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Editorial. The hard, but rewarding, work of collaborating across sectors - dance in cross-sectoral educational collaborations

This special issue is motivated by a firm belief that cross-sectoral educational collaborations are needed and have value. In response to the recognised gap in research addressing the possibilities and challenges inherent in cross-sectoral educational collaborations, we initiated this special issue. We invited research contributions focusing on dance within cross-sectoral educational collaborations, encompassing schools, teacher education institutions, and other formal or informal educational institutions as the contextual backdrop. As we initiated the special issue, we pondered around a myriad of questions: how do teachers, teacher educators, and/or teacher candidates organise, develop, implement, and carry out collaborations with external choreographers, professional dancers, and/or dance teachers? How do collaborative planning, pre-workshops among participants, or other preparatory actions before the actual school, teacher education, or other educational institution practice support transformational mutuality? How and why do obstacles, friction, and tension arise, and how are they solved in dance in cross-sectoral educational collaborations? Furthermore, how might dance in cross-sectoral educational collaborations critically challenge stereotypical views on knowledge or uneven power distribution among participants in different positions in cross-sectoral collaborations? How do collaborations with other arts fields influence, support, or complicate dance in cross-sectoral educational collaborations? Additionally, we contemplated the integration of dance and technology in cross-sectoral educational collaborations and how these two domains can complement each other. The eight peer-reviewed articles included in the special issue touch on and contribute knowledge in response to these, and more, questions. We warmly invite readers to actively immerse themselves in these articles, as each presents a unique viewpoint and profound insights into the complex landscape of dance in cross-sectoral educational collaborations. In doing so, we hope to ignite a passion for this important topic, inspiring transformative and collaborative approaches to dance education.

Editorial

Welcome to the first issue of the Australasian Journal of Gifted Education for 2023. Demonstrating the global interest in, and the international impact of, the journal, we have in this issue contributions from scholars based in Jordan, Isreal, and New Zealand, representing various institutions in these countries (i.e., Al al-Bayt University, Tel Aviv University, University of Canterbury, Waikato University, and the New Zealand Ministry of Education). Each of the articles that appear in the issue touch upon different aspects of gifted education, that will no doubt stimulate thought and discussion, and inform practices to more optimally support gifted students in the future.

Documentary film as memory/memento mori in Aslaug Holm’s Brothers (Brødre)

ABSTRACT Seeing documentary film as an object for remembering and resurrecting the past is a complex issue touching upon questions pertaining to the ontology of photographic capturing, its ways of becoming an index, means of reinventing/fabricating the past through narrative and how such shared, cultural conventions impinge on the personal sphere, i.e. the singularity and authenticity of the experience preserved. While some past and present key media theorists regard such cinematization of memory as either a reduced or falsified form of pastness, I argue, employing Edward S. Casey’s influential phenomenological study of mnemonic modes and taking Aslaug Holm’s (auto)biographical documentary Brothers (Brødre, 2015) as an outstanding example, that documentary as an object perceived by a specific (not abstracted) consciousness is multiple and functions as a virtual reservoir for potential complex acts of memory to occur – it enlivens, not reduces one’s engagement with the past. Brothers is seen as both a form of reminiscence vehicle and commemoration vehicle. I furthermore identify a new mode of memory manifest in the film, not discussed by Casey, and its related object – anterior reminding and memento mori – which preserves the past and alludes to the future, this way determining what that past shall have been.

Modern slavery and the accounting profession

This first paper in the Special Issue on “Modern slavery and the accounting profession” considers how various branches and functions of the accounting profession in business operations and supply chains are implicated by the move to end modern slavery. Accounting has always been involved with slavery practices. When slavery was legal, accounting focused on reporting slaves as assets and expenses in the accounts. In these more humane times, now that ownership of slaves is illegal, the accounting profession has different functional responsibilities towards modern slavery. These include external reporting in line with and above and beyond requirements of legislation; internal management accounting to build awareness and support planning, control and decision making to reduce modern slavery risk and look for opportunities from mitigation; and audit and assurance to ensure credibility of claims made by business. The papers presented in this Special Issue touch upon some of the key aspects of the connection between modern slavery and management control systems, corporate disclosures and the historical role of professional auditors/the accounting profession, but much remains to be achieved in the research agenda ahead.

