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Dear England: a critical discourse analysis of how sports stars and politicians battle for legitimacy in debates around athlete activism
Get PDFThis article looks at how high-profile individual and collective actors within the worlds of sport and politics seek to advance their views on significant social issues. It focuses on the public debate around the anti-racist actions taken by the England men’s football team at Euro 2020 and uses a form of critical discourse analysis to look at how the England manager and players, on one side, and members of the UK Government, on the other, sought to gain and maintain legitimacy for their opposing positions. It also seeks to understand legitimacy as a relational process, by looking at how members of the public and national newspapers responded. Drawing on Strittmatter et al.’s (2018) framework of legitimacy, the article examines the subjects, sources, strategies, bases and scenarios of each side’s efforts. The article seeks to contribute to a more detailed understanding of political discourse and legitimacy in the context of sport, as well as offering some critical reflections on the nexus of sport and politics
Students’ thesis writing experiences: conclusions, implications and ways forward
No full textBook synopsis: Completing a thesis is a crucial final stage in many Bachelor's and Master's programmes across Europe and beyond. However, the process of thesis writing, how it is experienced by the writers, and how those experiences impact on writing remain under-explored. This book explores the student experience of thesis writing through an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on theories of learning, emotions, and genre and narrative/discursive analysis. As a result of this approach, the thesis is reconceptualised as a multilayered experience from the point of view of student writers. The chapters, which arose out of a collaborative research project across 11 European countries, use an innovative combination of methods including the use of journey plots to provide a complex picture of the thesis writing process, which will be of interest to readers involved in academic writing at all levels
Black PhD journeys in context
No full textWilliam Ackah, Jacqueline Darkwa, Wayne Mitchell, De-Shaine Murray and Madina Wan
Legal, ethical and medical aspects of triage: whom to save during a pandemic?
No full textTriage decision-making during a pandemic is linked to complex ethical, medical, and legal dilemmas, which in the past have been discussed mainly based on hypothetical scenarios. The crisis caused by Covid-19 has shown these dilemmas to be very real, and many countries faced significant health care challenges during the pandemic. The book presents different views on the problems of triage during the time of Covid-19 and to shed a light on how various countries approached triage during the pandemic.
The absence of staff and resources in many countries opened a discussion of whether they should strive for the most egalitarian way of deciding whom to help with limited resources or to act in a utilitarian manner and establish a triage system based on saving as many people as possible. There were so-called conflicts of duty in many parts of the world, and decision-makers who had to choose which patients would survive in the absence of resources were under tremendous pressure. This book presents different views on the issue of such decision-making from legal, ethical, and medical points of view. The authors explain the origin of the concept of triage and its use in modern medicine. They point out the distinction between triage and the allocation of resources while also analysing how pandemic triage differs from emergency and disaster triage
Whole-head high-density diffuse optical tomography to map infant audio-visual responses to social and non-social stimuli
Get PDFInfancy is a time of rapid brain development. High-density diffuse optical tomography (HD-DOT) is an optical neuroimaging method that maps changes in cortical haemoglobin concentration, a marker of functional brain activation. Recent years have seen a huge advance in wearable hardware for HD-DOT, however previous headgear has only been capable of sampling specific areas of the cortex. In this work, we aimed to develop headgear capable of sampling across the whole infant scalp surface and to conduct a proof-of-concept demonstration of whole-head HD-DOT in infants aged 5 to 7 months. We developed a whole-head infant implementation of the high-density LUMO design developed by Gowerlabs Ltd. (UK). HD-DOT data were collected from a cohort of infants (N = 16) during the presentation of a screen-based paradigm assessing social processing. Using whole-head HD-DOT, we mapped activity across the entirety of the optically-accessible cortex which far exceeds coverage achieved by previous infant optical neuroimaging methods. We found activity in temporal regions which corroborates previous research. Further, we mapped activity in regions outside those typically sampled in infant research using social processing paradigms, finding activation in regions across the occipital, parietal, and frontal cortices as well as an apparent inverted response in sensorimotor regions. Following this proof-of-concept, we envisage that whole-head HD-DOT will be applied to map the interaction between different regions of the brain, opening new avenues to map activity in the awake infant brain to better understand the trajectory of typical and atypical neurodevelopment
