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‘Ireland’s hidden diaspora’: multimodal stylistic constructions of journey and landscape on the Irish abortion trail.
No full textThe Eighth Amendment to the Irish constitution, which restricted access to abortion in Ireland, was repealed as a result of a referendum in May 2018. The campaigns to secure reproductive rights for women in Ireland, conducted by organisations at home and abroad like Together for Yes and the London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign, utilised a wide range of semiotic resources to persuade voters to support repeal. As part of ongoing work into the linguistic strategies of Together for Yes and other groups (Statham & Ringrow, in press), this article analyses campaign videos that were disseminated through the social media platform YouTube. In particular we analyse textual and visual representations of travel, including uses of the JOURNEY metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980), and apply a critical framework for visual analysis (Ledin & Machin, 2018) to assess how pro-repeal narratives constructed connections between people, country and landscape through image and song lyrics. This article assesses how these campaign videos construct journey and landscape to subvert traditional constructions of the highly emotive concept of the Irish diaspora and how they interact with dominant strategies of the repeal campaign
Boekbesprekingen
No full textIn de eerste boekbespreking schrijft redacteur Julianne Kreuze over Denken over de Trans-Atlantische slavernij en racisme van Patricia D. Gomes. Redacteur Gijs Gommans bespreekt in de tweede bespreking het boek Byzantium : The surprising life of a medieval empire van Judith Herrin.In de eerste boekbespreking schrijft redacteur Julianne Kreuze over Denken over de Trans-Atlantische slavernij en racisme van Patricia D. Gomes. Redacteur Gijs Gommans bespreekt in de tweede bespreking het boek Byzantium : The surprising life of a medieval empire van Judith Herrin
Pursuit of the Marvellous: Surrealism, Tony Shiels’s Bizarre Magick, and the Performative Turn
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Louis Manuela Garcia-Mispireta. 2023. Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor (Durham, London: Duke University Press)
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The International Court of Justice: A Proper Forum for the Balanced Adjudication of Trade-Environment Disputes
No full textThe World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) sometimes adjudicates cases with environmental undertones while hearing trade disputes. Considering that the DSB is mainly responsible for the application of WTO international trade rules to these cases, it is arguable whether the DSB is the most appropriate adjudicatory forum on cases with environmental undertones. The article analyses four cases decided by the DSB: (1) The United States – Restrictions on Imports of Tuna (Tuna-Dolphin I), (2) the United States – Restrictions on Imports of Tuna (Tuna-Dolphin II), (3) the European Communities – Measures Affecting the Approval and Marketing of Biotech Products (Biotech Product’s case), and (4) the United States – Import Prohibition of Certain Shrimp and Shrimp Products (the US Shrimp case). It also analyses four cases with trade and environment considerations decided by the International Court of Justice (ICJ): (1) Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v Japan), (2) Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros (Hungary v Slovakia), (3); Certain Activities carried out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v Nicaragua)/Construction of a road in Costa Rica along the San Juan River (Nicaragua v Costa Rica); and (4) Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v Uruguay). From the analysis, this article finds that the ICJ, rather than the DSB, would be the appropriate arbiter of trade cases with environmental undertones. This article finds that, unlike the DSB, the ICJ has a history of balanced adjudication of cases with trade-environment conflict and appears a better fit to decide cases with elements of trade and environment. As such, this option would guarantee a more neutral avenue for the adjudication of trade-environment conflicts
ECOWAS Court of Justice: its linkage with the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights
No full textThis article considers the Community Court of Justice (CCJ) of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its linkage with the African Charter of Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR). No doubt when ECOWAS was established in 1975, the main objective was the economic integration of the sub-regional body. At the beginning, the CCJ was listed as one of the mandates of the economic bloc, but it was not until 1991 that the first Protocol which created the CCJ and which gives its composition and its functioning was adopted. The Revised Treaty of 1993 also provided for the establishment of the CCJ in its Article 15. The Protocol now makes references to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) of the African Union (AU). Not only this, the Protocol also made reference to other international human rights instruments. The main objective of this work is to bring to fore that the jurisdiction of the CCJ is expansive and broad, and that the CCJ failed to utilise the expansive jurisdiction in the matter of the late President of Chad, Hissene Habre, against the Republic of Senegal, by ruling that the Senegalese court could not try him because this will violate the principle of non-retroactivity of penal law. This ruling led to the establishment of the Extraordinary African Chambers (a special criminal tribunal) that later tried Habre. Also, where it is appropriate and desirable, a comparison between, on the one hand, the CCJ and, on the other hand, African sub-regional courts and courts of international organisations will be made. It is also the contention of this article that the CCJ ought to have an Appeal Chambers, as a core international best practice. This work will adopt the doctrinal methodology and the data collection method is content analysis
‘Here Be Dragons’: Mapping the Legal Contours of Jus Cogens in International Law
No full textThe purpose of this article is to demystify jus cogens rules by trying to map their legal contours. After defining jus cogens and providing a theoretical scaffolding drawn from elementary works on legal theory, the household jus cogens prohibition of genocide is analysed in light of such notions. As a result, jus cogens norms are characterised both as primary rules of behaviour and as secondary rules of change for legal production, constituting an international public order that serves as a tool for international law to safeguard human security
Schizodramaturgy: On the Phenomenology of the Future in Tetsuo Kogawa’s Airwaves-art (2023)
No full textIn this essay, I develop a psycho-dramaturgical argument, exploring conspiracytheories and airwaves from a schizoanalytic perspective. This perspective findsa departure point in the concept of theatre in the works of Tetsuo Kogawa (1941), Félix Guattari (1930–92), and Gilles Deleuze (1925–95). The relevance andconcatenation of the three central actors — Deleuze, Guattari, and Kogawa— is underscored, particularly within the context of the schizoradios of the 1970sand 1980s. There, schizoanalytic practices intertwine particularly with the questionof theatre. While Deleuze holds significance in this context, the primary focus rests onthe contributions of Guattari and, mainly, Kogawa. This is the perspective from whichan examination of theatre concepts in the discourse of schizoanalysis is undertakenhere. The analysis comprises two main lines of inquiry. First, it investigates the psychodramaturgy in the thought of Deleuze and Guattari, examining their individual contributions. Second, the essay delves into Kogawa’s 2023 performance, Airwavesart, with a three-fold analysis corresponding to the performance’s three side-titles. The steps outlined contribute to a comprehensive understanding of schizodramaturgy, drawing from philosophical, psychotherapeutic, and artistic perspectives.The article aims to analyse the interplay between schizoanalytical practicesand modes of subjectivation, particularly those that give rise to enclosedand homogeneous imaginaries