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Interprofessional Team Approach To Analyzing Food Scarcity Using Value Stream Analysis, Janet Brown Aug 2026

Interprofessional Team Approach To Analyzing Food Scarcity Using Value Stream Analysis, Janet Brown

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: Food insecurity is a public health concern (Pereira, 2021), and 13.5 % of households in the United States experienced food insecurity during 2023 (Rabbitt et al, 2024). Older adults (age 65+) are disproportionately affected by food insecurity, which can cause serious consequences for their health and well-being (Alyward et al., 2020). Utilization of community-based resources can reduce food insecurity (Alyward et al., 2020). Value Stream Analysis (VSA), a tool traditionally applied in manufacturing and industry, has translated to healthcare settings and significantly improved operational performance (Aloga, 2025). VSA reveals waste, overlap, and hidden capacity when applied to a process …


Riveted, Amanda Juico Dela Cruz Aug 2026

Riveted, Amanda Juico Dela Cruz

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Fredric Jameson In Asia: Interpreting Korean Gothic Through Haunted Modernity, Eugene Kim Aug 2026

Fredric Jameson In Asia: Interpreting Korean Gothic Through Haunted Modernity, Eugene Kim

Kritika Kultura

Asian Gothic, particularly in its Korean manifestation, both embodies and unsettles postmodernism as theorized by Fredric Jameson. While sharing postmodern characteristics such as fragmented temporality and commodification, Korean Gothic resists being dismissed as pastiche by demonstrating historical trauma, the grotesque, and forms of the sublime that revise Western-centered accounts of postmodernity. This article engages with Park Chan-kyong’s concept of “Asian Gothic” and uses Goedam as a popular cultural example. It argues that Korean Gothic functions as an aesthetic response to compressed modernity, generating a horizontal sublime through the interplay of terror, spiritual affect, and non-linear temporalities.


Sharp Inhale In The Shadow Of A Monument, Pauline Lacanilao Arnould Aug 2026

Sharp Inhale In The Shadow Of A Monument, Pauline Lacanilao Arnould

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Full Issue, Kritika Kultura Aug 2026

Full Issue, Kritika Kultura

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


From Arachne's Hubris, Noelle Leslie Dela Cruz Aug 2026

From Arachne's Hubris, Noelle Leslie Dela Cruz

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


What Can Deleuzians And “Third World” Radical Social Movements Learn From Each Other? Reflections On Alex Taek-Gwang Lee’S Communism After Deleuze, Karlo Mikhail I. Mongaya Aug 2026

What Can Deleuzians And “Third World” Radical Social Movements Learn From Each Other? Reflections On Alex Taek-Gwang Lee’S Communism After Deleuze, Karlo Mikhail I. Mongaya

Kritika Kultura

This review essay reflects on what Deleuzians and “Third World” radical movements can learn from each other from a reading of Alex Taek-Gwang Lee’s Communism After Deleuze (2025). The book reframes Gilles Deleuze’s political philosophy as molded not only by the upheavals of the 1960s but also as a critique of Marxist orthodoxy and an engagement with the liberation struggles of the Third World. Lee challenges the perception of Deleuze as either apolitical or postmodern, while stressing the potential of Deleuze’s concepts to illuminate the dynamics of contemporary capitalism, state power, social movements, and revolutionary becoming. Following in the vein …


Non-Violent Re-Articulation Of Masculinities: Art, Youths, And Peace Preservation In Post-Conflict Ambon Island, Wening Udasmoro, Leo Marai, Russell Soaba, Philip Aratiso, Jemmy Talakua Aug 2026

Non-Violent Re-Articulation Of Masculinities: Art, Youths, And Peace Preservation In Post-Conflict Ambon Island, Wening Udasmoro, Leo Marai, Russell Soaba, Philip Aratiso, Jemmy Talakua

