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Immigration raids and racist state violence
Get PDFThis article develops an analysis of contemporary immigration raids in Britain, arguing that they operate ideologically as well as institutionally to sustain the material and political conditions of what is a vastly unequal form of social order (that is also a form of racial order). It suggests that immigration raids are located within and develop understandings of a racial state in contemporary Britain. Drawing on ethnographic work at a migrant charity organization, it explains the raid process and its impact on individuals and families. Raids are rationalized as facilitating removal and more broadly operate as part of attempts to generate fear and encourage people to leave “voluntarily.” However, this is not achieved in many cases, and this article suggests that the real purpose of raids is to dominate and oppress illegalized migrants and those who may be vulnerable to immigration control, as well as reproducing the justification for immigration enforcement. Raids can be understood as inflicting harms and as a form of state-sanctioned racist violence which is utilized to try severing solidarities between communities. Enforcement leads to resistance and the conclusion reflects on resistance to raids, demonstrated for example by the 2021 Kenmure Street protest in Glasgow, and the solidarities such resistance ferments and sustains
Class act: East-West youth theatre and the making of meaning in Postrevolutionary Ukraine
Get PDFIn the years between Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution (2013-14) and Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine witnessed an incredible boom in socially engaged performance. One of the most impactful and imaginative examples of Ukraine’s political theatre movement in these years was a series of playwriting workshops for teenagers entitled “Class Act: East-West.” Set within the context of Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine, this article illustrates how a seemingly straightforward youth theatre initiative came to constitute an urgent and intricate example of how political and social meaning is made in twenty-first-century theatre
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cancer imaging
Get PDFAn increasing array of tools is being developed using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for cancer imaging. The development of an optimal tool requires multidisciplinary engagement to ensure that the appropriate use case is met, as well as to undertake robust development and testing prior to its adoption into healthcare systems. This multidisciplinary review highlights key developments in the field. We discuss the challenges and opportunities of AI and ML in cancer imaging; considerations for the development of algorithms into tools that can be widely used and disseminated; and the development of the ecosystem needed to promote growth of AI and ML in cancer imaging
Stories from small museums
No full textDuring the late twentieth century, the number of museums in the UK dramatically increased. Typically small and independent, the new museums concentrated on local history, war and transport. This book asks who founded them, how and why.
In order to find out more, Fiona Candlin, a professor in museology, and Toby Butler, an expert oral historian, travelled around the UK to meet the individuals, families, community groups and special interest societies who established the museums. The rich oral histories they collected provide a new account of recent museum history - one that weaves together personal experience and social change while putting ordinary people at the heart of cultural production.
Combining academic rigour with a lively writing style, Stories from small museums is essential reading for students and museum enthusiasts alik
Psychoanalysis, race and colonialism
Get PDFRecent discussions of psychoanalysis’ implication in discourses of ‘race’ and practices of racialisation have focused more on colonialism than on racism itself. This has led to some very productive work that both locates psychoanalysis within the colonial project and explores the potential that psychoanalytic concepts have for critical analysis of that project. Much of this work has drawn on the writings (and figure) of Frantz Fanon, though there have also been major contributions from researchers on Indian and Latin American psychoanalysis.
This chapter explores psychoanalysis’ engagement with ‘race’, racism and colonialism from the point of view of the philosophy of psychoanalysis as (a) a body of developmental theory; (b) an individualising practice; and (c) a potentially open discipline in relation to psychosocial formations of the subject. The chapter references Freud’s anthropological writings but is concerned mainly with contemporary readings of psychoanalysis as a political philosophy that is implicated in the perpetuation of racist and colonialist ideas, yet also offers leverage in contesting these ideas. The chapter asks, to what extent can psychoanalysis become an anti-racist and ‘decolonising’ discipline and what might need to happen for this to be achieved?
Book Synopsis: The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy provides a rich panoramic view of what philosophy offers or disturbs in psychoanalysis and what it represents for psychoanalytic theory and practice. The thirty-three chapters present a broad range of interfaces and reciprocities between various aspects of psychoanalysis and philosophy. It demonstrates the vital connection between the two disciplines: psychoanalysis cannot make any practical sense if it is not entirely perceived within a philosophical context.