Exploring the boundaries of Nordic journalism: Introduction to special issue

Keeping journalism socially relevant and financially viable is more challenging than ever. It might seem like a paradox, but in a time when news media is challenged by inadequate business models, precarious labor conditions and competition from platform companies, and contested by populist politicians, the public is consuming more news than ever before. The changing media landscape, technological platforms and structural conditions are influencing journalism, its practices and its roles in everyday life, society, culture, and politics—central topics when communication scholars gather at international and national conferences dedicated to media and communication research.
 The NordMedia Conference 2021 was arranged in the midst of an ongoing pandemic. It was supposed to be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, but was ultimately held virtually. Naturally, the topics tended to focus on how journalists were covering the pandemic, but they also included studies on truth, disinformation and facts as well as technology in journalism in the form of AI and automation. The presenters were later invited to participate in this special issue, which celebrates Nordic scholarship and the Journalistica journal.
 In this issue, we bring together three studies that each illustrate the current developments within Nordic journalism research along with a book review of a book on political communication in the Nordics.
 Ethics and trust are common threads that run through the three articles published in this special issue of Journalistica. The articles cover very different topics—from podcasting as a genre, alternative media and comment moderation to ethics in local news media — and ethics and trust are recurring themes in the discussions. What constitutes as news today is increasingly blurred as it mixes with commercial content (influencers and content marketing — commercial genres that look like news), opinions (comments appearing as news) or false and manipulated content (fake news or disinformation). Many people, especially young adults, get their news from social media, and the newsfeed does not differentiate between different types of content. News from respected newsrooms has the same design as rumors from a suspicious website. Thus, users have to pay more attention to differentiate between the trustworthiness of the information.
 This blurring of content and genres is challenging for journalism’s trustworthiness. The articles in this special issue touch on some of the challenges appearing as a result of this blurring despite the long tradition of strong ethical guidelines for journalism in Nordic newsrooms. Nevertheless, the users of Nordic news are still demonstrating high levels of trust, among the highest in the 45 countries of the Reuters Digital News Report 2022 track. Finnish news users report the highest trust in news (69%), particularly the news they use (75%), followed by Denmark (58%/63%), Norway (56%/63%), and Sweden (50%/56%). Iceland was not included in Reuters’ survey.
 One factor that can help maintain and strengthen trust in news in the Nordic countries is strong ethical practices in newsrooms. Since the early 20th century, Nordic newsrooms and journalism organizations have developed ethical guidelines for journalism that are continually updated to reflect developments in the profession and society at large:
 
 Norway:​​Code of Ethics for the Norwegian Press 
 Sweden: Rules of Professional Conduct
 Denmark: Press Ethical Rules 
 Finland: Guidelines for Journalists
 Iceland: Rules of Ethics in Journalism
 
 Ethical guidelines and their practical implementation in the newsrooms can help Nordic journalists navigate the challenges emerging from the changing media landscape, competition from technological platforms and structural conditions influencing journalism. The articles in this special issue of Journalistica each offer a unique contribution to address some of these challenges.

In the shadow of settlement – the Israeli Progressive Scholars’ critical analyses of the decision-making policies of the Israeli Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice

This article, drawing heavily on Kretzmer’s and Ronen’s newly edited and expanded book, analyses the approaches of the Israeli Supreme Court (SC) to petitions relating to the occupied Palestinian territories. Its purpose is to examine how the SC’s judicial policies can be considered to cohere with the demands of international humanitarian law (IHL) of occupation and those of international human rights law (IHRL). After dwelling on some interpretive issues relating to Article 43 of the Hague Regulations, this article classifies three salient patterns of the SC’s judicial policies: (1) the SC’s approach of applying very controversial interpretations in some areas; (2) its judicial policy based on the mixture of restrictive interpretations and some liberal tendencies in other areas; and (3) its willingness to develop in yet other areas some pioneeringly progressive jurisprudence, which can provide lessons even for the monitoring bodies of IHRL. This article shows that as with Kretzmer and Ronen, the SC’s controversially deferential stance tends to be discernible whenever issues touch on the right-wing Israeli government’s policies of settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories and on the rights of Israeli settlers in those territories. These issues provide the invisible barriers to any progressive potentials of the SC’s judicial policies.

