111 research outputs found
Size and shape interspecific divergence patterns partly reflect phylogeny in an Onthophagus species-complex (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
No full textMacagno, Anna L. M., Pizzo, Astrid, Rolando, Antonio, Palestrini, Claudia (2011): Size and shape interspecific divergence patterns partly reflect phylogeny in an Onthophagus species-complex (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162 (3): 482-498, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00684.x, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00684.
Gendering the comic body: Physical humour in <i>Shirley</i>
No full textThe mock-battles and slap-stick scenes that arise at pivotal moments in Shirley encourage us to reexamine Brontë’s sense of humour, which is neither as grim, nor as naively crude as critics from George Henry Lewes to Virginia Woolf have deemed it. Drawing on Brontë’s engagement with the theatrical traditions of European Carnival and British pantomime, this chapter demonstrates how physical humour in Shirley satirises the gendered dictates of literary realism that Lewes had laid out for the author in public reviews and private correspondence. By rejecting the witty drawing-room comedy often associated with her predecessor Jane Austen, and adopting the brash language of the body common to both popular performance and the work of her male peers Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Brontë participates in important mid-nineteenth-century debates about gendered authorship and the literary marketplace.<br/
Alle radici del dibattito Post-Growth. La lezione di Emilio Sereni
No full textSi evidenzia il contributo seminale di Emilio Sereni al superamento della dicotomia economico/ecologico in una prospettiva di sviluppo fortemente ancorata al territorio e ai luoghi.
Cinquant’anni prima che si iniziasse a discutere di paradigmi post-growth come alternativa a forme di crescita insostenibili, irresponsabili e in realtà senza sviluppo, Sereni aveva proposto di guardare al paesaggio agrario, con l’evidenza delle sue stratificazioni di saperi plurisecolari, come prospettiva ottimale per riflettere sulla crisi che nel 1962 appare pervadere le forme assunte dal boom economico postbellico: quella diffusa devastazione del territorio che ha condotto, da un lato, all’ipertrofia delle rendite urbane speculative, dall’altro all’abbandono di interi comprensori interni con esiti fortemente intrecciati che, di lì a pochi anni, mostreranno il tragico volto delle alluvioni, del dissesto idrogeologico, della marginalizzazione territoriale.
La sua prospettiva ha per noi una valenza non solo analitica, ma anche interpretativa e propositiva, messa in luce già negli anni ’60 da Italo Insolera che, per la recensione della Storia del paesaggio agrario, scriveva sulle colonne di Urbanistica: “Nel processo di integrazione delle nozioni proprie di diverse discipline che caratterizza l’attuale preparazione culturale in funzione della pianificazione territoriale e della programmazione economica, il testo di Sereni ha un posto insostituibile”. Infatti, “l’autore ha raccolto una serie di appunti mirabilmente precisi su come, nelle varie epoche, l’organizzazione della proprietà e della conduzione generasse certi tipi e modi di coltura e come poi questi trasformassero la natura, o l’eredità delle precedenti generazioni agrarie, fino a quello che è oggi il paesaggio caratteristico delle varie regioni della Penisola”; “un compendio di storia rurale” che “qui ci interessa per la grande importanza che riveste per l’urbanistica”, e che si dovrebbe “intitolare “Saper vedere l’agricoltura”.
Ad accomunare i due studiosi, è il ricorso alla storia come chiave di lettura del presente: Sereni nei termini dell’analisi marxista, Insolera come arena privilegiata di ricerca interdisciplinare per individuare, nel complesso delle trasformazioni strutturali, quelle “invarianti” delle pratiche spaziali che ne rappresentano il patrimonio collettivo, e in quanto tali, il perno dell'azione pianificatoria.Aim of this proposal is to highlight the seminal contribution of Emilio Sereni to overcoming the economic/ecological dichotomy in a development perspective strongly anchored to the territory and places.
