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Rainfall Analysis of Vrishabhavathi Valley in Bengaluru Region
Authors:   Professor & Head, Department of Civil Engineering, Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Bangalore (Karnataka), India., H N Dr. Rajakumara , Raj K Dr. Ganesha ,   Scientist / Engineer – ‘G’ & General Manager, RRSC-South, NRSC, ISRO, Bengaluru, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geology from Gulbarga University, Karnataka, India., K S Dr. Ramesh ,   Scientist / Engineer – ‘G’ & Head Applications, RRSC-South, NRSC, ISRO, Bengaluru (Karnataka), India. Smt. Vidya A., Scientist/Engineer ‘SE’, Regional Remote Sensing Centre-South, Bengaluru (Karnataka), India., V G Mr. Ajey Kumar ,   Junior Research Fellow- ISRO RESPOND, Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Bengaluru (Karnataka), India.
Published: January 2020

Vrishabhavathi valley is a part of river Arkavathi. It covers parts of Bengaluru Urban and Ramanagara districts with an area of 381.46 sq. kms. Due to rapid urbanization in Bengaluru lot of pervious strata is converted into non-pervious concrete or asphalt surfaces. Rainfall is a major event, which is resulting flood in Bengaluru city. Recently observed heavy rainfall, rapid urbanization, encroachment of streams and water bodies are the major causes of flooding in Bengaluru. Disturbance to human activities and damages to properties has been observed in Vrishabhavathi valley region due to heavy rainfall especially in heavy rain events. Rainfall data analysis has been carried out statistically and graphically on Vrishabhavathi valley from 1970 to 2018. Rainfall analysis was made on converting daily rainfall data to monthly average data and seasonal analysis of rainfall has made for three different monsoon seasons Pre- monsoon, South- West and North- East monsoon, distribution and frequency of rainfall has been analyzed and results are represented graphically. From the annual rainfall study it is observed that less rainfall variations till 1990 and rainfall pattern seem to be increasing constantly from 1990’s onwards till 2018, particularly in the months of August, September and October. The rainfall contribution during south-west monsoon is almost equal to 50% of total annual rainfall. Rainfall analysis is essential to develop appropriate flood prediction models utilizing latest rainfall data collected (KSNDMC Telemetric station data) and available geospatial data to address the issues of urban flood observed in many locations in Vrishabhavathi valley region and in Bengaluru.
Assessing the Impact of a Strategies-Based Curriculum on Language and Culture Learning Abroad
Authors: Paige R. Michael , Cohen Andrew D. , Shively Rachel L.
Published: January 2020

The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of the study abroad experience, in general, and the impact of a curriculum intervention, in particular, on students’ intercultural development, second language acquisition, and employment of learning strategies related to language and culture. Cohen and Paige – two of the authors of this article – were the senior authors of a three-volume set of guidebooks, the Maximizing Study Abroad Guides which were intended to enhance overseas students’ language and culture learning through a strategies-based approach. By utilizing a scientifically rigorous set of research procedures, we sought to ascertain the impact and efficacy of the Students’ Guide  – one of the volumes in the series – as well as to test a set of hypotheses about the learning outcomes associated with study abroad.
Why Are They Better Students When They Come Back? Determinants of Academic Focusing Gains in the Study Abroad Experience
Authors: Hadis Benjamin F.
Published: January 2020

The purpose of this article is to explore the cluster of experiences that participants in study abroad go through — both during their sojourn abroad and immediately upon return — and how these experiences enhance shifts in their individual priorities. I will discuss to what extent, and why, some study abroad participants bring their academic endeavors to the forefront of their interests when they return to their home colleges. Since the experiences of study abroad program participants are many, eye-opening, and quite complex, this article will also explore the intricate and multiple determinations of the changes in the participants. With the help of multiple regression and path analyses, I will lay out a model that charts those changes, their consequences, and mutual determinations.
An Infusion Approach to Internationalization: Drake University as a Case Study
Authors: Skidmore David , Marston Jan , Olson Gretchen
Published: January 2020

The idea that international perspectives should be represented throughout the curriculum lies at the heart of the American Council on Education’s “Global Learning for All” initiative, which asserts that: “…international and global learning is important for all students—not just an elite few—and should be integral to every degree program." Drake University’s own internationalization program, still in its early stages, combines a number of elements that fit its particular needs as a medium-sized (approximately 3,000 undergraduates), private, comprehensive university located in the Midwest.
The Transcultural Journey
Authors: Slimbach Richard
Published: January 2020

Today, who we are (by birth) and where we are (by choice) is not as relevant as it once was. More persons than ever before are pursuing lives that link the local and the global. They are becoming increasingly transcultural —physically or electronically connected with diverse peoples, and involved in decision-making that is influenced by, and in turn influences, the affairs of a global society. Transcultural persons may be sustained through transnational corporations, grassroots organizations, professional societies, and advocacy groups. But they are also identified at the level of simple, cross-cultural friendships made with residents of local communities.
Desenvolvimento de tecnologia educativa sobre desempenho neuromotor de crianças
Authors: Bezerra Flávia , Silva Hitallo , Oliveira Cleoneide , Brasileiro Ismênia
Published: January 2020

