bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Effects of Unilateral Versus Bilateral Plyometric Training on Endurance Running Performance
Authors: Greenwood Ian , Kay Anthony , Baross Anthony
Published: January 2021

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of an 11-week unilateral versus bilateral plyometric training intervention on maximal isometric voluntary (MVC) knee extensor torque, countermovement jump height (CMJ), running economy (RE) and 3-km time trial (TT) performance. Twenty-seven recreationally trained endurance runners (12 females and 15 males) were randomly assigned to one of three groups: unilateral plyometric training (UPT; n = 9), bilateral plyometric training (BPT; n = 9) and control (CON; n = 9). RE, VO2max, 3-km treadmill TT, isometric MVC (bilateral and unilateral) and CMJ (bilateral and unilateral) were measured prior to and after 11 weeks of training (UPT and BPT; volume equated, 20-40 minutes, 2-3 days/week). Separate two-way repeated measures ANOVAs were used to assess within and between group differences in RE, VO2max, 3-km TT, maximal isometric knee extensor torque and CMJ. Following 11 weeks of plyometric training there were significant improvements in RE (UPT 5.6%; BPT 4.9%, p < 0.01) and 3-km TT performance (UPT 2.4%; BPT 2.5%, p < 0.01) in addition to CMJ (UPT 12.5%; BPT 14.5%, p < 0.01) and maximal isometric knee extensor torque in the unilateral group (14.0%, p < 0.01). No significant differences in VO2max or anthropometric measures were detected (p > 0.05). No statistically significant differences between training interventions (p > 0.05) were detected in any measure. These data demonstrate that UPT and BPT result in similar improvements in RE and 3-km TT run performance in recreational distance runners.
Performance Efficiency of Engineering Industries in India
Authors: Muthuraman Balamurugan
Published: January 2021

Purpose of the study: To critically analyze the financial growth pattern and the overall performance efficiency of industrial machinery companies in India. Design/Methodology/Approach: The data collected from the financial statement of the companies for 10 years from 2007-2008 to 2016-17 were analyzed with the help of different accounting and statistical tools. Discriminant analysis has been adopted for analyzing and interpreting the quantitative data was carried out using SPSS. Findings: The study revealed that good performance efficiency of the engineering industry over the period 2007-2017, most Indian engineering industries exist with high net profit. The poor performance companies need of the hour to increase profit by reducing costs. Practical Implications: The study has interesting policy implications. It is recommended to encourage foreign banks' presence to enhance the competitive condition of the banking sector thus making sure the exit and entrance of banks in the industry raise the competition. The pursuit of modernization, in fully hardening the resources of information technology should be relentless. It is a field that demands great attention and expertise. Originality/value: This research work is one of its first kind as no study was conducted before focusing on the performance perspectives of the engineering industries in India. Keywords: Financial Performance, Engineering industries in India, Financial statement analysis, Modernization, Discriminate Analysis
Medical students’ attitudes towards the clinical importance of embryology
Authors: Naureen Waseem  , Khadija Iqbal  , Noreen Anwar  , Irum Rehman  , Hina Kundi  , Abdullah Qamar
Published: January 2021

Abstract
Objective of study: The objective of the study is to identify the attitudes of medical students towards the clinical importance of embryology.
Methodology: The cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was conducted at a private medical college of Sialkot, Islam Medical College from September 2019 to November 2019. Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Research and Ethics Committee prior to the study. Hundred First year and 100 final year medical students of Islam Medical College, participated in the survey. Thurdstone and Chave attitude analysis scoring was used to assess the attitudes.
 The questionnaire consisted of 20 statements. Students had to tick only those statements with which they were in full agreement. Prior to conducting the study a median score was taken out of 50 anatomy teachers, showing their opinion toward each statement.
Results: The results of the study showed that the medical students do appreciate the importance of embryology in the early years and to a more extent in the clinical years. The attitude scores remained on the positive side. Female students showed better attitudes towards embryology in both years.
Conclusion:  To understand the importance of embryology efforts are required by the teachers teaching anatomy, and medical educationalists, to inform medical students of the relevance of embryology in attaining clinical competence.
Key words: Attitude, Clinical, Embryology, Continuous...
EFEKTIVITAS GERAKAN LITERASI 15 MENIT DALAM MENUMBUHKAN MINAT BACA SISWA AUTIS KELAS IV SLB TNCC BANDA ACEH MATA PELAJARAN BAHASA INDONESIA
Authors: Helfiana Mita , Sari Nita , Suciani Suciani
Published: January 2021

Reading interest is one of the important keys for someone to gain knowledge and information. So by reading, students can get the knowledge that has been provided. The more often a student reads, the broader his knowledge and insight will be. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the 15 Minute Literacy Movement in Fostering Reading Interest in Class 4 Autistic Students in Indonesian Language Subjects in Narrative Story Text Material at TNCC Banda Aceh Special School. This research is a qualitative research, with data collection techniques including observation, interviews and studies. documentation. The subjects in this study were students of class IV Autism at SLB TNCC Banda Aceh, which consisted of two people, and the data analysis technique was carried out qualitatively with stages including: (1) data reduction, (2) data presentation. (3) Triangulation, and (4) Verification / Conclusion Withdrawal. Based on the results of the study, it is known that the Literacy Movement 15 minutes before the Teaching and Learning Process (PBM) is very effective in cultivating students’ reading interest in autism in class 4. This can be seen from the results of completeness of the indicators of the effectiveness of reading interest, with 15 minutes of Literacy activities for autistic students there are significant changes. in recognizing letters and students’ reading interest increases.
Factors to Consider in Midwifery Care during Climacteric and Monopause Period
Authors: Locsin Bianca , Salvador Maine
Published: January 2021

