401 research outputs found
Women, know your limits: Cultural sexism in academia
Despite the considerable advances of the feminist movement across Western societies, in Universities women are less likely to be promoted, or paid as much as their male colleagues, or even get jobs in the first place. One way in which we can start to reflect on why this might be the case is through hearing the experiences of women academics themselves. Using feminist methodology, this article attempts to unpack and explore just some examples of
âcultural sexismâ which characterise the working lives of many women in British academia.This article uses qualitative methods to describe and make sense of just some of those experiences. In so doing, the argument is also made that the activity of academia is profoundly gendered and this explicit acknowledgement may contribute to our
understanding of the under-representation of women in senior positions
Casting Light Upon The Great Endarkenment
While the Enlightenment promoted thinking for oneself independent of religious authority, the âEndarkenmentâ (Millgram 2015) concerns deference to a new authority: the specialist, a hyperspecializer. Non-specialists need to defer to such authorities as they are unable to understand their reasoning. Millgram describes how humans are capable of being serial hyperspecializers, able to move from one specialism to another. We support the basic thrust of Millgramâs position, and seek to articulate how the core idea is deployed in very different ways in relation to extremely different philosophical areas. We attend to the issue of the degree of isolation of different specialists and we urge greater emphasis on parallel hyperspecialization, which describes how different specialisms can be embodied in one person at one time
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'Crawling in the Flanders mud': Samuel Beckett, war writing and scatological pacifism
This article explores the depiction of wounded soldiers in Samuel Beckettâs novel Mercier and Camier (written in French in 1946, published in 1970, and translated and published in English in 1974). This aspect of the novel is discussed from two perspectives: the Irish military history which Beckett repeatedly invokes in the novel, notably the Boer War and World War I; and the relation between the novel and the âwar booksâ which followed World War I, many of which express pacifist ideals by laying bare the suffering which combatant bodies experience. Drawing attention to the hitherto neglected context of war writing for the image of the wounded soldier in Beckettâs work, this article uses Mercier and Camier to consider the political implications of the authorâs allusions to military history following World War II
Transparent Nuclei and Deuteron-Gold Collisions at RHIC
The current normalization of the cross section of inclusive high-pT particle
production in deuteron-gold collisions measured RHIC relies on Glauber
calculations for the inelastic d-Au cross section. These calculations should be
corrected for diffraction. Moreover, they miss the Gribov's inelastic shadowing
which makes nuclei more transparent (color transparency). The magnitude of this
effect rises with energy and it may dramatically affect the normalization of
the RHIC data. We evaluate these corrections employing the light-cone dipole
formalism and found a rather modest corrections for the current normalization
of the d-Au data. The results of experiments insensitive to diffraction
(PHENIX, PHOBOS) should be renormalized by about 20% down, while those which
include diffraction (STAR), by only 10%. Such a correction completely
eliminates the Cronin enhancement in the PHENIX data for pions. The largest
theoretical uncertainty comes from the part of the inelastic shadowing which is
related to diffractive gluon radiation, or gluon shadowing. Our estimate is
adjusted to data for the triple-Pomeron coupling, however, other models do not
have such a restrictions and predict much stronger gluon shadowing. Therefore,
the current data for high-pT hadron production in d-Au collisions at RHIC
cannot exclude in a model independent way the possibility if initial state
suppression proposed by Kharzeev-Levin-McLerran. Probably the only way to
settle this uncertainty is a direct measurement of the inelastic d-Au cross
sections at RHIC. Also d-Au collisions with a tagged spectator nucleon may
serve as a sensitive probe for nuclear transparency and inelastic shadowing. We
found an illuminating quantum-mechanical effect: the nucleus acts like a lens
focusing spectators into a very narrow cone.Comment: Latex 50 pages. Based on lectures given by the author at Workshop on
High-pT Correlations at RHIC, Columbia University, May-June, 2003. The
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Fact and fiction in housing research: utilizing the creative imagination
As much of our conceptual framework is informed by the experience of the imagination, there is much to be learnt from a study of various creative forms. Narrative fiction can be one such form, allowing us to gain a useful insight into complex features of social life. The purpose of this article is to investigate the treatment of housing issues in contemporary literature in order to gain insights into attitudes, experiences and interpretations from the perspective of a broad cultural milieu. Discussions of professionalism, housing tenure and homelessness have tended to be conducted within a narrow framework and adopted orthodox modes of evaluation. Consequently, the neglect of housing within a wider cultural context has reinforced the isolation of housing issues. The article argues that although discussions of housing and housing policy have been seriously limited within the contemporary novel, there are a number of key insights that can be gained from a discussion of issues within a fictional setting
Regret: A Theoretical and Conceptual Analysis
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Historical Analysis: Tracking, Problematizing, and Reterritorializing Achievement and the Achievement Gap
For more than a century, state and federal governments and organizations have used different measures to determine if students and groups of students have achieved in a particular subject or grade level. While the construct of achievement is applied irrespective of student differences, this equal application turns out to be anything but equitable. In this chapter, we work to understand the way achievement plays out for Black students by deconstructing how the word achievement works. In doing so, we track the history of education, testing, and curriculum as it has been applied to Black youth and youth of color
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