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Climate Blues: Or How Awareness of the Human End Might Re-Instil Ethical Purpose to the Writing of History
Authors: Levene Mark 
Published: April 2016

AbstractThe accumulating evidence on the depth and accelerating trajectory of anthropogenic climate change poses the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction. But if that is the case what does that mean for the latter day writing of history? Our response follows two main lines of thought. The first relates to the concept of the ‘Anthropocene’ and the possibilities that it offers historians to reconsider their subject in the light of what earth science is saying about earth history and our particularly recent role in its shaping. From this perspective, while the idea of a reconceptualised history by reference to key geological and other natural historical thresholds would certainly destabilise current academic practice, it might equally galvanise the historical discipline towards recognition of our present biospheric crisis. The second line of thought explores how history writing might contribute to an ethical response in the face of the end and an almost inevitable, accompanying violence, anomie and destruction. Apocalyptic language is eschewed by a progress-centred history. Here we argue that it is exactly the proper recovery of such discarded religiously subversive notions which could assist in the opening up of an alternative space repudiating a bankrupt political-economic system and envisioning instead a millennial social and environmental justice. The writings of Walter Benjamin, among others, offer historical pathfinders for such ideas. Combined with his presentation of an alternative, qualitative ‘Now’ time—thereby reconfiguring Judeo-Christian notions of kairos—such ideas speak both to the urgency for a purposeful, non-violent response to Endtime but also by implication, an ongoing human quest for grace.
John Clare and the Manifold Commons
Authors: Bresnihan Patrick 
Published: April 2016

AbstractThere are growing and justifiable concerns about the degradation of the planet—the land, sea and atmosphere on which all life depends. While these problems unfold on a global scale they are not evenly distributed, either in terms of cause or effect. This has not stopped powerful and universalizing explanations about why ‘our planet’ is being exhausted, and how ‘we’ must respond with urgent action. One of the effects of this response is that environmental problems are naturalized as empirical facts around which new forms of governance and regulation must emerge. While this technical response might be effective at managing discrete environmental problems it can obscure important questions about the ways in which we produce and reproduce social and natural life. The 18th century was also a period in which the problem of scarcity gave rise to new ways of managing and organizing social and natural life. The naturalization of scarcity was a cornerstone of liberal economics, the intellectual justification for various forms of enclosure and ‘improvement’. One person who challenged this powerful narrative was the poet John Clare (1793-1864). Where liberal economics began with the abstraction of self-interested ‘man’ and finite ‘nature’, Clare began with his own experiences of the world around him. This commitment to the here and now is not to be confused with notions of a ‘pre-modern’ union of human and nature. Rather, Clare's poetry describes and reveals the many different natures which unfold through ongoing, negotiated and changing relations between people and things. Rather than a fear of limits, the excess of possibilities inherent in this vision of the ‘manifold commons’ provides him, and us, with a different way to imagine and enact alternative forms of social and natural life.
‘Like a Stone’: Ecology,Enargeia, and Ethical Time in Alice Oswald'sMemorial
Authors: Farrier David 
Published: April 2016

AbstractThis article argues that the Anthropocene is marked by haunted time. As the ‘geological agents’ of climate change, as Dipesh Chakrabarty has put it, we both identify with ‘deep time’ processes and conjure the ghosts of those whose lives to come will be shaped in drastic ways by our actions in the present. This article explores a poetics of haunted time via readings of the work of artist/sculptor Ilana Halperin and poet Alice Oswald. Halperin's recent work with the “slow and fast time” of geological processes (calcification and lava flows), and also with the body's own capacity to generate geologic material (in the form of body stones), engages with the possibility of “geologic intimacy.” From here, the article reads Memorial, Oswald's recent translation of the Iliad pared down to snapshot biographies of the soldiers killed in the Trojan wars interleaved with a series of astonishing similes of the natural world, as an example of a poetics of haunted time. Drawing on James Hatley's theory of ethical time and its ecocritical application by Deborah Bird Rose, I argue that Oswald's strategy of repeating similes creates a kind of spectral echo, giving expression to an enfolding of diachronic and synchronous time in which intergenerational responsibilities are realised. The haunted time of Oswald's poem thus represents a passage to the difficult intimacy of rethinking the relationship between past, present, and future actions and effects.
On Mattering: A Coal Ash Flood and the Limits of Environmental Knowledge
Authors: Hatmaker Susie 
Published: April 2016

