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“Sunsum” and “Honhom” in African Socioreligioculture and Spirituality
Authors: Agboada Edward , Mensah Peter Addai
Published: October 2024

Sunsum and Honhom in the African socioreligioculture and spirituality present a complexity of functionality and purpose that provides distinctive context to the interplay of dimensions that define existence (being). In any case, ‘existence’ or ‘being’ must possess distinctive functionality and a purpose that defines the specificity of their spiritual or physical purposes. The study which examines the meaning, significance and relevance of Sunsum and Honhom within the African socioreligioculture and spirituality attempts to decipher their implications for Christianity, Theology and Biblical scholarship especially in Africa and beyond. It used ethno-anthropology and socio-phenomenology which examined the meaning, significance and relevance of sunsum and honhom not just as a linguistic preference or juxtaposition but as a dimension, or functionality that establishes both an epistemology and a nomenclature that provide the right approach and methods for nurturing or relating with people or elements within the physical and spiritual cosmology. The study contributes to the ongoing discourse on the functionality of Sunsum and Honhom within African socioreligioculture and spirituality and how they affect how human beings or elements within the African Socioreligioculture and Spirituality are perceived or related to/with.

Keywords: Sunsum, Honhom, Honam, Spirituality, Africa
Factors Affecting Learners’ Decision to enrol in Commercial Subjects – A Case of the Chris Hani District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Authors: Makhoba Thami Isaac , Qoyi Motsi
Published: October 2024

Commercial subjects such as Accounting, Economics and Business Studies are an important stream in schools that help learners broaden their social and global knowledge. The purpose of the study was to identify the factors that influence learners’ decisions to enrol in commercial subjects. A case study served as the foundation for the study’s qualitative methodology. The study was based on Berger and Calabre’s (1983) Uncertainty Reduction Theory. The study purposely sampled ten learners from two secondary schools in the Chris Hani District, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Individual interviews were used to collect the data, which were then analysed using content analysis (CA) and categorised using thematic analysis. The findings proved that several factors, including learners’ ability in the subjects and the influence of teachers and parents, influenced their decision to enrol in commercial courses. The study recommends that learners should first be counselled, mentored, and assisted in making decisions about the choice of subjects. Lastly, schools should conduct aptitude and interest assessments. The contribution of this study is to provide insights on improving curriculum design and career guidance around commercial subjects in this region as well as to inform educational stakeholders on how to address potential barriers to enrolment in commercial subjects and lastly serve as a foundation for broader studies on commercial subject enrollment in South Africa.

Keywords: Commercial Subjects; Learner’s decision; Subject Stream
Analysis of the state of agricultural entrepreneurial activity – production of Varaždin county
Authors: Herceg Marija
Published: October 2024

The Varaždin County is experiencing a decrease in arableagricultural land and an increasing withdrawal from agriculturalproduction, despite favorable conditions for engaging in this activity.Most agricultural subjects are small family farms, with persons over 60years old predominating among the holders/managers of production.The fragmentation of agricultural land and the reduced number ofyoung farmers further complicate the situation.Positive initiatives aimed at benefiting existing farmers and motivatingyoung people to engage in agricultural production include the provisionof grants for growth and development, emphasizing investmentsin modernization and increasing production capacities, while alsosignificantly encouraging the production of indigenous products. Thegoal is to stop the decline in the number of agricultural subjects andmodernize their production to enable them to compete in the marketand contribute to achieving self-sufficiency in agricultural production.
Contribution of controlling to the business success of a company in the example of Pevex
Authors: Buneta Anđelka , Došen Stella
Published: October 2024

Controlling, as an advisory function of management, reflects on the quality of company management at the strategic, tactical and operational levels. To a large extent, it contributes to the timely and quick reaction of the management to changes inside and outside the organization and thus minimizes risks and optimizes operations. At the same time, the application of appropriate controlling instruments affects the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations. The purpose of the research was to determine the role and contribution of controlling in the stabilization of Pevex’s operations after restructuring, as well as management’s perception and the role of controlling instruments in operations. In order to examine the established relationships, research was conducted using the semi-interview method with company management and analysis of f inancial statements and selected business financial indicators, as well as SWOT and TOWS analysis. The results of the research showed that there is a significant role and contribution of controlling in the stabilization of business after the restructuring of Pevex. Controlling greatly contributed to the adjustment of the business strategy, which affected business indicators measured by liquidity, profitability, economy, profitability and indebtedness. Management’s perception is that the use of controlling instruments contributes to the organization’s management processes and the achievement of the organization’s set goals. Based on information from the company itself, the controlling system at Pevex is presented, its contribution to management in making business decisions, and recommendations for further development are given. Primary data sources from the company itself and secondary data sources (annual financial reports) were used for the analysis.
Analysis of public procurement characteristics in the Republic of Croatia
Authors: Brcković Gordana , Mjeda Trina , Čolig Marina
Published: October 2024

