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Killing Times
Authors: Wills David
Published: January 2020

Killing Times starts from the deceptively simple observation— made by Jacques Derrida—that the death penalty mechanically interrupts mortal time, preempting our normal experience of not knowing when we will die. The book examines more broadly what constitutes mortal temporality and how the “machinery of death” exploits and perverts time. It first examines Eighth Amendment challenges to the death penalty in the U.S, from the late nineteenth-century introduction of execution by firing squad and the electric chair to current cases involving lethal injection. Although defining the instant of death emerges as an insoluble problem, all the machines of execution of the post-Enlightenment period presume to appropriate and control that instant, ostensibly in service of a humane death penalty. That comes into particular focus with the guillotine, introduced in France in 1791–92, at the same moment as the American Bill of Rights. Later chapters analyze how the instant of the death penalty works in conjunction with forms of suspension, or extension of time and how its seeming correlation between egregious crime and painless execution is complicated in various ways. The book’s emphasis on time then allows it to expand the sense of the death penalty into suicide bombing, where the terrorist seeks to bypass judicial process with a simultaneous crime and “punishment”; into targeted killing by drone, where the time-space coordinates of “justice” are compressed and disappear into the black hole of secrecy; and into narrative and fictive spaces of crime, court proceedings, and punishment.
Speaking into a Dead Man’s Ear
Authors: McCance Dawne
Published: January 2020

What Alexander Graham Bell considered his most important, if least known, invention, the ear phonautograph, was designed to “bring the deaf to speech.” This chapter links Derrida’s suggestion that invention has become production to Marx’s blurring of reproduction-production and to Bell’s eugenics initiatives designed to eliminate reproduction between deaf mutes who, like foreigners, suffered from “broken speech.”
Life Worth More Than Life
Authors: McCance Dawne
Published: January 2020

The “normal (i.e., rational) man” ideal that fueled the eugenics movement has found its way into current (both religious and “non-speciesist”) ethics. The situation examined in this chapter is one in which a sovereign knower determines moral worth based on a “double-body” standard.
Jewish Studies and the Pitchfork
Authors: Newton Adam Zachary
Published: January 2020

Appealing to thinkers not immediately associated with the customary frontiers of JS at a reflexive level allows this chapter to amplify and thicken the inquiry. The intent is to readJewish Studies, to stage its current situation, and to project an imagined future for it. An epigraph from Benjamin’s One-Way Street about productively “losing oneself in a city” is enlisted with a particular audience in mind: practitioners anchored in the archive and the Science of Judaism, for whom the business of JS comes down to method. Disciplinary practice may always seem a far more compelling desideratum for its work than any desire to shift the terms of debate to the matter of community. That ambition is explained in some detail, with particular reference to postmodern philosophy: for it, too, will call for quite a different schooling and, accordingly, a new set of bearings. What may look like calculated destabilization—using the prism of lyric poetry, for example—becomes the power of leaping toward another foundational place—or, Talmudically speaking, standing on one foot. Indeed, that image for learning Torah will be enlisted as one of several heuristic figures in a constellar series that seeks to reimagine Jewish Studies à venir.
Interchapter III “Past its own aim, out to another side”
Authors: Newton Adam Zachary
Published: January 2020

Does the pitchfork betoken phallocentricism? Heaney’s own text leaves that particular subtext fairly undisguised, what with the tool’s “smoothness, straightness, roundness, length and sheen.” Yet readerly discernment would seem to dictate that poet, speaker, or both have already recognized the fact right along with us....
Interchapter V Bildung and Built-ins
Authors: Newton Adam Zachary
Published: January 2020

Hebrew school from the childhood years in New York City. Dickens and Tolkien, the social protests of 1968, experienced at eleven years of age in the Bronx. In the 1970s, liberal arts college, where mentors in music theory and composition and, later, literary studies, were teaching. Friendship with peers and teachers who were adolescents at the time of the Rosenberg affair, a vision, dazzling for a newcomer, of a fellowship that professes the Humanities and of a vocation to which one can attach oneself by spirit and heart as much as by training. A stay in the 1980s on the West Coast, and an apprenticeship in teaching composition. Harvard, Stanley Cavell. The theoretical ...
The Thesis
Authors: Plessner Helmuth , Bernstein J. M.
Published: January 2020

This chapter presents the thesis that living things and nonliving things have distinct forms of phenomenological appearance, particularly regarding their boundaries: relations between inside and outside, core and property, body and surroundings. The distinction between “inner” core and “outer” properties characterizes both living and nonliving things, but living things exhibit a special relation between these aspects, such that the boundary between them is a property of the living thing itself. This position resolves a dispute between Hans Driesch and Wolfgang Köhler about the characteristic gestalt or form of living things in comparison with the nonliving. The properties that are taken to define living things have both empirical and a priori components and may be examined for both natural-scientific and explanatory and for phenomenological and philosophical purposes. The inquiry that will occupy the remainder of the book is an attempt to test and develop the thesis of the distinctive boundary structure of living things by deriving properties that are traditionally considered essential characteristics of life, such as metabolism, heredity, and aging—the “organic modals”—from the proposed boundary structure and linking the derived results to what is known about living things.
Adorno and the Uncoercive Gaze
Authors: Richter Gerhard
Published: January 2020

