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Online Patriarchal Bargains And Social Support: Struggles And Strategies Of Unwed Single Mothers In China, Xiaoman Zhao, Sun Sun Lim Nov 2021

Online Patriarchal Bargains And Social Support: Struggles And Strategies Of Unwed Single Mothers In China, Xiaoman Zhao, Sun Sun Lim

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

Patriarchal bargains have been studied in many settings as a strategy that helps women circumvent constraints and forge spaces for individual empowerment. Despite the growing use of mediated communication, little is known about how patriarchal bargains are enacted and realized within online interactions such as in discussion forums. By analyzing how Chinese unwed single mothers renegotiate the state’s oppressive population control and gender policies through their online activity, this study proposes the concept of “online patriarchal bargain” to extend patriarchal bargain theory to women’s Internet use. It further explores linkages between social support and patriarchal bargain to elucidate how support …

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Battling Over Bathwater: Greywater Technopolitics In Los Angeles, Sayd Randle Nov 2021

Battling Over Bathwater: Greywater Technopolitics In Los Angeles, Sayd Randle

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

In Los Angeles, domestic wastewater recycling ("greywater") systems are controversial, loved by local environmentalists and disdained by the city's water agencies. Drawing on fieldwork among greywater advocates and public water agency workers, this article examines how greywater systems function as nodes that unsettle relations between residents and the public agencies that manage the city's water grid. Elaborating the longstanding frictions over greywater reuse in LA reveals how these fixtures are mobilized by advocates to rescript the roles of both individuals and the state within the urban waterscape. Detailing public agency workers' resistance to this form of selective disconnection from the …

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Transformational Leadership And Information And Communication Technologies (Icts): A Case Study Of Primary Teachers At An Urban School In Bogotá, Colombia, Mary Elizabeth Ferguson Nov 2021

Transformational Leadership And Information And Communication Technologies (Icts): A Case Study Of Primary Teachers At An Urban School In Bogotá, Colombia, Mary Elizabeth Ferguson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to establish if transformational leadership influenced teachers’ attitudes and usage of information and communication technologies in an urban public school in Colombia. Transformational leadership components were examined to determine if school leaders exhibited transformational leadership characteristics and if their leadership style influenced teachers’ attitudes and information and communication technologies usage. A convenience sample of 29 primary teachers and four school leaders participated in the study. There were 16 teachers who participated in semistructured interviews and 13 teachers who participated in a 90-minute focus group discussion. Semistructured interviews, document analysis, focus group discussion, …

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Limits Of The Rule Of Law: Negotiating Afghan "Traditional" Law In The International Civil Trials In The Czech Republic, Tomas Ledvinka, James M. Donovan Nov 2021

Limits Of The Rule Of Law: Negotiating Afghan "Traditional" Law In The International Civil Trials In The Czech Republic, Tomas Ledvinka, James M. Donovan

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Drawing on ethnographic research of judicial cases in the Czech Republic which involve the law in migrants' countries of origin, this Article outlines how multiple strategies handle encounters with the legal-cultural differences of Afghanistan in order to neutralize what may be called the "alterity" of law. The Article suggests that far from being analytical tools, concepts such as "context," "culture," and "customary" are strategically used by courts to neutralize unsettling aspects of foreign Afghan legalities. Further, it applies Leopold Pospisil's ethnological concept of legal authority as a vehicle for reinterpreting the contextual differentiation of Afghan "traditional" law as an alternative …

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Exploring A New Dimension Of Learning And Work In Kosovo: An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Non-Formal Learning, Employability, And The Job Performance Of Young People, Clirim Sheremeti Nov 2021

Exploring A New Dimension Of Learning And Work In Kosovo: An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Non-Formal Learning, Employability, And The Job Performance Of Young People, Clirim Sheremeti