Introdução: O desenvolvimento motor infantil (DMI) abrange diferentes componentes da motricidade como equilíbrio, esquema corporal e coordenação. Tecnologias educativas vem sendo cada vez mais aliadas no processo de facilitação do ensino no âmbito infantil. Objetivo: Desenvolver um material virtual de aprendizagem sobre desempenho neuromotor de crianças. M´étodo: Trata-se de uma pesquisa na modalidade de desenvolvimento de Tecnologia em Saúde, sobre o desemprenho neuromotor de crianças. O estudo foi desenvolvido na cidade de Fortaleza/CE entre agosto de 2018 a junho de 2019. Resultados: Foram desenvolvidas ilustrações com base em fotografias reais e de imagens retiradas de livros, recriando as posições de cada mês do desenvolvimento do bebê. O material foi disponibilizado para download gratuitamente na loja virtual Google play, compatível com aparelhos que operam por tecnologia do tipo androides. O material está apto a ser disponibilizado com o título de baby motor. Conclusão: Há uma lacuna no campo virtual de tecnologias educativas na temática desenvolvimento motor infantil, que são necessárias como ferramenta de apoio aos pais, cuidadores e profissionais que lidam com esse público. O material desenvolvido funcionará como ferramenta de suporte na promoção à saúde e prevenção de agravos no curso dessa fase da vida de crianças.
O Confessional para além do íntimo: luto como efeito estético na escritura de Virginia Woolf
Authors: Fontenele Laéria , Alverne Larissa Arruda Aguiar , Ferreira Nadiá
Published: January 2020

Propomo-nos, a partir de dados obtidos em estudos antes realizados, a discorrer sobre algumas das marcas do universo literário de Virgínia Woolf. Para tanto, levaremos em consideração uma particularidade de sua escritura: a recorrente e impactante presença da morte em sua narrativa, a qual revelou-se ser o índice de um modo de defesa frente ao encontro com o real. Considera-se que o caráter confessional de sua escritura assume uma forma e função inédita na literatura moderna, não podendo ser entendido a não ser em referência à dificuldade experimentada pela escritora em enfrentar os lutos sucessivos de familiares e pessoas que lhe eram queridas, o que a levou a se fazer valer da criação como forma de auxílio à lida com a dimensão inassimilável dessas perdas. Ao contrário de outras narrativas de caráter confessional, que primam pela produção da atmosfera do íntimo, defendemos que a sua  produz, diferentemente, no leitor, o luto como efeito estético, contaminando-o com o sem sentido da existência.

 

Palavras chaves: Literatura; Psicanálise; Virgínia Woolf, morte, real.
O Sociodrama como método de captação das Representações Sociais
Authors: Castro Amanda , Cardoso Alexandra Sombrio , Leandro Maiara
Published: January 2020

As representações sociais se referem a um conjunto de conceitos, ideias e explicações sobre o mundo e o contexto em que se vive. Além disso, possui por função tornar familiar o que era desconhecido. Para captar as representações sociais pode se fazer o uso do sociodrama, pois este compreende que o sujeito atravessa e é atravessado por relações e ainda possibilita ferramentas para se trabalhar estas relações intergrupais. Deste modo, este artigo pretende, por meio de uma experiência sociodramática com 15 adolescentes de um projeto social refletir acerca da possibilidade de seu uso para a captação de representações sociais. Para isso, se fez uso da pesquisa ativa, tendo por modalidade o relato de experiência e abordagem qualitativa. As ferramentas utilizadas foram: dramatização, teatralização, fantasia guiada, vinhetas e jogos. A partir do sociodrama com esses adolescentes os processos de ancoragem e objetificação das representações foram evidenciados, sendo possível identificar as informações sobre os objetos; caracterizar as atitudes favoráveis ou desfavoráveis diante das cenas; além disso, por meio das esculturas, concretizações e dramatizações ficaram evidentes as imagens que constituem uma representação social e esta, por sua vez, pode contribuir na clarificação dos papéis conservados e ressignificação de cenas.
Assédio moral no trabalho e sofrimento psíquico em motoristas de ônibus
Authors: Da Silva Alda Karoline Lima , Queiroz Jéssica Luana Fernandes de , Mota Cynthia Araújo , Rocha Larissa Saionara Fernandes , Mafra Anthonieta Loomam
Published: January 2020

O assédio moral e o sofrimento psíquico estão presentes na profissão do motorista pela tipicidade da atividade: exigências e cobranças de seus superiores, violência urbana, relação com os passageiros, o trânsito e a organização urbana de um modo geral. Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar qual é o efeito do assédio moral sobre os sofrimentos psíquicos adquiridos pelos motoristas de transportes urbanos na cidade de Natal/Rio Grande do Norte (RN). Para tanto, foi realizado um estudo quantitativo, descritivo e exploratório, tendo como público alvo os motoristas vinculados ao Sindicato dos Transportes Rodoviários do RN (SINTRO/RN). Foram entrevistados 161 motoristas, utilizando o Self Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) e o Negative Acts Questionnaire, versão revisada (NAQ-R), além de questionário socioprofissional. Os resultados apontam que o assédio moral no trabalho causa o sofrimento psíquico e é causa direta dos transtornos mentais comuns (TMC) nos motoristas. Deste modo, este levantamento realizado permitiu conclusões estatísticas sobre o cotidiano dos motoristas de ônibus do Natal-RN, servindo como direcionamento de ações no âmbito das políticas públicas a fim de fomentar intervenções de promoção e prevenção à saúde, adjacentes aos atores do campo da saúde do trabalhador, bem como, sindicatos, serviços de saúde especializados (CEREST) e Ministério Público.
Żona, matka, zakonnica – błogosławiona Marcelina Darowska
Authors: Falska Magdalena
Published: January 2020

