Wings Over Scotland

OK, here’s one for “affirming parents” who may be straying in to the realm of child abuse. SEX and GENDER are NOT the same thing. Healthy identities are shaped from within, not by external fads, with or without the support of state authority. It is important that children grow up to love themselves in an ethical manner that is grounded in the social reality of who they are. Don’t allow your misconceptions to cripple your child’s future development path.

Same applies to Scotland’s residents who feel more Scottish than British, or who chose to retain their EU citizenship, a significant majority.

The Psychologizing of Injustice?
On Axel Honneth’s Theory of Recognitive Justice.
link to ethical-perspectives.be

The Social Self: The Role of the Social Situation
link to opentextbc.ca

Confronting suffering with narrative theory, constructed selfhood, and control: Critical perspectives by Simone Weil and Buddhist metaphysics
link to tandfonline.com

Are there still those who doubt that austerity is driven by ideology that is inescapably anti-social in nature? Time for some Critical Accounting and some gender-aware social economics and stuff?

Public sector accounting, accountability and austerity: More than balancing the books?

Abstract
Purpose – The era of austerity that has followed the outbreak of the global financial crisis has posed a myriad of challenges for public services, with demands for major cuts in government spending, the delivery of balanced budgets and strategies for deficit reduction. The purpose of this paper is to consider how public sector accounting and accountability systems are implicated in the development and implementation of austerity policies. Also, it pinpoints a range of issues that accounting researchers need to be contemplating on the subject of accounting for austerity.

Design/methodology/approach – Interdisciplinary literature review, coupled with an illustrative discussion of the changing nature of public sector accounting practices under austerity.

Findings – Despite the significance and scale of austerity, public sector accounting research on the topic is in its infancy, with the prominent focus being on how accounting technologies are used to manage austerity. There have been few attempts to debate critically the construction of austerity and to provide alternative accounts of austerity. Accounting for austerity, especially in terms of its implications and consequences, is far too complex and challenging to be categorized as simply seeking to “balance the books”.

Research limitations/implications – As an academic community, we need to be developing understanding of public sector accounting research under austerity across different organizational levels and contexts. Also, we should be framing the accounts of austerity in ways that respect and build on a sound understanding of the extensive available interdisciplinary research on this topic.

Key research questions to address include: how is accounting shaping constructions of, and impressions, attitudes and behaviors toward, austerity and the status of governments and public service organizations? What do such patterns of development mean for the roles and contributions of public sector accountants under austerity? Are accounting systems destined to be used primarily as vehicles for cost-cutting, or can they be used as engines for growth and for thinking about public service responsibilities in more socially inclusive forms?

Originality/value – Accountings of austerity in the field of public sector accounting research have been worryingly limited. This paper and the papers in this special issue of AAAJ address such failings, revealing a range of critical implications and challenges of austerity policies for public sector accounting research.

link to researchgate.net

Austerity, Audit, and Accountability : New Public Management and the Privatisation of Local Audit in England
link to journals.openedition.org

A ‘new politics’ of austerity, workfare and gender? The UK coalition government’s welfare reform proposals
link to academic.oup.com

One for Conservative MP Dominic Grieve, who appears to be a democrat who respects the voluntary nature of the yoonyawn. Come on Scottish Conservatives, show the world you’re not blood-and-soil, English nationalist, Tories and give British nationalism the cold shoulder.

Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come
link to youtube.com

@SNP
I appreciate the Scottish public had to be shown that Westminster does not deal with Scotland in good faith, but it is ethically immoral to attempt to change their political culture. That’s exactly what British nationalism does to us and we don’t like it. Dissolve the yoonyawn and protect the human rights of those living in Scotland.

Ethics and Morality in International Relations

International Relations Ethics and Morality in International Relations

Introduction

Ethical questions are central to the study of international relations, as it is a field of study concerned with war and peace, trade and production, and law and rights. Yet, a persistent conventional wisdom suggests ethics are marginal to international relations. This conventional wisdom has two sources. After World War II, as the discipline of international relations was taking shape in the United Kingdom and the United States, a number of prominent scholars holding a realist view on questions of ethics came to dominate the field.

Figures such as Hans J. Morgenthau, Reinhold Niebuhr, and E. H. Carr criticized what they saw as the misplaced moralism of earlier scholars who put their faith in the power of law and institutions to reform international relations. Not long after this move toward a realist paradigm that was skeptical of ethics, the discipline also began to focus on developing a value-free social scientific approach that rejected ethical questions as part of the study of international relations, especially in the United States. Yet, these two early shifts in the discipline obscure the fact that questions of ethics have always been part of the study of international relations. International relations, however, is concerned with political events and social forces that impact the lives of individuals, communities, and the human species as a whole, making ethical considerations inescapable….

link to oxfordbibliographies.com

Ethics and International Relations
link to tandfonline.com

Ethical traps in international relations
link to journals.sagepub.com

Ethical Reasoning in International Affairs
Arguments from the Middle Ground
link to palgrave.com

One for all those who believes in the British version of constitutional government.

NOFX – The Idiots Are Taking Over
link to youtube.com

Or perhaps an even better version.

