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The power of space: The biopolitics of custody and care at the Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam
No full textThis paper examines the relationship between space and violence through a biopolitical enquiry of custody and care at Amsterdam's Lloyd Hotel. The Lloyd Hotel began as a corporate established transhipment hotel serving transatlantic voyages. It was subsequently transformed into an emergency refugee camp and an improvised prison and juvenile detention centre. An iconic building which had functioned in both specific and broader networks of violence, the building is today a sophisticated heritage accommodation. We trace and analyse the ways in which the spatial arrangements of the historic hotel have facilitated, often concurrently, conditions of custody and care, and protection and control in its key historical moments. We address questions regarding the putative ‘agency’ of specific spatial designs and architectures in ‘retaining’ the socio-spatial elements of violence perpetrated in the past. Specifically, we suggest that the original and adapted spatialities of the hotel were often the source of unintended violence, abuse and transgression, signalling the ‘power of space’ in terms of agency over the subjected ‘guests’. In analysing a single micro-site and its broader spatialities, we seek to contribute to a relational conceptualization of violence sensitive and attuned to the complex histories and geographical scales that have bound and still bind this unique Amsterdam place of hospitality and custody
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The historic hotel as ‘quasi-freedom machine’: Negotiating utopian visions and dark histories at Amsterdam’s Lloyd Hotel and ‘cultural embassy’
No full textExisting research on historic hotels has identified their role as key projections of community ideals and place identities, as 'hip'/creative business ventures and as dark tourism sites of 'darkness', difficulties and dissonances. However, there has been less discussion on what happens when these intentions and operations come together in a single historic hotel. Specifically, we argue that the historical Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam was recently adapted to function as a 'quasi-freedom machine' for cultural and heritage guests and visitors - a building to be unchained materially from its carceral pasts via extensive conservation and to become a liberating space for cultural, heritage and hospitality users. Drawing on the narratives proposed by the architects and managers adapting the building and the accounts of its former (juvenile detention centre worker) and current users (hotel guests and cultural tourists), this paper examines the convergences and divergences related to the creation of such a single 'utopian' space, also in relation to its painful past and cultural touristic present. In doing so, the article intends to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between utopian (liberating) visions of and user practices in historic hotels marked by difficult histories
Proto-Ong-Be
No full textThis dissertation is a reconstruction of Proto-Ong-Be phonology using the comparative method. I propose that Proto-Ong-Be was tonal and monosyllabic, with the structure CV(:)(C), where a coda was optional and no consonant clusters were found in onset or coda positions. It had 34 onsets/initials (with tonal series), eight codas/finals, eight plain vowels (*i, *i:, *u, *u:, *ə, *ə:, *a, and *a:) and two diphthongs (*ia and *ua) that can be reconstructed with confidence. Proto-Ong-Be had six tones (A1, A2, BC1, BC2, D1, and D2), and this branch can be divided into two subgroups, Eastern-Ong-Be and Western-Ong-Be, based on shared innovations. This study shows that the early voicing contrast associated with initials cannot be reconstructed based on Ong-Be data alone, but the loss of the earlier voicing contrast was compensated for at the suprasegmental level. The early vowel length distinction is reconstructible. None of today’s Ong-Be languages has a vowel length distinction; however, it is possible that there was an earlier distinction based on regular sound correspondences and restricted distributions. The reconstructed vowels show that (1) long high vowels tend to break in open syllables, (2) short vowels are more likely to change than their long counterparts, and (3) peripheral vowels are more stable than central vowels in closed syllables. With respect to consonants, the place of articulation of Proto-Kra-Dai stops plays a role in the voicing of Ong-Be reflexes, in which anterior stops are reflected with voiced stops, and dorsal stops (including palatalized velars) are reflected with voiceless stops. In all Ong-Be varieties that were surveyed in this dissertation, plain bilabial and alveolar stops became implosives in the onset position, which is an areal feature. Phonemic aspiration is reconstructed at the Proto-Ong-Be level.Ph.D. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2018
Disciplined mobility and the emotional subject in Royal Dutch Lloyd's early twentieth century passenger shipping network
