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The Last War
Authors: Malovany Pesach , Baram Amatzia , Woods Kevin M. , Englesberg Ronna
Published: January 2018

This chapter deals with the last war between Iraq and the Coalition forces in 2003—Operation “Iraqi Freedom”, called by the Iraqis the "Decisive War. It describes the course of the war until the conquest of Baghdad (20 March–13 April, 2003), starting with the aerial attack called “Shock and Awe”. It continues to describe the Coalition’s air attacks all over Iraq and their effect, the ground campaign in southern Iraq (20-24 March) and the different battles waged by the Coalition forces. It describes the conduct of the war by the Iraqis at this stage, the crucial battle in the Najaf-Karbala area (25 March-3 April), their belief in the coming threat from the direction of Jordan, as well as the crucial meeting of the Iraqi senior commanders with Qusay and the fatal decision taken by him.
Independent Bodies in the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff
Authors: Malovany Pesach , Baram Amatzia , Woods Kevin M. , Englesberg Ronna
Published: January 2018

This chapter deals with independent bodies in the Ministry of Defence and the General Staff as
the General Inspectorate, the Legal Division Directorate, the Military Accounts Directorate, the Recruitment and Statistics Directorate, the Political Guidance and Morale Division/Directorate, the Military office of the Party and the Research and Development Authority. It describes the background of each of the bodies and its functions and their important role in managing the armed forces, especially during the Iran-Iraq war.
At the Decisive Point in the Sinai
Authors: Even Jacob , Maoz Simcha B.
Published: January 2018

The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War or the October War, was fought by Israel against a coalition of Arab nations, led by Syria and Egypt. The war lasted nineteen days, with the pivotal moment being Major General Ariel Sharon’s crossing of the Suez Canal, which is known as the crossing battle In this narrative Jacob Even and Simcha B. Maoz consider the war and Sharon’s leadership as a case study of generalship for the benefit of new generations of senior field commanders. By focusing on the divisional command, Even and Maoz balance the macro view of the war (in the context of the political atmosphere of the time) with the micro view (as a cascade of individual decisions made by each commanding officer).
Architect of Air Power
Authors: Laslie Brian D.
Published: January 2018

Only the most ardent of air power historians know the name of General Laurence S. Kuter, despite the fact he welded a B-17 group into a cohesive fighting force, was the deputy commander of allied tactical air forces in North Africa, and later served as commander of the Military Air Transport Service, Air University, Far East Air Forces—later Pacific Air Forces—and finally as a Commander-in-Chief of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). The biography of Larry Kuter is the biography of the United States Air Corps, Army Air Forces and U.S. Air Force
Beginnings, West Point, and Early Assignments
Authors: Laslie Brian D.
Published: January 2018

The first chapter functions as an introduction and early biography to Kuter. It begins by focusing on his early life, his decision to attend West Point, his time at the Academy and his graduation and marriage. Following this, it shows how a young artillery officer found an interest in airplanes and their use as aerial observation platforms. Finally, it follows the Kuter family arriving at and attending flying training in the wastelands of Texas at Brooks Field. An interesting aspect of this is how Kuter and family move from the very plush Presidio in California to the “hardly palatial” San Antonio. This chapter also introduces Mrs. Ethel Kuter, whose diaries, scrapbooks, and passion for documenting Larry’s exploits provided a rich historical record to pull from.
The Coming War
Authors: Laslie Brian D.
Published: January 2018

Chapter Three is about the coming war and the invention of American air power. Kuter said on his arrival in Washington D.C. in 1939 that “One thing was apparent: whoever was running the Air Corps at that time, it wasn’t the Chief of the Air Corps.” This chapter will discuss the planning for the coming air war and the writing of Air War Planning Document-1 in only nine days. Beyond planning for an air war with an air force that did not exist, Kuter also led the effort to set up an Air Staff and in 1942 drew national attention by making a huge jump in rank. On January 5th, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and less than a month later to brigadier general on February 2nd, skipping the rank of bird colonel entirely. This made Kuter, at 36, the youngest general officer of his time and the youngest since William Sherman.
Fixing the Far East Air Forces and Creating the Pacific Air Forces
Authors: Laslie Brian D.
Published: January 2018

Kuter left Maxwell to take command of the Far East Air Forces (FEAF). As Lieutenant General Kuter flew to his new assignment he was promoted to full general shortly after midnight on May 29, 1955. For an officer whose first flight was in a bi-plane, the importance of assuming his ultimate final rank on a trans-oceanic flight was surely not lost on him. During his career, the United States Army Air Corps had transitioned to a truly global and independent Air Force capable flying Kuter rather comfortably to his new assignment. The Air Force, like Kuter had fully matured and reached a pinnacle thought impossible as little as a decade ago. Kuter had grown with this Air Force, molding it, organizing it, shaping it and giving it the ability to do span the globe. General Kuter helped to reorganize the command and transitioned it to the newly created Pacific Air Forces (PACAF), becoming the new unit’s first commander.
Conclusion
Authors: Laslie Brian D.
Published: January 2018

