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Dasgupta, Rohit K., and Debanuj Dasgupta. "Intimate Subjects and Virtual Spaces: Rethinking Sexuality as a Category for Intimate Ethnographies." Sexualities 21, no. 5-6 (March 30, 2017): 932–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716677285.
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Social networking sites and digital technologies have created opportunities for young people in India to establish virtual intimate connections. In this article, the authors analyze the intimate exchanges between young men on two different digital platforms – Facebook and Planet Romeo. An analysis of the intimate virtual exchanges reveals technologies of queer neoliberal subject formation within contemporary India. Queer neoliberal subject formation refers to the emergence of a sexual subject of rights, one that is a consumer-citizen within the Indian free-market economy. The article highlights two ways in which bodies are being queered within present day India. First, the authors discuss the case of run-away young men, whose bodies are marked as failure, a kind of ‘delinquent’ subject by an ensemble of state and civil-society formations. The young men are escaping violence from male elders, and poor living conditions in peri-urban Kolkata. Their bodies come to signify a queer figure within neoliberal notions of success and enterprise. Second, they interrogate the ways in which homosexuality is an emergent juridico–political category in India. The Supreme Court of India ruling on 11 December 2013, which reinstated the anti-sodomy provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC 377), is the site for the sedimentation of ‘homosexual’ as a subject of legal rights. The homosexual is being presented as a subject of conjugal love. Conjugality is represented as a private good, as the right to consume intimacy within private space. Representation of intimacy and celebration of conjugal love is found through the growth of dating websites in India along with the proliferation of media texts such as memes, poems and illustrative images found online commemorating conjugality. Our ethnographic analysis of the virtual exchanges among runaway young men and young gay identified men reveal how neoliberal subject formation in India remains incomplete.
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Rotenberg, Ken J., and Jocelyn Hamel. "Social Interaction and Depression in Elderly Individuals." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 27, no. 4 (December 1988): 305–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/uy71-ku72-ytwb-j2lr.
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Forty-two elderly individuals received partial or complete testing on: (a) the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale; (b) frequency of social interaction (quantity of social interaction); and (c) round-robin reports of disclosures among peers, that yielded whether the persons had reciprocally intimate relationships (quality of social interaction). It was found that depression was: (a) negatively correlated with the measure of the quantity of social interaction entailing frequent conversations; and (b) contrary to expectation, positively correlated with having reciprocally intimate relationships. Also, the individuals' intimacy of disclosure to peers was not correlated with the intimacy of disclosure received from them; indicating a lack of reciprocity of self-disclosure. The findings were interpreted as showing that depression in elderly individuals is negatively related to having peers to “talk to” frequently, but positively related to having reciprocal exchanges of negative communications.
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Gagné, Mathew. "Nadir’s Intimate Biography." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 9, no. 2 (2016): 165–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18739865-00902004.
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In Beirut, gay hook-up and mobile apps have become popular among men who want to arrange sex. These apps generate a new means for men to explore possibilities in their intimate lives, impacting the ways they create fantastical imaginaries of self, others, and sexual and social encounters. Focusing on the intimate biography of Nadir, in this paper I examine the relationship between fantasy and information in these media. I examine how Nadir exchanges, consumes and arranges information via media to create fantastical imaginaries about possible sex and pleasure, and to control possible outcomes in his intimate life. Once Nadir moves his interactions offline, he relies on information flows to evaluate the strength of his intimate relations. This article contributes to debates on the role of fantasy in digital cultures by examining how fantasy in digital media becomes informational, grounded to sociocultural systems of signification and communications and is negotiated within imaginative horizons of intimate possibilities.
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Albu, Cristina. "Intimate Connections." Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 35, no. 1 (May 1, 2020): 39–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8085111.
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Through her versatile use of video technology, Nina Sobell explores nonverbal means of communication that interfere with normative modes of behavior and closely regulated interpersonal relationships. Deeply informed by the pursuit of intimate connections, her practice fosters reflection on how we modulate our sense of selfhood through interactions with others. This article examines Sobell’s video performances with chicken carcasses, instantiating the ambiguities of mother- infant relationships, in connection with her Brainwave Drawings, a series of installations based on biofeedback that unveils reciprocal influences between art participants’ psychic states. Even though these sets of works were developed during the same time frame (1974–82) and are equally concerned with bodily communication, they are almost never interpreted as conceptually related. Underscoring their mutual affiliation with a feminist agenda, this article argues that these works are deeply intertwined at the level of their interrogation of socially sanctioned forms of interaction. Embracing the dynamics of open systems, Sobell cultivates fluid forms of communication and exposes the invisible threads that connect us to others. She relies on technological mediation in order to advance a more complex understanding of the biological and social underpinnings of selfhood. Sobell’s works invite viewers to consider interpersonal exchanges that surpass linguistic forms of communication and reveal the porous thresholds between body and mind, self and other, nature and culture.
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Ellis, Robin. "Intimate Exchanges: Interpreting Borders in Hans-Christian Schmid's Lichter." German Studies Review 45, no. 1 (2022): 105–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2022.0006.
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Dukore, Bernard F. "Seriousness Redeemed by Frivolity: Ayckbourn's Intimate Exchanges." Modern Drama 53, no. 4 (2010): 447–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mdr.2010.0026.
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Deslandes, Suely Ferreira, Claudia Valéria Cardim da Silva, Juliana Marins Reeve, and Roberta Matassoli Duran Flach. "Nude Leaking: from moralization and gendered violence to empowerment." Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 27, no. 10 (October 2022): 3959–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-812320222710.07112022en.
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Abstract The “sphere of intimacy” is increasingly mediated by a socio-technical network inlaid with new meanings and readings in love and seduction games. In these affective-digital exchanges, nudes are essential in linking interest between partners, also setting spaces for power struggles and violence. This work aims to analyze the prevailing moralities, the emotional management, and the inclusion of the body in affirming autonomy and diversity identified in the statements of young people whose intimate contents were disseminated on the internet without their consent. We analyzed 20 videos of young YouTubers who had such an experience from the Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. The statements carry discursive forces of “venting”, “testimony”, and, above all, “counseling”. The narrated experiences highlight the dynamics of disseminating these intimate contents and how they differently affect the representations of face and social recognition of boys and girls. Handling suffering techniques vary between resignation in the face of patriarchal order and overcoming and autonomy discourses. We also highlight the initiatives of these young people in managing intimate images and a political stance on the use and expression of their bodies.
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Moon, Youngme. "Intimate Exchanges: Using Computers to Elicit Self‐Disclosure From Consumers." Journal of Consumer Research 26, no. 4 (March 2000): 323–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/209566.
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Placintar, Silvia-Emilia. "A conversation analysis approach to intimate letters." Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education 14, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 101–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.29302/jolie.2021.14.1.6.
