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Slavery and its Legacies:Remembering Labour Exploitation in the Francophone World
Full text linkFrith and Hodgson’s opening chapter provides a broad overview of the memorialization of slavery in the Francophone world contrary to the lack of memorialization of other forms of labour exploitation. While introducing the chapters that follow, it foregrounds the overarching aims of the volume, which include the desire to transcend nation-centred memories and to question the limitations of the particular terminologies, iconicities and chronologies that frame memories of slavery. It thus provides an introduction to the multiplicity of memories of slavery in the Francophone world, while also moving beyond slavery towards other forms of colonial labour exploitation. It begins by addressing the problem of definitions of slavery and labour exploitation, before moving on to consider state-led commemorative discourses in a comparative framework. Finally, it stresses the need to move towards a more transnational approach to scholarship in slavery studies, while recognizing and exploring specific sites, histories and identities that have been shaped by the history of French-led slavery and its contemporary legacies
Author Meets Reader: Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage
No full textThis is an audio recording of an author meets reader session held at the SLSA Annual Conference, University of York, 27 March 2013. Nicola Barker's book, Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage, was the winner of the 2013 Hart SLSA Book Prize. In the session she introduces the book and then engages in discussion about it with Daniel Monk
South Thompson Valley and Pinantan official settlement plan.
Full text linkThe recommended policies contained in this plan provide the Thompson-Nicola Regional District with the means to protect and enhance the agricultural economic base, regulate the supply and location of rural residential growth, guide commercial and industrial development and satisfy the historical, recreational, social and environmental concerns of the settlement plan area.Not peer reviewedPlanning documen
Rural Residential Study
Full text linkThe Thompson-Nicola Regional District has recently been grappling with some of the basic problems and conflicts of trying to provide for rural residential lot demand and, at the same tie, trying to protect the resources, aesthetics and social climate of existing rural area.Not peer reviewedstudydraf
Thompson-Nicola regional district: "The first 25 years" 1967-1992
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TNRD Regional Plan 1979 Thompson-Nicola Regional District
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The Role of Coordination and Cooperation for Bt-maize cultivation in Brandenburg, Germany
Full text linkSince 2006, several varieties of transgenic Bt-maize are approved for commercial cultivation in Germany. The German regulatory framework for growing these crops comprises ex-ante regulations as well as ex-post liability rules to protect conventional and organic farming from possible negative side effects of transgenic plants and to ensure co-existence. Public regulation is also suspected to impose additional costs to those farmers who intend to plant Bt-maize. We address the question how Bt-maize growing farmers perceive the additional costs of regulation and whether coordination or cooperation takes place in order to diminish these costs. In 2006, we carried out a case study in the Oderbruch region (Brandenburg, Germany) comprising eight Bt-maize growing farmers and six adjacent neighbours. The predominantly large farms chose intrafarm coordination to manage the construction of buffer zones within their own fields and to avoid the planting of Bt-maize close to their neighbours. Inter-farm coordination or cooperation with adjacent farmers was not regarded necessary to achieve co-existence.Coordination, Cooperation, Bt-maize, Crop Production/Industries,
TNRD Thompson-Nicola Regional District The First 25 Years 1967-1992: Municipalities and Electoral Areas Working Together as Regional Government to Tackle Common Challenges
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Author Meets Reader Session: 'Not the Marrying Kind'
No full textThis is an audio recording of an author meets reader session held at the SLSA Annual Conference, University of York, 27 March 2013. Nicola Barker's book, Not the Marrying Kind: A Feminist Critique of Same-Sex Marriage, was the winner of the 2013 Hart SLSA Book Prize. In the session she introduces the book and then engages in discussion about it with Daniel Monk
"An Acquired Taste": The Internal and External Posture of Nicola Barker, Metamodernist Author
No full textThis thesis looks at how Nicola Barker's internal and external posture are construed on the basis of her last three books, The Cauliflower® (2016), H(A)PPY (2017), and I Am Sovereign (2019), how different institutions react to these books and whether that posture can be considered metamodernist. The theoretical framework and methodology builds on Meizoz's notion of posture, the singular way of occupying a position within the literary field, as defined by Bourdieu. As for metamodernism, multiple important sources are examined, starting with Vermeulen and Van den Akker. The research concludes that Nicola Barker can indeed be considered a metamodernist author and her posture seems to construed as that of a working-class author with a nonconformist and anti-establishment attitude, as well as an unconventional and transgressively intermedial approach that, despite her abundantly employed irony, always seems to contain a moral core
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