The Kuters collectively wrote hundreds of letters during their life together. Beyond their letters to each other, they routinely wrote long missives to their families keeping them appraised of current goings-on. These letters began during Larry’s time in the Presidio and ran through his time as commander of NORAD and beyond. Beyond the letters, there were the scrapbooks, photographs, and numerous other materials that Ethel and Larry kept before donating the entirety of the collection to the Special Collections Branch of the US Air Force Academy library. Amassed together, the collection constitutes an almost daily entry of their activities from high school through retirement....
The Poetry of History in Early Modern India
Authors: Busch Allison
Published: January 2018

This chapter shows how Hindi poetry can be an important resource for understanding the Mughal period (1526–1857). Mughal historians have largely relied on Persian and European sources, but much can be gained by examining the local historical cultures that were cultivated in Indian vernacular languages. Busch focuses on a specific Hindi work, the Binhai Raso of Maheshdas Rao, which tells the story of the Mughal succession war of 1658 from the viewpoint of the Gaur Rajputs who fought (and died) in defence of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. Since the materials are primarily literary rather than documentary in nature, they present challenges to would-be historian of historical culture, but they have the potential to contribute new perspectives not only to the field of Mughal history, but to the re-theorisation of Indian historiographical practices.
Writing the Nation: Historians and National Identities from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
Authors: Geary Patrick
Published: January 2018

Many nineteenth-century national historians, such as Alexandre Herculano, Cesare Balbo, François Guizot, Jules Michelet and Thomas Babington Macaulay, self-consciously created the deep past of their respective nations for receptive and enthusiastic national audiences. Influenced by the novels of Walter Scott, they wrote history as biography of the nation, an account of how that nation, composed of the best of all of its social strata, had come into existence. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, novelistic and professional approaches to history bifurcated, with the former reducing the scope of historical writing to investigations of highly specialised topics that have little resonance outside of academe and with a wider public. This chapter explores alternative ways for professional historians to engage with their societies and asks about the legacy of contemporary historical writing.
Medievalism, Byzantinism, and Bulgarian Politics through the Archival Lens
Authors: Gargova Fani
Published: January 2018

This chapter explores archival practices and the role of primary source materials in the history of research about the Bulgarian Middle Ages and their connection to nationalism. First, there is an overview on the value of archival descriptions in archival practice, which contribute to the discoverability, usability, accessibility, as well as integrity, of unique, historical collections to the researcher. Second, a case study about the connection of Bogdan Filov, Josef Strzygowski, and Thomas Whittemore is presented, and their investigation of Byzantine and Bulgarian medieval monuments is described in order to show how archival descriptions serve as preconditions for understanding, discovering, and accessing primary source material.
Digital Mouvance: Once and Future Medieval Poetry Remediated in the Modern World
Authors: Jones Chris
Published: January 2018

Chris Jones provides a unique insight into his involvement with two literary projects: Twitter poems composed with Jacob Polley as well as an Apple app of Seamus Heaney’s version of Robert Henryson’s Fables. These projects allow him to make carefully substantiated observations on the constant mutability inherent in medieval and medievalist poetry, rather than seeing the move to digital versions as the loss of an original. More generally, Jones also observes a significant return to medievalism among British poets in the twenty-first century, challenging the usual narrative that medievalism had its heyday in the nineteenth century.
Russian Musicological Scholarship of the Last Two Decades: Achievements and Lacunae
Authors: Rakhmanova Marina
Published: January 2018

In the last two decades, the discipline of Russian music studies in Russia has undergone a profound transformation. The lifting of restrictions on access to hitherto inaccessible archival materials has made a wealth of new information available, and, in conjunction with the accompanying relaxation of censorship and increased contact with the West, has had far-reaching implications for scholarship. Open discussion of many aspects of the country’s musical past which were hitherto erased from standard Soviet accounts became possible, enabling the distortions and mendacities of Soviet scholarship to be corrected. The present chapter details some of the most significant achievements of Russian musicology in recent years, as well as the problems created by the challenging material conditions in which research on Russian music has to take place.
From Enlightened to Sublime: Musical Life under Stalin, 1930–1948
Authors: Fairclough Pauline
Published: January 2018

The years 1937–53 are generally thought of as stagnant ones for Soviet concert repertoire. This view, however, is predicated on a number of assumptions: first, that the drop in Western modernism in the schedules and its replacement by Soviet works had a stultifying effect on concert life; second, that the era of Socialist Realism was damagingly insular; and third, that cultural exchange ceased and Soviet composers lost touch with what was being composed in the West. This chapter challenges all those assumptions by analysing concert schedules of this period, presenting evidence of semi-formal/informal cultural exchange and considering the notion that Socialist Realism was not an isolated trend but part of a large-scale shift in European and American art whose importance has been side-lined in a still dominant cultural narrative of technical progress and complexity.
Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations
Authors: Provencher Denis M.
Published: January 2018

The introduction situates this project within the broader scholarship in French and Francophone Studies, post-colonial, diaspora and migration studies, gender and women’s studies, LGBT studies and queer theory, and language and sexuality. I divide the Introduction into three parts wherein each one addresses a different driving thread -- language, temporalities and filiations -- of the overarching argument of the book.
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed’s Universal Performance of French Citizenship and Muslim Brotherhood
Authors: Provencher Denis M.
Published: January 2018

