bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
La collezione cetologica di Stefano delle Chiaje presso il Gabinetto di Anatomia Generale e Patologica dell’Università di Napoli
Authors: Torino Marielva , Maio Nicola
Published: November 2014

Nel corso di una ricerca sulla vita privata e professionale di Stefano delle Chiaje, lo studio di alcuni documenti ha fatto supporre che la Balenottera Minore esposta nel Museo Zoologico di Napoli fosse quella donata dallo scienziato al Gabinetto di Anatomia Patologica dell’Università (GAGP) nel 1848 e segnalata all’epoca dalla apposizione di una targa – Dono di Stefano delle Chiaje – grazie al permesso ottenuto, in riconoscenza del donativo, direttamente dal Re. In questo lavoro viene riportato il risultato di indagini effettuate sulla collezione cetologica del GAGP raccolta da Stefano delle Chiaje durante la sua direzione. Tale collezione risultava essere composta da almeno 13 reperti appartenenti ad almeno quattro specie di Cetacei: otto reperti di Balaenoptera acutorostrata, 6 dei quali (cranio e parte dello scheletro assile, sterno, osso ioide, rudimenti pelvici, bulle timpaniche e fanoni montati su base) riconducibili ad un individuo e due fanoni appartenenti ad un altro esemplare; un feto di Balaenopteridae gen. sp.; due esemplari di Lagenorhynchus acutus (uno scheletro e un feto); uno scheletro di Stenella coeruleoalba; un cranio di Tursiops truncatus. Almeno nove di questi reperti sono ancora oggi nel Museo Zoologico di Napoli: scheletro, sterno, osso ioide, bulle timpaniche e fanoni di un individuo di B. acutorostrata; un fanone di un altro individuo di B. acutorostrata; gli scheletri di l. acutus e di S. coeruleoalba; il cranio di T. truncatus. L’esemplare più interessante è lo scheletro di Balenottera minore che delle Chiaje nel 1846 acquistò personalmente da W. F. K. Christie, Direttore del Museo Zoologico dell’Università di Bergen in Norvegia, per farne dono all’Università di Napoli.
Electroencephalogram and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Comparison as a Predicting Factor for Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy Infant Treated with Hypothermia
Authors: Del Balzo Francesca , Maiolo Stella , Papoff Paola , Giannini Luigi , Moretti Corrado , Properzi Enrico , Spalice Alberto
Published: November 2014

Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is an important cause of acute neurological damage in newborns at (or near) term. Several trials in recent years have shown that moderate hypothermia by total body cooling or selective head is an effective intervention to reduce mortality and major disability in infants survived a perinatal hypoxic-ischemic attack. Follow-up in these patients is very important to establish neurodevelopmental outcome, and specific markers can lead us to detect predicting sign for good or poor outcome. We reported a few cases of newborn with HIE treated with hypothermia, in whom the comparison between electroencephalogram (EEG) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) represents the first marker for neurodevelopment outcome prediction. The continuous EEG monitoring showed a depressed EEG activity with diffuse burst depression in 7 patients. No epileptic abnormalities were registered. In 10 out of 20 patients no abnormalities of the background activity and no epileptic abnormalities were observed. We found that a depressed EEG activity during the first 72 h of life and a diffused alteration of basal ganglia at MRI were correlated with a poor neurodevelopmental outcome at 18 months of follow-up.
Superior oblique tendon (Brown’s) syndrome as the presenting finding in childhood onset HLA-B27-related enthesitis and juvenile idiopathic oligoarticular arthritis
Authors: Pham C. , Utz V. , Marcotty A. , Zeft A. , Rychwalski P.
Published: November 2014

We report two patients who presented with Brown’s syndrome. The first is a 7-year-old boy who at the time of his diagnosis was also found to have enthesitis and HLA-B27 positivity. The second patient was diagnosed with bilateral Brown’s syndrome at 13 months of age. At age 7 she developed a persistent oligoarticular arthritis and unilateral anterior iritis consistent with the oligoarticular Juvenile Idiopatic Arthritis (JIA) phenotype. These cases highlight ophthalmologic findings and diagnostic considerations with respect to Brown’s syndrome and associated childhood onset rheumatologic disease.
The Contribution of Maternal-Fetal Attachment: Taegyo, Maternal Fatigue and Social Support during Pregnancy.
Authors: Yu Mi , Kim Miok
Published: November 2014

