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A fascinating and enigmatic man, Davis McCaughey was a theologian equally at home in the secular world. As Governor of Victoria (1986-1992), deputy chancellor of Melbourne University and master of the prestigious Ormond College for twenty years. McCaughey played a ground-breaking role in Australian public life. Sarah Martin's compelling biography explores the character and achievements of a man who transcended his deeply conservative roots in Belfast to champion radical student politics. A pivotal figure in the creation of the Uniting Church in Australia, McCaughey was also regarded by many, including Manning Clark, as one of the greatest public speakers of his era.

Political campaigns in the United States, especially those for the presidency, can be nasty-very nasty. And while we would like to believe that the 2020 election was an aberration, insults, invective, and yes, even violence have characterized US electoral politics since the republic's early days. By examining the political discourse around nine particularly deplorable elections, Mary E. Stuckey seeks to explain why. From the contest that pitted Thomas Jefferson against John Adams in 1800 through 2020's vicious, chaotic matchup between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Stuckey documents the cycle of despicable discourse in presidential campaigns. Looking beyond the character and the ideology of the candidates, Stuckey explores the broader political, economic, and cultural milieus in which each took place. In doing so, she reveals the conditions that exacerbate and enable our worst political instincts, producing discourses that incite factions, target members of the polity, encourage undemocratic policy, and actively work against the national democratic project. Keenly analytical and compulsively readable, Deplorable provides context for the 2016 and 2020 elections, revealing them as part of a cyclical-and perhaps downward-spiraling-pattern in American politics. Deplorable offers more than a comparison of the worst of our elections. It helps us understand these shameful and disappointing moments in our political history, leaving one important question: Can we avoid them in the future?

This article explores the relationship between disability and technology in three young adult novels that redefine the dichotomy between the terms “disabled” and “normal.” The novels represent the next stage in the ongoing debate between the medical and social paradigms of disability, by adopting a hybrid approach that is sensitive to the pitfalls of both models. The article argues that the trend of new writings—which avoids stereotypical representations of the impaired body and instead portrays real people with diverse personalities, struggles, and lifestyles—can contribute to mapping new directions for disability narratives in the twenty-first century. تناقش المقالة العلاقة بين مفهوم الإعاقة والتكنولوجيا في ثلاث روايات تنتمي إلى أدب الشباب. ترسم هذه النصوص صورة مغايرة للتمثيل النمطي للأشخاص ذوي الإعاقة، وتعيد تعريف مصطلحي «الإعاقة» و«القدرة» من خلال سرد يبرز التجربة الحياتية لدى السايبورج (شخص يستخدم عضواً اصطناعياً تعويضياً). ترى المقالة أن هذه النصوص تمثل المرحلة القادمة في النقاش الدائر بين النموذج الطبي والنموذج الاجتماعي في دراسات الإعاقة من خلال تبني نهج هجين يسعى إلى تجنب سلبيات كلا النموذجين. ومن ثم، توضح المقالة أن هذا النمط الجديد من النصوص يمكن أن يساعد في فتح آفاق جديدة لروايات الإعاقة في القرن الحادي والعشرين من خلال تصوير أناس حقيقيين ذوي شخصيات متنوعة وصراعات وأنماط حياتية مختلفة.

John Scarlett Davis's (1804-1845) Interior of the Painted Hall, Greenwich Hospital provides a remarkable record of one of maritime UK's most significant sites and a summation of the period during which UK's ascendancy on the seas was established though trade and naval warfare with its main rivals, Holland, Spain, and France. It shows, installed in the Painted Hall at Greenwich, the Naval Gallery: an assemblage of paintings and sculpture depicting naval engagements, officers who fought in them, and figures associated with exploration such as Admiral Lord George Anson and Captain James Cook. Acquired by Henry Walters, the painting appears never to have been displayed at the museum, probably due to what William Johnston referred to as its \"unfortunate condition.\" Because of the historical significance of the painting and the opportunity to showcase it in an international loan exhibition at Yale Center for British Art, the decision was taken to restore it to a state in which it could be exhibited.