Kritika Kultura

Art as a mechanism for fostering peace in conflict resolution and peace maintenance can be found in different social experiences. The Ambon conflict that occurred in 1999 following the fall of Indonesia’s New Order government ended in 2002, but the potential for inter-religious and inter-ethnic conflicts is still a concern for many members of the Ambon community in Maluku Province. In an effort to maintain peace, various elements of the Ambon society continuously engage themselves in various activities to preserve peace. One consistent element in these peace preservation efforts is the youth of Ambon, who employ art as a means …


Between Spectacle And Struggle: Representations Of The Sea In Indonesian Popular Visual Culture, Susanne A. H. Sitohang, Teguh Prasetyo Aug 2026

Between Spectacle And Struggle: Representations Of The Sea In Indonesian Popular Visual Culture, Susanne A. H. Sitohang, Teguh Prasetyo

Kritika Kultura

Indonesia is a maritime nation, consisting of 17,500 islands—one-third of its geographical area is ocean. Thus, Indonesia declares its identity as an archipelagic nation and actively promotes the geographical facts mentioned above as maritime nationalism. However, the sea remains “secondary” compared to the land and it is frequently misrepresented in Indonesian popular visual culture. This article offers an analysis on how the sea is constructed across three popular visual texts, namely Wonderland Indonesia, a music video series produced by Alffy Rev; the film Budi Pekerti (2023); and The Bajau, a documentary, produced by Watchdoc. The analysis draws on Stuart Hall’s …


Building Ties, Connecting Islands: Api Kartini's Longing For An Affective Community During The Cold War, Asri Saraswati Aug 2026

Building Ties, Connecting Islands: Api Kartini's Longing For An Affective Community During The Cold War, Asri Saraswati

Kritika Kultura

This article discusses the inter-class and cross-oceanic ties envisioned by socialist women’s organization Gerakan Wanita Indonesia (Indonesian Women Movement or Gerwani) through an analysis of their magazine, Api Kartini (AK). The magazine published fiction and non-fiction writings that reveal their affective impulse to build connection as they shared their observations of the women’s movement and labor in Indonesia and abroad. The magazine addressed middle-class women and wives, connecting them emotionally with women of the working class and women organizations across the oceans in their rejection to colonialism and feudalism and their fight for equal rights. This article aims to understand …


“Tian Mimi” (Sweet Like Honey): Critical Nostalgia, Hauntological Melancholia, And Cold War Narratives In S. Leo Chiang’S Island In Between, Li-Hsin Hsu Aug 2026

“Tian Mimi” (Sweet Like Honey): Critical Nostalgia, Hauntological Melancholia, And Cold War Narratives In S. Leo Chiang’S Island In Between, Li-Hsin Hsu

Kritika Kultura

This essay examines the cinematic representation of Kinmen (also known as Quemoy or Jinmen), the frontier island of Taiwan, as a critical island space of nostalgia in the recent Oscar-nominated short film Island in Between (2023) by Taiwanese-American director S. Leo Chiang. By analyzing the depiction of Kinmen as a Cold War outpost, this essay rethinks the affective positionality of Chiang’s work. The first section integrates archipelagic thinking and critical nostalgia to explore the theoretical complexity of the film’s geo-techno-affective liminality, examining how the film’s archipelagic aesthetics are embedded within a cross-strait narrative and how Svetlana Boym’s typology of nostalgia …


Island As Mechanism: Island Narrative And Affective Landscapes In Ng Kim Chew’S “Fish Bones” And “Allah’S Will”, Chi Miao, Shu Li Aug 2026

Island As Mechanism: Island Narrative And Affective Landscapes In Ng Kim Chew’S “Fish Bones” And “Allah’S Will”, Chi Miao, Shu Li

