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Systems of Life, or Bioeconomic Politics
Authors: Barney Richard A. , Montag Warren
Published: May 2019

This collection of essays takes its cue from the ascendancy of system in dicated by Adam Smith’s work in order to articulate a framework in which to grasp the complex relations among biological knowledge, economics, and politics in Europe and its colonies from the mid–eighteenth century to the mid–nineteenth. In these terms, this volume aims to draw on recent scholarly accounts of the significance of system in Renaissance and Enlightenment contexts in order to reevaluate the importance of the systematic to biopolitical theory, which has paid particular attention to the importance of this historical period, especially in the case of analysts such as Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Roberto Esposito. Considered as a whole, the essays in this volume can therefore be taken as an argument that the concept of “system” can help specify all the more concretely the ways that the “bio” was articulated in relation to the “political” in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century biopolitics, with “economy” serving as a useful mediating term between them by offering a way to articulate their “order” as a matter of exchange, valuation, or management. Given Smith’s remark about the “beauty” of systems, moreover, it is no accident that several of the essays in this volume examine the relevance of aesthetic production—whether poetry, fiction, comedy, or visual art—to the deployment of economic values in relation to both biological and political spheres.
Rousseau: Vital Instinct and Pity
Authors: Macherey Pierre
Published: May 2019

This essay examines the contradictory development of the concept of pity in Rousseau’s work. In the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754), pity exists in the form of a vital instinct, namely the instinct of self-preservation. As a spontaneous and automatic identification with one’s fellows in the state of pure nature, prior to the establishment of the distinction between self and other, it furnishes the vital basis for society as well as for the concept of right. It is also independent of any calculation or moral reasoning and does not rest on a decision or an act of will. Eight years later, in Emile, pity, far from existing spontaneously, must be learned, which in turn requires the use of reason on the part of the pupil. The discrepancy between the different accounts of pity signals less a change of position than the complexity of Rousseau’s notion of nature. Against Hobbes and Locke for whom the state of nature remains ever present in potential if not actual form, Rousseau argues that nature gives rise to a history whose progress negates the origin, which is lost forever. In the case of pity, reason in making a case for pity is the means by which pity in its original existence is rendered unknowable. The disjunction between the two accounts of pity in Rousseau’s work expresses the disjunction between natural and civilized man, between man acting at the behest of life and rational man, self-interested and solitary.
Music and Family Memory
Authors: Bident Christophe
Published: May 2019

Details the musical career of Blanchot’s sister Marguerite. Discusses her relationship with her brother.
Using Vichy against Vichy
Authors: Bident Christophe
Published: May 2019

Discussion of the Jeune France cultural organisation in which Blanchot was involved, though without seeming to have accomplished very much. The breakdown of the organization is narrated in the final parts of the chapter.
The Year of Criticism
Authors: Bident Christophe
Published: May 2019

A brief chapter addressing various activities in the area of literary criticism in 1946.
Respecting Scandal
Authors: Bident Christophe
Published: May 2019

A substantial treatment of Blanchot’s literary criticism in the late 1940s. Bident enters into the thinking that produced a large number of critical articles, collected in two volumes, The Work of Fire and Lautréamont and Sade.
The Turn of the Screw
Authors: Bident Christophe
Published: May 2019

Concentrates on the second, shorter version of Thomas the Obscure, which was written several years before its eventual publication in 1950. The differences between the two versions are addressed, as is Blanchot’s conceptualization of this rewriting.
Quarrels in the Literary World
Authors: Bident Christophe
Published: May 2019

A brief chapter pulling together various threads relating to Blanchot’s arrangements with publishing houses.
Invisible Partners
Authors: Bident Christophe
Published: May 2019

Continuing the themes of collaborative activity and intellectuals’ engagement in politics, this chapter examines the project for an International Review. Blanchot and a group of French colleagues were involved in this in the early 1960s alongside writers from Germany and Italy. However the project failed to get up and running, producing only one journal issue.
Life Outside
Authors: Bident Christophe
Published: May 2019

Starting the final section of the biography, this chapter looks at The Step (Not) Beyond, a fragmentary work produced several years after May 1968. It explores how it recapitulates previous key moments in the writer’s work, retaining a political dimension whilst also furthering its literary experimentation and its philosophical dwellings on death.
Making the Secret Uncomfortable
Authors: Bident Christophe
Published: May 2019

Addresses Blanchot’s fraught relationship with the public persona expected of a writer: his declined interview requests, the lack of photos available until several were published in the 1980s. These are linked to his important thinking around anonymity and the sovereign status of works of art or literature.
Suffering Occluded
Authors: Falque Emmanuel
Published: May 2019

One of the primary features of Christianity is that it accommodates the whole of the suffering of humankind, a suffering that is both moral and physical. Nonetheless the burden of suffering and salvation through suffering have often been confused together. Christ does not tell us either what or why he suffers. But he guides us in how he suffers. Closed in on oneself or open to the other: These are the two ways of living suffering, by which suffering becomes a manner of living rather just a condemnation of life.
The Revealing Sword
Authors: Falque Emmanuel
Published: May 2019

