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Cockayne, Daniel, Agnieszka Leszczynski, and Matthew Zook. "#HotForBots: Sex, the non-human and digitally mediated spaces of intimate encounter." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35, no. 6 (May 10, 2017): 1115–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775817709018.
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Contemporary practices of sex and intimacy are increasingly digitally mediated. In this paper, we identify two distinctly spatial effects of these mediations. First, the digital extends the spaces of sex/uality beyond the immediately proximate, simultaneously expanding the potential for non-human object choice in intimate encounters. Second, the digital intensifies the experiential fidelity of intimate encounters by folding the remote into the spatially immediate, such that non-proximate intimate relations with human subjects as well as non-human objects may feel more proximate. We articulate these effects by building on and contributing to developments in the geographies of encounter, which allows us to bring together theories and conceptual framings of intimacy, digitality and sexuality in a uniquely spatial register. These effects of extension and intensification resonate in a selection of empirical examples of digitally mediated sex/uality that we place along continuums of more-and-less human and more-and-less proximate. These continuums comprise the conceptual axes of a heuristic framework that we advance to both (i) capture particular points at which configurations of spaces, practices and subject/object choices of sex crystallize given conditions of pervasive digital mediation, and (ii) provoke further interrogations of the multiple ways in which sex, sexuality and intimacy are recast by the digital.
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Alfirevic, Djordje, and Sanja Simonovic-Alfirevic. "Spatial organization concepts for living spaces with two centres." Spatium, no. 42 (2019): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/spat1942001a.
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In a functional sense, the centre of the living space is a gathering area for its users and for visitors. In most cases, the living area has at least one space towards which its users gravitate daily or occasionally. In situations where there are two or more centres in the living area, their position, size and connection determine the character of the functional organization, and they result from the social needs of the users. This paper analyzes characteristic examples of how dwellings are organized with several gathering centres, drawing out three basic concepts: a) living space with centres grouped in a social zone, b) living space with a flexible centre on the boundary between zones and c) living space with a secondary centre in a private area. On the other hand, attention is drawn to the existence of different boundaries of territoriality (boundaries of ownership, hospitality and intimacy), which determine the domains of social, private and intimate zones in housing. Depending on whether the gathering centres are located on one side, on the other, or along the border of territoriality, the degree of intimacy of the living space also changes.
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Roshko, Tijen. "Second Skin: Intimacy, Boundary Conditions and Spatial Interactions." Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal—Annual Review 4, no. 1 (2010): 71–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1874/cgp/v04i01/37816.
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Hamm, Marion. "Physically Distant – Socially Intimate." Anthropology in Action 27, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 56–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/aia.2020.270312.
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In the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic situation, physical interaction and public performances became difficult, while use of digital media for public and private purposes was extended and intensified. This affected citizens’ right of assembly and led to new forms of collective sociality. This article analyses how social intimacy was re-arranged during lockdown through a thick description of mediated performances circulating on Italy’s Day of Liberation from Nazi fascism. It examines how a politicised commemoration of resistance echoed fears and desires relating to the virus and enabled the production of subjectivities in a transnational techno-social environment. Combining Lauren Berlant’s concept of intimate publics with theories of media, social movements, mediation and national identity, it offers an analytical framework detailing three layers of social intimacy: spatial/corporeal materiality, biography and mediation.
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Williams, John. "Distant Intimacy: Space, Drones, and Just War." Ethics & International Affairs 29, no. 1 (2015): 93–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0892679414000793.
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This article argues that the use of just war theory as the principal framework for ethical assessment of the use of drones for targeted killing is hampered by the absence of a spatial dimension. Drawing on critical political geography, the article develops a concept of “distant intimacy” that explores the spatial characteristics of the relationship between drone deployers and their targets, revealing that the asymmetry of this relationship extends beyond conventional analysis to establish “dronespace” as a place where the autonomy of the target and the possibility of reciprocity are structurally precluded. This extends ethical critique of drone use beyond established concerns and establishes the importance of space and spatiality to the possibility of ethics in a way that just war theory has, to date, been unable to fully appreciate.
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Batchelor, Peter. "Grasping the Intimate Immensity: Acousmatic compositional techniques in sound art as ‘something to hold on to’." Organised Sound 24, no. 3 (November 29, 2019): 307–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355771819000372.
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This article explores the accessibility of acousmatic compositional approaches to sound and installation art. Principally of concern is the consideration of intimacy to create a means of ‘connecting’ with an audience. Installations might be said to explore ideas of intimacy in two ways which increase accessibility for the installation visitor: through cultivating installation–visitor relationships, and through encouraging visitor–visitor relationships. A variety of ways in which various acousmatic compositional techniques relating to intimacy might be brought to bear on and operate as a way of drawing a listener into a work are explored, in particular as they relate to the consideration of space and spatial relationships. These include recording techniques, types of sound materials chosen, and the creation of particular spatial environments and listening conditions. Along with a number of instances of sound art provided by way of examples, my ongoing GRIDs series of sound sculptures will provide a case study of works related to an acousmatic aesthetic where these concerns find an outlet.
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Layne, Linda L. "A Changing Landscape of Intimacy: The Case of a Single Mother by Choice." Sociological Research Online 20, no. 4 (November 2015): 156–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.3739.
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American women who purposely undertake motherhood without the involvement of a male partner tend to be beneficiaries of second-wave feminist achievements in the areas of expanded educational and employment opportunities. I draw on an in-depth, longitudinal case study of one such Single Mother by Choice (SMC) to explore how the opportunities she has enjoyed and professional achievements she has attained have shaped her ‘intimate landscape.’ Intimacy means ‘innermost,’ and refers to a spatial relationship, whether physical and or metaphorical. ‘Landscape’ refers to ‘all the visible features of an area’ and ‘the distinctive features of a particular situation or intellectual activity.’ Together Carmen and I engaged in topography, producing a detailed description of the arrangement of the features of this area of her life—the intimate physical and emotional relations with her children, her dog, her mother, and close emotional relationships with her siblings and their families, some friends, and members of her church.
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Andersson Cederholm, Erika, and Johan Hultman. "Bed, Breakfast and Friendship: Intimacy and Distance in Small-Scale Hospitality Businesses." Culture Unbound 2, no. 3 (September 16, 2010): 365–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.10221365.
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Through an analysis of the narrative of a Bed and Breakfast (B & B) and art gallery owner, the emergence of intimacy as a commercial value in the hospitality industry is illustrated. This is a formation of economic value where economic rationality as a motive for commercial activity is rejected. Simultaneously though, a different set of market attitudes are performed by hospitality practitioners in the course of everyday interactions with customers, and a tension between emotional, spatial and temporal intimacy and distance is uncovered and discussed. It is concluded that commercial friendship is a more complex issue than what has been acknowledged so far in the hospitality literature. A continued discussion of intimacy in hospitality will therefore affect the cultural understanding of emotions, identity and lifestyle values on the one hand, and business strategy, value creation and markets on the other.
