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Intersectionality In Canada's 'Caregiver Program': The Impact Of Race, Class, And Gender On Filipina Women In The 'Global Care Chain', Taylor Simsovic

Culture, Society, and Praxis

This paper explores the experiences of migrant Filipina caregivers in Canada under the Live-in Caregiver's Program (LCP) and the subsequent Caregivers Program (CP), focusing on the intersecting factors of race, class, and gender. Through a literature review, the study investigates the distinct and precarious position occupied by Filipina migrant caregivers, who face marginalization by the Canadian government. The framework of the 'global care chain' proposed by Aggarwal and Das Gupta (2013) and the concept of the 'international transfer of caretaking' presented by Parreñas (2000) are employed to illuminate the devaluation of 'women's work,' particularly that performed by migrant Filipina and …

Citizens Of The English Language: Sociolinguistic Perspectives On Postcolonial India, Prateek Shankar

Masters Theses

This paper introduces the concept of "extralingual citizenship," which I define as an expansion of translingualism to include the ethnoracial logic of the nation-state and demonstrates the entanglement of language, governance, and education in the policing of knowledge infrastructures and discursive practices. I am interested in the codification of postcolonial disparity into the teaching, social performance, and material assessment of English language users, and the infrastructural disqualification of World Englishes (and their amalgams) in favor of a standardized English. I frame extralingualism as a kind of citizenship, shifting the focus of English pedagogy/practice from the syntactical/etymological concerns of language …

International Student Orientations: Indian Students At American Universities Around The Turn Of The Twentieth Century, Param S. Ajmera

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation examines the writings and experiences of five Indian international students in the United States during late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By drawing attention to these students, I attend to the ways in which notions of freedom, progress, and inclusivity associated with American higher education, and liberalism more generally, are related to structures of racialized and colonial dispossession in India. I build these arguments by reading archival sources such as university administrative records, student publications, personal and official correspondence, as well as understudied aesthetic works, such as memoirs, travel narratives, essays, doctoral dissertations, and public lectures. These historical …

Narratives Of Trauma In South Asian Literature, Ryan Wander

Critical Humanities

Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature uses seven geographically-focused clusters of essays to elucidate the ways in which the interdisciplinary field of trauma studies allows for a delineation of the cultural and historical specificity of South Asian narratives of trauma. These essays simultaneously serve as a means for connecting South Asian literary accounts of individual and collective trauma to broader national and transnational dynamics.

Women Parliamentarians In India Since 1991: Challenges And Opportunities, Vatsala Bhusry

Hatfield Graduate Journal of Public Affairs

India gained a new economic orientation in 1991 following the policy of economic liberalization. It offered the opportunities to close the gender gap in various fields including the political field as visualized in the original goal of the Indian constitution. However, there is an acute underrepresentation of women at the national political level and there is a lack of evidence-based research studies to analyze this gap. This study maps the political trajectories of 13 elected women leaders holding offices at the national level since 2019. To better understand the challenges and opportunities at both macro and micro levels they came …

Mending The Broken Bond: Exploring Human-Elephant Conflict In K. V. Dominic’S Poems, Ramya Kalaivani K, Raichel M. Sylus

Between the Species

Mountains are the immovable totem of the landscape which stand out from the surrounding environment as they are the elevated portion of the earth’s crust. In mountain regions, wildlife is one of the essential factors to be considered for developing a holistic environment. As a result of the rapid dwindling of resources for wildlife, the ecological balance is affected. It deteriorates the relationship and instigates conflict between human beings and animals. Mountains are home to various species. Among various animals, elephants are the significant animals seen in the mountain region. K.V. Dominic’s poems depict humans’ cruelty and brutal treatment towards …

Other Oceans, Other Skies, Sharlene Lee

MFA in Visual Art

I create immersive installations, performances, and time-based media artworks that delve into stories of belonging, feminism, and language as power. These stories offer a potential for transformation from viewer to participant and a shift in how our world is seen and experienced. Through an exploration of perception and affect, I challenge dominant narratives, prompting a contemplation of contemporary power struggles for control.

In this text, I examine the impact of historical borders and migration on my life while also investigating questions of home, shared values, and rituals that contribute to one’s sense of belonging. I also highlight my commitment to …

Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers In The Philippines—Subsistence Strategies, Adaptation, And Behaviour In Maritime Environments, Alfred Pawlik, Riczar Fuentes

Sociology & Anthropology Department Faculty Publications

Archaeological research in the Philippines has produced a timeline of currently over 700,000 years of human occupation. However; while an initial presence of early hominins has been securely established through several radiometric dates between 700 ka to 1ma from Luzon Island; there is currently little evidence for the presence of hominins after those episodes until c. 67 to 50 ka for Luzon or any of the other Philippine islands. At approximately 40 ka; anatomically modern humans had arrived in the Philippines. Early sites with fossil and/or artifactual evidence are Tabon Cave in Palawan and Bubog 1 in Occidental Mindoro; the …

Diasporic Women’S Mutability In South Asian Postcolonial Literature, Tasnim S. Halim

