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Lazar Zamenhof (1859-1917). Du sionisme au hillélisme et de l'hébreu à l'espéranto
Authors: Lavarenne Christian
Published: July 2019

Pour Zamenhof (1859-1917) la « solution de la question juive » et de l'exil passait d'abord par le recours à une langue neutre – par défaut l'espéranto, après l'idée de l'hébreu, jugé trop difficile pour devenir une langue largement parlée et maternelle (puis du yiddish) – et par un pont neutre entre les religions (voire une « religion neutre », sorte d'éthique commune laissant coexister les religions de chacun) afin de créer aussi une implantation non plus uniquement juive mais neutre et tolérante, prémices du peuple nouveau qu'allait créer la nouvelle langue. La « solution » tiendra finalement à l'amour inconditionnel, non seulement en paroles mais en actes, envers chaque homme du seul fait que celui-ci est un être humain et donc un frère, définition de son « homaranismo », ultime stade, dégagé de toute connotation juive, de son Hillélisme (du nom de Hillel l'Ancien, contemporain de Jésus) : une fois tous les gens qui nous entourent devenus pour nous sans exception nos frères et sœurs, il n'y a plus d'étrangers et encore moins d'ennemis mais une immense famille humaine ; et lorsqu'on se trouve en famille partout sur la terre, il n'y a donc plus, nulle part, d'exil. Contrairement à sa langue, sa pensée, que ses détracteurs ont appelée son « rêve mystico-social » et ont combattu comme mettant en danger la neutralité de l'espéranto, n'a pas abouti à une réalisation concrète.
Genetic Variation in Surfactant Protein-A2 Delays Resolution of Eosinophilia in Asthma
Authors: Dy Alane Blythe C. , Arif Muhammad Z. , Addison Kenneth J. , Que Loretta G. , Boitano Scott , Kraft Monica , Ledford Julie G.
Published: July 2019

Surfactant protein-A (SP-A) is an important mediator of pulmonary immunity. A specific genetic variation in SP-A2, corresponding to a glutamine (Q) to lysine (K) amino acid substitution at position 223 of the lectin domain, was shown to alter the ability of SP-A to inhibit eosinophil degranulation. Because a large subgroup of asthmatics have associated eosinophilia, often accompanied by inflammation associated with delayed clearance, our goal was to define how SP-A mediates eosinophil resolution in allergic airways and whether genetic variation affects this activity. Wild-type, SP-A knockout (SP-A KO) and humanized (SP-A2 223Q/Q, SP-A2 223K/K) C57BL/6 mice were challenged in an allergic OVA model, and parameters of inflammation were examined. Peripheral blood eosinophils were isolated to assess the effect of SP-A genetic variation on apoptosis and chemotaxis. Five days postchallenge, SP-A KO and humanized SP-A2 223K/K mice had persistent eosinophilia in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid compared with wild-type and SP-A2 223Q/Q mice, suggesting an impairment in eosinophil resolution. In vitro, human SP-A containing either the 223Q or the 223K allele was chemoattractant for eosinophils whereas only 223Q resulted in decreased eosinophil viability. Our results suggest that SP-A aids in the resolution of allergic airway inflammation by promoting eosinophil clearance from lung tissue through chemotaxis, independent of SP-A2 Q223K, and by inducing apoptosis of eosinophils, which is altered by the polymorphism.
Life history of Karualona muelleri (Richard, 1897) (Chydoridae, Aloninae)
Authors: Panarelli Eliana A. , Kawamura Helen A. O. , Elmoor-Loureiro Lourdes M. A. , Sousa Francisco D. R. , Corgosinho Paulo H. C. , Previattelli Daniel , Rocha Carlos E. F.
Published: July 2019

Many taxonomic issues still need to be solved for the family Chydoridae, but mainly in the subfamily Aloninae. The species Karualona muelleri is an example of a recent taxonomic redefinition, since it was decoupled from the genus Alona and translocated to another genus. In order to expand our knowledge on the species, we investigated population growth and compared the morphometry of the first and second instars, male, parthenogenetic female, ephippial female, and ephippium. An experimental population was obtained by hatching resting eggs collected from the sediment in a temporary lake located in the Serra da Canastra National Park (Minas Gerais, Brazil). The hatched individuals were subjected to morphometric analyses and used in experiments to assess population growth and fecundity. Reproductive age and lifespan were also monitored in two groups of females in different life stages: parthenogenetic and gamogenetic. The reproductive age occurred between the 1st and 15th days of life, and the greatest longevity was 17 days. The start of gamogenetic reproduction was stimulated by elevated population densities and it characterized the slowdown of exponential population growth. Morphometric analyses detected differences between the development phases, as well as similarities in the morphological features of the male, first and second instars, and the two types of females.
Navigating selected perceived risk elements on investor trust and intention to invest in online trading platforms
Authors: Maziriri Eugine T. , Mapuranga Miston , Madinga Nkosivile W.
Published: July 2019

