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Law and Sustainable Development After COVID-19
No full textThis book considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the realisation of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.Although efforts towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals are ongoing, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on these efforts: accentuating inequities, as well as absorbing resources. This book addresses this impact, as it takes up the question of how to ensure global recovery – in line with the target for the Sustainable Development Goals – after the pandemic. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, but focusing particularly on the role of law and legal frameworks in this recovery, the book considers the effect of the pandemic on key industries such as shipping, insurance, manufacturing, and banking, as well as on the role of the State and non-State actors. Pursuing an explicitly Global South perspective, the book maintains that in the post-COVID era it is the elaboration a rule of law framework that is in sync with both the Global North and South that is crucial if the Sustainable Development Goals are to be achieved.This book will be of value to scholars, students and policymakers working in the general area of law and development, but especially those with specific interests in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
The experiences of Black African parents on partnership: Working with education professionals in the English special education needs and disability system
No full textTrajectories of brain and behaviour development in the womb, at birth and through infancy
No full textDevelopment is often seen as beginning from birth, building on the brain, cognitive and behavioral capacities of the young infant. This perspective neglects the activity of the fetus in shaping its own brain and behavioral development inutero. Recent methodological advances have given us a clearer window on the behaviour of the fetus, revealing its capacities within the womb and early influences of the uterine environment. Birth punctuates the pathway of ‘autonomy’ of the child from its mother, as the fetus establishes its independent physiological self-regulation and behavioral self-distinction from its parent. We present evidence from studies that illuminate (1) increasingly autonomous activity and perceptual sensitivity in the fetus, (2) physiological and neurochemical processes that occur around birth which influence future behaviour, (3) the recalibration of newborn motor and sensory systems to adapt to the physical world outside of the womb, and (4) the impact of the prenatal environment on the development of fetal and infant behaviours and neural functions. From conception, neural systems are highly malleable (Stiles & Jernigan, 2010), enabling a learned fit between early utero activity and subsequent expectable environment (Salo & Humphries, 2020), such that development prepares for and adapts to parturition, the act of giving birth. By advancing birth as a unique and punctate life event that is associated with specific physiological and hormonal triggers, our perspective re-frames existing evidence within development and sensory-specific heterochronous windows of neural plasticity, changing the research direction for developmental science
An exploration of the value of infographics among students on an undergraduate sports coaching programme from a complex ecological perspective
Get PDFBook review of 'Materialities in Dance and Performance. Writing, Documenting, Archiving', edited by Gabriele Klein and Franz Anton Cramer, 2024.
No full textGrandmother kinship carers: negotiating conflicts in identity, blame, loss and love in the context of ‘mother blame’
No full textIt is estimated that over half of all kinship carers in the UK are grandparents, the majority of whom are grandmothers. These grandmothers face a range of economic, social and emotional challenges arising from their roles in a society where women are expected to shoulder the burden of unpaid care within families. In this article, we draw on data from qualitative interviews with 24 grandmother kinship carers to understand the challenging emotional landscape that this role produces. In particular, we highlight how grandmother kinship carers are navigating contradictory dual roles as both ‘mothers’ and ‘grandmothers’ that become entangled within pervasive discourses of ‘mother blame’. We highlight how discourses of mother blame are mobilized and reinforced, not just within the broader structures and institutions of our society, but within individual families. When this happens, unequal gender norms and expectations around care and the family, as well as underlying structural inequalities, remain obscured
德国《供应链法》的背景、动机及其对中国的影响评估:Background, Motivation, and Impact Assessment of Germany's Supply Chain Act on China
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The role of femininity in the self-esteem and anxiety of women through midlife: Ideology, norms & conformity
No full textAfrican Diasporic Megachurches in Europe
No full textThe presence of African Christian communities in Europe and North America represents one of the most significant developments within world Christianity over the past three decades. Research on African diasporic churches has engaged scholars from a range of academic disciplines, providing different perspectives on the phenomenon. This chapter surveys the literature on African diasporic megachurches in Europe. It begins by setting the context and reviewing the literature, with a particular focus on Britain, the Ukraine, and France, where most of the churches are located. This is followed by an examination of major themes in the literature. These include the influence of globalization and transnational connections, the churches’ role as social and religious support networks, their theological outlook, their emphasis on mission and social engagement, the significance of leadership, and gender relations