Jennifer Thomson Knihy

Focusing on the intersection of health and environmental activism, the book explores the diverse and often conflicting perspectives on ecosystem, planetary, and human health. It highlights the differing priorities and definitions of health among various groups, including lobbyists, grassroots activists, and advocacy organizations. Jennifer Thomson delves into the political, social, and intellectual developments that have shaped these competing claims, providing a nuanced understanding of the complexities surrounding environmental health discourse in the late twentieth century.

The study investigates the impact of multilingualism on cognitive and academic performance, proposing that early foreign language education in U.S. schools could enhance student outcomes. By comparing standardized test scores of 500 multilingual and 500 monolingual students in grades 5 to 8, significant differences were found favoring multilingual students. These findings suggest that integrating foreign language instruction into the curriculum could improve overall educational performance, urging policymakers and educators to prioritize language teaching in schools.

This book provides a comprehensive study of abortion politics and policy in Northern Ireland. Whilst there is a substantial amount of literature on abortion in Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom, there has been scant academic attention paid to the situation in Northern Ireland. Adopting a feminist institutionalist framework, the book illustrates the ways in which abortion has been addressed at both the national institution at Westminster and the devolved institution at Stormont. Covering the period from early peace process in the 1980s to the present day, the text will be of interest to politics scholars, but also sociologists, historians and students of Irish studies.