Orientation: In the contemporary global business environment, online trading is a new distribution channel and trading platforms are products of investment and financial services companies.Research purpose: This study determined the influence of perceived risk elements on investor trust and the intention to invest in online trading platforms among students at a selected university in South Africa.Motivation for the study: The significance of how perceived risk elements may influence an investor’s trust and the intention to invest in online trading has largely been overlooked in previous research. Therefore, the principal objective of this study was to address this research gap.Research approach, design and method: A structural equation modelling (SEM) procedure was applied to perform the hypotheses testing using the AMOS (version 25.0) package.Main findings: All the perceived risk elements had a positive and a significant impact on investor trust as well as the intention to invest in online trading platforms.Practical/managerial implications: This study provides fruitful implications to practitioners. The collective knowledge on dimensions of perceived risk will be advantageous to managers in understanding consumer risk perception and how students attempt to reduce these risks. Hence, this will also help managers to implement risk-reduction strategies in order to increase the prospect of students investing in their online trading platforms.Contribution/value-add: This study stands to add new knowledge to the present body of investment management and financial management literature in Africa – a context that has not received much research attention in developing countries.
Student perceptions regarding the new training programme for chartered accountants
Authors: Steenkamp Gretha
Published: July 2019

The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) recently introduced a competency-based accreditation process for chartered accountants (CAs). This changed the structure of the practical training period or ‘articles’ (which is now called the CA 2010 training programme). The new training programme has an increased focus on developing ‘pervasive skills’ (which include personal and professional skills, such as leadership, communication and ethics), and allows trainees to gain detailed experience in a specific focus area. Students, who would be affected by these changes, were surveyed regarding their perceptions of this new training programme. The students were positive about the focus on pervasive skills. However, many felt that the changes (especially the elective focus area) were communicated too late, as they had already signed with auditing firms, and would be forced into an auditing focus area. Many students were worried about possible changes to Part II of the Qualifying Examination (QE 2).
Geographical and industry differences on remuneration gap-enhanced labour productivity levels in a developing economy: South Africa as a case study
Authors: Van Zyl Gerhardus
Published: July 2019

The aim of the article was to determine the geographic and industry differences for employee-remuneration gap-enhanced labour productivity levels in a developing economy. The Winter-Ebmer and Zweimuller model was used to estimate the signs and magnitudes of the employee-remuneration gap-enhanced labour productivity levels for the different industries in the different geographical areas. The estimation results for all three industries indicated a significant difference between the higher gross geographical product (GGP) provinces and the lower GGP provinces in terms of the employee-remuneration gap-enhanced labour productivity indicator coefficients (ERGLP indicator coefficients). The negative sign of the ERGLP indicator coefficients for the industries of some of the lower GGP provinces relates to the non-existence of any possible positive labour productivity effects that might stem from employee-remuneration gaps. The introduction of business uncertainty resulted in smaller ERGLP indicator coefficients across all industries and geographical areas. The impact was much more severe in the case of the lower GGP provinces
The role of distribution and volatility specification in value at risk estimation: Evidence from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Authors: Mwamba John M. , Pretorius Kruger
Published: July 2019

Given the volatile nature of global financial markets, managing as well as predicting financial risk plays an increasingly important role in banking and finance. The Value at Risk (VaR) measure has emerged as the most prominent measure of downside market risk. It is measured as the alpha quantile of the profit and loss distribution. Recently a number of distributions have been proposed to model VaR: these include the extreme value theory distributions (EVT), Generalized Error Distribution (GED), Student’s t, and normal distribution. Furthermore, asymmetric as well as symmetric volatility models are combined with these distributions for out-sample VaR forecasts. This paper assesses the role of the distribution assumption and volatility specification in the accuracy of VaR estimates using daily closing prices of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange All Share Index (JSE ALSI). It is found that Student’s t distribution combined with asymmetric volatility models produces VaR estimates in out-sample periods that outperform those from models stemming from normal, EVT/symmetric volatility specification.
Does national sporting performance affect stock market returns in South Africa?
Authors: Botha Ferdi , De Beer Carl
Published: July 2019

