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Colonial refractions: the 'Gypsy camp' as a spatio-racial political technology

Camps for civilians first appeared in the colonies. Largely drawing on the literature on colonialism and race, this article conceptualizes the 'Gypsy camp' in Western European cities as a spatio-racial political technology. We first discuss the shift, starting with decolonization, from colonial to metropolitan technologies of the governance of social heterogeneity. We then relate this broad historical framing to the ideas and ideologies that since the 1960s have been underpinning the planning and governance of the ‘Gypsy camp' in both the UK and Italy. We document the 1970s emergence of a new and distinctive type of camp that was predicated upon a racially connoted tension between policies criminalizing sedentarization and ideologies of cultural protection. Given that the imposition of the ‘Gypsy camp' was essentially uncontested, we argue that the conditions of possibility for it to emerge and become institutionalized were both a spatio-racial similarity with typically colonial technologies of governance, and the fact that it was largely perceived as a self-evident necessity for the governance and control of one specific population. We conclude by calling for more analyses on this and other forms of urban confinement in both the Global North and South, in order to account for the increasingly disquieting mushrooming of confining and controlling governance devices, practices and ideologies

Acquisition of Chinese characters: The effects of character properties and individual differences among second language learners

In light of the dramatic growth of Chinese learners worldwide and a need for cross-linguistic research on Chinese literacy development, this study drew upon theories of visual complexity effect (Su and Samuels, 2010) and dual-coding processing (Sadoski and Paivio, 2013) and investigated (a) the effects of character properties (i.e., visual complexity and radical presence) on character acquisition and (b) the relationship between individual learner differences in radical awareness and character acquisition. Participants included adolescent English-speaking beginning learners of Chinese in the U.S. Following Kuo et al. (2014), a novel character acquisition task was used to investigate the process of acquiring the meaning of new characters. Results showed that (a) characters with radicals and with less visual complexity were easier to acquire than characters without radicals and with greater visual complexity; and (b) individual differences in radical awareness were associated with the acquisition of all types of characters, but the association was more pronounced with the acquisition of characters with radicals. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings were discussed.The open access fee for this work was funded through the Texas A&M University Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Fund

Revista de educación

Resumen tomado del autor. Incluido en el monográfico `El Quijote y la educaciónïSe sintetiza la concepción de la relación educativa a modo de diálogo entre dos personas, presentando un proyecto de valoración de sí mismo y en consecuencia con el afán de construir, mediante un consenso en constante renovación, un espacio educativo libre y dinámico, localizando en la formación del caballero medieval y del cortesano renacentista momentos históricamente significativos para la pedagogía moderna, siendo la obra de Cervantes una de las más fascinantes ilustraciones literarias de esta problemática.MadridBiblioteca de Educación del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte; Calle San Agustín, 5 - 3 Planta; 28014 Madrid; Tel. +34917748000; [email protected]

Studies in the perception of language

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Ethics of atheism

This is the archive of a lecture given by Paolo Flores D'Arcais, Italian philosopher and editor-in-chief of MicroMega; Alan Wolfe, Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College