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Collected Works of Paul Hunt:Edited with commentary by Luke Beesley
No full textPaul Hunt is often described, with good reason, as the founder of the disabled people’s movement in Britain. He was a critical voice in the disability campaigns of the 1960s, which were often driven by non-disabled people, and started the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS); probably the most influential organisation in disability politics in Britain.Despite this, the vast majority of his writings were unavailable for decades. This collection brings together Hunt’s out of print, or previously unpublished, writings into a single collection – using material held in the Leonard Cheshire Rewind Archives, and the Judy and Paul Hunt Collection and Disabled People’s Archives at Manchester Central Library.We are grateful to the Leonard Cheshire Archive Team, the Archive Steering Group at the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, and Peter Owens Publishers for allowing us to reproduce that material here. We are also grateful to the Archives+ team in Manchester for support with accessing Hunt’s writings.We understand that readers will approach this collection for different reasons. Our main concern has been putting Hunt’s work in the context of his times: these were decades when disability became a public issue, and where the meanings and the politics of disablement were first seriously contested inBritain. Unfortunately, this period has suffered the same fate as Hunt, and it is only recently that serious historical research has begun to investigate the birth of disability as a matter of public and government concern in the ‘60s and early ‘70s. A long introductory essay ties together Hunt’s biography, the changing landscape of disability campaigns and services, and the development of his ideas over the course of his life. Other readers will be interested in the particular movements, campaigns, and organisations that Hunt was involved in. We have divided his writings into seven sections, each with a short introduction to put specific articles in their context. These sections are based on themes in Hunt’s work, and are roughly divided between the writings he did outside of UPIAS, and writings from within the organisation. The first two of these sections concern struggles between residents, staff, and managers in the Leonard Cheshire Foundation for the Sick in the first half of the 1960s. The third collects Hunt’s writings on institutions and deinstitutionalisation before UPIAS’s first conference. The fourth is all of Hunt’s columns from The Cheshire Smile – the quarterly magazine of the Cheshire Foundation –, and cover a wider variety of topics. The fifth section collects Hunt’s writings on the Disablement Income Group before resigning from the organisation. The final two sections concern Hunt’s work with UPIAS; section six contains Hunt’s writings in UPIAS between its founding in 1972 and 1977 – shortly after Fundamental Principles of Disability (the second of UPIAS’s two policy documents-cum-manifestos) was written. The final section is Hunt’s side of an argument with Vic Finkelstein over whether UPIAS should be wound-up after it had entered an organisational crisis. For the reader’s ease, the editorial introductions to each section are in a different print to the main texts. The commentary on this collection provides detailed notes on people, organisations, or books and articles mentioned by Hunt in his writings. For ease of reading, this commentary is in endnotes at the end of the book
Collected Works of Paul Hunt:Edited with commentary by Luke Beesley
No full textPaul Hunt is often described, with good reason, as the founder of the disabled people’s movement in Britain. He was a critical voice in the disability campaigns of the 1960s, which were often driven by non-disabled people, and started the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS); probably the most influential organisation in disability politics in Britain.Despite this, the vast majority of his writings were unavailable for decades. This collection brings together Hunt’s out of print, or previously unpublished, writings into a single collection – using material held in the Leonard Cheshire Rewind Archives, and the Judy and Paul Hunt Collection and Disabled People’s Archives at Manchester Central Library.We are grateful to the Leonard Cheshire Archive Team, the Archive Steering Group at the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, and Peter Owens Publishers for allowing us to reproduce that material here. We are also grateful to the Archives+ team in Manchester for support with accessing Hunt’s writings.We understand that readers will approach this collection for different reasons. Our main concern has been putting Hunt’s work in the context of his times: these were decades when disability became a public issue, and where the meanings and the politics of disablement were first seriously contested inBritain. Unfortunately, this period has suffered the same fate as Hunt, and it is only recently that serious historical research has begun to investigate the birth of disability as a matter of public and government concern in the ‘60s and early ‘70s. A long introductory essay ties together Hunt’s biography, the changing landscape of disability campaigns and services, and the development of his ideas over the course of his life. Other readers will be interested in the particular movements, campaigns, and organisations that Hunt was involved in. We have