Damien M. Sojoyner
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816697533
- eISBN:
- 9781452955230
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816697533.001.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
First Strike is an ambitious project that utilizes a multi-method approach to gain insight into the confluence between public education and prison. It takes an unique perspective and delves into the ...
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First Strike is an ambitious project that utilizes a multi-method approach to gain insight into the confluence between public education and prison. It takes an unique perspective and delves into the root causes of an ever-expansive prison system and disastrous educational policy. First Strike intervenes in a spirited public discussion on the relation of education policies and budgets, the rise of mass incarceration and permutations of racism. Policy makers, school districts and local governments have long known that there is a relationship between high incarceration rates and school failure. First Strike is the first book that demonstrates how and why that connection exists and shows in what ways school districts, cities and states have been complicit and can reverse a disturbing and needless trend.Less
First Strike is an ambitious project that utilizes a multi-method approach to gain insight into the confluence between public education and prison. It takes an unique perspective and delves into the root causes of an ever-expansive prison system and disastrous educational policy. First Strike intervenes in a spirited public discussion on the relation of education policies and budgets, the rise of mass incarceration and permutations of racism. Policy makers, school districts and local governments have long known that there is a relationship between high incarceration rates and school failure. First Strike is the first book that demonstrates how and why that connection exists and shows in what ways school districts, cities and states have been complicit and can reverse a disturbing and needless trend.
Cathy Shrank
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199268887
- eISBN:
- 9780191708473
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199268887.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter studies the influence on Smith of his education and mentors (such as John Cheke) at Cambridge University. It traces his frequent recourse to the humanist genre of dialogue and his ...
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This chapter studies the influence on Smith of his education and mentors (such as John Cheke) at Cambridge University. It traces his frequent recourse to the humanist genre of dialogue and his promotion of counsel and of conciliar government, the existence of which should limit monarchical power and prevent tyranny. It discusses Smith's plans for language reform, a reflection of his view that language, law, and religion were the three bands of commonweal; his intervention in the Edwardian Enclosure debates; and his treatise on Elizabeth I's marriage. Looking at both Smith's plans for the colonisation of Ireland and his psalm translations (composed in prison), it also argues that Smith's choice of medium (be it manuscript or print) reveals the ways in which he targeted the type of audience he required for the work in question.Less
This chapter studies the influence on Smith of his education and mentors (such as John Cheke) at Cambridge University. It traces his frequent recourse to the humanist genre of dialogue and his promotion of counsel and of conciliar government, the existence of which should limit monarchical power and prevent tyranny. It discusses Smith's plans for language reform, a reflection of his view that language, law, and religion were the three bands of commonweal; his intervention in the Edwardian Enclosure debates; and his treatise on Elizabeth I's marriage. Looking at both Smith's plans for the colonisation of Ireland and his psalm translations (composed in prison), it also argues that Smith's choice of medium (be it manuscript or print) reveals the ways in which he targeted the type of audience he required for the work in question.
Katrina Navickas
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719097058
- eISBN:
- 9781526104144
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719097058.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter examines why Chartism and other ‘urban’ movements failed to take hold in certain regions, but also how other forms of collective action, including agitation against enclosure of common ...
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This chapter examines why Chartism and other ‘urban’ movements failed to take hold in certain regions, but also how other forms of collective action, including agitation against enclosure of common land and the Swing riots of the early 1830s, show that rural areas were far from politically inactive. Luddites, Swing agitators and enclosure rioters enacted a defence of communal rights against privatisation and laissez-faire political economy. They fought for the vestiges of common rights but also the new rights of organised labour against the deskilling effects of mass capitalism in both industry and agriculture. Rural resistance involved embodied practices that transcended the divide between cultural and natural perceptions of the environment.Less
This chapter examines why Chartism and other ‘urban’ movements failed to take hold in certain regions, but also how other forms of collective action, including agitation against enclosure of common land and the Swing riots of the early 1830s, show that rural areas were far from politically inactive. Luddites, Swing agitators and enclosure rioters enacted a defence of communal rights against privatisation and laissez-faire political economy. They fought for the vestiges of common rights but also the new rights of organised labour against the deskilling effects of mass capitalism in both industry and agriculture. Rural resistance involved embodied practices that transcended the divide between cultural and natural perceptions of the environment.
