bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Cognitive Dysfunction, Depression and Anxiety in a Cohort of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients
Authors: Barbulescu Andreea Lili , Sandu Raluca-Elena , Boldeanu Mihai Virgil , Vreju Florentin Ananu , Mihailovici Radu Alexandru , Boldeanu Lidia , Popoviciu Horatiu Valeriu , Ionescu Razvan Adrian , Catalin Bogdan , Stoian Andreea Cristina , Florescu Oana Andreea , Albu Carmen Valeria
Published: January 2020

SLE is the prototype of connective tissue diseases that can present the complete spectrum of neurologic and psychiatric disorders, cognitive dysfunction, depression and anxiety being more prevalent compared to general population, with an input on patients� prognosis and quality of life. In this study we aimed to determine the presence of cognitive dysfunction, anxiety and depression in a cohort of SLE patients, and their relationship to disease activty and quality of life. We determined the presence of these neuropsychyatric manifestations in signfficant percentages, directly correlated to disease activity and with an impact of quality of life. Our results lead to its extension, with multicentric contribution, and underline the necessity and benefit of a careful and periodical neuropsychiatric examination, in order to recognize the clinical patterns in early stages, apply the proper therapeutic measures, quantify the future damage and improve the outcome of these patients.
The Effect of Hydroxyapatite from Various Toothpastes on Tooth Enamel
Authors: Jumanca Daniela , Matichescu Anamaria , Galuscan Atena , Balean Octavia , Rusu Laura Cristina
Published: January 2020

The process of re-demineralisation is governed by the degree of mineral saturation of oral fluids. Due to positive changes in conditions, remineralisation can become the predominant process leading to the healing of injuries. To improve remineralisation, it is necessary to increase the concentration of calcium and fluoride in oral fluids. For this purpose, fluorides have traditionally been used in varied forms and concurrently, the cariostatic mechanism can be explained by increasing the force of fluorapatites. The aim of this paper was to demonstrate the importance of using toothpastes containing hydroxyapatite on tooth enamel and how to operate at microscopic level by sealing the enamel and enamel prism defects etched by acid. The specimens obtained from extracted teeth were treated with different types of toothpastes containing hydroxyapatite: Biorepair, Sensodyne Repair & Protect and Lacalut White & Repair. We treated the teeth with the aforementioned toothpastes, followed the study under SEM microscope. We compared the control sample with the treated sample, and then the treated samples were compared to each other. All three toothpastes used had the expected result, making a protective layer on the surface of the etched enamel, but in this study, the Sensodyne toothpaste seems to be the most effective.
Researches on the Simulation with Inventory Program and Implementation of an Ankle Prosthesis in the Aluminium Alloy EN AW 6082 and Anodizing Process for the Proshesis Components
Authors: Popescu Stefan Catalin
Published: January 2020

The objectives of this paper are to simulate the design under the kinematic conditions of the human walking cycle and to make of an ankle prosthesis from the aluminum alloy 6082. It was considered that the ankle prosthesis is must absorb the shock caused by weight in the moment of stepping and must provide smoothness to the movement. The ankle functions such as strength and suppleness are considered. Since the ankle prosthesis is personalized, it must become an integral part of the body and therefore must be accepted by the patient.
The Relations Between Non-motor Symptoms and Motor Symptoms in Parkinson Disease
Authors: Criciotoiu Oana , Stanca Diana Iulia , Glavan Daniela Gabriela , Bondari Simona , Malin Ramona Denise , Ciolofan Mircea Sorin , Bunescu Marius Gabriel , Romanescu Florin Marius , Schenker Michael , Georgescu Ovidiu Stefan , Dragomir Manuela Iuliana , Gheorman Victor , Gheorman Veronica , Gheonea Dan Ionut
Published: January 2020

The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between motor and non-motor symptoms in patients diagnosed with Parkinson. We included in our study 72 patients diagnosed with Parkinson disease:28 female and 44 males. Each patient was evaluated using Non-motor Symptoms Questionnaire for Parkinson Disease, for motor status we used Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) part 3 (motor part). The results of our study indicated that there is a correlation between the non-motor state and the motor symptoms but not in all non-motor domains. The study indicates that the digestive symptoms, the, cardiovascular, sleep and miscellaneous correlate with the motor symptoms but urinary symptoms, memory, hallucination, depression and sexual dysfunction does not show an interdependence with the motor state.
Prognostic Value of Ejection Fraction in Patients Admitted with Non-ST-Segment Elevatin Myocardial Infarction
Authors: Gheorman Veronica , Dinescu Venera Cristina , Schenker Michael , Malin Denise Ramona , Stepan Mioara Desdemona , Criciotoiu Oana , Stanca Diana , Mita Adrian , Dinescu Sorin Nicolae , Bica Elena Catalina , Bica Marius , Dragomir Manuela Iuliana , Romanescu Florin Marius , Pana Razvan Cosmin , Gheorman Victor
Published: January 2020

