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Cultura e mudanças climáticas: Políticas culturais para regenerar o mundo [Culture and climate change: policies to regenerate the world]
Get PDFAn orphan unconscious
No full textWhat is an “an orphan unconscious”? Not an orphan’s unconscious but an orphaned unconscious. Through a critical re-reading of Freud’s Oedipus complex this article attempts to set the unconscious free, that is, to de-oedipalise it, make it an orphan. An unconscious that gets to be restored to its orphaned state requires the becoming-child-orphan of psychoanalysis itself as a step forward towards a psychoanalytic thinking and practice that refuses to remain complicit to the violence of being hu/man
Employment imbalances in EU regions: technological dependence or high-tech trade centrality?
Get PDFWe analyse the role of technological dependence and interregional trade centrality in explaining a region’s employment performance. We first identify the core–periphery technological structure of European Union (EU) regions, clustering them based on their high-tech trade relations (trade blocks) and technological and economic indicators (place-based regional groups). We show that EU regions have a fractal structure: blocks at the core and periphery of the high-tech trade network are divided into core and peripheral subgroups, which differ significantly in terms of innovation and employment performance. Next, the econometric analysis shows that buyer centrality is the main component of employment growth (especially in services), but within trade blocks it has to be combined with low technological dependence on more innovative regions (especially in manufacturing). Cohesion policies should pay attention to the fractal structure of regional inequalities, and Smart Specialisation strategies should consider that unrelated diversification towards activities intensive in the use of high-tech inputs may be more conducive to employment growth
Changing Britain through the frame of snooker
Get PDFThis paper considers snooker’s rise to popularity, and its relative decline, through the frame of recent British social history. The paper situates an ostensible decline in snooker spectatorship and a demonstrable decline in participation across the UK, against a backdrop of shifts in economic activity, class structure, cultures of masculinity and urban space. Drawing on theories of gender, class, subculture, media and critical urbanism, the paper argues that a sociological frame lends a lot to understanding snooker in the UK. At the same time, it argues that the frame of snooker might also lend a lot to a sociological understanding of industrial, and later, post-industrial Britain
Critical Studies in Art and Design: An Introduction
No full textThis book section provides an introduction to critical studies in art and design education, explaining how various categories such as studio practice, art history, theory, and criticism have blurred and altered over time. These rich and constructive changes are not well reflected in current school curriculum and pedagogy. Suggestions are made for improving this situation by conceiving learning as a process of integration and seeing both theoretical and practical elements of the subject as the result of this practical activity
Bridging the Gap: 5 Minutes of Digital Inclusion Empowers Educators in Higher Education for Learner Success
Get PDFThe “5 Minutes of Digital Inclusion” project aimed to bridge a gap in Higher Education (HE) by equipping educators with knowledge and skills to create digitally inclusive learning environments. This need is due to the challenges faced by learners with disabilities in HE. These challenges stem from issues that include lack of awareness in integrating technology effectively into teaching, and the lack of pedagogical training for educators, often caused by time constraints and budget cuts.
The project addressed these issues by providing educators with easily accessible, bite-sized video modules delivered over a five-week period. These modules aimed to equip educators with the tools and strategies to leverage technology for digitally inclusive learning. While the full effectiveness of the programme requires empirical evaluation, this article explores its potential impact on educators, students, and the overall educational system. This impact could include improved skills for educators to integrate the principles of universal design for learning, increased student engagement, and ultimately, better learning outcomes for students with diverse needs, leading to a more inclusive educational system overall
Sculpting Narcissus: A dyadic perspective on narcissism and buffering effects of perceived ideal self affirmation on relationship commitment
Get PDFNarcissistic self-regulation strategies aimed at pursuing a grandiose self can undermine relationship commitment. This study examined whether Michelangelo phenomenon mechanisms, whereby partners facilitate each other’s ideal selves through affirmation processes, can mitigate these potentially detrimental effects. Across three
dyadic survey-based studies (Ns = 107, 212, 213 romantic couples), our findings demonstrated that perceiving a partner as affirming or facilitating the movement toward the ideal self buffered otherwise adverse effects of grandiose narcissism on commitment. In contrast, no moderation effects were observed for vulnerable narcissism
– highlighting self-regulatory differences between these narcissism manifestations. Altogether, perceiving a partner as ideal-promoting may mitigate commitment by serving the narcissistic self-goal pursuit and hence present one way to foster interdependence without compromising the narcissistic ego
Is mobility a good proxy for consumption?
Get PDFThis paper investigates the relationship between mobility and consumer expenditure using a longitudinal dataset of local-level transactions in the United Kingdom. It distinguishes between online and in-store spending and employs fixed effects models covering the period from February 2020 to March 2022. The analysis finds that retail and recreational mobility consistently serve as reliable proxies for in-store spending, while there is limited evidence of a correlation between online spending and mobility. These findings suggest that mobility data can serve as a valuable proxy for consumer activity in countries lacking high-frequency consumption data