divided his writings into seven sections, each with a short introduction to put specific articles in their context. These sections are based on themes in Hunt’s work, and are roughly divided between the writings he did outside of UPIAS, and writings from within the organisation. The first two of these sections concern struggles between residents, staff, and managers in the Leonard Cheshire Foundation for the Sick in the first half of the 1960s. The third collects Hunt’s writings on institutions and deinstitutionalisation before UPIAS’s first conference. The fourth is all of Hunt’s columns from The Cheshire Smile – the quarterly magazine of the Cheshire Foundation –, and cover a wider variety of topics. The fifth section collects Hunt’s writings on the Disablement Income Group before resigning from the organisation. The final two sections concern Hunt’s work with UPIAS; section six contains Hunt’s writings in UPIAS between its founding in 1972 and 1977 – shortly after Fundamental Principles of Disability (the second of UPIAS’s two policy documents-cum-manifestos) was written. The final section is Hunt’s side of an argument with Vic Finkelstein over whether UPIAS should be wound-up after it had entered an organisational crisis. For the reader’s ease, the editorial introductions to each section are in a different print to the main texts. The commentary on this collection provides detailed notes on people, organisations, or books and articles mentioned by Hunt in his writings. For ease of reading, this commentary is in endnotes at the end of the book
Varn Vlog: On the Legacy of Trotskyism (Part 3):The British Trotskyist Legacy
No full textA podcast interview by C. Derrick Varn with Luke Beesley and James from Prolekult films on the historical development of Trotskyism in Britain, the mechanics of sectarian organisations, and the relationship between Trotskyist activists and trade unionism, social movements, and political parties
A dynamic reading of the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts.
Full text linkThis study examines the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts through a new perspective: 'dynamic biblical narrative criticism'. Chapter I briefly surveys the past and present issues in the study of the Holy Spirit in Luke and Acts by focusing on three representative scholars: J. D. G. Dunn; R-P. Menzies; M. M. B. - Turner, while noting that their research (including that of other influential scholars) was almost always undertaken by 'historical critical methods', especially 'redaction criticism’. Then I set out my methodology and procedure for the present work. Chapter 2 provides the literary repertoire of the Lukan Holy Spirit by examining the use of ruach or pneuma in the Jewish Bible and concludes that the divine Spirit in the extra text is always characterized as God's own Spirit, revealing his will/purpose by representing his power, activity and presence through his human agents. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 explore the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts as dynamic biblical narrative. Chapter 3 discusses the relationship between the narrator’s point of view and the Spirit and notes especially that this point of View focuses not only on God and Jesus, but also on the Holy Spirit. References to the Holy Spirit are used to suggest narrative reliability: both the Lukan narrator and reliable characters are positively associated with the 'divine frame of reference', particularly with the Holy Spirit. Chapters 4 and 5 elucidate the Holy Spirit as a literary character through narrative theories of 'character' and 'characterization'. So Chapter 4 analyses the Spirit ill terms of 'character-presentation' and concludes that the Holy Spirit is characterized as God's promised Holy Spirit giving God's power and insight for his ongoing plan to God's human agents and his people in general as anticipated in the literary repertoire. At the same time, however, the Spirit is also characterized in close relation to (the risen) Jesus the Messiah and Lord, and after Jesus’ ascension the Spirit is almost always presented in contexts in which Jesus' witnesses are said to bear witness to the risen Jesus, not only to Jews, but also to Gentiles. Chapter 5 further explores the characterization of the Holy Spirit ill terms of the narrative function of the Spirit in relation to the causal aspect of the plot. It is argued that the major narrative function of the Holy Spirit is to empower and guide individual characters as God's human agents and Jesus' witnesses to seek and save God's people in accordance with the plan of God, while the Spirit also functions as verifying group characters as incorporated into God's people and is employed in relation to the life- situations of believers in settled communities by granting them charismatic gifts or comforting and encouraging them or initiating forms of patriarchal leadership. Chapter 6 summarizes the conclusions of the earlier chapters and briefly draws out implications of the results. of this study: (1) the theological significance of the Lukan presentation of the Holy Spirit and (2) the relationship of the Holy Spirit to (a) the narrator or implied author, (b) the text and (c) the implied reader of Luke-Acts, with final remarks about the legitimacy of Lukan ideology, the power of modem readers and my reading
The immobilisation and retention of soluble arsenic, cadmium and zinc by biochar