Chapter 1 develops in detail Adorno’s concept of the uncoercive gaze as the primary mode of reflective engagement with his objects of thinking. Proceeding from an explication of his conviction that the kind of thinking that philosophy performs cannot be performed without also considering its relation to questions of language, this chapter sets the stage for our understanding of the uncoercive gaze. By refusing to submit to the dictates of an obscene and transfixed Hinstarren—a mere staring—at the object, Adorno’s uncoercive gaze eschews the critical violence that attends to the moment in which a thinker or writer works to superimpose onto the object this or that set standard of measurement, premise, agenda, or assumption that, as a priori ossified modes of relating to the object, only ends up by missing a certain critical intimacy with the object—and thus its productive primacy, its critical Vorrang.
Is There Such a Thing as a Psychical Accident?
Authors: Rottenberg Elizabeth
Published: January 2020

This chapter addresses the question of psychical determinism in the work of Sigmund Freud. As Freud tells us in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life and The Introductory Lectures, nothing in the mind is arbitrary or undetermined. As Freud demonstrates again and again in hundreds of examples of parapraxes (slips of the tongue, slips of the pen, misreadings, mishearings, bungled actions, etc.), the accident (Unfall) is no accident for the analyst who is able to recognize and interpret an unconscious purpose behind an apparently random event. So how does chance (Zufall, Zufälligkeit) operate in an economy of psychical determinism? How are we to think chance together with analysis’s hermeneutic drive—that is to say, together with its compulsion to make the accident unhappen?
What Are the Chances? Psychoanalysis and Telepathy
Authors: Rottenberg Elizabeth
Published: January 2020

This chapter explores Sigmund Freud’s “conversion” to telepathy. It argues that Freud introduces the question of telepathy in order to exclude the accident from the psychical realm. The accident must be evacuated, this chapter argues, because it is only by isolating a domain into which external randomness no longer penetrates that psychoanalysis can claim to be a science of interpretation. And yet, as this chapter shows, the difference that makes all the difference when it comes to distinguishing the science of psychoanalysis from superstition hinges on, and is determined by, chance—and Freud’s encounter with The Forsyte Saga.
A New Primal Scene
Authors: Rottenberg Elizabeth
Published: January 2020

This chapter focuses on the scene of execution, on the essentially theatrical and spectacular nature of the death penalty. It argues that this scene involves not a literal seeing but a virtual or phantasmatic seeing. It highlights two moments of Jacques Derrida’s reading of the death penalty in The Death Penalty seminars: the first is Derrida’s insistence on the virtualization of the spectacle (contra Michel Foucault); the second is Derrida’s appeal to the explicitly phantasmatic dimension of the death penalty. As the chapter tries to show, there is no escaping the scene of execution because there is no escaping the dream of execution; one does not simply put an end to a phantasmatic truth. But if this “ready-made phantasy” is the case, if there is something invincible about the dream of execution, then what would it mean, this chapter asks, to think beyond the death penalty?
Liturgy as Identity Work in Predominantly African American Parishes
Authors: Pratt Tia Noelle
Published: January 2020

The experiences of African American Catholics are grossly underrepresented in the sociological literature on both race and religion. This is due, in part, to the perception that being both Black and Catholic is a disparate identity. This chapter asserts that while the approximately three million Black Catholics in the U.S. are indeed a minority, their historically rich past and dynamic present make them an integral part of both American Catholicism and the African American religious experience. This chapter explores how Black Catholics in predominantly African American parishes use liturgy to actively combine their dual heritages in forming a distinct Black Catholic identity. Participant observation research identified three distinct styles of liturgy—Traditionalist, Spirited, and Gospel—that highlight the diversity of religious expression among African American Catholics while also heeding the mandate of the Black Bishops of the U.S. to be “authentically Black” and “truly Catholic.”
Preparing to Say “I Do”
Authors: Irby Courtney Ann
Published: January 2020

Since its beginning in the postwar era, marriage preparation has enabled parishes to mediate both Catholic theology and broader cultural messages surrounding marriage. Drawing on archival research on two important Catholic family movements from the postwar era and ethnographic observation of marriage preparation in several contemporary parishes in Western Washington, this chapter highlights parish efforts to collectively engage in meaning-making by transmitting a Catholic vision of marriage to individual parishioners. While the vision of a “good” family has changed little from the postwar era to today, therapeutic cultural discourses about self-development and changing marital norms have entered into marriage preparation. Moreover, shifts in the structure of religious authority mean that who does the speaking has changed drastically. Lay persons are increasingly empowered to produce local Catholic culture and make sense of Catholic teachings through the marriage preparation process.
Redeeming Destination Italy
Authors: Escolar Marisa
Published: January 2020

