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The reproduction of the gender regime: the military and education as state apparatuses constraining the military wife student
Get PDFThis paper reports on the experiences and perspectives of military wives as students and potential students of Access to Higher Education Diplomas, a qualification for widening participation in HE for ‘non-traditional’ students in the UK – an under-researched topic. Contributing to both Marxist and feminist theory, we argue that the combined practices of the state apparatuses, the military and education system, constrain these women's access to, and progress in, HE, and that the patriarchal gender regime is reproduced through institutional structures and practices. The study found that military wives' own education plays a secondary role to their serving partners' military careers; that the military promotes their roles as wives and mothers above adult educational opportunities; and that despite the widening participation agenda, an inflexible HE system further blocks educational opportunities for this group
Heavy metal justice? Calibrating the economic and aesthetic accreditation of the heavy metal genre in the pages of 'Rolling Stone', 1980-1991: part one 1980-85
Get PDFGiven the genre name heavy metal can be traced to a negative adjective that emerges out of 70s rock journalism and which reflects a widespread dissensus among rock critics about its value and impact on North American rock music, how are we to explain the gradual or cumulative shift away from this majority aesthetic disapprobation, in the 1980‐85 period, towards a widespread economic accreditation, particularly in the pages of leading rock magazine, Rolling Stone? Is it simply a belated recognition of the longevity of the genre and its resurgent popularity with majority audiences? If so, how are we to explain the subsequent shift, clearly evident in the Rolling Stone coverage in the 1986‐91 period, from economic to aesthetic approbation of selective bands, particularly those identified with a thrash metal underground, which is nevertheless seen to emerge from within the genre or to be an aesthetic development of some of its key musical features, while rejecting others? Drawing on a comprehensive survey, composed of album reviews, lead or feature articles and interviews, drawn from the Rolling Stone archive, my research reports, in Part One of this article, a definite shift in the critical reception of heavy metal to economic accreditation in the 1980‐85 period, based not only on the genre’s persistence and sustained economic success but also its ability to appeal beyond its core metal audience and therefore challenge the dominant rock and pop aesthetic. For some critics this means that a selective set of popular bands, such as AC/DC, the Scorpions and Def Leppard, can be afforded a degree of aesthetic approbation, even the status of ‘artists’. But this praise also leads to the Great Metal Question: can they now seek to move beyond the musical and lyrical conventions of heavy metal in order to appeal to a wider audience beyond their core fanbase
Self-directed experiential learning to meet ever-changing entrepreneurship demands
Get PDFPurpose:- Policy makers have called for more entrepreneurship throughout societies as a response to the digital transformation. This paper argues that the rapidly changing conditions of the digital age indeed mark a change in the bases of entrepreneurship. Specifically, as adaptivity becomes key, a learning capacity and general ability to adapt becomes a critical factor in entrepreneurial activity. The paper identifies self-directed learning as a fundamental competence in this regard and examines its role for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial competence.
Design/methodology/approach:- The paper develops a theoretical framework for the role of self-directed learning in entrepreneurship through a process of systematic review of previous studies that have linked self-directed learning to entrepreneurship.
Findings:- The formulated theoretical framework shows how self-directed learning competence combines with experiential learning in supporting the kind of adaptivity needed for entrepreneurial competence, especially under more rapidly changing conditions. Self-directed learning competence also gains wider importance through enabling individuals to meet the demands of organizational changes in our highly volatile world.
Practical implications:- Self-directed learning competence prepares individuals for entrepreneurship and resilience in face of rapid changes as well as for being more entrepreneurial in the conduct of their lives more generally. Fostering self-directed learning competence can thus be regarded as an important objective of entrepreneurship education.
Originality/value:- The described Self-directed Experiential Learning Cycle offers a novel perspective that clarifies how both self-directed and experiential learning competences are integral for understanding the basis of adaptiveness in entrepreneurial activity
In ordinary times, in extraordinary times: consent, newborn screening, genetics, and pandemics
Get PDFAgainst the backdrop of newborn genetic screening and pandemics, this article examines disputes between parents, acting as proxies for their children, and healthcare professionals. While some will support parents, others will push-back against proxy consent and the right to veto actions that are proposed by the professionals. Whereas in ordinary times, such a push-back might seek to displace or downgrade parental rights (e.g. by appealing to professional duty or the optimisation of health) or to de-centre or dilute consent, in extraordinary times, rights and consent are superseded by appeals to responsibility, solidarity, and even “states of exception”
When worlds collide - non-state actors, philanthropy, and the commercial promotion of fertility control options in low- and middle-income countries
No full textCollective welfare concerns are often advanced to justify external intervention by state actors
in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) policies and programmes in low- and middle-income
countries (for convenience, referred to as ‘developing countries’). Fertility related
interventions are typically fuelled and justified by concerns about the sufficiency and/or
distribution of global resources. On the one hand, intervention is aimed at controlling
population growth and as the means to limiting resource demand from specific geographical
locations. On the other, intervention using financial aid or other mechanisms to support or
promote specific fertility options is rationalised as the fair redistribution of global resources
to maximise the survival of the human ecosystem. The underlying assumption is that by
‘fixing’ or rebalancing the global human population, many of the world’s problems will be
solved.
