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Exploring Other-Than-Human Identity: A Narrative Approach to Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires
No full textDrawing on in-depth, narrative interviews with 24 self-identified Otherkin, Therianthropes, and Vampires, we explore how members of these communities navigate Bamberg’s three “dilemmatic spaces” or tensions of continuity/change, similarity/difference, and person-to-world/world-to-person fit. With regard to the first, we identify four aetiological narratives (walk-ins, reincarnation, trapped soul, and evolutionary soul), and discuss stories of shifts and awakening. For the second, we discuss how participants manage the similarity/difference tension with regard to themselves and humans, and explore categorical and renunciatory othering within the communities. Finally, we explore the ways in which members of the communities experience a barren narrative environment, and ways they seek to construct storyworlds and narrative resources as frames for establishing their identities
Living Narratively: From Theory to Experience (and Back Again)
No full textOn November 3, 2011, Clive Baldwin presented the fourth annual John McKendy Memorial Lecture on Narrative at St. Thomas University. The annual lecture, sponsored by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative (CIRN), is named for John McKendy, PhD, a member of the Sociology Department at St. Thomas University and one of the founding members of CIRN, who died tragically in 2008. What follows is a transcript of Dr. Baldwin’s lecture, with an accompanying film. A list of further reading follows the transcript
Clive Small on the real-life "Underbelly"
No full textOver the course of his career, Clive Small, one of NSW\u27s most successful detectives, saw it all. His book, "Smack Express: How organised crime got hooked on drugs" is an insight into drug trafficking and organised crime on Australia\u27s east coast. Written with journalist Tom Gilling, it features an extraordinary range of colourful characters and situations. Take "Aunty", the female drug lord who has been successfully importing kilos of cocaine into Australia for decades. Or the bloke who thought that throwing someone into the boot of a car and driving it to South Australia wasn\u27t kidnapping, because "he never asked to get out of the boot".
Clive Small is a former Assistant Commissioner of Police in NSW, and a former ICAC chief investigator. He resigned from ICAC in 2007 to pursue a defamation case against broadcaster Alan Jones. His investigations included the death of Griffith anti-drugs campaigner Donald McKay, the assassination of Cabramatta MP John Newman and the backpacker murders of Ivan Milat.
Tom Gilling is a former journalist and author. He has written a number of novels and co-authored "The Bagman: Final Confessions of Jack Herbert", about a corrupt Queensland policeman whose evidence in the 1980s Fitzgerald Inquiry had a huge impact on Queensland
On Tom Kitwood and culture change in dementia care
No full textNoIn a new book, Andrea Capstick and Clive Baldwin assess Tom Kitwood’s contribution to the field of dementia studies. Here they consider one of the key themes of their book – the transformation of organisational culture in dementia car
Peripheral inflammatory cytokines and immune balance in Generalised Anxiety Disorder: case-controlled study
No full textIntroduction: Previous investigations have demonstrated that major depression is associated with particular patterns of cytokine signalling. The primary aim of this study was to examine peripheral pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines and immune balance in generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). Methods: A case-controlled cross-sectional study design was employed: 54 patients with GAD and 64 healthy controls were recruited. Participants completed self-report measures of anxiety and depression. Two pro-inflammatory and two anti-inflammatory cytokines were measured using multiplex technology. Results: Case-control logistic regression analyses revealed significant differences in serum levels of IL-10, TNF-α, and IFN-γ between GAD and control groups after adjusting for age, gender, body mass index, smoking and alcohol consumption: these group differences were independent of the presence or degree of depression. Comparison of pro-inflammatory to anti-inflammatory cytokine ratios indicated that there were significantly higher ratios of TNF-α /IL10, TNF-α /IL4, IFN-γ /IL10, and IFN-γ /IL4 in the GAD group compared to the control group. Conclusions: This study is the first to investigate both pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines and their balance in patients with GAD in comparison to healthy controls. The findings indicate a relatively increased pro-inflammatory response and decreased anti-inflammatory response and provide the first demonstration of an altered cytokine balance in GAD. Serum cytokine levels in GAD were independent of the presence of depression
Photograph - Burrows, Geoff, Accounting and Business Law, and Clive Morton, co-author, after receiving award for their book ‘The Canecutters’
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/283960Burrows, Geoff, Accounting and Business Law, and Clive Morton, co-author, after receiving award for their book ‘The Canecutters’286830
Item: [2003.0003.00938] "Photograph - Burrows, Geoff, Accounting and Business Law, and Clive Morton, co-author, after receiving award for their book ‘The Canecutters’
Photograph - Burrows, Geoff, Accounting and Business Law, and Clive Morton, co-author, who won award for their book ‘The Canecutters’
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/283981Burrows, Geoff, Accounting and Business Law, and Clive Morton, co-author, who won award for their book ‘The Canecutters’ 27 Feb 1987286851
Item: [2003.0003.00959] "Photograph - Burrows, Geoff, Accounting and Business Law, and Clive Morton, co-author, who won award for their book ‘The Canecutters’
Review of “St. Clive:” An Eastern Orthodox Author Looks Back at C. S. Lewis
No full textReview of C. J. S. Hayward, “St. Clive:” An Eastern Orthodox Author Looks Back at C. S. Lewis (Wheaton, Illinois: C. J. S. Hayward Publications, 2000-19). 381 pages. $49.99. ISBN 9781794669956
The Narrative Dispossession of People Living with Dementia: Thinking About the Theory and Method of Narrative
No full textIn the beginning …
Once upon a time …
This is the story of …
That’s a good story ….
