Dissonant Belonging and the Making of Community: Native Hawaiian Claims to Selfhood and Home

In 1898 the United States illegally annexed the Hawaiian Islands over the protests of Queen Liliʽuokalani and the Hawaiian people. American hegemony has been deepened in the intervening years through a range of colonizing practices that alienate Kanaka Maoli, the indigenous people of Hawaiʽi, from their land and culture. Dissonant Belonging and the Making of Community is an exploration of contemporary Hawaiian peoplehood that reclaims indigenous conceptions of multiethnicity from colonizing narratives of nation and race. Drawing from archival holdings at the University of Hawaiʽi, Mānoa and in-depth interviews, this project offers an analysis of public and everyday discourses of nation, race, and peoplehood to trace the discursive struggle over Local identity and politics. A context-specific social formation in Hawaiʽi, “Local” is commonly understood as a multiethnic identity that has its roots in working-class, ethnic minority culture of the mid-twentieth century. However, American discourses of race and, later, multiethnicity have functioned to render invisible the indigenous roots of this social formation. Dissonant Belonging and the Making of Community reclaims these roots as an important site of indigenous resistance to American colonialism. It traces, on the one hand, the ways in which Native Hawaiian resistance has been alternately erased and appropriated. On the other hand, it explores the meanings of Local identity to Native Hawaiians and the ways in which indigenous conceptions of multiethnicity enabled a thriving community under conditions of colonialism.

Identity, ideology, and cinema: Making sense of Japan's foreign and security policies in the 1950s and 2000s

Japan is an important ally of the United States–the world’s third biggest economy, and one of the regional great powers in Asia. Making sense of Japan’s foreign and security policies is crucial for the future of peace and stability in Northeast Asia, where the possible sources of conflict such as territorial disputes or the disputes over Japan’s war legacy issues are observed.^ This dissertation explored Japan’s foreign and security policies based on Japan’s identities and unconscious ideologies. It employed an analysis of selected Japanese films from the late 1940s to the late 1950s, as well as from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. The analysis demonstrated that Japan’s foreign and security policies could be understood in terms of a broader social narrative that was visible in Japanese popular cultural products, including films and literatures. Narratives of Japanese families from the patriarch’s point of view, for example, had constantly shaped Japan’s foreign and security policies. As a result, the world was ordered hierarchically in the eyes of the Japan Self. In the 1950s, Japan tenaciously constructed close but asymmetrical security relations with the U.S. in which Japan willingly subjugated itself to the U.S. In the 2000s, Japan again constructed close relations with the U.S. by doing its best to support American responses to the 9/11 terrorist attacks by mobilizing Japan’s SDFs in the way Japan had never done in the past.^ The concepts of identity and unconscious ideology are helpful in understanding how Japan’s own understanding of self, of others, and of the world have shaped its own behaviors. These concepts also enable Japan to reevaluate its own behaviors reflexively, which departs from existing alternative approaches. This study provided a critical analytical explanation of the dynamics at work in Japan’s sense of identity, particularly with regard to its foreign and security policies.^

Ana's tragedy - and Europe's a contemplation over Romani, belonging and citizenship making in a Europe of migration

This article deals with the notion of belonging in today’s multi-ethnic Sweden and hints at perpectives of future European identity-building. On the basis of Frantz Fanon’s understanding of colonialism and the colonized mentality as theoretical, the article deals with the situation of Roma in Sweden – and Europe. With the story of a young Roma woman that has migrated to Sweden from Hungary as point of departure, the article addresses the situation for Romani people, but also for other migrants in Europe, with particular focus on who are allowed to belong to the community of Swedish and European citizens, and who are not

Rice and the making of South Carolina : an introductory essay

Originally, Carolinians grew rice on dry land, but early in the eighteenth century, cultivation spread to swampy fresh water areas. Until the 1850s, rice reigned supreme. But large-scale rice production was limited to the tidal marshes and inland swamp, while cotton became profitable statewide after the invention of the cotton gin. In its heyday, however, rice made a few hundred planters extremely wealthy. It also contributed to cross culturation and the making of Carolina as a rich cultural hybrid. In this essay, it is this aspect of rice cultivation that Professor Littlefield describes.

Vegetation series as a basis for habitats and species conservation: methodological aspects

Vegetation series, defined as the sequence of stages in a sucession, and know as sigmetum (synassociation), describes the set of plant communities or stages that can be found in similar tesselar spaces as a result of the sucession process. This establishes the concept of vegetation series; a climatophilous series is one that depends on the climate, whereas an edaphoxerophilous series depends on the dryness of the soil, and is found on crests, spurs, ledges and limestone and siliceous rock fields. Edaphohygrophilous series are located in valleys, dry water courses and river terraces, and depend on the water present in the soil, which may become temporarily flooded and thus condition the temporihygrophilous series; they represent the transition between the clearly edaphohygrophilous and climatophilous series. The vegetation permaseries represents the perennial communities of permatesselae or similar permatesselar complexes, as occurs in polar territories, hyperdesert, high-mountain peaks, and non-stratified communities lacking in serial communities. The edaphoxerophilous series may include -in addition to the series head- permaseries (permanent communities) and other habitats, such as annual and crevice habitats. A territory behaves undergoes soil-loss phenomena it may become an edaphoseries, if the loss of the soil factor produces a situation of rocky crest. Thus the edaphoseries may act as dynamic transitional stage between the climatophilous series and the permaseries.

