Will Smith: A Global Brand of Blackness

Aldridge, Leah

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“…Expansion of transport networks, advances in technology, global environmental change, and geopolitical factors are introducing new risks, vectors and pathways [ 48 ]. Successful management of IAS in the UK and Overseas Territories requires effective horizon-scanning programmes [ 46 ], risk analysis [ 53 , 54 ], well-directed surveillance and monitoring schemes, and evidence-based response plans [ 15 , 55 , 56 ]. The questions range from investigating the transport, introduction, establishment and spread of IAS (questions 53–57), to analysing and predicting potential impacts (questions 58–60), assessing existing and past actions (questions 61–63), and developing effective management practices (questions 64–67).…”

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80 questions for UK biological security

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Multiple national and international trends and drivers are radically changing what biological security means for the United Kingdom (UK). New technologies present novel opportunities and challenges, and globalisation has created new pathways and increased the speed, volume and routes by which organisms can spread. The UK Biological Security Strategy (2018) acknowledges the importance of research on biological security in the UK. Given the breadth of potential research, a targeted agenda identifying the questions most critical to effective and coordinated progress in different disciplines of biological security is required. We used expert elicitation to generate 80 policy-relevant research questions considered by participants to have the greatest impact on UK biological security. Drawing on a collaboratively-developed set of 450 questions, proposed by 41 experts from academia, industry and the UK government (consulting 168 additional experts) we subdivided the final 80 questions into six categories: bioengineering; communication and behaviour; disease threats (including pandemics); governance and policy; invasive alien species; and securing biological materials and securing against misuse. Initially, the questions were ranked through a voting process and then reduced and refined to 80 during a one-day workshop with 35 participants from a variety of disciplines. Consistently emerging themes included: the nature of current and potential biological security threats, the efficacy of existing management actions, and the most appropriate future options. The resulting questions offer a research agenda for biological security in the UK that can assist the targeting of research resources and inform the implementation of the UK Biological Security Strategy. These questions include research that could aid with the mitigation of Covid-19, and preparation for the next pandemic. We hope that our structured and rigorous approach to creating a biological security research agenda will be replicated in other countries and regions. The world, not just the UK, is in need of a thoughtful approach to directing biological security research to tackle the emerging issues.

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When Will Smith meets Ang Lee in Hollywood sf

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2024

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This article critically examines how Gemini Man (2019) incorporates director Ang Lee’s cinematic aesthetics and Will Smith’s star persona to present a nuanced representation of empowered crossover Blackness. In this film, Smith’s commanding status as a Black lead exceeds the typical constraints of social and spatial mobility (a relative rarity in Hollywood production). However, Gemini Man’s adoption of sf generic conventions and prevalent ideological narratives ironically neutralizes this momentum and, instead, reveals the precariousness that Asian and Black American filmmakers experience navigating the entertainment industry’s unequal decision-making, especially as it seeks maximized crossover appeal to attract wider audiences worldwide. This article explores how the film’s artistic expression not only illustrates ongoing ideological and identity negotiations within the racialized sf genre, especially concerning the representation of Black experiences, but also illuminates filmmakers’ challenges when collaborating with major studios in Hollywood’s profit-driven, racially-determined global marketplace.

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Will Smith: A Global Brand of Blackness

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80 questions for UK biological security

80 questions for UK biological security

When Will Smith meets Ang Lee in Hollywood sf

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