PURPOSE: Maternal-fetal attachment in a pregnant woman is important for her health and for her child's emotional stability. This study was done to identify the contribution of maternal fatigue, social support, and Taegyo to maternal-fetal attachment based on a survey of pregnant women.METHODS: The study was a descriptive correlation study.Participants were 211 from two women's health clinic centers. Data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regression.RESULTS: Mean scores for maternal-fetal attachment, Taegyo, maternal fatigue, and social support were 93.74 (range 25-125), 64.76 (17-85), 24.12 (10-40), and 54.43 (22-132), respectively. There were significant differences in maternal-fetal attachment according to parity, breast feeding experience, and putting prenatal education into practice. Multiple regression analysis showed that the key determinants of maternal-fetal attachment, were Taegyo (beta=.67), maternal fatigue (beta=.21), and social support (beta=.13), and these explained 55% of the total variance of attachment.CONCLUSION: The results suggest a need to encourage Taegyo in prenatal management program and provide methods for fatigue resolution and promotion of social support.
Relationship between Preschool Child-Mother Interaction, Child's Health Status, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Social Development.
Authors: Park Sunghee
Published: November 2014

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine relationship of preschool child and mother interaction, child's health status, health-related quality of life and social development. Also, it was intended to provide a basis for development of mother-child interaction programs.METHODS: The present study was a descriptive research.Participants in this study were a convenience sample of 230 preschool children and their mothers. For the final analysis 209 questionnaires were used after eliminating questionnaires with incomplete responses. Data were analyzed using the SPSS 18.0 program.RESULTS: The mean score for interaction between preschool child and mother was 3.96+/-0.55 out of 5 points, for child health status, 3.75+/-0.62 out of 5 points, for child's health-related quality of life, 83.89+/-10.20 out of 100 points and for child's social development, 19.66+/-3.57 out of 24 points. Positive correlations were found between interaction of preschool child and mother, child's health status, health-related quality of life, and social development.CONCLUSION: The results demonstrate the importance of the quality of the relationship between mother, the child's primary caregiver, and her child for the healthy growth and development of preschool children. It is suggested that intervention programs for preschool child-mother interaction should be developed using evidence based data.
An Integrative Review of the 'QUality Of care Through patient's Eyes'.
Authors: Oh Jina , Kim Yae Young , Kim Hyun Kyoung , Park Hyun Jung , Cho Haeryun
Published: November 2014

PURPOSE: The patient's perspective in the assessment of quality of care has become increasingly important. The purpose of this paper was to introduce the concept of 'QUality Of care Through patient's Eyes (QUOTE)', to analyze the papers using QUOTE through an integrative review method, and to present the attributes of the QUOTE evaluation.METHODS: Data were collected from electronic databases.Inclusion criteria were publication in English from 1997 to 2013, as a peer-reviewed research article, with an empirical study focused on QUOTE. Thirty two papers met the criteria and were analyzed.RESULTS: QUOTE had been applied to various groups of patients such as those with various diseases since 1997 in the Netherlands. Four themes were retrieved from synthetic analysis of the thirty-two papers using QUOTE; 1) acceptance of individuation of the patient and family, 2) evaluation of diverse nurses' competencies, 3) evaluation of quality of nursing environments, and 4) participation of patient in the whole process of evaluation.CONCLUSION: The strengths of QUOTE are that it attempts to overcome the conceptual and methodological problems associated with evaluation of quality of care. Our results imply that QUOTE evaluation could be an effective strategy to improve care of patients in clinical setting.
Drape DTM 2.0: software to calculate a smooth drape surface for an airborne geophysical survey
Authors: Dumont R , Bardossy Z
Published: November 2014

Drape_DTM v2.0 calculates a smooth drape surface over the topography of a survey area to be flown by a survey aircraft. The smooth surface is generated by taking into account the aircraft's rate of climb/descent characteristics and its maximum allowable rate of
change of slope per second. The smooth surface generated in this manner provides the following benefits:
1) It increases the quality of the survey data by homogenizing the acquisition conditions in the case of multi aircraft survey use.
2) It minimizes the altitude difference between adjacent lines flown in opposite directions and enables the aircraft to fly at the same altitude when flying traverse lines and control lines which cross at a 90 degree angle.
3) It allows the user to simulate survey conditions at the planning stage.
Marginal Propensity
Authors: Savige Jaya
Published: November 2014

Poetry.
Queer Centres and Peripheries
Authors: Altman Dennis
Published: November 2014

Gradually queer theory, which emerged out of the particularities of academic and political situations in the USA in the 1990s, has begun to interrogate its relationship to the rest of the world. It is, of course, not surprising that analysis of (homo)sexuality from within the USA should be largely US-centric, remarkably uninterested in developments in other countries, even those as seemingly close in culture and politics as Canada and the United Kingdom. Yet there are signs of some interest in what might be termed ‘non-western’ societies, in particular the relevance of ‘queer’ to rapidly shifting notions of sexuality and gender regimes. There is now an extensive literature on the ways in which homosexuality is being shaped and changed by ‘modernisation’ and equally on how hostility to modernisation often expresses itself in the persecution of homosexuals. Very few of the discussions of ‘modern’ forms of homosexuality are posed in comparative terms; indeed, the vast majority are written without reference to similar developments in other parts of the world.
My Trouble with Queer
Authors: Kuhar Roman
Published: November 2014