The issue of public procurement comes up from the very factthat in this process budgetary and other public funds are spent. This israther a significat amount of public funds - on the global level, publicprocurement reaches up to 12% of GDP and 29% of budget funds. Aseries of rules and regulations have to be applied, aiming to regulatepublic procurement procedures to make them transparent, efficient,and strictly formal and normatively regulated. Therefore, public bodiesare expected to effectively implement public procurement by applyingthe principle of ‘best value for money’ and with high standards ofethical and moral behavior. Croatia, like all countries in the world,faces a series of problems related to irregularity in public procurement,especially corruption as a general social problem. By becoming amember of the European Union, Croatia undertook to adapt itslegislation to the legislation of the European Union. The purpose ofthis paper is to present the effects of improving public procurementlegislation in Croatia by analysing available statistical data.
Reading Samuel Johnson
Authors: Jones Phil
Published: October 2024

Reading Dr Johnson contributes to the field of Reception Studies by examining how Samuel Johnson was later read and assimilated by later writers. The writers range from James Boswell and Jane Austen to Lord Byron and Samuel Beckett. The book focuses as much on these writers as on Johnson himself. It also examines Johnson’s own self-reading and how later writers responded to, ignored or over-wrote his own self-imaging. This is the first trans-historical analysis of Samuel Johnson over an extended timeframe.The book sheds light on how writers bring their own unique creative energies, preoccupations and cultural affiliations to the reading experience. Writers find their own space, in part, through their responses to other writers. Rewriting Johnson involved writers deploying very different means, involving letters, essays, biographical representations, poetry, fiction and editorial practice. The book will seek to enhance our understanding of how a later writer’s reception of a precursor reciprocally helps shape their own writing agenda and self-positioning in the literary canon.
Johnson
Authors: Jones Phil
Published: October 2024

Chapter 1 examines how Johnson read and accounted for himself. Johnson was a self-reader, whose exploration of identity involved experimenting with a wide range of literary styles and personae. Johnson’s spiritual self-examination in his diaries owed something to the Puritan life-writing tradition. The Rambler essays, by contrast, were cast in Johnson’s mature, baroque style. In the diaries, Johnson calculated the day’s profit and loss using numbers, payments and lists to impose order on a troubled life and make time count. The Rambler translates the diaries’ concerns into a different rhetorical register, re-framing the notion of self-accounting in the discourse of commerce. The mercantile world of floating debt and paper credit provides a tangible parallel to the amorphous fears besetting the diaries. Accounting for oneself, by contrast, involved establishing a ledger of recorded moments, but Johnson implies that the search for a coherent self may be an elusive exercise.
Boswell’s “Life of Johnson”
Authors: Jones Phil
Published: October 2024

Chapter 2 focuses principally on Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, specifically the way in which the text theatricalises the representation of Johnson, but also stages his conversation and voice as signifiers of his wisdom, presence and authority. While the notion of widespread theatricality disturbed Johnson, Boswell, consciously staged Johnson as the lead character in his biography, while portraying himself as a sort of actor-manager. The biographyconsists principally of dialogue which lends it a theatrical flavour. In privileging Johnson’s speech over his writing, Boswell reinforced his sense of Johnson as a point of origin and enabled him to subordinate Johnson’s writing by re-appropriating his wisdom through its representation in talk. Boswell’s approach reflected an emerging ideology of voice, represented by writers such as Blair and Sheridan. Johnson’s voice inspired a host of imitators, the greatest being Boswell himself, who argues that he was “impregnated” with his hero’s aether, enabling him to internalise Johnson. Boswell, thereby, assumed proprietorial rights over Johnson, and, by writing the biography, mastered English and became the author of himself.
Johnson and Women Writers
Authors: Jones Phil
Published: October 2024

Chapter 3 examines the response of Hester Thrale, Frances Burney and Jane Austen. All three wrote about, and were influenced by, Johnson. The depiction of Johnson by Thrale and Burney in their journals, diverged starkly from the resolutely masculine image purveyed by Boswell, emphasising, rather, his ease in female society and capacity for intimate conversation rather than the competitive, male talk staged by Boswell. Admirers of Johnson, they both, on occasion, adopted his manly prose style to garner acceptability, yet their best writing operated against the grain of Johnson’s rhetoric. For Austen, Johnson is less an overt influence than a pervasive but implicit presence in her fiction’s moral and ideological fashioning. Austen, however, engaged, with Johnson’s concerns about the dangers of performative behaviour and the novel’s capacity to subvert ethical norms. Unlike Burney, Austen did not seek to enlist Johnson’s authority, but Johnson’s voice, however, is absorbed and transmuted into her singular, Olympian style; a style into which, even she herself disappeared.
Johnson and the Victorians
Authors: Jones Phil
Published: October 2024

