DOCSLIB.ORG

This Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation Has Been Downloaded from the King’S Research Portal At

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
This Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation Has Been Downloaded from the King’S Research Portal At This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ Surname Analysis, Distant Reading, and Migrant Experience: The Irish in London, 1801-1820. Crymble, Adam Awarding institution: King's College London The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT Unless another licence is stated on the immediately following page this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work Under the following conditions: Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Non Commercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes. No Derivative Works - You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you receive permission from the author. Your fair dealings and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 08. Oct. 2021 Surname Analysis, Distant Reading, and Migrant Experience: The Irish in London, 1801-1820. By ADAM CRYMBLE Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Departments of History & Digital Humanities, School of Arts and Humanities. King’s College London, University of London July 2014. Supervisors Professor Ian McBride, Department of History, King’s College London Professor Willard McCarty, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London Abstract After English internal migrants, the Irish were the largest group to relocate to London in the early nineteenth century. This thesis explores the experiences of the Irish communities in London at this oft-overlooked point in the Irish diaspora’s past. The work is split into two parts. The first of these parts focuses on understanding who the Irish were and what it meant to be ‘Irish’ in the early nineteenth century. It also explores what cues contemporaries used to identify the Irish in London during these two decades, and how those cues were different from those that can be used by historians. The goal of this first section is to determine the best way for historians to identify Irish individuals in sets of historical records. This would make it possible to do comparative analyses of the Irish and non- Irish in the city. Ultimately this can be achieved through three processes: nominal record linkage (finding archival evidence of an individual’s Irish connection), keyword searching for Irish geographical terms, and a surname analysis. The surname analysis was based upon a study of 278,000 records from the census of 1841, and validated against thousands of records from 1778-1805, to determine the most reliable surnames. This surname analysis resulted in the creation of a tool (Appendix I), which I argue can be used by historians to identify probable Irish individuals when no other evidence is available. This digital humanities tool was then tested through a series of historical case studies to determine its value for historians. The case studies involved an examination of Irish defendants in the Old Bailey Proceedings, which highlights how the local population reacted to the Irish when interpersonal conflicts occurred. The Proceedings contain abridged transcripts of the trials of all 25,000 defendants tried for felonies in London during this period. Using the census analysis, I was able to identify 1,700 ‘probable Irish’ defendants. I then conducted data mining and quantitative analyses that identified differences in the conflict resolution strategies used by the locals when dealing with the Irish and the non-Irish respectively. i The evidence suggests that locals were more suspicious when dealing with the Irish, and quicker to turn to the legal system when things went wrong. However, it would seem that as a group, the Irish gave cause for concern. An Irish underclass was certainly heavily involved in crime; but more importantly, Irish seasonal migration led to a dramatic increase in the city’s Irish population each summer and autumn. Poor planning by government ministers also meant that mass demobilisation of Irish soldiers and sailors after the wars with the French had a similar effect (particularly in 1802), unintentionally swelling the size of the Irish population in the capital. These impermanent migrants failed to adhere to the social expectations the locals had of their neighbours, thus breeding resentment. For Londoners, the transitory nature of these individuals upended traditional conflict resolution strategies. I conclude that surname analysis can provide useful proxy evidence for historians upon which hypotheses can be generated, and theories can be tested. It is best suited to large textual corpora, and should always be supported by close reading, when possible. ii Dedication For Angela. Who dropped everything to move to the other side of the world, just because I asked. And for anyone who has ever been brave enough to find out what it was like to live somewhere else. Acknowledgements It would seem that these dissertations do not write themselves. Neither are they the product of one person alone. I would like to acknowledge some of the people, institutions, and ideas that helped me get through this project and that helped shape it along the way. Firstly, thanks to my family. In particular my wife, who agreed to move across the Atlantic so I could pursue this PhD. I hope