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Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...de Janeiro will be given cash awards at par with the medal winners of last month's Olympic Games. "Gold medallists of #Paralympic Games are entitled to Rs 75 Lacs, Silver Rs 50 Lacs & Bronze Rs 30 Lacs as cash award from MYAS," the Ministry tweeted from its official handle. "This cash award to the #Paralympic medallists is at par with medallists of #Olympics," it added....
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Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties

...class backgrounds caught up in the left and anti-fascist movements of the 1930s. Several join (and leave) the British Communist Party in the ensuing years, but the historical significance of that earlier period evolves to encompass changing public and private loyalties. Above all, this is reflected through the question of espionage when the activities of one prompt...
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Boys will be boys?
Society, Politics & Law

Boys will be boys?

...class boys, such as the ‘Playing for Success’ programme promoting footballers as role models, and the REACH Programme using mentors to raise the attainment of young black men. The trend has continued under the Conservative-led Coalition, for example in the ‘Troops for Teachers’ programme which recruits ex-Service personnel to work in schools. An influential report...
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The rural dimension – after rundale
OpenLearn Ireland

The rural dimension – after rundale

...class of ‘peasant proprietors’, the owner occupiers of the small farms. Staunchly conservative in culture, attitudes, politics and agricultural practice, this class came to dominate rural society. The deep attachment to land, a characteristic of traditional rural societies, featured strongly amongst these farmers for whom the land had been hard won. They remained...
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What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...class, gender, disability and other forms of discrimination’ (Lander and Gillborn 2020, italics in the original). CRT is encompassing of and sensitive to ‘intersectionality’ (Crenshaw, 1989; 1995). ‘Intersectionality’ is a concept and analytical framework to analyse how aspects of a person's social and political identities/social characterisations, such as race,...
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Navigating Black Irish identity in the music of Phil Lynott
Health, Sports & Psychology

Navigating Black Irish identity in the music of Phil Lynott

...class district of Dublin), Lynott lived at the intersection of race and class in a predominantly white and conservative Ireland. While his upbringing instilled in him ‘an acute sense of national and gender identity’ (Smyth, 2005, p. 39), his skin colour and illegitimacy made him the target of racial and social prejudice. Lynott’s music became a way for him to...
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Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

Raymond Williams and Leonardo Sciascia: Intellectuals At the Margins

...class town located deep in the hills of the Sicilian province of Agrigento, where his father worked in the sulphur mines. That environment, its people, land and territory, remained an enduring preoccupation in his work. It was a place he never really left, apart from brief periods in Rome, Palermo and later as a member of the European parliament. His book, Le Parrocchie...
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Volkswagen scandal will send costly ripples through auto industry
Money & Business

Volkswagen scandal will send costly ripples through auto industry

...Class actions suits may recover some of that, but it’s not likely. In 1987, for example, Suzuki Samurai was a popular small on- and off-road vehicle selling at a premium to the manufacturer’s suggested retail price because of their popularity. When they were found to have an unsafe potential for rollover, resale value plummeted as much as 30% (I know, I had one!)....
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