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Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...world system informed by a praxis-based commitment to radical decentring. In this connection, Chan (2018) maintains that “decolonialists posed the significance of how cultivating a politics of decentralization – and a decentring of the self as expert and knowledge practitioner – might offer an affront to modernity’s domination and its politics of self-replication...
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Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...World War, children from Belfast were evacuated to Newry and its surrounding countryside. This link with Newry was never forgotten and Newry’s tourist industry has benefited as the region became a regular holiday destination for these children, their children and now their grandchildren. Of course the movement of population has not always been inward, the Newry of the...
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Languages and Employability
Languages

Languages and Employability

...video a collection of employers and employees outline the benefits that language skills bring to their companies and careers. There is a lot more to language skills than just learning to speak fluently. Inter-cultural communication skills open doors to other cultures and communities, and gives you experience of the world that goes deeper than the average tourist trip....
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Behind the camera
History & The Arts

Behind the camera

...world afforded by the still or moving picture. The amateurs were those who came in their wake, hobbyists embracing the excitement of the new technology. With their small gauge cameras, they documented their world – a mixture of domestic and public spheres – but with little awareness of their value to future generations of film archivists and historians. The...
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Why could phosphorus depletion leave us all hungry?
Society, Politics & Law

Why could phosphorus depletion leave us all hungry?

...world who are hungry. It could be two or three billion by 2050 and I don’t see that as being an easy world.” Forget oil. Phosphorus scarcity will be the biggest geopolitical issue in the decades to come. Peak phosphorus could occur as soon as 2034, according to studies cited at the summit by the Global Phosphorus Research Initiative. Known reserves could be depleted...
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The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation

...World War II led to recognition of the peace-making role of the union. These opinions and voting trends are hidden, though, through the way our polling and opinion data is organised. Older citizens whose views have been largely hidden or ignored are part of a cohort known as the Silent Generation. Aged now between 75 and 93 years old, these citizens remember World War II...
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Schizophrenia: Beyond science
Health, Sports & Psychology

Schizophrenia: Beyond science

...world than in the developed world, despite its greater wealth and greater access to psychiatric services and medication. His explanation for this was that in the developing world there was less stigma attached to psychosis and there was a much greater emphasis on social integration. So there seems to be not only a medical and psychological aspect to supporting people...
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The City: The Roman and Greek Cities
History & The Arts

The City: The Roman and Greek Cities

...world of human nature. When Greeks explored beyond the Aegean they did so as colonists, building new cities on the model of their homelands. Several centuries later, as her empire started to expand Rome adopted a similar approach, using cities to provide protection and a Roman lifestyle for residents, to extract resources from the provinces and ultimately to establish...
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