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Metilfenidato e ADHD
Authors: Carucci Sara
Published: May 2021

Methylphenidate is the first-choice medication for the treatment of ADHD in children and adolescents. Over the past two decades, several randomised controlled trials re-peatedly showed its efficacy on both the core symptoms and the quality of life besides its tolerability in the short term. The most common adverse effects include sleep disturb-ance, nervousness, reduced appetite, weight loss, headache, elevated blood pressure and heart rate. These effects are generally mild, transient and easily manageable by clinicians. Despite the reassuring data in terms of short-term safety and tolerability, some questions still remain open with respect to the treatment effects in the long term. In the meantime it is however appropriate to continue to refer to the current European clinical practice guidelines. The paper reports treatment indications, information about the mechanism of action, the Italian available formulations and the answers to the most frequent questions for a correct clinical and pharmacological monitoring of young pa-tients.
Il bambino prematuro va sempre supplementato con il ferro
Authors: Parpanesi Marco
Published: May 2021

The Author describes a severe case of iron deficiency and sideropoenic anaemia in an infant born at 35 weeks of gestation. The importance of the iron supplementation in preterm newborns is discussed.
A Protestant Response to “Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World”
Authors: Burgess John P.
Published: May 2021

This article sets forth a Protestant response to three key aspects of the Holy and Great Council’s “Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World” and related statements: (1) the Council’s understanding of ecumenical relations, (2) its vision of God’s transfiguration of all reality, and (3) the relation between theological reflection and church practice. The article concludes that Protestants will learn from the Council’s vision of world transfiguration, even as they disagree with some of the ecclesiological implications that the Council draws from this vision.
Disciplinary Trespassing, Historical Analysis, and Geopolitics: A Commentary on the Ecumenical Significance of the Event of the Holy and Great Council of Crete
Authors: Prodromou Elizabeth H.
Published: May 2021

This essay is a commentary on assessments of the ecumenical significance of the Holy and Great Council (HGC) of the Orthodox Church at Crete in 2016. Relying on methods on Albert Hirschman’s notion of disciplinary trespassing and Jo Guildi and David Armitage’s commitment to long-range historical analysis, the essay considers the HGC as an event whose ecumenical potential was understood by the Ecumenical Patriarchate as inextricably linked to the realities of pan-Orthodox unity. The category of geopolitics is introduced as a key factor in explaining the challenges of Orthodox unity that shaped the preparations and processes of the HGC, constrained the fulsomeness of ecumenical outputs and impacts of the Crete event, and laid bare the challenges of religious pluralism and diversity within Christianity in the contemporary world.
The Historical Vicissitudes of Hagia Sophia: From Church to Mosque to Museum, and Back to Mosque
Authors: Amjad-Ali Charles
Published: May 2021

Hagia Sophia appeals to the long memories and emotions of both Christianity and Islam. One of the greatest churches and architectural wonders of Christianity for almost 1,100 years, it was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and 481 years later Atatürk converted it into a museum. Hagia Sophia has faced yet another vicissitude in its almost 1,500-year history as Turkey’s highest court annulled its status as a museum, and President Erdogan declared it once more a mosque in July 2020, thus challenging Turkey’s secular history and nature. This article challenges President Erdogan’s decision not on the basis of western secularity, but rather on the basis of a critical reading of the treatment of minorities, especially Christians, in the sources of Islamic jurisprudence, namely the Quran, the hadith and sunnah of the Prophet, and in the practices of the Rightly Guided Caliphs (al-Khulafa’ ar-Rashidun).
Barriers to the Development of Port Operator Supply Chain Integration: An Evaluation in a Developing Country
Authors: Branco Murilo , Teixeira Rafael , Mir Saif , Lacerda Daniel P.
Published: May 2021

In this multimethod research, we build on the customer portfolio literature to theorize a two-dimensional matrix between the strategic importance of a port operator's customers and the customers’ perceptions of the port operator's supply chain integration (SCI). The matrix highlights two mismatches: (1) important customers do not perceive a high degree of port operator SCI; and (2) low-importance customers perceive a high degree of port operator SCI. In the former, the port operator's investments are wasted, while in the latter the port operator reaps benefits from minimal investments. In our first study, we classify 1,441 customers of a Brazilian port operator into three levels of strategic importance: high, medium, and low. A survey instrument sent to these customers measured the perceived port operators’ SCI by 210 customers, and the analysis revealed a mismatch for 76 percent of the companies. The second study examines the reasons for the mismatch. Semi-structured interviews highlighted that the perceived unfairness of the port operator's operational decision making and negative experiences with other supply chain members negatively affected the SCI perceptions of customers. We also found a spillover effect: low-importance customers perceived a high level of SCI due to the port operator's operational investments in its important customers.
Determining Optimum Toll Charges for Freight Vehicles Considering Multi-Stakeholder Objectives in Urban Conditions
Authors: Perera Loshaka , Thompson Russell G. , Wu Wenyan
Published: May 2021

