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Science and ethics in ecological economics: from radical roots to alternative economies. A Book Review of “Foundations of Social Ecological Economics: The fight for revolutionary change in economic thought” by Clive L. Spash (2024)
No full textMulti-disciplinary site investigations of WW2 Allied aerial bombing decoy sites in North Staffordshire, UK
Get PDFIn 1937, the British government implemented a national strategy to strengthen UK air defences, constructing a network of radar systems and decoy sites to mislead enemy aircraft from bombing Allied airfields, industrial centres and major cities. This paper reports on modern investigations on three relict night-time aerial bombing decoy sites in Staffordshire, UK, deliberately built along German radio beam directions to divert German bombers from the high priority industrial target sites in the Stoke-on-Trent area that included tyre, aluminium and iron works, munitions factories and railway yards. The relict bombing decoy sites were discovered in varying states of preservation. There was evidence of construction from wartime-created brick companies, control shelters with concrete bed generator rooms, headlamp platforms, relict electrical systems that simulated aeroplane runways and in situ blast walls and ceramic pipe blast expansion systems that were meant to protect manning crews from bomb burst air concussions. Site-collected data included drone models, ground-based LiDAR, geophysical datasets and 360° camera imagery for digital site preservation. Study outcomes show these wartime bombing decoy sites varied in hurried construction and condition during these desperate times, bringing WW2 British conflict history into the wider scientific community and public domain
A selected mapping of some UK alternative pedagogies
No full textWhat you hold here is a gathering, a small selection, drawn from an effort to chart the un-chartable as by their very dynamic nature alternative art schools are always in flux—shifting across spaces, places, and people, both local and global. A small extract from a study of alternative art pedagogies, created over eight years. A visual map of places, schools, and times that moves beyond mere capturing or inscribing order and meaning. It tests non-hierarchical and unfixed narratives, incorporating speculations and propositions that acknowledge complexity and multiplicity
Collective narcissism
No full textCollective narcissism - a belief that the exaggerated greatness of one’s own group should be but is not recognized by others - represents manifestation of narcissistic superiority needs on the social level of the self. It predicts prejudice, intergroup hostility, political violence and zero-sum perception of intergroup conflicts expressing narcissistic aggressiveness in the intergroup context. Collective narcissists justify aggression of the ingroup by exaggerating the intergroup threat. They make up enemies, perceive insult where it is not meant and spread conspiracy theories about hostility of others. Collective narcissists put concerns regarding external recognition of the ingroup over the welfare of ingroup members or the whole planet. In historically advantaged groups, collective narcissism predicts supremacist attitudes. In historically disadvantaged groups, collective narcissism predicts egalitarian and emancipatory attitudes. Collective narcissism is associated with deficits in the ability to down-regulate negative emotions. The link between collective narcissism and prejudice is reduced by mindfulness and prosocial emotions
Terra Incognita: Beckett’s Anthropo(s)cene in Contemporary Art
No full textTerra Incognita: Ecologies of the Anthropocene in Beckett and Contemporary Art
This chapter focuses on how contemporary moving image art, photography, sculpture, and installation respond to the condition of the Anthropocene evident in aspects of Beckett’s theatre. Counterpointing Beckett’s most liminal of plays, Embers (1959), with his most minimal, Breath (1969), and framed by readings of Endgame (1957) and Happy Days (1961) the chapter considers how works by artists Adam Sébire, Justin Guariglia, Roni Horn and Barbara Knezevic articulate the condition of the Anthropocene in ways that draw on Beckett’s engagement with environments and his concerns with the difficulty of perception. These artists examine aspects of scale and materiality to find new forms through which our changing environments can be made manifest. Their work examines the limits of human interpolation of the environment, responding, in key ways, to the condition of the Anthropocene
Constitution is not identity: on equivalence relations in translation of performance and translation for performance
Get PDFIn the race to secure the sub-rights to Amanda Gorman’s ground-breaking performance at the 2021 United States presidential inauguration, a high-profile case emerged in which the translator appointed by Dutch publisher Meulenhoff returned the commission, following criticism of the appointment. Building on the detailed critical interrogations of structural and racial inequity that were published in response to the ensuring controversy, this article delineates additional perspectives, by asking what is instructional in the debate on the who of translating Gorman’s performance, when it comes to other instances of translation of performance, and how we may learn from it in other contexts of translation for performance. Using performance as a concretising lens, or “system of meaning” (Pavis, 1992) that takes on significance only in the coming together of the relationships united in production and reception (p. 25), and through the application of theories of mathematical equivalence relations, this article questions what the controversy tells us about what translation of performance ‘is’ and ‘should’ be, and suggests what lessons might be learned with regard to the notion of equivalence in translation
Intermediaries in local schooling landscapes: Partnership building and policy enactment during times of crisis
Get PDFDespite the expansion of New Public Management reforms across the globe and complimentary trends of disintermediation, performance and privatisation, local government authorities in England continue to shape local schooling landscapes. In this paper, we document the role of a local government authority in England in an initiative called ‘Building On’, directed at supporting teachers in the first year of compulsory school to develop and transform their pedagogical practices in response to and following the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on evidence generated from interviews, observations and documentary analysis, we demonstrate that local government personnel performed two important and potentially decisive roles within this initiative: first, as interpreters and translators of policy; and second, as brokers of partnerships and collaborative exchanges. We then illustrate, using the analytic of policy enactment, the contextual dimensions underpinning the role performed by local government personnel within the initiative
