{"title":"From Figure to Figure: A Reflection On Telling And Listening","authors":"Verena Wulf","doi":"10.18193/SAH.V4I2.144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18193/SAH.V4I2.144","url":null,"abstract":"In 2017 the MELLIE Project (Migrant English Language, Literacy and Intercultural Education) brought together, for the first time, volunteers from DCU (Dublin City University) and residents from Mosney Direct Provision Centre in Co. Meath, Ireland. The aim of the project is to create an opportunity for refugees and colleagues in DCU to meet, get to know, and learn from each other, through the mode of storytelling. Initially, over a course of six weeks, then, later, twelve weeks when MELLIE was run again in 2018, participants got together in pairs to interview each other. The conversations were guided by questions covering different topics each week. The participants were asked to take notes while interviewing their partners, and use their records to write a story. The following is an account of the project based on personal experience and reflection. Some excerpts of the interviews are included.","PeriodicalId":31069,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Arts and Humanities","volume":"330 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77195743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Tracing the Order of Things: An Interview with Visual Artist Vanessa Donoso López","authors":"Vanessa López, F. Cashell","doi":"10.18193/SAH.V4I1.128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18193/SAH.V4I1.128","url":null,"abstract":"Catalonian artist Vanessa Donoso Lopez has been living and working in Dublin for much of her professional career. She exhibits widely, with successful solo shows this year in Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, and Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. Her practice is interdisciplinary and developed within a dialogical framework; exploring a variety of media and mechanisms as she moves from project to project, working with ceramics and paper, site-specific installation, sculpture, electronics and low-tech wearable technology. Conceptually Lopez attempts to negotiate the tension between cross-cultural identities and narratives, their instabilities and complexities, and their potential for the loss of identity and language. Her work is deeply connected to something that connects within us all; highlighting the movement of time as viewed through the lens of the metaphysical self—manifested, changed, reinvented or forgotten. Her creative approach showcases a sensitive awareness for the experiences she encounters as both migrant and researcher: one who moves between the familiar and the unknown, between landscape and history, and between the varying points of origin that shape and define us. https://www.vanessadonosolopez.com/","PeriodicalId":31069,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Arts and Humanities","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85420467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour: Changing Physical Activity Health Behaviour with Activity-Tracking Technology","authors":"Colin O'Shea, P. Frazer","doi":"10.18193/SAH.V4I1.127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18193/SAH.V4I1.127","url":null,"abstract":"Pairing modern day technology with Azjen’s popular Theory of Planned Behaviour, the objectives were to i) determine whether a mobile connected activity-tracking device could change physical activity (PA) health behaviour, ii) test whether the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) could predict participation in physical activity, measured by mobile technology, iii) determine if PA engagement is correlated with mobile communication usage and vehicle journey time. Participants consisted of 41 males and 28 females (N=69), each completing standard TPB measures at baseline. Intervention included a health warning/advice sheet and the physical attachment of an activity-tracking device paired with a mobile application for the duration of two weeks. The data retrieved included the participant’s daily steps count, the participant’s daily time spent travelling by motor vehicle or not, and the participant’s daily amount of mobile communication usage time. A statistically significant increase in activity was observed in the device-wearing group, with a medium effect size. Findings did not support the TPB as a predictor of PA engagement in a technology intervention context. There was no statistical relationship between PA participation and mobile communication usage or vehicle journey time. Findings suggest a basis for developing interventions to include mobile connected devices for improved behavioural health.","PeriodicalId":31069,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Arts and Humanities","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78631707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leda's Daughter...","authors":"Kara Penn","doi":"10.18193/SAH.V4I1.129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18193/SAH.V4I1.129","url":null,"abstract":"New poetry by Kara Penn. # Leda's Daughter # Becoming Tree # Starfish # Into the Hands of a God # Shoveling the Drive # From the Frontage Road","PeriodicalId":31069,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Arts and Humanities","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84303146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reclaiming the Left","authors":"Jonathan Murphy","doi":"10.18193/SAH.V4I1.123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18193/SAH.V4I1.123","url":null,"abstract":"The Left has been charged with a lack of self-reflection and self-criticism. This article aims to address this concern through a demarcation of liberal-left values from illiberal pursuits in an attempt to reclaim (or reform) the Left to provide a genuine political opposition to the Right. Drawing together diverse perspectives, and extrapolating from direct quotations and research, four markers of extremism are identified. These markers relate to ideas of equity, culture, free speech and identity. It is hoped readers see this critique as a useful contribution in a crucial conversation on the values we want to preference in our society, a conversation we need to continue.","PeriodicalId":31069,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Arts and Humanities","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87220692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Birth of the Tourist out of the Spirit of Modernity: The travel bug from Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus to Houellebecq’s Platform","authors":"M. Kane","doi":"10.18193/SAH.V4I1.124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18193/SAH.V4I1.124","url":null,"abstract":"Zygmunt Bauman once proposed ‘the tourist’ as one of the four archetypal characters of the postmodern. This suggests more than a coincidental link between postmodernity and the rise of mass tourism. Modernity itself has, of course, long been associated with increasing ease and speed of travel. This piece reviews some of the theoretical and literary reflections on the relation between the rise of leisure travel and the transformation of the sense of space from modernity to postmodernity, or even what Auge called ‘super-modernity’. Towards the end of the piece there is a discussion of Michel Houellebecq’s novel, Platform (2001), a provocative take on long-haul sex tourism and the global tourism business around the year 2000. Houellebecq’s novel is read alongside Daniel Defoe’s classic tale of travel, adventure and business, Robinson Crusoe (1719). These two novels – one a classic of early modernity, the other of postmodernity – are discussed here in the context of a long history of reflections on the significance of travel and the transformations of the sense of space in modernity and postmodernity, drawing on theorists including Guy Debord, Richard Sennett, Zygmunt Bauman, Marc Auge, Paul Virilio and Rem Koolhaas. This piece is part of a chapter of a longer work provisionally titled Modern Time, Post-natural Space: From Modernity to Here in Fiction and Theory. I will arise and go now, and go to … W.B. Yeats, ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’","PeriodicalId":31069,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Arts and Humanities","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72880881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fás an Chraoibhín","authors":"Feena Tobin","doi":"10.18193/SAH.V4I1.126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18193/SAH.V4I1.126","url":null,"abstract":"Do bhi Dubhghlas de hIde mar chuid de mhionlach in Eirinn agus e ag fas anios mar fhear og Protastunach. Ach shocraigh se dul leis an nGaeilge, teanga a bhain go traidisiunta go priomha le Caitlicigh na hEireann agus leis an isealaicme. Nior togadh le Gaeilge e ach lean se air ag ple lei agus ag cur chun cinn na teangan ach cen fath? Is tri shuil a chaitheamh ar a chin lae on luaththreimhse seo ina shaol speisiuil is feidir tuiscint a fhail ar na cuiseanna gur thug se fe seo. Rugadh de hIde in 1860 agus chuaigh se i mbun pinn in 1874 agus e 14 bliain d’aois. Is i an treimhse sin ina shaol nuair a bhi se ina chonai sa bhaile i nDun Gar i gContae Ros Comain a bheidh fe chaibidil san alt seo - an treimhse reamhChraoibhineach, d’fheadfa a ra. An rud ata i gceist leis an dteideal na an t-ainm cleite a thug se air fein ‘An Craoibhin Aoibhinn’ agus imeartas focal maidir leis an mbri ata leis an ainm ud. ### Dubhghlas de hIde was part of the Protestant minority in Ireland during his youth. Despite this he decided to master Irish, a language typically associated with Irish Catholics of the lower classes. He was not brought up with Irish but went on to spend his life promoting the language – what led him to this? Through analysis of his diaries in the earlier part of his life an understanding can be gained of the reasons for this. De hIde was born in 1860 and he began writing his diary in 1874, aged 14. The article will discuss this early period of his life which he spent in Frenchpark in County Roscommon – the pre-‘Craoibhin’ period you could call it! The title refers to his self-appointed pen-name ‘An Craoibhin Aoibhinn’ (The Delightful Little Branch) and contains a pun on the meaning of this name.","PeriodicalId":31069,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Arts and Humanities","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89078087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reclaiming the Monster: Abjection and Subversion in the Marital Gothic Novel","authors":"Jane Mitchell","doi":"10.18193/SAH.V4I1.125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18193/SAH.V4I1.125","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores literary representations of women over the centuries, from the witch of children’s fairy tales to the madwoman of the nineteenth century and the sexually voracious vamp of the twentieth century. Within this context, it examines the gothic novels Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier, 1938) and Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys, 1966) in relation to theories of Julia Kristeva and Margrit Shildrick. Both Kristeva and Shildrick explore the perception of the female form as ‘abject’ and relate this concept to the notion of the ‘monstrous feminine’ in cinema and literature. This article will also examine how these novels have taken the traditional tropes of the gothic genre and subverted them to expose the frustrations of mid-twentieth-century women. The gothic literary genre, initially dominated by male authors, has always been a natural home for both monsters and binary depictions of womanhood. According to Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, this binary view presented women as either angelic wives and mothers, or threats to family life and society. The gothic genre also explores the blurring of lines between these two elements of the binary female, and the terrifying idea of the monster in the home. Both Rebecca and Wide Sargasso Sea belong to a female gothic genre, and specifically to what Michelle A. Masse defines as the ‘marital gothic’, deploying many of the traditional motifs of the Gothic while striving to subvert depictions of womanhood shaped by patriarchal culture. The marital gothic subgenre exposes the rage of women entrapped in traditional, reductive and confining notions of femaleness, and the uncanny environment of the institution of marriage itself.","PeriodicalId":31069,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Arts and Humanities","volume":"100S 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89252287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Seven(th) Issue Itch: the Ongoing Educational Missions of SAH Journal","authors":"Alex Kouker, Conor Murphy","doi":"10.18193/SAH.V4I1.122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18193/SAH.V4I1.122","url":null,"abstract":"It is a commonplace to say that the academic library occupies a central place in university systems. Librarians and academic colleagues collaborate in support of the complex academic needs of their diverse, but inter-connected constituent cohorts. Patron services have radically evolved from generic user education to learner-centric and increasingly personalised information literacy instruction with an emphasis on agency and the development of individual critical faculty. 3 4 5","PeriodicalId":31069,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Arts and Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89324443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}