War

The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official …

histories, for instance, concentrate on education, war, and the built fabric of the area, and on these matters …

This study aims to highlight the key supply chain barriers in localizing electric vehicle (EV) battery cell manufacturing in India. It summarizes consultations with 12 companies working on battery cell …

energy manufacturing ambitions. The Russia–Ukraine war and COVID-19 pandemic have underlined the fragility … 4.4 Geopolitical Challenges The Russia–Ukraine war and COVID-19 pandemic have underlined the fragility …

The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …

reached the limits of its growth. In 1945, when the war ended and the second boom began, the “New Town” … stop them from falling through. Young Georges waged war with handmade slingshots, spears, bows and arrows …

Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remove from the …

unloading injured soldiers during the First World War. Source: National Railway Museum 197 6.2 Overcrowding … Britain’s railway network up to the First World War. Simon Bradley’s The Railways: Nation, Network, … narrative up to the outbreak of the First World War. This period witnessed an era of technological change … of resources required to fight the First World War, the state assumed full responsibility for the running … nationally and in the capital. From 1914 to 1918, the war effort was the priority of the newly formed National …

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …

mindful that without First Nations involvement in the War of 1812, Canada would not today be a country. In …

The COVID-19 virus was responsible for the deaths of over thirty-five thousand Canadians in its first two years alone. Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, it …

living with it 301 Conclusion 303 Appendix 1: Methods 323 Appendix 2: Years of Life Lost to covid-19 Compared to World Wars … Despite the popular press comparing the covid-19 death count to that of the first and second world wars (Flanagan 2021; … Waxman and Wilson 2021), in fact, the wars were each twenty times worse than covid-19; soldiers died on average in their …

The poetic memorialization of the Maghribī city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribī poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE. The …

few miles from the Mareth Line of the Second World War but thou- sands of miles away from his homeland, … her of her beauty, and after two factions waged war over her? 54 After she was altered, as if she had … Maghribī city elegy, permeating it with the trauma of war.22 This renders the elegy a mournful recital, devoid …

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

epidemic and the influence of the international ‘war on drugs’ had shifted the ‘preferred meaning’ of … recently swept across Dublin which, combined with the war-on-drugs approach adopted by succes- sive governments … internment.66 After the end of the Second World War, the prison population reached a highpoint of 777 … approach to imprisonment, exemplified by the American war-on-drugs legis- lation which introduced mandatory … many of whom had fought in the War of Independence and the Civil War, the party now had a young, vigorous …

Uncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents …

Emily Hamer argue, “men seem prepared to go to war in defence of their foreskin, or lack of.”44 If we …

A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the …

was super nor- mal on top, but underneath it was war. The men in the plays pretended to be confident …