bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Paniers à salade. Itinéraire en pays modianesque
Authors: Killander Cariboni Carla
Published: November 2022

Depuis sa première apparition dans La Place de l’étoile (1968), le motif du panier à salade n’a cessé de réapparaître dans les récits de Modiano. Cet article se concentre sur la scène du panier à salade dans sept récits, afin de montrer son caractère obsessionnel. L’analyse montre que le panier à salade surgit dans un scénario que le lecteur reconnaît au fil de ses lectures, en dépit de quelques différences mineures d’un récit à l’autre. Dans sa forme la plus récurrente, le scénario se déroule de la manière suivante : un personnage qui a été arrêté par la police pour un contrôle ne peut prouver son identité et se voit transporté à la station de police dans un panier à salade. L’analyse montre également que ce véhicule est emblématique du passé, qui est la substance même des récits de Modiano : à la fois le passé collectif (les persécutions des Juifs pendant l’Occupation de la France) et le passé individuel (une relation aride entre le narrateur homodiégétique et son père, dans les années 1960). L’article suggère que le processus de réécriture à l’œuvre dans les récits de Modiano, où les mêmes motifs, lieux et types de personnages réapparaissent d’un récit à l’autre, créant une forte impression d’authenticité d’autobiographique, présuppose un type particulier de lecteur, qui ne s’arrête pas au seuil d’un seul récit et qui relit.
Do country stereotypes influence language learning motivation? A study among foreign language learners in Malaysia
Authors: Nikitina Larisa
Published: November 2022

It has been acknowledged in research literature that stereotypes about a target language country held by language learners influence the students’ motivation to learn a foreign language (L2 motivation). However, there is a lack of studies that link explorations of these stereotypes and L2 motivation in a single research project. This mixed-methods study addressed this gap in research literature. It examined relationships between endogenous stereotypes about target language countries and L2 motivation using a sample of 194 students learning foreign languages in a major public university in Malaysia. These languages included French, German, Italian, Portuguese (European and Brazilian varieties), Russian and Spanish. The data were collected through a questionnaire survey. One open-ended question sought the students’ mental images of the target language countries; two thermometer-type scales assessed the students’ general attitudes toward the target language countries and people and 16 closed-ended statements with attached Likert-type scales assessed their L2 motivation. The findings from the qualitative strand of the analysis revealed that the respondents had distinct and predominantly positive images of each of the target language countries. This allowed making a tentative proposition that the country stereotypes would have a positive relationship with the students’ L2 motivation, especially the integrative orientation. Results of the statistical analyses in the quantitative phase indicated that the relationship between the country stereotypes and L2 motivation was the strongest in the case of the integrative orientation. The article concludes with a brief discussion of implications that can be drawn from this study.
Christopher Gérard et le brouillage des frontières génériques
Authors: Bizek-Tatara Renata
Published: November 2022

Le présent article porte sur le syncrétisme générique dans les romans de Christopher Gérard, écrivain belge francophone (né en 1962). Aux Armes de Bruxelles (2009) s’apparente au guide littéraire, touristique et gastronomique et au récit de la quête de la mystérieuse Louise ; Porte Louise (2010) est un mélange d’un roman d’espionnage et d’un récit de voyage ; enfin Vogelsang ou la mélancolie du vampire (2012) constitue la synthèse du fantastique, du roman policier, du roman d’amour et du conte philosophique. Nous analysons l’aspect transgénérique des textes, ainsi que divers fonctions et enjeux de cette pratique scripturale de l’auteur, fasciné par l’hybridation postmoderne. L’étude démontre qu’en mélangeant différents genres et en sabotant leurs protocoles, l’écrivain fait du neuf avec du vieux et cherche ainsi à reconfigurer l’esthétique du roman et à le renouveler. Il détruit aussi la composante émotive des genres paralittéraires et, ce faisant, dépassionne efficacement l’aventure pour focaliser l’attention du lecteur sur le thème qui lui est particulièrement cher : Bruxelles, sa ville bien-aimée.
Escrita, masculinidades subversivas e resiliência sob o abrigo da escuridão: Cinema Orly (1999), de Luís Capucho
Authors: Alós Anselmo Peres
Published: November 2022

Este trabalho propõe-se discutir a obra literária escrita por Luís Capucho, prosador contemporâneo cujos livros podem ser considerados bastante significativos no campo emergente da literatura de/sobre aids no Brasil. Com quatro romances publicados – Cinema Orly (1999), Rato (2007), Mamãe me adora (2012) e Diário de piscina (2017) – o escritor vem sendo considerado uma das mais singulares vozes no que diz respeito ao gênero literário que vem sendo chamado pelos críticos de autoficção, uma modalidade narrativa que mescla a autoridade narrativa do discurso autobiográfico à liberdade estilística da ficção literária. Nosso objetivo aqui é o de realizar uma proposta de leitura para a primeira narrativa publicada por Capucho, Cinema Orly, usando as noções de heterotopia (proposta por Michel Foucault no ensaio “Espaços outros: heterotopias”, publicado pela primeira vez em 1984) e cronótopo (proposta pela primeira vez, no campo dos estudos literários, por Mikhail Bakhtin) como ferramentas analíticas. Deste modo, acredita-se que seja possível evidenciar o projeto político do autor que reside na narrativização das experiências corpóreas, de caráter sexual, praticadas entre homens em um espaço de socialização marcadamente gay.
Higher-order thinking e-assessment in online EFL courses: Swedish instructors’ perceptions and experiences
Authors: Johansson Evelina
Published: November 2022

