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Book Reviews
Authors: Zamani Pegah , Shaw Wendy M. K. , Childers Hope Marie , Sohoni Pushkar , Francis Razan , Smith Sarah-Neel
Published: December 2015

PERSIAN ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE: ARCHITECTURE, MEHRDAD HEJAZI AND FATEMEH MEHDIZADEH SARADJ (EDS) (2014) Boston: WIT Press, 171 pp., ISBN 9781845644123, $198.00 (hardback)

PERSIAN ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE: STRUCTURE, MEHRDAD HEJAZI AND FATEMEH MEHDIZADEH SARADJ (EDS) (2014) Boston: WIT Press, 264 pp., ISBN: 9781845648824, $198.00 (hardback)

PERSIAN ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE: CONSERVATION, MEHRDAD HEJAZI AND FATEMEH MEHDIZADEH SARADJ (EDS) (2014) Boston: WIT Press, 184 pp., ISBN: 9781845648848, $198.00 (hardback)

S¸EHRENGIZ: URBAN RITUALS AND DEVIANT SUFI MYSTICISM IN OTTOMAN ISTANBUL, B. DENIZ ÇALIS¸-KURAL (2014) Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 290 pp., 29 b/w illus., ISBN 9781472432261, $109.95 (hardback)

MIMESIS ACROSS EMPIRES: ARTWORKS AND NETWORKS IN INDIA, 1765–1860, NATASHA EATON (2014) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 331 pp., 41 colour and 3 b/w illus., bibliography, ISBN 9780822354666, $75 (hardback), ISBN 9780822354802, $25 (paperback)

MAKING SPACE: SUFIS AND SETTLERS IN EARLY MODERN INDIA, NILE GREEN (2012) New York: Oxford University Press, xvii + 339 pp., 20 b/w illus., ISBN 9780198077961, $60.00 (hardback)

MECHANISMS OF EXCHANGE: TRANSMISSION IN MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE CA. 1000–1500, ALICIA WALKER AND HEATHER GROSSMAN (EDS) (2013) Leiden: Brill, 320 pp., ISBN: 9789004249776, $82.00 (paperback)

BEYOND ANITKABI.R: THE FUNERARY ARCHITECTURE OF ATATÜRK (THE CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF NATIONAL MEMORY), CHRISTOPHER S. WILSON (2013) Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 162pp. 27 illus., ISBN 9781409429777, $114.95 (hardback)
Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Kadoi Yuka , Pasin Burkay
Published: December 2015

‘THE FASCINATION OF PERSIA: THE PERSIAN-EUROPEAN DIALOGUE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ART & CONTEMPORARY ART FROM TEHRAN’, MUSEUM RIETBERG, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND, SEPTEMBER 27, 2013–JANUARY 12, 2014

‘DATUMM: DOCUMENTING AND ARCHIVING TURKISH MODERN FURNITURE’, AHMED ADNAN SAYGUN ARTS CENTRE, İZMİR, TURKEY, FEBRUARY 6–24, 2015
The Balyan Family and the Linguistic Culture of a Parisian Education
Authors: Wharton Alyson
Published: December 2015

This article documents the Parisian education of two Armenian-Ottoman architects in Paris in the middle of the nineteenth century. Following Nigog˘os and Serkis Balyan to the Collège Sainte-Barbe, the École Centrale and the École des Beaux-Arts, it traces aspects of the education they were exposed to there. The article then moves on to investigate where the impact of this education can be seen in the specific architectural works of these individuals. Showing how the architects manipulated their Parisian education to express an Ottoman renaissance, the article stresses how these Ottoman subjects were not creating imitative works but were creative actors in their own right, engaging in an original way with what they had learned, and pragmatically refashioning it for their particular setting.
Consuming Culture: Tourism and Architecture
Authors: Khan Hasan-Uddin
Published: December 2015

This article presents a series of ideas, a mosaic if you will, about the ways in which cultural tourism design conceives and presents places and how these are received and experienced. Starting with how individuals confront culture, where forms of tourism combine religious and social aspects, it considers the impact of those great contemporary equalizers – television and the internet – on the mechanisms through which we interpret the places we visit. Part of this mix entails the experience of place and the narratives presented by the native cultures to the visitor through the expression of (authentic?) places and architectures. These are illustrated by the manifestation of different types of hotels and resorts within four main rubrics: the vernacular resort evoking a sense of place; efficient place of business within the construct of modernism; the supra-real images of twenty-first century globalization; and the reference to the past through historic built environments. This essay outlines a chain of events in touristic architecture: from that of the design and production, its transmission and impact, to the interpretation of the object by architects and writers; and its impact on the receivers – the tourist being amongst them. Aided (or confused) by the new media, tourist architecture at its worst can be an excuse for the indulgence in neo-vernacular kitsch and the formulaic, but at its best may be viewed as aiding a process of self-definition – an exploration of cultural identity.
The role of objects in supporting older adults with dementia to tell stories about their lives
Authors: Lloyd Jayne
Published: December 2015

