bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Pre-surgery evaluations by telephone decrease travel and cost for families of children with cerebral palsy
Authors: Robinson John D , Prochaska John D , Yngve David A 
Published: July 2017

Introduction: Children with cerebral palsy need highly specialized care. This can be very burdensome for families, particularly in large rural states, due to the need for long-distance travel to appointments. In this study, children undergoing the selective percutaneous myofascial lengthening surgery utilized a telephone-based telemedicine evaluation to assess for surgical eligibility. The goal was to avoid a separate preoperative clinic visit weeks before the surgery. If possible, eligibility was determined by telephone, and then, the patient could be scheduled for a clinic visit and possible surgery the next day, saving the family a trip. The purposes of the study were to calculate estimated reductions in miles traveled, in travel expenses, and in carbon emissions and to determine whether the telephone assessment was accurate and effective in determining eligibility for surgery. Methods: From 2010 to 2012, 279 patients were retrospectively reviewed, and of those, 161 mailed four-page questionnaire and anteroposterior pelvis X-ray followed by a telephone conference. Geographic information system methods were used to geocode patients by location. Savings in mileage and travel costs were calculated. From 2014 to 2015, 195 patients were additionally studied to determine accuracy and effectiveness. Results: The telephone prescreening method saved 106,070 miles in transportation over 3 years, a 38% reduction with US$55,326 in savings. Each family saved an average of 658 (standard deviation = 340) miles of travel and US$343.64 (standard deviation = US$178) in travel expenses. For each increase of 10 miles in distance from the health center, the odds of a patient utilizing telephone screening increased by 10% (odds ratio: 1.101, 95% confidence interval: 1.073–1.129, p < 0.001). After the telephone prescreening, 86% were determined to be likely candidates for the procedure. For 14%, a clinic visit only was scheduled, and they were not scheduled for surgery. Conclusion: Families seeking specialized surgical care for their disabled children particularly benefited from this approach.
Performing inequality: Feminist performative acts as protest gestures
Authors: Marchevska Elena 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
This article will look at three case studies of performative political protest, where female activists are raising awareness of the precarious conditions of their lived experience in economic neo-liberalism. The research is focused on links between Focus E15 Mothers Group in London, the #protestiram movement in Macedonia and #direnkahkaha (resist laughter) in Turkey. I will analyse these protest movements’ performative acts and argue that these acts are strategically used to draw attention to the inequality faced by women.
My Body: A War Zone: Documenting stories of wartime sexual violence in Bosnia, Herzegovina and Nepal
Authors: Simić Olivera 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
A photo exhibition My Body: A War Zone features the portraits and testimonies of women survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nepal, Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The exhibition aims to bring attention to individual stories in an effort to overcome the silence and stigma associated with CRSV. This article will analyse this transnational project that brings four acclaimed photographers from different parts of the globe to reconstruct women’s images and testimonies in public city spaces. The article will focus on the Bosnian and Nepali parts of the photo exhibition, and will draw on fieldwork and interviews with Velma Šarić, the curator and organizer of the Bosnian exhibitions, and NayanTara, an independent photographer and curator based in Kathmandu, Nepal. The article argues that while art cannot replace formal judicial mechanisms or material reparation, grassroots artistic initiatives may offer significant and distinct reparative contributions to transitional justice processes.
Theatre and reconciliation: The Day of an Unlucky Man
Authors: Milatovic-Ovadia Maja 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
The terms Comedy and Reconciliation cannot often be found together. Through the analyses of a theatre project, The Voice – A Day of an Unlucky Man, devised by ethnically segregated youth in Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, this article aims to investigate how comedy can encourage and effectively support a complex process of reconciliation. The framework for this analysis is shaped by comedy studies, theory of reconciliation and applied theatre practice.
How does arts practice engage with narratives of migration from refugees? Lessons from ‘utopia’
Authors: McKay Samuel , Bradley Jessica 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
In this article we draw on data from a co-produced transdisciplinary arts and language practice and research project. In this project, researchers, artists and creative practitioners worked with refugees and people seeking asylum. Together we developed and led arts-based workshops, which aimed to explore what it means to be ‘welcome’, how we ‘welcome’ and how we want to be ‘welcomed’. As researchers we approached the project from different disciplinary spaces: Sam from applied theatre and Jessica from sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography. Through analysis of our co-produced artistic outputs, through ethnographic writing and through our reflections on the processes of collaborating, we consider how arts practices engage with narratives of migration in refugee communities. We take three elements of the project: visual arts products in the form of silk paintings, community voices in the form of vignettes and media documentation in the form of a project film. We suggest how these examples embody the processes and the community developed around the project and the different ways of working across sectors with displaced communities to engage with and enable spaces for voices to be made audible.
