Journal articles: 'British truth'

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Peixoto, Rafael Marcos Tort. "The Truth Behind British Politeness." BELT - Brazilian English Language Teaching Journal 5, no. 1 (August 19, 2014): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/2178-3640.2014.1.18067.

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Bebbington, D. W. "Martyrs for the Truth: Fundamentalists in Britain." Studies in Church History 30 (1993): 417–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400011864.

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The systematic study of religious Fundamentalism is now well under way. The first of six promised volumes under the auspices of the Fundamentalism Project of the University of Chicago, making a global examination of such movements in many religions, was published in 1991. Collections of papers evaluating specific aspects of Fundamentalism have been issued, and the theological method of the contemporary British movement has been scrutinized. Its American equivalent is the subject of one of the most illuminating of post-war works on the history of Christianity in the United States. Yet the history of the British movement has been allowed to remain in obscurity. Although, as will be seen, there are understandable reasons for the neglect, the growth of interest in world-wide Fundamentalism makes study of its British expression timely. More certainly than some of the other forms of defensively-minded traditional religion elsewhere that are now being labelled ‘Fundamentalist’, the British movement is entitled to the name invented by its counterpart in America. It arose at the same time, looking to some of the same men for leadership, and displayed similar traits. So an attempt is made here to present an overview of the Fundamentalists in Britain.

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Zamir, Avi. "Truth v justice." Journal of Criminal Law 78, no. 6 (December 2014): 511–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022018314557413.

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Under British law, the court has the inherent authority to set aside an indictment which, under the circumstances of the case, constitutes ‘abuse’ of the defendant. This unwritten rule had been accepted also by Israeli courts, and then came a completely new, not to say surprising, Act in 2007. The Israeli Parliament (the Knesset) has thereby recognised a preliminary argument which exploits concepts of ‘justice’ and ‘legal fairness’, and the granting of pro-discretion to the court, which may decide whether or not it is fitting and proper to conduct the trial against the defendant. How has the court reacted to that? As I will try to emphasise, judicial review upon prosecutorial discretion is rare, just a drop in the bucket, and the court is quite reluctant to implement the new tool.

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Stock, Guy, T. L. S. Sprigge, and W. J. Mander. "James and Bradley: American Truth and British Reality." Philosophical Quarterly 45, no. 181 (October 1995): 537. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2220325.

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Pilger, John. "The 'liberation' truth is unmentionable in America." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 9, no. 1 (September 1, 2003): 14–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v9i1.750.

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Commentary: In Baghdad, the rise and folly of rapacious imperial power is commemorated in a forgotten cemetery called the North Gate. Dogs are its visitors; the rusted gates are padlocked, and skeins of traffic fumes hang over its parade of crumbling headstones and unchanging historical truth. Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley Maude is buried here, in a mausoleum befitting his station, if not the cholera to which he succumbed. In 1917, he declared: ‘Our armies do not come...as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.’ Within three years, 10,000 had died in an uprising against the British, who gassed and bombed those they called ‘miscreants’. It was an adventure from which British imperialism in the Middle East never recovered.

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Fetzer, Anita, and Marjut Johansson. "‘I’ll tell you what the truth is’." Journal of Language and Politics 6, no. 2 (December 13, 2007): 147–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.6.2.03fet.

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The goal of this article is to examine the context-dependent nature of acts of confiding in political interviews and to identify its genre-specific constraints and requirements. It looks at their distribution in British and French political interviews with regard to form, function and possible perlocutionary effects. The communicative act of confiding is compared and contrasted with disclosure, self-disclosure and revelation, and the necessary and sufficient conditions required for confiding in a felicitous manner are examined. Particular attention is given to the genre’s status as mediated and public discourse with public and political information. The most prominent strategies for realizing acts of confiding are analyzed by comparing and contrasting implicit and explicit realizations as well as their communicative functions in the British and French data.

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Gough, Paul. "Exactitude is truth: representing the British military through commissioned artworks." Journal of War & Culture Studies 1, no. 3 (December 2008): 341–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jwcs.1.3.341_1.

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Koretskaya, O. V. "On Some Political Euphemisms in the Post-Truth Era (a Case Study of the English Language)." Philology at MGIMO 7, no. 3 (October 1, 2021): 16–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2021-3-27-16-23.

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Th paper focuses on the euphemisms “terminological inexactitude”, “to be economical with the truth” and “alternative facts” in English political discourse of the post-truth era. Ths period is characterised by certain linguistic means, and euphemisation plays an important role here. It is shown that in the post-truth era, where borders between truth and lies are blurred, these euphemisms synonymous with the nouns “lie” are of particular relevance in political communication. Th euphemism “terminological inexactitude” still serves as a metaphor of lying originally determined by speech etiquette and historical traditions, which is the case, for example, during the debates in the British parliament, where there is an offial list of taboo words and expressions referred to as unparliamentary language. However, the other two euphemisms partly change their functionality. In the post-truth world, the expressions “economical with the truth” and “alternative facts” are used by the speaker to deliberately distort reality and conceal the truth rather than to follow the rules of politically correct speech.

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Stronach, Ian, and Jo Frankham. "“Fundamental British Values”." International Review of Qualitative Research 13, no. 1 (April 13, 2020): 9–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1940844720908571.