In this great future we can’t forget our past

Watching all the hypocrites mingle with the good people we knew

link to youtube.com

Brian Doonthetoon at 7.43

Yep. Much better than Daddy Cool. And that was the one that was played in all the Nigerian discos, beer houses, brothels etc. (Not a lot of difference). Gyrated with mony a dusky lass to the strains of that great disco record

Further to Waleed. I wasn’t joking when I suggested British society is afflicted by structural and institutional racism (see Westminster and Brexit, for example). The Islamophobic nature of contemporary British white nationalism has the same cultural root as English antisemitism. Brexit is as much about supporting Islamophobia as it is about exposing British democracy to further neo-liberal privatisation.

Equality-of-oppressions and anti-discriminatory models in social work: reflections from the USA and UK

Abstract

Although the equality-of-oppressions paradigm in the USA and the anti-discriminatory framework in the UK are progressive steps in affirming the lives of many groups, they are limited in their ability to highlight the continued significance of racism in contemporary social work education. This comparative paper examines how universal frameworks of oppression in social work have helped to diminish the significance of racial oppression and begins by discussing their evolution in both countries.

The next section is concerned with the rise of postmodern theory and its influence in reshaping issues of oppression. Finally, a model of differential vulnerability is offered as a way of identifying how the multiplicity of oppressions varies in frequency, intensity and pervasiveness. The authors suggest that this model can make a difference by reconfiguring models of oppression which interweave differential vulnerability to not only make the necessary connections between forms of oppression but also to reaffirm social work’s commitment to racial equality.

Keywords: Equality-of-Oppressions, Anti-Discriminatory Practice, Postmodern, Race Equality

link to tandfonline.com

Addressing racism: a new approach to promotion of positive policies is needed
link to thelancet.com

Neoliberal anti-racism:
Responding to ‘everywhere but different’ racism
link to journals.sagepub.com

How to start dismantling white privilege in higher education
link to blogs.lse.ac.uk

re. the state’s drive towards the self-id of sex and the adoption of radical science as the basis of pubic policy. Why would a right-wing and increasingly authoritarian state undergoing a sustained period of economic, political and constitutional crises, wish to conflate sex with gender? Neo-liberalism is sufficiently misogynistic without further assistance from the New Right.

Gender, race, and class in the local welfare state: moving beyond regulation theory in analysing the transition from Fordism

Abstract.

In this paper we attempt to provide a conceptual framework which can help inform our analysis and understanding of current transformations taking place within the welfare state. We argue that the French school of regulationist literature, though able to provide a broad frame of reference for analysing contemporary shifts in economy and society, needs to be supplemented by an analysis which focuses on the racialised and gendered character of the welfare state.

In the paper the ways in which the ‘universal’ welfare state has operated to exclude minorities and marginalised groups are charted, and we argue that in practice the Fordist mode of social regulation (MSR) operating in Britain generated a hierarchy of oppression. This hierarchy was constituted
through the relations of class, race, and gender, and we show how these are currently being redefined as the British state seeks to mediate the crisis tendencies inherent in the Fordist MSR.

link to zen49129.zen.co.uk

Policy, Politics, Gender. Bringing Gender to the Analysis of Welfare States
link to rivisteweb.it

Reinforcing neoliberalism: crisis and austerity in the UK
link to research.manchester.ac.uk

How Welfare States Shape the Gender Pay Gap:
A Theoretical and Comparative Analysis
link to mcgill.ca

There’s me thinking today’s Calcutta Cup would be just another noble defeat for Scotland, so went about fighting the gender and race-blind injustices of Britain’s enduring colonial legacy. Wait….what? Oh nuts.

Critical Post-colonial Realist view on how to deal with the English school of International Relations
link to youtube.com

Here’s one for Scottish Conservatives who are unable to support contemporary white British nationalism.

Critical Post-colonial Feminist IR v English school IR, in the race for cultural hegemony
link to youtube.com

Here’s some sports psychology and a bit of Critical Realism, to reflect today’s match and Scotland’s constitutionally imperiled status.

Post-positivist, critical realism: philosophy, methodology and method for nursing research

Abstract

Background: Healthcare research acknowledges a range of paradigms. This article asserts that there is a place for post-positivist research for the nursing profession, particularly through critical realist methodologies. There are limited examples of this type of research and this may discourage nurses from considering it as a viable option.

Aims: It will 1) provide a detailed overview of Bhaskar’s critical realism and 2) illustrate nursing research methods with published examples.

Discussion: Bhaskar’s critical realist methodology is explained and three main research methods are illustrated: critical realist evaluation, action research and ethnography.

Conclusion: Post-positivism negotiates some of the conflict and differences between positivism and interpretivism. It offers a variety of methodological choices for nurses who do not wish to align themselves strictly with facts, cause-effect and proving hypotheses or with only participant perspectives and experiences. Bhaskar’s critical realist principles may be used to study complex and open systems such as those of teams and organisations, public health interventions and social situations; but particularly the complexities of nursing practice, service delivery and design.

link to oro.open.ac.uk

Critical realism as a philosophy and social theory in information science?
link to pdfs.semanticscholar.org

Effective ways to develop and maintain robust sport confidence: strategies advocated by sport psychology consultants
shura.shu.ac.uk/9603/1/Maynard_Dev_and_maintain_robust_sport_confidence.pdf

Relational coaching in sport: Its psychological underpinnings and practical effectiveness
link to pdfs.semanticscholar.org
link to dspace.lboro.ac.uk

Sorry for taking up so much space but I’ve just go to be me. Hit or miss. Sitting here all by myself trying be everybody else. Can’t you see, I’ve got to be me….hit or miss.

