adisa and Lindsey Redgwell at the University of Suffolk