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Whyte, David. "Viral Intimacy and Catholic Nationalist Political Economy." Anthropology in Action 27, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 39–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/aia.2020.270309.
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Changes in the conduct and regulation of intimacy during the COVID-19 crisis in the Republic of Ireland has uncovered the legacy of Catholic nationalism in Irish capitalism. Many commentators analysed the increased welfarism and community service provision as the suspension of Irish neoliberalism. In fact, the Irish COVID-19 response is shaped by a longer tradition of political and economic approaches that have their genesis in the revolutionary Catholic state following independence from Britain. Based on ethnography of community development practices in a rural Irish region, the article describes how Catholic nationalist influences are present in the collection of institutions involved in the Community Response and its approach to spatial organisation. The governance of the response also sheds light on a lack of intimacy between citizen and state that is not only the product of neoliberal structural adjustments but is uniquely characteristic of the Catholic ethos that influences Irish capitalism.
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Rutter, G. A. "Moving Ca2+ from the endoplasmic reticulum to mitochondria: is spatial intimacy enough?" Biochemical Society Transactions 34, no. 3 (May 22, 2006): 351–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bst0340351.
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A number of studies in recent years have demonstrated that the ER (endoplasmic reticulum) makes intimate contacts with mitochondria, the latter organelles existing both as individual organelles and occasionally as a more extensive interconnected network. Demonstrations that mitochondria take up Ca2+ more avidly upon its mobilization from the ER than when delivered to permeabilized cells as a buffered solution also indicate that a shielded conduit for Ca2+ may exist between the two organelle types, perhaps comprising the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor and mitochondrial outer membrane proteins including the VDAC (voltage-dependent anion channel). Although the existence of such intracellular ER–mitochondria ‘synapses’, or of an ER–mitochondria Ca2+ ‘translocon’, is an exciting idea, more definitive experiments are needed to test this possibility.
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Baffelli, Erica, and Frederik Schröer. "Spatio-Temporal Translations." Anthropology in Action 28, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 57–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/aia.2021.280111.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, access to space has been strictly regulated and restricted. Many of us feel acutely disconnected from our relationships, while at the same time new forms of (virtual) intimacies have become ubiquitous. In the pandemic present, nearly all interpersonal relations are now characterised by a double absence that is concrete and material, and also emotional and felt. This article offers a theoretical reflection on how conditions of absence create new practices of intimacy and new strategies of coping. It does so by discussing how pre-pandemic emotional repertoires are translated into new forms of intimacy that can synchronise or throw out of sync. It highlights the centrality of spatial and temporal relations under absence in uncovering new mediated practices.
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Meintema, Ruben Aize. "Planets as small as your house. A review of Super Mario Galaxy." Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture 4, no. 1 (April 26, 2010): 125–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/23.6121.
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This article reviews the 2008 Wii game Super Mario Galaxy from a ‘literary,’ cultural, and aesthetic perspective. It will be argued that fictional spaces are able to afford experiences of intimacy and security, in literature as well as in video games. The game will be compared on this point with the children’s book Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and similarities in spatial make-up will be shown. In the end, it will be stated that although the spatial structure is similar to the book, and innovative with regard to the history of spatial representations in video games, the emotional content of the book is substantially deeper than that of the video game.
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Bouacida, Soumaya, Ikram Lecheheb, Itidel Boumali, and Nada Khlifa. "Hailsham as an Intimate Space: A Bachelardian Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go." Arab World English Journal For Translation and Literary Studies 5, no. 3 (August 15, 2021): 101–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol5no3.8.
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This paper aims to investigate the role played by Hailsham, the fictional boarding school in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go, in the mind of its central characters as seen through Gaston Bachelard’s conception of space. The article then aims to explore how the memory of Hailsham works as a coping mechanism for some of the novel’s characters, especially for Kathy. After a brief survey of Bachelard’s spatial criticism, the article then discusses the elements of intimacy in the space of Hailsham and portrays the boarding school as a oneiric house or a childhood home in Bachelard’s terms. By using an analytical method, this study offers an examination of two notions, that of memory and that of imagination, which are built upon the aspect of association and intimacy. Following the development of the plot of Never Let Me Go, the article sheds light on the role played by the so-called “cottages” in the shaping of these character’s relations to themselves, to each other, and to the outside world. This paper opens the door to other critics to read Never Let Me Go from the perspective of other spatial theorists like Mitchel Foucault, Henri Lefevbre, and Edward Soja.
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Shin, Ji-eun, Eunkook M. Suh, Norman P. Li, Kangyong Eo, Sang Chul Chong, and Ming-Hong Tsai. "Darling, Get Closer to Me: Spatial Proximity Amplifies Interpersonal Liking." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 45, no. 2 (July 19, 2018): 300–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167218784903.
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Does close distance increase liking for a social object? In a preliminary sociogram task, an association between proximity and intimacy was found in drawings of self and others. In three experimental studies, male participants consistently preferred female targets who were (actually or appeared to be) close than far from them. Distance was manipulated through various means—sitting distance (Study 2), presenting two facial images separately to each eye by a stereoscopic device (Study 3), or a video clip (Study 4). This effect was stronger among those with deprived social needs and occurred in part because close (vs. far) targets seemed psychologically more accessible to the perceiver. Our findings offer rare experimental evidence for the empirically challenged propinquity effect and provide new insights on how distance shapes inner experience.
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Tuominen, Pekka. "Historical and Spatial Layers of Cultural Intimacy: Urban Transformation of a Stigmatised Suburban Estate on the Periphery of Helsinki." Social Inclusion 8, no. 1 (February 27, 2020): 34–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v8i1.2329.
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Kontula, a suburban estate at the margins of Helsinki, Finland, has been plagued by a notorious reputation since its construction in the 1960s. At different moments in history, it has reflected failed urbanity, with shifting emphases on issues such as rootlessness, segregation, intergenerational poverty, and unsuccessful integration of immigrants. Unlike many other suburban estates in Helsinki, it has become a potent symbol of the ills of contemporary urbanity in the vernacular geography of the city. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how its inhabitants experience the dynamic between the internalised stigma and their responses to it. The focus is on how historically formed and spatially defined senses of belonging and exclusion shape their everyday lives and how they have found ways to challenge the dominant perceptions about their homes and neighbourhoods. I argue that an understanding of cultural intimacy, conceptually developed by Michael Herzfeld, offers a useful way to approach the tension between essentialised categories and lived realities. Rather than simply limiting their agency, the shared stigma enables inhabitants to form powerful senses of belonging. The article emphasises how culturally intimate understandings employ both complex historical trajectories and shifts in relative location to question and confront the stigma in the language of mutual trust and belonging.<br /><br />
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Ganguly, Tuhina. "The Mother’s children: The making of memory and intimacy at the Gurus’ Samadhi." Contributions to Indian Sociology 56, no. 2 (June 2022): 156–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00699667221132584.