Bo Diddley — Hit Or Miss
link to youtube.com

@X_Sticks

Glad you liked it 🙂

@Ronnie Anderson

I missed your call Ronnie, I was out with the dug.

@Cameron

You were only able to nip me by calling in reinforcements! 😉

@Cameron

Aye, right! No Nana salved my pain with her lovely wee plaque. An I’ll be aiming to have another go next time. Supporters of independence NEVER give up! No surrender! (I’ve been listening to too many DUP politicains of late 😉 )

X_Sticks
By Grabthar’s hammer, “never give up, never surrender”. 🙂
link to youtube.com

Hey X_Sticks.

Bo Diddley – I Don’t Like You
link to youtube.com

Rushed at that a bit and got ahead of myself, so here’s a bit of Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind and stuff.

Paley’s Moral Philosophy

Foreword

WILLIAM PALEY’S Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, first published in 1785, played a seminal role in the dissemination of utilitarianism in England. Adopted as an integral part of the curriculum at Cambridge University, the Principles helped shape the political thinking of England’s intellectual elite well into the nineteenth century.

“It has laid the foundation of the Moral Philosophy of many hundreds—probably thousands—of Youth while under a course of training designed to qualify them for being afterwards the Moral instructors of Millions,” Archbishop Whately wrote in 1859; “such a work therefore cannot fail to exercise a very considerable and extensive influence on the Minds of successive generations.” As late as 1933, John Maynard Keynes called Paley’s Principles “an immortal book.”1

Paley’s political philosophy remains difficult to classify, especially by modern standards. His theological utilitarianism helped buttress the formation of classical liberalism, the most important political ideology to emerge from the Enlightenment. Yet his Principles also contains passages that mesh comfortably with traditional eighteenth-century aristocratic paternalism, a philosophy frequently antagonistic to liberalism.

Then too, despite his published opposition to the French Revolution, some considered Paley sympathetic to radicalism, a charge that may have affected his clerical advancement. Paley vivified the gross inequalities of the distribution of property; he condemned the slave trade; he proposed a graduated income tax that appealed to Tom Paine. In 1802, the Anti-Jacobin Review noted that from Paley “the most determined Jacobin might find a justification of his principles, and a sanction for his conduct.”2

Though radicals during the 1790s never claimed Paley as an ally, his iconoclasm remained appealing to many commentators. Paley wrote during a transitional era of rapidly evolving civic discourse when traditional political labels proved inadequate and emerging ideological designations had yet to be fully formed.3

link to oll.libertyfund.org

CONSERVATISM, EDMUND BURKE, AND THE INVENTION OF A POLITICAL TRADITION, C.1885-1914
link to research.manchester.ac.uk

Extended Cognition and Ethics
link to philpapers.org

Socially Extended Cognition and Shared Intentionality
link to frontiersin.org

@X_Sticks

🙂

Also? Same as Ian B. A wee shout out to Mr & Mrs Smallaxe.

You’re missed and hoping the best for you.

@Cameron

link to youtube.com

X_Sticks
Finding the Sea of Green and destroying the false philosophy of the Blue Meanies is really what it’s all about, frankly. The Tories are not Above Good and Evil 😉

The Beatles – Within You Without You
link to youtube.com

chicmac
I feel like a bit of a show-off. Sorry for being a smartypants, it’s just that understanding social production of social stratification, was a topic of particular focus for us. You can’t plan a sustainable society unless you attend to the rectification of colonial-legacy issues.

Pierre Bourdieu and elites: Making the hidden visible

Abstract

One of Pierre Bourdieu’s great skills and gifts to organizational researchers is his ability to reveal and make manifest the hidden mechanisms of social stratification that often remain invisible in organizational and social life. In this chapter, we explore Bourdieu’s contribution to the study of elites, power and domination.

We apply his ideas and concepts illustratively to four specific areas of research: class domination and cultural reproduction in big business; the importance of reflexivity for social mobility; the transactional nature and legitimizing function of entrepreneurial philanthropy and the discerning processes of taste formation, indicative of underlying status distinctions, serving as another means of exercising power.

