Autism in Translation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tasha Oren
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Animal Science ◽  
Prolific Author ◽  
Film Style

Tasha Oren conducts close readings of the television documentaries Stairway to Heaven (Errol Morris, Bravo, 2000) and The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow (Emma Sutten, BBC, 2006) and the fictionalized biopic Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson, HBO, 2010). These representations of Temple Grandin—prolific author, professor of animal science at Colorado University, and famous Autist—are used to explain shifts in popular understandings of autism in the 21st century. This chapter illustrates how close attention to film style and cultural representations can be used to understand larger social shifts in the meanings of disability.

scholarly journals Użytki rolne w strukturze użytkowania ziemi w Polsce w XXI wieku = Agricultural land in the land use structure in Poland in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 51-66
Author(s):  
Benicjusz Głębocki ◽  
Ewa Kacprzak
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Land Use Structure ◽  
Research Procedure ◽  
Agricultural Land Management ◽  
Land Transactions

The purpose hereof is to present changes in the land use structure (with particular regard to agricultural land) in Poland in the first two decades of the 21st century. In the research procedure, close attention has been paid to the spatial aspects of the changes taking place. The analysis conducted at a national, provincial and communal level covered the period between 2002 and 2020 and was based on the materials made available by GUGiK in Warsaw. Political changes, as well as social and economic transformation have initiated profound changes in land use and the ownership system. Nowadays, these are also triggered by urbanisation processes and ageing of the agricultural population. Changes in the agricultural land resources and transformation in the land use structure identified in Poland are to a large extent associated with the applicable legislation that governs, inter alia, issues relating to the splitting of farms and to the agricultural land transactions. Unfortunately, the provisions thereof have been repeatedly amended, which has in no way been beneficial to the rational use of the agricultural land resources. Changes in the agricultural land resources have affected both farms and other forms of ownership. Agricultural land is considered as a kind of reservoir of land for investments Due to, in particular, the development of transport and housing needs in Poland, further agricultural land shrinkage is expected. It is necessary to ensure sustainable agricultural land management and to monitor changes in the land use structure.

Educational Experience and the Neglected Landscapes of Possibility

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pádraig Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Educational Reform ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Evaluation Of Performance ◽  
Randomized Control

Evidence-based orientations have come to prevail among educational policymakers internationally in the early decades of the 21st century. These orientations are associated with two dramatic developments: first, the emergence of new common patterns in educational reform internationally; and second, the global rise of randomized control tests in educational research and the parallel rise of large-scale educational testing and evaluations. Because of the restricted way that evidence is conceived in these orientations they tend to neglect what is most important in educational endeavors. Such orientations largely obscure educational experience, not deliberately, yet almost as a matter of course. Educational experience tends to be recast as an arena for generating outcomes that can be indexed and ranked for purposes of evaluation of performance, nationally and internationally. Data that can be furnished in indexible form thus attains a new importance, both for educational policymaking and educational research. The consequences of these ongoing developments for how teaching is conceived and practiced are quite incapacitating but not adequately acknowledged. Equally unperceived are the debilitating consequences for educational research itself, in particular research that is related to policymaking. Illuminating the neglected landscape of educational experience thus becomes a pressing task, as does disclosing the possibilities that are most integral to it. This task involves undertaking a decisive reclamation of those possibilities, paying close attention to four key domains of relationships that define educational practice, when adequately conceived. A key distinction between having and being informs this reclamation and enables educational research itself to be regenerated.

Missionary Museums

Anthropos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-170
Author(s):  
Anna Nadolska-Styczyńska
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Museums And Collections ◽  
Ethnographic Collections

The article addresses missionary ethnographic collections, with a particular focus on Polish museums. It aims at presenting works and profiles of those museums, considering their origin and underlying concepts. The author discusses the contemporary problems of these institutions, paying close attention to the specific character of their collections. The author addresses the question whether these frequently criticized museums and collections have actually lost their raison d’être in the 21st century, and whether they should be primarily associated with European colonial interference and the destruction of non-European cultures, as well as with outdated museology. The author further argues that missionary museums undoubtedly require a radical rethinking of their mission and character, but they still preserve their value, especially for comparative ethnographic research and popularization of the idea of interculturality.

