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La Paz’s Colonial Specters
Authors: Sierra Luis M. 
Published: December 2020

This original study examines a vital but neglected aspect of the 1952 National Revolution in Bolivia; the activism of urban inhabitants. Many of these activists were Aymara-speaking people of indigenous origin who transformed the urban environment, politics and place of “indígenas” and “neighbors” within the city of La Paz. Luis Sierra traces how these urban residents faced racial discrimination and marginalization despite their political support for the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR). La Paz’s Colonial Specters reassesses the contingent, relational nature of Bolivia’s racial categories and the artificial division between urban and rural activists.
Building on rich established historiography on the indigenous people of Bolivia, Luis Sierra breaks new ground in showing the role of the neighborhoods in the process of urbanization, and builds upon analysis of the ways in which race, gender and class discourse shaped migrants interactions with other urban residents. Questioning how and why this multiclass and multi-ethnic group continued to be labelled by elites and the state as “un-modern” indigena, the author uses La Paz to demonstrate the ways in which race, class, and gender intertwine in urbanization and in conceptions of the city and nation.
Of interest to scholars, researchers and advanced students of Latin American history, urban history, the history of activism and the history of ethnic conflict, this unique study covers the previously neglected first half of the 20th century to shed light on the urban development of La Paz and its racial and political divides.
Talawa Theatre Company
Authors: Vivian Johnson David 
Published: December 2020

This study - the first of its kind - examines the history, performance work and achievements of Talawa theatre company under the tenure of its co-founder and artistic director from 1986 until 2003, Yvonne Brewster.
The notion of achievement is understood within the contemporary British theatrical context, highlighting the originality of Talawa's work and, by extension, the company's commitment to its mission statement. The book is divided in two parts - the first covering the founding of Talawa in 1986 up to 2001, and the second covering the company under its new artistic director, taking us to the present day.
Within these two parts, the book provides a historical context for Talawa's performance work, presenting a chronology of the company's performance roots that are shown to begin in Africa, develop in Jamaica and end in the UK. It examines Talawa's history between 1986 and 2001, including a discussion of definitions of black British theatre, Talawa's mission statement the company's residency in the West End. In the subsequent sections, the author moves on to draw out aspects of Talawa's performance work thematically, focusing on their Caribbean, American and English plays. Finally, he highlights Talawa's history, artistic accomplishments, impact and legacy, with a view to where the company might go in the future.
Communicating Fashion
Authors: Lascity Myles Ethan 
Published: December 2020

How did you decide what to wear today? Did you base your selection on comfort or style? Did you want to blend in or stand out from the crowd — or was it just the cleanest outfit available?
We each make these decisions every day, reflecting how we view ourselves and impacting how others see us. Our choices matter — not just to us personally, but also to the array of magazine editors, brand ambassadors, and trend forecasters who make a living by selling to us. Communicating Fashion introduces key concepts from the intersecting worlds of fashion and communication studies to connect how people use clothing to express themselves and how media systems support that process. In doing so, Myles Ethan Lascity explores social, cultural, and ethical issues through the work of fashion journalism, brand promotions, and the growing role of online influencers, as well as the impact of film, television, and art on self-image and expression.
Material Lives
Authors: Dyer Serena 
Published: December 2020

Conventional histories of the 18th century – and the industrial revolution and the birth of the consumer society – have distorted our understanding of the complex dynamics of material production and consumption and the ways in which these were experienced by both men and women. With its illuminating stories of women’s experiences, and their material literacy and agency as producers, Material Lives offers a new way of looking at this period, challenging previously held views and assumptions. Using deep archival research to tell these stories, Material Lives shifts the conceptual framework by which women are perceived as passive consumers – those who bought things – to active producers – those who made things.
Dyer focusses on genteel women, whose engagement with production has traditionally been characterised as decorative, trivial and superficial, and reveals the strategies used by women to negotiate and record their interactions with the increasingly sophisticated world of goods. Exploring the material archives of four women of the period – fabric samples, ‘dress of the year’ watercolours, doll-sized versions of women’s garments and adorned prints – as forms of lifewriting, or material biographies, the book reveals how women used the material culture of making to record and navigate their lives. In so doing, Material Lives challenges our previously held understanding of 18th-century society and the history of gender, making and consumption, placing women centrally as ‘makers’ in this new consumer society. For researchers and students of material culture, dress history, consumption, gender and women’s history, it offers a rich resource of stories to illuminate the past.
Material Lives traces the stories of four eighteenth-century women. Instead of words, these women used needles, brush strokes and scissors to craft their personal narratives. This book pieces together the scattered material remnants left by Barbara Johnson, Ann Frankland Lewis, Sabine Winn and Laetitia Powell, and unveils the material strategies they used to manage and memorialise their lives. As material forms of life-writing, these records contain rich evidence of the emotional, cultural and social lives of these women. Through stitches and brush strokes, the miscellany of creative material methods they used reveal that the abundant world of goods, which has dominated narratives around consumer culture, also fuelled women as makers. This book challenges the binary distinctions between makers and consumers, and instead suggests that a fluid material literacy was shared across society. The women examined crafted representational records of their own consumption, through which they managed and memorialised their consumer activity. Buying and making sat side by side, unified in a material culture of sartorial life-writing. Making, this book shows, was a powerful act of agency which was used to mediate a sophisticated consumer culture. These women chronicled their consumption through making, and they crafted their biography from dress.
Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria
Authors: Shkodrova Albena , Evans Bryce 
Published: December 2020

