bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Laser-Assisted Mini-capsulotomy: A New Technique for Intumescent White Cataracts
Authors: Schultz Tim , Dick H. Burkhard
Published: November 2014

PURPOSE:

To describe a new two-step femtosecond laser-assisted technique for intumescent white cataracts.

METHODS:

In 6 eyes with intumescent white cataracts, a laser-assisted mini-capsulotomy was performed first to release the intralenticular pressure. In the next step, the fluid milky lens material was removed from the anterior chamber before the eyes were re-docked to the laser system and a second larger anterior capsulotomy (4.5-mm diameter) was performed. Finally, the cataractous lens material was removed followed by intraocular lens implantation in the capsular bag.

RESULTS:

In all cases, the laser system was able to identify and cut the anterior capsule without complications. Small residual tissue bridges were recognized after laser-assisted mini-capsulotomy in 2 eyes and solved with the dimple-down maneuver. The second, larger capsulotomy demonstrated satisfactory quality and a 360° overlap on the intraocular lens’ optic was achieved in all cases.

CONCLUSIONS:

This novel technique for intumescent white cataracts using a two-step laser-assisted mini-capsulotomy has the potential to avoid complications.

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J Refract Surg
. 2014;30(11):742–745.]
Using Technology to Teach Gifted Students in a Heterogeneous Classroom
Authors: Shaw Jr. Edward L. , Giles Rebecca M.
Published: November 2014

The answer to educating gifted and talented students in heterogeneous classrooms may lie, at least partially, in using instructional technology to motivate learning and enrich lessons. This case study explores one aspect of effective instruction for gifted second graders during lessons conducted in their general education classrooms. This chapter summarizes the development and delivery, students' performance and perceptions, and professional implications of an elementary science lesson utilizing interactive whiteboard technology to convey science content and elicit participation. It also emphasizes the importance of teacher educators' modeling the use of interactive whiteboards for the purpose of differentiating instruction in teacher training programs to better prepare future teachers for the diverse learners who will fill their classrooms.
Designing Instruction for Future Gifted Science Teachers
Authors: Bazler Judith , Graybill Letitia , Van Sickle Meta
Published: November 2014

Honors programs are designed to provide talented students the opportunity to excel with a group of peers having a similar level of ability, motivation, and prior academic achievement. A problem that results is Honors Programs and education programs rarely interface, and thus, current models do not optimally serve the gifted adult who will become a science teacher. Gifted students are not easily identified in the science methods class. Notices about involvement from Honors Programs are often not forwarded to people in teacher education programs. Such lack of information means that science methods instructors must identify the students without benefit of Honors Program insight. This chapter discusses identification and curriculum for gifted adults.
Impact of Training Set Size on Object-Based Land Cover Classification
Authors: Myburgh Gerhard , van Niekerk Adriaan
Published: November 2014

Supervised classifiers are commonly employed in remote sensing to extract land cover information, but various factors affect their accuracy. The number of available training samples, in particular, is known to have a significant impact on classification accuracies. Obtaining a sufficient number of samples is, however, not always practical. The support vector machine (SVM) is a supervised classifier known to perform well with limited training samples and has been compared favourably to other classifiers for various problems in pixel-based land cover classification. Very little research on training-sample size and classifier performance has been done in a geographical object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) environment. This paper compares the performance of SVM, nearest neighbour (NN) and maximum likelihood (ML) classifiers in a GEOBIA environment, with a focus on the influence of training-set size. Training-set sizes ranging from 4-20 per land cover class were tested. Classification tree analysis (CTA) was used for feature selection. The results indicate that the performance of all the classifiers improved significantly as the size of the training set increased. The ML classifier performed poorly when few (<10 per class) training samples were used and the NN classifier performed poorly compared to SVM throughout the experiment. SVM was the superior classifier for all training-set sizes although ML achieved competitive results for sets of 12 or more training areas per class.
Development of a Methodological Approach for Data Quality Ontology in Diabetes Management
Authors: Rahimi Alireza , Parameswaran Nandan , Ray Pradeep Kumar , Taggart Jane , Yu Hairong , Liaw Siaw-Teng
Published: November 2014

The role of ontologies in chronic disease management and associated challenges such as defining data quality (DQ) and its specification is a current topic of interest. In domains such as Diabetes Management, a robust Data Quality Ontology (DQO) is required to support the automation of data extraction semantically from Electronic Health Record (EHR) and access and manage DQ, so that the data set is fit for purpose. A five steps strategy is proposed in this paper to create the DQO which captures the semantics of clinical data. It consists of: (1) Knowledge acquisition; (2) Conceptualization; (3) Semantic modeling; (4) Knowledge representation; and (5) Validation. The DQO was applied to the identification of patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) in EHRs, which included an assessment of the DQ of the EHR. The five steps methodology is generalizable and reusable in other domains.
Lateral Collaboration in Semiconductor Industry Supply Networks
Authors: Bahinipati Bikram K. , Deshmukh S.G.
Published: November 2014