Pedagogy of healthcare interactions. A study on pediatric well-child visits as culture-oriented and culture-making sites

This study investigates interactions between parents and pediatricians during pediatric well-child visits. Despite constituting a pivotal moment for monitoring and evaluating children’s development during the critical ‘first thousand days of life’ and for family support, no study has so far empirically investigated the in vivo realization of pediatrician-parent interactions in the Italian context, especially not from a pedagogical perspective. Filling this gap, the present study draws on a corpus of 23 videorecorded well-child visits involving two pediatricians and twenty-two families with children aged between 0 and 18 months. Combining an ethnographic perspective and conversation analysis theoretical-analytical constructs, the micro-analysis of interactions reveals how well-child visits unfold as culture-oriented and culture-making sites. By zooming into what actually happens during these visits, the analysis shows that there is much more than the “mere” accomplishment of institutionally relevant activities like assessing children’s health or giving parents advice on baby care. Rather, through the interactional ways these institutional tasks are carried out, parents and pediatricians presuppose, ratify, and transmit culturally-informed models of “normal” growth, “healthy” development, “good” caring practices, and “competent” parenting, thereby enacting a pervasive yet unnoticed educational and moral work. Inaugurating a new promising line of inquiry within Italian pedagogical research, this study illuminates how a) pediatricians work as a “social antenna”, bridging families’ private “small cultures” and broader socio-cultural models of children’s well-being and caregiving practices, and b) parents act as agentive, knowledgeable, (communicatively) competent, and caring parents, while also sensitive to the pediatrician’s ultimate epistemic and deontic authority. I argue that a video-based, micro-analysis of interactions represents a heuristically powerful instrument for raising pediatricians’ and parents’ awareness of the educational and moral density of well-child visits. Insights from this study can constitute a valuable empirical resource for underpinning medical and parental training programs aimed at fostering pediatricians’ and parents’ reflexivity.

Bright-field multiplex immunohistochemistry for tumor. Microenvironment evaluation in mucosal melanoma of the head and neck region: technical aspects, results, and correlation with clinicopathologic features and molecular landscape

Mucosal melanoma of the head and neck region (MM-H&N) is a rare disease, characterized by a poor prognosis and limited therapeutic strategies, especially regarding targeted therapy (lower rate of targetable mutations compared to cutaneous melanoma) and immunotherapy (lack of diagnostic tools able to predict the response). Meanwhile, bright-field multiplex immunohistochemistry (BF-mIHC) is emerging as a promising tool for characterizing tumor microenvironment (TME) and predicting response to immunotherapy in several tumors, including melanoma. This PhD project aims to develop a BF-mIHC protocol to evaluate the TME in MM-H&N, analyze the correlation between immune markers/immune profiles and MM-H&N features (clinicopathologic and molecular), and find new biomarkers useful for prognostic-therapeutic stratification of these patients. Specific aims are: (I) describe the clinicopathological features of MM-H&N; (II) analyze the molecular status of MM-H&N and correlate it with the clinicopathological features; (III) analyze the molecular status of multiple specimens from the same patient to verify whether molecular heterogeneity of MM-H&N could affect the results with relevant prognostic-therapeutic implications; (IV) develop a BF-mIHC protocol to study TME in MM-H&N; (V) analyze the correlation between immune markers/immune profiles and MM-H&N features (clinicopathologic and molecular) to test whether BF-mIHC could be a promising tool for prognostic-therapeutic characterization of these patients.

Implementação do Sistema de Gestão Ambiental na Unidade Industrial de Gouveia, da Sumol+Compal

Esta dissertação descreve o levantamento da gestão de uma unidade fabril no âmbito do engarrafamento de águas, para a implementação de um Sistema de Gestão Ambiental (SGA) recorrendo á Norma NP EN ISO 14001:2012 tendo como objetivo proporcionar a melhoria contínua dos processos implementados na empresa bem como todos os benefícios que este referencial pressupõe. Foi realizada, numa primeira fase, uma auditoria diagnóstico com uma visita á fabrica no âmbito da implementação da ISO 14001, e posteriormente realizado todo o trabalho de aplicação ao referencial. Este trabalho consistiu a abordagem a todos os requisitos da norma ISO 14001 com principal foco na fase de Planeamento de um SGA, procurando-se responder essencialmente ao requisito 4.3 da referida norma. Procedeu-se á identificação das atividades da empresa (entradas e saídas), dos aspetos ambientais associados (respetiva significância) e levantamento dos requisitos legais aplicáveis (obrigações). Os restantes requisitos foram abordados e fez-se uma sugestão para o seu cumprimento, para além de que muitos já se encontram em cumprimento por compatibilidade com a norma ISO 9001 da qual a empresa já se encontra certificada. Esta dissertação pretende discutir e apresentar propostas para a implementação do SGA, possíveis vantagens daí decorrentes e as barreiras a ultrapassar (aspetos ambientais significativos) de maneiras a por em prática os requisitos do referencial normativo que venha a ser adotado. Foi realizada uma revisão bibliográfica destas temáticas e, ainda que estas medidas propostas não tenham sido implementadas, assim que implementadas esperam-se ganhos na economia de recursos como também outros benefícios descritos ao longo da dissertação que permita, com implementação do SGA não só enquanto estratégia, ser inovadora e competitiva.

