bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Fabrication and amplified spontaneous emission behavior of FAPbBr3 perovskite quantum dots in solid polymer rods
Authors: Naziruddin Khan M. , Almohammedi Abdullah
Published: July 2022

Formamidinium lead tribromide (FAPbBr3) perovskite quantum dot (PQ-Dot) solution was incorporated in a polymer sol, which was used to fabricate solid nanocomposite rods and disks. The solid nanocomposite samples were studied by different characterization techniques. The absorption, emission, and excitation spectra of the PQ-Dot in the solid rods/disks were quite significant as compared to the spectra of the PQ-Dot solution. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to inspect the structural morphology of the PQ-Dot in the solid environment. The PQ-Dot particles were evidently present in the solid matrix and were confirmed by the SEM images and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) spectra. The size of the PQ-Dots was examined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The majority of the particles were about 3–8 nm in size. The spontaneous and stimulated emission profiles of the solid composite rods/disks were studied using pumping energy ranging from 2 μJ to 18 μJ from a high-power picosecond neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) tunable laser system. The observed emission signal was quite significant. The emission peak of the PQ-Dot solution had a slight change when it was included in the solid matrix. Amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) behavior was obtained from the PQ-Dot composite rod. The ASE peaks were quite steady at different levels of excitation energy. ASE was achieved at low threshold energy. The composite rod with ASE behavior indicates that it is a promising composite material that can be used to achieve lasing in the future. The ASE obtained from the composite rods/disks may improve to achieve lasing if a high concentration of PQ-Dot solution is used in the matrix.
U. S. Political Economy on Migrants-Citizens Relations: State-Raids Vs. Church-Sanctuaries (Charity Re-Privatization)
Authors: Sánchez-Bayón Antonio , Sánchez-Barricarte Jesús J.
Published: July 2022

This is a Political Economy study on migrants-citizens relations management in the United States of America, with special attention to the religious factor and the pendulum effect. There is a model switch, from integration policies (open doors and melting pot agenda, with expropriation of charity by Public Sector) to official persecution (state-raids and deportations, with re-privatization of charity), under a high social opportunity cost. Also, there is a split between the State and civil society (including the church), causing civil disobedience and sanctuary network across the country. The paper focuses on the development of the Sanctuary Movement, as a case of popular action against to the power elite policies and their sanctions. There was a revival of this movement during the values crisis or 2008 recession, but at the same time there was a critical division into the movement, with higher tension for the migrants.
A Sign of the Types: A Critical Reflection on the Church-Sect Typology
Authors: Paulissen Jarell
Published: July 2022

Religion comes in many shapes and sizes, and the classification of religious movements may help scholars understand how these groups form, develop and change. One of the most common tools used in the sociology of religion to do so is the church-sect typology, which is rooted in the basic idea that religious movements can be placed along a continuum according to their degree of congruence with mainstream society. This article provides an overview of how this kind of thinking developed, in order to show how the church-sect typology has been widely accepted and built upon, as well as being heavily criticised by other sociologists. The first part consists of a survey of early versions of the typology, contains different methods of classifying religious movements and provides further explanations where necessary, especially where the term ‘cult’ is concerned. The next section is focused on the many criticisms of the church-sect typology as a whole, after which some possible solutions are offered, and it will end with some recommendations in the form of a new theoretical framework.
Ecolinguistic Mode in the Language Policy of Ukraine
Authors: Korolyov Igor , Grytsenko Svitlana
Published: July 2022

The national language is not only an important component of the internal policy of the state but also an integral factor in interstate relations. It is one of the elements and indicators of geopolitical transformations. In the sociocultural space of Ukraine, the issue of implementing an effective language policy is relevant in the context of the development of statehood and the implementation of the European integration strategy. The language situation in modern Ukraine is defined by sociolinguists as bilingual because two languages “compete” in communicative, social (demographic), and other aspects on the territory of Ukraine – Ukrainian and Russian. In the implementation of modern state language policy, it is necessary to take into account the specifics of the functioning of the national language in a global multicultural continuum. The latter is being asserted as a result of the rapid development of information technologies, as well as the emergence of common challenges for the world community, in particular those related to the COVID-19 pandemic, when the remote intercultural method of communication became dominant for the first time in the history of humanity. The purpose of this study is to analyze the social ecolinguistic mode of the language policy of Ukraine, largely determining the trends in the dynamics of the language situation, because it makes it possible to record, predict and control changes in the structure and status of the language. The problem of the ecology of the Ukrainian language actualizes the creation in Ukraine of a nationwide structure – the Council under the President of Ukraine on the Ukrainian language as a reliable platform both for scientifically sound resolution of issues of language dynamics (Hrytsenko, 2021) and for putting into practice the results of these developments, reducing the distance between the formation new ideas and their implementation.
The Encyclopaedic Meaning of Erythros in Koine Greek Toponyms. A Cognitive Approach to the Definition of the Ancient Colour Cardinal Points System
Authors: Bonda Moreno
Published: July 2022

