88 research outputs found
Photography\u27s creative influence on Lewis Carroll\u27s Alice\u27s adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking glass and what Alice found there
No full textLewis Carroll\u27s novels Alice\u27s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There share many characteristics with the author\u27s photographs. Both Carroll\u27s portraits and literature utilize dreamlike imagery to move beyond the present time and space into a dream world. The similar imagery demonstrates an important creative link between Carroll\u27s novels and photographs. The creation of Carroll\u27s masterpiece, Alice\u27s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, creatively depended on the photographic images Carroll produced. Utilizing the four step process of creativity generally accepted by psychologists, Carroll\u27s photographs are examined alongside his texts. In doing so, modern readers of Carroll\u27s novels can glimpse the creative process that produced Wonderland. To argue the creative relationship between Carroll\u27s photography and literature, R. Keith Sawyer\u27s 2006 text, Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation is employed. Sawyer describes creativity as a four step process: preparation, incubation, insight, and verification. Using these fours steps as reference points, passages from Alice\u27s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There are examined alongside Carroll\u27s photographs in order to demonstrate the creative importance of photography to the creation of the Alice novels
Pure Mafia - a novel about child labour, plus thesis and commentary
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This PhD in Creative Writing consists of three parts. The first part is a full-length novel, approximately 80K words, entitled Pure
Mafia. It is a drama about child labour and the Pakistani “carpet mafia”. This is
intertwined with the story of an unhappily married man undergoing a midlife crisis who
has an affair with a younger woman; the latter is instrumental to the main plot about
child labour. The book’s second main theme is British Pakistanis. An overarching theme
is abuse and exploitation, both personal and global, but ultimately of redemption and
renewal. The story is set in 2010/2011, mainly in London, England, with a middle
section in Lahore, Pakistan. The second part is an academic thesis, approximately 20K words, entitled Cheap Labour = Child Labour, on the main theme of the novel, child labour. It attempts to show that child labour is an inevitable consequence of cheap labour generally, and that the only way to tackle child labour is to address cheap labour. The thesis has been consciously and deliberately written as an objective, third person, standalone document and for this reason does not mention the novel. It is partly designed to fulfil the general
PhD criterion of demonstrating scholarship and research. The third part is a subjective, first person critical commentary, approximately 15K words, on the writing of the novel and the thesis, the connection between them, and the research context; it is entitled Pure Mafia: A critical commentary. It explains why
the main thesis is on child labour, rather than on the creative process or an English
Literature thesis; however, the commentary does include in some detail an insight into
the creative process, as well as a discussion of influences and tradition of writing. The final section of the commentary summarises this entire PhD’s original
contribution to knowledge
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The Crumbling Fortress: Nature, Society and Security in Waza National Park, Northern Cameroon
No full textThis dissertation examines the start of a new era in the history of biodiversity conservation. While new parks, nature reserves, and other conservation areas are being created all over the world, many older parks have lost funds for continued management. Waza National Park in northern Cameroon, is one such site. I analyze the effects of a crumbling fortress conservation area and demonstrate that the absence of authority within it has been devastating to both the surrounding populations and the animals previously protected by the park. Farmers and pastoralists in the region are exposed to physical violence and food insecurity on a par with those faced by those evicted in the early years of park establishment and an open access situation has taken hold. I locate these problems of park management in the region's history, tracing the articulations of territory, access, governance, and subjectivity from the precolonial period. The creation of the Waza protected area was an act of enclosure as well as a form of state territorialization. Before the creation of this reserve, the territory that became Waza was governed by sedentarized village leaders under a larger system of indirect rule by German and