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Tombs of gurus and religious leaders are central to the consolidation of religious communities through memorialisation and the public performance of rituals. In Hindu and neo-Hindu religious movements, the guru’s samadhi is one such important sacred space. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article focuses on one Ashram in India and the importance of the Samadhi shrine in the life of its members. The article argues that the Samadhi constitutes the spatial heart of an otherwise spatially dispersed Ashram. It is at the Samadhi that the devotees become present to the gurus and one another, creating a community of devotees through both a linear ‘chain of memory’ and lateral ‘intimacy grids’. At the same time, the creation of such a community grapples with the wider locational specificities of the Ashram and the politics of making it a home.
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Burov, Andrey Mikhailovich. "Giotto: Open Cubes, Shallow Depths and Specific Repetition." Journal of Flm Arts and Film Studies 3, no. 2 (May 15, 2011): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/vgik3218-23.
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The article analyses the image system of Giotto di Bondone, its role in the forming of the Renaissance representative tradition. By building up "architectural cubes", creating a spatial pause, intra-figure relationships, human events in the intra-image interplay (image-event), intimacy, an unbalanced and broken perspective, as well as reproducing the same facial type Giotto unconsciously formulates the idea of individuality in the plastic form and new pictorial strategy.
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Kang, Tingyu. "New media, expectant motherhood, and transnational families: power and resistance in birth tourism from Taiwan to the United States." Media, Culture & Society 40, no. 7 (June 18, 2018): 1070–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443718782002.
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This article examines the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in transnational expectant motherhood in the context of birth tourism, a growing form of transnational family arrangement. This research is primarily based on interviews with Taiwanese women who have participated in birth tourism in the United States. The findings suggest that long-distance intimacy is now primarily mediated through ICT use, which not only functions to fulfil the women’s emotional needs but also largely serves to bring the women’s reproductive bodies under the surveillance of their geographically distant spouses. This is because pregnant bodies serve as a spectacle of intimacy during expectant parenthood. To manage this digital surveillance, some mothers develop strategies of resistance regarding ICT use. This includes the choice of less media-rich tools and the delayed use of ICTs, which allow temporal and spatial distance from the digital gaze of the father.
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Martins, Eduardo E. B. "I’m the Operator With My Pocket Vibrator: Collective Intimate Relations on Chaturbate." Social Media + Society 5, no. 4 (October 2019): 205630511987998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305119879989.
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This article focuses on the use of a remote-controlled vibrator on Chaturbate, a sexually explicit webcam platform. Looking at the complex arrangement formed by so-called human and nonhuman counterparts in networked settings, I analyze an intimate moment hosted by the selected erotic platform, observing how a sex toy that can be controlled by distance modulates the affective underpinnings of such “vibrant” assemblage and participates in this carnal activity by heightening and clustering different groupings of bodies to create an orgasmic moment. Drawing on Actor–Network Theory and theories of affect, I focus on the sociotechnical affordances that constitute this sexual setting and describe the movement of actants as they throb to develop senses of intimacy and presence in the unfurling event, thus showing how a great number of players, from varied scopes of intelligibility, participate jointly to develop visceral affect and body friction even though they do not share the same spatial frame.
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Hodkinson, Paul. "Bedrooms and beyond: Youth, identity and privacy on social network sites." New Media & Society 19, no. 2 (July 9, 2016): 272–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444815605454.
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This article considers young people’s identities and privacy on social network sites through reflection on the analogy of the teenage bedroom as a means to understand such spaces. The notion therein of intimate personal space may jar with the scope and complexity of social media and, particularly, with recent emphasis on the challenges to privacy posed by such environments. I suggest, however, that, through increased use of access controls and a range of informal strategies, young people’s everyday digital communication may not be as out of control as is sometimes inferred. Recent adaptations of the bedroom analogy indicate that social network sites retain intimacy and that their individual-centred format continues to facilitate the exhibition and mapping of identities. Although an awkward fit, I suggest the bedroom may still help us think through how social network sites can function as vital personal home territories in the midst of multi-spatial patterns of sociability.
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Winter, Bodo, Joshua Daguna, and Teenie Matlock. "Metaphor-enriched social cognition and spatial bias in the courtroom." Metaphor and the Social World 8, no. 1 (May 7, 2018): 81–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.17001.win.
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Abstract It is known that courtroom decisions can be influenced by subtle psychological biases, such as asking leading questions. Informed by metaphor research on the connection between spatial proximity and intimacy (e.g., ‘we are close’, ‘their views are far apart’), this paper reports four experiments that look at the potential role of psychological biases arising from the spatial layout of a courtroom. In particular, we ask the question: Does being close or far to a defendant influence one’s reasoning about who is likely to win or lose a court case? Working with an American (jury-based) legal system as an example, our experiments manipulated the physical distance between the jury box and the defendant’s table as shown on images of a courtroom. Across several manipulations, we discovered that participants judged the defendant to be more likely to win when the defendant’s table was located close to the jury box. These studies are in line with the research on ‘metaphor-enriched social cognition’, showing that the way we talk about relationships in terms of space corresponds to social reasoning in a spatial world.
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Nicoletta, Setola, Naldi Eletta, Paola Cardinali, and Laura Migliorini. "A Broad Study to Develop Maternity Units Design Knowledge Combining Spatial Analysis and Mothers’ and Midwives’ Perception of the Birth Environment." HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal 15, no. 4 (July 10, 2022): 204–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19375867221098987.
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Objectives: This article investigates how the physical birth environment is perceived by the users (women and midwives) in different settings, a midwife-led unit and an obstetric-led unit, placed in Italy. Background: In the field of birth architecture research, there is a gap in the description of the spatial and physical characteristics of birth environments that impact users’ health, specifically for what concerns the perception by women. Methods: The study focuses on multi-centered mixed methods design, employing both quantitative and qualitative research methods (questionnaire, spatial analysis) and covering different disciplines (architecture, environmental psychology, and midwifery). Results: The results revealed significant differences between the two settings and some associations between perceived and spatial data concerning: calm atmosphere, greater intimacy, spacious birth room, clarity of service points, clarity in finding midwives, sufficient space for labor, noise, privacy, and the birth room adaptability. Conclusions: The findings confirm the importance of the spatial layout and indicate documented knowledge as an input to consider when designing birth spaces in order to promote user well-being.
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Wooden, Isaiah Matthew. "In Moonlight, Perpetually Outside." QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 9, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/qed.9.issue-1.0007.
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Abstract This article explores the ways the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight reveals and reflects a Black spatial imaginary that explicitly and inextricably links Blackness, queerness, and the outside. In sharpening focus on its central character's journey from bullied kid to alienated high school student to hardened twenty-something, Moonlight, I argue, repudiates many of the anti-Black premises that vitalize the project of white supremacy and the white spatial imaginary, particularly those that cast Black people as always already unfit or unworthy—of freedom, of intimacy, of pleasure, of life. Simultaneously, the film draws attention to and invites viewers to grapple with the ways that Blackness always already indexes a waywardness, a transience, a queerness, a “movement in excess” that is itself an instantiation and expression of refusal, a being in and for the outside.
