Before the idea of the Anthropocene, there was the angry planet   How might we understand an earthquake as a complaint, or erosion as a form of protest—in short, the Earth as an angry ...planet? Many novels from the end of the millennium did just that, centering around an Earth that acts, moves, shapes human affairs, and creates dramatic, nonanthropogenic change. In Angry Planet, Anne Stewart uses this literature to develop a theoretical framework for reading with and through planetary motion. Typified by authors like Colson Whitehead, Octavia Butler, and Leslie Marmon Silko, whose work anticipates contemporary critical concepts of entanglement, withdrawal, delinking, and resurgence, angry planet fiction coalesced in the 1990s and delineated the contours of a decolonial ontology. Stewart shows how this fiction brought Black and Indigenous thought into conversation, offering a fresh account of globalization in the 1990s from the perspective of the American Third World, construing it as the era that first made connections among environmental crises and antiracist and decolonial struggles. By synthesizing these major intersections of thought production in the final decades of the twentieth century, Stewart offers a recent history of dissent to the young movements of the twenty-first century. As she reveals, this knowledge is crucial to incipient struggles of our contemporary era, as our political imaginaries grapple with the major challenges of white nationalism and climate change denial.
There is concern that the internet is playing an increasing role in self-harm and suicide. In this study we systematically review and analyse research literature to determine whether there is ...evidence that the internet influences the risk of self-harm or suicide in young people.
An electronic literature search was conducted using the PsycINFO, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Scopus, and CINAHL databases. Articles of interest were those that included empirical data on the internet, self-harm or suicide, and young people. The articles were initially screened based on titles and abstracts, then by review of the full publications, after which those included in the review were subjected to data extraction, thematic analysis and quality rating.
Youth who self-harm or are suicidal often make use of the internet. It is most commonly used for constructive reasons such as seeking support and coping strategies, but may exert a negative influence, normalising self-harm and potentially discouraging disclosure or professional help-seeking. The internet has created channels of communication that can be misused to 'cyber-bully' peers; both cyber-bullying and general internet use have been found to correlate with increased risk of self-harm, suicidal ideation, and depression. Correlations have also been found between internet exposure and violent methods of self-harm.
Internet use may exert both positive and negative effects on young people at risk of self-harm or suicide. Careful high quality research is needed to better understand how internet media may exert negative influences and should also focus on how the internet might be utilised to intervene with vulnerable young people.
This study looks at key risk factors in patients with schizophrenia to identify trends according to age of onset, comparing presentations prior to 26years (youth onset), between 26 and 40years ...(middle onset), and after 40years of age (late onset).
The early psychosis program at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne treats patients presenting in the early stages of psychosis between 16 and 65years of age. A database was developed to capture key risk factors in all patients with an eventual diagnosis of schizophrenia (n=225). Risk factor profiles were then generated and compared for patients based on age of onset.
Older age of onset was associated with weaker family history of schizophrenia, lower rates of substance use, better early psychosocial functioning and higher educational achievement. Female preponderance and comorbid physical health problems were particularly notable in the late onset cohort. Later life schizophrenia also showed a relatively greater association with psychosocial factors proximal to psychosis onset, such as unemployment.
Clear trends are noticeable with age. Older patients have characteristic differences in their background risk factors compared to youth onset patients, including less hereditary influence and relatively more emphasis on later life risk factors. Identifying the roles of specific risk factors in these distinct age-onset groups can enhance our understanding of underlying aetiology and facilitate service development to meet the needs of each specific age group.
Action learning is one of the most effective leadership development interventions Day, Fleenor, Atwater, Sturm, and McKee. 2014. "Advances in Leader and Leadership Development: A Review of 25 Years ...of Research and Theory." The Leadership Quarterly 25 (1): 63-82; Pauleen. 2003. "Leadership in a Global Virtual Team: An Action Learning Approach." Leadership & Organization Development Journal 2003; Stewart. 2010. "Action Learning and Virtual Action Learning for Leadership Development." Developing Leaders (1), yet Virtual Action learning (VAL) has always struggled to be seen as a viable alternative, with both facilitators and participants often preferring face-to-face set meetings, and dismissing the technological options Dickenson, Burgoyne, and Pedler. 2010. "Virtual Action Learning: Practices and Challenges." Action Learning Journal: Research & Practice 7 (1): 59-72; Stewart. 2009. "Evaluation of an Action Learning Programme for Leadership Development of SME Leaders in the UK." Action Learning: Research and Practice 6 (2): 131-148. However, the onset of the Covid pandemic saw the rapid implementation of this remote technology-enabled approach, where VAL became the only option for action learning due to the restrictions on face-to-face working and travel limitations. This paper shares insights on the differences facilitating action learning and virtual action learning from a research project, based around a two-year Masters in Leadership programme in a UK business school, now delivered to over 300 experienced senior leaders, predominantly working in the UK NHS and a major UK retailer.