The article discusses the role objects can play in creative projects that aim to support older adults living with dementia in residential care settings to tell stories about their lives. The role of objects in the telling of these stories is explored through a discussion of projects by Stanislaw Przybylski, an animator based in Sweden, and by Age Exchange Theatre Trust, an arts and reminiscence charity based in London. The article draws on Jennifer Gonzalez’s concept of autotopographies to propose that collections of personal artefacts can be a significant form of self-representation. The role of objects in object-based storytelling practices is questioned through Bill Brown’s ‘Thing theory’ that proposes a difference between encountering recognizable objects and engaging with the materiality or thingliness of them. These theories are applied to the projects to question the role and significance of objects to the participants’ life stories and sense of self. The article proposes that the narratives of the stories relating to participants’ lives and the art-making process itself become fragmented and deconstructed when working with people with dementia and that arts facilitators with object-based practices may be particularly well equipped to respond to this.
‘To be Where You Are – Presence, Trust and Empathy in Geriatric Care’: Theatre as a tool for reflection and change in work with dementia
Authors: Hallqvist Sara Larsdotter
Published: December 2015

Teater Inter AKT is an independent theatre company founded in 2005 and based in Malmö, Sweden. The focus of the company’s is to create performance work that addresses issues of justice and equality and is committed to providing a platform for those in society whose voices are rarely heard. This article documents a project entitled ‘To be Where You Are – Presence, Trust and Empathy in Geriatric Care’. The project was commissioned by Annica Forsgren, Coordinator of Research and Development Welfare of Local Authorities in Skåne on KFSK, and drew on the personal experiences of Nina Norèn, actor and director with Teater Inter AKT, who had cared for her elderly mother who had dementia.
Cultural imaginaries of science: A brief history of Indian science-fiction cinema
Authors: Lakkad Abhishek Vikas
Published: December 2015

This article aims to trace a history of Indian science-fiction (SF) cinema linking it with the scientific and technological milieu of the post-independence nation state. The tropes and themes that operate in Indian SF cinema across various regional film industries are juxtaposed against the sociocultural and political backdrop of the nation as well as against the historical trajectory of Indian science and technology (S&T) that manifested under the patronage of the nation state at the time of the films’ release. The article foregrounds the underlying issues and anxieties that inform SF tropes and themes in Indian cinema and grant uniqueness and legitimacy to Indian SF films. Thereby, the article hopes to establish that Indian SF cinema is not just a derivative of western genres of SF, but works by its own logic.
Fantasy to media-induced hallucination: The journey (or the lack thereof) of science fiction in Bengali cinema
Authors: Mukherjee Silpa
Published: December 2015

The article delves into the recesses of an almost non-existent genre in Bengali cinema; that of the modern science fiction (SF). It proposes that the SF imagination in Bengali cinema is driven by the mode of fantasy and is an example of an alternative modernity which celebrates the technological aspirations of the community along with the indigenous cultural elements of Bengal. The template of fantasy also changes over time from magic to media-induced hallucinations to trace the contemporary techno-media culture, addressing the desires of a media savvy and image-addicted society.
Trophies of an afternoon
Authors: Mochu
Published: December 2015

In the later years of his life, the influential British psychoanalyst Wilfred R. Bion compiled a fictional trilogy called A Memoir of the Future (1990), loosely based on his childhood in Mathura, India. Through his method – which he modestly called ‘science fiction’ – he constructed a speculative account of the future of psychoanalysis. Considered one of the greatest psychoanalytic thinkers since Freud, Bion is most well-known for his work on emotional states within groups and also for his ‘theories on thinking’. Bion’s concept of maternal ‘reverie’ as the capacity of the mother to sense (and make sense of) what is going on inside the infant has been an important element in post-Kleinian thought. All these concepts are revisited through his ‘science-fictional method’ in A Memoir of the Future (1990). Through this work he wished to break down the constraints of sense that characterized psychoanalytic writing and arrive at a ‘communication of pure non-sense’.

The text that follows is a creation myth that combines elements of science fiction and Bion’s theories of psychic envelopes, imagined within the context of the colonial experience in India.
Finding ‘corporate social responsibility’ research trends and content in Chinese universities: A literature review
Authors: Memon Zahid A. , Bhutto Arabella , Chanar Zahid Ali , Robson Mark Gregory
Published: December 2015

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) embodies a complete code of managing businesses in a sustainable and ethical manner. It is also considered to be one of the first initiatives to promote sustainable development. Corporate social responsibility and sustainable education and research have been instrumental in proliferating relevant knowledge and values in a society. In this article, we explored the current state of research pertaining to corporate social responsibility and sustainability undertaken in Chinese universities. We focused on peer reviewed research articles published by the faculty associated with universities in China. A literature review of 430 articles published in leading journals between 2000 and 2014 revealed 25 research studies dealing particularly with CSR in China. We aimed at finding, using meta-analysis techniques, the frequency, methodologies, industry focus, main findings and the overall impact on corporate social responsibility scholarship of the research published. We found that there was a notable increase in the corporate social responsibility articles written by Chinese university researchers during the past five years. Most of the articles employed an empirical research methodology to study corporate social responsibility in various sectors. There were no comparative studies found between China and other countries that may perform better in corporate social responsibility; such studies could provide insights for China’s corporate social responsibility development. We concluded that researchers affiliated with the national key universities in China contributed a large number of articles.
El calor de la teoría
Authors: García Selgas Fernando José
Published: December 2015

