John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- August 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199266579
- eISBN:
- 9780191601446
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199266573.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
The chapter is highly critical of the Wilson cabinet's failure to defend Northern Ireland's first consociational experiment, the Sunningdale Agreement, although it concedes that this agreement may ...
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The chapter is highly critical of the Wilson cabinet's failure to defend Northern Ireland's first consociational experiment, the Sunningdale Agreement, although it concedes that this agreement may have had an inevitable encounter with a coroner. It analyses the government's reaction to the 1974 strike by the Ulster Workers Council, which led to the demise of Sunningdale. The chapter also illustrates the limits of the Callaghan government's policies in Northern Ireland, including its flawed experiments in ‘Ulsterization’, ‘normalization’, and ‘criminalization’.Less
The chapter is highly critical of the Wilson cabinet's failure to defend Northern Ireland's first consociational experiment, the Sunningdale Agreement, although it concedes that this agreement may have had an inevitable encounter with a coroner. It analyses the government's reaction to the 1974 strike by the Ulster Workers Council, which led to the demise of Sunningdale. The chapter also illustrates the limits of the Callaghan government's policies in Northern Ireland, including its flawed experiments in ‘Ulsterization’, ‘normalization’, and ‘criminalization’.
Juan Manuel Garrido
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823239351
- eISBN:
- 9780823239399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823239351.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
This introductory chapter explains the main goal of this book: to define a traditional way of thinking life and to render plausible and relevant the task of carrying out a critical enquiry concerning ...
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This introductory chapter explains the main goal of this book: to define a traditional way of thinking life and to render plausible and relevant the task of carrying out a critical enquiry concerning it. Life has been traditionally understood as the self-appropriating and self-organizing process of not ceasing to be, or, as is also said, of taking care of one's own hunger. This conceptualization entails a particular understanding of time in natural processes conerning living beings and a particular conception of the being of living beings (for instance, as the “care” of not ceasing to be). It is held that the traditional concept of life has furnished the main paradigm for the concept of being, including in Heidegger's philosophy, so that the deconstruction of the traditional understanding of life entails a deconstruction of ontology. This introductory chapter includes a description of the content of the book.Less
This introductory chapter explains the main goal of this book: to define a traditional way of thinking life and to render plausible and relevant the task of carrying out a critical enquiry concerning it. Life has been traditionally understood as the self-appropriating and self-organizing process of not ceasing to be, or, as is also said, of taking care of one's own hunger. This conceptualization entails a particular understanding of time in natural processes conerning living beings and a particular conception of the being of living beings (for instance, as the “care” of not ceasing to be). It is held that the traditional concept of life has furnished the main paradigm for the concept of being, including in Heidegger's philosophy, so that the deconstruction of the traditional understanding of life entails a deconstruction of ontology. This introductory chapter includes a description of the content of the book.
Alan Gillis
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199277094
- eISBN:
- 9780191707483
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199277094.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This chapter compares and contrasts Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger with Austin Clarke’s Night and Morning. It explores the manner in which Kavanagh vandalizes stereotypes of rural Ireland and ...
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This chapter compares and contrasts Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger with Austin Clarke’s Night and Morning. It explores the manner in which Kavanagh vandalizes stereotypes of rural Ireland and pastoral poetry, and focuses on central paradoxes of the poem. It argues that The Great Hunger is a savage indictment of a certain form of Romanticism, but is also deeply in thrall to it. It then moves to consider the poem as a highly sophisticated play upon multiple perspectives and tropes, arguing that this ironic sophistication constitutes the crux of its significance. The chapter then discusses the early ‘Irish mode’ of Austin Clarke, and examines Samuel Beckett’s critique of it. Similar to Kavanagh’s, Clarke’s poetry is found to be in thrall to that which it purportedly attacks — in this case, a form of conservative nationalism. A further discussion examines how such figurative similarities between the two poets create sharp differentiations in terms of style and political tenor.Less
This chapter compares and contrasts Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger with Austin Clarke’s Night and Morning. It explores the manner in which Kavanagh vandalizes stereotypes of rural Ireland and pastoral poetry, and focuses on central paradoxes of the poem. It argues that The Great Hunger is a savage indictment of a certain form of Romanticism, but is also deeply in thrall to it. It then moves to consider the poem as a highly sophisticated play upon multiple perspectives and tropes, arguing that this ironic sophistication constitutes the crux of its significance. The chapter then discusses the early ‘Irish mode’ of Austin Clarke, and examines Samuel Beckett’s critique of it. Similar to Kavanagh’s, Clarke’s poetry is found to be in thrall to that which it purportedly attacks — in this case, a form of conservative nationalism. A further discussion examines how such figurative similarities between the two poets create sharp differentiations in terms of style and political tenor.