French colonials. Before German colonialism, local people had managed the space for farming, pastoralism, fishing, and other subsistence activities. With the French colonial government's creation of the reserve in the 1930s, the space was violently transformed, becoming a strictly governed protected area. Local people's access to and control over land and natural resources were lost and they were evicted from the Waza Protected Area. The reserve was both a symbol of colonial power in the region, and an economic resource for the French administration. Subsistence users and former residents were legally relegated outsiders as squatters, poachers, and thieves within protected area limits. The maintenance of this enclosure was continued by the independent Cameroonian government until the 1990s. The lines between those the government administrators construed as insiders and outsiders were not as circumscribed in everyday practice as they were in French and Cameroonian law. Though local residents had no formal rights to their former village territories, they maintained access. Locals deployed gender, ethnic, spatial, and political subjectivities to achieve an insider status that afforded them access to park resources. Outsiders, generally users from areas distant to the protected area, were less able to negotiate access and were targets of enforcement and often subjected to violence if they transgressed the park's limits. Alliances were formed, however informally, between locals and park guards, with the effect of protecting the park's resources from certain subjects and not others. Due to economic crisis, changed presidential priorities, and structural adjustment projects, state-led park management began to wane in the 1990s and NGOs took on park management responsibilities. In the early 2000s as global conservation discourses shifted their focus from biodiversity to global warming, these NGOs left the park and management declined. Waza National Park became an open access space with all the attendant wildness associated with such a status. Local leaders were unable and unwilling to defend this space and the animals within. Waza National Park's empty and ungoverned territory has also created an ideal spot for criminals to use as a base of operations for kidnapping, murder, and theft causing local people to fear for their physical security. The case of Waza National Park illustrates the problems that arise when conservation is imposed from the outside without real participation by local people. The promoters of protected areas profess extensive commitment to control of the boundaries, legal and physical, created by the initial enclosures. Without either the institutionalization of more viable long term management structures, or local engagement in and benefit from the process from the start, the goals of both biodiversity preservation and community well-being cannot be guaranteed
Drawing Lines in the Mud: Giving Back (or trying to) in Northern Cameroon
No full textThis research note is part of the thematic section, Practical Realities of Giving Back, in the special issue titled “Giving Back in Field Research,” published as Volume 10, Issue 2 in the Journal of Research Practice
Social Relations of Fieldwork: Giving Back in a Research Setting
No full textThe project of this special issue emerged from the guest editors' experiences as field researchers in sub-Saharan Africa. During this time both researchers faced the difficult question of "giving back" to the communities in which, and with whom, they worked—communities that were often far less privileged than the researchers were in terms of wealth, mobility, education, and access to health care. Returning from their field sites, both researchers felt a combination of guilt and frustration that they had not done enough or had not done things right. Thus emerged the idea of bringing together a group of researchers, from a range of disciplines, to discuss the topic of giving back in field research. This editorial describes the idea and process that led to the present collection of articles. The guest editors situate the project in the literature on feminist studies and briefly summarize each of the four thematic sections in this special issue. They conclude by emphasizing that their collection is not a guide to giving back. Rather than lay out hard and fast rules about what, how much, and to whom field researchers should give, their collection offers a series of examples and considerations for giving back in fieldwork
Where Participatory Approaches Meet Pragmatism in Funded (Health) Research: The Challenge of Finding Meaningful Spaces