Trucks generate more externalities (environmental and social) than passenger vehicles, especially when trucks divert off freeways. When toll charges increase, such as the significant recent rise in Mel-bourne, Australia, more trucks tend to avoid toll roads (quality roads), generating more externalities. This diversion adds sub-stantial negative impacts on residents, the environment, and so-ciety. In fact, determining an optimum toll charge for freight ve-hicles is a crucial decision to be made by policymakers consid-ering socioeconomic aspects. The objective of this study is to develop an approach to design an optimal toll pricing scheme for multiclass vehicles, including specific truck types, consider-ing both direct costs and externalities. Additionally, the study developed an approach to identify the tradeoffs between vari-ous objectives of the designed scheme considering given con-straints. Nonlinear programming and user equilibrium techniques are used to model the problem, and the costs (direct costs and externalities) are quantified for Victoria, Australia. This nonde-terministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard), nonconvex problem with nonlinear constraints was solved using the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA) II. The model was applied to both a small-sized hypothetical network and a real network, with static demand conditions to illustrate differences between common toll schemes. Results are presented for Pareto-optimal solutions.
Shibboleth
Authors: Redfield Marc
Published: May 2021

In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who cannot pronounce the initial shin phoneme. In modern European languages, shibboleth has come to mean a hard-to-falsify sign that winnows identities and establishes and confirms borders; it has also acquired the ancillary meanings of slogan or cliché. The semantic field of shibboleth thus seems keyed to the waning of the logos in an era of technical reproducibility—to the proliferation of technologies and practices of encryption, decryption, exclusion and inclusion that saturate modern life. In the context of an unending refugee crisis and a general displacement, monitoring and quarantining of populations within a global regime of technics, Paul Celan’s subtle yet fierce reorientation of shibboleth merits scrupulous reading. Building on Jacques Derrida’s Shibboleth: For Paul Celan, but following its own itinerary, this book interprets the episode in Judges together with texts by Celan, passages from William Faulkner’s Absalom! Absalom!, and Doris Salcedo’s 2007 installation Shibboleth at the Tate Modern, pursuing the track of a word to which no language can properly lay claim—a word that is both less and more than a word, that signifies both the epitome and the ruin of border control technology, and that thus, despite its violent role in the Biblical story, offers Celan a locus of poetico-political affirmation.
Shibboleth
Authors: Redfield Marc
Published: May 2021

In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who cannot pronounce the initial shin phoneme. In modern European languages, shibboleth has come to mean a hard-to-falsify sign; it has also acquired the ancillary meanings of slogan or cliché. The word thus seems keyed to the waning of the logos in an era of technical reproducibility—to the proliferation of technologies and practices of encryption, decryption, exclusion and inclusion that saturate modern life. It is therefore useful to examine closely the inherited meaning of shibboleth as test-word. A relatively rare word, it figures powerfully at a crucial moment in William Faulkner’s Absalom! Absalom! and above all in poems by Paul Celan and in Jacques Derrida’s study of Celan. Subsequent chapters will read these texts carefully, together with the Biblical narrative.
S(h)ibboleth
Authors: Redfield Marc
Published: May 2021

The shibboleth test supplements ordinary discourse where the difference between self and other threatens to become illegible. It is performative in the radical sense of producing the difference between friend and enemy that opens the space of politics in Carl Schmitt’s sense and produces a target through which sovereign force can realize itself. As test-word, shibboleth has no semantic content; it tests a performance irreducible to cognition. Yet it must be iterable in Derrida’s sense. This allows it to become the concept of this kind of testing, yet also inscribes possible failure as the test’s condition of possibility. Hence the explosive aggressivity of the shibboleth story. For in fact the shibboleth test, despite being a technic of sovereign power, radically undermines sovereignty and identity.
“S(ch)ibboleth”
Authors: Redfield Marc
Published: May 2021

“In eins” shares and divides the word shibboleth with an earlier poem titled “Schibboleth.” Both are poems-to-come for each other. “Schibboleth” appears to be a more traditional post-romantic lyric than “In eins,” but a close reading reveals that the poem’s heroic-masochistic first-person narrative is undermined at every point by a poetic counterpulse. The political power of the poem manifests itself at the point at which poetic language leaves mimetic representation behind. A non-naturalistic movement hin, away, disjoints the “I” and opens the poem to the voices of the dead. The trope of apostrophe emerges as the figure of this movement. As the trope of both address and elision, apostrophe marks shibboleth as the Atemwende, the breath-turn.
S(c)hibboleth
Authors: Redfield Marc
Published: May 2021

Language, Celan says, is the only thing that remains un-lost (unverloren) in the wake of the Holocaust. Celan opens language to this un, rendering as poetic thought what Derrida calls the monolingualism of the other. Shibboleth is the mark of the (m)other-tongue-speaker that is the other of and in language. It is the mark of an otherness that, as a close reading of the Tower of Babel story suggests, inheres in language even before the Lord descends to mix it. The Pentecost story in Acts provides a similar lesson: the New Testament story that redeems Babel introduces another kind of confusion. Poetry bears witness to the survival of language in withdrawing into its secret, speaking of, to, and from the dead, as an early draft of Celan’s “Schibboleth” affirms.
Shibboleth
Authors: Redfield Marc
Published: May 2021

