As anthropogenic actions are causing the Earth’s temperatures to rise, the oceans too are warming, accelerating the melting of the polar icecaps, which in turn affects rising sea levels on a global scale. In the Pacific region, higher sea levels cause increasingly severe and frequent flooding from high for king tides add encroaching so it reads from high tides encroaching on islands and coastal areas king tides to islands and coastal areas. The theatrical performances considered in this chapter are chosen for their representations of melting ice, rising sea levels and changing coastal ecosystems. Considering i-Land X-isle and The Last Resort by performance artist Latai Taumoepeau and Thaw by physical theatre group Legs On The Wall, we explore how 'performance can highlight Australian beach and coastal ecologies that exacerbate existing social and economic inequalities. We ask: what does performance show us about which social and cultural groups are most affected by melting Antarctic ice and rising and warming seas? This chapter explores international attitudes to beaches.

This chapter examines efforts to list Kenya’s ‘minorities’ and ‘marginalised communities,’ categories in the 2010 constitution entitled to affirmative action in government representation, resource distribution and public service employment. These are the first classifications with allocative consequences since colonial times. I examine how these terms are operationalised in legal cases, by government Commissions, and by civil society. I show the impossibility of arriving at a fixed list and illuminate myriad strategies for responding to competing political demands for status. These are quintessential examples of cultivated vagueness. I show how this enables both generosity in conferring special status and its application in divisive ways. I use three cases of code seeking – Nubian, Wayyu and Sakuye peoples – to further illustrate both how vague codes have become and how politically salient they are. I examine both the limits of classification in this space and explore ways to make them work to benefit marginalised people. I conclude with some alternatives to classification for remedying marginalisation.

This book comes in two parts; the first, consisting of §§1–7, offers an informal axiomatic introduction to the basics of set theory, including a thorough discussion of the axiom of choice and some of its equivalents. The second part, consisting of §§8–14, is written at a somewhat more advanced level, and treats selected topics in transfinite algebra; that is, algebraic themes where the axiom of choice, in one form or another, is useful or even indispensable.

Autism research and clinical practice is a rapidly evolving branch of psychiatry. This chapter explores autism through the lenses of the neurodiversity paradigm, challenging the deficit-based model whilst remaining stark about significant healthcare inequalities and challenges that autistic people face. It considers the perinatal journey from an autistic perspective, highlighting some of the common challenges autistic mums (to be) can face, and makes suggestions for approaches to take when working with autistic patients.

This book comes in two parts; the first, consisting of §§1–7, offers an informal axiomatic introduction to the basics of set theory, including a thorough discussion of the axiom of choice and some of its equivalents. The second part, consisting of §§8–14, is written at a somewhat more advanced level, and treats selected topics in transfinite algebra; that is, algebraic themes where the axiom of choice, in one form or another, is useful or even indispensable.

Child safeguarding is an integral part of the work of perinatal mental health services and the health and social care services they work in partnership with. Serious case reviews repeatedly identify parental mental illness as one of the most significant risk factors for child maltreatment and infants under one year old as the most vulnerable group of children. This chapter describes the key issues that perinatal mental health clinicians, and the professionals and services they work in partnership with, should consider when working with women and families to ensure that children’s well-being is promoted and that they are protected from harm. Learning from child serious case reviews is highlighted. There is a focus on the processes and important considerations when there is a child, or unborn baby, who is the subject of a Child in Need or Child Protection Plan and when there are significant concerns about parenting capacity necessitating formal parenting assessment and/or care proceedings.

This chapter introduces the practice of infant observation; both as a module on psychoanalytic trainings, and as a helpful clinical skill in assessment and treatment within perinatal services. Babies need to be protected and nourished, but also, crucially, to be drawn into relationships with attentive, responsive adults. The chapter underlines the need to look at each baby as an individual and to observe how he is responding to the care he is receiving. The suggestion is made that in perinatal settings, paying attention to the baby’s experience is a vital part of the work.

