bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Energy Storage Optimization of Wind Solar Hybrid Power Generation System Based on Improved Grasshopper Algorithm
Authors: Li Ying , Lin Yu-Liang
Published: May 2023

During the heating period, the solid thermal storage electric boiler is added to use the waste electricity for local heating, and the corresponding energy storage optimization model of wind solar hybrid power generation system is constructed with the maximum waste electricity contotalityption and the minimum power purchase cost as the objective function, and the contotalityption and waste electricity constraint, system power balance constraint, electric boiler power constraint, heat storage constraint, and regulation times constraint as constraint conditions. Improved moth algorithm is constructed to solve the optimization model, and a Pareto solution set with both economy and reliability is obtained. Optimal compromise solution is screened out from the Pareto solution set, and optimal configuration capacity of the thermal storage electric boiler and annual amount of electricity discarded in the system can be obtained. Thus, the power rejection in the system can be reduced, promoting widespread use of independent renewable energy power generation systems.
Design and Analysis of DC-DC Converters with Artificial Intelligence Based MPPT Approaches for Grid Tied Hybrid PV-PEMFC System
Authors: Reddy B. Raja Sekhar , Reddy V. C. Veera , Kumar M. Vijaya
Published: May 2023

Renewable energy sources (RES) are inherently stochastic, require the deployment of an energy storage device to round off variations in power. A hybrid system consisting solar PV and PEMFC for grid-connected applications is proposed and analysed. For grid-tied applications, a radial basis function network (RBFN) type maximum power point tracking (MPPT) approach for PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) fuel cells and a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) type MPPT approach for Photovoltaic system respectively is developed and analysed. In addition, a high step-up hybrid boost converter (HSHBC) for fuel cells has been designed, which provides a higher voltage gain than a conventional Boost converter. Developing a fuzzy logic controller for PV system at different solar irradiation levels and a RBFN based MPPT technique for PEM Fuel Cell with different temperatures respectively to get the maximum power. The developed system is simulated using the Simulink/MATLAB platform to analyse it.
Impact of Various Load Models for Combined Assignment of DG Source and D-STATCOM Device in the Radial Distribution System
Authors: Sujatha B. C. , Usha A. , Geetha R. S. , Poornima E.
Published: May 2023

This research work is concentrated on swarm-based intelligence Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm for combined assignment of D-STATCOM device and Distributed Generation source in a radial distribution structure. This work intends to diminish total real power loss, total cost and voltage magnitude profile enhancement for different circumstances. Generally Constant Power load design analysis is carried out for a distribution scheme. However, it is observed that load models remarkably impact the optimum sizing and positioning of DG source and D-STATCOM device. In this paper, work has been carried out for constant power load, polynomial load, and load growth model under various load factor conditions from light load factor (0.6) to heavy load factor (1.6) for power system planning. The sizing and positioning of D-STATOM device and DG source are considered based on loss sensitivity factor computation and PSO algorithmic rule. The planned scheme is investigated on IEEE 69 node and IEEE 33 node radial distribution structures. Further, the simulated results obtained by this algorithm is compared with other available techniques.
Policies and Economic Efficiency for Distributed Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Industry
Authors: Niu Xiumin , Luo Xufeng
Published: May 2023

The technique of directly converting solar energy into electricity using PV modules is distributed photovoltaic (PV) power generation. It is frequently used in a system and is referred to as a distributed PV power system. The system generates power in the surrounding areas and connects to the neighbouring utility grid. A distributed energy storage (DES) system is a bundled solution that stores energy for future use. In the short term, one of the most significant problems with solar power storage is that the batteries utilized for the application are still costly and giant. The more power requires the bigger battery must be. Further research revealed that maximizing solar and wind energies minimizes greenhouse gas emissions and lower the total cost of energy. The ability to store energy is crucial in balancing because it makes the grid more adaptable and stable. The mission of energy conservation and energy storage (ECES) aims to help integrate energy-storage technology research, production, deployment, and integration to improve the energy efficiency of all energy systems and enable the increased use of renewable energy in place of fossil fuels. Storage benefits are examined in terms of distribution transformer loads and storage support during energy fluctuations from renewable energy. However, the results show that the methodology’s recommended framework is successful and obtained with enhanced performance with a reliability of 95.6%. The proposed technique improves the Reliability analysis ratio of 95.4%, Performance analysis comparison ratio of 98.6%, accuracy analysis ratio of 91.3%, ECES model’s efficiency is estimated at 95.6%.
Research on Supervision System of Power Safety Tools and Equipment Based on Internet of Things Technology
Authors: He Ping , Zhu Zhengyi , Wang Xuyan , Zhang Can , Yuan Wei , Hao Junhua
Published: May 2023

