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Como pensar o cinema indígena? A paisagem, uma categoria de pensamento
Authors: Aguilera YANET Viruez
Published: March 2020

Resumo:O conceito de paisagem, entendido como contemplação, é limitado para entender o cinema indigenista e o cinema indígena da América Latina. Travessia é uma ideia mais adequada para pensar este cinema.
The Third Wave of Ecocriticism: North American Reflections on the Current Phase of the Discipline
Authors: Slovic Scott
Published: March 2020

Keywords: third wave ecocriticism, first wave ecocriticism, second wave  ecocriticism, comparative, transnational, eco-cosmopolitanism, material ecofeminism, green queer theory, animality, commitment'Third Wave Ecocriticism' has become accepted as the label for a new form of critical writing which transcends national and ethnic boundaries and compares human experience across cultures. This focus distinguishes it equally from first wave ecocriticism in the 1980s (which dealt mainly with nature writing, wilderness and women's special affinity with nature), and the second wave, which began in the mid 1990s (and turned its attention to other literary genres and media, environmental justice, and urban ecology). Critics adopting the transcultural approach are exploring tensions between the global and the local, new varieties of ecofeminism, conceptions of animality, and ways of integrating literature in environmental activism.  Palabras clave: tercera oleada de la ecocritica, primera oleada de la ecocritica, segunda oleada de la ecocritica “La Tercera oleada de la ecocrítica” se ha aceptado como etiqueta para una nueva forma de escritura crítica que trasciende las barreras nacionales y étnicas y que compara la experiencia humana de diferentes culturas. Este enfoque también la distingue de la primera oleada ecocrítica de los años 80, que se centraba sobre todo en la escritura de la naturaleza, sobre la tierra salvaje y en la afinidad de las mujeres con la naturaleza; y de la segunda oleada, que comenzó a mediados de los 90 y dirigió su atención hacia otros géneros literarios y los medios de comunicación, la justicia medioambiental y la ecología urbana. Los críticos que adoptan el enfoque transcultural exploran las tensiones entre lo global y lo local, las nuevas variedades del ecofeminismo, las nociones de animalidad y las formas de integrar la literatura en el activismo medioambiental. .
Ecocriticism as a Contribution to Consilient Knowledge
Authors: Garrard Greg
Published: March 2020

Key words: consilience, ecology, re-enchantment, niches, Weber, Darwinism  Rather than seeking to expose anthropocentrism, insisting on mutually reinforcing parallels between the discrimination of nature and mechanisms of gender, race and class, or pursuing a goal of anti-Enlightenment re-enchantment, ecocritics must engage in a programme of bridge-building between literary criticism and the empirically grounded sciences. Contextualisation of works in terms of environmental history, and a philosophy of biology critically examining its key concepts are currently among the most promising construction programmes of this kind. The time has come for ecocriticism to cease to be a romantic discourse of value or a priestly pursuit, and become a principled, professional, empirico-philosophical critique.   Palabras clave: consiliencia, ecología, encantamiento, nichos, Wever, darwinismo En lugar de empeñarse en exponer el ecocentrismo, con insistencia en paralelismos entre la discriminación de la naturaleza y mecanismos de género, raza y clase que se refuerzan de manera mutua o de salir a la caza de un objetivo de encantamiento anti Ilustración, los ecocríticos deben dedicarse a tender puentes entre la crítica literaria y las ciencias empíricas. La contextualización de obras en términos de historia medioambiental y una filosofía de la biología que examina de forma crítica sus conceptos clave se encuentran actualmente entre las iniciativas constructivas más prometedoras de su clase. Ha llegado la hora de que la ecocrítica deje de ser un discurso romántico de valor o una aspiración sacerdotal y se convierta en una crítica de principios, profesional y empirico-filosofica.
Ecozon@ with love
Authors: Glotfelty Cheryll
Published: March 2020

Key words: new directions in ecocriticism, regional literature, regional studies, literary Nevada, place, caring for the environment, eco-cosmopolitanism, sense of place, sense of planet Regional studies and literary regionalism continue to fulfil important functions in the era of globalisation. Educating people (particularly those in parts of the world with a “self-image problem”) in the richness of local literary tradition can help them identify more strongly, through story, with the place they live in, and take care of it. Ecocritics must learn to work together with the curators of local history museums, people running community arts centres, and the members of writing circles. World citizenship and eco-cosmopolitanism do not obviate the need for a local sense of place. Palabras clave: nuevas tendencias de la ecocritica, literature regional, studios regionales, el Estado literario de Nevada, lugar, cuidado del medioambiente, eco-cosmopolitanismo, sentido de lugar, sentido de planeta Los estudios regionales y el regionalismo literario continúan realizando importantes funciones en la era de la globalización.  Educar a la gente – en especial aquella en lugares del mundo con un “problema de imagen de sí mismo” – en la riqueza de la tradición literaria local puede ayudarles a identificarse más sólidamente, a través de historias, con el lugar en el que viven  y a cuidar de él. Los/as ecocríticos/as deben aprender a trabajar con los conservadores de los museos de historia local, con la gente que dirige centros de arte comunitarios y con los miembros de los círculos de escritura. La ciudadanía mundial y el eco-cosmopolitanismo no obvian la necesidad de un sentido de lugar local.
Material Engagements: Science Studies and the Environmental Humanities
Authors: Alaimo Stacy
Published: March 2020

