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Genomic Patterns of Local Adaptation under Gene Flow in Arabidopsis lyrata
Authors: Hämälä Tuomas , Savolainen Outi 
Published: June 2019

AbstractShort-scale local adaptation is a complex process involving selection, migration, and drift. The expected effects on the genome are well grounded in theory but examining these on an empirical level has proven difficult, as it requires information about local selection, demographic history, and recombination rate variation. Here, we use locally adapted and phenotypically differentiated Arabidopsis lyrata populations from two altitudinal gradients in Norway to test these expectations at the whole-genome level. Demography modeling indicates that populations within the gradients diverged <2 kya and that the sites are connected by gene flow. The gene flow estimates are, however, highly asymmetric with migration from high to low altitudes being several times more frequent than vice versa. To detect signatures of selection for local adaptation, we estimate patterns of lineage-specific differentiation among these populations. Theory predicts that gene flow leads to concentration of adaptive loci in areas of low recombination; a pattern we observe in both lowland-alpine comparisons. Although most selected loci display patterns of conditional neutrality, we found indications of genetic trade-offs, with one locus particularly showing high differentiation and signs of selection in both populations. Our results further suggest that resistance to solar radiation is an important adaptation to alpine environments, while vegetative growth and bacterial defense are indicated as selected traits in the lowland habitats. These results provide insights into genetic architectures and evolutionary processes driving local adaptation under gene flow. We also contribute to understanding of traits and biological processes underlying alpine adaptation in northern latitudes.
Opera in the Tropics
Authors: Budasz Rogério 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
This book is an exploration of the musico-theatrical practices in Brazil from the Jesuit morality plays of the sixteenth century to the Italian operas celebrating the new independent nation in the 1820s, as expressed by the creative minds and bodies of actors, singers, poets, and composers. The book shows how the threefold goal of instructing, entertaining, and distracting the population—which a Brazilian producer spelled out in 1825—had been present in diverse combinations since the early colonial period, at the hands of missionaries, intellectuals, bureaucrats, political leaders, and cultural producers. The six chapters approach these issues from different perspectives, while offering a comprehensive view of the multiple aspects of musico-dramatic production in Portuguese America. Individual chapters discuss the foundations of Brazilian musical theater in the appropriation and adaptation of Iberian autos and comédias, the creation of a distinctive type of Portuguese comic opera by a Brazilian playwright during the early eighteenth century, the extant musical sources, and the sociopolitical context that determined the opening of dozens of opera houses during the second half of the eighteenth century. While showing a remarkable continuity between theatrical practices in Portugal and those in its largest colony, through the circulation of artists and repertory, this book also demonstrates notable differences in the ethnic and gender profile of theatrical workers; in the modifications determined by local tastes, priorities, and materials; and in the political use of theater as an ideological and civilizing tool.
Introduction
Authors: Davis Ellen F. 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
The book models the sustained practice of theological exegesis, treating most of the books of the Hebrew Bible. The focus is on reading each biblical book as a literary whole and a unified, if also complex, theological statement. Interpreters must do justice to texts as historically situated artifacts and also to other readers with whom we share texts. Five elements are essential to the practice of critical interpretation: naming the interpreter’s presuppositions, setting forth pertinent literary data, identifying underlying social and historical factors, giving a reasoned account of inferences and conclusions, and being open to revision.
Ruth
Authors: Davis Ellen F. 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
The book of Ruth stands in contrast to the story of Judges as an account of redemptive human relationships, marked not by violence but by ḥesed—mutual loyalty practiced among people who are all in some way vulnerable. Ruth in her own person embodies the classic biblical categories of the vulnerable: she is widow, orphan, and sojourner. But she is also the mother of the Davidic and messianic line, and so the story of Ruth the Moabite, in partnership with Naomi and Boaz, is emblematic. It indicates how vulnerable persons and groups may make a commitment to the practice of mutual respect, risk-taking, and protection—and through that practice, open up genuine hope for the future.
