Suchergebnisse

Cover -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- PART ONE -- 1 'World King' -- 2 'Sister of Boris' -- 3 'But Why Don't YOU Go into Politics?' -- 4 'When Are You Going to Do Anything Except Appear on Television?' -- PART TWO -- 5 Exmoor -- 6 Bristol -- 7 Westminster -- 8 Bristol -- 9 Totnes -- 10 The Bubble -- 11 Falmouth -- 12 Millbank -- 13 Bath -- 14 Bristol -- 15 Gibraltar -- 16 Poole -- PART THREE -- 17 'Sister of the PM' -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Note -- Copyright.

This chapter concerns the agency of the image and metaphor of 'flow' in critical, artistic and political discourse. It analyses its use in works of cultural, political and social theory by Raymond Williams, Marshall Berman and Zygmunt Bauman. Flow emerges as a powerful but ambivalent trope, something confirmed in xenophobic political discourse which deploys the possibility of an 'influx' (from the Latin, 'to flow in') of non-white foreigners as a threat to the integrity of the nation. This is further confirmed in the anti-colonial film The Battle of Algiers (1966), where the menacing flow of popular resistance shows a colonial trope being deployed against itself. Anti-racist texts like the engagé phenomenology of Sarah Ahmed and the film Human Flow (2017) treat flow, instead, as essential to physical and social existence. The chapter finishes by asking if the trope of flow would retain its power were our political discourse effectively decolonized.

The paper explores the extent to which Heads of Department and Pro-Vice Chancellors, or manager-academics, in UK universities are aware of and prepared for the so-called 'risk society'. It draws on a research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council concerned with the management of UK universities and the extent of permeation within universities of recent ideologies about new practices for managing public services. Recent debates in social theory about the concept of a risk society and risk cultures, and how these might be applied to higher education, are considered. Key features of a rapidly changing environment for the conduct and management of academic work are also outlined. The focus and methodology of the ESRC research project are explained. Interview data from Head of Department and Pro-Vice Chancellors are then used to illustrate a range of responses to notions of risk made by manager-academics. Finally, the paper examines how the learning of manager-academics could be better supported, in order that post-holders can acquire the flexibility and reflexivity which living in a risk society and culture seems to demand.

"This collection highlights the ways in which parliaments create and maintain powerful symbols of democracy and power. It explores how political and social hierarchies operate within parliaments through ceremonial spectacles, formal and informal rules and rituals, art and architecture. Members are socialized through everyday practices but such institutional disciplining is also challenged performatively - by refusal to participate, by subversion of norms or by rejection of rules. The contributions to this volume highlight that the everyday ritual practices as well as institutional ceremonies have significant political meaning, whether their focus is upon the spectacular or the quotidian. Chapters on opening ceremony, Prime Minister's Questions, on performance of debate and disruption, on the architecture and space of suggest that what has often been seen as the banal backdrop to politics proper, accumulated tradition or necessary rules of procedure, should in fact be the starting-point for our analyses of modern democratic parliaments"--

This paper describes he use of design and analysis of experiments to calibrate an agent-based simulation model of a peace-keeping mission. The situation depicted in a refugee camp scenario in which de-escalation of enraged civilians is required by military personnel. Calibration was determined by ensuring that the military actions in the simulation properly followed the typical rules of engagement and the expected reactions of both civilian and military forces. The expectation were determined by subject matter experts including military personnel and psychologists.