Aberystwyth University Research Articles

Shadow of a Man: a Chicana/Latina Drama as Embodied Feminist Practice

One of the most important influences on the development of Cherríe Moraga's feminist theatre was undoubtedly the work of Maria Irene Fornes, the Cuban American playwright and director. Moraga wrote the first drafts of her second play Shadow of a Man while on Fornes's residency programme at the INTAR Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Laboratory in New York, and later Fornes directed the premiere at the Brava-Eureka Theatre in San Francisco (1990). The play radically restages the Chicana body through an exploration of the sexual and gendered politics of the family. Much has been written on how the family has traditionally been the stronghold of Chicana/o culture, but Shadow of a Man stages one of its most powerful criticisms, revealing how the complex kinship structures often mask male violence and sexual abuse. Using archival material and a range of critical studies, in this article Elizabeth Jacobs explores Moraga's theatre as an embodied feminist practice and as a means to displace the entrenched ideology of the family. An earlier version of this article was presented at the Department of English and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, as part of the 2014 International Women's Day events. Elizabeth Jacobs is the author of Mexican American Literature: the Politics of Identity (Routledge, 2006). Her articles have appeared in Comparative American Studies (2012), Journal of Adaptation and Film Studies (2009), Theatres of Thought: Theatre, Performance, and Philosophy (2008), and New Theatre Quarterly (2007). She works at Aberystwyth University.

Editorial introduction: Revisiting Chris Philo's ‘Not at our seaside’

AreaVolume 46, Issue 2 p. 214-214 Classics Revisited Editorial introduction: Revisiting Chris Philo's ‘Not at our seaside’ Mark Whitehead, Mark Whitehead msw@aber.ac.uk Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 4LQSearch for more papers by this author Mark Whitehead, Mark Whitehead msw@aber.ac.uk Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 4LQSearch for more papers by this author First published: 09 May 2014 https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12088Citations: 1 The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume46, Issue2June 2014Pages 214-214 RelatedInformation

‘An Explosive Performing Force’: the Actor in Dylan Thomas

From his childhood in Swansea until his death in New York in 1953, Dylan Thomas was an instinctive actor. During his teenage years he acted in more than twenty-three stage productions, thirteen of them as a member of Swansea's Little Theatre Company. Although his roles were essentially English and his speaking style somewhat mannered, the latter was strongly influenced by the rhythms of the Welsh language spoken by family members and experienced in the chapels of his childhood. Subsequently, radio broadcasts of his poetry and short stories were very much those of an actor, the emphasis on the voice and, in the stories, on the presentation of many varied characters, of which his play for voices, Under Milk Wood, is the supreme example. But Thomas also carried his love of performance into his everyday life, playing the fool and acting outrageously at parties and in pubs. The comment of one of his contemporaries that ‘Dylan was an actor; he acted practically every moment of every day’ could not be nearer the mark. Gwynne Edwards is Emeritus Professor in the Department of European Languages at Aberystwyth University. He is also a playwright, and two of his adaptations of short stories by Dylan Thomas – ‘The Peaches’ and ‘Extraordinary Little Cough’ – have recently been performed by the Swansea Little Theatre Company as part of the Dylan Thomas centenary celebrations.

Marine tephrochronology: an introduction to tracing time in the ocean

WILLIAM E. N. AUSTIN1,2*, PETER M. ABBOTT3, SIWAN DAVIES3, NICHOLAS J. G. PEARCE4 & STEFAN WASTEGARD5 School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, UK Scottish Association of Marine Science, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, Argyll PA37 1QA, UK Department of Geography, College of Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK Department of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 3DB, UK Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

Kyffin Williams online: creating a digital resource for an art collection at the National Library of Wales

When Sir Kyffin Williams, RA died in 2006 he bequeathed a large section of his estate to the National Library of Wales (NLW) – an institution with which the artist, most known for his landscape paintings of north-west Wales, had a long association. Combined with material already in the NLW’s collections, there are now over 200 works in oil, over 1200 works on paper and a comprehensive archive held at Aberystwyth. The collection’s presence in a library rather than museum or gallery raises questions of how the work can be displayed or exhibited. In this essay I will give some background to this collection and the wider art holdings of the National Library of Wales before discussing how geo-spatial approaches are being used to display this collection digitally. This work is being completed as a collaborative Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarship (KESS) PhD project between Aberystwyth University School of Art and the National Library of Wales. KESS is part-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) through the European Union’s Convergence Programme (West Wales and the Valleys) administered by the Welsh Government.