This study discusses the management of climacteric obstetrics and menopause. Menopause is the final feminine cycle or when the final monthly cycle happens, one of the mental viewpoints of changing self-concept amid menopause is unquestionably menopausal ladies ended up on edge around their bodies and frame self-concept approximately how their bodies are. The side effects experienced by ladies some time recently menopause cause the mother to be ill-equipped approximately physical and mental changes. To decrease this, ladies must get ready themselves both physically and mentally for menopause. Ladies who are going through menopause go through the primary stages counting premenopause, perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause, and menopause for the most part happens in ladies matured 45-50 a long time.
Overview of the Impact of Unwanted Pregnancy on Adolescent Psychological in the Working Area of Telaga Biru Community Health Center
Authors: Liputo Salahuddin , Sondakh Levana , Tangke Fatmawati A.
Published: January 2021

This study aims to investigate how unwanted pregnancy affects adolescent psychology. The research approach utilized within the planning of this study is qualitative. Data collection was carried out concurring to a foreordained plan. Qualitative data collection uses different strategies such as interviews, perception, documentation, and so on. The information investigation handle is carried out by receiving and creating intuitively designs that incorporate data reduction, data introduction, verification or conclusion drawing. The result of the study shows that the frequency of undesirable pregnancy will unquestionably have an effect on the brain research of everybody who encounters it. This happens since of a few components counting; the calculation of fear of family responses, the figure of fear of future harm and fear of social sanctions that are gotten. 3 out of 5 youths have a positive acknowledgment demeanor towards undesirable pregnancy, whereas the other two have a negative acknowledgment state of mind. Typically, it is due to contrasts within the number of sources of bolster from the environment.
Introduction
Authors: Bekker Simon , Croese Sylvia , Pieterse Edgar
Published: January 2021

Introduction to the book
Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities.
The governance of Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit
Authors: Kassahun Meseret
Published: January 2021

Chapter 11 in the book
Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities.
National projects in a postcolonial capital city
Authors: Togolo Jean-Pierre
Published: January 2021

Chapter 2 in the book
Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities.
Lip service: How voices from informal settlements were sidelined during the first decade of local democracy in South Africa
Authors: Groenewald Liela
Published: January 2021

Chapter 3 in the book
Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities.
Centralised urban governance in the Greater Cairo City Region: A critical understanding of key challenges and responses
Authors: Abdelaal Amr , Awatta Hajer , Nagati Omar , Salman Salwa , Shykhon Marwa
Published: January 2021

Chapter 4 in the book
Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities.
Traditional chiefs and traditional authority in Kinshasa
Authors: Sangu Philippe Ibaka
Published: January 2021

Chapter 5 in the book
Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities.
Popular protests and the limits of civil society in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, 2011 to 2016
Authors: Marongwe Ngonidzashe
Published: January 2021

Chapter 7 in the book
Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities.
Внутрирегиональная (местная) бюджетная децентрализация и инвестиции в основной капитал в России
Authors: Тимушев Е.Н.
Published: January 2021

В статье показано, что влияние местной бюджетной децентрализации на инвестиции характеризует перевернутая U-образная зависимость. По данным за 2009-2016 гг., наибольшие стимулы к осуществлению частных инвестиций в регионах России появлялись при расходной и доходной децентрализации, равных 33-36%. Однако общий уровень инвестиций выше именно при доходной децентрализации. Потери частных инвестиций вследствие недостатка местных полномочий могли достигать 6,5 тыс. руб./чел.
Оценка влияния экономических колебаний на уровень безработицы в регионах России на основе модели Оукена
Authors: Блинова Т.В. , Русановский В.А. , Марков В.А.
Published: January 2021

В статье на базе модифицированной модели Оукена оценивается влияние изменения объемов производства на динамику безработицы в России и трех региональных кластерах, различающихся уровнем безработицы и поведенческими реакциями на экономические шоки. Оценка спецификаций базовой модели Оукена на данных 2010-2020 гг. позволила выявить циклическую реакцию уровня безработицы разнородных региональных кластеров на изменение объемов выпуска.
Российские предприятия весной 2020 года: реакция на пандемию COVID-19 и мнения о роли государства в экономике
Authors: Кувалин Д.Б. , Зинченко Ю.В. , Лавриненко П.А.
Published: January 2021

