title: Book Review Essay: Reimagining the subject of feminism: Six women artists

authors: Middleton, Sue

abstract: Maria Tamboukou is a Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre of Narrative Research at the University of East London,  UK. A trans-disciplinary feminist writer, Tamboukou is known for imaginative conceptual assemblages in the study of narrative texts. Influenced by Hannah Arendt and Adriana Cavarero, she argues: “narratives foreground the question of Who one is, as differentiated from the Western (male) philosophical tradition that has revolved around the question of What one is” (Tamboukou, 2010a: 13). “Who” one is, however, is never fixed, never stable, always in process – in Deleuzian terms, nomadic. Citing Rosi Braidotti, (Tamboukou 2010a: 84) defines nomadic subjects as always in transition, characterised not by homelessness but by “their ability to create their homes everywhere” in the process of becoming.

text: Book Review Essay: Reimagining the subject of feminism: Six women artists Maria Tamboukou is a Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre of Narrative Research at the University of East London,  UK. A trans-disciplinary feminist writer, Tamboukou is known for imaginative conceptual assemblages in the study of narrative texts. Influenced by Hannah Arendt and Adriana Cavarero, she argues: “narratives foreground the question of Who one is, as differentiated from the Western (male) philosophical tradition that has revolved around the question of What one is” (Tamboukou, 2010a: 13). “Who” one is, however, is never fixed, never stable, always in process – in Deleuzian terms, nomadic. Citing Rosi Braidotti, (Tamboukou 2010a: 84) defines nomadic subjects as always in transition, characterised not by homelessness but by “their ability to create their homes everywhere” in the process of becoming.

year: 2011

title: Critical approaches to experimental poetry

authors: Lopez-Fernandez, Laura

abstract: There are many possible approaches that we can use to study current and historical experimental poetic practices. 
Some relevant frameworks of study include different schools of thought such as structuralism and linguistic theories of the sign, verbal and visual semiotics, gestalt theories and visual thinking, media and materiality, intermedia and intermediality studies, typographic and visual cultures, and frame semantics and embodied cognition.  
All these theories contribute in their particular way to the process of meaning even if sometimes their basic tenets conflict among each other. 
When reading or decoding an experimental poem we can use more than one approach but we also need to take into account that theoretical frameworks are not fixed and evolve through time and also some scholars can be part of different schools of thought such as Roland Barthes who worked on structuralism and also developed post-structuralist concepts. 
Since these theories evolve and their basic tenets tend to be reinterpreted through time we have to select the more useful aspects of each school. 
Structuralism has developed solid tools of analysis. Semiotics has been developed as well (verbal, visual). Media theorists and theorists of the technosphere are also contributing to an expanded notion of the media, text and the sign (ref. McLuhan, Kittler, Hayles, and others).
Another relevant aspect that may be useful to include in an analysis of experimental poems is the artists’ writings about (intermedia) art. 
Many of them have advanced theoretical positions that are being considered systematically by scholars (ie., Charles Olson, Dick Higgins, Eduardo Kac) in the field of cognition, media studies, and embodiment.

text: Critical approaches to experimental poetry There are many possible approaches that we can use to study current and historical experimental poetic practices. 
Some relevant frameworks of study include different schools of thought such as structuralism and linguistic theories of the sign, verbal and visual semiotics, gestalt theories and visual thinking, media and materiality, intermedia and intermediality studies, typographic and visual cultures, and frame semantics and embodied cognition.  
All these theories contribute in their particular way to the process of meaning even if sometimes their basic tenets conflict among each other. 
When reading or decoding an experimental poem we can use more than one approach but we also need to take into account that theoretical frameworks are not fixed and evolve through time and also some scholars can be part of different schools of thought such as Roland Barthes who worked on structuralism and also developed post-structuralist concepts. 
Since these theories evolve and their basic tenets tend to be reinterpreted through time we have to select the more useful aspects of each school. 
Structuralism has developed solid tools of analysis. Semiotics has been developed as well (verbal, visual). Media theorists and theorists of the technosphere are also contributing to an expanded notion of the media, text and the sign (ref. McLuhan, Kittler, Hayles, and others).
Another relevant aspect that may be useful to include in an analysis of experimental poems is the artists’ writings about (intermedia) art. 
Many of them have advanced theoretical positions that are being considered systematically by scholars (ie., Charles Olson, Dick Higgins, Eduardo Kac) in the field of cognition, media studies, and embodiment.

year: 2014

title: Legal, business and comparative issues in mining and petroleum activity with respect to Māori matters

authors: Barton, Barry

abstract: In this paper I propose to do three things: to identify the very different implications of the different stages of the mining and the oil and gas sequence, to discuss the basics of the Crown Minerals Act and associated legislation, with particular reference to Māori interests, and to touch on a few points of comparison with Canada.

text: Legal, business and comparative issues in mining and petroleum activity with respect to Māori matters In this paper I propose to do three things: to identify the very different implications of the different stages of the mining and the oil and gas sequence, to discuss the basics of the Crown Minerals Act and associated legislation, with particular reference to Māori interests, and to touch on a few points of comparison with Canada.

year: 2014