THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NO-GROWTH

Problems of scarcity generate critical political issues as advanced industrial societies shift away from growth-oriented economies. This analysis recommends substituting more abundant political resources for scarce economic ones. Appropriate scenario resulting from these substitution patterns are subjected to speculative analysis.     

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Cervantes's deathbed novel, The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story, uses the pilgrimage of the two eponymous protagonists to show them as exemplars of the virtues not only necessary for ordinary life, but also those qualities essential to true leadership. The novel constitutes Cervantes's final written words, barely completed in partial rough draft before he expired, and accordingly might be considered his last words on the ideas and traits most important for human flourishing.     

Controlling the False Discovery Rate: A New Application to Account for Multiple and Dependent Tests in Local Statistics of Spatial Association

Assessing the significance of multiple and dependent comparisons is an important, and often ignored, issue that becomes more critical as the size of data sets increases. If not accounted for, false-positive differences are very likely to be identified. The need to address this issue has led to the development of a myriad of procedures to account for multiple testing. The simplest and most widely used technique is the Bonferroni method, which controls the probability that a true null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected. However, it is a very conservative procedure. As a result, the larger the data set the greater the chances that truly significant differences will be missed. In 1995, a new criterion, the false discovery rate (FDR), was proposed to control the proportion of false declarations of significance among those individual deviations from null hypotheses considered to be significant. It is more powerful than all previously proposed methods. Multiple and dependent comparisons are also fundamental in spatial analysis. As the number of locations increases, assessing the significance of local statistics of spatial association becomes a complex matter. In this article we use empirical and simulated data to evaluate the use of the FDR approach in appraising the occurrence of clusters detected by local indicators of spatial association. Results show a significant gain in identification of meaningful clusters when controlling the FDR, in comparison to more conservative approaches. When no control is adopted, false clusters are likely to be identified. If a conservative approach is used, clusters are only partially identified and true clusters are largely missed. In contrast, when the FDR approach is adopted, clusters are fully identified. Incorporating a correction for spatial dependence to conservative methods improves the results, but not enough to match those obtained by the FDR approach.     

魁北克VS蒙特利尔——早春双城记

我牢记在心 我是在百合花下出生 却在玫瑰花下成长…… 这段小诗．在加拿大最东边的魁北克省境内,恐怕是最知名的文字了,原文是法语．第一句“Je Me Souviens”,翻译成英文就是“I do remember”,这也是每一块魁北克省车牌上出现的唯一文字。小诗里提到的百合花是法国的象征,而玫瑰是英国的象征。     

Breached Bodies and Home Invasions: Horrific representations of the feminized body and home

This article addresses abject representations of the feminized body and home. Abjection plays a key role in the creation of ambiguity and unease, encompassing the paradoxes of transgression, which is key to the critical examination of social relations and constructions. I conduct an investigation of portrayals of abject spaces in two sites, the body and the home, which are analyzed through three films: I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Evil Dead II (1987) and The Others (2001). In my analysis, I show how these films repeatedly portray feminized bodies and homes that, when transgressive, are seen as abject until order is re-established at the conclusion of the film. In these horror texts, boundaries dissolve and create potentially progressive moments which can disturb gendered norms and binaries, but ultimately, the boundaries are reified and re-normed, reinscribing patriarchal gender codings of space.

Cuerpos violados e invasiones del hogar: representaciones horrificas del cuerpo feminizada y el hogar

Éste artículo trata las representaciones abyecto del cuerpo feminizado y el hogar. Abyección tiene un papel critica en la creación de ambigüedad y inquietud, abarcando las paradojas de trasgresión, lo cual es importante para examinar críticamente las relaciones y construcciones sociales. Realizo una investigación de las interpretaciones de espacios abyectos en dos sitios, el cuerpo y el hogar, a través de tres películas: I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Evil Dead II (1987) y The Others (2001). En mi análisis, muestro como éstas películas interpretan repetidamente los cuerpos feminizados y hogares que, cuando trasgresivos, se ven como abyecto hasta que se reestablece el orden al fin de la película. En éstos textos horrores, las fronteras disuelven y crean momentos potencialmente progresivos que pueda perturbar el género y las normas y dicotomías, pero últimamente se reifican y se renormalizan las fronteras, reescribiendo el género y los patriarcal códigos de espacio.