Alien Registration- Butler, Alice (Houlton, Aroostook County)

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The influence of Dorothy Wordsworth on Coleridge and Wordsworth

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1939. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

Geographies of violence.

Through Geographies of Violence, Marcus Doel, Professor of Human Geography at Swansea University, allows us to delve into a ‘carnival of cannibalism’. His monograph is a veritable curiosity cabinet of violence and terror that permits readers to explore tales of horror in a lineage that ‘is neither logical, nor causal, nor geographical, nor historical’. It is this montage approach that is the book's strength and weakness

"Fowl" play: reverse place-branding of Toxteth, Liverpool through the celebrity discourse of Robbie Fowler.

In the past two decades, there has been a rise in literature - within the disciplines of human geography, urban studies and sociology - that focuses on place-branding or the highlighting of a place's unique attribute for commercial, competitive or reputational gain (Andrews and Jackson, 2001; Crawford, 2004; Wise and Harris, 2010). Place-branding can focus on the national scale where postmodern forms of 'soft power' are exercised in order to promote state foreign policy (van Ham, 2008), or it can scale down to the individual town or city (Ashworth, 2009). Regardless of scale, through place-branding places are marketized and 'branded' to improve image, tourism, investment and other forms of profit-making. Often, the notion of celebrity is connected to place in the process of place-branding in the hope that the symbolic and cultural capital of the celebrity will transfer to place and improve the area's reputation. Celebrity place-branding is usually seen to be unidirectional, with the positive social, cultural and economic capital of the celebrity transferring to place. What happens when, rather than the discourse of celebrity being fed into the discourse of place, the discourse of place is fed into the discourse of celebrity? What happens when the symbolic value being transferred is not positive? Ultimately, I ask what happens when a symbolically stigmatized place is entered into the discourse of the celebrity? What happens to both place and celebrity in this role reversal? This paper examines these questions by using the case study of Liverpool Football Club (LFC) striker Robbie Fowler and his hometown of Toxteth in Liverpool. Fowler experienced a chequered career in British football, marred by several high-profile political and cultural faux pas (Tanner, 1997; Burton, 1999), while remaining an icon for LFC supporters

Kelly Bogue: the divisive state of social policy.

This is a book review of Kelly Bogue's The divisive state of social policy. Divided into seven chapters and an appendix with participant information and demographics, the book weaves together several theoretical and empirical strands. Chapters 1 and 2 set the stage for the subsequent empirical chapters, describing the genesis of the Bedroom Tax and outlining the history of social housing in the UK, neatly guiding the reader to understand the politics inherent in social housing. While these chapters are the least fervent of the book, Bogue’s concise definitions and particularly her description of how the ‘age of austerity’ came to define current British politics, are exceptional

Aquilegia, Vol. 27 No. 3, August 2003: Newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant Society

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Fifty years of social work education: analysis of motivations and outcomes.

Summary: This article uses the 50th anniversary of social work education provision at one of north-east Scotland’s universities as an opportunity to reflect on social work education outcomes and motivations for undertaking training. This empirical assessment is based on the detailed responses to questionnaires and interviews with social work graduates who studied between 1968 and 2012 to evaluate social work training and education among graduates. We use the Kirkpatrick model to evaluate social work education. Findings: We highlight the combination of prior experience with social work and a sense of altruism that served to motivate students to engage in training.We discuss the levels of preparedness for practice based on training and note that it is the combination of teaching and placements that benefits students most. We reflect on the centrality of a common set of social work values that arise from a period of introspection during education, and we show that these values are incorporated into both professional and personal life. Applications: We show that ‘big picture’ and evaluations of social work education are important in order to orient social work education in line with political and social change. We also suggest that educators should be cognisant of the importance of personal development and growth that are central to the training of social workers. Rather than seeing personal development as a by-product of social work education, we argue that training that strengthens social work values of justice and empathy is imperative

