2,316 research outputs found
Collecting Older Lesbians' and Gay Men's Stories of Rural Life in South West England and Wales: "We Were Obviously Gay Girls ... (So) He Removed His Cow From Our Field"
No full textThe emerging recollections, perceptions and storied biographies of older lesbians and gay men and their experiences in rural Britain are presented in the article, alongside consideration of the multiple qualitative methodologies used in a unique multi-method participatory action research project. The project aimed to empower older lesbians and gay men in rural areas through a collaborative design and meaningful participation in the research process itself. Methods included the core Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM) (JONES, 2001, 2004; WENGRAF, 2001) with its interpretation of data by panels of citizens. In addition, visual ethnographic site visits, a focus group and two days of theatrical improvisation of interview data to explore action within the texts were used. The project embraced the principles of a performative social science (GERGEN & JONES, 2008; JONES, 2006, 2012a, 2012b) in its dissemination plan. Four of the collected stories are elaborated on here. These and other stories, reports and observations contributed to the creation of the main output of the project—a short professionally made film (Rufus Stone). The film is used to encourage community dialogue and inform service providers, opening up new possibilities of connectivity, communication and common ground at both macro and micro levels
'May Contain Nuts'? The Reality behind the Rhetoric Surrounding the British Conservatives' New Group in the European Parliament
No full textThis is the original accepted version of the paper (consisting of three parts):'May Contain Nuts’? The Reality behind the Rhetoric Surrounding the British Conservatives’ New Group in the European Parliament; Authors: TIM BALE, SEA´ N HANLEY AND ALEKS SZCZERBIAK, published originally in The Political Quarterly 81(1): 85-98, January–March, Copyright The Authors © 2010. An online version of the final, compiled by the journal, version is available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2009.02067.x/pd
Reforming rights : lesbian and gay struggles for legal equality in Canada
No full textIn recent years, Canadian governments and courts have
increasingly responded positively to the demands of lesbian
and gay communities for legal rights. As a result, in
several instances, such rights have been extended, at both
statutory and
constitutional levels. In this thesis, I
consider the politics of struggles for lesbian and gay
legal equality in Canada. Although I explore several
developments in this area, I focus my analysis upon two key
examples: the struggle, in 1986, to add a "sexual
orientation" ground to Ontario's Human Rights Code; and a
key legal rights case launched in the late 1980s, and still
on-going as of this writing (Mossop).
More specifically, I address three key questions: [1] how
are lesbian and gay subjects and subjectivities constituted
through human rights law and what forces produce these
legal constructions? [2] how capable are liberal
democracies of accommodating 'sexual pluralism', and what
are the implications of this for other areas of social
transformation? [3] what is the relationship between the
lesbian and gay rights movement, its principal opponents
the New Christian Right, and 'the state' - how do the
struggles of social movements for interpretive authority
shape the law-making process (and vice versa)?
In responding to these questions, I draw upon diverse
approaches in legal theory, sociology, feminism, and
lesbian and gay studies. My analysis centres upon the role
of law as a site of struggle. I explore the engagements
between the lesbian and gay rights movement, and its key
opponent the New Christian Right. I assess the effects of
lesbian and gay rights campaigns in both the short and long
terms, considering issues to do with social movement
mobilisation, effective political communication, and the
role of these struggles in shifting dominant frameworks of
meaning. I offer a detailed discussion of the role of
rights, as goal and rhetoric, within political action. And
I consider the relationship between law, and other forms of
knowledge. I argue that the effects of legal struggle are
complex, contradictory, and unpredictable. Lesbian and gay
rights reforms have both entrenched and undermined dominant
paradigms of sexuality, and the effects of legal struggle
in this and other areas must be assessed in the long-term.
This thesis contributes to knowledge in four key areas:
critical rights theory; theories of law and social change;
the sociology of social movements and religions; and
lesbian and gay politics. I use a combination of legal,
sociological, feminist, and historical methodologies
Alien tears : mourning, melancholia, and identity in AIDS literature
No full textThis thesis examines the literary response to the AIDS crisis. It concentrates on
literature produced between 1988 and 1995, published in English, and available in
Britain and the United States.