The interactive emphasis of vertical and horizontal collaboration in the semiconductor industry supply chain (SSC) support the buyer(s) performing procurement activities with supplier(s) through joint planning and decision-making, information sharing, resource sharing and incentive alignment. The paper proposes a framework to explore the resource sharing conditions under which enterprises are motivated to collaborate and the conditions in which such collaboration would be successful. A lateral collaboration scheme is proposed, which can be operated by the e-market intermediary to motivate buyers and suppliers to collaborate under competion. The results of this study demonstrate that the proposed collaboration mechanism yields an effective infrastructure for each members of the supply chain that supports efficient exchange of information and resources among all members. It is expected that the proposed scheme would enable the optimal capacity decision among competing suppliers for minimum expected total cost of the supply chain by appropriate selection of ordering quantity and penalty cost as imposed by the e-market intermediary. It is argued that the managerial decision-making in procurement perspective contribute to the matching between supply and demand for gaining mutual benefits.
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems in Healthcare
Authors: Kontio Elina , Lundgrén-Laine Heljä , Kontio Juha , Korvenranta Heikki , Salanterä Sanna
Published: November 2014

The aim of this article is to present an analysis of literature on the views, experiences and challenges of enterprise resource planning systems in healthcare. At the moment there is very limited systematic evidence on the role of these systems in healthcare. The PudMed, Emerald, CSA Engineering Research Database, ScienceDirect, ISI Web of Knowledge and Cinahl databases were searched, covering the period from January 2000 to April 2009. Studies were included if they concerned enterprise resource planning systems integrated into healthcare. The selected studies were analyzed with the thematic synthesis technique. The 135 articles were analyzed on the basis of the titles, abstracts, and full texts. At every phase, a number of articles were rejected for not meeting the inclusion criteria, and finally, 9 articles were accepted for deeper analysis. Three areas of views and experiences were identified from the reviewed studies. Furthermore, two challenge classes were identified when implementing enterprise resource planning systems.
The Inquiry, Communication, Construction and Expression (ICCE) Framework for Understanding Learning Experiences in Games
Authors: Shah Mamta , Foster Aroutis
Published: November 2014

There is a paucity of research frameworks that focus on aiding game selection and use, analyzing the game as a holistic system, and studying learner experiences in games. There is a need for frameworks that provide a lens for understanding learning experiences afforded in digital games and facilitating knowledge construction and motivation to learn. Towards this goal, the purpose of this article is to introduce the inquiry, communication, construction, and expression (ICCE) framework. This qualitative study with interviews and observations examined the mathematics game Dimension M. It was analyzed using the ICCE framework. It reports the interpretive results of twenty 9th graders' motivation and achievement in a game-based learning course to learn mathematics using Dimension M. The ICCE framework may be a valuable tool for aiding teachers to assess the efficacy of games for learning and for students to benefit from the possible designed experiences within games.
Due nuove specie di peliocypadina Basilewsky, 1984 della Regione Afrotropicale (Coleoptera Carabidae Lebiini)
Authors: Facchini Sergio , Susini Antonio
Published: November 2014

Gli autori descrivono due nuove specie di Peliocypadina Basilewsky, 1984: Peliocypas tagliaferrii n. sp. del Gabon e Demetriola maculata n. sp. del Madagascar. Sono fornite le fotografie relative all’habitus delle nuove specie e i caratteri diagnostici per la distinzione delle stesse dalle specie affini.
Environmental conditions of alpine springs of the upper Po River (NW Italy) on the basis of their epilithic diatom communities
Authors: Battegazzore Maurizio
Published: November 2014

Diatom (Bacillariophyceae) assemblages were sampled in 7 springs in the upper part of the River Po basin in the summer of 2010. Four springs are situated in the mountainous part of the study area while three are in the lowland plain. Chemical-physical variables were measured and analyzed in water samples of 6 springs. 101 diatom species were identified in the surveyed springs, with species richness ranging from 12 to 52. Gomphonema nathorstii, described for arctic regions, was found in Italy for the first time. Multivariate statistical analysis was undertaken to link taxonomical and environmental data, and indicated the existence of three distinct environmental features, each one characterized by prevalent diatom species: 1) low pH and high dissolved oxygen, 2) both high pH and dissolved oxygen and 3) high levels of silica and conductivity.
La morte di Filippo De Filippi a Hong Kong (1867). Il racconto inedito di un missionario
Authors: Canadelli Elena
Published: November 2014

