bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Cobalto en poscosecha de varas florales de gladiola (Gladiolus grandiflorus Hort.)
Authors: Trejo-Téllez AnLibia Iris , Gómez-Merino Fernando Carlos , Gómez-Pérez Valeria , Castro-García Flor de Azalea
Published: April 2018

En esta investigación se evaluó el efecto del cobalto (Co) en distintas concentraciones (0, 0.3 y 0.6 mM) en variables poscosecha de varas florales de gladiola (Gladiolus grandiflorus Hort.) cultivar Borrega Roja. Durante siete días se evaluó la absorción de agua por las varas florales y la variación en el peso de éstas, así como también la cinética de apertura de las flores que constituyen cada inflorescencia. Después de siete días de tratamiento, se evaluó el peso de materia seca por órgano (tallo, hojas e inflorescencia) y concentración y contenido de N por órgano; concentración de clorofilas a, b y total. Se observó un incremento significativo en la absorción de agua en varas f lorales tratadas con ambas concentraciones de Co, respecto al testigo, después de 144 h de iniciados los tratamientos; asimismo en este muestreo, el menor porcentaje de pérdida de peso en fresco se registró en varas tratadas con 0.3 mM; no obstante, éste no fue diferente estadísticamente al resto de los tratamientos. La concentración baja de Co, incrementó significativamente el contenido de N en tallos y laconcentraciónfoliardeclorofilas.ElConotuvoinfluencia en la cinética de apertura foliar ni la concentración de N por órgano. Los pesos de materia seca total, de hojas y de tallos fueron superiores con el tratamiento de Co de 0.3 mM.
El turismo rural, un desafío para pequeños agricultores
Authors: Escobedo Garrido José Sergio
Published: April 2018

Los altos niveles de marginación y pobreza rural, han obligado a los productores e instituciones a buscar alternativas viables para superar esa situación, el turismo rural parece ser una. Como una actividad que se realiza en pequeñas localidades, rescatando actividades y saberes, con la participación de los actores locales, en San Felipe Cuapexco, Puebla, se está diseñando un sitio de turismo rural, en torno a las actividades desarrolladas en los traspatios familiares. Se analiza el perfil del turista, su origen, sus motivaciones para viajar, su conocimiento de esta modalidad de turismo y su disponibilidad a visitar estos sitios, para contribuir con el objetivo de conocer la demanda e instalar ese sitio. Con entrevistas personalizadas a una muestra aleatoria de 102 turistas en tres municipios de Puebla, se señala que el turista tiene 38 años en promedio, viaja acompañado; decide viajar por diversión y ocio, consigue información del destino a través de medios electrónicos, y acostumbra preparar un presupuesto para tal fin. Viaja regularmente por vacaciones y por compromisos familiares, hospedándose en casa de familiares y en hoteles. Con poca información, muestra disposición para visitar sitios de turismo rural con disponibilidad a pagar por ello. El conocimiento esta correlacionado signif icativamente con la visita a un sitio al 95% de conf ianza y la edad y género con la decisión del sitio a visitar.
Sendero interpretativo de orquídeas y bromelias en Tepexilotla, Chocamán, Veracruz
Authors: Baltazar Bernal Obdulia , Zavala Ruiz Jesús , Solís Zanotelli Flor Yarumi , Pérez Sato Juan Antonio , Sánchez Eugenio Octavio
Published: April 2018

La comunidad rural de Tepexilotla, perteneciente al municipio de Chocamán, Veracruz, México, está enclavada en un área de Bosque Mesófilo de Montaña (BMM) y con el fin de aprovechar la alta biodiversidad de este ecosistema, mediante la explotación de un sendero interpretativo que promueva la educación, la conservación de la biodiversidad del BMM y el desarrollo económico de la comunidad. El presente trabajo propone un sendero interpretativo cuyo fin es la educación de los visitantes al recorrer un sendero enfocado en las especies de orquídeas y bromelias silvestres, plantas atractivas por su belleza y valor económico, con el fin de reducir la extracción ilegal. Esta propuesta es el resultado de talleres participativos, entrevistas y recorridos en el bosque para seleccionar sitios e identificar especies. Integra ochos puntos localizados sobre la ribera del río Metlac y tiene una distancia de 4.4 km, que se recorren en un tiempo de 4:30 h. Durante el recorrido el visitante puede conocer 19 especies de orquídeas silvestres, 5 de bromelias y otros atractivos paisajísticos y de vida silvestre. Aparentemente, el sendero tiene una alta aceptación entre los pobladores y están dispuestos a participar como guías y destinar un porcentaje para el mantenimiento del sendero.
El turismo entre disputas por el territorio, Zapotitlán Salinas, Puebla
Authors: Zárate Hernández Eduardo , Cortés Márquez Nubia
Published: April 2018

