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Chance, Bias, and Omissions: The Great Land Rush
Authors: Weaver John C.
Published: March 2013

The CHR is publishing the papers presented at the François-Xavier Garneau Prize roundtable, which takes place during the Canadian Historical Association's annual congress. The François-Xavier Garneau Medal, awarded every five years, is the most prestigious of the CHA prizes, honouring an outstanding Canadian contribution to historical research. The roundtable provides the opportunity for historians in the field to discuss the winning study's contribution from multiple perspectives. The 2010 winner was John C. Weaver's The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 , published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. La CHR publie les interventions faites lors d'une table ronde organisée pour la remise de la médaille François-Xavier-Garneau, qui s'est tenue lors de la rencontre annuelle de la Société historique du Canada. Attribuée tous les cinq ans, la médaille François-Xavier-Garneau est le plus prestigieux prix de la SHC . Elle honore une contribution canadienne remarquable à la recherche en histoire. La table ronde donne aux historiens spécialistes l'occasion de discuter de la contribution du livre gagnant selon plusieurs perspectives. En 2010, le gagnant fut The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 , de John C. Weaver, paru chez McGill-Queen's University Press en 2003.
‘The rich . . . should give to such an extent that it will hurt’: ‘Conscription of Wealth’ and Political Modernism in the Parliamentary Debate on the 1917 Income War Tax
Authors: Tough David
Published: March 2013

The parliamentary debates on the Income War Tax in the summer of 1917 were marked by fierce criticisms from Liberal members who argued that the tax measure fell short of the ideal of ‘conscription of wealth’ that had been in wide circulation in the months leading up to the debate. Scholars have repeatedly pointed out that ‘conscription of wealth’ rhetoric, which attempted to link the unfair sacrifices of the war effort to the need for income taxation, and revealed a rapidly polarizing political climate at the end of the war, was the key inspiration for the introduction of the Income War Tax. However, the use of similar rhetoric by parliamentarians, and the call for ‘radical’ taxation across political differences, suggests that something else – a shared desire for a modernist ‘break from the past’ – was at work in the debate.

Les débats parlementaires sur la Loi de l’impôt de guerre sur le revenu, à l’été 1917, ont été marqués par la critique féroce des députés libéraux selon qui la mesure fiscale n’atteignait pas l’idéal, abondamment relayé dans les mois qui ont précédé le débat, d’une « conscription de la richesse ». Les chercheurs ont régulièrement fait valoir que cette rhétorique de la « conscription de la richesse », qui tenta d’associer les sacrifices injustes faits au nom de l’effort de guerre au besoin d’avoir un impôt sur le revenu et qui révéla une polarisation croissante du champ politique à la fin de la guerre, fut la principale source d’inspiration derrière l’introduction de la Loi de l’impôt de guerre sur le revenu. Toutefois, l’emploi d’une rhétorique semblable par les parlementaires et les demandes pour un régime d’imposition « radical » par-delà les lignes de parti suggèrent qu’autre chose – un désir commun de rompre avec le passé dans l’esprit du modernisme – fut à l’œuvre dans le débat.
Evidence of the Association between Household Food Insecurity and Heating Cost Inflation in Canada, 1998–2001
Authors: Herbert Emery J. C. , Bartoo Aaron C. , Matheson Jesse , Ferrer Ana , Kirkpatrick Sharon I. , Tarasuk Valerie , McIntyre Lynn
Published: March 2013

We investigated the 5.3 percentage point increase in the prevalence of food insecurity in Canada between the National Population Health Survey of 1998–99 and the Canadian Community Health Survey of 2000–01. We found that the increase in food insecurity occurred disproportionately in households in the western provinces, particularly Alberta, and among homeowners rather than renters. Inter-provincial variation in heating cost inflation explained as much as 61 percent of the inter-provincial variation in food insecurity increases between 1998 and 2001.
Pills, Policy Making and Perceptions: Inside the FDA During the "Reagan Revolution," 1981-1982
Authors: Richert Lucas
Published: March 2013

Ronald Reagan won the presidency in 1980 and, as promised, quickly took action to rein in the regulatory agencies and limit the size of government. The US Food and Drug Administration, regulator of one quarter of the American domestic economy, was a target of that regulatory reform program. This article explores not only the Reagan administration's impact on the FDA in the early 1980s, but how these impacts were perceived by staff members inside the agency. Getting to grips with how FDA staff members perceived the Reagan victory and thereafter the tangible outcomes of the Reagan administration's regulatory reform agenda from 1981 to 1982 (measured using budget levels, personnel, workload, enforcement actions, and morale) helps clarify and accentuate the existing literature. Ronald Reagan a été élu à la présidence en 1980 et, tel qu'il l'avait promis, il a immédiatement entrepris de serrer la vis aux organismes et de réduire la taille du gouvernement. La U.S. Food and Drug Administration, l'organisme de réglementation du quart de l'économie intérieure américaine, a été visée par ce programme de réforme des règlements. Le présent article analyse non seulement les effets de l'administration de Ronald Reagan sur la FDA au début des années 1980, mais aussi la façon dont ces effets ont été perçus par les membres du personnel de l'organisme. Bien comprendre comment les membres du personnel de la FDA ont perçu la victoire de Reagan et par la suite les résultats tangibles du programme de réforme réglementaire de l'administration Reagan en 1981-1982 (mesuré à l'aide des niveaux budgétaires, du personnel, de la charge de travail, des mesures d'application, et du moral) permet de clarifier et d'accentuer la littérature existante.
"It Was My Dream That Screwed Up": The Relativity of Transcendence in On the Road
Authors: Haslam Jason
Published: March 2013