Marcelina Darowska urodziła się w 1827 r. w Szulakach, obecna Ukraina. W 1849 r. wyszła za mąż za Karola Darowskiego, z którym miała dwoje dzieci – syna Józefa i córkę Annę Karolinę. Małżeństwo trwało 3 lata zakończone nagła śmiercią Darowskiego, niedługo potem zmarł ich syn. Marcelina już jako wdowa z dzieckiem postanowiła wstąpić do zakonu. W Rzymie spotkała swoich przewodników duchowych – Aleksandra Jełowieckiego i Hieronima Kajsiewicza, i wraz z Józefą Karską rozpoczęli proces tworzenia nowego zgromadzenia Sióstr Niepokalanego Poczęcia n.m.p. mającego służyć Polsce i kształcić młode dziewczęta na wzorowe patriotki. Matka Marcelina Darowska zmarła w 1911 r. w Jazłowcu. W 1966 r. papież Jan Paweł ii zaliczył Darowską w poczet błogosławionych.
Photovoltaic Solar Spectral Filtering Using Bio-Filters
Authors: Emetere Moses E.
Published: January 2020

The harsh solar irradiance measurement in recent times has further supported the existence of global climate change. It is not clear if this challenge is located in other parts of the world. Over the years, it has been observed that PV panel have a lower lifespan with a failing performance. Due to the peculiarity of this challenge in the research, the bio-filter was synthesized to shield the PV panel from damage via the aforementioned harsh solar radiation. The bio-filter was tested using the monocrystalline and polycrystalline panel. The results proved that the bio-filters are good stabilizing medium.
Analysis of Factors Inluencing Public Capital Investment in Nigeria
Authors: Omodero Cordelia Onyinyechi
Published: January 2020

There are several factors that affect successful execution of public capital projects in every economy.  This study specifically investigates the influences of selected macroeconomic factors such as: inflation, exchange rate, total expenditure, population, debt servicing and Real GDP on government capital investments using data that cover a period from 2000 to 2017.   Using ordinary least squares technique, the findings reveal that Real GDP and population have insignificant negative impact on capital investments, while debt servicing has a significant negative influence on government capital expenditure.  Inflation rate does not exert any influence but exchange rate and total expenditure have significant positive impact on capital expenditure.  The implication is that a lot of funds go into debt servicing, thereby denying the masses of adequate infrastructural provisions.  Due to poor funding of local industries, they lack the capacity to affect the economy positively such that the size of the Real GDP is negatively influencing the public capital investment.  Therefore, the study has made some recommendations which could help our policy makers in their decision to ensure that investment in capital projects and infrastructures in the country is given the basic consideration to achieve its economic objectives.  Above all the domestic industries and agriculture should be well financed since inflows from them can help to carry out more capital projects and reduce the country’s level of borrowing.
Corruption in Secondary Schools: Administrative Strategies for Its’ Management
Authors: Asiyai Romina Ifeoma
Published: January 2020

Corruption is one of the global issues impeding systems effectiveness which has permeated the education system in Africa and Nigeria in particular. This study examined corruption in public secondary schools with the purpose of indenting the forms of corruption prevalent, the perpetrators of corruption, the effects of corruption and the administrative strategies for managing corruption in schools. Ex-post facto research design was employed in this qualitative  research. The perceptions of 1160 respondents made up of students, teachers and principals were sought by the use of questionnaire.  Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed in analysis of data. The results revealed that several forms of corruption were prevalent in secondary schools in the state. The perpetrators of corruption were identified. The effects of corruption showed that it lowers the quality of teaching and learning, lowers the quality of students learning outcomes and dents the public image of the institutions. The study indentified several administrative strategies for curbing corruption in secondary schools as ensuring that teachers are paid good salary commensurate with the standard of living in the society, formation of anti-corruption clubs, proper value re-orientation, character education and by check mating the movement of teachers during school hours. In conclusion, the study recommends that to increase the awareness of students and staff, principals should encourage the formation of anti-corruption clubs and encourage debates and essay writings on corruption related topics in order to help sensitize staff and students about corruption and the evils associated with it.
MGMP Teacher Organization Empowerment in Improving Students' Problem Solving Ability
Authors: Daryanto  , Agung Iskandar , Siswantari
Published: January 2020

