bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Distribución temporal y potencial reproductivo de la cochinilla rosada del hibisco (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) en Nayarit, México
Authors: García-Álvarez Nadia C. , Urías-López Mario A. , Hernández-Fuentes Luis M. , Osuna-García Jorge A. , Medina-Torres Raúl , González Carrillo Jesús A.
Published: April 2018

La cochinilla rosada del hibisco (CRH) Maconellicoccus hirsutus Green es una plaga que ataca una gran variedad de cultivos, tiene gran capacidad reproductiva y de dispersión. Los objetivos fueron determinar la f luctuación poblacional anual, definir el número potencial de generaciones por año y las zonas de riesgo de la de CRH en Nayarit. La f luctuación de las poblaciones se obtuvo del monitoreo realizado durante dos años con tres hospedantes naturales de la plaga. Para determinar el potencial de generaciones, se utilizó información de temperaturas de las principales estaciones climatológicas del estado, los requerimientos de unidades calor y umbrales de desarrollo de la especie. Las poblaciones más bajas de la CRH se registraron durante las lluvias de agosto a octubre, las poblaciones fueron moderadas durante los periodos de bajas temperaturas de noviembre a febrero. Los promedios más altos ocurrieron durante el periodo sin lluvias y con temperaturas relativamente altas de marzo a junio. En el hospedante silvestre Acacia sp. (“rabo de iguana”) se registraron las densidades más altas de la plaga respecto a guanábana y teca. Cuatro localidades de Nayarit mostraron el mayor potencial reproductivo al registrar entre 14.4 y 13.2 generaciones por año. De las zonas aún no invadidas por la plaga, se podrían producir de 7.5 a 11 generaciones por año. La zona costera donde se concentra la producción agrícola resultó la superficie de mayor riesgo de la CRH.
Hallazgos ultraestructurales en lesiones foliares asociadas a ‘vena roja’ en helecho hoja de cuero
Authors: Granados-Montero María del Milagro , Sánchez-Chacón Ethel , Vargas-Montero Maribel , Barboza-Aguilar Cinthya
Published: April 2018

La vena roja del helecho hoja de cuero (Rumorah adiantiformis) se cataloga como una enfermedad de etiología desconocida, ya que no se conoce cuál es su agente o factor causal. Ésta alteración, al igual que el síndrome de Sterloff (SS), se ha venido presentando desde hace varios años en Costa Rica, lo que ha producido situaciones económicas desfavorables, reduciendo el área sembrada en 60% y provocando una disminución en los puestos de trabajo 70%. Se registra muy poca investigación a nivel mundial que caracterice ambas patologías, por lo que es imposible realizar una estrategia de manejo apropiada, lo que conlleva al aumento del costo económico, social y ambiental del cultivo. Con el fin de describir ultraestructuralmente los síntomas de la enfermedad, se colectó tejido foliar por un período de dos años (2007 y 2008) en Poás de Alajuela, Costa Rica, y se realizaron observaciones mediante microscopia electrónica de barrido y transmisión. Los tejidos con síntomas revelaron la presencia de cristales laminados en las células del mesófilo esponjoso y acumulaciones cristalinas amorfas en el parénquima del haz vascular, así como gran cantidad de cristales en las vacuolas del mesófilo esponjoso. Éstos cristales, aparentemente, están compuestos por oxalato de calcio, no se evidenció presencia de cristales en tejidos asintomáticos. Este artículo describe los hallazgos ultraestructurales en follaje con y sin síntomas de vena roja en plantas de helecho y menciona como una posibilidad de la causa condiciones de estrés por desbalances nutricionales.
Compostaje de residuos agroindustriales inoculados con hongos lignocelulósicos y modificación de la relación C/N
Authors: Méndez-Matías Artemio , Robles Celerino , Ruiz-Vega Jaime , Castañeda-Hidalgo Ernesto
Published: April 2018

La disposición actual de residuos implica un fuerte impacto ambiental que puede ser minimizado al reciclar estos materiales. El compostaje es una de las mejores opciones para lograr este propósito. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo evaluar el efecto de la inoculación de Trichoderma harzianum y Aspergillus sp. en el proceso de compostaje de bagazo de maguey mezcalero (BM-Agave angustifolia Haw.) y bagazo de caña de azúcar (BC-Saccharum officinarum L.), ambos con relación C/N reducida. Durante el año 2012, en Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán (Oaxaca, México), se desarrolló un experimento bajo un diseño completamente aleatorizado. Se monitoreó el proceso de compostaje de BM y BC, inoculados con los hongos T. harzianum y Aspergillus sp., incluyendo un control sin inocular. Para ambos residuos, la relación C/N fue modificada con la adición de estiércol bovino. La duración del experimento fue de 133 días. Se registró la temperatura de las masas en fermentación cada semana. Se tomaron muestras por triplicado para análisis los días 0, 37, 70, 103 y 133 después de iniciado el proceso. La adición de estiércol bovino fue suficiente para reducir el valor de la relación C/N y alcanzar en pocos días la fase termófila. La inoculación con T. harzianum y Aspergillus sp., redujo el tiempo de degradación del BM pero no de BC. Aspergillus sp., generó mayor degradación en ambos residuos. BM alcanzó valores de C/N que la califican como una composta madura a partir del día 103 del compostaje, no ocurrió así con BC.
Análisis de costos y competitividad en la producción de aguacate en Michoacán, México
Authors: Franco Sánchez Mario Alberto , Leos Rodríguez Juan Antonio , Salas González José María , Acosta Ramos Marcelo , García Munguía Argelia
Published: April 2018

