Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Hero\u27s Fight\u3c/em\u3e. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly. Reviewed by Katrina Bell McDonald

Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, The Hero’s Fight. Princeton University Press (2015), 422 pages, $21.00 (hardcover)

The experience of an international female rugby player

This chapter presents the case study of a Paola. Rugby is respected as one of the sports across the world where men and women play under the same rules. Paola mentions her best friends all being from rugby, so she clearly got involved into the social side of the game and started to create important emotional bonds, which increased the pleasure she was feeling every time she played. Paola's experience of transitioning from football to rugby, although happening later in her life, had a huge effect on her identity and personal development. Paola's cultural learning through rugby though seems to have the opposite effect, as her horizon of learning evolves to appreciate and take care of her body more than before. Paola's entrance into the rugby environment affects her horizon for action and horizon of learning, which had become stale in football but were re-energised by a new enthusiasm for learning the game of rugby

Theta characteristics and the fixed locus of [-1] on some varieties of Kummer type

We study some combinatorial aspects of the fixed loci of symplectic involutions acting on hyperk\"ahler varieties of Kummer type. Given an abelian surface $A$ with a $(1,d)$-polarization $L$, there is an isomorphism $K_{d-1}A\cong K_{\hat{A}}(0,\hat{l},-1)$ between a hyperk\"ahler of Kummer type that parametrizes length $d$ points on $A$ and one that parametrizes degree $d-1$ line bundles supported on curves in $|\hat{L}|$, where $\hat{L}$ is a $(1,d)$-polarization on $\hat{A}$. We examine the bijection this isomorphism gives between isolated points in the fixed loci of $[-1_A]$ when $d$ is odd, which has a combinatorics related to theta characteristics. Along the way, we give numerical values for a formula of \cite{KMO} counting the number of components of a symplectic involution acting on a Kummer-type variety.Comment: 22 pages, 2 figure

Understanding the female judoka’s “coach – athlete” relationship: a British perspective

Background and Study Aim: The initial idea for the investigation came from Maki Tsukada’s two year observation of the British system, but also after reflection on the London 2012 Olympics and the “coach – athlete” interaction. The wider impact of the study will mean that coaches will have a greater understanding of how to build and work at their relationship with their athletes and understand what the important dynamics are within. The purpose of this study was the knowledge about the “coach – athlete” relationship, to gain a greater understanding into the relationship between female judo athletes and their coach. Material and Methods: The participants chosen were the Women’s Great Britain Judo Squad 2013, the athletes (n = 36) and the National coaches (n = 2). The study explores what is felt as important, the dynamics in the relationship and does the athlete’s opinion differ from that of the coach. The athletes participated in a specifically designed questionnaire and the coaches in semi-structured interview. Results: The findings demonstrate the importance of the relationship and the varying, yet often similar attributes expressed, from both the athletes and coaches. Conclusions: The significant and fundamental finding was the importance of the “coach – athlete” relationship being recognised by both the athletes and the coaches, with the athletes declaring that they definitely need a coach to develop and improve. In a direct comparison on what is important to the athlete and to the coach in the dynamic of the relationship, the points are very similar

De-Romanticizing Black Intergenerational Support: The Questionable Expectations of Welfare Reform

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73197/1/j.1741-3737.2001.00213.x.pd

Downward Residential Mobility in Structural-Cultural Context: The Case of Disadvantaged Black Mothers

Sorting out the various macro and micro causes of Black mothers’ downward residential mobility is extremely difficult, though past research has been fairly successful in identifying and explaining the mechanisms by which structural factors constrain Black residential change. The socio-historical context in which Black mothers operate, however, is largely ignored in these studies. We argue that past scholarship on Black women’s social history offers some helpful insights into the “residential desires and decision making” related to Black women’s social location. This paper pinpoints instances of downward residential mobility among a sample of disadvantaged Black mothers and works to elucidate both structurally- and culturally-related circumstances that help to explain them. In particular, it seeks to connect “residential desires and decision making” to sentiments Black women have had historically toward their family and community obligations. This study interweaves quantitative and qualitative data from the Baltimore Study, which traces the movement of disadvantaged Black mothers in and out of socioeconomic categories, including in and out of distressed neighborhoods over a 30-year period of their life course (approximately 1968-1996)

Black Activist Mothering: A Historical Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class