A power-system protection device built using Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies in an intelligent environment. IoT supports electrical and physical parameters monitoring. One of the characteristics that must be checked is electricity usage from electronic gadgets. It is a complex problem to design energy-efficient IoT methods. IoT gets more complicated because of its vast size, and current wireless sensor network approaches cannot be used directly to IoT. Information gathering on the area is monitored by intelligent cellular terminals, intelligent security tools, and other multi-source sensing equipment. That is the foundation for the combined analysis and evaluation of security risk extensive data by cloud computing and edge computing. The IoT-based Power safety tools management (IoT-PSTM) system has been developed to integrate it into intelligent settings, such as smart homes or smart cities, to safeguard electrical equipment. It is meant to increase power security by quickly disconnecting in failure events such as leaking current. The system allows for real-time monitoring and alerting of events using a sophisticated data-concentration architecture communication interface. The goal is to progress and merge several technologies technically and integrate them into a personal safety system to increase security, preserve their availability, eliminate mistakes, and reduce the time required for scheduled or ad hoc interventions. Real-time data transmission, instant data processing from diverse sources, local intelligence in low-power embedded systems, interaction with many on-site users, sophisticated user interfaces, portability, and wearability are the main difficulties for the research project. This article offers a comprehensive explanation of the design and execution of the proposed system and the test findings. The results denote the higher performance of the suggested IoT-PSTM system with IoT module and enhanced performance of 94.7%.
Optimization Method of Charging Station Layout Based on Internet of Things Under the Background of Sustainable Development
Authors: He Yingjun , Li Shenzhang , Chen Hexiong , Liu Xiu , Wang Lin , Li Shaolong
Published: May 2023

In the context of sustainable development, the research on the optimization method of charging station layout based on the Internet of things can effectively shorten the distance between the charging demand point and the charging station candidate point. Based on the perception of the charging status of the electric station and the transmission layer of the RFID, the charging system is designed to collect and store the relevant information from the charging system of the electric station in real time according to the charging status of the electric station and the transmission layer of the RFID. Based on the above information, taking the minimum distance from the user to the charging station, the expected waiting time and the construction cost as the objective function, all demand points are allocated to the corresponding charging station, charging can be provided to users only by building a charging station at the candidate point, and users at all demand points can only enjoy charging services at a specific charging station as the constraint. The optimization model of charging station layout is constructed and solved by genetic algorithm to obtain the best charging station layout. The experimental results show that the layout scale of electric vehicle charging stations based on this method has the advantages of global optimization, strongest adaptability and good economic benefits, and the increase in the number of charging stations can effectively improve user satisfaction.
Optimization of LEACH Protocol for WSNs in Terms of Energy Efficient and Network Lifetime
Authors: Salman Fadhil Mohammed , Mohammed Ahssan Ahmmed , Mutar Ahmed Fakhir
Published: May 2023

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a group of small, intelligent sensors with limited resources. WSN has limited energy restrictions, so, the network lifetime is the major challenge that directly affect the efficiency of the network. This work presents an energy-saving clustering hierarchical algorithm for WSNs; it is an improvement of Low-Energy adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) algorithm. The aim of this algorithm is to minimize power consumption by the appropriate election of new cluster heads in every data transfer round and avoid network collisions. This goal achieved by using an efficient function to select the best cluster heads nodes in each round, which takes into account the current energy in the sensors. The proposed algorithm improves the cluster formation process by relying on the shorter distance to the base station. The Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) mechanism also utilized to schedule the transmission of data packets to cluster heads nodes and to avoid data packet collisions at the base station. Experiments conducted in MATLAB R (2020a) software showed that the suggested algorithm extended the network lifetime by 14.5%, and improved the network throughput by 16.8% compared to the LEACH algorithm. That means, the proposed energy-saving clustering hierarchy algorithm has improved the performance of the LEACH algorithm in term of enhancing network lifetime and increasing network throughput.
Modern Work and the Marketisation of Higher Education
Authors: Tholen Gerbrand
Published: May 2023

Over recent decades, national higher education sectors across the world have experienced a gradual process of marketisation. This book offers a new interpretation on why and how marketisation has taken place within England. It explores distinct assumptions on the nature of graduate work and how the graduate labour market drives the argumentation for more market and choice. Demonstrating the flaws in these assumptions, which are based on an idealised relationship between higher education and high-skilled work, this book fills an important need by questioning the current rationale for further marketisation.
Migration, Health, and Inequalities
Authors: Villalón Roberta
Published: May 2023

Drawing from an interdisciplinary activist research project spanning Ecuador, the United States, and Spain, this book offers a nuanced sociological understanding of the impact of outward and return migration on health and well-being. By building on critical race, ethnic and migration studies, a feminist intersectional perspective on the social determination of health as defined by Latin American Critical Epidemiology, and critical medical anthropology it uncovers the health processes that migrants and non-migrating relatives undergo as well as the psycho-sociocultural mechanisms they employ to cope with the many difficulties they encounter along the way. Moreover, the book analyzes the social inequalities, and migration and health policies in origin and destination countries in relation to migrant families’ experiences and efforts to challenge health, geopolitical, gender, sexual, ethnoracial, and economic disparities transnationally and multigenerationally. By weaving numerous accounts of migrants, non-migrating relatives, and health and migrant service providers, and contextualizing Ecuadorean with other Latin American cases with similar migratory routes, the book provides a thorough picture of interpersonal, institutional, and structural mechanisms of marginalization and resistance from the ground up. The research informs health and migration policymaking, advocacy, and assistance, and aims to foster health equity and social justice across borders.
Highly Discriminating
Authors: Ashley Louise
Published: May 2023