La promoción del desarrollo local por medio del turismo se expresa en los cambios de uso y acceso de los recursos estratégicos del territorio. La emergencia de nuevos actores políticos que busca hacer valer sus derechos ciudadanos, disputan también el acceso del terreno frente a los distintos tipos de propietarios que lo habitan. La etnografía y la observación participante permiten acercarnos a las formas en que los sujetos, actores y productores principales, viven, tejen relaciones clientelares o de poder, construyendo su propio espacio de negociaciones. Las prácticas de la población configuran territorialidades internamente diferenciadas que resaltan el papel activo de la ciudadanía en la promoción de políticas descentralizadoras del poder federal. Zapotitlán Salinas, es un ejemplo de los ensambles de territorio y del derecho ciudadano e institucional que se superpone con la heterogeneidad de formas de apropiación local. Con estos casos tratamos de mostrar la yuxtaposición de diferentes órdenes temporales ensamblados en nuevas territorialidades a partir de la promoción de políticas de desarrollo local como el turismo. Comprender la manera en que las nuevas territorialidades se ensamblan en una localidad concreta nos permite vislumbrar la manera en que se distribuye el poder a nivel local o regional.
Percepción de Sprekelia formosissima (L.) Herb. como planta ornamental en Puebla y Morelos
Authors: Salomé Castañeda Edith , Mayett Moreno Yésica , Rodríguez Piñeros Sandra , Flores Alonso Daniel Alberto , Cavazos Arroyo Judith
Published: April 2018

Según el inventario realizado por la Red de Ornamentales, México es uno de los países más ricos en recursos genéticos y cuenta con 4 220 especies usadas como ornamentales o con potencial de ser introducidas a la horticultura ornamental. Una de ellas es Sprekelia fomosissima conocida como Lirio Azteca que crece de manera silvestre en el Distrito Federal, Estado de México, Morelos y Puebla, entre otros estados. México no ha desarrollado su producción, debido en gran medida al desconocimiento de sus bondades hortícolas tanto por productores, como por comercializadores y consumidores finales. En el mercado internacional es comercializada en algunos viveros de Europa y Estados Unidos de América, por ello se deduce que tendría posibilidades comercializarse en el mercado nacional. Este estudio tuvo como objetivos evaluar el nivel de conocimiento, percepción y disposición para comprar y vender Lirio Azteca por parte de consumidores potenciales deplantasornamentalesenviverosdelasciudadesdeAtlixco, Puebla y Cuautla, Morelos, así como divulgar su importancia y aprovechamiento como planta ornamental mexicana. Se aplicaron 357encuestas durante los meses de abril y mayo de 2013. El Lirio Azteca como recurso nativo mexicano fue de gran interés para 91.7% de los encuestados, lo que nos permite sugerir que de utilizarse campañas que destaquen la importancia de las plantas ornamentales nativas podría incrementarse su conocimiento, conservación, así como su uso en jardines y áreas verdes de México y el extranjero, buscando su aprovechamiento sustentable.
Índices de crecimiento de plántulas de lulo (Solanum quitoense [Lamarck.]) en sustratos orgánicos
Authors: Gómez-Merino Fernando Carlos , Trejo-Téllez Libia Iris , Ladewig Peter
Published: April 2018

El lulo (Solanum quitoense [Lamarck.]) es una especie con alto potencial de comercialización a nivel global dado el valor nutritivo de sus frutos. En México, la investigación sobre esta especie es escasa y uno de los primeros retos es la obtención de plántulas vigorosas que garanticen rendimiento y buena calidad de frutos. En esta investigación se estimaron índices de crecimiento de plántulas de lulo provenientes de semillas germinadas y crecidas en tres sustratos orgánicos constituidos por turba y composta en diferentes relaciones (60/40, 40/60 y 20/80, v/v) en invernadero. El experimento tuvo una distribución completamente al azar con cuatro repeticiones, y la unidad experimental contenía 32 plántulas. Sesenta días después de la siembra se tomaron datos directos de crecimiento para la estimación de los índices siguientes: razón de área foliar (RAF), área foliar específica (AFE), proporción de hoja (PH) y proporción de raíz (PR). Los datos obtenidos fueron analizados estadísticamente, realizando un análisis de varianza y una prueba de comparación de medias. Los resultados indican que la composta en mayor proporción en el sustrato reduce la RAF, el AFE y PH; por el contrario, incrementa la PR. La adición de composta al sustrato en proporción 80%, afectó negativamente los índices de crecimiento de las plántulas de lulo debido al incremento en la conductividad eléctrica, y de Na+, Cl- y HCO3- solubles, en el sustrato. Se concluye que la composta puede ser usada con resultados satisfactorios, en la producción de plántulas de lulo, en combinación con turba, en proporciones iguales o menores a 60%.
Análisis de cuatro variables del período de lluvias asociadas al cultivo maíz de temporal
Authors: Íñiguez-Covarrubias Mauro , Ojeda-Bustamante Waldo , Díaz-Delgado Carlos , Sifuentes-Ibarra Ernesto
Published: April 2018