The cartographic and historiographic traditions interpreting the Greek toponym Erythra Thalassa indicate this expression could designate several water basins in classical historiography, though it is usually rendered univocally as the Red Sea. This research applies cognitive semantics to the history of geography to retrieve the encyclopaedic meaning of the term erythros in relation to its dictionary meaning “red”. Computationally generated lists of frequency from about 50 ancient Greek and Latin oeuvres denote a predominant toponymic use of the term and a fixed collocation in conjunction with thalassa “sea”. Additional statistical data extrapolated from the Septuagint and the Greek New Testament reveal the tendency in the biblical tradition to use exclusively the inflected form erythra in fully fixed collocations with the term thalassa. The paper finds out that the specific shade of red denoted by erythors has been used since the seventh century BCE in a number of other toponyms and ethnonyms to convey the conceptual meaning of “southern”. To comparatively verify this hypothesis, several Greek toponyms incorporating the term leukos – “white” or “western” – are discussed in relation to their relative position in the oikumene. Based on comparative chronologies and diatopic attestations of the phenomenon, the hypothesis that the Turkic colour cardinal points system and the linguistic means to convey it was introduced to Greece during the period of contact with the Scythe people is proposed.
Persepsi Pemustaka Terhadap Sikap Pustakawan pada Layanan Perpustakaan di Dinas Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan
Authors: Mashud Ana Rizka , Dewi Rita Octari
Published: July 2022

Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui sikap pustakawan dalam layanan perpustakaan dan persepsi pemustaka terhadap sikap pustakawan dalam layanan di Dinas Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif. Subjek penelitian adalah tiga orang pemustaka. Sampel diambil dengan teknik purposive sampling.  Teknik pengambilan data dilakukan dengan observasi dan wawancara. Sedangkan analisis data menggunakan tahapan reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pemustaka mempersepsikan pustakawan di Dinas Perpustakaan dan Kearsipan Provinsi Kalimantan Selatan baik dan ramah dalam melayani. Namun, dinilai belum peka atau belum memiliki sikap penuh perhatian kepada pemustaka. Pemustaka terlebih dahulu meminta tolong pustakawan, baru setelah itu pustakawan datang membantu pemustaka. User Perceptions of Librarians' Attitudes on Library Services at the Library and Archives Service of South Kalimantan Province. The purposes of this study were to determine the attitudes of librarians in library services to users and user perceptions of librarians' attitudes in library services at the Library and Archives Service of South Kalimantan Province. This study used a qualitative descriptive approach with the research subject of three users using the purposive sampling technique. The data collection technique was carried out by observation and interviews, while the data analysis used the stages of data reduction, data presentation, and concluding. The results showed that the users perceived the librarians at the South Kalimantan Provincial Library and Archives Service as excellent and friendly quality in serving users but were not sensitive or did not have an attentive attitude to the users there yet. However, the librarians first asked for help from the librarians and then the librarians came to help the users who needed it.
Barreras y facilitadores para una alimentación saludable entre participantes de Meta Salud Diabetes en Sonora, México
Authors: Palomo María Carolina , Denman Catalina A , Cornejo-Vucovich Elsa C. , Landeros-Flores Perla Esmeralda , Rodríguez-Ibarra Silvia
Published: July 2022

Objetivo: analizar los diferentes tipos de factores que obstaculizan o facilitan la adopción y mantenimiento de hábitos de alimentación saludable en personas con diabetes que asisten a los Grupos de Ayuda Mutua en el estado de Sonora y que participaron en el programa Meta Salud Diabetes (MSD). Metodología: se realizaron 136 observaciones registradas en diarios de campo etnográficos de la implementación de MSD, así como cuatro grupos focales post intervención. Resultados: se destaca la influencia de la cultura alimentaria, la publicidad, la amplia oferta de productos no saludables y el difícil acceso a alimentos saludables como barreras que se expresan en los diferentes niveles socioecológicos, obstaculizando la selección y consumo de alimentos saludables. Limitaciones: Se destaca la necesidad de futuras investigaciones que profundicen en los temas observados y en las características y experiencias de los subgrupos que conforman la población con diabetes. Conclusiones: se requieren programas como MSD que, tomando en cuenta las necesidades y posibilidades de las personas participantes, instrumentan el cambio de hábitos a través de la formación entre pares y el seguimiento de metas. Este esfuerzo debe ser complementado por acciones desde el sector salud y otros sectores de gobierno y de la sociedad en general para que el cambio sea sostenible.
Recurrent Bartholin's Cyst: Literature Review and Case Report
Authors: Shariff Fonda Octarianingsih , Septian Diki , Fajarwati Dinda Dwi , Siagian Ellys Tahnia , Lasmawati Eggy , Aprillya Eva , Hanifa Fidati , Lawren Jeane
Published: July 2022

