bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
‘Fallen as a bombshell’
Authors: Scheopner Erin Kate
Published: September 2022

Beginning with an overview of the 1916 Easter Rising, Chapter 1 examines press coverage of the government’s Irish policy during the 1917–18 Irish Convention. The events of the uprising and the political fallout thereafter challenged the British government’s Irish policy. The intent of the Irish Convention was to secure a resolution to the Irish question. Fresh from a push to remove Prime Minister Asquith from office, the press largely supported the convention proceedings and awaited its result. When it became clear that a solution would not be reached, and as the Great War drew to a close, the press recognised that the Irish question had changed from its pre-war iteration and required a new approach.
‘A first practical step towards peace’
Authors: Scheopner Erin Kate
Published: September 2022

Chapter 4 examines the implementation of the Government of Ireland Act and the continued pressure on the government to resolve the Irish question throughout 1921. It focuses analysis on press responses to the application of martial law and the role of the act in loosening the British government’s attachment to long-held policies, which resulted in an opportunity to explore settlement options through negotiation and concessions with Irish leaders. This was most clearly seen with the opening of the Northern Parliament in June 1921, marked by a ceremony in which the king delivered a call for peace. During this time, international opinion was once more recognised and prioritised by some press outlets and British leaders as the Imperial Conference was underway and leaders like South Africa Prime Minister Jan Smuts were called on for insight.
The ‘elements of a solution are there’
Authors: Scheopner Erin Kate
Published: September 2022

Chapter 5 analyses the transformation of the Irish question throughout 1921–22 and the press coverage of the negotiation process leading to the signing and ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Collectively, apart from the Morning Post, the press commentary centred on achieving a settlement and warned of the consequences of failure. This coverage reflected the overarching press prioritisation of a settlement and sustained weariness of violence. The treaty that emerged represented a modified version of dominion status for the 26 counties of Ireland, placing the coverage of many within the press who supported a dominion settlement ahead of other political commentators. With the ratification of the treaty, press reporting and critical analysis of events in Ireland steadily decreased. The exception to this was, once more, the Post, which remained active in its criticism and reporting, especially with the treaty’s ambiguous treatment of Ulster’s border.
Preface
Authors: Lewittes Deborah
Published: September 2022

The preface sets up the idea that although modern architectural culture in England remained somewhat separate from the continental avant-garde, it was nonetheless an active, thriving, and progressive scene. The chapter presents a detailed review of the literature that has shaped the study of the field and proposes the relevance of the concept of a diaspora to the field: modernist ideals spread from the continent, and World War II forced the exile of many important thinkers to England. This confluence of England, modernist thought, and an émigré community created a vibrant artistic world. Writings by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Ernö Goldfinger, who tracked the development of modern architecture in England, structure the chapter.
Languaging, Body and Translation in Giulio Angioni’s Una Ignota Compagnia (1992)
Authors: Polizzi Goffredo
Published: September 2022

Giulio Angioni’s novel Una ignota compagnia, first published in 1992, is discussed in Chapter III paying particular attention to the centrality that the use of various languages, and the mixing of them, acquires in the text. Even if the novel is certainly one of the first texts to appear in Italy to address the issue of what was starting to be perceived as Italian society becoming multicultural, it has not been the object of particularly sustained critical attention. Nonetheless Una ignota compagnia constitutes one of Angioni’s most ambitious texts, able as it is to confront the changes induced by globalization while engaging at the same time with diverse experiences of Sardinian emigration.
The South as a Heterotopia: Evelina Santangelo’s Senzaterra (2008)
Authors: Polizzi Goffredo
Published: September 2022

Evelina Santangelo’s text Senzaterra, from 2008, is set in Sicily and addresses simultaneously the phenomenon of the ‘sbarchi’ and the very specific and localized discourse pertaining to Sicily as the ‘other’ of the nation. The analysis developed in chapter IV focuses on the representation in the novel of Sicilian space, on the different ways in which the experience of Sicilian emigration is articulated in regard to today’s attitude towards migration to Italy, and also on the span and significance of the different strategies with which various languages and cultures are included in the text.
Transnational Epistemologies of the South in Christiana de Caldas Brito’s Colpo di mare (2018)
Authors: Polizzi Goffredo
Published: September 2022

Chapter V analyses in detail Christiana de Caldas Brito’s latest novel Colpo di mare, published in 2018. Centering on the friendship between two women the novel foregrounds processes of self-translation which have to do with the incorporation of marginal, ‘southern’ knowledges, and with the relational and intersubjective nature of such processes. The textual analysis develops an interpretation of the texts in dialogue with decolonial theory and with contemporary neo-freudian psychoanalytic theories on subjectivity as self-translation. The chapter also analyzes, connecting it to its main argument and to the author's previous production, the interest in linguistic variety which the text demonstrates.
Conclusion to Part II
Authors: Polizzi Goffredo
Published: September 2022

Conclusion to part II summarizes and connects the findings gained through the literary analysis in the three previous chapters and compares the various ways in which the chosen texts challenge monolingual and monocultural conceptions of Italian literature, culture and society.
Race, Gender and Sexuality in Emanuele Crialese’s Terraferma (2011)
Authors: Polizzi Goffredo
Published: September 2022

