scholarly journals Water Enclosure and World-Literature: New Perspectives on Hydro-Power and World-Ecology

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Alexandra Campbell ◽  
Michael Paye
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Hydro Power ◽  
Blue Revolution

This editorial introduces the special issue, ‘World Literature and the Blue Humanities’. The authors articulate the commonalities and tensions between world literature, world-ecology, blue humanities, and hydrocultural approaches. Taking megadams, water pollution, and the blue revolution as baselines, we offer short analyses of works by Namwali Serpell, Craig Santos Perez, Jean Arasanayagam, Paul Greengrass, Wyl Menmuir, and Emily St. John Mandel in order to articulate how culture can both contest and normalize water enclosure. The piece ends with a brief summary of the contributions to the special issue.

scholarly journals Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 2830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Permanent Magnet ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Synchronous Machines ◽  
Permanent Magnet Machines ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines ◽  
Hydro Power ◽  
Brushless Dc Motors ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Wide Range

Interest in permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) is continuously increasing worldwide, especially with the increased use of renewable energy and electrification of transports. This special issue contains the successful invited submissions of fifteen papers to a Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of “Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines”. The focus is on permanent magnet synchronous machines and the electrical systems they are connected to. The presented work represents a wide range of areas. Studies of control systems, both for permanent magnet synchronous machines and for brushless DC motors, are presented and experimentally verified. Design studies of generators for wind power, wave power and hydro power are presented. Finite element method simulations and analytical design methods are used. The presented studies represent several of the different research fields on permanent magnet machines and electric drives.

scholarly journals Rivers of Lebanon: Significant Water Resources under Threats

Hydrology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amin Shaban
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Power Generation ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Short Length ◽  
Hydro Power ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Sloping Terrain ◽  
Annual Discharge ◽  
Small Catchments

Lebanon is known by tremendous water resources, and this has been often viewed from the considerable number of rivers (i.e. 14 rivers). These rivers are characterized by small catchments and short length. The estimated average annual discharge from these rivers is approximately 2800 million m3. Due to the sloping terrain of Lebanon; however, it was estimated that more than 75% of water from rivers is unexploited it mainly outlets into the sea. The majority of water use from the Lebanese rivers implies domestic, agriculture, as well as some other rivers are used for hydro-power generation where they contribute by about 20% of electricity needed for Lebanon. Lately, and added to water pollution, there is abrupt decline in the discharge from these rivers estimated to more than 60% of their average annual discharge. This unfavorable situation is attributed, in addition to the changing climate, to the anthropogenic interference is the most affecting one and it is represented by over pumping from these rivers and form the recharge zone for groundwater and springs that feed these rivers. This chapter aims at introducing a discussion on the existed challenges on the Lebanese rivers and the proposed and their impact.

scholarly journals Embodied Social Cognition and Comparative Literature

Poetics Today ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-186
Author(s):  
Lisa Zunshine
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Cognitive Approaches ◽  
Cognitive Literary Studies ◽  
Social Mind

There is a growing sense among scholars working in cognitive literary studies that their assumptions and methodologies increasingly align them with another paradigmatically interdisciplinary field: comparative literature. This introduction to the special issue on cognitive approaches to comparative literature explores points of alignment between the two fields, outlining possible cognitivist interventions into debates that have been animating comparative literature, such as those concerning “universals,” politics of translatability (especially in the context of world literature), and practices of thinking across the boundaries of media. It discusses both fields’ indebtedness to cultural studies, as well as cognitive literary theorists’ commitment to historicizing and their sustained focus on the embodied social mind.

Introduction: France as a Laboratory of Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-96
Author(s):  
Michael Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
World Literature ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
World Cinema ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Creativity And Innovation ◽  
The Way

This article introduces the special issue of the journal on France as a Laboratory of Culture. It asks whether France continues to foster creativity and innovation in the cultural realm. Six articles examine case studies, including the role of women in the making of modern Paris, France’s role in world cinema through international co-production, French conceptions of world literature, recent fictional works by Alice Zeniter and Bessora, the rapper Abd al Malik as a complex example of hybrid music, and the state-funded project to create ÉcoQuartiers, or green neighbourhoods. These examples provide challenges to the way things are, whether in changing behaviours, tastes, perceptions or understandings, and demonstrate convincingly that France remains a vibrant laboratory of culture in the modern world.

scholarly journals Introduction

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-141
Author(s):  
Sowon S. Park
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
Cultural Sphere

The essays collected in this special issue think about literature through the prism of script. The emphasis is primarily on the cultural sphere inscribed by Chinese characters, or the “Chinese Scriptworld” (漢字文化圈)—China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. All of the countries in this “scriptworld” use, or have used, Chinese characters for writing though each has its own distinct language(s). By examining the interrelations between writing, speech, thought and culture in and outside this region, the special issue investigates the significance of script and builds a case for the scriptworld as a useful analytical unit for world literature. A more complete study of world literatures, as classified by script, will bring a dimension that is currently missing from world literary theories of translation and circulation.

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