236 research outputs found
Changes in museum management : a custodial or marketing emphasis
In recent years museums have changed from being predominantly custodial institutions to becoming increasingly focussed on audience attraction. New emphasis is placed on museum-audience interactions and relationships. This change in the purpose and priorities of museums has impacted upon the nature of museum management. The recognition of new roles for museum directors and the need to appeal to differentiated audiences has created new challenges for previously traditional, custodial directors. This paper presents a conceptual framework for managing museums, taking account of the museum service context and the delivery of the museum service product. It then examines two museums, one in Ireland and one in Australia, both of which have a similar cultural history. The paper considers the different management styles for museum directors and how these different styles illustrate the changes in professional perspective from the traditional (a focus on custodial preservation) to the more current (a focus on educating and entertaining the public). <br /
Effectiveness of tobacco control television advertising in changing tobacco use in England: a populationâbased crossâsectional study
AIM: To examine whether governmentâfunded tobacco control television advertising shown in England between 2002 and 2010 reduced adult smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption.
DESIGN: Analysis of monthly crossâsectional surveys using generalised additive models.
SETTING: England.
PARTICIPANTS: More than 80â000 adults aged 18 years or over living in England and interviewed in the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey.
MEASUREMENTS: Current smoking status, smokers' daily cigarette consumption, tobacco control gross rating points (GRPsâa measure of per capita advertising exposure combining reach and frequency), cigarette costliness, tobacco control activity, socioâdemographic variables.
FINDINGS: After adjusting for other tobacco control policies, cigarette costliness and individual characteristics, we found that a 400âpoint increase in tobacco control GRPs per month, equivalent to all adults in the population seeing four advertisements per month (although actual individualâlevel exposure varies according to TV exposure), was associated with 3% lower odds of smoking 2âmonths later [odds ratio (OR)â=â0.97, 95% confidence interval (CI)â=â0.95, 0.999] and accounted for 13.5% of the decline in smoking prevalence seen over this period. In smokers, a 400âpoint increase in GRPs was associated with a 1.80% (95%CIâ=â0.47, 3.11) reduction in average cigarette consumption in the following month and accounted for 11.2% of the total decline in consumption over the period 2002â09.
CONCLUSION: Governmentâfunded tobacco control television advertising shown in England between 2002 and 2010 was associated with reductions in smoking prevalence and smokers' cigarette consumption
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Anderson's ethical vulnerability: animating feminist responses to sexual violence
Pamela Sue Anderson argues for an ethical vulnerability which âactivates an openness to becoming changedâ that âcan make possible a relational accountability to one another on ethical mattersâ. In this essay I pursue Andersonâs solicitation that there is a positive politics to be developed from acknowledging and affirming vulnerability. I propose that this politics is one which has a specific relevance for animating the terms of feminist responses to sexual violence, something which has proved difficult for feminist theorists and activists alike. I will demonstrate the contribution of Andersonâs work to such questions by examining the way in which âethical vulnerabilityâ as a framework can illuminate the intersectional feminist character of Tarana Burkeâs grassroots Me Too movement when compared with the mainstream, viral version of the movement. I conclude by arguing that Andersonâs âethical vulnerabilityâ contains ontological insights which can allay both activist and academic concerns regarding how to respond to sexual violence
Disavowing 'the' prison
This chapter confronts the idea of âtheâ prison, that is, prison as a fixed entity. However hard we, that is, prison scholars including ourselves, seek to deconstruct and critique specific aspects of confinement, there is a tendency to slip into a default position that envisions the prison as something given and pre-understood. When it comes to prison our imagination seems to clog up. It is the political solution to its own failure, and the preferred metaphor for its own representation
Smoke, curtains and mirrors: the production of race through time and title registration
This article analyses the temporal effects of title registration and their relationship to race. It traces the move away from the retrospection of pre-registry common law conveyancing and toward the dynamic, future-oriented Torrens title registration system. The Torrens system, developed in early colonial Australia, enabled the production of âcleanâ, fresh titles that were independent of their predecessors. Through a process praised by legal commentators for âcuringâ titles of their pasts, this system produces indefeasible titles behind its distinctive âcurtainâ and âmirrorâ, which function similarly to magiciansâ smoke and mirrors by blocking particular realities from view. In the case of title registries, those realities are particular histories of and relationships with land, which will not be protected by property law and are thus made precarious. Building on interdisciplinary work which theorises time as a social tool, I argue that Torrens title registration produces a temporal order which enables land market coordination by rendering some relationships with land temporary and making others indefeasible. This ordering of relationships with land in turn has consequences for the human subjects who have those relationships, cutting futures short for some and guaranteeing permanence to others. Engaging with Renisa Mawani and other critical race theorists, I argue that the categories produced by Torrens title registration systems materialise as race
Tobacco is âour industry and we must support itâ: Exploring the potential implications of Zimbabweâs accession to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
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