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World Female Imprisonment List (5th edition)
Get PDFThis fifth edition of ICPR’s World Female Imprisonment List shows
the number of women and girls held in penal institutions in 221 prison systems in independent countries and dependent territories. The figures include both pre-trial detainees/remand prisoners and those who have been convicted and sentenced. The List also shows the percentage of women and girls within each national prison population and the number of imprisoned women and girls per 100,000 of the national population (the female prison population rate). The information is the latest available at the beginning of August 2022. In addition, this edition includes information about trends in female prison population levels since about 2000
Plato on the object of thirst: comments on Jessica Moss, 'Against Bare Urges and Good-Independent Desires: Appetites in Republic IV'
No full textPsychology and Value in Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic Philosophy
The Ninth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
Edited by Fiona Leigh and Margaret Hampson
Explores central issues in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic schools
Offers fresh insights on long-standing and controversial debates in ancient moral psychology
Includes contribution from leading international scholars in ancient philosoph
Special issue on lived experience, learning, community activism and social change
No full textThis special issue arises from the urgency expressed by many adult educator practitioners, theorists and activist-researchers for the need to draw attention to the numerous sites of community activism, learning and social change that are currently taking place across the globe. While the relentless push of neoliberalism has struck at the heart of adult education provision in many countries, including that provided by universities, institutions of further education, international development agencies, NGOs, vocational training centres and the local government sector, what can adult educators learn and what is being learnt when we turn to sites of community activism? For example, Tett and Hamilton (2019, p. 253), drawing on Williams’ (1989) ‘resources of hope’, point to the importance of ‘… persisting with what may seem like mundane, everyday, acts of resistance that are based on seeing and seising opportunities to do and say things differently’
1874 : la diplomatie migratoire italienne en Égypte
Get PDFThis brief article argues that Italian diplomacy in the Mediterranean took an important turn around 1874. This shift is made visible through the direct intervention and discursive mobilization of Italian emigrant communities in Egypt by the Italian consul. The article specifically addresses debates at the time around legal pluralism and the importance of extraterritorial jurisdiction for diasporic national communities. In attempting to gain imperial power relative to French strongholds in the region, the young Italian state struggled to articulate a position. In this article, I show how the Italian state and its diplomatic actors used emigrant communities, and these debates, to further its aims in the years between national unification and the aggressive colonial policies enacted by the 1890s and after the turn of the century
Supporting practitioner wellbeing
No full textThis guide aims to support you, as a social care practitioner, to repair, maintain, grow and sustain
your mental health and wellbeing. This will allow you to flourish and continue to support others
effectively in your professional practice.
The guide draws upon the extensive research and practice experience of the author, Professor Gail
Kinman, and includes approaches and guidance she has developed as well as providing detailed
evidence from varied research and practice sources.
The guide includes the following sections:
> Introduction and background
> Self-care: the cornerstone of resilience and wellbeing
> Self-care: repair, maintenance and growth
> Avoiding burnout
> Self-compassion
> Lifestyle and self-care
> Mindfulness
> Building your support network
> Keeping a healthy work-life balance
> Assembling your own toolbo
Helen Chadwick: The Oval Court
No full textBook synopsis: In 1986 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London showed a new commission by the artist Helen Chadwick (1954–1996). The installation interwove some of Chadwick’s characteristic motifs – the female body (her own), the aesthetics of pleasure, the material variety and wonder of natural phenomena – and approached them in a spirit of provocative, radical and lavish flamboyance. In this illustrated volume, Marina Warner examines The Oval Court, one part of the diptych On Mutability. This complex work was erotic, playful, and fierce; it showed imaginative ambition on an exceptional scale and a unique, piquant sensibility, both raunchy and delicate.
Despite the work’s recognition as a feminist monument of rare intensity, The Oval Court has rarely been shown or discussed since the original exhibition, where Carcass the other part of the installation, was destroyed. Warner wrote for the catalogue then, and she here reconsiders Chadwick’s influence as an artist who helped to shift conventional aesthetics and transvalue despised, even abominated forms. Revealing the expansive assortment of historical references informing Chadwick’s lexicon – from Renaissance emblems and vanitas paintings to the sumptuously decorative language of rococo – Warner illuminates the artist’s relentless pursuit of a fresh iconography of female subjectivity. The ideas and ethics behind Chadwick’s visionary and daring art reveal powerful prescience on her part and resonate today more than ever – from her celebratory and interrogatory search for a visual language to express female desire to her inquiries into hermaphroditism and non-binary forms, from her fascination with self-portraiture to her continuous experimentation with unconventional materials
The street & the barricades: demos and document in Nineteenth-Century photography
No full textAn essay in a catalogue to accompany the exhibition: Documentary Genealogies Photography 1848–1917 at the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (16 November 2022 - 27 February 2023), curated by Jorge Ribalta.
The essay explores the history of pre-documentary photography in relation in photography between documents of power and images of revolution in the form of pictures of barricades. It goes on to consider images, in the words of Molly Nesbit, as 'barricades against the bourgeois viewer' in Eugene Atget, Heinrich Zille and others
Anthropology and digital media: multivocal materialities of video meetings and deafness
No full textBeing deaf is often framed as a disability in mainstream discourse. At SVT Teckenspråk (Swedish television's team for programming in Swedish Sign Language) between 2010-2013, deafness was more than disability. It was about a shared visual culture - one that has become increasingly mediated by technologies. The SVT Teckenspråk team, at the time of this study, consisted of deaf and hearing employees who have as their goal to increase Swedish citizens' awareness of Sign Language, as well as providing a cornerstone of cultural exchange for the Swedish d/Deaf community. This article presents a moment in the institutional history of SVT Teckenspråk, when employees understand deafness as more than clinical definitions of deafness, and where focus is instead turned on Sign Language as an embodied expression of Deaf culture. Sign Language from this perspective becomes a shared canon of meanings conveyed through the primarily visual media of film, television and video meeting technologies. In this chapter, I examine the performance of a mediated version of deafness. Using a detailed account of a video meeting as an example of technologically mediated communication in Sign Language, I identify key elements of Swedish Sign Language communication, visual media technologies, and how these reconfigure and materialise different ways of being deaf. In video meetings, Sign Language and deafness are established as inherently bound to embodied and performative enactments of deaf identities and which are, to some extent, contingent on technological mediation
Descartes on modality and the eternal truths
Get PDFDescartes maintained that God freely created all eternal truths. Yet, while it is impossible for necessary truths to have been otherwise, if they are a matter of God’s free choice, then it seems that they could have been otherwise. Adrian W. Moore (2020) offers a solution to this conflict that, he claims, Descartes “could and should” have adopted. This article argues that Descartes’s position is in a sense closer to Moore’s solution than Moore permits, yet proposes an arguably more accurate account via the Cartesian relationship between omnipotence, indifference, and the dependence of the eternal truths on God. Omnipotence and indifference do not express that God might have created the necessary truths in another way, but rather that God’s decrees are in no way determined by anything other than God. Thus, alternative possibilities are not relevant to this account, since there were none before God’s creative act
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