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Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de'Specchi, 1400-1500
Authors: Scanlan Suzanne
Published: May 2021

In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their newly acquired living quarters, the Tor de'Specchi. The imagery focused overwhelmingly on the sensual, corporeal nature of contemporary spirituality, populating the walls of the monastery with a highly naturalistic assortment of earthly, divine, and demonic figures. This book draws on art history, anthropology, and gender studies to explore the disciplinary and didactic role of the images, as well as their relationship to important papal projects at the Vatican.
Rembrandt and his Circle
Authors: Dickey Stephanie , Bakker Boudewijn , Bijl Martin , Chapman H. , Coelen Pieter , Coutré Jacquelyn , Witt Lloyd , Heel S.A.C. Dudok , Ember Ildiko , Golahny Amy , Johnson C. , Leja Jan , Noble Petria , Orenstein Nadine , Rutgers Jaco , Wallert Arie , Weststeijn Thijs
Published: May 2021

This collection brings together art historians, museum professionals, conservators, and conservation scientists whose work involves Rembrandt van Rijn and associated artists such as Gerrit Dou, Jan Lievens, and Ferdinand Bol. The range of subjects considered is wide: from the presentation of convincing evidence that Rembrandt and his contemporary Frans Hals rubbed elbows in the Amsterdam workshop of Hendrick Uylenburgh to critical reassessments of the role of printmaking in Rembrandt's studio, his competition with Lievens as a landscape painter, his reputation as a collector, and much more. Developed from a series of international conferences devoted to charting new directions in Rembrandt research, these essays illuminate the current state of Rembrandt studies and suggest avenues for future inquiry.
The Youth of Early Modern Women
Authors: Cohen Elizabeth Storr , Reeves Margaret Louise , Andersson Christiane , Couchman Jane , Eckerle Julie A. , Franco Alessandra , Hardwick Julie , Holler Jacqueline , Hubbard Eleanor , McNabb Jennifer , Moran Megan , Morris Sarah , Mujica Barbara , Robinson Michele Nicole , Tilburg Marja
Published: May 2021

Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognised that, between childhood and full adulthood, early modern women experienced distinctive physiological, social, and psychological transformations. Drawing on two mutually shaped layers of inquiry — cultural constructions of youth and lived experiences — these essays exploit a wide variety of sources, including literary and autobiographical works, conduct literature, judicial and asylum records, drawings, and material culture. The geographical and temporal ranges traverse England, Ireland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, and Mexico from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. This volume brings fresh attention to representations of female youth, their own life writings, young women’s training for adulthood, courtship, and the emergent sexual lives of young unmarried women.
Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe
Authors: Rjéoutski Vladislav , Frijhoff Willem , Bruschi Andrea , Strien-Chardonneau Madeleine , Khavanova Olga , Rocher Michael , Horbec Ivana , Matasoviç Maja , Kislova Ekaterina
Published: May 2021

This multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West. Its archival research explores the important role played by selective language use in social life and in the educational provisions in the early constitution of modern society. A broad range of case studies show how language was viewed and used symbolically by social groups - ranging from the nobility to the peasantry - to develop, express, and mark their identities.
Francophonie en Orient
Authors: Kang Mathilde , Provata Despina
Published: May 2021

This book offers a pioneering study of Asian cultures that officially escaped from French colonisation but nonetheless were steeped in French civilisation in the colonial era and had heavily French-influenced, largely francophone literatures. It raises a number of provocative questions, including whether colonisation is the ultimate requirement for a culture's being defined as francophone, or how to think about francophone literatures that emerge from Asian nations that were historically free from French domination. The ultimate result is a redefining of the Asian francophone heritage according to new, transnational paradigms.
Zeolites and Metal-Organic Frameworks
Authors: Blay Vincent , Bobadilla Luis Francisco , Cabrera Alejandro ,   Atlantis Press SARL
Published: May 2021

Zeolites are natural or synthetic materials with porous chemical structures that are valuable due to their absorptive and catalytic qualities. Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are manmade organometallic polymers with similar porous structures. This introductory book, with contributions from top-class researchers from all around the world, examines these materials and explains the different synthetic routes available to prepare zeolites and MOFs. The book also highlights how the substances are similar yet different and how they are used by science and industry in situations ranging from fueling cars to producing drugs.
Performing Moving Images
Authors: Siewert Senta
Published: May 2021

Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects presents institutions, individuals and networks who have ensured experimental films and Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s are not consigned to oblivion. Through a comparison of recent international case studies from festivals, museums, and gallery spaces, the book analyzes their new contexts, and describes the affective reception of those events. The study asks: what is the relationship between an aesthetic experience and memory at the point where film archives, cinema, and exhibition practices intersect? What can we learn from re-screenings, re-enactments, and found footage works, that are using archival material? How does the affective experience of the images, sounds and music resonate today? Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects proposes a theoretical framework from the perspective of the performative practice of programming, curating, and reconstructing, bringing in insights from original interviews with cultural agents together with an interdisciplinary academic discourse.
Stories
Authors: Christie Ian , Oever Annie , Baetens Jan , Amiel Vincent , Kiss Miklós , Willemsen Steven , Schiller Melanie , Moure José , Chateau Dominique , Laugier Sandra , Ellis John , Odin Roger , Kuyper Eric , McKernan Luke , Ziegler Robert
Published: May 2021