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Here we give shallow answers to the ‘deep’ questions raised in the title of this piece. We slight the question of ‘value’ as mainly ‘interested commodities’ and throw darkness rather than light on the now increasingly troubled question of ‘British’ identity. Our approach is not to define “Fundamental British Values” (FBV) (as we will show, that proved impossible) but to represent the multiplicity of contradictory contents that invest its form. In such a “performative agonistics”, we anticipate a dissemination rather than an insemination of meaning in contrast with the ongoing neoliberal “rage for certainty”. “Fundamental British Values,” in Badiou’s terms, is a polysemous “event,” whose performances and contexts should be regarded within a series of theatrical metaphors—an “amphitheatre” of meanings, perhaps, in a “post-truth” world. Thus, these deconstructions should be seen as part of a more generic critique of neoliberal enclosures that seek for definitions, essences, identities, and quantifications.

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Wright, Crispin. "Truth: A Traditional Debate Reviewed." Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume 24 (1998): 31–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1998.10717495.

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Every student of English-speaking analytical metaphysics is taught that the early twentieth century philosophical debate about truth confronted the correspondence theory, supported by Russell, Moore, the early Wittgenstein and, later, J.L. Austin, with the coherence theory advocated by the British Idealists. Sometimes the pragmatist conception of truth deriving from Dewey, William James, and C.S. Peirce is regarded as a third player. And as befits a debate at the dawn of analytical philosophy, the matter in dispute is normally taken to have been the proper analysis of the concept.No doubt this conception nicely explains some of the characteristic turns taken in the debate. Analysis, as traditionally conceived, has to consist in the provision of illuminating conceptual equivalences; and illumination will depend, according to the standard rules of play, on the analysans’ utilizing only concepts which, in the best case, are in some way prior to and independent of the notion being analyzed — or, if that's too much to ask, then concepts which at least permit of some form of explication which does not in turn take one straight back to that notion.

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Drozdovskyi, Dmytro. "Traditions of Skepticism and Discourse of Post-Truth in British Post-Postmodern Novels." Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva, no. 100 (December 27, 2019): 72–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/pytlit2019.100.072.

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In the paper, the forms of critical perception of reality inherent to the protagonists of contemporary British novels (“The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, “Carry Me Down”, “Little Stranger”, etc.) have been discussed. The author has analyzed strategies for reactivation of skepticism in British post-postmodern novel “Cloud Atlas” by D. Mitchell. The specificity of the representation of skepticism in literary post-postmodernism is investigated; in particular, theoretical considerations of L. Miroshnychenko, O. Boynitska and other experts in English/British literature have been developed. The peculiarities of dystopia as a part of the metageneric phenomenon of post-postmodernistic novel “Cloud Atlas” have been revealed. The features of representation of propositional and existential truths in contemporary British novel are outlined. The mechanisms of counteraction to the forms of post-truth and the simulacrum “truths” represented in “Cloud Atlas” as part of capitalist ideological discourse, which leads to a distorted perception of reality and civilization catastrophe, have been outlined. It is revealed that in “Cloud Atlas” there is a critique of hypertrophied consumerism and the loss by contemporary literature the ability to be the source of existential meanings. The specific features in human representation as a dual phenomenon in post-postmodern British novel (Nietzsche's conception of the revaluation of values and the will to power in “Cloud Atlas” is depicted ambivalently) has been explored in the paper. I state that post-postmodernism is a cultural paradigm that unites aesthetic and philosophy of modernism and postmodernism. Besides, the post-postmodern novel has a specific feature resulted in a special narrative mode that combines scientific discoveries that influence the narrative with a special philosophical realm. In the paper, David Mitchell’s novel “Cloud Atlas” has been discussed as an example of post-postmodern writing that reveals emotional sincerity and skepticism, utopic way of thinking and anticolonial discourse. The novel exploits epic beginning to involve the reader in a special atmosphere created by the omnipotent narrator. The end of the story is a metaphorical return to the beginning; however, the starting point was changed. The novel exploits six separate stories that are interlinked according to the idea of eternal returning presented by Nietzsche and realized in the novel in the image of “Cloud Atlas” (symphony). The reality in the novel is exploited as a multifaceted phenomenon and time is depicted according to super-string astrophysical theory. The research gives a clue to understanding the philosophical boarders of post-postmodernism and demonstrates the combination of different discourses (humanitarian and scientific) in contemporary British novel. The paper provides new findings in explaining philosophical parameters of post-postmodern novels.

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O'Neill, Dan. "Myth or truth — are flat-faced dogs really less healthy?" Veterinary Nurse 11, no. 9 (November 2, 2020): 432. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/vetn.2020.11.9.432.

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New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) confirms that flat-faced (brachycephalic) breeds — including Chihuahuas, Pugs, French Bulldogs and British Bulldogs — are generally less healthy than their non-brachycephalic counterparts, answering the burning question about whether flat-faced dogs truly are less healthy overall.

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Shrestha, Rabindra Man. "Dental Journalism: Finding Fact, Fiction, Fallacies, Fraud…" Orthodontic Journal of Nepal 5, no. 1 (February 7, 2015): 5–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ojn.v5i1.14491.

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According to an opinion poll doctors topped the list among various professionals whom the public believe the most in telling truth; while journalists were on the bottom of the list. The MORI poll carried on behalf of British Medical Association showed that 87% believe doctors don’t lie, while 85% assume journalists don’t report truth. Surfacing amidst the trust bestowed upon the doctors and mistrust for the journalists, this article attempts to explain various aspects of dental journalism.

