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Russia On The Edge - Edith Clowes, Thoams Ambrosio

International Dialogue

Edith Clowes’ Russia on the Edge is an engaging and accessible examination of three central questions of post-Soviet Russia: What is Russia? Who are the Russians? Where is Russia? The last question might be odd, given that the physical borders of the Russian Federation are not in doubt, since they are the same as those of the Russian republic borders from the Soviet period. However, when it comes to the creation of a post-Soviet Russian identity, the physical borders are secondary to how they are imagined. As stated in the preface: if Soviet identity was defined largely in terms of …

Security And Environmental Change - Simon Dalby, Len Broberg

International Dialogue

In Security and Environmental Change, Simon Dalby seeks to reframe national security in terms of environmental change and its threats to human safety and prosperity. Dalby promises a multifaceted examination of the issue, making clear that environmental change encompasses more than climate change but includes all human modifications of the planet: deforestation, water diversion and species extinction to name a few. In addition, the book seeks to deconstruct and rebuild the notion of security, moving out of classically framed Cold War national security focused on nation states toward a more human centered security. This effort succeeds and, in the process, …

Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, And The Politics Of Dwelling - David J. Gauthier, Joseph Bien

International Dialogue

Books on Heidegger and books on Levinas are plentiful in English, French and German. Books dealing with a comparison of both authors, especially in terms of the politics of dwelling, are not at all common and certainly should demand our attention. This work appears to be a reworked version of a dissertation with all the standard problems that go with such an undertaking. That said, this is a useful introduction to the question of dwelling in the writings of two extremely important philosophers.

Darker Than Blue: On The Moral Economies Of Black Atlantic Culture - Paul Gilroy, Shiera S. El-Malik

International Dialogue

In this work, Paul Gilroy charges academics including scholars of the African and Black Diaspora with inadequately addressing ethical questions of racial hierarchy. He posits that academics apply a uniquely American framework of racial hierarchy to their analyses of places other than the U.S. The result, according to Gilroy, is that American conceptions of blackness (and whiteness) then substitute for social structures regardless of people’s lived experiences. Further, this globalised spectacle of blackness operates in the service of the U.S. imperial war machine. Gilroy argues that the current moment of geo-political restructuring offers opportunities for rethinking the connection between racial …

After Evil: A Politics Of Human Rights - Robert Meister, Debra L. Delaet

International Dialogue

In After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights, Robert Meister puts forth an original, subtle, and provocative critique of mainstream human rights discourse in contemporary global politics. He describes this discourse, which he capitalizes as Human Rights Discourse throughout the text, as “… a new discourse of global power that claims to supersede the cruelties perpetrated by both revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries during the previous two centuries” (3). Meister argues that this discourse creates a false temporal divide between historical periods of “evil” in which gross violations of human rights are committed and post-conflict periods of justice during which parties are …

Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization - Jeffrey S. Juris, Jackie Smith

International Dialogue

Networking Futures represents an important contribution to research on transnational organizing, social networks, and on the effects of technology on social relations. Juris, an anthropologist, draws from several years of field research that is part of his multi-sited, global ethnographic study. His experiences in the field lead him to offer, in addition to insightful analyses of contemporary organization and activism, important insights into the practice of social research in a networked, global age.

Latin American Politics And Development, 7th Ed. - Howard J. Wiarda And Harvey F. Kline (Eds.), Paul C. Sondrol

International Dialogue

The scholarly literature on the government and politics of Latin America continues to flourish, offering interesting research questions and cross-national comparisons touching on a variety of themes that continue trends from the past. Howard J. Wiarda and Harvey Kline’s (eds) Latin American Politics and Development is the most recent edition of the popular text on the government and politics in Latin America, revised and updated on recent developments since 2000. Leading specialists on the region provide an overview of Latin American development, policy processes, and key actors (the military, the Catholic Church, the landed oligarchy, bureaucracies, political parties and elections, …