The conceptual arsenal provided by Bourdieu is far from exhausted by management and organization studies. We need it most of all to continue exploring the activities of elites in the global field of power as, largely unobserved, they tighten their stranglehold on global wealth and resources.

link to researchportal.bath.ac.uk

The Social Foundations of Global Conflict and Cooperation:
Waves of Globalization and Global Elite Integration, 19th to 21st Century
link to irows.ucr.edu

Global Actors: Networks, Elites, and Institutions
link to oxfordre.com

Introducing elite discourse: the rhetorics of status, privilege, and power
link to tandfonline.com

chicmac
Erm, sorry my bad. It was rude of me not to reply to your comment more fully. Thing is, I feel under a bit of pressure to keep my comments brief as I’m taking up so much space. That’s my excuse and I hope you’ll accept it.

a) totally relevant as there are strong similarities in cultural practice, e.g. neo-liberal governance. Britain used to trail the USA by a couple of decades or so, in terms of adopting USofA cultural practices (see NHS privatisation, for example). I think this dynamic has intensified since I studied it, in terms of strength of USofA’s cultural influence and the rate of social adoption in Britain of USofA cultural practices. Brexit will most likely further accelerate and intensify this form of socio-cultural reproduction.

b) about bloody time. 🙂

c) sounds like a good read. 😉

chicmac
I hear what your saying and totally agree. I just wish more of the stuff I’m posting was immediately accessible to the cause. These gives an impression of the sort of palate I’m trying to working with though.

A beginner’s guide to: Professor Eric Donald Hirsch
link to edcentral.uk

Theory, Culture & Society
link to theoryculturesociety.org

A Beginner’s Guide to Social Theory
link to uk.sagepub.com

Understanding Communication Theory
link to routledge.com

@chicmac / @CBB
It needs both really, easy read stuff, and also more in depth stuff.

Ian Brotherhood says
Still waiting on a confirmation code from gmail.

Book (feat. Ndidi O.) – Hold On, I’m Coming
link to youtube.com

Is it normal to wait for hour to get a confirmation code? Have I broken gmail or am I just too thick to set up an account? It’s almost certainly the later. Today has not been my day.

Had to resort to a bit of the old “survival sex” myself. It’s not solely a woman’s issue.

Maceo and The Macks – Cross The Track (We Better Go Back)
link to youtube.com

victims of social or cultural oppression, obvs.

Young Pulse Rework – Running Away
link to youtube.com

re. the politics of Harry Potter. Interested in a bit of Critical Literary Analysis and perhaps a bit of Queer Theory?

THE WOMEN IN HARRY POTTER’S WORLD: A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling, 2003), Dolores

Umbridge slides into the picture as the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. “Umbridge immediately meets with active resistance from the students. Her imposed ideals clashes with the existing culture and, therefore, are rejected out of hand” (Crews,2013, p. 18).” Umbridge wanted change and actually clashed with the other female characters. It was a simple battle between good and evil: Umbridge wanted change; Professor McGonagall wanted peace amongst the students.

During the power struggle between good and evil with Umbridge, Harry, Hermione, and Ron make it a point to fight back. Hermione encourages Harry to lead a group of students who would fight to maintain the good within the castle. Again, Hermione steps up as the influencer, changing the game around from victim to champion.

link to wtamu-ir.tdl.org

A Feminist Literary Criticism Approach to Representations of Women’s Agency in Harry Potter
link to etd.ohiolink.edu?::NO:10:P10_ETD_SUBID:55966

GENDER IN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: HARRY POTTER AND THE HUNGER GAMES
link to open.library.ubc.ca

After Criticism, a Call to Rethink Queer Theory
link to researchgate.net

For everyone asking after Smallaxe, I spoke with him earlier today and he asked me to pass on his regards to you all.

He is battling through treatment at the moment which leaves him feeling very tired.

Here are two tunes from him so get up and dance!

link to youtube.com

link to youtube.com

It’s literally been years since I last sent an e-mail, just checking I’ve not forgotten that particular social skill. Not meaning to be pushy, it’s just my emotional state is already under assault from the stresses of Brexit. 😉

Little Richard – Keep A-Knockin’
link to youtube.com

Poor, woke-bro, Owen.

Let’s talk about racism in education and international development
link to ukfiet.org

We may be leaving Europe, but pan-European racism isn’t leaving us
link to irr.org.uk

Challenging racism in the workplace
link to unison.org.uk

Tackling race hate incidents in the workplace
link to acas.org.uk

re. Fireman Sam being sexist. Does his character endorse or support misogyny and how?

Megatextuality: Re-enunciating media intertextuality in the age of global media discourse
link to lse.ac.uk

Intertextual Politics in the Trump Era
link to anthropologyas.wordpress.com

Making Meaning of Gender and Sexual Identities in Early Childhood: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Canadian Early Childhood Curricula
link to mobt3ath.com

Queer International Relations
link to oxfordre.com

An interesting versionof the best rock’n’roll record ever

link to youtube.com

@Black By Popular Demand

“I’d argue that sex is *more* concrete than race. ”

Sex is biologically grounded and characterised by it’s dimorphism. The descriptive category “race” has no biological basis and is socially constructed in the same manner as gender. It’s continued use as a means of describing humans has little sociological value and, in fact, perpetuates prejudice and racism.

Human sexual dimorphism–a sex and gender perspective

Abstract

The term gender is essential in recent biological anthropology. After decades of critical discussion the differentiation into biological sex and social gender is accepted as especially useful. The distinction into sex and gender makes a more complex view at biological phenomenon such a sexual size dimorphism typical of Homo sapiens possible. Although sexual size dimorphism has a clear evolutionary basis and is caused by genetic and hormonal factors, socio-cultural factors such as gender role in society and gender typical workload influence the degree of sexual size dimorphism too.

link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

It is really is scarry that this task has been left up to private members of the public with no real access to political power.