Caracterizar y conocer las variables: inicio, duración, terminación de la estación lluviosa y la cantidad de precipitación con fines de precisar su magnitud y relacionarlas con la agricultura bajo condiciones de temporal, es y ha sido una preocupación importante para los agricultores y estudiosos de las ciencias agrícolas. En la región centro norte de México este problema se acentúa por la alta variabilidad de la estación lluviosa y la gran dependencia climática de la agricultura de temporal. La metodología indicada recrea cuatro variables climáticas de la estación lluviosa, analizadas por métodos reconocidos, y con base en un análisis probabilístico se asocian a la agricultura del cultivo del maíz de temporal. El estudio fue realizado para la región ubicada en el sur del estado de Zacatecas, México, sobre la estación climatológica Tlaltenango. Se estimó el inicio de la estación lluviosa el 6 de junio y la terminación el 25 de septiembre, duración de 110 días, la relación de variables indica un sitio potencialmente apto para maíces con esa duración, cuyos requerimientos hídricos determinados con la metodología de grados días desarrollo es de 372 mm para todo el ciclo, cuya lámina bruta de 477 mm y una precipitación efectiva 78% se garantizan con una probabilidad de ocurrencia 78.5%, la zona cuenta con al menos 80 días insertos en el periodo  de lluvias con probabilidad 98%. Se concluye que para fines prácticos, en promedio cuarto de cada cinco años tendrán la cantidad de lluvia garantizada, se recomienda la utilización de esta metodología como herramienta en la toma de decisiones para técnicos y productores agrícolas de la región.
Estimación de la evapotranspiración utilizando un balance de energía e imágenes satelitales
Authors: Gordillo Salinas Víctor Manuel , Flores Magdaleno Héctor , Tijerina Chávez Leonardo , Arteaga Ramírez Ramón
Published: April 2018

Experimentalmente, el cálculo de la evapotranspiración se realiza con una precisión razonable usando lisímetros de pesada, técnicas de Eddy Correlation y relación de Bowen. Estos métodos son limitados, ya que proporcionan valores puntualesdeevapotranspiraciónparaunlugarenespecíficoy no proporciona la ET a una escala regional. La aplicación de una estimación de la evapotranspiración mediante el uso de mediciones de satélites puede llegar a superar estas limitaciones. El objetivo fue el de utilizar el modelo METRICTM (Mapping Evapotranspiration at High Resolution using Internalized Calibration), para estimar la evapotranspiración mediante un balance de energía, y compararla contra datos medidos en un sistema de Eddy Correlation para el cultivo de vid en la costa de Hermosillo, Sonora. Se usaron 12 imágenes del satélite Landsat 5 TM durante la estación de crecimiento de la vid, con un Path=35yunRow=40.Anivelmensuallaevapotranspiración presentó un coeficiente de determinación (R2) de 0.85, un error relativo de 8.967% y un error estándar de 13.655 mm. Para todo el periodo anual se estimó 704 mm y el valor observado fue de 680 mm lo cual representó un error relativo de 3.53%. El balance de energía en la superficie terrestre y el uso de imágenes satelitales realizan una estimación confiable de la evapotranspiración; sin embargo, es necesario realizar pruebas adicionales para continuar evaluando la precisión del método.
Discriminación de tipos de calidad de agua de riego según atributos químicos utilizando una técnica multivariada
Authors: Lorbes Medina Javier , García Orellana Yelitza , Ohep Carlos , Milla Pino Manuel
Published: April 2018

Con el objetivo de discriminar tipos de calidad de agua para riego según sus atributos químicos se consideró un experimento donde se evaluó el efecto de tres tipos de calidad de agua en la estructura de los suelos de la depresión de Quíbor, estado Lara. Los tres tipos de aguas consideradas en la investigación fueron: agua del embalse Yacambú (YAC), agua del embalse Dos Cerritos (DCE) y agua de pozo (POZO). Se tomaron 12 muestras de cada una y se midieron sobre ellas las variables: conductividad eléctrica (Ce) y los contenidos de calcio (Ca), magnesio (Mg), sodio (Na), potasio (K), bicarbonatos (HCO3), cloruros (Cl), sulfatos (SO4) y pH. Se utilizó el método del análisis discriminante canónico con dos técnicas gráficas multivariadas como la gráf ica hipótesis-error (HE) y la gráf ica de estructura discriminante canónica para evaluar los datos. Los resultados muestran diferencias signif icativas entre los tres tipos de agua y las variables evaluadas más inf luyentes en su discriminación fueron, Mg, Cl, Ce, SO4, Na y Ca. Las técnicas gráficas muestran que se puede interpretar las diferencias entre las aguas y relaciones entre variables y observaciones de manera fácil y sencilla ofreciendo una buena alternativa para analizar e interpretar datos.
Mapeamento terminológico no domínio da radiologia obstétrica: estudo estatístico a partir de ontologias
Authors: Amorim Igor Soares , Beckhauser Eduardo , Petrolini Vinícius Andreóli , Savaris Alexandre , Wangenheim Aldo Von
Published: April 2018

Este artigo tem como base um estudo em que foram levantados e organizados termos do domínio da radiologia obstétrica e, então, foi identificado se os mesmos estão compreendidos em quatro distintos vocabulários controlados: OntoNeo, RadLex, LOINC e SNOMED. É apresentado o Sistema Integrado Catarinense de Telemedicina e Telessaúde (STT/SC) e o projeto de estruturação de laudos de exames de radiologia obstétrica, bem como o contexto teórico da ciência da informação sobre vocabulários controlados. Foram realizadas uma pesquisa de campo para o levantamento dos termos junto a um especialista da área e uma pesquisa documental para o levantamento estatístico dos termos em vocabulários controlados. Constituiu-se uma hierarquia dos termos levantados e verificou-se a cobertura de cada um dos vocabulários controlados em relação aos termos. O SNOMED é o vocabulário controlado com maior potencial de uso para a indexação de laudos no domínio da radiologia obstétrica.
'Herói ou humano?': a construção do imaginário médico nas séries americanas
Authors: Meimaridis Melina
Published: April 2018

