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Biopolitics and translation: Edwidge Danticat’s many tongues
Authors: Misrahi-Barak Judith 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
Edwidge Danticat’s novel The Farming of Bones (1998) takes its epigraph from the Bible (Judges). The famous passage about the Shibboleth is indeed the best possible introduction to the novel since ‘le droit de passage, le laissez-passer’ is reserved to people who can be identified as belonging to a certain social and ethnic group because they speak in a certain way. The way a word is pronounced determines whether one lives or dies. From ancient times, when the Gileadites inflicted the Shibboleth test upon the Ephraimites so as to distinguish insiders from outsiders, to 1937 when Dominicans put Haitians to the Parsley test, having them say perejil in the ‘proper’ Dominican way and putting them to death if they could not, such violence is ongoing. This article will use the framework of biopolitics to understand how violence is brought upon the body to exert an authoritarian power as well as how Danticat prolongs the work of her predecessors to offset such violence in a life-sustaining way. It will move across biopolitics, translation, Anglophone and Francophone literature and trauma studies, to understand how the multiple translations further the resistance and enhance the resilience that is at work in the very body of the text.
L’exergue du roman d’Edwidge Danticat The Farming of Bones (1998) est extraite de la Bible (Juges). Le passage bien connu à propos du Schibboleth est la meilleure introduction possible au roman puisque ‘le droit de passage, le laissez-passer’ est réservé à ceux qui peuvent être identifiés comme appartenant à un certain groupe ethnique et social par la façon dont ils parlent. La prononciation d’un mot décidera de la vie ou de la mort. Depuis les temps anciens où les Giléadites imposaient le test du Schibboleth aux Ephraïmites pour distinguer les intrus jusqu’à 1937 où les Dominicains ont utilisé la façon de prononcer perejil pour reconnaître les Haitiens et les mettre à mort à la moindre différence, la même violence se poursuit. Cet article utilisera le cadre de la biopolitique pour comprendre comment la violence est portée sur le corps afin d’exercer un pouvoir autoritaire mais aussi comment Danticat parvient à contrer une telle violence par la prolongation, et la dissémination, du travail de ses prédécesseurs. Il utilisera la biopolitique, la traduction, la littérature Anglophone et Francophone et les études sur le trauma pour comprendre comme les multiples traductions renforcent aussi la résistance et la résilience qui sont au cœur du corps du texte.
Parallel paths, converging interests: Trends and changes within media groups in Spain and Portugal (1995–2010)
Authors: Domínguez José Manuel Moreno 
Published: January 2015

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The recent introduction of Spanish media groups to the Portuguese market and the latest disputes in the telecommunications industry have put the spotlight on the Iberian market, in which companies of both countries coexist, compete and collaborate in order to consolidate their businesses and grow on the international scene. The convergent interests of big companies such as Telefónica, Prisa, Portugal Telecom and Lusomundo have opened up the debate on the high concentration of communication companies on the Iberian Peninsula. The purpose of this article is to establish similarities in the behaviour of these groups between 1995 and 2010 and to identify their common interests.
The experience of Basque dissidents in Ireland during the Second World War
Authors: Whelan Barry 
Published: January 2015

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It is the aim of this paper to investigate the experience of Basque exiles that came to Ireland during the Second World War to flee General Franco and his post–civil war repression. Many of these exiles previously occupied senior political and military positions in the Republican administration and were now forced to live in exile far away from Spain and their families. They escaped to Ireland because it was a democratic, friendly and Catholic nation, yet none of these men were idle. They continued the fight against international fascism from abroad. This article also details the exhaustive efforts Franco’s fascist representative in Dublin employed to force the Irish authorities to extradite these dissidents back to Spain to face imprisonment and possible execution. The research for this article has been gathered from archival investigations in the diplomatic files of Madrid and Dublin.
Taking Nigeria to the movies: The innovative regulatory role of the National Film and Video Censors Board
Authors: Obiaya Ikechukwu 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
The double-faceted nature of film as both a cultural and an economic good means that the direct involvement by the state in the film industry can often be guaranteed. Such state involvement worldwide is largely expressed through function-specific organs, whose powers and functions tend to vary. The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) of Nigeria, as one of such organs, has powers that go beyond film classification and censorship. This has been manifested especially through its attempt to regularize film distribution in Nigeria through the introduction of a distribution framework. Many resented this attempt by the NFVCB. They considered it as needless interference, especially since the Nigerian video film industry had grown without any assistance from the government. But the NFVCB stated that it was merely exercising its mandate. This article examines the various issues involved and seeks to throw some light on a body that has been little studied.
The impacts of an entertainment-education radio serial drama in Botswana on outcomes related to HIV prevention goals in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
Authors: Mahoney L. Meghan , Bates Benjamin R. 
Published: January 2015