El proceso de globalización ha forzado a los productores de aguacate en Michoacán a mejorar su competitividad, ser más eficientes y controlar sus costos de producción para adaptarse a las exigencias del mercado. La contabilidad de costos proporciona datos para monitorear las actividades de una empresa, brinda herramientas para la toma de decisiones correctivas y lograr metas, para mantener o aumentar las utilidades. Se estimaron los costos de producción, rentabilidad y competitividad de tres unidades representativas de producción (URP) de aguacate, dos de exportación y una para mercado nacional en Michoacán, en el año 2013. Se utilizó la metodología propuesta por USDA, ajustada para analizar la rentabilidad agrícola en México. Para recuperar la información directa de los coeficientes técnicos, rendimientos, precios de insumos y productos, se empleó la técnica de paneles de productores. Los resultados indican que la URP de menor escala, que destina 100% de su producción al mercado nacional, presentó los costos de producción más altos y una rentabilidad de $51 655.10 ha-1, en comparación con las URP de mayor escala, que destinan entre 80 y 90% de su producción a la exportación, con rentabilidades de $243 779.10 y $217 570.80 ha-1. Asimismo, los costos de los recursos privados confirmaron la alta proporción guardada por los costos variables, principalmente plaguicidas y fertilizantes. La producción de aguacate en Michoacán fue una actividad rentable en 2013; sin embargo, solo las URP que exportan tienen garantizada su viabilidad económica y permanencia a largo plazo.
Evaluación del costo de producción de inoculantes ectomicorrízicos neotropicales a base de esporas
Authors: Carrasco Hernández Violeta , Rodríguez Trejo Dante Arturo , Pérez Moreno Jesús , Duarte Zaragoza Víctor Manuel , Navarros Sandoval José Luis , Quintero Lizaola Roberto
Published: April 2018

La diversidad biológica en cualquier ecosistema es fundamental para su existencia y equilibrio. La explotación forestal altera indudablemente esta diversidad. Un ejemplo son las modificaciones en las comunidades de hongos ectomicorrízicos, los cuales son fundamentales para las especies de importancia forestal. Debido a lo anterior es imprescindible para la reforestación llevar a cabo la micorrización en vivero y con ello favorecer el establecimiento de los árboles en campo sobre todo en áreas altamente perturbadas o erosionadas. Sin embargo, el reintroducir a las especies ectomicorrízicas es todo un reto por las implicaciones ecológicas, biotecnológicas y financieras. Particularmente, existe escasa información que analice el costo de producción de inoculantes ectomicorrízicos a base de esporas y de las especies o los criterios para elegir la especie de hongo ectomicorrízico adecuado para preparación de inoculantes. En el presente trabajo se realizó la evaluación del costo de producción de inoculantes Neotropicales a base de esporas de especies de hongos ectomicorrízicos comestibles nativos de México pertenecientes a Laccaria spp. y Hebeloma spp. Los costos de producción del inoculante ectomicorrízico a base de esporas evaluado en el presente trabajo fueron de $2.00 por gramo para el inóculo en polvo y de $0.05 por mL para el inóculo líquido. Ambos inoculantes son efectivos en la colonización micorrízica de pinos, se demuestra la factibilidad financiera de la producción de inoculantes ectomicorrízicos para inocular pinos de importancia forestal.
Penguatan Kemampuan Petani Cabe Merah Kriting (Capsicuum Annuum L) di Desa Tanjung Wangi Kecamatan Cicalengka Kabupaten Bandung Jawa Barat
Authors: Sukayat Yayat , Hapsari Hepi , Supyandi Dika , Rostini Neni
Published: April 2018

Tanjung Wangi Village is a hillside village to the mountains covering an area of 637, 625 ha, with a height of 1105 m above sea level (asl), and average temperature reaches 27oC. One of the village’s most valuable commodities is chili. This village has 16.73 Ha, or 72.73% of the planting area of chili in Kec Cicalengka, with production of 3218.16 kw or ranges from 0.8 to 1.1 kg / tree. The problem facing farmers is the price of seeds that continue to soar and dependancy to the hybrid seeds. The productivity has not significantly different to the open poliner red pepper produced by Unpad. Therefore, it is interested to disseminate it to the farmers. The purpose of this dissemination program is to increase the knowledge of the farmers in developing the seeds of Unpad Red Cry Chili (CK5), and it is expected that the farmers will have knowledge in seed propagation. The method is using the action research followed with a workshop, which involves chili farmers to discuss problems encountered (through lecture and FGD) and continued with simulation. The result is that the farmer knows how to propagate the seeds and will try to do the demonstration plot in the area for 100 plants.
A Study on Employees Attitude towards Fringe Benefits
Authors: Sharma Kratika , Jaiswal Nitin
Published: April 2018

