45 research outputs found
First report of the presence of hepatitis E virus in Scottish harvested shellfish purchased at retail level
Military maladaptation : counterinsurgency and the politics of failure
Tactical learning is critical to battlefield success, especially in a counterinsurgency. This article tests the existing model of military adaption against a āmost-likelyā case: the British Armyās counterinsurgency in the Southern Cameroons (1960ā61). Despite meeting all preconditions thought to enable adaptation ā decentralization, leadership turnover, supportive leadership, poor organizational memory, feedback loops, and a clear threat ā the British still failed to adapt. Archival evidence suggests politicians subverted bottom-up adaptation, because winning came at too high a price in terms of Britainās broader strategic imperatives. Our finding identifies an important gap in the extant adaptation literature: it ignores politics.PostprintPeer reviewe
John Clare and place
This chapter tackles issues of place in the self-presentation and critical reception of John Clare, and pursues it across a number of axes. The argument centres on the placing of Clare both socio-economically and ānaturallyā, and limitations exerted upon perceptions of his work. Interrogating criticism this chapter finds a pervasive awkwardness especially in relation to issues of class and labour. It assesses the contemporary āplacingā of Clare, and seemingly unavoidable insensitivities to labour and poverty in the history industry, place-naming, and polemical ecocriticism. It assesses the ways Clare represents place ā in poverty, in buildings, in nature ā and, drawing on Michel de Certeau, considers the tactics Clare uses to negotiate his place. It pursues trajectories to āun-placeā Clare: the flight of fame in Clareās response to Byron; and the flight of an early poem in songbooks and beyond, across the nineteenth century
Virgin mother or bastard child?
Virginal conception presumes divine intervention, but divine inter-vention does not necessarily presume virginal conception. In the case of Mary, two phenomena, both unusual in Jewish tradition, are found, namely divine and virginal conception. This article argues that the virginity claim by Christian Jews preceded and generated the adultery accusation by non-Christian Jews. It does so by stating three points. Firstly, that the earliest dated text containing the accusation of Jesusā bastardy is dependent on the redactional text of Matthew. Secondly, that the general structure of Matthew 1-2 and especially its dyad of Divorce and Remarriage is dependent on the popular traditions about Mosesā conception and birth. Thirdly, that the pre-Matthean tradition of divine and virginal conception is rather a reaction against Roman tradition than coming from Jewish tradition. However, this argument does not take Jesus out of Jewish tradition but, places the Judaism of Jesusā time firmly within the Roman Empire. It is a Judaism which opposed Romeās ideological ascendancy and theological eschatology. This article will also be published in A Feminist Companion to (Mariology) or (the Jesus Movement), edited by Amy-Jill Levine, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press