1–2 Samuel and 1 Kings
Authors: Davis Ellen F. 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
The semihistorical dramas in 1–2 Samuel and 1 Kings reflect complex and sometimes competing perspectives on the past, woven together into a large textured statement about human character, social change, and political division. They also explore the ambiguity of God’s role in those social processes. The account of Saul’s rejection should be read on multiple levels—political, theological, and symbolic. David’s story is told with a measure of skepticism, and the account of Solomon likewise prompts a fresh appraisal of his reputation for wisdom. Yet the text points to their lasting legacy in the worship tradition and Zion theology associated with the temple and the book of Psalms. Narratives in Kings—stories of Elijah and also the anonymous man of God who confronted Jeroboam at Bethel—focus on prophets and YHWH’s word itself as primary shapers of history. The YHWH-alone movement in ninth-century Israel, associated with Elijah, bears some resemblance to the spread of indigenous African Christianity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Job and the Song of Songs
Authors: Davis Ellen F. 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
These are books of impassioned dialogue and language that pushes the boundaries of intelligible religious speech. The book of Job does not treat God’s character or yield fresh thinking about theodicy. Rather, it is a book of wisdom theology (exploring the limits of human knowledge), of creation theology (considering the human place in the created order), and of mystical theology (exploring how character is transformed through suffering and, finally, through direct encounter with God). Options for interpreting the Song are now more contested than at any time since early in the Common Era. Origen’s approach is exemplary, with his lack of moralism and recognition of the Song’s poetics of relationality. Primarily through intertextual references, the Song uses the language of desire to evoke a longing that may include sexual desire and present ways to transcend it.
Esther and Daniel
Authors: Davis Ellen F. 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
The books of Esther and Daniel are diaspora tales, written from the point of view of those on the underside of dominance, who are threatened by persecution and genocide. The exaggerated and ironized telling of Persian history in Esther gives voice to the oppressed. Yet this volatile book has also been used as a warrant for violence, both by Jews and against Jews. The book of Daniel is another imaginative account of Jews living in foreign courts, and it has the overt theological dimension that Esther lacks. Both the court tales and the vision reports in the second half of the book exploit this setting to address two questions: How can Jews survive in Gentile power structures, which often threaten Jewish identity and Jewish lives? And, how long until God asserts sovereignty over all oppressive potentates?
Ezra–Nehemiah and 1–2 Chronicles
Authors: Davis Ellen F. 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
Coming from the period of Persian vassalage and standing as the conclusion to the Jewish canon, these books set forth two things crucial for identity formation in the absence of national sovereignty. First, they provide a narrative heritage from creation to the (then) present, traced through genealogy and a rereading of Israel’s national history. Second, they provide an institutional heritage that underwrites the two most essential religious practices, Torah reading and temple worship. Ezra–Nehemiah takes an exclusivist approach to the question of identity, but Chronicles evinces a broader view of Israel’s life among the nations while retaining a firm attachment to Jerusalem and the land of Israel. Israel’s Scriptures end with Jews outside the land and encouraged to return; thus they point to an active God whose intentions for the people are not fully revealed or accomplished.
Openness to Creative Destruction
Authors: Diamond Arthur M., Jr. 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism shows how life improves under the economic system often called “entrepreneurial capitalism” or “creative destruction,” but more accurately called “innovative dynamism.” The book describes how, in such a system, innovation occurs through the efforts of inventors and innovative entrepreneurs, how workers on balance benefit, and how good policies can encourage innovation. The inventors and innovative entrepreneurs are often cognitively diverse outsiders with the courage and perseverance to see and pursue serendipitous discoveries or slow hunches. Economies grow where innovative dynamism flourishes through leapfrog competition, as in the United States from roughly 1830 to 1930. Consumers vote with their feet for innovative new goods and for process innovations that reduce prices, benefiting ordinary citizens more than the privileged elites. Some labor-market fears are unjustified, since more and better new jobs are created than are destroyed; other fears can be mitigated by better policies. Since breakthrough inventions are costly and difficult, patents can be fair rewards for invention and can provide funding to enable future inventions. At the key early stage of most breakthrough innovations, when innovative ideas are hardest to communicate and most widely doubted, the innovations are largely self-funded. The steady growth in regulations, often defended on the basis of the precautionary principle, increases the costs of innovation for the entrepreneur. Secular (long-term) stagnation is due to bad policies, not to having picked the low-hanging fruit, as illustrated by innovative medical entrepreneurs who are constrained from bringing us quicker and better cures for cancer.
Public Administration and Public Choice
Authors: Aligica Paul Dragos , Boettke Peter J. , Tarko Vlad 
Published: June 2019

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Chapter 4 documents the conceptual territory at the interface of public administration and public choice and puts the Ostromian contribution in an interpretive context that anchors it in the intellectual history of public administration. Identifying areas of convergence and affinities between the two intellectual domains, it charts the ground opened by the Ostroms’ work, an ambitious attempt to blend the two traditions and to create a conceptual framework for a distinctive type of public administration: democratic public administration. The seeing-like-a-state perspective in public administration is openly challenged by the seeing-like-a-citizen alternative, in a field that was anyway trying to unshackle itself from the inherent statism of its Wilsonian progressive legacy.