This paper investigates the narrative circulation of ableism. By drawing on anti-oppressive perspectives and narrative inquiry, this article argues that narrative circulation is crucial for understanding the performance and practice of ableism. The research question was as follows: How is ableism concerned in life stories by people with disabilities? Life story data (Life of Disabled Persons in Finland 2013-2014) was analysed using the model of narrative circulation (MNC). The analysis used the concept of conditions, which refers to both sociomaterial and discursive conditions. Two main ways were found: ableism as Othering condition and narrative resistance against ableism. Ableism can rule out narrative inclusion but that can be resisted. More inclusive narrative practices can be developed as people with disabilities are involved in wider narrative circulation. Keywords: ableism, narrative, Othering, narrative resistance, narrative circulation

The two most frequently charged federal crimes are immigration crimes: the misdemeanor of entering the United States without inspection, and the felony of reentering the United States after deportation. Federal prosecutors charge tens of thousands of people with these two crimes each year. In 2019, these two crimes comprised a majority of all federal criminal cases. About 99 percent of the defendants in these cases are nationals of Mexico or other Latin American countries. These two crimes were enacted into law through the Undesirable Aliens Act of 1929. The legislative history of that Act reveals that its authors were motivated by pseudoscientific racism. They sought to preserve the purity of the white race by preventing Latin American immigrants from settling permanently in the United States. And they spoke forthrightly about this motive. They described Latin American immigrants as \"mongrelized,\" \"peons,\" \"degraded, \" and \"mixed blood. \" They held hearings where experts in eugenics testified about Latin Americans ' undesirable racial characteristics. They gave speeches about the need to protect American blood from contamination. They described Latin American immigration as a \"great race question \" concerning invasion by \"people essentially different from us in character, in social position, and otherwise.\" This Article thoroughly documents the legislative history of the Undesirable Aliens Act ofi929. It relies on primary sources-speeches, legislative reports, testimony, statements in the congressional record, private correspondences, eugenicist scholarship, and other writings by the men who conceived and enacted the law. The Article shows that this history brings the law into conflict with the Constitution 's Equal Protection Clause. While the crimes of unlawful entry and reentry arre racially neutral on their faces, the story of their enactment reveals explicit racial animus against Latin American immigrants. Consequently, they are unconstitutional under the framework established by the Supreme Court in Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. The Article also considers whether these crimes can be defended under Congress's broad power to enact immigration laws, and whether their 1952 reenactment purged them of racial animus.

This essay argues that one of the distinguishing characteristics of Chuck Palahniuk’s self-described “Horror Trilogy” of novels, Lullaby, Diary, and Haunted, is their representation of obsessions, compulsions, and obsessive–compulsive disorders. This essay analyses these representations from a variety of different perspectives, including medical and psychiatric approaches, clinical and self-help narratives, and biocultural readings emanating from cultural history and critical disability studies. It is demonstrated that the novels reflect a range of the debates that arise from these competing approaches, and the points of similarity and difference in the readings produced are identified. Palahniuk’s representations, it is suggested, must be seen in the contexts of a number of his recurrent thematic preoccupations, and of his engagement with existential comedy. Ultimately, this essay suggests that Palahniuk’s representations of obsessions, compulsions, and OCD must be seen as multi-faceted and protean, as befitting the awareness of the complicated current debates about their conceptualisation that the novels display.

This article establishes a dialogue between disability studies and ecocriticism to analyze Sara Mesa's novel Cara de pan (2018), which narrates the relationship between a thirteen-year-old girl bullied at school and a fifty-four-year-old man with an atypical appearance who fixates on limited topics. The analysis examines the hegemony of normativity and dominant social narratives about disability, gender, and sexuality. Grounded in the idea that people with disabilities actively intervene in their environment, the essay argues that the characters' environmental empathy supports the need for a diversity of experiences and perspectives, positively resituating disability and autism.

Exploring audience responses to Samuel Beckett's Quad (1981) reveals the play's tendency to evoke intense but contradictory embodied affects for its spectator. Audience members recurrently testify to experiencing a heightened kinesthetic empathy that catalyzes their sense of identification with the onstage figures. However, they also repeatedly record a simultaneous impulse to recoil from the performers, a sense of revulsion or the refusal of immersive engagement with their moving bodies. A hybrid methodological framework of kinesthetic empathy and disability theory offers a means of better exploring both the generation and the consequence of Quad's conflicting embodied affects. This framework emphasizes Quad's foregrounding of its performers’ embodiment, and permits a consequently clearer recognition of Quad's value as a performance that demands that its spectator confront the physical fact of others’ bodily existence—while acknowledging the difficulty of such engagement.