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Novel Epoxy Thermosetting Resin System Using ε-Caprolactam
Authors: Kudo Hiroto , Ogawa Hiroki , Naritomi Kazunori , Murata Yuka , Kano Hiroki , Ochi Mitsukazu
Published: May 2014

We developed an epoxy thermosetting system based on a reaction of an epoxy resin and ε-caprolactam (ε-CL) in the presence of 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU) as a catalyst. Ring-opening copolymerization of epoxide groups and ε-CL proceeded at 170 °C, affording gel products in high yields. The physical properties of the products were dependent on the feed ratios of the epoxy resin and ε-CL.
The local Langlands conjecture for GSp(4), II: The case of inner forms
Authors: Gan Wee Teck , Tantono Welly
Published: May 2014

In an earlier paper of the first author and Shuichiro Takeda, the local Langlands correspondence for
${\rm GSp}_4(F)$ over a non-archimedean local field $F$ of characteristic zero was established and several
expected properties of the correspondence verified. In this paper, we extend the local Langlands
correspondence to the inner form ${\rm GU}_2(D)$ of ${\rm GSp}_4$.
Weakly-split spherical Tits systems in quasi-reductive groups
Authors: Prasad Gopal
Published: May 2014

We will prove that any weakly-split spherical Tits system $(B,N)$ in $G= {\bf G}(k)$ (${\bf G}$ a quasi-reductive
$k$-group, such as a connected reductive $k$-group) satisfying some natural conditions is ``standard''.
In particular, if ${\bf G}$ is anisotropic over $k$, then such a Tits system is trivial, i.e., $B= G=N$.
Finite order automorphisms and a parametrization of nilpotent orbits in p -adic lie algebras
Authors: Portilla Ricardo
Published: May 2014

Let $k$ be a field with a nontrivial discrete valuation which is complete and has perfect residue field.
Let $G$ be the group of $k$-rational points of a reductive, linear algebraic group ${\bf G}$ equipped
with a finite cyclic group $L$ of order $m$ acting on ${\bf G}$ by algebraic automorphisms defined over
$k$. We assume that the Lie algebra of $G$ decomposes into a direct sum of eigenspaces under the action of
$L$ (with generator $\theta$); we let ${\frak g}^i$ denote the eigenspace corresponding to eigenvalue
$\xi^i$, where $\xi$ is a primitive $m^{th}$ root of unity, that is, $X \in {\frak g}^i$ if and only if
$\theta(X)=\xi^iX$. If ${\bf H}$ is a $k$-subgroup of ${\bf G}^{L}$, the group of $L$-fixed points,
which contains the neutral component of ${\bf G}^{L}$, then $H={\bf H}(k)$ acts on each eigenspace of
${\frak g}$. Let $r \in \Bbb{R}$. Under mild restrictions on the residual characteristic of $k$, the
set of nilpotent $H$-orbits in the $\xi$-eigenspace ${\frak g}^1$ is parametrized by equivalence classes
of noticed Moy-Prasad cosets of depth $r$ which lie in ${\frak g}^1$.
On the universal module of p -adic spherical Hecke algebras
Authors: Große-Klönne Elmar
Published: May 2014

Let $\widetilde{G}$ be a split connected reductive group with connected
center $Z$ over a local non-Archimedean field $F$ of residue
characteristic $p$, let $\widetilde{K}$ be a hyperspecial maximal compact
open subgroup in $\widetilde{G}$. Let $R$ be a commutative ring, let $V$
be a finitely generated $R$-free $R[\widetilde{K}]$-module. For an
$R$-algebra $B$ and a character $\chi:{\frak
H}_V(\widetilde{G},\widetilde{K})\rightarrow B$ of the spherical Hecke
algebra ${\frak H}_V(\widetilde{G},\widetilde{K})={\rm
End}_{R[\widetilde{G}]} {\rm ind}_{\widetilde{K}}^{\widetilde{G}}(V)$ we
consider the specialization $$ M_{\chi}(V)={\rm
ind}_{\widetilde{K}}^{\widetilde{G}}V\otimes_{{\frak
H}_V(\widetilde{G},\widetilde{K}),\chi}B $$ of the universal ${\frak
H}_V(\widetilde{G},\widetilde{K})$-module ${\rm
ind}_{\widetilde{K}}^{\widetilde{G}}(V)$. For large classes of $R$
(including $\cal{O}_F$ and $\overline{\Bbb{F}}_p$), $V$, $B$ and $\chi$,
arguing geometrically on the Bruhat Tits building we give a sufficient
criterion for $M_{\chi}(V)$ to be $B$-free and to admit a
$\widetilde{G}$-equivariant resolution by a Koszul complex built from
finitely many copies of ${\rm ind}_{\widetilde{K}Z}^{\widetilde{G}}(V)$.
This criterion is the exactness of certain fairly small and explicit
${\frak N}$-equivariant $R$-module complexes, where ${\frak N}$ is the
group of $\cal{O}_F$-valued points of the unipotent radical of a Borel
subgroup in $\widetilde{G}$. We verify it if $F={\Bbb Q}_p$ and if $V$ is
an irreducible $\overline{\Bbb{F}}_p[\widetilde{K}]$-representation with
highest weight in the (closed) bottom $p$-alcove, or a lift of it to
$\cal{O}_F$. We use this to construct $p$-adic integral structures in
certain locally algebraic representations of $\widetilde{G}$.
A proof of the finite field analogue of Jacquet’s conjecture
Authors: Nien Chufeng
Published: May 2014

