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Sexual peril and dangerous others: the moral economies of the trans prisoner policy debates in England and Wales
No full textThis article analyses a widely publicised case in England, where a trans woman was remanded to a women’s prison and subsequently sexually assaulted other women prisoners. The article traces how the case was politically mobilised to support a growing backlash against trans rights in Britain. The article argues that the case was successfully deployed by trans-hostile groups because of a combination of carceral politics and sexual exceptionalism, which cut across both left and right politics and has roots in racialised narratives of ‘dangerous others’. These narratives, while ostensibly claiming to guard against sexual violence, paradoxically limit the capacity to meaningfully address underlying causes of sexual harm
Climate and anthropogenic impacts on North American erosion and sediment transport since the Last Glacial Maximum: evidence from the detrital zircon record of the Lower Mississippi Valley, USA
Get PDFThe Mississippi River provides an opportunity to examine models of sediment transport in large alluviated floodplain systems. We test the idea that sources of sandy sediment in such settings are invariable on timescales <104 y because of storage and recycling in the floodplains. To reconstruct the development of the Mississippi sediment load over the past 2500 years we collected sediment from an abandoned point bar complex nearby at False River, Louisiana, USA. We also took annual samples from the lower reaches between 2015 and 2021 to assess changes on that timescale. Optically stimulated luminescence dating indicated that the point bar accreted between 2460 and 860 years ago. Detrital zircon U-Pb dating was used to assess sediment source and variability over time. We confirm a dominant sediment flux from the Rocky Mountain foreland but with higher relative erosion from the Superior Province during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) based on existing data from the Gulf of Mexico. There have been resolvable changes in the sources of sediment particularly since the LGM and after 860 years ago, but also over shorter, even sub-annual timescales in the recent past. These changes may reflect seasonal weather or storm events in the headwater regions and imply limited floodplain buffering of the sand load. In recent times this may reflect the installation of levees in the lower reaches, suppressing reworking. Changes over 102–103 y time periods may be related to changes in climate (e.g., the Medieval and Roman warm periods) and to the development of agriculture across North America after ~2000 years ago. Detrital zircon dating is an effective provenance tool and does not appear to be strongly biased by the grain size of the sediment in this setting
The significance of household cisterns at Roman Dura-Europos
No full textDura-Europos has long been dubbed the ‘Pompeii of the Syrian Desert’. One of the many reasons this moniker does not fit is because the parched aridity the name conjures belies a site which not only sits immediately above the mighty Euphrates river, but also had a range of ways of accessing its immense water flow and indeed other sources of water. Yet, despite this, Dura Europos had concerns with water: supplying it, managing it, and storing it. For most of its history, the archaeology of the site indicates that supply and storage of water was a household rather than a broader civic concern. This chapter examines what is known concerning the use of water in the houses of Dura Europos. It will begin with a survey of the available evidence on the hydraulic arrangements of the site, and the problems in using that evidence. It will then explore what we know about water management from the houses, before moving on to a consideration of what meaning we might draw from that evidence - that is, the social and cultural significance of the arrangement and use of water in the houses of Dura Europos
Qualitative analysis in online research: protecting against researcher vulnerabilities
Get PDFQualitative research has long been concerned with sensitive research areas. Sensitive research online in particular and qualitative online research in general have many unknown challenges. Not least, protecting researcher vulnerabilities warrants careful thought and guidance. This chapter offers researchers areas to watch out for and become cognizant of, when studying uniquely important and often changing sensitive online data sets. We invite you to consider this chapter as a framework to protect against potential vulnerabilities researchers may experience in unknown online areas, especially where evolving qualitative methods are essential to new forms of digital data collection and analysis
La passion de l'ignorance
No full textBook synopsis: En prenant appui sur la philosophie, la théorie psychanalytique et sociale ainsi que la culture populaire, Renata Salecl explore le rôle qu’aujourd'hui joue la passion de l’ignorance dans les nombreux aspects de la vie que sont, l’amour, la maladie, le trauma et face à la génétique, au big data et au mouvement incel, la crainte de déchoir - et elle conclut que l’ignorance est un phénomène complexe, qui à l'occasion peut bénéficier tout autant aux individus qu'à la société
Creators of modern China: 100 lives from Empire to Republic 1796-1912
No full textBoook synopsis: Discover the stories of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China
Militarists - Soldiers, martyrs, mercenaries and pirates
No full textBoook synopsis: Discover the stories of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China
Like the brother: Flann O’Brien and John Millington Synge
Get PDFThis article explores Brian O’Nolan’s (Flann O’Brien’s, Myles na gCopaleen’s) relation to John Millington Synge. Synge (1871–1909) was the premier dramatist of the Irish Revival, and O’Nolan’s response to Synge is metonymic of his response to that pre-revolutionary cultural formation. The article provides a mainly chronological account of O’Nolan’s references to Synge, with particular focus on a significant Cruiskeen Lawn column from 1942. It interprets and contextualises each of these textual occasions to draw out their cultural significance. Standing back from these particular textual instances, the article then aims to characterise O’Nolan’s relation to Synge as a whole, and to consider what this tells us about O’Nolan’s relation to the Revival
Care and the academy: navigating fieldwork, funding and care responsibilities
Get PDFThis commentary reflects on research jointly conducted by the Development Geographies Research Group (DevGRG) and the Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG) of the RGS-IBG, which aimed to understand the challenges faced by academics with care responsibilities. We set out the effects of research funding policies and practices on researchers' ability to combine careers as academic geographers with care responsibilities, highlighting the specific effects in a field-based subject such as Geography. We gathered data about a range of research funders' policies and how these are implemented (in various ways) in UK Geography departments. We also surveyed all UK university Geography departments to understand experiences of parental and adoption leave, including support from employers, impacts on career progression, and recommendations for support. Our data show that there is a need for a more consistent and comprehensive approach to recognising the costs of academics' caring responsibilities, to support their career progression and to mitigate the impacts disproportionately experienced by women. Funders and higher education institutes (HEIs) need to work collaboratively to develop policies and practices to address the individualised way in which (predominantly female) academics currently experience navigating the provision of funding for parental leave, and for covering costs of care during fieldwork. Our research highlights the need for consistent and progressive policies in relation to care and parental leave across all funding bodies – that can subsequently be embedded into institutional frameworks – in order to provide equity and consistency for staff across the UK higher education (HE) sector. We also emphasise the need for these policies to be more visible and transparent, making the task of navigating them more manageable for staff at an often uncertain time in their working lives
Enablers or inhibitors? Unpacking the emotional power behind in-vehicle AI anthropomorphic interaction: a dual‑factor approach by text mining
Get PDFThe intelligent strategy of the new energy vehicle (NEV) industry has triggered the rapid prevalence of in-vehicle anthropomorphic AI assistants. There is still a lack of clarity regarding NEV users' attitudes towards this cutting-edge technology and whether they receive a satisfactory intelligent service experience. To circumvent potential emerging technology resistance, this study utilizes text analysis techniques for the identification of AI interaction emotions, love and disgust (enablers and inhibitors) with significant influence on user satisfaction, and validates the improving role of multi-modality on the effectiveness of anthropomorphic interaction. In addition, this study innovatively constructs a multidimensional corpus of modality × emotion, using structural topic modeling to uncover the constituent elements and real-time changes of love and disgust emotions in different modalities, from which development opportunities and improvement directions for AI anthropomorphic interaction technologies are identified. The findings provide new insights into the application of emotion analysis methods to improve users' intelligent service experience and provide a realistic reference for mitigating emerging technology resistance in the NEV industry
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