Jean Drèze
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198833468
- eISBN:
- 9780191871900
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198833468.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
The last twenty years have been a time of intense public debates on social policy in India. There have also been major initiatives, such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, as well as ...
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The last twenty years have been a time of intense public debates on social policy in India. There have also been major initiatives, such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, as well as resilient inertia in some fields. This book brings together some of Jean Drèze's contributions to these debates, along with other short essays on social development. The essays span the gamut of critical social policies, from education and health to poverty, nutrition, child care, corruption, employment, and social security. There are also less predictable topics such as the caste system, corporate power, nuclear disarmament, the Gujarat model, the Kashmir conflict, and universal basic income. The book aims at enlarging the boundaries of social development, towards a broad concern with the sort of society we want to create. The concluding essay, on public-spiritedness and solidarity, argues that the cultivation of enlightened social norms is an integral part of development. "Jholawala" has become a disparaging term for activists in the Indian business media. This book affirms the learning value of collective action combined with sound economic analysis. In his detailed introduction, the author argues for an approach to development economics where research and action are complementary and interconnected.Less
The last twenty years have been a time of intense public debates on social policy in India. There have also been major initiatives, such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, as well as resilient inertia in some fields. This book brings together some of Jean Drèze's contributions to these debates, along with other short essays on social development. The essays span the gamut of critical social policies, from education and health to poverty, nutrition, child care, corruption, employment, and social security. There are also less predictable topics such as the caste system, corporate power, nuclear disarmament, the Gujarat model, the Kashmir conflict, and universal basic income. The book aims at enlarging the boundaries of social development, towards a broad concern with the sort of society we want to create. The concluding essay, on public-spiritedness and solidarity, argues that the cultivation of enlightened social norms is an integral part of development. "Jholawala" has become a disparaging term for activists in the Indian business media. This book affirms the learning value of collective action combined with sound economic analysis. In his detailed introduction, the author argues for an approach to development economics where research and action are complementary and interconnected.
Victoria E. Ott (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469643205
- eISBN:
- 9781469643229
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469643205.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
The plain folk of Alabama who supported the Confederacy used household objects to craft a new identity. To express that identity, they made military uniforms and supplied foodstuffs for soldiers. But ...
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The plain folk of Alabama who supported the Confederacy used household objects to craft a new identity. To express that identity, they made military uniforms and supplied foodstuffs for soldiers. But the war’s deprivations undermined the household and made many non-elite whites lose faith in the Confederacy.Less
The plain folk of Alabama who supported the Confederacy used household objects to craft a new identity. To express that identity, they made military uniforms and supplied foodstuffs for soldiers. But the war’s deprivations undermined the household and made many non-elite whites lose faith in the Confederacy.
Juan Manuel Garrido
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823239351
- eISBN:
- 9780823239399
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823239351.003.0011
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
This chapter analyzes the political signification of the idea of life as hunger and engages the deconstruction of “the soveignty of life.” The chapter interprets the meaning of “protection” in ...