Terraferma, by the established Sicilian director Emanuele Crialese, is probably one of the most successful works to have looked at the south as both a place people leave and a place other people arrive. Chapter VI develops an intersectional reading of the text, which focuses on the relationship between the representation of southern Italian masculinity and of black feminity, interrogating the position of the queer viewer in relation to the movie. It also ponders on what kind of conception of culture, and of Sicilian culture in particular, the movie constructs.
Conclusion to Part III
Authors: Polizzi Goffredo
Published: September 2022

The conclusion to part III summarizes and connects the results of the visual analysis gained in the three previous chapters and bring them back to the question of the various types of borders which the visual texts differently explore.
Fishes with Funny French Names
Authors: Kelly Debra
Published: September 2022

The book’s focus is the establishment of the French restaurant in London in the mid- to late-nineteenth century and its subsequent development throughout the twentieth and into the first two decades of the twenty-first century. It is also concerned with the place of food as a form of cultural exchange, and how culinary practices are shared within the wider social, cultural, political and economic contexts of a diverse capital city. What happens when a modern Parisian institution arrives in London, a city with its own long-established food traditions and cultures of eating outside the home? Why is French cuisine so readily adopted by the English upper classes’ dining-out culture? Where else in the city, and by whom and when, was French cooking purveyed and consumed? What sorts of cultural exchanges are generated between the French and Londoners, and between Paris and London, by the development of the restaurant, and how do these evolve over a century and a half? British references to France and to the French are littered with associations with food from the status of haute cuisine and the restaurants and chefs associated with it to contemporary concerns about food poverty and food waste, to dietary habits and the politicisation of food, and at every level in between. Thinking about the place of the French restaurant in London restaurant and food culture over a long time span, in many and varied places and spaces in the capital, creates a more complex picture than that which may appear obvious.
Putting the French Restaurant on the London Map from the Late Nineteenth Century to the First World War
Authors: Kelly Debra
Published: September 2022

This chapter considers how the French restaurant arrived in London bringing out aspects that have been previously been less extensively treated in this better-known period of its history. It was indeed the era of the grand hotel restaurants, of the Entente Cordiale and the Franco-British Exhibition and the development of cultural and culinary relations between London and Paris on several different levels. Yet while Escoffier was celebrated at the Savoy, many different Frenchmen and women lived and ate in areas of London such as Soho and (what would become known as) Fitzrovia, often as political exiles and refugees in very difficult circumstances. The chapter is divided into three sections: ‘Setting the Scene: French Cuisine and Forms of Culinary, Cultural and Social Display in Nineteenth-Century London’; ‘The French Restaurant Arrives in London: Famous Names and (In)Famous places’; ‘The Expansion of the French Restaurant in London: from “foreign kickshaws” to “a notable gathering of Frenchmen” charting changes in attitudes towards French food and restaurants. The chapter ends at the outbreak of the First World War as many Frenchmen working in London’s restaurant business left to join the French forces at the Front.
The Development of the French Restaurant in London during the Interwar Years and the Second World War
Authors: Kelly Debra
Published: September 2022

This chapter analyses the evolving place of the French Restaurant in London in the first half of the 20th century, innovations and developments during the inter-war years and the paradoxes of dining out in London during the Second World War. It is divided into three sections: ‘Continuity and Innovation for the French Restaurant in London: the Inter-War Years’; ‘Privation, Plenty and Paradox in the French Restaurant of Second World War London’; ‘The French restaurant as cultural, social and political site: The Free French in London’. It firstly takes particular examples such as the restaurants of Marcel Boulestin and Simone Prunier and the writings of André Simon and the Wine and Food Society to represent the place of French food during London’s interwar years. It then focuses on the dining-out culture in London during the Second World War, and finally on the place of the French restaurant for a new migrant community in London, the Free French who joined de Gaulle from June 1940, bringing changes to the ‘French colony’ established in London since the late 19th century. The French restaurant in London endured during the period and acquired a new place and identity in London’s restaurant culture.
Conclusion
Authors: Kelly Debra
Published: September 2022

This conclusion provides further scoping of the contemporary London French restaurant scene, including restaurateurs and cooking from several Francophone countries. It is divided into three sections: ‘Eating French in London’; ‘Eating Francophone in London’; ‘Cooking French People’. In the first two decades of the 21st century, there was not only growth in French restaurants in London, but also in restaurants and cooking associated with varied Francophone cultures as the numbers of migrants from former French colonial countries increased. All of this took place in the context of an intensified national debate concerning the UK’s departure from the European Union, immigration policy and the consequent politicization of the restaurant industry. In that context, the question is posed: what might the future hold? What is sure is that the French continue to come to London and share their food and restaurant culture as they have done since the 19th century. By early 2020, as this book reached its completion, an unexpected afterword to the conclusion became necessary a new threat, one for which national borders and immigration controls were meaningless, was gathering force in another part of the world. It ends by considering how French restaurateurs have reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A few prefatory remarks from a hooded host, who is himself hosted
Authors: Fleming Colin
Published: September 2022