Stories are perceived as central to modern life. Not only in narrative entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theater, but also in social media. Telling/having "a story" is widely deemed essential, in business as well as in social life. Does this mark an intensification of what has always been part of human cultures; or has the realm of "story" expanded to dominate twenty-first century discourse? Addressing stories is an obvious priority for the Key Debates series, and Volume 7, edited by Ian Christie and Annie van den Oever, identifies new phenomena in this field — complex narration, puzzle films, transmedia storytelling — as well as new approaches to understanding these, within narratology and bio-cultural studies. Chapters on such extended television series as Twin Peaks, Game of Thrones and Dickensian explore distinctively new forms of screen storytelling in the digital age. With contributions by Vincent Amiel, Jan Baetens, Dominique Chateau, Ian Christie, John Ellis, Miklós Kiss, Eric de Kuyper, Sandra Laugier, Luke McKernan, José Moure, Roger Odin, Annie van den Oever, Melanie Schiller, Steven Willemsen, Robert Ziegler.
The Friars and their Influence in Medieval Spain
Authors: Garcia-Serrano Francisco , García-Serrano Francisco , Rucquoi Adeline , Smith Damian J. , Mar Graña Cid María , Burman Thomas E. , Jones Linda G. , Prieto Pablo Martín , Graham Emily E. , Vose Robin , Zurita Víctor Farías , Chubb Taryn E.L. , Paula Cañas Gálvez Francisco
Published: May 2021

The mendicant friars, especially the Dominicans and the Franciscans, made an enormous impact in thirteenth-century Spain influencing almost every aspect of society. In a revolutionary break from the Church’s past, these religious orders were deeply involved in earthly matters while preaching the Gospel to the laity and producing many of the greatest scholars of the time. Furthermore, the friars reshaped the hierarchy of the Church, often taking up significant positions in the episcopate. They were prominent in the establishment of the Inquisition in Aragon and at the same time they played a major part in interfaith relations between Jews, Muslims and Christians. In addition, they were key contributors in the transformation of urban life, becoming an essential part of the fabric of late medieval cities, while influencing policies of monarchs such as James I of Aragon and Ferdinand III of Castile. Their missions in the towns and their educational role, as well as their robust associations with the papacy and the crown, often raised criticism and lead to internal tensions and conflict with other clergymen and secular society. They were to be both widely admired and the subjects of biting literary satire. As this collection demonstrates, the story of medieval Spain cannot possibly be fully told without mention of the critical role of the friars.
Writing History!
Authors: Kamp Jeannette , Legene Susan , Rossum Matthias , Rümke Sebas , Bradley Jill , Bradley Natasha
Published: May 2021

Historians not only have knowledge of history, but by writing about it and engaging with other historians from the past and present, they make history themselves. This companion offers young historians clear guidelines for the different phases of historical research; how do you get a good historical question? How do you engage with the literature? How do you work with sources from the past, from archives to imagery and objects, art, or landscapes? What is the influence of digitalisation of the historical craft? Broad in scope, Writing History! also addresses historians’ traditional support of policy makers and their activity in fields of public history, such as museums, the media, and the leisure sector, and offers support for developing the necessary skills for this wide range of professions.
Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West
Authors: Bracken Gregory , Shiqiao Li , Martins Luiz Paulo , August Karan , Lacertosa Massimiliano , Sneep Deirdre , Borgmann Katharina , R. Ian , de Christian , Gao Yun , Temple Nicolas , Kresse Klaas , van Renske Maria , Teddy Sri , Cahyadhuha Brandon , Hastangka
Published: May 2021

What does it mean to be a good citizen today? What are practices of citizenship? And what can we learn from the past about these practices to better engage in city life in the twenty-first century? Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self is a collection of papers that examine these questions. The contributors come from a variety of different disciplines, including architecture, urbanism, philosophy, and history, and their essays make comparative examinations of the practices of citizenship from the ancient world to the present day in both the East and the West. The papers’ comparative approaches, between East and West, and ancient and modern, leads to a greater understanding of the challenges facing citizens in the urbanized twenty-first century, and by looking at past examples, suggests ways of addressing them. While the book’s point of departure is philosophical, its key aim is to examine how philosophy can be applied to everyday life for the betterment of citizens in cities not just in Asia and the West but everywhere.
Languages, Identities and Cultural Transfers
Authors: Gotsi Georgia , Provata Despina , Leerssen Joep , Athini Stessi , Katsigiannis Alexandros , Mitsou Marilisa , Polycandrioti Ourania , Scalora Francesco , Sofou Alceste , Varelas Lambros
Published: May 2021