Bartholin's cyst is a form of cystic (fluid-filled) tumor on the vulva. Bartholin's cyst is a cyst that forms due to blockage of the Bartholin's gland duct, which causes retention and cystic dilatation. Reports indicate that a 45-year-old woman came to the Obstetrics and Gynecology Polyclinic at Pertamina Bintang Amin Hospital, Malahayati Bandar Lampung, experiencing a recurrence of a left Bartholini abscess for the third time after two external incisions. The treatment carried out in this patient was given antibiotics and analgesics and it was recommended to do surgery with an extirpation procedure. Recurrent Bartholin's gland abscesses in women of reproductive age are generally associated with a risk of contact with sexually transmitted infection polymicrobials. Needle aspiration and incision and drainage are the two simplest procedures, not recommended because of the relatively increased recurrence rate.
ИЗМЕНЕНИЯ КЛИМАТА И ЦВЕТЕНИЕ АРКТИЧЕСКОГО ОЗЕРА ИМАНДРА
Authors: Кашулин Н.А. , Беккелунд А.К.
Published: July 2022

Trends of meteorological parameters potentially implicated in harmful algal blooms regularly occurring since early 2000-ies in a major Arctic freshwater basin the lake Imandra have been analyzed. Compared with the preceding period, increases occurred in mean annual and seasonal air temperatures, sunshine duration, and solar radiation, whereas decreases occurred in spring cloudiness and winter precipitates. These changes resulted in altered light regimens in the lake, which were associated with an increased availability of photosynthetically relevant radiation in springtime. In combination with an increased biogenic matter load, this could lead to drastic changes in the structure of phytoplanktonic communities and in their seasonal successions, as well as in biogenic matter dynamics. Based on these considerations and published data, a conceptual model of the emergence and development of regular harmful algal blooms in the lake Imandra is suggested.
PENGARUH BESARAN MODAL AWAL TERHADAP EKSISTENSI BUMDES DI KABUPATEN SUMENEP
Authors: Malia Evi , . Hanafi , Kusuma Nailah Aka , . Aminuddin
Published: July 2022

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat pengaruh modal awal terhadap eksistensi badan usaha milik desa (BUMDes). Metode sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah menggunakan metode purposive sampling dengan kriteria: tidak berada dikepulauan, memiliki BUMDes, dan bediri tahun 2017. Maka data sampel yang diperoleh dari Dinas Pemberdayaan Masyarakat dan Desa (DPMD) dengan kriteria yang telah disebutkan adalah berjumlah 47 sampel BUMDes, tetapi ada sekitar 15 sampel BUMDes yang tidak bersedia menjadi responden, sehingga total sampel yang diteliti adalah sebanyak 32 sampel BUMDes. Dari hasil penelitian yang telah dilakukan diperoleh data bahwa besaran modal awal memiliki pengaruh pada eksistensi BUMDes tetapi tidak signifikan dengan persentase pengaruh sebesar 12.4% dan pada setiap peningkatan 1% modal awal maka eksistensi BUMDes akan meningkat sebesar 0.017 dari nilai kontan sebesar 33.071.
PENGARUH KINERJA KEUANGAN PERUSAHAAN, NILAI PERUSAHAAN DAN RISIKO LITIGASI TERHADAP KOMPENSASI EKSEKUTIF
Authors: Yuliana Maulida , Oktarina Dian
Published: July 2022

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh buktitentang kinerja keuangan perusahaan, nilai perusahaan dan risiko litigasi sebagai variabel yang mempengaruhi terhadap kompensasi eksekutif pada perusahaan perbankan. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif, sedangkan populasi dalam penelitian adalah perusahaan perbankan yang terdaftar dan melaporkan annual report-nya selama periode 2015-2019 serta perusahaan yang memiliki catatan pergerakan sahamnya. Sampel diperoleh menggunakan metode purposive sampling yang menghasilkan sampel sebanyak 36 perusahaan dengan 180 observasi. Data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini merupakan data sekunder yang diperoleh melalui website BEI dan yahoo finance. Penelitian ini menggunakan teknik analisis regresi linear berganda dengan program SPSS 24 dan tingkat signifikansi 5%. Hasil dari pengujian hipotesis tersebut diperoleh bahwa: (1) kinerja keuangan perusahaan berpengaruh terhadap kompensasi eksekutif, (2) nilai perusahaan berpengaruh terhadap kompensasi eksekutif, dan (3) risiko litigasi berpengaruh terhadap kompensasi eksekutif.
IMPLEMENTASI ETIKA PROFESI AMIL DALAM PENGELOLAAN ZAKAT PADA YAYASAN DANA SOSIAL AL-FALAH (YDSF) SIDOARJO
Authors: Yuliastuti Rika , Cayani Lani Regitha
Published: July 2022

