‘But They Just Don't Respect Us’: young people's experiences of (dis)respected citizenship and the New Labour Respect Agenda

The New Labour Respect Agenda fuses anti-social behaviour policies, Third Way active citizenship, and a theory of community-based support and regulation. The Respect Agenda itself has a specific focus on, and direct implications for, children and young people, as well as for children living in vulnerable families. This paper argues that the theoretical basis for New Labour's ‘Respect’ is limited and ultimately flawed. Whilst New Labour policy demands respect from young people, young people's lived citizenship is too often experienced in terms of disrespect and even shame of the self. Young people respond to these feelings of disrespect by seeking out other ways through which respect can be acted out and negotiated. Respect, as conceptualised through the New Labour lens will criminalise vulnerable young people, thereby further stripping them of self-respect, inter-personal respect and societal respect. The paper concludes that respect should be an outcome of policy and a philosophy of a social justice led politics, rather than a conditionally led policy.     

Direct radiocarbon (AMS) dating of split-based points from the (Proto)Aurignacian of Trou de la Mère Clochette,Northeastern France. Implications for the characterization of the Aurignacian and the timing of technical innovations in Europe

Radiocarbon (AMS) dates on two split-based point wings and a hominin molar from the site of Trou de la Mère Clochette in the French Jura are presented in this paper. Dating split-based points has very rarely been undertaken. This is unfortunate given that these artefacts are critical to our definition and characterization of Early Upper Palaeolithic technocomplexes, as they are considered to be the type fossil of the Classic Aurignacian.     

From clay to metal: culture change and container usage among the Bariba of northern Bénin,West Africa

The Bariba are the dominant ethnic group in the culturally heterogeneous northern provinces of the modern state of Bénin. Recent decades have witnessed dramatic changes in some aspects of Bariba material culture, while others have remained more stable. An investigation of change and stability in Bariba material culture, with particular attention to containers, reveals that the dynamics of cultural pluralism, an heterogeneous array of innovative and conservative beliefs and practices, register as much in the material as in the non-material domains of Bariba life. Because containers are ubiquitous in late prehistoric and historical societies, they constitute a key monitor of change for archaeologists. Evaluation of container change in this living culture highlights some of the challenges facing archaeologists working exclusively with material remains.

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Résumé Les Bariba sont le groupe ethnique qui prédomine dans les provinces culturellement hétérogènes du nord de l'état moderne du Bénin. Pendant les dernières décennies certains aspects de la culture matérielle des Bariba ont changé de façon dramatique, tandis que d'autres sont restés plus stables. Une investigation des changements et de la stabilité dans la culture matérielle des Bariba, avec des recherches spéciales concernant les récipients, révèle que les dynamiques du pluralisme culturel—un étalage hétérogène de croyances et de pratiques innovatrices et conservatrices—sont visibles aussi bien dans les domaines matériels de la vie des Bariba que dans les domaines non-matériels. Puisque les récipients se trouvent partout dans les sociétés historiques et de la fin de la préhistoire, ils constituent pour les archéologues un indice-clef de changements. L'évaluation des changements des récipients dans cette culture vivante met en relief certains des problèmes que doivent affronter les archéologues qui travaillent uniquement sur les vestiges matériels.