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Reimagining ‘role’ and ‘character’: An approach to acting training for role-play simulation in the tertiary education setting
Authors: Arrighi Gillian , Irvine Clare , Joyce Brian , Haracz Kirsti
Published: December 2018

The efficacy of role-play simulation (RPS) education rests on its ability to comprehensively reflect real-life situations. The goal is to create immersive events or situations that enable a student to spontaneously respond in a controlled environment that nevertheless reflects their anticipated work experience. While an extensive body of literature exists that reports on the aims, working methods and outcomes of RPS across empirically based disciplines such as medicine and health, law, business, social work, engineering, management, and education, very little research has been published on appropriate or possible training models for the ‘actors’ in RPS. Reporting on a multi-part, interdisciplinary action research project based at the University of Newcastle, Australia, across the subject areas of drama and pharmacy (2012), and later occupational therapy (2013–18), this article examines an actor-training method that reimagines approaches to developing ‘role’ and ‘character’ in RPS and evaluates the outcomes for student learning.
Spectres des Monstres: Post-postmodernisms, hauntology and creepypasta narratives as digital fiction
Authors: Ondrak Joe
Published: December 2018

Horror has always been adaptable to developments in media and technology; this is clear in horror tales from Gothic epistolary novels to the ‘found footage’ explosion of the early 2000s via phantasmagoria and chilling radio broadcasts such as Orson Welles’ infamous War of the Worlds (1938). It is no surprise, then, that the firm establishment of the digital age (i.e. the widespread use of Web2.0 spaces the proliferation of social media and its integration into everyday life) has created venues not just for interpersonal communication, shared interests and networking but also the potential for these venues to host a new type of horror fiction: creepypasta. However, much of the current academic attention enjoyed by digital horror fiction and creepypasta has focused on digital media’s ability to remediate a ‘folk-like’ storytelling style and an emulation of word-of-mouth communication primarily associated with urban legends and folk tales. Here, I intend to argue that creepypasta should primarily be considered a form of digital fiction due to its ability to spread narratives in a way distinct to digital textuality and intrinsically linked to the affordances of digital media. In this article, I will treat creepypasta narratives as a genre specific to the form of digital fiction – specifically a ‘fourth generation’ of digital fiction – in which ‘the [social media] platform is a significant part of the aesthetic expression and the meaning potential’ of these stories. I will argue that the affordances of social media, and the way in which they are taken advantage of by creepypasta narratives situate the phenomenon as an example of post-postmodern storytelling that embodies traits of Jeffrey Nealon’s ‘Post-postmodernism’, Alan Kirby’s ‘Digimodernism’ and Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker’s ‘Metamodernism’. I will suggest that this postpostmodern cultural turn works hand in hand with the resurgence of a cultural ‘hauntology’ to coalesce in creepypasta as a unique type of text. While creepypasta’s hauntological qualities have previously been noted by Line Henriksen, this article will explore a relationship between creepypasta and post-postmodernism that has not yet been acknowledged. Ultimately, I will attest that the above theories describe (sometimes overlapping) symptoms of an emerging cultural period that relate to creepypasta’s meaning potential and its formal and aesthetic properties. Observations from all three theories of a post-postmodern age coalesce in creepypasta narratives, from the specific qualities of digital textuality and the unique properties of different social media platforms on which these narratives are hosted (YouTube, Reddit, webforums and so on) to the metatextuality of creepypasta works and how they depart from and retain a dialogue with postmodern horror narratives. While the cultural landscape is still in flux and what will come after postmodernism has yet to be determined, creepypasta narratives tell us that a post-postmodern age has already arrived.
Haunted objects, networked subjects: The nightmarish nostalgia of creepypasta
Authors: Cooley Kevin , Milligan Caleb Andrew
Published: December 2018

In this article, we argue that the digitally networked horror genre ‘creepypasta’ and its networked horror collapses the comfortable dichotomy of subjects acting upon objects by creating narrative spaces in which haunted objects encroach upon the lives of their victimized subjects. Particularly, creepypasta legends such as ‘Candle Cove’ and ‘BEN Drowned’ upset the subject/object relationships of the technological nostalgia that fuels a mutating genre of Internet discourse. By alienating mythologized childhood artefacts (i.e., television shows, video games), these networked narratives depict not how properties can be made strange, but more accurately, are revealed as having always been strange. The perversion of the nostalgic text is only one part of what generates horror in these stories. It is that the texts themselves were always the perversions to begin with; always performing an eradication of object and subject, player and game, reader and text.
8-bit nostalgia and the uncanny: Horror as critique in Twine games
Authors: Osborne Heather
Published: December 2018

As the video game medium has matured, nostalgia for earlier games and systems has grown, including through commodification of nostalgia by video game companies. Nostalgia contrasts a constructed ideal past in tension with an inadequate present. This doubled structure echoes how the uncanny distorts familiar spaces with unfamiliar dread. I explore how three indie Twine games create horror through their rhetorical and mechanical appeal to nostalgia. Tom McHenry’s Horse Master (2013) problematizes players’ empathy in resource sims; Michael Lutz’s the uncle who works for nintendo (2014a) examines the dangers of over-immersion in video games; and Christine Love’s Even Cowgirls Bleed (2013) critiques violent gameplay mechanics by taking them to their horrific extreme. These games’ aesthetic, mechanical, and thematic appeal to players’ nostalgia leads to a defamiliarization and ironization of the familiar, resulting in an uncanny horror. As a result, these games use the horror genre to critique unproblematized and commodified nostalgia in the video game community.
Zombies and the viral web
Authors: Macfarlane Karen E.
Published: December 2018