Theses

The mismatch between what is taught in schools and what is required in the labor market is one of the foremost problems that the labor market and young people in Kosovo face today. In 2019, 49.4% of working-age young people in Kosovo were unemployed and 32.5% of youth in Kosovo were not in education, employment, or training (NEET), the highest percentage in the region ("Punësimi dhe analiza e tregut të punës në Kosovë", 2020). Out of those who were employed, 56% of them work in occupations that do not match their educational qualifications ("What are the challenges of being young …

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Ucf Libraries Programming Report, 2020-2021, Megan M. Haught, Ucf Libraries Nov 2021

Ucf Libraries Programming Report, 2020-2021, Megan M. Haught, Ucf Libraries

Libraries' Documents

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‘Jesus Is Not A Foreign God’: Baptist Music Making In Burma/Myanmar, Heather Maclachlan Oct 2021

‘Jesus Is Not A Foreign God’: Baptist Music Making In Burma/Myanmar, Heather Maclachlan

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

Christians in the Southeast Asian country of Burma, also known as Myanmar, make up approximately five percent of the national population. The Christian community of Burma includes both Catholics and Protestants, and Baptists predominate among the Protestants. In this article I argue that twenty-first century Protestant Burmese Christians fulfill both aspects of a “twofold legacy” bequeathed to them by Adoniram Judson, the first Baptist missionary to Burma, and that their fulfillment of this legacy is manifest in their musical practices. I further argue that it has been, and continues to be, to Burmese Christians’ advantage to emphasize both aspects of …

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A Politics And Ethics Of Viewing Photographs Of Duterte’S “Drug War”: Towards Reconceptualizing The Political Community, Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo Oct 2021

A Politics And Ethics Of Viewing Photographs Of Duterte’S “Drug War”: Towards Reconceptualizing The Political Community, Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

This paper proposes a framework for a politics and ethics of viewing photographs of atrocities and suffering through an analysis of photographs of Rodrigo Duterte’s “drug war” in the Philippines and responses to these images. It situates these politics and ethics of viewing in a context of violent othering and Ariella Azoulay’s conceptualization of “regime-made disaster.” This framework is grounded on fellow-feeling and imagined identification as well as on the relationality, powers of mourning, and ethical responsibility that Judith Butler asserts and is operationalized through the “civil contract of photography” called forth by Azoulay. Following Azoulay and Butler, this paper …

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“Thrilla In Manila”: Troubling Theatricality And Uneasy Spectator Affects Surrounding The Ringside Bar Midget Boxing And Wrestling, Neslie Carol Tan Oct 2021

“Thrilla In Manila”: Troubling Theatricality And Uneasy Spectator Affects Surrounding The Ringside Bar Midget Boxing And Wrestling, Neslie Carol Tan

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

This paper illustrates how performance and affect inform disability politics in the case of Filipino Little People wrestlers and boxers at the Ringside Bar along a red-light district in Makati City, Philippines. The archive of the study focuses on the reception of its primarily foreign visitors as manifested online, including the bar’s unofficial Facebook account, review-based websites, and select travel and expatriate blogs/vlogs where reviews of these attractions most actively circulate. First, I map out the troubling theatricality of midget wrestling and boxing, identifying their cast, choreographies, and designs, to reveal traces of freak show traditions. Second, I unpack the …

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Institutionally Speaking: Speech Departments And The Making Of A Philippine Eloquent Modernity, Oscar Tantoco Serquina Jr. Oct 2021

Institutionally Speaking: Speech Departments And The Making Of A Philippine Eloquent Modernity, Oscar Tantoco Serquina Jr.