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Lo, VWL, and KA Steemers. "Methods for assessing the effects of spatial luminance patterns on perceived qualities of concert lighting." Lighting Research & Technology 52, no. 1 (April 8, 2019): 106–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477153519841098.
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This paper presents experimental approaches for evaluating concert lighting from the viewpoints of audience members and performers in Cambridge King's College Chapel. We develop image zoning and abstraction techniques to quantify and interpret photometric data acquired under four different electric lighting conditions. Assessed by 78 participants, these lighting scenarios are compared across six different viewing positions using a set of structured questionnaires. Ordered logistic regression modelling shows that the ratios and functions describing uniformity, brightness and light patterns are common explanatory variables for predicting perceived visual clarity, visual uniformity, brightness and spatial intimacy. Uniformity-related attributes are observed to be among the strongest variables for all these perceived qualities, except for visual clarity, which is better explained by acuity-related measures. These experimental results confirm the applicability of our approaches, highlighting the importance of combining multiple methods and integrating complex architectural situations into the process of understanding luminous appearance.
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Saeidi, Shirin, and Paola Rivetti. "Out of Space: Securitization, Intimacy, and New Research Challenges in Post-2009 Iran." International Journal of Middle East Studies 49, no. 3 (July 26, 2017): 515–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743817000381.
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In post-2009 Iran, not only is space gendered for a variety of reasons ranging from customs to state intervention, but also public space has become less accessible and secluded for security purposes. To securitize the state or replace a sense of trust with that of suspicion, states blend the gendering of space with the architecture of seclusion. In the United States, for instance, the separation of males and females in the prison industrial complex includes seclusion of bodies and often subjects gender-nonconforming people, immigrants, and those with HIV to disproportionate levels of physical danger. In Iran, architectural adjustments with the aim of seclusion have significantly increased since the 2009 protests. In Tehran, for instance, shisha shops in the mountains, which used to be common sites of leisure, are randomly raided by security forces. As a result, participating in such spaces means having to hide in the back areas to engage in an activity that not too long ago was legal. It follows that the combination of gendering and seclusion of space disrupts the formation of organic relationships and generates real, falsely stimulated, and contested intimacies. How we approach intimacies in this complicated situation determines in important ways the impact that this new spatial scheme will have on our research agenda, analysis, and perhaps even safety.
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Minai, Naveen. "Desi Butch (Where the ’Twain Shall Meet)." Journal of Autoethnography 3, no. 2 (2022): 160–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/joae.2022.3.2.160.
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The terms “desi” and “butch” are difficult to define separately but open up new possibilities for thinking sexuality and borders when located next to each other on the page. “Desi” can mean people from South Asia, and gestures toward land as home. “Butch” can mean queer masculinity, female masculinity, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual women’s subcultures. This article uses autoethnography to experiment with desi and butch next to one another to think about what desi queer and trans masculine genealogies and experiences might tell us about transnational logics of sexuality, space, home, and body. The article thinks through desi, butch, and desi butch as potential analytics of sexuality, movement, masculinity, intimacy, and desire, and attends to the work of the risks and costs of these shared terms. What does desi butch do to spatial modes of intimacy, alienation, care, fragmentation, and genealogy, in multiple vocabularies of land and home? The author asks after the complicated affects, temporalities, and desires signaled by desi butch as a category that troubles and has trouble with heteronormative border regimes and futurities across geohistories of North America and South Asia. This includes questions of translation, embodiment, and citizenship. Attending to their own desires, orientations, and experiences, the author asks what forms, spaces, and practices of care and collectivity are made possible through desi butch as negotiations of borders, and experiences of melancholy and alienation produced by different lines.
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Hislop, Jenny. "A Bed of Roses or a Bed of Thorns? Negotiating the Couple Relationship through Sleep." Sociological Research Online 12, no. 5 (September 2007): 146–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.1621.
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The convention in Western societies of partners sharing a bed is symbolic of their status as a couple, their commitment to the relationship, and their desire for shared intimacy. Yet for many couples, incompatibility as sleeping partners may threaten to undermine romantic notions of the double bed. This paper draws on in-depth interview and audio diary data from research into sleep in couples aged 20-59 (N=40) to examine how couples negotiate the spatial, temporal and relational dimensions of the sleeping environment. The paper contends that the management of tensions inherent in the sleeping relationship plays a key role in framing the couple identity over time, as well as reinforcing the gendered roles, power relationships and inequalities which underpin everyday life.
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Sarnelli, Debora. "From Maps to Stories: Dangerous Spaces in Agatha Christie’s Homes." Humanities 8, no. 1 (January 31, 2019): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8010023.
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In the common imagination, home denotes the physical space where human beings find protection, intimacy, and bliss. Home is a place of affection and warmth. This article proposes to analyze the perception of the place called home within Christie’s narratives and how her fictional households are deprived of their protective value and become as blood soaked as the hard-boiled dirty back alleys. The article focuses on how every room occupies a different role in Christie’s fictional houses. There are safe rooms—the busiest rooms of the household where murder never happens—and dangerous rooms. The dangerous room—the murder scene—is described through the use of a map offered by the first-person narrator. The map provides the reader with important spatial information: this is the very place where the murder was perpetrated.
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Koch, Jonathan. "‘No Empty Place for Complementing Doubt’: The Spaces of Religious Toleration in Andrew Marvell’s ‘Flecknoe’." Review of English Studies 71, no. 301 (November 22, 2019): 687–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/hgz132.
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Abstract Andrew Marvell’s ‘Flecknoe, an English Priest at Rome’ (1646) is a striking document in early modern debates over toleration and an exemplar of their rhetoric and design. Considering ‘Flecknoe’ together with Upon Appleton House (1651), I argue that Marvell uses spatial terms and satiric forms to present confessional rivalry and complementarity. Satire itself might be thought of as a practice of toleration in these poems, at once mocking the languages and gestures of opposing religious confessions and allowing the poet to draw close to—to contrive a surprising intimacy with—the convictions and practices of others. The result is a brilliant interweaving of the ideas and experiences of religious and erotic toleration: Marvell sets liberty of the spirit alongside liberty of the body in these poems’ scenes of forbearance.
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Clément, Alain, François-P. Chalifour, Ghislain Gendron, and Maheshwar P. Bharati. "Effects of nitrogen supply and spatial arrangement on the grain yield of a maize/soybean intercrop in a humid subtropical climate." Canadian Journal of Plant Science 72, no. 1 (January 1, 1992): 57–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.4141/cjps92-007.
