Explore the vast range of titles available.

More than one reputed political pundit expressed doubt whether None Of The Above's run for higher office would be as successful given the notoriety and precedence of her creative candidacy in Topeka KS. After all, Clarissa \"Chesty\" Arnold's next political foe might just be a formidable None Of These. Should that occur, she and they would likely split the majority vote, resulting in victory for some minority elected, corrupted clown who did not have the ability to make recognizable balloon animals.

Cet article aborde la question de la conversion de la visibilité sociale en capital économique par l’étude de certaines caractéristiques du marché de la conférence rémunérée. Pour ce faire, nous proposons une méthode innovante permettant de quantifier la notoriété individuelle, y compris chez des personnes modestement connues. Nous examinons alors le rôle joué par la (micro)notoriété dans la fixation des prix sur ce marché. Nos analyses des registres d’une importante agence de conférenciers font apparaître qu’un tiers de la variance du prix de vente des conférences s’explique par la notoriété de ceux qui les donnent. Le marché de la conférence rémunérée constitue ainsi un sas de conversion du capital de (micro)notoriété en capital économique. In this paper, we study the conversion of social visibility into economic capital by examining some characteristics of the speakers’ market. To do so, we propose an innovative method to quantify notoriety, even among little-known people. We then examine the role played by the (micro-)notoriety in price setting in this market. Our analysis of the records of a major speakers agency shows that one-third of the variance of the selling price of the lectures is explained by the notoriety of the speakers. The speakers’ market thus functions as a place for the conversion of (micro-)notoriety capital into economic capital.

The US ‘War on Drugs’ has had a profound role in reinforcing racial hierarchies. Although Black Americans are no more likely than Whites to use illicit drugs, they are 6–10 times more likely to be incarcerated for drug offenses. Meanwhile, a very different system for responding to the drug use of Whites has emerged. This article uses the recent history of White opioids – the synthetic opiates such as OxyContin® that gained notoriety starting in the 1990s in connection with epidemic prescription medication abuse among White, suburban and rural Americans and Suboxone® that came on the market as an addiction treatment in the 2000s – to show how American drug policy is racialized, using the lesser known lens of decriminalized White drugs. Examining four ‘technologies of whiteness’ (neuroscience, pharmaceutical technology, legislative innovation and marketing), we trace a separate system for categorizing and disciplining drug use among Whites. This less examined ‘White drug war’ has carved out a less punitive, clinical realm for Whites where their drug use is decriminalized, treated primarily as a biomedical disease, and where their whiteness is preserved, leaving intact more punitive systems that govern the drug use of people of color.

This essay introduces a special issue focused on “Other Bandungs,” which moves away from the focus on the high diplomacy of the 1955 Bandung conference to examine other conferences and gatherings across the Afro-Asian world. These gatherings speak to a broader participation of activists, intellectuals, cultural figures, and political leaders in the Afro-Asian moment. This collection thus disrupts hard divisions between state and non-state and warring Cold War blocs, while pointing to the changing social dynamics of internationalism in the Afro-Asian world. This essay points to the material dimensions enhancing and undermining transnational activity, from air travel and passport restrictions to the political economy of conference financing and Cold War patronage. Taken together, this essay frames these articles as an interconnected story of the multiple pulls of cultural and intellectual traffic in the post-colonial era.

The rise of globalization and the advent of Internet gave birth to a new science model in which national systems compete for a place in a global communication network where their products could circulate and gain notoriety. Several studies have been carried out to assess national performance in such network, particularly in terms of scientific research output and collaboration networks. However, academic journals in specific disciplines have not received the same attention. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the evolution of journal prestige in terms of country and region of origin in the field of environmental engineering in SCImago Journal and Rank database during 1999–2022. It was found that Western countries and private publishers still dominate the discipline in 2022. The United Kingdom, the United States, and the Netherlands housed 51.16% of journals in 2022. Also, corporate publishers with headquarters in these countries own most of the journals, particularly in the top tier. Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis had a total 54 journals indexed in 2022, and 65.9% of journals rank in the first quartile belonged to these groups. However, Poland, China, and Iran have become major players. By 2022, they had 12, 10, and 7 environmental engineering journals indexed in SCImago Journal and Country Rank, and China and Iran’s journals have been ranked as Q1.