she has not regretted it. To my parents who have always been supportive and who were kind enough to read drafts of my chapters and offer comments. To my Oma and my Aunt Rita who helped me pay the bills as an underfunded international student. And to my wife’s family who too have been endlessly supportive. Secondly, to my supervisors, Professor Ian McBride and Professor Willard McCarty at King’s College London. To Professors Andrew Prescott and Arthur Burns for guiding my research through the upgrade process. Also to Professor Tim Hitchcock, who has offered endless advice and encouragement with no expectation of any personal gain. To Susan Gane for her generous advice on soldiers and demobilisation. To the attendees of the Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century and Digital History seminars at the Institute of Historical Research, which have been an invaluable home where I have found many friends, including but not limited to Janice Turner and Louise Falcini. iii Thank you to everyone who invited me to speak at their events, and everyone who consequently provided advice and feedback at those events. Thank you in particular to the team of the Old Bailey Online, to Peter King, Edmund Cannon, and Jeremy Boulton, all of whom shared data and/or pre-publication prints of their work, which have formed the basis of the analysis in some of my chapters. I would also like to thank those organisations that directly funded aspects of my research: King’s College London Continuation Scholarship (2012) Social Media Knowledge Exchange Scholarship (2012) Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship (2012) British Academy / Leverhulme Small Research Grant (2012) The Irish Embassy (2012) Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in 19-Century Media (2011) Digital Humanities Observatory, Trinity College Dublin (2011) And those who hired me to write prose, write code, or teach students, and thus indirectly funded my work: Institute of Historical Research (2014) Department of History, King’s College London (2011-2014) The Network in Canadian History & Environment (2010-2013) University Affairs Magazine (2010-2013) Department of History, University of Western Ontario (2010-2013) The National Library of Wales (2013) University of Sheffield (2011) Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London (2011) Thanks to you all. iv Table of Contents Abstract ................................................................................................................................................. i Dedication.......................................................................................................................................... iii Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................ iii Abbreviations .................................................................................................................................. vii List of Figures ................................................................................................................................. viii List of Tables....................................................................................................................................... x List of Appendices .......................................................................................................................... xi INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................... 1 PART 1: THE NUANCE OF IRISHNESS AND A NEW TOOL FOR HISTORIANS . 21 1. HISTORICAL IRISHNESS ............................................................................................
Load more

Recommended publications
  • How Ought We to Live with Nonhuman Animals? Peter Singerâ•Žs Answer: Animal Liberation Part I
    BETWEEN THE SPECIES Issue IX August 2009 http://cla.calpoly.edu/bts/ How Ought We To Live With Nonhuman Animals? Peter Singer’s Answer: Animal Liberation Parts I & II (two papers) PART I Lesley McLean University of New England, Armidale NSW Australia Email address: [email protected] Between the Species, IX, August 2009, http://cla.calpoly.edu/bts/ Abstract In this paper and the next I discuss Peter Singer’s approach to answering the question of how one ought to live with nonhuman animals. In the first paper I situate Singer’s work within the larger historical context of moral concern for animals, looking at previous public consensus on the issue, its breakdown and its re-emergence with Singer in the 1970s. In the second paper, I take a closer look at Singer’s highly influential book, Animal Liberation (1975), and argue that as activist literature, his chapter on animal experimentation for example can be seen as morally persuasive in ways other than simply as an example of (the consequences) of speciesism. How I do this is to place Singer’s work side by side that of 19th century activist Francis Power Cobbe’s, in particular her pamphlet Light in Dark Places (1883), and examine their work against the criticisms from scientists defending the practice of animal experimentation. Between the Species, IX, August 2009, http://cla.calpoly.edu/bts/ Peter Singer played a key role in bringing a particular moral problem to light; he came to name this problem in a now famous philosophical treatise. Animal Liberation was first published as a review essay in The New York Review of Books (NYRB) and two years later, in 1975, as a full-length book published by the New York Review.
