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Introduction for Reinvention Special Issue ‘Reeling and Writhing’: A dialogue between the students and tutor, and the reader
No full textThe Lord’s Goodbye / Bertilak’s Ghazal and Antigone Regina
No full textWith The Lord’s Goodbye / Bertilak’s Ghazal, I wanted to give myself the challenge of incorporating the Arthurian legend into the Medieval Persian ghazal form. The ghazal’s stylistic characteristics are incredibly fascinating and unique compared to traditional Western forms, especially the rhyming patterns. I realised I also found this stylistic distinctiveness in Medieval poems, notably ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, with its unique alliterative form. This poem draws similarities between the themes generally explored in a ghazal (abandonment, love, and religious imagery) and the story of Sir Gawain. I created a deliberate ambiguity between the two female characters, respectively described as her and Her (the capitalisation reinforcing the religious aspects of the Virgin Mary, who has a major role in the poem). The erotic connotations of Gawain’s relationship with Bertilak also helped with adapting the ghazal to the Arthurian genre. Through this poem, I hope to illustrate the malleability of the myth; a modern Arthurian retelling could deal with queer themes and interpretations, for example, or explore its influence outside of the Western psyche from a non-European perspective.
I wrote Antigone Regina to experiment with the triolet form and to expand on the father-daughter relationship in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus. My favourite aspect of this form is the opportunity to make the same line take different meanings through the poem. The line ‘Oedipus’ grave and weeping blood’ plays on the word ‘grave’, hence the comma that appears in the last line. I also wanted to draw on the relationship that various retellings of the myth placed between humans and gods, as well as the role of ancestry and inheritance – not as a curse, but a fundamental part of human experience on both the individual and the societal level. Although this poem does not explicitly deal with the Arthurian story, it therefore still speaks of the role of poems as important reinterpretations of a myth
Writing history in the present: The implications of localized forms of science in Latin America for a postcolonial world
No full textScientific research practices, in particular in the biological sciences, are currently undergoing a great deal of scrutiny and change due to recent debates in the social sciences about bioprospecting, biopiracy and the co-production of knowledge. Nowhere are these debates more relevant than in countries with high levels of both biological and cultural diversity that have been subject to a history of colonialism, such as in tropical regions of South America. Many authors have written critically about these issues – however, there is less understanding about the links between such histories and the policies, discourses and relationships as occur in scientific practices in these regions of the world today. In particular, little notice has been taken of localized creations of scientific practice in non-western settings, especially in terms of how they shift scientific trends and debates on a global scale. This essay takes the case of ‘Bolivian science’ in order to show how research encounters in the so-called scientific ‘peripheries’ of the world can have implications for the production and use of science that far outstretch the limits of geographical boundaries, and lead to the decolonization of science back on Western soils
Were there Nonhumans in Bagua? The Gobierno Territorial Autónomo de la Nación Wampis and the Emergence of Vertical Territoriality in the Northern Peruvian Amazon
Get PDFWampis leaders insist that nonhumans have always been central for territorial defence, even though this was not acknowledged publicly or in written form. Instead, they used the conservationist language of “protecting nature, forest and climate” as placeholder for the care of relationships with nonhumans. The change to an explicit invocation came with the realisation that to support their claim for the integral territory, a legal fundament based on ancestral usage and practices was needed. Going beyond the horizontal dimension of territoriality, the underground and the wider atmosphere became increasingly important in the context of oil and mining projects as well as for conservationist and carbon offset schemes. In this manner, indigenous leaders’ mediation and translations between ontological features and global eco-political discourses prepared the ground for an emergent eco-autonomy that includes what I call ‘vertical territoriality’
Why the Far-Right Will Continue to Radicalise in Brazil
Get PDF“Brazil is back on the world stage” – this was the main message Lula delivered as honorary guest at the UN Climate Summit in Egypt, less than a month after beating Bolsonaro in the runoff of Brazil’s presidential elections with a narrow margin of 50.9% against 49.1%. Lula’s high-strung victory in a divided country has attracted global media and political attention, reflecting not only concerns about the fate of Brazilian democracy after a long cycle of authoritarianism (2016-2022), but of how the election could point to a change in the correlation of forces in a number of consequential themes that resonate on the international agenda: the urgency of environmental protection and regulation, the resumption of the South American integration process, the possibility of a more assertive BRICS coalition pushing for a transition in economic development policies, the attention to social inclusion, the need to reverse neoliberal reforms related to labour market and public spending mechanisms, the hopes of re-organising international left-wing solidarity, among others
Enhancing Postgraduate Taught Students’ Engagement: A Storytelling Pedagogical Approach in Higher Education
Get PDFPostgraduate Taught Students are a significant part of our student community. To enhance their learning experience and facilitate their learning more efficiently, a storytelling pedagogical approach conducted by postgraduate teaching assistants (GTAs) could be a way to accelerate this process. Postgraduate researchers (PGRs) are important members of the Higher Education teaching community as they provide a unique perspective, from both students and teaching staff. Some of them have a fresh memory of their learning experiences and thus could better understand the students’ concerns. This paper reports the experience of PGRs and GTAs regarding sharing personal stories to help students understand and overcome their challenges in academic writing. The storytelling pedagogy in practice indicates a significant effect in supporting not only academic study but also students’ engagement and reflection. The usage of storytelling pedagogy also aids in the concept explanation of technical elements in texts by offering succinct and tangible instances, which assist students in developing their critical thinking skills and individualised understanding of factual material.  