Gay Bosnians are struggling with the (US-based) concept of ‘coming out’. Homosexuality here is shameful and is only possible when it is secret, hidden, anonymous. My problem with queer theory and activism is not the theory itself. Indeed queer theory’s most important contribution is to disclose how the gay movement of the 1970s and 1980s only dealt with white gay male experience, thus centralising some identities and marginalising others. However my problem (or, to be more exact, my concern or maybe my own ignorance) is how to translate queer theory into the practice of everyday politics, especially in thepostwar areas of the former Yugoslavia. As yet, it seems that the (radical) US queer model does not translate well into those societies on the doorstep of the European Union (EU). Even so, as someone at the Queer Zagreb conference mentioned, New York and San Francisco are not the USA, which means that ‘queering’ in some other parts of the country would provoke similar hostile reactions, or, to put it differently, one can find Bosnia in many parts of the USA. The million-dollar question, therefore, is how to translate the queer sensibility of identities into policy papers and government resolutions.
Toolbox for Electric Fences
Authors: Gregg Melissa
Published: November 2014

An affective dimension is often at work in constructions of political ‘reality’. Such a recognition might be seen to reinforce the value of certain legacies in cultural studies, particularly the role of articulation in public debate, and the renewed importance of such work in framing responses to volatile issues like the mandatory detention of asylum seekers. Revisiting the work of Stuart Hall on Thatcherism, and taking note of Judith Brett’s recent history of the Australian Liberal Party, I want to contemplate the prominent role language plays in political life, and, alongside Watson and others, question the priority the Left accords this key element of contemporary politics. In doing so, I use Hall as an example of what might be called scholarly affect: a voice of intervention that catalyses the Left in moments of crisis, and a voice that deploys cultural theory to make sense of concrete political problems.
On the Popular and the Critical: Hop on Pop and the 'New Generation' of Cultural Studies
Authors: Redden Guy
Published: November 2014

This review essay is an attempt to take up the call for 'future debates within and about cultural studies'. It is shaped by a particular set of interests to do with my position as an early career researcher for whom the questions of what cultural studies is and might become have certain implications. For me, reading Hop on Pop calls forth a different subject position than does reading many other field-defining anthologies. The difference is the volume’s appeal to the present and its claim upon the future. It asks me to make something of the sense of discipline I have thus far developed as a student, and put it on the line to intervene in the issue of what kinds of cultural studies members of my generation might seek to develop.
Defining 'Indigenous': Between Culture and Biology
Authors: Pritchard Stephen
Published: November 2014

This essay considers a range of discourses on identity and the definition of culture. I have little doubt that, generally speaking, Indigenous people are quite capable of defining the meaning of ‘Indigenous person’ or ‘culture’ in a way that satisfies their specific immediate needs and interests. My concern here is with the definition of ‘Aboriginal or Indigenous person’ in Australian law and legislation and with the critical response, by members of the scientific community as well as cultural theorists, to references to a biological basis of identity.
The Thing About Things
Authors: Hawkins Gay
Published: November 2014

A review of Nicky Gregson and Louise Crewe's Second-hand Cultures (Berg, Oxford, 2003).
Haunted Theory
Authors: Gardner Robyn
Published: November 2014

A review of Justin Clemens' The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory: Institution, Aesthetics, Nihilism (Ashgate, Burlington, 2003).
Deleuze and the New Camera Consciousness
Authors: McCosker Anthony
Published: November 2014

A review of Patricia Pisters' The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working With Deleuze in Film Theory (Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 2003).
The Pleating of History: Weaving the Threads of Nationhood
Authors: Ball Martin
Published: November 2014

As any etymologist knows, the word ‘text’ is derived from the past participle of the Latin verb texere, to weave. Text is therefore something that is ‘woven’. It’s a persuasive metaphor, to imagine writing in terms of the warp and weft of ideas and words, of narrative threads woven together to become a piece of fabric. The idea of history as fabric brings together a whole different set of tropes, not just of weaving, but of the very materiality of fabric. Does the fabric have a nap, or a pattern? Is it cut with the grain, or on the bias? What of its folds, its seams? All these qualities of fabric have application in the interpretation of history, and some of these images are already familiar in historical discourse.
Electronic Wallpaper
Authors: Farmer Brett
Published: November 2014

A review of Frances Bonner's Ordinary Television (Sage Publications, London, 2003).
Editorial
Authors: Healy Chris , Muecke Stephen
Published: November 2014

Editorial by Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke.
The Migrant Metaphor Within Radical Italian Thought
Authors: Hoofd Ingrid M.
Published: November 2014