Conversations in International Relations: Interview with Andrew Linklater

This in-depth conversation with Professor Andrew Linklater engages with his academic biography, his intellectual contribution to the field of International Relations (IR) and his reflections on the current state of, and challenges facing, the discipline of (IR). It thereby traces his biography from his undergraduate days in Aberdeen, via his first lectureships in Australia, back to the United Kingdom and eventually to Aberystwyth University; it engages with his main oeuvres from the 1982 book Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations to his most recent work on The Problem of Harm in World Politics, and covers the development of IR as a global discipline from the 1970s until today.

C. Hillebrand, Counter-terrorism Networks in the European Union: Maintaining Democratic Legitimacy after 9/11

In Counter-terrorism Networks in the European Union, Claudia Hillebrand, a lecturer in Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism at Aberystwyth University examines the European Union’s counter-terrorism programme and analyses whether it meets a democratic legitimacy standard, defined as being subject to parliamentary and judicial scrutiny. The book is a useful contribution to the growing body of literature on the EU’s approach to counter-terrorism. Hillebrand is concerned with whether the proactive Counter-Terrorism Policy (CTP) within the EU framework receives sufficient scrutiny and oversight, a question that has become exceedingly important in the post-9/11 period as executive branches adopt measures expanding their intelligence gathering powers and capabilities in the name of national security. In focusing on democratic legitimacy within the EU context, Hillebrand raises the question as to whether the European states’ decision to view terrorism as a crime as opposed to declaring a ‘war on terror’ has allowed Europe to ensure that its counter-terrorism regime exists within the confines of accountability, oversight, human rights and the rule of law. In Counter-terrorism Networks Hillebrand persuasively shows that proactive policing which ‘tend[s] to touch on core values, or ethical principles, of individuals and societies’ (p. 107) lacks sufficient democratic scrutiny, especially in respect to the EU counter-terrorism network (CTN), which has ties with external actors and networks.

Computer Scientists With Green Fingers

Why are computer scientists getting involved with plant biologists? Dr Hannah Dee MBCS, Aberystwyth University, Dr Andrew French, University of Nottingham and Dr Marie Neal, Aberystwyth University, answer…

One letter and 55 footnotes: the assassination of Llwyd ap Iwan by the outlaws Wilson and Evans

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsMike PearsonMike Pearson is Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University. Between 1971 and 1997 he made theatre professionally, most notably with Welsh company Brith Gof (1981-97). He continues to create performances with Pearson/Brookes (1997-present) and National Theatre Wales (The Persians, 2010; Coriolan/us, 2012). He is co-author with Michael Shanks of Theatre/Archaeology: Disciplinary Dialogues (2001) and author of In Comes I: Performance, Memory and Landscape (2007), Site-specific Performance (2010), Mickery Theater: An Imperfect Archaeology (2011) and Marking Time: performance, archaeology and the city (2013). Email: mip@aber.ac.uk

The Future of Spacecraft Radiation Design: A Workshop at Aberystwyth University, UK, 28–30 November 2012

Key Points Future of Spacecraft Radiation design

The Remote Sensing and GIS Software Library (RSGISLib)

