Book Reviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 697-701
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
New York ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
New York University

Yaw Nyarko of New York University and the Division of Social Sciences, New York University Abu Dhabi, reviews “The Economy of Ghana Sixty Years after Independence,” edited by Ernest Aryeetey and Ravi Kanbur. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Twenty-three papers analyze and assess the challenges facing Ghana's economy, covering major macroeconomic and sectoral issues, as well as social issues.”

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-221
Author(s):  
Aaron Raphael Ponce ◽  
Jaime García-Iglesias ◽  
Elisa Padilla ◽  
Kirwan McHarry
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
New York University

Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality, Roman Kuhar and David Paternotte (eds) (2017) London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 302 pp., ISBN 978-1-78348-999-2, h/bk, $132.00; ISBN 978-1-78660-000-4, p/bk, $41.95Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play, Susanna Paasonen (2018) London: Goldsmiths Press, 208 pp., ISBN 978-1-90689-782-6, h/bk, $30.00RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture, Niall Brennan and David Gudelunas (eds) (2017) Cham: Springer Nature and Palgrave Macmillan, 309 pp., ISBN 978-3-31950-617-3, h/bk, $109.00; ISBN 978-3-31984-444-2, p/bk, $34.99Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life, Andre Cavalcante (2018) New York: New York University Press, 221 pp., ISBN 978-1-47988-130-7, h/bk, $89.00; ISBN 978-1-47984-131-8, p/bk, $27.00

Ghosts in the Machine: A Virtual Choral Performance as Hauntological Praxis During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-55
Author(s):  
Clare Lesser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
New York University ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Karlheinz Stockhausen ◽  
Choral Director ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Audio Mixing

An interwoven reading of the issues surrounding a performance – rehearsed and recorded remotely and hosted virtually – of Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol’s The Gauntlet: Far Away, Together, for 15 voices and electronics (given at New York University Abu Dhabi in March 2021, in which I was choral director), and Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx (1993/2006). I examine the impact that COVID-19 had on realising this performance – which had originally been intended for a ‘live’ and fully immersive and interactive presentation – and consider how earlier models of hauntological praxis in works by Karlheinz Stockhausen have parallels with performing during the pandemic. I explore the ways in which working in isolation, with little sense of time or location, foster a sense of ‘aporia’ or perplexity, overturning the binary opposition of time and space, and how the use of the SPAT immersive audio mixing tool to electronically process single voices into multiple, spatially realised echoes (ghosts) of themselves, truly gives us ‘ghosts’ in the machine.

Friends with Benefits

2015 ◽  
pp. 56-72
Author(s):  
Beth Daniel Lindsay ◽  
Ilka Datig
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Group Testing ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Advisory Group ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
New York University ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Friends With Benefits ◽  
Advisory Groups

Students are a primary part of any academic library's community of users. However, students' voices are often left out of the conversation when libraries develop policies, services, and resources. One option for libraries which would like to consider students' opinions and needs more closely is the formation of a Student Advisory Group (SAG), a group of students who meet with library staff on a regular basis to discuss and provide advice on library policies, resources and strategies. Academic libraries can use SAGs for assistance with communication, collection development, focus group testing, and more. This article explores the logistics of creating, maintaining and assessing a SAG, along with concrete examples from the SAG at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Student Advisory Groups have the potential to enrich any academic library's outreach and community-building efforts, and should be considered as an option by any library looking to become more student-centered.

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