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ItemNo Preview AvailableCalendars, Clocks, and Crossings: Religious Temporalities in Medieval Middelburg(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023-01-01)
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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 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 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)
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ItemThe Irish Women's Liberation Movement in Dublin during the mid-1970s(Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2021)The international movement known at the time as women’s liberation—later called second-wave feminism—emerged in Ireland at the beginning of the 1970s. The feminist activist and scholar, Ailbhe Smyth, has divided the Irish Republic’s women’s movement during that decade into three phases: mobilisation 1970–74; radicalisation 1975–7; and consolidation 1977–83.1 But these phases by no means capture the full diversity of the all-Ireland movement at the time. Experiences differed as between, for example, North and South, town and country, middle- and working-class women, gay and straight women, and those who wanted an autonomous women’s movement as opposed to those who sought to tie feminism to republicanism. Smyth’s phases do highlight the movement’s initial volatility though. Groups and campaigns came and went in rapid succession, before a degree of stability emerged towards the end of the decade.
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ItemForgetting and remembering the Irish famine orphans: A critical survey(Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2020)A decade ago, while researching family history, Richard Olive of Melbourne was pleased to discover shipping records that revealed his great-grandmother, Johanna Sullivan from County Cork, had arrived in Adelaide in September 1849 on the Elgin. Noticing that she was only 15 years old, he began to search the records for her parents, only to find, to his surprise, that all the 190 passengers on the ship were teenage girls. As Richard drove his granddaughter, Eva, home from school that afternoon, he told her about his discovery. She asked him in what year Joanna Sullivan had arrived and, when he replied '1849', they both quickly realised that this was during the Great Famine. Eva said: 'Sounds to me like she was an Earl Grey orphan'. But, although Richard knew his Australian history well, he had never heard of Earl Grey-beyond it being a type of tea. Eva told him that she had come across the Earl Grey orphans in a novel she had recently read: 'Bridie's Fire', written by Kirsty Murray and published in Sydney in 2003.