This section serves as a general introduction to the approach the author will take in his analysis of the 1951 film Scrooge, one informed by his own autobiography.
Opening Visitation
Authors: Fleming Colin
Published: September 2022

This chapter explains the circumstances in which the author first saw Scrooge, as a child, and the impact it had on him. He places it in the context of a childhood fascination with horror movies, particularly the Universal Pictures classics of the 1930s.
Curse of the Stand-Alone Miser
Authors: Fleming Colin
Published: September 2022

This chapter serves as a survey of the multiple screen versions of A Christmas Carol and the depiction of Scrooge, with a particular emphasis on how the supernatural is represented.
Them Scrooge Eyes
Authors: Fleming Colin
Published: September 2022

This chapter continues the detailed chronological textual analysis of Scrooge. It particularly remarks on the performance of Alastair Sim in the title role as well as his career.
This Glowing Hand
Authors: Fleming Colin
Published: September 2022

This chapter continues the detailed chronological textual analysis of Scrooge. It particularly remarks on the relationship between Scrooge and Jacob Marley, and the performance by Michael Horden in that supporting role. It considers how throughout horror texts ghosts violate ‘safe spaces’ such as bedrooms.
Un-Oozy
Authors: Fleming Colin
Published: September 2022

This chapter continues the detailed chronological textual analysis of Scrooge. It concentrates on the contributions to Scrooge by director Brian Desmond Hurst, screenwriter Noel Langley and composer Richard Addinsell.
The Omen
Authors: Schober Adrian
Published: September 2022

Directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer, The Omen (1976) is perhaps the best in the devil-child cycle of movies that followed in the wake of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist. Released to a highly suggestible public, The Omen became a major commercial success, in no small part due to an elaborate pre-sell campaign that played and preyed on apocalyptic fears and a renewed belief in the Devil and the supernatural. Since polarising critics and religious groups upon its release, The Omen has earned its place in the horror film canon. It’s a film that works on different levels, is imbued with nuance, ambiguity and subtext, and is open to opposing interpretations. Reflecting the film’s cultural impact and legacy, the name ‘Damien’ has since become a pop culture byword for an evil child. This Devil’s Advocates entry examines the overarching theme of paranoia that drives the narrative: paranoia about the 'end times'; paranoia about government and conspiracy; paranoia about child rearing (especially, if one strips away the layer of Satanism); and paranoia about imagined threats to the right-wing Establishment from liberal and post-countercultural forces of the 1970s.
From the Eternal Sea He Rises
Authors: Schober Adrian
Published: September 2022

This chapter argues that The Omen makes hay with a prejudice of a Roman Catholic conspiracy to gain control and enforce Satan’s will over nations of the world. It draws connections between the fictional Thorn dynasty and the Kennedy dynasty, with particular reference to John F. Kennedy and his Catholicism. It also places the film in post-Watergate context: the election of Democrat Jimmy Carter, who promised to challenge entrenched interests in Washington, and the ascent of Republican Ronald Reagan, who was instrumental to the ‘rightward turn’ in American politics and society. But for a film about the devil-child’s rise in the world of politics, The Omen is remarkable for its lack of engagement with world events and politics. This chapter also speculates about the extent to which star Gregory Peck, a liberal Democrat and Catholic, identified with the Robert Thorn character.
The Devil Delusion
Authors: Schober Adrian
Published: September 2022

This chapter argues that the paranoia-driven nature of The Omen is much more ambiguous than has been hitherto acknowledged, especially as it pivots on the construction of the changeling child Damien Thorn. While the majority of critics (and viewers) took it as a given that Damien is the son of the Devil and must be ritually slain, Richard Donner’s intention was much more subtle: to make ‘two pictures’ with opposing interpretations, in which the supernatural reality coexists with an alternative, that is, rational explanation. As per his vision, Donner instructed writer David Seltzer to remove all references in the script to devil-gods, cloven-hoofed beasts, and the like. To help illumine our understanding of the ambiguous nature of The Omen’s narrative, it is helpful to turn to Tzvetan Todorov’s formalist/structuralist approach to ‘the fantastic’ as a literary genre, which centres around the reader’s hesitation between the ‘uncanny’ (supernatural explained) and the ‘marvellous’ (supernatural accepted). Henry James’s 1898 psychological-cum-ghost story The Turn of the Screw is a prime example of ‘the fantastic’ as Todorov defines it, and The Omen may be seen as Jamesian in effect, if not in intention.
Satanic Anti-Hero
Authors: Schober Adrian
Published: September 2022