All suffering is first of all useless: “for nothing” (Levinas). Far from justifying suffering, we read on the body of the suffering human what we are in our exposure to being. That is the “revealing sword” (Blondel). Suffering does not lie. Nothing, however, carries a responsibility for an other in Christianity, because in Christianity, as Levinas says, “each person acts as though he were the Messiah.” The Saviour having come to humankind, we are not just waiting for a Saviour, but this does not mean that we carry more responsibility: The responsibility is less. Indeed a supreme irresponsibility characterises the believer, and Christ himself. Far from taking on all suffering, Christ recognises that it cannot be taken on, and leaves another (the Father) to bear it for him and with him.
The Ends of Ladino
Authors: Bush Andrew
Published: May 2019

This chapter assesses al-Andalus as a focus for Jewish identification, noting Jacques Derrida's comparison of al-Andalus to Yiddish as a portable home. By way of Gil Anidjar's Our Place in al-Andalus, it explores the experience of place, showing how al-Andalus can refer to a spatiotemporal context not defined on a map of European Spain. This experience of al-Andalus comes from a place already located as past centuries ago, and the chapter highlights this pluperfect in parallel to Derrida's sense of loss in an urban Algeria where Ladino was no longer commonly spoken years before his birth. This received language of sadness and loss produces a version of mourning and utopia different from the spatial notions of home advocated by either Zionists or assimilationists in the Weimar Jewish Renaissance, pointing instead to a time and place whose boundaries are uncertain by conception, embodying a language that embraces such uncertainty without discomfort.
Against the “Attack on Linking”: Rearticulating the “Jewish Intellectual” for Today
Authors: Land Martin
Published: May 2019

This chapter begins by tracing the assertions that link the predominance of Jews in critical discourses to Jewish marginality to a 1919 essay by Thorstein Veblen. Veblen does not argue that creativity and innovation thrive on the margins but, rather, that marginal groups like the Jews are better able than their European contemporaries to hold to a position of detachment and alienation from tradition and received wisdom, transforming their marginality into a critical perspective from which they are able to question, as it were, both themselves and the European social and economic systems. Recent critics of Veblen have pointed at his blindness toward the cultural and economic characteristics of Jewish communal life. In their critique, however, they take the disproportionate success of American Jews as their prime measure, supplanting Veblen's intellectual value with monetary value. From this perspective, Jews are no longer marginal but, on the contrary, central to the ever-expanding social order of capital.
Recovering Futurity: Theorizing the End and the End of Theory
Authors: Wolfson Elliot R.
Published: May 2019

This chapter addresses the co-dependence of people's conceptions of end and of beginning. To comprehend the beginning, one must think of it from the perspective of futurity, from the perspective, that is, of the ultimate end. Consequently, the beginning lies not in the past but, rather, in the future. The chapter then relates this mode of philosophizing with the way people understand Jewish eschatology, which lies at the center of Jewish theorization about time. In Jewish eschatology, what is yet to come is understood as what has already happened, whereas what has happened is derived from what is yet to come. Martin Heidegger has dismissed Judaism as a religion that by its very nature cannot experience temporality authentically. Yet his own understanding of temporality accords well with rabbinic conceptions of temporality and later kabbalistic eschatologies.
“We Are Chasi, Not Chasa”: Emergence of Land-Based Subjectivities
Authors: Majumder Sarasij
Published: May 2019

This chapter shows the emergence of land-based identities in West Bengal in the postcolonial period. It demonstrates the social and political divisions and hierarchies that had historically existed in the villages and how in the postcolonial period, certain distinctions gradually softened whereas others based on land hardened. It examines how politicians and policymakers perceived “the villages” and “the rural.” It looks at the political expediencies of elections and democratic politics, which played out in the distribution of land among tenant farmers who constitute the present group of small landholding farmers in Singur. It explores the linguistic distinction between chasa and chasi to trace the changes that occurred in village life and in the subjectivities of small landholding villagers.
Land Is Like Gold: (In)commensurability and the Politics of Land
Authors: Majumder Sarasij
Published: May 2019

This chapter examines how local discourses and narratives about land and development connect property as things and property as relationships. “Land is our mother; it cannot be bought and sold,” “Land is like gold, it is good even if weeds grow on it,” “We are the proprietors,” “Cash vanishes, land remains,” “We (the landed) are more civilized and developed than the landless.” These statements and the local political contexts of their emergence together provide landowning villagers with rhetorical strategies to imagine, talk about, and take positions regarding their relationships with the state, the political regime, and the landless lower caste.
Land Is Like a Mother: The Contradictions of Village-Level Protests
Authors: Majumder Sarasij
Published: May 2019

