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Memory loss is not always viewed purely as a contingent neurobiological process present in an ageing population; rather, it is frequently related to larger societal issues and political debates. This edited volume examines how different media and genres - novels, auto/biographical writings, documentary as well as fictional films and graphic memoirs - represent dementia for the sake of critical explorations of memory, trauma and contested truths. In ten analytical chapters and one piece of graphic art, the contributors examine the ways in which what might seem to be the individual, ahistorical diseases of dementia are used in contemporary cultural texts to represent and respond to violent historical and political events - ranging from the Holocaust to postcolonial conditions - all of which can prove difficult to remember. Combining approaches from literary studies with insights from memory studies, trauma studies, anthropology, the critical medical humanities and media, film and comics studies, this volume explores the politics of dementia and incites new debates on cultures of remembrance, while remaining attentive to the lived reality of dementia.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. --- Political dimension of dementia. --- cultural dimensions of forgetting, disavowal and repression. --- dementia and history. --- dementia and the holocaust.

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Srikanth Reddy's second book of poetry probes this world's cosmological relation to the plurality of all possible worlds. Drawing its name from the spacecraft currently departing our solar system on an embassy to the beyond, Voyager unfolds as three books within a book and culminates in a chilling Dantean allegory of leadership and its failure in the cause of humanity. At the heart of this volume lies the historical figure of Kurt Waldheim-Secretary-General of the U.N. from 1972-81 and former intelligence officer in Hitler's Wehrmacht-who once served as a spokesman for humanity while remaining silent about his role in the collective atrocities of our era. Resurrecting this complex figure, Reddy's universal voyager explores the garden of forking paths hidden within every totalizing dream of identity.

Waldheim, Kurt --- Voyager Project --- American poetry. --- American literature --- ambition. --- american literature. --- american poetry. --- astrology. --- cosmology. --- creative writing. --- forgetting. --- genocide. --- hitler. --- humanity. --- identity. --- intelligence officer. --- kurt waldheim. --- leadership. --- literature. --- nazis. --- poems. --- poetics. --- poetry. --- possibility. --- possible worlds. --- progress. --- science fiction. --- secret identity. --- secret past. --- secretary general. --- silence. --- solar system. --- space. --- spacecraft. --- spy. --- united nations. --- universe. --- war crimes. --- wehrmacht. --- witness.

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Just one generation ago, the Sora tribe in India lived in a world populated by the spirits of their dead, who spoke to them through shamans in trance. Every day, they negotiated their wellbeing in heated arguments or in quiet reflections on their feelings of love, anger, and guilt. Today, young Sora are rejecting the worldview of their ancestors and switching their allegiance to warring sects of fundamentalist Christianity or Hinduism. Communion with ancestors is banned as sacred sites are demolished, female shamans are replaced by male priests, and debate with the dead gives way to prayer to gods. For some, this shift means liberation from jungle spirits through literacy, employment, and democratic politics; others despair for fear of being forgotten after death. How can a society abandon one understanding of reality so suddenly and see the world in a totally different way? Over forty years, anthropologist Piers Vitebsky has shared the lives of shamans, pastors, ancestors, gods, policemen, missionaries, and alphabet worshippers, seeking explanations from social theory, psychoanalysis, and theology. Living without the Dead lays bare today’s crisis of indigenous religions and shows how historical reform can bring new fulfillments—but also new torments and uncertainties. Vitebsky explores the loss of the Sora tradition as one for greater humanity: just as we have been losing our wildernesses, so we have been losing a diverse range of cultural and spiritual possibilities, tribe by tribe. From the award-winning author of The Reindeer People, this is a heartbreaking story of cultural change and the extinction of an irreplaceable world, even while new religious forms come into being to take its place.

Savara (Indic people) --- Spiritualism --- Shamanism --- Funeral customs and rites. --- loss, redemption, india, sora, tribe, indigenous, colonialism, spirits, ancestors, death, afterlife, love, anger, guilt, religion, fundamentalism, social change, generations, hinduism, christianity, communion, meditation, communication, sacred sites, ritual, rites, ceremony, spirituality, shamans, priests, masculinity, femininity, power, authority, gender, prayer, literacy, freedom, progress, employment, forgetting, memory, legacy, democracy, politics, funerals, nonfiction, anthropology, sociology.

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Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts. Both women are pathbreaking figures, globally renowned and widely respected. Doris Salcedo, meet Mieke Bal. In Of What One Cannot Speak, Bal leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo's art, encouraging us to consider each work as a "theoretical object" that invites-and demands-certain kinds of considerations about history, death, erasure, and grief. Bal ranges widely through Salcedo's work, from Salcedo's Atrabiliarios series-in which the artist uses worn shoes to retrace los desaparecidos ("the disappeared") from nations like Argentina, Chile, and Colombia-to Shibboleth, Salcedo's once-in-a-lifetime commission by the Tate Modern, for which she created a rupture, as if by earthquake, that stretched the length of the museum hall's concrete floor. In each instance, Salcedo's installations speak for themselves, utilizing household items, human bones, and common domestic architecture to explore the silent spaces between violence, trauma, and identity. Yet Bal draws out even deeper responses to the work, questioning the nature of political art altogether and introducing concepts of metaphor, time, and space in order to contend with Salcedo's powerful sculptures and installations. An unforgettable fusion of art and essay, Of What One Cannot Speak takes us to the very core of events we are capable of remembering-yet still uncomfortably cannot speak aloud.

Sculpture --- Sculpture, Modern --- Political art --- Political aspects --- Salcedo, Doris, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Activist art --- Protest art --- Resistance art --- Social art --- Art --- Modern sculpture --- Sculpture, Primitive --- Stonework, Decorative --- Bas-relief --- Statues --- politics, political, art, artist, artistic, colombia, memory, forgetting, remember, forget, trauma, danger, critic, critical, theory, theorist, theoretical, contemporary, modern, culture, cultural, visual, women, global, international, object, history, death, erasure, argentina, chile, brazil, south america, museum, exhibit, installation, identity, violence, metaphor. --- Political aspects.

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Since the advent of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods in the early 1990s, Bayesian methods have been proposed for a large and growing number of applications. One of the main advantages of Bayesian inference is the ability to deal with many different sources of uncertainty, including data, models, parameters and parameter restriction uncertainties, in a unified and coherent framework. This book contributes to this literature by collecting a set of carefully evaluated contributions that are grouped amongst two topics in financial economics. The first three papers refer to macro-finance issues for real economy, including the elasticity of factor substitution (ES) in the Cobb–Douglas production function, the effects of government public spending components, and quantitative easing, monetary policy and economics. The last three contributions focus on cryptocurrency and stock market predictability. All arguments are central ingredients in the current economic discussion and their importance has only been further emphasized by the COVID-19 crisis.

unconventional monetary policy --- transmission channel --- Bayesian TVP-SV-VAR --- Bayesian econometrics --- portfolio choice --- sentiments --- stock market predictability --- cryptocurrency --- Bitcoin --- forecasting --- point forecast --- density forecast --- dynamic model averaging --- dynamic model selection --- forgetting factors --- military and civilian spending --- DSGE model --- fiscal policy --- monetary policy --- Bayesian estimation --- Bayesian VAR --- density forecasting --- time-varying volatility --- ES --- CES function --- Bayesian nonlinear mixed-effects regression --- MCMC methods --- macroeconomic and financial applications