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No full textA Zemiology of Torturous Violence and the Limits of Law
Get PDFSocial and legislative responses to torture remain dominated by legal definitions and debates around what constitutes ‘torture’. Although narratives are progressing contemporarily, the fact remains that definitions of torture continue to be situated in the narrow confines of the United Nations Convention against Torture, or Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. This article argues that the implications of this is a sidelining of survivor needs when people are subjected to forms of violence that fall beyond narrow definitions, but impact in ways which parallel the severity and intensity of torture. By focussing on bordering processes as a case study, two key issues are exposed. Firstly, that the intensification and militarization of bordering enable the infliction of torture and torturous violence; and secondly, by employing a zemiological lens, we can more meaningfully examine impacts of multifarious forms of torturous violence and their relationship with wider avoidable social harms in the aftermath of such abuses
Growing Communicators : A Fine‐Grained Analysis of Toddlers' Communicative Intentions From Requestive and Expressive, to Information Seeking and Giving
Get PDFChildren readily respond to others' bids for communicative interactions from early childhood and actively initiate these themselves. However, the extent and variety of early child‐initiated communicative intentions is poorly understood, with theoretically derived intentions lacking systematic empirical support from naturalistic observations. This study, using a cross‐sectional data set, provides a fine‐grained characterization of communicative behaviors across three time points in the second year of life (13, 18, and 23 months, N = 47). We coded one‐hour‐long video recordings of home observations using a novel coding scheme to document the type of interactions toddlers initiated using four deictic gestures (reach, point, give, hold out) to meet a range of communicative goals, such as sharing interest, attention, or emotion, requesting an object or an action, seeking information or help, and giving information. Expressive interactions accounted for 49.9% of events, followed by requestive (40%), information/help seeking (8.3%), and information giving intentions (1.7%). These findings characterize early communicative toddler‐caregiver interactions and provide insights into the age‐related patterns of toddlers' propensity to seek and transmit information which emerge increasingly as part of toddlers' communicative repertoire
Guest Lecture: Shelter from the Storms : Economic, Environmental & Geo-Political Challenges for Small Economies, University of Aruba
Get PDFExploring the Contribution of Action Learning to Transdisciplinary Research
Get PDFAction learning has a rich heritage in management development and organizational learning. Its practices, in which groups of peers engage in questioning and reflection on actions to address problems, may be brought to a transdisciplinary research initiative, thereby creating a forum and process for members of transdisciplinary groups to work together. Transdisciplinary research through action learning is a candidate response to substantive problems for which no single disciplinary solution exist. In this paper, we make the case that the process of action learning facilitates the enactment of transdisciplinary research. Further, noting that enacting TDR is itself also a problem, we contend that engaging the co-researchers as an action learning set can lead to co-directing, co-developing and co-deploying resources to address the substantive problem
Lifting our Heads and Appreciating the Beauty
No full textThis is a chapter about discovering and rediscovering purposes, meanings and identities throughout our lives, of resilience and reflection, and of finding flow inside and outside of work. It’s a chapter about two female public sector professionals, Krista and Ruth, navigating career crises and rising to the challenges of an ever-changing professional landscape - a landscape, much like the area of outstanding beauty in which they live, full of wonder and awe but also sharp crags and deep valleys. While both authors’ accounts are very much about reinventions, they offer different perspectives in time with Krista exploring ways to remain meaningful and relevant at work and Ruth exploring ways to do the same in retirement
Infrastructures of health and border control : Ukrainian refugees seeking healthcare in Poland
No full textThis paper draws on a larger project which considers the position of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers as subjects with health needs, entangled on the one hand in systems of border control and enforcement, and on the other seeking and accessing care within national (public) health systems in Europe. Taking as an entry point the recent (2022) mass reception in Poland of Ukrainians fleeing the full-scale Russian invasion, this paper draws attention to the infrastructural aspects of healthcare and border control, showing how they have come to intersect. It argues that these intersections reflect a politics of bordering which asserts the primacy of border control over migrants’ and refugees’ other entitlements. However, in the case of Polish reception of refugees from Ukraine in early 2022, the government was prepared to make relatively far-reaching legislative changes to facilitate the accommodation of Ukrainian citizens, including ensuring their access to state-funded healthcare. Based on an analysis of Polish healthcare data and stakeholder interviews, this research asks what happens when the rare political will does exist to accommodate a refugee group. In spite of a widespread perception that granting equal access to public healthcare to Ukrainians had been a successful policy, the healthcare system has proved difficult to navigate and, in some ways, exclusionary. The paper argues that this is in part because the existing infrastructures of healthcare and border control are enmeshed in ways that are difficult to disentangle. Ultimately, through an analysis of the Poland’s population registration tool, the PESEL number and its allocation to Ukrainian refugees, the paper highlights the mechanisms that render healthcare access for refugees conditional and uneven
Reclaiming Place in Management Education : Designing Regenerative Curricula for Civic Learning
No full textWhat might a business school look like if we truly embraced our role as a civic anchor—embedded, accountable, and locally impactful? This question led us to reimagine curriculum not as a container for delivering content, but as a regenerative process - deeply connected to local ecosystems, civic actors, and the lived realities of our students. Instead of relying on idealised global case studies, our students work on real regional challenges that involve multiple stakeholders and impact the whole ecosystem. They co-create solutions with local businesses, public authorities, and community groups in “real-life collaboratories”. It's messy. It's uncertain. And it’s exactly what responsible management often looks like in practice. It enables students to experience meaningful knowledge exchange, reinforcing the business school’s role as a place-leader and anchor institution for sustainable innovation. This practice strengthens university-community relationships and enhances students’ sense of belonging and purpose
Evidence for the Collective Nature of Radial Flow in Pb + Pb Collisions with the ATLAS Detector
No full textAnisotropic flow and radial flow are two key probes of the expansion dynamics and properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). While anisotropic flow has been extensively studied, radial flow, which governs the system’s radial expansion, has received less attention. Notably, direct experimental evidence for the global and collective nature of radial flow fluctuations has been lacking. This Letter presents the first measurement of transverse momentum ( p T ) dependence of radial flow fluctuations ( v 0 ( p T ) ) over 0.5 < p T < 10 GeV and demonstrates its collective nature using a two-particle correlation method in Pb + Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV . The data reveal three key features supporting the collective nature of radial flow: long-range correlation in pseudorapidity, factorization in p T , and centrality-independent shape in p T . The comparison with a hydrodynamic model demonstrates the sensitivity of v 0 ( p T ) to bulk viscosity, a crucial transport property of the QGP. These findings establish a new, powerful tool for probing collective dynamics and properties of the QGP