This chapter considers the village protests against land acquisition as performances. It uses the idea of performance, built on concepts of a front stage and a backstage, to contrast the spectacular with the mundane. It highlights the rhetorical strategies that landholding villagers use to represent themselves and rural life to the urban media, urban activists, and the anthropologist using the trope of the peasant living a harmonious rural life. These gendered self-images derive from leftist politics and its extolling of rural life and the peasantry as articulated through such statements as “Land is like mother; it cannot be bought and sold.” This chapter shows how the protest tactics and images challenged the state but also exacerbated conflicts among villagers and prevented them from entering into dialogue with the government regarding compensation and rehabilitation.
The Materiality of Memory: Touching, Seeing, and Feeling the Past
Authors: Murphy Kaitlin M.
Published: May 2019

Chapter Two focuses on the relationship between visuality, affect, memory, and place within the context of temporality, materiality, and performative reenactment. The chapter is grounded in an investigation of the relationship between memory and materiality, and asks how material matter can be strategically employed in the service of political historiographies; and how bodies, by way of reenactment, can function as a strategic component of exhuming and mapping memory onto place. It focuses on two documentaries, both by Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán: Chile, la Memoria Obstinada (Chile, Obstinate Memory, 1997) and Nostalgia de la Luz (Nostalgia for the Light, 2010). If official histories, by definition, sublimate and attempt to make transgressive memories disappear, then it is essential to investigate the ways in which memory persists in bodies and lived experience, and in the mnemonic potency of physical objects and spaces. Through meticulous memory mapping, Guzmán’s films illustrate the immense historiographical value in bringing bodies, materiality (including bones, objects, images, and physical sites), and official histories into contact and dialogue with one another.
Performing Archives, Performing Ruins
Authors: Murphy Kaitlin M.
Published: May 2019

This chapter focuses on performance and photography, juxtaposed with a series of official memory sites. The primary case study is Argentine photographer Julio Pantoja’s hybrid photography performance, Tucumán Me Mata (Tucumán Kills Me, 2014), which performatively situates visual documentation of the 2013 Tucumán trials (for crimes against humanity committed during the dictatorship) in their historical and spatial continuity. This visual performance is analyzed alongside three other Argentine memory projects: ESMA (Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada) and the Parque de la Memoria, both in Buenos Aires, and the Museo de la Memoria in Rosario, Argentina. Studied side by side, these memory projects provide a lens through which to investigate the affective, performative power of visuality in relation to place and human rights and memory in Argentina.
Conclusion
Authors: Murphy Kaitlin M.
Published: May 2019

In this section, the author offers a brief recap and conclusion of the book.
The Mirror of the Anthropocene
Authors: Neyrat Frédéric
Published: May 2019

The second chapter delves deeper into the origins of what Neyrat describes as the “myth” of the Anthropocene, focusing on the work of one of the scientists who coined the term, Paul Crutzen, and how this so-called “new grand narrative” and unifying myth also has become, following the term coined by Jean-Francois Lyotard, the meta-narrative of our times. If for Lyotard, grand narratives were constructed as unifying myths, narratives that legitimize institutions and social practices, then Neyrat will take up the task of analyzing this new grand narrative or master signifier of the “Anthropocene” by way of how this myth of the Anthropocene confronts two other entities considered as unifying narratives: humanity or humankind as the lone superpowerful subject and the object of the Earth. Neyrat will delve much deeper into this myth and the imaginaries that seem to help furnish some of the logic behind humankind’s awareness of climate change, its potential role in causing it, and how, by way of the imaginary and physical engagement of perceiving the Earth from outside the Earth by way of the Space Age, humans began to view the Earth as not simply something humans inhabit or are part of, but as an artefact.
The Technological Fervor of Eco-Constructivism
Authors: Neyrat Frédéric
Published: May 2019

After developing the conception of the anaturalist drive prominent behind a myriad of constructive, postenvironmental discourses in the West, Neyrat begins to provide a definition for the discourses and types of thought that would fall under this rubric of eco-constructivism. During the course of this chapter he outlines the similarities between eco-constructivism and geo-constructivism and highlights the important differences that distinguish them from each other. After providing a nice summary of the currents of the movement known as Accelerationism and the Accelerationist Manifesto as well as currents in transhumanism, the chapter ends by calling into question what all these various discourses falling into positions of ecomodernism or postenvironmentalism seem to blindly adhere to: an ecology that wholly embraces technological advancement and its fervor for continual construction.
The Real Nature of an Ecology of Separation
Authors: Neyrat Frédéric
Published: May 2019

Neyrat begins to lay out his proposal for an ecology of separation that does not simply embrace the positions of deep ecology or of eco-constructivism whereby everything is interconnected. Neyrat proposes to provide an alternative ecology that would allow for the necessary distance within the interconnectedness of things so as to exit the failure of the “Spinozist cure” and also allow for humans to not forget or repress, but rather to recognize and provide a place for an ecology of separation that recognizes that nature does indeed exist. An ecology of separation thereby counters what he names this “transcendental narcissism”— the replacement of nature by humanity (Anthropocene), and humanity’s translation into an over-arching conception of technology.
Denaturing Nature
Authors: Neyrat Frédéric
Published: May 2019