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This paper explores the similarities between ordinary conversation and intimate letters, with focus on the devices used in the epistolary form to imitate the primary genre of conversational interaction. The comparison is based on a speech-based model that draws on Bakhtin’s pragmatic theory of the utterance and of speech genres and on the Conversation Analysis perspective, according to which conversational discourse emerges through the turn system and the sequential relationships within the turn-taking activity. The study concludes that epistolary form is an endeavour by the correspondents to compensate for the absence of shared time and space through such means as negotiation of meaning through internal reading, writing to the moment, mapping the writer’s coordinates, the I-You reversibility, and the achievement of such joint projects as adjacency pairs or longer series of turn exchanges. All these devices are illustrated based on a selection of letters from the renowned courtship correspondence between Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett (1845-1846).
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Nylan, Michael. "On the antique rhetoric of friendship." Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques 68, no. 4 (December 19, 2014): 1225–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/asia-2014-0052.
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Abstract Rhetorical tropes of intimate friendship (you 友) employed in the classical era in China present a stark contrast to those that survive in Latin and classical Greek sources. For this ideal form of friendship was described far less often in terms of the material and psychic advantages that can accrue from alliances outside the immediate family circle than in terms of the propensity for true friendships to foster the development of the singular traits and potentials of each partner in the intimate friendship. This essay argues, contra many social historians, that moderns cannot extract any underlying social realities from the early discussions of the theme, even if our sources allow us to see how certain social exchanges were construed, valued, and promoted by members of the governing elite.
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Tallent, Alistaire. "Intimate Exchanges: The Courtesan Narrative and Male Homosocial Desire in La Dame aux camélias." French Forum 39, no. 1 (2014): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/frf.2014.0001.
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Lee, Juhee, and Jayoung Song. "The impact of group composition and task design on foreign language learners’ interactions in mobile-based intercultural exchanges." ReCALL 32, no. 1 (July 2, 2019): 63–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0958344019000119.
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AbstractThis study examines the impact of group composition (one-on-one vs. multiple-to-multiple) and task design (student-selected vs. teacher-assigned) on undergraduate foreign language learners’ interactions in a mobile-based intercultural exchange. The participants, 27 Korean students learning English as a foreign language and 27 American students learning Korean as a foreign language, interacted in pairs and groups via mobile phones to complete weekly tasks for eight weeks. This study used mixed methods to analyze the data from mobile chat scripts, questionnaires, and interviews. The results indicated that the one-on-one and multiple-to-multiple groups did not differ significantly regarding contact frequency or number of written chats. However, one-on-one and multiple-to-multiple interactions did differ with regard to the quality of the interactions, reflecting the unique nature of each group composition. A one-on-one relationship promoted a higher level of intimacy and friendship, thus rendering it appropriate for providing linguistic and emotional support in learning foreign languages. In contrast, multiple-to-multiple communications were found to be more beneficial for learning about different perspectives on the target cultures. In terms of task design, teacher-assigned tasks guided students to engage in productive interactions effectively, whereas student-selected tasks elicited their personal investment in the tasks. Supporting social interdependence theory (Johnson & Johnson, 1989, 2009), we argue that the establishment of intimate relationships among group members may be the key to quality interactions in mobile-based intercultural exchanges.
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Dorson, James. "Intimate Exchanges: Work, Affect, and Exploitation in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth." American Studies in Scandinavia 46, no. 1 (February 1, 2014): 55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v46i1.5150.
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The opposition between the world of work and the exchanges that constitute it, on the one hand, and that of intimacy and affect, on the other, has been a rich source of criticism on Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth ever since its publication in 1905. Through a close rereading of the novel in terms of emotional labor, this essay argues that the novel is less concerned with questioning the confluence of work and intimacy in the late nineteenth century than with the problems arising from attempts to separate them. By thematizing the problem of compensation for work that is meant to resemble leisure, The House of Mirth is read here as a story of the exploitation that results from refusing to recognize emotional labor as work. While calculation and intimacy are inextricably joined by economic necessity in the figure of Lily Bart, it is ultimately not the commodification of intimacy that destroys her, but the compulsive search for “the real Lily Bart” that her circle of friends engage in.
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Stein, Allan R. "The ion-pair mechanism and bimolecular displacement at saturated carbon. VI. Racemization and radio-bromide exchange for substituted 1-phenylbromoethanes; solvent effects." Canadian Journal of Chemistry 65, no. 2 (February 1, 1987): 363–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/v87-062.
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Racemization and radio-bromide exchange kinetics for 1-phenylbromoethanes in acetonitrile and in nitromethane using tetrabutylammonium bromide are reported. The results, together with those previously reported for acetone solutions, provide direct empirical support for the ion-pair mechanism for nucleophilic substitution at saturated carbon. Changing the substituents on the phenyl from the 4-nitro through to the 3,4-dimethyl substrate and the solvent from acetone to the more polar acetonitrile and nitromethane shifts the transition state for bromide substitution from an early to a late stage of the equilibria series substrate [Formula: see text] intimate ion pair [Formula: see text] various solvated ion pairs [Formula: see text] free or dissociated ions. For all the substrates in acetone and, for the species giving the less stable carbocations, in acetonitrile and nitromethane, both racemizations and exchanges are bimolecular. In the latter solvents, the substrates giving the more stable carbocations show mixed kinetics.
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Hicks, Nytasia. "LIVING-APART-TOGETHER RELATIONSHIPS: EXPLORING OLDER ADULT BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVES ON CAREGIVING EXCHANGES." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S911—S912. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.3325.
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Abstract Recent research suggests that the preference for living-apart-together (LAT) relationships, where individuals are committed to one another but reside in separate households, has increased among older adults. However, older adult LAT couples prefer not to exchange care to maintain autonomy. In this study, we examine future expectations of spousal caregiving exchanges among older adult black women in LAT relationships. Eleven black women ages 60-74 (married and unmarried) completed two semi-structured phone interviews about future spousal caregiving expectations as to receiving and providing emotional, financial, and physical support. Regarding providing spousal care, findings from this qualitative descriptive study suggest that participants were consistent in their intent to provide emotional support, yet divided in visualizing themselves providing both financial and physical support for a spouse. As to receiving care from a spouse, participants envisioned their spouses providing emotional support, but responses were inconsistent on the expectation of spouses providing financial and physical support. Participants anticipate receiving emotional and physical support from their adult children and/or close family members instead of spouses. Autonomy, level of commitment, and the exchange of health information were also identified as core concepts. This study has implications for applications to different intimate relationships regarding living arrangements, to professionals supporting caregiving families, and to further studies of family gerontology.
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Karhio, Anne. "‘These shirts I borrow from the Finnish’: the Kanteletar and the fabric of loss in Peter Sirr’s ‘A Journal’." Review of Irish Studies in Europe 2, no. 1 (March 19, 2018): 208–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.32803/rise.v2i1.1726.
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This essay examines the personal, cultural and linguistic exchanges explored through textile metaphors in Peter Sirr’s 1994 poetic sequence “A Journal” (from the collection The Ledger of Fruitful Exchange). In this sequence, Sirr draws on The Kanteletar, a collection of Finnish folk verse originally published 1840-1841 by Elias Lönnrot, who also compiled the more widely known folk epic The Kalevala. Sirr’s adoption of the Finnish poems’ textile imagery allows him to interrogate the complexities of personal and cultural communication, as the sequence charts the end of a relationship between the poem’s speaker and his Finnish lover. Textiles assume multiple functions as metaphors and material objects: they act as personal and cultural references, as formal and structural devices, and as symbolic manifestations of intimate, emotional crisis. Sirr’s engagement with Finnish folk verse is thus thematic as well as formal, and articulates a desire to inhabit the lost lover’s idiom through numerous attempts of linguistic and cultural translation, and the literal and figurative processes of stitching and weaving.