Previous research indicates that higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) have an important role in L2 learning. In an online learning context, e-assessment tasks are ideally designed to target these skills. A recently conducted study by Johansson (2020) indicates that HOTS e-assessment is relatively common in Swedish online English as a Foreign Language (EFL) courses. Generally, instructors’ perceptions of HOTS and HOTS e-assessment have been described as important for the implementation of these skills in assessment tasks; however, little is known about this in the online EFL context. Hence, the aim of the present study was to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of online EFL instructors’ views on HOTS e-assessment and the challenges of this. To investigate this, a questionnaire was sent out to university instructors working with online EFL courses. The study found that most of the instructors intended to target HOTS through e-assessment tasks and that there is a general agreement about what constitutes such skills. The majority of the instructors had not been offered training in how to target students’ HOTS, but had taken own initiatives to this kind of training. Moreover, the main challenges in developing HOTS e-assessment were instructors’ lack of time and technical skills.
El niño como sujeto de derechos en ¿Quién te creés que sos? de Ángela Urondo Raboy y “Chicos que faltan” de Mariana Enriquez
Authors: Pietrak Mariola
Published: November 2022

El objeto del presente trabajo son las representaciones del niño en dos narrativas argentinas actuales: ¿Quién te creés que sos? (2012) de Ángela Urondo Raboy y “Chicos que faltan” (2017) de Mariana Enriquez. Dicho análisis se desarrolla a partir del concepto de “niño perejil” tal como lo usa en su texto la primera de las autoras mencionadas. El marco en que se ubica la investigación es la posmodernidad con sus tendencias deconstruccionistas así como la crisis política e ideológica de la Argentina (pos)dictatorial que afectó a la familia y todas las categorías con ella relacionadas. Son dos ejes que convergen exponiendo su naturaleza de ficción realizada (Bourdieu), constructo social que arraiga en la modernidad y su discurso tranquilizador y humanizante de “sujetos de derecho” (Rousseau).

En este sentido, la categoría “niño perejil” se ofrece como un dispositivo para radiografiar el concepto de la niñez en relación con la exclusión, la subjetividad en el sistema binario de la modernidad; al mismo tiempo muestra la capacidad del producto cultural para la reconfiguración de la doxa.
The prosodification of possessive enclitics in Airola and Boiano
Authors: De Sisto Mirella , Torres-Tamarit Francesc
Published: November 2022

In southern Italian dialects, possessives have an enclitic variant typically associated with kinship nouns (Rohlfs 1967, Sotiri 2007, Ledgeway 2009, D’Alessandro & Migliori 2017) (e.g. [ˈfratə-mə] ˈbrother myˈ). The most common strategy to avoid violations of the three-syllable window is to avoid the enclitic form of the possessive, or stress shift, as in Lucanian (e.g. [ˌiennəˈru-mə] cf. [ˈiennərə], Lüdtke 1979:31). In the dialects of Airola and Boiano, a different strategy is attested: with proparoxytonic nouns (e.g. [ˈjennərə] ˈson-in-lawˈ in both varieties and [ˈsɔtʃəra]/[ˈswotʃəra] ˈmother/father-in-lawˈ in Boiano), the last unstressed syllable of the host is deleted (e.g. [ˈjennə-mə], [ˈsɔtʃə-mə], [ˈswotʃə-mə]). We claim that possessive enclitics in Airola and Boiano are internal clitics, that is, they amalgamate with the prosodic word that contains the host noun. We further propose that both proparoxytonic stress and the three-syllable-window derive from internally layered ternary feet (Martínez-Paricio 2013). These feet need to be aligned with the right edge of their containing prosodic word. When a possessive enclitic is incorporated, the most optimal strategy to comply with this alignment requirement is to build an internally layered ternary foot and delete the last syllable of the host noun, stress shift being excluded.
Review of Collective Motherliness in Europe (1890-1939): The Reception and Reformulation of Ellen Key’s Ideas on Motherhood and Female Sexuality eds.Ulla Åkerström and Elena Lindholm (2020), Peter Lang, Berlin.
Authors: Mårald Elisabeth
Published: November 2022

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Die Entwicklung der Binnenmajuskelschreibung in Substantivkomposita im Deutschen zwischen 1550 und 1710 mit einem besonderen Fokus auf ihr Verhältnis zur Getrennt-, Zusammen- und Bindestrichschreibung
Authors: Solling Daniel
Published: November 2022

Während der letzten Jahrzehnte hat die Binnenmajuskelschreibung von Substantivkomposita im Deutschen immer mehr zugenommen (z.B. BahnCard). Beschreibungen des Phänomens gibt es seit Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seitdem ist die Binnenmajuskelschreibung im modernen Deutsch ziemlich eingehend untersucht worden. Zur Binnenmajuskelschreibung im Deutsch des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts liegen jedoch keine eingehenderen, systematischen Studien vor. Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt eine Studie zur Binnenmajuskelschreibung im Deutschen zwischen 1550 und 1710 anhand eines größeren Korpus von gedruckten Predigttexten dar. Er richtet auch einen besonderen Fokus auf das Verhältnis zwischen der Binnenmajuskelschreibung und der Getrennt-, Zusammen- und Bindestrichschreibung von Substantivkomposita im damaligen Deutsch. Weiter wird eventuellen regionalen Unterschieden in der Binnenmajuskelschreibung nachgegangen. Die Studie zeigt, dass ein markanter Anstieg in der Verwendung der Binnenmajuskelschreibung in Substantivkomposita zwischen 1550 und 1710 stattfindet. Es wird auch festgestellt, dass Binnenmajuskelschreibung unter den getrennt geschriebenen und den mit Bindestrich versehenen Substantivkomposita deutlich häufiger ist als unter den zusammengeschriebenen.