AbstractThis paper investigates the largest flood of coal ash in United States history as an event at once monumental and insignificant. It traces affective forces generative of both the ash, and its invisibility. In the moment of rupture, the ash flowed out of a large holding pond in a spill of layered sediments – each layer of particulate a temporary resting place for a forceful trajectory of matter spurned into motion elsewhere in space and time. This paper takes up the atemporal matter of this coal ash flood to ask: out of what movements and connections was the ash formed? How did this particular landscape change to accommodate its accumulation? What trajectories flowed into the pond, and what hidden memories sat buried in its mass? Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, this paper weaves together juxtaposed scenes that form (some of) the backstory of this event, and invites a reconsideration of the practices of knowledge that helped condition it.
RefiningUranium: Bob Wiseman's Ecomusicological Puppetry
Authors: Mark Andrew 
Published: April 2016

AbstractThis paper describes Bob Wiseman's allegorical piece, Uranium, arguing that it accesses emotion to alter the consciousness of percipients. Audiences respond with unusual intensity to Uranium's tragic environmental narrative. By using puppet theatre, film, comedy, and song to win their trust, Wiseman is able to shock his spectators. With interviews and consideration of the semiotic content of Uranium, I explore possibilities for activation of ecological consciousness through performing arts. Building on the shared ideas of Heinrich von Kleist, Gregory Bateson, and Thomas Turino, I argue that Wiseman offers one particularly useful mechanism to advance environmental concerns and learning through the arts. This paper seeks to bridge environmental and (ethno)musicological thought, and has specific relevance to the growing field of ecomusicology, presenting a musical ethnographic case-study in singer-song-writer activism.
“Images Adequate to Our Predicament”: Ecology, Environment and Ecopoetics
Authors: Lidström Susanna , Garrard Greg 
Published: April 2016

AbstractThis paper discusses the idea of ‘ecopoetry’ by outlining its development from drawing on Romantic and deep ecological traditions in the 1980s to reflecting complex environmental concerns in the 2010s. We identify a distinction between definitions that focus on poetry's ability to heighten individual readers' awareness of their physical surroundings on the one hand, and definitions that look for how poems can engage with difficult and complex environmental questions involving scale, justice, and politics on the other. We suggest that the difference between these two kinds of poems might be clarified by differentiating between ecophenomenological and environmental ecopoetry. We argue that recognition of this difference reflects a broader interdisciplinary development in our understanding of the environment as a social category, and that recognising it more readily and clearly could facilitate increased and improved cross-disciplinary discussions between ecocritical studies of poetry specifically, and environmental humanities more broadly. We carry out our analysis through the lens of the work of two influential poets in the Western, Anglophone world, namely Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes. Heaney and Hughes's respective poetics exhibit distinctive differences that illustrate our argument. Their poems are frequently taught in university classes on ecopoetry, as well as, especially in their home countries, to younger students, and we argue that the differences we point to in their depictions of human-environment relations are important to recognise in these settings as part of a nuanced and interdisciplinary understanding of the relationship between poetry, ecology and environment.
Power and Purity: Nature as Resource in a Troubled Society
Authors: Gremaud Ann-Sofie N. 
Published: April 2016

AbstractThis article analyses representations of nature as brand and resource in current Icelandic society. This is done through an interdisciplinary approach consisting of concepts from the discipline of cultural geography and the analytical methodologies of visual cultural, imagology, discourse and brand analysis used to highlight key narratives in images and written sources. The article discusses how ideas of purity are used in branding strategies and what they mean in Iceland today e.g. as a part of the emerging regional consciousness of ‘Arctic Iceland.’ The current overlapping crises of the economy, the environment and the collective self-image in Iceland have fostered critical representations of the past, present and future of the relationship between humans and the environment. Thus utilitarian environmental policies and shallow ecology is treated critically in contemporary Icelandic art, as is the question of what constitutes pollution. Such internal conflicts of interest are analysed to show critical perspectives on the dominant narratives about Icelandic nature and society that are communicated to the outside world through nation branding.
The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities: Extending the Conversation
Authors: Castree Noel 
Published: April 2016