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Bonizzoni, Paola. "Catene d'oro, sangue e amore: famiglie migranti e vita economica tra dimensione locale e transnazionale." MONDI MIGRANTI, no. 3 (March 2009): 39–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/mm2008-003003.
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- The aim of this paper is to analyze the economic and solidarity practices that characterize immigrant family life. Immigrants' intimate relationships often extend beyond Italy, and their life course trajectories, constellated by (more or less prolonged) separations and progressive reunifications, pose a challenge to conventional frameworks regarding family exchanges, circuits of help and consumption patterns. Choices such as building a house or raising children, are often made on a transnational basis, considering both sending and receiving context's resources, limits and constraints. At the same time, re-locating family ties it's not an immediate choice nor an easy process, and the "myth of return" often shapes immigrant's imaginated future and hopes, after many years spent away from their home country. Drawing on interviews realized with immigrant parents and teens, we are going to unfold the peculiarity of their experiences, rediscussing some of the more commonly used assumptions concerning the amount, the logics and the directions of family members' economic exchanges and responsibilities, especially in terms of gender and generations.keywords Immigrant families, family solidarity, transnationalism.
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Fauque, Danielle M. E. "An Englishman abroad: Charles Blagden's visit to Paris in 1783." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 62, no. 4 (October 13, 2008): 373–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2008.0041.
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Summary Once the preliminaries of peace had been signed in January 1783, after the war of American independence, exchanges between British and French men of science resumed their normal course. On a visit to Paris in 1783, the francophile Charles Blagden (with the encouragement of Joseph Banks) made a number of contacts that fostered relations between the Royal Society and the Académie royale des sciences. In the course of this and several subsequent visits to France, Blagden became especially intimate with the chemist Claude-Louis Berthollet. His correspondence, now in the Royal Society, is a rich source for our understanding of some of the leading scientific debates of the day, in particular concerning the nature of water, which forms the main subject of this article.
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Peters, Michael A., and Benjamin Green. "Ecological Civilizationalism: Greater Educational Cooperation and Sustainable Development under the bri." Beijing International Review of Education 3, no. 1 (March 30, 2021): 5–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25902539-03010001.
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Abstract Ecological Civilization (EC) represents a constituted effort on the part of China to utilize its developing regional linkages to promote a form of globalization that places the bioeconomy as a foundational core of sustainable global development. This article first outlines how China, through a unique form of state-centric globalization-through-regionalism, has continued to develop cooperative networks based on global trade, infrastructure, and educational exchanges. Second, signaling a fundamental shift within the higher education (HE) landscape, we outline that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and its ever-increasing number of open and inclusive university partnerships, represents a rich avenue for people-to-people exchange within a third-space for scientific collaboration. Third, within both a shifting HE landscape (and the scholarly push to engage with a new postdigital scientific/philosophical paradigm) China’s pursuit of EC constitutes a form of biodigitalism which conceptualizes the bioeconomy as a pursuit of technological advancement that preserves and strengthens humanity’s intimate relationship with the natural world. Finally, we argue that building a BRI-ESD community undergirded by the biodigital ecopedagogy of EC will provide both the curriculum and educational space to more fully enact UNESCO’s ESD 2030 framework.
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Pringle, Elizabeth G., and Corrie S. Moreau. "Community analysis of microbial sharing and specialization in a Costa Rican ant–plant–hemipteran symbiosis." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284, no. 1850 (March 15, 2017): 20162770. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2770.
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Ants have long been renowned for their intimate mutualisms with trophobionts and plants and more recently appreciated for their widespread and diverse interactions with microbes. An open question in symbiosis research is the extent to which environmental influence, including the exchange of microbes between interacting macroorganisms, affects the composition and function of symbiotic microbial communities. Here we approached this question by investigating symbiosis within symbiosis. Ant–plant–hemipteran symbioses are hallmarks of tropical ecosystems that produce persistent close contact among the macroorganism partners, which then have substantial opportunity to exchange symbiotic microbes. We used metabarcoding and quantitative PCR to examine community structure of both bacteria and fungi in a Neotropical ant–plant–scale-insect symbiosis. Both phloem-feeding scale insects and honeydew-feeding ants make use of microbial symbionts to subsist on phloem-derived diets of suboptimal nutritional quality. Among the insects examined here, Cephalotes ants and pseudococcid scale insects had the most specialized bacterial symbionts, whereas Azteca ants appeared to consume or associate with more fungi than bacteria, and coccid scale insects were associated with unusually diverse bacterial communities. Despite these differences, we also identified apparent sharing of microbes among the macro-partners. How microbial exchanges affect the consumer-resource interactions that shape the evolution of ant–plant–hemipteran symbioses is an exciting question that awaits further research.
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Starosielski, Nicole. "Thermal vision." Journal of Visual Culture 18, no. 2 (August 2019): 147–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470412919841019.
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This article describes thermal vision, the ways of seeing invisible thermal emissions and exchanges. While most studies of thermal vision have focused on the deployment of infrared imaging in military and police operations, the author articulates thermal vision as a perceptual mode that both extends beyond the infrared camera to a broader set of practices of seeing heat as well as beyond the militarized view to scientific, commercial, and cultural landscapes. Weaving through these practices and landscapes, she outlines four overlapping ways that thermal vision is oriented and in turn organizes the world: through thermal effects, hue, objects, and zones. Focusing on the latter form, and taking cases from early infrared photography in the 1930s and the expansion of building thermography in the 1970s, she argues that the thermal imagery used for visual surveillance, often as a means of objectification and targeting, is intimately connected to regimes of environmental monitoring and the creation and management of normative zones. A close attention to these cases draws out one of thermal vision’s critical affordances and cultural uses, regardless of technological platform or orientation: entangled with practices of temperature control and synesthetic processing, it has been enlisted to alter architectures, environments, and bodily movements through them. Observing these uses expands visual culture studies’ understanding of the sensory possibilities of the visible and helps scholars to track the affective and intimate dimensions of climate change.
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Khan, Mushira, Karen Kobayashi, and Andre Smith. "Intergenerational Exchanges In Aging South Asian Muslim Families: An Intersectional Lifecourse Perspective." Innovation in Aging 5, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2021): 318–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.1244.