We use ‘refugee’ throughout this article to refer to people who have been granted asylum, people who are in the process of granting asylum, and people whose asylum claims have been rejected. We choose not to use the phrase ‘asylum seekers’ due to its often negative connotations in the British press.
Digitizing activist art: Widening the platform for civic engagement
Authors: Ali Roaa 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
Ethnic minority artists are often entrapped in cultural spaces that define their representation as ‘marginal’ and limit their visibility and reach. The challenge facing minority artists – like Muslim, Arab or South-Asian American artists, to name a few – lies in creating spaces that would free their plays from being demarcated as ‘marginal’ or ‘subaltern’, and attract a wider audience to view and engage with their issues and concerns. Ethnic theatre initiatives are actively interacting with the wider community to change such narrative by creating new spaces for the distribution of their art, and imbedding civic engagement in the mosaic of that art. This article investigates a new socially-engaged discourse being developed by companies like Silk Road Rising (SRR) in Chicago, whose artists are disseminating their work to new virtual audiences in digital ‘counterpublics’. In particular, the article focuses on the company’s recent direction to harness the online public sphere in the making and distribution of artistic works to challenge cultural, political and institutional limitations. SRR is benefiting from and harnessing new technologies to: firstly, make its projects visible and accessible to a wider audience; secondly, engage its audiences in a participatory process that would effectively render them as ‘spect-actors’; and thirdly, redefine the artistic output of ethnic artists as polycultural, rather than subaltern or marginal.
‘It’s a resting place, where our spirits go’: Bringing back lost ancestor memories to Western Australia’s Great Southern – Noongar boodja
Authors: Huebner Sharon , Flowers Ezzard 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
This article considers the dynamic relationship between Aboriginal Australia identity, western history and the recuperation of lost ancestral memories. In recent decades many Australian cultural institutions have supported Aboriginal community groups in the revival of Aboriginal languages, songs and stories. The reclamation of heritage from archival collections has helped strengthen Aboriginal claim and control of ancestor histories – especially when significant materials are returned to people of a descendant community and given meaningful social context. Often set in place from these interactions are cultural protocols and ethics formulating future material access, return and usage. Looking more closely at intercultural practices of repatriation, this article relates Aboriginal pathways of ancestral memory restoration (and invention of memory) to living story. In particular, it examines the cultural decision-making of two Australian Aboriginal family groups – Wirlomin Minang (Noongar) families from the Great Southern of Western Australia and Gunai Kurnai (Koorie) families from the Gippsland region of Victoria – who characterize kin reactions to the returned colonial historiography of their shared ancestor Bessy Flowers (c. 1849–95), as well as family grief and shame at her absent memory. The difference between the archival material of photographs and letters that represent Bessy and the ways her Wirlomin Minang and Gunai Kurnai families imagine themselves created context for the mixed-media co-production, No Longer a Wandering Spirit. This article explores how intercultural efforts to strengthen family story might widen circles of knowledge about Aboriginal cultural dislocation, historical exclusion and the ever-present action of resistance and recovery.
‘Disjointed days’: Contemporary art and the human right to housing
Authors: Marquis Vincent 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
The human right to housing has a strange status in law, simultaneously codified in a number of international conventions and severely criticized, misunderstood or misinterpreted. This article considers two artistic views on the value of the human right to housing: Martha Rosler’s ‘If You Lived Here...’ and Casco’s recent projects on housing, gentrification and squatting, including the sitcom Our Autonomous Life? and the Convention on the Use of Space. I argue that examining the particular social contexts and the specific content of the claims made by these artists – notably the importance of housing to privacy, autonomy and freedom – illuminates a promising path forward for the right’s legal interpretation and protection.
Quoting the Prophet online: Communicative functions of hadith quotations in webbased Arabic discourse
Authors: Boutz Jennifer , Brugman Claudia , Lancaster Alia 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
Quoting from sacred texts is a common practice in even secular discussions in Arabic-speaking communities. The current study looks at how a set of quotations are used to support a writer’s position in discussions on public media forums. In particular, the article explores the use of quotations from the hadith, the collected reports of the Prophet Muhammad’s words and actions, in online message boards associated with two Arabic-language news websites. We examine how hadith quotations provide both illocutionary meaning (such as advising or persuading) and interpersonal meaning (identifying the participants as sharing knowledge of these sacred texts, and potentially also identifying the speaker as being observant or highly cultured). We show that for a range of topics, participants use hadith quotations to invoke authority, and that part of the contribution to the rhetorical force of the argument may involve a portion of the text that is not quoted.
