66 research outputs found
Portrait of David Rowbotham, 1958 [picture] /
No full textCondition: good, framed.; Inscriptions: "The Studio, 225 Brunswick Rd, Valley, Bris. David Rowbotham, author poet & journalist" -- verso; Signed "Sibley '58" -- lower c.; Title from accession record.; File no 204/13/64
Sir William Collins and Xavier Herbert
No full textSir William Collins, publisher and Xavier Herbert, author. Hand written comment about the photograph by Xavier Herbert on verso. [Gift of David Rowbotham
The socio-cultural milieux of the left in post-war Britain
No full textThis thesis examines the relationship between activist subjectivities and the shaping of Britain’s late
sixties extra-parliamentary left cultures. Based on the oral narratives of ninety men and women, it
traces the activist trajectory from child to adulthood to understand the social, psychological, and
cultural processes informing the political and personal transformation of young adults within the
new left cultures that emerged in the wake of Britain’s anti-war movement, the Vietnam Solidarity
Campaign (VSC). To this end the study charts the development of the political and cultural shifts on
the left over the decade from the early 1960s to the early 1970s. It shows how throughout this
period dialogue between inner and outer activist life occurred against a background of ongoing
realignment on the left from a fluid, eclectic cultural network around the VSC to a demarcated post-
VSC left after 1969, that saw increasing divergence between a non-aligned libertarian New Left on
the one hand and a Trotskyist far left milieu on the other.
The study seeks to claim a valid space for Britain’s left activist landscape within the political,
social and cultural framework of ‘1968’ and British post-war historiography. Privileging individual
and collective subjectivities, the thesis examines ways of belonging inside Trotskyist and non-aligned
left milieux by situating the respondents, their radical histories and activist cultures within the
changing post-war fabric. It shows that investigating individual and collective memories provides
deeper understanding of the ‘cognitive maps’ that young men and women created, as they
attempted to situate themselves as radical, global beings as well as local, gendered social citizens.
As micro-studies the individual stories reveal how the experience of social, emotional and
political maturation from child to adult intersected with a specific social and political moment – the
formation of a new and distinctive left culture that came to full fruition only in the aftermath of 1968
with the arrival of Women’s Liberation and the new personal politics. Exploring the social and
psychological impact of post-war childhood and youth, the study engages with the political and
emotional impact of Women’s Liberation on the men and women within the cultural context of the different left milieux.
Overall, the thesis questions how, from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, the variant
cultures of the milieux penetrated public and private spaces, and shaped early life experiences of
work, political activity, family, and political and personal relations in order to understand how
activism shaped social patterns and psychic being
Caro Dr. Marx Carta de uma feminista socialista
No full textA autora dessa carta imaginária, Annette Devereux, é uma personagem fictícia, bem como seu marido, Victor, tipógrafo Cartista, e M. e Mme.Ducrocq. Todos os outros personagens mencionados, no entanto, são figuras históricas e a informação sobre eles é apresentada, na ordem em que aparecem, no final da carta. O argumento e as demandas feitas, os eventos políticos descritos, as revistas e a Falange Fourierista em Wisconsin são todas baseadas na realidade histórica.Abstract The author of this imaginary letter, Annette Devereux, is a fictional character, along with her husband, Victor, the Chartist typographer and M. e Mme. Ducrocq. However, all the others characters mentioned are historical figures and infomation about them is provided in the order in which they appear at the end of the letter. The arguments and demands presented, the political events described, the journals and the Fourierist Phalanx at Wisconsin are all based on historical reality.Key-words: Feminism, Socialism, Communist Manifest, Phalan
Challenging Male Hegemony: A Case History of Women's Experiences in British and US Higher Education, 1970-2002
No full textThis thesis is located within the discipline of history, and centres around the
experiences of women in US and British universities. Higher education in both the US and
the UK, as throughout the world, has historically been male-led and male-controlled. This
male hegemony of higher education continues to the present, as evidenced by the low
percentage of women in the upper echelons of academia (for example, professors).
Women in the US and the UK have been challenging this male hegemony since their
admittance to higher education institutions in the nineteenth century. They faced fierce
opposition in their efforts to open higher education to women. This opposition was later
echoed in the resistance to twentieth-century feminists' efforts to found women's studies
programmes.
The male hegemony of higher education is evident in the case histories of the
experiences of women at Appalachian State University (ASU) and the University of
Gloucestershire (UG) in the latter part of the twentieth century. ASU and UG, although
located in different countries, have similarities which make a comparison interesting. The
male hegemony of the institutions, and women's challenges to it, is especially illustrated
when analysing three areas: residence hall life (living), staff issues (working), and the
women's studies programmes (teaching and learning).