Slavery, lived realities, and the decolonisation of forced migration histories: An interview with Dr Portia Owusu

Abstract Academic institutions in the global North have historically claimed leadership in the production of high-quality scholarship. As such, it is their work that often informs pedagogical materials in secondary and tertiary education worldwide. This dominance has serious cultural impacts. At the very least, it positions Western academics as ‘custodians’ of knowledge with the ability to influence what is taught and how it is taught. Within this framework, learning is politicised, and the teaching of subjects such as history, becomes a space of contention. These issues touch on the aim of the Southern Responses to Displacement from Syria (SRD) project, financed by the European Research Council (grant agreement no. 715582) and led by Professor Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh in the Migration Research Unit at University College London. In particular, it aligns with the project’s goal to explore a multi-directional approach to knowledge production and to centralise the experience of displaced peoples and actors from the global South in scholarship. The Research Associate Dr Estella Carpi discussed slavery as an ignored form of forced migration with Dr Portia Owusu, Assistant Professor of English Literature at Texas A&M. The SRD team’s conversation with Dr Owusu, indeed, endeavours to rethink mainstream forced migration studies and rather engages with neglected—and, at times, silenced—epistemologies of forced migration.

Editors’ Note

Editors’ Note

PLACE OF CANTILLON THEORIES IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: “Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général”, published in 1730, became the basis for formulating economic theories of Hume, Smith and the physiocrats, as well as for the works of Knight and Mises. The aim of the article is to present the economic issues touch on in the essay against the background of the review of the relevant literature in the field of economic theory, as well as the possibility of transforming economic models into practical structures shaping the economic views of future generations.
 THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: Theoretical issues were confronted with economic knowledge among sample N=600 in 2016-2020. The chi-square (χ2) test was used to test the existence of statistical significance between gender and the understanding of the importance of economic issues.
 THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The sample has shown lack of basic knowledge in the economic filed in the aspect of university economic courses. At the same time, only those surveyed who are active on the labour market as entrepreneurs, perceive the need to raise qualifications and make complete knowledge in the examined subject.
 RESEARCH RESULTS: Cantillon in his essay focuses on the "economic aspects of human action”. The results of studies conducted at the university have shown, that their basic knowledge in the field of economic sciences is at an unsatisfactory level.
 CONCLUSION, INNOVATIONS AND RECOMENDATIONS: Contemporary economics omits the entrepreneur in economic models and in the relevant literature. However, it is a key link, directly affecting both, micro and macroeconomic indicators. The connections and mutual influences described by Cantillon are favourable to thoroughly understanding of economic phenomena in real, economies world. This knowledge should be disseminated not only for better economic estimation, but also for a better understanding of events occurring in the world and the results of their implications.

Editorial

We are pleased to introduce the first issue of 2020, which comprises six articles, two book reviews and a manifesto. The contributions of this issue touch on a range of topics that demonstrate the diversity of communication research.

Co-Editors' Messages

</br>![][1]</img> Another impressive issue of the Forum is here! Our members have truly shown that COVID-19 will not slow them down. Jeff and I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all contributors—your support is invaluable to keep the Forum moving forward and minimize the impact of the

Digital pills: a scoping review of the empirical literature and analysis of the ethical aspects

BackgroundDigital Pills (DP) are an innovative drug-device technology that permits to combine traditional medications with a monitoring system that automatically records data about medication adherence as well as patients’ physiological data. Although DP are a promising innovation in the field of digital medicine, their use has also raised a number of ethical concerns. These ethical concerns, however, have been expressed principally from a theoretical perspective, whereas an ethical analysis with a more empirically oriented approach is lacking. There is also a lack of clarity about the empirical evidence available concerning the application of this innovative digital medicine.MethodsTo map the studies where DP have been tested on patients and discuss the ethically relevant issues evident therein, we performed a scoping review of the empirical literature concerning DP.ResultsOur search allowed us to identify 18 papers reporting on studies where DP were tested on patients. These included studies with different designs and involving patients with a variety of conditions. In the empirical literature, a number of issues with ethical relevance were evident. At the patient level, the ethical issues include users’ interaction with DP, personal sphere, health-related risks and patients’ benefits. At the provider level, ethically relevant issues touch upon the doctor-patient relationship and the question of data access. At the societal level, they concern the benefits to society, the quality of evidence and the dichotomy device-medicine.ConclusionsWe conclude that evidence concerning DP is not robust and that more research should be performed and study results made available to evaluate this digital medicine. Moreover, our analysis of the ethically relevant aspects within empirical literature underscores that there are concrete and specific open questions that should be tackled in the ethical discussion about this new technological solution.

