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Poster Presentations
THURSDAY 16 APRIL 2015 15:00-15:30
This paper draws on the autobiographical reflections of women's formative experiences of playing football in order to
evaluate the relationship between biography and narrative construction. I draw on five unstructured interviews to
examine the experiences of female football players and draw on Bhabha's third-space to conceptualize spatial
metaphors that emerged in interview transcripts. Although transcripts were dealt with initially on an individual basis
and emergent themes identified, the organization of this paper uses the second stage of analysis and explores
thematic similarities across case in order to articulate the narrative. The narrative emerges in two key ways. Firstly,
there are informal spaces as a location for contest. Because of the informality of early experiences of playing football
are largely unregulated, so they become avenues for unfettered and importantly non-gendered expressions of identity.
These narratives are considered as non-stratified safe spaces. Secondly, by extending the premise that women's
formative experiences of playing football are unregulated places of contest, the narrative challenges conventions that
'define' football as a natural domain for asserting masculinities. I then contrast this with the gendered spaces that
emerge in the narrative as girls go on to play football in more formalized settings, specifically in education.
POSTER 26
The Poppy and the Cornflower: National Identity and the First World War Centenary in Britain and France
Tinsley, M.
(Boston University)
August 2014 marked the centenary of the First World War's onset. In both Britain and France, this occasion to
remember the past came at a time of widespread uncertainty about the future: Euroscepticism, the rise of the far right,
and concerns about the integration of marginalised minorities all have contributed to the larger question of what it
means to be British or French in the twenty-first century. Yet in August 2014, the two countries drew from strikingly
different traditions of collective memory to commemorate the past, situate the present, and draw lessons for the future.
This paper considers the relationship between collective memory and contemporary national identity by analysing
official British and French First World War centennial commemorations. Data is drawn from interviews with framers of
the commemorations and from mainstream visual and print media, with the goal of identifying both the substance of
official commemorations and the dominant discourse surrounding them. A content analysis of the data explains how
each nation's official memory of the War reveals its dominant national identity. The conclusion holds implications for
the ability of both Britain and France to either incorporate or exclude marginalised groups from the nation.
POSTER 27
The Societal Status of Finnish Forensic Psychiatric Patients
Törölä, M.
(University of Eastern Finland)
Forensic psychiatric patients are a group of people who have committed a crime and been through a mental state
examination which has led them to involuntary psychiatric care. The research result of the mental state examination
may be viewed as a need for psychiatric treatment, as lack of volition and self-control at the moment of the criminal
act or even as an explanation for the crime committed, depending of the viewpoint. However, the treatment and the
point of view of the research literature about this group are for the most part medical.
My research questions are:
1) How do the forensic psychiatric patients differ from other offenders (in the terms of social background)?
2) In what kind of social position have the patients been before committing a crime?
The data (n = 218) consists of the reports of the mental state examination, the records of the previous psychiatric
hospital treatment, extracts from the criminal records, and the records of the previous terms of punishment. Statistical
methods of analysis are applied in this research. Preliminary findings indicate clear evidence that, prior to the criminal
act, the majority of the subjects have been underprivileged with long-term substance abuse and serious mental health
problems. The most of the patients have been out of workforce for several years. Only for about half of the subjects
this was the first criminal committed. As my dissertation is uncompleted, any further conclusions or recommendations
cannot be made as yet.
POSTER 28
Sociogenesis of the Artistic Vocation: The Study of Art between Family Ethos and Cultural Arbitrary of School
Uboldi, A.
(PhD student)
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Glasgow Caledonian University