Football Disasters and Pilgrimage: Commemoration through Religious and Non-Religious Ritual and Materiality

Although the relationship between religion and football has gained considerable interest during the last twenty years, scant attention has been paid to the relationship between pilgrimage and football. This paper seeks to advance the study of this relationship through an exploration of collective memory about football disasters that throws fresh light on central themes within pilgrimage studies ‒ pilgrimage as both a journey to a sacred place and the performance of diverse rituals at such places. The paper explores in particular the ways in which three different tragedies involving English football clubs have been commemorated through journeys to and ritual performance at places seen as sacred to those involved in commemoration ‒ football stadiums and urban spaces, cathedrals and pilgrimage shrines in England, Germany and Italy. Through this analysis we seek to show how the commemoration of football disaster is linked to pilgrimage as a process where people seek healing and reconciliation through the public performance of rituals that link the local to the global

Aging, Nostalgia and Older Punk Women’s Fandom.

Despite their continued engagement as audience throughout their lives, there is some suggestion that ageing, or older, fans have been at large omitted from fan studies (Middlemost, 2022). This does seem to be shifting, however, and there is a growing body of fandom scholarship concerning ageing fans. Indeed, in the context of punk, there has been a growing recognition of the continued significance of punk to older participants and fans (e.g. Andes, 2002, Bennett, 2006, Davis, 2006), contrasting earlier work which theorized punk as a youth subculture (see, for example, Hebdige, 1998). This reflects the increasing academic interest in the ageing popular music audience more broadly (Bennett and Hodkinson 2012). Despite such positive shifts, ageing women continue to be marginalised in such discussions concerning punk and older fans, meaning that much theoretical and conceptual understandings of ageing punks have failed to fully consider the interaction between ageing, gender and fandom

IoT Centric Data Protection Using Deep Learning Technique For Preserving Security And Privacy In Cloud

The Internet of Things (IoT) describes a system where interconnected physical objects are connected online. As the collection and sharing of vast amounts of personal data grow, so do concerns over user privacy within IoT environments. While IoT devices offer significant advantages in terms of productivity, accuracy, and financial benefits by minimizing human intervention and providing exceptional flexibility and convenience, they also face challenges related to communication overhead, security, and privacy. To address these issues, a novel Internet of Things-based Cloud Information Security Preservation (IoT-CISP) has been proposed. This approach enhances the model’s effectiveness and ensures security by first separating sensitive data from non-sensitive data using an SVM classifier, and then employing this data for partial decryption and analysis. Sensitive data is protected through Okamoto-Uchiyama encryption, ensuring that data storage, analysis, and sharing are conducted securely to maintain the system’s safety and privacy. The effectiveness of this novel method was assessed against existing methodologies using parameters like precision, accuracy, F1 score, and recall, revealing its superior security and efficiency compared to other schemes. Results demonstrate that the IoT-CISP approach offers encryption times that are 31.24%, 23.12%, and 33.03% shorter than those of the CP-ABE, GDBR, and HP-CPABE algorithms, respectively

Developmental and personality theory

How do human beings come to be the people they are? More specifically, why do some people come to experience the psychological difficulties that they do? These are the questions that developmental and personality theorists in the counseling and psychotherapy field have asked, and this chapter looks at person-centred attempts to answer these questions. The principal focus of this chapter is on developments from childhood to adulthood. Discussed in this chapter is the historical development of theories of personality and growth in the person-centred field; Rogers' classic model of human development; evidence in support of the classical model; contemporary critiques and developments of Rogers' classical model; and the relevance of developmental and personality theory to person-centred practice

'Nothing-to-be-glossed-here': Race in Shakespeare's Sonnets

This is the first major study of race in Shakespeare's studies, looking beyond the argument about how Dark is the Dark lady, to examine the representation of the Fair Youth's Whiteness and beyond to other examples of racecraft performed by the language of the Sonnets

Neither saintly nor psychotic:a narrative systematic review of the evolving Western perception of voice hearing

We present a social-historical perspective on the evolution of the voice-hearing phenomenon in Western society. Based upon a systematic search from a selection of nine databases, we trace the way hearing voices has been understood throughout the ages. Originally, hearing voices was considered a gifted talent for accessing the divine, but the progressive influence of monotheistic religion gradually condemned the practice to social marginalization. Later, the medical and psychiatric professions of secular society were instrumental in attaching stigma to both voice hearers and the phenomenon itself, thereby reinforcing social exclusion. More recently, the re-integration of voice hearers into the community by health authorities in various countries appears to have provided a new, socially acceptable setting for the phenomenon.</p

"“Every day we’d have an arranged activity, so she’d have football, swimming, dance, gymnastics”: A Sociological Analysis of Parenting and Sports-Based Enrichment Activities for the Under-Fives."

Abstract: In this article, we provide a sociological analysis of parental choice in pre-school sports and physical activity as a form of concerted cultivation, as a way of understanding the uptake of sports-based physical activity (PA) enrichment activities in the UK since 2000. Despite a growth in the under-five preschool enrichment market, little is known about why parents pay for their under-fives children to participate in sport or PA enrichment or how this relates to wider patterns in contemporary parenting. 24 semi-structured interviews with parents of early years children from across England were conducted. Findings suggest the reasons why parents enrol their child(ren) in sports-based enrichment activities, can be considered a form of concerted cultivation, in particular, parents value routine and socialisation for themselves and their children. Parents look for paid-for activities that enhance their child’s social and academic skills, but do not emphasise physical activity as particularly important in their decision making. Instead they prioritise opportunities to enhance their child’s social and cultural skills in ways that enable the children to be accepted and interact positively with other adults and children in key institutional settings. Parents also valued spaces where their young children could expend energy, although the importance of this was distinctly gendered. We conclude by outlining that paying for under-fives sport-based enrichment is linked to wider social and cultural expectations on parenting, and highlighting that more needs to be understood about the gendered, racialised and ableist spaces of commercial preschool sport and PA