This chapter considers the religious and political implications of the continuing story of Damien’s rise – and fall – over the two sequels that form the ‘Damien’ trilogy: Damien: Omen II (Don Taylor, 1978) and The Final Conflict (Graham Baker, 1981). These sequels offer some revisions to the original, as well as foundational American myths. Damien: Omen II depicts Damien as an adolescent being groomed for the world of big business. The Final Conflict depicts Damien as an adult embarking on a career in American politics. In the last film, insistent parallels are drawn between the Christ and the Antichrist. Damien here takes after the reinterpreted Lucifer of Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, while his sadomasochistic creed owes much to poet William Blake’s theory of contraries and inversions. Additionally, the made-for-TV Omen IV: The Awakening (1991) is briefly addressed as a late entry in the series.
Unheimlich between the Weird and the Eerie: A Girl with Vampire Cinema
Authors: Kazemi Farshid
Published: September 2022

This chapter considers the film’s relationship to vampire cinema, especially in relation to Nosferatu (1922), and its depiction of the spectral vampire, with the female vampire or Girl as its modern manifestation. The chapter argues that although the film is effectively a vampire film, it is not a conventional one. To theorize what is new about the film, the chapter articulates a shift away from post-revolutionary Iranian films and theorizes it as part of a new transnational film movement that is structured around the logic of Unheimlich between the Weird and the Eerie, deploying and extending Mark Fisher’s formulation of the two modes of the weird and eerie. The chapter covers A Girl’s reception and how it was officially banned in Iran due to its depiction of an erotically charged chador-clad female vampire and provides a contextualization of the film in the history of Iranian horror cinema in the pre- and post-revolutionary era and locates it as a transnational horror subgenre embued with ‘the uncanny between the weird and the eerie.’ The chapter theorizes the relation of the cinematic vampire with the figure of the Nightmare (bakhtak or kabus) in Iranian myth-folklore.
The Repressed Returns in the Real: A Girl with Psychoanalytic Theory
Authors: Kazemi Farshid
Published: September 2022

This chapter analyses the film through the prism of psychoanalytic film theory, through Freud’s notion of the ‘return of the repressed,’ with a Lacanian twist. It theorizes that the film stages the return of the repressed Real of feminine sexuality, where the figure of the black chador-clad female vampire, stands for the (Lacanian) Real of feminine sexuality, which in Islamic and Sh’ite legal theory (fiqh) is imagined to possess an inherent surplus enjoyment (jouissance) that can destabilize the social-symbolic order. In this sense, female sexuality unimpeded functions as a source of terror to the ideology of the Islamic Republic. The film therefore stages the return of the repressed desire embodied in the female vampire who haunts the male inhabitants of Bad City, representative of the dark underbelly of Tehran or Iran. The film theorizes a feminist emancipatory core at the heart of the film where the vampire Girl stands for the call to all women to revolt against the patriarchal symbolic order. The theoretical contributions of this chapter are the crossing of wires between psychoanalytic horror film theory and second wave psychoanalytic film theory, through a Lacanian intervention apropos the standard Freudian theory of ‘the return of the repressed.’
The Stepford Wives
Authors: Lindop Samantha
Published: September 2022

The Stepford Wives (Forbes, 1975) occupies an unusual position in cinematic history. As is often the case with cult texts, the film itself was a box office flop, despite the hype of its initial release in the US. Though it was intended as a feminist diatribe, it was fervently derided by Betty Friedan, whose 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is literalised in The Stepford Wives. Even Ira Levin, author of the original 1972 novel from which the film was adapted concedes he was less than enthused with what he saw on screen. Despite this, the term Stepford wife has become idiolect for a particular kind of one-dimensional, upper-middle class woman who is figuratively, and to some extent literally, an automation. Indeed, one does not need to have heard of the film or Levin’s book to be familiar concept. Significantly, The Stepford Wives is not a moment in film history. It is an entire universe. It spawned several made-for-television sequels that speak back to gender politics of the 1980s/1990s. It was reimagined by Frank Oz in 2004, starring a high-profile cast including Better Midler and Glenn Close. More recently, it inspired Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed horror film Get Out (2017). This timely and compelling study gives The Stepford Wives the serious scholarly attention it deserves. In doing so, the significance of the film as a socio-cultural and socio-political document in its own right is underscored. While the intention of this book is to pay homage to Forbes’ The Stepford Wives, it goes far beyond this, locating the film in the traditions of the gothic, the histories of feminism and fictional imaginings about artificial women, and real-world developments in social robotics and AI
The Stepford Remake – from Sci-Fi Thriller to Farce?
Authors: Lindop Samantha
Published: September 2022

This chapter focuses on Frank Oz’s 2004 reimagining of The Stepford Wives, which starred a high-profile cast including Bette Midler, Glen Close, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, and Christopher Walken. Oz’s version picks up the original film’s sci-fi focus, gothic sensibilities, and satirical humour that became lost in the made-for-tv sequels. However, it lampoons these themes, sacrificing the heart of the original Stepford Wives, transforming it instead into a virtually unintelligible, kitschy, camp romantic-comedy. This chapter explores academic and journalistic responses to this film and unpack it from a feminist perspective.
Stepford Wives in the Real World
Authors: Lindop Samantha
Published: September 2022