Doris Salcedo’s installation Shibboleth at the Tate Modern in 2007 has inspired fine commentary, but few critics have directly addressed the work’s title. Given that Salcedo drew on poems by Celan in subtitles for her earlier Unland series, it is quite possible that her title Shibboleth deliberately evokes Celan and Derrida. This title sharpens the work’s evocation of a meshwork of testing, sorting, control and sequestration, yet also opens another fissure, pointing to the exposure of poetic language that defines and inspires Celan’s work.
Prolegomena
Authors: Raposa Michael L.
Published: May 2021

These introductory comments are intended to provide a sketch of how any theology as theosemiotic should be conceived and to identify the basic ideas and themes most relevant to such a project, all of which will be explored in greater detail in the book’s chapters. Experience is characterized as a form of semiosis, and the world is portrayed as being filled with signs. Questions are raised about what it means to give an interpretation and about the role that habit plays in interpretation. It is suggested here that theosemiotic is always already a theology of hope, of mystery, and of the spiritual life, and also that it is tied to distinctive forms of empiricism and pragmatism. The primacy of praxis for theology is affirmed, with special attention being directed to the practice of reading and rereading.
Girl Head
Authors: Yue Genevieve
Published: May 2021

For decades, feminist film analysis has been focused on issues of representation: images of women in film. But what are the feminist implications of the material object underlying that image, the filmstrip itself? What does feminist analysis have to offer in understanding the film image before it enters the realm of representation? In Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality, Genevieve Yue explores how gender and sexual difference have been deeply embedded within film materiality. Though the industrial practices she examines are typically hidden from view, they are no less gendered than the images projected onscreen. In rich archival and technical detail, Yue examines three sites of technical film production: the film laboratory, editing practices, and the film archive. Within each site, she locates a common motif, the vanishing female body, which is transformed into material to be used in the making of a film. Yue develops a theory of gender and film materiality through readings of narrative film, early cinema, experimental film, and moving image art. In this original work of feminist media history, Girl Head shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen.
China Girls in the Film Laboratory
Authors: Yue Genevieve
Published: May 2021

In the film laboratory, China Girl reference images used in maintaining ideal appearance are literally marginalized on the ends of the filmstrip. Translated into numeric values, the bodies of China Girl models are instrumentalized for quality control procedures, transformed into industrial material embedded in the photochemistry of film. For this to happen, the woman’s body is first dematerialized and then disappears, a process that correlates to the production of the film image. While the laboratory uses of the China Girl are assumed to be rational and objective, this chapter shows that they are often more ideological than they are taken to be. The chapter concludes with a survey of experimental films that foreground the China Girl, including films that reproduce the marginalization of the figure or, from a feminist perspective, critique the laboratory procedures that determine the terms of the China Girl’s liminal appearance.
Afterword
Authors: Yue Genevieve
Published: May 2021

Reflects on Adrienne Rich’s poem “Diving into the Wreck” and its resonance with themes from the present book, Girl Head.
Theory for Beginners
Authors: Kidd Kenneth B.
Published: May 2021

Theory for Beginners explores how philosophy and theory draw on children’s literature and have even come to resemble it in their strategies for cultivating the child and/or the beginner. After centuries of ignoring the child, some philosophy now considers the child an exemplary practitioner as well as subject. This attitude drives the Philosophy for Children or P4C movement, which got its start in the United States in the early 1970s and has since spread to other countries and continents. P4C has affirmed children’s literature as important philosophical work. Theory, meanwhile, has invested in some children’s classics and has also developed a literature for beginners that resembles children’s literature. After examining the P4C movement, the book turns its attention to theory for beginners and especially in the form of illustrated or graphic guides. These guides emerged from the anticolonial and Marxist work of Mexican activist and author-illustrator Eduardo del Rio, aka Rius. Rius’ Cuba Para Principiantes, or Cuba for Beginners (1970), kicked off the Beginners graphic series, emphasizing the self-teaching of political-critical awareness. The genre gradually went mainstream, losing the political edge. If philosophy is for children, and theory is for beginners, then children’s literature might also be described as a literature for minors. The third and final chapter pursues that idea, proposing more specifically that children’s and young adult literature can sometimes function as queer theory for kids.
Walking in Solidarity
Authors: Carter Heath W.
Published: May 2021

This chapter situates religious women such as Dominican Sister Vincent Ferrer as vital players in the history of capitalism in the modern United States. Throughout the New Deal era Ferrer traveled the country to give major addresses about the church’s teaching on economic questions, even as she helped to raise awareness of the same at the Catholic grassroots. Her story speaks to the ways that Dominican women have brought the encyclical tradition to life on the ground, a trend that continues through to the present day, as the chapter explores in two closing contemporary vignettes.
Call and Response
Authors: Boyle, OP Elizabeth Michael
Published: May 2021

