183 research outputs found
Hypervelocity impact testing of cables
The physics and electrical results obtained from simulated micrometeoroid testing of certain Skylab cables are presented. The test procedure, electrical circuits, test equipment, and cable types utilized are also explained
In the wake of austerity: social impact bonds and the financialisation of the welfare state in Britain
This paper provides an analysis of the financialisation of the British welfare state. In a continuation of neo-liberal privatisation and labour market activation, the financialised welfare state pursues a policy of welfare retrenchment, while engaging in forms of social engineering aimed at producing self-responsibilised individuals and communities who are financially literate, âinvestment-readyâ and economically productive. New financial instruments such as social impact bonds are deployed to these ends, both to âsolve social problemsâ and enable cost saving. Through the use of such financial instruments, the implementation of regulatory infrastructures and tax incentives, the financialised welfare state becomes a vehicle for the transfer of wealth from the public to private investors, while subjecting the domain of social policy to the vicissitudes of global financial markets. This paper offers a critique of these developments, situating the case of Britain within the broader global context and with regard to the implications for understanding the current political economy of the welfare state
A useful savagery: The invention of violence in nineteenth-century England
âA Useful Savagery: The Invention of Violence in Nineteenth-Century Englandâ considers a particular configuration of attitudes toward violence that emerged in the early decades of the nineteenth century. As part of a longer-term process of emerging âsensibilities,â violence was, seemingly paradoxically, âinventedâ as a social issue while concurrently relocated in the âcivilisedâ imagination as an anti-social feature mainly of âsavageâ working-class life. The dominant way this discourse evolved was through the creation of a narrative that defined âcivilisationâ in opposition to the presumed âsavageryâ of the working classes. Although the refined classes were often distanced from the physical experience of violence, concern with violence and brutality became significant parts of social commentary aimed at a middle-class readership. While stridently redefining themselves in opposition to âbrutality,â one of the purposes of this literature was to create a new middle class and justify the expansion of state power. By the closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the working classes adopted tenets of Victorian respectability, a proliferating number of social and psychological âothersâ were identified against which âcivilisedâ thought could define itself
Expressive free speech, the state, and the public sphere: A BakhtinianâDeleuzian analysis of âpublic addressâ at Hyde Park
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2008 Taylor & Francis.In this paper I explore how struggles around free speech between social movements and the state are often underpinned by a deeper struggle around expressive images of what counts as either âdecentâ or âindecentâ discussion. These points are developed by exploring what is arguably the most famous populist place for free speech in Britain, namely Hyde Park. In 1872 the state introduced the Parks Regulation Act in order to regulate, amongst other things, populist uses of free speech at Hyde Park. However, although the 1872 Act designated a site in Hyde Park for public meetings, it did not mention âfree speechâ. Rather, the 1872 Act legally enforced the liberty to make a âpublic addressâ and this was implicitly contrasted by the state of an expressive image of âindecentâ speakers exercising their ârightâ of free speech at Hyde Park. Once constructed, the humiliating image of âindecentâ free speech could then be used by the state to regulate actual utterances of public speakers at Hyde Park. But the paper shows how in the years immediately following 1872 a battle was fought out in Hyde Park over the expressive image of public address between the state and regulars using Hyde Park as a public sphere to exercise free speech. For its part the state had to engage in meaningful deliberative forms of discussion within its own regulatory framework and with the public sphere at Hyde Park in order to maintain the legal form, content and expression of the 1872 Act. To draw out the implications of these points I employ some of the theoretical ideas of the Bakhtin Circle and Gilles Deleuze. Each set of thinkers in their own way make valuable contributions for understanding the relationship between the state, public sphere and expressive images
E.P. Thompson and cultural sociology: questions of poetics, capitalism and the commons
There is currently a need for cultural sociology to readdress the work of humanistic and cultural Marxism. While more recently much of this work has been dismissed the appearance of more radical social movements and the on-going crisis of neoliberalism suggests that it still has much to tell us. In this respect, this article seeks to readdress the writing of historian E.P.Thompson arguing that his work on the class based and other social movements, poetics, critique of positivism and economic reason, utopia and work on the idea of the commons all has much to offer more contemporary scholarship. While the article recognises that the cultural Marxism of figures like Thompson can-not simply be resurrected it does continue to offer a number of critical insights lacking from other traditions within cultural sociology. By readdressing the internal complexity of Thompsonâs writing the argumentative strategy of this article suggests that cultural sociology needs to move beyond more simplistic understandings of cultural Marxism and more carefully explore what it has to offer
Capitalism and the sea: Sovereignty, territory and appropriation in the global ocean
This paper introduces the term âterraqueous territorialityâ to analyse a particular relationship between capitalism as a social formation, and the sea as a natural force. It focuses on three spaces â exclusive economic zones (EEZs), the system of âflags of convenienceâ (FOC), and multilateral counter-piracy initiatives â as instances of capitalist states and firms seeking to transcend the geo-physical difference between firm land and fluid sea. Capital accumulation, it is argued here, seeks to territorialise the sea through forms of sovereignty and modes of appropriation drawn from experiences on land, but in doing so encounters particular tensions thereby generating distinctive spatial effects. By exploring the articulation between sovereignty, territory and appropriation in the organisation of spaces where land meets sea, the article seeks to demonstrate the value of an analytical framework that underlines the terraqueous nature of contemporary capitalism
A cultura da violĂȘncia: os crimes na Comarca do Rio das Mortes - Minas Gerais SĂ©culo XIX
A Comparative Approach to Identifying the Irish in Long Eighteenth-Century London
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History', on 16 July 2015, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2015.1007194.Historians seeking to identify the Irish have overwhelmingly relied upon nominal record linkage, thus limiting studies to periods and contexts in which corroborating records exist. Surname analysis provides an alternative: a subset of 283 Irish surnames was able to correctly isolate 40 percent of known Irish individuals across thousands of entries, which is sufficient for sampling the Irish in demographic studies. This conclusion was based on an analysis of 278,949 names from the London area in the 1841 census, and was tested and refined against 42,248 historical records pertaining to the poor in London between 1777 and 1820.Peer reviewe
Effects of training multiple form classes on acquisition, generalization and maintenance of word retrieval in a single subject
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