Key words: materiality, natural world, humanities, ethical ecocriticism, agency In the twentieth century the principle tendency has been to denigrate the value of non-human nature.  In this sense, scientific studies can help recover the materiality of the natural world for research in the humanities, especially when dealing with ecocriticism. Our current image of the environment has been deprived of its living beings and turned into an empty space at the disposal of humans. Natural sciences can provide theoretical and methodological models which can advance ethical and political projects of ecocriticism and encourage research that would consider the materiality of the non-human world, thereby restoring entity to the natural world. Twenty-first century environmental movements need to view the material and natural world as subjects with agency and not take for granted that these exist “somewhere out there.” Palabras clave: materia, naturaleza no humana, humanidades, ética ecocrítica,  agencia  En el siglo XX la tendencia fundamental hacia el medioambiente fue la de menospreciar el valor de la naturaleza no humana. En este sentido, los estudios científicos pueden ayudar a recuperar la materialidad del mundo natural para la investigación de las humanidades, especialmente en lo que concierne a la ecocrítica. El medioambiente actual ha sido privado de sus seres vivos y convertido en un espacio vacío a disposición del ser humano. Las ciencias naturales pueden aportar modelos teóricos y metodológicos que hagan avanzar los proyectos éticos y políticos de la ecocrítica, en definitiva, crear una investigación que considere la materialidad del mundo no humano: que devuelva entidad al mundo natural. Los movimientos medioambientalistas del siglo XXI deben contemplar el mundo material y natural como  sujeto agente, pues no se puede dar por sentado que éstos existen “por ahí, en alguna parte.”
Repräsentationen der Ökologie
Authors: Bühler Benjamin
Published: March 2020

Key words: politische Ökologie, Michel Foucault, Gouvernementalität,  Repräsentation, narrative Verfahren, rhetorische Strategie, Regulationsmechanismen, Diskursformation, Poetologie ökologischen Wissens, kulturwissenschaftlich ausgerichtete Literaturwissenschaft ‘Political ecology’ has emerged since the 1970s as a powerful discursive formation embracing science, economy and politics. The key concepts with which it operates are System, Equilibrium and Regulation. Modelling, simulation, visual representation, narrative shaping and rhetorical strategies play a key role: dystopian visions of the future are for instance frequently used to justify the imposition of a more authoritarian social order. Literary ecocriticism possesses the necessary methodology for critical analysis of the discourse of political ecology, in practices combining historical contextualisation of representations of environmental problems with investigation of the ‘poetology of ecological knowledge’, examining lead metaphors, narratives and representational techniques. Palabras clave: ecología política, Michel Foucault, mentalidad gubernamental, representación, métodos narrativos, estrategias retóricas, mecanismos reguladores, formación del discurso, conocimiento de la poética ecológica, ciencias culturales frente a ciencias literarias.  “La ecología política” apareció en los años 70 como una poderosa formación discursiva que abarca ciencia, economía y política. Los conceptos clave en los que se basa son Sistema, Equilibrio y Regulación. El modelismo, la simulación, la representación visual, la forma narrativa y las estrategias retóricas desempeñan un papel clave: por ejemplo las visiones distópicas del futuro suelen usarse para justificar la imposición de un orden social más autoritario. La ecocrítica literaria posee la metodología necesaria para el análisis crítico del discurso de la ecología poética, en las prácticas que combinan la contextualización histórica de las representaciones de problemas medioambientales con la investigación de la “poetología del conocimiento ecológico”, examinando las metáforas principales y las técnicas narrativa y de representación.
Notes toward an Ecological Conception of Bakhtin’s ‘Chronotope’
Authors: Müller Timo
Published: March 2020

Key words: Bakhtin, chronotope, road, nature poetry, American novel, Robert Frost, Jack Kerouac, poetic interconnection Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the ‘chronotope’ as a set of space-time relations characterising a particular genre, motif or period deserves the special attention of ecocritics. Bakhtin believed that literary texts help to sustain the vitality of their discursive, social and even natural environment: chronotopic motifs reflect, negotiate and emphasize the status of the environment in contemporary discourse. The ‘road’ illustrates how rivalling space-time configurations play out in twentieth-century literature. Typically imagined as a means of overcoming space and time in the novel, it has been for poets a site of awareness of the subject’s connections with the environment, and of reflections on their own past and future.  Palabras clave: Bakhtin, cronotopo, carretera, poesía de la naturaleza, novela norteamericana, Robert Frost, Jack Kerouac, interconexión poetica. El concepto de “cronotopo” de Mikhail Bakhtin como un conjunto de relaciones espacio-tiempo que caracterizan un género, motivo o periodo en concreto, merece especial atención de la ecocrítica. Bakhtin creía que los textos literarios contribuyen a preservar la vitalidad de su ambiente discursivo, social e incluso del natural: los motivos cronotópicos reflejan, negocian y ponen de relieve la situación del medio ambiente en el discurso contemporáneo. La “carretera” ilustra cómo  las configuraciones rivales de espacio-tiempo se agotan en la literatura del siglo veinte. Imaginada típicamente como una forma de superar el espacio y el tiempo en la novela, la carretera ha sido para los poetas un lugar de concienciación de las conexiones del sujeto con el entorno, y de reflexiones sobre sus propios pasados y futuros.
Praderas de posidonia
Authors: Barella Julia
Published: March 2020