Sexual dimorphism and human evolution: An overview
link to sciencedirect.com
/pii/0047248480900524

Why are women smaller than men? When anthropology
meets evolutionary biology
link to core.ac.uk

PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND GENDER ISSUES
link to eolss.net

Sexual Dimorphism in Human Teeth from Dental Morphology and Dimensions: A Dental Anthropology Viewpoint 🙂
link to intechopen.com

yesindyref2
I hope folk don’t think I’m some sort of “wingnut”. 😉

PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND GENDER ISSUES

1.2. Sex Differences and Sex Ratio

The biggest somatic and health differences among humans are those between the sexes, albeit with clear overlaps. Not only morphology and physiology obviously differ, but as well morbidity and mortality, and processes like growth and development.

From a biological perspective, in normal, non disadvantageous circumstances, girls are the stronger sex since conception onwards. On the average, the skeleton in healthy newborn girls is more advanced than in neonate boys, while healthy girls start their puberty two years earlier. Moreover, in contrast to girls, boys are weaker because they have only one Xchromosome, so they may suffer from X-linked recessive diseases that are rarely if ever seen in females.

Before birth, significantly more boys are likely to be lost, as well as during childhood. Nature compensates by more conceptions of boys; about 105 males are born for every 100 females. In adulthood the ratio of men to women equalizes. From then on, the sex ratio reverses, because at every stage of life males stay more prone to diverse diseases and less viable than females.

link to eolss.net

@Kevin Hague
Get some help lad, you’re living in a delusional world of your own make-believe. That isn’t healthy for you or those you seek to influence.

Abstract

Common pool resource theory appears to assume that external authorities are responsible for initiating attempts to ‘decommonise’ common property regimes. An unusual decommonisation proposal put forward in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in the 1960s questions this assumption; in this instance the decommonisation proposal was initiated by rightsholders in the common property regime. The proposal would have enabled rightsholders to purchase their arable fields, thus privatising them and removing them from the hybrid tenure system called crofting.

A critical historical and contemporary survey of the political contexts surrounding this proposal discloses that the particular hybridity of the ‘crofting commons’ is a result of a historical process of ‘domestic colonization’ within Britain, and that this tenure system exists within a deeply-sedimented structure of domination whose normative assumptions may have influenced the decision of the rightsholders to propose decommonisation in the first place.

Keywords: crofting, decommonisation, colonization, imperialism, privatisation, Leviathan

link to thecommonsjournal.org

@Kevin Hague
Just in case you’d prefer not to seek professional help and would rather rely on your own self-determination instead. Just remember, a healthier state of consciousness is within you if you only you are prepared to look hard enough. 😉

Colonizing and decolonizing minds
link to m.tau.ac.il

The Interface of Language and Theory of Mind
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The metaphysics of agency
link to research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk

Them and Us*:
Autonomous agents in vivo and in silico
link to cs.ox.ac.uk
* With apologies to Will Hutton.

@CBB
Ironically the only thing standing between Kevin Hague becoming the full, well-rounded and balanced individual he could become is the absence so far of a YES vote, where he can stop standing staring at the Wash and telling the waves to stop rolling over his feet.

I may have some details about that bit of history incorrect all the same 🙂

link to change.org

X_Sticks
That’s odd. I just signed it on that link. No idea why you can’t

@DMH

Got it now thanks. When I opened the page is showed 0 votes. Had to refresh the page and then it came up ok.

link to youtube.com

@CBB
In my opinion you’re quite right, historically as well. Spurtle is the word I’d use.

Grace Jones – She’s lost control (long version)
link to youtube.com

“I am a transwoman – I am a male person with female sex characteristics who identifies with women I am not a woman – women are female; I am male (evidence: I have fathered 3 kids). Therefore the statement “transwomen are women” is necessarily wrong because it denies my identity.” – Debbie Hayton

Men can’t claim entry in to womanhood as they don’t poses the sexual history/epistemology of biological females.

What IS Sex?
link to mitpress.mit.edu

The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts
link to ndpr.nd.edu

The Dichotomy of Sexuality: A Narrative-Epistemological Framework for Social Work Practice and Research
link to www1.uwindsor.ca

What Epistemology Would Serve Criminal Law Best in Finding the Truth about R4pe?
link to bjutijdschriften.nl

Sorry if this is boring to some but this issue challenges how we view reality and relates to all forms of social interaction, both inter-personal as well as between individual and state. It undermines the normative foundations of society and opens the door to even more arbitrary recognition of human rights. This is not purely a woman’s issue.

Rethinking the biopsychosocial model of health: Understanding health as a dynamic system

Abstract

The biopsychosocial model has dominated research and theory in health psychology. This article expands the biopsychosocial model by applying systems theories proposed by developmental scholars, including Bronfenbrenner’s ecological models and Sameroff’s transactional model, as well as contemporary philosophical work on dynamic systems. The proposed dynamic biopsychosocial model construes human health as a product of the reciprocal influences of biological, psychological, interpersonal, and macrosystem contextual dynamics that unfold over personal and historical time.