The AIDS texts investigated here are representative of other AIDS literature
produced during this time period in the way that they both enact and construct the
identities of those affected by AIDS. Mourning and melancholia are the operative
responses revealed in the literature, and revealed as the formative components of
changing identities in response to AIDS and its manifestations.
The thesis is structured in six chapters: a theoretical introductory chapter that
proposes mourning and loss as pre-existing concerns in gay men's literature, followed
by a chapter addressing gay AIDS fiction and its narrative response to mourning. The
next two chapters examine hybrid texts, that is, AIDS texts that do not conform to a
conventional narrative form, and that are connected more firmly to a queer sensibility
than to a gay identity. These texts, the thesis claims, are engaged with the processes
(and resistances) of melancholia rather than with the work of mourning. The
subsequent chapter addresses fictions of caretaking and witnessing, that is, novels
written from the point of view of one who is caring for an other ill with AIDS. These
are identified as more mainstream texts as they involve representations that are not
connected to declared sexual identities and therefore mean to address a wider audience
and to work out a more public discourse of grief around AIDS. In conclusion, the
thesis suggests that although AIDS literature is involved in an effort to resist loss
through narrative form, in fact it is the literature that in some instrumental ways
makes the work of mourning and melancholia in response to AIDS productive rather
than debilitating
Evaluating Citebase, an open access Web-based citation-ranked search and impact discovery service
No full textCitebase is a new citation-ranked search and impact discovery service that measures citations of scholarly research papers which are openly accessible on the Web, i.e. papers that are assessable continuously online. Other services, such as ResearchIndex, have emerged in recent years to offer citation indexing of Web research papers. In the first detailed user evaluation of an open access Web citation indexing service, Citebase has been evaluated by nearly 200 users from different backgrounds. The paper details the procedures used in the evaluation, and analyses the results of this study, which took place between June and October 2002. It was found that within the scope of its primary components, the search interface and services available from its rich bibliographic records, Citebase can be used simply and reliably for the purpose intended, and that it compares favourably with other bibliographic services. It is shown tasks can be accomplished efficiently with Citebase regardless of the background of the user. More data need to be collected and the process refined before it is as reliable for measuring citation impact of indexed papers. Better explanations and guidance are required for first-time users. Coverage is seen as a limiting factor, even though Citebase indexes over 200,000 papers from arXiv. Non-physicists were frustrated at the lack of papers from other sciences. The principle of citation searching of open access archives has thus been demonstrated and need not be restricted to current users. Since the evaluation, Citebase has become a featured service of the ArXiv physics eprint archives
Catholic Comments Podcast.
No full textAuthor Tim Rinaldi discusses his mission work in Honduras and how it changed his life and perspective
The war of the roses: an interdependence analysis of betrayal and forgiveness
No full textPart I. The Effect of Cognition on Interaction Patterns: Introduction to Part 1; 1. Thought and action: connecting attributions to behaviours in married couples’ interactions Valerie Manusov; 2. Self-evaluation motives in close relationships: a model of global enhancement and specific verification Lisa A. Neff and Benjamin R. Karney; 3. Competition in romantic relationships: do partners build niches? Steven R. H. Beach, Daniel Whitaker, Heather A. O’Mahen, Deborah Jones, Abraham Tesser and Frank Fincham; 4. Cognition and communication during marital conflict: how alcohol affects subjective coding of interaction in aggressive and non-aggressive couples Alan Sillars, Kenneth E. Leonard, Linda J. Roberts and Tim Dun; Part II. Understanding the Importance of Positive Interaction: Introduction to Part 2; 5. Observational ‘windows’ to intimacy processes in marriage Linda J. Roberts and Danielle R. Greenberg; 6. Bases for giving benefits in marriage: what is ideal? what is realistic? what really happens? Margaret S. Clark, Steve Graham and Nancy