463 research outputs found
Shaping Racialised Media Representations in Norwegian Sports. An Anti-racial Self-understanding Embedded in Nordic Exceptionalism and Hegemonic Colour-blindness
Get PDFThe article sheds light on how the Norwegian media presents, processes, and shapes perceptions of racism in Norwegian sports. The article is based on a debate in the media between mid-February and March 2021 on whether there is structural racism in Norwegian sports. We ask: How does the media represent racism in Norwegian sports? The analysis deals with the different views on racism presented, and these perceptions are arranged in three different frames of understanding. The first understanding was based on the fact that racism in Norwegian sports is a marginal problem that can often be explained by individual minority ethnics’ lack of cultural understanding and that it is not the responsibility of organised sports to correct it. The second understanding is of sport as part of society where racism is practised and where challenges experienced by individual minorities can be conceptualised as signs of structural racism. The NIF uses the last understanding to legitimise their strategies. The media debate exemplifies how Norwegian media can carry out their democratic mission by highlighting how social problems are reflected in Norwegian sports. Our data shows that Norwegian media and sports present an anti-racial self- understanding embedded in Nordic exceptionalism and colour-blindness.publishedVersio
Internationalisation at Home: Critical Frameworks for Inclusive Global Learning
No full textIn this comprehensive exploration of Internationalisation at Home (IaH), Fristrup and Sonne (Eds.) assemble diverse scholarly perspectives that interrogate conventional paradigms of international education. Moving beyond mobility-centric approaches, this anthology examines how institutions can cultivate global consciousness through inclusive pedagogical strategies that recognise and respond to multidimensional identities, abilities, and socio-political contexts. The anthology’s contributions illuminate how IaH initiatives navigate complex tensions between global interconnectedness and local specificity, between institutional standardisation and cultural plurality, and between neoliberal instrumentalism and emancipatory pedagogies. Through case studies spanning multiple geographical contexts—from Glasgow’s award systems to Indonesia’s IISMA programme and Nordic heritage institutions—the volume demonstrates how IaH manifests in diverse institutional settings while responding to specific educational, cultural, and political realities. This anthology advances the theoretical understanding of IaH as a multidimensional phenomenon that necessitates engagement with complex questions of access, representation, and democratic participation. By foregrounding critical perspectives on inclusion, cultural heritage, and institutional transformation, the collection offers conceptual tools and practical strategies for developing more equitable approaches to global learning that transcend geographical, cultural, and ability-based boundaries.publishedVersio
Internationalisation at Home: Critical Frameworks for Inclusive Global Learning
Get PDFIn this comprehensive exploration of Internationalisation at Home (IaH), Fristrup and Sonne (Eds.) assemble diverse scholarly perspectives that interrogate conventional paradigms of international education. Moving beyond mobility-centric approaches, this anthology examines how institutions can cultivate global consciousness through inclusive pedagogical strategies that recognise and respond to multidimensional identities, abilities, and socio-political contexts. The anthology’s contributions illuminate how IaH initiatives navigate complex tensions between global interconnectedness and local specificity, between institutional standardisation and cultural plurality, and between neoliberal instrumentalism and emancipatory pedagogies. Through case studies spanning multiple geographical contexts—from Glasgow’s award systems to Indonesia’s IISMA programme and Nordic heritage institutions—the volume demonstrates how IaH manifests in diverse institutional settings while responding to specific educational, cultural, and political realities. This anthology advances the theoretical understanding of IaH as a multidimensional phenomenon that necessitates engagement with complex questions of access, representation, and democratic participation. By foregrounding critical perspectives on inclusion, cultural heritage, and institutional transformation, the collection offers conceptual tools and practical strategies for developing more equitable approaches to global learning that transcend geographical, cultural, and ability-based boundaries.publishedVersio
Internationalisation home and abroad: a reward system and student field trips in an age of uncertainty
