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Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire
ESPAÑA-CHAMORRO, S. (2024): “Between tradition and innovation: Place names and the geography of power in the Late Republic and Early Roman Empire in Hispania”, en S. Betjes, O. Hekster, and E. Manders (eds.), Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire, Brill (IMEM 50), Leiden, 90-109.2024 •
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When one thinks of inscriptions produced under the Roman Empire, public inscribed monuments are likely to come to mind. Hundreds of thousands of such inscriptions are known from across the breadth of the Roman Empire, preserved because they were created of durable material or were reused in subsequent building. This volume looks at another aspect of epigraphic creation – from handwritten messages scratched on wall-plaster to domestic sculptures labeled with texts to displays of official patronage posted in homes: a range of inscriptions appear within the private sphere in the Greco-Roman world. Rarely scrutinized as a discrete epigraphic phenomenon, the incised texts studied in this volume reveal that writing in private spaces was very much a part of the epigraphic culture of the Roman Empire. Table of Contents Preface, R. Benefiel and P. Keegan Chapter 1: Inscriptions in Private Spaces, A. Wallace-Hadrill Section 1: Graffiti and the Domestic Sphere Chapter 2: Private graffiti? Scratching the walls of houses at Dura-Europos, J. Baird Chapter 3: Inscriptions in a private space: Graffiti in a house in Attica, C. Taylor Chapter 4: The spatial environment of inscriptions and graffiti in domestic locations: The case of Delos, M. Zarmakoupi Chapter 5: The culture of writing graffiti within domestic spaces at Pompeii, R. Benefiel Section 2: Discourses of Public and Private Chapter 6: Newly discovered and corrected readings of iscrizioni "privatissime" from the Vesuvian region, A. Varone Chapter 7: Honos clientium instituit sic colere patronos. A public/private epigraphic type: tabulae of hospitality and patronage, F. Beltrán Lloris Chapter 8: The significance of sculptures with associated inscriptions in private houses in Ephesos, Pergamon and beyond, E. Rathmayr Section 3: Place and Space Chapter 9: Painted and charcoal inscriptions from the territory of Cyrene: evidence from the underworld, A. Cinalli Chapter 10: Harnessing the sacred: Hidden writing and private spaces in Levantine synagogues, K. Stern Chapter 11: Graffiti as monumenta and uerba: Marking territories, creating discourses in Roman Pompeii, P. Keegan Chapter 12: Writing in the Private Sphere: Epilogue, M. Corbier
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In light of national and regional EU agendas favouring water privatization under forms of neoliberal technocracy, water movements have emerged to contest this paradigm by reframing water as a common good and demanding remunicipalisation (reclaiming public control over water services). As a result, unique cases of water remunicipalisation have aligned their politics with a commons discourse, as in the case of Naples, Italy. However, implementing a commons discourse within an experimental urban setting, embedded in a context of neoliberal technocracy and socio-cultural dynamics is imbued with tensions. Combining literature on commons with that of feminist political ecology, this paper unravels the micro-politics and macro-politics that create tensions in experiments of constructing and institutionalising an urban water commons. The focus of this paper is on 'lived experiences' of activists in an ecological (water) struggle, as an entry point to study the (de)construction of the institutionalisation of a commons-oriented water project. Results point to four factors that leave the Naples' water commons project at risk: enclosing knowledge(s), imbalanced gendered experiences, enclosing practices of participation, and lastly the antagonistic politics at a national and regional scale that continue to isolate the case of Naples as anomaly. By focusing on the neglected facets of embodiment in constructing and institutionalising commons projects, we draw attention to the importance of including embodied knowledge(s), experiences, and practices in the construction, institutionalisation, and ultimately the study, of water commons.
Kaleidoscope Conference - University of Cambridge
Developing independent learning skills: an exploration into the experiences of Vietnamese university students in the UK2024 •
This paper is an exploration into the experiences of Vietnamese university students' in the UK - in developing independent learning skills. The focus on Vietnamese students is apposite because the Vietnamese student community is one of the five largest national communities of students in the UK. Also, Vietnam is a country which appears high up in international comparisons such as PISA but from which students still report challenges when travelling to study at university level. The paper begins with an exploration into current research in this area. In this section the factors that affect the development of independent learning skills for students in higher education are explored. The research that informs this comes from a broad range of international contexts. Following this the findings from our study, which focused specifically on Vietnamese student experiences, are presented and discussed. The study used a mixed methods qualitative and quantitative research approach - through conducting an online survey followed by online interviews. The data collected by both methods provided us with information about the students’ experiences, the difficulties which university students face during self-study processes, and how they overcome them. Furthermore, we also explored students' expectations of lecturers in guiding the practice of their independent learning skills. It emerged that students are keen to develop their independent study skills and show creativity when developing their own self-development strategies. However, they still express a need for university-based interventions. This study is relevant for students and for practitioners in universities in the UK.
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
Narrative Construction of Sexual Violence and Rape Online2017 •
The increased active participation of individuals in the creation of sexual violence narratives online, as opposed to the previously passive consumption of news stories offline, could prove problematic in ensuring justice is served. Social media allows for circumvention of the criminal justice system in response to its perceived inadequacies. With the 24-hour news cycle, the ease with which media consumers can interact with the story as it breaks online, and the manner in which social media has been used by laypersons and secondary bystanders to target victims or perpetrators before a case ever makes it to court, raises questions about how narrative construction online possibly influences people’s beliefs and understandings about sexual violence and the effect this may have for the justice system.
Birgittine Circles People and Saints in the Medieval World
Performing Heavenly Delights in Medieval Barcelona Circulation of Birgittine Texts and Affective Communities2023 •
Birgittine historiography has been and still is too dependent on knowledge-production infrastructures based on contemporary borders, both national and linguistic, omitting the fact that Latin was a transnational language and tool for communication for both ecclesiastical power structures and devotional culture. Perhaps the lack of interest for latin as an actual language is the reason why the reception of Birgittine texts in the kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula has not received proper attention by the scholarly community studying the devotional and religious culture of the Late Middle Ages. Nevertheless, the absence of vernacular translations does not really explain this lack of interest. This paper explores the reception of Birgittine texts in Medieval Barcelona and suggests that new strategies to study the reception of Medieval authors, like the idea of affective communities, should be employed
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