Long description: In Medizin, Psychologie und Pflege werden trans Personen marginalisiert. Geschlechtliche Diversität wird oft mit sexueller Vielfalt zusammen betrachtet - die gelebte Erfahrung von trans Personen wird dadurch jedoch verdeckt. Dieser Band beschäftigt sich erstmal…
In Medizin, Psychologie und Pflege werden trans Personen marginalisiert. Geschlechtliche Diversität wird oft mit sexueller Vielfalt zusammen betrachtet - die gelebte Erfahrung von trans Personen wird dadurch jedoch verdeckt. Dieser Band beschäftigt sich erstmals daher nicht nur …
In Medizin, Psychologie und Pflege werden trans Personen marginalisiert. Geschlechtliche Diversität wird oft mit sexueller Vielfalt zusammen betrachtet - die gelebte Erfahrung von trans Personen wird dadurch jedoch verdeckt. Dieser Band beschäftigt sich erstmals daher nicht nur …
"In this book, Rachel Hall Sternberg draws on evidence from Greek oratory and historiography of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE to study the moral universe of the ancient Athenians: how citizens may have treated one another in times of adversity, when and how they were expect…
In the final extant letter of his Epistulae Morales, Seneca the Younger attributes the human good to the work of cura, “care” or “concern,” before abruptly discussing how humans, unique among animals, have access to future time. This dissertation argues that Seneca’s distinctive…
This thesis reflects on the limits of the frame of communication, adopted by posthumanist thinkers like Bruno Latour and Jane Bennett, for addressing the challenge of a more-thanhuman politics. It explores how Hannah Arendt's political thought, brought into dialogue with feminis…
Based on fieldwork conducted in Tokyo from 2015 to 2016 around the non-profit organization “Fathering Japan”, this ethnography follows the practice of fatherhood among participants of ikumen movements. Often translated as “childrearing man”, ikumen refers to fathers who actively…
Love Among the Robots offers a cultural overview of fantasies and anxieties about relations with robots between 1970 and the present. I look beyond the techno-pessimistic and techno-optimistic readings of robots and our relations with them to a set of human-machine relations tha…
During the first half of the twentieth century, the voluntary sector was the main provider of residential care for children. The ability and appropriateness of charitable organisations to perform this work was largely unchallenged and societies such as Barnardo's and the Nationa…
This thesis argues the question of peace in Northern Ireland, and perhaps beyond, cannot be founded on tolerance, equality, or mutual understanding among persons. Peace cannot reside within a horizon of sameness, whereby bodies are posited as either dualistic or in-common. Both …
The significance of relationships in residential child care in Scotland has grown in policy, practice and academic writing. Introduction of The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 and current narratives around 'love' in residential settings have demonstrated a shift in…
This PhD study explored the day to day lives of young people living in foster care in the United Kingdom. This study utilises Bourdieu’s (1986) conceptualisation of social capital, which has been described as a useful heuristic as it focuses on practices and processes (Morrow 19…
This thesis explores how people struggle to make livable lives in the conditions of existence of seeking asylum in the UK. The study is based on ethnographic research, conversations and participant observation, with people seeking asylum in Manchester. Grounding the research in …
This thesis examines the cultural and social history of Cardiff City Mental Hospital during the tenure of its first medical superintendent, Dr Edwin Goodall. When the hospital opened in 1908 the asylum movement was at a low point with numbers increasing and recovery rates fallin…