For any organization to compete favorably in the competitive society, employee’s attitudes and commitment towards work goes a long way in determining the employees’ performance and organization productivity. The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of incentives packages on employee’s attitudes towards fringe benefits. The results show that strong relationship exists between incentives packages and employee’s attitudes towards fringe benefits However, employers of labor and decision makers should endeavor to review incentives packages at various levels in order to earn employees’ commitment and satisfaction. This examination proposes that representative view of the advantages gave to them by their association can impact worker states of mind. Three factors that seem to impact the view of advantages by representatives are advantage fulfillment, advantage significance, and the apparent thought process of the association in giving the advantage to workers. Notwithstanding, it additionally creates the impression that a few advantages are seen as rights that are owed to workers by the association. This investigation proposes and tests a model of advantage discernment that fuses these elements. Results recommend that advantage fulfillment and the apparent thought process of the association in giving an advantage both have an immediate association with representative mentalities. The apparent right status of an advantage seems to direct this relationship. Compensation or Right: An Analysis of Employee “Fringe” Benefit Perception
Sistem Pendukung Pengambilan Keputusan Penentuan Beasiswa Menggunakan Metode Fuzzy - AHP
Authors: Saifulloh - , Kusrini -
Published: April 2018

Penerima beasiswa adalah seseorang yang lolos dalam suatu kriteria tertentu. Data-data penerima beasiswa diseleksi untuk menentukan siswa mana yang berhak menerima beasiswa. Masing-masing data siswa dipertimbangkan dengan melihat kriteria tertentu. Masing-masing kriteria memiliki bobot yang berbeda-beda. Berdasarkan bobot dari masing-masing kriteria itu, bisa didapatkan bobot yang dapat diurutkan sesuai prioritas tertentu. Prosedur pengolahan data yang dilakukan secara manual meliputi kegiatan pengumpulan data, pengelompokan, pengurutan, perhitungan dan yang pada akhirnya menyusun dalam sejumlah bentuk laporan. Pada penelitian penerimaan beasiswa ini, sistem pendukung keputusan menggunakan metode fuzzy analytic hierarchy process. Hasil bobot siswa yaitu Budi 0.212, Luthfi 0.18, Sendi A 0.148, Muklis 0.164 dan Indah P 0.138. Data ini merupakan 5 besar siswa yang berhak mendapatkan beasiswa sedangkan untuk Novi dan kawit kurang memenuhi standart persyaratan pendaftaran.Kata Kunci: SPK, Beasiswa, Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process
Sistem Berkas Digital Untuk Berkas Penelitian di Universitas Klabat
Authors: Lolong Steven , Gara Egerly W , Harimisa Rivo
Published: April 2018

Sistem penyimpanan hasil penelitian yang ada di Universitas Klabat (UNKLAB) merupakan sistem penyimpanan yang masih bersifat manual, dimana setiap penelitian di simpan di kantor fakultas dan di perpustakaan. Hal ini menyebabkan berkas yang ada tidak tersimpan dengan teratur dan kesulitan bagi pengguna untuk mengakses. Sehingga sangat dibutuhkan untuk dikembangkan sistem berkas digital penyimpanan berkas hasil penelitian. Sistem yang dirancang nantinya dapat menghubungkan mahasiswa dan dosen pada semua penelitaian yang ada di UNKLAB. Sistem berkas digital ini dibangun dengan menggunakan Framework CodeIgniter (CI) yang berbasis bahasa pemrograman PHP dan MySQL sebagai basisdata. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam pengembangan sistem berkas digital ini menggunakan metode spiral. Aplikasi sistem berkas digital memiliki kemampuan menyimpan dokumen, menampilkan isi dokumen dan multi user.Kata kunci: Sistem Berkas Digital, PHP, Sistem Berkas
Implementasi Fuzzy Logic Controller pada Rice Cooker untuk Varietas Beras Ketan
Authors: Aisuwarya Ratna
Published: April 2018

Selain beras putih, terdapat beberapa jenis beras yang beredar di pasaran seperti beras merah, beras hitam serta beras ketan dengan bentuk, struktur dan kandungan yang berbeda. Perbedaan ini membutuhkan cara pengolahan yang berbeda pula. Beras ketan memiliki tekstur yang jauh lebih keras tetapi juga mudah lembek. Di Indonesia, rice cooker yang dijual dipasaran masih digunakan untuk memasak beras biasa. Proses memasak ketan menggunakan rice cooker tentu bisa dilakukan. Tetapi, untuk mengolah beras ketan dengan rice cooker dibutuhkan metode yang tepat. Penelitian ini menerapkan konsep kontrol rice cooker menggunakan metode fuzzy logic untuk jenis beras ketan. Pengontrolan dilakukan pada tahapan merendam (soaking) dengan nilai set poin suhu 30 oC. Fuzzy Logic akan menghasilkan nilai PWM sebagai output, sehingga dapat memberikan nilai tegangan yang sesuai agar suhu rice cooker akan tetap stabil di titik 30 oC selama 30 menit. Hasil pengujian sistem secara keseluruhan untuk 3 jenis massa beras menunjukan bahwa perbedaan massa tidak mempengaruhi lamanya fase merendam, karena telah diimbangi dengan penggunaan air yang sesuai.  Ketan yang dimasak menggunakan rice cooker yang dikontrol memiliki tekstur yang lunak dan lengket serta matang secara merata jika dibandingkan dengan ketan yang dimasak tanpa pengontrolan. Keywords : Rice Cooker, Fuzzy Logic, Beras Ketan
Analisis Efektivitas Sistem Informasi Perpustakaan Menggunakan COBIT 5.0 di Universitas Klabat
Authors: Lolong Steven , Purwadaria Dipta Divakara Pius
Published: April 2018

