58 research outputs found
Riot control agents: The case for regulation.
Tear gas, first used in World War One, is increasingly becoming the weapon of choice for security forces across the globe. Anna Feigenbaum offers a bleak picture of how companies - with a particular focus on Condor in Brazil - are capitalising on this trend and reaping financial benefits by marketing it as a "non-lethal" weapon. She demonstrates how in reality categorising tear gas as "non-lethal" is at best misguided and at worst disingenuous. Feigenbaum sets out the historical reasons for this "non-lethal" categorisation of tear gas - ones which governments and big business are happy to rely on today despite the ever increasing body of evidence that shows the extreme human rights abuses that its use inflicts on civilian populations worldwide
Book Review: Different Wavelengths: Studies of the Contemporary Womenâs Movement
Review of Different Wavelengths: Studies of the Contemporary Womenâs Movement, edited by Jo Rege
From cyborg feminism to drone feminism: Remembering womenâs anti-nuclear activisms
By the 1990s the dynamic array of creative direct action tactics used against militarised technologies that emerged from womenâs anti-nuclear protest camps in the 1980s became largely eclipsed by cyberfeminismâs focus on digital and online technologies. Yet recently, as robots and algorithms are put forward as the vanguards of new drone execution regimes, some are wondering if now is the time for another Greenham Common. In this article I return to cyborg feminism and anti-nuclear activisms of the 1980s to explore what drone feminism might look like today. I examine how antinuclear protesters infused affect and techne´, creating innovative images of, and tactics for, material resistance. I argue that Greenham womenâs cyborg feminisms arose from their material entanglements with the military base. In their efforts to reveal and undermine the national and imperial myths upon which warfare is based, protesters re-imagined technological possibilities based upon a global accountability for âearthly survival
Activist Reflexivity and Mediated Violence: Putting the Policing of Nuit Debout in Context
To better understand the historical trajectory of the policing of Nuit Debout, in this article we argue that the reflexive relationship between police and protest tactics is heavily mediated by the presence of the press and by the emergence of digital technologies. Our analysis focuses on three sets of reflexive activist practice: (a) challenging media representationsâthe adaptations and innovations that respond to dominant media framing of policeâprotester relations; (b) âsousveillanceâ and police monitoringâthe recording and monitoring of police violence and the public education around the policeâs use of force; (c) civic forensics and data aggregationâthe gathering, analyzing, and collectivizing of citizen-generated data. Although not intended as a taxonomy, these groups of practices are offered as conceptual lenses for critically examining how activistsâ tactical repertoires for protesting police adapt and evolve, building on each other to challenge the representational, legal, and material dimensions of state power as it manifests in policeâprotester relations
Humanizing data through 'data comics': An introduction to graphic medicine and graphic social science
In recent years data visualization scholars and practitioners have drawn
attention to the need for data to be humanized. In addition to making
complex information more coherent, visualizations can work to incorporate empathy and help audiences connect to information. Addressing
this call for humanizing data visualization, this chapter considers the
emergent area of âdata comicsâ, looking at how the new fields of graphic
medicine and graphic social science deal with numeric data. We examine
recent data comics from graphic medicine and graphic social science that
exemplify the complexities and potential of presenting data in humanizing
ways. Our discussion is framed around what we call the EMA framework,
considering the Epistemic (knowledge and perspective), Methodological
(ways of working), and Aesthetic (practices of representation)
What Counts as Police Violence? A Case Study of Data in the CATO Instituteâs Police Misconduct Reporting Project.
Background: This article presents a case study about the role of data in the CATO Instituteâs Police Misconduct Reporting Project and reflects on what constitutes police violence. Analysis: Augmenting this data aggregation work, the article turns to additional data projects focused on recording police crime and misconduct to gather a broader understanding of incidents of police violence beyond acts that cause death. Conclusion and implications: It is only when we look at data on acts of violence that occur when an officer is on duty and off-duty, with or without a firearm, that a clearer sense of the traumatic cycle of policing can be understood. This way of looking at police data requires both broader practices of âcopwatching,â as well as a broader definition of what counts as violenc
Protest camps
Protest camps are global phenomena, occurring across a wide range of social movements and encompassing a diversity of demands for social change. They are spaces where people come together to imagine alternative worlds and articulate contentious politics, often in confrontation with the state. By taking a closer look at protest camps this book contributes two original insights. Firstly it provides a detailed investigation into the empirical history of protest camps from a global perspective, a story that has never been told before. Protest Camps will discuss a variety of examples of camps, taking the reader across different cultural, political and geographical landscapes of protest. Secondly the book will contribute to the understanding of the role of protest camps in contentious politics. This book argues that protest camps are unique spaces in which activists form collective political identities and enact experimental and experiential forms of democratic politics
Treatment of Nongenital Warts
Topical salicylic acid, cryotherapy, and topical fluorouracil are effective for treating nongenital warts. (Strength of Recommendation [SOR]: A, based on a systematic review of randomized controlled trials [RCTs].) Fluorouracil is more expensive than salicylic acid and produces more adverse effects, such as pain and blisters. The combination of salicylic acid and cryotherapy may be better than either treatment alone, although salicylic acid may be more cost-effective than cryotherapy. Bleomycin and interferons should not be used to treat nongenital warts. (SOR: A, based on a meta-analysis.
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