scholarly journals TOY PIANOS, POOR TOOLS: VIRTUOSITY AND IMAGINATION IN A LIMITED CONTEXT

Tempo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (281) ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Xenia Pestova
Keyword(s):  
Extended Techniques ◽  
Piano Performance ◽  
Instrument Performance ◽  
The World ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Performance Considerations ◽  
Grand Piano

AbstractThe toy piano is fast becoming a concert instrument in its own right, with its own (growing) body of repertoire that has moved well beyond John Cage's 1948 classic Suite for Toy Piano. There are dedicated musicians specialising in toy piano performance all over the world, and numerous composers producing new works written specifically for the toy piano. This unusual miniature instrument provides a respite from the traditional implications of the grand piano, breaks the ice with audiences and allows pianists to perform in locations that would otherwise be inaccessible. In this article the author introduces the history and mechanism of the instrument, performance considerations, extended techniques and approaches to working with electronics, recent repertoire and suggestions for performers and composers. Discussion is supplemented with musical examples.

scholarly journals De-Masking deafness: Unlearning and Reteaching Disability During a Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Kersten-Parrish
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Public Places ◽  
The World ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Disability Research

In academic writing about disability, the impetus is typically used to subvert society's ableist structures and challenge misconceptions and misunderstanding around disability. However, due to the world-wide spread of COVID-19 and the restrictions put in place to reduce the virus's impact, such as asking people to wear masks in public places and the closing of universities and moving to entirely online learning, the author, who is deaf, found herself vulnerable and confronting a lack of access due to these measures. This reflexive paper will investigate how the pandemic and its effects forced the author to reconsider her ownership of her deafness. It will add to a growing body of autoethnographic disability research by contributing another facet to understandings around disability and self as they are actualized in the midst of the pandemic.

scholarly journals Uruguay, 1968. Algunas líneas de análisis derivadas del estudio de la protesta estudiantil en un país periférico

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
Vania Markarian
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
The World ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cycles Of Protest

This paper – focused on a deep analysis of the student movement that occupied the streets of Montevideo in 1968 – aims at proposing some analytical lines to understand this and other contemporary cycles of protest in different places of the world. After locating these events in a wide geography characterized both by political acceleration and the dramatic display of cultural change, four relevant themes in the growing body of literature on the «global Sixties» are raised. First, it is addressed the relationship between social movements and groups or political parties in these «short cycles» of protest. Second, the idea that violence was rather a catalyzer of political innovation rather than the result of political polarization is proposed. Third, it breaks down the diversity of possible links between culture, in a broad sense, and the forms of political participation in youth mobilizations. Finally, it can be more rewarding to look at different scales of analysis of these processes, from the strictly national to the transnational circulation of ideas and people.

IR, imperialism, and the Global South: From Libya to Venezuela

Politics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 026339572110612
Author(s):  
Matteo Capasso
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Global South ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Growing Body

This article brings together two cases to contribute to the growing body of literature rethinking the study of international relations (IR) and the Global South: The Libyan Arab al-Jamāhīrīyah and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Drawing on media representations and secondary literature from IR and international political economy (IPE), it critically examines three main conceptual theses (authoritarian, rentier, and rogue) used to describe the historical socio-political formations of these states up to this date. Mixing oil abundance with authoritarian revolutionary fervour and foreign policy adventurism, Libya and Venezuela have been progressively reduced to the figure of one man, while presenting their current crises as localized processes delinked from the imperialist inter-state system. The article argues that these analyses, if left unquestioned, perpetuate a US-led imperial ordering of the world, while foreclosing and discrediting alternatives to capitalist development emerging from and grounded in a Global South context. In doing so, the article contributes to the growing and controversial debate on the meanings and needs for decolonizing the study of IR.

Anticipatory Standards Development and Competitive Intelligence

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise Bousquet ◽  
Vladislav V. Fomin ◽  
Dominique Drillon
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Information ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
World War ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
The World ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Standards Development

More and more companies operate today in a worldwide market under conditions of globalization, increased complexity, and competition. In such an environment, business decisions need to be made quickly yet intelligent, substantiated by the most salient and relevant information available. Under the global competition, with a diligent and measured manner, many companies are increasingly treating business like an economic war. Enterprises are methodically monitoring and investigating their competitors, while deploying all the resources they have at their disposal in order to beat their current or future rivals. Competitive Intelligence (CI) has become the ‘latest weapon in the world war of economics’. This paper contributes to the growing body of literature on competitive intelligence by synthesizing knowledge stemming from many years of experience in the standardization arena. The authors aim to show how, in the economic war, engaging in committee-based standards development may be used for winning the competition battle.

scholarly journals What Does Urban Transformation Look Like? Findings from a Global Prize Competition

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Maassen ◽  
Madeleine Galvin
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Epistemic Community ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Recent Systematic Review ◽  
The World ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Prize Competition ◽  
Recent Initiative ◽  
Over Time

Different disciplines are grappling with the concept of ‘urban transformation’ reflecting its planetary importance and urgency. A recent systematic review traces the emergence of a normative epistemic community that is concerned with helping make sustainable urban transformation a reality. Our contribution to this growing body of work springs out of a recent initiative at the World Resources Institute, namely, the WRI Ross Prize for Cities, a global award for transformative projects that have ignited sustainable changes in their city. In this paper we explain the competition-based approach that was used to source transformative initiatives and relate our findings to existing currents in urban transformation scholarship and key debates. We focus on one of the questions at the heart of the normative urban transformation agenda: what does urban transformation look like in practice? Based on an analysis of the five finalists, we describe urban transformation as encompassing a plurality of contextual and relative changes, which may progress and accelerate positively, or regress over time. An evaluative approach that considers varying ‘degrees’ and ‘types’ of urban transformation is proposed to establish meaning within single cases and across several cases of urban transformation.