What was the perception of Greece in Europe during the later nineteenth century, when the attraction of romantic philhellenism had waned? This volume focuses on the reception of medieval and modern Greece in the European press, rigorously analysing journals and newspapers published in England, France, Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands. The essays here suggest that reactions to the Greek state's progress and irredentist desires were followed among the European intelligentsia. Concurrently, new scholarship on the historical development of the Greek language and vernacular literature enhanced the image of medieval and modern Greece. This volume's contributors consider the press's role in this Europewide exchange of ideas, explore the links between romantic and late philhellenism and underscore the scholarly nature of the latter. Moreover, they highlight the human aspects of cultural transfers by focusing on networks of mediators, publishers and scholarly collaborators. This context enhances our understanding of both the creation of Hellenic studies and the complex formation of the modern Greek identity.
The Handbook of Privacy Studies
Authors: Sloot Bart , Groot Aviva
Published: May 2021

The Handbook of Privacy Studies is the first book in the world that brings together several disciplinary perspectives on privacy, such as the legal, ethical, medical, informatics and anthropological perspective.

Privacy is in the news almost every day: mass surveillance by intelligence agencies, the use of social media data for commercial profit and political microtargeting, password hacks and identity theft, new data protection regimes, questionable reuse of medical data, and concerns about how algorithms shape the way we think and decide. This book offers interdisciplinary background information about these developments and explains how to understand and properly evaluate them.

The book is set up for use in interdisciplinary educational programmes. Each chapter provides a structured analysis of the role of privacy within that discipline, its characteristics, themes and debates, as well as current challenges. Disciplinary approaches are presented in such a way that students and researchers from every scientific background can follow the argumentation and enrich their own understanding of privacy issues.
The Imperial City of Cologne
Authors: Huffman Joseph
Published: May 2021

The Imperial City of Cologne: From Roman Colony to Medieval Metropolis (19 B.C.-1125 A.D.) is an urban history of Cologne from its imperial Roman origins as a northeastern frontier military outpost to a medieval metropolis on the German Empire’s northwestern border. This first history of Cologne, available in English, challenges received notions of late Roman ethnic identities, a Dark Age collapse of urban life, devastating Viking and Magyar incursions, and the origins of medieval urban government.
Network and Migration in Early Renaissance Florence, 1378-1433
Authors: Prajda Katalin
Published: May 2021

This book explores the co-development of political, social, economic, and artistic networks of Florentines in the Kingdom of Hungary during the reign of Sigismund of Luxembourg. Analyzing the social network of these politicians, merchants, artisans, royal officers, dignitaries of the Church, and noblemen is the primary objective of this book. The study addresses both descriptively the patterns of connectivity and causally the impacts of this complex network on cultural exchanges of various types, among these migration, commerce, diplomacy, and artistic exchange. In the setting of a case study, this monograph should best be thought of as an attempt to cross the boundaries that divide political, economic, social, and art history so that they simultaneously figure into a single integrated story of Florentine history and development.
Mongolia Remade
Authors: Sneath David , Humphrey Caroline , Billé Franck
Published: May 2021

This book explores the historical and contemporary processes that have made and remade Mongolia as it is today: the construction of ethnic and national cultures, the transformations of political economy and a ‘nomadic’ pastoralism, and the revitalization of a religious and cosmological heritage that has led to new forms of post-socialist politics. Widely published as an expert in the field, David Sneath offers a fresh perspective into a region often seen as mysterious to the West.
Making Shift Happen
Authors: Wit Margareth ,   Academica University of Applied Sciences, Hills Jonathan
Published: May 2021

Leadership is learnable. Furthermore, future developments within our organizations will be strongly influenced by our leadership effectiveness. In ten steps Margareth de Wit describes how, as a leader, you can train yourself to achieve desired transitions within your organization. Educated at INSEAD and Wharton, Margareth de Wit has a long and rich experience working at the top of international companies in the USA, India, the UK, and Africa, providing intensive leadership sessions to CEOs, commissioners, managers, and directors.

