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Oriental enlightenment: the problematic military experiences and cultural claims of Count Maurice Auguste comte de Benyowsky in Formosa during 1771
No full textMaurice Benyowsky's colourful version of his global adventures during the heady, expansive days of the late-Enlightenment remains still as an historical account, and is perhaps destined for reification at a time of romantic, postmodernist cultural affirmation. Yet this paper argues that within it there lies a virile and possibly dangerous Orientalism, one at least partially based upon a lurid, opportunistic and self-seeking fabrication of his visit to Taiwan (Formosa) in the year 1771. This paper examines the veracity, provenance and historiography of the Benyowsky account of late-eighteenth century Formosa, both as an exercise in one facet of Taiwanese history and as some exploration of the origin and maintenance of European views of the "other" and of the "orient" as they were transforming during the late-Enlightenment period. Furthermore a principal task is to provide an historiographical analysis that illustrates both the initial reasons for the acceptance of Benyowsky's lurid account as well as the wider contexts of its long life as a seemingly reliable and authentic tale. Questions remain as to the cultural contexts of any general acceptance of otherwise doubtful stories, experiments, claims and "adventures". Here there is little doubt that the original Memoirs were given greater credence by Benyowsky's talent in self-fashioning his character and status as those of a reliable gentleman
From 'follow the thing: papaya' to followthethings.com
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is freely available from Ethical Consumer Research Association via the link in this record.What follows is a reflection on ‘Follow the thing: papaya’ which was first published in 2004 in Antipode: a Radical Journal of Geography (Cook et al 2004). It takes the form of an interview about its making and reception, how the spoof shopping website followthethings.com emerged from this (Cook et al 2011-date), and the approach this work has taken to academic research and activism in relation to consumer ethics. I asked the questions
Xystodesmidae Cook 1895
No full textFamily Xystodesmidae Cook, 1895 <p> <b>Subfamily Xystodesminae Cook, 1895</b></p> <p> <b>Tribe Xystocheirini Hoffman, 1980</b></p> <p> Hoffman (1999) mistakenly attributed tribal authorship to Cook without a date, perhaps because he confused this name with Xystodesmidae /inae, which Cook (1895) did author, or because Cook (1904) subsequently authored the genus. However, the first usage of <i>Xystocheir</i> at the family-group level was by Hoffman (1980), as he then noted, and authorship is properly attributed to him.</p>Published as part of <i>Shelley, Rowland M., Smith, Jamie M. & Ross, Deren J., 2014, Variation and pigmentation in the milliped, Xystocheir brachymacris Shelley, 1996, from the northern Sierra Nevada foothills, California, USA (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae: Xystocheirini), pp. 1-6 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (371)</i> on page 2, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5179327">10.5281/zenodo.5179327</a>
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Presumed Innocent, Yet Purged from the Rolls: Navigating Public Assistance Programs upon Release from Cook County Jail
No full textIn grappling with mass incarceration, many policymakers attempt to intervene during reentry, or the process of leaving jail or prison and “reentering” the community. Some of the more obvious reentry challenges include removal from welfare programs as a result of convictions, despite the fact that welfare programs can be beneficial for reentry. Because state and federal statutes create lifetime bans on welfare programs for people with convictions, policymakers focus on removing these bans. However, it is possible that barriers to public assistance exist regardless of having a conviction, evidenced by examining the pretrial population. These people leave jail without convictions, but are still often unequipped for what waits for them after hours, days, or months of being away from their lives due to pretrial detention. The pretrial population has been ignored in conversations about removal from or limited access to welfare programs during reentry. Because of that, I hope to highlight how pretrial detention affects this access through a case study on Cook County Jail. The bulk of my research comes from interviews with forty-one individuals, including bureaucrats from Cook County Jail jail and relevant welfare agencies, and people working with formerly incarcerated individuals at nonprofits and advocacy organizations. Overall, I find that pretrial detention produces formal and informal barriers for people trying to enroll in or maintain their enrollment in Medicaid, SNAP, and SSI upon release from Cook County Jail. Formal barriers are triggered by statutes and jail procedures, while informal barriers directly result from bureaucracy and on-the-ground practices. I ultimately recommend legislative action and the implementation of programmatic interventions at the jail. If the jail wants to facilitate better outcomes upon release and lower the likelihood of a return to jail, it has to be committed to combating these barriers produced by pretrial detention
Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner, and Other Essays
No full textThis provocative collection of essays reveals the passionate voice of a Native American feminist intellectual. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a poet and literary scholar, grapples with issues she encountered as a Native American in academia. She asks questions of critical importance to tribal people: who is telling their stories, where does cultural authority lie, and most important, how is it possible to develop an authentic tribal literary voice within the academic community? In the title essay, "Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner," Cook-Lynn objects to Stegner's portrayal of the American West in his fiction, contending that no other author has been more successful in serving the interests of the nation's fantasy about itself. When Stegner writes that "Western history sort of stopped at 1890," and when he claims the American West as his native land, Cook-Lynn argues, he negates the whole past, present, and future of the native peoples of the continent. Her other essays include discussion of such Native American writers as Michael Dorris, Ray Young Bear, and N. Scott Momaday; the importance of a tribal voice in academia, the risks to American Indian women in current law practices, the future of Indian Nationalism, and the defense of the land. Cook-Lynn emphasizes that her essays move beyond the narrowly autobiographical, not just about gender and power, not just focused on multiculturalism and diversity, but are about intellectual and political issues that engage readers and writers in Native American studies. Studying the "Indian," Cook-Lynn reminds us, is not just an academic exercise but a matter of survival for the lifeways of tribal peoples. Her goal in these essays is to open conversations that can make tribal life and academic life more responsive to one another
Frankenstein and Shelley: the author and her work
No full textWhen writing Frankenstein as a young, impressionable woman, Mary Shelley was heavily influenced by the works and legacies created by both her parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. Godwin and Wollstonecraft made their names in the world with their revolutionary ideas written out in books spread in Europe; with large shoes to fill as their daughter, Mary Shelley knew that she needed her own revolutionary work to move the world like they did. Because of this connection of legacy with her parents, many themes and lessons concerning her parents are featured in her novel, Frankenstein. The absence of her mother, who died ten days after giving birth to Mary Shelley, created the absence of a father in Victor Frankenstein for his creature. Mary as a child was tutored by her father in many subjects that would not normally be taught to females in this time period. That learning allowed her to include the subjects of science, humanities, and literature in her novel. In this paper, I will explain how knowing about Mary Shelley’s connection with her parents shaped her life and learning, by extension shaping her novel, Frankenstein. I will be looking at primary source materials by William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley to note the connections between the texts, as well as secondary sources concerning Mary Shelley and her influences when it came to writing Frankenstein. I also will be looking at biographies of Mary Shelley’s life in order to relate her story to Frankenstein’s and the creature’s stories. The parallel between the author and the characters is essential in understanding the importance of Shelley’s parents in shaping her not only as an author, but as a woman in the Romantic Era. (Author abstract)Gambon, C. (2014). Frankenstein and Shelley: the author and her work. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.ed
CFD modelling of natural displacement ventilation in an enclosure connected to an atrium
No full textThe paper flows from the PhD work of Ji, lead author, who was supervised by Cook
Cantona: un bosquejo de su desarrollo cultural. Arqueología. Num. 57 (2019) (Segunda época) abril
