Mayor Of London Research Articles

Delegitimising Potential of the “Friend-Foe” Axiological Opposition (Exemplified by English-Language Political Internet Comments)

The article considers the axiological opposition “friend-foe” on the material of non-professional political discourse. English-language comments to the posts of Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, and Sadiq Aman Khan, Mayor of London, published in 2016–2021 in social networks are analyzed in the linguapersonological aspect. The speech techniques of expressing the “friend-foe” binary used in discrediting the current government by users of social networks are revealed. The authors of the comments use various means of verbal aggression to undermine the legitimacy of the authorities. At the lexical level, invective and pejorative units are used. At the grammatical level, the users have recourses to imperative constructions and the superlative degree of adjectives with negative evaluation. Internet users’ comments to politicians’ posts in social networks are shown to form the image of a political actor on the basis of the dominants ‘deviant behaviour’, ‘bad manager’, ‘foe, not their own’, which are determinants in discrediting the authorities. Delegitimising characteristics-determinants used in American and British non-professional political discourse are revealed to be similar due to the general unification and globalization trends. When writing a negative response, the universal institutional characteristics of a politician come to the fore. The unique individual and personal characteristics of mayors are also found to be important in creating a more voluminous image of an illegitimate leader.

Internationalisation of a Mayor: Sadiq Khan’s Involvement in the Brexit Process

After his re-election as the mayor of London, Khan underlined “the scars of Brexit” that are not healed yet. His political stance against leaving the EU has formed a critical interference of Khan in a foreign policy decision of national government. In the light of the literature on internationalisation of non-central government, this study aims to explain Khan’s “actorness” in the aftermath of Brexit referendum by utilizing Hocking’s (1999) theoretical framework. Dimensions of the mayor’s involvement in the Brexit process are explained under the categories of initiators, channels and targets; yet a new grouping titled voices proposed by this study would complete the whole picture of analysis. The press releases derived from the official website of London government constitute the basis of research material.

Assembling with VR

In this paper, we consider the claims that constellate around the concepts of immersion, presence and empathy that have been made about virtual reality across many disciplines of study, including psychology, criminology, immersive film and media. These claims are applied to an interdisciplinary, collaborative project: VR Dance; which engaged young people (11-16 years) in hip hop and immersive technology workshops over a six-week period. We discuss the ways in which co-created immersive environments which centre the body offer potential to tune into and re-calibrate our sensitivities and modes of engagement with each other and the environments we are in. We argue that this is not simply as a result of technology’s effects on individuals but constituted in wider assemblages of human and nonhuman actors. We make the case for virtual reality, not as a tool for ‘becoming other’, but as part of wider assemblages in ongoing transformations, relocations, and calibrations. Funding Acknowledgement VR Dance is an East London Dance programme, funded by the Mayor of London’s Young Londoner’s Fund & the London Borough of Redbridge and delivered in partnership with the University of Bristol, BirdGang Ltd, Maskomi and PlayLa.bZ.

Transport-land use systems of sustainable London city

<p>Transportation and land use are interrelated and should be investigated simultaneously for sustainable urban. This paper investigates the interaction between transport and land-use systems using TRANUS model, to support the sustainable development of the London city, provide implicative information for London Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS), and reduce transport energy use and CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. Three infrastructure improvements scenarios for 2025 for MTS are examined. Results show that the trips will increase from 2012 to 2025 by over 1 million. High-occupancy car, bike, rail and tube are still the main transit, and CrossRail will be increasingly recognized. The transport energy use in 2025 high scenario is the smallest compared to 2025 baseline and low scenario. The transport CO<sub>2</sub> emissions show difference for these three 2025 scenarios, with low and high scenarios having smaller transport CO<sub>2</sub> emissions than baseline. These have informative implications for UK national infrastructure plans, and suggest that accounting environmental benefits of infrastructures will contribute to reduce the underinvestment in infrastructure.</p>

‘The wall and glory of Jerusalem’: the sermons preached before the Lord Mayor and City of London during in the Commonwealth, Protectorate and early Restoration (1649-1662)

ABSTRACT This paper examines the sermons preached before the Lord Mayor and leadership of the City of London during the Commonwealth, Protectorate and early Restoration. It explores the locations and administration of the sermon series and how the City leadership financed the preaching and printing of the sermons that were selected to be printed. The paper also analyses the themes of the 77 printed sermons, looking at the various messages of sermons for state endeavours and sermons ostensibly preached for the care of the poor. The paper focuses on the main bulk of the sermons that concentrated on the need for the familiar puritan alliance of ministry and magistracy in the care of the Church and Reformed orthodoxy. The paper concludes by looking at the message of the sermons preached during the early years of the Restoration, which stressed loyalty and obedience to the newly restored King and episcopal hierarchy.

