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Manhandling the goddess: The Thuggee Archive as a sum of (male) parts
No full textEvery archive holds many stories; this paper analyses the treatment and socio-political role of the Indian goddess icon, Kali, in the early nineteenth century, considering the story of legal subjectivity through her changing depiction and worship. Kali was reimagined as a monster-like figure of hate and fear, of depravity and unchecked female sexuality, and the anti-thesis of morality, by the East India Company officers who compiled the archive on thuggee. As the icon of reverence to thuggee, an early codified crime of habitual stranglers, this paper follows Kali through her restructuring under the British imperial vision, and as a mirror-metaphor of repressed feminine energy in the legal archive. I analyse the change in Kali’s iconography under the gaze of the law and the advent of a new colonial branding made up from parts of her legend. It is through this new role that the introduction of a standardised legal framework forced Kali to become secondary to Western paternalism, a role that split her Eastern feminine aspect into separate facets. I discuss how the repression of the female voice in the thuggee archive reflects historic attitudes of engendering that echoed as a form of nomos in the twentieth century socio-political climate of Britain. Finally, I present where the feminine energy highlights the need for a subtle reorientation of the criminal law to overcome areas of recurring dissonance in service to its female subjects
Margery Kempe
No full textBrief overview of the life and role of the English mystic Margery Kempe, in conjunction with a major new British Library exhibition on Medieval Wome
International political sociology through the colonial mirror: a contrapuntal reading of the Spanish Civil War
Get PDFThis paper invokes Edward Said’s notion of “contrapuntal reading” to present a transnational sociological account of the Spanish Civil War. Such a reading of the war raises important questions of sovereignty, violence, and identity which – filtered through a political sociological lens – offer novel perspectives on the power of empire and colonialism in relation to these key IR categories. Specifically, I argue that the Spanish colonial frontier in Morocco served as a laboratory for distinctive expressions of transnational state-building, violence and identity-formation which were reproduced in both the metropolitan heartlands of the Iberian Peninsula and in the Franco-Hispanic Protectorate itself during the interwar years. The complex interaction between core and periphery in this period had momentous implications for both Spanish and Moroccan history, many of which continue to play out in contemporary politics across the Gibraltar Strait
Tying leaders' identity work and executive coaching research together: an overview of systematic reviews and agenda for research
Get PDFPurpose: Despite the interest in leaders' identity work as a framework for leadership development, coaching psychology has yet to expose its active ingredients and outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: To do so, the authors reconcile published systematic literature reviews (SLRs) in the field to arrive at a more thorough understanding of the role of identity work in coaching. A total of 60 eligible SLRs on identity work and coaching were identified between 2010 and 2022. Four were included in the data extraction after selecting and screening, and the full texts of 196 primary studies reported therein were analysed. Findings: Amongst the coachee-related factors of effective coaching, the coachee’s motivation, general self-efficacy beliefs, personality traits and goal orientation were the most frequently reported active ingredients, and performance improvement, self-awareness and goal specificity were the most frequently supported outcomes. The analysis indicates that leaders' identity work, as an active ingredient, can be a moderator variable for transformative coaching interventions, while strengthening leadership role identity could be one of the lasting outcomes because coaching interventions facilitate, deconstruct and enhance leaders' identity work. Further research is needed to explore the characteristics of these individual, relational and collective processes.
Originality/value: This study adds value by synthesising SLRs that report coachee-related active ingredients and outcomes of executive coaching research. It demonstrates that the role of leaders' identity work is a neglected factor affecting coaching results and encourages coaching psychologists to apply identity framework in their executive coaching practice
Extremal separation problems for Temporal Instance Queries
Get PDFThe separation problem for a class of database queries is to find a query in that
distinguishes between a given set of `positive' and `negative' data examples. Separation provides explanations of examples and underpins the query-by-example paradigm
to support database users in constructing and refining queries.
As the space of all separating queries can be large, it is helpful to succinctly represent this space by means of its most specific (logically strongest) and general (weakest) members. We investigate this extremal separation problem for classes of instance queries formulated in linear temporal logic LTL with the
operators conjunction, `next', and `eventually'. Our results range from tight complexity bounds for verifying and counting extremal separators to algorithms computing them
Evaluating Document Similarity Detection Approaches for Content Drift Detection
No full text“Content drift” is an important concept for digital preservation and web archiving. Scholarly readers expect to find immutable (“persisted”) content at the resolution endpoint of a DOI. It is a matter of research integrity that research articles should remain the same at the endpoint, as citations can refer to specific textual formulations.
Detecting content drift is not an easy task as it is not just a matter of seeing whether a web page has changed. HTML pages can change in layout, but retain exactly the same content in a way that is obvious to humans but not to machines. Thus, there is a requirement to parse web pages into plaintext versions; itself a difficult task due to JavaScript components and CAPTCHA systems. Then this preprocessing must discard dynamic user content, such as comments and annotations that can interfere with document similarity detection.
This post details the performance and resources required by a range of approaches to document similarity detection once these preprocessing elements have been completed. The algorithms evaluated include older systems such as Jaccard Similarity right through to modern machine learning and AI models.
The conclusion is that earlier algorithms provide a better measure of “content drift” but a worse semantic understanding of documents. However, we do not want a “semantic understanding” of document similarity in this use case. For a person “This jar is empty” and “This jar has nothing in it” are the same thing, semantically. But for the purpose of working out whether the document has changed in a scholarly context, we would say it has drifted, because someone might have cited “This jar is empty” and expects to find this formulation at the persisted endpoint. Hence, machine learning models that perceive semantic formulations as “similar” fare worse for the job of content drift detection than earlier algorithms that detect lexical change and containment
Is there a nationality wage premium in European football?
Get PDFWe investigate the presence of nationality salary premia in two top European football leagues (the Premier League and Serie A). We uncover a substantial pay premium for South American players (primarily driven by Argentina and Brazil) of between 11 and 15 per cent in magnitude. We investigate possible mechanisms, such as whether these salary effects are driven by new entrants to the league, and whether they are reflected in team attendances and team performance. Fans appear to respond to higher proportions of South American players in England, but not in Italy. We discuss the implications of these results and suggest why potential differences might exist across the leagues
Involving citizens through multi-platform strategies: transparency watch in North Macedonia
Get PDFThis chapter explores how civic activism utilises digital media to engage citizens in combatting corruption. It provides a case study of how civil society organisations (in this instance, Transparency International-Macedonia) are employing digital media and developing digital tools for creating awareness of the types and levels of corruption occurring within North Macedonia as well as creating a means for civic engagement in the processes of combatting corruption. It is through the examination of the Transparency Watch (TW) project in North Macedonia that we begin to understand the complex strategy for developing and employing digital media to engage citizens. In doing so, the chapter views activism for countering corruption from the grassroots level
through data collection and infrastructures. It explores the opportunities and challenges faced by grassroots and civic organisations in such endeavours
Loca Infecta: a Jurisprudence of hauntings
Get PDFA jurisprudence of hauntings draws on the work of Peter Goodrich and makes reference to French customary law, The Digest as well as recent case law on stigmatised property. It offers a psychoanalytical approach to what contemporary law or legal science either forgets or finds difficult to conceptualise: property must be thought of in terms of traces or emotional imprints that early modern law articulated as loca infecta or places infested by spirits. These ideas are read into contemporary case law and the essay speculates on the relationship between spectral jurisprudence, a hauntology of law and psychic jurisprudence
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