В статье анализируются и комментируются результаты очередного опроса российских предприятий реального сектора, проведенного Институтом народнохозяйственного прогнозирования РАН. Приведена информация о влиянии пандемии коронавируса на деятельность отечественных предприятий. Представлены мнения предприятий о роли государства в экономике, в том числе в условиях пандемии. Рассмотрены оценки предприятий по поводу бюрократизма и коррупции в России. Приведены данные об инвестиционных намерениях предприятий. Представлена информация об уровне конкуренции с иностранными производителями на российском рынке. Отражены мнения российских предприятий по поводу концепции расширенной ответственности производителя (РОП) и перспектив ее расширения в России до всех фаз жизненного цикла продукции.
Calidad del agua y seguridad ante inundaciones en la gestión sostenible del recurso hídrico
Authors: Cortez-Mejía P. , Tzatchkov V. , Rodríguez-Varela J.M. , Llaguno-Guilberto O.J.
Published: January 2021

El objetivo de este trabajo es valorar opciones de indicadores estratégicos, complementarios a los indicadores de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODSs), para medir anualmente el impacto de programas presupuestarios Estatales en la gestión del recurso hídrico. Se analizaron los indicadores del ODS 6 y del ODS 11, y el Índice Global de Seguridad Hídrica propuesto internacionalmente con base en dichos objetivos; se puso énfasis en las componentes de calidad del agua y de protección contra inundaciones. Se contrastaron los resultados de estos indicadores con los de un diagnóstico general de Seguridad Hídrica en México y sus retos principales del año 2019. Se analizó también la disponibilidad de datos oficiales para el monitoreo de estos componentes de Seguridad Hídrica, y se propuso una opción de indicadores para valorar en una siguiente etapa. Se hizo un ejercicio preliminar con datos disponibles, para estas componentes de calidad y de protección, que según el Índice Global indicado son los más críticos en la Seguridad Hídrica en México.
Impactos da pandemia de covid-19 na educação infantil em São Gonçalo/RJ
Authors: Tavares Maria Tereza Goudard , Pessanha Fabiana Nery de Lima , Macedo Nayara Alves
Published: January 2021

O presente artigo busca problematizar e provocar reflexões acerca dos impactos da pandemia do coronavírus na Educação Infantil destinada às crianças pequenas das classes populares que vivem em periferias urbanas da cidade de São Gonçalo, na Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro (RMRJ). Diante do cenário pandêmico e do isolamento social decretado, que implicou no fechamento de creches e pré-escolas, urge interrogar sobre a presença (in)visível de crianças pequenas em São Gonçalo. Do ponto de vista metodológico, trazemos a dúvida como método (GARCIA, 2009) a partir de questões que se intensificam num tempo de incertezas e rompimento de vínculos. Acreditamos que problematizar os impactos da pandemia na vida de crianças pequenas, nos remete ao desafio de investigar que potenciais conhecimentos decorrentes da pandemia do coronavírus podem mobilizar reflexões e práticas favoráveis à educação e ao cuidado das referidas crianças, trazendo questões e ponderações que possam contribuir para um melhor acolhimento e educação das crianças pequenas nas creches e pré-escolas públicas do município.
A psicofarmacologização da infância e o modelo de ação da droga centrado na doença
Authors: Caponi Sandra
Published: January 2021

A prescrição e a ampla aceitação do uso de antipsicóticos clássicos e atípicos na infância e na adolescência, foi reivindicada aduzindo a suposta função terapêutica e curativa dessas drogas. Tomando como ponto de partida a distinção de dois modelos explicativos de ação dos psicofármacos, um centrado na doença e outro centrado na droga, analiso de que modo a indústria farmacêutica contribuiu, com suas estratégias publicitárias, à divulgação de uma narrativa triunfalista que naturalizou o uso de antipsicóticos como cura para doenças psiquiátricas. Os dois psicofármacos analisados são a clorpromazina, um antipsicótico clássico, e a risperidona, um antipsicótico atípico de última geração.
Secretário Executivo Das Instituições Federais De Ensino
Authors: Filgueiras Amanda , Santos Joina , Marçal Maria Christianni Coutinho
Published: January 2021

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar se os secretários(as) executivos(as) de Instituições Federais de Ensino de Recife-PE implementam em suas atividades o intraempreendedorismo a partir de um pensamento estratégico para o alcance de objetivos Institucionais, já que costuma-se verificar em bibliografias da área de Secretariado a evolução da profissão onde há o desenvolvimento de habilidades conceituais relacionadas ao empreendedorismo para o seu exercício. Sabe-se que os profissionais de empresas privadas devem estar em constante mudança para acompanhar a competitividade do mercado, no entanto, no âmbito público ainda permanece a lacuna dessa evolução na profissão. Para atingir o objetivo da pesquisa, a metodologia utilizada foi exploratória qualitativa onde no decorrer da análise dos dados verificou-se, de forma colaborativa para a categoria, que o intraempreendedorismo apesar de exercido pela maioria das entrevistadas, ainda é desconhecido em seu conceito e finalidade, assim como também observou-se a não existência de um pensamento estratégico para sua utilização nessas instituições públicas, contribuindo como ponto a ser explorado e desenvolvido por esses profissionais para uma próspera ascensão profissional.
As Práticas Sustentáveis nas Atividades Técnicas de Secretariado
Authors: Santiago Cibelle da Silva , Silva Edilma França da , Paes Raul Vitor Oliveira
Published: January 2021

