“Dobra polska mowa”: monoglot ideology, multilingual reality and Polish organisations in the UK

Abstract This article examines the tension between multilingual reality of migrant life and monoglot standard ideology in Polish grassroots organisations in the UK. Drawing on linguistic ethnographic fieldwork from 2017 to 2019, we show that while flexible multilingual practices characterise the community’s multilingual reality, a preference for monolingual standard Polish exists in community activities and online profiles. We argue that, through common orientation to the denotational code and national identity, the organisations give preference to language rather than the speech community of the immediate surroundings and attempt to create a representation of a timeless unified Polish community in line with the static framework of the European nation-state that promotes linguistic, cultural and racial purity. While advocating sedentary, permanent and classed images of migration and integration into British society, the organisations marginalise uses of other language varieties and erase observed historical, class and regional differences within the community.

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Labels, Histories, Politics: Indian/South Asian Dance on the Global Stage

Dance Research ◽

10.3366/e0264287508000200 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 223-243 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

AVANTHI MEDURI

Keyword(s):

South Asian ◽

First Century ◽

Nation State ◽

The South ◽

Global Networks ◽

Indian Nation ◽

The 1950S ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

The Uk

In this paper, I discuss issues revolving around history, historiography, alterity, difference and otherness concealed in the doubled Indian/South Asian label used to describe Indian/South Asian dance genres in the UK. The paper traces the historical genealogy of the South Asian label to US, Indian and British contexts and describes how the South Asian enunciation fed into Indian nation-state historiography and politics in the 1950s. I conclude by describing how Akademi: South Asian Dance, a leading London based arts organisation, explored the ambivalence in the doubled Indian/South Asian label by renaming itself in 1997, and forging new local/global networks of communication and artistic exchange between Indian and British based dancers and choreographers at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Identity Politics and Migration

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures ◽

10.3167/ajec.2008.01701010 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 155-158

Author(s):

Vytis Čiubrinskas

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Identity Politics ◽

Host Country ◽

Social Anthropology ◽

The Us ◽

And Migration ◽

The Uk ◽

A Current ◽

Respective Host

The Centre of Social Anthropology (CSA) at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas has coordinated projects on this, including a current project on 'Retention of Lithuanian Identity under Conditions of Europeanisation and Globalisation: Patterns of Lithuanian-ness in Response to Identity Politics in Ireland, Norway, Spain, the UK and the US'. This has been designed as a multidisciplinary project. The actual expressions of identity politics of migrant, 'diasporic' or displaced identity of Lithuanian immigrants in their respective host country are being examined alongside with the national identity politics of those countries.

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Shaping migration at the border: the entangled rationalities of border control practices

Comparative Migration Studies ◽

10.1186/s40878-020-00214-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Christin Achermann

Keyword(s):

Social Reality ◽

Structuration Theory ◽

Cost Calculation ◽

Nation State ◽

Border Control ◽

Organisational Theory ◽

Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽

Street Level ◽

Everyday Work ◽

Street Level Bureaucracy

AbstractThis article analyses how border guards as members of a state organisation shape the movement of non-nationals into the territory of a nation state. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on the Swiss Border Guard (SBG), it explores the rationalities—understood as stabilised ways of reasoning and acting—that characterise practices within this state organisation. Combining organisational and structuration theory with a street-level bureaucracy perspective allows for a differentiated analysis of the various facets of border guards’ everyday work. Four rationalities of border-control practices are identified and compared: security, humanitarian, cost-calculation, and pragmatic rationality. I argue that, by considering both the specific goals and imperatives of border control and the characteristics of street-level bureaucrats acting within a state organisation, these entangled logics explain the complex and incoherent social reality of border control. More generally, the results contribute to organisational theory by pointing to the importance of taking into account that multiple entangled rationalities structure the practices of an organisation’s members.

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New Labour, New Policies: Constructing a Discourse of Citizenship

Citizenship Social and Economics Education ◽

10.2304/csee.1998.3.2.101 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 101-114

Author(s):

Keith Crawford

Keyword(s):

Citizenship Education ◽

New Labour ◽

Political Context ◽

British Society ◽

Contemporary Society ◽

Legitimation Crisis ◽

New Policies ◽

The Uk ◽

The Impact

The purpose of this paper is examine the development of citizenship education as a curriculum priority within the UK. Employing Habermas' theory of legitimation crisis, the paper places the contemporary enthusiasm for citizenship education within a socioeconomic, cultural and political context. The paper argues that current preoccupations with citizenship education contained in Education for Citizenship and the Teaching of Democracy in Schools (Dfee, 1999), stem from the impact of Neo-Liberal concerns with individualism, economic and technological globalisation and the potential fragmentation of contemporary society. The paper explores the principles of education for citizenship and the teaching of democracy in schools and suggests that, as part of New Labour's developing conception of British society, citizenship education asks some fundamental questions of that society.