Kritika Kultura

This article reframes Sinophone Malaysian (Mahua) literature through the perspective of island studies, foregrounding Malaysia’s cross-island configuration. We propose negative islandness as an operational category: a structurally produced negative affect of suspension, deferral, and dread generated by the island–sea regime’s simultaneous openness and boundedness. We argue that, in Ng Kim Chew’s “Fish Bones” and “Allah’s Will,” the island operates as a mechanism that interstitializes perspectives and tidalizes narrative time, thereby converting arrival into an unfinished passage and relocating trauma into embodied, material rhythms. Through close readings, we develop two interrelated strands: First, an interstitial perspective with the temporality of tides …


The (Re)Turn Of The Tides: More On Archipelagic Affects, Jeremy De Chavez Aug 2026

The (Re)Turn Of The Tides: More On Archipelagic Affects, Jeremy De Chavez

Kritika Kultura

This essay introduces the second installment of the Forum Kritika on “Waves of Emotion: Theorizing Archipelagic Affects,” which gathers a further set of essays drawn from the Critical Island Studies Colloquium held at the University of Macau in April 2024. Taking its cue from the Forum’s own two-issue span, it proposes that the installments be read, as the first issue asked, archipelagically, as two islands of essays tethered rather than fused, and it theorizes the relation between them as a (re)turn, modeled on the wave that returns only by turning and on the psychoanalytic time of après coup. Where the …


Beauty Is What Hurts: Eka Kurniawan And The Dialectics Of Postmodernism In The Wake Of Authoritarianism, Reuven Pinnata Aug 2026

Beauty Is What Hurts: Eka Kurniawan And The Dialectics Of Postmodernism In The Wake Of Authoritarianism, Reuven Pinnata

Kritika Kultura

Since Suharto’s resignation in 1998, Indonesian writers and intellectuals have been preoccupied with recovering and rearticulating suppressed voices to contest the New Order’s dual ideology of capitalist developmentalism and anticommunism. This critical endeavor often draws on postmodernism’s valorization of non-totalizable multiplicity against any form of metanarrative. While this strategic adoption is understandable in its historical conjuncture, it tends to simplify New Order anticommunism into an antagonism between the state and the people, leaving undertheorized the more ambiguous relationship between the people and the world market that the New Order state was established to usher in the first place. This essay …


Neoliberal Postmodernism, The Cultural Logic Of Buji’S Storytime: A Case Study On The Political Economy Of The Commodified Influencer, Ma. Rosa Cer Bragais Aug 2026

Neoliberal Postmodernism, The Cultural Logic Of Buji’S Storytime: A Case Study On The Political Economy Of The Commodified Influencer, Ma. Rosa Cer Bragais

Kritika Kultura

With the ubiquity of social media platforms like Facebook and TikTok, influencers or “digital content creators” have taken current Filipino popular culture by storm, spurring an enormous volume of discourse and becoming trendsetters and role models. This paper focuses on the case of professional influencer Buji Babiera, a bicycle advocate turned storyteller who shares random narratives, such as urban legends and slice-of-life anecdotes, on his main platform Storytime on TikTok. I sought to answer how underlying neoliberal political economic structures, as embedded in Storytime’s production processes, relate with the distinctively postmodern character of its content. Guided by Marxist political economy …


Tally’S Spatial Criticism: Following Jameson And Going Beyond, Ying Fang Aug 2026

Tally’S Spatial Criticism: Following Jameson And Going Beyond, Ying Fang

Kritika Kultura

As a celebrated Marxist literary theorist and cultural critic, Fredric Jameson has been very influential and highly acclaimed in China’s academia for about forty years. One of his former undergraduate students, Robert T. Tally Jr., is now widely regarded as an inheritor of Jameson’s thoughts as well as his impact on China’s literary studies. Tally is especially valued for his spatial criticism, which, characterized by its distinct terminology and methodologies, builds upon Jameson’s intellectual legacy while also significantly moving beyond it. In the first place, Tally’s notion of space inherits Jameson’s view of history and space while also drawing on …


Bangon! A Critical Analysis Of Selected Songs Of The Philippine Revolutionary Struggle, Jervy C. Briones Aug 2026

Bangon! A Critical Analysis Of Selected Songs Of The Philippine Revolutionary Struggle, Jervy C. Briones