The purpose of this chapter is to explore the legacy of The Stepford Wives universe by examining real world directions in the development of artificially intelligent sex dolls. It will consider the social implications of deep machine learning and human-machine intimacy from a posthuman perspective and if will investigate contemporary imaginings about android women on screen focusing primarily on Alex Garland’s 2015 sci-fi thriller Ex Machina, along with the series West World (HBO, 2016 – ), and Humans (AMC, 2015 – 2018), which is based on the Swedish series Äkta Människor (2012 – 2014). What is evident is a significant shift in character representation towards the subjective experiences of the robot women themselves and their position in the text as powerful rape avengers.
Concluding Comments
Authors: Lindop Samantha
Published: September 2022

This section ties together key ideas, concepts, and theories discussed throughout the book. Fundamentally, this book has shown that fantasies about artificial women are historically entrenched, but they are not static. Rather, they are very much reflective of the socio-cultural, political, and technological climate of their creation. This book’s extended analysis of The Stepford Wives and the Stepford universe has also established that whenever feminism gains some form of traction, there are patriarchal reactions.
Migrant Representations
Authors: Leese Peter
Published: September 2022

Migrant Representations explores the depiction of migrant figure from the late 18th to the early 21st century through a series of contrasting, comparative case studies guided by two questions: how were the lives of migrants rendered in the past? how has the contemporary figure of the migrant been constructed historically, politically and aesthetically? The study contextualises analyses and compares accounts from migrants who have connections to Britain with parallel cases spanning South Asia, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the United States. This analysis of life stories is complemented by the theme of investigation: how activists, journalists, social scientists have interpreted the lives and experiences of migrants. The interplay between self-representation and the investigation of migrant experience is discussed in the third section of the study, which gathers visual evidence of both self-representation and observer investigation. Migrant Representations explores the sense-making procedures (talking, writing, filming), social networks (family, community, diaspora) and cultural resources (history, language, genres) used by migrants and their observers. This study is not a comprehensive overview or ‘history of migration’; instead it acknowledges and investigates the varieties of migrant representation to recognize and celebrate the local and the individual. Using innovative analytic methodologies and a carefully patterned composition, Migrant Representations suggests creative new ways of writing history ‘from below’.
Life Story as Archive
Authors: Leese Peter
Published: September 2022

Provides a more detailed overview on histories of oral self-representation and written self-representation by migrants in letters, diaries, interviews, oral histories and home movies. This chapter examines how migrants have historically deployed the recollection and recounting of their past lives as sense-making tools. It investigates the variety of historical and cultural conceptions of self and its story as well as the ways in which content and form have been shaped by changing recording technologies. Moreover, the nature of ‘emic’ evidence, the differences between autobiography and life story, and the historical development of life story telling are discussed in relation to Chapters 2-5. Finally, this chapter considers the historiographical challenges and varied analytic methodologies used in the historical analysis of migrant life stories.
Registration and Caricature
Authors: Leese Peter
Published: September 2022

Contextualises and explores the histories of nineteenth century migrant visual representation at a moment of high colonial tensions. This chapter links visual representations of two major diaspora groups within Britain, both of whose movements were connected to empire labour: South Asian lascars, many from the Indian subcontinent; Irish settlers as well as political activists connected to the Clerkenwell Explosion (1867) and the related ‘Fenian Crisis’. Analysing mid-19th- century visual culture and its sources, this chapter studies some of the ways in which empire ideologies became incorporated into views of migrant subjects as a subcategory of the racialized metropolitan poor. These considerations centre on John Tenniel’s widely reproduced cartoon, a political satire for Punch magazine, which consolidates and projects anti-Irish feeling (‘The Fenian Guy Fawkes’, 1867), and selected illustrations from Joseph Salter’s account of his London missionary work. (The Asiatic in Britain, 1873).
Interior Views
Authors: Leese Peter
Published: September 2022

Explores some of the most persistent and powerful images of migrant arrival and settlement from the early 20th century connected to Jewish districts in the East End of London and the Lower East Side of Manhattan. These visual representations incorporate varying degrees of popular journalism, social reportage, and social survey methodology. Each of these visual forms acquire a new intensity with the later 19th- and early 20th-century mass migrations as well as the attendant anti-immigrant campaigns which followed. This chapter investigates the mostly anonymous drawings and photographs which accompany George R. Sims panoramic survey of London (Living London, 1902) to show one set of observations and audience expectations; Jacob Epstein’s illustrations for a parallel account of New York (Hutchins Hapgood’s The Spirit of the Ghetto, 1902) suggest an alternative, more engaged approach.
Filming Memory
Authors: Leese Peter
Published: September 2022

Returns to the post-1945 era to contrast the parallel lives of two political refugees. Robert Vas (Hungary) and Jonas Mekas (Lithuania) have in common forced exile from their homelands, careers as professional film-makers (in London and in New York) and the use of film-making to cope with the defining negative event in their life stories: expulsion from their European homelands in the mid-20th century. Analysing each director’s central trilogies of films and reading closely their processing of traumatic memories, this chapter considers two culturally inflected forms of trauma and resilience. It argues that film editing as used by Vas and Mekas is analogous to successive reinterpretations of the migrant self. These visualised forms of adaptation and resistance to traumatic memory shift and reformulate across the course of each lifetime.
Diaspora’s Image
Authors: Leese Peter
Published: September 2022

