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Re-envisioning Alternative Futures
Authors: Kiely Elizabeth , Swirak Katharina 
Published: May 2022

This chapter revisits key themes arising from the earlier chapters and considers the alternative trajectories for social policy and criminology that could be pursued. The chapter explores the potential for both these fields of study, criminology and social policy, and the practices they inspire to conjoin in ways, that are not about disciplining populations and /or are not in line with late neoliberal goals but instead about generating fairer, more just societies in the twenty-first century.
Sociology and Nostalgia: Micro-, Meso-and Macro-level Dimensions of an Ambiguous Emotion
Authors: Jacobsen Michael Hviid , Wilson Janelle L. 
Published: May 2022

This chapter highlights important contributions from the field of sociology to the study of nostalgia. Sociology offers a unique and valuable perspective from which to study nostalgia. Sociologists are especially apt to emphasize that the conceptualizations, experiences and uses of nostalgia are variable. The foundational work of Fred Davis (Yearning for Yesterday: A Sociology of Nostalgia) in 1979, is considered the first truly sociological treatment of the phenomenon of nostalgia. Davis’ distinction between ‘private’ and ‘collective’ nostalgia as well as his identification of three successive orders of nostalgia (‘simple’, ‘reflexive’ and ‘interpretive’) provided a solid foundation for other sociologists interested in analyzing the complex and ambiguous emotion of nostalgia. Well before the work of Davis, early sociologists could be viewed as exploring aspects of nostalgia – at least in an indirect way – as evidenced in their focus on societal changes and psychosocial challenges brought about by the Industrial Revolution. Karl Marx’s discussion of alienation, Max Weber’s concerns about over-rationalisation, Émile Durkheim’s conceptualization of social solidarity, Ferdinand Tönnies’ distinction between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, and Georg Simmel’s description of objective and subjective culture all express dissatisfaction with the present and a sense of loss, which is at the heart of nostalgia. From the backdrop of these early sociologists, this chapter examines key sociological insights on nostalgia and, in so doing, discusses other relevant concepts such as meaning, memory, identity, social structure and politics. In this way, this chapter shows how sociological insights can shed light on the phenomenon of nostalgia on the micro, meso and macro levels of social analysis.
Energy (In)Securitization: Abusive Security Practices and Poor Energy Choices
Authors: Ganz Aurora 
Published: May 2022

This chapter reorients the empirical attention towards the implications of energy securitization and exposes the Janus-faced relation between security and insecurity. Its analysis explores the multiple vulnerabilities created by energy securitization in Azerbaijan. Energy securitization is tied to forms of abuse, violence and harassment. This chapter reveals how security professionals have reoriented their rights to use force to protect energy sites against activists, workers, ordinary people and local communities. This section also shows that despite the criticality attached to energy by the multiple securitization processes, Azerbaijan's energy system is unreliable. The study discusses the country's lack of access to, affordability and availability of electricity, the low degree of sustainability of its energy system, the impact on the environment, and the inadequacy of public investments in the domestic energy industry.
“Of Course, But Maybe”
Authors: Gillota David 
Published: May 2022

Louis C.K.’s stage persona often uses stand-up comedy as a forum through which to explore his own privilege as an affluent, heterosexual, white male and as an American citizen who reaps the benefits of a global economy that is built upon the labor force of poorer countries. C.K.’s approach to privilege is often inconsistent, contradictory, and problematic, and this is especially true in light of the revelations about his past history of sexual misconduct. In this chapter, contributor David Gillota shows how C.K.’s humor remains important, as it elucidates the concepts of privilege and inequality in a manner that is accessible to potentially resistant audiences. And more important, C.K.’s inconsistent approach is ultimately revelatory of the contradictory ways in which privilege and inequality are understood and continue to operate in the contemporary United States.
Standing Flat-Footed and Talking
Authors: Taylor Monique 
Published: May 2022

