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Sign Language, Multilingualism and the Postnational Popular Screen: From La Famille Bélier and Marie Heurtin to La Révolution
(Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2023) King, Gemma; Harrod, Mary; Moine, Raphaëlle
Since the mid-2000s, the representation of multiple languages on French screens has increased significantly. However, an understudied element of this cinema is the growing corpus of films and series in French Sign Language (LSF). This chapter explores the evolution of multilingual French cinema in the twenty-first century. Placing Indigenous multilingualism within a broader translingual context, it focuses on the 2014 films La Famille Bélier/The Bélier Family (Eric Lartigau) and Marie Heurtin (Jean-Pierre Améris) and the 2020 series La Révolution/The Revolution (François Lardenois and Aurélien Molas) to examine the relationship between French Sign Language and French through a postnational lens. The chapter explores how these LSF texts challenge received norms of Frenchness, their connection to the French language and what ‘national language’ means for a nation that was always already multilingual.
Passive AUV tracking using sound produced by shrimps
(IEEE Computer Society, 2013) Alam, Md. Jahangir; Huntington, Elanor; Frater, Michael
An autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) is a self driven vehicle travelling underwater and used for variety of purposes. Sometimes, for proper operation of AUVs, it is important to know where the AUVs are, particularly the depth. Usually depth of AUV is measured using an active technique where a known signal is transmitted and ocean ambient noise (OAN) generated in the ocean is considered as noise. However, the technique described in this paper makes use of this OAN rather than transmitting anything. Theoretical and experimental analyses show that if AUVs are travelling in the shrimp dominated area then the depth of the AUVs can be estimated using a passive technique.
When history meets the new native title era at the negotiating table: a case study in reconciling land use in Broome, Western Australia
(Canberra : North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University, 1996) Jackson, Sue; Australian National University. North Australia Research Unit
This paper argues there are inherent problems for Aboriginal people engaging in the mediation processes established by the Native Title Act. The assertion of Native Title, and the National Native Title Tribunal’s attempt to accommodate Aboriginal people’s social, economic and cultural aspirations in decisions affecting their land and resources, exposes the fundamental power imbalances within the Australian community. Strongly remembered historical experiences are integral to this imbalance and are relevant to the positions Aboriginal people take today; they inform their assessment of their capacity to influence today’s decisions and to negotiate as equals.
As Aboriginal communities respond to the new processes under the Native Title Act, they will be challenged to formulate perspectives on the future use of land (and/or sea) held under Native Title, and to actively participate in debates about their community’s role in future decisions over land use, economic opportunities, sustainable development and race relations in the region. This has been the experience of the Broome Aboriginal community. Aboriginal organisations seeking ways of providing their communities with strategies for greater control will require sufficient resources and time in which to formulate preferred community development paths. Unless the current structural problems and resource inadequacies facing Native Title holders are addressed the mediation process runs the risk of entrenching the current land use development paradigm and foreclosing alternative structures and processes which would accommodate Aboriginal aspirations. The ability of the Tribunal process to convey understanding of Aboriginal society and to reconcile differing rights and interests in land/sea ownership, use and management in Broome, exposes the kinds of problems that will be encountered as the larger Australian community tries to embrace the goal of reconciliation. Broome’s recent experience provides evidence of the difficulties of translating and implementing that national goal at the local community scale.
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Jabiru and the Aborigines of the Kakadu region
(Casuarina, N.T. : North Australia Research Unit, Australian National University, 1997., 1997) Kesteven, Sue.; Lea, John P.; Australian National University. North Australia Research Unit
In 1969 uranium was discovered in commercial quantities in the northern parts of the region now known as the Kakadu National Park and mining proposals followed soon after. From that moment new and increased pressures of many kinds were brought to bear on the groups of permanent Aboriginal people resident in an area stretching from the Wildman River in the west to the East Alligator River and the Arnhem Land escarpment in the east (Figure 1).