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Civil Rights In Times Of Uncertainty (The Anthropocene), Jeffrey Omari

Michigan Law Review

Although there have been significant civil rights gains made in recent decades, the United States is now experiencing a resurgence of many of the societal ills that have plagued the country for decades. From an insurrection that was seemingly inspired by white supremacist ideology to ongoing examples of police brutality against Black people, anti-Asian violence, anti-LGBTQ violence, and recurring islamophobia, the country sits at an apparent crossroads. There is an urgent need to advance a civil rights agenda that addresses the impact of these societal ills on the affected communities. At the same time, however, we are confronting these ills …

Diversity As A Condition Of Cultures: Querying Assumptions Of Mainstream And Minorities In Education Policy And Curriculum, Sue Saltmarsh

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Highlights

• Discussions of diversity in relation to children’s education are often characterized by binaries of same/different, mainstream/margins, inclusion/exclusion, self/Other.

• Curriculum remains a contested site in educational debate, with differing views about curriculum as reinforcing social norms, beliefs, and values, as addressing the learning and social needs of learners from a variety of backgrounds and worldviews, or as a hybrid of these.

• Policy and curriculum designed or intended to address diversity tend to rest on assumptions of majority or dominant cultures as homogenous and distinct from the cultures of minority Other/s.

• Inequality is often multidimensional, intersecting with, …

A Plea For Survival: Can The Return To Eco-Centrism Strengthen The Legal Protection Of Nature In Sri Lanka?, Asanka Edirisinghe, Michelle Mei Ling Lim

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The right to life of all living beings and the duty of humans to co-exist with nature have been recognized in Sri Lankan tradition and religious practice for centuries. Yet, environmental destruction, degradation and pollution due to human activities have become a common phenomenon in contemporary Sri Lanka. Anthropocentric thinking pervades Sri Lankan jurisprudence. Laws and judicial decisions have largely failed to recognize the rights of nature to be protected for its relational and intrinsic values. There is also limited acknowledgement that the very survival of human beings depends on the continuous existence of Mother Earth. Significant shifts from human-centred …

A Qualitative Analysis Of Meetings In A New Zealand And An Australian Work Environment Using Dell Hymes’ Ethnography Of Speaking Framework, Mildred A. Rojo-Laurilla

Journal of English and Applied Linguistics

Using Dell Hymes’ ethnography of speaking, this study explored the characteristics of meetings in one New Zealand medical corporate team environment and the characteristics of meetings in an Australian team environment within a not-for-profit sector. Utilizing the S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G Framework, similarities and differences were articulated through qualitative methods, and the analysis yielded four themes, including (a) degree of formality affecting the length of meetings, (b) adherence to roles and purpose of the meetings, (c) agenda, minutes versus “notes,” and (d) modes of interaction and communication. The study demonstrates the applicability of the Dell Hymes framework in the analysis of more current …

Effect Of Supervisor Bias On Performance Motivation During Incentive-Based Performance Reviews, Jessica Lace Burrell

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The effectiveness of performance appraisals concerning employee motivation and organizational outcomes has had a prominent presence in research over the years due to concerns about how failed appraisal processes hinder performance improvement, human resource functions, and corporate objectives. How employees perceive the review process plays a significant role in whether or not the method will deliver the intended motivators, such as feedback and job satisfaction. This study will focus on how perceptions of bias influence an employee’s drive to perform in the future among Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) within three Promedica skilled nursing facilities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Diversity As An Influence On Talent Management And Competitive Advantage: The Absence Of Female African American Executive Leadership In The Insurance Industry, Lateisha Tamarra Rainey

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this qualitative research case study was to examine the extent of which the significance of diversity has on the representation of African American females in top-executive leadership positions. Furthermore, to comprehend why African American females are unfairly represented and disparaged in C-suite level positions. The purpose of this research was to study the influence that diversity may have on the insurance industry’s talent management and competitive advantage. To what degree do biases whether conscious or unconscious affect promotional opportunities, recruitment, selection, and hiring practices of African American females pursuing elevation to higher level positions within the insurance …

Look At All Those Big Knobs! Online Audio Technology Discourse And Sexy Gear Fetishes, Eliot Bates, Samantha Bennett

