“And it’s just when I think I’ve won the staring contest”: Viewing the World through Science and Poetry with Madhur Anand

In this interview, poet and ecologist Madhur Anand discusses her collection of poetry, A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes, with Alec Follett. She considers the poetic potential of scientific language as well as other topics related to her poetry and her research including field guides, biodiversity, and socio-ecological relationships

Future craft:research exposition

Past, Present and Future Craft Practice has sought to use the Future Craft exposition as a vehicle for showcasing its research. The exposition was chosen over the exhibition as it opens up a dialogue with the audience on the work undertaken. The work is presented in a number of ways, through text, diagrams and objects, with the aim of providing the viewer with the thoughtful journeyundertaken by the researchers within the project team. The exposition is concerned with revealing knowledge and generating an understanding of the process behind the work. Objects contain very dense material; one object can embody thirty or more years of experience within it. Therefore, making theobject the singular focus does not always give access to the level of knowledge required to create it. The exposition seeks to look at process as well as product, to assist the viewer in gaining a fuller understanding of the intention behind the work.This is a research exposition emanating from a five-year project, undertaken by a team of five. Their individual journeys through the process are explored, and collectively they provide insight into the answers sought to the questions established within the Arts and Humanities Research Council grant application. The five individuals have worked both collectively and individually and the resultant picture is necessarily both complex and simple

Pastoral by André Alexis

Review of Pastoral by André Alexis

Environmental Art and Activism: Editors’ Notebook

Editorial introduction to the special issue on environmental art and activism, The Goose, volume 17, issue 2 (2019)

Ohio Soil Test Summary 1971-72

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Cabalcor: An Extracted History by Sun Belt

Review of Sun Belt\u27s Cabalcor: An Extracted History

Caribbean slavery, British abolition and the cultural politics of venereal disease in the Atlantic world

Venereal disease was commonplace among free and enslaved populations in colonial Caribbean societies. This article considers how contemporaries (both in the empire and metropole) viewed venereal infection and how they associated it with gendered notions of empire and masculinity. It further explores how creole medical practices evolved as planters, slaves, and tropical physicians treated sexually transmitted infections. Yet what began as a familiar and customary affliction was seen, by the late eighteenth century, as a problematic disease in the colonies. As medical theory evolved, placing greater attention on behaviour, British abolitionists focused on the sexual excesses and moral failings of Caribbean slaveholders, evidenced by their venereal complaints. The medicalization of venereal infection and its transition from urbane affliction to stigmatized disease helps explain a key problem in imperial history: how and why West Indian planters became demonized as debauched invalids whose sexual excesses rendered them fundamentally un-British. The changing cultural meanings given to venereal disease played an important role in giving moral weight to abolitionist attacks upon the West Indian slave system in the late eighteenth century. This article, therefore, indicates how changing models of scientific explanation had significant cultural implications for abolitionists, slaveholders, and enslaved people alik

Access to Justice – Rights or Rations? Comparing European Legal Aid Systems in the Context of a Shrinking Budgetary Environment

The inspiration for this thesis was derived from a week spent in the family law department of a local solicitor's practice. The UK government's reforms to the legal aid system were about to be implemented and appeared to be affecting the work undertaken as well as the morale of the solicitors working there. The discussion reviews the recent and proposed reforms to legal aid in England and Wales and their effect on access to justice. A comparison is made with other legal aid systems within the EU, examining best practices and the rationale behind implementation of reforms in order to develop an exemplar model which may be used as guidance when assessing or comparing legal aid systems in the future

Irradiation as a Quarantine Treatment for Mango Seed Weevil

The mango seed weevil, Cryptorhynchus mangiferae (F.), has prevented the export of mangoes from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland for over 50 years because there were no approved quarantine treatments to control this pest. Irradiation was explored as a method to prevent adult emergence in, or to sterilize, mango seed weevil. Mixed-age mango seed weevils in mangoes were irradiated with target doses of 50, 100, or 300 Gy and held for adult emergence. The 300 Gy treatment (dose range 180–310 Gy) did not prevent adult emergence. Emerging adults from the 100 and 300 Gy treatments were lethargic and short-lived, and laid no eggs indicating sterility. An irradiation quarantine treatment (100 Gy) to sterilize mango seed weevil in mangoes has been proposed. Approval of this treatment will open U.S. mainland markets to mango exports from Hawaii