NoBorder activisms and Italian philosophies are highly complicit in the ongoing fortification of the EU and the West, and of the West’s subsequent global hegemonic spread through Eurocentric discourses and technologies. I will show that many radical Italian writings, through a metaphorisation of the ‘migrant’ or ‘refugee’, supplement the alter-globalisation movement in effectively reproducing the Eurocentric fantasy of the Enlightenment subject as the ultimate centre for social change, just as much as those despised EU policies do. I will do so by pointing out that this migrant metaphor functions primarily as a tool to make possible the claim for some sort of hegemonic ‘unification of struggles’ in ‘the new world order’ by these radical Italian thinkers. They will be shown to do so through a doubly romanticising move, leading to both the reproduction of the migrant or refugee as a heroic figure and the acting out of an unfinishable desire for communal self-identification with the migrant, through claims that s/he embodies the transcendental fantasy of the total subsumption of boundaries.
Natural Logics of the Indian Ocean
Authors: Ghosh Devleena , Muecke Stephen
Published: November 2014

Interdisciplinary approaches to the Indian Ocean are fairly new, and ecological topics in cultural studies more generally are also rare. This paper, then, is an attempt to begin discussion on these two fronts, hoping that further research will be able to document it in more detail. We cast our argument as being both about Indian Ocean stories and a story in itself, and cast it in three parts: the pre-colonial Indian Ocean, the colonial one, and the postcolonial or contemporary situation.
Becoming Semi-devotional: Creating a Melbourne Beach Poetics
Authors: Farrell Michael
Published: November 2014

Dogs may well set up a sort of barking at the very idea of a Melbourne beach poetics. Others, sceptical of the use of the term poetics as a means of zhoozhing or shoring up the aesthetics of an inadequate theme, may growl. And what of easy identifications of nature with forms of art? Are they just another form of greenwashing? Can Melbourne beachness be defined only in terms of lack? And what does this beachness mean when the ideal is defined by Fiske, Hodge and Turner in negative terms: ‘no houses, no tents, no sandmining, no road and no way in except in bare feet’?
A Roadmap to Men and Maculinities
Authors: Moller Michael
Published: November 2014

A review of Michael S Kimmel, Jeff Hearn and Rw Connell's (Eds) Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities (Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks and London, 2005).
Beyond the Empire
Authors: McPhedran Charles
Published: November 2014

A review of Andrew Ross and Kristin Ross' (Eds) Anti-Americanism (New York University Press, New York, 2004).
Between Sydney and Hong Kong: Doing Cultural Research without Guarantees
Authors: Allon Fiona
Published: November 2014

Between Sydney and Hong Kong: doing cultural research without guarantees.
Negotiating Culture, Economics and Community Politics: The Practice of Lei Yue Mun Tourism in Postcolonial Hong Kong
Authors: Chan Shun-Hing , Ip Iam-Chong , Leung Lisa Y.M.
Published: November 2014

This article is based on an on-going research project that examines how tourism is constructed in Hong Kong by using the specific tourist spot, Lei Yue Mun, as a case study. The article’s aim is to demonstrate how the local agents of a small, squatter-based community with a distinctive history and cultural traditions may, without making any claim to indigenousness or aboriginality, manage a local economy and engage in cultural negotiation at the metropolitan, national and global levels. Their economic practices lead the authors to enquire whether preservationism or invoking historical traditions from the margins is the most significant form or strategy of cultural tourism.
Antipodean Aesthetics, Public Policy and the Museum: Te Papa, for example
Authors: Dibley Ben
Published: November 2014

The Museum of New Zealand–Te Papa Tongarewa has proved a complex cultural site that has generated much public debate and a growing academic literature. This article departs from critical approaches that resolve the analysis of this museum by pointing up its programmatic inconsistencies, internal contradictions, representational inadequacies or its institutional paradoxes. Rather than establishing Te Papa as an object for reform the author reads it as an archive for reflection on the cultural predicament of an antipodean modernity.
Letters From Beirut
Authors: Marks Laura U.
Published: November 2014

In summer 2006 I returned to Lebanon for a third time. I had lived in Beirut for almost a year in 2002–2003, during which time I fell in love with the city, as so many people do—the generosity, resilience and joie de vivre of so many Lebanese people, the lively artistic scene, the intensity with which so many historical and international forces cross this small country. I built strong friendships then. I returned in 2004, and again in June 2006, this time to study Arabic at the American University of Beirut. On 14 July, in response to Hizballah’s action of taking two Israeli soldiers hostage and shooting across the Lebanese–Israeli border, Israel began an intense bombardment of Lebanese infrastructure, starting with the airport, as well as places where Hizballah supporters lived. A privileged outsider waiting to be evacuated, I was also helpless, afraid, and furious at the pro-Israeli tone of the international media. So I wrote daily letters to family, friends, and a growing email list of interested people. This is an edited version.
‘Good Building’: Bertolt Brecht’s Utopian Historical Optimism at the End of World War II
Authors: Fischer Gerhard
Published: November 2014