Este artigo busca analisar e discutir a construção dos profissionais de saúde nos seriados americanos, com o foco específico nos médicos. Defende-se que esses profissionais foram inicialmente construídos na televisão como heróis infalíveis devido à participação direta e indireta de instituições médicas. A revisão da literatura revela que esse modelo começou a dar sinais de desgaste nas décadas de 1970 e 1980, apresentando médicos passíveis de falhas, erros e até mesmo crimes. Argumentamos que as produções atuais, apesar de apresentarem profissionais ‘mais humanos’, continuam sendo influenciadas por organizações e instituições de saúde públicas e privadas, de modo a perpetuar um imaginário favorável do médico e da própria instituição. Para tanto, daremos atenção à recente participação da Hollywood Health and Society na ficção seriada televisiva.
Kewirausahaan (Entreprenuership) Berbasis Manajemen Strategik bagi Wirausaha Baru di Kecamatan Kebayoran Lama Utara, Jakarta Selatan
Authors: Wahjusaputri Sintha , Siregar Ahmad Faisal
Published: April 2018

Entrepreneurship (entrepreneurship) is a process of applying creativity and innovation in solving problems and finding opportunities to improve life (business and work). Community service activities are focused on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) built by PKK through UP2K in Kebayoran Lama Utara sub-district, in the form of food culinary, clothing, transportation and new business (start-up company). Business people as many as 30 people from various businesses. Methods used: (1) Survey; (2) Focus Group Discussion (FGD); (3) Briefing (Community Organization); (4) Community Development; (5) Learning Methods; and (6) Advocacy. The findings obtained are: (1) nine out of 10 organizations failed to realize SMEs due to no rest; (2) there are 5% of participants who understand the strategic plan; (3) 60% of organizations do not have realization budgets. The objectives of entrepreneurship based on strategic management are: (1) achievement of family economic effort improvement through group / individual business, so as to increase income and family welfare; (2) enhancing the capabilities and qualities of new entrepreneurs; (3) increasing knowledge, skills and skills for new entrepreneurs; (4) fostering groups of community or pre-cooperative economic enterprises in order to improve the family and community economy. Strategic management-based entrepreneurship is expected to promote effective and efficient SMEs for new entrepreneurs.
Asistensi Pendirian Badan Usaha Milik Desa Cibogo, Kecamatan Cisauk, Kabupaten Tangerang
Authors: Raharjo Taufik , Yudanto Ambang Aries , Ariutama I Gede Agus
Published: April 2018

As the Indonesian government has been committed, that the national development should be puting more focus from the outer-ring or rural areas. One of the instrument to boost the rural development is Village Fund. This decentralization transfer purposively targets to improve the village society’s welfare and alleviate social gap existed among societies. Village-owned enterprise (Badan Usaha Milik Desa or BUMDes) is provided as one of the strategic mechanism to create the welfare by proactively engage the community itsefl. In fact, BUMDes may incorporate Village Fund as capital alternative to support their establishment. This paper highlights the crucial factors in order to establish a village-owned enterprise (BUMDes) in case of Cibogo Village, Cisauk Sub-regency, Tangerang Regency. The study deploys a qualitative approach. To collect the data, we are scouting, interviewing and establishing Focused-Group Discussion that involving the possible parties which may contributes in creating BUMDes. The result has not yet concluded as the process of the research still going on. We predicts that the communities engagement, empowerment and also government support should be taken into account in the early process of establishing BUMDes. Eventually, proactive society’s control and participatory would be decent factors to support the operations of BUMDes itself.
Perancangan Game Mobile Android Bergenre Horror
Authors: David -
Published: April 2018

Game yang menjadi favorit dikalangan gamer adalah game bertipe FPS (First Person Shooter) dan bergenre horror. Penelitian ini merancang game bergenre horror dan bertipe FPS yang menjadi kombinasi yang sangat menarik untuk dikembangkan. Penulis akan mengembangkan game ini dengan menggunakan software Blender sebagai pembuatan terrain dalam game, bahasa pemrograman C# dan menggunakan Unity 3D 5.3 sebagai engine nya. Fitur dari game ini berupa misteri/teka-teki, petunjuk, dan jumpscare yaitu dimana pemain akan dikejutkan dengan suara, objek bergerak dan sebagainya. Metode perancangan perangkat lunak yang digunakan adalah Metode Pengembangan Multimedia Luther yang meliputi tahapan Concept, Design, Material Collecting, Assembly, Testing, dan Distribution. Hasil penelitian berupa sebuah game berjudul The Dead Corridor dengan tampilan First Person Shooter 3D setting Horror. Penilaian tingkat kemudahan permainan dapat disimpulkan berdasarkan pendapat responden secara keseluruhan yaitu permainan ini sangat mudah dimainkan.  Storyline pada game The Dead Corridor dinilai masih terlalu singkat, maka perlu untuk pengembangan Storyline selanjutnya dapat dibuat lebih rumit dan kompleks.Kata kunci—Mobile Game, Android, Genre Horror, First Person Shooter, Metode Luther
Prototype of Gas Leak Detector System Using Microcontroller and SMS Gateway
Authors: Tombeng Marchel Thimoty
Published: April 2018