Why does the City of London reproduce inequality and prevent social mobility despite an apparent commitment to recruitment and progression based on objective merit? Louise Ashley, a leading expert on diversity and elite professions, explores what occupants of the City’s ‘top jobs’ say about unfair practices contrasted with what they do, to explain the City’s persistent ‘class ceiling’. Drawing on research, in-depth interviews and practitioner literature, she shows how hiring and promotion practices in the City are highly discriminating in favour of a narrow pool of people from more advantaged backgrounds, who have privileged access to its exceptional rewards. She explains how this unfair and exclusionary reality has been obscured beneath a meritocratic veneer which suggests access to the City’s ‘top jobs’ relies on hard work and very special intellect and skills, so that the concentration of rewards is truly deserved. More recently, unfair outcomes have been exposed and City firms have made attempts to diversify, operationalized via organizational social mobility programmes. However, as these efforts are driven by reputational concerns, they have a largely cosmetic effect. Meanwhile, the young working class people who aspire to City jobs become pawns in this game and often experience quite painful psychic effects. Addressing these failures will require a radical policy shift at both the organizational and governmental level to focus not only on social mobility but also on tackling the very inequalities the City helps to create.
Introduction
Authors: Ashley Louise
Published: May 2023

This chapter introduces the research questions addressed in this book and summarizes the core arguments. It explains that the book is about inequalities, culture and social class in the City of London; specifically who has occupied the City’s ‘top jobs’ over the past 50 years, how they got them, what makes these processes unfair, and why diversity does not drive progressive change. It introduces a key tension, namely that while the City has constructed a meritocratic narrative, its ‘top jobs’ remain dominated by children of the affluent middle and upper-middle class, who have privileged access to its exceptional rewards. The chapter explains that the City has carried out an impressive sleight of hand, as this meritocratic reputation suggests that access is inclusive of anybody on the basis of ability and effort and co-exists with exclusive recruitment practices that generate status by suggesting these skills are also rather scarce. In recent decades, unfair outcomes have been exposed, but attempts to diversify these ‘top jobs’ have had a cosmetic effect. The book concludes that their primary function has been to help legitimate the much wider inequalities of income and wealth the City helps to create.
Introduction: Against Youth Violence and Against ‘Youth Violence’
Authors: Billingham Luke , Irwin-Rogers Keir
Published: May 2023

This chapter introduces the key themes of Against Youth Violence, laying out the three senses in which the authors are against youth violence: against the perpetration of violence between young people – advocating for a reduction in this violence; against the misleading connotations of the label ‘youth violence’ – advocating for more fruitful framings of the issue; and against the commodification of ‘youth violence’ – advocating for less exploitation of young people’s suffering. As well as outlining the contents and structure of Against Youth Violence, the introductory chapter articulates the need to shift away from narrow and distorting portrayals of and perspectives on violence between young people. The chapter critiques ideas of ‘youth violence’ which are stigmatizing, patronizing and counterproductive, and suggests ways of looking at the issue which are more constructive, and which are explained at greater length through the course of Against Youth Violence.
Conclusion: Towards a Less Harmful Society for Young People
Authors: Billingham Luke , Irwin-Rogers Keir
Published: May 2023

The conclusion of Against Youth Violence pulls together the themes and arguments of the preceding chapters. After first recapping the central contentions of the book, the authors present a ‘near-future dystopia’ – an image of what the year 2030 could look like if the harmful tendencies outlined in previous chapters are exacerbated. The chapter then proceeds to focus on the positive changes needed to British society if we are to see less harm in young people’s lives, and less violence between young people. After setting out a broad policy orientation based on greater equality of recognition, resources, risk and (state) retribution, the authors then go on to suggest a number of measures which could improve society for young people, ranging from the early years to the criminal justice system.
Collaborative Research in Theory and Practice
Authors: Pahl Kate , Steadman-Jones Richard , Vasudevan Lalitha
Published: May 2023

This book is concerned with the poetics of research, that is the art of doing collaborative research. The reader is introduced to some key terms, including polyphony, enchantment and worthiness, that can guide a researcher through the journey of working with people and making sense together.
Poetics
Authors: Pahl Kate , Steadman-Jones Richard , Vasudevan Lalitha
Published: May 2023

Here, we introduce the reader to some of the key concepts in this book: (1) unplanning, (2) work, (3) story, (4) embodiment, (5) polyphony, (6) worthiness, (7) audiencing and (8) dis/enchantment. These concepts enable a set of insights to be built up about collaborative interdisciplinary research and constitute a poetics arising from that work.
Two
Authors: May Jonathan
Published: May 2023