Key to the successful application of remotely sensed data to real world problems is software that is capable of performing commonly used functions efficiently over large datasets, whilst being adaptable to new techniques. This paper presents an open source software library that was developed through research undertaken at Aberystwyth University for environmental remote sensing, particularly in relation to vegetation science. The software was designed to fill the gaps within existing software packages and to provide a platform to ease the implementation of new and innovative algorithms and data processing techniques. Users interact with the software through an XML script, where XML tags and attributes are used to parameterise the available commands, which have now grown to more than 300. A key feature of the XML interface is that command options are easily recognisable to the user because of their logical and descriptive names. Through the XML interface, processing chains and batch processing are supported. More recently a Python binding has been added to RSGISLib allowing individual XML commands to be called as Python functions. To date the Python binding has over 100 available functions, mainly concentrating on image utilities, segmentation, calibration and raster GIS. The software has been released under a GPL3 license and makes use of a number of other open source software libraries (e.g., GDAL/OGR), a user guide and the source code are available at http://www.rsgislib.org.

Little Madnesses: Winnicott, transitional phenomena and cultural experience - a symposium. Chandler House, London, 1 March 2013

The Little Madnesses symposium marked the culmination of Transitional Phenomena and Cultural Experience (T-PACE), an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborative project led by Annette Kuhn of Queen Mary, University of London. It coincided with the publication of a book of the same name – a collection of essays that explores the idea of transitional phenomena and their potential to extend and deepen our understanding of cultural experience in mental and social life.1 The symposium was a combination of presentations and discussions involving contributors to the book, including Victor Burgin (UC Santa Cruz, Goldsmiths University of London and European Graduate School), Matt Hills (University of Aberystwyth), and a number of other T-PACE members. The focus of the T-PACE project, which has been running since 2006, is the work of British psychoanalyst and paediatrician Donald Winnicott. It was Winnicott who coined the term ‘little madnesses’ to describe our most deeply felt enthusiasms, investments and attachments in the sphere of culture. As the explanation on the back cover of Little Madnesses states, In these socially and culturally sanctioned little madnesses, we can find relief from the burden of having to maintain a clear boundary between inner and outer worlds, fantasy and reality, because it is in the space between these that we can find the enthusiasms and passions that excite our creative imaginations.

An investigation into the move towards electronic journals: a case study of NHS libraries in Kent, Surrey and Sussex

Electronic journals are so embedded into practice in academic libraries that it is easy to forget that this is not the case everywhere. In NHS libraries, for example, the staff face a particular set of issues. This article is based on Rebecca England's dissertation on this topic, completed as part of the MSc Econ course in Information and Library studies at Aberystwyth University. Rebecca is E-resources Librarian at the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. She investigated the momentum towards electronic journals in NHS libraries in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex region and the potential for a regional purchasing consortium.

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors

Generating Lithographically‐Defined Tunable Printed Structural Color

[*] Prof. J. J. Baumberg, B. Michaelis, Dr. D. R. E. Snoswell, N. A. W. Bell Nano-Photonics Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK E-mail: jjb12@cam.ac.uk Dr. P. Spahn, Dr. G. P. Hellmann Deutsches Kunststoff-Institut (DKI), Schlossgartenstrasse 6, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany Dr. C. E. Finlayson Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (IMAPS), Prifysgol Aberystwyth University, Wales SY23 3BZ, UK [**] The authors thank Prof. Brian Vincent (University of Bristol, UK) and Dr. Chris Bower (Nokia Research Cambridge) for helpful discussions. This work was supported by UK EPSRC Grants EP/G060649/1, EP/G037221/1 (Nano DTC), and EP/ H027130/1. Supporting Information is available from the Wiley Online Library or from the author.

Conceptual Advances in Fossil Plant Biology: Introduction and Dedication

Conceptual Advances in Fossil Plant Biology: Introduction and Dedication

Mobility

This article is an edited transcript of a panel discussion on “mobility studies“ which was held as part of a workshop on mobility and community at Aberystwyth University on September 3, 2012. In the article the five panelists reflect upon the recent resurgence of research on mobility in the social sciences and humanities, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary debates, and the ways in which established fields such as transport history, migration studies, and sociology are being reshaped by new research agendas. The panelists discuss the importance of engaging with issues of politics, justice, equality, global capital, secrecy, and representation, and they encourage researchers to focus on non-Western and non-hegemonic mobilities, as well as to produce “useable“ studies which engage policy-makers.