In this chapter, I present the life and work of Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, who is the founder of three non-profit associations over the past several years: Les Enfants du Sida (2006), Homosexuels musulmans de France (HM2F) (2010), and Musulman-es Progressistes de France (2012). He is also the author of Révoltes extraordinaires: un enfant du sida autour du monde (2011) and Le Coran et La Chair (2012), and co-author of Queer Muslim Marriage (2013). During the last few years, the French media have covered his same-sex marriage in Cape Town to husband Qiyaam Jantjies-Zahed in 2011, the publication of his book, Le Coran et La Chair in 2012, as well as and his creation of La Mosquée inclusive de l’Unicité, the first “gay friendly” or inclusive mosque in Paris, in 2012.
Queer Maghrebi French: Flexible Language and Activism
Authors: Provencher Denis M.
Published: January 2018

In this chapter, I provide a synthesis of the different categories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French subjects we have seen throughout the chapters -- those who are French born or émigrés, those who are working class or middle class, and those who are authors and artists or in other “non-creative” life endeavors. I highlight the multiple paths to queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French diasporic subjecthood and stress that even those who have access to utopian spaces and transfilial scripts call upon them differently. Indeed, no single diasporic subject exists and each one’s path is unique. Moreover, while the individual’s education level or social class can affect orality, literacy, imagination, and even coherence in one’s story telling, this does not automatically predict how authors, artists and everyday speakers shape their stories with all or any of these. Indeed both the stories of creative and successful strategies and of failure illustrate that the contradictions in the French system limit mobility and integration. Finally, I draw on Raissiguier’s work on France’s sans-papières (undocumented women) and Fernando’s work on veiled French Muslim women working for human rights organizations, to conclude the book with a brief discussion of the status on the languages of racism, patriarchy, and homophobia in France and a call for new models of language on human rights in France and the European Union.
Black German
Authors: Michael Theodor
Published: January 2018

When I was born in Berlin, the year 1925 was just fifteen days old. Fourteen days earlier the Apostolic Nuntius Eugenio Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII, had delivered the congratulations of the diplomatic corps to Reich President Friedrich Ebert. Nobody expected that barely two months later Friedrich Ebert would be dead. After his death the aged Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, a living legend since his victory over the Russian army at Tannenberg, became President. Of course I knew nothing about all this; people told me later that I had enough trouble of my own getting into the world and staying alive. My mother was already seriously ill when I was born, and she died a year later....
Liverpool: The making of a licensed city
Authors: Beckingham David
Published: January 2018

This chapter establishes Liverpool’s unenviable statistical record for drunkenness. It examines the nature of municipal comparison, interrogating the reasons for Liverpool’s record and critically assessing the nature of the available evidence. It established that the pressure for reform came as much from vocal campaigners within Liverpool as critics looking on from outside the city. It considers the place of drink in Liverpool’s complex and changing politics, and establishes how reform to policing and licensing emerged as a politically practical option for the city to tackle its reputation. The final section provides a chapter outline of the remaining book.
The licensed city at war
Authors: Beckingham David
Published: January 2018

This chapter continues the examination of challenges to licensing by scrutinising the work of the Central Control Board on the regulation of drinking and drunkenness during the Great War. It analyses the introduction of new restrictions, which again had in view problems associated with women’s drinking. As such, it examines how Liverpool’s licensing system responded to the trials of war.
For Class and Country
Authors: Swift David
Published: January 2018

The First World War has often suffered from comparison to the Second, in terms of both public interest and the significance ascribed to it by scholars in the shaping of modern Britain. This is especially so for the relationship between the Left and these two wars. For the Left, the Second World War can be seen as a time of triumph: a united stand against fascism followed by a landslide election win and a radical, reforming Labour government. The First World War is more complex. Given the gratuitous cost in lives, the failure of a ‘fit country for heroes to live in’ to materialise, the deep recessions and unemployment of the inter-war years, and the botched peace settlements which served only to precipitate another war, the Left has tended to view the conflict as an unmitigated disaster and unpardonable waste. This has led to a tendency on the Left to see the later conflict as the ‘good’ war, fought against an obvious evil, and the earlier conflict as an imperialist blunder; the result of backroom scheming, secret pacts and a thirst for colonies. This book to moves away from a concentration on machinations at the elite levels of the labour movement, on events inside Parliament and intellectual developments; there is a focus on less well-visited material. This book argues that labour patriotism characterised the left’s stance on the First World War, the anti-war stance was marginalised, and this patriotism both held the labour movement together and ensured greater electoral success after 1918.
‘I’d sooner blackleg my union than blackleg my country’ – Labour Patriotism, 1914–18
Authors: Swift David
Published: January 2018