Theses and Dissertations

Though Western scholarship tends to homogenize South Asian experiences, researchers and novelists shed light on different classes of South Asian postcolonial and migratory women who experience mutability, or the internal and external changes as a trauma response after British colonial rule ended and the 1947 Partition abruptly fractured national identity. Though this mutability has positive and negative transformative qualities, it also allows women characters the power to remove themselves from cycles of oppression, work towards healing, and transforming their physical bodies from sites of repressed trauma to sites of expression and agency. What binds them is not only their physical …

A Friend Who Does Me No Good: Aphorism In Matteo Ricci’S On Friendship, Maximilian Chan Weiher

Asian Languages and Cultures Honors Projects

This paper argues that Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) designed his aphoristic compilation, Jiaoyou Lun 交友論–On Friendship (1595)–to serve the Jesuit mission of converting the Chinese to Catholicism and express the conflict he may have felt exploiting friends to forward the Jesuit mission. Utilizing friendships to allow for greater social influence was central to the Jesuit proselytization strategy in China. However, Ricci’s moral education from youth taught him to judge utilitarian friendships as immoral. The extant scholarship regarding Ricci’s On Friendship fails to acknowledge the significance of the aphoristic form to this work. To illuminate the value of aphorism …

Kebijakan Israel Dan Dampaknya Terhadap Cara Hidup Suku Badui Di Negev, Irena Arifa Khairunnisa, Suranta Abdul Rahman

Multikultura

Perubahan budaya nomaden Suku Badui Negev dipengaruh oleh beberapa faktor eksternal. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi fenomena tersebut, seperti adanya kebijakan Israel terhadap cara hidup Badui di Negev, yang pada awalnya dapat berkelana dengan bebas di padang gurun yang luas, sejak pembangunan Negara Israel pada 1948, semuanya berubah drastis. Transisi ini bahkan dibersamai dengan sengketa kepemilikan lahan yang terjadi antara Badui Negev dan pemerintah Israel. Suku Badui di Negev tidak lagi bisa berpindah-pindah seperti sebelumnya. Mereka mulai mengalami perubahan mulai dari pranata kehidupan, peran kaum laki-laki dan perempuan dalam ruang domestik, serta bentuk tempat tinggal mereka.

Leksem Makara Dengan Turunannya Dalam Al-Qur’An Dan Kata Makar Dalam Bahasa Indonesia, Diana Fajrin Mardhiyyah, Basuni Imamuddin

Multikultura

Penelitian ini menganalisis makna leksem makara yang terdapat di dalam bahasa Arab dan Al-Qur’an, dan makna kata makar yang terdapat pada bahasa Indonesia. Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi leksem makara yang diserap ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia tidak memiliki makna ‘menjatuhkan Pemerintah’ atau berasosiasi dengan politik. Untuk membuktikan leksem makara tidak memiliki makna ‘menjatuhkan Pemerintah’, seluruh leksem makara dan derivasinya di dalam Al-Qur’an yang berjumlah 43 tidak memiliki makna tersebut. Penelitian dilakukan dengan metode kualitatif dan studi pustaka dengan tahapan identifikasi, klasifikasi, analisis, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Teori yang digunakan di dalam penelitian ini adalah teori perubahan makna dari Abdul Chaer dan komponen makna …

Pengaruh Anime Yuru Camp Terhadap Pariwisata Perfektur Yamanashi, Alisa Nur Rachmawati, Didit Dwi Subagio

Multikultura

Pemerintah Jepang melakukan berbagai upaya untuk mempromosikan pariwisata. Anime merupakan salah satu bentuk dari budaya populer yang berperan sebagai media promosi oleh pemerintah Jepang dalam upaya tersebut. Salah satunya adalah anime Yuru Camp yang diluncurkan pada tahun 2018. Yuru Camp adalah anime yang bertema kemah dan kegiatan outdoor pada musim dingin. Anime ini menstimulus penontonnya untuk berkunjung ke perfektur Yamanashi. Penelitian ini akan membahas mengenai upaya yang dilakukan guna mengembangkan pariwisata Yamanashi serta dampak dari kerjasama tersebut. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengkaji seberapa besar pengaruh anime Yuru Camp terhadap pariwisata perfektur Yamanashi. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatif …

Akulturasi Budaya Belanda Dan Indonesia Di Restoran H.E.M.A. Tis Square Tebet, Khalisya Zahwa Rachmadina, Fajar Muhammad Nugraha

Multikultura

Indonesia dan Belanda dikenal memiliki banyak keterkaitan karena adanya kontak secara terus-menerus pada masa lampau sehingga terdapat berbagai dampak dalam berbagai aspek. Salah satu aspek yang terdampak hingga saat ini adalah budaya, seperti pada restoran-restoran Belanda di Indonesia yang melakukan akulturasi budaya. Penelitian ini dibuat dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui upaya penyesuaian budaya dalam bentuk akulturasi apa yang telah dilakukan oleh Restoran H.E.M.A. TIS Square Tebet dan bagaimana respon dari para pengunjung terhadap akulturasi yang dilakukan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan teori akulturasi oleh Redfield, Linton, dan Herskovits melalui pendekatan studi kasus yaitu mengumpulkan data dengan mengobservasi objek yang diteliti …

