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The first issue of The September Issues and I was asked by the editor and photographer Mary Rozzi to create a visual response for their pages. The September Issues gives women creatives the opportunity to express themselves freely, explore their identities, and build a community without any constraints—a place where art, beauty, fashion, and topical issues can be discussed from a purely feminine perspective; a community that reflects the diversity and power of global femininity. The magazine aims to share ideas of identity, discover ritual and ceremony; celebrate and champion women pioneers of the past and present, and those yet to come—exchanging the story of women's lives through visual and intellectual vocabularies. Politically, the world is fragmented. Recent events have demonstrated that change is most definitely the only thing we can be sure of in this moment. The September Issues want to be an active part of that change. We want to empower women by celebrating their achievements, and strive for the creation of an influential voice of equality in our future society. There was no brief. It was a magazine completed by women about women. A speculative tribe, linked invisibly by one common thread. I chose to continue the series of photographs shown at The Stanley Picker Gallery in The Liquid Game that follows the objects of and close to the earth as symbols and representations of the body. A codified place. Future memories. Abstract resistance. And this was the text to accompany the two images.

"Nach erfolgreich abgeschlossenen Verhandlungen scheint sich die Hoffnung der Betrittsländer, innerhalb der EU höhere Wachstumsraten erzielen zu können als außerhalb, zu erfüllen. Der freie Verkehr von Waren, Kapital und Arbeit sollte einen Beitrag zur Erreichung dieses Zieles leisten. Aber es gibt einige versteckte Hindernisse für das erhoffte Wachstum, die auf einen Mangel an sozialem Kapital zurückgeführt werden können. Soziales Kapital ist für wirtschaftliches Wachstum ebenso wichtig wie andere, traditionelle Wachstumsfaktoren." (Autorenreferat)

The cultural myth of the provinces provides the contemporary cultural elite with a semiotic apparatus for formulating Russia's new, postimperial identity. Today, cultural production locates true Russianness outside newly prosperous, multiethnic, and westernized Moscow. In mass culture, the traditional privileging of the center over the backward provinces gives way to the view of the provinces as a repository of national tradition and moral strength. Conversely, high literature and art-house films provide an alternative, harshly critical image of them. In both cases, a particular concept of Russianness is negotiated, one in which the provinces play a central role. Ultimately, both redirect nationalist discourse away from the deeply unsatisfying model of Russia versus the west and instead offer a hermetic national identity based on an "us versus us," rather than "us versus them," model.

The purpose of the current paper is to investigate the possible relationship between fiscal discipline and social capital in EU member states during the last economic crisis and recovery, along with the assessment of the initial welfare effects of fiscal stimulus measures. Preliminary results show that institutional trust and general trust as social capital indicators associate positively with the extent of fiscal stimulus, while governance indicators show negative correlations. However, the significance of these results is relatively low and the subject needs thus further investigation. Further, it appeared that fiscal stimulus had weak positive effect on short-term recovery of GDP and employment, but not on medium-term GDP growth potential.

The purpose of the current paper is to investigate empirically the effect of social capital on investments as a key production factor. Theoretically, investments are expected to be higher in societies where there is more social capital between economic agents. Based on the data from World Values Survey, ten components of social capital are considered as factors of investments. Although the regression results are rather mixed, it can be generalised that components related to trust and norms dominate as predictors of overall investment activity, while networks have some effect only for foreign investments. Additionally, it appeared that the relationship between social capital and investments is similar in democratic Western European countries and Central and Eastern European countries with communist background