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Don't rest, narrate
No full textHistorically, publishing has been an essential platform for artists to disseminate their works, concepts and aims. It is also – as Norwegian artist Guttorm Guttormsgaard powerfully argued – a paradigmatic model for any form of collective, distributed, discursive production. The publication 'Don’t rest, narrate' addresses the interrelationship of art, publishing and collectivity. It was evolved from research carried out during PRAKSIS’s seventh residency, 'For a Rainy Day – Publishing as a Site of Collectivisation', held in autumn 2017 in collaboration with the publisher Torpedo and designers Eller med a.
'Don’t rest, narrate' constitutes both a resource and an art object. Containing commissioned artworks and new texts, brief studies of key experiments in art and radical publishing, reprints of texts on subjects ranging from collective production to licensing and archiving and a bibliography giving pointers for further reading, the book is designed to inform and to stimulate further discussion and study. Its unusual, non-linear three-section format renders visible and tangible the performative dimension of our interactions with books
Nonviolent protest: can it really make a difference?
No full textMike Cardwell takes a look at nonviolent protest and considers some of the underlying psychology behind its effectiveness
Uncertain abuse and insider credentials: examining ambiguous cultural representations of childhood sexual abuse in the 2005 British comedy series 'Nathan Barley'
No full textThe study comprises of a close textual reading of the 2005 British Channel Four television satire 'Nathan Barley', written by Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker. In this chapter, the tensions between the authentic crime of child sexual abuse (CSA) and the inauthentic space of early 2000s East London counterculture will be analysed. This is developed into an interrogation of 'Nathan Barley'’s presentation of child sex abusers and survivors as ambiguous roles to opt in and out of in order to garner cultural capital. This is contextualised within the moral panic surrounding CSA, alongside wider anxieties surrounding the ethics of both mass and counterculture media in depicting traumatic themes during early twenty-first-century Britai
Walking-with whiteness
No full textThis chapter develops a conference paper offering an iteration of walking-with (Sundberg 2013; Springgay and Truman 2018) building on Sweet Waters, a walking arts exploration of legacies of slave-ownership in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bath, UK. The project revealed obscured histories and interrogated the City’s reluctant heritage (Tomory 1999; Otele 2016) of empire and slave generated wealth. A participatory performative strategy emerges from the juxtaposition of registers of walking. The approach foregrounds corporeal and affective experience, employing the questioning tactics of 'affect aliens' (Ahmed 2010) on the official heritage narrative. Sweet Waters reveals and challenges white silence (Di Angelo 2012) through a frictional insertion into a heritage experience racialised as white. The presentation proposes a creative non-confrontational method of engagement with complex and entangled heritages towards social repair. Walkers become agents and story carriers of rich heritage narratives; the reluctance to address legacies of slave-ownership is eroded through a walking-with approach
Consent, wantedness, and pleasure: three dimensions affecting the perceived stress of and judgements of rape in sexual encounters.
Get PDFParticipants conflate consent and wantedness when judging situations as rape (Peterson & Muehlenhard, 2007). Pleasure might also affect how such situations might be appraised by victims, perpetrators, and jurors. In four experiments, participants read vignettes describing sexual encounters that were consensual or not, wanted or unwanted, and pleasurable or not pleasurable. Participants judged whether they thought each situation described rape and how distressing they thought the encounter would be. Wantedness affected perceived distress when consent was given. Wantedness and pleasure also influenced whether participants considered the situation rape in nonconsensual scenarios. In additional experiments, we analyzed the results by gender, manipulated perspective (being the subject or initiator of the encounter), levels of aggression, and compared the results to a group of participants who had viewed an antiabuse campaign. Male participants and those higher in benevolent sexism were more likely than women to utilize pleasure and wantedness in judging whether situations described rape. Perspective and viewing the media campaign did not significantly affect judgments of rape. Our results have implications for models of the consequences of consent, wantedness, and pleasure of sex, and important implications for educational programs aimed at reducing sexual assault and training for those involved in criminal justice
Exploring the situated social being of children with profound and multiple learning difficulties across educational contexts: a study of belonging
Get PDFMaintaining family ties: how family practices are renegotiated to promote mother-child contact
Get PDFIncentivised sterilisation: lessons from India and for the future
No full textFamily planning programmes in India have historically been target-driven and incentive-based with sterilisation seen as a key component of controlling population growth. This opinion paper uses India as the backcloth to examine the ethics of using incentive policy measures to promote and secure sterilisations within communities. Whilst we acknowledge that these measures have some value in reproductive health care, their use raises specific issues and wider concerns where the outcome is likely to be permanent and life changing for the acceptor