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Closed museums and their collections 2000-25
No full textNot all museum closures are alike. A local council may amalgamate several museums to form one consolidated organisation or replace an outdated institution with a landmark building. In such instances services may be improved. Some museum collections may be mothballed or put into deep storage. Others may be broken up with some objects being returned to lenders and donors, some being scrapped, and others sold.
In the absence of coherent data on collections disposal in the
UK, it was unclear if closures indicated a change in museum
provision or a loss and, if the latter, which kinds of collections
stayed in public circulation, and which disappeared.
Over the past decade, the Mapping Museums Lab has collected
and analysed data to better understand the history, geography,
and composition of the UK museum sector. We were keen to
extend our investigations to include a detailed investigation of
closure and in 2023 we secured Arts and Humanities Research
Council funding for a major research project entitled ‘Museum
Closure in the UK 2000-2025’. THis report summarises the findings and data
New age-estimate data and implications for Marine Isotope Stage 7 and 5e Sea Levels in Fenland, eastern England
Get PDFSea-level approximations (SLAs) have been determined for marine-influenced sediments at interglacial sites in Fenland, eastern England. The term SLA is applied with the qualifiers brackish– estuarine limiting and fluvial limiting to describe in a broad sense where maximum relative sea level (RSL) lay at the time of deposition (i.e., maximum RSL lay below this altitude at some point downstream/-estuary) of these sediments. Faunal analyses of these marine-influenced sediments have identified seven assemblages: two estuarine thanatocoenoses (autochthonous death assemblage), two microfaunal components of estuarine thanatocoenoses that have been transported upstream and three taphocoenoses (allochthonous death assemblage). These estuarine thanatocoenoses equate with the less favourable World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines sea-level indicator ‘shallow or intertidal fauna’ (type ID 33) so are limited in their usefulness as sea-level indicator points. Palaeoecology and age-estimate data for this study and from previously published Fenland interglacial sites distinguish between penultimate and last interglacial sites and provide maximum SLAs of ≤ 2.5 and < 3 m above ordnance datum, respectively. These values should be regarded as first-order approximations because factors such as glacio-isostasy adjustment have not been considered. Nevertheless they are consistent with some reconstructed global sea-level curves, but contrast with the deep-sea record in two important respects: the latter seems to indicate that maximum penultimate interglacial sea level was well below present ordnance datum and that maximum sea level was attained early in the last interglacial
Advocacy, innovation and minority entrepreneurs
No full textThe theory and practice of advocacy in innovation systems relates to the agency of engagement of different organisations in systemic thinking and action, so that cultures, dialogues and policies can be changed for the better. In the context of minority entrepreneurs such as people with disabilities, advocates might be disabled entrepreneurship networks, professional organisations or disabled entrepreneurs themselves using social media to highlight relevant success stories. Persistent advocacy by significant groups and key individuals leads to increased legitimacy of the cause being championed
On negotiated Archipelagic Southeast Asian identities: patterns of colonial resistance and nationalist identity formation in Pramoedya’s This Earth of Mankind and Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere
No full textPramoedya Ananta Toer’s This Earth of Mankind and Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere are landmark texts about the colonial past of Indonesia and the Philippines. Published more than nine decades apart, these novels highlight significant issues in the post-colonial histories of the two countries. They illustrate recurring patterns of resistance relevant to the formation of nationalist identities as well as access to capital, education, social relations, religion, and ethno-linguistic affiliations during and after the colonial occupation, which provided a liminal space for negotiating nationalist identities between the colonizer and the colonized. This paper will employ an intertextual reading to locate the negotiated liminal spaces ‘within’ and ‘between’ the two novels, drawing on Homi Bhabha’s theoretical model of negotiated identities and cultural differences in postcolonial discourses, as well as the theories on nationalism of Benedict Anderson and Anthony D. Smith. An intertextual reading of This Earth of Mankind and Noli Me Tangere demonstrates the convergences and divergences in colonial resistance that shaped the negotiated national/ist identities of the two archipelagic Southeast Asian nation-states. The liminal spaces ‘between’ and ‘within’ these texts reveal the ambivalent positions in colonial systems, as well as the privileging of certain ethno-linguistic groups that can best serve as ‘translators’ for a monolithic and homogenized national project of postcoloniality in an archipelagic context. Furthermore, the roles of capital, knowledge, and religion will be examined as important factors in the formation of negotiated postcolonial identities. At the same time, it is essential to recognize the asymmetrical power dynamics between the colonizer and the colonized
Sustainable futures in a changing climate: an open education resource
Get PDFThis Open Education Resource Syllabus focuses on climate change using different disciplinary perspectives to explore the topic. We have endeavoured to make this syllabus accessible and adaptable for a range of potential users – including schoolteachers, university faculty not ordinarily engaged in the themes and wanting to integrate climate change into their usual courses, and facilitators of staff workshops on climate change. We hope it all who explore its resources will find something of use for their own practices