Die Entwicklung der Binnenmajuskelschreibung in Substantivkomposita im Deutschen zwischen 1550 und 1710 mit einem besonderen Fokus auf ihr Verhältnis zur Getrennt-, Zusammen- und Bindestrichschreibung
Small Stories in Lerner-Lerner-Gesprächen
Authors: Salomonsson Johanna
Published: November 2022

Im vorliegenden Artikel werden fünf Gespräche in Adobe Connect unter Studierenden von Deutsch als Fremdsprache untersucht. Sie belegten einen Distanzkurs an einer schwedischen Universität. Zu diesem Kurs gehörte die mündliche Aufgabe, 30 Minuten lang ein Gespräch auf Deutsch aufrechtzuerhalten. Als Vorlage bekamen die Studierenden verschiedene Themen, die sie vor dem Seminar haben vorbereiten können. In den Gesprächen entfalteten sich verschiedene narrative Strukturen, in dieser Studie als Small Stories (Georgakopoulou 2007a, 2007b, Bamberg & Georgakopoulou 2008) betrachtet, die teils die Aufgabenkonstruktion, teils die Sprachkompetenz der Studierenden generieren. Dieser Bezug macht einen hauptsächlichen Fokus dieser Studie aus.

Mit ihrer soziolinguistischen Rahmung ist diese Studie vor allem innerhalb der Gesprächsanalyse verankert. Dieser Ansatz wird mit Robinson & Gilaberts (2007) Modell über Komplexität einer Aufgabe trianguliert, um die inhaltliche Komplexität der Small Stories zu überprüfen. Das Material zeigt, dass die Studierenden mit der Aufgabenformulierung inhaltliche Komplexität unter den Bedingungen leisten können, wenn a) die Studierenden ein Vorwissen zum Thema haben, b) sie Hilfestellungen im Lernkontext aufgreifen können und c) wenn das Gespräch an sich eine Small Story untermauert.
Representaciones sexuales y estrategias disidentes
Authors: Mateo Del Pino Ángeles
Published: November 2022

la naturaleza del porno ha cambiado mucho en las últimas décadas y con ello hemos asistido a su masiva proliferación, divulgación, difusión, distribución y consumo, hasta llegar a lo que se ha denominado sociedad pornoficada (Lust 2008, Han 2018). No obstante, a la par ha surgido una nueva manera de entender lo porno, aquella que subvierte los códigos –estéticos, políticos y discursivos– de la pornografía mainstream, con la intención de atentar contra la heteronormatividad, el binarismo sexo/género y apostar por nuevas narrativas de placer; es lo que se conoce con el nombre de postpornografía y pornoterrismo. El objetivo que nos anima en este monográfico no es otro que interrogar y cuestionar los mecanismos de producción sexual; debatir en torno a las sexualidades y la pornografía dominante, así como dar a conocer otras representaciones disidentes y otras subjetividades deseantes. Revisar los textos pornográficos, postpornográficos y pornoterroristas nos permite explorar, desde un marco interseccional, cómo se entrelazan distintas categorías: género, sexo, clase social, nacionalidad, etc. A la vez que una mirada hacia/desde América Latina nos ayuda a comprender las especificidades de esos espacios en un contexto glocal.

Talking about pornography in the 21st century is still difficult: porn is uncomfortable. However, the nature of porn has changed a lot in recent decades and with it we have witnessed its massive proliferation, dissemination, diffusion, distribution and consumption, to the point of reaching what has been called a pornified society (Lust 2008, Han 2018). However, at the same time, a new way of understanding porn has emerged, one that subverts the codes - aesthetic, political and discursive - of mainstream pornography, with the intention of attacking heteronormativity, the sex/gender binarism and betting on new narratives of pleasure; this is what is known as post-pornography and pornoterrorism. The aim of this dossier is none other than to interrogate and question the mechanisms of sexual production; to debate sexualities and the dominant pornography, as well as to make known other dissident representations and other desiring subjectivities. Reviewing pornographic, post-pornographic and pornoterrorist texts allows us to explore, from an intersectional framework, how different categories are intertwined: gender, sex, social class, nationality, etc. At the same time, a look towards/from Latin America helps us to understand the specificities of these spaces in a glocal context.
Violencia sexual de la dictadura argentina en clave para/porno/gráfica: “Ni cumpleaños ni bautismos” de Mariana Enriquez
Authors: Pietrak Mariola
Published: November 2022

