Minding our ps and qs: Issues of property, provenance, quantity and quality in institutional repositories

The development of institutional repositories has opened the path to the mass availability of peer-reviewed scholarly information and the extension of information democracy to the academic domain. A secondary space of free-to-all documents has begun to parallel the hitherto-closed world of journal publishing and many publishers have consented to the inclusion of copyrighted documents in digital repositories, although frequently specifying that a version other than the formally-published one be used. This paper will conceptually examine the complex interplay of rights, permissions and versions between publishers and repositories, focussing on the New Zealand situation and the challenges faced by university repositories in recruiting high-quality peer-reviewed documents for the open access domain. A brief statistical snapshot of the appearance of material from significant publishers in repositories will be used to gauge the progress that has been made towards broadening information availability. The paper will also look at the importance of harvesting and dissemination, in particular the role of Google Scholar in bringing research information within reach of ordinary internet users. The importance of accuracy, authority, provenance and transparency in the presentation of research-based information and the important role that librarians can and should play in optimising the open research discovery experience will be emphasised

The Law on Compensation Rights for Reduction in Property Values Due to Planning Decisions in the United Kingdom

As we will see, rights to compensation in the U.K. are very limited and are largely related to the revocation or modification of a valid planning permission. In some situations, landowners may also be able to require authorities to purchase their lands. This is limited to cases where either (1) the land is zoned for public works that requires the land to be publicly owned, or (2) a development control decision renders the property incapable of any beneficial use. The overriding principle, however, is that where the development of land is restricted in the name of the public interest, landowners do not have the right to compensation

\u27She had suffered so many humiliations for want of money’: The Quest for Financial Independence in Sarah Grand’s The Beth Book

Melissa Purdue analyzes Sarah Grand’s semi-autobiographical The Beth Book (1897), “a New Woman novel deeply concerned with money—particularly women’s lack of it,” which finds its central metaphor in the book’s “discourse about hungry bodies, food, and consumption.” Grand celebrates her protagonist Beth’s proactive attitude toward money, indicating a larger shift in New Woman literature towards an endorsement of women earning their own money while also caring for others. As The Beth Book demonstrates, Purdue writes, “financial independence and what one does with money, rather than one’s distance from money, become important signals of feminine virtue in New Woman literature.

Clemence Housman’s The Were-Wolf: A Cautionary Tale for the Progressive New Woman

Clemence Housman’s little-studied novel The Were-Wolf (1896) gives voice to fin de siècle anxieties surrounding changing roles for women. Just as other ‘monstrous’ texts of the period tackle these fears so too does Housman’s novel, but in the unique form of a werewolf story. A great deal of scholarship has been devoted to nineteenth-century representations of vampires, but comparatively little work has been done on less-frequently occurring werewolves. The figure of the werewolf embodies contradictions and allows Housman to tackle false dichotomies that plagued women at the end of the century – dutiful wife and mother or single, professional woman – and highlights both the potential and the danger of the New Woman. Her werewolf identity mirrors the rupture that results from trying to embody ‘conflicting’ roles, and it emphasizes White Fell’s inability to conform to societal expectations for women. While on the surface the novel can be read as a simple Christian allegory, it also functions as a cautionary tale for the progressive New Woman. The story warns that the New Woman’s strength and deviance from accepted norms will be perceived as dangerous signs of societal decline, and that more conservative individuals will attempt to destroy her progress

Book Review: Halisbury\u27s Laws of Hong Kong: Town Planning

In his thoughtful treatise, Professor Anton Cooray, Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, examines town planning laws in Hong Kong. This work is the first comprehensive work on Hong Kong planning law and must have involved considerable research. Professor Cooray sets out in considerable detail the main regulatory systems and the many other more specialist regulations that apply such as advertisement and conservation control. The treatment follows the standard Halsbury formula with numbered paragraphs with extensive footnotes. The complex subject matter is set out clearly and logically. The reader is taken gently along in that the main principles are first set out and then there is further elaboration and explanation. Because of the format chosen by the author, the treatment is mainly descriptive and analytic though, as indicated, it does include an evaluation of the system. There are detailed footnotes that reveal the author\u27s expert knowledge of both the United Kingdom and Hong Kong planning law. It is an essential source for anyone who wishes to understand town planning in Hong Kong

Useful Victims: Symbolic Rage and Racist Violence on the Global Extreme-Right

The extreme-right has long relied on false claims of anti-White violence and racialized victimhood narratives in order to promote violence and advance their ideology. By carefully curating a ‘siege mentality’ among adherents, extremist writers and ‘philosophers’ have positioned whiteness as something under attack, and mobilized the ideas of demographic peril and endangered whiteness in order to justify rhetorical and physical violence against people of color and minority communities. This mythology has been a constant feature of the publications and propaganda of far-right groups around the world, and has been used to further the constructed image of extremist racist organizations as protectors of both whiteness and womanhood. This rhetoric has been used to radicalize individuals to the point at which they see violence as acceptable and necessary – an oft-repeated process which reached its most recent tragic conclusion in 2016 when a white man murdered 9 worshippers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, saying to one victim; “you rape our women… you have to go”. This article analyzes the ways in which extremist right-wing groups in South Africa, the United Kingdom and United States have historically constructed the threat of anti-White violence and mobilized it in order to spread hate and radicalize individuals towards violent action. I argue that the extreme-right has consistently perpetuated a mythology surrounding race and sexuality in order to justify continued rhetorical and physical violence against communities of color, LGBTQ people, and the Jewish community