Este trabajo es una reflexión crítica sobre la apuesta metateórica que Alfonso Pérez Agote hace por lo que él denomina “teoría caliente” (TC). Empiezo analizando qué entiende por TC, cómo argumenta su preferencia por ella frente a la “teoría fría” y cómo la aplica de manera efectiva. Tras recordar que esta tesis resulta un salto en el vacío respecto a planteamientos previos mejor asentados, paso a cuestionar algunos de sus supuestos e implicaciones. Todo ello, más el hecho de que la practica sociológica del propio Alfonso parece incumplir su propuesta, viene a mostrar que la tesis de la TC resulta ser una excusa innecesaria y perjudicial para quien, queriendo ceñirse a la investigación empírica, no puede evitar tomar partido en los debates teóricos y ve la realidad social como una realidad predefinida.
La nación, la diáspora y lo social disperso
Authors: Irazuzta Ignacio
Published: December 2015

El artículo pone en relación el tema del Estado-nación y el nacionalismo en la obra de Alfonso Pérez-Agote con los debates acerca de las diásporas y el transnacionalismo que despuntan en las ciencias sociales de los años noventa. En el primer apartado, partiendo de la distinción entre Estado y nación como estrategia analítica inicial en dicha obra, se señalan los principales puntos que hacen al proceso de construcción de la realidad social en la modernidad para indicar la conformación de un orden social y subjetivo acotado a la delimitación territorial del Estado-nación. En el segundo, se introducen los principales términos de la problematización sobre las diásporas y el transnacionalismo en las ciencias sociales, subrayando las tendencias hacia la desterritorialización del vínculo social y la emergencia sobreexpuesta de las subjetividades que dichas tendencias provocan. Se sugiere así el paso de una sociedad acotada a la medida territorial del Estado-nación a un orden social disperso en el que la nación excede al Estado y el sujeto se descentra respecto a las instituciones que gestionan la legitimidad en la era del Estado-nación.
Diez propuestas para cuidarse y cuidar en las profesiones sociales. Hacia la construcción de una cultura del cuidado en los profesionales
Authors: Puig Cruells Carmina
Published: December 2015

Los profesionales son el recurso más valioso del sistema de servicios sociales y deben de cuidarse para poder cuidar. Cada día se enfrentan con historias de superación, pero también de dolor y de frustración, que los confrontan con ellos mismos. El artículo quiere contribuir a la generación de consciencia sobre los efectos que produce en los profesionales trabajar con situaciones de riesgo psicosocial y promover la atención y la proactividad en lugar de instalarse en el malestar. De lo contrario, este malestar se traslada al interior de los equipos y también, en última instancia, a las personas atendidas. Para ello, se fundamentan diez propuestas teórico– prácticas: la interdependencia, la inteligencia colectiva, el doble cuidado, atender la subjetividad, dotarse de una mirada molecular sobre las situaciones, la confianza, el volver a la palabra, la creatividad y el cuidado, investigar para cuidar y cuidarse y, por último, la supervisión social como forma de atención y autocuidado. Todas ellas son las reflexiones que resultan de una práctica sistematizada y del estudio realizado durante el ejercicio de supervisiones con diez equipos y sesenta profesionales del ámbito psicosocial, con el propósito de contribuir a la construcción de una mirada colectiva y así fundar una cultura del cuidado profesional.
VANTAGEM COMPETITIVA BASEADA EM OPERAÇÕES EM EMPRESAS DE SETORES TRADICIONAIS DA INDÚSTRIA DE TRANSFORMAÇÃO
Authors: Viana Fernando Luiz Emerenciano , Luna Roger Augusto , Teles Raiza Maria de Oliveira
Published: December 2015

Esse artigo tem como objetivo geral avaliar as fontes de obtenção de vantagem competitiva de empresas de setores industriais tradicionais. Trata-se de um estudo de casos múltiplos interpretativo, realizado em três setores da indústria de transformação, totalizando seis empresas. Utilizou-se o método das comparações constantes para a análise dos dados, que foram coletados com uso de roteiro semiestruturado, por meio de entrevistas em profundidade. Em linhas gerais, as empresas pesquisadas possuem fontes complementares de obtenção de vantagem competitiva, destacando-se o relacionamento com os fornecedores, a capacidade de inovação e a escala de produção. Assim sendo, entende-se que nos setores pesquisados a função operações constitui uma arma competitiva, tendo em vista que as empresas desses setores possuem fontes de vantagem competitiva que podem ser associadas a competências operacionais, logo, possuem vantagem competitiva baseada em operações.
O GRANDE DESAFIO DAS INSTITUIÇÕES DE ENSINO SUPERIOR: As práticas pedagógicas criativas são capazes de estimular a inovação nos discentes?
Authors: Cassol Alessandra , Canela Renata , Ruas Roberto Lima , Bizzarias Flavio Santino , Da Silva Jussara Goulart
Published: December 2015