Get PDFThis article offers insight into non-travel-based international activities at the University of Glasgow. Traditionally, a university has taken pride in its position as a higher learning institution catering to the local student population. Since 2010, it has developed an international profile by establishing productive partnerships with other universities globally and joining Universitas 21 and other networks. The article introduces two initiatives focusing on modalities of student-facing internationalisation that do not require physical mobility. The GlasGow Global award system, through an intricate system of measuring student input, fosters and encourages student activity in the international arena. The University also supports field trips in financial and institutional terms. The article elaborates on the home dimension of student field trips and argues that work preceding and following a trip contributes to its success equally
The Transformative Potential of Artful Ageing
No full textThis article explores the transformative potential of Artful Ageing as a conceptual framework for enriching experiences in later life. By synthesising Manning’s theory of minor gestures with Basting’s creative care approach, the article demonstrates how Artful Ageing fundamentally reconfigures our understanding of the ageing experience. The findings indicate that this framework transforms ageing from a narrative of decline into a dynamic process of becoming, where physical and existential spaces intertwine to create opportunities for emancipatory experiences. The transformative power emerges through what Manning terms “art-as-practice” and Basting describes as “moments of awe”—small, ephemeral encounters that carry profound potential for connection and meaning-making. This study reveals how Artful Ageing transforms conventional care environments into cultural spaces where creativity becomes embedded in everyday interactions rather than isolated to scheduled activities. The author identifies how this approach enables a shift from outcome-oriented interventions focused primarily on physical health to process-oriented engagements that honour the non-rational and in-between elements of ageing lives. The research demonstrates that when implemented, Artful Ageing transforms not only individual experiences but also relational dynamics and institutional structures, challenging biopolitical agendas embedded in current regimes of active ageing. This transformative framework ultimately offers new pathways for understanding and supporting meaningful engagement throughout later life
Quality Analysis of Mobile Applications
Get PDFMobile applications are defined and different types of mobile applications are identified. Characteristics of quality are defined and their indicators are constructed to measure levels. Take into account 11 parameters analysis for mobile applications, which are arranged using weights and do a detailed analysis of the system of weights. For SMSEncrypt application performance measurement is done using an aggregate indicator based on the obtained weights system.Mobile, Application, Quality, Analysis, Indicator
A Decade of Trials of Interferon-Alpha for Chronic Hepatitis C. A Meta-Regression Analysis
No full textThe most relevant randomized controlled trials of interferon-alpha (IFN) for naive patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) published in a decade, just before appearance of pegylated IFN trials in 2000, were included in this paper. Its purpose is to review the relationship between sustained biochemical response in active versus control group versus usual clinical variables as IFN regimens, cirrhosis, genotype and versus less frequently addressed variables as funding, methodological quality or location of principal author. Meta-analysis estimates of global treatment effect varied according to trial design: group 1=IFN versus placebo/no treatment, 32 RCTs, 2499 pts, OR 9.5 (6.3-14.2); group 2a=comparison of IFN schedules, 43 RCTs, 7454 pts, OR 1.6 (1.4-1.9); group 2b=IFN+other drugs versus standard IFN, 30 RCTs, 4737 pts, OR 2.0 (1.6-2.6). Fixed effects (arm-level) meta-regression on the complete data set (171 arms, 10,580 pts) revealed that sustained response was most likely in experimental arms of IFN+ribavirin or other drugs (OR 2.4), arms using yearly schedule (OR 2.0), trial principal author from Asia (OR 1.7), trial sample size >200 (OR 1.4) and arms enrolling less than 50% of cirrhotics (OR 1.3). Moreover, focus was on some significant interactions too, as the effect of trial''s quality interacting to the recorded funding (more benefit if no-profit, less if for-profit) and the effect of trial funding interacting to the location of first author (more benefit if from Asia). Three main effects (experimental