Publications and Research

Despite a predominantly digital, 21st century music production landscape, analogue hardware professional audio technologies persist. In the discoursal throes of the leading online audio technology message forum Gearslutz, such technologies are routinely objectified, sexualized, fetishized and socialized into gear. Situated in a contemporary critical, interdisciplinary framework of fetish, masculinity and sexuality studies, this research interrogates how audio technologies manufactured and intended for music production contexts become sexy. Applying a mixed-mode methodology, including an intensive discourse, image and material-semiotic analysis of an ‘epic’ sexy gear thread, we collated extensive data about technological fetishization. Sexy gear discourse articulates themes of voyeurism, acquisition, …

Leadership Failures That Lead To Poor Organizational Performance, Brahaspattie Annie Singh

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Our world continues to change rapidly because of globalization and internationalism thus has become more multicultural and diverse that strong and effective leadership was needed in the workforce. The real estate industry has changed as well and continues to change because of multiculturalism. The effects of COVID-19 placed burdensome restrictions and regulations both from the state and city levels that firms must follow in order to function internally and externally to market properties. The effects of COVID-19 will forever change the way business is done as usual, where the general business practice must include a constant of new critical change …

Neoliberal Hegemonic Masculinity And Mcmindfulness: The Need For Buddhist Values And Principles In Mindful Masculinity Programs, David Forbes

Publications and Research

This paper explores how certain Buddhist-inspired principles such as impermanence of self and compassion for all (metta) and the practice of mindfulness can contribute to challenging ways in which young men adopt troublesome aspects of systemic patriarchy. It (1) briefly examines the problem of systemic patriarchy in its most dominant forms, neoliberal hegemonic masculinity and right-wing racist authoritarian masculinity; (2) critically discusses examples of mindfulness education and counseling programs for young men that have been severed from their Buddhist origins (McMindfulness) that attempt to challenge young men around patriarchal beliefs and thoughts but end up reproducing neoliberal hegemonic masculinity; (3) …

Attending To And Transforming Power Dynamics In Translanguaged Research Relationships And Methodology, Sara Vogel

Publications and Research

In this response to Lee (2022), I posit that translanguaging has prompted a re-evaluation of applied linguistics and sociolinguistics methodology in part because the theory has implicated issues of power dynamics and coloniality into the study of language. For this, if researchers wish to conduct research from translanguaging perspectives, it becomes necessary to recognize and attend to power dynamics in research design and methodology. This piece suggests some guiding questions for addressing power dynamics in one aspect of translanguaging methodology — forming research relationships. It explores how, in our relationships to our fields, we might promote answerability (Patel, 2014) for …

Women And Brains Go Together: Mapping Sophia Kovalevsky’S Animus In Alice Munro’S ‘Too Much Happiness’., Suparna Karkun, Anoop Kumar Tiwari

Journal of International Women's Studies

Women and brains have always been an epicentre of intrigue and controversy delineating that women must use brains in dimensions that have been predestined for them by misogynists. An intelligent woman is often marginalized as unfeminine and hoydenish capable of threatening the heteropatriarchy thereby rendering it impotent. Several pioneering works on gender identity and equality began to be written in the eighteen and nineteenth century drawing attention of the intelligentsia as well as the common folk equally, towards this burning issue. Feminist reforms were initiated as a result of the untiring endeavour of writers and critics throughout the world. The …

Decoding The Internet Trolls And Their Implications On Female Youtubers, Tanaya Salian, Munmun Ghosh

Journal of International Women's Studies

YouTube was one of the first platforms fuelling every layperson's dream to get a taste of stardom. Standing true to its promise, it exposed everyone to content creation and every aspect of fame that comes with content creation. The good, the bad, and the ugly side of the online platform involve the trolls and hate comments on the online platforms. It was eventually noticed that the trolling phenomena are shaping up biasedly and follow gender inequality recently. The online trolls are severe and ugly, especially for female content creators. The comments were harsh, demeaning and sometimes vindictive. Looking at this …

Lack Of Data And Dialogue On Female Genital Mutilation In Pakistan, Huda Syyed

Journal of International Women's Studies

Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects women in many countries and carries significant socio-sexual and cultural implications such as affected female sexual pleasure and a strong association with traditions which are believed to form a cultural identity. This essay explored the lack of data and discourse regarding this practice among the Dawoodi Bohra community in Pakistan. Due to the Pakistani government’s lack of recognition and public dialogue on this issue, there remains no official laws, statistics, or empirical research about the ritual. Despite the rise of feminism and women’s empowerment in many contemporary societies, Pakistan has not initiated any FGM debate …