This paper interrogates Jack Kerouac's appropriation and transformation of a Thoreauvian-style transcendentalism by reading On the Road through Mikhail Bakhtin's discussion of the chronotope. Kerouac's chronotopic resistance to dominant visions of the United States brings with it a problematic identity politics, specifically in terms of the racialization of the representation of transcendent identity. Rather than a personal or specific failure of a particular author or text, this tension can be read as a portrayal of the inevitable failure of social critiques that are based on notions of finding an "authentic" identity in a transcendence beyond, and disconnected from, historical and personal contexts. In other words, On the Road can be seen as a portrayal of the problems of an American romantic notion of identity, which makes universal claims about the transcendental potential of the individual. On the Road thus points to a difficulty surrounding dominant US notions of the self-reliance of the individual per se. À la lecture de On the Road par le truchement de la discussion de Mikhail Bakhtin sur le chronotope, le présent article s'interroge sur l'appropriation et la transformation par Jack Kerouac d'un transcendantalisme dans le style de Thoreau. La résistance chronotopique de Kerouac aux visions dominantes desÉtats-Unis comporte une politique identitaire problématique, plus particulièrement en termes de racialisation de la représentation d'une identité transcendante. Plutô t qu'un échec personnel ou particulier d'un auteur ou d'un texte, on peut évaluer cette tension comme un portrait de l'échec inévitable des critiques sociales basées sur la notion qu'il faut trouver une identité « authentique » dans une transcendance déconnectée qui va au-delà des contextes historiques et personnels. En d'autres mots, on peut considérer On the Road comme la représentation des problèmes d'une notion romantique américaine de l'identité qui élargit le potentiel de transcendance de l'individu à l'échelle universelle. On the Road souligne ainsi la difficulté entourant les notions américaines dominantes de l'autonomie de la personne même.
Internal Colonization and the Culture of Street Life in Bud Osborn's hundred block rock
Authors: Campbell Kofi Omoniyi Sylvanus
Published: March 2013

This paper discusses Bud Osborn's poetry collection, hundred block rock, which focuses on the lives of the homeless and disenfranchised in North America. It suggests that postcolonial theories can be fruitfully applied to the study of the North American homeless and indigent population, thereby shedding light on some of the processes through which that population is both constructed by and attempts to redefine its relationship with the hegemonic order that relegates it to a marginal position. Through a discussion of theories of internal colonization, this paper suggests that that term is more correctly applied to the world of the homeless and disenfranchised than to the groups it normally is used to describe. Through an engagement with theories of diaspora, the paper attempts to revise our understanding of this world. Cet article porte sur le recueil de poésies de Bud Osborn, Hundred block rock, qui centre son attention sur la vie des sans-abris et des déshérités en Amérique du Nord. Il en ressort qu'il est possible d'appliquer les théories postcoloniales á l'étude des sans-abris et des indigents d'Amérique du Nord, ce qui permet de jeter la lumière sur certains des processus par le biais desquels ces populations sont á la fois construites par l'ordre hégémonique qui les relègue á un rang marginal de la société, et constamment redéfinies par leur relation avec cette société. Grâce á une analyse des théories de la colonisation interne, l'article montre que ce terme s'applique plus justement au monde des sans-abris qu'aux groupes qu'il définit habituellement. En se servant des théories de la diaspora, l'article se propose de revoir notre fac¸on d'interpréter ce milieu.
Yamashita's Post-National Spaces: "It All Comes Together in Los Angeles"
Authors: Mermann-Jozwiak Elisabeth
Published: March 2013

This essay explores Karen Fei Yamashita's representation of Los Angeles, not as a hub of multiculturalism, but as a nodal point that connects Asia, Central and South America, and Africa. Tropic of Orange cleverly depicts the roots and routes of transnational exchanges of labour and trade, and, in the process, shows the transformations of the local environment through these global contacts. The novel further conducts a spatial archaeology to highlight spatial injustices, focusing on the various (im)migrant populations that occupy a single city neighbourhood over time, regulations that restrict their access, and the unequal distribution of resources and development of infrastructures. Cet essai explore la représentation que fait Karen Fei Yamashita de Los Angeles, non comme une plaque tournante du multiculturalisme, mais comme un centre nodal qui raccorde l'Asie, l'Amérique centrale et l'Amérique du Sud, et l'Afrique. Tropic of Orange dépeint intelligemment les origines et les voies des échanges transnationaux en matière de main-d'oeuvre et de commerce et, au cours du processus, montre les transformations du milieu local par l'entremise de ces contacts internationaux. L'oeuvre effectue aussi une archéologie spatiale afin de mettre en lumière les injustices spatiales, et elle est axée sur les diverses populations d'(im)migrants qui occupent après un temps un seul quartier urbain, sur les règlements qui en restreignent l'accès, et sur la distribution inégale des ressources et du développement des infrastructures.
After the Culture War?: Shifts and Continuities in American Conservatism
Authors: Dombrink John
Published: March 2013