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This chapter analyzes the political signification of the idea of life as hunger and engages the deconstruction of “the soveignty of life.” The chapter interprets the meaning of “protection” in Hobbes' Leviathan in relation to the motif of jus necessitatis (the right to be excepted from the criminal law insofar as the imputed deeds are committed for the sake of one's own survival or the integrity of one's own living body). Because life refers to the structural incompleteness of living beings (hunger), any principle concerning the “sovereignty” of life is intrinsically aporetical. In contrast, the affirmation of life as hunger leads to the interruption of “sovereignty,” of any “right” whatsoever over life and of any “property” concerning one's own living body.Less
This chapter analyzes the political signification of the idea of life as hunger and engages the deconstruction of “the soveignty of life.” The chapter interprets the meaning of “protection” in Hobbes' Leviathan in relation to the motif of jus necessitatis (the right to be excepted from the criminal law insofar as the imputed deeds are committed for the sake of one's own survival or the integrity of one's own living body). Because life refers to the structural incompleteness of living beings (hunger), any principle concerning the “sovereignty” of life is intrinsically aporetical. In contrast, the affirmation of life as hunger leads to the interruption of “sovereignty,” of any “right” whatsoever over life and of any “property” concerning one's own living body.
John Orr
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748640140
- eISBN:
- 9780748671090
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748640140.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book examines the neglected relationship between romanticism and modernism in British cinema from 1929 to the present day. Encompassing a broad selection of films, filmmakers and debates, it ...
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This book examines the neglected relationship between romanticism and modernism in British cinema from 1929 to the present day. Encompassing a broad selection of films, filmmakers and debates, it brings a new perspective to how scholars might understand and interrogate the major traditions that have shaped Britain's cinema history. The book identifies two prominent genres in the British template that often go unrecognised, the fugitive film and the trauma film, whose narratives have bridged the gap between romantic and modern forms. Here Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Ian Powell, Carol Reed and Robert Hamer are identified as key romantics; Nicolas Roeg, Joseph Losey, Michelangelo Antonioni, Stanley Kubrick and Jerzy Skolimowski as later modernists. The book goes on to assess the narrowing divide through the films of Terence Davies and Bill Douglas, and concludes by analysing its persistence in the new century, in the prize-winning features Control and Hunger.Less
This book examines the neglected relationship between romanticism and modernism in British cinema from 1929 to the present day. Encompassing a broad selection of films, filmmakers and debates, it brings a new perspective to how scholars might understand and interrogate the major traditions that have shaped Britain's cinema history. The book identifies two prominent genres in the British template that often go unrecognised, the fugitive film and the trauma film, whose narratives have bridged the gap between romantic and modern forms. Here Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Ian Powell, Carol Reed and Robert Hamer are identified as key romantics; Nicolas Roeg, Joseph Losey, Michelangelo Antonioni, Stanley Kubrick and Jerzy Skolimowski as later modernists. The book goes on to assess the narrowing divide through the films of Terence Davies and Bill Douglas, and concludes by analysing its persistence in the new century, in the prize-winning features Control and Hunger.
John Orr
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748640140
- eISBN:
- 9780748671090
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748640140.003.0010
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
One of the striking features of the new century is that three major British films as of June 2009 were identical in two ways. All three are biopics and all are debut features by visual artists who ...
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One of the striking features of the new century is that three major British films as of June 2009 were identical in two ways. All three are biopics and all are debut features by visual artists who have come from outside cinema. They are Douglas Gordon's Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait (2006), Anton Corbijn's Control (2007), and Steve McQueen's Hunger (2008). Control and Hunger are less experimental, but more ambitious, than Zidane. In revisiting the divide and crossover between romanticism and modernism, this chapter looks at Hunger and Control and especially the way in which their contrasting nature shows the legacy of both romantic and modernist forms. They are biopics of the same period, the start of the 1980s when the modernist period of cinema in Britain was coming to a close. They have real-life protagonists who both killed themselves. Control reworks through Joy Division singer Ian Curtis the mythos of the doomed young artist, and Hunger through Bobby Sands, the Irish Republican Army hunger striker.Less
One of the striking features of the new century is that three major British films as of June 2009 were identical in two ways. All three are biopics and all are debut features by visual artists who have come from outside cinema. They are Douglas Gordon's Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait (2006), Anton Corbijn's Control (2007), and Steve McQueen's Hunger (2008). Control and Hunger are less experimental, but more ambitious, than Zidane. In revisiting the divide and crossover between romanticism and modernism, this chapter looks at Hunger and Control and especially the way in which their contrasting nature shows the legacy of both romantic and modernist forms. They are biopics of the same period, the start of the 1980s when the modernist period of cinema in Britain was coming to a close. They have real-life protagonists who both killed themselves. Control reworks through Joy Division singer Ian Curtis the mythos of the doomed young artist, and Hunger through Bobby Sands, the Irish Republican Army hunger striker.
