The 2010 UK Home Office ‘Sexualisation of Young People’ Review: a discursive policy analysis

This paper offers a discursive policy analysis of the 2010 UK Home Office Sexualisation of Young People Review, authored by Linda Papadopoulos (2010a). It will scrutinise the narrative presented by the text of the danger posed by cultural representations to healthy development, and trace the way that the text links this danger to catastrophic outcomes: child sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking. Examining this narrative, the article will propose that the UK Review deploys spatial metaphors to naturalise a gendered account of childhood, sexuality and danger, evoking the creeping influence of a corrupting culture on a girl's most private self. The article will also demonstrate that this spatial narrative underpins the epistemological structure of the text – its separation of the primary from the secondary, the real from the artificial

Refugees, trauma and adversity-activated development

The nature of the refugee phenomenon is examined and the position of mental health professionals is located in relation to it. The various uses of the word 'trauma' are explored and its application to the refugee context is examined. It is proposed that refugees' response to adversity is not limited to being traumatized but includes resilience and Adversity-Activated Development (AAD). Particular emphasis is given to the distinction between resilience and AAD. The usefulness of the 'Trauma Grid' in the therapeutic process with refugees is also discussed. The Trauma Grid avoids global impressions and enables a more comprehensive and systematic way of identifying the individual refugee's functioning in the context of different levels, i.e. individual, family, community and society/culture. Finally, I discuss implications for therapeutic work with refugees

T-duality and the Worldvolume Solitons of Five-Branes and KK-Monopoles

We show that the fluxes of the various six-dimensional "gauge" theories are associated to below threshold bound states of D-branes with the NS-5-branes and KK-monopoles which preserve half of bulk supersymmetry. We then present the supergravity solutions that correspond to these bound states. In addition using the worldvolume solitons of IIA and IIB NS-5-branes and KK-monopoles, we investigate the sectors of the "gauge" theories that preserve one quarter of bulk supersymmetry. This leads to a generalization a supergravity solution which has the interpretation of two intersecting NS-5-branes at a 3-brane and to the construction of some of the worldvolume solitons of IIA and M-theory KK-monopoles. Furthermore, using the IIA/IIB T-duality of the bulk theories, we give the T-duality transformations of the worldvolume solitons of NS-5-branes and KK-monopoles. We find that the worldvolume 0-brane, self-dual string and 2-brane solitons of NS-5-branes appear in the same T-duality chain.Comment: 20 pages, phyzzx, minor change

Solitons in (1,1)-supersymmetric massive sigma model

We find the solitons of massive (1,1)-supersymmetric sigma models with target space the groups $SO(2)$ and $SU(2)$ for a class of scalar potentials and compute their charge, mass and moduli space metric. We also investigate the massive sigma models with target space any semisimple Lie group and show that some of their solitons can be obtained from embedding the $SO(2)$ and $SU(2)$ solitons.Comment: Phyzzx.tex, 32 pp, 3 fig

Thurston's metric on Teichm\"uller space and the translation lengths of mapping classes

We show that the Teichm\"uller space of a surface without boundary and with punctures, equipped with Thurston's metric is the limit (in an appropriate sense) of Teichm\"uller spaces of surfaces with boundary, equipped with their arc metrics, when the boundary lengths tend to zero. We use this to obtain a result on the translation distances for mapping classes for their actions on Teichm\"uller spaces equipped with their arc metrics