In this paper, the proof of the finite-field-analogue of Jacquet's
conjecture on local converse theorem for cuspidal representations of
general linear groups is given. More precisely, the set of twisted gamma
factors of $\pi$, $$ \Big\{\gamma(\pi\times\tau,\psi)\mid \tau \in
\scr{G}_t,\ 1\le t \le \Big[{n\over 2}\Big]\Big\}, $$ together with a
central character $\omega_\pi$, determine uniquely (up to isomorphism) the
irreducible cuspidal representation $\pi$ of ${\rm GL}_n({\Bbb F}_q)$,
where ${\cal G}_t$ denotes the set of irreducible generic representations
of ${\rm GL}_t({\Bbb F}_q)$, and ${\Bbb F}_q$ denotes a finite field of
$q$ elements.
On the arithmetic of Shalika models and the critical values of L -functions for GL 2 n
Authors: Grobner Harald , Raghuram A. , Gan Wee Teck
Published: May 2014

Let $\Pi$ be a cohomological cuspidal automorphic representation of ${\rm GL}_{2n}(\Bbb{A})$ over a totally
real number field $F$. Suppose that $\Pi$ has a Shalika model. We define a rational structure on the Shalika
model of $\Pi_f$. Comparing it with a rational structure on a realization of $\Pi_f$ in cuspidal cohomology in
top-degree, we define certain periods $\omega^{\epsilon}(\Pi_f)$. We describe the behavior of such top-degree
periods upon twisting $\Pi$ by algebraic Hecke characters $\chi$ of $F$. Then we prove an algebraicity result
for all the critical values of the standard $L$-functions $L(s,\Pi\otimes\chi)$; here we use the recent work
of B. Sun on the non-vanishing of a certain quantity attached to $\Pi_\infty$. As applications, we obtain
algebraicity results in the following cases: Firstly, for the symmetric cube $L$-functions attached to
holomorphic Hilbert modular cusp forms; we also discuss the situation for higher symmetric powers. Secondly,
for certain (self-dual of symplectic type) Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions for ${\rm GL}_3\times{\rm GL}_2$; assuming
Langlands Functoriality, this generalizes to certain Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions of ${\rm GL}_n\times{\rm GL}_{n-1}$.
Thirdly, for the degree four $L$-functions attached to Siegel modular forms of genus $2$ and full level.
Moreover, we compare our top-degree periods with periods defined by other authors. We also show that our
main theorem is compatible with conjectures of Deligne and Gross.
The Coleman map for Hida families of GSp 4
Authors: Lemma Francesco , Ochiai Tadashi
Published: May 2014

In this paper, we construct a Coleman map for ordinary Hida deformations associated to the symplectic
group ${\rm GSp}_4$, which interpolates the dual exponential maps when arithmetic specializations of
this family vary. The main result (Theorem 3.2) will play an important role in a forthcoming work by
the authors discussing a conjecture on the existence of an Euler system which would give rise via our
map to a three variable $p$-adic $L$-function.
Footprints in the City: Models, Materiality, and the Cultural Politics of Climate Change
Authors: Knox Hannah
Published: May 2014

This article traces the ways in which climate change, conceived as a socio-material process, works to produce new objects and subjects of political intervention. Building on the idea that climate change has become constructed as a particular kind of population-induced energy crisis, the article explores how the social problematic provoked by anthropogenic climate change relates to “biopolitical” understandings of the relationship between the state and the individual. In doing so, it aims to make a contribution to the broader discussions within this special collection regarding the transformative politics indexed by the term “energopower” and its co-articulation with the more familiar concept of “biopower.”
Energopolitical Russia: Corporation, State, and the Rise of Social and Cultural Projects
Authors: Rogers Douglas
Published: May 2014

In the Perm Region of the Russian Urals, the oil company Lukoil-Perm has worked with regional state agencies to design and administer hundreds of grants for “social and cultural projects” and embarked on other development initiatives over the last 15 years. This article argues that the resulting field of state and corporate power is productively understood as an “energopolitical regime” and suggests ways in which this analytical perspective adds new dimensions to the study of post-Soviet transformations and to the social science of energy and politics more broadly.
Energopower: An Introduction
Authors: Boyer Dominic
Published: May 2014

This special collection of Anthropological Quarterly aims to spark new ways of thinking about formations and operations of modern power. Specifically, the articles explore how energic forces and infrastructures interrelate with institutions and ideations of political power. In the hope of fanning sparks into flames, we juxtapose this process of exploration with the influential paradigm of “biopower” developed by Michel Foucault. All of the essays explore how modalities of “biopower” (the management of life and population) today depend in crucial respects upon modalities of energopower (the harnessing of electricity and fuel) and vice-versa. We emphasize especially the critical importance of exploring the juncture of biopower and energopower in the context of the rising importance of scientific and political discourse on anthropogenic climate change. As human use of energy is increasingly linked to the disruption and destruction of conditions of life (human and otherwise), the tensions between dominant energopolitical systems (like carbon fuel) and biopolitical projects (like sustainability) are increasingly evident, opening new possibilities of anthropological analysis. Both energopower and biopower, we conclude, are entering into a pivotal transitional phase.
Lines of Labor and Desire: “Korean Quality” in Contemporary Kathmandu
Authors: Hindman Heather , Oppenheim Robert
Published: May 2014

