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Narrating Objects and Temporality in Postwar Bosnia
No full textBuilding on Henry Glassie’s assertion that “tradition is the creation of the future out of the past” (1999), folklorists have looked to tradition to see how people remember conflicted pasts and build hopeful futures. I extend this thread of scholarship, focusing on how three women use traditional skills—including gardening, sewing, cooking, and knitting—to reckon with the complexities of past, present, and future lives disrupted by the Bosnian war. Their understanding of temporality, as it emerges in their engagement with narrated landscapes and materials, is richly layered and raises questions about durability, ephemerality, affect, and folkloristic conceptions of tradition
Forensic Poetics
No full textThe concept of forensic aesthetics has emerged in recent decades to describe investigative art and design practices that address violence in the public sphere. Forensic art works do not simply seek to document and represent violence; instead, they also construct alternative forums in which violence can appear and be evaluated. Drawing from the theorizations of forensics by Thomas Keenan, Eyal Weizman, and the Forensic Architecture agency, this article argues that a forensic aesthetic can also be found in contemporary poetry, as exemplified by C. D. Wright, Maggie Nelson, and Robin Coste Lewis. By investigating public spaces like the prison, the courtroom, and the art museum, these authors create literary works that extend the established traditions of documentary poetry into new arenas of disputation. Forensic poetics opens alternative ways of conceptualizing fundamental questions in art and literary theory, including the relationships between poetic form and public forum, aesthetic and legal judgment, and linguistic and visual representation
Evidence and Mechanisms of Embodiment in the Developing Dentition
Get PDFExisting research supports both embodiment of stress through epigenetics and epigenetic impacts on dental development. Two models for embodiment of stress in dental development are proposed. Stress-delay proposes that increased stress during development will produce delays in dental development. Inflammation-acceleration proposes that increased stress will produce faster dental development through inflammatory pathways. These models were tested on dental development scores from the New Mexico Decedent Image Database by using non-accidental manner of death (homicide, suicide, and natural) as a proxy for elevated stress exposure during life and cadaver BMI percentile as a proxy for living BMI. Sex was treated as a positive control because females typically show more rapid dental development than males. Non-accidental manner of death and male sex were both associated with slower dental development; however, manner of death was only significant for 7/32 teeth. Mean BMI percentile was highest for natural manner of death and lowest for homicide. These findings support the stress-delay model while also according with existing studies that found limited evidence for embodied effects on dental development being sufficiently large to affect estimates of age
On Meyers’s Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition
No full textMovie-Made Jews: An American Tradition. By Helene Meyers. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021. 236 pp., ISBN 978-1978821897 (hc) 37.95
On Shaw and Goodman’s Hollywood and Israel: A History
No full textHollywood and Israel: A History. By Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 368 pp., ISBN 978-0231183406 (hc) 30; ISBN 978-0231544924 (eb) $29.99
CGM-induced extracellular trap formation augments inflammation
Get PDFBackground and Aims: Subcutaneous continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices serve an important role in diabetes management but are prone to biofouling and ensuant device failure. CGM Implantation of CGM devices incites an inflammatory response with initial skin penetration. One specific response is NETosis, in which leukocytes, (e.g. neutrophils), release nuclear DNA to ensnare foreign antigens designated. This study aimed to determine the factors responsible for CGM-induced NETosis.
Methods: In vitro commercial Libre 2 glucose sensors were evaluated for their ability to induce NETosis. These studies utilized flow cytometry and time-lapse imaging, multiplex cytokine panel assessment, and scanning electron microscope to evaluate cellular morphology in human neutrophils. Immunohistopathologic evaluations for NETosis, inflammation, fibrosis, and neovascularization at device sites were conducted in murine and swine models.
Results: In vitro studies demonstrated that sensor-induced cell death and NETosis is dependent on both the disease state and cell isolation method. Mouse studies demonstrated that the influx of inflammatory cells is augmented in the presence of these devices following priming of the surgical site. NET formation was confirmed in both animal models and was particularly evident following sensor insertion into swine tissue. Chronic inflammation, fibrosis, and blood vessel regression were observed post-7-day insertion.
Conclusion: Glucose sensors induce TRAP formation and augment inflammation. Severe tissue reactions occurred almost immediately following sensor insertion and persisted for the duration of the study (21 days). Maintaining tissue integrity following CGM device insertion will require mitigation of the inflammatory response including NETosis
Storytelling for Economic Justice: The Role of Stories in Galvanizing for Change
No full textThis article explores the role storytelling plays in taking action for economic justice. It draws on responses from interviews and questionnaires conducted in collaboration with the charities Journey to Justice and Sharewear Clothing Scheme. The research used stories from an economic injustice archive developed by Journey to Justice and the author. The findings reveal that stories play a predominantly positive role in enabling people to imagine a better future and begin to take action for that future, which demonstrates the role of storytelling in galvanizing for economic justice. This study adds to the existing and varied academic literature on storytelling for justice and extends it to include “economic” justice in grassroots communities in the United Kingdom, a currently underexplored area