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Unconstitutional Evictions
No full textEarlier this year, the Irish Government pressed ahead with plans to allow a temporary legislative
ban on ‘no-fault’ evictions to expire. In this article, I argue that Article 40.5 of the Constitution, which
protects the inviolability of the dwelling, would be implicated in any case in which the courts must decide
whether the law requires them to enforce evictions against tenants. This is the position even in cases involving
private landlords, and where the tenants continue to occupy the landlord’s property in defiance of a valid notice
of termination. To make this argument, I analyse the case law surrounding Art 40.5 and offer an account of
the normative underpinnings of that provision. In early cases, it was thought that Art 40.5 was concerned
with forcible entry into one’s home by the State. While this is certainly a relevant aspect of Art 40.5, I argue
that subsequent cases make clear that this provision is underpinned by a richer conception of the moral value
of the home. Drawing on recent work in moral philosophy, I argue that the ‘dwelling’ referred to in the
Constitution has an important social aspect. We have standing to demand that our home, or dwelling, is not
interfered with because control over a private space of one’s own is essential for forming intimate human
relationships and pursuing valuable ends. When we see that this is the conception of the dwelling with which
Art 40.5 is concerned, it becomes clear that tenants have standing to demand a heightened level of justification
from the State before their eviction is enforced
Google Trends indicators to inform water planning and drought management
No full textIndicators are important tools for tracking the socio- environmental impacts of droughts and building resilience to climate change. We begin with an overview of metrics used for water planning and drought management, with particular emphasis on the UK. We explain how considerations of cost, immediacy, access, consistency, relevance, reliability and others denote the suitability of information for developing new indicators. We then demonstrate the potential of Google Trends (GT) online search data as drought indicators for England and Ireland. We show that search terms such as ‘drought’, ‘water butt’ and ‘hosepipe ban’ correlate significantly with conventional hydroclimatic data as well as with news-paper reports of various drought impacts during the period 2011–2022. GT data also show evidence of rising interest in water saving technologies, especially for outdoor water use. Meanwhile, online searches for ‘Defra’ and ‘Environment Agency’ have declined and are more often associated with flood episodes than droughts. Interest in water companies in England is more likely around hosepipe bans than water leakage (although this varies by company). We discuss the impli-cations of these findings for targeting information campaigns, plus prospects for monitoring drought impacts and public sentiment in near real- time
Review of Giorgos Katsambekis's 'Mainstreaming Authoritarianism'
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Nocet esse feracem: An Ecofeminist Analysis of the Pseudo-Ovidian Nux
No full textThe Nux is a rich and compelling poem that has not received the critical attention it deserves. Once almost universally regarded as the work of Ovid, it is now considered spurious, but the question of authorship has dominated discussion.1 There has been scant interest in understanding its meaning. Composed in elegiac couplets, the Nux consists of a monologue delivered by a nut tree, complaining that it is hit with stones by passers-by and a rod by its farmer, men who are intent on harvesting its produce. The tree laments that it has brought violence on itself through its fertility. Frequent comparisons are drawn between plant
and human form and behaviour, reflecting a shared language of plants and people that is well established in Greek and Roman literature
Introduction. Conceptual and Methodological Approaches
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Governing artificial intelligence in the media and communications sector
No full textThe article analyses critical blindspots in current European Artificial Intelligence (AI) policies and examines the potential impact of data and AI in the emerging socio-technical ecosystem of the contemporary Media and Communications (MC) sector from the perspective of critical media and communication studies. We first identify central blind spots in the dominant EU trustworthy and risk-based approach to governing AI. Next, we propose a novel multi-level framework to analyse key policy challenges for governing AI in the MC sector. The framework and discussion are based on desk research and multi-stakeholder expert discussions. The article concludes with reflections on AI governance in development, deployment and use in the MC sector
Crisis de la democracia de mercado y las respuestas populistas: el caso de Evo Morales de Bolivia
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Tweet you right back: Follower anxiety predicts leader anxiety in social media interactions during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
No full textRecent research has shown that organizational leaders’ tweets can influence employee anxiety. In this study, we turn the table and examine whether the same can be said about followers’ tweets. Based on emotional contagion and a dataset of 108 leaders and 178 followers across 50 organizations, we infer and track state- and trait-anxiety scores of participants over 316 days, including pre- and post the onset of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and crisis. We show that although leaders traditionally possess greater authority and power than their followers, followers have the power to influence their leaders’ state anxiety. In addition, this influence is particularly strong in the case of less trait anxious leaders
The Role of the Marrakesh Treaty in Supporting Access to Printed Material for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired: A Critical Discussion of the Results of an Empirical Study Conducted in Six European Countries
No full textLess than 7% of published works are accessible. To overcome this book famine, the Marrakesh Treaty was enacted with the view of enhancing access to published works for people with visual impairments, blind people, and people that are otherwise print-disabled. Leveraging survey data from six European countries (Italy, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, Hungary, and the Netherlands), we investigate the respondents’ knowledge of the Marrakesh Treaty and whether they experienced improved access to printed material after its implementation. The results of the survey show that people who are blind and use braille printers are more likely to report an improvement in accessing printed material, suggesting that the exceptions provided for in the Marrakesh Treaty best support the reproduction and availability of copyrighted works in braille rather than other formats
Participation, Legal Capacity, and Gender: Reflections from the United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Project in Serbia
No full textThe United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) establishes that people with disabilities shall enjoy their human rights on an equal basis with others.
Those rights include the right to legal capacity and to protection against discrimination, including
intersectional and multiple forms of discrimination on the basis of disability and gender. In an effort
to support the realisation of the CRPD, the United Nations team in Serbia undertook a project to
address the implementation of these rights under the UN Partnership on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (UNPRPD) programme. Namely, by bringing together stakeholders from the UN, government and civil society, the UNPRPD project in Serbia sought to create structural changes to uphold
the rights of people with disabilities. With a view of understanding the process of change within,
rather than the outcomes of, this UPRPD project, twenty-eight semi-structured interviews were
conducted using the Most Significant Change Technique (MSCT) with key stakeholders involved in
such a project. The interviews were analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to
preserve the unique and diverse perspectives of participants who had differing roles across the project.
The analysis allowed us to identify a number of facets of the process that facilitate structural change:
coalition-building events; strengthening stakeholder capacity and relationships; the participation of
persons with disabilities; and innovation in terms of what made the project significant, novel and in
itself a change. All these facets are discussed in this article, with the purpose of supporting global
efforts in alignment with the CRPD. On the whole, this article aims to support a better understanding
of disability-inclusive development projects in line with the CRPD and to give evidence on how
countries may begin to tackle the structural exclusion of persons with disabilities in society