Sistem informasi yang telah berhasil diimplementasikan dan berjalan dalam kurun waktu tertentu tidak akan lepas dari masalah. Dalam meningkatkan ataupun menjaga agar masalah yang ada tidak terulang perlu adanya pengukuran. Oleh karena itu, peneliti menganalisa efektivitas sistem informasi perpustakaan di Universitas Klabat, sehingga pihak Universitas Klabat dapat melakukan peningkatan terhadap sistem informasi perpustakaan jika dibutuhkan. Adapun metode yang digunakan peneliti untuk mendapatkan data yang digunakan dalam pengukuran melalui wawancara dan kuesioner. Basis pengukuran menggunakan framework COBIT 5.0. Penelitian ini menggunakan regresi linear sederhana dan regresi linear berganda dalam melakukan pengolahan data dengan kakas SPSS. Dari penelitian ini didapati bahwa secara keseluruhan berdasarkan sudut pandang pengguna terdapat pengaruh efektivitas dari keempat variabel yang diuji terhadap sistem informasi perpustakaan di Universitas Klabat, sedangkan dari sudut pandang staff perpustakaan tidak ditemukan pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap sistem informasi perpustakaan di Universitas Klabat. Keywords :COBIT, sistem informasi, efektivitas, perpustakaan
Perancangan Sistem Koleksi Data Lahan Tidur Dan Puso Untuk Peningkatan Produksi Komoditas Padi Dan Jagung
Authors: Sahulata Reynoldus Andrias
Published: April 2018

Produksi komoditas pangan padi dan jagung tidak hanya tercermin dari berapa besar panen yang diperoleh namun juga dapat dilihat dari dua faktor utama lainnya yaitu berapa besar terjadinya gagal panen atau puso serta berapa besar hamparan lahan tidur yang ada. Kedua faktor ini sangat menentukan terhadap potensi untuk dapat meningkatkan produksi komoditas pertanian padi dan jagung lebih optimal dapat dicapai. Oleh karna itu penelitian ini fokus pada upaya mengoleksi data yang diolah menjadi informasi untuk dapat mengetahui berapa besar potensi komoditas padi dan jagung dari peristiwa terjadinya puso dan luasan lahan pertanian yang tidak digarap atau lahan tidur. Data dikoleksi mulai ditingkat petani pemilik yang juga sebagai penggarap lahan pertaniana yang terhimpun pada Kelompok Tani tingkat Desa, Kelurahan, Kecamatan, Kabupaten/Kota sampai ditingkat Provinsi dan di tingkat Nasional, sehingga didapatkan angka potensi perolehan hasil pertanian yang masih bisa diupayakan untuk peningkatan hasil pertanian komoditas padi dan jagung, sehingga dapat dibuatkan kebijakan dan insentif untuk meningkat hasil panen. Keywords :Koleksi Data, Puso, Lahan Tidur, Kebijakan
Sosialisasi Sistem Informasi Potensi Dan Pembangunan Pulau Barrang Lompo Berbasis Web
Authors: Intan Indo , Karnyoto Andrea Stevens
Published: April 2018

Warga Barrang Lompo melakukan publikasi terhadap pembangunan partisipatif menggunakan media seperti spanduk dan pamflet sehingga hanya bisa menjangkau warga pulau saja. Jangkauannya masih terbatas dan tidak fleksibel, ditambah keterbatasan keterampilan warga dalam teknologi informasi dan komunikasi. Akibatnya informasi potensi dan pembangunan pulau diketahui pihak internal saja, yaitu pemerintah dan warga karena tidak dipublikasikan secara meluas dengan jangkauan yang tidak terbatas bahkan menembus dunia luar. Tujuan pengabdian untuk membangun sistem informasi berbasis web yang dapat diakses oleh seluruh masyarakat baik secara lokal, nasional maupun internasional yang menyajikan potensi dan pembangunan pulau Barrang Lompo; meningkatkan wawasan, pengetahuan serta keterampilan dalam mengelola sistem informasi bagi warga. Metode penelitian melalui: penjajakan, perancangan dan pembuatan sistem; sosialisasi dan pelatihan, serta evaluasi. Pengujian menggunakan alfa testing dan gain testing. Hasil penelitian ini adalah: sistem informasi; peningkatan keterampilan pegawai kelurahan dan anggota BKM. Keywords : Sosialisasi, Sistem Informasi Pulau Barrang Lompo, Potensi Pulau, Pembangunan, Keterampilan
The Paradox of Cultural Identity in English Canada
Authors: Angus Ian
Published: April 2018

Any attempt to define the cultural identity of English Canada comes upon the difficulty that there is neither nation-state nor a subnational institution that corresponds to this group. This engenders the constitutive paradox that one cannot definitively define whether one is speaking of a component of this identity or the identity itself. Every identity refers to itself and to a higher identity within which it can be localized. The paradoxical situation of English Canadian identity is explored to propose that whenever a cultural identity occurs as a component of a higher identity that has no fixed hegemonic location or existence the constitutive paradox appears. Four aspects of the traditional definitions of English Canadian identity are explored within this constitutive paradox.
Inscription/Counter-inscription: On Harun Farocki
Authors: Gandesha Samir
Published: April 2018

Berlin-based Harun Farocki is perhaps one of the most important independent filmmakers active today. Having risen to prominence in Germany during the tumultuous 1960s, his work continues to provoke us to think critically about the pervasiveness of the image. In this, Farocki can be situated within a rich, specifically German, tradition of reflecting on the political ramifications of technology in the modern period from Nietzsche and Marx through Heidegger, Hannah Arendt and the Frankfurt School. Farocki addresses the fate of political action through an examination of the constellation of institutions that comprise the disciplinary matrix of our present: the shopping mall, the prison, and the military. Observational and disciplinary techniques are deployed in these institutions in such a way as to not only establish limits to political action in the world but also, perhaps more insidiously, to establish or frame the parameters
Working Girls in Print: A Growth Industry
Authors: Demers Patricia
Published: April 2018