Co-Editors' Messages

</br>![][1]</img> There are many great articles in this issue touching on a variety of topics. Gregory Williams's Spotlight highlights an important topic not often discussed: the vulnerable patient. This article is a salient reminder that we need to keep the best interest of the patients at the

A Religious Test in America?: New Sources on the 1809 Motion to Vacate Jacob Henry's North Carolina State Legislative Seat

During 1776, but prior to announcing the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress instructed the state legislatures to call conventions to draft constitutions to regularize their local state governments so that each could be administered in the name of the People and absent royal governors and royal officers. North Carolina heeded the revolutionary call—in 1776, it implemented a new constitution with a bill of rights. One interesting feature of the 1776 North Carolina Constitution was that Article 32 imposed a religious test. Article 32 stated: That no person, who shall deny the being of God or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine authority either of the Old or New Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State. Article 32’s religious test extended to four categories of persons. It extended to atheists, that is, those “who . . . deny the being of God.” It extended to non-Protestants, that is, those “who . . . deny . . . the truth of the Protestant religion.” It extended to non-Christians, that is, those “who . . . deny . . . the divine authority either of the Old or New Testaments.” And finally, it applied to an amorphous category of persons, that is, those “who . . . hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State.” A person falling in any of these four categories was not “capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State.” What the scope of this latter language is has been a matter of debate. This particular provision would remain on the books, and largely unenforced, until North Carolina revisited this issue during the 1835 North Carolina Constitutional Convention—which drafted proposed amendments, subsequently ratified by the People, to the 1776 North Carolina Constitution. Still, in 1809, there was one (apparent) attempt to enforce the religious test provision. In 1809, Jacob Henry was elected and qualified for a second annual term in North Carolina’s lower legislative house: the House of Commons. Henry was Jewish. On December 5, 1809, another member, Hugh C. Mills, put forward a motion to declare Henry’s seat vacant based on the 1776 North Carolina Constitution’s religious test. The next day, the Commons adjudicated the motion, and the motion failed. Henry kept his seat. The modern, postbellum tertiary literature relating to the 1809 motion to vacate Henry’s seat is largely based on an antebellum secondary literature: i.e., documents from the mid-1810s into the 1850s. Some of those early documents may have been part of the public debate surrounding reform of the 1776 North Carolina Constitution’s religious test, including debates on proposed amendments to reform or abolish Article 32 heard in the 1835 North Carolina Constitutional Convention. Some of those records carry good indicia of authenticity and reliability, as some of the 1835 participants had been part of the earlier 1809 drama. On the other hand, there is some reason to doubt the reliability of these records: they were created in light of debate surrounding ongoing political reform. Furthermore, these were not contemporaneous records—by 1835, when the state constitutional convention met, memories of 1809 might well have grown dim. In this short paper, I intend to summarize the standard narrative handed down to us from the 1830s, to illustrate how that narrative has been misunderstood (at least in part) by historians and other academics in more modern times, along with problems in that narrative. Next, I will put forward newly found records from December 1809 and early 1810 offering a significantly different account of what happened on the floor of the Commons on December 5 and 6, 1809. Having done so, I offer some personal reflections in regard to the difficulties surrounding legal history, particularly where (as here) the underlying historical issues touch on our deeply held moral and political intuitions, about the good society, and our common historical past.