GABA-B controls persistent Na+ current and coupled Na+-activated K+ current

AbstractThe GABA-B receptor is densely expressed throughout the brain and has been implicated in many CNS functions and disorders, including addiction, epilepsy, spasticity, schizophrenia, anxiety, cognitive deficits, and depression, as well as various aspects of nervous system development. How one GABA-B receptor is involved in so many aspects of CNS function remains unanswered. Activation of GABA-B receptors is normally thought to produce inhibitory responses in the nervous system, but puzzling contradictory responses exist. Here we report that in rat mitral cells of the olfactory bulb, GABA-B receptor activation inhibits both the persistent sodium current (INaP) and the sodium-activated potassium current (IKNa), which is coupled to it. We find that the primary effect of GABA-B activation is to inhibit INaP, which has the secondary effect of inhibiting IKNabecause of its dependence on persistent sodium entry for activation. This can have either a net excitatory or inhibitory effect depending on the balance of INaP/IKNacurrents in neurons. In the olfactory bulb, the cell bodies of mitral cells are densely packed with sodium-activated potassium channels. These channels produce a large IKNawhich, if constitutively active, would shunt any synaptic potentials traversing the soma before reaching the spike initiation zone. However, GABA-B receptor activation might have the net effect of reducing the IKNablocking effect, thus enhancing the effectiveness of synaptic potentials.</jats:p

Foundation stone of empire: the role of Portland stone in ‘heritage’, commemoration, and identity.

In 2013, Portland Stone, a creamy white limestone from the Isle of Portland in Dorset, was named the world’s first ‘Global Heritage Stone Resource’ (GSHR) by the Heritage Stone Task Group, a sub-commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences. The criteria for GSHR designation are ambiguous, with the Task Group championing Portland Stone’s ‘cultural value’ and ‘heritage’, neither of which are critically interrogated. In this paper we undertake a detailed critical discourse analysis of Hansard entries mentioning Portland Stone between 1803 and 2020. We reveal that the use of Portland Stone is intertwined with colonial oppression, class subjugation, empire politics, structural racism, and a mythologised, England-centric vision of British national identity. In celebrating the use of Portland Stone as part of Britain’s ‘heritage’, we are condoning a narrative of Britishness that is exclusionary and whitewashed, and that supports an elite rewriting of national and international history. Drawing on critical heritage literature, we argue that the Heritage Stone Task Group must urgently reconsider their uncritical appraisal of ‘heritage’ and ‘culture’ and consult with social science colleagues to ensure that all voices are heard. Our study shows that through the history and nature of their usage, the rocks beneath our feet, our natural foundation, can become imbued with notions of regional and national identity, belonging and exclusion, memory and loss – they can become a powerful manifestation of symbolic and unequal power structures. While British society’s attention is turned to the imprint of colonialism, empire, and race on our geographies, we urge further consideration of the built environment: the very stones that construct our towns and cities, the plinths on which statues are erected, tell stories of oppression and domination that are an important part of British history, culture, and heritage

Land of woke and glory? The conceptualisation and framing of 'wokeness' in UK media and public discourses. [Presentation]

Though the term originated in the 1960s, it is only relatively recently that the concept of 'woke' became a staple of public discourse in Britain. Often it is alluded to as exemplifying or opposing British values and identity. Particularly where there appears to be a conflict between modernity and aspects of the nation's colonial past, such as was evident in narratives around the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston. It also features during commentaries and exchanges relating to institutional power, censorship, and minority rights/representation, including LGBT issues and the existence of cultural appropriation and structural racism - i.e. 'culture wars' discourses. Curiously, polling shows inconsistency in understanding and relating to the notion of being 'woke' and its implications. The current project aims to combine a critical discourse analysis of posts on a social media platform and coverage in mainstream UK press. We supplement these with a thematic analysis of a questionnaire issued to the public, asking them to personally define and exemplify what is it to be ‘woke'. Across these three data sets, we explore how ‘wokeness' is conceptualised by the press and public to understand better the term's shared meaning and utility