Analyses recent re-interpretations of past migrant experience in light of themes and aesthetic strategies in 21st-century visual culture. The first case study considers pieces by artist Laura Facey (Jamaica) exploring the inheritances of slavery for her 2014 exhibition ‘Their Spirits’ at the Liverpool International Museum of Slavery. Of particular interest here are the tensions between museum curation, popular memory, and the present-day lives of the ‘Liverpool-born Black’ community. This study in migrant memory politics is contrasted with Sandhya Suri’s filmic exploration of her family’s connections and disconnections between India and Britain, I for India (2005). Suri’s family history incorporates echoes of colonial, post-colonial, and contemporary South Asian diaspora experience in relation to Britain. I for India is examined as a reconfiguration of migrant experience which incorporates shifting visual technologies (home movies, media footage, and sound recordings) and which creates its own self-aware auto-ethnography.
A Sequence of Snapshots (2)
Authors: Leese Peter
Published: September 2022

Sums up the critical themes of the study and describes their relevance to current debates on the migrant image. Three particular aspects are discussed. First, the range of primary sources and the archive as a whole need to be extended to achieve a sufficient representation. Second, the history of the migrant image, which changes in form and meaning shaped by changes in representational technologies. Third, the persistent archetypes of migrant representation as they are revealed in this study, including the categories of stranger, witness, and self-maker.
John Milton’s Night at the Opera
Authors: Rumrich John
Published: September 2022

The first chapter examines evidence about Milton’s Italian journey and the opera he attended, arguing that this experience would have made a considerable impression upon Milton both in terms of aesthetics and the understanding of sacrifice. It suggests that the content of that opera and the conditions of its performance would have driven home the theme of celibacy so important in Milton’s early work. In addition, the opera’s themes of self-sacrifice, and the resonance between those themes and the male castrati on stage, resonate throughout Milton’s poetic career.
“Milton for Mississippi”
Authors: Lares Jameela
Published: September 2022

Chapter 3 describes the “Milton for Mississippi” project, a program melding pedagogy with a broader approach to public education. Building upon Milton’s own model of public intellectualism, the project provides students a platform to emulate that intellectualism and educate others in their state about Milton’s thinking and works. The chapter surveys the multiple means through which this public work was accomplished, and discusses the utility of such work both to traditional scholarly research and to a variety of publics.
Giving Laws to Milton’s God
Authors: Greene Clay
Published: September 2022

Chapter 7 examines the anonymous poem, Præexistence, as a response to Milton’s Paradise Lost, situating it within its political contexts as well as its theological ones. Confronting the difficulties raised by the Calvinist God’s inscrutability and the restrictions placed upon free will by the divine will, the poem attempts to champion the free will central to Milton’s poem while grappling with divine law which seems to render that will obsolete. The chapter concludes that this poet’s reception of Milton leads to contradictions which make it impossible to identify the author’s political affiliation.
Introduction
Authors: Fleming N. C.
Published: September 2022

The Introduction outlines the background to the production of the volume and explains its structure. The Introduction also surveys and discusses the historiography of Ireland and partition. A number of historiographical trends and scholarly debates are addressed. The Introduction opens by highlighting that partition has seldom emerged as an overarching framework in scholarship on the 1913-25 period. It examines the marked contrast between scholarly scrutiny of nationalist writing and unionist writing on the causes and consequences of partition, as well as the claim that scholarship has tended to legitimise partition. It also highlights the importance of local studies in developing a more nuanced interpretation of the impact of partition on the ground, and how, at the same time, these works draw further attention to the violence that accompanied the process of partition.
Two Ulsters
Authors: Kennedy Liam
Published: September 2022

In a society riven by ethno-religious and ethno-national divisions, relative population numbers assume a vital significance. Northern Ireland exemplifies the politics of demography in extreme form. More than three decades ago the author published a short book, Two Ulsters, which advocated a more politically-sensitive repartition of Ireland along nationalist and unionist lines. The proposal was born of despair at the polarisation of Northern Irish society in the wake of the Hunger Strikes of the early 1980s and the continuing insurgency of the Provisional IRA. In this chapter he revisits the proposal, noting long-run partitionist tendencies within Irish society. A reconstructing of Catholic and Protestant numbers, and hence power balances at both regional and local level, forms the middle part of the study. The final section peers into possible futures for Northern Ireland by considering some alternative political scenarios, including the ‘end game’ of Irish unity. The conclusion reached is that ‘not unlike the weather most days in Ireland, the future seems far from settled’. Indeed, the future may well lie with those best adapted to living with constitutional uncertainty.
Moving Away From the ‘Bandit Country’ Myth
Authors: Mulroe Patrick
Published: September 2022