La violencia sexual constituyó parte del plan sistemático de tortura durante la última dictadura argentina. La literatura, incluso la de ficción, demuestra cómo el régimen represor volvía pornográficos los cuerpos de las mujeres presas en su doble lógica vejatoria: dictatorial y patriarcal. En diálogo con otros textos culturales (“Cambio de armas” de Luisa Valenzuela o Putas y guerrilleras de Miriam Lewin y Olga Wornat, por ejemplo), “Ni cumpleaños ni bautismos” de Mariana Enriquez formula la denuncia de aquellas prácticas recurriendo a la retórica parapornográfica —de pornografía obtusa, como dirían Roland Barthes y Fabián Giménez Gatto (2011)— que abre el campo de sentido a lo espectral. Esta deriva hacia lo pornogramático y lo fantástico crea nuevas formas de discursividad para narrar no solo aquella experiencia inefable, vuelta tabú, sino también el trauma enquistado en la sociedad. El presente trabajo muestra cómo la discursividad pornográfica en el relato de Enriquez vuelve operativo el potencial contrasistémico de la postpornografía, poniéndola en relación con la crítica de la violencia sexual durante la última dictadura argentina.

Sexual violence was applied systematically as part of the torture plan during the last Argentinean dictatorship. Literature, even of fictional variety, shows how the repressive regime turned the bodies of imprisoned women into pornography in accordance with its double vexatious logic: dictatorial and patriarchal. In dialogue with other cultural texts (“Cambio de armas” by Luisa Valenzuela or Putas y guerrilleras by Miriam Lewin and Olga Wornat, for example), “Ni cumpleaños ni bautismos” by Mariana Enriquez formulates the denunciation of those practices; it resorts to parapornographic rhetoric of obtuse pornography in terms of Roland Barthes and Fabián Giménez Gatto (2011), opening the field of meaning to the spectral. This drift towards the porno-grammatic and the fantastic creates new discursive forms to narrate not only this ineffable, tabooed experience, but also the impact of trauma on the society. This article analyses the ways in which the pornographic discursiveness in Enriquez's story exploits the contrasexual and countersystemic potential of post-pornography, putting it in relation to the criticism of sexual violence perpetrated during the last Argentinean dictatorship.
Sexualidad y resistencia en Panfleto: Erótica y feminismo, de María Moreno
Authors: Domínguez Galván Zaradat
Published: November 2022

María Moreno (1947) es una de las escritoras feministas más interesantes y aclamadas literariamente del panorama argentino actual. Vinculada a los movimientos feministas desde finales de los años setenta y al movimiento LGTBI+, ha emprendido una lucha dialéctica en sus crónicas y artículos contra el pensamiento moral y patriarcal del tiempo que le ha tocado vivir. Su libro Panfleto. Erótica y feminismo (2018) es una recopilación de textos publicados en periódicos y revistas a lo largo de cuarenta años, en ellos reflexiona sobre la diferencia sexual, la pornografía, la literatura erótica y el feminismo. En este artículo rastrearemos los planteamientos feministas de María Moreno, en cuanto a su defensa de una construcción propia del deseo femenino, así como del deseo homosexual y transgénero, placeres subalternos que han sido negados por el patriarcado, en una vindicación y conquista de nuevos goces que jadean en los márgenes.

María Moreno (1947) is one of the most interesting and acclaimed feminist writers on the Argentine scene today. Linked to the feminist movements since the end of the seventies and to the LGTBI+ movement, she has undertaken a dialectical struggle in her chronicles and articles against the moral and patriarchal thinking of the time she has lived through. Her book Panfleto. Erotica y feminismo (2018) is a compilation of texts published in newspapers and magazines over forty years, in which she reflects on sexual difference, pornography, erotic literature and feminism. In this article we will trace the feminist approaches of Maria Moreno, in terms of her defense of a construction of feminine desire, as well as of homosexual and transgender desire, subaltern pleasures that have been denied by the patriarchy, in a vindication and conquest of new pleasures that pant on the margins.
Corporalidad, marginalidad y disidencia en Kassandra, de Sergio Blanco
Authors: Salerno Cecilia
Published: November 2022

La marginalidad, la prostitución, la inmigración, la locura y la disidencia sexual son aspectos fundamentales en Kassandra, de Sergio Blanco. A través de una metodología de análisis textual, nos hemos adentrado en el universo que conforma esta pieza teatral, reflexionando sobre el marco autoficcional que el autor propone para abordar su monólogo y dialogando con los conceptos de género e identidad, parodia, biopolítica, sadomasoquismo e histeria femenina, así como con la noción de postpornografía, en tanto da cabida a formas alternativas del deseo. Asimismo, hemos sido testigos de la creación de una protagonista queer o “fuera de la norma” que actualiza al personaje legendario, valiéndose de la exageración del estereotipo de la “loca”, de la simulación, del artificio y de elementos propios de la sensibilidad camp y de lo kitsch, y de cómo la asunción de una corporalidad concebida al margen de la oposición binaria hombre/mujer, masculino/femenino o hetero/homo deviene eje del discurso desde una postura políticamente comprometida.