“Call and Response: American Dominican Artists and Vatican II” describes the work of fifteen American Dominican artists as each exemplifies or anticipates the priorities of the Second Vatican Council. Each artist personifies the response to a specific call: to reanimate the original scriptural and historical roots of the religious congregation, to provide leadership in liturgical renewal, to feed the spiritual hungers of the poor, to spread the gospel of justice through contemporary means of social communication. As Dominicans, these artists fulfill their vocation to preach the gospel in the multiple languages of genres ranging from design of sacred space and liturgical music to folk art, musical theatre, videography, and film. Most of the men and women chosen here to demonstrate this theme are active members of the Dominican Institute for the Arts, a national support group whose mission is to promote preaching through the arts.
Afire with the Itinerant Spirit
Authors: Moses Donna Maria
Published: May 2021

Before the Maryknoll Sisters were affiliated to the Dominican Order in 1920 for the express purpose of planting the faith in Asia, Dominican Sisters from the United States had already begun to answer that call. After the collapse of colonial empires at the start of the twentieth century, Dominican Sisters were missioned to Germany, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Cuba to rebuild the Catholic church under duress in the wake of global shakeup. As women of the Dominican Order brought education, health care, social services, and faith formation to places in need around the globe, they were radically transformed by ongoing mutual conversion among the people they were sent to evangelize. The paradigm shifts that occurred in the foreign missions of the Order are described in this chapter.
Dominican Monasteries
Authors: Murray Cecilia
Published: May 2021

Dominican contemplative life came to the United States through the efforts of an American girl, Julia Crooks, and a French priest, Damien Saintourens, OP. Each founded a monastery in New Jersey, which evolved into a network of cloistered religious houses for women. As Mother Mary of Jesus, Julia made perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament central to the lifestyle of her nuns, while Saintoursens dedicated his sisters to perpetual recitation of the rosary. Both networks reached peak numbers in the late 1960s, then slowly declined in the years following Vatican Council II. However, the new millennium has produced a resurrection of sorts in some houses, thus assuring the survival of a lifestyle “ever ancient, ever new.”
Leviathan’s Wake: Demonology and the Passing of Order
Authors: O’Donnell S. Jonathon
Published: May 2021

This chapter uses decolonial and settler colonial theory to analyse the spirit of Leviathan. Imagined both as a singular spirit and the sum of all demons, Leviathan is used to conceptualize ideas of chaos and counterfeit order. As chaos and counterfeit, they embody the base matter from which sovereignty makes order and all “illegitimate” forms of that order. Reading spiritual warfare’s demonology through Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, the chapter traces conjurations of Leviathan in images of primordial chaos, the neoliberal state, resurgent socialism and grassroots protest groups, and revitalized indigenous religions. It contends that Leviathan unsettles teleological narratives by embodying alternative possibilities that sovereign will has deemed over, but which ceaselessly pass into and as “right” order. The repetition of these passings means that—absent an apocalypse that ends all possibility of an otherwise—sovereignty must always reinvent itself in reaction to Leviathan’s passings to disguise (thereby actualizing) its own passing.
Conclusion: Paradise Refused
Authors: O’Donnell S. Jonathon
Published: May 2021

The Conclusion recapitulates the ways that orthotaxy both depends on and is deconstructed by its demonized others. Turning to the present, in which a revanchist religious nationalism is seeking to reclaim the territory, time, and truth of America, it unpacks how ideas of orthotaxy seek to ensure supremacy by denying all others the possibility of creating sustainable worlds, condemning them to Hell. Exploring spiritual warfare’s narratives of the demon’s resistance to this end, the Conclusion draws on decolonial and queer theory to posit that spiritual warfare unintentionally casts its demons as symbols of effective resistance: fragile and fractious communities bound by a shared passing and precarity into ad hoc networks of subversion, solidarity, and survival—diverse communities that may demonstrate the radical kinship necessary when confronted with the omnipresent and seemingly-omnipotent force of sovereign power and violence.
Channeling Moroccanness
Authors: Schulthies Becky L.
Published: May 2021

What does it mean to connect as Moroccans via mass media when there is widespread feeling of communicative failure? This book approaches the question by exploring situated talk about communicative failure, which speaks to how Moroccans seek to shape social and political relations in urban Fez. Over the last decade, laments of language and media failure in Fez have focused on communicative channels and were not just about social relations that used to be and had been lost, but also what ought to be and had yet to be realized. These channels, or mediums that connected people, ranged from objects such as devotional prayer beads and remote controls; to interactional forms such as storytelling registers, dress styles, and non-standard Arabic writing; and to media platforms like television news, Moroccan religious stations, or WhatsApp group chats. This book describes these multimodal channels and analyzes how, why, and when they moved from facilitator (intermediating connecting mechanism) to meddler (mediating sociality actor). Laments about communicative channel failures precipitated relationality projects by the state and several Fassi calibrations of those efforts. These laments were ways of speaking that created Moroccanness, the feeling of participating in the ongoing formations of Moroccan public relationality. Rather than furthering the discourse about Morocco’s conflict between liberal secularists and religious conservatives, this ethnography shows the subtle range of ideologies and practices evoked in Fassi homes to calibrate appropriate Moroccan sociality and political consciousness.
Literate Listening
Authors: Schulthies Becky L.
Published: May 2021

