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Too Late to Be Late Again: David Bowie, the Late 1970s, and Romanticism
No full text“Too Late to Be Late Again: David Bowie, the Late 1970s, and Romanticism” discusses Bowie’s work against the background of German experimental artists such as Neu!, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, and Manuel Göttsching. Bowie’s European predecessors are themselves examined in the light of German Romanticism, the concept of “Sehnsucht,” and the Bildungsroman tradition, all of which inform Bowie’s own negotiations of artistic identity in this period. As the chapter moves forward from Bowie’s Station to Station through the Berlin albums that ended the 1970s and into 1980’s Scary Monsters, it brings Coleridgean aesthetics and Byronic Romantic irony to bear on this body of work—and vice-versa, showing us via this nexus of Bowie and transcontinental Romanticism how the creative and cultural conditions associated with the postmodern are also operative within, and indeed essential to, what we call the “Romantic.
DONALD PINKAVA’S JOURNEY FROM ASTERACEAE TO CACTACEAE: FROM THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY TO ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
No full textDonald J. Pinkava is best known for his application of cytogenetics in unraveling the complex interspecific hybridization in the prickly pear genus Opuntia Mill. in the southwestern United States extending down into northern and central Mexico. Using cytogenetics, Pinkava delimited species boundaries within Opuntia for taxonomic treatments. His work on Opuntia in the Chihuahuan Desert led to later comprehensive contributions in the Flora of North America and the Flora of Arizona that include opuntias not only in the Southwest but in every US state. Pinkava’s systematic knowledge, as reflected in his taxonomic treatments provided the basic scientific framework needed for ongoing conservation of Cactaceae in the Southwest to the present day. Interestingly, the starting point for all of Pinkava’s contributions in Cactaceae began with his initial studies of Asteraceae as a student of T. Richard Fisher at The Ohio State University (OSU), an institution with longstanding research interests in the Asteraceae. It is there that he selected a genus, Berlandiera DC as his dissertation topic. Ironically, this genus has a range from the drier sites of the Eastern Coastal Plains, into the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, with a disjunct distribution in the mountain floras of southeastern Arizona and Northern Mexico. Like Berlandiera, Pinkava’s own work reflects techniques and training in the eastern US, that migrated and was used as the basis for his groundbreaking studies of Cactaceae in the Southwest
Unto Caesar it is Rendered: Religiosity’s Effect on Unconventional Political Participation
No full textHow does one’s religions commitment affect the proclivity that one will engage in unconventional political behavior? By building on Dalton’s model predicting this protest behavior, I seek to answer this question. Dalton\u27s model illustrates how, in industrialized societies, those with more education and affluence are more likely to engage in this sort of protest activity but eschews religion and religiosity form the picture entirely. To test this data from the World Values Survey is used and tested with a multivariate regression. It is shown herein that religiosity is negatively correlated with participation in unconventional political behavior Namely, the more religious one becomes the less likely that they will engage in unconventional political behaviors. The causal factor driving this dampening effect on protest behavior is held to be the natural outgrowth of religion reinforcing of one’s instincts to be more obedient to authority. This relationship holds regardless of the denomination, indicating that religion type is not important in the process while the degree of religious commitment is
Religiosity and Representation: Religiosity’s Effect on Women’s Substantive Representation
No full textTo what degree does the religiosity of a representative’s constituency affect substantive representation for women? Religion has long been known to have effects on gender equality and it is shown herein that more religious populations will indeed drive their representatives to adopt policy stances that have a negative effect on women’s substantive representations. Illustrating this is an empirical based case study approach on the 112th Congress in the United States. By examining the vote likelihood of each legislator on specific bills relating to women’s substantive representation it is shown that religiosity is indeed a good predictor of how a representative will vote, with higher levels of religiosity in the representative’s district resulting in their being more likely to take a stance that limits women’s substantive representation
Budapest’s Living Memorial and the Reperformance of Countermemory