Using the theoretically and empirically multivalent concept of “Korean quality,” this article examines articulations of consumption, popular culture, and labor migration in contemporary Nepal. Drawing on the anticipation surrounding the 2010 administration of the Employment Permit System-Korean Language Test, for which over 40,000 Nepalis were candidates, we embed this moment in longer histories of desire and discipline. The qualification mechanism deployed in this system both shifts and is crosscut by Nepali landscapes of risk, class habitus, and expectation. Going beyond the frames in which such phenomena are usually considered, we suggest, is necessary for mapping oft-hidden entanglements of transnational processes.
From Biopower to Energopolitics in England’s Modern Waste Technology
Authors: Alexander Catherine , Reno Joshua O.
Published: May 2014

Two energy-generating technologies in Britain which transform waste into a resource are compared. One is the (in)famous Combined Heat and Power incinerator in Sheffield, the other a forgotten biological digester in Devon utilizing anaerobic microbes. Both sites are early exemplars of experimental and biopolitical waste disposal technologies—incineration and anaerobic digestion—now regarded as leading alternatives for reducing the United Kingdom’s dependence on landfill and fossil fuel; both sites also inspired public resistance at critical moments in their development. The analysis here relates how activists and technicians struggle to demonstrate competing truths about alternative energy. Through comparison, it becomes clear that, beyond the validity of specific truth claims, energo-politics mediates the formation of technological legacies. Examining the traces energy facilities leave behind—whether in the landscape or online—we ask what it means that various claims made about some technical operations endure, while others fade into obscurity.
Local Biologies and Ecologies of Screening: Tracing the Aftereffects of the “Shanghai Study”
Authors: Burke Nancy J.
Published: May 2014

Between 1988 and 1995, the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) of breast self-exam (BSE) was conducted in Shanghai, China. Subsequent policy recommendations transformed the landscape of breast cancer screening in North America as practice guidelines shifted from “BSE” toward “breast awareness.” Critiques of the study raised issues of race, regionalism, and difference. I turn to Margaret Lock’s concept “local biology” to tease out the complexities of these arguments, and expand upon it to consider the impact of local ecologies of screening on receipt and implementation of international behavioral clinical trial results. The case study of the Shanghai trial illuminates conflicts and controversies around what constitutes evidence in breast cancer prevention research, and for whom.
Ergos: A New Energy Currency
Authors: Günel Gökçe
Published: May 2014

In 2006, Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world’s first “zero-carbon” city: Masdar City. Soon after, Masdar Institute, a renewable energy and clean technology research center founded in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, opened its doors to an international group of faculty and students. Located at the heart of the Masdar City construction site, the Institute was responsible for experimenting with new energy infrastructures. In this article, I contend with the novel instance of Masdar City trying to invent “ergos,” a new currency based on energy unit expenditure. Bringing together literature on science and technology studies and economic anthropology, I explore the paradoxes that emerge during the project and map out the stakes of this currency proposal for the actors involved. Consequently, I show how “ergos” provides us with a unique instance of “energopolitics” wherein the disciplinary and biopolitical qualities of power merge together to control both individuals and populations, resulting in a “disciplinary biopolitics” for the eco-city. I suggest that a commitment to fixing the everyday failures of the emergent technological infrastructures (as well as a reverence for an abstract higher good) eventually emerges as the endpoint of the ergos project. In this way, I provide a refreshing look on planned cities, energy infrastructures, and currency debates.
Anthropocenic Ecoauthority: The Winds of Oaxaca
Authors: Howe Cymene
Published: May 2014

This article analyzes the development of wind parks across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) and, in turn, how a politics of resistance and local perceptions of environmental peril have challenged renewable energy transitions. In the fraught debates surrounding the massive Mareña Renovables wind park, dramatic distinctions have emerged between local perceptions of ecological conditions and forms of environmental knowledge calibrated to global climate remediation. These divergences indicate distinct ways of imagining and articulating “anthropocenic ecoauthority”—a series of experiential, scientific, and managerial truth-claims regarding ecological knowledge and future forecasting in an era of global anthropogenic change. Whether enunciated by resident communities, state officials, corporate representatives, or environmental experts, ecoauthority gains its particular traction by asserting ethical claims on behalf of, and in regards to, the anthropogenically altered future of the biosphere, human and nonhuman. The article concludes with a discussion of how biopolitical and ecoauthoritative positions coincide, suggesting that although the original sites of biopolitical intervention have been population and the human species, the energic, atmospheric, aquaspheric, and lithospheric shifts that have been dubbed the Anthropocene demand that we account for life in its local dimensions as well as on the scale of the greater planetary bios.
Unsettling North of Summer : Anxieties of Ownership in the Politics and Poetics of the Canadian North
Authors: Marel L. Camille van der
Published: May 2014