This study explores whether South African national sporting performance can influence investors in such a way that it has the ability to impact on market returns. Using standard event study methodology, this study determines the constant mean return using the daily All-Share price index on the JSE for the period of 1 January 1990 to 31 December 2010. This study focuses on three of South Africa’s most popular sports, namely soccer, cricket and rugby, and examines if these three sports have the ability to influence market returns. Although there is some evidence of a relationship between stock returns and sporting performance in the descriptive analysis, the regression results indicate that sporting performance in South Africa does not significantly explain abnormal market returns on the JSE. The study provides a number of possible reasons for this finding and concludes by suggesting areas for future research.
The financial survival probability of living annuitants
Authors: Palmer Duncan , Krige Niel
Published: July 2019

This study addresses the question of how long a given amount of capital will be able to fund a living annuitant if the following five parameters are known: expected retirement duration (i.e. years between date of retirement and date of death), return on investment, inflation, annual withdrawal amount and initial capital amount available. A model (the Pension Model) that graphically depicts the relationship between these parameters was developed. This model facilitates retirement planning by showing how retirement duration and withdrawal rates change the financial “Survival Probability” (SP), which is the probability of having enough capital to maintain a desired withdrawal rate for the expected retirement duration. The underlying model is based on long-term historical investment yields of equities, bonds and cash in South Africa using Monte Carlo simulation with Cholesky factorisation.
An investigation into the financial barriers facing women entrepreneurs operating in SMMEs in Tshwane, South Africa
Authors: Chiloane-Tsoka Evelyn
Published: July 2019

The South African women emancipation policy statement and gender equality are critical tools established by government to eradicate poverty among entrepreneurs operating in small business. Khula was established to act as a financial wholesaler to emerging entrepreneurs who needed finance to start and grow businesses. The Small Enterprise Development Agency was established to provide training needs to small business operators. Lack of finance is a major stumbling block to women entrepreneurs reaching their full economic potential in South Africa. Financial collaterals are barriers for women operating in SMMEs in Tshwane. The objective of the study was to investigate the financial barriers facing women entrepreneurs in Tshwane when starting or growing businesses. In order to achieve the results a structured questionnaire and interviews were used as method of collecting data. A sample of 300 women operating SMMEs in six townships of the Tshwane metropolitan area was analysed per a quota of 50 businesses per township. The results indicate that women entrepreneurs lack the financial collateral that is demanded by financial institutions when applying for finance to start or grow their business.
The need for specific accounting principles for non-profit organisations’ assets without economic benefits, restricted donations and funds
Authors: Rossouw Cobus
Published: July 2019

Non-profit (or “not-for-profit”) organisations are faced with specific challenges in their financial reporting when they are required to or chose to apply formal financial reporting standards. The IFRSs or the IFRS for SMEs are meant for business entities and are not specifically developed to be applicable to non-profit organisations. Prior research suggested that the main problems of nonprofit accounting centre on the recognition of assets with no future economic benefits, but with service potential, the recognition of restricted income and the so-called fund accounting. This research analyses the requirements of IFRSs, IFRS for SMEs and the Australian accounting standards for non-profit organisation relating to these aspects. The article then presents the views of South African accounting practitioners who are involved in the financial reporting of non-profit organisations on these issues.
The impact of COSO control components on internal control effectiveness: An internal audit perspective
Authors: Fourie Houdini , Ackermann Christo
Published: July 2019

Boards of directors have the ultimate responsibility for governance – including internal control – in their organisations. Management is tasked with the design, implementation and maintenance of internal control systems. Internal auditors play a key role in independently evaluating these controls, acting as agents on behalf of the board of directors in order to mitigate the possibility of management not acting in the best interest of the organization, leaving gaps in the internal control system, and, in some instances, doing so in order to enable unlawful personal gain. The Committee of Sponsoring Organisations’ Integrated Framework for Internal Control (hereafter referred to as the COSO framework) is used as a recognised framework, which, if implemented, could result in an effective internal control system and served as the basis for the design of the research instrument of the research. The questionnaire was distributed to internal audit practitioners. Responses were obtained from 31 participants from the Eastern Cape and Western Cape regions in South Africa. The majority of the participants provide internal audit services to the local government sphere of the South African government. This article identifies which characteristics should exist in an organization’s control system that, in the opinion of internal auditors, improve the effectiveness of the internal control system. This study concludes that internal auditors are of the opinion that control characteristics as outlined in the COSO framework for ‘risk assessment’, ‘information and communication’, ‘control activities’ and ‘monitoring’ components of internal control, do contribute to an effective internal control system.
Tourists’ characteristics and willingness to pay to see the big five
Authors: Van Tonder Clarissa , Saayman Melville , Krugell Waldo
Published: July 2019