A poetic essay. A father and a daughter come together and become two.
Regional Organizations and Their Responses to Coups
Authors: Hohlstein Franziska
Published: May 2023

Coups such as the recent ones in Sudan, Myanmar and Mali constitute one of the biggest risks to democracy and regional stability. Since the 1990s, many regional organizations (ROs) including the European Union (EU), African Union (AU) or Organization of American States (OAS) have taken a strong position against coups, establishing a global anti-coup norm in ROs. Yet the responses of ROs to coups are diverse, inconsistent and apparently contradictory. In this book, I examine which roles ROs play after coups. In doing so, I analyse how ROs respond to coups (research question 1), which factors influence the strength of their responses (research question 2) and why ROs pursue different post-coup solutions, for instance the reinstatement of the ousted government or new elections (research question 3). Coups violate basic democratic standards in ROs, but they also constitute a risk to regional stability. I argue that when confronted with a coup, ROs take both aspects into account and adjust their responses accordingly. Using a mixed-methods approach, which combines quantitative and qualitative techniques, the plausibility of the argument is tested. The results confirm the initial expectation: the more detrimental a coup is for the state of democracy in a country and the higher its risk of destabilizing the region, the more decisively ROs will respond to the event.
Guide to the design of broadband full polarization imager based on dispersion-compensation Savart plates
Authors: Zhang Ning , Zhao Mingfan , Zhang Yunyao , Li Siyuan
Published: May 2023

We provide a broadband channeled, modulated full polarization imaging technology based on dispersion-compensation Savart plates in 2020. It has the advantages of being compact, using the snapshot method, and having a bandwidth of 0.132 µm. It is thus invaluable for applications in diverse fields, including remote sensing, biomedicine, and military science. However, there are a lot of angle restrictions in the system. In practice, these angles cannot achieve such high machining precision, and we use the tolerance or compensation method of errors to analyze the influence of the angle deviation. This analysis will help the system achieve better compactness and stability and provide analysis methods for systems that use crystals as its key elements.
Lived experiences of disabled individuals living in Bahir Dar City, North West Ethiopia, a phenomenological study
Authors: Jemberu Lijalem , Wasihun Yosef , Anagaw Tadele Fentabil , Bogale Eyob Ketema
Published: May 2023

Background

When an individual’s activities and performances in a normal environment are limited in nature, function, or quality, that person is considered to have a disability. Although many studies on disabled people’s lived experiences have been conducted around the world, there is still a significant gap between nations in multiple cases such as culture, economic status, and the recommendation of a previous study in Ethiopia, which is one reason for conducting this research.

Objectives

To explore the lived experiences of disabled individuals living in Bahir Dar City

Methods

A descriptive phenomenology study design was employed in Bahir Dar city on 15 disabled individuals from November 15 to December 20, 2022. A heterogeneous purposive sampling technique was used to select study participants. Data was collected by using an in-depth interview. The rigor and trustworthiness of the study were maintained by transferability, dependability, credibility, and conformability. Colaizzi’s phenomenological analysis method was used for the development of codes and themes. Software (ATLAS. ti 7) version 7.5.6 was used for analysis.

Result

Five major themes and fourteen sub-themes were developed that explain lived experiences of disabled individuals. Physical, psychological, social, economic and coping strategy experiences were major themes. Depression and negative emotional behavior were sub-themes under psychological experiences. Unemployment with the absence of a workplace and inadequate income were sub-themes under the economical experiences of participants.

Conclusion

In this qualitative interview study, the lived experience of individuals living with disability in Bahir Dar city were addressed in terms of the physical, psychological, social, economic, and coping mechanism experience of disabled individuals. Special needs professionals and social support groups should have been assigned and present in all institutions to serve the PwDs to assure equal accessibility of services.
Impact of the internet use on informal workers’ wages: Evidence from China
Authors: Si Xiaofei , Li Maishou
Published: May 2023

Based on the data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) in 2018, the relationship between internet use and informal workers’ wages and its internal mechanism were empirically discussed using the ordinary least squares and endogenous switching regression(ESR) model. The study found that internet use could significantly raise the level of wages of informal workers, and this conclusion still holds after the endogenous problem was solved through the endogenous switching regression model. Further research found that the influences of the internet use on informal workers’ wages was heterogeneous. In other words, internet use has a more obvious impact on the wages of informal workers aged 31 to 40, 41 to 50, and 51 to 60 with the educational level of university and above in cities and towns, while it has a significant negative impact on wages of informal workers aged 16 to 20.
Binaural beats to entrain the brain? A systematic review of the effects of binaural beat stimulation on brain oscillatory activity, and the implications for psychological research and intervention
Authors: Ingendoh Ruth Maria , Posny Ella S. , Heine Angela
Published: May 2023