The conflictive discourse of density in London's planning system

Density in planning presents a series of conflicts in its use based on how it is defined and perceived. When codified into planning policy, however, it is conflictive due to how it manages strategic and local planning needs and the subjective experiences of density. This article researches the evolution of density policy in London, from the density matrix to the current design-led approach, examining how this conflictive discourse manifests and is resolved within planning practice. Extensive research of planning applications referred to the Mayor of London, known as called-in applications, examine the strategic and local conflicts in a design-led approach. To further inquire on the findings of the extensive research, semi-structured interviews were conducted to design officers across London local authorities to collect their experiences on the practice of density policies and the design-led approach in development management. The results of the planning application research show a tension between design-led approach and a strategic dominance to deliver more housing in London. The design officer interview explains further how this emerges in negotiations and signal into potential solutions. The article presents the deficiencies in density policy and proposes design-led tools to address the limitations of the current approach.

Performance and acceptability of the TfL Urban Bus Sound (AVAS)

Transport for London's quiet-running bus fleet is required to include an Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS) compliant with UNECE Regulation 138 and as part of a wider series of safety measures as set out in their Bus Safety Standard towards the London Mayor's 'Vision Zero' objectives. As a public body, TfL must ensure that the Urban Bus Sound AVAS implementation is fit-for-purpose from a safety standpoint, is considerate of driver working conditions and is consistently implemented across a number of vehicle types, manufacturers and fleet operators. Additionally, as quiet-running vehicles increase across the London bus network, it must consider the impact on the urban soundscape. Over the course of two years, Phase 2 of the project addressed practical implementation and quality assurance challenges, bringing together soundscape and acoustic testing, on-street public and key stakeholder surveys, workshops with multiple vehicle manufacturers and operators as well as engagement with bus drivers. The project concludes by providing an optimised AVAS solution with specification and vehicle checks documentation to ensure successful roll-out. The project provides an important view on considerations for how AVAS can be implemented on public transport vehicle fleets, to consider and work with a wide range of public and stakeholder requirements.

The English Plural Linguists Have Forgotten, but Speakers Have Not

The late professor Jan Cygan, to whose memory this volume is dedicated, was fond of showing that many quirks of modern English usage are in fact vestiges of earlier stages in the history of the language. He cherished using historical data to elucidate such puzzling cases, and this paper follows in his footsteps by investigating a minor English zero plural pattern that featured quite prominently in discussions of Boris Johnson’s legacy as mayor of London, e.g.: “Three secondhand water cannon bought and refurbished for £322000 during Boris Johnson’s time as mayor of London have been sold for £11025” (Devlin). In order to account for such usages, this paper reviews extant research on animal zero plurals and extends the explanation argued for in Berezowski to inanimate instances. It is shown that in both scenarios, the use of the zero plural is conditioned by a cognitive factor rooted in human perception. Specifically, it is claimed that inanimate zero plurals are holdovers from the times when early military tactics and technology prevented speakers from individuating the referents of a handful of English nouns.

Implementasi Kebijakan Penataan Pedagang Kaki Lima Di Kota Banjarmasin

Problems of street vendors has been entered into the issue of public order, the Regional Regulation No. Banjarmasin city 26 Year 2012 on the Establishment and Organizational Structure of Civil Service Police Unit Banjarmasin, an organization formed Civil Service Police Unit Banjarmasin which has the main task to maintain and organize public peace and order, enforce local regulation, Regulation and Decision Mayor Mayor as the executor of regional regulation. Mayor of London Based Decision No. 26 Year 2012 on the Establishment and Structuring Control Team Street Vendors of Banjarmasin, explained that the team composition and Arrangement of Control Street Vendors of Banjarmasin, implementing daily field operations conducted by the Civil Service Police Unit Banjarmasin. This study uses qualitative research. Source of data derived from primary data and secondary data, which were collected by interview and documentation. Analysis of the data using a model that consists of a qualitative analysis of data reduction, data display and conclusion. daily field operations conducted by the Civil Service Police Unit Banjarmasin. The results of this study indicate that the regulation number 26 of 2012 is not running as it should. This can be seen from: Lack of communication and coordination between the implementing organization of this local regulations. Less rapid response from the city government and the organization is concerned about street vendors who could potentially become a group that a lot of that in the future will be permasalahan.Kurang specifically the enforcement regulations in the enforcement process so that the vendors long tungginga market that should occupy a place which has provided the city government, being back on the roadside selling belitung. Lack of support of the external environment / community awareness about the importance of the order of their surroundings.

