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â"Buzz Off!": The Killer Bee Movie as Modern Belief Narrative.â
Looks at the sub-genre of the killer bee movies but through the lens of legend studies - specifically looking at these films as belief narratives
Enacting the multiple spaces and times of portuguese migration to France in YouTube humor: chronotopic analysis of Ro et Cutâs Vamos a Portugal
We examine the production and contested reception of a YouTube comedic
performance by France-based comedic duo, Ro et Cut, involving Portuguese migrants in France.
Specifically, we analyze Vamos a Portugal, a video which depicts one Portuguese migrant familyâs
preparation for their annual summer return trip from France to the Portuguese âhomeland.â We
use Bakhtinâs notion of chronotope, i.e., discursive formulations of space, time, and person
mobilizable in interaction, to analyze how performers and commenters construct spatiotemporally situated images of Portuguese migrants, while simultaneously positioning themselves
spatio-temporally in relation to these images. In particular, we compare how France-based Lusodescendant and nonmigrant Portuguese commenters construct and react to the video. Many Lusodescendant commenters embrace the video as evoking a nostalgic personal, familial, and
Portuguese past, from the perspective of an urban French present. However, nonmigrant
Portuguese viewers in Portugal reject the video as evoking an outmoded and illegitimate version
of Portuguese culture, from the perspective of a contemporary Portuguese present. Our
comparison of the chronotopes through which differently positioned commenters interpret the
video illuminates the contested politics surrounding performances of Portuguese migrant and
national culture in the diaspora in France versus in Portugal.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
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Investigating Women\u27s Sexual Agency and Alcohol Use in the Sexual Consent Process
Among college students, sexual engagement and alcohol consumption are considered common behaviors, with many students reporting drinking prior to sexual experiences. Given the prevalence of sexual assault on campuses and connection between nonconsensual sex and drinking, colleges have adopted policies and programs with the intention of reducing risky drinking behaviors and sexual practices. The majority of these policies stipulate that students cannot give sexual consent under the influence of alcohol, but students find these policies unrealistic. Further, these policies fail to consider the larger context of traditional heteronormative gender scripts that influence sexual behavior, setting narrow expectations, especially for womenâs sexuality. This study integrates sexual agency into the study of sexual consent and alcohol consumption as a way of recognizing gender inequality and providing an alternative to risk-focused approaches that perpetuate the policing of female sexuality.
This study explored the relationship among sexual agency, attitudes about the ability to give consent, and drinking prior to sex on the extent to which college womenâs alcohol-involved sexual experiences felt consensual. The findings highlight the importance of sexual agency as a predictor of womenâs feelings that their sex felt consensual and explains the interaction between attitudes and drinking and its influence on these feelings. The results built upon previous research about the impact of relationship status on consent and the influence of drinking prior to sex on consent. Strengths and limitations of the study are outlined as well as areas for future research. Implications for college campus policy, education and outreach, and clinical practice in the areas of sexual consent and drinking prior to sex are discussed
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Arctic Soil Governs Whether Climate Change Drives Global Losses or Gains in Soil Carbon
Key uncertainties in terrestrial carbon cycle projections revolve around the timing, direction, and magnitude of the carbon cycle feedback to climate change. This is especially true in carbon-rich Arctic ecosystems, where permafrost soils contain roughly one third of the world's soil carbon stocks, which are likely vulnerable to loss. Using an ensemble of soil biogeochemical models that reflect recent changes in the conceptual understanding of factors responsible for soil carbon persistence, we quantify potential soil carbon responses under two representative climate change scenarios. Our results illustrate that models disagree on the sign and magnitude of global soil changes through 2100, with disagreements primarily driven by divergent responses of Arctic systems. These results largely reflect different assumptions about the nature of soil carbon persistence and vulnerabilities, underscoring the challenges associated with setting allowable greenhouse gas emission targets that will limit global warming to 1.5°C
Deserving Life: How Judicial Application of Medical Amnesty Laws Perpetuates Substance Use Stigma
To combat the continued devastation wrought by the opioid crisis in the United States, forty-eight states have passed medical amnesty (or âGood Samaritanâ) laws. These laws provide varying forms of protection from criminal punishment for certain individuals if medical assistance is sought at the scene of an overdose. Thus far, the nascent scholarly conversation on medical amnesty has focused on the types of statutory protections available and the effectiveness of these statutes. To summarize, although medical amnesty laws have helped combat drug overdose, the statutes are replete with arbitrary limitations that cabin their life-saving potential.
This Note extends the dialogue on medical amnesty in two ways. First, it examines how judges, in applying these laws, can either frustrate or promote their life-saving purpose. Second, this Note connects the conversation on medical amnesty laws to the broader context they have enteredânamely, the United Statesâ troubled history with the criminalization of addiction.
Medical amnesty laws reflect a legislative interest in health over punishment. Today, substance use disorder is recognized as a medical, neurological issue and the overdose crisis is recognized as a public health phenomenon. This Note argues that, both in statutory language and judicial application, gaps in the medical amnesty response stray from this reality and instead reflect the stigmatizing, racist normative view promoted during the War on Drugsâthat substance use is a moral failing, symptomatic of a lack of personal responsibility. This Noteâs key point is that, as long as legislators and judges fail to acknowledge, interrogate, and learn from the United Statesâ prior failures in responding to addiction, fatal gaps will continue to exist both in medical amnesty laws and in the broader response to the drug overdose crisis
A Bottom-Up Approach to International Lawmaking: The Tale of Three Trade Finance Instruments
International law often makes storytellers of onlookers. The stories that gain scholarly and popular traction are of a common genre, focusing on international law from the top down. They typically center on a state\u27s treaty-based commitments or on an intergovernmental institution born from a treaty. They open with diplomats at majestic negotiating tables, secluded in remote yet pristine locations, wrangling politely over the text of a treaty. The climaxes are photo-opportunity events-a treaty-signing ceremony or the founding of a new institution. The denouement is the trickle-down, the inevitably imperfect business of translating international law into domestic or transnational practice. This traditional, top-down international lawmaking story tells of state actors making international law and imposing it on others who may have been quite removed, geographically and politically, from the entire lawmaking process
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