First As Tragedy, Then As Farce - Slavoj Žižek, Edward Sandowski

International Dialogue

Slavoj Žižek is a prolific, original, and formidable philosopher. His publishing habits are so productive that any discussion of a particular book is bound to be only a very partial consideration of his work and views as a whole. This applies to the present discussion of First as Tragedy, Then as Farce. The title, of course, is taken from Marx. One relevant classical passage is from the Eighteenth Brumaire: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great events and characters of world history occur, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” …

Witness And Testimonies: A Diachronic Perspective On The History Of The Bosnian Muslims, Rusmir Mahmutćehajić

International Dialogue

In his essay, “Witness and Testimonies: A Diachronic Perspective on the History of the Bosnian Muslims,” Rusmir Mahmutćehajić explores and deconstructs ideological abuses of some of the most important terms in the Muslim intellectual tradition. The terms ‘witness’ and ‘witnessing’, ‘opener’ and ‘opening’ are of key significance for understanding and reasoning for Muslim sacred tradition. Distorted, narrowed and reductive forms of these terms have been taken by antimuslim ideologists as material within their own constructions. In deconstructing the ideological abuse of these terms, Mahmutćehajić applies new knowledge from his experience in Scriptural Reasoning. Terms from the cultural history of Bosnia …

The Recurring Great Lakes Crisis: Identity, Violence And Power - Jean-Pierre Chretién And Richard Banégas (Eds), Catherine Bolten

International Dialogue

The Recurring Great Lakes Crisis is an edited volume comprising individual case studies that examine aspects of historical and on-going violence in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, and Congo-Kinshasa. The purpose of the volume is to “lead to a better understanding of the changes in the perceptions of violence which constitute one of the most serious obstacles to lasting peace” (1). The case studies encompass a diverse array of aspects of each of the conflicts, from the role of the Catholic Church in Rwanda since 1957, to the political and social problems created by the label “disaster victims” in Burundi after the …

The Unfinished Global Revolution: The Pursuit Of A New International Politics - Mark Malloch-Brown, Robert Weiner

International Dialogue

Several themes run throughout this book, in which Mark Malloch-Brown melds his personal experience as a British civil servant with his career as an international civil servant, working at various times at the World Bank, as the head of the United Nations Development Program, and UN Secretary-General’s Kofi Annan’s assistant. The central theme of the book revolves around the need for an effective system of global governance to cope with the major challenges which the international community faces in the age of globalization in the 21st century. Some of the problems involve the darker side of globalization, such as terrorism …

Determinants Of Democratization: Explaining Regime Change In The World, 1972-2006 - Jan Teorell, Joseph Derdzinski

International Dialogue

Just as the Color Revolutions of the last decade did, the Arab Spring once again brings the concept of democratization to the forefront of public discourse. They remind us yet once again how few countries have made at least the initial transition from authoritarianism, and how many more there are to democratize. Yet, having said this, the pool of countries that have liberalized politically and socially has grown tremendously in the past 40 years, yielding a fertile universe of cases for study and analysis. Jan Teorell at Sweden’s Lund University, in his compact but rich Determinants of Democratization: Explaining Regime …

Archaeologists As Activists - M. Jay Stottman, Curtis Hutt

International Dialogue

Archaeologists as Activists: Can Archaeologists Change the World? is comprised of papers edited by M. Jay Stottman—many of which were initially prepared for a session at the 2004 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology in St. Louis. The focus of this volume is “activist archaeology” as theorized and performed by archaeologists working in the last few decades in the United States. While the specific topics addressed are quite local, the questions raised and practices deployed are highly significant for archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians engaged in international settings. First, I must make a few disclaimers. This reviewer is neither …

Ua12/2/1 Topper Extra - Wku Opens Sun Belt Play, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special edition of the College Heights Herald featuring athletics.

