This chapter provides a detailed analysis of communal deaf social life in post-war north-west England. The most common and popular forms of leisure, entertainment and sporting activity are identified, together with local variations with north-west England and changes that occurred during the fifty years covered by this research. The chapter emphasises the centrality of deaf club activities in the life of the deaf community, with particular attention paid to shared holidays and trips and the ways in which certain sports had a communal significance that went far beyond the sporting events themselves.

Chapter 5 explores how different models of generation and sexuality provide a framework for juxtaposing inspired and uninspired creativity in Milton. The first section situates the poem's preformationist imagery against the developmental organic metaphors of late eighteenth-century literary criticism to show how Blake resists the naturalisation of genius and inspiration. The chapter then considers how the poem's scenes of epigenetic growth are used to symbolise a kind of narcissistic poetic activity which denies any participation of the divine. Building upon recent work on Blake's depiction of homosexuality, I show how Blake casts inspiration in homoerotic light to separate literary production from biological reproduction. The last section expands upon Milton's sexual myth by reading the poem against efforts by Erasmus Darwin, Richard Payne Knight and others to account for the origins of world religions via recourse to ancient fertility cults. This chapter ultimately argues that Milton, ending with the mythic transformation of reproductive bodies into symbolic images, presents itself as a poetic attempt to reverse the naturalising tendencies of late eighteenth-century criticism.

This chapter discusses the literary censorship of Katy O'Brien's novels: Mary Lavelle (1936) and The Land of Spices (1941). O'Brien's novels were banned in Ireland because of their explicit depiction of sex. The chapter emphasizes the political significance of O'Brien's novels, arguing that she offered to Irish society the ideal of liberal individualism.

Existing cultural forms guided early associations in both halves of the British railway life-world. The Electronic Model Railway Group is one of several functional associations linking geographically separated enthusiasts sharing interests in a particular aspect of railway modelling. Evidence about local societies serving enthusiasts for the prototype railway is fugitive, but what can be found reveals intriguing patterns. The trend line for Railway Modeller's register shows that the number of local British model railway clubs rose at least until the early 1980s. National railfan clubs like the Railway Correspondence and Travel Society (RCTS) articulate enthusiasts sharing broad interests in the modern prototype and/or preserved lines. Competing with a flourishing undergrowth of commercial rail tour companies, one major RCTS activity always has been to organise rail tours carrying members to places of particular railway interest.

Building on existing theories of communicative ethics and the limitations to Habermas's project identified in earlier chapters, this chapter articulates a series of communicative imperatives and a set of issues regarding the relationship between theory and practice which strike at the heart of the emancipatory and evaluative orientation of critical theory. The communicative imperatives have two key purposes: to operate as an instrument of critique and to guide actors and participants in the normative development of practical dialogue. The chapter seeks to facilitate our understanding of the role of language in the construction of legitimacy and to contribute to the procedural argument that how we arrive at decisions may be as important as the substance of those decisions.

Ocean shipping handles 90% of global trade and may triple by 2050, while contributing about 3% of greenhouse gas (GHG). In 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed unprecedented warming due to human activities. Reducing emissions is complex, and needs diplomacy, science, and reform as legal frameworks emerge. This chapter examines legal and policy limits shaping maritime decarbonization through low or zero-emission fuel adoption. Progress requires technology, finance, and skills among global stakeholders. Though not under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), International Maritime Organization (IMO) addresses shipping emissions by global rules. This highlights the need for cooperation among flag, coastal, and port states under IMO. While climate law promotes fairness, maritime complexity persists. The UNFCCC promotes equity through the legal doctrine of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities (CBDR-RC) recognizing varied socio-economic contexts. IMO instruments apply non-discrimination and “no more favorable treatment” (NMFT), regardless of national context. The 2023 GHG Strategy balances CBDR-RC and NMFT using constructive ambiguity. Technology enables just decarbonization, possibly using GHG pricing. The chapter stresses the policy need to cut maritime GHGs and how technology supports a just transition within legal frameworks, now and ahead.

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book attempts to trace the utopian arc. Jean Genet's commitment, as argued in the book, is to a deterritorialised world, to a utopos. The book addresses Genet's contemporary political significance by looking at his key influence on modern directors in Spain, the USA and UK. The decidedly spatial aspect of this textual practice confirms the relationship existing between Genet's late theatre and his post-1968 political commitment. Despite a brief moment of hope from the late 1960s through to the mid-1970s, racism simply took new forms and migrated en masse from the global South to the global North. That Genet himself realised this is apparent in his commitment to armed insurrection in the 1970s, and in the equivocal but inescapable melancholy that haunts his last book, Prisoner of Love.