Late Pleistocene Glaciations of the Snag-Klutlan Area, Yukon Territory

Two late Pleistocene limits of glaciation were delineated in the Snag-Klutlan area. Radiocarbon dates, surficial characteristics of its drift, and the palynology of overlying sediments imply the older glaciation (Mirror Creek) is early Wisconsin in age; the younger glaciation (Macauley) is late Wisconsin in age and culminated c. 13 700 BP. The stratigraphy of deposits within the Macauley glacial limit implies that deglaciation between the two glaciations was minimal.Glaciations fini-pléistocènes dans la region de Snag-Klutlan, Territoire du Yukon.  On a retracé dans la région de Snag-Klutlan deux limites fini-pléistocènes de glaciation.  Les datations au radiocarbone, les caractéristiques superficielles de sa moraine et la palynologie des sédiments de recouvrement impliquent que la plus ancienne glaciation (Mirror Creek) est d’âge fini-wisconsinien et a culminé vers 13,700 A.P.  La stratigraphie des dépôts englobés par la limite glaciaire de Macauley laisse supposer que la déglaciation interglaciaire a été minime

René Alladaye, The Darker Shades of Pale Fire. An Investigation into a Literary Mystery

This is an unusual book about a one-of-a-kind novel. René Alladaye’s study is both strikingly original and the product of a sustained engagement with Nabokov’s critics. The Darker Shades of Pale Fire provides readers with an attentive account of others’ readings and offers a solution to the novel’s central mystery. By giving pride of place to Pale Fire’s critics, Alladaye’s book at times re-enacts the structure of the work it sets out to solve. Yet it seeks to move beyond the intriguing realm..

H. E. Manning’s ideas on the church as an Anglican

Manning's Anglican career was essentially a time of transition in which he transferred his allegiance from the Evangelical to the High Church wing of the Church of England. This transition was the result of his working out of certain principles that all his life he was to hold very dear. His fundamental concern was with the unity and authority of the Church. Like the early Tract writers he based this authority on the Apostolic Succession of the ministry and this led him to study tradition and its part in the rule of faith. His view of tradition as the interpreter of the Scriptures marks his break with, the Evangelical party in the Church. This view of the role of tradition, in turn, gave way to the idea of the infallibility of the Church, guaranteed by the perpetual presence of the Holy Spirit. Closely linked with the idea of the authority of the Church was Manning's idea of the unity of the Church. This reached its fullest expression in his book on the subject in which he defended the Church of England as a branch of the true Church. This view he was later to repudiate when he became convinced that the Church of England was in schism. Manning worked out his ideas while leading a public life which exposed him to the full force of the Erastianism of the times. His thinking brought him to the position where he was confronted by what seemed to be the equal claims of the Churches of England and Rome to be the true Church. But events such as the Hampden affair and the Gorham case were to tip the scales and lead him to repudiate the Church of England and join the Church of Rome

Sunday, Bloody Sunday: Martyrial Theology in the Eucharistic Liturgies of the Anglican Church of Canada

Martyrs were foundational to early Christian life. Their experiences, their commemoration, and their ongoing inclusion in Christian life shaped significant portions of the theology, liturgy, and cultural life of early Christians. This foundation is part of the inheritance of all churches today, including the Anglican Church of Canada (ACC). The ACC states that its own beliefs are best articulated in its liturgies. Much of the belief, understanding, and practice of the ACC’s members is shaped by participation in those liturgies. In order to understand how the ACC’s theology of martyrs and its liturgical formation of members around this topic, this thesis offers an examination of the importance of martyrs, both historically and in the present, along with some of their fundamental characteristics; a survey of general principles of liturgical formation; and finally examines the texts of the eucharistic liturgies of the ACC which relate to martyrial observances

The limits of hybridity and the crisis of liberal peace

Hybridity has emerged recently as a key response in International Relations and peace studies to the crisis of liberal peace. Attributing the failures of liberal peacebuilding to a lack of legitimacy deriving from uncompromising efforts to impose a rigid market democratic state model on diverse populations emerging from conflict, the hybrid peace approach locates the possibility of a ‘radical’, post-liberal, and emancipatory peace in the agency of the local and the everyday and ‘hybrid’ formations of international/liberal and local/non-liberal institutions, practices, and values. However, this article argues, hybrid peace, emerging as an attempt to resolve a problem of difference and alterity specific to the context in which the crisis of liberal peacebuilding manifests, is a problem-solving tool for the encompassment and folding into globalising liberal order of cultural, political, and social orders perceived as radically different and obstructionist to its expansion. Deployed at the very point this expansion is beset by resistance and crisis, hybrid peace reproduces the liberal peace's logics of inclusion and exclusion, and through a reconfiguration of the international interface with resistant ‘local’ orders, intensifies the governmental and biopolitical reach of liberal peace for their containment, transformation, and assimilation

Mid-term Evaluation of the Cultural Heritage Sector Under the EEA Grants 2009-2014

The EEA Grants in the current period have been allocated to programmes defined at national level, instead of to individual projects. These programmes have been implemented according to the Regulation and after a process of negotiation between the donors and the European Commission and then between the donors and the beneficiary countries. This negotiation has concerned, first, the Memorandum of Understanding and, second, the specific Programme Agreements. The process of negotiation and of preparing open calls for proposals has taken significantly longer than expected. This has led to severe delays in the allocation of funds and significantly reduced the time available to implement projects. However, there is broad support for the programme-based approach, as it could further improve the strategic focus and simplify the management arrangements. Given the time and effort that has been expended in setting up the programme-based approach, consideration should be given as to whether this approach should be retained for the next period. Stakeholders from the donor and beneficiary countries should consider whether negotiations can be concluded much more easily the second time round and whether programme management capacity can be retained. Where this is the case, the programme-based approach should be continued. There would be potential benefits from extending the end-date for completing expenditure and/or extending the programme period from 5 to 7 years. Monitoring indicators are appropriate, although many outcomes do not easily lend themselves to measurement and quantification. Qualitative reporting therefore remains important alongside monitoring of quantitative outputs

Text trajectories in a multilingual call centre: The linguistic ethnography of a calling script, Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies

Call centres have been widely criticised as standardized workplaces, and the imposition of calling scripts is often characterised as dehumanizing and deskilling. But these accounts lack close analysis of how scripts are actually produced, taken up and used by call centre workers, and they are generally locked into dualistic analyses of control and resistance. In contrast, this paper combines long-term ethnography with transcontextual analysis of the production, circulation and uptake of calling scripts. This reveals a good deal of collective and individual agency in processes of text-adaptation, and produces a rather more nuanced picture of work in a call centre