What Is Race?
Authors: Glasgow Joshua , Haslanger Sally , Jeffers Chike , Spencer Quayshawn 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
What is race? This is a question that has haunted human interaction and vexed scholars. In this book, four race theorists debate how best to answer it, applying philosophical tools and principles of social justice to cutting-edge findings from the biological and social sciences. Each of the authors presents a distinct view of race. Sally Haslanger argues that race is a sociopolitical reality. Chike Jeffers maintains that race is not only political but also, importantly, cultural. Quayshawn Spencer pursues the idea that race is biologically real. And Joshua Glasgow argues that either race is not real, or if it is, it must be real in a way that is neither social nor biological. Each offers an argument for their own view and then replies to the others. The result is a lively debate that shines a light on multiple ways of thinking about race.
Jeffers’s Reply to Glasgow, Haslanger, and Spencer
Authors: Glasgow Joshua , Haslanger Sally , Jeffers Chike , Spencer Quayshawn 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
Chike Jeffers argues in this chapter that social constructionism about race is a preferable position to non-biological essentialism about race (such as the kind defended by Quayshawn Spencer in Chapters 3 and 7) and anti-realism about race (such as the kind Joshua Glasgow defends in Chapters 4 and 8). He then argues that we should distinguish between two kinds of social constructionism: political constructionism (such as the kind defended by Sally Haslanger in Chapters 1 and 5) and cultural constructionism, which he defends. While he shows why it is understandable that political constructionism is sometimes taken to be the default position among social constructionists, he argues that political constructionism misses the significance of the cultural aspect of race in the present and fails to recognize the possibility of races existing past the end of racism.
Glasgow’s Reply to Haslanger, Jeffers, and Spencer
Authors: Glasgow Joshua , Haslanger Sally , Jeffers Chike , Spencer Quayshawn 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
In Chapter 4, Joshua Glasgow argued that race in the ordinary sense is defined in such a way that race cannot be a social construction and is not a biological reality. That chapter concluded with the claim that either race is not real, or if it is, it is real in a very basic way that is not captured by social or biological facts. In this chapter, Glasgow develops his view by responding to Haslanger, Jeffers, and Spencer. After first clearing up some misconceptions about racial anti-realism, Glasgow explains how his argument against constructionism applies to Haslanger’s and Jeffers’s specific constructionist theories. He then explores how Spencer’s view is exposed to a mismatch objection and further argues that it faces additional problems of accounting for some central kinds of communication. This chapter also includes an Appendix that explores how a wide methodological ground is shared among the theories presented in this book.
Competitive City-Regionalism and the Politics of Scale
Authors: Brenner Neil 
Published: June 2019

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This chapter presents a critical perspective on the “new regionalism” debate that has swept through important streams of urban studies since the 1980s. A scalar analytics is mobilized to question mainstream political metanarratives regarding the prospects for putatively endogenous, bottom-up political strategies to stimulate urban regeneration. New regionalist programs have entailed a scalar recalibration of local financial, institutional, and regulatory failures, but without significantly impacting their underlying macrospatial causes, within or beyond major cities. Consequently, rather than counteracting the crisis tendencies of post-Keynesian capitalism, the market disciplinary spatial politics of the new regionalism have perpetuated or exacerbated the latter. Its enduring consequences have been the further splintering of urban governance arrangements, intensifying territorial polarization, and pervasive regulatory disorder, rather than stable capitalist industrial growth or coherent territorial development at any spatial scale.
Planetary Urbanization: Mutations of the Urban Question
Authors: Brenner Neil 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
A new round of debate on the urban question is today unfolding, in relation to which key aspects of inherited urban theories, including those produced in recent decades, now appear inadequate or even obsolete. Against this background, this chapter considers the wide-ranging epistemological, conceptual, and methodological challenges posed by emergent patterns and pathways of planetary urban transformation, which are relativizing the inherited spatial dualisms (city/countryside, urban/rural, human/nonhuman) and scalar imaginaries that have long anchored the field of urban studies. The production of these dramatically rescaled urban spaces engenders major challenges for critical theory, research, imagination, and practice.
