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Sketching As Visual Dialogue.Pdf, Andreas Luescher Dec 2015

Sketching As Visual Dialogue.Pdf, Andreas Luescher

Andreas Luescher

Sketching is one of the earliest known forms of communication. It’s a record of thoughts, ideas and visions. It may sound simple, but it’s actually quite complex, because the expression of sketching varies according to an individual’s personal style, visual thinking and imagination, and is also related to one’s context and culture.  Sketching is a form of auto-reflection that encourages the mirroring of events that may not be noticed by the conscious mind, and daydreams that occur frequently in different working and life settings. For architects, these sketches can reveal the desire for a different and more intimate relationship between …

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1st_Plural_Hortatory_Subj_Menander_New.Xls, Peter G. Barrios-Lech Dec 2015

1st_Plural_Hortatory_Subj_Menander_New.Xls, Peter G. Barrios-Lech

Peter Barrios-Lech

This is the data for my article, "The First Person Plural Hortatory Subjunctive in New Comedy"

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Artists' Studio Archives: Managing Personal Collections & Creative Legacies, Heather Gendron, Eumie Imm Stroukoff, Joan E. Beaudoin, Neal Ambrose-Smith Dec 2015

Artists' Studio Archives: Managing Personal Collections & Creative Legacies, Heather Gendron, Eumie Imm Stroukoff, Joan E. Beaudoin, Neal Ambrose-Smith

Heather Gendron

No abstract provided.

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The Volo Command In Roman Comedy (Revised, Pre-Print Version), Peter G. Barrios-Lech Dec 2015

The Volo Command In Roman Comedy (Revised, Pre-Print Version), Peter G. Barrios-Lech

Peter Barrios-Lech

ABSTRACT: The article is based on a complete data set of all volo commands in Roman comedy (a large and relevant corpus); the semantic and pragmatic features of the volo command are described, and argument is made that Plautus characterizes on the linguistic level using the volo command in selected passages. Please cite only the published version.

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Direitos Indígenas E Diversidade Cultural: Em Busca De Um Diálogo Transcontinental, Tracy Devine Guzmán Dec 2015

Direitos Indígenas E Diversidade Cultural: Em Busca De Um Diálogo Transcontinental, Tracy Devine Guzmán

Tracy Devine Guzmán

No abstract provided.

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Diffractive Possibilities: Cultural Studies And Quantification, Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román Dec 2015

Diffractive Possibilities: Cultural Studies And Quantification, Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román

Ezekiel J Dixon-Román

The belief in the methods of quantification has not been widely shared in cultural studies. On the one hand, the dominant orientation of quantitative social science research continues to hold on to positivist assumptions of objectivity and the privileged access to the “truths” of natural phenomena via the logics of mathematics. On the other hand, cultural studies has maintained a hermeneutics of suspicion toward the methods of quantification. But, to what extent does this suspicion toward quantitative inquiry compromise the deconstructive project of cultural studies by falling into the trap of the quantitative/qualitative and, related, nature/culture binaries? Building on new …

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Alternative Ontologies Of Number: Rethinking The Quantitative In Computational Culture, Elizabeth De Freitas, Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román, Patti Lather Dec 2015

Alternative Ontologies Of Number: Rethinking The Quantitative In Computational Culture, Elizabeth De Freitas, Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román, Patti Lather

Ezekiel J Dixon-Román

Introduction to special issue.

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Surprise, Sensemaking, And Success In The First College Year: Black Undergraduate Men’S Academic Adjustment Experiences, Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D., Christopher B. Newman Dec 2015

Surprise, Sensemaking, And Success In The First College Year: Black Undergraduate Men’S Academic Adjustment Experiences, Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D., Christopher B. Newman

Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D.

Background: Much has been written about Black undergraduate men’s out-of-class engagement and social experiences, identity development, participation in intercollegiate athletics, and college enrollment and completion rates. Too little is known about their academic readiness and first-year college adjustment.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand Black male students’ academic transition experiences in the first college year, with a particular emphasis on how they resolved academic challenges with which they were confronted.