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Tin, Tan Bee. "Views of knowledge and attitudes towards truth reflected in the group interaction patterns of Malaysian and British students." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 14, no. 2 (October 19, 2004): 319–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/japc.14.2.07tin.

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The paper analyzes the group interaction patterns of Malaysian and British students on a British undergraduate program in order to investigate how the way knowledge is constructed by the British and the Malaysian students in various group discussion tasks reflects the various philosophical and cultural views of knowledge into which they might have been socialized by their previous socio-cultural and educational experiences. The results show that the presence of the British students has an effect on the Malaysian students’ use of reactive framing. The Malaysian students in bi-national tasks do not react as much as they do when they are on their own. The interaction patterns in divergent tasks indicate that while the British students add and react alternately as individuals, the Malaysian students add together and react together as a group. Two different types of intolerance are also seen at play in convergent tasks: intolerance of accuracy (certainty about truth) vs. intolerance of task completion. While the British students have a higher degree of intolerance concerning the accuracy and certainty of knowledge than Malaysians, Malaysians have a higher degree of intolerance concerning the completion of the task.

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Wang, Z. George. "The Rescue of British by Chinese at Yenangyaung and Slim’s Flawed Account of the Battle." Journal of Chinese Military History 7, no. 1 (May 4, 2018): 77–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22127453-12341324.

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AbstractChinese and British troops fought shoulder to shoulder against the Japanese at Yenangyaung, Burma, in mid-April 1942. The official military histories of the two nations, however, record the Yenangyaung battle and appraise the Chinese contribution in striking disagreement. To find the truth through reconciling the significant discrepancies in existence for seven decades, materials of various countries have been comparatively studied. The article will present the following conclusions from this forensic inquiry: i) the narrative of the Yenangyaung battle by William Slim, the commanding officer of the British-Chinese joint forces in the battle, is fraught with misrepresentations; and ii) the official British military history errs in denying the Chinese rescue of the British troops.

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Ruiz Resa, Josefa Dolores. "Legal Culture on Justice and Truth: The Tribunals of Inquiry about Bloody Sunday." Age of Human Rights Journal, no. 15 (December 15, 2020): 73–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.17561/tahrj.v15.5777.

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Almost 50 years ago, in the events that happened during the so-called Bloody Sunday (Derry 1972, 30th January), 13 Catholic civilians were killed because of the actions of the British army during a civil rights march against internment without trial in Northern Ireland. Other 13 civilians were injured. While the circumstances were unclear, these civilians were considered to be terrorists, which seemed to justify the gunfire. The findings on Bloody Sunday from two Tribunals of Inquiry (1972 and 1998-2010), and the reactions that their resulting reports raised are an excellent example of cultural impregnation in law. In this regard, it is possible to find a general notion of justice as truth. Guaranteeing such notion (or, at least, the willingness to ensure it) seemed to facilitate the peace process in Northern Ireland. Under the light of these events, the following pages aim to analyse how that legal culture of justice as truth is displayed in the two Bloody Sunday Tribunals of Inquiry as well as its contribution to the contestation of the British legal system or its legitimacy. This paper starts by reviewing previous studies about the conceptual framework of the analysis — it examines the concept of “legal culture” and the understanding of justice as truth, as well as the definition of Tribunal of Inquiry. Next, it argues cultural perceptions regarding Bloody Sunday Inquiries. The conclusions exposed reveal that the legal culture of justice as truth is also embodied in legalism and colonialism.

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Curran, John E. "The History Never Written: Bards, Druids, and the Problem of Antiquarianism in Poly Olbion." Renaissance Quarterly 51, no. 2 (1998): 498–525. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2901575.

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AbstractThe rise of antiquarianism in late Elizabethan/early Jacobean England posed a threat to the common and traditional notion of continuity through time of British institutions and culture, including the transmission of historical texts. This threat was a major preoccupation for the poet Michael Drayton, and his response to it can be examined in his depictions of bards and druids in Poly Olbion. Conservatives in the historiographical debate put forth these ancient British poet/priests as an explanation for how ancient British history could have been transmitted through the centuries. But while Drayton in the Poly Olbion certainly uses bards and druids in a concerted attempt to imagine continuity, he reveals some latent suspicions of the truth - that ancient British culture was irretrievably lost.

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Bhaskaran, Harikrishnan, Harsh Mishra, and Pradeep Nair. "Contextualizing Fake News in Post-truth Era: Journalism Education in India." Asia Pacific Media Educator 27, no. 1 (June 2017): 41–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1326365x17702277.

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The current debate on fake-news is heavily focused on American and British post-truth politics and the tactical use of ‘alternative facts’. However, the concerns about the impact of fake news on journalism are not restricted to European and American contexts only. This commentary attempts to examine journalism practice and training in India in the post-truth era. Unlike the issues projected in the American debate on the need to reengage and empathize with the non-elite audience and the rise of a fact-checking culture, the apprehensions appear to be slightly different in other countries. In India, tackling the post-truth era challenges is also about addressing obstructive institutional forces like inactive regulatory bodies and out-dated curricula in University-based journalism programmes. The commentary argues that Indian journalism educators should focus on formulating a dynamic curriculum framework that integrates collaborative verification practices with an emphasis on reengaging with the audience to address the enigmatic post-truth politics in the country.