This paper surveys the remarkable surge in women’s contributions to commentary on the sex industry as both subject and objects of analysis. It focuses on three recent texts: an autobiography and two participant-observation studies of striptease. Reflections of our particular moment, these texts—in their ironized attitudes and unsentimental scrutiny—mark a new level of independence and confidence in insiders’ discourses on the sex industry. The paper analyzes their self-reflexivity, theoretical grounding and narratological sophistication.
How Janey Canuck Became a Person
Authors: Henderson Jennifer
Published: April 2018

This essay argues that a confrontation with the materiality of feminist discourse calls for selfreflexive historicization and critique. If this historical and critical venture is to unsettle the ground of the feminist critic in her present moment, it should not be possible to know in advance how, and indeed whether or not, to organize the elements of this history into a systemic patriarchal capitalism. Following Deleuze and Foucault, the essay proposes the machinic assemblage as an alternative metaphor for the organization of power, and argues that a micro-analysis which acknowledges the dispersion of power and the unique histories of power’s various techniques is better equipped to enable work on the past that will challenge the present. In order to unravel the history of an informal, individualizing, and ostensibly “caring” exercise of power that Henderson calls maternal authority, the second half of the essay turns to an analysis of the career of Emily Murphy, the first female magistrate in the British empire. Murphy’s correctional work with “wayward” girls and “foreigners” in the newly-settled Canadian West was a form of normative person-making that doubled as an argument for the middle-class white woman’s own legitimate claim to personhood, as Canadian women struggled for this status during the same period. Understanding this specific conjuncture of do-gooding and subjectification, Henderson suggests, can put into critical perspective a more recent deployment of maternal authority in the late 20thcentury interface of New-Age liberal feminism and neoliberal managerial discourse (Henderson 1997).
“Malibu’s Most Undercover Guru”: Deconstructing Race thru a Comical Pedagogy of Whiteness
Authors: Brayton Sean
Published: April 2018

Whiteness maintains its dominance by appearing as an “unnamed norm” in popular culture. Film and television, for instance, typically construct a version of reality that obfuscates the social advantages of being white in North America. Recently, however, a wave of films has challenged the superiority of the unmarked whiteness. In particular, Malibu’s Most Wanted (2003), Undercover Brother (2002), and The Guru (2002) provide a timely critique of race. These films represent a “comical pedagogy of whiteness” that is, nevertheless, dialectical. While some comedies may deconstruct whiteness, they may also subsume real racial struggles. Such films, then, may represent both a parody of whiteness and a whiteness of parody.
Ill-Fated Lessons: History, Remembrance, Trauma and Memory in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s The Way the Crow Flies
Authors: Luhmann Susanne
Published: April 2018

Drawing upon cultural memory, trauma studies and psychoanalytic theories of transgenerational haunting, I read Ann-Marie MacDonald’s novel as offering a critique of the deadly consequences of conventional modes of national forgetting and remembering. The novel brings into view the effects of ignored and repressed national and personal trauma, which, by way of haunting across generations and geographies, constitute a distinct, if unconscious, mode of remembrance.
Black Canadian Literature as Diaspora Transgression: The Second Life of Samuel Tyne
Authors: Davis Andrea
Published: April 2018

This paper attempts to interrogate some of the challenges involved in the ar-ticulation of a black Canadian literature and suggests that such a literature may best be understood not as a set of coherent national narratives but as a complex engagement of the multiple diasporic experiences that inform and influence understandings of Canadian-ness. The study argues, therefore, that the very diasporic character of black Canadian literature—its pluralism and heterogeneity—articulate a deliberately transgressive Canadian-ness. By linking narrative and social geographies, the paper situates the works of black women writers in the Americas as part of a tradition of the counter-novel, involved in acts of boundary crossing and cultural and textual unmanageability. The paper explores finally the disruptive, but also potentially liberating, function of the literature by engaging in a detailed discussion of Esi Edugyan’s novel The Second Life of Samuel Tyne.
The State of Intellectual Play: A Generational Manifesto for Neoliberal Times
Authors: Kurasawa Fuyuki
Published: April 2018

This paper constitutes a manifesto for Generation-X academics, in the form of eight diagnostical and prescriptive theses. It is written in response to shifting conditions at two levels: externally, the hegemony of neoliberalism in the socio-political environment within which North American universities operate, which has spawned the dogma of inter-institutional competitiveness and educational vocationalism; and internally, a generational changing of the guard within universities, which is accompanied by a sense of despondency toward intellectual life and is thereby producing strategies of resigned quietism or instrumental careerism. By contrast, the manifesto proclaims that we must invent a practice of intellectual craftwork and publicly engaged scholarly research, one simultaneously striving for analytical rigour and theoretical boldness in order to convert the academy into a space of critique of the status quo and invention of alternatives.
The Ambivalent Translator: Freeplay in Janice Gurney’s Punctuation in Translation
Authors: Jordan Miriam
Published: April 2018