No full textThis paper examines the disciplined mobility and emotional geographies of between-deck passengers in Royal Dutch Lloyd's early Twentieth Century passenger shipping network. Specifically, it is concerned with the ways in which the network was established and with the efforts made to maintain it. It is found that such a disciplinary network furthers the firm's goal of shipping healthy and productive bodies for corporate profits and that transhipment facility Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam was integral to the performance and maintenance of such a transnational disciplinary network. The key consequence of such disciplined mobility was the creation of an emotional passenger-migrant subject shaped in relation to the power of corporate, cultural and other authorities in maritime travel and migration. In identifying this historic network of disciplined mobility and its emotional subject, this paper seeks to reveal the emotional geographies relating to mobile subjectivities and the power relations associated with their historically significant travels
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Governing refugee space: The quasi-carceral regime of Amsterdam’s Lloyd Hotel, a German-Jewish refugee camp in the prelude to World War II
No full textThrough analysing the correspondence between key refugee camp commanders based at Amsterdam’s Lloyd Hotel and different authorities involved in Dutch refugee matters, this paper examines how “the Dutch state” responded to German-Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany in the prelude to World War II. Using a largely Foucauldian approach to discipline, power, security and governmentality to examine the bio-, macro-and micro-politics behind the management of these refugees and their lived spaces, we seek to illustrate how the Lloyd Hotel formed part of a quasi-carceral spatial regime implemented to segregate and contain those with an unclear legal status at a time of political confusion. The article also seeks to show how the involvement of different authorities at different scales brought serious implications for the status, spatial regimentation, mobilities and future of the refugees
Subglacial clast behaviour and its implication for till fabric development: new results derived from wireless subglacial probe experiments
No full textThis study has investigated the three-dimensional movement of clasts within deformation till, using embedded wireless probes. These probes were part of an environmental sensor network, which measured subglacial properties (temperature, water pressure, resistivity, case strain and tilt) six times a day, and relayed that data via radio to the glacier surface, where they were forwarded and broadcast on-line. The system was installed at Briksdalsbreen, Norway and operated from August 2004 until August 2006. Approximately 2000 probe days worth of data were collected, with an increase in performance (41% more readings) during the second year. The probes showed similar patterns of water pressure rises throughout the two years, but with slightly different magnitudes and timings. These changes in water pressure could be related to clast behaviour. The probes decreased their dip over the year, and the rate of change was related to an increase in glacier velocity. After initial changes in dip, the probes experienced changes in orientation, followed by rotation about the a-axis. This continuous rotation was similar to the motion suggested by Jeffery [1922. The motion of ellipsoidal particles immersed in a viscous fluid. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A 102, 161-179] for the behaviour of clasts within a viscous material. In addition, some probes also showed short, frequent dip oscillations in spring and autumn, which were interpreted to reflect stick-slip events, similar to lodging; and demonstrated how local conditions can interrupt the predicted rotation pattern.
Overall, it is demonstrated that when water pressures were high, decoupling Occurred associated with basal sliding and dip oscillations; and when water pressures fell, the ice and sediment were coupled and till deformation occurred. These events happened during summer and autumn. it is this combination of "lodgement" and deformation that builds up both a complex (but predictable) fabric and a resultant composite till sedimentology. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
International standardization of diagnostic criteria for vasospastic angina
No full textThe Coronary Vasomotion Disorders International Study Group (COVADIS) was established to develop international standards for the diagnostic criteria of coronary vasomotor disorders. The first symposium held on the 4-5 September 2013 addressed the criteria for vasospastic angina, which included the following (i) nitrate-responsive angina, (ii) transient ischaemic electrocardiogram changes, and (iii) documented coronary artery spasm. Adoption of these diagnostic criteria will improve the clinical diagnosis of this condition and facilitate research in this field.John F. Beltrame, Filippo Crea, Juan Carlos Kaski, Hisao Ogawa, Peter Ong, Udo Sechtem, Hiroaki Shimokawa, C. Noel Bairey Merz on behalf of On Behalf of the Coronary Vasomotion Disorders International Study Group (COVADIS
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