    [Show full text]
  • A Critical Evaluation of Peter Singer's Ethics
    A Critical Evaluation of Peter Singer’s Ethics By Tanuja Kalita Roll No. 08614103 Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Guwahati - 781039 India A Critical Evaluation of Peter Singer’s Ethics A thesis submitted to Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy By Tanuja Kalita Roll No. 08614103 Supervisor Dr V Prabhu Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Guwahati - 781039 India April 2013 TH-1184_08614103 Dedicated to My Parents, Father -in -law and Daughter i TH-1184_08614103 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Guwahati 781039 Assam, India Statement I hereby declare that this thesis, entitled A Critical Evaluation of Peter Singer’s Ethics , is the outcome of my own research work in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, which has been carried out under the supervision of Dr. V Prabhu in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. IIT Guwahati April 2013 Tanuja Kalita ii TH-1184_08614103 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Guwahati 781039 Assam, India Certificate It is certified that the matter embodied in the thesis entitled A Critical Evaluation of Peter Singer’s Ethics , submitted for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Tanuja Kalita , a student of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, has been carried out under my supervision. It is also certified that this work has not been submitted anywhere else for the award of a research degree.
    [Show full text]
  • A Defense of a Sentiocentric Approach to Environmental Ethics
    University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 8-2012 Minding Nature: A Defense of a Sentiocentric Approach to Environmental Ethics Joel P. MacClellan University of Tennessee, Knoxville, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss Part of the Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons Recommended Citation MacClellan, Joel P., "Minding Nature: A Defense of a Sentiocentric Approach to Environmental Ethics. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2012. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/1433 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a dissertation written by Joel P. MacClellan entitled "Minding Nature: A Defense of a Sentiocentric Approach to Environmental Ethics." I have examined the final electronic copy of this dissertation for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with a major in Philosophy. John Nolt, Major Professor We have read this dissertation and recommend its acceptance: Jon Garthoff, David Reidy, Dan Simberloff Accepted for the Council: Carolyn R. Hodges Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School (Original signatures are on file with official studentecor r ds.) MINDING NATURE: A DEFENSE OF A SENTIOCENTRIC APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS A Dissertation Presented for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Joel Patrick MacClellan August 2012 ii The sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing.
    [Show full text]
  • Finding Vegan Poetics: Literature for Nonhumans As an Ecofeminist Response to Carnism
    CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by The University of North Carolina at Greensboro FINDING VEGAN POETICS: LITERATURE FOR NONHUMANS AS AN ECOFEMINIST RESPONSE TO CARNISM A Thesis by SAMANTHA HUNTER Submitted to the Graduate School at Appalachian State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS December 2018 Department of English FINDING VEGAN POETICS: LITERATURE FOR NONHUMANS AS AN ECOFEMINIST RESPONSE TO CARNISM A Thesis by SAMANTHA HUNTER DECEMBER 2018 APPROVED BY: Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. Chairperson, Thesis Committee Jessica Martell, Ph.D. Member, Thesis Committee Germán Campos-Muñoz, Ph.D. Member, Thesis Committee Bret Zawilski, Ph.D. Member, Thesis Committee Tammy Wahpeconiah, Ph.D. Chairperson, Department of English Mike McKenzie, Ph.D. Dean, Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies Copyright by Samantha Hunter 2018 All Rights Reserved Abstract FINDING VEGAN POETICS: LITERATURE FOR NONHUMANS AS AN ECOFEMINIST RESPONSE TO CARNISM Samantha Hunter B.A., Appalachian State University M.A., Appalachian State University Chairperson: Dr. Kathryn Kirkpatrick This thesis is my journey to finding and defining vegan poetics, a term I employ to define poetry that exhibits a vegan perspective through witnessing the mass slaughter of nonhuman animals and exposing the connection between the factory farming industry and climate change. As an example of vegan poetics, I present Gabriel Gudding’s 2015 poetry collection Literature for Nonhumans as exhibiting a fusion of vegan ideology and poetic technique. To analyze Gudding’s text, this thesis employs ecofeminist theory along with scholarship from the developing field of vegan studies to foster a discourse on what it means to write poetry in opposition to “carnism,” a term referring to the culture surrounding meat-eating.