This study aims to determine the effect of MGMP teacher organization empowerment on the quality of teacher learning, and its impact on improving students' ability to solve problems. The writing is part of a study on the empowerment of MGMP conducted in five cities in Indonesia in mid-2019. The sample of this study was teachers with each MGMP taken 25 of those classified as seniors (more than 10 years) as teachers (125 people in total). Data collection was carried out through questionnaires, focus group discussions (FGD) and interviews. The results showed that the empowerment of MGMP was influenced by the training variables of increasing competency and parents' participation. The empowerment of MGMP itself has a positive influence on the quality of teacher learning, so that it has a positive impact on improving students' ability to solve problems. On that basis the government must encourage the empowerment of teacher organizations on an ongoing basis, not temporary. In addition, the government needs to review the regulations prohibiting schools from raising funds from parents, because it is indeed necessary to encourage the implementation of quality improvement programs in schools, including assisting teachers in participating in MGMP activities and forming professional communities.
The Extent to Which the Jordanian Inclusive Basic School Teachers Use the Constructivism Theory in Teaching
Authors: Sakarneh Mohammad Abed , Al-Swelmyeen Monther Bsharh
Published: January 2020

The current study aimed to explore of the extent to which the Jordanian inclusive basic school teachers use constructivism theory in their teaching. A qualitative approach of data gathering and analysis was used; classroom observations were conducted using the observation sheet of the New South Wales Quality Teaching Model. A small number of participants were selected using purposive sampling. The participants included four teachers in a specific four basic inclusive schools. One key finding was that the use of constructivist teaching was in low level. However, the overall score of use in Arabic language was in moderate level whereas in Mathematic was in low level.  Future recommendations and directions for research, policy and practices are presented.
Accountability in Public Administration: A Case Study of Public Administration to the Poor People in Social Department of Makassar, Indonesia
Authors: Malik Sahruddin , Kahar Fakhri , Manda Darman
Published: January 2020

Accountability in providing public administration to the poor people in the Social Department of Makassar. This study was qualitative case study approach, while the instruments were the researchers themselves. This study showed that the accountability in providing public administration to the poor people had not run optimally. There were various approaches and alleviation programs for poverty that had not been able to change significantly. There was no continuous program during the official turnover. If the official was changed, then the policy would be changed, thus the programs were ineffective to minimize the poverty in Makassar. The policies and the supports were necessary from all the elements of construction and the involvement of entrepreneurs like stakeholders and community leaders. The government is necessary to take a role in uniting and bridging these issues. In addition, the strategic planning was necessary to involve society, not only as objects of development but also to be involved as the subject of development to alleviate the poverty in Makassar.
SIMULANDO MEDIDAS DE DISTÂNCIAS A ESTRELAS EM LABORATÓRIO
Authors: Menezes Jr. Roberto Dos S. , Oliveira Nícolas Otávio L. de , Pereira Crislanda L.
Published: January 2020

Uma das curiosidades mais recorrentes nos estudantes quando se trata de astronomia é entender como se determinam distâncias astronômicas. Isso porque, no cotidiano deles, distâncias são usualmente medidas com instrumentos como réguas, trenas, etc. O método mais comum para medição de distâncias astronômicas é fundamentado na paralaxe, contudo, essa é usada para medir distâncias a estrelas relativamente próximas. Para estrelas mais distantes, um outro método de cálculo de distância consiste em utilizar a medida do fluxo luminoso aparente de um objeto que possui sua luminosidade intrínseca conhecida, denominado vela-padrão. Assim, buscamos, neste trabalho, apresentar os resultados de um experimento realizado em laboratório a respeito desses métodos, utilizando um transferidor (para distância de paralaxe) e a medição do fluxo luminoso de uma lâmpada. Conseguimos assim, medir a distância de paralaxe com um desvio relativo percentual de 0,95%, enquanto a distância luminosidade foi determinada com um desvio relativo percentual de 7,67%.
CONSTRUÇÃO DE UMA MAQUETE TRIDIMENSIONAL FOSFORESCENTE DA CONSTELAÇÃO DE ÓRION: UMA PROPOSTA DIDÁTICA PARA O ENSINO DE ASTRONOMIA
Authors: Renner Giselen Lefer Padilha
Published: January 2020

A astronomia é um tema de grande interesse aos estudantes do ensino médio, porém sua abordagem em sala ainda é escassa. Entre as justificativas, professores relatam que os temas são abstratos e esta característica torna difícil sua implementação no ensino. Entre as principais dificuldades apresentadas em relação aos alunos estão a matemática básica e a materialização dos conceitos mais abstratos. Este artigo apresenta uma proposta de construção de um modelo representacional concreto da constelação de Órion, a partir dos dados médios de distâncias, obtidos no aplicativo Stellarium, e convertidos em escala menor. É uma ferramenta que possibilita ao professor que, além de abordar uma perspectiva teórica dos conteúdos, auxilie o aluno na interpretação matemática e transformação de um conhecimento abstrato em concreto. Trata-se de uma proposta que incentiva e causa interesse no aluno, e pode proporcionar uma visão possível de compreensão do espaço e do universo, favorecendo uma aprendizagem significativa.
TÓPICOS DE ASTRONOMIA, ASTROFÍSICA E COSMOLOGIA NA 1ª SÉRIE DO ENSINO MÉDIO COMO PARTE INTEGRANTE DE UM PROJETO CURRICULAR DIFERENCIADO DE FÍSICA
Authors: Aguiar Ricardo Rechi , Hosoume Yassuko
Published: January 2020

