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despite the preponderance of scholarly critiques meritocracy remains incredibly popular—both as a political ideology but also as a lens through which lay people make sense of, and justify, their own (and ... legitimacy by employing a comparative research design of elites in Denmark and the UK. Specifically, we draw on 71 interviews with political, business, and bureaucratic elites to ask—how do elites understand
sector in Trim, the church was situated between the county gaol (1828) and a convent built for the Sisters of Mercy (1867) and reflects the political shaping of nineteenth-century Irish religious space and ... , Hardman of Birmingham (1902), wall mosaics, Oppenheimer of Manchester (1913). Political shaping of religious space is evident in the siting, scale and splendour of St Patrick’s, and in decorative
not centrally co-ordinated events and often the discourse of political coherence functioned as a deceptive fiction managed by exhibition planners and investors.7 The fairs were unpredictable and ... social and political hardship was nowhere to be found in the Chicago Fair. My analysis reveals the tensions between the internal display and its external surroundings instead of assuming a congruence
. Historians have followed this lead by making cholera an exciting cause of political and social change, including the first Reform Bill. This essay suggests that the sporadic incursions of cholera were less a ... cholera were less a spur to reform than a distraction from the perpetual, or endemic, causes of death, which are inevitably those with the closest connections with the social, economic and political
started to unpack this, but understanding how Catholics influenced colonial development and imperial policy requires much more work.6 Ties of trade, political union through the commonwealth, tourism, and ... become known as the ‘Revolutionary Atlantic’. This fascination with the French and American revolutions has ‘concentrated Atlantic questions upon the political and diplomatic history’ of both nations as
. Resettlement often occurs in places where conditions have already deteriorated, and the arrival of large numbers of displaced people can cause economic, social, political, and psychological strain. Thus, while ... significant population displacement and a crucial geo-political linchpin. Greater knowledge of the prior Ukrainian IDP experience can inform the humanitarian response to the current crisis in Ukraine
even no faith.4 Hervieu-Léger describes the legal and political settings in which religious expression must be negotiated as framing the ‘territorial modalities of the communalization of religions’, and ... and, even with political independence, the capital of Ireland never yet claimed a central site for a prominent Catholic edifice. Nevertheless a renegotiation of the Catholic presence was undertaken and
statements or messages than many established during the same period. This was a direct result of the religious and political tussle that resulted in its establishment. During the 1820s and 1830s the issue of ... over that space. In this context, space became the important medium or method of political conflict. The debate that arose at this time was not just a question of religious freedoms, but also of the
metonym for political violence. I show how Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the most enduring and popular novel in this archive, is so capacious in its allegorical accommodations that it has been read as ... political maladies. Extant scholarship accordingly identifies Stoker’s vampirism as a successful projection of a range of Victorian anxieties: the poverty of the rural masses arriving in London; migrants from
status installs substantial barriers to political participation, limits their rights and subjects migrants to systematic forms of legal violence and suffering. However, up till now, most research has ... aggressively aimed to curtail their rights via the SB 1070 legislation. Rather than deploying conventional social movement theories stressing political opportunity structures or resource mobilization, Abrams
‘defend traditional rights’ ‘in the political strategies and disputes of the various religious groupings’ at the time.29 Digging up bodies was a tool utilized by some as a form of protest or to make a
also be expanded to include social, discursive, and political contexts.14 Contemporary accounts of nineteenth-century church spaces frequently describe the sensory environment created for worship, and
and moral philosophy. Ovenstone did not share the moral purpose of Hill and Adamson but this may now be seen as a strength. The notion of ‘heteroglossia’ or the positive need for the presence of the
, environmental, social and political factors being equally important, following the concepts of sustainable development. In general, only aspects related to investment, construction, equipment acquisition and ... of knowledge expressed by environmental, political, social and technical-economic dimensions and uses technical analysis and mathematical tools that configure its systemic character (Rigolin, 2013
petroleum derived products, in a Case Study. The method deals with technical, economic, environmental, social and political factors being equally important, following the concepts of sustainable development ... of knowledge expressed by environmental, political, social and technical-economic dimensions and uses technical analysis and mathematical tools that configure its systemic character (Rigolin, 2013
There are ten simple questions concerning the philosophy and future discussed in this editorial, in which reflects the main topic of the Jubilee World Congress of ICS, organized for the 80th ... Verne (1828–1905) – Fig. 1a. Why was he so successful? In his work he combined his knowledge of history, contemporary science, faith in man, humane views and political realism, and he lightened dramatic
10,000 publications in economics, political science, and sociology. In contrast to many big data studies, we estimate the effect of author gender on citations alongside other author-, article-, journal ... philosophy, library science, management science, biochemistry, and dendrochronology—find either no gender gaps (e.g., Copenheaver et al. 2010; González-Alvarez 2017; Healy 2015; Leahey et al. 2017; Nielsen
shared part of the likelihood of voting. Mothers and fathers make roughly equal contributions. The results suggest that future studies of inter-generational effects in political participation, whenever ... equality of opportunity. Introduction Far from being only an isolated periodic act, political participation, including voting in elections, is an outcome of a person’s overall level of well-being
. That said, when he became Bishop of London he was inconsistent in his political actions. He stepped back from prominent support of the dock workers’ strike, leaving the Roman Catholic Cardinal Manning in
variety of the often labouring-class subjectivities figured in the texts works to further disrupt the conventional historical view of a region united in moral and political sympathy with the Union cause, as ... moral and political sympathy with the Union cause.2 It also provides a greater understanding of a moment in history where poetry mediates the relationship between the Victorian global and local in