scholarly journals 'Diagnosing' Statelessness and Everyday State Illegibility in Northern Thailand

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-238
Author(s):  
Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
The State ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
The World ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Systemic Violence ◽  
Systemic Discrimination ◽  
Stateless Person

Statelessness in Thailand is primarily framed first and foremost as an issue of legibility to the state, with an assumption that once a stateless person is ‘properly seen’, due recognition will follow. This article builds on a growing body of literature that examines the limits of evidentiary approach and the burden of proving citizenship as experienced by many stateless persons around the world. I use the anthropological framework of ‘state illegibility’ to encapsulate the systemic violence and burden placed on stateless persons by the state’s opaqueness and inscrutable, contradictory and unpredictable bureaucratic practices. Through three ethnographic accounts in Thailand, I interrogate various forms of state illegibility and their implications. I argue that by not recognising state illegibility, statelessness risks being reduced to an individualised legal status issue, rather than being acknowledged as a symptom of systemic discrimination.

scholarly journals Leveraging Data Science To Combat COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddique Latif ◽  
Muhammad Usman ◽  
Sanaullah Manzoor ◽  
Waleed Iqbal ◽  
Junaid Qadir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
World Health ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
The World ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Short Span ◽  
Public Datasets ◽  
Science Activities

<div>COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in March 2020. At the time of writing, more than 2.8 million people have tested positive. Infections have been growing exponentially and tremendous efforts are being made to fight the disease. In this paper, we attempt to systematise ongoing data science activities in this area. As well as reviewing the rapidly growing body of recent research, we survey public datasets and repositories that can be used for further work to track COVID-19 spread and mitigation strategies.</div><div>As part of this, we present a bibliometric analysis of the papers produced in this short span of time. Finally, building on these insights, we highlight common challenges and pitfalls observed across the surveyed works.</div>

People Make Places, What Do Stories Do?

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-99
Author(s):  
Sara Clara ◽  
Belem Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Place Image ◽  
Medium Components ◽  
The World ◽  
Branding Strategies ◽  
Growing Body

The main objective of this chapter is to explore how cities and regions can use digital storytelling strategies to reach and engage with their target audiences. Despite the growing body of literature regarding digital storytelling, the contributions and examples about regions and cities are still scarce. This chapter analyses the storytelling strategies of promotional campaigns regarding three cities and two regions around the world. Using a theory-driven framework, each storytelling example is dissected and interpreted. This study demonstrates that digital storytelling is worth consideration, as it offers a relevant set of advantages for marketing and communication managers, and enables the development of the place image and a consistent communication of its identity that can be co-created with various stakeholders, including the target audiences. It also shows that there are a diversity of approaches that can be adapted by place branding strategies, namely in terms of narrative, perspectives, and medium components.

THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC POLICY UNCERTAINTY ON INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES: PRE-PANDEMIC EVIDENCE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejan Romih
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Vector Autoregression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
The World ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The Impact

Although the Covid-19 pandemic (the Great Lockdown), which began in March 2020, is not over yet (mainly due to new SARS-CoV-2 variants, such as Delta), there is already a growing body of evidence that suggests that the Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to an increase in economic policy uncertainty in the United States and the rest of the world. In this paper, I examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty on industrial production in the United States before the Covid-19 pandemic. Using vector autoregression, I found that industrial production in the United States responds negatively to a positive economic policy uncertainty shock in the United States. This suggests that US economic policymakers need to prevent economic policy uncertainty in the United States

Traditional Exploitation Methods, Efficiency, and Consequences for River Turtles

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Moll ◽  
Edward O. Moll
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
Physical Ability ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Collecting Methods ◽  
High Level ◽  
Species Being ◽  
Over Time ◽  
River Turtles

A wide variety of ingenious methods for collecting river turtles have been developed over time. None requires a particularly high level of technology but many require a great deal of skill, patience, and sometimes physical ability by the collectors, as well as a detailed knowledge of the ecology of the species being sought. Many parallel collecting methods have developed independently in turtle-dependent cultures around the world, leading Nicholls (1977) to state in regard to Bates’s (1863) description of an Amazonian turtle hunt, “With some allowance for small differences in technique, his descriptions provide an accurate image of turtle hunting as it was practiced anytime, anywhere, during the past thousands of years.” We thought that a summary of these techniques with comment upon their variation in different areas and with different species, their effects on populations when this can be ascertained, and examples of their practitioners would be an appropriate addition to our treatment of river turtle exploitation patterns. We will limit our discussion mainly to techniques employed by subsistence and commercial turtlers for obtaining animals and largely omit reference to the growing body of information concerning the collection of turtles for scientific purposes (many of which are largely modifications of the former techniques). For information concerning the latter category the reader is referred to the excellent summary of equipment and techniques by Plummer (1979) and papers by Carr and Marchand (1942), Chaney and Smith (1950), Legler (1960b), Ream and Ream (1966), Wahlquist (1970), Bider and Hoek (1971), Braid (1974), Robinson and Murphy (1975), MacCulloch and Gordon (1978), Iverson (1979), Petokas and Alexander (1979), Vogt (1980b), Frazer et al. (1990), Kennett (1992), Graham and Georges (1996), Jensen (1998), and Kuchling (2003b). Free diving for turtles is of course a time-honored, effective, and nearly cosmopolitan approach to collecting turtles that requires little or no equipment. While diving mask, fins and sophisticated breathing gear certainly enhance the process, they are not required by skilled divers in order to harvest large numbers of turtles.

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