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Listening beyond the border: Self-representation, witnessing, and the white sonic field
Authors: Brooks Andrew
Published: November 2024

This paper considers the relationship between sound and the structural violence of whiteness in the context of the Australian settler colony. It thinks with an archive of audio recordings made by the Manus Recording Project Collective, a group of men currently or formerly held in involuntary and indefinite detention after seeking asylum in Australia, and their collaborators in Melbourne. Tracking the demonisation of refugees in the media and party politics over the past two decades, I develop the notion of the white sonic field as a way of accounting for the way both sound and perception are racially saturated in the settler colony. The sonic field, which comprises both the sounds we hear and the forces that mediate our hearing, is crucial to the maintenance of whiteness in the settler state, structuring perception and naturalising settlement through the repetition of possessive speech acts and the selective silencing of non-white voices. Cutting through the white sonic field are recordings from the where are you today archive produced by the Manus Recording Project Collective. I argue that these recordings reclaim the right to representation, moving beyond both the erasure of refugees and spectacle of their suffering. These recordings compel us to listen beyond the border and beyond the white sonic field, asking us to consider how we might dismantle the carceral system of mandatory and indefinite detention.
The sound of the perpetrator – thoughts on trauma and voice in Big Little Lies
Authors: Rogers Juliet
Published: November 2024

Sound is as much part of the atmospheres of justice as is touch or image or even smell. Sound gets into the body and it leaves a mark. Sometimes that mark can be called violence, sometimes harm, and sometimes a crime. In this article I discuss how sound, as voice as well as the other nebulous sonic elements, such as grunts, shuffles and sighs, can leave a mark that can be called trauma. Using psychoanalysis I discuss theories of trauma as they intersect with experiences of sound in the courtroom as well as in fictional narratives. I examine the mark of trauma, as an experience of rape, as it appeared in the series Big Little Lies and I discuss how it can appear in the courtroom using psychoanalysis and the work of thinkers on sexual assault, on voice and on sound. I conclude that sound cannot not be part of the thinking on justice for victim-survivors of sexual assault, as well as of other interpersonal crimes.
Gnostics of the North, or Music To Recolonize Your Anxious Capitalist Dreams By
Authors: Kim-Cohen Seth
Published: November 2024

In 1975, the Venezuelan terrorist known as Carlos (born Ilich Ramírez Sánchez) and six accomplices, calling themselves the Arm of the Arab Revolution, raided the annual meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna. Demanding the liberation of Palestine, they took more than sixty hostages, including the Oil and Energy Ministers of most of the OPEC member states. The OPEC kidnapping is the most notorious entry in Carlos’s résumé of political violence. And the geopolitical complexities of the event, its motivations, and its ramifications are far-reaching and profound.
Legal Footprints / Legal Footprints in Redfern: A photoessay of Carol Ruff’s ‘40,000 Years’ Mural in Lawson Street, Redfern, Sydney, Australia
Authors: Barr Olivia
Published: November 2024

Through an exploration in poetry, essay and photographs, I ask and interrogate the jurisprudential question: What are our legal footprints? As a global activity, walking is everywhere, yet it is important to notice the location of where we walk if we are to notice how we walk legally. Addressing the global through the local, because we all walk somewhere, this autoethnographic essay unfolds across a triptych of genres as a way of eliciting some fractal patterns in the movements of laws, the laws of movement, and the place of our feet, legally, in this maze of non-linear movements. More specifically, I argue location matters for how we notice, experience and understand the active nature of laws’ moving places in the world, and how this relates to walking. How, then, might we understand the ramifications of our global footprints? In a common law world, where common law attaches to subjects through the body, of more specifically, the feet, the nature of our legal footprints especially matter. In Australia, for example, what happens when we walk with multiple forms of laws: one carried by feet, and one carried by land? This is a challenge raised by the question of legal footprints, and contemplated in this experimental essay through a method of a minor jurisprudence.
Conditions of Carriage: Finding a Place
Authors: McVeigh Shaun
Published: November 2024

This essay considers the persona of the minor jurisprudent through the eyes of jurisprudence and wonders what might happen when the jurisprudent leaves an ‘out of office’ notice on their office door or email. It reports on some elements of jurisprudence as an unofficial training in the conduct of office, considers how a jurisographer might address the writings of jurisprudents, attends to some sites of law and reflects on the ways such attendance is considered a matter of the conduct of lawful relations. Its motivating conceit follows the rarely tested understanding that London bears or carries a jurisprudence.
The Eye of Surveillance
Authors: Price N.
Published: November 2024

Within the theme of tactics against fear I am interested in the paranoia that fear tends to generate for the ordinary person as well as for all-powerful institutions. I took the computer and explored it in relation to surveillance and paranoia, or rather explored the question ‘Is computerised surveillance for my protection?’
Terror of History History of Terror: Exploring dialectic process visually
Authors: Adil M.
Published: November 2024