Neste trabalho relatamos parte da aplicação e avaliação de um projeto curricular alternativo de Física, com ênfase na inserção de elementos de Astronomia, Astrofísica e Cosmologia integrados ao curso da 1ª série do ensino médio, desenvolvido durante um semestre com 93 estudantes, em uma escola particular paulistana. A avaliação foi realizada a partir dos dados de um questionário semiestruturado e de uma avaliação individual. Utilizando-se da metodologia de Análise de Conteúdo foram construídas duas principais categorias de análise: “Mudança na visão de mundo” e “Nova visão cosmológica”. Ressaltamos que 97% dos estudantes que participaram da avaliação do projeto responderam afirmativamente a uma questão que perguntava se o “curso de Física do 1º ano modificou sua visão sobre o mundo e sobre o Universo”. Diversos conteúdos foram citados livremente por eles, demonstrando uma apropriação dos mesmos, com destaque para “Espectro/Espectroscopia” (nomeado por 28% dos estudantes), “Medidas de distâncias estelares” (28%) e “Big-Bang” (23%). Acreditamos que o projeto provocou impacto sobre visão de universo da maioria dos estudantes, pois estes apontaram nos instrumentos analisados que haviam ganho uma percepção maior das escalas de tamanho envolvidas na Astronomia e/ou explicitavam que “seus Universos” não eram mais os mesmos após terem passado pelo curso.
O SISTEMA SOLAR NO CD: UM OBJETO DE APRENDIZAGEM DE ASTRONOMIA
Authors: Lameu Lucas De Paulo , Langhi Rodolfo
Published: January 2020

Este trabalho propõe contribuições para o Ensino de Astronomia através de um objeto de aprendizagem, feito de um material de baixo custo, especificamente de um Compact Disc (CD). A sua escolha é uma alternativa ao uso de outros materiais de difícil acesso, devido à sua facilidade de obtenção e presença no dia a dia, e também por promover um trabalho prático em sala de aula, com a participação e envolvimento dos discentes. Ele pode ser usado como uma ferramenta para a construção de distâncias em escala e para a comparação de distâncias entre os planetas do Sistema Solar. Tal abordagem tem como público-alvo alunos do Ensino Fundamental e Médio.  O seu objetivo é a inserção dos seguintes tópicos de Astronomia: conhecimento de unidades de distâncias utilizadas em escalas astronômicas – em particular a unidade astronômica (UA); construção e comparação de distâncias em escala e definição do Sistema Solar. Também são apresentadas algumas propostas de atividades a serem utilizadas pelos professores e seus possíveis desdobramentos.
Virtual Reality in Tourism: Centennials Acceptance
Authors: Rejón-Guardia Francisco , García-Sastre María Antonia , Orfila-Sintes Francina , Garau-Vadell Joan B.
Published: January 2020

Widespread access to and heavy investment in the development of virtual reality underline the importance of understanding its acceptance by consumers and its possible implications in the promotion of tourist destinations. This study was carried out to evaluate the acceptance of virtual
reality applied to tourism, and its capacity to change attitudes towards the viewed destination among 889 centennial virtual reality users. The results serve to highlight the validity of the proposed model, where personal innovation, the attitude towards virtual reality, and performance expectations
are the main antecedents of intention to use. Furthermore, the influence of performance expectations as the main antecedent of the change in attitude towards the tourism destination is evident. The practical implications and future lines of research are discussed in detail.
Ocena efektu heterozji cech struktury plonu mieszańców pojedynczych i mieszańców trójliniowych rzepaku (Brassica napus L.)
Authors: Wolko Joanna , Dobrzycka Agnieszka , Bocianowski Jan
Published: January 2020

Rzepak ozimy (Brassica napus L.) jest jedną z najważniejszych roślin oleistych w Polsce i na świecie. Wykorzystanie efektu heterozji poprzez hodowlę odmian mieszańcowych pozwala na zwiększenie plenności rzepaku. Celem niniejszej pracy była ocena efektu heterozji w dwóch populacjach mieszańców rzepaku ozimego. Na posterze zaprezentowano efekt heterozji występujący u mieszańców dla wysokości roślin, długości łuszczyn, liczby nasion w łuszczynie i masy tysiąca nasion. Efekt heterozji mieszańców pojedynczych obliczono względem średniej rodziców (linia DH i linia CMS), a mieszańców trójliniowych — względem średniej dwóch rodziców „bezpośrednich” (mieszaniec CMS/DH i linia Rfo) oraz względem średniej trzech rodziców „pośrednich” (linia DH, linia CMS i linia Rfo). Badane mieszańce wykazywały zarówno dodatni, jak i ujemny wysoce istotny efekt heterozji pod względem badanych cech.
Austerlitz (2001)
Authors: Schütte Uwe
Published: January 2020

This chapter explores Sebald’s ‘problematic’ work, Austerlitz, focusing on its central themes of transience, threat and death. It explores the book’s foundations – two real biographies of racial persecution – and Sebald’s aversion to it being categorised as a ‘novel’. Schütte argues that the work raises the question of how (or how not) to use empathy to describe unimaginable suffering, using the narrator’s precarious exploration of the Holocaust as an example.
Introduction
Authors: Murray Levine Alison J.
Published: January 2020

