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The winner is chosen by the editorial board of each volume of the \nBerkeley Planning Journal. \nThe Kaye Bock Student Award Paper Award is accompanied by a $250 cash gift.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "planning" } ], "section": "DCRP News", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5b9623v7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "BPJ", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Editor", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-03-09T18:13:21+01:00", "date_accepted": "2012-03-09T18:13:21+01:00", "date_published": "2010-03-09T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucb_crp_bpj/article/3393/galley/2160/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43778, "title": "Basaloid Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract: A Case Report and Review of the Literature", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sw8t1jm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "Kunkel", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" }, { "first_name": "Eric", "middle_name": "T.", "last_name": "Cheng", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2010-03-08T20:40:22+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43778/galley/32583/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43767, "title": "The Pleural-based Mass: A Case Report and Review of the Literature", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pn228tg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "Kunkel", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" }, { "first_name": "Eric", "middle_name": "T.", "last_name": "Cheng", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2010-03-08T19:51:45+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43767/galley/32572/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43769, "title": "Insect Induced Heart Failure", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/04c647d8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Joseph", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Diehl", "name_suffix": "Medical Student", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" }, { "first_name": "Joseph", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zaky", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2010-02-28T19:56:55+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43769/galley/32574/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2494, "title": "Call For Papers", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Economics" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29j7p2fn", "frozenauthors": [], "date_submitted": "2011-01-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2011-01-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-28T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/2494/galley/1527/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2490, "title": "Conceptual Blends and Critical Awareness in Teaching Cultural Narratives", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Bringing conceptual blending into foreign language classroom discussions of cultural narratives can lead to critical language awareness and a deeper and broader understanding of cultural narratives, which the MLA promotes in its (2007) conceptualization of transcultural and translingual awareness. Using the fall of the Berlin Wall and German unification as example narratives, this paper seeks to show how political humor can unpack and illuminate complex, blended narratives that infuse everyday linguistic expressions and ways of making meaning. It will then offer suggestions for using conceptual blending to analyze cultural narratives in the classroom.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "German Studies" }, { "word": "conceptual blending" }, { "word": "Humor" }, { "word": "cognitive poetics" }, { "word": "cultural narratives" }, { "word": "Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics" }, { "word": "Applied Linguistics" }, { "word": "Discourse and Text Linguistics" }, { "word": "First and Second Language Acquisition" }, { "word": "German Literature" }, { "word": "Other German Language and Literature" }, { "word": "Other Linguistics" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7d24j55q", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "tes", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "howell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Southern Methodist University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-02-05T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2010-02-05T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-28T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/2490/galley/1523/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2487, "title": "Demonstrations of pedagogical content knowledge: Spanish Liberal Arts and Spanish Education majors' writing", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Second language teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is a sophisticated combination of pedagogical and content knowledge. This study explores the acquisition and articulation of PCK, highlighting the question of whether teacher education programs add to language teachers' knowledge base. Data was gathered using a performance assessment that incorporated teacher writing tasks in Spanish with a reflective paragraph to explain decisions made while writing. Areas of interest were language awareness, knowledge of effective teaching, and knowledge of learners. The study’s primary purpose is to reveal whether PCK differed in preservice Spanish teachers’ writing, as compared to Spanish Liberal Arts majors’ writing. Qualitative analysis revealed differing stages of PCK between the groups, suggesting teacher education’s influence on the preservice teachers’ performance.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK)" }, { "word": "second language teaching" }, { "word": "second language writing" }, { "word": "Assessment" }, { "word": "teacher education" }, { "word": "Curriculum and Instruction" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9t09n5x9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Anne", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hlas", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Wisconsin Eau Claire", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Susan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hildebrandt", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-06-30T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-06-30T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-28T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/2487/galley/1520/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2492, "title": "Exploring the Feasibility of a Pedagogy of Multiliteracies in Introductory Foreign Language Courses", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The 2007 MLA Report calls for large-scale reform in university foreign language (FL) departments to integrate the study of language, literature, and culture and move beyond the the language-content dichotomy that has characterized the undergraduate curriculum for decades. This article explores the implications of these recommendations for introductory FL courses, arguing in favor of a pedagogy of multiliteracies (New London Group, 1996; Kern, 2000) as one pathway toward curricular reform. The adoption of a multiliteracies framework in response to calls for curricular change is not entirely novel, yet most scholarship to date has focused on the need for more explicit attention to students' linguistic development in advanced-level content courses rather than on pedagogical models for integrating textual content into introductory language courses. To support our position, three challenges to realizing curricular change and fostering literacy in introductory FL courses are discussed – pedagogy, course content, and departmental buy-in – and strategies to address each challenge are proposed. We conclude that in light of the changing landscape in U.S. higher education today, a pedagogy of multiliteracies represents a means of keeping the introductory FL curriculum relevant to students as well as the broader intellectual mission of the university.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "multiliteracies" }, { "word": "Foreign Languages" }, { "word": "pedagogy" }, { "word": "introductory curriculum" }, { "word": "Applied Linguistics" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rd471cs", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Heather", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Willis Allen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Miami", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kate", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Paesani", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Wayne State University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-06-16T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2010-06-16T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-28T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/2492/galley/1525/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2491, "title": "Foreign Language Teachers’ Struggle to Learn Content-Based Instruction", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Research has shown content-based instruction (CBI) to be effective in various language settings, yet this promising curricular approach remains rarely implemented in mainstream foreign language educational contexts. While the existing body of research has identified important barriers to the implementation of CBI, it has neglected the problem of meaning which is essential to understanding educational reforms. This phenomenological study explores the meaning that the experience of learning CBI had for in-service foreign language teachers in traditional teaching contexts who were once enrolled in a year-long professional development program specifically designed to help them become familiar with CBI core principles and create CBI curricular materials. Findings suggest that teachers struggle mainly with the idea of teaching language through content, a concept they have difficulty grasping or even accepting as a possibility. Professional development programs must be designed to respond to this specific challenge if they are to help teachers explore new instructional possibilities.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Curriculum and Instruction" }, { "word": "Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8g91w2r7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Laurent", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cammarata", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Alberta", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-02-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2010-02-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-28T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/2491/galley/1524/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2489, "title": "L2 French Learners’ Processing of Object Clitics: Data from the Classroom", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The purpose of this study was to assess whether the well-documented paucity of object clitics in L2 French production reflects difficulties learners have comprehending these forms in classroom input. To this end, an aural French-English translation task was used to determine the extent to which university-level L2 learners of French (N=152) were able to process and encode the meaning of the object clitics me, te, la, l’, les, lui, leur, y and en. An analysis of the translations revealed variation in performance across clitic types (19-75% accuracy) and as a function of learners’ proficiency level and educational background. There was a positive relationship between L2 proficiency and clitic processing. Post-French immersion learners were better able to process and encode clitics than their post-core French peers. As a group, the learners were only 54% accurate, with their mistranslations of object clitics indicating incomplete use of gender, number, animacy and case markings to link these forms to their co-referents. An under-reliance on animacy and agreement cues by these L2 learners suggests the need for explicit instruction on the importance of syntactic and discourse-pragmatic information in clitic comprehension.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "French as a Second Language" }, { "word": "Pronouns" }, { "word": "Clitics" }, { "word": "translation" }, { "word": "Listening Comprehension" }, { "word": "Language Processing" }, { "word": "Applied Linguistics" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5v37r73q", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Valerie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wust", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "North Carolina State University at Raleigh", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-06-03T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-06-03T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-28T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/2489/galley/1522/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2493, "title": "Thanks to Reviewers", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Economics" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ft3q89w", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Claire", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Kramsch", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-01-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2011-01-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-28T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/2493/galley/1526/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 2488, "title": "Using Online Forums to Scaffold Oral Participation in Foreign Language Instruction", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "According to sociocultural approaches to second language acquisition (SLA), participation in communicative practices in the target language is the goal of language learning and a fundamental part of the acquisition process. One role of language instruction is to provide scaffolding that enables language learners to participate in communicative practices while their competence is still developing. This paper focuses on a particular communicative practice, oral discussions of assigned readings in a second-semester Spanish class at the university level, and explores the use of online forums to scaffold student participation in this communicative practice. Using a combination of qualitative methods, I show how an instructor used forums to prepare her students for class discussions while also increasing and diversifying student participation during those discussions. This outcome problematizes the assumption that only synchronous (e.g., chat) as opposed asynchronous (e.g., forums) modes of text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) can be beneficial for oral communication in foreign languages. Furthermore, it indicates that learning outcomes may depend more on the way in which CMC is integrated into instruction than on the specific characteristics of the technologies used.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "CMC" }, { "word": "online forums" }, { "word": "oral communication" }, { "word": "scaffolding" }, { "word": "Applied Linguistics" }, { "word": "Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xs1r2tq", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Adam", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mendelson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-10-30T08:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-10-30T08:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-28T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/2488/galley/1521/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43777, "title": "Understanding the Controversy Behind the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force Recommendations for Breast Cancer Screening", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Commentary" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0mn7383v", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Gloria", "middle_name": "S.", "last_name": "Kim", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2010-02-24T20:38:36+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43777/galley/32582/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41025, "title": "A Cinematic Grand Tour of Sicily: Irony, Memory and Metamorphic Desire from Goethe to Tornatore", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "A palimpsest of multiple Mediterranean cultures, Sicily is a crossroads of civilizations and a provincial backwater, traditional and yet, from time to time and in particular milieus, modernist. This essay undertakes a journey into Sicilian cultural spaces, places, and traditions beginning with the enlightened travelers of the Grand Tour and ending with postmodernist wanderings along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. My approach weaves film and literature together in order to map the multifaceted Sicilian identities. The island becomes an image for a magnificent past and for a present of missed opportunities, both individual and collective. Among the works and artists discussed, Goethe’s \nItalian Journey\n, Michelangelo Antonioni’s \nL’avventura\n, Nanni Moretti’s \nCaro Diario\n, Giuseppe Tornatore’s \nNuovo Cinema Paradiso\n, Roberto Andò’s ,em>Il manoscritto del Principe, and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s \nIl Gattopardo\n.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italian Cinema About and Across the Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12s7f1h1", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Gaetana", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Marrone", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Princeton University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-01-27T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-01-27T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41025/galley/30700/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 40995, "title": "Another Map, another History, another Modernity", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In this article, the author criticizes the consensual cultural configuration of present-day Italy by displacing concerns of historical and intellectual identity onto a wider Mediterranean map. Elaborating an interdisciplinary and intercultural position that looks to languages and histories that Italian academic life and institutional culture tends to ignore, or repress, the disparaged sides of modernity – the South, the Mediterranean, the Muslim world – become the sites of a diverse critical understanding. Drawing upon the metaphorical powers of the sea itself, this “Mediterranean” view of modern Italy, of the formation of its cultural and critical languages, proposes a more unsettled and fluid cartography that renders inherited questions and “solutions” vulnerable to an inquiry that a national culture is unable to authorize. In particular, the desire for cultural and critical continuity, sustained in a diffuse historicist syntax and policed by moribund disciplinary protocols, is challenged via a “postcolonial” elaboration of Italy as both a Mediterranean and modern formation. This leads to a proposed rupture with the mold of a fundamentally patrician and provincial understanding of native culture. In particular, the contemporary figure of the so-called illegal migrant announces the hidden colonial histories that planetary process return to disturb the surfaces of everyday life. It is the unwelcome turbulence of migration, as one of the central chapters of modernity itself, which now cuts into the historical, political, and cultural body of Italy, exposing it in a global frame that can only be registered in “worldly thinking” (Antonio Gramsci). Precisely at this point, it becomes imperative to draw up another map, narrate another history, and seek another modernity.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "A Critical Map of Italy in the Mediterranean - Defining the terms", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rn393wv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Iain", "middle_name": "Michael", "last_name": "Chambers", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Università degli Studi di Napoli, \"L'Orientale\"", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-10-05T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2008-10-05T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40995/galley/30670/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41048, "title": "Arrigo Boito's Short Stories", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Arrigo Boito (1842-1918) is the author of the four tales presented here for the first time in English translation: \nThe Black Ensign, Clenched Fist, Iberia, and Trapeze\n. Outside of Italy, he is known almost exclusively as the composer of \nMefistotele\n, an opera for which he himself wrote the libretto. He is in fact equally esteemed as a consummate librettist, above all for the remarkable texts he created for Giuseppe Verdi’s last two masterpieces, \nOtello\n, and \nFalstaff\n. But in his homeland, he ranks rather high among the literati as a significant poet in the period when Italian political unification (1860-1870) was at long last realized, and he and a number of other young literary rebels generally referred to as the \n\"Scapigliati\"\n (the disheveled or disorderly ones) wrote works meant to shock the complacent insular culture of the Italian bourgeoisie into a broader European context. The chief targets of their polemic were religion – more specifically Roman Catholicism – and the prevailing maudlin romanticism of the time, so unlike the writings of Manzoni, Foscolo, and Leopardi in the earlier decades of the century.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Translations", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7541s7r6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nicolas", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Perella", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41048/galley/30723/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41041, "title": "\"As Men Do with Their Wives\": Domestic Violence in Fourteenth-Century Lucca", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Marriage disputes, such as those contained in the records of the episcopal court of Lucca, offer a glimpse into the meanings and effects of domestic violence in the fourteenth century. In one case in particular, the case of Guilielino and his wife Sitella, violence is the centerpiece of the marriage dispute. In this conflict, Guilielino, complaining that Sitella had left his household against the law of marriage, petitioned the court to force the restitution of his wife and marital rights under penalty of excommunication. Guilielino and Sitella’s testimonies indicate that both parties sought to exploit social and legal preconceptions of gender. Guilielino insisted that the violence in question was not excessive, but moderate and appropriate for a husband who must correct his wife, while Sitella described Guilielino as inhuman and depraved, impugning his ability to provide for her or to control himself. To Guilielino, violence was a tool for correction and a means of confirming his masculinity. Sitella used language that indicated her own helplessness, describing occasions on which Guilielino threatened her, beat her, deprived her of food and drink, and tried to kill her, all while emphasizing her obedience. The episcopal court, torn between preserving the indissolubility of marriage and protecting a member of its diocese, granted Sitella a separation \na mensa et throro\n, from table and bed, freeing her from her marital obligations, but also preventing her from remarrying. Violence thus served several functions in this case: as a tool for reinforcing gender relations, as a means of legally justifying abandonment, and as the impetus for creative legal solutions within the episcopal court.