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Introduction to Special Issue: How Research Reform in Psychology Can Influence Professional School Psychology

This special issue features essays by prominent scholars in school psychology discussing how shifts in research can reshape the future training and practice of the field. A profession that evolves and adapts indicates a robust and dynamic discipline. However, staying current with these changes poses a significant challenge. Given the pivotal role of evidence-based practices in school psychology, the type and quality of research directly influence how psychological services are delivered and practiced. Reforming research practices in psychology can serve as a catalyst for enhancing our field. This issue presents a variety of viewpoints on how research and clinical practice intersect in a rapidly changing landscape.

Introduction to the suite: The Child as Reader, Philosopher, and Social Critic: Evaluating the Vision of Gareth B. Matthews

Abstract Gareth B. Matthews (1929–2011) was a specialist in ancient and medieval philosophy whose conversations with young children led him to discover their penchant for philosophical thinking, which often enriched his own. Those conversations became the impetus for a substantial component of Matthews’ scholarship, from which our book, Gareth B. Matthews, The Child’s Philosopher, features essays spanning the length of his career. Contemporary contributors to the book critically evaluate Matthews’ scholarship in three fields he helped to initiate: philosophy in children’s literature, philosophy for children, and philosophy of childhood. They assess where he broke new ground and identify developments and debates in those fields. In the reviews that follow, Harry Brighouse, David Bakhurst, and Sheron Fraser-Burgess respond to Matthews’ original essays and those of the contemporary scholars. While recognizing Matthews’ significant contribution to advancing philosophy in the lives of children, all three reviewers indicate ways to push his agenda forward. We read Brighouse as calling for engagement with philosophy in media (including television and film) beyond classical and contemporary children’s literature. Bakhurst explicitly calls for further empirical study of children’s philosophical thinking to support more realistic conceptions of childhood and philosophy—including when philosophy might not be appropriate for children. Fraser-Burgess calls for an accounting of the ways that philosophy for children may reinscribe unjust hierarchies of race, gender, and culture, and of the ways it can be used to confront and combat them.

The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures by Francesca Orsini, Neelam Srivastava, and Laetitia Zecchini, eds.

<i>The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures</i> by Francesca Orsini, Neelam Srivastava, and Laetitia Zecchini, eds.

Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema ed. by Carolyn Fornoff and Gisela Heffes

Reviewed by: Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema ed. by Carolyn Fornoff and Gisela Heffes Micah Mckay Fornoff, Carolyn and Gisela Heffes, eds. Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema. State U of New York Press, 2021. xiii + 361 pp. ISBN 978-1-4384-8404-4. What can the consummately human medium of film—movies are, of course, made by and for human beings—tell us about the needs, perspectives, and realities of nonhuman beings? And what can film do to interrogate its own seemingly inherent anthropocentrism? These are two of the fundamental questions addressed in Carolyn Fornoff and Gisela Heffes's edited volume Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema, the first book to bring to bear the preoccupations of ecocriticism, new materialism, and posthumanism on the study of Latin American film and an essential contribution to the burgeoning field of environmentally-minded Latin American cultural studies. To name just one other recent example, Lucy Bollington and Paul Merchant's edited volume Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human (2020) shares with Pushing Past the Human the desire to show how Latin American cultural texts can help us see beyond the notion of the human in order to better understand our place in the larger web of life. But, as Fornoff and Heffes put it in the introduction to their volume, this emerging critical enterprise highlights the fact that the epistemological move "beyond the human" does not mean leaving the human or human concerns behind; rather, it "warn[s] against losing sight of the human altogether" and "dramatiz[es] the inextricability of planetary care and social justice" (12). The productive tension between human and nonhuman concerns, social justice and planetary care, is one of the elements that gives Pushing Past the Human a sense of coherence and a sense of urgency in the context of ongoing and ever-accelerating environmental crises that are exacting heavy ecological and social tolls. Pushing Past the Human gathers together fifteen essays (including the introduction) written by scholars whose institutional homes are largely found in universities in the Unites States and Europe. Fornoff and Heffes's introduction makes a clear and concise argument for cinema's unique ability to allow viewers to consider the world beyond anthropocentric perspectives through technological innovations and filmmaking techniques that disrupt human timescales and represent ecological relationships that are difficult for the human sensorium to fully grasp. What is more, Fornoff and Heffes make a compelling case for the ability of Latin American cinema in particular to intervene in the theoretical and political debates of ecocriticism and posthumanism due to the region's history of colonialism, its experience of extractive capitalism, and the various modes of decolonial, and posthumanist thought that those experiences have given rise to (they engage, for instance, with Macarena Gómez-Barris's notion of "submerged perspectives" and Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's distillation of Indigenous people's experiences of the end of the world). In addition to providing a solid theoretical grounding for the volume, the introduction offers useful information about the development of ecocinema in Latin America and the wide array of film festivals that showcase it. The volume's other fourteen essays are divided into three thematic sections that address questions of cinematic genre, the staging of human/nonhuman difference, and [End Page 162] indigeneity. The first of these, "Genre Beyond the Human," features essays on the road movie, disaster films, documentary, and slow cinema. By paying close attention to the conventions of each of these genres (and the ways the films each author studies push against those conventions), these chapters offer valuable insights on, for example, the damages wrought by extractivism in the Brazilian Amazon (Patrícia Vieira) and the way cinematic depictions of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake are paradigmatic examples of Anthropocene cultural texts because they stage the interaction between deep time and human history in a way that complicates clear distinctions between "natural" and "human-made" catastrophes (Fornoff). The five chapters in "Encountering Difference," the volume's second section, engage with portrayals of animals raised for slaughter, the vibrant materiality of objects in film animation, lush rural landscapes...

EcoGothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Phantoms, Fantasy and Uncanny Flowers, edited by Sue Edney

Reviewed by: EcoGothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Phantoms, Fantasy and Uncanny Flowers ed. by Sue Edney Lindsay Wells (bio) EcoGothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Phantoms, Fantasy and Uncanny Flowers, edited by Sue Edney; pp. xviii + 217. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020, £85.00. EcoGothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Phantoms, Fantasy and Uncanny Flowers begins its analysis of horticulture, literature, and environmental thought by questioning the apparent incompatibility of its objects of study: the orderly garden and the chaotic Gothic. As editor Sue Edney observes in her introduction to the volume, the “human dominance” that seemingly defines horticultural space starts to dissipate when viewed through the lens of the Gothic—an expressive mode that “allows us to question human ability to control events, people or even places.” The essays that comprise this collection explore this process from a diverse range of perspectives, from landscape studies and history of science to new materialism and the plant humanities. Each chapter brings fresh attention to the ecological and Gothic undercurrents of nineteenth-century gardens, resulting in a compelling exposition of not only the term ecoGothic, but also the “uncanny deeds and presences” that haunt the archives of horticultural history (1). As its title suggests, this volume connects recent ecocritical readings of Gothic narrative to both real and imaginary gardens of the nineteenth century. While the book features essays on German and American literature, the majority of its chapters concentrate on British texts, with a particular emphasis on Victorian fiction. The project builds on Andrew Smith and William Hughes’s edited collection Ecogothic (2013), as well as the 2014 special issue of Gothic Studies (1999–present) on the same subject. The contributors to Edney’s volume take these earlier studies in new directions by identifying the garden as a vital component of the ecoGothic paradigm, which interprets monstrosity, repression, and other Gothic motifs from an environmental angle. The prominence of uncanny plants and landscapes in British culture comes into clear focus throughout this collection, with each author demonstrating the ways in which nineteenth-century gardens afford thought-provoking explorations of the natural world. One of the key contributions that EcoGothic Gardens makes to Victorian studies is the link it forges between new materialism and critical plant studies—two schools of thought with a shared interest in the nonhuman. The impact of new materialism and material ecocriticism on recent analyses of Victorian culture has been significant, and many of the contributors to EcoGothic Gardens engage with this discourse. Shelley Saguaro, for instance, reads the gardens in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter” (1844) and The Blithedale Romance (1852) alongside Donna Haraway’s concept of the Chthulucene. In a similar respect, Teresa Fitzpatrick connects Stacy Alaimo’s work on trans-corporeality to carnivorous plant fiction from the fin de siècle. Other chapters, meanwhile, draw on insights from Jane Bennett, Karen Barad, Serenella Iovino, and Serpil Oppermann. EcoGothic Gardens sustains the ongoing exchange between new materialism and Victorian studies, yet it also embraces related scholarship on the animacy of plants. Several of the book’s contributors engage with Dawn Keetley and Angela Tenga’s work on plant horror, Monica Gagliano’s research on vegetal communication, and Michael Marder’s theories on plants and philosophy. EcoGothic Gardens demonstrates the ways in which reinterpretations of material and vegetal vibrancy might be brought into productive dialogue with one another, especially when dealing with Victorian horticulture. [End Page 720] Even the most regimented of gardens examined in this book threaten to undermine the will of their human caretakers with a vegetal vitality that exceeds all control. In her essay on the early-nineteenth-century fiction of Joseph von Eichendorff and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heather I. Sullivan refines the concept of the ecoGothic into what she terms “the ‘Gothic green,’” or instances when “the human is, in some way, subsumed by vegetal forces” (17). The collaboration (and confrontation) between human and vegetal agents in gardens continually resurfaces throughout this book, including Edney’s chapter on Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Mariana” (1830) and Maud (1855). “In gardens,” Edney writes, “nature and culture are conspirators as well as co-workers” (168). This observation lies at the conceptual...

