Ample research demonstrates that experiencing parental death or divorce harms children’s educational attainment. Less is known about variation herein, both between and across social contexts. We investigated how family nation

BACKGROUND The Health of the Nation Outcome Scales was developed to routinely measure outcomes for adults with mental illness. Comparable instruments were also developed for children and adolescents (the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents) and older people (the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales 65+). All three are being widely used as outcome measures in the Unit...

social and economic structures in iran underwent much change in the 1960s and the 2000s. in the 1960s mohammad reza pahlavi launched a reform called “white revolution” or “revolution of the shah and nation”. his goal was to transform iran from an undeveloped feudal society to a developed and capitalist one. again at the 2000s, when reformists gained the power, the existing discourses fundamenta...

Irony and contingency are central to Charles E. Rosenberg's scholarship and theoretical stance. Irony is a a way to speak through history both to power and to those who would contest power. The question becomes, What kind of politics is it? The limitations of Rosenberg's ironic trope and its world weariness that can provide critique but no way to change is analyzed.

The question that animates this paper is deceptively simple: what is brought into ‘play’ in the conjunction of the signifiers ‘Britishness’ and ‘Otherness’? Is the coupling of these two terms merely a taxonomic convenience, a way of marking out apparently fixed, mostly immutable categories such as ‘nation’, ‘cultural practice’, ‘ethnicity’ and ‘Empire’? Or, conversely, is the opposition of ‘Bri...