No full textThe term participatory research is now widely used as a way of categorising research that has moved beyond researching "on" to researching "with" participants. This paper draws attention to some confusions that lie behind such categorisation and the potential impact of those confusions on qualitative participatory research in practice. It illuminates some of the negative effects of "fitting in" to spaces devised by other types of research and highlights the importance of forging spaces for presenting participatory research designs that suit a discursive approach and that allow the quality and impact of such research to be recognised. The main contention is that the adoption of a variety of approaches and purposes is part of the strength of participatory research but that to date the paradigm has not been sufficiently articulated. Clarifying the unifying features of the participatory paradigm and shaping appropriate ways for critique could support the embedding of participatory research into research environments, funding schemes and administration in a way that better reflects the nature and purpose of authentic involvement
Reading silence actively: Recovering the maternal narrative in contemporary women's novels
No full textThe author has granted permission for their work to be available to the general public.This project uses an interdisciplinary methodology derived from linguistic, rhetorical, critical race, feminist, and third-space feminist theories to examine how close discursive analysis reveals counter-hegemonic tendencies in maternal characters who use silence as a source of linguistic empowerment. In my analysis, I compare novels published post-1985 by both white and black American women to demonstrate an emerging cross-racial dialectic concerning American feminist mothering and the role of silence in literature. Throughout my dissertation, I explore how silence has been used by contemporary women authors publishing post-1985 to subvert various forms of oppression, as well as to recover via a palimpsestic methodology matrilineal heritages that have been left unwritten. Specifically, I focus on Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose (1986), Ellen Douglas's Can't Quit You, Baby (1988), Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster (1987), Dori Sanders's Clover (1990), Sapphire's PUSH (1996), Kim Edwards's The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2005), Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone (2001), and Nancy Rawles's My Jim (2005). Throughout this project, I demonstrate the progressive, transformational use of silence as a rhetorical strategy by contemporary American women writers as a discursive method of non-oppositional feminist dialogue.Englis
Honor Bridget Fell (1960-1986)
No full textОнор Бриџит Фел је рођена 22. маја 1900. као девето и последње дете
пуковника Виљема Едвина Фела (William Edwin Fell) и Алисе (Alice) Фел,
рођене Пикерсгил-Канлиф (Pickersgill-Cunliffe). Имала је шест сестара
и двојицу браће; један брат, млађи од двојице, имао је Даунов синдром и
преминуо је када му је било осам година.
Будући да је старији брат имао осам година више од Онор, она је
била „мезимица” породице. Рођена је у Фоторпу близу Илија, у Јоркширу.
Породица се овде доселила из Сасекса, где су поседовали фарму Спринг хед, у близини Стејнинга. Отац јој је био мањи земљопоседник, али се неможе рећи да је био успешан фармер. Имао је ту несрећу да се бавио по љопривредом током најгоре депресије. Највише се интересовао за војску
и коње, и то је успешно комбиновао. Током Бурског рата, пуно времена је
провео у Сједињеним Државама набављајући коње који су слати британ ској војсци у Јужну Африку. Живо се интересовао за природу и животиње,
а њена породица је сматрала да је Онор наследила своју дубоку везаност
за биологију од њега. Мајка јој је била потпуно другачија особа: изузетно
практична, способан столар и натпросечни архитекта. Лично је пројекто вала кућу у Фоторпу и надзирала њену изградњу. У сваком смислу била је
матријарх породице и носила терет одгајања велике породице у условима
који никада нису били лаки. Доживела је дубоку старост, преминувши
1986. Породице Фел и Пикерсгил-Канлиф биле су велике, раширене и
познате. Штампан је чак и породични билтен и објављиван тромесечно за
износ од 7 шилинга годишње. Онор се овде помиње неколико пута, пре
свега у приказу венчања њене сестре Барбаре, на коме се појавила као
тринаестогодишња ученица, носећи своју питому веверицу по имену Џејни,
на згранутост преосталог дела породице. На много начина ово је била на дарена и изузетна породица – сви су имали изразити уметнички дар, брат
јој је био талентовани инжењер, сви су доживели девету деценију, а један
је чак зашао и у десету.
Онор је изгледа имала мало веза са породицом све до шездесетих
година XX века, када су је братанац Хенри Фел и његова супруга позвали
да дође код њих и Хенријевог оца, који је под старост живео са њима. Ова
посета се показала као веома успешна, па је Ускрс, а понекад и Божић,
проводила са њима..Fell Honor Bridget was born at Fowthorpe near Filey in Yorkshire on 22 May 1900,
as the ninth child of Colonel William Edwin Fell and Alice Fell.