How did people exist and resist in their daily lives under Soviet control in the Cold War period? Shkodrova’s monograph shows how in communist Bulgaria many women passionately exchanged recipes with friends and strangers, to build substantial and impressive private collections of recipes. This activity was borderline contraband in going against the general disapproval of home cooking that formed part of the ideology of communism, in which home cooking was considered household slavery and an agent of patriarchalism.
Private recipe collections were by far the preferred written source of culinary information, more popular than the state-approved commercial cookbooks. Shkodrova shows how these recipe collections held many different meanings for the women who collected them, from helping to navigate the communist economy, to enabling new friendships to be developed while engaging safely in power relations, and cultivating a sense of individual identity in a society where collective existence was prioritised and exalted. Drawing on primary sources including scrapbook cookbooks and working from the establishment of cookery classes before communism and their obliteration thereafter, Shkodrova presents a structured outline of the meanings of recipes exchange and home cooking for Bulgarian women under communism.
A Foreigner’s Cinematic Dream of Japan
Authors: Haukamp Iris 
Published: December 2020

In early 1936, a German film team arrived in Japan to participate in a film coproduction, intended to show the ‘real’ Japan to the world and to launch Japanese films into international markets. The two directors, one Japanese and the other German, clashed over the authenticity of the represented Japan and eventually directed two versions, The Samurai’s Daughter and New Earth, based on a common script. The resulting films hold a firm place in film history as an exercise in - or reaction against - politically motivated propaganda, respectively.
A Foreigner’s Cinematic Dream of Japan contests the resulting oversimplification into nationalised and politicised dichotomies. Drawing on a wide range of Japanese and German original sources, as well as a comparative analysis of the ‘German-Japanese version’ and the elusive ‘Japanese-English version’, Iris Haukamp reveals the complexities of this international co-production. This exclusive research sheds light not only on the films themselves, but also on the timeframe of its production, with both countries at the brink of war.
Nenes’ Koza Dabasa
Authors: Johnson Henry 
Published: December 2020

Koza Dabasa explores Okinawa's island culture and its ghosts of war through the lens of Nenes, a four-woman pop group that draws on the distinctiveness and exoticism of Okinawan musical tradition. Both a tropical island paradise and the site of some of the bloodiest battles of World War II, Okinawa has a unique culture and a contentious history. Its musical traditions are distinct from other parts of Japan, varying in instrumentation, poetic forms, and musical scales. Nenes marks its cultural difference as Okinawan by emphasizing its own exoticism, expressed through its music, fashion, imagery, and performance style. Henry Johnson listens to Koza Dabasa as a representation of Okinawa's relationship with the Japanese music industry and with the broader themes of international warfare and local tourism.
33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-based books and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.
DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media
Authors: Jones Ellis 
Published: December 2020

The emergence of social media in the early 21st century promised to facilitate new "DIY" cultural approaches, emphasizing participation and democratization. However, in recent years these platforms have been criticized as domineering and exploitative. For DIY musicians in scenes with lengthy histories of cultural resistance, is social media a powerful emancipatory and democratizing tool, or a new corporate antagonist to be resisted?
DIY Music explores the significant challenges faced by artists navigating this fraught cultural landscape. How do anti-commercial musicians operate in the competitive, attention-seeking world of social media? How do they deal with a new abundance of data and metrics? How do they present their activity as "cultural resistance"? This book shows that a platform-enabled DIY approach is now the norm for a wide array of cultural practitioners; this "DIY-as-default" landscape threatens to depoliticize the call to "do-it-yourself."
Romanticism and Film
Authors: Kitchen Will 
Published: December 2020