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

This essay initiates a historiographical account of speech departments in the University of the Philippines (UP) and Silliman University. Founded in 1959 and 1965, respectively, these academic formations are the two existing bastions for the comprehensive and disciplinary study and practice of speech/speech communication in the country and the rest of Asia. This essay explores a) the use of speech as the organizing principle of scholarly inquiry in the Philippine modern university, b) the pedagogies composing Philippine speech curricula, c) the performances enacted by speech programs in UP and Silliman University, d) the speaking subjects that speech departments seek to …

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Contributors, Contributing Authors Oct 2021

Contributors, Contributing Authors

Akda: The Asian Journal of Literature, Culture, Performance

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Kujtesa Kolektive Nëpërmjet Arkitekturës Në Qytetin E Prishtinës, Drilona Berisha, Arbër Sadiki Oct 2021

Kujtesa Kolektive Nëpërmjet Arkitekturës Në Qytetin E Prishtinës, Drilona Berisha, Arbër Sadiki

UBT International Conference

This research aims to focus on the topic of “collective memory”, what does collective memory mean and what are the main approaches to its use and preservation? Which is the role of Architecture as a discipline in all this vicious circle of collective memory, considering as a special case study the drastic transformation in the city of Prishtina. On this occasion, the golden periods and the flourishing years of architecture in Prishtina will be presented, in order to a better understanding of the genesis of Modernism in Prishtina and the socio-economic and political factors that influenced the destruction of the …

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International Conference Architecture And Spatial Planning, University For Business And Technology - Ubt Oct 2021

International Conference Architecture And Spatial Planning, University For Business And Technology - Ubt

UBT International Conference

UBT Annual International Conference is the 9th international interdisciplinary peer reviewed conference which publishes works of the scientists as well as practitioners in the area where UBT is active in Education, Research and Development. The UBT aims to implement an integrated strategy to establish itself as an internationally competitive, research-intensive university, committed to the transfer of knowledge and the provision of a world-class education to the most talented students from all background. The main perspective of the conference is to connect the scientists and practitioners from different disciplines in the same place and make them be aware of the recent …

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Towards A Decentered History Of Palestinian Revolutionary Cinema? Case Study Of The Film “Tall El Zaatar” In The Audiovisual Archives Of The Italian Communist Party, Hugo Darroman Oct 2021

Towards A Decentered History Of Palestinian Revolutionary Cinema? Case Study Of The Film “Tall El Zaatar” In The Audiovisual Archives Of The Italian Communist Party, Hugo Darroman

Regards

The film Tall El Zaatar (1977, Abu Ali, Pino, Chamoun, Palestine/Italy), a co-production between the Palestinian Cinema Institute and the Italian Communist Party’s (PCI) audiovisual company, was considered lost for three decades and finally rediscovered in 2011.
Beyond the dramatic stories surrounding this film, Tall El Zaatar reveals the importance of considering the transnational dimension of Palestinian militant cinema.
In this article about Tall El Zaatar, I approach the history of Palestinian revolutionary cinema through the traces left within the archives of an institution with which the Palestinian filmmakers collaborated.
On the basis of a set of interviews and …

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Iraqi Cinema Beyond The Screen And The Archives Of Leisure, Pelle Valentin Olsen Oct 2021

Iraqi Cinema Beyond The Screen And The Archives Of Leisure, Pelle Valentin Olsen

Regards

The emergence of new forms of leisure in Iraqi urban landscapes, such as cinemas, nightclubs, and theaters, unleashed debates about the dangers and potentials of leisure.
The result of this process is a vast, albeit scattered, archive of texts that deal with practices and institutions of leisure.
The archive of leisure, as it pertains to cinema, can be located across a variety of texts including memoirs, short stories, student essays, police records, official discourse, medical texts, and works by Iraqi historians.
Given the limited access to Iraqi film and cinema archives, the archive of leisure can offer an important addendum …

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Organizational Subcultures And Safety Culture In Shipping : Case Study Of Algeria, Nadhir Kahlouche Oct 2021

Organizational Subcultures And Safety Culture In Shipping : Case Study Of Algeria, Nadhir Kahlouche

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Ciné-Archivistes And The Metaleptic Archive Of Lebanese Cinema, Claire Launchbury, Marilyn Matar, Max Silverman Oct 2021

Ciné-Archivistes And The Metaleptic Archive Of Lebanese Cinema, Claire Launchbury, Marilyn Matar, Max Silverman

