Journal Articles

The Appearance of the Rural in China's Tourism

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

The Appearance of the Rural in China's Tourism Chio Jenny State-led programs for rural development through tourism serve to reaffirm and reinstate rural spaces as the ideal periphery, a desirable and attractive ¿decorative edge. to the modern, contemporary Chinese nation. By tracing the ways in which tourism development both centralizes the necessity of modernizing rural regions for the nation as a whole while simultaneously emphasizing the ¿otherness. of rural communities in order to promote them as tourist attractions, in this essay I seek to understand how ¿the rural. appears in Chinese tourism as a vital concern of the state by characterizing what is rural as increasingly different and distant in order to satisfy perceived tourist desires. In particular, the Chinese state represents village-based tourism projects through discourses of distance that render ¿the rural. both absolutely critical to national processes of development and fundamentally peripheral to modern conditions.

Animated Documentary and the Scene of Death: Experiencing Waltz with Bashir

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Animated Documentary and the Scene of Death: Experiencing Waltz with Bashir Schlunke Katrina When brought together in the animated documentary, animation with its tradition of comic storytelling and gothic graphic fiction and the documentary film with its tradition of ¿realism¿ create new possibilities for understanding the relationship between spectatorship and memory. In this form memory and reality are volatile and changeable, yet believable. In the Israeli film Waltz with Bashir (dir. Ari Folman, 2008), the animated form of the bulk of the film is ultimately juxtaposed with television footage and still shots of the massacre within the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. The film's final sequence of live footage, some of which would have appeared on most of our television screens across the world, makes of those passing seconds a death scene. As a ¿death scene¿ we see again but really for the first time the horror and the miracle of survival. The preceding animation with its intertwining flows of dreams and reality not only interrogates but enacts how memory can be seen.

Grappling With Cultural Differences; Communication Between Oncologists And Immigrant Cancer Patients With And Without Interpreters

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Grappling With Cultural Differences; Communication Between Oncologists And Immigrant Cancer Patients With And Without Interpreters Butow P.; Bell M.; Goldstein D.; Sze M.; Aldridge L.; Abdo S.; Mikhail M.; Dong S.; Iedema Roderick; Ashgari R.; Hui Ron; Eisenbruch M. Objective: Immigrants report challenges communicating with their health team. This study compared oncology consultations of immigrants with and without interpreters vs Anglo-Australian patients. Methods: Patients with newly diagnosed incurable cancer who had immigrated from Arabic, Chinese or Greek speaking countries or were Anglo-Australian, and family members, were recruited from 10 medical oncologists in 9 hospitals. Two consultations from each patient were audio-taped, transcribed, translated into English and coded. Results: Seventy-eight patients (47 immigrant and 31 Anglo-Australian) and 115 family members (77 immigrant and 38 Anglo Australian) participated in 141 audio-taped consultations. Doctors spoke less to immigrants with interpreters than to Anglo-Australians (1443 vs. 2246 words, p = 0.0001), spent proportionally less time on cancer related issues (p = 0.005) and summarising and informing (p <= 0.003) and more time on other medical issues (p = 0.0008) and directly advising (p = 0.0008). Immigrants with interpreters gave more high intensity cues (10.4 vs 7.4). Twenty percent of cues were not interpreted. Doctors tended to delay responses to or ignore more immigrant than Anglo-Australian cues (13% vs 5%, p = 0.06). Conclusions: Immigrant cancer patients with interpreters experience different interactions with their doctors than Anglo-Australians, which may compromise their well-being and decisions. Practice implications: Guidelines and proven training programmes are needed to improve communication with immigrant patients, particularly those with interpreters.

Fractured Bodies and Diseased Societies: Medicalizing Quebec in Cite Libre

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Fractured Bodies and Diseased Societies: Medicalizing Quebec in Cite Libre Robert Julie This essay seeks to rationalize and explain the evolution of medical rhetoric in Cité libre by looking at trends in the journal's use of tropes of illness and disease. Through a combination of broad content analysis and close readings, it contrasts how individual metaphors create the impression of a sickening nation and the manner in which these metaphors collectively, albeit paradoxically, act as a national allegory of cure for mid-twentieth-century Quebec's social ills in general, and specifically for its pathological inferiority complex. By examining how the journal uses medical metaphors and specifically how the writers employed the trope of the body politic to illustrate Quebec's national failings, the essay demonstrates how Quebec challenges the rhetorical stability of the age-old metaphor as it attempts to solve, but also creates, problems within Quebec's articulation of its own nationhood.