STORRE Collection: Electronic copies of History and Politics book chapters and sections.Electronic copies of History and Politics book chapters and sections.http://hdl.handle.net/1893/7222024-03-29T06:55:03Z2024-03-29T06:55:03ZEpilogue: the British way in corruptionCawood, IanCrook, Tomhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/344272022-06-22T00:02:10Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Epilogue: the British way in corruption
Author(s): Cawood, Ian; Crook, Tom
Editor(s): Cawood, Ian; Crook, Tom
Abstract: First paragraph: One of the core aims of this volume has been to begin the task of piecing together the bigger picture of how corruption has undermined and exercised public life in modern Britain during and since the ‘age of reform’, through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Conceptually, as an object of thought, as much as practically, as an object of reform, corruption has proved tenaciously problematic and protean. It is tempting no doubt, in the manner of the social scientist, to seek to tame its unruly qualities in this respect and to operate with a single definition, even a ‘universal’ one, captured in a pithy sentence or paragraph. To be sure, as the introduction has suggested, within the Western tradition of political thought, ‘corruption’ has long possessed a core set of (metaphorical) meanings (i.e. of decay and degeneration), and has always referred to the generic problem of the subversion of the public good by the interests and actions of a particular individual, group or class. But the challenge, as this volume sees it, is to work with, rather than against, the grain of the incredibly rich and diverse ways this basic conceptual form has been developed and deployed at particular times and places. It is only by doing so that we can fully appreciate why the corruption of public life has been – and remains – inextricably linked to the public life of corruption: to the ways, that is, it has been persistently debated and discussed, refashioned and redeployed, as the stuff not just of moral and political critique but of popular agitation and partisan politics. The objects of attack and sources of anxiety and scandal certainly changed as Britain entered the ‘age of reform’, and continued to change thereafter, as we have seen; and they were articulated in new idioms and refracted through new ideologies and ideals. But none of this entailed a diminution in the politics of corruption and its capacity to provoke varied diagnoses.2022-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Sound of Blasphemy in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: Vulgarity, Violence and the CrowdKerry, Matthewhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/343982022-06-08T00:00:49Z2022-09-19T00:00:00ZTitle: The Sound of Blasphemy in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: Vulgarity, Violence and the Crowd
Author(s): Kerry, Matthew
Editor(s): Bouwers, Eveline G; Nash, David S
Abstract: In May 1909, Madrid’s Chief of Police launched an anti-blasphemy campaign in Spain’s capital. Two months later, Barcelona was rocked by the “Tragic Week” when a strike against the mobilisation of reservists led to several days of rioting, barricades and anticlerical and iconoclastic violence. This chapter uses these two moments to examine attitudes towards blasphemy in early twentieth-century Spain, drawing on Catholic publications, the printed press and testimonies from the Tragic Week. It approaches blasphemy as a speech act that formed part of the sonic environment of the streets of Madrid and Barcelona in 1909. For Catholic commentators, blasphemy was a sin, a vice and a symptom of growing Spanish apostasy, but blaspheming was not solely a religious matter. Intellectuals agreed with Catholics that blaspheming was a vulgar act that required cleansing from Spanish society and criticised blasphemy as a symptom of Spain’s underdevelopment. Their attacks on blasphemy betrayed fears about an emerging mass urban society for they associated it with the urban environment, the working class, and mass entertainment. During the Tragic Week, blasphemy functioned as a disinhibiting cry that facilitated violence, as an assertion of anti-religious identity, and as a form of sonic violence. The deafening din of the anticlerical mob – a menacing, enveloping soundscape that included blasphemous yelling and sacrilegious bell-ringing – assaulted the ears and provided acoustic confirmation of a world turned upside down.2022-09-19T00:00:00ZThe Last Echo of 1917? The Asturian October between Revolution and AntifascismKerry, Matthewhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/343962022-06-08T00:00:13Z2022-10-25T00:00:00ZTitle: The Last Echo of 1917? The Asturian October between Revolution and Antifascism
Author(s): Kerry, Matthew
Editor(s): Berger, Stefan; Weinhauer, Klaus2022-10-25T00:00:00ZFeminist Peace Research in Europe: A SnapshotHaastrup, Tonihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/340262022-03-08T01:12:32Z2022-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Feminist Peace Research in Europe: A Snapshot
Author(s): Haastrup, Toni
Editor(s): Stern, Maria; Towns, Ann E
Abstract: This chapter explores the long trajectory of European feminists’ contributions to peace research. Specifically, the coalescing of knowledge via specific Centers of Excellence has supported the recent development of feminist peace research (FPR) in Europe. FPR has also been influenced by the global normative framework of the Women, Peace and Security agenda (WPS), which relies on research conducted outside of Europe. While the diversity of WPS informed research evidences a thriving FPR field in Europe, it also reveals the limitations of what constitutes ‘Europe.’ Ultimately, the chapter shows how FPR remains exclusionary, with implications for knowledge production hierarchies.2022-01-01T00:00:00Z