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This study examines the effectiveness of an entertainment education (EE) programme, Makgabaneng, in reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS in Botswana. If successful, this communication intervention should result in greater self-report of attitudes, actions and knowledge related to risk reduction goals among those who listen to Makgabaneng more often than among those who listen less often. This article begins by describing the general orientation of Makgabaneng as EE and its specific theoretical model: the MARCH model of behaviour change. Through a survey of Batswana living in and around the capital of Gabarone, we assess whether Makgabaneng is effective in promoting knowledge, attitudinal and behavioural change. Findings reveal successes in some areas, but lack of success in other areas of prevention-supportive messages. We offer some conclusion for improving this form of EE.
About not separating art and writing: The unfinished public artwork that studies finished public artwork in New York
Authors: Hackemann Rebecca 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
This article articulates an example of the relationship between practice and theory that utilizes the Freudo-Lacanian approach, of a researching art object. The artwork and the writing are not separate entities, but rather ask the same questions and intervene into public space in New York, and the academic world simultaneously. The Public Utteraton Machines, which will be installed on pavements in New York in 2014, are not finished when installed, because they ask questions.
This article furthermore synthesizes arguments for the relinquishment of traditional notions of the creative magus or genius figure, disengaged with society, in favour of artistic research as a means to forge a coherent connection to the world outside the artists own life world. It argues that the separation between practice (making art) and art history (writing about other art), i.e. an art historical approach to interpreting art, is not the only way to create or interpret public art and writing. Therefore in this case, intervening into the public art discourse in New York where my research takes place, through an unfinished object in space is most appropriate.
Locating culture in precarious times: A study of culture-led regeneration and artistic production in Manchester
Authors: Kidd Daisy 
Published: January 2015

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The aim of this article is to critically examine a culture-led regeneration project in Manchester. Through specific case studies I am aiming to contribute to the broad discourse around the nature of artistic production and cultural activity in this post-industrial city. This article outlines a new direction for artistic production in the ‘new maker’s economy’ which I am discussing with the intention of drawing out potential issues regarding the future of independent art organizations.
Boundary, Antonio Gramsci, Polyphony: Critical art today
Authors: Yamamoto Hiroki 
Published: January 2015

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This article explores what the ambiguous notion of ‘critical’ art implies, using the following three terms which I think are important to address the inquiry: ‘boundary’, ‘Antonio Gramsci’ and ‘polyphony’. In this article, I will consider various efficacies of critical art and discuss works that have critical significance. Critical art and projects can be works that aim to draw a new frontier in relation to political issues by interrogating both the visible and the invisible, or it may be that art projects provide an alternative model of sensibility and subjectivity in order to enable us to become subjects, creating another possible society.
The visual representation of queer Bollywood: Mistaken identities and misreadings in Dostana
Authors: Dasgupta Rohit K. 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
Tarun Mansukhani’s Dostana/Friendship (2008) is the first commercial popular feature film from India to exclusively engage in a queer dialogue using the device of ‘mistaken identity’ and ‘misreading’ (Ghosh 2007). This film provides a rich site for studying the traffic between discourses of sexuality, Indian-ness, diaspora and performativity. This article will address the queer representation of these fictional characters and queer framing, analysing the concepts of ‘dosti’ (friendship) and ‘yaarana’ (friendship) and the trope of the homo-social triangle in Hindi cinema. Indian popular cinema unlike European cinema has received quite scant attention within arts criticism and this article attempts to look at both the aesthetic underpinnings of a popular Indian cinema such as Dostana which is also ushering in a new queer cinematic aesthetic within the global cinema discourse. This article was presented at the Global Queer Cinema Network at the University of Sussex and has benefited from the advice and feedback of B. Ruby Rich, Deborah Shaw, John David Rhodes, Nguyen Hoang, Samar Habib, Cuneyt Cakirlar, Juan Suarez and the organizers Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover. Finally it has also benefited from intense discussions and debates with fellow Bollywood writer, Steven Baker.
Reviews
Authors: Bird Jon , Dennis Jeffrey , Maclean Mary , Thomas David , Chua Dr Kevin , Hill Dr Peter 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
‘The Show Is Over’, Gagosian Gallery, London 15 October–30 November 2013
‘I Cheer a Dead Man’s Sweetheart: 21 Painters in Britain’, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, 15 March–29 June 2014
Rudolf Stingel at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice 7 April–31 December 2013
‘Paul Boston: Stone Clouds’ at Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia 4 February–1 March 2014
‘Painting in Singapore’, Equator Art Projects, Singapore 2 August–8 September 2013
‘Melbourne Now’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 22 November 2013–23 March 2014
‘All that is behind colour’: Antonioni and painting (three case studies)
Authors: Benci Jacopo 
Published: January 2015