For Neyrat, in order for us to grasp this quasi-ungraspable part of nature, there must be something residing in nature that pits itself against nature, that is natural and anti-natural. In chapter 12, Neyrat seeks to sketch out what this something is in the form of the concept of anti-production. He will call this part of nature denatura naturans—that which from within nature is opposed to nature as a simple, finite object or product. Neyrat makes use of the work of Schelling in regard to the idea that nature is always in a transitional position. In this sense, nature is always lagging behind itself and because of this infinite movement, nothing would be considered as finite.
Contextualizing Toni Morrison in Nepalese Classroom of Diversity: A Pedagogic Approach for Students of M.A. in English
Authors: Talukdar Susmita
Published: May 2019

This article is based on my experience of teaching Nepalese students, who are from different socio-cultural backgrounds. The study proposes a pedagogy through participatory and interactive reading strategy (PAIRS) for Tribhuvan University’s 4th Semester Graduate class of English Literature on the course of ‘Single Author’ (ENG 582), by making them engaged in dialogues, both in oral and written form, in which they will share and exchange their ideas on literary texts of Toni Morrison by investigating on some specific implications of the author’s vision on the issues of differences, prevalent in America. The proposed pedagogy is intended for raising students’ critical consciousness of the contemporary world’s most pertinent issues of identity of minorities, which Nepalese students face in their day to day living experiences. Thus, it is hoped that an individual and collective engagement would be developed in students for dealing with what is both historical and immediate, and global and local. By practicing PAIRS, students would develop self reflection on their biases that would make them critical of their culturally imbedded ideas and that would gradually make them empathetic to differences. The proposed pedagogy is not for demonstrating a teacher’s knowledge on the author’s works by critical and theoretical tools, but contextualizing the author in Nepalese socio-cultural conditions through the platform of a classroom of diverse thoughts for the students’ better understanding of the world, enriched with ‘differences’. The study further contributes to new pedagogy of English Studies for Non-western students by widening the field of comparative cultural studies, and thus enhancing the scope of comparative literature.
Translating and Representing ‘The Aftermath of Daesh’: A Rhetorical Semiotic Study of Some Mosuli Artists’ Works
Authors: Ismail Ismail Abdulwahhab
Published: May 2019

Daesh has profoundly affected the psychological statues of Iraqis; they sacrificed thousands of souls and martyrs to liberate their country from a savage enemy. This study has, therefore, a psychological perspective. It tackles the reflections of agony, suffering and poverty in the behaviour of the artists, writers and translators.

Iraqi artists have represented their suffering and pains in their paintings. They encoded the symbols, colours and semiotic mosaics in association with rhetorical connotations.

Mosul is the city most affected by the terrorist acts during the war. Therefore, the study has selected four Mosuli artists who drew, painted and visually documented that period. Translation does not limit itself to the study and analysis of verbal/linguistic texts; it also tackles the extra-linguistic signs and codes of the source language to transfer them into the target language appropriately and in a way that seems intelligible to the readers or the spectators of these paintings.

The research questions are based on a set of issues: Are the teachers of translation able to construct a bridge between Iraqi society, European society and other societies? These paintings have socio-cultural symbols specific to Iraqi society. Are the teachers of translation able to come out from the shell of the linguistic texts and move towards the semiotic and visual texts?
Dynamic Attribute-Level Best Worst Discrete Choice Experiments
Authors: Working Amanda , Alqawba Mohammed , Diawara Norou
Published: May 2019

Dynamic modelling of decision maker choice behavior of best and worst in discrete choice experiments (DCEs) has numerous applications. Such models are proposed under utility function of decision maker and are used in many areas including social sciences, health economics, transportation research, and health systems research. After reviewing references on the study of such experiments, we present example in DCE with emphasis on time dependent best-worst choice and discrimination between choice attributes. Numerical examples of the dynamic DCEs are simulated, and the associated expected utilities over time of the choice models are derived using Markov decision processes. The estimates are computationally consistent with decision choices over time.
Market Orientation Conceptualizations, Components and Performance-Impacts: A Literature Review and Conceptual Framework
Authors: Osuagwu Caroline
Published: May 2019

Market orientation is the business idea that sees the customer, consumer or client as the centre of business activities. It is one of the strategies that may lead to the achievement of efficiency and effectiveness in many organizations. It has relevance for all sectors in an economy. This paper undertakes a review of market orientation literature pertaining to conceptualizations, components and performance impacts. Based on the literature review, the paper develops a conceptual framework and suggests likely areas for future research efforts.
Enhanced Arabic Information Retrieval by Using Arabic Slang Language
Authors: Ababneh Mustafa Abdel-Kareem , Kanaan Ghassan , Al-Jarrah Ayat Amin
Published: May 2019