Feminist publishing against the pandemic

ABSTRACT The special issue “Feminist Publishing Against the Pandemic” features essays from thirteen contributors whose work would have been presented at “FiMA2: Feminist Revolutions,” the second conference of the Feminist inter/Modernist Association (FiMA), originally scheduled for Spring 2020, rescheduled, and eventually canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. By soliciting snapshot essays of no more than 2000 words, the editors of the issue are able to showcase a wide range of feminist modernist scholarship in danger of being lost due to the constraints of the pandemic and a profession in crisis. Authors included in the special issue engage with modern women writers, artists, and culture-makers who navigated their own constraints such as fighting for suffrage, managing domestic and professional commitments, responding to two world wars, and continuing feminist work in the post-war years. This collection of essays highlights vibrancy and complexity in the field of feminist modernist scholarship.

New Framing for Familiar Topics

Book reviews and feature essays in this issue of the Civil War Book Review touch on familiar topics—emancipation, Lincoln’s relationship to African Americans, the Civil War in an international context, commander biographies, Civil War unit histories, gender, southern culture, and Civil War era literature. However, the essays and books featured herein approach these familiar topics from new angles and, as a result, provide fresh insight into otherwise standard subjects.

Editorial Introduction: Toward Care, Healing, and Justice

Editorial Introduction:Toward Care, Healing, and Justice Patti Duncan As we near the end of 2022, I'm delighted to introduce this latest issue of Feminist Formations. A special highlight of this issue is a Dossier featuring writings about Hil Malatino's influential text, Trans Care, curated by Jack Jen Gieseking and David A. Rubin. This exciting body of work features essays by Jules Gill-Peterson, Andrea J. Pitts, Jack Jen Gieseking, Rox Samer, Cameron Awkward-Rich, David A. Rubin, Davy Knittle, and Elliott Fukui and Christoph Hanssmann. In their introduction to the Dossier, Gieseking and Rubin describe Trans Care as a central text in the emerging field of trans studies, describing the way the book engages trans care webs, and the writers of the dossier essays respond to the text expressing their own forms of trans care. About the pieces in the dossier, Gieseking and Rubin write: "Each reading offers manifold insights for trans scholarship, trans teaching, trans collegiality, and even everyday trans lives. We structure the dossier to begin from our own geography: the academy. Then we wander across positions and disciplinary boundaries, fuzzy and otherwise, which Malatino perspicuously deems a form of 'sprawl' in his reply . . . [until we] finally arrive where so many us inevitably wind up for our survival: community-engaged activism." This movement and relation between the academy and community-engaged activism animates the dossier in important ways that help bring the ideas of trans care to life, and illuminate the many generative possibilities of theorizing and practicing trans care. Preceding the Dossier are five articles highlighting feminist themes including contemporary attacks on feminist and anti-racist research in higher education, decolonial practices in art and literature, responses to collective grief and trauma, and the gendered effects of the US-NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan. We begin with Liz Montegary's "Anti-Gender, Anti-University: 'Gender Ideology' and the Future of US Higher Education," in which Montegary critically examines the figure of Robert Oscar Lopez, a conservative "pro-family" former professor at a California public university. Through an analysis of the ways far right discourses such as those disseminated by Lopez increasingly attack feminist, queer, and anti-racist knowledge production in higher education, Montegary is attentive to both the "form and function" of conservative hostility toward the US academy. "To fully apprehend contemporary rightwing hostility toward the [End Page vii] academy," she writes, "we need to situate attacks on gender/sexuality and race/ ethnic studies with respect to the broader offensive on university-based research, particularly around migration, climate science, vaccinations, stem cells, and evolutionary theory." Needless to say, Montegary's article offers a timely response to current attacks on justice-based knowledge production, reminding us that such assaults—occurring in more and more places around the world—are both systemic and interconnected. Then, in "Earth Bodies as Re-Existence: Ana Mendieta's Siluetas Beyond the Limits of Ecofeminism," Jessica E. Jones considers Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta's relationship to ecofeminism through an analysis of her self-portraits in her 1973–1980 series, Siluetas. In the series Mendieta explored nonwestern cosmologies, centering Indigenous and African figures in her work. Jones draws on decolonial and postcolonial theories as well as critical race feminisms to give what she refers to as ontological weight to Mendieta's divergence from and interventions into white, mainstream feminisms. Relying on Adolfo Albán Achinte's notion of "re-existence," a concept underscoring the ways art can function as "a re-humanizing practice for the colonized," Jones reads Mendieta as "enacting an aesthetics of re-existence, working to decolonize her own being through art by 're-member[ing]' the negated—female, Black, Indigenous, and earthly—dimensions of her existence in the Americas through her Siluetas." In "Communicating Felt Knowledge to Decolonize #MeToo: A Native Feminist Approach to the Sherman Alexie Allegations," Cortney Smith intervenes into dominant narratives of the #MeToo movement by delving into the sexual harassment allegations leveled against Sherman Alexie through a close textual reading of two essays by Indigenous feminist authors. Through an analysis of Deborah A. Miranda's "Inmate #A-93223: In the San Quentin of My Mind" and Tracy Rector's "Best of 2018: Female Native Authors...