Margareth de Wit has inspired hundreds of professionals within the education sector to see themselves as playing the central role in providing better education through intelligent collaboration in self-managing school teams. Her experiences show that systematic attention to leadership and group dynamics creates organizations that are both successful and future-proof. Providing striking examples from her broad practice and experience, historical comparisons, human interactions, analytical schemes, and evidence-based methods, de Wit paints a picture of the road that leads to effective leadership. While this transition is never finished, it is nevertheless one that always leads to both personal and organizational improvement.
Syntax of Dutch
Authors: Broekhuis Hans , Corver Norbert
Published: May 2021

The multi-volume work Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. The text of the seven already available volumes was written between 1995 and 2015 and issued in print between 2012 and 2016. The various volumes are primarily concerned with the description of the Dutch language and, only where this is relevant, with linguistic theory. They will be an indispensable resource for researchers and advanced students of languages and linguistics interested in the Dutch language. This volume is the final one of the series and addresses issues relating to coordination. It contains three chapters. Chapter 1 discusses the syntactic and semantic properties of coordinate structures and their constituting elements, that is, the coordinators and the coordinands they link. Chapter 2 discusses the types of ellipsis known as conjunction reduction and gapping found in coordinate structures. Chapter 3 discusses elements seemingly exhibiting coordination-like properties, such as dan ‘than’ in comparative constructions like Jan is groter dan zij ‘Jan is taller than she’.
Charlemagne’s Defeat in the Pyrenees
Authors: Irujo Xabier
Published: May 2021

The Battle of Errozabal (Rencesvals) is the one of the most significant historical events of eighth century Vasconia and in all Western Europe. The present monograph examines Charlemagne’s campaign from the perspective of military history but also as part of a complex socio-political process that began after the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711 and culminated with the creation of the Kingdom of Pamplona in 824. The battle had major (and largely underappreciated) consequences for the Carolingian Empire. It also enjoyed a remarkable legacy as the topic of one of the oldest European epic poems, La Chanson de Roland. The events that took place in the Pyrenean pass of Errozabal on 15 August 778 defined the development of the Carolingian world, and lie at the heart of the early medieval contribution to the later medieval period.
The Campaign of 778
Authors: Irujo Xabier
Published: May 2021

This chapter discusses in detail the development of the military expedition
of 778 against the Basques with emphasis on the events that took place
in Pamplona and Zaragoza between spring and summer of that year.
The author provides a detailed description of the itinerary of the two
Frankish armies that entered the Iberian Peninsula and the chronology
of the march from April to August 778. This chapter is divided into four
sections. The march on Vasconia by the Carolingian army at the beginning
of the campaign in the spring of 778, the siege and capture of the city of
Pamplona in June 778, the infructuous siege of Zaragoza in July and the
final retreat and destruction of Pamplona by King Charles in August 778.
Consequences of the Battle
Authors: Irujo Xabier
Published: May 2021

This chapter focuses on the study of the political, economic and military
consequences of the battle, both for the Frankish Kingdom and the Emirate
of Cordoba, between 778 and 824. The disaster of Rencesvals abetted the
revolt in Saxony and the decisions taken by King Charles after the battle
suggest that he perceived the situation as critical. Without the spoils of war,
the economic cost of the king’s unsuccessful campaign fell on the royal
coffers. Politically, one of the first measures taken by King Charles was the
administrative reorganization of the Frankish Kingdom. However, one of the
most important consequences was the definitive consolidation of the Kingdom
of Pamplona under King Eneko Aritza, architect of the political alliances that
led to the victory over the Frankish in 824, at the Third Battle of Rencesvals.
Nomadic Pastoralism among the Mongol Herders
Authors: Marchina Charlotte ,   ZONES SENSIBLES, Billé Franck , Humphrey Caroline
Published: May 2021

Nomadic Pastoralism among the Mongol Herders: Multispecies and Spatial Ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia is based on anthropological research carried out by the author between 2008 and 2016 and addresses the spatial features of nomadic pastoralism among the Mongol herders of Mongolia and Southern Siberia from a cross-comparative perspective. In addition to classical methods of survey, Charlotte Marchina innovatively used GPS recordings to analyze the ways in which pastoralists envision and concretely occupy the landscape, which they share with their animals and invisible entities. The data, represented in abundant and original cartography, provides a better understanding of the mutual adaptations of both herders and animals in the common use of unfenced pastures, not only between different herders but between different species. The author also highlights the herders' adaptive strategies at a time of rapid sociopolitical and environmental changes in this area of the world.
Wang Bing's Filmmaking of the China Dream
Authors: Pollacchi Elena
Published: May 2021

This volume offers an organic discussion of Wang Bing's filmmaking across China’s marginal spaces and against the backdrop of the state-sanctioned 'China Dream'. Wang Bing's cinema gives voice to the subaltern. Focusing on contemporary China, his work testifies to a set of issues dealing with inequality, labour, and migration. His internationally awarded documentaries are considered masterpieces with unique aesthetics that bear reference to global film masters. Therefore, this investigation goes beyond the divides between Western and non-Western film traditions and between fiction and documentary cinema. Each chapter takes a different articulation of space (spaces of labour, history, and memory) as its entry point, bringing together film and documentary studies, Chinese studies, and globalization studies. This volume benefits from the author's extensive conversations with Wang Bing and insider observations of film production and the film festival circuit.
The Medieval Life of Language
Authors: Amsler Mark
Published: May 2021