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Houghton, Deirdre, Gary Soles, Andrew Vogelsang, Valerie Irvine, Francois Prince, Leona Prince, Carla Martin, Jean-Paul Restoule, and Michael Paskevicius. "Truth and Reconciliation Through Inquiry-based Collaborative Learning." Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association Conference 2, no. 1 (December 23, 2022): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/otessac.2022.2.1.126.

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This paper overviews a project conducted at Fort St. James Secondary School in the Nechako Lakes School District, which is in Northern British Columbia, Canada. Three highschool teachers from different disciplines (Social Studies, Digital Media, and Carpentry) launched a cross-curricular inquiry-based project in partnership with local knowledge holders and School District 91, focusing on truth and reconciliation, that connected the learners in their highschool and the broader community, including knowledge holders from the local Indigenous communities. Those engaged in the project examined questions around what truth and reconciliation meant to the learners and its significance. Resulting products included a legacy wall containing individual learning represented in motifs, design of the feather using wood from around the world, and a video documentary containing interviews from school and community stakeholders. We share information on how to access the video documentary.

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Blackler, Joshua, and Sibo Chen. "Telling the Fracking Truth: A Pentadic Analysis on the Rhetoric of the LNG Expansion in British Columbia." Stream: Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication 7, no. 1 (August 19, 2015): 16–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.21810/strm.v7i1.120.

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This paper presents an exploratory study that investigates the latent motives in the public reasoning and rhetoric of hydraulic fracturing expansion offered by the current government of British Columbia. A pentadic analysis was conducted on a policy strategy report titled British Columbiaâ€™s Natural Gas Strategy. The results of the analysis demonstrate how rhetorical devices are applied for legitimizing the exploitation of the natural gas resources in BC.

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Ksenzenko, O. A. "Post-Truth politics: Euroscepticism in the political discourse of the Italian and British press." MGIMO Review of International Relations 15, no. 3 (July 7, 2022): 279–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2071-8160-2022-3-84-279-292.

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Book review: Paul Rowinski. 2021. Post-Truth, Post-Press, Post-Europe. Euroscepticism and the Crisis of Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. 2021. 252 p. https://doi. org/10.1007/978-3-030-55571-9.

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FRIEZE, JAMES. "Naked Truth: Theatrical Performance and the Diagnostic Turn." Theatre Research International 36, no. 2 (May 31, 2011): 148–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883311000228.

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In a fashion that harks back to the birth of naturalistic drama, but also reflects contemporary anxieties about the etiolation of the real, the forensic capabilities of theatre have become, in the last two decades, the primary focus of theatrical attention. Reconsidering landmark works and rhetorical frames that helped to establish verbatim, virtual and in-yer-face theatre, this article explores the ways in which these key works and genres deploy, and attempt to jam, theatre's diagnostic machinery. The article contextualizes that machinery in relation to the medical underpinnings of naturalism, the growth of theatrical reflexivity from Pirandello to Beckett to Blast Theory, and the televisual phenomena of crime-scene investigation and fly-on-the-wall ‘reality shows’. In the final section I move to address two works which are explicitly about diagnosis, but which, in signal and purposeful ways, evade diagnosis: Must, by American performance artist Peggy Shaw and British company Clod Ensemble; and If That's All There Is, by UK-based company Inspector Sands.

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Smart, J. J. C. "Realism v. Idealism." Philosophy 61, no. 237 (July 1986): 295–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819100051287.

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It is characteristic of realists to separate ontology from epistemology and of idealists to mix the two things up. By ‘idealists’ here I am mainly referring to the British neo-Hegelians (‘objective idealists’) but the charge of mixing up ontology and epistemology can be made against at least one ‘subjective idealist’, namely Bishop Berkeley, as his wellknown dictum ‘esse ispercipi’ testifies. The objective idealists rejected the correspondence theory of truth and on the whole accepted a coherence theory. The qualification is needed here because H. H. Joachim, in The Nature of Truth, found the coherence theory unable to deal with the problem of error.

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Chudinov, A. P., N. A. Sergienko, and V. M. Glushak. "GOOD, EVIL, TRUTH, LIE in Russian, Ukrainian, British, and American linguo-cultures: results of a psycholinguistic experiment." Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal, no. 2 (2021): 297–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/18137083/75/21.

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The paper presents the results of a psycholinguistic experiment aimed to identify the general characteristics and national-cultural characteristics of linguo-cognitive categorization and conceptualization of the linguistic axiological spheres GOOD, EVIL, TRUTH, LIE in Russian, Ukrainian, British, and American linguistic cultures. A total of 830 respondents of both gen-ders, different social status, and education levels from Russia, Ukraine, Great Britain, and the USA participated in the experiment. The psycholinguistic experiment involved the following stages: setting the goal and objectives of the experiment, determining the timing of its imple-mentation, formulating the expected results, compiling the task, interviewing the respondents, and analyzing the results, with tasks, deadlines, and expected results specified for each stage. At the preparatory stage, the questionnaires were developed in Russian, Ukrainian, and Eng-lish to be completed by the respondents. At the next stage, the associative reactions obtained were processed, and conclusions were formulated. The linguistic axiological spheres of GOOD, EVIL, TRUTH, LIE in the structure of the linguistic sphere of MAN were found to be universal in Russian, Ukrainian, British, and American linguistic cultures, with specific dif-ferences in linguo-cognitive categorization and conceptualization being associated with the cultural, historical, socio-economic development, the political structure of different countries. This fact explains the slight differences in the language representation of the outside world by the representatives of Russian, Ukrainian, British, and American linguo-cultures.