Written by a team of world-leading experts, including established scholars, psychoanalysts and emerging talents, the Handbook investigates and discusses the psychoanalytic schools and their philosophical underpinning, as well as contemporary applied topics. Organized into five sections, this volume investigates and discusses how psychoanalysis stands in relation to leading philosophies such as Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Kant; philosophical perspectives on psychoanalytic schools such as Freud, Klein, Bion, Kohut, and Lacan; how psychoanalysis addresses controversial topics in philosophy such as truth, language and symbolism, ethics, and theories of mind. The last section addresses contemporary applied subjects in psychoanalytic thought: colonialism, gender, race, and ecology.
This Handbook offers a novel and comprehensive outlook vital for scholars, philosophers, practicing psychoanalysts and therapists alike. The book will serve as a source for courses in psychoanalysis, philosophy of science, epistemology, ethics, semiotics, cognitive science, consciousness, gender, race, post-colonialism theories, clinical theory, Freud's studies, both in universities and psychoanalytic training programs and institutes
We thought we were going to change the world! socially engaged art as cruel optimism
Get PDFBook synopsis: This collection of original essays takes a multi-disciplinary approach to explore the theme of failure through the broad spectrum of public art and social practice.
The anthology brings together practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, planners, and educators from around the world to offer differing perspectives on the many facets of failure in commissioning, planning, producing, evaluating, and engaging communities in the continually evolving field of art in the public realm. As such, this book offers a survey of currently unexplored and interconnected thinking, and provides a much-needed critical voice to the commissioning of public and participatory arts. The volume includes case studies from the UK, the US, China, Cuba, and Denmark, as well as discussions of digital public art collections.
The Failures of Public Art and Participation will be of interest for students and scholars of visual arts, design and architecture interested in how art in the public realm fits within social and political contexts
Border tax adjustments and the WTO Law compatibility of ETS/CBAM export rebates: Aut Simul Stabunt, Aut Simul Cadent
Get PDFThe European Parliament’s June 2022 proposed amendments on the inclusion of export rebates under the ETS/CBAM raise a number of questions. This paper focuses on the question of the WTO law compatibility of this proposal, following a specific analytical approach and enquiring into the potential categorisation of the ETS/CBAM as adjustable product taxes or charges. The analysis cuts across relevant provisions in the GATT 1994 and the SCMA, and addresses five questions in turn. To begin with, the paper enquires whether the CBAM would qualify as a (i) charge; (ii) equivalent to an internal tax or charge; (iii) that is imposed on products; (iv) consistently with Article III:2 GATT. It suggests that all of these questions may be answered in the negative; this would make ETS/CBAM export rebates WTO law incompatible. If all of these questions except the fourth were answered positively, the BTA and export rebates may still be ‘saved’ under Article XX GATT and the Chapeau thereof; this would also ‘save’ ETS/CBAM export rebates. However, this is unlikely to occur. The structure, design and practical application of the CBAM are rather difficult to reconcile with the Chapeau requirements. Against this backdrop, the paper concludes that ETS/CBAM export rebates are unlikely to be WTO law compatible
Internet addiction
No full textThis chapter reviews the current literature on internet addiction (IA) and provides a comprehensive summary regarding: (i) potential positive and negative effects of internet and technology use, (ii) main conceptual frameworks, (iii) biological bases, (iv) comorbidity factors, (v) prevalence rates, (vi) assessment methodologies, and (vii) treatment approaches. Although the current evidence suggests a relatively low prevalence rate of IA worldwide, and that several scholars remain doubtful about the validity and utility of IA as a clinical phenomenon, the existing evidence indicates that further research is required in order to facilitate greater understanding of this intricate issue and to tackle a range of challenges identified in the literature. Furthermore, the current scientific trend points toward the adoption of more specific terms that underscore the role of specific online activities in eliciting addictive usage, as opposed to the adoption of the broad and unspecific umbrella term IA
Insights on public health professionals non-technical skills in an emergency response (multiteam systems) environment
Get PDFThis perspectives paper provides practitioner and academic insights into the importance of examining emergency response environments as multiteam systems. The case of public health professionals are highlighted, illustrated with unique qualitative field data which focused upon the use of non-technical skills. Recommendations for future research with this hard to access professional group are located within emerging advances in the scientific inquiry of complex and increasingly evident, multi-team systems
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