Il saggio si concentra sulla morte dello zoologo Filippo De Filippi, avvenuta il 9 febbraio 1867 a Hong Kong durante la circumnavigazione del globo della corvetta a elica italiana Magenta. Viene proposta integralmente una lettera del 29 agosto 1867 spedita da Bernardo Viganò, il missionario del Seminario Lombardo delle Missioni Estere di Milano che assistette De Filippi nelle ultime settimane di vita, al direttore del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Emilio Cornalia. Questo documento, fino a oggi inedito, costituisce una preziosa testimonianza della morte di uno degli zoologi italiani più noti dell’Ottocento, tra i primi in Italia ad aderire alla teoria dell’evoluzione con la conferenza L’uomo e le scimie del 1864. L’articolo ricostruisce inoltre le polemiche e le poco note vicende testamentarie che seguirono alla morte di De Filippi. Il lavoro si serve di molti documenti inediti provenienti per la maggior parte dal carteggio di Emilio Cornalia, conservato nella Biblioteca del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, dall’Archivio Storico dell’Università di Torino e dalla Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo della stessa Università.
Music Benefits on Postoperative Distress and Pain in Pediatric Day Care Surgery
Authors: Calcaterra Valeria , Ostuni Selene , Bonomelli Irene , Mencherini Simonetta , Brunero Marco , Zambaiti Elisa , Mannarino Savina , Larizza Daniela , Albertini Riccardo , Tinelli Carmine , Pelizzo Gloria
Published: November 2014

Postoperative effect of music listening has not been established in pediatric age. Response on postoperative distress and pain in pediatric day care surgery has been evaluated. Forty-two children were enrolled. Patients were randomly assigned to the music-group (music intervention during awakening period) or the non-music group (standard postoperative care). Slow and fast classical music and pauses were recorded and played via ambient speakers. Heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, glucose and cortisol levels, faces pain scale and Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability (FLACC) Pain Scale were considered as indicators of response to stress and pain experience. Music during awakening induced lower increase of systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels. The non-music group showed progressive increasing values of glycemia; in music-group the curve of glycemia presented a plateau pattern (P<0.001). Positive impact on reactions to pain was noted using the FLACC scale. Music improves cardiovascular parameters, stress-induced hyperglycemia. Amelioration on pain perception is more evident in older children. Positive effects seems to be achieved by the alternation of fast, slow rhythms and pauses even in pediatric age.
Three-dimensional morphological condylar and mandibular changes in a patient with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: interdisciplinary treatment
Authors: Farronato G. , Bellintani C. , Garagiola U. , Cressoni P. , Sarzi Puttini P. , Atzeni F. , Cazzola M.
Published: November 2014

Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) involvement is common but usually delayed in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). We describe the case of a JIA patient with bilateral TMJ involvement, mandibular retrognathia, bone erosion, and severely restricted mouth opening. The use of cone beam computed tomography and a 3D diagnostic protocol in young patients with JIA provides reliable, accurate and precise quantitative data and images of the condylar structures and their dimensional relationships. Analgesics and conventional disease modifying antirheumatic drugs were ineffective, but interdisciplinary treatment with etanercept and a Herbst functional appliance improved functional TMJ movement and bone resorption.
An Analysis of Nursing Research on Child Rearing in Korea.
Authors: Lee Dong Won , Kwon In Soo
Published: November 2014

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to analyze papers on child rearing in Korea and to suggest future research and nursing practice directions for child rearing.METHODS: An on-line search via 5 web sites yielded 201 research papers. The analysis of key concepts was based on the attributes of parenting and type of knowledge held by the parents.RESULTS: The research papers found in the search were 27.3% experimental and 72.7% non-experimental. Among the participants, 77.0% of parents raising the child were mothers and the children were mostly young children under the age of one year. Types of knowledge related to child rearing varied widely, but explanatory knowledge (55.2%) was the most common, followed by prescriptive knowledge (30.0%) and descriptive knowledge (14.8%). For attributes of parenting, reaction to parenting (49.9%) followed by parenting behavior/practice (43.1%) was most common.CONCLUSION: Findings of this study indicate that further research is necessary regarding fathers and surrogate caregivers and on prescriptive knowledge for health promotion of children at different developmental stages.Also the results suggest a need for research toward developing child care policies.
Initial geological report on CESAR: the Canadian expedition to study the Alpha Ridge, Arctic Ocean
Authors: Jackson H R , Mudie P J , Blasco S M
Published: November 2014

Bathymetric data, geological samples and geophysical information collected prior to CESAR are reviewed. This material provides a framework in which the CESAR data set can be interpreted.
Report of 2014 activities for the geologic and metallogenic framework of the south Rae Craton, southeast Northwest Territories: reconnaissance surficial and bedrock fieldwork in the GEM 2 South Rae project area
Authors: Campbell J E , Eagles S
Published: November 2014

A six day field reconnaissance was completed in summer of 2014 to obtain an overview of the South Rae study area. The goal of this reconnaissance was to ascertain the optimum surficial and bedrock mapping strategies and assess logistics for 2015 and later field
seasons. A general perspective of the region's Quaternary geology, the amount of bedrock exposure, access to key mapping areas and possible camp locations for the area was achieved. Air-photo interpretation of the surficial geology of 75B map sheet is underway.
Enterococcal-related vertebral osteoarthritis in South African broiler breeders: A case report
Authors: Aitchison Henry , Poolman Petrus , Coetzer Marilette , Griffiths Caron , Jacobs Johan , Meyer Mignon , Bisschop Shahn
Published: November 2014