Slang language has become the most used language in the most countries. It has almost become the first language in the social media, websites and daily conversations. Moreover, it has become used in many conferences to clarify information and to deliver the required purpose of them. Therefore, this great spread of slang language over the world. In Jordan indicates that it is important to know meanings of Jordanian slang vocabularies. Mainly, In research system, we created a system framework allows users to restore Arabic information depending on queries that are written in slang language and this framework was made basically by context-free grammar to convert from slang to classical and vice versa. In addition, to conclude with, we will apply it on the colloquial slang in North of Jordan specifically; Irbid, Ajloun, Jerash, Mafraq and AlRamtha city. As well as, we will make a special file for Non_Arabic words and the stop words too. After we made an evaluation for the system relying on the results of recall, precision and F-measure where the results of precision about 0.63 for both researches slang and classical query, and this indicates that the system supports searching in Jordanian slang language. The purpose of this research is to enhance Arabic information retrieval, and it will be a significant resource for researchers who are interested in slang languages. As well as, it helps tie communities together.
Some second-order three-point boundary value problem for discrete equations on the half-line
Authors: Tian Yu , Gi Weigao
Published: May 2019

In this paper, we study the existence of multiple positive solutions of boundary value problems for second-order three-point discrete equations   $$\left \{\begin{array}{l}\Delta^2 x(n-1) - p\Delta x(n-1) - qx(n-1) + f(n, x(n)) = 0, \quad n \in N_0 \\ x(0) = \alpha x(l), \quad x(\infty) = 0\end{array}\right. . $$ The proofs are based on the fixed point theorem in Fr\'echet space (see [7]).
Convolution integral equation of Fredholm type with certain trancedental functions
Authors: Chaurasia V. B. L. , Saxena Vishal
Published: May 2019

The aim of this paper is to establish a solution of a certain class of convolution integral equation of Fredholm type whose kernel involve certain product of special function by using Riemann-Liouville and Weyl fractional integral operators. Some interesting particular cases are also considered.
Singular integrals related to homogeneous mapping with rough kernels on product spaces
Authors: Al-Qassem H. , Ali M.
Published: May 2019

In this paper, we study the $ L^{p} $ mapping properties of singular integral operators related to homogeneous mappings on product spaces with kernels which belong to block spaces. Our results extend as well as improve some known results on singular integrals.
On endo curvature tensor of a contact metric manifold
Authors: Dwivedi Mohit Kumar , Jun Jae-Bok , Tripathi Mukut Mani
Published: May 2019

We prove that a $ ( k ,\mu ) $-manifold with vanishing Endo curvature tensor is a Sasakian manifold. We find a necessary and sufficient condition for a non-Sasakian $ ( k ,\mu ) $-manifold %$M$ whose Endo curvature tensor $ B^{es} $ satisfies $ B^{es}(\xi ,X) \cdot S=0 $, where $S$ is the Ricci tensor. Using $ {\cal D} $-homothetic deformation we obtain an example of an $ N\left( k\right) $-contact metric manifold on which $ B^{es}(\xi ,X)\cdot S\neq 0 $.
Some fixed point theorems in fuzzy metric space
Authors: Mishra Urmila , Ranadive Abhay Sharad , Gopal Dhananjay
Published: May 2019

In this paper we prove common fixed point theorems in fuzzy metric spaces employing the notion of reciprocal continuity. Moreover we have to show that in the context of reciprocal continuity the notion of compatibility and semi-compatibility of maps becomes equivalent. Our result improves recent results of Singh & Jain [13] in the sense that all maps involved in the theorems are discontinuous even at common fixed point.
Antinormal composition operators on $ \mbf{\ell^2}$
Authors: Tripathi Gyan Prakash , Lal Nand
Published: May 2019

A bounded linear operator $ T $ on a Hilbert space $ H $ is called antinormal if the distance of $ T $ from the set of all normal operators is equal to norm of $ T $. In this paper, we give a complete characterization of antinormal composition operators on $ \ell^2 $, where $ \ell^2 $ is the Hilbert space of all square summable sequences of complex numbers under standard inner product on it.
On an extension of a bilateral generating function involving generalised Bessel polynomials
Authors: Maiti P. K.
Published: May 2019

In this note we obtain an extension of the bilateral generating function involving generalised Bessel polynomials obtained by S. K. Pan from the existence of a quasi-bilinear generating relation involving the polynomial under consideration.
Fuzzy Volterra integral equations with in-finite delay
Authors: Prakash P. , Kalaiselvi V.
Published: May 2019

In this paper, we study the existence and uniqueness of solutions for a class of fuzzy Volterra integral equations with infinite delay by using the method of successive approximations.
Some more results on R-norm information measure
Authors: Kumar Satish
Published: May 2019

n the present communication, I have defined the new information measure called '' $ \alpha $-R-norm information measure ''. It has been characterized using infimum oiperation in Section 2 and axiomatically in Section 3. Its properties have been studied in Section 4, joint and conditional $ \alpha $-R-norm information measure are studied in Section 5.
Some fixed point theorems in fuzzy metric space
Authors: Pant Vyomesh
Published: May 2019