The article focuses on the works of Bertolt Brecht which depicts his insights regarding the reconstruction of Germany. Such works include the story "The City Builder" and the plays "Caucasian Chalk Circle" and "The Days of the Commune." It discusses his principles of what he considers as good building as well as the three criteria addressed in good building which include size, time, and beauty.
Resurrecting Absence: Iconic Ghosts in the Poetry of Susan Howe
Authors: Wilkinson Jessica
Published: November 2014

The article focuses on the opinions of Susan Howe in her book A Bibliography of the King's Book, Or Eikon Basilike. It cites that Howe's work reflects her evocative visual and verbal landscapes as well as her enthusiasm of leading readers to the obscurities of textual and historical respresentation. It also discusses the strange tyrannical martyrdom of King Charles the First and his publication as well as her understanding of Edward Almack's bibliographical project.
Affectively Addressing Cultural Studies
Authors: Davies Cristyn
Published: November 2014

A review of Melissa Gregg, Cultural Studies’ Affective Voices (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2006).
Ritalin®: Panic in the USA
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2014

Ritalin® is a popular pharmaceutical. It keeps young people quiet and focused, but attracts intense opprobrium. Beginning with an account of the dimensions of Ritalin®’s use in the United States and controversies surrounding it, this article outlines how this might be understood in moral-panic terms and examines the role of the psy-function and various conflicts of interest, coverage in popular culture, and governmental responses. In many cases, progressive academics and activists have criticised moral panics, recuperating moral-panic folk devils as semiotic guerrillas struggling against authority. In this instance, however, the scene is too complex and multifaceted for that heroisation. There are no good guys; there is lots of panic, from all political-economic quarters. Some of it is justified—and none of it is straightforward.
Panic! Affect Contagion, Mimesis and Suggestion in the Social Field
Authors: Gibbs Anna
Published: November 2014

This essay describes the phenomenon of panic from both neurological and affective points of view. It draws on the work of Japp Panksepp, who argues for the importance of distinguishing between fear as a response to physical threat, and panic as a response to the loss of the attachment object. While fear flees, panic, perhaps contrary to appearances, seeks security. This view of panic throws a new light on classic analyses of crowd behaviour, among them those of Le Bon, Tarde and Canetti, but it also has implications for how panic takes hold via electronic media, and for how outbreaks may be calmed. Finally, the essay argues that mediatised panic is a distraction from fear—in which anything at all may represent physical danger, but which at least offers a range of possible responses for addressing the problem, and offers the opportunity for the transformative work performed by cognition on affect. Here the paper draws on the script theory of Silvan Tomkins to provoke questions of the social usefulness of fear in the face of some current arguments to the contrary.
White Free Speech: The Fraser Event and its Enlightenment Legacies
Authors: Osuri Goldie
Published: November 2014

This essay discusses the 2005 Australia-wide controversy about the white supremacist comments made by Macquarie University academic Associate Professor Andrew Fraser. It locates the means by which this white supremacism manifested itself not only through Fraser comments, but also through arguments surrounding free speech/academic freedom. Using whiteness theory and its examination of whiteness as an Enlightenment legacy, Osuri argues that the collusion between Fraser’s white supremacism and the free speech/academic freedom argument is based on a disavowal of how whiteness operates, as Aileen Moreton-Robinson describes it, as an epistemological and ontological a priori, an embodied form of knowledge-production, and collective white hegemony.
Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically
Authors: Farred Grant
Published: November 2014

This essay on cultural studies and the African Diaspora argues for a rethinking of cultural studies in two critical ways: firstly, that cultural studies, from its founding institutional and conceptual moment, cannot but be thought diasporically; and, secondly, that cultural studies be thought ‘out of’, or, against, context—that is, cultural studies is most revealing in its political and literary articulation when it is not read, as many of its advocates claim, contextually. This essay offers a broad critique of cultural studies and the (African) diaspora but derives its most cogent and creative argument from its ability to read together the work of two diasporic authors, deracinated South African and Australian writers, J. M. Coetzee and David Malouf.
Homelessness Felt
Authors: Robinson Catherine
Published: November 2014

The felt—as both methodology and experiential terrain—remains under-explored and under-theorised in research on homelessness.  This experimental piece traces the multi-sensory engagement of ethnographic and biographic fieldwork undertaken for separate projects with homeless people in two capital cities on Australia’s east coast.  The epistemological contributions and emotional dimensions of seeing, tasting, touching, smelling and listening are explored.  Through a series of short ‘felt’ reflections, consideration of the critical role of corporeality in coming to know and inscribe the experiences of others is prompted.  The feeling, researching body is posited as central to new, productive and holistic intertwinings with felt-experience and the mixed trajectories of grief, humour, violence and trauma that often characterise persistent homelessness are made vivid.
‘In the City of Blinding Lights’: Indigeneity, Cultural Studies and the Errants of Colonial Nostalgia
Authors: Byrd Jodi A.
Published: November 2014