Julia Barella Julia Barella es Titular de Literatura Española, Directora de la Escuela de Escritura de la Universidad de Alcalá, y poeta. Ha investigado sobre la prosa barroca, la poesía del siglo XX, las relaciones entre literatura y cine, y la ecocrítica. Ha editado obras de Lope de Vega, Antonio de Eslava, Unamuno y Pere Gimferrer. Su interés por la poesía del siglo XX se centra, actualmente, en la representación de la naturaleza y en la conciencia del paisaje como patrimonio cultural en la actual poesía.En el campo de la creación poética ha publicado: CCJ en las ciudades (Madrid, 2002). Hacia Esmeralda (Almería, 2004). Esmeralda (Madrid, 2005). Aguas profundas (Madrid, 2008). Praderas de posidonia (en prensa). Julia Barella is Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and Director of the Writing Workshop at the University of Alcalá, and she is a poet. Her research concerns Baroque prose, 20th century poets, literature and film, and ecocriticism. She has edited works on Lope de Vega, Antonio de Eslava, Unamuno and Pere Gimferrer. Her interest in 20th century poetry is centered on the representation of nature and, in contemporary poetry, the awareness of landscape as part of the cultural heritage.Her poetic publications include CCJ en las ciudades (Madrid, 2002). Hacia Esmeralda (Almería, 2004). Esmeralda (Madrid, 2005). Aguas profundas (Madrid, 2008). Praderas de posidonia (en prensa).
Composing in Exile
Authors: Rowley Rosemarie
Published: March 2020

Rosemarie Rowley Rosemarie Rowley was born in 1942. She received a Dublin Corporation scholarship in the fifties, has degrees in Irish and English literature (with Distinction) at Trinity College, Dublin, philosophy, and, later,  psychology (National University of Ireland). While at Trinity College in the 1960s she published her first poems. After working as a teacher, in the nascent film industry in Ireland, and as a European fonctionnaire in Luxembourg, she took early retirement and began to participate in the emerging environmental movement in Ireland. She has published five books of poetry, not counting a Cold War poetry pamphlet, “Politry” and has four times won the Epic award in the Scottish International Poetry Competition. “The Sea of Affliction” (1987) counts as one of the first works in eco-feminism ( The Irish Literary Revival website). Her most recent books are “Hot Cinquefoil Star” (2002) and “In Memory of Her” (2004, 2008) both published by Rowan Tree Press, Dublin. See also http://www.rosemarierowley.ie/
Drink cans
Authors: Darwell John
Published: March 2020

Drink cans, River Petteril, From series '100 Yards, Or So'. 2003John Darwell is a much awarded, independent British photographer whose work expresses his interest in social and industrial change, concern for the environment, and the depiction of mental health. For almost three decades, his work has been exhibited and published widely, both nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in London, the USA, Mexico, South America and the Canary Islands. It is featured in a number of important collections including the National Museum of Media/Sun Life Collection in Bradford, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His varied projects, that explore the external and internal landscapes of the contemporary world,  include a trilogy on notorious sites marked by nuclear destruction or nuclear pollution (e.g. Hiroshima, Sellafield, Chernobyl); projects that evoke changes in the industrial landscapes (Manchester and Stockport clothing industry, Port of Liverpool, Manchester Docks); projects on the impact of foot and mouth disease in North Cumbria, the experience of depression, and the work of Kurt Schwitters. John Darwell also holds a position as a lecturer at the University of Bolton and the Cumbria Institute of the Arts. See http://www.johndarwell.com
Editorial, Vol. 2, No. 1
Authors: Goodbody Axel
Published: March 2020

Editorial, Vol. 2, No.1
In the Beginning there was Word 2
Authors: De Menezes Marta
Published: March 2020

In the Beginning there was Word
Book Review of Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin's Postcolonial Ecocriticism. Literature, Animals, Environment. (New York/London: Routledge, 2010).
Authors: Bartosch Roman
Published: March 2020

Book Review of Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin's Postcolonial Ecocriticism. Literature, Animals, Environment. Recensión de Postcolonial Ecocriticism. Literature, Animals, Environment, de Graham Huggan y Helen Tiffin.
Poems
Authors: Konyalian Grenier Arpine
Published: March 2020

Poems
Editorial 3.1.
Authors: Goodbody Axel Howarth
Published: March 2020

Editorial 3.1.
Editorial
Authors: Goodbody Axel Howarth
Published: March 2020

Editorial Vol 3, no 2
Editor’s Introduction
Authors: Hoving Isabel
Published: March 2020

Editor's Introduction to Visual Art and Creative Writing sections
Montañas carbonizadas gestando una nueva
Authors: Albelda-Raga Jose
Published: March 2020

Montañas carbonizadas gestando una nuevaCarbonized mountains gestating a new mountain
Tres heridas todavía humeantes
Authors: Albelda-Raga Jose Albelda
Published: March 2020

Tres heridas todavía humeantesThree smoking wounds
"Blown away like apples by the fickle wind of the Twentieth Century”: Counterculture Resistance and the Wilderness Condition in Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America // Resistencia contracultural en Trout Fishing in America
Authors: Anderson Jill E
Published: March 2020