The aim of the present paper is to extend the study of noncompatible maps in fuzzy metric space by using the notion of R-weak commutativity of type (Ag) in fuzzy metric space. Simultaneously, we provide an answer in fuzzy metric space, perhaps maiden, to the problem of Rhoades (page 243, [18]). We also define an analogue to the recently introduced concept of Property (E.A) by Aamri and Moutawakil [1] and then compare the results obtained by using the Property (E.A) to those obtained by using the notion of noncompatibility.
New inequalities of Ostrowski and Gruss type for triple integrals
Authors: Pachpatte B. G.
Published: May 2019

In the present paper we establish new inequalities of Ostrowski and Gruss type for triple integrals involving three functions and their partial derivatives. The discrete Ostrowski and Gruss type inequalities for triple sums are also given.
Periodic solutions for dynamic equations on time scales
Authors: Wu Shun-Tang , Tsai Long-Yi
Published: May 2019

The second order nonlinear dynamic system on time scales is considered. Some sufficient conditions for the existence of periodic solutions are given. Differential inequality techniques and the method of mixed monotony are used.
On relaxation normality in the Fuglede-Putnam theorem for a quasi-class $A$ operators
Authors: Rashid M. H. M. , Noorani M. S. M.
Published: May 2019

Let $T$ be a bounded linear operator acting on a complex Hilbert space $ \mathcal{H} $. In this paper, we show that if $A$ is quasi-class $A$, $ B^* $ is invertible quasi-class $A$, $X$ is a Hilbert-Schmidt operator, $AX=XB$ and $ \left\Vert |A^*| \right\Vert \left\Vert |B|^{-1} \right\Vert \leq 1 $, then $ A^* X = X B^* $.
A common fixed point theorem for the $\psi$-contractive mapping
Authors: Chen Chi-Ming , Chang Tong-Huei
Published: May 2019

In this paper, we shall discuss the common fixed point theorems of four single-valued functions with $\psi$-contractive codition in cone metric spaces.
New Techniques in Thyroid Surgery – Critical Evaluation
Authors: Kaczka Krzysztof , Pomorski Lech
Published: May 2019

Introduction: Operations due to benign and malignant thyroid neoplasms constitute a significant percentage of operations
in general and oncological surgery wards. Therefore, unsurprisingly, better and better methods are being sought to avoid the
occurrence of two major complications after those operations, i.e. laryngeal nerve palsy and hypoparathyroidism and new
minimally invasive accesses.
M aterial and methods: Authors searched MEDLINE database using the following search terms: modern technologies AND/
OR thyroid surgery AND/OR intermittent neuromonitoring AND/OR continuous neuromonitoring AND/OR parathyroid
preservation AND/OR transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy AND/OR TOETVA.
Results: The paper discusses the following new techniques of thyroid surgery with particular focus on limitations: neuromonitoring,
narrowband imaging, fluorescence angiography and transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy by vestibular approach.
Conclusions: Some of the new techniques are highly clinically useful. Their use can become a routine element of standard
thyroidectomy.
Tactics of intraoperative neuromonitoring usage in thyroid surgery
Authors: Kusiński Michał , Borkowski Rafał , Kuzdak Krzysztof
Published: May 2019

Intraoperative neuromonitoring of the larynx (IONM) in thyroid surgery has been developed and improved from the last
decade of the twentieth century. Our work presents the current state of knowledge about the use neuromonitoring in Poland,
recommendations, tactics of using this tool and its advantages and disadvantages. It has been based on current research results
and own experience. The latest data from the Endocrine, General and Vascular Surgery Department of Medical University of
Lodz obtained from March 2010 to April 2019 were analysed. During this period 705 operations with neuromonitoring were
carried out which is 7.49% of the total number of 9414 thyroid surgery. The amount of operations with the use of IONM is
increasing from one year to another. It has reached the level of 27% in 2019.
After Volmar
Authors: Meconi Honey
Published: May 2019

This chapter covers Hildegard’s turbulent last years. Her last theological treatise, Liber divinorum operum, was completed after Volmar died; his replacement, Gottfried of Disibodenberg, began Hildegard’s Vita but died before completing it. The monk Guibert of Gembloux transmitted the questions that generated her Solutiones triginta octo quaestionum and solicited an important description of the nature of Hildegard’s visions. The Dendermonde manuscript including her music was sent to the monks of Villers Abbey, and the Riesencodex (also with her music) was begun. Her community was placed under interdict for burying a supposed excommunicate in sacred ground, and Hildegard’s subsequent “Letter to the Prelates of Mainz” includes her most powerful statement about the importance of music. The chapter closes with a description of the heavenly lights that followed her burial.
Introduction
Authors: Richter-Devroe Sophie
Published: May 2019