No full textEl texto deriva de las investigaciones realizadas durante más de veinte años en el sitio arqueológico de Cantona, Puebla. Hace un repaso de las intervenciones previas al Proyecto Especial Cantona y de sus resultados. Describe la ubicación geográfica y el medio que rodea el sitio; las características del asentamiento, las tres unidades de exploración, las unidades habitacionales, vías de circulación, plazas cívico-religiosas, sistemas defensivos, juegos de pelota, sistemas constructivos, depósitos y sistemas de almacenamiento; la economía, basada en la obsidiana, y los “talleres estatales” de producción lítica; la organización sociopolítica durante el periodo de ocupación, así como la interacción de la ciudad con otras regiones. Se exponen además los resultados del Proyecto Norte de la Cuenca de Oriental, en el que se han registrado los asentamientos humanos y se ha propuesto una cronología regional paralela a la secuencia presentada para Cantona. Por último, se incluye un recuento del área explorada y habilitada para el turismo.The text, based on research conducted for more than twenty years at the archaeological site of Cantona, Puebla, offers an overview of its cultural development. It reviews work and results from the mid-19th century to the 1980s, prior to the Cantona Special Project, and describes its geographical location and the surrounding environment; the settlement, its three exploration sectors, housing units, traffic routes, civic-religious plazas, defensive systems, ballcourts, construction systems, tanks and storage systems; the obsidian-based economy and “state workshops” for lithic production; the sociopolitical organization during the city’s occupation, as well as the city’s interaction with other regions. 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Frederick Cook and the Forgotten Pole
No full textIn 1909, Dr. Frederick A. Cook created a worldwide sensation when he announced that he had reached the North Pole. Although the debate about Cook\u27s expedition still rages in some circles and new books are published on the controversy each decade, most polar historians and editors of encyclopedias agree that Cook never went out of sight of land, let alone to the North Pole. Robert E. Peary is generally credited with being first at the North Pole, although even his claim has detractors .... For those who accept the Peary version of Cook\u27s travels, there are indeed several intriguing mysteries to explain. Why did Cook risk an unnecessary journey that added hundreds of kilometres and nearly a year to his expedition? Why did he lie about where he\u27d travelled after returning from the Arctic Ocean, when it seemed there was no reason to lead inquiry away from this area? And why did he fail to claim discovery of at least one large, previously unknown island that his companions charted seven years before it was officially discovered? Was there something about these places that attracted Dr. Cook and required this cover-up? In the last few years I have explored a simple but surprising explanation for Cook\u27s apparently aimless wanderings. I have unearthed an arcane goal that might have been Cook\u27s objective on the east coast of Amund Ringes Island. It is another pole, one that the world has forgotten. Perhaps Cook saw it as a consolation prize after failing to reach the North Pole. I believe that this forgotten pole is the key to understanding the enigmatic Dr. Cook. What follows is a brief account of my journey towards what I hope is true understanding, and not delusion. ... I believe that Cook\u27s movements in the late winter of 1908 were related to his interest in Verne\u27s fictional polar expedition and that his account of reaching the North Pole is based on his conquest of Verne\u27s fictional pole. After returning to land at Cape Thomas Hubbard, he had time to kill and the means to sledge south to Verne\u27s landscape firsthand, .... One contemporary anonymous review of a new Verne book, probably written by Verne himself, stated: "M. Jules Verne ... knows how to link fiction to reality in proportions so exact that one does not know where one begins and the other leaves off" (Evans, 1996:178). Fredrick Cook was clearly from the same school of writers. The author of a narrative of an expedition to this lesser pole, who claimed the much greater prize, would surely have wished to avoid comparison with Verne\u27s fictional expedition. To that end, he might have sacrificed any minor discoveries made on that route. He needn\u27t have bothered, as it turned out. Although Cook\u27s actual route was widely published by Peary in 1909, the Verne connection was not suspected for another 90 years
followthethings.com: analysing relations between the making, reception and impact of commodity activism in a transmedia world
No full textCook et al, I. (2017) followthethings.com: analysing relations between the making, reception and impact of commodity activism in a transmedia world. in Ola Söderström, Laure Kloetzer & Hugues Jeannerat (eds) Innovations Sociales: Comment les Sciences Sociales contribuent à transformer la Société, MAPS: Université de Neuchâtel, 50-61This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Université de Neuchâtel via the link in this record.n/
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