Despite the progress in correcting cardiovascular risk factors and pharmacological and interventional therapy, acute myocardial infarction continues to be a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide.In literature exist limited information about the factors that affect the outcomes of acute myocardial infarction at patients with a different degree of left ventricular dysfunction. Our aim was to identify the factors associated with LV ejection fraction (LVEF) at first admission to patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.
Satu Dekade, Separuh-Jalan Proses Desentralisasi
Authors: Santoso Purwo
Published: January 2020

Decentralization process in the first decade had brought significant impacts, even though it was not satisfactory to arrive at the final stage of the transformation process. The outcomes were in halfway to go in achieving decentralization missions. A new pattern of administration or government management had not yet been established in order to facilitate the process. The development of the public administration system had lost its strategic moment in directing the spirit of autonomy within a desirable framework. Upholding the missions would require political administration: political consensus to impose administrative instruments needed to safeguard policy implementation. Emphasize on political administration is important since strictly separating politics and administration would be impossible. Hence, meta-administrative evaluation is needed as essentially, decentralization requires fundamental reform of governance administration. In this context, it is reasonable to evaluate the contribution of the National Institute of Public Administration (LAN) in developing future decentralized governance administration-which is built on principles of autonomy.
Strategi Peningkatan Kapasitas Penyelenggaraan Pemerintahan Daerah
Authors: Suryanto Suryanto
Published: January 2020

This study attempts to identify capacity-building efforts conducted by local governments, obstacles facing local governments in those efforts, as well as formulating models/strategies for effective local government capacity building. This study utilizes primary data pertain to local government capacity building (CB) implementation and publicly available data on CB model/strategy as secondary data. As the approach of this study, qualitative analysis was based on an in-depth interview, discussion, and literature study. The research reveals that CB activities had been conducted by the local government (partially). Yet, the activities were not based on a comprehensive evaluation. It is recommended that the local government utilize CB models/strategies that have been developed from the study.
Peningkatan Kapasitas Kecamatan: Studi Kasus di Kabupaten Gresik
Authors: Suryanto Suryanto
Published: January 2020

Implementasi Undang-Undang Nomor 32 Tahun 2004 tentang Pemerintahan Daerah telah berimplikasi pada penyelenggaraan pemerintahan pada umumnya, termasuk kecamatan. Implikasi yang paling jelas adalah pergeseran kedudukan dan peran kecamatan dalam penyelenggaraan pemerintahan di daerah. Di dalam Pasal 14 ayat (1) PP No. 19/2008 disebutkan “Kecamatan merupakan perangkat daerah kabupaten/kota sebagai pelaksana teknis kewilayahan yang mempunyai wilayah kerja tertentu dan dipimpin oleh Camat”. Tulisan singkat ini merupakan ringkasan kajian yang telah dilakukan oleh Pusat Kajian Kinerja Otonomi Daerah Lembaga Administrasi Negara (PKKOD LAN) tentang “Isu-Isu Aktual di Bidang Kinerja Otonomi Daerah: Peningkatan Kapasitas Kecamatan” di Kabupaten Gresik pada tahun 2011. Semoga, kajian ini dapat memberikan kemanfaatan bagi semua pihak yang concern terhadap pelaksanaan pemerintahan daerah di Indonesia, khususnya terkait peran kecamatan di era otonomi daerah.
Model Pemberdayaan Masyarakat di Kabupaten Purbalingga: Dinamika Program dan Reorientasi Kebijakan Pengembangan
Authors: Savitri Renny
Published: January 2020

The decentralization policy has long been implemented in Indonesia, but issues related to community development was still a serious problem. Hence the concept of community-based development became the most attentive development concept meantime. This study was conducted in 2010 in Purbalingga Regency. This study used descriptive and exploratory research method. Data collection was done through in-depth interviews, discussions, field trips, and literature study. Data obtained were analyzed using qualitative research methods. The result shows that the implementation of regional autonomy increased empowerment practice both in quantity and quality. Developing empowerment models are Program PNPM Mandiri Pedesaan, TMMD, PKP, Puspahastama, and Desa Sehat Mandiri. Implementation of community development programs generates a positive impact on society both physical and nonphysical. Many problems encountered in community development programs, for instance in terms of the policy, planning, implementation, financial, human resources, and coordination. Amongst all those problems, we expected that in the future there will be a national policy which able to integrate and synergize all government levels and units, and also stakeholders in the implementation of community development programs.
Penyusunan Sistem Anggaran Berbasis Kinerja pada Kabupaten Pandeglang, Provinsi Banten
Authors: Subarkah Pujiatmo
Published: January 2020

This study reviews the concept of performance-based budgeting and how it has been applied. The research method used for this research is a qualitative method that gives an analytic meaning by studying and collecting data based on relevance theory. This study shows that Performance-based budgeting has achieved significantly. It can be said that most of the implementation has referred to the theory. Finally, the local governance of Pandeglang, Banten Provinces made strong efforts to improve the implementation although in the practice still constrained technical issues.
Reformasi Birokrasi vs Remunerasi
Authors: Sulistyo Agustinus
Published: January 2020

