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This book examines ethnoterritorial conflict and reconciliation in Ireland from the 1916 Rising to Brexit (2021), including the production and consequences of the island's two distinct political units. Highlighting key geographic themes of bordering, unity, division, and national narratives, it explores how geopolitical space has been employed over time to (re)define divided national allegiances throughout Ireland and within Irish–British relations. The analysis draws from in-depth interviews and archival research, and spans supranational, state, municipal, neighborhood, and individual scales. The book pays particular attention to uneven power structures, statecraft, perceived truths, lived experiences, reconciliation efforts, and renegotiations of national narratives in the production of symbolic landscapes, divided cities, and "shared" space. An Introduction to the Geopolitics of Conflict, Nationalism, and Reconciliation in Ireland provides readers with an analysis of geopolitical power relations and different spatial productions of conflict and peacebuilding in Ireland. Offering deeper understanding of these historic and contemporary geopolitical intersections, this book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of Political Geography, Border Studies, Irish Studies, European Studies, International Relations, Cultural Geography, and Regional Studies.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Abortion -- Capital Punishment -- Disability Rights -- Drug Policy -- Education Policy -- Environmental Justice -- Freedom of Speech -- Government Surveillance -- Gun Control -- Health Care -- Housing Policy -- Immigration -- Information Privacy and Internet Freedom -- LGBTQ Rights -- Marriage Equality -- Police and Criminal Justice Reform -- Religious Liberty -- School Choice -- Voting Rights -- Women's Rights -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author and Contributors.

Recent work by historians like Sarah Ross (The Birth of Feminism: Women as Intellectuals in Renaissance Italy and England, 2008) reframes the role of gender in the Renaissance. Humanism, as well as reformist ideas about the church, spread widely across Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries among learned women. In England, these changes are still usually associated with men like Sir Thomas More or Henry VIII himself. Research into Anne Boleyn's correspondence and library suggests that she directly participated in women's intellectual circles, playing an important and ignored role at the English court in that regard. This research poster emphasizes her networks among educated and politically powerful women in Europe including Marguerite de Navarre, Louise of Savoy, and Claude of France, who influenced Anne Boleyn during her time in French court under Francis I. Beyond networks, Anne Boleyn's library also suggests the kinds of reading and interests women pursued. Catalogues of the libraries of Henry VIII and Anne recently completed by the historian James Carley enable a deeper study of authors who influenced Anne--Bible translators like Lefèvre d'Etaples (French) and William Tyndale (English), evangelical writers associated with Anne's networks (Clémont Marot), as well as other kinds of books and manuscripts (the anonymous psalter Epistres et Evangiles). By comparing these books with those in the library of Henry VIII as well as using Anne's correspondence and other manuscripts, a much clearer vision of how a Renaissance for women on the continent influenced England in this period emerges.

This is an ethnographic exploration of care in Uganda, from everyday tending, to bio-bureaucracies, to inter-personal relationships. I focus on traditional birth attendants (TBA's), who are local medical experts carrying significant cultural capital, in order to understand civic care and its entanglements. And I study birthing events and the dynamics of risky responsibility in order to speak to care-based obligations. The practice of the TBA was recently outlawed by government mandate, leaving significant uncertainty for the fate of emergency obstetrics in Ugandan villages, and threatening the authority of local providers. TBA's have been the bridge for health development projects to rural villages and have been a voice for women and a link to global discourse. I investigate health policy and the genealogies of health intercessions in order to translate lived implications of the ban, and I look at the ways in which this ban highlights relational politics of care in Uganda. I argue that the TBA contributes to informed policy that considers all manner of women's lives and that her practice is based in advocacy. I consider how women's health is compounded by social factors in Uganda, namely through reproductive consequences, and I ask how the TBA's participation in politics can be a form of dispossession for women. I explore women's emotion-rich experiences and I campaign for intimate, relational, and embodied understandings. I platform a humanistic approach and contend that medicine should be interpersonal. I further offer that care is a feminist endeavor that dismantles the supremacy of super-structures of medicine that have instated women's oppression. Through everyday scenes and private spaces, I witness care's mutuality and make the case for harnessing these sentiments in health policy. I consider the implications of connective care in public health as well as ethnography and I champion the idea that international health discourse should obsess with care because it is through care in our considerations of the world that we arrive at reliable interpretations, creative approaches, and nuanced praxes.

If the "person on the street" were asked to name a right guar- anteed to all Americans by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, freedom of speech would likely come quickly to mind, along with the concomitant right of free press. The rights to practice one's religion and peaceably assemble, even the judicially created right of free association might follow closely behind. Few people, how- ever, would mention the "right of the people., to petition the government for redress of grievances."' Fewer still would be able to give a good definition of petitioning, or to describe the types of activities protected by the right. One obvious reason for the general lack of awareness of the existence and contours of the petition right is the almost total absence of judicial scrutiny directed at the Petition Clause in the years since the Framers included it in the First Amendment as a separate textual guarantee. This judicial "silent treatment" stands in stark contrast to the eager and exacting scrutiny applied to the other First Amendment guarantees such as free speech, press, and religion. The substance and scope of these rights have been alternately reduced and expanded over time as the rights themselves are continuously redefined by the courts to fit the sensibilities of each generation. The petition right, deprived of the nuance and repetition-engendered familiarity provided by this sort of natural, ongoing evolution, arrives into the late twentieth century somewhat awkwardly, a little-understood visitor from another age.

This book illustrates the diversity of current geographies, ontologies, engagements, and epistemologies of peace and conflict. It emphasizes how agencies of peace and conflict occur in geographic settings, and how those settings shape processes of peace and conflict. The essence of the book's logic is that war and peace are manifestations of the intertwined construction of geographies and politics. Indeed, peace is never completely distinct from war. Each chapter in the book will demonstrate understandings of how the myriad spaces of war and peace are forged by multiple agencies, some possibly contradictory. The goals of these agents vary as peace and war are relational, place-specific processes. The reader will understand the mutual construction of spaces and processes of peace and conflict through engagement with the concepts of agency, the mutual construction of politics and space, geographic scales, multiple geographies, the twin dynamics of empathy/othering and inclusivity/partitioning, and resistance/militarism. The book discusses the intertwined nature of peace and conflict, including reference to the environment, global climate change, borders, technology, and postcolonialism.

The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have placed an increased awareness on traumatic brain injury (TBI). Various publications have estimated the incidence of TBI for our deployed servicemen, however all have been based on extrapolations of data sets or subjective evaluations due to our current method of diagnosing a TBI. Therefore it has been difficult to get an accurate rate and severity of deployment related TBIs, or the incidence of multiple TBIs our service members are experiencing. As such, there is a critical need to develop a rapid objective method to diagnose TBI on the battlefield. Because of the austere environment of the combat theater the ideal diagnostic platform faces numerous logistical constraints not encountered in civilian trauma centers. Consequently, a simple blood test to diagnosis TBI represents a viable option for the military. This perspective will provide information on some of the current options for TBI biomarkers, detail concerning battlefield constraints, and a possible acquisition strategy for the military. The end result is a non-invasive TBI diagnostic platform capable of providing much needed advances in objective triage capabilities and improved clinical management of in-Theater TBI.