Chapter 5 considers how Carlyle, Arnold and Birkbeck Hill engaged with Johnson. Carlyle refashioned Johnson as a heroic figure, attending to Johnson’s radical powers of self-creation, epitomised in action. Carlyle focused on emblematic moments in Johnson’s life where an authentic self is created through exemplary performative gestures, echoing Johnson’s search for a core identity in The Rambler. Arnold regarded Johnson as a writer who, like himself, turned from poetry to criticism, helping validate that choice. Arnold’s abridged version of the Lives of the Poets repackaged Johnson for the new Victorian reading public, paring it down to six notable ‘Lives’, echoing Carlyle’s distillation of Johnson’s life to exemplary episodes. Arnold contrasted the lucidity of Johnson’s style with Carlylean obscurantism. Birkbeck Hill’s edition of Boswell’s biography presaged the arrival of the editor as creator. Hill, in the turbulent 1880s, sought to resurrect a more ordered civilisation and restore the intelligibility of Boswell’s text. The edition was swollen with supporting material, appearing a rival act of creation, exposing the paradox of the encyclopaedic project: the task of documenting the world is fated to be perpetually incomplete.
Conclusion
Authors: Jones Phil
Published: October 2024

The conclusion brings all of the book’s threads together, recapitulating themes developed in the introduction. Later writers may have been were attracted to Johnson, because he was a liminal figure, looking backwards to Milton, Shakespeare and the classics, but whose literary career, nonetheless, reached its apogee as the Romantic era and, later, the Modern age, were set to subsume his world and values. Johnson had an obdurate solidity as the world became more complicated and less easy to digest. Johnson’s appeal to some writers also lay in a distinct mood or tone associated with the idea of vanitas, epitomised in ‘The Vanity of Human Wishes’. The poem was part of a literature of exhaustion which saw culture and history as inevitably repeating the past, a theme which attracted Byron, Eliot, Beckett and Borges, in their different ways. Johnson’s life and writing, compelled writers in successive generations, to re-write Johnson, inflecting both our reading of him, but also impacting their own understanding of their own writing and culture.
Isaac’s Dances for the Royal Court
Authors: Thorp Jennifer
Published: October 2024

In Isaac’s day palace balls were held regularly in the royal palaces of Whitehall, St James’s, Kensington (after 1689), and occasionally Windsor. The monarch’s birthday was also celebrated each year by special events at court, attended by courtiers, officers of State, members of parliament, and visiting dignitaries. The celebrations inside the palace included professional performance of a play, opera, or entertainment with dancing, and in the evening was held the birthday/birthnight ball. Even though Queen Anne was often too ill to attend all the celebrations, they were regarded as central to the court calendar, serving as additional tools of diplomacy. Each year Isaac prepared a special dance to honour Queen Anne’s birthday, its music attributed by the music publishers Walsh and Hare to James Paisible and often published separately from the dance notation. All the participants were expected to be accomplished dancers, careful preparation was essential, and the Maids of Honour normally received annual clothing allowances for ball dresses. Several of Isaac’s birthday dances honoured significant events, including the Union of England and Scotland and the Peace of Utrecht; and some of the dances were subsequently performed in the London theatres by Hester Santlow and other leading dancers of the day.
Isaac’s Extant Dances
Authors: Thorp Jennifer
Published: October 2024

In the absence of unambiguous documentation for some of Isaac’s ball-dances, this chapter discusses their feasible dates of creation and considers a chronology based largely on the title and purpose of each dance, and also on the publication elsewhere of their music (particularly in Playford’s editions of Apollo’s Banquet and similar dated music publications and advertisements). This results in four categories of extant examples: ball-dances to honour Princess Anne and members of the royal family before 1702 but not published until some years later when a notation system became widely available; general ball-dances for pedagogic use included in published collections in 1706 and 1711; dances to honour each birthday of Queen Anne from 1704 to 1714; and Isaac dances issued “for the Year” after 1714. The dance notations include only the tune for each dance, usually attributed to James Paisible, but two examples (The Royal Portuguez and The Saltarella) still retain their, now rare, additional engraved sheet of tune and bass line.
Summary Catalogue and Facsimiles of Isaac’s Notated Dances
Authors: Thorp Jennifer
Published: October 2024

A brief catalogue of Isaac’s twenty-two extant ball-dances notes their likely purpose, dedication if documented, date(s) of publication and reissue, newspaper advertisements, the structure of each dance, and other primary sources for the music and step notation of each dance. Bibliographical citations of relevant modern research articles analysing or discussing the historical context of each dance are included whenever possible. All the catalogue entries are cross-referred to the photographic facsimiles of each notation that appear, alphabetically by dance title, at the end of the catalogue. This book marks the first time that all Isaac’s surviving dances in notation have appeared in one volume.
Postmarks and Watermarks
Authors: Clavier Aurore
Published: October 2024

