The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

Established in 2006, TATA Africa Services (Nigeria) Limited operates as the nodal point for Tata businesses in West Africa. TATA Africa Services (Nigeria) Limited has a strong presence in Nigeria with investments exceeding USD 10 million. The company was established in Lagos, Nigeria as a subsidiary of TATA Africa Holdings (SA) (Pty) Limited, South Africa and serves as the hub of Tata’s operations in Nigeria and the rest of West Africa.

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Recent advancements in supercapacitor technology

As previously discussed, Reyhner and Eder (1989) have divided the history of American Indian educational policy, and indeed Indian policy generally, into six distinct periods or eras, culminating in our current state of Self-Determination. While this seems to be an accurate assessment of the present day, the authors would like to suggest that recent global developments have created considerable impetus for change in Indian Country. The authors believe that Indigenous populations may well be on the cusp of a new day in Indian policy in America, if proper consideration is given to this global imperative.

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Susan Goethel Campbell’s exhibition Field Guide explores the nature of art and the conceptual process through a multimedia installation that also reflects upon temporality, art history, ecology and science. Introduced with a time-lapse video of weather patterns captured by web cam over the course of an entire year, atmospheric effects assume the quality of translucent washes that blur distinctions between opacity and transparency, painting and technology. Aerial views of built environments set against expansive cityscapes present essential imagery for large-format digital woodblock prints realized in monochromatic tonals and saturated grids of yellow and blazing orange. Some combine undulating wood grain patterns with pinhole perforations to admit light; others consist of diaphanous walnut stains applied to hand-crafted paper, a self-referential allusion to art’s planarity and permeable membrane. The evanescence of these views is echoed in pristine impressions of filtered dust and shimmering milkweed assemblages contained in Plexiglas light boxes. Known as Asclepias, milkweed is an herbaceous flower named by Carl Linnaeus after Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, due to its efficacious medicinal powers. Like the weather, the milkweed’s reflective silver filaments respond to shifting currents of air paired with gently wafted treetops projected in the viewing room. Here pearls of light corresponding to the spheres and pinpricks of the prints on the walls float randomly over the fictitious frame of a cubical vitrine. Orbs appear and disappear amid nocturnal shadows as figments of the imagination, their languid dispersion eliciting not-ofthis-world sensations of suspension, ascent and transcendence. This joined to the mesmerizing stillness of a gallery pierced occasionally by the sound of supersonic aircraft, a reminder of the machine in the garden. Beyond, the history of landscape photography and the Romantic sublime are encoded in works titled “Old Stand” that render minuscule figures of stationary box photographers against the grandeur of ice-capped Rockies. In some of the works the human figure is effaced as a historical memory through exquisitely modulated rubbings whose unbounded spatiality contrasts with the reflexive interiority of the viewing room. Campbell’s incandescent vision of nature asserts the phenomenal power of art to elevate the human spirit in the presence of heart-stirring beauty. It dares to reaffirm the timeless union between the material and immaterial substance of the universe, between human life and the ephemera of the natural world. f i l m

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

. Although scholars have identified political talk radio (PTR) as an important site of political socialization, the current literature has largely failed to examine the political relevance of PTR's rhetorical strategies and has virtually ignored Canadian PTR altogether. This article addresses these gaps by analyzing Adler On Line, Canada's only nationally syndicated commercial PTR program, to show that how Canadian PTR talks, particularly its use of populist rhetoric, plays a central role in establishing what type of political deliberation and debate is possible within it. Divided into two main sections, the article first explores how Adler On Line renders a particular epistemological framework authoritative. The second section then analyzes the rules and norms of political expression and debate encouraged by the show's style of argutainment debate. The article concludes with a more speculative evaluation of the practical consequences as well as the theoretical and normative implications of these discursive practices.Resume. Bien que les auteurs de recherches reconnaissent que la radio interactive politique (RIP) represente un lieu important de socialisation politique, la litterature courante dans ce domaine omet, en grande partie, d'analyser la signification politique des strategies rhetoriques de la RIP, tout en laissant entierement dans l'ombre les activites de RIP canadiennes. Visant a combler ces lacunes, le present article offre, dans un premier temps, une analyse de l'emission Adler On Line, qui est la seule emission de RIP commerciale souscrite nationalement au Canada, puis demontre que le mode d'expression typique adopte dans cette emission, et surtout son usage de la rhetorique populiste, ont une incidence determinante sur le genre de deliberation et de debat politiques que permet la radio parlee au Canada. L'article se divise en deux grandes parties. La premiere explore le cadre epistemologique particulier de l'emission Adler On Line et la maniere dont ce cadre se voit empreint d'autorite. La seconde partie analyse les regles ou normes de debat et d'expression des opinions politiques qu'encourage le style divertissant de cette emission-debat. Pour conclure, les auteurs evaluent de facon plus speculative les consequences pratiques de ces formes d'expression discursive, tout comme leur incidence theorique et normative.