    [Show full text]
  • "Wallingford Neighbors for Peace and Justice"Film Library "Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies"Seattle, WA
    2016-03-04 FNMM Library File (1) FilmListingsPDF.xlsx"Wallingford Neighbors for Peace and Justice"Film Library 1 of 47 DVDs are available to borrow for PERSONAL LOAN only. Obtaining Public Performance Viewing Rights are the responsibility of the borrower. DVDs are loaned for one week unless other arrangements are made. DVDs are loaned at no charge; however, DONATIONS ARE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED and allow us to maintain the DVD library, including purchasing new DVDs. To borrow a DVD, come to our movie night in Wallingford or contact us at [email protected]. Title Format Year Length Director-Producer Keywords Comments 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama DVD 2006 Rick Ray Films The 11th Hour DVD 2007 92 min Leila Conner's Environment, Petersen & Nadia Global Warming Conner's 15 Years of War Against the Iraqi People DVD 2006 67 min Bert Sacks Compilation on Sanctions and war against Iraq The 1919 Seattle General Strike (Excerpt from ‘Witness to DVD/MP4 2000? 4 min Lucy Ostrander Labor, Organizing Revolution’) 1984 (1956 version) 1956 Michael Anderson 1984 (1984 version) 1984 113 min Michael Radford 2012 Time for Change (Ironweed) DVD 2010 85 min Joao Amorism, Daniel Culture, Pinchbeck Collaboration 5 Broken Cameras DVD 2011 90 min Mead Burnat, Guy Palestine Davidi 8 Things to Ask Your Representatives (Also: Red State Road Trip) 9/11 Explosive Evidence: The Experts Speak Out DVD 2012 Richard Gage & AE 911 911Truth 9/11 Explosive Evidence: The Experts Speak Out - Copy DVD 2012 90 min 2 911 The Hijacking of America VHS 2003 101 min Carol Bouillet
    [Show full text]
  • Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics First Annual Oxford Summer School on Animal Ethics 2014
    Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics First Annual Oxford Summer School on Animal Ethics 2014 Religion and Animal Protection St Stephen’s House, Oxford The Ferrater Mora Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics The Fellows are working in all fields of About the Oxford Centre academic scholarship to advance perspectives for Animal Ethics on animal ethics. We want to put ethical concern The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics (www. for animals on the intellectual oxfordanimalethics.com) is the premier centre for animal ethics worldwide. Our Centre agenda, and contribute to an aims to break new ground for the animals by enlightened public debate about pioneering ethical perspectives on animals animals through academic research, teaching, and publication. We want to put ethical concern The Centre publishes the Journal of Animal for animals on the intellectual agenda, and Ethics in partnership with the University of contribute to an enlightened public debate Illinois Press, and has established a book series about animals. We believe that the rational on animal ethics with Palgrave Macmillan case for animals is frequently understated and twelve of the commissioned books have within academia and misrepresented in already appeared. the media. The heart of the work of the Centre is our international Fellowship of over 80 academics drawn from the humanities and the sciences. School will consider whether religious people A warm welcome to our and religious institutions benefit animals. Are first Annual Oxford Animal they more or less likely to be respectful to animals – either those kept as companions or Ethics Summer School those used for other human purposes? This year, we are examining the role played by We are delighted to have speakers from every religion in animal protection.
