681 research outputs found
Plural Ghetto. Phaswane Mpeâs "Welcome to Our Hillbrow" (2001), Neill Bloemkampâs "District 9" (2009) and the crisis in the representation of spaces in post-apartheid South Africa
As Phaswane Mpeâs novel "Welcome to our Hillbrow" (2001) convincingly
shows, the crisis suffered by post-apartheid ideological discourses is intimately
related to a crisis in the representation of spaces. As a matter of
fact, the demise of the apartheid regime of racial segregation has not led
to a completely new spatial organization, producing, rather, a multiplicity
of boundaries which range from the apartheid model of the township to
newly constituted âmigrant ghettosâ such as Hillbrow, in the heart of
Johannesburg.
While South African spatiality is interrogated by Mpeâs novel though
issues such as inter-African migration, AIDS and persisting forms of prejudice
and racism, a comparison between Mpeâs novel and Neill
Bloemkampâs blockbuster movie "District 9" (2009) hints at the permanence
of corporate violence as a major cause for this political and economic
failure, by connecting it to a global scenario
Review of Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam.
Review of Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam
Review of A History of Silence by Lloyd Jones
Review of A History of Silence by Lloyd Jone
Rosa Benéitez Andrés, José-Miguel Ullån. Por una estética de lo inestable
Review of the book José-Miguel Ullån. Por una estética de lo inestable by Rosa Benéitez Andrés.Recensione del libro di Rosa Benéitez Andrés José-Miguel Ullån. Por una estética de lo inestable
The Economic Impact of Migration: Productivity Analysis for Spain and the United Kingdom
Increased internationalization over the past 20 years has meant that labour has become increasingly mobile, and whilst employment and earnings effects have been extensively analysed in host and source nations, the implications for firm and industry performance have been largely ignored. This paper explores the direct economic consequences of immigration on host nationsâ productivity performance at a sectoral level. We consider its impact in two very different European countries, Spain and the UK. Whilst the UK has traditionally had a substantial in-flow of migration, for Spain, the phenomenon is much more recent. The paper provides an overview of the role played by immigration on per capita income, highlighting the importance of demographic differences. We then go on to analyze the role of migration on productivity using two different approaches: i) growth accounting methodology and ii) econometric estimation of a production function. Our findings indicate that migration has had very different implications for Spain and the UK, migrants being more productive than natives in the UK but less productive than natives in Spain. This may in part be a function of different immigration policies, particularly related to the skill requirements on entry, but also in part a feature of the host nationsâ ability to âabsorbâ foreign labour.Key words: migration, productivity, industries
LA VISUALIZACIĂN DE LOS ARCHIVOS EN LA WEB â PROYECTO ARCHIVO DEL TRIBUNAL DE CUENTAS DE LA PROVINCIA DE CĂRDOBA
Archivists must communicate contents of archives through the web. Tribunal de Cuentas de la Provincia de CĂłrdoba archive has its own platform with information about the archive. Moreover, this article pretends to add archive information in the web in order to improve communication between the users of said web.
Key Words: Archives-.Communication-Tribunal de Cuentas-web.Comunicar a los usuarios los contenidos de un archivo, siempre fue un gran desafĂo. Como profesionales de la archivologĂa, se tiene la responsabilidad de utilizar los espacios que nos brinda la INTERNET para dar a conocer la informaciĂłn conservada en los archivos. Se considera importante avanzar sobre la organizaciĂłn y funcionalizaciĂłn de las pĂĄginas web institucionales para lograr una verdadera visualizaciĂłn de los archivos. El archivo del Tribunal de Cuentas de la Provincia de CĂłrdoba en Argentina, cuenta con una plataforma institucional, la cual indudablemente debe contemplar la informaciĂłn de su archivo. La propuesta presentada, tiene la finalidad de insertar la informaciĂłn del archivo en la plataforma web, lo que redundara en el buen cumplimiento de comunicar a los usuarios los fondos documentales existentes en el archivo.
Palabras claves: Archivos- ComunicaciĂłn- Tribunal de Cuentas- we
Epidemic Management via Imperfect Testing: A Multi-criterial Perspective
Diagnostic testing may represent a key component in response to an ongoing epidemic, especially if coupled with containment measures, such as mandatory self-isolation, aimed to prevent infectious individuals from furthering onward transmission while allowing non-infected individuals to go about their lives. However, by its own nature as an imperfect binary classifier, testing can produce false negative or false positive results. Both types of misclassification are problematic: while the former may exacerbate the spread of disease, the latter may result in unnecessary isolation mandates and socioeconomic burden. As clearly shown by the COVID-19 pandemic, achieving adequate protection for both people and society is a crucial, yet highly challenging task that needs to be addressed in managing large-scale epidemic transmission. To explore the trade-offs imposed by diagnostic testing and mandatory isolation as tools for epidemic containment, here we present an extension of the classical Susceptible-Infected-Recovered model that accounts for an additional stratification of the population based on the results of diagnostic testing. We show that, under suitable epidemiological conditions, a careful assessment of testing and isolation protocols can contribute to epidemic containment, even in the presence of false negative/positive results. Also, using a multi-criterial framework, we identify simple, yet Pareto-efficient testing and isolation scenarios that can minimize case count, isolation time, or seek a trade-off solution for these often contrasting epidemic management objectives
Variazioni della voce. Intervista con Rosaria Lo Russo
This interview with Rosaria Lo Russo focuses on her recent poetic and essayistic production â including her translation of Anne Sextonâs The Book of Folly â in order to underline the crucial importance of voice in her approach to poetry, performance and translation. This red thread â as well as the one concerning female authorship and several others â can be retraced in Lo Russoâs essays about Dante, Pirandello, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, in her longstanding translation work on Sextonâs poems and in her latest poetry collections, Anatema and Unamedea.This interview with Rosaria Lo Russo focuses on her recent poetic and essayistic production â including her translation of Anne Sextonâs The Book of Folly â in order to underline the crucial importance of voice in her approach to poetry, performance and translation. This red thread â as well as the one concerning female authorship and several others â can be retraced in Lo Russoâs essays about Dante, Pirandello, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, in her longstanding translation work on Sextonâs poems and in her latest poetry collections, Anatema and Unamedea
Paola Bacchetta â Laura Fantone (eds.), Femminismi queer postcoloniali. Critiche transnazionali allâomofobia, allâislamofobia e allâomonazionalismo
Review of the book Femminismi queer postcoloniali. Critiche transnazionali allâomofobia, allâislamofobia e allâomonazionalismo edited by Paola Bacchetta and Laura Fantone.Frutto di una lunga tradizione dialogica e al tempo stesso conflittuale tra posizionamenti femministi diversi â lungo le linee di separazione tracciate un tempo tra âPrimoâ, âSecondoâ e âTerzo Mondoâ, oggi tra âNordâ e âSudâ globali â Femminismi queer postcoloniali Ăš un testo prezioso sia per il dibattito accademico sia per il dibattito culturale e politico piĂč generale. Pur restando ancorata a un linguaggio non di rado ostico e affrontando tematiche che potrebbero sembrare di pertinenza strettamente specialistica (come ad esempio la âqueerfobiaâ nei movimenti nazionalisti indĂč, nel saggio di Paola Bacchetta), lâantologia di saggi sembra poter valicare i confini della produzione accademica per proporsi come utile strumento interpretativo per una molteplicitĂ di situazioni culturalmente e politicamente urgenti
Review of A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu
Review of A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie edited by Ernest N. Emenyon
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