No full textCondemned as a “forgery of history,” Budapest’s “Memorial to the Victims of the German Invasion of 1944” depicts Hungary as a victim of Nazi aggression, ignoring the state’s active participation in the deportation and murder of Hungarian Jews, Roma, homosexuals, and others. Since 2014, activists have maintained the nearby living memorial, inviting visitors to leave mementoes and converse about Hungary’s past, current events, and the national future. Reperforming the official monument, the living memorial disrupts the government’s problematic revisionism. We theorize reperformance as a tool for engaging the politics of contested memory and modeling democratic culture
Is India’s rape crisis a recent phenomenon? At the crossroads of religious nationalism, caste, and gender
No full textRecent national and international media accounts of urban educated women in India being sexually assaulted and brutally murdered have raised legitimate worries that India is experiencing a “rape crisis.” This paper challenges the notion that sexual violence in India is a recent phenomenon and argues that sexual violence has been the tool of control of marginalized groups in India including Muslims, the peoples of Northeastern India, Dalits and Adivasis, with the women from these communities bearing most of the brunt of the gendered sexual violence. These forces have been exacerbated by the rising ideology of militant Hindu-supremacy in the last decade, buoyed by the support of Indian middle/upper classes/castes, simultaneously accompanied by constructions of Indian masculinity that relegates women to the domestic sphere. Middle/upper class Indian women negotiating the newfound opportunities in India’s neo-liberal economy find themselves subject to the sexual violence that has long victimized others marginalized by religion, caste, ethnicity, and gender. I underscore the Janus-faced nature of Indian middle-class protests against sexual violence targeting (middle-class) women, given the widespread support among the elites for Hindu supremacy which draws its power through the sexualized violence it inscribes on the bodies of those marginalized by their religion, caste, ethnicity and gender
Disabling COVID: An Exploration of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Forgotten Needs of Persons with Disabilities
Get PDFThe COVID-19 outbreak has impeded upon the lives of individuals across the globe in unprecedented ways, leaving government officials, healthcare personnel, and researchers struggling to find ways to alleviate its adverse impacts to citizens. Thousands of research studies have been published since the spring of 2020 to disseminate more information about COVID-19 to the public. Concerningly, research regarding one of the largest and most marginalized groups of individuals, individuals with disabilities, has been severely lacking. It is important to determine how COVID-19 has impacted disabled people’s lives both individually and as a community. Disabled populations statistically have some of the highest rates of adverse life outcomes, such as impoverishment and underemployment. Thus, during a global pandemic, it is crucial that this population is centered in research that could help find ways to potentially alleviate any exacerbation of these negative outcomes as a result of such an easily transmissible and deadly virus. The present paper examines the medical, psychological, and social impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had specifically on the disability community. It also explores potential ways to alleviate these negative outcomes, utilizing historical reference (such as the polio epidemic) and examples of effective social protection programs within low- and middle- income countries
The Cultural Hegemony of Fashion: What Jeans Advertisements Portray as Normal
Get PDFThe foundation of a society rests in the existence of power dynamics which allow for the dictation of specific cultural norms by the ruling class upon the nondominant class. This imposition creates cultural hegemony, or a relation between a leader who benefits from dominating a consenting subordinate (Artz and Ortega Murphy, 2000). Advertisements impact a society as a whole and serve as a representation of cultural hegemony. They project a certain norm and ideal for consumers to achieve. When consumers buy an advertised product, they consent to and accept the projected norm determined by the company. Americans often choose their clothing based off what is collectively considered to be “normal” by adhering to popular trends or styles. Through the process of clothing selection, the consumer conforms to society’s expectations of normality, which are dictated by the ruling class (Fiske, 1989). This act of conforming also occurs when one wears denim jeans. Jean wearers consent to the norms imposed by the companies that are portrayed through advertisements. These ideals (fashion norms) are based on factors such as one’s body type, race, and gender (Fiske, 1989). Consumers conform to the imposed ideals by purchasing and wearing what the fashion industry presents as normal; thus, enabling corporations to continue dictating societal norms