Tourism is an engine of growth and development in natural areas, but resources need to be protected and that often involves high costs. The opportunity to view Big Five game in their natural habitat is a common good and it is difficult to determine tourists’ valuation of the Big Five species and their willingness to pay for their conservation. This exploratory study surveyed tourists visiting the Kruger National Park and asked them about their willingness to pay. The objective is to identify the characteristics of those visitors who will pay to view Big Five game in their natural habitat. The study found that visitors to the Kruger National Park assigned a significant amount (34.64%) of total average spending to the opportunity to view the Big Five in the Kruger National Park. The correlates of willingness to pay for conservation include age, marital status and the importance of the Big Five in the decision to visit the Park.
Dynamic capital structure determinants: Some evidence from South African firms
Authors: Moyo Vusani , Wolmarans Hendrik , Brümmer Leon
Published: July 2019

This study uses a sample of 49 manufacturing, 24 mining and 23 retail firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange during the period 2005-2010 to investigate the relationship between leverage and the firm’s key financial performance variables. Leverage is directly proportional to cash flow. This is consistent with the trade-off (TO) and agency theories. Capital expenditure is positively correlated to leverage, while asset tangibility and retention rate are negatively correlated to leverage. These findings confirm the validity of the pecking order theory. Liquidity and financial distress are negatively correlated to leverage. Consistently with the TO theory, leverage increases with profitability. Share price is positively correlated to leverage and this finding validates the market timing theory. The economic value added (EVA) is positively correlated to leverage and this finding rejects the TO theory. The true speed of adjustment for the sample is 64.20% for book-to-debt ratio and 28.11% for market-to-debt ratio.
A fundamental evaluation of the top five South African banks after the financial crisis
Authors: Van Heerden Chris , Heymans André
Published: July 2019

A significant correlation exists between financial crises and bank liquidity problems, thus exposing the investor to increased risk where the banking industry forms part of their investment portfolios. Also, due to more volatile markets and more complex financing banking activities, the general notion of evaluating only share price trends to determine future investment prospects can become misleading. This paper, therefore, focuses on a multi-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model as a complementary share performance tool to the traditional set of fundamental factors. When combining the results from the DEA model and a set of traditional financial measures, Nedbank and FirstRand were found to be the more sensible investment choices for the period under investigation.
The positive labour productivity externalities that arise from a post-secondary qualification or training
Authors: Van Zyl Hardus
Published: July 2019

The aim of this article is to estimate, compute and determine the magnitude of positive labour productivity externalities (defined as unintentional positive labour productivity spill-over effects) generated by employees with a post-secondary education or training (post-grade 12). The research is deemed necessary given the important debate on the shortage of higher-skilled employees and the impact of this on the creation of positive labour productivity spill-over effects in the workplace. Logarithm wage equations for different skill levels and for different geographical areas are derived and estimated in order to determine the existence and magnitude of positive labour productivity externalities created by employees with a post-secondary qualification or training. Higher-skilled employees who have a post-secondary qualification or training and who are employed in a geographical area in which post-secondary education or training institutions are denser tend to create significant positive productivity externalities in the workplace.
Costs incurred by caregivers of under-five inpatients with community-acquired pneumonia at a university hospital in south-western Ethiopia
Authors: Ebrahim Awol J. , Naik Feki , Teni Fitsum S.
Published: July 2019

Background: Pneumonia is one of the commonest diseases among children in Ethiopia resulting in deaths and hospitalisations. The objective of the current study was to determine the cost incurred by caregivers of under-five children with community-acquired pneumonia admitted to the paediatric ward of Jimma University Specialized Hospital, south-western Ethiopia.Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted from 01 January to 28 February 2017, through interviews with caregivers. Data on costs incurred before hospital visit, direct medical and non-medical costs, and indirect costs incurred by caregivers of the children were collected. The collected data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 23.Results: Among the 120 caregivers in the study, a median total cost of 304.5 Ethiopian birr (13.22 USD) was reported. This was mostly contributed by indirect costs associated with earnings lost by caregivers related to travel and stay at hospital with the children. Factors, including permanent residence, family size, hospital stay, wealth index, education and major occupation, were found to have statistically significant association with the level of cost incurred by caregivers.Conclusion: This study identified that a significant level of cost is incurred by caregivers of the children in the hospital, a majority of which was contributed by the lost earnings because of the time spent at the hospital with the children.
Low back pain - An overview in the gold mining industry in South Africa
Authors: Bester Regina C.
Published: July 2019

An analysis of the occurrence of low back pain in the Gold Mining Industry was done retrospectively by the author for a period of one year using the patients’ physiotherapy treatment cards for information. The most common mechanism of injury was identified as spontaneous onset of low back pain and the highest risk occupations were drillers, mining team and scraper/winch operators. The treatment protocol which the Physiotherapy department follows as well as the outcome of the programme are described.
Guest Editorial: Challenges facing the new South Africa
Authors: Goodman Muriel
Published: July 2019