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Felderhof, Marius C. "Countering extremism in British schools? The truth about the Birmingham Trojan Horse affair." Journal of Beliefs & Values 39, no. 2 (April 3, 2018): 250–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2018.1454245.

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Easton, Christina. "Countering extremism in British schools? The truth about the Birmingham Trojan Horse Affair." Journal of Education Policy 33, no. 4 (January 31, 2018): 584–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2018.1432401.

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Haavelsrud, Magnus. "Countering extremism in British schools? The truth about the Birmingham Trojan Horse affair." European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 5, no. 4 (September 19, 2018): 487–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23254823.2018.1521033.

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Bernard, Catherine. "Coming to terms with the present: The paradoxical truth claims of British postmodernism." European Journal of English Studies 1, no. 2 (August 1997): 135–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13825579708574383.

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Smit, Dirkie, and Elna Mouton. "Shared Stories for the Future? Theological Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa." Journal of Reformed Theology 2, no. 1 (2008): 40–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156973108x272649.

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AbstractFor South Africa, both the 20th and 21st centuries began with facing a painful past while searching for a shared future: the experiences of the war (1899-1902) between the colonial British Empire and the two Boer Republics, and the legacy of official apartheid (1948-1990), respectively. According to many, these histories are deeply inter-related in that the sufferings which the Truth and Reconciliation Commission faced were partly caused by the inadequate handling of the sufferings of the war. From a Christian perspective, focusing on stories of women, the essay considers three such issues; namely, questions of truth and suffering, guilt and responsibility, and reconciliation and justice—while reflecting on the tension between forgiving and forgetting.

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Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz. "Are We In This Together?: The Polarisation of the British Society and the Marginalisation of Otherness in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet." Porównania 30, no. 3 (December 27, 2021): 137–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/por.2021.3.9.

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Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet—Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer—was written and published at lightning speed, between the 2016 Brexit referendum and Britain’s effective departure from the EU in 2020. The article examines how the novels engage with the issue of Brexit, as they become the chronicle of a grinding cultural process and critically confront the transformation of the British nation. I survey various psychological factors related to the polarisation of the British nation and investigate Smith’s presentation of the way in which the populist propaganda of menace produced by the right-wing media leads to marginalising Otherness. Employing the nomadic theory of the subject developed by Rosi Braidotti, I analyse Smith’s literary strategies used to represent not only post-truth manipulation and institutionalised British xenophobia, but also the actions of people who resist them.

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Wilson, Alex D. "Exception and the Rule: Agamben, Stuff Happens, and Representation in the Post-Truth Age." New Theatre Quarterly 36, no. 1 (February 2020): 56–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x2000010x.

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The contemporary post-truth environment imposes limitations and ethical consid erations upon the political theatre-maker’s ability to highlight political leaders’ exceptional acts of deception. By unpacking and applying Giorgio Agamben’s writing on the State of Exception to post-truth political performances, Alex D. Wilson discusses in this article how political deception is an exceptional act of sovereign power and how the state of exception is an inherently performative phenomenon. The inherent challenges this state of affairs presents to the theatre are discussed with particular reference to David Hare’s Stuff Happens (2004), which, it is argued, falls into its own state of exception in terms of its approach to truth. Alex D. Wilson is a PhD candidate in Theatre Studies at the University of Otago, who recently completed an MA which explored ethical authorship of British theatrical work produced in response to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He is the artistic director of Arcade, a Dunedin-based performing arts company.

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Raeburn, Toby, Kayla Sale, Paul Saunders, and Aunty Kerrie Doyle. "Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788–1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents." History of Psychiatry 33, no. 1 (December 13, 2021): 3–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154x211053208.

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Past histories charting interactions between British healthcare and Aboriginal Australians have tended to be dominated by broad histological themes such as invasion and colonization. While such descriptions have been vital to modernization and truth telling in Australian historical discourse, this paper investigates the nineteenth century through the modern cultural lens of mental health. We reviewed primary documents, including colonial diaries, church sermons, newspaper articles, medical and burial records, letters, government documents, conference speeches and anthropological journals. Findings revealed six overlapping fields which applied British ideas about mental health to Aboriginal Australians during the nineteenth century. They included military invasion, religion, law, psychological systems, lunatic asylums, and anthropology.

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Abootalebi, Hassan. "Commingling of History and Fiction in Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 52 (May 2015): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.52.1.

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This paper intends to explore the relationship between history and fiction in the novel AHistory of the World in 10 1⁄2 Chapters (1989) by the British writer Julian Barnes in order to indicate how these two notions have been commingled in different periods. In this regard, the focus of the current study is to investigate the above-mentioned novel, and to demonstrate the invalidity of historical records, their subjectivity, and how throughout history myths have become realities, with an eye on New Historicism. By the end of this study, its reader’s attitude towards history and what s/he is presented with as fact and truth is hoped to change, not to readily accept historical records and stories as absolute truths, rather to consider them one possible history among many others that might have been marginalized and suppressed by a dominant ideology.