The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication is revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and literature. Part historical reconstruction, part social history, part language theory, Amsler supplements the usual materials for the history of medieval linguistics and discusses the pragmatic implications of grammatical treatises on the interjection, Bacon’s sign theory, logic texts, Chaucer’s poetry, inquisitors’ accounts of heretic speech, and life-writing by William Thorpe and Margery Kempe. Medieval and contemporary pragmatic theory are contrasted in terms of their philosophical and linguistic orientations. Aspects of medieval pragmatic theory and practice, especially polysemy, equivocation, affective speech, and recontextualization, show how pragmatic discourse informed social controversies and attitudes toward sincere, vague, and heretical speech. Relying on Bakhtinian dialogism, critical discourse analysis, and conversation analysis, Amsler situates a key period in the history of linguistics within broader social and discursive fields of practice.
Theoterrorism v. Freedom of Speech
Authors: Cliteur Paul
Published: May 2021

The Rushdie Affair, the Danish Cartoon Affair, the assault on Charlie Hebdo, and the earlier Carrell Affair, are examples of religious fanatics' extreme reactions to religious satire and criticism. Perpetrators of these actions consider themselves as true believers. This book aims to understand their motives by means of the concept of theoterrorism: terrorism grounded in religious zealotry.
Transformations of Trade Unionism
Authors: Knotter Ad
Published: May 2021

The historical experiences of workers organizing in Europe and the United States figure among the many forms of workers’ resistance resulting from the variety of labour relations in the global past. They cannot and will not be uniformly duplicated or copied from their present form in the global transformations of labour and workers’ movements that we are witnessing today. Nevertheless, in the twentieth century trade unionism as a form of collective agency among workers became a global phenomenon. With growing numbers of workers being exposed to wage labour and labour markets, the cases of workers organizing in the original heartlands of trade unionism in Europe and the United States can provide a historical background for future prospects and transformations. Based on comparisons of long-term developments and focusing on transnational connections, Transformations of Trade Unionism shows that historically there have been many varieties of trade unionism, emerging independently or transforming older ones, and that these varieties and transformations can be explained by specific and changing labour regimes. The case studies all start from Dutch examples, or incorporate a Dutch element, but the comparative and transnational approach connects these histories to general developments in Europe and United States from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. This publication was made possible thanks to the generous financial support of the Stichting Unger - van Brero Fonds
Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court
Authors: Persson Fabian
Published: May 2021

What was possible for a woman to achieve at an early modern court? By analysing the experiences of a wide range of women at the court of Sweden, this book demonstrates the opportunities open to women who served at, and interacted with, the court; the complexities of women's agency in a court society; and, ultimately, the precariousness of power. In doing so, it provides an institutional context to women's lives at court, charting the full extent of the rewards that they might obtain, alongside the social and institutional constrictions that they faced. Its longue durée approach, moreover, clarifies how certain periods, such as that of the queens regnant, brought new possibilities. Based on an extensive array of Swedish and international primary sources, including correspondence, financial records and diplomatic reports, it also takes into account the materialities used to create hierarchies and ceremonies, such as physical structures and spaces within the court. Comprehensive in its scope, the book is divided into three parts, which focus respectively on outsiders at court, insiders, and members of the royal family.
East Asian Cartographic Print Culture
Authors: Akin Alexander
Published: May 2021

Alexander Akin examines how the expansion of publishing in the late Ming dynasty prompted changes in the nature and circulation of cartographic materials in East Asia. Focusing on mass-produced printed maps, East Asian Cartographic Print Culture: The Late Ming Publishing Boom and its Trans-Regional Connections investigates a series of pathbreaking late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century works in genres including geographical education, military affairs, and history, analysing how maps achieved unprecedented penetration among published materials, even in the absence of major theoretical or technological changes like those that transformed contemporary European cartography. By examining contemporaneous developments in neighboring Choson Korea and Japan, this book demonstrates the crucial importance of considering the East Asian sphere in this period as a network of communication and publication, rather than as discrete national units with separate cartographic histories. It also reexamines the Jesuit printing of maps on Ming soil within the broader context of the local cartographic publishing boom and its trans-regional repercussions.
Narrating Democracy in Myanmar
Authors: Wells Tamas
Published: May 2021

This book analyses what Myanmar’s struggle for democracy has signified to Burmese activists and democratic leaders, and to their international allies. In doing so, it explores how understanding contested meanings of democracy helps make sense of the country’s tortuous path since Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won historic elections in 2015. Using Burmese and English language sources, Narrating Democracy in Myanmar reveals how the country’s ongoing struggles for democracy exist not only in opposition to Burmese military elites, but also within networks of local activists and democratic leaders, and international aid workers.
A benevolence narrative
Authors: Wells Tamas
Published: May 2021