Abstract“The Anthropocene” is now a buzzword in international geoscience circles and commanding the attention of various social scientists and humanists. Once a trickle, I review what is now a growing stream of publications authored by humanists about the Holocene's proclaimed end. I argue that these publications evidence environmental humanists as playing two roles with respect to the geoscientific claims they are reacting to: the roles of “inventor-discloser” or “deconstructor-critic.” Despite their importance and their differences, as currently performed these roles hold environmental humanists at a distance from those geoscientists currently trying to popularise the Anthropocene proposition and a set of related grand ideas (like “planetary boundaries”). This is unfortunate because geoscience—like other branches of science—tends to enjoy a higher profile in key decision-making arenas than do humanities subjects. The same can be said of particular social science fields, such as environmental economics. By surveying the wider, febrile geoscience landscape in which the Anthropocene proposition is situated, I reveal opportunities for “engaged-analysis.” This involves simultaneously working on and with geoscientists, so too their kindred spirits in the social sciences. “The Anthropocene” concept may soon be among the key signifiers that frame the thinking of societal decision-makers. Environmental humanists can, if so minded, shape its meaning and implications directly. But this will involve more practitioners interested in global environmental change operating outside the “usual” arenas, such as established disciplinary conferences and journals. Engaged analysis offers a way to play the inventor-discloser and deconstructor-critic roles in places where knowledge aspires to inform environmental policy and practice. Though challenging and risky, the potential rewards are considerable.
Listening to Birds in the Anthropocene: The Anxious Semiotics of Sound in a Human-Dominated World
Authors: Whitehouse Andrew 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Ever since Rachel Carson predicted a “silent spring” environmentalists have been carefully and anxiously listening to birds. More recently the musician and scientist Bernie Krause has examined the effects of human activity on avian soundscapes throughout the world. He argues that human activities cause ecological and sonic disruptions that really are rendering the world silent or discordant, submerging the “animal orchestra” beneath noise. A healthy natural environment can be heard, according to Krause, in a rich and harmonious soundscape that has evolved over millions of years. The loss of wildness thus elicits a loss of harmony. I consider these Anthropocene interpretations of silence, noise and dissonance by comparing the environmentalist concerns of Krause with responses to the Listening to Birds project—an anthropological investigation of bird sounds. These responses emphasise the significance of bird sounds for people's sense of place, time and season and the longing that many have for their own lives to resonate with the birds around them. I argue that this has less to do with desires to hear harmony in pristine nature but with developing relations of companionship with birds living alongside humans. While listening to birds can still iconically and indexically ground people, signs of absence and change can precipitate anxieties that stem from the ambiguities implicit in the Anthropocene's formulation of human relations with other species. Using narratives and field recordings I explore the anxious semiotics of listening to birds in the Anthropocene by drawing on Kohn's recent arguments on the semiotics of more-than-human relations and Ingold's understanding of the world as a meshwork.
Design of Visible Light Sensitive Heterogeneous Photocatalyst by Utilization of Sulfocalixarene as a Linker of Zinc Porphyrin and Pt-TiO2
Authors: Kamegawa Takashi , Imai Hiroki , Yamashita Hiromi 
Published: April 2016

Abstract
Visible light sensitive heterogeneous photocatalyst was successfully designed by utilization of 4-sulfocalix[4]arene as a linker molecule for stable immobilization of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(1-methyl-pyridinium-4-yl)porphyrinatozinc(II) ion on Pt-loaded TiO2. This heterogeneous system can act as an efficient photocatalyst for generation of H2 under controlled reaction conditions.
Getting into the ACT with Psychoanalytic Therapy: The Case of "Daniel"
Authors: Cohen Robert 
Published: April 2016