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Abstract International migration flows are increasing at a rapid pace and are often accompanied by emergent global realities, (re)negotiation of identities and familial bonds, anticipated challenges, and unforeseen exigencies. Concomitantly, advances in public health have resulted in longer lives with an increasing proportion of the global population now 65 years and older. While these demographic shifts have received considerable research attention, little is known about aging South Asian Muslim families in the US and the ways in which they adjust and adapt to shifting social realities. To address this gap, this qualitative study explores the intersections of faith, culture, gender, age, and immigrant status, and how these seminal life course events shape intergenerational care and support exchanges in South Asian Muslim families. Building on findings from 30 in-depth narrative interviews with three generations of immigrant South Asian Muslim women, and using an intersectional lifecourse perspective, this study explores the (re)negotiation of familial bonds and the enactment of religious beliefs and practices such as those around filial expectations in a transnational Islamic context. It shows how, for the grandmothers, daughters, and granddaughters in the study, their Islamic faith was a part of both the public sphere and a collective ideology, as well as a deeply personal and intimate attachment that provided structure and continuity in their everyday lives. Finally, the implications of these findings in the broader context of Islamophobia and salient structural barriers to accessing available health and social support services for aging South Asian Muslim families are discussed.
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Eddy, Samantha. "More than a Game: Racecraft and the Adaptation of “Race” in Live Action Role Play." Humanities 9, no. 4 (October 21, 2020): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9040124.
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Live action role players make the imaginative worlds of tabletop games manifest through collaborative storytelling and embodied play. Escaping the everyday, these communities could radically reimagine culture and challenge oppressive ideologies. Instead, they are deeply invested in essentializing “race”. I conducted a three-year ethnographic study alongside 20 semi-structured interviews to explore racecraft in live action role play. Supporting the groundbreaking work of Karen and Barbara Fields, I find that racecraft is a social process—continually negotiated and maintained through intimate interactions and community exchanges. Through this process, the definition of “race” is continually adapted while belief in this category remains entrenched. When participants confront racist stereotypes, practitioners coerce marginalized members into a false exchange. These members are encouraged to share experiences detailing the damage of problematic representations. Practitioners then reduce these experiences to monolithic understandings of “race”. In this insidious manner, anti-racist confrontations become fodder for racecraft. Complicating this further, patterned racism is characterized as an inborn quality of whiteness, minimizing practitioners’ accountability. Responsibility is then shifted onto marginalized participants and their willingness to engage in “racial” education. This trap is ingrained in the double standard of racism, adapting “race” such that whiteness is unrestricted by the monolithic definitions applied to those outside this category.
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AUYERO, JAVIER, AGUSTÍN BURBANO DE LARA, and MARÍA FERNANDA BERTI. "Uses and Forms of Violence among the Urban Poor." Journal of Latin American Studies 46, no. 3 (July 21, 2014): 443–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x14000698.
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AbstractBased on 30 months of collaborative fieldwork in a poor neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this paper scrutinises the multiple uses of violence among residents and the concatenations between private and public forms of physical aggression. Much of the violence reported here resembles that which has been dissected by students of street violence in the United States – that is, it is the product of interpersonal retaliation and remains encapsulated in dyadic exchanges. However, by casting a wider net to include other forms of aggression (not only criminal but also sexual, domestic and intimate) that take place inside and outside the home, and that intensely shape the course of poor people's daily lives, the paper argues that diverse forms of violence among the urban poor (a) serve more than just retaliatory purposes, and (b) link with one another beyond dyadic relationships.
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Viveros Vigoya, Mara. "The sexual erotic market as an analytical framework for understanding erotic-affective exchanges in interracial sexually intimate and affective relationships." Culture, Health & Sexuality 17, sup1 (November 28, 2014): 34–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2014.979882.
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Abudayyeh, Rana. "Outside in." idea journal 18, no. 01 (August 31, 2021): 237–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.37113/ij.v18i01.432.
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The current COVID-19 pandemic has placed immense value on our interior settings and their respective objects. As a result, interior spaces, augmented with virtual streams of data, are becoming instrumental settings for everyday activities. Such a state engenders new thinking regarding interior space, one in which private settings are understood as primary nodes for public exchanges. The implications of this new environment are all-encompassing, positioning the most intimate places and objects at the core of improvised virtual communities and subjecting private spaces to rapid retooling to address unfamiliar urgencies. The resulting condition is one of amalgamated physical and virtual parameters, often with discordant assemblies. Central to this unfolding state of affairs, technology has emerged as an indispensable medium. The legibility of our settings through digital devices has led to a new type of processed interior space; fragmented and dispersed across various localities, it is unified through its reading within the boundary of the screen. This article presents a set of graphic reflections on computer-screen interiors, coined screenteriors. While this new public interior was courtesy of a global pandemic, it is here to stay. Screenteriors are set within our intimate places and privy to various facets of our everyday lives. They are transmitted in real-time and often recorded on distant storage clouds, scrambled at times, subject to delays and freezes, filtered, and modified at will, streamed back and forth between recipients and devices, and always under the gaze of the camera. Here and now, a new interior emerges where screens frame and interpolate a new typology of space.
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Bitter, Joella. "Cross-fading the City." Resonance 2, no. 1 (2021): 74–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/res.2021.2.1.74.
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Widely discussed among scholars of cities in Africa is the need to conceive these cities as relational formations, but rarely is the sensory addressed. Scholarship on urban soundscapes has tended to emphasize aesthetic and technological practices without grappling with their aural political import. This article brings together these conversations in order to address the intersections of urban sound and politics in a small Ugandan city. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Gulu, the author examines how young Acoli men use aural, expressive social practices to sonically rework the city and their place in it. Referencing the work of ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, and critical theorists concerned with sound, the author argues that practices of “expressive sociability” elaborate a relational politics of city-making vis-à-vis their intimate exchanges that cross-fade with urban street soundscapes. This work aims to amplify the importance of ordinary aural practices to conceiving political valences of relational life in global south cities.
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Culley, Amy. "‘A journal of my feelings, mind & Body’: Narratives of Ageing in the Life Writing of Mary Berry (1763–1852)." Romanticism 25, no. 3 (October 2019): 291–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2019.0434.
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This article contributes to studies of gender and old age in the Romantic period through an exploration of the life writing of the biographer and historian, Mary Berry (1763–1852). In her manuscript journal, Berry provides a self-conscious and intimate commentary on the experience of ageing, mixing chronological, personal, cultural, and physical definitions. Yet this account of her feelings, mind, and body is radically reshaped for a Victorian readership in the posthumously published work of 1865. Beyond the journal, Berry's correspondence provides insight into intragenerational sociability through the exchanges of a network of older letter-writers. The theme of ageing also manifests in her biographical works, in which she refuses to treat old age as an epilogue to a life and complements the critical reflections presented in the journal. Read in dialogue, these texts therefore provide valuable perspectives on old age, gender, and sociability and establish age as an important category within studies of life writing.
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Park, Mee Hae. "Maternal Kin Group as a Provider of Mental Support and Cultural Intimacy in late Chosŏn Society." Institute of History and Culture Hankuk University of Foreign Studies 88 (November 30, 2023): 159–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.18347/hufshis.2023.88.159.