This chapter describes an alternate narrative of democracy that centres
around the value of sedana or benevolence. This narrative has three parts:
the challenge of dictatorial leadership in Myanmar and the moral failure
of citizens; the vision of a morally transformed society based on benevolent
leadership and the values of unity and obligation; and a strategy of moral
education to renew these values within society and promote discipline.
This narrative highlights a moral rather than liberal vision – one in which
the ability of individual political actors to transcend self-interest is of the
highest importance. Proponents of this narrative emphasise that a focus on
the narrow interests of particular individuals or groups will spark division
and thereby undermine democracy – with the most immoral approach to
politics being that of the ar nar shin (‘power-obsessed dictator’).
Playing different games
Authors: Wells Tamas
Published: May 2021

Drawing on this history of conceptual contests over democracy in Myanmar,
this chapter looks forward to how contests over the meaning of
democracy might shape areas of political decision-making and policy in
Myanmar over the coming decade. How might the particular examples of
narratives, and their political use – within activist networks, the NLD and
aid agencies – apply to the future of Myanmar’s politics? What challenges
might there be for activists, democratic leaders and aid agencies through
future contests over the meaning of democracy?
Hitler Goes Pop
Authors: Delhey Yvonne
Published: May 2021

Today, history has penetrated daily life, appearing to meet a multitude of
needs within society. Given the modality of modern mass media, historical
representation also includes increased visualization, where recognizable
images – icons – are a favoured vehicle of expression. Hitler functions as
one of these icons. His image can be found in all forms of popular culture.
This strong media presence goes together with a paradoxical situation
caused by the taboo, which to this day engulfs his legacy. This chapter
describes several examples of Hitler-representations as a means to discuss
the different angles and cultural meanings that the use of Hitler’s image
elicit. The aim is to establish an interdisciplinary framework for analysis
of such icons and their significance for the study of collective memory
in general.
City Branding
Authors: Inklaar Frank
Published: May 2021

This chapter focusses on the topic of iconicity in city branding. By analyzing
the way in which the Dutch city of Zwolle is ‘made’ into a successful
brand – an iconic Hanseatic town –, general characteristics of the cultural
icon, in particular the pre-eminent visual nature of the icon and the
supposed universality of the icon, are put into question. Clearly, when it
comes to iconic cities, few will think of a middle-large Dutch town like
Zwolle. That the branding of Zwolle as an iconic Hanseatic city is deployed
with such apparent ease is telling for the hyperinflation the concept of the
icon has undergone in present culture. Still, as is demonstrated, a closer
analysis of such an ‘un-iconic’ icon can tell much about the construction of
icons in present day commercialized culture. More broadly, this analysis
sheds light on the ways in which history is revived and remodelled in
contemporary culture.
What to Lea(f) In, What to Lea(f) Out
Authors: Kumpf Baele Kirsten E.
Published: May 2021

Anne Frank’s chestnut tree can be found on the pages of children’s books, in
the frame of a video, as a digital leaf on a cyber-trunk or as a seedling shared
throughout the world. The image can never represent Anne Frank’s entire
story, but, as this chapter demonstrates, as a subsequent icon it does serve
as a reminder for overcoming ignorance, respecting humanity and, most
importantly, combatting prejudice. The chapter explores the complexity
of the chestnut tree as a ‘pedagogical icon’ by studying the way it applies to
and influences the educational sector both on literary and digital platforms.
It follows insights from Cohen-Janca, Gottesfeld, Kohuth and Eisenberg
Sasso, who state that it is the interplay between the remembrance of the
Shoah and the sustainability of trees and the environment that inspires
a fruitful compositional narrative for young readers.
Globalization, Nationalism, and Music Education in the Twenty-First Century in Greater China
Authors: Ho Wai-Chung
Published: May 2021

Globalization, Nationalism, and Music Education in the Twenty-First Century in Greater China examines the recent developments in school education and music education in Greater China – Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan – and the relationship between, and integration of, national cultural identity and globalization in their respective school curriculums. Regardless of their common history and cultural backgrounds, in recent decades, these localities have experienced divergent political, cultural, and educational structures. Through an analysis of the literature, official curriculum documents, approved music textbooks, and a survey questionnaire and in-depth interviews with music teachers, this book also examines the ways in which policies for national identity formation and globalization interact to complement and contradict each other in the context of music education in respect to national and cultural values in the three territories.