The introduction provides an analytical entry point to, and overview of, the different and evolving forms of Palestinian women’s political activism since the 1993 Oslo Accords. Outlining the book’s main aims and scope, it contextualizes Palestinian women’s political activism historically, by tracing major shifts in women’s peacebuilding, resistance, and everyday forms of politics, as well as conceptually, by framing the analysis within the scholarly literature on political activism, the public sphere, and the political more broadly.
Bombings, Insurrections, and Cosmopolitanism: Paolo Lega and Sante Caserio
Authors: Pernicone Nunzio , Ottanelli Fraser M.
Published: May 2019

Bombings are traditionally associated with anarchism. Through a brief comparative survey, Chapter 3 explains that while this was a lethal weapon of struggle used by anarchists in Spain and France, the same was not the case for the bombings perpetrated by their Italian comrades. Spanish and French anarchists bombed activities and locations that attracted large numbers of people, especially members of the bourgeoisie. In contrast, instead of an abstract class enemy, Italian anarchists (in whatever country they struck) bombed buildings or targeted specific personalities along with tangible symbols of state power and repressive policies. The determination to strike those held responsible for repressive policies led to two attentats: Paolo Lega’s attempt on Prime Minister Francesco Crispi’s life followed by Sante Caserio’s assassination of the president of France, Marie Francois Sadi Carnot.
Anarchist Assassins: Acciarito, Angiolillo, and Lucheni
Authors: Pernicone Nunzio , Ottanelli Fraser M.
Published: May 2019

Chapter 5 describes the circumstances leading to and the nature of three attentats: Pietro Acciarito failed attempt against King Umberto I, Michele Angiolillo assassination of Spanish Prime Minister, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo and Luigi Lucheni’s murder of Empress Elizabeth of Austria. The chapter explains that while Acciarito acted out of desperation shaped by personal economic destitution, Angiolillo’s attentat displayed the characteristics of the anarchist cosmopolitan giustiziere. Like Caserio before him, Angiolillo’s assassination of Cánovas del Castillo, was motivated as a show of solidarity with foreign comrades and as an act of retribution against an individual directly responsible for acts of violence against the innocent. If on a scale of political and moral consciousness Angiolillo’s attentat represents the highest level, the lowest place is occupied by Lucheni’s senseless assassination of Empress Elizabeth of Austria.
Low-Key Feminism as a Strategy
Authors: Kempker Erin M.
Published: May 2019

Chapter 4 focuses on how Hoosier feminists adapted feminism to the particular political environment of Indiana, specifically we examine feminists’ decision to forward a “low key” image to achieve greater respectability and support for the ERA in a conservative political milieu. This decision ultimately proved successful in ratification of the ERA, but also led to dissent and hard feelings within feminist coalitions as many started to see the “low key” strategy as a muzzle. This chapter explores the strategy decisions and contours of the Hoosier feminist movement rooted as it was to place.
Invaluable Lives
Authors: Buss Fran Leeper
Published: May 2019

Fran Leeper Buss began her career as an historian of poor and working-class women in July 1971 by recording the near homelessness of herself, her close friend, and their combined six children. Working as a founder of an early women’s crisis center, she learned the stories of other poor women. In 1976, she developed a technique for and recorded an oral history of the last of the traditional, licensed, Latina midwives in northern New Mexico. Specializing in lengthy oral histories of activist women, she then collected oral histories from over one hundred working-class women from multiple racial/ethnic groups throughout the country. A feminist, she received a PhD in American history, published the oral histories in six books, and placed them in six archives.
The Recognition of Women in Oklahoma History
Authors: Reese Linda Williams
Published: May 2019

This chapter recounts a journey in academic scholarship and the significance of the Prelinger Award in providing time and resources to research, travel to archives, and to write multicultural women’s history. Because of this award, an understanding of U.S. history, the role of women, and the significance of a multicultural approach was broadened and enhanced.
Nontraditional in Every Way
Authors: Mims La Shonda
Published: May 2019

This chapter explores a white, working-class, southern evangelical lesbian journey through academia, and examines the varied meanings of “nontraditional” in the academy. A discussion of labor and the disproportionate role women perform in contingent, nurturing, and supportive roles suggests that in spite of feminist revolutions, the labor of nontraditional women continues to bolster tradition in academia. Although written as a personal story, this narrative highlights broad challenges faced by faculty and students who enter higher education as first-generation learners. Embracing the struggles faced by students and faculty with nontraditional identities can be a transformative approach to pedagogy, introducing students to the historical role of privilege in U.S. society.
A Post–Korean War Boom, 1953
Authors: Clark Daniel J.
Published: May 2019

The upsurge in auto production near the end of the Korean War continued well into the New Year, which surpassed mid-1950 as the best approximation of a postwar boom. The end of government wartime controls on industrial materials created free market conditions that automakers had long coveted, and Detroit auto plants experienced an acute labor shortage in early 1953. Tens of thousands of migrants from outside Michigan headed to Detroit for auto jobs. Even during the boom, however, black men, all women, and middle-aged applicants experienced employment discrimination. By the end of 1953, autoworkers again found themselves in precarious circumstances as the auto market slackened and layoffs increased.
“I see that when I am in school, I will have a good life.”
Authors: Switzer Heather D.
Published: May 2019