Rhonda V. Wilcox
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781496808714
- eISBN:
- 9781496808752
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496808714.003.0012
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Rhonda V. Wilcox’s “Forced Glory: Katniss Everdeen, Bella Swan, and Varieties of Virginity” contrasts Twilight’s Bella Swan and The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen. There are many parallels between ...
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Rhonda V. Wilcox’s “Forced Glory: Katniss Everdeen, Bella Swan, and Varieties of Virginity” contrasts Twilight’s Bella Swan and The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen. There are many parallels between the characters, from triumph despite low self-esteem within a first-person narrative to being forced to wear elaborate outfits that serve as signs of power. In early repudiation of marriage and the mother, they reflect the pattern of independence illustrated in Janice Radway’s conceptualization of the romance heroine. Virginity is also central to this pattern, where mental impermeability offers a metaphoric echo. Ultimately, where the characters most differ is in agency. Bella’s protection from (mental) penetration is an inborn ability that helps assimilate her into patriarchy. By contrast, Katniss pretends to have sex while being able to choose virginity. She purposefully and much later chooses procreation, while Bella and Edward assert that in their love, they had no choice.Less
Rhonda V. Wilcox’s “Forced Glory: Katniss Everdeen, Bella Swan, and Varieties of Virginity” contrasts Twilight’s Bella Swan and The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen. There are many parallels between the characters, from triumph despite low self-esteem within a first-person narrative to being forced to wear elaborate outfits that serve as signs of power. In early repudiation of marriage and the mother, they reflect the pattern of independence illustrated in Janice Radway’s conceptualization of the romance heroine. Virginity is also central to this pattern, where mental impermeability offers a metaphoric echo. Ultimately, where the characters most differ is in agency. Bella’s protection from (mental) penetration is an inborn ability that helps assimilate her into patriarchy. By contrast, Katniss pretends to have sex while being able to choose virginity. She purposefully and much later chooses procreation, while Bella and Edward assert that in their love, they had no choice.
Grant Farred
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781628462425
- eISBN:
- 9781626746985
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628462425.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter talks about how Eric Williams’ failure at Chaguaramas, Trinidad, in 1975 marked a “triple failure” because it was at this moment that federalist dreams were destroyed, protonationalist ...
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This chapter talks about how Eric Williams’ failure at Chaguaramas, Trinidad, in 1975 marked a “triple failure” because it was at this moment that federalist dreams were destroyed, protonationalist sovereignty was negotiated and compromised, and postcolonial history was unaccounted and silenced. Continuing this critique, the chapter compares elements of Williams’ autobiography, Inward Hunger, with aspects of postcolonial history. This questioning of an autobiography falls within the bounds of postmodern inquiry, where genres blur and understandings of the past shift. The chapter then considers the tensions between Williams as historian-scholar and as “First Citizen,” or “Citizen Maximus,” of an emergent postindependent nation.Less
This chapter talks about how Eric Williams’ failure at Chaguaramas, Trinidad, in 1975 marked a “triple failure” because it was at this moment that federalist dreams were destroyed, protonationalist sovereignty was negotiated and compromised, and postcolonial history was unaccounted and silenced. Continuing this critique, the chapter compares elements of Williams’ autobiography, Inward Hunger, with aspects of postcolonial history. This questioning of an autobiography falls within the bounds of postmodern inquiry, where genres blur and understandings of the past shift. The chapter then considers the tensions between Williams as historian-scholar and as “First Citizen,” or “Citizen Maximus,” of an emergent postindependent nation.
Amaleena Damlé
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780748668212
- eISBN:
- 9781474400923
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748668212.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This chapter explores hunger and the anorexic body in Amélie Nothomb’s autofictional work. It analyses relations between hunger, desire and pleasure, sensation and immanence, investigates the making ...