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Critical Essays and Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08p9b8gz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Corinne", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wieben", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Santa Barbara", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-14T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-14T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41041/galley/30716/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41006, "title": "Battaglie navali, scorrerie corsare e politica dello spettacolo: Le Naumachie medicee del 1589", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Many studies have recognized the political importance of Medici’s festivals during the age of the Grand Duchy. Starting from this assumption, this contribution intends to analyze certain 1589 wedding events from the perspective of Medici’s politics towards the Ottoman Empire and naval warfare against the Turkish corsairs. In particular, it focuses attention on the “Battle of Galleon,” which took place on April 25th, in Pisa along the Arno River, and the “Sea Battle” of May 11th, in Florence that was waged in the Palazzo Pitti’s Courtyard. From the comparison of official descriptions of these events with contemporary war chronicles, it is evident that scripts of both shows present a strict parallelism with real war practice. Besides, people who took part in them were effectively galley-slaves and seamen of Tuscan fleet. The similarity of these performances and their position in the Festival calendar (the first one right at the beginning, the second one at the ending) indicate an accurate strategy of communication from the organizers. They wanted to communicate an eminently political message, which was distinct from actions performed by Ferdinando I during his government: the increase of the fleet and the strengthening of the Santo Stefano Knights Rule, the improvement of Livorno’s seaport, and the intensification of the struggle against the Turkish corsairs at their strongholds.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8553h705", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Maria", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Alberti", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Università di Siena, Italy", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41006/galley/30681/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41008, "title": "Bodies of Water: The Mediterranean in Italian Baroque Theater", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In three seventeenth-century comedies by the Italian playwright, poet, actor and \ncapocomico\n Giovan Battista Andreini (1576-1654), the Mediterranean Sea plays an ambiguous role, simultaneously separating and connecting families, peoples, cultures, and empires that are scattered around its shores. In these plays the Mediterranean cannot be thought of in geographical terms—i.e. as an ensemble of bodies of water—but rather as a scene of interaction, a stage upon which distance and difference are affirmed or overcome through dialogue, sometimes with surprising results. Embodied above all in the themes of piracy and slavery, on the one hand, and in the figure of the renegade, on the other, the function of the Mediterranean in \nLa turca\n (1611), \nLo schiavetto\n (1612), and \nLa sultana\n (1622) is the subject of this essay.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Italian Language and Literature" } ], "section": "Italy in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8dv7n1dk", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jon", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Snyder", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Univerisity of California Santa Barbara", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-01-31T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2010-01-31T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41008/galley/30683/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 40999, "title": "Braudel’s Mediterranean and Italy", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This article reviews the Italian reception of the French historian Fernand Braudel (1902-1985) and his scholarly work. Beginning with the effusive encomia published in Italian newspapers on his death, it examines the reality behind these hyperbolic claims by asking three questions: 1) What were Braudel’s contributions to the study of history in general and Italian history in particular? 2) How did Braudel’s relationship with Italian scholars and Italian history create such a reputation that an academic historian had become a legend in his own time? 3) What remains of Braudel’s work and method over the past twenty-five years in Italy and beyond? A summary of Braudel’s theses and evaluations by leading historians suggest that while Braudel’s book \nLa Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l’époque de Philippe II\n may have as many errors as insights, it remains alive as a source of inspiration for the history of early modern Italy, prior to the establishment of the nation state. By subordinating political history to all aspects of life through the investigative methodology of the social sciences and by changing the way we think about time, space, and subject matter in history, Braudel’s vision provides a point of departure both to look back at the historiographical tradition before the volume was first published in 1949 and again at its second edition in 1966, as well as to scan forward to the historiography it has spawned.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "A Critical Map of Italy in the Mediterranean - Defining the terms", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qp086z8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Marino", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UC San Diego", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-05T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-05T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40999/galley/30674/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41039, "title": "Dall' Italian Manner alla modernità liquida. Relazioni artistiche fra alcuni paesi arabo-mediterranei e l'Italia", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The relationship between modern Italian art and the development of easel painting and sculpture in the Mediterranean Arab world have hardly been explored by art historians; little is known about how much Italian artists and institutions have contributed to the formation of style, taste, and artistic consciousness, as well as specific techniques. The present study was started in order to trace the history and evolution of these artistic relations, and to delineate and evaluate their importance and significance specifically in the Mediterranean Mashrek (Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt). It was in this area in fact, that the interest for easel painting first emerged, exercising the deepest influence on the local cultures, and Arab painters of noteworthy talent and originality emerged who in turn trained a later generation of artists. After a preliminary discussion of the relationship between Italy and the Arab-Mediterranean world which addresses the perception of Italy by Arab intellectuals and artists and the very notion of “art” prevalent in the Arab world at the dawn of the modernist era, this study goes on to discuss the case of Lebanon. The initial contacts and exchanges occurred in fact with Lebanon, where Arab painters first emerged towards the end of the 19th century. After Daud Corm, who arrived in Rome in 1871 to study with Roberto Bompiani, as many as 82 artists are listed by the Association of Lebanese graduates as having graduated or studied extensively in Italy. Egyptian and Syrian modernism are then discussed, highlighting the many major artists who studied in Italy or, in Egypt’s case, were trained by Italian artists who had emigrated to Alexandria. The study concludes with a reflection on the complexity of the present situation, characterized by an unprecedented richness and diversity of styles and a “mixed,” updated artistic culture in constant evolution and transformation.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Imagining the Mediterranean 2 - Survey Articles and Work in Progress", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8hs4w9t8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Martina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Corgnati", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-12T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2008-09-12T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41039/galley/30714/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41013, "title": "D’Annunzio, la latinità del Mediterraneo e il mito della riconquista", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Several studies have already highlighted the importance of D’Annunzio’s biography and work in the context of Italian colonialism and military interventionism. This article seeks to relate D’Annunzio’s interventionist thought to the national and international debate on \nlatinità\n and Mediterranean-ness, demonstrating its dependence on the collapsed duality life / art, which permeates the entire opus of the poet. Departing from the analysis of \nMerope\n, and analyzing the articles published by D’Annunzio in the French press in favor of Italy’s intervention in the Great War all the way to the pasquinate against the “barbarian” Hitler, the author argues that notwithstanding the influence of elements derived from both the French and Italian cultural milieux, D’Annunzio’s approach was fundamentally “personal” and based on the original combination of hagiography and mythography typical of his poetics. The poet utilized the poetic figures of \nLatinità\n and Italian Mediterranean destiny to re-elaborate and actualize Myth in a poetic-cultural perspective.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7gx5g2n9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Filippo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Caburlotto", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universita' di Venezia Ca Foscari", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-02-13T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-02-13T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41013/galley/30688/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41040, "title": "Food for Thought", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Editors' Note for Volume 1, Issue 2.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Italian Language and Literature" } ], "section": "Editors' Note", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1q62f7n0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Claudio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fogu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Univerisity of California Santa Barbara", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Lucia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Re", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41040/galley/30715/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41004, "title": "From Egypt to Umbria: Jewish Women and Property in the Medieval Mediterranean", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This article compares the financial activities of medieval Jewish women in Italy and the Mediterranean. Contrary to Jewish legal tradition, which curtailed women’s financial autonomy, by the later Middle Ages communities across the region increasingly allowed women to manage their own dotal property, inherit property from a variety of sources, and engage in loan banking. An examination of the historical developments of some Jewish communities in Egypt, Spain, and central Italy suggests that this only occurred in times of communal crisis. Because all Jewish communities in the Middle Ages owed their respective governments a fiscal contribution or faced expulsion, money needed to be controlled by competent managers. In times of crisis, this could include women. Thus, in times of Mediterranean \nconvivencia\n, Jewish communities flourished and followed their own laws, including prohibitions against female financial autonomy. This article argues that in times of disintegrating Mediterranean \nconvivencia\n, however, Jewish women were able to actively contribute to the welfare of their community via their financial autonomy.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9249w3hr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Karen", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Frank", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Santa Barbara", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-01T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-01T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41004/galley/30679/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41009, "title": "From \nMare Nostrum\n to \nMare Aliorum\n: Mediterranean Theory and Mediterraneism in Contemporary Italian Thought", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This article surveys both the place of 'modern' Italy in the resurgence of Mediterranean Studies in the last decade and a half, and the contributions by Italian Studies and culture at large to the contemporary discourse on Mediterranean-ness. The author frames the discussion of recent scholarship by and about Italian Mediterranean-ness in a paradox: notwithstanding the role that \n'Mare Nostrum'\n played in Italian identity construction and foreign policy (before, during and after Fascism), modern Italy is given very short shrift in current Mediterranean Studies. By contrast, over the past two to three decades 'Italy' has both confronted an unprecedented wave of immigration from the Mediterranean basin, and become almost synonymous with Mediterranen-ness in the global market of images. Responding to this paradox, the author argues, Italian scholars and intellectuals have been progressively transfiguring the Mediterranean from \n'Mare Nostrum'\n (our sea) to \n'Mare Aliorum'\n (the sea of the other).", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Continental Philosophy" }, { "word": "Other Italian Language and Literature" } ], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vp210p4", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Claudio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fogu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Santa Barbara", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-11-06T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-11-06T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41009/galley/30684/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41035, "title": "From the Mediterranean to the World: A Note on the Italian “Book of Islands” (\nisolario\n)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The “book of islands” or \nisolario\n, a novel form of cartographic book combining maps and narrative-historical chorography that was first invented and initially developed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, represents an engaging and not yet fully exploited resource for historians of literature and cartography. The genre’s importance derives in particular from the way in which its development reflects the shift from medieval or pre-modern place to early modern and modern space during the age of discovery. In fact, to trace the development and expansion of the \nisolario\n genre, “from the Mediterranean to the world,” is to witness a capital example in the history of cartography of what Edward Casey has described as “the remarkable elasticity of scope of the employment of cartographic images.” Masterworks in the genre produced during the High Renaissance, Antonio Pigafetta’s \nPrimo viaggio intorno al mondo\n (ca. 1525), a first-person account of the Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation of the globe (1519-1522), and Benedetto Bordone’s \nLibro . . . nel qual si ragiona de tutte l’Isole del mondo\n (Venice: Zoppino, 1528), an encyclopedic print compilation of maps of “all the islands of the world,” together mark a watershed in the early modern history of space at the intersections of chorography and geography, of literature and cartography.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Imagining the Mediterranean 2 - Survey Articles and Work in Progress", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wv7j9jc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Theodore", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cachey", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Notre Dame", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-01-04T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-01-04T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41035/galley/30710/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41030, "title": "From the Other Side of the Mediterranean: Hospitality in Italian Migration Cinema", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In the last twenty years, Italy has experienced an unprecedented influx of immigrants from non-European countries, which has posed challenges to its social, political, and cultural structures. In the tradition of Neorealist political engagement, Italian film directors have been among the first intellectuals to explore the issues that the increasing diversity of the Italian nation poses to Italians and foreign-born immigrants alike, beginning with Michele Placido’s \nPummarò\n (1990) and Gianni Amelio’s \nLamerica\n (1994). This article focuses on three more recent examples of Italian migration cinema: Marco Tullio Giordana’s \nQuando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti\n (2005), Vittorio De Seta’s \nLettere dal Sahara\n (2004), and Mohsen Melliti’s \nIo, l’altro\n (2007). In each of these films, the Mediterranean is constructed as a transitional space of personal transformation, where identities are defined, alliances formed and conflicts played out. It is a privileged space of dialogue and encounter with the other, reasserting the relevance of \n“il suo statuto di confine, di interfaccia, di mediazione tra i popoli.”\n Through an analysis especially informed by Franco Cassano’s \nPensiero meridiano\n, as well as Jacques Derrida’s notion of hospitality, and Slavoj Zizek’s understanding of liberal multiculturalism, the article shows how these films offer a critique of Italian societal practices and individual cultural attitudes towards otherness. The representation of the Mediterranean in these films, in particular, offers an opportunity to contemplate Europe’s own contingency, to experience and recognize the limits of its practices of hospitality toward immigrants. It is precisely this tension that which, according to Derrida, makes the perfectibility of laws and social practices, if not a political reality, at least a possibility.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italian Cinema About and Across the Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45h010h5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Giovanna", "middle_name": "Faleschini", "last_name": "Lerner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Franklin & Marshall College", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-12T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-12T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41030/galley/30705/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41045, "title": "Gothic Negotiations of History and Power in Landolfi’s \nRacconto d’autunno", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This article develops new models for the study of Italian Gothic prose in an international context. Poststructuralist paradigms that consider the intersections of subjectivity, identifications, and power structures (knowledge practices and spatial dispositions pertinent to the Gothic castle in particular) are applied for the purpose of explaining how Tommaso Landolfi generates two conflicting narrations in his 1947 novel \nRacconto d’autunno\n and puts one of them on top.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Critical Essays and Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/496986cm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Keala", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jewell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Dartmouth College", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-01-22T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-01-22T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41045/galley/30720/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41016, "title": "‘Il faut méditerraniser la peinture’\n: Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical Painting, Nietzsche, and the Obscurity of Light", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "From their first unveiling in Parisian salons in the early 1910s, Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical paintings (1909-1919) set off a discursive pursuit of their putative geographic origins. On the occasion of a 1927 exhibition, the prominent Parisian critic, Waldemar George, suggested a new rubric under which to file de Chirico’s images – a way, perhaps, to reconcile their irreducible incongruities into one fold: \n“réalisme méditerrané.”\n In the wake of widespread confirmation of his supposed Mediterraneanness, however, the artist himself insisted otherwise. What, then, prompted his umbrage at the notion of his art as quintessentially Mediterranean? It was, it seems, a particular kind of Mediterraneanism at which de Chirico took offense, and from which he sought – even in his earliest writings – to distinguish his own work. It was the work of Friedrich Nietzsche that arbitrated for de Chirico an authentic Mediterranean vision, one corrupted – or rather, uncorrupted – through its popularization as a benign cultural commonplace. By de Chirico’s consistent admission, it was Nietzsche’s work that led him to paint of certain architectural spaces a particular, Mediterranean \n“Stimmung.”\n In seeking to flesh out the precise origins and resonances of that ineffable category, I address how Nietzsche’s insistence upon the Mediterranean as a philosophical model – rather than a mere subject or site – influenced the development of de Chirico’s Metaphysical paintings, and his pursuit of a certain pre-Socratic primitivism.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12d9s5vb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ara", "middle_name": "H.", "last_name": "Merjian", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harvard University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-01-20T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-01-20T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41016/galley/30691/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41021, "title": "Il non detto, l'indicibile e l'esplosione: lettura incrociata di due scrittrici mediterranee", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Silvana Grasso and Fadhila Chebbi are two “Mediterranean” writers. The visions of these women of the Mediterranean, represented both experientially and vis a vis their own writing highlight points of view that are unique and that actively and forcefully confront their status in their respective cultures. They write with great conviction, free from the notion that they may still be prisoners to ancestral chains that would bind them to their ‘heritage’ or places of ‘origin’. Their writings tend to oscillate between the realms of the personal, political and social, revealing a complex and cosmopolitan commonality in their approach to thinking and writing about issues of identity as they pertain to their shared cultural status as representatives of the Mediterranean basin. By reading and representing these two writers together, this article brings to light and puts at a crossroads two representations of Mediterranean-ness and the Mediterranean woman, by women—one a Sicilian novelist (Grasso) whose semi-autobiographical text \nDisìo\n (2005) features a tormented protagonist, the other a Tunisian poet (Chebbi) and recluse who is often misunderstood.