The importance, or centrality, of these influences varies within a person over time. The model is explicated using two hypothetical case studies derived from existing interdisciplinary health research. Implications for health, theory, research, and policy are discussed.

link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Limitations of the biopsychosocial model in psychiatry
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Biological and psychosocial determinants of male and female human sexual orientation.
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

A Comprehensive Approach to Sexual History-Taking Using the Biopsychosocial Model
link to jstor.org

re. the next No campaign. I’ve deliberately been avoiding Critical Disability Studies but I reckon selling the Capabilities approach to human development and democracy shouldn’t be too hard, especially given Brexit and institutional British Torydum. Your welcome. 😉

Towards a Critical Sociology of Democracy: The Potential of the Capability Approach
link to journals.sagepub.com

Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Volume 2: Society, Institutions, and Development
The Capability Approach and the Political Economy of Human Development
link to oxfordscholarship.com

The Capability Approach and Human Development
link to ophi.org.uk

New Directions for the Capability Approach: Deliberative Democracy and Republicanism
link to link.springer.com

WooHoo, ahm in oor Capital CITY…

Wur makin’ ah movie like..

SFX.

CameronB Brodie says:
21 March, 2019 at 1:34 am

“A bit of reflexive thinking here. DMH recently drew attention to a comment made by Abulhaq, which I felt to be racially motivated. On reflection, I may have interpreted the comment incorrectly and so wrongly attributed racially motivated political bias. I’m afraid I can’t find the comment to reassess my judgement, so would really appreciate help from someone who’s good at that sort of thing. I would hate to be a finger pointing bully.”

Hey Cameron. I use ctrl f which creates a word search box making it easier to hunt through threads.
NB. You can be caught out using this method if the comments btl went on long enough to create a second page. In that case you need to go back to older comments and ctrl f search that page too.
That circumstane appears to be the case with the comment you made but couldn’t locate. I presume the following is a link to the comment you refer to.

link to wingsoverscotland.com

Thanks for your help Dan, I’m totally pants at that sort of stuff.

It was the first sentence that drew my attention and was the cause of my protest. I felt that the comment projected a generalised prejudice against the Palestinian people, which is, in essence, the articulation of racism. My self-doubt was that I had misinterpreted this from a claim of local and so, subsequently, superior knowledge. I’m happy with my initial call now.

Hi fellow Scotsfolk,
First post, quite long soz.

I’m a fan of Scotland the Brand and get more than a bit frustrated when I can’t buy a bit of Scottish meat in my local Scottish supermarket that doesn’t have the UJ tarted all over it.

I was discussing this with a work mate in ASDA the day during dinner break, when he stops me and says “watch this”…

Next thing he takes off down the fridge aisle, pulling out his phone as he goes.

Muscling in near some auldies he picks up a pack of British sausages and loudly declares into his phone.
“What?”
“Whits a Butchers Apron look like?”

The auldies look shocked for a second, like time stood still.
 
“Aw one o them?” he says, examining the sausage product closely.

Now aw these auld biddies are stopped deid and examining my mate very closely.

One even reaches into her bag and puts on her glasses.

Mate complains he can’t see anything without a UJ on it apart from a pack of chicken legs.

“But it’s fae Ireland” he says “ye want that?”
“Naw?”
“Nuthin wi a Saltire, sorry hun”
“Aye ah ken it’s no right” he goes, lobbing the Irish chicken legs back in the fridge wi a thud.

He looks about him at the auldies and shrugs, pointing at his phone, “the wife”

“Hang on” he says, picking up a different package and flipping it over.
“There’s one here says it’s FAE a Scottish farm”
“What?
“Aye, it hiz, two tone, red n white, nae blue, same pattern aye, will ah get that?”

“Naw? jis get a pizza instead, ok mi darlin, c u soon”…

He makes no apology, folds up the phone and walks.

I swear ye could SEE the penny drop.
Then one guy takes something out of his basket and slides it back on the shelf.
Then another goes “he’s right ye know”
Wifie wi the glasses nods.

We catch up at the tills and I congratulate him on his work.

A class act.

He learned that trick while kicking up a fuss ower there never being any Nationals.

Now there’s always Nationals.

Out in the van wi our peices, Oh how we laughed.

Now, if everyone was that gallus we wouldn’t have a problem with Scotland the Brand.

Here one for the cultural chauvinism that sustains British nationalism and delivered us the full English Brexit. No small thanks to the support of a partisan media and narrow, intellectually stunted, bigots like Julia Hartley-Brewer.

ZHU – Good Life
link to youtube.com

Dedication to Alexa… and YOU!

link to youtube.com

Have fun and a fun weekend!

The Westminster Conservative Party Show:

link to youtube.com

Let’s Eat The Rich.

Cameron B Brodie @ 12.26 am (22nd March)

You said ‘sorry if this is boring …’

Cameron, please may I just say that I find it actually flattering and it to be an act of the greatest kindness and respect that you share your findings, the articles and research that grab your interest with us here on Wings, without hesitation or showing the slightest awareness that some of what you share may go zooming way above some of our heads (mine especially) 🙂

I do read a lot of the abstracts and sometimes whole articles, some of which I manage to absorb and some which I think I kind of grasp a bit.