No full textWater-soluble inorganic pollutants may constitute an environmental toxicity problem if their movement through soils and potential transfer to plants or groundwater is not arrested. The capability of biochar to immobilise and retain arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd) and zinc (Zn) from a multi-element contaminated sediment-derived soil was explored by a column leaching experiment and scanning electron microanalysis (SEM/EDX). Sorption of Cd and Zn to biochar’s surfaces assisted a 300 and 45-fold reduction in their leachate concentrations, respectively. Retention of both metals was not affected by considerable leaching of water-soluble carbon from biochar, and could not be reversed following subsequent leaching of the sorbant biochar with water at pH 5.5. Weakly water-soluble As was also retained on biochar’s surface but leachate concentrations did not duly decline. It is concluded that biochar can rapidly reduce the mobility of selected contaminants in this polluted soil system, with especially encouraging results for Cd
Luke’s use of the Old Testament in Luke 22-23
Full text linkWhile Luke understands Jesus' suffering and death as the fulfillment of OT prophecy, he does not use many OT quotations or allusions to express this fact in his passion narrative. The question arises: How does Luke use the OT in his passion narrative, especially to show prophetic fulfillment?This study seeks to answer this question through an identification and analysis of the OT quotations, allusions, ideas, and stylistic elements in Luke 22-23. The criteria for identification and critical analysis are gathered from studying the history of scholarship on the subject from the Reformation to 1972.Our findings are that Luke presents the fulfillment of the key OT prophecy in his passion narrative, Is. 53:12/Lk. 22:37, through a thematic development of various aspects of its message. Other OT quotes, allusions, ideas, and stylistic elements contribute to the development of this theme. Luke's approach to the OT is Christocentric both in the sense that all the quotations and most of the allusions occur in the reported words of Jesus, and in the sense that most of Luke's OT material refers to the OT promises of a suffering and glorified Messiah. OT ideas also occur mainly in the reported words of Jesus and the OT stylistic elements are best understood as examples of LXX style imitation. We found that Luke's lack of allusions and quotations was probably due to his desire to have his readers relive the fulfillment events of the Passion as they unfold in the narrative without being distracted by editorial fulfillment proof~texts. Yet, at the same time Luke, the Christian theologian to the Gentiles, did make extensive use of the OT. With a Christocentric interpretational approach to understanding OT prophecy and theological content within a salvation history framework, Luke shows how the OT was important to Gentile Christians
King and ruler takes his stand: ‘Herod’ as a composite character in Luke-Acts
Full text linkUsing a narrative-critical approach, this thesis argues that ‘Herod’ may be
construed as a composite character in Luke-Acts. Composite characters appear in
literary works as a conflation of two or more historic individuals into a single
character in a narrative. Scholars have often noted that Luke-Acts evidences a more
extensive interest in the Herodian rulers than do the gospels of Mark and Matthew
and that each of these rulers are depicted similarly to the others in his work.
However, no one has argued that those rulers named ‘Herod’ may be understood as a composite character.
In Luke-Acts, three Herodian rulers stand behind the composite ‘Herod’. The
thesis will show that when compared/contrasted with what is known about the
Herodian rulers from historical evidence, two unique features of the depiction of the
Herodian rulers named Herod in Luke-Acts emerge. First, at Luke 1:5 the author uses
the title ‘King of Judaea’ which is unattested elsewhere for any Herodian ruler.
Second, at Acts 12 the author uses the name ‘Herod’ for Agrippa I, a name that finds
no external corroboration for this particular King. While other occurrences of the
name ‘Herod’ refer to Herod Antipas (Luke 3—Acts 4), these two distinct features of
the narrative may be understood as conflation of the other ‘Herods’ with Antipas.
Following an interpretation of all the passages in which ‘Herod’ appears, it will be
evident that ‘Herod’ is portrayed consistently and as a single character not only
through repeated use of the name ‘Herod’, but as a recurring antagonist to the key
protagonists of the narrative (John the Baptist, Jesus, and the apostles/early church).
Finally, the thesis will consider as explanation of the depiction of ‘Herod’ how this
composite character embodies Satanic opposition from the political realm toward
those who proclaim the gospel in the Lukan narrative
From temple to house-church in Luke-Acts: a Lukan challenge to Korean Christianity
No full textThis dissertation examines the portrayals of the Temple, synagogue, and
house-churches in Luke-Acts to pose a Lukan challenge to the Korean church by using
a model of architectural space which is derived from social-scientific ideas originating
in anthropology, sociology and social psychology. The dissertation proposes the
relevance of the Lukan house-church to the Korean church today so as to transform
the latter's character in its architecture and use of space into the inclusive and
missionary one which is featured in Luke-Acts. The argument of the dissertation
begins with an exploration and defence of social-scientific method (Chapter 1).
