Plantation Fragments

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Willford ◽  
S. Nagarajan
Keyword(s):  
Ground Zero ◽  
Positive Identification ◽  
Political Resource ◽  
A Site

This chapter looks at a series of ethnographic encounters in several plantation communities within Selangor, the “ground zero” of plantation retrenchment and evictions. It considers the communities and individuals who express a sense of anxiety and despair as their neighborhoods are threatened by demolition. At the same time, the sense of the plantation as a site of nostalgia and positive identification is seen to be growing in the specter of its demise. In this context, the importance of documentation and an emergent historicity is described as important to plantation dwellers as a political resource, as well as an archive of victimhood. The chapter then describes the increasing resonance and justice-seeking fervor surrounding a Tamil-Hindu festival celebration in a plantation slated for retrenchment and eviction.

The Ondol Problem and the Politics of Forest Conservation in Colonial Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fedman
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Colonial Korea ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
Heated Floor ◽  
Conflicting Interests ◽  
A Site ◽  
Floor System ◽  
Continental Climate

AbstractThis article examines the ondol—the cooking stove–cum–heated floor system conventional to Korean dwellings—as a site of contestation over forest management, fuel consumption, and domestic life in colonial Korea. At once a provider of heat essential to survival in an often frigid peninsula and, in the eyes of colonial officials, ground zero of deforestation, the ondol garnered tremendous interest from an array of reformers determined to improve the Korean home and its hearth. Foresters were but one party to a far-reaching debate (involving architects, doctors, and agronomists) over how best to domesticate heat in the harsh continental climate. By tracing the contours of this debate, this article elucidates the multitude of often-conflicting interests inherent to state-led interventions in household fuel economies: what the author calls the politics of forest conservation in colonial Korea. In focusing on efforts to regulate the quotidian rhythms of energy consumption, it likewise investigates the material underpinnings of everyday life—a topic hitherto overlooked in extant scholarship on forestry and empire alike.

Reflecting Absence, or How Ground Zero Was Purged of Its Material History (2001–2010)

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-110
Author(s):  
Bob van Toor ◽  
Hanneke Ronnes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
Port Authority ◽  
Office Space ◽  
Material Agency ◽  
Material History ◽  
Almost All ◽  
A Site

Abstract:The development of the urban space of Ground Zero has been a long and difficult process, resulting in the removal of almost all of its material history. The material objects formerly present on the site had an important part and significant agency in the struggle between different stakeholders of Ground Zero. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Larry Silverstein, owner and leaseholder of the sixteen acres that held the Twin Towers, intended to rebuild the ten million square feet of office space that was destroyed on 9/11. This force of production asserted itself over possible modes of consumption of the space, each championed and represented by overlapping groups of people. Some wished to see the space redeveloped as a site of mourning, others as a site fit for touristic consumption, as a space for residence, or as a site representing a material past older than 9/11. It shall be argued that for these consumer groups the symbolic complexity of the site, and its potential power in political performances, was intricately connected to space and the material agency of objects remaining on Ground Zero post 2001.

Performing trauma: Commemorating 9/11 in downtown Manhattan

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 452-469
Author(s):  
Ross Poole
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Traumatic Memory ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
Memorial Museum ◽  
The World ◽  
Below Ground ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
A Site ◽  
The City

There are two memorials at the site of the World Trade Center: the above ground Memorial Park and the below ground Memorial Museum. They embody very different conceptions of how an event such as 9/11 should be remembered. The Memorial Park was an attempt to integrate the recognition of loss into the ongoing life of the city. It fails to do this, largely because it succumbs to the temptation to let the site itself—“Ground Zero”—do the work of memory. The two pools (“voids”) are located on the footprints of the two towers. They dominate the site, inheriting the clumsy monumentality of the destroyed buildings. The underground Memorial Museum combines relics, remnants, images, and newsreels, to involve its visitors in the emotional immediacy of the events of 9/11. It presents 9/11 as a traumatic memory, one to be re-experienced but not understood, placing it outside history in a kind of perpetual present. It reinforces what Marita Sturken identified as a national sense of innocence, and it militates against the development of an historical understanding of the causes and consequences of 9/11. In the final section of this article, I reflect on ways in Ground Zero might have been designed to create a site where residents, citizens, and visitors might have come together to mourn, reflect on, and seek to understand the events of 9/11.