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This chapter explores hunger and the anorexic body in Amélie Nothomb’s autofictional work. It analyses relations between hunger, desire and pleasure, sensation and immanence, investigates the making of a Deleuzian Body without Organs through the dematerialisating structures of anorexia, and opens out the possibility of the rematerialisation of the body alongside literary experimentation with corporeality. The chapter shows how Nothomb’s work both resonates with and reorients Deleuze’s thinking, with particular regard to notions of molarity, to the politics of beauty and illness, to experiments with body and art, and to the location of the limit.Less
This chapter explores hunger and the anorexic body in Amélie Nothomb’s autofictional work. It analyses relations between hunger, desire and pleasure, sensation and immanence, investigates the making of a Deleuzian Body without Organs through the dematerialisating structures of anorexia, and opens out the possibility of the rematerialisation of the body alongside literary experimentation with corporeality. The chapter shows how Nothomb’s work both resonates with and reorients Deleuze’s thinking, with particular regard to notions of molarity, to the politics of beauty and illness, to experiments with body and art, and to the location of the limit.
Debbie Z. Harwell
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781628460957
- eISBN:
- 9781626740556
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628460957.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Chapter Six explains how WIMS evolved into a professional exchange in 1965, sending interracial, interfaith teams of teachers, psychologists, librarians, and others and paired them with southern ...
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Chapter Six explains how WIMS evolved into a professional exchange in 1965, sending interracial, interfaith teams of teachers, psychologists, librarians, and others and paired them with southern professional women. It discusses WIMS’s work with Head Start, the University of Mississippi Summer Institute, Pax Christi, and the Philadelphia to Philadelphia Project. It also explores how the WIMS teams continued working woman-to-woman, using their gender, age, and class to open doors closed to radicals. In 1966, Wednesdays in Mississippi became Workshops in Mississippi, a need-based initiative that addressed hunger, housing, education, and unemployment, and empowered local women by teaching them how to write grant proposals to obtain government assistance. This section focuses on two long-term initiatives to grow out of WIMS, Operation Daily Bread and Turnkey III, a housing program still in effect that enables low income families to become homeowners. Lastly, it explores the impact of the Black Power movement.Less
Chapter Six explains how WIMS evolved into a professional exchange in 1965, sending interracial, interfaith teams of teachers, psychologists, librarians, and others and paired them with southern professional women. It discusses WIMS’s work with Head Start, the University of Mississippi Summer Institute, Pax Christi, and the Philadelphia to Philadelphia Project. It also explores how the WIMS teams continued working woman-to-woman, using their gender, age, and class to open doors closed to radicals. In 1966, Wednesdays in Mississippi became Workshops in Mississippi, a need-based initiative that addressed hunger, housing, education, and unemployment, and empowered local women by teaching them how to write grant proposals to obtain government assistance. This section focuses on two long-term initiatives to grow out of WIMS, Operation Daily Bread and Turnkey III, a housing program still in effect that enables low income families to become homeowners. Lastly, it explores the impact of the Black Power movement.
Emily L. Hiltz
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781496806444
- eISBN:
- 9781496806482
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496806444.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This essay examines Suzanne Collins’s monstrous “mutts” in her phenomenally popular series The Hunger Games. Hiltz is especially interested in Collins’s characterization of human-animal hybrids, ...