This chapter argues that the gendering of Italy as a “fallen” woman depends upon and breathes new life into a long-standing rhetorical tradition by reading U.S. military guidebooks that prepare soldiers for invasion, for the post-Armistice period, and for their Cold War friendship. Analyzing the Guide to Occupation of Enemy Territory—Italy (1943), I demonstrate how soldiers were instructed to negotiate their role as redeemers during the invasion of Sicily vis-à-vis their warnings against local prostitutes. Reading the prostitute as the guidebook’s paradigm for false, beautiful Italy, I show how redemption is positioned as a dialectic between Americanization and the restoration of “destination Italy,” an idealized site of tourism. Then, I use the postwar Pocket Guides to Italy, revised and republished periodically during the Cold War, to show how these contradictory goals play out and to what end.
“Responsible to One Another and to God”
Authors: Dilbeck D. H.
Published: January 2020

Francis Lieber believed the war to save the Union must remain a justly waged war. He thought that if the Union military effort lapsed into indiscriminate violence, Federal armies would fail to truly preserve the Union—even if they were victorious on the battlefield. An unjustly prosecuted war would undercut the Union’s character as a beacon of enlightened civilization. Lieber worried Federals could lose their Union not only through Confederate military triumph but also through their own immoral conduct in war. Throughout the Civil War, Lieber tried to ensure Federal armies waged a just war, a quest that culminated with General Orders No. 100, a succinct guide to the laws of war. This essay considers what the Union meant to Lieber, how he defined a justly waged war, and why he insisted that the meaning of the Union necessitated a just war to save it.
Faith as Immunity to History?
Authors: Boesel Chris
Published: January 2020

Reading Barth in conversation with three different post-Holocaust Jewish theologians on the question of God’s relationship to history, Boesel comes to a new appreciation for the diversity within the Jewish tradition itself. This leads him to pose the important question “If one is to rethink Christian faith and theology in response to engagement with the Jewish ‘other,’ which Jewish ‘other’?” He challenges all theologians engaged in comparative work to consider whether a predisposition to seek common ground restricts which “others” we engage. He goes on to reconsider his original critical reading of Barth, recognizing that Barth’s own theology “appears to move with an inter-religious freedom that can be appropriated as responsive to the diversity of intra-Jewish difference itself” because of its own emphasis on the radical judgment of God that stands over every human religious claim. Boesel ends by acknowledging the problem of supersessionism that continues to haunt Barth’s theology.
Humanity and Destiny
Authors: Hartman Tim
Published: January 2020

Tim Hartman examines African traditional religions (ATRs) more broadly, comparing three major themes in their theological anthropology with the theology of Karl Barth: creation, disobedience/sin, and destiny/salvation. Drawing especially from the work of Kofi Asare Opoku and Jacob Olupona, Hartman argues that Barth and ATRs share similar understandings of God as creator who is wholly other than creation, but who is close to creation, and a disruption of that original closeness because of human disobedience. However, because of their different interpretations of human disobedience, Barth and ATRs differ significantly in understanding salvation or the resolution of the disruption caused by that disobedience. In his concluding reflections, Hartman suggests a further convergence worth exploring: in contrast to some other Western theologians, both Barth and ATRs describe all humanity as one whole, not divided into groups.
An Ontology of Healing?
Authors: Chaudhari Pia Sophia
Published: January 2020

This chapter explores a possible ontology of healing by looking at St. Maximus’s concept of the logoi of being and clinical insights into the psyche as always seeking to manifest healing qua psyche. The drive for wholeness, the prevalence of sin and distortion, and the importance of the will are all considered.
Conclusion
Authors: Chaudhari Pia Sophia
Published: January 2020

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GC-MS and HPLC-ESI-MS-MS Characterization of Sanchezia oblonga (Acanthaceae) Extracts
Authors: Ravasi Juliana Mourão , Negri Giuseppina , Salatino Antonio , Salatino Maria Luiza Faria , Mayworm Marco Aurelio Sivero
Published: January 2020

The genus Sanchezia (Acanthaceae) comprises neotropical herbs and shrubs with showy flowers. Sanchezia oblonga (syn. S. nobilis) is a shrub of the rainforests of central and south America. The ethanolic extracts of leaves and stems from S. oblonga were analyzed by GC-EI-MS and RPHPLC-DAD-ESI-MS/MS. Fatty acids (free and esterified) and phytosterols were detected by the former method. Benzyl alcohol glycosides (21 and 25), sinapic acid glycoside esters (29 and 31), ethyl rosmarinate (24), sinapic acid-O-glucoside (28), dihydrosinapic acid-O-glucoside (26), catechin-O-arabinoside (36), in addition to flavonols glycosides (23, 32, 33 and 35) and rosmarinic acid-3’-O-glucoside (34) were detected by RPHPLC-DAD-ESI-MS/MS. Three new compounds, detected only in leaves, were tentatively identified as phenylpropane glyceride derivatives 1-O-coumaroyl-2-hydroxy propanal (20) and 1-O-coumaroyl-2-O-glycosyl propanal (22, 30). Compounds 20, 22 and 30 from S. oblonga are similar with phenylpropane glycerides present in red sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. (Moench) and Lilium longiflorum Thunb. It is noteworthy that S. oblonga could be used in cooking as a complement after more detailed studies. Sorghum grain foods exhibit potential health benefits against chronic diseases related to over-nutrition. Lilium longiflorum possess flower buds and bulbs that are used for both culinary and medicinal purposes in many parts of the world. Studies on chemical composition and biological activity of the genus Sanchezia are scarce. The presence of phytosterols and flavonol glycosides were recently reported in leaves from this species. However, the chemical profile of the extracts analyzed in this work differs from that previously reported for aerial parts of S. nobilis (sin. S. oblonga). Further studies, including statistical methods, such as principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis will be needed to evaluate chemical markers for this species.
Modelling the Soil Loss in the Watershed of the Chaddad Wadi in Terms of Both Rockiness and Soil Slaking Indexes
Authors: Arif Naima Azaiez
Published: January 2020