A presente pesquisa teve como propósito analisar o papel da inovação no ensino superior por meio das práticas docentes criativas. Utilizou-se da pesquisa quantitativa descritiva, por meio de uma survey com corte transversal e aplicação de questionários estruturados disponibilizados para preenchimento via web em um site especializado em coleta de dados. A amostra foi constituída de 390 estudantes de IES privadas de São Paulo, Minas Gerais e Santa Catarina. A análise estatística foi realizada em duas etapas; a primeira para exploração dos dados e a segunda para a modelagem por equações estruturais para confirmação do modelo teórico proposto. Os principais resultados apontaram para a importância do estímulo à inovação por meio de novas ideias que possam ensejar no aluno um ambiente de reflexão. Esta prática ficou evidenciada nos resultados com a relevância das dimensões Incentivo a Novas Ideias e Clima para a Expressão de Novas ideias.
AVALIAÇÃO DAS EXPECTATIVAS RELACIONADAS AOS SERVIÇOS DE UMA INSTITUIÇÃO DE ENSINO SUPERIOR SEGUNDO O MODELO SERVQUAL
Authors: Duarte Nayra De Oliveira , Oliveira Fabrícia Souza , Pires Mário Anderson Librelon , Andrade Frederico Marques , De Paula Pablo Peron
Published: December 2015

A avaliação da qualidade é uma realidade no setor de prestação de serviços, tornando-se uma ferramenta estratégica organizacional, uma vez que verifica as etapas e os passos para aprimorá-la. O objetivo deste estudo foi identificar as dimensões relacionadas à expectativa dos discentes frente à qualidade dos serviços prestados pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação lato sensu de uma Instituição de Ensino Superior (IES) particular. Tratou-se de um estudo descritivo e quantitativo. Para coleta dos dados, foi utilizada a primeira parte do questionário validado SERVQUAL – expectativas adaptado. Os dados foram analisados utilizando-se do programa estatístico SPSS v. 19, segundo Estatística descritiva, Distribuição de frequência e Alfa de Cronbach. Os resultados permitiram constatar que os discentes possuem altas expectativas ao contratar um serviço de Pós-Graduação latu sensu, bem como identificar quais itens geraram as maiores e as menores expectativas. A pesquisa permitirá a IES reorientar as ações e elaborar planos estratégicos, a fim de atender à expectativa dos clientes e, com isso, aumentar a qualidade dos serviços disponibilizados.
Significance of the root connection on the dormancy release and vegetative bud burst of Norway spruce (Picea abies) seedlings in relation to accumulated chilling
Authors: Partanen Jouni , Häkkinen Risto , Hänninen Heikki
Published: December 2015

The effect of cutting the root connection by detaching the shoot from the root system on dormancy release and vegetative bud burst was examined in 2-year-old seedlings of Norway spruce ( [L.] Karst.). Seedlings were transferred at 1â4 week intervals between October and January from outdoor conditions to experimental forcing in a heated greenhouse. Before forcing, half of the seedlings were cut above ground line, and the detached shoots were forced with their cut ends placed in water. The intact seedlings were forced with their root system remaining intact in the pots. Vegetative bud burst was observed visually. Cutting the root connection slightly increased days to bud burst in the forcing conditions, however, no consistent effect on bud burst percentage was found. Our preliminary seedling data suggest that using detached tree material in dormancy release experiments may have a small effect on bud burst date but it will evidently not lead to drastically erroneous conclusions. Further studies, using different seed lots, are needed to assess the effect of detaching on the dormancy release and bud burst, especially in adult trees.Picea abies
Alfred Martineau et la « genèse » du protectorat. Le cas indien (1745–1761)
Authors: Vaghi Massimiliano
Published: December 2015

Alfred Martineau was a prominent colonial officer during the Third French Republic, and a scholar in history and international politics. His studies dealt with the problem of the origins of the “modern” form of colonialism in the second half of the nineteenth century, besides Ancien Régime French colonization. He saw the roots of “modern” European colonial rule in the activities of Dupleix and Bussy in eighteenth-century India. By underscoring the importance of both French officers, Martineau noticed important differences in the colonial activities of the two. According to Martineau, while Dupleix supported the idea of direct military conquest, Bussy favored a method of “indirect” colonization that was in some way the harbinger of the nineteenth-century model of protectorates. Yet in the light of the sources at our disposal today, the differences in the action of the two French colonizers are much less marked than in the frame depicted by Martineau. Both Dupleix and Bussy, in fact, used both coercion and more conciliatory policies toward indigenous India rulers. Dupleix and Bussy welded the usual economic and trade interests to the necessities of governance, in a similar way to French protectorates in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Changements et opportunités dans l'architecture en Indochine pendant la période de Vichy
Authors: Herbelin Caroline
Published: December 2015

World War Two was a period of extensive changes in architecture in colonial Indochina despite the very trying conditions of the time. This period was marked by the reshaping of architecture's role in the colony's politics and by the evolution in architectural practices that anticipated, to a certain extent, postcolonial times. This article explains these transformations by considering two factors: first, the growing strength and diversity of private architects, among whom emerged the first generation of Vietnamese architects trained at the Indochinese School of Fine Art; and second, the particular way which the Vichyite government of Admiral Decoux (1884–1963) then facing a difficult situation, used architecture both to restore French prestige and to increase nationalism among the colonized.
LGBTQ Kids, School Safety, and Missing the Big Picture: How the Dominant Bullying Discourse Prevents School Professionals from Thinking about Systemic Marginalization or … Why We Need to Rethink LGBTQ Bullying
Authors: Payne Elizabethe , Smith Melissa
Published: December 2015