Honey Meconi
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252033155
- eISBN:
- 9780252050725
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252033155.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter introduces composer Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), a polymath visionary who was the most prolific composer of plainchant and creator of the first musical “morality play.” It traces her ...
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This chapter introduces composer Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), a polymath visionary who was the most prolific composer of plainchant and creator of the first musical “morality play.” It traces her enclosure at the Disibodenberg monastery with the pious Jutta of Sponheim at the age of twelve, her leadership of a community of Benedictine nuns, the startling vision that compelled her to begin documenting her visions when she was forty-two in her book Scivias, and interactions with her confessor Volmar, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and Pope Eugenius III. Another important vision instructed her to leave Disibodenberg with her nuns and create a new community at Rupertsberg, on the Rhine River across from Bingen.Less
This chapter introduces composer Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), a polymath visionary who was the most prolific composer of plainchant and creator of the first musical “morality play.” It traces her enclosure at the Disibodenberg monastery with the pious Jutta of Sponheim at the age of twelve, her leadership of a community of Benedictine nuns, the startling vision that compelled her to begin documenting her visions when she was forty-two in her book Scivias, and interactions with her confessor Volmar, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and Pope Eugenius III. Another important vision instructed her to leave Disibodenberg with her nuns and create a new community at Rupertsberg, on the Rhine River across from Bingen.
Steven Vanderputten
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781501715945
- eISBN:
- 9781501715976
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501715945.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
This chapter looks at what the primary evidence from the period between the reforms of the early ninth century and the 920s/30s tells us about the adequacy of the common narrative of women religious' ...
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This chapter looks at what the primary evidence from the period between the reforms of the early ninth century and the 920s/30s tells us about the adequacy of the common narrative of women religious' disempowerment and descent into social and spiritual redundancy. Its aim is to take recent arguments about the risks of working with normative texts and the biased accounts of later commentators one step further, and probe, as much as is possible, realities of female religious life as they were experienced in the ninth and very early tenth centuries. It speculates on two phenomena. First, that monastic realities continued to be ‘ambiguous’ throughout the ninth century. And second, that women religious responded to growing limitations on their interactions with the outside world by reorganizing monastic space, cults of saints, and liturgical routines to underscore their community’s hstorical identity and continued relevance to society.Less
This chapter looks at what the primary evidence from the period between the reforms of the early ninth century and the 920s/30s tells us about the adequacy of the common narrative of women religious' disempowerment and descent into social and spiritual redundancy. Its aim is to take recent arguments about the risks of working with normative texts and the biased accounts of later commentators one step further, and probe, as much as is possible, realities of female religious life as they were experienced in the ninth and very early tenth centuries. It speculates on two phenomena. First, that monastic realities continued to be ‘ambiguous’ throughout the ninth century. And second, that women religious responded to growing limitations on their interactions with the outside world by reorganizing monastic space, cults of saints, and liturgical routines to underscore their community’s hstorical identity and continued relevance to society.
Jon Cogburn
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474415910
- eISBN:
- 9781474434942
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474415910.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
In Chapter III contains an explication Garcia’s model of objects as differentiators between that which they comprehend and that which comprehends them. Garcia’s model is then contrasted with other ...