Yayasan Dana Sosial Al-Falah Sidoarjo adalah sebuah lembaga amil yang berfungsi sebagai pengelola dana social dimana kerja utamanya adalah menyalurkan serta menerima dana yang didapat dari masyarakat. Dalam menjalankan fungsi tersebut telah melakukan beberapa upaya untuk lebih mengoptimalkan dalam mendapatkan informasi serta struktur sosial dan ekonomi masyarakat yang mengajukan dana bantuan pada lembaga. Strategi Implementasi penyaluran dana di Yayasan Dana Sosial Al-Falah Sidoarjo ini memiliki beraneka cara yang dilakukan pihak lembaga sudah efektif, sebagaimana data informasi yang didapat  dalam mengolah bagian penyaluran dana bantuan adalah dengan penerima langsung atau bisa perwakilan terpercaya yang telah membantu mengajukan untuk penerimaan dana bantuan. Proses dalam pencairan dana bantuan benar-benar sangat diperhatikan diketahui untuk mendapat persetujuan penerimaan dana harus melawati proses survey tempat serta data yang diberikan. Dikarenakan dalam menghimpun dana zakat yang paling utama yaitu transparasi dan akuntabilitas, selain itu kurang maksimalnya pengumpulan dana zakat dapat disebabkan karena kesadaran diri dari orang-orang yang membayar zakat, kebijakan yang baik mendukung kepercayaan muzakki untuk menyalurkan zakatnya pada Organisasi Pengelola Zakat Yayasan Dana Sosial Al-Falah Sidoarjo.
Fluid inclusions in vein quartz as a reflection of the deformation stages of the junction area of Baikal-Muisk and Barguzin-Vitim structural-formation zones (Western Transbaikalia)
Authors: Kungulova E. N. , Tomilenko A. A. , Tishin P. A. , Savinova O. V. , Lychagin D. V. , Bukharova O. V.
Published: July 2022

Research subject. Fluid inclusions in quartz of three vein systems associated with tectonic cracks occurred during the development of thrust and shear deformations of the Western Transbaikalia. Vein systems localized in volcanic, terrigenous and granite rocks. Methods. The composition of fluid inclusions was studied by microthermometry, Raman spectroscopy and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Results. The quartz under study was formed by high-density medium-temperature NaCl-KCl and a low- and medium-salinity water-carbon dioxide fluid (2-5 wt % NaCl eq.). A distinctive feature of quartz of different vein systems was found to be the gas phase composition of inclusions associated with the composition of host rocks. The minimum temperatures of vein quartz formation were determined to range from 180 to 450°C under the minimum fluid pressure values of 0.7-2.9 kbar. Conclusions. Complex vein systems of the junction zone of the Baikal-Muiskaya and Barguzino-Vitimskay SFZ, confined to different host rocks and having different structural positions, are characterized by a similar fluid composition and a common thermodynamic history reflecting the change of deformation aggregates. The metamorphogenic-hydrothermal nature of the fluid involved in the formation of quartz vein systems was established. The development of the hydrothermal system was accompanied by its influence on the host rocks, which was manifested in the variations of fluid composition. The evolution of a single hydrothermal system is associated with tectonic deformation processes, which can be described by three dynamic stages corresponding to three quartz generations.
Aesthetics of Affliction
Authors: Guevara Alberto , Nouvet Elysée
Published: July 2022

In making Aesthetics of Affliction our theme for this first issue, our goal was to engage immediately with questions that must remain central in a journal dealing with corpo-realities of structural violence, the senses, and the theatricality of power. These questions are: how can we talk to experiences and situations that evade translation and that are mired with legacies of  objectification? What are the possibilities, limits, hopes, and risks when addressing non-linear moves of power, the work of  violence, and social yet also intensely subjective effects/affects?
Uncommon Ground: Everyday Aesthetics and the Intensionality of the Public Realm
Authors: Ortega Daniel
Published: July 2022

We inhabit a society where the information that we receive on a daily basis is focused on telling us how to live. Media campaigns constantly blitzkrieg the public with the responsibility to “act more environmentally friendly,” to “lose weight,” and to seek ultimate satisfaction/security in their brand of “fill in the blank.” The sensory regimes employed to deliver these messages use the following common denominators: “buy this product,” “live this way,” “support this vision/cause/belief system.” Comply and “everything will be fine”: you will be thinner, safer, happier, and more productive. On a more tactile and surficial level, urban designers - via municipalities - allow developers to enforce a codified definition of how public space should be formed, interpreted, and used. Counter to the narratives imposed or implied by existing power structures, Lefebvre aptly proposes the following: “As with every genuine art, this [the art of living] will not be reduced to a few cheap formulas, a few gadgets, to help us organize our time, our comfort, or our pleasure more efficiently...The genuine art of living implies a human reality, both individual and social, incomparably broader than this” (199)
The Resilience of Ruinous Futures: Color, Urbanism, and Ecology in the Post-Jim Crow South
Authors: Boone Kofi
Published: July 2022

This paper explores the roles topography and segregation played in the development of an urban African American community in Raleigh, North Carolina. Southeast Raleigh is a historically African American neighborhood on the edge of downtown. It suffers from being in a low-lying area, poor city planning, and the legacy of residential segregation. Hurricane Fran caused flooding and damage near a forested wetland. A grassroots development proposal includes remaining in the area and creating a wetland education park for economic revitalization. This proposal emerged from non-designers and was born of the everyday casual use of the wetland as a de facto community park. The paper argues that translating a perceived community liability into a perceived strength is an example of a counter-narrative. This counter-narrative challenges Raleigh’s imposed power systems that have marginalized Southeast Raleigh.
A City of Brand Names: (En)Countering Narratives of Development in Qingdao, China Tourism
Authors: Wilson Scott
Published: July 2022