Social Construction Of Female Infertility: A Qualitative Study Of Women With Female Factor Infertility Diagnosis, Oluwakemi Shade Iwelumor, Shariffah Suraya Syed Jamaludin, Kunle Seun Babatunde

Journal of International Women's Studies

Infertility, though a global reproductive problem, is uniquely constructed within different socio-cultural contexts. This study explored the social construction of the meaning of infertility among women by focusing on a sample of married women with female factor infertility diagnoses experiencing primary infertility in Kwara South, Nigeria. The study adopted a qualitative approach. Nine women were recruited through the snowball sampling technique. Data were collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis with Atlas.ti 8. The findings are presented in three themes: ‘when delay becomes a problem,’ ‘confirming suspicion,’ and ‘defining the situation.’ By exploring the perceptions of infertile …

From Housewives And Mothers To Mules: The Case Of Latin American Women Prisoners In Spain, Joaquina Castillo-Algarra, Marta Ruiz-García

Journal of International Women's Studies

Latin American women play a key role in the international cocaine business as couriers or mules. Beginning from theoretical perspectives that explain the relationship between criminality and gender, we analyze why women without a criminal background become criminals, how they become involved in trafficking, their positions and functions in the criminal organization, and the risks and benefits of their participation. Qualitative fieldwork was carried out based on in-depth interviews with fifty-one female inmates and twenty members of prison staff from nine Spanish prisons. A thematic analysis has been carried out based on this data. The results reveal that the prevalent …

Folk Song “Hua’Er” In Northwest China: “Younger Sisters” And The Gender Relationship, Ma Rui

Journal of International Women's Studies

Chinese folk songs remain largely unheard-of outside China. The broad purpose of this essay is to bring one peculiar form of folk songs that is commonly circulated in Northwest China—Hua’er—into the spotlight. The essay attempts to reveal four types of female images as observed in romantic Hua’er, which is followed by an analysis of the gender relationship mirrored from the images and characterized by male-dominated hierarchy. Additionally, two ideas are offered as interpretation on the construction of the gender hierarchy. One is the impacts of Islam and Tibetan Buddhism which are two principal religions in Northwest China; the other is …

Gender Perspective On Tourism's Influence On The Local Community: A Literature Review, Nur Abellan Calvet, Jordi Arcos-Pumarola, Laia Encinar-Prat

Journal of International Women's Studies

The tourism industry integrates multiple actors interrelated through a variety of dynamics and characteristics. To address this complexity, tourism studies integrate different disciplines and perspectives in order to comprehend the tourism phenomenon. One of the main topics of tourism studies has been its impact on local communities. The conjunction of these research lines with the gender perspective discloses how tourism interrelates with the host territory's particular gender dynamics. In this context, the present study aims to explore and analyse the current state of academic research on tourism's influence on the local community from a gender perspective. In this way, we …

Endless Saga Of Food Movement From Rural Anatolia To Istanbul, Banu Özden

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Istanbul was a magnet throughout history attracting many civilizations, because of the endless possibilities it offered. Today as a mega metropolis, it continues to attract populations of immigrants from all over Turkey. Although these moves to the big city are permanent, these immigrants keep their ties to their native rural lands. This connection becomes an important part of their livelihood because these families continue to procure nourishments, especially staple items such as legumes, grains, and a variety of preserved foods from their homelands. This type of food movement happens in two ways. Firstly, every year they visit relatives in the …

From “Slave” To “Poor People” To “Traditional” Food: The Journey Of Saltfish Across The Atlantic To The West Indies And Its Movement Through The Culinary Landscape Of Trinidad And Tobago, Shrinagar I. Francis

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

The movement of food is intimately linked to humans; foodways would not be the phenomena that they are if this were not so. In the first instance there is the transfer of food from one geographic location to another, which is almost always directly correlated to human migration. Particular to the physical movement of food, this paper highlights the journey of saltfish across the Atlantic to the West Indies, specific to its introduction to the African enslaved population during colonial rule. Following the bodily movement of an item of food, there is its ideological journey through varying communal, cultural and …

The Movement Of Women, Beer And Feast Foods In Establishing The Inka Empire, Marie Hopwood

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

At its heart, empire is about movement with borders ever expanding outwards and tribute ever flowing inwards. For the Inka these aspects were gendered, with the conquest seen as masculine while the care and control of the conquered was feminine. Both forms of power were essential and functioned in tandem. From the feminine powers of provisioning came the bonds of reciprocity. Accepting Inka food and drink was not optional, but through its consumption bonds of reciprocal obligations were forged between the Inka elite and the non-Inka conquered communities. These bonds were made visible through feasting events involving maize beer (chicha) …

