bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Professores do ensino fundamental da rede pública: condições de trabalho e saúde mental
Authors: Mattos Ivana Cordeiro de Souza , Maioli Edilene Eunice Cavalcante , Dos-Santos Edirlei Machado
Published: January 2024

O ofício de ensinar tem demonstrado o quão desvalorizado pela sociedade tem sido a profissão do professor, haja vista as condições precárias em que se executa o ato pedagógico. O sistema educacional, tem exigido demandas cada vez maiores e os professores para atendê-las, submetem-se a uma jornada de trabalho exaustiva, dispondo de tempo reduzido para o lazer e a família. Em razão dessas circunstâncias, o exercício desse labor é permeado por constante estresse, tornando o professor, vulnerável ao sofrimento psíquico, decorrente do impacto produzido pelo trabalho. Objetivou-se apreender as percepções de professores do Ensino Fundamental da rede pública, acerca das condições de trabalho e saúde mental. Pesquisa qualitativa, com dados coletados em entrevistas semiestruturadas e analisadas pela técnica Análise de Conteúdo Temática, no período de setembro e outubro de 2016. Participaram 10 professoras de uma escola estadual da cidade de Vitória da Conquista, Bahia. Depreenderam-se quatro categorias: sobrecarga de trabalho, falta de recursos materiais e humanos, dificuldades para lidar com o contexto social do aluno e limitações formativas para exercer a profissão. O desenvolvimento do presente estudo se dispõe não apenas a atender aos objetivos propostos, mas contribuir para futuros substratos de pesquisas, que ampliarão o universo relativo ao cuidado a professores em relação à saúde mental e acima de tudo, servir de reflexão para compreender como as condições precárias do trabalho docente podem afetar a saúde mental dos professores e quais as possíveis melhorias nas condições de trabalho da categoria.
Promovendo a qualidade na educação: princípios e estratégias para instituições escolares
Authors: Meroto Monique Bolonha das Neves , Lima Antonio Guilherme da Cruz , De Araujo Camila Sabino , Guimarães Christiane Diniz , Demuner Jocelino Antônio , Da Silva Marcos Vinícius Malheiros , Rigo Tatiana Afonso Tavares , De Oliveira Zenayre Mendes
Published: January 2024

Este estudo visou aprofundar a compreensão da gestão da qualidade na educação, explorando as dimensões fundamentais da qualidade institucional e os princípios que norteiam a promoção da qualidade em instituições escolares. O objetivo principal é fornecer uma visão sobre como a qualidade na educação pode ser alcançada, considerando a diversidade de fatores que a compõem. Dessa forma, buscou-se identificar as tendências, os desafios e as oportunidades proporcionadas na a qualidade na educação, examinando suas diferentes facetas, incluindo fatores internos e externos, a faixa etária dos estudantes, a estrutura física e tecnológica da instituição e o projeto pedagógico dos cursos. A metodologia adotada consiste em uma revisão de referências teóricas relevantes, com base em citações de autores como Xavier (1996), Dourado e Oliveira (2009), Cassol et al. (2012) e Longo (1996). Concluiu-se que esta investigação visa contribuir para o avanço da importância de adotar uma abordagem panorâmica para a promoção da qualidade na educação. Além disso, enfatiza a necessidade de incorporar novas metodologias de ensino, sendo fundamental na implementação eficaz das metodologias ativas, preparar os professores para abordagens pedagógicas modernas e buscar melhorias estruturais como parte do processo de promoção da qualidade na educação. Em última análise, o artigo oferece orientações práticas e espera-se que este estudo forneça subsídios para aprimorar estratégias pedagógicas e inspirar práticas educacionais mais alinhadas com as necessidades da sociedade contemporânea.
Gamificação no ensino de química
Authors: Da Silva Romézio Alves Carvalho , Gomes Fabiana Fagundes Barros , Praxedes Germano Fonseca , Rosado Jannaib Beserra Benvindo , Melo Júnior Hermócrates Gomes , Gomes Lucas Ferreira , Graf Lucimar , Filgueiras Michele Roberta da Silva Caetano
Published: January 2024

