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- Macmillan, Fiona
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Heritage, Imperialism and Commodification: How the West Can Always do it best
- 2017
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Ingår i: Europa Ethnica. - 0014-2492. ; 74:3/4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The standard discourse around the destruction of cultural heritage is largely confined to a concern about the physical destruction of monumental, and thus immoveable, objects and is almost exclusively about tangible things. Because conceiving of cultural heritage as being mainly tangible and monumental has a strongly Western flavour this also means that this discourse is imbricated with an “us and them”, West and the rest, flavour. In the current geo-political situation, understanding the destruction of cultural heritage in these terms focuses upon motivations for destruction that are broadly political and/or indicate the absence of acceptable (Western) values. In this article, I argue that the notion of the destruction of cultural heritage should, rather, be focussed on situations where the inherent nature of something as heritage is destroyed. Such a concept might very well include the dynamiting of ancient sites, but my argument is that it is much broader. In order to sustain this argument the article reflects on the inherent nature of heritage, movable and immovable, tangible and intangible. The article then moves on to suggest an alternative vision of the destruction of cultural heritage that is rooted, not in some epochal clash between the West and the rest, but rather in the geo-political movements and legal ordering that have emerged in the post-colonial period.
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- Pinheiro Astone, Daniel Augusto, 1986-
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Living as a commodity : Law, exploitation and the trade on human lives
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation investigates the role of the law in affording the conditions of possibility for exploitation to install and reproduce itself in the context of contemporary capitalism. It engages with the dialectical incompossibility of some of the key normative assumptions embedded in the law and the economy vis-à-vis their phenomenological consequences. With support from Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory, the dissertation relies on two main examples – patents on essential medicines and labour exploitation – to examine the tension between expropriation and accumulation. It advances the novel concept of “ablegality” as a register for the remainder that every phenomenological-hermeneutic operation will inevitably generate as the potentiality that accompanies all phenomenological reduction. The principal contribution made through this dissertation lies in articulating the role of the invisibilised side of legal operations as drivers for exploitation and, ultimately, for injustice to manifest legally.
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- Sim, Fiona, et al.
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Language and social/emotional problems identified at a universal developmental assessment at 30 months.
- 2013
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Ingår i: BMC pediatrics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1471-2431. ; 13:206
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background Preschool language and neurodevelopmental problems often persist and impe de learning. The aims of the current study are to assess the uptake of a new univer sal 30 month health visitor contact and to quantify the prevalence of language delay and social/emotional dif ficulties. Methods All families of 30 month old children in four Glasgow localities were offered a visit from their health visitor. Structured data were collected relating t o language, social and emotional development using three instruments; The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), the abbreviated Sure Start Language Measure and a two-item language s creen. Results From an eligible population of 543 children, there was a 90% return rat e of contact forms from the health visitors, and assessments were completed on 78% of e ligible children. Visit completion rates did not differ significantly by socio-economic st atus. 3-8% of children were reported to have language delay depending on the method of asses sment. 8.8% of children scored in the “abnormal” range of SDQ total difficulties scores and 31.1% had an abnormality in at least one subscale. There was substantial over lap between language delay and abnormal scores on the SDQ. Conclusions Universal assessment of neurodevelopmental function at 30 months identifi ed a significant proportion of children, including those previously considered at low risk, wit h both language and social/emotional difficulties. Further work is required to asses s the precise nature of these difficulties and to assess the potential impact on services.
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