Setting: This study was conducted at 42 colleges and universities in 20 states across the United States. Six institution types were included: private liberal …

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Hidden Stories, Inclusive Perspectives: Describing Photographs Of Jewish Refugees In Shanghai, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian Dec 2015

Hidden Stories, Inclusive Perspectives: Describing Photographs Of Jewish Refugees In Shanghai, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

When a collection of over 600 photographs and negatives was discovered in the backlog of Loyola Marymount University (LMU) Library’s Department of Archives and Special Collections, there were moments of surprise, intrigue, and fascination. While information about the collection is limited, the pictures have presumably been taken by Werner von Bolternstern, a photographer and avid postcard collector, who donated the collection (among many others) to LMU. The Werner von Bolternstern Shanghai Photograph and Negative Collection offers rare visual records and remarkable documentation of life in Shanghai, China, from 1937 to 1949. Besides Shanghai urban landscapes, historical architecture, and street scenes, …

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'Oral Versions Of Personal Experience’: Labovian Narrative Analysis And Its Uptake, Barbara Johnstone Dec 2015

'Oral Versions Of Personal Experience’: Labovian Narrative Analysis And Its Uptake, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

William Labov is known across the human and social sciences for his work on oral narratives about personal experience. This article provides an overview of that research and discusses its uptake and influence in linguistics and in other fields. Subsequent scholarship on narrative has critiqued Labov’s model on the grounds that it privileges a certain genre of personal-experience narrative and underplays the role of interlocutors and other contextual features in shaping oral narratives, but such scholarship inevitably borrows Labov’s insight that the form of narrative is linked to its interactional functions. Narrative research in psychology and other fields often cites …

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They Fell Silent When We Stopped Listening: Apophatic Theology And 'Asking The Beasts', Eric D. Meyer Dec 2015

They Fell Silent When We Stopped Listening: Apophatic Theology And 'Asking The Beasts', Eric D. Meyer

Eric Meyer

Fredric Jameson poignantly notes that for those of us formed by the cultures of the West, it is easier to imagine the destruction of the biosphere and the extinction of the majority of earth’s species than the end of global capitalism. Our collective moral imagination has atrophied within the enclosure of a political-economic system whose momentum seems unstoppable, yet whose operation is geared toward the short-term monetary benefit of a tiny minority. We can readily imagine mass extinctions and ecological deterioration because this is the direction that we are already going; we have trouble imagining the end of late capitalism …

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The Catholic Enlightenment. The Forgotten History Of A Global Movement, Ulrich Lehner Dec 2015

The Catholic Enlightenment. The Forgotten History Of A Global Movement, Ulrich Lehner

Ulrich L. Lehner

No abstract provided.

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Intellectual Capital In Churches: Matching Solution Complexity With Problem Complexity, Darin Freeburg Dec 2015

Intellectual Capital In Churches: Matching Solution Complexity With Problem Complexity, Darin Freeburg

Darin Freeburg

 The problems organizations face have varying degrees of
complexity. What is not often understood, however, is that
the knowledge needed to solve these problems also varies
in complexity, and should match the complexity of the
problem itself. The current study provides grounded theory
for how leaders in churches should approach problems
relating to Intellectual Capital (IC) assets. These intangible
assets are crucial to the ability of churches to create value
that enriches the lives of individuals in their communities.
In two, 90-minute focus groups, the leadership team of a
United Methodist Church in South Carolina, USA was
asked about their …

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Los Territorios De La Paz. La Construcción Del Estado Local En Colombia, Mauricio García-Villegas, Nicolás Torres Echeverry, Javier Revelo-Rebolledo, Jose Espinosa Restrepo, Natalia Duarte Mayorga Dec 2015

Los Territorios De La Paz. La Construcción Del Estado Local En Colombia, Mauricio García-Villegas, Nicolás Torres Echeverry, Javier Revelo-Rebolledo, Jose Espinosa Restrepo, Natalia Duarte Mayorga

Javier Revelo-Rebolledo

The Peace Accords bring a wide variety of challenges for the country. One of them is to carry out the great national project of state construction in the periphery.