Binaural beats are an auditory phenomenon that occurs when two tones of different frequencies, which are presented separately to each ear, elicit the sensation of a third tone oscillating at the difference frequency of the two tones. Binaural beats can be perceived in the frequency range of about 1–30 Hz, a range that coincides with the main human EEG frequency bands. The brainwave entrainment hypothesis, which assumes that external stimulation at a certain frequency leads to the brain’s electrocortical activity oscillating at the same frequency, provides the basis for research on the effects of binaural beat stimulation on cognitive and affective states. Studies, particularly in more applied fields, usually refer to neuroscientific research demonstrating that binaural beats elicit systematic changes in EEG parameters. At first glance, however, the available literature on brainwave entrainment effects due to binaural beat stimulation appears to be inconclusive at best. The aim of the present systematic review is, thus, to synthesize existing empirical research. A sample of fourteen published studies met our criteria for inclusion. The results corroborate the impression of an overall inconsistency of empirical outcomes, with five studies reporting results in line with the brainwave entrainment hypothesis, eight studies reporting contradictory, and one mixed results. What is to be noticed is that the fourteen studies included in this review were very heterogeneous regarding the implementation of the binaural beats, the experimental designs, and the EEG parameters and analyses. The methodological heterogeneity in this field of study ultimately limits the comparability of research outcomes. The results of the present systematic review emphasize the need for standardization in study approaches so as to allow for reliable insight into brainwave entrainment effects in the future.
Assessing the effects of ROO and tariff margin on China-ASEAN free trade agreement utilization
Authors: Qu Yahui , Zhang Ruxu
Published: May 2023

This study investigates the effects of rule of origin (ROOs) and tariff margin on China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) utilization. Using a sample of 40,474 product-level observations with China’s imports from ASEAN countries during the period 2015 to 2021 and adopting the Logit model estimation methods, we found that larger tariff margin positively affects the use of CAFTA, whereas, the rules of origin show a negative effect on the CAFTA utilization. In order to assess the specific impact of two effects, we also calculate the relative contribution of these two effects to the CAFTA utilization by ASEAN countries, and the results show that the rules of origin play a more important role on the CAFTA utilization by each ASEAN country. Moreover, based on heterogeneity analysis, we also find that ROOs play an important role in the use of FTA by lower middle-income countries and the tariff margin play an important role in the use of FTA by upper middle-income and high-income countries. Based on the above findings, the study proposes some policy recommendations on how to increase the CAFTA utilization by reducing the ROO costs and accelerating tariff reductions.
A quantitative PCR assay for the detection and quantification of Septoria pistaciarum, the causal agent of pistachio leaf spot in Italy
Authors: Drais Mounira Inas , Gusella Giorgio , Mazzaglia Angelo , Polizzi Giancarlo
Published: May 2023

Septoria leaf spot is one of the most widespread diseases affecting pistachio (Pistacia vera) in countries of the Mediterranean region. Septoria pistaciarum was recently confirmed as the causal agent of this disease in Italy. Currently, the detection of S. pistaciarum relies on isolation techniques. These require significant amounts of labor, and time for completion. Also, a reliable identification requires the sequencing of at least two housekeeping genes, in addition to the morphological observations. To accurately detect the presence and quantify S. pistaciarum in pistachio tissues, a molecular tool was necessary. We designed applicable primers that allow reliable amplification of the β-tubulin gene. The amplification of target DNA was highly efficient, with a 100% success rate, and the assay was able to detect as little as 100 fg/rxn of pure fungal DNA. When tested in artificial mixtures of plant and pathogen DNAs, the assay was able to detect the pathogen consistently at a limit of detection of 1 pg/rxn. The assay was also effective in identifying the pathogen in naturally infected samples, providing rapid detection in all symptomatic specimens. The resulting qPCR assay is an improved detection tool for accurate diagnosis of S. pistaciarum that can also contribute to better understand the population dynamics of the pathogen in the orchard.
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit, Ashley Mears (2020)
Authors: Reed Damon
Published: May 2023

Review of: Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit, Ashley Mears (2020)

Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 320 pp.,

ISBN 978-0-69122-705-4, p/bk, £12.99

ISBN 978-0-69116-865-4, h/bk, £25.00
Mayorías en disidencia
Authors: Aramburo C Maximiliano A.
Published: May 2023

El ideal de racionalidad de las decisiones judiciales se compromete cuando la motivación debe someterse a mayorías frágiles. Cuando hay incentivos para disentir del fallo o de su motivación, se crea la posibilidad de que la mayoría de un tribunal se aparte del texto definitivo de la sentencia. En esos casos, identificar la parte vinculante de un precedente es una tarea difícil, si no imposible. El trabajo sugiere la necesidad de adoptar un modelo de motivación de las decisiones colegiadas que respete la posibilidad democrática y el ideal de transparencia del disenso, que no comprometa la racionalidad esperable de la decisión que tiene vocación de convertirse en precedente.
Diez ideas sobre el pensamiento iusfilosófico de Manuel Atienza
Authors: Lifante Vidal Isabel
Published: May 2023