Este estudo aborda a gamificação no ensino de Química, focando na integração de elementos de design de jogos em contextos educacionais para melhorar a motivação e o engajamento dos alunos. O objetivo principal é investigar a eficácia da gamificação no ensino de Química, identificando seus benefícios, desafios e possíveis inovações. A metodologia adotada foi a revisão sistemática da literatura, conforme recomendado por Gil (2018) e Marconi e Lakatos (2019), envolvendo uma busca detalhada, seleção e análise crítica de estudos relevantes. Os resultados revelaram que a gamificação tem um impacto positivo significativo na motivação dos alunos, conforme suportado pela Teoria da Autodeterminação de Ryan e Deci (2000). Elementos gamificados, como recompensas e feedback instantâneo, contribuem para uma maior retenção de conhecimento e desenvolvimento de habilidades analíticas. No entanto, desafios como a adequação dos elementos gamificados aos objetivos pedagógicos e a garantia de inclusão e equidade foram identificados. Sheldon (2012) destaca a necessidade de um equilíbrio entre competição e colaboração. As tendências futuras indicam um avanço em direção à incorporação de tecnologias emergentes, como realidade aumentada e inteligência artificial, para enriquecer as experiências de aprendizagem em Química. Essas inovações oferecem novas possibilidades para simulações mais realistas e personalizadas, de acordo com Bacich e Moran (2018). Em conclusão, a gamificação é uma estratégia promissora no ensino de Química, oferecendo um método mais dinâmico e motivador para os alunos. O estudo ressalta a importância do alinhamento cuidadoso dos elementos gamificados com os objetivos educacionais e considerações éticas e de inclusão. As inovações tecnológicas emergentes apresentam um futuro promissor para a educação em Química, promovendo um ensino continuamente aprimorado e adaptado às necessidades de um público estudantil diverso.
The Impact of E-disclosure Using "XBRL" on the Value Added of Investors: Comparative Study
Authors: AL-Qatanani Khaled
Published: January 2024

Purpose: This study aimed to measure the impact of E-disclosure using XBRL language on the value added of investors in (ASE), and (Tadawul).
 
Theoretical reference: As companies transition from traditional paper-based reporting to digital platforms, XBRL facilitates more efficient and transparent communication of financial data. This technology allows investors to easily access, analyze, and compare financial information across different companies, fostering a more informed investment decision-making process.
 
Method: The researcher collected data through a questionnaire designed in accordance with scientific research methods and statistical measurement tools to analyze the evidence of the study and test hypotheses.
 
Results and Conclusion: The researcher concluded that there are no statistically significant differences between the two samples regarding the existence of effect of E-disclosure using XBRL on the value added of investors.
 
 Implications of research: Where E-disclosure using XBRL contributed to the provision of financial statements and made available to investors, reduced data risk, and enhanced their confidence of it, in addition to contributing to reducing costs and financial burdens and maximizing the benefit of data. In light of the results of the study.
 
Originality/value:  this research lie in its examination of the transformative potential of XBRL in financial disclosure and its nuanced exploration of the resulting impact on the value added for investors. The researcher recommended the need to expand the application of E-disclosure using XBRL and impose legal legislation that obliges all companies to apply it.
Transformation Model of Institutional Arrangements of Indigenous People To Become Customary Villages: Experiences From Indonesia
Authors: Huda Ni’matul , Fauzani Muhammad Addi
Published: January 2024

Objective: this research is motivated by the problem of Law Number 6 of 2014 concerning Villages (Village Law), which forces indigenous people (MHA) to merge and refer to the nomenclature "Customary Village" if they want to be recognized by the state. It is feared that such an arrangement will fail to recognize MHA. This research aims first to analyze the transformation model of the institutional arrangements of the Baduy, Tengger, and Minangkabau indigenous peoples to become Customary Villages. Second, to analyze the Regional Government's policy strategy in creating an inclusive region for MHA.
 
Methods: the focus of this research will be studied using normative research methods and statutory and conceptual approaches.
 
Conclusions: this research concludes that first, the transformation model of the institutional arrangements of the Baduy, Tengger, and Nagari indigenous peoples to become Customary Villages varies in form due to having different philosophical, sociological, juridical, and political backgrounds. a) Baduy MHA is transformed into a hybrid form because it adopts the concept of a modern village and customary simultaneously; b) MHA Tengger is transforming into a modern village but is working again as a Customary Tourism Village. c) Minangkabau MHA has been fully transformed into a customary village. Second, the Regional Government's policy strategy in creating an inclusive region for MHA can be in the form of adjusting the needs and degree of recognition and protection desired by MHA. There are several alternative forms of various policies and different forms of recognition and protection materials.
Human Capital is the Key to the Successful Competitiveness of Countries in the Asean
Authors: Surti  , Pratomo Devanto Shasta , Santoso Dwi Budi , Pangestuty Farah Wulandari
Published: January 2024

Objective: This research aims to look at competitiveness in the Asean region. Knowing the factors driving competitiveness then mapping the strength of competitiveness based on the driving factors for each country in ASEAN. So you will know which countries with high competitiveness are influenced by what factors. The results will be an illustration for other countries in ASEAN to improve these factors with the aim of increasing competitiveness.
 
Method: The method used to determine the factors driving competitiveness is to use panel data regression with the Stata application. Then group them using main factor analysis with SPSS so that country categories are found based on the factors driving their competitiveness. The data used are 12 indicators forming independent and dependent variables. Obtained from various relevant sources. In a period of 10 years, namely 2010 to 2019.
 
