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ItemNo Preview AvailableCalendars, Clocks, and Crossings: Religious Temporalities in Medieval Middelburg(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023-09-15)
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ItemNo Preview AvailablePlastics in Australian Archives: An Industry Survey Regarding Prevalence, Condition, and Preservation Strategies(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2021-11-02)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableReimagining memorial spaces through digital technologies: A typology of CemTech(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023-11-01)Digital technologies are creating new ways for visitors to engage with cemeteries. This article presents research into the development of digital cemetery technologies, or cemtech, to understand how they are reimagining memorial spaces. Through a systematic review of examples of cemtech in online records, academic literature, patents, and trade publications, we developed a typology of cemtech according to four characteristics: application type, technical components, target users, and development status. Analysis of the application types resulted in five higher-level themes of functionality or operation-Wayfinding, Narrativizing, Presencing, Emplacing, and Repurposing-which we discuss. This typology and thematic analysis help to identify and understand the development of cemetery technology design trajectories and how they reimagine possibilities for cemetery use and experience.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableJapanese War Memory and Transnational Activism for Indonesian Survivors of Enforced Military Prostitution During World War Two(Springer Nature Singapore, 2023)Abstract In this chapter, I analyse activism relating to survivors of the so-called comfort women system, enforced military prostitution, during World War Two. The term ‘comfort women’ is highly problematic and considered offensive by many survivors, yet it continues to be the most commonly used term to describe survivors. The most well-known example of national-based activism from affected countries is the activism of the Korean Council. The second most active national group is probably ASCENT from the Philippines (Medoza, 2003). In recognition, however, of the transnational nature of activism on this issue, scholars have studied cooperation between Japanese and Korean activists and between Japanese and Chinese activists, and the role of the Korean diaspora in activism in the United States and Australia. In these studies, the authors have variously reflected on the bases of these transnational partnerships and the different positions of activists within them in relation to their national affiliations and new potential alliances that transcend the nation.
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ItemThe Maghrib before Colonialism(Routledge, 2023-11-20)Since pre-historical times, the Maghrib – today the countries of Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya – has experienced a vast array of intertwined histories and societies. Over time, its indigenous communities have had to engage with various external partners from different geographic and cultural environments that have both been influenced by and have influenced the region and each has, in consequence, contributed towards its complex contemporary domestic reality. This initial chapter, therefore, outlines those interactions within the region which set the scene for the detailed discussion that follows in subsequent chapters. The analysis it provides terminates in the 1830s, after the European imperial intervention began with the French occupation of Algeria in 1830, an intervention which has powerfully shaped the modern states of the region, both incorporating and challenging its prior historical experiences.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableEnvironmental Activism and the Fairness of Costs Argument for Uncivil Disobedience(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2023-09)Abstract Social movements often impose nontrivial costs on others against their wills. Civil disobedience is no exception. How can social movements in general, and civil disobedience in particular, be justifiable despite this apparent wrong-making feature? We examine an intuitively plausible account—it is fair that everyone should bear the burdens of tackling injustice. We extend this fairness-based argument for civil disobedience to defend some acts of uncivil disobedience. Focusing on uncivil environmental activism—such as ecotage (sabotage with the aim of protecting the environment)—we argue that some acts of uncivil disobedience can be morally superior to their civil counterparts, when and because such acts target people who are responsible for environmental threats. Indeed, insofar as some acts of uncivil disobedience can more accurately target responsible people, they can better satisfy the demands of fairness compared to their civil counterparts. In some circumstances, our argument may require activists to engage in uncivil disobedience even when civil disobedience is available.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableConservators, Creativity, and Control(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023-01-01)
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ItemOut of the madhouse: From asylums to caring community?(WILEY, 2021-07-01)The asylum era has occupied historians of madness for decades, but the story of deinstitutionalization has received comparatively less attention. While this complex process varied from country to country, there were common elements in the way it unfolded across the western world. Historians like to point out that deinstitutionalization was a long time coming, that the demise of the big public madhouses was grounded in their extraordinary expansion in the latter part of the 19th century. Even then, they had come in for scathing criticism suggesting they were inhumane and counterproductive. Public mental hospitals in the United States and some European countries began to empty soon after the Second World War, even before the new drugs arrived in the 1950s, partly driven by labor shortages that encouraged occupational rehabilitation. By then, psychiatrists and allied professionals had embraced the idea of a mental health continuum and shorter-term treatment in community-based services. The economic strains of the 1970s and 80s pushed the process along irreversibly, ensuring that longstanding critiques directly shaped social policy or served as convenient rationales.
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Item[Review of the book Psychiatrist in the Chair: The Official Biography of Anthony Clare, by Brendan Kelly and Muiris Houston](Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2021)Review of: Psychiatrist in the chair: The official biography of Anthony Clare, by Brendan Kelly and Muiris Houston, Newbridge: Merrion Press, 2020, 292 pp., AU$42.34, ISBN 9781785373299.
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Item[Review of the book Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland: Life in the Nineteenth-Century Convict Prison, by Elaine Farrell](Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2021)