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6n9691m9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Rawdha", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zaouchi-Razgallah", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of 7 novembre of Carthage", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-03-01T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-03-01T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41021/galley/30696/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 40993, "title": "Il pane del Mediterraneo: profano e sacro", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In this exciting anticipation of his new research project on bread culture in the Mediterranean, Pedrag Matvejević, paints a vivid picture of this primordial “product of nature and culture.” Bread participated in the settlement of nomad populations and the transformation of hunters into pastors, and of both into peasant; later it was used to distinguish civilized people from barbarians. Soon a uniform ritual culture formed around bread and spread across the Mediterranean. In this spreading of bread culture Mediterranean islands came to play a key role, and they continue to preserve some of these most ancient traditions up to the present day.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "A Critical Map of Italy in the Mediterranean - Defining the terms", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wt2v4ps", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Pedrag", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Matvejevic", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Ca Foscari, Venezia", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-06-01T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-06-01T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40993/galley/30668/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 40997, "title": "Il pensiero meridiano oggi: Intervista e dialoghi con Franco Cassano", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In this interview conducted by Claudio Fogu in July 2007, Franco Cassano answers questions on the evolution of his pensiero meridiano (southern thought) from the publication of the homonymous volume in 1996 to the present. The interview is conducted in Italian, and is available in video, edited in ten separate segments, and in a written transcription. The segments cover topics ranging from the relationship of pensiero meridiano and the Mediterranean basin today, to the impact of “9/11” on the evolution of southern thought, to recent criticisms of Cassano’s perspective by fellow theorists such as Iain Chambers. Cassano defends his pensiero meridiano from accusations of Eurocentrism, while also joining his critics in calling for an opening up of the newly formed intellectual \nkoynè\n of philo-Mediterraneist to a more active engagement with politics and the larger public.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "A Critical Map of Italy in the Mediterranean - Defining the terms", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qf1598v", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Francesco", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cassano", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universita` di Bari", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Claudio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fogu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Santa Barbara", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-03-02T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-03-02T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40997/galley/30672/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 40998, "title": "Il \"Sud\" come frontiera geosimbolica", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Over the past decade a new form of pensiero meridiano (southern thought) has emerged affirming an image of Mediterranean-ness as a “different,” rather than “incomplete” or “opposite” form of modern identity. This article clarifies that southern thought should not be understood as an instance of localism or ethnic nationalism, but as a response to the pressures of globalization by means of a renewed connection to the characteristics of Mediterranean territoriality. If Occidentalization can be identified primarily as a critical process of uprooted-ness and de-territorialization, the experience and concept of confine (border, contact-zone) peculiar to the Mediterranean entails the impossibility of a single encompassing identity and the idea of a space of contamination. This is why –the author argues— Mediterranean-ness does not refer exclusively to a place of birth or belonging, but can be found wherever one opens herself to a plural and welcoming form of identity.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "A Critical Map of Italy in the Mediterranean - Defining the terms", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x70d7fx", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Francesca", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Saffioti", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Università Messina", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40998/galley/30673/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41011, "title": "I nostri Saracini\n: Writing the History of the Arabs of Sicily", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "During the nineteenth century, Sicilian Orientalists wrote the story of Sicily’s domination by the Arabs and the Arabic-language culture of the Normans – centuries of eventful history that had been lost to the West because European historians could not read Arabic documents. In their histories, Sicilians identified an alternate origin for European modernity: the vibrant Arab culture of the medieval Mediterranean transmitted to the continent through borderland states like the Kingdom of Sicily. This essay examines the lives and scholarship of three nineteenth-century Sicilian Orientalists – Pietro Lanza, Vincenzo Mortillaro, and Michele Amari – who worked to articulate a Mediterranean origin for European modernity.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2hm1k07b", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Karla", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mallette", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Michigan", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-10-18T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2008-10-18T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41011/galley/30686/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41026, "title": "\"ISTAMBUL KM. 4,253\": attraverso il Mediterraneo di Pier Paolo Pasolini", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Pier Paolo Pasolini's work transcends the boundaries of the Italian peninsula. His analysis on Italian folk and subproletariat culture extends as far as considering similar situations in the so-called Third World, which Pasolini identifies with the Mediterranean area. This article provides a detailed mapping of Pasolini's peculiar Mediterranean geography, a mobile, unstable geography, defined in this article through a careful reading of his films, novels, essays, and letters. Beginning with a comparison between \nUccellacci e uccellini\n (1966) and its original screenplay, the author shows that the boundaries of Pasolini's Mediterranean - a space conceived as irrational, barbarian and primitive - are constantly de-territorialized and re-territorialized. The article focuses in particular on Pasolini's movies dedicated to ancient Greece, \nEdipus Rex\n (1967) and \nMedea\n (1969), both shot in Mediterranean countries like Morocco and Turkey and yet visually contaminated and re-invented through the use of Italian, African and Far Eastern elements. Pasolini's uniquely idealized Mediterranean becomes a multi-layered laboratory for his critique of the model of capitalistic development, which Pasolini believed was destroying all particular cultures, and a mental space to elaborate his own form of anticolonialist thought.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italian Cinema About and Across the Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/92v0p4wz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Gian Maria", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Annovi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Columbia University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-30T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-30T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41026/galley/30701/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41032, "title": "Italian Baroque Music in Malta: A Madrigal from the Music Archives at the Cathedral Museum in Mdina", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The Mdina Cathedral Museum in Malta owns the most important collection of Italian baroque music south of Naples. The collection consists mostly of sacred music since it originated in the archives of the music chapel in St. Paul’s Cathedral, but there are also secular compositions reflecting the tastes of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, who made their home on the island from 1530 to 1798. The museum’s musical holdings consists of 159 printed works by Italian seventeenth-century composers and over 600 manuscripts, some anonymous, of Italian and Maltese music. The number (33) of unique works, editions, or partbooks adds interest to the fund and makes it relevant to the history of Italian music with regard to the activity of music publishers – Roman, Venetian and Sicilian, in particular – who found in Malta a profitable market for their exports. The edition of a manuscript madrigal for tenor, bass and harpsichord continuo by a lesser Sicilian composer, Filippo Muscari, evidences the widespread, early baroque fashion for madrigalian duets started by Northern Italian composers such as Monteverdi and Grandi whose works are present in the Maltese collection.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Imagining the Mediterranean 1 - Texts and Translations", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8716w51k", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Matteo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sansone", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University in Florence", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-02-04T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-02-04T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41032/galley/30707/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41043, "title": "Italian Renaissance Food-Fashioning or The Triumph of Greens", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Along with clothes, manners, and ways of speaking, alimentary habits and food choices in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance were relevant indicators of social standing, economic status, and more broadly cultural identity. Conceptions of food in the Renaissance were also still influenced by the humoral-Galenic theory, which said that to keep the different “humors” of the body in balance, a good diet had to be the result of foods balancing the moist/water and the dry/air, the warm/fire and the cold/earth, recalling again the four Aristotelian elements. These prescriptions were tirelessly repeated by authors in Italy, the Mediterranean, and Europe in general, from the fifteen well into the sixteenth century, with only minimal variations. Most of them also insisted on the dangers of eating vegetables and fruit, as they were thought to be responsible for creating putrefaction in the stomach. It seems probable that this negative judgment derived mainly from the association of vegetables with peasant’s food or with the “lowest” form of nutrition. By the end of the Renaissance, however, greens or salad had gained a significant status as a trope in the literary imagination of the Italian Renaissance, alluding to poetical play, the display of refined manners, good taste, and Italian botanical, agricultural, national, and cultural identity. The discourse of salad was not univocal, as it could be used in defense of delicate and upper-class tastes or of more earthy gusto; it could serve bernesque poets and cutting anti-bernians like Aretino as well. But the traditional link – established in Galenic medicine – between ideal social hierarchy and the consumption of vegetables and greens had been significantly broken by the end of the sixteenth century, and a new food fashion had emerged that was truly a matter of taste in all senses.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Critical Essays and Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1n97s00d", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Laura", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Giannetti", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Harvard University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-02-05T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-02-05T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41043/galley/30718/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41015, "title": "Italians and the Invention of Race: The Poetics and Politics of Difference in the Struggle over Libya, 1890-1913", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This essay is part of a book in progress about Italy and Africa in the modern and modernist Italian literary imagination and cultural identity, from Gabriele d’Annunzio to Ennio Flaiano’s \nTempo di uccidere\n (1947). It argues that racism, colonialism, and imperialism are not an incidental, minor (and thus, understandably largely forgotten) component of Italian identity and Italian history, but that in the final years of “Liberal Italy,” they became increasingly a defining trait of the imaginary Italian national identity. As in the Risorgimento, literature and the literary imagination played a crucial role in this unifying process. In a nation whose wealth and growth after unification were effectively based on the exploitation of voiceless women and peasants and where parliamentary politics was soon reduced to cynical maneuvers, bargains, and intrigues, intellectuals, writers, and idealists had sought in vain a principle around which a strong sense of national identity and community could, however belatedly, take form. An imaginary construction of racial difference and the fashioning of an imaginary “Italian” ethnic national identity, contributed more than any other element to unify Italians and give them the sense of being “one nation.” The word and concept \nrazza\n in this period, are not used just as another way of saying \npatria\n, but rather to forge the sense of an imaginary yet essential identity. This imaginary sense of identity could entice and include even those who, like women, Catholics, Jews, peasants, and Southerners, were (or felt) excluded or alienated from the humanist discourse and the paternalistic yet secular rhetoric of Italian Risorgimental patriotism. This new imaginary identity was constructed and reinforced increasingly by applying the debasing colonial logic of otherness outside rather than inside the nation’s borders. The creation of an imaginary racially different and inferior “other” on the other side of the Mediterranean finally allowed for an Italian identity to come together as never before. The Libyan war was construed largely as a literary fantasy and a utopian wish-fulfillment. It represents the culmination of a racial process of self-definition by Italians, through which the profoundly disintegrating internal differences of race, gender, class, and religious belief that threatened the very notion of a united Italy were at once repressed, forgotten, and surpassed. Through the racialization of literary discourse, poets and prose writers took, for the first time in the history of united Italy, an active political role that in some ways was even more influential than that of professional politicians.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis" }, { "word": "european" }, { "word": "Italian Literature" } ], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/96k3w5kn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lucia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Re", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-11-09T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-11-09T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41015/galley/30690/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41018, "title": "Italian Women Writers and the Fascist \n'Politica Islamica'\n in Colonial Libya", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This article considers the ways in which Fascist Italy imagined itself in relation to the southern Mediterranean, and specifically its perceptions of Muslim culture in Italian colonial Libya. Examining Augusta Perricone Violà’s 1932 novel \nIl rogo tra le palme\n, it shows how Italian women writers appropriated the \n'politica islamica'\n that characterized various Italian visions of Muslim-Italian relations in the 1930s. Just as the \n'politica islamica'\n imagined Italian relationships to Islam as a form of collaboration based upon shared values and the common goal of a highly idealized Muslim-Italian society, women writers at this time also imagined new relations of Muslim-Italian cultural kinship. This sense of cultural commonality, which typified Italian discourses of the late 1920s and 1930s, can be seen in the way that Perricone Violà’s novel turns to Islam as an important allegorical source of Italian women’s self-fashioning. While past scholarship has focused on the way Italian fascist women emulated Muslim women as exemplary mothers, here it is argued that this novel offers a more dynamic cultural imaginary.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kx0m0sx", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Rebecca", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hopkins", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-03T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-03T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41018/galley/30693/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 40990, "title": "Italy in the Mediterranean Today: A New Critical Topography", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Editors' Introduction to Volume 1, Issue 1.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Italian Language and Literature" } ], "section": "Introduction to Volume 5, Issue 1: The Sacred in Italy", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dk918sn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Claudio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fogu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Santa Barbara", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Lucia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Re", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40990/galley/30665/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41033, "title": "La collina delle vette gemelle. \nEl-Alamein al-Alamain El’-Alamain al-Almin El-‘Alamên Tel-El-Alamein\n…: Un reportage", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This text is comprised of twenty short prose segments that seek creatively to approach a historically overdetermined site, El Alamein, located about sixty-five miles from Alexandria, Egypt. What exactly do I mean by “approach”? I seek to grasp the sense of the physical reality of this desert site by the Mediterranean, and at the same time the multiplicity of stratified memories collected there as in a palimpsest. Rather than navigate the floods of ink spilled by historians, my text attempts to convey contemporary impressions of bygone days through the eyes of a visitor accompanied by a few of her friends. A visit to the monuments, and the events that may occur to anyone who sees these sites today with Egyptian drivers and guides, are also part of the picture. The text is meant to have a mobile structure, based on the technique of variation (most often employed in musical composition), so that the twenty segments may eventually assume for the reader a configuration different from the one momentarily assigned to them here. They try to tell the story of El Alamein as if El Alamein spoke for itself, through its sea and sand, and through the ghosts that still live in that strip of desert facing the Mediterranean. These are also prose pieces of “approach” in the sense that they try to get closer to the meaning of the story of those sites in the years of the Second World War, and to the meaning of going there in the summer of 2008. Therefore in a way they also constitute a kind of reportage.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Imagining the Mediterranean 1 - Texts and Translations", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4zx0c5j3", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Laura", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Barile", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universita' di Siena", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-22T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-22T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41033/galley/30708/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41042, "title": "La crisi dell’Autore nel Rinascimento", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Departing from Roland Barthes’ observations in his renown article “Death of the Author” (1968), the author of this essay goes back to the historical origins of the modern author in the late Middle Ages to argue that we should speak of a prolonged “crisis,” rather than “death” of author-ship in modernity. The direct relationship between author-ship and individuality was conceptualized by Dante in a famous passage of the Convivio on the etymology of auctor. During the Renaissance, however, this vertical relation was transformed in horizontal fashion by the twin revolutions of humanism and the printing press. In particular, the critical and philological method contributed to detach authors from their texts as testified by the examples of Poliziano’s Orfeo, Il libro del pergrino by Iacopo Caviceo, Sannazzaro’s Arcadia, and the writings of Leonardo Da Vinci. The essay focuses in particular on the latter, because of Leonardo’s repeated claim to be an ‘omo senza lettere’ (non-literary man), and his prolonged war against the principle of author-ship. Leonardo, who did not publish any of his writings, elaborated a form of infinite writing in which the Author is never separated from his Opus.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Critical Essays and Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w30d0rx", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Carlo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Vecce", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-01-31T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-01-31T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41042/galley/30717/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41027, "title": "Lamento, ordine e subalternità in \nSalvatore Giuliano", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In an interview with Sebastiano Gesù in 1991, Francesco Rosi claimed that, “the discourse on power includes in itself the sense of death.” By focusing on the cinematic representation of mourning rituals, I investigate the relationship between power and death in \nSalvatore Giuliano\n. Rosi’s mise en scène of mourning entails a complex intertextual play among a variety of cultural materials drawn from the history of art, literature, and Mediterranean popular traditions. Employing a theoretical framework based on the theorizations of Ernesto de Martino and Antonio Gramsci about mourning rituals and folklore, I argue that in \nSalvatore Giuliano\n the representation of women’s lament becomes an expression of “the subaltern.” To substantiate my argument, I examine two scenes from Rosi’s film, in which mourning plays two different functions. In the first scene, mourning rituals are performed by Giuliano’s mother on the corpse of her son, restoring a sense of sacredness to his dead body. In the second scene, mourning gestures give expression to the resistance of the Montelepre women against the abuses of power perpetrated by military forces against their community.