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  Wars of Position? Marxism Today, Cultural Politics and the Remaking of the Left Press, 1979-1990

  An exploration of the connections between political practice and cultural form through the transformation of Marxism Today from a Communist Party theoretical journey into a 'glossy' left magazine. Marxism Today's success and failures during the 1980s are analysed through its political and cultural critiques of Thatcherism and the left, innovative publicity and marketplace distribution, relationships with the national UK press, cultural coverage, design & format, and writing style. Wars of position offers insights for contemporary media activists and challenges the neglect of the left press by media scholars.
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  Bioarchaeology of Neolithic Çatalhöyük Reveals Fundamental Transitions in Health, Mobility and Lifestyle in Early Farmers

  Bioarchaeological investigation of human remains from Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey, contributes to a growing body of data documenting population dynamics, health, and lifestyle of early farmers in Holocene settings in the Near East and globally. The extensive archaeological context represents nearly 1,200 continuous years of community life. This record presents biological outcomes and comprehensive understanding of the challenges associated with dependence on domesticated plants and animals, the labor involved in acquiring food and other resources, impacts of settled community life on health and well-being, and evolving lifeways to the present day. This paper was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, United States of America, June 116(26): 12615-12623, 2019 and won the Cozzarelli Prize, Class V Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2020 from the National Academy of Sciences.
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  Indigenous Geographies in the Yucatan: Learning From the Responsibility- Based Maya Environmental Ethos

  This book is part of a broader attempt to decolonize colonial histories and understandings about Indigenous peoples and their relationships with their territories, and argues that the land ethos of "being part of the land," specifically among the Mayan community of Xuilub (Yucatan), Mexico, is guided by the cultural precept of 'responsibility-based' thinking. The work uniquely adds much needed insights into 'responsibility-based' thinking for land-use practices, and develops a theoretical framework for assessing historical impacts on Indigenous cultures and livelihoods. In six chapters, the text bridges Western and Indigenous Knowledge (IK) approaches to achieve deeper understanding of IKs, focusing on more Indigenous-centered methods, with the goal of expanding the disciplinary perspectives of postcolonial scholarship and Indigenous geographies.
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  Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories and Legacies Chapter: An Unprecedented Dichotomy: Impacts and Consequences of Serbian Internment in Canada during the Great War

  Civilian Internment in Canada initiates a conversation about not only internment, but also about the laws and procedures - past and present - which allow the state to disregard the basic civil liberties of some of its most vulnerable citizens. This volume offers a unique blend of personal memoirs of survivors and their descendants, alongside the work of community activists, public historians, and scholars, all of whom raise questions about how and why in Canada basic civil liberties have been (and, in some cases, continue to be) denied to certain groups in times of perceived national crises. The book received the Manitoba Historical Society’s Margaret McWilliams Award for the best scholarly book in 2020.
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  Satellite dynamics in a Yukawa correction to the gravitational potential as predicted of many gravity theories today

  Many of today’s gravity theories predict the existence of a non-Newtonian Yukawa-type correction to the gravitational potential. New experimental techniques, such as Sagnac interferometry, may help in exploring the range λ ≥ 1014 m where such forces are possibly measurable. It is expected that future space missions will operate in this range, which has not been examined for a very long time. Restricting ourselves to an Earth orbiting satellite we follow a perturbing-potential approach applied on the Lagrange planetary equations, in order to study the effect of such a non-Newtonian potential in the range λ ∼= 1.073RE. This is achieved by calculating the time rates of change of the orbital elements for the earth orbiting satellite GRACE-A. All these time rates have been calculated on the Keplerian and the precessing Keplerian ellipse of the body under study. Of all the orbital elements, the argument of the perigee is most affected by this potential.
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  The Power of Polls? A Cross-National Experimental Analysis of the Effects of Campaign Polls

  Public opinion polls have become increasingly prominent during elections, but how they affect voting behaviour remains uncertain. In this work, we estimate the effects of poll exposure using an experimental design in which we randomly assign the availability of polls to participants in simulated election campaigns. We draw upon results from ten independent experiments conducted across six countries on four continents (Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States) to examine how polls affect the amount of information individuals seek and the votes that they cast. We further assess how poll effects differ according to individual-level factors, such as partisanship and political sophistication, and the content included in polls and how it is presented.
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  Classroom Activity Breaks Improve On-task Behaviour and Physical Activity Levels Regardless of Time of Day