Infections in broilers and broiler breeders by Enterococcus cecorum, causing clinical disease, have increasingly been described in various countries in the Northern Hemisphere over the past decade. This case report describes an outbreak of enterococcal-associated vertebral osteoarthritis (EVOA) in male broiler breeders in several flocks in South Africa. Male birds aged 4 and 9 weeks displayed the common presentation of lameness, paresis or complete paralysis. Autopsies of culled birds revealed masses on caudal thoracic vertebrae T5–T7, with vertebral osteomyelitis and spondylitis. Microbiological assays identified E. cecorum cultured from spondylitic lesions. Affected flocks were treated with amoxycillin at 25 mg/kg in the drinking water for 5 days, resulting in decreased numbers of lame birds and culls. The origin and pathogenesis of EVOA are poorly understood, which limits prevention to environmental factors that may inhibit systemic access by the enteric bacteria. Skeletal growth trends of male birds are thought to increase their susceptibility to bacterial colonisation at sites of skeletal strain, resulting in abscesses and lesions. Evidence points to the emergence of E. cecorum strains with increased pathogenicity; this highlights the need for greater understanding of the origins, treatment and prevention of EVOA to minimise its economic impact on poultry operations.
The Urewera Mural: Becoming Gift and the Hau of Disappearence
Authors: McIntosh Isabel
Published: November 2014

In this article I discuss the seeming 'theft' of the Urewera Mural in 1997, using the term ‘cultural activism’ to describe the mural’s removal, because it acted as a catalyst to refocus the spotlight on specific Maori land claim issues. The Urewera Mural was targeted because it was portrayed as an object of white cultural value with significant representations for Pakeha. Te Kaha’s intention was for Pakeha to lose something of value and to experience how Maori have felt since colonisation when their land, their cultural value, was taken. Stephen Muecke writes that ‘cultural activism can have the same result as political activism, but it doesn’t look the same ... It is a tactical “bringing out” of culture as a valuable and scarce “statement” ’. I suggest cultural activism is, thus, ‘performative’ political activism; for when protestors dress up and ‘perform’ their protest, a media identity is created that is beyond the political message, and so more memorable.
Currency Lad
Authors: Savige Jaya
Published: November 2014

Poetry
Rounds
Authors: Dicinoski Michelle
Published: November 2014

Poetry.
The Aesthetics of Action Film-making
Authors: Pierson Michele
Published: November 2014

A review of Adrian Martin's The Mad Max Movies (Currency Press and ScreenSound Australia, Sydney, 2003).
Adventures in Malley Country: Concerning Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake
Authors: Chambers Ross
Published: November 2014

Contemporary anxieties around cloning and genetic modification have deep roots in a nineteenth- and twentieth-century tradition of narrative thought-experiments about the artificial reproduction of human life. In the ‘strange wickedness’ to which HG Wells’s narrator refers—as good a condensation of the tradition’s topic as any—strangeness has always been as prominent as wickedness. In that tradition the myths of Prometheus and Faust, of the golem and the doppelgänger, together with fables and fictions concerning automata and scientifically produced monsters and/or reflections on the real and the illusory, have con- verged to define a problematics of the sorcerer’s apprentice. We will see that such a problematics reflects a powerful fear of artifice, or more accurately a phobia: a fear of artifice as great as the attraction it also exerts.
Provenance: A Fall, a Leap
Authors: Messer Jane
Published: November 2014

In these extracts from ‘Provenance’, Rafaela discovers she is pregnant while staying on Bob and Clarissa Carmichael’s farm, and attempts violently to end the pregnancy. In the second extract, Chella and Rafaela have been separated by misunderstandings, and Rafi must wait for the Carmichael family’s return to the farm before going on to Melbourne alone. These events are a turning point in the novel: Rafi’s dream of leaving home to become an artist has, in a few short weeks, been horribly complicated.
Introductory Notes on an Ecology of Practices
Authors: Stengers Isabelle
Published: November 2014

Prepared for an ANU Humanities Research Centre Symposium in early August 2003, these notes may be considered as a comment on Brian Massumi’s proposition that ‘a political ecology would be a social technology of belonging, assuming coexistence and co-becoming as the habitat of practices’.
Provincialising the Italian Effect
Authors: Neilson Brett
Published: November 2014

What happens when radical Italian thought is uprooted from its initial context of formation and put to work in other contexts? Must this involve an objectification of the subjective processes of thought, their reification into theory? Or is the network of brains and bodies by now so globally extensive that the necessary translations can be accomplished notwithstanding the local specificity of experiences and cultures?
In the Name of the Mother: Sexual Difference and the Practice of 'Entrustment'
Authors: Scarparo Susanna
Published: November 2014

In this article, I discuss how by establishing a relationship between theories and practices, the Italian feminism of sexual difference poses both a radical challenge to feminism as the struggle for equality with men, and to the notion of politics understood as the struggle for power.
1968–1977–1999 and Beyond: Bifo's Futural Thought
Authors: Goddard Michael
Published: November 2014

The trajectory of Bifo’s thought and practice contains valuable material not only in relation to cultural studies and contemporary thought but also in relation to political and aesthetic projects seeking alternative futures to those imposed by the contemporary military-economic technostructure.
Placing the White Scholar in Indigenous Philosophy
Authors: Conor Liz
Published: November 2014

