The 'memoir problem', revisited.

The ‘memoir problem’ revisited “That you had parents and a childhood does not of itself qualify you to write a memoir”. Neil Gunzlinger, book reviewer for the New York Times, griped in a review of yet another confessional memoir. It’s true; suddenly everyone is writing memoir, even people who only ever wrote fiction, rock music or poetry, or never wrote before. I even find myself writing memoir, but mining some of my own fictional writing for triggers and nudges, delving into old poems for clues and lines of inquiry. After all, the memory does not always linger on. Now, since revisiting this autobiographical writing as a resource for chapters of my Creative Nonfiction PhD thesis, a food memoir, in this paper I’ll discuss attempts made to fictionalise the ‘true’ events of the stories, and the uses made of them, to revitalise memoir. I also reflect on the work of controversial memoirist Karl Ove Knausgaard, whose six-volume work, ‘My struggle’, has offended members of his extended family, critics and purists, or simply bored many readers with the impossibly detailed accounts of his life, to ask again of memoir, “Should it be artful or truthful?

Combining Distributed and Localist Computations in Real-Time Networks

In order to benefit from the advantages of localist coding, neural models that feature winner-take-all representations at the top level of a network hierarchy must still solve the computational problems inherent in distributed representations at the lower levels

Moving Toward a Culture of Evidence: Documentation and Action Research inside CAPE Veteran Partnerships

This report is a culmination of three years of study of the impact on effective teaching of educators and artists engaging as partners in action research (inquiry based study of their own practice), in documenting the effects of arts integration on student learning (creating a "culture of evidence"), and in collaborating with other action research teams and with formal researchers to actively investigate qualities of teaching and learning at participating schools (what CAPE calls "layered research")

Current Economic Conditions and Selected Forecasts

This report contains information regarding the Current Economic Conditions, Recent Macroeconomic Developments, Posture of Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Summary of Current Developments, Sources of GDP Growth, Economic Forecasts 2001, and Promotion of Economic Growth. The report also presents statistics regarding the Growth Rate of Real GDP v. Final Sales, Civilian Unemployment Rate, Rate of Change in the Consumer Price Index, Rate of Change in the GDP Deflators, Rate of Change in Labor Costs, U.S. Foreign Trade Deficit, Alternative Measures of Fiscal Policy, The Growth Rates of the Monetary Aggregates, etc

Quantum Zonal Spherical Functions and Macdonald Polynomials

A unified theory of quantum symmetric pairs is applied to q-special functions. Previous work characterized certain left coideal subalgebras in the quantized enveloping algebra and established an appropriate framework for quantum zonal spherical functions. Here a distinguished family of such functions, invariant under the Weyl group associated to the restricted roots, is shown to be a family of Macdonald polynomials, as conjectured by Koornwinder and Macdonald. Our results place earlier work for Lie algebras of classical type in a general context and extend to the exceptional cases.Comment: Minor revisions, changes to section

Like an operatic quartet

Any reader drawn to this first edition’s cover image of summer catalogue pastels, sand dunes and deck chair, or by Catherine Robertson’s happy association with the romance genre, is bound for a deeper richer read than expected. Bookended by a literal eye of dog, from the perspective of King, the resident black Labrador of Gabriel’s Bay the township, ‘Gabriel’s Bay’ wisely refrains from the picturesque or breaking wave scenario so popular in beach art. Robertson‘s town is an anywhere and everywhere coastal New Zealand settlement; familiar ribbon development along the stretch of bay, with supermarket, two pubs, one closed, a petrol station, doctor’s surgery and pop-up café. The nearest town is Hampton, just ‘over the hill’, by a windy and precipitous country road

Helping Farmers in Rural Veracruz Connect to the Global Economy

Latin American Studie

The delayed development of early brazilian financial historiography, 1890-1930

La Historia Económica en Latinoamérica. Edición a cargo de Pablo Martín Aceña, Adolfo Meisel, Carlos Newland.Editada en la Fundación Empresa PúblicaEste trabajo presenta un visión panorámica de la evolución de la historiografía económica de la Primera República, para determinar las causas de la demora del desarrollo de las investigaciones sobre la historia financiera interna. Se argumenta que la atención en los mercados internacionales, prevaleciente en el enfoque de la teoría de la dependencia, tuvo como consecuencia el descuido de la estructura de las finanzas internas. En tiempos recientes, los investigadores han dedicado mayor atención a los enfoques que subrayan el equilibrio entre los factores económicos internos e internacionales, incluyendo el análisis de las redes de distribución y las estructuras institucionales financieras. Esta perspectiva sugiere que, dentro del sector privado, una estabilidad financiera emergió durante la Primera República y que el campo de las finanzas contribuyó positivamente al crecimiento económico, a pesar de las vicisitudes de las finanzas públicas. Estas conclusiones tentativas ofirecen una perspectiva muy diferente sobre la naturaleza del desarrollo económico del Brasil y sugieren nuevas y desafiantes preguntas.This article ofiers an overview of the evolution of economic historiography of the First Republic in order to consider why it has taken so long for domestic financial history to gain importance on the research agendas of Brazilian economic historians. It contends that the focus of dependency theory on internatíonal tnarkets resulted in neglecting the structure of domestic fínance. Recently, scholars have turned their attention to approaches that emphasize a balance between domestic and International economic factors, includúig looking at the distribution networks and institutional frameworks of domestic fínance. Evidence from this perspective suggests that within prívate sectors, fínancial stability emerged during the First Republic and fínance made positive contributions to growth, despite the vicissitudes of public fínance. This tentative fínding offers a very different perspective on the nature of Brazilian economic development and raises challenging new questions.Publicad