The relationship between Romanticism and film remains one of the most neglected topics in film theory and history, with analysis often focusing on the proto-cinematic significance of Richard Wagner’s music-dramas. One new and interesting way of examining this relationship is by looking beyond Wagner, and developing a concept of audio-visual explanation rooted in Romantic philosophical aesthetics, and employing it in the analysis of film discourse and representation.
Using this concept of audio-visual explanation, the cultural image of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt, a contemporary of Wagner and another significant practitioner of Romantic audio-visual aesthetics, is examined in reference to specific case studies, including the rarely-explored films Song Without End (1960) and Lisztomania (1975).
This multifaceted study of film discourse and representation employs Liszt as a guiding-thread, structuring a general exploration of the concept of Romanticism and its relationship with film more generally. This exploration is supported by new theories of representation based on schematic cognition, the philosophy of explanation, and the recently-developed film theory of Jacques Rancière.
Individual chapters address the historical background of audio-visual explanation in Romantic philosophical aesthetics, Liszt’s role in the historical discourses of film and film music, and various filmic representations of Liszt and his compositions. Throughout these investigations, Will Kitchen explores the various ways that films explain, or ‘make sense’ of things, through a ‘Romantic’ aesthetic combination of sound and vision.
Sonic Possible Worlds, Revised Edition
Authors: Voegelin Salomé 
Published: December 2020

From its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of games design, Salomé Voegelin expands ‘possible world theory’ to think the worlding of sound in music, in art and in the everyday. The modal logic of possible worlds, articulated principally via David K. Lewis and developed through Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological life-worlds, creates a view on the invisible slices of the world and reflects on how to make them count, politically and aesthetically. How to make them thinkable and accessible as the possibility of the everyday and of art: to reach a new materialist understanding from the invisible and to develop an ear for the as yet inaudible.
Creating Sonic Possible Worlds, such a phenomenological modality offers a new analytical framework that listens across genres and times to hear the continuum between sound art and music and to grasp the plurality of the world.
This revised edition continues Voegelin’s exploration of the sonic possibility of the world into the sonic possibility and impossibility of the body. Listening to works by ÁineO’Dwyer, Hannah Silva and Jocy de Oliveira, it considers sonic possible worlds’ radical power to rethink normative constructions and to fabulate a different body from its sound. Thus, the word continuum in the subtitle of this book, Hearing the Continuum of Sound, which in the first edition stood principally for the continuum between music and sound art, is opened up to denote also another continuum that stands as principle for the body, while including that of sound: Hearing the Continuum Between Plural Bodies Breathing, between humans-humanoid aliens-monsters-vampires-animals-plants-things-and anything we have no name for yet but which a sonic philosophy might start to hear and call.
FORM24 electrode array and perioperative cerebrospinal fluid leakage in cochlear implant recipients with cochleovestibular malformations
Authors: Halawani Roa , Alzhrani Farid , Almuhawas Fida , Hagr Abdulrahman Abdullah 
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND:
Cochlear implant (CI) recipients with a cochleovestibular malformation (CVM) are at a higher risk of experiencing an intra-operative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) gusher and, therefore are at greater risk of developing postoperative meningitis than are CI recipients with normal cochlear anatomy. To control CSF gushers, the FORM electrode array was developed.

OBJECTIVES:
To assess the ability of the FORM24 electrode array in managing intraoperative CSF gushers and preventing postoperative CSF leakage in a population of CI recipients.

DESIGN:
Retrospective.

SETTING:
Tertiary health care center.

PATIENTS AND METHODS:
All CIs in which a FORM24 was used between January 2014 and March 2018 were reviewed for demographic and safety results.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:
Safety results were assessed as the intraoperative or postoperative presence of an episode of CSF leakage or meningitis.

SAMPLE SIZE:
177 CI recipients.

RESULTS:
Thirty-six (20.3%) had a CVM and 141 had normal anatomy (79.7%). Of the 36 participants with a CVM, 20 (55.6%) experienced an intraoperative CSF gusher, all of which were resolved. No cases of postoperative leakage or meningitis were recorded after a mean follow-up time of 36 months.

CONCLUSION:
The FORM24 array is able to help surgeons stop intraoperative CSF gushers and prevent postoperative CSF leakage and meningitis in CI recipients with a CVM.

LIMITATIONS:
Further studies are needed.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST:
None.
Survival after therapy for pediatric ependymoma in a tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia
Authors: Shah Syed Nizam , Al-Dandan Sadeq Wasil , Shuja Muhammad , Balbaid Ali , Bashir Mohammad , Alharbi Musa 
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND:
There is limited data from Saudi Arabia on the demographic characteristics, outcomes and effectiveness of different treatment modalities in children with intracranial ependymoma.