Bureaucracy reform became the government commitment with the aim of improving the performance of the government organization. Bureaucracy reform was carried out by improving the structure of the organization, improved business process, and improved the management of human resources. By running the bureaucracy reform, the government official will get remuneration that is taking the form of giving the achievement allowance. But in fact, the condition that happened was the reverse. The organization carried out bureaucracy reform to receive remuneration. So bureaucracy reform that was carried out did not touch his root, but just met the condition for the documentation of bureaucracy reform and get the remuneration.
Sengketa Kewenangan antar Lembaga Negara
Authors: Sawitri Dian Eka Rahayu
Published: January 2020

Dalam praktek penyelenggaraan negara, hubungan antarlembaga negara dapat saling bersinggungan satu sama lain. Namun sungguh di luar perkiraan bahwasanya antarlembaga negara dapat timbul sengketa kewenangan konstitusional satu sama lain hingga memerlukan suatu proses peradilan hukum untuk menyelesaikannya. Biasanya apabila muncul perselisihan antarlembaga negara, pihak-pihak yang bersengketa akan menyelesaikannya melalui proses politik dan kultural atau diselesaikan oleh lembaga atau instansi atasan yang berkedudukan lebih tinggi dari lembaga yang bersengketa. Dalam rangka memberikan jalan penyelesaian atas sengketa yang terjadi diperlukan suatu lembaga peradilan khusus yang berwewenang memutus masalah antarlembaga negara tersebut. Tindak lanjutnya adalah dengan pembentukan Undang-Undang Nomor 24 Tahun 2003 tentang Mahkamah Konstitusi sebagaimana disebutkan dalam Pasal 24 hasil Perubahan Ketiga Undang-Undang Dasar 1945.
Implementasi Kebijakan Standar Pelayanan Minimal: Perkembangan, Hambatan dan Tantangan ke Depan
Authors: Savitri Renny
Published: January 2020

Untuk menjamin terpenuhinya hak setiap warga negara dalam mendapatkan pelayanan secara minimal maka pemerintah mengeluarkan kebijakan standar pelayanan minimal atau SPM. Kebijakan ini merupakan amanah dari UU No. 32 Tahun 2004 tentang pemerintah daerah dimana setiap pemerintah daerah diwajibkan untuk mencapai target SPM yang telah ditetapkan oleh setiap Kementerian/ Lembaga terkait. Sampai saat ini telah diterbitkan 15 kebijakan SPM dari kementerian/ lembaga teknis. Layaknya penerapan sebuah kebijakan, maka tidak akan lepas dari berbagai permasalahan. Beberapa kendala utama yang dihadapi dalam penerapan SPM adalah kurangnya sosialisasi, masih belum jelasnya konsep pelayanan dasar, penetapan target SPM yang terlalu tinggi, tidak adanya sistem insentif dan disinsentif, keterbatasan anggaran daerah dan minimnya kualitas SDM. Oleh sebab itu, demi perbaikan kinerja pencapaian SPM Kab/ Kota supaya menjadi lebih baik maka terdapat beberapa rekomendasi kebijakan ke depan diantaranya perlu dilakukan peningkatan sosialisasi, peninjauan kembali konsep layanan dasar, peninjauan target pencapaian SPM, pemberlakuan sistem Reward and Punishment, penambahan alokasi pembiayaan/penganggaran, serta peningkatan kualitas dan kuantitas SDM.
Kebijakan Open Recruitment Pengisian Jabatan Struktural di Daerah
Authors: Samiaji Samiaji
Published: January 2020

Reformasi politik dengan menerapkan sistem Pemilihan Kepala Daerah (Pilkada) secara langsung membuat PNS di daerah terkelompokkan dalam faksi-faksi. Mereka cenderung berpihak kepada calon kepala daerah tertentu yang mereka jagokan sebagai pemimpin kepala daerah, bahkan tidak sedikit mereka yang menjadi tim sukses. PNS yang menjadi tim sukses tentu akan berharap apabila calon kepala daerah yang mereka usung terpilih, mereka akan mendapat imbal jasa seperti posisi dalam jabatan struktural di pemerintahan. Dalam hal ini terjadi politisasi birokrasi dalam pemerintahan di daerah. Harus diakui, seiring dengan euphoria otonomi daerah, banyak jabatan struktural di kabupaten/kota yang dijadikan pundi-pundi oleh bupati/walikota. Kebijakan open bidding diharapkan dapat menemukan sosok pejabat yang memiliki kompetensi dan memiliki integritas yang tinggi. Seseorang yang kompeten dan berintegritas dapat menduduki jabatan tertentu jika telah memenuhi persyaratan yang diminta, tanpa perlu adanya kedekatan dengan pemberi jabatan. Dalam open bidding, persyaratan untuk menduduki jabatan ditentukan dengan jelas dan melalui proses kompetisi terbuka. Kebijakan ini diharapkan dapat membentengi pemerintah daerah dari praktek politisasi birokrasi.
Writing Sacraments: The Holy Atheist
Authors: Rowe Anne
Published: January 2020