This article examines the porous boundaries between Marianne Moore’s poems and personal correspondence, and the complex economy of textual and material circulation in which they partook. If Moore’s poetry often approaches various modes of letter writing (C. Miller), her letters do not merely provide contextual background to understand her corpus, but play an essential part in the compositional process, offering one of the numerous margins in which her work paradoxically found some of its most central formulations. Against common notions of correspondence as a binary exchange (J. Ellis), Moore’s epistolary forms involve more subversive systems of tripartite circulations, thus blurring the lines between private and published texts. By inviting addressers, addressees, and external readers to change roles, poems and letters are thus made to shape their own archival destiny.
The Literary Digest , Moore’s Scrapbooks, and the Archive of Mass Print
Authors: Brinkman Bartholomew
Published: October 2024

Perhaps more deliberately than any other modernist poet, Marianne Moore was an archivist of mass print. This essay examines her files of newspaper and magazine clippings and the textual assemblages that constitute her scrapbooks. It focuses on two scrapbook pages in particular: a page on “Current Poetry,” consisting of multiple periodical poems; and a page constructed from a Sarah Bernhardt photograph, Woodrow Wilson political cartoon, and two Thomas Hardy poems. The essay uses word vectorization technology and reflects more generally on Moore’s engagement with mass print.
Out-Casts and Stay-at-Homes
Authors: Gregory Elizabeth
Published: October 2024

This essay plots the trajectories of the travels around New York City of two artists, poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) and dancer Arthur Mitchell (1934-2018), about whom Moore wrote two poems. It sets their shifting residences against a background of 19th and 20th century national and family history and travels through the United States, to reflect on how such travel has signified and connected to another kind of travel: in and out of the closet. It explores Moore’s sense of connection to Mitchell, whom she characterized as an “‘outright’ fellow,” and the interactive dynamics of place with bias—around race, sexuality and gender (where, for instance, one might be comfortable being out and where not). And the complicated attempt to escape or transform bias, in the lives of these two New Yorkers with national audiences whose archives pointedly do not represent them as gay, but who have been variously perceived as queer. It utilizes a range of archival materials, including Moore’s correspondence with their mutual friend Lincoln Kirstein, Mitchell’s biographical accounts, documentary photographs, and more.
“His Shield”
Authors: Tracy Ryan
Published: October 2024

This chapter explores Marianne Moore’s understudied admiration for Haile Selassie, the last reigning emperor of the Ethiopia’s Solomonic dynasty. Moore’s archive includes numerous press clippings and literature—spanning four decades—concerning Selassie, the “Lion of Judah,” who became an international celebrity during the mid-twentieth century when, in 1935, shortly after his coronation, fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia, which had until then been the only African nation to avoid direct colonization by a European power. Moore’s poetic references toward Selassie in her poems evince the poet’s affirmation of Selassie’s complex efforts to defend Ethiopia’s sovereignty (in particular, his decision to flee the country to better defend it from overseas) as well as her deconstruction of the putative immunity of sovereign power in general. Using the wartime poem “His Shield” as a touchstone for a wider survey of Moore’s published and unpublished writings, this exploration will show that Moore often turned to the motif of amphibious skin as a metaphor for the power to evade capture; a metaphor specifically linked to Moore’s thinking of Black liberation struggles across time, and around the world.
Questioning Categories to Revitalize Words
Authors: Westover Jeff
Published: October 2024

Because they organize knowledge, taxonomies are important tools of archives, libraries, and museums. Sometimes, however, they constrain, distort, or obscure knowledge. Acknowledging this problem, Marianne Moore often reframes categories in her poetry. She redefines terms in order to appreciate phenomena in more capacious ways. Her challenging language helps readers arrive at more satisfying ways of understanding and experiencing the world. Westover mines Moore’s reading notebook of 1930-1943 to investigate the poet’s wide-ranging curiosity and scepticism about facile taxonomies. Some entries in Moore’s notebook include lists of mottoes culled from a variety of sources. Westover discusses some mottoes from the notebooks in order to analyse the way Moore adapts and queries other mottoes in her poems.
‘We can’t afford to live in a house that is not haunted’: The Remake of Poltergeist and Post-Meltdown Haunted House Films
Authors: Wetmore, Kevin J.
Published: October 2024

The original Poltergeist was perhaps the first horror film for many eighties kids. The film embodies the zeitgeist of the eighties: conspicuous consumption and flaunting of wealth hiding the undercurrent of corruption and the oppression upon which that wealth was built. In a sense, Poltergeist is pure family-friendly eighties horror – aimed at tweens and teens, revealing corporate bad guys, with plenty of jump scares and terror, but little gore. Not so in the 2015 remake. The horror in 2015 is not that the American dream community is a nightmare built on lies – we assume that is the case. The horror is that we cannot afford to move to a house that is not haunted. Unlike Steve Freeling, Eric Bowen cannot find work and has maxed out his credit cards. The house is shabby, the family wonders if they can afford food. the remake of Poltergeist is less about recreating the experience of the first film and instead using its scenario to examine the horror of economic uncertainty. If the original is an indictment of Reagan-era values, the remake is an exploration of the fears of loss of property and identity.
Drawing Outside the Lines
Authors: Gott Michael
Published: October 2024

