Embodying militarism: exploring the spaces and bodies in-between

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Anthropology in conversation with an Islamic tradition : Emmanuel Levinas and the practice of critique

Funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland This research was funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. I would like to thank Arnar Arnason, Alison Brown, Tim Ingold, Jo Vergunst, and the anonymous JRAI readers for their critical feedback, which greatly improved the quality and coherence of this article.Peer reviewedPostprin

Efeito antifúngico de extratos alcoólicos de própolis sobre patógenos da videira

Objetivou-se com este trabalho verificar a fungitoxicidade in vitro de extratos alcoólicos de própolis (EAP) sobre a germinação de esporos de Phakopsora euvitis e Pseudocercospora vitis e também sobre o crescimento micelial e esporulação de esporos de Elsinoe ampelina. Para o ensaio de inibição de germinação o EAP foi utilizado nas concentrações de 0,025; 0,05; 0,1; 0,2; 0,25 e 0,5%. Como testemunhas utilizaram-se água destilada, etanol 0,35% e fungicida azoxystrobin. No ensaio de crescimento micelial e esporulação foram utilizadas as concentrações de 0,05; 0,1; 0,2; 0,4; 0,5 e 1,0% de EAP. As testemunhas foram o meio de cultura batata-dextrose-ágar (BDA), BDA + 0,7% de etanol e o fungicida azoxystrobin. Os resultados obtidos permitiram concluir que o EAP possui baixa atividade antifúngica in vitro contra P. euvitis, P. vitis e E. ampelina, para as concentrações testadas

Of bats and bodies: methods for reading and writing embodiment

Military memoirs are embodied texts of war. They therefore pose particular challenges to scholars who work with them, as they seem to insist on the uniqueness of particular wartime experiences and the impossibility of communicating these embodied experiences to a wider public. In this article I unpack some of the tensions in the ways that war scholarship approaches these ‘flesh-witness accounts’ and argue that these can productively be challenged, in ways that open up new possibilities for research methods. I begin by explaining what is meant by ‘flesh-witnessing’ and the significance of corporeal experience in constructing particular stories about war. From this I argue that while placing significance on embodiment when studying war is crucial, embodiment is not a concept that should be assigned to others ‘over there’, without also acknowledging how it works within ‘us’ ‘back home’ as civilians and scholars. Rather, embodiment as a concept compels us to analyse its numerous ‘entanglements’, which in turn challenge us to rethink the relationship between the ‘author’ and the ‘reader’ of military memoirs. Reflecting on my own work with these memoirs, and learning to pay attention to what I do and feel as I read and write, I chart a series of methods for reading and writing embodiment