• Claybourn, Cole. For WKU to Win, Kawaun Jakes Has to Step Up – Football
• Claybourn, Cole. WKU Marketing to Give Away Luke Bryan Tickets, Two $500 Shopping Sprees to Students
• Stephens, Brad. Tops Look to Start Fresh with Sun Belt Conference Opener – Football
• Stephens, Brad. Bowling Green Local Ryan Beard Making His Own WKU Legacy – Football
• Lanter, Austin. Lady Tops Home Again, Looking to Halt Losing Skid – Soccer
• Trent, Mercedes. Toppers Preparing for More Competitive meet – Track & Field
• Aulbach, Lucas. Quarterback Melanie Stutsman Running WKU’s Offense …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Patton, Emily. The Very Depth of Low – Lee Eric Drake Foundation, Suicide
• Wade, Katherine. State Undergrad Enrollment Remains Static
• Arnold, Lauren. Two Former Football Players Form Band – Jamison Link, Chris McConnell
• West, Natalie. E is for Event Planner – Rachel Goodman
• Duvall, Tessa. Julia Roberts Awarded for Teaching Excellence
• Koch, Cameron. WKU, Middle Tennessee State University Set for Second Blood Drive
• Williams, Joanna. WKU Finalizing Fifth-week Assessments
• Wade, Katherine. Eric Yates’ Name to Be Added to Guthrie Bell Tower
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: Volleyball
• Jenkins, Spencer. …

Baseball's Night, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It was approximately 12:45 a.m. in London when Mark Teixeira’s bases loaded blast reached the seats in The Can, and the Yankees added four runs to the one they were gifted in the first inning. It was 5-0. David Price had very little, and I turned off my computer and went to bed. At the time the Braves were 1-1 with Philadelphia, the Red Sox and O’s were scoreless and that seemed not to matter at that point. The Cardinals and Astros had not yet begun.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Stacy, Stephani. WKU Bringing Back Niteclass Concert Series
• Zudic, Rialda. Cultural Celebration – International Festival
• Wade, Katherine. Committees to Discuss Regents’ Term Limits
• Justice, Maciena. Chinese Music Club Grows in Popularity
• Sharrett, Luke. A Thousand Words – Will Penick, Tobacco
• Alleyne, Zirconia. Sisters Planning Dance Marathon at WKU – Alex Kimura, Sam Kimura
• Bratcher, Nick. Ransdell Hall Nears Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Certification
• Allen, Kevin. Jim Glassman’s Lecture Focuses on Economics
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: Tobacco Ban
• Come Together, Right Now – Tobacco Ban
• Crisci, Michael. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Young, Amanda. Women in Transition Hosting Breast Cancer Awareness Fair
• Hayden, Natalie. Why Not? – Brandon Peay, Politics
• Wade, Katherine. WKU Campaign Funds Should Top $200 Million
• Blanford, Sidney. Student Goes Global Thanks to Scholarship Aid – Sara Moody, India
• Wood, Shane. D is for Dubstep – Derek Sabiston
• Bratcher, Nick. Desk Clerks Checking Bags for Booze – Housing & Residence Life
• Wade, Katherine. WKU Boosting United Way Donation Goals
• Jenkins, Spencer. Open Up About Your Problems
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon: Death
• Dowell, Lydia. Student Asks: Remember September 20, …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 7, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Bratcher, Nick. Augenstein Alumni Center’s Goal is Keeping Grads Connected to University
• Patton, Emily. A Big Red Mystery – Mascots
• Duvall, Tessa. Greeks Upset with New Homecoming Pairings Selection
• Williams, Joanna. James Fallows Begins This Year’s Cultural Enhancement Series
• Randolph, Christian. A Thousand Words – Civil War Memorials
• Koch, Cameron. NewsChannel 12 to Debut Newly Renovated Set
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: Heat
• Sensible Savings
• Stephens, Billy. Participate in This Week’s Student Government Association Elections, Other Events
• Rutledge, Chris. Q&A with Band Manchester Orchestra
• Walters, Rachael. Professor Organizing Run …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 6, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Harrison, Taylor. Student Government Association Passes No-tobacco Resolution
• Zukic, Rialda. Unveiling Culture – Muslims
• Waters, Rachael. WKU Prepares for Parent & Family Weekend
• Justice, Maciena. WKU Program Helps Veterans Adjust Before College – Veterans Upward Bound
• Kriz, Lindsay. C is for Chess – Samuel Hunt
• Williams, Joanna. Conference Examines Kentucky’s Higher Education
• Bratcher, Nick. Construction Funding Delayed at WKU with Economy Suffering
• Frasier, Aaron. Professor Continues Projects with NASA – Louis Strolger
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: Graduation Stunts
• Jenkins, Spencer. Senior Starting to Feel Old
• Stanford, Nick. Student: …

