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‘It’s not just music, it helps you from inside’: mixing methods to understand the impact of music on young people in contact with the criminal justice system
Get PDFIn response to some of the criticisms of previous research into the arts in criminal justice, this article presents findings from research with a music programme run by a Youth Offending team (YOT). Data were collected on the attendance of 42 participants at YOT appointments – matched against a comparison group – and measures of change over time in musical development, attitudes and behaviour and well-being. Participants who completed the music programme were statistically more likely to attend YOT appointments than a comparison group. There were statistically significant improvements in participants’ self-reported well-being and musical ability over the course of the project. Effect sizes reached the minimum important difference for quantitative measures. To understand not just if, but how, any impact was achieved, and to ensure the voice of the young people was heard, the quantitative elements of the research were complemented and extended by in-depth interviews with 23 participants
Postdigital ecopedagogies of attainment and progress
No full textHuman attainment is based on a particular model of chronological achievements. People and society are assessed in terms of making progress towards ‘something better’. This approach through modernity sees technology treated as a resource to harness for gain regardless of environmental costs. In education, this linear progress model is mirrored: accessing learning, completing study in a timeframe, attaining an award and progress beyond education. Though Covid-19 has interrupted these components of ‘success’, a consensus that children, students, workers and the economy all need to ‘catch up’ after the pandemic exists, even when people are not catching up from an equal positionality. In this competitive, neoliberal progress model attempts to widen participation in education have only had limited success. Additionally, new convergences between digitalisation and biological sciences now provide a broader world view on relations between technologies, progress and humans. This chapter examines the possible demise of a model of progress based on linear hierarchies. It reviews related assumptions, and considers implications, for ecopedagogies of attainment, when unpredictable developments in technology now begin to alter how we might understand progress itself
Sins of my father: a daughter, a cult, a wild unravelling
No full textWhen Lily Dunn was just six years old, her father left the family home to follow his guru to India, trading domestic life for clothes dyed in oranges and reds and the promise of enlightenment with the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Since then he has been a mystery to her.
She grew up enthralled by the image of him; effervescent, ambitious and elusive, a writer, publisher and entrepreneur, a man who would appear with gifts from faraway places, and with whom she spent the long, hot summers of her teenage years in Italy, in the company of his wild and wealthy friends.
Yet he was also a compulsive liar, a delinquent, a man who abandoned his responsibilities in a pursuit of transcendence that took him from sex addiction, via the Rajneesh cult, to a relentless chase of money, which ended in ruin and finally addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs.
A detective story that charts two colliding narratives, Sins of My Father is a daughter’s attempt to unravel the mysteries of a father who believed himself to be beyond reproach. A dazzling work of literary memoir, it asks how deep legacies of shame and trauma run, and if we can reconcile unconditional love with irreparable damage
A good read: Katherine Rundell and Nathan Filer
No full textKatherine Rundell and Nathan Filer bring their favourite reads to Harriett Gilbert. Katherine has chosen the poetry of John Donne, Nathan loves The Shapeless Unease by Samantha Harvey, and Harriett is keen to hear everyone's views on Sylvia Plath's only novel, the Bell Jar
How to add book chapter text from a non-open access book to ResearchSPAce
No full textA preliminary guide for Bath Spa University's academic staff about depositing the text of book chapters in ResearchSPAce
Eccentric connections: toward a decolonial (digital) book history
Get PDFIn my recent history of Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), the case study of Patrick Browne’s 'The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica' (1756, 1789) focuses on bibliography and technology to illuminate a story of remediation. The case study was silent, however, on how this book was imbricated in the system of Atlantic enslavement and colonialism. My Reflections essay attempts to redress this erasure by recognizing that the field of eighteenth-century studies is entangled within the legacies of global colonialism and by drawing on anti-racist and decolonial reading strategies. This essay intersects with postcolonial and decolonial approaches to digital humanities, book history, and the archives of the Caribbean and the Black Atlantic. It traces the routes across time and place of two book copies, connecting biography, provenance, archives, the violent histories of place and geography, the neo-colonial conditions of digital publishing and technology, and the contexts of power and privilege of my own situation as a white scholar
The textual sociology of the Stationers' Registers, 1554-1605
Get PDFThe Stationers’ Registers are paradoxical objects. The Stationers’ Company is well-known
amongst early modern scholars and the Stationers’ Registers are frequently cited; together,
they played a significant role in the narratives of book history that emerge throughout this
period. However, given that the Stationers’ Registers are such important texts there have
been very few studies concerned solely with them. This thesis, as an individual study of the
Stationers’ Registers between 1554 and 1605, aims to redress this absence from the
established work in this field.
Its fundamental purpose is to explore the textual sociology of the Stationers’ Registers in
order to examine its position as a cultural artefact in its own right, with particular emphasis
placed upon the social dynamics that were instrumental in shaping the narratives and
discourses that surround the registers. Chapters One and Two consider the ways in which
concepts of ‘text’ and ‘authorship’ inform and fashion the material and social constructs of
the Stationers’ Registers. Very little is known of the procedural aspect of the Company’s
record-keeping systems during this period, so Chapter Three is an investigation of the daily
procedural and cultural environment of the Stationers’ Company. Chapter Four examines
the social function of the Stationers’ Registers, and their role as social documents. For the
London book trades the registers had a value beyond that of the commercial, a worth that
extended into cultural, social, and political spheres; and in Chapter Five I explore what the
registers tell us about the values ascribed to texts
Anime in the UK: the history, cultural context, and evolution of UK anime fandom
Get PDFOrganised anime fandom in the UK is relatively young, having originated in the early ’90s following the UK’s first recorded anime screening programme at a convention (McCarthy, 2018a) and, shortly thereafter, the success of Ōtomo Katsuhiro’s Akira (1988) and the launch of Manga Video. However, while it is tempting to take this as the absolute genesis of UK anime fandom, to do so is to decontextualise both anime and anime fandom in the UK – neither occurred in isolation, nor did either spring up overnight.
In this thesis I examine the history and dynamics of anime fans and fandom in the UK, but rather than beginning with this obvious starting point, I work through the pre-history of fandom, identifying the localised, “culturally odourless” (Iwabuchi, 1998) titles screened on television or in the cinema that served to catch the attention of young people who would become fans. But more than that, I seek to contextualise anime fandom – and the ways in which the medium of anime was perceived by the British press and public – in terms of Anglo-Japanese diplomacy and the ways that the British have historically responded to Japanese art and culture since the late nineteenth century. I also explore the main sites of change in anime fandom – the Video Nasties panic of the ’90s, the mass popularity of Pokémon (1997-Present), the Academy Awards success of Spirited Away (2001), and the rise of the Internet – and, inspired by Azuma Hiroki (2001), I survey current UK anime fans to identify where generational lines can be drawn, how these generations differ, and what they have in common. Finally, I suggest possibilities for extended and intersectional study of UK anime fans and speculate about what the future may hold for anime fandom… and whether anime has succeeded in truly achieving mainstream status