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    Planetary Hinterlands:Extraction, Abandonment and Care

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    This open access book considers the concept of the hinterland as a crucial tool for understanding the global and planetary present as a time defined by the lasting legacies of colonialism, increasing labor precarity under late capitalist regimes, and looming climate disasters. Traditionally seen to serve a (colonial) port or market town, the hinterland here becomes a lens to attend to the times and spaces shaped and experienced across the received categories of the urban, rural, wilderness or nature. In straddling these categories, the concept of the hinterland foregrounds the human and more-than-human lively processes and forms of care that go on even in sites defined by capitalist extraction and political abandonment. Bringing together scholars from the humanities and social sciences, the book rethinks hinterland materialities, affectivities, and ecologies across places and cultural imaginations, Global North and South, urban and rural, and land and water

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    “An interval of comfort”: postamputation pain & long-term consequences of amputation in British First World War veterans, 1914-1985

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    The First World War resulted in the largest amputee cohort in history, with 41,208 amputees in the UK alone; the majority injured as young men and surviving into the late 20th century. Recent studies have estimated that significant residual limb pain affects up to 85% of military amputees: applying this figure to the First World War amputee cohort raises the possibility that up to 35,000 British veterans may have experienced chronic postamputation pain. Despite this and the fact that 13% of injuries in this conflict resulted in amputation, there has been little research into the long-term impact on veterans’ health and quality of life. Recently catalogued historical medical and pension files held at The National Archives offer the opportunity to follow up this type of injury in a large group of veterans for the first time. This thesis will use these files to document and explore long-term outcomes of amputation and chronic postamputation pain, developments made in the treatment of this condition, the impact of aging on amputee veterans and their likelihood of developing a concomitant condition from 1914 to 1985. It will examine these issues from three perspectives: that of the injured servicemen, the civil servants attempting to value and compensate those injuries, and from the clinicians’ responsible for the veterans’ medical care and rehabilitation. This research has been based on a unique model of interdisciplinary collaboration, incorporating research methods from history and clinical medicine, and will present its findings from historical material with recommendations for current practice. Given the similarities in injury patterns and prevalence of chronic residual limb, phantom and neuropathic pain between the First World War cohort and contemporary casualties, it is anticipated that the findings of the project will assist in the strategic assessment and planning for long-term pain conditions by medical staff and care providers for today’s and future blast injury amputee cohorts.Open Acces

    Disinformation and Fact-Checking in Contemporary Society

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    Funded by the European Media and Information Fund and research project PID2022-142755OB-I00

    Lost in Transition! An Analysis of Justice Implications for Energy Transition in India

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    This study offers an analysis of India's transition to renewable energy sources, viz., solar and wind power, and the social justice implications of this transition. It adopts a comprehensive historical approach and situates India's renewable energy policy within the historical legacy of post-colonialism and the influence of neoliberalism since the 1990s. The analysis covers the entire commodity chain, ranging from the manufacturing of solar panels to the generation and distribution of energy. The study finds that the existing scholarship on energy transition in India overlooks the distributed forms of renewable energy, such as community solar power and the concerns of certain sections of society, particularly ordinary consumer citizen, farmers, and pastoralists. The study examines the justice implications of India's transition to renewable energy, including mass human rights violation and forced labour during the manufacturing of solar cells and modules in China’s Xinjiang province. Additionally, the study analyses land acquisition for solar power in India, elucidating the potential for social injustices and loss of livelihoods to ensue throughout renewable energy value chains. The study enlarges ethical evaluations of energy technology development and policy during energy transition, positing energy as a socially and environmentally integrated justice issue. It also identifies need for locating and integrating human rights violations in any country that is part of renewable energy supply chain of India's as a "dark side" of India's energy transition. Overall, the study advocates for prioritizing social justice considerations in energy transitions and calls for a more equitable and sustainable energy system. It expands the concept of energy justice to include geographies and spaces of large-scale transboundary human rights violations

    Altered Images: A Comparative Study of Medical Portraits by Henry Tonks and Raphaël Freida in the Great War

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    2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

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    2023-2024 undergraduate catalog for Morehead State University
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