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This paper analyzed the diary of Noh Sangchu(盧尙樞: 1746-1829), a military officer in the late Choson Dynasty, and found that he was actively engaged in psychological exchanges with his maternal relatives. The relatives of mother family attended the mourning ceremony of the Noh family and shared joy and sadness together. Noh Sangchu also attended the memorial service as a maternal grandson and fulfill his duties and roles. Such close relationship presents a ‘jeongdam(情談)’ culture which stands for sharing chats every time they meet and a spiritual exchange that only designated group of ‘jijeong(至情)’ can make. The ‘jijeong(至情)’ group that was close to Noh Sangchu included his uncles, who were Noh Sangchu‘s maternal uncles, and cousins who were sons of Noh’s father’s sister. In order to live adjacent to the ‘jijeong(至情)’ of maternal grandmother and other relatives, Noh family moved to mother’s hometown (Ungok). Noh Sangchu treated his mother’s relatives with sincere ‘jijeong(至情)’, and his mother relatives also had a ‘jeongdam(情談)’ culture in which they spent time together by exchanging conversations when they visited Noh Sangchu‘s house. Relatives of their mother family and Noh Sangchu were showing sincerity as jijeong(至情) each other. As an uncle Noh Sangchu took care of his nephew‘s smallpox. In his old age as a maternal grandfather, Noh prepared his granddaughter’s wedding and made his grandson socialize through learning housework as a ‘jijeong(至情)’. This paper, which illustrates emotional support and exchange of the mother’s family as an example of ‘jijeong(至情)’ and ‘jeongdam(情談)’ of the Noh Sangchu family in the late Chosŏn Dynasty, suggests that not only the father but also the relatives from the mother’s side were involved in the socialization of younger generations through developing intimate relationships.
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Sellars, Kieran. "‘I’ve been as intimate with him as I have been with anybody’: queer approaches, encounters and exchanges as live art performer training." Theatre, Dance and Performance Training 11, no. 2 (April 2, 2020): 168–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2020.1753105.
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Sedda, Franciscu. "Glocal and food: On alimentary translation." Semiotica 2016, no. 211 (July 1, 2016): 105–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0099.
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AbstractThe essay investigates the relation between glocal and food. As it engages the task, it touches upon three principal domains: (I) the first is the intimate and constitutive relation between the idea of farming and the rise of the term glocal; (II) the second, and more substantial domain concerns the exploration of the device of appropriation within the European semiosphere of the foods originating in the Americas – such as the tomato, the potato, turkey, chocolate, coffee; (III) the third domain engages the semiopolitical tensions centering around the symbolic dish of Sardinian cuisine, su porceddu (suckling pig), before and within the European context. More broadly, the essay draws a comparison between the unperceived glocality of past food exchanges and hybridizations with aspects of alimentary contemporaneity. By means of this comparison the essay will show how today’s explicit recognition of gastronomical-cultural diversity produces paradoxical effects of limitation of alimentary translatability. At the same time, the comparison underlines how and why contemporary food consumption can be described as a glocal production of the authentic.
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Veryeri Alaca, Ilgım. "Materiality in picturebooks." Libri et liberi 8, no. 2 (December 4, 2019): 243–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.8.2.8.
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Through this special issue, we seek to explore the educational, creative, and intimate qualities of materials and structures in picturebooks in emerging and existing book formats. From hornbooks to iPads, children’s reading experiences have been mediated via transforming book systems in ways serving to educate, to entertain, and to facilitate narrative. Material and sensory aspects of picturebooks also have the capacity to act as a third narrative system, operating besides words and images. These aspects may engage and challenge the child to comprehend a subject through the experiential handling of the picturebook, resulting in an embodied meaning-making process. Physical interactions may be explored further in printed as well as digital picturebooks with the rise of multimodal literacies supported by novel technologies that can cater for diverse needs. This special issue stems from a workshop entitled “The Material, Spatial and Sensory Encounters with the Picturebook Object” which took place at Koç University, İstanbul, in June 2017. It builds on the exchanges facilitated by the workshop, and aims to reflect on how book systems alter the way children perceive texts.
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Kobayashi, Karen M., Laura Funk, and Mushira Mohsin Khan. "Constructing a sense of commitment in ‘Living Apart Together’ (LAT) relationships: Interpretive agency and individualization." Current Sociology 65, no. 7 (July 4, 2016): 991–1009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392116653237.
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LAT (Living Apart Together) relationships involve two people in a long-term intimate relationship who choose to live in separate households. Due to their tendency to lack structural commitments and rely on emotional bonds, LAT relationships can be viewed as a manifestation of individualization. Despite the increasing social acceptability of non-traditional partnerships, in many ways LAT relationships are still seen as deviant (and lacking commitment) by outsiders. This article draws on interpretive analyses of interviews with 28 LAT couples in two Canadian cities to explore how participants exercise agency and construct a sense of commitment in their relationships under these conditions (e.g. responding to generalized and particular others). In general, the LAT couples in this study described their commitments as strong, and as rooted in sexual fidelity, mutual exchanges of support, affection, with a long-term orientation, a willingness to work through difficulties and a shared history. Some ambivalence in discussing commitment can be explained with reference to participants’ strong desire to maintain independence within the relationship. This study represents one of the first in-depth examinations of LAT relationships undertaken in Canada.
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Xu, Sufeng. "Domesticating Romantic Love during the High Qing Classical Revival." Nan Nü 15, no. 2 (2013): 219–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685268-0152p0002.
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This study examines the Heming ji (Collection of singing in harmony), which comprises the sometimes surprisingly intimate poetic exchanges between the woman intellectual Wang Zhaoyuan (1763-1851) and her husband Hao Yixing (1757-1829), both renowned in their lifetimes as classical “evidential research” (kaozheng) scholars. The paper seeks to demonstrate the transformation of the cult of qing (romantic love) in the High Qing period. It argues that, as the centrality of courtesans in literati culture died out with the Ming-Qing dynastic transition, gentry women came to represent the positive cultural values of qing through the increasingly fashionable idea and practice of companionate marriage. In this process, the cult of qing that characterized the subversive late Ming literati culture, of which courtesan culture was an important part, was not obliterated by the High Qing classical revival as is often assumed; rather, it was domesticated, ritualized, transformed into conjugal love, and arguably, integrated into the High Qing “familistic moralism.” The paper also explores how the concept of qing, in the narrow sense of love between man and woman, was expanded into this couple’s shared passion and ambition to serve the state and empire.
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Brignone, Maria Stefania, Angela Lanciotti, Antonio Michelucci, Cinzia Mallozzi, Serena Camerini, Luigi Catacuzzeno, Luigi Sforna, et al. "The CaMKII/MLC1 Axis Confers Ca2+-Dependence to Volume-Regulated Anion Channels (VRAC) in Astrocytes." Cells 11, no. 17 (August 26, 2022): 2656. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells11172656.