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Cereal/legume intercropping is a common practice in low-input agricultural systems. Under appropriate conditions, it usually results in higher overall productivity as compared with pure stands. Appraisal of agronomic practices is of particular importance, since component crops sometimes differ considerably in their structure and fertilization needs. An experiment was conducted under the subtropical conditions of Southern Nepal, in the Terai belt, in 1988 and 1989. Maize (Zea mays L.) and soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) received 0, 35 or 70 kg N ha−1 when grown either in pure stands or when intercropped in two spatial arrangements differing in spatial intimacy. Nitrogen fertilization resulted in similar grain yield increases for maize either in pure stands or in intercropping with soybean, indicating that the availability of nitrogen for the cereal was comparable in both cropping systems. Soybean yields were 22% lower in the presence of maize, as compared with a pure stand. The overall productivity of intercropping, as assessed by ATER (area-time equivalent ratio), was significantly higher than that of pure stands in 1988 and 1989. Land-use efficiency was higher when maize was intercropped with nodulating soybean, as compared to non-nodulating soybean, but only at 0 and 35 kg N ha−1.Key words: ATER, land-use efficiency, non-nodulating soybean isoline, nitrogen fertilization, spatial arrangement, interactions
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Xu, Mingyue, Dingding Han, Kaidi Zhao, and Qingqing Yao. "Time-Varying Spatial Memory Model and Its Impact on Virus Spreading." Complexity 2021 (October 4, 2021): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6687168.
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The models of time-varying network have a profound impact on the study of virus spreading on the networks. On the basis of an activity-driven memory evolution model, a time-varying spatial memory model (TSM) is proposed. In the TSM model, the cumulative number of connections between nodes is recorded, and the spatiality of nodes is considered at the same time. Therefore, the active nodes tend to connect the nodes with high intimacy and close proximity. Then, the TSM model is applied to epidemic spreading, and the epidemic spreading on different models is compared. To verify the universality of the TSM model, this model is also applied to rumor spreading, and it is proved that it can also play a good inhibiting effect. We find that, in the TSM network, the introduction of spatiality and memory can slow down the propagation speed and narrow the propagation scope of disease or rumor, and memory is more important. We then explore the impact of different prevention and control methods on pandemic spreading to provide reference for COVID-19 management control and find when the activity of node is restricted, the spreading will be controlled. As floating population has been acknowledged as a key parameter that affects the situation of COVID-19 after work resumption, the factor of population mobility is introduced to calculate the interregional population interaction rate, and the time-varying interregional epidemic model is established. Finally, our results of infectious disease parameters based on daily cases are in good agreement with the real data, and the effectiveness of different control measures is evaluated.
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Appadoo-Ramsamy, Wedsha, Michael Anthony Samuel, and Aruna Ankiah-Gangadeen. "Representing teachers' voices: An ethnodrama of Mauritian teachers under times of curriculum reform." Journal of Education, no. 86 (April 22, 2022): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2520-9868/i86a03.
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This article emphasises the motivation for a methodological representation choice that captures teachers' voices in a Small Island Developing State context during the introduction of a curriculum reform. The diverse voices of teachers as they inhabit a context that gears towards compliance and managed intimacy demands are explored through the representational choice of an ethnodrama. Narrative inquiry led to an ethnodrama representation that protected the anonymity and confidentiality of participants and simultaneously revealed multiple forms of agencies in entangled spatial and temporal dimensions. The findings foreground teachers' choice of agencies and representations that serve different interests influenced by whom they dialogue with in specific spaces. With a fictionalised future enactment of the ethnodrama at the end, this article closes with teachers negotiating their agency and opening reflections for future research in new normal Covid-19 spaces.
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Roberti, Ana Clara, Helena Santos, and Daniel Brandão. "From intimacy to urban landscape: images of the transformations of the Rainha Dona Leonor social housing." Sophia Journal 6, no. 1 (January 12, 2022): 128–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.24840/2183-8976_2021-0006_0001_15.
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The present communication proposes an imagery study on the transformations of the social housing Rainha Dona Leonor, in Porto, rehabilitated between 2017 and 2019. Through an immersive ethnographic work, it was possible to closely follow the radical changes that took place, from the demolition of the five housing blocks to the construction of a single block.
In short, our methodology was guided by the following phases: 1) a series of exploratory visits to analyze the spatial morphology, the living conditions, the forms of occupation of shared spaces and the atmosphere of the neighborhood (receptivity, sense of security, accesses, flow of non-residents); 2) further research into the history, context, and contemporary setting of the site; and 3) the close observation and follow up of two families from old residents.
The idea of using photography as a resource for data collection and representation of the situation was due to its ability to convey the impact of the changes on the landscape, on the lives of the residents, and on their narratives before the demolition of their homes and after moving to their new homes. We registered details inside their old homes (their old lives), before being packed up, or discarded in the move to the new apartments. Furthermore, photography was taken as a tangible reminiscence for these people, remnant of their past life.
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Hebbouch, Sarah. "Crafting Sociability in Female Spiritual Practices: The Case of Boutchichiyyat." European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 4, no. 2 (May 31, 2019): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejms-2019.v4i2-545.
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Research on sufism and female spirituality has centered on framing narratives of sufi women within individualized practices, constructing thereby sufi women as mere individual and assisting players in historical accounts of more famous male scholars. In recent years, academic interest has geared towards the investigation of sufi women’s collective and ritualistic performance within structured sufi circles. Henceforth, this paper explores ways in which the gathering of sufi women of Boutchichiyya, a Morocco-based sufi order, in a zawiya mediates not only ritual performances but also promotes the rehearsal of sociability and social relations. The point is made that within a horizon that is viewed as a nexus where the ritualistic performance is what matters in a zawiya, sufi women’s gathering is characterized by a sense of community, and interconnections between spiritual, social capital and socialization. In this pri-blic (private and public) space, namely the zawiya, sufi women of Boutchichiyya enjoy privacy and communal life. Knowing that the zawiya is a segregated space, since men and women disciples perform rituals separately, one might surmise that the spatial division sparks gender inequality. However, this spatial segregation is an ideal of emancipation, which subsumes a spatial segregation of rituals, and constructs a realm of privacy, intimacy, and fervent ambiance women aspire to. This paper builds on findings of a qualitative ethnographic research, in which the researcher assumed a participant-observer role to generate a more focused discussion on whether the gender division of space highlights women’s spirituality or undermines it. More precisely, this paper approaches the interactive relationship, which engages women’s sufi experience with prevalent spatial politics in Moroccan society. In such a space where women come to learn and imbibe spiritual knowledge, social relationships are important assets for women’s spiritual, social, and personal growth.
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Dang, Xuan Thu, Howard Nicholas, and Donna Starks. "Singaporean Societies: Multimedia Communities of Student Migration." Migration, Mobility, & Displacement 4, no. 1 (June 7, 2019): 23–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/mmd41201918969.
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Studies of home language use tend to focus on macro-level language changes and verbal communication rather than on micro-level analyses of family communication. This makes it diffcult to form a nuanced picture of the relations among diverse resources deployed in transnational family communication. In this paper, we address this issue by reporting results from a preliminary study of the micro-level communicative interactions of a frst-generation transnational Australian Vietnamese family who have settled in Melbourne, Australia. Through an in-depth analysis of a 20-minute video clip, we capture intersections in the rich, diverse communicative resources used by the family as they watched a favourite English television program while simultaneously keeping in contact with family members overseas. Our analysis shows that transnational family communication patterns involve complex displays of language use, silence, touch, movement, and spatial orientation, which together enable the family to communicate in the here and now with individuals near and far. We use the multiplicity framework to interpret the fuidity of multimodal communication, intimacy, and continuity across space.
