Turkish summer? Protests, politics and media – eyewitness analysis

This is the second part of Esra Dogramaci’s eye-witness account of the protests in Turky and her political analysis of what it means and where it is headed. Read the first part here. Here she starts off by looking at the role of the media

Not a Turkish spring – eyewitness analysis of the protests with pix

This article is by Esra Dogramaci – a journalist and LSE graduate student who has been in Turkey during the protests. It’s a long read but it gives you a detailed first hand narrative of the protests and some analysis of its significance and context from a Turkish point of view. More to follow. She is on Twitter as @Esra

Time-motion analysis of international and national level futsal

Futsal is the Fèdèration de Internationale Football Association's officially recognized fivea-side indoor soccer, which although increasing in popularity worldwide, lacks the Australian or other English language research necessary to enable the growth of the sport. The purpose of this study was to establish a comprehensive overview of the demands of futsal by a time-motion analysis on 8 Australian National Team players and 10 State League Team players over 4 futsal matches. The study analyzed 6 locomotor activity categories, focusing on total distance covered, total duration of activities, total frequency of activities, effort distance, and effort duration. The national team covered a 42% greater overall distance than the state league team. In terms of relative data normalized for match duration, only the standing duration value was significantly different between the teams. Furthermore, futsal players of elite and subelite level in Australia perform a change in activity every 8-9 seconds on the court, and the national team athletes attained a higher, yet nonsignificant, average match-play velocity. This may be because of the national futsal athletes participating in an extended game duration, potentially suggesting that higher levels of competition facilitate a higher intensity of match play and greater physiological demands on individual players. Apart from the differences in timing structure and overall metabolic work, there was no real difference between the levels of competition within the Australian futsal analysis, although at higher levels of competition, there may be a need for more recovery because of the elevated intensity of the match. When comparing the data with other countries, however, Australian futsal players produce less distance and duration than Spanish futsal players. © 2011 National Strength and Conditioning Association

Activity Profile Differences Between Sub-Elite Futsal Teams

International Journal of Exercise Science 8(2) : 112-123, 2015. Whilst there are a range of studies examining the differences in match demands between levels of competition, there is an absence of the analysis these differences between teams within the same level of competition. The study used notational analysis to identify performance indicators that differentiated between sub-elite futsal teams from Brazil, Spain and Australia during regular season matches. Based on world rankings, Spanish and Brazilian futsal was deemed to be superior to Australian futsal. The Australian players spent a significantly greater time engaged in high intensity activity than the Spanish players (sprinting: 0.36% v. 0.06%, p\u3c0.05); running: 5.89% v. 3.33%). The Brazilian team displayed the greatest possession of the ball (40.0 ± 10.4%) when compared to the Spanish (23.5 ± 2.73%) and Australian teams (30.9 ± 2.54%) (p\u3c0.01). Additionally, the Brazilian and Spanish teams made a greater number of successful passes per minute of match-play than the Australian team (10.7 ± 1.06 v. 8.68 ± 0.81 v. 5.31 ± 0.60, respectively, p\u3c0.01). These results generally suggest that lower high intensity activity output and superior ball possession and passing accuracy appear to be critical determinants in discriminating between successful and unsuccessful match performance. Accordingly, training to improve technical and decision making skills, specifically related to maintaining ball possession and improving passing accuracy, will likely assist lower performing teams

Is there a reliability challenge for logic?

There are many domains about which we think we are reliable. When there is prima facie reason to believe that there is no satisfying explanation of our reliability about a domain given our background views about the world, this generates a challenge to our reliability about the domain or to our background views. This is what is often called the reliability challenge for the domain. In previous work, I discussed the reliability challenges for logic and for deductive inference. I argued for four main claims: First, there are reliability challenges for logic and for deduction. Second, these reliability challenges cannot be answered merely by providing an explanation of how it is that we have the logical beliefs and employ the deductive rules that we do. Third, we can explain our reliability about logic by appealing to our reliability about deduction. Fourth, there is a good prospect for providing an evolutionary explanation of the reliability of our deductive reasoning. In recent years, a number of arguments have appeared in the literature that can be applied against one or more of these four theses. In this paper, I respond to some of these arguments. In particular, I discuss arguments by Paul Horwich, Jack Woods, Dan Baras, Justin Clarke-Doane, and Hartry Field

Close to the Field: The Artistic Portrayal of Seasonal Workers in Germany

This article examines contemporary artistic engagement with the theme of Eastern European seasonal migration in German agriculture. Seasonal labor of Eastern European workers in agriculture has been an integral part of German history since at least the 19th century. Migrant workers from what is now Poland in particular have provided seasonal help during harvest times. The advantage for the farms was (and remains today) that the workers did not have to be employed permanently, especially not in winter, but were hired and paid specifically for the harvest season. It was not until the current pandemic that the public became aware of the situation of temporarily migrating harvest workers, due to the high numbers of infections on asparagus farms, for example. This article enquires into art’s specific approaches to the subject: recent works by the artist Andrea Büttner and the photographer Irina Ruppert, who have dealt with harvest workers and their work in recent years, were selected. In this essay, the social and historical contexts are put into perspective as are the artistic and photographic traditions within which Büttner and Ruppert operate. The guiding question is how artistic means are used to make visible a practice that is socially invisible or marginalized, such as seasonal labor migration. Dicht am Feld: Saisonarbeiter*innen in Deutschland im Blick zeitgenössischer Kunst und Fotografie Dieser Beitrag untersucht zeitgenössische künstlerische Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Thema der osteuropäischen saisonalen Migration in der deutschen Landwirtschaft. Die Saisonarbeit osteuropäischer Arbeitskräfte ist mindestens seit dem 19. Jahrhundert ein fester Bestandteil der deutschen Geschichte. Vor allem Arbeitsmigrant*innen aus dem heutigen Polen halfen in der Erntezeit aus. Der Vorteil für die Betriebe war (und ist auch heute noch), dass die Arbeiter*innen nicht dauerhaft, vor allem nicht im Winter, beschäftigt werden mussten, sondern gezielt für die Erntezeit eingestellt und bezahlt wurden. Erst im Zuge der aktuellen Pandemie wurde die Öffentlichkeit durch die hohen Infektionszahlen, z.B. auf Spargelhöfen, auf die Situation der temporär migrierenden Erntehelfer*innen aufmerksam. Der Beitrag fragt nach den spezifischen Zugängen der Kunst zu diesem Thema: Ausgewählt wurden aktuelle Arbeiten der Künstlerin Andrea Büttner und der Fotografin Irina Ruppert, die sich in den letzten Jahren mit Erntehelfer*innen und ihrer Arbeit auseinandersetzten. In diesem Essay werden die sozialen und historischen Kontexte ebenso diskutiert wie die künstlerischen und fotografischen Traditionen, in denen sich Büttner und Ruppert bewegen. Zentral ist dabei die Frage, wie mit künstlerischen Mitteln eine gesellschaftlich unsichtbare oder marginalisierte Praxis wie die saisonale Arbeitsmigration sichtbar gemacht wird

Reasons, Coherence, and Group Rationality

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView