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The idea that pain can be a pleasure is a troubling one, and yet it
informs cultural practices ranging from extreme sports to BDSM
(bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and
sadomasochism). This book considers how mainstream cinema borrows
heavily from these cultural activities for its imagery, but
typically rejects their social motivations founded on masochistic
pleasure and an assertion of autonomy. Noting a shift in the late
twentieth century to narratives that highlight subjection,
endurance and willed-acquiescence, it probes the confluence of
pain, pleasure and consent to analyse the implications of the
change. Films addressed include Crash, Fight Club, Saw, Se7en and
Sick. Individual chapters focus on the influence of BDSM, body
modification, provocative artwork, dangerous games and torture, and
collectively they offer an address of how cinema's viscerally
dominated, marked and suffering body - the controlled body -
destabilizes the pain/pleasure dichotomy, as well as other binaries
founded on gender, sexuality and disfigurement/beauty.
This book offers a detailed account of the legal issues concerning
the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) by leading
experts in the field. It examines the broader significance of the
ongoing Bancoult litigation in the UK Courts, the Chagos Islanders'
petition to the European Court of Human Rights and Mauritius'
successful challenge, under the UN Convention of the Law of the
Sea, to the UK government's creation of a Marine Protected Area
around the Chagos Archipelago. This book, produced in response to
the 50th anniversary of the BIOT's founding, also assesses the
impact of the decisions taken in respect of the Territory against a
wider background of decolonization while addressing important
questions about the lawfulness of maintaining Overseas Territories
in the post-colonial era.The chapter 'Anachronistic As Colonial
Remnants May Be...' - Locating the Rights of the Chagos Islanders
As A Case Study of the Operation of Human Rights Law in Colonial
Territories is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via
link.springer.com.
In 1965, the UK excised the Chagos Islands from the colony of
Mauritius to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) in
connection with the founding of a US military facility on the
island of Diego Garcia. Consequently, the inhabitants of the Chagos
Islands were secretly exiled to Mauritius, where they became
chronically impoverished. This book considers the resonance of
international law for the Chagos Islanders. It advances the
argument that BIOT constitutes a 'Non-Self-Governing Territory'
pursuant to the provisions of Chapter XI of the UN Charter and for
the wider purposes of international law. In addition, the book
explores the extent to which the right of self-determination,
indigenous land rights and a range of obligations contained in
applicable human rights treaties could support the Chagossian right
to return to BIOT. However, the rights of the Chagos Islanders are
premised on the assumption that the UK possesses a valid
sovereignty claim over BIOT. The evidence suggests that this claim
is questionable and it is disputed by Mauritius. Consequently, the
Mauritian claim threatens to compromise the entitlements of the
Chagos Islanders in respect of BIOT as a matter of international
law. This book illustrates the ongoing problems arising from
international law's endorsement of the territorial integrity of
colonial units for the purpose of decolonisation at the expense of
the countervailing claims of colonial self-determination by
non-European peoples that inhabited the same colonial unit. The
book uses the competing claims to the Chagos Islands to demonstrate
the need for a more nuanced approach to the resolution of
sovereignty disputes resulting from the legacy of European
colonialism.
Narratives of place link people and geographic location with a
cultural imaginary through literature and visual narration.
Contemporary literature and film often frame narratives with
specific geographic locations, which saturate the narrative with
cultural meanings in relation to natural and man-made landscapes.
This interdisciplinary collection seeks to interrogate such
connections to probe how place is narrativized in literature and
film. Utilizing close readings of specific filmic and literary
texts, all chapters serve to tease out cultural and historical
meanings in respect of human engagement with landscapes. Always
mindful of national, cultural and topographical specificity, the
book is structured around five core themes: Contested Histories of
Place; Environmental Landscapes; Cityscapes; The Social
Construction of Place; and Landscapes of Belonging.
This book has two main purposes: formative case analysis and
self-assessment of medicine in old age. It presents clinicians with
a series of cases on which to base discussion of the investigation
and management of patients. It also provides the trainee, or
established doctor, with a medium to help prepare for post-graduate
examinations and clinical practice. The authors have chosen 109
cases, a total of 250 questions/answers, illustrated by color
photographs, diagrams, and tables. The cases cover the main modes
of presentation of acute illness in old age, such as fall,
confusion, incontinence, weight loss and immobility, with examples
from all the major systems. These illustrate the complexity of
diagnosis and treatment of medical illness in frail older people
and the need to think widely and laterally when caring for such
patients. The questions are mostly in best-of-five format to
reflect the current style of multiple choice questions used in
examination, though some are open questions as the basis for
tutorials. Many of the clinical stems have been expanded to improve
the educational function of the book and to test more rigorously
the reader's deductive thinking.