This paper examines the developing role of transnational philanthropic and commercial
actors in global SRH policies and programmes, specifically, in the promotion and
implementation of fertility control schemes in the developing world. Whilst complex multi-
stakeholder arrangements complicate matters, we argue that caution should be exercised in
the ethical assessment of interventions supported or otherwise promoted by these non-state
actors. It does not follow that collective justifications/ interests should be automatically
extended to, or otherwise cover the activities of these organisations in this sphere. This is
especially important in contexts, and for arrangements that do not fully prioritise and embed
rights-based approaches to SRH. The scope for conflicts of interest and inequality in the
power dynamics is all too apparent. The lack of genuine accountability and transparency of
action also raises the question whether State actors should be openly facilitating and
supporting philanthropic and commercial interventions in the developing world under the
banner of the ‘global good’
The role of coping in the wellbeing and work-related quality of life of UK health and social care workers during COVID-19
Get PDFThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a global pandemic in early 2020. Due to the rapid spread of the virus and limited availability of effective treatments, health and social care systems worldwide quickly became overwhelmed. Such stressful circumstances are likely to have negative impacts on health and social care workers’ wellbeing. The current study examined the relationship between coping strategies and wellbeing and quality of working life in nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, social care workers and social workers who worked in health and social care in the UK during its first wave of COVID-19. Data were collected using an anonymous online survey (N = 3425), and regression analyses were used to examine the associations of coping strategies and demographic characteristics with staff wellbeing and quality of working life. The results showed that positive coping strategies, particularly active coping and help-seeking, were associated with higher wellbeing and better quality of working life. Negative coping strategies, such as avoidance, were risk factors for low wellbeing and worse quality of working life. The results point to the importance of organizational and management support during stressful times, which could include psycho-education and training about active coping and might take the form of workshops designed to equip staff with better coping skills
Postdigital artistic positionality and its potentials for cultural education
No full textIn 2002, in Culture in Bits, Gary Hall described challenges to the ‘identity’ of cultural studies, pointing to the debate between political economy and cultural studies. Rapid technological change has distracted us since, but these challenges remain. Furthermore, recent developments surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic have also revealed complex interconnections across viral biology and information science, with the global lockdown giving rise to related postdigital artistic activities. In Algorithmic Culture Ted Striphas discussed a delegation of the work of culture to computational processes which significantly alters the practice, experience, and understanding of culture. This article examines to what extent postdigital art practices offer a form of resistance to political economic ‘illusions’ of democratic forms of public culture found across the Internet, and at which price. If humans and technology are acknowledged as part of a collaborative artistic process, can this address issues pertaining to power, exploitation, and emancipation in our postdigital age? We conclude that when artists engage with their personal postdigital positionality, this brings such possibilities a little closer in these uncertain times
Traced papers: Leuchter
No full textThis set of Traced Papers specifically uses The Leuchter Report.
According to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum ‘[The] facts make it clear that the “Leuchter Report,” allegedly a watershed in understanding Auschwitz, is in fact nothing more than an attempt, concealed beneath an academic-looking smokescreen of graphs, analyses, and calculations, at misinforming readers who have no access to the scholarly literature—or who are looking for precisely the sort of conclusions that Leuchter offers.
Dead head
No full textSince confessing to her bloody murder spree Rhiannon Lewis, the now-notorious Sweetpea killer, has been feeling out-of-sorts.
Having fled the UK on a cruise ship to start her new life, Rhiannon should be feeling happy. But it’s hard to turn over a new leaf when she’s stuck in an oversized floating tin can with the Gammonati and screaming kids. Especially when they remind her of Ivy – the baby she gave up for a life carrying on killing.
Rhiannon is all at sea. She’s lost her taste for blood but is it really gone for good? Maybe Rhiannon is realising that there’s more to life than death
Lairies
No full textShaun wakes up in hospital after a fight in a local nightclub and discovers his girlfriend has been assaulted. Ade and Colbeck were there that night – the climax to weeks of escalating violence, their two-man vigilante mission to kick back against a broken generation. A misguided plan to combat the lairies that blight Britain’s bars, pubs and streets.
What really happened? And how did it come to this