Canadian writers continue to struggle with their ambivalent settler-colonial inheritances, especially as they relate to Canada’s North. By troubling invaluable but thus far incomplete considerations of Canada’s settler-colonial history, this essay examines why Canada’s relations with its Arctic territories remain unsettled: settler-invader practices of land possession hinge on agricultural-cum-epistemological limits that find resistance in the Canadian North’s environmental conditions. Drawing predominantly from Al Purdy’s 1967 collection North of Summer: Poems from Baffin Island and secondly from CBC Radio’s 2011 feature “Northwords,” this essay demonstrates some of the ways that incompletable practices for colonial land claims, those that could only fail in the face of Arctic environments’ natural resistances, have fostered anxieties of (dis)possession that linger throughout poetic representations and political policies concerning Canada’s northern territories. Behind these anxieties are as yet unanswerable questions that shape Canada’s relationship with the North and with its colonial history: it goes without saying that certain landscapes trouble colonizing practice, so can a landscape, through its physical conditions, also be said to resist an ideology? If so, what are settler-colonialism’s ontic limits? Can we imagine an end to settler-colonial modes of relating to landscape in Canadian literature? This essay contends that resistances to settlercolonialism are not solely conceptual—for example, the failure of colonial language to represent colonized landscapes, the focus of so much critique at the crossroads of postcolonial and ecocritical thought—or even anthropocentric, though the North’s Inuit and Indigenous communities ably demonstrate that colonization is never an uncontested project. In addition to these indisputable embodiments of resistance, there are also physical limits to colonizing ideology, limits rooted in environmental conditions that, without any human agency or intent, deny colonial understandings of nature and the natural. Here, literary works help demonstrate how environmental resistances foster a disconnect between Canada’s southern and northern experiences of colonization.
An Interview with Susie O’Brien Conducted via email between February 3 and March 1, 2014
Authors: Szabo-Jones Lisa
Published: May 2014

This interview, conducted by email between Susie O’Brien and Lisa Szabo-Jones, discusses issues of nationalism, localism, food movements/security and indigeneity, and the merging of postcolonialism with ecocriticism. In recounting the various lines that O’Brien’s research takes, the interview follows the development of her innovative scholarly thinking. The discussion explores the ways in which her projects range from the local to the national to the global and unsettle clear delineations between geographical and political spheres as well as disciplinary fields. O’Brien comments on the challenges, benefits, and necessities of working within a postcolonial ecocritical framework.
Rachel Carson and the Perils of Simplicity: Reading Silent Spring from the Global South
Authors: Twidle Hedley
Published: May 2014

Carson’s work is often praised (and sometimes condemned) for its simplicity and lyricism, its “sensitive literary style.” My engagement with Silent Spring explores this idea of literariness, tracing the formal qualities and rhetorical strategies of her oeuvre: the ecology of allusion and quotation that it generates, the metaphors and genres that it draws on. In doing so, it argues that the celebrated accessibility of her writing is in fact a carefully worked-for effect. The simplicity of Silent Spring , in other words, is more complex than it first appears: a quality that lent the book much of its power yet also rendered it vulnerable in other ways. At the same time, I hope to read Carson’s public science writing alongside the anti-globalisation protest of Arundhati Roy, probing the relation between the simple and the complex in contemporary environmentalism. Both turned their attention to explicitly instrumental writing after winning fame for more “literary” texts, both questioned the credibility of the male expert, and both deployed the intimate address of the essay form for polemical effect. Roy’s work also allows us to see how Carson’s version of environmentalism looks from the developing world: how the ideas of ecology, toxicity, and “slow violence” that Silent Spring did much to introduce into public culture might play out in a postcolony like South Africa.
Afterword: Reckoning with Irreversibilities in Biotic and Political Ecologies
Authors: Estok Simon C.
Published: May 2014

In this Afterword to ARIEL ’s special issue on postcolonial ecocriticism, Estok notes that among the reasons for the enduring effects of colonialism is the irreversible nature of so much of the social and environmental changes and damages it brought. Estok shows that reckoning with the environmental and social effects of colonialism means engaging in a long and slow task but with an imperative for urgency. Such reckoning must (as one of the main purposes of this special issue claims) continue discussions of the Global South in postcolonial ecocriticism, and it must do so in ways that are more inclusive of local manifestations, such as the North/South chasm within North America. Such reckoning acknowledges that there is profound importance (as the contributors maintain) in discussing official histories through personal ones, in working with less familiar works and experimental writings, and in considering alternative methodologies and subject matter. Such attention will open postcolonial ecocriticism to genres and forms that perhaps would not get the attention they deserve otherwise. This work will widen the field of enquiry for postcolonial ecocriticism.
Rewriting History/Animality in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands and Richard Flanagan’s Wanting
Authors: Deyo Brian Daniel
Published: May 2014