The work Terror of History History of Terror (TOHHOT) is made of discs of bread, words, a cello bow and a wire coat-hanger. It is a visual unit that was part of a larger work in progress throughout 2006–2007. In the larger work I set out, amongst other things, to investigate and experiment with the visual properties of apparently everyday materials. I start with and depart from the assumption that such materials carry a relatively fixed range of associations, alone and in relation to one another, within the various contexts in which they are used or known of. This includes aspects of language, such as words and sentences. This work can be seen as a contribution towards generating provisional visual stimuli that might trigger interruptions to our habitual, usually unexamined, expectations of ‘meaning’. The provisionality extends to our language of everyday contact and exchange.
After the Flood
Authors: Pryor J.
Published: November 2024

When the World Trade Centre was destroyed in New York on 11 September 2001, I felt devastation for all the victims of this atrocity. This included the terrorist themselves as well as the families of the dead and injured and of the perpetrators. When America used this atrocity as a reason to attack Iraq I was very disturbed by the transposition of lines of blame to a country that had no direct link to this attack on the USA.
‘Who’s your Daddy?’ A question of sovereignty and the use of psychoanalysis
Authors: Rogers J.
Published: November 2024

The love of the law is flighty. Indeed, it represents itself as ‘without desire’. It is a love imagined emanating from a sovereign that does, and has, and may again, exercise its whimsical decision and render the subject, as Giorgio Agamben (1998) has described abandoned and as Jacques Lacan has offered: castrated. Consequently this love is experienced, on some level, as precarious. It is a love that can be withdrawn, or directed to an-other, at any time. What evokes the law’s desire is neither obvious nor apparent. It is hidden from the ordinary subject.
The perpetual challenge and power’s secret violence
Authors: McDonald A.
Published: November 2024

The cat’s cradle of relations between violence, power and secrecy, and how law refuses to acknowledge their activity, is examined here through readings of three novels, Bram Stoker’s The Lady Of The Shroud, John Buchan’s John Macnab, and Andrew Greig’s The Return Of John Macnab. Like scissors/paper/stone, violence, power and secrecy combine and recombine to generate different outcomes. This analysis provides a context for considering Craig Murray’s memoir concerning his period as British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Murder In Samarkand, a period which ended when his disapproval of the UK’s attitude towards torture made his position untenable. Recent case law on the relation between law and torture is drawn on in order to verify the hypothesis that law’s blind spot is power’s secret violence in the context of a situation where the challenge of, for example, terror, is received on our part not as a challenge to our values but as a challenge to our power, and responded to accordingly, by means not of a reassertion of our values but by a deployment of violence.
Passages, or the medium of authority
Authors: Rush P. D. , Kenyon A. T.
Published: November 2024

The work of passages evokes movement — the constitutive actions of passing on, across, over, through a space or medium, as much as the performance of their arrest. These are movements of voyage and migration, transit and flight. Movements within and between tradition and translation, appropriation and transformation, rights of passing and rituals of law; the dissemination of border crossing and transgression, surveillance and forgetting, territory and terror, subject and subjection, verdict and sentence, enactment and performance, mimesis and poesis. In short, passages — whether conjuring the movement of bodies, affections, concepts or texts — speak to questions of politics and aesthetics, the mediating relations of life and law.
Miscarriage of Meaning (Poem)
Authors: Nicholson B.
Published: November 2024

1901 and the great Australian silence fell with deafening reality over the brown earth. A silence, screaming out its permanency in mortar and sand, recording in Joycean confusion, tho' lacking his learning and wit, that ineluctable modality he would ascribe to Bloom some years on. What measure of law could flaunt its own origins so glibly?
‘Legitimating Fictions’: The Rule of Law, the Northern Territory Intervention and the War on Terror
Authors: Kramer Jillian
Published: November 2024

On 21 June 2007, the Australian Prime Minister John Howard declared war. In response to the latest in a line of reports about child sexual abuse, he declared a ‘national emergency’ and swiftly suspended the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (RDA).1 He deployed over 600 military personnel, Federal Australian Police and the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) Investigators into 73 targeted Aboriginal communities across Northern and Central Australia. As a result, these communities saw alcohol and pornography banned, mandatory income quarantining regimes introduced, community assets seized and the Government compulsorily reacquiring Aboriginal land on five-year leases.
Visual Essay
Authors: Fish Eaten
Published: November 2024

Visual essay by Eaten Fish, relating to his life as a refugee at Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.
Introduction to the work of Eaten Fish
Authors: Fish Eaten , Galbraith Janet
Published: November 2024

Eaten Fish has been drawing since he was the age of 4. He is selftaught, having honed his craft over decades. Now incarcerated in Australia’s immigration detention camp on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, he is dedicated to continuing his art practice. Art, for Eaten Fish is a matter of survival. On 17 August 2012, both houses of the Australian Parliament passed legislation to allow offshore ‘processing’ of people seeking asylum in Nauru and Papua New Guinea. On 19 July 2013, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced a ‘Regional Resettlement Arrangement’ with Papua New Guinea where all people seeking asylum arriving on or after 19 July 2013 would be transferred to Manus Island or Nauru and would never be settled in Australia.
Geopolitics of Aboriginal Sovereignty: Colonial Law as ‘a Species of Excess of Its Own Authority’, Aboriginal Passport Ceremonies and Asylum Seekers
Authors: Pugliese Joseph
Published: November 2024

