scholarly journals Parramatta Female Factory Precinct as a Site of Conscience: Using Institutional Pasts to Shape Just Legal Futures

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Steele ◽  
Bonney Djuric ◽  
Lily Hibberd ◽  
Fiona Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Institutional Confinement ◽  
A Site

Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Association through its Memory Project is activating PFFP as Australia’s first officially recognised Site of Conscience. Through the Memory Project, survivors of Parramatta Girls Home are using art practices and social history to disrupt dominant, official narratives that have silenced their experiences, to put their memories of the Home into action and to prevent future injustices of institutionalisation. For law students and legal practitioners the work of Parragirls through the Memory Project offers possibilities for confronting the complicity of Australian legal systems and legal actors in the harms and injustices of institutional confinement. It provides examples and new methods to direct them towards practices of collective ethical accountability in order to shaping more just future legal frameworks of institutional confinement. In support of this argument the article discusses a recent collaboration between the authors to engage law students in the Precinct through an excursion to the site.

SITE-SPECIFIC ART-PRACTICE AS AN ALTERNATIVE FORMAT OF THEATRE ART

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
I. A. Krilov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Audience Participation ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Xxist Century ◽  
A Site ◽  
Unstable Dynamics

The author of the article attempts to identify and distinguish traditional and alternative formats of theatre art established by the early 20s in the space of home theatre. The author considers the determinants of the emergence and spread of art practices in the domestic theatre art and refers them to the alternative formats of theatre art. The culture of complicity (participation), producer strategies of postdramatism and digitalization of daily occurrence are presented as fundamental grounds for the emergence of such a non-classical creative model as a site-specific art practice in the landscape of Russian theatre art of the XXIst century. The unstable dynamics of the attractiveness of the non-classical creative model in the Russian theatre space is caused by a number of reasons explicitly presented in the article. The accumulated home theatre experience is developing and being realized by the early 20s in traditional and alternative formats of theatre art, which simultaneously influence each other. The actualization of site-specific art practice is evaluated by the author as a positive phenomenon that allows to update and to expand the arsenal of producer strategies, to discover an innovative approach to creating an aesthetic event, to transform the audience participation within the framework of home theatre art and the culture of participation.

scholarly journals Balancing Memory and Material at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-29
Author(s):  
Gabrielle A. Berlinger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Social History ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
The Public ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Time Capsule ◽  
A Site

Abstract: Founded in a nationally landmarked apartment building on the ever-gentrifying Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum is an historic site of immigrant social history and material culture. Constructed in 1864 and occupied by over 7,000 immigrants until its closing in 1935, this building has withstood constantly rising visitorship each year since its opening as a museum in 1988. With apartment spaces restored for the public to explore without roped-off restriction, this time capsule of domestic immigrant life requires continual maintenance to preserve its historic physical fabric. Through interviews with the Museum staff and the Preservation Advisory Committee (conservators, architectural historians, curators), as well as documentation of technical processes carried out in the preservation process, this ethnographic study investigates the questions and compromises that arise in the preservation of the tangible and intangible heritage contained within an historic structure in constant use. Which narratives are reconstructed through the Museum’s decisions to restore certain material features of the building while allowing others to decay? What are best practices for interpretation and preservation when a museum’s success results in the gradual destruction of its main artifact (the building) through use? This study explores the intersection of museum mission and practice, heritage construction, and historic preservation at a site both sustained and destroyed by its increasing success.

scholarly journals Adaptive Reuse of Sport Stadiums and Collective Memories: Rexall Place as a Site for the Continuation of the Oilers Dynasty and Civic Pride

INvoke ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
SUSA Submissions ◽  
Alec Skillings
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site

Sports stadiums work to shape the identity of cities and reflect their cultural attitudes. From the Luzhniki Sports Complex’s material representation of Soviet Russia’s political leanings and ideologies to the Houston Astrodome’s display of technological advancement, stadia architecture has strong connections to regional zeitgeists. In this paper, I explain the importance of stadia architecture and how it is embedded in the collective memories of sports fans and citizens. As well, I explain how stadia architecture carries political and social consequences. Adaptive reuse or demolition of abandoned stadia also carries social and political consequences as stadia have the ability to embody the social history and civic imagination of their cities. I then present the case of Edmonton's Rexall Place arena, and provide an account of why it is important to repurpose the structure as a place for hockey. Ultimately Edmonton's collective memories and identity are held within the cement walls of Rexall Place, and the demolition of the structure would be detrimental to the hockey-centric civic identity and history.