Grote; 7. Shared participation in self-expanding activities: positive effects on experienced marital quality Arthur Aron, Christine C. Norman, Elaine N. Aron and Gary Lewandowski; Part III. Coping with Disappointment, Criticism and Betrayal: Introduction to Part 3; 8. Coping with disappointments in marriage: when partners’ standards are unmet Anita L. Vangelisti and Alicia L. Alexander; 9. On empathic accuracy and husbands’ abusiveness: the ‘overattribution bias’ William E. Schweinle and William Ickes; 10. The war of the roses: an interdependence analysis of betrayal and forgiveness Caryl E. Rusbult, Madoka Kumashiro, Eli J. Finkel and Tim Wildschut; Part IV. Power, Conflict and Violence in Marital Interaction: Introduction to Part 4; 11. Demand-withdraw communication during couple conflict: a review and analysis Kathleen A. Eldridge and Andrew Christensen; 12. Approaches to the study of power in violent and nonviolent marriages, and in gay male and lesbian cohabiting relationships John Gottman, Janice Driver, Dan Yoshimoto and Regina Rushe; 13. The communication of couples in violent and nonviolent relationships: temporal associations with own and partners’ anxiety/arousal and behavior Patricia Noller and Nigel Roberts; Part V. Marital Interaction at Important Transition Periods: Introduction to Part 5; 14. Adult attachment, the transition to parenthood, and marital well-being Jeffry A. Simpson, W. Steven Rholes, Lorne Campbell, Carol Wilson and Sisi Tran; 15. Allocation and performance of household tasks: a comparison of new parents and childless couples Judith A. Feeney and Patricia Noller; 16. Caregiving and its influence on marital interactions between older spouses Helen Edwards and Patricia Noller; Part VI. Interventions for Strengthening Relationships: Introduction to Part 6; 17. Risk factors, risk processes, and the longitudinal course of newlywed marriage Lisa B. Story, Alexia D. Rothman and Thomas N. Bradbury; Does working at a relationship work? relationship self-regulation and relationship outcomes W. Kim Halford, Keithia L. Wilson, Alf Lizzio and Elizabeth Moor
Football Physics
No full textDr. Tim Gay at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln discusses the physical concepts related to football such as vectors, impulse, and atoms. The website provides seven current as well as archived QuickTime videos of entertaining lectures to help students understand physical concepts. The lessons covered are: Inertia; Vectors; Newton's Third Law; Impulse; Quickness, Speed, Power and Strength; and Quickness and Ankle Injuries
Accepting Optimally in Automated Negotiation with Incomplete Information (abstract)
No full textIntelligent SystemsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
The workshop as the work: white anti-racism organising in 1960s, 70s, and 80s US social movements
No full textThis thesis explores the rise of anti-racism workshops developed by white activists in various United States social movements from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s. The shifting ideology of the black freedom movement in the late 1960s, from integration to Black Power, transformed white activists‘ place within racial justice struggles. While recent scholarship has begun to turn its attention towards whites‘ ongoing racial justice activities, one of the most radical and widespread of these efforts is consistently overlooked: anti-racism workshops. Increasingly prevalent from the late 1960s through to the diversity-trainings explosion of the 1990s, this thesis demonstrates that these workshops had their roots in the black freedom, women‘s liberation and gay liberation movements. White activists from these movements led these workshops in order to examine white racial domination and privilege within both leftist social movements and larger US society.
Analysing case studies from the black freedom, women‘s liberation and gay liberation/rights movements, this thesis explores the foundational assumptions of anti-racism workshops. It seeks to explain how and why these efforts sought to frame race and racism as issues of knowledge and consciousness and why such efforts constituted radical praxis. It is argued that early anti-racism workshops were pedagogical projects that sought to confront the racial ignorance that structured the lives of whites in the US, including progressives and their liberation movements. This thesis draws attention to the efficacy and power of these workshops in terms of their epistemological effects, in the transformations they brought about in whites‘ understanding, or awareness, of racial realities
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