In her trenchant critique of the manner in which settler-colonial law, in its seemingly progressive manifestation through the Mabo Native Title legislation, in fact operated as a ‘particularly problematic form of neocolonial practice’, Penny Pether (1998: 130) demonstrates how this assertion of contemporary neocolonial practice was predicated on the High Court’s refusal to address the charged issue of Aboriginal sovereignty – with all the attendant foundational ramifications that this would have entailed. In adjudicating on this issue, Australian settler-colonial law was, in Pether’s (1998: 124) memorable phrase, acting as ‘a species of excess of its own authority’. If, Pether (1998: 116) argues, Mabo was marked by what ‘the judgment refuses to do’ (that is, acknowledge Aboriginal sovereignty), then it is also inscribed, paradoxically, by what it ‘makes imaginable’: that Aboriginal sovereignty has never been extinguished – despite over two hundred years of colonial rule (of law).
Introduction - LTC volume 19
Authors: Pugliese Joseph , Kramer Jillian
Published: November 2024

Front pages, introduction and end pages including list of contributors.
Contents and contributors, LTC volume 17
Authors: Cranny-Francis Anne , Kelly Elaine
Published: November 2024

Contents and contributors, Law Text Culture, volume 17.
Student Writing in Law: Fixed Discourse Boundaries and Hospitable Crossings
Authors: Price Stephen
Published: November 2024

In this article I discuss the ‘acquisition’ of and ‘engagement’ with common law discourse attempted by two international postgraduate law students in terms of a relationship of hospitality with language. Like hospitality, language is marked for Derrida by a structure of a ‘promise of a gift’ (Derrida 1998: 21, 66) which at the same time can never be given but is ‘always yet to come’ (Derrida 1998: 67). Nevertheless, as in hospitality, there is necessarily a sense that this gift is real, there is ‘a language’ or specific discourse (such as the discourse of common law in English) that one can ‘make oneself at home in’.
Law's own repressed memory syndrome. Peter Goodrich, Oedipus Lex: psychoanalysis, history law. Peter Goodrich, Law in the courts of love: literature and other minor jurisprudences
Authors: Caudill D. S.
Published: November 2024

It is not the history but the study of law that is endless; and it is not the pleasure but the melancholy of a life in law that is identified by Goodrich in his recent historical analyses of the institutions of the common law. The two books seem to belong together - the concluding chapter of Oedipus Lex is in part identical to the introductory chapter of Law in the Courts of Love - as if in a series (by different publishers) that constitute a single case study of the pathology of contemporary law. Oedipus Lex can thus be viewed as describing a type of psychoanalytic methodology for interpreting the history and texts of social institutions, while Law in the Courts of Love (in which psychoanalysis is discussed only in passing) highlights in detail that which has been repressed and forgotten in the institutions of law. In another sense, however, Law in the Courts of Love is the primary text of the two books, as Goodrich's concluding evaluation of the failures of critical legal theory recommends the radical historical and historiographical reflection that is exemplified in Oedipus Lex. Such 'orderings,' neither of which is misleading, are really beside the point, since each of Goodrich's studies stands alone as a sustained effort to reveal the unconscious of law; for that reason alone, the books can be usefully read together (in any order).
A deep sense of wrong. Beverley D. Boissery, The treason, trials and transportation to New South Wales of lower Canadian rebels after the 1838 rebellion
Authors: Turcotte Gerry
Published: November 2024

As a recent book, Canadians in Australia by Jim Bennett and Ian Fry makes clear, connections and interchanges between the two nations are rather more plentiful than most would expect, whether it be our shared Commonwealth past or the surprising fact that the Eureka Flag was designed by a Canadian involved in that up-rising. Perhaps one of the least known associations is that of the transported English and French Canadian 'convicts' as a result of rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada (now Ontario and Quebec respectively) in 1837 and 1838. As a French Canadian, who has recently discovered a possible relative among the francophone convicts sent out here in 1839, I have a particular interest in the latter.
The politics of positionality and the production of meaning: a reading of Hou Leong's "An Australian"
Authors: Partridge E.
Published: November 2024

In first looking at Han Leong's photographs, the images brought an immediate smile to my face. Their cheeky tone and playful style appealed to me, and I appreciated their ironic refiguring of both 'white' and 'multicultural' versions of 'Australia' as it is popularly imagined. More than this, the images made me think, particularly about my own viewing position, and the process by which these images are made meaningful to me. This paper is partly a reading of Leong's work and partly a meditation on this process.
Measuring justice: notes on fish, Foucault, and the law
Authors: Mailloux S.
Published: November 2024

My paper can be described in several ways. It is an illustration of something I call rhetorical hermeneutics: the use of rhetoric to practice theory by doing history (Mailloux 1989). It is also part of a larger project on "The Ancients and the Postmodem": an argument that much poststructuralist thought in law, critical theory, and other human sciences can be usefully understood as a contemporary reception of classical Greek rhetoric and philosophy (Shankman 1994, Mailloux 1995, Zuckert 1996). In the following remarks, I suggest how Michel Foucault's genealogical work is both derived from and employed in a reading of Plato and Aristotle on justice. Here I use rhetoric (tracing the trope of measurement) to practice a bit of legal theory (concerning neopragmatism) by doing some reception history (about the law). Specifically, I look at Foucault's genealogy of the will to truth in ancient Greek philosophy and legal practices and relate it to Stanley Fish's theoretical claims about the distinctive purpose of law as a particular social practice aiming to disengage from history to establish formal procedures for legal validity.
Law without tears. Diane Kirkby (ed), Sex power and justice: historical perspectives on law in Australia
Authors: San Roque M.
Published: November 2024