  Abbey Broad completed her Master’s research examining how classroom activity breaks improve on-task behaviour and physical activity levels regardless of time of day, under the supervision of Dr. Tom Hazell. Dr. Jennifer Robertson-Wilson and Dr. Pamela Bryden were on Abbey’s thesis committee. The work has been accepted for publication in the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. The Sun Life Centre for Physically Active Communities (CPAC), under the direction of Dr. Bryden, realized the importance of Abbey’s work so commissioned her to create a series of short activity videos. Given the impact on physical activity in the last year and half with the Covid-19 pandemic and the closures of schools in Ontario, such quick activity breaks are even more important. CPAC has begun to circulate the videos and positive reviews from teachers have already been heard. Forty brief activity break videos have been made featuring Abbey Board (MKin, currently working on her B.Ed).
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  Scholarly Podcasting in Canada: Secret Feminist Agenda

  With the rise of Open Access publishing and calls for scholars to increase the impact of their work beyond the university, scholarly communication is in the midst of a major transformation. A significant barrier to that transformation, however, has been an unwillingness to experiment with the conventions that underpin the system of scholarly research, writing, and dissemination. This pilot project laid the groundwork for new forms of multimedia scholarly communication through the collaboration of Siobhan McMenemy (Senior Editor, WLU Press) and Dr. Hannah McGregor (Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing, SFU). The main objective of this project was to identify the barriers that are obstructing new models of scholarly publishing, and propose solutions through the iterative development of a prototype scholarly podcast.
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  Looking at Pauline Johnson: Gender, Race, and Delsartism's Legible Body

  This essay closely examines the extant visual archive surrounding nineteenth-century Mohawk poet-performer E. Pauline Johnson to argue that her gestural and sartorial aesthetics situate her within a transnational genealogy of American Delsartism, a turn-of-the-century literary, cultural, and kinesthetic movement closely tied to a bodily discourse of white bourgeois femininity. This bodily discourse offers new strategies for reading and understanding Johnson's cultural labour within transnational histories of modernist dance.The article won the 2021 Award for Outstanding Article from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.

• The Impact of Group Music Therapy for Individuals with Eating Disorders

  This mixed-methods study examined the impact of group music therapy upon individuals receiving inpatient treatment for eating disorders. There was a total of 21 participants ranging between the ages of 16 and 58. Participants’ lived experiences of music therapy, including music’s effects on mood and emotion regulation were explored.
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  Transshipment Between Overconfident Newsvendors

  This study investigates the impacts of transshipment between overconfident newsvendors who perceive the expected outcome of a random event as more certain than it actually is. The conventional wisdom is that transshipment is a risk-pooling strategy for improving newsvendors’ performance. However, we find that overconfident newsvendors can be worse off with transshipment as compared to without transshipment. This result remains when overconfident newsvendors possess other behaviors such as fairness, demand- and supply-side thinking, loss aversion, and demand anchoring.
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  Risk Mitigation by Institutional Participants in the Secondary Market: Evidence from Foreign Rule 144A Debt Market

  We study secondary market trades of debt issues by foreign firms in the U.S. under SEC Rule 144A, a unique market where the counterparties are qualified institutional buyers (QIBs). We find that even though the secondary yield spreads of foreign 144A debt issues are larger than comparable public debt issues by foreign and domestic firms in the U.S., the incremental impact of common risks – namely, credit, illiquidity, governance, and familiarity risks – on spreads are lower for foreign 144A issues compared to various control samples. Our finding is consistent with the notion that institutional participants, namely QIBs, play a specialized role in mitigating risk exposures in the foreign 144A secondary market.
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  Aging of Atmospheric Aerosols and the Role of Iron in Catalyzing Brown Carbon Formation

  This review in Environmental Science: Atmospheres highlights the role of the element iron in changing the physical and chemical properties of atmospheric particles and how these changes contribute to climate change.
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  Temperature Regulation of Plant Hormone Signaling During Stress and Development

  It is important to understand how fluctuating temperatures regulate important plant hormone signaling pathways so that we can develop climate-smart crops that can withstand weather extremes in our dynamically changing world. Increasing average temperatures and more frequent heat waves have negative effects on the food we grow and wild species in natural ecosystems and causes stress in plants. How a plant responds to these temperature extremes is governed by plant hormones. In this review, we highlight our current understanding of how changing temperatures regulate plant hormone pathways during immunity, stress responses, and development. Here we present an overview of known temperature-sensitive or temperature-reinforced molecular hubs in hormone biosynthesis, homeostasis, signaling, and downstream responses. These include recent advances in temperature regulation at the genomic, transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and post-translational levels—directly linking some plant hormone pathways to known thermosensing mechanisms. Where applicable, diverse plant species and various temperature ranges are presented, along with emerging principles and themes.
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  COVID-19 Essays: A Rapid Response Collection of Essays on the Pandemic