This article examines two works of fiction that speculatively rewrite settler histories in South Africa and Australia, J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands and Richard Flanagan’s Wanting . In the interest of critically addressing the silences, elisions, and ideological simplifications of imperialist histories of the colonial encounter, both texts imaginatively attend to the lived experiences of European settlers and indigenous peoples during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In their respective accounts of the colonial encounter, Coetzee and Flanagan represent how racist, anthropocentric, and ecophobic mentalities are unsettled by affective intensities that instantiate the body’s resistance to the political, economic, social, and religious logics of colonialism. Both authors coordinate the body’s resistance with animality, which in turn is posited as a kind of affective power that has the potential to ethically and aesthetically reconfigure the human-animal binary of Western discourse. This essay proposes that Coetzee and Flanagan attempt to resituate the human ecologically by rewriting history, imaginatively recuperating the value of indigenous sensibilities, and positively reinscribing human animality.
Constitutions of Site and Visitor at the Swarbrick Wilderness Discovery Site
Authors: Crane Kylie
Published: May 2014

Located just off the North Walpole Road, the Swarbrick Wilderness Discovery Site can be seen as a node of several different historical trajectories which are—to different extents—documented in the artworks which frame, or decorate, the site. My account draws on my own biography and probes the investments I have in my various post-settler entanglements with the area. I critique, in particular, the idea of “wilderness” as one formative to post-settler narrations and myths at the same time that it places indigenous practices of belonging under erasure. For, most recently, Swarbrick stood metonymically for the campaign to preserve “old growth forests,” culminating at the end of the 1990s, and yet it is and has been also a site of logging, agriculture, Noongar belonging, that is, of pre-colonial and settler colonial spatial practices. In this article, I explore the different ways the Swarbrick Wilderness Discovery site positions itself and, critically, its visitor within frameworks provided by ecocritical and environmental discourse and post-settler theories.
Unsettling the Environment: The Violence of Language in Angela Rawlings’ Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists
Authors: Groeneveld Sarah
Published: May 2014

Canadian poet Angela Rawlings’ Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists (2006), a book of experimental ecopoetry, raises questions about the violence of language in the context of a settler-colonial nation. This article argues that Rawlings’ “unsettling” use of the nonhuman environment in her poetry allows her to critique the role that anthropo-, phallo-, and eurocentric language has played in the (discursive) settling of Canada. By exploring how Rawlings employs what Cynthia Sugars calls the “postcolonial gothic,” I show how a postcolonial ecocritical reading of Wide Slumber reveals the (at times violent or difficult) intertwining of national, cultural, and ecological concerns. Ultimately, the concept of “unsettling” utilizes gothic disturbance in order to challenge the process of colonial settlement and discourse and show concern for the well-being of the natural environment.
Hiawatha / Hereafter: Re-appropriating Longfellow’s Epic in Northern Ontario
Authors: Stewart Fenn Elan
Published: May 2014

This article focuses on appropriation and re-appropriation in selected uses of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha in Northern Ontario from the early twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, using a framework drawn from Indigenous theory on colonialism and decolonization and research on the cultural politics of race and nature. Issues of colonial resource extraction and appropriation have marked the text from its inception, as Hiawatha was based mostly on Anishinaabe narratives that were collected by Indian Agent and “ethnographer” Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in the process of his work towards the dispossession of Indigenous peoples in the Great Lakes region in the nineteenth century. In the years since its publication, Hiawatha has been a hugely influential piece of literature, north as well as south of the border. As I show, the text has signified in very different ways for settler and Indigenous communities in Northern Ontario. In the early twentieth century, Canadian Pacific Railway Colonization Officer L.O. Armstrong used the text to attract settlers and tourists to the forests of Northern Ontario through promotional pamphlets and outdoor performances of the work; to the Indigenous communities involved in the performances, however, the play held very different meanings. Today, versions of Longfellow’s text form the subject of historical and cultural transmission projects in Batchewana and Garden River First Nations. Poet Liz Howard has also worked with Longfellow’s text in producing a critique of settler resource extraction and colonial assimilation in the context of Northern Ontario. In tracing these very different uses of Hiawatha , this article builds on the work of Indigenous writers and scholars who explore colonialism as an ongoing process characterized by interconnected forms of theft and theorize methods of literary and cultural analysis to halt and reverse such processes in the context of work towards decolonization. I also draw on studies of the cultural politics of race and nature, which demonstrate how settler ideas about race and indigenousness have long been central to the construction of iconic Canadian wilderness spaces.
Introduction to Postcolonial Ecocriticism Among Settler-Colonial Nations
Authors: Mason Travis V. , Szabo-Jones Lisa , Steenkamp Elzette
Published: May 2014

The introduction to this special issue considers the intersecting concerns of postcolonialism and ecocriticism as well as the complexities that divide the two fields. Inspired by ongoing non-literary events that highlight the irrevocable link between humans and the environment, the special issue recognizes the ways in which ecocriticism can inform achievable and effective strategies for postcolonial critics and activists. The assembled essays, which focus on literatures from settler-colonial nations, offer fresh ways of negotiating the intricacies of postcolonial ecocriticism.
Invasive Species and the Territorial Machine: Shifting Interfaces between Ecology and the Postcolonial
Authors: Menozzi Filippo
Published: May 2014

