Claimed Co-ethnics and Kin-State Citizenship in Southeastern Europe

The paper introduces the often neglected concept of 'claimed co-ethnics' in the analysis of citizenship policies. It argues that this is an interstitial category that further complicates the triadic nexus between national minorities, nationalising states and kin-states. The 'claimed co-ethnics' are defined as people who are recognised by the citizenship (or ethnizenship) conferring state as belonging to its main ethnic group, although they themselves do not embrace that definition. In addition to bringing the issue of claimed co-ethnics into focus, the paper elucidates how citizenship policies can affect groups that challenge the exact fit between ethnicity and nation, showing how national governments through particular citizenship policies and categorisation practices engage in the construction of these groups. The paper shows that the triadic nexus framework, which has had a strong influence on citizenship and minorities scholarship, needs to be revised to include unidirectional relations between the elements of the triadic nexus. The paper is based on the comparison between the cases of ethnic Vlachs (in the context of Albania and Greece) and Bunjevci (in the context of Serbia and Croatia).European Commission - Seventh Framework Programme (FP7

Introduction

This introductory chapter examines the intersections between embodiment, material culture, and Charlotte Brontë’s life and writing. It charts the evolution of Brontë studies following the rise of New Historicism and seminal scholarship from the 1990s and early 2000s by critics and biographers such as Christine Alexander and Jane Sellars, Juliet Barker, Lucasta Miller, Sally Shuttleworth, and Margaret Smith. The chapter goes on to discuss how the “material turn” and recent theories of embodiment inform twenty-first -century approaches to the presentation and reception of Brontë’s art, life, and legacy. Focusing on the interdisciplinary conversations that comprise the volume, the editors discuss how book history, cultural heritage, the history of dress, literary criticism, and museum curation prove vital to understanding the ways in which readers have responded to Brontë’s work from its original publication to the present day

Intoxication and harm reduction

Any use of substances to produce intoxication carries with it the potential for harm. However, intoxication is something that many people will experience in their lives, and for the majority, intoxication will carry with it both pleasure and pain: pleasure because intoxication can facilitate an enhanced sense of enjoyment, pain because often intoxication has ‘morning after’ impact where physical and emotional pain occurs. Harm, in these cases, is fleeting and relatively benign and is often outweighed by pleasure. However, there are people for whom intoxication is regular and is culpable in creating serious harms for the individual, their families and their communities. In those situations, many societies now offer services and interventions which are aimed at reducing substance-related harms. This chapter examines harm reduction, looking at the concept, development and focus of harm reduction from a number of perspectives. It looks at the manner in which harm reduction has evolved from a clinical intervention for intravenous drug users, branched out into advice on ‘safe use’ for recreational substance users and is increasingly being used as a political vehicle to begin to challenge some of the structural factors associated with problematic substance use at community level. It notes that increasingly harm reduction is in the vanguard of the decriminalisation and legalisation of formerly hitherto proscribed substances. It concludes by asking questions of how much further harm reduction will go in reshaping local, national and global drug policies