Queer and Feminist Punk in the UK

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsty Lohman
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Riot Grrrl ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
The Uk

This chapter focuses on contemporary “do it yourself” (DIY) queer and feminist punk scenes in the UK. It traces a lineage from queercore, Riot Grrrl, and punk, noting transatlantic influence and exchange between North American and UK scenes. It delves into issues of identity and inclusion/exclusion, aesthetics, and economic practices. The chapter situates queer and feminist punk as part of wider DIY creative cultures of inclusion and opportunity, with distinct political and organizational modes.

scholarly journals Availability of ‘Do-It-Yourself’ orthodontics in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
pp. 146531252110216
Author(s):  
Annabelle Carter ◽  
Susan Stokes
Keyword(s):  
Web Search ◽  
Dental Treatment ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Treatment Length ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Dental Professional ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Product Costs ◽  
Age Range

Objective: To identify the number of companies providing Do-It-Yourself (DIY) orthodontics and explore information available on websites for DIY brace providers operating in the UK. Design: Web search and review of websites providing DIY braces. Setting: Leeds, UK. Methods: A Web search was completed in November 2020 and April 2021 of all companies providing DIY braces for UK consumers. Each website was evaluated, and the following data collected: name; year started operating; costs; process; involvement of a dental professional; average ‘treatment’ length; retention; consent process; information on risks and benefits; aligner material; social media presence; age suitability; and consumer ratings on Trustpilot. Quality of website information was assessed via the DISCERN tool. Results: Seven DIY orthodontic companies were operating in the UK. Websites reviewed revealed the following: product costs were in the range of £799–£1599, ‘treatment’ length quotes were in the range of 4–12 months; Trustpilot reviews were in the range of 1.6–4.8 stars; and websites claimed their aligners were suitable for individuals with an age range of 12–18 years. Quality of content regarding risks described on websites varied, and there was limited information regarding involvement of a dental professional. Quality of websites information scored ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ on the DISCERN scoring. Conclusions: There has been an increase in the number of DIY orthodontic companies operating in the UK over the last three years. There is a need to determine whether these products constitute dental treatment in their own right. If so, it is crucial to ensure these are regulated appropriately with adequate information available to satisfy informed consent and have greater transparency over dental professional involvement to safeguard the public.

scholarly journals University professors as academic leaders

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Evans
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Academic Leadership ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Academic Leaders ◽  
Intellectual Capacity ◽  
The Uk

In the UK the title ‘professor’ is generally applied only to the most senior academics – equivalent to North American full professors – and whom anecdotal evidence indicates to be often unprepared for the increasingly expansive academic leadership roles that they are expected to fulfil. The study reported in this paper was directed at exploring the reliability of such evidence, and the ways in which professors develop or prepare themselves, or are developed or prepared by others, for what are generally considered their professorial academic leadership roles. Data were gathered by questionnaires and interviews, revealing that excessive professorial workloads often result from confusion about what constitutes academic leadership and precisely what and how much is expected of professors. Yet despite an evident dearth of ‘official’, designated, academic leadership preparation and/or development provision, professors were resourceful in drawing upon their experience, networks and intellectual capacity to develop ways of becoming and being effective members of the professoriate.

North American Responses to the Global Downturn

2010 ◽  
Vol 211 ◽  
pp. F22-F24
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Population Projections ◽  
Fiscal Policies ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
The North ◽  
The Us ◽  
Corporate Borrowing ◽  
Growth Prospects ◽  
The Uk ◽  
European Economies

The North American economies are expected to recover pre-crisis levels of output earlier than most of their European counterparts. The resilience of these economies is partly a reflection of factors underlying the trend rate of capacity growth. Population projections in North America are favourable for medium-term growth prospects, partly due to policies that tend to encourage highly skilled inward migration. At the same time, the US is one of few countries that maintained strong productivity growth during the downturn (at a significant cost in terms of employment), allowing an increase in US productivity levels relative to the other major economies. In addition, the relatively rapid recovery expected in the North American economies reflects more aggressive fiscal policies in the US and Canada than in most European economies, as well as credit easing undertaken by the Federal Reserve, which has kept corporate borrowing costs low relative to levels in the UK and Euro Area. Canada and Mexico have also benefitted from the recovery in the oil price, which eases budgetary pressures in particular.

scholarly journals Watch Groups, Surveillance, and Doing It for Themselves

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 288-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Spiller ◽  
Xavier L'Hoiry
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
The Uk

This paper focuses on surveillant relations between citizens and police. We consider how online platforms enable the public to support the task of policing, as well as empowering the public to work without and beyond the police. While community-supported policing interventions are not new, more recently mobile and accessible technologies have promoted and enabled a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) culture towards policing amongst the public. The paper examines watch groups or those who task themselves with monitoring suspicious or actual behaviours. We consider two empirical examples: first, a community alert group mediated through social media. Second, a group of businesses that circulate, via a website, CCTV images of (alleged) wrongdoing in their premises. Drawing on David Garland’s (1996) work on responsibilisation, we situate the growth of these types of responsibilised groups within the contemporary economic and political climate of crime control in the UK. We argue that citizens are establishing new surveillant relations that are pushing policing in new and evolving directions.

