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This series of photographs illustrates both the scale and the vast strangeness of California's Prison Industrial Complex. The prisons are photographed at night from a distance so that the lights from the prison illuminate the landscape. The light that controls the prison population stands as an indicator of state control. The visual effect references the images from the test sites of nuclear bombs, an enormous display of technocratic power reflecting a truly destructive invasion into otherwise peaceful pastoral settings.

Abstract. Xenophobic tendencies have been observed in Germany, which are mainly directed against immigrants from Muslim countries. Still, many Germans are attracted to countries in the Near and Middle East as travel destinations. How does the perception of strangeness differ in everyday life and on holiday and which situational conditions on holiday can favor a reverse attitude of German tourists towards people from countries of the Near and Middle East? An answer to these questions not only gives conclusions about the social order and reality of Germans but also points out how intercultural sensitivity could be strengthened in their everyday life. To better understand the ambivalent perception of strangeness in the different situations, German tourists were consulted about their intercultural experiences in qualitative in-depth interviews. The interviewees were acquired through a quantitative study conducted in advance and selected according to their answers regarding their travel behavior and political attitudes towards migrants from countries of the Near and Middle East. Encounters play a central role in the perception of strangeness, as they create relationships between strangers. In everyday life, there are hardly any points of contact and therefore interaction between Germans and immigrants. A lack of understanding and insecurity characterize the handling and lead to prejudices, which in turn end in avoidance of encounters with immigrants. Holiday experiences at least enable experiences of foreignness. Therefore, the way in which experiences of strangeness take place on vacation is important. The generated images and experiences with foreigners on vacation can also influence the way strangeness is dealt with in everyday life.

This article reexamines Alfred Schutz's famous 1944 Stranger essay and the initial criticism of Aron Gurwitsch. I side with Schutz in thinking of the refugee as a special type of stranger. Then to respond to the charge that the essay is not philosophical enough from Gurwitsch, I read Schutz's notion of the strange with Husserl's notion of homeworld and Levinas's notion of fecundity. This allows us to see the philosophical depth of doing a phenomenology of the stranger and strangeness.

Introduction -- Introduction: when neighbours become strangers -- The unchanging stranger : a critical survey of the literature -- Ulrich Beck : a perspectival account of strangeness -- The global context : rethinking strangers and neighbours -- The "cricketing stranger" : the London bombings and the "homegrown terrorist" -- The cosmopolitan stranger : a thesis -- Representing the stranger : film and television -- Conclusion -- Bibliography

This essay explores the flawed legal regime governing national security in Australia. It focuses on legislation related to anti-terrorism and discusses the negative effects of the bills, particularly in relation to the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers. The author reflects on the harsh political and social climate of Australia during the era of the Howard government and One Nation party, noting that democratic and the liberal values can be in conflict.

Be it the ideal of liberal democracy, the opening of local markets to the fluctuations of international capital, or the elusive quest for development, the discursive strategies of the North and the policy orientations that they enable toward the South are well explored. Less explored, however, is the way in which the South interacts with this received wisdom. This article explicitly focuses on how Venezuela, as one of the more outspoken southern states, works within and subverts the dominant U.S.-authored tropes in Latin America. It suggests that while U.S. representations of the Chávez administration as a strange anomaly in the America's resonate in Venezuela and beyond, it is possible for Venezuela to subvert these messages by "embracing strangeness." That is, by embracing and expanding the difference attributed to them onto the rest of Latin America, Venezuela is able to use "strangeness" to open up possibilities for new meanings and political spaces in the Americas.

30 páginas, 2 tablas, 10 figuras.-- arXiv:hep-ph/0110193v1 ; We derive expressions for strangeness-changing scalar form factors, which incorporate known theoretical constraints both at low and high energies. Their leading behaviour in the limit of a large number of colours is calculated from the resonance chiral Lagrangian, and a set of short-distance constraints on the scalar resonance couplings is obtained, imposing the form factors to vanish at infinite momentum transfer. The important effects of meson rescattering are taken into account by exploiting unitarity and analyticity. Making use of previous results on S-wave Kπ scattering [1] , and a coupled-channel dispersion-relation analysis, the Kπ, Kη and Kη′ scalar form factors are calculated up to 2 GeV. These scalar form factors are a key ingredient in the determination of the corresponding scalar spectral function which is important in the extraction of the mass of the strange quark from QCD sum rules as well as hadronic τ decays. ; This work has been supported in part by the German–Spanish Cooperation Agreement HA97-0061, by the European Union TMR Network EURODAPHNE (ERBFMX-CT98- 0169), and by DGESIC (Spain) under the grant no. PB97-1261 and DGICYT contract no. BFM2000-1326. M.J. would like to thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for support. ; Peer reviewed