National Representations, National Theatres: Aubrey Menen and the Experimental Theatre Company

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record.This article discusses the Indian-Irish playwright and critic Aubrey Menen’s involvement with London's theatre scene in the 1930s. Aubrey Menen became heavily involved in student drama activities while a philosophy student at University College London. He co-founded the London Student Players as well as the Experimental Theatre company, a group on London's theatre fringe which sought to produce plays that were of the moment, politically current, pushing the boundaries of theatrical staging in alternative performance spaces. At the age of 21, Menen also became the dramatic critic for the monthly magazine, The Bookman. Menen used his column to offer a sharp critical dissection of the state of British theatre and to lay out a plan for a theatre that can call itself truly 'national' and how this might be achieved financially, artistically and practically. This essay highlights the wider context of Menen’s own pronouncements in The Bookman, exploring these as part of his engagement with London's alternative theatre scene in the 1930s. It argues that Menen’s ideas were a timely intervention into crucial debates how the nation should be represented in drama and how drama could reach an audience beyond the middle classes, preoccupations that are still hotly debated today.This work was supported by the British Academy under Grant SG-54032

Bombay dreams and Bombay nightmares: Spatiality and Bollywood gangster film's urban underworld aesthetic

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis (Routledge) via the DOI in this record.The importance of the city in an articulation of Indian modernity has been central to the narratives of Indian popular cinema since the 1950s. Especially since the mid-1970s, in the wake of Indira Gandhi’s declaration of a State of Emergency, Hindi cinema has explored the structures of power that determine Bombay’s urban city space where the hero of the film encounters exponentially communal, domestic, gang, and state violence. These films put forward textured views of the cityscape and address overtly its potential for corruption and violence. Focussing on Milan Luthria’s Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010), this article explores Hindi cinema’s engagement with urban violence in an age of market liberalisation, accelerated economic growth and planned expansion. By exploring how individuals encounter forms of urban violence as an everyday occurrence, the article argues that in these instances violence becomes the primary determining agent in the city’s urban landscape

‘Home’ Front: Indian soldiers and civilians in Britain 1939-1945

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the ISBN in this record

The targeted “Solution” in the spotlight: how a product focus influences collective action within and beyond cross-sector partnerships

Based on a comparative case study of six cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) in global health, we illustrate how a CSP’s aim to address a social issue on the basis of products influences the governance of collective action within the partnership and beyond, at the field level. We show how such product focus, through specialization, influences a CSP’s structures and interaction culture and, as a reflection of the partners’ underlying logics, generates different CSP-field effects. Specifically, if conceived as self-contained and without considering the implications for other field players and programs, a product focus may expedite collective action within the CSP, but spur fragmentation and disruption at the field level. Conversely, if designed to strengthen field capacity and integration at the product-field interlinkages, a product focus may take longer to form but helps avoid the above field effects. On this basis, we advance theory on CSPs’ product focus as a multilevel coordination mechanism and elaborate on the implications for designing product-based CSPs

A comparative cytogenetic analysis between the grasshopper species Chromacris nuptialis and C. speciosa (Romaleidae): constitutive heterochromatin variability and rDNA sites.

The chromosomes of Chromacris nuptialis and C. speciosa were comparatively analyzed using different cytogenetic techniques, in order to determine the level of karyotypic similarities and differences between the species

Mulheres na pesca artesanal: lutando por previdência e saúde

The present research aimed to meet the condition of health of fishers, both inside and in the vicinity of an extractive reserve, their actions for the improvement in local public services, build an initial proposal for creating appropriate EPIs to this productive activity in addition to contributing to the fight against racism and institutionalized discriminationin the institutions and services of the SUS. From a mixt of research and extension it was training needs attended to artisanal fishers in the area of occupational health. The methodology employed included mapping of health services in the territory, interviews with health professionals and fishers, conducting focus groups, especially to discuss the problems of prevention and use of EPIs and audiovisual records as instruments of analysis of speeches. Among the expected results from the techniques employed in the collection of data is the appropriation of fishers in relation to their health problems and preventive solutions in the exercise of the activity.A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo conhecer a condição de saúde das pescadoras, dentro e no entorno de uma reserva extrativista, suas ações para a melhoria nos atendimentos públicos locais, construir uma propostainicial para criação de Equipamento de Proteção Individual - EPIs apropriados a essa atividade produtiva além de contribuir para o combate ao racismo institucionalizado e às discriminações nas instituições e serviços do Sistema único de Saúde - SUS. A partir de um misto de pesquisa e extensão foram atendidas necessidades de formação para pescadoras artesanais na área de saúde do trabalho. A metodologia empregada incluiu mapeamento dos serviços de saúde no território, entrevistas com profissionais da saúde e pescadoras, realização de grupos focais, especialmente para discutir os problemas de prevenção e uso de EPIs e registros audiovisuais como instrumentos de análise dos discursos. Entre os resultados obtidos a partir das técnicas empregadas na coleta de dados estão à apropriação das pescadoras em relação aos seus problemas de saúde e soluções preventivas no exercício da atividade

Unempfindliche Elektronik - Erfahrungen aus 100 Flugzeugtests und neue Ideen zum EMV-Nachweis von Passagier-Funkdiensten

2007 hat Airbus zum ersten Mal eine GSM-Basisstation ("GSM onBoard") in einer Flugzeugkabine in Betrieb genommen. Wenn solche Systeme aktiv sind, können Passagiere ihre Mobiltelephone und PDAs während des Fluges verwenden. Die Elektromagnetische Verträglichkeit (EMV) wurde u. A. durch im Flugzeug durchgeführte Störfestigkeitstests nach EUROCAE ED-130 [EUROCAE ED-130, Guidance for the Use of Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) on Board Aircraft, 2006, Malakoff] nachgewiesen. Der weltweite Stand der Standardisierung und insbesondere der Regulierung bevorzugt zur Zeit Tests für den EMV Nachweis. Das ist verständlich, denn als Standards und Regularien entwickelt wurden, gab es sehr wenig Erfahrungswerte aus Tests. Seit 2007 wurden von Airbus viele GSM und ähnliche Systeme installiert und die EMV entsprechend oft durch Tests nachgewiesen. Airbus hat dadurch einen großen Datenbestand der Störfestigkeit von Flugzeugen gegenüber Passagierfunkdiensten aufgebaut. Das Hauptergebnis der vielen Tests ist, dass Flugzeugelektronik unempfindlich gegenüber vom Passagier mitgebrachten elektronischen Geräten ist. Normung und Regulierung sollte darauf reagieren und Test- und Prüfvorschriften anpassen. Eine generelle Präferenz von Tests gegenüber Analysen ist nicht mehr sinnvoll. Testempfehlungen [EUROCAE ED-130, Guidance for the Use of Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) on Board Aircraft, 2006, Malakoff; RTCA DO-294, Guidance On Allowing Transmitting Portable Electronic Devices (t-peds) On Aircraft, 2008] sollten auf mögliche Vereinfachungen überprüft werden. Ein genereller vereinfachter Nachweis für die Nutzung von Kommunikationsstandards mittlerer Leistung ist zu erwägen