US-based cultural studies often prioritises issues of race, class, and gender within popular representations of the ‘other’ at the expense of undertheorising, especially within its own settler colonial history, issues of indigeneity, colonialism, and imperialism. This essay takes as a case study the US 2008 Democratic presidential primary cycle in which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ran for their party’s nomination by claiming that their success would fulfil either the promises of the civil rights movement or second-wave feminism. Through the course of the primary season, each of these movements was framed within the larger US national myth of Manifest Destiny with its nostalgic struggles against an ‘unforgiving wilderness’. Indigenous critical theory, as it engages US cultural studies and theories of resistance, recentres issues of colonialism within the historical and material cultural productions of the nation and challenges the political discourse of liberatory inclusion and freedom to acknowledge the colonisation of indigenous peoples upon which ‘inclusion’ and ‘freedom’ are built.
Wog Zombie: The De- and Re-Humanisation of Migrants, from Mad Dogs to Cyborgs
Authors: Papastergiadis Nikos
Published: November 2014

This essay examines several contemporary articulations of the figure of the migrant, exploring both the stigmatic representations of this figure in the public imaginary, and migrants’ own personal self-identifications. I argue that as today’s increasingly complex flows of capital, people and information continue to erode both the sovereign authority of nation-states and the hitherto dominant codes of belonging, the figure of the migrant has undergone a series of reconfigurations. In its contemporary manifestations, the migrant figure has been imagined variously as a mechanical, animalistic, spectral, zombified, vampiric or cyborg entity. I contend that this series of images reveals a complex set of cultural anxieties around issues of belonging, cultural identity, citizenship and mobility. Drawing on theoretical constructs including Giorgio Agamben’s notion of the homo sacer along with representations of the figure of the migrant that have emerged recently within popular culture, literature, political discourse and media reporting, I aim to examine the forms of dehumanisation that are expressed in contemporary debate on migration.
Opening the Dialogue for Indigenous Knowledges Developments in Australia
Authors: Grieves Vicki
Published: November 2014

A review of Martin Nakata, Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines (Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2007).
Intimacy
Authors: Gibson Ross
Published: November 2014

A reflection on the articles appearing above in the Rural Cultural Studies section of Cultural Studies Review 16.1, March 2010.
Damming the Flow: Cultural Barriers to Perceived ‘Procedural Justice’ in Wonthaggi, Victoria
Authors: King Tanya J.
Published: November 2014

Drier conditions in Australia have compelled governments to implement projects such as the desalination plant in the South Gippsland town of Wonthaggi. The desalination plant is still under construction, but South Gippsland is already host to wind turbines and marine protected areas, reflecting public pressure to develop renewable energy sources and conserve resources. However, all projects have been met with vocal opposition. Using the desalination project as a case study, this paper will address public concerns about a perceived lack of procedural justice in implementing such projects. Drawing on data from a pilot survey of 320 residents, we argue that procedural shortcomings of the project include inattention to past political disputes in the region and to the culturally entrenched sense of division between city and country. Attention to political and cultural histories is vital to the successful and ethical implementation of projects in regional areas.
Women, New Music and the Composition of Becomings
Authors: Macarthur Sally
Published: November 2014

This article argues that ‘new’ music continues to replicate itself by being based on a set of outdated, inflexible practices which foster the centrality of the male, entrepreneurial, composing subject. Aesthetic distinctiveness has been muzzled because too many composers are competing for the same recognition and the same small ‘pot of money’, giving rise to musical mediocrity. The article notes that while the number of women composers studying music has increased in tertiary music institutions and points out that their representation by the Australian Music Centre has improved significantly over the past decade, these statistics are not reflected in the concert hall where women continue to be side-lined. It argues that the entrepreneurial performer is focused on the products created out of the already known and out of its masculinity and explores what would happen if music were composed out of its femininity and the unknown. It draws on Deleuze’s concept of ‘becoming’ to disturb the old ways of thinking, and to imagine a transformation of music practice which would make viable that music which has been traditionally silenced.
‘A Kind of Critique that Works by Allegorising’: An Interview with Patrick Wright
Authors: King Noel
Published: November 2014

In the following interview Patrick Wright discuses the research for and critical receptions of his books, Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War, A Journey Through Ruins, On Living in an Old Country and Tank. He also discuses his educational formation in the UK and Canada, and his relation to the field of cultural studies and cultural criticism as these are currently constituted.
Walking to Work: Community and Contact
Authors: Idle Jan
Published: November 2014

The settler community must negotiate the difference of the stranger and the melancholy and violence of a past haunted by colonization and death. Through writing the details of everyday contact in a walk across the city this essay explores notions of community. It owes much to the writing of Linnell Secomb who writes of the haunted nature of the settler community in the Australian context. Secomb writes of community through the ideas of Jean Luc Nancy where community is a process of negotiation of difference, a listening to the unfamiliar other in conflict and acceptance. The work of Alphonso Lingis and Richard Sennett has informed my ideas of the stranger and the city while Kim Scott’s “Benang” has influenced how I think and write about the echo of the past in the present. These theoretical interruptions punctuate this writing of negotiating community.
Residential Aged Care Facilities: Places for Living and Dying
Authors: Parker Deborah
Published: November 2014