Results: The results of multivariate linear regression showed that both simultaneously and partially Human Capital Development (HCD), Human Capital - High Education (HCH), Research and Technology Development (RTD), and Social Capital – Unemployment (SCU) had a significant influence on Competitiveness. HCD has the greatest influence on competitiveness. This research can provide an illustration for each country in ASEAN that the driving factors of competitiveness needed to achieve high competitiveness are HCD and HCH because of their large influence in the regression model. Countries with very strong competitiveness also have very strong HCD and HCH factors and vice versa. This can be a consideration for each country in making policies related to increasing national competitiveness. Because high competitiveness indicates a high level of population welfare.
Financial Knowledge, Spiritual Intelligence, and Hedonism Lifestyle of Department Store Employees in Managing Personal Finance
Authors: Sylvia Sylvia , Adnan Aqsya Mohammad , Mas’ud Masdar
Published: January 2024

The significance of financial management lies in its role as a crucial driver for realizing financial needs and achieving satisfaction in individual life, as it directly influences the likelihood of attaining financial freedom and preventing impulsive spending behaviors. This study aims to examine financial knowledge, spiritual intelligence, and hedonic lifestyle on financial management. The personal financial management behavior of employees of a well-known department store is addressed in this study by analyzing their financial knowledge, spiritual intelligence, and hedonistic lifestyle. Data was collected by surveying 84 employees of PT Ramayana Lestari Sentosa Makassar. The results of this study indicate that spiritual intelligence and financial knowledge have a positive and significant influence on employees' personal financial management while hedonism lifestyle has a negative and significant influence on employees' personal financial management. This shows that cognitive and spiritual intelligence factors can influence the way employees manage their personal finances. Meanwhile, a hedonistic lifestyle that leads actors to be consumptive has proven to make it difficult for employees to manage their personal finances.
Taktis Menyunting: Panduan Belajar & Berlatih Mematut Naskah Sehebat Penyunting Profesional
Authors: Bambang Trim
Published: January 2024

Taktis Menyunting adalah harapan dari setiap editor buku. Penyuntingan merupakan pengetahuan dan keterampilan yang harus dimiliki semua kalangan yang berkecimpung di dunia tulis-menulis.
Membaca untuk meluaskan derajat kefasihan. Menulis untuk menaikkan derajat kefasihan. Lalu, menyunting untuk mengukuhkan derajat kefasihan. Oleh karena itu, mereka yang bergiat di bidang pendidikan, penelitian, bisnis, dan publikasi (penerbitan) wajib mempelajari ilmu menyunting naskah (editologi). Editologi sejatinya telah dikenalkan di Indonesia sejak awal abad ke-20 oleh kaum penjajah. Namun, kini Indonesia "sunyi sepi" dari kegiatan pendidikan dan pelatihan tentang penyuntingan naskah. Oleh karena itu, editologi pun kurang membumi di Indonesia.
Melalui buku ini, Bambang Trim mengenalkan editologi dan mengungkap secara gamblang tentang seluk-beluk penyuntingan naskah. Buku ini dapat menjadi perkenalan awal Anda dengan dunia penyuntingan naskah dan memandu Anda untuk menyunting sehebat penyunting profesional.
The benefits of static stretching on health: a systematic review
Authors: Mašić Semir , Čaušević Denis , Čović Nedim , Spicer Seth , Doder Ivor
Published: January 2024

Introduction: The positive effects of static stretching exercises (SS) on physical fitness and rehabilitation are well established, but the effect on general health and physical fitness, including muscle function, flexibility, and activities of daily living at the individual level are less well understood. The objective of this systematic review was to compile the latest research on the effects of SS on general health and different occupational groups with regards to improving or maintaining general health. Material and methods: This review followed PRISMA guidelines. PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, MEDLINEOnline medical articles, and Science Direct databased were searched from 2010 to 2022 (including 2022) using the search string ‘static stretching effects OR muscle stretching exercises AND rehabilitation AND injury prevention’. Results: Th e database search yielded 799 articles of which 20 remained after elimination according to the selection criteria. The articles found that the effect of SS, regardless of the protocol used or whether it is active or passive, has a positive effect on the health status of the subjects. SS can reduce work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD), improve respiratory muscle function in patients after a stroke with hemiparesis, improve lung function in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and can be used in pregnancy to reduce the risk or pre-eclampsia. Conclusion: SS is an effective and safe method for improving flexibility and ROM, preventing muscle atrophy, enhancing physical functioning, and improving quality of life with minimal risk of injury.
THE ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT SATISFACTION WITH REMOTE AND HYBRID CLASSES – AN ANALYSIS OF OWN RESEARCH
Authors: Kocot Maria , Kwasek Artur
Published: January 2024

The article was aimed at evaluating student satisfaction with remote and hybris classes. The article presents the results of a survey conducted in February 2021 on a sample of 1203 students. The subject of the respondents’ assessment was the level of satisfaction with conducting classes in the e-learning mode, the skills in conducting classes in this form and the evaluation of academic teachers’ digital competences when conducting on-line classes. These issues were highly rated by the students. Moreover, the conducted considerations also gave a picture of satisfaction factors concerning remote classes. It was also interesting to refer to the research conducted by the authors in May 2022 on a sample of 1018 students, which made it possible to indicate the factors of satisfaction with classes conducted in the hybrid form.
INVESTMENTS OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT UNITS IN THE LIGHT OF THE ASSUMPTIONS OF SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Authors: Szczepańczyk Marta
Published: January 2024