Google W. Kamau Bell and he appears to have been everywhere. His is a distinct anti-racist perspective in blogs, podcasts, magazine essays, a televised series, and CDs of his standup work. From a broad comedy universe, Bell tackles the contradiction of racism in a (so-called) post-racial age head-on. In a world where old media meets new, W. Kamau Bell embodies a current generation of comedians who fit squarely with critic Megan Garber’s claim that comedians are the new public intellectual. The ways in which Bell stands flat-footed and talks race in an age of postrace is reviewed systematically in this chapter by Monique Taylor, through what Bertram Ashe calls the post-soul matrix—an analytical framework for cataloguing the artistic sensibilities of an African American generation that relies on fluid rather than fixed markers or containers of “blackness.”
Stewart Huff, P.I.
Authors: Seizer Susan , Orenstein Aviva 
Published: May 2022

This essay by Susan Seizer and Aviva Orenstein presents and analyzes the stand-up comedy of Stewart Huff, a regional road comic whose work is a stellar example of truth-telling through humor. His show God Hates Ann (2017) exposes and critiques sloppy and narrow-minded anti-science arguments and bigoted attitudes. Through a hilarious, if sometimes horrifying, march through the history of intolerance to new scientific ideas, Huff demonstrates the folly of resisting change, and challenges uncritical devotion to tradition. The contributors focus on both the subversive content of Huff’s act and his engaging form of delivery to explore how he expertly embodies the duality of being a “P.I.” —simultaneously Private Investigator and Public Intellectual.
Jump Rope
Authors: Soileau Jeanne Pitre 
Published: May 2022

This chapter includes sixty-one jump rope jingles. Jump rope rhymes were collected at schools (when playing was allowed), and on the streets in south Louisiana. The majority of players from whom jump rope jingles were collected were African American, yet the author remembered playing “I Like Coffee I like Tea,” “Red White and Blue,” “Mississippi,” “Helicopter,” “Down by the River,” and “School,” in the 1940s. Jumping rope is excellent exercise, yet it was noted that over the fifty years this collection was made, fewer and fewer schools allowed it.
Introduction
Authors: Pfeiffer Julie 
Published: May 2022

Nineteenth-century girls’ literature is a fertile space for investigating the constraints and possibilities of adolescence. The German-American phenomenon of the Backfisch novel, or fiction for adolescent girls, reveals a poorly understood moment in children’s literature when authors and readers alike explored adolescence as a liminal time of exploration and collaborative growth. Backfisch books occupy a space between the protection (and confinement) of the family story and the vulnerability of the later orphan girl novel. They reveal another strand in the development of the girls’ book, one in which girls are loved, protected, and expected to function independently of parents and siblings. While these conservative narratives rely on strict gender binaries, reinforce white privilege, and glorify domesticity, they also allow for fantasies of female growth. In these novels, growing up is a difficult but rewarding process, adults are loving and effective mentors, and adolescence itself is celebrated.
Converting Girls into Women
Authors: Pfeiffer Julie 
Published: May 2022

This chapter uses gender theory as a lens that helps us see the girl’s transformation into a woman as a conversion experience, rooted in domestic labor, rather than prayer, and infused with moral implications. By highlighting the hard work needed to turn a girl into a woman, these novels show that becoming a woman is not a natural, inevitable process, but a form of transformation that occurs in a social context and requires mentorship, trial and error, and perseverance. The Backfisch novel constructs gender both at the level of plot structure (“what does it mean for the novel to be over?”) and by holding individuals accountable to gender stereotypes (“what does it mean to be good?”). While many twenty-first adolescent girls must negotiate a system of invisible labor without instruction, the nineteenth-century Backfisch book made visible the effort and moral sculpting that result in virtuous womanhood.
Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam
Authors: Tan-Tangbau Stan BH , Quyên Văn Minh , Yamashita Yosuke 
Published: May 2022