Regards

The article considers three Lebanese films – Il était une fois, Beyrouth (1995) by Jocelyne Saab, the short Le Liban à travers le cinéma (2003) and the documentary Cinéma de guerre au Liban (2003), both by Hady Zaccak – to explore the archival impulse in their composition.
We suggest that this impulse takes two major forms: the use of a montage of sequences from Lebanese films, or films about Lebanon, and crossovers between narrative thresholds and between fact and fiction.
We draw on Gérard Genette’s version of metalepsis to analyze the nature of these crossovers, and on the notion of …

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Reflections On Indian Casino Gaming And The Image Of The “Rich Indian”, Maja Muhic Oct 2021

Reflections On Indian Casino Gaming And The Image Of The “Rich Indian”, Maja Muhic

UBT International Conference

This paper revisits the controversial debates regarding casinos on Native American Reservations. Gambling on Native Indian reservations is a fairly recent phenomenon dating from the 80s. Gaming on native land raised a number of questions, ranging from legal issues to cultural tensions which excelled with surrounding communities. However, gaming on Native American land created a new image of the previously unimaginable “rich Indian” and it thus shook the myths about Native Americans. Gaming on native land has therefore disturbed the two most dominant perceptions about Natives – that of the inferior, savage, oppressed on the one hand, and the noble …

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Pemertahanan Kebudayaan Tionghoa Bangka Melalui Ritual Lok Thung Dalam Cerpen Karya Sunlie Thomas Alexander, Diyah Dariyatul Nafsichah, Djoko Saryono, Sunoto Sunoto Oct 2021

Pemertahanan Kebudayaan Tionghoa Bangka Melalui Ritual Lok Thung Dalam Cerpen Karya Sunlie Thomas Alexander, Diyah Dariyatul Nafsichah, Djoko Saryono, Sunoto Sunoto

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

Sunlie Thomas Alexander is one of the writers of Chinese descent who raised the world of Chinese Bangka. One of his interesting short story is "Jelaga hio". In the short story, Alexander illustrates clearly how people of Chinese descent in Bangka maintain culture through a lok thung rite. With literary anthropology, the short story can be seen how the preservation of Bangka Chinese community culture through lok thung rituals. Referring to this approach, the research data is in the form of idiographic data in the form of text excerpts. The Lok Thung ritual is the identity of the Chinese community …

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Policy Response For Marine Plastic Debris In Timor Leste, Maria Jeronimo Viana Oct 2021

Policy Response For Marine Plastic Debris In Timor Leste, Maria Jeronimo Viana

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Issue 17: Contributors, Don Flournoy Oct 2021

Issue 17: Contributors, Don Flournoy

Online Journal of Space Communication

List of Issue 17 Contributors

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Meeting Musical Experience In The Eye: Resonant Work By Teacher Candidates Through Body Mapping, Shelley M. Griffin Oct 2021

Meeting Musical Experience In The Eye: Resonant Work By Teacher Candidates Through Body Mapping, Shelley M. Griffin

Visions of Research in Music Education

When considering the possibility of teaching elementary music, many teacher candidates experience fear and lack of self-confidence. Addressing this issue points to the necessity of honoring teacher candidates’ informal music experiences in shaping music teacher identity. Integrating visual art into this process fosters a deeper understanding and connection with musical experience. Engaging students in creating visual narratives through body mapping allows for transformation in the teacher preparation process. In this article, the theoretical and methodological roots of body mapping are traced and situated in arts-based inquiry. Findings from a two-year narrative inquiry are uncovered as teacher candidates reveal their sentiments …

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Dewey, Hippie Communes, And Education, Luis S. Villacañas De Castro Oct 2021

Dewey, Hippie Communes, And Education, Luis S. Villacañas De Castro

Education and Culture

In this article I aim to establish a relevant connection between John Dewey’s educational philosophy and the hippie communes of the United States during the nineteen sixties and seventies. After an assessment of Dewey’s philosophy against the background of the countercultural sixties, I summarize and organize Dewey’s philosophical thought around the concepts of growth, experience, education, democracy, and occupations. I then look closely at seven memoirs describing life in five different hippie communes, and draw on them to present illustrations of the main tenets of Dewey’s educational philosophy and of its contemporary significance.