Projecte d'ampliació d'una nau destinada a l'exposició i venda de materials de construcció

El peticionari és el propietari d’una nau industrial aïllada del terme municipal de Cassà de la Selva destinada a la venda i exposició de materials per a la construcció. A causa de la creixent demanda en el sector es vol ampliar la superfície de la nau, amb la intenció d’augmentar la zona comercial. El disseny i càlcul de l’ampliació de la nau aïllada inclou moviment de terres, fonaments, estructura, tancaments, coberta, paviments, obra de paleta, fusteria, i pintura. També s’inclourà el disseny i càlcul de les instal·lacions (aigua, baixa tensió, il·luminació, climatització, ventilació, contra incendis, plaques solars, sanejament) de l’ampliació

Quantificació i estudi dels impactes potencial de les deixalles de pesca recreativa a Port Salvi

Les deixalles acumulades per la pràctica de la pesca recreativa, sobretot des de roca, produeixen impactes sobre les espècies de flora i fauna. En aquest estudi es fa una caracterització de les modalitats de pesca recreativa i els estris emprats, una quantificació de les pèrdues dels materials al mar i una avaluació dels impactes potencials. Els resultats obtinguts de la quantificació d’ormeigs trobats al fons marí de Port Salvi (Sant Feliu de Guixols), mostren que els estris predominants són ploms, hams, esmerillons, mosquetons i fils. Les plomades més abundants són les de surfacting i les de pesca a fons de roca. Els materials que més abunden en la composició d’ormeigs de pesca són en gran part metalls i plàstics, ambdós de lenta descomposició i alta persistència al medi

Maple Leaf Mills Records 1955, 1960-1964, 1975-1987, 1989, n.d.

Ontario Editorial Bureau (O.E.B.)

Gainsborough [Presbyterian] Church records, 1833-1836, 1841-1846, 1855-1857, 1860-1864, 1866 [photocopy]

The Gainsborough Presbyterian Church was organized prior to 1833, but no records were kept until this date. In 1809, the church was lead by Rev. Daniel Ward Eastman. In 1833 the church became part of the Niagara Presbytery of the American Presbyterian Church. The records include transfer of membership, records of marriages, lists of subscribers and session minutes. Photocopies from originals were made in 1977 by E. Phelps, University of Western Ontario, prior to their deposit with the United Church of Canada Archives, Toronto, Ont.

John N. Jackson papers, 1960-1989, n.d.

John N. Jackson was born in Nottingham, England in 1926. He developed a passion for landforms and geography from his father, a high school math and science teacher who had studied geology. During the Second World War, he served in the British Navy. He received his BA from the University of Birmingham, and a PhD from the University of Manchester. After spending a year as a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, he was hired in 1965 as the founding head of the Geography Department at Brock University. He taught at Brock for more than 25 years, immersing himself in the geography and history of the Niagara area. He became particularly interested in the history of the Welland Canals. He authored 20 books on various topics, including land use in Niagara, the history of St. Catharines, the Welland Canal, and railways in the Niagara Peninsula. He died in 2010, at the age of 84.

Persia steamboat poster, no date

The “Persia” was built in St. Catharines in 1873. From 1877 to 1894 the ship was owned by James Norris of St. Catharines. The Toronto and Montreal Steamboat Co. acquired the ship in 1894, followed by the Quebec Navigation Co. in 1907. A fire severely damaged the ship in 1911, and the following year the “Persia” was rebuilt as a barge.

Preservation of Agricultural Lands Society (PALS) fonds, 1954-2015, n.d.

Preservation of Agricultural Lands Society [PALS] held its first meeting at Brock University on June 21, 1976. Its first executive consisted of Robert Hoover, Rick Teather, Debbie Kehler and Bill Forster. Some objectives of the organization were "to seek the preservation of valuable farm areas from non-agricultural expansion and development and to foster development and support of federal, provinicial and local policy which will provide a secure financial future for farming." Gracia Janes and John Bacher are some of the organizations' well known advocates. The organization was active in raising public awareness of the issues surrounding encroaching development onto existing agricultural lands. The organization is still active today [2016] in educating the public and attempting to influence governments at all levels to protect valuable agricultural lands.