Six elite cassava clones were chosen from cassava breeding program at the National Crops Resource... more Six elite cassava clones were chosen from cassava breeding program at the National Crops Resource Research Institute (NaCRRI) based on their flowering characteristics and seed set. The clones were planted in randomized complete block experimental design with 3 replications. The floral biology of these cassava clones were studied, focusing on morphological traits and developmental timing. Since cassava develops branches in levels, data was sourced from the 1st level of branching through the 4th level of branching. The result indicated that days to branching generally varied among all the genotypes studied, indicating the need to use different planting dates for different genotypes to ensure synchronization of flowering. The time difference among genotypes from branching to visible inflorescence was not larger than one and a half days and this difference did not seem to be a factor for synchronization. The general number of female flowers was low in all genotypes across branching leve...
This article traces the U.K.'s tepid response to the recent refugee crisis confronting Europe... more This article traces the U.K.'s tepid response to the recent refugee crisis confronting Europe today and reviews Britain's approach to provide sanctuary from its ideological/historical origins to its policy enactments over time (1905‐2016). That approach resonates with the deep tensions the issue of immigration raises within the nation state and the intense uncoupling of refuge and sanctuary from its humanitarian initiatives. We juxtapose the U.K. government's engagement with the refugee crisis against its “tradition of humanitarianism” in which Britain has idealized itself as sanctuary to those who have fled from persecution, torture, or conflict. This historic ideal of refuge has been challenged with numerous immigration and asylum‐related policies as well as increased securitization of border controls in response to the changing political context since 1905. We argue that “sanctuary” is a diminished and contentious component of its present‐day humanitarianism involving...
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2018
Through the biotechnology of the force-feeding chair and the hunger strike in Guantanamo, this pa... more Through the biotechnology of the force-feeding chair and the hunger strike in Guantanamo, this paper examines the camp as a site of necropolitics where bodies inhabit the space of the Muselmann – a figure Agamben invokes in Auschwitz to capture the predicament of the living dead. Sites of incarceration produce an aesthetic of torture and the force-feeding chair embodies the disciplining of the body and the extraction of pain while imposing the biopolitics of the American empire on “terrorist bodies”. Not worthy of human rights or death, the force-fed body inhabits a realm of indistinction between animal and human. The camp as an interstitial space which is beyond closure as well as full disclosure produces an aesthetic of torture on the racialised Other through the force-feeding chair positioned between visibility and non-visibility. Through the discourse of medical ethics and the legal struggle for rights, the force-feeding chair emerges as a symbol of necropolitics where the hunge...
Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society, 2010
Benedict Anderson in Imagined Communities (1983) and Homi Baba in Nation and Narration (1990) con... more Benedict Anderson in Imagined Communities (1983) and Homi Baba in Nation and Narration (1990) contend that books capture the collective consciousness of a society and the zeitgeist of a community. In the process they reveal our cultural codes, providing insights into our consumption patterns, prefer-ences, tastes, and social make-up (Bourdieu 1984). In the digital age books have forged new forms of communities and communion. This has happened through the intertextuality between media platforms such as television and the Internet as well as the nature of the electronic environment, which has enabled new forms of communities to flourish.
This paper explores the politicization of the image in social media and how image can be attribut... more This paper explores the politicization of the image in social media and how image can be attributed different values in the online environment. Facebook’s decision to invoke its obscenity clause to bar users from posting pictures of breastfeeding ignited a controversy. Members protested against the ban both offline and online. The controversy raised various issues between lived offline experiences and the rules of engagement in social networking sites. Image economies on the Internet present new problems and challenges. Whilst they are crucial in the construction of profiles and identities in social networking sites and may therefore function as a referent of social values and norms, there may be disparities in the ways they are gazed at and interpreted as published content online. This paper examines the salient issues which emerged in the breastfeeding controversy with relevance to the image economy in social networking sites. In particular, it discusses the politicisation of the ...
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2009
When Mumbai became the target of terror in the 26/11 attack in 2008, the events in that city, lik... more When Mumbai became the target of terror in the 26/11 attack in 2008, the events in that city, like other tragic global events in recent years, were narrated through new media platforms. The increasing convergence of technologies and mobile telephony enabled new forms of gaze and the ability to bear witness through these new media technologies. The non-stop capture of events through recording equipment embedded in mobile phones and their connectivity to the World Wide Web constructed Mumbai through civilian narratives and images, and this phenomenon was described as the "coming of age of Twitter". Conversely the event raised fundamental questions about the role of broadcasting and protocols in live telecasts of terrorist attacks which have consequences for national security. In narrating the city through the civilian gaze and traditional media the spectacle of suffering in postmodernity becomes an open-ended exercise where the city is both a canvas for showcasing the risks of modernity and new forms of visibilities which emerge from social media and the "act of sharing" content on global platforms.
The terrain of television has been perceived as mythopoeic with its ability to integrate the real... more The terrain of television has been perceived as mythopoeic with its ability to integrate the real and the unreal, crafting a liminal space which is always betwixt and between. The recent debates about the medium have centred on the genre of reality television where new boundaries ...