Abstract Many critics consider Richard Brautigan’s 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America a coming-of-age account of a wayward, outsider narrator discovering that the pastoral mode is no longer viable in mid-century America.  However, these readings often ignore Brautigan’s explicit political affinity and his conscious engagement with a specific setting—southern California in the mid- to late-60s.  This paper explores Brautigan’s Counterculture ethic, which critiques the mindless prevalence of mainstream, middle-class America’s habit of consumption, production, and destruction of the natural world.  Linking the lack of individual free will with the postwar technology boom, Brautigan engages with the natural landscape and in communities of one’s own making.  As a result, the novel is peopled with alienated drop-outs, the victims of America’s technocracy.  The “trout fishing in America” refrain, with its many incarnations, is one of the modes through which these characters’ operate within Counterculture principles, namely through their self-imposed poverty and criticism of the way America uses and abuses its citizens and the natural world.   Resumen Muchos críticos consideran la novela de Richard Brautigan Trout Fishing in America (1967) un relato iniciático de un narrador forastero y obstinado  que descubre que el modo pastoril ya no es viable en los Estados Unidos de mediados de siglo. Sin embargo, estas lecturas a menudo ignoran la afinidad política explícita de Brautigan y su compromiso consciente con un escenario específico - la California sureña de los últimos años de los años 60. Este ensayo explora la ética contracultural de Brautigan, que critica la preponderancia ciega de la clase media de los Estados Unidos y su hábito de consumo, producción y la destrucción del mundo natural. Conectando la falta de voluntad propia con el "boom" tecnológico posterior a la segunda guerra mundial, Brautigan se implica con el paisaje natural y en las comunidades de creación propia. Como resultado, la novela está llena de  bohemios alienados, las víctimas de la tecnocracia estadounidense. El refrán "trout fishing in America," con sus muchas encarnaciones, es una de las formas en las que estos personajes actúan dentro de los principios contraculturales, concretamente  a través de su pobreza auto-impuesta y del criticismo de la manera en que los Estados Unidos usan y abusan de sus ciudadanos y del mundo natural.
Trench // Trinchera
Authors: Markwick Michael Maarten
Published: March 2020

Trench (2009)
Creeping Green // Verde insidioso
Authors: Markwick Michael Maarten
Published: March 2020

Creeping Green (2013)
Soliloquy of a former Harpy // Soliloquio de una antigua Arpía
Authors: Auerochs Florian
Published: March 2020

Soliloquy of a former Harpy
Materialism Meets Mysticism: Geopoetic Investigations in The Shell of the Tortoise // Reseña de The Shell of the Tortoise, de Don McKay
Authors: Butler Jonathan Matthew
Published: March 2020

Book review of Don McKay's The Shell of the Tortoise
Review essay on Karen K. Thornber's Ecoambiguity // Ensayo de reseña sobre Ecoambiguity, de Karen K. Thornber
Authors: Estok Simon C.
Published: March 2020

Review essay on Karen K. Thornber's Ecoambiguity
Book review of Molly Scott Cato's Environment and Economy // Reseña de Environment and Economy, de Molly Scott Cato
Authors: Amy Woodward Charles Whitney and
Published: March 2020

Book review of Molly Scott Cato, Environment and Economy
Seeking Wild Eyre: Landscape and the Environment in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre // En busca de la salvaje Eyre: paisaje y medioambiente en Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brönte
Authors: Fuller Jennifer D
Published: March 2020

Applying techniques from the growing field of ecocriticism, this article uses Jane Eyre to explore a growing environmental awareness among middle-class Victorians and demonstrate how their need to preserve a “wild” or “natural” landscape coincides with ideas of liberty and freedom prevalent in the novel. By looking at Jane’s changing interactions with and interpretations of the natural world, we can gain a better understanding of the value and interpretation of landscape to the Victorians. In Jane Eyre, Jane’s journeys continually lead her to finding a way to balance her human wants and needs with the “wildness” of the natural world.   Resumen   Aplicando técnicas del creciente campo de la ecocrítica, este artículo utiliza Jane Eyre para explorar una conciencia ambiental cada vez mayor entre los victorianos de clase media y demostrar cómo su necesidad de preservar un paisaje "salvaje" o "natural" coincide con las ideas de libertad en la novela. Al observar las interacciones cambiantes de Jane con el mundo natural y sus interacciones con éste, podemos comprender mejor el valor del paisaje y cómo se interpretaba en la época victoriana. En Jane Eyre, los viajes de Jane continuamente la llevan a encontrar una manera de equilibrar sus deseos y necesidades humanos con el "salvajismo" del mundo natural.
Editorial
Authors: Hoving Isabel
Published: March 2020

Editorial: Creative Writing and Arts
Paintings // Cuadros
Authors: Fernández Aragüez Santiago
Published: March 2020

Paintings by Santiago Fernández-Aragüez
"Let Fair Weather Bring Me Home: A Maltese Story" // "Deja que el buen tiempo me traiga a casa: una historia de Malta"
Authors: Friggieri Oliver
Published: March 2020

Let Fair Weather Bring Me Home: A Maltese Story (Excerpt from unpublished novel)Life in itself largely depends on one’s personal relationship with nature. Humankind develops as it discovers new modes of relating more efficiently with whatever surrounds it. Thus both the individual and the social aspects of such a condition greatly  depend on each other. Let Fair Weather Bring Me Home is a Maltese novel which strives to portray such a bond in terms of what it entails to live in a traditional village far removed from the center of the country where nature had to succumb to a great extent to the dictates of culture, and mainly to technology. The descriptive element of the novel, as evinced in this excerpt, is meant not only to construct a context within which the villagers live, but also to suggest a sharp contrast with the modern city, impersonal, overcrowded, noisy and inevitably distant from spaces which are considered to be still undeveloped, namely still left in their primeval state. The depiction of such a way of life in such a village, inspired by an environment typical of Southern Europe, may seem to be simply an evocation of the past, as it originally is, but it also recognizes the fact that such a relationship with nature still survives in various parts of various countries. The essential message of the excerpt is that modern ecological considerations are necessarily the expression of  humanity’s need to rediscover nature and to return to where it once belonged.
Introduction: Translating Environmental Humanities // Introducción: La traducción en las humanidades ecologistas
Authors: Valero-Garcés Carmen
Published: March 2020