She was educated at Wychwood school in Oxford and later continued her education
at Madras College, St Andrews. In 1918, she went to Edinburgh University to read
zoology. She graduated in 1923, earned a PhD degree in 1924, and a DSc in 1932.
During her undergraduate study in zoology she spent some time doing research at
the laboratory of Dr T. S. P. Strangeways, where she mastered tissue culture technique.
She began her scientific career as Dr Strangeways’ research assistant at Cambridge
in 1923, where she spent her entire career. Throughout her career she was awarded
several prestigious scholarships including a Beit Fellowship, Messel Research Fellow
Royal Society and Foulerton Research Fellow (ship of the) Royal Society. In 1963 she was
awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship. She was director of the Strangeways
Research Laboratory from 1929 up to 1970. In retirement Fell was a research worker in
the Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, at the University of Cambridge
from 1970 up to 1979, and then she returned to the Strangeways Research Laboratory
where she worked from 1979 to 1986.
Throughout her entire career, which lasted over 61 years, she used tissue and organ
culture technique for the analysis of the complex effects of different agents on bone,
cartilage and associated tissues cells. In the early stages of her research development,
Honor focused on the histogenesis of cartilage and bone, as well as on the differentiation
of embryonic tissues growing in vitro. She made a major contribution to studies on
the mechanisms of bone calcification, as well as to the recognition of the importance
of the role of alkaline phosphatase in bone mineralization. She demonstrated the
osteogenic capacity of periosteum and endosteum and the development of the knee
joint by using tissue and organ culture technique. She continued to be focused
on developmental studies in the 1940s. In the 1950s, she joined forces with Edward
Mellanby to examine the effects of vitamin A. Even though it was widely known that
in young animals and children hypervitaminosis A was found to cause severe damage
of the skeleton, the mechanisms of their occurrence were not sufficiently clear. After
having performed two series of experiments, she demonstrated that retinol caused
dramatic periosteal bone and cartilage resorption, with no signs of cell death. Those
observations initiated research and conceptual insights into the process of cartilage
matrix degradation. She continued her studies on the effects of vitamin A in the 1950s,
1960s and 1970s. Not only are the results of the aforementioned research significant for
detecting the adverse effects of high concentrations of vitamin A on bone matrix and
cartilage, but also because observations suggest that the administration of vitamin A
influences the characteristics of the epidermis. She particularly focused on the study
of the mechanisms of the occurrence of joint surface damage in the pathogenesis of
rheumatoid arthritis. She noticed that synovial membrane hypertrophy was a striking
feature of rheumatoid arthritis, and that a large number of lymphocytes and plasma
cells infiltrated in it, which correlated with the articular cartilage breakdown and its
gradual replacement by synovial tissue. Together with Lewis Thomas she showed that
papain caused the depletion of cartilage matrix in a very similar manner as retinol. Based
on these and previous research findings she assumed that the changes in cartilage
seen in experimental hypervitaminosis A, might be the result of the activation of
proteolytic enzymes with properties similar to papain. That hypothesis was confirmed
when it was shown that cartilage matrix degradation did indeed occur as a result of the
activity of lysosomal proteases. Some subsequent studies showed the protective effect
of cortisone on matrix degradation. In the late 1960s she focused on immune responses
involved in cartilage damage. She showed that in the presence of complement, tissue
protein antibodies could cause drastic cartilage damage, as well as that live cells
were required for this process. The fact that they became aware of a major role of
synovial tissue in cartilage destruction, led Fell and Audrey Glauert to initiate a series
of studies on the histology of normal synovium using light and electron microscopy.
In 1982, after a series of experiments examining the effects of corticosteroids on pig
articular cartilage, Fell concluded that cortisone significantly inhibited the destruction
of cartilage explanted in contact with synovial tissue. She showed that the protective
effect of cortisone on the breakdown of cartilage caused by synovial tissue in organ
culture was achieved by inhibitory effect on catabolin production, later identified as
interleukin-1, and by reducing the production of degradative enzymes in synovial cells.