Zombies are ubiquitous in twenty-first-century culture, and are generally read, as many monsters are, as metaphors for such anxieties as the horrors of mechanized labour, of unbridled consumerism, of global pandemics and on and on .... In this article, I argue that the zombie’s multiple and hybrid origins and metonymic associations make it a monster for the digital age. As posthuman fantasies of disembodiment become increasingly more possible, the corporeality of the zombie functions as a reminder of the fundamentally embodied nature of our experiences with and in cyberspace. In this sense, I argue, the zombie functions as a sign for the horrors of networked culture and its terrifying potential for monstrous replication.
‘Would you like to meet a ghost?’: Repetition and spectral posthumanism in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Kairo
Authors: Lovasz Adam
Published: December 2018

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 film, Kairo (Pulse), is an enigmatic piece of cinema. Even its genre cannot be neatly delineated. Part horror film, part art-house cinema, part social commentary, Kairo has a quality all of its own. While some commentators have identified the particular style of directing peculiar to the ‘other’ Kurosawa, even finding this mode of directing to be compatible with auteur modes of filmmaking, I seek to capture the singularity of the film’s content. In spite of the fact that Kurosawa as a director is notably repetitious in his choice of themes, the circumstance of repetition, as Gilles Deleuze reminds us in his 1969 book, Difference and Repetition, does not preclude the singular, evental nature of any and all such repetitions. Here I understand the phrase ‘repetition’ in the Deleuzian sense of the term, denoting a pure ‘difference without a concept’. Repetition is difference as it actualizes itself in the world. According to the Deleuzian view, underneath laws and generalities there may be found countless layers of singularities, processes and becomings that cannot be easily accessed. Obscurity, as I hope to show through numerous examples from Kairo’s screenplay, seems to be a pervasive phenomenon in Kurosawa’s apocalyptic vision of cybernetic society. Instead of connecting human beings with one another, information and communication technologies come to serve as conduits for spectral presences that produce new forms of disappearance. Productivity, far from being opposed to absence, is transformed during the course of the film into the virally proliferating production of nothing. For Deleuze, signs become deadly when they strike ‘with full force’. When the absolutely other strikes into the very heart of our Being, our very existence is endangered by machineries of abyssal replication. Every single character in Kairo is alienated from themselves and one another. The only vital, functioning form of community is, perversely, the realm of the dead, mediated by the transgressive power of cybernetic networks. As Valerie Wee has pointed out, the sense of lost community and the decline of tradition seems to be a salient theme of Kurosawa’s Kairo, as opposed to its rather more shallow 2006 American remake. Registering the circumstance of cultural decline and societal extinction, a very real phenomenon in early twenty-first-century Japan, should not be equated, however, with some form of nostalgic pining for a bygone era. Rather, I propose that we view Kairo as a deeply philosophical meditation on the posthuman condition, and the immanent possibilities of haunting repetitions lying beyond representation.
Writing democracy: An end of author ‘turn’?: From ‘fake news’ to ‘fake democratization'
Authors: Sadiki Larbi
Published: December 2018

This article problematizes questions of ontology and epistemology in the context of the study of norm-making primarily within academia (with special reference to democratization) and secondarily within media. It showcases this via description of an ongoing QNRF-funded project on democratic learning in seven Muslim countries. Through these examples, it pitches the discussion to elaborate the utility of concepts and ideas drawn from post-structuralism, namely, those having to do with discourse, identity and norms being unstable. It refers to Barthes’s notion of ‘the death of the author’ and Derrida’s ideas about the indeterminacy of linguistic forms, and the chain of signs and signifiers used to record representations and interpretations of shifting realities. This offers a welcome escape from rationalist methods, suggesting that in social constructivism and discourse analysis democratization studies would benefit from a firmer grip on understandings of norm-making via the study of speech acts and discourse. This is presented as a ‘middle ground’ that balances structure and agency with respect to the ‘chain’ of journeys in the travel of democracy.
Civic resilience during conflict: Syria’s local councils
Authors: Saleh Layla
Published: December 2018

With the ‘return of the state’ in Syria, Assad’s ‘resilience’ is a puzzle increasingly broached in both media and academic discourses. This article seeks to turn such an approach on its head, examining the resilience not of the state, but of bottom-up Syrian popular mobilization and organization. Persistent if changing Syrian civic modes and practices are thus mediated by conflict, but also part and parcel of ongoing resistance against the authoritarian state. A survey of Syrians’ ‘revolutionary’ media landscape reveals a set of shifting emphases. Appeals soliciting global support for an uprising seeking freedom and dignity give way to lamentations over disappointed yet tenacious Syrian aspirations. The article then explores Syrian ‘democratic learning’ through a mini-case study of opposition-controlled local councils. Drawing on original interview data, it argues that these councils exhibit ‘civic resilience’ as they navigate and adopt international norms discourses to protest and resist not just Assad but also international actors, and gradually take up democratic processes including elections. Despite uncertainty with respect to its institutional dividends in Syria, ‘democratic learning’ is a promising, understudied area for further exploration in the bloody politics of the country’s uprising.
Elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran: A source of democratic learning and moderation
Authors: Ghobadzadeh Naser
Published: December 2018