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This essay examines Suzanne Collins’s monstrous “mutts” in her phenomenally popular series The Hunger Games. Hiltz is especially interested in Collins’s characterization of human-animal hybrids, investigating the relationship between the political commentary at work in the novels and these “monsters,” from the half-wolf, half-humans that nearly overtake Katniss at the Cornucopia in the first novel to the lizard-humans whispering her name throughout the viaducts beneath the city in the last. Hiltz focuses on the mutts as abject creatures, demonstrating the ways in which these uncanny monsters, quite literally making the familiar strange, are at once metaphors for the political control exerted by the Capitol, the rebels’ resistance to the Capitol’s power, and the disruption of natural order. She also concentrates on Katniss and Peeta muttations, each of them reformed by warring entities in service of “the greater good.” Most importantly, Hiltz emphasizes that Collins’s mutts are designed to demonstrate the fine and wavering line between good and evil, calling into question the nature of monstrosity, especially as it relates to human behavior. Her location of monstrosity in the protagonists themselves especially offers a new way of thinking about teen dystopic novels that engage horror as a means of conveying identities assaulted by external forces.Less
This essay examines Suzanne Collins’s monstrous “mutts” in her phenomenally popular series The Hunger Games. Hiltz is especially interested in Collins’s characterization of human-animal hybrids, investigating the relationship between the political commentary at work in the novels and these “monsters,” from the half-wolf, half-humans that nearly overtake Katniss at the Cornucopia in the first novel to the lizard-humans whispering her name throughout the viaducts beneath the city in the last. Hiltz focuses on the mutts as abject creatures, demonstrating the ways in which these uncanny monsters, quite literally making the familiar strange, are at once metaphors for the political control exerted by the Capitol, the rebels’ resistance to the Capitol’s power, and the disruption of natural order. She also concentrates on Katniss and Peeta muttations, each of them reformed by warring entities in service of “the greater good.” Most importantly, Hiltz emphasizes that Collins’s mutts are designed to demonstrate the fine and wavering line between good and evil, calling into question the nature of monstrosity, especially as it relates to human behavior. Her location of monstrosity in the protagonists themselves especially offers a new way of thinking about teen dystopic novels that engage horror as a means of conveying identities assaulted by external forces.
Nayan Shah
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479845194
- eISBN:
- 9781479846306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479845194.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
This essay explores the tension between state practices of biocitizenship that champion human vitality and health and the state’s exercise of bodily violence. This tension erupts sharply in grappling ...
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This essay explores the tension between state practices of biocitizenship that champion human vitality and health and the state’s exercise of bodily violence. This tension erupts sharply in grappling with the imperatives and crisis of forcible feeding of hunger strikers that are incarcerated or detained indefinitely. Forcible feeding transforms the bodies of hunger strikers into dependents and makes such techniques more acceptable to concerned audiences. Yet this is also an exercise of state sovereign power through the exercise of biopolitics on subjects produced not as liberal subjects of consent or economic subjects of rationality, but as a population of dependents who must be managed. This essay examines the imperatives and contradictions of biocitizenship and biosecurity through the debates over forcible feeding of hunger strikers in Guantanamo, Israel, U.S and Australian immigrant detention facilities.Less
This essay explores the tension between state practices of biocitizenship that champion human vitality and health and the state’s exercise of bodily violence. This tension erupts sharply in grappling with the imperatives and crisis of forcible feeding of hunger strikers that are incarcerated or detained indefinitely. Forcible feeding transforms the bodies of hunger strikers into dependents and makes such techniques more acceptable to concerned audiences. Yet this is also an exercise of state sovereign power through the exercise of biopolitics on subjects produced not as liberal subjects of consent or economic subjects of rationality, but as a population of dependents who must be managed. This essay examines the imperatives and contradictions of biocitizenship and biosecurity through the debates over forcible feeding of hunger strikers in Guantanamo, Israel, U.S and Australian immigrant detention facilities.
Robert J. Savage
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719087332
- eISBN:
- 9781781708804
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719087332.003.0006
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Television
This chapter looks at the very difficult relationship between Margaret Thatcher and the BBC from 1979 to the introduction of the broadcasting ban in 1988. It addresses how the assassination of Airey ...
