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Marvelous Bodies: Italy\u27s New Migrant Cinema
Get PDFHistorically a source of emigrants to Northern Europe and the New World, Italy has rapidly become a preferred destination for immigrants from the global South. Life in the land of la dolce vita has not seemed so sweet recently, as Italy struggles with the cultural challenges caused by this surge in immigration. Marvelous Bodies by Vetri Nathan explores thirteen key full-length Italian films released between 1990 and 2010 that treat this remarkable moment of cultural role reversal through a plurality of styles. In it, Nathan argues that Italy sees itself as the quintessential internal Other of Western Europe, and that this subalternity directly influences its cinematic response to immigrants, Europe\u27s external Others. In framing his case to understand Italy\u27s cinematic response to immigrants, Nathan first explores some basic questions: Who exactly is the Other in Italy? Does Italy\u27s own past partial alterity affect its present response to its newest subalterns? Drawing on Homi Bhabha\u27s writings and Italian cinematic history, Nathan then posits the existence of marvelous bodies that are momentarily neither completely Italian nor completely immigrant. This ambivalence of forms extends to the films themselves, which tend to be generic hybrids. The persistent curious presence of marvelous bodies and a pervasive generic hybridity enact Italy\u27s own chronic ambivalence that results from its presence at the cultural crossroads of the Mediterranean.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/psrl/1034/thumbnail.jp
Midwest Entrepreneurship Case Competition (MECC) Case Prompt - Anonymized
Get PDFThis case is an anonymized version of a prompt used in the 2024 Midwest Entrepreneurship Case Competition (MECC), a undergraduate regional event organized in collaboration with multiple Midwest libraries. The prompt challenges students to conduct market validation research using SimplyAnalytics and perform keyword research and analysis
Inter-provincial spatial coupling of paddy fields in China has accelerated the water consumption
Get PDFRice trade has played a significant role in ensuring global rice consumption security. However, the spatial coupling of paddy fields based on rice trade can also transfer ecological environmental effects and threaten the sustainability of local systems. As the largest rice producer and consumer in the world, as well as one of the countries with the lowest per capita water resources, studying the inter-provincial rice flow in China and its water resource utilization efficiency is of great significance for ensuring national rice security and water resource security. Research has found that, China\u27s rice consumption decreased by 11.97 Mt from 2000 to 2020, rice supply-demand relationship shifted from a state of shortage to one of surplus. The inter-provincial rice flow in China increased from 17.88 Mt to 46.51 Mt, Huang-Huai-Hai Plain (HHHP) and South China (SC) are the core rice inflow regions, while rice outflow from Northeast China Plain (NECP) continues to increase. The spatial coupled area of paddy fields in China increased from 3.15 Mha to 6.11 Mha. The types and areas of spatial coupling of paddy field between NECP and other agricultural regions showed an increasing trend. Affected by the decrease in per capita rice consumption, the actual and theoretical water consumption of paddy fields decreased by 24.03 billion m3 and 25.22 billion m3. The difference between actual and theoretical water consumption increased from 2.73 billion m3 to 3.92 billion m3, indicating that rice is being transferred from areas with low water resource utilization efficiency to those with high efficiency. The inter-provincial spatial coupling of paddy fields has resulted in an additional water resource consumption of 13.73 billion m3 in NECP