A review of Stephen Muecke's Ancient and Modern: Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy (University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2004).
Ecologue
Authors: Schlunke Katrina
Published: November 2014

Let me propose a new simple definition of ecology for now: ‘The study of the relations of an environment to plants and animals’. But since the simple divisions between plant and animal, and study and environment no longer hold in any simple way, an adapted definition could be: ‘the writing of relations that are an environment’. This ecology is one suited for a time when our second natures, miming on, lead us to a copy we cannot complete. We have an itch to become natural, to copy and so connect with what we see but cannot always be.
An Exchange on Theory and Cultural Studies
Authors: Authors Various
Published: November 2014

The following exchange grew out of a series of posts to the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia discussion list. As a talking point leading into a regular meeting for early career cultural studies researchers in Brisbane, Melissa Gregg, Jean Burgess and Joshua Green quoted a passage from Simon During’s recent Cultural Studies: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2005) in the hope of provoking a wider debate about the current state of Australian cultural studies. Various members of the list were duly provoked, and the ensuing discussion was later picked up in a paper by John Frow and continued in private correspondence and then in invited responses to the developing exchange.
Rich Pickings
Authors: Duruz Jean
Published: November 2014

A review of Carolyn Korsmeyer (ed), The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink (Berg, Oxford and New York, 2005).
The Recall of Modernity:Anthropological Approaches
Authors: Latour Bruno
Published: November 2014

What has happened to the project of ‘symmetrical anthropology’ in the last twenty years? What difference does it make to consider a multiplicity of cultures over the background of a unified nature, or a multiplicity of natures in addition to a multiplicity of cultures? In which way does it open up another type of scientific anthropology, no longer based on comparison but on ‘diplomacy’? Can modernity, as an interpretation of the former West, be recalled?Translated by Stephen Muecke.
The Dementia Wing of History
Authors: Buchanan Rachel
Published: November 2014

In this article the author draws on her family history to explore notions of Maori and Pakeha identity in New Zealand, in the context of forgetting and remembering.
Becoming Animal In Contemporary Visual Arts
Authors: Livett Kate
Published: November 2014

A review of Nato Thompson (ed), Becoming Animal: Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom (The MIT Press, Mass., 2005).
Poetry as Means of Dialogue in Court Spaces
Authors: Kinsella John
Published: November 2014

This article reflects on the use of poetry as means of dialogue in a court setting in Australia. It mentions the different approaches in which poetry might be introduced in court spaces. The author also explores the advantages of recognizing the works of Australian poets to the reconciliation process in Australia between indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The article includes several of the author's own protest poems.
Knowing the Country
Authors: Vincent Eve
Published: November 2014

This article presents a personal narrative exploring the author's experience with Kupa PIti Kungka Tjuta, the senior Aboriginal women from Coober Pedy, in South Australia.
Postshamanism (1999)
Authors: Obarrio Juan
Published: November 2014

An exploration of the author's experience of studying anthropology and shamanism in Buenos Aires.
The Belsunce Case: Judgment, Uptake, Genre
Authors: Munro Andrew
Published: November 2014

This article explores the Belsunce homicide case in the context of Jean-François Lyotard's The Differend: Phrases in Dispute.
A Decade of Work from Meaghan Morris
Authors: Bartlett Alison
Published: November 2014

A review of Meaghan Morris, Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture (Sage, London, 2006).
Discomforting Delights
Authors: Mayhew Margaret
Published: November 2014

A review of Sarah Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2006).
Relationscapes: How Contemporary Aboriginal Art Moves Beyond the Map
Authors: Manning Erin
Published: November 2014

This article discusses landscape art of Australian Aboriginal landscape paintings since the 1970s, particualry that of  Emily Kngwarreye, Dorothy Napangardi, Kathleen Petyarre and Clifford Possum. The author explores how modern materials and techniques are used to convey traditional stories, topographies and cosmologies, using Deleuzian analysis.
A Touching and Contagious Captain Cook: Thinking History through Things
Authors: Muecke Stephen
Published: November 2014

For how long can history, as it is conceived in ‘the West’, continue to attach itself to an exhausted humanism, where ‘man’ is central and all the natural and inanimate objects surrounding humans (and linked intimately to human activity) are relegated to the function of support act?This essay argues from anthropological theory that there are fundamentally different sorts of relationships that humans can entertain with non-humans, and that these relationships can have a magical force. When a monument is placed at the spot where an explorer first touched the land, does this impart a contiguous magic? On the other hand, where the stuff of history seems animated, and spreading out without clear connection to impart some small part of the aura to a doll representing the historical figure, are we not dealing with a sympathetic, contagious magic? This essay will experiment with these nonrepresentational forms of energy as they are transferred in domains associated with the figure of Lt. James Cook.What, then, is Cook when he is displaced from ‘western’ history and spread around cultures like a virus? How precarious or robust, then, are the historical certainties associated with Cook-monumentalised Kurnell and its place in time as ‘the birthplace of modern Australia’?
Birth of the New Clinic
Authors: Jones Meredith
Published: November 2014