This chapter examines events in August 1914, including the Left’s acquiescence to the war, and how it managed to co-ordinate its response. It will discuss the principal characters in the ‘patriotic labour’ camp, and survey specific unions and ordinary workers who gave their support – and their lives – to the war effort. The progress of the war inevitably gave rise to anti-German hostility, and the motivations and implications of this will also be analysed. Finally, there will be a survey of ordinary trade unionists and labour activists who distinguished themselves during the conflict. In terms of both an elite and subaltern level, it will be argued that there was a decidedly united response from labour. Although enthusiasm for the war amongst the labour movement was rare, there was a general consensus that, once begun, it had to be seen through. Ultimately, this chapter argues that labour patriotism, rather than anti-war agitation, characterised the Left’s response to the war, and that the history of labour patriotism in this period has been unjustly neglected by historians.
West Indian Generation
Authors: Bidnall Amanda
Published: January 2018

Between Britain’s imperial victory in the Second World War and its introduction of race-based immigration restriction ‘at home,’ London’s relationship with its burgeoning West Indian settler community was a cauldron of apprehension, optimism, ignorance, and curiosity. The West Indian Generation revisits this not-quite-postcolonial moment through the careers of a unique generation of West Indian (British Caribbean) artists that included actors Earl Cameron, Edric Connor, Pearl Connor, Cy Grant, Ronald Moody, Barry and Lloyd Reckord, and calypso greats Lord Beginner and Lord Kitchener. Colonial subjects turned British citizens, they tested the parameters of cultural belonging through their work.
Drawing upon familiar and neglected artefacts from London’s cultural archives, Amanda Bidnall sketches the feathery roots of this community as it was both nurtured and inhibited by metropolitan institutions and producers hoping variously to promote imperial solidarity, educate mainstream audiences, and sensationalize racial conflict. Upon a shared foundation of language, education, and middle-class values, a fascinating collaboration took place between popular West Indian artists and cultural authorities like the Royal Court Theatre, the Rank Organisation, and the BBC. By analyzing the potential—and limits—of this collaboration, Bidnall demonstrates the mainstream influence and perceptive politics of pioneering West Indian artists. Their ambivalent and complicated reception by the British government, media, and populace draws a tangled picture of postwar national belonging. The West Indian Generation is necessary reading for anyone interested in the cultural ramifications of the end of empire, New Commonwealth migration, and the production of Black Britain.
Barry Reckord, the Race Relations Narrative, and the Royal Court Theatre
Authors: Bidnall Amanda
Published: January 2018

“Barry Reckord, the Race Relations Narrative, and the Royal Court Theatre” shifts its analysis of the race relations narrative to the forefront of postwar London drama. Jamaican playwright—and one of the quintessential “angry young men”—Barry Reckord was among the first to have a play selected by the English Stage Company for production at the reborn Royal Court Theatre. By examining Reckord’s first three plays, Flesh to a Tiger, You in Your Small Corner, and Skyvers, in the context of the Royal Court’s rise to cultural ascendancy, this chapter demonstrates how Reckord helped build the so-called cultural revolution that would write him out of its history.
Transnational Radicalism and the Connected Lives of Tom Mann and Robert Samuel Ross
Authors: Kirk Neville
Published: January 2018

This book explores the general development of transnational radicalism between the 1850s and 1940s. This is achieved by means of a new and original study of the connected transnational lives and wider radical worlds of two important socialists, British-born Tom Mann (1856-1941) and Australian-born Robert Samuel Ross (1873-1941). Mann and Ross were very active, as labour organisers, editors and educators, in socialist and labour movements in the Anglophone world and beyond. They met in Australia in 1903, worked individually and together in trans-Tasman radical circles in Australia and New Zealand, and developed strong connections with radicals in the wider world. They kept in close touch after Mann’s departure for Britain, via South Africa, in 1910. They helped to build radical transnational movements and networks that sought to create a socialist alternative to capitalism and capitalist globalisation. These have been largely neglected in the literature. Based upon extensive primary- and secondary-based research, this book seeks to recapture this partly hidden world of transnational radicalism. In so doing it also makes a case in favour of transnational history against the ‘methodological nationalism’ which has dominated the subject of history for so long. It attempts to make a new and useful contribution to the literature on transnationalism, globalisation and social movements. It will appeal not only to historians but social scientists in general and all those interested in radical politics, especially those seeking radical alternatives to today’s neo-liberal globalisation and capitalism.
World War I and its Aftermath
Authors: Kirk Neville
Published: January 2018

The final chapter considers the ways in which Mann’s and Ross’s commitments to labour-movement unity and wider working-class solidarity fared in the face of the highly divisive issues of war, militarism, imperialism, peace, patriotism, loyalism, internationalism, conscription, revolution and counter-revolution surrounding the period of World War One and its aftermath. It shows that while Mann and Ross continued to preach peace, opposition to the ‘imperialist’ war and conscription, Ross was far more active and outspoken in his anti-war activities than Mann and as a consequence suffered imprisonment and declining health. The pacifism of Ross, indeed, is to be contrasted with Mann’s commitment to taking the war to a successful conclusion against ‘Prussianism’. In 1917 both Mann and Ross welcomed the ‘emancipatory’ Russian Revolution and staunchly opposed the politics of counter-revolution and ‘loyalism’. Yet while Mann embraced communism, Ross found a home in the radicalised Australian Labor Party and rejected the Bolshevik model for democratic Australia. The case of Mann and Ross casts important new light upon the general issues of labour’s and workers’ attitudes to war and peace, revolution and reaction, patriotism and loyalism and communism and social democracy.
Liverpool Sectarianism
Authors: Roberts Keith Daniel
Published: January 2018