OBJECTIVE:
Study the characteristics of pediatric ependymoma and outcomes of treatment modalities in Saudi Arabia.

DESIGN:
Retrospective.

SETTING:
Tertiary care center.

PATIENTS AND METHODS:
Children with intracranial ependymoma who were younger than 14 years of age and treated between 2006 and 2015 were included in the study. Patients with prior radiation, chemo-therapy, or surgical resection at other centers were excluded.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:
Kaplan-Meier survival curves were used to estimate the event-free (EFS) and overall survival (OS) rates of the patients.

SAMPLE SIZE:
22.

RESULTS:
Of the 22 children, 4 (18.2%) were less than three years old. All intracranial ependymomas had upfront surgical resection of the primary tumor. Gross total resection was achievable in 9 (42.9%) cases and subtotal resection in another 9 (42.9%). Near-total resection was done in 3 (14.3%) cases. Median time from surgery to start of radiotherapy was 62 days. RT was given to 17 (77.3%) patients. Both mean and median RT dose was 55.8 Gy. Only 5 (22.7%) of the children received chemotherapy. The median duration of follow-up was 5.38 years and the median time for EFS was 2.27 years. The cumulative OS rate of the study was 44.5%. The cumulative EFS survival rate of the study was 18.6%. Among demographic, pathological, radiological features, none had a statistically significant effect on the survival.

CONCLUSIONS:
The outcomes are comparable to those reported by international investigators for similar populations. Further improvements can be achieved by avoiding delays in radiation therapy and adding molecular staging.

LIMITATIONS:
The limited number of cases, retrospective nature, lack of molecular biology and size of the tumors.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST:
None.
Two cases of six-chambered hearts
Authors: Choh Naseer , Amreen Saika , Bashir Amber , Gojwari Tariq , Kumar Akshit 
Published: December 2020

ABSTRACT
Double-chambered right ventricles (DCRV) and left ventricles are rare entities on their own. We present two cases with an unusual combination of double-chambered right as well as left ventricles. One was discovered in a 28-year-old female, while the other was found at birth in a female child. The differing nature of both the patient demographics as well as the presentation with a common morphological background is shown on both computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. The oldest description of an obstructive muscular band within the right ventricle was given in 1867. In the literature, there is ample description of the long-term prognosis and management guidelines for DCRV, but no inheritance patterns or risk factors have been identified except for associations with septal defects, tetralogy of Fallot and transposition of the great arteries. A combination of both double-sided left as well as right ventricles has been published in literature a few times with little details about management and prognosis.

SIMILAR CASES PUBLISHED:
Although many cases of DCRV and DCLV have been published, to our knowledge only 3 cases of combined DCRV and DCLV have been published in literature.
Emerging, Transformative Technologies: Promises and Business Model Challenges
Authors: Boni Arthur , Gross Dennis M. 
Published: December 2020

This issue provides a perspective on emerging, transformative technologies that promise to create innovations that are intended to provide solutions for significant problems in the biopharma and broader healthcare market. Many of these technologies have been evolving over the years, but remain in their early development stages technologically. As with most transformative innovations, they come with a host of lengthy and expensive challenges associated with development and validation. And, implementation of transformative business models that are at least as challenging as commercializing the technologies themselves.
What’s Coming Next in Transformative Innovation?
Authors: Boni Arthur A 
Published: December 2020

The idea in short. Contiguous with the publication of this special edition focused on the “Promises and Challenges of Transformative Innovation”, it is appropriate that we announce the creation of a new set of annual awards for our industry. Therefore, in this short article we announce a new set of annual awards honoring excellence in transformative innovation – the JCB Top 50 Innovators!
Mapping potential implications of temporary COVID‐19 export bans for the food supply in importing countries using precrisis trade flows
Authors: Koppenberg Maximilian , Bozzola Martina , Dalhaus Tobias , Hirsch Stefan 
Published: December 2020

AbstractDespite pleas from international organizations, governments and trade economists to refrain from imposing trade‐distorting measures, over 20 countries have implemented bans on the export of agri‐food products since the onset of the COVID‐19 crisis. These export prohibitions might adversely impact food security and disrupt well‐established global supply chains. We identify importing countries that could potentially be affected by the imposed export bans using a measure of their import dependency during the pre‐pandemic period to illustrate our results on global trade maps. We find that many importers rely on just one country for a significant share of the overall domestic supply of a particular commodity. [EconLit Citations: F10, F13, Q17, Q18]