Dominant understanding of LGBTQ students' school experiences has been shaped by discourses that reduce “the problem” to bullies who express homophobic attitudes by targeting LGBTQ peers. In turn, interventions typically focus on eliminating bullying behaviors and providing protection for victims. Within this framework, cultural privileging of heterosexuality and gender normativity goes unquestioned, LGBTQ marginalization is reproduced and re-entrenched in new ways, and schools avoid responsibility for complicity in LGBTQ harassment. This paper explores educators' stories of LGBTQ harassment and how dominant bullying discourses are shaping educators' understandings of the needs of LGBTQ students. We propose a new definition of bullying to create a more useful framework for understanding the social nature of peer-to-peer aggression and designing interventions to address the cultural roots of this aggression. Finally, we take the position that a majority of peer-to-peer aggression in U.S. public schools is some form of gender policing, and we believe bullying must be redefined to account for relationships between peer targeting and structural inequalities.
Sleight of Hand: Michigan's Anti-Bullying Law, (Un)acceptable Exceptions, and the Reversal of Policy Making Rhetoric
Authors: Lythgoe Kenneth
Published: December 2015

This article analyzes the rhetoric of the policy-making discourse surrounding Matt's Safe School Law, a Michigan anti-bullying law made famous by a Republican amendment exempting expressions of religious/moral belief from legal censure. I argue against the popular narrative that the exemption's ultimate removal represented a progressive/LGBTQ victory. The religious/morality exemption constituted a conservative appropriation of an otherwise progressive policy commitment: the enumeration of protected classes of students. This appropriation invited progressives to deploy otherwise conservative anti-enumeration arguments, baiting them into embracing an unenumerated version of Matt's Law that they previously deemed unacceptable. I close by contemplating what this rhetorical sleight of hand means for queer critiques of LGBTQ-oriented policy, highlighting the violence of policy making that targets LGBTQ people without explicitly naming them.
The Nurses of Bataan: Liberating Wartime Heroes from Melodrama
Authors: Wieskamp Valerie N.
Published: December 2015

This essay addresses rhetorical implications involved in naming national “heroes.” I show that contemporary discourse holds narrow conceptions of heroism that limit who may be granted agency in social narratives and do so by examining one of the quintessential forms of heroism in the United States, namely, wartime heroism. Dominant constructions of “heroism” follow a melodramatic frame that privileges masculine, individualistic actors who rescue the weak by eliminating or conquering the enemy. By examining undertold stories of nurses interned in the Philippines during World War II, I explore rhetorical resources that might broaden this frame to help us envision a “healing heroism.”
“‘Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.”: The Power of Place and the Rhetorical Life of a Cold War Map
Authors: Barney Timothy
Published: December 2015

In 1951, the American Federation of Labor produced a map of the Soviet Union showing the locations of 175 forced labor camps administered by the Gulag. Widely appropriated in popular magazines and newspapers, and disseminated internationally as propaganda against the U.S.S.R., the map, entitled “‘Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.,” would be cited as “one of the most widely circulated pieces of anti-Communist literature.” By contextualizing the map's origins and circulation, as well as engaging in a close analysis of its visual codes and intertextual relationships with photographs, captions, and other materials, this essay argues that the Gulag map became an evidentiary weapon in the increasingly bipolar spaces of the early Cold War. In particular, “‘Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.” draws on cartography's unique power of “placement” to locate forced labor camps with authenticity and precision, infiltrating the impenetrable spaces of the Soviet Union as a visually compelling mode of Cold War knowledge production.
Snyder v. Phelps: The U.S. Supreme Court's Spectacular Erasure of the Tragic Spectacle
Authors: Bruner M. Lane , Balter-Reitz Susan
Published: December 2015

On March 2, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court determined in Snyder v. Phelps that protests by members of Westboro Baptist Church, a small group of religious fundamentalists committed to communicating their beliefs publicly in spectacular fashion, were protected under the First Amendment based on a dual standard of “public concern”; that is, their speech dealt with sociopolitical issues and their speech attracted media attention. This rhetorical conflation of sociopolitical issues with subjects of media interest provides legal encouragement for the creation of media spectacles on the part of hate groups and other ideologues and discourages the development of the very public reason taken for granted by the Court. To defend this claim, we first provide a brief history of the Westboro Baptist Church and its strategic manipulation of the mass media and free speech law, situated within competing traditions of public sphere theory. After next providing a history of the judicial evolution of Snyder v. Phelps, we engage in a close reading of the majority and dissenting Supreme Court opinions to reveal the rhetorical conflation of “public issues” and “public concern,” and we conclude with reflections on the relationships among that conflation, the role of different forms of spectacle in advanced capitalist societies, and the possibilities for more informed democratic citizenship.
The Trouble with “Public Bodies”: On the Anti-Democratic Rhetoric of The Federalist
Authors: Engels Jeremy David
Published: December 2015