New Zealand and UK Holocene flooding demonstrates interhemispheric climate asynchrony

Research Article| September 01, 2012 New Zealand and UK Holocene flooding demonstrates interhemispheric climate asynchrony Mark G. Macklin; Mark G. Macklin * 1Institute of Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion SY23 3DB, UK *E-mails: mvm@aber.ac.uk; I.C.Fuller@massey.ac.nz. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Ian C. Fuller; Ian C. Fuller * 2Physical Geography Group, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand *E-mails: mvm@aber.ac.uk; I.C.Fuller@massey.ac.nz. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Anna F. Jones; Anna F. Jones 1Institute of Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion SY23 3DB, UK Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Mark Bebbington Mark Bebbington 3Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Mark G. Macklin * 1Institute of Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion SY23 3DB, UK Ian C. Fuller * 2Physical Geography Group, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Anna F. Jones 1Institute of Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion SY23 3DB, UK Mark Bebbington 3Statistics and Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand *E-mails: mvm@aber.ac.uk; I.C.Fuller@massey.ac.nz. Publisher: Geological Society of America Received: 01 Mar 2012 Revision Received: 20 Mar 2012 Accepted: 22 Mar 2012 First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Online ISSN: 1943-2682 Print ISSN: 0091-7613 © 2012 Geological Society of America Geology (2012) 40 (9): 775–778. https://doi.org/10.1130/G33364.1 Article history Received: 01 Mar 2012 Revision Received: 20 Mar 2012 Accepted: 22 Mar 2012 First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Mark G. Macklin, Ian C. Fuller, Anna F. Jones, Mark Bebbington; New Zealand and UK Holocene flooding demonstrates interhemispheric climate asynchrony. Geology 2012;; 40 (9): 775–778. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G33364.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyGeology Search Advanced Search Abstract The timing and controls of interhemispheric Holocene climate change have remained poorly understood, primarily because of the absence of well-dated and continuous climatic records in terrestrial environments. Here we report a new probability-based meta-analysis of 1185 14C dates from fluvial sedimentary sequences in New Zealand and the UK, which provides a robust means of identifying centennial- and multicentennial-length episodes of Holocene river flooding. Statistical analysis shows that prior to large-scale human impact, which began at ca. 1000 cal. yr B.P., the incidence of extreme floods in New Zealand and the UK has been largely asynchronous during the Holocene. Major periods of flooding are controlled by large-scale shifts in atmospheric circulation, which alter the frequency of extreme precipitation events. Our novel synthesis demonstrates that short-term climate change, of sufficient magnitude to modify flooding regimes, was out of phase in the temperate maritime regions of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres during much of the Holocene. This supports recent evidence from both glacial and marine records that Holocene climate changes may have been antiphased between the polar regions and that this could have been related to variation in the strength of deep water formation. You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.

INTRODUCTION

"INTRODUCTION." Media History, 18(3-4), p. 247 Notes 1. The symposium was organised by Media History, the Centre for Media History, Aberystwyth University, and Kings College London. 2. Media History (2002), vol. 8, no. 2, was a special issue dealing with ‘What is Media History?’, and this volume picks up some of the themes raised there.

The role of action research in the development of learning networks for entrepreneurs

Developing sustainable learning networks for entrepreneurs is the core objective of the Sustainable Learning Networks in Ireland and Wales (SLNIW) project. One research team drawn from the Centre for Enterprise Development and Regional Economy at Waterford Institute of Technology and the School of Management and Business from Aberystwyth University has contributed to the understanding of how to create sustainable business learning networks for entrepreneurs. The research findings are attributed to action research by the conduction of two separate cycles in the forum of research projects. The first cycle, called Female Entrepreneurs in Ireland and Wales, produced findings that were reflected on and investigated further by the research team through the establishment of the second cycle named SLNIW. This paper discusses the two action research cycles through the action sets of planning, action, observing and reflecting and the contribution of the development of understanding and practice of networking for entrepreneurs through the production of guidelines for establishing sustainable learning networks.