Kritika Kultura

In 1976, the Katipunan ng mga Demokratikong Pilipino (KDP), a revolutionary organization of Filipino-Americans in the United States, in collaboration with the communist-led National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), released the album Philippines: Bangon! Arise! Songs of the Philippine National Democratic Struggle under Paredon Records. The joint project took years before completion after being shelved temporarily due to the imposition of martial law by Ferdinand Marcos in 1972. Composed of nineteen tracks, the album exposes Spanish colonial oppression, American imperialist exploitation, and state repression of the US-backed Marcos dictatorship. In this article, I selected ten revolutionary songs from the …


The Reception Of Jameson’S Works In China, South Korea, And Japan, Mingming Li Aug 2026

The Reception Of Jameson’S Works In China, South Korea, And Japan, Mingming Li

Kritika Kultura

An examination of data from the academic databases CNKI, DBpia, and CiNii indicates that the reception of Fredric Jameson’s works in China, South Korea, and Japan can be traced back to the early 1980s. Shaped by their distinct historical and political contexts, each country has developed its own academic discourse surrounding Jameson’s theories. In China, Jameson’s intellectual presence began in 1986, marked by Tang Xiaobing’s article “Postmodernism: Commodification and Cultural Expansion—An Interview with Fredric Jameson.” Since then, over 1,100 research documents on Jameson have been published in China, covering a wide array of topics such as Marxism, postmodernism, globalization, and …


Reconfiguring "National Allegory" In A Critique Of The Philippine Neocolonial Experience, Epifanio San Juan Jr. Aug 2026

Reconfiguring "National Allegory" In A Critique Of The Philippine Neocolonial Experience, Epifanio San Juan Jr.

Kritika Kultura

With appropriate adjustments, Jameson’s theory of national allegory can serve as a serviceable frame to interpret Filipino texts. Allegory as figuration or image-thinking aims to resolve conceptual blockage or theoretical dead-ends. Analyzing an exemplary story by Lualhati Bautista, this essay seeks to demonstrate how the author’s mode of representation captures the effect of combining feudal-archaic and capitalist modes of production in the lives of typical characters. Private thoughts and feelings conflict with public norms in the predicament of two uprooted protagonists caught in the crisis of a disaggregated polity. The Philippine social formation as a dependent entity exemplifies the mix …


Why National Allegory Stopped Its Vacation In Turkey?, Koray Kırmızısakal Aug 2026

Why National Allegory Stopped Its Vacation In Turkey?, Koray Kırmızısakal

Kritika Kultura

This article re-examines the Turkish reception of Fredric Jameson’s essay “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism” through the lens of Aijaz Ahmad’s influential critique, which has shaped the readings of Murat Belge, Ahmet Oktay, Nurdan Gürbilek, Meltem Gürle, and Besim Dellaloğlu. These critics, following Ahmad, have charged Jameson with advancing a reductionist and at times Orientalist/Eurocentric view by claiming that the Third World (now the Global South) is structurally compelled to produce national allegories. Ahmad’s objection that the Third World cannot be reduced to a single form such as national allegory ultimately misreads Jameson’s broader theoretical engagement with …


The Violence Of Abstraction: Fredric Jameson, The “Asiatic Mode,” And The Problem Of Asia, Maria Luisa Torres Reyes, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee Aug 2026

The Violence Of Abstraction: Fredric Jameson, The “Asiatic Mode,” And The Problem Of Asia, Maria Luisa Torres Reyes, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee

Kritika Kultura

This forum introduction revisits Fredric Jameson’s engagement with Asia by focusing on a central tension in his work: the productive power of his world-historical method and the limitations of its reliance on the typological figure of the “Asiatic mode of production.” Rather than treating this tension as grounds for either dismissal or recuperation, the essay argues that Jameson’s categories become most useful precisely at the point where they encounter their limits, opening the possibility for alternative modes of theoretical practice. It proposes refunctioning and provincializing as complementary methodologies through which inherited concepts are displaced, reworked, and renewed in relation to …