This book offers a detailed account of the legal issues concerning
the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) by leading
experts in the field. It examines the broader significance of the
ongoing Bancoult litigation in the UK Courts, the Chagos Islanders'
petition to the European Court of Human Rights and Mauritius'
successful challenge, under the UN Convention of the Law of the
Sea, to the UK government's creation of a Marine Protected Area
around the Chagos Archipelago. This book, produced in response to
the 50th anniversary of the BIOT's founding, also assesses the
impact of the decisions taken in respect of the Territory against a
wider background of decolonization while addressing important
questions about the lawfulness of maintaining Overseas Territories
in the post-colonial era.The chapter 'Anachronistic As Colonial
Remnants May Be...' - Locating the Rights of the Chagos Islanders
As A Case Study of the Operation of Human Rights Law in Colonial
Territories is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via
link.springer.com.
From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's
representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body.
Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that
highlight subjection, endurance and willed-acquiescence, it probes
the confluence of pain, pleasure and consent to analyse the
implications of the change.
The question of what rights might be afforded to Indigenous peoples
has preoccupied the municipal legal systems of settler states since
the earliest colonial encounters. As a result of sustained
institutional initiatives, many national legal regimes and the
international legal order accept that Indigenous peoples possess an
extensive array of legal rights. However, despite this development,
claims advanced by Indigenous peoples relating to rights to marine
spaces have been largely opposed. This book offers the first
sustained study of these rights and their reception within modern
legal systems. Taking a three-part approach, it looks firstly at
the international aspects of Indigenous entitlements in marine
spaces. It then goes on to explore specific country examples,
before looking at some interdisciplinary themes of crucial
importance to the question of the recognition of the rights of
Indigenous peoples in marine settings. Drawing on the expertise of
leading scholars, this is a rigorous and long-overdue exploration
of a significant gap in the literature.
The Oxford Handbook of Jurisdiction in International Law provides
an authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the concept of
jurisdiction in international law. Jurisdiction plays a fundamental
role in international law, limiting the exercise of legal authority
over international legal subjects. But despite its importance, the
concept has remained, until now, underdeveloped. Discussions of
jurisdiction in international law regularly refer to classic heads
of jurisdiction based on territoriality or nationality, or use the
SS Lotus decision of the Permanent Court of International Justice
as a starting point. However, traditional understandings of
jurisdiction are facing new challenges. Globalization has increased
the need for jurisdiction to be applied extraterritorially,
non-State forms of law provide new theoretical challenges and
intersections between different forms of jurisdiction have become
more intricate. This Handbook provides a necessary re-examination
of the concept of jurisdiction in international law through a
thematic analysis of its history, its contemporary application, and
how it needs to adapt to encompass future developments in
international law. It examines some of the most contentious
elements of jurisdiction by considering how the concept is being
applied in specific substantive and institutional settings.
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Walden (Paperback)
Henry David Thoreau; Edited by Stephen Allen Fender
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`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry
David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin
a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half
away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's
classic autobiographical account of this experiment in solitary
living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the
accumulation of wealth and above all the freedom it gave him to
adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition
of Walden traces the sources of Thoreau's reading and thinking and
considers the author in the context of his birthplace and his sense
of its history - social, economic and natural. In addition, an
ecological appendix provides modern identifications of the myriad
plants and animals to which Thoreau gave increasingly close
attention as he became acclimatized to his life in the woods by
Walden Pond. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
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At twelve years old, his hatred of God took root. Weighed by chains
of guilt and shame, Steven Young grew to live for the moment. He
partied, slept around, gambled, and manipulated people for his own
desires. His choices led to four failed marriages and eight years
in prison. Broke and alone, he lived five years homeless on the
streets of Nashville, Tennessee, and in 2013 decided to end it all.
At his lowest point, the very God he despised stepped in. It would
still be a long healing journey From Chains to Change. This
painfully honest and powerfully redemptive story is an example of
God's ability to transform the past, restore hearts, and offer hope
for the future.
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