Fifty years before post-growth paradigms began to be discussed as an alternative to unsustainable, irresponsible forms of growth, Sereni proposed to look at the agricultural landscape, with the evidence of its centuries-old stratifications of knowledge, as an optimal perspective to reflect on the crisis that in 1962 appears to pervade the forms assumed by the post-war economic boom: that widespread devastation of the territory which led, on the one hand, to the hypertrophy of speculative urban rents, on the other to the abandonment of entire internal districts with strongly intertwined results which, within a few years, will show the tragic face of floods, hydrogeological instability, territorial marginalization.
Sereni perspective has for us an analytical value, and an interpretive and propositional value. Indeed, they have been highlighted already in the 60s by Italo Insolera who, in reviewing for Urbanistica his “Storia del Paesaggio Agrario Italiano”, wrote: "In the process of integration of the notions of different disciplines that characterizes the current cultural preparation as a function of territorial planning and economic programming, Sereni's text has an irreplaceable place”. In fact, "the author has collected a series of admirably precise notes on how, throughtout time, the organization of ownership and management generated certain types and methods of cultivation and how these then transformed nature, or the inheritance of the previous generations of farmers, up to what is today the characteristic landscape of the various regions of the Peninsula”; “a compendium of rural history” which “interests us here due to the great importance it has for urban planning”, and which should be “entitled ‘Learning to see agriculture’”.
What joined the two scholars is the use of history as a key to understanding the present: Sereni in terms of Marxist analysis, Insolera as a privileged arena of interdisciplinary research to identify, in the complex of structural transformations, the "invariant" ones of spatial practices that they represent its collective heritage, and as such, the core of planning action
The communication strategies of neocreationism between the United States and Europe
No full textIn their essay which appeared in 1972 in Models in Paleobiology, Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge, introducing the theory of punctuated equilibrium, stressed the fact that no scientific theory develops as a simple and logical extension of facts and of patiently recorded observations, and that the particular vision of the world that the scientist adheres to is able to influence, even unconsciously, the way in which data are collected, selected and then interpreted. Scientists, being aware of the existence of an intrinsic problem of prejudice in their scientific research activity, know that, in order to produce original and innovative ideas, it is fundamental to try to revolutionise their research image, to look at reality in a new light, to read data with alternative viewpoints
World War I and the People of the Purchase
No full textTitle: World War I and The People of the Purchase
Author: Cari Mikez
Faculty Mentor: Dr. David Pizzo
Department: Murray State History Department
ABSTRACT
The extensive impacts of World War I pervaded society on a global scale during the early twentieth century. The United States officially joined the international conflict in April of 1917 by aligning with the Triple Entente composed of Britain, France and Russia in the fight against the central European powers of Germany, Austro-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. In a similar fashion as the other warring nations, the American war effort depended on the development of a national ideology and the mobilization of societal resources to support a newly created armed forces. This research project will explore the significant impacts of the American war effort during World War I on the Jackson Purchase home front in Western Kentucky and will also provide an assessment of rural Western Kentucky societal dynamics through an examination of prewar domestic issues, changes to local economic, political, and social processes, and the responses of western Kentuckians to wartime changes. Research for this project was primarily conducted through local public library and local genealogical repositories, as well as oral histories and other special collection materials housed in Pogue Library at Murray State University. Other areas of interest will include: urban/rural dynamic between Jackson purchase population centers and the surrounding counties, civic organizations, racial issues, prohibition, women’s suffrage, education, health care, and the outbreak of the Spanish flu. This project was inspired by the upcoming Centennial of the World War I Armistice signing on November 11, 2018 and the Bicentennial of the ‘purchase’ of the Jackson Purchase region on October 19, 2018. Many topics and issues covered in the paper are still relevant subjects in the twenty-first century
Unfinished speciation, hybridisation or intraspecific polymorphism? The debated case of the Onthophagus fracticornis-similis-opacicollis species complex
No full textThe First Morphometric Study of the Horn Morphological Pattern in a Geotrupidae: The Case of the Dor Beetle Ceratophyus rossii Jekel, 1865.
No full textAn unfinished speciation process revealed by geometric morphometrics, horn allometries and biomolecular analyses: The case of the fracticornis-similis-opacicollis species complex of the genus Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
No full textHorn allometry and shape pattern of the Tuscan stenoendemic dor beetle Ceratophyus rossii (Coleoptera; Geotrupidae)
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