The most essential ítems in Kassandra by Sergio Blanco are marginality, prostitution, immigration, madness and sexual dissent. Through a textual analysis methodology, we got into the universe that makes up the theatre play, pondering on the self-fictional topic proposed by the autor in order to broach his monologue and dialoguing with identity and gender, biopolitical takeoff, sadomasochism and female hysteria concepts as well as with postpornography ideas while admitting different ways of lusts. Likewise we was witnesses of the creation of a queer or an “out of rule” protagonist that updates the legendary character using the exaggeration of the “crazy” stereotype, the artifice and simulation as well as elements of kitsch and camp sensibility and how the assumption of a conceived corporality out of binary opposition man/woman, male/female or hetero/homo turns into the axis of the speech from an engaged political posture.
Angekommen im Schwedischen? – deutsche Partizipialkonstruktionen in schwedischer Übersetzung
Authors: Ström Herold Jenny , Henriksson Henrik
Published: November 2022

Das Thema dieses Beitrags ist die Übersetzung deutscher Partizipialkonstruktionen ins Schwedische – ein Thema, dem die bisherige Forschung kaum Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt hat. Die Studie ist sowohl quantitativer als auch qualitativer Natur. Als Korpus dienen deutsche Sachprosatexte und ihre schwedischen Übersetzungen, von denen anzunehmen ist, dass sie im Einklang mit den entsprechenden deutschen beziehungsweise schwedischen Gebrauchsnormen verfasst wurden, eher als dass sie einen spezifischen Autorenstil reflektieren.

Anhand der quantitativen Analyse wird untersucht, ob und inwiefern eine Korrelation zwischen dem Subtyp der Partizipialkonstruktion und der gewählten Übersetzungsstrategie besteht. Ausgehend von den intuitiven Annahmen der einschlägigen Literatur wäre in den schwedischen Übersetzungen ein größerer Anteil an finiten Strukturen zu erwarten, die zur semantischen und syntaktischen Explizierung führen könnten. Das Ergebnis der Studie zeigt allerdings, dass die Übersetzer im hohen Ausmaß nach Strukturerhalt streben. Als frequenteste Übersetzungsstrategie kann die Verwendung einer entsprechenden Partizipialkonstruktion belegt werden, aber auch das strukturerhaltende Adjektiv stellt eine häufig vorkommende Strategie dar. Für die Strategienwahl spielt in der Tat der Subtyp der Partizipialkonstruktion eine Rolle, vor allem im Hinblick auf deren Komplexität. So werden Partizipialkonstruktionen in der schwedischen Übersetzung viel öfter verwendet, wenn der Originaltext eine einfache Partizipialkonstruktion aufweist. Dagegen sind finite Strukturen viel häufiger bei der Übersetzung von erweiterten Konstruktionen. Vorangestellte Partizipialattribute werden dabei oft durch einen Relativsatz wiedergegeben und die freistehenden adverbialen Partizipialkonstruktionen nicht selten durch Hauptsatzstrukturen.
Making Better Regulation: How Efficient is Consultation?
Authors: Jarlbæk Pedersen Morten
Published: November 2022

Formal consultation when designing new rules and regulations is a commonly used method to ensure regulatory quality. The foundation for this method of involvement is that it allows transparent and open transfer of knowledge from for instance organised interests to government bodies, and that it enables an easier filtering of expert advice from political idiosyncrasies among consultation partners. It is, however, an open question as to whether consultation is in fact efficient in doing so. To investigate that questions, this paper examines the Danish formal consultation system. The study examines response rates and concludes that the Danish consultation system is highly – and perhaps increasingly so – prioritised both in the administration and among consultation partners. However, previous studies have shown that the system has little practical effect on legislation. These two – response rates and amenability – are then coupled to discuss the system’s efficiency. The system’s inefficiency – it demands a lot of energy and priority but has little effect – stress that the main function of the system cannot be said to be its contribution to regulatory quality. Instead, it serves other aims – aims that are not reflected in the system’s design and use. This causes a mismatch between expectations and practice and calls for renewed discussion – both theoretical and practical – on the role of formal consultation systems.
The Value of Public Engagement: Do Citizens’ Preferences Really Matter?
Authors: Värttö Mikko
Published: November 2022

In recent years, local governments in Finland have been actively adopting participatory arrangements that provide citizens with the means to participate directly in planning and decision-making procedures. The participatory initiatives challenge the traditional representative and bureaucratic model of public governance and have reportedly created tensions, ambivalence, and inconsistency within local governments.

This paper’s central research question is: what do local administrators perceive to be the main goals and challenges of public engagement? Local administrators are important gatekeepers within local government, and they have substantial authority in planning and implementing participatory arrangements. The attitudes of administrators consequently have a significant impact on participatory initiatives.

The data consists of 15 interviews with senior-level public administrators working in a Finnish municipality. The data is analysed through content analysis focusing on the main goals and challenges of public engagement. In addition, a comparison is conducted between the service sector and the planning sector.