Chapter 2 begins with a history and analysis of Korean Christianity which raises
problem surrounding its use of architectural space, before setting out a socialscientific
model of architectural space, which is then applied to contemporary Korean
church architecture. Challenging current understandings of a positive Lukan attitude
toward the Temple, this study proposes in Chapter 3 that Luke had a negative
understanding of the Temple in that it was an oppressive institution characterised by
segmented spaces which divided the people of God and thus showed its illegitimacy in
relation to the saving plan of God in Jesus. The dissertation next proposes in Chapter
4 that first-century synagogues were subsidiary Temple spaces which were extended
to most parts of Mediterranean world from the central sanctuary in Jerusalem, and that
Luke portrays the synagogues as similar to the Temple. Contrary to the Temple and
synagogue, the house in Luke-Acts expresses the inclusive salvation of the gospel
which incorporates a variety of people regardless of social status, gender, age and
ethnic origin (Chapter 5). In this interpretation, the house-church is represented as an
inclusive space accessible without institutional constraints. In the Gospel, it serves to
express the Kingdom of God into which sinners are invited to enter through meals and
to be incorporated into a fictive-kinship group created by Jesus. In Acts, the house is
not only a locus of Christian meetings in which the social relationships, characteristic
of family, are practised to enhance and legitimise the social identity of Jesus'
followers, but also the modus operandi of Christian mission through which the Christ-movement
spreads throughout the Mediterranean world. This study concludes with an
Epilogue containing brief suggestions for changes in Korean church architecture and
use of space based on these Lukan insights, which have the potential radically to
transform Korean Protestant Christianity
The Ascension of Jesus Christ: A Critical and Exegetical Study of the Ascension in Luke-Acts and in the Jewish and Christian Contexts
Full text linkThe aim of the present dissertation is to analyse and interpret the Ascension of Jesus as described in Luke-Acts, and to examine both the Jewish rapture traditions and the early Christian reception and interpretation of the Lukan accounts. In my research, I tried to explain how the Ascension event was shaped by Luke and the impact it had within the Christian Church of the first centuries.
The first chapter tackles the history of research on the Ascension and the proposed methodology. Following this, the second section of the thesis analyses the Jewish assumption (rapture) traditions found in both canonical and pseudepigraphal writings. The common elements between these traditions and the Ascension of Christ are observed in order to establish a certain dependence of the Ascension narrative on Jewish rapture accounts.
In the third chapter, I examine the two Ascension accounts in Luke-Acts (Lk 24:50-53; Acts 1:9-11) and aim to explain the apparent inconsistencies between them. Certain aspects, such as redundancy and variations, are discussed in detail in the third section of this chapter.
The fourth chapter focuses on the reception and interpretation of the Lukan Ascension narratives within the early Christian Church (the pre-Nicene period). Finally, a summary of the entire thesis and some final remarks are drawn in the conclusion of the present study.
Two excursuses relevant to this research are included in the appendices: the first on the Jewish Hekhalot literature and Merkabah mysticism; and the second examining the Ascension in the Gospels according to Mark (16:19-20 of the ‘longer ending’) and John (20:17)
“It doesn’t matter which imperialism [Russian or Western] is stronger or weaker. You can’t pick between these two monsters”:An Interview with Russians Against the War
No full textRussians Against the War (RAW) is a front of Russian socialist and communist activists, organising resistance to the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine. Due to the harsh and authoritarian restrictions the Kremlin have placed on freedom of speech, RAW are forced to conduct their business underground, and to rely on strict anonymity for their own safety. In this interview, members of the front offer an analysis of the economic and social drivers towards war in the Russian Federation itself, the situation of Russian social movements, and the class character of the current conflict. They also point towards what they see as the possibilities for an international anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movement capable of breaking the horrors of our current impasse.This interview was conducted by James Bell and Luke Beesley from the Prolekult Films project. Prolekult has been soliciting submissions from Ukrainian and Russian socialist activists and organisers on the impact of the war and their visions for peace and justice. Those submissions, alongside an audio version of this interview, are freely available here.Please note that these responses were written at the end of March 2022; therefore, statistics used and events described were correct at the time of writing
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