This chapter focuses on the porous and shifting borders of contemporary Quebec filmmaking through the example of six recent films, several of which are directed by women, immigrant, and Indigenous filmmakers, and many of which feature a diverse cast of characters who speak a number of languages besides French. These are Uvanga (Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu, 2014), Une colonie (A Colony, Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, 2019), Montréal la blanche (Bachir Bensaddek, 2016), Le meilleur pays du monde (The Greatest Country in the World, Ky Nam Le Duc, 2020), Pays (Boundaries, Chloé Robichaud, 2016), and Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre (My Internship in Canada, Philippe Falardeau, 2014). The author examines the ways that these films navigate the conceptions and realities of hard and soft borders and borderlands, and ultimately argues that Quebec cinema itself functions as a borderland, a space of translation and exchange that reevaluates positions between reimagined local and reoriented global frameworks.
From Film School to the Big Screen: The “Quebec Label” in the 21st Century
Authors: Gott Michael
Published: October 2024

Denis Chouinard discusses the context of the release of his 1997 film debut Clandestins and his 2001 follow-up feature L’ange de goudron, both of which are early examples of Quebec-produced films concerned with the process of migration and the consequences of immigration. Beyond his directing work, Chouinard offers his perspective as a professor of cinema practice at UQAM and discusses the evolution of Quebec cinema over the past twenty years and the changing ways that future filmmakers approach the medium.
Transnationalism and the Québécois Film Industry
Authors: Smith Kirsten
Published: October 2024

Algerian-born, Montreal-residing film and television director Bachir Bensaddek discusses the transnationality of his work in general and his 2016 feature film Montréal la blanche in particular. Bensaddek also ponders the current realities and challenges of making films today, and the increasing presence of ethnic minorities, non-native French speakers, and First Nations characters on Quebec’s screens.
An Interview with Marie-Hélène Cousineau on the Arnait Trilogy
Authors: Bertrand Karine
Published: October 2024

Karine Bertrand interviews filmmaker Marie-Hélène Cousineau in a discussion focused on the Québécois/Inuit women’s film collective Arnait Video Productions, of whioch Cousineau is a co-founder. In particular, they discuss the making and significance of the “Arnait trilogy,” which is the subject of Bertrand’s Chapter 2 and consists of three feature-length films codirected by Montreal native Cousineau and Nunavut-based Inuk filmmaker Madeline Ivalu, Before Tomorrow (Le jour avant le lendemain, 2009), Uvanga (2013), and Restless River (La rivière sans repos, 2019).
From Reaganism to Riots: Situating The Craft in the 1990s
Authors: Corcoran Miranda
Published: October 2024

This chapter situates The Craft within the social, political and cultural context of the 1990s. It explores how the film developed out of the conservatism of the Reagan-Bush years, Gen-X culture and a changing horror landscape.
Merchants, Brokers, and the Structure of the Bristol Sugar Market
Authors: Buckles Peter
Published: October 2024

This chapter outlines the size and structure of Bristol’s sugar market, using port data and quantitative analysis to identify leading importers and their market shares. It examines the roles of merchants, brokers, coopers, captains, clerks, grocers, and refiners in the market, outlining the key responsibilities each had and the power they exercised to affect the price and quality of sugar, and induce confidence in those party to its sale. In so doing, the chapter establishes the seasonal rhythm of the sugar market, the nature of supply and demand, and the strategies merchants used to stay profitable.
Creditors, Debtors, and Caution in Times of Crisis
Authors: Buckles Peter
Published: October 2024

This chapter explores the use and abuse of credit in Bristol’s sugar trade, beginning first by outlining the tools that merchants had at their disposal, in particular the bill of exchange. It then shows how Bristol’s merchants overcame the pressures of crises by adopting a cautious approach to lending. The case study shows how this cautious approach was solidified by a succession of crises, including poor harvests, warfare (and the threat of war), credit crisis, and the abolition movement. Importantly, it shows how the interrelation of crises had an impact on investment approaches. Finally, it explores how experience with troublesome debtors shaped lending strategies, with increasingly sophisticated screening mechanisms developed.
Conclusion
Authors: Buckles Peter
Published: October 2024

The book concludes by revisiting a key theme, namely, that while a crisis itself was exceptional, crises broadly were normal. It recaps the crises faced by merchants in this period—the American Revolution, food shortages and hurricanes, threats of war in 1787 and 1790, the abolition movement, the Saint Domginue Revolution, the French Revolutionary Wars, credit crisis, and crises in the market—and the key strategies for overcoming them. It then explores what the findings mean for our broader understanding of the period and the emergence of capitalism.
Bayadères in the French Imagination: A Persistent Dance
Authors: Nunn Tessa Ashlin
Published: October 2024