The purpose of this article has been reduced to assessing the investment activities of local government units from the point of view of the assumptions of sustainable urban development. In this regard, the following research questions were posed: What solutions do local government units use to disseminate the assumptions of sustainable development? Does the implementation of the mentioned solutions condition the investment activities of local governments? Referring to the above, attention was paid to the role played by sustainable development in the development process of local self- governments, in addition, reference was made to the concept of investment and territorial instruments for achieving sustainable development in urban areas were pointed out. The article was developed on the basis of the analysis of literature studies and verification of data with regard to territorial instruments implemented in Poland during the 2014-2020 programming period. The last part includes a summary which presents conclusions and directions for future research.
FITOBEZOAR GÁSTRICO: RELATO DE CASO
Authors: Hachiya Alissa Hidemi , Tavares Wanderlister Duque , Gotardo Hamabyle Margarida Cabral , Del Cistia Matheus Henrique Corbalan Barbosa , Bedin Larissa Luiza , Martins Isadora Alencar , De Paula Vinicius Felipe Dantas , Da Silva Bruno Barros
Published: January 2024

Bezoares são corpos estranhos classificados pela sua composição, os Fitobezoares são massas compactas de fibras vegetais que se acumulam no trato gastrointestinal e podem levar a obstrução ou perfuração intestinal. Sua incidência é aumentada em pacientes submetidos a cirurgia gástrica previamente, principalmente em bariátrica devido diminuição da motilidade secundária à vagotomia. O tratamento pode ser inicialmente por observação, dissolução química, fragmentação, ou se não respondedor a tais medidas, a intervenção cirúrgica é necessária.
A Comparative Analysis for Designing Security Mechanism for Resource-Constrained Internet of Things Devices
Authors: Vashisth Sristi , Goyal Anjali
Published: January 2024

In today’s digital age, the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has remarkably transformed technological interactions, offering unprecedented convenience and efficiency across various domains. However, this rapid increase in IoT adoption has also introduced significant network security challenges, as these interconnected devices offer a broader surface vulnerable to cyber threats. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) aim to monitor network traffic, identify suspicious patterns, and promptly respond to potential security breaches. This paper provides a comprehensive review of various machine learning algorithms employed in IDS specifically designed for IoT devices. Our primary objective is to critically evaluate the efficiency, strengths, and limitations of these algorithms in detecting and countering threats within the unique constraints of IoT ecosystems. This review encompasses a thorough analysis of emerging ML technologies, including but not limited to Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, Random Forests, Neural Networks, and Deep Learning models.
Playing for “Green Power”
Authors: Kaliss Gregory J.
Published: January 2024

This chapter explores two efforts to use sports celebrity to create economic change: retired football star Jim Brown’s work to promote African American economic uplift through the Black Economic Union and tennis player Billie Jean King’s leadership in the fight for gender equity in pay through the Virginia Slims Tour. A series of social changes impacted these movements, including Black Power, women’s liberation, the push for labor unions in professional sports, and U.S. president Richard Nixon’s emphasis on black capitalism. These case studies expose the triumphs and failures of athlete economic activism in this era, particularly those campaigns tied to liberal economic ideals.
Comparative Geohistories of Virginity
Authors: Ergun Emek
Published: January 2024

Chapter 2 recounts the virginity politics of Turkey and the US in a comparative framework to help readers geohistorically contextualize Virgin and its Turkish translation, as well as the text’s transatlantic travels. Without such contextualization, the study runs the risk of romanticizing the notion of global flows by depicting a picture of agentless texts floating across unideological terrains and routes. The chapter reveals both similarities and differences between the reception contexts of Virgin and its Turkish translation. By particularly describing the ways in which the heteropatriarchal virginity codes as well as the feminist responses to them depart from each other in the US and Turkey, Chapter 2 helps explain the differently interventionist agendas pursued by the two books.
Re-visioning Virginity in the Rewriting of Virgin
Authors: Ergun Emek
Published: January 2024

Chapter 3 first describes Virgin as a popular feminist book dedicated to dismantling virginity myths by revealing its changing configurations throughout western history. The chapter then analyzes Virgin’s remaking in Turkish and introduces “feminist translation” as a political project that seeks to intervene in local heteropatriarchal truth regimes and enable cross-border flows of subversive feminist knowledges. The chapter examines the manifestation of that feminist agenda by focusing on the politics of text choice, vocabulary choices, the translator’s preface, and finally, the material repackaging of the book. In doing so, Chapter 3 reveals the translator’s familiarizing and defamiliarizing strategies to increase the translated book’s chance of being admitted into local feminist canons and provide a counter-hegemonic discourse on virginity.
Feminist Translation as a Praxis of Cross-Border Interconnectivity
Authors: Ergun Emek
Published: January 2024