For a period spanning two centuries the sectarian (‘orange’ versus ‘green’) divide in Liverpool soured relations between its residents. Indeed, the city’s political representatives were often elected on the basis of their ethno-religious pedigree and street clashes, particularly on the twelfth of July, were commonplace. Politics continued to be influenced by religion until the mid-1970s. Weakening sectarianism, in the limited existing studies, is attributed largely to post-war slum clearance, but this book asserts that causality is much more complex. There are a range of factors that have contributed to the decline. As this book demonstrates, the downfall of sectarianism coincided with the creation of a collective identity; an identity based not on ethno-religious affiliations, but on a commonality, an acknowledgment that principles which united were more significant than factors which divided. Importantly, the success of the city’s two football teams, Everton FC and Liverpool FC, gave the city a new focus based upon a healthy sporting rivalry rather than sectarian vehemence. A complex interplay of secularism and ecumenism, the economic misfortunes of Liverpool and their political impact in terms of class politics, the growth of a collective city identity and the omnipotence of (non-religiously derived) football affiliations combined to diminish Liverpool’s once acute sectarian fault-line. This book examines how and why.
The Rise of Sectarianism
Authors: Roberts Keith Daniel
Published: January 2018

The chapter demonstrates how the arrival of the famine Irish changed (or reinforced) attitudes in the port in a decidedly anti-Irish/Catholic direction. It portrays how the presence of the famine Irish and their ‘strange’ customs resulted in their scapegoating as scroungers and alien economic competitors. The concentration of the Irish population in ethno-religious ghettoes and its effects on the city are also analysed as well as the protagonists and consequences of Irish immigration. It outlines the growth of the Roman Catholic Church in Liverpool, in response to the arrival the famine Irish and demonstrates how Catholic influence grew in line with its congregation, as did the strength of the Orange Order, in response to this influx. Both organisations, the chapter suggests, would become key players in the sectarian dynamics of the city. Attention then turns to the city’s sectarian orators and the violence that characterised the port in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Ecumenism: ‘The Great Mersey Miracle’ and a Decline in Religious Observance
Authors: Roberts Keith Daniel
Published: January 2018

Chapter six discusses a growing tide of ecumenism in the city: the ‘better together’ philosophy of Bishop Sheppard and Archbishop Worlock. The opinions of clergymen, politicians, and others are utilised to gauge to what extent the efforts of the clergymen played a part in reducing sectarian tensions on Merseyside. The chapter also analyses the apparently diminishing role of Christianity in the lives of the Merseyside populace. It demonstrates how religion has declined and suggests that, amongst many other factors, in some ways it was the strong opinions and stipulations of religious organisations themselves that led to resentment and the weakening of the Churches’ stronghold over their congregations.
The Emergence of a Common Identity: The Integration of the Irish and the Harmony of ‘Merseybeat’
Authors: Roberts Keith Daniel
Published: January 2018

Chapter eight highlights how Irish Catholics, once culturally marooned in the city, came to influence Liverpool culture itself. It will show how the city’s speech patterns, attitudes, and dominant characteristics were all influenced by the swathes of Irish Immigrants to the city. It will also portray how the two once dominant identities in the city: Irish Catholic and Lancastrian Protestant, merged into one as the twentieth century progressed. The chapter then outlines how modern culture, such as television, poetry, music, and, in particular, the Merseybeat helped to make the city distinct. Finally it demonstrates how and why ‘Scouse’ became a defence mechanism as well as an identity.
Critias
Authors: Gill Christopher
Published: January 2018

This provides the Greek text of the two dialogues in which the Atlantis story is presented, which is introduced in the Timaeus (17a-27b), and then recounted in the Critias, which breaks off unexpectedly after 15 Stephanus pages. The text is the Oxford Classical text of John Burnet (1902). The Commentary is interleaved with the Greek text in relatively short (‘bite-size’) sections. This is designed to enable ease of reference to the section of the commentary on the Greek text being read at any one time. The commentary provides concise discussion of the literary form of the work, the presentation of the story, and its philosophical significance, referring also to the numbered paragraphs of the Introduction. There are also short summaries of the main features of each section of the story. The notes also provide guidance on the grammar and translation of the Greek texts, referring to widely used Greek textbooks. The illustrative translations are based on the translation also provided in the book and are consistent with the vocabulary offered elsewhere. These features are designed to make the book more useful to students learning Greek and also to scholars wanting to make a careful study of Plato’s texts on the Atlantis story.
A Primal Scene: The Colonial Fortune
Authors: Panaïté Oana
Published: January 2018

The introduction presents an overview of the primary and secondary sources examined in the book. The premise of the study is that contemporary texts written by authors from and outside the Hexagon, though distinct in style, thematic concerns and ideological stances, share a number of discursive and narrative features crystallized around the proprioceptive and remanent dimensions of the colonial. Through dissemination, empathy, indirection, obliqueness and mediation, the colonial situates contemporary narratives in a larger historical framework while also reminding readers of the many layers and force fields that constitute their textual fabric.
Landscape as Vocation
Authors: Panaïté Oana
Published: January 2018

