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Dialectics of Sin: snokhachestvo Incest in Maxim Gorky's Fiction
(2021)My present investigation focuses on the work of another celebrated classic of Russian literature, Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), whose contribution to thinking about sin/crime in relation to the workings of the Russian family ... -
A Cinderella effect in the childcare assistance provided by European grandparents.
(2021)Survey data from 36,771 European grandparents were analyzed with respect to childcare assistance that interviewees provided to their birth children versus stepchildren. Interviewees with current partners provided far more ... -
The Press Bureau, ‘D’ Notices, and Official Control of the British Press's Record of the First World War
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021)Concerns about fake news and media manipulation are commonplace in contemporary society, and, throughout the twentieth century, historians regularly presented the First World War as an era of manipulated public messages. ... -
Grandparental partnership status and its effects on caring for grandchildren in Europe
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021)Grandparents are important childcare providers, but grandparental relationship status matters. According to several studies, caregiving is reduced after grandparental divorce, but differential responses by grandmothers ... -
Asexuals negotiate the 'onslaught of the heteronormative'
(2021)Although theorising and research about asexuality have increased in the past decade, there has been minimal attention given to the emotional impact that living in a hetero- and amatonormative cultural context has on those ... -
Young people and environmental affordances in urban sustainable development: insights into transport and green and public space in seven cities
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020)Background Cities are at the fore of sustainability challenges of the twenty-first century, and many, particularly in Asia and Africa, are predominantly youthful spaces. Understanding young people’s experiences in urban ... -
“It’s about the most needy children”: A Foucauldian analysis of school social workers’ responses to need in post-earthquake Canterbury
(2020)INTRODUCTION: After the 2011 Canterbury earthquake, the provision of school social work was extended into a larger number of schools in the greater Christchurch region to support discussions of their practice priorities ... -
Defence Diplomacy: Battling for the Heart of the Pacific
(2020)As the Pacific region has become more strategically contested, regional powers have intensified their use of defence diplomacy. As a result, the number and scale of military Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief ... -
Was 2016 a Realigning Election in Taiwan?
(University of California Press, 2020)<jats:p>The January 2016 presidential and legislative elections in Taiwan produced a dramatic and unprecedented victory for the Democratic Progressive Party over its long-time rival, the Kuomintang. The party had never had ... -
Safety in Numbers: Taiwan in a post-Trump World
(Taiwan Studies Programme, University of Nottingham, 2020)It is important to be reminded that US-Taiwan relations is built on the foundation of an American law – the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 (TRA). This is a unique law as it defines the United States’ multifaceted comm ... -
Integrated social protection, inequity and COVID-19: rethinking Pacific community responses in Aotearoa
(Informa UK Limited, 2021)COVID-19 has forced us to think critically about alternative global and local response strategies to the unprecedented devastation. Some of the most infected groups are Pacific communities and this has raised concern about ... -
Bilateral relations in the Western Balkans as a challenge for EU accession
(2021)Although the European Union pledges to ‘maintain [and reaffirm] the credible enlargement perspective for the Western Balkans,’ (European Commission, 2018), some of the new requirements which it demands the Western Balkan ... -
A pacifist ethos for the Responsibility to Protect: detaching prevention from intervention
(2017)The Responsibility to Protect (R2P), as a project intended to avert or end mass atrocities, incorporates both preventative and interventionist dimensions. This article begins with an overview of the place of prevention ... -
Ethnic media and multi-dimensional identity: Pacific audiences’ connections with Māori media
(2020)This study explores issues of identity, hybridity and media in an Aotearoa/New Zealand context by analysing Pacific audiences’ affinity for and use of Indigenous Māori media. It makes the case for broadening ethnic ... -
Why Humanitarianism Needs a Pacifist Ethos
(2020)Debates concerning the relationship between humanitarianism and the use of force are by no means a new phenomenon, yet humanitarian rationales for waging war have become more and more commonplace over recent decades. The ... -
On Tenuous Grounds
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Ethics of scholarship
(Informa UK Limited, 2017)I would like to express a preference for an ethics of scholarship that at least partially silences the conservative, constraining voices of convention and allows for a flourishing of creativity and honesty in scholarly ... -
Peace without perfection: The intersections of realist and pacifist thought
(SAGE Publications, 2017)In an attempt to destabilise and reconfigure this conventional spectrum of views on the morality of war, this paper will propose that the realist view ‘that it is wrong or impossible to think morally about war’ potentially ... -
Anarchy, pacifism and realism: building a path to a non-violent international law
(Informa UK Limited, 2017)In anarcho-pacifist thought it is argued that a consistent pacifism could only accord with anarchism, as the establishment and enforcement of any sovereign legal order necessitates the use of violence that is anathema to ...
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