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SLS/BIALL Academic Law Library Survey 2010/2011
No full textThe Annual Academic Law Library Survey provides a snapshot of the staffing, expenditure on acquisitions, subscriptions to databases and range of services provided in the academic year 2010/2011 by 95 university and college libraries in the UK and Ireland. It is the only survey of its kind and provides data which academic law library managers use to bench-mark their own services and law course validation bodies note when appraising the provision of institutions seeking to run law courses
Introduction
No full textThis is the introduction to the edition of the manuscript materials for Where There is Nothing and The Unicorn from the stars, two version of a play co-written by W.B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory between 1902 and 1907, based on an early idea by George Moore. It contains a detailed survey of the composition history and their earliest publication of the play texts, as well as a assesment of the co-authorship between Yeats and Lady Gregory. A Census of the extant manuscripts and typescripts is appended
Gender and historiography: Studies in the earlier middle ages in honour of Pauline Stafford
No full textThe chapters in this volume celebrate the work of Pauline Stafford, highlighting the ways in which it has advanced research in the fields of both Anglo-Saxon history and the history of medieval women and gender. Ranging across the period, and over much of the old Carolingian world as well as Anglo-Saxon England, they deal with such questions as the nature of kingship and queenship, fatherhood, elite gender relations, the transmission of property, the participation of women in lordship, slavery and warfare, and the nature of assemblies. Gender and historiography presents the fruits of groundbreaking research, inspired by Pauline Stafford's own interests over a long and influential career
BBC interview with Alpheus Manghezi
No full textAn interview with Alpheus Manghezi broadcast on the BBC World Service programme 'Focus on Africa' on the 14th of June 2012. Reproduced here with the permission of the BBC
Fifty Years On: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited and Reinterpreted
No full textOn the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis Mark White re-examines the most dangerous episode in the history of the Cold War. Utilising declassified materials, he provides a fresh interpretation of the roles play by John Kennedy’s team of advisers. In particular, the contributions made by Robert McNamara and Robert Kennedy are re-evaluated
Introduction: Tommaso Campanella and the arts of writing
No full textAn introduction to vol. XVIII, no. 1 of Bruniana & Campanelliana
Decolonising sexual citizenship: who will effect change in the south of the Commonwealth?
No full textColin Robinson argues that it is ill-judged to place too much emphasis on law and litigation as a means of advancing
sexual autonomy in the Global South of the Commonwealth. The rhetorical handwringing and neo-colonial undertones of western NGOs and campaign groups do nothing to foster southern-based local and sub-regional solutions to the achievement of sexual citizenship and sexual emancipation. If Global North advocates wish to be part of the movement to end ‘sexual apartheid’, they must resist the temptation to take the reins. They must engage in genuine North-South dialogue and international solidarity. They need to get behind Global South initiatives and push in the directions carved out by southern activists
At Rio+20, the green economy won’t save the planet.But green democracy will.
No full textCoverage of the upcoming Rio+20 Earth Summit has tended either to express exasperation at the futility of a
single conference attempting to address multiple planetary crises or to bemoan the fact that, while laudable, the
little that is being done comes too late. Both views are wrong. There is, in fact, a great deal being done in the
environment’s name and much more of it will be pushed between 20–22 June in Brazil. Unfortunately, the central
solution presented by policymakers – The Green Economy – will make matters worse. This concept, a way of
putting a price on the use of natural resources previously considered ‘free’, is being touted as the only way to
prevent future crises. In this Opinion, we explain how the green economy approach – relying as it does on the kinds
of broken mechanisms that precipitated the current financial crisis – will only further incentivise the exploitation
and destruction of the ecosystems on which we all depend. And while humans are accelerating the rate of species
extinction,1 it is not too late to adopt the kinds of policies that have demonstrated success in combatting the global crises in food, energy and climate change. Policymakers at Rio+20 ought to look away from the greenwash, to the concrete proposals already enacted by social movements around the world. Their environmental solutions have the advantage of enfranchising the poor, transforming social relationships with nature and, most importantly when compared to the Green Economy approach, they actually work