On of the very important things in human life is home safety. Home Safety refers to the awareness of risks and potential dangers in and around home which may cause bodily harm, or even death. Awareness and vigilance is indispensable in preventing the threatening risks and potential dangers. Therefore, people needs a timely warning information about gas leak for prevention of home safety threatening risks and potential dangers. This warning information will allow people, users, or residents to reduce the risks and potential dangers caused by gas leak, especially when they are away from home. This paper describes the development of system technology regarding the gas leak detector which integrates the MQ2 gas sensor, Arduino Uno R3 Microcontroller and the Sim900 SMS Gateway. Keywords : MQ2 Sensor, Arduino Uno R3, Sim900, LPG
The World as Clock: The Network Society and Experimental Ecologies
Authors: Murphie Andrew
Published: April 2018

The concept, politics, and society of the network are examined in the light of concepts taken from media ecologies, Guattari’s notion of the three ecologies of socius,1 self, and environment, Simondon’s discussion of transduction, and Guattari’s political deployment of transversality. The reality of the virtual is taken as the basis for a politics of networked media, and a case is made for a transdisciplinary response. Recent ecological/electronic/digital art works and media processes are discussed as demonstrating interesting emergent aspects of the ecological aspect of the network society. These include Lars von Trier’s 1996 production of Verdensuret (The World’s Clock, in which live images of an ant’s nest in the United States determined the performance of 50 actors in a Copenhagen art gallery), the digital video work of Joyce Hinterding and David Haines, and the nightly news. The paper concludes, following Guattari’s ethico-aesthetic paradigm, that in a post-media world, experimental media ecologies are crucial to the affective, ethical, and ideo-diversity of the network society.
Why tech/Why not? A report on the 2003 Subtle Technologies Conference
Authors: Sternberg Barbara
Published: April 2018

I recently attended the 6th annual Subtle Technologies conference (www.subtle technologies.com), held in Toronto at Innis College (May 22 to 25, 2003). This is a conference that is situated at the blurred boundaries between science and art. Every year this conference, organized by Jim Ruxton with the participation of InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, gathers an eclectic mix of scientists and artists working with technology to present their work. The areas of specialization include robotics, quantum physics, artificial intelligence, genetics, mathematics, biology, space and time, musical organisms, dance, sensors, interfaces, architecture, and art. This year’s theme, “Ground,” focused loosely on new technologies and architectural practice; there were presentations about locative mapping and positioning devices, industrial culture, biotechnological architecture, surveillance, the brain basis of musical performance, interacting galaxies or gravity as art, robotic art projects, and the ethical nature of scientific communities.
Dimensions Vary: Technology, Space and Power in the 20th Century Office
Authors: Bradley Dale A.
Published: April 2018

An overview and analysis of the historical development of the North American office with particular emphasis paid to the significant role played by communications and information technologies in office design and practices. It is argued that the office constitutes a micro-level social mechanism that manifests and supports broader space, knowledge and power relations.
Fear of (and Fascination with) a Black Planet: The Relocation of Rap by White Non-Urban Youth
Authors: Hayes David
Published: April 2018

For many youth residing in non-urban communities, music plays a central role in perceptions of absent or marginal populations. Often lacking other resources to inform their understandings of race, rap fans residing in these sites understand the performances of Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg and other artists as authentic representations of African-American and -Canadian identities. Based on interviews conducted for a wider study on the affectivity of popular music on non-urban youth, this paper explores interpretations of rap music by youth residing in a culturally homogeneous research site, as well as their relocated performances of (what they perceive to be) the black urban male experience. Furthermore, this paper examines the tensions that exist between these youth and their peers, many of whom characterize rap culture as incongruent with the dominant attitudes and practices of their locality.
Ethics and Justice in Daki Menan
Authors: Davy Barbara Jane
Published: April 2018

Emmanuel Levinas’s radical sense of responsibility leads him to argue that one does not have the right to speak on one’s own behalf, because one does not have the right to claim anything for oneself in ethical subjectivity. However, he also argues that justice requires that I speak on behalf of the other. One is obligated to the other not in an abstract sense but as me. Applying Levinas’s understandings of ethics and justice to the situation in Daki Menan, land of the Teme-Augama Anishnabai in northern Ontario, places me under accusation, and requires a response of academic activism.
Je me souviens… aussi: Microethnicity and the Fragility of Memory in French-Canadian New England
Authors: Larkosh Christopher
Published: April 2018

This bilingual article explores the possibilities of post-bilingual “Canadian” memory and identity through the literary and cultural history of Canada’s largest extraterritorial diasporic community: the French-Canadians of New England. In examining textual sources through which New England French-Canadians have imagined their affinities and differences in relation to other ethnic groups and nationalities, from the mid-19th century up to the present day (e.g., Tremblay, Beaugrand, Kerouac, Plante, Proulx), an alternative model for the 21st century emerges: a politics of alterity in which an increasingly fragile “microethnic” memory continues to be rearticulated across linguistic and national borders to serve as a parallel narrative to metropolitan discourses of identity, exceptionalism and survivance.
Quebec Transnationalisms: Interview with Micheline Labelle and Rachad Antonius
Authors: Table Topia Round
Published: April 2018