The Echo Chamber
Authors: Cardoso Leonardo 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
This chapter examines the São Paulo Municipal Chamber, focusing on three noise debates in São Paulo, the first two of which involve noise ordinances created in the 1990s, and enforced by the PSIU. The first debate revolves around the Evangelical lawmakers’ attempts to exclude, minimize, or hinder the impact of the noise ordinance on religious services. The second debate focuses on an ordinance that requires bars without acoustic insulation to close at 1:00 a.m.: a demand that faced strong opposition from nightlife businesses. The third debate circles back to the beginning of this article. I describe the recent attempt of a group of acoustic engineers to lobby the city administration for the systematic mapping of traffic noise. For the sound specialists, it is only with such an acoustic map that the municipal government can plan a truly sustainable city.
Legal Channels
Authors: Cardoso Leonardo 
Published: June 2019

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The chapter is organized into two main sections. The first part focuses on three crucial translators in this network: the lawyer, the state prosecutor, and the appellate judge. These agents will guide us through the series of procedural steps necessary for moving along the legal channels. Once we have understood how these actors build and make decisions on noise litigation (step-by-step, document-by-document), we can then approach the five legal channels more fully. The second section focuses on jurisprudence. I discuss how cases enter the Palace of Justice as legal appeals and leave the building as either the confirmation or rebuttal of the administrative fine and initial judgment sentences. The section examines the weight of legal documents in the Court of Appeals and the most frequent strategies the parties use to articulate the law to their own advantage.
Eyes Wide Shut
Authors: Kolker Robert P. , Abrams Nathan 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut is a complex, visually arresting film about domesticity, sexual disturbance, and dreams. It was on the director’s mind for some 50 years before he finally put it into production. Using materials from the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts, London, as well as other archives, combined with interviews with key participants involved in the production, the authors construct an archeology and appreciation of this enigmatic work and its creator. This book traces the progress of the film from its origins through its completion, reception, and afterlife, and provide a new critical reading of the film.
Introduction: Education and the Long March through the Institutions
Authors: Tarlau Rebecca 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
The Introduction presents the basic goals of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement’s agrarian reform struggle and explains how its educational proposal is part and parcel of achieving those goals. Then it outlines the three arguments of this book: engaging formal institutions can contribute to the internal capacity of movements; combining contentious and institutional tactics is an effective movement strategy; and the government’s political orientation, the state’s capacity for educational governance, and a social movement’s own infrastructure condition the possibilities for institutional change. The chapter argues for a Gramscian perspective on social movement–state relations, which views public institutions as an ambiguous sphere that protects the state from attack and is also an arena for resistance. Through the contentious co-governance of public education, movements can integrate more youth and women into the movement, equip movement leaders with professional degrees, and allow activists to prefigure their social visions.
Epilogue
Authors: Tarlau Rebecca 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
The Epilogue reflects on the future of the MST’s political struggle—and that of the Brazilian left more broadly—in the context of the 2016 ousting of the Workers’ Party (PT) from the federal government and the 2018 presidential election of ultra-right conservative Jair Bolsonaro. Although Bolsonaro’s rise to power is a serious setback for the movement, the core argument of the book still holds: the MST’s thirty-five-year strategic engagement with the Brazilian state significantly expanded its internal capacity, including its organizational structure, resource base, and collective leadership, and the movement is unlikely to disappear in the near future. This long march through the institutions was only possible because activists engaged in contentious political mobilization, while also prefiguring their social and economic vision within a variety of state spheres and under a diversity of political regimes. Even in the new political context, activists will be able to defend many of their institutional gains, helping the movement withstand, if not fully deflect, this far-right resurgence.
Insurgent Universality
Authors: Tomba Massimiliano 
Published: June 2019

Abstract
Insurgent Universality presents an intervention in current discussions on universalism, democracy, and property. It investigates other trajectories besides traditional ones of modernity and traces an alternative legacy for contemporary movements. This legacy exceeds the familiar juridical horizon of citizenship, individual rights, and the state by revisiting questions relating to power, democratic practices, and the modern conception of private property. Insurgent Universality investigates and displays alternative trajectories of modernity that have been repressed, hindered, and forgotten. These trajectories are not only embodiments of a radical hope and a new conception of universality that arose from insurgencies from below; they also alert us to possibilities in our present that have been underestimated or overlooked. Eventually, they show us alternative institutions by which to reshape our present. These experimental democratic practices and institutions are based on the pluralism of authorities instead of the monopoly power of the state. However, such an inquiry resists the utopian urge to clear the tables. Instead, the book examines more closely, and with a fresh perspective, those aspects of our intellectual inheritance that we have allowed to remain in the darkness. By doing this, Insurgent Universality aims to “decolonize” European history, offering an image of Europe that is not monolithic but, rather, composed of many layers and paths that have been repressed or forgotten. The aim of the book is to rebuild those roads not taken and bridge them with non-European trajectories and political experiments.