Global Shakespeares in World Markets and Archives: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Shakespeare is a local force to be reckoned with in the global marketplace and in digital and analog archives of collective memory. With the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in 2014 and quatercentenary in 2016, there are several high-profile instances of global Shakespeare being tapped for its market value. The exchange value of Shakespeare is reflected in uses of Shakespearean themes and artifacts in appropriations, cultural diplomacy, and venues where nation states project soft power. There are no world markets without the proliferation of archives built on collective cultural memory. Conversely, there would be no archives without the cultural marketplace to validate that Shakespearean artifacts are archive-worthy in the first place

Fanon, Colonial Violence, And Racist Language In Federal American Indian Law

This Comment will argue that the racist language enshrined in foundational Supreme Court decisions involving Native tribes continuously enacts a form of colonial violence that seeks to preserve a white racial dictatorship. The paper will use Frantz Fanon’s scholarship on colonial violence and the dehumanization of Indigenous people as a framework to understand the history of legalized racism against Indigenous people in the United States. Fanon’s analysis allows us to understand how language is used to dehumanize Native people in order to establish a system of hierarchy that informs the societal roles of the colonizer and the colonized. The paper will then trace the use of racial stereotypes and brutalizing language against Native Americans in Supreme Court decisions under Justice Marshall. Further, the paper will argue that the racist precedents and language relied upon by the Supreme Court have operated as a form of colonial violence that serve to justify the denial of property, self–governance, and cultural survival of Native Americans

Nitrogen and phosphorus analysis in field cultivation of Pak choi

This pilot study was implemented to reflect the delivery and the plant availability of nitrogen and phosphorus in response to different compositions of fertilisers approved for organic farming in Sweden. The experimental approach was to compare the concentration of nitrogen and phosphorus in plant sap of Pak choi plants grown in soil treated with different organic waste such as aged cattle manure and a liquid retting digest derived from the biogas industry, with plants grown in soil treated with a blend of pelleted organic fertilisers derived from the Swedish slaughterhouse industry. The organic waste materials and fertilisers in this study were selected with respect to their nutritional properties: concentration of macro elements and the assumed nitrogen accessibility from the organic and inorganic proportion of nitrogen present in these materials. All plant tissues and soil samples were analysed for: the nutritional status in soil (all macro nutrients) prior to fertiliser application as well as the concentration of nitrogen and phosphorus in soil postharvest; plant sap concentration of nitrogen and phosphorus on three occasions along six weeks of field cultivation and the concentration of young leaf tissue total nitrogen concentration on same occasions. In addition, three days prior to final harvest, the treatments were sampled to measure fresh and dry weight of leaves and roots followed by a subsequent analysis of total nitrogen accumulation in the same tissues. Plant sap concentration of inorganic nitrogen was highest in tissues sampled from Pak choi plants grown in soil treated with pelleted slaughterhouse waste in week four, the second occasion ofsampling. This concentration decreased to the lowest relative to the concentration of plants grown in control soil (no fertilisers) and plants grown in soil treated with aged cattle manure and retting digestate in week five, which was the last occasion of sampling. Soil remaining concentration of inorganic nitrogen postharvest was shown to be the highest in soil treated with pelleted fertilisers but the leaf tissue concentration of total nitrogen showed the lowest concentrations in plants sampled for dry weight grown in the pelleted fertiliser treatment. An opposite pattern was found in soil treated with aged cattle manure and retting digestate which is contradictive and further discussed. Plant sap concentration of phosphorus showed the highest values for control plants, surprisingly during all three occasions of sampling. This relationship indicated that the consumption of phosphorus can be limited by a relative low concentration of other macro elements, in planta, for the plants grown in the control soil. Moreover, postharvest soil remaining phosphorus indicated redundancy in soil treated with aged cattle manure and retting digestate, because the plant sap concentration of phosphorus (of plants grown in control soil) where similar to the plant sap concentrations of plants grown in soil treated with the pelleted fertilisers. The initial amount of added phosphorus were three times less in the soil treated with pelleted fertilisers, in comparison to the soil treated with aged cattle manure and retting digestate