This essay investigates the anti-democratic rhetoric of The Federalist. In The Federalist, politics is imagined via the medical logics of the eighteenth century. For Publius, democracy is an incitement to factions and incubator of disease because it requires citizens to gather in deliberative “public bodies.” In describing democratic “disease,” The Federalist claims that the body politic is always already a threat to itself and frames the role of governance as the management of the emergence of those threats. In so doing, The Federalist forwards an early American rhetoric of misodemia—the hatred of democracy.
Citying in the Anthropocene
Authors: Jemtrud Michael , Ragsdale Keith
Published: December 2015

Historically, cities have been the repository and medium for our collective works, aspirations, and celebrations, driven by the promise of prosperity, wellbeing, and societal accord. Contemporary cities are technologically mediated in a manner that is reconfiguring the spatial and temporal conditions of the urban realm at an unprecedented scale and pace. We are experiencing a substantial transmutation of the material, utilitarian, everyday, spectacular, and symbolic reality of the urban, and with it, our capacity to be urbane, together. Although the design, construction, and operation of cities is seen as chiefly a practical and technical challenge, the “how” must be guided by questions of a fundamental, axiological nature – that is to say, questions concerning the values, ethics, qualities, political and aesthetic experience of urban life.

Such qualitative values are most potently expressed in the artefacts and events of a meaningful and productive cultural life. Understanding the relationship between variously formal and informal modes of urban collectivity – referred to in this paper as
citying – and the formal practices of
city-making as a sophisticated cultural and technical enterprise motivates this inquiry. Furthermore, it will be argued here that such questions concerning culturally defined notions of values are inseparable from our ever-present awareness of humanity’s role in whole-scale environmental degradation otherwise known as the era of the Anthropocene. Thus, a triad is formed –
culture–technology–environment – that fundamentally defines the way in which we make and inhabit contemporary cities.
O impacto das memórias de vergonha na adolescência: A escala de Centralidade do Acontecimento (CES)
Authors: Cunha Marina , Xavier Ana , Matos Marcela , Faria Daniela
Published: December 2015

Experiências adversas, particularmente, experiências precoces de vergonha podem funcionar como memórias traumáticas e serem centrais na formação da autoidentidade. O objetivo da presente pesquisa é analisar a estrutura dimensional e qualidades psicométricas da versão portuguesa para adolescentes da Centrality of Event Scale (CES). Participaram 397 adolescentes com idades entre os 12 e os 18 anos a frequentarem escolas públicas de ensino regular. Em conjunto com a CES, os jovens preencheram outros questionários que avaliavam a sintomatologia psicopatológica e a perceção de sentimentos de vergonha externa e interna Os resultados revelam que a CES possui uma boa consistência interna, uma adequada estabilidade temporal e uma estrutura unidimensional. A centralidade das experiências de vergonha mostraram uma correlação positiva com os sintomas de psicopatologia e com os sentimentos atuais de vergonha. Estes dados sugerem que a CES-A é um instrumento robusto e útil na avaliação da centralidade das memórias de vergonha na adolescência.
Marking the Body, Marking the Text: David Greetham's "Archive Fever"
Authors: Harris Katherine D.
Published: December 2015

A Talk Given in Honor David Greetham's Retirement from The Graduate Center, CUNY
Iconoclastic Textuality: The Ecclesiastical Proust Archive
Authors: Drouin Jeffrey
Published: December 2015

This articles presents a project bearing the direct stamp of David Greetham, the Ecclesiastical Proust Archive , which began as an experiment in isolating textual features and grew into a larger project synthesizing editorial, archival, and analytic practices. The project’s examination of textuality might seem at odds with its more recent forays into text analysis and topic modeling. Its evolution is interesting in light of recent trends in digital humanities that attempt to balance “big data” analysis and actual humanities interpretation. In what follows I will describe how the project came about as a way of interpreting Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu and then, with David’s nudging, developed into an open-ended digital humanities project that continues to evolve today.
Review of Lesser, Zachary, ‘Hamlet’ After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Authors: Murphy Andrew
Published: December 2015

Review of Lesser, Zachary, ‘Hamlet’ After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Review of Phillips, Kim M. Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245–1510. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Authors: Gaster Timothy
Published: December 2015

Review of Phillips, Kim M. Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245–1510. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
A Few Figs from Thistles: Edna St. Vincent Millay—“Constant only to the Muse” and Not To Be Taken Lightly
Authors: Davis Geffrey
Published: December 2015

A Few Figs from Thistles (1920) has been received much differently than Edna St. Vincent Millay’s other poetic work.  Scholars repeatedly describe this volume as “light verse,” an impression that, I argue, is misinformed.  This mischaracterization of Millay’s Figs from Thistles is not only due to the literary and cultural challenges faced by women modernist writers of the 1920s, but also because of the volume’s difficult production history, including her original publisher’s poor business practices and the resulting interruption in her early poetic output.  The material record—unpublished correspondence with close friends and poets Arthur Ficke and Witter (Hal) Bynner, as well as working manuscripts—shows that Millay was creating the poetry that we know as Figs from Thistle together with poems that span a larger portion of her oeuvre, including several poems that would appear in the Pulitzer-winning The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923), a volume typically read as the product of a markedly more “developed” or “mature” Millay.  However, as I demonstrate in this article, Millay’s legacy cautions against critical approaches that rehearse unchecked readings, and her concerted efforts to “revise” Figs from Thistles and its reception further highlight the hazards of discourses largely informed by the conceptual attractiveness of poetic maturation.
Die neue ZHAW Hochschulbibliothek in Winterthur: Eine aktivitätsbasierte Raumkonzeption der Lernlandschaft
Authors: Giella Wolfgang
Published: December 2015