But what I really LOVE is that you NEVER make me feel stupid or inadequate because you lay out all that amazing information for us all to see as if, of course, we are all as academically gifted as yourself (and indeed some folk will be!).

Thank you Cameron. Never boring. Often challenging. Always informative. And above all, kind in the presumption that fellow Wingers can and do get it 🙂

Like Nana, and some of our more renowned and eloquent posters on Wings, you fill a special and specific niche. And sometimes you help me feel quite clever. Thank you =)

Hi Ghillie.

I first heard Frankie Miller’s version (before I even knew of the existence of the song) on the infamous Tennent’s Lager advert.

link to youtube.com

Yes. One of the odd things. Frankie Miller (frae Bridgeton) wrote many songs,recorded by many people but his own biggest hit was a song written by Dougie McLean

Ghillie
Very kind words, too kind. I’m certainly not an experienced educator but I do my best. If I was a proper expert though, I’d have been able to cover this stuff in a much more straight-froward and accessible style. Not bad from a standing start after almost thirty years though, even if I say so myself.

What I think is brilliant is your willingness to look outside of the box and learn, which you are doing even if you think you aren’t (because you believe you don’t understand). Something will strike a chord, stick, and generate new thought processes and new ways of thinking and seeing the world.

May aim isn’t to train folk as social scientists, but to simply encourage folk to re-consider their perspective on life.

Gregory Porter – Liquid Spirit (Claptone Remix)
link to youtube.com

Reminder time – April the ninth in Brechin – for one night only, the legendary Grouse Beater.

Not posted on WOS MT for a wee while….posted comment today…then started to read other comments…say ‘comments’ but actually I find that certain individuals on MT only seem to want to antagonize people for posting their opinion.

Once it gets personal you lose the argument.

Yes one can disagree with others opinions or info presented as facts but if you feel they are wrong or misinformed….and you feel compelled to challenge or debate with them then you must always always try to remember to be sensitive to their feelings, diplomatic and respectful…easy to do ….but for some it seems easier to just dismiss and belittle points made by others.

If someone is of a sensitive nature they could very easily be put off commenting on here again if some know it all, or contrary for contrary sake individual or aggressive individual ridiculed or attacked their comments…thus making it a seemingly hostile environment for them to post subsequent comments…which is hardly the inclusive and open position we within the Indy community perceive ourselves to be.

I had a wee strop with someone on WOS a wee while back ( a one off for me on here), I immediately regretted it and apologised to him as I had misunderstood his joke and he was very magnanimous in his response to my strop..but in my defense the MT at the time was like a warzone…and I joined in via one comment. Me bad. The person did NOT deserve it…blame was mine….but I realised how easy it is to get sucked in to so much negativity which is courtesy of the usual suspects.

This site has some fine posters who know their stuff and others who are articulate and insightful but if you look at some of the aggression displayed from certain individuals…and look from the perspective of a person just discovering the site while browsing or a person who wants to have their opinion noted but too afraid of response they may get ….then you will see what I mean.

WOS advocates no abuse and play the ball not the man…there are unfortunately some who are indeed taking the p*ss…… and importantly forgetting that they are talking to another human being…and also in many cases to people who, like them, want independence…excluding obvious trolls.

One never knows what is going on in a person’s life or the shit they may be currently dealing with …..so with that in mind one should be mindful that a cross word or dismissive comment could have a very serious impact and I for one would not want to make anyone feel like shit just to score a point or appear more knowledgeable .

I know others on here have brought this same point up time and time again..this is such a good and informative site and so sad to see that WOS supplies us with the ammunition to deflect the Unionist lies via his excellent articles/posts and I am sure he must get pissed off at those who seek to undermine what he has written via petty arguments and baiting from obvious trolls.

Wow…two rants in one day….me bad !

An issue that won’t go away

sputniknews.com/columnists/201903191073364702-willie-macrae-murder-suicide/?fbclid=IwAR3aLLRRs98ZyLnqQEJOduxaIRNIHDixLBw3l8VFk3HsOK-6UQ1YV6I61dA

More on constitutional form and majoritarianism.

Capitalism, Democracy, and Countermajoritarian Institutions
link to web.stanford.edu

Countermajoritarian Institutions and Constitutional Stability
link to law.yale.edu

Democratization and Countermajoritarian Institutions: The Role of Power and Constitutional Design in Self-Enforcing Democracy
link to papers.ssrn.com

How majoritarianism endures in the structures of the UK’s devolved institutions
link to democraticaudit.com

@BDTT
Yes.

I’m glad I have a post-colonial head, as that means I’m a little more evolved than your average Marxist. These dudes are like Tories, as their ideology requires a utilitarian ethics. Subsequently, the far-left and far-right tend to be equally misogynistic, as they are equally insensitive to matters concerning race, gender and culture. From a post-colonial perspective, Marxists are part of the problem. I suppose that might by why some might label me a “radical” feminist, as I’ll not condone left-wing misogyny and authoritarianism.

