scholarly journals ‘Lines of Flight or Tethered Wings’?: A Deleuzian Analysis of Women-specific Adventure Skills Courses in the United Kingdom

Somatechnics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 432-450
Author(s):  
Zoë Avner ◽  
Emma Boocock ◽  
Jenny Hall ◽  
Linda Allin
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Sport Skills ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Mixed Gender

In this article we examine women-specific adventure sport skills training courses in the UK utilising a feminist new materialist approach. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's (1987) concepts of ‘assemblage’, ‘lines of territorialisation’, and ‘lines of flight’, we apply a new lens to ask: what type(s) of material-discursive assemblages are produced through human and non-human, discursive, and non-discursive intra-actions on women-specific adventure sport skills courses? To what extent do these courses enable participants to engage with an alternative praxis and ethics and to think, feel, practice, and become otherwise? Our Deleuzian reading showed that the affective capacity of these courses is currently limited by dominant understandings of these courses as bridges to the real outdoors and as primarily designed for women who lack the confidence to participate in mixed-gender environments. However, these courses also enabled productive lines of flight and alternative understandings and practices related to the self, the body, others, material objects, learning, movement, and physical activity to emerge. These were both characterised and supported by less instrumental and hierarchical flows of relations and an openness to not knowing.

The Covid-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom and subjective well-being: Have the self-employed suffered more due to hours and income reductions?

2021 ◽  
pp. 026624262098676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Yue ◽  
Marc Cowling
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Rare Events ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Hours Of Work ◽  
Period Data ◽  
The Uk

It is well documented that the self-employed experience higher levels of happiness than waged employees even when their incomes are lower. Given the UK government’s asymmetric treatment of waged workers and the self-employed, we use a unique Covid-19 period data set which covers the months leading up to the March lockdown and the months just after to assess three aspects of the Covid-19 crisis on the self-employed: hours of work reductions, the associated income reductions and the effects of both on subjective well-being. Our findings show the large and disproportionate reductions in hours and income for the self-employed directly contributed to a deterioration in their levels of subjective well-being compared to waged workers. It appears that their resilience was broken when faced with the reality of dealing with rare events, particularly when the UK welfare support response was asymmetric and favouring waged employees.

scholarly journals How Do You Make Yourself a Theatre without Organs? Deleuze, Artaud and the Concept of Differential Presence

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURA CULL
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Antonin Artaud ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Body Without Organs ◽  
Radio Play

This article provides an exposition of four key concepts emerging in the encounter between the philosophical man of the theatre, Antonin Artaud, and the theatrical philosopher, Gilles Deleuze: the body without organs, the theatre without organs, the destratified voice and differential presence. The article proposes that Artaud's 1947 censored radio play To Have Done with the Judgment of God constitutes an instance of a theatre without organs that uses the destratified voice in a pursuit of differential presence – as a nonrepresentative encounter with difference that forces new thoughts upon us. Drawing from various works by Deleuze, including Difference and Repetition, The Logic of Sense, A Thousand Plateaus and ‘One Less Manifesto’, I conceive differential presence as an encounter with difference, or perpetual variation, as that which exceeds the representational consciousness of a subject, forcing thought through rupture rather than communicating meanings through sameness. Contra the dismissal of Artaud's project as paradoxical or impossible, the article suggests that his nonrepresentational theatre seeks to affirm a new kind of presence as difference, rather than aiming to transcend difference in order to reach the self-identical presence of Western metaphysics.

