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‘The old people had brooms’: Yanyuwa women, material culture and resistance
(SAHKartell, 2017)This piece investigates the complex and multiple meanings associated with one piece of Australian Aboriginal material culture, a broom made by Yanyuwa woman Emalina Evans a-Wanajabi in the 1980s. Yanyuwa people constitute ... -
On the Emergence of the Technological University
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Once a Villain Always a Villain: Edmund’s “Reformation” in King Lear, 5.3.241-42
(SAHKartell, 2015)The article examines possible motives behind the alleged change of heart shown by Edmund at the end of King Lear when, defeated by his brother Edgar, he decides to revoke his former order to execute Lear and Cordelia. ... -
Originals: How Non-Conformists Change the World
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Ossian & the Hare: An Experiment in Poetry and the Alchemy of Film
(SAHKartell, 2016)Ossian & the Hare is an experimental film-essay combination intended to work like two sides of the one coin. The 20-minute long film is designed to be more experiential than narrative driven, moving us through various ... -
Ó Chéitinn go Conradh: Rising the Revivalists to 1916
(SAHKartell, 2016)Was the Gaelic League the ‘breeding ground’ for the IRB? Was the Irish language the Language of the Revolution? These parting words from the O’Rahilly (Ua Rathghaille) border on absurd black humour but like so many other ... -
Patrick Pearse: Psychobiographical Reflections on an Enigmatic, Paradoxical Personality
(SAHKartell, 2016)To date historians have focused almost exclusively on Patrick Pearse’s key role in the 1916 Easter Rising to the extent that there is much less information about his personality development and characteristics. They have ... -
Politics, indigenous rights and resource ownership: Māori customary rights to the foreshore, seabed and fresh water in New Zealand
(SAHKartell, 2017)Māori customary rights to natural resources are a contentious issue between Māori and the New Zealand government and between Maori and non-Māori. The values and principles inherent in a treaty signed in 1840 between Māori ... -
The Power of a Single Number: a Political History of GDP
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A Preliminary Scoping Review Study of the Progress of Social Media Adoption as an Educational Tool by Academics in Higher Education
(DBS Library Press, 2018)This paper presents a preliminary scoping review exploring the evidence landscape regarding academic staff experiences and perceptions of social media adoption as an educational tool in higher education. The goal of this ... -
Project #CyborgArt: A Teaching Case Study on the Affordances Programmable Sensors in Mixed Media Art Projects
(DBS Library Press, 2018)Modern graduates of all disciplines require proficiency with new literacies to complement and enhance traditional higher-level education. Local and multinational businesses struggle to source graduates with both practical ... -
Protecting endangered languages: The case of Irish
(SAHKartell, 2017)This article reviews the Irish experience of plurilingual aspiration from three perspectives. It first relates the case for preserving and learning the Irish language to Ireland’s cultural development as an independent ... -
Psychoanalysing Theresa: Telling It Slant in Alice McDermott’s Child of My Heart
(SAHKartell, 2017)Psychoanalytic theory, as explained by Esther Rashkin, combines with literary analysis to understand the driving force that motivates a character to tell a story. Such is the case for understanding the first-person narrator ... -
Public Heath in Colonial and Post-Colonial Ghana: Lesson-Drawing for The Twenty-First Century
(SAHKartell, 2017)Public health in twenty-first century Ghana is mired with several issues ranging from the inadequacy of public health facilities, improper settlement planning, insanitary conditions, and the inadequacy of laws and their ... -
The Radical Habitus and the Knowledge Practices of the Irish Organic Food Movement
(SAHKartell, 2017)The aims of the organic food movement include the transformation of food production, distribution and consumption. They necessitate a range of different skills and understandings which must be accessed, created, put to use ... -
Reclaiming the Left
(SAHKartell, 2018)The Left has been charged with a lack of self-reflection and self-criticism. This article aims to address this concern through a demarcation of liberal-left values from illiberal pursuits in an attempt to reclaim (or reform) ... -
Reclaiming the monster: abjection and subversion in the marital Gothic novel
(SAHKartell, 2018)This article explores literary representations of women over the centuries, from the witch of children’s fairy tales to the madwoman of the nineteenth century and the sexually voracious vamp of the twentieth century. Within ... -
A Recounting of the Stages of French Communist Resistance during World War II and its Relationship to the French Resistance Overall
(SAHKartell, 2015)This paper will recount the stages of communist resistance in France during World War Two and its relationship to the French Resistance overall, as well as analyse the effect that communist resistance in France had on the ... -
A Review of Behavioural Gerontology and Dementia Related Interventions
(SAHKartell, 2015)Behavioural Gerontology is concerned with the interaction of the aging individual and their environment. One aspect of behavioural gerontology has focussed on the use of behaviourist methods to improve the functioning and ...