This paper examines how promotional tourist DVDs construct narratives of corporate space in Qingdao, China. The videos - which are marketed at heritage tourist sites as “video postcards” - are designed to produce a particular chronotope in which the industrialization of Qingdao’s hinterlands emerges inevitably from the landscapes of heritage tourist sites. These spatial narratives are directed at domestic tourists, and take advantage of distinctly Chinese traditions of image-making and tourism. By narrating the connections, for example, between Mount Lao (the birthplace of Taoism) and the Tsingtao Breweries (China’s most famous brand name), the videos and associated tours “place” the body of the tourist in past-time spaces of Chinese heritage, contemporary (imagined) landscapes of unproblematic development, and projected, “branded” landscapes of Qingdao’s (and China’s) future.
Bubblegum Cannonballs
Authors: ATSA
Published: July 2022

Specially conceived in keeping with the theme and setting of the Havana Biennial (March 27 - April 27 2009), Bubblegum Cannonballs showcases the paradox that is bubblegum, that symbol of dreams and of lightness. Life through “rose-tinted spectacles” here takes the shape of cannonballs, communicating the perverse effect of globalized overconsumption as a weapon of mass integration, one that certainly has the potential to upset Cuban society’s cultural and ecological equilibrium.

With Bubblegum Cannonballs, ATSA explores the collateral repercussions of the rampant consumerism found in wealthy nations. ATSA’s artists create a playful intervention, storming the El Morro / La Cabaña fortress and “attacking” it with bubblegum-pink cannonballs.

Alongside the cannons, installed is a playful pink-gumball machine—empty—from which there emanates a soundtrack comprising sounds from the initial “shock and awe” bombardment of Iraq, accompanied by a text advising all comers to be wary of such a bubblicious dream.

Caution! The whole thing may just blow up in your face...

A word about ATSA: ATSA (Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable) was founded in 1997 by artists Pierre Allard and Annie Roy. to create so-called urban interventions: installations, performances and realistic stagings bearing witness to the various social and environmental aberrations which preoccupy the two artists. Their works investigate and transform the urban landscape and restore the citizen’s place in the public realm, depicting it as a political space open to discussion and societal debates. ATSA promotes an open, active and responsible vision of artists as citizens contributing to the sustainable development of their society. ATSA is the recipient of the 2008 Prix citoyen de la culture (cultural citizen award) and the 2008 Artist for Peace prize. For more information: http://www.atsa.qc.ca/pages/home.asp
Suspended Selves: Between Female and the Warrior Bond
Authors: Kremmer Jennifer
Published: July 2022

This article explores abjection as a normative construct — a tool of punishment and persuasion that, in military contexts, leaves women ‘hanging’ outside proper subjectivity. Moving through an analysis of Kayla Williams’ 2005 memoir of military service, Love My Rifle More Than You, and touching on Anthony Swofford’s Jarhead, the article explores the uses of shunning and ‘penetrability’ in consolidating group warrior bonds at the expense of ‘the female.’ Finally, it is suggested that the omnipresence of bonding as an interest behind gender creation in military spheres may open a new space for political acts.
Wishes, Lies, Dreams
Authors: Chutiwongpeti Sarawut
Published: July 2022

I wish..., I hope..., I’m angry..., I’m afraid..., I’m sad..., I’m happy..., Come with me.....

Wishes, Lies, Dreams (an ongoing three-dimensional mixed media installation) focuses on the mechanisms of perception and dreams, the private world between fantasy and unconsciousness, nature and the extra-ordinary, memory and immediacy: the conditions underlying the system by which mind and spirit operate.

The (in)-visibility of this structure aims to ignite confusion as the viewer perceives the work and the space where it is placed. There is an intimacy here, but the story is unclear, cannot be clarified. Unlocking a mysterious force at the border of the truth and lie, Wishes, Lies, Dreams creates unexpected angles of approach, which in turn forces the viewer to take up a new position in the observation of the surrounding world. What can we learn, see, know, remember, feel between patterns of tranquillity and the disquieting? Entering the landscape of another’s dreams, provoked is an ambiguous relationship between the viewer, the object, its function and its appearance.

Sarawut Chutiwongpeti graduated from the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at Chulalongkorn University in 1996. Winner of several awards, he has applied his artistic and research practice at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), ImaginAsia Project, Smithsonian Institution (The Freer Gallery of Art and The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, United State of America), ZKM Project, (Institute for Visual Media, Germany), Designskolen (Denmark), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum; Waseda University; Kobe University of Design (Japan), Central European University (Hungary), International Cultural Centre Jeunesses Musicales Croatia Groznjan (Croatia), The Nordland Kunst 0g Filmskole; The Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre; The Kunstakademiet Trondheim (Norway), Luleå Winter Biennial; The Beeoff/Splintermind; The Ricklundgården and The Royal University College of Fine Arts (Sweden); MAAP-Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), Designing Your Future, Berlinale Talent Campus 2005, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Germany) and Biennale Bibliotheca Alexandrina 2005, Arts Center, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt).