Este artículo presenta una introducción al pensamiento iusfilosófico de Manuel Atienza, rastreando para ello en su obra las diez ideas más características de su concepción a propósito del Derecho y de la tarea de los iusfilósofos. Estas ideas son: el Derecho como práctica social; el Derecho como argumentación; la unidad de la razón práctica; el objetivismo moral mínimo basado en la idea de dignidad; la defensa de los valores constitucionalistas; la defensa del socialismo democrático; el antirreduccionismo; el pragmatismo analítico; la reivindicación del pensamiento latino; y la atribución de una función práctica –y crítica– a la filosofía del Derecho.
Manuel Atienza y el laberinto de su objetivismo moral mínimo: constructivismo metaético y dignidad humana
Authors: Misseri Lucas
Published: May 2023

En este artículo se abordan los presupuestos metaéticos de la teoría del Derecho pospositivista defendida por Manuel Atienza. Con esa finalidad se analiza el concepto de objetivismo moral mínimo sostenido por el filósofo español contrastándolo con la perspectiva del introductor de ese término, James S. Fishkin. La tesis central es que, a diferencia de Fishkin, que equipara objetivismo moral mínimo al intuicionismo o incluso al particularismo moral, el objetivismo de Atienza es interpretable como una forma de constructivismo metaético con elementos tanto procedimentales como sustantivos. Estos últimos proyectados a la luz de la teoría de la dignidad mantenida por Atienza como condición de posibilidad para la existencia de una comunidad moral.
El modelo ideal (no irreal) del legislador que argumenta
Authors: Simões Nascimento Roberta
Published: May 2023

El texto reflexiona sobre el papel y el estatus de la teoría de la legislación y defiende un cierto tipo de teoría más «realista» –que incorpore las prácticas de los legisladores de carne y hueso, que no se limite a conceptualizaciones abstractas o alejadas de ejemplos concretos, que analice las capacidades institucionales de cada sistema–, como punto de partida para ofrecer consejos útiles que contribuyan a mejorar las leyes y su justificación. Para ello, se explican dos presupuestos: el del Estado de Derecho y el del Derecho como principal herramienta de control social, los cuales requieren la racionalización de la potestad legislativa con la presentación de razones para las leyes. A continuación, se centra en el meollo de las preocupaciones de la teoría de la legislación, exponiendo algunos problemas comunes a los autores que se dedican al tema. Tras ello, son desarrollados los dos argumentos centrales, destacando la idea de que la concepción postpositivista del Derecho es condición de posibilidad de una teoría más «realista» de la legislación.
La prueba a la luz de la argumentación jurídica
Authors: Ricaurte Catherine
Published: May 2023

A la luz de la argumentación jurídica se pueden esclarecer los principales problemas que plantea el razonamiento probatorio. Estos problemas tienen que ver con el descubrimiento de la verdad de los hechos relevantes del caso en un proceso judicial; la aplicación de las reglas de exclusión de prueba relevante; la inferencia probatoria y sus criterios de valoración; y, la función del estándar de prueba. Lo crucial en el razonamiento probatorio es el tipo de enunciados que componen las premisas y los criterios que cabe utilizar para la evaluación de la inferencia. Esto da cuenta de la especial relevancia que cobra la dimensión material en este tipo de argumentación.
Teoría de la argumentación constitucional: nuevos aportes sobre las deliberaciones virtuales de los Tribunales Constitucionales en la era digital
Authors: Do Vale André Rufino
Published: May 2023

Escrito en honor al profesor Manuel Atienza, con motivo de su jubilación como Catedrático de Filosofía del Derecho de la Universidad de Alicante (en 2022), el artículo recuerda la construcción de la teoría de la argumentación constitucional en esa universidad española, aborda los principales modelos de deliberación de los tribunales constitucionales identificados por esta teoría en el derecho comparado, y presenta las transformaciones institucionales actuales verificadas en estos modelos con la introducción de nuevas tecnologías para la práctica de las deliberaciones virtuales.
El Derecho como práctica y las dimensiones de la argumentación jurídica
Authors: Vega López Jesús
Published: May 2023

En este trabajo se formulan algunas reflexiones e interpretaciones en torno a la conexión interna que, dentro de la concepción argumentativa del Derecho desarrollada por Manuel Atienza, guardan entre sí la tesis de las tres dimensiones de la argumentación jurídica y la tesis del Derecho como práctica. El propósito principal es mostrar la convergencia y coherencia de ambas tesis dentro de una misma concepción filosófica del Derecho, la concepción argumentativa. Se subraya, particularmente, el rendimiento metateórico de la misma en la crítica de otras concepciones del Derecho.
The Wide, Starlit Sky
Authors: McPherson Joyce
Published: May 2023