Following the 2008 American election, some analysts concluded that the election had signalled an end to the polarization and culture wars that had typified American politics. To some, demographic changes would cause this demise. To others, the moderating of religious groups was crucial. As social conservatives came to grips with the 2008 electoral defeats, some argued for emphasis on culture-war issues to revive their role. Sin No More (John Dombrink and Daniel Hillyard, 2007) had argued that, despite conservative rhetoric, the tide was turning on the core legal and moral issues of the American culture war, moving them toward normalization. It challenged the representation of America as a "centre-right" country. This article analyzes enduring and shifting elements of the American culture war: the broadening of the role of religion, the reduced salience of wedge issues, and the paradox that some forms of polarization are increasing as others are receding. Après les élections américaines de 2008, certains analystes ont conclu que l'élection signifiait la fin de la polarisation et des guerres de culture typiques de la politique américaine. Selon certains, les changements démographiques causeraient cette fin. Selon d'autres, la surveillance de groupes religieux était cruciale. Alors que les conservateurs sociaux commençaient à comprendre la défaite électorale de 2008, certains voulaient mettre l'accent sur les questions de guerre de culture afin de faire revivre leur rôle. Sin No More (2007) a soutenu que, malgré la rhétorique conservatrice, il y avait des changements en ce qui concernait les questions fondamentales, tant légales que morales, de la guerre de culture américaine, et que ces questions se normalisaient. Le livre défiait la représentation des États-Unis en tant que pays du centre droit. Cet article analyse les éléments qui perdurent et les éléments qui changent de la guerre de culture américaine : l'élargissement du rôle de la religion, la perte d'importance de points de clivage et le paradoxe du fait que certaines formes de polarisation augmentent alors que d'autres diminuent.
Futz Buddies: The Effect of "An Evening with Futz " on Buddies in Bad Times
Authors: Szlawieniec-Haw Danielle I.
Published: March 2013

Describing the censorship case arising from the 1969 Toronto production of An Evening with Futz , a play depicting nudity and bestiality, DANIELLE I. SZLAWIENIEC-HAW provides the history of the key judgement that opened up artistic choice in Canada, but suggests that other economic and marketing factors affect the programming decisions of today.
"My Passion, My World": An Interview with Derrick Chua
Authors: Knowles Ric
Published: March 2013

RIC KNOWLES talks with lawyer Derrick Chua about his passion for theatre and his work as an advisor to theatre companies, actors, and playwrights.
Private Acts: Devising Clark and I from Found Memories
Authors: Hansen Pil
Published: March 2013

PIL HANSEN discusses memory and the boundaries between fiction and "reality" in the devising process of the play published in this issue—a process that began with found materials and ended in a Deed of Release and Settlement.
Can the Theatre be a Courtroom?: An Interview with Liza Balkan
Authors: Verdecchia Guillermo
Published: March 2013

GUILLERMO VERDECCHIA speaks with LIZA BALKAN about her experience with the legal system and Out The Window , a performance she is creating from that experience. In a sidebar, LIZA BALKAN talks about her devised performance built from transcripts of the trials, soundscapes, and videos.
Young Offenders in Performance: Audience and Practitioner Perspectives
Authors: Hagstrom Krista , Lindgren Allana C. , Dobson Warwick
Published: March 2013

Describing and interrogating a performing arts programme at the Victoria Youth Custody Services Centre, KRISTA HAGSTROM, ALLANA C. LINDGREN , and WARWICK DOBSON consider how such projects complicate binary responses—requiring open yet cautious responses. While carefully weighing the successes and failures of such projects, the authors urge a stronger "alliance between the Canadian justice system and the arts."
La Ligue Nationale d’Improvisation: Hockey’s Contribution to Theatresports
Authors: Arroyas Frederique
Published: March 2013

According to FREDERIQUE ARROYAS , the unholy mix of improvisation and hockey— high and popular culture—at the Ligue Nationale d’Improvisation is a revitalizing catalyst for social identification.
Improvising In and Out of the Box (or, “Caution: Do Not Enter if You are Claustrophobic”)
Authors: Koo Camellia
Published: March 2013

Designer/scenographer CAMELLIA KOO describes her process—from director-designer collaboration to Pure Research—as one in which improvisation plays a key role.
The Stanislavski Game: Improvisation in the Rehearsal of Scripted Plays
Authors: Scholte Tom
Published: March 2013

Actor and teacher TOM SCHOLTE explores ways of making improvisation work, and scripted plays come alive, within the constricted schedules of the Canadian theatre industry.
Searching for Poetry: On Collective Collaboration in Wajdi Mouawad’s Theatre
Authors: Meerzon Yana
Published: March 2013

The plays of superstar Wajdi Mouawad are created through a collaborative process that rests on the director’s practice of appropriating actors’ improvisations, argues YANA MEERZON .
Improvising the Document
Authors: Ferguson Alex Lazaridis
Published: March 2013