By shifting the analytical scale to the transnational, Chapter 6 explores translation’s role in building cross-border feminist solidarities and asks pressing questions about the promises and risks of transnational feminisms by using Virgin’s Turkish translation as a case study. Recognizing the precarious positionality of Turkey regarding the “west vs east” binary as opposed to the US’ hegemonic status as the current face of western imperialism, the chapter reveals two primary connectionist reading strategies used by the traveling book’s readers, “comparative accretion” and “differential universalization” – connectionist engagements with the traveling text that flout the oppositional schemes of orientalism, during which the readers forge a relational universal narrative of resistance that recognizes both similarities and differences across localities.
Imagined Translational Feminist Communities
Authors: Ergun Emek
Published: January 2024

Chapter 7 shows that a crucial outcome of Turkish Virgin’s readers’ post-oppositional reading strategies was the formation of imagined translational feminist communities bonded by a common vision of a world free from virginity violence. The first section argues that when ethically practiced and read, translation fosters a sense of cross-border political affinity and interconnectivity. The second section, drawing on the follow-up reception study, discusses the readers’ responses to a hypothetical question: how do you think western feminists would react to a similar feminist book that dismantled virginity by examining the geohistorical realities of the east? Together the two sections provide mutually complementary lessons about imagining (and building) transnational feminist connectivities and communities in and through translation.
Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986
Authors: Leslie Thomas
Published: January 2024

Chicago’s postwar skyscrapers are iconic; the tapering form of the John Hancock Building and the record-breaking height of the Sears Tower re-established the city’s reputation for technologically sophisticated high-rises that expressed their structural principles architecturally. These downtown monuments, however, stood alongside hundreds of other, less well-known towers that also applied advanced structural, environmental, and construction techniques to residential programs, many of which were elements of the city’s disastrous public housing initiatives. Other apartments and, later, condominium towers concentrated wealth nearer to the city’s core and along its lakefront, hardening patterns of economic and racial segregation that formed Chicago’s most toxic social legacy. These commercial and residential towers were linked by a single urban strategy initiated by a new mayor, Richard J. Daley. Daley saw the Loop as a political and economic organism that needed to be fortified by government and commercial investment while being nourished by an extensive network of housing for its professional and executive classes. The “Central Area Plan,” developed in 1957, provided a blueprint for the synergetic development of the Loop and its surrounding neighborhoods—at the expense of the city’s “Black Belt,” which suffered unsustainable densities and profound disinvestment. The city’s skyscrapers thus were not only barometers of Chicago’s growth, but also instruments of its reshaping along economic, social, and racial lines.
Technical Developments in the 1930s–1940s
Authors: Leslie Thomas
Published: January 2024

While little high rise construction occurred in Chicago during the Depression, building technology advanced considerably. New developments in air conditioning, curtain walls, fluorescent lighting, and structural steel and concrete had few outlets in the stilted economy, but these advances would prove vital in new conceptions of the high-rise, offering improved spatial and structural efficiency, cheaper options for cladding and supporting towers, and more reliable and effective environmental systems. The economic benefits of such improvements would prove crucial in the redefinition of the skyscraper that would occur after WWII, many of them with particular importance for Chicago—which became the leading consumer of air conditioning in its theaters and existing commercial structures through the dust bowl summers of 1933-34.
Daley’s City: Commercial Construction, 1955–1972
Authors: Leslie Thomas
Published: January 2024

The Central Area Plan’s primary goal was to maintain political and financial power in the Loop by incentivizing developers to build modern commercial towers that could compete with new suburban development. Daley’s commitment to downtown itself influenced some of the city’s largest corporations; Harris Bank and Continental Insurance were among the first to follow Inland Steel’s lead in announcing new Loop headquarters buildings. But speculative development also took advantage of the city’s renewed commitment to its core. Hartford and Equitable, two east coast insurance firms, built skyscrapers as investment properties that required subtly different economic strategies. While these commercial towers often extended the city’s traditional language of expressive structural grids, architects found surprising variety in such formulaic buildings.
High-Rise Housing in the 1960S
Authors: Leslie Thomas
Published: January 2024

While the Central Area Plan’s focus was on the Loop’s revitalization, it recognized the need to supply that development with professional and clerical workers. Thus, in addition to championing Chicago’s growing network of expressways, the Plan also proposed high rise residential development convenient to the Loop. Marina City, twin towers designed by Bertrand Goldberg for the River’s north bank, was the paradigm, providing 1200 apartments aimed at office workers downtown. Pressure from outlying white wards forced the CHA to build its next generation of housing projects higher and denser, with disastrous results, while large scale private developments like Sandburg Village forged a dubious alliance between the city’s goals of downtown housing and developers’ efforts to entrench Chicago’s racial geography.
Tubes and the High Rise as Structural Art
Authors: Leslie Thomas
Published: January 2024

