Disability and disaster recovery: a tale of two cities?

This paper examines the connections between disability and disaster from a global perspective. Concepts from the research and policy literature are used to distinguish between individual and social models of disability, and between natural hazards and human disasters. These concepts are then employed to investigate data on the response to disabled people’s recovery needs in two recent case studies: the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. The analysis combines primary, secondary and tertiary sources to explore disability issues in the reconstruction of inclusive communities and the lessons that may be learned about disaster preparedness in poor communities. The conclusions suggest that more attention should be paid to social model approaches, particularly in understand global links with poverty, and that disabled people’s organisations should be resourced as agents of disaster recovery and preparedness

Occupy Horror: An Analysis of Gothic Motifs and Malefic Technological Prostheses in Contemporary American Horror Films

My project explores the genre of Western contemporary horror films, with a focus on the way technological communication devices—the telephone, internet-connected computer, and the television—are given a life of their own and rendered maleficent. By staging the anxieties and ambivalences we as a society feel towards our technological prostheses alongside classic Victorian Gothic motifs, the films I analyze force us to confront ancient tensions through a 21st Century lens

Supervised Study

Supervised study refers, in general to the attempt, in some form or other, to systematized the conditions of study, and to give intelligent direction to the pupils\u27 efforts. The most progressive writers and teachers have all agreed that supervised study is the effective direction of all the pupil\u27s learning activities