ALEX LAZARDIS FERGUSON explores the paradoxical role of improvisation in documentary performance.
Ground Rules : Live Performance and Eco-art
Authors: Kenney Denise
Published: March 2013

Denise Kenney, Neil Cadger, and Daniel Keyes may not have set out to make eco-art, but their collaborative performance is so firmly rooted in the physical particulars of place that its ecological resonance is undeniable.
Atomies of Desire: Directing Burning Vision in Northern Alberta
Authors: Smith Annie
Published: March 2013

Directing Burning Vision as an eco-drama in a community closely tied to the energy industry turned out to be both challenging and exhilarating for Annie Smith.
Becoming Eco-sexual
Authors: Stephens Elizabeth
Published: March 2013

Who said ecological performance was gloomy? Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle combine sexual politics and an earthy love for the planet in performance art weddings that will awaken the eco-sexual in you.
Xstine Cook and Spirit of White Buffalo
Authors: Boss Allan
Published: March 2013

Xstine Cook talks with Allan Boss about the origins, politics and earth-centred import of her kinetic performance sculpture—the one that took "Best Western Entry" in the Calgary Stampede Parade.
Violence, Memory, and America
Authors: McLean Alex
Published: March 2013

Alex McLean reviews Larry Tremblay’s Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre , in English translation by Chantal Bilodeau, as staged at the 2010 Enbridge PlayRites Festival. The review examines how – in text and production – cultural memory is reenacted to portray Tremblay’s vision of an American psyche scarred by violence.
Edna's Archive : Performing Absence in a Troubled Home of Memory
Authors: Houston Andrew
Published: March 2013

In 2005 the personal papers and photos of Edna Bear were found beside a dumpster in Toronto. This archive was inside a banker’s box: a neat arrangement of photo albums, slides, letters, souvenirs and other objects that trace a life begun in Kitchener, Ontario. In 2009, Edna’s archive was returned to Kitchener, where a group of artists attempted to animate its contents in an interdisciplinary performance. A disused utility building that once housed a bank in the city’s downtown core was chosen for the performance, and suddenly pressing questions about value emerged – the value of the absent woman, of Kitchener’s troubled downtown core, and of the memories contained in the archive. This article is an examination of how various strategies of animation used in performance expose and question a woman’s identity in the context of a specific place. Between the found and the fabricated of environmental staging, between Edna Bear’s archive and her hometown of Kitchener, past and present, there is a play of memory and absence.
How Does a Forgetful Woman Dance?
Authors: Robinson Aimée Dawn
Published: March 2013

In this reflective essay, the author discusses the impetus, mechanics, and concepts behind her solo, improvised dance series, Mother drift dances to songs in her head (2003 –). The mechanical/visceral processes of the series and its relationship to memory and malfunction are linked to Nietzsche’s writing on “active forgetting.” Examining the relationship between the dance series and forgetfulness, Robinson poses questions about the possibilities for political resistance through repeated and non-complete acts of physical forgetting.
Processing Memory in 300 TAPES and relay
Authors: Hansen Pil
Published: March 2013

Public Recordings’ projects relay and 300 TAPES engage memory in intriguing ways that become no less interesting when examined from a cognitive perspective. At the surface level, dancers and actors work through a process of recycling either the performance of movements danced in the past ( relay ) or the telling of autobiographical stories of the kind one might circulate among friends ( 300 TAPES ). When looking deeper and listening longer, a more complex treatment of memory begins to layer in. It includes the investment of the performer’s sense of self and questions of how memory is used and changed in a creation process. Through this treatment, Hansen becomes curious about the performers’ responses to archival recordings and situations of isolated repetition in the projects that, in part, render dysfunctional the otherwise ongoing biological process of memory adaptation.
In response, the artistic director of Public Recordings, Ame Henderson, offers short sidebar reflections on how she understands and approaches issues of memory in her work. Henderson writes about choreography as remembering, collaboration and task-based generation, and the – to her work – central issue of forgetting. Some of these responses expand and complement Hansen’s cognitive understandings while others suggest that the two voices in this article arrive at shared discoveries through different languages.
Realism/Terrorism: The Walworth Farce
Authors: Solga Kim
Published: March 2013

Kim Solga reviews The Walworth Farce – a "farce" in name only – as a play that is actually about the dangerous performatics of memory. As it explores the ways in which the theatre both enables and *dis*ables the drive to remember, it thinks seriously about traumatic re-enactment and the limits of the theatre as a site for such.
Peterborough In Memoriam
Authors: Brask P.K.
Published: March 2013

This essay focuses on two plays by Donn Short, The Winter Garden , first performed in Vancouver in 1993, and Full Frontal Diva , given its first full production in London, UK in 2004. The plays are analyzed as memory plays, as defined by Attilio Favorini, “in which the phenomenon of memory is a distinct and central idea of the drama’s attention […].” The specific interest of the essay, however, is to show how dramatic character is created through the suggestion of memory.
Me Talking to Myself in the Future : An Interview with Marie Brassard
Authors: Halferty J. Paul
Published: March 2013

In this interview, Brassard reflects on memory as both a dramaturgical device and a re-occurring theme in her work. She suggests that imaginative approaches to memory inform her conceptions of identity, fiction, reality, and time, and that these ideas in turn become particular dramatugical conventions, as well as artistic propositions, within her theatre.
Dear Citizens of Tennessee
Authors: Long James
Published: March 2013