Wai-Chung Ho’s substantive research interests include the sociology of music, China’s education system, and the comparative study of East Asian music education. Her research focuses on education and development, with an emphasis on the impact of the interplay between globalization, nationalization, and localization on cultural development and school music education.
FUNGITOXICIDADE DO ÓLEO ESSENCIAL DE Lippia alba SOBRE Corynespora cassiicola ISOLADO DE TOMATEIRO
Authors: Tavares João Paulo Fonseca , Júnior João Bosco Batista Nogueira , Melo Ítalo Fernando da Costa
Published: May 2021

Introdução: O tomate (Solanum lycopersicum L.) é uma das principais culturas hortícolas em todo o mundo devido à sua importância nutricional e econômica. Entretanto, alguns problemas fitossanitários limitam o cultivo dessa hortaliça. Na região Norte do país, a mancha-alvo causada pelo fungo Corynespora cassiicola está entre as doenças mais importantes que atacam a parte aérea do tomateiro, ocasionando perda da produtividade dessa hortaliça. Objetivo: Avaliar o potencial do óleo essencial de Lippia alba. Material e métodos: A avaliação in vitro foi realizada em duas etapas: I - efeito dos óleos essenciais sobre o crescimento micelial, II - ação dos óleos sobre a esporulação e germinação de conídios do fungo. Foram utilizadas as concentrações: 1,2% (900 µL), 1,0% (750 µL), 0,7% (525 µL), 0,5% (375 µL), 0,2% (150 µL) e 0,0% (0,0 µL), sendo esta última o controle negativo. Resultados: A utilização de óleo essencial de Lippia alba na inibição do crescimento micelial (ICM), foi acima de 100% para as concentrações: 05%, 0,7%, 1,0% e 1,2%. Na concentração de 0,2%, houve uma inibição de 52,5% do crescimento micelial. O controle obteve valores de diâmetro de colônia em tono de 8 cm. No ensaio in vitro da porcentagem de inibição da esporulação (PIE), houve 100% da inibição para as concentrações de 05% a 1,2% e uma inibição de 52,9% para a concentração de 0,2%. Quanto à porcentagem de inibição da germinação, em todas as concentrações avaliadas, houve inibição de 100% dos conídios, apresentando efeito fungistático. Conclusão: O óleo essencial de L. alba apresenta atividade antifúngica inibindo tanto o crescimento micelial de C. cassiicola, quanto a esporulação e germinação do patógeno. Concentrações a partir de 375µL, reduz significativamente o desenvolvimento do fungo.
PAPEL DA CÁPSULA POLISSACARÍDICA E DA PROTEÍNA PspA NA AÇÃO MICROBICIDA DA INDOLICIDINA SOBRE Streptococcus pneumoniae
Authors: Waz Natalha Tedeschi , Froes Bárbara Milani , Darrieux Michelle
Published: May 2021

Introdução: Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococo) é uma bactéria responsável por elevada mortalidade no mundo todo. É um patógeno Gram-positivo extracelular recoberto por uma cápsula polissacarídica. A cápsula confere proteção contra a fagocitose pelo sistema imune, além de influenciar diferentes aspectos da patogênese bacteriana, como adesão e deposição de moléculas do sistema complemento. Devido à sua elevada imunogenicidade, os polissacarídeos capsulares constituem a base das formulações vacinais atualmente disponíveis contra o pneumococo. As cápsulas apresentam elevada variabilidade, permitindo a classificação da bactéria em 96 sorotipos. Os peptídeos antimicrobianos (AMPs) representam uma das primeiras linhas de defesa imune, através da capacidade de promover a lise de diversos patógenos. A indolicidina, um peptídeo catiônico produzido por neutrófilos ativados, apresenta ação bactericida contra o pneumococo. Nosso grupo demonstrou que a presença da proteína PspA – um importante candidato vacinal – na superfície da bactéria apresenta efeito protetor contra a lise por indolicidina. No entanto, a influência de outros fatores de virulência, como cápsula polissacarídica, não foram investigados. Objetivo: O presente estudo tem como objetivo avaliar o papel da cápsula polissacarídica na proteção da bactéria contra a ação lítica da indolicidina. Material e métodos: Inicialmente foi avaliada a sensibilidade à indolicidina de pneumococos de quatro sorotipos capsulares diferentes. Em seguida, foi analisada a resistência à indolicidina em pneumococos selvagens versus mutantes isogênicos sem cápsula. Resultados: Os dados obtidos no primeiro ano de projeto indicam que diferentes sorotipos de pneumococo apresentam variação na resistência à indolicidina; os isolados 245/00 (sorotipo 14) e A66.1 (sorotipo 3) foram mais sensíveis quando comparados à D39 (sorotipo 2). A presença da cápsula também parece influenciar a ação lítica da indolicidina; a bactéria mutante se mostrou mais sensível ao AMP quando comparada à bactéria encapsulada. Conclusão e perspectivas: Os dados obtidos até o momento sugerem que a cápsula desempenha um papel protetor contra a ação da indolicidina e que variações na composição da mesma podem afetar a resistência bacteriana ao peptídeo. Novos ensaios utilizando-se pneumococos de diferentes sorotipos irão confirmar a influência da composição da cápsula na ação da indolicidina, enquanto a comparação de pneumococos selvagens e mutantes sem cápsula com diferentes backgrounds genéticos elucidará o efeito desta estrutura na proteção da bactéria contra este AMP.
AVALIAÇÃO DA ATIVIDADE NEMATICIDA E OVICIDA DO ÓLEO ESSENCIAL DE Foeniculum vulgare EM Caenorhabditis elegans
Authors: Da Silva Wanderson Anjos , Albuquerque Yulli Roxenne , Otaviano Gustavo Palombo , Correia Ricardo de Oliveira , Anibal Fernanda de Freitas
Published: May 2021

