VIRTUAL CAPITALISM: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY
In: Monthly review: an independent socialist magazine, Band 48, Heft 3, S. 40-58
ISSN: 0027-0520
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In: Monthly review: an independent socialist magazine, Band 48, Heft 3, S. 40-58
ISSN: 0027-0520
In: New left review: NLR, Heft 174, S. 51-66
ISSN: 0028-6060
THE AUTHORS CONSIDER THE EXPERIENCES OF TWO RECENT TRADE-UNION STRUGGLES IN SCOTLAND AGAINST THE KIND OF TRANSNATIONAL LOCATION STRATEGIES THAT THE 1992 EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AGENDA IS DESIGNED TO FACILITATE: THE CATERPILLAR OCCUPATION AGAINST PLANT CLOSURE IN 1987 AND THE FORD MANOEUVRES AT DUNDEE IN 1987-88. AS THE INTERNATIONAL RESTRUCTURING OF CAPITAL GATHERS PACE, IT IS BECOMING EVER MORE EVIDENT THAT THE LEFT MUST MEET THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CHALLENGE AT A GLOBAL LEVEL.
In: New left review: NLR, Band 174, Heft Mar-Apr 89
ISSN: 0028-6060
Looks at the experiences of 2 recent trade union struggles in Scotland against the kind of transnational location strategies that the 1992 agenda is designed to facilitate. (Abstract amended)
In: Radical teacher: a socialist, feminist and anti-racist journal on the theory and practice of teaching, Band 117
ISSN: 1941-0832
This article offers strategies for a peace pedagogy that is informed by combining techniques from feminist theory and peace studies with the digital humanities. Here we describe how the first-year Writing Seminar "Peace Testimonies in Literature & Art," taught in Spring 2017 at Haverford College, collaborated with the activist organization the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) to participate in the collection and curation of oral histories projects. In this class, students conducted oral history interviews of peace activists at the 2017 AFSC symposium "Waging Peace: AFSC's Summit for Peace and Justice" (April 20-23 in Philadelphia, PA), and then analyzed the videos of these interviews through OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) and the video editing software Camtasia. Here we discusses how feminist, digital, and peace pedagogies can be combined to help students recover the lost histories of pacifist activism.
In: The Manchester School, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 258-275
ISSN: 1467-9957
In: The journal of negro education: JNE ;a Howard University quarterly review of issues incident to the education of black people, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 99
ISSN: 2167-6437
In: European journal of international law, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 183-209
ISSN: 1464-3596
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 56, Heft 3, S. 519
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: Radical teacher: a socialist, feminist and anti-racist journal on the theory and practice of teaching, Band 105, S. 11-22
ISSN: 1941-0832
This article argues that performing the recovery of pacifist art and actions through archival research of the modernist era encourages students to engage in radical ethical inquiry. Based on four sections of a writing class at Haverford College, this article walks the reader through the construction of a student digital humanities and special collections exhibition, Testimonies in Art & Action: Igniting Pacifism in the Face of Total War, which ran from October 6 to December 11, 2015 in Haverford College's Magill Library. The exhibition placed archival materials in conversation with the major modernist pacifist documentary projects of Langston Hughes's Spanish Civil War poetry and dispatches, Muriel Rukeyser's "Mediterranean," Pablo Picasso's Guernica, and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas. This undertaking was driven by the questions, "How does one respond ethically to total war?" and "How can archival and special collections research do the works of peace?" Built around the work of these classes and materials from Haverford's Quaker & Special Collections, Testimonies in Art & Action allowed students to deeply interrogate a variety of pacifisms and become producers of a critical discourse that challenges the status quo position that violence is perpetually necessary and the most important aspect of world history.