  This rapid response collection of essays, co-edited by Greg Bird and Penelope Ironstone, was published in 10 days following the initial pandemic "lockdown" in March, 2020. It includes 10 essays, including essays by Laurier Faculty Neil Balan, Greg Bird, and Penelope Ironstone. The essays provide an early snapshot of the pandemic from a biopolitical standpoint, looking to the social, cultural, economic, and political fault-lines of response to the pandemic that were already becoming apparent so early in its experience.
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  Grasslands and Climate Change

  Grasslands are the most extensive terrestrial biome on Earth and are critically important for forage, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. This book brings together an international team of researchers to review scientific knowledge of the effects of climate change on world grasslands, a process we are only just starting to understand.
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  Philosophy and the Climate Crisis: How the Past Can Save the Present

  This book explores how the history of philosophy can orient us to the new reality brought on by the climate crisis. If we understand the climate crisis as a deeply existential one, it can help to examine the way past philosophers responded to similar crises in their times. This book explores five past crises. These events—war, occupation, exile, scientific revolution and political revolution—inspired the philosophers to remake the whole world in thought: • That political power must be constrained by knowledge of the climate system (Plato) • That ethical and political reasoning must be informed by care or love of the ecological whole (Augustine) • That we must enhance the design of the technosphere (Descartes) • That we must conceive the Earth as an internally complex system (Spinoza) • And that we must grant rights to anyone or anything—ultimately the Earth system itself—whose vital interests are threatened by the effects of climate change (Hegel).
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  The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events that Transformed the Olympic Games

  We envisioned The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events that Transformed the Olympic Games as means of sharing 30 years of our research on the two economic engines that forever changed the look and feel of the Olympic Games – television and corporate sponsorship. In setting out a plan for this book, Bob and I isolated the ten most important milestone events during the IOC presidencies of Avery Brundage, Lord Killanin, Juan Antonio Samaranch, and Jacques Rogge, and devoted a chapter to each of them. We used historical storytelling and biography as the means of driving the narrative, inviting both specialist and general readers into the story of the evolution of the Olympics.
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  A House of One's Own: The Moral Economy of Post-Disaster Aid in El Salvador

  What happens to people after an earthquake destroys their homes? What is daily life like under a humanitarian regime? Is aid a gift or is it a form of power? A House of One’s Own explores these enduring questions as they unfold in a Salvadoran town in the aftermath of the 2001 earthquakes.
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  Winning and Keeping Power in Canadian Politics

  Do negative campaigns win elections? Do voters abandon candidates accused of scandalous behaviour? Do government apologies affect prospects for re-election? While many people assume the answer to each of these questions is yes, there is limited empirical evidence to support these assumptions. In this book, Jason Roy and Christopher Alcantara use a series of experiments to test these and other commonly held beliefs. The findings suggest that not all of the assumptions that people have about the best strategies for winning and keeping political power hold up to empirical scrutiny. In fact, some work in ways that many readers may find surprising.

• New Perspectives on Thomas of Ireland’s Manipulus Florum / Nouvelles Perspectives sur le Manipulus Florum de Thomas d’Irlande

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  Enemies of the State: The Radical Right in America from FDR to Trump

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  Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue: Kairotic Place and Borders

  In Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue, Jorgenson asks what Christian theologians might learn from Indigenous Spiritualities and Worldviews. In so doing, he explores how Indigenous insights might help unearth a fresh theology of place.
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  Canada's Holy Grail: Lord Stanley's Political Motivation to Donate the Stanley Cup

  In 1892, Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley donated the Stanley Cup to crown the first Canadian hockey champions. Canada’s Holy Grail documents Lord Stanley’s personal politics, his desire to affect Canadian nationality and unity, and the transformations in Anglo-liberal political thought at the time. This book posits that the Stanley Cup fit directly within Anglo-American traditions of using sport to promote ideas of the national, and the donation of the cup occurred at a moment in history when Canadian nationalists needed identifying symbols. Jordan B. Goldstein asserts that only with a transformation in Anglo-liberal thought could the state legitimately act through culture to affect national identity. Drawing on Lord Stanley’s archives and statements by politicians and hockey enthusiasts, Canada’s Holy Grail integrates political thought into sport history through the discussion of a championship trophy that still stands as one of the most well-known and recognized Canadian national symbols.
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  Shadow Play: Information Politics in Urban Indonesia

  Anthropologist Sheri Lynn Gibbings shows that information politics are the principal avenues through which the municipal government of Yogyakarta city seeks to implement its urban projects. Information politics are also the primary means through which street vendors, activists, and NGOs can challenge these plans. Through extensive interviews and lengthy participant observation in Yogyakarta, Gibbings shows that both state and non-state actors engage in transparency, rumours, conspiracies, and surveillance practices.