scholarly journals "Under the Ditch": Channeling Water through Owen Wister's The Virginian // "Bajo la acequia": Canalizando el agua a través de The Virginian de Owen Wister'

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-128
Author(s):  
Jada Ach
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Water Storage ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Owen Wister ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Environmental Relations ◽  
And Control ◽  
Control Water

     This paper combines envirotech history with elemental ecocriticism to examine the lively presence of water infrastructure in Owen Wister’s The Virginian (1902). In Wister’s novel, humans and animals assemble around channels of water, and the fight to divert and control water systems initiates both violence and new alliances. Instead of relegating water infrastructures to the inconsequential background, this paper asks what ditches, water storage containers, and reservoirs can contribute to our understanding of gender and human-environmental relations at the turn of the twentieth century. It argues that Progressive Era water development places “manliness” at risk at the same time that it defines it. Since thirst, aridity, and mobility contribute to the making of hard, manly men in Wister’s view, irrigation emerges as a potent challenge to the novel’s hard logic. Resumen     Este trabajo combina perspectivas del campo de historia de la tecnología medioambiental con la ecocrítica elemental para examinar la vida asociada a la infraestructura hidráulica en The Virginian (1902) de Owen Wister. En esta obra de Wister, tanto seres humanos como animales se reúnen alrededor de canales de agua, en los que la lucha para desviar y controlar los sistemas hidráulicos desencadenan episodios de violencia y nuevas alianzas. En lugar de relegar estas infraestructuras a un papel carente de significado, este texto cuestiona cómo han podido contribuir las acequias, los las balsas de agua, y los depósitos a nuestra concepción del género y de las relaciones entre los seres humanos y medioambiente durante los inicios del siglo veinte. Por último, este trabajo pretende establecer que el desarollo hidráulico durante la “época progresista” en los Estados Unidos ha definido “la masculinidad” y, al mismo tiempo, la ha puesto en riesgo. Puesto que, como sugiere la novela, la sed, la aridez, y la mobilidad contribuyen a la formación de hombres duros y masculinos, el sistema de regadío se configura como un desafío potente a las lógicas racionalistas de la novela 

GOVERNMENT/BUSINESS SYNERGY: EARLY AMERICAN INNOVATIONS IN BUDGETING AND COST ACCOUNTING

1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Penny Marquette ◽  
Richard K. Fleischman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Cost Accounting ◽  
American Government ◽  
Significant Cost ◽  
Industrial Environment ◽  
Early American ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
And Control ◽  
Governmental Budgeting

This paper examines certain interactions between American government and business which resulted in important innovations in the areas of budgeting and cost accounting early in the twentieth century. The evidence suggests that budgeting methods were initially developed by municipal reformers of the Progressive era and were subsequently adapted by business for planning and control purposes. In like fashion, standard costing and variance analysis were significant cost accounting techniques born to an industrial environment which came to contribute markedly to a continuing improvement of governmental budgeting procedures.

‘A magic science’: rock music as a recording art

Popular Music ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 195-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
Sound Recording ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
Order And Disorder ◽  
Twentieth Century Music ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
And Control ◽  
Jimi Hendrix ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Jimi Hendrix once claimed ‘I'm working on music to be completely, utterly a magic science’ (Henderson 1981, p. 337). It is a description that fits not just the best of Hendrix's own music, but the best of all that late twentieth-century music in which the ability to capture and control sounds (on tape or disc) has become a means of extending old musical forms and traditions, and establishing new possibilities for them. Throughout his career, Hendrix drew nourishment from his musical roots in black traditions, but it was not until the summer of 1967 that he plugged himself fully into the new possibilities opened up by the technology of sound recording. Hendrix had already proved himself something of a musical ‘magician’ in the ancient sense in that he attempted, through music, to mediate between order and disorder, using his guitar as an expressive extension of himself to flirt with the danger and power of musical disintegration (for the parallel with non-Western musical practice see Shepherd 1977, p. 72; Mellers 1973, pp. 24–6; Clarke 1982, pp. 227–9).

scholarly journals Epidemiological aspects of human and canine visceral leishmaniasis in Montes Claros, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, between 2007 and 2009