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Panos, Leah. "Trevor Griffiths' ‘Absolute Beginners’: Socialist Humanism and the Television Studio." Journal of British Cinema and Television 10, no. 1 (January 2013): 151–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2013.0127.
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This article examines how conventional studio production strategies were active in the construction of political meaning in the 1974 television play ‘Absolute Beginners’, written by Trevor Griffiths. Produced for the BBC anthology series Fall of Eagles, the play dramatises Lenin's involvement with the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party (RSDWP) and explores the contradictions between personal ethics and political necessity. Through close textual analysis and contextual discussion of other plays in the series, this piece demonstrates how shot patterns and spatial and performative devices in ‘Absolute Beginners’ supported the drama's socialist-humanist and feminist themes. Drawing on existing writing about the studio mode, it argues that the qualities of intimacy and presentational distance that it engendered were highly appropriate for the personal and the political dialectic in ‘Absolute Beginners’. While using authorship as a convenient category for referring to the coherence of Griffiths' thematic concerns and dramatic structure during this period, the article complicates notions of the television dramatist as author by arguing for the importance of visual style and showing how ‘ordinary’ studio form was operational in the play's political meanings.
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Luna, Sarah. "Affective Atmospheres of Terror on the Mexico–U.S. Border: Rumors of Violence in Reynosa’s Prostitution Zone." Cultural Anthropology 33, no. 1 (February 22, 2018): 58–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.14506/ca33.1.03.
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This article examines the effects of rumors within the Mexican and U.S. governments’ militarized war on drugs. Focusing on a period during which Mexican drug organizations were strengthened and violence increased, the article follows the lives of Mexican sex workers and their clients, as well as American missionaries living in a prostitution zone in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Borders between narco-controlled and state-controlled territory were shifted in and through the bodies of Reynosa’s residents as a contagion of performative rumors came to occupy la zona. As residents told or listened to stories about torture and murder at the hands of narcos, their perceived vulnerability increased and fear came to predominate. In this article I theorize how rumors of violence shaped affective atmospheres of terror and altered spatial practices in a drug-war zone. Feelings of bodily risk first affected vulnerable populations and later spread to people who had previously felt secure in border zones. These narco-stories not only circulated terror but also allowed people to achieve intimacy and maintain social bonds through the shared experience of terror.
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Grover, Shalini, Thomas Chambers, and Patricia Jeffery. "Portraits of Women’s Paid Domestic-Care Labour." Journal of South Asian Development 13, no. 2 (August 2018): 123–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0973174118793782.
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Our introduction to this Special Issue draws out themes from all four articles which focus on India’s domestic-care economy: women’s paid domestic labour, care work and surrogacy. Through fine-grained ethnographic detail, all the articles nuance questions around agency and resistance, and actively challenge the ‘passive victim’ stereotype that continues to be the primary imaginary in many representations of domestic-care workers. We describe how the articles detail the intimacy, emotional labour and complex spatial dynamics inherent within a sector that often involves working in the homes of others, caring for children, and complex relationships with employers. Additionally, we show how care workers encounter quotidian forms of bodily control, distancing, segregation, authority, stigma, coercion, punitive sanctions and exploitation embedded in the intersections of class, race, caste, gender and ethnicity. To provide a wider framing for the articles, we utilize this introduction to situate them within broader historical and geographical contexts. Thus, we consider how global care chains (GCCs), labour markets, migration, and colonial/postcolonial considerations interplay in shaping the everyday lives of domestic-care workers in contemporary globalizing India.
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Rock, N. M. S., and R. H. Hunter. "Late Caledonian dyke-swarms of northern Britain: Spatial and temporal intimacy between lamprophyric and granitic magmatism around the Ross of Mull pluton, Inner Hebrides." Geologische Rundschau 76, no. 3 (October 1987): 805–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01821065.
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Bazy, Damien. "Las modalidades y dinámicas de las relaciones entre facciones políticas en Piedras Negras, Petén, Guatemala. El dualismo político." Revista Trace, no. 59 (July 5, 2018): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.22134/trace.59.2011.320.
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Retomando los planteamientos de varios arqueólogos, intentaremos descifrar el significado social de las disposiciones espaciales mediante ciertos criterios tales como el nivel de intimidad, las modalidades de visibilidad y circulación (Arnauld 2001; Blanton 1986; Inomata 2001, 2006; Joyce 2001; Moore 1992, 1996a, 1996b). El método de análisis espacial así elaborado para las ciudades mayas de las tierras bajas del centro y del sur, consiste en concebir los lugares –públicos o privados– como conjuntos de relaciones espaciales establecidas por determinada sociedad, en determinado momento, entre grupos sociales distintos y específicos. En una perspectiva sincrónica, la articulación espacial entre los lugares públicos y privados (unidades funcionales básicas de las ciudades mayas) nos ha permitido diferenciar segmentos sociales autónomos y distintos de la corte real, rivales o aliados, y bosquejar el panorama social y político que prevalecía durante el apogeo de las ciudades estudiadas (Bazy 2010). En este artículo, abordaremos en particular la secuencia constructiva de Piedras Negras, cuya articulación ilustra un dualismo que implica a dos facciones políticas. Esta secuencia nos brinda claves para modelizar los procesos de negociación entre facciones, a fin de reconstruir la vida política de las ciudades independientemente de la epigrafía.Abstract: Following the lead of several archaeologists, we aim at reading social meaning of spatial layout from the degree of intimacy, visibility and circulation (Arnauld 2001; Blanton 1986; Inomata 2001, 2006; Joyce 2001; Moore 1992, 1996a, 1996b). According to this statement, the spatial analysis of central and southern Maya lowlands cities focuses precisely on analyzing places, public or private, as a set of spatial relationships, under their material, immaterial and ideal forms established by a given society in a given time, between distinct and specific social groups. Synchronically, the spatial articulation between public and private places, understood as the basic functional unit of the Maya cities, leads us to identify autonomous social segments that are rivals or allies of the royal court. This study leads us too to draw a panorama of social and political order at the apogee of the analyzed cities (Bazy 2010). This paper focuses on the Piedras Negras construction sequence. The articulation between public and private places at Piedras Negras illustrates a dualism that involves two political factions. The construction sequence gives us some clues to modelize the relationships between those two political factions, helping to restitute their political history independently of the epigraphic information.Résumé : À l’instar de nombreux archéologues, nous tenterons de déchiffrer le sens social de l’agencement des espaces au moyen de critères comme le degré d’intimité, les modalités de la visibilité et de la circulation (Arnauld 2001 ; Blanton 1986 ; Inomata 2001, 2006 ; Joyce 2001 ; Moore 1992, 1996a, 1996b). La méthode d’analyse spatiale ainsi élaborée pour les cités mayas des basses terres centrales et méridionales consiste précisément à étudier les lieux, publics ou privés, comme des ensembles de relations spatiales établies par une société donnée, à un moment donné, entre groupes sociaux distincts et spécifiques. En synchronie, l’articulation spatiale entre les lieux publics et privés, les unités fonctionnelles basiques des cités mayas, nous a permis de différencier des segments sociaux autonomes et distincts de la cour royale, rivaux ou alliés, et de brosser un panorama d’ordre social et politique à l’apogée des cités étudiées (Bazy 2010). Dans cet article, nous aborderons en particulier la séquence de construction de Piedras Negras dont l’articulation illustre un dualisme impliquant deux factions politiques. Cette séquence nous offre des clés pour modéliser les processus de négociation entre factions, pour restituer la vie politique des cités indépendamment de l’épigraphie.