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This article explores how painting was an important visual source in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni (1912–2007), through case studies dealing with three painters whose work he was interested in and whom he was personally acquainted with: Renzo Vespignani (1924–2001), Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) and Mark Rothko (1903–1970). The question of when and how contacts occurred between the director and the artists has been carefully analysed, by way of a detailed examination of published sources as well as unpublished eyewitness accounts.
The unscripted image
Authors: Talbot Emma 
Published: January 2015

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The article compares and discusses Ken Loach and Mike Leigh’s very different and distinct strategies for realist film-making. Loach’s use of the script is compared to the use of photography in painting with reference to ‘The Painting of Modern Life’ exhibition at the Hayward Gallery (2007), and Mike Leigh’s experimental, improvised and unscripted approach is compared to Carel Weight’s painting The Friends (1968) that uses observation and experience.
Polycentrism in contemporary dance
Authors: Nelson Matthew 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
The concept of a single embodied centre is an important part of modern dance training and aesthetics, and is particularly applicable to spinal movement. Polycentrism, a concept that has arisen though analysis of Africanist dance aesthetics, can also be identified in contemporary dance. Polycentric aspects of spinal connectivity are supported by somatic and biomechanical studies, and offer additional possibilities for movement aesthetics, efficiency and health. How might our pedagogies, aesthetics and world-view integrate polycentric approaches to spinal connectivity?
Landscapes of loss: Moving and mourning – An autobiographical account
Authors: Poynor Helen 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
This reflective autobiographical essay written from an experiential perspective investigates how closely kinaesthetic, emotional and spiritual experiences can be interwoven through movement, encompassing embodied practice, intense feeling and personal ritual. As a movement artist and therapist the author explores how her personal experience of loss was embodied and expressed in a series of moments of movement that took place both in the studio and in the wider environment, in the context of her ongoing practice of non-stylized and environmental movement. It includes detailed analysis of these moments in terms of the movement and actions undertaken and the symbolic and personal significance of them as part of a broader process of grieving. It provides insight into how an embodied expression of mourning might offer a alternative to our English culturally acceptable expressions of grief, a kinaesthetic equivalence of the poetic expression of authors such as T. S. Elliot and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Collage, montage and the composer Pierre Henry: The real, the concrete, the abstract in sound art and music
Authors: Dack John 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
In his book Theory of the Avant-Garde ([1974] 1984) Peter Bürger claims that the technique of ‘collage’ introduced ‘reality fragments’ into paintings. He went on to emphasize the fundamental importance of both ‘collage’ and ‘montage’: ‘A theory of the avant-garde must begin with the concept of montage that is suggested by the early cubist collages’. For Bürger the consequences of using ‘reality fragments’ were profound: the artwork was transformed and, as a result, the ‘organic’ nature of art itself was challenged. In many ‘collages’ the artist ensures that ‘reality fragments’ coexist (uneasily perhaps) with painted, abstract representations of the world. This article explores these topics within the context of teaching a module on the undergraduate Fine Art course at Middlesex University. The teaching is seminar-based in groups of up to fifteen students with a particular emphasis on understanding the relationships between practical work and underlying theoretical assumptions. In order to tease out these relationships I introduce examples from the works of the French composer Pierre Henry who collaborated with Pierre Schaeffer at the very beginnings of musique concrète. Henry’s work is chosen as an example of the tension between the ‘real-world’ sounds and their possible meanings. The split between Henry and Schaeffer was in hindsight inevitable given the former’s insistence on exploiting the significance and intrinsic beauty of ‘real-world’ sounds. By using terminology from Fine Art critiques of the avant-garde I shall demonstrate in this article that many of Henry’s later compositions can be examined by means of formal concepts such as ‘collage’ and ‘montage’ within a pedagogical framework. Problematic terms such as ‘abstract’ and ‘concrete’ will also form part of this enquiry.
Displaying the beauty: The beachcomber-bowerbird approach to composition
Authors: Whistlecroft Lisa 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
The ‘call for papers’ for the conference From Tape to Typedef: Compositional Methods in Electroacoustic Music, held at the University of Sheffield in January 2013, described a number of possible compositional methods, of which the very first was: ‘In some cases, composers rely upon serendipity – sounds are “found”, processing is inherently experimental, and the electroacoustic work emerges gradually, without predetermination or planning’. This article proposes a name for this method, drawing parallels between the author’s methods in musical composition and her ‘window ledge practice’, illustrated with photographs. Questions discussed include: is ‘searching’ a necessary prerequisite for ‘finding’? If sound processing is used less as a compositional process and more as a realm in which the same ‘finding’ process takes place, how does this change the composer’s approach to tools? Are the aesthetic decisions involved in selection (defined as effective rejection) similar to those assumed to act in ‘creation’? Can the compositional process, as well as the sound selection process, be ear-led rather than pre-planned? Is an intuitive, un-formalized practice academically valid? How can knowledge and skills be developed? Can it be taught or only mentored? Discussion is rooted in an account of the author’s own practice and is presented informally in the first person.
Tracking production strategies: Identifying compositional methods in electroacoustic music
Authors: Moore Adrian , Moore Dave , Pearse Stephen , Stansbie Adam 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
In recent years, electroacoustic theorists have drawn attention to the experiences and interpretations of listeners; well-known examples include the writings of Stéphane Roy, Luke Windsor, Christiane Ten Hoopen and Denis Smalley. During the same period, relatively little has been said about the methods and techniques employed by composers during the creation of their works. This article starts by considering some of the reasons why methods have been overlooked within the existing body of literature. It goes on to discuss the existing software tool developed at the University of Sheffield, and explains how this software documents the process chain and affords an interaction with the compositional process. The software is then contextualized within a proposed research project, which aims to further develop the software tools, and deliver a series of complete compositional traces by a number of composers, offering these for compilation and comparison. It finishes by proposing ways in which compositional methods might be identified and analysed.
The ‘religion’ of Christmas
Authors: Deacy Christopher 
Published: January 2015