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The end of History or the end of Democracy? National identity and the future of the nation‐state

World Futures ◽

10.1080/02604027.1994.9972509 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 42 (1-2) ◽

pp. 161-171 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wolf‐Dieter Eberwein

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Nation State ◽

End Of History ◽

The Future ◽

The End Of History

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Peer Review of Paediatric Endocrine Services in the UK: A Template for Quality and Service Improvement

Hormone Research in Paediatrics ◽

10.1159/000515238 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

John Schulga ◽

Heather Mitchell ◽

S. Faisal Ahmed ◽

Assunta Albanese ◽

Justin Warner ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Peer Review ◽

National Level ◽

Quality Of Healthcare ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

British Society ◽

Service Improvement ◽

Paediatric Endocrinology ◽

Test Feasibility ◽

Specialist Nurses ◽

The Uk

Background: Independent peer review of healthcare services can complement existing internal-, institutional-, and national-level regulatory mechanisms aimed at improving quality of healthcare. However, this has not been reported for paediatric endocrinology services in the UK. We aimed to test feasibility and acceptability through a first cycle of a national peer review of paediatric endocrine services. Methods: Tertiary centres in paediatric endocrinology across the UK were assessed against 54 quality standards, developed by the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (BSPED) in five domains of healthcare by a team comprising paediatric endocrinologists and specialist nurses. The evaluation was supported by a self-assessment. A post-peer-review questionnaire was used as feedback. Results: All 22 centres in the UK underwent independent peer review between 2011 and 2017. Each served a median population of 2.6 million (range 1–8 million) and offered 1,872 (range 779–6,738) outpatient consultations annually. A total of 43 (range 30–49) standards were met in combined evaluation of all centres. Variance of adherence for essential standards ranged from 52 to 97% at individual centres with 90% adherence demonstrated by 32% of centres. Post-review feedback showed 20/22 (95%) validating the utility of the peer review. Conclusions: The BSPED peer review of all UK centres providing paediatric endocrine services is shown to be feasible and provides a quality benchmark for replication by national services.

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The French Language in Russia

10.5117/9789462982727 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Derek Offord ◽

Vladislav Rjéoutski ◽

Gesine Argent

Keyword(s):

French Language ◽

Speech Community ◽

Historical Sociolinguistics ◽

Arts And Humanities ◽

Imperial Russia ◽

The Arts ◽

The Social ◽

National Boundaries ◽

Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽

The Uk

-- With support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK and the Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau -- The French Language in Russia provides the fullest examination and discussion to date of the adoption of the French language by the elites of imperial Russia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is interdisciplinary, approaching its subject from the angles of various kinds of history and historical sociolinguistics. Beyond its bearing on some of the grand narratives of Russian thought and literature, this book may afford more general insight into the social, political, cultural, and literary implications and effects of bilingualism in a speech community over a long period. It should also enlarge understanding of francophonie as a pan-European phenomenon. On the broadest plane, it has significance in an age of unprecedented global connectivity, for it invites us to look beyond the experience of a single nation and the social groups and individuals within it in order to discover how languages and the cultures and narratives associated with them have been shared across national boundaries.

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Survey of the Use of Diffusion-Weighted Imaging for Cholesteatoma in the United Kingdom

ORL ◽

10.1159/000516242 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Sunil Dutt Sharma ◽

Ahmad Hariri ◽

Ravi Kumar Lingam ◽

Arvind Singh

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

British Society ◽

Petrous Apex ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

Diffusion Weighted ◽

Clinical Scenarios ◽

Head And Neck Imaging ◽

The Mean ◽

The Uk

Background: Non-echoplanar diffusion-weighted MRI (DWMRI) has a role in the surgical planning for cholesteatoma. Aims/Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess the use of DWMRI in the management of cholesteatoma across the UK, and measure clinicians’ confidence in the use of DWMRI. Materials and Methods: Telephone survey in 139 Otolaryngology Departments in the United Kingdom between March 2017 and July 2017, and asking radiology delegates at the British Society of Head and Neck Imaging 2017 meeting. Results: The response rate was 101 out of 139 Trusts (73%). Of those respondents who did have DWMRI available, 68/88 respondents (77%) use it for cholesteatoma. The mean confidence (±standard deviation) of the respondents with DWMRI in identifying cholesteatoma presence was 7.3 ± 2.1, in identifying volume of cholesteatoma was 6.8 ± 1.8, and in identifying subsites of cholesteatoma was 4.6 ± 2.1. Conclusions and Significance: DWMRI has a well-defined role in the follow-up of patients after cholesteatoma surgery, and those primary cases of cholesteatoma where the diagnosis is in question. The use of DWMRI for cholesteatoma is variable across the UK, but there are certain clinical scenarios where there is not enough awareness regarding the benefits of imaging (such as petrous apex cases of cholesteatoma).

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Ruth Davidson's Conservatives: The Scottish Tory Party, 2011-19

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474455626.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Retrospective Study ◽

Northern Ireland ◽

Conservative Party ◽

Academic Discourse ◽

Point Of No Return ◽

Lgbt Politics ◽

The Uk

Examines the startling revival of the Scottish Conservative Party under Ruth Davidson’s leadership: A very timely retrospective study of the Scottish Conservative Party's revival under Ruth Davidson's leadership (November 2011–August 2019). Analyses the Scottish Conservative Party under Ruth Davidson’s in the context of gender and LGBT politics; its relationships with the SNP, Northern Ireland, the Scottish media and the UK Tory Party; and its use of Scottish national identity. Helps inform Scottish political and academic discourse ahead of the 2021 Holyrood elections. When Ruth Davidson was elected leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party in 2011, it was considered something of a joke: in electoral decline for decades, politically irrelevant and seemingly past the point of no return. But by 2017, ‘Ruth Davidson’s Conservatives’ had become Scotland’s second party at Holyrood and Westminster, and its leader spoken of as a future leader of the UK Conservative Party, if not the next Scottish First Minister. Then, in August 2019, Ruth Davidson resigned.

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