The findings show that public administrators acknowledge the democratic value of the participatory arrangements. However, they still draw on the strong tradition of bureaucratic modes of governance in which participatory arrangements are assessed for their instrumental value. The findings also indicate that there are two participatory rationales in place in Finland, the first taking place in the service sector and the other in planning. Finally, there is a discussion on the possibility of reconciling the different motives that are driving participatory initiatives.
Reflection on: “Evaluating the Democratic Quality of Local Democratic Practices – Sampling Seven Frameworks”
Authors: Rönnqvist Sofia
Published: November 2022

I have been an evaluator for a decade and have been involved in evaluation of programmes and projects with both formative and summative designs. The majority (but far from all) of the evaluations have been funded by the European Union and the stakeholders include municipal, regional and state organisations. My reflections on this article revolve around the usefulness and accessibility of the models discussed. This is because, in my experience, evaluations tend to lose their purpose if they do not meet the needs of practitioners (for example, officials or representatives for NGOs) and policymakers, but also because evaluators often find themselves struggling to put academic evaluation models into practice.
Key Stakeholders’ Frames on the Police and Intelligence Agencies’ Online Surveillance Capabilities in Finland
Authors: Leppänen Anna , Houtsonen Jarmo
Published: November 2022

Authorities' online surveillance powers touch the very core of democracy, human rights and privacy. Thus, the legislation and its implementation must be both sustainable and legitimate in the eyes of the citizenry. We argue that the general elements of legitimate and sustainable online surveillance system can be derived from many international sources, but the crux of the matter is to adjust the general principles into country-specific conditions through well-informed, reasoned and inclusive national legislation preparation and regular follow-up discussions.

We explored how 25 key stakeholders from various fields consider 45 statements on online surveillance at the time of preparation of the intelligence legislation in Finland in 2018. Q-factor analysis arranged the stakeholders in three factors indicating distinctive frames that we named Balancing privacy and security, Protecting human rights and Expanding surveillance powers. With regard to enhancing further public discussion towards the interests of stakeholders, we also detected ambiguous issues, deal-breakers and areas of consensus that can be used for finding common ground in future considerations. Our study contributes particularly to research on online surveillance policy. We also demonstrate, along with some earlier findings, that Q-methodological research can provide powerful means to feed public policy discussion in the spirit of deliberative democracy.
The Legitimacy of Performance-Related Pay in Swedish Public Sector Organisations
Authors: Larsson Bengt , Ulfsdotter Eriksson Ylva , Adolfsson Petra
Published: November 2022

This study analyses the legitimacy of different pay determination principles in Swedish public sector organisations. The aim is to explore what dimensions of worth exist in pay determination and to analyse the extent to which differences in legitimacy can be explained by organisational position, professional identity and organisational context. Theoretically, the article is influenced by “valuation studies” and the “institutional logics” and “orders of worth” approaches in analysing the existence of multiple dimensions of pay determination. Empirically, the study is based on surveys to employees and managers. The main results are that individual performance is the most legitimate dimension of worth, although job requirements and employee behaviour also have a high level of legitimacy. Formal individual competence and market value have a somewhat lower level of legitimacy, while organisational results is the dimension that has least legitimacy. In addition, the perceptions of legitimacy are shown to vary somewhat with position, profession and organisational context.
Strategies to Counter Extremism and Radicalisation in Swedish Schools – Managing Salafi Jihadists Attempts to Influence Students
Authors: Falkheimer Jesper
Published: November 2022

This article focuses on the importance that municipal schools have, and potentially can have, in counteracting radicalisation in relation to Salafist-Jihadist extremism in Sweden. The purpose of the study is to provide a review of previous research into radicalisation, with a specific focus on the role of schools. In addition to the review, there is a minor qualitative interview study with teachers and experts, which has the aim of creating a dialogue in relation to the research problem. Previous research and the interviews show that there are clear signs of anti-democratic views and values in Swedish schools, especially antisemitism and homophobia. A four-field model illustrates different approaches to radicalisation in schools. Repression is something that is primarily dealt with by law and security agencies, however there is no legal support in Sweden for school management or teachers to identify and report students suspected of radicalisation. In the main, the interviewees supported an active, open and critical dialogue as the right strategy. This is also supported by much of the research on radicalisation. It is important that teachers are well-read and have the courage to raise issues that can be seen as controversial by some students. According to several of the teachers, this is not self-evident in a Swedish context where open conflicts of opinion disrupt consensus.
How Many? Calculative Practices in the Response to the Refugee Crisis of 2015
Authors: Svenbro Maja
Published: November 2022

Crises are characterised by urgency and disorder, with the ordering practices of crisis management teams constituting key features of the response. In the Swedish refugee crisis that began in autumn 2015, numbers became a key analytic tool to comprehend, monitor and communicate the flow of people arriving in the south of the country. This study draws on theory from social studies of quantification, critical accounting and governing practices. It adopts a qualitative approach and investigates calculative practices in three local crisis teams in Malmö, Sweden. These knowledge producing practices are understood as connected to processes of problematisation, with potential implications that are not always considered. Quantification, although seemingly limited to the neutral, objective application of numbers, can have important political consequences, playing a role in how scarce societal resources are distributed during and after a crisis, as well as before the next one.
Under the Press(ure)? The Role of Media in Organisation and Provision of Municipal Elderly Care
Authors: Jernberg Signe , Pallas Josef
Published: November 2022