SOM’s John Hancock and Sears Towers are seen as the paradigm examples of the “Second Chicago School” of structural architecture, but their development was embedded in the city’s politics and in Daley’s redevelopment efforts. Both took advantage of the tube principle developed by engineer Fazlur Khan, which concentrates a building’s structure at its perimeter, where it is most effective in resisting wind loads. The Hancock stacked retail, parking, office, and apartment floors atop one another in a thousand-foot-tall tapering tower that expressed its cross-braced structural system, becoming one of the city’s most recognizable icons. Sears emerged as the result of that company’s decision to concentrate its operations downtown in a record-breaking, fourteen-hundred foot tower that also relied on Khan’s tube concept.
Myth, Morality, and Mies
Authors: Leslie Thomas
Published: January 2024

Mies, Morality, and the Myth of the ‘Second Chicago School.’ How to assess the achievements and failures of postwar Chicago skyscrapers has occupied scholars and critics ever since. The impressive heights and rigorously worked out, visually satisfying integration of structure and architecture remains one of the city’s great legacies. But the demolition of nearly all of the city’s high-rise housing projects in the early 2000s demonstrates that this approach was not universally successful. Skyscrapers concentrate wealth and consumption, with effects that extend far beyond their own sites; the ethical and moral implications of such large-scale construction are complex, and remain provocative decades later.
Behind the Search Box
Authors: Yeo ShinJoung
Published: January 2024

Behind the seemingly clean and simple interface of the search box, there lurks the most complex global political economy and geopolitics today. This book un-boxes the political economy of search to show the broader structural changes that are taking place in global capitalism dynamically intertwined with the political economy of the Internet. The book investigates four critical themes - commodification, the dynamics of the search market, labor, and geopolitics – that comprise the full scale of the political economy of search. Challenging naturalized search as a commodity, the book demonstrates that the transformation of search into a marketplace was far from imperative; rather, it involved the enclosure of public resources. By tracing the dynamics of the search engine industry, centered around Google, the book details its outward growth into directly- and indirectly related global internet markets, contending Google’s dominance over search hasn’t made it immune from competition. Google’s power and the pervasive inter-capitalist competition between sectors and regions has manifested itself in the industry’s labor structures and control tactics of scientific management and corporate welfare programs that are in sync with the seemingly bygone era of industrial capitalism. This also drives sectoral and geographical expansion, aggressive tactics between firms and the reconstruction of the massive global network infrastructure of control. The book shows that the ascendance of US-based search company Google shows that search has turned into a major geopolitical, economic, and inter-capitalist flash point re-galvanizing the rivalries among the global power blocs of the US, China, and Europe.
Introduction
Authors: Yeo ShinJoung
Published: January 2024

This introductory chapter aims to set out the political economic framework that anchors this book. It situates search within the broader capitalist political economy in which global capitalism’s developmental growth increasingly hinges on the growth pole of the Internet sector. The chapter contextualizes how the 2008 global capitalist crisis spurred the US to aggressively reorient its domestic economy to aid the Internet sector and organize it into a new economic growth zone to resuscitate capitalism. This burgeoning Internet market constitutes one of the flash points of an intensifying global geopolitical struggle. The chapter introduces the political, economic and geopolitical context in which search is located.
Gerardo, Elena, and Miguel
Authors: Malcomson Hettie
Published: January 2024

In order to enable people’s struggles and intimate feelings to be alluded to, and stories that pervade danzón practitioners’ lives to be told that would otherwise be absent, short, experimentally written vignettes are interwoven between the more conventionally written chapters of the book: most are ethnographic fiction. The Opening Vignette elucidates how it pains Gerardo to go to danzón events because he is still in love with his ex, Elena, who now goes to events with her new partner, Miguel.
Pancho
Authors: Malcomson Hettie
Published: January 2024

In order to enable people’s struggles and intimate feelings to be alluded to, and stories that pervade danzón practitioners’ lives to be told that would otherwise be absent, short, experimentally written vignettes are interwoven between the more conventionally written chapters of the book: most are ethnographic fiction. Vignette 2 relates how Pancho struggles to direct his danzonera because he is not from Veracruz.
Lulú and Antonio
Authors: Malcomson Hettie
Published: January 2024

In order to enable people’s struggles and intimate feelings to be alluded to, and stories that pervade danzón practitioners’ lives to be told that would otherwise be absent, short, experimentally written vignettes are interwoven between the more conventionally written chapters of the book: most are ethnographic fiction. Vignette 4 alludes to the dynamics between a maestro, Antonio, and his dance and romantic partner, Lulú.
Hettie and Uriel
Authors: Malcomson Hettie
Published: January 2024

In order to enable people’s struggles and intimate feelings to be alluded to, and stories that pervade danzón practitioners’ lives to be told that would otherwise be absent, short, experimentally written vignettes are interwoven between the more conventionally written chapters of the book: most are ethnographic fiction. Vignette 5 recounts how Uriel threw Hettie out of his danzón dance group rehearsal because she had been fraternizing with Alejandra’s danzón group.
Johann Most and Yiddish Anarchism, 1876–1906
Authors: Goyens Tom
Published: January 2024