Ua12/2/1 Topper Extra - Jordyn Skinner, Wku Student Affairs

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Special edition of the College Heights Herald featuring athletics.

• Claybourn, Cole. If WKU Wins on Saturday, How Will You Celebrate? – Football
• Stephens, Brad. WKU Quarterback Questions Remain
• Stephens, Brad. WKU Not Overlooking Football Championship Subdivision Foe Indiana State – Football
• Aulbach, Lucas. Jordyn Skinner Hopes to Keep Up Special Season – Volleyball
• Aulbach, Lucas. WKU Goes to D.C. for Final Tournament before Sun Belt Championship Play – Volleyball
• Lanter, Austin. WKU Closing Out Its Non-conference Schedule – Soccer
• Trent, Mercedes. Toppers to Run Tough Kereiakes Course – Track & Field
• Stephens, Brad. WKU Coaches Look to Get Talented Antonio …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Bratcher, Nick. Colonial Court to Remain as Green Space
• Aulbach, Lucas. Moving On Up – Volleyball
• Young, Amanda. Cage the Elephant Returns to the Hill
• West, Natalie. Choir Gives Students a Break from School – Music
• Allen, Kevin. WKU Hosts 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony
• Young, Amanda. ALIVE Center Hosts 9/11 Memorial on South Lawn Saturday
• Bratcher, Nick. Summer Heat Affected WKU Employees’ Conditions
• Wade, Katherine. Regents Bylaw Could Impose Further Term Limits
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: Recycling
• Live Sustainably. Go Green
• Salman, Andrew. In-class Medical Response Needed
• Lintner, Jonathan. …

Penn State, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The world of intercollegiate athletics, particularly the world of elite football and basketball programs, is a world unto itself. It has a connection to reality analogous to that of Disney World, and is shrouded in a veil of secrecy rivaling that of the CIA. Those who run these programs live in a paranoid environment that sustains a bunker mentality, while at the same time is invested with a sense that the rules, of any world beyond their offices, do not apply to them. They are vigilant in maintaining their splendid isolation in a vacuum of privilege.

Tele-Visioning Terror, Caroline Zekri

Re-visioning Terrorism

This paper is devoted to the relationship between terrorism and media, with a special focus on the theoretical notions of “icon”, “mass” and “distance”. It aims to show how the phenomenon of modern terrorism calls into question the essence of modern democracies and their systems of information, based on the distance between vision and event.

Marco Bellocchio's Buongiorno Notte And The Language Of Terrorists, Cosetta Gaudenzi