Is there jazz in socialist Vietnam? The answer is “yes,” even though jazz was once perceived as “music of the enemy.” Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam tells the story of saxophonist, Quyền Văn Minh, who helped to give jazz a place in socialist Vietnam. This is an intimate account of a life in jazz under socialism in Vietnam, set in the broader contexts of radical social revolution, war, and uncertainty of political change when peace returned.
After accidentally encountering jazz on the transistor radio as a child, Minh embarked on a life-long quest to learn and play the music. From a self-taught musician who played at wedding gigs, he rose to become a respectable professional musician in successive song and dance troupes. Minh’s desire to play jazz motivated him to present the genre in socialist Vietnam’s public sphere, which inadvertently led to a teaching career at the national conservatoire. In 1994, he premiered three original jazz compositions in the first jazz concert performed by Vietnamese musicians at the Hà Nội Opera House. Releasing his debut jazz album, Birth ’99, Minh helped to give shape to the nascent genre of “Vietnamese jazz.” Eventually, he founded Minh’s Jazz Club to create a space for musicians to play jazz and Vietnamese audience to learn about jazz.
Written in a creative melange of autoethnography, analytical interventions, and broad contextualizations that faithfully projects the voice of the protagonist, readers could see how the complex political and social contexts of socialist Vietnam are actually experienced by real people. Through the story of Minh, we show how jazz in socialist Vietnam, as we believe in many other Asian countries and formerly socialist Eastern European countries, is mediated by passion, tenacity, and innovation of devoted musicians who saw in jazz the power of artistic self-expression.
Minh’s Jazz Club
Authors: Tan-Tangbau Stan BH , Minh Quyền Văn 
Published: May 2022

On 23 October 1997, Minh’s Jazz Club opened its doors in Hà Nội. It was the first jazz club to open in Vietnam under communist rule. Ever since then, Minh’s Jazz Club has been the place for Vietnamese musicians to indulge in playing jazz for a live audience. Earlier in 1992, Metropole, the reopened colonial era luxurious hotel, had begun to feature a regular jazz act at the hotel’s bar. That jazz act was a Vietnamese band led by Quyền Văn Minh. In 2001, Minh’s Jazz Club was one of four venues that hosted the First European Jazz Festival in Vietnam. In the years that followed, a stream of international jazz artists, including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Yamashita Yosuke visited Hà Nội. Almost every one of these musicians made a stop at Minh’s Jazz Club. There is a bona fide jazz venue in Hà Nội. Jazz could be heard in the political capital of socialist Vietnam.
Growing Up
Authors: Tan-Tangbau Stan BH , Minh Quyền Văn 
Published: May 2022

The socialist revolution began permeating every aspect of society in North Vietnam as the country came under communist rule in 1954. Jazz, once heard in the luxurious colonial enclaves in Hà Nội and included in the broadcast playlist of Radio Hà Nội, went silent. Revolutionary music, or “red music,” dominated the official soundscape. In general, children who grew up in the years of the socialist revolution heard very little of other music in the public sphere. The Second Indochina War soon extended into the North as the U.S. began a systematic bombing of major cities and military installations north of the 17th parallel. In the midst of the socialist revolution and war, Quyền Văn Minh accidentally encountered jazz through the transistor radio and ignited his passion for the music.
Interlude II
Authors: Tan-Tangbau Stan BH , Minh Quyền Văn 
Published: May 2022

While the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was undergoing a fervent socialist revolution, fighting a bloody war with the Americans and South Vietnam, and singing songs of revolution and patriotism, the rest of Asia was experimenting with jazz and trying to find its own individual voice in the world of jazz. As jazz entered Asia during the age of colonialism, its consumption by the local population was associated with a perceived experiencing of modernity. However, the popularity of jazz could also be interpreted as a foreign assault on the integrity of local cultures and values. The pursuit of jazz by local musicians invariably resulted in attempts to create their own language to speak in the world of jazz rather than simply mimicking what was blowing in from the US, the original home of the genre.
Birth ’99
Authors: Tan-Tangbau Stan BH , Minh Quyền Văn 
Published: May 2022

Quyền Văn Minh released his first two solo jazz albums consisting of original compositions in 2000 and 2001. With this repertoire of original compositions, Minh brought his brand of Vietnamese jazz to Singapore for a nine-day performance tour sponsored by Philip Morris Group with official endorsement by relevant Vietnamese government agencies. In the following years, Minh participated in several key jazz festivals in Asia, presenting a mix of original compositions and standard jazz tunes. From 2001 to 2003, Minh was a key participant in the European Jazz Festival in Vietnam series held in Hà Nội with his jazz club serving as one of the host venues for each festival. In just a decade after Minh’s concerts in 1988 and 1989, an original Vietnamese jazz sound, very much inspired by the ethnic folk music sounds of Vietnam, emerged on the scene and gave Vietnamese jazz a nascent identity.
Gender characteristics of the parameters of carbohydrate metabolism and pancreatic hormones in permanent residents of the Arctic region, taking into account age
Authors: Bichkaev A. A. , Volkova N. I. , Bichkaeva F. A. 
Published: May 2022

