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Technological Accessibility For Wildlife Telemetry Research, Andrew Danielson Dec 2024

Technological Accessibility For Wildlife Telemetry Research, Andrew Danielson

The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research

Over the course of two years, I conducted original research into improving accessibility for researchers in the field of wildlife telemetry. Wildlife telemetry is a technique used by biologists to track wildlife in the field, which requires the biologist to attach a small radio transmitter to an animal, usually using a specially designed collar, harness, or another means. These transmitters are battery powered and will emit or transmit a regularly timed radio signal that can be received by radio receivers carried by the researchers. Two issues faced by wildlife telemetry researchers are the cost of wildlife telemetry equipment and the …


Preliminary Checklist Of Amphipod Crustaceans From Sapelo Island, Ga, Abigail Dugger*, Kristine N. White Ph.D. Dec 2024

Preliminary Checklist Of Amphipod Crustaceans From Sapelo Island, Ga, Abigail Dugger*, Kristine N. White Ph.D.

Georgia Journal of Science

Amphipods belonging to the subphylum Crustacea inhabit many aquatic habitats, and they can often inform scientists and researchers about various environmental conditions, acting as biological indicators, yet documentation of amphipod species is lacking in the state of Georgia. During this study amphipods were collected from around Sapelo Island, GA, imaged, and identified. A preliminary checklist and identification key to Sapelo Island amphipods is provided. This checklist and key will be useful for researchers and citizen scientists alike, for monitoring the health of the environment, surveying biodiversity, and for use in other applied studies.


2.5 Pasaway, Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta Dec 2024

2.5 Pasaway, Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Toward A Renewal Of Critical Practice: Reflections On The Occupy Movement And Filipino Self Determination, Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao Dec 2024

Toward A Renewal Of Critical Practice: Reflections On The Occupy Movement And Filipino Self Determination, Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao

Kritika Kultura

This essay examines the significance of the developing Occupy movement within the United States, which emerged from a year of global protests (2011). It suggests that one way to broaden its vision of solidarity is to renew our critical practice (“conscientization and action” – borrowing from Brazilian educator Paulo Freire). A renewal of critical practice within the context of this essay involves examining the following more closely: 1) the dynamics of race and class in the United States and abroad, 2) the site of the academy (the politics of knowledge production), and 3.) the significance of our submerged histories of …


“Give The People What They Want”: Bodies On Display In Marlene Van Niekerk’S Triomf, Lara Buxbaum Dec 2024

“Give The People What They Want”: Bodies On Display In Marlene Van Niekerk’S Triomf, Lara Buxbaum

Kritika Kultura

Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf has attained both literary acclaim and notoriety since it was first published in Afrikaans in 1994 (English translation 1999). This darkly comic novel is set at the dawn of the democratic election and as such, the fictional context mirrors the historical moment in which it was published. The novel relates the misadventures of the incestuous and indigent Afrikaans family, the Benades, whose grotesque bodies are described in minute detail. The paper examines the reason for this visceral corporeality in the context of Louise Bethlehem’s classification of the post-apartheid literary canon as one “in which the abject …


The Long And Short Of It: Reflection On “Form” In Recent South African Fiction, Chris Thurman Dec 2024

The Long And Short Of It: Reflection On “Form” In Recent South African Fiction, Chris Thurman

Kritika Kultura

This paper takes as its starting point not those aspects of “form” associated with “formalist” criticism—structure, prose style, figurative language, or other aesthetic elements—but rather the more mundane consideration of length and the related matter of genre. This is a deliberately literal (rather than literary) interpretation of “form”: what does a book look and feel like when held in the reader’s hand? What reader expectations are aroused? From the answers to these questions can be discerned certain trends in recent (post-apartheid/transitional) fiction—or, more specifically, in writing and publishing practices. In 2004, Michael Chapman identified the short story as the literary …


Movement, Memory, Transformation, And Transition In The City: Literary Representations Of Johannesburg In Post-Apartheid South African Texts, Anne Putter Dec 2024

Movement, Memory, Transformation, And Transition In The City: Literary Representations Of Johannesburg In Post-Apartheid South African Texts, Anne Putter