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De deskundige in het gemoderniseerde Wetboek van Strafvordering
Authors: Hoving R.A.
Published: January 2020

De deskundige in het gemoderniseerde Wetboek van Strafvordering

De modernisering van het Wetboek van Strafvordering biedt de mogelijkheid om aan de slag te gaan met de vragen en problemen inzake de inschakeling van deskundigen in het strafproces en het toezicht op het functioneren van deze deskundigen. In dit artikel wordt aandacht besteed aan de vraag in hoeverre enkele problemen die in de literatuur zijn benoemd, worden opgelost door de voorgestelde veranderingen van de regels over (1) de afbakening van het begrip deskundige, (2) de inschakeling van deskundigen en (3) het gebruik van deskundigenbewijs.
Relationship between CHA2DS2-VASc and CHADS2 Scores with Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism
Authors: Yilmaz Samet , Yaylali Yalin , Kuyumcu Mevlüt , Ünal Sefa , Senol Hande , Tufekcioglu Omac
Published: January 2020

Introduction: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is the most important prognostic factor after acute pulmonary embolism (PE). Therefore, determination of patients who will develop PH after acute PE is crucial. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the predictive value of the CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc scores for PH in patients with acute PE. Material and methods: Seventy-nine adults who presented with acute PE, had an admission systolic pulmonary artery pressure (sPAP) measured on echocardiogram and no previous history of PE, were retrospectively identified from the computerized database. 31 patients who had sPAP ≤ 40 mm Hg were categorized as a “normal pulmonary pressure” group, whereas 48 patients who had sPAP > 40 mm Hg were categorized as a “PH” group. Results: SPAP was > 40 mm Hg in 48 patients (60.8%), with a mean sPAP of 60.9 ± 16.1 mm Hg (median = 60, min–max = 41–100 mm Hg). In multivariate logistic regression models adjusted for CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc score components, only age was found to be related with the development of PH. SPAP was weakly positively correlated with CHADS2 (p = 0.047; r = 0.224) and CHA2DS2-VASc (p = 0.023; r = 0.256) scores. SPAP values were increasing with the severity of the scores. Conclusions: Both CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc scores could be useful in the determination of which patients should be closely followed up in order to prevent the development of PH after acute PE.
Isolated Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava in a Young Adult without Cardiac Disease
Authors: Sahoo Satyajeet , Panigrahi Manoj Kumar
Published: January 2020

A 30-year-old non-diabetic, normotensive male presented to our outpatient department with intermittent left-sided chest pain that had bothered him for the last 3 years [...]
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Pulmonary Embolism and Air Travel
Authors: Pantazopoulos Ioannis , Gourgoulianis Konstantinos
Published: January 2020

The global rise in air travel, with over 3.97 billion people traveling by air each year, and the aging population, increase the number of those with an illness who wish to travel [...]
Electrostatic Properties of Clothing Fabrics Suitable for Different End-Uses
Authors: Cilveli Gülçin , Okur Ayşe , Sülar Vildan
Published: January 2020

The static electricity properties of textile products are very important, especially when clothing comfort is the main subject. In this study, four sets of clothing fabrics containing 33 systematic and 18 non-systematic woven fabrics in total were used in order to examine the electrostatic charging properties. A testing mechanism which provides static electricity by the triboelectrification method was manufactured, and electrostatic voltage values occurring on the fabric samples were measured by an electrostatic voltmeter simultaneously with the testing mechanism. The repeatability of the results was checked by using polyester and cotton systematic woven fabrics. After this stage, the effects of fabric structural parameters and the rubbing period on electrostatic charging properties were evaluated. Moreover, non-systematic commercial woven fabrics were also tested in the study. In the last section of the experimental part, the best clothing and lining fabric combinations were revealed according to the lowest static electricity results.
Chebyshev Polynomials and Continued Fractions Related
Authors: Szczepański Jerzy
Published: January 2020

Let $p$, $q$ be complex polynomials, $\deg p>\deg q\geq 0$. We consider the family of polynomials defined by the recurrence $P_{n+1}=2pP_n-qP_{n-1}$ for $n=1, 2, 3, ...$ with arbitrary $P_1$ and $P_0$ as well as the domain of the convergence of the infinite continued fraction $$f(z)=2p(z)-\cfrac{q(z)}{2p(z)-\cfrac{q(z)}{2p(z)-...}}$$