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POOLE, BRIAN. "How to tell ‘right’ from ‘wrong’." English Today 20, no. 2 (March 29, 2004): 61–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026607840400210x.

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In British English texts, the frequency profiles of the collocation of right and wrong with preceding adverbs show patterns which are almost symmetrically opposed. This general truth obtains despite the fact that there are adverbs – such as completely or absolutely – which logic, or the intuitions of a learner of English as a second or foreign language, might suggest should combine equally happily or frequently with either.

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Kochetkov, D. S. "The Story of Te Pahi. First New Zealand detective." South East Asia: Actual problems of Development, no. 2 (47) (2020): 212–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.31696/2072-8271-2020-2-2-47-212-223.

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This article is about a difficult, strange and complicated story of New Zealand chief Te Pahi, who once was the main hope of the British to establish good relationships with the New Zealand natives, and then he suddenly became the main suspect of "Boyd massacre" of 1809. We still do not know the full truth about those events but existing theories can be interesting to the readers.

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Bhanot, Kavita. "Reading the whiteness of British Asian literature: A reading of Sathnam Sanghera’sThe Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 55, no. 2 (April 2, 2018): 204–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989418759741.

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A text is assumed to reflect truth when its ideology meets that of the reader. British Asian literature has tended to be read as giving an insight into South Asian communities, as reflecting “truth”. Dominant readings do not tend to “see” the ways in which this literature, in terms of perspective, ideology, and the direction in which it faces, is located in Britishness as whiteness. This article, through a close reading of Sathnam Sanghera’s popular memoir The Boy with the Topknot, reverses the gaze on the community that the memoir is assumed to reveal, in order to highlight and identify what becomes normalized, invisible, universal in such a text. The article seeks to show how “Britishness” as whiteness is the normative perspective of the text, embodied in the second-generation British narrator as ideal integrated/assimilated citizen. From this perspective, non-whiteness, in the form of first generation immigrants as well as Sanghera’s younger self, is othered. The text reflects the state’s integrationist and assimilationist policies, founded on the assumption that “identity” is a construction that needs to be left behind, while intimating that a normalized whiteness/Britishness as “non-identity” should be embraced, revealing an internalized historicist racism. Meanwhile, “identity” and “difference” are used to sell British Asian texts such as this memoir — they are packaged as “multicultural”, “hybrid” (and, increasingly, “diverse”) products, and this is also how they are popularly read. Therefore, my reading of this text, as located in Britishness as whiteness, unpacks what terms such as multiculturalism, hybridity, and diversity may conceal. A counter reading of the text, which draws out the violence it reveals, of the historicist British racial state, highlights the role of readers’ assumptions in the construction of a text, suggesting that other readings are possible. This is also illustrated by alternative readings of the book by Sikh readers.

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Akter, Shammi. "Shooting an Elephant: A study of Hypocrisy; not Heroics." Journal of English Language and Literature 8, no. 1 (August 31, 2017): 595–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.17722/jell.v8i1.326.

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Hypocrisy is the practice of engaging in the behavior or activity for which one critics the other. George Orwell’s ‘Shooting an Elephant’ is an essay where hypocrisy is exposed. Because in one side Orwell claims that imperialism is an evil thing and he hates it more bitterly and at the end of the story he establishes himself as an example of a genuine imperialist by performing his noble duty- that really carries his true identity as a hypocrite. It is an act of hypocrisy not heroics in a sense that he shows no courage to express the truth publicly and likes to impose it on the natives. As an agent of British imperialism Orwell shows the tendency of an act of hypocrite by wearing the musk of imperialism and finally unfolded it through the actions and his attitudes. So this paper is a modest attempt to show how hypocrisy is focused through the actions and the descriptions of the narrator who is bold enough in speaking the truth and exposing the lies. Actually the writer as an agent of the British Raj at first knows what he should do to the natives but he tries to show his innocence which becomes an issue here.

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Gowler, Steve. "No Second-hand Religion: Thomas Erskine's Critique of Religious Authorities." Church History 54, no. 2 (June 1985): 202–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3167236.

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After practicing law in Edinburgh for six years, Thomas Erskine (1788–1870) inherited the estate of Linlathen upon the death of his brother, James. Thereby freed to devote his time to theological reflection and writing, he wrote five books between 1820 and 1837 which stated opinions sharply at odds with the prevailing religious positions of early nineteenth-century British thinkers. In his first book,Remarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth of Revealed Religion, he maintained that the surest sign of Christianity's truth is not to be found in the traditional evidential sources–miracles, fulfilled prophecies, the veracity of the apostles, and so on–but in the intimate relation, or “fittingness,” which inheres between the mode of being recommended in the Bible and the moral, physical, and mental constitution of human beings. This emphasis on the internal and subjective aspects of religious experience characterizes all of Erskine's works and places him, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, at the forefront of a new way of theologizing in Britain which was to come to fruition in the so-called “Broad Church.” Erskine represents an indigenous British “turn to the subject” antedating the widespread appropriation of continental thought by English and Scottish theologians.

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Laguna, Rogelio, and Gonzalo Zurita. "Bertrand Russell y el pragmatismo." Theoría. Revista del Colegio de Filosofía 34 (June 1, 2018): 159–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/ffyl.16656415p.2018.0.806.