This chapter analyses depictions of or comparisons to female Indian temple dancers in French travelogues, literary texts, operas, and ballets that distort the dancers’ religious roles and reduce them to sexual objects in addition to creating an imaginary India that sustains colonial nostalgia. Travel literature often represents Indian temple dancers to criticize Hinduism, thereby advocating for French colonialism or indirectly reproaching corruption among the French clergy. Certain writers promoted an alternative or specifically French form of colonialism by lamenting the disappearance of supposedly authentic temple dancers in British India. Some texts represent Indian temple dancers to propose socially approved performances of feminine sexuality or to rebuke performances of femininity deviating from European bourgeois Christian norms. Finally, representations of temple dancers on French stages reproduce colonial nostalgia and equate dances perceived as sensual to cultural alterity. In literature and the performing arts, French images of bayadères repeatedly reify Indian women and become euphemisms for feminine sexuality that deny the possibility of white European women performing sensuality without masquerading as non-white women.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann: Nostalgia, Empire and Imagined Resurrections
Authors: Crowley Patrick
Published: October 2024

This chapter seeks to amplify Kate Marsh’s work in Narratives of the French Empire: Fiction, Nostalgia, and Imperial Rivalries, 1784 to the Present (2013), arguing that imperial rivalry is a theme that continues to be at play and identifying this tendency in the work of contemporary travel writer Jean-Paul Kauffmann. The chapter focuses mainly on La Chambre noire de Longwood: voyage à Sainte-Hélène (1997), in which Kauffmann retraces the final years of Napoleon’s life on the island and addresses France’s rivalry with the British Empire. I argue elsewhere (2022) that Kauffmann’s travel writing is an exploration of self and memory, understandably in need of the reparative, yet avoids reaching out to the colonized other of Empire’s history. In this chapter, I examine in detail how Kauffmann draws upon the content of France’s imperial pasts and rivalries in a way that allows us to reflect upon Marsh’s work and echoes it in probing the continuing presence and function of empire in contemporary French literature. The socio-political implications of the persistence of this nostalgic template, and the past they resurrect, form a question that draw the chapter to its conclusion.
Colonialism, Race and Caribbean Migration: A History of the BUMIDOM
Authors: Wimbush Antonia
Published: October 2024

This chapter questions the extent to which colonial and/or imperial nostalgia were present in governmental decisions to create the Bureau pour le développement des migrations dans les départements d’outre mer (BUMIDOM). In operation between 1963 and 1982, the BUMIDOM brought approximately 160,000 people from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Réunion to mainland France to work in transportation, health care, and domestic service. Drawing on policy documents and newspaper reports held at the Archives nationales in Paris, I argue that the BUMIDOM was a means for the French government to maintain control over people from its former colonies and therefore compensate for its formal loss of empire. I demonstrate how the scheme organized, controlled and exploited citizens on the grounds of gender and race. Furthermore, I suggest that current emigration schemes continue to exercise control over Antillean populations. The legacy of the BUMIDOM is thus still felt on the islands today.
Continuity or Rupture? Remapping the End of Empire in Marguerite Duras’s ‘Cycle Indien’
Authors: Waters Julia
Published: October 2024

This chapter explores how colonial India is represented in Marguerite Duras’s ‘Indian Cycle’ of novels and films from the 1960s and 1970s – a period which witnessed the dramatic and violent loss of France’s empire – and how this contemporaneous context inflects the author’s retrospective representations. By resituating Duras’s supposedly ‘false and musical’ Asian place-names within their real-life geographic and historic contexts, the chapter investigates whether her literary and filmic representations of ‘les Indes’ reflect a nostalgic continuation of her creative engagement with past French imperialism – so confirming Kate Marsh’s assertion that ‘perceptions of territorial loss sustained continuities which informed subsequent manifestations of French imperialism and are evident today in metropolitan representations and memories of empire’ - or whether instead the violent loss of empire at the time of writing effects a radical, stylistic and ideological rupture. This re-reading contests dominant scholarly claims that Duras’s ‘Indian’ works are divorced from the historical, geographic realities of French colonisation and anti-colonial violence. It also demonstrates how the work of one author and filmmaker can revealingly reflect often-silenced continuities, ambiguities and ruptures in broader French society’s retrospective relationship with its lost empire.
Decolonizing Collective Memory from Within: Rwandan Remembrance in Belgium and France
Authors: Gilbert Catherine
Published: October 2024

This chapter engages with the themes of colonial continuities and decoloniality from the perspective of memory work being undertaken by Rwandan diasporic communities in Belgium and France. Through a discussion of Rwandan commemorative practices and memorialization in these two countries, it brings Kate Marsh’s understanding of colonial nostalgia and amnesia into dialogue with Michael Rothberg’s notion of implication. In so doing, the chapter highlights the challenges that this memory work poses to dominant understandings of (post)colonial history in the former sites of colonial power, emphasizing the potential of diasporic memory work in unsettling the contemporary manifestations of colonial nostalgia that continue to prevail in Belgian and French society and how the Rwandan diaspora’s claim to public space contributes towards the broader project of decolonizing collective memory in Europe.
Divided Worlds, Distorted Selves: Coloniality and the Process of Identification in Yasmina Khadra’s Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
Authors: Ghorab Abdelbaqi
Published: October 2024