arm, cirrhosis, funding) and one interaction (funding*location of principal author) explained 31% of between study variability in a random-effect meta-regression. In a subgroup analysis on a data set including available information on HCV genotype (93 arms, around 7000 pts), meta-regression revealed that genotype 1 or 4 less than 50% per arm and specialistic journal were significant predictors of either biochemical (transaminases) or virological (HCV-RNA) sustained response, in a model including the same main effects identified in the complete data set analysis. Finally, although mostly captured by different IFN regimens along time, heterogeneity of effect in a large set of (not-pegylated) IFN trials was also explained by HCV genotype and variables of quality and reporting, such as trial''s principal author from Asia
Pisma Louisa Adamiča nečaku Tinetu
Get PDFThe article is based upon the publication of a number of letters and short notices (in anauthentic transcript) that Louis Adamic sent to the author, his nephew Tine Kurent, between 1946-50. The contents of these letters as well as some of the author’s spelling errors reveal, besides his current activities and future plans, the writer’s emotional stateat the time when he was writing them.Prispevek se opira na objavo nekaterih pisem (v avtentičnemu prepisu), ki jih je Louis Adamič poslal svojemu nečaku Tinetu Kurentu v letih 1946 - 50. Tako vsebina kot tudi nekatere pravopisne napake v pismih odkrivajo - poleg podatkov o Adamičevih tedanjih dejavnosti in načrtih - tudi njegova čustvena stanja v trenutkih, ki jih je pisal
Interrogating disability and prosthesis through the conceptual framework of NEODISABILITY
Get PDFThis article investigates the emerging field of critical disability studies in order to explore understandings of disability and prosthesis through the intersection of dis/ability studies, studies in ableism, and philosophical enquiries into the biopolitics of disability and neoliberal psychopolitics. We present the interpretation that contemporary Western ableism is confi gured by neoliberal arrangements operating on the individual in ongoing processes of self-improvement. People who fail in the achievement society see themselves as being responsible for their own situation, blaming themselves as individuals instead of questioning the ableism that organises contemporary societal orderings in the neoliberal production of inferiority. We offer a conceptual framework of neodisability by unfolding internalised disabling processes in which the bifurcation of ‘dis’ and ‘ability’ operates through the forward-slash in dis/ability. The forward-slash captivates the optimistic cruelty in the workings of contemporary ableism in search of excellence through prosthetic confi gurations in an achievement economy: desiring the invisible prosthesis of willpower in the constant pursuit of overcoming the ‘dis/’. Neodisability engenders contemporary psycho-neoliberal-ableism, with people turning their aggressions against themselves in never-ending processes of dis-ing parts of themselves as ‘notfit-enough’, while being in constant need of therapeutic interventions to employ and promote the self-optimising efforts in times of neodisableism
Interrogating disability and prosthesis through the conceptual framework of NEODISABILITY
Get PDFThis article investigates the emerging field of critical disability studies in order to explore understandings of disability and prosthesis through the intersection of dis/ability studies, studies in ableism, and philosophical enquiries into the biopolitics of disability and neoliberal psychopolitics. We present the interpretation that contemporary Western ableism is confi gured by neoliberal arrangements operating on the individual in ongoing processes of self-improvement. People who fail in the achievement society see themselves as being responsible for their own situation, blaming themselves as individuals instead of questioning the ableism that organises contemporary societal orderings in the neoliberal production of inferiority. We offer a conceptual framework of neodisability by unfolding internalised disabling processes in which the bifurcation of ‘dis’ and ‘ability’ operates through the forward-slash in dis/ability. The forward-slash captivates the optimistic cruelty in the workings of contemporary ableism in search of excellence through prosthetic confi gurations in an achievement economy: desiring the invisible prosthesis of willpower in the constant pursuit of overcoming the ‘dis/’. Neodisability engenders contemporary psycho-neoliberal-ableism, with people turning their aggressions against themselves in never-ending processes of dis-ing parts of themselves as ‘notfit-enough’, while being in constant need of therapeutic interventions to employ and promote the self-optimising efforts in times of neodisableism
- …