Kritika Kultura

“Writing the city,” particularly writing the city of Johannesburg, in post-apartheid South African fiction can be considered a new approach to interpreting South African culture—a new approach that takes into consideration and reflects the changes taking place in present-day South African society. Texts written on Johannesburg such as Kgebetli Moele’s Room 207 (2006) and Ivan Vladislavić’s The Restless Supermarket (2001) are utilizing the subject matter and everyday life of the city as an “idea,” as a means of expressing societal concerns and other important changes taking place in the country as a whole. The paper will identify and consider how …


Immersive And Counter-Immersive Styles Of Writing Aids In Sindiwe Magona’S Beauty’S Gift And Kgebetli Moele’S The Book Of The Dead: A Didactic Approach To Writing Aids, Kulukazi Soldati-Kahimbaara Dec 2024

Immersive And Counter-Immersive Styles Of Writing Aids In Sindiwe Magona’S Beauty’S Gift And Kgebetli Moele’S The Book Of The Dead: A Didactic Approach To Writing Aids, Kulukazi Soldati-Kahimbaara

Kritika Kultura

Two distinct responses to the growing body of literature on AIDS, according to Joseph Cady, are immersive and counter-immersive AIDS writing. The former addresses itself to the denial which has dominated worldwide reaction to AIDS, and confronts this denial squarely in an effort to undo it. Central to immersive writing is an attempt to thrust the reader into a direct imaginative confrontation with the special horrors of AIDS, and thus forcing him/her to deal with these horrors with no relief or buffer provided by the writer. In Magona’s Beauty’s Gift, this is evident when Beauty wastes away suddenly, but denies …


Dark Humor: Satire, The Baroque, And The Carnivalesque In Patricia Schonstein’S Banquet At Brabazan And Ingrid Winterbach’S The Elusive Moth, Heather Acott Dec 2024

Dark Humor: Satire, The Baroque, And The Carnivalesque In Patricia Schonstein’S Banquet At Brabazan And Ingrid Winterbach’S The Elusive Moth, Heather Acott

Kritika Kultura

Both Patricia Schonstein’s Banquet at Brabazan and Ingrid Winterbach’s The Elusive Moth contain an element of baroque fantasy, and in Schonstein’s case the makings of a contemporary satire. They also exhibit the tension between the comic and the tragic, the city and the platteland, between flights of imagination and the magnetic pull of a dark social realism that both underpins and, in Schonstein’s case, sometimes undermines the work. This paper investigates the use of humor in writing against the grain of apartheid, and how successful these writers are at integrating history in a dynamic fiction. Published respectively in 1991 (Winterbach) …


Living In Disgrace Without Term, Peter Horn Dec 2024

Living In Disgrace Without Term, Peter Horn

Kritika Kultura

This paper provides a reading of J.M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace. Professor David Lurie, formerly professor of modern languages, then of communication, has seduced one of his students in the Romantics class, and was dismissed by the university after a disciplinary hearing where he refuses to defend himself against the charges. He pleads guilty, denying the right of the university to judge the morality of his conduct. Later he states: “I became a servant of Eros” and “I am not prepared to be reformed. I want to go on being myself.” When asked by his daughter to make his case, Lurie …


Opportunity And Anxiety In The Post-Apartheid Society: The South African Novel Since 1990, Peter Horn, Anette Horn Dec 2024

Opportunity And Anxiety In The Post-Apartheid Society: The South African Novel Since 1990, Peter Horn, Anette Horn

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Coetzee In And Out Of Cape Town, Imraan Coovadia Dec 2024

Coetzee In And Out Of Cape Town, Imraan Coovadia

Kritika Kultura

This paper is an attempt to see J.M. Coetzee’s emigration from South Africa to Australia as a logical step within his career, and to understand Coetzee’s relationship with the city and university of Cape Town. It also tries to set out the nature of Coetzee’s self-assertion and self-canonization, and the interplay between Coetzee and the Coetzeean critics.