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Film/Cinema/Video Studies" } ], "section": "Italian Cinema About and Across the Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/853250m5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Monica", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Facchini", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Brown University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-01-15T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-01-15T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41027/galley/30702/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 40996, "title": "La porta stretta. L'Italia e \"l'altra riva\" tra colonialismo e politiche migratorie", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "It is a known fact that Italians have not come to terms with their colonial past, and that xenophobic attitudes can be traced along the full political spectrum of Italian history and contemporary politics. In this essay, the author stresses the fact that Italians also turned colonialist when European colonialism was in decline, and racist when the rest of Europe put its racial tendencies under scrutiny. He further argues that the same attitudes of denial, delay, and blindness to the racial element in Italian society and politics can also be traced in the evolution of the social sciences from the end of the war to the early 1990s, when a sudden rise in immigration from the Mediterranean basin imposed the “racial other” to the center of both scholarly and political debates. As a consequence of this culpable delay, the author concludes that the principal attitudes towards Mediterranean migrants in Italian discourse, politics, and society still oscillate between criminalization on the right and a bland form of (multi)culturalism on the left, both oblivious to the profound oppression and “invisibility” of the “other” in Italian society.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "A Critical Map of Italy in the Mediterranean - Defining the terms", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dj185zp", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alessandro", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dal Lago", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universita degli Studi di Genova", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-10-14T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-10-14T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40996/galley/30671/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41019, "title": "Latter-day Levantinism, or \n‘Polypolis’\n in the Libretti of Bernard de Zogheb", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This article analyzes the articulations of “Levantinism” as a cultural formation through a discussion of the libretti by the Alexandrian Syro-Lebanese writer and artist Bernard de Zogheb (b. 1924-d. 1999). While Levantinism, like the cultural formation Mediterraneanism, exceeds any geographical delimitations, it began its adjectival life as a derogatory colonial term applied by Europeans to the Eastern Mediterranean. Positing that the discourse of Alexandrian cosmopolitanism was largely Eurocentric in its multi-pronged appeal to Greek elements, the article suggests that “Levantine” was deployed to designate a colonial ambivalence towards that mimicry. An artist and librettist whose ethnic background firmly affiliates him with the Levant and whose diaries and letters attest to the tensions of coming to grips with that specific cosmopolitan formation, de Zogheb wrote his libretti towards the end of the colonial period and after. This article argues that these libretti, most of which remain unpublished, project a parodic Camp celebration of verbal mongrelization and gilded mores. Set to popular tunes and written in a lingua franca-like pidgin Italian that enmeshes French, English, Greek, and Arabic, the libretti’s labor is doubly self-legitimizing of homoeroticism and an elite Alexandrian-Levantinism. Attending to the various ways in which this is instantiated in \nLe Sorelle Brontë\n, \nLe Vacanze a Parigi\n, \nMalumulla ou Il Canale\n, and \nLa Vita Alessandrina\n, the article also broaches the limitations of that aesthetic. Skirting close to auto-Orientalism, the libretti can only acknowledge but not fully engage the persistence of colonial tropes of Levantinism in what is now the North and the South of the Mediterranean.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4t31n9vc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Hala", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Halim", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-03-04T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-03-04T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41019/galley/30694/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41005, "title": "Legal Status of Jewish Converts to Christianity in Southern Italy and Provence", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The presence of large numbers of unassimilated Jewish converts to Christianity in southern Italy and southern France in the later Middle Ages led to the creation of a legal anomaly as the \nneofiti\n (the New Christians) came to be regarded as a legal entity. At first, there was no special designation for this group, but in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries some official documents from southern Italy mention the term \nuniversitas neophitorum\n. \nUniversitas\n, in the terminology of medieval legists from the twelfth century onwards, usually designated a group of people having juridical existence, and it was also used to denote “collectivity.” \nUniversitas neophitorum\n can therefore be understood to refer to a group of converts forming a legal body. The present article supposes a causal link between mass-conversions, the ensuing doubts as to the sincerity of conversion, and the relegation of new converts and their descendants to the status of an unassimilated minority group regarded as a legal entity. Another common factor to be considered is the Angevin dynasty, who ruled Naples from the second half of the thirteenth century until the early fifteenth century as well as Provence in this period of time. Possibly, a tradition of adherence to Roman law played a role in the adoption of a legal concept to be acted upon instead of the exercise of other forms of discrimination against former Jews (such as was the case in the Iberian peninsula).", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/91z342hv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nadia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zeldes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Institute for Jewish Studies", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-01T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-01T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41005/galley/30680/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 40991, "title": "L’Italia, è ancora un paese mediterraneo?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The title of this essay may seem provocative, but in light of recent developments in Italian history, it is a legitimate question to ask. Italy has changed. Italy’s own sense of \nmediterraneità\n – and other people’s understanding of this identity – as well as the representations of memory and politics of and in the Mediterranean, beg further discussion. In an Italy increasingly defined by mass culture and a mass media that focuses on “cultural conflicts” and the “culture of fear,” discourses hinging on economic competition, production, profit, and neo-liberal victories, have increasingly obfuscated real and profound problems. This essay discusses how recent socio-economic, cultural, political and racial discourses have pushed Italy towards a place in which the original idea of \nmediterraneità\n no longer seems to have any value. Therefore the question remains: can this term be redeemed?", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "A Critical Map of Italy in the Mediterranean - Defining the terms", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99r9m42v", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Toni", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Maraini", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40991/galley/30666/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41049, "title": "L'ombra del padre. Il caso Calvino", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The life and experiences of Italo Calvino's family in exotic places -first in Mexico, then in Cuba - has been widely discussed among Calvino scholars, and the general public. Calvino - who was born in Cuba, and lived on the island the first six years of his life, considered with care his roots in such places, and decided to celebrate his wedding with Esther Singer in Cuba. He also set some important short stories in Mexico.\n\n\nThe general notion about Calvino's father Mario's plan of moving from Italy to South America, has also been discussed by scholars - and by Italo Calvino himself, who when writing about his father wrote of Mario's strong desire for a new life, and his desire to know more of the world and its different cultures. He attributed these desires to his strong socialist beliefs.\n\n\nIn fact, a very singular event caused Mario Calvino's sudden departure from Italy. He had been framed in a complicated, unclear plot to kill the Russian Czar Nicolas II. It is a story that has never been explained in full detail; a story that Italo Calvino himself chose to forget.\n\n\nThis short article and attached documentation recount step by step the plot and its consequences (especially on Calvino's family), presenting and analyzing the official documents prepared on the case by the Italian Police, the Diplomatic Body, and other agencies.\n\n\nA letter Italo Calvino sent in 1973 to an Italian scholar shows that he was aware of the obscure plot involving his father. This article seeks to understand when, and how Italo Calvino had been informed of the story, how the story affected the image he had of his father, the representation of father figures in his own creative works ( \nIl Barone rampante\n), and his writing about his father (\nLa Strada di San Giovanni\n).", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Italian Language and Literature" } ], "section": "Texts and Previews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8qm3b0q3", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Stefano", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Adami", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Università per Stranieri di Siena.", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-12T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2008-09-12T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41049/galley/30724/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41002, "title": "Mapping Metageographies: The Cartographic Invention of Italy and the Mediterranean", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This article discusses the emergence of Italy as a discrete object in the Mediterranean in the history of Western cartography. In particular, it focuses on different coexisting Renaissance mapping traditions that rested on two opposed spatial understandings and experiences of the basin: on the one hand, as a functional region and a sequence of interconnected places grounded in an older Ancient and Medieval tradition of itineraries, \nmappae mundi\n and portolan charts; on the other, as a compact geographical area defined by forms and dimensions (through Ptolemaic chorographic mapping). These two different spatial understandings persist in contemporary debates about the nature of the Mediterranean region. The latter can be likened to the “great Mediterranean body,” or formal organic unit conceived by Braudel. The former is a vision “from the sea” in line with the “functional” approach recently proposed by Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, who portray the Mediterranean as a space made of coastal flows and connectivities between “microregions.”", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6g23b4fs", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Veronica", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "della Dora", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Bristol", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-10-09T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2008-10-09T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41002/galley/30677/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41029, "title": "Mediterranean Passages: Abjection and Belonging in Contemporary Italian Cinema", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Due to the confluence of economic and geopolitical circumstances, in the early 1990s Italy became a destination or transit point for large numbers of asylum seekers, refugees, and other aspiring immigrants who found their way to Italian shores aboard fishing trawlers, rafts, speedboats, or rusty cargo ships. Reversing the country's status as an emigrant nation, this phenomenon rapidly changed the demographic face of Italy and drew attention to the porousness of its maritime boundary. Although most immigrants no longer arrive by sea, images of Italy's \"boat people\" have attained iconic status in the national imaginary, lending to the ongoing representation of Italian immigration a distinctly \"Mediterranean\" valence. This essay explores a cluster of films made in Italy over the past eighteen years, films that feature images of illicit maritime migration and clandestine disembarkation. In contrast to the xenophobic tone that has often characterized the representation of immigrants in Italy's mass media, most of these films adopt an ostensibly sympathetic perspective on migration. Yet, at the same time, they resonate obliquely with older patterns of prejudice, including the traditionally negative attitudes expressed toward Italians of the South. Though conjuring up narratives of survival or redemption, emphasizing the humanity of the foreigner/immigrant, and allowing the protagonists to be heard in unfamiliar languages, the films that constitute Italy’s emerging cinema of migration reveal unresolved anxieties about the boundaries of the Italian body politic in relation to its internal and external others.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italian Cinema About and Across the Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qh5d59c", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Aine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "O'Healy", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Loyola Marymount University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-09T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-09T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41029/galley/30704/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41007, "title": "Mediterranean Pathways: Exotic Flora, Fauna and Food in Renaissance Ferrara", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Noble courts in Renaissance Italy demonstrated their status, in part, through the collection of exotic foods and animals. The greater the distance and expense of such items, the higher the status of the princely court. The Este rulers of sixteenth-century Ferrara mounted costly banquets in which luxury spices enlivened the dishes and confirmed the family’s high status among Italian principalities. Water buffaloes and rice both arrived at court via Mediterranean waters in the late fifteenth century, the former as a producer of cheese for the two most famous duchesses, Eleonora d’Aragona and Lucrezia Borgia, while the latter soon lost its status as a rarity unless garnished with rare and expensive spices brought through the port of Venice. The very evanescence of such displays only enhanced their value as indices of princely status.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9b55518s", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Diane", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ghirardo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-11-17T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-11-17T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41007/galley/30682/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41038, "title": "Mediterranean Transformations: The Frontier Apulia and its Filmmakers after 1989", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The increased mobility in the Mediterranean area is strictly connected with the events of 1989. When Eastern Europe’s ideological borders were demolished, the Southern Italian region Apulia was relocated on the Mediterranean map, and from being on the periphery of the Adriatic, unexpectedly it came to occupy a new, centered place. This geographical repositioning inevitably turned Apulia into a free western frontier and an open shore for waves of migrants. This essay discusses the historical events, international political factors, and global economic interests that determined the new destiny of the region. Since the spirit of the frontier has always inspired writers and filmmakers, it was no accident that Italian directors have chosen Apulia as the set and setting for their new, human odysseys and modern heroes. In order to explain the reasons for the rich film production in Apulia, first, this essay presents the directors whose works contribute to the genre of films on migration and transit to and fro the different shores of the Mediterranean; and second, it analyzes a selection of films by Apulian directors portraying universal, human dramas through local, private stories.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Imagining the Mediterranean 2 - Survey Articles and Work in Progress", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/25b6v6rc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Flavia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Laviosa", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-01-30T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-01-30T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41038/galley/30713/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41020, "title": "Migrant Identities from the Mediterranean: A Southern Italian vista", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This article is based on “Communicating Migration,” a collective research project that is part of a wider program seeking to promote the economic and cultural revitalization of five townships in the Matese, a mountainous area northeast of Naples. The project has explored the phenomenon of migration in two of the localities involved, Gallo Matese and Letino, from a historical, geographical, and cultural point of view. Since the 1950s, these two villages have experienced substantial flows of emigration, leading to a subsequent crisis in the local, traditional economy and the abandonment of their town centers. The article traces the key concepts elaborated in the research, such as that of the archive, the relation between migration and memory, and the articulations of tradition and transformation generated by modernity and technology. The methodological background is drawn from an interdisciplinary formation, uniting anthropology, architecture, and philosophy, alongside artistic and literary expressions, all coming together in a critical cluster. The “southern question” and the centrality of emigration to the question is observed in some literary and dramatic texts, together with reference to Gramsci’s work on subalternity. As a site of emigration, and in more recent times also of immigration, the South of Italy, the south of the modern world, becomes part of a series of mobile landscapes interweaving with the Mediterranean. The shifting meanings of migration that make existing archival material problematic (Foucault, Bauman) become a pivotal part of my narration of migration in videos, music, guided and unguided interviews, territorial analyses, and digital interaction.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/95p283gd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lidia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Curti", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-04T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-04T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41020/galley/30695/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41003, "title": "Penelopi in viaggio ‘fuori rotta’ nel \nDecameron\n e altrove. ‘Metamorfosi’ e scambi nel Mediterraneo medievale", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Travel literature is abundant in the 14th century, and several literary works narrate a journey into the Mediterranean Sea: many are the stories of men traveling into those waters, but a few feature female protagonists. The intervention of this essay is twofold. First, on the basis of Fernand Braudel’s definition of the Mediterranean as a “sea-movement” it explores the role of the Mediterranean in \nThe Decameron\n by Boccaccio and “elsewhere,” especially Boccaccio’s own \nFilocolo\n, Piero da Siena’s \nBella Camilla, Le Roman de Floriant et de Florete\n and other stories featuring women navigating in the Mediterranean in 14th century literary works. Second, it establishes who the women traveling in those waters are by asking why they travel and whether or not they themselves chose to travel. Above all, it examines the consequences of their travels on their lives. From here we arrive at the ironic title of this essay: “Mediterranean Metamorphosis.” When we wonder to what extent women have or have not been modified by their travels in the Mediterranean (the same body of water that men were constantly crossing), that sea changes from a “sea-in-movement” to a “sea-crystallized.” Women travel, leave home and return exactly as they were when they left, possibly because theirs was mostly a journey they had not chosen to make. Thus we arrive at the second part of the title, “Traveling Penelopes”: the situation of women traveling in the Mediterranean in \nThe Decameron\n and “elsewhere” encompasses an illumination of a French manuscript of Boccaccio’s \nDe Casibus\n, where Penelope is seen calm and smiling, working her spindle while her suitors are behind her killing each other. Therefore, most women travel in the Mediterranean paradoxically in a dimension of total immobility; no modification from who they are at their departure is foreseen. For the Mediterranean to be a “social space” or “a place of exchange and sharing”, a woman must be disguised as a man, like Zinevra and Camilla, or, like the Christian Gostanza from Lipari (\nDecameron V\n, 4). The Mediterranean in the 14th century is a dangerous place for women who have not chosen to travel in those waters, and remains a “social space” for men only.