ἜΠΟΣ: A MUSICAL CONCEPT ALBUM ADAPTATION OF HOMER’S ILIAD

This thesis project is a musical concept album adaptation of Homer’s classical epic the Iliad. Inspired by musicals like Hadestown, Les Miserables, and Hamilton as well as movies like O Brother Where Art Thou and musicians like Bob Dylan, this album seeks to enter the genre of Classical Reception Studies. The album consists of seven tracks all referencing moments within the poem, written from the perspective of the characters to inspire empathy within the audience. The content of this thesis includes detailed chord charts and audio demos of each song, as well as analyses of the lyrical, musical, and thematic choices featured in the tracks. In addition, there is a Literature Review into modern sources on interactions between Bard and Audience and modern studies into empathy in the creative arts to supplement the album’s attempt at interacting with the audience

Introduction. Alternative development: Unravelling marginalization, voicing change

This book brings together a collection of essays that discuss alternatives to mainstream development thinking and practice, and how these alternatives may affect local and global processes of marginalization and change in the Global South. Alternative development is concerned with identifying and promoting alternative practices and redefining the goals of development. The book takes as its starting point the history of alternative ideas of development by engaging with the work of Professor Ragnhild Lund from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, whose involvement in development geography spans four decades. Ragnhild Lund’s career has balanced academic life with activism and policy work. The essays in the book honour her work by engaging with founding themes of alternative development such as local knowledges and practices, poverty, gender, environment and sustainable development, and by addressing recent debates such as forced migration, conflict and climate change. The themes of the book speak to academics, students of development studies, policy makers and activists in the Global South and North.--Provided by publisher

Community Services and Out-Migration

This paper investigates the relationship between changing community context and out-migration in one of today’s poor countries, seeking to document the various mechanisms by which infrastructure affects the migratory behavior. We focus on the expansion of social and physical facilities and services near to rural people’s homes, including transportation, new markets, employment, schools, health clinics, and mass media outlets such as movie halls. We draw upon detailed data from Nepal to estimate the hypothesized effects. The direct effects of expanding economic and human capital infrastructure are clearly negative, reducing out-migration. However, increased economic infrastructure is associated with a greater accumulation of human and social capital among respondents and their parents. Through these intervening mechanisms, economic and social infrastructure increased the odds of migrating out. These results reveal the often countervailing nature of short- and long-term effects of economic and social change, and the complex pathways influencing migration outcomes.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/78714/1/j.1468-2435.2009.00581.x.pd

Family planning in India : diffusion and policy

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Just Space : Towards a Gentle Courthouse

The modern courthouse is a space of power, intimidation and control; a building that requires its users to be submissive and obedient. This environment contributes to the emotional trauma of participating in the judicial process. By challenging contemporary standards of courthouse organization, aesthetics, and program, this project aims to provide empathy and support to users that a typical courthouse does not. Flipping the hierarchies, siting, and programming of the traditional courthouse, this space can adapt to shifting community needs and puts the emotional and physical experience and wellbeing of users at its centre. The fear and respect demanded by the architecture of the typical courthouse model is no accident; how can we subvert this power and reclaim the courthouse as a productive and healing space for the people, serving its community rather than intimidating it?Applied Science, Faculty ofArchitecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School ofUnreviewedGraduat

Stochastic Dominance Analysis of Soil and Water Conservation in Subsistence Crop Production in the Eastern Ethiopian Highlands: The Case of the Hunde-Lafto Area

The aim of this paper is to analyze whether investment in soil and water conservation results in a higher yield and income and/or mitigate variability in yield and income to subsistence farm households in the Hunde-Lafto area. Net returns from crop production with and without soil and water conservation (SWC) are compared based on stochastic dominance (SD) criteria. A non-parametric first order SD and normalized second order are used for data analysis. Analysis is based on the Soil Conservation Research Program (SCRP) database for the Hunde-Lafto research unit. The results of the analysis suggest that adopting a conservation strategy results in higher grain yield and net return than in not adopting. The normalized second order SD analysis results do not support the hypothesis that conservation strategy is unambiguously better than a noconservation strategy in reducing variability in yield and net return to farmers. However, conservation strategy has shown second order dominance at lower levels of yield and income that often correspond to unfavorable rainfall conditions. This makes it a preferred strategy to cope with the most prevalent risk factor of moisture shortage. Therefore, appropriate policies to help and encourage farmers to adopt SWC structures will contribute to improving the welfare of subsistence farm households in the study area and in other similar settings in the country. Designing and implementing SWC techniques that may result in unambiguous second order SD dominance will further improve the desirability and adoption of conservation measures. Copyright Springer 2005erosion, Ethiopia, net return, soil and water conservation, stochastic dominance, Q24, renewable resources and conservation,