Based on the fact that collagen degradation is accelerated by the addition of substances
such as sodium fluoride, she assumed that modulation of the cellular cAMP level
might be a step towards collagen degradation. Together with her colleagues from the
Strangeways Research Laboratory, she made the assumption that synovial cells could
produce a plasminogen activator, which then could activate the plasminogen present
in tissue culture medium; which in turn could lead to the activation of collagenases
and result in collagen degradation. Electron microscope studies showed that synovial
and inflammatory cells played an important role in collagen degradation. In addition to
her enormous contribution to the development of tissue and organ culture, Fell made
a major contribution to the optimization of the composition of the medium on which
tissues and organs were grown.
In addition to her major personal contribution to biology, she largely contributed
to science by having established a unique organization, the Strangeways Research
Laboratory, which was set up as and remained an independent laboratory not operating
in either university or any other institution setting. The laboratory in which Fell
Honor came from Edinburg in 1923 was set up by Dr T. S. P. Strangeways. Strangeways
unexpectedly passed away in 1926, leaving the renowned laboratory heavily indebted.
Together with F. G. Spear, Honor Fell fought to keep the laboratory open, justifying it
on the grounds that it was the only institution in the country entirely dedicated to cell
biology research. In a decisive meeting held in 1927, the trustees decided to keep the
laboratory open. Honor Fell was named its director for scientific development in 1929.
When in 1970 she retired from her position as director, there were 121 employees in
the laboratory, including 62 scientists and 29 technical assistants. Browsing through
the list of all researchers who worked at the Strangeways laboratory over either
long or short period of time, one finds that there are hardly any names of the now
famous chemists, orthopedists, rheumatologists, radiobiologists, histologists or bone
biologists missing. They were coming from all over the world, and from Serbia, too.
Fell demonstrated a genuine willingness to help our researchers and she provided the
opportunity of a 2-year research stay in her laboratory to Academician Martinović. Fell
deeply respected the principles of research ethics, and accordingly during her entire
career she refused to include her name as a co-author in any paper from the laboratory
to which she did not provide a working contribution, as she personally termed it,
nevertheless, when one reads a number of papers that do not include her name among
its authors, her personal contribution to those papers is more than evident given
her lively interest and discussions. She had a natural skill in disseminating research
findings, to which she made a major contribution by putting the laboratory premises
and equipment, as well as her techniques, at other scientists’ disposal, thereby exerting
influence on research findings that were not within a narrow field of her study. The
Strangeways Research Laboratory that was set up by Fell and Spear today operates as
an independent organization.
Throughout her career she won numerous awards including: The Trail Medal of
the Linnean Society, Fellow of the Royal Society, Prix Albert Bracher, Belgian Royal
Academy, Hon. LL. D., Edinburgh Hon. Sc. D., Smith College, U.S.A., D.B.E., Hon. D. Sc.,
Oxon, Hon. Sc. D., Harvard, Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer, French Academy of Science,
Hon. D. Sc., London, The Heberden Medal for Research in Rheumatic Diseases of the
Heberden Society, Hon. Sc., D., Cambridge, Hon. LL.D., Glasgow, Hon. M.D., Leiden.