scholarly journals The Sonic Intra-Face of a Noisy Feminist Social Kitchen

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana España Keller
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Social Geography ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site

This paper asks what is the value of transforming the kitchen into a sonic performative work and public site for art and social practice. A Public Kitchen is formed by recreating the private and domestic space of a kitchen into a public space through a sonic performance artwork. The kitchen table is a platform for exploring, repositioning and amplifying kitchen tools as material phenomena through electronic and manual manipulation into an immersive sonic performance installation. This platform becomes a collaborative social space, where somatic movement and sensory, sonic power of the repositioned kitchen tools are built on a relational architecture of iterative sound performances that position the art historical and the sociopolitical, transforming disciplinary interpretations of the body and technology as something that is not specifically exclusively human but post-human. A Public Kitchen represents a pedagogical strategy for organizing and responding collectively to the local, operating as an independent nomadic event that speaks through a creative practice that is an unfolding process. (Re)imagining the social in a Public Kitchen produces noisy affects in a sonic intra-face that can contribute to transforming our social imaginations, forming daring dissonant narratives that feed post-human ethical practices and feminist genealogies. This paper reveals what matters—a feminist struggle invaluable in channeling the intra-personal; through the entanglement of the self, where language, meaning and subjectivity are relational to human difference and to what is felt from the social, what informs from a multi-cultural nomadic existence and diffractive perspective. The labored body is entangled with post-human contingencies of food preparation, family and social history, ritual, tradition, social geography, local politics, and women’s oppression; and is resonant and communicates as a site where new sonic techniques of existence are created and experiences shared.

scholarly journals Remedies to Fraud in Documentary Letters of Credit: A Comparative Perspective / Opravné Opatrenia Pri Podvodoch S Dokumentárnymi Akreditívami: Komparatívna Perspektíva

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Hamed Alavi
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Letters Of Credit ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
American Legal System ◽  
Article 5

Abstract Article 4 of the Unified Customs and Practices of Documentary Letters of Credit establishes the notion of autonomy principle by separating credit from underlying contract between account party and beneficiary. Article 5 by recognizing the autonomy principle confirms that effectuate the payment under credit, banks only deal with documents and not with goods. As a result, while documentary letters of credit are meant to facilitate the process of international trade, their sole dependency on compliance of presented documents to bank by beneficiary to actualize the payment will increase the risk of fraud and forgery in the course of their operation. Interestingly, UCP (currently UCP600) takes a silent status regarding the problem of fraud in international LC operation and leaves the ground open for national laws to provide remedies to affected parties by fraudulent beneficiary. National Laws have different approaches to the problem of fraud in general and fraud in international LC operation in particular which makes the access of affected parties to possible remedies complicated and difficult. Current paper tries to find answer to the questions of (i) what available remedies are provided to affected parties in international LC fraud by different legal systems? (ii) And what are conditions for benefiting from such remedies under different legal systems? In achieving its objective, paper will be divided in two main parts to study remedies provided by intentional legal frameworks as well as the ones offered by national laws. Part one will study the position of UCP and UNCITRAL Convention on Independent Guarantees and Standby Letters of Credit (UNCITRAL Convention) and remedies, which they provide to LC fraud in international trade. Part two in contrary will study available remedies to LC fraud and condition for access them under English and American legal system.

scholarly journals Can Counter Histories Disturb the Present? Repohistory’s Street Signs Projects, 1992–1999

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Mark Donnelly
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ernesto Laclau ◽  
The Past ◽  
Street Sign ◽  
Memory Culture ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Historical Past