Neoliberal Earthworks Stewart, Anne
Studies in American Indian literatures,
07/2018, Volume:
30, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
In particular, these novels suggest that the parts of the planet enlisted in neoliberal earthworks-the mineral aggregate that goes into freeway construction; the transformation of soil, plant life, ...and even climate required to build and maintain golf courses; and the manipulation of land-water relations required for dam construction-can themselves engage in a kind of decolonial action in the form of a tectonic shaking-off of colonial-capitalist infrastructures. Vizenor's pilgrims enter into an environment in which "pools of brume flowed across the road near the marshes. Since the end of gasoline, weeds were growing over the asphalt roads. Critics such as James H. Cox and Cheryl Lousley note that the Grand Baleen evokes the Grand Coulee Dam, which displaced thousands of Spokane and Colville people and destroyed a thousand miles of salmon spawning territory in the Upper Columbia River Basin in the 1940s, as well as the Great Whale River (Grande riviere de la Baleine) phase of the James Bay hydroelectric project, which runs through Cree and Inuit territory in northern Canada.11 Fewer readers note that its massive scale and late twentieth-century timing also link the Grand Baleen to the megadam building projects that began construction in the 1980s and 1990s, like the Three Gorges Dam in China and the Sardar Sarovar Dam in India. ...Our Message Weighs': Blood Run, NAGPRA, and American Indian Identity."
The Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) is the world's rarest canid; ≈500 wolves remain. The largest population is found within the Bale Mountains National Park (BMNP) in southeastern Ethiopia, where ...conservation efforts have demonstrated the negative effect of rabies virus on wolf populations. We describe previously unreported infections with canine distemper virus (CDV) among these wolves during 2005-2006 and 2010. Death rates ranged from 43% to 68% in affected subpopulations and were higher for subadult than adult wolves (83%-87% vs. 34%-39%). The 2010 CDV outbreak started 20 months after a rabies outbreak, before the population had fully recovered, and led to the eradication of several focal packs in BMNP's Web Valley. The combined effect of rabies and CDV increases the chance of pack extinction, exacerbating the typically slow recovery of wolf populations, and represents a key extinction threat to populations of this highly endangered carnivore.
Background
Women in prison are a vulnerable group, often with a history of abuse, out-of-home care, mental health problems and unemployment. Many are mothers when they become involved in the criminal ...justice system and their gender and parenting related needs are often not considered. The aim of this rapid review was to thematically synthesize the existing research on the needs and experiences of mothers while in, and following release from, prison in Australia.
Methods
We conducted a rapid systematic search of electronic databases, search engines, the websites of key agencies, and contacted key agencies and researchers.
Results
Twenty-two publications from 12 studies met the inclusion criteria and were thematically synthesized in relation to the mothers, their children, family and community, and systems and services which mothers had contact with. We found that mothers in prison have a history of disadvantage which is perpetuated by the trauma of imprisonment. Release from prison is a particularly challenging time for mothers. In relation to their children, the included studies showed that the imprisonment of mothers impacts their maternal identity and role and disrupts the mother-child relationship. Specific strategies are needed to maintain the mother-child relationship, and to ensure the needs and rights of the child are met. In relation to family and community, we found that although family and social support is an important need of women in prison, such support may not be available. Moreover, the stigma associated with having been in prison is a significant barrier to transitions into the community, including finding employment and housing. In relation to systems and services, although limited services exist to support women in prison and on release, these often do not consider the parenting role. Evaluations of parenting programs in prison found them to be acceptable and beneficial to participants but barriers to access limit the number of women who can participate.
Conclusion
Mothers have gender- and parenting-specific needs which should be considered in planning for corrective services in Australia. Any service redesign must place the woman and her children at the centre of the service.
A common assumption about Israelite wisdom literature is the presumed naïveté, simplicity, or rigidity of the worldview represented by Proverbs, especially in contrast to other Israelite wisdom ...books. This article argues that, to the contrary, Proverbs evidences a richly imaginative character of moral reasoning that points to a fairly complex understanding of the moral world. Informed by the work of cognitive linguist Mark Johnson, this study explores several aspects of the pedagogy of imagination in the book, including the use of cognitive prototypes and metaphor, and it discusses how these tropes function as structures of moral reasoning. Further, this article considers the implications of these elements for the book's implicit view of the moral world, as well as its pedagogical goal of training the young in wisdom.
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