Orientalising deafness: race and disability in imperial Britain

This article explores the conflations and connections that postcolonial and disability scholars have drawn between ‘race’, ‘colonialism’ and ‘disability’ from a historical perspective. By looking at the connections drawn between ‘race’ and ‘disability’ in the context of nineteenth-century imperial Britain, I hope to probe beyond them to examine the origins and implications of their interplay. I do so by focusing on ideas about deafness, an impairment radically reconfigured in the colonial period, and inflected with concerns about degeneration, belonging, heredity and difference. Disability, I argue, not only operated as an additional ‘category of difference’ alongside ‘race’ as a way of categorising and subjugating the various ‘others’ of Empire, but intersected with it. The ‘colonisation’ of disabled people in Britain and the ‘racial other’ by the British were not simply simultaneous processes or even analogous ones, but were part and parcel of the same cultural and discursive system. The colonising context of the nineteenth century, a period when British political, economic and cultural expansion over areas of South Asia, Australasia and Africa increased markedly, structured the way in which all forms of difference were recognised and expressed, including the difference of deafness. So too did the shifts in the raced and gendered thinking that accompanied it, as new forms of knowledge were developed to justify, explain and contest Britain's global position and new languages were developed through which to articulate otherness. Such developments reconfigured the meaning of disability. Disability was, in effect, ‘orientalised’. ‘Race’ I argue was formative in shaping what we have come to understand as ‘disability’ and vice versa; they were related fantasies of difference

The Defensible space

The inherent need to be felt "secured" directed man to change the natural environment to a "Built Environment". In the process of building environment man always had a preconceived image of an ideal secured environment in his mind; in other words defensiveness. Therefore, from the beginning, the human built environments have conformed to the principles that have organized his image of such "ideal secured environments". The territoriality and survivability are the principles that have organized the image of an ideal secured environments. These principles, in the context has a relationship with the level of security sensed by a person in a particular environment (defensible space) The man's needs to be secured are reflected in built environment through many means such as the orientation, belongingness, territoriality and community. An examination of the territoriality and survivability of the environments leads one to understand how defensible space is generated in a built environment. Such understanding among the architects, enables them to cater for the user; that is to create comfortable built environments; the work of Architecture

Creation in crisis : Christian perspectives on sustainability

Introduction / Robert S. White -- Sustainable climate and the future of energy / James J. McCarthy -- Responding to climate change: how much should we discount the future? / Donald A. Hay -- International governance and root causes of unsustainability / Brain Heap, Flavio Comim and George Wilkes -- Population matters: voluntary contraception for environmental sustainability / John Guillebaud and Pete Moore -- Natural disasters: acts of God or results of human folly? / Robert S. White -- Just food: a biblical perspective on culture and agriculture / Ellen F. Davis -- Unsustainable agriculture and land use: restoring stewardship for biospheric sustainability / Calvin B. DeWitt -- Water, water... / Richard C. Carter -- Globalization, ecology and poverty / C. René Padilla -- Justice for all earth: society, ecoloy and the biblical prophets / Hilary Marlow -- Jesus, God and nature in the Gospels / Richard Bauckham -- Sustaining ethical life in the Anthropocene / Michael Northcott -- Creation and new creation: transforming Christian perspectives / Douglas J. Moo -- Environmental unsustainability and a biblical vision of the earth's future / Jonathon Moo

People of the book The authority of the Bible in Christianity

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The renewal of the Common Prayer Unity and diversity in Church of England worship; essays by the Liturgical Commission

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Exploiting Marine Wildlife in Queensland: the Commercial Dugong and Marine Turtle Fisheries, 1847-1969

The historical exploitation of marine resources in Queensland has only been partially documented. In particular, the history of the commercial fishing of dugongs and marine turtles has received comparatively little scholarly attention. Since European settlement in Queensland, various human activities have exploited these\ud resources. We present documentary and oral history evidence of the scale of those industries. Based on extensive archival and oral history research, we argue that diverse fishing practices occurred and that the sustained exploitation of dugongs, green turtles, and hawksbill turtles led to observable declines in the numbers of these\ud animals – now species of conservation concern