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In Seeing Matters, Sarah Awad offers a psychological exploration of how images shape our actions, perceptions, and identities. She examines how we use images to symbolically and materially influence the world, others, and ourselves, while also revealing how the images around us shape our thoughts, emotions, and memories. Awad investigates the social and political dynamics of visual culture, questioning who is seen, how they are portrayed, and why these representations matter. By using clear language and real-world examples, she makes complex theories accessible to readers, offering diverse methodological approaches for analyzing a wide range of image genres – such as graffiti, digital memes, photojournalism, and caricatures. This comprehensive analysis addresses the politics of visual representation, making the book an essential guide for researchers across disciplines, while providing valuable insights into how images impact society and our everyday lives.
Miscarriage is the most common complication of early pregnancy. For most cases, ultrasound is essential for it’s diagnosis and management. An ultrasound diagnosis of miscarriage is made using objective measurements and often a follow-up interval scan is needed. There are several ultrasound ‘soft markers’ which are associated with an increased risk a failing pregnancy, which may help with counselling a patient and planning when a repeat scan is needed.
This chapter, which is divided into four sections, examines the personal scope of IHL during NIAC by identifying the principal bearers of obligations and beneficiaries of protection. The first section analyses the conventional ratione personae architecture of both CA3 and APII to identify areas of convergence and divergence between the two and determine whether a single ratione personae framework exists for NIAC. The second section identifies the principal bearers of IHL obligations and explores how and when IHL creates obligations for both entities and individuals. The third section determines the primary beneficiaries of protections, with an exclusive focus on the concept of civilian during NIAC. The fourth section explores the relationship between obligations and protections by examining the phenomenon of intra-Party violence to determine whether and, if so under what conditions, IHL provides legal protection to non-opposing forces during NIAC.
Chapter 3 concerns Hegel’s use of the term “the Concept” (der Begriff) in the Doctrine of the Concept. The chapter argues that the use of this term is closer to its ordinary philosophical meaning than is claimed by standard metaphysical readings of the Logic. In particular, the singular use of “the Concept” is a synecdoche for the structure of conceptual thought as exemplified in philosophy in general. Hegel argues that conceptual thought has a formal structure of universality, particularity, and singularity. However, in contrast to many interpretations, these are not treated as properties that all concepts must have to be concepts. Rather, these formal features are exhibited variously in different concepts, judgments, and syllogisms. Hegel’s discussion of the formal dimension of thought sets up his attempt to show that some structures of thought more perfectly exemplify the form of the Concept than others.
Vienna’s reputation as the ballroom dancing capital of Europe was already secured by the end of the eighteenth century and continues to this day. This chapter examines the rich history of dance in Vienna from the eighteenth century – the period of the first public ballrooms as well as the emergence of ballet as an independent art form – to the present day. It discusses Viennese ball culture and its iconic dance, the waltz, which is the part of Vienna’s history that has been most influential on wider dance culture, and originated the most recognizably and distinctively ‘Viennese’ musical style.
This chapter reads the Moroccan novelist and theorist Mohammed Berrada’s literary-critical memoir Mithla ṣayf lan yatakarrar (Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated, 1999). A former Souffles contributor, Berrada laments an Arabic in Summer that is recognizable as the emotionally potent, transregional Arabic that propelled the Moroccan avant-garde. Berrada’s memoir, which moves between Egypt and Morocco, ties this Arabic to the Egyptian president and charismatic Arab nationalist leader Gamal ʿAbd al-Nasser’s 1956 Suez speech as the unrepeatable origin of anti-colonial, Arab revolution. In Summer, Arabic was once transregionally alive, but it is lost in the present. Summer makes the narrative of this loss – at once linguistic, political, historical, and emotional – the necessary task of the Arabic novel at the end of the twentieth century. Revisiting themes of gender and corrupted language, Summer expresses nostalgia for Nasser as a benevolent, Arab nationalist strongman and for the emotional experience of decolonization. In its theory of the Arabic novel after Arab nationalism, Berrada’s memoir imagines itself relaying the solitary voice of an author (who also reads transregional Arabic novels about the end of revolution) to his distant, equally isolated Arab reading publics.
The fin de siècle’s newly emerging scientific discourse of homosexuality was part and parcel of a broader tension between ‘materialists’ and ‘spiritualists.’ Whereas the former believed that human agency was fatally compromised by the determining influence of hardwired compulsions, the latter insisted on the existence of free will and man’s higher calling to resist basic impulses. For this reason, the notion of congenital homosexuality was an unacceptably radical one to the spiritualist faction of liberals and Catholics, which dominated among Belgian intellectuals and policymakers. Like those abroad, Belgian spiritualists associated the notion of inborn homosexuality with socialism in general and with the left-leaning French Third Republic in particular. This chapter zooms in on a series of international conferences to demonstrate how deeply interwoven the issue of homosexuality was with wider ideological tensions. It also shows why in Belgium the issue was sidelined so that its controversial nature would not stand in the way of penal reform.