"Wedded In The Association": Heteroglossic Form And Fragmentary Histiography In Nick Joaquin's Almanac For Manileños, Vincenz Serrano Dec 2024

"Wedded In The Association": Heteroglossic Form And Fragmentary Histiography In Nick Joaquin's Almanac For Manileños, Vincenz Serrano

Kritika Kultura

Almanac for Manileños (1979) by Nick Joaquin (1917-2004) is “a calendar, a weather chart, a sanctoral, a zodiac guide, and a mini encyclopedia on the world of the Manileño.” Undergirded by Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of heteroglossia, Walter Benjamin’s montage method in writing history, and Reynaldo Ileto’s notion of non-linear emplotment, the essay engages with the Almanac’s calendars and essays and offers four claims. Firstly, although multiple genres embedded in the Almanac—which include, apart from the abovementioned, horoscopes, recipes and light verse—stratify the text, temporal associativeness offers a sense of cohesion. Secondly, the formal strategy of the calendars—typified by correspondence and …


Memory And The Diasporic Creative Imagination: Preeta Smarasan's Evening Is The Whole Day, Shanthini Pillai Dec 2024

Memory And The Diasporic Creative Imagination: Preeta Smarasan's Evening Is The Whole Day, Shanthini Pillai

Kritika Kultura

The focal point of this paper is the concept of transnational memory and the blurred and fluctuating boundaries of ties with the nation that was once home as depicted in Evening is the Whole Day, a novel by Preeta Samarasan, part of the emergent community of new Malaysian diasporic writers. New Malaysian diasporic writers in the context of this paper are taken to refer to writers who were born in Malaysia but are now settled elsewhere in the globe, and yet are recognizably transnational in that their writings focus on the older country and memories of family, community, and a …


"Sita Puts Out The Fire": Some Depictions Of The Testing Of Sita's Virtue In Indonesian, Malay, And Thai Literature, Harry Aveling Dec 2024

"Sita Puts Out The Fire": Some Depictions Of The Testing Of Sita's Virtue In Indonesian, Malay, And Thai Literature, Harry Aveling

Kritika Kultura

The Ramayana has been known in many forms throughout South and Southeast Asia for almost two thousand years. This paper deals with one incident in the epic: Sita’s trial by fire as proof of her chastity and loyalty to her husband Rama immediately following the defeat of Sita’s captor, the ten-headed monster Ravana, and her residence in the monster’s palace for four years. The story is told somewhat differently in the classical Malay Hikayt Seri Rama and the Thai Ramakien—partly for religious reasons but retaining a patriarchal emphasis. There are also modern retellings of this incident in Indonesian and Thai. …


América Is In The Archipelago: Mariano De La Rosa's Fíame And The Filipino (American) Novel In Spanish Of World War Ii, Adam Lifshey Dec 2024

América Is In The Archipelago: Mariano De La Rosa's Fíame And The Filipino (American) Novel In Spanish Of World War Ii, Adam Lifshey

Kritika Kultura

Via analysis of the World War II novel Fíame (Filipinas-América) [Trust in Me (Philippines-America)] by Mariano L. De la Rosa, this essay argues that Filipino literature in Spanish written during the United States colonial period undermines any normative definitions of both American and Filipino literature. Fíame, a hitherto unknown text, challenges the marginality of its oblivion by revamping putative national boundaries through a symbolic plot in which two couples, each composed of a Filipino and an American, develop subtly subversive relationships before, during, and immediately after the War. The novel thereby can be connected to questions of Filipino American identity …


Feeling Inclusion: Becoming-With In Narrative Inquiry With An Inclusive Educator, Srikala Naraian, Maddie Neufeld, Yoomi Bae Dec 2024

Feeling Inclusion: Becoming-With In Narrative Inquiry With An Inclusive Educator, Srikala Naraian, Maddie Neufeld, Yoomi Bae

Turning Toward Being: The Journal of Ontological Inquiry in Education

As narrative researchers, our inquiry into the ordinary work of teachers as they go about enacting inclusive pedagogies presumes that “a person’s experience must be listened to on its own terms first, without the presumption of deficit or flaw” (Clandinin & Rosiek 2007 50). We simultaneously turn away from a human-centered agency opening up to the possibilities for thinking, feeling, doing, and being that are evoked when we imagine the teacher as non-sovereign, intra-acting, and becoming among bodies of schooling. We move frictionally (Springgay & Truman 2018) through these frameworks as we attempt a narration of a teacher. Departing from …