This article explores residential aged care facilities (RACFs) as places of dying and death, and the role these spaces and places have in the construction of self identity for dying residents.  It argues that RACFs, rather than being static places where events such as dying and death occur, are places that shape these experiences. They are social institutions where the construction of self identity for dying residents arises out of the individual experience within the setting, most specifically the experience of social interaction. Drawing on ethnographic work in two Australian facilities the article explores how macro level influences such as economic, social and political discourses intersect with micro level experiences of dying for those approaching death as well as family members and health professionals who support the dying.
Obituary
Authors: Gould Polly
Published: November 2014

A pictorial essay based on stills from the author's video work, Obituary, based around the true story of a woman found dead at Cam Loch, Scotland.
Unhappy Families
Authors: Cefai Sarah
Published: November 2014

A review of Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness and David L. Eng, The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy.
Out of Time: The Limits of Secular Critique
Authors: Randell-Moon Holly
Published: November 2014

A review of Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood, Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech and Michael Warner, Jonathan Vanantwerpen, and Craig Calhoun (eds), Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age.
Online Playgrounds and Transnational Gaming Cultures
Authors: Wimmer Jeffrey
Published: November 2014

A review of Larissa Hjorth and Dean Chan (eds), Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific.
Teaching Illiteracy
Authors: Mansfield Nick
Published: November 2014

In mainstream humanities and social sciences, a traditional humanism has given way to an ethos of cultural difference. One form of cosmopolitanism triumphs over another as the goal of pedagogy. Both these cosmopolitanisms keep alive a model of culture as the thing that texts and practices instantiate, and what explains and locates them. The role of education becomes either knowledge of or at least sensitivity to the invisible parent formation out of which cultural practices arise. Yet a survey we conducted of Hong Kong–based students studying cultural studies in Australia found that they did not experience texts in relation to this larger parent formation, and seemed uninterested in reading culture this way. Their own tastes shifted from one form and context to another rapidly, without interest in texts' origins or provenance. Similarly, teachers of cultural studies wrestled with their own ignorance of the background and context of the texts they taught or that students suggested as examples. Both teachers and students taught and discussed cultural languages in which they were largely illiterate. These issues are discussed through a reading of Jacques Derrida's autobiographical work on language, pedagogy and colonialism Monolingualism of the Other. The contrast Derrida makes between 'source languages' and what he calls 'langues d'arrivee' (target languages or languages of arrival, happenstance or the event) allows for a speculative reconsideration of texts  not as exemplary of culture but as an engagement with language traces whose historical/political significance comes from the event of their instantiation not the legacy of their origin.
Motorcycles, Snails, Latour: Criticism without Judgement
Authors: Muecke Stephen
Published: November 2014

In a post-critical environment, literary and cultural analysis can find new directions through engagement with ‘experiment’, ‘multirealism’ and ‘reproduction’ as agents ‘earn participation’ in collectives of humans and non-humans. Collectives of ‘partners’ are necessary collaborators in the reproduction of cultural forms. This vitalist approach carries an experimental method, an expanded ontological field, and a relational subjectivity, which contrasts to the traditional humanities intellectual who aspires to the refinement of judgment.
Uncanny Robots and Affective Labour in the Oikonomia
Authors: Mitropoulos Angela
Published: November 2014

This essay offers a reading of current Australian politics by way of the concepts of the uncanny and the oikos, suggesting that both commentaries on the recent (2010) Federal election and the politics that were articulated around it (as well as of the present conjuncture) might be best understood as that of an oikonomics (the law of the household) – and the uncanniness that, in its discrepancy with lived realities, it elicits.
Can You Anchor a Shimmering Nation State via Regional Indigenous Roots? Kim Scott talks to Anne Brewster about That Deadman Dance
Authors: Brewster Anne
Published: November 2014

This interview focuses mainly on Kim Scott’s new novel That Deadman Dance which won the regional Commonwealth Writers Prize (Southeast Asian and Pacific region) and the Miles Franklin Award. The topics of conversation include Scott’s involvement in the Noongar language project (and the relationship of this project to the novel), the novel itself, the challenges of writing in English, the resistance paradigm and indigenous sovereignty and nationalism.
The Three Faces of Mad Men: Middlebrow Culture and Quality Television
Authors: Hardie Melissa Jane
Published: November 2014

This article examines how history is represented in Mad Men and how anxiety about period is registered in the series' documentation of the relationship between pleasure and aesthetic experience. the author argues that the series re-animates mid-century debates about the relationship between low and middlebrow culture and does so by demonstrating the middlebrow's self-conscious representation of processes of mechanical reproduction. She shows that Mad Men's representation of historical period is intimately tied to its own status as "quality tv", and that this alliance is made available in the series' representation of gendered pleasure. Svetlana Boym's notion of the "off-modern" is considered as a way to think about Mad Men's historical detours and revisions, and its reckoning with questions of gender, identity, and aesthetic experience.
Material Becoming
Authors: Willson Michele
Published: November 2014