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Italian Language and Literature" } ], "section": "Italy in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nd68932", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Roberta", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Morosini", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-01-27T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-01-27T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41003/galley/30678/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 40994, "title": "Pensiero verticale: negazione della mediterraneità e radicamento terrestere in Vincenzo Cuoco", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Rediscovered in fascist Italy, when Cuoco’s epistolary novel was read in a nationalist and anti-Jacobenean key, or even as the allegorical anticipation of Mussolini’s Italian imperialism, \nPlato in Italy\n is today regarded as a minor literary work to be quickly forgotten and archived as the pathological allegory of all the evils of Italian nationalism. By focusing on the figure of the Mediterranean, the reading proposed by this essay aims at re-reading \nPlato in Italy\n in a figural, rather than allegorical, way: its goal is to question canonical interpretations of the novel by restituting Cuoco’s nationalism to its radically anti-authoritarian logics.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Continental Philosophy" }, { "word": "Esthetics" }, { "word": "Italian Literature" } ], "section": "A Critical Map of Italy in the Mediterranean - Defining the terms", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jd2f55z", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Roberto", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dainotto", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Duke University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-22T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-22T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40994/galley/30669/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 40992, "title": "Predrag Matvejević’s \nMediterranean Breviary\n: Nostalgia for an “Ex-World” or Breviary for a New Community?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In recent years, the declining importance of the nation-state and an increase in globalization have encouraged scholars to move towards the borderless world of seas and oceans, giving special attention to their diasporic movements of people and goods. Lately, this “new thalassology” has witnessed an outburst of Mediterranean studies. Yet the resurgence of the Mediterranean in the postmodern, anti-nationalistic arena must be critically assessed. The risk in such studies is a reinforcing of old stereotypes, what the anthropologist Michael Herzfeld calls “Mediterraneism.” The present article highlights the work of two scholars and one writer who alert us to the manifold dangers of Mediterraneism and who offer standpoints for launching a serious interrogation of Mediterraneism. Roberto Dainotto points to the asymmetries couched in the alluring metaphors of liquidity and flows. Iain Chambers views the Mediterranean as a space of solid borders that entail the production and consumption of the immigrant as outcast. The writer Predrag Matvejević shows how Mediterranean identity cannot be understood as an all-encompassing unity, but as a \nsatura\n, a discrete ensemble made up of differences and conflicts. By constructing a metonymical network of landscapes, things and crafts, and relying on the philological excavation of everyday words, his \nMediterranean Breviary\n succeeds in asserting a humble communal identity against the clamor of wars and the retracing of borders.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "A Critical Map of Italy in the Mediterranean - Defining the terms", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qs4x1v0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Anna", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Botta", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Smith College", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-01-26T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-01-26T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40992/galley/30667/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41047, "title": "Rituals of Charity and Abundance: Sicilian St. Joseph's Tables and Feeding the Poor in Los Angeles", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This essay explores the mid-Lenten \nTavola di San Giuseppe\n (St. Joseph’s Table) in Los Angeles, situates this tradition within its historical and geographic cultural contexts, and seeks to interpret its various meanings. The custom of preparing food altars or tables in honor of St. Joseph is an expression of Southern Italian (conspicuously Sicilian) folk religion, which had at its core, on the one hand, a propitiatory sharing of abundance (as a rite of spring), the cultural exorcism of hunger, and on the other, within its Italian Christian matrix, an affirmation of the patriarchal family and an intertwining practice of hospitality and caritas. In its diaspora manifestations, the tables are a symbolic representation of the migration narrative itself (transposed in the Josephine dramatization of the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt), along with an immigrant success codicil. This essay reconstructs the cartographies and stratified meanings of this food ritual in Los Angeles, largely employing the methodologies of oral historical and ethnographic research, but, as this narrative moves into the twenty-first century, it also considers the Sicilian-American tradition as it confronts further demographic shifts, diverse recontextualizations, and extends the analysis to encompass contemporary initiatives of inter-ethnic understanding and social advocacy. While building on previous writings and their analysis of abundance and gastronomic utopias, food practices among Italian immigrants, and the capital role played by food in Italian cultural identity, this essay on food altars and communal rituals of charity also seeks to integrate a newly embraced “ethnography of compassion” that bridges academic discourse and social engagement.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Critical Essays and Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/56h4b2s2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Luisa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Del Giudice", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-02-26T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-02-26T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41047/galley/30722/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41010, "title": "Routes to Modernity: Orientalism and Mediterraneanism in Italian Culture, 1810-1910", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This essay examines the way in which the cultural areas of “the Mediterranean” and “the Orient” interacted as geographical tropes in Italian discourses of modernity between romanticism and futurism. It argues that this relationship dates back to the emergence of a northern European romantic “Oriental Renaissance,” critical of the Italian Renaissance. The Oriental Renaissance proposed to move beyond the Mediterranean and towards the Orient and India in search of the roots of European civilization. This article explores the Italian response, which involved at first a revival of classicism within Italian academic orientalism and then a rehabilitation of the Mediterranean as the source of European civilization within anthropological mediterraneanism. It then goes on to explore how some of the anti-classicist and romantic tenets of the Oriental Renaissance were finally embraced by futurism through yet new orientalist and mediterraneanist narratives. The essay concludes that the discourses of orientalism and mediterraneanism in Italy created multiple notions of “the Mediterranean” and “the Orient” which interacted with classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, and that produced “routes” to an Italian modernity.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/920809th", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Fabrizio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "De Donno", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of London - Royal Holloway and Bedford New College", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-01-05T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-01-05T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41010/galley/30685/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41031, "title": "Strade, Muri, Terra, Città, Mare. Sud Italia e mediterraneità postmoderna nel cinema inizio secolo", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The spaces of the city and its periphery have always been central themes in cinema. From its origins, throughout the silent era (Lumière, Ruttman, Vertov, Murnau, Vidor, etc.), and with the advent of sound, and the establishment of cinematic genres, the city remained a central subject, which the spectator followed throughout the course of the 20th century. In a certain sense, audiences watched cities grow and transform before them on the film screen. Italian cinema was no different. It had chosen the city as its semantic and iconic space, explicitly, at least, from \nRoma città aperta\n (1945). The question now, in the 3rd millennium becomes: How are the neometropoli and neoperipheries of Southern Italy, poised between Mediterranean modernity and post modernity, reflected in contemporary Italian cinema? This article focuses on three cities (and their provinces and peripheries) of this new South: Napoli, Bari and Palermo, examining the poetics of directors that straddle two generations of Italian filmmaking (Beppe Cino, Sergio Rubini), alongside members of the new wave (Matteo Garrone, Alessandro Piva, Andrea and Antonio Frazzi, Franco Capuano). The films that are examined at length are: \nMio cognato\n (A. Piva); \nCerti Bambini\n (A. and A. Frazzi), \nLa terra\n (S. Rubini), \nLa guerra di Mario\n (A. Capuano), \nGomorra\n (M. Garrone). This critical interdisciplinary work (between sociology and cinema) follows the development of a general theme, that of the new \nmediterraneità\n or \nmeridianità\n (F. Cassano). At the connotative level, throughout the new Italian cinema of “the South” there is also an internal aesthetic of a new, neorealism. This article traces certain recurring themes— streets, walls, land and sea— that are often represented as complementary to, or in opposition to the city. And despite whether these films propose, at the level of conspiracy or plot, two opposing endings (happy and sad), between faith (\nMiracolo a Palermo, La terra\n) and resignation (\nMio cognato, Certi Bambini, Gomorra\n), it seems that the search for a new \nmediternaneità\n underscores every narrative, demonstrating the need to weave a sense of \nmeridianità\n (indigenous or foreign) that is open to mediation and negotiation.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italian Cinema About and Across the Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7zf7j73q", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Eusebio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ciccotti", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Roma 3", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-03-03T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-03-03T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41031/galley/30706/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41024, "title": "The Corrupting Sea, Technology and Devalued Life in Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In much that is written about Sergio Leone’s “spaghetti westerns” – that genre of Italian cinema characterized by hyper-violence or cartoon-like formal properties or both – most critics invoke an Italian cultural rubric for deciding the films’ ultimate meaning. From the earliest critical readings of the “spaghetti western” that focused on Leone’s films as derived, cut-out copies of the mythic American westerns of Ford, Hawks, and Anthony Mann to the more recent attempts to locate Leone’s cinema within a more encompassing framework of native Italian visual tropes, Italian culture remains the final arbiter of acceptable interpretations. In the following essay, I take issue with that view by arguing for another perspective on Leone’s cinema, especially with regard to his first two westerns, \nFistful of Dollars\n and \nFor a Few Dollars More\n. I do so by associating the conflict and violent acquisition of power depicted in the films with a semantic chain that needs to be thought through a notion of the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean functions as a kind of unconscious in Leone’s cinema, one that operates both visually and diegetically. The visual impact is made most clear in the barren mise-en-scene of these films, shot in southern Spain, which offers a dramatic counterpoint to the monumentality of the American Western. Diegetically, the Mediterranean figures in the ultimate dénouement of these films: the destruction of towns and the lives that inhabit them. This destruction is linked to the centrality of technology in Leone’s oeuvre, which, when inserted into a depoliticized setting such as the Mediterranean, leads to a radical discounting of life. Thus the Mediterranean appears in my reading of Leone not simply as hybridity or as “common inheritance” of all mankind as some would have it, but rather as fundamentally destabilizing for all political order.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italian Cinema About and Across the Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/22t992pn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Timothy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Campbell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Cornell University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-16T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41024/galley/30699/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41000, "title": "The Embarrassment of Libya. History, Memory, and Politics in Contemporary Italy", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The past weighs on the present. This same past, however, can also constitute an opportunity for the future. If adequately acknowledged, the past can inspire positive action. This is the maxim that we can draw from the history of Italy in the Mediterranean and, in particular, the history of Italy's relationship with Libya. Even the most recent “friendship and cooperation agreement” between Italy and Libya, signed August 30, 2008 by Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and Libyan leader Mohamar Gadhafi, affirms this. Italy’s colonial past in Libya has remained a source of political tensions between the two nations for the past forty years. Now, the question arises: will the acknowledgment of this past finally help to reconcile the two countries?", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "A Critical Map of Italy in the Mediterranean - Defining the terms", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9z63v86n", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nicola", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Labanca", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universita degli Studi di Siena", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-27T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2008-09-27T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41000/galley/30675/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41001, "title": "The Italian Renaissance in the Mediterranean, or, Between East and West. A Review Article", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This essay considers trends in recent scholarship on the medieval and early modern Mediterranean, assessing how individual monographs and essays relate to the field as a whole. Recent works with an Italian focus have engaged with the major themes of Mediterranean encounter: merchant culture and commercial exchange, crusade, pilgrimage, and shared sacred geographies. This tendency is particularly prominent in the “high culture” fields — art and architectural history, literary history, the intellectual culture of humanism, political and diplomatic endeavors — that have traditionally been framed in the context of the Italian Renaissance. The idea emerging from the integration of the high culture of the Italian Renaissance into a larger history of cultural exchange is that the Renaissance owed a great deal to the exchanges between East and West. Furthermore, the impact of this exchange cannot simply be measured by finding the products and ideas that the West took from the East, or vice versa, but is found in the deliberate and creative assimilation of diverse traditions that led to the cultural dynamism of late medieval and early modern Italy.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1zv8s58x", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Monique", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "O'Connell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Wake Forest University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-30T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-30T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41001/galley/30676/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41017, "title": "The Light and the Line: Florestano Di Fausto and the Politics of \n'Mediterraneità'", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The prodigious works of Roman architect Florestano Di Fausto have long been overlooked by historians of modern architecture. As a technical consultant to the Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Di Fausto designed and constructed numerous Italian diplomatic offices throughout Eastern and Western Europe, South America, and the Near East. But he is most recognized for his colonial urban planning schemes and government buildings from 1923 until 1940 in North Africa and the Aegean. His works in these divergent locales conferred an eclectic sensibility to an already complex negotiation of ancient and “modern” architectural forms present in Italy’s colony of Libya as well as in the Dodecanese Islands. Furthermore, the range of projects Di Fausto completed in both settings attests to Italian modernism’s engagement with arabisances in the reworking of colonial architecture and urbanism. His designs must be seen as a counterpoint to other European modernists of the period who sought to remove any lingering symbols of the past from their plans, façades, and interiors. This article situates Florestano Di Fausto’s output within the aesthetic and socio-political discussions among Italian architects of the period, especially concerning an inherent \nitalianità\n among Mediterranean vernacular architectures. In this regard, the Mediterranean is understood not as a space of resistance but as a filter through which architects like Di Fausto and others generated a new Italian architecture, free from the often restrictive tendencies found on the peninsula.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hm1p6m5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sean", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Anderson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "American University of Sharjah", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-04T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-04T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41017/galley/30692/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41036, "title": "The Mediterranean Comes to Ellis Island: The Southern Question in the New World", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Between 1890 and 1915, approximately four million Italians emigrated to the United States. The categories of the \"Mediterranean\" and the \"South\" played an important role in the way this immigrant population (the largest in the United States) was imagined, represented, and administered. These categories (among others) informed both scholarly discourse and public discussion of the \"new\" immigration and of the place of Italians and of other Southern European peoples in American society.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Imagining the Mediterranean 2 - Survey Articles and Work in Progress", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53c1v1vc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nelson", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Moe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Barnard College, Columbia University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-04-27T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-04-27T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41036/galley/30711/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41028, "title": "The Return of the \nBattle of Algiers\n in Mediterranean Shadows: Race, Resistance and Victimization", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In late summer 2003, when resistance to the American occupation in Iraq acquired the profile of a war of guerilla insurgency through increased bombings and acts of sabotage, the office of Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict at the Pentagon designed and distributed e-mail flyers for those involved in “wot,” or the war on terror. The email with the cautionary heading, “How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas,” was an invitation to a special screening of the 1966 masterpiece film, \nThe Battle of Algiers\n, by the Italian Marxist director, Gillo Pontecorvo. The U.S. government was not the only party interested in Pontecorvo’s classic, although it undoubtedly contributed in great measure to popular interest. The understandable paradox of such identifications remains that the film is largely known as a leftist film, particularly as a new-leftist film of the 1960s and that decade of anti-colonial struggle. Associated with Algeria’s independence, the Cuban revolution, Vietnam, the Black Panthers’ resistance movement, and, more recently, with the training of troops in Northern Ireland in their struggle with the British, Pontecorvo’s film has become the emblem of anti-colonial struggle and leftist leaning politics. Viewed as a pedagogical tool for understanding analogous conflicts in Iraq after September 11th, the film broadened its earlier spectator base to include those political groups not readily identified with either leftist or anti-colonial sentiment. This article explores the nature of those cinematic identifications. It examines how, specifically, in reportage surrounding the new release of the film, the turn to discourses of racial identification as a tactic of recognizance and surveillance was popular. Many of the critical commentaries published after September 11th in the wake of the film’s newfound popularity, even when critical of the Pentagon’s use of the film in its war on Iraq, evoked discourses rooted in an Orientalist tradition, referencing notions of a history of pan-Arab terrorism in opposition to the West and conjuring “Arabness” as a quasi racial category.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italian Cinema About and Across the Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nf4v01j", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "O'Riley", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Ohio State University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-17T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-17T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41028/galley/30703/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41037, "title": "The Treaty of Friendship, Partnership and Cooperation between Libya and Italy: From an Awkward Past to a Promising Equal Partnership", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Italian-Libyan international relations entered a new era when the two countries signed the Treaty on Friendship, Partnership, and Cooperation on August 30, 2008. The treaty allowed Italy to extend its interests into the southern basin of the Mediterranean in order to balance Atlanticism and Europeanism in the region. The treaty enabled Libya also to create a partnership with a northern ally that was until recently described as an adversary. In politics, however, there is no such thing as permanent enemies or absolute friends. This study focuses on Italian-Libyan international relations within the framework of the Treaty on Friendship, Partnership and Cooperation; and subsequently, a content analysis of the treaty's text reveals that political, economic, and cultural aspects represent new dimensions in the contemporary bilateral relationship. The convergence of national interests and the impact of globalization, among other elements, are among the crucial factors that prompted this new era of partnership between Italy and Libya. The treaty represents a new model of international relations between a northern ex-colonist country and a southern ex-colonized state. In time, from this example, relations between northern ex-colonists and southern ex-colonized states are expected to witness major changes that might lead to the establishment of equal partnerships and not just dependent relationships.