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Ears Wide Shut: Epistemological Populism, Argutainment and Canadian Conservative Talk Radio

'You Belong Outside': Advertising, Nature, and the SUV

This article presents a critical discourse analysis of the principal storylines through which the Calgary Herald framed the oil sands between May 1, 2010, and May 31, 2011. The analysis reveals that rather than avoid coverage of environmental protests and critiques, the Herald’s narratives used these events to portray the oil and gas industry (and the province and people of Alberta) as victims of an aggressive and well-funded global environmental lobby. This framing not only defends the industry by dismissing environmental criticism of the oil sands as ill-informed and ideologically motivated, it also champions the idea that the provincial government must become a promotional petro-state whose main role is to actively defend the industry. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Cet article partage les resultats d’une analyse de discours critique des narratifs utilises par le Calgary Herald du 1er mai 2010 au 31 mai 2011 a propos des sables bitumineux. Notre analyse demontre que le Calgary Herald n’evite pas les questions et critiques environnementales. Nous avons plutot trouve que le Herald les utilisent pour representer l’industrie du petrole (et, par extension, la province et les citoyens de l’Alberta) comme des victimes de campagnes mediatiques agressives subventionnees par de puissantes ONG. Nous suggerons que cette strategie discursive non seulement rejette toute critiques comme ignorants et ideologiques. Ca justifie aussi l’idee que le gouvernement de l’Alberta doit devenir un « petro-Etat » en defendant plus activement les interets de l’industrie.

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Storylines in the Sands: News, Narrative and Ideology in the Calgary Herald

Building on the work of Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin, Capitalizing on Culture presents an innovative, accessible, and timely exploration of critical theory in a cultural landscape dominated by capital. Despite the increasing prevalence of commodification as a dominant factor in the production, promotion, and consumption of most forms of mass culture, many in the cultural studies field have failed to engage systematically either with culture as commodity or with critical theory. Shane Gunster corrects that oversight, providing attentive readings of Adorno and Benjamin's work in order to generate a complex, non-reductive theory of human experience that attends to the opportunities and dangers arising from the confluence of culture and economics. Gunster juxtaposes Benjamin's thoughts on memory, experience, and capitalism with Adorno's critique of mass culture and modern aesthetics to illuminate the key position that the commodity form plays in each thinker's work and to invigorate the dialectical complexity their writings acquire when considered together. This blending of perspectives is subsequently used to ground a theoretical interrogation of the comparative failure of cultural studies to engage substantively with the effect of commodification upon cultural practices. As a result, Capitalizing on Culture offers a fresh examination of critical theory that will be valuable to scholars studying the intersection of culture and capitalism.

Capitalizing on Culture: Critical Theory for Cultural Studies

INTRODUCTION: JOURNALISM FOR CLIMATE CRISIS Robert A. Hackett, Susan Forde, Shane Gunster, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton 1 DEMOCRACY, CLIMATE CRISIS AND JOURNALISM: NORMATIVE TOUCHSTONES Robert A. Hackett 2 ENGAGING CLIMATE COMMUNICATION: AUDIENCES, FRAMES, VALUES AND NORMS Shane Gunster 3 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTEST, POLITICS AND MEDIA INTERACTIONS: AN OVERVIEW Susan Forde 4 FROM FRAMES TO PARADIGMS: CIVIC JOURNALISM, PEACE JOURNALISM AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA Robert A. Hackett 5 CONTESTING CONFLICT? EFFICACY, ADVOCACY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Shane Gunster 6 AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT NEWS MEDIA AND CLIMATE CHANGE REPORTING: THE CASE OF COP21 Kerrie Foxwell-Norton 7 ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENT COVERAGE IN THE DIGITAL ERA: THE GUARDIAN'S `KEEP IT IN THE GROUND' CAMPAIGN Susan Forde CONCLUSION: MEDIA REFORM FOR CLIMATE ACTION Robert A. Hackett

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Papers

Ears Wide Shut: Epistemological Populism, Argutainment and Canadian Conservative Talk Radio

'You Belong Outside': Advertising, Nature, and the SUV

Storylines in the Sands: News, Narrative and Ideology in the Calgary Herald

Capitalizing on Culture: Critical Theory for Cultural Studies

Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives