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Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and sexuality. Tracing the conditions of possibility of Anglophone Filipino literature to U.S. colonialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth century, the book examines how a host of writers from across the century both imagine and address the Philippines and the United States, inventing a variety of artistic lineages and social formations in the process. Beyond the Nation considers a broad array of issues, from early Philippine nationalism, queer modernism, and transnational radicalism, to music-influenced and cross-cultural poetics, gay male engagements with martial law and popular culture, second-generational dynamics, and the relation between reading and revolution. Ponce elucidates not only the internal differences that mark this literary tradition but also the wealth of expressive practices that exceed the terms of colonial complicity, defiant nationalism, or conciliatory assimilation. Moving beyond the nation as both the primary analytical framework and locus of belonging, Ponce proposes that diasporic Filipino literature has much to teach us about alternative ways of imagining erotic relationships and political communities.

No one will deny that we live in a world where evil exists. But how are we to come to grips with human atrocity and its diabolical intensity? Martin Beck Matu?tík considers evil to be even more radically evil than previously thought and to have become all too familiar in everyday life. While we can name various moral wrongs and specific cruelties, Matu?tík maintains that radical evil understood as a religious phenomenon requires a religious response where the language of hope, forgiveness, redemption, a

peer-reviewed ; This thesis explores how tax experts value different facets of expertise in their daily work, and how the manner and degree to which expertise is valued and experienced varies across the field. Over the past decade, a series of high profile multinational tax avoidance scandals has put the work of tax expert domains firmly within the public and political imagination. The catalyst for this study comes against a backdrop of societal and political scrutiny of the work of tax experts both in corporate settings, and acting as advisers. As tax experts are the mediators of tax practice, the way in which they value and deploy their expertise influences compliance and the implementation of policy. Using a Bourdieusian lens, their expertise functions as a form of capital that gives them power in the field. Expertise has many facets, including innovation, knowledge and technical competence. This thesis explores the factors and circumstances that influence a tax expert's self-perceptions of the relative value of these facets of expertise within an overall portfolio of expert capitals. Data for this research came in two phases. First, from a large survey questionnaire directed at tax experts (N=1061) working across fifty-nine countries. Second, from sixty-eight semi-structured interviews conducted with practicing tax experts working across eleven countries. All of our respondents worked in tax, were at various career stages, and held appointments across all levels of management. They worked across a broader that usual range of tax expert domains. This dataset facilitates an exploration of how tax experts' experiences of these facets vary by regulatory context, experience, gender, and sector. Bourdieusian theoretical framing is used to theorise the factors that influence tax experts' self-perceptions of the value of the facets of expertise in their daily tax work. While experience (age and career stage) gender, and sector were factors influencing tax experts' perceptions of the value of the facets of expertise ...

This article examines the shootings of 26 unarmed civilians, 14 of which proved fatal, by members of the British Parachute regiment in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972. The article will provide a new explanation for this incident which remains highly controversial in British and Irish politics. It will argue that macro-explanations for the killings are insufficient and that the micro-situation on the ground that day needs to be examined in order to understand this event. Different narratives in relation to the actions of the soldiers will be outlined. However, it will be maintained that Randall Collins' micro-sociological theory of violence, in particular its forward panic pathway, best explains the level of violence on that day. This will in turn improve our understanding of Bloody Sunday.

It has been suggested that a nexus between terrorist groups and those involved in organised crime exists. This study explores the co-operative possibilities that exist between these phenomena, focusing specifically on the level of assistance participants in organised criminal activity might provide to those engaged in terrorism, the 'initial nexus.' This was achieved initially through interviews with subject matter experts with knowledge of the organised crime and counter terrorism situation in Scotland. Thereafter, law enforcement personnel who investigate serious and organised crime were interviewed, and their opinions sought in respect of the likely actions of those they investigate. The data gathered is subject to analysis and comment are provided as to what level of co-operation between those involved in organised crime and terrorism can be expected; what motivational factors may have a bearing on the level of co-operation provided; and discussion of 'tipping points,' ethical or otherwise, where the withdrawal of co-operation could occur, providing opportunities for increasingly successful law enforcement intervention. Adapted from the source document.