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Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...branch. Ultimately, this race is going to come down to organization and mobilization. This race is poised to be divisive and demoralizing. Clinton will need to harness her experience to mobilize effort of all of her election constituents to guarantee herself a victory.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Do fictional characters shift perceptions of transgender people?
History & The Arts

Do fictional characters shift perceptions of transgender people?

...divisions. To influence attitudes on a broad scale, entertainment storylines must first reach audiences outside cloistered media bubbles. However, our research suggests nuanced portrayals of transgender individuals – particularly in mainstream forms of entertainment – can break down ideological barriers in a way that news stories may not. Cumulative exposure across...
Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...divisions in the communist world in 1956, and which produced much influential analysis of advanced capitalism in the West. He was one of the main authors (along with Stuart Hall and E.P. Thompson) of the May Day Manifesto, published on the eve of the student and worker unrest of 1968, which put forward a radical critique of contemporary capitalism in the period of the...
Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer
Science, Maths & Technology

Margaret Hamilton: Spaceship Programmer and Software Pioneer

...Division, where she and her colleagues wrote and developed code for the guidance and control systems of the in-flight command and lunar modules of the Apollo missions (McMillan 2015; Spicer 2017). In the process, Hamilton and her team established the nuts and bolts of modern software engineering, resulting in the creation of what she termed “ultra-reliable software”...
Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...divisive housing policy, from the worship of the City to the incestuous self-preoccupation of the political class. As ever more of the relatively comfortable are pushed into lives of not-always-quiet desperation, we shall soon see if Jones’s hope for a new class politics starts bearing fruit. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, by Owen Jones, is published by...
Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...divisions and inequalities that underpin all UK society. It is the fight for a fairer and more equitable society that drove the Scottish Independence movement and which has driven Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour Party. Writing this only a few days following his success in being elected leader of the Labour Party, it is too early to say how this will play out in...
The Partition of British India: Timeline
History & The Arts

The Partition of British India: Timeline

...that British withdrawal and the division of the country was to take place in just two months. The social ruptures and atrocities that accompany the unfolding of this time-compressed partition plan, particularly along the partitioned borderlands of Punjab and Bengal, ensure that the new nation-states of India and Pakistan are born with profound mutual distrust and enmity....
Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace

...divisive issues to be resolved: The presence and role of MI5 in ‘national security’, housed in a headquarters at Palace Barracks in Holywood. Those offices have been developed over a period of near 20 years, likened to the building of a air raid shelter after the war is over. And there are questions relating to an unanswered Past and that conflict graveyard. How do...