On January 19, Claire Roberge and Jenny Burman interviewed Prof. Micheline Labelle and Prof. Rachad Antonius, two influential Quebec scholars based at Université du Québec à Montreal. Labelle and Antonius were invited to discuss their own research in the areas of transnationalism, citizenship and ethnicity in Quebec, racialization of « ethnocultural communities » and mass media discourses. They also discussed historical and current examples of complementary academic research in Quebec that mobilizes the conceptual framework of transnationalism. The interview transcript below begins with the issue of the critical relevance of diaspora and transnationalism in Quebec scholarship. It proceeds to address mainstream media coverage of Arab and Muslim communities in Québécois and Canadian mainstream press; multiculturalism and interculturalism; transnational social movements and activism; the role of quantitative methodologies in social sciences research on transnationalism; and the relationship between collective memory, state recognition or reparation and diasporic communities.
“Do No Evil”: Google and Evil as a Political Category
Authors: Szeman Imre
Published: April 2018

The rapid proliferation of roads and vehicles in North America over the past several decades has made the problem of roadkill so acute that, setting aside the meat industry, automobile collisions now surpass hunting as the leading human cause of vertebrate mortality. Unfortunately, roadkill is still a largely overlooked problem that has not been seriously taken up by major animal-rights or environmental organizations. In the absence of any coherent moral or political discourse addressing the problem, commodity culture itself has effectively been delegated the task of reckoning with the carnage, generating a huge array of roadkill novelty goods that offer the animal’s desecrated body up for consumption as a comic spectacle of abasement and domination. Attempting to rectify this absence, this paper employs the notion of commodity fetishism to examine roadkill both as the flashpoint for collective anxieties surrounding the status of animals in consumer culture, and as a window onto broader structural problems arising from the spread of automobile-oriented transportation systems over the past century.
Sports as a Civilizing Mission: Zinedine Zidane and the Infamous Head-butt
Authors: Jiwani Yasmin
Published: April 2018

Zinedine Zidane, hailed as sports athlete par excellence, has come to symbolize the success of the postmodern French state, the new France pluriel. In this paper, I interrogate this image of Zidane through a critical examination of the news coverage pertaining to his infamous head-butt against Marco Materrazi in the final match of the World Cup of soccer in the summer of 2006. In mapping this coverage, I focus on Zidane’s fall and redemption, drawing attention to the racialized discourse that was used to define and advance particular explanations of the event. I argue that the coverage not only reproduced Orientalist frames (animal imagery, violence and irrationality) but also underscored associations between Muslims and terrorists in its speculations regarding what Marco Materrazi had said to provoke Zidane’s actions. I contend that athletes of colour who are held up as race ambassadors are used strategically by the state to deflect attention from critical debate and to obscure state violence. This is a strategy common to colonizing countries and white settler societies. At the same time, women remain on the sidelines confined within a discourse of chivalric masculinity.
Disenchanted Wonder: Collecting Canadian Identity through the CBC “Seven Wonders of Canada” Project
Authors: Cosgrave James F. , Cormack Patricia
Published: April 2018

This paper examines the recent Seven Wonders of Canada project conducted by Canada’s “official broadcaster,” the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). This project sought to collect Canadian identity by inviting expert judges and its audience to collect essentially Canadian “things.” By analyzing the unfolding of the project, we found that while it was broadly successful in terms of participation, it also generated audience resistance because it imposed a rational-legal and elitist administration designed to socialize Canadian self-desire. Ultimately we found that instead of generating “wonder,” the project generated disenchantment and the ritual reinscription of CBC as official and appropriate object of Canadian desire.
Contemporary Presents: The Canadian War Museum’s Afghanistan—A Glimpse of War and the Unfinished Business of Representation
Authors: Innes Randy
Published: April 2018

As an exhibition organized and presented by a national cultural institution whose mandate is to educate the public on the reasons, reactions, mechanisms and impacts of war, Afghanistan: A Glimpse of War at the Canadian War Museum had the opportunity to address the conflict that has shaped contemporary Afghanistan and the nature of the current war in which Canada is an active participant. As such, the appearance and effect of this exhibition must be evaluated not only in terms of its place in relation to historical and archival records, but also in terms of the knowledge and perceptions it generated in the present. I attend to the choice of objects and to the narrative they introduce, and question the institutional claim to an apolitical and elliptical exhibition strategy. While a museum exhibition can never bring the totality of the subject to which its artifacts and objects refer into the space of representation, it is nonetheless the cumulative result of a set of decisions, practices and strategies that are directed towards a specific end. I investigate the effects that the idea of “contemporary history” had on the exhibition as a whole, TOPIA 20 94 and ask whether the subject of the exhibition would have been better addressed as a contemporary present.
Pictures of the Past: The Small-Town Myth as Heritage, or Understanding and Articulating Community through Texts of the Past
Authors: Porter Ryan
Published: April 2018

This paper explores the response in a small southern Ontario community to the loss of its heritage-designated grandstand. The methods of mourning throw into relief the active processes of community production, as they graft narratives onto the past, largely through photographic fragments, which subsequently become further objects of loss. The temporal-cultural dialectic composed of a lost idyll and contemporary social degradation synthesizes into the active aesthetic sculpting of the townscape, which physically inscribes mythological conceptions of the region’s past. These processes reveal the small-town ideal as a contemporary social myth rhetorically masked as communal, cultural history.
Race Comedy and the Misembodied Voice
Authors: Brayton Sean
Published: April 2018