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Imagining the Mediterranean 2 - Survey Articles and Work in Progress", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4f28h7wg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mustafa", "middle_name": "Abdalla A.", "last_name": "Kashiem", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Al-Fateh University, Tripoli - Libya", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-10-14T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-10-14T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41037/galley/30712/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41022, "title": "Tonnare\n in Italy: Science, History and Culture of Sardinian Tuna Fishing", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Through a case study of a Sardinian \ntonnara\n, this article provides an interdisciplinary look at the science, culture, and history of fishing in the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean Sea and the crystalline waters of Sardinia, in particular, are currently confronting a paradox of marine preservation. On the one hand, Italian coastal resources are prized nationally and internationally for their natural beauty as well as economic and recreational uses. On the other hand, deep-seated Italian cultural values and traditions, such as the desire for high-quality fresh fish in local cuisines and the continuity of ancient fishing communities, as well as the demands of tourist and real-estate industries, are contributing to the destruction of marine ecosystems. The synthesis presented here offers a unique perspective combining historical, scientific, and cultural factors important to one Sardinian \ntonnara\n in the context of a larger global debate about Atlantic bluefin tuna conservation.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2nm2b772", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Katherine", "middle_name": "B", "last_name": "Emery", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Santa Barbara", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-02-09T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-02-09T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41022/galley/30697/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41044, "title": "Transnational Multimedia: Fortunato Depero’s Impressions of New York City (1928-1930)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This essay looks at the experimentation done by the Italian futurist Fortunato Depero during his short stay in New York City (1928-1930) and shows how Depero, as a foreigner, experienced the capital of the twentieth century during its making, capturing crucial elements – immigration and plurilingualism, fashion and transnational commerce, the incessant construction of skyscrapers, billboard advertising and cinema, the music hall and its theatrical and delirious scenography. A close, selective reading of Depero’s unfinished project \nNew York–Film Vissuto\n, shows Depero’s avant-gardist take on this experience and fosters connections and comparisons with other international modernist actors who experienced or lived in the city (Le Corbusier, Frederich Kiesler, Léonide Massine, and Katherine Drier). Depero was in New York during the Great Depression as well as a time when an incredible energy was just starting to crystallize in art, architecture, film, music, and literature. Depero translates bits of experience into different media, creating a maze of artifacts (painting, advertising, poetry, and prose) that, on one hand, communicate among themselves and, on the other hand, show the Babel-like confusion among the different media. Once back in Italy, Depero announced his intention to produce the book \nNew York–Film Vissuto\n to be accompanied by a phonograph disc. It wasn’t produced; instead Depero, in tune with Futurist radio poetry, edited \nLiriche Radiofoniche\n: spare lyrics blending with fleeting and cosmopolitan aspects of the New York cityscape, others apparently glorifying Fascism, and some embedded with sounds and visions of nature. This last group of lyrics bears traces of the natural mountainscape, close to Rovereto, to which Depero returned to live and work. A reading of Depero’s artifacts shows the shock effect at play between earlier avant-garde gestures and the political and capitalistic complex with which he was confronted. Between these poles, and in a very specific moment, Depero plays with wit, capturing, yet displacing and interrupting, the spectacle of the city.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Critical Essays and Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7ff9j31s", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Laura", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chiesa", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University at Buffalo", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-11-10T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-11-10T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41044/galley/30719/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41014, "title": "Tunisia, Contested: Italian Nationalism, French Imperial Rule, and Migration in the Mediterranean Basin.", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This article explores the contradictions in Italy’s relationship with the Mediterranean basin, taking Tunisia as a focal point. Tunisia was a paradoxical case at the intersection of Italy’s foreign policy: it was a former Roman imperial colony with a strategic location, but it also possessed a large and vibrant Italian emigrant settlement, like the Italian “colonies” of Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo, New York, and San Francisco. This situation caused much confusion in debates over how Italy should develop its international influence. Faced with a choice of priorities, the Italians of Tunisia called for Italy to concentrate on establishing territorial colonies in the Mediterranean, rather than cultivating Italian emigration worldwide. In 1881, France surprised Italy by seizing control of Tunisia, skewing Italian policy and fomenting a sense of weakness and insecurity. Italy’s “loss” of Tunisia encouraged the belief that Italian imperial motives were more deserving and more sincere, and Nationalists used the wealthy and successful Italian community of Tunisia as a model of what Italians would be able to achieve in neighboring Libya. Fascist representations of Italians in Tunisia, however, finally discredited the Italian expatriates’ claims to rights and representation under French colonial rule. This case study thus illustrates how Mediterranean Europe and North Africa became enmeshed in multiple layers of competition and integration through trends in colonialism, migration, and the formation of transnational communities.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Italian Language and Literature" } ], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8k97g1nc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mark", "middle_name": "I", "last_name": "Choate", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Brigham Young University - Utah", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-19T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-19T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41014/galley/30689/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41012, "title": "Verdi’s \nAida\n across the Mediterranean (and beyond)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This essay considers Giuseppe Verdi’s opera \nAida\n and the context of its production and reception on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea. It starts from Edward Said’s insightful discussion in \nCulture and Imperialism\n describing Verdi’s work as pivotal to an understanding of both cultural and economic relationships between Europe and Egypt. Yet, this essay also counterpoints Said’s reading, taking into consideration \nAida’s\n role in the construction of both an Italian and “European” cultural identity inside and outside Europe, as opera was “exported” to the colonies, allowing colonial elites to recreate a “European” atmosphere at the heart of such burgeoning metropolises as Cairo or New York. In this context, the multifarious incarnations of \nAida\n featured in the essay open operatic representation to the contested space of the Mediterranean and, more widely, to voices from the margins of European modernity. First, accounts of the reception of \nAida\n show an osmosis between European and Egyptian cultural productions; second, \nAida’s\n representation of Italy’s future colony, Ethiopia, conflicts with the opera’s own endorsement of the Ethiopians’ fight for freedom; and third, the heroine’s black skin troubles the representation of the racial Other in an opera that is not ostensibly about the protagonist’s race. Following these apparently diverging aural routes, this essay identifies \nAida\n as one of the master narratives for the elaboration of racial issues both in Italy and beyond and explores its potential to subvert given representations of ethnicity and gender through performance.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Italian Language and Literature" }, { "word": "music" } ], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tj7h4wv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Serena", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Guarracino", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Naples \"L'Orientale\"", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-11T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-11T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41012/galley/30687/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41023, "title": "Waste Growth Challenges Local Democracy. The Politics of Waste between Europe and the Mediterranean: a Focus on Italy", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This article investigates the politics of waste from an Italian perspective as part of a European and Mediterranean space. Waste is a contested field where several ideas, interests and governance patterns have been producing different management models and, despite the European Union’s harmonization targets, “waste wars” continue. The division of North and South is often explained by the “Mediterranean Syndrome,” but the article challenges the view of South European countries as environmental laggards with weak environmentalist movements. Differences among countries are strong – Camorra’s waste traffic is an emblematic case – but the political spacing is more complex and requires a trans-scalar view. Historical legacies and geographical sets must be taken into account too. The modernization process however is dynamic, and three shifts have been detected as groups articulate more participatory governance of waste management.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Italy in the Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53v28242", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alessandro", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mengozzi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Bologna", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-01-05T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-01-05T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41023/galley/30698/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41034, "title": "Watery Graves", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Written in the style of a seventeenth-century Jesuit sermon, “Watery Graves” (\n“Fluidi Feretri”\n in the original Italian) takes its title from a sonnet by Giacomo Lubrone, a distinguished Jesuit orator and poet of the period. The piece was inspired by the death of a group of young Senegalese who left Dakar or a nearby port for the Spanish Canary Islands on Christmas Eve in 2005. After drifting thousands of miles off course, the boat eventually ran aground off the Caribbean Island of Barbados. “Watery Graves” is an invective against the blindness of the wealthy and “developed” Western world that allows thousands to die in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the African deserts while claiming to safeguard the “European Fortress” against immigrants. As is typical of Baroque sermons, the text is also a pastiche, drawing on the Western literary tradition of maritime meditations from Coleridge to T.S. Eliot and Paul Valèry. The sermon was performed on stage at the Naples Theatre Festival in June 2008 with Massimo Popolizio in the role of narrator.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Imagining the Mediterranean 1 - Texts and Translations", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60k4w27j", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alessandro", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dal Lago", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Universita degli Studi di Genova", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-03-18T08:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-03-18T08:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41034/galley/30709/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 41046, "title": "Without Precedent: The Watts Towers", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This article begins by addressing the oft-asked but never answered question of why Sam Rodia built his Watts Towers — one of the most perplexing architectural structures of the twentieth century. It ends with the conclusion that the finality of such a work is a complex combination of factors that could not have been foreseen when the Italian immigrant set out on his thirty-three year endeavor in 1921: (a) the physical form of the towers themselves, with their agglutinative, rung-upon-rung structure, which were largely improvised, (b) the implicit hermeneutics of such a structure, considering the fact that its towering verticality stands ten meters away from railroad tracks upon which 100,000 commuters passed each week, watching this artist “perform” his work and questioning by proxy their own horizontal projects, (c) the almost fortuitous “discovery” of these towers after Rodia abandoned them in 1954 by intellectually motivated members of the University of Southern California community, who proceeded to save them from destruction at the hands of the city, (d) their close association with Watts and the sociopolitical impoverishment the neighborhood symbolized, even though this Watts was no longer the one Rodia inhabited, and (e) the analogy thus established between the art brut nature of this work by an indigent immigrant and the cultural space it occupied. The fortuitousness of so much of this is not only appropriate to the imponderable towers; it is fully what they are, at this point in time, and a great source of their fascination.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Critical Essays and Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3v06b8jt", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Harrison", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-05-02T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-05-02T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-17T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41046/galley/30721/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43785, "title": "Revisiting Clostridium Difficile Infection", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/98z913b4", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Pfeffer", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" }, { "first_name": "Ruby", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shandilya", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" }, { "first_name": "Jeffrey", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hsu", "name_suffix": "M.Eng.", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2010-02-03T20:52:04+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43785/galley/32590/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5213, "title": "A Methodological Review of Personality-Related Studies in Fish: Focus on the Shy-Bold Axis of Behavior", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Personality research has begun to take hold in the animal kingdom as psychologists turn to animal models to investigate various aspects of personality. Similarly, behavioral ecologists and related fields have begun to explore the idea that individual variation in behavior is more than just noise around an average for a given population or group of interest. As a result, many have begun to turn to personality-related questions to explain individual differences in animal behavior. Collectively, psychologists, ecologists and related fields have created a boom in animal personality-related research. This interest has expanded to a variety of fish species, with many studies focused on an important axis of behavior in humans: the shy-bold axis. Unfortunately, there has been very little consideration for the methodology employed. We review both the experimental and statistical methodology found in a body of research on fish species, for which personality-related research has been conducted. Our aim is to shed light on many important considerations that are often overlooked in order to facilitate research concerned with the reliability and validity of the many methods used.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology, Behavior, Behaviour, Communication, Vocalization, Comparative Psychology, Behavioral Taxonomy, Cognition, Cognitive Processes, Intelligence, Personal.." } ], "section": "Special Issue: Revisiting The Legacy of Stan Kuczaj", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/949413qt", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Christina", "middle_name": "N.", "last_name": "Toms", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Southern Mississippi", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Echevarria", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Southern Mississippi", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Jouandot", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Southern Mississippi", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-10T06:24:02+01:00", "date_accepted": "2013-11-10T06:24:02+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5213/galley/3093/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5214, "title": "A Y-maze Choice Task Fails to Detect Alcohol Avoidance or Alcohol Preference in Zebrafish", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The zebrafish has been proposed for the analysis of the neurobiological and behavioral effects of alcohol in vertebrates. Significant behavioral changes induced by acute alcohol treatment, adaptation to chronic alcohol exposure, and withdrawal induced behavioral responses have all been shown in zebrafish. Previously, a flow-through Y-maze paradigm was proposed to directly measure alcohol preference or avoidance in zebrafish without the need to train learning-based place preference. Here, we first demonstrate that this Y-maze paradigm is capable of quantifying preference for a positive stimulus (the sight of conspecifics) and also the avoidance of a negative stimulus, a noxious olfactory cue, denatonium benzoate. Second, we test whether naïve zebrafish avoid alcohol upon first encountering this substance, and whether fish chronically exposed to alcohol show preference, or acutely alcohol treated fish show signs of intoxication leading to random choice. Our results demonstrate that acute alcohol treated fish exhibit enhanced immobility and perform at chance but chronic alcohol treated fish are not intoxicated and swim as well as naïve fish, a finding compatible with the known intoxicating effect of acute alcohol and the adaptation expected after chronic alcohol exposure. However, despite the general feasibility of the task, neither alcohol preference, nor alcohol avoidance could be detected in any of our treatment groups. We discuss the possible reasons why differential alcohol vs. freshwater choice was not found in this task and propose follow up experiments.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology, Behavior, Behaviour, Communication, Vocalization, Comparative Psychology, Behavioral Taxonomy, Cognition, Cognitive Processes, Intelligence, Zebrafis.." } ], "section": "Special Issue: Revisiting The Legacy of Stan Kuczaj", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ff1970v", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Stephanie", "middle_name": "L.", "last_name": "Grella", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toronto", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Neeru", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kapur", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toronto", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Robert", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gerlai", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toronto", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-10T06:29:46+01:00", "date_accepted": "2013-11-10T06:29:46+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5214/galley/3094/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5216, "title": "Does Acute Alcohol Exposure Modulate Aggressive Behaviors in the Zebrafish (\nDanio rerio\n), or is the Bark Worse than the Bite?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Previous research reports that acute alcohol exposure disrupts shoaling behavior in the zebrafish. The purpose of these studies is to better understand how acute alcohol exposure (0%, 0.125%, 0.25%, 0.5%, and 1.0%) alters zebrafish behavior. The effects of alcohol on aggressive behaviors in humans have been widely researched. Previous research from this lab has shown a bimodal effect of alcohol on shoaling behavior in zebrafish, with 0.5% and 2.0% (v/v) disrupting shoaling while 1.0% and 1.5% showing no direct effect. Because shoaling is a social behavior and is altered during acute alcohol exposure, aggressive behavior between fish should be addressed. In this series of experiments we explored alcohol’s effects on aggressive behaviors. In order to address a possible role for alcohol induced aggression as it relates to shoaling we chose to examine the effects of acute alcohol exposure on zebrafish pairs. Fish were assessed during initial encounters occurring in our testing apparatus during acute alcohol exposure. Results show a change in biting as a function of all doses. Acute alcohol exposure (0.5%) also decreases overall occurrences of chasing and retreating but may increase the duration of each bout. Lastly in a separate experiment we looked at blood alcohol levels as a result of acute alcohol exposure.