Rhetorical Empathy In The Context Of Ontology, Lou Agosta Dec 2024

Rhetorical Empathy In The Context Of Ontology, Lou Agosta

Turning Toward Being: The Journal of Ontological Inquiry in Education

This article aspires to elaborate the intersection of empathy and rhetoric with particular reference to empathic responsiveness. The argument regarding rhetorical empathy in the context of ontology proceeds through three phases. First, empathy is distinguished ontologically from a psychological mechanism. Second, the different aspects of empathy are exemplified. What brings forth empathy and makes it present? Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology is usefully appropriated for an ontological account of empathy. The elaboration of the intersection of empathy and rhetoric goes beyond Heidegger; and the argument is made that empathy is incomplete without an empathic response. This empathic response is the opening in …


Ontological Inquiry In The World Of Law: Bringing Forth Subjective Experiencing From The Shadows, Margarida Garcia Dec 2024

Ontological Inquiry In The World Of Law: Bringing Forth Subjective Experiencing From The Shadows, Margarida Garcia

Turning Toward Being: The Journal of Ontological Inquiry in Education

This article explores how we assess the value of ontological inquiry in the world of law, and to that end, it seeks to bring forth “seeings” that show up when we open the “curtains” of law, and engage the world of law as a field of subjective experience. By revisiting subjective impressions left from participation in the world of law, and that, for the most part, have remained unexamined, the author imagines what an “ontologically sensitive” approach to legal education, practice, and scholarship might look like and be if more space was given to those who participate in those …


Editorial Statement: Volume 2, Issues 1 And 2, Carolyne J. White Dec 2024

Editorial Statement: Volume 2, Issues 1 And 2, Carolyne J. White

Turning Toward Being: The Journal of Ontological Inquiry in Education

No abstract provided.


Tiberias: Glass Finds And Production Debris, Yael Gorin-Rosen Dec 2024

Tiberias: Glass Finds And Production Debris, Yael Gorin-Rosen

Qadum: Journal of Excavation Reports from Israel

Around 300 glass fragments, along with glass industry waste, were found in the Tiberias excavation. About half were diagnostic and represented several periods: Early Roman, Late Roman to early Byzantine, Byzantine to late Byzantine and Early Islamic. Nine vessels and a stirring rod are illustrated and discussed, while others are mentioned in the text. The glass artifacts discovered during the excavation correspond to well-known types from Tiberias and its surrounding areas, as well as from a broader distribution. Most were likely produced locally, as evidenced by workshop debris found in this and other excavations in Tiberias, and supported by written …


Ḥorbat Ṭurit (South): A Late Pottery Neolithic Ephemeral Site In The ‘Akko Plain, Dmitry Yegorov, Nuha Agha Dec 2024

Ḥorbat Ṭurit (South): A Late Pottery Neolithic Ephemeral Site In The ‘Akko Plain, Dmitry Yegorov, Nuha Agha

Qadum: Journal of Excavation Reports from Israel

An ephemeral prehistoric site was recovered south of the multi-period settlement of Ḥorbat Ṭurit, in the section between Yasif Junction and the ‘Akko East interchange. The site revealed an archaeological layer on top of sterile terra rosa soil. According to the analysis of the lithic assemblage, the site dates to the Late Pottery Neolithic period. Despite the limited excavated area and the absence of architectural or other constructed elements, the occupation level of the site yielded a significant number of flint artifacts, some pottery and stone tool fragments, as well as a small collection of faunal remains. The excavation results …


Kefar Veradim: An Intermediate Bronze Age Communal Burial Ground In Western Upper Galilee, Edwin C.M. Van Den Brink Dec 2024

Kefar Veradim: An Intermediate Bronze Age Communal Burial Ground In Western Upper Galilee, Edwin C.M. Van Den Brink

Qadum: Journal of Excavation Reports from Israel

Between 2016 and 2018, three brief salvage excavations conducted northwest of Kefar Veradim uncovered twenty rock-cut shafts leading into multiple burial chambers dating to the Intermediate Bronze Age, as well as five associated rock-cut basins of purportedly mortuary function. These tombs are part of a burial ground extending along a rocky spur overlooking Naḥal Yeḥiʻam. At least ten of the identified underground burial chambers, which were of two different types and originally sealed with flat stone slabs, had been robbed in antiquity. The remaining tombs could not be explored due to significant interference from the ultra-Orthodox burial society Atra Kadisha.