The effectiveness of the use of social media in government communication in the UAE
Authors: Darwish Elsayed B. 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
The purpose of this article was to explore the effectiveness of the use of social media by the UAE government. It is a network analysis utilizing mainly quantitative data. A total of 100 UAE government accounts, operated by 25 entities, were examined using web-based analytical tools. General findings indicate that the communication accounts of UAE government entities reveal how they interact with stakeholders via social media. Most perform an active role in terms of publicity, outreach, marketing and transparency. However, the level of maturity in social media usage has generally not blossomed enough to be as effective as they could be in terms of stakeholders’ participation and engagement. Also, there are significant differences between the effectiveness of individual entities in terms of their outreach, transparency and participation. In general, they do not utilize the full range, capacity or features of social media in their communication.
Creating English as a language of global news contraflow: Al Jazeera at the intersection of language, globalization and journalism
Authors: Carpenter John C. 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
This study examined discourse Al Jazeera news executives, reporters and spokespersons produced during news coverage of the launch of Al Jazeera English in 2006. The study argues that Al Jazeera created meaning for English as a language of global news contraflow in its journalistic effort to balance the western dominance of global news in English. By adopting the news format and language that are most prevalent in the global news sphere and shifting the perspective from which news stories were told to the Global South, Al Jazeera English added new layers of meaning to news in English. The textual analysis using grounded theory provides a model that researchers may use in studying the ways news companies in the Global South use language to reach new audiences. The model contains public service, understandings of audience, and characteristics of journalists as units of analysis as they intersect with language.
Is it the same fight? Comparative analysis of CNN and Al Jazeera America’s online coverage of the 2014 Gaza War
Authors: Damanhoury Kareem El , Saleh Faisal 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
Major international conflicts tend to receive intensified media coverage, which is often framed differently when compared across distinct news networks. This study compares the framing of the 2014 Gaza War by two news organizations operating inside the United States at the time, CNN and Al Jazeera America (AJAM). A content analysis of 74 online news articles during the 50-day war was conducted to examine the type and nature of sources, the reporting on the death toll, the length of the articles and the use of multimedia. The study revealed that AJAM cited only Palestinian citizens in its articles and always differentiated between militants and civilians when reporting on the Palestinian death toll, while nearly 15 per cent of CNN articles did not clarify whether it had been a militant or a civilian who had died. AJAM and CNN would reference Haaretz newspaper in some articles, yet CNN would also reference other Israeli news outlets. In the meantime, unlike its sister channels Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA) and Al Jazeera English (AJE), AJAM seemed to be shifting to American journalistic practices with regard to the use of routine sources and social media in its coverage of the 2014 Gaza War.
‘Let the freak-fly fly’: Somatic approaches to undoing traditional power dynamics in dance-making
Authors: Hamp Amanda 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
Miguel Gutierrez, Stephanie Skura and The Architects serve as case studies of dance artists whose somatically informed performance work and creative practices purposefully redistribute power in their creative and dance-making processes. This article analyses their practices in order to consider how they privilege dancers’ somatic intelligences and grant dancers authority in creative decision-making. Dancers who practice with Gutierrez, Skura and The Architects rehearse distinct modes of creative authority, which I discus in terms of vital participation, radical permission and contemplative self-government. Such practices can create emancipatory effects for the dancers as social subjects, and reverberate in the sociopolitical world.
Body intelligence – individual and social potentiality/emerging thoughts from a festival
Authors: Münker Katja 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
In October 2015, the Somatic Academy Berlin (SAB) hosted the first BODY IQ Festival. The festival was dedicated to the experience, exchange and research of body intelligence from the perspectives of various somatic approaches. Its main focus was the social relevance of somatic practices and of body intelligence. The festival-viewpoint considered that the practice of somatics supports the development of intelligent skills and knowledge based on the experience of the conscious body. It suggests that these human capacities are not only relevant for individual development but also for application within social-cultural contexts. Practitioners, teachers and participants were invited to further explore and research the potential of the relation between body intelligence, somatic methods and social impact. In order to develop a shared understanding of somatic knowledge beyond existing methods it is important to develop common terminology including a definition of ‘body intelligence’. To do so, I begin this reflection with a clarification of the term body intelligence as it is used here. I then provide an overview of the festival format, the workshop contents, and the panel discussion. I finish with a reflective summary on the relevance of the festival and the social potential of somatic research and body intelligence.