Elections held under Iran’s ruling clergy have always been manipulated and have hardly been free and fair. A simple reference to Iran’s current political situation attests to the fact that these elections have not proven to be a force for democratization of the political system. However, this article suggests that the very existence of electoral procedures in the Islamic Republic effectively split the Islamists, giving their left-wing faction a new chance of survival in Iran’s political milieu. This by extension resulted in behavioural and ideological moderation, and in the formation of a new version of political Islam that accommodates democratic norms within an Islamic framework. Exploring the politico-religious transformation of Iran’s reformist Islamists, this article argues that the inclusion-moderation hypothesis could be effectively utilized to trace and explicate their politico-religious trajectory. Furthermore, the semi-competitive nature of elections in Iran has on more than one occasion generated uncertainty. Not only has this outcome taken the regime to the brink, but it has also opened up spaces in which citizens occasionally, if not permanently, entertain democratic learning. Based on interviews with 80 political activists in Iran, this article argues that the electoral politics has seeded democratic norms in the minds of the believers.
Malaysia’s breakthrough election: Dynamics of democratic learning and coalition building
Authors: Rahim Lily Zubaidah
Published: December 2018

Malaysia’s Pakatan Haparan coalition unexpectedly defeated the Barisan National (National Front) coalition government in the May 2018 general election. This electoral breakthrough defied the predictions of seasoned political observers and leading opinion polls, bucked international trends in the direction of authoritarian resilience and political backsliding and overcame the advantages of gerrymandering, malapportionment and entrenched incumbency. The article attempts to make sense of Pakatan Harapan’s startling electoral feat by employing frameworks which centre on elections as a mode of democratic transition and democratic learning. Malaysia’s 2018 electoral breakthrough is placed within the context of earlier competitive elections and the struggle of Pakatan Harapan coalition and democratic civil society to maintain cohesion – between, during and after election campaigns. Also considered are the role of ‘recycled elites’ and civil society in reshaping electoral contests through the processes of democratic learning, narrative construction and the reformulation of nation-building paradigms.
Harakat Mujtama’ al-Silm: Democratic learning in Algeria
Authors: Bouandel Youcef
Published: December 2018

The article compares and contrasts the discourses and contexts of democracy in Algeria since the electoral processes of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The aim is to understand how rapidly changing acceptance of democratic norms is managed in media interaction and more formal academic expressions, linking this to new political and religious cultures that accepts democracy. This discussion provides opportunities for the study of moderate political Islam. Thus, the article looks at empirical evidence from Algeria’s Movement for Society and Peace’s (MSP) new forms of interpreting democracy and practicing it within this Islamist party that has had MPs in the National Assembly since the cessation of civil war in the late 1990s. The article argues that Algeria’s moderate Islamists appear to have undergone important transformations at the level of ideas and practices, specifically with respect to civic values. In so doing, this Islamist party has attempted to widen its political appeal to voters, through ideas that view democracy and Islam as compatible.
Media and learning democracy: The face of emerging political activism in Egypt
Authors: Moussa Mohammed
Published: December 2018

Popular protests erupted in Egypt at the start of the second decade of the twentyfirst century, inspired by similar uprisings in the Arab world. The formation of political parties following the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak allowed a variety of Islamist actors to enter the political field with relative ease. Youth activists and groups employed bottom-up activism in a process that Larbi Sadiki has described to be ‘democratic learning’. In this article, I will explore the process through which Egyptian political actors, from an Islamist background, learnt democracy in a local context. Democracy is understood here in a decentred fashion: it is not necessarily tied to the institutional structures of the modern state. I shall examine Hizb al-Tayyar al-Masry (Egyptian Current Party) between 2011 and 2013 supplemented by other displays of democratic collective agency in the examples of Hizb Misr al-Qawiyya (Strong Egyptian Party) and al-Thawra Mustamirra (The Revolution Continues) alliance. I will explore how the forms of media practices deployed by activists were a key component of a broader revolutionary strategy of civic mobilization. An emerging generation of political activism based on inclusiveness and participation was evident in media practices at the grassroots and party-political levels.
‘She is, after all, a woman’: Uncovering gender bias in the Tunisian women candidates’ radio interviews
Authors: Othman Raoudha Ben
Published: December 2018

Tunisia’s parity law promises the empowerment of women politicians and a greater chance for them to play a direct and significant role in Tunisia’s second republic. Testing for ‘democratic learning’ at work in Tunisia’s expanding media space, an analysis of media coverage of women candidates in the last municipal elections indicates that lingering sexism towards women candidates is deep and alive. The examination of 32 interviews of women candidates during the 2018 municipal election campaign reveals the covert bias that affects images of women candidates. The analysis indicates that there was a considerable amount of negative coverage of women candidates and that such coverage aims to cast doubt not only on women’s suitability for office. Further, the analysis suggests a determination by the political elite to retain political knowledge in small circles and not disclose it to open discussion. This study also finds that covert gender bias is buried under an avalanche of polarized discourse – Islamists vs. secularists – that journalists through their gatekeeping roles not only use but also reinforce. Tunisia’s media is not playing a leading role in the country’s ongoing processes of democratic learning.
Film reviews
Authors: Urban Maria Bonaria , Tabanelli Roberta
Published: December 2018