She was a member of numerous renowned associations and academies, and on 22
May 1975 she was elected a foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and
Art
The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
Creighton University School of Law Class of 2006
No full textGraduates|Altom, Tyler B.; Andres, William D.; Arndt, Ted P.; Atkinson, David S.; Atkinson, Lucas Wm.; Barnes, Brent A.; Bartholomew, Audrey M.; Basran, Sandeep S.; Batra, Amol; Biederman, Barbara; Bliss, Jason J. (3L Representative); Brownell, Kevin; Brzica, Michael E.; Cannella, Mary J.; Capozzi, Antonio; Carpenter, Jon R.; Carter, John M.; Cashmore, Virginia L.; Cerutti, Jennifer H.; Cleaver, Carol A.; Coats, Whitney G.; Craw, Deven J.; Crockett, Monte O.; Dawson, Peter N.; DeFreece, Todd; Delgado, Christine F.; Dieckman, Taylor C.; Dinan, Rebecca L.; Dixon, Stephen M.; Duncan, Sarah L.; Ecker, Katherine M.; Edwards, Betsy K.; Ernesti, Kimberly A.; Faro, Alexis Diane; Ferrel, Stacy Jo; Franklin, April D.; Frasor, Christopher M.; Furbee, Amber Allred; Galm, Elizabeth L.; Garman, Charles B. (December 2005); Glynn, Jeffrey T.; Goeschel, Joshua; Goldsmith, Bryan J.; Goos, Jeffrey L.; Gould, Matthew J.; Grant, Jason A.; Green, Lindsay A.; Guernsey, Kimberly; Guthrie, Luke D.; Hahn, Scott V.; Harbeck, Leilani M.; Hatch, Joel; Heiliger, James E.; Holmes, Janice; Huffer, Duane M.; Kanaber, Kerith M.; Kearney, Jennifer; Keller, Gary M.; Kelly, John E.; Kent, Adam; Khaleeq, Bilal A.; Kink, Matthew C.; Klinker, Luke J.; Kloeckner, Andrew D.; Kneip, Jill M.; Knowles, Luke; Kraemer, Matthias J.; Kratina, Mark D.; Kula, Tina M.; Laflin, Lewis Tyler; Lamphere, Kristin M.; Lane, Theodore J.; Langeland, David J.; Lee, Michelle R.; Lemoine, Catherine Claire; Little, Rebecca Chamberlin; Lowe, Aimee L.; Lugo, Alice A.; Lunt, Gregory R.; May, Kimberly D.; McCoy, Kate A.; McDonald, Brian W.; McGuire, Katherine M.; McMillen, Adam P.; Metcalfe, Anthony C. (December 2005); Miller, Melissa; Mindrup, Jeffrey J.; Mollner, Michael T.; Morris, Bridget M.; Mullin, Mary M.; Munson, Michael R.; Nash, Michael; Nofsinger, Terrance; Noteboom, David L.; Okolo, Jerome C.; Ortman, Patrick V.; Ottemann, Matthew R.; Peitz, Amy S.; Peterson, John Adam; Peterson, Michael R.; Pillen, Sarah S.; Poulton, Joseph Christensen; Prill, Christine Waters; Pugsley, Joseph H.; Purintun, Timothy S.; Rangel, Jennifer M.; Raymond, Anna K.; Reinblatt, Richard A. (3L Representative); Rog, Christopher; Romeo, Robert J.; Roset, Kristin M.; Rudersdorf, Kate; Rudolph, Michael C.; Sabott, John David; Schmid, Kerry A.; Schultz, Matt; Schwake, Shana (Treasurer); Shaul, James; Shaw, Jeremy L.; Shinn, Brooke J.; Sloup, Ashley E.; Smith, Jessica D.; Tamislea, Robert E., II; Thellmann, Rachel L.; Thomas, Brian E.; Thompson, Jennifer; Uphoff, Seth P.; Upton, Ranae B.; Urban, Lee Everett; Van Straten, David C., II; Van Vliet, Timothy J.; Volenec, Brandi M.; Volpi, Keith C.; Ward, Kathleen A.; Ward, Robert E., II; Watson, Benjamin J.; Wenzel, David L.; Widdison, Randy M.; Williams, Brian; Williams, Jack D.; Willmott, Joshua D.; Wilson, Travis Marc; Woebeter, Byron P.; Wolf, Holly R.; Zaugg, Gregory C.; Zujo, Asja; Zvizdic, Lejla; Boyle, Kelly K. (not pictured); Simpson, James B. (not pictured); Turner, Patrick R. (not pictured)|40 x 30 in (landscape
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