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LOYALIST PARAMILITARIES HAVE BEEN CARRYING OUT VIGILANTE ATTACKS SINCE THE EARLIEST YEARS OF THE TROUBLES. IN FOUR OF THE PAST SIX YEARS, THEY HAVE ACTUALLY CARRIED OUT MORE VIGILANTE ATTACKS THAN REPUBLICAN PARAMILITARIES. YET DESPITE THIS HISTORY, VIRTUALLY NOTHING HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THIS ASPECT OF PARAMILITARISM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES THE ORIGINS AND GROWTH OF LOYALIST VIGILANTISM. THE IMPACT OF PIVOTAL EVENTS SUCH AS THE 1985 ANGLO-IRISH AGREEMENT AND THE 1994 CEASE-FIRES ARE DISCUSSED. THE VIGILANTISM CLEARLY FULFILS A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS FOR THE LOYALISTS BUT IT ALSO CARRIES HEAVY COSTS. THE ARTICLE EXAMINES HOW THE POLITICAL PARTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE PARAMILITARIES HAVE STRUGGLED TO ACCOMMODATE THE VIGILANTE CAMPAIGNS WHILE ATTEMPTING TO BUILD WIDER POLITICAL APPEAL. THE ARTICLE CONCLUDES THAT DESPITE THE POLITICAL COSTS, CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NORTHERN IRELAND APPEAR TO FAVOR AN INTENSIFICATION RATHER THAN A DIMINUTION OF LOYALIST VIGILANTISM.

THE 40-MONTH PERIOD WHICH HAS FOLLOWED THE INTRODUCTION OF THE IRA'S 1994 CEASE-FIRE HAS WITNESSED THE MOST INTENSIVE VIGILANTE CAMPAIGN EVER CARRIED OUT BY THE MOVEMENT. A COMMITMENT TO VIGILANTISM HAS PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED THE EVOLUTION OF BOTH THE POLICY AND STRUCTURE OF SINN FEIN AND THE IRA. HOWEVER, VIGILANTISM BEARS THE COSTS FOR THE TWO ORGANIZATIONS AND SEVERAL SERIOUS ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN MADE BY SENIOR FIGURES TO END THE PRACTICE. THIS ARTICLE SETS OUT TO UNDERSTAND AND DESCRIBE THE DYNAMICS OF MILITANT REPUBLICANISM'S FLUCTUATING COMMITMENT TO VIGILANTE VIOLENCE, AND IN PARTICULAR TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEX ISSUES VIGILANTISM HAS RAISED WITHIN SINN FEIN AND THE IRA IN THE PAST THREE DECADES. THE ARTICLE CONCLUDES THAT THE TWO ORGANIZATIONS ARE NOW IRRETRIEVABLY COMMITTED TO VIGILANTISM, AND SHORT OF MAJOR REFORM, THEY WILL BE UNABLE TO END WHAT HAS BECOME A POLITICALLY-DAMAGING POLICY.

A MINORITY OF RESEARCHERS ON THE ISSUE OF TERRORISM PROPOSE THAT TERRORISM IS A FORM OF WARFARE. HOWEVER, THE MAJORITY DISAGREE WITH THIS POSITION, INSTEAD VIEWING TERRORISM AS A DISTINCT AND SEPARATE PHENOMENON. THIS DIVERGENCE HAS BEEN FUELED BY THE DISTINCTIVE QUESTIONS OF MORALITY WHICH CLOAK ANY CONSIDERATION OF TERRORISM. THE IMPACT OF THIS SPECIAL MORALITY DIMENSION TO THE PROBLEM IS EXAMINED IN THIS ARTICLE, WITH THE FOCUS BEING DIRECTED TO BIASES ARISING FROM THE MORAL STANDPOINT WHICH HAS BEEN ADOPTED BY MOST. IT IS ALSO ARGUED THAT MANY OF THE SO-CALLED DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN TERRORISM AND WARFARE ARE ILLUSIONARY. THE ARTICLE CONCLUDES THAT WHILE THERE ARE SOLUTIONS TO THE CURRENT CONCEPTUAL DEADLOCK THESE ARE UNLIKELY TO BE REALIZED IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community.

Driven by an agenda of deep listening, each chapter presents a narrative directly derived from qualitative research, an outline of the methodological framing as well as narrative analysis. Through close attention to the narrative, its performative aspects and its ruptures and silences, authors identify patterns and material in the fabric of such telling and retelling of stories that open up new perspectives on the migrant experience. This book develops a methodology of ""dwelling with stories"" that allows for sustained and slow interrogation of the migrant experience and the accompanying decisions that shape narratives around mobility across borders. Its structure is innovative by emphasising the migrant voice and reflecting on the scholars' positionality, while also offering new theoretical contributions that will advance the field of narrative analysis.
The book will appeal to academics, students and practitioners in a wide range of subject areas within the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, sociology, human geography, migration/refugee/diaspora studies and oral history.

Einleitung: Wissensvermittlung für ein "neues Zeitalter" -- Die "Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung": Otto Neurath und der Wiener Kreis -- Isotype im Exil: Visuelle Erziehung und Humanisierung des Wissens -- Modernism for the Masses: Isotype, Adprint und die Nachfolger -- Fazit und Ausblick: "Democratic thinking" und "Democratic publishing" -- Anhang.

Einleitung -- Begriffliche Abgrenzungen und kontextuelle Rahmung -- Psychologische Ansätze in der Vertrauensforschung -- Soziologische Ansätze zur Vertrauensforschung -- Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Ansätze zur Vertrauensforschung -- Erziehungswissenschaftliche Ansätze zur Vertrauensforschung -- Einleitung in den empirischen Teil -- Empirisches Arbeiten und methodisches Vorgehen -- Die empirische Arbeit – Ergebnisdarstellung -- Fazit und abschließende Betrachtung.

"Combines chapters on current practices of child separation, deportation, and immigration with chapters on the histories of transnational and transracial adoption, highlighting the legacies and correlations of adoption with race, nation, immigration, belonging, and citizenship"--

Analyzes transnational and transracial adoption, highlighting the past and continuing discourses around adoption as it relates to race, nation, immigration, belonging, and citizenship.