What is the role of media(tisation) in organisation and provision of elderly care? By looking at how planning, organising and execution of elderly care is understood in two Swedish municipalities this paper seeks to contribute to discussions of the ways in which values, preferences and working practices of news media play out in shaping conditions for provision of municipal welfare services. Our findings suggest that we can see the role of media values and preferences as embedded – although in different ways and to varying extent – in three distinct but inter-related processes that influence how actors connected to organisation and provision of municipal welfare services understand and relate to each other. These are: 1) setting the aims, aspirations and priorities in the provision of welfare services (i.e., the what); 2) translating these aims, aspirations and priorities into necessary means, resources and activities (i.e., the how); and 3) explaining and justifying the what and the how to different constituencies (i.e., the why). The paper concludes that commonly held values and beliefs about media reinforce the ongoing changes in the governing regime of elderly care in a direction where the role of municipal administrative bodies is more explicitly articulated, especially in terms of accountability and responsibility.
Institutional Primacy vs. Transnational Segmentation: Transnational Networks of Regulatory Agencies and the Administrative Identifications of National Officials
Authors: Danielsen Ole Andreas
Published: November 2022

This article investigates the effects of embedding into transnational networks of regulatory agencies (TRNs) on the administrative identifications held by national agency officials. Drawing on an organisational-institutional approach, the article discusses two contending empirical expectations linked to the notion of institutional primacy and transnational segmentation respectively. Whereas the first suggests that agency officials’ administrative identifications are primarily and predominantly oriented toward their domestic institutional surroundings, and that this feature is robust in the face of increased transnational collaboration, by contrast, the notion of transnational segmentation assumes that transnational identifications are likely to be present among national agency officials and particularly among those who maintain contacts and participate vis-à-vis TRNs. Employing survey data gathered among Norwegian agency officials, the article assesses the relative strength of different identifications and provides insights into the effects of transnational embedding vis-à-vis this behavioural property.
Inverted Moderate Moralism
Authors: Thomas Meg ,   Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
Published: November 2022

This article contributes to the philosophical debate over whether and how different forms of value interact—more specifically, moral and aesthetic value. Whereas much of the debate has been preoccupied with how moral value might affect aesthetic value, this article explores the interaction from the opposite direction. To consider the plausibility of an interaction in this direction, I first expand upon Robert Stecker’s brief discussion of the reverse affective response argument. Following this, I propose an alternative description of an aesthetic-moral interaction that might be more accurately described as “inverted moderate moralism.” Inverted moderate moralism (an inverted version of Noël Carroll’s moderate moralism) argues that aesthetic value sometimes affects moral value; sometimes aesthetic flaws yield moral flaws in works, and sometimes aesthetic merits yield moral merits. I defend inverted moderate moralism as one plausible account of aesthetic-moral value interaction, but this article hopes to illustrate that an interaction in this direction is not only plausible but warrants further consideration more generally.
Using business impact analysis to inform risk prioritization and response
Authors: Quinn Stephen , Ivy Nahla , Chua Julie , Barrett Matthew , Feldman Larry , Topper Daniel , Witte Greg , Gardner R K
Published: November 2022

While business impact analysis (BIA) has historically been used to determine availability requirements for business continuity, the process can be extended to provide a broad understanding of the potential impacts of any type of loss on the enterprise mission. The management of enterprise risk requires a comprehensive understanding of mission-essential functions (i.e., what must go right) and the potential risk scenarios that jeopardize those functions (i.e., what might go wrong). The process described in this publication helps leaders determine which assets enable the achievement of mission objectives and evaluate the factors that render assets as critical and sensitive. Based on those factors, enterprise leaders provide risk directives (i.e., risk appetite and tolerance) as input to the BIA. System owners then apply the BIA to developing asset categorization, impact values, and requirements for the protection of critical or sensitive assets. The output of the BIA is the foundation for the ERM/CSRM process, as described in the NIST IR 8286 series, and enables consistent prioritization, response, and communication regarding information security risk.
The unmet need for critical care at a quaternary paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa
Authors: Clarence E , Jeena PM
Published: November 2022

Background. Paediatric intensive care, a valuable resource that improves the outcomes of critically ill children, is often scarce. Objective. To evaluate the need for paediatric intensive care beds and compare the outcomes of admitted and non-admitted deserving cases. Methods. A prospective evaluation of all bed requests, in terms of need for intensive care and outcomes of those admitted and not admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), was performed between July 2017 and June 2018. Factors for refusal and for poor outcomes were evaluated. Results. Of the 811 bed requests, 32.6% (n=264, p<0.001) were denied access. Of the 231 deserving cases who were denied access, 85.7% (n=198) were due to unavailability of a PICU bed. Patients not admitted to PICU had a twofold increased risk of dying compared with those admitted (34.4% v. 15.5% respectively, p<0.001), even though the patient characteristics of both groups were similar (age, gender and nutritional status). In those admitted, risk factors for mortality were requiring transfusion of blood and platelets (56.0%, p<0.001), requiring two or more inotropes (52.5%, p<0.001), instability on admission (41.3%, p<0.001), prior cardiac arrest (32.0%, p=0.021), severe acute malnutrition (26.9%, p=0.043), fungal infection (22.2%, p=0.004) and emergency admission (18.0%, p<0.001). In those not admitted, prior cardiac arrest (100%, p<0.001) and emergency referral (42.3%, p<0.001) were associated with adverse outcomes. Conclusion. The need for PICU beds exceeds availability, with a consequent twofold increase in mortality among cases not admitted to PICU. Paediatric critical care services have increased at appropriate sites of need following completion of this study.
Espiriféridos del Givetiense–Frasniense de la costa asturiana (España)
Authors: García-Alcalde Jenaro L.
Published: November 2022