Conclusion: Inequality, Liminality and Risk

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-158
Author(s):  
Pauline Leonard ◽  
Rachel J. Wilde
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
The Self ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Youth Employment ◽  
Employment Policy ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk

This chapter provides an overview of the book by drawing out four key themes which emerged through the chapters as of key significance for understanding youth employability in the United Kingdom: regionality, social inequality, liminality and risk. Taking each of these in turn, the chapter demonstrates how the pervasive force of neoliberalism shapes youth employment policy and youth labour markets in the diverse regions of the UK. In order to ‘get in’ and then to ‘get on’, Britain’s young people must demonstrate neoliberal qualities such as individualisation, responsibilisation and resilience to risk. At the same time, the ability to perform this version of the self is powerfully shaped by social structure.

scholarly journals ‘As a woman…’; ‘As a Muslim…’: Subjects, positions and counter-terrorism powers in the United Kingdom

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Jarvis ◽  
Michael Lister
Keyword(s):  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
The One ◽  
Time Specific ◽  
The Uk

This article presents findings from original focus group research on the importance of identity claims within public understandings of counter-terrorism across the UK. Following a review of existing literature on the terrorism/counter-terrorism/identity nexus, the article introduces four prominent subject positions inhabited within public articulations of counter-terrorism powers: the ‘Muslim’, the ‘target’, the ‘woman’ and the ‘unaffected’. Positions such as these, we argue, both enable and inhibit particular normative, political and anecdotal claims about counter-terrorism frameworks and their impact upon the body politic. This, we suggest, is demonstrative of the co-constitutive role between counter-terrorism and identity claims. Thus, on the one hand, counter-terrorism initiatives work to position individuals socially, politically and culturally: (re)producing various religious, ethnic and other identities. Yet, at the same time, specific subject positions are integral to the articulation of people’s attitudes toward developments in counter-terrorism. The article concludes by thinking through some of the implications of this, including for resistance toward securitising moves and for citizenship more generally.

scholarly journals Neutralizing response against E484K variant after original SARS-CoV-2 infection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takuma Hayashi ◽  
Nobuo Yaegashi ◽  
Ikuo Konishi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
The Body ◽  
Proliferative Potential ◽  
Spike Glycoprotein ◽  
Highly Pathogenic ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Neutralization Response

Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants, which are spreading in the United Kingdom (UK) and elsewhere, have been found in infected individuals in Japan. The virus mutates, to facilitate its life in the host, during the process of repeated proliferation in the body of the host, including humans. In other words, it is natural that a human-compatible mutant strain always predominates in infection and proliferation. As a result, the viral mutants acquire strong proliferative potential in the host and are highly pathogenic. The number of people infected with the mutated SARS-CoV-2 variant E484K, which is different from the SARS-CoV-2 variants that are spreading in the UK, South Africa, and Brazil, is increasing in Tokyo. It has been pointed out that the effects of immunity and vaccines may be reduced against the Tokyo-type SARS-CoV-2 variant E484K. We have investigated the neutralization response to various mutations in the spike glycoprotein using the serum of people already infected with the original SARS-CoV-2. The results showed that SARS-CoV-2 variants with Y543F or N501Y mutations in the spike glycoprotein affect the neutralization reaction. However, single E484K mutations within the spiked glycoprotein of the Tokyo-type SARS-CoV-2 variant are unlikely to have a significant effect on the affinity of the host antibody for the virus.

Salafist Third Spaces and Hybridic Purity on YouTube

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-29
Author(s):  
Susanne Stadlbauer
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Third Space ◽  
The Self ◽  
Space Theory ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Third Space Theory ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Third Spaces ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This case study applies aspects of third space theory (Bhabha, 2004; Hoover & Echchaibi, 2014) to investigate the activism on the YouTube channel Salafimedia UK (smuk) and their claim to be the self-proscribed “truest” and “purest” Islamic sect. This chapter introduces the somewhat paradoxical concept of “hybridic purity” – an emerging ideology that seeks to encompass pre-modern Islamic practices of the salaf (“predecessors” or first generations of Muslims) as the purest form of Islam (see also Wagemakers, 2016); modern values of individuality and reliance on the “self”; the affordances of the YouTube channel; and resistance to present-day Western cultural and political values, especially those of the United Kingdom (UK), as well as to the UK government’s censorship and bans of Salafist movements. This hybridic purity becomes authoritative as it compels YouTube audience members to take responsibility for their own growth and activism as pious Salafists.