The second chapter continues the examination of the intimate and multifaceted relation between the colonial destination and the modern Western belief in the interconnectedness of individual and historical destiny through an eco-critical analysis of works by J. M. G. Le Clézio and Edouard Glissant.
An Unpayable Debt: For a Paracolonial Aesthetics
Authors: Panaïté Oana
Published: January 2018

In their writings, artists such as Lyonel Trouillot, Régis Jauffret and Léonora Miano ponder, probe and reimagine the contradictory connotations of colonial debt.
Literature and theory can shed light on the burdensome, incommensurable and indivisible colonial heritage that continues to shape our era’s violent struggles, ideological incomprehensions and myopic or even catastrophic public policies. They can show that reckoning with irreconcilable visions of the past may lead to imagining a common future and they can call to a particular kind of action in which powerful emotions foster careful reflection.
The Novice in the City
Authors: Reznicek Matthew L.
Published: January 2018

This chapter explores two competing representations of Paris in an early- and a late-career novel by Sydney Owenson. It argues that, in The Novice of Saint Dominick, Paris functions as a conservative site of socialization, while in The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys, the French capital becomes a site of liberal reforms and social mobility.In the earlier novel, Owenson focuses on the dangers of a woman’s involvement in metropolitan economics in order to enforce her submission to a masculine authority through the use of debts and cosmopolitan understandings of the market. The later novel uses the Paris Opera house to highlight the development of urban literacy.
Propuesta metodológica de evaluación para evaluar competencias a través de tareas complejas en entornos virtuales de aprendizaje
Authors: Cubero Ibáñez Jaione , Ibarra Sáiz María Soledad , Rodríguez Gómez Gregorio
Published: January 2018

Se presenta en este artículo una propuesta metodológica de evaluación del nivel competencial de los estudiantes universitarios en cinco competencias: juicio analítico y crítico, resolución de problemas, sentido ético, toma de decisions y trabajo en equipo. Se centra la introducción en los dos focos conceptuales en los que se sustenta el estudio, la evaluación de competencias a través de tareas complejas y en un contexto digital con e-rúbricas. En el segundo apartado se contextualiza la propuesta en el Proyecto DevalSimWeb en el que surge, se definen las competencias y se ofrece una descripción de los aspectos fundamentales del Programa Formativo APREVAL-DevalSimWeb. En método se especifican los interrogantes que guían la propuesta, el procedimiento y el diseño metodológico, de acuerdo al método de diseño de experto, de la propuesta de evaluación. Los resultados recogen la propuesta metodológica realizada sobre la base de las tareas complejas y el uso de e-rúbricas que se utilzará antes y después de la realización del programa formativo para evaluar el nivel competencial de los estudiantes de primer año de carrera. Finaliza el artículo con unas conclusiones y líneas de investigación asociadas a la propuesta. En un anexo se ofrece para cada una de las competencias la descripción de las tareas complejas especificando, antes y después de la implementación del programa, las situaciones/problema planteadas, los recursos utilizados y las actividades concretas de evaluación junto con las cinco e-rúbricas completas correspondientes a cada competencia.
Usos y abusos de las TIC en los adolescentes
Authors: Gairín Sallán Joaquín , Mercader Cristina
Published: January 2018

Las horas que un adolescente le dedica a las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación han aumentado en los últimos años, así como la posibilidad de hacerlo sin supervisión. Los adolescentes utilizan las TIC en diferentes ámbitos de su vida: la escuela, el hogar o las relaciones sociales, tanto para realizar tareas relacionadas con los deberes académicos como para el ocio y diversión individual o con los amigos. El presente estudio analiza los usos y abusos que realizan los adolescentes de las TIC en los diferentes contextos diarios en las Comunidades Autónomas de Cataluña, Andalucía y Madrid. Centrado en adolescentes de 12 a 17 años, se recogieron las respuestas de 1.194 cuestionarios realizados a estudiantes de 31 centros educativos; así como 135 entrevistas a profesores, estudiantes y orientadores; y 5 grupos focales. Los resultados remarcan la preponderancia que tiene la utilización del móvil y ordenador, la utilización indebida de los mismos por un 30% de usuarios y la casi inexistencia de medidas de control por parte de educadores y familias. Asimismo, que las conductas de riesgo ante las TIC se dan más en estudiantes de ciclos formativos, del género masculino y entre los 15 a 17 años. Los datos permitieron identificar actuaciones frecuentes que realizan los centros educativos respecto a la problemática, percepciones que del tema tienen usuarios y educadores y establecer un decálogo sobre usos y abusos de las TIC en adolescentes y derivar propuestas que disminuyan los riesgos.
Accesibilidad y alfabetización digital: barreras para la integración de las TIC en la comunicación familia/escuela
Authors: Macià Bordalba Mònica , Garreta Bochaca Jordi
Published: January 2018