The prevalence of poor health among young disadvantaged Black mothers and their children has prompted a revival of maternal activism among Black middle-class urban women. A study of the California-based "Birthing Project," founded in 1988, reveals that such activism is best understood as a modern-day version of Black activist mothering practiced by African-American clubwomen from the time of slavery to the early 1940s. This article demonstrates the legacy of "normative empathy" as a significant motivator for middle-class maternal activism and as a basis for a middle-class critique of Black mothering among the disadvantaged

Scientific Gerrymandering & Bifurcation

Environmental litigation must often examine the propriety of corporate conduct in areas of scientific complexity. In the second generation of climate nuisance suits, for example, allegations of corporate participation in the climate disinformation campaign are woven into plaintiffs’ claims. Toxic tort suits, currently and most notably in the Roundup and PFAS litigation, present another area of environmental litigation grappling with the legal ramifications of alleged corporate deception about scientific information. Toxic tort suits often surface allegations, and in many cases disturbing evidence, of what we term corporate “scientific gerrymandering”— corporate efforts to finesse, slow, or even mislead scientific understanding of the toxicity of chemicals and other products. The manner and extent to which scientific gerrymandering is explored and litigated within those suits is often driven by another typical feature of toxic tort litigation—the procedural device of bifurcation. Judges frequently bifurcate toxic tort suits into causation and negligence phases, with the causation phase heard first. Bifurcation in toxic tort suits involving issues of scientific gerrymandering requires judges to decide whether evidence of scientific gerrymandering is relevant to and may be presented during the causation phase of a toxic tort trial. And, typically, as Judge Vince Chhabria recently ruled in In re Roundup Products Liability Litigation (MDL No. 2741), judges hold that evidence of scientific gerrymandering cannot be presented or must be evidence of scientific gerrymandering cannot be presented or must be significantly limited during the causation phase because scientific gerrymandering is not relevant to causation. Rulings that prevent admitting evidence of scientific gerrymandering during the causation phase of bifurcated trials can, however, be critiqued on both doctrinal and normative grounds. First, from a doctrinal perspective, scientific gerrymandering—how a corporate defendant shaped scientific knowledge about a product’s risk—is often directly relevant to causation— whether the product causes the relevant harm. This is so because effective corporate scientific gerrymandering can define the current state of science about product risk, particularly when questions about the extent of risk caused by a product lie at the frontiers of scientific knowledge. Additionally, numerous tort doctrines support shifting or reducing causal burdens in the face of defendant misconduct, like scientific gerrymandering—which might be likened to obscuring evidence. Second, from a normative perspective, permitting consideration of scientific gerrymandering during causation can be justified even where the introduction of such evidence creates the risk that juries will erroneously find that a product causes harm. Condemnation of scientific gerrymandering is consistent with corrective justice because corporate scientific gerrymandering can occasion distinct and independent harm by creating a large group of exposed individuals who endure an extended period of fearful uncertainty until such time as the nature of that risk can be objectively resolved, even if that product is ultimately shown not to cause the suspected harm. Finally, from a policy perspective, allowing the introduction of evidence of corporate scientific gerrymandering during the causation phase of bifurcated toxic tort trials should discourage corporate actors from engaging in scientific gerrymandering, thereby improving the efficacy of regulation and bolstering public confidence

“Sport saved my life” but “I am tired of being an alien!”: Stories from the life of a deaf athlete

Objectives: This study explores the ways in which a deaf athlete’s experiences of participation in sport can affect his psychological and social well-being, and how social and interpersonal relationships play a role in shaping these experiences. Design: To produce an understanding of the embodied experience of being a deaf athlete over the years and in different social situations, an autoethnographic approach was adopted. Method: To generate the stories represented in this study, three main strategies have been adopted: memory writing, emotional recall, and the use of memory. Adopting the position of the storyteller, data was represented through an evocative autoethnography, with the aim to describe subjective emotional experiences to create empathy with, as well as increase awareness and encourage reflection in the reader. Results: Five story fragments taken from a deaf athlete’s life are presented, in relation to key moments of the athlete’s life. The stories show how social relationships affect the athlete’s experience of sport participation, spanning from an enthusiastic inclusion in playing sport with hearing and non-hearing peers, to the feelings of alienation felt due to social exclusion from hearing sport events, and the hopelessness deriving from a lack of understanding of the specific needs that come from coaching a deaf person. Conclusions: The theoretical and practical implications of this study are discussed, with particular attention towards the opportunity of portraying the experiences of a category of athletes that has been scarcely investigated, and even more rarely allowed its own voice

Prospectus, March 14, 2019

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