In 2008, Vancouver-based Theatre Replacement began the process of interviewing citizens in a series of small towns in Tennessee that shared the same name as famous cities elsewhere in the world. These interviews were heavily edited and then developed into a performance text for The Greatest Cities in the World , which opened March 2010. The performance focused on a number of highly provocative topics covered in the collected interviews including racism and violence. The following letter is addressed to the citizens of Tennessee and attempts to explain why certain choices were made in the editing of the interviews and creation of the work, choices that likely did not honour the memories shared by the citizens of Tennessee.
Countering Stigma with Understanding: The Role of Theatre in Social Change and Transformation
Authors: Mitchell Gail J. , Dupuis Sherry , Jonas-Simpson Christine
Published: March 2013

Health care researchers Gail J. Mitchell , Sherry Dupuis , and Christine Jonas-Simpson employ research-based drama as a means of deepening our understanding of dementia and "finding alternative ways of being in the world."
An Excerpt from "Scoring the Body Through Kuna Aesthetic Principles: Indigenous Dramatic Arts in Theory, Process, and Practice"
Authors: Mojica Monique
Published: March 2013

If the body takes on the "blueprint" of a Kuna pictograph, can indigenous ways of knowing lead the body to "unlearn the traumas of colonization and genocide locked in the body"? Monique Mojica reflects on the healing potential of Kuna pictographs in her devising process.
An Excerpt from a Eulogy Presented at the Occasion of a Memorial Service in Honour of Marlene Moser, Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, ON
Authors: Fancy David
Published: March 2013

In honour of the passing of a dear friend and colleague, David Fancy shares an excerpt from the eulogy he presented at the memorial for Marlene Moser on 4 January 2011 at the Royal Botanical Gardens.
Minstrels in the Classroom: Teaching, Race, and Blackface
Authors: Alvarez Natalie , Johnson Stephen
Published: March 2013

For instructors of theatre and performance history, the traditions of blackface minstrelsy present a pedagogical challenge. How to foster sensitive and critically productive discussions about race and representation in the undergraduate classroom? NATALIE ALVAREZ and STEPHEN JOHNSON start the conversation.
The Boychoir of Lesbos: Between the Folds/From Throat to Shining Throat
Authors: Bateman David
Published: March 2013

David Bateman reflects on the voice and its intersections with the performance of sexuality and gender in a historical overview of the choral performance troupe, The Boychoir of Lesbos.
Staging and Storying Blood from a Stone : A Performative Reflection in Three Acts
Authors: MacDonald Shauna M.
Published: March 2013

Coalminer’s granddaughter SHAUNA M. MACDONALD revisits the experience of doing performance ethnography with Cape Breton mining families, of preserving the authentic in their experiences, and working with an American cast and audiences.
In the Mosaic: Jewish Identities in Canadian Performance and Installation Art
Authors: Zemel Carol
Published: March 2013

Carol Zemel explores contemporary Jewish performance and installation art in Canada through the work of Vera Frenkel, Melissa Shiff, and Tobaron Waxman.
Disability and Citizenship in the Life and Fiction of Jean Little
Authors: Carstairs Catherine , Kruth Sydney
Published: March 2013

Jean Little a été une des premières auteures pour enfants à traiter abondamment de questions liées aux handicaps. Ses opinions à ce sujet ont certes été influencées par sa propre déficience visuelle, mais aussi par le travail missionnaire de sa famille à l’étranger et l’engagement de celle-ci envers la justice sociale au pays. Les historiens du handicap ont souvent mis l’accent sur la conception du « modèle social » de handicap comme élément fondateur du mouvement pour les droits des personnes handicapées, or le présent article suggère que l’activisme handicapé a aussi eu beaucoup à voir avec l’émergence de la notion canadienne de pays qui défend le civisme, l’égalité et l’inclusion.
Djurgårdens Fina Grabbar : Local Identities and the Cross-national Transfer of Spectator-related Football Violence
Authors: Scott Carl-Gustaf
Published: March 2013

Jadis appelé « la maladie anglaise », le hooliganisme (ou la violence des spectateurs au football) fait dorénavant partie du décor de la plupart des ligues de football européennes. En Suède, le nombre de crimes de violence graves liés à des matches de football ne cesse de se multiplier depuis quatre décennies. À l’heure actuelle, l’un des pires coupables se nomme les Djurgårdens Fina Grabbar, ou DFG (les bons garçons de Djurgården), la pseudo « firme » (ou groupe hooligan) associée au club Djurgårdens Idrottsförening, le DIF (qui se traduit littéralement par association athlétique Djurgården). Les partisans du DIF s’inspirent depuis longtemps de la Grande-Bretagne, et cette tendance est très marquée chez les DFG. Mais voilà que les DFG exhibent aussi de plus en plus ces dernières années les signes d’une nouvelle variété de hooliganisme d’inspiration italienne dans leurs actions. Si l’hybride qui en a résulté n’est ni tout à fait italien, ni tout à fait britannique, il ne s’agit pas moins d’une version indiscutablement plus menaçante de hooliganisme suédois. L’article examine ce changement intervenu chez les DFG tout en explorant des questions en lien avec la sacro-sainte identité locale dans le contexte d’une culture du football de plus en plus mondiale. On s’y demande également si le hooliganisme suédois ne serait pas une réaction aux défis auxquels font face les identités masculines traditionnelles au sein de sociétés post-industrielles telles que la Suède, où l’on valorise aussi beaucoup l’égalité des sexes.
" Vinløv i håret ": The Relationship between Women, Language, and Power in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
Authors: Thresher Tanya
Published: March 2013