SummaryThis paper argues that where appropriations or invocations of the past have contributed to projects of social and political change, they have usually done so with little or no recourse to the historical past. Instead, activists and campaigners have used various forms of vernacular past-talk to unsettle those temporary fixings of ‘common sense’ that limit thinking about current political and social problems. The example of such past-talk discussed here is the work of the art-activist collective REPOhistory, which sought between 1989 and 2000 to disrupt the symbolic patterning of New York’s official and homogenized public memory culture by making visible (‘repossessing’) overlooked and repressed episodes from the city’s past. In effect, they challenged the ways in which history’s dominance of past-talk within the public sphere was constituted by exclusions of subjects on grounds of gender, ethnicity and socio-economic status. REPOhistory fused politically-engaged art practices with Walter Benjamin’s belief in the redemptive potential of dialectical encounters between past and present. To assess the value of their art-as-activism projects (“artivism”), this article will situate REPOhistory’s practices within a frame of ideas provided by Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Ernesto Laclau, and Chantal Mouffe. In a series of street sign installations that mixed visual art, urban activism, social history, and radical pedagogy, REPOhistory exemplified why the past is too important to be trusted to professional historians.

scholarly journals Experimental work of forming professional foreign language competence of law students

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SPE1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Demchenko Dina ◽  
Oleg Shynkarov ◽  
Liliia Zaichenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Experimental Work ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
International Activities

The effectiveness of the system of professional training of future specialists is mostly defined by how consistently it is taken into account. Both students and professors understand the dependence of success of legal activity on the level of formed professional foreign language competence. Professional foreign language competence of future representative of legal profession, prioritize knowledge of foreign professional terminology, knowledge of legal systems of foreign countries. In addition to knowledge, students and professors noted the importance of applying this knowledge in practical international activities to achieve the success in formation of foreign language competence of future lawyers.

scholarly journals New robust weighted averaging- and model-based methods for assessing trait-environment relationships.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cajo J ter Braak
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Models ◽  
Test Procedure ◽  
Weighted Averaging ◽  
Test Statistics ◽  
Regression Methods ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Weak Evidence ◽  
Community Weighted Mean ◽  
Common Observation ◽  
A Site

Statistical analysis of trait-environment association is challenging owing to the lack of a common observation unit: Community weighted mean regression (CWM) uses site points, multilevel models use species points, and the fourth corner correlation uses all species-site combinations. This situation invites the development of new methods capable of using all observation-levels. To this end, new multilevel and weighted averaging-based regression methods are proposed. Compared to existing methods, the new multilevel method has additional site-related random effects that are unrelated to the observed environment; they represent the unknowns in the environment that interact with the trait. The new weighted averaging method combines site-level CWM with a species-level regression of Species Niche Centroids (SNC) on to the trait. The regressions are weighted by Hill's effective number (N2) of occurrences of each species and the N2 -diversity of a site, and are subsequently combined in a sequential test procedure known as the max-test. Using the test statistics of these new methods, the permutation-based max test provides strong statistical evidence for trait-environment association in a plant community dataset, where existing methods show (very) weak evidence. The powers of the two new methods were similar in a simulation study based on this dataset. Both methods can be extended i) to account for phylogeny and spatial autocorrelation and ii) to select functional traits and environmental variables from a greater set of variables.

Legal Framework for Industrial Hubs

2020 ◽  
pp. 966-984
Author(s):  
Won Kidane ◽  
Belachew M. Fikre
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Parallel Systems ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
General Applicability ◽  
Origin And Evolution ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Industrial hubs, as instruments of economic policy, are unapologetic creations of the law. They take different forms but are essentially realized through a regime of waivers and exceptions to the rules of general applicability. The legal framework, quintessentially domestic in nature, is an embodiment of the Latin maxim lex specialis derogat legi generali. The lex specialis is ipso facto a function of each domestic system. Any exposition of the institutional and legal framework of industrial hubs is thus necessarily an appraisal of a series of parallel systems of law in varied jurisdictions representing a wide range of legal systems. The fundamental commonalities of the features of this regime of waivers and exceptions do, however, permit a systematic and unified appraisal. This chapter identifies the conceptual origin and evolution of the institutional and legal frameworks of industrial hubs, evaluates their function in a comparative context, and assesses the extent of harmonization across jurisdictions and the possible emergence of some useful transnational best practices.

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