In the introduction to this collection of 17 essays, Diane Kirkby describes her scepticism about the law's potential as a mechanism for social change. Like Carol Smart warning us of the seductive power of law (Smart 1989:160) Kirkby describes her ambivalence about a reliance on law's power to right wrongs and bring about justice. But she sees the essays in this collection as sharing a commitment to social justice and expresses a hope that the collection may itself provide an impetus for change. By situating legal practice in its social and historical contexts these contributions to the historiography of law may be capable of subverting law's claims to universality and timeless validity. Kirkby sees the book as providing a resource for the new, broadened legal education in Australia and at the very least the essays, divided into the catch-all themes of Sexuality, Punishment, Family and Citizenship and the State, provide the reader with a starting point for further research or a useful overview of areas of law and legal history in Australia. The chapters that perhaps go further than this are those that articulate more clearly Kirkby's disquiet. These are the chapters that describe the uneasy alliances between feminists and moral campaigners, the difficulty feminist activists have had in dealing with the implications of intersectional identity, the inability of (legislative) reform to provide benefits for all women and the sometimes unexpected results of feminist campaigns for change.
Shell of clouds
Authors: Cronin M.
Published: November 2024

1. one excuse
One excuse was to say
I forgot the time
(or you simply ran out
of time)
Time, for something so
relative;
(lying on the beach):
works remarkably well
(we always used it
instead of humour)
The idea of the constitutional state and global society
Authors: Yeatman A.
Published: November 2024

It is a commonplace observation that historically established modes of state formation are inadequately adapted to global social scale (see for example Kettl 2000; and for a theoretically sophisticated treatment of this issue Sassen 2000), although as we shall see this observation underestimates the dynamic by which this adaptation is currently occurring. Many commentators seem to conclude from the current lack of fit between the established type of state formation and global social scale that the state as such is not adequate to the demands of governing global society. This view conflates the two distinct dimensions of political organisation and social scale. Political organisation does have to be able to work with social scale, of that we can be certain, but the nature of their relationship is not one of containment. The state does not contain society, nor is it the role of the state to express society. Rather the role of the state is to provide the institutional order that brings society to account in relation to the procedural and substantive norms of justice. Units of political organisation do not have to match units of social organisation for there to be a relationship between them.
Body genres, embodiment and engagement: Second Person in Audio Storytelling
Authors: Giacconi Riccardo
Published: November 2024

In the article, “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess” (1991), Linda Williams defines as body genres the film genres that are based on stimulating certain physical reactions in the bodies of spectators. These are fear (horror), sexual arousal (pornography), and tears (melodrama). All three genres share, “an apparent lack of proper aesthetic distance, a sense of over-involvement in sensation and emotion. We feel manipulated,” by them. The bodies of whoever watches these films are involved in an “involuntary mimicry” of the body on the screen. During a talk at the 2016 Third Coast Conference, radio producer Eleanor McDowall inquired about the equivalent of body genres in audio storytelling (radio, podcast, and other forms of audio narratives). What are those sound works that engage the bodies of their listeners, not by merely talking about bodily reactions, but by actually provoking them?
Pillow, Talk: Kaitlin Prest’s The Shadows and the Elements of Modern Audio Fiction
Authors: Verma Neil
Published: November 2024

This essay is a study of The Shadows (2018), a series produced by Kaitlin Prest and Phoebe Wang for CBC Podcasts. I situate the work in the framework of Prest’s career after her podcast The Heart, and argue that The Shadows crystallises a set of conventions about “audio fiction” that set it apart from “audio drama,” “radio features” and other similar forms, at least at this particular historical moment. These conventions include: the embrace of naive themes; a preference for retroversion or 'queer temporality'; a focus on body sound; multiplication in mixing and editing that comes across as a multiplication of voice and consciousness; the prominence of inanimate objects as orienters; and an aesthetic of suspended poignance.
Prix Europa: The European Broadcasting Festival 2018 - radio documentary and feature trends, forms and topics.
Authors: Kowalska Natalia
Published: November 2024

This article surveys a range of European audio features and documentaries selected for the prestigious Prix Europa 2018. Works critiqued come from Italy, UK, France, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Czech Republic. the Netherlands and Belgium. The winner was The Upside Down, made by Gianluca Stazi and Giuseppe Casu and produced by Radio Televisione Italiana, RAI Radio 3 and Tratti Documentari. The jury described it as a “timeless story about the dignity and spirituality of work. Patiently, it leads us deep into the recesses of the natural world and the human soul. We heard a real musical experience composed of natural sounds and peoples’ memories, all told with great tenderness. The documentary turned our preconceptions of this typical social subject upside down with its sense of humanity and poetry. It was a big story from a hole in the mountain”.
Podcasting-as-Care, An exercise in diasporic digital media activism
Authors: Zokaei Zoha
Published: November 2024