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Lukman, Aldyfra Luhulima, Ariani Mandala, and Clara Evangeline Utamalie. "The role of artificial lighting techniques in forming sacred expressions at the sanctuary of the St. Laurentius Catholic Church Bandung, Indonesia." ARTEKS : Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur 7, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 119–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.30822/arteks.v7i1.1264.
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The interpretation differences of the policies implemented by the Second Vatican Council have a significant influence on the increasingly diverse views and manifestations of the sacred expressions in the Catholic Church. Therefore, this research focuses on the sacred expression of the Sanctuary as the most important space of the Catholic Church. It was carried out at St. Laurentius Catholic Church Bandung because it applies various artificial lighting techniques to its worship space. Furthermore, this research discusses how and to what extent artificial lighting techniques are able to support the sacred expression of the contemporary Catholic Church Sanctuary. Data were quantitatively collected through working drawings, measuring the illumination level in the work area, and determining the brightness of space-forming materials. Meanwhile, data were also qualitatively collected through field observations and visual recordings. The analysis process was used to analyze the architectural sacredness, such as orientation, hierarchy, balance, and symbols. In addition, visual analysis was used for clarity, uniformity, balance, brightness, and spatial intimacy. The results showed that artificial lighting techniques play a significant role in forming sacred expressions of the Sanctuary of the St. Laurentius Catholic Church Bandung.
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DREPHAL, MAXIMILIAN. "Corps diplomatique:The body, British diplomacy, and independent Afghanistan, 1922–47." Modern Asian Studies 51, no. 4 (July 2017): 956–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x16000111.
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AbstractThis article studies diplomatic history in its physical dimensions. Its point of departure is the interpretation of the term ‘corps diplomatique’ in a literal sense. The article introduces the concept of the diplomatic body as a diplomat's body and as a body with diplomatic functions and meanings. Based on material relating to the British Legation in Kabul from 1922 until 1947, the body's ubiquity in international relations is revealed through the themes of space, language, and medicine. The article first looks at the impact of Kabul's spatial conditions and the physical reactions it excited in British diplomats. It then considers the bodies of Afghanistan's ruling elite as objects of British attention, whose appearance was documented in diplomatic records. Descriptions of these bodies in diplomatic language expressed intimacy and consensus as well as estrangement in British–Afghan relations. In addition to the metaphorical use of the diplomatic body, the provision of healthcare through the Legation's medical unit addressed the needs of British and Afghan bodies alike. It was also employed to further diplomatic ends by extending colonial medicine to the Afghan population. The study of the Legation's physical practices ultimately reveals the diplomatic mission's colonial origins and character.
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Siddiq, Ujala, Zargham Ullah Khan, and Aisha Tahir. "CPEC a Gateway: Changing the Lives of Intra and Inter-Regional People." Global Political Review IV, no. IV (December 30, 2019): 88–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2019(iv-iv).10.
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CPEC is an ongoing development megaproject which aims to connect Gwadar Port of Pakistan to Chinas northwestern region of Xinjiang, via a network of highways, railways, and pipelines. The economic corridor is considered central to China-Pakistan relations and will run about 2700 km from Gwadar to Kashgar. The vision and mission of CPEC are "To improve the lives of people of Pakistan and China". By building an economic corridor promoting bilateral connectivity, construction, explore potential bilateral investment, economic and trade, logistics and people to people contact for regional connectivity. It includes integrated transport, IT systems including road, rail, seaports, air and data communication channels, energy cooperation, spatial layout, functional zones, industries and industrial parks, agricultural development and poverty alleviation. This intimacy will lead to human resource development. In this paper, a study is done by collecting primary data by questionnaires. The development of the health sector and the construction of the hospital, water filtration plants and other facilities have been checked and analyzed. The question that is answered by conducting this study is; will this project help to change the lives of the people and will facilitate them nicely?
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Yun, Sang-Seok. "A gaze control of socially interactive robots in multiple-person interaction." Robotica 35, no. 11 (October 3, 2016): 2122–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263574716000722.
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SUMMARYThis paper proposes a computational model for selecting a suitable interlocutor of socially interactive robots in a situation interacting with multiple persons. To support this, a hybrid approach incorporating gaze control criteria and perceptual measurements for social cues is applied to the robot. For the perception part, representative non-verbal behaviors indicating human-interaction intent are designed based on the psychological analysis of human–human interaction, and these behavioral features are quantitatively measured by core perceptual components including visual, auditory, and spatial modalities. In addition, each aspect of recognition performance is improved through temporal confidence reasoning as a post-processing step. On the other hand, two factors of the physical space and conversational intimacy are tactically applied to the model calculation as a way of strengthening social gaze control effect of the robot. Interaction experiments with performance evaluation are given to verify that the proposed model is suitable to assess intended behaviors of individuals and perform gaze behavior about multiple persons. By showing a success rate of 93.3% in human decision-making criteria, it confirms a potential to establish socially acceptable gaze control in multiple-person interaction.
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Wu and Feng. "On-Off Control of Range Extender in Extended-Range Electric Vehicle using Bird Swarm Intelligence." Electronics 8, no. 11 (October 26, 2019): 1223. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics8111223.
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The bird swarm algorithm (BSA) is a bio-inspired evolution approach to solving optimization problems. It is derived from the foraging, defense, and flying behavior of bird swarm. This paper proposed a novel version of BSA, named as BSAII. In this version, the spatial distance from the center of the bird swarm instead of fitness function value is used to stand for their intimacy of relationship. We examined the performance of two different representations of defense behavior for BSA algorithms, and compared their experimental results with those of other bio-inspired algorithms. It is evident from the statistical and graphical results highlighted that the BSAII outperforms other algorithms on most of instances, in terms of convergence rate and accuracy of optimal solution. Besides the BSAII was applied to the energy management of extended-range electric vehicles (E-REV). The problem is modified as a constrained global optimal control problem, so as to reduce engine burden and exhaust emissions. According to the experimental results of two cases for the new European driving cycle (NEDC), it is found that turning off the engine ahead of time can effectively reduce its uptime on the premise of completing target distance. It also indicates that the BSAII is suitable for solving such constrained optimization problem.
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Speakman, Maile. "“Hay Muchísimo Poder en la Oscuridad” : Black Cuir Cinema Clubs in Contemporary Havana." Revista Periódicus 1, no. 15 (June 16, 2021): 40–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.9771/peri.v1i15.43911.