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 561-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrícia Fernandes do Prado ◽  
Marília Fonseca Rocha ◽  
Joel Fontes de Sousa ◽  
Dênio Iuri Caldeira ◽  
Gustavo Fontes Paz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Visceral Leishmaniasis ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis ◽  
Disease Notification ◽  
Epidemiological Features ◽  
Male Patients ◽  
And Control ◽  
The City

INTRODUCTION: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is an expanding zoonosis in Brazil and is becoming urbanized in several Brazilian regions. This study aims to describe the epidemiological features of human and canine VL in the municipality of Montes Claros, State of Minas Gerais, by focusing on their spatial distribution. METHODS: Data concerning human cases and reactive dogs for VL from 2007 to 2009 were obtained from the Information System for Disease Notification (SINAN) and from reports of the local Centro de Controle de Zoonoses (CCZ), respectively. The addresses of human and canine cases have been georeferenced and localized in thematic maps, allowing their spatial visualization as well as the identification of areas at risk of VL transmission. RESULTS: Ninety-five cases of human VL were reported in the period. The 0-9-year-old age group (48.4%) was the most affected, within which the majority consisted of male patients (64%). Of the samples collected for the canine serological survey, 2,919 (6.3%) were reactive to VL. The spatial localization of these cases shows that the disease was scattered in the urban area of the municipality. Areas showing a higher dissemination risk were concentrated in the central, northwestern, and southern regions of the city. CONCLUSIONS: Identifying the areas most at risk in urban Montes Claros may help guide actions toward local epidemiological vigilance and control.

scholarly journals World Domination Games and its Impact on the 21st Century

2017 ◽  
Vol II (1) ◽  
pp. 44-56
Author(s):  
Haseeb Ur Rehman Warrich ◽  
Muhammad Rehman ◽  
Sahrish Jamil
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth ◽  
And Control ◽  
Great Game ◽  
Game Changer

No other element impacted the historical conditions of the preceding 100 years to such an extent as the war to secure and control the world's reserves of petroleum. Sustainable economic growth after 1873, that discouraged British Empire, arose mechanical economies in Europe. Central Asia remained the object of rivalries and machination by the giant countries of the Europe. World Domination Games started from Pillage Games that lead towards many “Games” such as Great Game, New Great Game, Game Changer and New Game Changer. All prefect countries desire to have a control over the world for the last two centuries. Their efforts turn into numerous clashes and clashes led towards wars. In the twentieth century wars transformed not only their names but also their genetics that has profound impact on the 21st Century. This laid foundation of the emerging new superpowers in every century.

scholarly journals Hacia un estudio multidisciplinar del proceso de globalización

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-102
Author(s):  
Adrián Osvaldo Ravier
Keyword(s):  
Spontaneous Order ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Multidisciplinary Study ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Legal Sanctions ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Lex Mercatoria ◽  
The Government ◽  
Multidisciplinary Perspective ◽  
And Control

The objective of this article is to study the process of globalization from a multidisciplinary perspective. First, through a historical and evolutionary focus, where we will observe that the globalization is an institution originated in the spontaneous order, just as they are also the division of labor, the price system, the money, the law or the language. Second, through the economic analysis, where we confront the «free trade» —that, through the elimination of barriers, results in the dynamic entrepreneur creativity— versus what Gabriel Zanotti named as the «globalization of the interventionism» —where the government tries to plan and control everything, always generating results that are just the opposite to those it looked for—. Third, we develop a legal and institutional research, analyzing the advantages of the arbitration and the non legal sanctions, as a complement of the public enforcement. Finally, we go into the implications that the globalization exercises on the culture, criticizing the nationalism and the «fenced culture», to give place to an open and «cosmopolitan» society. Key words: Globalization process. Multidisciplinary study. Spontaneous order. Interventionism. Myths of the international trade. Arbitration. Lex Mercatoria. Enforcement. Nationalism. Fenced culture. Austrian School of Economics. JEL codes: B25, B53, E32, E44, F02. Resumen: El objetivo de este artículo es estudiar el proceso de globalización desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar. Primero, a través de un enfoque histórico y evolutivo, donde observaremos que la globalización es una institución originada en el orden espontáneo, tal como lo son también la división del trabajo, el sistema de precios, la moneda, el derecho o el lenguaje. Se-gundo, a través del análisis económico, donde confrontamos la «libertad de comercio» —que, a través de la eliminación de barreras, da lugar a la dinámica creatividad empresarial— versus lo que Gabriel Zanotti denominó como la «globalización del intervencionismo» —donde el Estado todo lo intenta planificar y controlar, generando siempre resultados contrarios a los buscados—. Tercero, desarrollamos una investigación jurídico-institucional, analizando las ventajas del arbitraje y las sanciones no legales, como complemento del enforcement público. Finalmente, nos adentramos en las implicaciones que la globalización ejerce sobre la cultura, criticando el na-cionalismo y la «cultura alambrada», para dar lugar a una sociedad abierta y «cosmopolita». Palabras clave: Proceso de globalización. Estudio multidisciplinar. Orden espontáneo. Intervencionismo. Mitos del comercio internacional. Arbitraje. Lex Mercatoria. Enforcement. Nacionalismo. Cultura alambrada. Escuela Austriaca de Economía. Códigos JEL: B25, B53, E32, E44, F02.