A review of Alan Petersen, The Body in Question: A Socio-Cultural Approach (Routledge, London, 2006).
Birmingham’s Ghostly Presence
Authors: Farrance Lisa
Published: November 2014

A review of Mark Gibson, Culture and Power: A History of Cultural Studies (UNSW Press, Sydney, 2007).
Editorial
Authors: Frow John
Published: November 2014

Editorial by John Frow.
From the ‘Quiet Revolution’ to ‘Crisis’ in Australian Indigenous Affairs
Authors: Watson Virginia
Published: November 2014

In the space of one year the Australian federal political leadership transformed its own account of its achievements in Indigenous affairs from that of a ‘quiet revolution’ to a state of ‘crisis’. This article takes this idea that there is a ‘crisis’ taking place across remote Aboriginal communities as its starting point. However, in contrast to most assessments of this ‘crisis’ I argue that claims about ‘crisis’ do not derive naturally from accounts of the critical circumstances of daily life in remote indigenous communities. Rather, the idea of crisis can be understood as a process of narration, one that the federal political leadership has brought into existence through narrative and discourse. As I show, this narrative of crisis has had a very particular strategic effect. It has enabled the federal government to transform its failure to change the fundamentals of indigenous welfare (its ‘quiet revolution’) into a widespread, general crisis. In this way, this narrative of crisis thus marks a turning point: one at which the discourse of government responsibility for citizens has been overtaken and replaced by that of citizen responsibility to government – namely that indigenous people and communities themselves must now be held responsible for (governmental) failure in indigenous affairs. Seen in these terms, the critical circumstances of daily life in many remote Indigenous communities far from providing testimony of governmental failure provide something of an alibi, making the idea of crisis seems utterly feasible.
One ‘Body/Nation’: Pathology and Cultural Citizenship in Australia
Authors: Anderson Zoe
Published: November 2014

Particular bodies within the Australian nation can be seen to threaten to disrupt and destabilise dominant notions of cultural citizenship. Understood through intricate intersections of ethnicity, gender and sexuality, ‘Australianness’–and its correlation to the geographical nation–is constantly monitored. Crucial here is the manner in which boundaries of whiteness, and ‘true Australianess’, are reconstituted, fuelling avoidance of the ambiguities of national belonging and ensuring the enduring pathologisation of the ‘un’Australian. In particular, discursive associations between HIV/AIDS and the ‘foreign’ as perceived contaminates to the nation operate to reinforce these understandings. Here, the threat of disease both informs, and is fuelled by, connotations to ‘the foreign’, often conflating the two in very literal ways. Discourses of pathology correlate here with visceral connotations of pollution and darkness. As such, HIV/AIDS has become a crucial site whereby cultural fears of the ‘non-normal’ coalesce; a meeting point for all manner of perceived threats to the ‘white heteronormativity’ of a healthy Australia. The relationship between Australian citizens–rendered knowable and safe through normalising hegemonies–and the nation becomes one of identification through these signifying practices of fetishised affiliation. The body is implicated in all aspects of these complicated matrices of identity markings, revealing the fluid and often contradictory manner in which the nation’s cultural borders are articulated, assumed and performed, on, and through, the body. Indeed, as the taxonomies of national identity are reiterated and reaffirmed through discourses of the everyday, the boundaries rendering distinct those deemed truly ‘Australian’, by virtue of cultural appropriateness, become increasingly important in the desire to maintain the ‘essential’ nature of national belonging.
Cultural Studies 101: Canonical, Mystificatory and Elitist?
Authors: Turner Graeme
Published: November 2014

This article draws on the contributions and responses to a panel on teaching presented at the 2007 conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia in order to raise some questions about the current state of the teaching of cultural studies in Australia. It presents an, admittedly personal, account which suggests that cultural studies is in danger of becoming the kind of discipline it was originally developed to displace: one that reproduces a canon of privileged sources, that presents its knowledges in ways which foreground their discursive complexity rather than their usefulness, and that appears not to sufficiently value the experiences its students bring with them to the classroom. Locating these as grounded within larger institutional shifts as well as within a particular disciplinary history, the article sets out to initiate a conversation about something that has been pushed to the background in recent years: how we teach cultural studies.
Every Kind of Everyday...
Authors: Lusty Natalya
Published: November 2014

A review of Michael Sheringham, Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006) and Kathleen Stewart, Ordinary Affects (Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2007)
Subcultures?
Authors: St John Graham
Published: November 2014

A review of Ken Gelder, Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice (Routledge, London, 2007).
Seeing Things: Image and Affect
Authors: Angel Maria
Published: November 2014

In the age of digital media how might we speak about images of torture, and how might we regard the pain of others?  Using the examples of a short film by Alejandra Canales which recounts the experience of torture, and the Abu Ghraib photographs, this article seeks to repose the question of the function of the image and its relationship to epistemology. How do we know what we see? And how might we rethink the orthodox function of the image in the age of digital technology? In attempting to answer these questions, I argue that the production of virtual experience is a capacity of the human body, and that image making, like all genres of communication, is a practice in virtual community.
Drought, Endurance and Climate Change 'Pioneers': Lived Experience in the Production of Rural Environmental Knowledge
Authors: Anderson Deb
Published: November 2014