This article examines the relationships among language, power, and gender in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler . It shows how the central character in Ibsen's play, while conscious of the manipulative potential of words, nevertheless fails to negotiate that potential and ultimately chooses silence as a means to challenge her position in the patriarchal order. Such an analysis of the power of words represents a continuation of Ibsen's own analysis of the mechanisms of meaning and highlights the playwright's aesthetic self-consciousness, both of which are central elements in Ibsen's modernism.
"How Will They Ever Heal . . .?" Bearing Witness to Abuse and the Importance of Female Community in Sarah Daniels's Beside Herself, Head-Rot Holiday , and The Madness of Esme and Shaz
Authors: Debling Heather
Published: March 2013

In her three women-and-madness plays, Beside Herself, Head-Rot Holiday , and The Madness of Esme and Shaz , Sarah Daniels presents conflicting views of female madness. While she is critical of a society that labels women's anger or refusal to conform as madness, she goes beyond the simplistic view of women's madness as misogyny to show the severe psychological pain suffered by women who have been the victims of verbal, physical, and particularly, sexual abuse. Healing from this type of abuse, Daniels suggests, is only possible through homosocial bonds with other women. Moments where women remain silenced and even complicit in the patriarchal systems and cycles of abuse that oppress, harm, and stifle all women are contrasted in these plays with those moments in which there is potential for change through speech and through women's support of one another, and it is through this contrast, through both the presence and the absence or subversion of testimony and community in these plays, that Daniels appeals to her audience and stresses that the only way forward for women who have endured such trauma is the establishment of an attentive and supportive female community.
Superstars and Misfits: Two Pop-trends in the Gender Culture of Contemporary Evangelicalism
Authors: Burke Kelsy , McDowell Amy
Published: March 2013

This paper examines gender in two forms of mediated contemporary Protestant evangelicalism in the United States:
a male-dominated punk network, called Misfits United, and a women’s group studying Beth Moore’s Bible study, It’s Tough Being a Woman (ITBAW). While the appearance and performance styles of these two groups are drastically different, both support gender hierarchies in similar ways. Misfits United and Moore’s ITBAW present the gender of their Christian God as flexible, even transformative, and in effect open up discursive space to conceptualize gender on non-traditional grounds. Paradoxically, however, both reinforce traditional gender roles by emphasizing what distinguishes God from His creation: the gendered constraints of human biology.
Branding the Divine: Albrech Dürer's Praying Hands and the Branding of Iconography
Authors: Morris Pamela K. , Maslakowski Katya
Published: March 2013

In 1508, artist Albrech Dürer sketched a life-study of a pair of hands clasped in prayer. Over 500 years later, the Betende Hände can be found all over the United States in the form of knickknacks in private homes and civic statues, and online. The phenomenon is an interesting case study of popular religion, consumer culture, and the intersections of public and private worship. Using a blend of advertising and branding theory and iconographic theory, this paper proposes to illuminate the ways that the Praying Hands of Dürer became a lasting symbol of popular devotion across a wide range of media.
The Cathar Mary Magdalene and the Sacred Feminine: Pop Culture Legend vs. Medieval Doctrine
Authors: Beavis Mary Ann
Published: March 2013

This study investigates the historical evidence for the widespread pop culture assertion, disseminated through popular histories, novels, and spiritual tourism, that the medieval Cathars of southern France treasured a tradition that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had children, and, as such, the holy couple provides a model for human marriage affirmative of the sacred feminine. The medieval sources indicate that while there are a few testimonies of Cathar belief in a spousal relationship between Christ and the Magdalene, and a notion of female deities married to the good God and his evil counterpart, these doctrines appear to be based on literalistic interpretations of scriptural passages and well-known Catholic metaphors. Although Christianity can benefit from the restoration of Mary Magdalene to her deserved apostolic status, the humanization of Jesus, the recognition of the female divine, and the affirmation of sexuality, medieval Cathar doctrines offer little support for these contemporary concerns.
What Makes a Working Paper in Economics Publishable?: A Tale from the Scientific Periphery
Authors: Teixeira Aurora A. C.
Published: March 2013

Research on scientific production and publications in the field of economics has positively boomed in the last few years. However, hardly any attention has been dedicated to the production of working papers and the consequences they may have within the institutions where they are produced. This paper provides a detailed analysis of the working papers produced and published from an institution that is relatively peripheral in terms of its production of research in economics. It mainly explores the probability of the working papers being published in peer-reviewed journals. Through the use of an extensive series of these working papers, produced between 1985 and the end of 2005, and through the estimation of a logistic regression model, it was concluded that the probability of international publication increases significantly when the working paper is recent and co-written with a researcher from a foreign institution. Such evidence suggests that for success in the ‘publish or perish’ world of scientific research, one has to be integrated into an international scientific network.
Recognizing Quebec in the Constitution of Canada: Using the Bilateral Constitutional Amendment Process
Authors: Cameron David R. , Krikorian Jacqueline D.
Published: March 2013