Daniel is a 44-year-old Caucasian male who has struggled with chronic depression and extreme sensitivity to feeling judged and criticized. I have seen him for more than ten years in psychoanalytic therapy. While he made significant progress in understanding the childhood determinants of his difficulties and achieved some symptom improvement, Daniel continued to struggle with observing and tolerating his feelings. This case study demonstrates how my decision to integrate techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT; Hayes, 2005), a contemporary form of cognitive behavioral therapy, broke an impasse in the treatment, allowed the patient to resolve outstanding difficulties, and helped him move towards termination. The case report discusses the challenges of integrating ACT into psychoanalytic work, as well as ways that a psychoanalytic understanding of Daniel’s resistance to ACT techniques made that treatment effective.
Exploring the Vocabulary Learning Strategy Use of Teachers in Their Vocabulary Instruction/Kako se nastavnici koriste strategijama za usvajanje vokabulara kada poučavaju vokabular
Authors: Vasu Sindhu , Periyasamy Dhanavel Senkamalam 
Published: April 2016

AbstractThe present study investigated the use of Vocabulary Learning Strategies (VLS) by Indian teachers in their classroom vocabulary instruction. It also examined the influence of gender and experience-related differences on their use of VLS in the classroom vocabulary instruction. The paper reports the results of data collected to identify the VLS used by them in their vocabulary instruction. T-test and one-way ANOVA were conducted to analyse and interpret the data. The results indicate that the teachers employ VLS, such as: guessing from the context to find the meanings of new words, group work to learn new words, and using new words in sentences to store them in memory. They also show that the teachers do not prefer VLS, such as: flashcards, L1 similarity used to find the meanings of new words, and the keyword method. Further, they reveal an experience-related difference in the teachers’ vocabulary instruction. Key words: classroom teaching; English in India; English language teaching; second language vocabulary learning; vocabulary instruction in India; vocabulary learning strategies. --- SažetakU ovom se radu istražuje uporaba strategija za usvajanje vokabulara (SUV) među nastavnicima koji u Indiji poučavaju vokabular. Odnosi se također na to kako spolne i iskustvene razlike među nastavnicima utječu na njihovu uporabu SUV u učioničkom kontekstu. U radu su prikazani rezultati koji proizlaze iz identifikacije SUV koje rabe sami nastavnici kada poučavaju vokabular. Provedeni su T-test i jednosmjerna ANOVA da bi se dobiveni podaci analizirali i tumačili. Rezultati pokazuju da se nastavnici koriste SUV kao što su: pogađanje iz konteksta pri određivanju značenja novih riječi, grupni rad s ciljem usvajanja novih riječi i uporaba novih riječi u rečenicama radi njihova pamćenja. Istraživanje također pokazuje da nastavnici ne preferiraju sljedeće SUV: uporaba kartica, sličnost s J1 i metoda ključne riječi. Osim toga, otkriva iskustvene razlike među nastavnicima kada je riječ o poučavanju vokabulara. Ključne riječi: učionička nastava; engleski jezik u Indiji; poučavanje engleskog jezika; usvajanje vokabulara stranog jezika; poučavanje vokabulara u Indiji; strategije usvajanja vokabulara.
Pupils' Speech Development in the Croatian Language from First to Fourth Grade of Primary School/Razvoj govora učenika od prvog do četvrtog razreda osnovne škole u hrvatskom jeziku
Authors: Grahovac-Pražić Vesna 
Published: April 2016