In atemberaubend kurzer Zeit entstand mit der neuen Hochschulbibliothek der Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW) in Winterthur eine der modernsten Fachhochschulbibliotheken Europas. Der neue Bibliotheksstandort befindet sich in einem denkmalgeschützten Industriegebäude und weist rund 4 620 Quadratmeter Bruttonutzfläche auf. Zusätzlich entstand eine Lernlandschaft von über 1 700 Quadratmetern. Ihre aktivitätsorientierte Konzipierung sowie ihr Betrieb und erste Erfahrungen bilden einen Schwerpunkt dieses Beitrags.
Reverse Bonus Certificate Design and Valuation Using Pricing by Duplication Methods
Authors: Bobriková Martina , Harčariková Monika
Published: December 2015

In this paper we perform an analysis of a capped reverse bonus certificate, the value of which is derived from the value of an underlying asset. A pricing formula for the portfolio replication method is applied to price the capped reverse bonus certificate. A replicating portfolio has profit that is identical to profit from a combination of positions in spot and derivative market, i.e. vanilla and exotic options. Based upon the theoretical option pricing models, the replicating portfolio for capped reverse bonus certificate on the Euro Stoxx 50 index is engineered. We design the capped reverse bonus certificate with various parameters and calculate the issue prices in the primary market. The profitability for the potential investor at the maturity date is provided. The relation between the profit change of the investor and parameters’ change is detected. The best capped reverse bonus certificate for every estimated development of the index is identified.
Identifying and Explaining the Efficiency of the Public Health Systems in European Countries
Authors: Asandului Laura , Popescu Cristian , Fătulescu Ionuț Puiu
Published: December 2015

The purpose of this study was to identify the efficient European healthcare systems. The study differs from other similar researches in that it uses different variables in assessing the efficiency of the healthcare systems, and also in that it uses a two-stage approach in the analysis.

In order to identify the efficient healthcare systems, we used a non-parametric method, Data Envelopment Analysis, which allows the evaluation of the countries against an efficiency frontier. Furthermore, we explain the efficiency by analysing several factors which influence the efficiency of the healthcare systems, using the censored regression analysis.

The findings indicate that there are significant efficiency disparities both among the developed states and among the developing ones. Finally, we suggest several directions for the public policy, in order to increase the efficiency of the public healthcare systems in the European countries.
The Impact of Economic Growth on Gender Specific Unemployment in the EU
Authors: Brincikova Zuzana , Darmo Lubomir
Published: December 2015

The relationship between unemployment and economic growth is known as Okun´s Law. Okun´s Law is used to estimate the reaction of unemployment rate on change in GDP growth. The purpose of this paper is therefore to examine the possibly asymmetric relationship between changes in output and gender specific unemployment rates by estimating Okun´s coefficients for all countries of the EU, as well as for selected groups of the EU countries. These groups include countries with similar characteristics that differ from other groups and represent the diversity among the EU. The results confirm that male unemployment is more sensitive to changes in GDP than the unemployment of females. Furthermore, findings differ on the country´s specifics with higher sensitivity in countries with lower economic performance.
The European Central Bank Quantitative Policy and Its Consistency with the Demand for Liquidity
Authors: Hlebik Sviatlana , Verga Giovanni
Published: December 2015

In 2008 the European Central Bank added a new quantitative policy strategy to its traditional control of the interest rates. This new policy, sometimes called “enhanced credit support”, consists of fully satisfying the demand for liquidity of banks, with the European Central Bank deciding only the timing and characteristics of its interventions. This study analyses the market conditions in which these measures have been taken and their consistency with the demand for liquidity by the banking system. Measures in favour of the sovereign debt of PIIGS countries are also considered.
Econometric Tests of the CAPM Model for a Portfolio Composed of Companies Listed on Nasdaq and Dow Jones Components
Authors: Vintilă Georgeta , Păunescu Radu Alin
Published: December 2015

We tested empirically through econometric methods the classic CAPM model for 15 shares listed on the NASDAQ market in United States of America. The results showed that, for the majority of shares, there is a linear relation between expected return and market return. The shares of the largest companies from sample (AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, etc. INTC) had a subunitary beta and the shares of smaller companies (ADBE, YHOO, BIDU etc.) had a beta greater than one. Compared with Security Market Line (SML) the shares were found to be overestimated and overstated and using GARCH-VECH model we identified the presence of high correlation between shares and the volatility spillover phenomenon.
Nanoparticles as a Tool for Transfection and Transgenesis – a Review
Authors: Dzięgiel Natalia
Published: December 2015

Nanoparticles can be an alternative for currently used viral and non-viral systems of transporting exogenous DNA into cells, and furthermore, can be an effective way to produce transgenic animals. The possibility of linking them with proteins, lipids and of adding ligands enables improved transfection by making the crossing of membranes and the breaking of the endosomal barrier more efficient. Additionally, by the addition of magnetic particles it is possible to amend the intracellular kinetics of nanoparticle-DNA complexes. This review considers the use of nanoparticles to transfect cells and embryos and their possible application as a non-viral vector in animal transgenesis.
14. Effect of Dietary Supplementation of Garlic (Allium Sativum) and Turmeric (Curcuma Longa) on Growth Performance, Carcass Traits, Blood Profile and Oxidative Status in Growing Rabbits
Authors: Alagawany Mahmoud , Ashour Elwy Ali , Reda Fayez Mohamed
Published: December 2015