Pagine Nascoste, Sabrina Varani (2017), Italy: Audiovisual Archive of the Worker and Democrat Movement (AAMOD) and B&B Film, in collaboration with Istituto Luce Cinecittà

Ghetto PSA, Rossella Schillaci (2016), Italy: AzulFilm, Unafilm, Film Commission Turin and Italian Minister of Culture-MigrArti
At the margins of Rome, at the margins of the world: The Hawks and the Sparrows and Sacro GRA as peripatetic analyses of capitalist society
Authors: Sartoni Eleonora
Published: December 2018

This article examines the depiction of Rome’s periphery in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Uccellacci e Uccellini (The Hawks and the Sparrows) (1966) and in Gianfranco Rosi’s Sacro GRA (2013) by focusing on the types of shots, montage and the role of sound. In both films, the directors’ cinematic use of specific, local non-places offers the possibility to reflect not only on the margins of the Italian capital, but also on the global effects of consumerism and capitalism. Marc Augé’s theory informs the analysis of the process of homogenization that non-places and international architecture activate in the Italian territory and beyond. Moreover, this article both investigates the crisis of national identity in the postcolonial era and proposes an alternative way of dwelling in the world (as proposed by Rosi’s film) that touches upon ecocriticism, Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis and Pasolini’s ‘cinema of poetry’.
Reframing Japanese animation’s success in the late 1970s: UFO Robo Grendizer at the origin of the first anime boom in Italy and France
Authors: Pellitteri Marco
Published: December 2018

In most contributions on the history of Japanese animation overseas, the main focus is on the success of the series or movies; on fans and their practices; on piracy; etc. At times, however, researchers ought to use different frameworks. It is here that the analysis of creative industries can step in. Here a concrete case is reconstructed. In 1978, the animated series UFO Robo Grendizer (1975–77, Tōei Dōga) was broadcast in Italy and France. Its success led to a great amount of merchandising, media coverage and a public debate. Its impact paved the way for hundreds more anime series. The article discusses the role of the traders involved in the transactions between Tōei Dōga and European producers. It will be demonstrated how a few intuitional individuals took their chances in a, back then, growing and competitive television market, and placed a show that ignited a cultural and commercial boom.
‘I’m blind, not deaf!’: Hegemonic soundscapes and resistant hearing in Dario Argento’s Suspiria and Inferno
Authors: Pollard Damien
Published: December 2018

This article demonstrates that the soundscapes of Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977) and Inferno (1980) represent key battlegrounds upon which dominant, hegemonic forces face challenge from those who have learned to adopt insurgent modes of hearing. This article adopts a methodology of attending foremost to the diegetic soundscapes that Argento constructs: the soundscapes that are ostensibly audible to the characters within the diegesis. This methodology avoids the critical tendency within studies of Argento to fixate on his films’ visual or musical elements and reveals such soundscapes to be fundamental to the flows of power and resistance operative in each film. In Suspiria, the conflict between a hegemonic soundscape and a character’s rebellious hearing unfolds in a fairy tale microcosm, but in Inferno Argento expands the scope and the stakes of this tension, re-staging it in the historically and politically specific setting of a globalized, neo-liberal New York City.
Italiani Made in China: Defining Italianness in second-generation Chinese-Italians
Authors: Giuliani Chiara
Published: December 2018

In June 2015, the Italian TV channel Real Time launched a new programme titled Italiani Made in China, which follows the one-month journey to China of six young Chinese-Italians to familiarize with Chinese culture and meet relatives and friends. This article analyses the ways in which this experience is framed for an Italian audience, the selection of the cast and the extent to which Italiani Made in China contributes to the discourse on the presence of the Chinese community in Italy and more broadly on the presence of second generations. The discussion in this article also draws on Twitter, focusing in particular on how the channel’s official account used this medium to shape the reception of the programme. Through the analysis of this TV show, the article examines how elements of ‘Italianness’, or lack thereof, are used to understand and sometimes justify the complex relationship between Italians and Italy’s Chinese community in which the youngest generations of Chinese-Italians play a pivotal role.
‘Now she wanna lick my plum’: Azealia Banks and the undoing of antiblackness
Authors: Burton Justin Adams
Published: December 2018

In the first verse of Azealia Banks’s 2011 ‘212’, the singer tells us of a ‘she’ who wants to lick her ‘plum’. Banks commits to the encounter, announcing, ‘I guess that cunt gettin eaten’, then chanting the line over and over. After a few iterations, though, a filter sweep slowly swallows her voice, leaving the listener to fill in the rest of the chant’s vocals. Here, I consider this moment as a sonic ‘undoing’ of Banks’s vocals that results in her voice crossing over into listeners’ bodies. I contextualize this sonic undoing in terms of Karen Barad’s theory of ‘agential cuts’, which separate otherwise entangled matter, then filter this through Sylvia Wynter’s work on rebellion, which she defines as an undoing of the negation of ‘Black peoples in slave and postslave eras’. Listening alongside Wynter and Katherine McKittrick, I argue that Banks’s sonic undoing is also a rebellious performance of queer Black affirmation.
Diverging voices together: An interview with Sara Clethero
Authors: Bonenfant Yvon , Clethero Sara
Published: December 2018