In: Asian and Pacific migration journal: APMJ, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 169-185
ISSN: 0117-1968
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In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 91
ISSN: 1715-3379
In: Cultural diversity and mental health, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 45-54
In: C.P.C. 190
Scrapie is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of sheep and goats. It is also the earliest known member in the family of diseases classified as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) or prion diseases, which includes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and chronic wasting disease in cervids. The recent revelation of naturally occurring BSE in a goat has brought the issue of TSE in goats to the attention of the public. In contrast to scrapie, BSE presents a proven risk to humans. The risk of goat BSE, however, is difficult to evaluate, as our knowledge of TSE in goats is limited. Natural caprine scrapie has been discovered throughout Europe, with reported cases generally being greatest in countries with the highest goat populations. As with sheep scrapie, susceptibility and incubation period duration of goat scrapie are most likely controlled by the prion protein (PrP) gene (PRNP). Like the PRNP of sheep, the caprine PRNP shows significantly greater variability than that of cattle and humans. Although PRNP variability in goats differs from that observed in sheep, the two species share several identical alleles. Moreover, while the ARR allele associated with enhancing resistance in sheep is not present in the goat PRNP, there is evidence for the existence of other PrP variants related to resistance. This review presents the current knowledge of the epidemiology of caprine scrapie within the major European goat populations, and compiles the current data on genetic variability of PRNP
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Background Surgery is the main modality of cure for solid cancers and was prioritised to continue during COVID-19 outbreaks. This study aimed to identify immediate areas for system strengthening by comparing the delivery of elective cancer surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic in periods of lockdown versus light restriction. Methods This international, prospective, cohort study enrolled 20 006 adult (≥18 years) patients from 466 hospitals in 61 countries with 15 cancer types, who had a decision for curative surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic and were followed up until the point of surgery or cessation of follow-up (Aug 31, 2020). Average national Oxford COVID-19 Stringency Index scores were calculated to define the government response to COVID-19 for each patient for the period they awaited surgery, and classified into light restrictions (index 60). The primary outcome was the non-operation rate (defined as the proportion of patients who did not undergo planned surgery). Cox proportional-hazards regression models were used to explore the associations between lockdowns and non-operation. Intervals from diagnosis to surgery were compared across COVID-19 government response index groups. This study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04384926. Findings Of eligible patients awaiting surgery, 2003 (10·0%) of 20 006 did not receive surgery after a median follow-up of 23 weeks (IQR 16–30), all of whom had a COVID-19-related reason given for non-operation. Light restrictions were associated with a 0·6% non-operation rate (26 of 4521), moderate lockdowns with a 5·5% rate (201 of 3646; adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 0·81, 95% CI 0·77–0·84; p<0·0001), and full lockdowns with a 15·0% rate (1775 of 11 827; HR 0·51, 0·50–0·53; p<0·0001). In sensitivity analyses, including adjustment for SARS-CoV-2 case notification rates, moderate lockdowns (HR 0·84, 95% CI 0·80–0·88; p<0·001), and full lockdowns (0·57, 0·54–0·60; p<0·001), remained independently associated with non-operation. Surgery beyond 12 weeks from diagnosis in patients without neoadjuvant therapy increased during lockdowns (374 [9·1%] of 4521 in light restrictions, 317 [10·4%] of 3646 in moderate lockdowns, 2001 [23·8%] of 11 827 in full lockdowns), although there were no differences in resectability rates observed with longer delays. Interpretation Cancer surgery systems worldwide were fragile to lockdowns, with one in seven patients who were in regions with full lockdowns not undergoing planned surgery and experiencing longer preoperative delays. Although short-term oncological outcomes were not compromised in those selected for surgery, delays and non-operations might lead to long-term reductions in survival. During current and future periods of societal restriction, the resilience of elective surgery systems requires strengthening, which might include protected elective surgical pathways and long-term investment in surge capacity for acute care during public health emergencies to protect elective staff and services. Funding National Institute for Health Research Global Health Research Unit, Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, Bowel and Cancer Research, Bowel Disease Research Foundation, Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons, British Association of Surgical Oncology, British Gynaecological Cancer Society, European Society of Coloproctology, Medtronic, Sarcoma UK, The Urology Foundation, Vascular Society for Great Britain and Ireland, and Yorkshire Cancer Research.
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