This article explores the politicisation of environmental knowledge on rural Australia, in an analysis of discourse on the lived experience of drought. It draws on research conducted in dryland farm communities in the Mallee wheat-belt of Victoria – where rural histories have presented spirited sagas of community perseverance in ‘battling’ a harsh climate – during a period of marked shift in public awareness of climate change (2004-07). Indeed climate change projections have intensified debate over rural futures in Australia, where droughts have played a powerful role in the mythologizing of rural battlers and landscapes, and where drought discourse has been dominated by the language of war. Cultural engagement with climate is, however, under constant renegotiation, as rural cultural research is apt to reveal.
Four Poems: Bad Blurbs, 2009, 'Australia' and World Atlas: A Random Fragmentary Selection
Authors: Yu Ouyang
Published: November 2014

Four Poems: Bad Blurbs, 2009, 'Australia' and World Atlas: A Random Fragmentary Selection.
Poems: 'Weights' and 'Measures'
Authors: Dicinoski Michelle
Published: November 2014

Two poems to accompany the Rural Cultural Studies issue of Cultural Studies Review.
The Clearing: Heidegger’s Lichtung and The Big Scrub
Authors: Garbutt Rob
Published: November 2014

Clearings make settlement possible. Whether on a small scale using an axe and other hand implements to make way for a dwelling and a garden, or on a large scale with a chain strung between two D9 bulldozers in preparation for a major agribusiness development, the process of clearing creates spaces for installing something new. This paper uses the idea of (the) clearing, as practice, process, outcome and metaphor, to examine the installation of the locals in a settler society. Using Lismore on the far-north coast of New South Wales, Australia, as a case example, the particular work of clearing that is discussed here is a practice that enables a form of colonisation and settlement that distances itself from its history of migration. This is a history of settler locals who were 'always here', and a colonial form of clearing clears the land and the mind of troubling pasts and of troubling presences. For the locals within a place, then, clearing manages and simplifies a complex set of social and material relations, histories and identities.Using Anthony Appiah's concept the 'space clearing gesture', the paper concludes with a reflection on the space in which the idea of "the clearing" and this paper appears. Do places, in this instance rural places, provide a type of clearing in which certain ideas might appear that may not appear elsewhere? If situatedness matters then the diversity of places where thinking is done is important for our ecology of thought, and in connection with this, perhaps what 'rural cultural studies' does is clear a particular type of space for thinking.
From Ablation to Undergirding: Review of Stuart Cunningham's In the Vernacular: A Generation of Culture and Controversy
Authors: Martin Adrian
Published: November 2014

I  have  always  learnt  new  words  from  the  writings  and  public  speeches  of  Stuart  Cunningham.  I  retain  a  vivid  memory,  from  1982,  of  needing  to  look up  a  dictionary  after  his  Australian  Screen  Studies  conference  presentation  on  Roeg’s  Bad  Timing (1980),  in  order  to  find  out  exactly  what  ablation  was. (And  it  wasn’t  pretty.)  Even  when  I  more  or  less  knew  the  word  in  question,  I had  never  had  the  experience  of  (to  embroider  a  phrase  from  Clueless, 1995) hearing  it  used  in  a  coherent  sentence  any  time  since  the  mid  twentieth  century:  gainsay,  commodious,  irredentist,  undergird…
Transactions in Desire: Media Imaginings of Narcotics and Terrorism in Indonesia
Authors: Lewis Jeff , Lewis Belinda
Published: November 2014

The relationship between Australia (an outpost of Anglo-western culture) and Indonesia (the world's most populous Muslim nation) has always been precarious. Much of the Australian media and political 'mediasphere' have contributed to the destabilisation of this relationship, most particularly as many media professionals reduce complex transcultural and transnational engagement to simple and essentialised cultural dichotomies. This limited vision is evident in the popular media's treatment of two significant politico-cultural issues: regional terrorism and the trade in illicit narcotics. Within a context of the global war on terror and Islamic attacks in Bali, much of the Australian popular media and public have been particularly agitated by the conviction and death sentencing of a group of Australians (the Bali Nine) who had attempted to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia. This article examines the interrelationship between drug trafficking and regional security in South East Asia, most specifically as the issues have been conflated through transnational politics and the Australian media. The article concludes that these issues have a common trajectory within the momentum of globalisation and the cultural imaginaries created through the modern mediasphere.
Sacrificing Steve: How I Killed the Crocodile Hunter
Authors: Carman Luke
Published: November 2014

Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra argue that the complex issues of illegitimacy at the core of Australian identity are repressed through a continual process of cyclical silencing, where traces of a shameful past are exorcised by a focus on images of a mythologised ‘legend’, embodied in characters such as 'The Man from Snowy River'. This article explores such a 'schizophrenic' cycle in relation to the life, death and resurrection of Steve 'Crocodile Hunter' Irwin.
Two Left Feet: Dancing in Academe to the Rhythms of Neoliberal Discourse.
Authors: McGloin Colleen , Stirling Jeanette
Published: November 2014

