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..., signified an “under-developed” South that “needed” to be disciplined and guided in order to become European while becoming the “shield” for Northern banks. Second, within the so-called Europe’s “refugee crisis,” it will explore how the European South is simultaneously constructed as the “example...

...Megan Brown This essay focuses on shifts in attitude toward risk management, which, following the work of Ulrich Beck, is loosely defined as a collection of preventive measures attempting to shield people from the widespread consequences of industrial development. Recent years have seen...

... in Homer. Our first example is quite well known: the shield of Achilles, introduced in book 18 of the Iliad. Florman com­ ments on this episode, observing that the poet devotes over one hundred thirty lines to a description of the fabrication and decoration of the shield. He concludes that Homer...

... one of many trees worked on by the local Eora peoples. They used the trees to produce many different weapons and tools, but from one particular tree they made a certain shield, and that shield was held up to stop Cook landing. That shield is now suspended in a cabinet over British soil...

... of how the Devil took to flight when the woman showed him her vulva.21 Understood as what Gombrich calls an apotropaic image, a deadly, monstrous, paralyzing spectacle, the visual image of ekphra­ sis is properly located, not on an urn or jar, but on a shield which may be displayed to the enemy while...

... on a leading role in the protest movement. These groups of young people aim to protect protesters from state and parastate violence. They cover their faces and carry handmade shields, leading the protests and protecting strategic points in cities the so-called resistance points, sites where cultural...

... the tin hats of the modern Italian army, leather jacket with metal hoops sewed on, heavy 380 The South Atlantic Quarterly breeches, big semicircular shield, and stout brogans called caligae. (Emperor Caligula grew up in the camps, and hence his name: Kid Boots The legionary carried short javelins which...

..., if rights promise a shield around individuals, the ‘‘right 456 Wendy Brown to choose the life they see fit to lead’’ (57), this shield constitutes a juridical limit on regimes without empowering individuals as political actors; rather, it is an instance of what Isaiah Berlin called and Ignatieff...

... separately (arrived at by counting the Chinese and Adams cantos, published together, as two), further divided into four alchemical phases Cantos 1-71 correspond with the Declaration, which corresponds with the shield on the Seal and the words E pluribus unum, and so on. Read is not always clear...

... the shield and I crawl in and operate. The biomembrane is a self-sterilizing operating theater in miniature and it adapts to a post­ operative therapy center, he should live so long, as the saying goes. Is Sandow a laureate? Sandow is an organist, the doctor said. I was told laureates only. I can...

... the invention of the Yergilian epic, Tasso makes the hermit hold before Rinaldo s astonished gaze the shield whereon are portrayed the Past and Present of his noble line: 58 The South Atlantic Quarterly Look up, my child And painted in this precious shield behold The glorious deeds of thy forefathers old...

... insist that the League is a broken shield, some of the Hispanic-American leaders will remain unconvinced. The League of Nations has inspired fervent hopes in Latin America, hopes which they are slow to abandon. They seem to feel that the League may yet be strengthened and made effective, and they wish...

... diately broken by the particularity of hammer d Cuirass and frock of mail, a chain-mail tunic, later shortened to the haber­ geon. The cuirass was introduced in the fifteenth century. The hammering grew increasingly elaborate.5 Adamantean Proof recalls Arthur s shield Hewen out of Adamant rock...

..., a burst hip, a scabbed shard, always in warlike gestures, dodging, rebounding, attacking, shielding them­ selves, stretched high or crooked, some of them snuffed out, but with a freestanding, forward­ pressing foot, a twisted back, the contour of a calf harnessed into a single common motion. A gigantic...

... believes, the Soviet Union cannot but gain political advantages through atomic blackmail. NATO plans for the defense of Europe are based on the so-called Sword and Shield concept of balanced military forces. The Shield of tactical defensive forces is to protect the area west of the Elbe against...

... to Arthur s quest to become the subject of his own story is Guyon s shield Whereon the Faery Queenes pourtract was writ (2.8.43.3). Indeed, the shield s image, releasing infinite desire in Arthur, proves to be almost fatal. In his fight with Pyrochles, who has stolen the shield from Guyon, Arthur...

... Life: In Search of the Possible .” In Goonewardena et al. , Space, Difference, Everyday Life , 134 – 46 . Shields Rob . 1999 . Lefebvre, Love and Struggle: Spatial Dialectics . London : Routledge . Smith Neil . 1990 . Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production...

... that they are driven to it by need, nevertheless make some attempt to shield themselves from disgrace and shut their doors. Now if someone were to ask you, as you were walking along the street, what such a person was doing at that moment, you would immediately name the deed, without seeing what was going...

... by Lewis Carroll, was intended to be portrayed as trustful, ready to accept the wildest impossibil­ ities with all that utter trust that only dreamers know. Don Qui­ xote too may be epitomized by these words, and it is in fact this same simple innocence which shields them both. It raises them Alice Meets...

... Pedro watch Sammy and McGwire on satellite television, joined in a televisual space with Dominicans in New Jersey and Anglos in Iowa. This is the era of ‘‘second modernity says Rob Shields, a time characterized by a ‘‘new, categorical, fuzzy logic of decid- ability and knowability Drawing...