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Astrocytes, the main glial cells of the central nervous system, play a key role in brain volume control due to their intimate contacts with cerebral blood vessels and the expression of a distinctive equipment of proteins involved in solute/water transport. Among these is MLC1, a protein highly expressed in perivascular astrocytes and whose mutations cause megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts (MLC), an incurable leukodystrophy characterized by macrocephaly, chronic brain edema, cysts, myelin vacuolation, and astrocyte swelling. Although, in astrocytes, MLC1 mutations are known to affect the swelling-activated chloride currents (ICl,swell) mediated by the volume-regulated anion channel (VRAC), and the regulatory volume decrease, MLC1′s proper function is still unknown. By combining molecular, biochemical, proteomic, electrophysiological, and imaging techniques, we here show that MLC1 is a Ca2+/Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) target protein, whose phosphorylation, occurring in response to intracellular Ca2+ release, potentiates VRAC-mediated ICl,swell. Overall, these findings reveal that MLC1 is a Ca2+-regulated protein, linking volume regulation to Ca2+ signaling in astrocytes. This knowledge provides new insight into the MLC1 protein function and into the mechanisms controlling ion/water exchanges in the brain, which may help identify possible molecular targets for the treatment of MLC and other pathological conditions caused by astrocyte swelling and brain edema.
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Blystad, Astrid, Ole Bjørn Rekdal, and Herman Malleyeck. "Seclusion, Protection and Avoidance: Exploring the Metida Complex among the Datoga of Northern Tanzania." Africa 77, no. 3 (August 2007): 331–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/afr.2007.0045.
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AbstractThis article deals with metida avoidance practices as they emerge in daily and ritual practice among the agro-pastoral Datoga-speaking peoples of Tanzania. The elaboration of the avoidance practices varies starkly between and within Datoga segments, but these practices are commonly particularly elaborate in connection with death or death-like events, and with birth or birth-like events. In the study area women may spend years of their lives with severe restrictions on their conduct in terms of movement and socialization. We argue that in making sense of such avoidance phenomena the strong influence of Mary Douglas's ‘dirt’ and ‘pollution’ concepts has hindered an understanding of the fact that the metida seclusion does not only isolate substances perceived to be dangerously contaminating, but in similar ways secludes fertile and vulnerable elements in order to protect them. A Strathern-inspired transition to a focus on bodies as open and dynamic systems that mingle with other bodies in intimate flows or exchanges of bodily fluids may be fruitful in this context. We indicate, however, that incautious substitution of a ‘pollution’ concept with the concept of ‘flows’ may lead to challenges not entirely dissimilar to those that attended the employment of Douglas's concepts.
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Truong, Fabien. "Total rioting: from metaphysics to politics." Sociological Review 65, no. 4 (February 3, 2017): 563–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.12436.
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This article further develops understandings of urban riot as a social and political symptom to consider the riot as a situated and situating biographical moment, a personal experience which is both signifying and significant. It argues for a paired understanding of riots as a set of physical incarnated (re)actions and as ‘total social fact’ – involving ‘society as a whole’ and putting its institutions at work ‘all together and at once’ (Mauss, 1950). It switches from ‘urban riots’ as a descriptive notion to total rioting as an analytical tool. Total rioting consists of intertwined social upheavals and exchanges, writ through the metaphysical, sociological, poetical and political. It assembles people of a particular kind forever, hence manufacturing social solidarities and subjectivities. As a particular response to specific problems, it reveals how a contemporary state of metaphysical, social and political insecurity generates new forms of empowering projections and intimate policies; and why what is destroyed is precisely what matters. As an attempt to make and unmake society at the same time, it has become the pinnacle of a paradoxical political socialization process. Being less a language for a broader political communication than an insider trading activity, its long-term outcomes reshape the politics of recognition and claims for visibility.
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Garcia, Nichole Margarita, and Solano F. Garcia. "Grief (Work) Is Heart (Work): A Critical Race Feminista Epistolary Exchange as an Offering on Death, Grief, and Well-Being to Academia." Education Sciences 14, no. 1 (January 3, 2024): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci14010058.
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This article centers around my work as a critical race feminista; an academic experiencing consistent attacks on the scholarship I produce while also being a tía (aunt), an active griever, and a godmother to my eldest nephew, Solano Garcia. This is the first time that my nephew and I will have shared our most private papelitos guardados (intimate guarded papers). In this article, we respond to the paucity of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color-centered death, grief, and well-being in academia. Using a critical race feminist epistolary methodology, we document our epistolary exchanges that contain dehumanizing attempts on our bodymindspirit matrices as active grievers of color confronting the premature death of my brother, who died at the age of 37 in the summer of 2021. Unlike the ‘western’ psychotherapeutic tradition of overcoming death and grief, we stake a claim, sit with it, and affirm it as an ongoing process. We argue that recognizing and affirming death and grief is a life-making process that creates spaces for healing through our epistolary offerings. This article aims to offer BIPOC faculty, staff, students, and their families life-affirming strategies towards radical self-care, love, and intergenerational collective healing within a sociopolitical context that operates as a surveillance mechanism.
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Semerene, Diego. "The trans gender subject of fashion." International Journal of Fashion Studies 11, no. 1 (April 1, 2024): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/infs_00105_1.
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The T-girl is a trans feminine subject whose trans-ness is embodied sartorially in controlled environments for a short amount of time. Her trans-ness is not socially visible, her existential possibilities have accompanied the imbrication of digitality in everyday life and she escapes well-acknowledged trans feminine categories such as the Latin American travesti or the trans woman writ large. The T-girl is yet to be rigorously theorized. In this auto-theoretical psychoanalytic inquiry I propose to theorize her alongside her lovers by placing the sartorial as the de facto object of desire between them. The methodology involves culling from personal sartorial-sexual experience as well as the language around clothes found in private messages sent by trans-attracted and straight-identified men to the author, a T-girl. What does such an intimate archive tell us about the way the trans subject negotiates her desire with and through the other? Their sartorial exchanges serve as unprecedented insight into the intrapsychic mechanisms a trans subject deploys to forge a position for herself where the sartorial all but replaces the anatomical as the slippery guarantor of gender. I articulate the function of clothing in conjuring a trans-ness addressed to a ‘other’ interpellated to ratify the (trans-)gendering process. This turns out to be a rather primary dynamic that founds the speaking subject as such. And yet, the T-girl and her lovers may end up getting more than what they bargained for from their sartorial-sexual encounter. What becomes clear is the fundamental function of clothes not just to render the T-girl girl, but as exhilarating signifiers in the written and oral exchanges between the T-girl and her lovers. Particularly for the lovers themselves, who can be quick to slip from the position of the subject who enjoys feminine clothing in the other to that of the subject who enjoys wearing such clothing themselves.
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Reynolds, Paul. "Tam Sangar and Yvette Taylor (eds.) 2013 Mapping Intimacies: Relations, Exchanges, Affects (Palgrave MacMillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 257 +xv)." Journal of the International Network for Sexual Ethics & Politics 4, no. 2 (March 27, 2018): 116–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/insep.v4i2.11.
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Danbolt, Mathias, and Ester Fleckner. "Intimate constellations/constellations of intimacy: an exchange on navigating in collisions." Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 29, no. 3 (September 2, 2019): 303–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0740770x.2019.1671102.
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Herges, Katja. "Body Fluids and Fluid Bodies: Trans-Corporeal Connections in Contemporary German Narratives of Illness." Humanities 8, no. 1 (March 12, 2019): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8010055.