Introduction to Special Focus Section
Book Review of American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship // Reseña de American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship
Authors: Palmer Ryan
Published: March 2020

Book Review of American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship
Poems // Poemas
Authors: Fleming Deborah Diane
Published: March 2020

These are two poems which have myth as a theme. Resumen      Estos dos poemas tienen el mito como temática principal
Carnival Anthropocene: Myth and Cultural Memory in Monique Roffey's Archipelago // Antropoceno Carnaval: El mito y memoria cultural en Archipelago de Monique Roffey
Authors: Krieg C. Parker
Published: March 2020

This essay examines the role of myth in and as cultural memory through a reading of the novel, Archipelago (2013), by the Trinidadian-British author Monique Roffey. Against conceptions of the Anthropocene as a break from the past—a break that repeats the myth of modernity—I argue that Roffey’s use of cultural memory offers a carnivalesque relation to the world in response to the narrative’s account of climate change trauma. Drawing on Bakhtin’s classic study of the carnival as an occasion for contestation and renewal, as well as Cheryl Lousely’s call for a “carnivalesque ecocriticism,” this essay expands on the recent ecocritical turn to the field of Memory Studies (Buell; Goodbody; Kennedy) to illustrate the way literature mediates between mythic and historical relations to the natural world. As literary expressions, the carnivalesque and the grotesque evoke myth and play in order to expose and transform the social myths which govern relations and administrate difference. Since literature acts as both a producer and reflector of cultural memory, this essay seeks to highlight the literary potential of myth for connecting past traumas to affirmational modes of political engagement. Resumen     Este ensayo examina el papel del mito en y como memoria cultural analizando la novela Archipelago (2013), escrita por la autora trinitense-británica Monique Roffey. Frente a la idea del Antropoceno como una ruptura con el pasado—una ruptura que repite el mito de la modernidad—este trabajo argumenta que el uso de la memoria cultural de Roffey ofrece una relación carnavalesca con el mundo en respuesta al trauma del cambio climático detallado en la novela. Basando mi argumento en la teoría clásica de Bakhtin sobre el carnaval como una ocasión para la contestación y la renovación, así como la llamada de Cheryl Lousely por una “ecocrítica carnavalesca,” este ensayo amplía el reciente giro de la ecocrítica hacia el campo de los estudios de memoria (Buell; Goodbody; Kennedy) para ilustrar cómo la literatura media entre las relaciones míticas e históricas con el mundo natural. Como expresiones literarias, lo carnavalesco y lo grotesco evocan el mito y el juego para revelar y transformar los mitos sociales que gobiernan las relaciones y gestionan la diferencia. Ya que la literatura actúa tanto como productora y como espejo de la memoria cultural, este ensayo busca destacar el potencial literario del mito para conectar traumas del pasado con modos de compromiso político más afirmativos.
La torpeza de Epitemeo. La discusión entre intervencionismo y laissez-faire a la luz del mito prometeico // Epimetheus' Clumsiness. The Discussion between interventionism and laissez-fairez in the light of the Promethean myth
Authors: Garmendia Oihane
Published: March 2020

Resumen      El presente trabajo tiene como fin relanzar y repensar la discusión entre los defensores del intervencionismo y los defensores del no-intervencionismo partiendo del análisis del mito griego de Prometeo y Epimeteo que Platón recoge en el Protágoras. En dicho mito se dan dos visiones muy dispares de lo humano; en la primera, el humano es concebido como un animal frágil, y, en la segunda, como un ser dotado de cultura, alejado del resto de animales y cercano a la divinidad. Si bien el mito tiene su origen en la Antigüedad, esas dos caracterizaciones siguen vigentes en la discusión planteada, ya que los defensores de la no-intervención creen que el humano es frágil ante la naturaleza y no tiene las herramientas necesarias para intervenir en ella, y al contrario, los defensores de la intervención creen que el humano, al poseer cultura y ser una especie superior, puede y debe interferir en las relaciones que se dan en el mundo salvaje en interés de los animales y el ecosistema. Abstract      The aim of this paper is to analyze and rethink the traditional opposition between animalism and environmentalism taking into account the myth of Prometheus and Epimetheus that Plato tells in the Protagoras. According to the myth, a human can be conceived in two different ways: like a fragile animal or like an animal close to divinity. Despite the antiquity of the myth, we can perceive that these two visions of the human being are present in the discussion that we are trying to explain. In fact, the interventionists think that human beings have culture and for that reason they have to intervene in the relations between animals and environment. On the contrary, the advocates of non-intervention, either good or bad, think that human beings are equal to the other animals and for that reason they must not impose their wishes, and not only that, they also think that they have not enough intelligence to manipulate nature for the sake of animals nor of the ecosystem.
Editorial
Authors: Benvegnu Damiano
Published: March 2020