While there are many facets to Canada's perennial constitutional crisis, one issue dominates the debate: the recognition of the specificity of Quebec. The problem has been tackled but not resolved during a series of constitutional negotiations over the last forty years. Few believe that a further round of general constitutional discussions would successfully address this issue. A little-known provision in the Constitution could be employed, however, to begin the process of dealing with the challenge. Pursuant to section 43 of the Constitution Act, 1982, the governments of Quebec and Canada could adopt a bilateral constitutional amendment recognizing and entrenching French as the predominant language of the province and, in the process, effectively recognizing the Québécois nation in the Constitution of Canada. Constitutionalizing this contemporary reality would not only enhance the linguistic and cultural security of Quebec's francophone population by formally acknowledging the central element of the province's distinctive character but also ensure that the courts interpret the Constitution in a manner that both considers the interests of the francophone community and balances them with individual rights and freedoms in Quebec.
Ideas, interests, institutions and the history of Canadian bankruptcy law, 1867-1880
Authors: Telfer Thomas G.W.
Published: March 2013

Michael Trebilcock's scholarship has long recognized the importance of ideas, interests, and institutions in shaping policy. Taking the same analytical approach that Michael Trebilcock and Ninette Kelley use in their ground-breaking book on the history of Canadian immigration, which focuses on economic interests, contested ideas, and institutions, this article examines the Canadian historical experience to gain an understanding of the ideas, interests, and institutions that have been influential in shaping the evolution of Canadian bankruptcy law. Specifically, the article addresses the rise of Canadian bankruptcy legislation in the early post-Confederation period and its ultimate repeal in 1880. Bankruptcy law represented both a conflict of ideas over the morality of the bankruptcy discharge and a distinct divergence of interests between local and distant creditors over the advantages and disadvantages of a pro rata distribution. Institutional factors such as federalism, courts, and the emerging regulatory state also had an independent effect.
The Ambivalence of Jizz and Mirth: Herschel Henlere in British Music Hall and Variety, 1921–1964
Authors: Pierre Paul Matthew St
Published: March 2013

Novelty pianist, composer, parodist, and comedian Herschel Henlere (1890–1968), from Galt, Ontario, was part of a wave of Canadian artists that included Maud Allan, Beatrice Lillie, and Guy Lombardo who performed in British music hall and variety in the period 1890 to 1940. Although largely forgotten today, Henlere was a popular performer on the British music hall scene from 1920 to 1940. An eccentric comedian billed as ‘The Well-Known French-Canadian Pianist Entertainer’ and ‘The Mirthful Music Master,’ and shockingly known as ‘Jizz,’ signifying jazz and semen, Henlere was notorious for running long and typically appeared last on the bill so the curtain could close on him. A Salvador Dali look-alike, he drew on Surrealist and Dada aesthetics and on the ragtime, jazz, big band, and dance hall phenomena that were then sweeping Britain. Experimenting with percussive sound, he anticipated the prepared piano of John Cage. Henlere secured an original creative agency for himself and promoted a distinctive Canadian brand of showmanship overseas.
Exis-tensions: Surviving the Red Shoes Syndrome in Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle
Authors: Kapuscinski Kiley
Published: March 2013

As the earliest and most sustained of Atwood’s attempts to examine the potentially deadly conflict between a woman’s artistry and female identities, Lady Oracle has often been read as a text that must necessarily be considered alongside Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s influential film, The Red Shoes. Yet absent from previous analyses is a discussion of how this conflict is perpetuated though the female artist tradition, and how Joan Delacourt’s habitual overeating indicates her self-destruction, rather than her self-empowerment, in the face of conflict. Moreover, while Joan’s obesity aligns with the self-harm anticipated by what Atwood terms ‘the Red Shoes syndrome,’ her projecting her creative talents onto alternate identities can be read as a dissociative survival strategy that, for a time, permits her to maintain her divided identity as a woman artist.
The Fictional Autobiographical Pact: Dunstan Ramsay’s Poetic Autobiography of Magnus Eisengrim
Authors: Braz Albert
Published: March 2013

Robertson Davies is not usually perceived as a radical writer, either politically or stylistically, but he is subversive in the way he privileged fiction over non-fiction. At a time when the factual and the fictive tend to be conflated into amorphous ‘narrative,’ Davies insists on a distinction between the two, favouring the imaginative over the archival. In the Deptford Trilogy he has Dunstan Ramsay ghostwrite the Phantasmata: The Life and Adventures of Magnus Eisengrim , violating the central tenet of life-writing, that author and narrator must be identical in autobiography. Through Ramsay, Davies makes the case that, despite its obvious deviations from the historical record, this ‘poetic’ autobiography of Eisengrim captures the magician’s essence in a way that is truer than a more ‘factual’ life.
How to Build a Haunted Nation: The ‘Cheerful Ghosts’ of Robertson Davies’ High Spirits
Authors: Johnson Brian
Published: March 2013

