Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: murder

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Showing posts with label murder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label murder. Show all posts

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Truth & Democracy: '300 grammes' - The Daphne Foundation

I remember seeing a documentary, hearing on the radio and reading in the FT about the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was a journalist in Malta. I was shocked that this could happen in Malta. The British, naval - colonial connections, its being in Europe and the EU. The lesson being of course, that we must take nothing for granted and exercise constant vigilence to protect law and justice. 

'Courage' is often described as a personal and professional quality for nurses.

For journalists as the news  reveals each and every day - it is the first.

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'The bomb was packed into a steel container, placed beneath my mother's car seat, and detonated remotely just down the road from our home in Bidnija. It contained around 300 grammes of military-grade explosive. I didn't know the weight until this trial. But I already knew what it destroyed.'

Caruana Galizia

daughter

sister
wife
mother
grandmother
friend
neighbour
colleague
citizen ...
'There was something else I didn't know before this trial. The two medics who conducted my mother's autopsy said they found her heart was, incredibly, "intact" - and that it weighed 300 grammes. The same weight used to kill her was the weight of what endured.'


Paul Caruana Galizia. Opinion: Corruption - What Malta owes my murdered mother, FTWeekend. 14-15 June 2025, p.10.

https://www.ft.com/content/3f5012a6-a358-48a9-a72f-9d2ae530878b



Acknowledgement and thanks to Paul Caruna Galizia.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Reith Lectures: Gwen Adshead - 4 Questions about Violence

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Is there such a thing as Evil?

What is the relationship between trauma and violence?

Is violence normal^?

Can we change violent minds?



^'normal' -isation.

Monday, June 28, 2021

A State of Fear - Dangerous Minds

Books ...

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My source:

Ditum, S. (2021) An eye-opening journey into dangerous minds, Saturday Review, The Times, June 12, p.14.

Aaronovitch, DF. (2021) A covidiot's guide to paranoia, Saturday Review, The Times, June 12, p.15.

Images:

https://www.waterstones.com/book/dangerous-minds/dr-taj-nathan//9781529392913

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/A-State-of-Fear-by-Laura-Dodsworth-author/9781780667201


Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Seeing red ... the colour of social progress and justice ...?

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Toya Sarno Jordan / Reuters

Photograph: Toya Sarno Jordan / Reuters - Seeing red A member of a feminist collective paints the helmet of a riot police officer during a protest against gender and police violence in Mexico City. More than 1,000 Mexican women were murdered because of their gender last year, and there was also a rise in sexual harassment and assault by police.

World News, The Daily Telegraph [UK], 13 November 2020, p.17.

http://www.toyasarnojordan.com/

Photo: https://uk.reuters.com/news/picture/top-photos-of-the-day-idUKRTX898PP

Sunday, September 13, 2020

"Can you hear me?" Nalini Malani

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A still from stop-motion animation work 'Can you hear me?' (2017-20)



 

Commission
Nalini Malani: Can You Hear Me?

23 September 2020 – May 2021

Whitechapel Gallery unveils a major new work, Can You Hear Me? by Nalini Malani (b. 1946, Karachi, Undivided India), as part of its prestigious annual programme of artist commissions.

My source:

Spence R. (2020) Written on the body, FT Weekend, Life&Arts, 5-6 September, p.13.

https://www.ft.com/content/2793f080-6690-4047-bc8d-8afab2b60026