Entende-se que as atitudes sustentáveis são comportamentos que levam em consideração a preservação do meio ambiente, bem como a minimização da degradação ambiental provocada pelas organizações. Com isso, problematiza-se como o profissional de secretariado pode estar envolvido nesse contexto, já que ele desempenha atividades-meio de assessoria à organização. Nesse aspecto, este trabalho tem o objetivo de elencar práticas de sustentabilidade que podem ser desempenhadas nas atividades técnicas de Secretariado. Para tanto, os procedimentos metodológicos foram embasados na pesquisa bibliográfica e exploratória, sob a abordagem qualitativa. Os dados foram coletados através de questionário estruturado no Google Forms aos estudantes de Secretariado no período de 02 a 15 de maio de 2018, e analisados sob o método da análise de conteúdo. Os sujeitos da pesquisa são os que, naquele momento, estavam estagiando ou trabalhando, pois era necessário conhecer as suas atitudes de sustentabilidade que são realizadas no ambiente de trabalho. Como principal resultado, tem-se que os estudantes conhecem um pouco o termo sustentabilidade e os R’s de Sustentabilidade, o que contribui para terem atitudes mais sustentáveis e de preservação do meio ambiente. Conclui-se, portanto, que é possível ressignificar o arquivamento de documentos, o atendimento telefônico, o agendamento dos compromissos, o planejamento e organização de viagens, a organização de eventos e o gerenciamento de reuniões com práticas sustentáveis.
Lies of Memory
Authors: Pitassio Francesco
Published: January 2021

Neorealism is credited with providing a truthful depiction of warfare and its aftermath. This depiction is based on a new kind of cinematic image: rather than telling a story, the image bears witness. However, neorealism was oblivious of anything related to the Fascist era. The chapter considers neorealism as cultural trauma, i.e. the work performed by a community that is feeling endangered in order to tighten its bonds. Neorealist culture, which helped build post-war Italy, discarded experiences from the past such as modernism or propaganda documentary. However, by looking at seldom-considered cases such as the early work of Michelangelo Antonioni or documentaries depicting the Resistance, we discover that these traditions did survive. They provide us with a litmus test of the role that neorealism played in forging a collective memory based on victimhood.
Surface Tension, Screen Space
Authors: Bruno Giuliana
Published: January 2021

My work questions how material relations can appear on the surface of
different media—on film and video screens, in gallery installations, or on
the skins of buildings and people. In response to these issues, I propose to
approach materiality as a surface condition. Focusing on screen surface, I
show that technologies of light can produce new forms of materiality. In
this text, the screen emerges as a site of encounter and admixture. Various
experiments of screening are considered, ranging from those envisaged
by László Moholy-Nagy to the contemporary installations of Krzysztof
Wodiczko. In these configurations of the act of screening, different forms
of mediation, memory, and transformation can take place. This is what I
call ‘the surface tension of media’.
Reconfigurations of Screen Borders: The New or Not-So-New Aspect Ratios
Authors: Ross Miriam
Published: January 2021

The ubiquity of mobile phone cameras has resulted in many videos foregoing the traditional horizontal (landscape) frame in favour of a vertical (portrait) mode. While vertical framing is often derided as amateur practice, these new framing techniques are part of a wider contemporary screen culture in which filmmakers and artists are using unconventional aspect ratios and/or expanding and contracting aspect ratios over the course of their audio-visual work. This chapter briefly outlines historical contexts in which the border of the screen has been more flexible and open to changing configurations than is widely acknowledged. It then uses recent case studies to consider how our understanding of on-screen and off-screen space is determined by these framing configurations.
Screenic (Re)orientations: Desktop, Tabletop, Tablet, Booklet, Touchscreen, Etc.
Authors: De Rosa Miriam , Strauven Wanda
Published: January 2021

This essay discusses the orientations of the screen both as work surface and as display surface by focusing on the shifts from and to the horizontal and vertical axes of the screenic space. To do so, we have collected a variety of examples, mainly media art installations but also films and mixed-media performances, which serve to reconstruct an ‘evolution of the desk’ and to retrieve a new gesturality. Balancing the producer’s and the viewer’s perspectives, we argue that it is no longer the function but the usage of a certain device that determines its position on either the vertical or the horizontal axis.
‘Nothing Will Have Taken Place – Except Place ’: The Unsettling Nature of Camera Movement
Authors: Gunning Tom
Published: January 2021

In 1897, Stèphane Mallarme threaded this phrase through his culminating
work of modern poetry ‘Un Coup de Des’. Michael Snow, commenting
on his 1967 film Wavelength, another radical work of modernist vision,
invoked Mallarme’s phrase and sets us thinking about how the moving
image recreates/explores/questions the nature of place. The radical role
of the moving image in providing new modes of our experience of space
has been neglected or simply presented as a deviant deconstruction of
a dominant commercial narrative cinema. Taking seriously the way the
moving image provides new tools for our understanding of our place in
a technological world, I will discuss moments of camera movement and
the mobile frame in cinema practice, both commercial and avant-garde,
historical and contemporary.
Anthropological Materialism and the Aesthetics of Film
Authors: Mourenza Daniel
Published: January 2021