The most disturbed portion of the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland during the 1969–98 Troubles was the southern part of county Armagh. The moniker ‘bandit country’ has frequently been applied to the region due to perceptions of consistently high levels of historic support for the Irish Republican Army in the locality. Focusing on the 1920s, this chapter challenges that view. Using archive resources, such as the Irish state’s Bureau of Military History and Military Service Pension Collection, three conclusions are presented. First, south Armagh was the scene of significant violence in the 1920s, though the district was not as disturbed as places like Cork or Belfast. Second, the political situation in the area was complex, with constitutional nationalists preventing the type of republican hegemony that occurred elsewhere in Ireland. Third, the possibility of making direct links between the IRA campaigns in the 1920s and 1970s through familial ties are, at best, unproven. Overall, it is argued that the use of the term ‘bandit country’ is unhelpful, as it implies a cultural explanation of violence. The evidence in support of that explanation does not stand up to scrutiny.
‘It does not matter what the authors meant’
Authors: McMahon Timothy G.
Published: September 2022

This chapter reassesses the unity of the Ulster Unionists in the run up to the partition of Ireland at ground level. Ulster Unionist party leaders insisted at the time and retrospectively that their decision to abandon the nine-county partition endorsed by Walter Long’s parliamentary committee for a six-county state was in keeping with the 1912 Solemn League and Covenant, but in the eyes of many of their supporters, a six-county solution violated the Covenant. Members of the Ulster Unionist Council even pressed for re-examination of the council’s decision to endorse the draft of what would become the Better Government of Ireland Act (1920), leading local committees throughout the province to express their views on what constituted the Ulster Unionist community. Utilizing private papers, contemporary press accounts, and UUC files, this chapter details a little-discussed controversy among Ulster Unionists in the spring of 1920 and contends that this dispute was central to the refinement of a distinct Northern Ireland Unionism in the 1920s.
Influence of Fine Structures on Gyrosynchrotron Emission of Flare Loops Modulated by Sausage Modes
Authors: Shi Mijie , Li Bo , Guo Mingzhe
Published: September 2022

Sausage modes are a leading mechanism for interpreting short-period quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) of solar flares. Forward modeling their radio emission is crucial for identifying sausage modes observationally and for understanding their connections with QPPs. Using the numerical outputs from three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations, we forward model the gyrosynchrotron emission of flare loops modulated by sausage modes and examine the influence of fine structures of loops. The temporal evolution of the emission intensity is analyzed for an oblique line of sight crossing the loop center. We find that the low- and high-frequency intensities oscillate in phase in the periods of sausage modes for models with or without fine structures. For low-frequency emissions where the optically thick regime arises, the modulation magnitude of the intensity is dramatically reduced by the fine structures at some viewing angles. On the contrary, for high-frequency emissions where the optically thin regime holds, the effects of fine structures or the viewing angle are marginal. Our results show that the periodic intensity variations of sausage modes are not wiped out by fine structures, and that sausage modes remain a promising candidate mechanism for QPPs, even when the flare loops are fine-structured.
High rabies burden and low vaccination status among dogs inflicting bite in Addis Ababa: an urgent call for action
Authors: Abdella Sintayehu , Ahmed Khogali , Salim Bienvenu , Ashenefe Baye , Mulugeta Yimere , Girma Endalkachew , Aklilu Mesefin , Getachew Abebe , Kitila Gutu , Getahun Garuma , Berihanu Endalkachew , File Ibsa , Mberu Edward , Zeleke Zeyede , Getahun Desalegn
Published: September 2022

Introduction: Rabies remains a global threat, killing approximately 60,000 people every year. In Ethiopia, dogs are the main reservoir of the disease. Animals also estimate the burden of the disease.

Methodology: Data from 2016 to 2020 were extracted from a rabies cases recording book of the Ethiopian Public Health Institute. Proportions and trends over time were analyzed. Brain samples of dogs were diagnosed with a Fluorescent Anti Body test.

Results: A total of 6,001 dogs inflicting bites were brought to the laboratory. A high proportion of dogs 4,389 73.14% were not vaccinated. The total number of dogs brought to the laboratory was decreasing over the last five years. Among 1,216 dog brain samples examined 855 (70.3%) confirmed rabies. The proportion of rabies cases was increasing from 8.5% in 2016 and 32.6% in 2020. The highest rabies proportion (33.8%) was reported in 2018. Out of the total (2,156) dogs inflicting bites and observed for 10 days, only 468 (21.7%) of the observation report was tracked and reported.

Conclusions: There is a high proportion of rabies in dogs inflicting bites in Addis Ababa. The findings are alarming with seven out of ten dogs diagnosed being infected with rabies. Only two dogs were vaccinated out of ten dogs inflicting bites. Rabies became a serious public health problem in the city that needs urgent health action from all sectors including the city administration.
La Régulation Stratégique des Émotions en DPA-PC : entretien avec Yann Le Bossé
Authors: Leleu Myriam , Defert Fabienne
Published: September 2022

