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Editorial: Forms and functions of soft norms and informal law-making in international migration law:a different frontier
Get PDFA Dialogue with Walter Meierjohann on Theatre, Installation, and Binaural Sound
Get PDFThis dialogue explores the possibilities of binaural sound for contemporary theatre making and museum curation, situating sonic modes of practice in relation to particular formal experimentations demanded by the context of pandemic and exemplified by the international touring production of Blindness first staged at the Donmar Warehouse in London in 2020, and directed by Walter Meierjohann. The discussion between Meierjohann and Georgina Guy opens up the potential of sound installation as an apposite form through which to challenge visual-centric cultures of production and stage particular political and theatrical challenges, related to ideas of community and responsibility, and imagination, collaboration, and collective experience
Local Champions and Change of Governments:A Longitudinal Analysis of Firms’ Political Ties in Gaziantep, Turkey
Get PDFThis paper examines business-politics ties during a shift from multi-party politics to competitive-authoritarian rule in Turkey. We conducted a longitudinal investigation of the political ties and performance ranking of top manufacturing firms in a provincial industrial centre, Gaziantep. The analysis demonstrates that major power transitions in centre politics elicited variegated local responses and intra-group contestations. The leading business elites sustained political capital through a multi-scalar diversification of political ties. Using an agent, network and institutions framework, we highlight the political dynamics behind sub-national growth trajectories, and contribute to scholarship on urban party politics and elite localism in economic geography
Evidence and Ideology in the Independent Review of Prevent
Get PDFA key part of the United Kingdom’s counter-terrorism framework, the Prevent Strategy is designed to operate ‘upstream’ to stop people becoming or supporting terrorists. In February 2023 the long-awaited independent review of Prevent reported, evaluating the Strategy against its core objectives. Led by Sir William Shawcross, the report claimed that Prevent’s overarching rationale remains good because the UK continues to face a genuine terrorist threat, but lamented its diversion toward safeguarding and its downplaying of Islamist extremism as the purportedly most pressing source of radicalisation within the UK today. To declare the reception to Shawcross’ report mixed would be generous, with some observers even demanding that the Government withdraw the review. We share many concerns raised by civil society groups and practitioners, and in this piece argue that the Review is fundamentally flawed because of its partial –in the sense of both limited and biased –engagement with the relevant (and extensive) knowledge base that exists around radicalisation, counter radicalisation, and Prevent. More specifically –and with particular attention to the report’s emphasis on ‘ideology’ –we show: (i) that the report suffers from a selective, and problematic, engagement with relevant academic research that poorly represents established knowledge in this area; (ii) that this selective engagement leads to a questionable, and highly contestable, conceptual framing of the report’s core terms and parameters; and, (iii) that this contestable framing has implications for operationalisation of the report’s findings. In doing this, the article makes three core contributions in:(i) situating the Shawcross review in relevant historical and policy contexts; (ii) offering original analytical critique of the review’s methodological and political assumptions and findings; and, (iii) extending research on the mechanisms of counter-terrorism review via this new –and underexplored –case study.<br/
The seed morphospace, a new contribution towards the multidimensional study of angiosperm sexual reproductive biology
Get PDF• Background. The evolutionary success of flowering plants is associated with the vast diversity of their reproductive structures. Despite recent progress in understanding angiosperm-wide trends of floral structure and evolution, a synthetic view of the diversity in seed form and function across angiosperms is lacking.• Scope. Here we present a roadmap to synthesise the diversity of seed forms in extant angiosperms, relying on the morphospace concept, i.e. a mathematical representation which relates multiple traits and describes the realised morphologies. We provide recommendations on how to broaden the range of measurable traits beyond mass, by using key morphological traits representative of the embryo, endosperm, and seed coat but also fruit attributes (e.g., dehiscence, fleshiness). These key traits were used to construct and analyse a morphospace to detect evolutionary trends and gain insight into how morphological traits relate to seed functions. Finally, we outline challenges and future research directions, combining the morphospace with macroevolutionary comparative methods to underline the drivers that gave rise to the diversity of observed seed forms.• Conclusions. We conclude that this multidimensional approach has the potential, although still untapped, to improve our understanding of covariation among reproductive traits, and further elucidate angiosperm reproductive biology as a whole
Ketocarotenoid production in tomato triggers metabolic reprogramming and cellular adaptation:The quest for homeostasis
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Collective biography and micro-periodization:a data-rich analysis of recent lives in the Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1901)
Get PDFCollective biography contributes to processes of periodization. This article uses corpus linguistic analysis to identify stylistic trends within Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1901) entries on recent lives. DNB editors and contributors used micro-periodizations, based on ideas of generational supersession, to transition their recent past from informal “communicative” memory into monumental “cultural” memory
Separation-Dependent Near-Field Effects in Mie Scattering Spectra of Two Optically Trapped Aerosol Droplets
Get PDFThe backscattering of ultraviolet and visible light by a model organic aerosol droplet,squalane, is investigated upon approach of a second isolated droplet at varying separationsIllumination and collection of light is along the interparticle axis. The conditions replicate typicalbroadband light spectroscopy studies of atmospheric aerosol. -Matrix near-field modelling,which includes near-field effects, predicts separation-dependent changes in the intensity of thebackscattered light on close approach of neighbouring spheres. However, the experimental resultsshow no evidence of separation-dependent near-field effects on the scattering. The results arebest replicated by modelling the droplets as individual scatterers
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