For more information visit: http://www.chutiwongpeti.info
RE:FORM: Becoming Visible
Authors: Medaglia Joseph
Published: July 2022

RE:FORM: Becoming Visible explores the tensions between gay visibility, representation and embodied subjectivity, challenging the assumption that visibility equals liberation and functions transparently.

The overall purpose of this piece is to explore how the invisibility of gay sexuality becomes visible and manifests through the body. In order to do this, I draw from the mythic figure of the monster - a figure that embodies difference and otherness.

In the video, the monstrous body erupts from a green coloured field and constitutes a visual pattern while at the same time the visual pattern constitutes the body. This relationship symbolizes the paradox of visibility, as the visual structure exists only through the display of bodies. In culture, the representation of identities exists through the visibility of identities, yet identities are limited by concrete representations that replicate dominant ideologies.

The visual pattern is intended as a metaphor for structures inherent in representation that attempt to reproduce dominant ideologies. By subjecting the representation of the monster to the visual pattern, I explore the tensions between dominant ideologies and subjects. The growth and collapse of the monstrous body denotes the possibility of resistance to structures in representation.

RE:FORM: Becoming Visible resists the efforts to limit identities and explores the possibilities of open, incomplete subjectivity. New forms are created through resistance. The result is a display of growth, collapse, beauty, desire, sexuality and embodiment.

Joseph Medaglia is a scholar, artist, designer and educator. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Art and a Master of Arts in Communication and Culture. His research examines the relationship between representation, identity and the body, in particular as it relates to gay subjects. His creative work employs methods of experimental video, costume, interactive design and more recently, robotics and physical computing. For more information visit www.jmedaglia.ca
Queer is in the Eye of the Newcomer: Mapping Performances of Place
Authors: Miller Liz
Published: July 2022

This article describes two collaborative media projects that work with groups of LGBTQ or queer youth with refugee experience in Toronto to explore alternative representations to the victimization they must perform in order to obtain refugee status. Canada has traditionally maintained a progressive interpretation of the UN Refugee Convention permitting individuals who are exposed to violence based on their sexual preference/identity to apply for asylum. At the same time the state works with essentialized Western notions of gay identity and the act of proving oneself often becomes a humiliating process. The objectives of the collaborative media projects are to challenge past performances of victimization, to help the youth involved articulate their identity in a new place, and to explore the advocacy potential in taking their personal stories public.
Revealed By Fire, One Woman's Narrative of Transformation
Authors: McNaughton Susan
Published: July 2022

On the morning of June 23, 1985, Flight 182, en route from Toronto to Bombay, India disappeared from all radar screens and subsequently was lost to a mid-air explosion over the Atlantic Ocean, 100 miles from the southwest coast of Ireland. It was the largest aviation disaster in Canada’s history. Of the 329 passengers aboard the flight, 156 were Canadian, three of whom were Canadian choreographer Lata Pada’s husband and two daughters. This essay is an account of Pada’s artistic process in the creation of Revealed By Fire, a bharatanatyam performance choreographed by Pada for her dance company Sampradaya Dance Creations. Set in a theatrical interface between Pada’s present and the dream-like life of her past prior to the crash, Revealed evokes the darkness and destruction that followed on the heels of this event, as well as her tumultuous journey of self-discovery in the process of the dance’s making.
One Dollar Click and Borders
Authors: Gelis Alexandra
Published: July 2022

One Dollar Click, 2009, features a 2 minute trip through 400 islands in Kunayala, home of the native Kuna community in Panama, and follows everyday routines and a mixture of signifiers that transforms cultures.
Borders, 2010, is a 3 minute intimate photographic exploration of the bodies belonging to six queer individuals. This animation, made up of hundreds of high-resolution photographs, unabashedly examines the evidence of physical change and transformation: surgery scars, tattoos, and other traces. The bodies are fragmented, as are the stories affiliated with these traces, and identities remain delightfully elusive.
Introduction: (De) Fatalizing the Present
Authors: Agathangelou Anna M.
Published: July 2022

This special issue, (De) Fatalizing the Present and Creating Radical Alternatives, brings critical theorists, artists, and poets together to engage systematically the temporal structure of the relationship of politics and violence with a focus on the tensions between slavery and colonization. These theorists show that disrupting dominant theorizations and their generated contingent affects begins with exposing the epistemologies and methods that call for a monitoring of each other’s activities in the aggregate without taking into account the current politico-ontologico-structural condition of world politics, inscribing the slave condition as a primary one, while also continually and constantly changing. This special issue expands the postcolonial critique that challenges the idea of the “West” and the “Global North” as primary analytical sites and their citizens the agents of politics against which everybody else is to be measured. Such critiques open up the space for us to take time as the primary object of focus in our analyses of the global, problems in world politics, ethics, and possible expressions of revolutionary practices.
The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism
Authors: Sexton Jared
Published: July 2022