Theologically Murdoch did not subscribe to a belief in the existence of a personal God, yet claimed that everything she had written was concerned with holiness. This chapter is dedicated to what can be described as a ‘sacramental’ aspect of her novels, as it traces her engagement with various spiritual outlooks and outlines her ‘Godless theology’, in which she envisages how one can lead a religious life without the trappings of conventional faith. After outlining her personal vacillation between belief and non-belief, her concerns about the decline of religious faith in the West, especially Christianity, and her fears for the individual well-being of those who could no longer subscribe to any religious creed, it outlines the basic tenets of her Platonism and her encompassing of Buddhism into her own personal ‘neo-theology’.
Beginnings
Authors: Williams James
Published: January 2020

This chapter is concerned with Lear’s beginnings, both the beginnings of his poetry (how he came to write it, why, and for whom) and his interest in beginnings of other kinds: family histories, childhood, children’s language (and the forms of children’s poetry, such as the limerick), and the origins of rhyme. It concludes with an extended close reading of “The Pobble Who Has No Toes”.
The Morbids
Authors: Williams James
Published: January 2020

This chapter considers Lear’s work in relation to his life-long struggle with depression, what he called in his diaries “the morbids”. It argues that Lear’s poetry draws on feelings of self-estrangement in characteristic and creative ways to create forms of absurdity central to his nonsense. It examines the prominence in his work of the words “never” and “despair”, and examines a group of works, many of them limericks, that represent suicide and other forms of violence. The chapter concludes with an extended close reading of “The Dong with a Luminous Nose”.
Coda
Authors: Williams James
Published: January 2020

This extremely brief coda draws together the argument of the book by concluding that Lear’s poetry represents a testimony to the ambivalence of emotional life that is both truthful and, for all its nonsense, morally sensible.
Introduction: Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles
Authors: Johnson Violet Showers , Graml Gundolf , Lessane Patricia Williams
Published: January 2020

Offers a brief international history of black oppression, exploitation and misrepresentation. The significant gains born out of the freedom struggles of the 1950s and 1960s are noted and reflected upon in the context of the persistent injustices and discrimination experienced by African-descended peoples around the world today. Parallels are drawn between the anti-immigrant rhetoric of Enoch Powell’s 1968 “Rivers of Blood” speech and the rise of right-wing populism across Europe in the early twenty-first century. The recent police killings of African-Americans are discussed in order to highlight the continuation of the black struggle in a post-civil rights USA. A broad overview of the contents of volume is then provided. Subjects and themes outlined range from the dynamics of the struggle against racism in a transnational context, to the disruption of socially constructed discourses on blackness via artistic and religious performativity, and the lesser known struggles of the Civil Rights Movement.
Beyond the Ethnographic Other: Pan-African Activism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Authors: Smith Thomas E.
Published: January 2020

Chapter details how the proliferation of imperial progressivism in transatlantic reformer discourse was seized upon by Pan-African activists at the turn of the twentieth century, in order to challenge the harsh dichotomy of the ethnographic other, claim subjectivity for African peoples, and invoke a host of expansive rights central to valid and meaningful participation in modern society. It also briefly discusses Pan-Africanism during the interwar years, notably the participation of many activists in a burgeoning transatlantic print culture. The chapter argues that while turn-of-the-century Pan-African activism did not stop imperialism, racialized violence, paternalism, or crass racism, it did establish a recognisable transatlantic network which helped to keep alive the promise of humanist equality and laid the groundwork for later activism that continued to challenge its deferment.
Commemorating Race and Empire in the First World War Centenary
Authors: Wellings Ben , Sumartojo Shanti , Graves Matthew
Published: January 2020

In November 2016, at the halfway point of the First World War Centenary, a modest exhibition based on volunteer research and supported by the UK Heritage Lottery Fund opened in the London suburb of Wood Green. Far from the Western Front presented accounts of South Asian servicemen who served across the many theatres of war. It was only mounted for a few days, but it sought to complicate both the dominant British narrative of the First World War as trench warfare in France and Belgium, and common depiction of the British forces as white. By focusing on the ‘untold stories of South Asians whose crucial contribution shaped the First World War’ the exhibit sought to remind (or inform) visitors that ‘there was more to the First World War than the mud and trenches of Europe’. The exhibit rediscovered stories that sought to shift common perceptions of the Great War in London and introduce alternative threats and hardships into the collective memory of the War: ‘the threat of lions on patrol in East Africa, thirst in the 50 degree heat of the Sinai desert, and starvation at the Siege of Kut’....
‘A Strange, New Race’: Eugenics and the Australian Soldier in the First World War
Authors: Gilfedder Deirdre
Published: January 2020

When Pierre Nora launched his study of the historical concept of ‘collective memory’ in France in the late 1970s, he emphasised the idea that a group’s identity constantly integrates its sense of the past. When this memory is connoted as ‘national’ what is retained as the past is influenced by shifting politics of identity....
Anzac, Race and Empire
Authors: Sumartojo Shanti , Wellings Ben
Published: January 2020

In 2015, a new memorial was unveiled in Sydney’s Hyde Park, the formal green rectangle in the city’s centre. In a creative and vibrant city like Sydney, the launch of a new public artwork was not remarkable, but this event differed because it was a new war memorial, and even more unusually, it commemorated the military service of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Australians. Designed by Indigenous artist Tony Albert, ...
The Jungle Like a Sunday at Home: Rafael Uribe Uribe, Miguel Triana, and the Nationalization of the Amazon
Authors: Martínez-Pinzón Felipe
Published: January 2020