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This paper analyzes the two stages of the relationship of the British philosopher Bertrand Russell withpragmatism. The first section reviews the criticisms that the author made to American pragmatists.The second exposes Russell’s pragmatic turn, exposing the causes of this turn and its consequences. This paper argues that both stages should be understood in the context of the discussions about truth that were observed in philosophy in the first decades of the 20th century.

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Vickers, Tom, and Annie Rutter. "Disposable labour, passive victim, active threat: Migrant/non-migrant othering in three British television documentaries." European Journal of Cultural Studies 21, no. 4 (December 25, 2016): 486–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549416682968.

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This article analyses discourses about migration within three documentaries that were broadcast on terrestrial British television in January 2014: The Truth about Immigration in the UK and The Hidden World of Britain’s Immigrants, both broadcast on BBC Two, and Episode 2 of Benefits Street, broadcast on Channel 4. The methodology involved a detailed analysis of the documentaries, situated within a Marxist analysis of British capitalism, the capitalist crisis, and the economic and political position of migrants. Amidst the contradictions and complexities that were identified within these documentaries, representations of ‘migrants’ can be grouped into three categories: disposable labour, passive victim, and active threat. We argue these discursive roles reflect and reinforce capitalist exploitation, by constructing ‘migrants’ as a mutable ‘other’ to divide the working class.

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Hanna, Erika. "Photographs and “Truth” during the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1969–72." Journal of British Studies 54, no. 2 (April 2015): 457–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2015.6.

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AbstractThis article explores how photographs were used as evidence during the early Northern Ireland Troubles. In particular, it focuses on the collection and use of images at the Scarman Tribunal, which investigated the disturbances of the summer of 1969, and the Widgery Tribunal, which sought to ascertain the sequence of events surrounding Bloody Sunday. Through close readings of how photographs were used at these two tribunals, the article shows how the existence of certain photographs served to anchor discussions of trajectories of violence around certain places and moments, illustrates how photographs taken for publication in newspapers were reread as evidential documents, and indicates the range of plausible truths each photograph was understood to provide. The study shows the importance of exploring the processes and mechanisms through which the state made sense of Northern Ireland to understand how causal accounts of conflict were produced and authenticated—and how, in turn, those explanatory regimes shaped the policies of the British state and the responses of local communities, and became embedded in historical writing on the Troubles.

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Marshall, Hannah, and Alena Drieschova. "Post-Truth Politics in the UK's Brexit Referendum." New Perspectives 26, no. 3 (October 2018): 89–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2336825x1802600305.

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The term post-truth became the 2016 Oxford Dictionary word of the year, yet many scholars question whether the term signals anything new, or whether post-truth is just lying, which has always been a part of politics and media. This paper contributes to this discussion by critically evaluating the extent to which the Brexit referendum, the UK's vote to exit the European Union, was based on post-truth politics. The paper develops the argument that Brexit is a key example of post-truth politics, and that two key factors ushered in this new form of politics into the UK: 1) technological changes associated with social media, which lead to a situation in which a significant portion of the population acquire their news online, while anybody can post anything online without checks on the accuracy of the claims; 2) a growing distrust in democratic institutions, political elites, expertise, and traditional media gatekeepers which leads, in turn, to a loss of trust in established expert knowledge, leaving the population willing to rely on information originating from questionable sources. This combination of a decline in trust of politicians and experts with social media reliance, drove the British public to emotionally charged, value-based decision making to a greater extent than before, which thus supports the claim that post-truth politics is indeed a novel phenomenon. Our analysis of the Brexit referendum raises the need for scholars to study the daily activities of the population and focus on its role as an active regime shaper.

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Cheregi, Bianca Florentina. "The discursive construction of Romanian immigration in the British media: Digitized press vs. Television documentaries." Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations 17, no. 2 (July 1, 2015): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.21018/rjcpr.2015.2.34.

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<p>This paper looks at how the media – particularly the British press and television – frames the issue of Romanian immigrants in Great Britain, in the context of the freedom of movement for workers in the European Union. The study focuses on the frames employed by the British journalists in constructing anti-immigration discourses in the digital and the TV sphere, comparatively. This study analyzes the stereotypes about Romanian people used in two British media formats and the way in which they affect Romania’s country image overseas. Using a mixed research approach, combining framing analysis (Entman, 1993) with critical discourse analysis (Van Dijk, 1993), and dispositif analysis (Charaudeau, 2005) this article investigates 271 news items from three of the most read newspapers in the UK (The Guardian, Daily Mail and The Independent), published online during January 2013 – March 2014. Also, the paper analyzes three film documentaries from BBC (Panorama – The Romanians are Coming? – BBC1, The Truth About Immigration – BBC2 and The Great Big Romanian invasion – BBC World News). The analysis shows that the British press and television use both similar and different frames to coverage Romanian migrants. The media also infer the polarization between “Us” (the British media) and “Them” (the Romanian citizens).</p>

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Forster, Margaret. "Restoring the Feminine of Indigenous Environmental Thought." Genealogy 3, no. 1 (March 16, 2019): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy3010011.