scholarly journals Gremmeniella abietina (Lagerb.) Morelet: Distribution in Serbia and Montenegro, significance and control

2008 ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragan Karadzic ◽  
Slobodan Milanovic
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Scots Pine ◽  
Pathogenic Fungi ◽  
Infection Process ◽  
Serbia And Montenegro ◽  
Copper Fungicides ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
Dead Trees ◽  
Conifer Plantations ◽  
And Control

Fungus G. abietina is one of the most dangerous pathogenic fungi occurring in conifer plantations and Pinus species are especially at risk. Among pines, the most susceptible species is Austrian pine, and particularly endangered plantations are between 8 and 25 years of age. This fungus was found in Serbia and Montenegro on Austrian pine, Scots pine and spruce, but it was only in mountainous regions (Kopaonik, Vlasina, Goc, Durmitor). G. abietina forms both stages (anamorph and teleomorph) in its development. The imperfect form is far more significant for the infection process, i.e. the pycnidial stage and generally all infections are caused by conidia (pycnospores). Apothecia will be formed on the bark only two years after tree dying. In the severely infected plantations, all dead trees should be felled and removed, and the remaining trees should be treated with copper fungicides.

Response to William E. Connolly's review of Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power and Performance in Yemen

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 298-300
Author(s):  
Lisa Wedeen
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
Power And Resistance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Control ◽  
Points Of Resistance

William E. Connolly's review of Peripheral Visions is what any author should want, a thoughtful, appreciative account of the book's merits and an invitation to push aspects of the argument further than the book currently does. One point of clarification: I did not mean to suggest that Foucault's work should be read only in terms of its emphasis on coherence and control, or that my own is intended as a blanket critique of his. My understanding of political power and resistance is beholden to Foucault's insofar as he shows how power depends on multiple points of resistance. He thus describes how existing mechanisms of social control get reproduced and yet are also vulnerable to creativity, innovation, and surprise. My point was to challenge Foucault-inspired scholars of colonialism, in particular, who tend to exaggerate the capacities of colonial administrations and to neglect not only outright challenges to colonial rule, but also the ways in which colonial rule could, at times, be irrelevant to inhabitants' political experience. The goal was to distinguish between the stated claims of colonial rulers and colonialism's actual effects. At stake is not simply a reading of Foucault, of course, but a sense of what matters politically—whether scholars emphasize the reproductive power of institutions and ideas or whether they focus on how reproduction places those very ideas and institutions at risk. I want to chart a middle course here, neither exaggerating coherence nor romanticizing resistance.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Expressive Culture ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Cultural Negotiation ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

This is an interdisciplinary study of how Kiowa men and women made, wore, displayed and discussed expressive culture. Kiowa men and women used the arts to represent new ways of understanding and representing Kiowa identity that resonated with their changed circumstances during the Progressive Era and twentieth century. Kiowas represented themselves individually and collectively through cultural production that emphasized the significance of change and cultural negotiation, gender, the ties and tensions over tribally specific and intertribal identities.

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