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In the early twentieth century the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council acted as the final appellate court for most of the territories of the British Empire. Its area of jurisdiction has gradually declined since the conclusion of the Second World War. This paper offers a brief and accessible appraisal of a number of general themes within the history of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. It assesses the claim that this court acted as a safeguard for minority communities within the constituent parts of the British Empire and Commonwealth. This article also examines many of the practical objections raised against the Privy Council appeal by its opponents, including the issues of expense and delay. It also examines the assertion that the Privy Council was not suited to act as a final court of appeal on the grounds that it was an out-dated institution that was out of touch with local values and conditions in the various parts of the British Empire and Commonwealth. This article questions the validity of many of these grounds for criticism and argues that they were often used to conceal other reasons for desiring the abolition of the appeal to the Privy Council. The conclusion assesses the future prospects of this most unusual court.

This paper discusses how street vendors in the city of Maputo have counter- vailed the municipal strategies and policies for pushing back their presence in public spaces and, in doing so, reclaimed public urban spaces. Based on ethnographic re- search carried out between 2015 and 2019 in the city of Maputo, four strategies have been identified: 1) adjustment of time-space routine; 2) spatial proximity; 3) compart- mentalization of the merchandise and/or services; 4) symbiotic interaction. These strategies are not mutually exclusive, and they are deployed by street vendors to re- sist harassment and violence, and reclaim urban public spaces in the city of Maputo. Street vendors deploy these strategies consciously in opposition to the negative polit- ical discourse about them as promoters of urban disorder. In doing so, urban street vending can be said to be a performative expression of an urban counterculture. This paper shed light on the nuances of street-vending performance as an example of how grassroots actors can shape civic conduct in the urban space.

Chapter 3 outlines our three conceptual innovations for the study of European integration and EU interventions in the socioeconomic field. First, we shift from the classical distinction of negative and positive integration to one that distinguishes horizontal and vertical integration modes. Second, we propose to go beyond the classical, state-centred (intergovernmental or federal) paradigms of EU law and political science, as we have found that the EU’s new economic governance (NEG) regime mimics the corporate governance regime that transnational corporations use to steer the activities of their subsidiaries and their workforce. Finally, we pursue an analytical approach that complements existing EU politicisation studies, which assess the salience of Eurosceptic views in media debates, opinion polls, elections, and referenda, as we must study EU politicisation also at the meso-level of interest politics. After all, the political cleavages that structure national politics have neither been created in individuals’ minds at the micro-level nor are they simply an outcome of systemic macro-level changes.

This essay critically evaluates the political economy of Web3 and offers a neo-institutional model to explain qualitative observations of contemporary digital social movements. By starting to develop a sociological model of Web3 rooted in micro-organizational practices, including trust mediation and social coproduction, this essay re-evaluates assumptions of scarcity, economic value, and social belonging. It concludes by introducing a novel research programme to study digital polycentric governance that focuses on community self-governance of digital common pool resources (DCPRs) and looks forward to empirical research using on-chain datasets from Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).

Responses to experimental writing by Irish women poets have tended to be framed in terms of the American tradition. This has served to obscure the distinctiveness of these poets, both as a strand of the Irish tradition and among themselves, in the highly individual bodies of work produced by Susan Howe, Maggie O’Sullivan, and Catherine Walsh. The American-born Howe has been linked to the Language poets, but represents a complex intertwining of personal history and literary exchanges between Ireland and the United States. With its heavy use of parataxis and open-field poetics, Howe’s work opens itself up to wide historical vistas. O’Sullivan’s work, written from England, also stresses open-field forms while showing affinities with the sound poetry of Bob Cobbing and the ‘antiabsorptive’ poetics of Charles Bernstein. Nevertheless, the connection with the Irish tradition is strongly stressed, as is the case also with Catherine Walsh. Walsh’s writing on Dublin is unique in modern Irish writing, notably in its focus on minority and marginalised communities. In the ‘forms of attention’ required by all three writers, Irish women’s poetry remakes itself in unexpected and fascinating ways.

The operation and maintenance of buildings and facilities present multifaceted challenges, with significant impacts on environmental sustainability and operational costs. Asset managers require up-to-date, pertinent, and comprehensible information to facilitate data-driven decision-making aimed at enhancing the energy and financial efficiency of their facilities. This paper introduces a novel approach by applying life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) through a web-based knowledge-graph database. This application enables facility managers to make data-driven decisions, expanding the use of LCCA beyond the initial design phase to the operational phase. Unlike existing methodologies, this approach provides a user-friendly web interface that accommodates professionals, prioritises reliability, and optimises performance metrics. The interface includes an asset manager, comparative LCCA, and a 3D model viewer, enhancing interactive exploration of assets and cost data representation. To ascertain the interface effectiveness, feedback was solicited from industry professionals, and telemetry data underwent a thorough assessment using a defined set of metrics. This study fills a critical gap in LCCA software and holds the potential to improve the environmental efficiency of building operations, addressing the global energy crisis.