Introdução: As infecções causadas por geo-helmintos afetam humanos, plantas e animais, trazendo preocupação para a saúde pública e para o setor agropecuário. O desenvolvimento de resistência relatada em helmintos parasitas frente aos antiparasitários trouxe a necessidade de buscar novos agentes terapêuticos como alternativa aos fármacos já existentes. Objetivo: Avaliar as atividades antinematódeas do óleo essencial de Foeniculum vulgare (funcho-doce), utilizando o nematódeo Caenorhabditis elegans como modelo biológico. Material e métodos: O óleo essencial comercial de F. vulgare foi testado nas concentrações de 0,5%, 0,25%, 0,13%, 0,06%, 0,03% e 0,01% (v/v). O solvente do óleo (Tween 80) foi utilizado como controle negativo, enquanto o controle positivo foi realizado com Levamisol a 25 mM. Os ensaios foram realizados em triplicata e em três momentos diferentes (n=9), avaliando por microscopia óptica a quantidade de nematódeos vivos e a motilidade nos períodos de 6h, 24h e 48h de exposição ao óleo essencial. Posteriormente, foram realizados ensaios analisando os efeitos ovicida, pela inibição da eclosão das larvas após 24h de exposição. Para a identificação dos componentes do óleo foi realizada a cromatografia gasosa acoplada à espectrometria de massa. Resultados: O óleo de F. vulgare apresentou redução significativa (p<0,05) de nematoides vivos e de eclosão das larvas dos ovos a partir da concentração de 0,06%, além de uma redução acentuada na motilidade. Nas concentrações de 0,13% e 0,25% observou-se a redução de mais de 50% de nematódeos vivos, enquanto no tratamento com 0,5% não foi observada a presença de nematódeos vivos a partir do período de 6h. A caracterização química do óleo identificou o anetol (89%) como composto majoritário. Conclusão: O óleo essencial de F. vulgare apresentou atividades nematicida e ovicida em C. elegans, sendo este efeito possivelmente causado pelo composto anetol, e desta maneira possui potencial para ser utilizado no desenvolvimento de novas terapias antihelmínticas.
UTILIZAÇÃO DO SISTEMA CRISPR-CAS9 PARA O TRATAMENTO DE CARCINOMA PAPILÍFERO DE TIREOIDE: REVISÃO DE LITERATURA
Authors: De Figueiredo Wenberger Lanza Daniel , Serra Paula Taquita , De Carvalho Diego Monteiro
Published: May 2021

Introdução: O CRISPR/Cas9 é um sistema de tratamento para câncer baseado na edição do DNA que pode mudar os tratamentos para carcinoma papilífero de tireoide. Objetivo: Revisar na literatura a utilização do sistema CRISPR-CAS9 nos tratamentos para carcinoma papilífero de tireoide. Material e métodos: Realizou-se uma revisão de literatura combinando os seguintes descritores: “CRISPR-Associated Proteins e Thyroid Cancer, Papillary” nas plataformas PubMed, BVS e SciELO por artigos publicados há 5 anos completos e gratuitos. Por fim, incluiu-se 5 textos, 2 foram analisados por relacionarem-se ao tema do estudo. Resultados: As equipes de pesquisa do Reino Unido e da Grécia realizaram experimentação in vitro e in vivo de amostras retiradas de tecido vivo pós-cirúrgico com triagem por imuno-histoquímica de 170 amostras de tecido tireoidiano. O sistema de CRISPR/Cas9 possibilitou o knockdown de SLC35F2 em células cancerígenas que inibiu significativamente a proliferação, aboliu as habilidades de formação de colônias e atenuou a invasão e metástase de células cancerosas da tireoide. Dessa forma, viabilizou a suspeição do SLC35F2 como um importante preditor de metástases em linfonodos para pacientes com carcinoma de tireoide. Ademais, o knockdown por CRISPR/Cas9 de Ku80 reduziu significativamente a proliferação, invasão e formação de tumor em células tireoidianas. Teve efeitos no aumento significativo da taxa de apoptose, além de regular negativamente as moléculas relacionadas à via de sinalização de MAPK e proteínas associadas à proliferação e metástase das células. Por fim, demonstrou que o Ku80 está envolvido na patogênese do câncer de tireoide. Conclusão: Em suma, a técnica por CRISPR/Cas9 aplicada em cultura de células tumorais de tireoide demonstrou ser útil quanto ao silenciamento de genes envolvidos na metástase e proliferação. Assim, embora seja necessário melhor estudo do tema em humanos, supõe-se que a aplicação clínica futura em pacientes portadores da doença será possível.