Definitely individual thoughts about the Belügyi Szemle on the seventieth anniversary

Founded in 1953 and now in its seventieth year, the jubilee edition of the academic journal Belügyi Szemle, entitled "70 years, 70 thoughts", features essays by invited authors.

The jubilee elements of sport policing

Founded in 1953 and now in its seventieth year, the jubilee edition of the academic journal Belügyi Szemle, entitled "70 years, 70 thoughts", features essays by invited authors.

Beginner's luck and Belügyi Szemle as the jackpot

Founded in 1953 and now in its seventieth year, the jubilee edition of the academic journal Belügyi Szemle, entitled "70 years, 70 thoughts", features essays by invited authors.

"70 years 70 thoughts"

Founded in 1953 and now in its seventieth year, the jubilee edition of the academic journal Belügyi Szemle, entitled "70 years, 70 thoughts", features essays by invited authors.

The impact of jurisprudence on the practice of law

Founded in 1953 and now in its seventieth year, the jubilee edition of the academic journal Belügyi Szemle, entitled "70 years, 70 thoughts", features essays by invited authors.

70 years of Belügyi Szemle versus 35 years of home affairs service

Founded in 1953 and now in its seventieth year, the jubilee edition of the academic journal Belügyi Szemle, entitled "70 years, 70 thoughts", features essays by invited authors.

"The sum of yesterday's and today's experiences is a lot but it is not everything for tomorrow" - For the 70th Anniversary of Belügyi Szemle

Founded in 1953 and now in its seventieth year, the jubilee edition of the academic journal Belügyi Szemle, entitled "70 years, 70 thoughts", features essays by invited authors.

About the value of humanity

Founded in 1953 and now in its seventieth year, the jubilee edition of the academic journal Belügyi Szemle, entitled "70 years, 70 thoughts", features essays by invited authors.

As an old-fashioned law professor - about modern things

Founded in 1953 and now in its seventieth year, the jubilee edition of the academic journal Belügyi Szemle, entitled "70 years, 70 thoughts", features essays by invited authors.

How old is the Belügyi Szemle?

Founded in 1953 and now in its seventieth year, the jubilee edition of the academic journal Belügyi Szemle, entitled "70 years, 70 thoughts", features essays by invited authors.

Through the eyes of the reader

Founded in 1953 and now in its seventieth year, the jubilee edition of the academic journal Belügyi Szemle, entitled "70 years, 70 thoughts", features essays by invited authors.

The echo of the alarm bell. The perspectives for law enforcement officer training

Founded in 1953 and now in its seventieth year, the jubilee edition of the academic journal Belügyi Szemle, entitled "70 years, 70 thoughts", features essays by invited authors.