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Interplay of fear of God’s judgement and responsibility compulsion as nexus for encouraging responsible migration response
Authors: Magezi Christopher
Published: July 2019

This article argues for the interplay of fear of God’s judgement and responsibility compulsion as a nexus for encouraging responsible migration response. This arises from the need of theology of migration that challenges the church to respond to migration challenges in a comprehensive manner. Given this, the aim of this article is to contribute migration theology that respond to the aforementioned proposed need. It utilises the available literature to establish the role of Israel in God’s redemptive history that includes her positive treatment of people from other nations, thereby also reminding the nations of what God expects of all people. In bringing the issue of the interplay of fear of God’s judgement and responsibility compulsion as a nexus for encouraging responsible migration response, it advances that God promises to judge and punish his people when they oppose his care and love for the vulnerable people such as aliens, widows and orphans (Ex 22:21–27). However, in remaining faithful to his aforementioned promises to the Israelites, God confronts them (the Israelites) in anger, judgement and punishment when they disobey him in the way they manage their relationship with people of other nations (Jr 7:1–15, 52; 2 Ki 24:10–20). With this in mind, it concludes by advancing the interplay of fear of God’s judgement and responsibility compulsion as nexus for encouraging responsible migration response within contemporary churches in South Africa and beyond.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article outlines the issue of fear of judgement and responsibility compulsion as a nexus for responsible migration response. It underscores the aforementioned by delving into a thorough exegesis of the relevant Old Testament passages and looking at Israel’s role in redemptive history as God’s people. It then presents the role of Israel as accomplished by the God-man, Jesus Christ, who established the church as a new covenant community of God. As such, it is a theological interdisciplinary article integrating exegesis, biblical theology, systematic theology and practical theology.
Narrowing the Gap: An Implementation Science Research Agenda for the Occupational Therapy Profession
Authors: Juckett Lisa A. , Robinson Monica L. , Wengerd Lauren R.
Published: July 2019

Despite advancements in occupational therapy research, the widespread research-to-practice gap continues to delay how quickly evidence-based practices are implemented in real-world clinical settings. Implementing research in practice is a complex process that mandates attention from all occupational therapy stakeholders; however, researchers are uniquely positioned to help minimize the 17-yr lag between scientific discovery and the implementation of research findings into practice. Our article serves as a response to Marr’s (2017) Centennial Topics article, which proposed that purposeful efforts are needed to advocate for implementation research in occupational therapy. We provide an implementation science research agenda informed by concepts from the implementation science literature and suggest how researchers can structure methodologies to examine implementation-related outcomes and strategies. We provide explanations of gold-standard implementation outcomes and offer several recommendations for how researchers can report and disseminate implementation research findings to occupational therapy stakeholders.
The Changeling
Authors: Hiscock Andrew , Hopkins Lisa
Published: July 2019

This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major renaissance tragedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Providing a uniquely detailed and up-to-date history of the play’s rich stage performance, it looks closely at major contemporary performances on both sides of the Atlantic, including Declan Donnellan’s 2006 production for Cheek by Jowl starring Tom Hiddleston, Dominic Dromgoole’s production at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2014 and Jesse Berger’s 2016 production at The Red Bull Theater. In a series of critical essays, the guide offers fresh perspectives on the characters’ mechanical psychology, the influence of Spanish literature and contemporary theatre-makers’ handling of the play’s dramaturgy. Featuring a selection of digital resources and an annotated bibliography, this collection is a definitive guide to the Changeling.
Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1950s
Authors: Abbotson Susan C. W.
Published: July 2019

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material.

The major writers and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include:William Inge: Picnic (1953), Bus Stop (1955) and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957);Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents and Jerome Robbins: West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959);Alice Childress: Just a Little Simple (1950), Gold Through the Trees (1952) and Trouble in Mind (1955);Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee: Inherit the Wind (1955), Auntie Mame (1956) and The Gang’s All Here (1959).
Fashion Installation
Authors: Geczy Adam , Karaminas Vicki
Published: July 2019

Gone are the days when fashion relied on a runway launch with coinciding press promotions to show a couturier’s new range. Today, design houses are thinking beyond traditional methods of display to stimulate interest in their collections, such as to the internet, fashion film and, more recently, fashion installations. This book offers a critical evaluation of the changing ways in which fashion has been exhibited, focusing specifically on the recent turn toward installation, whether in the form of static presentations, interactive performances or the more conventional curated designer exhibition.

Connecting viewers – and consumers – on an immersive level, the fashion world has begun to appropriate installation methods traditionally associated with displays of experimental art, transcending the runway system and its constraints. This book turns to the designers who have pioneered fashion installations, such as Aitor Throup, Muccia Prada, Walter Van Beirendonck and Hussein Chalayan among others, and also looks back to the early influential fashion displays by designers such as Worth and Poiret to provide historical context.