“Producing and Performing Schoolgirlhood,” explores the embrace of girls’ education in the case-study communities by showing how girl-effects logic is localized through Kenyan gender and education policy and then produced and performed in local communities. Although participants had never heard of “the girl-effects dividend” per se, strong faith in girls’ education to create positive social and economic “ripple effects” for individual girls, families, their communities, and Kenya as a nation saturated their perceptions of education as a pathway to development. The chapter shows how Maasai mothers’ and teachers’ expectations for increased household economic security and community advancement worked to shape schoolgirlhood as a normative category and how schoolgirls worked hard to perform the attitudes, attributes, and actions expected for schoolgirls.
The Great American Myths and a Different American Future
Authors: Hughes Richard T.
Published: May 2019

The Great American Myths are the commonly accepted stories that, along with the American Creed, convey to most Americans the meaning of their nation. The first edition of Myths America Lives By identified five of those myths: the Chosen Nation, Nature’s Nation, the Christian Nation, the Millennial Nation, and the Innocent Nation. The second edition adds a sixth: the myth of White Supremacy. This chapter introduces the two primary arguments of this book—first, that the myth of White Supremacy is the primal American myth that informs all the others and, second, that one of the chief functions of the other five myths is to protect and obscure the myth of White Supremacy and assure us that we remain innocent after all. Most blacks understand that white supremacy is the primal American myth since they live with its real-life consequences. But those in positions of power are not forced to live with the consequences of this myth. As a result, for most American whites the myth of White Supremacy is like the air they breathe: it envelops and shapes them but does so in ways they seldom discern.
The Myth of the Innocent Nation
Authors: Hughes Richard T.
Published: May 2019

While the myth of the Innocent Nation weaves a tale that is objectively false with no redemptive qualities, it is one of the strongest of the American myths in terms of its hold over the American people. That myth, like the nation itself, hangs suspended between the golden age of an innocent past (Nature’s Nation) and a golden age of innocence yet to come (Millennial Nation). Suspended in that vacuous state, Americans imagine that history is irrelevant. How could it be otherwise? Nothing destroys a sense of innocence like the terrors of history taken seriously. Anchored by the pillars that stand at the beginning and end of time, the myth of the Innocent Nation flourished during every modern conflict beginning with World War I, but especially when the nation faced enemies like Nazi Germany in World War II or Isis during the War on Terror. The irony was obvious, for even as the nation proclaimed its innocence, black soldiers, for example, returned from World War II only to face brutality and segregation in their own nation. Countless blacks from Muhammed Ali to Toni Morrison to James Baldwin to Ta-Nehisi Coates have protested that irony in the American myth of Innocence.
Introduction
Authors: Silvers Michael B.
Published: May 2019

This introductory chapter presents and theorizes the book’s five key concepts: vulnerability, materiality, listening, nostalgia, and policy. It reflexively examines the author’s relationship with the field site and the motivation and justification for the research. It positions the book as an ethnomusicological study of popular music and climate. It also offers a description of the regional and state geography, a brief history of drought in Ceará, and an overview of northeastern Brazilian music.
“Help Your Brother”
Authors: Silvers Michael B.
Published: May 2019

This chapter examines foothills forró as a form of environmental protest, voiced through the strategic use of nostalgia, through dancing bodies and occupied spaces, and through explicit requests aimed at the government and the Brazilian populace alike. Much scholarship on foothills forró understands the genre as either a kitschy regional caricature or as an authentic channel from the city to the backlands. Instead, this chapter considers it a deliberate effort to generate sympathy and aid for northeasterners, for whom it also offered comfort and a musical space-time of their own.
Conclusion
Authors: Silvers Michael B.
Published: May 2019

This concluding chapter summarizes the book’s historical trajectory. It also synthesizes and reviews the book’s three primary conclusions: that music and ecology are linked through political and economic contexts; that environmental phenomena affect popular music in both material and semiotic ways; and that the discursive invention of Brazil’s northeast region has had material effects on the region and on the northeastern experience. Finally, it concludes that environmental change will affect (and has affected) music and musical culture in many ways, and that tendencies toward neoliberalism will make vulnerable many musicians and listeners.
“Come After Us”
Authors: Esplin Scott C.
Published: May 2019

This chapter introduces the religious tensions created in Nauvoo, Illinois, by the return of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) to the region in the twentieth century and their historical restoration of the city that was once their headquarters. It places the restoration project, patterned after the historical recreation of Colonial Williamsburg, within the larger trend of memorials that swept across America in the twentieth century. Overviewing other studies, it positions historic Nauvoo as a case study in historical tourism and pilgrimage. Finally, it examines how Mormonism used restored Nauvoo as a staging ground for celebrating American westward expansion to position the faith within a larger national narrative.