This essay argues that the German anarchist movement in the United States during the 1880s and 1890s laid the groundwork for the Yiddish-speaking movement. Both benefited from linguistic and geographical proximity in places like New York and Philadelphia. Both valued their languages and cultural autonomy. This affinity dates back to the 1870s when German and Jewish radicals interacted in Berlin and London. This essay highlights the role of firebrand Johann Most who was active in all those places. He and the Jewish anarchists found common ground in their principled opposition to capitalism, the State, and religion. Most’s authenticity, wit, and irreverence inspired the next generation of Jewish radicals like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman who helped bring anarchism into the twentieth century, despite some tensions along the way.
The Debate on Expropriations in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Anarchism
Authors: Shtakser Inna
Published: January 2024

This essay addresses the early twentieth-century debate among Russian anarchists over expropriations, that is, robberies and extortions for the purpose of financing the groups’ revolutionary activities. The anarchist discourse on expropriations highlights a primary complication with any attempt to radically change society, namely, the question of resources. Deciding how to acquire such resources is always a political decision, and the decision always entails a price tag. Although expropriations had been used elsewhere, for anarchist groups in Russia they became a primary means of self-financing from late 1905 through 1908, the period of their greatest popularity and activism. This resulted in numerous problems for the anarchist groups, starting with internal corruption and ending with the public equating anarchists with common criminals due to their similar modes of operation.
Jews and North American Anarcho-Syndicalism
Authors: Grueter Mark
Published: January 2024

In the 1910s, exiled Russian-speaking Jews such as Maksim Raevsky, Bill Shatov, and Vsevelod Eikhenbaum (“Voline”) led the Union of Russian Workers (URW), an American-based anarchist federation of several thousand emigrants—Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish, Belarusan—from the tsarist empire. This chapter details their participation, often working with militant unions including the Industrial Workers of the World, in the insurgent labor and strike movements that spread across the continent over the decade. And through the case of the URW, the chapter argues that the anarchist movement was fundamentally about class struggle and labor organizing. Finally, the chapter documents how the URW provided key financing and personnel to support the anarchist movement in Russia during the Russian Revolution and Civil War.
Divine Fire
Authors: Antliff Allan
Published: January 2024

This chapter contests contemporary art historical scholarship that foregrounds Jewishness and American nationalism as key to the career of the famous photographer and promoter of modern art, Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). Through a critical revisiting of Stieglitz’s outlook and how it dovetails with anarchist discourses concerning Jewishness, Zionism, and American nationalism, it argues that he promoted a cosmopolitan vision antithetical to ethnic/nationalist parochialisms. Along the way it addresses the anarchist economics undergirding Stieglitz’s promotion of modern art and his conception of modernism as a force of internationalism. It also showcases the rich network of anarchists who aided Stieglitz while debating the efficacy of his initiatives for fomenting social revolution through cultural activism.
Introduction
Authors: Dragomir Cristina-Ioana
Published: January 2024

This chapter announces the book Making the Immigrant Soldier by presenting the typical processes through which foreigners become Americans and how the naturalization process via the institution of the US military differs. It continues by showcasing the way in which foreign-born soldiers have been enlisting in the US military. It then focuses on introducing the three immigrant soldiers, Lily, Alexa, and Vikrant, whose life stories will be presented. The chapter ends by outlining the book structure, giving an overview of the following chapters.
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

Stanwyck’s anthology drama TV show ran for only one year (1960-1961). It is analyzed here as an instance of archival media and as melancholic kitsch. Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams’s rethinking of melodrama as a realist modality and ur-genre of American cinema helps to think through the transition from film to television. In keeping with their notion of melodrama, The Barbara Stanwyck Show demonstrates the personification of competing social pressures and gender anxieties of the early 1960s. The thirty-minute stand-alone episodes are allegories of Hollywood films in which Stanwyck appears as an older woman challenging the industry to meet her halfway, on the verge of the new medium.
Annie Oakley
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

This chapter explores Stanwyck’s affiliation with American neoliberalism and the right to bear arms. It traces a line from Stanwyck’s first western, Annie Oakley (1935), running through the failed project of The Fountainhead (1947), the film based on Ayn Rand’s novel that Stanwyck brought to Warner’s but did not star in, to Cattle Queen of Montana (1954), in which she stars alongside Ronald Reagan. Stanwyck’s attachment on- and off-screen to the ideology of liberal individualism is explored alongside her characters’ affiliation with Indigenous characters, which parallels Stanwyck’s own professed allegiance with Native cultures. In the westerns, women and “Indians” are granted heroic status together, but only in the shadow of the white man.
The Stella Dallas Debates
Authors: Russell Catherine
Published: January 2024

Stella Dallas (1937) was an important film for feminist film theory of the ’80s, with Linda Williams and E. Ann Kaplan debating the address to the female spectator. Stanley Cavell controversially shifted the terms of analysis to American culture and the independent woman in his essay on the film in 1996. This chapter places Stanwyck’s opaque performance at the center of these critical debates, along with an analysis of fashion, race, and female bonding, to underline her role in foundational film studies scholarship.
Graceful Resistance
Authors: Griffith Lauren Miller
Published: January 2024