Twenty-First-Century Fiction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Lea
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Literary Practice ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
British Fiction ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Literary Writing ◽  
Twenty First Century

This study explores the landscape of contemporary British fiction through detailed analysis of five authors that have emerged to critical prominence in the 21st century. The authors addressed - Ali Smith, Andrew O’Hagan, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Hall, and Jon McGregor – have all established themselves through popular and critical success, but have received significantly less attention than some of their peers. This book does not seek to thrust these authors into a putative canon of 21st century literary writing, but rather to explore through close attention to the resonances, continuities, elisions, and frictions across their works the temper of the contemporary moment as it is expressed by a group of writers. Each is devoted a chapter that analyses their creative output to-date within the frame of their stylistic and thematic development, as well as drawing comparisons across their writing and that of their peers. The intention is never to provide the kind of synoptical overview that a period-study might suggest, instead Twenty-First Century Fiction: Contemporary British Voices seeks to juxtapose critical readings within a constellation of contemporary literary concerns to examine what cultural energies and flows are emerging in the new century. In doing so, it identifies three recurrent areas of concern that might be said to infiltrate our times; these are Materiality, Connectivity, and Authenticity. In many forms and through many articulations, these issues emerge as insistent – if inchoate – questions about how current literary practice is responding to the challenge of the post-millennial world.

Deterrence and Security in the 21st Century: China, Britain, France, and the Enduring Legacy of the Nuclear Revolution. By Avery Goldstein. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. 356p. $49.50.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 262-263
Author(s):  
Lawrence Freedman
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nuclear Deterrence ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Force Structure ◽  
Potential Enemy

Clausewitz once observed that in war everything is simple, but the simplest things are very complicated. This seems to apply doubly so to nuclear deterrence. The principle is very simple: A potential enemy is persuaded not to do anything rash by the prospect of devastating retaliation. But it soon gets complicated. What difference does it make if the idea is not only to protect the homeland but also allies? As potential enemies acquire their own means of devastating retaliation, issues of preemption arise, and this requires close attention to the details of force structure. How varied, overwhelming, and surprising need the attacker be, especially if there is little interest in preemption? How much need the defender disperse, conceal, or protect forces, or develop antimissile defenses, just in case the other side is contemplating preemption? What happens if both sides are contemplating preemption at the same time? Can understandings, tacit or negotiated, between potential enemies ease the dangers of a crisis getting out of hand?

Study on Harmonious Marketing

2011 ◽  
Vol 204-210 ◽  
pp. 518-521
Author(s):  
Jian Chun Ke
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Harmonious Society ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
The Relationship

A challenge to the tranditional awareness looms larger and lager nowadays. In the 21st century, enterprises must build up a strategy of harmonious marketing, maintaining a pattern of sustained marketing. Under the circumstance of market economy, the perception of harmonious marketing within enterprises agrees with the idea of developing harmonious society. Therefore, under today’s development of harmonious society, enterprises should not only pay close attention to customers, but also take the relationship among society, nature, rivals, employers and other partnership into account, creating a harmony of interests and competitive edge.

2008 Update on the Medicare Exceptions Process

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Robert C. Fifer
Keyword(s):  
Close Attention ◽  
Submission Process ◽  
Final Rule ◽  
Fee Schedule

Abstract Since 1999 when Medicare caps first became effective, providers have had to pay close attention to the claims process. This article summarizes the Medicare Exceptions Process that, for 2007, underwent a number of changes. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule of November 27, 2007 made three important changes. These changes addressed certification for patient plan of care, personnel qualifications for therapists, and a review of Part B policies and their application to Part A settings that are projected to go into effect in July of 2008. Particular attention was given to explanations of the manual submission process and the change in definitions of “complexities” and of a “therapist.”

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