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Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts:English Consorts series: Power, Influence and Dynasty
No full textEnglish Consorts series: Power, Influence and Dynasty. Part of editorial team for this 4-volume series, co-edited Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts (vol.2) with Joanna Laynesmith, includes chapters “Joan of Navarre: Beloved Queen and (Step)Mother or Unbeloved Witch?”, pp. 105-122, “Epilogue: Foreign Women as Consorts”, pp. 259-277, “Consorts of the Hundred Years’ War”, pp. 19-25 and co-writing the volume introduction
What is enlightened agriculture? A multi-normative approach to the nature and values of food production systems
No full textThe sustainable development of farming is an agenda with strong normative undertones, yet beyond the call to combine enhanced agricultural output with better environmental outcomes, this normativity is rarely unpacked or analysed with respect to different worldviews and value systems. The normative practices approach is a values-explicit framework for analysing the normativity of social practices; here it is applied to agriculture to provide a critique of sustainability. This helps to clarify the nature of farming and the breadth of sometimes incommensurable visions for its sustainable intensification. It also leads to a values-explicit concept of “enlightened agriculture”, defined as models for agricultural systems that explicitly realise aesthetic, jural and moral benefits, possibly at some cost to economic productivity. While any implementation of this qualitative definition will be worldview-dependent, it appears that land-sparing approaches and the promotion of biodiversity per se are unlikely to qualify as enlightened farming, but farming with concern for the wellbeing of humans and non-humans probably does. The recognition that normative worldviews direct social practices implies that there will be profound diversity among visions of good farming, which technical and political proposals ought to account for. In the face of accelerating global change, this diversity may provide both resilience and fertile grounds for new context-sensitive and community-led initiatives
Crossing Borders: Conceptualising National Exhibitions as Contested Spaces of Holocaust Memory at the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum
No full textThis paper considers the presence and potential educational impact of national exhibitions within the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum in Poland. It takes a constructivist, personal-theoretical approach, drawing from autoethnography to explore possible visitor experiences at two of the national exhibits. Through detailed reflection on the French exhibition (Block 20) and the Dutch exhibition (Block 21), the author conducts a thematic analysis on the content in order to consider the constructions and possible intentions of the narratives presented. This is used to consider how the (relatively unvisited) exhibitions might contribute to visitors’ developing understandings of the complex history of the Holocaust. Particularly, the author considers how the national exhibits might contribute to the education of young people at the museum, and, by extension, at other sites, memorials, or educational spaces. The paper concludes that the inclusion of these complex national narratives is vital in young people gaining an understanding of the Holocaust as a multi-layered event. The paper offers a model for enabling inclusive Holocaust Education that embraces: (1.) divergent historical narratives (such as those in the national exhibitions), (2.) young people’s emotional engagement and responses to those narratives, and (3.) the Holocaust (and its representations) as a ‘contested space’ of history
Flinter, George Dawson (1796-1838)
No full textThis is a short biography of George Dawson Flinter (1796-1838) published in the "Individuals" section of the online platform of the AHRC-University of Winchester research network project 'The Hispanic-Anglosphere: transnational networks, global communities (late 18th-early 20th centuries)'
Discriminability in deception is not d: Reporting the Overlap Coefficient for practitioner accessible audiences
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