This article proposes a rethinking of biological invasion in contemporary South African and Australian literature. It argues that the literary representation of pest proliferation can offer a privileged insight into the intersection between the legacy of settler colonialism and current ecological concerns. Indeed, the question of invasive species can be connected to both unreconciled histories of colonial expansion and pressing biodiversity and conservation issues. This essay adopts Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of deterritorialisation in order to explore the description of invasive species in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Nineveh and The Rabbits , a visual narrative by John Mardsen and Shaun Tan. A reading inspired by the anti-metaphorical value of the concept of deterritorialisation overcomes an anthropocentric view that would reduce animals to mere metaphorical stand-ins for humans. The intimate link between nature and culture posited by Deleuze and Guattari’s generalised ecology is conceptualised as a shifting interface between postcolonial and ecocritical agendas in the reading of postcolonial literature from South Africa and Australia.
A Response to Timothy Matovina
Authors: Poole Stafford
Published: May 2014

According to a widely accepted tradition, the Virgin Mary appeared in December 1531 to an indigenous neophyte named Juan Diego on a hill outside of Mexico City. The devotion to the Virgin under the title of Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of history’s outstanding examples of the union of religious devotion and nationalism. Beginning in the late-eighteenth century, however, there has been a controversy over the historical truth of the tradition. In an article in this issue, Timothy Matovina critiques the author’s works on this subject. What follows is a response to his criticisms.
Why Relationships Matter: Sisters, Bishops, and the History of Catholicism in the United States
Authors: McGuinness Margaret M.
Published: May 2014

Histories of women religious in the United States no longer follow a pattern that extols Superior Generals and presidents while ignoring the collective work of the congregation. In her presidential address to the American Catholic Historical Association, the author offers a reminder that despite this shift in historical research, we still have much to learn about the most well-known American sisters. Focusing on Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, Theodore Guérin, and Katharine Drexel—all of whom have been canonized—she examines their relationships with bishops, both collegial and adversarial, as a way to further understanding about the place of women religious in U.S. Catholic history.
The Origins of the Guadalupe Tradition in Mexico
Authors: Matovina Timothy
Published: May 2014

Historical writings on Our Lady of Guadalupe, the most revered sacred figure indigenous to the Western Hemisphere, focus largely on her cult’s origins. Scholars disagree on whether reports of Guadalupe’s 1531 appearances to the indigenous neophyte Juan Diego initiated devotion to her or whether the apparition tradition is a later invention that provided a mythical origin for an already existing image and devotion. This essay critiques the standard argument against a foundational apparition tradition as exemplified in the work of Stafford Poole. The reevaluation sheds light on the scope of early indigenous devotion and the genesis of belief in the apparitions.
The Liturgy and the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States: Change through the Decades
Authors: Morozowich Mark M.
Published: May 2014

A wide range of factors impacted the development of the liturgy of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States. The nineteenth century’s burgeoning immigrant Ukrainian population in the United States and the Ukrainian Catholic Church’s dependence upon the homeland in the first decades after immigration formed the Ukrainian liturgy’s earliest U.S. identity. Attempts at latinization, owing to the influences of the Catholic Church’s Latin rite, both in the United States and in Europe, brought departures from the Ukrainian Church’s Byzantine liturgy. As the Ukrainian Church matured and moved toward independence, a highly educated native clergy brought liturgical renewal. The unfortunate events in 1945 and 1946, forcing Ukrainian Catholics in the homeland underground, led the faithful in the United States to continue without significant leadership from Ukraine. In the last fifty years, influenced by the Second Vatican Council and the Code of Canon Law for the Eastern Catholic Churches , the Ukrainian Church has achieved modest liturgical change.
The Maronite Church in the United States, 1854–2010
Authors: Labaki Georges T.
Published: May 2014

In the latter half of the nineteenth century, members of the Maronite Church from the Middle East, especially Lebanon, began immigrating to the United States. Due to economic hardships, political tension, and religious discrimination, Maronite immigration has continued through the early twenty-first century. The large-scale immigration of Maronites resulted in the creation of Maronite parishes and after numerous requests to the Holy See, two Maronite dioceses were founded successively in the second part of the twentieth century. Attempting to protect its identity and its traditions in the U.S., the Maronite Church has faced challenges concerning its freedom and autonomy, its relation with the mother church in Lebanon, priestly vocations, and its relationships with other churches, especially Latin Catholicism.
The San Fernando Bell: Repatriation Efforts Spanning Christian East and West
Authors: Bucko Raymond A. , Bourg Seth
Published: May 2014

In recent years significant religious and historical artifacts held by the Catholic Church originating in the Christian East have been repatriated. Among these artifacts is a bell struck for use by an Alaskan Russian Orthodox congregation that had, until recently, been owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and housed at the San Fernando Rey de España Mission in Southern California. Efforts to return the bell to the Orthodox Church spanned from 1987−2013. Though a long and, at times, confusing process, the repatriation initiative proved successful not only in its attempt to return an artifact to its place of origin but also in its efforts to build bridges between Catholic and Orthodox Christians, particularly U.S. Christians of indigenous descent.
Bishop Soter Stephen Ortynsky: The First Eastern Catholic Bishop in the Western Hemisphere
Authors: Kaszczak Ivan
Published: May 2014