This chapter contextualizes Walter Benjamin’s film writings in relation to his concept of ‘anthropological materialism’. It argues that some concepts that are central to his writings on film, such as ‘collective body’, ‘second technology’, ‘innervation’, ‘second nature’, and ‘optical unconscious’ should be understood in relation to Benjamin’s particular conception of the body and the transformation of the human sensorium, made possible by the new paradigm of reception opened up by film’s technological nature. For Benjamin, this chapter argues, cinemas are conceived as exemplary training grounds to create a collective body through the innervation of the energy coming from the screen into the audience.
Soviet Film: The Giant Laboratory of Technological Innervation
Authors: Mourenza Daniel
Published: January 2021

This chapter analyses the two articles on Soviet film that Walter Benjamin wrote after his stay in Moscow: ‘On the Present Situation of Russian Film’ (1927) and ‘Reply to Oscar A. H. Schmitz’ (1927). These early texts on film are discussed in connection with ‘The Author as Producer’ (1934) and ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility’ (1935–1939), for they anticipate the debate about film and the politicization of art discussed in the latter texts. This chapter also discusses Benjamin’s insights about the use and conception of technology in the Soviet Union, the different political groupings in the Soviet art scene, and his position in these debates.
Pre-Regal Visigothic Coinage
Authors: Kurt Andrew
Published: January 2021

Chapter One examines the minting of gold under the Visigoths in Gaul up to the battle of Vouillé (507), then in Spain and southwestern Gaul in the first three quarters of the sixth century. The first stage within this so-called pre-regal period was characterized largely by imitation of Roman coinage, while the second stage saw a departure from strict imitation, especially of the reverse tremissis type of the Roman Victory goddess. The chapter reviews Visigothic attribution of gold coins over the entire period; the weight and gold purity of these solidi and tremisses are shown to be well below Roman standards. Fluctuating weights and gold analyses of a large number of specimens tested indicate expansion of the mint system.
The Royal Control of Visigothic Minting
Authors: Kurt Andrew
Published: January 2021

Chapter Five demonstrates that, although specific record of minting is lacking, there can be little doubt of the ultimate royal authority behind minting, as can be ascertained from numerous numismatic and documentary elements in combination. Minting of gold was the king’s affair, a prerogative based on its fiscal functionality. Gold coinage was the major medium employed to capture the wealth of the agricultural base as well as to assess and levy fines, and on the other end of the cycle to implement royal projects or otherwise make payments. Transfers in kind may still have formed a significant part of Visigothic society, but currency was without doubt a major component of state activity.
Visigothic Currency in the Early Medieval Economy
Authors: Kurt Andrew
Published: January 2021

Chapter Seven addresses the use of coinage in the kingdom, considering the level of monetization in Visigothic society and the Mediterranean contexts of currency’s functioning. An argument for a largely monetized economy draws from both written references to gold coins and archeological studies. Copper-based currency is seen to have played the larger role in society across large areas especially in southern Iberia, where monetary circumstances and contacts with Mediterranean regions display greater commonality than has been widely supposed. Economic interactivity is linked to early medieval Spain’s shifting regionalism.
Paradoxical Masculinity : James Bond, Icon of Failure
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: January 2021

The James Bond films enact dilemmas posed by the paradoxical, split
subjectivity of male spies under capitalism. Success and failure, sophistication
and ignorance, knowledge and class, gender and sexuality, commercial
targeting and viewing pleasure jumble together in a complex amalgam.
A weird mix of hyper-bourgeois individualist, technocrat, and empty
signifier, 007 can never relax, never truly know who he is, beyond being a
shifting sign of impermanent state labor. His masculinity incarnates these
paradoxes: often derided and celebrated for his brutality, Bond exemplifies
less-than-conventional forms of life in his sexuality and identity.
Branding 007 : Title Sequences in the James Bond Films
Authors: Horak Jan-Christopher
Published: January 2021

The James Bond series has maintained its brand identity through the
James Bond character, recurring plot elements, and its film design, in
particular the credits sequences of Maurice Binder, Robert Brownjohn,
MK12, and Daniel Kleinman. This chapter will examine the work of
Binder, who created fourteen of the first eighteen Bond titles and has
been rightly singled out as one of a new generation of title designers who
utilized modernist aesthetics to create a specific look for the James Bond
franchise. The chapter also asks how the digital turn, which coincided
with the transition from Binder to Kleinman in the 1990s, has impacted
the design and aesthetics of the James Bond title sequences.
Skyfall and Global Casino Culture
Authors: Goggin Joyce
Published: January 2021

This chapter analyzes the signifying potential of gambling and casino
culture as a seminal feature of James Bond-ness and the 007-universe.
It argues that gambling and casinos, both of which are updated with
every new outing of James Bond, have important cultural, political and
economic ramifications. In particular, the chapter asks how and what
casino gambling signifies as it is updated in Skyfall (2012), in terms of
the film’s mise-en-scène as well as its geopolitical configuration as a
colonizing industry in a global economy that is increasingly dependent on
various forms of gambling. Finally, the chapter connects various aspects
of what has been referred to as “cinematic revisionism” to the politics and
economics of neoliberalization, 007, and global casino culture.
Understanding the Contemporary Theme Park : Theming, Immersion and Fandom
Authors: Williams Rebecca
Published: January 2021