Divided into three parts, and covering a variety of installations from Vivienne Westwood’s fashioned ‘concept’ stores to Gareth Pugh’s immersive films, this ground-breaking book positions the designer as the curator and exhibition-maker and offers the first focused study of the pertinent concept of fashion installation.
The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust
Authors: Niziołek Grzegorz
Published: July 2019

Grzegorz Niziolek’s The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role of theatre as a crucial medium of collective memory – and collective forgetting – of the trauma of the Holocaust carried out on Polish land. The period gave rise to two of the most radical and influential theatrical ideas during work on productions that addressed the subject of the Holocaust – Grotowski’s Poor Theatre and Kantor’s Theatre of Death, but the author examines a deeper impact in the role that theatre played in the processes of collective disavowal to being a witness to others’ suffering.

In the first part, the author examines six decades of Polish theatre shaped by the perspective of the Holocaust in which its presence is variously visible, or displaced. The author pays particular attention to the various types of distortion and the effect of ‘wrong seeing’ enacted in the theatre, as well as the traces of affective reception: shock, heightened empathy, indifference. In the second part the author examines a range theatrical events, including productions by Leon Schiller, Jerzy Grotowski, Tadeusz Kantor, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Warlikowski and Ondrej Spišák. He considers how these productions confronted the experience of bearing witness and were profoundly shaped by the legacy of the Holocaust.

The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust reveals how by testifying about society’s experience of the Holocaust theatre has been the setting for fundamental processes taking place within Polish culture as it confronts suppressed traumatic wartime experiences and a collective identity shaped by the past.
Ceramics and the Museum
Authors: Breen Laura
Published: July 2019

Ceramics and the Museum interrogates the relationship between art-oriented ceramic practice and museum practice in Britain since 1970.

Laura Breen examines the identity of ceramics as an art form, drawing on examples of work by artist-makers such as Edmund de Waal and Grayson Perry; addresses the impact of policy making on ceramic practice; traces the shift from object to project in ceramic practice and in the evolution of ceramic sculpture; explores how museums facilitated multisensory engagement with ceramic material and process, and analyses the exhibition as a text in itself.

Proposing the notion that ‘gestures of showing,’ such as exhibitions and installation art, can be read as statements, she examines what they tell us about the identity of ceramics at particular moments in time. Highlighting the ways in which these gestures have constructed ceramics as a category of artistic practice, Breen argues that they reveal gaps between narrative and practice, which in turn can be used to deconstruct the art.
Nomadic Theatre
Authors: Nibbelink Liesbeth Groot
Published: July 2019

Fluid stages, morphing theatre spaces, ambulant spectators, and occasionally disappearing performers: these are some of the key ingredients of Nomadic Theatre. They are also theatre’s response to life in the 21st century, which is increasingly marked by the mobility of people, information, technologies and services. While examining how contemporary theatre exposes and queries this ‘mobile turn’ in society, Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink introduces the concept of ‘nomadic theatre’ as a vital tool for analyzing the manifold ways in which movement and mobility effect and implicate the theatre, how physical movements in the theatre are stepping stones for theorizing mobility at large, and how contemporary performance uses movement and mobility to make way for local operations and lived spaces.

This book examines how ambulatory performances and performative installations stage movement and in turn mobilize the stage. Through a detailed analysis of contemporary performance practices by leading European artists such as Rimini Protokoll, Dries Verhoeven, Ontroerend Goed, and Signa, Nomadic Theatre demonstrates how mobile performances radically rethink the conditions of the stage and alter our understanding of spectatorship.

Nomadic Theatre takes an integrated approach to theory and practice, instigates connections across disciplinary fields, and feeds dramaturgical analysis with insights derived from media theory, urban philosophy, cartography, architecture, and game studies. It demonstrates how concepts assist in the performance of analysis and how contemporary theatre, as a material form of thought, creatively and critically engages with mobile existence both on the stage and in society.
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Hall
Authors: Hampton-Reeves Stuart
Published: July 2019

Peter Hall (1930–2017) is one of the most influential directors of Shakespeare’s plays in the modern age. Under his direction, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre rediscovered Shakespeare as a writer who could comment incisively on the modern world. Productions such as Coriolanus, The Wars of the Roses and Hamlet established his reputation as a director able to bring Shakespeare to the heart of contemporary politics. He later cemented his reputation with epic productions of Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra at the National. With the Peter Hall Company, Hall continued to work intensively on Shakespeare, directing plays in the UK and America.