This chapter examines the works of Laura Ingalls Wilder, particularly Little House on the Prairie, as an inflection point in Children’s Literature as perceptions of childhood space and identity began to change. The chapter reveals how the novel transforms the traditional spaces of childhood from a building to a frontier, presenting home as a psychological space rather than a static physical space. The text presents a realistic version of nature rather than an idyllic one, in contrast to previous trends in Children’s Literature. The chapter reveals how the text validates the interior space of the child protagonist by presenting a close third-person perspective, allowing access to the interiority of the protagonist, inviting child readers to become independent evaluators.
Proud to Be a Rugby Boy?
Authors: Samuelson Anah-Jayne
Published: May 2023

This chapter discusses the relationship of student bodies and public-school space and examines the shift in how the schoolboy is shown to inhabit that space. The chapter explores how Tom Brown’s Schooldays reveals the disciplinary structure of the school space and how it instils docility, obedience, and loyalty. The chapter then presents an example of resistance to the indoctrination of the public-school in The Loom of Youth, in which the protagonist navigates the school space in a way that opposes blind obedience and encourages readers to expand the schoolboy identity to include critical thinking. Loom presents a deconstruction of the school space, connecting the disciplinary structure to the moral decline of society and the loss of life in the First World War. The chapter examines how the structure of the school space encourages the embodiment of an “English” identity and reveals ways an individual may manipulate structures of discipline.
Desire without End
Authors: Halsall Alison , Warren Jonathan , Fawaz Ramzi
Published: May 2023

A wide-ranging conversation with the major LGBTQ+ comics scholar and critic that considers the queer force of key comics—from the Golden Age to today—for the historical moments in which they were produced, the personal moments in which they were encountered and read, and their imaginative potential to conceptualize sexuality as a serial, unfolding experience. From early Wonder Woman to the Silver Age’s Fantastic Four to the works of contemporary LGBTQ+ creators like Gengoroh Tagame and Edie Fake, Fawaz considers how the burgeoning archive of LGBTQ+ comics surpass their original historical specificity to condition the imagination of queer sociality, eros, and self-knowing for readers who are always encountering and reencountering them in their own queer present.
Goldie Vance
Authors: Hedberg Lara , Hutton Rebecca
Published: May 2023

“Goldie Vance,” the young-adult comic series about the adventures of a 16-year-old queer, Black feminist who dreams of being a detective, redeploys genre tropes and historical contexts from its Civil Rights and Cold War era setting to propose a historically plausible, self-possessed and self-determined, intersectional queer girl detective. Detection is an overdetermined trope in “Goldie Vance”; Larson and Williams’s hero uses it to solve mysteries and her stories play up the fun that queerness affords us to detect our world’s sexual coding and to crack it. Vance’s queer resilience gives her special aptitudes to solve crimes and produces a compelling distinctness about her, Black and fine and gay, for the next generation of young queer readers to admire and emulate.
Reading Comics Queerly
Authors: Warren Jonathan
Published: May 2023

As the emotional and creative responses of fan cultures demonstrate, comics that lack overt LGBTQ+ representation certainly shaped queer modes of appreciation among readers. Riverdale’s sexually-charged teen community in early Archie comics, the scopophilic excitement offered by Golden Age superheroes, the gender-fluid homoerotic tension governing Krazy and Ignatz’s turbulent relationship (in comics and animated cartoons), and the weirdly unsentimental gender performance of “Little Orphan Annie” (on page and stage) contribute to a fully queer reader experience even in the absence of flagged LGBTQ+ representation.
Conceiving the Inconceivable
Authors: Venkatesan Sathyaraj , Murali Chinmay
Published: May 2023

The institutional outlook of the medical establishment is typically a cis-defined gaze that can do violence when directed at trans* people and lesbians. The particular salience of that possibility registers for readers of A.K. Summers’s Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag (2014). Exposing the heterosexual bias in the medicalization of motherhood, Summers’s comic illustrates how biomedical discourse categorizes butch pregnancy as “unnatural” and “deviant.” Faced with such challenges, Summers’s Teek Thomasson is a butch trailblazer whose adventurous instincts are emphasized by the Tintin costume she wears. Teek’s “nine long months […] in drag,” spent facing down cisgender constructions of femininity and motherhood that jar with and threaten to subsume other, more queer experiences of pregnancy and motherhood that are not concerned with cis adversaries, misunderstandings, and insults, establish the character’s own LGBTQ+ heroism.
Syllabus
Authors: Lirette Emma Christopher
Published: May 2023

This chapter outlines the coming sections of “Blood,” “Water,” and “Nets,” which draw from “interviews, ride-alongs, participant observation, and archival research” the author conducted in Chauvin, Louisiana during 2014 and 2015.
Bloodlines
Authors: Lirette Emma Christopher
Published: May 2023

This chapter further explores the idea of a “blood vocation,” or of work as a genetic trait, something that is embedded in the body of the worker. The repetition of this blood vocation as an explanatory device of shrimpers stands at odds with the end of inheriting shrimping as a vocation, as most children of the shrimpers the author interviewed want nothing to do with their fathers’ business. Beyond kinship, the blood vocation recenters shrimping as work done by a corporeal body, a style of work quickly becoming obsolete.
Land’s End
Authors: Lirette Emma Christopher
Published: May 2023