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In Chapter III contains an explication Garcia’s model of objects as differentiators between that which they comprehend and that which comprehends them. Garcia’s model is then contrasted with other canonical theories in the new continental metaphysics, showing how a defining feature is the manner in which metaphysicians can be interpreted as responding to an enclosure paradox concerning metaphysical explanation. This allows the foregrounding of Garcia’s dialetheist paradoxico-metaphysics, and also one to see clearly how Garcia’s achievement should be interpreted alongside related meta-metaphysical developments by Graham Harman and Graham Priest, as well as other recent speculative philosophers such as Alain Badiou, Markus Gabriel, and Paul Livingston. In addition, it allows one to begin to appreciate the fact that Garcia is contributing to contemporary analytic metaphyics.Less
In Chapter III contains an explication Garcia’s model of objects as differentiators between that which they comprehend and that which comprehends them. Garcia’s model is then contrasted with other canonical theories in the new continental metaphysics, showing how a defining feature is the manner in which metaphysicians can be interpreted as responding to an enclosure paradox concerning metaphysical explanation. This allows the foregrounding of Garcia’s dialetheist paradoxico-metaphysics, and also one to see clearly how Garcia’s achievement should be interpreted alongside related meta-metaphysical developments by Graham Harman and Graham Priest, as well as other recent speculative philosophers such as Alain Badiou, Markus Gabriel, and Paul Livingston. In addition, it allows one to begin to appreciate the fact that Garcia is contributing to contemporary analytic metaphyics.
Sarah Houghton-Walker
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198719472
- eISBN:
- 9780191788581
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198719472.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter draws on a wide range of resources, from Parliamentary Acts (including Enclosure and Witchcraft Acts) to Old Bailey transcripts of the trial of Mary Squires and Elizabeth Canning. ...
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This chapter draws on a wide range of resources, from Parliamentary Acts (including Enclosure and Witchcraft Acts) to Old Bailey transcripts of the trial of Mary Squires and Elizabeth Canning. Surveying the cultural, social and political burdens placed upon the way of life which previously had sustained the gypsies, it establishes a context through which to read the works explored in the rest of the book. The various pressures on gypsy life considered here include (amongst others) industrialization, the decline in popular faith in alternative beliefs, and the way in which the gypsies' integral and necessary roles within the rural community are increasingly rendered obsolete. The chapter looks at texts by Mary Russell Mitford, Samuel Rogers, and John Clare, which exhibit these pressures in action, rather than attempting a straightforward history of the gypsies.Less
This chapter draws on a wide range of resources, from Parliamentary Acts (including Enclosure and Witchcraft Acts) to Old Bailey transcripts of the trial of Mary Squires and Elizabeth Canning. Surveying the cultural, social and political burdens placed upon the way of life which previously had sustained the gypsies, it establishes a context through which to read the works explored in the rest of the book. The various pressures on gypsy life considered here include (amongst others) industrialization, the decline in popular faith in alternative beliefs, and the way in which the gypsies' integral and necessary roles within the rural community are increasingly rendered obsolete. The chapter looks at texts by Mary Russell Mitford, Samuel Rogers, and John Clare, which exhibit these pressures in action, rather than attempting a straightforward history of the gypsies.
N. Fisher, N.D. Brown, and P.S. Savill
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199605187
- eISBN:
- 9780191810039
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199605187.003.0011
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology
This chapter outlines the conservation management of Wytham Woods, both past and present. It first considers the conservation management of the area before 1900 when the nation's population became ...
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This chapter outlines the conservation management of Wytham Woods, both past and present. It first considers the conservation management of the area before 1900 when the nation's population became increasingly urban and the countryside was transformed into patches of fields and hedges. It describes the Enclosure Act of 1814 which introduced new structures of land ownership and use. It then investigates twentieth-century conservation methods that added the notion of protective management of species and habitats. Next, the chapter looks into the management position held by Oxford University and their execution of the requests of the ffennell estate. It tackles some issues regarding the conflicts between research and conservation and the promotion of public access.Less
This chapter outlines the conservation management of Wytham Woods, both past and present. It first considers the conservation management of the area before 1900 when the nation's population became increasingly urban and the countryside was transformed into patches of fields and hedges. It describes the Enclosure Act of 1814 which introduced new structures of land ownership and use. It then investigates twentieth-century conservation methods that added the notion of protective management of species and habitats. Next, the chapter looks into the management position held by Oxford University and their execution of the requests of the ffennell estate. It tackles some issues regarding the conflicts between research and conservation and the promotion of public access.
