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Review of Shakespeare’s Henry V (directed by Max Webster for the Donmar Warehouse), streamed to cinemas by NT Live, 21 April 2022 [performance review]
No full textEthics and integrity in the rule of law and international law
No full textThis book examines the ethics and integrity approach to modelling the rule of law and the international law process by investigating different factors that influence legal and governance systems in society. It explores the foundations of the rule of law and international law, and how to overcome the undesirable deficiencies in our legal and governance systems. The approach of this book is carefully designed to briefly demonstrate how including ethics and integrity when dealing with the rule of law and international law could lead to effective legal and governance systems. This book argues that the rule of law does not stand alone; ethics and integrity are the lifeblood of all legal rules and governance systems. This book is of special interest to academics and researchers within the fields of law, social Justice and philosophy
Understanding digital inequality: a theoretical kaleidoscope
No full textThe pandemic affected more than 1.5 billion students and youth, and the most vulnerable learners were hit hardest, making digital inequality in educational settings impossible to overlook. Given this reality, we, all educators, came together to find ways to understand and address some of these inequalities. As a product of this collaboration, we propose a methodological toolkit: a theoretical kaleidoscope to examine and critique the constitutive elements and dimensions of digital inequalities. We argue that such a tool is helpful when a critical attitude to examine ‘the ideology of digitalism’, its concomitant inequalities, and the huge losses it entails for human flourishing seems urgent. In the paper, we describe different theoretical approaches that can be used for the kaleidoscope. We give relevant examples of each theory. We argue that the postdigital does not mean that the digital is over, rather that it has mutated into new power structures that are less evident but no less insidious as they continue to govern socio-technical infrastructures, geopolitics, and markets. In this sense, it is vital to find tools that allow us to shed light on such invisible and pervasive power structures and the consequences in the daily lives of so many
Making every contact count and healthy conversation skills as very brief or brief behaviour change interventions: a scoping review
Get PDFAim:-
To identify and map the available evidence regarding the implementation of Making Every Contact Count and/or Healthy Conversation Skills for both staff delivering and service users receiving the brief or very brief intervention/s.
Methods:-
A scoping review approach was used to rapidly map and provide an overview of the relevant literature, identify gaps in knowledge, and inform further, related research. Articles investigating experiences, perceptions and impact of Making Every Contact Count and/or Healthy Conversation Skills were included. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies were eligible for inclusion, as were reviews and reports.
Results:-
Twenty-two articles were included in total. Healthy Conversation Skills training was found to be acceptable, and had a positive impact on staff confidence and competence in supporting behaviour change, across studies. Some positive effects of intervention exposure on the sedentary behaviour and dietary quality of service users were evidenced. Changes in confidence following Making Every Contact Count training were varied, as was perceived acceptability of the intervention for staff. Two studies highlighted positive impacts of the intervention on service user health; however, statistical significance was not reported. The perceived barriers and facilitators of implementation for both interventions mapped mostly to ‘Environmental Context and Resources’ on the Theoretical Domains Framework.
Conclusion:-
Healthy Conversation Skills is an acceptable and effective behaviour change intervention that could provide a consistent approach to Making Every Contact Count training and evaluation. Further research is warranted to evaluate this approach for more staff and service user groups
Versions of the non-dominant hand (the apocryph); Versions of Oedipus (the phantom thread); Versions of divination (the Lacrimosa)
No full textVersions of Amusia 1 [concerto for 33 violins]; Versions of Amusia 5 [eat him by his own light]; On Rimsky Korsakov’s birthday
No full textThe Olivier ‘Damara-Nama’ Collection from Sesfontein (Namibia) (British Library Sound Archive C1709): repertoire, rights holders and repatriation
No full textThis paper identifies Indigenous and local Rights Holders for a collection of different musical forms recorded in 1999 in Sesfontein (!Nani|aus / Ohamuheke) in Kunene Region, north-west Namibia, by ethnomusicologists Emmanuelle Olivier from France and the late Minette Mans from the University of Namibia: the ‘Olivier / Mans Collection’. In early 2015 this collection was retrieved from Olivier in France by ethnomusicologist Angela Impey (SOAS University of London and Future Pasts Co-Investigator), together with Olivier’s full set of recordings from her significant and wide-ranging ethnomusicology research in Namibia in the 1990s. The full collection of recordings and accompanying material, including the Sesfontein recordings for which ǁHawaxab was the translator and facilitator, is now catalogued and digitised as part of the ‘Emmanuelle Olivier Collection’ in the British Library Sound Archive.