Chapter two explores Fassi perspectives on what it meant to engage in public life through literate listening to news in Morocco. Many scholars have argued that poor Arabic education in Morocco has left a functionally illiterate citizenry who cannot understand the formal Arabic of the news broadcast. This chapter analyzes how laments about listening failures by listening subjects (those who authorized themselves to evaluate these failures) allowed Fassis to create competing yet recognizable Moroccan linguistic practices for public participation. Some challenged scholarly ideas of what it meant to be literate and by extension a skilled reasoner. They evoked an explicit literate listening ideology: awareness (الوعي‎ lwā’ī), glossed as keen reasoning skills, came from verbal interaction with a wide range of interlocutors, not just the educated elements of society. While many Fassis who viewed themselves as literate and educated repeatedly bemoaned the misunderstandings of poorly literate Moroccans, others in Fez challenged a core “modern” ideology of writing/reading literacy as an individual skill, acquired only in schools, necessary for critical reasoning and, by extension, for news comprehension. Instead, their news reception involved distributed literacy, in which family members contributed their unique linguistic repertories to the interpretive process.
Reregistering Media and Remediating a Register
Authors: Schulthies Becky L.
Published: May 2021

Chapter three continues to analyze how Fassis understood moral literacy through an oral storytelling register of rhymed prose revamped for civic education via television: هدرة الميزان‎ hadra lmizān. From the late 2000s to 2016, a group of Moroccan cultural producers repurposed a rhymed prose form of darīja associated with grandmothers and street performers to convey “modern” Moroccan civic values. Most often this involved promoting equality for women. In doing so, they sought to make a linguistic register, rhymed prose, into a mediator of Moroccanness, shaping viewers’ perceptions of civic engagement through a nostalgic medium primed with equality content. Both Fassis and state media producers calibrated the channel shift as doing the same Moroccanness work: preserving or “revitalizing” a “traditional” form that connected Moroccans morally. And yet they understood it in different ways because of implicit and explicit media ideologies about how to relate to registers in specific mediums. This chapter challenges media professionals’ assumptions that the positive associations with this storytelling register, when linked with “modern” content and values, would be sufficient as a mechanism for shaping morality perspectives of Fassis. Instead, the viewing practices were more important for the register uptake, or lack thereof.
Sounding Structure, Structured Sound
Authors: Siitan Toomas
Published: May 2021

The chapter addresses compositional strategies in works by Arvo Pärt unifying his different creative periods. The impetus of early Flemish polyphony, which is present in the Symphony No. 3 (1971) and in the first tintinnabuli pieces (1976) is predicted in some of his earliest compositions: Pärt sought equality between the horizontal and vertical dimensions and the maximal structural reduction of composition since his serial works in 1963. The other focus of this chapter is on the specific relation of verbal text and music. The similar mathematical method for structuring music around the accents and number of syllables in words, such as is common in Pärt’s text-based tintinnabuli compositions, is difficult to find in any other examples of composed music, but the connection is prevalent in liturgical chanting. One parallel comes from Conrad Beissel (1691–1768)—the founder of a pietistic community in Pennsylvania and the author of a singular system of harmony for his hymns.
Vibrating, and Silent
Authors: Engelhardt Jeffers
Published: May 2021

This chapter examines silence in Pärt’s music from the perspectives of psychoacoustics and the material acoustics of the piano. I listen to Pärt’s music not only for its meanings (what it figures, symbolically represents, or enables through performance), its qualities (the values and identities it mediates), or its referential capacities (structure, tuning systems, genre), but also for the phenomena of its vibration. As vibrating material, music is “silent” in the sense that it offers no message or code. Listening subjects “silence” music through the perception of sound as energy and medium, haptic and resonant perception. I show how, in Pärt’s work, silence attunes listeners to acoustic phenomena—the resonant frequencies of spaces, the timbral shimmer of voices, or the inharmonicity of a piano. By attending to psychoacoustics and specific practices of listening, this approach extends Pärt scholarship further into the fields of sound and embodiment.
The Piano and the Performing Body in the Music of Arvo Pärt
Authors: Cizmic Maria , Helbig Adriana
Published: May 2021

