1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480864903321

Autore

Minh-ha Trinh T.

Titolo

Lovecidal : Walking with the Disappeared / / Trinh T. Minh-ha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8232-7112-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

355.02

Soggetti

War and society

War

State-sponsored terrorism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Somewhere in the Process -- Blind Energy -- How to Write an Ending? -- Specter of Vietnam -- Twilight Walk -- The Matter of War -- Between Victor and Victor -- She, the Wayfarer -- Thriving on a D-stroll -- The Mole’s Empire -- Feeling the Way Out -- The World is Watching -- Walk for Rain -- The New Rebels -- Displaced, Dispossessed, Disappeared -- Interval of Resistance -- The Screensaver’s Light -- This Sky Which is Not Blue -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this new work, renowned feminist filmmaker and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. She discusses the rise of the police state as linked, for example, to U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, or to China’s occupation of Tibet, examining legacies of earlier campaigns and the residual effects of the war on terror. She also takes up the shifting dynamics of peoples’ resistance to acts of militarism and surveillance as well as social media and its capacity to inform and mobilize citizens around the world. At once an engaging treatise and a creative gesture, Lovecidal probes the physical and psychic conditions of the world and shows us a society that is profoundly heartsick. Taking up with those who march both as and for



the oppressed—who walk with the disappeared to help carry them forward—Trinh T. Minh-ha engages the spiritual and affective dimensions of a civilization organized around the rubrics of nonstop governmental subjugation, economic austerity, and highly technologized military conflict. In doing so, she clears a path for us to walk upon. Along with our every step, the world of the disappeared lives on.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910829944003321

Titolo

Microbial transport systems [[electronic resource] /] / Günther Winkelmann, ed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Weinheim ; ; New York, : Wiley-VCH, c2001

ISBN

9786611239299

1-281-23929-1

1-280-55842-3

9786610558421

3-527-61272-6

3-527-60072-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (534 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WinkelmannGünther

Disciplina

571.64

571.82

Soggetti

Biological transport

Microbial growth

Microorganisms - Development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Microbial Transport Systems; Preface; Contents; List of Authors; Color Plates; 1 Families of Transporters: A Phylogenetic Overview; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The TC System; 1.3 The Value of Phylogenetic Classification; 1.4 Phylogeny as Applied to Transporters; 1.5 The Basis for Classification in the TC System; 1.6 Classes of Transporters; 1.7 Class 1: Channels/Pores; 1.8 Class 2: Electrochemical Potential-driven



Porters; 1.9 Class 3: Primary Active Transporters; 1.10 Class 4: Group Translocators; 1.11 Class 8: Accessory Factors Involved in Transport

1.12 Class 9: Incompletely Characterized Transport Proteins1.13 Transporters with Dual Modes of Energy Coupling; 1.14 Transporters Exhibiting More than One Mode of Transport; 1.15 Conclusions and Perspectives; References; 2 Energy-transducing Ion Pumps in Bacteria : Structure and Function of ATP Synthases; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Overview; 2.3 Structure, Configuration, and Interaction of F(1) Subunits; 2.4 Catalysis: Structural and Mechanistic Implications within the F(1) Complex; 2.5 The F(1)/F(O) Interface: Contact Sites for Energy Transmission

2.6 Structure, Configuration, and Interaction of F(O) Subunits2.7 Catalysis: Coupling Ion Translocation to ATP Synthesis; References; 3 Sodium/Substrate Transport; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Occurrence and Role of Na(+) /Substrate Transport Systems; 3.2.1 General Considerations; 3.2.2 Elevated Temperatures; 3.2.3 Na(+) -rich Environments; 3.2.4 High pH; 3.2.5 Citrate Fermentation; 3.2.6 Na(+) /Substrate Transport in Escherichia coli; 3.2.7 Osmotic Stress; 3.3 Functional Properties of Na(+) /Substrate Transport Systems; 3.3.1 General Considerations; 3.3.2 MelB; 3.3.3 PutP; 3.3.4 CitS

3.4 Transporter Structure3.4.1 General Features; 3.4.2 MelB; 3.4.3 PutP and Other Members of the SSF; 3.4.4 CitS; 3.5 Structure -Function Relationships; 3.5.1 MelB; 3.5.1.1 Site of Ion Binding; 3.5.1.2 Sugar Binding and Functional Dynamics of MelB; 3.5.2 PutP; 3.5.2.1 Site of Na(+) Binding; 3.5.2.2 Regions Important for Proline Binding; 3.5.2.3 Functional Dynamics of PutP; 3.5.3 CitS; 3.6 Concluding Remarks and Perspective; References; 4 Prokaryotic Binding Protein-dependent ABC Transporters; 4.1 A Brief History of ABC Systems; 4.2 What is an ABC System?

4.3 The Composition of the Prokaryotic ABC Transporters4.4 Associated Proteins and Signal Transduction Pathways; 4.5 The Components; 4.5.1 The Binding Proteins; 4.5.1.1 Substrate Recognition Sites are High-affinity Soluble Binding Proteins; 4.5.1.2 The Binding Test; 4.5.1.3 Special Examples; 4.5.1.4 Binding Proteins Undergo Conformational Changes upon Binding Substrate; 4.5.1.5 The Crystal Structure; 4.5.2 The Integral Transmembrane Domains (TMDs); 4.5.2.1 Organization; 4.5.2.2 Composition and Structure; 4.5.2.3 The Interaction of the TMDs with the Binding Protein; 4.5.2.4 The Sequence

4.5.3 The ABC Subunit

Sommario/riassunto

Transport of molecules across the cell membrane is a fundamental process of all living organisms. It is essential for understanding growth, development, nutrition as well as uptake and excretion of exogenous or synthesized molecules. Microbes respresent general and basic functional systems where many transport processes have been studied on a molecular basis. Knowledge of the microbial transport processes will provide new perspectives to treatments by inhibitors, drugs, antibiotics, vitamins, growth promotion compounds, activators and toxic compunds of various kinds.