Outputs (9)

Stigma: Barriers to Culture and Identity for People With Intellectual Disability (2014)
Journal Article
Spassiani, N. A., & Friedman, C. (2014). Stigma: Barriers to Culture and Identity for People With Intellectual Disability. Inclusion, 2(4), 329-341. https://doi.org/10.1352/2326-6988-2.4.329

This exploratory article examines disability culture and identity for people with intellectual disability. In doing so, we argue that the stigma around intellectual disability severely affects people with intellectual disability's sense of culture an... Read More about Stigma: Barriers to Culture and Identity for People With Intellectual Disability.

Traumatized Heroes: War and Distraction (2014)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2014). Traumatized Heroes: War and Distraction. In M. Elm, K. Kabalek, & J. B. Köhne (Eds.), The Horrors of Trauma in Cinema: Violence Void Visualization (125-144). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

In this essay two different poetic movies (Ivan's Childhood, Tarkovsky; Shutter Island, Scorsese) will be discussed, each focussing on traumatized heroes. The protagonist of both epic stories are archaic figures represented as individual characters.... Read More about Traumatized Heroes: War and Distraction.

On Attachment and Belonging: Or Why Queers Mourn Homophobic President? (2014)
Journal Article
Kulpa, R. (2014). On Attachment and Belonging: Or Why Queers Mourn Homophobic President?. Sexualities, 17(7), 781-801. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460714531431

In this article I ask why gay and lesbian people in Poland mourned their infamously homophobic president Lech Kaczynski, and, in turn, what it means to mourn one's own enemy. In examining this extraordinary case of national bereavement and the collec... Read More about On Attachment and Belonging: Or Why Queers Mourn Homophobic President?.

Emerging voices: the contribution of international criminal tribunals and courts to the development and promotion of international human rights law (2014)
Digital Artefact
Moran, C. F. (2014). Emerging voices: the contribution of international criminal tribunals and courts to the development and promotion of international human rights law. [http://opiniojuris.org/2014/08/04/emerging-voices-contribution-international-criminal-tribunals-courts-development-promotion-international-human-rights-law/]. http://opiniojuris.org/2014/08/04/emerging-voices-contribution-international-criminal-tribunals-courts-development-promotion-international-human-rights-law/

No abstract available.

Sexual politics and the Eurovision Song Contest (2014)
Other
Kulpa, R. (2014). Sexual politics and the Eurovision Song Contest. https://eurovisionproject.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/sexual-politics-and-the-eurovision-song-contest/

In this post I would like to draw readers’ attention to the issue of how Eurovision is entangled with sexual politics in the new EUrope: how it sometimes is used as the marker of gay rights and freedoms vs. homophobia, as a rainbow-coloured symbol of... Read More about Sexual politics and the Eurovision Song Contest.

Observations on the operation of Article 6 of the CRC in Scotland (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macfarlane, L. (2014, March). Observations on the operation of Article 6 of the CRC in Scotland. Paper presented at Colloquium on the Rights of the Child

No abstract available.

Psychiatric patients, detention in conditions of excessive security, and the UK Supreme Court. (2014)
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2014). Psychiatric patients, detention in conditions of excessive security, and the UK Supreme Court. SCOLAG legal journal, 436, 30

Jill Stavert provides a note on the judgement of the Supreme Court in G(AP) v Scottish Ministers.

'Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill' (2014)
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2014). 'Assisted Suicide (Scotland) Bill'. Mental Capacity Law Newsletter, 41,

No abstract available.

Deprivation of liberty and adults with incapacity: A Scottish Perspective (2014)
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2014). Deprivation of liberty and adults with incapacity: A Scottish Perspective. Mental Capacity Law Newsletter, 41,

No abstract available.