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology, Behavior, Behaviour, Communication, Vocalization, Comparative Psychology, Behavioral Taxonomy, Cognition, Cognitive Processes, Intelligence, Alcohol .." } ], "section": "Special Issue: Revisiting The Legacy of Stan Kuczaj", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2px3t3jc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Echevarria", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Southern Mississippi", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Catherine", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Hammack", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Southern Mississippi", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Jouandot", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Southern Mississippi", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Christina", "middle_name": "N.", "last_name": "Toms", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Southern Mississippi", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-11T16:00:01+01:00", "date_accepted": "2013-11-11T16:00:01+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5216/galley/3096/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 63559, "title": "Editors’ Note", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction to Volume 1, Issue 1.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Education" } ], "section": "Editors' Introduction", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4x08d4vx", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "BRE", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Editors", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University Of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/bre/article/63559/galley/48891/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5219, "title": "Genetic Analysis of the Touch Response in Zebrafish (\nDanio rerio\n)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Both mammals and zebrafish possess mechanosensory neurons that detect tactile sensation via free nerve endings. However, the basis for mechanotransduction and the unique cellular properties of these sensory neurons are poorly understood. We review the advantages of zebrafish for studies ofthe biological mechanisms involved in touch sensitivity. Importantly, Granato and colleagues (1996) demonstrated that a simple touch assay efficiently recovers mutations that affect sensory neurons.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Communication" }, { "word": "vocalization" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Intelligence" }, { "word": "Choice" }, { "word": "Language" }, { "word": "primates" }, { "word": "zebrafish" }, { "word": "Mechanosensory" }, { "word": "touch" } ], "section": "Special Issue: Revisiting The Legacy of Stan Kuczaj", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4wh9k7w6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Vanessa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Carmean", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Angeles", "middle_name": "B.", "last_name": "Ribera", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-11T16:25:59+01:00", "date_accepted": "2013-11-11T16:25:59+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5219/galley/3099/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 63563, "title": "Neighborhood Ethnic Density as an Explanation for the Academic Achievement of Ethnic Minority Youth Placed in Neighborhood Disadvantage", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The underachievement of ethnic minority youth from disadvantaged neighborhoods is a pervasive educational issue this nation is facing. Based on an ecological perspective, we examined the contextual effects of neighborhood ethnic density and neighborhood disadvantage on the academic achievement of Hmong immigrant youths. Utilizing hierarchical linear modeling techniques in analyzing 3,185 Hmong and White students (for comparisons) across 79 neighborhoods, we found when we controlled for student demographics, Hmong students in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods (high-crime and high-poverty) performed better academically than their ethnically identical peers in the more safe and affluent neighborhoods. Further, with student demographics held constant, Hmong adolescents in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods academically outperformed their White counterparts with the same neighborhood conditions. These intriguing findings resulted from ethnic density in that the predictor of the Hmong population percentage in each neighborhood appeared to absorb the significant effect of neighborhood types. Hmong students would be more likely to achieve highly when they were surrounded by more Hmong residents in their neighborhoods. The logic behind ethnic density functioning as a positive factor for Hmong students within neighborhoods high in disadvantage is discussed along with the implications of this finding for policy.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Neighborhood Ethnic Density" }, { "word": "Neighborhood Disadvantage" }, { "word": "Hmong Immigrant Youth" }, { "word": "Academic Achievement" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9bc8v1g6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Na'im", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Madyun", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Minnesota-Twin Cities", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Moosung", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hong Kong Institute of Education", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-09-01T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-09-01T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/bre/article/63563/galley/48895/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 63562, "title": "Race, Class, and Whiteness in Gifted and Talented Identification: A Case Study", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "What began fifteen years ago as a volunteer effort to promote desegregation via a gifted and talented magnet school has become a case study analyzing inequalities in the identification of young children for gifted and talented services. We use Cheryl Harris’ (1993) argument that “whiteness” is a form of property that creates and maintains inequalities through the conjoining of race and class. We show how gifted and talented status meets the criteria of white property interests and is defended by recourse to law and policy. Efforts to improve identification of students for gifted services reveal that the implicit operation of these Interests is an important reason why identification practices favoring white and middle-class children have been resistant to change. Dismantling underlying white property interests in gifted and talented identification is a necessary, though not sufficient step, toward a more just educational system.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Whiteness" }, { "word": "Gifted and Talented Identification" }, { "word": "Desegregation" }, { "word": "Property Rights" }, { "word": "Anthropology" }, { "word": "Economics" }, { "word": "Social and Cultural Anthropology" }, { "word": "Sociology" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/247908gb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kathleen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Barlow", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Elaine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dunbar", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-10-12T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-10-12T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/bre/article/63562/galley/48894/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 63561, "title": "Teacher Education for Social Justice: What's Pupil Learning Got to Do With It?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "There are many controversies related to the increasingly widespread theme of “social justice” in teacher education, including debates about whether and/or how promoting pupils’ learning is part of this theme. This article briefly discusses the concept of teacher education for social justice in terms of pupils’ learning and then considers this notion in terms of the current press to hold teacher education accountable for learning. The article then presents the results of the “Teacher Assessment/Pupil Learning” (TAPL) study, an analysis nested inside a larger qualitative study about learning to teach over time in a preparation program with a stated social justice agenda. The purpose of the TAPL analysis was to evaluate the outcomes of teacher education for social justice by assessing the intellectual quality of assessments created or used by teacher candidates during the student teaching period and also to assess the quality of their pupils’ responses to those assessments. The project used Newmann and Associates’ (1996) framework of “authentic intellectual work” and the scoring system that emerged from that framework because of their general consistency with the idea of social justice. Drawing on scored examples of teacher candidates’ assessments and pupils’ work samples, the article shows that many teacher candidates created cognitively complex and authentic learning opportunities for their pupils and that when pupils had more complex classroom assignments, they produced higher quality work. The article concludes that although it is complex, it is possible to construct teacher education assessments, such as the TAPL, that focus on pupil learning outcomes in ways that are consistent with social justice, especially preparation for a democratic society.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Teacher Education" }, { "word": "Social Justice" }, { "word": "Authentic Intellectual Work" }, { "word": "Pupil Learning" }, { "word": "Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research" }, { "word": "Higher Education and Teaching" }, { "word": "Other Teacher Education and Professional Development" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/35v7b2rv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Marilyn", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cochran-Smith", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Boston College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Ann Marie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gleeson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Boston College", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Kara", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mitchell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Boston College", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-11-30T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-11-30T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/bre/article/63561/galley/48893/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5218, "title": "The Behavioral and Pharmacological Actions of NMDA Receptor Antagonism are Conserved in Zebrafish Larvae", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Dizocilpine maleate (MK-801) is one of several NMDA receptor antagonists that is widely used to pharmacologically model the symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia in animals. MK-801 elicits behaviors in adult zebrafish (\nDanio rerio\n) that are phenotypically consistent with behaviors observed in humans and rodents exposed to the drug. However, the molecular and cellular processes that mediate the psychotomimetic, cognitive and locomotive behaviors of MK-801 are unclear. We exposed zebrafish larvae to MK-801 to assess their merit as a model organism to elucidate the behavioral effects of NMDA receptor blockade. Zebrafish larvae were acutely immersed in MK-801 to assess the effect on spontaneous swimming. MK-801 caused a time- and dose-dependent increase in larval swim speed, and the peak response (a five-fold increase in swim speed) was evoked by a three h exposure to a 20 uM dose. Zebrafish larvae did not exhibit sensitivity to the locomotor effectsof MK-801 until 5 dpf, suggesting a critical role for developmental in sensitivity to the drug. Exposure to the low potency NMDA antagonist, memantine, did not alter the swim speed of zebrafish larvae. Co-immersion in D 1 or D2 dopamine receptor antagonists did not disrupt the time course or magnitude of the increase in swim speed, suggesting dopaminergic signaling is not required for the locomotor actions of MK-801. Our findings of the behavioral actions of MK-801 in zebrafish larvae are consistent with previous observations in mammals and imply that the physiological, cellular and molecular processes disrupted by MK-801 are conserved in zebrafish larvae. These data suggest that the zebrafish larvae is a valid and useful model to elucidate neurobehavioral aspects of NMDA receptor antagonism and may provide insight to the neurobiology of psychosis and schizophrenia.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology, Behavior, Behaviour, Communication, Vocalization, Comparative Psychology, Behavioral Taxonomy, Cognition, Cognitive Processes, Intelligence, Zebrafis.." } ], "section": "Special Issue: Revisiting The Legacy of Stan Kuczaj", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vv5g7c6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Pomona College", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Roshni", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Patel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Pomona College", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Theodore", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "Friedman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kevin", "middle_name": "S.", "last_name": "Jones", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-11T16:16:49+01:00", "date_accepted": "2013-11-11T16:16:49+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5218/galley/3098/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5220, "title": "The Developing Utility of Zebrafish in Modeling Neurobehavioral Disorders", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The zebrafish (\nDanio rerio\n) is becoming increasingly popular in the field of neurobehavioral research, including experimental, genetic, and pharmacological models of human brain disorders. While zebrafish research is rapidly expanding, its application as a translational neurobehavioral model is still in its relative infancy. Therefore, further investigation of new models is needed for targeting more domains and new, more complex brain disorders. The main aim of this paper is to discuss recent developments in the field of zebrafish neurobehavioral research, and to outline important emerging topics for further studies.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Communication" }, { "word": "vocalization" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Intelligence" }, { "word": "Choice" }, { "word": "Language" }, { "word": "primates" }, { "word": "zebrafish" }, { "word": "Danio" }, { "word": "Chimpanzee" } ], "section": "Special Issue: Revisiting The Legacy of Stan Kuczaj", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hc254ds", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Adam", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Stewart", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Ferdous", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kadri", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "DiLeo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kyung", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Min Chung", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jonathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cachat", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jason", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Goodspeed", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Christopher", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Suciu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sudipta", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Roy", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Siddharth", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gaikwad", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Keith", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wong", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Marco", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Elegante", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Salem", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Elkhayat", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nadine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gilder", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tien", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Leah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Grossman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Julia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Ashley", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Denmark", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Brett", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bartels", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kevin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Frank", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Esther", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Beeson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Allan", "middle_name": "V.", "last_name": "Kalueff", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Tulane University Medical School", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-11T16:43:10+01:00", "date_accepted": "2013-11-11T16:43:10+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5220/galley/3100/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5217, "title": "The Influence of Sex and Phenotype on Shoaling Decisions in Zebrafish", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Fish typically choose shoalmates with similar phenotypic characteristics to themselves, thus creating shoals for which predators have difficulty identifying and attacking one specific individual. And while shoaling should provide similar anti-predator benefits to both males and females, the two sexes do not always make the same shoaling decisions. Here we explore the effect of phenotype on sex specificshoaling in three varieties of zebrafish (\nDanio rerio\n) and the closely related pearl danio (\nDanio albolineatus\n). We hypothesized that males and females of each type of zebrafish (wildtype, golden mutants and leopard mutants), as well as male and female pearl danios, would choose to shoal rather than be alone and, when given a choice of shoalmates, would shoal with fish of their own phenotype rather than dissimilar fish. As expected, our results show that most fish preferred to shoal rather than be alone. However, while both sexes of wildtype zebrafish responded identically to shoaling decisions, male and female mutant zebrafish and pearl danio fish differed in their response to such choices. When given a choice of shoalmates, wildtype zebrafish of both sexes showed no discrimination between different D. rerio strains, although they did choose to shoal with wild type conspecifics rather than pearl danios. The shoalmate preferences of the mutant zebrafish revealed that males showed no discrimination between shoals of their own variety and wildtype shoals, while mutant females preferred shoals of their own strain. Similarly, male pearl danios showed no discrimination between shoals of their own species and shoals of wildtype zebrafish, while pearl danio females preferred their own species. These results demonstrate the complex influence of sex and phenotype on shoaling behavior.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology, Behavior, Behaviour, Communication, Vocalization, Comparative Psychology, Behavioral Taxonomy, Cognition, Cognitive Processes, Intelligence, Zebrafis.." } ], "section": "Special Issue: Revisiting The Legacy of Stan Kuczaj", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8n68z3pf", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jennifer", "middle_name": "L.", "last_name": "Snekser", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Lehigh University", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ruhl", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Ohio University", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kristoffer", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bauer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Saint Joseph’s University", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Scott", "middle_name": "P.", "last_name": "McRobert", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Saint Joseph’s University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-11T16:09:01+01:00", "date_accepted": "2013-11-11T16:09:01+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5217/galley/3097/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 63560, "title": "The Postcolonial Ghetto: Seeing Her Shape and His Hand", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This article maps the ghostly outlines of urban postcolonial subjectivities by hinging together several moving parts/frontiers: connotations of postcolonial; applications and implications of ghettoed places and lives; a telling of the closure of a vibrant, innovative urban community high school; and literary depictions of the subtleties and macro-aggressions of historical and ahistorical domination. Theoretical contributions include the construct of post+colonial; elaborations on the space and place of the ghetto; a mapping of colonial-metropole-nation relations and provisions for a cartographic discourse of urban postcolonial subjectivites; and a discussion of the colonizer’s constructions of the postcolonial subject as dispossessed, murderable, and still haunting.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Ghetto" }, { "word": "Postcolonial Studies" }, { "word": "Urban Education" }, { "word": "Colonialism" }, { "word": "Imperialism" }, { "word": "American History (United States)" }, { "word": "Geography" }, { "word": "Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group Studies" }, { "word": "Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education" }, { "word": "City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3q91f9gv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "La", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Paperson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "La Paperson is also K. Wayne Yang, a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Urban Studies & Planning Program at UC San Diego.", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-08-04T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-08-04T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/bre/article/63560/galley/48892/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5215, "title": "Zebrafish Behavior in Novel Environments: Effects of Acute Exposure to Anxiolytic Compounds and Choice of \nDanio rerio\n Line", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Zebrafish (\nDanio rerio\n) associative responses are useful for pharmaceutical and toxicology screening, behavioral genetics, and discovering neural mechanisms involved in behavioral modulation. In novel environments, zebrafish swim to tank bottoms and dark backgrounds, behaviors attributed to anxiety associated with threat of predation. To examine possible genetic effects of inbreeding and segregation on this behavior, we compared Zebrafish International Resource Center (ZIRC) AB and WIK lines to zebrafish and GloFish® from a pet store (PETCO) in two qualitatively different novel environments: the dive tank and aquatic light/dark plus maze. Behavior was observed in the dive tank for 5 min, immediately followed by 5 min in the light/dark plus maze. Among strains, WIK spent more time in the dive tank top than AB (76 + 30 vs. 17 + 11 sec), and AB froze in the plusmaze center for longer than PETCO or GloFish® (162 + 61 vs. 72 + 29 or 27 + 27 sec). Further,behavior of zebrafish exposed for 3 min to 25 mg/L nicotine, desipramine, chlordiazepoxide,yohimbine, 100 mg/L citalopram, 0.05% DMSO, or 0.5% ethanol was compared to controls. Approximately 0.1% of drug is available in brain after such exposures. Desipramine or citalopram exposed fish spent more time in the dive tank top, and both reuptake inhibitors bound to serotonin transporters in zebrafish brain with high affinity (K i = 7 + 5 and 9 + 5 nM). In the plus maze, chlordiazepoxide, ethanol and DMSO-exposed fish crossed more lines and spent more time in white arms. Neither 25 mg/L nicotine nor yohimbine altered zebrafish behavior in novel environments, but nicotine was anxiolytic at higher doses. Overall, the light/dark plus maze and dive tank are distinct behavioral measures that are sensitive to treatment with anxiolytic compounds, but zebrafish line selection and solvents can influence baseline behavior in these tests.