This essay unpacks the ways in which our knowledge of race and ethnicity is tied to ocularcentrism. It explores the political possibilities of ethnolinguistic imitation or style-shifting as part of an antiracist pedagogy embedded within popular culture. If identity is performed across different contexts, we may find an interesting dialogue of race and ethnicity within stand-up comedy, a realm of popular culture sometimes dismissed as light entertainment. The comedy of Russell Peters and Margaret Cho offer a site of imitation and ambivalence enabled by delinquent ethnic voices that play with the boundaries between self and Other.
Conflict(ing) Narratives: Representations of War in The Battleground Project and the Performative Potential of Audience
Authors: Cahill Susan
Published: April 2018

In the ongoing debates revolving around Canada’s continuing mission in Afghanistan, museum representations engaging with conflict narratives are especially relevant. These exhibitions cannot be treated as apolitical representations, but, rather, need to be contextualized within dialogues of the politics of war. Using my own engagement with The Battleground Project (2008) at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto as an entry point, I chart the role and function of cultural institutions in legitimating and constituting dominant conflict narratives, and the performative potential of audiences in producing meanings that support, question, resist and subvert such narratives.
Canadian and American Cultures of Militarism: Coping Mechanisms in a Military-Industrial-Service-Complex
Authors: McKenna Carole R.
Published: April 2018

This paper compares and contrasts the Canadian and American culture of militarism working with the Thomas theorem of belief and consequence. Thomas argued that a belief does not have to be real, but consequences result from a perception of what is real. In a political climate characterized by a culture of highlevel military and service influence, the perception of what is real is generated and conveyed to specific populations. In this paper, the population is predominantly American and Canadian military wives. Socialization, networking, specific information and organizational dominance strengthen a culture for military families who are involved in war deployment. The culture draws strength from a belief system that promotes certain realities. As the military-industrial-servicecomplex becomes more pervasive in the lives of Canadians and Americans, their coping mechanisms develop to accommodate the cultural norm. The leading force in the effort to remove autonomy from soldiers and wives and keep them within a pseudo-reality becomes evident from the coping mechanisms they develop.
Between Securocratic Historiography and the Diasporic Imaginary: Framing the Transnational Violence of Air India Flight 182
Authors: Soni Raji Singh , Varadharajan Asha
Published: April 2018

In June 2010, the Canadian government published its Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182. Eight months later, in February 2011, a mass grave containing the remains of thirty-two Sikhs who perished in the anti-Sikh pogroms of 1984 was discovered in the Rewari District of Haryana, India. Originating in opposite parts of the world, these two events and their aftermaths may seem to have had little to do with each other; however, we relate them to a context that underscores the extent to which Canada and India as secular democratic nation-states are complicit in the transnational production of violence. The first part of our essay focuses on Bruce Hoffman’s “Study of International Terrorism,” which opens the commission’s research volumes. Hoffman argues that the Air India bombing “merely perpetuated a cycle of anti-state, inter-communal violence that fed off itself ” in the wake of Indira Gandhi’s assassination and the subsequent massacres of thousands of Sikhs throughout India (2010: 34). We critique the taxonomy of secular and religious terrorism in which Hoffman’s analysis is inscribed, because it elides the managerial role of the nation-state in historiographies of violence occurring within, across and beyond the borders of India and Canada. The second part of our essay interprets Srinivas Krishna’s Masala (1991) and “When Lions Roar” (2011), among other texts, as cultural refractions of violence and the “management of grief ” (Bharati Mukherjee) that continue to mark the events of 1984 and 1985 as “unhoused” rather than distinctly Canadian episodes (quoted in Bowen 1997: 59). We pursue our analysis beyond the events themselves to investigate how they are portrayed in flawed historiographies like Hoffman’s and in transnational cultural texts that resist the implications of Hoffman’s analysis. We thus seek to represent not only the cycle of violence but also the “willed, civilised response” to it (Ghosh 2005).
Politics of (Im)moderation: The Production of South Asian Identities in the Canadian Apology for Air India Flight 182
Authors: Busse Cassel
Published: April 2018

Moderation, we are frequently told, is the key to a successful and fulfilling life: “everything in moderation,” and you will succeed, find happiness and become a well-adjusted member of society. The self-regulative function of “moderation”— whether in terms of one’s social life, nutritional habits or, in the case of this paper’s focus, political views and actions—has become a standard of capitalist Western citizenship and bourgeois political etiquette since Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. As political theorist Wendy Brown notes in Regulating Aversion (2006), the polarization of the politically secular and liberal versus fundamentalist and radical has emerged as “part of a civilization discourse that identifies both tolerance and the tolerable with the West” (6).