Лондон и города Англии в 1350–1370 гг.: социально-экономический аспект взаимоотношений

The article examines the directions and forms ofsocio-economic interaction between London and provincial towns of England in 1350– 1370 based on the material of the original sources. It is shown that the main sphere in their relationship was trade, which was implemented in various organizational forms, with extensive use of commodity and monetary credit. Also, the field for interaction was the return of runaway apprentices who left the masters in London and found refuge in different cities of England. Often the mayor of London had to defend the commercial and financial interests of his citizens in the face of opposition from the government of provincial towns. The author concludes that the relations between London and the town “periphery” of England in the XIV century were complicated. But the contradictions that arose were resolved in the existing justice field.

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“Al the town in a rore”: Authority, Revolt, and Rational Obedience in Thomas Usk's Appeal and Testament of Love

While much criticism on the fourteenth-century English scribe and politician Thomas Usk characterizes him as a self-interested partisan whose Appeal and Testament of Love lay bare his hopes for material reward from London's rulers, this article argues that Usk's two texts offer a political vision organized around what he and his culture regarded as a virtue: rational obedience to political authority. In his Appeal, the explosive text that was written for the trial of London's mayor in 1384, Usk makes use of charged language tied to the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 in order to depict obedience as fundamental to peace in London. His Testament, written a year later while in prison, revisits the issues that moved him to write the Appeal, this time drawing on medieval ethical and political theory to define the necessity of—and the limits to—obedience in a monarchical society.

Personal identity and community resilience: Sadiq Khan’s restorative rhetoric in response to terrorism

ABSTRACT Multiple terror attacks rocked London in 2017. These attacks brought to the forefront of public consciousness London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s unique identity as a Muslim leader confronting Islamic terrorism in a Western city. Through theoretical lenses of restorative rhetoric and the Disaster Communication Intervention Framework, this rhetorical criticism analyzes how Khan situated himself as a rhetorical symbol against terrorism while crafting a vision of unity and resilience rooted in diversity. By analyzing Khan’s anti-terrorism rhetoric in 2017 and the years prior, we explore how Khan used personal identity in his calls for collective response to disaster. The study contributes to scholarly understanding of how political leaders respond to disasters and offers practical guidelines for leaders working to foster post-disaster resilience in diverse communities.

A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare's London by Scott Oldenburg

Reviewed by: A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare's London by Scott Oldenburg Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich (bio) A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare's London Scott Oldenburg Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. vii + 275 pp. $99.95 cloth. William Muggins is far from a canonical poet, and Scott Oldenburg's absorbing study of his life and work serves as a powerful argument for the value of investigating obscure authors and marginal texts. A weaver by trade, Muggins authored a 1603 printed pamphlet called London's Mourning Garment, comprised of a 679-line elegiac poem about plague-time London, a prose prayer, and a list of fatalities by parish for four months in 1603. Oldenburg ends the book with a short profile of one of Muggins's early readers, a soldier living during the Great Plague of 1665–1666, and notes that this reader must have found comfort in Muggins's pamphlet despite medical and social advances since the early seventeenth century. Little did Oldenburg know how relevant a work written in quarantine during a time of widespread illness would be once again in 2020. Limited evidence makes Oldenburg hesitant to call A Weaver-Poet and the Plague a biography. Instead, he considers it to be "part literary criticism, part microhistory" (38). It indeed attends to the micro: one little-known writer, one short text, and one brief period of time (1595-1603). Yet the book uses its narrow focus to cover much broader terrain, offering important insights into the lives of craftsmen, early modern London, a radically Protestant parish, lived experiences during the plague, and the middling sort. For Oldenburg, Muggins is only one example of a class of writers he calls "weaver-poets" (15) including John Careless and Thomas Deloney. He argues that the early moderns associated weaving with poetry and weavers with poverty and zealous Protestantism, making Muggins and other weavers uniquely appropriate spokesmen for social reform. Oldenburg's introduction includes a helpful section on methodology that could serve as a model for future scholars interested in uncovering less-documented lives. Oldenburg uses parish records, wills, records of the lay subsidy, and records of the Company of Weavers to track the activities of Muggins and those in his networks. One particularly interesting section in the introduction analyzes available evidence to ascertain what Muggins might have read. At several moments in the book, Oldenburg discusses not only what he has found, but also what has been lost and what the archives do not reveal. Each of the book's chapters identifies one element of Muggins's life that [End Page 216] offers important context for London's Mourning Garment. While Oldenburg guides readers through these four readings of the poem, the book's structure implicitly claims that London's Mourning Garment is rich with interpretive possibilities. The first chapter argues that Muggins's brief time in prison informed the poem's class consciousness. Together with fourteen other dissatisfied silk-weavers, Muggins petitioned for greater enforcement of the company's ordinances in 1595. These men's complaints primarily targeted the influx of immigrant weavers, whom they claimed were compromising the company's integrity. The petitioners presented their document to the ministers of the French and Dutch churches, who took offense. In response, the mayor of London had Muggins and his co-petitioners arrested. I would have liked Oldenburg to analyze further the petition's "animosity toward strangers" (70)—a xenophobia he does not find in London's Mourning Garment—but I appreciate how clearly he describes the livery company's history and the divisions between its leaders and rank-and-file members. The next two chapters move to the social bonds and personal tragedy that underpin Muggins's poem. Chapter two examines social issues in Muggins's neighborhood around the time he composed London's Mourning Garment, including childbirth, mortality rates, and debt. Chapter three explores Muggins's personal experiences with grief. Three of his children and three of his apprentices died between 1598 and 1603. These histories are interspersed with close reading of the poem, which Oldenburg interprets as semi-autobiographical. The book's fourth...