And they all lived ….
Let me tell you a story ….
Narrative, it seems, is all around us. Bruner (2002) states that we are
‘constantly in the process of making narratives’ (p.3) and that narrative is so
much part and parcel of life that ‘human society cannot run without it’. In
everyday life we recount stories about ourselves and others and in so doing
both represent and construct ourselves. We are the heroes and heroines of our
own stories and occasionally of the stories of others. Our experience, lives and
Selves are storied. In academia narrative has also found a place not only in the
humanities but also the social sciences and even the natural sciences. It would
seem there is no escape from participation in the narrative enterprise - it is a
way of experiencing, relating, thinking and, ultimately, being in the world.
Narrative, as Barthes (1977) said, ‘is simply there, like life itself’ (p.79).
To be sure, the development of narrative as a theory and method has
brought (or constructed) insights into all manner of things. Narrative, emerging
as it did from an interest in the experience of powerlessness (MacKinnon,
1996), was seen as a means of giving voice to those previously at the margins
and has effectively, and prolifically, expanded our understanding of what it is
like to be marginalised, oppressed, victimised, ignored and silenced. But even
as this is so, it is my contention, contra Barthes, that narrative and the process
of narration (narrativity) as we currently conceive and operationalise it
excludes certain individuals and groups of people, creating people without
narrative. These people are those I shall call the ‘narratively dispossessed’. In
the first part of this paper I will seek to outline what I mean by this and work
towards a tentative definition. In the latter part I will attempt to suggest some
ways in which we might try to think about narrative/narrativity somewhat
differently so as to narratively ‘re-possess’ these individuals and groups
CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS’S FANTASTIC STORY
No full textRad predstavlja priču Lav, Vještica i ormar iz ciklusa Kronike iz Narnije britanskog pisca irskog podrijetla Clivea Staplesa Lewisa (1898.-1963.) s ciljem utvrđivanja osebujnosti Lewisove varijante fantastične priče. Polazi se od odabrane literature gdje se bez iznimke problematizira kršćanski podtekst, koji je Lewis uključio u sve priče narnijskoga ciklusa, te elementi više književnih vrsta pored fantastične priče, kao što su bajka, mit, priča o životinjama i romansa.The paper presents story The Lion, the Witch and the wardrobe from series Chronicles of Narnia, written by British author of the Irish origins Clive Staples Lewis (1898.-1963.) with the aim to establish the singuliarities of Lewis’s fantasy story. There are considered selected literature and sources that without exception speak about Christian subtext, which Clive Staples Lewis incorporated in all of narnian stories, as well as about the elements of various genres alongside fantasy, such as fairy tale, myth, animal stories and romance. In the story The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Clive Staples Lewis used the structure of the fantasy story, marked in the tradition of English children’s literature with Lewis Carroll’s fantasy stories Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice found there. As esteemed scholar and expert for English medieval and renaissance literature Lewis included in his story elements of romance and Christian subtext, influenced by his religious believes that he intended to pass to the young readers as a form of their reading pre-baptism
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