563 research outputs found
Stuart Hood: literature, media and politics in modern Scotland
No full text'Riach emphasises the polymathic dimension of Stuart Hood's abilities, arguing that more than any other intellectual of his time, Hood understood the relationship between the claims of literature and the arts, on the one hand, and the mass media, on the other. Analysing Hood's novels A Storm from Paradise and The Brutal Heart in relation to the work of several of his contemporaries - Brecht, MacDiarmid, Orwell and Fried, - as well as to his successors like James Robertson, Ali Smith and Jackie Kay, Riach demonstrates Hood's continuing relevance and prescience. Continuing with a sympathetic discussion of recent figures who have reiterated Hood's arguments for the radical reform of the Scottish media, Riach concludes, "We could do a lot worse than go back to Stuart Hood, or rather, better, we could make certain that we have Stuart Hood with us, as we go forward." (from the Introduction by David Johnson and David Hutchison
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Stuart Hood: Twentieth-Century Partisan
No full textThis collection introduces the life and work of Stuart Hood (1915-2011). Highlighting Hood’s year fighting with the Italian Resistance during the Second World War, the essays consider how his experiences as a partisan leader guided his peacetime trajectory. Written by distinguished scholars from several disciplines, each chapter examines different aspects of Hood’s life: his Scottish boyhood and university education in Edinburgh; his distinguished career as a broadcaster presiding over an era of unprecedented creativity on BBC television; his role in the establishment of the discipline of Media Studies; and his contribution to radical European culture as the transla-tor of 40 literary works from Italian, German, French and Russian, and as the author of eight acclaimed novels. Stuart Hood’s reticence made him an enigma to many who knew him; this collection unlocks his many-faceted achievements, demonstrating how his life provides a fascinating key to understanding the major conflicts in twentieth-century European history
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Introduction
No full textThis chapter introduces the major arguments structuring this edited collection on the life and work of Stuart Hood (1915-2011)
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Translated by Stuart Hood
No full textThis chapter analyses Stuart Hood's work as a translator from Italian, German, French and Russian, providing both an overview of the 40 translations he completed, as well as closer examinations of his translations of major works by Ernst Junger, Erich Fried, Dario Fo and Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Stuart Hood’s search for community: Novels beyond the nation
No full textThis chapter analyses Stuart Hood's five late novels, 'A Storm from Paradise' (1985), 'The Upper Hand' (1987), 'The Brutal Heart' (1989), 'A Den of Foxes' (1991), and 'The Book of Judith' (1995), arguing that Hood's fiction identifies with new forms of resistance and seeks connections with emergent if imperfect forms of radical community
Earnings Management Through Consolidation: Hutchison Telecommunication International Limited
No full textThis paper uses a case study approach to analyze how three corporations; namely, Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL), Hutchison Telecommunication International Limited (HTIL), and Hutchison Telecommunication Hong Kong Holdings, managed earnings through consolidation. The author finds that HWL, by listing, reducing, and increasing its shareholding in HTIL, improved its levels of profitability during the study period of 2004–2010. Furthermore, HTIL spun off its Hong Kong and Macau businesses to improve its profitability directly and that of HWL indirectly. Finally, HWL privatized HTIL in 2010. The author demonstrates that although HTIL was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, HTIL and HWL improved their share performances by managing earnings through consolidation techniques
Developing Primary Care: The Contribution of Primary Care Research Networks
No full textThe performance of Canada's primary care sector remains lacklustre relative to other wealthy industrialized countries, and it has been suggested that a lack of investment in research and evaluation may be a cause. One approach to improving and sustaining primary care research is through research networks. Over the past few years, significant investments have begun to be made in developing primary care networks in Canada. While Canadian experience in this area is relatively new, in the United Kingdom primary care research networks were first established in the 1980s. Initially developed at a local level, these have more recently been incorporated into large-scale national networks. This paper reviews the UK experience and highlights potential lessons for the development of networks in Canada
Worlds of labor in South America: class, gender & political culture
No full textAuthor Iñigo García-Bryce presents his book ""Crafting the republic: Lima's artisans and nation-bulding in Peru, 1821-1879"" and author Elizabeth Quay Hutchison presents her book ""Labors appropriate to their sex: gender, labor and politics in urban Chile, 1900-1930"" as part of the Open Doors Speaker Series
The Impact of Reported Depression on Disability Following Stroke
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/30/2017
An ischemic stroke survivor who persistently reports anxiety or depression feelings throughout the 1st year poststroke is 12.6 times more likely to require assistance for daily activities compared with a survivor who makes no such report, results that suggest a need for enhanced screening and treatment.
Primary Author and Speaker: Scott Hutchison
Contributing Authors: Michelle Woodbury, Annie Simpson</jats:p
Marxism and the City
No full textIn this chapter, the author summarises how Marxist theory relates to urban areas and describes the evolution of this body of thought during the post-war period. For Marxists, modern cities are “capitalist cities”, not merely “cities in a capitalist society”, and are shaped in key respects by the dynamics of capitalist accumulation. It is within this context that Marx confronts the specificity of the capitalist city, arguing that the distinction between city and countryside is a constitutive element of the capitalist division of labour. The specificity of urban areas rests with the ways in which they bring together labour, capital and land to form a dynamic and spatially-uneven configuration of productive resources. The approach developed by Marx and Engels explains the historical development of urban areas by referring to the transformations generated by capitalist relations of production in agriculture and manufacturing. The former is theorised in terms of “primitive accumulation” – the expropriation and enclosure of common lands – which led to the exclusion of agricultural labourers from the means of agricultural production, whilst the latter entailed a rapid expansion in the demand for labour in the industrial centres
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