The central question in this book is how and why many French documentary films in the past twenty years counter the common caricature of documentary as a dry form of expository cinema and instead take the viewer inside an experience of space and place. The introduction first presents the overall argument, that the films in the book demonstrate a variety of approaches to the production of viewer experience. They invite viewers, assumed to be embodied and active, to “feel” space, as if they were near the filmed subjects, through a perceptual process that integrates mind and body. This suggestion that the viewer feel a co-presence in the film space implies a repositioning that is both esthetic and political and opens the potential for equality and interrelationship among viewer, filmmaker, and the subjects in the film. The first part of the introduction defines the concepts and presuppositions that underpin the argument, identifies the theoretical currents on which they draw, and explains how they are used throughout the book. The second part explains the rationale for the interdisciplinary approach at work in the chapters, as well as for film selection and chapter organization.
From Bataille to Badiou
Authors: May Adrian
Published: January 2020

This book provides an exhaustive reading of the significant yet understudied intellectual review Lignes, from 1987 to 2017, to demonstrate how it has managed to preserve and develop the legacy of French radical thought often referred to as ‘French Theory’ or ‘la pensée 68’. Whilst many studies on intellectual reviews from the 1930s to the 1980s exist, this book crucially illuminates the shifting intellectual and political culture of France since the 1980s, filling a major gap in contemporary debates on the continued relevance of French intellectuals. This book provides a strong counter-narrative to the received account that, after the anti-totalitarian ‘liberal moment’ of the late 1970s, Marxism and structuralism were completely banished from the French intellectual sphere. It provides the historical context behind the rise of such internationally renowned thinkers such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière Jean-Luc Nancy, whilst placing them within an intellectual genealogy stretching back to Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot in the 1930s. The book also introduces the reader to lesser known but nonetheless significant thinkers, including Lignes editor Michel Surya, Dionys Mascolo, Daniel Bensaïd, Fethi Benslama, Anselm Jappe and Robert Kurz. Through the review’s pages, a novel cultural history of France emerges as intellectuals respond to pressing contemporary issues, such as the fall of Communism, the European migrant crisis and rising nationalist tensions, the globalisation of financial capitalism and the 2008 economic crisis, scandals surrounding paedophilia and the return of religious thought to France, as well as debates on literature and the political value of art.
French Thought between Liberalism and Fascism
Authors: May Adrian
Published: January 2020

Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot were two foundational influences on both Lignes and many of the review’s contributors. Yet, in the period after Lignes’ creation in 1987, the political engagements of both these figures in the 1930s were coming under increasingly scrutiny as they were suspected of fascist sympathies and anti-Semitic views. This chapter returns to the pre-war period to firstly delineate the review’s trenchant defence of Bataille’s political record, and the influence of Bataille on Lignes’ dual political program of anti-fascism and a critique of economic and political liberalism is subsequently delineated. Secondly, the significance of the review’s historic defence and recent exposé of the right-wing past of Blanchot is discussed in depth. The reception of these two thinkers is thus historicised, especially in the 1980s context of the anti-totalitarian ‘liberal moment’ and the growing anxieties of intellectual complicity with fascism following the Heidegger affair.
Breaking the Consensus
Authors: May Adrian
Published: January 2020

This chapter turns towards the political concerns of Lignes during its first series, largely focusing on changing immigration policies and the adoption of economic liberalism as the pensée unique of both the right and the left. It situates the early years of Lignes as dominated by the legacy of World War Two, as a rise in holocaust denial, anti-Semitism and racism is accompanied by a resurgence of the far-right and the Front National. Pierre-André Taguieff provided a useful analysis of heterophilic neo-racism early on, but, as Taguieff drifted towards the New Right and showed sympathy to Alain de Benoist, Étienne Balibar’s class based analysis of structural nationalism becomes favoured by the review instead. Turning its attention to the French left, Lignes is frustrated by the tightening of immigration policy suggested by changes to the nationality code, and also by the government’s support for the Gulf War. As the new social movements erupt in 1995, the review takes a firmer position on the side of the radical left, keen to foment social solidarities between the sans papiers and the unemployed, and to forge a more consistent critique of the economic liberalism now adopted by both the Parti Socialiste and the Rassemblement pour la République.
Two Irelands Beyond the Sea
Authors: Flewelling Lindsey
Published: January 2020

Two Irelands beyond the Sea: Ulster Unionism and America, 1880-1920 uncovers the transnational movement by Ireland’s unionists as they worked to maintain the Union with Great Britain during the Home Rule era of Irish history. Overshadowed by Irish-American nationalist relations, this transnational movement attempted to bridge the Atlantic to gain support for unionism from the United States. During the Home Rule era, unionists were anxious about Irish-American extremism, apprehensive of American involvement in the Irish question, and eagerly sought support for their own movement. Two Irelands beyond the Sea explores the political, social, religious, and ethnic connections between Irish unionists and the United States as unionists appealed to Americans for backing and reacted to Irish nationalism. The role of the United States in unionist political thought is also investigated, as unionists used American history, political systems, and Scotch-Irish ethnic traditions to bring legitimacy to their own movement. This examination drives the study of Irish unionism into a new arena, illustrating that Irish unionists were much more internationally-focused than generally portrayed. Two Irelands beyond the Sea challenges our understanding of Irish unionism by revealing the many ways in which unionists reached out to the United States, sought international support, and constructed their own image of America to legitimize the unionist movement.
Ulster Unionists and Irish-American Nationalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
Authors: Flewelling Lindsey
Published: January 2020

Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, Irish unionists increasingly associated Irish-America with violence and extremism. This chapter examines the relationship of Irish unionists and the United States in this era, as unionists denounced American funding of Irish nationalism, condemned Irish Parliamentary Party connections to violence and crime, and feared the threat of separatism. Unionists also emphasized the international appeal of their own movement as they attempted to draw support from the United States in their campaigns against Home Rule. This chapter concludes that the unionists’ approach to the United States was paradoxical and multifaceted, as they attempted to condemn Irish-American influence and extremism while at the same time seeking American aid for their own movement.
Conclusion
Authors: Flewelling Lindsey
Published: January 2020

Two Irelands beyond the Sea concludes with a brief examination of the continued relationship with Ulster unionists and the United States to the present day, determining that the inability of unionists to effectively deal with the United States has roots in the Home Rule era. The Ulster unionists’ efforts at the turn of the twenty-first century echoed the problems and precedents of the anti-Home Rule campaign between 1880 and 1920. The chapter draws together the separate themes of the preceding chapters within the context of Irish unionist and Irish-American history. The book concludes by reinforcing the importance of the United States to Irish unionists, while emphasizing the inconsistencies and contradictions which limited the effectiveness of their appeal.
‘A man must make himself’
Authors: Runia Robin
Published: January 2020

Lord Glenthorn, of Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui (1809), suffers with a debilitating apathy and indifference unless continuously stimulated by external factors. Robin Runia reads this symptomatology within the frame of late eighteenth-century definitions of hypochondriasis, which firmly associated the condition not just with the indolence of the wealthy but also with a foreign decadence. Trying to rid himself of his ennui, Glenthorn trials numerous fashionable activities of the wealthy but finds consolation only in the domestic sphere and the peaceable routines of his servants. Ennui is Edgeworth’s critique of the ‘rampant moral plague of luxury’, but, more importantly in offering a domestic remedy based on duty and the importance of home, it associates the health of the male body with the knowledge and culture of women.
Syphilis and Sociability
Authors: Wetherall-Dickson Leigh
Published: January 2020

This essay considers the stain on one’s position within civil society represented by venereal disease. Drawing on the diaries of Boswell – for whom regular doses of syphilis seem to have been regarded as an amatory hazard – and Neville, the essay explores the increasing prominence and importance of the sphere of sociable intercourse in the eighteenth century, which necessitates, for Boswell at least, a clear division between his private selfhood and conduct and his public demeanour. In contrast, Neville’s episodes of the pox seem to have exacerbated his incipient paranoia and annoyance with a world around him that refuses to acknowledge his gentlemanly qualities. Both men’s reaction to their condition as related through their diaries reveals for Leigh Wetherall-Dickson a shifting notion of private identity formed in response to the relatively new phenomenon of sociable intercourse.
The Cartographic Capital
Authors: Olson Kory
Published: January 2020

Through official maps, this book looks at how government presentations of Paris and environs change over the course of the Third Republic (1889-1934). Governmental policies, such as the creation of a mandatory national uniform educational system that will eventually include geography, combined with technological advances in the printing industry, to alter the look, exposure, reception, and distribution of government maps. The government initially seemed to privilege an exclusively positive view of the capital city and limited its presentation of it to land inside the walled fortifications. However, as the Republic progressed and Paris grew, technology altered how Parisians used and understood their urban space. Rail and automobiles made moving about the city and environs easier while increased industrialization moved factories and their workers further out into the Seine Department. During this time, maps transitioned from reflecting the past to documenting the present. With the advent of French urbanism after World War I, official mapped views of greater Paris abandoned privileging past achievements and began to mirror actual residential and industrial development as it pushed further out from the city center. Finally, the government needed to plan for the future of greater Paris and official maps begin to show how the government viewed the direction of its capital city.
Introduction
Authors: Olson Kory
Published: January 2020

Following Napoleon III’s fall, the Third Republic looked to create a Republican capital city, one that broke from Haussmann’s urban ideals. As successive governments hoped to create a republican capital city, they believed it plausible for the new regime to take the best of the imperial city and make it republican; highlighting modernity, security, and growth. This introductory chapter establishes these aims and relates my work with current research on the development of Paris and French cartography.
The Triumphant Republic
Authors: Olson Kory
Published: January 2020

This chapter examines Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand’s Travaux de Paris, an atlas containing a series of maps that present the spatial and technical organization and amelioration of the city from 1789 to 1889. I focus specifically on planche (map sheet) XIII documenting ‘Paris en 1889: Les Opérations de voiries exécutées entre 1871 et 1889’ (‘Opérations de voiries’) as it documents the government’s ambitious Parisian road-building drive. Alphand’s ‘Opérations de voiries’ employs bright yellows and reds to celebrate the city and reaffirms the importance of an effective road network to Paris. By planning and building these streets and avenues and then publishing a map documenting its progress, the government proved its commitment to bettering all of the city’s neighbourhoods. In addition to demonstrating a more egalitarian approach to Paris betterment, chapter two argues Alphand’s work here also conveys authority and stability in the early republic. Perhaps more important is its presentation of the city. Here, the government’s definition of ‘Paris’ ends at the Thiers’ 1840s wall. By limiting his time and efforts to this space, Alphand reinforces a bourgeois view of the capital, and suggests that any existing development beyond that line does not merit cartographic representation in a map representing Paris.
Conclusion
Authors: Olson Kory
Published: January 2020

