37 research outputs found
Precision Targets: GPS and the Militarization of Everyday Life
No full textThis article explores the militarization of everyday life through the emergence of a dual-use technology, the Global Positioning System (GPS), in the 1990s and first decade of the twenty-first century. It was launched in April 2010 as a Web-based multimedia piece funded by a Digital Innovation Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. During the fellowship year and for several years afterward, author Caren Kaplan worked with programmer/designer Erik Loyer to produce a piece that would address the multiple social and political valences of GPS in a graphically dramatic but academically substantial manner. Ezra Claytan Daniels provided the artwork that illustrates Erik Loyer’s innovative digital “cube” design. Loyer and Kaplan developed the six storylines for the piece, and Kaplan wrote the text (see www.precisiontargets.com)
Fouille d'un bas fourneau et de ses structures annexes à l'étang du Perray, en Plélan-le-Grand (Ille-et-Vilaine)
No full textThe analysis of archaeological traces discovered near the Perray pond shows several sites connected to the direct metallurgy of iron. Among them, appears a bloomery remarkably preserved together with several secondary structures. Both a preliminary thermoluminescence study of the bloomery and a radiocarbon dating allow us to exclude a post gallo-roman chronology.L'analyse des vestiges archéologiques découverts auprès de l'étang du Perray a permis de mettre en évidence plusieurs sites liés à la métallurgie directe du fer, parmi lesquels un bas fourneau en excellent état de conservation et plusieurs structures annexes. Une étude préliminaire de ce dernier par la thermoluminescence ainsi qu'une datation radiocarbone permettent d'exclure une chronologie postérieure a la période gallo-romaine.Andrieux Jean-Yves, Brule Anne, Coignard Joël, Fontugne Michel, Herbaut Claudie, Larcher Guy, Loyer Stephane, Moinerais Marc, Plaine Jean. Fouille d'un bas fourneau et de ses structures annexes à l'étang du Perray, en Plélan-le-Grand (Ille-et-Vilaine). In: Revue archéologique de l'ouest, tome 10, 1993. pp. 101-114
La coupe de Nantois (Baie de Saint-Brieuc, France) : Datations par thermoluminescence (TL) et données paléoenvironnementales nouvelles pour le Pléistocène de Bretagne [ The Nantois section (Saint-Brieuc Bay France) : New thermoluminescence (TL) datings and palaeoenvironnemental data for the Pleistocene of Brittany.]
No full textLoess deposited during Pleistocene glacial periods can be dated by the thermoluminescence (TL) method. The age of such deposit corresponds to the bleaching of the TL signal of minerals as they are exposed to sunlight during their aeohan transport. The first results obtained on the aeolian quartz fraction by this method have allowed to date sediments as old as 100 ky (100000 years) and do confirm most of the previous stratigraphical interpretations in the Saint-Brieuc area. New palaeoenvironnemental data are presented. We have shown the existence of a marqued permafrost during the Pleniglacial Weichselien, its absence during most of the Saalien, the warmer and more humid conditions during the Saalien than during the last glaciation, the persistence of an high sea level at 103 ka and the existence of 4 interglacials on the same littoral plateform (stages 1, 5, 7 ad 9?).Les loess déposés en période glaciaire au cours du Pléistocène peuvent être datés par la méthode de la thermoluminescence (TL). L'âge de tels dépôts coïncide alors avec la remise à zéro du signal de TL due à l'exposition des minéraux au rayonnement solaire lors de leur transport éolien. Les premiers résultats obtenus par cette méthode, sur la fraction éolienne du quartz, ont permis de dater des sédiments d'âge allant jusqu'à 100 ka (100000 ans) et confirment la plupart des interprétations stratigraphiques établies dans la région de Saint-Bneuc. Des éléments paléoenvironnementaux nouveaux sont présentés. Nous montrons l'existence d'un pergélisol marqué au Pléniglaciaire Weichsélien, son absence pendant l'essentiel du Saalien, le caractère moins froid et plus humide du Saalien par rapport au Weichsélien, la persistance d'un niveau marin élevé à 103 ka et la présence de 4 interglaciaires sur une même plate-forme littorale (stades 1, 5, 7 et 9?).Loyer Stephane, Van Vliet-Lanoë Brigitte, Monnier Jean Laurent, Hallegouet Bernard, Mercier Norbert. La coupe de Nantois (Baie de Saint-Brieuc, France) : Datations par thermoluminescence (TL) et données paléoenvironnementales nouvelles pour le Pléistocène de Bretagne [ The Nantois section (Saint-Brieuc Bay France) : New thermoluminescence (TL) datings and palaeoenvironnemental data for the Pleistocene of Brittany.]. In: Quaternaire, vol. 6, n°1, 1995. pp. 21-33
Collections Are Our Relatives Disrupting the Singular, White Man’s Joy That Shaped Collections
No full textThe way cultural memory institutions (libraries, archives, and museums) confer authority pits Western concepts like copyright and access against Indigenous legal orders; rage then, is an appropriate response when we consider items in collections as more than objects and rather, as relatives that are barred from being in relationship with us. The chapter centres Indigenous thought on the concepts of collecting and authority and calls for a more nuanced understanding of how we might be in relation to each other. The chapter is structured around first querying collections: the selfish impulse of collecting and the absences in collections, as well as the coloniality of the archive and rage. It covers how authority for Indigenous collections are not currently situated in communities, but in outsiders, and reframes ethical collections as ones who situate the people, not the stuff. The chapter ends with a discussion of animacy, and therefore, relationality: considering collections not as groups of things, but as our relatives and our responsibilities. This chapter emerged from a keynote given in Calgary in March 2018 called “‘we talk to these things you call artifacts’: Competing authorities, harm, and collections.” It references Walter Benjamin’s “Unpacking my Library” and introduces the idea that collecting is often prompted by a singular, individual joy which obscures violence, harm, and silences in that collection.book chapte
Why Calgary Isn't Métis Territory: Jigging Towards an Ethic of Reciprocal Visiting
No full textThough Métis people have had a long presence in Calgary and southern Alberta, their kinship within the Nehiyaw Pwat allied them against the Blackfoot Confederacy: as strangers politically and culturally, they remained as guests in this territory. For Métis people who live in Calgary who want to be good guests, the authors suggest an “ethic of reciprocal visiting” that emerges from Métis visiting culture, where Indigenous guests outside of their home territory are called to listen to their hosts as a dancer listens to the fiddler and adjusts their steps, engage in respectful non-interference, and be prepared for correction
Supporting Indigenous Studies Programs Through Sustainable Budget Allocation
No full textThis study assesses acquisitions budget allocation for sustainable support of Indigenous Studies (IS) and the challenge of addressing the needs of an emergent subject area. A survey of collections librarians provided context for library allocation practices of other Canadian institutions offering IS programs. An analysis of titles purchased before and after creating an IS subject fund was performed; results reveal that there was an increase in the number of IS titles purchased annually after the fund was created. A defined subject fund allowed flexibility beyond conventional library collections structures to address the unique needs of IS as an academic discipline
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The East Midlands in 2010
No full textThe East Midlands in 2010 is the updated evidence base that supports the regional economic strategy, A Flourishing Region. It presents a statistical portrait of the region covering demography, housing, economy & productivity, the labour market, deprivation & economic inclusion, transport, infrastructure & development, the environment and the spatial structure of the economy along with a series of sub-regional profiles