This chapter provides a history of the development and definition of the contemporary theme park, focusing on how Orlando, Florida developed into the world’s theme park capital. It also sets out the key areas of literature that the book contributes to, including work on themed space and place, transmediality and convergence, fan spaces and pilgrimage, distinction and cultural value, and self-identity and narrative. The chapter notes that work on fans of specific destinations or places remains scarce, arguing for greater focus on this mode of place-based fandom, as well as proposing a turn towards academic study of the spatial elements of transmediality, and the concept of spatial transmedia.
Of Mice and Minions : ‘Ani-embodiment’ and ‘Metonymic Celebrity’ in the Theme Park Character Encounter
Authors: Williams Rebecca
Published: January 2021

This chapter explores the activity of meeting characters within theme parks which provides the opportunity to meet recognizable ‘stars’ from Disney (such as the Princesses and Villains) or Universal (including Shrek, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Simpsons and the Minions). It considers how meeting characters provides an avenue for adult fans to present their own preferences regarding characters, films or brands despite their awareness that these characters are not ‘real’. It argues that theme park meet-and-greets necessitate complex negotiations of immersion, participation and affective attachment. Introducing the concepts of ani-embodiment and metonymic celebrity, the chapter explores what it means to view character interactions as forms of celebrity encounter, and how this complicates established dichotomies of ordinary/celebrity, star/character, and live-action/animation.
Abstinence, Devotional Practices, and Social Control
Authors: Kuuliala Jenni
Published: January 2021

Abstinence from earthly pleasures – such as fasting, using a hair shirt,
and ascetic sleeping conditions – as well as devotional practices were
vital aspects of a holy life. They were frequently reported in canonization
testimonies and other hagiographic texts. An important feature in this was
discretion; a holy person was supposed to exceed the limits of common
human endurance but not practice excessive self-harm. This chapter
discusses infirmity as a delineating factor that allowed and required
discretion in asceticism and devotional practices. At the same time,
various members of a saint’s community were presented as taking part
in delineating their ascetic practices as well as interpreting and even
emotionally partaking in it.
Holy Infirmity and the Devotees
Authors: Kuuliala Jenni
Published: January 2021

The final chapter of the book focuses on the saintly candidates’ devotees
and their various encounters with the infirm saint, as well as the attempts
and prospects for healing holy infirmity. It also analyses the
cultural significances of holy suffering. While the devotees gave varying
meanings to saints’ infirmities, they did not directly overlap with the
documents we have of their own suffering. Saints valued and cherished
their own infirmities, but they also helped, even medically, those of their
devotees who were ill or suffering. At the same time, it is likely that the
culturally internalized narratives of the benefits of infirmity and the
valorization of suffering had a therapeutic function in the same way as
miracle narratives.
Drugs in the Wunderkammer
Authors: Spaans Ronny
Published: January 2021

Chapter 3 is devoted to a non-medical use of drugs: as collector’s items and objects
of research in the Wunderkammer, which was popular in the early modern period.
I argue that Joannes Six van Chandelier sees the wondrous nature of exotic collectibles
as sources not only of sensory pleasure and of insights into nature, but
also of moral danger, especially the vices avarice and curiositas, an immoderate
and un-Christian thirst for knowledge. In poems on rarities such as bezoar stone,
tulips, and human and animal bones, Six develops literary strategies that present
himself as a learned merchant who recognises these dangers and has them well
in hand.
Drugs as remedies
Authors: Spaans Ronny
Published: January 2021

This chapter discusses the use of exotic plants and spices as medicines and
foodstuffs, as presented in the poetry of Joannes Six van Chandelier. An apology
for indigenous herbs at the expense of exotic drugs written by the physician Johan
van Beverwijck plays a large role here. I argue that Six attributes the illness in
his spleen to his exposure to exotic drugs and spices. In my analysis of poems Six
wrote on his illness and his medical treatment, I show how the wholesaler of luxury
goods portrays himself as an ascetic on a strict diet consisting of local herbs, as a
self-conscious Batavian who avoids luxury food, and as a patient who undergoes
severe bloodletting treatments to clean his body and his mind of ‘fiery’ elements.
Drugs as material and linguistic cosmetics
Authors: Spaans Ronny
Published: January 2021

In many of his poems, Joannes Six van Chandelier discusses the use of cosmetics
as both material and literary ornaments. He writes about the use of make-up by
Spanish women, and about incense and colours in Renaissance love poetry. In this
chapter, I show how, in these texts, he perceives cosmetic drugs as substances that
have a transformative effect and that are thus threats to the human body, in both
the medical and the religious sense. Through a development of a ‘flawed poetics’,
Six demonstrates a distance to the un-Dutch, aristocratic values of expensive
dyestuffs. Nevertheless, this does not prevent him – by means of the rhetorical
device of praeteritio – from writing colourful poems on the occasion of a wedding
and on the landscape of Oostkapelle.
The human body as a drug
Authors: Spaans Ronny
Published: January 2021

In Chapter 9, I discuss poems by Joannes Six van Chandelier where three types
of ‘human’ drugs play a role: mumia (ground Egyptian mummies), Catholic relics,
and human blood, more specifically the blood of the executed king of England,
Charles I. The blood of the king is praised as a divine drug in ‘Rariteiten te koop’.
I argue that the praise is ironic and that the lust for the blood must be understood
as a ‘cannibalistic lust for power’ – a disease that forms a threat to the ‘body’ of
the Dutch Republic. I argue that this and other poems serve a medical function
in purging the Dutch nation of that illness. In this Chapter, I also show how Six
gives a new interpretation to the name of his profession: ‘druggist’ as a ‘thirsting’
person, in the sense of longing for the blood of Christ.
Family, Everyday Life, and the Making-up of Society
Authors: Elim Wong Yee Lam
Published: January 2021