BACKGROUND: An increase with age in the blood glucose level of permanent residents of the Arctic region is a risk factor for metabolic changes, including diabetes mellitus (DM), the frequency and prevalence of which is often accompanied by an increase in body weight and obesity. However, at the moment, there is no clear idea of the age range in the structure of metabolic changes in northerners, and the influence of gender on the content of glucose, its metabolites, pancreatic hormones and the nature of the relationship between them in adults requires clarification.AIMS: To assess the values of the parameters of carbohydrate metabolism, pancreatic hormones, body mass index and the nature of the relationships between them in residents of the Arctic region who were born and permanently residing in the Nenets (NAO), Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) and Mezen District of the Arkhangelsk Region, taking into account gender and age.MATERIALS AND METHODS: In the blood serum healthy residents of the NAO, YaNAO and the Mezensky district of the Arkhangelsk region of mature age, born and permanently residing in the Arctic region, randomly selected after a medical examination and questioning, which depending on gender and age were divided into groups: women 21–35, 36–45, 46–55 years old and men 22–35, 36–45, 46–60 years old. The blood serum was determined by the content of glucose, lactate, pyruvate, insulin, proinsulin, C-peptide was determined, measured height and weight.RESULTS: The study involved 1146 people of mature age (women 21–35 (221), 36–45 (222) and 46–55 (371), men 22–35 (105), 36–45 (84), 46–60 (143) years). Regardless of gender, the content of glucose (Glu) significantly increases with age, the peak of which occurs in women aged 46–55 years and in men aged 46–60 years. Age-related changes in the content of lactate (Lac) and pyruvate (Pir) were not found, but in men aged 36–45 years, the level of Lac was higher than in women, and the content of Pir, on the contrary, in all age groups, regardless of gender, was shifted to the lower limit of normal and below it. Against the background of an increase in Glu in women aged 46–55 years the level of insulin was significantly increased, and in men aged 46–60 years, the level of proinsulin was significantly increased. The value of the HOMA index, regardless of gender, exceeded the norm, and the value of the Caro index was below the critical level, which indicates hidden disorders of carbohydrate metabolism.CONCLUSIONS: In permanent residents of the Arctic region (NAO, YaNAO, Mezensk district of the Arkhangelsk region) of mature age, sex differences were established in the content of glucose, lactate, pyruvate and in the regulation of insulin-stimulated glycolysis by pancreatic hormones, as well as an excess of the BMI norm in 50,9, 67,0, 75,0% of women and 52,1, 66,6, 63,7% males.
Functional brain MRI in the setting of drug correction of obesity
Authors: Kuznetsova P. I. , Romantsova T. I. , Logvinova O. V. , Tsvetkova E. S. , Kremneva E. I. , Troshina E. A. , Tanashyan M. M. 
Published: May 2022

AIMS. Study of the dynamics of brain activity using functional MRI (fMRI) in obese patients treated with sibutramine (Reduxine®).MATERIALS AND METHODS. The study enrolled patients with a body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m2 . All participants underwent initial brain fMRI mapping. The obesity cohort was treated with sibutramine at a dose of 10 or 15 mg per day for 3 months. After treatment patients with obesity underwent a second fMRI mapping to assess changes against the initial mapping.RESULTS. The study included: 30 patients (86,7% women) with mean age of 31 [27.25; 36] years, mean body weight (BW) - 106 [95.75; 121.75] kg, mean BMI 37.4 [33.55; 41.9] kg/m2 , mean waist circumference (WC) - 109 [100; 114.75] cm. The most marked activation volume (via fMRI) was observed in patients with obesity (before treatment) in the visual cortex (occipital lobes). After 3 months of treatment with sibutramine, 80% of patients lose ≥5% of BW. Mean BW decrease was -7.2 [-13.46; -5.37] kg, BMI decrease — -7.2 [-13.49; -5.34] кг/м2 , WC decrease — -6.9 [-11.88; -4.03] см, p <0,05. According to fMRI data, a decrease in brain activation in the projection of the occipital lobes (35%), left insula (44%), and increase inactivation by 70% in the area of the left DMPF.CONCLUSION. A dynamic study of brain activity using fMRI in obese patients showed that during treatment with sibutramine, a decrease in body weight is accompanied by a decrease in activation in the projection of the occipital lobes and the left insular lobe of the brain, and an increase in activation in the area of the left DMPFC. These data may indicate a decrease in the emotional perception of high-calorie food, a decrease in motivation to eat it, and an increase in cognitive control. In general, the noted dynamics of the functional activity of the brain in obese patients against the background of obesity therapy can be regarded as a change in previously formed patterns of eating behavior.
Estudio descriptivo de anomalías congénitas encontradas en rumiantes en la región de Elazig en Turquía
Authors: Polat E. 
Published: May 2022