A focus on the ‘affectionate parodies’ of classic English ghost stories that Davies wrote and performed for the Massey College Gaudy Nights reveals the national subtext of ghosts and haunting in Robertson Davies’ fiction. Complicating Frank Davey’s critique of the notoriously Eurocentric ‘post-nationalism’ of Davies’ satires of Canadian identity and culture, this paper sees Davies’ annual production of Canadian ghosts as a cosmopolitan but still national project of imagining a Canadian identity that would be permanently and productively haunted by spectres of a ‘marvellous’ European past. The ‘cheerful ghosts’ that populate Davies’ light-hearted parodies of English ghost stories are, moreover, important precursors to a tradition of homely ( heimlich ) gothic that has become central to debates over the politics of post-colonial gothic in Canadian literature and culture in recent years. Davies’ ritual invention and recitation of these ghost stories set in Massey College, I argue, constitutes a liminal version of Canadian cultural nationalism that revealingly epitomizes the rhetorical strategies of an uncritical settler post-colonialism that imagines Canada as a nation reassuringly haunted by its ancestral ghosts.
‘The Marchbanks Archive’ : Editing the Marchbanks Series
Authors: Irvine Dean
Published: March 2013

In his introduction to the 1985 omnibus edition of the Marchbanks series, Robertson Davies promised to ‘equip the work of Marchbanks with what is called “a scholarly apparatus.”’ The apparatus to that volume is the closest that an ‘editor’ has come to producing a scholarly edition of Davies’ fiction. Editors have compiled selected volumes of his non-fiction, his correspondence, and his quotations, but none of his editors has attempted to play the scholarly role that the author himself so thoroughly – albeit gently – mocked in the final instalment of the Marchbanks series. Despite Davies’ evident amusement at the idea of equipping his writings with a scholarly apparatus, this essay foolishly proposes a theoretical model for a scholarly edition of the Marchbanks series.
Cost-Effective and Scalable DNA Extraction Method from Dried Blood Spots
Authors: Saavedra-Matiz Carlos A , Isabelle Jason T , Biski Chad K , Duva Salvatore J , Sweeney Melissa L , Parker April L , Young Allison J , DiAntonio Lisa L , Krein Lea M , Nichols Matthew J , Caggana Michele
Published: March 2013

BACKGROUND

Dried blood spot (DBS) samples have been widely used in newborn screening (NBS) for the early identification of disease to facilitate the presymptomatic treatment of congenital diseases in newborns. As molecular genetics knowledge and technology progresses, there is an increased demand on NBS programs for molecular testing and a need to establish reliable, low-cost methods to perform those analyses. Here we report a flexible, cost-efficient, high-throughput DNA extraction method from DBS adaptable to small- and large-scale screening settings.

METHODS

Genomic DNA (g.DNA) was extracted from single 3-mm diameter DBS by the sequential use of red cell lysis, detergent-alkaline, and acid-neutralizing buffers routinely used in whole blood and plant tissue DNA extractions. We performed PCR amplification of several genomic regions using standard PCR conditions and detection methods (agarose gel, melting-curve analysis, TaqMan-based assays). Amplicons were confirmed by BigDye® Terminator cycle sequencing and compared with reference sequences.

RESULTS

High-quality g.DNA was extracted from hundreds of DBS, as proven by mutation detection of several human genes on multiple platforms. Manual and automated extraction protocols were validated. Quantification of g.DNA by Oligreen® fluorescent nucleic acid stain demonstrated a normal population distribution closely corresponding with white blood cell counts detected in newborn populations.

CONCLUSIONS

High-quality, amplifiable g.DNA is extractable from DBSs. Our method is adaptable, reliable, and scalable to low- and high-throughput NBS at low cost ($0.10/sample). This method is routinely used for molecular testing in the New York State NBS program.
Madeleine’s medals: Unlimited imperialism, unspeakable crimes
Authors: Adriaensens Dirk , Baker Raymond
Published: March 2013

The calculated destruction of Iraq will rank as one of the greatest war crimes of the twenty-first century. The fateful decisions that knowingly ‘ended’ the Iraq state, decimated Iraqi society and killed hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens were taken over
the course of more than a decade. The United States led the assault on Iraq. It did so for reasons of empire. The new Iraq, compliant with US global and Israeli regional dominance, would implant American imperial power in the very heart of the oil-rich and strategically critical Arab world.
American exceptionalism, a particularly virulent form of nationalism, would empower a bold leadership as ‘history-makers’, who would step out of history to create a new ‘unlimited imperialism’. Even lost wars would be profitable. In addition to the classic patterns
of resource extraction from targeted territories, the military-industrial-congressional complex would secure war-making resources and windfall profits from a fearful, compliant US population, stripped of safety nets and basic services. An understanding of the common cause of movements of resistance
to imperialism in the centre and in targeted sites like Iraq in the periphery is emerging. Hope lies with these mass movements of ordinary citizens and dissident intellectuals in both the Arab world and the West, in the US and in Iraq. They will come to recognize in each other victims of the
same structures of domination. From them will come cooperative actions to expose the lies and disrupt the machinery of the new unlimited imperialism that revealed itself in such obscene ways in Iraq.