The Role of London’s Urban Foundation Legends in Late-Medieval Historical and Political Cultures

In 1442, the authorities of London issued a formal prohibition against the spread of a lie that the first and best mayor of London was a cordwainer (shoemaker) named Walsh. This article investigates the context for this story by examining contemporary uses of foundation narratives for important institutions of London life, including the city, corporation and mayoralty. These foundation legends grew from a distinctive urban ‘historical culture’. This article argues that historical culture and foundation legends were important means of cultivating cultural prestige, defining the purposes of institutions, discussing the power relationships between different political institutions and engaging in political communication. By comparing the ‘Walsh’ legend to other variants of the London mayoral origin story, we can discern contemporary political debates about the purpose, powers and political control of key institutions in London life.

Discrediting Strategy in Internet Comments to Publications made by the Mayors of New York and London

This research featured the lingua-personolological aspect of linguistic means and speech techniques connected with the use of discrediting strategy in online comments aimed at discrediting the authorities. The study was based on the methods of continuous sampling and linguistic analysis of official Facebook and Twitter pages of the mayors of New York and London. Lowering proved to be the leading strategy used in comments aimed at discrediting the government. The research revealed the prevailing tactics and techniques of the speech strategy for lowering, e.g. "analysis minus", insult, accusation, etc. Internet users appeared to have an individual style and vocabulary choice that depended on various subjective factors. The comments showed little trust for the government, which makes discrediting the authorities an important contemporary issue.

Review essay: Between the Material and the Ephemeral

Review essay: Between the Material and the Ephemeral

Women and the Politics of Incivility and Discrimination: Introduction

Women and the Politics of Incivility and Discrimination: Introduction

РОЗВИТОК "ОСОБЛИВИХ ВІДНОСИН" США ТА ВЕЛИКОЇ БРИТАНІЇ ЗА АДМІНІСТРАЦІЇ ДОНАЛЬДА ТРАМПА (2017-2021)

An article is an attempt to study «special relationships» between the United States and Great Britain. The author mentioned that the presidential elections in the USA and the fact that Donald Trump became a new president reflected on the relationships between the United States and Great Britain. The attention is given to the role of personality in states’ relationships. The article illustrates that Donald Trump`s populism in his speeches played a negative role for making stable relationships with the UK. More specifically, Donald Trump's criticism of London's mayor Sadiq Khan, Scotland Yard evocated a negative social reaction in Great Britain. As shown in the article, the citizens of the United Kingdom were shocked by Donald Trump`s islamophobia and his Facebook post of the far-right organization «Britain first». Indeed, it was the reason for massive protests during Donald Trump's official visit to the United Kingdom in 2018. The reference should be made to the fact that in 2016 the UK citizens decided to leave European Union. Despite the fact that Donald Trump approved this decision he criticized British prime-minister Theresa May for soft Brexit. As shown in the article contrary to the strong criticism of the British government Donald Trump visited Great Britain three times during his presidential term. These official trips were directed on normalization of Anglo-American relationships. Queen Elizabeth twice met Donald Trump and they both mentioned that special relationships are important for their countries. Research has shown that during Boris Johnson’s premiership US-UK relations became stronger. This factor is due to close Trump`s and Johnson's political views. The article illustrates that the United States and Great Britain still have special relationships. Countries have strong intelligence, military and nuclear cooperation. Both the US and the UK are still key economical partners and they are interested in safety relationships.

Feminist Counterpublics and Public Feminisms: Advancing a Critique of Racialized Sexualization in London’s Public Advertising

AbstractFollowing public outcry over a body-shaming advertisement in the London transportation network in 2015, the mayor of London commissioned a multimedia documentary-style study that involved s...