This interview explores the experience of artistic director and music facilitator Sara Clethero within her engagement with voicings by persons with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). For 25 years, alongside the integrated singing practice of her teaching ensemble OperaMint she has facilitated singing groups for service users with ASD in residential contexts. Together, we explore the ways she feels that the kinds of singing practices she discovers alongside the service users are both unique and yet capable of engaging with musicality on similar terms to neuro-typical singers. We reflect on the particular qualities of this vocal ensemble and its social and vocalic implications.
From-ness: The identity of the practitioner in the laboratory
Authors: Erçin Nazlıhan Eda
Published: December 2018

This voicing is a self-reflexive response to the following questions which I often find myself pondering: Where is identity located within an intercultural laboratory of performance research? How does one circumnavigate the stereotype in encounters with culturally familiar material? As a performer/researcher of auto-ethnographic performance with a training practice in psycho-physical theatre, I find myself being challenged by specific source materials such as songs, images or texts which are associated with specific identity categories. This piece traces that challenge across my work by meditating on songs as identity-associated multisensory cultural material. One particular song, ‘Şişeler’, which I extensively worked with in the context of Judaica Project, leads my discussion.
‘No I don’t like where you come from, it’s just a satellite of London’: High Wycombe, the Sex Pistols and the punk transformation
Authors: James Martin
Published: December 2018

The journey from proto-punk to punk occurred at high speed in many of London’s satellite towns. Among these, the town of High Wycombe in the home counties offers a narrative that can trace an involvement in the earliest stages of that journey as a result of performances by leading British punk group the Sex Pistols. This article explores three Sex Pistols-related events that are used to map three clear phases of the proto-punk to punk transformation. The first wave notes the blurred lines in the fluid symbiotic relationships between proto-punk in London and its satellite towns. Drawing on Crossley, I note that London’s networked punk ‘music world’ was reliant on both cultural commuters and activities in the provinces. I propose a further, fluid notion of transivity that shows the relationship between local and ‘commuter’ punks is needed. The second wave shows the damaging aspect to High Wycombe’s punk identity as, due to its close proximity to London, many if its key actors would move to the capital as soon as they were able to. They escaped from the ‘boredom’ of High Wycombe – the commuter town – to go to the ‘excitement’ of cosmopolitan London to live their dreams. The third wave reveals a moment of class and regional cohesion, through which a High Wycombe Punk identity emerges during the summer of 1977. This occurs among the first and second wave participants who remained and the newer school-aged punks. Finally, the article introduces the local punk terrain beyond the timeline under investigation. Here, regional and class difference became played out through violent interactions between Wycombe punks and skins, and punk scenes from other towns. Here we see the assertion of ‘Wycombe Punk’ as a type.
Punk fanzine culture and civil protest among Israeli youth
Authors: Heilbronner Oded
Published: December 2018

Punk fanzines in Israel peaked in the late 1980s and the first half of the 1990s with the appearance of a few dozen titles. These fanzines were the product of an urban culture that had developed in the suburban central-Israel towns, created by teenagers with a strong attraction to European and American popular culture. The immediate influences on the fanzine culture were punk, which permeated Israel at the time - increasing exposure to western popular culture - and the liberal-civic perceptions that spread among various sectors of Israeli society, primarily among the middle class. Fanzine culture was hence a specific, yet critical, aspect of the ‘cultural revolution’ that prevailed in Israel, characterized by the downfall of the old order of the established bourgeois hegemonies, and the rise of a new cultural order.
DIY in Devon (Exeter and Plymouth)
Authors: Deane Dominic
Published: December 2018

Regional cities are usually not widely known for their music scenes and live music spaces. In the historical context of DIY music scenes and youth cultures, communities are bounded by larger metropolitan areas and cities. However, this scene report will analyse a series of thoughts and interviews in discussing some of the important aspects of production in smaller DIY music scenes. This case study focuses on the medium-sized cities of Exeter and Plymouth in Devon, in the southwest of England. In examining some of the cultural identities, challenges and expressions of self-organization from labels, magazines and musicians, it reveals how alternative micro-scenes are forged through DIY practices within smaller communities.
Book Reviews
Authors: Robinson Lucy , Stewart Francis , Cross Rich , Loydell Rupert , Loderer Josef , Worley Matthew
Published: December 2018

Punk Pedagogies: Music, Culture and Learning, Gareth Dylan Smith, Mike Dines and Tom Parkinson (eds) (2017) London: Routledge, 236 pp., ISBN: 978-1-13827-988-9, p/bk, £29.99

The Punk Reader: Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global, Mike Dines, Alastair ‘Gords’ Gordon and Paula Guerra (eds) (2017) Porto: University of Porto Press and the Punk Scholars Network, 328 pp., ISBN: 978-9-89864-879-2, p/bk, £50

International Anthem, Gee Vaucher (2018) London: Exitstencil Press, 132 pp., ISBN: 978-0-94638-117-3, p/bk, £35.00