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This chapter looks at the very difficult relationship between Margaret Thatcher and the BBC from 1979 to the introduction of the broadcasting ban in 1988. It addresses how the assassination of Airey Neave and Lord Louis Mountbatten influenced coverage of Northern Ireland from the very start of this period through the 1980s. Interviews with the INLA and un-transmitted BBC film of an IRA unit in County Tyrone caused tremendous controversy. The chapter considers the 1981 Hunger Strikes and the controversy that developed due to coverage that was afforded by television news and current affairs programming. The BBC continued to offer critical and informative news and current affairs programming about the Northern Ireland conflict provoking the Thatcher Government to begin appointing its supporters to the BBC Board of Governors. The government decided to introduce formal censorship after a series of controversial programmes and news reports were featured on television. The chapter concludes with the decision to introduce the broadcasting ban in 1988.Less
This chapter looks at the very difficult relationship between Margaret Thatcher and the BBC from 1979 to the introduction of the broadcasting ban in 1988. It addresses how the assassination of Airey Neave and Lord Louis Mountbatten influenced coverage of Northern Ireland from the very start of this period through the 1980s. Interviews with the INLA and un-transmitted BBC film of an IRA unit in County Tyrone caused tremendous controversy. The chapter considers the 1981 Hunger Strikes and the controversy that developed due to coverage that was afforded by television news and current affairs programming. The BBC continued to offer critical and informative news and current affairs programming about the Northern Ireland conflict provoking the Thatcher Government to begin appointing its supporters to the BBC Board of Governors. The government decided to introduce formal censorship after a series of controversial programmes and news reports were featured on television. The chapter concludes with the decision to introduce the broadcasting ban in 1988.
Matthew Whiting
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474420549
- eISBN:
- 9781474445146
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420549.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This chapter traces how electoral participation contributed to the moderation of republicanism. It argues that liberal democratic elections simply do not allow for revolution. The decision by Irish ...
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This chapter traces how electoral participation contributed to the moderation of republicanism. It argues that liberal democratic elections simply do not allow for revolution. The decision by Irish republicans to participate in elections in 1981 was a critical juncture. The path it chose pushed the movement in an increasingly moderate direction, moving away from parallel states and outright rejection in favour of ambivalent electoral participation. Once this path was chosen republicans became locked-in, resulting in republicans fractionalising their long-term goal into short-term aims, courting voters beyond their core supporters, increasing engagement with ruling institutions, and using the existing system rather than trying to overthrow it. This electoral direction was later reinforced by the power-sharing arrangements which brought republicans into government. Moderation occurred in spite of republicans rejecting the legitimacy of the electoral institutions in which they were now competing. Electoral participation was a rational choice by republicans to pursue their goals through a new means in the hope of avoiding marginalisation. Less
This chapter traces how electoral participation contributed to the moderation of republicanism. It argues that liberal democratic elections simply do not allow for revolution. The decision by Irish republicans to participate in elections in 1981 was a critical juncture. The path it chose pushed the movement in an increasingly moderate direction, moving away from parallel states and outright rejection in favour of ambivalent electoral participation. Once this path was chosen republicans became locked-in, resulting in republicans fractionalising their long-term goal into short-term aims, courting voters beyond their core supporters, increasing engagement with ruling institutions, and using the existing system rather than trying to overthrow it. This electoral direction was later reinforced by the power-sharing arrangements which brought republicans into government. Moderation occurred in spite of republicans rejecting the legitimacy of the electoral institutions in which they were now competing. Electoral participation was a rational choice by republicans to pursue their goals through a new means in the hope of avoiding marginalisation.
Kathryn Lofton
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226481937
- eISBN:
- 9780226482125
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226482125.003.0013
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
The book's conclusion argues that the commodification of the family is at the heart of the consumer culture of religion. In order to resist the hold of consumer life, the family must be reimagined as ...
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The book's conclusion argues that the commodification of the family is at the heart of the consumer culture of religion. In order to resist the hold of consumer life, the family must be reimagined as an assumed structure of economic, social, and ethical dependence.Less
The book's conclusion argues that the commodification of the family is at the heart of the consumer culture of religion. In order to resist the hold of consumer life, the family must be reimagined as an assumed structure of economic, social, and ethical dependence.
Polly Dickson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781474417532
- eISBN:
- 9781474426916
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417532.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
This article offers a reading of Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘Bliss’ alongside Maud Ellman’s psychoanalytical readings of hunger and Sara Ahmed’s ‘queer phenomenology’. It suggests that in ...