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Cineclub Cuir and Cine Alternativo are itinerant cinematic events aimed at showing cuir, feminist, avant-garde, Afro-diasporic, and experimental media content in Havana. El paquete semanal is a widespread digital information product that Cubans use to access global media. I argue that Cineclub Cuir and Cine Alternativo’s curatorial frameworks produce exploratory spaces of moving theory that rupture the revolutionary state’s nationalist discourse of colorblindness and racial democracy and the normative and white-washed depictions of queerness that circulate in el paquete. The cinema clubs, which elude state-sponsorship and are free of charge, create collective discursive spaces where participants interrogate the figure of the cuir racializado in sites that are not fully regulated by the state or Cuba’s commodified media markets. The emergence of such spaces in the past three years marks a break with the Cuban state’s post-revolutionary monopoly on cultural spaces but also a resistance to newer, more capitalist forms of media circulation such as el paquete. By projecting moving images of Black queer intimacy in alleyways, rooftops, and a multitude of other public and private spaces throughout Havana, Cineclub Cuir and Cine Alternativo comprise a media infrastructure that is ephemeral, difficult to police, and that contravenes the colonial racial and spatial logics that organize the city.
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Marchant, Jonathan S., Viviana Ramos, and Ian Parker. "Structural and functional relationships between Ca2+ puffs and mitochondria in Xenopusoocytes." American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 282, no. 6 (June 1, 2002): C1374—C1386. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00446.2001.
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Ca2+ uptake and release from endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondrial Ca2+ stores play important physiological and pathological roles, and these processes are shaped by interactions that depend on the structural intimacy between these organelles. Here we investigate the morphological and functional relationships between mitochondria, ER, and the sites of intracellular Ca2+ release in Xenopus laevis oocytes by combining confocal imaging of local Ca2+ release events (“Ca2+ puffs”) with mitochondrial localization visualized using vital dyes and subcellularly targeted fluorescent proteins. Mitochondria and ER are localized in cortical bands ∼6–8 μm wide, with the mitochondria arranged as densely packed “islands” interconnected by discrete strands. The ER is concentrated more superficially than mitochondria, and the mean separation between Ca2+ puff sites and mitochondria is ∼2.3 μm. However, a subpopulation of Ca2+ puff sites is intimately associated with mitochondria (∼28% within <600 nm), a greater number than expected if Ca2+ puff sites were randomly distributed. Ca2+release sites close to mitochondria exhibit lower Ca2+ puff activity than Ca2+ puff sites in regions with lower mitochondrial density. Furthermore, Ca2+ puff sites in close association with mitochondria rarely serve as the sites for Ca2+ wave initiation. We conclude that mitochondria play important roles in regulating local ER excitability, Ca2+wave initiation, and, thereby, spatial patterning of global Ca2+ signals.
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Hogue, Timothy. "In the midst of great kings: the monumentalization of text in the Iron Age Levant." Manuscript and Text Cultures (MTC) 1 (May 1, 2022): 13–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.56004/v1h13.
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The Bar-Rakib Palace Inscriptions from Zincirli have received relatively little attention from philologists and archaeologists alike because of their predictable and derivative content. However, these monuments provide an unparalleled insight into the monumentalization of text in the Iron Age Levant. As might be expected, Bar-Rakib's Aramaic inscriptions and reliefs repeat themes and tropes from other monuments. They also were strategically deployed at the site so as to interact with nearby monuments left by earlier rulers. What has received less attention is the fact that Bar-Rakib's monuments also shared many artistic tropes with small finds from Zincirli, including letters, incantation plaques, seals, and amulets. These correspondences suggest that monumental texts functioned by appropriating aspects of personal artifacts to be used on a communal scale. By projecting not only prestige but also intimacy, Bar-Rakib's inscriptions invited their audience to interact with them in imaginative ways. As the audience related to the monumental texts through acts of reading, viewing, and ritual, they would in turn reconfigure their own relationships to other communicative media, places, each other, and the polity as a whole. It was this ability to relate to communities and thus reshape them that made a text monumental in the Iron Age Levant. This was accomplished through the strategic juxtaposition of text with visual and performative media in particular spatial contexts.
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Cheshire, Lynda, Peter Walters, and Charlotte ten Have. "‘Strangers in my home’: Disaster and the durability of the private realm." Sociological Review 66, no. 6 (January 25, 2018): 1226–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026118754781.
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The three realms of home, neighbourhood and public space comprise distinct socio-spatial entities, each with distinct sets of social relations and rules governing social interaction. The home, or private realm, is characterised by intimacy and familiarity; the parochial sphere is where people interact as neighbours or acquaintances; and the public realm is where strangers are encountered as a matter of course. While the contours of these realms are constantly shifting, the boundaries between the private sphere and outside world are preserved, such that strangers and neighbours enter the home only as temporary guests or as harmful ‘invaders’. In this article the authors examine how disaster can disrupt the boundaries between the private, parochial and public realms, allowing strangers to freely enter the home. Using interviews conducted after the Brisbane 2011 floods, the article shows that while the neighbourhood became a liminal space in which total strangers were accepted, the convergence of strangers in the private sphere of home generated anxiety among occupants despite the altruistic intent of those strangers. The article concludes that, paradoxically, the resilience of the private realm, even in a vastly degraded state, contributes to the distress felt by victims of disaster when strangers come to help restore it. The authors use this conclusion to contribute theoretically to the phenomenology of home in a critical case such as a disaster.
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Landau, Loren B. "Friendship fears and communities of convenience in Africa’s urban estuaries: Connection as measure of urban condition." Urban Studies 55, no. 3 (April 18, 2017): 505–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098017699563.
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Across the developing world, immigrants, internal migrants and long-time residents increasingly co-occupy and co-produce estuarial zones: sites loosely structured by the disciplines of state, formal employment or hegemonic cultural norms. In these hyper-diverse, often highly fluid sites, the appearance and form of friendships and solidarities are varied and revealing. Drawing on examples from rapidly transforming African cities – particularly Johannesburg and Nairobi – this article adds three facets to the emerging literature on urban friendship. First, it outlines conditions under which the localised intimacy of friendship represents a potentially frightening form of social obligation and regulation. Given many ‘southern’ urban economies’ uncertainty and migrants’ orientation to ‘multiple elsewheres’, local solidarities – including friendship – are often more frustration than facilitator. Second, it suggests that amidst these seemingly anomic, distrustful sites, residents forge shared values and socialities that eschew friendships’ potentially confining bonds. These ‘communities of convenience’ illustrate the value of solidarity in migrant-rich spaces while raising broader questions about the spatial scale and role of affective relationships in overcoming economic and physical precarity. It lastly argues that the relative strength of localised friendships provide a means of comparing urban sites while revealing rationalities – political, economic and social – at work: friendship fears reveal the distinct estuarial spaces shaped by ongoing movements of people into, out of, and through precarious cities of the south.