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Afterword: Playing, winning and losing the Game of Thrones::Reflections on female succession in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones in comparison to the premodern era
No full textThis chapter draws connections between the chapters in this collection, the female characters of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones and historical examples from the premodern era. It looks specifically at female succession and examines the development of frameworks for accession which favoured male claimants in both the premodern era and in Westeros. It notes the ways in which Cersei Lannister, Danerys Targayen, Yara (Asha) Greyjoy and Sansa Stark both reflect and transgress historical examples of female succession as unique blends of inspiration from the past rather than a duplication of the experience of any specific premodern queen
The Global Hybridity of Sherlock Holmes
No full textA chapter on the intersection between international Sherlock Holmes adaptations and the politics of C21st globalization
Voices heard and lessons learnt: Exploring multiple knowledges and local participation in a community-based integrated early childhood development project in rural South Africa
Get PDFFollowing calls for diverse and contextual perspectives of the rich lives of young children, their families and communities from/in the Global South, this paper presents critical reflections emerging from a three-year (2016-2019) communitybased Integrated Approach to Early Childhood Development (ECD) project implemented in the rural Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. It explores the critical relationship established between a range of stakeholders involved in this project as reflected on by two community activists working together in the area of early childhood in the province for thirty years. This article highlights the importance of situating any community development initiative aimed at addressing early childhood provision in marginalised communities within a social justice framework. This includes identifying constraints inherent in unequal relations of power that risk undermining solidarity and agency for community stakeholders. It foregrounds accountability measures that emerge from local initiatives rather than from narrow predetermined project outcomes. This provides an opportunity to learn from, and engage with, experiences from the margins, thereby challenging some dominant narratives circulating, and often informing, early childhood policy and provision.</p
Shaping the State of Machine Learning Algorithms within Policing:Workshop Report
Get PDFA report to discuss the outcomes of a consultation workshop that took place on Thursday 6 June 2019 at the Royal United Services Institute, Whitehall, London with the purpose of moving the debate on machine learning algorithms within policing from high level principles towards a detailed discussion and critique of existing knowledge and research.Run by the Centre for Information Rights and supported by the University of Winchester through the Higher Education Innovation Fund
Reflective practice groups in a children’s social work setting – what are the outcomes, how do they work and under what circumstances? A new theoretical model based on empirical findings
Get PDFDespite widespread acceptance of the importance of reflection and reflective practice groups (RPGs) in children’s social work, almost no evidence exists as to the outcomes of RPGs in this context. This is a serious limitation because such evidence is crucial for funders and policy-makers and to establish RPGs as evidence-based practice. There is also an absence of theoretical models to inform thinking about how RPGs might ‘work’ as an intervention to support workers and improve practice. Contributing new evidence to bridge these gaps, this paper reports a mixed-methods, longitudinal evaluation of RPGs within one local authority children’s social work services department. The study advances the methods that have been used to investigate RPGs in the social work context and considers outcomes beyond that of the individual practitioner. The paper also presents a new theoretical model, based on these empirical findings, of how RPGs ‘worked’ and under what circumstances. <br/
Deploying Plural Drug Policies After the 'War on Drugs': A Geographical Perspective
Get PDFThere is a growing consensus that acknowledges the failings of the prohibitionist 'war on drugs' model of international drug policy. Concomitant drug policy reform literatures have been characterized by the advocacy of policy pluralism, experimentation, evidence gathering / evaluation and the avoidance of drug fetishization. This paper builds upon these literatures and explores some of the complexities of drug policy pluralization, including challenges associated with drug policy asymmetries and repatriation and the, largely unexplored, potentials of deploying drug policies in combination. It argues that the drug policy reform literature has tended to favour evaluation of policy alternatives over discussion of their geographical deployment under a more plural international policy regime. It considers models to inform the deployment of plural drug policies. Conceptually this paper draws on geographical literatures and attempts to rethink drug markets and drug policy reform in geographically sensitive, regional and relational ways, highlighting scalar and relational challenges to drug policy pluralization. It concludes by outlining an extensive set of research priorities that speak directly to the challenges identified through this geographical lens
Archetypes of locals in destinations victim of overtourism
Get PDFThis research note addresses Overtourism from locals’ perspective. The main contribution of this research note is that locals, as volatile groups have also proven to be resilient in some cases. This resilience has been developed through an ambidextrous approach, which is the balance between exploitation (using a negative situation) and exploration (turning it into something positive). The paper identified four archetypes of locals in regard to their attitudes towards tourists in an overtourism context: victims, peaceful activists, vandals, and resilient locals