P.S. An post-colonial world view incorporates a Feminist Standpoint world view and epistemology.

P.P.S. Sex and gender are not the same. Sex denotes biological difference, gender denotes sense of “self” in relation to society.

International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Volume 1 : Practical and Theoretical Implications of Successfully Doing Difference in Organizations
Chapter 3 Social identities are intersectional
link to emeraldinsight.com

Black feminism and intersectionality
link to isreview.org

Let’s Talk About Intersectional Feminism
link to nwlc.org

Position paper on Intersectionality and Policy-making
link to aegee.org

Thing is, my politics isn’t grounded in ideology, it’s grounded in philosophy and science.

Postcolonialism and Modernity

Abstract

This paper focuses on postcolonial theory’s engagement with modernity. It argues that postcolonialism’s problematization of modernity is significant and has to be contended with seriously. In seeking to question the predatory universalism of western modernity, postcolonial theory aspires to open up paths for different modernities that have the promise of emancipation and liberation for all cultures and societies. But the crux of this paper is that this promise is hardly fulfilled.

Using critical realism, it interrogates postcolonialism’s understanding of modernity. It demonstrates that, with regard to various aspects such as the material dimension, structural conditions, binaries and dualisms, relativism, fallibilism, temporality and structure/agency, postcolonialism’s formulations are incomplete and inadequate. Ultimately, from a critical realist perspective, the non-fulfilment of postcolonialism’s initial promise has serious consequences for the subjects of the ‘Third World’ that the theory claims to represent.

Keywords: modernity, postcolonial theory, subaltern studies

link to tandfonline.com

Julian Go’s Post-Positivist, Postcolonial Realism
link to criticalrealismnetwork.org

Identity in the Postcolonial Paradigm: Key Concepts
link to degruyter.com

Introducing Postcolonialism in International Relations Theory
link to e-ir.info

@Glinner
It all boils down to semiotics dude. The linguistic placeholder “gender”, is a powerful tool of the social sciences and has proven helpful to improving the place of women in society. It’s the conflation of sex with gender identity and the entrenchment of sexist stereotypes that goes along with it, that is the problem.

Identity Studies in the Social Sciences

Identity brings together work on core social categories such as social class, race, ethnicity, gender, disability and sexuality. This series investigates the ways in which social and personal identities are lived and performed in spaces and contexts such as schools, work places, clinics, homes, communities, streets, politics and public life, and explores a range of theoretical, methodological and epistemological debates over, for example, the demise of essentialist models, the rise of ‘identity politics’ and the relationship between psychological and social processes.

Identity research has been the vehicle for some profound reflections on the nature of new and emerging social and cultural forms and the impacts of globalization, transnationalism, postcolonialism and multiculturalism. This series welcomes critically and theoretically-informed work in a variety of areas including nationhood, family, gender and class, as well as on issues of identity and space, media representations of identity, social inclusion and exclusion and social identity theory.

link to palgrave.com

The significance of social identities
link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Gender Identity
link to emedicine.medscape.com

Gender Socialization and Identity Theory
link to mdpi.com

Here’s another one for you Cactus, I wasn’t having a pop mate.

Wendy Rene (Nicolas Jaar Edit) – After Laughter Comes Tears
link to youtube.com

I note that we are all engrossed in Scotland in watching football from Montenegro tonight on SCOTTISH television . We have three hours in which to cheer on our nation England. STV is now doing the same as BBC and its news reports are now becoming more anti SNP than the BBC’s are.

Here’s one for Scotland’s woke lefty brigade and the nexus of their confusion over identity and support for gender-fascism. There are levels of stupidity then there’s denying Biological Anthropology. Fuck left-wing misogyny, the TRA movement and the horse it rode in to town on.

P.S. Mums are BRILLIANT.

Ween – Voodoo Lady
link to youtube.com

@Kevin Williamson
Think about it. “Cope or adjust?!?” Does that not indicate coercion to you? Does that sound like it belongs within a liberal ideology? Should Scotland meekly cope or adjust to Brexit?

And here’s some “Bacon Fat” to lubricate the rest of the evening. Suite you sir.

Andre Williams – Bacon Fat
link to youtube.com

My God the MT just now !

When the Cat’s away the mice will play…..well maybe not play but gnaw away like a dug wae a bone…..there’s been a hijack…of this site….WTAF is going down….Nicola bad….is she though ?…it’s a wee liberty being taken so it is..so it is.

I’m keeping well oot o it…so much for civil discourse….what do I know ? Feck all it would seem….Lol

Safer in Off topic….I hope !

@ CameronB Brodie

Well said on MT re certain individual moderating their comments towards others….personally it is much better to give constructive critique if compelled to do so rather than the condescending tone a certain individual chooses to take…..

You sir are a gentleman.

Too late to wish you a good evening…though hope you did have..so hope you have good day tomorrow.

Has anyone else noticed how a lot of confectionery, bakery products and such, have changed shape recently. Everything appears to be getting smaller, yet I’ve been an adult for quite some time now. Could this be the transformative effect of Brexit re-casting physical reality already?

One for Ranking Roger, RIP.

The English Beat – Mirror In The Bathroom
link to youtube.com