Reviewing Hall’s work in its cultural and creative context, this study explores his approach to directing and rehearsal. This is the first book to analyse all of Hall’s professional Shakespeare productions in a historical context, from the Suez crisis to the 9/11 attacks and beyond.
Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1930s
Authors: Fletcher Anne
Published: July 2019

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material.

The major playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include:Clifford Odets: Waiting for Lefty (1935), Awake and Sing! (1935) and Golden Boy (1937);Lillian Hellman: The Children’s Hour (1934), The Little Foxes (1939), and Days to Come (1936);Langston Hughes: Mulatto (1935), Mule Bone (1930, with Zora Neale Hurston) and Little Ham (1936);Gertrude Stein: Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938), Four Saints in Three Acts (written in 1927, published in 1932) and Listen to Me (1936).
Dangerous Mediations
Authors: Mangaoang Áine
Published: July 2019

In 2007, an unlikely troupe of 1500 Filipino prisoners became Internet celebrities after their YouTube video of Michael Jackson’s ground-breaking hit 'Thriller' went viral. Taking this spectacular dance as a point of departure, Dangerous Mediations explores the disquieting development of prisoners performing punishment to a global, online audience. Combining analysis of this YouTube video with first-hand experiences from fieldwork in the Philippine prison, Áine Mangaoang investigates a wide range of interlocking contexts surrounding this user-generated text to reveal how places of punishment can be transformed into spaces of spectacular entertainment, leisure, and penal tourism.

In the post-YouTube era, Dangerous Mediations sounds the call for close readings of music videos produced outside of the corporate culture industries. By connecting historical discussions on postcolonialism, surveillance and prison philosophy with contemporary scholarship on popular music, participatory culture and new media, Dangerous Mediations is the first book to ask critical questions about the politics of pop music and audiovisual mediation in early 21st-century detention centres.
Jazz in Europe
Authors: Dias José
Published: July 2019

Should we talk of European jazz or jazz in Europe? What kinds of networks link those who make it happen ‘on the ground’? What challenges do they have to face?

Jazz is a part of the cultural fabric of many of the European countries. Jazz in Europe: Networking and Negotiating Identities presents jazz in Europe as a complex arena, where the very notions of cultural identity, jazz practices and Europe are continually being negotiated against an ever changing social, cultural, political and economic environment. The book gives voice to musicians, promoters, festival directors, educators and researchers regarding the challenges they are faced with in their everyday practices. Jazz identities in Europe result from the negotiation between discourse and practice and in the interstices between the formal and informal networks that support them, as if ‘Jazz’ and ‘Europe’ were blank canvases where diversified notions of what jazz and Europe should or could be are projected.
Effects of horizontal resolution and air–sea flux parameterization on the intensity and structure of simulated Typhoon Haiyan (2013)
Authors: Kueh Mien-Tze , Chen Wen-Mei , Sheng Yang-Fan , Lin Simon C. , Wu Tso-Ren , Yen Eric , Tsai Yu-Lin , Lin Chuan-Yao
Published: July 2019

Abstract. This study investigates the effects of horizontal
resolution and surface flux formulas on typhoon intensity and structure
simulations through the case study of the Super Typhoon Haiyan (2013). Three
sets of surface flux formulas in the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
were tested using grid spacings of 1, 3, and 6 km. Increased resolution and
more reasonable surface flux formulas can both improve typhoon intensity
simulation, but their effects on storm structures differ. A combination of a
decrease in momentum transfer coefficient and an increase in enthalpy
transfer coefficients has greater potential to yield a stronger storm. This
positive effect of more reasonable surface flux formulas can be efficiently
enhanced when the grid spacing is appropriately reduced to yield an intense
and contracted eyewall structure. As the resolution increases, the eyewall
becomes more upright and contracts inward. The size of updraft cores in the
eyewall shrinks, and the region of downdraft increases; both updraft and
downdraft become more intense. As a result, the enhanced convective cores
within the eyewall are driven by more intense updrafts within a rather small
fraction of the spatial area. This contraction of the eyewall is associated
with an upper-level warming process, which may be partly attributed to air
detrained from the intense convective cores. This resolution dependence of
spatial scale of updrafts is related to the model effective resolution as
determined by grid spacing.
Entre imperios: antiimperialismo e hispanoamericanismo en España contemporánea de Rubén Darío
Authors: Sanhueza Marcelo
Published: July 2019