    [Show full text]
  • CLE Reading Materials
    ANIMAL PROPERTY RIGHTS KAREN BRADSHAW* The animal rights movement largely focuses on protecting species whose suffering is most visible to humans, such as pets, livestock, and captive mammals. Yet, we do not observe how unsustainable land development and fishing practices are harming many species of wildlife and sea creatures. Fish and wildlife populations have recently suffered staggering losses, and they stand to lose far more. This Article proposes a new legal approach to protect these currently overlooked creatures. I suggest extending property rights to animals, which would allow them to own land, water, and natural resources. Human trustees would manage animal-owned trusts managed at the ecosystem level—a structure that fits within existing legal institutions. Although admittedly radical, an animal property rights regime would create tremendous gains for imperiled species with relatively few costs to humans. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................... 810 I. POLARIZED ANIMAL LAW ................................................... 817 II. GRANTING ANIMALS PROPERTY RIGHTS ........................... 823 III. IMPLEMENTING AN ANIMAL PROPERTY RIGHTS REGIME.. 830 A. Statutory Approach ................................................... 831 1. Ownership Structures ......................................... 831 2. Management ........................................................ 835 * Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University; Sustainability Scholar,
    [Show full text]
  • A Service for Animal Welfare
    A service for U animal welfare 2 Introduction This order of service for animal welfare, which now appears in its sixth edition, was first published by the RSPCA in 1975. Since then ‘animal services’ – as they are known – have become a regular feature in many churches of all denominations both in Britain and overseas. They are welcome evidence of a growing Christian concern for the welfare of other species, and provide churches with an opportunity to champion care for animals, and to preach about Christian responsibility for creation. Animal services are usually held on World Day for Animals, October 4 (the birthday of St Francis of Assisi) or on the nearest Sunday which is now designated ‘Animal Welfare Sunday’ in many churches. Services usually focus on four themes: I repentance for our abuse of, and cruelty to, animals I thanksgiving for animal companionship I celebration of God’s creatures I compassion for individual animals. All four elements are present in the order that follows, and can be adapted as necessary. Prayers are also included for the blessing of individual animals. At the end of this booklet, there is a selection of alternative readings, which can also be used by individuals and groups. It is not always appreciated that the RSPCA – the first national animal welfare society in the world – came into existence as the result of Christian vision. The Society was founded by an Anglican priest, the Reverend Arthur Broome, who called together the first meeting, which led to the Society’s foundation in June 1824. Broome’s work was immensely sacrificial.
    [Show full text]
  • Nikki Giovanni, Edna Lewis, Scott Peacock and the Southern Food Revival
    ENGL 4384: Senior Seminar Student Anthology Spring 2014 Dr. Patrick Erben, Professor Department of English & Philosophy Printed on campus by UWG Publications and Printing. “Savage Delight”: Food and Eating in Literature and Popular• Culture • Preface 5 Food Memory: Nikki Giovanni, Edna Lewis, Scott Peacock 7 and the Southern Food Revival Katie Anderson Mindful Teaching: Overcoming Malnutrition and ADHD in 17 the Classroom Katie Boatwright Gilmore Girls, Wall-E, and The Hunger Games: Representations 27 of Cultural Food Paradigms In Relation to Social Interaction and Conversation Jessica Brookshire The Weight Watcher’s Dilemma 39 Jessyca Chapman You Only Feast Once: Understanding a Generation through 49 Food Elegy Diamond Forde Cooking With Identity 59 Emily Goodwin Ethical Eats: Postcolonial Politics of Food and the Consumption 69 of Capitalism in Thoreau’s Walden and Soylent Green Mark Hendrix Consuming Burnt Bread: the Consumption of The Girl on 79 Fire in The Hunger Games Trilogy Saporia Kimbrough Feeding the Family: Re-writing the Recipe for Femininity in 89 Like Water for Chocolate Jenna Morris Food Porn: The Interplays of Sexual and Gustatory Desire 99 in Media Elaine Nichols The Overconsumption of Entertainment 111 Laura Leigh Reeves “Savage Delight”: Food and Eating in Literature and Popular Culture Dr. Patrick Erben •• f the adage that “We are what we eat” is true, then food reflects Iand determines our identity, our subjectivity, and our very being. Food can epitomize cultural refinement; industrial production and ge- netic manipulation
    [Show full text]
  • When Utilitarians Should Be Virtue Theorists
    Proof Delivery Form Please return this form with your proof CUP reference: Date of delivery: Journal and Article number: UTI 245 Volume and Issue Number: 19(2) Number of colour figures: Nil Number of pages (not including this page): 24 Utilitas Here is a proof of your article for publication in the Journal. Please print out the file and check the proofs carefully, make any corrections necessary on a hardcopy, and answer queries on the proofs. Please return the corrected hardcopy proof together as soon as possible (no later than 3 days after receipt) to: Nigel Hope 8a Northmoor Road Oxford OX2 6UP UK To avoid delay from overseas, please send the proof by air mail or courier. • You are responsible for correcting your proofs. Errors not found may appear in the published journal. • The proof is sent to you for correction of typographical errors only. Revision of the substance of the text is not permitted, unless discussed with the editor of the journal. • Please answer carefully any queries raised from the typesetter. • A new copy of a figure must be provided if correction of anything other than a typographical error introduced by the typesetter is required—please provide this in eps format and print it out and staple it to the proof. • If the paper was written in LateX, please do not send corrections as Latex code as we have now translated the Latex to typesetting code. ——— If you have no corrections to make or very few corrections please contact Nigel Hope, [email protected] by email with the corrections (quoting page and line number) to save having to return your paper proof.