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‘It’S Morning Again In America’: How The Tuesday Team Revolutionized The Use Of Music In Political Ads, Paul Christiansen Ph.D. Dec 2015

‘It’S Morning Again In America’: How The Tuesday Team Revolutionized The Use Of Music In Political Ads, Paul Christiansen Ph.D.

Paul Christiansen

The year 1984 was a watershed in the use of music in U.S. television campaign advertising. Following on the heels of technological developments in sound reproduction in television sets and MTV’s inception three years earlier, the 1984 presidential campaign saw striking changes in the way ads were conceived and constructed. “Prouder, Stronger, Better”—known popularly as “Morning in America”—used music as never before in a political ad. Whereas previously music was merely accompaniment to an ad’s voiceover and images, here, for the first time, music is the argument itself. Sweeping orchestral gestures, frequent chromatic modulations, and suspended chords lead to a …

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The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche & The Network-Centric Condition Dec 2015

The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche & The Network-Centric Condition

Dan Mellamphy

No abstract provided.

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What Drives Contemporary Eu-China Strategic Engagement?, Natalia Wyzycka, Reza Hasmath Dec 2015

What Drives Contemporary Eu-China Strategic Engagement?, Natalia Wyzycka, Reza Hasmath

Reza Hasmath

This study examines the determinants of the European Union’s strategic engagement with China, with reference to three competing analytical approaches: institutional, social, and agency/stakeholder. The article examines the utility of each claim and outlines complementary variables amongst the three approaches, with the aid of recent evidence looking at the E.U.’s arms embargo on China, E.U.-China engagement in Africa, and the E.U.’s longstanding dispute on granting China market economy status. The findings can reduce the misunderstandings and uncertainties embedded in European Union-China interactions by demystifying the factors and variables that drive their relationship.

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Cuasi Factivos, Axel Barcelo Aspeitia, Robert J. Stainton Dec 2015

Cuasi Factivos, Axel Barcelo Aspeitia, Robert J. Stainton

Robert J. Stainton

We introduce a construction which we label 'quasi-factive'. They are heard like factives, in that we immediately take the complement to be true. Yet they aren't really factive at all. Examples include: 'It's not widely known that Marta was born in Canada' (because she was born in Uruguay); 'Don't tell anyone that Carlos will run as a candidate' (because he won't); 'Did it bother Jane that Miguel came?' (no, because Miguel didn't come). We identify sub-categories of our quasi-factives, and then tentatively explore a pragmatic explanation of how they work their magic.

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Haunted Histories And Ambiguous Burial Grounds In Iraqi Kurdistan, Nahro Zagros, Tyler Fisher, Muslih Mustafa Dec 2015

Haunted Histories And Ambiguous Burial Grounds In Iraqi Kurdistan, Nahro Zagros, Tyler Fisher, Muslih Mustafa

Tyler Fisher

As part of a wider research project that documents site-specific oral history associated with caves and cemeteries among the rapidly changing populations of Iraqi Kurdistan, the present study analyzes oral histories and traditions concerning one particular graveyard. Reputed to be the burial site of seventh-century Muslim conquerors, this graveyard is concomitantly preserved by taboo and subject to transgressive acts. This article discusses the anachronisms that underpin the cemetery’s reputation, the aetiological functions of the local lore, and the shifting significance of the memorial space in relation to current events. As the region faces the menace of the self-declared Islamic State, …

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Aldrich Review Of Urban Confrontations In Literature And Social Science.Pdf, Daniel P. Aldrich Dec 2015

Aldrich Review Of Urban Confrontations In Literature And Social Science.Pdf, Daniel P. Aldrich

Daniel P Aldrich

Review of Edward Ahearn's 2010 book Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001: European Contexts, American Evolutions