A review of Dianna Coole and Samantha Frost (eds), New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics (Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2010) and William E. Connolly, A World of Becoming (Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2011).
We Need to Talk about Cultural Studies
Authors: O'Connor Justin
Published: November 2014

A review of Graeme Turner, What’s Become of Cultural Studies (Sage, London, 2012) and Lawrence Grossberg, Cultural Studies in the Future Tense (Duke University Press, Durham, 2010).
Nightmare on Shaw Street: Getting Lost in Shorty’s Private Collection
Authors: Bullock Emily
Published: November 2014

This article discusses the semiotic and affective affordances of a regional museum on the west coast of Australia’s only island state, Tasmania. Shorty’s Private Collection is a small museum displaying items collected from around the region, with a focus on resuscitated mining materials. The owner also creates figures derived from popular culture from these items. The article uses the methodology of creative non-fiction in order to situate the museum within the marginal community that it engages with, and discusses the museum in terms of Bakhtin’s theory of the grotesque and its potential to both establish and challenge dominant conceptions of the local and the limits of semiotic representation.
A Different Crossroads—or Meeting the Devil in Cultural Studies
Authors: Breen Marcus
Published: November 2014

The Crossroads Conference in Paris, July 2012 offered an international perspective on cultural studies. After the event, seeing mention of cultural studies in the context of Nazi Germany opened up questions about the history of cultural studies, its ambitions and position in the contemporary, neo-liberal academy. Drawing on various conjunctures in personal and social life, the article reflects on the challenges for cultural studies when set against knowledge of European history.
Avatar, Identification, Pornography [by John Frow, with responses from Tony Bennett and Stephen Muecke]
Authors: Schlunke (intro.) Katrina , Frow John , Bennett Tony , Muecke Stephen
Published: November 2014

Fictional character is textually constructed in the play between positions of enunciation and figural constructs in the storyworld, and these positions are cumulatively and complexly filled during the course of a prose narrative or a lyric or a film or gameplay. This article explores that work through a discussion of the role of avatars in digital gaming and of the inscription of the reader or viewer into pornography.
Automata for the People: Machine Noise and Attention
Authors: Ellison David
Published: November 2014

This article examines the production and reception of incidental machine noise, specifically the variably registered sounds emanating from automata in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The argument proposed here is that the audience for automata performances demonstrated a capacity to screen out mechanical noise that may have otherwise interfered with the narrative theatricality of their display. In this regard the audience may be said to resemble auditors at musical performances who learned to suppress the various noises associated with the physical mechanics of performance, and the faculty of attention itself. For William James among others, attention demands selection among competing stimuli. As the incidental noise associated with automata disappears from sensibility over time, its capacity to signify in other contexts emerges. In the examples traced here, such noise is a means of distinguishing a specifically etherealised human-machine interaction. This is in sharp distinction from other more degrading forms of relationship such as the sound of bodies labouring at machines. In this regard, the barely detected sound of the automata in operation may be seen as a precursor to the white noise associated with modern, corporate productivity.
Surrender to the Void: Life after Creative Industries
Authors: O'Connor Justin
Published: November 2014

An extended review of Terry Flew's The Creative Industries: Culture and Policy (Sage, London, 2012).
Stuffed Turkey and Pumpkin Pie: In, Through and Out of American Contexts
Authors: Kohn Tamara
Published: November 2014

This article explores the meanings embedded in the production, consumption, and symbolic positioning of turkey and pumpkin pie, foods closely associated with the American ritual feast of Thanksgiving. An analysis of turkey and pumpkin pie recipes used and adapted by first- and second-generation immigrants in north America, and by north Americans living abroad, throws into relief complex relations between food production, food consumption and the complexities of lived and often multiple sociocultural identifications. Through sharing the experiences, memories and associations evoked by individuals in the production of holiday recipes, I argue that ideas about ‘tradition’ and a desire to celebrate family and community through the ritual of baking, serving and consuming a ‘standard’ Thanksgiving holiday meal allow one to feel part of an imagined global American community. At the same time these details demonstrate celebration of individual and familial distinctiveness that is traced to (sometimes contested) memories of childhood and/or ethnic background, as well as to exploration, innovation and experience in the world at large through travel, migration and imagination.
Eating the Vernacular, Being Cosmopolitan
Authors: Jonas Tammi
Published: November 2014

Using a mixed methodology of ethnography in Australia, Vietnam and India, auto-ethnography and textual analysis of Australian migrants' biographies, this article uses the stories of 'insiders' and 'outsiders' to explore the importance of the vernacular, and the implications of authenticity in the maintenance of homely identities and the development of cosmopolitan ones.