Towards a deliberative approach in public health policy making

Abstract The time when public health policies could be based solely on expert opinion has gone. Public opinion has a real impact on the effectiveness of public health policy. However, for complex issues such as vaccination, screening, GMO’s, privacy and data governance, public opinion is divided. How to integrate divided public opinions into a well-structured health policy? In Belgium, as in many other countries, policy makers have started to turn to deliberative processes to guide policy making with citizen involvement, especially in ethically contentious areas. Deliberative processes aim to involve citizens in policy making in a setting where individual opinions and interests are weighed honestly and fairly, so that through well informed deliberation common ground can emerge. Participants are informed by a neutral information package, a variety of experts and facilitated discussions. In a very transparent way, these positions are molded into tailored policy inputs. In Belgium, such initiatives have recently been organized on biobanking, genomics, e-health, reimbursement policies and more. In France, the government is obliged by law to organize a comprehensive deliberative public consultation on bioethical issues every seven years. Especially in areas that require a large degree of trust, a deliberative approach ensures policies that can be supported by people with diverse views. They offer a viable alternative to traditional models of power and conflict that is more suitable to governance in 21st century democracies. They allow citizens to make a meaningful contribution to topics they may not have been familiar with beforehand, but that do touch on their private lives and interests. The most recent Belgian initiative resulted in nine concrete policy inputs for the implementation of genomics in health care, presented directly by the citizens to the Minister of Public Health. The French initiative is the basis for the current review of the law on bioethics in parliament. Key messages Public health issues touch the interests of all citizens: citizen deliberation should be regarded as an important input for public health policies. A deliberative approach enhances public trust, especially in areas of social or ethical contention.

Don't just dump your data and run: Authors should submit as much experimental information as possible when uploading sequence data.

If you have, in any way, been involved with genetic research over the past 10 years, then you have likely heard of the Sequence Read Archive (SRA), which is jointly housed at the National Center for Biotechnology (NCBI), the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ), and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). And if you regularly work with genome or transcriptome sequence information, then you have probably extracted data from and/or deposited data into the SRA. For those who are unfamiliar with it, the SRA is an international public online archive for next‐generation sequencing (NGS) data, which was established about a decade ago under the guidance of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) [1], [2]. Despite nearly being shut down in 2011 [3], it has grown at a staggering rate over the past 10 years. As of September 1, 2017, it housed over five quadrillion (1015) open‐access bases of NGS data, coming from thousands of different species and spanning the entire gamut of cellular and viral life. It contains DNA‐ and RNA‐sequencing (DNA‐seq and RNA‐seq) reads of every kind, from bisulfite‐seq to strand‐specific RNA‐seq to single‐cell DNA‐seq, and it accepts reads from every type of NGS platform, be it Illumina, Ion Torrent, or PacBio sequencing. In other words, the SRA is a crucial and central resource in the fast‐paced and increasingly important domain of contemporary genetic research. > … the SRA is a crucial and central resource in the fast‐paced and increasingly important domain of contemporary genetic research. ### The Sequence Read Archive The SRA can be easily accessed and searched via the NCBI (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra), DDBJ (http://trace.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/dra/index_e.html), and EBI (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/submit/read-submission) websites. Once there, you will find yourself at a sequencing‐read superstore. With a decent Wi‐Fi connection, a couple of keyword searches, and a few clicks of the trackpad, you can quickly …

Preface

Preface Stephanie LeMenager Resilience welcomes this innovative special issue, edited by Johan Gärdebo, Anna Svensson, and Ma Isabel Pérez-Ramos of the Division of History of Science, Technology, and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and by Tom Buurman of the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University. The topic of “Social Media in the Anthropocene” immediately presents its ambition. The large concepts of social media and the Anthropocene each have spawned volumes of critical thought. Taken together, they present a provocation large enough for a multivolume collection. Our special editors neatly sum up where they see the point of intersection between their primary objects, and that is in temporal practice. In their introduction to the issue, they write, “Social media are perceived as providing nearly instant information, and the Anthropocene is the transformation of our previous perennial nature toward the unstable, (con)temporary environment.” This special issue unfolds as a query into how the times of social media and the Anthropocene at once emphasize immediacy—the lightning-flash Twitter response, the focus on methane levels NOW— and depth. Depth more readily inheres to Anthropocene thought, where the necessity of locating a start date for the new geologic era in the stratigraphic record forces a material constraint on scholars, making it necessary to choose a moment when ecological modernity begins, be it the dawn of agriculture, the era of colonialist genocide in the Americas, or the detonation of the atomic bomb. Of course it can be argued that no such originary date exists— all are, to an extent, fictional origin stories born within the contemporary crisis of climate change. So the Anthropocene lives between the time zones of historical imagination (social time), geological imagination (deep time), and crisis (the immediate). So, too, social media, if defined capaciously, lives in multiple time zones. One of the unique gifts of this special issue is its insistence that social media cannot be recognized as only a product of digital culture. In fact, social media may be slow media, such as letters sent by post. Social media may be live performance, played out by multiple actors on a Welsh beach— actors including water and stone, [End Page vii] whose movements generate a contemporary social surround yet hearken back to millennia of nonhuman practice. While our special editors utilize the most up-to-date social media fora, such as blogging, Tumblr archiving, and open-source review, they also engage in a McCluhanite expansion of the meanings of social media to include multiple ways of mediating sociality. In the process, they implicitly and explicitly ask us, their readers, to develop an ethics of social praxis (always mediated!) for the Anthropocene. The ethical questions at the core of this special issue touch on structural problems at the core of academic life, such as the necessity of travel for academic career building, the importance of expertise versus amateurism, and the complexity of incorporating community voices into academic publications. “Social Media in the Anthropocene” leaves us thinking, and thinking hard, about what it means to be a mediated, mediating animal— in other words, human— in this unprecedented ecological era. [End Page viii] Copyright © 2018 University of Nebraska Press