This essay examines the artwork of Toronto-based artist Janice Gurney, focusing on her use of text and punctuation in her artwork; her work is specifically examined in relation to Derrida’s notion of freeplay. Focusing on artists who are part of Gurney’s social network, I trace a brief history of the use of text and textual elements within contemporary Canadian art, connecting this history to Gurney’s use of text as an ambivalent act of historical translation. The focus of this text is an examination of Gurney’s use of punctuation from The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in her new series of paintings titled Punctuation in Translation. Each of Gurney’s paintings represent a single translation of Marcus Aurelius, in which only the punctuation is reproduced, eliminating the words and in this way she presents Aurelius not through the presence of his words in translation, but through their absence. Gurney revels in the never-ending Derridian freeplay of translation and contextualization that occurs with each and every reading of her artwork.
From Rescue to Recognition: Rethinking the Afghan Conflict
Authors: Khan Shahnaz
Published: April 2018

In this article, I argue against identifying local patriarchies as the sole cause of Afghan women’s oppression. Instead, I examine Afghan women’s lives at the nexus of local, regional and international power dynamics. I maintain that while notions of women’s rescue are deployed to generate consent for the military mission in Afghanistan, women’s concerns continue to be peripheral to regional and international geopolitics.
Bullying in U.S. Public Culture: Or, Gothic Terror in the Full Light of Day
Authors: Reid Roddey
Published: April 2018

This article expands the conventional analysis of bullying and intimidation in U.S. daily life beyond family, household and school dynamics to the workplace, the media, and the world of politics. Although a universal problem, bullying enjoys a virulence and prevalence in contemporary U.S. culture virtually unmatched anywhere else in terms of its reach, depth, and legitimacy. Unlike in many European nations and Canada it is not illegal, and although a subject of endless commentary in the U.S. press it is little studied and consequently little understood as a politics of abject subjecthood consisting in the practice of humiliating others, primarily in terms of stigmatizing gender and sexual stereotypes. What is singular in the current reign of the bully is that the multiple contexts of the return of violent sovereignty in daily life and politics, neoliberal economic policies, and the War on Terror can convert the temporary experience of unwanted acts of aggression into a one of a permanent sense of weakness, self-loathing, and a perpetual fear of potential psychological or physical assaults resulting in political paralysis.
Subjects, Identities, Bodies and Selves: Siblings, Symbiotes and the Ecological Stakes of Self Perception
Authors: Murphy Patrick D.
Published: April 2018

Some contemporary ecological fictions offer complex representations of their characters that can play an important part in developing a potentially less destructive form of human self-perception than the one dominant in the cultures in which these works are written. To understand those representations, I consider the four categories in my title in terms of a literary ecology grounded in the materiality of existence, showing how each one may be necessary but is insufficient to define an individual person. This analysis, ranging from postmodern theorists through genetic development systems theory and a variety of literary texts, leads to the conclusion that we are better served by the multiplicitous concept of being subject-identifiedbodily- selves rather than any singularity.
Softwood Lumber and the Golden Spruce: Two Perspectives on the Material and Discursive Construction of British Columbian Forests
Authors: Yard Jaime
Published: April 2018

This paper considers how forests as hybrid natural-cultural “things” enter public debates in the province of British Columbia through the juxtaposition of two examples: first, the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute, and second, the felling of a single tree in Haida Gwaii as depicted in John Vaillant’s 2005 nonfiction bestseller, The Golden Spruce. The processes through which people come to know, value and represent nature in each of these examples are placed in the foreground. I argue that the framing of “the forest” as an external object for trade or conservation limits public debate by prematurely accepting the modern precept of natural and cultural separation. This argument calls for a move away from the lamentations/self-congratulatory awe of “modern” subjects faced with an external, debilitated, instrumentalized “nature,” and toward political engagement with multiple “natures,” human and non, that are not only inseparable but coconstitutive.
Boxing Ain’t No Game: Clement Virgo’s Poor Boy’s Game as Canadian Racial Counter-narrative
Authors: Medovarski Andrea
Published: April 2018

In its exploration of racialized poverty, carcereal regimes and the disciplining of Black bodies in social space, Clement Virgo’s Poor Boy’s Game provides a radical counter-narrative to Canada’s dominant narrative of benevolence and racial tolerance. Few critics, however, were willing to consider the film in these terms. Reviewers were largely unable—or unwilling—to discuss the film’s visual gestures to slavery, an absence that I argue speaks to the nation’s inability to acknowledge this aspect of its history or to speak meaningfully about questions of race. Instead, critics relegated the film to the status of a boxing movie, and their repeated and disproportionate emphasis on sport was one means through which they attempted to minimize the social and political issues the film attempts to address. While sport is often assumed to be apolitical and has historically been seen as the opiate of the masses, critics like C. L. R. James, in Beyond A Boundary (1963), have observed that societal prejudices are often rehearsed in the microcosm of the playing field, or in Virgo’s representation, the boxing ring. This paper situates Poor Boy’s Game within this framework, to emphasize the ways the film also writes a counter-narrative of athleticism which challenges the historical role of sport in the writing of dominant national narratives.
The Terrorist Entrepreneur
Authors: Genosko Gary
Published: April 2018

This paper theorizes by means of classical and contemporary social and political theory the figure of the terrorist entrepreneur. The figure is extracted from The 9/11 Commission Report—loosened from the person of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, coordinator of the attacks on the World Trade Centre, shown to express violations of category differences between East and West introduced by Max Weber and still in circulation today. Drawing upon contemporary Italian political theory of semiocapitalism and the strange fauna of political and rhetorical entrepreneurialism found in the works of Maurizio Lazzarato and Paolo Virno, the contemporary features of the terrorist entrepreneur are described.
Fear and Spectacle on the Planet of Slums
Authors: Compton James
Published: April 2018