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The aim of this article is to query the established wisdom that the celebration of consumerist values, as exemplified in many Christmas films, is evidence of a decline of religious significance in the modern world. Rather, I argue that the celebration of consumerism is itself a repository of ‘sacred time’ and that Christmas is one of the most fertile embodiments of religious activity in the world today. I interrogate the way in which Eliade, Tillich and Durkheim understand the relationship between religion and culture, the sacred and the profane, to present a more subtle understanding of the interplay between material and spiritual configurations, to the point that Christmas is a religion because of rather than in spite of its material and commercialized teleology. The intention is to move away from conventional binary language in order to develop a more sophisticated and realistic understanding of where religion can be encountered.
Thematic segmentation and acting style in Journey to the Christmas Star
Authors: Antunes Luis Rocha 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
Reisen til Julestjernen/Journey to the Christmas Star, released in Norwegian cinemas in 1976, was first broadcast by the Norwegian public service television station NRK in 1993, almost twenty years later. In 1996 came a repeat broadcast; since then it has been shown every year, becoming part of Norwegian Christmas ritual. What explains that an apparently dated film has attracted renewed and ongoing interest from audiences and media programmers decades later? This short subject investigates thematic segmentation and physical acting as a partial answer to this question. This approach establishes that the complexity and depth of the film’s themes contrast with the simplicity of the plot and acting style, allowing profound meanings to be expressed through discrete and exaggerated body language.
One really sick TV Christmas calendar: Negotiating identity in ‘Yallahrup Ferry Town’
Authors: Tangherlini Timothy R. 
Published: January 2015

Abstract
The 2007 television Christmas calendar, Yallahrup Færgeby/‘Yallahrup Ferry Town’, upsets the normal conventions of Danish television Christmas specials, shifting attention away from the cosy aspects of the holiday season, and towards unsettling aspects of the contemporary urban Danish landscape. The 24-episode series, which uses puppets as part of an easily recognized satire of the classic 1974 Jullerup Færgeby/‘Jullerup Ferry Town’ calendar, focuses on the social challenges confronting two adolescents, Ali and Hassan, as they negotiate life in a dysfunctional urban school. The two boys, whose ethnic heritage is ‘other than Danish’, cycle through nearly all the Orientalist stereotypes of the immigrant in Danish culture, yet manage to emerge at the end of the series with an evolving sense of self that neither plays into the assimilationist policies of the Danish government nor aligns with the crippling stereotypes of criminal immigrant youths unable to find meaningful positions in Danish society.
Satanic Santa: An apocalyptic Christmas in Rare Exports
Authors: Copier Laura 
Published: January 2015

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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale deploys a combination of two apparently conflicting narratives: the Christmas and Santa Claus story on the one hand and an apocalyptic story, including the presence of a Satan-like figure, on the other. This results in a film that questions the origins of the Santa Claus story and adds a darker, apocalyptic influence to it.
Generosity and hospitality in Christmas Story
Authors: Laine Tarja 
Published: January 2015

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This short subject discusses what might be understood as Santa Claus’ essence, which is the logic of and limits to his overarching generosity, as depicted in the film Christmas Story (Wuolijoki, 2007). The plot centres on the orphan Nikolas, who grew up to be Santa Claus. Young Nikolas moves to a new home every Christmas Day, and every Christmas he crafts presents for the children of the family he has left. Thus, at the core of the film lies an interesting vision of the relationship between hospitality and generosity, which is the film’s greatest merit. For many theorists hospitality and generosity are self-contradictory notions, which is why they need to be rethought every time they are put into practice. The article examines the relationship between the two concepts as it emerges from close analysis of Christmas Story.