Home in Chinese (jia 家), means more than just a living space for human
beings, it is where a family belongs. This chapter examines how ‘families’
of Overseas Chinese, who started coming to Yokohama from 1860 onwards,
created living space in the city, and how their jia became core components
of its Chinatown. This paper introduces the connection between families,
everyday life, and the making-up of an Overseas Chinese society in Japan.
By taking the Cantonese Xie family as a case study, it shows how the life
experiences of three generations, and their family restaurant, Shatenki,
have played an important leadership role, and how the family’s active
participation in Chinese culture-related activities demonstrates that jia
has contributed to the development of Yokohama’s Chinatown.
‘Care of the Self’ and Discipline in Smart Cities
Authors: Alleblas Joost , Dorrestijn Steven
Published: January 2021

What is the meaning of the ‘care of the self’ in Sensor Societies such as
Singapore, where discipline and control seem to come first? Assessing
sensoring and behaviour control in Smart Cities, Michel Foucault’s pivotal
work on surveillance and power is still highly relevant. Applying this work
on surveillance studies also needs to take into consideration Foucault’s
later work on the care of the self, as well as revisit his work on power.
This amounts to a framework of surveillance pulled apart and inside-out:
from top-down hierarchical surveillance to lateral surveillance among
people, and even to self-surveillance. Interwoven with this theoretical
development is a reportage about the experience of walking the streets
of Singapore with an eye to emerging forms of self-care in this situation
of ubiquitous surveillance.
Society in Flux
Authors: Wickhamsmith Simon
Published: January 2021

Using S. Buyannemeh’s 1936 novella ‘Tovuudai the Herder’ (Malchin
Tovuudai) as a basis, this chapter examines the social policies that the
Party implemented so as to bring Mongolia into line with the Soviet Union.
Through an analysis of the literary response to the unsuccessful policy of
collectivization and to the more successful policies surrounding education
and livestock husbandry, it shows how changes to the traditional nomadic
herding culture – not only in the management of livestock, but in education
and gender equality – affected society as a whole. In journeys such as
Tovuudai’s, from the far west of Mongolia to the rapidly developing capital
Ulaanbaatar, the kind of technological innovations that the Party wished
to encourage – motorized transport and electrification – were seen as
evidence of Mongolia’s modernization, and writers used the imagery and
sensation of spee
Negotiating Faith
Authors: Wickhamsmith Simon
Published: January 2021

Mongolia’s response to religion – specifically to Buddhism – was quite different
to Moscow’s hardline push towards atheism and tended to emphasize personal
choice of religion while seeking to remove financial and social power from
monasteries and senior monks. Much of the literature focuses on the hypocrisy
of monks, showing how they used their elevated social position to elicit sexual
favors, among other things (as in D. Natsagdorj’s ‘The Venerable Monk’s Tears’
[Lambuguain nulims]). The anti-government uprising in the center-west of
the country in the spring of 1932 and the resulting implementation of the
moderate New Turn Policy (Shine ergeltiin bodlodo) became the theme of
several short stories, including two (‘Balchinnyam the Urianhai’ [Urianhai
Balchinnyam] and ‘A Heroic Struggle’ [Baatarlag Temtsel]) written in 1936 by
Sh. Sodnomdorj, who himself had fought in the Red Army against the uprising.
Life and its Value
Authors: Wickhamsmith Simon
Published: January 2021

Alongside universal education, one of the main concerns of the Party was
that Westernized health care be made available throughout the country.
Along with further limiting the power of the monasteries, the implementation
of this policy theoretically brought Mongolia’s herding population
the benefits of modern scientific medical knowledge. D. Natsagdorj in
particular was well-aware of the problems of syphilis following his time
in Weimar Germany, and he sought to educate his readers through the
brief journalistic and satirical accounts he composed during the early
1930s. Other writers, such as D. Namdag (‘Life and the Cost of Living’ [Ami
ba amidralyn üne], 1936), sought to emphasize the efficacy of modern
medicine against the traditional Tibetan medicine practiced by monks
and, influenced by his reading of Zola, to give an account of the physical
hardships experienced by those at the edge of Mongolian society.
The Great Opportunistic Repression
Authors: Wickhamsmith Simon
Published: January 2021

The chapter gives an account of the trials in October 1937 of the leading
writers S. Buyannameh and M. Yadamsüren and shows the effect of the
Soviet-style purges on literature at the time. Accusations of spying for
the Japanese and of other counterrevolutionary activity meant that very
few intellectuals and creative artists were untouched by the trials. Those
who were – including writers such as D. Sengee, who was openly supportive
of the Party’s trajectory – benefited by replacing those who were
executed as well as those who had been removed from their positions.
Among some younger writers, an interest in Socialist Realism resulted
in an increase in texts about industrialization, the Young Pioneers, the
‘friendship’ between Mongolia and the Soviet Union, and the growing
cult of personality surrounding Choibalsan.
A Closer Union
Authors: Wickhamsmith Simon
Published: January 2021