This paper seeks to better understand the structure of feeling in Western liberal democracies following the spectacular terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Numerous commentators have made the case that the post-9/11 era is marked by a new form of political domination—one distinguished by fear. It’s argued that an emerging spectacle of terrorism has displaced older forms of fascist and consumer spectacles. Here, fear is viewed as a key organizing principle in a symbolic universe in which an abundance of the Real displaces simulacrum. Instead of the spectacular organization of the polity through consumerism, social domination is secured through the spectacle of terror and fear. This paper challenges this argument, and with it the suggestion that political communication be understood as post-representative. Following Raymond Williams, the paper investigates the production of global affect by asking what is dominant, what is residual and what is emergent about the spectacle of fear? In doing so it argues that the spectacle of commodity production remains firmly integrated with the state and the regime of capitalist globalization and renewed forms of primitive accumulation. Victims of spectacular forms of accumulation by dispossession in Western societies and the global South are now visible to each other, exposing the fearful terrain of the global affect of the Real.
The Aesthetics of Transcultural Revolution: Freedom Songs in Halifax and Toronto, 1965 to 1967
Authors: Verrall Krys
Published: April 2018

The story of the 1960s civil rights movement is conventionally viewed as a distinctly American phenomenon arising from that nation’s longer history of slavery, civil war, segregation, and racial violence. The following paper challenges this convention by looking at the dynamic relationship between black activists in Halifax and Toronto and the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a radical organization based in southern states from 1965 to 1967. Indeed, neither SNCC nor Canadian activists saw themselves in local or even national terms. While their aim was to transform local injustice, their sightlines were transnational. In this, singing proved instrumental. This paper takes two instances from 1965—the Selma, Alabama, solidarity protests in Toronto and the Freedom Singers Maritime Tour—to chart how activists on both sides of the border recognized music’s strategic importance to public protest. Both events mark a high point in SNCC/Canadian solidarity. However, the productive intersection of north-south activism with singing was fleeting. By 1966 SNCC’s internal transformations had adverse repercussions on its Canadian support base. At the same time, singing’s place as the dominant realization of culture with revolutionary praxis also changed in ways that would privilege the visual over the aural.
A City “Set in Malarial Lakeside Swamps”: Toronto and Ashbridge’s Bay Marsh
Authors: Giblett Rod
Published: April 2018

The city of Toronto was founded and built next to Ashbridge’s Bay Marsh. The marsh was filled over the next 150 years for reasons of health and industrial development. This article considers the relation between culture, ecology, postmodernism and psychoanalysis in order to retrace the history of the marsh in the maps drawn of it and the stories told about it. The loss of the marsh is a memory to retrieve and a story to retell about the fraught relationships between culture and nature, city and wetland, past and present.
Hometown Memories: Reading Memory and Materiality in Welcome to Pine Point
Authors: Kashyap Nabil
Published: April 2018

In 2011, the National Film Board of Canada released a web documentary entitled Welcome to Pine Point, which was a creative reimagining of an existing website that commemorates a postWorld War II mining town that existed for a single generation. Immediately, the project garnered acclaim, and was the subject of several online articles and the winner of two Webbies. While an experiment, the site is not experimental. The project is rooted in the context of an emerging genre—the interactive documentary—rather than being a self-conscious foray into the limits of new media. Though nominally interactive, the purpose of the project is to tell a story, to disclose a fixed narrative, and, as such, Welcome to Pine Point lends itself particularly well to being “read.” How does a web documentary engage the material of the screen and its underlying code? In what ways does it engage social memory and technological history? Using Welcome to Pine Point as a case study, this paper explores the material and rhetorical implications of memory and new media.
From Shadowy Zone to Daily Routine: Finance Culture in Australia
Authors: Greenfield Cathy , Williams Peter
Published: April 2018

This paper contributes to accounts of the role of finance and financialization in Australia. We examine recent signs of disenchantment with financialization, then show how it is difficult to yoke contemporary instabilities in a dominant, financeled governmental regime to wider projects for change given the normalization of finance culture in Australia. The paper describes and analyzes this normalization, paying particular attention to the part various media play in Australians’ acquisition of a finance rationality. While we aim to add to historicizations of finance and finance culture that interpret financialization, its various actors, its rationality and its technologies as something other than the natural habitat of people in the 21st century, we do so by looking at the problems counter-inscriptions and arguments currently face in building constituencies for alternative and oppositional finance policies.
Imagined Economies: Austerity and the Moral Economy of Fairness’
Authors: Clarke John
Published: April 2018

In this article I aim to accomplish three things: first, I wish to explore the case for taking imagined economies seriously; second, I want to examine the austerity politics and policies of the U.K. Coalition government as one particular site of economic imagining; third, I will use this example to trace some of the ways in which imagined economies imply other relationships and orderings, not least of which is what E. P. Thompson (1963) called “moral economy.” I end by claiming that imagined economies need to be analyzed conjuncturally.
Law and Order in the Arctic: “The Smiling People” and RCMP
Authors: Sangster Joan Isabel
Published: April 2018

