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The ‘Open Garden of Politics’: The impact of open primaries for candidate selection in the British Conservative Party
2016
International audience; Since 2003, hundreds of open primaries for the selection of parliamentary candidates have been held by the British Conservative Party as a means of democratising party organisation and enhancing representativeness. In the run-up to the 2015 general election, only 26 primaries could be identified. This article will apply the analytical framework provided by Hazan and Rahat to demonstrate that the relative failure of the experiment in terms of intra-party competition, participation, representation and responsiveness is counterbalanced by the benefits brought by this procedure, both as a tool of party branding at the national level and as a strategy for raising the prof…
Miracles in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt and Refugees as ‘Vanguard’
2019
AbstractThe radical uncertainty that refugees face because of war, flight and exile often dramatically shapes their participation in society. Violent conflict and human rights abuses are not just disproportionately experienced by, but can also create, political subjects. Such life events can transform the motivations, sense of responsibility and political actions of individuals with refugee backgrounds. In this article, we explore the links between civil–political engagement and the life stories of such individuals, analysing our empirical data through themes in the work of Hannah Arendt. We make three central points. First, we highlight the possibility of refugees as ‘vanguard’, playing a …
‘Less Stale, Only Slightly Less Male, but Overwhelmingly Less Pale’: the 2015 New Conservative Brexiters in the House of Commons
2019
AbstractThis article will study the new face of Conservative Euroscepticism in the House of Commons, with a special focus on the 2015 intake of MPs who were supposedly ‘less stale, male and pale’ and their attitudes to the British referendum on the EU. In this respect, this article will also take a specific interest in new Conservative Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) MPs who turned out to be more active on the ‘leave’ side of the referendum campaign, thus serving as a showcase for the party's strategy of ‘decontaminating’ the Brexit brand and its hyperglobalist geopolitical perspective.
How women are imagined through conceptual metaphors in United Nations Security Council Resolutions on women, peace and security
2017
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 is a landmark pronouncement on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Not only does this resolution highlight the important role of the involvement of women in peace processes, but it also stresses the importance of their equal participation in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace. Furthermore, it also triggers the approval of some other resolutions, which are all further elaborations on that first document. The aim of this paper is to analyse, from a cognitive linguistic perspective, the way in which women are actually narrated in these pronouncements by means of the two conceptual metaphors that are most often repeated: WOME…
Die Alternative fuer Deutschland. Programmatik, Entwicklung und politische Verortung
2017
As an object of study, Germany’s new(-ish) Alternative fuer Deutschland party (AfD) is a moving target. Since its inception in early 2013, the party has gone from strength to strength and won parli...
Language constraints in producing prefiguration posters for a scientific exhibition
1997
The museographic transposition of scientific knowledge leads notably to the preparation of exhibition posters. This is a delicate operation, on account of the constraints imposed by space, language, concepts and the text. These difficulties are even greater in the case of bovine reproduction biotechnologies, such as cloning, where knowledge is not yet stable. This paper deals with the choices made during the phase of museographic transposition. First of all, based on an epistemological approach, a historical analysis of knowledge-building underpins the choice of information to be presented. Language is then selected according to the linguistic analysis of a series of articles which popular…
The “Refugee Crisis,” Immigration Attitudes, and Euroscepticism
2019
Between 2015 and 2017, the European Union (EU) was confronted with a major crisis in its history, the so-called “European refugee crisis.” Since the multifaceted crisis has provoked many different responses, it is also likely to have influenced individuals’ assessments of immigrants and European integration. Using data from three waves of the European Social Survey (ESS) — the wave before the crisis in 2012, the wave at the beginning of the crisis in 2014, and the wave right after the (perceived) height of the crisis in 2016 — we test the degree to which the European refugee crisis increased Europeans’ anti-immigrant sentiment and Euroscepticism, as well as the influence of Europeans’ anti-…
Rieducazione geriatrica: approccio sistemico
2016
La rieducazione geriatrica e portata a evolvere in un contesto di grande eterogeneita della popolazione anziana. Dai piu robusti ai piu dipendenti, passando per i soggetti fragili, la variabilita delle capacita sensorimotorie e cognitive di questi pazienti anziani giustifica l’istituzione di una valutazione specifica. Per quanto riguarda le capacita motorie, diversi test funzionali sono gia utilizzati e validati. E proposta, qui, una valutazione sistemica della funzione dell’equilibrio, basata sull’invecchiamento degli aspetti centrali (invecchiamento del controllo motorio) e degli aspetti periferici (invecchiamento del sistema muscoloscheletrico), e, piu in generale, della motricita negli …
Models of Corporeality and Controversies Around Puberty
2020
This chapter investigates the plurality of models proposed by medicine to observe the body between childhood and adolescence during the twentieth century. Models vary if the approach is anatomo-clinical, bio-psycho-social, photographical, or endocrinological. However, all these approaches aimed not only to better understand the pubertal process but also to define what is the “true puberty” and what constitutes a deviation from its “normal” course, while legitimating medical intervention. The analysis of the American controversy on the precocious onset of puberty, at the end of the 1990s, reveals not only the types of changing bodies, but also the types of children and adolescents that are d…
Estudio antropométrico en una población infantil con síndrome de Down
2017
Resumen Objetivo Estudio de los valores antropometricos registrados en las historias clinicas de un grupo representativo de pacientes en edad pediatrica en la Unidad de Sindrome de Down del Servicio de Pediatria del Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valencia, entre los anos 2000 y 2014, inclusive. Pacientes y metodos Estudio observacional descriptivo en una muestra de 140 pacientes de entre 1 y 13 anos. La muestra se configuro a partir de los criterios de inclusion y de exclusion. Se extrajeron del informe de la primera visita, los datos relevantes referentes al nacimiento y, de las visitas sucesivas (643 mediciones), el estado del paciente en dicho momento. Resultados Se estudiaron 103 pac…