Suchergebnisse

The article examines the events behind women's incarceration issues regarding conditions and treatment, which culminated positive action and change. The author highlights historical figures and events in the American penitentiaries incarcerating women, such as the August Rebellion at Bedford Hills in 1974, Laura Whitehorn's accounts, and the death of Arizona inmate, Marcia Powell, in 2009. The author also examines the Michigan based action, Neal vs. MDOC in 1996, among others. The article continues examining educational programs aimed at female prisoners such as SCWPP, among other organizational mechanisms and suggestion for assisting female prisoners with social justice issues in America. Adapted from the source document.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Issues in the Secondary Use of Research Data

Too often study of communicative and cultural processes makes `gratuitous assumptions' about media and collective identities like national identity. This article is a critical engagement with Michael Billig's notion of `banal nationalism', a rare analysis of everyday media rhetoric and nationalism. It does this through a survey of daily newspapers sold in Scotland. Newspapers are plotted according to an index of semantic assumptions they make about where the spatial centre of national communication lies. The newspapers surveyed cluster into three broad national types, ranging from an indigenous Scottish press, Scottish editions of English-based papers, `tabloid interlopers' and the English-based broadsheets. The article argues that Billig's emphasis on the `big state' nationalism of the USA and the UK restricts the analytical scope of `banal nationalism' when studying newspaper rhetoric in a `stateless nation' like Scotland.

This article traces some administrative and media constructions of Australian surfing subculture in the early 1970s. Foucault's concept of `governmentality', which is concerned with techniques and technologies of discipline, is deployed to interpret the administrative categorization process that was used to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate unemployment benefit claims. Particular attention is paid to how some of the discourses surrounding unemployment benefit compared the unemployed surfing subject unfavorably with the idealized working citizen. Not only was `the surfie element' an object of discipline but, more importantly, `youths' as a social category were made to know themselves as potentially irresponsible at a time of growing unemployment.