AbstractThis paper will investigate the speaking competence of pupils of the first educational cycle on a target group in the first and fourth grade, i.e. at the beginning of learning a standard language and in the fourth grade at the end of the first educational cycle. The research is based on the recordings of pupils' speech in designed speech situations. The empirical basis is comprised of records of tokens in children's language with regard to the number of spoken words and sentences, the use of dialect and speech language errors. The research was conducted with a view to identify the features of language-speech development of pupils of the first educational cycle, i.e. the change in the period from the first to the fourth grade.Key words: competences; primary education; school; speech; pupil.---SažetakU radu se istražuju govorne kompetencije učenika prvog odgojno-obrazovnog ciklusa na ciljanoj skupini u prvom i četvrtom razredu, na početku učenja standardnog jezika i u četvrtom razredu, na kraju prvog odgojno-obrazovnog ciklusa. Istraživanje se temelji na zapisu govora učenika u osmišljenoj govornoj situaciji. Empirijsku osnovu čini evidencija pojavnica u dječjem leksiku s obzirom na broj izgovorenih riječi i rečenica, uporabe dijalekta i govornih jezičnih pogrešaka. Ispitivanje je provedeno s ciljem utvrđivanja značajki jezično-govornog razvoja učenika prvog odgojno-obrazovnog ciklusa, odnosno promjena u razdoblju od prvog do četvrtog razreda.Ključne riječi: govor; kompetencije; primarno obrazovanje; škola; učenik. Ključne riječi: govor; kompetencije; razredna nastava; škola; učenje
Efecto de la microdeleción en la región AZF sobre marcadores forenses del cromosoma Y
Authors: Laverde-Angarita Lilia Judith , Agudelo-Hincapie Natalia , Páez-Vila Ana Lucia 
Published: April 2016

<p><em>Tema y alcance:</em> el objetivo de esta revisión es conocer los estudios que se han hecho a nivel mundial sobre las microdeleciones del cromosoma Y y sus posibles efectos en los resultados genético forenses observados. <em>Características:</em> la infertilidad originada en el cromosoma Y es generalmente causada por deleciones del material genético en las zonas relacionadas con el Factor de Azoospermia (AZF), localizadas en tres regiones del Yq contiguas: AZFa, AZFb y AZFc. <em>Hallazgos:</em> se ha comprobado que algunos de los STRs utilizados rutinariamente en el laboratorio de genética forense con kits multiplex están localizados en estas regiones permitiendo evidenciar la existencia de microdeleciones en algunos loci. Aumentar el conocimiento de los eventos microestructurales dentro del cromosoma Y puede ser de utilidad para una mejor caracterización de los patrones anormales repetitivos que complican la interpretación del perfil de ADN. <em>Conclusiones: </em>la variación en estudios poblacionales de prevalencia de microdeleciones, puede deberse a diferencias en la selección de los pacientes, tamaño muestral, la técnica usada. Los casos reportados concluyen que los loci afectados generalmente son DYS385, DYS392 indican microdeleciones en la región AZFb y DYS448 está relacionado con microdeleciones en la región AZFc.</p>
Calcificación del ligamento estilohiodeo y apófisis estiloides elongada: hallazgo durante una necropsia médico legal por muerte súbita
Authors: Pareja-Pineda Jorge Iván 
Published: April 2016

<p><em>Propósito:</em> la relación del síndrome de Eagle con la muerte súbita y las ciencias forenses ha sido poco descrita en la literatura por lo que se hace necesario considerar esta alteración anatomo-patológica, tanto desde el punto de vista clínico como forense, dado que la escasa sintomatología que presenta no permite realizar un diagnóstico oportuno que puede llevar a la muerte ante ciertas condiciones físicas pre existentes como la enfermedad cardiaca o vascular. <em>Temas: </em>La elongación del apófisis estiloides y la calcificación del ligamento estilohioideo han sido reportadas como una alteración que produce dolor en el cuello y la cabeza, conocidos como el síndrome de Eagle. <em>Desarrollo: </em>se presenta el caso de un hombre de 48 años, con cardiopatía de base y cuya causa de muerte, después de descartar causas toxicológicas, se correlacionó con los hallazgos y una enfermedad cardíaca subyacente. <em>Conclusiones</em>: las alteraciones anatomo-patológicas deben ser consideradas al momento de iniciar las necropsias donde se haya producido la muerte o alguna alteración durante la manipulación del cuello, como por ejemplo en la terapia física y deportes de contacto generando responsabilidades médico legales.</p>