Magdalene institutions in Ireland date from the (mid-)eighteenth century, and until the late nineteenth century their history parallels that of asylums for poor and destitute women found all over Europe, run by religious orders or lay-managed philantrophic concerns seeking to provide needy women with refuge. Magdalene asylums often provided training and references of good character for these women so that after their rehabilitation they could go into service and earn a living. The Magdalenes were run according to Protestant or Catholic ethos: most Christian denominations took the life of Mary Magdalene as their inspiration. Christian traditions hold that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute who did penance for her sinful ways by washing the feet of Jesus and drying his feet with her hair. Jesus forgave Mary Magdalene her sins and she became one of his most prominent followers. The rationale for these institutions was that even the prostitute, that most scandalous and sinful of women, could be forgiven for her sins if she was sufficiently remorseful and did penance for her sins. The Christian concept of penance involves actions of humility and labour—the more humble and more onerous the labour, the greater Divine grace and forgiveness might be bestowed. Many Christian traditions have focused on controlling the reproductive and sexual bodies of women on the assumption that female sexuality is replete with causing ‘occasions of sin.’ The nominally celibate, exclusively male Roman Catholic clergy long monitored and admonished monitoring Catholic women’s reproduction and sexuality, promoting a cultural view that women (like their Biblical foremother Eve) tempt men into sexual sin.

This chapter analyses Irish law on police access to digital evidence. It outlines the domestic legal framework regarding data retention, interception of communications and access to stored data. It then considers the law governing cross-border requests for data. It assesses the extent to which these rules are adequate for law enforcement purposes and whether these rules are compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and data protection standards.

This chapter focuses on impression management in accounting communication. Impression management entails the construction of an impression by organisations with the intention to appeal to their audiences, including shareholders, stakeholders, the general public, and the media. If successful, it undermines the quality of financial reporting and capital misallocations may result. What is more, wider social and political consequences include unwarranted support by non-financial stakeholders or by society at large. Impression management is examined by reference to four perspectives: the economic, psychological, sociological, and critical. These variously conceptualise impression management as reporting bias, self-serving bias, symbolic management, and ideological bias.

I defend a Davidsonian approach to weakness of will against some recent arguments by John McDowell, and adapt the approach to meet other objections. Instead of treating one’s better judgement as a conditional judgement about what is desirable to do given available reasons, it is proposed to treat it as an unconditional judgement about what is desirable to do from a rational perspective that one takes to be the right perspective to have. This makes sense of Aristotle’s claim that desire is for the good or the apparent good: judgements of desirability generally concern the apparent good, whereas judgements of desirability from rational perspectives that are judged to be the ones to have are judgements of the actual good. Weakness of will occurs when one’s actual rational perspective is not the one that one takes to be the one to have - i.e. when one’s judgement of the apparent good does not coincide with one’s judgement of the actual good. One makes two judgements – one from an adopted perspective that one judges to be the one to have and one from one’s actual perspective.

Leonardo Padura Fuentes oggi è uno dei giallisti cubani più conosciuti e letti all’estero. I suoi romanzi interpretano la realtà in modo critico e disincantato. Lo scrittore svolge la sua critica dall’interno dell’Isola e utilizza la sua arte per descrivere la complessità sociale habanera tramite una nuova forma di romanzo poliziesco.

Adorno’s work contains a number of radical criticisms of Hegel that reveal deep philosophical differences between the two philosophers. He represents Hegel’s philosophy as directed, ultimately, against particularity and individual experience. The core motivation of Hegel’s philosophy, Adorno argues, is a concern with system and universality. Conceived in this way it is antagonistic to the idea of non-identity, the very idea that lies at the centre of Adorno’s philosophical project.

Anyone familiar with Minoan art will be aware of the large number of representations of crocuses - on ceramics,, on wall paintings, in faience, perhaps on seastones, and also in Linear B. The exact species of crocus shown has been a hotly debated topic for many years, with most experts favouring either Corcus cartwrightianus or Crocus sativus (see Amigues 1988 for a summary). They are both purple, autumn-flowering plants, the only difference being that the stimas of C. cartwrightianus are about 1 cm. shorter than those of C. sativus (Matthew 1999: 21-22). The DNA of both plants is very similar, and it has been suggested that C. cartwrightianus is perhaps the wild ancestor of the cultivated C. sativus (Frilli Caiola 1999: 32; Matthew 1982: 56). Indeed, today on the island of Santorini, C. cartwrightianus is still gathered for its saffron (Tzachili 1994). However, the debate over which of theses two species was depcited is redundant for the purposes of this paper, as both of them can provide saffron.

This chapter discusses humour as it is deliberately produced by organizations through advertising. Using beer advertisements as an example, our aim is to explain the increasing prevalence of advertising-based organizational humour during the period that has come to be known as late capitalism. Drawing on the literature on humour in advertising, the chapter explores the irony of how such advertisements provide a comedic critique of the code that acts to control and construct consumers, while also being a constitutive part of that process.