Curating the exhibition ‘Beyond Development: Local Visions of Global Poverty’: Some observations on documentary practice in relation to Poverty and its representation
Get PDFBeyond Development: Local Visions of Global Poverty was an art exhibition that took place in May 2019 at the Pearce Institute of Glasgow. The exhibition was organised within the framework of the Poverty Research Network (PRN), a research project created by Dr. Julia McClure and currently based at the University of Glasgow. Awarded funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in 2016, the Poverty Research Network provides a forum for interdisciplinary and global discussions on different approaches to poverty research and connections to current issues. This includes investigating the cultural and historical contexts of attitudes towards poverty, wealth, and charity around the world, and contemporary global debates on inequality and humanitarian strategies. The exhibition Beyond Development: Local Visions of Global Poverty adds a further angle of investigation to the project as it engages with the political issues connected to aesthetics and the representation of poverty within the creative arts
Utilizing the Octothorpe (#): Schizoanalytic cartographies recognized in War Games
No full textFelix Guattari’s ‘Schizoanalytic Cartographies’ acts as a methodological blueprint and can be used to explain a subject’s lack of expressivity when confronted by Foucauldian systems of discipline and punishment. Understanding mechanisms of regulation and control within a closed or open system is the purpose of cybernetics. This communication studies tradition emerged from the artificial intelligence work of Norbert Wiener’s data flows with the intentional purpose of steering people, thought, societies, and the cosmos towards—becoming. Using the analogy of the octothorpe (#) as a roadmap explaining the four cartographies (Flows, Phyla, Territories, Universes) as outlined by Guattari, this manuscript will analyze the film, ‘War Games,’ demonstrating schizoanalytic technique. Another layer of power over humanity is not a panacea, rather it ushers forth civilisation’s speedier, and predicted, demise.
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(In)Visible Woman: Ruth Madeley and Representing Disabled Lives on Screen
No full textThis critical reflection examines the growing career of actor Ruth Madeley, and her visibility in the industry as an ambulatory wheelchair user, exploring the impact of ‘cripping up,’ on casting practice, and its lasting effects on disabled actors, screen representation and the community they strive to represent. Madeley’s rise to prominence offers the opportunity to explore the significance of casting disabled actors, and the value of seeing and being seen. Her success indicates a shift toward greater inclusivity and diversity, but the sustained casting of disabled actors remains exceptional rather than commonplace.
Drawing upon analysis of three high profile roles in Years and Years, Don\u27t Take My Baby, Verisimilitude, and The Watch, alongside interviews and related paratexts, I explore how Madeley’s disability is negotiated and the tension this creates within her star image. With reference to scholarship on stardom, performance, and disability studies, I argue that Madeley is extraordinary in her ordinariness. She is highly visible, and yet, invisible. Her work dismantles entrenched yet ableist narratives where disabled characters are presented as little more than ‘inspiration porn’, reflected in Madeley’s pursuit of roles where disabled people and their lives are represented as rich and complex, thereby challenging perceptions of disabled characters and their life experiences.
What does Madeley’s career tell us about the industry’s progression since Daniel Day-Lewis’ Oscar-winning portrayal of writer Christy Brown in My Left Foot? And, as Madeley herself has commented, what is left to do in terms of how we represent disabled lives on screen