This chapter examines references to the piano in existing literature on Pärt and articulates a perspective on the piano’s role in his music. Pärt’s compositional output for the piano is relatively small; but, as his primary instrument, the piano has played an important role in the development of his sonic world. Musicians’ physical relationships with their instruments over time generate an archive of embodied knowledge and memories; bodily performance then becomes an important way in which music creates meaning for composers and performers alike. Thus, this chapter draws on representations of Pärt composing at the piano as captured in cinema, analyzing the bodies of composer and instrument in dynamic engagement. It also features a close observational analysis of performing Für Alina, Pärt’s inaugural tintinnabuli work from 1976, and what a phenomenological experience of learning and performing this piece might tell us about the expressive nature of tintinnabuli music.
The Materiality of Sound and the Theology of the Incarnation in the Music of Arvo Pärt
Authors: Moody Ivan
Published: May 2021

This chapter discusses the relationship of Pärt’s music with the Incarnation, especially through his manipulation of the relationship between sound and silence. The theological underpinnings for this are sought also in iconography, with particular reference the Platytera icon, Massimo Cacciari, and theology (St. Maximos the Confessor, St. Gregory of Nazianzus, and more recent figures such as Romano Guardini and John Behr). Works by Pärt discussed include Tabula Rasa, Passio, Stabat Mater, Berliner Messe and Nunc dimittis.
Bhagat Singh’s Jail Notebook
Authors: Elam J. Daniel
Published: May 2021

This chapter argues that Bhagat Singh’s jail notebook is central to understanding revolutionary reading. Reading is revolutionary because it is not in the service of future mastery or authority, but rather reading (especially in the face of certain death) theorizes its own inconsequentiality. This is revolutionary because it asserts a radical antiauthoritarianism.
The Right to Philosophy
Authors: Derrida Jacques
Published: May 2021

This chapter examines how philosophy for Jacques Derrida is one of the most fundamental rights. However, rights come after responsibility. The work of deconstruction is set in motion, engaged only by a pledge of responsibility. This sense of responsibility being well understood, one may say that deconstruction reserves the right to ask any questions, to think any thought, to wonder aloud about any improbability, and to impugn the veracity of any of the most venerable verities. That seemingly self-righteous, even legalistic characterization does not mean that deconstruction takes itself to be the master and judge of all it surveys. Whenever deconstruction seems to cause or get itself into trouble — or even to look a little negative and destructive — one must remember that deconstruction is being very responsible and affirmative, indeed that deconstruction is affirmation, responsibility, and engagement, which are the touchstones of a new Enlightenment.
A Concluding Amen
Authors: Derrida Jacques
Published: May 2021

This chapter claims that deconstruction is hanging on by a prayer. Deconstruction is a way of hanging on by a prayer, a way of hanging on to a prayer. Amen is not the end of deconstruction's prayer but its beginning and sustaining middle, something that precedes and follows and constantly accompanies all its works and days. The chapter then describes how Jacques Derrida has said that one can be flexible on the point of putting deconstruction in a nutshell and occasionally interrupt or transgress the absolute prohibition against nutshells. As Derrida says in the “Roundtable,” “sometimes it is not a bad thing.”
Similes in Parts Twenty-Ninth and Thirty of the Holy Quran
Authors: Al-Dmour Nizar A. , Al-Sa’oudi Omar A.
Published: May 2021

This study aims to analyze the Quranic similes in Parts Twenty-ninth and Thirty of the Holy Quran as they contain 48 Surah from a total of 114 Surah, with a percentage of 42%. They are Makkan Surah except for four of them (Surah Al-Insan, Surah Al-Bayyina, Surah Al-Zalzala, Surah An-Nasr(. The study consists of two topics; the first one addressed the theoretical aspects of the term, the importance of simile and its role in clarifying the intended meaning. The second topic addressed the applied aspects by collecting, studying, analyzing, and examining the close linguistic meanings of similes, up to demonstrating their beauty and comparing them with other similes in other places in Quran. For this purpose, the researchers used the two tools of textual approach; description and analysis as the approach used in this study.
Lebanese Students’ Attitudes toward English: An Exploratory Study
Authors: Chehimi Ghada M.
Published: May 2021

This is a study of high school students’ attitudes toward the English language in Lebanon. The purpose of this research is to assess the extent of use of English inside and outside the schools taking into consideration the attitude towards the language. Two schools were selected, one upper middle class and one lower middle class. This selection of different social classes aims at finding whether a student’s socio- economical background affects his/ her attitude toward the English language. The sample of respondents returned 52 questionnaires from the two schools. Although this sample was a modest one, it highlighted the differences in attitudes towards the English language, but these attitudes did not relate much to the socioeconomic class as much as personal preferences. However, what was salient in this research is how students from the lower middle class were more inclined to use English to raise their social status and both groups agreed that English is essential to their progress in life.
Faculty attitudes towards nursing students with disabilities in the clinical setting
Authors: Prude Susan B. , Pecoraro Rhonda K. , Calamia Dari K. , Creel Eileen L.
Published: May 2021