Editorial Creative Writing and Arts Myth and Ecocriticism
 Book Review of Rethinking Nature: Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries // Reseña de Rethinking Nature: Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries
Authors: Meillon Bénédicte
Published: March 2020

Book Review of Rethinking Nature: Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries.Resumen      Reseña de Rethinking Nature: Challenging Disciplinary Boundaries.
Toxic Chemicals in Samanta Schweblin’s Distancia de rescate (Fever Dream)
Authors: Pérez Óscar A.
Published: March 2020

Published in 2014 under the Spanish title Distancia de rescate and then in English translation as Fever Dream in 2017, Samanta Schweblin’s first novel joins the long and celebrated inventory of Argentinean literary works that draw upon innovative forms to question our reality. Set in a small town “four and a half hours” away from the capital, Fever Dream presents the stories of Amanda and Carla, two women whose lives are forever changed by the nightmarish environment around them, as they deal with the physical, emotional, and mental effects of the exposure to an omnipresent substance. In this article, I analyze Distancia de rescate (Fever Dream) in the context of the global change in ecosystems driven by toxic waste and persistent pollutants as byproducts of industrial and agricultural capitalist practices. From this perspective, Schweblin’s novel poses some thought-provoking questions: How does an environment altered by chemical poisons affect our perception of reality? How can we talk about concepts such as medicine, science, and superstition? What are we to do in the face of such invisible but omnipresent menaces? What possibilities does literature offer to examine the effects of the spread of toxic chemicals at a global scale? I intend to propose some answers by establishing a dialogue with previous works that have examined the presence of toxic chemicals in the environment from a historical, anthropological, and literary studies perspective.
El Capitan as a Site for Male Healing from Trauma in Jeff Long’s The Wall and Tommy Caldwell’s The Push
Authors: Salovaara Harri , Rodi-Risberg Marinella
Published: March 2020

Abstract

         Nature and mountains are often represented as places of healing in literature and the media, especially for white, healthy, and middleclass men. However, discussions on nature and gender in relation to trauma are rare, and a specific discussion on the representation of male mountain climbers’ traumas is missing. In this article, we are interested in how nature, particularly the famous mountain El Capitan, is represented in Jeff Long’s novel The Wall (2006) and Tommy Caldwell’s memoir The Push (2017) as a specific spatial location of healing for male rock climbers, who at the same time are both victims of traumatic events and partially responsible for the development of those events. More specifically, this article places ecofeminist and ecological masculinities scholarship in dialog with trauma studies and analyzes these texts with the aim of showing how representations of trauma relate to those of nature and masculinity. In this analysis, questions of how certain aspects of ecological and hegemonic masculinities relate to representing trauma, nature, and masculinity are central, as are issues of perpetrator trauma and the non-generic character of traumatic experience. Ultimately, we show how representations of nature, trauma, and masculinities in the primary texts converge and reflect a plurality of gendered responses to trauma and healing in nature.
Book Review of Transatlantic Landscapes. Environmental Awareness, Literature and the Arts
Authors: Ares López Daniel
Published: March 2020

Book review.
Book Review of Cli-Fi. A Companion
Authors: Buitendijk Tomas
Published: March 2020

Book review.
The search for subsystems of related functions from multilevel representation of systems of Boolean functions1
Authors: Bibilo P. N. , Pazniak A. M.
Published: March 2020

One of the directions of logical optimization of multilevel representations of systems of Boolean     functions is the methods based on the search of subsystems of functions that have the same parts in the domains of functions of selected subsystems. Such subsystems are called related. The good relationship of functions leads to the appearance of a large number of identical structural parts (conjunctions, algebraic expressions,  subfunctions, etc.) in optimized forms of representation of functions which are used in the construction of   combinational logic circuits. The more the functions of the selected subsystem are related, the sooner it is expected that in the representations of the functions of this subsystem will be more identical subexpressions and synthesized logic circuits will have less complexity. 

We describe software-implemented algorithms for extracting subsystems of related functions from a BDD    representation of a system of Boolean functions based on introduced numerical estimates of the relationship of BDD representations of functions. The relationship of Boolean functions is the presence of Boolean vectors, where the functions take the value as one, or of the same equations in BDD representations. BDD representations of Boolean functions are compact forms defining functions and are constructed as the result of Shannon decomposition of the functions of the original system (resulting from the decomposition of subfunctions) by all variables, which the functions of the original system depend on. The experiments show the effectiveness of proposed algorithms and programs in the synthesis of logic circuits from  logic elements library.
Evolución histórica del concepto de gestión del desempeño. / Historical evolution of the concept of performance management.
Authors: Cravino Luis María
Published: March 2020

El foco de esta investigación se centra en presentar, de manera cronológica, definiciones formuladas por diferentes autores sobre dos conceptos: “Evaluación del Desempeño” y “Gestión del Desempeño”. A partir de un gran número de definiciones se procura caracterizar la evolución de las mismas.

ABSTRACT:

The focus of this research is to present, in chronological order, definitions formulated by different authors on two concepts: “Performance Evaluation” and “Performance Management”. From several definitions, it seeks to characterize the evolution of them.
Factores motivacionales en empleados de PYMES del sector IT. / Motivacional factors in employees in SMES in the IT sector.
Authors: Jaimez Jorge , Martínez Sergio Gabriel , Trejo Ximena , Córdoba Victoria , Córdoba Victoria
Published: March 2020

La motivación de las personas en las organizaciones es un elemento crítico para que éstas consigan sus objetivos y sus integrantes estén satisfechos. Esta investigación fue realizada en empresas del sector IT con el fin de determinar los factores que hacen que los empleados estén motivados y a partir de ello poder gestionar el aumento de la misma. Se comprobó que existe una alta correlación entre la motivación de las personas y la autonomía que poseen, la competencia para realizar correctamente sus tareas y el respaldo del grupo de referencia.

También pudo verificarse el vínculo entre la motivación laboral y la permanencia en la organización. Mientras más motivadas las personas están, más tiempo se quedan. En esta investigación pudo comprobarse que la variable autonomía es clave. Más allá que los otros factores estén presentes, si ésta es baja, la motivación cae. Con respecto a la relación entre compromiso y motivación, cabe destacar que mientras más alta es esta última, mayor es la primera.

Por último, se ha comprobado que los factores detectados son condiciones necesarias pero no suficientes para la motivación ya que esos factores por sí solos no garantizan la motivación, sino que necesitan además que las necesidades básicas estén satisfechas.

ABSTRACT:

People´s motivation in organizations is critical for them to achieve organizational goals and to keep members satisfied. This research was conducted in IT companies in order to determine the factors that make employees maintain theirs motivation and thus, manage and increase it.

The study shows a high correlation between people motivation and autonomy, the competency required to carry out different kind of tasks and reference group support. Also, this investigation proves the link between motivation at work and the employees’ continuity at the organization. The more motivated people are, the longer is the period they stay at the same organization.

The research helped to validate that autonomy is essential. Beyond others elements are present, if autonomy has a low grade, motivation will be low, too. According to commitment and motivation correlation, is important to emphasize that the higher motivation level is, the higher commitment level people get. Finally, it has been proved that the identified factors are necessary requirements but not sufficient, because these elements along do not guarantee motivation existence, it is necessary that basic needs are fulfilled.
Cultura de la seguridad y percepción del riesgo: temas claves para la gestión empresarial. / Culture of safety and perception of risk: key issues for management business.
Authors: Torres Antonio , Perdomo Ojeda Manuel
Published: March 2020

El artículo presenta un resumen crítico de la evolución de la percepción social del riesgo y su reflejo a nivel del ambiente laboral. La cultura de la seguridad es considerada una temática de élite y se asocia esencialmente con instalaciones sujetas a regulaciones estatales, sin embargo, el documento argumenta como su generalización en otras entidades, con riesgo asociado, constituye un paso hacia la percepción científica del riesgo gestionado. Partiendo del estudio dialéctico de los métodos de evaluación de percepción de riesgo laboral, se introduce el método EPRO (del acrónimo Evaluación de Percepción de Riesgo Ocupacional) para contribuir a identificar las necesidades de capacitación en materia de seguridad del trabajo. Las evaluaciones de percepción de riesgo son imprescindibles en otras áreas, ya sean públicas o empresariales, donde la seguridad es clave. Considerando las necesidades de medición del riesgo subjetivo, se implementa el código RISKPERCEP que ha sido empleado en variados estudios de percepción de riesgo. Adicionalmente, el artículo demuestra con ejemplos algunas aplicaciones realizadas al estudio de percepción de riesgos laborales. 

ABSTRACT:

The paper shows a critical summary ofthe evolution ofthe social risk perception and its reflection at the level ofthe work environment. The safety culture is considered an élite theme and is essentially associated with facilities subject to state regulations, however, the paper argües that its generalization in other entities, with associated risk, constitutes a step towards the scientific perception ofmanaged risk. Starting frorn the dialectical study oftke methods ofevaluation of occupationál risk perception, the EPRO metkod (from the acronym Assessment of Occupationál Risk Perception) is introduced to contribute to the identification oftraining needs in the field of occupationál safety. Risk perception assessments are essentiál in other areas, whether public or business, where safety is essentiál. Considering the needs of subjective risk measurement, the RISKPERCEP code has been implemented, which has been used in severál studies of risk perception. Additionally, the paper demonstrates with examples some applications made to the study of perception of occupationál risks.
New opportunities for using the test “Prognoz”
Authors: Drevitska O. O. , Pishel V. Ya. , Polyvyana M. Yu.
Published: March 2020

Background. For the detection of violations of mental responses in military offices, use the “Prognoz” test. At the total score of this test, experts make a decision on limiting the service in the troops. However, not all questions of the test are equally important for the diagnosis of mental disorders of the psychotic level.

By the amount of points should be not recognize the beginning of a psychotic disorder. Therefore, the “Prognoz” questionnaire has an additional reserve for the detection of psychotic disorders, if the psychologist and /or psychiatrist pay special attention to the specific questions of this test.

Material and methods. According to the expert estimation method, the “Prognoz” test was worked out to determine the risk of psychotic disorder in the military. The basis of the evaluation was a comparison of diagnostic criteria for ICD-10 with test questions.

Results. Qualified psychiatric experts have selected the most informative questions for identifying psychotic disorders, namely 16 out of 84 questions for the “Prognoz” test. If there are positive answers to 6 or more questions from selected 16, special attention should be paid to this and send respondents an additional psychiatric examination. Approval of this screening test on 18 patients with psychotic level disorders confirmed its diagnostic capabilities.