Published in the midst of the debate around the positive role of French colonialism in North Africa that la loi du 23 février 2005 popularized, Yasmina Khadra’s Ce que le jour doit à la nuit(2008) re-imagines a colonial Algerian society that is marked with an extreme demographic split within its social space. Achieved through a systemic dispossession of Algerian natives of their lands while maintaining a firm separation between the Colonizer/White world and that of the Colonized/Non-white, the novel explores how the process of identification under extreme colonial conditions produces distorted collective identities that fail to break this colonial structure. Through Younes/Jonas, a protagonist with a dual identity that grants him access to both worlds, Khadra challenges the revisionist nostalgic narratives and dismantles the myth of a project of assimilation that was designed to integrate natives in the social fabric of French Algeria. Instead, the novel highlights how the project was intended to fragment the pre-existing native collective identity while serving as an outlet for the accumulated frustration of the colonized to prevent any form of social upheaval.
Introduction to Egyptian concepts of disease and medical ethics
Authors: David Rosalie , Forshaw Roger
Published: October 2024

Treatment and care of sick people in ancient Egypt combined magico-religious principles with scientific practice. Egyptians didn’t make a distinction between ‘rational’ and ‘irrational’ treatments, believing that both approaches were valid but had different applications for particular circumstances. This concept of healing was closely allied with the Egyptians’ understanding of the causes of illness. Where there was an outward visible cause a ‘rational’ treatment would be used, whereas physical illness was thought to be caused by a ‘disease demon’ had to be drawn out of the patient with magical spells. This chapter will set context for later discussion on how specialist medical practitioners interacted with each other. Medical ethics will also be considered in this introduction. Egyptian physicians had high ethical standards and their treatment of the sick was enlightened and considerate. This chapter also summarises the source material of medical treatment and healthcare. Examples include the Medical Papyri, surviving surgical instruments in the Temple of Kom Ombo and archaeological evidence provided by temples. Finally, this chapter discusses source material derived from palaeopathological studies on mummies, and its significant contribution to knowledge about disease and treatment.
Medical treatment and healing in a community context
Authors: David Rosalie , Forshaw Roger
Published: October 2024

Community medicine and healthcare, undertaken in the towns and villages throughout Egypt, played a very important role. Recent research on human remains associated with the royal workmen’s towns at Giza, Kahun, Amarna and Deir el-Medina is providing a wealth of evidence about disease patterns and medical treatments within these communities. This chapter assesses the results and the potential of material from these workmen’s communities. Recent palaeopathological studies have confirmed that medical treatment was indeed available to workers engaged at some building sites. A survey of 271 skeletons belonging to the high officials and workers was undertaken at the Giza pyramid site. This has demonstrated that various treatments were employed, including joint manipulation and successful surgical amputation. The research showed that good quality care, with a high success rate, was provided equally for men and women, and for officials and the workers. This chapter will investigate the extent and availability of healthcare at industrial sites and other workplaces. The place of palaces in the healthcare system, and treatments and challenges faced on expeditions and in warfare are also considered.
Recipients of healthcare: the patient’s perspective
Authors: David Rosalie , Forshaw Roger
Published: October 2024

Patient experience is explored with regard to diseases and conditions that affected the whole population, and those that had an impact on particular groups within the society. Geographical and environmental conditions played a key role in diseases that occurred throughout the population. The chapter considers the extent to which various diseases and conditions affected different sections of society. A range of treatments and healthcare was available to meet the differing needs of individuals within the family unit. Women, facing challenges associated with childbirth and motherhood, had particular health concerns: a significant proportion of the prescriptions and treatments found in the Medical Papyri are devoted to these issues. Infants and young children, regarded as especially vulnerable, were the recipients of special magical rituals and medical procedures designed to protect them against disease or provide an effective cure. Health issues associated with old age, those who suffered from deformities and disabilities, interpersonal violence and the health conditions suffered by workers employed at building and other industrial sites, on military campaigns and quarrying and mining expeditions are also explored.
Stray Dogs and Strange Beasts
Authors: Caillard Duncan
Published: October 2024

This chapter digs into the reoccurring issue of stray animals in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's films and investigates the ethical links he makes between animals, migration, queer characters and the environment. It is inspired by Barbara Creed's notion of "stray" creatures who are marginalised owing to numerous risks. Weerasethakul's protagonists, both human and animal, negotiate unknown areas, reflecting the intermittent and erratic quality of his filmmaking. The study links his technique with human-animal ethics, portraying "straying" as a critical component of his creative practise and ethics, as shown in films such as Tropical Malady, Blissfully Yours, and Mysterious Object at Noon. This notion unites his cinematic oeuvre's multiple subjectivities of migration, queerness, and animality.
Imagining the Nonhuman in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Authors: Doğan Çağatay Emre
Published: October 2024