Objective: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore nursing faculty attitudes towards students with disabilities enrolled in baccalaureate nursing programs. Additionally, we aimed to describe the types of accommodations provided to students with disabilities in the clinical setting.Methods: In two institutions of higher education in the southeastern United States, purposive and snowball sampling was used to recruit 14 nursing faculty with experience teaching in clinical courses. One-on-one interviews were conducted using a semi-structured interview guide. Data were transcribed and analyzed using Colaizzi’s process for phenomenological data analysis. The social model of disability served as the conceptual framework for the study.Results: Six themes emerged from the data analysis: ‘Math is a basic required skill,’ ‘You can’t just skip clinical,’ ‘It’s my job to help them learn,’ ‘I’m not prepared for this,’ ‘What type of job will they get,’ and ‘overcoming obstacles.’ Nursing faculty reported positive attitudes towards students with disabilities, but also voiced concerns about patient safety and the ability for a student with a disability to find success. Several barriers including disclosure, lack of accessibility in hospitals, nursing culture, and faculty workload were identified.Conclusions: A lack of clear policies and guidelines leaves nursing faculty unsure of what accommodations are appropriate for students with disabilities and how to implement accommodations in clinical courses. The study demonstrates a need for continuing education regarding teaching methodologies that are effective and meaningful for students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diagnosed anxiety, and specific learning disabilities. Further research is warranted to identify appropriate accommodations for students with disabilities in the clinical setting.
Samisk språk og tekst i norskdidaktikken – oppdagelse og opplevelse
Authors: Berthelin Signe Rix
Published: May 2021

Artikkelen presenterer et nytt undervisningsopplegg der norsklærerstudenter leser en autentisk tekst på sørsamisk og skaffer seg innblikk i grammatikken gjennom stillas­byggende oppgaver og den online tilgjengelige ordboka Nedtedigibaakoeh (u.å.). I løpet av en enkelt økt får studenten innblikk i språket og verktøy og metoder til å utforske samisk språkstruktur videre alene eller sammen med elever. Hverken studenter eller faglærer må kunne et samisk språk for å gjennomføre opplegget. Samisk språk er del av den felles kulturarv som skal forvaltes av nålevende og kommende generasjoner (Utdan­ningsdirektoratet, 2020a). I et språkfag som norsk er det relevant å tilby lærerstudentene innblikk i samisk språkstruktur så vel som språkpolitiske og sosiolingvistiske forhold. Det er generelt utfordringer med å implementere opplæring om samiske tema i lærer­utdanningene (Olsen, Sollid & Johansen, 2017), og uten samisk språkkompetanse kan det være særlig utfordrende å undervise om samisk språkstruktur. Denne artikkelen viser hvordan slike utfordringer kan møtes med et opplegg som vektlegger autentisitet, studentaktivitet og internalisert motivasjon (Ryan & Deci, 2000). En gjennomføring i et førsteårsemne i norskdidaktikk viser at studentene mestrer oppgavene og opplever engasjement og inspirasjon i arbeidet med sørsamiske sangtekster. Med gode stillas kan man altså saktens jobbe med autentisk samisk tekst på samisk og la studentene oppdage samisk språkstruktur. Videre har opplegget grammatikkdidaktisk potensial: Studentene må bruke grammatikkunnskap og metaspråk aktivt for å forstå den samiske teksten og samarbeide i prosessen. Dette kan bidra til varig forståelse av grammatikkbegreper, fordi studentene anvender grammatikkunnskapen til å løse oppgaver i nye sammen­henger (Haugen, 2019; Kunnskapsdepartementet, 2015–2016).
Lese- og skriveferdigheter ved oppstart i 1. klasse med vekt på bokstavkunnskap
Authors: Rogne Wenke Mork , Gamlem Siv Måseidvåg , Ottesen Randi Lyngbø
Published: May 2021

Studien analyserer de tidlige lese- og skriveferdighetene til et utvalg norske elever ved skolestart på 1. trinn (6 år gamle). Målet er å fremheve noen sentrale variabler som kjennetegner ferdigheter for elever i bokstavkunnskap, og hvilke lese- og skrive­ferdigheter de strever med i starten av 1. klasse. Resultatene viser store forskjeller mellom de ca. 20 % av elevene med lavest skår i bokstavkunnskap (n = 109) og resten av utvalget (n = 468), når det gjelder ulike lese- og skrivemål, men særlig er forskjellen stor når det gjelder bokstavgjenkalling og fonologisk analyse. Resultatene fremhever variablene som karakteriserer ferdighetene til elever med lav mestring i lesing og skriving, og gir kunnskap for lærere som kan styrke opplæringen for denne elevgruppen.
Lifting the Veil of Silence
Authors: Ortiz Steven M.
Published: May 2021

The introduction provides a foundational understanding of the traditional sport marriage in today’s society. It explains the complexity of this type of marriage, identifies the major marital realities that wives of male professional athletes face, and defines the heteronormative sport marriage as a career-dominated marriage, discussing how it compares to other career-dominated marriages in male-dominated occupational worlds. It examines the demanding nature of the wives’ public and private roles and how these roles require them to make personal sacrifices and adopt the role of marriage worker, which necessitates normalizing numerous self-management processes. It discusses how they internalize abundant unwritten rules that revolve around three significant issues: coping with stressors, providing multiple levels of support, and maintaining a physically attractive appearance. Finally, the chapter situates the book in today’s culture and its relevance to fourth-wave feminism.
In the Public Eye
Authors: Ortiz Steven M.
Published: May 2021