Bishop Soter Stephen Ortynsky (1866–1916) served as the first hierarch of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church in the United States. As the first Eastern Catholic bishop in the Western Hemisphere, he significantly influenced the U.S. Catholic Church, theoretically and structurally. The lack of episcopal oversight at the inception of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church in the U.S. led to the fracturing of its membership among diverse churches and much misunderstanding and misrepresentation. Ortynsky, in spite of his best efforts, became a target and scapegoat for much of the dissention within his church and the lack of understanding from without. For many fellow Catholics, Ortynsky stood in direct opposition to the Latin rite Catholic Church’s unity of jurisdiction and uniformity of discipline. Various churches sought the conversion of Ruthenian Catholics, encompassing Rusins, Ukrainians and other ethnicities, to alternative confessions; nevertheless, Ortynsky persevered, asserting his church’s rightful autonomy and evangelical mission.
Becoming What We Always Were: “Conversion” of U.S. Greek Catholics to Russian Orthodoxy, 1890–1914
Authors: Brady Joel
Published: May 2014

The conversions of Greek Catholic migrants to Russian Orthodoxy in the U.S., as well as in Canada, Argentina, Brazil, and Austria-Hungary in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries proliferated due to numerous intersecting causes. The most fundamental cause lay in the perception of “conversion” in terms of continuity, rather than transformation. Historians’ focus upon the conversion narrative of the foremost activist for the conversions in the U.S., Father Alexis Toth, has obscured the underlying causation for the phenomena of conversion. While Toth’s account of “Roman” Catholic prejudice prompting his conscious rejection of “the Unia” (Eastern Catholicism) in favor of Russian Orthodoxy does partially align with causation in the broader Eastern Europe and American movements, the narrative of conversion as dramatic transformation remains primarily a story about Toth. For many ordinary converts, a more central factor in their “conversions” lay in perceptions of continuity between their officially “Greek Catholic” religious practices which they (and, they believed, their ancestors) had always maintained, and their practices in newly-established Russian Orthodox convert parishes in the U.S. and throughout the Americas.
Utilization of an Interorganizational Network Analysis to Evaluate the Development of Community Capacity Among a Community–Academic Partnership
Authors: Clark Heather R. , Ramirez Albert , Drake Kelly N. , Beaudoin Christopher E. , Garney Whitney R. , Wendel Monica L. , Outley Corliss , Burdine James N. , Player Harold D.
Published: May 2014

Background : Following a community health assessment the Brazos Valley Health Partnership (BVHP) organized to address fragmentation of services and local health needs. This regional partnership employs the fundamental principles of community-based participatory research, fostering an equitable partnership with the aim of building community capacity to address local health issues. Objectives : This article describes changes in relationships as a result of capacity building efforts in a community-academic partnership. Growth in network structure among organizations is hypothesized to be indicative of less fragmentation of services for residents and increased capacity of the BVHP to collectively address local health issues. Methods : Each of the participant organizations responded to a series of questions regarding its relationships with other organizations. Each organization was asked about information sharing, joint planning, resource sharing, and formal agreements with other organizations. The network survey has been administered 3 times between 2004 and 2009. Results : Network density increased for sharing information and jointly planning events. Growth in the complexity of relationships was reported for sharing tangible resources and formal agreements. The average number of ties between organizations as well as the strength of relationships increased. Conclusion : This study provides evidence that the community capacity building efforts within these communities have contributed to beneficial changes in interorganizational relationships. Results from this analysis are useful for understanding how a community partnership’s efforts to address access to care can strengthen a community’s capacity for future action. Increased collaboration also leads to new assets, resources, and the transfer of knowledge and skills.
Improving Treatment for Opioid Dependence: A Perspective From the Ohio Valley Node of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network
Authors: Winstanley Erin L. , Brigham Greg S. , Babcock Dean , Winhusen Theresa
Published: May 2014

Problem : Rates of adoption of evidenced-based practices, including the use of medications, to treat opioid dependence are low and severely limit secondary prevention efforts to curtail the prescription drug epidemic. Purpose : The goal of this article was to describe how involvement in a research clinical trials network (CTN) facilitated the adoption of medications to treat opioid dependence at two community-based treatment programs (CTPs) affiliated with the Ohio Valley Node (OVN) of the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) CTN. Key Points : Participation in a CTN may facilitate adoption by providing the infrastructure for trialability and observability, but the most critical function may be the knowledge translation that occurs through the individual-level professional relationships that develop. Conclusion : Community-based treatment providers’ involvement in research networks may increase the rate of evidence-based practice (EBP) adoption and improve outcomes for patients with opioid dependence.
Standardizing a Process to Engage African Americans in Health Research: The Community Research Outreach Workers’ Network (CROWN)
Authors: Samuel Tonya
Published: May 2014

