Cooperation: Toward a Revision of the Concept and its Application

Father Curran\u27s discussion revolves around the limitations imposed on the individual\u27s freedom to act according to the dictates of his conscience. He directs his attention primarily to the questions of sterilization, abortion and the cooperating physician. Father Curran is a professor of M oral Theology at the Catholic University of America

Spenser and the Historical Revolution: Briton Moniments and the Problem of Roman Britain

Curran argues that, since Roman Britain is a key to understanding the historiographical debates of Edmund Spenser\u27s time, the Roman Britain section of Briton Moniments in The Faerie Queene needs to be examined. It is here that Spenser acknowledged the direction historiography was taking, and saw how this new trend altered the relation between history and glory

Agroforestry and the Afforestation Programme in the Republic of Ireland

PosterThe Forest Cover in Ireland had fallen to the seriously low level of 1% of the land mass by the turn of the twentieth century. A series of grant aided initiatives were put in place to increase this level. Currently the Irish forest cover is approximately 11%, while the EU average is around 34%. Since the late 1980s, afforestation in the Republic of Ireland has almost completely changed from public planting to private planting, Farmers are now the main contributors of land for afforestation. However, planting levels have fallen from 20,000 hectares to 7,000 hectares per annum, mainly due to environmental constraints, silvicultural suitability, competing agricultural systems and land availability. Agroforestry could be a way to help increase the current planting levels. In 2011, the Department of Agriculture started to investigate the potential of agroforestry. In 1989, pioneering trial plots were established in Northern Ireland by Dr Jim McAdam. One silvopastoral trial had potential for replication in the Republic. A suitable farm was sourced and a demonstration plot of 1.89 hectares was planted. This involved ash (Fraxinus excelsior) planted at 5 x 5 metre spacing and using tree shelters. The farmer grazed sheep in the early and late spring, then cut silage (50 large bales per annum) and hay (40small bales per annum) during the summer. The Republic of Ireland intends to have an agroforestry content in the new round of afforestation initiatives (2014 – 2020). This agroforestry system trialled in the Republic will be a useful starting point

Letter from Leo E. Curran to the Association des Vigilants

03.30.1940, A handwritten letter from Leo E. Curran to the Association des Vigilants concerning the Festival de la Bonne Chanson.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-festival-bonne-chanson/1016/thumbnail.jp

PIGS IN SPACE: GHOSTS, GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN A DEBATE ABOUT REGULATING INDUSTRIAL HOG FARMS IN KENTUCKY

In 1997, Governor Paul Patton of Kentucky asked the state Cabinet of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection to develop administrative regulations for industrial hog farms in the state. The regulatory process has been contentious. From 1997 through 1998, the Cabinet held five public hearings to elicit comments on the proposed regulations. This study is designed to answer two questions. First, how, within parameters of participation established by the Kentucky Cabinet of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, have participants in the debate deployed notions of risk to privilege certain gendered and sexualized farming identities, farming practices, and notions of rurality? Second, how will the spatial arrangements proposed by participants alter social relationships? A theoretical framework that draws from Foucaults work on governmentality and power/knowledge, feminist theories and Latours actor network theory was developed for this analysis which combines discourse analysis with participant observation. The study examines texts produced by the Cabinet and three groups: the Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Community Farm Alliance. Texts include transcripts of hearing comments, published histories, newspapers and web sites produced by three studied, law suits related to the debate, and newspaper coverage of the debate. Participant observation was conducted at public hearings and meetings of the Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Community Farm Alliance. Results from this project suggest that gender and sexualization play very important roles in establishing hierarchies between organized groups and government agencies. Results also indicate that the constructions of farmers, farming and rurality produced by hierarchical relationships are largely dependent on distinct spatial arrangements which have very real effects on human-human, human-environment and human-animal relationships