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Discipline And Desire: Feminist Politics, Queer Studies, And New Queer Anthropology, Margot Weiss Dec 2015

Discipline And Desire: Feminist Politics, Queer Studies, And New Queer Anthropology, Margot Weiss

Margot Weiss

This chapter situates contemporary queer anthropology within histories of the contested relationships between gender and sexuality, and feminist and queer studies. I begin with the delineation of gender as the domain of feminist studies, and sexuality as the domain of queer studies, staging a series of analogical readings of feminist and queer studies and their proper objects and political investments. I focus on two questions: the problematic of institutionalization (and the closure or fixity institutionalization represents) and the problematic of good enough objects—objects that might satisfy the political desires we have invested in them. Examining the political aspirations we invest …

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Always After: Desiring Queerness, Desiring Anthropology, Margot Weiss Dec 2015

Always After: Desiring Queerness, Desiring Anthropology, Margot Weiss

Margot Weiss

Queer, from its start, was meant to point beyond or beside identity—specifically gay and lesbian—and instead signify transgression of, resistance to, or exclusion from normativity, especially but not exclusively heteronormativity. But for all this, queer has never quite moved beyond identity. And queer has not quite been the site of resistance we had hoped, as the story of queer studies’ academic institutionalization might portend. Still, I am not writing a eulogy for queer. Instead, in this Retrospectives essay, I resist finding—if only to lose—a new proper object of queer anthropology and suggest, rather, that it is the frustration of …

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Intimate Citizenship, Sonny Nordmarken, Laura Heston, Alyssa Goldstein Dec 2015

Intimate Citizenship, Sonny Nordmarken, Laura Heston, Alyssa Goldstein

Sonny Nordmarken

No abstract provided.

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Incumbent Landscapes, Disruptive Uses: Perspectives On Marijuana-Related Land Use Control, Donald J. Kochan Dec 2015

Incumbent Landscapes, Disruptive Uses: Perspectives On Marijuana-Related Land Use Control, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

The story behind the move toward marijuana’s legality is a story of disruptive forces to the incumbent legal and physical landscape. It affects incumbent markets, incumbent places, the incumbent regulatory structure, and the legal system in general which must mediate the battles involving the push for relaxation of illegality and adaptation to accepting new marijuana-related land uses, against efforts toward entrenchment, resilience, and resistance to that disruption.

This Article is entirely agnostic on the issue of whether we should or should not decriminalize, legalize, or otherwise increase legal tolerance for marijuana or any other drugs. Nonetheless, we must grapple with …

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Methodologism: Radical Practice, K. Valentine Cadieux Dec 2015

Methodologism: Radical Practice, K. Valentine Cadieux

K. Valentine Cadieux

No abstract provided.

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Visual Methods For Collaborative Food System Work, K. Valentine Cadieux, Charles Z. Levkoe, P. Mount, D. Szanto Dec 2015

Visual Methods For Collaborative Food System Work, K. Valentine Cadieux, Charles Z. Levkoe, P. Mount, D. Szanto

K. Valentine Cadieux

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Before The Law, Sharon Sliwinski Dec 2015

Before The Law, Sharon Sliwinski

Sharon Sliwinski

In 2005, a group of photographers stood alongside the people of the small town of Bil’in, in the West Bank, and documented their fight to prevent the Israeli government from building the West Bank Barrier. Inspired by what they had seen in Bil’in, the photographers decided to form Activestills, a collective whose work has become vital in documenting the struggle against Israeli occupation and the attempt to continue with everyday life in extraordinary circumstances. 

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Evocative Objects: A Sexual Violence Primer, Sharon Sliwinski Dec 2015

Evocative Objects: A Sexual Violence Primer, Sharon Sliwinski

Sharon Sliwinski

This commentary on Nina Berman’s series, “Object Lessons,” examines the photographer’s strategy of photographing trial evidence from cases of sexual slavery and human trafficking as a study in object relations.

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