This essay analyzes two civilizing elite projects produced in order to incorporate the Putumayo’s population, its history and its territory, to Colombia during the first decade of the 20th century. By proposing a reading of General Rafael Uribe Uribe’s Reducción de Salvajes (1907) and Miguel Triana’s Por el sur de Colombia (1907), Martínez-Pinzón shows how these projects negotiated language and heterogeneity in the southern border province of Putumayo. Alternatively mixing military strategy with an appeal to “science” Uribe Uribe’s “nationalizing strategy” proposed expropriating Putumayo indigenous populations from their language, their land and finally their bodies by way of bringing in white immigrants to dissolve “indigenous blood” through miscegenation. Martínez-Pinzón argues that, in contrast, Triana produces in his travelogue a self-criticizing stance in order to exhibit the ignorant hubris of civilizing creoles that contradictorily saw indigenous cultures as being anti-national at the same time needing their labor for the agro-export economy. Finally, the author contends that Triana’s proposal of constructing an indigenous history of Colombia is a political tactic to legitimize Colombian state control over the Putumayo territory amidst the turn of the century diplomatic tensions and military conflicts over the Amazon.
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: The Cauchero of the Amazonian Rubber Groves
Authors: Bernucci Leopoldo M.
Published: January 2020

This essay explores the iconic figure of the "rubber baron," during the rubber boom era (1890-1920) in the Amazon. Portrayed by travelers and fiction writer as Janus-faced, the rubber baron can be both elegant and brutal. Historical names of Rubber Barons all exemplify the double-sided nature of this type of individual. In this essay the author argues that, mirroring personal and cultural attributes of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s notion of the "homem cordial”, the rubber baron evades simple characterizations, which makes him a unique social type and a sinister by-product of colonization in Latin America. Liminal in his ability to suspend his brutality, the rubber baron can become a gentleman and then rapidly return to his original barbaric state. This allows him, for example, to traffic between the Amazonian rainforest and Paris with ease, until all his wealth is wasted and he is then forced to return to his rubber estate, once again, to re-build his fortune. Finally, the essay posits that the ambiguous character epitomizes the rubber industry. By wearing different masks the rubber baron conceals from the "civilized world" the horrors of slavery, rape, torture, and mass murder that were perpetrated in Amazonia's hellish gardens of rubber.
Endless Stories: Perspectivism and Narrative Form in Native Amazonian Literature
Authors: Sá Lúcia
Published: January 2020

In this article, Sá explores “ethnological” storytelling as a way of linking the human-nature-animal relations into a continuum where one does not make sense without the other. Borrowing from the often times cited notion of perspectivism —popularized by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s but originally part of Amazonian indigenous sense-making— according to which the common denominator among living things is not animality but gentitude (peopleness), Sá’s article exhibits the inner mechanisms by which the ethics and aesthetics of Amazonian storytelling produces plant-animal-human relations at the same time erasing the distinctions between them. According to her, stories of plant domestication and inter-tribal marriage are explained together in historias that have a community-making ethos both as ritualistic practice and as entertainment, merging humor and literary potency. These are stories that tell of how communities come about and how they mutate, resist, adapt and turn anew in the face of diverse challenges. In that sense, Amazonian storytelling is a community-making practice that resists the urge to make landscape into something singular and concrete, a place that is possible to turn into property.
Malarial Philosophy: The Modernista Amazonia of Mário de Andrade
Authors: Botelho André , Lima Nísia Trindade
Published: January 2020

This article studies the region’s sanitary conditions as portrayed in scientist Carlos Chagas’ account as a way to better understand writer Mário de Andrade’s 1927 chronicles, published posthumously as O turista aprendiz (The Apprentice Tourist), in which -quite originally- he understands malaria as a vehicle for creativity. The authors read Chagas’ medical perspective as a way of better approaching the kind of operations that Mário de Andrade performs, and which undermine the discourse of science that sees malaria as an endemic problem to be solved. The authors distinguish the way in which Mário and Brazilian modernismo approached the Amazon from previous canonical descriptions, mainly the highly influential one of Euclides da Cunha. In his playful descriptions of the region and its inhabitants, Mário de Andrade sees malaria as a different form of relating to space and knowledge, as a state of mind prone to contemplation and productive immobility.
‘Memory-Traces’ in the Work of Felwine Sarr and Bruce Clarke: What Stories of Change Can Commemorate the Genocide against the Tutsi?
Authors: Brezault Eloïse
Published: January 2020

This chapter investigates two different and recent artistic projects that commemorated the Tutsi Genocide of 1994 in Rwanda from an external perspective, twenty years after: the play by Senegalese intellectual, Felwine Sarr, Sur la barrière (2015) and the public mural by South African artist, Bruce Clarke, in 2014 'Upright Men', which is built collectively with the contribution of Rwandan artists. Sur la barrière depicts the complex relationships between a mother, Isaro, and his son's murderer, Faustin. Both artistic projects acknowledge civilian's memory of suffering and violence: by restoring words to the living but also to the dead, they raise the questions about whose stories to tell. They belong to what Marianne Hirsch calls postmemory and thus renew the reflection on memorialization by situating the genocide of the Tutsi within a global and external perspective. Those artistic projects downplay the tragic story to focus on the present of the survivors, fostering human dignity and triggering conversation with young people that were born after the genocide, in Rwanda but also all around the world.
Promising Generations: From Intergenerational Guilt to Ndi Umunyarwanda
Authors: Benda Richard M.
Published: January 2020