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Issue 16: Contributors, Don Flournoy, Ralph Nansen Oct 2021

Issue 16: Contributors, Don Flournoy, Ralph Nansen

Online Journal of Space Communication

Contributors to Issue 16

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On The Struggles And Experiences Of Southeast Asian American Academics, Long T. Bui Oct 2021

On The Struggles And Experiences Of Southeast Asian American Academics, Long T. Bui

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

This article examines Southeast Asian Americans (SEAA) academics in the U.S. academy, relating their complex positionalities within higher education to their communities and societies. While many educational studies have been done on SEAA students, almost none focus on professional scholars and college faculty. Combining cultural-structural critique with close analysis of public writings and personal interviews, the article finds that that SEAA are ignored, and/or tokenized in the Ivory Tower due to structural as well as epistemological issues. It indicates that the public discourse and policies about Southeast Asians in academia not only neglects racial and class hierarchies, but obscures issues …

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Through The Eyes Of Children: Telling Insights Into Music Experiences, Shelley M. Griffin Oct 2021

Through The Eyes Of Children: Telling Insights Into Music Experiences, Shelley M. Griffin

Visions of Research in Music Education

Seeing music education through the eyes of children leads to developing deepened conceptualizations of children’s daily musical lives, both in- and out-of-school. By thoughtfully attending to children’s perspectives and experiences, children become central informants to the life of elementary school music curricula. Various literature speaks to the relevance of this critical topic and examines various influences on children’s musical perspectives such as community context, digital media, and popular culture. A narrative is offered detailing a two-phase, three-month study guided by the research questions: 1) How do children experience music in their daily lives? and 2) How do children’s musical experiences …

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Mystery, Fire, And Intrigue Representation And Commodification Of Race In Band Literature, Joseph Abramo Oct 2021

Mystery, Fire, And Intrigue Representation And Commodification Of Race In Band Literature, Joseph Abramo

Visions of Research in Music Education

This article is a critical examination of ostensibly multicultural music for concert bands. Using Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence, I argue that “multicultural” band music, while celebrating diversity and inclusion, actually do the opposite—they are instead, created and used as tools that reproduce stereotypes and racial tropes. This system— where the symbolically violent act of racial tropes are misrecognized as such and celebrated as lessons in diversity—helps reify and perpetuate racial inequalities in society.

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Biographies Oct 2021

Biographies

Exile

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Gender Differences In Socio-Emotional And Socio-Cultural Perspectives Of Middle School Students In Stem Learning, Danielle A. Riney, Heng-Yu Ku Oct 2021

Gender Differences In Socio-Emotional And Socio-Cultural Perspectives Of Middle School Students In Stem Learning, Danielle A. Riney, Heng-Yu Ku

Journal of Educational Research and Innovation

This study investigated the socio-emotional and socio-cultural perspectives of 137 middle school students toward STEM learning in the U.S. Through a 27-item 5-point Likert scale, students’ responses were gathered to complete factor analysis, compute descriptive analysis, and calculate statistical differences found between genders. In socio-emotional learning, female participants scored higher than male participants in the grit and social-awareness factors, while both genders scored similarly in the self-efficacy factor. In socio-cultural learning, male participants scored higher than female participants in the socio-cultural influences factor while both genders scored similarly in the personal focus in STEM factor. However, a statistically significant difference …

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2021 October 28 - Academic Council Agenda And Minutes, Academic Council, East Tennessee State University Oct 2021

2021 October 28 - Academic Council Agenda And Minutes, Academic Council, East Tennessee State University

Academic Council Agenda and Minutes

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