By exploring how built and unbuilt spaces, and the objects are put into relations of becoming through subverting cinematic gaze towards an object oriented plane especially salient in Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Cemetery of Splendour and Syndromes and a Century, this chapter claims that Apichatpong's cinema opens up questions of the possibility of another form of objective relation, one that emphasizes the individual moments of the nonhuman and demands another perspective that seeks to involve the experience of this objectivity in its multiple relations.
Post-Interstitial Authorship in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema
Authors: Chaiworaporn Anchalee
Published: October 2024

This chapter explores the contemporary portrayal of global film finance and its effect on the construction of cinematic authorship in Apichatpong's works, in which the author prefers to define it as '(post)-interstitial' authorship. In this study, the author proposes two dimensions of Apichatpong's '(post)-interstitial' mode of production: the first part explores the characteristics of local and global film financing surrounding Apichatpong's filmmaking trajectories in order to see how the interstitial mode of production is characterized nowadays, especially in relation to global arts cinema. In the final part, the hybrid identity and aesthetics that have been accentuated in Apichatpong's cinema is analysed by using both textual and contextual methods.
Eyes Re-opened: Elucidation and Enlightenment through Music in Eyes Wide Shut
Authors: Bennett Marie Josephine
Published: October 2024

Marie Bennett revisits Kubrick’s use of music in the movie. As with his previous, films, Kubrick incorporated pre-existing classical music into Eyes Wide Shut’s soundtrack including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Lizst, Dmitri Shostakovich and György Ligeti. Here, Bennett focuses on analysing the music of Mozart and Ligeti used in the film to consider how Kubrick weaves music and narrative predictively, thematically and illuminatively.
Eyes Wide Shut : A Late-1990s ‘Quality’ Blockbuster
Authors: Falvey Eddie
Published: October 2024

Eddie Falvey offers an uncommon and welcome approach to Kubrick, as he situates Eyes Wide Shut in the context of film-industry trends of the 1990s, including the blockbuster and the ‘quality film’. Rather than treating the film as a rarified artistic form, he considers the film, as a commodity, in a crucial period of transition for Hollywood that was underway at the time of production of Kubrick’s final feature as the major studios were responding to various industrial forces, renegotiating their staple product in light of shifting cultural and commercial imperatives to place Eyes Wide Shut within the cycle of 1990s blockbusters.
A Cloaked and Masked Film: Some Things Eyes Wide Shut May (Really) Be About
Authors: Szaniawski Jeremi
Published: October 2024

Jeremi Szaniawski, to an extent, is in dialogue with Eddie Falvey in seeking to address the film’s critical misunderstanding to redress it in terms of the film’s genre ambiguity, as well as arguing for the tangible and intangible ways in which the film operates with tempo and rhythm, akin to a body parading and moving forward under a cloak of dread and grimacing mask of frozen laughter.
Algebraic Complete Integrability of the $a_4^{(2)}$ Toda Lattice
Authors:   University of Maroua, Cameroon, Lietap Ndi Bruce Lionnel , Dehainsala Djagwa ,   University of NDjamena, Chad, Dongho Joseph ,   University of Maroua, Cameroon
Published: October 2024

The aim of this work is focused on the investigation of the algebraic complete integrability of the Toda lattice associated with the twisted affine Lie algebra $a_4^{(2)}$. First, we prove that the generic fiber of the momentum map for this system is an affine part of an abelian surface. Second, we show that the flows of integrable vector fields on this surface are linear. Finally, using the formal Laurent solutions of the system, we provide a detailed geometric description of these abelian surfaces and the divisor at infinity.
On the Picard Group of the Moduli Space of Curves via $r$-Spin Structures
Authors:   Universit&, Gubarevich Danil ,   #233,   de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, France
Published: October 2024

In this paper, we obtain explicit expressions for Pandharipande-Pixton-Zvonkine relations in the second rational cohomology of $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ and comparing the result with Arbarello-Cornalba's theorem we prove Pixton's conjecture in this case.
Integrating Emerging Technologies in Military Maintenance and Repairs: An Overview of Current Status, Opportunities and Challenges
Authors: Vábek Milan , Novosad Ondřej , Pecina Miroslav , Kotisa Jan
Published: October 2024

Maintenance and repair (M&R) of military equipment are crucial for operational readiness. The article highlights challenges faced by military forces, particularly in the US, with significant equipment non-operable due to inefficient M&R. It emphasizes modernizing M&R through Predictive Maintenance (PM) and 3D Printing (AM). PM employs AI and data analytics for real-time monitoring and foreseeing malfunctions, signifying a strategic shift in M&R. AM significantly curtails downtime by enabling on-demand spare parts production, presenting a solution to traditional military M&R challenges. The article also underscores the economic advantages and potential for operational efficiency improvements through these technologies. However, it points out hurdles in implementing PM and AM, including high initial costs, lack of trained personnel, and the threat of counterfeit production in AM.