Six elite cassava clones were chosen from cassava breeding program at the National Crops Resource... more Six elite cassava clones were chosen from cassava breeding program at the National Crops Resource Research Institute (NaCRRI) based on their flowering characteristics and seed set. The clones were planted in randomized complete block experimental design with 3 replications. The floral biology of these cassava clones were studied, focusing on morphological traits and developmental timing. Since cassava develops branches in levels, data was sourced from the 1st level of branching through the 4th level of branching. The result indicated that days to branching generally varied among all the genotypes studied, indicating the need to use different planting dates for different genotypes to ensure synchronization of flowering. The time difference among genotypes from branching to visible inflorescence was not larger than one and a half days and this difference did not seem to be a factor for synchronization. The general number of female flowers was low in all genotypes across branching leve...
This article traces the U.K.'s tepid response to the recent refugee crisis confronting Europe... more This article traces the U.K.'s tepid response to the recent refugee crisis confronting Europe today and reviews Britain's approach to provide sanctuary from its ideological/historical origins to its policy enactments over time (1905‐2016). That approach resonates with the deep tensions the issue of immigration raises within the nation state and the intense uncoupling of refuge and sanctuary from its humanitarian initiatives. We juxtapose the U.K. government's engagement with the refugee crisis against its “tradition of humanitarianism” in which Britain has idealized itself as sanctuary to those who have fled from persecution, torture, or conflict. This historic ideal of refuge has been challenged with numerous immigration and asylum‐related policies as well as increased securitization of border controls in response to the changing political context since 1905. We argue that “sanctuary” is a diminished and contentious component of its present‐day humanitarianism involving...
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2018
Through the biotechnology of the force-feeding chair and the hunger strike in Guantanamo, this pa... more Through the biotechnology of the force-feeding chair and the hunger strike in Guantanamo, this paper examines the camp as a site of necropolitics where bodies inhabit the space of the Muselmann – a figure Agamben invokes in Auschwitz to capture the predicament of the living dead. Sites of incarceration produce an aesthetic of torture and the force-feeding chair embodies the disciplining of the body and the extraction of pain while imposing the biopolitics of the American empire on “terrorist bodies”. Not worthy of human rights or death, the force-fed body inhabits a realm of indistinction between animal and human. The camp as an interstitial space which is beyond closure as well as full disclosure produces an aesthetic of torture on the racialised Other through the force-feeding chair positioned between visibility and non-visibility. Through the discourse of medical ethics and the legal struggle for rights, the force-feeding chair emerges as a symbol of necropolitics where the hunge...
Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society, 2010
Benedict Anderson in Imagined Communities (1983) and Homi Baba in Nation and Narration (1990) con... more Benedict Anderson in Imagined Communities (1983) and Homi Baba in Nation and Narration (1990) contend that books capture the collective consciousness of a society and the zeitgeist of a community. In the process they reveal our cultural codes, providing insights into our consumption patterns, prefer-ences, tastes, and social make-up (Bourdieu 1984). In the digital age books have forged new forms of communities and communion. This has happened through the intertextuality between media platforms such as television and the Internet as well as the nature of the electronic environment, which has enabled new forms of communities to flourish.
This paper explores the politicization of the image in social media and how image can be attribut... more This paper explores the politicization of the image in social media and how image can be attributed different values in the online environment. Facebook’s decision to invoke its obscenity clause to bar users from posting pictures of breastfeeding ignited a controversy. Members protested against the ban both offline and online. The controversy raised various issues between lived offline experiences and the rules of engagement in social networking sites. Image economies on the Internet present new problems and challenges. Whilst they are crucial in the construction of profiles and identities in social networking sites and may therefore function as a referent of social values and norms, there may be disparities in the ways they are gazed at and interpreted as published content online. This paper examines the salient issues which emerged in the breastfeeding controversy with relevance to the image economy in social networking sites. In particular, it discusses the politicisation of the ...
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2009
When Mumbai became the target of terror in the 26/11 attack in 2008, the events in that city, lik... more When Mumbai became the target of terror in the 26/11 attack in 2008, the events in that city, like other tragic global events in recent years, were narrated through new media platforms. The increasing convergence of technologies and mobile telephony enabled new forms of gaze and the ability to bear witness through these new media technologies. The non-stop capture of events through recording equipment embedded in mobile phones and their connectivity to the World Wide Web constructed Mumbai through civilian narratives and images, and this phenomenon was described as the "coming of age of Twitter". Conversely the event raised fundamental questions about the role of broadcasting and protocols in live telecasts of terrorist attacks which have consequences for national security. In narrating the city through the civilian gaze and traditional media the spectacle of suffering in postmodernity becomes an open-ended exercise where the city is both a canvas for showcasing the risks of modernity and new forms of visibilities which emerge from social media and the "act of sharing" content on global platforms.
The terrain of television has been perceived as mythopoeic with its ability to integrate the real... more The terrain of television has been perceived as mythopoeic with its ability to integrate the real and the unreal, crafting a liminal space which is always betwixt and between. The recent debates about the medium have centred on the genre of reality television where new boundaries ...
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