Since the 19th century, Canadian culture has been rife with Mountie lore, and since the 1970s, many critics have deconstructed the Mountie myth, showing how this police force was romanticized in both non-fiction and fiction alike. This paper explores one example of such cultural mythmaking: a fictional television script about law and order involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in the Canadian North. “The Smiling People” was one episode in the 1959 television series, RCMP, produced by Crawley films, the BBC, and CBC, and shown in Canada as well as around the world. The RCMP series featured a small-town detachment of three RCMP men in northern Saskatchewan who sometimes ventured further north to bring their version of policing and justice to both whites and Aboriginal peoples alike. In the case of “The Smiling People,” an Inuit woman is charged with the murder of her husband; the episode covers the unfolding trial as the Mountie hero uncovers the truth about the murder. “The Smiling People” offers a story about the “contact zone” of white and Inuit which features the clash of cultures, the imposition of white values, yet the paternalistic, and ultimately ‘superior’ knowledge claims of white, southern legal practices. As such, it is an excellent example of the emerging cultural justifications for colonial consolidation in the North in the post-World War II period.
“My History is a Foreign Word”: (Re)imagining Black Diasporic Masculinities in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant
Authors: Lee Ruthann
Published: April 2018

This essay explores how black masculine subjectivity is (re)constituted and defamiliarized in Canadian author David Chariandy’s novel Soucouyant (2007). I apply a queer feminist diasporic analysis to illustrate how black diasporic masculinities are produced and (re)imagined through the mediated narratives of diasporic women. I suggest that Soucouyant challenges hegemonic constructions of masculinity by articulating contemporary black diasporic masculinities in new, alternative and queer ways. Soucouyant also gestures to the historical conditions of migration and settlement of black diasporic communities, which intersect with the disenfranchisement of Indigenous peoples through land theft and cultural genocide in Canada. Overall, I argue that theorizing black diasporic masculinities as relational offers a useful entry point for constructing political alliances between Indigenous and diasporic groups within and beyond the nation-state.
Dionne Brand and Corporeal Commemorations
Authors: Medovarski Andrea
Published: April 2018

This article grapples with the question of how to commemorate transatlantic slavery within a diasporic context. It looks critically at various acts of monumentalism and their historical use in the writing of national narratives. Proposing the need for alternate sites of remembrance, the paper offers a reading of Dionne Brand’s novel At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999), in order to examine the roles fiction might play in commemorating slavery. Using a theoretical framework informed by Édouard Glissant, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Hortense Spillers and Katherine McKitrrick, the paper examines acts of corporeal commemoration enacted by various female characters within Brand’s novel, to interrogate the ways monumentalism is often both a nationalist and a masculinist project.
The Obligation to Return: On Miguel Syjuco’s Ilustrado
Authors: Canlas Ryan
Published: April 2018

This article looks at the emblematic status of the ilustrado in discourses of Philippine nationalism and independence and seeks to redress the associated narrative of repatriation by looking specifically at how the ilustrado’s cosmopolitanism and global worldview produces tensions and elisions in constructions of nationalism and Philippine identity. In particular, this article reads Miguel Syjuco’s 2010 novel, Ilustrado, as symptomatic of the ways in which notions of nation, nationalism, globalism and identity become problematic tropes for interpreting the politics of belonging and foreignness, a problem specifically illustrated by the privileged position that the figure of the ilustrado, as cosmopolitan intellectual, enjoys. Of particular importance here is the status of the literary work, of the novel-form, as the site where anxieties over the homeland—to which the ilustrado seems to have to return—are formalized and made explicit. At stake is the very question of what it means to confront and take stock of how the homeland is given form: what kind of a hermeneutic makes it possible to disclose the politics of literature? The practice of reading is necessarily turned isnto a potentially self-critical activity through which the contradictions of the ilustrado’s globality and privilege are made explicit. This article asks, as the novel does, what role the ilustrado plays in today’s Filipino diasporic politics and what role it plays as an historical figure and trope in constructions of national and diasporic identity. By dramatizing these tensions, this article argues that Syjuco’s novel allegorizes the act of reading as a political practice fraught with aporias, aporias that disclose the limitations of the ilustrado as the meeting point of a set of clashing desires and political and literary critical interpretive practices.
“To the Intellectuals of the West”: Rithy Panh’s The Elimination and Genealogies of the Cambodian Genocide
Authors: Troeung Y-Dang , Thien Madeleine
Published: April 2018

Cambodian filmmaker and writer Rithy Panh arrived in Grenoble, France as a refugee in 1979, returning to Cambodia in 1990 to begin making documentary films. Panh’s 2013 book The Elimination (written with Christopher Bataille and translated by John Cullen) is one of the first memoirs to bear witness to the Khmer Rouge atrocities committed during the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 while also engaging more directly with the question of how the West, ideologically, militarily and juridically, has been complicit in this collective trauma and its aftermath.

A work of memoir, essay and reportage, The Elimination chronicles Panh’s face-toface conversations with Kaing Guek Eav (also known as Duch), the first Khmer Rouge official to be tried and convicted for crimes against humanity, torture and murder. We analyze Panh’s memoir as a counternarrative to the ECCC (Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, also known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal) in which Panh stages an alternative historical investigation of Cambodia’s past, beyond the limits of the tribunal’s state-sanctioned boundaries. How was the ideology of the Khmer Rouge shaped through Western Marxist intellectual influence? To what extent to did some Western intellectuals politicize the Cambodian genocide as a function of Cold War Realpolitik? We trace these questions through analysis of The Elimination’s sustained meditation on the idea of the intellectual and its problematic place in Cambodia’s modern history.