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"Today people want sensationalism": dialogic ethics of authorship, imperialism and genre conventions in 'Cannibal Holocaust' (1980)
No full textThe poverty-crime nexus revisited: absolute poverty, relative poverty, and crime rates in 105 countries
Full text linkCriminological writing on the poverty-crime nexus has suffered from a lack of engagement with academic work about the definition of poverty. Furthermore, researchers who have connected nations’ crime rates to their poverty levels have tended to use infant mortality rates (a health outcome variable) as a proxy for poverty. This article presents findings from the first study of cross-national crime differences to use measures of “absolute” poverty (% with purchasing power under $1.90 per day at 2011 prices) and “relative” poverty (% with income below 50% of the national median). Both measures correlated positively with rates of assault/mugging, stealing, homicide, and intimate partner violence against women. Relative poverty is closely connected to inequality, while absolute poverty is closely connected to low socio-economic development, so the findings are consistent with the view that economic inequality is generally criminogenic whereas modernisation is not
Blank, light, respectable, useful: nineteenth century orphan bodies
Full text linkDiscovering a scrapbook in the archives of a Victorian Orphanage raises questions as to how the children in these institutions were represented. This paper argues that such images frame a particular version of the inmates of Muller Orphan Homes, Bristol, as a collective, a ‘caste apart’ whose worth is displayed here as visual representations of key-circulating discourses regarding respectability, usefulness, productivity and whiteness. The photograph in question provides a striking picture of docile, servile, nimble and fit bodies; it suggests their potential to be quiet, respectable, mouldable servants, apprentices and dressmakers, neatly and seamlessly fitting their allotted economic, social and cultural space. It presents these children for the imperialist gaze, ‘othered’ in these photographs as both functional, servile, ‘blank’ docile bodies and ‘spectacular’ objects of lurid fascination and sentimental sympathy
Rule of law: beyond the rhetoric
No full textAnalysis of the importance of the rule of law both nationally and internationally
Ambient literature and the language of place
No full textAmbient literature raises questions about the future of reading, particularly about forms of situated, mobile reading afforded by digital technologies where a reader is invited to examine the peripheries of an immersive, digital experience. This literary form—where story, either fiction or non-fiction, is rooted in place and accessed using a smartphone—not only contains the authored words that are presented to a reader on a screen but also the subtler language found in the surrounding environment, which can also be “read.” The interplay between these two languages—the authored narrative and the language of place—can be used to create immersive digital literary works that make use of data and require readers to engage with context and situation as part of the reading experience. A reader of a work of ambient literature experiences not only words but also context and situation as part of the reading experience. There are many unique aspects of both ambient authorship and reading practices—including the role of physical movement, unpredictability, and the blurring of boundaries between author, reader, and environment. Therefore, a definition of this digital literary form must consider the complex relationships between data, place, and story in shaping both the reading experience and the process of authoring
The power of praising bees - acoustic pasts, echoed futures: auralgraph from !Huidi-ǁgams, Omaruru, 1954
No full textWhen do we listen as we hear?
Can we glimpse history while listening?
In Acoustic Pasts, Echoed Futures, a loose series curating recordings from the Basler Afrika Bibliographien Archives, the reader is invited to listen to historical recordings—speech, song, music, natural sound, or noise—to tease the ear, move the soul or body, and bear witness to the futures of past worlds. The echoes of ‘pastness’ are convergences of the oral, the sense of hearing, and technology. Past aural worlds—compressed and mediated on wax cylinders, magnetic and other tapes or records in mp3 or WAV formats—provide sonic tracks, cracks and soundscapes, voiced anger, scintillating laughter, and raptured dancing
A Bayesian active learning approach to comparative judgement within education assessment
No full textRevitalising the musical past of the Nogai through song: a contemporary interpretation of the Epic of Edige through Nine Rhapsodies
Full text linkThe Nogai people are an indigenous Muslim Turkic-speaking ethnic group in Russia, descended from the nomadic horsemen of Central Asia, with a culture that boasts a proud and resilient history. The Nogais – ‘moribund tribelets’ (Shelemay, 1990, p. 299) – have traditionally inhabited the Great Caspian Depression, an area where the echoes of their ancient melodies still resonate. Their narrative and musical traditions, once central to their identity, now face decline due to inconsistent practice, adaptation, and engagement with contemporary audiences. This research explores the creation of Nine Rhapsodies about Edige, an album that reimagines and revitalizes the traditional Nogai epic song Edige using attributes of contemporary musical production. The Nogai people are an indigenous Muslim Turkic-speaking ethnic group in Russia, descended from the nomadic horsemen of Central Asia, with a culture that boasts a proud and resilient history. The Nogais – ‘moribund tribelets’ (Shelemay, 1990, p. 299) – have traditionally inhabited the Great Caspian Depression, an area where the echoes of their ancient melodies still resonate. The epic song recounts the deeds of Edige, (1352–1419), an eminent historical figure often hailed as the ‘Nogai Genghis Khan’ and the founder of the Nogai Horde, and engaging with it within this context is crucial, given its position as a foundational cultural text that was banned under Soviet rule, an act that severed a vital link in Nogai oral tradition. By synthesizing creative practice, historical texts, ethnographic and autoethnographic methodologies, this project not only documents but actively reinterprets Nogai musical heritage, seeking to reignite intellectual and artistic engagement with it. The new album serves as both a creative intervention and a preservation effort, extracting archetypes, key characters, and recurring themes from surviving fragments of the epic. Given my position as a Nogai insider, the project is inherently autoethnographic, bridging scholarship and artistic practice. By collecting, reimagining, and recontextualizing Nogai music, this research celebrates and sustains an endangered culture for future generations, standing on the shoulders of those who have sought to keep the Nogai legacy alive. As such, the project functions as a catalyst for exploring broader ideas of cultural revival, reclaiming the banned text, and embedding it into context of wider contemporary musical culture(s)
'Diversion is absolutely amazing': how Advance diverts women from the criminal justice system
Full text linkEngland and Wales see one of the highest
global incarceration rates,
and with evidence
repeatedly identifying the harms of incarceration
for women,
credible alternatives to custody are
critical. Diversion services are one such
alternative, alleviating systemic pressures and
offering much-needed early intervention for
those with multiple needs and histories of
trauma, as is often the case for many criminalised
women.
Diversion is a strategic priority of the
Ministry of Justice (MoJ),
with the recent Female
Offender Strategy Delivery Plan (FOSDP)
promising funding for initiatives involving
statutory and voluntary partnerships