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A feminist genealogy approach to governmentality is used to explore how indigenous knowledge and aspirations related to the environment become embedded into Aotearoa New Zealand environmental policy and practice. Particular consideration is given to the indigenous feminine as an impetus for change as expressed through atua wāhine/Māori female spiritual authority and powers. Political projects and activism by Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, provide the basis to explore contests between environmental truths that originate from Māori traditions and those that have come to dominate national environmental politics that originate from British “Western” traditions. It is argued that truth contests have been extremely effective at disrupting the power and authority of environmental policy and practice dominated by Western thought. Furthermore, efforts to maintain the momentum of these transformation and consolidate the authority and power of Māori communities is linked to rendering the indigenous feminine visible, retelling our herstories and developing new relationships and practices that give expression to atua.

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James, OP, L. Smith, D. Locker, L. Hopkins, DBT Robinson, T. Abdelrahman, J. Barry, et al. "Half-life of surgical truth in general surgery." Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 103, no. 5 (July 2021): 254–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/rcsbull.2021.94.

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Introduction Karl Popper’s hypothetico-deductive model contends that an assertion is true if it agrees with the facts, and that science progresses via paradigms held to be true until replaced by better approximations of reality. Our study aimed to estimate the half-life of surgical dogma. Methods The first 15 general surgery articles at 5-year intervals were extracted from the British Journal of Surgery since its inception in 1913. A statement summarising each article’s conclusion was formatted, and non-conducive articles were excluded (n=22). A total of 293 article statements were reviewed and marked as true or false by a cohort of 15 senior general surgeons, with a majority positive response denoting a true statement. Regression analysis of the relationship between perceived truth and time was performed. Results Median reviewer positive response rate was 49.5% (range 35.8–64.2%), with over 80% of responders in total agreement regarding 151 statements (51.5%) and deeming 137 (46.8%) currently true. Publication year correlated with percentage of true responses (rho 0.647, p=0.002). Linear modelling of true responses related to 5-year intervals (R2=0.398, p=0.002) estimated the annual rate of loss of truth to be 0.25%, equating to a half-life of 200.0 years. Conclusions Contrary to popular belief, it appears THAT surgical dogma does not lose its lustre for some seven generations. Regression line extrapolation is contentious but would suggest that the current era of surgical knowledge extends from 1769 – the days of John Hunter, the ‘father of modern surgery’ – to 2176, although relative rates of innovation may accelerate and move the nexus point.

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Livingston, Alexander. "Fidelity to Truth: Gandhi and the Genealogy of Civil Disobedience." Political Theory 46, no. 4 (August 31, 2017): 511–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591717727275.

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Mohandas Gandhi is civil disobedience’s most original theorist and most influential mythmaker. As a newspaper editor in South Africa, he chronicled his experiments with satyagraha by drawing parallels to ennobling historical precedents. Most enduring of these were Socrates and Henry David Thoreau. The genealogy Gandhi invented in these years has become a cornerstone of contemporary liberal narratives of civil disobedience as a continuous tradition of conscientious appeal ranging from Socrates to King to Rawls. One consequence of this contemporary canonization of Gandhi’s narrative, however, has been to obscure the radical critique of violence that originally motivated it. This essay draws on Edward Said’s account of travelling theory to unsettle the myth of doctrine that has formed around civil disobedience. By placing Gandhi’s genealogy in the context of his critique of modern civilization, as well as his formative but often-overlooked encounter with the British women’s suffrage movement, it reconstructs Gandhi’s paradoxical notion that sacrificial political action is the fullest expression of self-rule. For Gandhi, Socrates and Thoreau exemplify civil disobedience as a fearless practice of fidelity to truth profoundly at odds with liberal conceptions of disobedience as fidelity to law.

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Bour, Isabelle. "What Happened to the ‘Truth Universally Acknowledged’? Translation as Reception of Jane Austen in France." Humanities 11, no. 4 (June 23, 2022): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h11040077.

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There are now, in 2022, sixteen French translations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The incipit includes one of the most famous statements in the English language, as well as a modal auxiliary, the rendering of which constitutes a minor challenge for any translator. This essay will analyse all translations of the incipit, relating translation choices to historical circumstances, the contemporary status of British literature and attitudes to the translation of fiction as well as to the state of the book market.

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Pears, Angie. "The Study of Christian Theology in the British Academy: From Truth Giving to Critical Engagement?" Journal of Adult Theological Education 1, no. 2 (March 16, 2004): 159–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jate.1.2.159.65574.

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Raynor, Peter. "From ‘nothing works’ to ‘post-truth’: The rise and fall of evidence in British probation." European Journal of Probation 10, no. 1 (April 2018): 59–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2066220318764719.

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Since its origins over half a century ago, evaluative research on probation services has swung between optimism and pessimism. This article, based largely on England and Wales, describes and reviews the long journey from over-optimism, via ‘nothing works’ in the 1970s, to programmes based on Risk-Need-Responsivity principles, introduced on a large scale from the late 1990s but limited in their impact owing largely to problems in implementation. After this, evaluation researchers developed greater interest in implementation, in organisational culture and, in particular, in practitioners’ skills. In the process, researchers have developed a better understanding of the necessary social science methods for evaluation and have begun to learn from new sources such as desisting former offenders. In the meantime, in spite of encouraging research, the political context in some countries has become hostile, and research has to survive in a new context of ‘post-truth’ and politically motivated denigration of expertise.

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Schrafstetter, Susanna, and Stephen Twigge. "Trick or truth? The British ANF proposal, west Germany and US nonproliferation policy, 1964–68." Diplomacy & Statecraft 11, no. 2 (July 2000): 161–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09592290008406161.

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