We are interested in non-trivial bounds for sums of the form where f(x) is a smooth, real-valued function. In this chapter, we develop methods whereby one may show that such a sum is indeed o(N). The quality of the results depends on the finer properties of f.

This chapter focuses on writing medico-legal court reports in the context of being either a) the treating clinician or b) an independent expert, with a focus on reports for child safeguarding and family court processes. It highlights the range of parenting issues that might arise in the context of perinatal mental illness, as well as the roles and duties of writing a report, and areas to include within the report and its structure. The primary objective for family courts is to ensure that children remain with birth parents unless there are overriding risks of significant harm and neglect to the child. Psychiatrists and clinicians therefore have a duty to be able to write high-quality professional witness and expert witness reports which assist courts in the case of maternal/parental mental health conditions and their potential effects on developing infants and children. Whether a baby remains in the care of the birth mother (and family) or not, has profound effects on both, over lifetimes. However, it is ultimately the task of the judge in the family court to weigh up the available evidence submitted by different experts and parties and make the final recommendations.

Characters curse storms, power blackouts and climate change sceptics in twenty-first century drama as the destructive force of climate change is theatrically represented across comic farce, realist tragedy and dystopian horror. While these theatrical forms differ in their affective and emotional impact, they commonly predict ecological disaster in the future. Disaster is broadly understood as the combination of historical and social determinants interacting with natural hazards and forces over time. Climate change disaster is framed in scenarios that range from humorous to terrifying and with a growing dramatic genre of futuristic climate fiction (cli-fi) about ecological collapse and political dystopia. Twenty-first century dramatisation presents both the absurdity of humanity’s inability to reduce carbon emissions and global warming and the tragedy of predicted disaster on a geological scale in the Anthropocene. At the same time, contemporary performance illuminates turning points in time turning points in time including a different outcome within the present including within the present.

José Antonio Saco (1797–1879), a native of Bayamo in Cuba, studied philosophy under the notable Félix Varela and succeeded him in the philosophy chair at the University of Havana. He edited the journals El Mensajero Semanal and the Revista Bimestre Cubana, where his writing against the slave trade caused his exile in 1834 – he only returned to Cuba for a brief period in 1860–1861. He traveled extensively in Europe collecting the documentation for his Historia de la esclavitud (1875–1879). He was elected to the Cortes in Spain but, after 1837, Cuba was excluded from representation there. Saco also became conspicuous for his opposition to the annexation of Cuba to the United States. The current selection was written in the wake of Narciso López’s failed invasion of the island in 1851 and reveals a keen awareness of the international situation and the hard choices facing Cuba in the nineteenth century.

The introduction presents the book’s central argument: that the War of the Spanish Succession inspired an elaborate campaign of ceremonial propaganda in New Spain, portraying the rise of the Bourbon dynasty as both sacred and regenerative, grounded in multivalent corporeal symbolism. It begins with a close reading of Mexico City’s catafalque for Carlos II, a structure saturated with emblems of death, rebirth, and imperial continuity, and then traces how sacred kingship and millenarian rhetoric shaped public representations of Felipe V. Drawing from emblem books, eucharistic imagery, and historical myth, clergy, bureaucrats, and artisans in New Spain recast the monarchy as divinely ordained and capable of restoring a weakened empire. The introduction also sets up the broader stakes of the study, engaging historiographical debates over imperial decline, composite monarchy, and reform. It outlines the book’s methodological commitment to decoding symbolic language and exploring how sacred imagery forged a transatlantic imagined community of empire.

This chapter introduces the reader to the political environment of Archaic Greece (seventh through early fifth centuries BCE) on the eve of the emergence of the first democracies. Archaic city-states had already taken important steps combatting tyranny, working toward the rule of law, and providing outlets for popular participation. The first instances of dēmokratia in the late sixth and early fifth centuries BCE represented both an expansion of these tendencies and a revolutionary shattering of the status quo. Poets and intellectuals of the time register democracy’s radical empowerment of lower-class male citizens. Oligarchy or the rule of the wealthy few begins to emerge as a reactionary, countervailing constitutional force.