Switching from a discussion of water, Lirette discusses the land of Louisiana. Reminiscing on the “last islands” of the 1800s, where the bourgeoisie would escape from their upper-class lives. One of these, Last Island, flooded in 1856, ending human habitation on the island. This story can serve as a cautionary tale. Lirette writes, “Shrimpers of the Louisiana coast, like other residents, recognize a primary danger to their livelihood that has less to do with economic realities than it does with the existential threat of the water that is ending the land.” The erosion of the coastline contributes to and signifies the precariousness of a shrimper’s occupation.
Gulf
Authors: Lirette Emma Christopher
Published: May 2023

In this chapter, Lirette further examines the relationship between the land and the self, arguing that “these shrimpers have created and are actively creating their identities in relation to a place that they are continuously reworking. In other words, the relationship of place and identity is an unstable process of becoming.” The coastal land loss of Louisiana, therefore, leads to both fear and persistent optimism among the shrimpers as their land and shrimping grounds are continually lost to the salty sea. The author examines the film Beasts of the Southern Wild as an example of a community losing inevitably to the waters.
Ghost Nets
Authors: Lirette Emma Christopher
Published: May 2023

This chapter traces shrimpers’ struggles against a constricted life. During the author’s fieldwork and in her conversations with commercial fishers over a life lived among them, fishers consistently complain about governmental interference with their trade. Whether it’s TED requirements or the micromanagement of fishing seasons and zoning, shrimpers feel trapped in a net cast from afar. They know their acts of resistance (disregarding seasonal limits, selling dead shrimp off a bait license, using nets without bycatch release devices, protesting certain regulations) amount to little even if they somehow escape the notice of the water police. Although the shrimpers resist, they miss the diffuse controls that continue to ensnare them.
Miraculous Draught of Fish
Authors: Lirette Emma Christopher
Published: May 2023

In “Miraculous Draught of Fish,” Lirette argues that despite various networks of control, shrimpers model a form of living and working that offers small-scale, local strategies of survival. Shrimpers know that there is only one thing they can do if they want to maintain their livelihood in the shrimp fishery: keep working and bending to the movements of various nets that seek to constrict them. At the same time, these shrimpers are weaving nets of their own, nets of work and family and the shared experience of living in a landscape. Although shrimpers feel moored by obligations and family ties, they rage most against the encroachment of governmentality and capitalism in every facet of their life.
A Childhood in Argyll
Authors: Niles John D.
Published: May 2023

Williamson spent most of his childhood living in a large tent in a forest outside the village of Furnace, Argyll. While his father worked as a quarryman by day and made baskets or scrubbers while at home, his mother would walk from door to door bartering items for a bit of food. Duncan attended the village school for the mandated number of days per annum. Each spring his parents would strike their tent and pack up a few belongings and the family would take to the road, travelling by foot, while his father picked up employment here and there. During these years Duncan mastered life skills that stood him in good stead, such as how to catch hares or poach salmon and how to sleep out on his own, kindling a fire by the shore and cooking shellfish. The chapter concludes with two children’s rhymes that Duncan learned at school.
Reading Confederate Monuments
Authors: Davis-McElligatt Joanna
Published: May 2023

This collection of essays written by literary and cultural critics addresses the urgent and vital need for scholars, educators, and the general public to be able to read and interpret literal and cultural Confederate monuments pervading life in the contemporary United States. Engaging many different archives and methods, the essays in this collection instruct readers in how to read literal Confederate monuments as texts and in the context of the assortment of texts that produced and celebrated them. But they also illustrate how to read the literary texts that have advanced and contested Civil War memory in the US cultural imaginary-then and now-as monuments in and of themselves. Finally, these essays lay bare the cultural and pedagogical work of Confederate monuments and counter-monuments-how and what they teach their readers as communal and yet contested narratives of white supremacy and white nationalism-showing why the persistence of Confederate monuments matters greatly to local and national notions of racial justice and belonging.
South by Southwest
Authors: Herrera Spencer R.
Published: May 2023

Located in El Paso, Texas, next to the border fence separating the US from Mexico, a fascinating and truly puzzling series of four historical markers stand together: one dedicated to local Confederates James W. Magoffin and Simeon Hart, another to a historic migration route, a third to a settler colonial agent, and the fourth completely blank-whether by intentional defacement, weather erasure, or abandoned plans. Interpreting the collection of markers as a contact zone that, if re-envisioned, might encourage border crossing rather than closing borders and might emphasize the future rather than the past, this chapter raises important questions about Confederate monuments and the interdependent legacies of slavery and settler colonialism across the United States, not just in the South. To conclude, it meditates on monuments' temporality, with the absent history of the blank marker emblematizing futurity, beckoning for and yet resisting attempts to read it.