Este artículo examina España contemporánea. Crónicas y retratos literarios (1901) de Rubén Darío para problematizar su lugar de enunciación y perspectiva. Para ello, en la primera parte, abordamos las formas de representar el imperialismo en las crónicas darianas, centrándonos principalmente en lo político, social y cultural. En la segunda parte, proponemos que en la obra de Darío emerge una perspectiva antiimperialista e hispanoamericanista, que intenta desmarcarse del pensamiento colonial y rechaza las prácticas imperialistas, relocalizando la cultura hispanoamericana frente a los Estados Unidos y Europa.
Lumpérica: alegoría y cita en voces rizomáticas en la narración chilena posmoderna
Authors: Rojas Gonzalo Ignacio
Published: July 2019

El presente artículo analizará la voz del narrador desde la figura rizomática (Deleuze y Guattari) para determinar su no lugar en la construcción de escenas narrativas en las nuevas formas performativas de expresión literaria. Por lo anterior, se revisará esta condición desde dos nociones benjaminiana, la alegoría y la cita para determinar que la idea del cuerpo es –centrado especialmente en L.Iluminada- una correlación entre lenguaje y sujeto: el desaparecimiento del sujeto es la desaparición de su lenguaje, simetría epistemológica que da origen en la narrativa chilena a una escritura performativa.
Gritos en la piel, sonidos del dolor. A propósito de Zona de Dolor 1 de Diamela Eltit
Authors: Grumann Andrés
Published: July 2019

Abordando una perspectiva teórica proveniente de la disciplina teatrológica, el escrito tiene por objetivo realizar un análisis de la performance Zona de dolor 1 o “Maipú” de Diamela Eltit de 1980. Para ello me detengo en la piel, el cuerpo, la voz y el dolor como superficies de una experiencia sensible generadora de conocimiento que se perciben del visionado del video disponible de la performance. El análisis de la performance requiere de un rescate historiográfico en el que se discuta la parcialidad con que el concepto de “escena de avanzada” (Richard) interpretó Zonas de dolor (1980 y 1982), situando una lectura de las filiaciones y entrecruzamientos de Eltit con Ronald Kay y el seminario que le dedicó a la sabiduría de Antonin Artaud el año 1974. El pensamiento en torno al cuerpo, la carne y el dolor del teatrista francés acompaña las siguientes reflexiones y permiten presentar el poder de lo performativo en la voz de Diamela Eltit en algunas escenas del video de Zonas de dolor 1.
“La entrevista como campo de maniobras”. Reseña. Mónica Barrientos. No hay armazón que la sostenga. Entrevistas a Diamela Eltit. Editorial Universidad de Talca, 2017
Authors: Balladares María Auxiliadora
Published: July 2019

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Global Gender Justice and The Feminization of Responsibility
Authors: Khader Serene J.
Published: July 2019

This paper morally evaluates the phenomenon Sylvia Chant calls "the feminization of responsibility," wherein women's unrecognized labor subsidizes international development while men retain or increase their power over women. I argue that development policies that feminize responsibility are incompatible with justice in two ways. First, such policies involve Northerners extracting unpaid labor from women in the global South. Northerners are obligated to provide development assistance, but they are transferring the labor of providing it onto women in the global South and expecting them to do it for free. Second, development policies that feminize responsibility increase women's exposure to sexist domination. These two problems are present irrespective of whether policies that feminize responsibility improve women's basic well-being.
Introduction to the Special Issue: In the Unjust Meantime
Authors: Emerick Barrett , Wisor Scott
Published: July 2019

This introduction by guest-editors Barrett Emerick and Scott Wisor to the special issue reflecting on the work of Alison Jaggar includes summaries of the six anonymously peer-reviewed articles and three invited articles.
LITTER CONTRIBUTION ON DIFFERENT GEOMORPHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN THE ATLANTIC FOREST – STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
Authors: Mendonça Victória Maria Monteiro , Santos Gilsonley Lopes , Pereira Marcos Gervasio Gervasio , Menezes Carlos Eduardo Gabriel
Published: July 2019

The deposition of leaf litter on the forest floor is influenced by biotic and abiotic factors where forest fragments are inserted, which is a major source of nutrients to the soil. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of the change in relief conditions (landform) in leaf litter contribution and nutrient content in a Submontane Seasonal Semi-deciduous Forest in Pinheiral (state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). It was selected two adjacent landforms with convex and concave relief type and they divided into small sites (SS), obeying the variation of the slope and topographic gradient. Five conic collectors with an area of 0.2834 m² were installed in each SS, totaling 30 collectors. The collections of leaf litter were carried out every 30 days during a year. The material retained in the traps was separated as the fractions; leaves, twigs, reproductive and other material to assess the proportion of each fraction in the leaf litter production and nutrient content of the fraction leaves. The contribution and nutrient content of litter are influenced by the type of landform and seasons of the year. The highest contribution was observed in the dry season, in the lower and middle SS of the landforms, and the highest nutrient levels occurred in the convex landform during the rainy season.