AbstractContemporary justice‐making processes often focus on reconciliation or legal retribution, but not on the complexity of victimhood beyond individual subjectivity or refusals of state propositions for social repair. In Colombia, where drug cartels and state‐sponsored violence had terrorized the population for over fifty years, it was not forgiveness and acceptance that punctuated the turn of the twenty‐first century, but the refusal to reconcile with the state's duplicity regarding the disappearance and death of thousands. This essay illustrates how irreconciliation as an affective sentiment is taking shape in Colombia through forms of reattribution that take the form of victim visibilizations. In analysing the strategic use of victim visibilizations as a refusal of state accountability, their expansion of the notion of victimhood, and their politics of irreconciliation, I show how even with the state's remorse‐driven discourses, the public's understanding that political, judicial, and social accountability was not possible and pushed them to chart new strategies for disclosure and healing.
Humans are inexorably driven to search for order and meaning in their own and others' lives; accounts are a major avenue for sociologists to depict and understand the ways in which individuals experience and identify with that meaning and their social world. The accounts concept has a solid foundation and history in early sociological analysis and research. The current work on accounts focuses on "story-like" interpretations or explanations and their functions and consequences to a social actor's life. The concept is useful for gaining insight into the human experience and arriving at meanings or culturally embedded normative explanations. This concept deserves greater explicit attention in sociology and is in need of further theoretical development and stimulation. I argue that sociologists should embrace the concept of accounts; the foundation is set for a resurgence of work on accounts in sociology.
This study explores the interplay between climate change, land degradation, and the potential of increased funding for meteorological services to enhance global climate resilience, framed within an accounting perspective. Land degradation due to climate change has far-reaching ecological and economic implications. This research investigates the relationship between monetary investments in meteorological services and their efficacy in predicting and mitigating climate-related hazards. Employing a comprehensive methodology, the study analyses existing literature, gather data from national meteorological agencies and uses quantitative research methods to assess the impact of funding on meteorological services. The findings bear implications for policymakers, offering insights into the benefits of heightened financing for meteorological infrastructure. By providing an innovative examination of climate change through the accounting lens and addressing a crucial gap in knowledge, this study contributes to the discourse on climate resilience and sustainable practices, advocating for a more resilient future.
As part of the Photographers' Gallery's Unthinking Photography series of online writings and essays I was commissioned to edit and bring together work exploring the influence and role of computer generated imagery technology in our conception of reality. Four initial essays were commissioned: An introductory text to the series, Rendering The Desert of the Real by myself exploring a brief history of doctoring of images and their political role. The Enstasis of Elon Musk by Tamar Shafrir giving an overview of the rendering and ideation technologies of architecture that have come to define the imagination of the city. Embodying Others by Simone Niquille which presents a video essay of how the current slate of CGI technologies are used to construct the environment for forensic purposes and Into the Universe of Rendered Architectural Images by Joel McKim discusses the relationship between the technical and the imaginable.
Schwarzenburg Castle is one of the few Alsatian castles that can be dated with precision. The Schwarzenbourg family, taking advantage of a favourable historical and political context, built the castle in 1261 on the municipal boundary of the town of Munster. Initially intended for residential use, the castle passed through the centuries from family to family, and shortly becoming a ruin. The first major renovation was realized in the 15th century, but for military purposes rather than for housing. This was the only one, as the castle was quickly abandoned at the end of the same century. It was only during the First World War that the castle was used by the German army, which built a bunker in the upper courtyard. Schwarzenbourg castle is, therefore, an original in Alsace, both in terms of its history and its characteristics, which have no regional equal. The objective of this modelling project is twofold. On the one hand, to model the current state of the castle, i.e., an advanced state of ruin for certain elements, and, on the other hand, to model the reconstruction of the castle as it was when it was built in 1261. This double objective comes up against several problems, mainly technical. Indeed, how to move from a point cloud of a certain density and quality to a surface model allowing a realistic rendering? How to limit the influence of the noise on the quality of the surface model? How to remain faithful to the cloud while simplifying the geometric primitives to make the rendering more efficient? Or what technique should be used to reconstitute the castle as it was when it was built? The objective here was to realize the transformation from a consolidated and geo-referenced point cloud to a surface model allowing for a photo-realistic rendering.
The 2018 edition of National Accounts of OECD Countries, General Government Accounts is an annual publication, dedicated to government finance which is based on the System of National Accounts 2008 (SNA 2008). It includes tables showing government aggregates and balances for the production ...
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The 2012 edition of National Accounts of OECD Countries: General Government Accounts is an annual publication, dedicated to government finance which is based on the System of National Accounts 1993 (SNA 1993)for all countries except Australia( SNA 2008). It includes tables showing government aggregates and balances for the production, income and financial accounts as well as detailed tax and social contribution receipts and a breakdown of expenditure of general government by function, according to the harmonized international classification, COFOG.These detailed accounts are available for the general government sector. Data also cover the following sub-sectors, according to availability: central government, state government, local government and social security funds.The data in this publication are also available on line via oecd-ilibrary.org under the title OECD National Accounts Statistics, General Government Accounts.
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Abstract This article examines three novels that use fiction to revise the figure of the Argentine author Leopoldo Lugones: Ricardo Piglia's Respiración artificial (1980), C. E. Feiling's Un poeta nacional (1993), and César Aira's Lugones (2020). These three novels present different portrayals of Lugones, which also mirror their opposing views of the Argentine literary tradition. Piglia, Feiling, and Aira look back at the so-called national poet when self-fashioning themselves as writers and outlining a literary project in a (post)dictatorial scenario. In a cultural field marked by the effects of state terror and neoliberal reform policies, these fictional renderings of Lugones become a means of reflecting on the political past and the future of literature. Ultimately, I argue that Respiración artificial, Un poeta nacional, and Lugones devise a figure of the Argentine author decoupled from the mission of consolidating a national identity that Lugones epitomized for nearly half a century.
The National Accounts of OECD Countries, Financial Accountsincludes financial transactions (both net acquisition of financial assets and net incurrence of liabilities), by institutional sector (non-financial corporations, financial corporations, general government, households and non-profit institutions serving households, total economy and rest of the world) and by financial operation.The data in this publication are also available on line via www.oecd-ilibrary.orgunder the title Financial Accounts, OECD National Accounts Statistics(http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/na-fa-data-en)
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The National Accounts of OECD Countries, Financial Accounts includes financial transactions (both net acquisition of financial assets and net incurrence of liabilities), by institutional sector (non-financial corporations, financial corporations, general government, households and non-profit institutions serving households, total economy and rest of the world) and by financial operation. The data in this publication are also available on the OECD iLibrary under the title Financial Accounts, OECD National Accounts Statistics ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/na-fa-data-en )
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