The tumultuous nineteenth century brought Parisian led regime change in 1830, 1848 and in many respects 1870. Although Napoleon III and Haussmann had hoped their Paris works would tame the capital city as they constructed uniform boulevards and transformed the crowded medieval centre into a bourgeois space. Throughout the twentieth century, the movement of people and goods throughout the Paris region remained a challenge and official maps showed how to address that issue. The German occupation during World War II effectively ended any hope of Prost’s 1934 plan to come to fruition. However, the damages afflicted on the city during combat allowed leaders to refocus their attention on the city. The pre-war work done by the Service géographique, Jaussely, and Prost allow future urban officials, such as Lopez and Bernard Lafay, to address problems such as increased traffic, parking, housing shortages, decentralization, and increased sprawl. The end of the war shifted national priorities away from the capital but by the 1950s, economic growth meant that urban planners needed to focus yet again on ameliorating development in greater Paris.
Anti-Empire: Decolonial Interventions in Lusophone Literatures
Authors: Silva Daniel F.
Published: January 2020

Anti-Empire explores how different writers across Lusophone spaces engage with imperial and colonial power at its various levels of domination, while imagining alternatives to dominant discourses pertaining to race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexuality, and class. Guided by a theoretically eclectic approach ranging from Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction, Postcolonial Theory, Queer Theory, and Critical Race Studies, Empire is explored as a spectrum of contemporary global power inaugurated by European expansion and propagated in the postcolonial present through economic, cultural, and political forces. Through the texts analysed, Anti-Empire offers in-depth interrogations of contemporary power in terms of racial politics, gender performance, socio-economic divisions, political structures, and the intersections of these facets of domination and hegemony. By way of grappling with Empire’s discursive field and charting new modes of producing meaning in opposition to that of Empire, the texts read from Brazil, the Cape Verde Islands, East Timor, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe open new inquiries for Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies while contributing theoretical debates to the study of Lusophone cultures.
Untranslatable Subalternity and Historicizing Empire’s Enjoyment in Luís Cardoso’s Requiem para o Navegador Solitário
Authors: Silva Daniel F.
Published: January 2020

This chapter follows up on Sylvan’s expository indictment of Empire’s monologicism with an exploration of contemporary East Timorese writer Luís Cardoso’s contributions to decolonial tropes of movement and the making of meaning. Following a brief overview of Cardoso’s larger oeuvre, the chapter examines his 2007 novel, Requiem para o Navegador Solitário [Requiem for the Solitary Sailor], particularly the actions and experiences of its narrator, known only as Catarina. As a teenage girl, born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, to a Chinese father and Batavian mother, her arranged marriage to a Portuguese port administrator of Dili leads her to move to the then colonial capital of Portuguese Timor. Taking place between the mid-1930s up to the Japanese invasion of the island of Timor during World War II in 1941, Catarina is ensnared by imperial actions both local and global.
Translating New York
Authors: Galasso Regina
Published: January 2020

The cultural production of Spanish-speaking New York is closely linked to the Caribbean and to Latin America at large, but the city also plays a pivotal role in the work of a host of authors from the Iberian Peninsula, writing in Spanish, Catalan, and English. In many cases, their New York City texts have marked their careers and the history of their national literatures. Drawing from a variety of genres, Translating New York recovers cultural narratives occluded by single linguistic or national literary histories, and proposes that reading these texts through the lens of translation unveils new pathways of cultural circulation and influence. Looking beyond representations of the city's physical space, Translating New York suggests that travel to the city and contact with New York's multilingual setting ignited a heightened sensitivity towards both the verbal and non-verbal languages of the city, garnering literary achievement and aesthetic innovation. Analyzing the novels, poetry, and travel narratives of Felipe Alfau, José Moreno Villa, Julio Camba, and Josep Pla, this book uncovers an international perspective of Iberian literatures. Translating New York aims to rethink Iberian literatures through the transatlantic travels of influential writers.
Travel in Translation: Julio Camba and Josep Pla Write for a Home Audience
Authors: Galasso Regina
Published: January 2020

This part focuses on the travel texts of Julio Camba and Josep Pla, writers from opposite sides of the Iberian Peninsula, who wrote the city for professional reasons. The works of Camba and Pla present curious cases regarding translation and the city given the fact that they both are from regions in which Spanish is not the sole language, they both traveled extensively, and both have at least one entire book dedicated to New York City. In drawing associations between the two writers, as well as between the travel writer and the translator, this part outlines what they were they able to give their readers beyond another description of the cityscape. As Camba's and Pla's New York experience and their resulting texts strikingly marked the timeline of their work, this part argues for travel as an event that sharpens and broadens the creative imagination of writers as well as for a more robust reading of travel narratives as complex texts that carry within them aspects of the city that exceed the visual.