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No full textA reflective non-fiction "flash" piece of writing describing the absence of a newborn baby in a maternity unit. This piece explores themes of loss and grief
Awareness of universals
No full textBook synopsis: The work of Mark Sainsbury has made a significant and challenging contribution to several central areas of philosophy, especially philosophy of language and logic. He has made significant contributions to puzzles concerning the nature of thought and language and pioneered research in the philosophical theory known as fictionalism.
In this outstanding volume, twenty contributors engage with Sainsbury's work but also go beyond it, exploring fundamental problems in the philosophy of language, mind and logic. Topics covered include propositional thought, intentionality, the mind-body problem, singular thoughts, the individuation of concepts, nominalisation, logical form, non-existent objects and vagueness.
Thought: Its Origin and Reach will be of interest to professional philosophers and students working in philosophy of mind, language, epistemology, and metaphysics
Communities of fate: magical writing and contemporary fabulism
Get PDFProphecies or curses often open a myth or fairy tale, and the story sub-sequently unfolds in accordance with what they have announced. Classical tragicmyth, for example about Oedipus or Dido, takes place in this form of predestinedtime and includes such speech acts; the plots of fairy tales, especially the storiesofThe Thousand and One Nights, also frequently turn on spells and oracles. Thisfatalism, as it has been called, has been generally criticized and often associatedwith passivity and superstition, both perceived as“oriental.”Can these narrativedevices be looked at in a different light? And do the stories themselves act as mag-ical writing, with purposes of preventing harm and averting danger? Writers ofcontemporary“world literature”are increasingly turning to myth and fable be-cause the forms offer them ways of commenting, Cassandra-like, on the fate oftheir countries and communities
We need black power, Lord: reflections on Black British Gospel Music
No full textBook synopsis: Black British Gospel Music is a dynamic and multifaceted musical practice, a diasporic river rooted in the experiences of Black British Christian communities. This book examines gospel music in Britain in both historical and contemporary perspectives, demonstrating the importance of this this vital genre to scholars across disciplines. Drawing on a plurality of voices, the book examines the diverse streams that contribute to and flow out of this significant genre. Gospel can be heard resonating within a diverse array of Christian worship spaces; as a form of community music-making in school halls; and as a foundation for ‘secular’ British popular music, including R&B, hip hop and grime
Traumatic disclosures and failures of listening
No full textTrauma narratives are often theorised as inarticulable, characterised by repetition, fragmentation, lacunae, gaps in memory. This is all true, yet just as powerful a block to speech is the refusal of the surrounding environment to provide a context for listening. In this sense, trauma is not only silencing, but silenced. In this chapter, I will explore this idea some more by reaching back to some experiences in working with child sexual abuse survivors in the 1980s, when they were beginning to be recognised as such in the UK, and when it became clear how much of the silence around sexual violence was in fact a failure to respond to disclosures of abuse. One issue is whether much has changed in the past thirty-five years and if not, then what it is that constitutes this refusal to listen
Ageing and work-life complexities in retirement
Get PDFRetiring from work used to signify the end of paid employment and a transition to focus on life outside the workplace. From this perspective, the work-life interface may have no relevance for the retired. However, recent changes, particularly resulting from the Covid pandemic, suggest that conceptualisations of both retirement and the work-life interface are more fluid, ambiguous, and complex. In this chapter, we first set the scene, reviewing how and why the traditional concept of retirement has changed so dramatically. Drawing on empirical data from contemporary media, we then consider how the current experience of the older worker and retiree are being reframed in neoliberal terms, emphasising individual responsibility to remain not just fit and healthy but also productive, through a wide range of activities. We then focus on the impact of Covid-19, highlighting how pre-pandemic structural inequalities have been exacerbated, resulting in a range of responses in both levels of retirement and work by older people. We conclude by suggesting that retirement and its work-life interface need to recognise lived experience as dynamic, messy, and varied and implicated in wider structural features of both the economy and society
Are Italian football clubs embracing sustainability?
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to explore the approach of a sustainable governance in terms of sustainability strategies that firms have been implementing towards different stakeholders. The study adopts the stakeholder theory lens to advance research on the area. A qualitative approach was used through semi-structured interviews with 17 participants employed in a total of 12 Italian professional football organizations participating in the top division of football (Serie A). Specific themes regarding the sustainability (and CSR) strategies implemented by the 12 football clubs emerged from the in-depth interviews: a) sustainability approach (awareness), b) organizational sustainability capacity in terms of human, financial and other core resources, networks and external relationships. This study sheds light on football clubs’ sustainability, representing a distinctive view in managerial literature
Attention and feature binding in the temporal domain
Get PDFPrevious studies have shown that illusory conjunction can emerge for both spatially and temporally proximal objects. However, the mechanisms involved in binding in the temporal domain are not yet fully understood. In the current study, we investigated the role of attentional processes in correct and incorrect temporal binding, and specifically how feature binding is affected by the speed of attentional engagement. In two experiments, participants searched for a target in a rapid serial visual presentation stream and reported its colour and alphanumeric identity. Temporal binding errors were frequent. Critically, when participants reported the identity of a distractor instead of a target, they were also more likely to report the colour of this distractor. This association was observed both within and between individuals. These findings suggest that attentional engagement facilitates the binding of temporally co-occurring features. We discuss these results within a ‘diachronic’ framework of selective attention, and also consider other factors that contribute to temporal binding errors
Exploring entertainment utility from football games
Get PDFPrevious research exploring the role of belief dynamics for consumers in the entertainment industry has largely ignored the fact that emotional reactions are a function of the content and a consumer’s disposition towards certain participants involved in an event. By analyzing 19m tweets in combination with in-play information for 380 football matches played in the English Premier League we contribute to the literature in three ways. First, we present a setting for testing how belief dynamics drive behavior which is characterized by several desireable features for empirical research. Second, we present an approach for detecting fans and haters of a club as well as neutrals via sentiment revealed in Tweets. Third, by looking at behavioral responses to the temporal resolution of uncertainty during a game, we offer a fine-grained empirical test for the popular uncertainty-of-outcome hypothesis in sports
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