A Relational Feminist Approach to Conflict of Laws

Feminist writers have long engaged in critiques of private law. Surrogacy contracts or the “reasonable man” standard in torts, for example, have long been the subjects of thorough feminist analysis and critique. When private law issues touch on more than one jurisdiction, Conflict of Laws is the doctrine that determines which jurisdiction can try the case and—as separate questions—which jurisdiction’s law should apply and under what conditions a foreign judgment can be recognized and enforced. Yet, there are virtually no feminist perspectives on Conflict of Laws (also known as Private International Law). This is still more surprising when one considers that feminist approaches to Public International Law have been developing for over a quarter century. In this Article, I show that there is a fundamental need to rethink the image of the transnational individual in Conflict of Laws theory and methodology. It is here, I argue, that feminism— specifically relational, often known as cultural, feminism—has an important contribution to make to Conflict of Laws. I develop a relational feminist approach to Conflict of Laws and apply it to a pressing contemporary issue, namely transnational surrogacy arrangements. Overall, this Article shows how relational feminism can illuminate the problems of adopting an atomistic image of the individual in a transnational context, as well as provide an outline for an alternative—a relational theory of the self that redefines autonomy and the law, creating an important shift in how Conflict of Laws perceives its regulatory dimensions. The Article connects three of relational feminism’s core insights—the notion of relational autonomy, the focus on relationships, and relational theories of judging— to Conflict of Laws theory and methodology.

The role of medical physics in prostate cancer radiation therapy

Medical physics, both as a scientific discipline and clinical service, hugely contributed and still contributes to the advances in the radiotherapy of prostate cancer. The traditional translational role in developing and safely implementing new technology and methods for better optimizing, delivering and monitoring the treatment is rapidly expanding to include new fields such as quantitative morphological and functional imaging and the possibility of individually predicting outcome and toxicity. The pivotal position of medical physicists in treatment personalization probably represents the main challenge of current and next years and needs a gradual change of vision and training, without losing the traditional and fundamental role of physicists to guarantee a high quality of the treatment. The current focus issue is intended to cover traditional and new fields of investigation in prostate cancer radiation therapy with the aim to provide up-to-date reference material to medical physicists daily working to cure prostate cancer patients. The papers presented in this focus issue touch upon present and upcoming challenges that need to be met in order to further advance prostate cancer radiation therapy. We suggest that there is a smart future for medical physicists willing to perform research and innovate, while they continue to provide high-quality clinical service. However, physicists are increasingly expected to actively integrate their implicitly translational, flexible and high-level skills within multi-disciplinary teams including many clinical figures (first of all radiation oncologists) as well as scientists from other disciplines.

“Give Me Sight Beyond Sight”

This is the second of two special issues, and the articles are grouped according to two themes: The previous, first issue featured articles that shared the theme Technologies and the Political, while this second issue is focused on the theme of Subjectivities. In this second, somewhat expanded, introduction, the “sky’s the limit.” This introduction canvasses various theoretical and conceptual-empricial perspectives that the articles of both issues touch on and further tries to open many doors through which readers are invited to go on their own rather than give readymade answers. This introduction is written not only to give both an overview of some of the most important conceptual, methodological, and empirical contexts that the two special issues evoke but also to create invitations for many further conversations to be had from here on forward by beginning the interrogating and troubling of the intercourse between “science” and “science fiction”: beause all of this has happened before and will happen again.