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This article offers a reading of Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘Bliss’ alongside Maud Ellman’s psychoanalytical readings of hunger and Sara Ahmed’s ‘queer phenomenology’. It suggests that in ‘Bliss’, the main character Bertha, imprisoned in her domestic setting, yearns for an alternative or ‘queer’ mode of existence. This desire is articulated at one of Bertha’s dinner parties in the figure of the guest Pearl, but in the very moment in which it seems to be fulfilled, it is again stifled by the re-iteration of prescribed domestic practices. Such hunger is described, then, in the very terms by which is satisfaction is denied: after her dinner party, Bertha is left only hungrier.Less
This article offers a reading of Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘Bliss’ alongside Maud Ellman’s psychoanalytical readings of hunger and Sara Ahmed’s ‘queer phenomenology’. It suggests that in ‘Bliss’, the main character Bertha, imprisoned in her domestic setting, yearns for an alternative or ‘queer’ mode of existence. This desire is articulated at one of Bertha’s dinner parties in the figure of the guest Pearl, but in the very moment in which it seems to be fulfilled, it is again stifled by the re-iteration of prescribed domestic practices. Such hunger is described, then, in the very terms by which is satisfaction is denied: after her dinner party, Bertha is left only hungrier.
Kathleen Frederickson
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823262519
- eISBN:
- 9780823266395
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823262519.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
In a move that reflects instinct’s position in civilization more generally, the rational citizen was sometimes the binary counterpart to the instinctive woman and sometimes a figure endowed with his ...
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In a move that reflects instinct’s position in civilization more generally, the rational citizen was sometimes the binary counterpart to the instinctive woman and sometimes a figure endowed with his own set of instincts that were different and ideally complementary to those of women. The suffragette hunger strikes tackled both of these positions simultaneously. Hunger helped define the models through which sexuating instincts—believed to occur phylogenetically later—could be shaped. As suffragettes mobilized the concept of the strike, they suggested that their instincts should be understood as forms of labor, a fact that implied a critique of the way that the sexual division of labor had become newly scripted as an instinct-based discourse of sexual difference. By reading suffrage literature by Christabel Pankhurst, Constance Lytton, and Constance Maud alongside the emerging literature on suicide, anorexia, and the birth-rate panic, the chapter investigates the mediations between the instinctive citizen and the instinctive woman.Less
In a move that reflects instinct’s position in civilization more generally, the rational citizen was sometimes the binary counterpart to the instinctive woman and sometimes a figure endowed with his own set of instincts that were different and ideally complementary to those of women. The suffragette hunger strikes tackled both of these positions simultaneously. Hunger helped define the models through which sexuating instincts—believed to occur phylogenetically later—could be shaped. As suffragettes mobilized the concept of the strike, they suggested that their instincts should be understood as forms of labor, a fact that implied a critique of the way that the sexual division of labor had become newly scripted as an instinct-based discourse of sexual difference. By reading suffrage literature by Christabel Pankhurst, Constance Lytton, and Constance Maud alongside the emerging literature on suicide, anorexia, and the birth-rate panic, the chapter investigates the mediations between the instinctive citizen and the instinctive woman.
Mihai Varga
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719091124
- eISBN:
- 9781781707777
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719091124.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy
Workers and trade unions in Chapter 5 fight for the survival of plants and maintenance of jobs. In their case, employers attempted to close down plants (entirely or most of the plant) and sell assets ...
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Workers and trade unions in Chapter 5 fight for the survival of plants and maintenance of jobs. In their case, employers attempted to close down plants (entirely or most of the plant) and sell assets rather than invest in production. Conflict then takes workers out of their plants and into the streets, fighting employers and authorities with road blocks, occupations of plants and of state buildings, and mobilizing local communities in their support through hunger strikes and marches.Less
Workers and trade unions in Chapter 5 fight for the survival of plants and maintenance of jobs. In their case, employers attempted to close down plants (entirely or most of the plant) and sell assets rather than invest in production. Conflict then takes workers out of their plants and into the streets, fighting employers and authorities with road blocks, occupations of plants and of state buildings, and mobilizing local communities in their support through hunger strikes and marches.
