Caryl Phillipss In the Falling Snow traces the diverging experiences of three related men-a grandfather, father and mixed-race grandson of Afro-Caribbean background-and examines how, over the decades following the arrival of the Windrush, their lives are affected by changes in British society. While the novel focuses most prominently on the figure of the father, the three-generational spectrum allows Phillips to explore how matters of belonging, identity and race impinge differently upon each of the three male individuals. This article discusses the representation of the varying life journeys resulting from these diverse subject positions and is especially interested in tracing and critically interrogating how the introduction of mixed-race characters in the novel might challenge and complicate the issues of belonging and racial identifications to suggest new, possibly "post-racial" ways of belonging.

Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages of Western travel journals, evoking desire and derision, admiration and disdain, allure and revulsion. This profound ambivalence forms the axis of an investigation into Middle Eastern dance-an investigation that extends to contemporary belly dance. Stavros Stavrou Karayanni, through historical investigation, theoretical analysis, and personal reflection, explores how Middle Eastern dance actively engages race, sex, and national identity. Close readings of colonial travel narratives, an examination of Oscar Wilde's Salome, and analyses of treatises about Greek dance, reveal the intricate ways in which this controversial dance has been shaped by Eurocentric models that define and control identity performance.

In the light of policy imperatives to initiate and maintain inclusive education reforms, the role of special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) in England and Wales should be reconceptualised with a view to their leading school reforms commensurate with the principles of an inclusive discourse. The article concentrates on the social justice dimension of educational leadership to advance discussion of the changing role of SENCOs. It is suggested that, apart from the operational and strategic aspects of their redefined leadership role, SENCOs should be empowered to embrace a social justice discourse in tackling power inequities and systemic educational inequalities that undermine inclusive education reforms

Language planning in the domain of the courts in Cyprus is of interest because of the concealed salience placed upon the link between language and either state or ethnic identity. The article first examines the dominant role of English in court from 1960 until 1988 as reflecting Cyprocentric state identity associations. It then investigates the establishment of the use of Greek after the enactment of Law N.67/1988 brought the reversal of the linguistic situation. The law, which aimed at putting into action the provisions on language of the 1960 Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus and at safeguarding the use and protection of Greek, derived from Hellenocentric tendencies and its ultimate purpose was to foster Greek ethnic identity rather than to enhance the identity of the state of Cyprus. The above observations are illustrated in the analysis of the legislation on language in the courts, the linguistic situation in the judicial proceedings, and the court verdicts/judgments pertaining to language use. Finally, the article draws parallels between Fishman’s ‘nationism’ and ‘nationalism’ and the Greek-Cypriots’ language selections and identity orientations.

This study represents an exploratory and quantitative investigation into online dating from evolutionary, psychological, and technological points of view. In the past decade, the relatively inexpensive availability of user-friendly, fast, and reliable Internet technology has appealed to millions of consumers who suddenly found themselves engrossed by this sensational medium of communication, information, consumerism, and service. The majority of Internet users tend to be either recreational or utilitarian oriented, using such medium for a wide variety of tasks ranging from corresponding with friends and significant others, information gathering, purchasing goods and services, and, increasingly so, seeking and securing suitable dating and marital partners. The following research questions constitute the driving force for the current investigation: What are the evolutionary and social psychological intricacies of online dating? What are the technological variants or dimensions that render the consumption of online dating services appealing to users? An online survey was administered to 247 subjects to explore these questions and determine the technological dimensions of virtual social interaction. Exploratory factor analysis was then conducted to analyze the data. Eight technological dimensions emerged as a result of the analysis and served as the basis for the study's technological perspectives model of virtual social interactions.

The article examines language planning and the link between language and ethnicity among the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots during British colonial rule. It investigates the attitudes towards the language-ethnic identity link revealed in the petitions and letters of complaint to the authorities, and in the articles in the Turkish local press and Greek local journals. It suggests that the two ethnic groups perceived language as a prime indicator of ethnic identity and an indispensable precondition to survival. It argues that the two ethnicities' separate efforts to secure an official standing for their ethnic language and reverse any potential language shift (i.e., from Greek to English by the Greek Cypriots and from Turkish to Greek by the Turkish Cypriots), were strongly associated with a determination to control power and ethnic relations and to preserve and foster their ethnic identity.

Jackie Kay's The Lamplighter, published in 2008, was first broadcast on BBC radio in 2007 to coincide with the commemoration of the bicentenary of the abolition of the African slave trade in Britain. Kay's dramatised poem or play, as it has alternately been defined, focuses on the female experience of enslavement and the particular forms of dehumanization the female slave had to endure. Kay's project can in fact be described in terms of Marianne Hirsch's concept of "postmemory," or more specifically of "feminist postmemory." As such, literary devices are employed to emulate the traumatic events at the level of form such as intertextuality, repetition and a fragmented narrative voice. While commemorating the evils of the past, Kay simultaneously wishes to draw attention to contemporary forms of racism and exploitation in the pursuit of profit. Through re-telling the story of slavery, The Lamplighter can ultimately be regarded as Kay's tribute to her African roots and the suffering endured by her African forebears and contemporaries.

Stavros Stavrou Karayanni challenges the Orientalist notion that belly dance was historically a female performance genre through an investigation of the 19th-century male dancers of Cairo. Analysis reveals the breathless hypocrisy of travelers who had an "imperial gaze" (Gustave Flaubert, Vivant Denon, Gerard de Nerval) and who lingered over the performances of highly popular male belly dance performances in 19th-century Egypt, at the same time pronouncing them obscene and indecent. Karayanni recuperates the art of these dancing bodies, which had been erased from history by scandalized colonial writers and postcolonial subalterns. Also considered are historical male dancers, as well as their contemporary counterparts whose choreographies continue to negotiate gender, sexuality, and imperial standards of masculinity.

This essay examines belly dance movement as a mimetic ritual of universal signifi cance in its representations of the birthing of the human race and the worship of the Mother Goddess. In this examination, the contested politics of female fertility and birthing rituals will be discussed. The essay's scope expands to include discussions of the popular tropes of "body memory" and "in the blood," fascinating instances of identity defi nition and ideological location before originary questions of human embodiment, descent, and gender tensions. Movement is directly connected to identity. Movement and choreography may function as story tellinga narrative of the body's history, a fl uid and kinaesthetic record of the individual body, and, by extension, the community and in some ways humanity itself.

This paper, which is divided in two parts, aims to examine the possibility of bringing social change through storytelling. In the first part I will attempt to explore narrative theory so as to indicate how stories are structured and which elements the new stories should take into consideration if they are to have an appeal to the audience members. I will also look at the relationship between narrative and culture in order to justify why humans are storytelling animals as well as to exemplify narrative’s role in human meaning-making. In the second part I will focus on the work of Wu Ming, nonetheless, I will by no means include an exhaustive presentation of their literary project. I will rather touch upon some characteristics of their writing that can be proved valuable for the stories we need to tell. Their project constitutes both an excellent case of politically committed writing and also an inspiration for the production of new stories. For this reason, a work of them entitled ‘Manituana’ will be analyzed in order to clarify the content and form of Wu Ming’s stories.