Capoeira is often described as an art of resistance. This book asks whether and how such a discourse translates into action, specifically in the context of present-day US society. It argues that there is indeed an identifiable emotional orientation, or affective habitus, cultivated within capoeira groups. In many cases, these groups undertake activities that are focused on antiracist efforts (e.g., supporting the Black Lives Matter movement), but some capoeiristas also use their influence to encourage environmental sustainability or create alternatives to capitalist modes of exchange. The book begins by relaying a basic history of capoeira but in such a way that it highlights key figures and events that capoeiristas focus on when explaining why they think capoeira is synonymous with social justice. The degree to which a group focuses on social justice often comes down to the teacher’s commitments and pedagogical choices, though some individuals arrive at this stance on their own as well through a course of self-study and dialog with the larger capoeira community. The individuals profiled here have all experienced some form of personal growth through capoeira and inspire it in others, whether that is through overt participation in activism (e.g., marches, protests) or through more subtle acts of consciousness raising. Finally, the book concludes with suggestions for future research and recommendations for capoeiristas seeking to make their communities more internally just.
The Making of a Politicized Art
Authors: Griffith Lauren Miller
Published: January 2024

This chapter provides a primer on the form of capoeira. It explores the balance of playfulness and seriousness that characterizes capoeira and discusses how the moves become a metaphor for navigating society as well as how the cultivation of malícia, craftiness, and wariness are essential skills for marginalized peoples navigating unjust social structures. The chapter provides information on how scholars and practitioners have recounted and interpreted the history of capoeira, and what the emphasis in their stories suggests about their ideological commitments. It addresses the modernization of capoeira, its institutionalization, and its globalization, as well as the way these developments created a context in which capoeira was able to be interpreted by present-day practitioners as a politicized art.
Capoeira’s Pedagogies of Resistance
Authors: Griffith Lauren Miller
Published: January 2024

This chapter focuses on the pedagogies teachers use (intentionally or unintentionally) to enculturate their students into the affective habitus associated with capoeira. Song is a primary channel through which these messages are shared, provided students understand the meaning of the lyrics. The chapter also discusses the importance of spending time with one’s mestre and the value of mestres’ impromptu lectures about social issues in a variety of settings like multiday workshops. These events often feature lectures, roundtables, and film screenings in addition to capoeira classes, making them important sites for the production of a resistance orientation. This chapter also addresses individual efforts to seek out books on capoeira in both English and Portuguese, which may require students to undertake a course of foreign-language learning.
We Preach That Culture
Authors: O’brien Hazel
Published: January 2024

This chapter engages with the idea that there strongly persists a dominant culture within Mormonism which firmly centres a White, wealthy, and North American worldview. Mormonism maintains a continuity of collective memory in a variety of ways, however these traditions are often intermingled with a dominant view of church culture which is not often passively accepted by members living outside the US. In challenging dominant forms of church culture Mormons in Ireland question the assumptions that underlie the “chain of belief” of Mormonism (Hervieu-Léger, 2000, p. 81). Adherents in Ireland are creating imaginings of Mormonism and its spiritual and logistical homeland of Utah which incorporate both connection and disconnection with the dominant traditions of Mormonism.
Making Deadly Landscapes Healthier
Authors: McCusker Kristine M.
Published: January 2024

The First New Deal had the opportunity to systematically sever the link between the region’s landscape and death by literally removing the dead from hundreds of small graveyards to build the Tennessee Valley Authority’s dam projects. Some of the ten thousand or so dead were then centralized into public cemeteries like the Bakers Forge Cemetery in east Tennessee.
Muddy Roads and Sacred Duties
Authors: McCusker Kristine M.
Published: January 2024

After the war, memorial activities once again challenged families to transform rituals, as they worked together without regard for region to search for and bury their dead. Military escorts who accompanied the repatriated dead bore witness to the evolution of death care in profound ways as they escorted the soldiers home to family burial grounds or buried them in overseas battle cemeteries without regard to race.
The Voice of America
Authors: Allen Gene
Published: January 2024

In his last major campaign as general manager, Cooper prevented AP from providing its news to the Voice of America, even as anti-Communism became the central issue in American political life in the later 1940s. Cooper enunciated a uniquely American view of how journalism should operate, insisting that private enterprise was the only form of organization that could guarantee unbiased news. He saw government influence as the key threat to journalistic independence, ignoring those who saw U.S. journalism’s control by wealthy (and often highly political) publishers and its dependence on advertising as equally significant limits on its freedom.
“Mr. Associated Press”
Authors: Allen Gene
Published: January 2024

This chapter covers Cooper’s life from the time he unwillingly gave up the title of general manager in 1948 to his death in 1965. It assesses Cooper’s overall influence in the history of AP and in the evolution of twentieth-century journalism and underscores the contrast between Cooper’s era, when it was almost universally accepted that journalism should be nonpartisan impartial and factually accurate, and the present day, when outlets like Fox News engage in the systematic spread of misinformation.