Ndi Umunyarwanda is a relatively new concept, having surfaced in post-genocide political narrative in July 2013. There is little doubt however that this concept currently dominates Rwandan identity politics and is envisioned as the answer to almost all the historical ills that have befallen and divided Rwanda. In light of the currently predominant discourse on post-genocide Rwanda, Ndi Umunyarwanda could be perceived as a top-down process of social engineering if considered only from the perspective of the current stage of its political dissemination. However, approached from its inception stage as this essay does, It is a bottom-up phenomenon that originates from Youth Connekt Dialogues (YCD); a series of dialogues held between children of perpetrators, children (of) survivors and representatives of local and central governments. The essay offers a narrative analysis of this emergence of Ndi Umunyarwanda out of YCD. The argument proposed here is that change in post-genocide Rwanda happens in different stages and at different levels. A narrative examination of YCD and Ndi Umunyarwanda as sequentially related phenomena shows that individual and group-initiated changes at grassroots levels can and do shape the national metanarrative of post-genocide nation building.
Stories as Change: Using Writing to Facilitate Healing among Genocide Survivors in Rwanda
Authors: Apol Laura
Published: January 2020

Therapeutic writing - that is, narrative writing that systematically follows a deliberately therapeutic format - has been proven effective in reducing the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and improving mental health because it allows an individual to organize traumatic memory by converting images and emotions into words and narrative text. This essay presents a rationale for therapeutic writing, then discusses the design for a particular writing-for-healing model that was developed and employed in working with young adult survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda. The essay then describes Rwandan participant interactions around and responses to the writing-for-healing project to demonstrate the therapeutic potential of narrative writing in response to trauma.
Deep Dérive
Authors: Armstrong Joshua
Published: January 2020

Chapter Six, ‘Deep Dérive,’ explores Philippe Vasset’s La conjuration [The Conjuration] (2013). Vasset’s novel depicts a Paris now fully governed by logics of capitalist urban planning and spectacle. Vasset’s would-be psychogeographer narrator suffers existential crisis in such conditions. For him, the city has reduced its users to the role of those ‘computer-generated nobodies’ who appear in the proudly displayed images of future shopping centers. However, he founds a cult that develops, to mystical proportions, the art of anonymity, until they are able to penetrate undetected into even the most high-security skyscrapers of La Défense. In the ultimate psychogeographical space-hack, the cult is thus able to ‘abolish at will the frontier between public space and private property.’ As they circulate like ‘a school of fish’ through the urban fabric, they would experience the city in all its infinite nuance. However, as their ‘powers’ grow, abstraction and eschatology ultimately depict them as having lost touch with the territory. Their true, ironic, apotheosis comes when they fully resemble those ‘computer-generated nobodies’ that had fascinated the narrator early on. Vasset’s novel is read in the light of Situationist notions of the city and Bruno Latour’s writings on panoptica and oligoptica.
Watchmen to the House of Israel? Irish Methodism and the Religious Press
Authors: Morris Nicola
Published: January 2020

This chapter shows that literacy in English could be utilized by the Methodist community in Ireland to create a countervailing religious and political discourse to that of their English brethren, allowing them to intervene in both political and religious issues. This discussion of literacy, denominational identity, and Irish Methodism provides a vivid example of the deep connections between religion and literacy outlined earlier in the volume. With the emergence of the ‘nonconformist conscience’ into British public life in the 1880s, Irish Methodists responded by developing their own denominational newspaper that articulated a peculiarly Irish Methodist view, distinct from that being promoted in England. The establishment of the weekly Christian Advocate in Belfast in 1884 marked the transfer of denominational influence from the wealth of Dublin to the popular heartlands in Ulster. Thus the establishment and distribution of an indigenous Irish Methodist journal drew together a geographically dispersed denomination and developed a distinctly Irish Methodist response to current affairs.
Reading the Hand: Palmistry, Graphology and Alternative Literacies
Authors: Rains Stephanie
Published: January 2020

This chapter examines an alternative mode of reading signs: that of the graphology craze of the nineteenth century. As literacy increased exponentially during the late nineteenth century in Ireland, a central feature of the ‘new journalism’ style of the popular press was that readers wrote back, whether in the form of letters to the editor or entries to the numerous competitions. This Irish alternative to the Habermassian public sphere involved significant female participation. Such contests were an opportunity for readers to enjoy and display their literacy. But perhaps the most revealing indication of the importance of writing in the popular imagination was the rise of ‘graphology’, which claimed to read a person’s ‘character’ from their handwriting. This chapter examines these acts of writing and what they signified for ordinary readers, many of who would have been the first in their families to write with confidence. While the economic benefits of literacy are well-charted, many of the writers studied in this chapter view their handwriting as a meaningful personal characteristic: a concretization and projection of the self enabled by the rapidly-expanding print culture of late nineteenth-century Ireland.
Introduction
Authors: Brown Katie
Published: January 2020