    [Show full text]
  • The Magazine of the Federal Bar Association Volume 62, Issue Six
    THE FEDERAL LAWYER The Magazine of the Federal Bar Association Volume 62, Issue Six JULY 2015 Judicial Profiles Hon. J. E. Sullivan page 47 FBA Events Annual Meeting and Convention Sept. 10–12 • Salt Lake City Federal Litigation Conference Oct. 27 • Washington, D.C. D.C. Indian Law Conference Nov. 10 • Washington, D.C. THE Untitled-2.indd 1 1/6/15 3:12 PM THE FEDERAL LAWYER The Magazine of the Federal Bar Association Volume 62, Issue Six EDITORIAL BOARD Editor in Chief Becky Thorson July 2015: Transportation and Transportation Security Law [email protected] Deputy Editor in Chief Elizabeth Kronk Warner [email protected] Managing Editor 22 Sarah Perlman (571) 481-9100 Moving the World [email protected] 24 Book Review Editor Transportation Law Henry Cohen #transportation [email protected] By Thomas Lehrich Judicial Profile Editor By Samuel Negatu and Thomas Lehrich Hon. Michael Newman [email protected] Board Members 26 Gregory Arnold Andrew Doyle Anne Shea Gaza A Brief Flight Through Federal 34 Jonathan Hafen Rachel Hughey Airport Law Avenues to Foreign Investment Caroline Johnson Levine Tara Lundstrom By David Y. Bannard in China’s Shipping Industry Jordan Maglich Hon. Karoline Mehalchick Have Lease Financing Arrangements Bruce McKenna Glen McMurry and the Free Trade Zones Opened John Okray 49 Markets for Foreign Non-Bank Philip Schatz Investment? Jason Steed Transportation by the Numbers Michael Zuckerman By Rick Beaumont The Federal Lawyer (ISSN: 1080- 675X) is published 10 times per year, monthly, except for Jan./Feb. and Oct./Nov. when it is bimonthly, 50 by the Federal Bar Association, 1220 N.
    [Show full text]
  • Personhood and Moral Status in Marginal Cases Of
    ON THE MARGINS: PERSONHOOD AND MORAL STATUS IN MARGINAL CASES OF HUMAN RIGHTS by HELEN RYLAND A thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Department of Philosophy School of Philosophy, Theology, and Religion College of Arts and Law University of Birmingham June 2020 University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. ABSTRACT Most philosophical accounts of human rights accept that all persons have human rights. Typically, ‘personhood’ is understood as unitary and binary. It is unitary because there is generally supposed to be a single threshold property required for personhood (e.g. agency, rationality, etc.). It is binary because it is all-or-nothing: you are either a person or you are not. A difficulty with binary views is that there will typically be subjects, like children and those with dementia, who do not meet the threshold, and so who are not persons with human rights, on these accounts. It is consequently unclear how we ought to treat these subjects. This is the problem of marginal cases. I argue that we cannot resolve the problem of marginal cases if we accept a unitary, binary view of personhood.
    [Show full text]