Race

"Race" offers a compelling study of ideas related to race throughout history. Its breadth of coverage, both geographically and temporally, provides readers with an expansive, global understanding of the term from the classical period onwards: Intersections of Race and Gender // Race and Social Theory Identity // Ethnicity, and Immigration // Whiteness // Legislative and Judicial Markings of Difference // Race in South Africa, Israel, East Asia, Asian America // Blackness in a Global Context // Race in the History of Science // Critical Race Theor

Joubin receives the bell hooks Legacy Award

Alexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books. The award recognizes Joubin’s achievements in research, teaching, and service, particularly her efforts to “dismantle intersectional systems of oppression with the distinct goals of uplifting members of historically marginalized populations and striving for social justice, all while teaching compassion and love” through her public humanities work, open-access publications (such as her own Screening Shakespeare), and inclusive pedagogies. The committee recognized the global impact of Joubin’s “groundbreaking work that speaks to our moment in history and our hope for the future” and the ways in which her “academic career is a stellar example of intersectional criticism.

The Blotted Line | An Interview with Alexa Huang

http://theshakespearestandard.com/blotted-line-interview-alexa-huang-professor-english-theatre-east-asian-languages-literatures-international-affairs-george-washington-university-washington-d-c/ "I am proud to have answered my calling to tell stories and to show others how to listen for silenced voices. Story-telling makes us human because it helps us understand the human condition in different contexts. For all my life, I have been looking for a place to call home, which is why I became interested in how narratives are transformed when they move across boundaries of all kinds.

为什么国际投资法需要一个全球性的上诉机制？

Establishing an appellate system for investment arbitration for the EU is a main area for the improvement of investor-state dispute settlement. This Perspective suggests that discussions about the desirability and feasibility of an appellate mechanism must be held in a multilateral context and apply to all treaties, not only selected few

Ophelia Unbound in Asian Performances

Asian directors leverage Shakespeare’s own propensity to undermine dominant ideologies of gender—notably through the Ophelia figure—in their effort to renew Asian performance traditions. How do Shakespeare and modern directors talk to each other across cultural and historical divides? How does Ophelia become “unbound” through supralinguistic structures of spectacle and music? With case studies of three Hamlet films: Haider (India, 2004), The King and the Clown (South Korea, 2005), and Prince of the Himalayas (Tibet, 2006), this article examines how Asian films negotiate with Asian cultural norms, ideas of Ophelia as an iconic victim, and the image of Hamlet as a brooding male intellectual. Outside their country of origin, these films attract audiences who are enthralled by the performance of the exotic, whether it’s Shakespearean or Asian motifs. Within their local market, the name brand of an editorialized Anglophone Shakespeare helps to boost their production value. Filmmakers see the co-presence of Shakespearean and Asian motifs as an asset, as “double kisses.” They use selective elements, such as conventionalized Bollywood dance and Chinese martial arts sequences, as common denominators and bonding agents between different periods and cultures.Comment de nouvelles images d’Ophélie émergent-elles des scripts et discours narratifs modernes ? Certains metteurs en scène asiatiques ont choisi de tirer parti de la propension de Shakespeare à saper l'idéologie dominante sur le rôle des femmes, notamment à travers le personnage d’Ophélie, afin de renouveler la tradition théâtrale asiatique. Quel dialogue existe-t-il entre Shakespeare et les metteurs en scène contemporains au-delà des fossés historiques et culturels ? Avec l’analyse de trois adaptations d’Hamlet (Haider, Bollywood, 2004; Le roi et le clown, Corée, 2005; et Prince de l’Himalaya, Tibet, 2006), cet article se propose d'examiner l'approche que prennent ces productions sur l’image d’Ophélie comme victime emblématique ainsi que sur les normes culturelles asiatiques. En dehors de leur pays d'origine, ces films attirent un public fasciné par un certain exotisme, qu’il soit shakespearien, de motif asiatique, ou une combinaison des deux. Au sein de leur marché local, l’image de marque d'un contenu shakespearien d'origine anglophone renforce une valeur ajoutée prestigieuse. L’utilisation par ces metteurs en scène de conventions cinématographiques spécifiques, tels que la danse bollywoodienne, ou encore les séquences d'arts martiaux chinois, sert de dénominateur commun et de liant entre différentes périodes pour aboutir à une double identité culturelle