Le dernier ouvrage de Yann Le Bossé s’intéresse à la Régulation Stratégique des Emotions. « Accueillir sans recueillir » après « Soutenir sans prescrire », deux expressions qui renvoient aux fondements de l’approche centrée sur le DPA-PC. Il ne s’agit pas tant en effet de prescrire une action que d’accompagner la personne - ou un groupe de personnes - dans son cheminement vers un changement qui fait sens et s’inscrit dans l’ici et maintenant. De même, en accueillant sans recueillir, l’intervenant du champ psycho-social inclut les émotions dans l’interaction avec la personne accompagnée. Celles-ci sont considérées comme un élément de contexte, s’imposant comme frein ou incitant au développement du pouvoir d’agir. Ressentir et observer les émotions dans une forme de mise à distance permet de s’en libérer et de vivre ce difficile exercice qui consiste à ne pas être contraint par leur absence ou leur présence.
La figure du passeur dans les pratiques d’accompagnement
Authors: Paul Maela
Published: September 2022

Dans l’accompagnement, la posture est déterminante. Elle résulte de la conjugaison d’au moins trois figures essentielles. Deux sont relativement comprises : la figure clinique, qui suppose de « s’incliner » au-devant d’autrui pour recueillir de lui ce qu’il vit, et la posture maïeutique, qui justifie d’interagir avec autrui sur le mode socratique d’un questionnement dialogique. La troisième figure est bien moins conscientisée que les deux autres : il s’agit de la figure du passeur, qui est l’objet de cette contribution. On procédera tout d’abord à saisir comment la figure du passeur participe de la posture d’accompagnement, avant de rappeler quelques contributions sur le sujet et d’esquisser ce que cette figure enseigne pour penser ce qu’accompagner veut dire.
Harry Potter à l’école de la coexpertise
Authors: Robin Régis
Published: September 2022

À l’instar de l’état d’esprit et de la créativité de Harry Potter, qui n’aurait rien réussi sans l’aide de ses proches, il ne peut y avoir expertise sociale que si elle est envisagée comme collective et partagée. Soulevant des enjeux en termes de légitimité et/ou de crédibilité, elle doit aussi être pensée comme citoyenne – ingrédient à part entière dela coexpertise. Cette dernière est aussi source d’innovation sociale dans la mesure où elle permet de développer une posture professionnelle suscitant la participation et l’implication des personnes dans le travail social. Il s’agit tout autant de considérer les savoirs issus de l’expérience – dimension inhérente à la démarche conscientisante du Développement du Pouvoir d’Agir des Personnes et des Collectivités – que de reconnaître une question de citoyenneté et d’expertise partagée intégrant à part entière l’expertise de chaque citoyen. Nous considérons ici Harry Potter comme un « artisan » qui évolue grâce à son entourage et qui reconnaît les savoirs et expertises d’usage.
Au-delà de l’intervention : comment pérenniser le pouvoir d’agir ?
Authors: Musseau Jérôme , Zittoun Mylène , Clot Yves
Published: September 2022

La pratique d’intervention en milieu de travail, dans de nombreux champs disciplinaires, se heurte souvent au problème de la pérennisation de ce qui a été construit. Cet article traite de la fin d’une intervention en clinique de l’activité dans un établissement médicosocial, qui s’est déroulée sur plusieurs années. Le dispositif, coconstruit avec les professionnels, est centré sur de nouvelles possibilités de dialogue entre les niveaux hiérarchiques, en s’appuyant sur la fonction de « référent-métier ». Il s’attache à analyser les ressorts présents dans la situation d’intervention, qui concourent à maintenir la vitalité des processus dialogiques à même de résoudre les problèmes du quotidien. Il montre que le pouvoir d’agir dans l’organisation ne saurait être définitivement institué, mais qu’il peut être durablement soutenu par des cadres d’intervention qui expérimentent, en cherchant à l’instituer, une certaine performance dialogique entre agents de première ligne, encadrement et direction.
La formation au DPA-PC chez les éducateurs : cheminements et réflexions
Authors: Wantier Bénédicte , Pichery Coraline
Published: September 2022

Un séminaire d’initiation à l’approche centrée sur le Développement du Pouvoir d’Agir des Personnes et des Collectivités (DPA-PC) est proposé dans la formation initiale des éducateurs spécialisés. Des zones de rencontre se dessinent entre le DPA-PC et ce métier, dans sa fonction politique et sa posture spécifique qui consiste à ouvrir à l’Autre un espace de relation dans son « ici-maintenant » en vue de soutenir son émancipation. Les étudiants s’approprient l’approche au fil d’expériences d’accompagnement qui les interrogent sur leur posture : ils identifient un hiatus entre les discours qu’ils tiennent sur leur manière d’être éducateurs et la manière dont leur posture se révèle. Ils repèrent des tensions entre les dispositifs techniques et les approches relationnelles, et questionnent la traduction des missions institutionnelles dans les pratiques. La culture gestionnaire (Bertand, 2015) et le développement d’une pseudo-technicité (Gaberan, 2013) semblent avoir pour effet une rigidification des pratiques, du cadre et du temps, qui entrave parfois la possibilité d’installer l’espace de la relation. C’est à cet égard que les étudiants situent et nuancent les apports du DPA-PC dans leur métier et qu’ils réexplorent leur posture professionnelle – entre points d’équilibre (émancipation) et zones de glissement (instrumentalisation, prescription). Quelques apports pour la didactique de l’approche découlent de cette formation, construite dans une perspective expérientielle et critique.