Softness And Kung Fu: Masculinities Of Chinese Heroes In American Graphic Novels, Lian Xu Aug 2026

Softness And Kung Fu: Masculinities Of Chinese Heroes In American Graphic Novels, Lian Xu

Kritika Kultura

In American graphic novels such as Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Shadow Hero, and Kung Fu Panda, the depictions of Chinese heroes differ from those of Western heroic characters in mainstream American graphic narratives. These heroes embody a combination of soft masculinity and kung fu masculinity, creating a new type that might be called the “soft kung fu hero,” exemplifying what Kam Louie refers to as “wen wu shuang quan” (accomplished in both cultural attainment and martial prowess)—the ultimate ideal of Chinese masculinity. Although the appearances of the protagonists are quite different from typical kung fu masculine heroes such as …


Blue Humanities Currents: Ruth Ozeki’S A Tale For The Time Being And Kim Stanley Robinson’S New York 2140, Simon C. Estok Aug 2026

Blue Humanities Currents: Ruth Ozeki’S A Tale For The Time Being And Kim Stanley Robinson’S New York 2140, Simon C. Estok

Kritika Kultura

Literary representations of ocean currents are important in a time such as ours when the patterns of the global water cycles are changing. Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being and Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 each, in different ways, imagine personal impacts of global water patterns. For Ozeki, the interconnections between oceanic and terrestrial processes manifest along the shores of the Pacific Northwest in the wake of the March 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan. For Robinson, the changes in ocean currents are clearly an effect of climate change, and we witness a kind of …


Translation And Introduction In The Third Space: Wilde’S Fairy Tales In Early Twentieth-Century China, Lin Wang Aug 2026

Translation And Introduction In The Third Space: Wilde’S Fairy Tales In Early Twentieth-Century China, Lin Wang

Kritika Kultura

Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales, renowned for their aesthetic refinement and ethical resonance, encountered a distinctive and historically contingent reception in early twentieth-century China. This study examines the translation and introduction of these fairy tales across three key periods (1909–1919; 1919–1937; 1937–1949), arguing that translation and introduction practices were shaped not by a unified logic but by shifting literary, ideological, and sociopolitical conditions. The study employs Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of the “third space” as an analytical model, conceptualizing translation and introduction as sites of negotiation in which meaning is reinterpreted through the interaction between aestheticism and Chinese intellectual movements. The …


Introduction, Vincenz Serrano Aug 2026

Introduction, Vincenz Serrano

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Kritika Kultura Aug 2026

Front Matter, Kritika Kultura

Kritika Kultura

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Using Home Language Vs English In Teaching Safety Skills, Emma Ruiz Aug 2026

The Effects Of Using Home Language Vs English In Teaching Safety Skills, Emma Ruiz

Thesis Projects

Cultural competence and cultural awareness are terms that have started to become more widely used when discussing how therapists impact their clients. The push for cultural competence and awareness has started to create new questions about how a client’s culture can be intertwined with the services that they are receiving. The purpose of this study was to teach a combination of basic safety skills and identify if language impacted behavior. This study utilized one participant who did not acquire the skill to stop in either language. During the experiment, a third language was added to measure control; however, responding remained …


Venezuelan Students Sent To Elbert Covell College By Government, University Of The Pacific News Bureau Aug 2026

Venezuelan Students Sent To Elbert Covell College By Government, University Of The Pacific News Bureau

Elbert Covell College

No abstract provided.


University Of The Pacific Serves Mexican-American Community, Office Of Public Relations Aug 2026

University Of The Pacific Serves Mexican-American Community, Office Of Public Relations

Elbert Covell College

No abstract provided.


Latin American Newsletter—The Inter-American College, F. B. Champlin Aug 2026

Latin American Newsletter—The Inter-American College, F. B. Champlin

Elbert Covell College

No abstract provided.