All Gates Open: The Story of Can, Rob Young and Irmin Schmidt (2018) London: Faber, 572 pp., ISBN: 978-0-57131-149-1, h/bk, £25.00

Hard-Core: Life Of My Own, Harley Flanagan (2016) Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, 444 pp., ISBN 978-1-62731-033-8, p/bk, $23.95

The Punk Turn in Comedy: Masks of Anarchy, Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone (2018) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 254 pp., ISBN: 978-3-31973-840-7, h/bk, £75
Album Review
Authors: Bestley Russ
Published: December 2018

Burning Britain: A Story of Independent UK Punk 1980–1983, 4CD box set, London: Cherry Red, £29.99
Festival Review
Authors: Mego Paul
Published: December 2018

Muddy Roots Music Festival, Cookeville, Tennessee, 30 August–3 September 2018
Effect of nursing teaching program on knowledge and self-management behaviors for patients with essential hypertension
Authors: Abd Alaleam Shymaa Helmy Ahmed , Mohammad Zeinab Abd El-Latif , El-dien Mohammed Hossam , Zaki Azer Sahra
Published: December 2018

Background: Essential hypertension is the most common cardiovascular disease (CVD), affecting about one billion individuals worldwide.Aim of the study: was to evaluate the effect of nursing teaching program on knowledge and self-management behaviors for patients with essential hypertension. Study design; quasi-experimental research design was utilized to conduct this study.Setting: The study was conducted in the internal medicine department and outpatient clinics at Assiut University Hospital.Sample: Sixty adult patients of both sexes divided equally into 2 groups study and control group (thirty for each). Tools; four tools were used for data collection; Patients, assessment sheet, Hypertension Knowledge-Level Scale (HK-LS), Hypertension Self-Management Be-havior Questionnaire (HSMBQ)â€ and Nursing Teaching Program. Results; the majority of the study and control groups were female (83.3%, 66.7%), married (80.0%, 86.7%), illiterate (66.7%, 60.0), and house wives (83.3%, 63.3%).Conclusion: Nursing teaching program was effective in improving patientsâ€™ knowledge and self-management behaviors. Recommenda-tions; educational program should be planned and offered to patients on regular basis. Simple booklets should be available for patients to provide them with simple explanation about the disease.Â
Critical Care Nursesâ€™ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceived Barriers towards Pressure Injuries Prevention
Authors: Batiha Abdul-Monim
Published: December 2018

Background: Pressure injuries are a considerable problem for hospitalized critically ill and elderly patients, as such injuries produce pain, and reduce total wellbeing, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality, as well as often extending those patientsâ€™ hospital staysPurpose: The purpose of this study was to determine critical care nurses knowledge, attitudes, and perceived barriers toward pressure injuries prevention.Design: A descriptive cross-sectional survey was performed, using a questionnaire method to critical care nursesâ€™. The study took place between August and October 2017 and involved ten hospitals: two university hospital, six public hospitals, and two private hospitals.Â Â Methods: Data were collected by means of a questionnaire using two valid and reliable instruments: i) the Pressure Ulcer Knowledge Assessment Tool 2â‹…0, and ii) Attitude Toward Pressure Ulcer Prevention and two newly developed instruments sociodemographic and perceived barriers toward pressure injury prevention.Results: The entire mean knowledge score for the participants was 54.9%, and overall high attitude scores were 76.7%. Level of education, years employed in a critical care unit, training received on pressure injury prevention, and the number of papers read on pressure injury prevention was all identified as having a significant and independent effect on participantsâ€™ knowledge concerning prevention of pressure injuries. To evaluate the effect of demographic characteristics on nursesâ€™ attitudes, the only significant variable was "years of employment in critical care units". Shortage of staff was the most commonly cited barrier faced by critical care nursesâ€™ during practice.
Políticas de inclusión educativa en Chile: Tres nudos críticos
Authors: López Verónica , Gonzalez Pablo , Manghi Dominique , Ascorra Paula , Oyanedel Juan Carlos , Redón Silva , Leal Francisco , Salgado Mauricio
Published: December 2018

Habiendo logrado los desafíos de cobertura tras políticas de obligatoriedad y un sistema de financiamiento vía subvención a la demanda condicionada a la matrícula y asistencia, pero enfrentado al escenario de la segregación escolar, Chile ha decidido abrazar el sueño de una educación inclusiva y de calidad. En este artículo identificamos y analizamos tres nudos críticos que afectan las posibilidades de movilizarse hacia una educación inclusiva de calidad: a) una tensión entre la lógica de la integración e inclusión educativa, b) un modelo basado en el mercado que no considera los valores públicos, y c) una nueva arquitectura educacional, basada en la lógica de la rendición de cuentas individual, que coloca la posibilidad de mejoramiento educativo en sistemas de incentivos individuales atados al logro de pruebas de alto rendimiento. Discutimos la necesidad de abordar y destrabar estos nudos desde la investigación transdisciplinaria.
Políticas estudiantiles en la formación docente: Problemas pedagógicos y debates en perspectiva suramericana
Authors: Birgin Alejandra , Vassiliades Alejandro
Published: December 2018