Reviews
Authors: Cacalano Vincent , Hildebrandt Antje 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
Performance Review Girls at Work, Katie Duck and Yolande Snaith, Ivy Arts Centre, University of Surrey, Stag Hill, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, 17 February 2016
Book Review Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures, Noyale Colin and Stefanie Sachsenmaier (eds) (2016)
Celebrate and Demonstrate: Radical politics in somatic practices
Authors: Roy Carolyn 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
This article uses Celebrate and Demonstrate, a project proposing a political alliance between dancers with other workers in the form of rallying and marching together as a lens through which to examine the potential for somatic dance practices to participate in radical politics as they are enacted today. It considers the politics immanent in dance, specifically somatically informed dance, with reference to French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy’s ontological foundation, being-with, suggesting that this is both the origin and process of the kind of politics recognized in philosopher Judith Butler’s theory of performative assembly. It goes on to propose that, as the somatically trained dancers touch, listen to and engage the world with a particularly heightened sensitivity and openness to the potential for change, they are particularly well adapted to engage in such radical political manifestations.
‘Recovery’, ‘eating dys-order’ and somatic practice: An auto/ethnographic exploration
Authors: Farrell Bríd O’ 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
This article uses an auto/ethnographic lens to juxtapose experiences of ‘eating dysorder’ and ‘recovery’ lived in the contrasting milieu of bio-medical and somatic discourse and practice. Evocative auto/ethnography serves here as an anchor for reflections upon the question of why I experience embodied subjectivity so differently within the somatic field, and why I consider these experiences as critical events in my ‘recovery process’.
A guide to clitoral embodiment
Authors: Bindler Nicole 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
Body-Mind Centering® is a somatic practice that includes the study and embodiment of human embryological development as a foundation for understanding movement and the body. The embryology of the genitalia represents an unexplored frontier in Body-Mind Centering. Unlike its embryological corollary, the penis, the clitoris is absent from most illustrated anatomy texts. Clitoral embodiment remedies the inattention paid to female and non-binary genital development by presenting a framework for embodying multiple potentials for sex and gender expressions through imagery, movement and embryological study, with an emphasis on invagination over penetration. Standing at the intersection of somatics, embryology and gender/sexuality studies, clitoral embodiment uses classroom/studio learning and practice to explore an underlying biological explanation for sex and gender fluidity.
Entangled histories, part 1: Releasing the Archive
Authors: Brown Carol 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
Releasing the Archive probes the potential for a return to the past as a method for revitalizing corporeal expression in the present. In this trans-hemispherical project, we explore the avant-garde dance practice of Gertrud Bodenwieser (b. 1890 Vienna, d. 1959 Sydney) in Vienna prior to her exile to Australia in 1938 through a somatic approach. What is the potential opened by a recovery of the principles and practices of her dance methods and corporeal project? In inhabiting the archives of former Bodenwieser dancers through an inter-corporeal approach, Releasing the Archive explores what they can do in the present. It renders visible the specific somatic and expressive logic of dance methods that emerged in Vienna in the period 1919–38 and were developed in Australia from 1939, when they were ‘outlawed’ in Austria and Germany. At the same time, it invites an ethics of witnessing the past through the stories of the dancers who embodied it.
Entangled histories, part 2: Releasing the de-generate body
Authors: Kampe Thomas 
Published: July 2017

Abstract
This second part of writing on the research project Releasing the Archive, undertaken by Carol Brown and Thomas Kampe in collaboration with dancers of New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC), aims to discuss notions of contemporary somaticinformed re-transmission of the work of Gertrud Bodenwieser (Vienna 1890 – Sydney 1959) as acts of cultural repair. The article unpacks, through historical texts and dancers’ notebooks, how the diasporic work of Gertrud Bodenwieser, influenced by Modernist body-culture pioneer Bess Mensendieck (c. 1866–1957 ), aimed to construct a practice of somatic realism concerned with emancipatory perspectives on twentieth century western personhood. The author discusses proto-somatic and proto-feminist roots of Bodenwieser’s corporeal practices as critical processes, and reveals how Bodenwieser’s discovery-based pedagogies invite and foster dancers’ psycho-physical agency within collaborative modes of creation. The article critiques the application of The Feldenkrais Method as a contemporary somatic modality to support the revitalizing of a re-emerging ecstatic and eccentric highly dynamic bodycoding. It contextualizes Releasing the Archive as a trans-cultural and intergenerational articulation of coming to terms with the complexities of a nearly forgotten European exiled dance legacy.