Many of the Khoekhoegowab-speaking Damara / ǂNūkhoen, Nama and ǁUbun musicians recorded in Sesfontein by Olivier and Mans in 1999 have participated in research by authors Sullivan and Ganuses during their collaboration from 1994 onwards. Since learning of the Olivier recordings, a hope has been that they would be returned to those recorded, as originally promised. After receiving (in 2017) from Impey an .mp3 copy of the first of Olivier’s DAT cassettes from Sesfontein, and subsequently scanning Olivier’s colour slides from Sesfontein in the British Library (in 2018), Sullivan worked with Ganuses and ǁHawaxab to identify musicians present in these slides. These musicians, their families/descendants and their wider community – represented today by the Nami-Daman Traditional Authority and the Hoanib Cultural Group of Sesfontein – are the Indigenous and local Rights Holders to the Olivier Sesfontein Collection in the British Library (BL).
In August 2021 Sullivan was approached by a Data Protection and Rights Clearance Officer (World and Traditional Music) at the British Library working on the project ‘Unlocking Our Sound Heritage’ (https://www.bl.uk/projects/unlocking-our-sound-heritage), requesting information regarding Rights Holders to ‘arub healing ceremonies’ in the C1709 Emmanuelle Olivier Collection, in the course of potentially making these recordings accessible online. In subsequent communications with ǁHawaxab and the Nami-Daman TA it became clear that several layers of complexity surround the permissions requested by the British Library for offering online public access to the Sesfontein recordings. In particular: 1) an initial commitment by Olivier and Mans for the 1999 recordings to be returned to the Sesfontein musicians for their own use had not been upheld; and 2) no permissions from the Indigenous and local Rights Holders to the recorded Sesfontein musics were sought prior to retrieving, and then cataloguing and digitising, the recordings in the British Library from 2015 onwards. It should be noted, however, that as a research library the British Library benefits from a copyright exception allowing it to copy and document collection items in order to make them accessible to registered users in the library’s reading rooms.
This paper compiles what is known of the Rights Holders to the recorded Sesfontein musics held in C1709 in the British Library and documents the process of negotiation that facilitated the return of these digitised musics to them
'See, I am in pieces' & 'Holding the gaze' & 'Welcome to your touch tour'
No full textTanvir Bush is a blind creative writer, who describes her engagement with the Minoan Snake Goddesses through fragments and touch as part of the MANSIL project 'Into the Labyrinth of The Snake Goddess'
The individual under international criminal law (Pt 2)
No full textHow is international criminal law enforced today and how might it be applied to contemporary war criminals? Simon Parsons weighs up the options. Under the Rome Statute, the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction over the four core crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression. It is feasible that Vladimir Putin and other war criminals could be put on trial for these crimes, and there have been calls for the creation of a special tribunal for the punishment of the crime of aggression against Ukraine
Exhuming Mary Lincoln: found poetry in biographical fiction
Get PDFThis study investigates the integration of found poetry with prose to create a hybrid work of biographical fiction. More specifically this investigation explores the ways in which found poetry based on historical documents might significantly inform narrative and structure. The novel, Widow Lincoln, serves as the field of practice for this examination and forms the basis of the contextualizing thesis, outlined as follows: Chapter One introduces the research, acquaints the reader with the subgenres of found poetry and biographical fiction (biofiction), reviews relevant literature in the field, and briefly introduces methodology. Chapter Two provides definitions of key terms and takes a look at general reservations surrounding the two genres, while in Chapter Three the integration of found poetry is examined through the lens of two unique but complementary works of biofiction. Chapter Four investigates the development of a selection of found poems within Widow Lincoln and briefly explores their influence on the layout and structure of the novel. Finally, this study suggests two new contributions to knowledge in the field of creative writing: 1. the categorization of a subgenre within found poetry identified here as exhumed poetry to denote poems drawn specifically from the historical record, and 2. a new approach to biofiction which integrates found poetry as part of a sustained narrative. This investigation suggests a method for incorporating found poetry based on historical documents, including the personal correspondence of historical figures, into a work of biofiction as a means of promoting a more intimate engagement between the writer and the subject, the subject and the story, and ultimately between the story and the reader