scholarly journals Competition in health care: lessons from the English experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 492-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Propper
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Final Section ◽  
The Body ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
What Works ◽  
The World ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Reform Model

AbstractThe use of competition and the associated increase in choice in health care is a popular reform model, adopted by many governments across the world. Yet it is also a hotly contested model, with opponents seeing it, at best, as a diversion of energy or a luxury and, at worst, as leading to health care inequality and waste. This paper subjects the use of competition in health care to scrutiny. It begins by examining the theoretical case and then argues that only by looking at evidence can we understand what works and when. The body of the paper examines the evidence for England. For 25 years the United Kingdom has been subject to a series of policy changes which exogenously introduced and then downplayed the use of competition in health care. This makes England a very useful test bed. The paper presents the UK reforms and then discusses the evidence of their impact, examining changes in outcomes, including quality, productivity and the effect on the distribution of health care resources across socio-economic groups. The final section reflects on what can be learnt from these findings.

Overview of Recent Activities Undertaken by the UK Forum for Engineering Structural Integrity (FESI)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Sharples ◽  
Brian Tomkins ◽  
Peter Flewitt ◽  
Stephen Garwood ◽  
Brian Daniels
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Structural Integrity ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Future Demands ◽  
The Uk

The United Kingdom (UK) Forum for Engineering Structural Integrity (FESI) is the membership organisation for engineering structural integrity (ESI) in the UK. This paper provides an overview of FESI in terms of summarising its recent activities with particular regard to conferences, workshops/seminars, training courses, and the strengthening of links and ties to other organisational bodies associated with elements of ESI. A commentary is included on how some of these activities relate to codes and standards to meet future demands of existing and future plants for extended periods of operation.

Private Bodies as Public Authorities under International, European, English and German Environmental Information Laws

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Bünger ◽  
Thomas Schomerus
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
The Body ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Aarhus Convention ◽  
Good Advice ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Right Of Access

AbstractThe Aarhus Convention, the Directive 2003/4/EC and national legislation, respectively, give citizens a right of access to environmental information as held by either public authorities or private bodies. For such information to be accessible, the body in question must have public responsibilities or functions or provide public services such as natural gas, electricity, sewerage and water services etc. The United Kingdom (UK) Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIRs) and the federal German Environmental Information Act (EIA), however, provide insufficient definitions of the private bodies in question. The parallel existence of the EIRs/EIA and Freedom of Information Acts (FOIAs) in the UK and in Germany adds further complexity to the situation. Unlike the UK implementation under which there is specific guidance which gives relatively good advice, the situation in Germany is pitiable. A more citizen-friendly solution to these problems could be the creation of a joint statute. This joint statute would provide for a comprehensive list of covered authorities.

scholarly journals ADMISSIBILITY AND AUTHENTICITY OF ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE IN THE COURTS OF MALAYSIA AND UNITED KINGDOM

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-129
Author(s):  
Ani Munirah Mohamad
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Body ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Electronic Evidence ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Criminal Matters ◽  
Law Of Evidence

This concept paper elaborates on two main aspects of electronic evidence (1) the admissibility of such evidence in the courts of law, and (2) its authenticity as evidence for the consideration of the courts. In both aspects, the scope of discussion would be the laws in Malaysia and in the United Kingdom (UK). In essence, the relevant rules providing for electronic evidence in Malaysia is the Evidence Act 1950, meanwhile for the case of the UK, the Civil Evidence Act 1995 and Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 which provide for electronic evidence in civil and criminal matters respectively. Engaging in comparative legal research methods, and purely library-based, the relevant legal provisions for each jurisdiction are elaborated, and numerous cases are discussed in this paper to illustrate the application of such sections in admitting and authenticating electronic evidence in the Courts of Malaysia and the UK. Hopefully, this paper would become a contribution to the body of knowledge and contribute towards more in-depth research in the area of law of evidence.

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