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology, Behavioral Genetics, Behaviour, Communication, Vocalization, Comparative Psychology, Behavioral Taxonomy, Cognition, Cognitive Processes, Intelligenc.." } ], "section": "Special Issue: Revisiting The Legacy of Stan Kuczaj", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82h78048", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sackerman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "William Paterson University", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jennifer", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Donegan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Texas, Health Science Center at San Antonio", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Colin", "middle_name": "S.", "last_name": "Cunningham", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Texas, Health Science Center at San Antonio", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Ngoc", "middle_name": "Nhung", "last_name": "Nguyen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "William Paterson University", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kelly", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lawless", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "William Paterson University", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Adam", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Long", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "William Paterson University", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Robert", "middle_name": "H.", "last_name": "Benno", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "William Paterson University", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Georgianna", "middle_name": "G.", "last_name": "Gould", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "William Paterson University\nUniversity of Texas, Health Science Center at San Antonio", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2013-11-10T06:42:50+01:00", "date_accepted": "2013-11-10T06:42:50+01:00", "date_published": "2010-02-01T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5215/galley/3095/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3997, "title": "Deified Humans", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Deified Humans (Abstract) In ancient Egypt, humans were occasionally the recipients of cult as saints or even deities after their death. Such deified humans could be private persons as well as royalty, men as well as women. The cults were usually of local significance but in certain cases, they rose to national prominence. The phenomenon of human deification is well attested in ancient Egypt and appears to have become more prominent and diversified over time. There existed a hierarchy within the group of deified humans. Local patrons and “wise” scribes seem to have been favored objects of deification. Nevertheless, it remains virtually impossible in most cases to determine why one individual was deified and another was not.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "deification" }, { "word": "saints" }, { "word": "popular religion" }, { "word": "Archaeological Anthropology" }, { "word": "Near Eastern Languages and Societies" }, { "word": "Religion/Religious Studies" } ], "section": "Religion", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kk97509", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alexandra", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "von Lieven", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-09T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2008-12-09T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-01-30T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3997/galley/2573/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3096, "title": "Becoming Protagonists for Integration: Youth Voices from Segregated Educational Spaces", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We report the preliminary findings of a community-based participatory action research project grounded in the principles of emancipatory education. Born as a grassroots response to profound racial and socioeconomic segregation between the \"gifted\" and \"regular\" learning programs, this action research collaboration was centered in a middle school. The project curriculum was built on the premise that youth have the potential to become protagonists of integration. With that in mind, the project provided a space in which to become increasingly conscious about segregation and to imagine and enact new possibilities for integration. Findings from in-depth qualitative interviews with six youth participants reveal various youth efforts toward integration in three distinct layers of consciousness that we refer to as voice: (a) reflective voice as an awareness of self in segregated places and the associated social consequences; (b) dialogic voice as communal recognition of the structural nature of segregation, solidarity in opposition to it, and a common need for healing and reconciliation; and (c) praxis voice as the commitment to transforming segregated educational spaces through a critique of segregation and demand for subdermal diversity. We discuss the implications of these findings for continued transformative action at the local site and lessons for educational pedagogies and actions in general.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Critical Pedagogy" }, { "word": "segregation" }, { "word": "integration" }, { "word": "advanced/gifted learning" }, { "word": "youth" }, { "word": "African-American" }, { "word": "South Africa" }, { "word": "Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7791x9tn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Katie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Johnston-Goodstar", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Minnesota, Twin Cities", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Biren (Ratnesh)", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Nagda", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Washington- Seattle Campus", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-01-20T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-01-20T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-01-25T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3096/galley/1889/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3086, "title": "Editors' Note", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [], "section": "Editor's Note", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2zg9k8ns", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Patrick", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Keilty", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Andrew", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Lau", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Amy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Liu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-01-25T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2010-01-25T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-01-25T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3086/galley/1879/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3092, "title": "Ghetto Fabulous: Inner City Car Culture, the Law, and Authenticity", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The Falcon Boys Car Club in East Oakland, comprised mostly of African American males and some Latinos, began fixing up late model Ford Falcons in the early '70s as a way to create a new identity for the members. Most of the members were ex-gang members, and had jobs in auto shops. Never considered desirable, old Falcons and Falcon parts were easy to come by, and allowed the members of the subculture to fix them up and exhibit flamboyant style as they would cruise in newly painted and accessorized Falcons for their immediate neighbors and acquaintances. This reclaiming and repurposing of otherwise disregarded detritus of consumer culture interrogates how different classes value and exhibit style, wealth, as well as mechanical expertise, especially in inner-city neighborhoods. Yet the Falcon Boys remain unknown and undocumented in the larger car culture or in most popular histories of the Bay Area. In 2005 Oakland filmmaker Brian Lilla followed around the best-known members of the Falcon Boys, producing a documentary that won awards in festivals. The film, \"Ghetto Fabulous,\" is the most authentic and to date the only self-produced document of this subculture, yet is not available to the general public. The distribution of the film is controlled and limited by members of the Club themselves, who wish to carefully regulate who knows about them and how. In the last 20 years, mass media reporting on urban car culture has been focused and co-opted by illegal and dangerous sideshows that have drawn unwanted attention on the original members, and rather than be misunderstood or imitated, the Club not only has resisted further attempts to distribute the film, but to have anyone else add to this \"official record.\" Instead access to the group's members, and copies of the footage from the film, is granted only to an inner circle of acquaintances. This limiting and controlled access to the archival record of their history and members authenticates the sparse evidence of their existence and preserves the hometown, face-to-face aspect of their public exhibition of cars and showmanship.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "car culture" }, { "word": "Archives" }, { "word": "Authenticity" }, { "word": "African-Americans" }, { "word": "documentaries" }, { "word": "inner-city" }, { "word": "Archival Science" }, { "word": "community engagement" }, { "word": "Interpersonal and Small Group Communication" }, { "word": "Ethnic Studies" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/44b244tb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Roger", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Brown", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-09-24T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-09-24T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-01-25T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3092/galley/1885/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3093, "title": "Presumption of Noninfringement: Amending the Law on Educational Fair Use", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The current state of the fair use doctrine in the United States has been variously described as confusing, unsettled, and troublesome. The combination of a vague statute, a nationwide patchwork of restrictive and extra-legal classroom guidelines, and split court decisions with limited precedential value has left educators with no way to know, absent litigation, whether a given use of copyrighted materials is a fair use. While alternate solutions have been suggested to remedy this situation—including advice to courts on interpreting the statutory factors, recommended “fair use” language for inclusion in electronic resource licenses, and assertions that better guidelines or best practices are needed—this paper proposes that true fairness, clarity, and predictability can only be achieved through an amendment to the law providing “bright-line” standards for educational fair use.\n\n\nThe proposed amendment would declare that a presumption of noninfringement arises where the copying is done by a nonprofit educational institution, and the amount copied is less than or equal to one-third of any book, monograph, journal, magazine, or other text-based resource. “Copies” would be defined to include photocopies, e-reserves accessible only by students in the class for which the reading material was assigned, links to electronic resources via password-protected websites, and any like technologies. Such a law would fulfill the Constitutional purpose of promoting the progress of learning, as well as furthering a national policy of putting education first over the profit of publishers. The law would adhere to the benefit of greater academic freedom for instructors and help level the educational playing field for students.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "fair use" }, { "word": "educational fair use" }, { "word": "copyright law" }, { "word": "Economics" }, { "word": "Intellectual Property Law" }, { "word": "library and information science" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qw2f7v8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Diane", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gurman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-04-05T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-04-05T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-01-25T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3093/galley/1886/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3088, "title": "Review: \nBeats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity\n by Marc Lamont Hill", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "hip hop" }, { "word": "pedagogy" }, { "word": "identity" }, { "word": "Politics" }, { "word": "ethnography" }, { "word": "culturally relevant curriculum" }, { "word": "Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education" } ], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/355508n9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jonathan", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Carroll", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-10-11T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-10-11T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-01-25T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3088/galley/1881/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3091, "title": "Review: \nHow NGOs React: Globalization and Education Reform in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Mongolia\n by Iveta Silova and Gita Steiner-Khamsi", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "educational change" }, { "word": "Central Asia" }, { "word": "Mongolia" }, { "word": "Caucasus" }, { "word": "non-governmental organizations" }, { "word": "education and globalization" } ], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1539q3vq", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Hugh", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Schuckman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-07-06T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-07-06T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-01-25T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3091/galley/1884/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3087, "title": "Review: \nInformation & Liberation: Writings on the Politics of Information & Librarianship \n by Shiraz Durrani", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "library and information science" } ], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5586x95k", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Gregory", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hom", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "San Francisco Public Library", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-11-02T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-11-02T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-01-25T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3087/galley/1880/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3090, "title": "Review: \nTeach! Change! Empower! Solutions for Closing the Achievement Gaps\n by Carl A. Grant", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "education" }, { "word": "Diversity" }, { "word": "achievement gaps" }, { "word": "Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education" }, { "word": "Curriculum and Instruction" }, { "word": "Curriculum and Social Inquiry" }, { "word": "Elementary and Middle and Secondary Education Administration" }, { "word": "Other Education" }, { "word": "Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods" }, { "word": "Urban Education and Leadership" } ], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5g1547qh", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Rhonda", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Turner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Colorado State University - Pueblo", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-11-18T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2009-11-18T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-01-25T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3090/galley/1883/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3089, "title": "Review: \nWe ARE Americans: Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream\n by William Perez", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Undocumented Students" }, { "word": "Higher education" }, { "word": "College Access" }, { "word": "opportunity" }, { "word": "success" }, { "word": "legalization" }, { "word": "college experiences" }, { "word": "civic talent" }, { "word": "missed opportunities" }, { "word": "International Law and Legal Studies" }, { "word": "Other Education" }, { "word": "Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education" } ], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9br58546", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Tanya", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chirapuntu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-01-15T09:00:00+01:00", "date_accepted": "2010-01-15T09:00:00+01:00", "date_published": "2010-01-25T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3089/galley/1882/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3097, "title": "Review: \"Wisely Selected ... Carefully Preserved\" — 60th Anniversary of UCLA's University Archives. Shown at Powell Library, UC Los Angeles, from 22 September to 5 December, 2008.", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "archival exhibit" }, { "word": "university archives" }, { "word": "campus history" } ], "section": "Exhibition Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2x729642", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sarah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Buchanan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-08-31T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-08-31T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-01-25T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3097/galley/1890/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3094, "title": "Warming Up Records: Archives, Memory, Power and \nIndex of the Disappeared", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Policies of censorship and secrecy in federal governance skyrocketed under the Bush Administration in the wake of 9/11; these measures allowed for the detainment of some 700 predominately Arab and South Asian immigrants, though no evidence was released linking them with the terrorist attacks. The documents pertaining to the holding of these “special interest” detainees were kept secret for a number of years, and only released by the Department of Justice after significant external pressures from watchdog groups such as the ACLU. Two artists, Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani, have called into question this exponential increase in the concealment of government documents with a project titled Index of the Disappeared. The multifaceted work, which utilizes several media as well as a variety of site-specific methods of engagement, employs radical archival practices in an attempt to “[foreground] the difficult histories of immigrant, ‘Other’ and dissenting communities in the U.S. since 9/11.” Through these efforts, the artists question the structures of archives and power in place in this country today. Using Ganesh and Ghani’s work as a touchstone, this paper seeks to examine the ways in which archival and recordkeeping practices function in the United States, and the potential long-term consequences increased secrecy might have on our cultural memory. Mobilizing archival, social, and critical theories, this paper interrogates The Archive’s relationship to power, and how that authority is translated into a collective memory. Building from Ganesh and Ghani’s notion of “warm data” – that which is opposed to the “cold data” of official records – the paper ultimately suggests that an integration of history and art, such as that suggested by Nietzsche, could proliferate in The Archive, therefore both arousing our instincts and preserving them.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Archival Science" }, { "word": "Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis" }, { "word": "Public Policy Analysis" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5j76z82c", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alice", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Royer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-09-28T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-09-28T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-01-25T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3094/galley/1887/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3095, "title": "Why Can’t We All Just Be Individuals?: Countering the Discourse of Individualism in Anti-racist Education", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Over many years as a white person co-facilitating anti-racism courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels and in the workplace for majority white participants, I have come to believe that the Discourse of Individualism is one of the primary barriers preventing well-meaning (and other) white people from understanding racism. Individualism is so deeply held in dominant society that it is virtually immovable without sustained effort. This article challenges the Discourse of Individualism by addressing eight key dynamics of racism that it obscures. I posit that the Discourse of Individualism functions to: deny the significance of race and the advantages of being white; hide the accumulation of wealth over generations; deny social and historical context; prevent a macro analysis of the institutional and structural dimensions of social life; deny collective socialization and the power of dominant culture (media, education, religion, etc.) to shape our perspectives and ideology; function as neo-colorblindness and reproduce the myth of meritocracy; and make collective action difficult. Further, being viewed as an individual is a privilege only available to the dominant group. I explicate each of these discursive effects and argue that while we may be considered individuals \nin general\n, white insistence on Individualism \nin discussions of racism in particular\n functions to obscure and maintain racism.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "discourse" }, { "word": "racism" }, { "word": "individualism" }, { "word": "ideology" }, { "word": "Whiteness" }, { "word": "Anti-racism" }, { "word": "Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education" }, { "word": "Social Sciences" }, { "word": "Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5fm4h8wm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Robin", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "DiAngelo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Westfield State College", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-06-11T09:00:00+02:00", "date_accepted": "2009-06-11T09:00:00+02:00", "date_published": "2010-01-25T09:00:00+01:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3095/galley/1888/download/" } ] } ] }