This chapter explores how wives of male professional athletes confront the challenges of public life and their attempts to avoid damaging the public image of the husband and his sport organization. The concept of image work is used to examine how they try to manage their physical appearance and conduct, and the concepts of game etiquette and quasi-celebrityhood help us to understand how they use the unwritten rules to perform public roles. The chapter provides insight into the responsibilities of being married to public figures or celebrities. It describes how the women learn diplomacy, how they come to terms with and negotiate a secondhand identity, how they interact with enthusiastic fans seeking autographs or other personal contact with their husbands, and how they otherwise struggle to establish and maintain personal and public boundaries while their husbands are involved in a highly visible career.
Before March Madness
Authors: Kemper Kurt Edward
Published: May 2021

Before March Madness examines the power dynamics of mid-century college sports when their meaning in higher education was still uncertain, when their future in American culture was still undetermined, and when the ascendance, indeed the very survival, of the NCAA was not yet assured. The book identifies the institutional struggles of college athletics from the late 1930s to the late 1950s and the multiple stakeholders and varied interests contained therein, showing a complex, and often conflicting, view of both college sports and higher education. The NCAA’s insistence on defining college athletics solely within the big-time commercialized model opened itself to severe criticism from within the organization in the form of small liberal arts colleges, medium-size regional and state universities, and historically black colleges, as well as outside it with the creation of the NAIA. The organization, however, successfully used college basketball to both placate internal critics and stave off its external competitor. In doing so, the NCAA managed to create in the public’s mind a singular vision of college sports, often represented by college football, representing only the big-time commercialized model by creating a peace that was purchased through college basketball. The success of NCAA elites to co-opt, divide, and placate its insurgent critics mirrored the larger response of mid-twentieth-century political and economic elites in the face of unprecedented challenges resulting from the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism, and opposition to the war in Vietnam.
Introduction
Authors: Kemper Kurt Edward
Published: May 2021

The introduction begins with a thumbnail sketch of some of the schools that played in the 1958 NCAA College Division Basketball Championship and the varying identities with the NCAA that each represented. The 1958 tournament included liberal arts colleges, regional and small state schools, and historically black colleges, each of which pursued athletics differently from, and often in opposition to, the big-time commercialized model that gained the majority of media and public attention. These varying groups and their agendas ultimately created conflict within the NCAA and all of college athletics over the function of college sports within American higher education and American culture. The chapter examines the historiography of early college sports and reform efforts, showing the primacy that college football plays in existing scholarly interpretations while also noting the fairly limited examinations and scholarly depth of early college basketball. Both strains of scholarship tend to imply a certain inevitability of the varied roles of college football and college basketball, an inevitability rejected by Before March Madness.
Barbarians at the Gate
Authors: Kemper Kurt Edward
Published: May 2021

The difficulties that smaller schools faced in gaining competitive equity in the AAU Tournament and entrance to the NCAA Tournament led Emil Liston to found the NAIA Tournament as a haven for championship-caliber smaller college basketball. But the postwar scandals and the growing disenchantment with big-time commercialized athletics, which prompted some to consider staging a coup to seize control of the NCAA, inspired Liston to expand his organization beyond just basketball into an umbrella agency for all of small college athletics. The expansion of the NAIA, however, revealed a fissure within the small college opposition to the NCAA. The liberal arts schools largely opposed expanded championship opportunities and simply creating a commercialized model on a smaller scale. Many of the NCAA’s smaller schools that now flocked to the NAIA for their tournament were regional and state schools unable to compete with the big-time NCAA schools who simply wanted competitive equity, not simon-pure reform. As a result, while the creation of the NAIA created a competitor to the NCAA, it also managed to divide some of its small college critics along lines of ideology. This division became readily apparent in the 1954 findings of the NCAA’s Crowley Committee, which showed that most smaller NCAA members resented being excluded from the basketball tournament and defined themselves as small but did not align with most vocal liberal arts reformers.
The Process Is Portable
Authors: Wenzel Andrea
Published: May 2021

Chapter Four makes the argument that while interventions to strengthen local storytelling networks are not scalable, the process of designing them is portable to different regions. The chapter follows an attempt to apply a communication infrastructure theory-based process model developed in Kentucky to areas of Philadelphia. This process includes a research study exploring local information needs and assets, followed by a workshop to brainstorm interventions, followed by piloting interventions. Applying the same process in different places demonstrates how place, and both local communication needs and assets, can shape the nature of interventions that emerge. In this case it shows how in the suburban area the process led to an idea for students to produce solutions journalism stories. Meanwhile in the urban neighborhood, the process led to development of the Germantown Info Hub, an engaged journalism project that focuses on connecting different storytelling network actors through community outreach and discussions.