This article draws on my experience of engaging in diasporic digital media activism on the issue of child sexual abuse in Iran, which culminated in the production of the Price of Secrecy podcast. I introduce the method of Podcasting-as-Care as a method of activism that brings notions of feminist care, activism and listening in a close conversation framed through podcasting. Without resorting to a top-down vision of activism where a notion of listening, i.e. how the victims should be listened to, is prescribed and exemplified, the Price of Secrecy podcast becomes an experience of listening to how victims are failed to be listened to and what failure of listening sounds like.
Review - The Long Game: Aliya Soomro's Boxing Journey
Authors: Batool Syeda Sana
Published: November 2024

The Long Game: Aliya Soomro's Boxing Journey" is a poignant and uplifting radio documentary that goes beyond the typical sports narrative. It offers an in-depth analysis of gender norms, societal obstacles, and human resilience, emphasizing the power of podcasting to promote distinct and marginalized voices.
Radio Revolten: 30 Days of Radio Art - book review
Authors: Black Colin
Published: November 2024

Radio Revolten: 30 Days of Radio Art documents the Radio Revolten international radio art festival that took place took place during October 2016 in Halle, Germany. It is a densely rich book that explores aspects of radio beyond the format, beyond time schedules and beyond podcast ratings, while still aiming to build a sense of community. It is reviewed by internationally acclaimed Australian sound artist Colin Black.
In The Dark – Pushing the Boundaries of True Crime
Authors: Davis Sharon
Published: November 2024

True crime podcasts are a burgeoning genre. As journalists and storytellers, how do we balance the pursuit of justice and our responsibility to the victims with the demand to tell a gripping tale? As listeners, are we using the pain of others for our own entertainment? In the Dark podcast (Seasons 1 and 2) takes us beyond a vicarious fascination with true crime stories into a forensic and essential look at deep-rooted biases, corruption and systemic failures that prevent justice from being served.
The first season (2016) investigates the 1989 kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling In Minnesota. Season 2 (2018-19) investigates the case brought against Curtis Flowers, a black man from Mississippi who has been tried six times for shooting to death four people in a furniture store, and who has, for the last 20 years, been in solitary confinement on death row.
Thorough investigative journalism is an expensive and time-consuming process. For Season I, host Madeleine Baran and her team spent nine months investigating the story. For Season 2, Baran and four team members spent a full year on the ground, actually moving to the small town in Mississippi where the murders occurred. Whilst there is never any guarantee that an in-depth investigation can bring about real change, it is that key element, unfettered time to pursue a story, that may bring results. One producer sifted through thousands of documents going back 26 years, to show that black jurors were six times more likely to be struck from a trial than white jurors.
Stylistically, the spoken word is paramount in the series. The auditory power lies in the voices that we hear – the narrator, the families of the victims, and friends, the witnesses, static recordings of 911 calls – as well as those we don’t hear, the victim who’s been forever silenced. The use of additional sound is discreet – atmospheric recordings and beautifully composed and constructed music around clear, concise and descriptive prose.
In the Dark pushes out the boundaries of true crime podcasting, raising universal questions about accountability in the criminal justice system and the need for systemic reform.
The feelings frontier: a review of No Feeling Is Final
Authors: Jorgensen Britta
Published: November 2024

No Feeling is Final faces a two-fold “feelings frontier” in an age of extreme podcast intimacy and empathy: navigating (1) how to convey the kind of deeply personal “big feelings” that are still often seen as off-limits and (2) how to maintain a hyper-awareness about the listener’s feelings. Taking place almost entirely within her mind, No Feeling is Final is a six-part memoir show about host Honor Eastly’s experiences struggling with mental health and what one mental health professional diagnoses as “too many feelings – about four times as many as the average person”. The ongoing tension between creating resonance with the listener and triggering difficult feelings is managed through a piecemeal, metaphor-laden approach. It tries to avoid leaving the listener with unwanted feelings but, at the same time, leaves them with some unanswered questions.
Special Section: Radio Drama Takeover
Authors: McMurtry Leslie
Published: November 2024

We make a case for the necessity, the pleasure, and the provocation of radio drama by arguing that it is important for its accessibility, the way it uses imagination, and its sense of intimacy. We note the current state of academic study on radio drama and provide the reasons and history behind the founding of the Echo Salon Audio Drama Listening Group.
Mysteries Solved and Unsolved in the Search for The Missing Cryptoqueen
Authors: Calhoun Claudia
Published: November 2024

The Missing Cryptoqueen, produced for BBC Sounds by Jamie Bartlett and Georgia Catt, investigates the cryptocurrency scam fronted by Dr. Ruja Ignatova, self-described “cryptoqueen.” The series benefits from the engrossing complexity of a sprawling conspiracy: The podcasters travel across continents to find both the scammers and their victims, making important stops in the U.K., Germany, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, and Uganda. The series also benefits from its own breathless narration, which keeps listeners in the present-tense of the storytelling. This was an especially compelling series for the large audience who listened as the weekly episodes were released, as the series integrated new information as the investigation proceeded. Though the podcast does not, in the end, find the missing cryptoqueen, they do uncover the absorbing story of a destructive hoax.
Editorial: How Women are Reclaiming their Power in the Podcast Sphere
Authors: McHugh Siobhán
Published: November 2024