The Great Repression left Mongolian letters without many of its leading
voices, but this also enabled the Party to revive literature in a way more
favorable to its ideological trajectory. The first Congress of Mongolian
Writers, held in the spring of 1948, was the culmination of a decade’s
political development in which writers were encouraged to write about
the benefit of labor (D. Sengee’s ‘The Shock Workers’ [Udarnik, 1941] and
Ts. Damdinsüren’s ‘How Soli Changed’ [Soli solison ni, 1945]) and so develop
a Mongolian Socialist Realism. Through a closer connection with Soviet
policy, helped by Mongolia’s moral and practical support of the Soviet
Union during the Great Patriotic War, the Writers’ Congress helped to
define the ideological basis for Mongolian literature for the next three
decades.
Introduction
Authors: Wickhamsmith Simon
Published: January 2021

Politics and Literature in Mongolia 1921-1948 is an account of the contribution
made by Mongolian writers in building a new society following the
1921 Soviet-backed revolution. The literature of this time helped to frame
the ideology of socialism and the practice of the revolution for those
Mongolians who had little understanding of what it could offer them.
Through a discussion of key topics in the socialist program – education,
health care, religious belief, labor – it reveals in the work of writers such
as D. Natsagdorj, S. Buyannemeh, Ts. Damdinsüren and D. Namdag the
organic relationship that came to exist between literature and politics and
how this relationship changed over the course of almost three decades,
culminating in the First Congress of Mongolian Writers in 1948.
Introduction
Authors: Kostantaras Dean
Published: January 2021

The present chapter introduces readers to the major themes and lines of enquiry. Reference is also made to authors and works of both recent and earlier vintage which deal with similar questions and the manner in which their views cohere or conflict with the positions taken here.
Enlightenment Era Representations of the Nation
Authors: Kostantaras Dean
Published: January 2021

The present chapter describes the various meanings attached to the term ‘nation’ during the eighteenth century and the manner in which they reflected larger Enlightenment era tendencies of thought. Insights are sought from formal works of lexicography as well as a range of contemporary studies on history, natural laws, governance, and the origin of language. Particular attention is given to the diverse ways in which contemporary authors engaged with the concept of national character.
Revolutions of 1848
Authors: Kostantaras Dean
Published: January 2021

The present chapter explores the historiographical problems surrounding the role and relative strength of national sentiment in the revolutions of 1848. Here again the national problem is considered in relation to other contemporary sources of political and social discontent. In each of the cases under review, from Germany to Habsburg Europe to Italy, historians portray a sharp and even abrupt rise in the strength and assertiveness of, in the words of James Sheehan, ‘liberal political action’ in the years immediately preceding the 1848 revolutions, with a corresponding elevation in the perceived stature of national sentiment and demands.
Introduction
Authors: Peterson William
Published: January 2021

The chapter sets out the rationale for and structure for this inquiry into
Asian self-representation at World’s Fairs, or international expositions.
Using a case-studies approach, the book will consider how independent
Asian nations have sought to shape and control the ways in which they
were represented at these events. China and Japan at the San Francisco
Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915 are the focus of the first
two chapters, followed by Japan in at the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair,
and China at Expo ’88 in Brisbane. Other fairs and nations examined in
the 100-year span of this inquiry include the 1964-1965 New York World’s
Fair (the Philippines and Indonesia) and the 2015 Milan International
Exposition (Thailand and Korea).
Performing Modernity under Sukarno’s ‘Roving Eye’
Authors: Peterson William
Published: January 2021

Indonesia was one of the first Asian nations to sign up for the 1964-1965
New York World’s Fair, with the country’s participation intimately connected
to the downfall of the country’s charismatic leader, President
Sukarno. The erratic, brilliant, mercurial Sukarno was personally involved
in the form and content of the country pavilion, reputedly selecting the
attractive women who served as pavilion guides. The centerpiece of the
pavilion was a theatre restaurant, which offered elaborate music and dance
performances four times a day. As the US government grew increasingly
hostile to Sukarno’s policies and the entire Southeast Asian region became
unstable, Sukarno’s health and power began to fail, resulting in the nation’s
withdrawal from the second year of the fair.
Set in Stone
Authors: Bayer Kristin
Published: January 2021

The Great Wall(s) of China have been imagined, re-imagined, analysed
and re-visited through a variety of media, including written records, visual
materials, and literature. The various myths and cultural attachments
to the Wall have even coalesced in an interest-based field referred to as
Great Wall studies (Waldron 1995, Luo Zhewen 2006, Cheng Dalin 2006,
Barmé 2005, Lindesay 2008). A backward-looking gaze at the history of
the wall has compelled historians, writers, architects, geographers, and
photographers to take on the construction, deterioration, and preservation
of it to create a definition of China that serves both Chinese national and
foreign interests. The recently recovered archive of the American Great Wall
enthusiast William Edgar Geil (1865-1924), housed in a local historical society
in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA, contains many photographs that add to
our understanding of the role of the Wall as artefact, image, and even fetish.
Geil’s archive captures contemporary Great Wall tensions among amateur/
scholar, photographer/preservationist, and national/international identities.