What has replaced the Washington Consensus? Tracing policy change in the IMF
No full textThis chapter examines the trajectory of the IMF’s policy outlook in the past half century. It finds that evolving member preferences and organizational dynamics, in a context of ever-changing external institutional and normative conditions, have continually interacted to produce substantive shifts in the Fund’s prescriptive gaze during this period. Advocating a rigid neoliberal approach labeled the Washington Consensus in the 1980s and the1990s, the Fund around the turn of the century embraced a paradigm broadening towards a more social and regulatory neoliberalism, often called the post-Washington Consensus. The organization’s policy vision shifted once again after the global financial crisis of 2007-08, this time exhibiting an increasingly pragmatic and flexible stance that nonetheless still rests on a broadly neoliberal orientation
Holy Motors: law & technology
No full textLeos Carax’s 2012 film Holy Motors suggests new images for thinking of the citizen and, consequentially, is suggestive of how we might reimagine our sense of what law is (and does). At the core of Holy Motors is a question about the transformations brought about by changes in technology – from energetic and visible motors and machines to informational and invisible networks of communication. Does such a change leave our image of the law and its subjects intact? In this chapter, I will argue that it does not. Such a change requires the subject itself to become a source of information, to become transformable and combinable in ways which move faster than contractual agreement and exchange. Presciently, Deleuze made this point when he noted that we were moving from the individual to the “dividual”. If so, Carax’s film offers us the means for reimagining what law is and what we dividuals might become
Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History
Get PDFContemporary computing is saturated with physical metaphor and analogy. It is a virtual space of web sites, of windows, of menus, of icons, and of pointers. There is a clear reason for such a prevalence of metaphor in this world. The metaphorical trope of relation provides a way for new users to imagine how a digital interface might work with respect to its physical correlate. This has been thought as true in the digital reading world as elsewhere.
Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History, however, exposes the weakness of our digital-textual, material metaphors. This book tackles and rewrites the most common assumption in UI design: that user interface designs for digital reading and writing are mentally constrained by and designed to mimic physical correlates. Conducting a new media archaeology of several digital forms – from pagination, whitespace, virtual typography, keyboards, directionality, and dimensionality, to technical protection measures – this book revises our understanding of material path dependencies, which are often erroneous or misplaced
Misconceiving the ‘Indian family’: the politics of family-based discourse
No full textThe idea of ‘the family’ or ‘the household’ as having fixed, clear boundaries and functions is a figment of the imagination. After over a century of family research in India the central sociological question that needs addressing is not what are the trends in family and household formation but what functions do definitions of family and household serve? Whose interests are advanced by particular definitions? What erasures are required to set a definition and what are their effects on public discourse, public policy and individual rights to and within households and families? Most importantly, do household definitions stigmatise and constrain lives while pulling the determinants of family and household relations out of the frame of analysis? If the answer is yes, then should definitions of family and household be seen as a key tool in the structural violence toolkit? At the heart of the issue raised here is the failure to acknowledge that definitions are cultural and cultures are political. Rather than being long established ways of being and thinking, cultures are a contingent negotiation, navigation and manufacturing of ideas underpinned by unequal power relations. This chapter makes an innovative contribution to family studies by examining the consequences of family definitions found in public and private discourse in India
The critical edge of learning
Get PDFIn this article, Jacqueline Rose argues that nineteenth-century literary writing, notably Mary Shelley’s relatively unknown Valperga, published the year Birkbeck was launched, has much to say about the crisis facing the humanities in the UK and worldwide today. Shelley’s text is a plea against tyranny. Birkbeck was founded, to acclaim and hostility, in order to make the pursuit of knowledge and critical thought available to the working class. Tracing her own educational experience, Rose argues that these issues have never been more urgently in need of attention than today
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