For centuries, Gujarat has been known for its long distance trade across the seas. During the colonial times, the textile mill industry gradually developed in Ahmedabad and the city was known as ‘the Manchester of India’. However, for the past few decades, the city has also achieved notoriety for communal violence and the resultant loss of lives and property. This violence has also altered the morphology of the city leading to liminal spaces which are zones of dispossession and contestation. This paper focuses on Juhapura, located at the western extremity of Ahmedabad on the National Highway leading towards Saurashtra. It was a sparsely populated area to begin with but the situation drastically changed after the horrific communal riots of 1969. The beleaguered Muslim population of the city drifted towards Juhapura as a place of refuge as periodic bouts of violence plagued the city. Gradually, Juhapura got the dubious distinction as the largest ‘Muslim Ghetto’ in India. Despite residing in a rapidly globalizing city, the residents of Juhapura occupy a ‘disturbed zone of citizenship’ wherein the state is conspicuous by its absence. After a brief historical discussion on the lived spaces of Ahmedabad, the present study will focus on Juhapura which exists as a state of exception, wherein the everyday lives of the people are a struggle to survive, and a sense of precarity prevails as there is a conscious and continuous denial of rights in both subjective and material forms. Located on the periphery of the state-citizen relationship, dispossession is embedded in the habitus of Juhapura.

Intentional language creation is a mainstay of the modern world, having gained widespread notoriety in popular television shows and films, and even finding a home in academia in the form of undergraduate courses on invented languages. In this paper, we argue that constructed languages deserve more careful consideration than they currently receive either inside or outside academia. We provide guidelines for developing evaluative criteria to be used with constructed languages of various types and ask readers, whether academics or not, to consider the role they play as audience and critics in the unfolding of a new art form: the art of language invention.

La auctoritas de un escritor, entendida como prestigio entre los pares, constituye un modo de reconocimiento social que es necesario distinguir de la notoriedad o visibilidad pública. Me propongo mostrar que la auctoritas así entendida es un bien relacional que surge en el ámbito de la sociabilidad privada, y comprobar los motivos y modos de otorgarla. El análisis de la correspondencia del escritor Carlos Pujol (Barcelona, 1936-2012) con los también escritores Ramón Carnicer, Vintilǎ Horia, José Luís Olaizola y Manuel Longares revela que los motivos por los que se atribuye auctoritas a la imagen de autor de Pujol se alimentan de los valores literarios y personales compartidos entre los corresponsales. Auctoritas, understood as prestige among peers, is a from of social recognition that should not be confused with notoriety or public visibility. I intend to show that auctoritas thus defined is a relational benefit that arises in the sphere of private sociability. Through an analysis of the correspondence of the writer Carlos Pujol (Barcelona, 1936-2012) with fellow writers Ramón Carnicer, Vintilǎ Horia, José Luís Olaizola and Manuel Longares, I also hope to show what motivates auctoritas and the ways in which it is granted to Pujol by his peers.

During the 2000s, the Ica region, located on the Peruvian coast, gained notoriety as the main stage of what the media and politicians called the \"agricultural export miracle.\" The exponential growth of nontraditional exports that ensued, along with the rising importance of the agroindustry in generating foreign currency, led to the emergence of an agribusiness elite as an important new social actor. Through a range of strategies aimed at consolidating and expanding its power over state and nonstate actors, the agribusiness elite has been able to overexploit scarce groundwater resources in the pursuit of economic growth without opposition. Thus, the question that guides this article is, how did the agribusiness elite secure access to valuable groundwater resources to the verge of depletion despite the attempts of regional and local authorities to regulate water use? Based on a political ecology perspective, I argue that a political settlement between the agribusiness elite, certain state sectors, and local actors, based on a shared neoliberal development discourse, has laid the foundations for the agribusiness elite to concentrate its hydropower in the region. In developing this argument, I analyze the elite's strategies to reproduce the different dimension of hydropower as well as the fragmented and sometimes contradictory political positioning of different state agencies. This article contributes to the literature by unpacking the extractivist state and the elite's strategies to reproduce its hydrosocial power.

Gambling tourism is a subject that has been gaining a lot of interest and notoriety over the last two decades. Push and pull factors have for long been the backbone of tourism studies and this research seeks to expound on this theory within the area of casinos. In this study, 1383 google reviews from five different countries in coastal Europe: Casino Vila Moura, Algarve (Portugal), Casino Barrière Le Croisette, Cannes (France), Casino de Monte-Carlo, (Monaco), Casino Malta, (Malta), and Regency Casino Thessaloniki, (Greece) were analyzed with the software Leximancer. The main objective of this study was to identify the concepts in the reviews and then pinpoint what push and pull factor these concepts belonged to and how important this was when choosing a casino destination in Europe. The results highlight the importance of the pull factor while choosing a destination and reveals that gamers seek mainly table games as they attract both players and other tourists who tend to gather around the tables to watch. Among the greatest push-factors is the excitement of winning money in slot machines. Findings also demonstrate that casinos located in Europe offer world-class gambling services that are both engaging and fun to engage in. This study adds to earlier research by employing the push and pull motivation framework within the area of casinos based on user-generated content.