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Wspieranie rodziny w obszarze trudności opiekuńczo-wychowawczych na przykładzie GOPS w Lubiczu
Authors: Sikorska Anna
Published: January 2020

Rodzina uważana jest za najbliższe człowiekowi, naturalne środowisko życia, rozwoju i wychowania dziecka. Rodzina spełnia wiele funkcji, wśród których możemy wyróżnić, m.in.: funkcję opiekuńczo-wychowawczą, socjalizacyjną, materialno-ekonomiczną, kulturalną, emocjonalną i inne. Na funkcję opiekuńczo-wychowawczą, składa się m.in.: organizacja czasu wolnego, nauka samoobsługi, zaspokojenie potrzeb psychicznych i społecznych poszczególnych członków rodziny. W obecnych czasach wiele rodzin przeżywa kryzys emocjonalny, zaburzone są relacje międzypokoleniowe, co w konsekwencji prowadzi do trudności wychowawczych. Rodzina nie zawsze sobie radzi w wypełnianiu przypisanych jej funkcji. Pomoc społeczna, w myśl ustawy o wspieraniu rodziny i systemie pieczy zastępczej na rzecz wspierania rodzin przeżywających trudności opiekuńczo-wychowawcze, oferuje wiele form pomocy dla tych rodzin. Jednakże nie zawsze są one wystarczające. Celem artykułu jest zaprezentowanie innych, wspierających rodzinę programów realizowanych przez GOPS w Lubiczu.
O (nie)bezpieczeństwie pracy w pomocy społecznej
Authors: Wasilewska-Ostrowska Katarzyna
Published: January 2020

Praca socjalna to profesja, która z jednej strony jest wyjątkowa, bo osoby ją wykonujące starają się pomagać ludziom uwikłanym w różne sytuacje trudne. Z drugiej zaś strony jest to zawód podwyższonego ryzyka, gdyż pracownicy narażeni są na wiele niebezpieczeństw. Celem artykułu jest zaprezentowanie potencjalnych zagrożeń w pracy pracowników socjalnych oraz propozycji rozwiązań, które podniosły by ich bezpieczeństwo.
Self-determination and creating a just society for all
Authors: Wehmeyer Michael L.
Published: January 2020

Historically, disability has been understood through models that emphasized disability and disease. Newer, person-environment models of disability, which emphasize the fit between the person’s capacities and the demands of the environment, have paved the way for strengths-based approaches to disability and a focus on supports and self-determination. The application of school¬wide approaches, such as multi-tiered systems of supports, universal design for learning, the use of technology, and promoting self-determination are all educational interventions that adopt these person-environment support models. If the field is to achieve the principles stated in Article 24 of the CRPD pertaining to the “full development of human potential and sense of dignity and self-worth, and the strengthening of respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and human diversity,” we as a system must adopt and expand these strengths-based approaches.
Capital asset pricing in the classical and downside approaches to risk
Authors: Markowski Lesław
Published: January 2020

The purpose of the paper is to verify the functioning of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) on the Polish capital market both in the classical and downside approaches to risk. The subject of the study are time series of returns of 14 sectoral sub-indices listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2011–2018. The use of risk measures in the conventional and downside approaches constitutesan important contribution to the studies on the risk of capital investments. The presented research method, which involves conditional regressions determined by the market situation, was adopted as a response to ambiguous results of unconditional CAPM relations in the previous research on capital markets.The results of the performed analyses indicate that the significance of risk assessment (risk premium) depends on the sign of the market excess returnto the largest extent. They also evidence the supremacy of conditional relations over the unconditional ones. The ana-lysis of unconditional relations has moreover demonstrated that downside risk factors, unlikethe majority of classical measures, influence the process of shaping the returns of sub-indicessignificantly. In the Polish capital market, it is only co-kurtosis, among other co-moments, which is subject to significant pricing during periods of market growth.
Estimation of the number of foreigners in Polandusing the capture-recapture method
Authors: Beręsewicz Maciej , Gudawszewski Grzegorz , Szymkowiak Marcin
Published: January 2020

The aim of this paperis to present the methodology and the results of the estimation of the number of foreigners staying in Poland. Administrative data sources were used in the research. The authors adopted the capture-recapture method based on log-linear models. As a result, the number of foreigners staying in Poland in 2015 and 2016 has been estimated at around 500,000 persons (95% CI: 369,000–724,000) and around 744,000 persons (601,000–943,000), respectively. The study is the first comprehensive analysis of this kind which aims at estimating the number of foreigners in Poland, and thus fitsin the current of research on hard-to-survey populations. It has to be remembered, however, that capture-recapture method requires close observance of its strict rules in order to be effective, which is also discussed in depth in the paper.
The collection and analysis of the data on job advertisements with the use of big data
Authors: Maślankowski Jacek
Published: January 2020