Las malformaciones congénitas son anomalías de estructura, formación o función observables al nacer que provocan grandes pérdidas económicas en la industria ganadera.. En este estudio, se investigó la incidencia de las principales anomalías congénitas encontradas en el último año (junio de 2020-junio de 2021) en rumiantes en la región de Elazig. según especie, raza, edad, sexo, número de preñeces, examen rectal y método de concepción empleado . Se evaluaron un total de 79 anomalías congénitas encontradas en 73 animales . De 73 animales con anomalías congénitas, la mayoría eran terneros (84, 93%) y machos (68,49%). Se determinó que el tipo de anomalía más común en los terneros fue la hernia umbilical (21,51%) mientras que en corderos y cabritos fue la atresia anal. La mayoría de estas anomalías se formaban principalmente en los órganos de la pared abdominal y órganos del sistema gastrointestinal (46,84%). . Las anomalías congénitas en terneros y corderos eran más frecuentes cuando provenían de las madres de primera preñez , mientras que en los cabritos cuando las madres tenían su segunda preñez La mayoría de los rumiantes menores con anormalidades congénitas provenían de madres con gestaciones múltiples. El examen rectal realizado en las vacas durante los primeros estadios de la gestación, fue probablemente uno de los factores predisponentes para la formación de malformaciones congénitas en esta especie. Se requieren más estudios que incluyan la participación de laboratorios de diagnóstico para mejorar la caracterización de las anormalidades congénitas y contribuir a la implementación de medidas de prevención y control en los rodeos de estas especies en nuestra región.
Results of a SARS-CoV-2 virus genome detection external quality assessment round focusing on sensitivity of assays and pooling of samples
Authors: Buchta Christoph , Camp Jeremy V. , Jovanovic Jovana , Puchhammer-Stöckl Elisabeth , Strassl Robert , Müller Mathias M. , Griesmacher Andrea , Aberle Stephan W. , Görzer Irene 
Published: May 2022

Abstract

Objectives
Results of earlier external quality assessment (EQA) rounds suggested remarkable differences in the sensitivity of SARS-CoV PCR assays. Although the test systems are intended to detect SARS-CoV-2 in individual samples, screening is often applied to sample pools to increase efficiency and decrease costs. However, it is unknown to what extent these tests actually meet the manufacturer’s specifications for sensitivity and how they perform when testing sample pools.

Methods
The sensitivity of assays in routine use was evaluated with a panel of positive samples in a round of a SARS-CoV-2 virus genome detection EQA scheme. The panel consisted of samples at or near the lower limit of detection (“weakly positive”). Laboratories that routinely test sample pools were asked to also analyze the pooled EQA samples according to their usual pool size and dilution method.

Results
All participants could detect a highly positive patient-derived sample (>106 copies/mL). Most (96%) of the test systems could detect at least 1,000 copies/mL, meeting the minimum acceptable benchmark, and many (94%) detected the vRNA in a sample with lower concentration (500 copies/mL). The false negative ratio increased to 16 and 26% for samples with 100 and 50 copies/mL, respectively.

Conclusions
The performance of most assays met or exceeded their specification on sensitivity. If assays are to be used to analyze sample pools, the sensitivity of the assay and the number of pooled samples must be balanced.