En el marco del proceso de ampliación matricular de la formación docente (en el contexto de la expansión del nivel superior), algunos países de América Latina han desarrollado políticas dirigidas específicamente a la población estudiantil de las instituciones de formación docente. En este artículo analizamos cómo estas políticas traen nuevas preguntas al campo de la formación de maestros y profesores, ligadas a los modos en que se interpela a los “nuevos” estudiantes y sus efectos en la construcción de posiciones docentes. Para ello, abordamos una serie de discursos puestos a circular por organismos internacionales (con marcada influencia en la región), que coinciden en describir a los futuros docentes como sujetos deficitarios. A la vez, recorremos un conjunto de políticas estudiantiles que asumieron orientaciones diversas respecto del derecho a la educación de esas poblaciones y acerca del derecho de sus futuros alumnos. Entendemos que esas políticas y discursos tienen efectos en la configuración de posiciones docentes respecto de la inclusión educativa.
Ensino médio, o ensino pela metade: Geografia da negação de um direito
Authors: Esteves Luiz Carlos Gil
Published: December 2018

Quem são as vítimas pelo não cumprimento das leis que determinam a oferta estatal obrigatória e gratuita de ensino a todos os jovens de 15 a 17 anos no Brasil? Partindo dessa pergunta, e com base nos dados de 2001 a 2015, da Pnad/IBGE, delineia-se um breve perfil de tais sujeitos, cujo contingente abarca hoje mais de 1,5 milhão de jovens. Em números absolutos, estes pertencem ao quartil mais depauperado da sociedade, são predominantemente negros e moradores das zonas urbanas das regiões Nordeste e Sudeste, sobretudo em SP, MG e BA. Em termos percentuais, são também os mais pobres e negros, estão nas áreas rurais do Nordeste, Centro-Oeste e Norte, nos estados do MS, RO e MT. Outro achado da pesquisa indica que nem a entrada em vigor da legislação que obriga a oferta de ensino a tais indivíduos, nem a implementação do Fundeb foram capazes de acelerar o ritmo de crescimento das matrículas no período. A despeito desse quadro, detectaram-se importantes indicadores de inclusão, expressos pela evidente incorporação de estratos da população historicamente mais afastados dos muros escolares, como os jovens da parcela de brasileiros mais pobres, de raça/cor negra, sobretudo a preta, e residentes nas áreas rurais.
La atención educativa de la población en Argentina en las últimas décadas: Entre la distribución ilusoria, la modernización eficientista y los discursos del derecho y la inclusión
Authors: Riquelme Graciela Clotilde , Herger Natalia , Sassera Jorgelina S.
Published: December 2018

El artículo se centra en los problemas acerca de la atención educativa a la población a lo largo del tiempo en Argentina, junto a la interpretación del papel del Estado y la orientación de las políticas públicas, y parte del reconocimiento de la educación como derecho social de la población al acceso a todos los niveles desde el inicial al universitario. La primera parte del análisis sostiene la idea de una cronicidad y agudización de la desigualdad, educativa desde los cambios operados en el denominado Estado Bienestar o social que sostuvo la distribución igualitaria gratuita de la educación como discurso de integración de los ciudadanos, al advenimiento de una política neoliberal y de modernización eficientista del Estado en los noventa que continúa como matriz de político-administrativa. La segunda parte aborda hallazgos de investigaciones de las autoras en las últimas décadas alrededor de los problemas de la población beneficiada y excluida de la educación y los resultados aluden a las diferencias provinciales, a las estimaciones de la deuda social educativa con la población infantil, adolescente y adulta y a las limitaciones de la aplicación de los programas de inclusión en territorios locales, donde se expresa la traducción de lo posible en las instituciones escolares.
Políticas de inclusión y extensión de la obligatoriedad escolar: Alcances, deudas y desafíos en la materialización del derecho a la educación
Authors: Gluz Nora , Oliveira Dalila Andrade , Lima Rodrigues Cibele Maria
Published: December 2018

Este texto introductorio presenta los ejes que orientan el dossier denominado de Políticas de Inclusión y Extensión de Obligación Escolar, organizado por el Grupo de Trabajo “Políticas educativas y derecho a la educación”, del Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO). Los artículos que lo componen muestran a través de resultados de investigación, los avances en la materialización del derecho a la educación, las dinámicas contradictorias que asume la ampliación de derechos en contextos de exclusión y la persistencia de desigualdades. A través del período que va desde la crisis del consenso de Washington hasta la actual restauración de las derechas en el mundo, los trabajos permiten problematizar los diferentes sentidos atribuidos a la “inclusión escolar” en las políticas educativas, las ambigüedades producto de los modos de apropiación de las mismas y los embates a los procesos de democratización de la educación donde las respuestas neoliberales han retornado con nuevos argumentos a la escena pública. La presentación de los trabajos se realizará en dos ediciones, sosteniendo la diversidad temática y de países en cada una de ellas, así como un equilibrio entre escritos más generales sobre las políticas y estudios de caso.
Kontaminasi Logam Berat Arsen, Mercury dan Magnesium pada Air Laut Sedimen dan Anadara inaequivalvis (Mollusca: Bivalvia, Bruguiera, 1792) di Perairan Brebes Jawa Tengah Indonesia
Authors: Suryono Chrisna Adhi , Widada Sugeng , Rochaddi Baskoro , Subagyo Subagyo , Setyati Wilis Ari , Susilo Endang Sri
Published: December 2018

