Shopping, Identity, and Place

The (almost) universal extension of capitalist production and distribution processes has spread the “culture of consumption” to virtually every corner of the globe. This chapter discusses the relationship between spaces of consumption—shopping malls in particular—and the processes of identity construction. It begins with a brief review of the first works to examine consumption and its spaces without viewing them as neutral backgrounds where the distribution of goods would take place, but rather as physical and symbolic spaces in their own right. Further on, recent approaches that have been most influenced by symbolic interactionism are also analyzed. These perspectives, by putting the actor’s point of view and their concrete daily practices at the center of research, understood the processes of identity negotiation and the practice of shopping as an ordinary, contextual, and situated activity.

THE STATE OF THE NATION: A 50-STATE COVID-19 SURVEY REPORT #7: UPDATE ON VOTE BY MAIL

We surveyed 19,052 individuals across all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. The survey was conducted on 10-26 July 2020 by PureSpectrum via an online, nonprobability sample, with state-level representative quotas for race/ethnicity, age, and gender (for methodological details on the other waves, see covidstates.org). In addition to balancing on these dimensions, we reweighted our data using demographic characteristics to match the U.S. population with respect to race/ethnicity, age, gender, education, and living in urban, suburban, or rural areas. This was the seventh in a series of surveys we have been conducting since April 2020, examining attitudes and behaviors regarding COVID-19 in the United States.Overall, support for voting by mail is quite high, with 64% of likely voters in our survey1 supporting making it easier to vote by mail, and only 23% opposing.Similarly, more Americans who say they plan to vote in 2020 support than oppose universal extension of vote by mail. A total of 66% of likely voters report that they would support giving every American the right to vote by mail in November, with 22% opposing.

TILTING CHAINS OF NEGATIVE CURVES ON RATIONAL SURFACES

We introduce the notion of exact tilting objects, which are partial tilting objects $T$ inducing an equivalence between the abelian category generated by $T$ and the category of modules over the endomorphism algebra of $T$ . Given a chain of sufficiently negative rational curves on a rational surface, we construct an exceptional sequence whose universal extension is an exact tilting object. For a chain of $(-2)$ -curves, we obtain an equivalence with modules over a well-known algebra.

Histoire par les noms in Ancient Galatia

For the two centuries following the Galatian occupation of central Anatolia after 278 BC, only a few nearly exclusively Celtic names of tribal or mercenary leaders have been transmitted. In the first century BC, the first examples of Anatolian names re-emerge in our evidence, and a few Greco-Macedonian ones alongside them. By the beginning of the second century AD, Roman names prevailed among Galatian aristocrats. This study also looks at the Phrygian and Celtic traditions that were sometimes hidden behind Greek or Roman façades: the extent of such complex naming practices reveals the compatibility of embracing Hellenism or Romanness with an awareness of the Galatian or Phrygian cultural heritage still in the second century. Such local peculiarities faded away in the third century with the universal extension of the Roman franchise and the spread of Christian names.

EXTENDED BOTT–VIRASORO ALGEBRA, SEMIDIRECT PRODUCT, ⋆-LIE ALGEBRA OF DIFFEOMORPHISM AND NONCOMMUTATIVE INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS

We study noncommutative theory of a coadjoint representation of a universal extension of Vect (S1) ⋉ C∞(S1) algebra using the action of ⋆-deformed matrix Hill's operators Δ⋆ on the space of ⋆-deformed tensor densities. The centrally extended semidirect product algebra [Formula: see text] is a Lie algebra of extended semidirect product of the Bott–Virasoro group [Formula: see text]. The study of deformed diffeomorphisms, deformed semidirect product algebra and deformed Lie derivative action of Δ⋆ on ⋆ deformed tensor-densities on S1 allow us to construct noncommutative two component Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equations, in particular, we derive the noncommutative Ito equation. This leads to a geometric formulation of ⋆-deformed quantization of the centrally extended semidirect product algebra [Formula: see text] and two component noncommutative KdV equations.