This issue considers intimate stories, mostly by women - particularly germane in this era of #MeToo.
Mangrove Health Index di Kawasan Mangrove Desa Bedono, Kecamatan Sayung, Kabupaten Demak
Authors: Indrazora Twiki Husnu , Santoso Adi , Soenardjo Nirwani
Published: November 2024

Ekosistem mangrove merupakan vegetasi yang dapat tumbuh dipengaruhi oleh pasang surut air laut. Keberadaan mangrove memiliki peran utama sebagai nilai ekologis, fisik, dan ekonomis yang tinggi, namun jika tidak dikelola dengan bijak, mangrove sangat rentan dengan kerusakan. Ekosistem mangrove di sekitar pantai utara jawa merupakan salah satu ekosistem mangrove yang mengalami degradasi. Pengelolaan kawasan hutan mangrove diperlukan agar hutan mangrove tetap lestari dan dapat bermanfaat bagi masyarakat hingga masa yang akan datang. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui indeks kesehatan mangrove di kawasan hutan mangrove Desa Bedono, Kecamatan Sayung, Kabupaten Demak. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan pada bulan November 2023. Lokasi pengamatan terbagi menjadi 2 stasiun. Pada Stasiun 1 didominasi mangrove dengan jenis Rhizophora mucronata sedangkan pada Stasiun 2 ditemukan mangrove dengan jenis Rhizophora mucronata dan Avicennia marina. Data yang digunakan dalam dasar pengelolaan kawasan hutan mangrove dapat berasal dari menghitung Mangrove Health Index (MHI). Data yang digunakan meliputi diameter rata-rata batang, kerapatan anakan, tutupan kanopi mangrove, dan parameter perairan (suhu, pH, dan salinitas). Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode observasi dengan pengamatan secara langsung disertai dengan analisis dan penyajian data. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa di Desa Bedono, Kecamatan Sayung, Kabupaten Demak memiliki kategori Mangrove Health Index (MHI) moderate dengan rata-rata nilai 54,25%. The mangrove ecosystem is vegetation that can grow under the influence of sea tides. The existence of mangroves has a major role as high ecological, physical and economic value, but if not managed wisely, mangroves are very vulnerable to damage. The mangrove ecosystem around the north coast of Java is one of the mangrove ecosystems that is experiencing degradation. Management of mangrove forest areas is necessary so that mangrove forests remain sustainable and can be useful for the community in the future. The aim of this research is to determine the mangrove health index in the mangrove forest area of Bedono Village, Sayung District, Demak Regency. This research was carried out in November 2023. The observation location was divided into 2 stations. At Station 1, mangroves are dominated by the Rhizophora mucronata type, while at Station 2, mangroves are found with the Rhizophora mucronata and Avicennia marina types. The data used in basic management of mangrove forest areas can come from calculating the Mangrove Health Index (MHI). The data used include average stem diameter, tiller density, mangrove canopy cover, and water parameters (temperature, pH, and salinity). The research method used is the observation method with direct observation accompanied by analysis and presentation of data. The research results show that Bedono Village, Sayung District, Demak Regency has a moderate Mangrove Health Index (MHI) category with an average value of 54.25%.
Indek Ekologi Diatom (Bacillariophyceae) Di Perairan Delta Wulan Demak Jawa Tengah
Authors: Widianingsih Widianingsih , Khotimah Annisa Khusnul , Nuraini Ria Azizah Tri
Published: November 2024

Bacillariophyceae atau diatom adalah kelas dari divisi Chromophyta. Bacillariophyceae merupakan spesies yang paling mendominasi di perairan laut. Bacillariophyceae berperan penting dalam ekosistem perairan, yaitu sebagai sumber makanan dalam rantai makanan bagi organisme perairan. Bacillariophyceae memiliki daya adaptasi tinggi terhadap perairan dengan kondisi yang extrim atau tercemar. Spesies ini menggambarkan kondisi kualitas air di suatu perairan. Jumlah Bacillariophceae yang berlebihan juga akan menyebabkan Blomming Algae, sehingga dapat menyebabkan kandungan oksigen terlarut menjadi rendah. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui indeks ekologi kelas Bacillariophyceae di Perairan Delta Wulan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah eksploratif dengan pendekatan deskriptif. Penentuan lokasi sampling menggunakan metode purposive sampling. Hasil dari penelitian ini ditemukan 48 spesies berbeda dari spesies kelas Bacillariophyceae. Kelimpahan Bacillariophyceae di Perairan Delta Wulan berkisaran 146.658- 322.499 sel/m³. Indeks Keanekaragaman Bacillariophyceae termasuk kategori sedang hingga tinggi (2,43-3,12), Indeks Keseragaman Bacillariophyceae termasuk kategori tinggi (0,66-0,83) dan Indeks Dominansi Bacillariophyceae termasuk rendah (0,06-0,15). Berdasarkan nilai indek ekologi, maka ekosistem perairan Delta Wulan cukup stabil bagi kehidupan fitoplankton khususnya kelas Bacillariophyceae Bacillariophyceae or diatoms is a class of the Chromophyta division. Bacillariophyceae is the most dominant species in the marine ecosystem. Bacillariophyceae play an important role in marine ecosystems, namely as a food source in the food chain for marine organisms. Bacillariophyceae have high adaptability to waters with extreme or polluted conditions. This species describes the water quality conditions in a body of water. Excessive amounts of Bacillariophceae will also cause Blomming Algae, which can cause the dissolved oxygen content to become low or depleted. This research aims to determine ecological indexes of the Bacillariophyceae class. The research method used is exploratory with a descriptive approach. Determining the sampling location uses the purposive sampling method. Bacillariophyceae class data was analyzed to measure abundance, diversity index, uniformity, and dominance. The results of this research found 48 different species from the Bacillariophyceae class. The abundance of Bacillariophyceae in the Wulan Delta waters ranges from 146,658- 322,499 cells/m³. The Bacillariophyceae Diversity Index is in the medium to high category (2.43-3.12), the Bacillariophyceae Uniformity Index is in the high category (0.66-0.83), and the Bacillariophyceae Dominance Index is in the non-dominant type (0.06-0.15). According to the ecology index value, the ecosystem in the Delta Wulan is stable for living Phytoplankton especially class Bacillariophyceae.
Assesment Zona Inhibisi Bakteri Endosimbion Karang Keras Porites sp. di Selat Sempu, Malang Selatan
Authors: Handayani Muliawati , Asadi Muhammad Arif , Lutfi Oktiyas Muzaky
Published: November 2024