Background : Recruiting African Americans into health research studies has proven to be challenging. Barriers to research study participation exist at the individual, research, and community levels. Additionally, a gap may exist where research opportunities do not reach potential participants in many African-American communities and/or research investigators may not have access to pathways that allow for them to connect with potential research participants. Objectives : Few studies have been published regarding an engagement strategy that utilizes volunteer research registries and community review boards to link registrants to health research. Therefore, the aims of this Community Research Outreach Workers’ Network (CROWN) pilot project were to (1) create a community outreach-generated registry of African Americans interested in participating in health research and (2) develop a community research review board that serves to advise research investigators on conducting culturally engaging research. Methods : The Uniformed Services University Center for Health Disparities (USUCHD) served as an administrative coordinating center that provided resources and support to a community research review board that determined if research investigators could recruit participants from the CROWN registry. Results : The CROWN board reviewed five research studies and provided feedback to research investigators. In turn, 71 people who were recruited into research studies reported that they heard about the study through CROWN. Conclusions : Outcomes from this pilot project suggest that the CROWN model is an effective strategy that can be used to engage African Americans in health research.
Community–Campus Partnership in Action: Lessons Learned From the DuPage County Patient Navigation Collaborative
Authors: Samaras Athena T. , Murphy Kara , Nonzee Narissa J. , Endress Richard , Taylor Shaneah , Hajjar Nadia , Bularzik Rosario , Frankovich Carmi , Dong XinQi , Simon Melissa A.
Published: May 2014

Background : Using community-based participatory research (CBPR), the DuPage County Patient Navigation Collaborative (DPNC) developed an academic campus–community research partnership aimed at increasing access to care for underserved breast and cervical cancer patients within DuPage County, a collar county of Chicago. Given rapidly shifting demographics, targeting CBPR initiatives among underserved suburban communities is essential. Objectives : To discuss the facilitating factors and lessons learned in forging the DPNC. Methods : A patient navigation collaborative was formed to guide medically underserved women through diagnostic resolution and if necessary, treatment, after an abnormal breast or cervical cancer screening. Lessons Learned : Facilitating factors included (1) fostering and maintaining collaborations within a suburban context, (2) a systems-based participatory research approach, (3) a truly equitable community–academic partnership, (4) funding adaptability, (5) culturally relevant navigation, and (6) emphasis on co-learning and capacity building. Conclusions : By highlighting the strategies that contributed to DPNC success, we envision the DPNC to serve as a feasible model for future health interventions.
Colorado Immersion Training in Community Engagement: Because You Can’t Study What You Don’t Know
Authors: Zittleman Linda , Wright Leslie , Ortiz Barrientos Charlene , Fleming Candace , Loudhawk-Hedgepeth Crystal , Marshall Julie , Ramirez Lorenzo , Wheeler Michele , Westfall John M.
Published: May 2014

Background : Community engagement (CE)has become a major element in medical research. In alliance with the goals of the Clinical and Translational Sciences Award program, Colorado Immersion Training in Community Engagement (CIT) is a community–campus partnership that aims to introduce an expanded pool of researchers to communitybased participatory research (CBPR) and CE. Objectives : To describe CIT components and preliminary results. Methods : CIT attempts to support a change in the research trajectory of academic health researchers, program developers, and graduate students toward CE. The program occurs on campus and in six community settings: Urban African American, urban Asian and refugee, urban Latino, urban American Indian/Alaska Native, rural northeast Colorado, and rural San Luis Valley. Components include a 4-week Directed Reading, a seminar on CBPR, 4-day community immersion, reflection, and 6-month support. Evaluation describes recruitment, implementation, and participants’ understanding of CBPR and skills post-training. Results : Fifty-eight people have participated. A comprehensive curriculum was developed to address (1) principals of CBPR, (2) health disparities, (3) listening to community, (4) self-reflection, and (5) engagement tools. Community immersions expose participants to a community’s culture and opportunities to discuss health issues with a range of community members. Local “community guides” enhance participants’ experience. Of the first two cohorts, 90% changed the way they plan to approach their research, 94% changed how they viewed community involvement in research, and 77% learned new skills to help engage communities in research. Conclusions : CIT applies to and positively impacts researchers from a variety of disciplines. CIT creates opportunities for long lasting partnerships between researchers and communities.
Reconciling Traditional Knowledge, Food Security, and Climate Change: Experience From Old Crow, YT, Canada
Authors: Douglas Vasiliki , Chan Hing Man , Wesche Sonia , Dickson Cindy , Kassi Norma , Netro Lorraine , Williams Megan
Published: May 2014

Background : Because of a lack of transportation infrastructure, Old Crow has the highest food costs and greatest reliance on traditional food species for sustenance of any community in Canada’s Yukon Territory. Environmental, cultural, and economic change are driving increased perception of food insecurity in Old Crow. Objectives : To address community concerns regarding food security and supply in Old Crow and develop adaptation strategies to ameliorate their impact on the community. Methods : A community adaptation workshop was held on October 13, 2009, in which representatives of different stakeholders in the community discussed a variety of food security issues facing Old Crow and how they could be dealt with. Workshop data were analyzed using keyword, subject, and narrative analysis techniques to determine community priorities in food security and adaptation. Results : Community concern is high and favored adaptation options include agriculture, improved food storage, and conservation through increased traditional education. These results were presented to the community for review and revision, after which the Vuntut Gwitchin Government will integrate them into its ongoing adaptation planning measures.