Sampling Mars: geologic context and preliminary characterization of samples collected by the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission
Get PDFThe NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission has collected samples of rock, regolith, and atmosphere within the Noachian-aged Jezero Crater, once the site of a delta-lake system with a high potential for habitability and biosignature preservation. Between sols 109 and 1,088 of the mission, 27 sample tubes have been sealed, including witness tubes. Each sealed sample tube has been collected along with detailed documentation provided by the Perseverance instrument payload, preserving geological and environmental context. Samples representative of the stratigraphy within each of four campaigns have been collected: samples from the Crater Floor Campaign represent a suite of potentially petrogenetically related igneous rocks displaying variable degrees of aqueous alteration; samples from the Fan Front record fluvial to deltaic sediments formed by the transport and deposition of materials from the Jezero watershed; regolith samples from the Fan Front preserve material possibly representative of global dust as well as diverse, locally derived clasts; Upper Fan samples record the latest stages of aqueous activity within Jezero; and samples from the Margin Campaign preserve lacustrine, littoral, or possibly igneous processes that may have occurred early in the history of the crater. Along with anticipated samples from the older rocks within the rim of Jezero Crater, Perseverance promises to deliver a suite of samples preserving a diversity of formation environments and ages. Upon return to Earth and analysis in terrestrial laboratories, these samples would address longstanding questions pertaining to the geologic evolution of Mars, its habitability, and the potential for life outside the Earth
Financial crises and European private law
Get PDFDoes private law play a role in the occurrence of financial crises, and how does it react and change in response to them? The chapter illustrates the relationship between private law and financial crises by looking at the constitutive role of law for finance, the impact of crises on private law relations, the ways in which the law can be used to mitigate the impact of crises on consumers, the relationship between financial regulation and contract, the reform of private law to achieve financial stability and, more fundamentally, the societal significance of financial crises for European private law itself: what do we expect from private law in a financialised society and how has the European private law project evolved since the last global crisis
More than invisible – unimaginable: parenthood aspirations among transgender and nonbinary people in Italy
Get PDFTransgender and nonbinary (TNB) people’s experiences are distinct from cisgender people's experiences, and little is known with respect to their desire for parenthood or to remain childfree. We aim to explore aspirations about parenthood among fifteen trans men and women (n = 7) and nonbinary adults (n = 8) without children from Italy (Mage = 32.93, SD = 7.39), assuming a Life Course Theory approach. Employing Thematic Analysis, we identified three overarching themes: 1) Navigating around obstacles that exclude the choice of parenthood; 2) Encountering violence and stigma; and 3) Assessing future possibilities for TNB parenthood. Results showed that TNB people’s parenthood aspirations were hampered by violence, stigma, and difficulties in gender-affirming pathways (GAPs). Participants saw themselves as being potentially competent as parents. However, they experienced dilemmas around aspirations and awareness of a social context that refuted their ideas about potential family constellations. Although twelve participants desired or considered parenthood, they did not imagine this as a realistic option. Many of them thought about becoming parents abroad, through adoption, and negotiating parenthood outside of limits imposed by binarism, within safe and creative spaces
Getting gender onto the radar of comparative political economy
Get PDFThis paper introduces a collection of short articles which address how comparative political economy can pay more attention to gender in its research questions and analysis. It identifies several gender-resistant features of CPE: the analytical separation of economic and cultural conflicts, the prioritisation of class as both an economic and a political category, and the belief that liberal feminism is the handmaiden of neoliberal capitalism. Based on a brief review of the articles in the collection, it argues that that insights from feminist political economy offer new ways of thinking about central problems and puzzles in comparative and European political economy
Common foundations for SHACL, ShEx, and PG-Schema
Get PDFGraphs have emerged as a foundation for a variety of applications, including capturing factual knowledge, semantic data integration, social networks, and informing machine learning algorithms. Formalising properties of the data and ensuring data quality requires describing schemas of such graphs. Driven by diverse applications, the Semantic Web and database communities developed not only different graph data models-RDF and property graphs-but also different graph schema languages-SHACL, ShEx, and PG-Schema. Each language has its unique approach to defining constraints and validating graph data, leaving potential users in the dark about their commonalities and differences. In this paper, we provide concise formal definitions of the core components of these languages, employ a uniform framework to facilitate a comprehensive comparison between them, and identify a common set of functionalities, shedding light on both overlapping and distinctive features
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