560 research outputs found
Redefining loyalism: a political perspective, an academic perspective
No full textRedefining loyalism: a political perspective. Although loyalism in its modern sense has been around since the 1920s, it ac-quired its present shape only at the beginning of the 1970s. Then it was reborn in paramilitary form, and was used by other, more privileged, unionists to serve their own interests. Yet the sectarianism within which loyalism developed disguised the fact that less privileged members of the two communities had much in common. Separation bred hatred, and led to an unfounded sense of advantage on the part of many Protestants who in reality enjoyed few material benefits. The pursuit of ac-commodation between the two communities can best be advanced by attempts to understand each other and to identify important shared interests, and the peace process can best be consolidated by steady, orchestrated movement on the two sides, and by ignoring the protests of those who reject compromise.
Redefining loyalism: an academic perspective: In recent years a division has emerged within unionism between two sharply con-trasting perspectives. On the one hand, traditional unionism has relied on a dis-course of perpetuity, relying on long-standing values and political attachment to the old order, and seeing in the developments that have been taking place since 1998 evidence of a creeping form of Irish unity. By contrast to these, “new loyalism”, rep-resented in particular but not exclusively by the Progressive Unionist Party, is based on a reinterpretation of the past of unionism, seeing in this a pronounced and politically significant class structure, and putting the case for the defence of working class interests. This alternative vision rests on a more pluralistic concep-tion of the politics of Northern Ireland
Connecting the dots: the use of faculty personal homepages in the information value chain: a case study
No full textPoster session presentation at the American Library Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C., June 25, 2007.Peer reviewe
Ancient wine: the search for the origins of viniculture Princeton science library./ Patrick E. McGovern ; with a foreword by Robert G. Mondavi and a new foreword by the author
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index"A richly illustrated account of the story of ancient viniculture. In a new afterword, the author discusses exciting recent developments in the understanding of ancient wine, including a new theory of how viniculture came to central and northern Europe"--Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. Stone Age Wine -- CHAPTER 2. The Noah Hypothesis -- CHAPTER 3. The Archaeological and Chemical Hunt for the Earliest Wine -- CHAPTER 4. Neolithic Wine! -- CHAPTER 5. Wine of the Earliest Pharaohs -- CHAPTER 6. Wine of Egypt's Golden Age -- CHAPTER 7. Wine of the World's First Cities -- CHAPTER 8. Wine and the Great Empires of the Ancient Near East -- CHAPTER 9. The Holy Land's Bounty -- CHAPTER 10. Lands of Dionysos: Greece and Western Anatolia -- CHAPTER 11. A Beverage for King Midas and at the Limits of the Civilized World -- CHAPTER 12. Molecular Archaeology, Wine, and a View to the Future -- Afterword -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS AND OBJECT DIMENSIONS -- Index1 online resource
Mizungo
No full textabstract: Mizungo is a work of lyrical creative nonfiction with an interactive braided essay format that plays with place and time melding culture, experience, and memory. It weaves the threads of sexuality, loss, depression, privilege, and family between photographs. This develops the themes of otherness and identity while exploring the settings of Uganda, Tempe, and small-town Utah. The piece explores the identity of "mizungo," the name given by the locals to any white person who travels to Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa. In Uganda, a region known for both hospitality and homophobia, this identity overtakes the author's name and sense of self propeling the mizungo to near celebrity status simply because of skin color and the privilege it promises. For McGovern, this attention creates otherness and the isolation that forces self-reflection, which propels self-healing. "Mizungo" provides her a mask in the homophobic region, that not only protects, but promotes self-acceptance. It also forces her to face her grief over familial tragedies and contemplate the settings of depression, loss, and the makings of family around the world. The timeline of Mizungo flows nonlinearly, and does not stick to one setting. Along with her mental state, the narrative explores the world and the beginning and ending of the "mizungo" identity. The narrative drops the reader onto the streets of Kampala where McGovern is first branded as "mizungo" and ends with the exploration of a different meaning of this identity. In between these scenes, the narrative pulls from memories of childhood and summers spent in Utah up through nine years later in Tempe, a few months before the story was published, and a year after traveling to Uganda
Marxism and the American Christian
No full textPoster for a lecture/discussoin with Rev. Arthur F. McGovern, S.J., author of Marxism: an American Christian perspective.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/archives-posters/1045/thumbnail.jp
Ethnicity and the Mental Health Act 1983
No full textBackground Black and minority ethnic (BME) patients are disproportionately detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. There has been no systematic exploration of differences within and between ethnic groups, nor of the explanations put forward for this excess.
Aims To systematically review detention and ethnicity, with meta-analyses of detention rates for BME groups, and to explore the explanations offered for ethnic differences in detention rates.
Method Literature search and meta-analysis. Explanations offered were categorised, supporting literature was accessed and the strength of the evidence evaluated.
Results In all, 49 studies met inclusion criteria; of these, 19 were included in the meta-analyses. Compared with White patients, Black patients were 3.83 times, BME patients 3.35 times and Asian patients 2.06 times more likely to be detained. The most common explanations related to misdiagnosis and discrimination against BME patients, higher incidence of psychosis and differences in illness expression. Many explanations, including that of racism within mental health services, were not supported by clear evidence.
Conclusions Although BME status predicts psychiatric detention in the UK, most explanations offered for the excess detention of BME patients are largely unsupported
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