Following the recommendations by the 2008 Bradley Report into higher education, cultural competence training has attracted attention and funding in Australian universities. This paper attempts to initiate a conversation about the implications of cultural competence in its current formation as it also attends to the tensions we experience as non-Indigenous educators teaching both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. We argue that current models of cultural competence are structured by the prevailing neoliberalist discourse that continues to regulate Australian universities, through language and practice. Drawing on the metaphor of dance, we locate the ‘steps’ that find us, awkwardly at times, attempting to balance the demands of university policy with the cultural diversity and multiple subjectivities of our students. We contend that from within the current framework of cultural competence, attempts to locate an ethical practice that speaks to the increasingly culturally diverse student cohorts in our classrooms are becoming increasingly complex.
Brave New Worlds, Capabilities and the Graduates of Tomorrow
Authors: Bosanquet Agnes
Published: November 2014

In 'What is Enlightenment?' Foucault poses the question: 'How can the growth of capabilities be disconnected from the intensification of power relations?' This article revisits that question by raising critical questions about graduate capabilities. Its aim is to reflect, and to prompt reflection, on the complexities of the definition, implementation and evaluation of capabilities-based curriculum in the discipline of cultural studies and in the higher education sector more broadly. It asks what types of graduates are being ‘produced' by universities and for what purposes? Does cultural studies construct the student subject differently from institutional graduate capability frameworks? What is the role, if any, of higher education in the development of capabilities such as ethical practice or moral standards? What of the principles that are demonstrated in institutional graduate capabilities (sustainability etc)? Are these universal values? What relations of power and processes of normalisation underpin the ‘education revolution’ of capabilities-based curriculum?
Ravens at Play
Authors: Bird Rose Deborah , Cooke Stuart , Van Dooren Thom
Published: November 2014

‘We were driving through Death Valley, an American-Australian and two Aussies, taking the scenic route from Las Vegas to Santa Cruz.’ This multi-voiced account of multispecies encounters along a highway takes up the challenge of playful and humorous writing that is as well deeply serious and theoretically provocative. Our travels brought us into what Donna Haraway calls the contact zone: a region of recognition and response. The contact zone is a place of significant questions: ‘Who are you, and so who are we? Here we are, and so what are we to become?’ Events were everything in this ecology of play, in which the movements of all the actors involved the material field in its entirety. We were brought into dances of approach and withdrawal, dances emerging directly, to paraphrase Brian Massumi, from the dynamic relation between a myriad of charged particles.
Consulting the Digital Natives
Authors: Stapleton Adam
Published: November 2014

A review of Sonia Livingston, Children and the Internet: Great Expectations, Challenging Realities (Polity, 2009).
Practising Research, Researching Practice: Thinking Through Contemporary Dance
Authors: Gardner Sally May
Published: November 2014

Practice as research is now an accepted mode whereby artists can obtain a higher degree in our universities. But what conditions pertain for them there? Daily experiences of the misfit between the university, particularly in its current corporate guise, and the embodied practices upon which I draw have helped me, paradoxically, to clarify certain dance values which can perhaps have wider resonance. These values relate to concepts and ideas that can be found articulated by many practising artists and a number of other thinkers and practitioners including Winnicott, Alexander and Arendt. Focusing on here and now practicalities and issues, such as the nature of the studio floor, this article explores and argues for the importance of aesthetic experience and attention to life as we are living it: to experience, paradox, action, and sensation.
Between Form and Function: History and Identity in the Blogosphere
Authors: Johnson Laurie
Published: November 2014

This paper explores the question of identity formation in the blogosphere (that is, do bloggers identify as such) from the perspective of a cultural history of blog technologies, incorporating the early origins of internet technologies.
Arcane Erotica and National ‘Patrimony’: Britain’s Private Case and the Collection de l’Enfer of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Authors: Moore Alison
Published: November 2014

This article considers the broad politics of the creation and maintenance of two large erotica collections in European national libraries across their histories and in relation to definitions of censorship and obscenity. It also examines the popular and intellectual discourses that have surrounded the Collection de l’Enfer and the Private Case of the British Library, and imbued them with a particular cultural mystique as repositories of secret, hidden and privileged erotic knowledge.  Censorship and repression of sexuality cannot account for the policies of these libraries which have policed public morals through their restricted access conditions, even as the works they deemed obscene were published without any legal sanction. By classing their contents into a discreet category, these collections have helped to frame erotic signification as a separate body of meaning. In France the notion of the Enfer’s place within national patrimony has particularly abetted the discourses of mystique and allure around it. In Britain, the bibliographers who have discussed the Private Case have done so through assumptions of masculine heterosexual privilege and normativity.
Bauman Pours Out Culture
Authors: O'Connor Paul
Published: November 2014

A review of Zygmunt Bauman, Culture in a Liquid Modern World (Polity, 2011).