Mediating embodied protest: Performative body in social protests in the Internet age in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 863-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongxuan Lin
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
Potential Site ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Social Protests ◽  
Political Resource ◽  
A Site

The performative body treats the body as a potential site of resistance. Situated in the specific Chinese context, this study explores the female performative body and its emotional, spatial, and visual manifestation in the embodied protests. Particularly, this article uses Ye Haiyan, a famous Internet celebrity in China, as a particular case to illustrate how the deployment of the performative body can provide a site of embodied protests in a specific Chinese context, why it is reasonable and possible, and what is its implication. By examining Ye Haiyan’s bodily practices, this article illustrates how Ye Haiyan turns her body into a site of struggle and a political resource, how she deploys her body as a weapon to evoke broader emotional and moral resonances, and how she provokes Internet users to spectate, interpret, and imitate her body images, making possible a space of appearance in cyberspace. The article finally discusses its possible contribution and limitation.

scholarly journals Staging Climate Security: Resilience and Heterodystopia in the Bangladesh Borderlands

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Cons
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
The Future ◽  
Development Technology ◽  
To Come ◽  
Warming World ◽  
A Site ◽  
Climate Crisis

This essay interrogates an emergent genre of development projects that seek to instill resilience in populations likely to be severely impacted by climate change. These new projects venture a dark vision of life in a warming world—one where portable technologies become necessary for managing a future of climate chaos. I propose, following Michel Foucault, understanding these projects as heterodystopias: spaces managed as and in anticipation of a world of dystopian climate crisis that are at once stages for future interventions and present-day spectacles of climate security. My exploration of these projects is situated in the borderlands of Bangladesh, a space increasingly imagined as a ground zero of climate change. The projects discussed frame the borderlands as a site that reflects forward onto a multiplicity of (other) dystopian spaces to come. Their often puzzling architecture reveals a grim imagining of the future: one in which atomized resilient families remain rooted in place, facing climate chaos alone, assisted by development technology. In this way, these projects seek to mitigate against global anxiety about climate displacement by emplacing people—preventing them from migrating across borders increasingly imagined as the front lines of climate security. Yet at the same time, these projects speak a visual language that suggests they are as much about representing success at managing climate crisis to an audience elsewhere as they are to successfully stemming climate migration in a particular place. Heterodystopia provides an analytic for diagnosing the specific visions of time and space embedded in securitized framings of the future. In doing so, however, it also points toward counterimaginations and possibilities for life in the midst of ecological change. I thus conclude by contrasting climate heterodystopias with other projects that Bangladeshi peasants living in the borderlands are carrying out: projects that offer different ways of imagining the environment and life in the borderlands of Bangladesh.

Eels Under Standing Wave Conditions

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 492-495
Author(s):  
O.L. Krivanek ◽  
J. TaftØ
Keyword(s):  
Standing Wave ◽  
Wave Conditions ◽  
Set Up ◽  
A Site ◽  
Complex Crystal

It is well known that a standing electron wavefield can be set up in a crystal such that its intensity peaks at the atomic sites or between the sites or in the case of more complex crystal, at one or another type of a site. The effect is usually referred to as channelling but this term is not entirely appropriate; by analogy with the more established particle channelling, electrons would have to be described as channelling either through the channels or through the channel walls, depending on the diffraction conditions.

Head Size and DNA Content in Bacteriophage T4

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 200-201
Author(s):  
Fred Eiserling ◽  
A. H. Doermann ◽  
Linde Boehner
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Dna Content ◽  
Bacteriophage T4 ◽  
Head Size ◽  
Virus Particles ◽  
Altered Protein ◽  
A Cell ◽  
Bacterial Viruses ◽  
A Site ◽  
Protein Shell

The control of form or shape inheritance can be approached by studying the morphogenesis of bacterial viruses. Shape variants of bacteriophage T4 with altered protein shell (capsid) size and nucleic acid (DNA) content have been found by electron microscopy, and a mutant (E920g in gene 66) controlling head size has been described. This mutant produces short-headed particles which contain 2/3 the normal DNA content and which are non-viable when only one particle infects a cell (Fig. 1).We report here the isolation of a new mutant (191c) which also appears to be in gene 66 but at a site distinct from E920g. The most striking phenotype of the mutant is the production of about 10% of the phage yield as “giant” virus particles, from 3 to 8 times longer than normal phage (Fig. 2).

Solving the mechanisms responsible for organelle behavior in vivo by same-cell correlative light and electron microscopy

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-15
Author(s):  
Conly L. Rieder
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Light Microscopy ◽  
Living Cell ◽  
Light And Electron Microscopy ◽  
Time Behavior ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Positive Identification ◽  
Cellular Components

The behavior of many cellular components, and their dynamic interactions, can be characterized in the living cell with considerable spatial and temporal resolution by video-enhanced light microscopy (video-LM). Indeed, under the appropriate conditions video-LM can be used to determine the real-time behavior of organelles ≤ 25-nm in diameter (e.g., individual microtubules—see). However, when pushed to its limit the structures and components observed within the cell by video-LM cannot be resolved nor necessarily even identified, only detected. Positive identification and a quantitative analysis often requires the corresponding electron microcopy (EM).

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