Se describen algunos braquiópodos espiriféridos del Givetiense superior al Frasniense inferior, de la costa asturiana (Norte de España), con los nuevos taxones Tenticospirifer? sinuosus n. sp., Eodmitria briceae n. sp., Apousiella mozarti n. sp., Apousiella dorlodoti peranensis n. subsp. y Apousiella belliloci aramaris n. subsp. La muestra representa la renovación faunística global relacionada con el Evento Tagánico. Ella permite precisar la correlación estratigráfica de las formaciones Candás y Piñeres del área y ayuda a reconocer una nueva estructura plegada: el anticlinal de Boletos. Ambos hechos, conducen a reafirmar la semejanza esencial de las sucesiones comparadas, y a rechazar la existencia de una gran fosa sedimentaria (“Surco de Luanco”) en el área de Antromero. La Formación Piñeres comprende, al menos, dos miembros: el inferior P1 muy fosilífero y el superior, P2 (Formación Piñeres sensu stricto), con restos orgánicos inidentificables. P1 es comparable con buena parte de la Formación Nocedo, del Frasniense, mientras que P2 equivale totalmente o en parte a la Formación Ermita, transgresiva, del Fameniense superior, en la provincia de León. Se propone una biozonación informal basada en los braquiópodos descritos aquí y en otros previamente conocidos, con las zonas plicatulus, verneuiliformis, peranensis, briceae, aramaris, y dumontiana. Las asociaciones asturianas muestran estrechas relaciones con las asociaciones fosilíferas francesas de Ferques (Bas Boulonnais, Francia), en particular con las de las formaciones Blacourt y Beaulieu.
Life satisfaction and parental support among secondary school students in Urumqi: the mediation of physical activity
Authors: Zuo Zehua , Li Shulin , Liu Shuyuan , Wang Qian
Published: November 2022

Background

This study is aimed to analyze the relationship between parental support, physical activity and life satisfaction among secondary school students in Urumqi city, and also to explore the mediating role of physical activity in the relationship between life satisfaction and parental support among secondary school students.

Methods

A questionnaire survey was conducted from December 2021 to January 2022, using a stratified whole-group random sampling method among 2,474 secondary school students aged 11–18 years in Urumqi city, including a general demographic questionnaire, a Chinese version of the Child and Adolescent Physical Activity Questionnaire, Chinese version of the Child and Adolescent Parental Support Scale, and the Multidimensional Student Life Satisfaction Scale. The Bootstrap mediating effect test was used to test the effect relationship between the variables, and Amos was adopted to analyze the mediating effect of physical activity between secondary school students’ life satisfaction and parental support.

Results

Secondary school students scored (33.22 ± 5.68) on life satisfaction, (2.11 ± 0.64) on physical activity, (24.85 ± 4.31) on the mother’s roll and (24.73 ± 4.40) on the father’s roll. Maternal support was a significant direct predictor of life satisfaction (β = 0.303, t = 11.893, P < 0.01). Maternal support was a positive predictor of physical activity (β = 0.027, t = 9.332, P < 0.01). And the physical activity was a positive predictor of life satisfaction (β = 1.362, t = 7.665, P < 0.01). Paternal support was a significant direct predictor of life satisfaction (β = 0.334, t = 13.448, P < 0.01). Paternal support was a positive predictor of physical activity (β = 0.030, t = 10.665, P < 0.01). Physical activity was a positive predictor of life satisfaction (β = 1.264, t = 7.119, P < 0.01). Physical activity had a mediating effect between life satisfaction and parental support (effect values: 11.88% in maternal support and 11.38% in paternal support, respectively).

Conclusions

The supportive parental environment of secondary school students in Urumqi can directly influence their life satisfaction and also indirectly influence their life satisfaction by enhancing their physical activity level, and parental support for physical activity of secondary school students should be enhanced to promote their life satisfaction level.
Noise-induced masking of hearing in a labyrinth fish: effects on sound detection in croaking gouramis
Authors: Maiditsch Isabelle Pia , Ladich Friedrich
Published: November 2022

An increasing level of anthropogenic underwater noise (shipping, drilling, sonar use, etc.) impairs acoustic orientation and communication in fish by hindering signal transmission or detection. Different noise regimes can reduce the ability to detect sounds of conspecifics due to an upward shift of the hearing threshold, a phenomenon termed masking. We therefore investigated the masking effect of white noise on the auditory thresholds in female croaking gouramis (Trichopsis vittata, Osphronemidae). We hypothesized that noise would influence the detection of conspecific vocalizations and thus acoustic communication. The auditory evoked potentials (AEP) thresholds were measured at six different frequencies between 0.1 and 4 kHz using the AEP recording technique. Sound pressure level audiograms were determined under quiet laboratory conditions (no noise) and continuous white noise of 110 dB RMS. Thresholds increased in the presence of white noise at all tested frequencies by 12–18 dB, in particular at 1.5 kHz. Moreover, hearing curves were compared to spectra of conspecific sounds to assess sound detection in the presence of noise in various contexts. We showed that masking hinders the detection of conspecific sounds, which have main energies between 1.0 and 1.5 kHz. We predict that this will particularly affect hearing of female’s low-intensity purring sounds during mating. Accordingly, noise will negatively affect acoustic communication and most likely reproductive success.