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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, people commonly wore words, names, letters, symbols, and images about their bodies for protection or healing. Drawing on French sources, this article examines the widespread practice of wearing textual amulets in this period as revelatory of an enduring belief in the power of words and images to protect and heal the individual who wore them. It analyzes the vehement critique of this practice by period theologians, both Protestant and Catholic, who attacked their contemporaries’ investment in the materiality of the textual object as superstition. En los siglos XVI y XVII, la gente usaba con frecuencia palabras, nombres, letras, símbolos e imágenes sobre sus cuerpos como protección o como cura. Partiendo de fuentes francesas, este artículo examina la extendida práctica de usar amuletos textuales en ese periodo de tiempo como una revelación de la creencia permanente en el poder de las palabras y las imágenes para proteger y curar a los individuos que las usaban. Se analiza la crítica vehemente de dicha práctica por los teólogos de la época, tanto protestantes como católicos, que atacaban a la inversión de sus contemporáneos en la materialidad de los objetos textuales como una superstición.

This article investigates the different shapes in which reading and writing practices occur when paper/pen are compared with keyboard/screen. The focus is on the bodily aspects of these practices. Reading and writing are viewed as techniques of the body, which over the years have become increasingly mediated by technologies. The analysis is grounded in the theory of social practice. Research material consists of written essays collected from 25 students at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in 2013. Results show that paper as material is considered suitable and adaptive to numerous reading purposes and bodily positions, while regarding the screen the places and positions of reading are viewed as more limited due to the material boundary conditions presented by devices. Students describe handwriting as a more flexible and relaxed bodily practice than typing, although the worsening skills of handwriting are recognized too. Skills and competences turned out to be less decisive factors than materials and images when trying to explain the differences in reading and writing practices when a paper/pen is compared with a keyboard/screen. Finally, the study argues that digital reading writing interfaces do not determine the ways we read and write as strongly as previously suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If you are troubled with the way we know the world, with the "traditional" academic sets, with the way certain bodies (maybe your body too) are treated, and with the way certain things are hidden and excluded in academia, so this text is (maybe) for you!... if you think "science" is the way to know the world, "valid" knowledges are made in academic sets, and papers represent the "scientific product," this text is also (maybe) for you too! Playing with our personal/political stories, we do a co-performance autoethnography to honor different way of knowledge. We invite you to think with us about science, resources, and possibilities embodied in our texts, in our lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Abstract: This article asks the question: what are my responsibilities as a postcolonial geographical writer? It takes as its starting point three extracts from texts written by the writer on their journey towards becoming an academic: a catalyst moment, a moment of self-production as an academic, and a moment of (failed) academic production. This journey raises a problematic around the ways in which the body speaks in academic writing, and the remainder of the piece reviews the geographical literature on materiality in relation to the body, arguing that Deleuzian views of matter as agentic and creative are particularly helpful in comprehending and engaging responsibly with the indeterminate but insistent ways in which the body speaks in postcolonial academic writing. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

This paper describes work with two patients who experienced an early undercathexis of the body-self. It explores the relationship between this type of deficit and the use made by the patient of the analyst's body and by extension of the body of the analytic room. I propose that in work with patients who have experienced an early undercathexis of the body-self, it is vital to identify those instances when the patient tries to make an "aesthetic link" with the analyst. This refers to how the patient may apprehend by the senses (aesthetic) a feature of the analyst's physicality, or of the physical space of the consulting room, and uses it to make a connection (link) with an as yet unrealized and wished-for embodied self that for some time can only be experienced through an identification with aspects of the analyst's body/room. This has technical implications; I suggest that interpretation of what can appear to be an idealized and/or erotic transference, but is in fact the patient's attempt to establish an aesthetic link, can be experienced as disorganizing and as undermining of a developmental thrust. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Natalie Bookchin's practices since the 1990's investigate network culture and are going to be highlighted in this paper to reflect on digital archive; on appropriation as a critical, artistic and popularly disseminated Internet gesture; on what the online sharing culture imply in terms of video's conceptualization; and how the formal elements of her videos can be contextualized in discussions around practices with documentary in contemporary art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper reports the findings of a mixed-methods study which investigates the socio-cultural impacts of UK gendered school sport uniform and the role uniform plays in shaping female school sport experiences. Drawing on an extensive analytical survey with over 400 women of all-ages and 8 interviews with women aged 18–24, it explores how school sport uniform directly impacts female sporting experiences and participation in physical activity, and how uniform policy could be changed to promote greater female sport participation. Gendered school sport uniform continues to operate as a socio-spatial mechanism that names, frames and positions young people in heteronormative school sport spaces. This paper assesses how gendered school sport uniform contributes to the disciplining of the 'ideal feminine body' in schoolgirls and the construction of behavioural gender binaries in sport. The data reveal gendered sport uniform influences the development of a 'fear of masculinisation' in sport and common athletic-feminine identity tensions in teenage girls. The research finds gendered school sport uniform plays a major role in the high drop-out rates of teenage girls in school sport and offers practical insight into how policy could be changed to promote inclusivity, comfort and greater female sport participation. This paper proposes redesigning traditional gendered school sport policy to focus on 'enabling' participation has huge potential to transform female embodied and psychological experiences of school sport and increase school sport participation and enjoyment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Object: In this paper, eight male basketball players were tested for physical fitness using the method of sports biology. The content of the physical examination is the isokinetic muscle strength of the shoulder joint. This paper aims to investigate the effect of shoulder isokinetic muscle strength on athletic performance. Methods: This paper uses the principles of sports biology and the isokinetic muscle strength test system to measure the shoulder torque and fatigue index of eight basketball players. At the same time, this paper analyzes the obtained data using the method of mathematical statistics. Results: There were significant differences in the test data of eight male basketball players (P < 0.05). The fatigue of basketball players is mainly in the middle and late stages of sports. At average speed, the fatigue index of the shoulder is the lowest at 180°/s. Conclusion: Basketball players have stronger shoulder extensors than flexors. The balance of strength in the shoulder flexors is greater than the balance in the extensors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intra -city transportation has become an expanding phenomenon in today's civilized society, which should be utilized as a desirable feature of stations in addition to passenger transportation. Due to the high volume of subway users and the duration of passengers' stops, the stations have become effective centers in daily urban activities. Considering the growing trend of expanding the metro network in metropolitan cities and the increasing need for it, special attention is paid to the importance of the quality of the metro station environment. In a busy urban environment, the social interactions of citizens should be considered. The purpose of this paper is to investigate and evaluate the physical, functional, and psychological criteria in the design of metro stations and the effect of these components on the quality of the stations from the point of view of the metro users. Additionally, the paper aims to provide solutions to increase the spatial quality of the stations. The research method is descriptive -analytical, based on survey and questionnaire techniques used to collect field data. The final results of this research show that the average quality of the environment in the psychological criterion, with a value of 3.48, is higher than other criteria. The lowest level of satisfaction is in the physical criterion, specifically in the building and structure sub - criterion, with a value of 2.26. Therefore, optimizing the space in metro stations for people with physical disabilities, such as the disabled and dear veterans, is one of the most important priorities in the design of the access method. Additionally, urban furniture that is not designed for these individuals should be taken into consideration. Furthermore, the physical factor, with a value of 0.620, is considered the most important in improving the quality of the metro environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper investigates the articulation of metamodernism at the beginning of the 21st century and how this new paradigmatic apparatus of interpretation of the world can be applied to Kate Atkinson’s novel, Life After Life (2013). Metamodernism was firstly formulated by Dutch theorists Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen and comes as a response to postmodernism. Metamodernism explores the topics of informed naivety, affect in fiction, authenticity, transcendence and the function of historical hybridity, while acknowledging and using the postmodernist pastiche and parody, combined with the modernist ambiguity, openness to innovation and importance of grand narratives. This paper examines the applicability of metamodernism to Kate Atkinson’s novel, Life After Life, a historical fiction novel about the multiple lives and deaths of Ursula Todd as she navigates through various historical events in 20th-century Europe, exploring the themes of fate, resilience, and the impact of individual choices on the course of one's life. By incorporating the metamodernist “manifesto”, a theoretical and critical corpus and by using a close-reading method on the novel, this paper demonstrates that metamodernism is a paradigm that tries to adapt to the contemporary state of constant crisis and its applicability toAtkinson’s fiction. This analysis showcases the degree to which metamodernism contributes to understanding the complexity of the 21st century and whether it fits the aesthetic of the novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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