In what is his finest role, but also his most distressing, the legendary Sidney Poitier plays one Virgil Tibbs, a Philadelphia police detective in transit from an out-of-state visit to his mother’s residence, in Norman Jewison’s Academy Award-winning 1967 film, In the Heat of the Night. The indomitable Mr. Tibbs has been commandeered by the police chief of Sparta, Mississippi, to solve the murder of Philip Colbert, a Chicago industrialist whose business plan for the development of the local economy has now been jeopardized by his untimely death. Chief Gillespie has justice on his mind, to be sure, but also the rate of unemployment of his rural working-class white constituency. Closing the case to the satisfaction of the industrialist’s widow ensures the job creation essential to the maintenance of law and order on this side of the tracks. Identifying a black perpetrator (I was about to write “suspect” but use of that term would require a presumption of innocence not afforded here) ensures that individualized disorder stays on that side of the tracks. It’s a two-for-one deal that keeps everything on track and, more importantly, keeps in place the tracks themselves: the built environment of segregation and the mythos of Jim Crow.
The Lonely City
Authors: Davidson Cliff
Published: July 2022

In a world of over 7 billion people, over half live in cities. The city is its own ecology—a container holding individuals together and providing them with chance, opportunity, needed work. But the city can also be lived as an enclosure—a series of enclosures. I moved into a room in Brixton and stared out my window at the apartments across the street for weeks. My voyeuristic gaze made me think about (dis)connections. About interiority and exteriority. Outside, it takes organization to come into contact with somebody I recognize. At the bus stop, you can stand close and not exchange a word. It is easy to go unacknowledged.
This city is a place of strangers. It can feel cold, especially when its hustle and bustle is strangely absent, yet eerily prevalent. It is lonely and familiar at once. It is touchingly ugly. Commonly used spaces seem desolate, banal objects get discarded, people become the consumed. The Lonely City questions ideas of engagement and disengagement, inviting you in even as it makes you know you should probably want out.
Introduction: The Resurgence of Indigenous Women’s Knowledge and Resistance in Relation to Land and Territoriality: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Authors: Simpson Leanne , Nanibush Wanda , Williams Carol
Published: July 2022

Indigenous women and Two-Spirit LGBTQI people have been involved in resistance, dissent, mobilization and resurgence since the very beginnings of colonial occupation. We have intervened on a host of issues – sovereignty, nationhood, self-determination, governance, politics, jurisdiction, citizenship, international diplomacy and the protection of Indigenous lands, to name just a few. The logics of colonialism, however, have consistently denied and obfuscated these interventions, attacking the power of Indigenous women and Two-Spirit LGBTQI people by framing these issues outside of the political sphere and placing them firmly in the place of perpetual victimhood. Too often, the “activism” of Indigenous women has been reduced in the academic literature to issues regarding identity, violence, and discrimination – in a context that removes these issues from their colonial roots and that undermines and erases Indigenous nationhood. This does a tremendous disservice to our collective work.
Narratives of Peace: Naga Women in the Self Determination Struggle
Authors: Vamuzo Meneno
Published: July 2022

Naga women live in a politically sensitive environment given their people’s prolonged struggle for self-determination. They also face the complexity of a society that is undergoing the binary of change and continuity, with the pull towards modernity, on the one hand, and strong undercurrents of traditional and customary practices on the other. The latter are often geared towards a strong patriarchal system that is often inclined to disfavouring women. Nevertheless, Naga women have managed to engage themselves effectively within their traditional space and have significantly impacted their society. Through a tactful and non-contentious stance, they have continued to influence the dynamics of peacemaking. This article looks at some narratives of contemporary Naga women who are active peacemakers in a geographically and politically divided Nagaland.
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Authors: Belmore Rebecca
Published: July 2022

I remember the long hot summer of 1990. Twenty years since Oka. I easily recall images of the Canadian military surrounding the Mohawk nation. This moment in our history affirmed what I have known since childhood. I was born in a colonial space.

I am aware that our land and Aboriginal rights are constantly being eroded. We must continually fight to hang onto what we have left. Using my intellectual and physical abilities I create images that mark our experience, mapping our space in time. This is how I view my role as an artist amongst our people. I imagine this is the way it has always been.

X, responds to Oka in the immediacy of the present space of Price Choppers in Peterborough. They are having a ceremony across the street to rebury a two thousand year old Aboriginal man, found when they created the parking lot. What strikes me about the reburial site is that it is such a generic setting - between a parking lot and a sidewalk on a very busy street - no trees, no meandering sidewalk, no benches, absolutely outside of public spaces created out of civic pride.

The repetitive actions of marking, erasing, marking and erasing large X’s – two Aboriginal women, contemporary individuals, with specific identities are going about our work in current time and space. And yes, across the street, a ritual of return, a reburial of what was disturbed and removed is taking place.

The ancient ones obviously used this site in a very different way. Us –with our vehicles, parking lots, grocery stores, telephones and cars. The sacred fire for the reburial, the spiritual return quietly takes place while contemporary life moves on.