Olive Oil And Movement, Moving Olive Oil, Anne Meneley

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

This paper addresses several themes in the movement of olive oil. Although it is not often discussed in medico-scientific terms like “peristalsis”, olive oil was and is consumed as a morning shot in many parts of the Mediterranean, to encourage swift and efficient digestive trajectories through the body. It is one of the stars of ancient agriculture, and is still revered as a product capable of capturing a “local” identity, so much so that every olive grower seems to claim their own olive oil is the best. While an icon of “traditional” food, lower grade olive oil was also used …

The Impacts Of The Uk Wine Industry On People, Place And Climate, Claire Lyons

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Climate change has moved the boundary at which viniviticulture is possible to above 49.9N+ degrees above latitude, in the UK this has made commercial wine production both possible and profitable. This has triggered a movement in land-use, as vineyards increasingly replace other arable land in England and Wales; a movement of people, as wealthy business professionals return to the land to establish vineyards; and a movement on menus, as English and Welsh wine is stocked at establishments from Weatherspoon’s to The Fat Duck. Concurrently, climate change is severely disrupting agricultural production and livelihoods, prompting passionate calls for a far reaching …

Sweet Tales Of Sweet Potatoes In Edo Japan, Miguel Ángel Pelayo Prieto

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Roasted, steamed, pureed, candied - sweet potatoes or satsumaimo are considered autumn delicacies in traditional Japanese cooking (washoku). Although native to the American continent, nowadays, they take part in the Japanese pantry. They arrived in Western Japan in the 17th century, where they prospered as a nutritious, hardy crop and spread eastwards in the following centuries. As a case study, this paper will present the sweet potato's introduction, diffusion, and acceptance during the Edo period (1600-1868) when washoku took shape. Based on written sources and material culture, the main topics will be the naturalization and acculturation of a foreign entity …

Is The Language Of Wine Broken?, Richie Brady

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

According to Esther Mobley, wine writer of the San Francisco Chronicle, and other speakers at the 2021 Professional Wine Writers Symposium, the language of wine is broken. Accusations of classism, Eurocentrism, colonialism, racism, sexism and being exclusionary are levelled against it. This paper will review the difficulties of describing wine in English, the movements between differing styles of describing wine since the early twentieth century and the above accusations. It will also consider whether the language of wine is, in fact, broken.

Back To The Future: The Artisan Food Producer In Ireland’S Food Tourism Proposition, Rebecca O'Flynn

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Artisan food producers are arguably more than the sum of their parts when it comes to the important role they play within Ireland’s food in tourism landscape.

On the one hand, both food and tourism as well as the artisan economy are forecasted to grow globally (Yeoman and McMahon-Beatte 2016, 95; Avent 2018; Polites 2020), suggesting that there is a significant role for artisan producers to play in food tourism in Ireland, compounded by a developing interest in local and sustainable food (Sage 2010). On the other, artisan food producers are both purveyors and preservers of food culture, heritage and …

Food And The Civil Rights Movement, Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

The purpose of my presentation is to analyze broader significance of the act of ordering food and/or beverages at lunch counters by African Americans in the segregated South as illustrated in Anthony Grooms’s short story “Food that Pleases, Food to Take Home” (1995). Annie McPhee and Mary Taliferro, two African-American heroines, decide to demand their rights at the lunch counter in a local store in Louisa, Virginia. I intend to apply Victor Turner’s concept of social drama (cultural anthropology), along with the issue of commensality (Kerner et al 2015) and the issue of black (in)visibility (Elizabeth Abel 2010) to analyze …

Preserving Irish Smoked Salmon: Food Producers, Cultural Heritage, And Environmental Conservation, Malia Guyer-Stevens

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

This research argues that the bottom-up heritagization of smoked salmon by Irish smoked salmon producers is an integral piece in the movement to protect wild Atlantic salmon in Irish waters. Wild Atlantic salmon in Ireland have transformed over the centuries from mythological figure to luxury export, and today into national food heritage thanks to the efforts of smoked salmon producers. This designation transforms Irish salmon from a wild animal into a symbol of Ireland’s historic ties to their coastal regions, an embodiment of traditional food practices, and projects the fish’s importance into the future. However, wild Irish salmon face extinction …

Rapallo Notebooks A And B, Neil Mann

International Yeats Studies

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Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

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Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

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