Gay Language: Defying The Structural Limits Of English Language In The Philippines, Norberto V. Casabal Dec 2024

Gay Language: Defying The Structural Limits Of English Language In The Philippines, Norberto V. Casabal

Kritika Kultura

Gay language has achieved a higher degree of acceptance in recent years in the Philippines. Both gays and non-gays can be heard uttering gay expressions. But the main role of gayspeak for gay people in the Philippines is to function as an “armor” to shield themselves from the chasm and the social stigma caused by gender differences. From a linguistic point of view, this paper not only describes the nature of this gay language and how expressions are coined; it also looks at how code mixing (gayspeak + English language) is made possible. This paper also examines how this code-mixing …


Sneaking Into The Philippines, Along The Rivers Of Babylon: An Intervention Into The Language Question, E. San Juan Jr. Dec 2024

Sneaking Into The Philippines, Along The Rivers Of Babylon: An Intervention Into The Language Question, E. San Juan Jr.

Kritika Kultura

The following are remarks made on 12 March 2008 at the launching of Balikbayang Sinta: An E. San Juan Reader published by Ateneo de Manila UP. Here the author puts forward seven theses through which the contentious “language question” may be reexamined, especially as it touches on issues of national solidarity.


Always Moving Toward Justice, John Streamas Dec 2024

Always Moving Toward Justice, John Streamas

Kritika Kultura

This review-essay discovers in the poems of E. San Juan, Jr. an evolving and passionate engagement with exile and hope. To be an exile, especially a Filipino exile, is not to be a tourist, idly consuming and colonizing, but to absorb languages and histories that console and inspire. Drawn from the lessons of decades of exile, the poems and the concluding essay confront injustice—the ways, for instance, in which oppressors colonize even time and space—and also envision a future when revolution replaces rootlessness, when migrants come home.


Anatomy Of Exile, Tamara Powell Dec 2024

Anatomy Of Exile, Tamara Powell

Kritika Kultura

This review essay provides an overview of the poetry and essays in E. San Juan, Jr.’s Balikbayang Mahal: Passages from Exile. Close attention is paid to “Mask of the Poet,” “Spring in Den Haag, Nederland, 25 March 2007,” “Vicissitudes of the Love and Death of Vladimir Mayakovsky,” and “Sa Loob at Labas Ng Bayan Kon Sawi: Emergency Signals from a Filipino Exile.” The book as a whole combines the postmodern idea of the lack of authentic, monadic self with the ancient idea that everything is connected.


The Planet As Homeland, Charlie Samuya Veric Dec 2024

The Planet As Homeland, Charlie Samuya Veric

Kritika Kultura

The review essay outlines the relationship between the planet and homeland as sites of unfreedom and freedom for Filipinos everywhere. Using E. San Juan’s new collection of poems, the review essay argues that the logic of translation is crucial to understanding the connection between the planet and homeland. To understand this connection is to imagine the future of Filipinos who share the fate of slaves, refugees, detainees, and immigrants across the planet.


Postcolonial English Language Politics Today: Reading Ramanathan's The English-Vernacular Divide, T. Ruanni F. Tupas Dec 2024

Postcolonial English Language Politics Today: Reading Ramanathan's The English-Vernacular Divide, T. Ruanni F. Tupas

Kritika Kultura

In this essay, I will discuss the ideological structure of current postcolonial English language politics in the world, arguing that despite the “advances” in post-Independence nationalist rhetoric in most “postcolonial” countries, the debates on language continue to rehash tired voices of pragmatism and linguistic nationalism. I further argue that what is usually “notable” in current postcolonial English language politics is the disappearance or devaluing of class as a central concept in the understanding of postcolonial language and society. I will discuss these arguments through my review of Ramanathan’s The English-Vernacular Divide: Postcolonial Language Politics and Practice. I claim that the …


Poverty, Tesols's Narratives And "Other Languages": Hermeneutic Tensions In Texting-Researching Practices, Vaidehi Ramanathan Dec 2024

Poverty, Tesols's Narratives And "Other Languages": Hermeneutic Tensions In Texting-Researching Practices, Vaidehi Ramanathan

Kritika Kultura

This brief response addresses concerns raised by Ruanni Tupas in his reading of my book, The English-Vernacular Divide. It provides some background about my study, and attempts to uncover some researching and texting tensions I experienced when writing the book. Straddling as I am different geographic spaces—India and the US—with different discourses regarding English language learning and teaching in each space, the response details how my focus on the local and everyday became a way of showing how some discourses about English (its being a democratizing force, or the language of empowerment) run the risk of turning a blind eye …