I guess on some level, I am seeing us as them and them as us. How long before Price Chopper and the parking lot become something else?
David Bowie is... Hyperreal
Authors: Whittall Edward
Published: July 2022

David Bowie is…, the recently ended exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario, stands in stark contrast to a similar exhibit mounted by Marina Abramovic at the MOMA entitled The Artist is Present. Unlike Marina Abramovic’s insistent, troubling presence, David Bowie’s body is absent. The exhibit offers the performative figure of “Bowie” as simulacrum, a “real without origin or reality: a hyperreal” (Baudrillard 1994, 1). The simulacral “Bowie” is presented as a de-centered, dis-oriented subject, transecting gender and performance boundaries as he effortlessly moves through physical and artistic geographies. This paper argues that the exhibit merely performs the subversive, “demonic” (Deleuze 1990, 258) character of the simulacrum, and by doing so closes it off from its radical potential to challenge the neo-liberalized space of the museum.
Harmony
Authors: Beaul Lily , Ho Valerie , Kwong Vivian
Published: July 2022

This is a platforming game about love and relationships. What this means will be conveyed through the rules and constraints of the game itself, as B. Laurel talks about in her article, Dramatic Techniques for Orchestrating Human Response. There are two characters you can switch between, whose genders are up to the player (boy, girl, and neutral). Both characters have to cooperate as a single unit, despite being controlled independently of each other. There is a focus on combat. The enemies will be representative of problems that interfere with the relationship, such as ‘apathy’, ‘distance’, ‘fear of commitment’, ‘career’, and so on.

By defeating them, the characters can ‘level up’. By doing so, they become strong enough to handle the constant scaling of difficulty as the game progresses. Importantly, the characters each advance separately. If one character is neglected, then both will. This will make it harder to survive the increasing difficulty of the game. You can never ‘win’. You just go for as long as you can. The rules are unusual, in order to be cause for reflection. The player should come to an interpretation of the game without need of a direct narrative. The character select screen is framed with the sentence, ‘I am a ____ seeking a____’, reminiscent of a dating site. This clues the player in on the relationship between the characters, without need of an intro.

The rules will be unusual, in order to be cause for reflection. The player should come to an interpretation of the game without need of a direct narrative. The character select screen is framed with the sentence, ‘I am a ____ seeking a ____’, reminiscent of a dating site. This clues the player in on the relationship between the characters. The game will not say exactly what it means, beyond a few hints (enemy names, introduction screen, etc.). This is to put emphasis on the player’s engagement, and to get them thinking. By reminding the player of their own possible relationships, and helping to bring them to their own conclusions, it can create a different kind of meaning for them than if it was just stated directly.

The game does not say exactly what it means, beyond a few hints (enemy names, introduction screen, etc.). This is to put emphasis on the player’s engagement, and get them thinking. By reminding the player of their own possible relationships, and helping to bring them to their own conclusions, it can create a different kind of meaning for them than if it was just stated directly. The idea that user and program ‘cooperate’, applied to a form of literary interpretation rather than simply interactivity, is the focus of this game. Not just working with the program to find out what you can do with it – working with it to find out what it ‘means’. The reason we chose relationships was because it is such a nuanced and personal subject, and more importantly, a lot of it defies language. The point of this game was to express something that defies expression. It’s an experiment to see just what this sort of thing can convey.
Tactics and dissonance: bending social relations towards justice, through art
Authors: Nouvet Elysée , Sindig Christina
Published: July 2022

The idea for this special issue arose out of meetings of the Arts-Centered, Community-Engaged Social Sciences Research (A.C.C.E.S.S.) Collaborative at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. Beginning in 2013, a group of faculty and recent graduates began meeting on a regular basis to discuss how, why, under what conditions or with what caveats art enables new social relations. All of us attend to the politics of representation in our work; some of us had specifically analyzed or curated art exhibits; and, many of us also gravitated towards arts-informed practices in our research and teaching. Located in different departments and faculties, we came together to discuss the difference of performance, storytelling, and images in the production of social knowledges as compared to conventional scholarly text.
Bleeding to Life
Authors: Deleón Ian
Published: July 2022

An essay-performance, this media-archaeological examination celebrates the revolutionary potential of recognizing and engaging with our collective, gaping wounds. Taking Caravaggio’s The Incredulity of Saint Thomas as a point of departure, I construct a narrative that links the production of subjectivities in “post”-colonial contexts, with the technosexual networks of resistance and coded information exchange that grew out of the government-manufactured crack epidemic in oppressed neighborhoods throughout the late 70s/early 80s and today. Indebted to the writing of Donna Haraway, Jussi Parikka, Hortense Spillers, & Kanye West. Created specifically for the Dark Diction event on January 16, 2015 at JACK in NYC, organized by Social Health Performance Club.
Dreaming in Arará: An Empirical Nightmare
Authors: Torres JT
Published: July 2022

The following essay employs creative nonfiction to explore the space of dreams as an opportunity to flesh out cross-cultural understandings of art’s capacity or limits to materialize new ways of relating in the world. Treating dreams as data disrupts the normative notion of what counts as experience. By drawing on Joan Scott and Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre, I argue for more transgressive approaches to relating in the world, made possible through artistic inquiries into the imaginable, irruptive act of dreaming. Blended with my argument is a creative nonfiction essay of my fieldwork in Cuba, in which dreams are treated as an epistemic process and, therefore, a means to which I, as a researcher, can also come to know myself and my relation in the world.