Representasi Nilai Moral Kemanusiaan Dalam Iklan Ramadhan - Month Of Mercy – Almara’I Emotional Commercial 2015: Sebuah Analisis Semiotika, Indy Alyssa Mumtaza, Letmiros Letmiros

Multikultura

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk meneliti tentang representasi nilai moral kemanusiaan yang terkandung dalam iklan Ramadhan - Month of Mercy – Almara’i Emotional Commercial yang dirilis pada 29 Juni 2015 lalu. Almara’i adalah salah satu perusahaan makanan dan minuman terbesar di Arab Saudi yang berdiri tahun 1977 mengiklankan produk-produknya, di antaranya melalui situs YouTube. Iklan yang sudah ditonton oleh lebih dari 70 ribu kali ini berisi nilai-nilai moral kemanusiaan baik yang tersurat maunpun yang tersirat. Melalui iklan ini, penulis akan menganalisis nilai-nilai moral kemanusiaan yang direpresentasikan melalui beberapa adegan dan cuplikan yang ditampilkan dalam iklan ini dengan pendekatan Semiotika beserta …

Fenomena Godoksa (Meninggal Dalam Kesendirian) Di Korea Selatan Dalam Drama Move To Heaven, Ella Cipta Dewi, Euis Sulastri

Multikultura

Fenomena meninggal dalam kesendirian (MDK) kini kian menjadi masalah sosial utama di Korea Selatan. Fenomena MDK merupakan keadaan ketika seseorang yang tinggal sendiri, terputus hubungannya dari keluarga atau kerabat, meninggal sendirian dan jasadnya ditemukan setelah jangka waktu tertentu berlalu. Fenomena ini menunjukkan lemahnya ikatan sosial atau solidaritas dalam masyarakat Korea Selatan. Isu ini diangkat ke dalam berbagai karya sastra, salah satunya drama Korea. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan bagaimana fenomena MDK dan eksklusi sosial pada korban MDK digambarkan dalam drama Move to Heaven. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif dengan konsep eksklusi sosial untuk menganalisis gambaran fenomena MDK melalui gambar …

Analisis Mono No Aware Dalam Film Animasi Kono Sekai Nokatasumi Ni Karya Sunao Katabuchi, Fathia Aufa Syahidah, Thufail Akhdan Zaki, Ilma Sawindra Janti

Multikultura

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui mono no awareness yang terdapat dalam film “Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni” atau “In This Corner of the World” dengan bantuan teori mise en scène. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan metode analisis deskriptif. Lima adegan dengan empat belas foto terlampir dari film ini digunakan sebagai sampel data untuk analisis. Hasil analisis yang diperoleh menunjukkan bahwa seluruh data yang diambil dari film tersebut mengandung mono no awareness di dalamnya. Mise en scène yang terdapat dalam adegan tersebut sebagian besar memiliki pencahayaan lembut (matahari) yang memberikan kesan lembut dan sedih pada adegan tersebut. Secara …

Isagani Cruz And His Fiction: A Footnote To The “Deconstructive Effect Of Feminist Materialism On The Newly-Discovered Cordillera Archives”, Isidoro M. Cruz

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

A cursory reading of Isagani R. Cruz’s literary theory and criticism on one hand, and his fiction on the other, suggests a disparity between Cruz as a scholarly literary critic and Cruz as a fictionist of stories “for adults only”; however, a detail in one of his short stories in his book, Father Solo and Other Stories for Adults Only, arouses a critical suspicion that his fiction is actually cultural criticism masquerading as irreverent or obscene fiction, so that the critic and the fictionist are one. That detail is found in “Once upon a Time Some Years from Now,” …

Lives Away From Home And Precarious Writing As Life: Reading Bienvenido Santos’S Postscript To Saintly Life, Ivan Emil A. Labayne

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

Towards the end of his writing career, Bienvenido Santos published two autobiographies, Memory’s Fictions and Postscript to Saintly Life—a departure in a writing life mostly devoted to penning fictional works. This paper focuses on the last autobiography which mainly looks at Santos’s experiences as a pensionado in America. It pays attention to how Santos writes about his Philippine home while in exile, taking part in a program that is part of the American colonial period. The range of Santos’s emotions—with shame and pride on both ends—while abroad is also examined. How these emotions were manifested in the book served …

Marginal Voices, Silenced Annotations: Notes On The Life Of Edith L. Tiempo, Cris Barbra N. Pe

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

The popular version of National Artist for Literature Edith L. Tiempo is that she holds a central position as the literary matriarch of the Philippines. However, little is known about her background as a partly tribal (indigenous) woman. This paper proposes that biography can be a form of intervention to recuperate silenced narratives and marginal lives. Drawing from the ideas of the Geneva School of Consciousness, biography can be seen as a form of reading, where latent images in an author’s works can be made manifest and reveal hidden narratives in the author’s life. Edith’s life and works yield images …