Postmodern Literature in North America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Spiers
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Postmodern Literature ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
Riot Grrrl ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
And Gender

Chapter 2 establishes the departure point for a genealogy of pop-feminist writing across North America, Britain, and Germany, which informs the author’s reading of the literary texts in the subsequent chapters. She examines key texts by American authors Kathy Acker and Mary Gaitskill, showing how their influence has filtered down to the works of a group of North American and European women writers who were born post-1970. Acker and Gaitskill engage with the feminist and critical theories of their time in order to intervene in broader political debates in North America concerning social, racial, and gender inequalities. They explore the political impact of representing transgressive sexualities, madness, and neurosis and emphasizing unstable, multifaceted identity in their work. The chapter subsequently traces the transgressive gesture from the 1990s North American riot-grrrl movement through to the 2000s and a dramatically transformed cultural context.

scholarly journals Exemplary Amateurism: Thoughts on DIY Urbanism

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Deslandes
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
North American ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Commercial Buildings ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Australian English ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

Do-It-Yourself (DIY) urbanism has become increasingly recognised as a non-professional and non-technocratic practice of urban alteration and community building. Already thus marked as ‘amateur’ in the contemporary sense (where the lines between amateur, professional, producer and consumer are significantly blurred), two of its key features are support for ‘proam’ cultural production and the ‘meanwhile’ use of commercial buildings. Within this, DIY urbanism is an important reference to economic and spatial scarcity in the Australian, English and North American cities where it has manifested as a discourse. The reference is particularly evident in the proximity to marginal urban space that participants in DIY urbanism share with other potential users of that space, which includes people experiencing primary homelessness. It is through this proximity that DIY urbanism works as a kind of ‘exemplary amateurism’. DIY urbanism demonstrates spatial scarcity in the city — a phenomenon in which amateur labour, 'meanwhile' use of buildings and homelessness are implicated.

scholarly journals Distribution and biological characteristics of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) at Greenland based on the analysis of historical tag recoveries

2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (9) ◽  
pp. 1589-1597 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Reddin ◽  
Lars Petter Hansen ◽  
Vegar Bakkestuen ◽  
Ian Russell ◽  
Jonathan White ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Atlantic Salmon ◽  
Salmo Salar ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Biological Characteristics ◽  
Atlantic Salmon Salmo Salar ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Different Origins

Abstract Reddin, D. G., Hansen, L. P., Bakkestuen, V., Russell, I., White, J., Potter, E. C. E., Dempson, J. B., Sheehan, T. F., Ó Maoiléidigh, N., Smith, G. W., Isaksson, A., Jacobsen, J. A., Fowler, M., Mork, K. A., and Amiro, P. 2012. Distribution and biological characteristics of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) at Greenland based on the analysis of historical tag recoveries. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 1589–1597. In this study, we examined 5481 records of tag recoveries at Greenland from a new tagging database held by ICES that contains information on salmon tagged in Canada, France, Faroes, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Spain, the UK (Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales), and the United States from the early 1960s to the present. For 4806 of the tag recoveries, latitude and longitude information were available, describing, to varying degrees of accuracy, the location of recovery of tagged fish. Release and recovery dates were variable, but no significant differences over time were noted. The information derived from tag recoveries was used to describe the distribution and growth of salmon of different origins. The proportion of recoveries from East Greenland suggested that potential multi-sea-winter salmon from northern Europe have a more easterly distribution than those from southern Europe. The location of recovery of salmon of North American origin differed from that of European salmon along the west coast of Greenland. Tag recoveries by country were not uniformly distributed across the respective NAFO Divisions. Tags from salmon originating in Canada and the United States were more commonly recovered in northern locations than tags from European-origin salmon. Analysis of rates of tag recovery suggested similar rates before and after the introduction of the NASCO Tag Return Incentive Scheme. The straight-line migration speed of both North American and European salmon changed very little over the time-series, but was ∼40% greater for North American salmon (0.43 m s−1) than for European salmon (0.29–0.32 m s−1).

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