The goal of this paper is to present, on the one hand, the benefits for offi-cial statistics (labour market) resulting from the use of web scraping methods to gather data on job advertisements from websites belonging to big data compilations, and on the other, the challenges connected to this process. The paper introduces the results of experimental research where web-scraping and text-mining methods were adopted. The analysis was based on the data from 2017–2018 obtained from the most popular job-searching websites, which was then collated with Statistics Poland’s data obtained from Z-05 forms. The above-mentioned analysis demonstrated that web-scraping methods canbe adopted by public statistics services to obtain statistical data from alternative sourcescomplementing the already-existing databases, providing the findings of such researchremain coherent with the results of the already-existing studies.
Sustainability Clashes and Concordances
Authors: Baron Thomas , Titon Jeff Todd
Published: January 2020

Cultural sustainability as concept and movement is rooted in discourses, practice, and theory drawn from environmental conservation and sustainability. Metaphors from nature and culture are convergent or divergent across semantic domains. This chapter explores metaphors of vulnerability such as endangerment, invasive and exotic, loss and protection, as well as tropes of restoration and recovery such as resilience and forms of intervention through protest, regulation, or stewardship. It also discusses cases in which cultural traditions and environmental conservation are in conflict, exemplified in disputed indigenous whale hunting. The creative tension in folklore studies engaging extinction, emergence and revitalization is further discussed as a foundational disciplinary issue. Intervention in nature through ecosystem engineering or conservation reliance is compared with cultural intervention and protection.
Resilience and Adaptive Management in Piano Pedagogy for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions
Authors: Nitzberg Michael B. , Titon Jeff Todd
Published: January 2020

The co-authors are a concert pianist with the autism spectrum condition (ASC) Asperger's syndrome (Nitzberg) and an ethnomusicologist who researches autism (Bakan). Through their collaboration, they aim to develop effective piano pedagogy methods for students with ASC–also known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD)–and promote neurodiversity and improved quality of life for autistic individuals. The centerpiece of the article is an annotated, five-item list of “dos and don'ts” for teaching piano to people with Asperger's syndrome. Situating that list within Titon's concepts of adaptive management and resilience, Nitzberg and Bakan propose that beyond their direct value in music education, the interpersonal pedagogical engagements explored hold further relevance for what they might reveal generally about the role of musical cultures in sustaining communities and (eco)systems.
The Trials of George Doyle
Authors: Prince K. Stephen
Published: January 2020

This chapter explores the racial exclusion of African Americans from the New Orleans police force, which had been integrated until the 1910s. It draws attention to the experience of George Doyle, a black off-duty police officer who shot a white man in 1905. Doyle’s story demonstrates the problems black police officers posed for white New Orleanians as they instituted a Jim Crow regime. It also shows how elemental all-white police departments were to that regime; when white New Orleans denied African Americans the ability to police their own communities, they stripped from them a fundamental right.
The South’s Sin City
Authors: Ingram Tammy
Published: January 2020

This chapters examines the phenomenon of organized crime in the South, focusing on Phenix City, Alabama, which became notorious for its high concentration of gambling dens, illegal bars, and prostitution rings. It draws attention to the story of Albert Patterson, a local attorney who fought the government corruption that allowed crime and vice to flourish in Phenix City. Due to white desires for local sovereignty and racial order, public officials cooperated with mobsters and ensured their immunity from prosecution. The chapter shows that the decriminalization of whites was as important a function of Jim Crow governments as the criminalization of African Americans.
From Exile to Healing
Authors: Hoeller Susie L.
Published: January 2020

For Alice Walker, a womanist is “not a separatist.” This chapter discusses the experience of an otherwise privileged white woman exiled from her home by the separatist Parti Quebecois coming to power in Quebec, Canada, in 1976. Then and now, the separatists believe the only way to preserve French-Canadian culture is to exclude and marginalize English speakers. They have successfully passed many discriminatory and xenophobic laws to this end. The author shares how the exile experience influenced her not only to become a lawyer advocating for refugees forced to cross borders because of oppression in their homelands but to self-identify as a womanist.
Nepantlera as Midwife of Empathy
Authors: Corrigan Paul T.
Published: January 2020

This chapter develops Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s concept of the nepantlera—her Nahuatl-derived term for in-betweeners and bridge builders—by envisioning the nepantlera as a “midwife” who helps people figuratively give birth to empathy for others. The practice of midwifing empathy motivates the work of womanist artists in particular. This essay elucidates this metaphor and practice of midwifing empathy by analyzing works from the womanist anthology this bridge we call home—a painting by Nova Gutierrez, a short story by Iobel Andemicael, and a memoir by Jesse Swan. The essay concludes with reflections on the implications of the work of nepantlera for teaching and for social justice.
The Taco Truck
Authors: Lemon Robert
Published: January 2020

When primarily immigrant, day-laboring clientele eat a meal at a traditional taco truck, the taco truck becomes a significant social space in which Mexican cultural identity is reaffirmed. But the traditional taco truck is also a politically charged symbolic space that can spark heated debates about Latino culture and the uses of street spaces in cities. This book uses the taco truck as a vehicle to tell a story about the Mexican American experience and identity and deconstructs the myriad meanings taco trucks represent to diverse community groups and how such meanings influence urban politics and the built environment. The traditional taco truck is a powerfully transformative feature of the American landscape because the trucks’ social spaces intersect with complex geographic processes of immigration, class, ethnicity, gentrification, commodification, food-ways, and the right to public space. Thus the book is also about power, privilege, and the political economy of cities and the novel ways marginalized Mexican immigrants take and remake urban space through their food practices. Through investigating taco trucks in various U.S. metropolises, this book elucidates the ways neoliberal cities work and how Mexican immigrants claim their right to the city.
Making Sacramento Into an Edible City
Authors: Lemon Robert
Published: January 2020

Chapter 3 investigates Sacramento, California, as a culinary contested landscape. As the city promotes its new urban marketing brand, “The Farm to Fork Capital of America,” to create a new vibrant sense of place, it does so by upgrading downtown to reinforce the farm-to-table concept. Through urban renewal, restaurateurs strive toward regulating food trucks out of the city. As a result, Mexican taco truck owners struggle to remain part of the cultural landscape. This chapter critically examines Sacramento’s marketing campaign--of incorporating agricultural processes into the city’s image--to explore the country-city relationship, as well as how class, culture, and cuisine influence a city’s architecture. It concludes by presenting the definition of gastronomic gentrification.
An Evolving American Space
Authors: Lemon Robert
Published: January 2020

The conclusion summarizes the chapters in the book through comparing and contrasting how taco truck owners employ their mobility to navigate culturally and politically distinct urban environments. It addresses the ways in which taco trucks alter streetscapes through geographic concepts of the street and the economic flows of the capitalist city. Additionally, the chapter assesses issues of gentrification and the commodification of immigrant food-ways, as well as the way in which taste preferences transform the built environment. It demonstrates that by examining taco trucks, we can see that our ordinary landscapes and our humdrum, everyday routines are actually quite remarkable. Overall, the conclusion argues that taco trucks are prominent features of the American cultural landscape because they profoundly transform as well as reflect the ways neoliberal cities work.
Internationalism and its Limits
Authors: Struthers David M.
Published: January 2020

An interracial and multilingual community of solidarity came together in 1907 in Los Angeles. This chapter examines how organizing by Mexicans, African Americans, Japanese, and other non-Anglos pushed their diverse agendas while white-led organizations unevenly learned how to draw upon this racial diversity in locally rooted organizing to forge new alliances and create more inclusive movements. Socialist internationalism drove interracial organizing during this period, yet internationalist ideals of whites continued to reached their limit with racism. Leftists who raised their voices to challenge racism through strident appeals to internationalism moderated this trend and created space for institutional multiracial organizing in Los Angeles.
Bathhouse Daze
Authors: Stoner Andrew E.
Published: January 2020

Shilts settles on concept that gay bathhouses in San Francisco are breeding ground for the emerging AIDS crisis and should be closed. Shilts’s reporting draws fire from gay community leaders who view bathhouses as key component to sexual freedom of homosexuals. Shilts admits to coordinated effort to time his AIDS-related stories for highest impact, including forthcoming 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. Shilts breaks Chronicle story that Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro will be first woman nominated for Vice President. Troubled relationship develops between Shilts and Dr. Mervin Silverman, the county health officer and Harry Britt, openly gay supervisor who succeeded Milk. Letters to the gay press cast Shilts as “uncle Tom” and sell-out. Bathhouse owners accuse Shilts of “advocacy reporting.”
Disclosing HIV
Authors: Stoner Andrew E.
Published: January 2020

Shilts makes the decision to publicly disclose for the first time that he is HIV positive. Shilts’s growing health struggles come quickly as he is then diagnosed as having AIDS. Shilts views as problematic the focus on his HIV status rather than the release of his new book, “Conduct Unbecoming.” Shilts has to limit his book tour to media interviews due to his declining health. The veracity with which Shilts answered earlier questions about his HIV status is explored; along with the ethics of what level of personal disclosure, gay men (or reporters) owe others. “Conduct Unbecoming” becomes a central part of the gay military ban discussion as movie rights to “And the Band Played On” are sold to HBO.
Journalist versus Advocate
Authors: Stoner Andrew E.
Published: January 2020

Shilts begins to offer his first writing at length about the experience of lesbian women via “Conduct Unbecoming.” Shilts’s new book further unpacks cultural beliefs about the roles of men and women in society, and aspects of masculinity and femininity. U.S. military policy toward HIV testing is reported. While mainstream reviews of Shilts’s “Conduct Unbecoming” are favorable, LGBT leaders continue to question Shilts’s elevation as a “leader” or representative of the gay community. Shilts personally addresses the thin line he has walked between journalist and advocate for the issues he has covered.
Epilogue
Authors: Enyeart John P.
Published: January 2020

The epilogue connects discussions of antifascism today to Adamic, including Antifa. It points to the Black Lives Matter movement as building on the legacy of antifascism. It also highlights the fact that Adamic served as the intellectual bridge between Progressive Era cultural pluralists and anticolonialists.
Voice Interrupted
Authors: Johnson Jake
Published: January 2020