Los recursos tecnológicos han ido apareciendo en los centros escolares como potenciales instrumentos para mejorar la información y la comunicación con las familias. Una comunicación que es esencial para mejorar la relación entre ambos agentes e incrementar la implicación y participación de los progenitores en la educación de sus hijos y en el centro. En este contexto, el presente trabajo tiene como objetivos identificar los factores que influyen negativamente en el uso comunicativo de las TIC, y determinar si los estudios realizados en el campo pedagógico (de aplicación de las TIC en los procesos educativos de aula) pueden aplicarse en el ámbito comunicacional con las familias. Para ello se ha llevado a cabo un estudio etnográfico en 20 centros de educación primaria (realizado en cuatro Comunidades Autónomas españolas), seleccionados por tener indicadores positivos de implicación de las familias en los centros. Los resultados muestran que el acceso de las familias, así como la formación y actitudes de padres y docentes hacia las TIC condicionan el uso de las nuevas tecnologías en la comunicación familia-escuela.
La investigación evidencia, pues, que no sólo se debe mejorar la formación de las familias, sino también la de los docentes, especialmente para reducir su resistencia a utilizarlas (se requiere, sobre todo, una formación en actitudes).
Aproximación al perfil formativo del orientador profesional en la blogosfera
Authors: Martínez Juárez Mirian , González Morga Natalia , Pérez Cusó Javier
Published: January 2018

La expansión de Internet y la web 2.0 en todos los escenarios sociales convierten a los blogs en una herramienta de difusión, comunicación y debate con múltiples potencialidades para el desarrollo y mejora del proceso orientador. Este trabajo analiza el perfil formativo del orientador en la blogosfera respondiendo a las cuestiones de quiénes son, qué ofrecen o qué necesidades formativas tienen. Se lleva a cabo a través de una investigación de diseño mixto que combina el análisis de contenido de 136 blogs representativos de la población con una entrevista estructurada, aplicada a 65 blogueros-participantes. Para el análisis de los datos se recurre a la estadística descriptiva e inferencial a través del programa estadístico SPSS v23 y al programa Atlas-ti 7. Los resultados muestran una importante heterogeneidad en la formación inicial y complementaria de los blogueros, en su experiencia profesional y en los contenidos que publican; además destacan entre sus necesidades formativas la actualización constante de sus competencias técnicas para un mejor uso de los blogs, así como en nuevas tendencias en el ámbito de la orientación profesional. Estos resultados señalan la importancia de integrar las realidades off y on line en el proceso orientador a fin de conseguir una intervención más actual, eficaz y de mayor alcance.
La Universidad: una visión desde “fuera” orientada al futuro
Authors: Rodríguez Espinar Sebastián
Published: January 2018

En el primer punto se aportan evidencias sobre hechos como la expansión de los sistemas de educación superior, el aumento de los costes de los estudios, la internacionalización de los sistemas o las condiciones de trabajo del profesorado. El negocio de la educación superior ha cambiado, pero permanece estable el modelo tradicional de acceso a la estabilidad. En la segunda parte se asume que algunos sectores de la educación superior probablemente afrontarán cambios fundamentales. Emergerán nuevos modelos –puros o mixtos– de universidad: de élite (research university), de masas, la especializada, la local, la universidad para la formación permanente, o la ‘flagship university’. La universidad investigadora tienen el poder de la tradición y son competentes en sus funciones. Ahora bien, si las universidades líderes necesitan pensamiento estratégico para mantener su posición, las universidades más modestas (cuyos resultados de investigación también son modestos) tienen que hacerse preguntas importantes. Por otra parte, las fusiones o concentraciones de instituciones aparecen por doquier, y en Europa las fusiones en Francia han sido un éxito. El informe ‘University Mergers in Europe’ Un sector de la educación superior tiene poca probabilidad de ser alterado significativamente, sitúa y analiza el creciente fenómeno de los procesos de fusión y concentración en 20 sistemas de educación superior europeos. Finalmente, se aportan evidencias de algunas de las características del sistema universitario español, así como algunas de las cuestiones que deberá plantearse para afrontar con éxito futuros desafíos.                                                                                                                                                             
Faktori rizika za nastanak bolesti povezanе sa Clostridium difficile
Authors: Dubravac Tanasković Milena , Radulović Danijela
Published: January 2018