Bringing this analysis of social and political moderation to a Canadian context, I examine the use of the “moderate” in Stephen Harper’s 2010 apology for the Canadian government’s belated recognition of the bombing of Air India Flight 182 as a Canadian tragedy. This paper argues that in its supposed imperative of reconciliation, the Harper government does not question the racism against Indo- Canadians that has contributed to the dismissal of the bombing; instead, the government produces a binary between the radical, anachronistic terrorist and the “model minority” South Asian immigrant. The Harper apology not only makes any resistance to Canada’s “multicultural tolerance” irrational, but it also displaces all violent motives onto the foreign, South Asian body. The goal of this paper is to argue against the overt and systemic racism within Harper’s 2010 apology for Flight 182, and question the use of moderation in the political discourse of Canadian “diversity,” a discourse as innocuous and inclusive as it is deceitful, oppressive and even fatal.
The NFB’s Turn to Heritage: Revisiting Montreal in Luc Bourdon’s La mémoire des anges
Authors: Cisneros James
Published: April 2018

Released in 2008, Luc Bourdon’s La mémoire des anges (2008) consists of footage of Montreal shot between 1947 and 1967, selected from some 120 films in the National Film Board (NFB)’s collection. A product of the NFB’s heritage strategy and of the long struggle for urban preservation in Montreal, La mémoire des anges participates in both the fabrication of the city’s image and the valorization of its heritage. This article focuses on the film’s dual heritage, placing it into the context of today’s global push for cultural preservation—a drive that is in part motivated by urban economies—before analyzing how the film skirts the “heritage discourse,” making selective use of the NFB archives and adopting a formal composition that critically updates the past.
Struggling Universities: Simon Fraser University and the Crisis of Canadian Public Education
Authors: Brophy Enda , Tucker-Abramson Myka
Published: April 2018

This article surveys the recent transformation of Simon Fraser University (SFU) against the backdrop of the crisis of Canadian public post-secondary education. The article contends that the Canadian model for the public funding of mass higher education that became consolidated in the postwar years is coming to an end, and that the metamorphosis of SFU over recent decades illuminates some of the tensions, tendencies and conflicts within what the Edu-factory Collective (2010) has called a double crisis: that of the university on the one hand, and of the global financial system on the other. Three processes in particular are at the heart of this transformation: a) the increasing importance of private capital, management and branding of the university in an era of decreased public funding; b) the university’s expansion across the urban fabric, in a process that brings displacement and gentrification; and c) the emergence of hybrid public-private models of educational delivery that cater to global markets for tuition dollars. Within this transformation, the article also points to lines of tension that are emerging out of these processes, creating conflicts and moments of encounter between the labour organizations, student groups and anti-gentrification activists struggling against the what Andrew Ross (2009) has called the global university.
Paddling the Nation: Canadian Becoming and Becoming Canadian in and through the Canoe
Authors: Newbery Liz
Published: April 2018

In this essay, I consider how the nation might be evoked via reiterations of the canoe and contemplate why this boat might be a compelling means of attachment to the Canadian nation. Through reading canoe artifacts as they emerge in a variety of cultural spaces, I explore how the boat is usually read as a benign or simple symbol, but how its symbolism can be more complex and can be reappropriated. The canoe often calls up a version of Canada that predominantly reflects the desires of a dominant, settler/invader society and thus calls up a Canada that may exclude Aboriginal and broader immigrant communities and histories. In the end, the canoe and the practice of canoeing perhaps confer national belonging, yet they are contradictory in the ways that they do so.
N.E. Thing Co. Ltd. and the Institutional Politics of Information 196671
Authors: Lauder Adam
Published: April 2018

This paper presents a systematic analysis of concepts of information found in the visual art of the Vancouver-based conceptual company N.E. Thing Co. Ltd. The company’s evolving representations of “Sensitivity Information” are resolved into three distinct overlapping phases that correspond with co-president Iain Baxter’s deepening engagement with Marshall McLuhan’s critical information theory during the turbulent years of 1964 to 1971. The artist’s creative dialogue with information science is situated against the backdrop of an emerging information society in Canada, McLuhan’s discourse on the informationalization of the body and subjectivity, and an intensifying pedagogical crisis at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Communication and the Arts,where Baxter taught alongside composer R. Murray Schafer,in the period leading up to, and immediately following, the firing of the university’s first president. A comparison of the information art of N.E. Thing Co. Ltd. with Schafer’s informatic writings reveals that the company’s articulation of Sensitivity Information constitutes what we would now recognize as a proto-deconstructionist destabilization of signal/noise binaries derived from Baxter’s fusion of McLuhan with Alan Watts’s popularization of Zen philosophy.
Eyewitness to a Whale Hunt: Theory, Event, and Apology in the Inuit North
Authors: Dunne D. Laurence
Published: April 2018

The paper revisits a whale hunt that took place in the vicinity of the hamlet of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, in 1998. An eyewitness to the hunt, I wrote a Master’s thesis, “The Bowhead Whale Hunt at Kekerten, Nunavut Territory (July 1998),” giving a chronicle of its duration and preparation. The hunt was undertaken by the Inuit as a way of dealing with a haunted piece of their past: the catastrophic aftermath of the presence of European whalers in the region in the 19th and early 20th centuries, which deeply challenged both the physical and cultural survival of the Inuit of the Eastern Arctic. The hunt was carried out at a significant site of memory/ lieu de mémoire: a former whaling station in proximity to the community. An important aspect of the Pangnirtung hunt was the assertion of Inuit collective identity in the claim of sovereignty over the management of bowhead whale stock in the months preceding the creation of Nunavut, in April 1999. Yet departing from conventional interpretations that would understand the Inuit as the recipients of a “gift” in a cycle of forgiveness and restitution (apology-as-discourse), I argue that the event itself was not the result, but the very substance of apology. Bringing the past forward into the present, the Inuit of Pangnirtung introduced an event as a critical requirement in undertaking the work of apology.