This chapter places the 2011 Broadway sensation Book of Mormon within the context of Correlation. The musical Book of Mormon demonstrates that interrupting ancient mythologies with current popular mythologies may help strengthen people facing unimaginable hardships, and that the singular message of American fundamentalism--one built upon obedience and narrow views of piety--will ultimately fail. Book of Mormon, along with other musical satires emerging in recent years from within Mormonism, represent musical theater affronts to the Mormon Church that have become more prominent in the last decades of the twentieth century as the Church removes dissenting members, including those espousing feminist or intellectual ideologies seemingly at odds with current Church policies. This chapter situates the concept of excommunication within musicologist Nina Eidsheim’s vibrational theory and Levinas’s ethics of communication, and suggests that Mormonism can be a powerful vehicle for improving lives if it returns to its original principle where multiple voices are seen as an asset, not a liability.
Community, Race, and Class
Authors: Fain Cicero M.
Published: January 2020

This chapter examines the period encompassing Huntington’s nascent physical development, increasing black migrant influx into the town and region, an emergent black residential population, and the developing contours of class stratification. It centers this study on the black individual and collective responses of Huntington’s first generation of black migrants and residents to two corresponding and overlapping developments: one attendant to the rise of the city as the region’s industrial, economic, social, and political hub; the other attendant to the larger historical forces of urbanization, industrialization, racism, and capitalism. It contends that in recognition of the formidable processes and forces arrayed against them, most black Huntingtonians during this era engaged in individual and communal efforts, grounded in cultural and historical commonalities, to better their lives economically.
Mina Loy's Critical Modernism
Authors: Scuriatti Laura
Published: January 2020

In Mina Loy’s Critical Modernism, Laura Scuriatti argues that Loy’s corpus of works produces a kind of “critical” modernism, making the case that Loy’s corpus exhibits a skeptical, detached attitude toward its own simultaneous celebration and criticism of modernist aesthetic paradigms. Most modernist works are self-reflexive in this regard, but Loy’s corpus creates for itself a space of dis-affiliation, which combines critique with self-critique, rather than forging a space of rebellion and antagonism. Scuriatti investigates the notions of the masterpiece and the sacred art object, especially in their relation to the market; the figure of the author and the value of authorship; the embattled relationship between art and politics; the artwork's relationship to national language, identity and rootlessness. Scuriatti provides a new, in-depth investigation of specific aspects of the Florentine and Italian context in particular, which have so far been neglected by scholarship. Specifically, attention is devoted to the Florentine avant-garde journal Lacerba, and to the works of Giovanni Papini, Ada Negri and Enif Robert. The volume presents new insights into Loy’s feminism and argues that her texts respond to the rewriting of Otto Weininger’s then widely influential theories in the magazine Lacerba. Drawing on Adriana Cavarero’s, Luisa Muraro’s and Teresa de Lauretis’s claims, this study also rethinks the concept of eccentricity, conceived not as “aberrant”, but as consciously anti-normative, anti-idealistic and self-critical, in relation to modernist aesthetics. It shows that Loy’s texts present dialogic, “narratable,” “eccentric” selves and subjectivities, which create uncomfortable critical spaces within modernism as a broad movement.
Eccentricity, Affiliation, and Distance in Loy’s Corpus
Authors: Scuriatti Laura
Published: January 2020

This chapter explores the notions of eccentricity, cosmopolitanism and belonging, focusing mostly on “Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose”, “Goy Israel” and later poems about New York and the United States. The author here argues that Loy’s corpus creates an eccentric position, similar to the notion of eccentricity theorized by Luisa Muraro and de Lauretis: eccentricity does not imply weirdness or frivolity, but rather a subject’s ability to stay outside the normative order, without either transgressing or conforming to it. The chapter shows that this notion informs not only Loy’s aesthetics and life, but also her reception, and makes the case that Loy’s eccentric stance is also a political position, especially in the last phase of her career. In Loy’s late texts, modernist art seems to celebrate life and democracy, without falling into the traps of nationalism. The “American” poems and prose fragments critically reflect on the dynamics of identity based on geographical location and belonging, and take up marginal gazes, which can accommodate an ever-critical, unsentimental and detached perspective.
A Tropical Depression
Authors: Nelson David J.
Published: January 2020

From flappers and speakeasies to the Harlem Renaissance and The Great Gatsby, the Roaring Twenties has long been a common trope in popular American memory. Florida went through its own version with the land boom and the arrival of tin-can tourists. But there was an “other Florida” that was more in line with the rest of the Deep South than the pleasures of South Florida. After two disastrous hurricanes and the crash of the land boom, those two Floridas began to share similar concerns and fears as Florida suddenly found itself in the depths of the Great Depression.
Florida’s Welfare State Parks
Authors: Nelson David J.
Published: January 2020

This chapter explores the men who built the Florida state parks as enrollees in the Civilian Conservation Corps. Using both archival records and oral histories, the aim is to look at both the development of Florida’s state parks and the New Deal from the ground up.