Clostridium difficile je Gram-pozitivni, sporogeni bacil koji se danas smatrajednim od najznačajnijih uzročnika bolnički stečenih dijareja, a sva oboljenjaizazvana ovom bakterijom poznata su pod nazivom „bolesti povezane sa C.difficile“ (engl. Clostriduim difficile–associated disease, CDAD). Iako učestalostovih oboljenja varira od zemlje do zemlje, na globalnom nivou se beleži značajanporast incidencije CDAD, što predstavlja veliki javnozdravstveni problem. Ciljovog preglednog rada je da se na osnovu novijih podataka iz literature ukažena najbitnije faktore rizika za nastanak CDAD. Faktori rizika za CDAD moguse podeliti u sledeće grupe: (1) lekovi (antibiotici, imunosupresivi, lekovi kojivrše supresiju lučenja želudačne kiseline i hemioterapija), (2) faktori rizikavezani za organizam domaćina (starost iznad 65 godina, komorbiditeti), (3)faktori povezani sa mikroorganizmom (sposobnost C. difficile da adherira zaodgovarajuće intestinalne receptore i produkuje toksine), i (4) faktori sredine(skoriji ili produžen boravak u hospitalnim uslovima, česte hospitalizacije).Poznavanje svih poznatih i potencijalnih faktora rizika za nastanak ovakvihinfekcija uz adekvatno sprovođenje nadzora nad njima, ključni su elementipreventivnih stategija koje mogu značajno da smanje incidenciju CDAD.
Korelacija skora dobijenog upitnikom o nesposobnosti ruke, ramena i šake sa kliničkim parametrima pacijenata na rehabilitaciji poslije traume
Authors: Talić Teodora , Grubiša Vujasinović Sandra
Published: January 2018

Uvod. Region specifični upitnik nesposobnosti ramena, lakta i šake (DASHupitnik) mjeri stepen onesposobljenja kod brojnih muskuloskeletnih stanja.Cilj rada je bio ispitati korelaciju između skora dobijenog ovim upitnikom iobima ekstremiteta, obima pokreta u zglobovima i mišićnom snagom gornjegekstremiteta kod pacijenata poslije traume.Metode. Istraživanje je obuhvatalo 100 pacijenata koji su od 2009. do 2015.godine bili na rehabilitaciji poslije traume prema protokolu Zavoda za fizikalnumedicinu i rehabilitaciju „Dr Miroslav Zotović“ u Banjaluci. Kod svih ispitanikasu na početku i po završetku terapije mjereni obim ekstremiteta, obim pokretau zglobovima gornjeg ekstremiteta, manuelni mišićni test, i korišćenjem DASHupitnika izračunat DASH skor.Rezultati. Nakon terapije, statistički značajno je smanjen obim lakta prekoolekranona (2,38 cm vs. 2,17 cm; p < 0,001), podlakta, mjereno na najdebljemmjestu (2,11 cm vs. 1,76 cm; p < 0,001), kao i šake mjereno preko metakarpalnihzglobova (1,91 cm vs. 1,74 cm; p < 0,05). Mišićna snaga se povećala nakonterapije, a ovo povećanje je bilo značajno za mišiće desnog nadlakta i mišićepodlakta i šake obostrano. Poslije terapije su povećane srednje vrijednostisvih pokreta u ramenu mada statistički neznačajno, dok je statistički značajnopovećanje zabilježeno za ekstenziju i pronaciju desnog lakta i sve pokretedesne šake. Poslije terapije prosječna vrijednost DASH skora je značajnosmanjena (107,38 vs. 75,98; p < 0,0005). Postoji negativna korelacija izmeđuDASH skora i snage mišića, obima ekstenzije, pronacije i supinacije lakta,fleksije i radijalne devijacije ručnog zgloba.Zaključak. DASH skor je dobar pokazatelj subjektivne procjene stanja kodbolesnika nakon traume gornjeg ekstremiteta.
Upotreba psihoaktivnih supstanci u adolescenciji
Authors: Telebak Daniela , Sibinčić Sanja , V. Babić Nenad , Lučić Nenad
Published: January 2018

Uvod. Period adolescencije se smatra fazom najvećeg rizika za započinjanjeupotrebe psihoaktivnih sredstava – cigareta, alkohola i narkotika. Veliki brojdosadašnjih istraživanja ukazuje na stalni porast upotrebe ovih supstanci upopulaciji adolescenata.Metode. Istraživanje je dizajnirano kao studija presjeka kojom je obuhvaćeno2635 adolescenta srednjoškolske dobi iz osam regiona Republike Srpske.Podaci o navikama adolescenata prikupljeni su putem anonimne ankete. Zautvrđivanje statističke značajnosti razlika, korišćen je χ2 test i neparametarskiFischer-ov test.Rezultati. Pol i mjesto stalnog boravka su povezani sa upotrebom alkoholai droga. Alkohol pije statistički značajno veći procenat mladića (74%) negodjevojaka (55%; p < 0,01), a značajno je veći i procenat mladića (7%) kojikoriste narkotike od procenta djevojaka (2%; p < 0,01). Mladi iz gradskesredine u većem procentu konzumiraju alkohol (64%) i koriste narkotike(5%) od mladih iz seoske sredine među kojima 58% pije alkohol (p < 0,01), a3% koristi narkotike (p < 0,05). Uzrast je povezan sa upotrebom sve tri vrstepsihoaktivnih sredstava. Stariji adolescenti su u odnosu na mlađe sklonijiupotrebi cigareta (27% vs. 18%; p < 0,01) i alkohola (68% vs. 62%; p > 0,05),dok su mlađi adolescenti u neznatno većem procentu iskazali sklonost kaupotrebi droga u odnosu na starije (4% vs. 3%; p > 0,05).Zaključak. Dobijeni podaci pokazuju povezanost ispitivanih socio-demografskihvarijabli sa upotrebom psihoaktivnih sredstava u adolescenciji.