White Syndrome (WS) merupakan salah satu jenis coral desease yang ditemukan di ekosistem terumbu karang di Selat Sempu, Malang Selatan. Pada umumnya WS menginfeksi karang massive, salah satunya adalah Porites sp. yang merupakan spesies karang terbanyak di perairan ini. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisa zona hambat/ inhibisi yang terbentuk dari uji tantang bakteri endosimbion karang Porites sp. yang terinfeksi WS dengan bakteri endosimbion karang sehat. Pengambilan sampel dilakukan secara purposive sampling. Pendekatan mikrobiologi digunakan untuk mendapatkan kultur murni dari isolat bakteri. Kemudian, uji tantang dilakukan dengan metode overlay menggunakan difusi cakram antara bakteri endosimbion yang memiliki potensi antibakteri terhadap WS. Zona inhibisi akan terbentuk ketika bakteri dari karang sehat memiliki antibody untuk melawan bakteri penyebab karang sakit. Pasangan bakteri yang membentuk zona inhibisi terbesar berhasil identifikasi secara molekuler. Hasil BLAST isolat bakteri endosimbion pada karang sehat merujuk pada bakteri Marinobacter vinifirmus yang mampu menghambat isolat bakteri Altererhytrobacter sp. dengan zona inhibisi 6 mm. White Syndrome (WS) is one of the coral diseases found in the coral ecosystem in the Sempu Strait, South Malang. Porites sp. was dominant species in these waters infected WS. This study aims to analyze inhibition zones formed overlay of endosymbiont bacteria Porites sp. which are infected by WS and healthy endosymbiont coral bacteria. Specimen was collected by purposive sampling. The microbiological approach was used to obtain pure cultures from bacterial isolates. Then, challenge is using the overlay method. The inhibition zone formed when bacteria from healthy corals have antibodies to fight the bacteria that cause WS. The largest inhibition zone (6 mm) succeeded in molecular identification. The results of BLAST endosymbiont bacteria on healthy corals refers to Marinobacter vinifirmus,which is able to inhibit bacterial of Altererhytrobacter sp.
Seed priming - induced drought tolerance in Castor: Unravelling the physiological and molecular mechanisms
Authors: Elangovan K , Vijayan R , Manonmani V , Eevera T , Venkatachalam S R , Tilak M
Published: November 2024

Castor is an essential nonedible oilseed crop with significant applications in the cosmetic and chemical industries. It is cultivated primarily in rainfed regions, where drought is a common abiotic stress factor. Seed germination, the critical initial stage, is particularly affected by drought. Seed priming with radical scavenging chemicals such as salicylic acid, melatonin, hydrogen peroxide and ascorbic acid has been explored to increase germination under water deficit conditions. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of different concentrations of these chemicals on the physiological and antioxidant enzyme activities of castor under drought stress. Two water regimes were applied in the study. Among the treatments, seed priming with 80 ppm salicylic acid significantly improved key parameters, including the germination % (71 %), speed of germination (4.1 %), vigour index (3141), chlorophyll content (28.3 SPAD units) and relative water content (63 %). It also increased the antioxidant enzyme activities such as CAT, POD, SOD and APX, along with the overexpression of the drought-responsive gene RCECP63 under water deficit conditions. These findings highlight that seed priming, particularly with salicylic acid, offers a promising strategy to enhance castor resilience under prolonged drought stress, providing a practical approach for improving crop performance in drought-prone regions.
Pharmaceutical care for patients with coronary heart disease: transformation of pharmaceutical practice
Authors: Bilousova N. A.
Published: November 2024