This study was performed to investigate the effects of dietary supplementation with garlic and turmeric powder as growth promoter agents on performance, carcass traits, serum biochemistry, and antioxidant enzyme activities of growing rabbits. A total of 112 New Zealand White rabbits (NZW) at 5 weeks of age were randomly assigned to seven treatments with four replicates. The dietary treatments consisted of 7 groups as follows; the basal diet as control, phytogenic additives groups were supplemented with 2, 4, and 6 g/kg garlic or turmeric powder added to the basal diet. There were no linear and quadratic differences (P<0.05) in growth performance after garlic or turmeric supplementation at all studied ages. Compared with the control group, supplementation of diets with garlic or turmeric linearly and quadratically elevated immunity biomarkers such as total protein (TP), albumin (AL) and immunoglobulin (IgG) levels and decreased (linearly and quadratically, P<0.05) aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT ), triglyceride (TG) and total cholesterol (TC) levels in rabbit serum. However, TP, AL, globulin (GL), IgG and IgM levels were linearly and quadratically enhanced with increasing turmeric levels versus the control diet. Hepatic superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT ) and glutathione peroxidase GSH-Px activities as well as reduced glutathione (GSH) concentrations were linearly and quadratically (P<0.05) improved in garlic or turmeric additives fed groups. While MDA concentration was statistically (linearly, P= 0.022) reduced in comparison with the control group. It could be concluded that garlic or turmeric supplementation (2, 4 and 6 g/kg) did not linearly and quadratically affect growth performance but improved the immunity responses and lowered the lipid profile in blood and lipid peroxidation in liver and increased hepatic antioxidant activity in treated rabbits.
Translation memory and computer assisted translation tool for medieval texts
Authors: Törcsvári Attila
Published: December 2015

Translation memories (TMs), as part of Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tools, support translators reusing portions of formerly translated text. Fencing books are good candidates for using TMs due to the high number of repeated terms. Medieval texts suffer a number of drawbacks that make hard even “simple” rewording to the modern version of the same language. The analyzed difficulties are: lack of systematic spelling, unusual word orders and typos in the original. A hypothesis is made and verified that even simple modernization increases legibility and it is feasible, also it is worthwhile to apply translation memories due to the numerous and even extremely long repeated terms. Therefore, methods and algorithms are presented 1. for automated transcription of medieval texts (when a limited training set is available), and 2. collection of repeated patterns. The efficiency of the algorithms is analyzed for recall and precision.
HEMA in the map of science
Authors: Miskolczi Mátyás
Published: December 2015

This article aims to place HEMA on the map of science. To be able to start this work I have to find an appropriate definition on science and on discipline (field of science). After describing main characters of a discipline I investigate HEMA if it shows this characteristic or can be recognised as an interdisciplinary field. The second question I focus on is the place of this field between disciplines and interdisciplinary topics. For this investigation I review methods of bibliometrics and scientometrics and choose a fitting method to be able to get an answer. I also choose a relevant sample of publications the chosen method can be performed on. After mapping HEMA and having result of the chosen method I try to give a picture on the development of in-field usage of HEMA-related works (how often relevant articles are cited by other HEMA-related articles).
The Neapolitan School of Fencing: Its Origins and Early Characteristics
Authors: Blair Charles
Published: December 2015

The Neapolitan school of fencing, which received official sanction after the reunification of Italy in the nineteenth century, originated in the seventeenth century. It was originally best known as a system of sword and dagger fencing. It is documented as such in both Italian and Spanish sources during the reign of Carlos II and the War of the Spanish Succession (1665-1714). This article discusses the evidence from both sets of sources during this period, comparing and contrasting the Neapolitan approach to previous, contemporary and subsequent approaches in order to provide the necessary historical context for its origin and development.
The guild and the swordsman
Authors: Chandler Jean
Published: December 2015

Guilds have a well-established association with the fencing systems of medieval Europe, and the phenomenon of guilds has been the subject of a great deal of new academic research in the last 20 years or so. A thorough summary of the recent scholarship on guilds and their structure and history will help provide context for what may be loosely described as armed guilds. Though armed guilds have not yet been the subject of a proper systematic analysis, it is possible to tentatively identify four types. Combining the summary of ‘civilian’ guilds with the emerging evidence of armed guilds, including the fencing guilds, may help us better understand the social relevance of martial arts in medieval and Early Modern Europe. This may in turn contribute positively to the ongoing efforts to interpret the medieval fightbooks.
Organization and Regulation of Fencing in the Realm of France in the Renaissance
Authors: Dupuis Olivier
Published: December 2015

During the nineteenth century, many sources were published about the regulation of fencing in Renaissance France. Comparing those sources shows significant though incomplete uniformity in the formalities observed in the training of students of fencing, particularly in the process followed by the neophyte in his passage to mastery of the art of defence.