Women students at both institutions experienced, and successfully challenged,
strict residence rules through the 1960s. National influences, such as the change in the age
of majority, and pressure from the students themselves brought a loosening of these rules
in the 1970s and 1980s. The conservative nature of the institutions also influenced the
experience of women academic staff. Institutional management was not proactive
regarding women's issues, and there is strong evidence of a `glass ceiling' at both
institutions. The male hegemony of the institutions was also illustrated in the struggle to
found and maintain women's studies programmes
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Freeports and free zones ::operations and regulation in the global economy /
No full textThis book explains the definition, concepts, practices and procedures of free zone operations; how they are created, how they operate, and their benefits to the global and national economy. Readers will be able to understand why free zones exist, their role in the development and maintenance of international trade, and how they contribute to national and global economic development and wellbeing, especially in developing nations. The author explains the processes in the establishment of free zones, and how government legislation and initiatives assist in this process. The book comprehensively but accessibly covers the topics of freeports, free zones, export processing zones (EPZs) and special economic zones (SEZs), as well as issues such as customs requirements, free zone law and government initiatives, including the new UK Freeport initiative. It analyses the role of such zones in global economic development and considers the challenges and issues related to free zone development and operation, including security and potential crime. The book also provides a series of case studies into selected global examples of free zones, EPZs and SEZs. Freeports and Free Zones will have a broad readership, being of interest to global economic, fiscal and government institutions, policymakers, legal practitioners and advisers, economic and business advisers, port and airport authorities, and major multinational enterprises. It will be especially relevant to the food, automotive, defence, manufacturing, logistics, FMCG, pharmaceutical, aviation and maritime industries
Coast of Soap Ships
No full textThe principal aim of Coast of Soap Ships was to examine issues of representation and self-representation of working-class communities and identities. The research examined how members of working-class communities would represent themselves if given the opportunity. It also explored what skills and infrastructures were needed in order to allow for this process. The film was made in response to an episode of Secret Millionaire (Channel 4), but actually engaged more widely with the current representation of working classes in Britain (Rowbotham, Beynon 2001, Tyler 2008). The episode of Secret Millionaire, however, was set in the community of Barrow-in-Furness which represented the community in a particular way without allowing self-representation. Considering the media context – Jenkins (2008) for example argues that we now live in an era of participation culture – this exclusion was notable. Heney drew on research of participation culture (see also Johnson 2007, Ross 2010) as well as research into vulnerable audiences, and in particular children (Buckingham 1993, 2000; Gauntlett 2005), to construct a project that would provide training to a teenage community group which would then make a film with the support of a small production team. Heney (with co-director Hunter) decided that in order to allow for well-crafted self-representation, the community should use a more established form of media, namely still photography. At the same time, using still photography would also create a sense of disruption and draw the audience’s attention to the constructed-ness of the image, thus drawing attention to the dichotomy of real versus imagined or apparent. The film challenged the current representations of working-class communities as illiterate, unemployed, drug-dependent and chaotic in relation to family relationships, and instead presented them as intelligent, articulate and able. The film was shown at Keswick Film Festival where it won first prize. It was also put up on the Channel 4 website, where Paula Carter, Channel 4’s viewers editor, commented: ‘Complaints don’t come more eloquent than this.
Fornaldarsögur, Prosimetrum, and History-Writing in Medieval Iceland
No full textIn recent scholarship, the Icelandic fornaldarsögur – legendary, “mythic-heroic” sagas – have typically been regarded as a locus for literary fiction in medieval Iceland, owing in part to their genetic and generic relation to romance literature. This thesis aims to redirect the debate and argues for the historiographical function of these sagas. Following a discursive introductory chapter, each of the three main chapters analyses the various narrative and rhetorical strategies of individual fornaldarsögur in comparison with contemporaneous historiography, with particular emphasis of their prosimetrical form.
In Chapter 2 I analyse how the comic and folktale elements of Gautreks saga serve to historicise its moral exempla, and, drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Mikhail Bakhtin, argue that the saga’s representation of geography and space serves to compartmentalise its fictionality in discrete “chronotopes.” I also demonstrate how the quotation of poetry in Gautreks saga, modelled on the konungasögur (‘kings’ sagas’), serves to authenticate the prose narrative. In Chapter 3 I analyse how the author of Vǫlsunga saga drew on genealogical and biographical models of historiography to expand the Poetic Edda’s account of the early Vǫlsung dynasty and Sigurðr Fáfnisbani’s early life. Numerous verses in Vǫlsunga saga are quoted to corroborate the prose, but, I argue, they appeal to the anonymity and continuity of the oral eddic tradition for their authority, in contrast to the skaldic tradition of the konungasögur. In Chapter 4 I analyse how many of the verse quotations of Ragnars saga loðbrókar authenticate the prose narrative, despite their presentation as direct speech. I go on to analyse the significance of the Ragnarr legend in skaldic poetics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries – in particular, the remembrance of Ragnarr as a poet himself – and argue that this lent weight to the verse quotations in the saga as direct testimonials.
I conclude by analysing the geography and spatial representation, genealogical structures, and the prosimetrum of other fornaldarsögur, demonstrating that studying these texts in relation to medieval historiographical discourse furthers our understanding of the both the genre and thirteenth-century Icelandic literary culture more widely
Effect of Build Parameters on Processing Efficiency and Material Performance in Fused Deposition Modelling
No full textAbstractAdvances in additive manufacturing have resulted in significant growth of such materials, including the medical sector. It is particularly applicable to manufacture of prosthetics and implants, where design freedoms and complex geometries afforded by additive manufacturing are especially suited to such products. With this growth it is timely to consider approaches to optimization for both efficiency and performance. In this work a design of experiments approach was used to quantify the effects of build parameters on performance and efficiency outputs. This approach could prove invaluable to designers for both cost and performance optimization, applicable to both prototype and part production
Nurse-Performed Endoscopy: Implications for the Nursing Profession in Australia
No full text© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Increasing demands for health care globally often lead to discussions about expanding the involvement of nurses in a range of nontraditional roles. Several countries have introduced nurse endoscopists as a means of easing the burden of demand for a range of endoscopic procedures. A shortage of medical staff in Australia combined with increasing demand for endoscopy led to the implementation of nurse endoscopists as a pilot program in the state of Queensland, where a nurse practitioner model was implemented, and Victoria, where an advanced practice model was used. This article will discuss the implementation of and responses from the nursing, medical, and policy community to nurse-performed endoscopy in this country. Regarding health policy, access to cancer screening may be improved by providing nurses with advanced training to safely perform endoscopy procedures. Moreover, issues of nurse credentialing and payment need to be considered appropriate to each country’s health system model
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