The implementation of the National Recovery Plan of Ukraine in the field of “Health Care”, namely the restoration of the pharmaceutical sector, improving the population’s access to medicines and their proper use, taking into account the regulatory and legal field harmonized with European legislation, in the context of providing the qualified pharmaceutical care and pharmaceutical services requires application of modern approaches based on evidence-based medicine and implementation in pharmaceutical practice. Patients with cardiovascular diseases, who are provided with medication under the Reimbursement Program and prescriptions from doctors, must be accompanied by pharmaceutical care based on evidence-based medicine to ensure proper use of drugs and rational pharmacotherapy.
The aim of the study was to investigate Ukrainian information and scientific databases, scientometric databases, i. e.: Embase, Web of Science, PubMed, and Cochrane Library to identify, generalize, and systematize scientific sources of medical and pharmaceutical data on providing patient-oriented pharmaceutical care to patients with coronary heart disease and predict the future vector of research on the specified topic.
Results. The analysis of the main strategies of providing pharmaceutical care to patients with cardiovascular diseases, in particular, coronary heart disease in pharmaceutical practice was carried out; the most researched clusters of providing pharmaceutical care were identified; modern trends and tendencies in the provision of pharmaceutical care to patients with coronary heart disease were summarized.
Conclusions. The development of providing qualified pharmaceutical care to patients with cardiovascular diseases is based on the principles of patient-oriented pharmacy and evidence-based medicine, which requires the design and implementation into the pharmaceutical practice of a sustainable conceptual model of providing patient-oriented pharmaceutical care by clinical pharmacists and pharmacists of pharmacy institutions with the expansion of the main roles, respectively the standards of Good Pharmacy Practice.
Research on current issues of self-medication among young people
Authors: Tkachenko N. O. , Demchenko V. O. , Demchenko V. O. , Lytvynenko O. V.
Published: November 2024

The aim of the work is to determine the prevalence of self-medication among young people and their attitude to it, with the further development of recommendations for pharmacists regarding the prevention of negative consequences of self-medication and the improvement of pharmaceutical assistance (educational activities) in matters of responsible self-medication.
Materials and methods. The work used methods of information search, survey, critical analysis, generalization, and interpretation of results. The survey took place online from January to May 2024, using the developed questionnaire (the electronic version was created using Google Forms). A total of 207 questionnaires were received from people aged 20–25.
Results. Mostly, it is difficult for young people to determine their attitude toward self-medication. During treatment, a large number of research participants use the advice of doctors and pharmacists. 75.8 % of respondents always study the instructions for the medical use of drugs before using them. Basically, young people do not increase the dose of drugs arbitrarily to speed up their recovery. Almost half of them do not change the prescribed medications by the doctor to cheaper analogs. According to the research participants, half of them consider an adequate amount of drugs in the form of two names, and this is confirmed by the fact that 83.6 % of them had cases of simultaneous administration of more than one drug. After undergoing self-treatment, 75.8 % of respondents consider it not always practical, among which 13.5 % indicate that it was necessary to consult a doctor.
Conclusions. The prevalence and attitude toward self-medication among young people were studied. The main reasons for self-medication are the difficulty of getting to a doctor’s appointment and lack of time, as well as the reduction of disease symptoms after self-diagnosis and the use of drugs and preventive measures. It should be noted, that 23.2 % of young people nevertheless turned to a doctor after receiving negative manifestations of self-medication, and half of the respondents shared their experience of self-medication. The obtained information can be useful for pharmacy institutions, which can use it to create a comprehensive model of a program for the prevention of negative consequences of self-medication, especially among young people, and increase patients’ commitment to the pharmaceutical enterprise.
Computer prediction of acute toxicity of thioderivatives of 3,5-bis(5-mercapto-4-R-4H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)phenol
Authors: Isaicheva K. K. , Kaplaushenko A. H.
Published: November 2024

This study presents the computational prediction of acute toxicity for new derivatives of 3,5-bis(5-mercapto-4-R-4H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)phenols and their alkylated analogues.
The aim of the work was to evaluate the impact of structural changes, particularly alkylation and chain length extension, on the toxicity levels of new derivatives of 3,5-bis(5-mercapto-4-R-4H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)phenols and their alkylated analogues.
Materials and methods. QSAR methodologies were used to predict toxicity, allowing the evaluation of toxicological properties based on molecular descriptors. Toxicity modeling was performed using computer software, enabling the estimation of toxicity without the need for in vivo experimental studies.
Results. The results showed, that alkylation of 3,5-bis(5-mercapto-4-R-4H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)phenol derivatives does not lead to a significant toxicity reduction. Moreover, an increase in toxicity was observed with the prolongation of the carbon chain in the synthesized compounds. It was also found, that acid derivatives, particularly 2,2’-(((5-hydroxy-1,3-phenylene)bis(4-R-4H-1,2,4-triazol-5,3-diyl))bis(sulfanyl))diacetate acids and 3,3’-((((5-hydroxy-1,3-phenylene)bis(4-R-4H-1,2,4-triazol-5,3-diyl))bis(sulfanyl))bis(methylene))dibenzoyl acids, exhibit toxicity ranging from 521.9 mg/kg to 2232.2 mg/kg, corresponding to toxicity class IV (low toxicity) on the OECD scale. It was found, that molecular structure and hydrophobic properties play a crucial role in determining compound toxicity. This study helps to establish a structure-toxicity relationship and to optimize compound structures for reduced toxicity.
Conclusions. These results provide a foundation for further development of potential drug candidates with predicted toxicological properties.