This case presents a disaster medical scenario where healthcare professionals respond to injuries following a volcanic eruption and a subsequent lightning strike in Indonesia. The scenario begins with a medical team deployed to a field hospital one week after the volcanic eruptions, only to face a mass casualty incident caused by a lightning strike. The narrative focuses on key elements of mass casualty triage, particularly the unique considerations for lightning injuries, such as reverse triage, where typically nonsurvivable patients may be prioritized for immediate resuscitation. Critical medical management decisions are outlined, including the resuscitation of a pulseless, apneic patient who ultimately regains spontaneous circulation after Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) is applied. The case emphasizes scene safety, reverse triage during lightning events, and teamwork in evacuation procedures. The scenario also highlights the complications of head and neck trauma, rhabdomyolysis, and the need for a higher level of care.
Chapter 10 offers a summary of the structure, methodology, and findings of the book. It highlights the interdisciplinary nature of the investigation, in particular how a philosophically grounded argument can bear upon the reasoning of the Court while simultaneously addressing a pressing societal challenge.
Research concerning the variety of close relationships adults maintain, initiate, cease, and lose during middle and later adulthood has been fast growing in recent decades. Much of the theoretical and empirical work in this field has aimed to overcome views of older age as a time of loss and decline, both individually and socially. Moreover, recent trends have focused on the increasingly diverse experiences of the aging population. This includes not only extended life expectancy – and, importantly, extended healthy life expectancy – but also demographic changes, including larger proportions of racial/ethnic minorities attaining older age; new cohorts of openly LGBTQ adults entering mid and later life, many of whom represent the first generation of same-sex married couples; and the phenomenon of “gray divorce” and romantic repartnering in the years beyond age 50. This chapter will cover both the history and foundations of research on close relationships in middle and later life, as well as these recent trends in the field, finishing with an eye toward future directions as both the aging population and our perceptions of it continue to change.
This chapter examines Barry Buzan’s reconceptualization of world society as a master concept of international relations (IR), which is part of his wider project of reconvening the English School (ES) of IR. In his seminal work From International to World Society? (2004), Buzan clarified the concept of world society and elevated it to a theoretical cornerstone of his socio-structural reworking of the ES. By introducing three analytical domains – interstate, transnational, and interhuman society – Buzan also charted a novel path for studying the interactions between states and non-state actors. Later, Buzan refined this framework by identifying three versions of world society – normative, political, and integrated – which enabled a more systematic exploration of the primary institutions that structure world societal relations. However, with Making Global Society (2023), Buzan pivots towards a merging of IR, historical sociology, and global history, framing world society as a transitional phase in humanity’s socio-political evolution rather than a standalone analytical category. This shift replaces world society with global society as the main master concept, inadvertently reducing world society’s status within ES theory. The chapter critically assesses this intellectual trajectory, evaluating its implications for big picture analysis, while reflecting on the persistent conceptual ambiguities surrounding world society debates.
Chapter 10 covers the first of the three background factors of store atmospherics – sound. The direct behavioural response to playing music and sound in stores has been studied for a long time. Early research, for instance, showed that the tempo of the music had an influence on how quickly shoppers walked. More recently, the focus has been on how the shoppers perceive the music, so that if the music makes shoppers happy it will increase both the positive attitude towards the store and the money spent on the shopping trip. There is also research showing that music can have a spreading activation effect. Hence, playing classical music might activate thoughts of more premium products, which make shoppers buy more expensive brands. Some studies have focused on how music might interfere with decision-making, and that popular music might make shoppers sing along with the music and consequently forget to buy what they intended. Along this vein of research, a recent study found that on weekdays, when shoppers’ working memories were depleted, the music served to make the shoppers happier and hence increase their spending. On weekends, however, shoppers were less depleted and happier, and then the music rather interfered with their decision-making, so it had a null or even negative effect on the spending.
Chapter 1 surveys the Platonism of Marburg neo-Kantian philosophers to set out the context out of and against which Heidegger’s Destruktion of Plato emerged. I do not argue that Heidegger’s Plato is a direct response to the Plato of Cohen, Natorp, and Cassirer. I contend instead that what Heidegger identifies as unprecedented and extremely influential mistakes in Plato’s philosophy are sometimes found in slightly different and sometimes strikingly similar forms in their laudatory interpretations of Plato. The clearest and most evident case in this regard is their interpretation of Forms as laws governing thinking, particularly logical and propositional thinking. I argue that if Strauss, Gadamer, and Krüger propose new reactivations of Platonism to respond to Heidegger, these reactivations cannot follow the Platonism of Marburg Neo-Kantianism to their ultimate conclusions. At the same time, it is also clear that there are important traces of a neo-Kantian heritage in the ways Strauss, Gadamer, and Krüger understood Plato, most notably the Marburg Neo-Kantian refusal to understand Platonic Forms as beings, things, or substances.