The introduction posits the enduring importance of the national in Venezuelan literature, in contrast to recent theories of ‘global’ Latin American literature. It argues that factors including the absence of Venezuela from the ‘Boom’ and low levels of migration from Venezuela until the 21st century have limited the opportunities for the global circulation of Venezuelan literature, thereby making national markets and the cultural policy of the Bolivarian Revolution more significant. This cultural policy is then outlined, as well as recent developments in national publishing outside the state system. The introduction also includes an overview of the eight novels and authors to be studied, as well as a summary of relevant theories of metafiction, autofiction and intertextuality in relation to these texts.
Conclusion
Authors: Brown Katie
Published: January 2020

The conclusion summarizes the findings of the study and reiterates how this research is in dialogue with previous studies of the Bolivarian Revolution. It stresses the enduring importance of the national – both Bolivarian cultural policy and Venezuela’s absence from international literary circuits – on the form and content of contemporary fiction. This book concludes that self-reflexivity gives these novels agency, allowing their authors to explore and challenge the ideas about literary value found in Bolivarian cultural policy. This research therefore contributes to scholarly discussion about the uses of metafiction and intertextuality in contemporary literature. The conclusion also reiterates that these novels deserve international scholarly attention, a first step towards rectifying the lack of contemporary Venezuelan narrative in Latin American Studies.
Palliating Humanity in The Last Man
Authors: Pladek Brittany
Published: January 2020

Chapter four examines Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel The Last Man, which tells the story of an incurable plague that kills all of humanity. Shelley interrogates the Romantic belief in the possibility of a medico-poetic panacea (cure all). The novel begins with a domestic drama whose tragedy is figured as incurable, and this metaphoric incurability sparks the far more literal plague. Characters react to both scourges by longing for a panacea, which, when it does not appear, plunges them into a despair that aggravates the initial illness. Shelley’s story critiques the binary mindset underwriting both total affirmation and rejection of panacea, posing a middle ground that offers literature as the palliation of a dying humanity. In the same way that medical philosophers like Jean Georges Cabanis tied the imperfection of medical knowledge to the necessity of palliative care, so The Last Man suggests that suffering and death are unavoidable, both individually and at a species level. In the novel, literature takes on the function of a palliative care doctor, shepherding humanity to its final end by ‘taking the mortal sting from pain’ and preserving its fragmentary memory (p. 5).
Introduction: Beastmode
Authors: Thiess Derek J.
Published: January 2020

The introduction presents the central thesis of the text that there is an important connection between the study of science fiction and that of sport. No unlike the marginalization of science fiction itself, sport and athleticism have historically been viewed with suspicion and derision and the athlete (and their body) afforded a fear akin to that which we reserve for the most frightening monsters. Science fiction is a genre well suited to studying the monster and, while criticism on the topic is lacking, has a long history of highlighting the embodied exclusion of the athlete. These connections are mapped here, a methodology for the book laid out, and chapter synopses provided.
Introduction to Part II
Authors: Thiess Derek J.
Published: January 2020

Another brief interlude presents a brief description of the second part of the book, the emphasis of which is on the tension between individual athletes and the systems in which they perform. Once again, brief mention is made of the wider implications for this study to science fiction studies more generally. Particular emphasis is on systemic thinking in sf studies.
Conclusions, or How to Stop Looking for Sinners
Authors: Thiess Derek J.
Published: January 2020

The conclusion returns to the central thesis outlined in the introduction. Also, through a reading of one final sf story it attempts to provide an answer to one of the text’s central questions: why has sf studies not engaged sport before? For all the reasons outlined in prior chapters—fear of bodily limitations and death, culturally constructed monstrosity, historical fear and religio-politics—sf has not performed one of its central tasks: to confront Otherness wherever it may be regardless of the embodied form of that Other. Engaging sport sf, therefore, is an endeavour vital to halting the future creation of social and cultural monsters.
West of the Shannon: Connacht
Authors: Doughan Christopher
Published: January 2020

This chapter concentrates on regional newspapers in Connacht and presents an overview of the regional press in the province during the 1914-21 period. A brief history of some of the main newspapers is provided while some of the key figures involved in those titles are also considered. However, the chapter specifically focuses on four titles, the Tuam Herald, Roscommon Herald, Mayo News, and Leitrim Observer. The first two papers broadly represented a more constitutional form of Irish nationalism while the latter two came to be regarded as Sinn Féin or republican organs. Individual sections record the origins and history of each title while the key figures involved in of each of these publications are also profiled. Additionally, the editorial commentary of all four papers between 1914 and 1921 is reviewed and analysed. Some of these titles were subjected to censorship, suppression, and forcible closure while in certain cases the proprietors were arrested or imprisoned. The experiences of each of these newspapers are documented in this chapter.
Northern Drumbeats: Ulster
Authors: Doughan Christopher
Published: January 2020