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Medicine uses body fluids for the construction of medical knowledge in the laboratory and at the same time considers them as potentially infectious or dirty. In this model, bodies are in constant need of hygienic discipline if they are to adhere to the ideal of the closed and clean organism without leakage of fluids. In contrast, psychoanalytical feminist body theory by Julia Kristeva (1982), Elisabeth Grosz (1989) and Margrit Shildrick (1999) has deconstructed the abject body and its fluids in Western culture and medicine. While postmodern feminism has often focused on discourses about bodies and illness to the neglect of their materiality, more recently, material feminism has drawn particular attention to lived material bodies with fluid boundaries and evolving corporeal practices (Alaimo and Hekman 2007). Stacy Alaimo has developed a model of the trans-corporeal body that is connected with the environment through fluid boundaries and exchanges (2010, 2012). Influenced by these trends in feminist body theory, illness narratives, often based on autobiographical experiences of female patients or their caregivers, have increased in recent decades in the West (Lorde 1980; Mairs 1996; Stefan 2007; Schmidt 2009; Hustvedt 2010). Such narratives often describe explicitly the material and affective aspects of intimate bodily experiences. In this article, I analyze two German quest illness narratives: Charlotte Roche’s pop novel Feuchtgebiete (2008) and Detlev Buck’s German-Cambodian film Same Same But Different (2010) that is based on the memoir Wohin Du auch gehst by German journalist Benjamin Prüfer (2007). In both narratives, the protagonists and their partners struggle in their search for love and identity with illness or injury in relation to body fluids, including hemorrhoids and HIV. I argue that Feuchtgebiete and Same Same But Different not only critique medical and cultural discourses on body (fluids) and sexuality but also foreground a feminist trans-corporeal concept of the body and of body fluids that is open to fluid identities and material connections with the (global) environment. At the same time, the conventional and sentimental ending of these quest narratives undermines the possibilities of the trans-corporeal body and its fluid exchanges.
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Francksen, Kerry. "Emerging: Live-Digital Gestures in Action." Leonardo 48, no. 3 (June 2015): 290–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01014.
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This paper builds on a developing movement practice that engages with the potential for creating a more intimate exchange between real-time image processing technologies and movement. Tracing notions of ‘sensing bodies’ and ‘relation,’ as significantly important to how a greater sense of intimacy and synergy between the two media (live/digital) might be achieved, the author’s focus has been to concentrate on the exchange that takes place between a dancer and her technological counterpart “in the moment of performance.”
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Smith, Sidonie, and Julia Watson. "The Afterlives of Those Who Write Themselves. Rethinking Autobiographical Archives." European Journal of Life Writing 9 (December 28, 2020): BE9—BE32. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.9.37323.
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As those who write themselves, life narrators are readers, interpreters, and curators of the archival material, both intimate and impersonal, accrued during their lifetimes. These materials form an archival pre-life that is extended and complemented by posthumous remediations of their narrated lives. Personal archives may include writing in journals and diaries, digital exchanges on social media and blogs, documents, and images in photographs and drawings, as well as the ephemera of recorded memories and impressions; as this archive is activated in life writing, its texts project an archival imaginary. Once a life narrative enters public circulation, the archive of self accrues future ‘afterlives’ as it is edited, reframed, and remediated in subsequent editions and by translation into other languages or media for different reading publics, both during and after a writer’s life. The interactive relationship of self-archives and afterlives makes clear that the texts of self-life-writing, whether published or unpublished, complete or fragmentary, are objects of inquiry in movement – not transparent, stable phenomena that generate ‘truth,’ but dynamic sites open to interpretation in their textual afterlives. An autobiographical narrative is, thus, never just ‘the life’: supplements, remediations, and new versions are created in interactions with the practices and positions of new generations of readers. This essay takes up the iterative, interactive, and intersubjective dynamics of autobiographical archives and the temporalities of autobiographical afterlives in eight exemplary cases of life writing. Observing autobiographical archives in their histories of circulation, republication, and repurposing situates the question of afterlives as a mode of ‘beyond endings’ in larger debates about ethical reading, methodological constraint, and theoretical adequacy.
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Ertman, Martha M. "For Both Love and Money: Viviana Zelizer's The Purchase of Intimacy." Law & Social Inquiry 34, no. 04 (2009): 1017–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.2009.01173.x.
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Viviana Zelizer's recent book, The Purchase of Intimacy (2005), presents an innovative theory of how social and legal actors negotiate rights and obligations when money changes hands in intimate relationships—a perspective that could change how we understand many things, from valuations of homemaking labor to the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. This essay describes Zelizer's critique of the reductionist “Hostile Worlds” and “Nothing But” approaches to economic exchange in intimate relationships and then explains her more three‐dimensional approach, “Connected Lives.” While Zelizer focuses on family law, the essay goes beyond that context, extending Zelizer's approach to transfers of genetic material and concluding that her approach could point toward a more equitable resolution of disputes in and about these markets.
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Halaidiuk, M., L. Filonenko, E. Syvokhop, V. Kuzmik, N. Semal, I. Demchenko, I. Maksymchuk, and B. Maksymchuk. "A Holistic Model of Health in the Context of Teacher Training." Scientific Journal of National Pedagogical Dragomanov University. Series 15. Scientific and pedagogical problems of physical culture (physical culture and sports), no. 12(120) (December 25, 2019): 39–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.31392/npu-nc.series15.2019.12(120)19.07.
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Statistical data obtained by doctors, valeologists and teachers, indicate a significant decrease in motor activity of pupils, especially adolescents and young people (high school pupils and students in Years 1-3). The main reason, oddly enough, is technology: most young people spend their free time using electronic gadgets, including activity boosters (computer games, social networks, electronic exchanges).
At present, pre-therapeutic propaedeutic “diagnoses” include hypodynamia, hypokinesia, passivity, which lead to the atrophy of the body’s adaptive functions and, consequently, to poor socialization, immunity, physical fitness, reproductive power. So far as is known, hypokinesia or hypodynamia is the cause of weak body's functionality, including atrophy, underdevelopment or decline of physiological systems of the body (respiratory, circulatory, musculoskeletal and, as a result, mental, creative, self- determining).
One should pay particular attention to the theoretical aspects of teacher training in the field of physical education to be able to solve the problems mentioned above. Although some of these aspects are entirely individual and even intimate, the student (future teacher) must be able to acknowledge the fact of observing / not observing daily routine. The vegetative needs of the body invariably influence the individual’s emotional and motivational sphere, given that professional competencies are rather well-developed.
Integrated lessons and lectures on physical culture of global spiritual experience can contribute to forming an ideological component of valeology. According to Christian and many other religious philosophies, physical health is not the main factor in well- being. When caring about only physical fitness, the individual can negatively affect his or her spiritual health. At the level of pedagogical worldview, it is necessary to recognize and fully implement the idea of equivalence of spiritual and physical health. At the same time, the first component is more critical at the nosological stage and is the driving force in solving the first destructive physiological changes.