Re-visioning Terrorism

This essay investigates Marco Bellocchio’s Buongiorno, notte (2003), a movie which exploits language and soundtrack to fictionalize and revisit the historical 1978 kidnapping and murder of the Christian Democrat President Aldo Moro by the 1970s Italian left terrorist group Brigate Rosse. As I demonstrate, Bellocchio relies greatly on the language and soundtrack of Buongiorno, notte to convey his negative response to the BR’s kidnapping and murder of Moro, as well as to come to terms with his own political and cinematic past.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 4, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Kriz, Lindsay. Remembering 9/11
• Koch, Cameron. 9/11 Themed Constitution Week Kicks Off Saturday
• Wade, Katheirne. School Hosting Auditions for Face of WKU Spirit
• Arnold, Lauren. B Is for Band Member – Quintin Lyttle
• WKU from A to Z
• McKay, Michael. Graduation Stressed to WKU Class of 2015
• Williams, Joanna. New Financial Aid Rules Could Affect Thousands
• Duvall, Tessa. Pi Kappa Alpha, Delta Tau Omega Lose Homecoming Pairings
• Editorial Cartoon re: 9/11
• Jenkins, Spencer. War Apathy: There’s No Real Excuse
• Ardrey, Saundra. Join in Constitution Week Activities
• Hardesty, Melissa. Alpha …

Ua12/2/1 Topper Extra - The New Face Of Wku's Defense, Wku Student Affairs

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Special edition of the College Heights Herald featuring athletics.

• Claybourn, Cole. WKU Planning Patriotic Home Opener – Football
• Stephens, Brad. Three Keys to Victory
• Stephens, Brad. WKU Prepares for Navy’s Option Offense
• Stephens, Brad. Andrew Jackson Becoming a Defensive Force
• Lanter, Austin. Now a Senior, Libby Stout a Head Figure for WKU Soccer Team
• Lanter, Austin. Lady Toppers Not Overlooking Belmont, Eastern Michigan – Soccer
• Aulbach, Lucas. Ashley Potts Leading Lady Toppers’ Defense – Volleyball
• Aulbach, Lucas. Lady Tops Expect Big Crowds for First Home Matches – Volleyball
• Trent, Mercedes. Deus Rwaheru Fighting Back from Injury to Prepare for Olympics …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Zukic, Rialda. International Tuition Reaching New Heights
• Bratcher, Nick. New Surplus Coordinator Brings Creativity to the Job – Sara Ferguson
• Wood, Shane. WKU Professor Paints Fresco in Van Meter Hall – Mike Nichols
• Frasier, Aaron. Confucius Institute to Offer Chinese Courses
• Harrison, Taylor. Student Government Association Member Creates Test Prep Website – Kendrick Bryan
• Let Our Sophomores Go
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re Dormitories
• Hughey, Aaron. Professor Urges People to Think Different About Education System
• Wade, Katherine. WKU Diversity Plan Nearing Approval
• Justice, Maciena. Students Assist Police’s Search for …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Frasier, Aaron. Floral Design Courses Moved to New Shop - Agriculture
• Alleyne, Zirconia. A is for Ambassador - Spirit Masters
• Wade, Katherine. Amy Eckhardt Alleges Retaliation from WKU Over Grant - Honors College
• McKay, Michael. Fraternities End Formal Recruitment Process
• Koch, Cameron. GameStop's Zombie Walk Benefits Center for Courageous Kids
• Hansen, Christian. Non-WKU Student Charged with Rape on Campus
• Kriz, Lindsay. WKU Graduates Teach in China - Reece Schenkenfelder, Bryan Jackson, Amanda Yatso
• Young, Amanda. New Sorority Alpha Xi Delta Coming to WKU
• Vogt, Darren. Editoriral Cartoon re: Bunny …

Digital Humanities In Developed And Emerging Markets, Verena Laschinger

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Digital Humanities in Developed and Emerging Markets" Verena Laschinger discusses the impact e-culture has on humanities pedagogy both in affluent countries and emerging markets. Claiming that e-literacy training generally offers opportunities to recover the traditional agency of the humanities thus catapulting the disciplines into the educational forefront of the creative economy, special attention is given to the chances digital humanities education offers in Turkey’s emerging market economy. Given that technology promotes the country's economic development, which includes a rapidly growing private educational sector, digital humanities education helps citizens to adjust to critical democratic exchange, to facilitate and …