This chapter concentrates on regional newspapers in Ulster and presents an overview of the regional press in the province during the 1914-21 period. A brief history of some of the main newspapers is provided while some of the key figures involved in those titles are also considered. However, the chapter specifically focuses on four titles, the Impartial Reporter, Londonderry Sentinel, Anglo-Celt, and Donegal Democrat. These papers represented a range of political sympathies across the province. The first two were staunchly unionist organs while the latter two were nationalist organs – the Anglo-Celt supportive of constitutional nationalism whereas the Donegal Democrat adopted a more republican stance. The experiences of each of these newspapers are documented in this chapter.
The Creation of Tiquicidad and Theories of National Identity
Authors: Harvey-Kattou Liz
Published: January 2020

This chapter delves into the psyche of Costa Rica’s identity, providing a historical and sociological analysis of the creation of the dominant – tico – identity from 1870 to the present day, framing these around theories of colonial discourse. Considering work by postcolonial scholars such as Benedict Anderson, Frantz Fanon, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, and Judith Butler, it explores how the discourse of centre and ‘Other’ has been created within the nation. It then provides a historical account of ‘Otherness’ within the nation, detailing the existence and rights won by Afro-Costa Rican, feminist, and LGBTQ+ groups, detailing a framework of hybrid subalternity which will be used to consider the challenges put forward to dominant national identity in chapters two and three.
“Wood is a pleasant thing to think about”: William Blake and the Hand-Printed Books of the Hogarth Press
Authors: Black Michael
Published: January 2020

This chapter explores Woolf's interest in the eighteenth-century poet and visual artist William Blake, arguing his work embodied the avant-gardism to which modernists aspired.
“obscure, indecent and brilliant” Female sexuality, the Hogarth Press, and Hope Mirrlees
Authors: Beech Megan
Published: January 2020

This chapter suggests how Woolf's work can be read in dialogue withHope Mirrlees' Paris: A Poem, published by Hogarth in 1920.
The Hogarth Press, a Singular Art Gallery
Authors: Podvin Virginie
Published: January 2020

This chapter looks at Virginia Woolf's ambiguous relationship with painting. Podvin explores how Woolf uses the techniques of a painter in her novels, including form, colour, light, contrast, framing characters and landscapes, and representing the figure of the painter.
Two Libraries: Reading A Room of One’s Own and Margaret Oliphant’s “The Library Window”
Authors: Reus Anne
Published: January 2020

This chapter views the library as a common locus in Virginia Woolf's diary, letter and essays. Reus explores similarities between superficially very different writers, arguing that their works ask similar questions about women's place in the literary establishment and their access to writing spaces.
Mrs. Brown and the Trojan Cow: Deconstructing Aristotle in “An Unwritten Novel”
Authors: Sparks Elisa Kay
Published: January 2020

This chapter considers Woolf's short story 'An Unwritten Novel', particularly how it calls upon Greek mythology and makes parodic references to Aristotle.
Queer Woolf: Queer Approaches and Creative-Critical Research
Authors: Goldman Jane , Gardner Calum , Herd Colin
Published: January 2020

This chapter explains the composition of 'Queer Woolf' poems. Every instance of Woolf's usage of the word 'queer' in her ten novels and six published volumes was cited in chronological order to make the poetry.
Following Virginia Woolf’s Call for a Press of One’s Own: Making Waves Press Launches Judith’s Room
Authors: Hankins Leslie Kathleen
Published: January 2020

This chapter explores how Virginia Woolf's call for a press of one's own inspired Hankins to establish Making Waves Press. She traces the production of the first book, Judith's Room, from vision to design.
Thinking Is Our Fighting: How to Read and Write Like Woolf in the Age of Trump
Authors: Maggio Paula
Published: January 2020

This chapter considers Woolf's place within a tradition of 'creative resistance' and calls for contemporary readers to follow her model of an iconic reader, activist and thinker.
Virginia Woolf: Translation, Reception and Impact in Brazil
Authors: Oliveria Maria
Published: January 2020

This chapter considers how Woolf has been read and translated transatlantically and how these translations reflect the political, historical and gendered debates of modernism. Oliveira charts the timeline of Woolf's translations in Brazil and explores their impact on Brazilian women writers, searching for a South American Woolf.
Virginia Woolf and South America: Border-reading
Authors: Cordery Lindsey
Published: January 2020

This chapter considers Woolf's interest in South America in her private life and her writings.
Learning Through the (Digital) Archive: Notes on Undergraduate Research
Authors: Gordon Elizabeth Willson , Johansson Tyler , Grimm Sara , Wiebe Rynelle
Published: January 2020

This chapter details the inner workings of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project. The accounts of three research assistants reveal the complexities of book production and networks of modernism, and suggest the great impact of this academic resource.
To “write about Mrs Lindbergh”: Woolf, Flight, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s North to the Orient
Authors: Simpson Kathryn
Published: January 2020

This chapter explores how North to the Orient may have prompted Woolf to consider writing about Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the female pilot.
“Penning and pinning”: Vita, Virginia, and Orlando
Authors: Lowe Gill
Published: January 2020

This chapter explores the associations of pen and ink with male power and eroticism, arguing that Woolf wrote Orlando as a means to lay claim to her lover Sackville-West.