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Kirksey, Eben, Paul Munro, Thom van Dooren, Dan Emery, Anne Maree Kreller, Jeffrey Kwok, Ken Lau, et al. "Feeding the flock: Wild cockatoos and their Facebook friends." Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 1, no. 4 (September 12, 2018): 602–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2514848618799294.
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Wildlife is persisting in urban areas of Australia even though white settler colonialism has resulted in the large-scale destruction of forested landscapes. While many bird species are in decline, the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo has found emergent opportunities for flourishing within the built environment. Cockatoos are actively generating relationally constituted spaces, drawing humans into urban ecosystems that are ‘more-than-human’ places, abundant and lively multispecies communities. Beginning in 2011, yellow tags attached to the wings of cockatoos, along with a smart-phone app and a Facebook page, have enabled scientists to collect data about these birds’ movements. These tracking technologies were quickly co-opted by an emergent public for their own purposes, including speculating about the personalities, relationships, intentions, and desires of individual birds. Interspecies friendships formed between humans and birds – involving shared understandings, emotional resonances, ongoing social exchanges, and utilitarian arrangements. We used the wingtags and the associated digital infrastructure as an opportunity to experiment with new modes of collaborative research and teaching in multispecies ethnography. Bringing together a flock of academics and students, we explored emergent social spaces involving people and birds. While many participants who fed the birds worried that they would become tame, we found multispecies flocks were fleeting associations where wild and unruly behaviours redoubled as people offered up food. We found that wildness emerged in intimate encounters with other species, encounters that were often characterised by shared but unequal vulnerabilities. Some cockatoos have been killed, after conflicts over property damage led authorities to identify them as nuisance animals. Against the backdrop of asymmetrical risks, we studied flocks of birds as models of, and models for, fleeting forms of association and collaboration. In these spaces, feelings of interspecies attraction quickly alternated with agitated and uncomfortable experiences. Amid animated encounters, people explored the ethics of inclusivity and conviviality.
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Salvante, Martina. "The Wounded Male Body: Masculinity and Disability in Wartime and Post-WWI Italy." Journal of Social History 53, no. 3 (2020): 644–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shz127.
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Abstract This article examines the variety of ways in which Italian soldiers responded to the experience of incurring a permanent physical disability during the First World War. It also describes the potentially unsettling presence of soldiers’ disabled bodies in Italian society, where they were perceived as being disruptive to cultural understandings of male embodiment and hegemonic masculinities. By analyzing different intimate and social exchanges, as well as emotional bonds, this article attempts to disentangle historically the intersection between masculinity and disability. In so doing, it will expose the implications of normative expectations of masculinity, the anxiety that arose from attempts to challenge these norms, and the relevance of context and life phase in understanding the impact of disability on male identity. Drawing on both theories of masculinity and literature on disability, this article will ultimately illustrate how and to what extent disabled veterans in post–First World War Italy negotiated and shaped their gendered identities. It will conclude by considering the role of Fascism in promoting a model of hegemonic masculinity, to which the war disabled could also conform. “Will you still want me if I come back like Vincenzo Bellu?” “With only one arm? Of course, because they’ll give you the Order of Vittorio Veneto and I’ll be your lady! [. . .]” “I’m not joking. Would you still want me if I was a cripple? Deafened by a grenade or with no legs like Luigi Barranca?” “I’d want you back in any condition, as long as you’re still alive. [. . .]” “Maybe you can imagine having me back as a worm, but I’d rather die full of life ten times over than have to live ten years like a dead man. If that happens to me I shall do what Barranca did and shoot myself.”1
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Vidal, Jean-Pierre. "De quelques hypothèses sur les causes «rémanentes» de la violence familiale. Les avatars de l’angoisse génétique." Revue de psychothérapie psychanalytique de groupe 18, no. 1 (1992): 127–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/rppg.1992.1152.
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Concerning several hypotheses on the recurrent causes of family violence — The avatars of genetic anguish The psychical organisers of «groupness» in its nascent form appear to fulfill the function of assuring protection and reassurance against the disturbing effects provoked by encounters. The closer and more intimate the relationship, the greater is the worry, anguish and finally reactive violence released because of proximity or promiscuity. In this sense, family violence is the scene of the most profound insecurity. The psychical organisers, such as those that Bion defines as Basic Hypotheses (to take an example), demonstrate a contention of this violence and can thus be considered as elementary defensive processes. Since institutions define the positions, roles, attitudes and specific behaviour of their members as well as the nature and the quality of their reciprocal exchanges, couldn’t they be considered to be the institutionalisation of the defensive processes of social life in its fluid state ? As a result, any harm caused, for example, to the institution of the family in so far as its organisation tends to define, for the sake of its members, their respective places or functions, creating in this way a feeling of relative security, will necessarily release considerable anguish and violence, instead of containing them in conformity with its initial function. This hypothesis is sustained by a reflection on the manifestations of genetic anguish (persecutive and depressive ) and the different defensive strategies elabored as a remedy. One can suppose that when these dispositions for a modus vivendi, which are initially instituted by the Basic Presuppositions, become altered or feeble, the logical consequence is a general state of anomia which generates a type of violence of which the Greek myths are not only the expression (in the form of phantasies) but also the direct witness and reflection.
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Barnfield, Andrew. "Book Reviews." Transfers 9, no. 1 (June 1, 2019): 108–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2019.090110.
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Being Lighter Than Air Derek P. McCormack, Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), 304 pp., 34 illustrations, $27.95 (paperback) Challenging Landscapes of Confinement Michael J. Flynn and Matthew B. Flynn, Challenging Immigration Detention: Academics, Activists and Policy-makers (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017), 352 pp. £81 (hardback). “Bottleneck” in Dakar: From Metaphor to Anthropological Analytical Tool Caroline Melly, Bottleneck: Moving, Building, and Belonging in An African City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 224 pp., 11 halftones, $30 (paperback). Migratory Trajectories, Affective Attachments, and Sexual-Economic Exchanges Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez, eds., Intimate Mobilities: Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 248 pp., $120 (hardback). Engineering Nineteenth-Century Transport Innovations Maxwell Lay, The Harnessing of Power: How 19th Century Transport Innovators Transformed the Way the World Operates (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2018), 374 pp., £64.99 (hardback). The Politics of Mobility in Postcolonial Kenya Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 352 pp., 31 halftones, $30 (paperback). A Sense of What Commuting Takes David Bissell, Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018), 272 pp., 6 illustrations, $32 (paperback). Vanishing Point? The City after the Car Venkat Sumantran, Charles Fine and David Gonsalvez, Faster, Smarter, Greener: Th e Future of the Car and Urban Mobility (Massachusetts: Th e MIT Press), 326 pp, $29.95 Troubling the “View from Above” Caren Kaplan, Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018), 298pp., 24 color plates. Hardcover: $77, Paper $25. Mobility, Mobilization, and Cooptation Claudio Sopranzetti, Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility and Politics in Bangkok (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017), xiv + 328 pp., $85.00 (hardback), $29.95 (paperback). No Exit: The Persistent Legacies of Mobility Choices in Houston Kyle Shelton, Power Moves: Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017), 302 pp., 24 black-and-white illustrations, $29.95 (paperback)