Contamination of Heavy Metal Arsen, Mercury and Magnesium in the Seawater, Sedimen and Anadara inaequivalvis (Mollusca: Bivalvia, Bruguiera, 1792) in Brebes, Central Java, Indonesia Brebes coastal areas have been developed into industrial areas and human settlement.  It has been causing effect on coastal environmental.  Heavy metal is one of many source of pollution in coastal environmental.  In order to assess As, Hg and Mg contaminant on the Brebes coast, Central Java, samples of marine water, sediment and Anadara inaequivalvis specimens were collected for analyzed by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer (ICPMS).  The result showed that the heavy metal As, Hg and Mg were found in the sea water, sediment, and in the tissue of A. inaequivalvis.  The concentration of Mg was the highest compared to As and Hg in all samples.  Meanwhile As and Hg had the lowest concentration.  We concluded that Brebes coastal areas has been contaminated by heavy metals.  The bio-ability of bivalves to accumulate heavy metals depends on many factors such as geochemical and biological factors. Pesisir Brebes telah berkembang menjadi daerah industri dan tempat tinggal.  Hal tersebut tentunya akan memberi dampak pada lingkungan pesisir.  Logam berat perupakan salah satu penyebap pencemaran di lingkungan pesisir.  Untuk mengetahui kontaminasi As, Hg dan Mg di pesisir Brebes, maka beberapa sampel air laut, sedimen dan kerang A. inaequivalvis dianalisa menggunakan ICPMS.  Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa logam berat As, Hg dan Mg ditemukan dalam air laut, sedimen dan kerang A. inaequivalvis.  Konsentrasi Mg menunjukan nilai yang paling tinggi di semua sampel yang dianalisa.  Sedangkan konsentrasi As dan Hg menunjukan nilai yang rendah secara berurutan.  Hal ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa pesisir Brebes talah terkontaminasi oleh logam berat.  Kemampuan bivalvia unuk mengakumulasi logam tergantung banyak faktor seperti kondisi geokimiawi dan biologis.
The comparative biochemistry of viruses and humans: an evolutionary path towards autoimmunity
Authors: Kanduc Darja
Published: December 2018

Analyses of the peptide sharing between five common human viruses (Borna disease virus, influenza A virus, measles virus, mumps virus and rubella virus) and the human proteome highlight a massive viral vs. human peptide overlap that is mathematically unexpected. Evolutionarily, the data underscore a strict relationship between viruses and the origin of eukaryotic cells. Indeed, according to the viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis and in light of the endosymbiotic theory, the first eukaryotic cell (our lineage) originated as a consortium consisting of an archaeal ancestor of the eukaryotic cytoplasm, a bacterial ancestor of the mitochondria and a viral ancestor of the nucleus. From a pathologic point of view, the peptide sequence similarity between viruses and humans may provide a molecular platform for autoimmune crossreactions during immune responses following viral infections/immunizations.
Letzte Sorge, letzte Zuversicht
Authors: Fritz Martin
Published: December 2018

The bestseller The Courage to Be presents Tillich’s “concrete existential” notion of religion that is based on the key terms ‘anxiety’ and ‘courage’. This essay traces this idea’s long history in Tillichian thinking that reaches back to the mid-twenties lectures on dogmatics in Marburg and Dresden, and outlines its core elements, pointing out its contrast to Tillich’s earlier notion of religion as the mind’s intention on absolute meaning. Subsequently, the discussion moves to Tillich’s theorem of the double principle of ‘individualization and participation’, providing instructive insights into basic social presuppositions and types of religion, instructive especially in the present-day situation of religious pluralism.
Placental thickness on ultrasound and neonatal birthweight
Authors: Hamidi Odessa P. , Hameroff Avi , Kunselman Allen , Curtin William M. , Sinha Risha , Ural Serdar H.
Published: December 2018

Objective

To investigate the relationship between maximal placental thickness during routine anatomy scan and birthweight at delivery.

Methods

This retrospective descriptive study analyzed 200 term, singleton deliveries in 2016 at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. We measured maximal placental thickness in the sagittal plane from the ultrasound images of the placenta obtained at the 18–21-week fetal anatomy screen. The relationship between placental thickness and neonatal birthweight was assessed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r) with 95% confidence interval (CI). Logistic regression was used to assess the association between placental thickness and secondary binary outcomes of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission and poor Apgar scores. Two-sample t-tests, or exact Wilcoxon rank-sum test for non-normally distributed data, were used to assess for differences attributable to medical comorbidities (pre-gestational diabetes, gestational diabetes, chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia and eclampsia).

Results

Placental thickness had a positive correlation with neonatal birthweight [r=0.18, 95% CI=(0.05, 0.32)]. The mean placental thickness measured 34.2±9.7 mm. The strength of the correlation remained similar when adjusting for gestational age (r=0.20) or excluding medical comorbidities (r=0.19). There was no association between placental thickness and NICU admission, Apgar scores <7 or medical comorbidities.

Conclusion

Our study demonstrated a positive correlation between sonographic placental thickness and birthweight. Future prospective studies are warranted in order to further investigate whether a clinically significant correlation exists while adjusting for more covariates.