Conclusions. According to the expert estimation method, an express method for the screening of psychotic disorders in soldiers has been approved. The testing confirmed its diagnostic capabilities.
A new species of the genus Odonestis from the Flores Island, Indonesia (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae)
Authors: Spitsyn Vitaly M. , Potapov Grigory M.
Published: March 2020

Fauna of Lasiocampidae of the Flores Island is represented by eleven species. In this article, we describe Odonestis bolotovi sp. nov. and we also present the first record of the genus Odonestis for the East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia
PENYUSUNAN DESAIN PROGRAM PENGUATAN KAPASITAS USAHA SKALA MIKRO
Authors: Sasongko Sasongko
Published: March 2020

Keberadaan Koperasi dan UMKM selama ini mampu menjadi sumber nafkah masyarakat dan menyerap banyak tenaga kerja meskipun memiliki kontribusi nilai tambah yang relatif lebih kecil daripada usaha skala besar.Tujuan penelitian  penyusunan desain program penguatan Usaha Mikro ini adalah 1) menyusun rencana strategis desain program penguatan Usaha Mikro tahun 2013-2014; 2) menyusun desain program penguatan usaha mikro, baik dalam bentuk usaha koperasi maupun bentuk perorangan. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di 6 (enam)  Kabupaten di Jawa Timur, meliputi Kabupaten Madiun, Kabupaten Ponorogo, Kabupaten Bojonegoro, Kabupaten Lamongan, Kabupaten Malang dan Kabupaten Sidoarjo. Penelitian ini termasuk dalam penelitian survei. Populasi penelitian adalah seluruh usaha mikro yang berada di Propinsi Jawa Timur. Teknik pengambilan sampel dengan stratified cluster random sampling. Data primer diperoleh dari wawancara kepada responden dengan menggunakan kuesioner. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan  Analisis kebijakan dan Analisis ETAP (Entitas Akuntabilitas publik yaitu model laporan keuangan yang sesuai dengan standar akuntansi yang berlaku yaitu standar akuntansi keuangan entitas tanpa akuntabilitas publik.Capaian pelaksanaan program penguatan Usaha Mikro tahun 2009-2012 dapat terlaksana baik dengan meningkatnya nilai tambah usaha mikro terhadap PDRB serta tumbuhnya usaha-usaha mikro lainnya. Rencana strategis desain program penguatan Usaha Mikro tahun 2013-2014 diharapkan usaha mikro menjadi lebih berdaya saing dan lebih mandiri dalam berusaha sehingga akan berkelanjutan dan siap tumbuh kembang dengan fasilitasi formalisasi usaha mikro dalam bentuk wadah asosiasi maupun lembaga Koperasi serta membangun kemitraan yang kuat dan pemasaran dengan Konsep SCM. Desain program penguatan usaha mikro berupa Program Pemberdayaan Usaha Produktif berskala mikro dan Program penciptaan iklim usaha mikro.
Possible management of non-motor symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease
Authors: Pathan Aslam , Alshahrani Abdulrahman
Published: March 2020

Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most common neurologic disorders, affecting approximately 1% of individuals older than 60 years and causing progressive disability that can be slowed but not halted, by treatment. The goal of the medical management of Parkinson's disease is to provide control of signs and symptoms for as long as possible while minimizing adverse effects. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is classically considered as a motor disease, with tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and gait problems as the classic motor features. However, non-motor manifestations (NMM) of PD have become increasingly recognized – they can often be more disabling than the motor symptoms. Non-motor manifestations of PD result from neuronal degeneration in widespread areas of the brainstem. Unfortunately, NMM is often underrecognized, and therefore, undertreated. The goal of this article is to provide a guide to recognizing and managing these NMM so that quality of life of the patient with PD can improve.
DESAIN DAN IMPLEMENTASI WEB KAJIAN ISLAM
Authors: Buke Imam B. , Amali Lanto Ningrayati , Suhada Sitti
Published: March 2020

Informasi tentang kajian Islam yang tepercaya kini mulai berkurang karena banyaknya kajian Islam yang sudah tidak sesuai dengan al-Qur’an dan Sunnah. Adanya perkembangan teknologi informasi khususnya komputer dan smartphone memungkinkan penyebaran informasi menjadi sangat cepat. Tidak dapat dihindari bahwa komputer dan smartphone sudah merupakan kebutuhan manusia dalam kehidupan sehari-hari diberbagai kegiatan dan bisnis. Olehnya penggunaan teknologi informasi yang tepat, akan dihasilkan informasi yang tepat serta akurat yang sesuai dengan kebutuhan sehingga keputusan dapat diambil dengan cepat. Tujuan penelitian adalah merancang web kajian Islam untuk masyarakat. Web kajian Islam dibuat menggunakan bahasa pemograman PHP, CSS, HTML dan Javascript serta MySQL sebagai media penyimpanan. Metode pengembangan sistem yang digunakan yaitu metode Prototype dengan tahapan pengumpulan kebutuhan, desain cepat, bentuk prototype, evaluasi pelanggan terhadap prototype, perbaikan prototype, serta produk rekayasa. Hasil dari penelitian berupa web kajian Islam yang di dalamnya terdapat penyaringan informasi oleh pemeriksa dan penulis dapat merevisi kajian yang ditolak oleh pemeriksa/review. Selain itu informasi mengenai kajian dapat diakses kapan pun dan di mana pun, memudahkan masyarakat yang ingin mengetahui informasi kajian yang sesuai dengan kebutuhannya.